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1856! THE 1856!
SOUTHKU\ CULTIVATOR,
A JIONTIILY JOURNAL,
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FOR SALE.
FOR SALE.
IMIWoITut for sale my entire River PLANTATION,
:h or JO miles south of (JoiumbiiM, Or., in Barbour
county, Ala., lying on the Chattahoochee river, contain
ing i*-100 acres; IJJUO In a tine *tatc of cultivation and
good re|iau*. A good Water Gin and Ferry across the
Chattahoochee river. The above w ill be for *ale at any
time nntl sold and - mu given. Term* to suit pur
Hkootv | jin *1 if j .MATTHEW AVERF/rT.
TO MEN OF TASTE AND CAPITAL.
fI , III', suWriber, wishing to remove to Southwestern
1 Georgia, propones to ell his place near Cave Spring,
n Vann’s Y r alley, Floyd county, Ua, containing 317
acre*, more or le-*, returned Ist quality oak aud hickory
mirstly of soil and -.urfn* e not to wash ; some IfiO acre*
ch ared and under good tillage ; the remainder generally
w ell limbered. It ha* Several spring* ofrool blue Lime
stone water, two constant streams, an effective water
power without darning, orchard* of many W eil selected
• >1 a lftrg»and comraodi
u* Brick Dwelling, um tinded by line nam.ry, and
w iibin a mile of the \ illage, long noted for it* educational
advantage* All who have examined the premises, con
cur m the opinion that this place emnhines the elements
of beauty, fertility, convenience anti healthfuluoxs to an
extent seldom, If ever, equalled in this country. Hut
come and see f >r youi selves, and the chanu-ter, location
anl resource* ofitlio place can hardly fail to satisfy you
that it In a No. 1 article, not subject to the fluctuation*
of the market. For term*, apply on the premise*.
W. D COWDREY.
t’avc Spring, July 10, Jp'.Vi. jyUi-wtf
VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE !
SITI V I ED in Lowndes county, Ala., on the road
leading from llayneville to Benton, ten mile* from
the latter place. Said farm contains 1 <»HO acres of land,
oil. half under good finer*, well ditched, ami in a high 1
state <»| cultivation. Thu improvements comprise a good
new dwelling house, containing lour room* ; a large two i
storv fra tie 1 .1 Gin It ■ e and a line Screw, recently put I
il|. . excellent Stables, am] a good M.ll house. Theuniui |
proved Land i> well timbered auil of superior quality. f
This plantation htu a.lvantage* over any other in the .
iieigldiorUoOil, one-half being level with rich black soil .
tie-oihorfettilo hammock, lying in the fork of Ash and
Panther creeks Thu prairie portion of the farm tsulmu 1
dantly w .term! by well*, aud the sandy by a number of ‘
unfading tree-tone springs, convenient to the negro quar i
ter* ft i also well located, bimug excellent range for 1
stock, and Him outlets. - The plantation will be disposed i
of privately for a division of an estate. ,
Any Information relating t° U ran be obtained by a.l
«li•• *ing me at Tuskegee, Macon county, Ala. Those
w ho w Hh to look at it w ill please call on the Overseer.
'IT 108. P GARY, ExT
apl3 vvdiu of the ed.ite . » W L Gary, deceased. I
MELL'S PATENT PLOW STOCK ! f
t |MI!! undersigned fins invented and patented a most 1
I valuable IMPROVEMENT IN THE PLOW C
S LOCK the County Rights for which he desires to sell. I
He prefer* to let others speak its praise, and therefore t
introduce • the following eertiricates, from two Planters, t
well and favorably known in the community in which ,
they reside. lie m.ght introduce many others, but the j
Plow Stock will speak for itself whenever examined.
JAMES B. WELL. *
Iticelu.ro’, Liberty county, Oa. 1
•Thin Uto certify, that I haw, with my own hands, t h
thoroughly touted tin! newly invented Plow Stock of in
Jauu l! Mell, Ksi|. In point «•!'simplicity ami perfee- ai
tion, ) hav ■ m-v'or *i*Minr used its equal. In it is com
bind owry thing that 1 could wish in n Plow Stock, and ec
It, in my opinion. i the cheapest and the best that ha* *•
ever been offered to the public. I speak from having
u*<<l it with my own hands. L wa* raised to follow the 1,1
Plow; and think that! knowhow one ought to run. 1 ol
would cheerfully thank any one, who will thoroughly b;
try It, to pouit out-to me one single fault In it. It is e»
Master upon the horsa and plow man than any that 1 have
ever hmmL . }1
I’hu principle upon wftnh you regulate the depth of (|
the Plun. is >o iuiplc and yet «.{ perfect, as to commend
ii elf to any one ; and the Stock is adapted to any kind .
of Plow II MV It is, moreover, just us light as anv could J’
desire it h< 1 would recommend to any ami all, If
Ihny wish lh> be t ami cheapest Plow Stock, without «
b. Mtation to get Mr Janies li Moll's. fu
I'outicid, (la., April 15, is.si. I>. W. Wii-son. si
In . .maituv witii sovoral others. 1, this day, witnessed \ u
tie irial"f Mr Jmue IV Moll's Plow Stoek, by Mr I>. W. ~
Wilson, and elnu ifully-date tlmt all present were fully
miiidled that it doi» t*\eyy thing as stilted above. 1
would, moreover, -late that 1 have been using them ou k
ni \fa nil for several Uiouihs. and every day serves to n
coijtirm me in the opinion nf the superiority of Mr. Moll's
Plow Si * k to Ml others now lit use, it
ivnti Id. Ga., April l.\ l-s-h, Tups. P- Jane*. ti
aplT *»i
rORMAN S IRON FLOW-STOCK. ti
f|S|lU undersigned. harbor purchased the patent right r
I In the above vain able and popular PLOW for the M
coimrie-,.t‘lt hmoml, Columbia, I im*oln. Burke, Jeffer f .
*ott, Washington. Sertvru aud Lmanual. are prepare.! to
ijruisli it to planters at the manufacturer’s price. This
.lock Which is made entirely of wrought Iron, is a Sontli
eru ii|\eution a,d has b< .m miso -nily t : > ;ed to prove \
that It nin> more stevi,l 4 . bleaks Oil.* pulverise* the soil tl
more l ii.oougMv, b'-> in rough land, is more easily a
adjusted for deep oc shallow plowing, holds the shares} ft
mme tir.nlv, lasts incomparably longer, and Is, in the f,
oud tar cheaper thau :»u\ *Mln-v-lock now In uso. This
state in out Is fully Mista'imnl by numerous cert ideates in ,
,mr ih»; *• don tVein the most practical and successful
planters iu the country. Wo will have plesure u
lu sending a circular containing tu*me of thsse certificates
and a more particular dv > iipliou of the p)an, to any "
peri :i who would likp to see them. Wo are willing to tl
r fer to any one who has given this Plow a fair trial. In a
the Nov No o| the Southern Cultivator, p. J4.>, the edi- h
tor of that work <avs : "Ath r giving thiw l'Unv a fair
*,,4 in}partial f. ml wc can truly say, that w c regard it as y
a iv-t v vlutible linprovi'ltyont ou all 'common wooifcu
i mplemenis of th. kind now in use. For general efticieu
c v and convenience, as well as special adaptation to deep <
Hinge or subsoiling, we know of nothing that surpasses t
i while .u the M-ore of economy and durability, it u
altogether unrivaled N>* plow w ith which we an- faml |
Ur. is so well calculated to i«-,st tiie careless and des
tractive usaire of Plantation Negroes, amt we donut mi
that its general introduction w ould be of very great pocu
ui.irv beuHii* ut,ih«- planting interet t of the youth.’’
rills stock Vs adapted to Nix different shares or points 1
—embracmg everv variety which a planter will need «
from the lieginuftig to the end of the year. Those shares t
will be tarnished with the Stock, when desired; though >
any plantation smith can make them after once seeing }
lh KUht» for counties, for Shop*, or for Plantations, will
be sold on reasonable terms Apply at the Hardware
Stores in Augusta, or address 1. C. FIT ’1 LN A io. 1
decld-wtf Augusta, (la. t
STo REWARD !
UTOI.RN from the subscriber, on the nlcht of the 4th
insp. a small biro leather POOKfcV'lUKfix. cm‘ ,
rjrwc *
U Whit.-. pavjMo to me. .lat.-.l *>ih J»nn«ry. IKVi, dne
at tw.'lve mouth*: Uutntlior f.ir ?I7 .V>. made by A K
. i-srsWoto J A Stone. .bit.-.! about the Bd of i
W.'Cmb'.'r l**t. ilue ime .tav after date. an.l iw -mall not*
on tnv'Ob’, which I had paid, and torn off the name. 1 ,
will jmv the alxiv e reward for the recovery of the papers,
and ash no question*. All persons are hereby rantionod
not to trade for said notes, aud the makers not to pay
them, except to me. G. S. DAKKELLY.
February IA, 1856.
S3O REWARD.
U IN A WAY* from the subscriber, rt'siding in l*ut
uam countv. near Merrill, fn Anjrust la«?t, my Negro
M.i'ti FR VNK 110 is about 35 years old, five feet ten in
chivs high, of medium sire, has a slight impediment in his
speech, aud has lost the sight of one eye. lie was raised
U Virginia, and has been in Georgia about tw o years.
The above reward wfll he paid for his delivery to mo,
or to any jail *o that 1 can get hint.
ja23-wtf JOHN A HARRIS.
The Southern Recorder will publish till forbid, and for
ward account to this office for payment.
S2O REWARD.
1> WAW AY*from Wm. Johnson, about the 15th of
December. leCvt, a negro man named JOJIN he
s imetiim s calls hhn>olf\y L.>SLF Y lie U alamt thirty
tjvo van old, about five feet eight or ten inches high, of
a yebow complexion, with some of his from under teeth
out. and .a small sear over one of his eye*, l do net recol
oct which eye. The substriber will pay the above re
ward for the deliver v of said boy to me. or his confine
ment in jail so that i may get him.
Loni*; .He, Oa ■ Oct K■w?nr E. W JOHNSON.
FUL ON HOUSE,
ATLANTA, (JEOKdIA,
BY A W KKF.VKS
4 877.000 FEET OF LUMBER.
r l' Ills willecrtifv that the .Athens Su-am Company
1 budtb.r us a Cin ularßawMill.cn which we have
saw«'.l four million eight hundred aud seventy-seven thou
.'*nd fcei of Luuibt r Inxsrd n-t-asure, (fioui the 17th of
j nly. ':SS4, to the 17th January. 1856 J in eighteen months
or about ten thousand five hundred feet per day But we
really sawed from cW\iu to twelve thousand feet per
«tay' for we supposed the Millr has been standing in the
eighteen mouth* at least two mouth* for want of logs and
tvccasumal repair*. The above account is taken from a
book m which we charge ail the Lumber a« we ship it
from the MiU. About half the Lumber sawed k* Rail
R.kad stringers, t» by 3 in* hes. and the balance weather
board*, fi.s'ring, inch boards, and some one and one-half
fill and two <,3) inch plank.
The improvement .-o head-blocks Works fine, and
would advise vott to use them on all vour Mills.
Yours, respivttui’j. WADLEY A REPPARD.
77 Mile Post. Central R. R Geo.. Feb. 12, lr<.Vk
The above can be sustained by other ccrtiflcatt'*,
whn h w e think n>>t necessary, since we are building the
ime CIRCULAR SAW MILLS (iron frames cast in
one piece,'' with improved Bead-Blocks and Carriage
and BOILERS, Finished SHAFTING. M ning and Mill
MACS INERT'. PIMPS. Ac Iron aud Bra** Catting*
of «v«ry description. Wrought Irv*u Work, Finishing and
Repairing promptly executed.
Our asaoQUnent of Flouring and other Mill Patterns are
not excelled Sou»h. being the improvement* and accu
mulation of years
Communication* will receive prompt atteulion ad
drested'to REI’BEN N ICKERSON.
Agent Athens Steam Company.
Athens, Geo. mhJ2-w3m
a TTOKNKY AT LAW. Angutta. ft*, will prac
tice in the Courts of Law aud Equity in the counties
, . Richmond, Burke, Jefferson, Scriven. Warren and
Wilke* Office In Masonic Hall Building. mhs-ly
FOB SALE
ACIsTIUON WHEEL* whose diameter i* li
feel •.twe of whit’h ar« rimmod with wood,) and 14
inch- s surface. The hub is 5 inches in th« Also
<Ah«r part* -»f Machinery connected with a baw Mill, will
be sold. Price d; touts per pound. Inquire at the Bel
A»r Mills. icyH-deAwlt
. ' - - -
v | Jill ”^3^^!
Cljromclc &
o
The Knltotmen! q«i*Htlon.
Wr have already published Lord Clarendon's
i reply to Secretary Marc vs lust di-spateb and we
| now publish the despatch of Mr. Cramptos to I»rd
j C. as neccessary to a full and comprehensive elu< i
; dat ion of the whole subject It appear* that, after
I the receipt of Mr. Makcy's last despatch, by Lord
Clarendon, lie forwarded a copy of it to Mr.
Cram pros, desiring him to make such observations
on its statements as he might have to offer, that her
Majesty's Government might be in jiossession of
them before formally replying to Mr. Makcy’s last
despatch.
Mr. Crumpton to the. Karl of Clarendon.
