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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GA.:
SATURDAY, AUG. 30, 185 C.
Oar Weekly Gossip,
With Readers and Correspondents.
The Biteis Bit.
Old Doctor Cooper, for many years
President of South Carolina College, writes
au esteemed correspondent, was one of the
most amiable men that ever instructed
bad boys. Not one of the most mischiev
ous students that ever attended the Col
lege was more fond of a joke or more
ready to turn one to advantage. On one
occasion he entered the recitation room
ar.d found the class all seated, with unu
sual punctuality, and looking wondrous
grave and solemn. Mischief of some kind
was evidently on hand, and they were ap
parently prepared for a loud laugh, ns the
old Doctor walked deliberately up to his
arm chair; for there, lashed bolt upright,
was an old he-goat, looking wonderfully
surprised, and not a little frightened. It,
however, they expected to turn the joke
on the old Doctor, they erred in their
count: for, instead of growing turions, and
rating them soundly, he politely remarked:
“ Aha! young gentlemen! quite repub
lican in your tendencies, I see. You bc
ieve in a representative government, and
have elevated one of your own number to
the chair, hey ? Well, it’s all right, young
gentlemen, it’s all right! I dare say you
have done very well, and that the present
incumbent can fill the chair as well as any
of yon. You may listen to him to-day-
Good day, young gentlemen, good day.”
And off trudged the Doctor, leaving the
goat by all odds the least ridiculous figure
in the room.
Kemed, against Suicide.
Suicide is not altogether ns fashionable
in this country as in Franco. There it
rages, at certain seasons of tho year, as an
epidemic, and ft Frenchman whose sweet
heart has failed to sii'ule on hint, or whose
beef-steak has refused to digest, severs his
windpipe or bipws out his brains, with ns
much sangfroid ns if it were an everyday
business with him. Wo are apt, like
Hamlet, to look a little way into futurity,
and to prefer “ the ills wo have,” rather
“ than fly to others which wc know not of.”
Still there are sonic people, even in this
oountry, who get blue sometimes, and
contemplate laudanum, and all that sort,
iu an agreeable light. To all such we re
commend the advice of a contemporary:
“ For low spirits we recommend a clear
conscience, fresh air, a lot of exercise, and
a taste for a flute. ‘And it came to pass
when the e.il spirit as on Saul, that Da
vid took a harp and played with his hand)
so Saul wns refreshed, and was well, and
the evil spirit departed from him.’ In
treating the disease of tho mind, music is
not sufficiently valued. In raising tho
heart above despair, an old violin is worth
two doctors and two apothecary shops.”
A Loaf from Popyt' Diary.
In the lost Visitor, writes a friend,
there was an extract from some paper tell
ing of how Benjamin Franklin kissed a
Queen. It is a matter of regret that it
was not fashionable at the period when
Samuel Pepys lived—in the days when
people, if struck with a happy idea, would
have been “ filled with a pleasant conceit.”
Think of the happiness which would have
been afforded him had lie been iu Frank
lin’s place when lie says, in his diary:
“2d. To Westminster Abbey, and there
did see all the tombs very finely; having
one with us aloue; and here we did sec, by
particular favour, tho body of Queen Kath
arine of Valois; and I had the upper part
of her body in wy hands, and I did kiss
her month! reflecting upon it that I did
kiss a qiiecno, and that this was my birth
day—thirty-six years old! —that I did kiss
a queene! Rut here this man, who seems
to understand well, tells mo that tho say
ing is not true that she was never buried
—only when Henry the Seventh built his
oliapel she was taken up and laid in this
wooden coffin.”
Only thiuk of a man “ kissing the body”
of a “ Queene” who had lieeu dead over a
hundred years, and going into extacies over
it! Ou the same day wo learn that the
ladies gave the carnation touch to their
features which the ladies do not in these
days, because nature has saved them the
trouble. But hear Samuel on the subject:
“ We sat under the boxes and saw the
fine ladies; among others was the Lady
Kerneqny, who is most devilishly paint
ed."
