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THIH lta -I OI UTII riIMBHKS!
IN SENATE ,Kn 1 < ‘ 9
Mr Bright being Absent, Mr. Stuart ™ elected
‘‘m :'t Mr. A<iati» tha bill to amend the
, ui; , , . Irw n. made the upceia. o™* of
t: <* t vf.>t Saturday next.
• | introduced a bin to reatoreorder
Knueiw, prouoaina tobriuc it under the
v. mm-itt »f Nebraska
yi lr » ti»>ull explained that tli • only obj-< tof j
th. bih * to extend the Territorial Government |
,’ 5 \,.| ir «4k i over Kan*ax, and abolish th*- pro- i
-of the latter T*rrit«#ry *»« th?
in ede by the ir Legislature. He thought tow
i, wits n -late of thin-, now exattof “* “{Jj
. » „ pod men muM deplore He did
.1 .-are about having tlw bill referred.
, .1 withdraw it from the moderation of the
h ' d‘ , ' ! i)out f( ,or*d it would he referred to the
Ternh.ne*. who would report it at an
■,V v dav II involvedeome grave qumuoiwi hut
I » mj- oiail ti. w•• that tiie oppotienta of the Nehraie
a., 1,,.] a-are ... winning to aeknowledgo the primm
that hill. Ti*e law. of Nebruka were made
jeK.pii of Nehraaka, and the law* id Kunaaa.
hv the Mi.ple of Kamou. tiut the pnaponiiMa now
w ‘a*to ntaifiHh the inw« made by the people of Kau-
Hit- for their own government, and to plaee theta un
i<• ;«w> of Nebraska, wltieh they have liail no
voice in making
Mr Trumbull raid lliat r far from acknowledging
ti» rirmeiple of tiie Nehraaka bill, lie did not iielieve
tl,ere was anv principal at all in it. It ««i under
etiatd in one way at the North, and in another at
tin- South. Buthe would admit that tbie bill waa
not am h a proposition aa lie -hould prefer. He re
garded the repeal ot the Miaaouri Compromise aa
n . eauae of all them -chief, and be would be glad
to restore thiuga to their former junction But thia
waa a temporary eipidiem, not intended to carry
out hta own wish fully. He meant to occupy a con
servative ground upon tint queation and waa willing
to yield soli,el lung, tor he waa aorry to see atrife in
Kilt,ana. and waa aniioua lliat aome meaaurea should
he iinnu dinUrly adopted to ri atore peate to that un
happy Territory. . . „
Mr. Uouglaa aaid hewaaaa anxiotiaaa ittacolleague
to have pern , ami quietncaa restored in Katwu
fle waa Willing to yield something alao, but h<- would
yield what - line of the people of Kansas reluaet, to
yield and t hat w aa. implicit oitedience to tiie laws of
tin- land It everybody would do tbia, there would
tie no difficulty in Kansaa. or anywhere else. But,
it instead wl l ompellmg the rioters and rebels to
submit Is, t for law, they w.-ri- to bo placed under the
Jnwr ..f another territory, th*- effect would he to ex
ts-n.i nut. mid turmoil to Nebraska also. He waa
Ull w,; II ' i<• iuliict upon Nebraska the cornea of
,t r ,v Mild mob violi-i.ee that existed in Kansas,
i ~, ,j, ! Nebraska bad obeyed the lav*, and
tM v hliV. peace ; in Kansan the law hud been
trampled underfoot and there was strife. Alioti
*if *i. is t*, and the Emigrant Aid Societies had not in
t<.ill N.-braeka, to pervert the term* and
meaning ot a law of Congress ; and the very fact
i •,.i* b..th 1.-mt«»ric« wer.- created under one law :
lllM j i),„t in one there waa peace and quietnem,
xvhi < in lh* other there waa atrife and controversy,
h()owh that the fault i* not in the law.
