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Th. oorr»pool«ic« tram tt« Allied C.mpen
_ jM ih lutb of Noiember, end rel»te«
eolXtoih. hutti*of Ihe.rmiee, the
end the Allies being both then cndercoeer.
„ T „gSiATOF War Aeeoant* from the Cri
m .., nt ••'•'h'he lfae...D* end
par ed tor Ihe .inter end under cover. The
were stilt upprebendinß so attack from the Bns
•ijni It .a* report-d ibnt bomtierdmcnt of the
north »I ie of Seoeetopot in comtempletioo for
t“e parpie o, en.bung the sl.i.i fi«f. to winter
16 Me* ; town ei uUe 1 on tl-e north eo»n
of the ere of Artff, wab bombarded bj the aUiea
on the 2> hos OAuber »Dd net on Are. When an
A oatrien merchant hoi lit d the AOBlrian flag over
hi, waretonae the Ann* cearei.
It »K rumored that Oen. W rsngle menaces the
a'iis 1 position in the Straits of Venikale. The
al ies bad 80,000 troupe, there and were expecting
ia'ge rein orcemsotf.
A large allied force had e . barked at Eopstons
and sailed westward.
Asia —There ie nothing U.ct of in'erest from
Kerr. Omar l asha’e vanguard had reached
Gknm. _ , „ _
FiioM tbs Baltic.—Adm rale Bundle an l f on
and, *itha part of thiir fleet*, were in the bay of
K e •
An alliel eteam’r wan on the watch io the Bal
tic for en American cl-pper bur posed to bi in those
waters with a cargo of revolvers tor Kiss.a.
j- was rumored that Gtno-.l Wr ngle met-aesd
tho A lied pcs tion at the S r„i »of Venikale. The
A lies r a I, however, 3 '/.! JO men there, end expect
to toe mint-<rced b, 15 Ood.
The London Tto.ei pablirhes the elaborate ed
Uorielcnc Idions ehuwinz that the totel avalieble
strength of B i-eie is t 3 per tbou-and souls: and
that she has already u-tdsß, wiiich sllowscnly ten
months more, at ihe present ratio, to exaaaet
her IK man, her last cash rouble bti g edeady
expended. A general ermanent of the Euseiau
E noire 1" talked of. .
Tb': Maritime Administration at Nrcolc ff is
placed under the order- of General L’lders, to
whom, in this respec, Gortecl akoff is to be sub
ordinate.
It is believed the C ngress of Bas-ian Diplo
ma’. that was to take place it Warsaw will be held
at fit. Ee.orsbu'gh soon
A despatch from Harhn nf tv** A • w "
The * .xvwri*ed at Bt. PaUcwburg <» the ‘
U y»■ r r »«& ' > ».oter to* Army.
as, LA *Ti** oor.de b'iv 0 o! thft Lih *ay. that,
during the pttd tounigh*, no h»d reach
ed K t- r -is -rota r >* " ,r •’ -***''’
** Jne bmyrae itotpu* .»* oeen *v satiated wd
Ar»i.w«;, Mi »'i t a»« f t and German X»*
* (iHtAT Britah*.—Prince Albert laid the found®
lion of the Birmingham loAtitute. At the great
be' quel g v'mj on ihe occasion noth.ng was s®id
rufpioiin/ the war or politic*.
The military campaign being • nded, and the
poiiti al cttnpa gn not opaned, speculation is in
dulged in m io me probable action of Parliament.
Mho miniateriaioourte ie evident. There ure few de
V)ft , .e« and many eaiimatee. Thecour«ool the op
position 1» iea« clear, but a ill likely force to a
du'aolution. „ a i
l)oke of Atgyle in now Poß’nna«ter General,
retaining, »Q the meantime, the office of Lord o?
the Privy Seal, which otlise, rumor »ays will be
given to the Luke of Nowcaw'le.
A petition in circulating in Liverpool for the
ro »ftiib isbment of tbe Kingdom of Poland.
The report ot the Commishion on the recent
il,<iu Park riots ie published. The conduct of
individual policeman i* ceneur .d, bat the general
forbearance of the force commanded.
( ept K .bert MoUlure, the Arctio navigator, is
krrgntcd.
G.:n. Markham i* dead. lie returned to En
gland in bad health a ft or the fa l of Sebastopol.
Lr. LhiVigai* | rcminently before the public,
from a.v ral paper® endeavoring to discredit bis
stitomoats rogaiding his services within Sebasto
pol.
France —All the French gunboats and mortar
vc:v«:!h wintern aut Cherbourg, and the ships
of the Baltic fleet are cxj.eited there.
The Rothschilds have purchased the Russian
pru sh i* Silks, taken at Pelropaulowski, for
M 138,000 (?)
The 1 1 'emotional Convention on a uniformity
of weights and meanur b, had r ei I its third meet
ir.g in the Ex; osilion building. An address from
the American Geographical and Statistical Society
w.s otd.
Bmhop Bongo*, of Montreal, has reached Havre
0:1 hi.* wa> home from R >mo.
Tho lunor dol M. Fmilet, the oalebratod Parisian
lawyer, attended by many notables.
Adm rit Baud a in appo nted Governor of
French G liana aud admiral cf tho tquadror, vico
Bo i j\ s.ck.
Stain —Reinloroorneuta of troops have been or
d«ro 1 t STwofß*, where fur.nor disturbances
wore apprehended, tho local authorities having
prounaod moro to tne rioters than the government
would sanction.
The Spanish government are to be
unudmous in fovor of joining the Alliance, but
l h i ocs» ion ii defe'rod until Spaiu can appear as
*gna’ nati m At pits ml, she has no spare money,
Lor soldiers.
G u ZiWulu wu*< dcs rouß of having carumand of
tho Ou indent, and bei g discontemtid at another
Go eral bung a ukon of, wiiJ, probably, rotiro
Irctn the Cabinot.
Belgium —Tlie estimator* of revonne show a do
fluit of eight millior s ot francs, caused by the vote
ct ’woivuand a halt millions for the deleuceot the
exintry, at.d tho relitf of distress
P U 'lxiA —Bubsciipiions for shares on the Lrtiil
A!ob lur 0| ea Dec. lOtl*.
Italv.—For the Sardinian financial estimates a
loan • f s* y milliou irai ea is proposed.
Ru sia—According to rjj 01 s irom the Prussian
port ol Meui‘*l, gnat quantities of sulphur, saltpe
tr-, a..d o'her articles c u.iraband of war outiuue
t) bo slul over tho frontier, tho parties iuthetrade
Insuring, for u small premium, itadelivery in Rus
sian territory.
I k.Ac* Ri li ks and Negotiations.—The London
Po«l • oniradictsa alory put forth by tho Tunes
that CiMrobert on tho part of tho allies had conclu
ded a iron’y with Sweden, by which that power
was to cu’er active y into the Western alliances
by land i-.i-d sta. in considoralion of which the
allies wote to restore to wwe iou ner anciet t pos
ss hion ot F.tiland. Also that Denmark had
given in horaitmeiou to the case of the allies.
■n»» rumored disposition of Russia to make fur
Iher tt |vanes 'owsrds peac*, are s'ao considered
unto indod. I was eon Manny repined, however,
thalth) Prussian Eu\oy t*S. Petersburg hud
v.h io 1 the ('sir at Nio Oaieff, with the view of in
<iocin < him to recogn zi cerUin < ondttions as a
bisis K r peace negotiations, and that tho Csar lis
toned favorably Tho Pruvoan Cabinet had made
knuwn the Czut’s view* to the Wes'ern Powers,
who declared 'h. m insufficient, bu* Knss a and
Prussia ure still prcoeding, and the Co m ut Bar
li iis milking the greatest eff rs to .i d ci iha
r a«r to c u'out to terms of p s «C’. Theconlir.ua-
Do jof i l e o i.ego iat on * < tfjred toms hop j of
there be i- g chances for peace.
Turkey. — Letters from Constant'nople describo
abal '• ate of »• lla is as cx st : ng there. Murders
atitl lobberte* we*o being vommi'ted in the open
• root*, and thero were ovideuocs of increasing
fanaticism again 4 Christens, espcc aly the
Fr» n-;h. The evil was b » serious the' tho allied
com man iers had ca'lod on the To kish Govern
nnnt ’o prevent further outrages, uudor the threat
cf tsking the pol o > regulations of the city in thtir
own hands.
Kvksia.— A do-qatch from Berlin states that the
ia i na iroui tne German capital a b hud teen
cotc udad.
Ti e « zir arrived at St. Poten-b rrg on the 19 h.
Great Britain —Henry Ltßouo .oris has boon
appointed of the Colonies.
At Man ht s'er 8,4*J0 op natives were on a strike.
TI oy had behaved poaceab'y.
Franck.—The King of Sardinia is in Pars, aud
has met a favorable reception. The Pope,s Nun
ei* lef Pans the sauio day, in order to avoid meet
ing him.
It is reported that the Emperor Napoleon has
iuvitod ilie Pope to baptise hie eipected heir.
All the French gnnbou s and molar vesetls are
wintering ut Cherbourg.
Spain —Reiuforcemcuts of troops are beiugfent
to Svagosea, where further disturbances are ap
pro hen fed.
The Spanish Govar menl is reported to • a unan
imous m lavor ot joiuing the alliance, but the
oceas ru is deferred.
Denmark. —The Bound Dues Couve ition was
to boopeued at Opeuhagon on the ‘.Oth of No
vember. Russia s the only power that proposes
sending a special envoy, the other Governments
accredimg their resident ambassadors.
St. Petersburg letters state that in consequence
ot the tacililias from frost, it is believed tha groat
quantities of linseed will be exported overland;
and that tho general experts after December
would be sufficient to produce n rally in the rates
of exchange. Groat quau'ilies of Buiphnr, Salt
petre, and other ccmlrahaud articles continue to be
» nt over the fronti r from Nemel.
Gmssci —King O.ho cpmed the Parliament on
the IStli l it. Ho promises to prcse*ve neutrsl
Hy.
The d ffic ilties with the United States have be3n
Fettled to the satisfaction cf all tho parlies inter
ested.
Tki LcU*t.
London, Saturday.—lt is comidently stated that
Lord Palmerston ha* deter i.rned on aa immedi
ate diss ’u'i n of Parliament, aud to cail a uew
cue by February.
Denmark.—Cofknhaoen, Friday.—?anrobert ar
riv«s here to m rrow, and will stay at the Hotel
errs. On Monday ha will have an au
dience w th ti e King at the Palace ot Christinnberg.
Hi is * xpeeled to remain here a week. The Post
says, we can s ate ou authority that there is at
present no ol üßwedish a liance, ai.dthat
Ine stKOinents as.ich published re- ,
spcvtug a mil.tary convouticn and its terms, are
purely imsffirary.
Tho iament ot Euglacd wi’i m eel abent the ,
usual » me, namely, the eud of January o* the be- ,
giond g ot F hrr.»ry.
The death of L dy E is Smart Wort’ey is
announced. She died at B yrcut ou tha night of
the S 9. » clt.
\\ AR IN Asia —The Moniteur publish fol
lowing, vlated ConstaDtiticpi , Hth N. v.:
“According to last see unts, Omar Pacha was
expect v * * ettio. Gen. M had detxched a
ilivi>i' , >n trem his arm , which wa' advan ing by
Mrcd march*s on Kutar*, by Aksi'ka R'-a-l.
About S.c<-0 Turks, under Ma>l a Pacha, had left
Batonm to try acd cut cff this detachment. Ear y
iu tho mon'h they bad reached and the
comm* d r in chief bsdo them inset him at Ku
tur>-, which will become the theatre of some im
porta! e g*gement, nrle?e the Russians intend
entrev :i g themselves in tne defiles which pro
tects tho a<:var.ee O i T fl«s.
Bxjuin, Friday.—The political clrc'es here, espo- J
ea lv the *'Krcu Z:.tu g,* or Ru"eian party, are |
i»iamph*nU While the Western paop e dread j
(Krmaa treason, they a*e loudly decbr.cf tor t
i ease, or an ad..eai*n with Russ a aa the ailerna
live.
Th* mercan*ils advioea from Paris ccntinue to
describe great steadiu»es.
At Hamburg, the pressure for money appears to 1
ha v e alignlij diminished, bat tho ra.c a htill £
j e* ecu'. t
S . Pet rsourg letters are to tha 18th, and qno'e I £
tb*exchanges at 85. 1
Since the departure of the advance 1 portion of t
ihe at ed fleets, a l umber of suiali ve>*eis had i
1e n u oommunics*io ; with the coa.-tof Fii'.ianct, l
r 'id the lot d -Udd o convey munitions of war,
Ac , to Sweet* rg, was understood to be waitieg
its opportunity.
Tr o 1 n Tost denies acthontativ :ly the al
lodged bwed ab : l.iancc »nd say> Uiat there ia no :
pre»en‘ prosptet of such an event.
L n> S uart Wort ey died at Berout on the JTth
of Oj’oter.
Co'. returned to the Crimea at the end 1
of hie leave of absence. 1
Con tantin'fl*. Nov. 11—The last recounts •
st un Asia .-av O nar Pac a Wis txpectirg battle at 1
Menrarrctn tJ, h*vr g detached a division cf bis
tny which was mekieg forced marchce for
Ku'arx. <
Tn London Times* C T ▼ article of io day ears :
' *he Eavib*h Funds op- ued firm cn Friday bet *
.«>ed doll. 5
Cooiarrrhl In el life nee. s
Lixuroon, Friday evtnmg, Nov. 28.-Cotton <;
A Shiplev’s circular quotes : The market i
lis been doll with but little >recn!stive demand, e
' air qnal t ea have declined \d. and low#»r
t«- >£f. Th<“ft»-e for the we* x foot oporl 85,000 h
t >1 b ;*c uding 15 lOObalestospernlator an * bOxtO li
Is* ?*>r exp *rt; O'e-ne air
fjfd, Dpiand far ~ tniddii.g \ Thf a
• ! ock « ! A'were* nin i rt i* os’imated a 8)0 u(0 b
bsles. ihe sa.ee cf Friday amounted to 5 COO V
bile-: Mobile fair Cotton quoted at 6i., middling •*<
89^1, ord;na ytu go>d or 1 inary inferior o
Stock :n port 428,'>00 bales. tl
ButAjMTcrFs.— Richardscn, 6pcnce A Co. quote i el
The market hate aiightly declined. The market :a Jk
v-'u 1. VVa*at baa declined 21.. F our 61.- ni C »rn
61. Tre ’ a** been favo-n-ile. Oh o Flour
44 .6 ! 45c M r*d Cru 46 -46 1 8‘ *** m«*r
kg' (ii s g dull W n it6 iQ-’. 12 .6 i.a.2*. lid
14-d Wn *a 11«. 4 .nil*. 81. .