[Extract.] Washington. March 3, 1856.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
your lordship’s despatch of the fir«t ultimo, forwar
ding to me the copy «»f a despatch dated the 28th of
December last from Mr. Matey to Mr Buchanan, a
copy of which was placed in your lordship’s hand*
by that Minister on the 20th of January last, and in
which the Government of the United .States applies
tor my recall from Washington, and for that of
Messrs. Consuls Barclay, Mathew, and Kowcroft
from their several po*ts, on the ground of the part
which it states was taken by us respectively in the
alleged illegal recruitment within the United States
of soldiers lor her Majesty * serv ice.
Your lordship desires that my comments upon
the statements m Mr. Marcy's despatch should be in
the possession of her Majesty's Government before
answer to that despatch is drawn up, aud does me
the honor to instruct me to furnish vour lordship a*
soon a* possible with such observations as I may
have to offer thereupon.
It i* with much satisfaction that I proceed to com
ply with your lordship's direction. It is with much
satisfaction that I now avail myself of the only fit
ting opportunity which has been afforded me of re
plying to some, at least, of a series of charge*
against me and others of her Majesty’s public ser
vants which the United States Government ha*
thought projier long since to bring before the public
indirectly, and in wuch a manner hh rendered it im
possible for me to meet them effectually consistent
ly with the exigencies of the somewhat exceptional
|m.-i*iori of a diplomatic functionary in a foreign
country.
It i* in consequence of this unusual course of the
United State* Government that I have been so
long deprived of the opportunity which is afforded
to the meanest accused persons to defend them-
It may seem strange that the representative of
the British Government in this country should be
placed in a position more disadvantageous than
would have been that of any other citizen of the
United ijtates, or any other sojourner therein; that
he, as well as the Government he represents, should
be subjected to the public obloquy and vituperation
which naturally follow upon an t.r parte charge of
an offence assumed to be proved because not re
plied to; yet so it is. The charges brought forward
distinctly aud in detail against, myself and her Ma
jesty’s Consuls at the trial ot Hertz at Philadelphia
many months ago, in a public court of justice to
which l was not amenable, and where, consequent
ly, I could not be admitted to disprove them, were,
in the diplomatic communications of the Govern
ment of the United States to her Majesty’s Govern
ment, where I eould have replied to and refuted
them, only generally indicated, without any state
meut of their specific nature, or as to where or by
whom they were made. The United States Govern
meut contented itself with stating that it believed
them.
These same charges, together with some other
mutters, have, however, now been reproduced offi
cially, and brought through the proper channel un
der tin* attention of her Majesty's Government; —
and it will of course be my duty to meet them as
best 1 may. But I must observe that the r ccusers
in this case have had the use of all the means and
appliances of a judicial investigation, while the ac
cused have been deprived of a judicial means of de
fence, and are therefore placed at a great disadvan
tuge.
With the very imperfect means at my command,
I do not, however, doubt of being able to dis
prove, to the satisfaction of any unprejudiced per
son, the facta by which it is sought to implicate me
iu an infraction of the neutrality law of the United
States.
With regard to the charge of disrespect to the
Government to which 1 am accredited, by some act
or acts which were not infringements of the neu
trality law, I have only to hope that, in the first
place, inv word may be taken that I entertained no
such disrespect ; and that, in the second, if I have
violated international law, which 1 contend I have
not, it was beenuse i did not think, nor do 1 now
believe, that the doctrine now put forward by the
United States on the subject is a sound or a recog-
nised doctrine, applicable to the case ; and because,
moreover, I wan not. aware that it was held to be so
by the Government of the United States itself at
the time the alleged violation took place. However
erroneous, theretore, the Government of the United
States may believe my opinion to be, I cannot but
hope that they will acquit me of any intentional dis
regard either of the sovereign rights or of the policy
of this country.
Before applying myself, however, to an examina
tion of the specific charges now brought forward, it
will be necessary, for a proper understanding of the
motives of such acts as 1 may have done or ab
stained from doing, that l should state to your lord
ship my own views upon the subject of recruitment
in a toreigu country generally, and of the bearing
of the United States neutrality law as well ns of tin
law'of nations on the subject in particular ; for to
try nets done under the guidance of one rule of con
duct by applying to them the test of a different rule
of conduct could clearly serve no other purpose than
to perpetuate discussion and to enlarge instead of
contracting the field of dpbnfe. |t is only by each .
party stating wjtfi candor the views and opinions ,
under the influence of w hich they have acted that
the field of controversy can be nurrowed, by its be- ]
ing thus ascertained where the parties really differ ,
and where they agree.
Should the views and opinions upon which I act- (
ed be found to be erroneous, the question will be so ,
far settled ; for all my acts done in consequence will
more or less partake of the error in which they ,
originated. On the contrary, should the principles
by which 1 was guided be correct, the acts ,
emanating from them could scarcely fail to be so.
1 entirely concur in the opinion expressed by Mr.
Marpy, in his despatch now under consideration,
that the best way of increasing the probability of
an amicable ai\justmeiit of the present difficulties is
lo nunuw lhe ground of the utscussion by clearly
ascertaining the debatable ground ; by defining the
rights of the United States on the one hand, and by
ascertaining the precise limits of tin* British preten
sions on Ihe other.
Mr. Marey does not, however, appear to me to
have done this successfully or correctly. It is true
that in the concluding part of his despatch he sums up
what he believes to be the American doctrine by
giving a vpry broad and sweeping interpretation of
the conatrn(‘lion of the neutrality law. But he
seems throughout the whole of his argument to have
misundcrstiHul the precise limits ol tlie British pre
tensions as 1 understand them, inasmuch as lie de
signates those pretensions and those acts throu«riir
out, and w henever he alludes to them, w’ithqut dis
tinction, ns amounting to the assertion of a l ight to
raise soldiers within /hr United States, to recruit,
within the United States, to carry on a scheme of
recruitment within the United States. «.Ve., «&e.
As these expressions appear to me to be the
whole question in dispute between the two Go
vernments, and not at all to conform with the no
tion ol the matter, which 1 myself entertained and
acted upon, it will be necessary that I should state
fully and wit I»perfect candor my view of the mat
ter, au«l thus endeavor to mark out more correctly
than Mr. Marey lias done, the limits of the de
batable ground, which he very properly wishes to
ascertain.
By ascertaining what really are the points upon
which there is an agreement of opinion, as well as
those in regard to w hich opposing view * lmye been
and are entertained, a solution of the question may
be approached, or at least the discussion may be
made to turn upon the point or points which are real :
IV in 4spfAe.
The question, then, as regards the principle appli
cable to the matter seems to me to be resolvable in
to two branches :
1. That which regards the municipal laws of the
United States.
4. That which regards the general la\ys of na :
luma.
With regard to the first, it is evident that there is
no' difference of opinion as to the principle.—
Each party believes that the neutrality law should
be strictly observed. The only difference of opinion
which can have arisen must be as to how far the
acts complained of have or have not been conforma
ble to that law.
As regards the second branch of the subject, viz :
the bearing of the general law of nations on the mat
ter. there is a decided difference of opinion between
the two Governments; and I myself undoubtedly
acted under an impression different from that
v/Meh has been expressed by Mr Marey in his pre
sent despatch, a* ' Vella* *n his hole of the sth or
September. The difference of opinion as to the mat
ters of fact regards the truth or falsehood of certain
allegations against public servants of the British
Government, which, if established, would go to
prove that they have in fact wilfully violated the
obligations of a law which they and their Govern
ment admit to be binding.
The difference of opinion between the two Gov
ernments. therefore, art 1 —
First, as to whether the law of nations enforced
upon the British Government any obligation broad
er than that embodied in the munU-ip&l law upon
the subject.
And. secondly, whether the acts of British agents,
acting under the instructions of their Government,
or on their own individual responsibility, violated the
municipal la\v.
My own view of the subject, and that on which 1
acted, was and is that there was no other obligation*
to be observed or other restraint placed upon my
action in carrying out the wishes of her Majesty’s
Government than those contained in the municipal
law of 181$. 1 will briefly state the ground of that
be lief.
It did not appear to me to be a thing to be sup
posed that anv five nation intended to enforce as a
restraint upon the liberty of it* iuhabitanu, an y
more of the general law of nations than it had em
bodied in its municipal law. That municipal law
appeared to me to have been enacted for the very
purpose of defining aud deciding how much of the
general right of restraining the egre- s of its citizens
from the territory the law giver intended to enforce.
1 did not expect that any foreign Government
would be called upon to observe more than what was
thus defined, or that any foreign Government could
be inculpated for availing itself of the legal acts of
the citizens of another country.
I was perfectly well aware that nations can. with
out any violation of the jvs gentium, enact, and
call ou other natious to observe, much more strin
gent regulation* ; n regard to the egress or ingress
of their own people or foreigners from or into their
territories thanituose of the present municipal law
of the United States. Russia baa done so certain
Stares of this Union have done so in regard to a part
of their population. 1 should Certainly have been
prepared to expect that any attempts to induce a
Russian serf *‘r an American negro slave to leave
the territory ot* then respective contitries would be
regarded as a violation of right aud a disrespect to
tiie policy of Russia and ot n slaveholdmg Matt? of
the Union. But I was not prepared to find it main
tained that anv other restriction was placed on the
action of the 'free citizens of the l mted Mates
than that which their own laws had enacted and de
fined
A®d as regards the poiicv of the United States,
which, iu consequence of tliis opinion. 1 am charged
with not respecting, l conceived the very essence
of that policy to Ik- the freedom of its citizens from
all restrictions not previously defined bv law; and.
moreover, that the policy of the laws'themselves,
the fer Icfmm. was to leave the citizen the largest
liberty of action possible consistent with the nation
al safety. 1 was therefore not onlv unprepared to
find any oilier obstacles to the wishes of those indi
viduals who wished to join our standard than those
opposed by the municipal statute law. h u t I im
agined that that law would receive the interpretation
most favoring the liberty of the citizen, and not an
interpretation which would reduce hi? free action
within narrow Emit*.
Such was my opinion, and I was ignorant till the
sth of September hist that the Government of the
United States entertained any other. No other was
put forward to me. in writing or in conversation, by
Mr Marcy, or by anybody else.
1 told Mr Marcy. on the 22d of March, that nu
merous applications bad been made to mo by per
sons in this country who wished to join the British
army, aud that my answer hod been that 1 could
not.enlist them here «.r hire «*r retain them he i
without violating the law. aud that consequent 1
4 they must go into British territory there to be er
listed Mr. Marcy made no objection to this, bs
: remarked that any person might go who choot
1 and then reiterated the expression he had jus
; before tL-ed, of hi* intention strictly to enforce th
i neutrality law. To this I. on my part, had no objec
lion to utake. *m the contrary, the view it disclose*
entirely agreed wit!: that I had myself submitted t<
u Mr. Marcy on show h;g him a letter I had written t<
i- Mr. Barclay, disapproving of the proceeding of j
. r Mr. Angus McDonald, be.canse I thought that thoet
■ proceedings would or might be taken to constitute i
I violation of the act of 1818.
r. : It was natural that, entertaining tLe opinion]
a j have above expressed as to the bearing of interna
| tiona! law on the subject, I should not enter upuc
T 1 any further discussion with Mr. Marcy. I car
•f j scarcely take blame to myself for not eo doing. Bui
it i that Mr. Marcy, then entertaining the opinions whicL
he has since expressed, should have made uo ailu
sion to them, I own surprises me. I entirely agree
with him that it wa* unfortunate that the matter was
not mentioned and the difference of our views
I brought to light. I should not have concurred with
1 j hi.- opinion : but I should have thought it matter for
* grave consideration whether it would not have been
1 Better for her Majesty’s Government at once to
1 abandon all idea of accepting aid in soldiers from
® this country than to run the risk of any difference or
1 unpleasant discussion whatever with the Govern
* merit of the United States.
* 1f I misunderstood Mr. M a rev's remarks on the
1 occasion in question—the only one on which the
1 matter was mentioned by him at all before the sth of
September—l can only say that I deeply regret it.
4 lam happy to say that the terms of our intercourse
were suen that any subject upon which we should
1 even differ widely in opinion would have been dis
-1 cussed in the most amiable spirit. When Mr. Lum
ley, during my absence in Canada and Nova Scotia,
f spoke to Mr. Marcy on the same subject, Mr. Lum
’ ley's impression a* to Mr. Marcy’* view of the mat
ter was exactly similar to that which I had gathered
from iny own interview with Mr. Marcy.
It is perfectly true that I did not enter into any de
tuils of the means which were to be adopted by her
Majesty's Government to render available the ser
vices of those who tendered them to us in such num
-1 bens. There seemed to be obvious reason* for ab
staining from this even if it had occurred to me. I
, shoulu have been unwilling to do any thing which
might have borne the appearance of engaging Mr.
Marcy in any expression of favor or approbation of
a plan favoring the interests of one of the parties in
the present war. All I could desire on his part was
neutrality and impartiality.
With regard to the general principle of the law of
nations to which Mr. Marcy appeals, as laid down
by competent authorities, the quotations made
by him do not appear to me to be by any
means conclusive. He cites Wolfius, through
the medium of a translation from the original work
in Latin, a* laying down the principle that “it is not
permitted to one nation to raise soldiers on the ter
ritory .>f another without the consent of the sovere
ign.” Although no reference to the passage is given
by Mr. Marcy, it may be found in Wolfius “Insti
tutiones Juris Naturae et Gentium,” vol. vi, chap. 7.
see. 1174, aud the words are these: “In territorio
alieno sine consenu domini territorii militem con
sen he re non licet;” “conseribere” being literal
ly “to enlist.” I apprehend there is no differ
ence of opinion lu re. Enlisting soldiers within a
territoro is that which her Majesty s Government
maintain has not with their consent been done, and
which the municipal law equally forbids.
