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CHRONKIII UiH
he* the t'KMHti Cmmereiat, Aug. It.
laMrUM D*rM»».-rw«W*w «■*» *■'»" *■ Cln
riMiitii-Drritira of Joi«® M'LeM.
At tbe npaoingof the court yesterday momirg,
Mr BiruevTof counsel for the alleged fugitive,
made.ll fgunient of i»« «?“„
■titutionelity of the ect of Gongreee nuder which
thla proceeding »" had. When the argument* of
oootwel were ©included, tbe Court pronounced the
foliowlog dec..,on. amid tb* brittle** eilenoe of
the vent auditory that filled the hall:
dbgoiox or ict>o« x'leax.
In giving my dedaion in tbi* caae, it may not be
improper toaey a word in regard to the manner In
which it baa been brought before me. I, in the
firat inatanee, ieaaed a wnt of kabuu Corpue, on an
affidavit that the defendant, aa he may be called,
waa illegally deprived of bia liberty. The object
waa to inquire into the legality of hia impriaon
ment. An order waa afterward* leaned to the De
puty Marshal of the United States, with the name
it ct in View. It w<* to inquire whether
legally detained. W ilb a view of ahoaring
ala rat m-cution, the claimant, Henry Miller, ha*
to ahow ihstthe defendant waa a fugi
. v iiotn labor in Kentoeky. The inquiry un
d .obtoti' legitimate; the defendant must bo
r, i-e.i .fill- gaily detained,and Hia tor tbectaim
a . to « .ow that hia deien jou waa legal.
Tie li'»' qne-tion that ariaea may be on the facta
of tic ©we. The defendant has attempted toahow
the - M tg .errv waa Ida alave in tfie suite of Keu
tn sky. lb- ai’io Jacob Miller, twenty-one ye-.rsof
age. "**a intro raced to prove the fact. This wit
te•» atalea that ever since be haa known anything
tbi* x»r*on ha* been the slave of hia father, haa
1 ved under hia control and management, and haa
been treated aa the other alavea or peraona owing
labor and service to hi* father; alao, that about
fur j ara ago, Molloerry abeconded, with three
otbenq who alao owed aervioe to hia father.
Wm. Kelly, theaecond wltnc»«, corroborate* the
fir-t witneaa. He waa a near neighbor to Mr. Mil
ler a-.d knew that tbi* “boy" wa* bta aorvant;
t , , wore intimately acquainted with the family,
with whom they frequently vinteJ, »!‘<i alwaya
aaw thi« defendant acting in the cepwiity of ser
vant Thia witneaa alao corroborate* the atetc
” Millar’a non, a* to the aliacondmg of thia
*b , and atato* the time and circuinaUncea of
h ‘V ne- K'-l , cyi a brother of the last witneaa, cor
the testimony pn-viou-ly viven Hoalao
n t mateljr acquainted with Mr.Miller’* family,
w i,»d known thia “boy” eleven or twelveyeari-;
* V, » him *■< the servant of Mr. Miller.
M J!“ ' , -.oa* Yocum corroborates the first three.
„ lived near the parties for many yearn,
„ which thia defendant waa employed, rnan
-an 1 comronwl, - We eervant of the claim
' Mr. Trader, a Deputy United States Marshal,
. con v erection had with equerry, who
said that M illcr waa his master, end e«p£?*Md homt
re rreta that he had left hia service; said h« Was
per.-naded by “Steven,” who absconded at the
**'fi’is!t!»toment is corroborated by Mr. Black, to
whom M.*l lorry confeaeel that this was hia maa
t : r, and that he left him nnder the circnmatancoe
state‘l by the other witnesses.
Now, so far as the tUUut of this individual is
concerned, it would be difficult to present a case
Winch would more clearly establish the claim of
Henry Miller—this is so particular and eireum
ataulhU—*o entirely uriooutraoicted—it is imposai
be to resist the result of tho examination: the
e'earest and most decided conviction that this per
son was in the condition of a servant in Kentucky.
I have never, in any case that I have investigated
cases where damages arc claimed, which present
similar points—known a claim more clearly made
out.
It haa been urged that it has not been proven
that Ken'ocky was a slave-holding State. Judges
Os the Supreme Court of the United States rccog
nine the Isw* of all the States, us do the HI ate
Courts the laws of each county. Tho jurisdiction
of the Supreme Court of the United States extend*
throughout the Union and into tbe Territories. Its
Judges are presumed to know the laws of each
Stale, and the extent of State jnriadiotion.
I do not say that such would be tho rule were
thi« examination before a Slate Judge or a Com
miieioner of the United State.
In many of tho Stales a special law lias boen pas
sed recognizing the statute law* ofotbor State*. In
snob cases notliliig more than an exhibition of tho
ataiute laws would be noeos*ary. But where a triul
like tbi* i* had in a State where no such provia
ion exists, the Sta'e Judge, end perhaps the Com
missioner, might require legul proof of tho exis
tence of slavery In the State whore the cluimaut
‘ uVt thin U not nectary before « Judgo or the
», s o*a juriwliction in OommaDfturate with tlie
W l lo |,. Kentucky is known to bo u Slave
8 The declaration of 5 B ® n » tor from . Virgin,u Is
alluded to in support of ,> argumentthat slavery
doe. not exist by lew in the •‘lavebold.ng Matos.
] eiu really sorry to hcer this argui''® ll '", .* . *
linguistic'! Honator whs apoakingof ten .’<*«**' into
wtiich our frionds of the South desired to .®
their slave property, und declared that slavehold-.
era had the right to tnke sluvos where there was no
legal recognition of the rolation. Tins wus an or
r it. Thu irrest principle is this—Slavery is local,
and can only oxist by the authority of low. I may
remark that" I was the means of bringing out this
decision, which was made in thecaso from Missis
aippi.
It has been claimed that the slaveholder had the
right to take his slave into the territories wlterc
it was not legalized, and where long usago had not
sanctioned the institution. Usage coustitutes law
after a sufficient lapse of time. But the Supremo
Court lias decided the claim to ho without founda
tion. Slavery exists only by local law,
Ir the slaveholding States the laws provide for
the condition of mustor and slave; they limit tho
rower of the former, and protect tho rights of the
ittor. To deny the legalization of the relation in
these States, is to shut our eyes to what is written,
and to the decisions of tho Courts.
I am gratified, that in tho oxamination and nr
guiio-nt ot tho uasc, there haa been uniformly a
gentlemanly boariug—no abusive epithets woro
used, none were expected. This must draw the
approbation of utl sonsiblo persons.
I'lterc bus been no ovidenceou the part of tho
defendant except the admissions of tho claimant’s
Attorney, which were, that McQuorry had lived
tour years in tho State of Ohio, during which time
iiehJtd been rooofuiiad, treated, and considered
o » free man. Tliis was proper. This is tho theory
of our laws and constitntioh. hvory mun in Ohio,
without regard to color, is presumed to be u free
m n ; ber laws do not sanction the tread of a slave.
Tnis treatment of IlcQ'iorry, in Ohio, therefore, is
nothing moro than the presumption of tho law,
which, in ray judgment Is counteracted by tliecon
o'. siv<i p 00l of tlie claimant, .bat bo escaped into
this state Iroui “service and labor duo” in Kon
"'u that tho “Fugitive Slavo luwa” of
'(W and ’.Vi uro not constitutional—the Congresa
Pint no power to enact such u law—that tho power
of cnlorcing thee institutional provisions is with
the Stales.
Tliis argument has boon frequently udvauoodby
gentlemen who have discussed thisgreat question.
Jod 1 am not sore but that it has bee.i announced
l„ some “ platforms” that havo boon iVamod. I
w ;ilr,'fer to the judicial aiitimrily t lint has rooog
lined th" power of Congress to enact laws provid
ing for the return of fugitives from labor. In tho
case of I’rlgg vs. the Stuto of rennsylvunia, tile
fudges of the Burpcmo Court decided, without
disseul, that Coil.'rvss had the power to legislate
on tillssubj el. Bo,7><> of lll ° ‘bought too
St .to had a right to legiaM® 0“ ’“> l> J®«‘ i
bnt thoro wus no dissent fro'® *h® decision that
Congress liad tho power to adopt ‘“® w °*
the law i f ’6O was not then enacted. ,
The Bnpromo Court of ovory Slato in tho' Union
before which tiio qnostion has boon raised, ha» r ®-
cognised the same power in Congross. Atau ear
ly period In tho history of Massachusetts, and
and possibly in other States—though it lias not
attracted my attention—this dootrino may have
been doubted; but it has siuco boon affirmed,
and no court of respectable standing now doubts
it.
Thin in strong authority in regard to the power
of Congress to leg sluto upon the subject—au
thority, ocrtalnly, that should overbear individ
ual opinion, unless the number of individual*
entertaining an opposite opinion is groat enough
tochaugo the organic law of the laud; to such a
change the efforts of those who deny the power
of Congress to legislate on tho subject of slavory
within tho States, might, and not improperly, he
directed.
The federal constitution was trained in 17*7;
It was discussed by the sovoral States, who ac
cepted it. •
Various essays woro wrlten by distinguished
oitiz us, aud the instrument wsa very extouaivoly
discussed.
As »oon after tho doption of the constitution
as 17<8, we find an act ot Congress providing for
the rendition of “ persons owing service or labor
iu one State, osoaning iuto an other." This act
was passed by a Congress some of whose mem
bers, if 1 rigntly remember, were dolegatos in the
convention that framed the federal constitution ;
all woro contemporaneous with the convention
and tlie discusssious that preceded and attended
its deliberations. Those who enacted the law of
1711.1 were not ignorant of any of the provisions
of the constitution, for they hud been scanned
with great ability, and especially iu Virgins.
There is a weight of authority on tuis point
which cannot bo centered on any other in the
constitution. Independent of this authority,
which must silence all objection, wo shall arrive
at the same conclusion by looking ut the act as
arising imdor the constitution. Is tho construc
tion of that instrument in some of its vitsl points
iKSver to bo sottlod I
If no respect is paid to tho weight of concur
rent authorities for half a century, tho basis ot
our social fabric will bo shaken—tnero will ensue
disorder and confusion, nor will there be pro
tection to rights.
Tho clause of the constitution alluded to is:
No person held to servioe or labor in one State
under the laws thereof, escaping iuto another,
ahull in consequence of any law or regulation
therein, he discharged from such service or labor ;
but s! all bo delivered upon claim of tbo party to
whom such service or labor may be due.
Tins constitution lias been considered the fun
damental law of the land ; it is the foundation of
all llic glory oftne country : all our civil virtues
have flourished under it; it secured the fruits of
our revolution.
It conteuded that this provision in the con
stitution is to depend on the States for its execn
tion. 1 will ask the gentleman * who read the
able aud ingenious argnmeut in support of this
proposition if th t is law which provides no
pouaity for its infraction ? He is too good a
theologian to admit the consoquenoe of hia argu
ment. *
There can be no law without a sanction. This
applies to human as it does to divine law.
The legislatures of the several States are pro
hibited from passing s law obstructing the master
in pursuit of his escaped servant who must he
■riven upon proof by the claimant that service or
labor is due. Suppose a Slate to pass a law di
rectly oppos* d to this clause, and inflicting a pen
alty. 'l' ll * s was the case in i'rlgg vs. tiie State of
Pennsylvania, and the Supreme Court of the
United S'Wtes declared it uurgatory ; it was in
oppo-ilion U* the constitution and therefore void.
Ha t the power to enforce the provisions of the
con itntiou been left with States this net ofPcnn
av!Vania would not .have been void. But for the
clause in the constitution 'hut I have recited every
slave would be free on touching the soil of a State
wh.ise laws did not recognise slavery—tor slavery
can oulvexi-t bv authority of law.
Th > provision in the oonatitnfum is prohibitory,
said it is | sitive a* to the ‘'giving ap ’ of persous
eeesptd from service of labor.
The States could not be jompelled to givo up
these tugitivos by a law of thngre*#, but the pro
vision is found iu tfie constitution —the organic
law of the land—and it i- more than a recoinnteu
dation. Ia n aware that the word “slave' 1 is not
in the const"* ution, but the subject was debated in
the convent:.in,au<l it caused adeep exciiemeutin
the public mind. The constitutional provi-ion in
this regard wa* the result of u compromise. For
saving this, I have the authority of Chief Justice
Afar-hall. This right of rendition, thou is one
which tbs citizens of one State may claim and
must receive of another State. The federal go
vernment has the power to carry out and perpetu
ate this right.
