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TUESDAY, JULY 10.
Balaklava. where cholera prevails. The
Sardinians are suffering, ana Gen. Marme-
ra the younger is dead.
Hali Paeha remains in office.
A national monument is to be erected to
[From the CoIiUabns Times.} -
Northern Aggression and SssthSrs Re
taliation.
We have lone desired to call the particu
lar attention of our readers to the 14th reso-
Mr. Benjamin HU1.
We listened, on Saturday^ TW>»ng last,
with much interest, to the speech of Mr. _ — „ . _ , n
Beniamin Ilill, of Troup, on the subject of of party” or principles, formed for the pur- the English dead at Scutari. lution ot the Flattorm of the Georgia i>e-
Vontliora Rights Know Nothingism, Slave- P°se of opposing the present administration. Great Britain.—The steamer Hermann ! mocracy recommending “ to our next Legu-
ftnd advancing themselves in its position, \ 3&SSS
er’s almost entire attention, the others were an( f who for the purpose of increasing their (- onim ; ttee jj ie repart ^ er jy admits that • shall be in conformity with constitutional
but subservient to it. On this point alone we power have pandered to the vicious, and the sufferi ’ of the army have been aggra- I obligations, in view of the action of the Leg-
will notice bim. We hardly know what to sported with the weak. But whether they vated by incompetency at home. Since I ffl atu . re Massachusetts and 1 ermont, and
make of this speech ; we doubt if the Know have * hi s or a nobler end, it is not difficult then there has been considerable excitement ; Si" 0 !™iLirSL FnSri™
Nothing. themselves know. If he intended I to «© that a party, divided » they arc in SI I
it for a direct out and out advocacy for dis- j sentiment, can remain entire for no great tge t j- having given notice of a vote of I t * ie So ut ^ constitutional rights,”
union, the most skillful forensic orator on I length of time. ; ^ngure on the Government, so worded as i This subject has been often incidentally
earth could scarcely have made a better.-— ! The Know Nothings have a decided ad- ! to embrace the grievances of all sections of j a ll u *led to in the Southern press, but has
If he meant in support of the Know Nothing j vantage over all other parties in being able j the opposition—namely, that Parliament i a «ver received that deliberate and gene
,early. we fear that it will .vail but little in \ to top concealed what it were in,prnd«n t deeply taentfng the nnteingof the ^ “\‘ t * ^"£SbtS*.Z
...mining the tottering fortune. of hie ! t„ disclose. We receive the platform vrith- i™$foTfSSpitof !he£££ doeof the Alabama Legislature bj.Governor
friends. Mr. Hill commenced with the usu-i out knowing the temper *•! tlic individual topol Committee that the conduct of the Collier, but no action was taken in conso-
al tirade against the old parties, alledging j who composed it. There is doubtless an j administration was the chief cause of the
their incapacity to meet the approaching j unwritten history of all these conventions J calamities, hereby visits with its serverest
crisis on the Slavery question. He tore j which would he startling l<> an American reprehension every member of the Cabinet
down, but he failed to build up. He made \ ear. We understand from the best author- i which led to the cause of such disastrous
quence, we presume, of the soothing effect
of the Compromise Measures. Some effort
was made about the same time to bring the
subject before the Georgia Legislature by
Thomas C. Howard, now of the Atlanta
no attempt to show that the new party were j ity that not not the greatest unanimity per-1 administration reform ■ Rddligencer, but nothing was done, from a
capable of performing what the other had J waded the proceedings of the Macon Con- aftei . repea t c d adjournments, hand ended in ' A i
r *i a j jr « • ronHnn mirl flint thorp wns nn inoATootunl . • *1 ? r* o:- o..i
failed in. If a national party is requisite [ volition, and that there was an ineffectual j tbc ana mm 0 us passing of Sir Bulwer Lyt-
to that end, ho certainly claims no such j a ttempt to make peace with the Catholics. ^ on ’ s resolution, that the House of Commons
merit for the Know Nothings Mr Ilill i ^ ne s P ca ’ £er * w0 ^ earn ’ wen *.® 0 “ 18 °P*! recommend to the earliest attention of min-
ment lor t c o otnings. _ lr. mil j pose a repeal or oven a modification of the j j sters tbc necessity of a careful revision of
naturalization laws. various official establishments, with a
and faciliate the transac
glories in a platform on which Freesoilers
are unable to stand, hut he failed to relieve
himself from a difficulty arising from the
lact that nobody else stands on it except
the Southern members of his party. That
Know Nothingism North is Froesoiliem, is a j the Quarries,
fact which the speaker never attempted to
disprove. And that iu consequence the
Philadelphia platform is a Southern sectiou-
Further by the America.
view to smi
plify
Lord Raglan’s dispatch and tho newspa- . *>n of public business mid by substituting
paper correspondence arc to hand, describ- ; ^^ 01 ^ u L te6 ^® f “ e ^
paper correspondence arc to nano, uesenn- obstrucdous to its f air promotion; and
ing the gallant capture of tlm Manielon and j J f^timate rewards to secure to the ser-
thc Quarries. The details are highly mte T ^, 0 the State the largest available pro
resting, but the main facts have been «1- port ; ou 0 f the energy and intelligence for
ready statedwtoh general eon-cctness. £ hich the people 0 fthe country are distin-
Tho Allies have made an unsuccessful at- gU c;^ e fp„„i w™ Strachnn md Ro-
al oue he cannot deny. There was one tempt to storm Sebastopol. The most sin- Bates, partners tfthe Banking
thing which Mr. Hill forgot to tell—while ister rumors prevail in regard to the trans- IIouso q{ Stratcl f anj Paul & Co ., have been
ho so confidently denounced the Democrat- action. By some accounts the r. nglish oss ; 3tcd on t he c h a rge of disposing of the
to party l.c toiled to remombor thatthe only “ ' rCP tocoride, entrusted to their charga.
men North who Intro token thoir .tend with °[ h ' c fo n owing ore tho only official until- £a“'?™n'ihe v£ZJy
the South on the Slavory question are. cations of the event; of Oxford, as also did Chief Justice Robin-
members of that party. These men still “Lord Pamnure regrets to hate to an- ^ of Canada, Sir Charles Lycll, Alfred
belong to the Democratic par^, and they t^rXked the" Redan | Tennyson, Delacy Evans, Monckton Miles,
refuse to ioiu with any other. Mr. Hill cute anJ thc Fro ° ch tho yi a i ako ff towers at day- etc. » Fifi nnn
himself and the Know Nothing, off front j libt „„ tho morningof^m-Wtort j JanttoOto^m
the success which has hitherto attended our ; France _ The and Legislature are
ssi tsftfs i «»"*«» *»• ■?«>? !»»—
officers who have fallen will be forwarded
immediately, but it will be impossible to re
ceive complete returns of all the casualties
before the 30tli (June) iust. at the earliest.”