Sam was also very fond of “qualitie
ways,” for he continues:
“And so home —it being mighty pleas
ante to go alone with my poor wife in a
coach of our own to a play! and makes ns
appear mighty great, I think, in the
world; at least greater than I cculd, or my
friends for me, have once expected, or I
think than ever any of my family ever yet
lived in my memory—but my cozen I’epys
in Salisbury Court.”
You must pardon me for extending these
quotations; but they arc so quaint that 1
imagine they will be interesting to your
readers. Here is an entirely original mu
sical critique, which is, to say the least,
expressive enough:
“ But that which did please me beyond
anything in the world was the wind-mu
sique, which sso sweet tliat it ravished
uie, and indeed in a word did wrap up my
11l JH «!§€>» illill f lllSilo
soul so that it made me really sick, just as
I hate formerly been when in lote with my
wife!"
Punch on the Fails Fashions.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Punch gives the following information
tonching tho latest fashions in the French
metropolis:
“ The fashions this year in the gay cap
ital are distinguished by three different
characteristics: fir«t, the amount of paint;
second, the extreme smallness of the bon
net; and third, the extreme largeness of
the dress. The paint is laid on the face;
an English clown could not well lay it on
much thicker. The background is a
French white, and this is touched up by
little dabs of rose, black, blue, brown and
oc-lire colors, according to the various po
sitions they have physiognotnically to oc
enpy. He states that, out of compliment
to these fair painters, anew serial is on
the eve of publication, to be called, as a
female companion to a work that lmd a
great success a few years back— Les Fran
coises peintespar elles-memes. The bonnet
gets smaller and smaller as the dress looms
bigger and bigger. Our correspondent
imagines that the diminutive size of the
one is influenced by the growing expansion
of the other; and it is his firm belief that
by the time the bonnet has dwind’ed down
to the tiny dimensions of a lady’s watch)
the dress will have swollen out in the
bulky capaciousness of one of Edgington’s
tents. The former will be almost invisi
ble, whilst the latter w ill he highly ser
viceable to mothers in a thunder storm,
as not less than a good round dozen of
children will lie able to take shelter under
it.”
Jobnie Jonquil.
This gentleman “catches it,” slightly,
this week, from Srsm Snowdrop. We
have another rejoinder in hand from Phe
iik Fexfbather, which came too late for
this issue. You’ll get it on all hands,
friend Johnik, just as we told you. Next
time you’ll he a little more careful how
you slander the fair sex. We arc not a
bit sorry for you.
Wanted.
Wo are in particular need of copies of
the Visitor of May 3d and 31st, of the
present volume, to complete our files. If
any subscriber lias either or both of the
above mentioned, and will let us have it
or them, wc will take it ns a special favor.
J-Sf Don’t fail to read tho capital story
on the first page.
Porter’s Spirit of the Times.
Wm. T. Porter, the original founder
and editor for twenty-six years of the New
York Spirit of the Times, will issue, in
tho first week in September next, a week
ly Sporting ami Literary Journal, to ho
called Porter's Spirit of the 'Times. It
will boos Hie same size and character of
tho old pnpo", and the editor is already
assured that it will bo contributed to “ by
that brilliant circle of correspondents and
writers who have so long given to tho
‘Spirit’ its distinguished position among
the literary journals of tho United States.”
It is not necessary for us to say anything
in favor of tho new paper to those who
have been readers of tho old “Spirit.”
Mr, Porter lias gained for that paper n
reputation second to nouo of its class in
tliis or any other country, and we predict
for the new venture a triumphant success.
Persons desiring to subscribe will address
W. T. Porter, Editor of Porter's Spirit of
tho Times, New York.
Newspaper Items.
The Marietta Georgian comes to us this
week in anew dress, and considerably en
larged. We are glad to see that our friend
Sim's success is sufficient to authorize the
putting on of so handsome a suit. We
most heartily wish him a continuance of
it. His paper is one of tho best in Chero
kee Georgia.
We notice, with regret, that Col. Titos.
C. Howard has retired from the Atlanta
Intelligencer, after an editorial connection
with it of a year and a half. The readers
of tho Intelligencer can illy spnro him, al
though lie leaves tho paper in able hands.