At d how With rygard to fugitives from justice i
Th> same provisions upon the same principle.—
Congress has legislated upon this as they have
upon the provision for the rendition of persons es
cape 1 from labor or service. But the constitu
tionality of the legislation with regard to fugitives
from justice has never been doubled. The Go
vernors of aotno States have refused to give up
“fugitives trim justice”—but the refusal was
upon the ground of insufficient “oause” never
onthat of “un constitutionality.” No court has
ever doubted the constitutionality of legislation
providing for the return of fugitives from jus
t>oft ia stated of that proviaionin the Constitution
which aavs that full faith and credit shall be given
to the public acta and records of olhsr States, that
no power i' conferred on the federal government
to enforce it I
"Tjpr. OwliM.
lathlaaof Tha fiwdamantil law declares that
eliitena of each Stata shall be entitled to all the
rights and Immunities of tba citizen* of the eav*
nil Stataa. Undoubtedly Congress may legislate
upon these pro vision*.
There are various other provision* of thie descrip
tion. No tonnagedntia* obeli belaid on articles im
ported from one State into another. Tbe States
cau oonclude no treaties, eoin no money, can not
make anything but gold and silver a “legal ten
der,” can pass no tz poet faetp laws, or laws im
pairing tbe obligations of contracts.
These are all prohibitions of power to the
State*.
Does it follow that because there is no express
provision in tbe organic law for the exercise of
power on these subjects, none arista 1 In all these
case* t remedy is provided. In caae of infraction
by the State*, a writ of error may be taken from
the State Court to the Supreme fjourt of tbe Uni
ted Bute*, where laws convicting with the consti
tutions will be declared void. It would be singu
lar, if there was no sanction to the provision upon
this most difficult of all questions—a question so
ably sod extensively di-cuaeed at the time the
constitution wa* framed, for slavery then existed
in about one-half the Slate*. Before the adoption
of that instrument alavea had been reclaimed in
various ways, in many instances by comity, in
others by unobstructed foroo. There existed a
virtual, practical compromise before the written
compromise of the constitution. But difficulties
hail ariaen, and therefore this provision.
Nor cau there be a doubt that the term “per
*on< held to service or labor” applies principally
to persons held a* slave*. Madison, while assent
ing to the provision objected to the use of the
term “slave” because it expressed a thing repug
nant to his sentiments : he did not wish the idea
that one man coaid bold property in another re
cognized in the o-game law of hie country.
'lbis haa been termed an ex parte proceeding.—
It certainly is not. Had the counsel tor McQuerry
been able to state that they expected to prove hi*
freedom, I should promptly have granted a con
tinuance, to afford ample time for the collection of
such proof.
Occupying the sacred offioe of Judge, I have no
right here to indulge my sympathies. It would
have been gratifying to h vc found that this de
fendant wa* a free men, instead ofa slave because
such a result i* gratifying to those whose feelings
are opposed to slavery in the abstract. In eoch
caae it is the stern duty of the Judge to use more
then ordinary caution.
It wa* urged against the constitutionality of the
laws of 179? and 1850 that ihey denied the right
of trial by jury. It ia my opinion, bs»ed npon my
judicial experience, that a trial by jury would not
deorease the number of rendition* of “persons
e*caped from service or labor.” In an instance
that I call to mind,* decided anti slavery man was
upon a jury in a case involving the liberty of es
caped slave*. But ho considered the solemnity of
hi* oath to support the law and the constitution,
and he agreed with his brethren to give a verdict
of damages against the persons through whose in
atm mentality the slaves had escaped.
Tbi* is not a final decision as to the liberty of
the defendant. The question bare is strictly
whether he owes service or labor to tho claimant,
but thia decision will be no bar to tbe question a*
to the liberty of the man. He msy be sold—liis
condition may be wretched; but the fault is not
with the judiciary.
It is a principle universally admit:ed, that a law
may be in part constitutional, and in another part
void, end that effcot may bo given to those parts
which are constitutional. Ido not, by this, wish
to intimate that any part oftho laws of ’9B and ’6O
are in conflict with the organic law.
It may not be improper for me here to suggest
that there ia one part ot the law of ’SO that doesnot
seem to be rightly understood. The elau*e allow
ing (10 to the commissioner in case the certificate
i* made out to the master, and (5 if no certificate
i* given, was, as I think, intended merely to com
pen-eta that officer for the extra writing, (which
may bo oousiderablo, and even not covered by tbe
sum of $5) in coDseonenoe of the statement olthe
case and the certificate. Sitting as a Judge of the
Supreme Court, and uot aa a commissioner, 1 may
properly make this remark.
Tho lews of 1798 and of 1850, as regards this
case, Hro clearly within the provision* of the con
stitution.
I am therefore bound to remand tbe fugitive to
his master.
Alter this decision, Mr. Joliffe moved for a writ
of certiorari to the Supremo Court.
The Court sold that there could be no appeal
from the decision of a Judge ofthoSnpreme Court
oftho United States mode atebamber*. The point
had, he wa* madequke certain, been decided by
the Supreme Conrt. He was willing howovor, to
give any reasonable time for counsel to investigate
the question.
At the HUggostion of the court, it wae finally ar
ranged that the claimant, Mr. Miller, should enter
into a bond for two thonsand dollurs, conditioned
upon hi* returning McQuerry to this State in case
it should be decided that the case could be taken
to the Supreme Court.
At the conclusion of Ms argument, Mr. Ware
stated that Mr. Miller, wonld emancipate his slave
for the sumos 11200, and donute #SO himself to a
fund for that purpose ; or ho would take the ap
praisement of disinterested parties at Lexington.
Mr. Miller remarked that he was willing to give
* bonds in the sum of fifly thousand dollars that he
M produce tho elovo in tbi* State, in case a
writ ol ceT t * orwi w “ allowed by the Supreme
Court.
Washington McQuorry wa.* then delivered up
to liis cluimnnt by tho U nited Btato' DOindy Mar
shal, end, without hindrunco or moleHtu. 0D > Bb*
mediately conveyed across the Ohio river
lodged in tho Covington Jail, where ho will remain
until his owner is roudy to proceed to his home.
There was a good deal of rejoicing in Covington
over the termination of the trial.
Fourteen Days l.airr front California.
Tho steamship Northern Light, Capt. T. Minsr,
from San JuandoNicarugua, AugUßtlS, with dates
from San Francisco to the Ist of August, arrived at
New York a'. 12 o’oloek on Tnesday night.
She hripgs £2O passengers, and $1,124,953 in
gold on freight, besides a largo amount in the
hands ol passengers. The passengers are ail in
good health.
Tho N. L. mado the timo througli from San
Francisco to Now York in twontv-two days and
three hours, the shortest ever muiio between the
two places. Site connected with the Cortes, which
ship left Snn Francisco, August 1.
Prom the Alta California, Aug. 1.
Sijku.cky or A Fokthigiit's News.—The last
fortnight has been marked by mauyovents oi pub
lic interest in the curious purls of the State, in
some iustanoes attended with considerable excite
ment.
The squatter difficulties in this city, which ut
one time threatened to re-tilt, in serious and bloody
riots, havo passod over for tho time being, and wo
have reason to hope they will not be revived.
In several of the agricultural districts t lie agra
rians tiro still supremo. In many inotanccs the
old rtinehcros have been completely stripped of
ull their possessions, the squutters not leaving
thorn oven their gardens, orohards or yards. The
herds are scmetiuios driven frou their ranches,
sometimes seized upon und slaughtered or sold by
the squattors, and sometimes the owners are com*
polled to pay for the grazing ot their cattlo upon
their own lands—lauds of wliioh they have hud
quiet and pencoablo possession over since the Span -
jail settlement of the territory. For all those
wrougs and outrages thoro uppotirs to bo no retno
dy in the State, and the sufforers havo little or no
hope of relief oxoopt fiom tho gcnoral govern
ment.
Tito wheat crops in nearly all parts of tho State
are suffering with rußt, which it is said will make
the yield twenty or twenty-flvo per cent, less than
it would have been otherwise.
The Gubernatorial canvass was oponod at Sacra
mento on tlie 18th, by the present executive, who
took the field in advooacy of his claims to re-oleo
tion. lie has since canvassed a considerable por
tion of tho northern part of the State. Ilia oppo
nent, Mr. Waldo, went flret in thesouthern mines,
w Vero wa understand, he wus warmly received by
tlie pernio nB ‘he roiorm candidate. The friends
of each candidate are sauguino of success.
Tho presont s?aaon is highly favorable to mining
operations in all thd gold districts; tic minors
seem to be generally fortunate in posross.ng■valua
ble claims, which arc yielding abundantly by the
use ol improvod means for extracting the metal.
From present appearances, the total production ot
gold for tho six months oommoacing with the lßt
June, will be larger than daring BUT similar period
since the opening of tlie mines. This result will
be offeeted, toa, ut larger profits to,the miogre en
raged than heretofore.
Tho ooruer stone of a new Cstholio church had
been laid ia this city.
The shipwrights and caulkers havestruch f ran
increase of wages, from $8 toslo per day, and have
auoceedod, lo beiug their wages now. Tho’long
shore men atruok for $6 per day and nine hsur’aa
oay’a work, and have likewise sneoeeded.
On the JOlli July, a squatter Darned McCarthy
shotthe deputy sheriff of this county, who went
with a writ from the District court to dispossess
him, and the sheriff In return shot McCarthy.
The wound of the sheriff Is in the hip and is not
dangerous: but McCarthy is dangerously wound
od with two balls in the longs.
A Chinese Mission iB to i-e established in tha
city. Fifteen thousand dollars have been sub
scribed to erect a building to bo used as a church
and school-house.
There was a tiro anorg the shipping in the nar
bor on tho 25th July. The ship Mauco, with car
go, was burned to the wuter’s edge. Loss about
$40,000.
Tho intslligeneo brought by tho Uoliah yester
dav from the South, indicates a very serious stato
< f affairs in that part of the State. The outrages
upon life and property that have so long been per
petrated with impunity by bands of outlaws aud
desperadoes, have at length driven the inhabi
tants to tho necessity of takiug tho low into their
own hands. Nothing but an active application ot
the Lynch code will change its character iu that
respect. That eodo the citizens seem inclined to
put into p-notice.
Wo have to record the hanging of two more men
by the populace in Calaveras oountry, one or tho
charge of horse stealing, and the other of murder.
A decision was rendered in tho Supreme Court a
few days since, that will attractattention and cre
ate some surprise in tho Atlai tie States. Tho
Court decided that the mines of gold and other
precious metals of California are the exclusive
property of the State, that tho United States have
no interest in them, and caapot exercise any juris
diction over them. Tho decision does not include
the lands containing the mineral# hut only the
minerals themselves. It this opinion ot the court
becomes established a- law, which we think it will
not, it will prove of immense advantage to the
State, by making the mines a source of -tato revo
nne, which they never can be so long as they are
recognized as the property of tho general govern
ment. ....
A papier is in circulation in this city for signa
tures to a petition to Congress for the establish
ment of a mail line over tho Nicaragua route.
Cxpttke ahd Death or Joaqcin the Kaspit.—
The famous bandit Joaquin, whoso name is asso
ciated with a hundred deeds of blood, has at last
been captured. The Company of State Rln£sT*»
under the command of Love, have bt-cn diligent
in their search tor the robber and hisband, ever
since their organization. It is reported ibat they
have encountered therobber chief himself,a: the
lies 1 of his bund, at a place called Panoche I'ass.
Adesperatefigtuensurd—the robbers,well mount
ed. attempted to fly, but being closely pressed by
ti e Rangers, they kept up a running fight until
Joaquin aud one ot his lieutenants -sere killed,
two others were taken prisoners, and threeraanng
cd to make their escape. Several Oi their horses
fell into the hands of the Rangers. The victors
finding further pursuit of tho fugitives useless, cut
otf ihe head of Joaquin and placed it in spirits, to
lie brought to the settlements as u proof that the
veritable robber IJuiselt had been killed.
More Gold Discoveries— New and extensive
gold mines have been discovered about 8 miles
f on Santa Cruz on an arroyo which empties into
the San Lorenzo Creek.
The mines were discovered on W ednesday. and
the ground had been prospected for only a mile or
two. No experienced miner hod been on the
ground. The gold brought by Dr. Gate*, is appa
rently very pure, fine and granular. The mines
are Hotter from Graham's mill, and the land has
wo claimants. Graham and a Frenchman named
don Carlos. The mines are about twenty five
miles from San Jose, aud aoventy-tive from this city.
There is quite an excitement in Santa Cruz on the
snbject.
Large gold discoveries have been made in and
uear Fort Oxford some time since. In some places
it is said, gold could be perceived on the surface
of the earth. The information was given to two
of the offioers of that station, who found that the
reports were not exaggerated. In a short time the
news was spread ana others went to work, when
a party of five persona took out 2 1,000 a day; and
were domg so at the latest dates.
Fatal Accident.—On Monday evening, near
Stouii gion, a German woman, a passenger on the
New York steamboat train, put her head out of
the window while the train was' passing over a
a bridge, and the rail coming in contact with her
hoad, tracturad herskull. The bridge ia so nar
iow that the railing ia only eight inches distant
from the care when passing. A man had hia arm
broken at the same plaoe some time eince.
A vessel arrived at Detroit on the SSd with 200
tone of rniaa oepper from Lake Superior.