Mr. Marcy then cites Vattel, who says that tin*
man who undertakes to enlist soldiers in* a foreign
country without the sovereign's permission violates
one ol the most sacred right* of the prince and na
tion. There is equally no differeneeof opinion here;
but when Mr. Marcy proceeds to quote Vattel as
saying ‘in general whoever entires away the sub
jects of another State also violates that right,” it is
necessary to examine the original of the passage a
little more closely ; for it is evident that Mr. Marcy
relies upon it in support of what he, towards the
close of his despatch, lays down a* the doctrine
maintained by the American Government, viz : that
“in every instance when a person, whether a citizen
or a foreign resident within the United States, has
been brought to a determination to leave this coun
try (the United States! tor thepurpose ofentering n
foreign service as a soldier, by any inducement of
fered by recruiting agents here, the law of the Uni
ted States has been violated.”
The passage in the original (Vattel, Droit des
Gens, liv. iii., chap, ii, $ 15) is as follows: “ Ceux
qui entreprennent d’engager des soldats en pays
etranger sans la permission du souverain, et en gen
era! (pticonqvc dehauche les sujets d’autrui, viole un
• les droits les plussacres du prince et de la nation.—
(Test le crime quel’on appele plagiat (in Latin play
gium,) on vol d’homme.” Now, the word “d*e
baucher” is not properly rendered by “ enticing
away.” It means even in it* ordinary sense some
thing more than that; but Vattel himself explains
the sense in which he uses it, viz: as equivalent
“ plagiat” (which can only be translated by the word
“kidnapping:”) “Plagium dicitwr surreptio lioin
inis, qui ulterius cujusdain potest ati subjectus est.”
(Wolfius, vol. vi. $ 1,175.) Will Mr. Marcy contend
that a citizen of the United States ha* been kid
napped when he has been “ brought, to a determina
tion by any inducement to leave this country for
the purpose of entering into a foreign service?”—
Surely no free citizen of the United States is “alte
rius cujusdam potestati subjectus.” In that case I
think I should not be at a loss to point out to hiiii
several highly educated medical men aud accom
plished engineers who have been “ kidnapped” from
this country by the Russian government.
I may here observe that her Majesty’s Govern
ment did not and had no need to entice anybody
front the United States. The numerous letters
which were addressed to her Mejsty’s Legation and
Consulates by persons voluntarily offering theirser
vices, will prove this. I have transmitted a great
number of them to vour lordship, and I would sug
gest that copies of them should be appended to my
present despatch. Mr. Marcy, in using the word
“recruiting” agents in the above passage of his de
spatch, again begs the question in dispute. An
agent is not a recruiting agent unless he recruits ; \
and an agent or individual may bring a person to a ;
dc(cry>ination to do what it is a lawful- act to do j
without committing any offence by eq doing, unless j
he uses illegal means lor the purpose; or, m other 1
words, applicable to the present case, unless he '
brings him to the determination by hiring or re- '
taiuing him, which it is denied that any person was
authorized by the British Government to do.
It is not for me to presume how far these views
may exactly coincide with those of Her Majes
ty’s Government, but I state them asmyowiijin
order to yho\y that I acted in good faith, and with
out intention of violating the law of nations in
regard to this country or of failing in respept hi
its policy. If I am in error, I am quite ready to
ake the consequences of my own mistake, what
ever they may be.
So much for the general principles on which I act
ed and the views which J entertained; differing, I
admit, and regret it, from those now put forward by
the United States Government, but still sincerely
entertained and acted upon, aud therefore without '
intentional slight or disregard of other opinions and
views which I did not know were held by this Gjoy
ernnicnt.
| will now pvoeoed to examine tha charges which
have been brought against me aud her Majesty’s of
ficers, implying a knowing and wilful violation of the
law, us that law is acknowledged by her Majesty’s
Government and myself.
The Attorney General of the United States has
acknowledged, nay, he litis proclaimed that the
proceedings in the trial of Hertz were, in reality,
directed against her Majesty’s Consuls and myself;
yet he was aware that 1 could not and he was deter
mined that tltey should not appear in their own de
fence.
The offence thus charged against r»s amounts m
to a misdemeanor. Prosecutions for misdeineau- cl
or hy the State, whether by indictment or infor
mation, as subject in this country, as in England, *‘ l
to certain regulations, providing that the defend- [I
ants shall have copies of the indictment or iuforma
tion aud a list of the witnesses, as well as the other °
legal safeguards. !!
Now, her Majesty’s Consuls and myself have stood 11
in the position of defendants in this case, and I would 11
beg to ask Mr. Attorney General Cushing whether ®
we had the benefit of any of tlie means of defence j 1
Which the law allows to persons charged with misd** :
meaner ! It might he answered in my own case *
that it was clearly impossible they should be afford
ed, as I was not amenable to the Court. But does j
it therefore follow that I was to be precluded from ‘J
every means of dealing with the charges made *
against me ? Is a Government which may think it *
has reason to complain of the conduct of a foreign s
M inister accredited to it reduced to the necessity of ®
choosing whether it-shall proceed against him un- *
fairly or not proceed against him at all? Because 1
lie cannot b<* legally accused in person, must the }
odious process of indirect inculpation through tlu* 1
means of witnesses brought forward at the public |
trials of other persons be resorted to ? This is cer- ‘
tainly not consistent either with justice or with inter- J
national courtesy.
The Representative of a friendly Power has c
surely a right to expect that some weight should be 1
attached to his own persona! assurances or explana- f
tions, and, should these he thought unsatisfactory, *
the complaining party might make his conduct the *
subject of a complaint against him to the Goyern- J
ment he represents : but this should be done through '
the diplomat ip apd without, at the same
time, making appeal to the passions of the public. J
But what has been the course of the United 1
States Government in the present case ? A note
was addressed to me, in which general charges were j
made of offerees against the law of nations as well 1
as the municipal law, in winch I was said to he im
plicated, without anv specification either of time or '
place; “disclosures” were mentioned wiUiout its •
being stated who were the disc losers *%evelep- !
meins’’ were spoken of as impending without any in
dication of where and when they were to take place ;
and it was* pretty plainlv intimated that \mless 1 1
and the other offic era of lier Majesty's Government
were punished by the government of our own
country for these offences, we should be iii some
way visited by the displeasure of the Government
of thi«.
it was not until the trial of Hertz at Philadelphia
had actually taken place that I had the smallest
idea of what was intended. Then, indeed, Mr. At
torney General Cushing’s proclamation threw some
light upon the matter, and I saw myself aud her
Majesty's Consuls held up to public reprobation as
‘‘malefactors, (to use Mr. Cushing's own expres
sion) convicted of offences of the nature of which
we had not been informed by witnesses suddenly
produced as " Staffs evidence*' against us in a court
tefiire which l could not plead, and before which
the consuls were not allowed to be heard. What
ever may have been the intention of this proceed
ing of the United States Government the effect of it
was certain. Her Majesty’s public servants iuthis
country, including myself, have been from that
time till now treated by the public press as well
as iu the Legislature as persons undoubtedly "nitty
of every charge which was thus brought against us.
I think, my lord, that we have some reason to
complain of this treatment, as very little in har
mony with what might lie expected at the hands
of a friendly Power as showing needless distrust
of Her Majesty's representative and consuls, and, if
I may be permitted to say so. as unmerited by the
personal cuaraeter and reputation of those gentlemen
or myself.
Mr. Marcy, as well as the President, I had flat
tered mvsell. would have felt convinced that, how
ever erroneous they might suppose my views of the
neutrality laws to be. I > hern id have disdained to
shield myself from their consequence* by conceal
nn*nt or subterfuge; and that, upon inquiry of me.
every act and proceeding of mine would have been
frankly communicated to them. It would then
have tK-eu unnecessary for the law officers of the
United States to resort to the aid of spies and in
former sin ordt-r to obtain evidence against us. By
so doing they have been as might nave been ex
pected grossly misled : and it will now be my duty
to refute, as far as.l aui abie, the misrepresentations
and calumnies which have resulted from the ill-con
ceived method of obtaining information resorted to
by the government of the United States.
Mr Marcy rests his charges against us on the facts
which he assumes to be established by the trial of
Hertz at Philadelphia in the month of September
last. Mr. Buchanan has placed in your lordship's
hands what he term* an authentic'report of tnis
1 trial: but I must take a preliminary objection to
this, and observe that I cannot accept of this report
‘ as either authentic, impartial, or complete. It pro
fesses to have been drawn up tor the use of a Phila
-1 delphia newspaper called the “Pennsylvanian,” oue
1 ot the most furious partisan papers in this country.
1 The editor was examined as a witness for the prose
cution. and takes great credit to himself for having
e . brought to light and exposed the British agents
*■„ in the affair which forms the subject of the trial.—
3 For the impartial temper of this gentleman I
would refer your lordship to an article which he
published on the 38th of September, on the .subject
i- of this very trial. It Ls headed “England’s weak
r- no*; and baseness," and contains sueu expressions
h as the following:
d “England for centuries has been bullying and bri-
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. N.TUE 4. 1856.
re bing the world“her insolence is astounding.”—
ly j “In the Pacific, in the Atlantic, on the Isthmus,
n- every where, that haggard volumpf uary. Great Brit
ut 1 ain, who has been so long drunk with the blood of
e, j other nations that she now reel* and totters with her
*t J own inanity, glare* upon u* with her red eyeballs,
le : aud bid* us depart. - ’ “England is u harlot”—“a
c- j whitened sepulchre,” 6zc. Sir Gaspard le Marchant
;d i and myself are “base conspirators,” and, in the opin
fc» : ion of the editer **a disgrace to the order of the gar
;o I ter,” to which, he thank* God, “he being a simple
a I Republican, doe* not belong.”
e [ A* regards the incompleteness of the report, I
a \ would remark that the speech of Mr. Keinak, Hertz’s
j counsel, is omitted —a circumstance which I shall
I i hereafter show Is of more importance than it would
i- at first sight appear.
n With respect to the legal regularitv and fairness
n of the proceedings in the case, as well as the authen
t ticity of the report, I would beg of your lordship to
ii persue the memorandum which I herewith inclose.
It is drawn up at my request by an eminent Ameri
e can lawyer, who was not iu possession of the proofs
* 1 can produce of the perjury of the witnesses or of
s their infamous character. He examined the pro
[i ceedings from the point of view of a mere specta
r tor; ami his conclusions are drawn from such facto
i only as came out in the course of the trial, as given
:> in the suspicious report in question, for he resorted to
i no other means of information. I think this docu
r ment will convince your lordship that, when in a
previous despatch I spoke of the proceedings in the
case of the United States vs. Hertz as a mock trial
I did not miscall them.
? I would now, in addition to the facts stated in the
t memorandum, mention some facts within my own
knowledge, and others, in regard to which I* have
; some testimony at least us good as that produced on
l the trial, which, taken together, will, I think, show
that it was not only a mock trial, but one institu
ted for a most unfriendly, not to say malicious, pur
, pose, and is supported by evidence procured in
■ a manner little creditable to those who conducted it.
The evidence to which Mr. Marcy refers as es
l tablisbing his charges is partly documentary and
partly oral. The documentary part consists chiefly
of notes addressed by me to Btrobeland Hertz, and
of a paper of instructions which I drew up for the
purpose of preventing aud not of authorizing a vio
lation of the neutrality laws of the United States.
These note s were written in answer to repeated in
quiries made to me by the saidStrobel and Hertz as
to where they and numbers of their friends and
countrymen, whom they represented as most eager
to enlist in the British service, were to go in order
to be enlisted, and on what terms they would be re
ceived. They presented themselves voluntarily to
me for that purpose, and were previously unknown ,
to me. They brought no recommendation or intro- ■
duction whatever, unless a paper presented by '
Hertz, stating that he was a Danish subject, and ,
signed by the Danish Charge d f Affaires at Washing- «
ton, can be considered one.
it has been truly remarked in the memorandum
of the trial which I have inclosed that these notes
might be used to confirm any other account of the
interviews which took place between me and Hertz
and Strobel ns well as the account which they have
given. But I do not seek to conceal that the in
formation they asked for regarded enlistment in the
British army. What, however, is utterly and de
liberately false in the statements of these witnesses
is, that I countenanced or encouraged them to vio
late the neutrality law. I read to them both, and
explained to them clearly, the passages of the act of
Congress relating to eul'stment, aud they professed
perfectly to understand its provisions, and to make
their observance of them a sine qua non in all mea
sures which they or their friends, in whose name
they pretended to speak, might take to avail them
selves of the offers held out by the British foreign
enlistment act.
It would be tedious, even if it were possible, for
me to go through the false statements of these men,
the one in his evidence as a witness and the other
in his pretended confession, and deny them seria
tim. But I deny the truth of every one of them
which goes to show, its they are almost evidently
intended and concerted to show, that 1 authorized
them to violate the neutrality law.
