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THIS COMPROMISE MEAtiL'RKM.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Mdnday,
• April 8.
The Speaker announced the firet business in
order to lie the following resolution of Mr. .luckson,
of Georgia, offered two weeks ago, and on which the
previous question hud been moved, namely :
Rewired, That wc recognise the binding efficacy
of the Compromise* of the Constitution, and be
lieve it to b« tlie intention <>f the people generally,
as we hereby declare it to be our* individually, to
abide such compromises, and to sustain the lawn
n-ecssary to carnr them out—the provision for the
delivery of fugitive slaves, and the act of the last
Congress for that purpose, included—and tliat we
dc;>rccatc alt fntther agitation of questions growing
out of that provision, of the questions embraced
in the acts of the last Congress known *» the
i Compromise, and of questions generally connected
with the institutions of slavery, a* unnecessary,
usetess, and dangeron*.
Mr. IJillycr appended to hi* eollesgue (Mr. .Jack
aon) to withdraw the demand for the previous
question, as he wished to pro|>o#e an amendment
to the resolution, lie promised to renew the mo
tion in case it should be withdrawn for the par
pose indicated.
The resolution of Mr. Hillyer was then read for
information, os follows :
Re#dvM, Th.lt tlie series of acts passed during
the first session of the thirty-first Congress, known
as the Compromises, sre regarded as a final ad
justment and a permanent settlement of the ques
tions therein embraced, and should be maintained
and executed as such.
Much confusion prevailed throughout the pro-
CfeCfitfU?*.
Mr. Meade hadan amendment, which he wished
to lie read for information.
Mr. l’reston King. I object to all of them ; to
every part. [Cries : ‘'Too late,'' “too late."]
Mr. lii Iyer rose to a point of order, or to a pri
vileged question. He thought that he was enti
tled to f.e floor. He made the point; the floor was
given him to ask hi* colleague to withdraw his i Mr
Jackson’s) demand for the previous question,
that he might offer an amendment, pledging him
self to renew the motion for the previous ques
tion.
The Speaker said that no gentleman can right
liilly occupy the floor at all pending the demand
for the previous question ; and only by courtesy
of the House.
Mr. Htaniy. I hope that my resolutions will now
lie read for information.
Mr. Gorman. I object to reading any more pa
per*.
Mr. Stanly. By unanimous consent of the
House.
The Speaker. The unanimous consent of the
House was given that tiie papers should be read.
After further proceedings the resolutions of Mr.
Stanly we're read for information, aa follows:
“ Resulted, That the series of acta passed daring
the first session of tlie thirty-first Congress,
known as the Compromise, are regarded as a final
adjustment, and a permanent settlement of the
question* therein embraced, and should bo main
tained and executed ns such.”
(This resolution was the one offered by Mr.
Polk in the Democratic caucus, and laid U]h>ii the
table. |
“Ilnolttd, That we regard the scries of act*
known as the adjustment measures forming in
their mutual dependence and connection a system
of compromise the most conciliatory and the best
for tlie entire country that could be obtained from
conflicting sectional interests und opinions, and,
"that, therefore, they ought to he adhered to and
'carried into faithful execution, as a final settle
ment in principle and substance of the dangerous
and exciting subjects which they embrace.
|This resolution wo* adopted in the Whig caucus
lasi December.)
Retained. That we regard the series of measures
passcdjtt the thirty-first Congress, commonly call
ed the Compromise measures, os a settlement of
the questions involved therein, and wiltabidc by
them a* a permanent ad justment of tlie sectional
controversy, and do hereby declare that good faith
and a patriotic regard for the interests of the
country demand that the provisions contained in
said measures should lie strictly maintained and
honestly executed.
RtsoCted, That any act of Congress abolishing
•livery in the District of Columbia, without tlie
petition mid consent of the owners thereof, or any
act abolishing slavery in places within the slavc
liohling States purchased by the United States for
the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyard
navy yards, and other like purposes, or any act
suppressing the slave trade between the slavchold
ing States, or any refusul to admit as a State any
Territory hereafter applying, because of the exis
tence ot' slavery therein, (or hera-uts of it* prohibi
tion therein,) or any act prohibiting the introduc
tion of slaves into New Mexico or Utah, (or uny net
allawiieg the introduction of slaves in Asia .1/ re wo or
Utah.) or any act repealing or materially modify
ing the laws igiw in force for the recovery of fu
gitive slaves, (or any net repealing the law to rnip
■nres* the slare trade m tht District of Colombia,)
and all agitation which has for its purpose any of
the above named objects, will be in violation ofthc
provisions of the said measures ot Adjustment,
and must be regarded a* opposed to the best in
terests of the country, destructive of tlie peaeo
of the Union, and aa an attempt to enfeeble “ the
sacred ties which now link together tlie various
parts.’’
fThese last two resolutions, wo bohevc, were
those Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas offered, and ta
* hied in Democratic caucus—the italics in parenthe
sis being the interlineations of Mr. Stanley, and
the few concluding words quoted, taken from tlie
Farewell Address of Washington.]
The Speaker inquired of Mr. Jackson, whether
he withdrew hi* demand for the previous question.
Mr. Jackson of Georgia, refused to withdraw
the (nothin assigning his reasons for this course.
Mr. Fowler (after further proceedings by the
House) moved to lay the resolutions upon the ta
ble • and thereupon asked the yeas and nays. Hut
as some gentlemen were anxious to vote on second
ing the demand tor the previous quostion, lie with
drew his motion.
Mr. Folk renewed the motion.
Mi. Hibbard asked the yeas und nnyn.
Mr. Stanly asked whether a eall of the nouse
would take precedence 1
The Speaker replied in tlie negative.
Mr. Stanly moved a cull of the House, and do
m.iiuldl the’yea* and nays.
M,". Folk withdrew his motion to lay the resolu
tion upon the table': and
Mr. Hc.'ilc renewed it.
The question was taken on the motion of Mr.
Stanly, and dei’ided in the negative—yeas 88, nays
mi. do tlie House refused a call.
Tlie House then refusod to lay the resolution up
on the table—yeas 79, nays 102.
Mr. Jackson, of Georgia, wished to make a
change in the phraseology or his resolution; hut
• tlii" was not done.
• Mr. Cliugman inquired whether tho resolution
was divisible, ~ , ~
The Speaker replied that ho would deeido tins
question when it should come up.
1 The House having rothsed to second tho demand
* for the previous question-
Mr. Hillyer offered the amendment, which at
a previous stage of the proceedings, he caused to
lie read for information ; and moved the previous
''"m?.* Averett said thot they,had voting enough.
Mr. Meade roso to inquire whether the .amend
ment was not open to amendment
The Speaker replied in the negativo, tho previ
ous question having been demanded.
Mr. Meade appealed to tlie gentleman from
Georgia to withdraw It.
Mr. Orr roso to u question of order. W honevor
mi objection is made to a resolution, he understood
that it goes over. He therefore submitted to tlie
House that tho proposition of the gentleman from
Georgia having been objected to it amounts
to an objection to tho original resolution,and tlierc
. lore goes over. , i , . , ,
The Speaker overruled the point of order. It
was true, if tlie resolution had been offered to day
and objection was made, it would go over ; but it
was also true that, the previous question interven
ing, the consideration of a proposition had been
allowed bv the praetioe of the House.
Mr. Meade. l*o 1 understand that tlie gentle
man from Georgia has moved the p*»vp.'iis question ?
The StKuiker. Ho has.
Mr. Meade. 1 ask him to withdraw tlie motion
for a moment, that 1 may submit an amendment,
which he miiv uilopt us his own,
Vr. Ilillver declined withdrawing tho motion.
Mr. Meade then naked that his amendment he
rend ; ’>ut to his objection was made in various
parts of .’he llall.
Mr. Bocoek moved that tlie wliolo subject be
laid upon the table. [Cries of “Agreed, ’’ “agreed.”]
Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, called for tlio reading
of the resolution and the proposed amendment.
(Objections werf made.) He said as he was re
quired to vote, lie .had a right to make tho request,
aud did not ask it as * privilege.
• The Speaker replied lhat the proposition having
been once read, the una.’dwous consent of tho
. House was necessary to a*»(k.'nd reading.
Mr. Jones, it has not beeuMffd on this motion.
Mr. Haven said that lie was in * Momma similar
to that of the gentleman from Tenue»**g, He did
uot understand the proposition to amend to jflplude
striking out. He desired to be informed, as
w ished to offer a substitute.
The confusion continued throughout tlie proceed
ings ; and this gentleman—us were many others du
ring the day—w as culled to order.
The Speaker referred to the rule, and then put
the question wlietherthc resolution and amendment
should be again read. This was decided in the af
firmative, *
After further proceedings, including questions
to the Chair Mid responses thereto—
Mr. Bocoek withdrew his motion to lay tho reso
lution and amendment upon the table.
* Mr. Averott renewed it; and on the question bo ■
ing taken, it was decided in the negative—yeas 78,
* . nay* 404.
The demand for Hie previous question—other
basiness Intervening—was seconded—ayes 97, noes
<1 ; and * i
The main question ordered to be put—yeas 100,
nays (is.
Sir. Averott moved to lay the whole subject up
on the table, and called for the yeas and nays.
The question was decided in the negative—yeas
74, nava 102.
And subsequently the amendment of Mr. Uill
yer was agreed to—jeas 108, nays 74.
The Speaker then stated the question on agree
ing to the resolution as amended.
Mr. Stanly asked for a division of the quostion
on tlio reso’Stiou.
The Speaker decided that it could not be divi
ded, ami, in support of this opinion, proceeded
to read the resolution, and pointed out the difficul
ty.
' Mr. Stanly withdrew the appeal which he had ta
k.j from the decision of the Chair, remarking that
ho saw that tile resolution was so drawn that it
coul.l not be divided.
Mr. M ir,hall, of Ky.. wished a separate vote oil
that portion of the resolution relative to maintain
ing the Fugitive Slave Law.
The speaker decided that the resolution was not
divisible in thut particular, and the appeal from the
decision which Mr. Marshall had taken, was laid
upon the table.
Mr. Johnson,of Arkansas, moved that the whole
subject be laid upon the table; and thereupon the
ve.i* ai.d nays wore ordered.
A motion was made to adjourn.
.Mr. Richardson inquired ivlrnt effect an adjourn
ment would have upon the resolution.
The Speaker said that he would deride the ques
tion when it came «p.
Mr. Goruion. Is H the intention of gentlemen to
worry ns < >ut!
Mr. Folk. No flinching, gentlemen.
The motion to adjourn was disagreed to—yeas
87, nays 115.
Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, withdrew his motion
to lay the whole subject upon the table, and
Mr. Kdgvrton renewed it.
Another motion to adjourn was nmde.
Mr. Gentry asked, if this should prevail, what
would be the etfect on tlie pending question!
The Speaker replied, his opinion vras, it would
be the first business in order to-morrow after the
reading of the Journal.
Mr. Folk. 1 will vote for an adjournment if the
gentleman from North Carolina will marshall his
threes by to-morrow morning.
Mr. Stanley. Does the gentleman speak to me!
Mr. Folk. 1 spoke to the gentle.usn from North
Carolina. He may understand me distinctly.
The House refused tu adjourn—vena 64, navs
108. , ’
The question wss then taken on laying tlie whole
subject upon the table, aud derided in the negative
—yeus *5, nays 07.
Another motion was made to adjourn, but it did
not prevail—yeas 81, nay* 86.
The question was then taken on tlie adoption of
tlie resolution of Mr. Jackson, (which is given at
the commencement of to-day's proceedings,) aud
it was decided in the affirmative —yea*, 101, nays
•4—as follows:
Fra*. —Messrs. Willis Allen. Win. Appleton, T.
31. Bayly. Bocoek, Bowie, Bragg, Breekenridgc,
. Brooks, Albert G. Brown, Busby, E. Carrington
Cabell, Ouskic, Clark, Cobb, Curtis, Defile!, J. G.
Davis, Davvsot, Dockery, Dunham, Eduiundson,
Ewing. Faulkner, Fieklin, Fitch, Florence, Free
man, Tho*. J. D. Fuller. Gamble, Gentry. Gorman,
<£rcj, Jhdl, Hamilton, Hammond, Hart,’Haws, H«-
'
....... . . ' . .j— .
ven, Hendricks. Menu. Hibbard. Hillyer, Houston. I
Howard, Ingeraoll, Jackson. Audrew Johnson. |
James Johnson, George 'V. Jones, Kurtz, .
Laudrr, Letcher, Lockhart, Edward C. Marshall, i
Htnnplirev Marshal), Martin, Mason, MeCorkle, ]
McDonald, McMullen, Meade. Miller, John Moore,
Morthead, kfarrnv. Nals-rs, Outlaw, Samuel \VV|
Barker, Peaslec, Pena, Phelps, Folk, Price, Rich- I
ardaon, Riddle, Robbins, jf., Robinson, Ro**, Kav- j
ago, Schcrmerhom, Scurry, David L. Sevmour,
origen, S. Seymour, Smith. Frederick F. Stan
ton, Richard il. Stanton, Abraham F. Steven*, i
•Stone, St. Martin, Strother, Stuart, Sutherland, j
George W. Tbouipeonj Venable. Walsh. Ward, \
Watkins, Addioon White, Alexander White, WU
cox, and Williams—lol.
Say*. —Messrs. Aiken, Allison, Ashe, Averott, j
David J. Bailey, Barrere, Bartlett, jr., Brenton.