The TrtpenHa Treaty.
The Raw York Herald publlaha* the following
Important 6 Iplomatio note flrom the British Govern
ment in reply to Mr. Etebctt** tetter on tbe pro
posal of France and England to form a tripartite
treaty relative to Cuba:
Lord John K’utell to Mr. Orampton.
Foruiex Omca, Feb. 16, 1858.
Sir—Lord Malmesbury received, just before
leaving office, the note addreeeed to yon by Mr.
Everett, and left it for tho consideration of his
successor.
The absence from London of the Ambassador of
Franoe has hitherto prevented that communica
tion between the two governments which the cir
cumstance* of the proposal made jointly required.
I have now to inform you of the view which her
majesty’* government take of Mr. Everett’s reply
to our overture.
It is doubtless perfectly within the competence
of the American government to reject the propo
sal that waa made by Lord Malmesbury and M.
Turgot, in reference to Cuba. Each government
will than remain a* free as it was before to take
that course which its sense of duty and a regard
lor the interests of its people may prescribe.
I should have satisfied my obligation* as Secre
tary ot State by this obvious remark, had not Mr.
Everett entered at large into arguments which the
simple oat.ire of the queetion before him hardly
seemed to require.
The governments of Greet Britain and France,
when they made this proposal to that of the United
State*, were fully aware of the growth of power
and extension of territory which neve marked the
progress of the United States since the period of
their ii dependence. The absorption or annex*
tion of Loui*iana in 1808, of Florida in 1819, of
Texas in 1845, and of California in 1848, had not
e»capcd them; still less did they require to be re
minded of the events of the seven year*’ war, or
of the American war.
It occur* to her m.jcsty’sgovemment, therefore,
to a.-k for what purpose are these arguments intro
duced with *o much preparation, and urged with
so much ability ?
It would appear that the purpose, not fully
avowed, but hardly concealed, is to procure the
admission of a doctrine that the United States
have an interest in Cuba, to which Great Britain
and France cannot pretend. In order to meet tbiß
pretension, it ia neccseery to set forth the charac
ter of the two powers who made the offer in ques
tion, and tbe nature of that offer. Mr. Everett
declari-e, in the outset of Ills despatch, that “the
United States would nut see with indifference the
island of Cuba fall into the possession of any other
European government than Spam,” &c.
Tiic two power* most likely to posßC** them
selves of Cuba, and most formidable to the United
States, are Great Britain eud Franoe.
Great Bri ain is in possession, by treaty, of the
island of Trinidad, which, in the last century was
a colony ofSpain; France was in possession, at the
commencement of this century, of Louisiana, by
voluntary cession from Spain. These two powers,
by their naval resources, are in fact tho only pow
er* whocould be rivals with the United States for
the possession of Cuba. Well, these two powers
are ready voluntarily to “ declare, severally, and
collectively, that they will not obtain or maintain
for themselves, or lor any one of themselves, any
exclusive control over the said island (of Cuba,)
nor assume nor exercise any dominion over the
same.”
Thus, if tbo objoot of the United States were to
bar the acquisition of Cuba by any European state,
this convention would secure that object.
But if it is intended, on the part of the United
States, to maintain that Great Britain and Franco
have no interest in the maintenance of the present
statue quo in Cuba, and that the United States have
alone a right to a voice in that matter, her Majes
ty’s government at once refuse to admit such a
claim. Her Majesty's possessions is the West In
dies alone, witt out insisting on the importance to
Mexico and other friendly states of tbo present
distribution of power, give ber Majesty an inter
est in this question which Bhe canuot forego.
The possessions of France in the American seaß
give a similar interest to Franco, which, no doubt,
will be put f irward by her government. Nor is
tliis right at all invalidated by the argument of
Mr. Everett, that Cnba is to the Unitea States as
an island at the mouth of the Thames or the Seine
would be to England or France.
The distance of Cnba ; from the nearest part of
'ho territory of the United States, viz. from the
Southernmost part of Florida is 110 miles.
An island at an eanal distance from the month
of the Thames would be placed about ten miles
North of Antwerp, in Belgium: while an ialand at
tho same distance from Jatnaioa would be placed ot
Mansauillu, a town in Cnba
Thus thoro are no grounds for saying that
the possession of Cuba by Great Britain or France,
would bo menacing to the Uuited States; but that
its possession by tne United States would not bo so
to Great Britain.
There is one argument of the United Slates Secre
tary of State which appears to her Majesty’s go
vernment notonly unfounded, bnt disquieting.
Lord Mulmosbury and M. do Turgot pnt for
ward, as a reason for entering into tlie proposed
compuet, “the attucka which havo lately bocn made
on tbo island ot Cuba by lawless bands of adven
turers from tho United states, and with the avowed
desigu of taking possession of that island.” To
this reason Mr. l-.verett replies in these terms: —
“The President iB convinced that the conclusion
of such a treaty instead of putting a stop to these
lawless proceedings, would give anew and power
ful impluso lo them.”
The government of Great Britain acknowledges
with respect the conduct of the President in disa
vowing and discouraging the lawless attempts here
rifrrred 10. The ebaraoter of those attempts, in
deed, was such as to exoito the reprobation of
every civilized state. The spectacle of bands of
men collcoted together in rcokless disregard of
tr.atfcs, for the purpose of making from the ports
of t he United 3 tat os, a practical attack on the ter
ritory of a power in amity with their own state; and
when there, endeavoring by armed invasion to
oxoite the obedient to revolt and the tranqoil to
disturbance, was a sight shocking, no doubt, to
tho just and honest, principles of the President.
Bui tho statomeut made by tho President, that a
convention duly earned and legally rutifiod, en
gaging to respect the present state of possession
in ull future time, would but oxcito these hands of
pirates to more violent breaches of all the laws of
honesty und good neighborhood, is a melancholy
uvowul for tho chief ol a great state. Without dis
puting its truth, her Majesty’s government may
express a hope that this state of things will not en
dure, and tlrnt the citizens of the United States
whi ! e they justly boast of tbeir institutions, will
not bo insensible to the value of those eternal laws
of right und wrong, of peace and friendship, and
of duty to our neighbors, which ought to guide
every Christian nution.
Nor can a peoplo so enlightonod fail to perceive
tlie utility of tlioso rules for the observance of in
ternational relations which foreentnrioe have been
known to Europe by the name of tho law of na
tions. Among tno commentators on that law, some
of tho most distinguished American citizens have
earned an enviable reputation; and it is difficult to
supposo that tho United Suites would set tho ex
ample of abrogating its most sacred provisions.
Nor let it be said that such a convention would
havo prevented the inhabitants of Cuba from as
sorting their independence. With regard to inter
nal troubles, tho proposed convention was alto
getbor silent. Bnt a pretended declaration of in
dependence, with a vi’ow of immediately seeking
rerugo, from revolts on the part of tho blaoks,
under the shelter ofthe Uuited States, would just
ly he looked npon as the same in effect as a formal
annexation.
Finally, while fully admitting the right of the
United States to reject tho proposals that was
made by Lord Malmesbury and M. de Turgot,
Great Britain mnst at once resumeherontircliber
tv; and upon any occasion that may call for it, be
free to act either singly or in conjunction with other
powers, as to her may seem fit.
I am, Ac., J. Bdwell.
Tho following is Mr. Crampton’s reply to the
foregoing:—
Mr. Crompton to the Earl of Clarendon.
(extra or.)
Washington, April 18, 1858.
In ohodionoeto tho instruction contained in Lord
John Euesell’s despatch, of the 21st February, I
have reud to tho Secretary of State of tho Unitod
States, und placed in his hands a oopy of his lord
ship’s despatch, of the 16ih of that month, upon
the subject of Cuba.
My French qolleaguo having also reoelved in
strnetions from his government to oommunicateto
the government of the United States, a despatch
upon tho same subject, and very much to the same
effect, it was agreed between us that we should, as
npon former occasions, in regard to this matter,
make our communications simultaneously; and we
aooordingiy waited upon Mr. Marcy together, for
that purpose, on the 18th inst.
Mr. Morey, alter having listened attentively to
what M. do Sartigcs and myself reud to him, said
that ho would submit tho observations of the two
governments to the President; and remarked that
several weeks might probably elapse belore any re
ply would ho addressed to ns, evon should the
President be of opinion, which Mr. Marcy seemed
to think doubtful, that any further discussion of
the matter between tbo two governments was de
sirable.
It would, ho added, of course be necessary for
bim again to read over the despatches, in order to
comprehend their full import: but as far as he
could now judge, the opinion of the two govern
incuts seemed to coiuc do in reference to two
points, viz: tho one that the right of the United
Stales to decline the proposals made to them by
tho English and French government* was ndmit
tod i tiio other, that some of thegeuoral positions
taken by Mr. Rverptt m his note of the Ist of De
cember, lhfi2, appuarad to those governments to
render a protest uguiust them on their part noces
sary, lest it might herouftor bo inferred that those
positions had been acquiesced in by them.
We replied that, without pretending to point ont
to Mr. Maroy what further step ne was or was not
to take in this matter, tiie object whioh our respec
tive governments had in view seemed to us to bo,
generally, such as he had stated it, and that we,
for our part, considered the discussion of the sub
ject closed by the communication which we had
just made.
Mr. Maroy appeared to receive our observations
in a conciliatory manner, and concluded by ex
pressing ins hope and belief that no misunder
standing would arise between the great maritime
powers in regard fa this matter.
Wrat is Democrace ?—The Buffalo Republic)
1 a Democratic paper, asks this question, aud an
-1 swers it in the following definite and comprehen
sive manner: “Like all other names of things,
1 it implies whatever the people mean who use it,
1 in the particular country where it ia used.” We
have never heard of a more complete definition
■ of the term “ Democracy” from any source than
from an organ of Democracy “It implies what
ever the people mean who use it, in the particular
part of the country wiier.e it is used 1”
We always thought, says the Sasapnah Repub
lican, Democracy an india rubber cloak, that
could bo stretahed into shape to cover all sorts
ot political doctrines in any latitude. In Msssa
chrsctts it implies Coalitionist!!; in New York
it implies Hnnkerism and Barnburnerism, Bards
snb Softs. At tbs North it implies Free eoilismand
a j.-Utloflifßi: * South Southern Sights,
S " „ * tti ision. Inth* East it implies
L_?®. ion. am. *- tu. Wes{ internal iotprove
stnot construction; . —-ha, at the North
m»m by the General Governn.. '--***4*: yt
it imnlies protection, at the South tree. ’—•
the North Fonricri-m, iu Georgia rapperism, a*,,
so on nd infinitum. It implies anv and every
thing in torn, and nothing long—its active prin
ciple being the loaves and fishes. “It implies
whatever thcpto- le mean.” It is one thing at
the North and another at the South, and entire
ly differently in the East from what it is in the
We.-t; and yet it is all Detnocracv. Trnly De
mocracy is a comprehensive term, nnd suits alike
the views of Abolitionists at the North and Fire
eaters of the Sentb, latitudinsriaus and strict
constructionists, free traders and protectionists,
Union men and Diauniouists, internal improve
ment men and sut-inti mal improvement men.
“ black spirits and white, blue spirits and gray,”
It is a Protean mask for aspiring political dem
agogues of every hue ar.d color in any part ol the
country. In short, “it impliet ichatir-T the peo
pte mean utho w it. in the purlieu in* country
tthere it it used!' That is modern Democracy.
Steam Power on Farms.—The Mxrquis of
Twcedale has succeeded perfectly in working
plows by steam power. The distinguished Eng
fish Agriculturist, Mr. Meche, in a late article,
says: “There can be no doubt but that very
shortly every agriculturist must use steam power
if he ia to stand his ground in the race of agri
onltnral competition. The want of it ia already
felt, it not seen, by those who have not the means
or inclination to use it. The time is approaching
when a steam engine on a farm wil. be as common
as the drill or threshing machine, although, like
them, it haa to pass through the odeal of dieb-lief, i
count, and prejudice. A committee of the Rovai i
Agricutural Society give the most extraordinary
accounts of the rapid introduct on of farm loco- 1
motive engines during the last three months. ‘
Ttliphonr —The P ymonth Journal (Big- !
land) announces the discovery of a mode of trans- j
m.ituig articulate sounds to great distances by ,
™ra, B liin. D .L n . B i rUm s Dt termc^the telephone—
water being ths agent or medium of transmission. (
The erope in Ireland are said to be van prolific, i
Thsre ia ao sppeeranos of tiu potato rot. P
Utir im M talcs.
By the bark Got. Hinckley, whlcfi iffiftd M&l*
port yeetarday from Ver* Croi, which place aha
left on the »th inat, wa here been pot in potaea
eion of tbeSiglo of th« 4th inat. ,
An order directing the poraait and appnhan- I
-ion of all deserters from the army, in order that the
punishment provided by law for them may be in
flicted, ia published.
The conclusion of a report on the proposition to
establish a bank ia also published. The report is
unequSvocellyimfavorabh.