T;i- limit wan in foreign interference. Strife and
viol.-ure were the fruit* of that interference in Kan
f m but, there had been non-interference in Nebra*
nn. and peiu-e and harmony had been the natural
I liurti-qucnce. It hi* « olleugue thought the Nebras
ka hill wan und< rHtood differently in tiie North and
l he South, lie had better read the proceeding* of the
jn rnocratio National Convention. He would find
ti. the principle* of the Democratic party were
j. North, South, East and Went every
whe re alike, -proclaimed by the unaniinouM vote of
.v. ry State in the I nion. Mluwachuaetta and South
< mioluih imdeiHtand the Nebraaka bill alike; Illi
i,mi« and Ixi.iirtiana. Ohio and Virginia, underatand
it a!ik»\ All true l><-mocratH hail no trouble in oon
ntruing it ; and nobody ha<l any trouble except
11 .*•r'f- who were oppenedto it, and who were deter
mined not to be rtatirtlied with it. 'I he principles of
that bill were embodied in the compromise of 1850,
ind they w< re confirmed by the election of Presi
dent Pierce in
Mr Trumbull replied that the thing was covered
up by the Cincinnati Convention, very much as it
was in the Nebraska bill. The language was am
biguouH, and each section understood it to suit its
own views.
Mr. I louchut further replied, and the bill was re
ferred to the committee on Territories.
Mr. Foote addressed the Senate on the subject of
tl . Navy Hoard, confining his argument to the
point., that the President had no jw.wer to dismiss
any commissioned officer of the army or navy,
• *i ept in his Kxecutive capacity to carry into effect
the laws of ( ongn-rts and the sentences of Courts
Marshal.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
Hy the reading «»f the journal of Saturday, it up
p.-aied that Mi Edwards had given notice of his
intention to itilrodue* a bill for the removal of the
rt./it of government from Warthington to some point
in Ohio, within five miles of Cincinnati.
Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, moved to strike out the
notice, contending that it would there appear as
there wan no quorum present on that day.
Ninety two member.- only voted, and for want of
a quorum the- House adjourned.
IN SENATE June 10.
Mr. Crittenden submitted a resolution requesting
(In! President, in view of tin* difficulties existing in
KuiiMiH.Hml the * mployiuent of a military fore*- fqr
tin- restoration of law ami peace uud harmony there,
to -fiol General Scott to lake command of these
tme .Mi Crittenden said it seemed to him llint
llie Senate had Imt very seldom tinder their consid
eration a subject of more importance than theallairs
• 4 Khi is. It was enough to make them feed
ashamed for the spectacle now presented in that
territory They had been in session six months and
not one step had been taken by them to remedy
this disgraceful evil, growing day by day ami
spreading wider and wider, and iiillamiug passions
already too much excited. Not only is the peace
and quiet ot Kansas disturbed, but the peace of the
entire country is seriously threatened. Os debate
there had been enough, but not of a kind to contri
bute to an impartial judgment, but to lead to crimi
nation uud re crimination, lie wanted to see broad
general and paternal peace, and that must be the
ambition of all.
In the course of his remarks he said, General
Scott is the nmu who carries the sword in his left
hand ami in his right hand peace—gentle peace;
and by bis voice will do more than a thousand
buvi-nct.s. II is object wa to put an end to anarchy
in Kansas.
Mr. .Mason was not prepared now, cither to vote
for or against the resolution, and asked tln\t it might
lie ovei until to-morrow. He had doubts as to the
propriety of making such a request of the President,
who is eoimnander-iii-eliief ot the army, ami had
sole pow< r over the matter.
Mi Crittenden said that as Gen. Scott was an old
man, the President might fed some reluctance to or
dering him upon that distant service.
Mi Seward was in favor of sending Gen. Scott
theie but lie thought it would be as well that it
should be done by a joint resolution of the two
Hons, lb- also proposed that the preamble should
be omiPcd, the facts being well known to the Pre
sident and the country.
hue resolution was postponed until tomorrow.
Mr. Krister submitted a resolution directing the
committee on commerce to enquire into theexpe
dtciicv es authorizing the issue ot a register to the
ill it ish built bark lb solute, which was abandoned
by that government and found derelict in the Arctic
ot . au by the \ niei ican whale ship George Henry,
and by iicr brought iuto the port of New London,
where *he is now lying, all claims to said vessel by
the British Government having been relinquished to
the salvors.