George 11. Brown, Buell, Joseph Cable, Lewi* D. ]
Campbell, Thompson Campiiel). Chapman, Ciing
man, Conger, Dean. Doty, DuTkee, Eastman. Ed- ]
gertown, Floyd, Fowler, Gaylor. Goodenow . Good- I
rich. Grow, Harper. I lollndav. Horstoni. Thomas j
M. Howe. Ives, Jenkins. John Johnson, Daniel 'f. !
Jones, Preston King, high ns, Maun, McQoecn, j
Meachan, Millson, Miner, Molony, Newton,
Orr, Pcnrijrnan, Perkin.*, Powell, Ronton!, jr. Suok
ett, Schoolcraft, Bowlder, Smart, Benjamin Stanton,
Stratton, Sweetser, Benjamin Thompson, Tuck,
Walbridgc. Wallace, Wa»hburn,jr., Wells, Wood
ward, and Yates—64.
So the resolution of Mr. Jackson was adopted.
Mr. Stanly refused to vote, and said that he would
publish hi* reasons to his constituent* without trou
bling the House.
Mr. Jones, of Tennessee. Come, Stanly, vote. ■
Mr. Houston moved to reconsider tlie vote, and
at hi* instance the motion was laid npon the table. ,
Mr. Jenkins moved that the House adjourn; but ;
this was not agreed to.
Tlie question was then taken on the adoption of |
Mr. Hillyer'* amendment to Mr. Jackson’s resolu-
Intion, and decided in the affirmative—yea* 1 OP, ]
nays 65—a* follows :
Yen*. —Messrs. Willis Allen. William Appleton, ,
Thomas H. Bayly, Bowe, Breekenridgc, Bricks, i
George H. Brown, Busby, K. Carrington, Cabell, j
Chandler, Clark, Cobb. Curtis. John G. Davis. Daw
son, Dean, Briery, Dunham. Edmnndson, Ewing,
Faulkner, Fieklin, Fitch, Florence, Freeman, Tho
mas J. D. Fuller, Gamble, Gentry, (format!, Orey, \
Hull, Hamilton, Hammond, Hart, Hams, Hacen,
Hendrick*, Henn, Hibbard, Hillyer. Houston, How
ard, Ingersoll, Jackson, Andrew Johnson. James
Johnson, George W. Jones, Kuhns, Kurtz. Land
ry. Letcher, Isxikhart, Edward C. Marshall, Hum
phrey Marshall, Martin. Mason, McKorkle, Mc-
Donald, McMullen, Miller, John Moore. More
head, Murray, Nabers, Outlaw,Samuel W. Parker,
Feaslcc, Penn, Polk, Porter, Price. Ricliardson,
Riddle,Robbins, jr., Robinson. Ro.-s.Savage.Seher
merborn, Scurry, David L. Seymour. Origen S.
Seymour. Smith, Stanly, Frederick P. Stanton,
Richard 11. Stanton. Abraham P. Stephen*, Stone,
St. Martin, Strother, Stuart, Sutherland, George
W. Thompson, Walsh, Ward. Watkins, Addison
White, Alexander White, Wilcox, Williams, and
Yates—loo.
Say*. —Messrs. Aiken, Allison, A "he, AeertU, D.
Bailey, Barrere, Barlett, jr., Boeork. Jinan,
Brenton, Buell, Joseph Cable. Lewis D. Banipbeu,
Tnompson Campbell, Cathie, Chapman, tVnaman,
Conger, Dor. iel, Doty.Durkc , Kastman, Edgerton,
Floyd, F’owler, Gaylard, Godenow, Goodrich,
Grow, Harper, Jloliaday, I lots ford, Thomas M.
Howe, Ives, Jenkins, John Johnson, Daniel T.
Jones, Preston King, Mann, McQueen, Meacham,
Meade, Millson, Miner, Molony, Newton, Orr,
Pcnniman, Perkin*, Portjr, Kantonl, jr., Saekett,
Schoolcraft, Scndder, Smart, Benjamin Stanton,
Sweetser, Benjamin Thompson, Tuck, Venable,
Walbridgc, Wallace, Washburn, Wells, and
Woodward—6s. ■
So the amendment of Mr. Hillyer wits adpptcd.
Before the vote was announced—
Mr. Briggs asked permission to have his vote re-,
corded as he a* temporarily absent when the
question was taken. This was refused; when he
said that if he bail been present lie would have vo
ted in the affirmative.
Mr. Hillyer moved to reconsider the vote last ta
ken, and moved to lay that motion upon the table;
which prevailed, arid
Tho House, at half-post five o’clock adjourned.
From the Washington Union.
W’e place in our column to-dav a carefully pre
pared analysis, both political anil sectional, of the
votes given on Monday last in the House of Re
presentatives on the Compromise resolutions pre
sented by Messrs. Jackson and Hillyer.
The resolution presented by Mr. Jackson reads
os follows:
“ Rewired , Tiiat we recognise the binding effica
cy oflhe compromises of the constitution, und be
lieve it to bo the intention ofthe people generally,
as we hereby declare it to be ours individually,
to abide such compromises, und to sustain tho laivs
necessary to carry them out—the provisions for
tlie delivery of fugitive slaves, and the act of tlie
last Congress for that purpose, included; and that
ivo deprecate all further agitation of questions
growing out of that provision or the questions em
braced in the acts ofthe last Congress* known ns
the Compromise, and of questions generally con
nected with the institution of slavery, as unncees
sarv, useless, and dangerous.”
The resolution presented by Mr. Hillyer reads
as follow*:
“Rewired, That tho series of acts passed during
tho first session ofthe 81st Congress.-, known astlic
Com promise, are regarded us a final adjustment
and a permanent settlement ofthe questions there
in embraced, und should be regarded, maintained,
and craeutcd nssueh.”
On the motion to amend Mr. Jackson’s resolution
by (übtinn to it the resolution of Mr. Hillyer, the
vote stands as follows:
Affirmative. Sena tire.
Northern democrats, 86 Northern democrats, 25
Stutliern democrats, 82 Southern democrats, 12
Southern whig*, 28 Southern whig, 1
Northern whigs, 12 Northern whigs, 29
Total, 108 Total, 74
After the adoption ot Mr. Hillvor’s amendment,
the House determined to vote separately oil the
adoption ol’eaehofthe resolutions.
Mr. Jackson’s resolution was then adopted by
tlie following vole:
Affirmative. I Negative.
Northern democrats; 86 Northern democrats, 22
Southern democrats, 39 | Southern Democrats, 11
Southern whig*, 20 | Southern w hig, 1
Northern whig*, 7 I Northern whig*, 30
Total, 101 j Total, 64
Mr. Hiliver’s reasolution was then adopted by
thu following vote:
Affirmative. Negative.
Northern democrats, 86 Northern democrats, 20
Southern democrats, 80 Southern democrats, 16
Souther,n whigs, 22 Southern whig, 1
Northern whigs, 10 Northern whigs, 27
Total, 9s Total, 64
Subjoined is a classified list ofthe names of mem
bers whose votes are recorded on the above reso
lutions. We have not vet found time to prepare
a similar list of those who were absent or failed to
recordJlieir votes. This wo propose to do, how
ever, as soon ns passible, with a view to place
fairly before our readers the whoje record in the
ease:
Vote on the question of adding Mr. Uillyer't resolu
tion atanamemlrnent to Mr. Jackson's resolution.
AFFIRMATIVE.
Southern Democrats.—Messrs. Thos. 11. Bayly,
Beale, Breckinridge, Cobb, Edmundson, Freeman,
Hall, Hamilton, Hammond, Hillyer. Houston,
Howard, Jackson, Jas. Johnson, A. Johnson, G.
\V. Jones, Letcher, Mason, McMullin, Nabers,
Penn, Polk, Riddle, Savage, Scurry, Smith, F. F.
Stanton, B. 11. Stanton, Stone, St. Martin, G. W.
Thompson, and Wilcox—-89.
Northern Democrats.—Messrs. W. Allen, Bus
by, Chirk, Curtis, J. G. Davis, Ditwsau, Dunham,
Fieklin, Fitch, Florence, T. J. D. Fuller, Gamble,
Gorman, Hart, Hendrick. Henn, Hibbard, Ingcr
soli, Kurtz, Lockhart, Mace, E. (’. Marshall, Me-
Corkle, McDonald, McLannlmn, Murray; Peaslee.
Price, Richardson, Robins, Robinson, Ross, D. 1,.
Sevmour, (). S. Sevmour, Stuart, aiul Sutherland
—B6.
Southern Wiiios.—Messrs. Bowie, Cabell, Cnl
lom, Doekerv, Ewing, Faulkner, Gentry, Grey,
Landry, 11. Marshall, Miller, J. Moore, Moreuead,
Outlaw, Porter. Stanly, Strother, .Walsh. Ward,
Watkins, Addison White, Alexander White, and
Willaims —23. t
Northern Wmos.—Messrs. Wm. Appleton',
Briggs, Brooks, Geo. H. Brown, Chandler. H. M.
Fuller. Haws, Haven, Kuhns, Martin,S. W. Parker,
aud Hghermerliorn—l2.
NEGATIVE.
Southern Democrats. —Messrs. Aiken, Ashe,
Averett, D. J. Bailey,Bocoek, Bragg, A.G.Brown.
Onskie, Daniel, Holladity, R. W. Johnson, Mc-
Queen, Meade. Millson, orr, Powell, Venable,
Wallace, and Woodward —19.
Northern Democrats.—Messrs. Babcock, Bart
lett, Buell, Cable, T. Campbell, Dotv, Durkee,
Eastman, Edgerton, Floyd. Gaylord, Grow, Ives,
Jenkins, John Johnson, D. T. Jones. Preston
Ring, Molony, Olds, Rantoul, Russell, Smart, P.
Stevens, Stratton, and Sweftser—2s.
Southern Whig.—Mr. Cliugman—'l.
Northern Wmos.—Messrs. Allison, Barrere,
Brenton, L. D. Campbell, Chapman, Conger Fow
ler, Goodenow, Goodrich, Harper, Horsford, J.
W. Howe, T. M. Howe, Hunter, Mann, Meacham,
Newton. Pcnniman, Perkins, Saekett, Schoolcraft,
Scndder, B. Stanton, B. Thompson, Tuck, Wal
hfjdge, Washburn, Wells and \ ate*—29.
Vote on Mr. Jaehon't Resolution.
AEFIHMATTVE.
Southern Dkmg«Ra) V —Messrs. Tho*. H. Bay
lr, Bocoek. Bragg. Hreckygrtdae, A. G. Brown,
Ca'klu. Cobb, Daniel, Edmundum, Freeman. AV.
p. Halt, Hamilton. Hammond, Hillyer, Houston,
Howard, Jackson, A. Johnson, J. Johnson. G. A\ .
Jones, litcher, Mason, McMullin. Meade, Nabers,
Penn, Phelps, Polk, Riddle, Savage, Scurry, Smith,
F. P. Stanton, R. 11. Stanton, (Hone. St. Martin,
George \V, Thompson, Venable and Wilcox—39.
Northern Democrat*.—Messrs. W. Allen, Bus
by. Clark. Curt is, J. G, Davis, Dawson, Dunham,
Fieklin, Fitch, Florence, T. J. D. Fuller, Gamble.
Gorman, Hart, Hendricks, Itetin, Hibbard, inger
soll, Kurtz, Izx'khart, E. iC. Marshall, MeCorkle,
McDonald. Murray, Pauslae. Price. Ricliardson,
Robbins. Robinsoit, Ross, D, L, Seymour, O. S.
Seymour, A. P. Stephens, Stuart, and Sutherland
-85.
Southern Wmos.—Messrs. Bowie, Cabel, Doek
erv, E* tug, Faulkner, Gentry, Grey. Laudry, H.
MarsluiH, Moore, Moorehead, Outlaw, Stro
ther. Walsh, Word, Watkins, Addison White,
Alexander White, and tylßjajns—Bo.
Kokthern Whig#.—brooks.
Haw*, Haven, Martin, Parker, and Solo*njcrliorn
gSOATIVE.
Southern Democrats. Messrs. Aiken, Ashe,
Averett, D. J, Baily, Uollad.v, MpQuccn. Millson.
Orr. Powell, Wallace, and Woqdwani—J.l.
Northern Democrats,—Messrs. Bartlett, Buell. I
Cable, T.Oanjplie'.], Dean, Doty, Durkee. Eastman, i
Edgerton, Floyd, Gaylord, Gr,.iy ; Ives, Jenkins, J. |
Johnson, D. T. Jones, P. King. Mokny, Rantoul, |
Smart. Stratton, and Sweetser— 22.
Southern Whig.—Ur. OUogmut—i. j
Northern Whws.—Mewra. AMison. Barrere, ]
Brenton. (i. 11. Brown, L. D. Campbell, Chapman, j
Conger, Fowler, Goodenow, Goodrich. Harper. '
Horsford, t. U. (J me. Kulms, Mann, Meaeliani, j
Minor, Newton, i'euniman, Perkins. - Saekett. 1
Schoolcraft, Scndder, b. Stanton. B. Thompson, I
Tuck, Walbridgc, Washburn, and Yates
—3O.
JoU on Mr. nUlaer't liesolut'on.
ArvlUG \TIVE.