An estimate of the public expenditures for the
year between the Ist of July, 155*, and the *Oth
of June, 1854, ia given at 15,741,480 2*.
A circular has been issued requiring the abro
gation of tbe epithets “sovereign, free and inde
pendent” to the several States, as implying in
consistency with the federal constitution.
A circular has been issued relieving foreigners
from the inconvenience they bave hitherto neen
oaused by being compelled to give way to the em
ployment of their cattle in the Government ser
vice, when there are none forthcoming nnder the
ordinary s' rsngements. The liability to this tax,
for such it is, is hitherto to be confined entirely to
Mexicans. The Siglo protests against such a par
tial distinction.
Tbe Diaric publishes sn official communication
from the Prefecture of Durango, dated July 15th,
in which it is stated that on the 18th the jnstice
of the peace of Nayar went out with thirty two
men to explore that portion of the Bierra Madia
from which some Indians bid made a foray and
csi tied off live stock belonging to tbe inhabitants
of the place. The resalt w said to have been the
recapture of all tbe stolen stock except three
which they found dead, tbe finding of the corpse
of Reyes Hernandez, with thirty-one arrow wounds
inflicted on it, and the observation that tbe track
of the Indians went in the direction of 1 oe Navioe
towards Mcxatlwu.
An order has been issued granting full pay to
all soldiers of every rank in actual service in gar
rison.
General Bravo has found it necessary to address
a letter to tbe Universal, containing assurances of
bis patriotic fidelity to the existing order of
tnings.
Senor D. Antonio de Haro y Tamaris has re
signed his office of Minister of Finance. The
Biglo is inclined to attribute the step to some
differences arising out of his opposition to the
bank project above referred to, and seems to
consider this ohange in the Cabinet as portending
no good.
The death of Gen. D. Mannel Maria Yillads is
announced. He died at Tixitla, in Guerrero, of
which State he had just assumed the government.
Black vomit is said to have been the cause of his
death. The disease is said to have been intro
dnced by a barque from Panama, which arrived
at Acapulco, and spreading thence many have
fallen victims to the malignant destroyer.
The criminal judges have issued a notice that
no fees are to be claimed from offendera or their
friends, under any title or pretext whatever, by
subordinate officers of the court. — Picayune, 38 rd
irut.
We find the following timely and appropriate
remarks upon this subject in the Baltimore Times,
which we commend to the attention of our ootem
porsries. There can be no doubt that the press
has done much to cherish and minister to a mor
bid public taste to hear aDd read of hnman crime
and misery. They publish acoounts of suicides,
duels, murders and scenes at the gallows, not for
the purpose of censuring or condemning guilty
parties, but often greatly exagerate these accounts
and throw round vice an air of romance, and make
a felon a hero, with no higher object in view, per
haps, than to gain popularity for tbeir press and
thus add a few dimes to their coffers. We wash
our hands of such unworthy motives. We have
not only set our example, by excluding from onr
columns the disgusting details of hnman crime
which flow through the channels ol the press,
but we have gone further and condemned this prac
tice in others. We took occasion in the case of Ar
thur Spring, who was executed in Philadelphia on
the 10th of June lost, to condemn the practice of
the press in giving publicity to crime. Wesaidon
the 14th June:
“The publication of revolting details of crime—
auicidos, murders, seductions, rapes and robberies
—as practiced by a portion of the press of this
oountry, is a disgrace to American Journalism.—
It creates a morbid appetite for whatever smacks
of blood and villainy. It vitiatea the pnblio taste,
demoralizes the national heart, and suggests to
the innocent, first the possibility and then the
practicability, of committing crime without being
detected. Thus, men and women, who were
guiltless before, navebeen led to perpetrate crimes
the most shocking and revolting. Temptations
easily turned aside before, now becomes irresista
ble, and the poor victim, like the vessel which
once enters the fatal olrcle of the malstrom, is
drawn on step by step, nntil hois last engulfed in
the remorseless whirlpool. Human nature is
weak at best. It Beeds but asuggestion, a temp
tution, at an unguarded moment, to overcome the
best of us, unless we are fortified by virtue of re
ligion.”
These are still our sentiments, and in the range
of the press, wo aro glad to find one, if no more,
whose feelings are responsive to our own. The
influence of the press in galvanizing crime with
the lustre of virtue, and making heroes and mar
tyrs of felons and mnrdorers, is directly iu oontia
veution of the spirit of the law, and Bhears it of
its majesty and its power. —Savannah Republican.
Upon the subject of suicide, the Times re
marks :
“Wo are decidedly opposed, to the practice of
giving publicity to cases ot suicide, inasmuoh as it
not only familiarizes the public mind with a sub
ject, the contemplation of which is revolting to all
ol tho better feelings of our nature, bat plaoes in
a false and seductive light one of the greatest
crimes that a creature con commit against bis
Creator. Strange as it may seem, there is to
weak minds, a gratification in becoming the sub
ject of remark, and exciting public sympathy,
whioh in the absence of a proper sense of religious
obligation, induces men to rush to self-destruction
as a refuge from the “ilia that flesh is heir to,”
rather than continue to struggle againßt them.—
We have always thought that if nothing were said
about duelling and duellists, the world would not
be troubled with so many of them, and so we think
of euioides, if they were suffered to pass unnoticed
the number of them would be much lessened. If
they proceed from alienation of mind why talk of
them i Is it not enough for friends to know that
one who is noar and dear to them has suffered
under such a calamity without having it proclaim
ed to the world that such is the case, and if, on
the other hand, it be the result of cool premedita
tion and firm resolution, what an example is it to
thesauguine and enthusiastic, under tho pressure
of dissuppointment and mortification. If, then,
ourfellow-beines beso unfortunate, or so unwise
as to seek self-destruction as a refuge from mis
fortune, let them pass away in silence, and let not
those whosuivive attempt to give notoriety to an
act, the best If not the only, apology, for which is
madness.
New Orleans.
Tho New Orleans papers continue to be filled
with paragraphs relating to the all-absorbing sub
ject 01 tho epidemic.
Tho Bee has the following statistics relating to
the casee taken charge of by the Howard Associa
tion, taken from the books of the Secretary :
Number of patients treated from July 16th
to August 20th, inclusive, 4,554
Discharged, cared 2,201
Died 728
Under treatment 1,(80
4,554
Those “nndor treatment” include many patients
who havo been sent to the different Infirmaries or
Hospitals after having been attended at their resi
dences, dnrlng the incipieney of the disease. Many
of these have been discharged in good health, the
exact number we oonld not ascertain, bocanse the
memhers have not yet had time to examine the
books of the Infirmaries, and make np the accurate
returns.
The reader will doubtless be surprised at the
small proportion of deaths recorded in the above.
Wo have never given any oredenco to extravagant
assertions that havo been made and generally be
lieved. with regard to this subject. It has, for ex
ample, been frequently assorted here that eeventy
tier cent, of the cases occurring in Hew Orleans
terminate fatally. Wo see by an ostimate in anoth
er article of the Bee, that it is set down at twenty
per ceut. at the very larthest. We continue our
extracts from the Bee :
The Infirmaries established by the Board of
Health for the use of the Howard Association con
tain :
No. 1 .108 patients.
No. 2 11l “
No. 8 #0 «
80»
Bach infirmary is attended by two physicians,
and 16 nurses and servants are employed at an ex
pense of from to |4O per month eaeh.
The daily expenses of the Howard Association
are enormous, and hence, munificent aa the dona
tions have been, every dollar will be expended be
fore tho disappearance of the epidemio. Bvery pa
tient under their oare entails on them a daily ex
pense for ico and medicines of from 78 cents to »1
during sickness and for a week after convalescence.
When the patient has a family, instead ot being
placod in the Infirmary, he is attended at borne
and provided with a careful and experienced nsrse.
There are now under constant employment by tho
society over 800 nurses, at a cost of from two to
three dollars each per diem. The entire esti
mated expense for relief is put down at one
thoutind five hundred dollart per day—an amount
so large, that two months more of sickness at all
approximating that from which we now snffer,
would completely bankrupt the treasury of the
Association.
Destructive Fire at New Yobi. —A fire broke
out at New York on Tuesday night in the large
building known as the Pearl-street House, fron
ting Nos. 86, 88 and 90 Pearl street, and exten
ding to Nos. 54 56 and 58 Water-street, The fire
originated in the lower part of the building, and
made it* way up through each story to tho upper
story without being discovered, although at the
time there were nearly two hundred guests in
tho hotel. The stores below the hotel were occu
pied by Messrs. W right & Carlow, Joseph T.
King & Co., Jas. A. Smith, Tilton & Maloney,
and Pond & Hitcboo'-k. All these lost the most
of their stock, In about twenty minutes after
the alarm was first given, the whole building wae
one mass of flame, and there being no possible
chance ot saving it, the firemen turned their at
tention to the buildings in the immediate vicinity
which stood in great danger from the heavy
showers of fire carried in every direction by the
wind. So quiok did the fiameaspread from story
to story that it was with the greatest difficulty the
guests in the house escaped. One old gentleman,
about 70 years of age, confined to his bed by sick
ness, was rescued by the firemen and carried im
mediately from the house. But few of the board
ers in the hotel saved any of their clothing except
what thpy had on their persons.
The Peart street House was kept by Mr. Porter,
who held a lease of tl)o premises for five years.
Hie individual loes is estimated at about >5,000.
The building was owned by Sm. Channcey,
whose lo's is estimated at about s26,ooo—fully in
sured. Tke tosses of the other occupants of the
building are estimated at follows:—Wright &
Carlow, loss about fT.OOO; insured. Jos. T. King
1 A til,, loss about $4,000: insured. Joe. King,
~* •AO'-HI, Tilton <& Maloney, lose $4,000.
lossaoou. „ '*sa $7,000— -insured. James
Pond & Hitchcoca..
A. Smith, loss $3,000.
The Year or PtsTnj.Nct.—Yma has been
phatically a year of pe-Ulence. The statement "ire
pub't-hed the other day, relative to the devastation
of the cholera at Copenhagen, was almost as awful
as the scourge that is now decimating New Or
lans. It is an ugly feature of the dolera that its
march this time has been, like its march ordinal
ily, from east to west. It follows, therefore, that
if it is govermd now by the same laws as have
controlled it hitherto, another visitation may be
looked for in Great Britain and on this oontinent.
Bat meanwhile it is hardly worth the while con
templating, even at a distance of fonr thousand
miles, the approaches of one plague while we have
another nearer home, the dreadful havoc of which
has seldom if ever been paralleled, certainly never
surpassed.
Tbeycllow fever which baa now act up its Court
of Death in the ill-fated city of New Orleans, from
all that we can gather, is a disease of the same type
with that which scourged so terribly the eastern
coasts of Sooth America and some of the West
India islands. Its ravages among the shipping, as
the aoconnts which have come to ns from time to
time have, daring the summer, almost daily de
monstrated, were truly frightful. At the Island of
Ilayti it is estimated that not leas than one hun
dred America.! offioer* and seamen have died, be
sides a large number of the inhabitant*. At Jamai
ca, Detnarara. Antigua, Ac., it has been very fatal.
The West India English fleet has loat many seamen
and aeveral valuable officers by the disorder. In
one case a British ateamer(the Medway, we think)
lost aeventy-flve men. In Cabs the dolere and
yellow fever together have carried off their thou
sands in the coarse of the rammer. On the coast
ofSonth America, Rio Janeiro, has been visited:
the British Consul, among others, fallings victim
to the dreadful disorder. At Bahia, also, it haa
been quite fatal; bat no where, we add, no where
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GEORGIA.
WIDIJMAT MMUmre 4BOTBT 81.1858.
FOR GO VERNOR,
CHARLES J. JENKINS
OF RICHMOND.
Far Caagrsaa Rlgbth District,
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS,
or TiLunuo.
ANDREW TELLER.
Far Repressaulives,
ALEXANDER C. WALKER,
WILLIAM A. WALTON.
Tbs Nomination.
In giving publicity to the proceedings of the
County Convention, whieh assembled in this city,
on Saturday last, to nominate candidates for tbe
legislature, we should do violence to onr feelings
and tense of juatioe, not to call the special atten
tion of every voter to the ticket whioh has been
nominated, end oommend it to their cordial sup
port. Os Messrs. Millie and Walxir, we need
not epeak so particularly; they have both been
long in the public service, ire well known to the
voters of Richmond, and aro too generally appre
ciated, both for integrity and capacity, to render it
necessary. Mr. Waltos has never been in public
life, and ia not therefore so generally known
throughout the oounty as his associates on the
ticket. Where he is known, however, it ie but
truth to eay, no man is more esteemed for his
many excellent traits of eharacter. Reared in the
; city, there are those here who have known him
from infancy, who have matched him throngh al l
the vicissitudes of yonth and manhood, and have
admired bia manly and honorable bearing in all
j the relations of life. No one, who knows him,
questions hie capacity to fill the station with high
i credit to himself and honor to the city and county,
’ and we feel assured that such will be the universal
l judgment of all unprejudiced minds. With the
ability to protect and defend the interests of his
constituents; while his high sense of honor will
( prevent his asking anything wrong, it will prompt
to continued perseverance in obtaining what is
■ right.