The Moniteur announces that the Gov
■ eminent has received two dispatches from
1 Gen. Peliasier.
The first dated the 17th, informs of ope
them, and deprives the South of tho only
friends that she has. An obvious answer
to the speaker's entire argument on this
point we imagine would be this: If the
Democratic party are unable to meet tho
forthcoming crisis on the Slavery question,
thc Know Nothing party are less able to do
it. The Millcdgeville platform is as good
or better than the Philadelphia. While the
; loan of a hundred or a hundred and fifty
million dollars.
Louis Napoleon has been ill for two days,
hut has accovered.
The French funds fell two per bent, on
the announcement of hiR illness.
The Countess of Lovalette died at Paris
! on the 18th.
former has some friends North, the latter rations concerted between the General and j ^mJtinv anTtwoarfsem
has none. We have a chance of forming a his Allies, and that the Turks and Chas- ; mutm * and tWOare 86D
a national party. Your friends.of the North j seurs made a reconnoisance towards Ajto- Spain.—The disturbances at Santiago
have left you. If we fail to do so, then ^ar, ea f ra A p 1 ! . ! have been suppressed. We have no relia-
loes the Democratic party take a bolder and ! SEnglishwere to attack Malakoff tower. !
more* efficacious stand to
-.nit. Wherefore is the use
Nothing ?
We have not space to give a full review
.f Mr. Hill’s speech. Know Nothingism
proper is with him a secondary matter or
machine with which to batter Democracy.
Foreigners are objectionable chiefly on the
ground of their influence in the Slavery
question : but he forgot that in the North
western States, most largely populated by
foreigners, we have have ever had the sound
est and most conservative Senators, and
that the Irish Catholic vote North has al
ways been given with the South. Mr. Hill
bore honorable testimony of Irish character,
which failed to elicit any applause from his
audience. Wc will close this short notice
meet the last re- : second dispatch dated thc 18tb, an
of the Know I nounces that the attack had failed, and that
I although ttm troops had showed the great- the Min ister of Foreign Affairs, and friend-
Carlist insurrection. Russia is suspected
as the instigator.
Mr. Dodge has had his first interview with
est ardor, and had gained a footing oh the i * he of F °™£ Affir J
Malakoff tower, Uen. Pelissier wat obliged ; remarks were exchanged
to order their retirement into the parallel : Lord Howden left Madrid on the 21st.
m,. ir i+Y Holland.—Extra estimates are votea tor
This was effected with order and without , . . r
molestation by the enemy. : ^SwitzerlSd^-'The opening of theFede-
Private accounts published in the London . . ,, • T n \xT9A
rn tho f. Of the Bririob officers | ha. boon
s£Ss;."E!Siraa *"**** *»
Sir J. Campbell- Col. Yea, and Col. Shab- L “^ ustl .; an despatch date d the 12th pro-
tir U 1 ' ,, , ,. , ... noses to Prussia that Prussia and Austria
From the obstinacy and courage with P understanding as to a
which the combat was «namt»»edby the . of conduct to he adopts by
| SSh? S SL f Se ! J- P""- ^ in
j slaughter on all sides has been io'^ense the Sp D ^^ T “lb Diet is dissolved.-
! fn kiHed* and ^wounded 5 ^bids enUs^entsf^gn ^
rj.j ie vice, under penalty of eight years unpnson-
bv thanking him for that liberality which I amounts to very little short of 4,000. The j •
R . ,. r ... . r! greatest portion of the loss was experienced j I,.’ ,
induced him to yield some little, at least, o ; m.-inn wlierc a nnwnrfnl and unexnect- i At stria.
yield
that praise which is due from the Southern
people to Gen. Pierce.
Mr. While.
Thi- gentleman, so well and favorabty
. f i , - . | Austria.—The Austrian army is being
in a ravine, where a powerful and unexpect- | dishanded The reduction is gre it and ra-
ed battery was opened on the troops, lherc ., °
is reason to fear that the loss has been great i P ia - LATEST NEWS
hut Lord Palmerston said last night no ad- U 50 A . M.-MarseiUcs, Friday
ditional information had arrived. The al- . night _ x { ie Engl ; 8h steamer Astolque h^
known throughout the State, will commence j a“h£ SdSingthe^SSPS^S
i,us evening, a senes of lectures on the his- ; un^^ tb^
that there had been smart firing on both ~ - • 6
rorv of < ieorgia. This is a subject in which
all classes of persons should be interested,
and we have no doubt many will prove
themselves so by a liberal patronage of Mr.
White. We wish that this system of in-
-truotion by lectures, were more extensively
practiced throughout the South ; for there
i- certainlv no means more efficacious for
I sides, but without any result of importance.
A despatch from Bucharest, via Vienna,
confirms that an expedition lias been under
taken against Pcrckop. Pelissier is ex-
! ccedingly savage against the telegraphic
! messages Napoleon sends him. He is rc-
; ported to have recently replied that when
of persons who scarcely ever open a hook,
are filled with correct information upon al
most every topic i if interest which may arise
before them.
Individuals, who have neither time nor
inclination to read, will find iu thc lecture
and the Quarries is 4000 men.
Wheat is declining in Marseilles.
Liverpool, June 23.—The cotton market
has been dull at a decline of on lower
qualities.
Major Andrew Jackson Doxelson.—
; The Know Nothing presses have entered
. anything fceurs he will let the Emperor into a deliberate determination to attempt
the dissemination of useful knowledge. ! u ! know, hut that lie has not time to act as a to make a big man of this personage who
ilic Northern cities and villages, where j telegraph operator. This, according to ru- ; s more famous for his long, great name,
lectures arc almost nightly given, hundreds i mor, accounts for the recent absence uf than anything else. Success is absolutely
news in the Moniteur. out of tho question. The materials are
Tiie Black Sea.—The Russian account wanting. The Major took up his “local
; of the successes of the allies iu the sea of habitation,” and kept his big name registe-
Azoff, is published. Grotschakolf confirms red i n the democratic party for a long time,
the successes claimed by the allies, but says J and with all the puming and blowing of
that operations against thc Sea of Azoff his too partial friends, and the overwhelm-
woro expected: that not having the means i ng endorsement of his name, and the favo-
vlnuwimt I to oppose Ihe hostile fioets,. the garrisons ra hle accidents of his position, he never
n-un, the acquisition of kuov\ ledge 1 , 1 had orders to blow up thc batteries and re- succeeded in roaching even a tenth-rate po
und interesting. Ur Wl»te has it ire; that the grain'stores burned by the sit i 0 n in thc estimation or affections of the
m.iu> > ears of In hfc ii tl o g b . Allies were mostly private property, and do I democracy. The democratic party opera-
ing the lustop of Georgia, and is, therefore, materially affect thc supply of the army, ting under the most favorablo eireumstan-
«Uv com,M5teut to perform the task which inatimudlj a ^ tidpaling sll0 ‘h [ an attack, sup- C esf and having the assistance too of one of
.<• u»i n—igm. linls • plies were mostly conveyed by land, uot- the greatest men that ever lived in the tide
Nationality of the Know Xotli<ng«. withstanding the facilities offered by sea. of time, made a most splendid failure in
If .. „„rtv mfrum. n„i> tlmi over* Tlic correspondence relates the horrible their efforts to magnify the character of
II a national party means one that every pel ‘ )etrated hy d)C French and Major Andrew Jackson Douelson. What
ImkIv may join without reference to po iti- a t tlic capture of Kcrtsch. A boat • ri g ht then, have the Know Nothings to
expedition i-- rumored to he preparing to en- promise themselves a better success? Ith:
ter thc river Dan, but the Russians have the : been said that Gen. Jackson never failed in
entrance defended hy twenty-seven gun- au undertaking. As a general proposition,
boats. universal with one solitary exception, no
General Adujauon, vice llclmau, of the j one acquainted with the history of the Pat-
Cossacks, of thc Don, has issued an address ' riot will pretend to question its correctness,
for their general enrolment as militia. , But great as he was, he signally failed in
Asia.—Tho Russian forces have advanced bis attempt to “make a man” of Major An-
and encamped near Redout Rule. The drew Jackson Douelson.—Memphis Appeal.