SorriFttx Democrat-,—.Mess's. Thomas 11. Ba- !
lv, Breekenbridge, Cobb, Edmunds mi. Freeman. J
Hall, Hamilton. Hillyer, Houston, Ii ward, Jack
son, A Johnson, J. Johnson, G.W. Jones, Letche,. ,
Mason, McMullin, N’aher*, P*nn. Polk, Riddle, ]
Savage, Scurry, smith, f. P. —rum, R. H. Stan
ton, Stone, Stl Martin, G. W, Thompson, and Wil- j
cox—Bo. ;
Northern Democrats.— Messrs. » • Alien, G. ,
11. Brown, Busby, Clark, J, G. Dav!*, JHw>on, !
l>eun, Dunham, fieklin, Fi Hv Fjoronco, T.. •». Ik
Fuller, Gamble, Gorman, Hart, Haadneks, Hc«n,
Hit>b*rcL Infers oil, Kurtz, Lockhart, VI- < * 'J ur ~
shaii. jfcCerkle, McDonald, Murray, i ‘,u>kv.
Price, TSicfeardeou, Kobbins. Robinson, Ross, D.
L. Sevmour, C. S,?S vuJour, A. P.Stephens, btu&rt,
and Sutherland—36. ,
SorTHMiN Whigs.—Messrs. Bowie, Cabo J. L>ock
err, fccviujf, Flttlfaku. Gentry,®Grey. L*iiL jry, H.
Marshall, Miller. J. Moore. Morebcad, Oath..-,
Porter, Stanly, Strother, IVaish. Ward. Watkin*. ;
Addison White, Alexander White, and William* j
Northern Wmos,—Messrs. Win. AppLiten. !
Brook*, Chandler, Haw*. Haven, Kuhn*, Martin,
Porker, Sehertnerliorn, and Yates —10.
negative.
Southern Den or oats —Messrs. Aiken. ,‘,shc,
Everett, D. J. Bailee, fiowoek, Bragg, Caskic, Dan
iel. Uoßaday, MeQu'een, Meaitv, Mill-son, Orr. Veil- ]
able, Wallace, and W.x>dward—l«.
Northern Drnoobatb.—Messrs. Ba-tictt. Jlttril.
Cable, T. Campbell, Dotv, Durkee, Eastiiam. } id- j
gei Uni, Floyd, Gaylord. Grow, Ives, Jenkins. J. j
Johnson; D. T. Jones, F, King, Moionv, Rantoul, !
Smart, aialSwwetiar—2o. * •
Southern Whig —Mr. Ci'ingujnn—l
Noiwheus \\ big* —Miv-srs. A’.lison Barrere.
Brenton. L. D. Ciunpbrii, Cha|«,»„, Conger, Fow
ler, Goodenow. Goodrich, Harper, ihin-lord T. i
M. Howe, Menu, Moneham, iliraw, Newton Pen- '
niman, Piirkina, Saelteti. Schoolerart, Seudder B. 1
Stanton, B. ThOHip*on, Tuck, Woljaridae, Wash- i
burn, and Wells-27. ]
From the lomecille Journal.
\wfnlfo<e«itiboai Explosion.
We are again called upon to record a lenffic
steamboat < \..lotion by which trom 30 to 40 per- !
sons were killed. The steamer Bed Stone, bound
from Madison to Cincinnati, blew npall three oi
her boiler* at Scott’* landing, tj-j nines above Car
rollton, about half past two o'clock on Satnrdav.—
She had *topi<ed there to take on board the Rev.
Mr. Seoti. a yonng Baptist clergymen, who was
going to Warsaw to preach there yesterday. The
wheels bad only made- two or three revolutions,
win-a all the boilers blew np, making a perfect
wreck ofthe entire upper works of the boat, ex
cept the ladies cabin. She then took fire, and in a
few minutes burned to the water* edge, and the
hull then sunk. Nothing except a portion of the
wheel house was visible. The books and paper*
were all burned, and it will therefore be almost im
possible to ascertain the exact number of lives iost.
The second and fourth engineer* were on watch
when the explosion took place. Three of the en
gineers were killed, including the first, a Mr. Berry,
the second, and the third, and the fourth aas so
badly wounded that it Is not respected be can ex
cover. (apt. Tate, the commander of the boat,
had a leg broken, and the other considerably
bruised, and his recovery was considered doubt
ful. Tiie first clerk was blown in the air, and fell
in the river, but swam ashore, and escaped with
very severe bruises. One of the pilots was killed,
and the other had an ankle broken. Only seven
bod.ies hail been found when tlie Ben Frunkhn
I left the wr. ck. The Rev. Mr. Scott was al*o killed,
j His mother and sister were standing ashore to *ee
i him off. He had not had time to reach the step
1 leading to the cabin before tlie explosion occurred.
Some ofthe bodies were thrown on shore* several
l hundred yards distance. On the trees in the
j neighborhood were hung the tattered garment* of
! the Unfortunate beings.
We obtained these particulars from Mr. Sher
j lock, of tite Hen Franklin. The following slip
t from the Oa roll ton Mirror was furnished us by Mr.
| Thornton mail agent of the Ben Franklin:
Caris.i.lton. Ky., April 3, 5 o'clock P. M.
I About halfpast 2 o'clock, the Madison and C'iuein
natti packet Red istonc passed this place. When
( nl.out 8 miles above, it seeuis that she lauded at the
I Kentucky side, and, as she was backing ont, her
! boiler* exploded with a tremendous noise, tearing
' the lyat to atoms, and causing her to sink in less
than three minutes in 20 feet water. Several gen
tlemen here whose attention had been attracted to
the boat'* racing, and the great quantity of steam
she was working saw the explosion. Her chim
neys were Mown half way across tlie river. It is
sanl that ail on Ixwd have perished. The flames
are still visible from our office.
I.ATiyt.—We have just returned from the scene
which is entirely indescribable. Comparatively but
few if any of her passengers were saved.
The only officers saved are the captain and the
first clerk. The former will, in all probabilty, die.
There were from 80 to 100 passengers, 60 to 70 of
whom must be lost. The force of the explosion
may be judged from the fact that two bodies and a
part of the boiler were blowu more than 1000 yards
from the wreck.
The boat was just backing out from Scott’s land
ing.
Mr. R. C. Seandland, who got on at that piacc,
was on tiie forecastle, and seeing the danger went
to the stern of the hurricane deck, uud was by this
timely forecast, saved.
Rev. Ferry A. “cott, who was on a visit to his
parents, had just gone on board, and his parents
and siiters, standing on shore only to see him
blown into eternity.
All the ladies on board are thought to be saved.
None of tlie eight persons who got on at this place
were lost although several of them arc badly hurt.
The c.vplo. ion was seen and heard by the citizens
. of Carrollton, who with all possible liaste proceed
ed to the scene of the disaster and rendered every
assistance. The steamers Hoosier State and Ben.
Franklin came to the wreck about two hours after
the accident, and their officers and crews gave
every aid in their power to the unfortunate suffer
ers. They took tlie uninjured and wounded on
board.
The Red Stone was a new boat. She had been
running heretofore as a packet between Aurora
and < 'incinnati, and had only lately entered the
Madison trade, in opposition to the Hoosier State.
The officers of tlie steamei Tiber, which arrived
last evening, state that tliev were informed by tiie
wliiirf-bcmt master at Carrollton that on a previous
trip the Red Stone had gone out of sight of Carroll
ton only one. minute and a half behind the time of
the Pittsburg, and that lie was timing her on Sat
urday, making allowance for the time of slapping.
From this it is evident that the Red Stone was ra
cing.
Later. — Further Particular*. —By the Telegraph
No. 2, last night, we have some further particulars.
We obtained them mainly from the bar-keeper,
who also furnished us witli a Cincinnati Enquirer
extra.
None of the ladies on board were killed or
wounded.
The second clerk was not on board. The «ap
tain it was thought could not survive.
In addition wc learn from one of the officers of
tlie Telegraph that the engineer had stopped the
“doctor, the engine which supplies tlie boilers
with water, so as to be enabled to raise a high head
of steam.
From the S. O. Picayune, 6lh but.
later from Texas.
By the arrival ofthe steamship Meteor wc have
received Galveston papers to the 2ndinst.
Wo leiiru that the overflow ofthe rivers of Tex
as has at length subsided after having extended to
the bottom* of most the rivers from their heuds
to near the Gulf. There was a report that the wa
ter from the Brazos lmd reached to the plantations
of Gov. Runnel*, Gen. Coffee, Messrs MeNccl,
Bingham, Brown, Cecil and Terry on Crvster
Creek. That river, however, lias fallen within its
banks above. It was then s#me twenty feet below
the overflowing point in the vicinity of Washing
ton, though there are someffeiioes missiag in that
region. As a compensation, however for the loss,
it appears that the fields which were overflowed
have been enriched by the deposit of about a foot
of new soil.
The Victoria Advocate states that the Guadalupe
siver atScnguin had overflowed tlie bottom • lands
upon its banks to the depth often or fifteen feet,
and tiie St. Marks, Plum Creek, Peach Creek, Cu
erro, and Irish creek were also out of their banks.
The bottoms generally above Victoria were covered
with water but tlie amount of damage is not slated.
The Colorado was also very high. The Austin
Gazette states that also in that vicinity alargequao
tity of fencing was washed away, growing crops
destroyed and cattle, hogs and horses drowned.
The streams in Caldwell county wore higher than
they have been known for many years, and a simi
lii»neeoii«t isgiven of the San Gabriel and other
streams in that direction, and in both localities,
the injury to farms and the destruction of stock
have been very extensive. There are rumors of
several persons having been drowned, two orthreo
in the Colorado, one in the San Gabriel, and one or
two elsewhere, but the names are not given. Sev
eral grist mills in the neighborhood of Austin w ore
washed away by (lie Hood.
. We learn from the Huntsville Item that a disease
resembling the Asiatic cholera, broke out iu the
vicinity of that place about three weeks ago, and
was very fatal in several families. Col. John
Hume lost thirteen of his negroes, and a son
about seven years old, a most intelligent and pro
mising youth. There were eight corpses on his
premises at one time. The afflictions of Col. llume
have truly been heavy and disastrous, for ill addi
tion to tho above, the Item says, “his fences have
all been blowu away, and his fields, where the corn
and cotton should be growing, are overrun with
stock, and the work ofthe past two or three months
completely destroyed.
Tlie disease first appeared among a gang of ne-
Igroes recently arrived in the neighborhood from
Georgia several of whom died. The item of tiie
20th says the disease hail then disappeared, and
that the health of Huntsville was good.
The Weftern Texan, of the 19th inst., says a
negro died very suddenly in San Antonio on" the
18th, from a disease resembling cholera.
L ater from the Brazos— The Steamboat Camanche
fired into. —The steamship Yacht, Cant. Thompson,
arrived yesterday morning from the Brazos, bring
ing 822,976 in sjwcie, freight. We learn from her
officers that .just before the Y’aclit left the Brazos
information had reached Capt. Kennedy, of the
steamer Grampus, then at Brazos, from a reliable
source, that the steamer Camanche, during tier last
trip np the Rio Grande from Brownsville to Roma,
had been fired into by a party of Mexicans on their
side of the river, some time about the 25th or 26th
nit. The circumstances, as near us could be ascer
tained, arc us follows:
The Camanche, Capt. King, left Brownsville with
her usual freight and about forty passengers, among
whom were Gen. Carvajal, Judge Arrington, Hon.
Mr. Griiistcad aud several other State officers, to
gether with several ladies aud a number of mer
chants, After leaving Brownsville those on board
observed that a party of Mexicans, supposed to be
soldiers, were following the bout along tlio banks;
therefore Capt. King avoided the Mexican side as
much ns possible, and only went on that sido when
it was absolutely necessary. Nothing occurred
until the day in question, when a party of women
came down to the river and hailed them, saying
that some soldiers were waiting above to take the
boat. At or near the place stated by them the
steamer was fired into by a party concealed iu the
chaparral; and out of five shots fired three took
effect iqion the cabin of the boat, not injuring any
one, however, which was very singular, as all of
tlie passengers were out on deck, and among them
the ladies. It is supposed that the shots were in
tended for Oarvaj.’J, it being known that he was on
Iniurd, going up. The above occurred near the
rancho of Isis Cuevas, some forty or fifty miles lie
low Rio Grande City. Those on board have drawn
uptlic IK-Cjissurv documents, which will come on
by the liext mail.— Picayune,
Forgert.— Mr. James R. Wray, a young man of
this city and the clerk of Charles Hartridgc. Esq.,
was arrested this forenoon under suspicion of hav
ingconimiUod a forgery. It appears that a cheek
for 82,6(8). with Mr, Hurtridge’s signature attached
to it, was presented at the counter of the Marine
Bank, on Friday, by a colored man. The Teller
refused to cash it, and the man left, This m*rn
ing it was again presented, not by thccolorcd mm
however, but by a white lad some twelve or fifteen
yearssifage. The clack was received and the
money |iald, but not until nt'ura careful examina
tion of tlie signature. Suspecting that something
might possibly be wrong, the Teller waited upon
Mr. Hurtridge, who forthwith pronouueed the
check to be a forgery. After the arrest of Mr.
Wray, his bed-room was searched and all of the
money found. He has been committed to jail.
U *» also stated tlie City Marshal has suffered
somew hat from riit ineeuuity of Mr. Wray. Hav
ing a demand against him fore hundred" dollars,
or thereabouts, bo culled on Mr. Wray, for the
money, and was promised payment in a day or
two. Sure enough, in a short time thereafter; Mr.
W. ' iMud the Marshal a note on Mr. llartridge
for 850.0, which (he Marshal took in payment, j
handing over to Wr»y the retraining S4OO on the
note. - This Mr. Martridge pronounces a f >retry
also. Another citizen it is said, has suffered a loss,
ill the same way of about $175. Tlie forged signa
ture iu each jn.QsfiCfi was so w e!l executed, as to
pa** tiie scrwmti'of .ojjjeers distinguished for
vigelenefc and caution.