1 We foe) especial pleasure, therefore, in going be
, fore the people of Richmond oounty with such a
, ticket and asking their support of it. A ticket
combining, in an eminent degree, talents of a high
| order, and a reputation for integrity nnsallied—a
i ticket, in abort, which, we venture, is not surpass
ed, in all the requisites for good, effioient and able
1 Legislators, by any ticket in the State.
Mr. Stephens’ Speech.
As we anticipated, Mr. Stephens drew together
a large andlenoe on Saturday night to hear him.
The spacious Court-room in the Citfr Hall was fill
ed to overflowing, and quite a large number went
away who could not gain admittance. He ad
dressed them about an hoar and a half, on the po
litical topics of the day, daring which he was fre
quently Interrupted by loud and long bursts of
applause. His panegyric on the pnblio life and
obaraoterof Mr. Juana was as eloquent as true;
and his rebake of the Free-soil appointments by
the President was at onoe just aud overwhelming.
The speech was a most effeotive one, and was
well received by the large and intelligent andience,
who listened to it throughout with unabated in
terest.
Gov. Cobb on tiii Stump.—We find the follow
ing notice In the last Borne Southerner:
Babbeoue at Summer vile.— There will be s free
barbeoue given at Summerville, on Thursday, the
Ist of September, on which occasion the peoplo of
Chattooga oounty will be addressed by Gov. Cobb,
Hon. S. W. Chastain, and others.
Without pretending to know anything about it,
we suspect the announcement of Gov. Cobb, as one
of the speakers, is a mere trick to get the people
out to hear Mr. Chastain; well knowing that
something of this sort had to be resorted to, to
aooomplish that object. Gov. Cobb is not now in
the State, and we have no idea that he has ever
heard of the Summerville meeting, mnch less does
he expeot to be present to make a speech.
Minister to France.— The Washington Star
states that the idea of tendering the Mission to
Franoe to Governor Howell Cobb is not entertain
ed by the Administration, nor sought for by him.
It 1b also statod that the President has received
Senatorial information that General Dix will not
be confirmed if appointed.
Ha vote nover attached any oredenoe to the story
of Gov. Cobb’s appointment as Minister to Franoe,
the above paragraph does not surprise us. We
believed, from the first, that the thing was a triclc ,
on the part of some of the friends of the Admin
istration, to operate on the Georgia election; by
which they hoped to appease the jußt indignation,
felt by the people of this State, at the almost ex
clusive appointment by the Administration of
Freeaoilera and Seoesaionists to all the important
offices in the gift of the President. We had no
donbt of the purpose of the annonuoement, for
we felt confident that Gov. Cobb, neither person
ally or through his friends, had not applied for
the offioe; and we do not believe, in the present
condition of the health of his family, that he oonld
be indneed to aocept it nnder any circumstances.
The Retailer’s Record.
The following reply of Mr. Moore, the lessee of
the Alabama Penitentiary, at Wetumpka, to a
committee of Temperance men, presents a reoord,
which retailers oannot contemplate with any high
degree of pride; especially when they refleot that
their vocation produces like results everywhere.
But this is only one side of the picture. The deso
lation and destitution, which it has oarried to the
hearts and homes of thousands of onoe happy
wives and innocent, prattling children, are not
presented, nor indeed can they be, in this or aDy
other picture. That oould not be—imagination,
the most proliflo and inventive oonld not, in its
wildest fancies, sketch a picture that would equal
the reality:
Agreeably to your request, I have interrogated
the convicts in this Insulation as to their habits in
the use of intoxicating drinks, previous to their
incarceration, and the following is the result of
my enquiries:
No. who have abstained entirely. 8
No. of moderate drinkers, but who were never
intoxioated 27
No. of moderate drinkers occasionally intoxi
oated.... 90
No. of intemperate drinkers 65
No. who have abstained for 2 years 2
No. who have abstained for 8 years 1
No. who have abstained for 6 years 1
No. who have abstained for 7 years 1
No. who have abstained for 15 years 2
Total 192
Os the above number, 74 admit that the crimes
for whioh they were convicted, were committed
while under the influence of intoxioating drinks.
Planters Barbecues.
Tina la tha season for those annual entertain
ments, given by many of the Planters in this vi
cinity, so their friends and servants. Within the
last two weeks, we, in oompany with a number of
gentlamen, invited guests, have been the happy
recipients of the generous hospitalities of onr
friends, Chaklxs Del-atole and Wx. J. Eva:
both of which were occasions that may well be
treasured in tho memories of those present; as
well for the cordial greetings given by those gen
tlemen to their friends, as the excellent dinners
which they spread and the good cheer which seem
ed to pervade all present. They were truly pleas
ant occasions, and we rejoioeto see with what
spirit the exoellent custom of giving to their
slaves s feast, after the crop has been made, is
kept np by them. It is a most exoellent custom,
and we should be pleased to see it universal among
Southern Planters.
Bale or Lou la Knoxville.
In onr advertising oolnmns will be found a notice
of an extensive sale of Lots in Knoxville Tennessee,
on Saturday, the first day of October next.
Case Farm for Bale.
Thosb who desire to purchase a farm in Cherokee
Georgia are referred to the advertisement of Wm.
B. MoClean offering his farm in Case County for
sale. _
Man. Robbery.—Cobbxctioh. —We published
some days ago, a paragraph from the Moble Tri
bune, stating that the mail bags had been broken
open and robbed of large same ot money between
Atlanta and Montgomery. We are informed, from
an authsntie source, t-R«t there is no foundation
for the story—that no mail bags have been broken
open on that rou e.
Am to Nxw Obuums- —The Editors of the
Charleston Courier have remitted five thousand
dollars, reoeived at that offioe, to aid ths sufferers
in New Orleans, and contributions are st,ll com
ing in for the good oause. Well done Charles
ton!
Afn roB New Oblbaws.—The amount sent from
Charleston, up to last Saturday, was eight thou
sand six hundred and nineteen dollars and eighty
cents, and contributions continue to come in. It
is anticipated that ten thousand dollars will be
raised. This is the largest subscription, by long
odds, in proportion to population, of any city in
• - "-don.
deaths from yellow fever
Yellow Fever * M, r. and three
in Mobile, on the 2*th inst., were ...
from other dieesses
In New Orleans, on the BSd inst, there were
*“7. deaths, of whom 188 died of yellow fever, and
.k° m ouknown, probably three-fourths
ot them from fever.
in "v. Sl ? A1 “ nD ' Craom was burnt at her wharf
' on Friday morning last,
e loss is estimated at three-quarters of a mil
uonofdolUre. The Are is suppewed to have origi
nated from spontaneous combustion.
Yauow Fites— There were four deaths from
yenow fever, in Mobile, for the twenty-foor hours
ending at« o’clock, F. it, on the 90th inet.
The disease has also made its appearance in
Natchea, Mils. The Free Trader, in alluding to
it, says: “ A panie has been produced; all per
sona that are not compelled to stay have gone or
are preparing to go ; merchants are renting houses
in the country preparatory to dosing in town ; and
altogether there is such sgroundless and universal
fright that the city will in three days be entirely
deserted by all who ean get away.” 7
The subject of Oeean Penny Postage is to be
brought before the British Parliament at it* neat
“Sleek Heaee" few torn dnmted* So*.
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Judge Uerrlea-Tbe Macon CifUen.
Tn following letter from Judge Berks* to the
Editor of the Macon Oititen, whioh was not lees
due to himself than to Mr. Jxnkiks, show* how
little he sympathises with the OUittn, and those
who have, so adroitly, through its columns, at
tempted to place him in a false position before
the country; and if possible endanger the auc
ooes of Mr. Jxmiins :
Rockinran, August 20th, 185*.
7b tie Editor i/ the “Georgia Citizen .-"—Sib
Your paper of the 18th in£t., was received by the
last mail. It was seut to me by some unknown
person, no doubt with kindly intentions, and so
I have reoeived it. It contains an article, which
states, and approves the determination of some of
my fellow-citizens, to vole lor mo at the approach
ing election for a Governor of the State, whioh im
poses upon me the necessity of addressing through
you, to those who may have formed this deter
mination, a respectful request, that they will for
bear to execute it.
I am not insensible to the “ compliment”
which might be implied from it—and still less am
I indifferent, to the good opinion of my country
men. Nor do I question the right of ever) citizen
to vote tor whom ho pleases—but our most abso
lute rights are to be excercisod with a just regard
tothoee of others.
The ueeessar) consequence of tho proposed mea
sure, would be to diminish the vote of Mr. Jen
kins, to the extent of the votes which may be
thrown away upon me, and thns, by indirection,
to increase the relative vote of his opponent. I
do not ask if this is a fair, open, manly exercise,
of tbe elective franchiso. The appeal which I
make, is a personal one, and to that, with a single
remark, I will confine myself.
My relations with Mr. Jenkins, are, and from
his early youth have been, such as to forbid me
silently to acquiesce in such a use of my name
nay, more, they require me thus to appeal to the
sense of right of honorable men, whether it is
just to me, and proper for them, to force upon me
a position, which is utterly inconsistent witu those
relations—to make me an instrument, a mere un
willing instrument, to defeat, (if by possibility,
that should be the result,) tho election of a man,
who has been throngh lite not merely my political,
but also my personal friend. 1 rely oh the jus
tice of those to whom I address myself—on that
high sense of honor, which is the distinguishing
characteristic of Southern ireemen, for the success
of this appeal. 1 assure myself that this determi
nation will be abandoned "on reflection, as well
from a conviction that it is inconsistent with a
manly exercise of tho elective franchise, as from
a sense of its injustice to me.
A siuglo other remark. I infer from the articlo
which has occasioned this note, as well as from
the public papers, that some persons oppose the
election of Mr. Jenkins, from a belief, that he is,
as it is expressed, “the Toombs candidate.” Ido
not so understand this matter. If I have been
correctly informed, tho vote of Mr. Toombs in
the Convention, was given for Mr. Miller, of
Richmond. His subsequent ndvocacy ot Mr. Jen
kins, is an act of just deference to tho will of the
great majority of thoso with whom he was politi
cally associated as a member of tho nominating
Convention—an example not unworthy of imi
tation by those who were represented in that
body.
I ask yon then, sir, to publish this note iu the
“Georgia Citizen”—and to withdraw my name
from your columns. And 1 rely as well on your
sense of justice, as on your courtesy to comply
with my request. I have availed myself of the
earliest opportunity whieh our tri-weekly mail af
fords to present it to you.
Very respectfully, Yours,
.! no. Macfiierson Berrien.
Stabbing.— James <J. Ball was severely stabb
ed by Ohurchwell Lyons, near this place, on
Saturday evening. Lyons was arrested on Saturday
night and lodged in jail, and was brought before
Justices Haines and Wartheu on yesterday, and
discharged l'or want of proof. Evidence offered
was the affidavit of Beil, and oonfessious of de
fendant after arrest, which were ruled out. The
prosecution then moved the Court to adjourn to
the room where Bell was confined in order to ob
tain bis evidence, the Court refused to entertain
the motion, and granted an order for the discharge
of the Prisoner, who made haste and delayed not
to shake the dust of this village from his feet. The
wounds of Bell, wo believe are not mortal, and his
physicians, Drs. Smith & Cullens think that he
wifi rocover.
WBCliptheabovefromtbo Sandersville Georgian
simply for the purpose of saying, if this is a trno
unvarnished statement of the case, those justices
must have very strange notions of their duty. If
they refused to go to the room of the sick man it
was their duty to havo detained tho defondant till
he was able to attend the investigation. There
mußt be some mistako in the Georgian's report.
Thb Orphans.— A Touch no Scene.— Wo find in
the N. 0. Picayune of the 28rd iust., the follow
ing paragraph;
The Orphans. —The 165 little children who, left
orphans by tho influence of the epidemic on tboir
parents, were placed by tho Board of Health and
Council Committoo in two temporary asylums, one
on Julia street, tho other in tne Fourth District,
have ail been brought together undor one roof, in
the large building at tho corner of Pocyfarre aud
Constanoe streets, First District, whero they aro
taken care of by the benevolent ladies of tho So
ciety of St. Vincent do Paul. The Mayor, who
visits daily all the public hospitals, infirmaries and
asylums, said to us in conversation yesterday, that
he conld stand the hospitals prettly well, being
accustomed to such sights, but that it was difficult
not to be moved by thesceno this asylum presents,
with so many unfortunate children for crying their
mothers.
Cooking Ego Plants. —Tho following mode of
cooking this delioious vegetable is recommendod
in the Soil of the Souih :
“Are you fond of sweet oysters ? If so, we will
give you a dish equal to tho Mobilo bay oysters.