Turks have evacuated Batoum and Chowonk — — — ——
Su. Nassaf Paeha has advanced with his The New Orleans Bee, a Whig Know
staff to Kurs. A despatch from Varna dated j Nothing print, can’t stand on the platform
June 17, which was retarded on the way, ! adopted by the K. N. national council at
says tho Russians had made an unsuccess- j Philadelphia, and announces that a large
fill attack on Kars, and it was reported thev ' portion of thc Creoles, disgusted with the
had taken Anapa. ! religious test, will enter a significant pro-
The Austrian commander has proclaimed | test against it, by voting the Democratic
martial law in Moldavia, but tho Moldavian 1 ticket in Louisiana.
■ a i opinion!-, then certainly is the KuowNotb-
ing party the most national that lias over ex
isted. Pardon us for hoping auother su
uational will never again exist. Wc have
standing on the broad platform of Know
N'otliingisui abolitionists of tho blackest
dye. slavery men of the strongest stamp
and men of all intermediate stripes and
shades : wc have Know Nothings who base
their actions upon deadly hostility to Ca
tholicism. while they arc perfectly willing
to entrust the Protestant emigrant with the
full right of citizenship; wc have members
of the order on thc other hand, who aro op
posed to foreigners and naturalization, but
who disclaim the religious feature of their authorities refuss to promulgate thc order j
partv’s platform. But the extraordinary unless authorized by the Sultan. Constan- j
and crowning measure of Know Nothing
nationality is the divisions of the Southern j jj a j or Stalberg
Know Nothings on the subject of slavery. ■ gjdcrablc sensation in tlic Principalities.
The Macon American Convention, while The Baltic.—Admirable Barnes with a
they “ratify and approve” tho principles of I squadron of 17 steamers has left Kiel for
the National Council, iu accordance with i the Baltic. Thc rest of the fleet lay off Sea
i tof^ Ieland
their aforementioned policy, have differed \ The reoent attack
on an English boat’s
from it in many important particulars; j crew at H ang0 , while under a flag of truce,
thus affording the candidate for admission ; causes much excitement in England. Evi-
into their order unbounded liberty in the I dence rests solely on the authority of a ne-
selcction of his principles.
fiigy* Mrs. Robinson, who is sentenced to
i , sr JUiS&rs.
tolled at J»V n, \ o»Veh»e.to, beauty aud taleut-yet i. I,
not known who her relatives are. During
her trial abundant means were furnished
for her defence, and she has had at her
command large sums of money during her
imprisonment
The Liqcor Law in New York.—A New
York letter of the 5th says: Talking of
thc Liquor Law, therewasno attempt what
ever, either in Brooklyn or in this city, to
, gro, the sole survivor, who asserts he heard enforce it yesterday, and to day, so far as
' the Russian commander say, “I don’t care ; J can assertain, there are just as many por-
Tlie Philadelphia National Convention, a ; a damn for a flag of truce.” Unprejudiced j ter houses open, and men appear to be im-
Southern body, views, “the maintenance of ' supposition is that the Russians supposed i bibing about as freely as ever. Everybody
these United States as the paramount polit- the V oa l was ta £ il,g , soundiu S 8 as ' vas re * 8a J s % now law has gone into operation,
• i , *i i cently done at Kertch. hut nobody has seen it operate. True a
teal guod: How shall we reconcile this Admiral Dundas has communicated with i Mr. Smith, keeper of a saloon in Howard
with the action of the Macon Convention, , ^be Russian authorities and the British gov- i street, was arrested yesterday, and brought
re-affirming the Georgia Platform which | eminent through the Danish Minister at , before the Marino Court to day, to answer
declares the American Union is secondary St. Petersburg, and demands redress,
to the righto and principle, which it we. The Rus.ien account in the Wide Ku..
deigned to perpetuete. The OeotginKnow k,1W mi ten ““ der *”
„ “ . \ , , ,, f , prisoners.
Nothings have taken bold grounds on the! A despatch from Dantzic confirms that the
subject of Slavery in the Territories: it “re- j officers of the boat, Lieut. Grnest, Dr. Eas-
gards all opposition to the principle of ‘lie ens, Mr. Sullivan, and all of the crew ex-
Kansas-Nebraaka act in relation to si:.--ry cent six are prisoners.
i An infernal machine exploded under the
as hostile to the Constitutional rights of , EngU(jh 8teamers Merlin F and Firefly off
the South.” As a sequence to this they : Cronstadt, on the I9th, but did not damage
them seriously.
Prince Gortschacoff is appointed resi
dent Minister at Vienna, M. Tiloff to Wur-
temburg, and M. Fontem to Hanover.
Russian influence is very active, even in
the smallest German Courts.
The Journal of St. Petersburg publishes
the semi-official discussion on Count Walow
ski’s French Circular, of May 23d.
The Journal also semi-officia% says, that
peace is possible if France and Englaud are
must regard the Missouri Compromise Line
to have been unconstitutional. But the
Philadelphia Convention, although compos
ed almost entirely of Southern men, failed
eo to consider it, and on the subject of the
Nebraska bill they have bettor have said
never a word. Freeaoilism is yet with the
members of that body an open, undetermin
ed question, although by many of them it
has been determined against- the South.—
One part declares for the “suppression of all
tendances to political division founded on
geographical discriminationswhile a
part calls on this some part to unite in a
common defence against a common enemy.