Mi Mason propr>scd that the vessel should be
purchased by this (iovernment and refitted, ami
then sent back to the British Government as a pre
sent.
Mr. Foster, expressed his gratification at this sug
gestion, and in order that it might bo carried out
»v it lull e w tin* resolution.
\ bill for the relief of certain net uul settlers in Mis
.v ,ppi was pas . «i . and, w ithout doing any thing
rl-ie, of importance, at hall'past one o'clock the Sen
ate adjourned.
HOUSE.
No quorum appearing, the roll was culled seve
ral times. One hundred member* answered to their
names, but as some oi them lmd “paired off” with
the absentees, they did not feel at liberty to en
cage m the transaction of Legislative business.
Mr Burlingame, presented the resolutions of the
I « gisiuturc of Massachusetts, in condemnation of
the assault on Mr. Sumner, which were laid on the
table and ordered to be printed.
The House then adjourned.
IN SENATE Juno 11.
Mr Bright having returned, Mr. Stuart resigned
the »ttice ot Piv.-idcnt pro !< w. and Mr. Bright was
a cam elected, lie made a short address, e ting ;re
« edents to show that in confer ing the appointment
on Mr Stuart he did not into'd to assume authori
ty which did not be ong to him, and which had not
I . on heretofore exercised in similar cases.
I'he Chair laid before the Senate the resolution
of t e Comm nw altli o: Massachusetts, in rele
i■ nee to the assault on Mr. Sumner. Thev were
read. ... i
Mi Butler said they contained a foregone eonelu j
* >u because they pronounced judgment before the
s : i.-el lms been investigated, and he calk'd it an
a ?;ug mockery for a Legislature to ask the Sen
ate to investigate n matter after tli y had pro
nounced judgment upon it. He would say no more
now . but would move that the re «o’utarns be laid
• Mil table and printed. The motion was agreed
Fifty-live thousand cnpica of the agricultural
\ art *>i the Patent Office import wen* ordered to bo
M: I '»itt» udon moved to take up the resolution
« *■> him yesterday, requesting the President
r. - ml Cm, Scott to Kansas.
'! \ .ov expressed the hope that the motion
" ‘'.M not prevail, the Senate Wing so thinly at
tended.
M li.i) vn anticipated much benefit from the
< > - Ice ttdi: of Ceiicral Sect* to Kan
•*- - uui t have the etb*ct of caimmg the public
Me. l>:<'wn opp«vsd the resolution, believing that
: would In an interior. nee by the Senate with the
«\. :t;\c fnnet ei s to advise the President as the
i«;i prep«"ed tx-sidos he could no? see such
. ‘'at, ot ti-ng* in Kansas as to eal! for the extraor
dinary prooee :ing eontemplat- d.
M u. ot i . . shed Mr Br,.wn whether
rum both aiffi s. .lady
flair* o K sas No sn*
; . r « do.;bt t*«iT affairs iu tliat quarter demand-
M. H ; .it;.-::, t aver limited extent, he
i • : ;*i;te repoi l ' in relation to the
». i»» K evfd
j. of tie :n \v. : lunmifai lured for the
• I -os so -ret».f»HV, and was very
-• •w. H» " o not prepared to essf
•
• : q»t :i ot tlx resohui-n w*Hi>d be understood bv
’ « r:vas an expression of tin- opinion ot the
S nite ? o tlielVosi >h-ut ;tad not |»erfoni»t*d h.is
M: T y k.. ‘ p *' v »-r in this l»ody to net
5n the mum.t-r proposed, more than would bo jh»>
?. ssed by an.vquu: niuiil*. r ofcitizens assembled in
liny *• - < If Cmr.d Scott
W . II
i ■ 1 ' * ■ ' ' * !| d it law is r» *isted
the admunsti t ;on onx-os haw tie |M>wer to call
• - 1 "'[n'lirti *«r
t • " ' ’. :' • : '■ So,.tt was to
m: in «*. ' ■ aiim l tie > ; riff, as one of the
/* "■ o that -a as t . object, be did not
. ; : w . 0.-a • w.ts ea ii;o upon the hiuh
«-•.i: :• ■-■. a : y too- I bore ami perform n
Vtry a uty btidiitflli Sh«-nfl to make
; t!• -t- : l bring c: miina’s bciorv the courts of ins
tie.-. Hut in . !i ml w;sti e object. it could only
t : ’ .n o . t *.• ink* u from the «
• : ms, -« to i. .i. *v p"« . If a raft- of
ot t . „ t,„ , «.*-.* ;ttuple pmv i*ion. but the
. ’ > v. uldofcly be employtd in came of
t lubimsi s-:r:iee to law. Hut Itow many in
i argents w« r«- now in arms atrainst the (• overt)-
H» • ' l»- •v. wun d come to that. I**■<
there be olm di. nee to law, and all difficultv would
• • the ros..i.n;,,n Vh'cause it was
« f : • * 1 > ** t,,r '*"• to tendrr
: ■' tsively
V Mr’ A •••sn-o.arked that the President had r .,w
' • ,-aV ot
. ! -
j en.i tot!.. I "d. nt ; « he should perform h?,
OUtioS.