First peel tho fruit, aud slice it thin, boil itin salt
and water until thoroughly done. Now drain off
the water, cover it with sweet milk, crumble in
some toasted bread and crackers, with pepper, and
such other condiments os tho tasto may dictate.
Now break in two or three eggs, and as it simmers
over the lire, stir all together; as soon os the ogg
begins to harden the metamorphose is complete,
the oysters are ready for the table.
“To fry the egg plaut, they should be first peel
ed and parboiled, then dipped into batter and
dropped into boiling lard—tukiug care to season
them properly before frying. ”
The Fishing Question. — According to tho Wash
ington correspondents, tho negotiations between
Mr. Makoy and the British Minister relative to the
fishing troables, have been interrupted by tho in
admissibility of the proportions submitted by
England. These propositions aro stated to be—
“To permit Colonial built vessels to obtain
American registers, that privilege being already
granted in England toAmerioan and other foreign
vessels. To abolish tho system of bounties to aur
fishermen. To throw open the California coasting
trade; that is to say, to allow British vessels to
load in the Atlantic States for California. To abol
ish the duty on fish brought hero in Colonial bot
toms. Beciprocal trade with the provinces iu cer
tain articles, the growth of each country.”
Loss of American Official Despatches. —The
Friend of China slates that Dr. Parker, Secretary
of the United States Legation, was a passenger in
the steamer Lnnriston, (lost on the northern end
of Formosa on the 2d ot May,) in charge of des
patches for the American Government, and that
his official documents wero all lost. Dr. Parker
also lost his Chinese Secretary, a person of pro
found learning and roseareh, who was drowned in
the attempt to land. Tho European passengers
were all saved.
The Stale of Maine newspaper, in an article un
der tho head of “Air Line Railway from Portland
to Montreal,” nrgeß upon its readers the impor
tance of a new Railroad route described by the
above title, which has beon chartered in Canada,
to lead from Island Pond direct to Montreal by
way of Bt. John, and passing through the rioh
country of Misißquoi. It is alledged that the dis
tance will be reduced by this route to 99>£ milos,
in place of following the route of the Atlantic and
Bt. Lawrence already openod, between tho sarno
points, the longth of which is stated to bo 140
miles.
The arrival in Montreal, of Mr. Stovonson, the
groat British engineer, who built tho tubular bridge
in Wales, has created a great deal of interest,
which is to find expression in a grand dinner to bo
given to the distinguished visitor in a sow days.
The object of Mr. Stevenson's visit is to survey
the St. Lawrence at Montreal, in order to decide
nponthe fcasibiliiy of placing across it a tubular
bridge, two and a half miles loDg, similar to that
in Wales, the cost of which will be about seven
millions of dollars. This bridge is to form a por
tion of the “ Grand Trunk” Rail Road, connecting
Quebec with Portland.
Mr. Wra. H. Webb launched from his yard in
New-York on Saturday, the steamship Knoxville,
theretofore called the Atlanta—owned by Mr. 8. L.
Mitchell, and intended to run in connection with
the Augusta, Alabama and Florida, from New-
York to Savannah. She is 220 feet length on deck,
feet breadth of beam, 22 foot deep, and about
1600 tons measurement. She will be supplied
with an oscillating engine, at the Novelty Works,
and will be ready for sea as early as tho Ist of No
vember, and is to bo commanded by Capt. Lud
ow, formerly of ths Alabama.
Tho people of Louisville, Kentucky are agita
ting the subject of a Public Park, and it would
seem, are determined to have one. It is proposed
that the city purchase about one hundred aud fifty
aeres of ground immediately south of the centre
of the city, which cau be had for not more than
SSOO per acre. They further propose to cut fifty
acres of this into building lots, and selling these
so as to realize sufficient to pay for the whole, and
of the remainder, form the Park.
Twelve thousand dollars were remitted from
Philadelphia on Friday for the benefit of the suf
ferers in New Orleans. The grain merchants of
New York, held a meeting at the Corn Exchange
on Saturday, and appointed a committee to obtain
donations; S9OO was subscribed on the spot. Tne
total of the New York subscriptions amount to
$27,478. Mr. H. W. Hill, a planter of Louisiana,
has authorized the Howard Association at New
Orleans to draw on him .'or SIOO every week while
the fever lasts.
The d etraction by fire of the woolen factory at
Richmond, on Thursday night last, involves a very
heavy loss. The establishment was owned by a
' '-•-stock company. The building and machine
* •tao.Of’O, and the stock on hand
J 0““ •• on.ooo. There
ry were valoea a. v
at $60,000 —making altogether
existed policies of insurance for only $77,000 on
the whole establishment, so that tho stockholders
lose upwards of SIOO,OOO by the fire.
The amount of coinage in Mexico in 1840 was
$18,782,861, and in 1848 was $18,000,000. The
product of the mines in Mexico is now nearly
$20,000,000 per annum. The coinage of Mexico
sinoe 1585, or 816 years, amounts to $2,767,823,851.
Thx Gatujinkr Mixes. —The usually reliable
Washington correspondent of the New York
Courier, telegraphs to that paper as follows:
“Major Mordec&i, Gardiner Commissioner, re
turns to morrow. Mr. Bowes, interpreter to the
Commission, returned to-da). The testimony of
the previous commission is confirmed, and the non
existenee of Gardiner’s mine lathe Stats of San
Louis Potosi is established beyond the possibility
of doubt. The mines as desorbed by Gardiner
were found in the Btate of Caeretaro.
A Bostonian has invented a “chronometrical
lock,” which fixed to a door, cannot be opened be
fore the time determined on beforehand. It
operates by cloak work, and the absence of a key
fcele pmludseelJ attempt* to pick it
An iaiapMfiMt Man.
WMtl ho language, that wa can employ, can
express our admiration of an independent man, it
is altogether too poor to oonvay a faint conception
of our oontempt for one who, wanting in indepen
dence and frankness, seeks, by indirection, to
avoid a prompt and manly reaponoe to a plain,
direct question.
These remarks have been suggested on read
ing the following response of Gkoroe Stapleton,
of Jefferson county, to some interrogatories ad
dressed to him in reference to his views in rela
tion to the suppression of the retail traffic. He
answers like a free, independent American oiti
zen, who feels the obligations which society im
poses on him, and is willing and ready to dis
charge his whole doty:
“Inanswering, to use the language oontained
in a recent letter from one of the distinguished
sons of Georgia, ‘lam for God and my country'
The Legislator is bound by his oath to vote upon
all questions and measures, that may ooroe
before him, and which, in his judgment, will con
duce to the interest ana prosperity of the State,
and equally bound to preserve the morals as the
health of the country.
“ As there aro a variety ot opinions with regard
to the most effectual means to be employed in re
stricting tbe retail traffic in liquor, by theemall or
half pints, and as the plan proposed by the Atlan
ta Convention is now a mooted question; and
doubts have been expressed among members of
the legal profession as to the constitutionality of
the plan. lam notdisposei to make the issue, or
commit myself for or against any particular plan
or measure that may have been proposed, but shall
reserve to myself the right, (shonld 1 occupy a
seat in the Legislature) to vote upon any measure
that may be proposed, that does not conflict with
the Constitution, and which, in my judment, will
most effectually restrict tbe retail traffic in liquors
by the small or half pints, which I conceive to be
not only nuuance, but a public curse in any com
munity. Kespeotfully, Gxojtax Stapleton.
“Jefferson Co., Augast 20th 1858.”
Tux Epioemo in New Greens.—’The Bulletin
gives tho following table of mortality in New Or
leans for the last three months:
Statement# Mortality for the la* Thirteen Week*.
Xel. Fever. Other DU. Total.
Week ending May *8 T.. 1 188 140
“ “ June 4 1 141 142
“ “ “ 11 4 160 164
“ “ “18 7 140 141
“ “ “ 25 9 168 167
“ “ July 2 25 152 177
“ “ “ 9 59 129 188
“ “ “ 16 204 140 844
“ “ “ 28 429 188 617
“ “ “ 80 692 188 880
“ “ Aug. 6 1086 150 1186
“ “ “ 18 1869 166 1682
“ “ “ 20 1421 154 1675
6257 1992 7249
The Bee of Monday says:
Until recently the scourge had scarcely Invaded
the commercial olassea of onr population, but with
in the last week its sweep has neon far more ex
tensive. The obituary noticcß whioh appear in tho
different papers show how many of tho better
classes have fallen victims. The distemper seems
to liavo searched out every unacolimated person.
None, who have never had the fever, are now in
safety, no mutter how prolonged their reaideooe
may have been. We have heard of fatal cases
among persons who had lived ten, twelve and fif
teen jours in Now Orleans, and who, having pass
ed unscathed through several visitations, fondly
imagined themselves secure from an attack. This
fancied immunity has proved fallacious.
St. Louis and the East.—We find in the Bt.
Lonis lutolligencer the following table, showing
tho timo required for transit between St. Louis
and some of the principal points in the United
States, when its railroad connections shall have
been completed:
Days. Hours.
From Bt. Lonis to Boston, 2 2
From St. Louie to New York, 1 22
From St. Louis to Philadelphia, 1 17
From St. Louis to Baltimore, 1 14
From St. Louis to Washington, 1 16
From St. Louis to Charleston, 1 14
From Bt. Lonis to Mobilo, 1 00
From St. Louis to New Orleans, 1 04
From St. Louis to Detroit, 0 19
From St. Louis to Cincinnati, 1 00
From St. Louis to San Francisoo, 8 00
From San Francisoo to New York, 5 00
The Chester Standard says tbat a bale of new
cotton from the plantation of Mr. Thomas Shannon,
of that District, was offored for sale in tbat market
last Monday, and bought by Thos. 8. Mills, at 10J<;
quality, good middling.
Minister to Constantinople.— The Baltimore
American says—This important diplomatic posi
tion has, we learn, been tendered by President
Pierce to Colonel Carroll Spence, of this city, and
it is understood he will aooept the appointment.
Colonel Spence is an intelligent and worthy gen
tlemon, and although be has bad no diplomatic ex
perience, will doubtless bo able to perform the
duties of the appointment with credit and ability,
evon in view of the important questions likely to
arise in connection with his mission.
The damage to the looomotive and cars by the
late accident on the Providence and Worcester
road is about (16,000, says the Providence Jour
nal, and the personal damages will be very heavy.
There is no statute in that State that gives to the
families of persons killed on railroads the right of
action for damages, and there is no such right at
common law.
The Washington Union says that all the German
States will probably come into tho Bremen postal
arrangement, and M. Bodisco, the Bnssian minis
ter, intends to ask his Government to do the same.
The Germania, the first steamer of the new Bre
men line, is now due at New York, having left
Bremen on the 2d inst. Denmark, Norway and
Sweden will probably make Bimilar postal arrange
ments with the United States.
Tho Washington Republic states that Comman
der Ringgold in hie dospatohes from Madoria
writes in termß of great satisfaction relative to the
performance of the vessels of his command. The
steamer John Hancock, muoh to tho snprise of
every one who knew anything abont her, proves
to be an excellent sea boat, and keeps her posi
tion in the squadron without difficulty, and with
an expenditure of less than three tons of ooal per
day, of twenty-four hours. Tho other vessels,
the Vinconnes, the Porpoise, and the tender
Feninore Coopor, are ail answering the best ex
pectations of their Commanders. Daring his pas
sage across the Pacific, Commander Bisoold has
been diligent in taking and noticing meteorolog
ical observations and their results, and the natu
ralists of the expedition have buised themselves
in collections and eperimenta—whioh is it believ
ed, will add mnch to tho general stook of scien
tific knowledge.
The number of visitors at the Crystal Palace
on Monday was five thousand five hundred and
nine. Tho Palace was lighted np for the first
time on Monday evening, and presented a bril
liant appearance. A nnmbor of invited guests
were present. There were over four thousand
burners lighted at one Lime in all parts of the
building. In the piature gallery a single row of
lights ruusdown the oentre and by the aid of ap
propriate shades, throws the light in the same
direction os it oomes in the day time through the
lattice.
Tub Mbsilla Teehttobt. —The Washington Re
public’s gossip correspondent says:—
“ It is rnmorod that the Government has not in
structed Mr. Gadsden to offer a money considera
tion to Mexico for a relinquishment of all olaim to
the Mesilla territory. The Government will in
sist upon its own title, bnt has authorized onr Min
ister to pcrchaae a portion of the'State of Sonora,
with the Deceasarv right of way. Saoh an aoqni
sition would be or muoh national importance, and
wonld give eclat to an administration desirons to
be considered progreseive, and to leave to history
the legacy of an enlarged boundary.
Factory Labor in Rhode Island. —The reoent
passage of an act by the Rhode Island Legis
lature, making ten hours a legal day’s work, is
creating considerable disturbance among the
manufacturing villages of that State. Upon the
day on which the law went into operation many
of tho iaotories closed, the proprietors not being
willing to have the law obeyed. A convention
of manufacturers has since been held at Provi
dence, and it was decided by them that the op
eratives should bargain to labor nine hoars on
Saturdays, and twelve hoars daring the other
working days of the week, or they wonld not
give them employment.— State of Maine.