These things all assist greatly to unravel
the charge of selling a glass of brandy and
water, but his counsel denying the jurisdic
tion of the Court, and interposing an infin
itude of other technical objections, the case
was postponed.
The understanding at the Mayor’s Office
is that a test case will be brought before the
Courts in thc > onrse of a day or two, and by
the decission us to the constitutionality of
the law, there and then, the enforcement of
the ordinance will stand or fall. Meanwhile
the “failure to execute” on the 5th, as well
as the 4th, is universally accpeted as an
indication of the disinclination of the May
or of the city to have anything to do with
it.
A good joke is told at the expense of May
or Hall, of Brooklyn. His honor bad given
out that he intended to enforce the law at
all hazards on the 4th. His first official act
on the morning of that day was to review
the military; and the occasion was one of-
. , faring and excellent opportunity to do what
willing, insomuch os the 4th point is mor- he promised—the soldiers, as they filed
ally if not formally settled; and the other
points, namely,—the navigation of the Dan
ube and the evacuation of thp Principalities
are all settled—leaving only the Vienna 3d
point to be settled.
All the camps are healthy, except that at
past the Mayor taking out a whiskey bottle
and taking a horn, right under his esyes {—
People who wanted to see whether the po
lice would be called upon to arrest the mili
tary, it is needless to add, went away disap
pointed?
similar cause. A learned and distinguished
citizen of this place discussed the subject in
our columns immediately after thc passage
of the obnoxious laws of Vermont, referred
to above, and we very unexpectedly got into
a controversy on the subject with our neigh
bor of the Corner Stone. At the recent
Democratic Convention of the State of Geor
gia, the subject was brought to the notice
of that body by A. Nelson, of Fulton, and
the 14th resolution was, in consequence,
unanimously adopted. Since then, a re
markable letter from John C. Calhoun, to
Percy Walker, of Mobile Ala., on the sub
ject, has been given to the public.
In that letter, Mr. Calhoun, speaking of
abolition agitation and action, says:—“ I
regard State laws intended to embarrass the
reclamation of fugitive slaves, as unconsti
tutional, insulting, and dangerous. Nay
more! the right to hold our property im
plies the right to hold it in peace and quiet;
and, therefore, the toleration of societies,
presses and lectures, intended to call in
qnestion this right, and to overthrow our in
stitutions, is such a violation, not only of in
ternational laws, but also of the federal
compact, as we cannot acquiesce in without
ultimate ruin. There is, and can be but
one remedy short of disunion, and that is to
retaliate on our part, by refusing to fulfill
the stipulation, in their favor, or such as we
may select as the most effectual. Among
these, the right of their ships and commerce
to enter and depart from our ports, is the
most effectual, and can be enforced.”
“That the refusal ou their part would jus
tify us to refuse to fulfill on our part, is too
clear to admit of an argument. Nor is there
any impediment from the power of Congress
to regulate commerce among the States.—
1 he right of the States to adopt laws to pro
tect their health, their internal policy and
peace and safety, is paramount to the right
of Congress to regulate commerce.”
The stand taken by the Georgia Democ
racy, and the publication of this remarkable
letter of one of the brightest intellects and
the profoundest constitutional lawyers this
country ever produced, has attracted public
attention to the matter in every part of the
Union. It has been discussed in every part
of the country. The universal opinion of
the sound and conservative portion of the
American people is, that the unjust, oppres
sive and unconstitutional legislation of Ver
mont and Massachusetts, whereby the peo
ple of the South are robbed of their proper
ty, places those commonwealths outside the
comity of States, and will justify tho South
in passing extreme retaliatory measures.— i
Vermont and Massachusetts, by their legis- i
lation, have wilfully renounced their alle
giance to the Union. By the legislative
countenance (they) have given to the theft
and robbery of Southern property,” says
the Louisville Journal, an extremely na
tional journal, “by the immunity (they)
promise to the thieves and robbers, and by
the official exaltation of the more prominent
of the aiders and abettors of those thieves
and robbers, (they) knowingly violate all
6ense of propriety and justice, and hurl a
presumptious and vindictive defiance against
the whole South.” These sentiments are
common to the Southern people, nor are
they extravagant. Slave stealing has be
come so common that many persons do not
look upon it with that abhorrence which it
ought to excite in every just mind. Sup-
{ tose then that Massachusetts should pass a
aw forbidding her officers and citizens, un
der heavy penalties, from aiding or abetting
in the capture of Kentucky mules, whether
strayed or stolen, in her State limits ; that
armed mobs turned ont to resist, even to
death, their capture ; that those of her citi
zens who engaged in these mobs, were ap
plauded by the people of the State, and
elected by the public voice to high office,
what would be thought of Massachusetts by
the civilized world? She would be de
nounced from Nova Zembla to Terra del
Fuego as a piratical State, and her citizens
would be hung as pirates upon apprehension
by all civilized States and people. Well,
substitute slaves for mules, and now is the
case altered ? Instead of lessening the out
rage upon the slaveholding States, it aggri-
vates it, inasmuch os one of the terms of
the Union was the Bpeedy delivery to its
owner by the several States, of “ fugitives
from service or labor.”
There is Borne diversity of opinion as to
the surest and most effectual mode of re
taliation—none whatever, so far as we
know, as to the policy and necessity of it.
A writer in tne Spirit of the South, ob
jects to Mr. Calhoun’s plan of directly pro
hibiting the introduction of shipping and
commerce into our ports on the ground that
it would bring the State and Federal auth>
rities into collision. He, however, suggests
the propriety of the passage of laws by the
Southern States, making it a good plea in
bar to a suit in law or equity, or to a bill of
indictment or personal injury, that the
E laintiff or prosecutor was a citizen of those
tates ; in civil suits, that the considera
tion was merchandise purchased or manu
factured in those States.
The Louisville Journal suggests that tho
Southern States might, by way of retalia
tion, pass a law declaring that, after a
named day, nothing of the growth or product
of Massachusetts, soil or labor imported
into the South, should be deemed the sub-
ject of larpeny or robbery, and that the
stealing or robbery of no 6uch thing should
be punished within the Southern States
respectively.
Either of these remedies would, we be
lieve, either cure the New England States
of their fanaticism, or drive them out of the
Union. The pleasure suggested by the
Louisville Journal, though abhorent to the
moral sense, is in strict conformity to the
laws of Massachusetts and Vermont on the
subject of slavery, and would, probably
prove in the end the most efficacious. If
generally adopted by the Southern States
it would act as an embargo upon the foreign
commerce of the offending States. Mo?t of
their factories would be stopped in a year.
Their capital and labor would be transferred
to other States. They would be forced to
fulfill their constitutional obligations to the
South or see grass grow in the streets of
Boston.