We understand that Mr. Wray wilj f,c prosecu
ted. Witliout professing to know anything oi the
facts of tlie ease, and without wishineto be under
stood as believing or disbelieving him to be gnil
ty, we 4‘ s're’to express the opinion that all such
eases ought »g undergo a legal investigation.—
Tnatisa mistaken tezremg* which turns a man
loose upon the community, who is etyn suspected
ot having perpetrated a crime.— Sav.Ji<p. ‘
V. S. Powbr* 11 yn.iziNEs.—ln the U. S. Senate
on Tne-day a was received from
tic Secretary of arcovering a ret-from the
OYiLopelof Ordnance upon the necessity of estab
lishing suitable depots for the preservation of the
gunpowder belong!ijg to the l uited States. The
report states that jthe subject ;> one which engaged
the attention of the Department tvreiyc years since
and tlgit the measure then recommended to Cou -
gress has lost noiiw of its importance since, but
that the pal tic service requires the establishment
of such depots more cow tj;#» th ?n, as the in
crease of population in the vicinity of fhc stores of
gunpowder at the arsenals lia* increased th* rg-k
to personal safety and the hazard to which the
stores are exposed by each contiguity. Ninetv
thousand barrels of gunpowder, it is estimated,
would be ah that the military purpose* of the
country would require to be kept in store. The
necessity of provision for the safe keeping of the
powder required for the Pacific Coast, by t}ie crea
tion of a permanent fire-proof magazine lit Beni
cia. California, 1* «Lo pressed. Tlie quantity of
powder at the public arsenal* is thus stated :
Nc..r Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 60,858
At Baton ibiuge, 169,439
Frankfort, near Philadelphia 145,043
At St. Louis, Missonri ~, 848,442
Washington, District of Columbia.. ~,,.. 43,918
WaJeKowjj, near Boston 121.757
Watcrviiei, near Troy 249,405
Galigoaci says, th;r a yogng female who has the j
mouomauia of homicide, lias just been arre*ted ,
mid sent to the Prefecture. She had attempted, |
but, fortunately, without effect, to murder hir .
father, her mother, her sister, and several females !
of her u<n| iiaintancc, declaring that she wished so j
driuk ti-yir blood, *
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§OITIIER\ CULTIVATOR.
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Memorial. —Memorial io Congress.
Plantation axd Farm Economy.—Experimental Farm? ;
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: Orchard; Enriching Gardens and Lawns; Manure for
Strawberries; The Acorn ; Planting Fruit Trees for Others;
| Insects.
j Youths’ Department.—General Notions on the Art of
, Cultivating the Soil; Taste in Country Life.
; Editorial.—To Correspondents; Southern Agricultural
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WM. 8.-JONES, Augusta, Ga.
The Compromise in Congress.
As this question is destined to occupy no incon
siderable allure of the public attention, within the
next few months, we have devoted much of our
space, to-dav, to the proceedings on the resolution
of the lion. J. W. Jackson, and Mr. Hillyer’s
amendment thereto; and to the analysis of the votes
upon those questions, as made by the Union, to
all of which wo invite tho reader's attention.
While the resolution of Mr. Jackson, to the cas
ual observer, seemed to cover the whole ground of
endorsing the finality of the Compromise Meas
ures; yet, on close inspection, jt will he perceived
that it was particularly Van Burenish, and calcula
ted, if not designed, to deceive. Mr. llillyer, how
ever, brought the little intrignefto the test, by his
amendment, and he was forced to swallow the pill,
however unpleasant, of endorsing the Compromise
as a final settlement. He tried hard to avoid the
issue, which Hillveb’s amendment presented, by
urging the previous question on his own resolu
tion, but his efforts were of no avail, nud lie was
compelled to drain the bitter cup to its dregs.
His collengue, however, Mr. Hailey, ns did all
the other lute secessionists, preferred an affiliation
with GtDDINGS, KaNTOCL, PItEST. KING, THAI). STE
vens, and such other choice spirits among the free
soilers and abolitionists, and accordingly,voted with
that class throughout. To this fact we desire,espe
cially,to direct tlie reader’s attention, and ask him to
scan, carefully, the positionpf the S. Carolina mem
bers, and all those who claim to bo par excellence
“Southern Right's men,” and see with whom they
voted oif these grave questions. Do they stand,
side by side, with the conservative patriots of tiie
South, or are they found, “cheek by jowl” with
Rantoul, G hidings, Mann & Co !
These votes, to our mind, demonstate, most con
clusively, the importance, nay, absolute necessity
of the South abstaining from at#- affiliation with ci
ther otthc national particsor entering their Conven
tions ; and especially should the Constitutional
Union party avoid such an nlliauce, ns they would
a pestilence. ThcXvotcs have shown precisely what
we have always asserted —that while both parties at
the North contained a largo portion of conservative
men—men who would vindicate and maintain the
rights of the’South, yet, that as parties, they were
unsound and corrupt. Seeking ratherthe spoils,than
the good of the cenntry. Hence, any platform
which either may adopt, in Convention, however
it may seem to favor the finality of the Compro
mise, will be designed to deceive and entrap the
South.
Mr. Cleveland, a Free-Soil Democrat, from Con
necticut, recently made a speech in the House
ot Representatives, in which lie absolved the de
mocracy of the responsibility of passing tho Com
promise. He deelurcd it was a “ Whig measure,
originating with llenrv Clay, and carried through
by Mr. Webster and General Scott, the effect of
which was to centralise tho government of the
country, and upon which Mr. Fillmore endeavored
to engraft a now law of treason.”
Mr. Ci.EVEt.Asn, who seems so anxious to absolve
the Democracy from all responsibility in passing
the Compromise, was elected to Congress by a
coalition between tho Democrats and Frcesoilers
of Connecticut. Hence, his extreme anxiety. In
other sections of the Union, however, where the
impression "prevails that the measures ate popular
there are those who proclaim that they are Demo
cratic measures. Another evidence of the reckless
ness of pnrtizan demagogues who seek their own
aggrandizement rather thnp the country's good.
The truth is, that neither party has the - exclusive
meritof passing tho Compromise; so far from it,
the measures were zealously and earnestly suppor
ted by members of both tho great political parties,
from tlie greatest to tho least. Mr. Clay had the
honor of submiting tho outline to the country, and
lie was zealously and ably sustained by many of the
leading Democrats and Whigs in both Houses of
Congress, and by Mr. Fillmore and his Cabinet,
He met opposition only among the Frcesoilers
of the North and the Ultruists of the South.
It was therefore properly, truly and exclusivel r,
the measure of tho conservatives of the country,
in and out of Congress, and every fair-minded man
who values his reputation for truth, will so pro
claim it. The disorganisers and agitators had no
part in the transaction, and wo arc not surprised
to sec them repudiating it. The Freesoilcr, Mr.
Cleveland, is particularly desisous to absolve the
Democracy from all responsibility, simply because
he is just now very anxious to r»-unite that party
in the Baltimore Convention ; and by such reckless
assertions as we iiave quoted above, lie hopes to
induce the Frcesoil wingto harmonize in that body,
where he and other leaders expect the question of
the Compromise will be permitted to sleep, till af
ter the adjournment, when it may be agitated, and
either vindicated or denounced, to suit the parti
i culur meridian.
Dr. Reicliback.
Ora paper of Saturday morning contained a short
paragraph copied from the Petersburg, (Va.) Intel
lit/mcer, charging Dr. K. with having left that city
without paying his bills, and cautioning the public
against him. „
To this Dr. K., who is now in this City, lias hand
ed us a long reply, in which he denies the truth of
the allegations. We give the substance of his ar
ticle. He says, That being in Philadelphia, lie re
ceived an invitation to go to Rio Janeiro, to prac
tice there, and accordingly engaged passage for
himself and wife, on hoard the ship “Grey Eagle,”
Captain Whiffle, for which he was to pay #3OO, on
certain conditions, that the ship should be com
fortably fitted up, *c., for the Bgcopjmodation of
j himself and with. After her departure, finding
that the stipulations had not been complied wjth,
and that the vessel was not provided with proper
seamen, lie concluded to leave the vessel, and ac
cordingly did so at Petersburg, paying the Captain
#SO for tiie passuge from Philadelphia to Peters
burg, Hence he was In Petersburg without de
sign or previous intention on his part—and not de
siring to return to Philadelphia, nor having any
opportunity to proceed to Rio, he remained there
four weeks, when he determined to come to Au
gusta. While in Petersburg he boarded with Mrs.
West, whose daughter and two servants being
dangerously ill of Pneumonia, he cured, for which
he*charged #6O. Mrs. IV. objected to the bill, and
demanded payment of her bill, #35, for his board,
and ifitlioiit any final settlement, he ordered his
baggage sent so the K*llr.,u4 Depot, apd left for
Wilmington, having previously notified his friends
of his intended departure. That so far from taking
“French leave,” all with whom he had any trans
actions knew of lije intended departure, and that
Mrs. W est was the only person in the place to
whom he had incurred any indebtedness, and that
she would not have permitted his baggage to he
rpipoyed from the house if she had had auv just
unliquidated demands.
With this explanation, which we have materially
condensed, giving the substance, the Dr. contents
himself at present, as he designs seeking redress
through the judicial tribunals.
Senator Baldwin cf Conn, — Among the most
gratifying results, and indeed the only question in
which we felt any interest, in the lata election in
Connecticut, is the certain defeat that awaits Sena
tor Baldwin, to whom the new Legislature has to
elect a successor. The Democracy may elect
Cleveland, or some other, freesoiler, equally ob
noxious as Baldwin. We hope for better things,
however, though we confess the prospect is not
flattering, Tet, we rejoice that Baldwin is cer
tainly defeated: that is something gained. Two
of ttie frpesoii Whigs— lla vt.>n of N. Jersey, and
Baldwin, of Conn., have gone by the board, and
we hope to sec others, of like principles, share a
similar fete. The American Congress should be
purged of fanatics, frcesoilers and ultraists; and if
the American people are worthy descendants of
the patriots and sages of the revolution, it will be
at no distant day.
Clemens yea Governor. —The Union men of
Alabama arc discussing tiie propriety of running
the lion. Juke. Clemens, as the Union candidate
for Governor, A correspondent of tho Mobile A'-
rerfiser, writing from the up country, says:
The suggestion meets with much favor from the
l mon men in this quarter, and I have no doubt he
could*be easily and triumphantly elected. It is fit
and proper that the man who aided so materially
in snatching the State from the edgo of a perilous
precipice, should shape the moat exalted rewards
#f the wbs,
“Tbe Augusta Journals ami the State Road.” j
Under this Lead the Atlanta RepuHicen attempts
a reply to our article, iu reiatkm to the favoritism i
shown by Gen.’l Bt-uor to his ton-in-law in for- I
warding Freights over the State Koad, which, as it I
lias it*li»> a “£y authority' air, we copy and no- j
tic*: •
“ Mltii regard to the charge, wc have only to
**y that wc have good reason to believe it nntrne.
for wc know that Gen. Bishop long since adopted
the plan i than which none could be more fair) of
fora ariiing ail freight from his Depot in the order
in which it is reaeivod ; and, furt.ocnnore, we un
derstand, that when tins same charge was prefer
red against the Agent at Chattanooga, to the Gov
ernor, during his recent visit Io that place, he told
the gentleman making it, if he would redneo his
complaint to writing, the matter would be inve-ti
gated before lie left the place ; but the cltarge was
not renewed during His Excellency’s stay, which
was protracted beyond his original intention, for
the express purpose of affording an opportunity
of so doing ! No ; the j®rty making it well knew
that the charge couU not be sustained so near koine !
therefore, it was reserved as a bug boar, to alarm
and exasperate the people of the middle and lower
counties against tbe officers of the State Koad.
The truth is. Gen. Bishop has a son-in-law doing
business at Chattanooga ; and, thetown beingvery
much crowded with produce for shipment, and
every merchant ready to fight tor the privilege of
sending nis forward by the earliest trains, sufficient
ground work to fabricate the charge of favoritism
upon, could nave been easily conjured up by his
| ambitious rivals, even though the said son-in-1 <w
j had shipped but one ear load a month. Wc leave
I this charge to the discernment of a just public,
I confidently believing that they will not condemn
on u charge so flimsy and ridiculous as this.
| The R-pullican says it “has good reason to bc
| lieveit nutru“,” hut does not inform us wliat that
I re a; on is. Wc had tlie authority of the letter of a
j highly respectable firm of Chattanooga, men of
uni in peached veracity, for our statement and be
lief, which we regard altogether more reliable
than the “belief ” of the Republican, or any evidence
it itas adduced.
Tlie story of the Republican about “reducing the
j complaint to writing,’’ will not excuse Mr. Wad
! ley. It was his duty as soon as the charge was
made to institute an investigation and invite the
| presence of the party making the charge to appear.
together with any other evidence that was aecessi-
I ble. This was his duty, and an officer who was as
i anxious to serve the interests of the State as to re-
I tnin an incompetent subordinate, would have pur
sued that policy.
I In consclusion, we beg leave to say to the Rrpub
| licon that its insinuation about “sectional jeal
j ousy,” so far as it was designed to apply to tills
journal, is beneath contempt.
Explosion of the Glencoe. —A Telegraphic dis-.
patch to the Nashville Banner , under date St. Lou
is, April 5, lurnishcs the following account of the
frightful explosion of tlie steamer Glencoe, of
which we have previously had a very brief notice:
“ The steamer Glencoe arrived from below last
evening, with a large load of emigrants and two
hundred cabin passengers on board, and immedi
ately after landing both her boilers burst, causing
an explosion that shook tlie city like an earthquake.