The circular* 'ar. much nut the fcllowiog quo
td’.ioi * icr rrsad-’ufa are the rcareet tverege t-ra»
ran be g een Welter o Cana fl >n’ 4d 4 6 1.»43*.j
pod p a «.nd JL timore Hour 44 61. Wmte
COfL 60 ; >»-!low 48s. 61. A l c obi: g dull.
15. rngß ft er* L n -oo circular quote* I r on
i-ti'm. h bars £3 £5 5-; do. on board
£5 fa a£Sl2*.
MoaiT and 'T'Cks —The itoney market is rroro
a’ringeut. The Bank rate« are wholly unchanged.
Bullion baa increased at Bink £58,000. Coreols
hiveadva iced —Oodbolb for money 8&%*58%
American Stock* are quiet and price* unchanged.
Uaded Sut3B Bonds 5N of 1864, 95; Maryland
Sterling 91 ; Pennsylvania s’* 72 74; Pennsylva
via
38-84; Pcnnaylvaoia Central Railroads firot Mort
gage S«iEB-£:erlings S 3 90 ; Illinoia Central 69i
71.
Arecdote of HEHiDA».--Ho.lind*s Theatre, the
handsome a tin the kingdom, was d bti red to a
abort ex a er.ee, bsing io a iy burnt down on the
night of February, 1809, when it had Btooi only 15
year*. The following authentic anecdote in
oecfiOQ with the boi dirg ba«» not before, ai we be
lieve, appeared in print: flo lnndcould never ob
tain a settlement, or eve l an inte'view, on the
subject with bheridan. He hunted him for week-*
and months at hi® own house, a*, the theatre, at
kia n.-aU resorts, bat he w&* nowhere to be been.
At last he tracked him to the et ge door, rushed
in, in *p ;? e of the opposition of thi barley porter,
aud f-iaad the managers on thetßtageconversing
w th a party of gentlemen whom he had invited to
show them the thea'rd. Sheridan saw Holland
approaching, an d knowing that escape win tb s
time impossible, put a bold face on the matter. —
“Ah ! my dear fellow,” exclaimed he, “you are
the very man I wanted to set—you have corre
most apropos. lam truly sorry you have had the
trouble ot calling on me 8) ofteo, but now we are
m f ;t, in a few minutes I shall b at libe'ty; we can
then go into my room,together and settle our afl i-re.
Bot you must decide an important Question
hero. Some cf these genthmen tell me are
co i plaint*, and loudones, that the transmission of
sound ie delec ive in your beautiful theatre, that
ia fac*,the g-.lierie* cannot hear at all, and that ie
the reason why tney have become so noisy of la e.”
“Sound defective! Not hoar I” reiterated the bs
toniabed architect, turning pah, and almost
staggering back, “why it is the most perfect
bonding for sound that ever was erected: I’ll
stake my repute*i j*> oo the eompiG’jt . mo*-
• ground e*s. ,J “:'Ol *ey,” retorted Sheridan; bu
■ bow we’l ; bring the q uestion to ift&ae dtd dtely,
i *rj* then bare a p tph r two in the papers.
\ &q yon, Holland, go m-u place yourself at the back
\ of the upper gallery, w .no • stand her* on the
' alftf i auo ia*U to you. 5 ' •‘CertaiuP ’ idol*
l lißfi “With i~ - r j
1 »•. *:*' ■*.. #'* , y «u.
the arcdiiifcuv tircugL a 1 byrw»»*b of dark ay
leaohed hie dir ant ami eievatea post, “fi )W, Mr.
Holland,” cr ed Sherida”, “are you tbero and
ready I” “Yew,” the immediate answer. “Can
you hear me f” “Porf o ly, perfectly, Mr. Sheri
dan l” “Then I wish you a very good morning.”
So trying ttneriian disappeared, end was two
or tliroe miles off before Ho laud could get
down. Another loDg interval occurred ere ho was
ablo to the fugitive ohii lair again.
Virginia Leoislatork— Gov. Johnson’s Meb
saok —Tne first bieunia! scßdon of the legislature
of Virginia, under the new Constitution, assembled
ut Rtcrrn .nd, or. M*.n lay. O. M Crutchfl)ld was
re elected Speaker of the House of Delegates. The
Governor’s Message is long, occupying teven co!-
um s of the W hig.
The me*-age ©pons wi h a brief ullusiou to the
late tffl-ciion of Portsmouth and Norfolk, and tho
generous sympathy and aid tendered hy the vn
ricus Stat -s 'hroughont the Union. Regret is ex
pressed for the condition cf tho finances ot the
tttito which cannot be represented as in a prospe
rous coud ; tioi». Tho actual amount of the public
debt at the end of tho last fiscal year, exclusive of
the tcmr.orary loan made during the year, was
♦24,705,479 63, consisting of $11,512,479.68 regis
tered and $18,198,000 of coupon bonds, be
ing an increwe in the debt in two preceding fi cal
year?, of $6,668,704.18. The entire receipts of re
ven re into tho treasury, exclusive of the internal
improvement fund and the literary fund, amoun
ted to $1,746,958.09, which, with the balance in
the treasury at the end of the preceding fiscal
year, of $50,691.09, makes a to.a! of $1‘797,649.17.
The warrants drawn on the treasury, for dii
bnreements during the Rams | eriod, ex 3 ud.ng the
came funds, amounted to $2,182,368.10, showing
an actual deficit of $895,018.98, which was provi
ded for by a temporary loan of $400,C00.
Iu addition to his deficit there are appropriations
to be paid amounting to abonl $230,000. Tho in
terest due on the public debt and payable on the
l*t of Jaunary is $727,000.
The »eternal improvements of the Btate are
dwelt upon at consider b e length. O! productive
stocks, the fund for internal .mpr voment holds
$5 ,895,582.46, yielding au interest of more than
w x per cent. Iu loans to internal improvement
companies, secured by mortgages upon the several
woik*, the Commonwealth holds $4,875,273.33.
The internal improvement fund also possesses in
stock of unfinished works, sl4 000,86 '.95, a por
tion of which, when fimshe w.li I econ.-e an
interest b)arn g fund. And it holds in improve
ments completed, but urn'rodne'ive, $2,989 884.
68, inaki g an aggregate c-f ($27,261,C51.87.
The repe* o a 1 lavs upon the subject of usury,
and the purcha-00. Mount V'urnon by the Com
monwealth are recommended.
Attention is called to tho fa lure of tho j int
commission of tho Slat a of Maryland and Virgin
ia, appointed to ruu and tnark the boundary be
tween tho Slates.
The tr.esp:*go concludes with an argument upon
tho futaro s’avo law, couceri ing which the Gover
nor sajs that he has received communications
lrom aeveralof the Norlh'ru States.
From New Mex oo —We have Santa Fo pape s
to the 87th of October. The Gizalte ot tho 6 h
mentions the appointment of Li ut. W. Craig, 81
infantry, as aid to Brig. Gen. Garland, Military
ouimauder of that department of tho army. The
same nap r t-ays that there will b) no hostilities
with the Camancho?.
Gov. Meriwether left Santa Fe on tko Ist ot
October for the States, and will not return until
the spring. Gtu. G:.r.and iumished him an es
cort of drug ona, in order to enable him to have
a talk with the Camancho Indians if he should
meet them ou the way. The same escort conveys
to Fort Leavquworth, thr. a *u>ldi /« who were
tried for muuity and sentenced to le shot, out
the President commuted tin sentence to three
years* hard labor on the works at that post.
The citizens < f Saute Fe gave a public din tr to
Judge Perry E. Brooohns, outhoevoFd h‘s de
parture for the States. ll was atle ded by Gen.
Garland .and other cffieeis of the army, and by
several member* of the Lvgislatare ol New Mexi
co.
During the ab.-et co cf Gov. Meriwether, W. W.
H. Davis, Esq., editor of the Saute Fe Wotkly
Gazette, is tho Acting Governor o. Now Mexico.
The Ga* tte of the 27th stages that ns the traiu of
Messrs. Mij >r aud K rssell was passing across the
plains, on the way to Fort Union, they ore met
by several hundred Ca-uache Indians who deman
ded black uiad. Oi being refused they stopped
thetra n, whipped the uiaj Jomo,aud took what
they wanted. Such demands from theindiaLS are
common, an 1 the Gazette thinks tho Government
shoull laks somi steps to prevent such outrages
ou the merchants a: d other Irvins.
The Ccst < r Gas in Various Cities —A correr
p indent of the Washington Intelligencer gives the
following as tie cost of ga* to private consumers
in forty two cf tho largest cities of the Uuited
Btates
Boston $3 per 1,000 cubic feot; Hartford, $8,50 ;
New Haven, $4; IToviduuce, $8,50; New York,
i $3; Brooklyn, $3 50: Albany, i 4; Troy, $4; Ro
cheater, s3.s>> ; Buffs o, $3 50; Aubnrr, (rosin.)
. $7; Schenectady, $4; Syracuse, |4 ; N wark,
$3 50; Batter-on, $4 ; Philadelphia “City Works,”
1 $2.25; Northern L beities, $3 5); Spring Gar
den, $3 50 ; Movamensing, $3.5'.>; Reading, $8
50; Lancaster, $4; Baltim ’re, $3; Charleston,
$4; Savannah, $4; New Orleans, $5; Galves
i ton, $5 ; Mobile, «5 ; Nashville, 4; Memphis,
$4; Louisvi le, $8 50;Cincinna'i, $3 50; Ind.auapo
lis, $8 75 ; Chicago, $8.50: Milwauk e, $3 50 ; St.
Louis $4.50; Lex’ ngton, Ky., $4; Clevoland, $3.50;
Springfield, $5 ; Diyton, $4; Columbus, $3.50;
Whoel ng, $8.50 ; San Fraucirco, slo—being a
average of $3 97, or 17 cents per 1,000 more than
the cost of gas to private coDsnmeis in W ashing
ton City, which is $3 Si, and 47 cents more than
is paid by the goverumout, the city hotels, Ac.
The company in Washington have thirty miles
ofstreot mains in tho ground, and an annual ave
rage cousnmptiou ot 954,000 cubic feet of gas per
nnle ; iu Baltimore the average is 1,643,C0) cubic
feet tor each mile of pipe ; in Philadelphia it is 2,-
083,000 cubic feet ;in New York, 1,765,t00; iu
Boston. 2,700,0i0; in Albany, 2,100,000, in Brook
lyn, 1,5$ ‘,000; in St. L uis, 1,713,000;iu Charles
ton, 1,948,000, Ac.
The Grave ox Madison.—A correspondin' of
t v e Frcdricksburg News, in Culpepper county,
Va., gives a melancholy pic'U’e of the li st resting
place of the illustrio us Madisor. He lies with h ; s
family, in a grave yard a short dirt nee from bis
house, upon hie estate of Montpelier ; the fami y
cemetery is surrounded by a brick wall, and tht
gate is entirely down. The correspondent says
that not - store marks the great mau’s resting
place ; dark running green txx wraps it wilhver
dure, und the of branches from au old,
leafless chem it tree, receiving itselt against tho
warm enn sky, nod and wave over the dark
moan'a<n. ’Tis a so'era?-, calm and peaceful spot.
The correspondent adds that Mrs. Madison’s re
mains arc in the vault of the Congressional burial
ground in Washington; her direction was to be
in erred oy tne side of her husband, but her son
has never fulfilled her request.
Fiax!—A fire occurred at the Depot of the
Girard A Mobile Railroad, in Girard, btween the
hour* ot 2 aud 8 o’clock, yesterday morning, by
which about one hut drod and twenty-five bags of
Cotton were consumed. fire originated, it is
supposed, from sparks from -i atov<-p : pe. The
watchman was aroused, but being unable to sub
due the flame*, the work of destruction was speedy
and complete— C^lKtnbus
Sturms ex Counterfeit Money and a Plats
fob m a kino Spi bi us Notes —High Oonstab! s
Clark and Jounson, last night, succeeded in ee
curing a bundle o- the new counterfeit five dollar
bills of the M chanted Benk. They also secured
a handsomely executed plate, designed tr print
ingspurioua threes on the Marcher t’s Bark rs
New Haven, Conn. Tho plate is well executed,
but fortutaiely the officers got bold of it b.ito»e
any impressions lad beeu taken from it. ihe
■Mime olhoers are -anguine of getting prs-e-sion of
the plate from which \ho counterfeit Mechanics’
fives are printed. They also hope to get ho d of
other plates used in the manufacture of this spu
ricu* trash. We learn that the plate used in raa
kiu.fr the counterfeits on the Mechanics* B*uk h?s
been altered so at to make it still better calculated
to deceive. Its seizure is au important matter. —
Fhtl*. BuiUUn.
Hxalth cr General Bethcne.—We regret to
learn,since our last issue, that it,has tern deemed
uecass&r by his physicians to amputate the l:g ol
General Brthane, the fracture of which occurred
on Monday. The operation was performed by
Drs. Stewart, B ximan, and Taggie, with their
usual skdl, ar.d we are informed that General B.
is ikw d ng a a we las could be expected.— Cl ium-
T*rnts.
Eoea Durit g the present week, large quanti
e* of brgs have j asse t through this c iy #a routs
ijarw.criUootbe-n markets. We have never
lh,r * re tex * shipped thi* year,
e «nlry. We uaSersUcd th»t
the'rn *- rfth. 's® ln Itis fessju. »cd
«ack7 frC ", *:?
Lumber of bogs is far short of k W h ;t ****** \t\
year, but the super o itv in s «, w i ,
the deic eicyia namter.—Dgu n Expoeiter** *° T
or thx Steamboat Empire. 7
o’clock Thursday evening, when ihe steamboat
Empire was about S 5 miles from this city, *be ran
foul o! the wreck of the steamer Aberdeer, sunk
some years since. The collision was :o violent
that her plank eg and timbers were stove in, and
she began immediate yto sink. In a half cr three
quarters of an boar her stern had settled in 12 feet
water, while her bow ay high up on tho wreck
which had caused her destruction. Her passen
gers were tales eff by the steamer Mee?eoger,
bound up. and ca*rie*i to Prairie Bluff. from which
landing they were taken by the Keatner Maguolia
ard brought down to rbi* c.ty. Most of thw ©ag >
and fix’nres of the Empire will be saved. Tie
boa» vis partially insured aud was ow ed bv
Cox, B'aicard A Co., who, we regret to i
see, are peculiarly unfortunate, as itis but a week
or two sirce they leal the B*Uie Span by fire ; but
they have so or. ary boats on the rivers that their i
chances of loss are greater than these of others.— 1
A LhU Adi., 4 tk in*. \
Ojrr(9pcnatn/se *f the Baltimore
■WA*»BiyoTON, Die 6 1®55.
Pr o- to the hour for bae>? e** thi* roo»n * g
membr* »ere *• a mt'le 1 in pr u 8 n ra • - '
b c Waof h» ha’l d p s ctsother
virioua cmdiHate for h- *p ker hp. A qui t 1
etrue- seemed to p r ad few* oe b
»*’d »hn aid to r t ey e®' edter
8 at* with team* apparet t <1 termi tion t
y Id nothi g 4th ir art pr dile tio s with
which ’ ey 1 ft th m la.-t eve i g.