The Savannah Georgian pertinently asks—
dWhat is the difference, in this case, between
voluntary and involuntary servitude I”
h An Unfortunate Speculation. —The Cameroon
- excrescences that have been erected in the vicinity
> of the Now York Crystal Palaee, fortunately for
1 the publio, have proved a bad speculation for
1 those interested in them. The Journal of Com
i merce says:
“ The groggeries and pnppet shows that sprung
- up with the rapidity of the prophet's gourd, ana
as plentifully as Egyptian frogs, in the vicinity of
tho Crystal Palace, now presents a mournful speo
taele. Public sentiment struok them with blight
, aud mildew, and about half of them have already
; disappeared. Buildings are left in an unfinished
1 state, and the omiDons words “To Let” are con
l spicuonsly placarded. Their owners calculated
i too largely npon the depravity of the race.”
i *
, Commercial College. —O. K. Chambiriln, of
, Baltimore, has established a commercial oollege,
in which the coarse of study embraces Double
Entry Book Keeping, and its adaption to rations
branches of trade ; with lectures on Commeroial
Law, and Commercial Science, Mercantile Calcu
lations, Practical Penmanship, and every other
branch necessary for a merchant to understand.—
Such an institution, if properly conducted, moat
be of incalculable value to those young men des
tined for commercial pursuits, who cau avail
themselves of its advantages. Thousands upon
thousands who euterinto mercantile pursuits, fail
for no other reason than the want of proper train
ing. As well might the young man expect suooess
in the medical, legal and other learned professions,
without a due course of preparatory studies, as in
the mercantile profession.
The New York Dutehman, thus alludes to
“our” big male, now on exhibition near the Crys
tal Palace:
One of the Mrare— The largest Male ever
raised in this or any other conntry, is now on
40th atreet, opposite the entranpe to theCrye
tsl Palace. He is 19 1-2 hsnds high. Oarread
— -dll have a better notion of hie mnleship,
,fc * heiarhtb of the largest
eio « ' *• ’*’*••
when we state uia. - - _
ca-riage horsea seldom go over 16 nanus. -
mulo weighs 2,280 lbs., which is a thousand
pounds more that the average weight of horses.
He was raised by a colonel Howard of Geor
gia and is, without any dispute, the finest spe
cimen of Southern manufacture ever seen north
ot Mason * Dixon’s line. Georgia can go np
head! New York can raise as Urge asses as any
Other State. Look for instance, at one or two of
the managers of the Crystal Palace- In way of
of Mules, we knock under. The cotton state can
take that hat.
The Board of Director* of the Indiana and Illi
nois Central Railroad concluded s contract on the
10th inst. for the construction and equipment of
the entire line from IndisnapolU to Decatur, with
Messrs. M. C. Story, & Co., of New York. The
contractors furnish 70 per cent, of the entire
amoant necessary to construct and equip the road,
only req airing the company to raise 80 per cent.
Twenty-two thousand dollars per mile includes
every thing, except blasting, and the work is to be
completed by the Ist of December, 1856. Before
the work can be commenced, however, ebook
isoc.ooo of edditioul etoek moil be nM
■iplMlok m tut tut* Rou.
TMa following detsll or the particulars of the
tote explosion on the Bttte Hoed we copy from the
Atlenu IntelUgmoer of the 25 th lost:
On Tharedey lest, while the locomotive ‘Eobnel,’
attach td to to e down freight train on the State
Hoed, wee stopping at a water station, about B
miles above Marietta, the boiler exploded, killing
the oonduotor, Mr. Greeson, and two Tennessee
ans from the Hiwassee Road, and seriously injur
ing several others. Mr. Carlton, a fireman was so
badly injured that one of his arms was obliged to
be amputated. The explosion is represented to
have been terrific, tearing the looomotive in pieces
and throwing fragments of iron weighing seventy
and eighty pounds a distanoe of from eighty to a
hundred yards.
On the ensuing Saturday, the engineer having
been arrested under warrant obtained by the
Superintendent of the Road, underwent an exami
nation before two magistrates at Marietta. From
the evidence elicited at this examination we gather
the following particulars:
The engine was ooming down the Road with a
train of 14 oars attaobed. The soale over the tiro
box was, at the time, out of order and would not
indioate the quantity of steam on the boiler after
the steam rose higher than ISO pounds to the inch.
There was another scale, howev.r, attached to the
engine, between the bell and the smoke stock thut
might have been used. The steam usually carried
on this engine, and others of its class, was 120
pounds, or something less, to the inch—rarely
more than this. At Achworth, contrary to th'o
rules of the road, one of the firemen was ordered
by the engineer to run the engine. At this time
the boiler was very hot, the steam seemed high
and the safety-valve was sorewed down below 120
—bow much below the fireman oould not tell ow
ing to the defeot in the soale. The fireman obeyed
but noticing indications of two tnueh steam, he
called the engineer’s attention to the fact, and said
he did not like to trust the scale, and was afraid
the engine would blow up. The engineer told
him ho must be a fool, ana gave the matter very
little attention.
The fireman continued to run the ongine till
they reaohed Moon’s Station, some 4 miles from
Ackworth, tho engineer in the meautime being
seated either on tho tender or on the top of the
first ear, where he oould see what was done.
Upon arriving at Moon’s Station, tho locomo
tivo was still very hot—the Bteam was blowing off
with a tremendous noise—jets of water were issu -
ing through the seams and rivet holes ot tho boil
er, and the engine after being stopped, kept up a
restless rooking motion on the rails. After wait
ing a short time for another train just ahead to gel
ont of the way, this one moved up and stopped in
a proper position to t-ke in wood and wuter. In
a minute or two afterwards the explosion ooour
red.
The engineer escaped almost unhurt, but was
blown down from his position on the tender. The
entire hull of the boiler was blown away, leaving
the flues bai e from one end to tho other.
Many of the fragments having been collected,
were inspected by several individuals acoustomod
to work in iron. Among these was W. W. Bald
win, Buperiutondent of Machine Works of tho
State Road, who gave it as his opinion, that no ex
amination of the iron in theoondition it then was,
with the eye alone, would be sufficiently to deter
mine its quality, but so tar os he could judge by
that means, he believod some of it was good and
somo of it of an inferior quality. Other witnesses
thought muoh of the iron was bad The engine
was irom the Tredegar Works, Richmond.
Tho Magistrates, utter considering the evidence,
discharged the prisoner.
ThxComxt.— We find tho following in the Charles
ton Standard, in relation to the Comet, whieh,
when the Bky is dear, is visible between 7 and 9
o’clock in the evening:
It may be seen at that time a little north of wost,
about 1« # above tho horizon, or, as the plow-boy
would say, about an hour high. The nucleus ia
bright, and the tail, which streams uwards, is easi
ly seen by a good eye.
This Comet was first noticed by M. Klinkerfns,
at Gottingen, on the 10th of Jnne last. On the 28th
July, at 52 minates past 3, it was seen at tho Na
tional Obsorvatory at Washington. Mr. Ferguson
then fixed its position as a little north of a group
ot stars in Leo Minor; right aseension, 2‘ 44''; de
clination 6' 24".
Its porihelion passage is on tho 27th of this
month, before whioh time it will probably bo still
brighter than now.
Us approximate elements, as oomputed by M.
Brubns, of Berlin, are as follows:
Perihelion passage, August 27th, 213 M. time
Berlin.
Longitude of the perihelion 810° 81' 12.1”.
Place of the ascending node 140° 50’ 27.6”.
Indination 69° 54' 28.1".
Longitude of perihdion distanoe, 0,491,256
motion.
Tho American Almanac for 1858, though con
taining a long article on the reoent discoveries of
Comets, makoß no mention of this one, we tlioro
fore conclude that it comes an unexpected visitor
to our side of space.
Artesian Well. —The Artesian Well, (says the
Montgomery Journal,) on Conrt House square,
runs freely a beautiful, pure stream of excellent
water—suffident for ail necessary purposes.
Yillow Fetes in Mobile. —The deaths from
Yellow Fever in Mobile on Monday lost were four.
The disease was thought to be diminishing.
There were five deaths from Yellow Fever
in Mobile on Tuesday last, the 28rd inst.
The Washington Republio says tbat it iB not
true tbat the Secretary of the Treasury has ab
solutely purohaaed the old United States Bank
property adjoining tho onstom-house in Wall
street, New-York. He has, however, leased the
building, at an annual rent of 852,000, with a
privilege of purchase. Congress will probaly
make the necessary appropriation for the purpose
at its nextsessioD, when the purohase will be com
pleted for the sum of 8620,000. The buiidng,
and certain extensive additions to bo made there
to, will be appropriated to tho use of the United
States assay office and the oustom-house, whioh
latter branch of publio servioe in the great com
mercial entreport already flDds itself cramped in
ita still new an<f prinooiy mansion. A new build
ing, to be erected immediately in the rear of the
bank buildings, will be appropriated to the me
ohanical purposes of the essay office. Possessaion of
tho property leased (now occupied by the Bank
of tho State of New York and tho Bank of Com
merce) is to be given on the 15th of September.
The Secretary of the Treasury has given no
tice to the holders of the eix per oent.stocks of tho
loan authorized by the act of April, 15, 1842, and
redeemable 81st Deccmbor, 1882, and also to the
holders of the six per oent. stocks of the loan au
thorized by the aotof July, 1846, redeemable 12th
November, 1856, that the Treasury Department is
prepared to purchase before the first day of De
cember next to the extent of two millions of said
stock, at a premium of sixteen per oent. on the
Btocks of’42, redeemable in ’62 and of eight and a
half per cent, on the stocks of ’46, redeemable ’56,
together with interest on the par of the certificate
from the Ist July last to tho date of the receipt
and settlement at the Treasury, with an allowance
of one day’s additional interest for tho money to
reach the owner.
Da. J. W. Lewis, an Independent Secession
Candidate for Congress, in the 6th Congressional
District, has withdrawn from the canvass.
H super fob Sm-thmbeh, a complete number has
been laid on onr table by Messrs. Geo. A. Oates &
Co., and McKinne & Ham..
It is said that sixty dozen of bottles of Congress
water are exported daily from Saratoga Springs.
The new owners et the Bedford Springs in Penn*
sylvania intend to export those waters largely in
bottles. Their virtues are of a high character, and
if placed within the reaoh of consumers at a rea
sonable price, will be very extensively consumed.
An “Umbrella Association” has oommenocd op
erations in London for the purpose of hiring out
umbrellas and parasolß in wet and sultry weather;
the borrower to lodge a shilling for tho safe return
of tho article, and pay a penny an hoar for the loan.
The oompany had already laid in a stook of twenty
live thonßand umbrellas and parasols, and contem
plated establishing several district depots in Lon
don.
Tho Columbus Timet announces the death of a
much esteemed friend and townsman, Lock Weems
Esq. He died at his residence in Wynnton at II
o’olock on the night of the 36th inst., after an ill
ness of thirteen days, in the 60th year of bis age.
Julien and all his performers, inolading tho cel
ebrated soprano singer, Anna Zerr, have at length
arrived at New York, and Julien will commenco
his concerts at Castle Garden, where the Sontag
opera troupe have jost terminated a successful en
gagement of twenty-four nights.
New Steak Route to England.—' The New
foundland Morning Post learns that the most am
ple means have been adopted by the Newfound
land Telegraph and Steamship Co., to open a di
rect and speedy communication with England
through St. John. It is intended to have four
passenger steamers, guaranteed to make 90 knots
an honr, reaching St. John in six days. It is also
said that intimations have been made that the Co
lline line wonld unite with the new oompany in
making the necessary arrangements for touch
ing at St. John on the voyages to and from Eu
rope with their fine steamers.
An excellent Idea.— The editor of the Phil
adephia American says. “It Is well to be always
suggesting ideas of improvement, or urging the
practical application of those already proposed,
even if, for the moment, the enterprise requisite
to adopt and execute them, oannot be found or
elicited.” This is an idea that prudently enfor
ced will do much for the commercial and In
ternal prosperity of our cities. Many enterpri
ses are never carried out because those in whose
minds they have occurred, have not given the
suggestion pnblicy. The very idea of improve
ment is suggestive of advancement, and it is by
constantly keeping projects of the kind before
the public eye that the spirit of enterprise is an
imated and progress achieved.
Godbt’s Ladt’b Book, for September, conteiaipg
the usual amount 0$ eptertsinlng'rnstter, lend- j
somely illustrated has been laid op our table by
Gko. A. O+tss & Co.
The French papers »ay that the produotion of
Tobacco and Cotton is being greatly increased in
Algeria. In 1860, only 800 acres were cultivated.