The unskilful effrontery with which the essential
points of the evidence of those witnesses are brought
forward would, 1 hoped, have demonstrated their
falsehood. The memorandum has pointed out one
instance in which I am made by St rebel to have
displayed apparently the greatest anxiety needless
ly to criminate myself by inculcating m the most
distinct manner, on a man whom 1 knew nothing, a
violation of the law. I had, at that conversation,
clearly stated to Strobed what the law was, in order
that he, and those he claimed to represent, might
not infringe it. It is evident that he clearly com
prehended it, for, in testifying against me, he knew
precisely what would constitute a violation ot it.—
If he had not done so the United States District
Attorney took good care to put him on the right
track.
I should have expected that this would have pre
vented Mr. Marcy from looking upon such evidence
as so fully entitled to belief as to justify his condemn
ing me unheard; and yet I am sorry to see that his
general conviction of my delinquency is so strong as
to have made him somewhat careless in his refe
rences to the particular pieces of evidence on which
lie relies. For instance, in citing the notes which 1
addressed to Strobed and Hertz on the 4th of Febru
ary, 1855, he has inadvertently substituted for the
words “more definite information” the words “pre
cise instructions,” on the subject alluded to at a
nevjous conversation, which Mr. Marcy thinks
ic is justified in concluding must have been
enlistlnng within the United States. I would ob
serve that, as a mere matter of evidence, the
words as they stand in my notes favor my account
of the interviews in question, while those substitu
ted for them by Mr. Marcv in his argument favor
the false account given of them by the witnesses on
the trial.
And now, a word with regard to Mr. St rebel's
character, which, Mr. Marcy thinks, being “en
dorsed” as it was by his being invited to dinner by
Sir Gaspard le Mnrchnnt before his character was
known, commands belief.
A person coming forward as “State’s evidence,”
impelled by revenge and disappointment, is, in the
first place, neither a very credible or very respecta
ble witness ; but when it is shown that the witness
had previously offered to the party against whom
lie deposes to suppress his evidence in consideration
of a sum of money, alleging his poverty and the ne
cessity of procuring money elsewhere ns a reason
for doing wlmt he confesses to be a shameful act,
his mere want of respectability becomes infamy,
and his testimony becomes nearly worthless. It
may be fairly supposed, too, that his services have
been hired aud retained qn the other side. Such an
inference is, at least, not more extravagant than
any which Mr. Marcy has adopted.
Now, my lord, I possess, and beg to inclose to
your lordsuip herewith a letter addressed to me by
this Strobel, proposing that 1 should pay him one
hundred pounds in consideration of his abstaining
from the “shameful act,” as he properly calls it, of
committing petjury against me. I enclose also a
number of affidavits which would go to show that
Mr. Strobel has been hired and retained on the
other side—the other side being np lpss parties
than the United States District Attorney at New
york aud the jyussian Charge d’Affaires at Wash
ington!
I am perfectly aware that the accuracy of. such
evidence as those affidavits afford might be objected c '
to as loose in itself, and proceeding from unknown 0:
Polish, Hungarian, or German refugees; and I have
no hesitation in saying that if Mr. District Attorney
McKeonon the one liaud, and 31. Stoeckl on the J
other, were to give me their bare word that the *■
facts therein stated were unfounded, I should at J;
once believe them. But, on the other hand, I should V 1
expect to be believed myself when I stated that
evidence of Strobel, Hertz, Burgthal, and Reuss,
winch is of a character infinitely worthy of be- V
lief, sho\ild not be considered as coin icting me of a
charge which I deny. '
With respect to the contessian of Hertz, I have
already stated to your lordship, in my despatch of y
the 15th of October last, that it is a tissue; of false- c
hoods. A comparison of the style and composition ( ‘
of the inclosed original letter addressed by Hertz to 1
me with this confession would show how little likely
it is that the letter was written by him. I can only *
now add that those p-rts of it by which he means Us j
show that 1 authorized, aided, and encouraged him
to violate the neutrality law are not only pntriie, J
but are invapq&ly quit opposite to the *
truth.
Indeed, what 1 did tell him in regard to the neu- 1
trality law and the enlistment seems to have served
him for a guide to the points in regard to which his
false statements might be made with most effect.—
He has followed implicitly the rule of making me
say the direct contrary to what I did say on these
subjects. For instance, lie says I told him the “neq : t
trality law was exceedingly Ins, and that, if any c
thing should happen, tlie British Government would 1
not allow any one to suffer who had been engaged t
in assisting them to furnish men/* I told him that t
the neutrality law was very stringent, and read it to t
him, and that, if he or others violated it, the British i
Government would have nothing to say to them, \
and that they would have to take the consequences i
of their own acts. His statement of my giving him i
my word of honor as a gentlemen that nothing dis- i
agreeable should happen to him I presume refers to
my having told him 1 that if lie set up a recriting of
fice “on‘his own hook,” as he proposed and after
wards attempted to do, he would render himself lift*
ble to three years’ imprisonment.
I inclose several affidavits regarding this mau’s
character, as well as a threatening letter addressed
by him to this mission.
The omission in the report of the trial of Mr. ,
Bernak's speech in defence of Hertz, to which I
have before alluded, is calculated to confirm the ,
suspicion which may well be entertained of the ,
bona fide nature of the proceedings. 1 believe
your lordship will learn from Mr. Consul Mathew,
that the judge would have refused to admit in ev
idence the notes written by me to Hertz andStre
bel, as well as the other documentary evidence pro
duced. had its production been objected to by the
defendant's counsel. But it was evident ffie
defendant's counsel, far from 'wishing to clear his
flieut'kom the charge made against him, counted
only upon obtaining for him a remission or mitiga
tiou of the penalty by this Government in considera
tion of his co-operation in the endeavors of the
United States Attorney General to fix the guilt of
the offence upon her Majesty's dipkunatic and con
sular agents.
With regard to the other witnesses, Burgthal and
Reuss, I have not the slightest recollection of haying
ever seen the former. I may have done &o how
ever, as many foreigners, names J do not
remember, have presented themselves at this nds
aion and made inquiries as to the means of joining
our army in the Crimea. That I offered him a colo
nel's commission is, I need scarcely tell your lord
ship, utterly false. The truth of his statements may
be iudged by that of the circumstances which he al
leges in order to give them an air of probability.—
He states that I sent him a telegraphic message
from Washington to Baltimore, inviting him to
call upon me. I sent him no such message, nsr
did any body do so in my name; for I caused a
list of all telegraphic messages sent by mo from
Washington to be furnished to me from the fcl?-
graph of the Baltimore fine, ana none such
appeared. IJe also states that he called at my house
some time in March, 1855, and found I was out at a
dinner at Mr. Many's. I was confined to the house
from the effects of an accident during the whole of
that month.
The witness Reuss. who swears that he had or
was present at a conversation with me at Halifax. I
never »poke to. He was personally unknown td
me until he presented himself at my house, on or
about the 13th of August. Without announcement
he entered my office, where I happened to be with
Labouehere. then attached to this mission, and Mr.
Consul Mure, of New Orleans. Not knowing who
Reuss was. I asked his name and business, lie re
plied that his name was Reuss. and that he came for
an answer to a letter he had left at this Legation a
few days before. 1 told him that I had receivgd a
letter signed with that name, threatening to give in
formation agaixiot me if 1 did not comply with his
demands for money, containing gross abuse of Sir
Gaspard le Marchant. and enclosing a scurrilous ar
ticle against him extracted from a Nova Scotia
uewspaper. and also a medical certificate in the
' German langua<n*. and I added that my answer
[ was to request nim. Dr. Reuss, to leave my house
r immediately, and not to attempt to enter it again.
! I returned him his medical certificate and he went
away.
[ 1 have the honor to inclose a copy of the letter in
question, as well as of another which 1 have since
received from Dr. Reuss, showing that he was and
a still is animated by feelings of vengeance for some
imaginary wrong on the part of Sir Gaspard le Mar-
chant.
y I might offer to your lordship many more observa
s tions, both upon the nature of the evidence pro
- dueed at this trial and on the- spirit of hostility with
1 which it was conducted. Whether Mr. Vandyke,
e the District Attorney who managed the case, much
t overstepped the bounds within which a lawyer ad
:- dressing a jury should keep may perhaps admit of a
ls doubt: but most assuredly his address is marked by
an unfriendly feeling towards the British Gov era -
i- ment and nation.
With regard t<> those attempts made by Mr. Mar
cy in his despatch to argue that certain statements
iu your lordship's despatches are contradictory and
f inconsistent with others therein made, it will be un
r necessary for me to offer any remark, except that
they are conceived in the same spirit as has aetu
i atetl attempts of a similar nature made by him to
extract from the document written by myself, to
which he refers, a concealed meaning different from
the ordinary sense of the language employed.
I will conclude this long, though I fear imperfect
statement of my observations on Mr. Marcy’s de
spatch by adverting to the latter part of it, contain
ing a statement of what I presumed to be the muin
purpose for which it was written : I mean that of
asking her Majesty's Government to recall me from
Washington, and to remove from their posts her
Majesty's Consuls at Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and
New York. I have, in compliance with your lord
ship's instructions, furnished these gentlemen with
copies of Mr. Marcy's despatch, and I shall no doubt
shortly be enabled by them to transmit to your lord
ship such remark* as they may have to make there
upon.
The letter of Mr. Cr am nos is accompanied in the
report to Parliament by numerous documents, com
prising the correspondence from various persons,
both foreigners and Americans, in which is express
ed a desire to enter her Majesty’s military service,
or offering to obtain bodies of men for that purpose,
accompanied by the various papers which passed
between Mr. Crampton and the British Consuls on
thejsame subject. The despatches of the American
Government and a report of the trial of Hertz also
form a part of the volume communicated to Parlia
ment.
The papers of most absorbing and chief iuterest
are the foregoing despatch from Mr. Crampton,
and tlmt from Lord Clarendon, which we have al- !
ready published. i
The Enlistin' as Question.
Some days since we published a very brief sum-
mary of the subjoined correspondence, the publiea- <
tion of which, in consequence of the pressure upon t
our columns, we have been compelled to defer till |
now : v
Washington, May 20, 1856. *
To the Senate of the United States : t
I transmit a copy of and extracts from despatches
of the late Minister of the United States at London, 1
and of his correspondence with Lord Clarendon g
which accompanied them, relative to the enlistment P
of soldiers for the British army within the United h
States by agents of the Government of Great Bri
tain. These despatches have been received since R
my message to the Senate upon the subject of the s i
27 th of February last. Franklin Pierce. u
Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Marcy. —[Extract.]
Legation of the United States. >
London, February 12, 1856. £
Sir :—I was somewhat surprised at the broad
statement made by my Lord Palmerson in the House
of Commons on Friday night last, (vide the Times
of Saturday morning,) “that when the communica
tion to which 1 have referred (that contained in
Lord Clarendon's note to me of the 16th of July
last) was made to the American Minister in London
he expressed himself satisfied with the explanation,
and said that he felt confident that his Government
would entertain a similar feeling in regard to it.”
Fortunately the expression, and the only expression,
verbal or written, which I employed upon theocca
sion is contained in my note to Lord Clarendon of
the 18th of July, acknowledging the receipt of his
note of the 16th, and is in the following language :
“And the undersigned will have much satisfaction in
transmitting a copy of his lordship s note to the Se
cretary of State by the next steamer.” From this
you will perceive that I made no allusion whatever
to what might be the opinion of my Government in
regard to Lord Clarendon’s note, lior did I express
any opinion of my own, except what might have
been inferred from the statement that 1 would have
much satisfaction in transmitt nga copy of this note
to the Secretary of State.
1 have never had any conversation at anytime
with Lord Palmerston on the subject; and the mat
ter thus rested between Lord Clarendon and myself
until after the 24th September, on which day I re
ceived your despatch (No. 107) of the Bth of Septem
ber, with the documents implicating Mr. Crampton
in the recruitment question. From this despatch I
learned that you had resolved to conduct the subse
quent correspondence yourself directly with Mr.
Crampton at Washington, and this on account of his
personal complicity in the affair.
Under these circumstances I lmd no occasion of
sufficient importance to sec Lord Clarendon from the
24th of September until 29th of October, this being
a season of the year when, according to the current
phrase, “every body i* out of town,” and all public
business is suspended except in urgent cases.
On the 29th of October I called upon his lordship
by appointment, for the purpose of bringing to his
serious attention the question of sending a British
fleet to Bermuda and Jamaica ; and on this first op
portunity which kad presented 1 informed him “that
when, in acknowledging the receipt of his note to me
(of the 16th July) on the subject of enlistment, I had
expressed the satisfaction 1 should feel in forward
ing it to Washington, 1 had not the most distant idea
that Mr. Crampton was implicated in these enlist
ments,” &.c. (vide my despatch (Xo. 98) of the 30th
of October.)
Again, at an interview with his lordship on the
Ist ot November, I employed substantially the same
language, adding thereto that I was “sorry sat
isfactory proof existed that Mr. Crampton und other
British officers had before and since [the date of
his note of the 16th of July] been engaged in aiding
and countenancing these proceedings and recruit
ment,” &c. (Vide my despatch (No. 99) of the 2d
November.)
I need scarcely refer to my second despatch (No.
117) of the Ist instant, wherein I reported to you
the correction I had made in the conversation with
Lord Clarendon of the statement contained in his
despatch to Mr. Crampton of the 16th November,
because lie had omitted from his statement the qua
lification which I made tit the time, that when I
had received his note of the 15th of July I had not
the leust idea of Mr. Crampton’s complicity in the
business of recruiting.