Immed ae 'a o the la*-t ora of the jo 1
was read a m tion was qu ck y ma le to pr ceel
r iih the b lot g for ap ak r. The f lowing
vote*, w re then t;?en in rapid s c ession, thi
only voices heard b«ing the Ca:l of t e cltrk,
aca ths r spoLses, wi h the announcement of
the result by the judges:
Bal ot 1 .
18th 17th 18 th lr.h 20th 21st
Richardsop. Dern .. 72 78 72 71 71 71
Campbell, Kern"' 79 69 02 57 43 46
Banks, Free Sil 6 14 19 18 23 21
Fuller, old line]Wb'g 20 21 21 23 22 21
W heeler, American.. 10 11 1) 11 12 13
Fm th,o' Ala, Am-r. 14 10 11 1') 8 7
Pinnngton,rmion . 9 10 11 14 19 2)
W r ola number of votes cast 118— n cess ry to
a choice 110. Thera we*c about ten scattering
votes on e ch b 11 t
Be'or* commencing frs: bsl ot to da~,»he
name of Humphrey Ma s v a ! ’, ’he Ni-‘i>nal Ame
re n candidate, was w thd awn, wh ch ciu e l
sma surprise and specu * on The Maryland
vo*cd frst'or Wm R Sm th, of Al -
bma and I h* n for John Whse er, cf New York,
the “fcari” /mrcan veta waa dvided
h*- ugh'ut the b 11 ting be'ween Fmth ani
Who er. Mr. whe ler sfn o d Uicfcin on m n.
rlut*d a« a “ta*d ’ Din ora', a d n opio t n
othe Ad -n’n s ratiin. He is a s und national
man, h h a ways o. posed the “eof.” Dimocr . i:
f ct on of hi* i arty an t we t at an t anv furthc
! g t lion n reterenci to tha Mis-ou i < omp-cm sc
1 learn thtt he who'e “hard’* Ame ian v/e
will | r b b y he ca t Ur Mr.lMi e'er to-morrow,
povde 11 ecsn daw a y indep n lent tt'er gth
1-om other qna-teis.
The commenc’m nt of the second ballot with n 1
a withdrawal o - Campbell s nam •, a ter h s recj
ling t*o \ot3strom tis tig n s point indi at d
atot Q' rni.le a d \Lata program ne
ol ball.ingii to he g ne thr.ugu w h r-ga:dl ss
of p esert reful's. Tne back leans pro
determ nid to do nothing hasu y, aad they t-ti'l
ave a ccntiden:e of trjrking the Demoeta. c
column that *<4V>art“> to Rial
• I f
, aa a hopeless uu lari i g. . w.‘ • -*vo no
. Speaker. Amcng the seventy-hvo
j voting tor Richardson, tliae -.seer ot the Nebrss
k -bil’, so- Speake >' a»e »S. * fifteen mem -
, 'v .- were elected v i the Afti-Nebraaha .asue,-
I« nc <» r e pledged to vom fra e ot t* u
:•.. ...v v - .:«e. T<eae4 - they
eaacu ate oi finally obtaining, * 1 ' • :g f
cutest unit! th* y 0a» by their con
- •' * . -i ~.c ot Democracy to
their m m in p -rty traces wus never more
e'eariy nxhibi ed th in durirgC'e present struggle.
Tne o itside prossue rgiinst thair io id column is
very grast, and it only requires one man to break
the line to cause a genera! stampede of at least one
section of their lorje*. Th's the lobby members,
who ure hcldirg the opposition tens in thisßtrng
go, wt I'kr.ow, and hence there will be no elcc
tion bo lorg as there is a possibility of such a re
sult.
The Democratic resolve to stand first and lest
by ‘heir ncnrn':e* wao therefore a political n-'c s
sity, for the reason that there ia a goodly number
of them that cannot bo trusted out of leading
string . Their homina ion of Richardson :s now
also thought to havo been a blunder, as he is so
politic lly objectionable to all the b ianco of the
House that he could not gain one v* ta outs.'di ot
f is party strength if there should never be an or
gumzition, whilst with either Orr, cf South Ca o
liaa, or Ilowell Cobb, tho*c would have been a
pcsVihility of aacooirs. ludcj eudent of his political
autecedei ta Mr. Richardson i i not calculated fc r
Speskerand he was placed n nomination by his
political friends under the belief that it was impos
sible for any one that they might nominate to be
e’e'tted. Had they have presented a more conser
va’iveman oua more conservative platform, the
case might bavebeen different, and the national
men could have united to the defeat of the black
fac’ions.
At the close of the session to day there was ap
parently no prospect ot an election, and tho pro
babili’y of making a full week of it, and perhaps
of using a portion of next week in tho same mo
notonous labor, is hourly becoming moround more
likely, however, thero iR no knowing but tha’
some move may be made on the political chess
board that in a moment may change the complexion
of the whole game.
Among tho lobby members in attendance to day
I ofcsorve James Watson Webb, Horace Greeley,
Erastu° B r ook*, Thnr’.ow Weed, and other promi
uent New York politician?.
Tho GreJoy fiction hold their .-es l ion iu the
rear of the Speaker’s chair, and watch the vote of
every man with unflagging nterest. Occasionally
the indeecrible head o! Groelry can bo seen pro
truding over the screen, as an int'mation to those
whom he is watching that ho is still al Irs post.
Some of the more experienced politicians here
ant.cipate about six more days’ t R ioting bciore a
result is obtained. They think that'here is no
fusion practicable unions under the pressnro of
political necessity. That tho time must a r rive
wheu the members can plead thatnccet-sity to their
constituents ae an excuse for fusing wi:h antago*
nistical elements before we may look for an elec
tion.
1 earn there wllbe an effort to morrow, if cr
two * r ihrei m r rc 1 t l , tipjo r ovo ti Men
da , and as t’atrcg eeu.s io be aae e.ai de ire K r
‘tne,” the motoi w.ll pr bably car y. Thd
B'a k Rupuhlieaus want c, t me” tor “home in
ti. cute'* 0:i the Dotocrats, though it is anti ipi
ted thtt“home influe C;” may have ai e"e t on
seme ot the N' rt era AiEer'cen'*, who, i \ ac'ieg
with the Bl*ck Kojubiicinp, are, it isel ogel, mls
represTut ngihe presym leelingof thoir constitn
enuu All \ artied exospt tho L'emo3ratß, who have
thrown th* m *olves out of tl o con e*t, want “lime,**
at d th :re is therefore to doubt that they will “t ke
their tim .” As there A genera'ly notbingdone,
in the wa/cf bu*TiiPS, by until alter
Njw Ye r’s, awe k ortw o spur iu organ : z‘rg will
bir. ly ttn 1 to prolong this ssion. F
Washington, Djc. 7, 1855.
Tho members of the House assembled this morn
ing without any apparent lobs ol the patience and
good humor that have distinguished them daring
t he past four days. The free soil factions, or, as t hey
are now tfa« U-aputnicuos, it is nn ,r, er
stood are to use two ballots to day in another effort
in favor o* tho election of Campboll, and several of
hiß friends, before tho Homo was culloi to order,
stated their entire confidence that he w n’d occupy
tho Speaker’s chair before the adjournment. How
ever, the clerk has just rapped to order, and wo
will see what he l a drno “ between the twoday*”
to lead to such anticipations.
A sow minutes was occupied in reading the jour
na', when a motion wus made to resume the bai
lotirg,and the daj’s work resulted as follows:
Bdiots.
221. 23d. 24 h. 25th. 25 h. 27th.
R : cbnrd£On,dcm..73 78 74 72 72 73
Campbell, freesoil. 74 75
Bftrks,frees’l fus’n 11 10 41 44 46 49
Fuller, A. N.whig.2o 16 19 28 27 23
Havens 1—
PenningtoD, A. w’g 9 9 18 18 17 17
Smith,of Aa. A. dern 3 1111
Wheeler,N Y. ND 11 11 11 10 9 7
Zollikcffjr 9 15 15 12 9 9
Tho whole number of votes cast was 121, and on
each ballot there wore about 2 • scattering votes.
On the fir. t and se oni balct* ten cf FanVs’
fiienl?, eleven of PnnirgoaV, a id th'ee ot
Ti:u-s?oa’r, vood tor Cain obtll. As erthetoiond
o-28dia’ht Mr.C'amphtllarose, a d ask d the
permissh n of the Dou e o siy a :ew wo d* wh’ch
w:s lead'ly gin ed. £f er ah'ud »g to tte fiu
e."B laong cf live dy v i.hout ny p o^pec 1 of
a result,and the trc‘ ’lnt ho had icc ived tbe l»r
--gest i umber ol b diets cast 'or ai y ona pen on on
several ballots, »n lcn all the bailo s t o larg.>st
vote cast for *nr ona of the catidilsles o p sjd to
the Adm’uietration, heerprcssel hisconfiden be
;iaf that hocou d not be el c ed unless he would
h!s ell known pdaciples oi S’.vey ai d
Americanism. To do so would b>to 1 o'd h ms3lf
up to tho ecu t y aian cbjact ritber for cout mpt
than public he nor, end he wou'd there'ore with
drew li 8 name trotn tho cinvasa with mtny thenks
to his fiio :ds who had supported tim with such
unwaver ngst a 1 fatness.
Un the t ird ballo: to-day it will bo seen the
I:lack Republicans, on 100 Ing their leader, Mr.
C. mpbell, we’e all at sea again. Tne vote before
g'vou for Campbell, was divided betwren Banks,
Pennington, Zollikoffer, and a bait dozen others,
evinsing tint the power bsfcind the Speaker’s
chair c muot control it as effec ua’ly as they de
g ro. On tie f.urtb, fifth a d s xth ba'lets, the
random V't'rg was cb-irvablc, and it is evident
tha k the withdrawal ot Ma r sh 1 nnd Campbell has
hi d u' effec ,so fer ss har* oney is coticermd
i st li adh r i to the opinion exprejse i yeste day
th at there will be no Sp a’r r this we:k. Indeed
there is every rea-on ti i elieve that the Hou-e
would have adjoun ed over to Monday, if it ha 1
Dot Leon very doui tful w' e her th*y have the
power to adjourn, otter tbrn ‘ from day li day,”
until an o r gaization is effected. Asa on Ali
ces to orgaLiza the House, rnd as ’lie House
mrst te org n zed, t o part ; es mas ug tho t sio
mus'. tavj the cx> use of neecss y to relieve them
from eny odium that may £ii:e from connex
ion.
Iu this great contest for the organization of the
House, the Nat onal thirty-one n num
ber, including the loir me t bars from Maryan !,
have so far, to the casual observer, appeared ss ot
bnt little e.‘pKually as they h vesiatlored
vote a great deal sinue the wi*!d r awalof
Humphrey Marshal. This i't’e bard ot thir v
rne members, however, he’d t e trump cards in
this great struggle, and if they play ihem w« 1 !
in’-st win in ihe end. To go over to the Demo
crat , would be equivalent to their annihilation as
a party, atd no cne weald expect them to do ti at
To to the Republ ; eu;is would b 3 equally
fatal to ’hem, it would be an act o f tieascn to thc-i
conatitnai t-i. that wen'd b a t them f re v, lo.h
in their political and private characters urd hepe
lesdy prottratette :r ra ty. Ceit' n’yio c n
expect them to do that either. The Acmn tr -
n r t have nsiledtheir flag to tho Nebraska
bill, and of <*curss cannot exp* ct no a d rem the
4 n i-N bras a parly, com| ri&ed rs i : s of the
Fiee.-oila d Ab-ditu npr it s Fo ihe to 6us
tein the Ad minis r.tou rtni:daei wou ! d to
vi t for the “ote i ea” whi h they re-« elected
especially to oppose. It will hu* be se?n - ha', in
v ; ew rs t> e act that toe Adxn nitt ation men
arc pledge) to tole first »ui test ?o- their caucus
nominee*, that ’h? Kepnhl cm rru*t core to
tr e support of the A ui3rictn esnd dates, vrho hold
the o. nserv ibve g»ound be w< en ti e wo ex
Until tie Eepu 1 m party have e>t<d their
streig h on eve y av ii&Me nan, they w 1. s snd
firm,b\t t ey mu» ,ul‘ mate’v g.ve tnoir support
to he best man they can get who : s an o. pouen’
of hj present A .m;n *-tratio l , aid that m»u w 1
be the choice of tbe Natiorai Am-r can members.
The candidates for pub ic printer are very r.u
mere us, espodady a* it is understood tb t a large
majority of the House are opposed to giving it to
t ie* Union or any one who would give tho work to
that estvb sfcm nt. Mr. rieasants of hi American
Dcciocrtt is a candidate; the Washington Orgaii
is a candidate; the New £-a is a candidate, a:.d
several other names are mentioned. I am inclined
to thick, umid the conin ion ana clashing of can
didates that those good old ccn ervat ve Ameri
cans, who are honored, esteem'd, and respected
by all parties, Mes?r*. Gales ar.d Seaton, will be
called u; oa to sc?eptthe post, cot for
mtlly be ore the House ss candidates.
Y’ouis, A;, !*•
Accidentak Dxownin® —ln a squall of yesterday
morning a boat was up?e: icourharb.r, c.casi min :
the death of four negroes. Tbe boat containing
five in all starting from J jhn’a Island, and when
struck and espsised by the sadden blow,
Ohieo m’a at no distance. Os t‘ e
four negroes uafortuna ely drownod, tve—a man
and a boy—belonging ;o tbe estate of Bmjimm
hews, ard the other two—a woman ard her
young child, to Mr. Wm. Roper. Tee bodies
were recovered soon sfter, but too late ’o allow
succce* for the measures of resu-tc a r on that were
applied. Au inquest wa he'd by J. K ngman,
Esq., Coroner lor the c.ty, an I a verdict rendered
• n acoordancs with the facia above stated.— Char.
Ccvritr.
The U. 5. Texascbt Estimate* —The fodewing
?' v ®n as a sau.ma'y st*tement ot the estimates
h T-‘ e h PP To P ri * odb required by the Secretary of
the Trea-urr For defic cnc.es or the curre jt fiscal
year $1,369,757. of which $1,188,181 is to supply
•’ oy iu Post Ofiic revenue. Estimates ot
permanent and indefinite appreprutions wl ich
may be requ r d tv.r ibe last throe qiarters o! the
co*rsnt o*'* aa dcr <ornif-r acts of Congres*,
$5 955 k 23. E' l na'»* f,r tee next fi cal year,
LCludlDg appr q rUuoue by tormer acts of Con
ot permLn.nt sod n.vitfin.'.e charic'er
$62,754 675 Excluding permanent and indefinite,’
it s $45,114 765 ; ho whxto add nnexf anted exist
ing appr priaticna not required for the present
fl cal year, sl6 695,847. Tvul estimate for next
fisoaJ year,s69,4so,49s.— BjOimer* Am-.r.oan.
from, the n Uni n 01 TVe*lnssday.