The editor of tho Examiner , Columbia,
8. C., has sent us a copy of his paper. We
are much pleased with it, and shall publish
the prospectus next week. In the mean
time we refer the reader to an extract, in
another column, headed Southern Periodi
cals.
The Educational Journal is anew pa
per, published at Forsyth, Geo. It is, as
its name implies, devoted to the educa
tional interests of the State of Georgia.
It is edited by Messrs. 11. T. Asncuy and
W. C. Wilkes, and published by B. R.
Gitsinger & Cos. Terms $2 a year.
Later from California.
New Orleans, Aug. 20. — The steam
ship Grenada has arrived with late date ß
from California, &c. She brings but lit
tle news of importance.
The Vigilance Committee still keep up
their organization at San Francisco, and
have hung two additional offenders.
The news from Mexico and Texas is
unimportant.
State Road. —Janies F.’ Cooper has
resigned the office of Superintendent of
this road, J. M. Spullock of Atlanta lias
been appointed in this place. Judge
Gaulding has been appointed Auditor.
jSSTTho Benton Electoral Ticket in
Missouri has been withdrawn since the
defeat of their candidate for Governor.
A New Platform.
Each one of the political parties of the
ilay has a platform of principles, which it
has regularly published to the world.
With these we have no business,occupying
as we do a neutral position. Anew party
has lately been organized in this town,
however, and the Visitor has been chosen
as the particular organ, through which to
promnlge it* platform to the world.
It is proper for us to say, by way of pre
mise, that it was adopted by a large and
enthusiastic meeting of at least three un
married men of Madison, and lias since
been received by almost the entire body of
that Ancient and Honorable Fraternity,
herein resident. We invite especial atten
tion to the platform, which is in the words
following, to wit:
M lien in the course of human events
it is found expedient for men to associate
themselves together to piomoto their so
cial happiness in a particular pursuit, it
becomes necessary, although they may ta
citly understand “ the great principles”
which they are seeking to carry out, that
they should so lay down and define these
principles, that none may err therein; and
whereas, each member of the Association
thus formed believes the society of woman
to be refining in its nature, pleasant in its
influences, and that its tendency is to lift
man above the mere sordid gratifications
of earth;
“ Be it therefore Resolved, That we re
cognise the dispensations of a wise Provi
dence in the gift of woman to man; that
wo consider it our duty to promote her
happiness; that it will always be our pride
and pleasure to pay her t lie most assiduous
attention, and, above all, wo consider a
union with her as the paramount social
good, to which end we have united our
selves together.
“ Resolved , That this Association shall
be known and recognised ns the A. L. A. O.
“ Resolved, That the object of our or
ganization is to promote our own happi
ness and the happiness of the fair sex: and,
if we deem it expedient, to effect a perfect
union of individual members of our society
with those of the fairer party.
“ Resolved , That we recognise the prac
tice of no principle or artifice which is not
in accordance with the custom of high
minded and honorable men.
“Resolved, That while we recognise the
right of parents and guardians to the veto
power over the conclusions of their daugh
ters and wards, ns to whom they' should
marry, wo hold that this power should be
exercised with sound judgment and discre
tion, and a duo regard to public opinion.
“Jlesolccd, ‘That it is not without pro
found regret’ flint wo observe a tendency
on the part of all classes of society to im
pose property pinlifications on the can
didates of both soxes, for the important
office of matrimony.
“ Resolved, That wliilo the extension of
slavery is not our object, wc do not regard
it ns unholy or against the laws of God,
but that when a woman, with or without
slavery, as it may happen, is qualified by
having reached a proper age—which recent
practice decides to be when she is big
enough—she can and ought to marry
whomsoever she pleases.
“Resolved, That it is against flic princi
ples of matrimony to create any distinc
tions whatever, on account of religions
faith, and that our platform embraces all
religions, Mormonism excepted.
“ Resolved, That we consider it a settled
maxim, that the young men of this town,
like those of other places, have the right
to say whether or not they shall marry,
with or without love, money or niggers,
as each one may decide for himself.