Immediately afterwards she caught fire and drifted
down the levee, setting fire to a number of steam
boats as she floated by. None of the steamers,
however, are lost. The Glencoe is completely torn
to pieces. The number of lives lost it iB impossi
ble to say. but dead and dying bodies were lying all
over the levee, among arms, legs and other pieces
of flesh and mutilated fragments of human bodies.
The Aleck Scott was somewhat damaged. The
Martha Jewett was saved by getting up steam and
starting ont. She took fire while some 500 passen
gers were on hoard. Some jumped overboard and
were drowned.
The Explosion of tiie Gi.enooe. —The Buffalo
Republican has some additional particulars of the
explosion of tlie steamer Glencoe, at St. Louis.
It savs:
“ A later despatch informs us that no less than
one hundred and fifty lives have been lost by this
awful calamity. The scene is described as heart
rending in the extreme. When the explosion took
place, the boat was completely rent asunder, and
human bodies, mangled anil whole, and pieces of
the wreck, flew up a great height into the air.
“Numbers were seen struggling in the water for
a few instants, whose wounds wore such that they
soon sunk to rise no more.
“The passengers and crews on tlic other
boats at the landing crowded to the sides of their
vessels in order to sec the arrival of the ill-fated
Glencoe. Many of them wero killed, and a great
number terribly injured. The shrieks und wail
ings of tiie wounded—the red glare of the fire, and
the consternation of the surrounding crowd, beg
gar description. It was an awful scene.
“The names of the passengers on tho Glencoe, or
those on the other boats who wero killed and
wounded, are not yet ascertained.
Several are reported killed on boats lying along
side the Glencoe at the time of the explosion.”
Gen. Cass in Martland.— The Democratic mom
liers of the Maryland Legislature have nominated
Lewis Cass as their choice for the Presidency.
Sad I*AiiTiNos.—All persons of feeling, who have
traveled much on this “mundane sphere,’' will
keenly recognize the truth of tho following, which
occurs in a letter from the fair correspondent of
the New Orleans Picayunt, (“Lizzie Linwood")
who is giving an account of a journey up the Mis
sissippi :
“ There is something delightful in the social
intercouse between passcngeis on the Western
rivers. Thrown together as they arc, they must
necessarily depend upon each other for happiness,
and the force of circumstances ripen an acquain
tance begun in this way, and dispenses with tho
usual forms of city life. But there is one sad
thought which embitters e very moment of happi
ness, and teaches us that in the most joyous sea
sons of our lives we are the most to expect sorrow
and care. Soon the gay party on board will he
brokon. We shall reach our stopping place and
hid farewell to those whose Society has been to us
an oasis in the desert of lift. Each will take adif
forent path, and we muv never meetuntil we do so
in that better land beyond the grave. Such
thoughts us those have often made me feel nverso
to forming pleasant acquaintances, for my nature
is BO keenly sensitive that I feel I suffer mere in
separation than I have enjoyed pleasur, in compan
ionship. Ah, who docs not sigh for that world
where partings are unknown ? Who that is pos
sessed of that divine spark, the soul docs not yearn
for that holy land where the friendship begun be
low shall be perfected, where all the pure and good
and beautiful of onr nature shall shine out witli
additional lustre, making happiness for all around?
We would have eourago to live to meet tho sor
rows of adverse fortune to buffet with tho waves
of fate, to stand alone and desolate, where it not
for the blessed hope of another and moro perfect
state of existence f If wo died, and that was the
last of us, why live at all ? Life would be a mock
ery. A splendid humbug for some, a eruol torture
for others.”
Kossuth ill Augusta.
The distinguished Hungarian, L. Kossuth, and
suit, arrived in this city yesterday morning by the
train from Atlanta, on liis wny North. We under
stand that ho had Telegraphed the proprietor of
the United States Hotel to have in readiness a suit
of rooms for him, hut when he reached the rail
read depot, and found no committee of reception,
not even a crowd of anxious faces to see and wel
como him, he very wisely determined that the
prospect tor “material aid” was not flattering, and
therefore, concluded not to romnin, but to take the
titbit train for Charleston, which ho did, having re
mained in the city about an hour. Ilis presence
produced not the least excitement and did not call
forth the slightest demonstration. So much for the
patriotism and real genuine Americanism of the
intelligent citizens of Augusta.
Kossuth in Charleston.— The Courier of Mon
day says:
“ This distinguished Hungarian patriot, with his
iadv and suite, arrived iu this city, via the Railroad
oil Friday afternoon last, and took lodgings at the
Charleston Hotel. No excitement or public de
monstrations attended liis reception or brief so
journ among us. On Saturday, tho Mavor of the
eitv and a number of citizens waited on hint, at his
lodgings, and tendered him the homage of their
respect for his character and lofty endowments,
and expressed their sympathy for fiis misfortunes
and those of his oppressed countrymen. He con
versed freely with h s visitors, on the subject which
occupies his mind : but the intervention doctrines
of the great Magyar, evon when enforced by his
rare eloquence, have nittdo no impression ’on a
community whose hearts and minds are too strong
ly imbued witli the wise and paternal lessons of
Washington, to he led astray by the sophistry
or enthusiasm of the gifted foreigner. The con
servatism of our people furnishing no motive for
his prolonged stay, he and his party left, on
Saturday afternoon, in the Wilmington boat, for
the North. We learn that at Augusta, also, his
reception was very lukewarm; and that, on his
arrival there, finding no preparations on foot to
receive him with “distinguished honors,” he con
cluded to proceed at once op hjs jqtifuey,
♦
New Post Offices in Georgia. —flic Post Mas
ter General lias established the following new
Offices in this State : Howard, Taylor eo., Janies
Layfield, P. M.; Indian Hill, Elbert co., Jasper
Kinucbrew, P. M.; Longmoss, Randolph co., B.
R. Fuller, P. M.; Santa Dueah, Gilmer co., Ebcn
zer Fain, P, M.; Mount Monroe, Pike co.. Step-art
Aokiss.p.M,
Muscogee Delegates. —At a meeting of the
Constitutional Union party of Mueogee, the fol
lowing gentlemen were appointed delegates to the
SJiUedgcville Convention i
Thadevs Sturgis,
James Wimberlv,
Edgab G. I^awsox,
Joseph A, Lee,
The delegates wer j instructed to oppose any pro
position tq send delegates tp either the Natiopql
Whig or Democratic Con vantions,
i-:ditorial Change,
John W. Ford, the senior Editor of the
Chattanooga Adurt'ter has retired from tlic eon
ocru, and the entire management of the paper has
been a-suinod by the former Associate Editor, H.
T. Phillips, Esq,
Mr. Phillips is a gentleman of taste, energy and
talent, every wav qualified to conduct such a jour
nal as the growing burinesa and importaneeof Chat
tanooga demands; and while we regret the loss of
Mr. Fobd from tho fraternity of which he was a
most estimable member, we are satisfied that
his mantle could not have fallen on worthier
shoulders,
New Yore Exports and Imports,— The follow
tabic shows the value of the Exports, and Imports
for the City of New York daring the Motyh of
March:
Import*.— Liable to duty exclusive of goods
warehoused #9,302,034
Not liable to duty 1,343,333
Warehoused 916,519
Total Imports 12,162,431
Erportt. —Domestic produce 4,313,245
Foreign goods re-exported 357,230
Total exports 4,670,433
Another Fearful Explosion.— Terrible as has
been the destruction of human life, by the explo
sion of steamers on the tributaries to the Mississip
pi, within the last few days we have still another to
add, which is oontained in the following brief des
patch :
Lexington, Mo., April 9.—The steamer Saluda, 1
bound to Conncil Bluffs, exploded her boilers to
day, She had a lariro nnmber of Mormons on t
board, and all the officers were killed, except the
Clerk and Mate. About 100 lives are supposed to
be lost. The boat is a total wreck.
Counterfeiters Arrested. —Marshal Hughes, of
Columbus, arrested two men on Sunday evening
last, oil a charge of counterfeiting. Their names 1
are Buck Blake and Craig. The counter- i
felts were on the Augusta Banks.— Ma<on CUixn. ,
Tbe Late Democratic Convention.
* The Tery extraordinary action of this Conven
tion, taken in eotiuexiou with the past history of
the party, is eliciting, very generally, the commcuto
of tlie press. To one familiar with the facility with
which that party has boxed the compass of the
slavery question and tlie collateral issues, their late
action should certainly excite little surprise, how
ever proper it may be to expose snch trickery. The
Savauuali Republican thus discants upon it:
A Word to Men who are not Politicians.— The
most unfortunate assemblage, for the cause of the
Sonth, iu onr humble judgment, which ever con
vened iu Georgia, was tlie Southern Rights Demo
cratic Convention which met at Millcdgcvilft lost
week. Tlie party represented in that convention
is tiie same that held the Nashville convention—
| that contended for the right of peaceable secession
—that advocated tho Missouri line—that denounc
ied the Compromise as a “degradation”—and that
| invoked a ”Southem Congress” to take measures
| for ihe future security dr independence of tlie
slave-holding States. Some of the leading papers
ofthe party went so far w* openly to recommend
; a dissolution of the Union. But they were defeat
ed—everwhehmngly defeated. The party then
fell back to the Compromise, and iu a convention,
in Milledgeville. the -">tli of November last, insist -
i ed that it should lie regarded as a pennaneut and
\ final settlement. It did more: It recommended the
| Baltimore Convention to plant itself upon the
finality of the Compromise, und intimated that the
I support of the party in Georgia would depend up
on its taking that position, let this same <party
! backs out froifi the resolutions of November, passes
over the Coiuprymisc in silence, and thus, in effect,
; arrays itself on the side of agitation, and in oppo
: site'll to tiie settlement.
! Thus has this party boxed all points ofthe com
j pass. It denounced tho Compromise, and then
j rvc - .i.-vi it as a permanent settlement. Having
| recognised it as a permanent settlement, it now
J retreats from that position, and virtually says, it
; is not a permanent settlement. The "purty lays
j down resolutions which it is the first to abandon,
and recommends a line of policy which it is the
first to desert. It is everything by starts, and no
thing long. Like Noah's dove, but without its
innocence, it can find no rest. Having scoured
the \Vhole heavens for a place to rest upon, it re
turns at last to tlie point whence ie started—tho
resolutions of IS4S. That barque failed to carry
the party through the campaign of that year, and it
will fall again.
c say, the convention of last week was an un
fortunate convention for tlie South. It was a com
plete and unconditional surrender to her enemies.
In failing to endorse the finality of the Compromise,
the convention virtually incited the abolitionists to
continue their aggression*. If wc do not insist tip
on tlie settlement, how can our friends at the
North do it for us f If we desert the field, is it to
be expected that national men at the North will re
main in harness und do our fighting? It lias been
said, that those parts of the Compromise most fa
vorable to tlie North are, in the nature of things,
final, and that it is only those most acceptable to
the South that are subject to repeal. Yet a conven
tion in Georgia refuses to insist upon it as a final
adjustment, and thus in effect encourages the South
ern fanatic in hi* efforts to repeal the fugitive slave
law, und to press on hi* aggressions upon the South!
Even tlie Democratic convention ofPennsylvania,
a Northern State, boldly took position in favor of
tlie permanency of tho settlement, and thus sought
toereetthe party in tliatState into a barrier against
the swelling flood of frec-soilism, now setting in
against the South. Other patriotic States at the
North have done the same. But of what avail arc
their noble efforts, when one of the parties in a
leading Southern State refuses to go to their assist
ance, and tells them to open wide the barriers, and
let the threatening tide in ? Really, the course of
the Southern Rights convention has the appearance
of a disire, ou the part of its leading spirits, to
provoke further encroachments, that a dissolution
of the Union might be finally accomplished.
The Southern Rights party, ns wo have said, has
capitulated to tho enemy. It made no stipulations
and asked no condition, but inglorioiislv struck its
flag and surrendered itself, bound and blindfold.
Will the people, the men who are not politicians,
submit to such humiliation ? The leaders will find
out, when it is too late, that they will not. The
finality of the Compromise has become a sentiment,
—a part of tho creed, —of the pcoplo of Georgia,
and, we believe, of tlie South; and no party can
be successful which arrays itself against that senti
ment. Politicians may try to avoid the issue—they
may foist upon tlie country a candidate of correct
sentiments, and thus seek to avoid the real point—
but they arc destined to defeat. Tho people re
quire that the party as well us the candidate shall
openly and without reservation, commit itself to
the fin'alty of the adjustment measures. A sound
candidate and a corrupt party will notanswer for un
intelligent people.
The Journal and Messenger lias tlie following
commentary:
Tiie Southern Rights Democratic Convention.—
The proceedings of tlie Convention of Fire-
Eaters, which assembled in Millcdgoville on the
• 31st ultt., will be found in another coluinu. As wo
predicted, they have constructed a sapless platform
in re-affirming the Baltimore Resolutions of 1848,
and have studiously avoided overy question upon
which an issue cun be made. Rebuked by the
people of Georgia for the mudness and folly of its
Disunion and Secession doctrines, and placed by
the issue ofthe last Gubernatorial election iu a
hopeless minority, the Southern Rights Party has
grown nervous and timid, and dares to present no
platform of principles to tlie people of Georgia.—
The action ot their Convention declares to tho world
that they have no opinions upon any subject—that
they are tired of tlie position of a minority, and
that in order to secure political power, bv renewing
national relations with the Democratic i’artv, they
are willing to abandon every single principle they
ever entertained. It is difficult to believe that the
Convention which assembled in Millcdgcville last
week, was composed of the Party which, u short
while since, assembled in Convention at Nashville
and at Mueon, and passed resolutions looking to
the disruption of the Union, and the establish
ment of a Southern Confederacy. Yet suclt is tlie
fact. Extreme Southern Rights men, they ltavo
suddenly become extreme Submissionists. But
they have again mistaken tlie people of Georgia.