Th ealeued Hostilities In Kansas.
Ramors have - t into c rcni-tion Wthe efT?c*
tL Piea dent bp« aatnori*3l »Le em" 1 y ueut
of »f*e tr op cf ih U ’>d in V e Territory ,
nt Ktre».‘ tti l the locs' fc>'t» orit : e* : n the *x*cu- '
*ioo of the law*. No erck ant 1 ori'y h*s been e'v
e*». In order *o ebow f x>c‘7 what has transpir
ed, wo h>ve ob-air d permis ion to publish the
f 'Dw'.rg dc-putche* :
Wes-ti-jet
sctHo»i y to call on Be United States tore s >»t
to preserve toe roacn of this Te-ri
t ,r*. to p-o’oet the sheriff ot D u.lis county, and
eoab’e i fin to ezecat * the l-ga! process m his
hand-. If ho iaw3 arc net executed civil war U
inevitable. An armed orcecl one thousand men,
with a'! t ; e implements of war, it is raid, are a
Liwre »ce. They have re* *ued a prisoner tr<m
the sheriff, burnt houses, and threatened the
ot civzous. Immediate asai-tance la desired. This
‘s the only to stive bloodshed. Par* culars
by m V . Wneoß Shannor.
To his Ezcsllercy Franklin Piorce.
Washington December 8, 1855.—Your des
patch received. All the power vested in the Eze
enrive wi’J bo exerted *o preserve order no 1 en
force tb * law?.- On the receipt of your letter the
premliminary mca-ura neces*a r y to be taken Ve
lore c*l ir.g out tioips will bo promptly executed,
and you wil tb>n be fully aiviaei.
Franklin Pierce.
Td Wiipon Shannon, Governor of the Territ ry
of Kansu?.
It h to be observed that the prefect ; ethe first co
casion on* which the in’erpesirien of f bß Pre ident
hasbeeuinv *ed in ref Fence to any d’fficulty aria
iog under t c law fo r the organization of the Terri
tories of Nebraska and Kantas. In f-’ct, there
ha? been great on in the public m nd
as to the powers of the Executive in this relation.
Those powers a r e strictly defin dby law, and very
limited. Under the constitution, it is true, the
President is to take care that the laws be faithful
ly execute 1; but h : « authority on thi* Bubie.it is
to be con-trccd in subordination to the provision
of t v o ernsti ution, which declare? that Congress
shall have power to provide tor culling forth the
militia to « x cuto the lows of t e Union, suppress
insurrection-, and renel invasions. Accordirg’y,
Congress ha* enacted laws applicable in terms to
it e contingency of insurrec i us in any Stile
egn net the government thereof. The present case
is one of resistance to tho laws of the Territory,
tha*i of Kansas, ’.o which the same ra ecf action
apoUes, however, oe in the care of a State, in con
s ; d ? rw -’ on ri p* 1 y he act ot Congress organizing
; thi? Territory, as wei as other.-*, it is provided that
constitution, and r I 'aws ot the United Slates, j
are r o'. I-/' / - pi> ble, shall have the 1
K** 1 -v f . • w here wit bin the U ailed St &*€ sw * h
cxc .1 sing e clausa of > n act not matenaJ
»o uie osu uou.
{ a. iug •this, then, the etaiu'c rro-’isi- ri us
; thn act o' 17*5 i*, tfcat u case of lo&urreorivt l
i- at% or Territory,'it- shall be lawful for \t
' J res dcDt of the United Sta*e», on application to
the itsgisfalare thereoi, or of the Execut vo when
the Legislature cannot be c nvened, to call forth
such number of tho ini!it : aof any other Sts e or
States as m ybe applied lor, or as he may judge
buflic e.t to repress- such insurrection. By a sub
sequent t.c-,—that ol 18o7—il is provided that in
cos ®a of insurrection or obstraction to the luwa of
any Mtt'o cr territory where it is lawful for the
President o call lo r th the militii, for the purpose
of supprt sdtig ssch insurrec’ioD, or causing the
laws i.e du ! y cx cuted, it shall Ye lawful for l ioj to
etnp’oy fo* the same purjo es such part of the
land or naval t rce cf the United States as shall be
. judged necessary, having first observed ali the pre
requisites ot the law in that respect. Among tho
, prerequisites here referred to, it is well under
, stood, is the i-sne of a proclamation commanding
the insurgents tod sper.-e and re ire peaceably to
their respective »bodes within a limited t me. Tho
proc'ama'ion must undoubtedly precede the actual
the military force, but not necessari'y the
I measures r quisite to prepare and assemble it in
order to enforce obedienco to the proclamation.
. It is further to bo observed that tae present, in
so far Lfi tho facts appear, s re&iytance, not to any
, iaw of ihe United Scate*, but to a law of tin lerri
tory, and the powat of the President is greater in
! tie former than in the latter
I tion 'o nn act of Congress were involved, tho Mar
shal ot h«' territory might summon ihe/?i«j€ ootna
tatvs to aid him in raalnt&luu g his authority—that
is, the entire population of th 3 territory. But here
the law to bo executed being ore otthe territory and
j the mini-torial officer, the sheriff of a county, noth
ing regarding it can bo done 1 y the President until
5 his iniorpo.-i ion b? invoked for tho emergency of
insu rect on, and at the call either of ho Legisla
j lure or the Governor of tho te*ritory. In the tor
, mor ca-o tho President might give direction, but
iu the latter he canrot.
The Irish National Convention. —This Con
vention r ma : mdiu session it the Astor House,
N( w York, tho whole of Wednesday. Grout pra-
P c u ions are trken to keep its proieeiings privute.
One cl its objects is understood to be tli9 pr< piro-
t r o lof ami n f.s'o to tho publie, mi ! nether the
1 sppoi iIiLC n of a directory w h'ch is to have the
, gonrra’ n aufctetnent of the “.nvas'en” A New
i Yo k ccnospondont oft : o Ledger gives the fol
' lowing t-kt-'c »of tho Convention and iti plans :
( Tue Ir sli National C>nvrnti>n at ’he Astor
' H e to exdto much r< m .rk. Though
but lit leii kco vn ou’sids, cf what is g>ing on,
the 1 -bbitja are crowded wr.h a i excited crowd in
a Pta’o of hi, k fever, w Is expressions of
fac’ions at t t o way tn ng» aro managed inside are
where audible.
1 m>t Colonel Doheny marking up and down
tbe lnil, th b, morning, bit oting ins friends to
wash their hat. d? of the whili ooucern. For some
reason or other, he and the editor of tho Citizen
are at d< g f r.-d points, and as the C>nvontif n wi 1
not t ra ••Mil.” ou»,tho Colonel hus taken the p;>-
sitio i of a he'l gersi.tt u eider.
One set c mp am ’ll t another act has tikcn it
rp n them o v. s to “or t • n 1 dry” tne whole ? ff'u r
I pois oud anc ,n t the ‘ libera’ion of lel lid,”
butce-an |er. oml ends Ilnie th ime s
1 i r tty mu li tufcnn up n g oss p.isoua tDs ind
ir quern appeals ov< n to ug»nc es or a more n a
, teiiol ohuia iter.
A pi >n, 1 nn ♦oH hue b' 1 ' r, submitted “to reach
tinner of tlu r.r< gh Irs C ->*-
•i an lu: g-. 1? ; able bo i.d Hb ia
lan-4: r • ve| r s<
i o mar • to < u
-one Russ li < rgd rang
• on h • njithwj- .?• *-• . • ’t ay
aiptiueß, ic i«. ".i, f.. ale. .. ui n
r i ed, «u }tio *. . •* r*viuir gto dc e, *
to find a mao i: v. .> -i: ! cun bav.j c nfideu'e as
atea-e*. Seem,’ '• g the « :o g*eat th ng need
ed lo ?, p tins
papa s : n tl- ng like a real re o d ot what is in ’he
wind. 1 u the fasts here T 3 uted may be lelied
! u* on. It is pr bub e, h>w»ner. hat
s jhi me v i I “bu i.ufo*'ngt the per on d jeai
o s *s :n i pen on 1 hatred-- when go.eruthe
Conv ni< n.
/into rumor may as well he mentioned ; it is
nwi den bat -s wld Irishmen uruei gugM in it,
there may bS in i.” An eg* n* or
Uußs'a, thin, is said to bo ihe financial rgent t n 1
tl o ill fei g ne< rot the whole concern. Who he
is, < r where h i», can’t ray, bat it is ’h rag it to be
s Jiuethir g t > get up fn invasion of Can&d , in or
dortod ; src the oil es at home, tni joab’y
comp jI E-ig'aid to tram p -rt a prr ion of her i rmy
in th! ( r.oi* a to th i Noith A meric in colonies.
The iir.t hU Ccn ul, Mr. Birc’oy, is tik nga
liv 1/ nteiestin this m ivemeut.
The Iri:h National Convention. —This eonven
t o i whichi s < mhlod in NewYo kon Tn r ßday, w> s
exp.cted to a ; j un on dli rsday. Tne prcc ed
ing-' i n W* daesdiy teck pi C) with clesod doors,
and therefore t‘ e r p irm ri is not ex c.ly known
The Now York T m*s, hcw3V r, hai a sketch if
what it sivs is a p rticn of lie proceedings We
co. y the fo'lowi: g :
“The various committers appointed th! previous
day, subrm t d th'ir respective repo.t?, wliih
were all, a cr tomo c T e’ate, tdoofei. Thee in
raittce on-ho platform,aod tfcecne arpoin'o l lo
draft an address, m do reports, wl i h gave rise
to Img and a .in at »d d)bates. Beth ie{ oris wore
lint 1 y adopted wi’h s mo an en imen's.
“A lorgo amoai t of gen rol aud necisstry
wo k was tronsactad, but tl o ini mtbt
impirrant qoe too I e‘oro the : ody, Wts that in
roferen.e lo tho ipoiintmeni of a Supreme Di
rectory. Ti e consi icration of tli s ma tiriom
ped much time, but v not, wo telieve conilu
ded. Upoathc necessity of such a measure, the
del glies seem to be tl agreed. Tho ccnust, if
auy should arise, will b> aboat tho men.
“Tne Convo ition fii aly ditermined not to ad
mit as delogitoi tho repre> ntativas or tie E:n
mott Monument i t en. Not tba‘. thoy
doubted their loyalty in the least, bnt becu-e
th?y believe they have no power to adm t others
thau those da y appointed by the S’ate organ;zi
tion of tho Envgrunt Scc'ety.
“Iho p’atform and addrcsi which bavo been
adopted d t?cr but little from those promulgated
at Boston s-cmc s x months ago. Tne former ex
plains lie pi u of opera ionr, ar d ignores ell ac
tion on tne part of tlic Soc ety not in ftr et confor
mity with tl e laws of the United States. The ad
dre?s ca'L upou til Irishmen to rally cnce more
for the of their fatheriund, r-ow thet
tie time lor triumph has arrved—bescech3S
to drop all dir pate?, forget all d ffjreuces, and
uni c, Cat! olici a r d Pr te-tants, lor the itain
moa* of tho end desirable—an Irish Ripublic”
De tructive Fike at the Sino Sino Prison.—
Sin® S:* o, Dec. 6— Abjut s x oclccs thin even
ingatire a discovered in OLe of the baildings
attai Ito the State Prison at this place.
It o ig n ed in the State shop, where the
c'othm." •* « ;>r son is manntActureJ, aud where
tho wearing u-*i : r i of the prisoners is stored.
Bolarn i •' dbe scbdned, the fire spread to
tho l a* she? , i !'d s n swept through the entire
rarg-3 o tho -*o- ■ wieg. a two-stc ry stone build
icg, ami « fory building running at r : g it
eig’os wi»h tho touth wirg. Those shops were
occupied by Charles Watson who employed about
- x y couvic'S in the manufacture of hats. It was
filled tbe most bean’iful and ccmplicited
m .cnin^' r . ai d a la-go stork of wool accumulated
tor the W. liter’s supply. Mr. Watson’s loss ises
tiranted at tub s49,oDi>, but whether insured or not
could not he ai-oerlained. Within a late period
the propar’y was ißsaredf r about two-thirds its
value.
Th 2 proper‘y in 'he S’ate Shop, and which is
destroyed, w 1. not probably cxieid $5,000 in val
ue. It principally the accumulated trash of
years, cspeii i y tbe machinery used in the manu
-1: eta re of the c’othcg.
Thoshopa dcs v ro\ed will cost the State $25,-
000 to replace. Tne walls of the main wi::g are
still standirg, a?:dm?y be rebuilt upon. '
The dts’r c ion ts ail this property was accom
plished within two hours—tfco fire exceedir g in
brilliancy anything before witnessed in the looali
tv of the p-i«on. Darirg ti e fire the steam whis
tle of the bodsr ir the ha. shop plaid a str li over
ture to t* o crarklirg flames.
Tne orig-a of tho tire is not known. When first
discovered it wai burnieg in the vicinity of iha
stove in the State shop.
It is surmise 1 tfcat it wrs the work of an incen- 1
diary, and fired for tbe purpose of i
opportunity for the e?cepe ot9ome cf the convicts.
Tennessee Ebidge.—Toe contraotfor rebuilding
'he five spans of this bridge, hnmt a tew days
sipc“, has been let on s . The bid of Meters. Finn
& M sxwei', ($47,5 .'O,) was accepted. They are to
have it comp! ted hv t n - Ist day of March—if not,
they are !c ferret. SBOO for each day over that
time. If they comple eit before that dav : bey are
to recrive S2OO extta for each day. We hope they
irsysacceed it, getting it done against !te Ist of
March.— C/uittancOy-a Gazetii.