“ Resolved, That wliilo wo are willing
to extend the courtesies duo to honest and
intelligent foreigners of other towns who
love nice women in our midst, wo aro op
posed to their receiving all tho attentions
of our fair sex ; and we deny the right to
marry them, unless they liuvo been among
us often and long enough to establish thoir
characters and—gain tho consent of the
women themselves 1
“Ilesolved , That this Association is de
sirous to receive as members all who aro
worthy, and anxious to promote the high
principles which it desires to carry out,
and that it receives noue save this kind;
and before they aro received, their sound
ness must bo unquestionable.
“Resolved , That we have learned, with
profound regret, that a few of our worthy
young men refuse to stand upon our plat
form, and wo hereby declare that wo con
sider it our duty to try and persuade such
of them as we deem worthy of advocating
otir principles, to join us.
“Ilesolved , That when a member of this
Association marries, he is no longer within
our jurisdiction, but, as a separate and in
dependent state, has then a right to regu
late his own domestic concerns as ho may
choose.
“S< solved, That it is understood that
each member of this Association will not
only advise and counsel a fellow-member,
in nil that pertains to his weifaro among
the women, but that they will assist one
another, when in their power, to carryout
their plans for mutual pleasure aud profit.”
There’s a platform for yon—one upon
which all the true unmarried men of the
South can unite cordially. . On the great
leading question of tho day it is open and
frank—no effort at concealment or subter
fuge. Tho “ broad, equitable and constitu
tional doctrine of non-intervention” is
plainly set forth. The times are porten
tous—“ a great crisis” has arisen in affairs,
affecting our dearest interests, and we
point with pleasure to this platform os
one around which all conservative men of
all parties can rally without sacrificing any
of their preconceived opinions.
For the Visitor.
“Do Women Reason?”
Now, I just won’t stand that Johnie
Jonquil’s impertinence, Mr. Editor, and
that’s flat 1 An impudent, ill-natured fel
low 1 who asked him for his opinion ?
I’m sure I don’t know; and I just think
he might have kept it to himself, and the
world would have been none the worse for
bis silence. I’ll be bound lie’s a crusty,
fussy, ill-natured old bachelor, and lias
been kicked so many times that lie’s mad
at the whole sex. Wouldn’t I like to have
a five minutes’ chance at him ?—if I didn’t
comb his head for him 1 I’d make him see
stars for once in his life, or I’d pay the
forfeit!
Do women, reason f I’m a woman my
self, and if I couldn’t reason better than he
has done in that communication of his, I’d
go right off and buy a short-waisted coat
and cultivate a moustache. Never inind,
Sir; I'll give you a piece of my mind be
fore I’m through. I’ll learn you how to
talk about your betters —you mean thing!
Women poke the fire from the top , do they?
If I had you, I’d poke you from top to bot
tom. Oh, I should so like to have one
good lick at your head with a poker; I’d
learn you propriety for the balance of your
days. You doubt if we ever would have
arrived at the idea of baking and cooking,
of weaving and sewing! I should like to
see some of your baking or cooking; and
I only wish you had to wear clothes of
you.' own making: a pretty object you’d
lie, I imagine.
And so you think onr whole chronicle of
fashions is a record of preposterousnesses, do
you ? What business is it of yours, wheth
er we wear large shoes or small ones?
Who .asked you to tell us what kind of
bonnets aro most becoming, or whether
our dresses are too tight? And pray, is it
any concern of yours if we choose to wear
hoops and flounces ( We don’t ask you to
pay for them! I’ll lie hound you don't
spend mnch money, nor never will, for fe
male rigging. Besides, I’m sure our dresses
are just as handsome and sensible as the
kind you men folks wear. If we wear
small slices,and little bonnets, and flounced,
dresses, you men wear tight hoots, and
bee gum lints, and a whole holt of silk
agpund your necks; so where is the differ
ence ?