Mr. M 11..ry was opposed to taking up the s.:! U
t or, ?iud -i. tnd \ it in any form I? ini-
I '« d i. !■ in.i -t-M.-r? on ■. i.e course of the President,
a n ’ ' ■ ’ • •’ o: * . tn-turse <d* tire officer in
■ • W Hi
t
tliC i\ . - - S'.* • I-. * M. ! 1 Woiiidsoou
l-i r . i : • I- V. 1 . . 1 , lu . dibit ultv i'i le
-8 orii._ : . I nhe IS
-M > t ; « ■ ■ ■' :: u i-ii.t M*<t«r'ted at tin'
oj p . . • . ; .i .irH. xiiy n.a^i*
f.-st. » t.. ... r • •’•e on. He had hoped for a differ•
eit i\; ..- i ... pi*!- f.ii in tb._- utmost siuiplicitv
it purp- ee ; as a meaiJi by wiuch the anarchy and
bloodshed now prevailing in Kanea* mlgut proba ]
b]y be auppiesecd aud cntleil The proposition'
could do do nann rr.d might do good, i' wa v.
ea»y for gentlemen to say that if all woud oby th‘
laws, there would l>c no trouble ; but the point w, ; .
that in luiiisequenc of tivc huiiij oi Ithmua ®aln ,
tlw»re were alv.*avs some iriio would not; i» Id n wijl
ling obedience to tiie lcwr. Th.* i-,aec.y w, *
adequate to Uicdhoi«c. If all w«> i.d obey the v'-'S
there would be no need of ch- • «hes'in-*M*r
jail*. Hut it was well known that there
who did u«A admit that tiiu U* l w eot
character as to damaud Mr fedi'wc- Ir
contend'd th«< ti.v;- «~-r- m.vi-. -m*
therefore invalid Hence Ike propriety of approacL
ing tie ettbj« 'in a calm an i t-.,ip.:ra.e •t,.i. r, a-i
that ihee-e difficultly b• a u. beat
tnaiiiirt-r. . , *
M; Al*t »ry dhi wi* v/;.- . iaa «- r hl>y isan
i,er wiih tii‘■w-duti-’s wtrH-h e'.ieeu.Uy btimied to
the Executive. Uu!« an the Senate believed that
the President had not done hi« duty, they ought not
to meddle with the master.
Mr Mason believed. Ilia* everything i.u i been
d *np which the occasion Ccdl' d for, ai.u which pro
priety would allow, to bring the unfortunate state of
things in Kansas t >an end.
Sir. S*rward believe.! that peace would not be se
cured iu uiitil the people shou.d enjoy the
faH ai.d ample wright of citizeu»Ui]> enjoyed by the
people of the organized Stated.
Mr. Hied argued to show that no good could result
by sending Oen. Scott to Kansas.
Tiie Senate, without concluding the ad
journed.
HOUSE.
The Speaker laid before the Houxe a message
from the President in reply to a resolution
ing for any in format ion regarding the action of
the leading powers of Europe relative to piivatet i
ing, and the proceedings of the late Pans Confer
ence, therein saying that no information ot that
character had been officially communicated to IhL.
government.