Akbebt oi a Mail Rcebes —We 'earn from the
Tribaneof je terday, that ate low calling himself
W. H. Simms, was sr>ested in this cty on Wed
nesdav night by cfEcer Scolliek, cn suspicion of
robbirgtbe mails. Next moraine he con tea red
that h- ha i been conce-t.ed in several mail rob
beriea at Cmbewbe, in this S'are. He was examined
be'ere U. S C 'mmssotier R. B. Owen, E q , and
sent to j i 1 to aw-it his tri'l a' the next session of
the C. s>. District C art . —MubiU Adxertti-r,
Is Waxt or fcM>*.—T e New York Tim's,
publ she alcrg a je 1 from Kossuth, Max i.i,
[ n i Le nEdn o he Kepnblitant cf ths Coi
telS.ts Tteyspta “t e newest ire den'of
the Agc-Arre’i an eo-fl cation is a a rikiog
i dcaiotoftoe fec,'h't the resect c prnciflr
brer rg sway i' < o innal Errope, is iot o lv
bas'd eto Ee u Scan America, but is at the same
time -o predom nant in infinence ever the En
rop-mO v r men s :s to r ate even cons Ra
tio ai £ g a d übse-'int to i a Jesigrs.” To
t is despo is rrn i.ls te r tg tre sway in “Coo
ti 'et ta E trope ’ 'hey at'riouts thr recent m n'-
iaa*s*i n f h '.sti.Ry to Delhi ad s ates b< ec t iu
ja- ea in E gland, std twiashti treat down
id s d spjti; pr re flc in a war that w 11 no' in the
“reo te t manor r. ifr yet e law-in the lifted
S.'es’it ta by s p >'i g K ore nth <t Cj., wto
n e n ; fa “ ens . ,f K. 31. Fared n. Barger t»,
c v ft o d'>",”rfc ingfrn t> cois-rt«ator"
o* ere u ■ an e* B’t o'hti-jotn a-corn’. Wa
iDug'Bi t' 9 h. use n B i g r.w, will not need to
increase the r c er cat f. ce to keep this aoconn»,
and that of Merer . Kossuth, Marini and Roll n
sre to con'ione t ,e r no ay iilecsssin safe retire
ment in London it will not be cn funds drawn
from Amcr.cari pockets.— Ball. Amrr.
WEEKLY
Chronicle & Sentinel.!
□
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WEDireSDAY MOBNIKG, DECK. 5. 1855
SO.\ET ! B JSt¥!! BOXET ! !
It is a long time since we gave our debtors
“ a tali ” about money. It is, however, now ne
cessary, and we desire to say to them in all can
dor, we need the prompt payment of whatever
they owe This is important as we have order
ed and expect to receive, in a few days, our new
type, for which we have agreed to pay cash, and
our resources ate confined to our debtors. And
this is the season of the year when every man
can pay such small hills with perfect conve
nience we expect a prompt response to this call.
After the first of January next, we shall be
more rivid in enforcing payment in advance for
all subscriptions. So those in arrears would do
well to prepare themselves for that event, if they
wise to receive the paper.
Movim-sts of Germans from Irxasto Mixioo.
P,ivato letters from 'lex:,-, upon which > he ut
mo*t rel nee may bj placed, inform ns that num
bers of the German eettiers iu the rorthwestern
part of that Bis e are prep irirg to cross tho K o
HrsVd • and settle in l oahuila, in Mex to, where
the grea est advantages are offered to them by
Governor L'« n gberg. Th’s movement was spreud
icg eitev .v ly among the Germ us, who inhabit
tha* pa 1 ' f Texts, (inclndirg tl o counties of
Guaduloop , Bexvr, Comal, Meaina, and Gille-pie,
extending to th? L'ano and Ba t Sala rveo,)
forming r. population of betwetn fifteen and twen
ty thonssu i souls. The oou'iuual ccn cntion b?
tween the German and American settlers, the op
position of >hi former to Know Nothingisin,
Slavery,and Prohibitory L quor L»w, ore the pti
mary cau-es of tho movement.— X. Y. Courier dt
j Jt fresh in the leeoihc'ion of a large portirn i
:.de-», b'.w eloquently certa n politicians j
j o*‘ the moro crtd ilous were almost pernuacied. tha' j
| th« IriAh hug Germain*, wbotalbien cJ to I
believe Ihe lestitalion a curse and reproach, ware -
more BDund than men l It ia true,
that every intelligent man who uttered such a
sentiment as that the Irish and Germans of the
Free States wero sound, knew that they were ut
tering a gross libel on those people; yet, they had
a point to gain at tho South, and they were not
scrupulous as to tho mean.? mod. If, ho wove-,
thero wore ary so criduloas us to boliovo their
assertions, wccommend to their consideration the
above paragraph from tho New York G-mrier <£
Enquirer.
W hat is trug of tho Gormans of Texas is true of
tho German*, Irish, French and all Europeans,
with few exooptio s, in evory part of tho Uuited
S ate?—especially in tho free State*. it
i would bo straigo if it wero otherwise, when we
refl ct that they cherish aud nurture hostile feel
ings to the institution from their oarliosl infancy,
Washington I t d?od-A Democrat s Opinion.
i The Dallas (Alt.) Gizette, some time since copied
■ an editorial of tho Washington Union } defending
aDd endorsing ihe course of Gov. Feeder, and
aided thereto tho following fratik, manly, and
' truthful opinion vs th 3 Wisbington Union , which
1 we commend to tie study of ho Southern De
j mocracy:
5 “A* to the Washington Union, it would defend
Josh Gidditgj or Horace Greely, if they would
. support Gen. Pierce’s administration, or agree to
vole too Democratic ticko T .”
This is a most jraphic picture, true to the life,
a*it> files abundaLt’y prove, and the Democracy
of the South maypre fi: by its c <refal study. That
\ it should have bain sketched by a Democrat, we
should thick, woi d render it doubly vuluablo to
the Southern Dedooracv.
! l ogins Hxplotiou—'l lire© lA>ei Lost.
5 We rigret to leirn that the ong ne of a lr< ?ght
f train on the Georgia Bailroad exploded Wednes
* day, on its downward trip near Carnak, by which the
engineer, Mr. James Crawford, and a fireman,
' Thomas Laguire, were killed instantly; aud anolh
-1 er fireman dangeroasly wounded, who resides in
| Washington, Wilkjs county.
What the damtgo to tho Bond aud train is we
1 have net yet learned.
new Comities.
The fo.lowing article from the Savannah Rtpub
lican, in reference to the too prevalent disposition
in the Legislature to organize now counts s, is we 1
timed and just. Tho truth is, in seven cases out
of ten, new counties are conceived and organ z d
in a mere spirit of demagoguoisnu. there
are too many anxious to obtain office, or »ho legis
lators dei ire to make themselves a low votes. The
number of counties in tho State is already tco
groat, and should not be increased:
“Wo at- t f.r from op . , , f
thaiia jusii'* ■- .«• .li consid rations as the pub
liOT>ece*Ht> : vonionco. A number oi btl.H ;
h>w vs-r, h: v aen introduce- --ito ’he proaent
Legislature* whi m thir.ir, havo the supp- rt oi .
r . ■ ■ .
*.• * r y ;x-i' t net • • '
to t.o thirty o- vhic : f a: now on the Speakers^
1 desks ot the tv * lions' s.
! “We car-not tl.iuk there is any real necessity for
the pa**Brge of these b in*, or at least, a large ma
jjrity of them. Such movements aro frequently
on foot by some man who has a solfish purpose
ta accomplish, or by a political clique wnose
schemes have laded under existing geographical
line , or by some iittl • cross .ccd village that vain
ly imagines it is to b! built up into vast proper
tons by tho change. No measure base i oil hucli
motives should receive tbe favorable consideration
of tho Legblatnro. The additional expense and
iueonveniecco to the otate; the augmentation of
cur legislative body, and the moral effect upou so
ciety of a larpe number cf small towns, affjr.
str ng reasons lor opposition to these bills, e>cipt
in cases where they are clearly demanded by a
larg3 !o:al interest.
m comparison with other States will show that
we ore already far advanced in a policy which they
consider expensive and unwise.
Gao'gia, with an area ot 53,000 fqnsre miles and
a popubt on of 906,185, (census ot 1850) has 112
counties.
New York, with an on a of 46.0(30 square miles
and a population of 8,100,000, has 59 counties.
IV nsylvauia, with an area of 41.000 ?qaaro
miles, and a population of 2,811,000, hjs6B coun
ties.
North Carolina, with an area of 50,000 square
miles and a population oi 669,000, has 7o counties.
tfouth Carolina, with an area ot 8 *,OOO square
miles, popuiaticn 663,010, has i 9 counties.
Alabama, with an area of 46,000 square miles,
population 771,000, has 52 counties.
Ohio, area 44,400, population 1,680,000, has 87
y counties.
t Tennessee, with a pcpn'a’iou of 1,000,000, has
i 79 count es.
And ho we might go on through the whole cata
logue of Staten, shown g that, as compared w tb
extent and population, we have already e much
j la-ger number < t counties than any other State in
f in the Union. Preseut indications are that there
is to be no end to the increase, and we hope the
Legislature will put a cheek to a policy that is
unnecessary, if not absolutely pernicious.”
Flection or Speaker.
k Wk observe by the Na ional Intelligencer of
Tuesday, that tfce Georgia delegation ia Congress
i voted as follows lor Speaker:
1 For Fichabds w, of Ulino’s, Democrat: Cobb
Cbawfobd, Lumpkin, Stephens and Warner.
For Mar hall, of Kentucky, Ameri:an and old
line conservative Whig : Foster and Phipps.
Mr. Sewabd did not v^te— probably absent.
i
Murderous Attempt.
We were surprised, nay, shocked, to learn that
an effort was made on Saturday night last, to mur
der Mr. Isaac Henry, late President and Cashier
of the Branch of the State Bank, iu this city, at
' his residence on the Sand Hills.
, It appears that he had, about ten o’clock, re
i paired to bis b:d-chamb3r *o r?tire for the night,
when the report ol a gun wrsheard, two btlls from
| which passed through the window and l aged in
tha wall inside of the apirlmont, without touching
him.
When we contemplato the ex'rsme debility and
feebleness of Mr. H., from long ill health, we cm
not but regard the attempt to assassinate him js
one of the greatest outrages that could be perpe
trated. Indeed, we can but hope that it *as the
result of accident on the part of some one, a negro
perhaps, who was handling the weapon, and fears
to acknow.edge it; for we do cot suppose that
Mr. H. has an enemy, in his present condition.
Augusta Insurance & Banking Company —The
following gentlemen were yesterday elected Di
rectors of the Aogaata Insurance & Banking
Company: Williui M. D’Antignao, James Hope,
Edward Henkell, John Kerb, and Ferdinand
Phinixy, Eq*.
Good Dividens. —The M.*riQ3 Bink of Savan
nab has declared aeemi'Snnual dividend cf settn
per cent, payable on demurd.
The Central Bail Eoad end Banking Company
has also declared a dividend of te per cent, oi
the operations of the last six months.
The Planter * Bank of Savannah ha* declar'd
a div.dmd of teven percent, from the profits ot
that institution for tfce past BIX months, payable
on and alter Thursday next, 6 h inst.
The Bank of Savannah has declared a dividecd
of five p9r cent on the operations of the past six
months.
Beware cr a Swindles! —Toe Federal Union of
Tuesday* days:—A man cailiß?kim*a.f D. B. Hen
ry, Capt. U. 8. A., figured quite eztmrirx’y in this
piaca for a week or two during the present session
of the Legls’atnro. His .ex t was quite as ur ex
pected as bia debut, but somewbrt more painful to
many of our cit’zer.s, who, deceived by his fine
military address, and more especial J by a very
flittering lette* from Judge Lnmpk:n, of the
Supreme Court, (which the sa.d Henry wont
to exhibit when in a t : gkt place) bad advanced
him fends.
A Committee of the New York City Council have
reported in fa or of the erection of a monument
on the battery in that c'ty, to be six hundred fee*
h'gh, with a s atueof Washington 28 feet n height
upon it* eummit, t w e who eto he constructed of
iron and finished within ten years.
Tax Mobile and Ohio L’at.hoad is completed 154
m !e» from Mobile, and the trains pa e o°er it
r* gnlary.
—
Tfce elagent marsion of Ex Gcv. Hunt, of New i
York, at Loekport, was discovert* Itobe on fire i
about e even o’clock on Friday morning; and, not- (
withstanding the efforts cf the firemen and citi- \
tens, it was entirely consumed. It was completed j
during the paat year, and cost about $lO,OOO.
There was no insurance upon iL 1
Serdmg D-lrgatra to Cincinnati.
At ala o maofmg 4 f he “Dam cra’.ie aud Anri ‘
K»*ow N • biog” members of the Lcgislaturn in j
MiUedgcvilie, the followirg reaolution ws a lopt \
cd:
Reeohed, Teat the D m'cra'ic and Anri Know
N~tfcii psrt\ of the several counties of ths State 1
of Georg a are r< q jested U y send a- many d- legates
to Milledgsvil ea they a e en'itled t > memberi in
the atove, to aC^nveutioo of th 3 patty to be 1
held on the 15 hot J ;nui**y » ex‘, for the t>urp>ose 1
of a tpointing d legates to the National Couventiou
at Cincinnati, a d to take -uch o her ste--s as may
be urcessary to prepar .< for tho Presidential contest
of 1856.
i'hu a , it appear. , the old line, conseivative
Whigs of Georgia are to be 44 roped i«V } an< *
to wear the collar of the Democratic spoilsmen, by
a n ing de'egatas to the Democratic Convention at
Cincinnati. What! Georgia Whigs uniting in
sanding de'egates to s Democratic Convention 1
Yes, such is the programme indicated in the above
resolution. Aro hey p'Opircd to ratify and carry
out this programme ? Are they wiiiirg to affiliate
with a party which the Charleston Mercury, a re
liable D jmoerntic organ, pronounces *abMtioni» d t
dismembered and prostrate and hence i‘ warns its
party against any affi Ution with the Cincinnati
Dimocratic Convontion. And has it come to this,
t at old Hue Georgia Whig?, an willing to go into
a Convention which South Carolina Democrats
repudiate?
We have said South Carolina Democrats repu
diate the Cincinnati C'nven’.ion. Wo have already
laid before our rea !ers the oiews of the Charleston
Mercury t and ws now propose to introduce to them
tho testimony of Messrs. Kfcirr aud Force, two
prominent members ofCotgrcss from that State,
who have in most earnest t<-rms waned their
felljw Do ..ccrats against such a pollution end
di>bonor es going into the National Denocralic
Convention at Cincinnati would attach to them:
Ex rait of a sptac'x delivered ut Barnwell Curt
JJiuse, 6 o'. <m the 15*A of October , 1055, by the
11 m. 6. Jtl. Ktitt.
Ist. What hope is tl ere for ns in national par
ties t
We caunot determine this question without ex
amin eg into the condi ion ot Lational parties in
,U: Bepublic,and also into theo emeuts necessary |
■to such an Tnree par ies have re ,
| ceußy shared the affeciione and suppor cf ihe {
’can and aanired to naliniiliiy; iLo |
: aero » d there a biiroi im> .: : banner shive r s j
I bugle call ia sounded by s?me t*f nis old luadersj !
but t,ae parly has deserted its fl g and taken up |
with strangers, no at nappeas it, that a great
historical party, which boaatel so much of tho
wealth, intelligence aud g-liaairy ot the country,
ha? given up its identity, abandoned its price pics,
und turuod its back upon its lea iers? The answer
boles much ot strife, tor the answer is, Abolition
ism. The Northern wing of the Whig party,
oeiug in a large majority, pressed tsfieesoil de
mand* upon tho iSouinem portion of the parly
until tho latter became hopelessly prostrated at the
South. In u spasm of despair, or in an agouy of
Uurmodpa rioti&m, it then turned upon its isith
less ally otthe North, aud tore asunder the
meat*, which bound them t getker. Thu*, un
d.r the corrapdug iuflujiiCes of Abolitionism, the
massive Whig organizaiion dissolved iu.o wreck,
and floated away in fragments.