But I’ve no patience, Mr. Editor. The
truth is, men are getting altogether too
smart, now-n-days, and the tiling ought to
bo stopped. I tell you now, women are
not going to stand everything, and men
will find it out after a white. I’m not go
ing to waste any more time on tliis fellow;
but before I close up 1 want to givo him a
parting blessing. May lie never have a
button on his shirt, nor a whole pair of
stockings! May bo never have a pleasant
face to greet him, when lie goes home of
evenings, but ho compelled to sit ill a state
ot utter loneliness over his unswept heqrtli
aud bachelor fire I “ May bo never have
a soft place to lay his iiead on when it
aches; no nice little hand to magnetize
away tho blue devils; nobody to tie his
neckcloth into a pretty little how! No
bright eyes to look fondly out of tho win
dow after him when lie goes to his work ;
no pretty little feet to trip to the door to
meet him, when he comes back 1 May his
coffee be smoky, iiis toast burnt, his tea
bewitched; his razor grow dull, bis mous
tache turn the wrong way, Iris lips be in
nocent of a kiss to the day of his death;
and may lie live a cantankerous, crusty,
musty, fussy old bachelor, is the earnest
wish of Si siE Snowdrop.
Madison, Ga.
PeiiMind-Scissoriugs.
Tho State Fair of Georgia will bo held
in Atlanta on tho 20th, 21st, 22d and 23d
of October next.. G. P. R. James, Esq.,
now of Richmond, Va., is engaged* upon
tho concluding chapters of anew romance.
.... Oapt. E. F. Ruffin, of the Nicaraguan
army, arrived in Augusta on Tuesday last.
Ho wns formerly a resident of Lumpkin,
Stewart co., Ga. He brings very gratify
ing accounts of the prospects of the
Walker government in Nicaragua
At Mobile, on tho 23d inst., India or Gun
ny bagging Was quoted at 23 cents per yard.
....The National Kansas Committee of
Chicago acknowledge the receipt of three
thousand dollars from Gerritt Smith, Esq.
... .The widow of Lord Byron is yet alive
and hearty. Sho hag recently purchased
the residence of the late poet Rogers, in
London... .Beverly Tucker, Esq., has fi
lially determined to discontinue the publi
cation of the Washington Sentinel....
Horace L. Iligley, Esq., cashier of the Mo
bile Bank, died in Mobile ou Thursday
last.... The Hon. Janies Meacliani, whig
member of Congress from the first district
of Vermont, is dead... .The crops in Tex
as aro reported to bo unusually fine—cot
ton, corn, wheat, and even mast, will be
in abundance.... At what age are ladies
most happy? Marri-AOE The Yazoo
(Miss.) Banner, of a late date, reports that
tho crops in that region are very fine
A clock maker in Connecticut has made a
clock which he warrants to run without
winding up, till Fremont is elected A
sympathetic correspondence has taken
place between Hon. Charles Sumner and
the “colored boarders” at Cape May
Paris proper lias increased two hundred
thousand in population since Louis Napo
leon first assumed sway A codfish
breakfast and an India-rubber coat will
keep a man dry all tho day... .The Bos
ton Post has credit for the last liquid rem
edy for baldness, as follows: “ Use brandy
externally until the hair grows, and then
take it internally to clinch tho r00t5,”....
It is stated in a late English paper, that
pasteboard is now extensively made from
beet r00t5.... More are drowned in the
wine cup than iu the ocean.. .The Louis-
ville Journal soys a Fremont ticket will
almost certainly he rnn in Texas. If a
Fremont ticket should be nominated in
that State, it would almost certainly be
run out of it. .. .Rev. Dr. Stuart, the old
est Presbyterian minister in Kentucky,
died near Nicbolasville, on Sunday night,
Aug. 10...-.A friend of ours burnt his
hands severely with fireworks on the
“glorious fourth;” he applied the Perry
Davis’ Pain Killer, and in half an honr
was entirely free from pain. Don’t forget
this... .Several barns in New Jersey have
been consumed, it is supposed from sponta
neous combustion caused by packing away
imperfectly cured hay or straw.... The
N. York Herald states that it only circu
lates now 2,000 copies in all the Southern
States. So mucli for selling out to the
“ Black Republicans,” and becoming a
“nigger worshiper.”. The Viceroy of
Egypt recently gave a series of entertain
ments at the palace, which cost upwards
of £100,000... .The Senate has ratified
the Extradition Treaty with Baden... .A
violent hurricane occurred at La Crosse
and Winno, Minnesota, on the 9th inst.