The House, after In vain end. avoring to j/rocure
a working minority, adjourned at an early hour. j
IN SENATE Juuc 12.
Mr Hauiliu wk.U toUs from ~r\its! «J j
Cliairuiau of th*.* coowxiiliee <»t Coimneice li.- .-aid
for the nine yetun he had held a rt»*at in I ne Senate
he liad almost been a»iieoi member. U p*»n the -ab
ject that had m# much agitated the country,
he had rarely nttered a word. He loved his
oouutry more than l»e lie loved any party—more ■
than any tiling that could agitate and disturb it* j
harmony. _ .
Although he believed the rejx.*al of tiie M ouri
Compromise wax a great moral and political wrong,
and uneouailed in the history of any country, still
with a ueaire to promote harunony, concord and
brotherly feeling, ue oat quietly amid all the excit
ing debate which led to that fatal result, and oppos
ed it, not by his voice, but by hi* consistent, steady
and uniform vote—not only in accordance with his
own coovictioiiH, but iu aeeordance with the in-
Htruetionsof bis legislature, passed by an aln < t
unanimous vote.
Hut the thing waa done in violation of tiie prinei- |
plea of tiurt party with whom he had always . < led,
aud in violati**u of the solemn pledge sot the i J r« i- |
deut of the United Stub s in hi* inaugural ineaxagc.
Since, however, lliat wrong had been endorsed by !
the Cincinnati Convention in its consummation
and it* results, he felt it hitt duty to declare that
he could ni‘ longer maintain party associations
with any party that insisted upon nudi doctriucs:
and he i*ould support no man for Pre«id«*nt who j
avowed and recognized these doctriucs. And
with whatever power <i<xl had endowed him it ;
should be used in the coining contest in opposi- !
tiou to that party. His motion to be excused was
then agreed to.
Mr. Hutler poroceded to reply to Mr. Sumner’s
speech. The galleries were crowded witli audi
tors.
Mr. Hutler said that the necessity for hi* address
ing the Senate on this occasion was brought about
by events over which he had no control, events
which have grown out of a controversy, from the
commencement of which the Senator from Massa
chusetts, not now in his Heat, {Mr. Sumner; would
be held exclusively responsible by his country aud
liis God. He had delivered a speech, the most ex
traordinary that ever had utterance in any Legisla
tive body, recognizing the sanctions of law and of
the Constitution. All that time Mr. Hutler was not
here, and what he would have done if lie had been
here, it would now be perfectly idle to say, because
no one can substitute the deliberations of a sub
sequent period for what might have taken place oil
the impulse of the moment.
His impression was, if he had been here, he would
have asked that Senator, before b«- hud linisli.-d
some of the paragraphs personally applicable to him,
to pause ; aud if Mr. gtmiin r hud gone on, he would
have demanded that lie slum d retract or modify the
offensive remarks, so as to bring them within the
sphere of parliamentary propriety. If Mr. S. had
refused to do this, what he would have done he
could not exactly say, but one thing lie knew, and
that was he would not have submitted to it. To
wlmt manner of redress he would have resorted he
could not tell; he would at least have assumed,
upon all the responsibilities of u Senator from South
Carolina, the consequences, let them fall where
they might. Hut instead of that, that speech hod
involved a friend and kinsman to the extent that
he had been obliged to put his fortune and life at
stake.
Instead ot making his own speeches here, under
the obligation of the Constitution, and in a dignified
manner, the Senator from Massachusetts had acted
as the conduit—the fang through which to pour out
malignity and injustice. so conciliate '1 lieodor©
Barker, the Senator must make war on South Caro
lina and on himself (Mr. Butler.) It was the purpose
of that Senator to paudor to the prejudices ot a por
tion of Massachusetts. If the Senator were now
here, he would make him hang his head in shame
and prove him a calumniator.
He a<reused Mr. Sumner of having pretended to
quote from the Constitution of South Carolina that
which is not found in it. ( hie thing is certain—cith
er the Senator did not read the Constitution, or if
lie did, he could not understand it. [Laughter.]