Reaping Machines bv the Thousanps.—
Says _ the Scientific American: “ We have
been informed bo a manufacturer of agri
cultural implements, one who is excellent
authority, that between 15,000 and 16,000
reaping machines will be manufactured and
sold this year in this country. The demand
is so great that manufacturers caunot make
them fast enough for their orders. This af
fords evidence of agricultural prosperity, as
the cost of these machines will amount to
nearly §2,000,000. C)ur fanners exhibit
wisdom in using and patronizing machine
ry. A reaping machine will save the price
or itself in one season.”
To Clean Glass.—Take finely pulverized
indigo, dip into it a linen rag moistened
with vinegar, wine or water, and apply it
briskly to the glass. Wipe off and polish
with dry cloths. This method of cleaning
window glass imparts a brilliant polish ana
is far tnore cxpeditiously accomplished than
cleaning with soap-suds or whitening,
Mew Orleans, July 8.—The Louisiana
State Know Nothing Council has wholly re
pudiated the Catholic test of the Philadel
phia platform, and will receive into the or
der aU Americaiipborn Catholics.
WEDNESDAY JULY II.
Knocking Their last Plank from Un
der Them.
The K. N.’s have made a public confes
sion that in hiding their acts from the light
of day they were wrong. They confess
again, by their ceaseless efforts to evade the
charges that the Democracy are galling
them with, that in the proscription of Cath
olics and foreigners which they first set out
with, that they were wrong here, too. Ef
facing all the cardinal and distinguishing
traits that so broadly and unfortunately di
vided rhern from every other Southern par
ty that ever existed, they now seek, by in
flated and tremendous bragging, to show
that by and through them the institution of
Slavery is alone to be saved. The Macon
Platform Address, with a reckless contempt
for the use and abuse of language, has ven
tured to say that thc National K. N. Plat
form ou Slavery is the best ever before
erected by any any national party in this
laud. That the country may see that this
is nothing but sounding brass, we have col
lated the three last national platforms upon
this issue. Keep it before the people, Dem
ocrats aud Whigs, that while both of your
lost conventions dared to speak out boldly
upon the Fngitive Slave Law and to commit
you fully to its maintenance, this boasted
K. N., conservative, nigger loving, South
saving, national, conservative party has not
had the gizzard to whisper that there was,
is, or ever will be, such a thing as a law of
the Government giving up to a Southern
man his runaway slave. Will any man of
common sense venture to say, that when
Southern men covered out of sight thiB all
important matter by the fussy, say-nothing
verbosity of the K. N. resolution, that it
was not done to keep still the angry devil
of Abolition that waited in that convention
to devour them ? So, then, the last plank
that Know Nothingism stood upon is jerked
from under them and they stand where the
Irishman stood when he was hanging.—
The K. N.’s have invited a comparison
bet ween their platform and that of all others,
and let them have their wish. Let the peo
ple read and compare, and make up the
verdict.
We will to-morrow return to this sub
ject and show that as little as has been
done for the constitutional rights of the
South by K. N. sympathy and loyalty, the
manner and spirit of the work render it
utterly worthless for all practical good.
Know Nothing National Platform.
XII. The American party having arisen
upon the ruins and in spite of the opposi
tion of the Whig and Democratic parties,
cannot be held in any manner responsible
for the obnoxious acts or violated pledges of
of either. And the systematic agitation of
the Slavery question by those parties hav
ing elevated sectional hostility into a pos
itive element of political power, and brought
our institutions into peril, it has therefore
become the imperative duty of the American
party to interpose, for the purpose of giving
peace to the country and perpetuity to the
Union. And as experience has shown it
impossible to reconcile opinions so extreme
as those which separate the disputants, and
as there can be no dishonor in submitting
to the la>\ a, the National Council has
demeed it the best guarantee of common
justice and future peace, to abide by and
maintain the existing laws upon the sub
ject of Slavery, as a final and conclusive
settlement of that subject, in spirit and in
substance.
And regarding it the highest duty to avow
their opinions upon a subject so important,
in distinct and unequivocal terms, it is here
by declared, as thc sense of this National
Council, that Congress possesses no power
under the Constitution, to legislate upon
the subject of slavery in the States where it
does or may exist, or to exclnde any State
from admission into the Union because its
Constitution does or does not recognise the
institution of slavery as a part of its social
syetem ; and especailly pretermitting any
j expression of opinion upon the power of
i Congress to establish or prohibit slavery in
! any Territory, it is the sense of the Nation-
j al Council that Congress ought not to legis-
. late upon the subject of slavery within thc
! Territory of the United States, and that any
: interference by Congress with slavery, as
i it exists in the District of Columbia, would
| be a violation of the spirit and intention of
: the compact by which the State of Maryland
; ceded the District to the United States, and
i a breach of the National faith.
Democratic National Platform.
9. That Congress has no power under the
Constitution to interfere with or control the
domestic institutiohs of the several States,
and that such States are the sole and proper
judges of everything appertaining to their
own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitu
tion ; that all efforts of the abolitionists or
others made to induce Congress to interfere
with questions of slavery, or to take incip
ient steps in relation thereto, are calculated
to lead to the most alarming and dangerous
consequences: and that all such efforts have
an inevitable tendency to diminish the hap
piness of the people, and endanger the sta
bility and permanency of the Union, and
ought not to be countenanced by any friend
of our political institutions.
Besolved, That tho foregoing proposition
covers, and was intended to embrace the
whole subject of slavery agitation in Con
gress, and therefore the Democratic party
of the Union, standing upon this national
j ilatform, will abide by and adhere to the
aitbful execution of the acts known as the
compromise measures, settled by the last
Congress—the act for the reclaiming of fu
gitives from service or labor included, which
act, being designed to carry out an express
provision of the Constitution, cannot, with
fidelity thereto, be repealed or so changed as
to destroy or impair its efficiency.
Resolved, That the Democratic party will
resist all attempts at renewing in Congress
or out of it, the agitation of tho Slavery
question, under whatever shape or color the
attempt may bo made.
Whig National Platform.
8. The series of acts of the 31st Congress
commonly known as the compromise adjust
ment, (the act for the recovery of fugi
tives from labor included) are received and
acquiesced in by the Whigs of the United
States as a final settlement, in principle
and substance, of thc subjects to which they
relate, and so far as these acts are concerned,
we will maintain them, and insist on
their strict enforcement, until time and ex
perience shall demonstrate the necessity of
further legislation to guard against the eva
sion of the laws on the one hand, and the
abuse of present efficiency to carry out the
requirements of the Constitution, and we
deprecate all further agitation of the ques
tions thus settled, as dangerous to our peace,
^nd will discountenance all efforts to continue
or renew such agitation, whenever, wher
ever or however made—and we will main
tain this settler 1 ■ nt a' essential to the na
tionality of he x J arty, and the integ
rity uf the Uaioi.,
Operations in the Baltic.—A letter
from off Cronstadt, June 8th, says:—There
is no longer any doubt as to the existence of
infernal machines under the water in the
approaches to Cronstadt, three having been
discovered yesterday as the Merlin ana Fire
fly were reconnoitering the northern pas
sage. Fortunately the damage done this
time was trifling, 'although the report was
loud and the shock pretty severe, knocking
over a stand of muskets, breakipgall the mess
traps and crockery ware, and starting the bulk
heads. The Merlin is supposed to have a
hole in her bows, and a diver is to exam
ine her to-morrow. Had the mines been
effective or exploded under her bilge, the
resnlt might have been awful, and the catch
a good one, as the French admiral and half
a dozen post captains were ia her. Eleven
steam gunboats were in readiness to come
ont if we plan bedeooowM.