.... Woman’s Empire State is matrimony
Here she is always in the majority—al
ways reigns, and sometimes storms....
The proprietors of the Oxygenated Bitters
do not claim that this medicine is an infal
lible cure for Dyspepsia, but refer to cer
tificates of gentlemen well known to the
public, for abundant proof that they have
been remarkably successful Edward
W. Moore, a clerk, committed suicide in
Mobile on Monday last.... The President
lias pardoned Wagner, who was convicted
of enlisting recruits for the Crimea....
Hon. Thonihs 11. Benton appeared in the
Capitol on Friday, having just returned
from his arduous political canvass in Mis
souri in excellent health aud spirits....
The number of voters in New York State,
according to a statement from the Census
Department, is 051,321—0f which 516,-
745 are native voters, and 135,076 natu
ralized. .. .O’Donnell, the Spanish leader,
is seventy-five years of age, and six and a
half feet high .... The daily supply of Cro
ton water for New York city is 50,000,000
gallons.... A caso of yellow fever has
made its appearance at Canton, Miss., and
caused great excitement among the citi
zens. .. .The income of the London-Times
is four million dollars per year.... A late
French journal speaks of anew religions
sect sprung up in the United States, which
it calls “ adorateurs des negres." This is
the French, we suppose, for “ nigger-wor
shippers.” .... Punch says, what a blessed
change for society it would bo if all the
numerous rascals now upon the turf were
under it instead.... A call lias been signed
by editors and the principal firms of busi
ness men in New Orleans, to the number
of a hundred, for a meeting to aid the
Southerners in Kansas....lt is reported
by private advices from Charleston, that a
large incrcaso of cases of yellow fever has
taken place in that city a...Tho report
that there is any epidemic disease in Co
lumbus, Ga., is contradicted by the Sun.
... .The deaths in Charleston last week
wore twenty-seven—only three reported
as having died from yellow fever The
cadets of tho Stato Military Academy, in
Charleston, have been removed to Cplmn
bia, in consequence of the prevalence of
yellow fever in Charleston ... .Prof. A.
Reinhart, of the Wesleyan Female Col
lege of Macon, died on the 20th inst. He
was a native of Switzerland.
Death of the Editor of the
Courier.
We have to record this morning the
i death of Alexander Carroll. Esq., one
t of (he editors of the Charleston Courier,
lie died at about nine o’clock on last
evening, after a sickness dating back to
but Saturday last. Mr. Carroll was born
in Cheltenham, county of Gloucester,
England, in 1818 and received his pri
mary education in. Somersetshire, where
he entered Queen’s College, Oxford, in
1837. lie catne to this country in Au
gust, 1849, and in the spring following,
became connected with tho Charleston
Courier, where he has since remained.
In hisinterconrse with hiscotemporaries
and associates, he was uniformly court
eous, gentlemanly, and kind, and secured
and retained tho respect and esteem of all
who knew him. He had much experience
'n newspaper life, and he brought (o the
Courier the talent and information which
has doue much to secure to that journal
the repuiation by which it is known in
the community. His death will be
mourned as a sad loss by those who were
among his friends.— Charleston Mercury.
Sale of Barnum’s Property. —The
property of Phineas T. Barman was sold
at auction in New York on Tuesday. The
right aud title of the great showman to
all. real estate subject to mortgages
were sold for the small sum of $420. —
The promissory note of John Greenwood,
Jr., for $2,582,15 was purchased by Mr.
Greenwood for SBOS. Several enterpris
ing gentleman purchased their own notes
at the same sacrifice. There were
about 200 persons present, including
Barnum himself. The sale aggregate
was $4,770. Ten bonds of the Crystal
Palace, the par value of which is SIOO,
was sold at $25 each.