The pcoplo never have declared against a single
Southern Right, or in favor of Submission. Tno
Submission for which they declare, was acquies
cence in the Compromise, passed by the Congress
otthc United Suites; and the Southern Rights
which they rcpumitcd and declared against, were
Revolution. Disunion and Secession. But there
arc Southern Rights wliicli do not commit us to
Disunion or Secession, which are within the Con
stitution, and upon which in the present position
ot affairs, the people of Georgia expect some ex
pression of opinion from a Convention of any party
which asks their support. The people of Georgia
have declared against no Constitutional right ofthe
South. Tho position during tho last canvass, was
not Submission ; and the Southern Rights men of
Georgia in acting upon the supposition that they
are willing to submit in future, to all and every
Northern aggression, and demand no pledge or
guarantees of fidelity to the South, from the party
or the candidate they support, are simply noting
upon a slander which they thomsolvos liuve
originated and repeated until they believe it,
Y'et, though this Convention has given no declar
ation of opinion upon a single question which will
be placed in issue of the next Presidential election,
its delegates will be received at Baltimore, carrying
with them every heresy which they entertain. The
Virginia and Louisiana Democratic Conventions
have adopted the policy of entire silence upon the
Compromise of 1850, as tho basis of Democratio re
union in the Baltimore t onvention ; the Southern
RightsDemocmticConvontloa has foliowod their ex
ample, and all of them will be reoeived at Baltimore.
We ask our worthy contemporary ofthe Athens'
Banner, to turn his contemplation from tiie ploos
ing devclopemonts which he professes to see in tlie
action of Congress, upon Mr. Fitch’s resolution,
and consider for a moment the actions ofthe Con
ventions, North and South which have sent dele
gates to Baltimore, and give us tho indications
which that action afford that the finality of tlie Com
promise will be recognized at Baltimore. The Free
Soilers of tlie North und the Southern Rights men
ofthe South will be there, and will probably oon
trol tiie notion ofthe Convention ; and yet wo havo
the authority of tho Athons Banner lbrthe assertion
that noitherFroo Soilers or Southern Rights men
are Democrats. It behooves our contemporary to
make hasto to establish his own orthordoxv ns a
Democrat, and to moderate tho zeal with which he
insists upon tho recognition of tiie finality of the
Compromise by tho Baltimore Convention. In at
tempting to apply this “new tost,” lie may he ex
cluded from the deliberations of that body. From
present devclopemonts (including tlie solemn and
imposing ceremony of a call ofthe House upon the
motion to suspend the rules for the introduction
of I itch’s Resolution the particulars of which arc
given in e.itenso in the Athens Banner, of the
Ist inst.,) we are constrained to believe th.at the
finality of tlie Compromise will not be recognized at
Baltiutopq thoqgh the editor ofthe Banner, “true
to hjs instincts of hostility,” to the Whig Party la
bors to establish the impression that it will be.—
From presr nt developments, we fear that the Bal
timere Convention, like many of the Democratic
State Conventions which havo already spoken,
will plant itself on the Democratic platform of 18*8,
and thus virtually ignore the existence ftf file Free
Soil or disunion Partios ofthe Compromise of 1850,
and its finality, that thp Democratic Party will coil
tent itself with a ro-affirmaiice of old and obsolete
party principles long since emasculated of their
strength, and remind us of Ottaways picture of
“A wrinkled hag with age grown double
Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.”
If our fears are not realized by the result of the
deliberations of the Baltimore Convention—if De
mocracy docs renew its youth and assert its na
tionality by taking its position boldly and
openly in opposition tp Higher Law Secession
and Slavery agitation, we shall gladly and cheer
folly admit its claims to tiie support of tho Union
men ofthe South,
C osvicno* job Forgery. —Bures Greene, Se
cretary of the Fireman’s Insnraneo Company of
Mobile, and who formerly occupied a high eharac
tcr for integrity in tlmt eomniunity, haa been found
guilty of forging the name of Daniel Roteuson on
his (Greene's) official Wid as Secretary of the
Firuman'B Insurance Company. Heisalsocharged
with several other offences of similar turpitude, but
has not yet been tried on those eharges. No man
was more esteemed and none enjoyed in a higher
degree the confidence of all classes in Mobile, lie
was a prominent nmmbor pf the Presbyterian
Church, aad was universally regarded a very ex
emplary and pious man previous to the develop
ment of bis crimes, which it appears he had been
practicing for years.
Railroad Sfuscßipyios.—Tho citizens es Knox
| ville, Tsnn. , hare in a public meeting, voted unan
imously in favor of the town authorities subscrib
ing $50,000 to the stock of the East Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad. The question is to be submitted
to the legal voters of the town for their dcdslpn be
fore the subscription la made.
Sew Books.
Messrs J. A. Carrie & Co., have laid on opr
table the following works : "The Way ta do (load,"
a ehartning volume by Jacob Abbott; “ alken
bxrnj," a tale of the Kliir.e, by the author of Mil
dred Vernon, <fce.; "Bleak House," No. 1 of Dick
ens’ new work, with illustrations, and No. 21 of
Bossing’s '■'Pictorial FiM-booh of the Revolution."
Tuos. Richards & Sox, have sent us “ Watte
and Talk* of an American Farmer in England"
the third issue of Putnam’s semi-monthly Library
—a remarkably cheap and entertaining series.
Messrs. Geo. A. Oates <t Co,, have also handed
U 3 “ Madeleine ,” a tale of Auvergne, founded on
feet by Jima Kavasaob, and No, 4, Vol. 9, of
“Appleton's Mechanic’* Magasine," of all which
we shall endeavor to make more extended notice
at ap early day.
The QcADBrpEDS or North America. By J. J.
Audubon, F. R. 8., Ac., and Rev. Jonx’Bach
man. &e.
This is a miniature copy of a larger edition, with
figures and descriptions of the Quadrupeds of the
United States, including Texas, California and
Oregon; part of Mexico, the British and Russian
possessions, and the Arctic regions of our conti
nent. It was commenced during the life-time of
the great Naturalist, and is now in course of com
pletion by Dr. Bachman and the Messrs. Audubon,
sons of the author, one of whom is now in the city,
and may he found at the U. S. Hotel, by those who
suay desire to possess this beautiful and valuable
work. It is published in monthly parte, each
containing five engravings colored after nature
and in the highest style of the art.
Specimens of the work may be seen at tho store
of Gso. A. Oates & Co., and all lovers of nature
and patrons of American genius should avail them
selves of the present opportunity to subscribe,
The Asters.
The New Orleans Picayune contains the follow
ing very intifresting account of and sjicciilutious on
an extraordinary book, recently placed in tlie pos
session of the Editors, who adduce it as ovidencu,
very satisfactory to them, of tho existence of an
isolated city in the mountains of central Amorica,
of which we have heard so much in the last sow
yeura,and particularly, recontly in connection with
the “Artec children” exhibiting in Now York.
Although, almost all the inhabitants of thnt coun
try agree in declaring the existence of a large city
situated among almost inaccessible mountains, iso
lated front communication with the outer world,
atid which not more than ono or two wliito men
ltuvc ever succeeded in reaching, yet tho lit Aries in
connection therewith havo generally been regarded
as fabulous—tho wonderful creation of a creative
fancy:
About three wocks since a geutlemcn, who had
recently returned from Tohuautepee, placed in our
hands a volume composed of a unniDcr of layers
of parchment bound together with brazen clasps,
and presenting appearances of great antiquity. It
was obtained from an Indian curate —tnore are
manv such in that part of Mexico —and tho histo
ry or it, us related by himself, is this: He said that
ho hail purchased it* from a native trader who onco
a year was in the hubit of visiting a city among
the mountains towurds tho south, which is inhabi
ted exclusively by Aztecs. The name of this city is
Coaxcheucingo, which, iu tho language of tho tribe
to which the curate belongs, signifies “tlie mystery
of the mountains.” Within an inner npartment of
tlie grand temple of Coaxchenciugo arc kept about
fifty volumes similar in appearanco tc the one re
ferred to, which, it is said by the priests, were pre
served from the extensive collection of records
known to have existed in Mexico at tho time of the
conquest, and which wore destroyed by Cortez in
the heat of his imtemperato zeal against the pagan
ism of the Aztecs. volumes preserved at
Coaxchoucingo are regarded as holy tilings, and arc
only to be seen on duys of great public rejoicing or
solemnity. It was oil an occasion of this kind that
the ltftlian trader succeeded in abstracting one of
them.
This volume, which we have now before us, is
filled with hieroglypliical characters, almost all of
which are, of course, perfectly untcUigiblc to us.
But one circumstance connected with it is of the
highest importance, and tonds to confirm tho theo
ry that the Aztecs are descendants of a race which
migrated to this continent from the eastern shores
of Asiu, about twenty centuries ago. It is remark
able that on ono or two pages of the volume, imme
diately beneath the hieroglyphics, there are in
scriptions in Greek characters, forming words in
that language, but written backwards in the Orien
tal style. On tho first page these Greek inscrip
tions run thus : [we give English characters for
want ot Greek:] not nay not sogol, which reversed
reads, O' logos ton panton —literally, “word of all,”
'or “of all things.” It is to be presumed from this
that tlto book is a history of the mysterious people
among whom it was found, and, could it be tho
roughly deciphered, it would, no doubt, completely
solve the problems of our aboriginal archaeology.
On another page there is a picture of water, and
under it tho word, sessalaM , ’ which is evidently
“Mulasses”—Greek for the sea. A representation
of a vessel full ot tnon accompanies tins, and con
veys the impression that it refers to a voyage or
migration from beyond tho son. The existence of
these Greek words in this volume is a very singular
circumstance, and proves conclusively tlLut it must
have been the work of some nation from the old
continent which hold sufficient oommunicatiou
with Greece to learn the language. That it is Asi
atic is proved by the fact ot the reversed writing,
which method is used by all oriental nations. A
coincident fact with this one is the discovery lately
made of a Hebrew volume found in tho possession
of u Western tribe of Indians, an account of which
has already bocn given in almost all the newspa
pers, and will doubtless be remembered by our
readers. To what nution the authors of this "Aztec
volume belonged, is yet a mystery, though tho
facts would seem to indicate a Jewish origin ; for
although there are no Hebrew characters in the
book, the known fact of tho disappearance of tho
ten tribes, the many similarities Detween tho cus
toms, rites, and ceremonies ofthe Aztecs and those
of the ancient Jews, and other circumstances of
the samo nature, lend plausibility to the theory
of a Hebrew origin. Tho ciders and priests among
tlie Jews were well acquainted with Greek; in fact
it was the polite langnago of thnt era, and it is not
surprising that, with a certain aficctation of eru
dition, they should havo made nsc of it in their
writings. However, this is a point which wc leave
to those more learned titan wc arc to docide. We
may remark, nevertheless, cn passant , that tlie
physiognomy of the Aztec children, as described by
the Northern papers, isesscntially Jewish. AVe un
derstand that it is tlie intention of the proprietor of
tho strange volume referred to to submit it to
. the inspection of Professor Giddon, whose hiero
glvphical attainments may enable him to make
some interesting discoveries in this now field of in
vestigation.
Tiie Fate of a Learned Man.— A Hard Case.
—There is a man in Boston, an old man of sixty,
who graduated nt the University of Dublin, Ire
land ; at the age of twenty two was admitted as a
surgeon in the British army, and in thut capacity
visited this country with the English ; was presont
at the destruction ofthe public buildings at Wash
ington City—has been in India’with the British
army—has been present during his services as a
surgeon, at 4,000 amputations, and fifteen severe
battles—was shot twice; performed surgical oper
ations on three woundod generals, seven colonels,
twenty captains, and over oloven thousand officers
of smaller grades. He has dined with two kings,
otto empress, ono emperor, the Sultan, a porie,
innumerable great Generals, Ac. lie has held the
largest diamond in his hand’’nowt) in tho world,
except ono. lie has had tho British crown' in his
hand. Has been married three times ; father to
elevon children, all of whom he survived. Brokon
down by disease he could no longer practice his
profession—too poor to live without employment—
too proud to Income a pauper, he sailed in an emi
grant ship to this couv try three years ago ; and
this man of remarkable adventures, classic educa
tion, master of four languages, 60 vears of age,
poor, old and decaying, is now peddling oranges
and apples in the streets of Boston ! “Wo know
what wc Bre—verily wo know not wliut wo may
be.”— Boston Bee.
Upon tliis the Savannah Republican comments
as follows : —Lola Moutcz, a mere female adventu
rer, is also in Boston. While site is paraded
through the public schools and feted by persons in
authority, the poor old man, wlto “ lias seen some
service” and led a virtuous and useful life, is left
to peddle “ oranges and apples in the streets of
Boston!” These same men would scruple at no
thing, except spending money, to help on a lazy
fugitive slave. His skin is black and aromatic,
and consequently ho has peculiar claims to their
fanatioal philanthropy; but the old man—he is
white, has served his country and is industrious.
That is enough to cut him off from their sympathy.