Had Lord Ualmerstqn, therefore, been careful to
consult accuracy, he would have said “when the
communication to which I referred was made to the
American Minister in London, he expressed the sat
isfaction he would have in communicating it to his
Government: but having subsequently learned that
the British Minister at Washington was implicated
in the transaction, he informed Lord Clarendon
more than once that he did not know that fact when
lie expressed this satifaction.”
Yours, very respectfully,
James Buchanan.
lion. Wm. L. Marcy, Secretary of State.
Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Marcy —[EJxtract.] *'
Legation oy the United States,)
London, February 19, 1856. \ ' ,l
Sir: I have the honor to transmit to you the .
copy of a note which I addressed to Lord Clarendon >
on the 16th instant.
Your attention has doubtless been attracted to .
the debate on American affairs in the House of .
Commons on Friday last (15th) and reported in the
Times the next morning, in whu-.h Mr. Roebuck,
Lord Palmerston, Mr. d’lsr&cli and Mr. Gibson par
ticipated.
From this you will observe that Lord U ,l l mc *V3-
foii, \yhilst refusing to lay upon the table the corres
pondence relating to British recruitments in the
United States, has stated such facts in regard to its /
contents as would favor his own side of the question a
without the necessary and inseparable qualifications ( |
which could alone present these facts in their true j
character. This course of proceeding was well cal- (l
eulated to make an erroneous impression oq (* • p s
House. c
This was the fir§t official Information to the Bri-
tish people that you had demanded the recall of 3Ji*. t
and the consuls, whilst entirely suppress-
infi the reasons on which this demand was founded, j
This announcementVaii produced a marked impres- G
*jou upon the public ; although well informed peo- L
pie had reason to know the fact previously from the j,
American journals. ***** r
Mr. Buchanan to Lord Clarendon. j
Legation of thf. United States, ) f
London. Feb. 16, 1856. j[ t
My Lord : Considering wlmt ha* been Haid in the i
i\yo Houses of Parliament in relation to myself, in ; c
advance of the publicaiton of the correspondence ' r
between the two Governments on the recruitment j
question, I have deemed it a duty to communicate , j
to your lordship as you are the only individual in j
this country to whom 1 could make such a comma- ! »
nication with propriety, an extract from my ties- ' t
patch of Tuesday last, the 12tfi instant, to the Sec- ' t
retary of State upon this subject, which was trans- , «.
mittyuto Washington on Wednesday by the steamer t
Arago, from Southampton. 1
Yours, very respectfully, j
Bet ha.van.
'fhe Rt. Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, &,c. <
Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Marcy. —[Extract.] s
Legation of the United States. / ,
London February 22, J 856. $ ]
Sir : I have the honor to transmit to you a copy <
of the answer of Lord Clarendon, or rather of Lord >
Palmerston, (for the former is now in Paris.) dated 1
on the 20th instant, to my note to Lord Clarendon j 1
of the 16th instant (a copy of which I transmitted to <
you with my despatch (No. 123) of the 19th instant,) J
with a copy of my reply of this date. '
In this reply I have truly said it would afford my j
much satisfaction to comply with ] >o;d Bajmerbton’u
request and to transmit a u>py'of Lord Clarendon's
note to you by to-morrow’s steamer. And why ?
Because this note is an admission that Lord Palmer
ston had no other foundation for all he has said on
the subject of my satisfaction with Lord Claren
don’s note of the 16th July, except the fact that, in
acknowledging its receipt, I had stated that I would
have much satisfaction m transmitting a copy of it
to you. The note itself, to which Lord Clarendon
has signed his name, is evidently the productions of
a person who has placed himself in such q dilemma
that every attempt he makes to escape from it only
involves him in greater difficulties.
Lord Palmerston has left the impression upon his
audience in the House of Commons that up to the
present moment 1 am satisfied with the explanation
of the 16th July by remaining entirely silent in re
gard to the communication which I made to Lord
Clarendon in October; and the excuse which he
makes for this conduct is most extraordinary. Ac
cording to his mode of reasoning, if you had in
formed me three months ago that the character of
an individual was good, notwithstanding you might
have afterwards called upon me and told me you
had come to the knowledge of a fact which ifla;eri
a!lv injured his character, l Woqrd yet be perfectly
justified ffi publishing to the world, and this on your
authority, that the character of the individual was
still fair, without the most remote allusion to your
subsequent change of opinion.
Youns very respectfully,
James Buchanan.
Horn Wm. L. Marcy, Sec’y of Stake.
Ijyrd Clarend‘ n io l£r. Huckanan.
Foreign Office, Feb. *2O, 1856.
Sir ; —J have the honor to acknowledge the re
ceipt of your letter of the 16th inst., enclosing a copy
c»f a despatch which you had addressed to your
Government on the 12th instant, with reference
made to a statement made by Viscount Palmerston
1 on Friday, the Sth instant, “that when the commu
nication io which X have referred .that contained in
my note to you of the 16th July) was made to the
American Minister in London, he expressed himself
satisfied with the explanation, and said that he felt
confident that bis Government would entertain a
[ similar feeling in regard to it.”
I have not failed to communicate your letter and
t its enclosure to Viscount Palmerston, who has re
quested me to state to you in reply that he should
r feel much regret if he had uniute’ntionally misrep
, resented the tenor of any communication which you
had made to her Majesty's Government: but it
t seems to him that there i* no essential difference
between the substance and the effect of what he
said in the House of Commons and the statement
1 which you now make in regard to the same point.
; Although it appears that he did not correctly
* quote the words you have used. Viscount Palmc-r
--e ston said in the House of Commons that you had ex
* pressed yourself satisfied with my note of the 16th
Julv. aiid that you had expressed your expec
.- tati’on that your Government would be so also.
- You sav that you only said that you had muck
h satisfaction in transmitting to the United States Go
vermnent acopv of my note. I cannot but think,
h however, that this comes to the same meaning, be
l- cause you could not have felt muck satisfaction in
a transmitting a copy of that note if that note had not
7 appeared to you to be satisfactory, and if you had
i- not expected that it would have been so considered
by your Government also.
r Viscount Palmerston, moreover, with reference
Is to (hat part of your di sp.iteh to Mr. Marry which
u adverts to your communication to me in October,
l- .asr, would beg to observe that the accuracy of his
it statement as to the impression produced upon your
t- mind in July by mv note of the 16th of that mouth
o cannot be affected by the tenor of vour statement to
o me three months afterwards, on the 29th of Ooto
l her, founded upon communications, whether correct
or inco reot, which you had then recently received
from Washington.
Viscount Palmerston adds that ho would be much
- obliged to you if you will have the goodness to
transmit to your Government a copy of this expla
f tion on his part.
i With reference to a passage in your despatch to
Mr. Marcy, as to the suspension of public busi
ness in tne autumn, when “every body is out of
town. I beg leave to observe that, with the ex
ception of a few days when 1 was in attendance
on the Queen during her Majesty’s visit to Paris, 1
was accessible during the whole of the autumn to
any of the representatives of foreign Powers who
wished to see me, being invariably in the habit of
coining to the Foreign Office for several days in
each week from my country seat, only a few miles i
from Loudon. j
I have the honor to be, with high consideration, *
sir, your most obedient, humble servaut, t
Clarendon. $
Mr. Buchanan to Lord Clarendon.
Legation of the United States, )
London, February 22, 1856. \
My Lord : I have the honor to* acknowledge the
receipt of your note of the 20th instant, iu answer to
mine of the 16th, inclosing to your lordship the
copy of a part of a despatch addressed by me to mv
Government on the 12th instant; and I shall have
much satisfaction in complying with the request of
\ iscount Palmerston, and transmitting a copy of
this note to the Secretary of State by tomorrow’s
steamer.
\ our lordship’s note, I am happy to observe, proves
that we are entirely agreed upon the facts of the
case ; and I am quite willing to leave without fur
ther comment, the difference of opinion between
\ iscount Palmerston and myself on the question as
to whether the expression that I should have much
satisfaction in transmitting a copy of your note of
the 16th ot July last to the Secretary of State justi
fied the statement of his lordship in the House of
Commons, that 1 had expressed myself satisfied
with the explanation contained in that note, and
said 1 felt confident my Government would enter
tain a similar feeling in regard to it.
So iu like manner am I willing to leave, without
further comment, the question whether it was alto
gether just to myself in Viscount Palmerston, whilst
jrominently presenting his construction of what I
tad written iu July, to be entirely silent in regard
to my 'Communication to you in October ; thus, un
intentionally, 1 have uo doubt, creating the impres
sion on his audience that my opinion still remains
unchanged, notwithstanding the information I had
received iu September, and communicated to you
at our next interview thereafter, respecting Mr.
Crampton’s complicity in tin* recruitment of sol
diers for the British army within the Territory of
the United States.
But I am not willing to leave without further ex
junction, your lordship’s notice of the reason which
' assigned for not asking an interview with you in
October, I did not doubt for a moment that if I had
requested such an interview, even at that season of
recreation, it would have been promptly granted ;
and this I should have done had my business been
of an urgent character. And lam glad to avail my
self of the present occasion to express to you my
grateful sense of your uniform attention to* all my
requests, and of your invariable courtesy and kiud
ness These have made tin impression upon me
which will be enduring.
Yours, very respectfully,
James Buchanan.
Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Marry.
Legation of the United States, >
London, March 7, 1856. \
Sir : I have the honor to transit to you the copy
of a note, dated on the 3d instant, which I have re
ceived from Lord Clarendon in answer to mine of
the 22d ult., addressed to his lordship, a copy of
which was forwarded to you with my No. 121.
Upon the perusal of this note, I think you will
agree with me, that this last effort of Lord Palmer
ston to extricate himself from the dilemma in which
he has placed himself in his speeches in the House
of Commons, has served only to make the awk
wardness of his position still more conspicuous.
I transmit a duplicate of my despatch (Xo. 114)
of the 22d January last, the original having been
forwarded to you by the Pacific; though I trust in
Heaven that the next steamer will bring advices of
her safe arrival in the United States.
Youis, very respectfully,
James Buchanan.
lion. Wm. L. Marcy, Secretary of State.
Lord Clarendon to Mr. Buchanan.
Foreign O.’fick, Match 2, 1856.
Sir : —I have the honor to at knowledge the receipt
of your further letter of the 22d instant, respecting
Viscouut Palmerston’s language in the House of
Commons on the subject of the communication with
regard to the recruiting question which you address
ed to me on the 18th of July, in reply to my letter of
the 16th of tlmt month.
1 have communicated your letter to Viscount
Palmerston, who has observed upon it that you are
mistaken in supposing that he made no mention of
your communication on the same subject in Octo
ber last ; for he distinctly stated that in the autumn,
und a considerable time after your communication
of July, the United States Government had re
opened the matter, which her Majesty’s Govern
ment had. been led to believe had * been closed in
a satisfactory manner l>y my letter of the 16th of
July.
1 beg to thank you for your kind expression to
wards myself, ana to assure you that I shall always
look back with sincere satisfaction to the friendly
and agreeable relations which have subsisted be
tween us during your residence in England.
I have the honor to be, with the highest conside
ration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
Clarendon.
The lion. James Buchanan, &c.
Me. Buchanan to Me. Afaecy.-- [Extradt.J
Legation of the United States, )
London, March 14, 1856. ]
Sir : I have the honor to transmit to you a copy
of my note of the 10th instant, iu reply to Lord
Clarendon’s note of the 3d. * * * *
Yours, very respectfully,
James Buchanan.
lion. Wm. L. Marcy, Secretary of State.
Legation of the United States, )
Londop, March 10, 1856. \
My Lord : 1 have t(ie honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your note of the 3d inst., on which 1 beg
leave to make a single remark.
I am content that iny note to your lordship of the
22d ultimo shall speak Vor itself. It relutes to my
self personally, and not in the slightest degree to
the conduct of my Government. For this reason,
justice to them requires 1 should state that they
never “re-opened,” because they never had clo&eq,
the recruitment question ; neither did they, to my
knowledge, at any period express their satisfaction
with your lordship’s note of the 16th July; nor did
I eyev say, v>r intimate, on any occasion, that they
had been thus satisfied.
Yours, very respectfully,
J V’nEh Bk HANAN.
The Right H°h- the Karl or Clarendon, &.C.
The Uiili*tiimnt Case—Lord Clarendon’*
Apology.
The view taken of this subject by the Baltimore
American, strikes us, says the Richmond Dispatch,
as sensible and to the point. Whilst the correspon
dence lias perhaps elicited no facts can change
the thorough conviptjpp of ihe American mind, that
our ncqtyafity laws were wholly violated, both in
spirit and in letter, by (he British enlistment nro
ceedings, and that Mr. Crumpton, by his payticip.4;
tion in those proceedings, wis rightly 6Uo)eetea to ]
the displeasure of oqr government, yet it cannot be !
denied that the disclaimer of Lord Clarendon of any i
intention to vi >lute our laws, or in any way to give
offence, is in the highest degree courteous and em
phatic. The spirit pervading the letter throughout !
is kind and generous. The New York Herald re- !
murks : “An olive branch, so green ami fall op
odorous blossoms, from the Pqlmproton cabinet to .