BepaUlcuu, Rome.
We have been requested by friends in the
country to say if it is really*, fact that the
Know Nothings do swear their members to
stand by their creed, and if their oath re
quires them to go by what a majority of
the lodges may decree. We will give our
friends n chance to judge for themselves by
re-publishing what common report says is
the. oath prescribed by K. N. discipline.
Justice, however, calls upon us to admit, that
in this section, the fire that has been poured
into the Order in such terrible broadsides,
by the Republicans of the country, has
driven the party from behind their covers,
and that they have also quit their naughty
habit of swearing—so it is said. We know
nothing, however, of the matter, aB it may,
after all, be a new dodge to say that they
are ashamed of these bad habits of swearing
and concealment. Let the fact he as it
may, we have the Know Nothings in the
inexorable grasp of public reprobation.
If this shocking and demoralizing usage
of the K. N. party is still preserved, then
we have the spectacle presented to Repub-1
lican Americans of men calling themselves
free, patting their votes and their judg
ments and their consciences into com
mission, giving them up to the keeping
of a majority of their party. If, on the
other hand, these other men have been
forced to see and recant their error, then
must the country believe that those who .
start so egregiously wrong are unfit to be
the leaders of any sort of reform, moral or
political, and are not to be trusted with the
fortunes or the liberties of this people.
“Obligation.—You and each of you, of
your own free will and accord, in the presence
of Almighty God and these witnesses, your
left hand resting on your right breast, and
your right hand extended towards the flag
of your country, do solemnly and sincerely
swear that you will not, under any circum
stances, disclose, in any manner, nor suffer
it to be done by others if in your power to
prevent it, the name, signs, pass-words or
other secrets of this degree; that you will
in all things conform to all tho rules and
regulations of this Order, and to the Con
stitution and By-Laws of this or any other
Council to which jou may be attached, so
long os they do not conflict with the Consti
tution of the United States nor that of the
State in which you reside; that you will,
under all circumstances, if in your power
to do so, attend to all signs or summonses
that may be sent you by a brother of this
or any other degree of this Order; that you
will support, in all political matters, for
all political offices, members of this Or
der, provided it be necessary for the Amer
ican interest; that, if it may be done, you
will, when elected to any office, remove
all FOREIGNERS, ALIENS, or RoMAN CATHOLICS
from office ; and that you will in no case
appoint such to office. All this you promise
ana declare on your honor as Americans
to sustain and abide by, without any hesita
tion or mental reservation whatever. So
help you God and keep you steadfast.—
[Each will answer, “ I do.”]
The Way the Know Nothings, North,
Construe the Philadelphia Platform.
The Editor of the New Y'rrk Express, a
zealous friend of “Sam,” and one of the few
Know Nothings, North, who adhere to the
action of the Philadelphia convention, thus
construes their Platform:
It is false—as stated in many quarters—
that there is anything in this platform
which compels a Northern man to endorse
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise by
Pierce and Douglas, of the North—not
South, mark that.
Every man is left free under this platform
to resist the admission of Kansas into the
Union—until her bona fide settlers have, in
good faith, settled the question of slavery
or freedom there, by their popular votes.
Again:
“There is nothing here pledging the
American Party—as the abolition presses
state—to admit Kansas into the Union, if
she presents herself—as is threatened now
in some quarters—with a slaveholding Con
stitution, made by Missouri squatters, who,
in violation of popular sovereignty, seem to
have carried the Territorial Legislature.—
The right and duty of every American,
North and South, to resist such a violation
of “popular sovereignty,” are apparent, and
open—and it is evident that Kansas cannot
bo admitted into the Union until she purges
herself of the Missouri violence and fraud.
It must be a well settled thing—that she is
a voluntary slaveholding State, of her own
free will—before the right of “popular sove
reignty” can begin to impose any claims
upon Congress to admit her into tho
Union.
“It is not pretended, that Northern and
Southern men can agree on slavery. The
platform designs no such thing. At least,
it is but the opinion of the Council. There
is no reason why evei'y Northern American
should not go on and with his organization
just as ever.”
was almost universally the practice at one
time, if not at present, to permit the Solic
itor General to agree with the defendant as
to what fine he should pay provided he
would plead “ guilty,” with the understand
ing that the court would stand to and carry
out whatever agreement he might make.—
Conceding that the Solicitor General is al
ways actuated by the purest motives, and
that the discretion which the Judge turns
over to him is as sound as that of the Judge
himself, we propound the question whether
it comes up to what the law requires at the
hands of the Judge ? Upon the best hy
pothesis which can be brought to bear, the
precedent is a bad one. .... j and all. As usual with Temperance n
In proof of the fact that such is the prac- \ ance Con-
v , . , ... - ., ventions, there was great excitement j.
tice, we have simply to ask those of our ci - order and much debate
izens who are in the habit of pleading gu.1- ^ ^ ** Aj
ty to small indictments, if they do not usu- ^ 0verbv ^ ^ t(> gam con-
ally know in advance what hue they were
to pav ? That intimacy between the
“ State ” and the defendants ought to be
superseded. EMMET.
FRIDAY. EVENING/JULY~i7~
WOK GOVKRHob^^
HERSCHEL V. J0HH80E
: of Baldwin. ’
For Con S re«a ..4tH District
HIBAM WASHER, '
tS- See Third Page. ~ ia: »
State Temperance Convention
We have barely time to announce th‘
morning that this body met at Marietta v
terday at 10 o’clock, the President taking^
chair. The attendance of delegates was sf *
there being in the Hall at the hour of ora 10,
izing theConvention butll2adults, memu
i and all * ° -at. 'll-
The Next Presidential Election.
The following remarks are taken from
tho Richmond Examiner. They prove be
yond a doubt that it is tho imperative duty
of every Southern patriot to give his cordial
support to the Democratic Party. It is now
the only organization which can save our
rights and honor in the Union. The facts
submitted are incontrovertible:
Southern States. Northern States.