Though poor, and deserving, and learnod, lie is
left to vend apples or perish, whilo tho sanctimo
nious friend of the negro aro gotting up riots, des
ecrating the temple of justlco, violating the con
stitution and damning themselves with perjury and
treason. Away with such philanthropy 1 It is a
libel upon the human heart.
The first Newspaper ix Virginia. —Palmer’s Re
gister states that the first press in Virginia was im
ported by the city of Williamsburg in 1780. The
prices of advertizing and subscriptions of those
times nre thus stated in the following extract from
the tcims of the paper, contained in Its first issue:
“All norsons may lie supplied with this paper at
fifty dollar* a year, and have advertisements (of a
moderate length) inserted for ten dollar* the first
week, and seven dollars for each week after."
It should be roeollcctod too that this was a
weokly paper, making the cost to subscribers about
ninoty-six cents a number.
Visitors to West Point Academe.— lion. Win.
L. Goggin, ofVa.; Jos. P. Comegys, of Delaware ;
Col. Hammond of S. C.; Gen L. C. Polk of Tcnn.;
Rev. C. Miller, of Indiana; N. Wolf, of Ky.; Gen.
Hunt of Teipis; H. S. Dexter of California, andllon.
Joel Eastman, of Now Hampshire/ are among the
visitors to, the Military Aeudemy at West Point for
1853,
Sentence of Greene. —The llobilo Advertiser
furnishes the following account of the sentence of
Rufus Greene, whoso conviction for “forgery” we
noticed in our last:
“Ho was brought before tho Court to receive bis
sentenee, On being asked by the Court whether
lio had anything to say, tho prisoner rose and ad
dressed tho Court for about half an hour in a speech
that .brought tears from every evo in the court
room. In the course of his remarks, he stated that
he had ordered his counsel t* make no further re
sistance to tho remaining indictments against him,
that he thus withdrew all tho points ho had made
for his defence, and throw himsolf upon the mercy
and indulgence of (he Court. His remarks wore
Secularly chaste, beautiful snd eloquent, and wore
clivercd in a tone of deep roelunoholy which
touched the heart and excited the sympathies of all
present. His allusion to his family— to his wife
and children—and the infomv and disgrace to
which they were doomed, was delivered in a tone
and language full of mournful eloquence—tho elo
quence of despuir. When tho prisoner had con
cluded hia remarks, Judge McKinstry, deeply af
fected, proceeded in a most solemn manuvJT to ad
dress the prisoner. He allqdtd so tho high posi
tion lie (the prisoner) l;ac( heretofore occupied, to
his talents qqd Ida influence, He also reforred to
the pwcifliar inlimaoy which had existed for years
between him and the prisoner, and that never had
lie been called upon to perform a duty so painful
as that which now devolved upon him. After re
viewing the evidence in the ease, the Court deliv
ered the sentence, which is: Ten YjputS, Juriiis-
ONMENT IN TUE PENITENTIARY,”
• -Jtr
•myWUnt Arrangement.
Gov. Cobb and Mr. Wadeet, says, the Chatta
nooga Gazette, have made definite arntugewonw in
our city for the location of the Depot and Passen
ger House for the State Road. They purchased
thp fouiu the neighborhood of the present Depot,
and determined on building a Brick, seven or eight
hundred feet long and wide in proportion. The
location of the Depot will be so arranged, that the
Nashville Company can build 4 Depot parallel with
it, and so arranged vhai freight can be easily trans
ferred from one Road to the other. It waa-expeet
[ cd that Mr. Stevenson would have been present
and consulted and arranged with the Agents es
the State Roiid, but as hy was not, they determin
ed to, tt\ake arrangements and leave the Nashville
Company te decide on what eonrsc they will pur
sue in the future.
The Passenger Honse is to be built immediately
in front of Griffin’s Hotel. Ws cannot tell how
this arrangement will please the public, ® s ™any
passengers may prefer to, I* taken nearer the river
when the iron horse is in harness.
The freight Depot proposed to be built is very
large, but not more so than will b* necessary for
the business that will have to be done in it. Tho
amount of business now done at the Agonoy in this
place ia very heavy anil increasing, notwithstan
ding the difficulty in getting off freights. What
then may be expected when the Nashville and tho
contemplated connecting Roads are completed. At
present there is no feeder to the State Road at this
point bnt the river. The business will double in
five years. Early in 1853, thy Jtashyiile and Chat
tanooga Road will be ooropleted—tapping with its
main stem and tributaries the richest part of the
Mississippi Valley. Tiie Chattanooga, Harrison
and Charleston Road, connecting with the Hast
Tennessee Road and the Hiwassee river at Charles
ton, and as it ia now believed, with the Raubun
Gup Road, will be commenced ahortly and pushed
to oompletition. It is also believed #iat Chatta
nooga is the best terminus for the Chattooga Val
ley Road proposed to he built, connecting at Gads
den, Ala. with the Selma Road. All these Roads
will pour into ‘Chattanooga untold amounts of
Freight annually to pass through the Depot of the
State Road. This must satisfy all that the time
has arrived for tho Agents of that great work to
make extensive preparations for a vast amount of
business.
“ Suspicions among thoughts are like buta among
birds, they ever fly by twilight,”
Disastrous Fire In Savannah.
A most disastrous tiro occurred iu Savnmudi,
Sunday morning, winch destroyed a lnrge amount
of property. Wc have been permitted to make tile
following extract from a private letter to a gcntlo
mau in this city, giving the details:
. ~ Savannah, April 11.
I arrived here this morning by the train, without
accident. Just us wo come in an alarm of fire was
given, which lias proved most disastrous in its re
suits. A large >Vurchouse and Cotton Press ofC.
A. Lamar s was totally destroyed, with 6 to 6,000
boles ot Cotton. A large ship loading at the wharf
contiguous was also destroyed, in which 1500 to
8,000 bales were burnt. This is said to bo the
largest destruction of Cotton ever known in this
city.
taniar s loss is said to bo not less than fifty to
sixty thousand dollars. No insurance.
The Charleston Courier of yesterday contaius
the following additional particulars of this destruc
tive conflagration:
“ Wo understand from a private dispatch, that
at about two o’clock Sunday morning flames woro
discovered issuing from tho shed adjoining Mr.
C. A. Lamar’s Cotton l’ross in that city, which, the
wind being high, spread rapidly, nnd'enttrtlv des
troyed Mr. Lamar’s wnroliouso containing Cotton
presses and between four and five tiiousund bales
of Cotton. Tho ships Jane Hammond and Isabella
which were aground at tho wharf could not bo re
moved, nnd we regret to learn that tho former was
nearly consumed together with the Cotton on
hoard. The Isabella was also injured. Mr. La
mar's sheds and press which cost 150,000, wero
only insured for $20,000. His books and papers,
which were in* an iron safe, wero also entirely
consumed. Ho also lost a horse vulncd at SISOO.
Messrs. Allen it Ball lost 1000 bales Cotton, which,
however, were insnrod. Messrs. G. W. Germany
it Co., lost 800 hales, and Messrs. E. Molyuoanx,
A. Low & Co., Wm. Battersbv, and several other
Anns had different amounts of Cotton destroyed,
but wo are gratified to learn that all wero insured.
Tho total loss is estimated at SBOO,OOO. How the
tire originated, or what insuranco offices are affec
ted wo have not learned.
Mr mu nits ok Congress. — A hill lias boon intro
duced in Congress by a gontloman from Virginia
giving to caeli member a fixed salary of fifteen
hundred dollars a year, instead of tho present al
lowance of eight dollars a day. Tho measure we
hope, says the Baltimore American, will prevail.
I fit should result in making the sessions of Con
gress shorter, a great good would he attained ; and
the country could well afford to pay double wages
to honorable members for tho suite of being se
cured from the chances of their doing mischief.
It is no new discovory, nnd it is not ono of our
making, that the efficiency mid tlio respectability of
Congress, ns a legislative body, have not kept pneo
with tho increasing growtli nnd greatness of tho
country. Where the fault is, it is no business of
ours to inquire—hut tlio fact is so. Tlioro are no
lenders in cither House. There is no recognition
of tho high responsibilities of legislation, Jiudiein
dtgestaque omlee, there is no form, or consistency, or
symmetry in tho unslmpod masses of moil who by
tlio votes, of confiding constituencies are put in the
high places of legislation. Tho country deserves
better ; it eun command nnd it ought to command
better men. The motives nnd the considerations,
tlio objects and the ambitions of fledgling states
men, Presidents in pom, and the raw material—
very rare indeed—of future great men, if the Fates
will, muko lip a compound altogether too mon
strous for onlm nnd dispassionate inspection. Tho
Republic is shinned by such representatives ; nnd
the business of Government sinks in digity to a
low level. • ,
This downward progress lias been going on for
some tiino past. Tho country takes note of it.—
llow is it to bo remedied wo do not profess to
know—perhaps tho evil, by tho manifestation of its
own onormity, will after a while euro itself. Thoro
seems to bo no other ground of hopo.
80UT1IKHN CULTIVATOR.
Opinions or the Prnßs.
The Cultivator is full of vuluablo mutter, woll ar
ranged and well printed. It is one of tho best agri
cultural papers in tho world.— Florida Sentinel.
The “Southorn Cultivator” has just been re
ceived, and its table of contents spreads a ri*h re
past for tho farmer. —liratuUn llejnMiean.
Tho Southern Cultivator maintains its well-es
tablished reputation as an agricultural monthly
Its typography is beautiful and its table of content's
useful and varied.— Home Courier.
Items.
The Dorn Gold Mine.— Tho receipts of this
mine, which is locutod in Abbevillo District, 8. C.
for the ptonth of March, wero 28,107 pennyweights
—worth nearly $26,000. This is tho product of tho
labor of eight hands.
Tho shoes manufactured in tho North Parish of
Danvers, Mass., for tho two years past, is estimated
at 800,000 pairs per year, of thick work, and 290,-
000 of thin, tho profl(| of which is sot at about
SIOO,OOO. On tho other hand tho whole loss in tho
shoo trade for tho last twenty years, is ovor half a
million of dollars. *
Tho gentleman ovor in Kdgcflcld who ssivo a boy
a dimo to hold his shadow for him whilo ho climbed
a treo to look into “the middle of next week,” has
failed in business, and taken the “Sabii.o slide.”
Samuel Colt, the invontor and manufacturer of
the futnous “revolvers,” hns hitherto had his works
in Hartford, Ct., but has recently purchased some
up-town property, in New York, and will transfer
his factory to that plaeo. llis invention yields him
a large income.
SIfAKSI’RARR.—by c. p. crancii.
It needs not many words to wing the shaft
Os wit and wisdom, liirds who seldom spake
More warmly to Its heart the world doth take,
Than the huge tomes of Scholars, or the craft
Os Rhetoric. When Shakspeare sang or laughed,
The earth with varied echoes vibrated,
While answer made it none to those who read
Diluted homilies. Athirst men quaffed
His fitly spoken words like heavenly wine.
The mountain summits of that orient land
Outsoar the level of our praises* fire.
All others lie around like tracts of sand,
With here and there a green isle or a palm,
That whispers pleasantly when days are calm.
A Live Snake Ejected from the Stomaci. —A
Rkmaukahle Cask.— The Charlestown (Mass.) Au
rora states that William W. Snudford, of that city,
who has been sick for two years, and was supposod
to bo in a docline, took some Indian modieinc,
which caused him to cough and retch violently,
when he threw from his stomach a living snako,
about eight inches in length, almost perfectly with
sharp block eyes. Mr. Sondford drank water from
a brook in Maine some two years since.
Lord Chesterfield said, at the close of his life,
“I have recently read Solomon with a kind of
sympathetic fooling. I have been as wicked and
vain, though not as wise as be ; but now I am old
enough to feel tho truth of his reflection—‘All in
the world is vanity and vexation of spirit.’ ”
Henry Russell, tho ballud singer, is giving voca
entertainments, interspersed with anecdotes of
negro life and character, at Liverpool, for three
pence a head. *
Mr. Thnrlow Weed in a recent letter from
Florence, writes that Powers, the sculptor, is on
gaged with two works, one or hoth of which will
(Mr. Weed trusts) ultimately adorn the Capitol at
Washington. Quo of them is to represent Ameri
ca, and tho other California. They are happy
conceptions. Their emblems and allegories are
appropriate aud pootical. It will—as he is only
able to give, intervals of time to them—take two or
three years to complete the statues.
llenology.—One of the Intent inventions in a nest
egg made of porcelain. Tho eggs are made of dif
ferent sixes, to suit chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys,
Ac., and so natural arc they that the greatest con
noisseur in the egg line must be deceived until he
comes to crack it. *
To tho living there is hope ? a living dog is bet
than a dead lion,
Webtt.hn Poxwcy.—The fertile and exuberant
West, under tho fervid heat of the Kossuth excite
ment has produced the following delicate moreeau
“There’s a musterin’ of nations,
A wnkin up of snakes—
The devil’s broken out again,
And all creation shakes.”
Another specimen of “Poetry run mad,” fellows.
It is tho opening stanza of a petition presented by
seventy-five ladies of Delaware, Ohio, to the State
Legislature, and is followed by sevonteen like unto
it:
Your petitioners show,
What your honor’s know,
That women have suffered by rum;
And we therefore beseech you,
Yea, with tears we entreat you,
That you to our rescue may mm.
A man is allowed to follow only one business in
Berlin. A barber was recently fined ten thalers
for having extracted a tooth and taking pay for it.