Hjw iare ; it now with tL© Demccratic party $
its bankers slid glance in the sum, and its legions
still rally at their oaiettains'biddings. But what
inscriptions are on the banners ? And what cries
resound o'*er the field ? Are not the bolts the De
mccratic parly in New York ? and hav? they not
upon the i flag tho Wilut t Proviso, in the thape
of “uucomproui s.ng hott li«y to the extension of
slave territory ?” Did aot Bigler, in his cunva*s
for Governor of Pdtms>ivauia, carry a bannei with
froesAl on one side,and conservutihin on ito other?
D.d not the parly m a 1 the New England b ates
sku k tiom the slavery qu.eliou, and supervene
to local issues ? Is the picture auy tirighter in tho
Northwest? Where, iu all that region, nave Illi
nois, havo tlio constitutional rights of the South
been boldly uphe d ? llow stands tho parly even
upon the Nebraska bill ? Iu the t ei btbteß it is
maintained upon the ground of squatter sover
eignty, aud alien suffrage, a id Non lern fatalities
for colonization. Can the South uphold it upon
these grounds ? Who, here, will end >rao the mon
strous doctrine cf *quattrr sovereignly, born of
political cowardice, and selfish ambition ? Where
then is the unity of the Democratic paity ? it
differs in the defend o.eu ot it* fundamental mea
-ure. Hero and there at the North, a uob e ead r
and a bodyguard stand firm, but they light a
hopeless battle.
The President is, true, but hu par*y has betray
ed even him.
The plumage of authority, to profits of place,
aud ihe greater relative sire* g.h of the Southern
wirg, has kept the democratic farty trgjiher,
s uce tho di solution of its Wbig rival. Bat aboli
t ouism is sis reuciig the g< rgcous trappings of
office, a; dno ting tliwa even t"e strong castle ot
he spoi'S Partisan presses aud venal Ueclaimsra
in »y sophistry aid Iraud, but tho fact still
vl ire? out ipon us, that tho Democratic parly is
danalionaliz d by Abolitionism.
Lji us next s e v?hat bil 1 ( f health the Know
Nothing order presents. With armor on a id ?i?or
down, it das iod upon the fluid v?iota loud promises
id «lluy sectional excitement, and inaugimta a po
litical m lleniu n. Ha* the purformunc; been equal
to the manitofto? Wfietho swaddling domes
yet bung abou i , aud the b*p is-nal wator wis
dripping from its infant inw, it met in a National
Convention. Iu tl e shado v ot lodonendence Hal',
aud am d the i eroio menu r es of 76, it wa* to re
now tho Co lstiiu.ioo. Ldl the faces, era
weary p 1 gr>mage, and a tq auncdic gestation, ii
roug it t« urth a p a lorm. Bat even such as it
wu-, mo Freeso lcrs tramph dit under so >t. A
Ph ladelphia tho party vire'lrd fa d sad long ;
but no—ill 3 fanatics bade tnes-p rit ci narioua i'y
lace the “vultnr- « je i) o*' Abolo onism. r.rd march
n' lo r- ■ ike
•J i isd,-d. I', then, ezistiog n .onai p*rt J «? i
.a e incurably iu.octeci wi:u tj.o lictsaii taint, i t
.ereay hofCtfaat anew nuiiona orgui <:ariou
vwl e. **e, tr: * can it corrup iju, ind defiant to
• r ■!« mwxin 'f Who k?c t> compos-?’ *t ? >re not
the people of the Nr rUi in some fix a of (he par
■ = si.ady ri me *, ■ r u-ierut>ers of r > abolition
pis-y proper* Can « mtj inty of tbaoc do reformed
irom their frec i iil sentiments? o», are there en
ough Bou-.d men li>:geii.jg aroai d the national
party orgau zations to form ate# party ? He who
believes so, is s.ngume aud credulous iudded.—
But lot us cond- c the exumiua i ,n a Ftep further.
Upox what is paity organization feunied? Upon
S 3 >'intents ui d priccip ;s. A party not toouded
upon these, is a base aggre.&tiou o venal spoils
men.
What, then, are the sentiments and principles
prevalent at the North? Are they not ireeho.l ?
Twenty yiiars ago Abolitionism was puny and in
significant. Its supplies'ions wore trampled un
der t. o’, and its tnreata despised, its moelhg*
wore rudely broken up—its priucit lei den >uuce<J,
aud its members dia out red. Compact, inflexible
uiicomproniising, it has moved on, until at last it
has destroyed the most powerful parlies, aud from
thoir fragments, ha-> built up tne, atrocious in its
purpose, furious in its energy, aud unspairirg in
its vengeance. It has ranched this consummation
by means tho most multitudinous, the most subtle
and the meat irresistible. It has laid hold ot am
bition, of venality, of educational appliuueee, and
of religion. Through its nuity it acquired strength
onougu to subsidize ambition—through pat routge
it tempted venality, through tchoois and colleges
i corrupted aud ci-.torted the mind in its carl e?t
unfolding*—and through the pulpit if cauomz d
the saviour of mankind into a Frccsoil prop tgan
dist. From the control of tho Ktu.es it marched
forward to clutch tho sceptre ot ltd era I dominion.
It has sallied our common record w.th its frauds,
and deformed our Government with its usurpa
tions.
' Those are the opinions and views of Mr. Kiett.
j L a t us now turn to Mr. Boyok, and hear him on
the same subject. Ia a speech delivered at Sum
’ tcrville, So. Ca., on the 7th of November last,
, “ after staling in de'aii his obj actions to the State’s
i being represorted ia the National Democratic
* Convention, which ia to be hold in Cincinnati in
| May next, Mr. Boyoe proceeded to consider the
claims of the Democratic party upon the fealty of
the Democracy of South Carolina. In doing so he
ditcasscd the merit claim d for the Democratic
party, on account of the passage ot the Nebraska
i bill. Admitting that * some oi the Northern men
who wore aclivo in the movement were actuated
by the noblest motives,’ and, accorded to them
4 all honor* for their conduct on that occasion, he
went on to 4 raise the veil,’ as he said, 4 which
concealed the s iciet workings of the machinery’
employed in the movement, end to expose ‘the
schem?, comprehensive, crafty and srga
cio *s,’ which waß had in view in the passage of the
bill.”
Just here we must digress for a moment, to ask
of our old line Whig friends, it they have any
recollection of having heard or read, during the
!a’e canvas-’, any very laadatr ry panegyrics upon
the 'forty f.ur sound, Northern men /” who voted
for the Nebraska B 11—or upon Senators Dccglass
and Shields? If they did hear or see any such
euloginm pronounced, we beg they will investi
gite carefully th-; evidence of Mr. Boyoe, himself
a Democrat, and the extracts from the speeches of
Douglass and Shields, which we sufcjo'n, and then
determine what claims tho “ forty four ” Messrs*
Dougla s and Shield have upon the South.
Mr. Boyoe, tike a true patriot and Southern man,
4 ‘ ifts the veil,” and exposes the secret motives of
thes 3 trimming demagogues in all their deformity.
He a id :
But when I have said this much I most bo al
lowed to say what the truth of history demands—
that the repeal of the Missouri restriction, in its
general scope wr-s rot so much an act cf juatice
intended to the Sou to as a great political move by
which the South was to be conciliated, tho North
to locse nothing, and a'i through the agency ts the
Democrats party, who were to be the real benefi
ciaries ol the movement. Tbs movement I have
no doubt went on this programme of policy ; that
the Democra ic party, by opening K»nt&s to the
South ; would gain firm possession of the South ;
that the Wbi par y would op.oose the movement
as th -y did and thus break down at the South ;
and ait resting on the conviction thst the North,
from her superier powers of co'onizition. woold
s zenfon Karens and make it a free State. The
South, hav:rg had a fair chance could not blame
their Nor.r.ern allies, and the Democratic party
would remain d altera of the situation. That wa*
a great ach juie, comprehensive, crafty, and saga
cious, and on y needed the impress of sn'.cess to
a tamp it as a master movement in party lattice.
Under tb a view of the c*-e I do not see that
we are under an insupportable we ght of gratitude
to the Democratic party; certainly the burden is
not as heavy as Allas haJ to bear on his shoulder .
hut if ihe D mocratic party bsd eto d up to the#
Nebraska bill alter its passage, I could hardly have
felt at liberty to Lave *ais-d the veil wh<ci ccn
c- aied the secret working of the machinery; but,
as er they had perfected tceir work, they fled from
it in dismay and repudiated their own offspring.
Id almo l the ent.re Nort- , with the exception of
three or four ot the Northwestern Braes where
Ju ge Douglas’s nflaecce wtm paramoun*, the
Dju.cc r a:ic party dtdged tfce N -bra-ka b ii or
look ground against it. How, then, can I be asked to
put confidence in a party which has no co fidence
in itself, but falsifies iu own action ? Lord Cfaa*
oam said tea* confidence was a plant of ilow growth i
in an aged bnsorr. It is never a plant ol has y
growth in the bosom of any wise statesman. Ihe
present position of the Democratic party is
i y not such a- to invite us to quit our own firesides
and take up bed and board with them.
Had Mr. Boyce evsr seen the speech of Senator
Douglass, at Indian*ptlis, In certainly would not
havegi7enffm credit for be ng 44 rue” to tfce
South. In that speech Judge D-uglass, “with a {
view tc comme! d the bi ltj the favcrsble consid- *
eratioo r s h s Fretsoil heorers, he took the ground *
that the object .on to tho Missouri Compromise Lice *
wa*, that wh .e s'avtry rai prohib ted North of *
the line,it wa-i legaliz'd Bouth oft; and that by
thi repea' of ttat part of the Missouri C mpro- 1
mLse, the wh o f the ter-i ory of the United 1
States, South cf the lice wa* op a .rei to freedom l
He ridiculed, in Lis speech, the idea that the re 1
peal cf the Compromise wis a measure favorable 1
to the extension of slavery.” Here ia his cwl lau
“ The objection to the Missouri prohibition is, (
that it is unbound in principle, and legali£3a ala- t
very So uh, as mu:U a* it prohibits it N-irth.” ]
“ What »no min cow in this vast assemblage, is J
willing to restore this litie ? If one, let him give
his rame.” “ 1-thero *u abolitionist present who 1
i* willing to restoro th s 1 ir»ef Is there s Know
No’h'.igl If so give os his rame, for Barnum,
wants hm. Any one can mske bis fortune, by
exhibit: o2 him at n n-ouey show.”
“ Surely Mr. B*yok mvor con’d have seen this
speech o* Judge Douglas, or h ecouli not consider
the anther of it as 4 trae’ to the South. Jadge
Douglas, neither dodged uor took ground against
the Nebraska bill; but he id worse, he open
ly defended it as a measure which would infallibly
enure to the 1 benefit of Frstsoilism— a3 a measure
which would infallibly operate in favor of FYetsoil
ism / His then colleague in the Senate of the
United State, Gen. Shixlds, defended the passage
of the bill on the ame grounds. Ia a speech made
by him at Springfield, in his own Bta‘.e, after the
passage of the bill, he said :”
“Kansas and Nebraska were now fro* 4 , and the
people there would keep them free * * * *
* * the establishment of slavery in these Terri
tories was not only improbable, but impossible. *
******* 'Phis principle of non
intervention would rot only keep them such as
they are now—free—but would, by its full and fair
rparatiou, if wo Bcquiro the Continent to the
Isthmus ol Darien, work withsucb powerful force
aid effect, that no man cou d ever see another
S ave State on this Continent.”
This, Whigs of Georgia, -satruo and faithful
sketch of tho Northern Democracy, including
Messrs. Douglass, Shields, and most of those
“forty four Northern Democrats” of whom ycu
have hoard so much. It bocome3 your duty,
theres re, as Whigs, as Georgians, aud as Southern
patriots, to determine whether yon will affiliate
with such a party, or whether it is not better to
stand aloof and act only with those who have the
patriotism and ir dependence to stand out boldly
for the Constitution and rights of the South. You
hive seen by the testimony of Democrats, that the
“National Democracy” are uuworthy of confi
dence—that th y are ready and willing to adopt
any platform of principles to secure the spoils.
Can you, as true Southern men, as Georgians, act
with them I
The Rumors from Ksniia.
j . Wiicnal Intelligencer says Nothing could
bly impress the miud with the necessity
in regard to the accounts of troubles in
in the perusal of the two following
. '9n • *as to the origin of the late difficulty.
Vv «,re . .iot for the names the reader would hardly
j suppose t hat they related to the same event. The
! u:o-: c > iting” account had six days’ start of the
other—ample time to stir up ill-blood, especially
throughout the State cf Missouri. Wo place them
n juxtaposition :
St. Louis, Nov. 80. St. Louis, Dec. 5.
Exding aud Irgily The Kansas “Free
»mpor J aut news from Sta e” papers give the
Kans slas j ist been re following account of the
oeivel. Uu Thursday, difficulties iu the Terri
Nov. 29th, near H ckory tory : A jo ng man
i oiut, three Abolition Darned Dow, 22yoars of
jsts, armed with Bhar,»\j tgo, while ala black
rifl , went to the c aim iin th’s shop where se
of Mr. Coleman aud per- voral “border ruffians”
omptorily ordered him had congregated, was
to leave, allowing him deliberately shot by one
only tou mi antes in Coleman. An attempt
which to do so, and was made to arrest the
threatening *oshoot him murderer, hut, ihrcugh
i’ic se ot r« fasaltoobey. the assistance of his a
He immediately left, but bettors, he escaped to
shoit'y as erwirds re Missouii. A meeting of
tur ed well armed One the citizens, hrld on the
of lii A bolt ion- spot wher tbe affair oo
is*.s then attempted to curred, to it quiro into
shco him, but his rifle the esn-e, pronounced
iiu-sjl lire. ( olmau the act ne Id blooded
i here up m shot lira murder on the part of
d ad, and iumedistely Coleman, and charged
give himself up to tuo four men, named Hagun,
au hones !or tr al. A Barkley, Moody, unci
mob of Abolition-i t», all Waguer, with being ac-
a r !; od with rifl 1 s, scon cossories. A series of
gathered, and, ript iritig resolutions was passed,
to Colmar ’s tou.-o,drove and a committee ap
irs w feard children off, pointed to investigate
se hie to the balding still further, to search
and burnt it dowu, to out the offenders, and
gether with the houses devise means to bring
c f otl e-pr jbav rv men them to justice. Sheriff
1 in tut vi jin. ty. Deputy Jones arrest'd Jacob
Marshal Jones »Treated Bronson, at whose
the leader of the mob boase Dow lived, for the
and ins other i e s^n.— purpose of having him
L The Aloitonisa ae givoiecuri yto keepthe
nov gat erirg in for.e pjace; but, while pro
a Lecoupm, and havo ceidiug to Lecompton,
Oemaiided tie r lease of Bionion was rescued by
1 heir comrtdes and the iv party of his neighbors.
surmber into 'heir Jouos sent to Pawnee,
i hands of Colmau. Gov. Missouri, tor aid, do*
’ Shtn oa bis ordered cut clariug that the Gov
‘ the mil ta to aid in sas* erncr of Missouri had
i taining the laws. assured him the assist
ance of leu thousand
men if required.
i m
Congress.