Brother Jonathan. c.evUiinlV an extraordinary of
fpring *u beUaliof John Bull. Lord Clarendon in
this letter says : ‘With regard to the last point, the
undersigned must refer to the offers of satisfaction
and to the explanations already made, and to the
repeated expression of the sincere regret of her Ma
jesty’s government, if, contrary to theiy intevtsms,
and to their reiterated directions, there lias been
any infringement oi* the laws of the United States;’
\yhi„h, coupled with" the closing paragraph of
the letter, amounts to this: ‘lf we have unwit
tingly offended you, we are very sorry for if qpv\
sincerely confess it ; but bepevin'j Mr. Ch ump
ton innocent in the .16 cannot recall
him. \\*£ iho disposition of his casein your
iiuud. 1 ”
We fully agree with our eotemporary, the Ameri
can, that while we may feel that we have a right to
something more than an apology ; while we fiiwc
strongly felt our wrongs, and been earnest In our
demand for satisfaction , yet we are met with so
much and courtesy, and tendered an apol
ogy that lacks no point of completeness, with so
strongly expressed a wish that it may prove satis
factory and serve to restore the friendly relations of
! the two Governments, that we see not how \yo can,
j except in a somewhat boorisfi humoy ~f dririniiiied
; fault finding, refuse to sfyilye with those who
offer the apology, aqq letting bygones be by
gones, hope that the British Government, in putting
an end to differences it professes to have “ deeply
regretted,” will also reflect, that if “ there are no
two countries which are bound by stronger ties or
by higher considerations than the United States and
Great Britain, to maintain unbroken the relations of
perfect cordiality and friendship,” that those rela-.
tions of perfect cordiality apd friendship only W
maintained by that frankness of action and truthffil
iiess of purpose which should characterize the Uriel -
course Os equals qnd friends..
OoMspifUTtiHs in France.— Twelve working
men were recently arrested in France, charged
with an attempt to get up a revolution. One of
their proclamations was produced in Court. It de
clared a revolution to be imminent, accused the go
vernment of tyranny, and of having got up the diffi
culty of a famine ; denounced stock-jobbers and
monopolists ; spoke in laudation of Robespierre,
Marat and Danton, called the Emperor “infamous,”
and said that there should be no pardon for him ,
and exhorted the people and the army to revolt, be
cause the “dishonor of daughters, ai_d ffic murder of
sons cried aloud so» yiood Vi The chief; of the band
were men flamed Clement anti Doliget. The for
mer, in his interrogatory, expressed admiration of
all the sentiments set forth in the proclamation ; and
the latter, amongst other things, said lie believed re
ligion to be an invention of priests, property a spoli
ation of the people, and that in politics, there was
no such thing as justice, but only the law of the
strongest: and he added, that if his party triumphed
it would acton these principle}. Another nt the
prisoner*, a young map Uiiy nineteen years of age,
Buinen Fournier, said he considered Clement his
“father in morality,” becr.use “he had made his po
litical education from beginning to end.
“ You are a shoemaker by trade,” said the Presi
dent, and, instead of meddling with politics, you
had better have stuck to your last “ tn making
shoes,” said the prisoner, with a grand gesture, “ I
should only be working for myself, and I feel called
v.n vo xaborfor society. ’ Several were convicted
and sentenced to imprisonment.
Vindication of the I-ate Lord Raglan.—
The London Morning Chronicle thinks that the
peace will clear ujj many misrepresentations about
the war. It says :
“It is now ascertained that at the battle of the
Alma, not 6,000 troops were left in Hehastopol. The
Russian Plenipotentiaries have stated this at the
Conference. Lady Raglan has a letter in her pos
session, proving that Lord Raglan sent to St. Ar
uaad, when the battle was gained, to say that he
was pushing on to enter Sebastopol, and that the
French commander-in chief refused to support him.
and required him to move on to Balaklava. Had
Lord Raglan been commander of both armies, we
should have been in Sebastopol at the very opening
of the campaign.
“We are further in a condition to itaie that,* four
times over, Lord Ragianu ordered the bombardment
of Odessa, when he found the enemy drawing
strength from it. The order was telegraphed to
Paris, and four times Napoleon prohibited it. We
can only state that, at the battle of Tehemaya, the
English General sent to the French Commander to
say that he would seixe the bridge over the river,
and intercept the retreat of 25,000 Russians, who
the Russian Plenipotentiaries now say were com
pletely disorganized. The French Commander
again refused the offer, and allowed the Russians to
escape.”
Special !>le*sa«e of flu* President*
' . NO. 1.
’ To the House qf Representatives •
1 communicate herewith a report from the Secre
tary of War in response to a resolution of the House
ot Representatives, of the 12th inst., requesting me
to inform the House whether United States soldiers
have been employed in the Territory of Kansas to
arrest persons charged with a violation of certain
supposed laws enacted by a supposed Legislature
assembled at Shawnee Mission.
„ Franklin Pierce.
ashmgton, May 22,1856.
no. is.
Head Qonrters , Fort Leavenworth, Mai/ 7,1856.
Bir--l have the honor to forward herewith further
correspondence in relation to Kansas difficulties.—
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
E- V. Sumner, Col. Ist Cavalry, Corn’g.
To Col. S. Cooper, Adjt. Gen. U. S. Army.
NO. 111.
Executive Office, Lecompton, K. T. )
April 24, 1856.
Col. Sumner—l have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 21st, aud alsoSof
the 22d mst. Lieutenant Mclntosh reported his
command to me at this place, agreeably to instruc
tions. His report to you will put you in posses
sion of all that has transpired wfiile aiding the
Sheriff of this county in the execution of the pro
cess in his hands.
It is due to Lieut. Mclntosh that I should say that
his prompt and efficient action, and the important
services which lie has rendered the Sheriff in execu
ting the laws entitle him to my warmest commen
dations and morf sincere thanks. Hoping to see you
soon, when I will be able to explain matters further,
I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,
Wilson Shasnon.
no. ir.
Executive Office, April 25, 1856.
Col. Sumner :—Sir —l am satisfied that the per
sons against whom writs have been issued, und
placed in the hands of the Sheriff of this county, and
who have not been taken, have fled or secreted
themse ves, so that for the present no further arrests
can be made ; nevertheless, I deem it prudent to
have a military power or guard, of thirty men, sta
tioned at this place and subject to my orders, to act
iu case of an emergency. I would therefore request
you to furnish me with such a guard from your com
mand, to be used ns the Sheriff s posse and to pre
serve the peace as occasion may require.
I have uo other requisition to make on you at
present, but would respectfully request you to hold
your command in readiness to act at a moment’s
warning, if required by me to enforce the laws or
preserve the peace. With great respect,
Wilson Shannon.
no. v.
Franklin , April 23, 1856.
Colonel— Under the direction of the Governor,
I started from Lccompton early this morning, with
the intention of assisting the Deputy Sheriff’m serv
ing writs left by Mr. Jones. W e arrived at Law
rence about half-past 6 A. M., and although we
remained in town nearly two hours, the Sheriff* was
unsuccessful in his search—apparently those for
whom he had writs had left the town. I shall re
main near here for two or three days, in order to be
nearer the Sheriff, and attend to the serving of the
writs. The Governor has not yet issued any writs
against Mr. Reeder or Robinson, und 1 don’t think
he will at present. As I passed through Lawrence
this morning, everything seemed to be quiet and or
derly, and 1 hear very little at present of the Mis
sourians.
The person who takes this is in haste to leave—if
anything important occurs, I shall let you know of
it by express. Very respectfully,
Jas. Mclntosh, Ist Lieut. Ist Cavalry.
Col. Sumner, Ist Cavalry, commanding.
NO. vi.
War Department, Washington, May 21, ISSC.
Sir—l have to acknowledge the reference to this
Department of a resolution to the House of Repre
sentatives, dated 12th inst., requesting the President
to inform the House “whether United States soldiers
have been employed in the Teritory of Kansas to
arrest persons charged with a violation of certain
supposed laws clouded by a supposed Legisla
ture assembled at Shawnee Mission, in said Terri
tory,’' (See.
In reply, I have to state that by instructions from
this Department, dated the sth of February last,
Col. E. V. Sumner and Lieutenant Colonel P. S. G.
Cook were directed to aid, by a military force, the
constituted authorities of the Territory of Kansas in
suppressing insurrection or invasive aggressors
against the organized government of the Territory
or armed resistance to the execution of the laws,
in case the Governor, tinding the ordinary course of
judicial proceedings and the powers vested in the
United States Marshal inadequate for the purpose,
should make requisition upon them for a military
force to aid him in the performance of that official
duty.
Under these instructions, and upon the requisition
of Governor Shannon, a detachment of troops, un
der a Lieutenant, was ordered to repair to the Gov
ernor to sustain the. laws. The proceedings in the
case are specially in the enclosed copies of the cor
respondence which contains the only information
the Department has upon the subject.
The instructions from this Department being di
rected exclusively to the support of the organized
government and constituted authorities of the Ter
ritories, convey no authority to employ soldiers to
aid, by making arrests or otherwise, in the enforce
ment of “ supposed laws,’* enacted by a “ supposed
Legislature.” The Department, therefore, pre
sumes and believes that the United States soldiers
have not been employed to make arrests under the
circumstances mentioned in the resolution. Very
respectfully, your obedient servant ,
Jeff. Davis, Secretary of War.
To the President.
Kansas Letter.—The Lawrence correspondent
of the New York Herald writes May 17 :
I met Goy. Robinson at. Kansas, as 1 ascended
the Missouri river, on his way East, since which 1
learn that he was taken off the boat by a mob at
Lexington, Missouri, and is now in “durance vile,”
guarded by border ruffians, and in imminent peril of
being hung, without benefit of clergy, for the en
couragement of the growth of hemp in Missouri.
Gov. Reeder has also left for parts unknown, for
his own peace and safety, while G. W. Brown, the
editor of the Ilerald of Freedom, on his way home
from the East, was arrested by a mob ut Westport,
and is still a prisoner. Day untoday uttereth out
rages and new arrests, aud night unto night darkens
the horizon of a free State for Kansas. Divers
prominent individuals of the free State party have
found it convenient to be out of harm’s way about
this time, for sundry good reasons.
The United States Marshal has posted printed pro
clamations over the Tetritory, calling upon the
lovers of “law and order” to assemble at Lecompton
to aid him in making arrests in Lawicnce. There
is said to be 1,400 men under urms and pay from
the United Slates Treasury, at Lecompton, already;
and st ill they come, composed of federal officers,
Missourians, and the nephews of Atchison, from the
Southern chivalry. Whiskey and the Missouri river
are both rising. This is, indeed, the reign of terror.
The Congressional Investigating Committee, in
stead of giving security and protection to witnesses
have counselled the flight of Robinson and Reeder;
and, when Lawrence is threatened with destruction,
this same committee evaluate the beleagured city
of It&wveiKio. and proceed to Leavenworth city, on
the borders of Missouri. There was a dense fogtol
lowed them, so that we cannot clearly sec what may
happen to ns. There is no military or other organi
zation among the free State men, no preparation
made to welcome and receive with and
warm hospitality these Southern nephews of Atchi
son. There is no hyad to ilie free State party—its
all tail, aud terribly twisted at that. There are no
Rmds, few rifles, but plenty of llibles ; but Bibles
won't save us from extermination. The exigency of
the times may bring out from the crowd aumo brave
leader, who may rally flip timid free States forces,
and mit ay, epd to federal oppression. If oppression
will drive any people mud, as the wise man asserted
—then the tree State settlers of Kansas will be
driven to desperation in due time. Tilings are work
ing that way with a vengeance.
Many Free State men are prisoners—one a ylyjgy-.
man—and every one is exposed to np.v* dvr and ball.
Some families are fleemg from tlio Territory with a
strange for life, without leaving any signs
of resignation or preparation for death. The New
Haven colony have gone beyond all danger, and
are safe, tar up the Kansas river. These Yankees
have a nice instinct of danger, and posses® ft great
deal of FalstafPs valor and diaerpiton. They will
never be shot, but may hung.
Havana News. —The Steamer Isabal arrived in
Charleston on Tuesday night with Havana news to
the 25th inst. The Conner has the following •
The Spanish Government ha&determined i<> *end
a naval force to Yerft Qfug, to demand an indem
nity of she Government for the Spanish
ipyVpkayts w ho suffered considerably during the late
revolution. When Santa, Anna was in power, he
made a treaty with Spain, by which the Mexican
nation obliged to pay quite a large sum of money to
certain Spanish houses, that were rained during the
war of independence. General Comonfort now re
fuses to acknowledge the validity of this treaty,
and has notified the Spanish Government that he
will not pay. The refusal lias prompted the
Spaniads to send there a large naval force, under
the command of Brigadier Fmzon. squad
ron will consist of two frigate*., three ftt earners and
four brigs.
A cqi\pnl#ikuici has been scut to Spain by the
ulamert, who are opposed to the African coloniza
tion-
Gen. Concha has sent Col. Flores to Madrid to
ask for instructions about the conduct to be obser
ved with the filibusters in Central America, ft
seems that he is anxious to take an active part in
the settlement of the ease, fie ha.i tiQji.t an agent
to Costa Rica. He left in th,e 1/ast steamer via As
pin wall. It is generally believed, that Spa’ui ha* of
fered the Co j a Vicars money and arm*
new distilling appayatvu J,a* been invented by a
•Spaniard, in -Mqtanaa*, which will yield a gallon of
vffin ffir every gallon of molasses. The same indi
vidual pretends to have discovered a sort of perpet
ual motion.
Information has been received hex*; that the Cy
ane and Fulton were at Key West, waiting orders
from Commodore Puulding, before they proceed to
San Juan. The flag-ship Pot nnae is cruising some
where about St. Thomas. None of the vessels or
dered to San J uan have touched here.