Arkansas, 4
Missouri, 9
Florida, 3
South Carolimi, 8
Delaware, 3
Virginia, 15
Maryland, 8
N. Carolina, 10
Georgia, 10
Alabama, 9
Mississippi, 7
Louisiana, 6
Texas, 4
Tennessee, 12
Kentucky. 12
120
Iowa,
Maine,
Vermont,
California,
Pennsylvania,
Ohio,
Indiana,
Michigan,
Illinois,
New Jersey,
Wisconsin,
New York,
Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, 5
Connecticut, 6
Rhode Island, 4
176
The Judicial Election.—No. 9,
The true object of my correspondence has
been not to show which is the bravest of
two black-leg bullies: The issue is whether
Judge Irwin or Col. Brown shall be elected
Judge of the Circuit. However much the
scribbling friends of the former may wish to
direct public attention from it. In regard
to the charge of falsehood against me by
“Sheridan,” I have to say that I commenced
this correspondence anonymous: I choose
to continue it so, nqt that I am afraid to
avow myself, or to meet “Sheridan” or any
one else upon any personal oharges against
myself in such a manner as might be becom
ing, if the correspondence wete in proper
personae; but thatthe public may judge
of the matter presented irrespective of tho
source from which they emanate, with such
views I maintain my assumed cognomen
and character, net feeling conscious of hav
ing written anything which I either knew
then or believe now to be false.
If I might be allowed to use hypothetical
figures to illustrate a single idea—suppose
I am a first class lawyer, or even put me
down upon a level with “Sheridan,” to the
4th or 5th class, or oveu still lower : con
cede that I am only interested in the cer
tiorari docket, as insinuated by one, or
far the more liberal premises still, take it
that I am no lawyer either in practice or
profession: what bus that to do with the
merit or demerit of what I have written or
what I shall still write ? The question in
which an interest can be felt is truth. By
that standard, strange as it may be to the
head or heart of others, let my papers be
judged.
Upon the charge of “Sheridan” that Col.
Brown has worn unlawful weapons, it may
be suggested that whether the charge be
true or false, in view of the hostile relations
and threats which were of common place
chit chat in the Circuit, of a gentleman (who
is not personally offensive to me) and who
is more nearly allied to his Honor officially
and politically than Col. Brown, if he
did not arm himself that he acted the part
of a downright fool. This gentleman is not
a candidate, and I regret the necessity of
such au allusion ; but at the door of “Sher
idan” lies tho fault. Injustice to a party
thus introduced collaterally, it is proper to
add that the threats alluded to may not
have been in reality mode, but that such
was the current report perhaps no one will
deny.
I desire to call the attention of the people
of the District to a practice which has pre
vailed extensively with Judge Irwin: it is
that of giving to the Solicitor General that
discretion which the law clothes him with
in the award of punishment for minor of-
fonoM ia the discretion of the cent. It
Here are one hundred and twenty votes
sure to be cast against the Fusion in behalf
of the Democracy. IIow many of the one
hundred and seventy six Northern votes can
we safely calculate upon carryingin aid of this
one hundred and twenty? This is the great
question—the question of questions. The
following States would be enough to tie the
vote:
California, 4
Illinois, 11
Indiana, 13
For this would leave the Fusion one hun
dred and forty eight, and gives the Democ
racy one hundred and forty eight. Our
chance for victory would then lie in gaining
another State among all the remaining
Northern States. If it be rash to calculate
on Indiana, the possibilities authorise us to
substitute New Hampshire, Iowa and Mich
igan in its place. If we should lose these
States, still our chances for New Jersey and
Maine are not desperate, to say nothing
of Connecticut.
It is plain that the Democracy must carry
all the South, together with California and
Illinois, to render their success even possi
ble ; and that their chances of victory de
pend, after that, upon carrying either In
diana ; or else the three States of New
Hampshire, Iowa and Michigan; or else
New Jersey and Connecticut; or else Con
necticut aud Maine; or else as many of the
six States last mentioned as will make up
fourteen votes. In short, conceding the
whole South and Illinois and California to
the Democracy, they must carry fourteen
additional electoral votes out of the whole
array of the Northern States, to gain the
day, Pennsylvania alone, united to the
South and California, will ensure the vic-
tory.
If this can be won upon a broad constitu
tional, national platform, a division of par
ties upon geographical lines can yet be
avoided, the integrity of the national De
mocracy yet be preserved, and the safety of
the Union again be secured against the on
slaught of the Fusion—secured, in all proba
bility, for a long and glorious future; for
the Fusion, beaten in 1856, will then be as
dead at the North, as Know Nothingism
has been dead at the South since the Vir
ginia election.
Gov. Reeder In Kansas.
It was announced to us by telegraph, a
few days since, that Gov. Reeder had suc
ceeded in getting into a personal difficulty,
and below we give the particulars, taken
from the Kansas Times. The doughty
Governor would seem to have been false to
both parties, and after all his tirades against
the Missouri marauders, has confessed him
self satisfied that Kansas would be a slave
State.
Whitehead, Kansas T., -June 27.
Yesterday morning Gen. B. F. Stringfel-
low, of Weston, Mo., proceeded to Gov.
Reeder’s residence, near the Shawnee Mis
sion, and after introducing himself to the
Governor, said, M I understand, sir, that
you have publicly spoken and written of me
in the East as a frontier ruffian, and I have
called to ascertain whether you have done
so?”
Gov. R.—“ I did not so write or speak of
you in public.”
Gen. S.—“ Did you speak of me in those
terms any where, or at any time ?”
Gov. R.—“ No, sir.”
Geu. S.—“Did you use my name at all?”
Gov. R.—“ 1 may have used your name
in private conversation.”
Gen. S.—“Did you use it disrespectfully?
Did you intimate, or insinuate, that I was
other than a gentleman ?”
Gov. R.—“ I might have done so.”
Gen. S.—“ Then, sir you uttered a false
hood, aud 1 demand of you the satisfaction
of a gentleman, I very much question
your right to that privilege, for I do not be
lieve you to be a gentleman ; but I never
theless give you the opportunity to vindicate
your title to that character, by allowing you
to select such friends as you may please,
and I will do the same, and we will step out
here and settle the matter as gentlemen
usually do.”
Gov. R.—“ I cannot go. I am no fight
ing man.”
Gen. S.—“ Then I will have to treat you
as I would any other offensive animal—”
And with that, he knocked Reeder down
with his fist. I suppose the abolitionists
will pronounce this a “ ruffianly attack.”—
Let one of them do so, and then dare show
his face in Kansas! They will not say so,
however, but pronounce it a proper punish
ment, when they hear, that as soon as Ree
der returned, he expressed himself satisfied
that Kansas would bo a slave State, and that
he was in favor of that instutution. I learn
it is a fact, and I learn it from a gentleman
who heard him, that he so expressed him
self on the steamer coming up the river, and
also after he had landed. T.
Judge Cone on tlie Slump.