As the election of Speaker of tie House of Re
presentatives is exciting very general attention
among all classes, the following extracts from the
Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
America' », will ba read with interest. The loiter
was written after the close of the second day’s bal
loting.
Washington, Dec. 4,1955. —The members of the
Hou-s or Representative* were at the Capitol this
n ornipg between 11 and 12 o’clock, in largo num
bers, and most of the Btaie delegations were pass
ing iu and out from chucussch being held in the
committee room*, i 0 devise the proper course of
action iu the do ilical s igo about to be renewed
tor the Speakership. The l ©it feeling prevailed,
and all wore .-p patently aox'ooa to c ommence op
©rations at the earliest practicable moment.
At 12 o’clock, Colonel Forney, the C erk, c*.'led
the House -o Oranr, and aa soon as the rending of
the journal wus finished, the balloting for Speaker
was resumed. Five n ore balloting* were taken
without a word or interruption, with the excep
tion of au unsuccessful motion to adjourn after
the fourth bai'ot.
The oorro?pondent classifies the ind viduals
voted for tba- I Richardson, Dera.; Campbell,
Frceioll ; Fuller, Ami-Nobraska Wh s g; Mar
shall, American; Banks, Frcesoil Dem.; Ben
nington, Freesoil Whig.
The vote of Mr. Bowie, of Maryland, an old lino
Henry Clay Whig, lor R chardaou, the Democratic
caucus candidate lor Speaker, has caused much
surprise and consequent speculation amorg Utc
Murylaudura assembled at Washington.
After the third ballo 4 , it became evident th re
could bo no election to day—that all the labors to
ward* fusion had proved impracticable. The con
test, it i* now thought, will continue many days,
the difficulty of fusion being ho great as to threaten
aunihila ion to one orthe otter ol the parties that
should attempt it. If the 81 National Americans
should vole lor Campbell they would be political
ly dead, as they also would be were thoy to go
over to iho Democrats. They might unite with
the Whigs on Fuller, with safety, but unless the
National Democrats rh)u!d join with them on
Fuller, all fusion in that direction would bo abor
tive. A lesion of the Freosoilers, Abolitionists
and Republicans of all shades, would give thorn
but 1( 4 votes, and could they by any possibility
gain 8 or 9 more voles, thoy would find no difficul
ty in tilling the bpeaber’schair.
Th j Hard Na ional Americans, the National
Wh:gs, and Iho Administration Democrats have
the power, by a fusion and partition ot the spoils,
to organ zj tne House ot any moment, and thus
doleat the Freesoil factions, t eir combined vote
summing up 126, being more than one half of
the fun House, boveral days’ ba'loting, and the
plea«of necessity to satisfy their consti’uents, will
bo required to produce such a result—a result
which will moie than likely close the contest. All
three of these parties cb ini to be National Union
men, and a “Union for the sa<e of the Union,”
would be 11 ore to their credit than to Bland by and
permit the Abolition Lotions to secure a final
triumph.
The Senate to-day, I lourr, appointed a commit
ted to wail on the President and inlorm that they
were j repured t!> receive any Executive communi
ca ion that he might have to make to them.
Yours, Ac., F.
Maryland Election. —The aggregate vote cast
a the ]ato election in Maryland is as follow?, for
Comptroller:
American 41,960
Democrat 89,160
American majority 2,800
The House of Delegatee consists of 62 American?,
14 Democrats and 6 Whigs. The Senate 8 Ame
ricans, 9 Whigs and 5 Democrats.
The American majority was 2,588. The Demo
cratic majority for Governor in 1858 was 4,862.
The U. S. frigate Minnesota, one of the
six ca'ional vceso’s directed tc be built by the
!aitCongress, was laui c‘ie<3 from the Navy Yard
at Washington on Saturday. The launch was
witn* t-eed by the President cf the United States,
the Secretary cf the Navy, and others of the Cabi
net, and msny members of Congress, from a
s tamboat tnohorei io the stream, whilst the sur
rounding vicinities were crowded by multitudes
ol interested ?pectators. The launch was io all
respects s and afforded a most attractive
si/ht. The dimensions of the Minnesota are the
ramo as those of the Wabaeh, recently launched at
Philadelphia.
In the Legislature of Missouri the bill whioh
had parsed the Banate, incorporating the Miesis
sippi and Nobraeka Nav?g\tion Company <a fct.
Louis measure) was lost in the Houso by eighteen
votes. The House had again refused to take up
the Railroad bill.
Tr e Burlington (Vt.) Free Press of November
29th seys: “The bag containing the through mail
from Niw Yirk city to Montreal of Fri Jay last
(made up, of course, the night before) was found
early yesterday morning upon the track of the
Vermont Central road between here and Winoos
ki about a mile irora the v.iiage. On examination
it was foand thattho bag hal been cut open,
twen’y five letters opened and replace'*, and four
leferp, ts shown ty the post bill, abstracted. The
remainder of the contents was apparently un
touched.”
How to Sleep.— The Phrenological Journal says
that in sleeping, that pcsture should be chosen
wh'cb is promotive of deep and full inspirations,
because nature renders the latter deeper when we
are asleep thin awake, except in action. Hence a
h gh head, by cramping both the windpipe and
the bloxl vessels, is bad. The head should rest
on a line with the body.
The pork trade is opening more lively in Cin
cinnati than it has done for several years. At
several of the establishments 1600 bogs are killed
daily, and if al> the establishments that are pro
posed are put in operation, at ieasfc 10 or 12,000
hogs a»e slaughtered there daily. Pork is now
very high, bringing 6J£c. per pound net, with an
upward tendency.
A p'an has already been started for the revival
of the old Central American Conlederation, which
is likely to be successful. Honduras an San Salva
dor have on the invitation of Gen. Walker, sent
commissioners to Nicaragua, inviting propositions
to that effect, and Walker has accepted them.
This invitation is to be extended to Costa Rea
and Guatemala, tnd unless they accept it, the
forces of the three combined 8 ates, it ia eaid, will
be used to c.mpel them. It is to be regarded as an
act of hostility if they refuse. Walker’s plans
already extend to all Central America.
Tobw’s Garden. —We have been requested to
call attention to the advertisement in reference to
this long established Garden.
Mbolnsowe Truths to Irfsbmen.
The New York Times , iu reply to the note of a
correspondent who complained of tlr t journal
“turninginto ridicule the efforts uow being made
by the Irish io America to resoao and redeem
their beloved native land,” remarks that it has
often had tWe pleasure of publishing articles from
the pen of itac respondent well calculat d to cool
the irrational fervor of his countrymen and load
th.m to remember that America and not Ireland
was their home.
The Times then proceeds to admonish the Irish
men in America of their duties in a moat whole
some strain, which may, with equal propriety, be
addressed to all adopted citizens; and we, there
fore, commend the sound and sensible viowa to
the study of every reader, whether native or
adopted:
“We count confidently, thetefore, upon his per
ceiving the absurdity nod wrongs cf the move
mema made in country, whatever may be their
scope, tor an invasion and revolution of Irelan
The p ople of Ireland have a period right to rebel
against the government which they think oppress
es them, eud to overthrow it if they are able ; but
De Irisu in America aro uot the people of Ireland.
They have no right to a vcioe iu its l overnmtn 1 ,
nor are they sufferers from it* oppression. It they
to reform it they should have stayed tbero.
As subjects ci the British rule in lrelaud they
would have bad a right to rebel fgiinst it; but as
American citizens they huve simpiy nothing at all
to do with it. If a revolution shou'd be started
in Ireland they would have a right to sympathise
with it, and, divont-ng themselves ol their Ameri
can cit ztnship, to g> thero aud tuke part iu it;
but if thoy did so they world forfeit nil claims to
American protection and wcu’d subject themselves
to all the haiz rds of the enterprise.
44 Bat the Irish who come to live in America,
wco become citizens of the United States, aud thus
clothed with the power ot self government which
all American citizens posses?, are bound to dis
charge ah the duties and oouiorm to all the obliga
tions ot American cit ; *3nship; and, as they have re
uounced allegLm otoevery other Government, they
have no moie rignt to interfere with any other
th n have the native citizen* ol the United States.
Every c tizeu has the right of expatriation ; but
while the Irish remain in Amsrica, they havo no
right to sol on foot hostile operalious against any
Government with which wo aro at peace. Their duty
is to bee me Americans, to study the institutions ot
the country, to fit themselves tor the discharge ot
duties which American imposes.
If they had done this mo e generally ; if they had
acted here more uniformely as Americans aud not
i.s Irishmen ; if they had been less clannish, less
anxious to perpetuate here their foreign habits and
feelings, and more ready to adapt their conduct
to their new relations, they wcu d have given no
occasion for the political movements which aro
now so rife and so strong against them.
“ Wesubmit th- tour corre-pondeut would do his
conutiymen iu America a much better service
by urging them to become more thorough Ameri
can8 } in spirit and in conduct, than by feeding
their leseutmeuts against the Government from
whose authoriiy they havo e-ca od, and perpet
uating the pass-ons which made them so wretehod
aod so helpless at home.”
“The Charier Oak.’’
Everybody has heard of the celebrated “Charter
Oak of Couuecticut, which has aud deserves to
huve a national renown ; yet there are a largo por
tion of the public not farailiur with its histoiy, or
the ovents which gave it that renown. Aud as
they are fall of interest ti every American, we
subjoin a brief sketch, with which tho Savannah
litpublican recently favored its readers, in a notico
of a handsomely engraved portrait of the brave
old tree, beautifully framed in some of its wood,
which had been presented by the Historical So
cie’y of Connecticut to tho Coptain of the ship
“CiarUr Omfc,” a Savannah aud L ; verpoolpacket:
The historical roadcr will remomber that tho
founders of the colony ol Conuec icut met in 1689
at Hartford, personally, in full conventi u, and
famed for themselves a written constitution, or
platform ol civil government. In 1662 Charles li
granted a charter to the Colony, which confirmed
tho rights and privileges which the people had
previously enjoyed. This wu* the first example in
history of a written constitution, proceeding fioin
the people, and in their name esiabli-hing and de
fining a government, and Cotton Math r called it
“tho freest charter nnuer tho cope of Heaven.”
II. died in 1685. The kingly power aud
divine right of his successor, James IL., could on
dare no such free charter. Ho oiderod bir Ki
moiid AudrO'S to po and demand its surrender, or
to seize it Judge Sswali in his Dairy says:
“Wednesday,October26 h, 1687, His Excelleu
cy, with sundry of ye Council, Justices, aud other
gontlem u, four blew coats, two tram; etors,
Sam Bligb, fifteen or twenty red coats, with
small guns and short lances iu ye tops of yin, Het
out for Woodcocks, in order to go to Connecticut
to assume ye Government of yt place J*
Reach in.- Hailford, he sent a meesege to the
General Court demanding tho Chaiter. The As
sombly mot on tho Blst October, 1687, aud delib
erated long and earnestly on this message; repre
sentingtbe great expense and hardships of the
colonists in planting the colony, tho blocd and
treasure which they had expended in dofeudmg it,
and the happy result it had afforded them. The
evening came on, aud still thoy would not deter
mine to surrennder it. At last 8 r Edmond, im
patient at their delay, came in person to take it;
and when advancing to secure it, as it lay upon the
table, the lights were sudd- nly extinguished, the
Charter was seized by Capt. Joseph Wadsworth,
borne awav in triumph, and lodged iu a large Hol
low oak tree fronting the house of the Hon. Bam’l
Wyllys, in tho south port of tho city. The troe is
still standing, and ia thrifty in appoarance. The
premises on which it stands are owned and occu
pied by Hon. I. W. Btuart. Since tho event just
stated, it has always been known, and slil. is, by
iho na i e oi the charter oak.
It is an engraviug cf this Oak that the Historical
8oo : ely of Connect.cut has presented to (he ship
Charter Oik. It is a most appropriate gift, and
cannot but bo highiy acceptable to Capt. Houdletto
and the owners of the ship. Wo understand Hia ;
I the intention of the ciptai", oftor allowing it to j
I remain a fc*tia;*in our Reading Room, to Bis |
pend it iu bis cabin.
JjrkfiiAj of Dky Goods at New Yoi*.—' f *be
Journal ol Commerce furnisbe* its usual monthly
summary of tho imports of tore'gn dry goods at
'.hat port. The total for November is $1,829 28 )
greater than for November of iav year, and only
$784,475 less than the total for November 1858.
Tho increase as compared with lust year has been
divided between woolen, silks, cottons, and linens
without especial exce-s in either, showiug a gen
eral augmentation of the import trade. The
aggrega e receipts for the month show a gain on
every year of the past, except the year 1853, as will
appear from the follow ug briof comparison :
Iu the month of November, 1851 $1,867 221
do. do 1852 2891,29
do. do 1858 4,793 717
do. do 1854 2,220,012
do. do 1866 4,049,242
The month of December will probab.’y show a
farther gain in this respect as oompared with last
year, aud the total for tho next six months is liko
ly to be in excesw of the corresponding period of
1854-5. The total import of drygoods January lr-t
sl7 ,588,870 less than tho total for tho correspond
ing eleven months of Ia:-t year, and $26,627,785
less than for the same period of 1858.
American Plate Glass —The large quantities Os
( plato gla?8 u?ed in this country, and the rapidly
( increasing demand for the article, have induced a
( company at New York to undorta*e ila manufac
tare. A similar attempt waa made some years
1 sinco by the Cheshiie Glass C >mpany, but alter
sinking two huudred thousand dollars U e project
was abandoned. The United States are paying
more than half a million of dollars annual y to
France, Bremen and England, for polished plate
> glass, exclusive of the rough article. This annual
outlay, increasing with each year, has induce J the
present company to undertake the manufacture
with the hope of producing as good an article as
the imported at a reduce 1 price. The establish
ment of the company ia located at Wliiamsburg,
N. Y., and occupies a building two hundred feet
in length by one hundred in breadth. The compa
ny have just comm* need operations, and are man
ufactuaing plates sixty by one hundred and twen
ty inches square, and throe eighths of an inch in
i th cknes?. The machinery for polishing is not
1 yet completed, but the suocees in casting warrants
the conclusion that the company will be able to
compote with the foreign manufacturer*.
Rendering Teeth Insensible to Pain.— The
Dublin Hospital Gszitte s'ates that diseased
tooth have been rendered insensible to fain by a
cement composed of Canada balsam and slacked
lime, which ia to be inserted in the hollow of a
tooth, like a pill. It is stated that ail such pills
afford immediate relief in all toothaches but
chronic cases of inflammation. This remedy so
toothache is simple, safe, and can easily be triid
by any person.