The citizens of Cardenas thv defeat of
Lopez by a grand parade ayffi qiuuer. Formerly
the anniversary v eiebrated with religious cere
monies. The description of the dinner ls given in
the Spanish papers, from which it h evident that
tliere was a superabundance of patriotism, &c.—
Capt. Morales, the hero (Siiauish) of the victory of
Qaydentu, was jjresent, made a speech, and recited
some verses. We are not informed whether he
gave a description of the battle and his famous cav
alry charge.
Later from Florida. —The trar,\ carrying pro
visions to the SUte troops from Vainpa to lehapuc
kasassa, on tie Lxti. wit , was attacked at Simmons’
Hammock. 12 miles from Tampa. There were four
white men, a boy and a negro. While watering
their horses, 12 to 15 Indians, hidden in a thick snot
near by, fired upon them. The boy was killed,
then his father, named Stallings, then a inuu named
Roach. A man named Hinson was shot across the
breast, but goi on one of the horses and escaped, as
did the negro. A man, Hatfield, stood behind one
of the wagons and kept the Indians off until he had
loaded and fired five times. He then escaped on a
mule. Blood was afterwards discovered behind a
tree where one of the Indians stood, but it was not
ascertained whether he was killed. A party of vol
unteers was informed of the attack soon after it oc
curred, and starU;d in pursuit. They were trqced to
a hammock near by, and by the hut qccownts there
was some probability of the troop* attacking them.
This was suppoaed to be the same body of Indians
that two nights before attacked the house of Captain
Bradley, 36 miles from Tampa, and killed two of his
children.
The Slaver* Discussion. —The protracted dis
cussion in the New School General Assembly, on
the subject of Slavery, has terminated ; though
without any practical result, aside from the decision
to print both the majority and minority report* rela
tive to the constitutional power of the Assembly
over the subject, more particularly ua regards the
discipline ofislaveholder* and alaveholdingchurches.
While the debate throughout was characterized by
a Christian spirit, there was evidently a wide diver
sity of opinion, and strong emotion was excited.
In the struggle between passion and judgment, men
laughed through their tears. The power of fixed
Christian principle was happily illustrated.—
Throughout the discussion, a disposition was shown
on the part of leading minds, to avoid the extremes
of fanaticism, and adhere to the old conservative
paths ; wisdom and moderation prevailed. The re
sult will be, to harmonize and consolidate, rather
than to alienate and dissever. The A-»seiiibly may
be regarded as occupying stronger ground than be
fore, and as possessing greater claim to confidence
and respect.— Journal of Commerce.
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XX. NO. 26.
The Troops for Canada.
On Monday last the Governor-General of Canada
communicated the following document to the Le
gislative Assembly:
fNo. 79 l Downing Street, May 2, 1856.
Sir—lou are aware that the treaty of peace pro
vides for the prompt evacuation by her Mtyestv’s
forces of the foreign territories at present held by
them ; and that among other arrangements for the
distribution of the army on its return from active
service, orders have been given that five regiments
shall be selected to be stationed in British North
America, of which three arc allotted to Canada.
'2. That such an amount of force is not of a charac
ter to afford much room for misconception as to the
purpose of her Majesty's government ; but still I
think it better to address to you a few remarks in ex
planation of that purpose.
d. Earl Grey’s despatch to Lord Elgin of the 14th
March, 1851. laid down the principles which were
then adopted by her Majesty's government in re
gard to their colonial policy, considered in a military
point of view ; and in reserving to the mother
country the duty of maintaining garrisons for fast- !
nesses of importance, such as Quebec, invited the i
co operation of the province for the auxiliary mea
sures ot defence. The vigor with which, at this mo
ment, a militia force is being organized, justifies our <
continuing to place, as we do place, the fullest re
liance on this policy. I
4. It is not, of course, to be expected that the force *
of the garrison alluded to should be at all times un- J
varying in strength. It may vary occasionally from
military or political reasons. During the war just
ended, when the chief military strength of the em
>ire had to be concentrated for tke operations iu the
East, regiments stationed in Canada were with
drawn ; and as my predecessor, Sir George Grey
explained in a despatch dated lltli of August, 1851,
increased responsibility was thrown upon the pro
vitu e. That emergency Ims now happily passed
uwtiy, but although the regular soldiers in Canada
nmy be more or fewer at any time, the policy of her
Muiesty’s government continues the same, and they
desire to place their main dependence on the well
proved loyalty and courage ol her Majesty’s Cana I
limit subjects to repel any hostile aggression, should I
the occasion ever unfortunately occur ; although iu I
tiiat event, her Majesty’s government would not fail I
to give the province the full support of the whole I
power of the British empire.
«>. \ oil will take care that uo misapprehension on I
this subject shall exist in Canada, which might pro- I
duce any relaxation of the honorable exertions I
which the province is now making to establish a j
suitable military organization. I have lmd the I
greatest satisfaction in submitting to her Majesty I
the accounts which you have transmitted tome, ol I
the spirit and energy with which all classes of her I
Canadian subjects have come forward to carry in- I
to effect the provisions of the new militia act, and I I
trust that the result will lx* that this local force I
will speedily be placed on a footing of permanent I
efficiency. I have, Ac.,
11. Larovchkke. I
Gov. Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bart.. A c.
Kn Yukon of C'ltolern in Brazil.
The bark Panama, Capt. Graves, has arrived in J
Xew Orleans, with news from Rio de Janeiro to the I
4th lilt. The Picayune publishes the following de- I
tails :
The cholera continues its ravages throughout the j
greater part ot the empire. In Rio de Janeiro, I
however, it lmd almost disappeared. The Coracio
Mecca util, of the 4th ult. says that the mortuary re- I
ports ofthe 2d did not contain a single fatal case of I
cholera ; and that of the third, comprising 11 deaths, I
only two, the victims of which were slaves. The I
total number of deaths from cholera from the time I
ot its first appearance in the city to the 31st of
March, is reported in the Journal do Commercio of
the 2d April as 4,825. Os the victims 2,319 were
free, 2,474 slaves, and 32 not stated ; of males and I
females respectively, there were, 1,455 and 864 ;
slaves, 1,787 and 687; not stated, 30 and 2; making I
a total of 3,272 males, and 1,553 females. The mean I
temperature on the 2d was 74 J 45' F. During the I :
month ot March, out of 509 patients in the military I
hospital only 12 had died. * lathe southern part of I i
the province of Rio de Janeiro, the disease had just I I
made its appearance; and at Dinmantina the small- >
pox had broken out, without having yet, however, I t
caused any considerable fatality. t
A letter dated Parahyba, March 17, represents I i
both the city and the province generally, of that *
name, to be in a lamentable condition from the affiio- I «.
t ions of the scourge. It is regarded as having re
served the worst of its malignity, its treachery and
its tenacity, for that portion of the empire. In the
capital itself, the population of which is given at
15,000, the mortality of the 16th was 49, and had
never been less than 30 a day since the disease
broke out, and the proportion was similar in other
parts ot the province. The inhabitants were so
afraid ot the contagion of the disease that hooks
were used to change the linen of patients ; and in
terment at the capital was becoming very difficult
On the banks of the river Paruhyba, where the dis
ease was at tirst very severe, it had slightly abated
in malignity. On the sea coast and on the river Ma
mangonpe, on the other hand, it was committing
terrible havoc. There were not medical men
enough to attend to the sick, those there were de
manding exhorbitant fees, remedies were scarce,
and what was worse still, there was a scarcity of
provisions, increasing from day today. Natuba,
which hud just suffered sadly from an inundation,
had been next utterly desolated by the pestilence in
live days.
In the Province of Pernambuco, the disease had
been no less mortal, but is reported to have appear
ed to be about to decline. A communication, tinted
Recife, March 19, aays that the previous day the
deaths amounted to sixty-three, making a total of
2|MO, since the commencement of the disease. In
Iguntassii and Goyanna, the disease continued with
unabated malignity. Some proprietors there hud
become no longer able to carry on their estates,
their slaves having all died ; and at Nazareth, it is
stated, not only all the slaves died, but the proprie
tor, his wile, and their children also succumbed in
one fell holocaust The new colony of Pimenteiras
had also suffered severely, having lost liifi out of its
small community.
At Conde the epidemic wus increasing, and it
had just made its appearance at Itnpicura. Yellow
fever had made its appearance at San Salvador, and
60 patients already been taken to the Mont Serat
hospital, all belonging to foreign vessels which had
arrived at the port. On shore, also, some foreigners
had already died of it.
At Aracacu, in Ceara, the cholera hud broken out
with violence.
Periluii Origin of tlic Fugitive Slave haw.
The Poston Courier gives the following bit of his
tory, from which it appears that the practice of re
storing fugitives from service had its origin among
the old Puritans;
“It may interest the readers of these papers as
a piece of curious antiquarian history, to know the
origin of the practice of restoring fugitives from&er*
vice. In the articles of confederation between the
I'nited Colonies of New England—namely, Massa
chusetts, New Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven
&c., made iu 16 Id, and made, as the preamble de
clare*, by those who ‘all come into these parts of
America with one and the same end and aim, name
ly, to advance the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ
and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel in purity
with peace—there is the following provision : ‘lt is
also agreed that if any aervant run away from his
master into. any confederate jurisdiction, in "such
case* upon certificate from one magistrate in the ju
risdiction out of which the servant lied, or upon oth
er due proof, the said servant shall be delayered io
his master, or any other that pursue* and brings
such certificate or proof ”
It thus appear*, say-s elm Courier, that the rendi
tionof fugitive* from service in this country corn-
HUumod more than two hundred years ago, and,
what is remarkable, the mode of proof prescribed l\Y
the agreement of the Colonies is precisely a.UAlwgous
to one of the modes provided by ths of 1850;
the only difference between Uvr-vn i* the more ele
vated character of tvtbunal ‘ln the jurisdiction
out of which tfeu servant fled,’ before which the
pro.pj iu now made, and the greater caution in the
proceedings. It is presumed t hat the subjects of
this compact between the Colonies were rather white
servants and apprentices than negro idaves, who in
1643 were probably very few in number. It was
very common in U*»*e early times, more than at
(a*'master mechanics to take indentured
apprentices, who, if they absconded, were (and now
ore) liable to be arrested and returned to their mas
ters, as persons held to labor or service in the State
whence they tied.
The same rule no,\Y prevails in regard to white fu
gitives which was adopted by the early Puritans,
Uftd i* applied by the fugitive slave law to fugitive
•laves. Vet the Abolitionists would see tho tfnion
dissolved rather than apply the same rate to runa
way blacks to which runaway white men are sub
jected.—Richmond IHtpaich.
Insult to Frknch Colonists in Paraguay.—
The Journal de Commcrcio, of the Ist ult,, gives an
account of an extraordinary difficulty between the
Government of Paraguay ami the French colonists
of Nova Uordeos, copied from the Mercantil of Ale
gre, of the 2fith us Maveh. The colonists, it appears,
had hud \and donated to them on their arrival, and
aV unoe set energetically about cultivating them.
Long and heavy rains, however, followed by a pro
longed drought, destroyed their plantations, and
they found themselves reduced to the pittance
which the Government of Paraguay had promised
to allow them for a year. This little means of sup
port, too, was i*ooii so seriously diminished, and they
were treated with such unmerciful rkjor, being de
prived even of shelter, tjiat, frfred with despair, they
commenced to flee to the interior of Chaco, prefer
ring to live among Indian hordes rather than be sub
jected, to tlu- despotism of the Paraguayan authori
ties. Excited by this course, the Government, it
appears, perpetrated unheard of excesses. The jus
tice of the peace of the colony was ordered to ascer
tain how and whither th.c colonists fled ; and for the
purpose of compiling those still remaining in the
colony U*disclose the retreat of their companions,
lid inflicted on them barbarous violence. This pro
ceeding, of course, made the colony revolt still more
determinedly, and the people declared that they
wished to return to their own country. President
Lopez hearing of resolution, intimated to the
colonists, by y, decree of the tWtli of December last,
that from ' that day forward all Government
aid would be withdrawn from the colonists ;
that at the end of a week from mat time the colony
would be broken \ and that by fifty days after
wards th*ty would be required to repay to the State
all th4> expenses inc urred on their account since they
had left France. Under these circumstances, the
French Consul in Paraguay addressed % noie to
President Lopez, asking for explanations. To this
note his Excelleucy gave a very rough reply. The
consequence was tUa* ifcfJ foreigners found them
selves nigh& -ut! day without shelter and without
I u;u*»u oI subsistence, as no proprietor would ven
ture to give to them for fear of exciting the Unger of
the Government. In this state of miwiiy the report
leaves the poor victims of oi the South Ameri
can colonization schcu**-*-
While the Government could exert its cowardly
severity iu this infamous manner, it was powerless
against bands of robbers and assassins who invested
various parts of the country, in some eases killing
even soldiers sent to aid in serving praee**-
A Cask for Ornithologists. —An Eagle Hatch
id and Nursed by a Shanghai. —About six weeks
ago Mr. Robert Cameron, who resides on theMaiini
river, a few miles below Hamilton, Uutler county,
Ohio, discovered a bald eagle’s nest on a huge Sy
camore tree standing near the river, and one of his
an active and adventurous fellow, by “tall j
climbing,” reached the eyrie, and made a prize of
two eggs of the bird of our country, which were at
once deposited under a “setting hen,” and in two
week-' a fine, lusty eaglet picked the shell, and
made his appearance, with less pain and i>omp and
circumstance than attended the birth of the “enfant
de France." One of the eggs proved a failure, and
this, with the eggs of the lien, were thrown away,
it being considered that the barnyard fowl would
have quite enough to attend to in the person of the
feathered “prince imperial, ” and the chicken and
eaglet are both, we are pleased to learn, doing as
well as could be expected.