Another barber was threatened with the same fate
for haying bled a man ; the wife of the man testi
fied before tho court that sho had tried in vain to
find a physician, and the regular medical attend
ant of the patient said that this was in a case in
which only immediate bleeding could bring relief,
so the court magnanimously let off tho barber
without a fine in consideration of his having saved
the man’s life.
The fallowing touching and mournful stanza—
the last quivering of heart-strings snapped assun
der—is the effusion ofa deeply injnred and indig
nant gentleman, who, like the noble Moor, “loved,
not wisely, but toe well.” We nsk for it a careful
and attentive perusal:
“My dearest wife, fair Martha Ann,
1 fondly trusted—
She fled my roof with another man,
And my lone heart — is busted.”
The Cincinnati Nonpariel says that a citizen of
that plaee has lately sent offsoo dogs to California,
on speculation.
Shock iso. — Daniel Tucker, who has been so often
warned to “got oat of the way,” is said to have
been run over by a train of ears in Arkansas late
fcw .
A friend of ours says lie would remain single but
he eonldn’t afford it. What it cost him for gals
atffl ice cream, is more than ho now pays to hriag
up a wife and eight children. Bachelors should
think of this.
Cotton. —One of our exchangee states that Ala
bama produces a,400 bales of cotton more tlisn any
ether State. Miseissippi produces more cotton
than any other state except Alabama. Where’s
Georgia.
Kngtish mutton, English, grouse, and English
sele, brought OTer on ice, are served np at the New
York Hotels in all their native sweetness.
Accidental Hanging.— At Pilot Knob, Crawford
County, (!nd, ) on the 4th inst., a son of Mr. W. Mc-
Clure, about twelve years of age, accidentally hung
himself. lie was playing in the barn with Ids little
sister, and in order to frighten her, fhstfcned one
end of a rope to a pin in the barn and the other
end round his neck, and told her he would hang
himself; by some means he missed his hold, and
before the alarm was given and ho could be out
down life was extinot.
Activity a Cube ron rim Blles.— Poor Luther
exclaims^- 11 When I am assailed with heavy tribu
lations, I rush out among the nigs rather than re
main aieno by myself. The human heart is like
a mill-stone in a mill; when yon pat wheat under
it It turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to
flour • if yoa put no wheat, it grinds on, but then
it is itself it grinds Wd wears away."
Death or Bishop Bedding.
The N. York Commercial Advertiser contsins tho
following uutico of tho death of this venerable pre
late:
‘‘'ft? 1 ' 11 )') we record the death of tho Rev. Elijah
IIccl«li n |f’ senior Bishop of tlio Methodist Episco
pal Church. Thcovcnt will not come unexpected
{o onr readers. He expired at twenty-five minutes
past noon yesterday, at his residence' in Pough
keepsie, in, woibelieve, tho seventy-second year of
his age. And truly may it he said that a “standard
bearer” iu tlio Mctliodjationl Israel has “fainted.”
Bishop Ilcdding, wo bcliovo, was a native of
Vermont. We at least know that at a very early
period of his life h« resided at Shelburne in that
State. At that time he lived in the family of the
non. Mr. Mcaclieni, pursuing what may be termed
an agricultural education. So strong, however,
wps then his thirst for knowledge, tliut whatever
money he acquired was spent in tlio purchase of
books, and though the study of them was never
permitted to interfere with othor duties, they
formed the delight of his leisure hours.
He ontered the itinerant ministry of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church iu 1801, aiid was elected
Bishop in 1824.
Fow men in any sphere of life have passed through
the varied cxporionccs or accomplished an equal
amount of labor with tho venerable deceased. It
is but within the last throo years, we believe, that
he lias ceased to perform his share of tlio onerous
physical and mental labor devolving upon the epis
copacy of the Methodist Church. Thnt lie always
performed thoso dnties in the spirit of his Divine
Xlnstor, can bo testified by his brethren through
out the ministry of the dcnoiniiistion.
Wo knew Bishop Bedding long and well, and
to know him was to lovo him. A man of sweeter
spirit was liovor associated with. “The love of
Christ dwelt in him richly,” moulding his wholo
character into tho “simplicity of godliness.” 110
was eminently pure and single-minded. Honors
that came from men and worldly wealth, had no
attractions for him. Ho lived in an atmosphere of
piety, and his delight was in serving his day and
gonoration according to tho Gospel. Meekness,
and gentleness, and suavity, and a eharitv largess
the world, wero characteristics ofßisbop Bedding.
Yet, with those as governing attributes of his
character, he was contemplative, 'discerning and
shrewd. Pretensions could not stand in his pre
sence, while sincerity was always a password to
his warmost and most constant affections, no
was, moreover, kindly firm in tho administration
or lus important office. No man ever doubted that
the law and discipline of tho Church to which he
belonged, would ho feobly or partially administered
hv him, and yet at all times tlioro was that love to
his brethren always manifested, that recollections
of his fidelity are all associated with remembran
ces of his humility nnd urbanity. Ho had sow
equals, if any, in this particular.
The Resolutions “or 98.”—'Tlio Lynoliburg Pir
* pinion makes the following just and forcible com
mentary on tho first resolution of the lnte Demo
® cratie Convention of Virginia, which reaffirms tlio
“ doctrines of the resolutions of ’OB and ’O9:
“ Was so badly atupid an attempt ever before
» made t* conceal irroeoiicilublo diversities of opin
:i ion, and throw dust in tho eyes of the people, ns
. this f Tho men who gravely united in the adoption
of this declaration know perfectly well that they
r stood to oneh hther direct antipodes in their con
i' structiens of tho resolutions of ’OB-’99, tlio ono
j party maintaining that they assert tlio right of so
, cession at plonstire, and without noeonntobilitv to
1 the Fcdernl Government; and tho other contend
l ing thnt they point out no otlior redress for griev
, anoos to the separate States, except the provisions
. of tlio Constitution, nnd the final appeal to urnis.
There wore men in thnt body who believe that tho
right to quit the Union exist* st nlUinies with tlio
9 States, to ho oxsrcißed at their discretion; tlioro
. were others who dony nil such right, nnd hold thnt
secession is treason ; nnd yet, upon this most vital
miostion, in order that they might covor up their
i discrepancies of opinion, continno to humbug tho
i people by pretonding 5 common political faith, and
secure to themselves tho co-oporatlon of every dis
. tinet faction, they gravclv put forth the above n»
r ono of ’the principles which bind them together
- as a party.’ ”
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I Correspondence of the Chronicle if- Sentinel.
> Washington, Aprils, 1852.
As tlio prosont session of Congress is gjven up
to tlio pleasant duty of making a I’roaidout to
sorve the “dear peoplo” for the next four yenre,
somebody ought to report progress occasionally,
evon if no progress is made. lam hnppy to say,
hSwevor, that in tho present instsnee, progress,
real, substantial progress, hss been achieved. The
- Democratic Review, in attacking Messrs. Cuss,
• Bnchanan and Butlor, with groat bitterness, lias
done the business for its friend, tho “Little Giant”
, from tho Prairie State. Young men in general,
i and tho “young Democracy” in particular, are
prone to overact in whutovor they undertake. It
is understood hero thnt Gen. Cass will have many
, more votes in tho National Convention than any
, other candidate ; and should the adoption of tlio
i two-third rule prevent his nomination, his friends
> will still he able to furnish tho notnineo of tho par
ty. This is an important advantage, and one that
(* will bo used by skilful politicians. It disposes of
I Mr. Buchanan, tlio powerful rival of the distin
. guiehod Senator from Miohignn, and of Douglass,
t Mnrcy and Butler. Tho notive opposition of these
, gentlemen to Mr. Cass, entitles them to no favor
, from his friends, after his defeat; and they will
select from tlioir own rnnks a candidate, and stick
to him in a body to tho last. It rarely happen* in
j « deliberative ussembly that a majority cannot ob
( tain their second, if not their first choice, under
J tho two-third rule. Mr. Van Burcn’s friends did
this in tlio nomination of Mr. Polk ; although it
I was rtndorod to Mr. Silas Wright, who with rare
> devotion to lus friend Mr. Van Buren, virtuullj
1 refused to bo President.
Considering tho strength of tho Democratic par
-1 ty in the United States, it is a matter of some inte
rest to know tho man on whom the supporters of
Gen. Cass dosign to concentrate, in case their first
choice is Unattainable. If I venture a conjecture
on this point, it must be rogardod ns nothing more
than ono ; hut, thoro is reason to suppose that
Daniol S. Dickinson, of Now York, who is not a
candidate, is the man. He oqnnls tho late Mr.
Wright in fldolity to his frionds, and more than
equals him in the manliness with which he avows
his principles, and the fearlessness with which ho
supports them, whcthcrin tho Senate of Now York
in tho United States Sonate, or before the peoplo
in popular assemblies. Whon Messrs. Van Buren
Wright, Dixund Preston King, foolishly commit
ted the Northern Democracy to Mr. Wihnot’a
Proviso, and Gov. Marcy stood nowhere , and Mr.
Webster complainod that thoy “had stolen his
thunder,” the far-sooing statesmanship of Dickin
son told them all that they wero wrong in dena
tioluiizing tho two great parties ; and that they
i were jeoparding tho peace of tho country, if not
tlio stability of the Government. Snch was also
, the judgment of Comptroller Fillmore,
f When by tho providence of God, ho became
President, ho did not hesitate a moment to pro
[ claim to friends and fbos, the finality of “that
i dangerous political element,” a sectional contro
versy about slavery. To Mr. Fillmore, more than
, *ll other mon, by his position as Chief Magistrate!
r of tho United States, by his wisdom and firmness,
. by his kindness and conciliation, is due the honor
of bringing the peoplo of tho North back to a right
appreciation of tho Constitution under which they
live, nnd of their high duty to carry out in goed
faith nil of its provisions. Every body knows tho
strong nnti-Blavcry symputhios of tho Now York
Tribune ; yet, in a carefully prepared article re
cently published to advance the interest of Gen.
Scott, it is forced to admit, in deference to an nn
inlstakeablc public opinion, that the Northern peo
ple nre with tho President on the Fugitivo Slave
Law question. Coining from that quarter, this i*
a pregnant admission. The only objeotion urged
against the nomination of Mr. Fillmore is, that he
is unavailable in his native State, because he haa
removod, not to exceed a half dozen of the most
active opponents of his Administration, (who had
formerly supported him in oommon with the Whig
party,) and filled their plaoes with men whose ten
der consciences did not prevent their executing
the Fugitive Slave Law, or any other. To sup
pose that the cleotionof a removod U. S. Marshall,
(who was turned out fbr a good reason) a Soott
dolegato to the National Convention, cno do Mr.
Fillmore any essential injury iu a body of sensible
and patriotic men, is absurd.
If the President has erred at nil in dealing with
such as have labored to abolitiouizo tho Whig
party, it has been on tho side of toleration, not se
verity. A great principle is involved in the course
early adopted, and steadily pursued, by the pre
sent Executive; and it is for the principle, whether
npheld by Fillmore or Dickinson, not the man, that
I humbly plead. What say the fair men, the trie
men, the wiso men of the South* The decision
of this moot important question is in your hands.
Tho supporters of sound, national views and par
ties at the North, desire your cordiul co-operation.
If you permit a Northern President to be put down
avowedly on the ground that he has done his best
te execute the Fugitive Slave Law, as well os all the
other laws of Congress, what reason havo you to
expect that his fate, and your desertion, will not
restrain any future Executive, under similar cir
cumstances, from placing confidence in Southern
support* Let a friend tell you that true friend*
are not so plenty any where, os te make it entirely
safe to sacrifice them in order to gratify abolition
ists. Do not strengthen by insetion or otherwise,
ths tendeney of both parties to run into an ill
assorted conglomeration of mere sectional factions.
These will render all national legislation little bet
ter than a corrupt bargaining between enemies,
and all broad and truly republican statesmanship
impracticable. Congress now approximates such a
state; and the giving away to settlers, the heirs of
soldjprs and othem, of tho vast domain of the re
public, is but a leaf floating in the air that indicates
the direction of the invisible current. Millions are
eoming from Europe, and abler leaders than Kos
suth will bo found to consolidate this foreign ele
ment, whose sympathies are not with the American
Revolution and the framers of our Constitution,
but with the revolutionists of tho Old World. —
Now more tham ever does oar common country
need at the head of its government a statesman
who, as Mr. Clay aptly says, “ha* been tried,’>
»nd is known to boa safb pilot in any storm.—
Keep at the helm of “ the good Ship of State ” the
hand that has held it so steadily during the last
thirty months, brought to the duty most providen
tially, and in five years from this time political
anti-slavery will have oeased to exist in this ex
tended republic. Look closely at this matter, amt
oil must see the absurdity of the Tribune’s posi
tion, that while the people of tho State of New
York approve of the Compromise Measures sod
policy, they repudiate the authors and sup
porters of that policy ! The electors of New York
‘ are compromise men, exoept a small fraction; anil
because this fraction has brought forward
Scott, not openly aa the representative of their pol
icy, but ns a compromise candidate, therefore the
Sooth is expooted to accept him, and ask no ques
tions. If these over-wise politicians understand
the voters of the Southern States, I do not. History
never repeats itself; and sooner will the Ethiopian
change his akin and the leopard hia spots, than the
votes of the Seuth will plsco either the Sewards or
the Van Burens again in pSwor. They had power,
but made a bad nap it, which is a good-reason for
dispensing with their public services hereafter.—
In case Mr. Fillmore should not be nominated, I
have heard Mr. Crittenden’s name mentioned in
circles likely to be well infhrmed, in connection
with the Presidency. Alfba,