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The R chmond American acknowledges the re
ceipt of a few fox grapes cf the mature age of fifty
years. They were found on ihe Sth cf October by
Mr. James B. Carter on bis farm in Goochland
county, Virginia. They were buried in the spring
of 1805, having been put in an air tight jar and
sealed with rosin. The negro who buried them
was ?old soon after, and the grapes were not found
till this fall. They lay tnree feet below the sur
face.
Retaliatory Measures in Virginia. —A reeolu
tion providing for the appointment of a joint com
mitteecf the two Houses of the Virgin's Legisla
ture, with the view to the adoption of more effectual
means to prevent the escape of slaves from ibat
Commonwealth, and toenqire into the expediency
of measures of retaliation and self-defence, against
such of the Northern States is are engaged in a
war upon the institution of slavery, waa adopted
io the House of Delegates on Tuesday. Mr. Mal
lory, the author of the ie?olation, said that the
system of enticing off the slaves was carried to
such an extent in this district, that without some
remedy by the State his constituents would take
the law in their own hand?, and, following
J dge Lynch, would catch and hang, as high as
Haman, every man they found aidieg their slavea
to escape. The slaves of owners who were driven
from home Dy the plague, bad been visited and
sedaced away by dozens, before their master’s
return, by the abo itioniets and without some
remedy their designs were consummated.
The deficit in the Post Orfice Depart men 1 for the
present year will be about two millions and a half
of dollars, or some three quarters of a million
more than last year. There has been added daring
the year some 8,700 miles of roa 1 aorvice to the i
operations of the Department. I
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The Jerome Clock Manufacturing Company, ,
whose principal works are at New Haven, wi h a
branch at East Bridgport, have been compelled to
a. u k an extension, and we understand are in a lair
way to obtain it. Their indebtedness is said to be
some SBOO,OOO. The asse's are also largp, and j
with a reasonable indulgence on the partot their
creditors in regard to time, they are confident of
their ability to me.tel engagements. This is the I
largest Clock manufacturing establishment in the '
world.
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The manufacturing of Sugar out of beets is re- i
vivtng, in France many of the di*t lleriea of spirits j
from beets "have been ’changed into beet sugar (
manufactory g establish me nte, on aeooun of the t
latter beirg the roo*t profitable.
A Patriotic Legislature. —A resolaliou has fi
been introduced into the South Carolina Legis a 0
tore, for the purchase of statuea of Moultrie, Ma 1
rion, Sumpter, Hayne, McDuffie and Calhoun, and 8
also of a aaroophagna for Mr. Calhoun’s romaina. B
Mob'le Hieciioo. Ji
The Advertiser ol the 4’h inst. thus chroniolou j
tho result of tbe eh cticn held in Mobile on the 8d
Inst, for Mayor and CouuoUmen:
Tho flection pissed off yesterday remarks- *
Ho quiet ai d order—on 1 with an unu-uil »b- *
Fence of excitement. This “unfortunate Know
Nothing ridden c'ty” as our good ueigfcb it in ihe
opposition calls it, has thus a.ain exhibited a
marked contrast in favor of law and as com- •
pared with cur eleotions previous to the advent of
Amo/-ican : sin among us. The quiet of yesterday
was legitimate fruit of the principles of the
American party when properly carried out, and •**
when it shall succeed iu governing the country, aa
it will at no distant day, wo shall find eleoiion *
di&turbanoes “few and far between.*’
Os the ronult yestsrday, tho American party haa
reason to bo proud—all things considered, it wax
the greatest triumph yet achieved by tho party in
Mobile. Oar ticket carried all beloro it, electing +
Mayor, CouQCilmer, Aldermen, every name on it;
carrying every Ward in the City. Even the
“Bloody Fittn,” an it was wont to bo called, which
gave a largo majority against us in August, and **
which has uover been with us before, as a Ward,
yesterday “wheeled into line,” ana rolled up a
lino majority ior our candidates. The American
cmdiduie lor Alderman carried the Ward by over
eighty majority.
Thus hi ve Lbe hopes of the opposition been w
quenched—thus have tbe hands cf tbe Americans
be* n strengthened. The former have by this lime
leeroed that whether under the name of ‘Demo
crat” or “Anti Know Nothing,” A ;ti Americanism
withers in Mobile, al least, before the sun of truth,
and dies upon it* approach to that snortd expositor f
of the people’s will—the ballot btx.
The detai's of tbe election h- ow that the vote is
unusually amal’, only some 1741 in ill. but that of
this vote tho A-uericuns got considerably more than
two-turds. Withers* excess over Mnuroe, ihe Anti
American candi lato, is upward ot one hundred
and fifty m re than all the vo e* Mnuroe reca ; ved.
We call tuis a pretty good da>*s business—at all
ovents, it finished Anti Americanism here, which
is all our party sot ou. to do.
New i ooXa.
Ge'Ftrey Moncton; or, Tne Faithless Guardian.
Bv Mr?. Moodiic, author of 4 Mark Hirdlestone,”
4 R raghing it in the Bash,” A l , Ac. Dewitt
A Davinfort. Now York. 1855. •• <
The plot of the preseut volume, while it lays no
claim to exclusive novelty, has certainly rarely
been treated in a more attractive or artistic manner
—tho incidents, nature 1 and strikiug, ara gropically
paintod—the characters, all masterly conoeptionz
aud vivid portraits, aro drawn to tho life—while
tho controllirg influences either for good or evl;
which guide t e various actors in this Life Drama,
are most beautifully traced, step by s*ep, until
they place their po soFsors either in a position \
sought after by the virtuon* on tho ono or
entailed on tho w'oked on the other. The moral
of the book i? good, aud its perusal cannot f til to
impart both knowledge and pleasure, for, while it
teaches that— 4< ;he way of tho transgressor ia
hard,” it also prove* that, “to bo virtuous is to be
happy.” “Geoffrey Monctjn” fail to be J
popular.
For saloat the jßookatoro of Gso. A. Oatss A i
Bbo.
The Knickkhbooxeb, for Dacember, has also „ j
been handed us by Geo. A. Oates A Bbo. It ia
an excellent number—brim full of good things, as
usual.
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal.—
The December number of this iuvaluable Medical
periodical ;b promptly on our table, freighted with
its usual variety of original and miscellaneous mat
ter. This number completes the eleventh volume
of the now Fories, aud wo are gratified to learu *
from ono of its editorials, that its subscription list
is steadily increasing. It is a valuable work and
conducted with ability aud industry, and we cor
dral’y recommend it to our readers. It is edited
by Prof. L. A. Dugas and Henry Rossignol, M.
D., and published by James MoUaffjcrtt, of this
oity, at $3 per annum in advance.
i- Savannah Election.—The Kepublioan of Thur*-
lt day aayn : The following is tho result of the eieo-
tion yesterday for Mayor and Aldermen:
1- AMFRVOAN TII'KET DEMOORAT’O TICKET.
1 For Mayor. For Mayor .
>r Ed. C. AnderaoD... .846 J. P. Screven 822
Aldermen. Aldermen .
i Thos. 8. Wayne 8"7 Dr. Richard Wayno. .910
!r John N. Lewi* 888 001. Roh’tD. Walker 871
s, A.N.Miiler 797 Aaron Champion....Bß2
h (Gilbert Butler 778 Dr. R'ch’d D. Arnold 851
it Dr. Sol. Bhcfta 1 72 Koherl L>chlipon....Q67
it Jas. GRodgors 80) Dominick A O'Byrneß46
Chaa. F. Mdla 82* lohn G. Fdigaut.. .884
ie Dr. Chan. W. West. .828 Aolomon Cohen 848
b J. B Gallic 818 Wm. S. Basainger.. .867
3- Richard Brudley.... 88f lohn J. Ke11y....... 889
o John M-llcry 8"8 John M. Cooper 860
ie R. A. Aden hBS Dr. Jo <u F. Posey..Bß6
id It will be peon that Mr. Anderson has been re-
elected by 24 majority. Two Amoricanß (Messrs.
r Alton and Bradley) and ten Democrats have been
o- chosen Aldormen. A few more votes would have
1 » given the Americans a mtjority of the A'dcrmen
10 —a foot which wi I, wo trust, induce a moro gone
ti, ral registration hereafter by our friends. The
1- Democra's left out aro Messrp. Wayne and Fal
i’j lijrnnt.
ie The hour at which wo write, 8 o’olcok this
i morning, will not allow ns to do moro than con
st gratulate the poople of Savannuh upon tho re-
election of tho Hon. Ed. C. Anderson,
i! Tho Courier pays : There wore no acts of vio
p lol< o durit g tho day, but the amount of drunken
ntHs was very great, much greator than we trust it
„ will over bo our lot to see again on snoh an <y
o oasion.
I The Fie* at Memphis —The g»•<* ()Futa
wm the following accouuC of the l*;t»
.d: v 6re 41omrhis, Tennessee :
j Mnurais, D#?. 5 —Tan sad occur er.<-o ben to
day, in wmch thr- loss cf ten or twelve !iv»a, and
) ihe destruction cf a Urge amount of property bo
. sides tiro involved, ias of cenve created mucL ax
. cil«m> nt.
The fire wi a di c covered about one o’clock this
n morning on board ihe Georgo Collier, just as she
b bad ma in ttie landing. The fUmrs sp ead with
l# irresistible rapidity, and what with the unseasoua
bleness of thi timo, and the part of t .e boat in
e which they first gained the ascendancy, the result
n has been a*s di-a«trons as it could * *ll ce. The
II 00? flagration soon spread from the Goorgo Collier
to the splendid ftiamboat May Flower, and to tt.e
wharf boat, and they raged with such fierceness
il thut on bo’h boats every article, ca'gocs, bocks
9 and papers, were at once placed beyond redo nip
7 lion. A'l was a total loss.
2 It would have been unfortnnate enough if the
t 2 catastrophe had lu en confined w thin these limits,
a but very far from it. Tho pacrifioe of life has been
sadly, almost unaccountably groat, uudei the cir
cumstances of the proximity of ttio boats to the
1 landing place. The actual extent of the oi'amity
'f in this re peot has not been ascertained, but it is
t bel eved the number of Jive'? lost, raDges in num
ber about teu or twelve. Tho great majority of
" ibo victims wero passengers, the officers of both
5 boats being all saved.
fi ull particulars ph to name-', howover, are not
yet ascertained. Those thus lar known to be lost
f aro Arthnr D ggan, assistant bar keoper on the
May Fl' wor; aM r. Caudon, of Lou’eville ; James
’ Banks, cook or the Collier ; and Sidney, oabin
* boy on board tho same b at.
The rasnengers who is:ap?d did po with the
, greatest difficulty, and Ice. every atom of their
baggage
The vu’ue of the proporty destroyed is estima
ted at $250,( 00. Tho insurance a curtained thus
r far lo have been effected is only $65,000 on the
boats.
Florida.—We regret to learn from the Message
of Governor Broome of Florida that small as are
1 tho experiHOs ofthe State Government, they go be •
1 youd the current revenue in tho ratio of 85,865,-
4 19-100 to 68,864 50-100 dollars. A reviow of tho
finunoics for tho ten years during which Florida
has been a State shows a deficiency of revenue of
ninety-two thou-and one hundred and seventy
nine 04 100 (82,179 04-100) dollars, or equal to an
average dofio oncy of over nine ihousaud dollars
per annum.
1 The Governor adds:
“It is true that a mujorby of the debts were
* contracted for tho protection of our frontier In*
> habitants against Indian depredations ; a ' roteo
tion which the General Government w**» bound to
give them, and which consideration should have
induool the return ofthe money. Oi auch rdnrn
however there is no immediate prospect, and the
I State having assumed the obiiga ions, paid one
i c’ass of them and required her Governor and
i Comptro'ler by law, torign and issue State Script,
bearing interest, in payment of the other dies,
cannot consistently with hrnor and good faith
refuse to provide for the payment of principle fend
interest of the script now due, and for the redemj -
tion ol the balance us it becomes due.”
We are, nls", told that tho State’s Agents have
been diligently employed perfect ng tho selections
of the s vain » and overflowed lands granted by
Congress, and they row amount lo something over
eleven million acres, with a prospect ultimately
of about throe million more. This constitutes an
important portion of the magnificent food which
Florida hai on hand for her works of internal im~
provement.
The return of Mr. Buchanan, onr Minister to
England, will bo somewhat delayed in conse
quence of the recent misunderstanding htweeo the
two countries. Under dote of November 16tb, he
writes by the Atlantic to a gentleman of .Lancaster
as fellows:
I had calculated with confidence that I should
reurn horn* by the steamer of the 6 h of Oc’ober
la-t, bat. unexpected events rendered this impos
sible. 1 shah now be detained hero, I know not
h w long, in consequer ce of the present aspect of
affairs between the two countries. I trus’, how
ever, that within the period of three months, I
may meat you all tg*in. At least such is my an
xious desire.
Dr. Dionysius Lardnet says that the admixture
of one per cent, of copper with cast iron, while in
a state of fas on, wts found by Mr. Perkins, the
inventor of the steam gun, to prevent its bursting
under ex’rome pressure—a fact in metallic mani
pulation that is of much importance to mechanics.
The Hon. John M. Butts, of Virginia, in reply
to anurgentreqneitof sundry o tixuns of TriaDgle,
in Brocme county, N. Y , consents to the nse of
h a name as a candid ae of the Know No hing
party for the Presidency, thoagh be frankly con
fesses that ho thinks bis nomination a highly im
probable eveDt.
A Pobtbait OF a Fkixnd.—ln n p’y to a state
ment in the Richmond Enquirer, “that the Demo
cratic party, as low composed and organised, la
adequate and ready to secure the North and the
South, tho East and the West, the peaceful tnjoy
ment of the i-everal rghts and immunities,” tne
Charleston Mercury, from timo out of mind a
paper of the strongest Democratic affinities, says:
“We have no such faith in the ability of the
Democratic party. It has boen overwhelmed at
the North by abolition, and is powerless, either
for ils own national ends or tho protection of the
South.’' _
The following paragraph, from a late London
paper shows the great value in England of horses
of pure blood:
“A great number of horses, the proprerty of
the Marquis of Waterford, were sold br auction a
few days bto9. The lot \ sixty six m number, rea
-1 x°d £7 062.10. The yearlings so.d enormously
high : fo r instance, a bay oolt, by B<>a Horse,
brought £4CO; another by the sami sire, £BOO,
and a bay filly, by Magpie, BuQ guineas ”
Australia.—The la’eat advices from Australia
give eticoura/iug accounts of the progress of the
gold production. The shipment* thia year, up to
the Ist of September, had amount d to £6,500,000,
and were expected, before the oloae ol the twain
months, to reaoh £10,000,000,