There is a sign projecting from the
door of a mantua-maker's shop in Troy,
the concluding portion of which reads
thus: ‘‘N. B. Dresses made lower than
over.”
Later From Europe.
New York, Aug. 25.—The steamship
Niagara has arrived at Halifax with
three days later news than that by the
North American.
Liverpool, August 16. —Theßrokers’
eircular states that only a moderate bus
iness is doing in Cotton. The market
is unchanged. Sales for the week 37,-
000 bales. Speculators have taken
3,000 bales. Sales on Friday 6,000
bales. Stock on band 813,000 bales.
Flour, Wheat and Indian Cora mar
kets unchanged since Tuesday.
Bacon had declined 6d. to Is.
Manchester trade rather quiet.
Bell <fc Son quote American Stock
market quiet and unchanged.
Consols advanced and closed at 95^-
Baring Bros, quote money tighter.
Havre Cotton market steady. Sales
for the week 9,000 bales. Stock on
hand 108,000 bales.
The Persia arrived out on Friday
night. V '
The political news is unimportant.
Russia has abandoned her claim to
the Island of Serpents.
Sebastopol is to be re built immediate
>y-
There are rumors of insurrections at
Naples and Cadiz, but they are discred
ited.
Congressional.
V* asiiington, Aug. 22. —The Army
bill was not considered to day. The
Senate discussed the bill of Mr. Weller
repealing the obnoxious Kansas laws.—
Nothing done.
The McMullin and Granger Fra
cas.—The select committee on this
subject were in session this morning.
The testimony elicited completely bears
out our account of the affair, proving
that Mr. Granger first iusulted, and then
assaulted Mr. McMullin, before the lat
ter struck hitn.— Wash. Star.
The ground of the difficulty was, that
Mr. McMullin made some threat that
the South would not submit to be ruled
by the Black Republicans. Granger re
torted that the North would compel her
by force, and proceeded to make a prac
tical application of his views, when he
got himself considerably battered. The
Black Republicans may live to witness
a like result in a contest on a larger
scale. We recommend to them a little
prudence.
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The Kansas Conflict.
Sr. Louis, Aug. 24.—Our advices
from St. Louis, Mo., are to the 23d inst.,
and report that the late dispatches from
Kansas have produccd’great excitement
in all the towns of Missouri. At Boon
ville measures were instantly taken, and
the sum of five thousand dollars prompt
ly realized to forward volunteers in aid
of Governor Shannon, and in support of
the laws. The same spirit prevails
through the border couuties so far as
heard from, and many citizens of dis
cretion and subslauce have offered their
services to proceed to Kansas and re
main until law and order are restored.
Tidings of new conflicts are hourly ex
pected.
A letter of the 17th inst., from Lavv
rence, K. TANARUS., state that the fight of the
16th took place near Lecornpton, and not
in or against that town. Col. Titus and
his command were taken prisoners and
he badly wounded. The Free soilers
bad ten wounded and one mortally.—
The proposed attack on Lecornpton was
prevented by the U. S. Dragoons.
Governor Shannon had gone to Law
rence and demanded release of prisoners
taken by the Free soilers. After a con
ference it was agreed to change pris
oners and to disperse all armed settle
ments.
Reliable accounts from Kansas to the
20th inst., assure us that Lecornpton
has not been yet attacked, although
there was expectation of an attack by a
force of one thousand men under Lane.
The Free State men had fortified Law
rence in case a retreat shall become
necessary.
A call appears in this city, numerous
ly signed by our most influential citi
zens, for a meeting to consider Kausas
affairs on Monday.
Four hundred volunteers have al
ready gone from Jackson county, and
large companies are forming in other
counties.
Robinson and Brown are still in cus
tody of the territorial authorities, and
Gen. Persifer F. Smith has ordered all
the available strength of his command
to be ready for instant service.
St. Louis, Aug. 25. —The Kansas
meeting yesterday was very large. Res
olutions were passed denouncing the
abolitionists. A committee was appoint
ed to proceed to Kansas and inquire into
the wants of the women and children.
A company of 2500 men well armed
and equipped were prepaidng’to march
on the 22d of September.