We repaired, Friday evening, to the
lower Market House, to listen to a speech
from the Hon. F. H. Cone, in exposition of
the principles and aims of Know Nothing
ism. The merits of the speech were in per
fect accordance with the merits of the cause
he advocated. We suppose that is the rea
son the speaker did not attempt a great ef
fort. He is so fond of harmony that he
wanted both to be in unison. Our Know
Nothing friends are welcome to all advan
tages derived from such speeches and such
speakers.
Those who have heard Judge Cone in the
Court House, found that Judge Cone was a
very different man on the stump. He was
out of his element, and from feelings of
charity, we will say nothing more about the
speech.
The Judge spoke about an hour; the
meeting adopted resolutions endorsing the
Philadelphia and Macon platform, and then
adjourned. A large portion of the crowd
remaining, was entertained until a late
hour, by several anti-Know Nothing ad-
dresses.—Augusta Constitutionalist.
Senator Charles Summer travels in the
slave States with perfect impunity and great
boldness. At Nashville, Tenn., on Fnday
week he “ received the attention of many
PVORbMQt oitiMM.”
cern, Overby and all, to Sam.
But this demonstration was a feeble af
fair, and Mr. Overby’s friends in the adroit
est manner possible, turned the tables
Judge Andrews. The most active epi^
engaged in the effort to merge the Temper
ance organization into a Know Nothin
Council, were Messrs. Turner, of Ilancnclf
Durce of Chatham, and Threat of Sp^
ing. We are sorry to be compelled to sav
that Democracy looked very forlorn in that
assemblage, and had not that old game cock
from Cherokee county, the Rev. Mr,
ham been there, wo would never have foiT
heard of. n
The most important measures which were
passed by the Convention, were tho adop
tion aud endorsement of the Georgia Pi ad
form, and the adoption and endorsement of
Mr. Overby by tho State Temperance Par
ty. This was done by the very decisive
vote of 52 to 13—so wc may regard the two
wings of that party as in a state of fusion,
and for the future, “one and indivisible.”
Wo now give it as our opinion that Overby
will beat Andrews in the popular vote; and
that the arrogant demands of thc K. N,
party, have so incensed tho temperance men
that they will sooner throw their voto for
the Democracy than allow Andrews to have
it. Mr. Overby addressed the people i n
Marietta in a very able speech, and to-day
Mr. Tilton, of Cass, will deliver the annual
address.
Steamboat Lexington.'
Among the passengers who perished in
the recent explosion of the steamboat Le*.
ington, on thc Ohio, were the two brothers
Robert B. and Charles C. Bostwick, of Ma
rietta, Ga. By this calamitous dispensation,
distress and mourning have been brought
upon two families in our midst. Less than
one week before, the Messrs. Bostwick left
their homes for the North. At Smithland,
Kentucky, they passed from the Cumberland
boat to the Lexington, a packet running be
tween St. Louis and Louisville. The dis
aster took place at about 3 o’clock on the
morning of the 1st, when the passengers were
generally in their berths.
Manget’a Analogy.
The author, Mr. V. H. Manget, Professor
of French and History in the Georgia Mili
tary Institute, has favored us with a copy
of the above work. Its object is to facili
tate the study of the French, Spanish, Ital
ian and Portuguese, by tracing their analo
gies and the connection of all with the Lat
in. Prof. Manget has evinced great indus
try and research in the preparation of his
Analogy, and the result of his labors has
been a valuable book, which must prove
useful to teachers and pupils. The limits
of a brief notice like the present will not
admit of a detailed statement of the plan
of the work. Its importance will appear,
from the facts stated in tlie introduction,
that of the languages of Southern Europe,
whilst a very large number of words in the
French are derived from the Latin, in the
Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, nearly
nine-tenths of their words are of Latin or
igin.
That “ Monster Wedding.”—The New
York Evening Post of yesterday says as
follows in reference to the great wedding
that, according to the newspapers, is soon
to take place at the St. Nicholas House in
New York:
“ Judge Conklin and his daughters were
guests at the hotel about a month ago, and
nothing was heard at that time, or since, of
any intended marriage fete' there or else
where, in which they were interested.-
There is to be a small wedding party at the
St. Nicholas some time during the present
month. A gentleman named Lawrence, of
Kentucky, is to be married to a Southern
lady, and the wedding party will come to
the North and stop a few days at the St.
Nicholas. About fifty rooms have been
partially engaged for the party. The bride
and bridegroom and their friends will after
wards leave tho city for Saratoga and other
places of summer resort. This is the near
est approximation to tho ‘ Monster Wed
ding ’ of which the proprietors of the St.
Nicholas have any knowledge.”
Explosion of the Lexington—Georgian!
Lost.
The telegraph has already briefly men
tioned that the steamboat Lexington from
St. Louis for Louisville, having about eighty
persons, on board, including passengersand
crew, exploded her boilers in the Ohio river
while under way about 3 o’clock on Satur
day morning last, killing and wounding
fully half of the people on board. This
terrible disaster occurred near the town of
Rome, Indiana, while every soul on board,
with the exception of that portion of the
crew who were on watch, were asleep in
their births, totally unconscious of the dan
ger and death that surrounded them. The
Louisville Courier, of Monday says.
The boat, it is supposed, exploded all her
boilers with a terrific noise, causing death
and destruction to all around. The upper
works of the boat, forward of he water
wheels, were blown to fragments, throwing
the sleeping passengers and the crew like
“chaff before the wind,” many of them fall
ing in the river, and others alighting among
the fragments of the burning boat and ren
hot furnaces on the lower deck, as the boa.
almost on theinstantof the explosion,caugnt
fire, thus exposing the survivors of the wrec
to the horrors of being either burnt alive or
drowned. At this juncture the boat creenw
and commenced sinking, when a wood boat
was caught, and that together with ski k.
and the steamers J. C. Fremont and v. ■
Given, which came up, and saved ma.
Among the passengers were two floor
f ians named Harrison, who got on boar •
mithland. One was killed and the o v
is missing.
A Shrewd Parson.—Many dwhtk® **
member the stylo which obtained » ®
tho ladies, some years sinco, of gam =
their hair together and piling lf . in . .
tionary mound on the upper portion o
head by the aid of sunary httie stee
struments. While this fashion w
vogue, an Orthodox clergyman ot a
village, regarding it as an abommatio ,
determined to use his influence agam
and “ preach it down.” Accordingly, o
Sabbath morning, he mounted the PP
and gave as his text, “top-not come u >
and in short the congregation were hai ]
“ exercised” because the worthy pa® . e
preached from a text not to be f° ua "i
Scriptures. On Tuesday they ca v“ f or
up Defore a convocation of the sai >
the purpose of making a formal ^
against him and dismissing him *
care. The charge was made ana
asked if he had ought to say in reply- ^
mildly remarked that the text was /j
found in hi* Bible, and that if
hand him one he would point out 1
and read it to them. A Bible wa ®
him, and he turned slowly to the P* at ®,
nod, “And let those upontheboa^.
top not com* down J” A vote ot
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