The plebeian nurse-fowl is, we are informed by
Mr. Cameron, apparently, at times, very much as
tonished at the eccentricities of His Royal Highness
the infant bird of Jove, whose keen, unflinching
eves, and stout, sharp, crooked beak, arid appetite
for fish and flesh are slightly terrible, and beyond
her appreciation. Still she attempts to relieve his
wants with true motherly devotion, and in trying to
induce him to take a promenade, clucks at him
vainly by the liour. His legs are not serviceable,
and disclaiming to crawl after her, he looks with
eager aspirations, as becomes his illustrious race,
skywartL He is very fond of fish, and luxuriates
in rats and snakes, though he is not yet strong
enough to skin them for himself. The qnantity of
skinned garter snake that he consumes io queer, he
being competent to dispose of almost his weight in
that article of prepared snake.— Cin. Commercial.
An C ouniesH Ami-. .
While Lord Ellenborough, the ex-Governor
General of India is busily engaged in the House of
Lords supporting the Tories, in the hope that he
may become, iu the event of Earl Derby supplant
ing Lord Palmerston, a Cabinet Minister; his
wife now separated from him some twenty years, is
leading a w ild life among the Arabs. A correspon
dent of the New York Obset'ver writing from Damas
cus, March 23, thus speaks of her:
You have heard of the eccentric English Couu
tess who married an Arab Sheikh. Rumor said she
wag dead. Rumor ns usual was false. I was in her
villa this morning, just out of the gates of Damas
cus. She is at Palmyra with her husband, who is a
pretty Arab, small in stature, and generally con
temptible. Is it not a strange history ? Sho was
1 ant he Countess of Ellenborough, young, beautiful,
worshipped, lior only daughter was the : (Ti :i * 1
bride of a Prince of Austria. How do I know that
she was beautiful ? I will tell you. I saw her Bou
doir this morning, and one of its ornaments was
her portrait at twontv years old. She was royally
beautiful. Time aud care have changed her per
haps. Among her books I saw familiar volumes.
One was “Daily Food,” a well worn copy too.—
Another was entitled “Marriage from a Christain
Point of View.” a French work. Her boudoir was
spendidly ornamented, and hud portraits of her fath-
er, a fine looking old English gentleman, and her
children, one living now, the other dead, 1 believe.
1 Her history is but naif known. Divorced from Lord
* Ellenborough for intrigues with a German Priuoe,
1 she went to Greece, where she married a Greek
Count. Tired of him, she went to Damascus, where
iu a visit to Palmyra she was protected from rob
• bery by this fellow, whose name is Mei\jul. She de
termined to marry him. He objected and ran
away. She employed Arabs to bring him back.—
The English Consul interferred. The Turkish Gov
ernor objected. She said she was worth a
year, aud all Turkey could not prevent her doing as
she wished. So she foMpwed Medjul into the desert
and was married to him iu Turkish style or Arab
style. No one thinks it will be lasting. She keeps
him supplied with money, has given him an elegant
place pear Damascus, aud before long will travel
away iu search of new adventures. Her friends are
desirous of keeping her as faraway from England ns
possible, aud it is a matter of surprise that they sent
her elegant presents of moucy on hearing of this
marriage, though they knew it to be both illegal
and immoral. I assure you that 1 found it almost im
possible to believe that 1 was in the villa of one
who had ruled in the splendid circles of St. James,
who had been a special favorite with the Iron
Duke, who hud rivalled royalty itself in England,
and who was now in an Arab tent, the wife of a
dog of an Anazee. He is not even a respectaole
Sheika of the tribe—he is merely a common Arab.
Invest iput ion of Sunnier Assault.
Washington, May 2G.—The House committee of
investigation waited on Mr. Sumner to-day in
discharge of their duty regarding the recent as
sault. lie was iu bed, but gave his testimony and
was also cross-examined. He was unable to sit up
during the visit of the committee, but did so a
short time to-day. He is still very weak and his
physicians counsel him not to move out of the house
for a week.
The following is Mr. Sumner’s statement on oath:
“1 attended the Senate us usual on Thursday the
22d of May. After some formal business a message
was received from the House of Representatives,
announcing the death of a member of that body
from Missouri. This was followed by n brief tribute
to the deceased from Mr. Geyer, of Missouri, when,
according to usage and out of respect to the de
ceased, tbe Senate adjourned. Instead of leaving
the Chamber with the rest on the adjournment, I
eontiuued in my seat,occupied with my pen. While
thus intent, iu order to l>c in season tor the mail,
which was soon to close, I was approached by sev
eral persons, who desired to consult with me, but I
answered them promptly and briefly, excusing my
self, for the reason that I was much engaged.
When the last of these persons left me, I drew my
arm chair close to my and with my legs under
the desk, continued writing. My attention at this
time was so entirely drawn from all other objects,
that, though there must have been many persons iu
the Senate, I saw no body. While thus intent, with
my head bent over my writing, 1 was addressed by
a person who upproached the front of my desk, so
entirely unobserved that I was not aware of his
jfesence until 1 heard my name pronounced. As I
ooked up, with my pen in my hand, I saw a tall
man, whose countenance was not familiar, standing
directly over me, aud at the same moment I caught
these words : “I have read your speech twice over
carefully. It is a libel on South Carolina and Mr.
Butler who is u relative of mine.’'
While these words were still passing from his lips,
he commenced a succession of blows with a heavy
cane on my bare head, by the first of which I was
stunned so as to lose sight. Ino longer saw my as
sailant nor any other person or object in the room.
What I did afterwards was done almost uncon
sciously, acting under instincts of self-defence, with
my bend already bent down, I rose from my sent,
wrenching up my desk which was screwed to the
floor, and then pressing forward while my assailant
continued his blows. I had no other consciousness,
until I found myself ten feet forward in front ot my
desk, lying on the floor ot tho Senate, with my bleed
ing head supported on the knee of a gentleman,
whom I soon recognised by voice and manner
Mr. Morgan, of New York. Other friends there
were about me offering friendly assistance, but I
did not recognise any of them. Others there, were
at a distance, looking on and offering no assistance,
of whom I recognised only Mr. Douglas, of Illinois,
Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, and, I thought, also my as
sailant standing between them.
1 was helped from the floor and conducted into
the lobby of the Senate, where 1 was placed upon a
sofa. Os those who helped me there I have no re
collection. As I entered the lobby I recognized Mr .
Slidell, of Louisiana, who retreated ; but I recog
nized no one else* until 1 felt a friendly grusp of the
hand, which seemed to come from Mr. Campbell, of
Ohio. I have a vague impression that Mr. Bright,
President of the S**uut«, «pokv to me while I was,
on the floor of the Senate or in the lobby. 1 make
this statement in answer to the interrogatories of
the committee, and offer it ns presenting complete!v
all my recollections of the assault and of theuttemf
ing circumstances, whether immediately before or
immediately after. I desire to add that besides
the words which I have givoß as uttered by my
assailant, I have an indistinct recollection of tho
words “old man, 51 but these are so enveloped in
the mists which eusued from the first blow, that I
am not sure whether they were uttered or not.
On cross examination Mr. Sumner said that ho
wus entirely without anna of any kind, and that he
had no notice or warning of any kind, direct or in
direct, ofthis ussnult.
In answer in another question, Mr. Sumner re
plied < That what he had said of Mr. Butler was
strictly responsive to Mr. Butler's speeches.
M. At>olphk Adam.— This well known lmisitvi
composer, whose death at l*uris at the age of .7.1, of
congestion of the brain, we have already announced
was one of the most popular and voluminous com
posers of whom the French stage could boast. Af
ter producing a variety of ballets, vaudevilles, and
operettas at minor theatres, he made his debut at the.
Opera Comique, with a uno act opera Pierre et
Catherine which wu^alWA'cssflil; and from t hat tiaa*
his reputation wa* iusared. Few musicians Lmv«
evinced such extraordinary facility us M. Adam,
\YUtt would often he engaged in two or three operas
and a ballet simultaneously. This facility, however,
was his bane; and it is probable that, from his nu
merous works, only three are likely to outlive their
author long—the charming little opera of the Chalet,
the Postilion de and the ballet of Gi
selle, whWb last (as well as the Diable a Ouatre) was
composed for C&rlottaGrisi. Beside supplying every
theatre in Paris with incessant contributions, M.
Adam invaded the church and wrote several
masses and other sacred eompositions. Add to alt
this, he was successively musical fcuilletonintc for
the C'onstituUunnel and the Assemble*) National*.-,
as well a* being a constant contributor to other
papers. In 1847 M. Adam joined to his other
avocations that of Director of the Theatre Ly
rique, where he lost a large part of his fortune. He
was, moreover, Professor of Composition of the
Conservatoire, and member of the Institute. The
variety of his occupation was really astonishing,
and his industry prodigious. He whs an amiable
as well us a clever man, and a large circle of friends
will regret his loss. A more active life than his
was possibly never spent; but it is equally pos
sible that hud he attempted less he might have
done much more for his art and for his own enduring
tome.
“Able to Stand It.”—Under this head the New
York Daily News discusses the position of Southern
democratic presses on the issue between the Hards
and Soils of that State. It thus states the case of
the Augusta Constitutionalist:
“The Augusta (Georgia) Constitutionalist recom
mends Southern delegates to the Cincinnati Con
vention to shrink from the responsibility of decid
ing the question presented by the rival Hard and
Soft delegations of New York, via: “ Whether a
l'recsoiler is or is not to be reckoned a Democrat .**
The news goes on to say that if Southern demo
crats are willing to fellowship with freesoilers, cer
tainly Northern democrats should be able to stand
it. It illustrates the matter with the following an
ecdote :
“As to the Southern men who counsel such a
Settlement’ of ‘the New York difficulties,' we arc
reminded of the story of the Epicurean old gentle
man who was shown by his malicious nephew,
through a microscope, the skipping and writhing
inhabitants of a lump of rich cheese. “Uncle,” said
the boy, “look ! See how they squirm ! How can
you eat such horrid things'?” The old gentleman
coolly took up the cheese, and crunching it between
the teeth, replied, “let 'em squirm! If they can
stand it, I can
“It is thus with the refusal to recognize the only
National purty in New York, winch the South
ern Pierce papers threaten. If they can stand it,
we can.”
There is much in the above for honest Southern
democrats to think of.— Savh. Rep.
Later from Jamaica. —Dates from Kingston to
the Bth inst., are received. The Colonial Standard
states that the crew of 11. It. M. ship Malacca, at
Port Royal, were suffering from yellow fever. She
had just arrived, in two days from Port-au-Prince,
being reported without any dangerous disease on
board, and ns having come from a port where no
pestilential or infectious disease prevailed. Yet the
facts were, that there were a great many cusoa of
yellow fever on board; that there had been several
deaths on board from that disease before she arriv
ed : that, tuiiwe her arrival, a vast number of case*
had been transferred to the Marine Hospital; uud
ihot the remainder of her crew Lid been Inudert,
and were lodged in the dock yard. The health of
ficer says he was not aware el any case having oc
curred in the town, or of any evil having as yet re
sulted from the landing of the crew.
Commodore Kcllett,of 11. U. M.ship TammgMnt,
through his Secretary contradicted, us “totally in
correct,” a report published by the Morning Jour
nal, that “ 11. M. S. Powerful, Capt. Massic, from
this port to Havana, with orders to unite alfthc En
glish and French uuval 1 jrces stationed in the Mex
ican Gulf, and to start immediately to
and states that were no vessels of war of either na
tion iu the Gulf of Mexico. He also denounces as
incorrect the statement of the same paper, that
“ Capt. Tarleton. of H. M. ship Euridyco, was com
pelled to fire on Col. Walker and his party at Grey
town, and twenty-five men had been killed.” It
will be recollected that we pronounced those reports
unworthy of ertdit, when they reached us, a *b>rt
time since.
Charcoal as a Disinfectant.— The Medical
Times declares that it is almost impossible to exag
gerate the importance of the recent inodes which
have been devised for the application of ehurcoal to
disinfectant purposes. It has been employed with
fin* greatest su< cess in the famous dissection rooms
ill the London hospitals, and all the trouble that is
needed is, that the material be kept dry, which is
accomplished by warming itbefoie a tire or in a
stove daily. The charcoal, it is said, doeßJiot con
ceal the isiors, or substitute others for them, but ac
tually destroys, by decomposition, the poisouous
materials on which they depend.— Richmond Des
patch.
Salf. of Souls.— The side of souls is a common
ecclesiastical traflic in Eegland, the parochial “liv
j iugs” being disposed of by the auctioneer’s hammer
J or by private contract. The London religious
newspapers advertise several to be thus disposed of.
j Among others, the rectory of Hartshornc, the income
i £504 a year, a.id the present incumbent filly tour
years of age ; the rectory of Cooling, income £(i0»,
i exclusive of fees, “and an iuorense expected, iu
; consequence of the rcceut cultivation of hops in the
I parish’’—age of the present incumbent sixty six;
I the rectory of Elsenham, £*00; vicarage vl'
Heckmgtou, worth £J3S u year,