Extra Session of Congress.
Congress adjourned on Monday the
18th, but an Extra Session was immedi
ately called by the , President to con
vene. on last Thursday the 21st inst.
This extraordinary step was forced
upon Mr. Pieree by the failure of the
Black Republican and Abolition ma
jority in the House of Representatives
to pass important appropriation bills.
Their object was to embarrass the army
appropriation bill by insisting upon an
amendment which prohibits the use of
the United States forces in Kansas, thus
depriving the President of all power to
enforce law and order in that Territory.
Such an infamous attempt to stop the
wheels of government is unparalleled in
our national history. It shows the ex
tent to which the Abolitionists of the
North are determined to posh their rule
or ruin policy.
Important Indian Treaty. — A Plan
far removing the Florida Indians. — A
late dispateh from Washington says:—
The tripartite treaty between the United
States and the Creeks and the Semi
noles, residing West of the Mississippi,
is considered one of the most important
ever concluded with the aboriginal tribes.
The Senate recently ratified it, with
amendments, to which the delegation in
this city, have assented. It appropriates
$899,000, for which a bill has passed
the Senate, and awaits the action of the
House. These Creeks and Seminoles,
surrender lands to such Seminoles in
Florida as may remove West, while the
treaty secures to the last, on that condi
tion, certain pecuniary and civil advant
ages and permits them to eijov their
own—a Seminole—government, inde
pendently of association with any other
tribes, a failure to obtain which, has
been a prominent objection, heretofore,
to their immigration. This, it is sup
posed, will have a tendency to forever
quiet Indian disturbances in Florida, an
important consideration in view of the
millions of money expended on account
of Indian hostilities in that State.
Texas on the Election of Fkemon,t.
—A Texas paper contains the following
item :
“On the 31st ult., in the State Senate,
at Austin, Mr. Bryan, of Brazoria, intro
duced a Joint Resolution requiring the
Governor to convene a special Legisla
ture on or before the Ist of January,
1857, should the anti-slavery candidate
for the Presidency bo elected ; and fur
ther, that the Governor forward a copy
of this resolution to the Governor of
each slaveholding State. The resolu
tion was referred to the Committee on
State Affairs, and will, we hope, be re
ported on favorably.”
Mrs. Stowe.
The authoress of Uncle Tom has pre
pared another anti slavery work, a chap
ter from the advanced sheets of which
appears in that congenial medium, the
New York Tribune. There is a well of
unfailing malignity iti this woman’s na
ture. The specimen of her book in the
Tribune shows the same determination
to libel the South, and arouse the worst
passions of the masses in the Free States,
against Southern institutions, that were
manifest in every page of Uncle Tom.
The book is advertised to appear on the
Ist of September, and is no doubt in
tended to fan, with fresh power, the
blaze of fanaticism, now burning so fu
riously in the Northern States.
It seems as if every possible agency
of moving the populace is to be thorough
ly tried by the friends of Fremont.—
The pulpit and the theatre, for the first
time, lay aside their hereditary antipa
thies, and combine in a holy alliance
against slavery.- The newspaper press
and the novel are enlisted in the same
dark array. Orators traverse every por
tion of the free States, and address the
most inflammatory harangues to vast
crowds, stirriug up horror, hatred and
revenge, with the most infamous stories
of Southern cruelty and crime. What
is to be the end of all this? Is it to
elect Fremont to the Presidency and
nothing more? Is this “ocean into
tempest tost, to waft a feather 2” No 1
It will sweep in the end over all the
barriers of law and constitution, and
bear off every vestige of Southern in
stitutions, and the Southern race itself
from the soil on which they exist, if the
South does not look the future calmly
in the face and with united energies
gird up its loins to meet the coming hur
ricane. The South has resources with,
in itself sufficient, if wisely employed
to secure its safety, and, if the worst
comes to the worst, it can demonstrate
to the traitors who would crush it, that
it is not as weak and friendless among
the nations as they vainly imagine.—
Richmond Despatch.
/tgrThe deaths in New York city
last week amounted to 651, being an
increase of 24 over the week previous.