Tn 186*. 8000 acres—or nearly seven tines as much
as the JS« before. In 1858. VO.OOO aeres-o, J
nearly 85 times as much ** to
The French papers consider it a fixed /act new,
that cotton will be very extensively and profitably
cultivated in their colony, and they compare it in
richness to Australia and California.
The U. 8. mail steamship Germania, arrived at
New York on Thursday from Bremen, whioh she
left on the 3d inst., with a heavy mail, a full cargo
of merchandise and 316 passengers.
The Dutch war steamer Amsterdam arrived at
New York on Thursday. She brings goods for the
Crystal Palace Exhibition. The Dutoh Oommi
sion had arrived previously. She exchanged sa
lutes on her arrival, with fort Columbns, Gover
nor’s Islands.
Tbs Earl of Ellesmore, in taking leave of the
authorities of Boston, says: “ I have seldom left a
city with more regret or with mots dastre to ro>
t urnf 1
(krmpondw <g ), C <£ Sentinel
ST. Ait t, August 19, 1808.
The popular election of a weak, unreliable PreaU
dent is likely to result iu important political
obangesln the Northern, if not in the Southern
States; and many in this quurter «f the Union are
desirous of learning what Iho intelligent people of
the South thiuk of the facility with which Gen.
Tierce has stepped off the Baltimore Platform, and
taken his stand on that erected at Buffalo by Van
Buron, Adams, Dix and Gates? Dix, the Frce
soil candidate for Governor in 1848, who ran on
the same ticket with Setli M. Gatos, a dyed-in-the
wool Abolitionist, lias nover discarded his aboli
tion associations; and National Democrats con
sider Gates and Adams, who wore associated w ith
Van Buren and Dix, as far more entitled to office
and confidence, under tho presold Administration,
than a majority of tho Frecaoilcrs appointed by
Gen. Pierco. Esau was pitied when hunger, ap
parently, oonstrained him to soli his birthright for
a moss of pottage; but whs can sympathize with
a President in his trouble, who lias, in sheer folly,
thrown away his own reputation, the public offices
of an empire, and gained nothing hut a harvest of
contempt, and perhaps a rotten cabbugo grown at
Kinderbook 1
Sooomplotoly intbo power of tho Abolitionists
is tho President, that liis organ, the Washington
Union, has attempted to read the Albany Argua
out of the Democratic party, for rebuking tho Fiee
soil pots of the Administration in the following
manner:
From the Albany Argus (f \Vh August.
Tho Syracuse Stands'a, a sheet of the Albany
Atlas and Washington Union stripe, thus discours
ed on tho 16th August iust, on tho subjiot of
slavery:—
“No man bus any right to hold his fellow man
in slavery; consequently tho slaveholders are
morally hound to tree their slaves without asking
any compensation tor them. If there exists ui-y
where a claim for damages, it is oil the part of tho
, slaves them-elves, and not their musters, who
liavo appropriated their surplus earnings. Buying
mon ont ot bondage never should ho countenanc
ed. because it is an acknowledgment of the justice
1 of slavory, and Inis no other tendency than to per
petnato the system.”
Tho Standard claims to bo Democratic— nay,
more than that. It is a “united and harmonious”
Democratic sheet— in full communion tm mutters
now stand, with “tho united Domocrucy ot New
York.”
How long is tho Demooraey of this Slat, to suf
fer in character by an association with such out
and-out Abolitionists as tho partizaus for whom
tho Standard speaks ?
Sifted to tho bottom, tho doctrine of the Standard
would niako tho rights ot properly depend not on
law or ooustitutious, but tho peculiar notions of
right which each member of the community might
ohance to entortain. The law makes land proper
ty; bntsnoh a statute is to bo null and void with
one who regurds tho soil us not u saleable com
modity I Nearly all onr Froosoil prossos, whethor
of tho “higher law” Seward party, or higher law
Picrco party, aro opposod on principle to paying
for slaves nndcr any circumstances. The Conser
vative men of tho North soc that this new Demo
oratio crood reaches beyond slavo property. It is
the foundation of anti-routism, votc-yoursolf-a
farm, and disloyulty to Law iu every form.
Tho slaveholders of Georgia must Boon dccldo at
tho ballot box for tho policy udvocatod by such
j mruals as tho Albany Argus; or for thut so clear
ly indiuutod by the Syracuse Standard. Now York
and Georgia aro empire Statea; and tlieir oloelora
can, if they wilt, put a quietus on this uud all kin
drod ultraism, so dangerous, if licglootcd, to tho
best interests of tho country. If tl.o people v.f tho
“ Empire Stale of the South ” virtually repudiate
their distinguished statosmau, tho uutlior ot tho
GoorgiA Platform, who is in no aenso a partizan,
and eloct for their Governor an ultraist who advo
cated the calling of a Southern Congress by State
Legislatures,—a revolutionary movement unau
thorized by tho Constitution and threatening ita
subversion—the effect at tho North will bo moat
disheartening to thoso who are laboring to put
down all abolition agitators of whatever purty. II
the slaveholders of Georgia e ill not Bustuin such a
national and elevated character us Ciiarlhs J.
Jkneins, they may rest assured that no suolt na
tional statesmen as Duniol S. Dickinson will ovor
again bo honored with the publio oouUdonuo iu the
Stute of.New York. Dickinson mid liis friends
have made great personal sacrifices on the oltar of
patriotism; while Marcy, with more easy virtue,
has sold himself to u faction which recognizes tho
Syraoußo Standard us one of itu übloat champions.
It will boa dark day when tho oountiy soes the
wise and patriotic pooplo of Georgia so mistake
their own interests us to rejoot tho Compromise,
known as tho Georgia Platform. The antecedents
of Mr. Johnson aro such as identify him with all
that is most distasteful to Luw uud Order men.
Considering tho foot that tho dootrinos of tl.o Froo
soil Standard, in reference to slavo property, are
taught by, probably, ovor one hundred Adminis
tration journals in tho freo States, it is certainly a
grave matter for the people of Georgia to strengthen
abolitionism by electing on ultraist tlioir Govornor,
supported by tho Washington Union, witli John
A. Dix, the quondam Abolition candidate for Gov
ernor in thin State, on tho principle of coalition.
Tho Union is owned and edited by Southorn men,
and yet the Albany Argus, which has stood ns a
laud-mark of Demooraey for nearly a half century,
thus robukes tho Abolition sympathies of tho offi
cial organ at tiui Federal Metropolis:
“Tho Washington Union oertainiy has aright
to form and cultivnto such ucquuintnnccs and ce
ment such alliances in this Sluio as its own tastes
may dictate; but it lias no right to force repug
nant associations upon tho Democracy of this
Btato. Thoy prefer neither to bo Froesoilcd nor
Abolitionizod, by indirection or otbcrwiHo, at tho
whim or caprice of strangers to our local division,
or, us thoy lmvo good grounds to suspect, eo udju
torH with thoir Freusoil and Abolition oppo
nents.”
While supporting Freesoilers and Abolitionists
in Now York, tho Union equally sustains Seces
sionists in Georgia. Gerritt Smith and Samuel
Adams claim to bo Dcnjocrats; and who can sny
that thoir tittle is not as good ns that of Johnson
and Colquitt? Honest men of all parties should
unito to put down this unholy eoulition whoso
principles, while they strike at slavory first, aim*
deadly blow at tho foundation of all property.
> Clinton.
Pacduo Railroad Subvet. —The National Intel
ligencer of Wednesday says: ■ rs
We learn that Col. Fremont left Washington
yesterday to commcneo his explorations of the
country between the Mbsissippi and the Pacific,
and especially in tho Rocky Mountains and Sierra
Nevada. He proooeds to the Missouri frontier,nnd
will go over the routo which ho proposed in 1848
-’49, when he was stopped by the deop snows.
Behoving ina practicable pass through the moun
tains, and a good route that way, ho ineonsto solve
the quoslion to his own satisfaction. Forfhst pur
pose he proposes to make a double expedition,
one in tho sntumu nnd one in the «!tV.fsr,-going
out, before the snows fall, to seethe fnooof the
oountry, and returning ofter tho snows, and in
them, to uncertain their depth and prevalence, 110
deem* nwinler exploration necessary, and proposes
to bo again at the bead of tho Del Norte at tl.o
same sensor, that his progress wus Impeded there
in 1848-’4».
We understand that in making this expedition
Col. Fremont lias no connection with the Govern
ment, or with sny company, and that he tukes
with him an escort of Indians and mountain men.
Tub Late Indian Fihht on tub I’lains. —ln the
Platte Argus of the stli inst., wo find on account
of the lato fight among the Indians of llio Plains,
From this account wo gather that tho number of
Pawnees, lowus,Ottoes, Ac., on the ono side were
eight or nine hundred, and of Bioux and Cheyen
nes ono thousand.
The Sioux first attacked the Otloes and iowes,
and being beaten off turned upon tho Pawnees,
who it seems woro not then with tho Ottoes and
lowas, but immediately joined them. The Unlit
was maintained till 3 o'clock in tho afternoon,
whou a band of Sues and Pottawatomies, who
had been with tho Ottoes in the morning, came
back und joined them. Tho fight went on, when
tho Sioux and Choyonnos took to flight and were
pursued until night. Ten of tho Sioux uad Chey
ennes were left dead upon llio field ; a number
more wore killed and wounded. On tho part of
the combined detachments, ono lowa was left dead
on the fie!d;ono Ottoe was killud; 13 Pawnee war
riors and Roveral women and children wero also
killed. Wounded: 4 lowas, 10 Ottoes, 2 Sacs,
4 Pottawatomies, and about 20 Pawnees. Several
ot tho wounded havo died. The ten Sioux and
Cheyenne warriors found dead on the field of bat
tle wero scalped, and the conquerors celebrated
their viotory in tho usual Indian mode. This is
the second time tho smaller tribes of the Missouri
have boon victories oil the Plains within tho lust
sow years; the first time was against the Cuuian
ohon and Cheyennes.— St. Louis Inleligencer.
I Goon Ceowino.—Mr. Kendall, ono of tho editors
. of the Now Orleans Picayune, in a recent letter '
( from Paris, says:
“I feel a disposition to crow this morning. Do
1 not our clippers outsail them ail, our steamers out
run them all, onr Colt’s revolvers outshoot them
i all, and onr thrashing machines outthrash them all,
or thrash them ail, if you will ? If a man on this
side wishes to keep Ms throat moist, dues ho not
swallow an American julep, cobblor, or cocktail f
If he wishes to keep his feet dry, docs he not wear
an American over-shoe ? If iio wishes to keep
his blood purified, does ho not use American saisa
parilla and pills ? If ho wishes to kocp ahead on
tho road, does ho not buy an American trolter ? If
1 he wishes to keep warm, does lie not procure an
, American stove ? If ho wishes to keep pool, (iopg
he not send for American ice.f If lie wishes to
keep his money and effects safe, docs lie not pur
chase one of Hobh’s American locks 1 If ho wish- .
es to keep himself and family from want or starve
tion, does lie not go to America, or turn his eyes tjssl
and thoughts in that direction ? 1 tell you that j S 3
feel Chapmanlsb this morning—repeat, that 1 havo '
a desire to crow, and lustily, over the handiwork
and advantage--: pf wy own (jopntrjmcn t
i* Are npt American authors now more read tho
any other* on tbia side ? Certainly. «'■ ,
tereac&Fr ° b * in “
Mureav to h« F « ? oah W ' b9,cr u,ld Undlcy
• r* 'V* 0 . *<*« schools where the ism
I **««« 4S taught in its purity. In hiatorv Imv the.
[ occupy the front rank ? And in po tn Ue nf
1 *nd sculpture, do we not tuhe prudence » Are
not tho works qf Bryant, Hawthorne, Lone It-1 low*
Poe, Cooper and Towers, and a ho« ofotW
r6V ° re,Jte « OM world i'jJJ
I Aid to IVew Orlrani,
The following lettorspeaka tor itself, and is com
manded to the attention of the public :
Exchange Bciidinos, 1
Baltimore, Aog 17, 1858. j
DeauPib I take pleasure in acknowledging the
receipt, through you, from the “ Kunkel Opera
Troupe,” of $225 10 as a contribution In aid oftliQ
relief fnnd being mired ip this city, for the altliot
ed poor of the pity of New Orleans.
This spontaneous and generous act, on the part
of the gentlemen of your troupo, needs no com
ment at my hunds. They have u pleasurable re
ward in the knowledge of having had tho opportu
tv of using their professional talent in assuaging
the affliction of a portion ol their fel|owelti*en».
1 will hand the nnioupt over to Mr. J. Bruuo.the
President of the Board of Trade, to be transmitted
to Now Orleans, with a knowledge of tho souroe
whence it oame. Yours, with respect,
Gko, P. Kan«,
Chairman of the Committee,
John T. Ford, Esq., Ageni Kunkle Opera Troupe.
George Stunder, the editor of the Demooratlo
Beview, end leader of the Young Amerioa division
of the Democracy, has st last been commissioned
Ocnnl el London.