Mr. Butler expressed the opiuiou that this speech
of Mr. Sumner's would be condemned by the public
mind of the country,and would be consigned to in
famy by posterity for the mischievous consequences
which have flowed from it already, and which were
likely in the future to dis’nrb the peace and repose
ot the country. Mr. Butler had said nothing to jus
tify tiie gross personal abuse and calumny with
which he had been assailed : he had been very guard
c*d iu his remarks during the whole of this exciting
debate. Independently of the personalities which
had distorted and disgraced Mr. Stunner’s speech,
there was nothing in it to distinguish it from all his
other abolition speeches.
H e noticed Mr. Sumner’s charge of the shameful
Imbecility of South Carolina >1 tiring the revolution
ary war, in consequence of slavery, and icpntcd the
allegation that but for Northern aid the South could
not nave sustained itself iu that struggle. South
Carolina sent Massachusetts bread and seventy bar
rels of w ine. The main law was not then in opera
tion. [ Laughter. | I’he very powder used by Mas
sachusetts after the battle of Bunker Hill, was fur
nished by South Carolina, which, iu the revolution
poured out hogsheads of blood, where Massachu
setts poured out but gallons. II•• characteir/.ed the
remarks of Mr. Sunmer applied to him as indecent,
and utterly unfit to be, as they were, uttered in the
presence of a gallery of ladies.
Mr Butler strongly condemned the resolution of
the Massachusetts Legislature relative to the assault
on Mr. Sumner, saying that Mr. Brooks had been
indicted on mere newspaper rumors, and with a pre
cipitancy of judgment incompatible with legislative
dignity and justice. Mr. Brooks could not go into
a drawing room or to a public place, after Mr. Sum
ner’s speech was delivered, without the question be
ing asked—“ Has South Carolina chivalry escaped,
and is there to be tame submission to such insults
He felt as if be could not look his constituents in
the face without being taunted with dishonor. The
Senate had before been profaned bv the Senator
front Massachusetts. He (Mr. Butler) would ra
ther take ten blows than endure the gnsoftho rheto
rician pouring out calumnies upon his State. Some
tiling must, therefore, be pardoned to the sensibili
ties of a man acting under the dictates of manhood
niul honor. Without concluding Mr. Butler gave
wav fora motion to adiourn, which prevailed.
lit n si:
Only one hundred and six members were present,
when, for want of a quorum, the House again ad
journed.
IN SENATE June Id.
Mr. Hu tier resumed his remarks from yesterday
in further apology for Mr. Brooks’ attack on Senator
Sumner. He said : When the Legislature of Mas
sachusetts say that gentleman's act wn - cowardly,
let them try him in any way they choose. (Ap
plause]
Mr. Stuart said that the' proprieties and amenities
of the Senate were ton often thus disturbed by ap
plause ; and if tin* galleries cannot be occupied by
gentlemen, they should he cleared.
The (’hair inquired whether the Senator from
Michigan moved that the galleries lu* cleared. Mr.
Stuart replied that he did not
Mr Fessenden, injustice to those in the galleries,
said that the applause came from the floor of the
Senate.
Mr. Butler remarked that he would goon insuchn
way that nobody would applaud again, fLaughter.]
Mr. Brooks approached Mr. Stunner with no other
purpose than to disgrace him. Mr. Brooks was one
of tlie best tempered fellows he ever knew, though
impetuous no uoubt, and quick at resentment. Mr.
Simmer received flesh wounds, and being rather
handsome did not expose himself. If he hail been
in tlie army and had not gone into the ranks the
next day after the fracas, he would deserve to be
cashiered. [ Laughter.)
Mr. Butler thought ou some account it was fortu
nate that he was not here at the time, for he did not
know what he might have done. To be sure, it had
been thirty or forty years since he had been engag
ed in jH*rsonnl eontlict. and his hand was out of
practice, but he did not know but what In* might
have had a trial at him. and one thing he had no
doubt of, that if he had been a younger man. he j
would have left Mr. Sumner in a worse condition
than he was in now.
The New England papers now call this a speci
men of Southern violence and Southern ruffianism :
but the first Congressional right since the foundation
of this Government, took place between two New
Eng land meu, Matthew Lvon and Eager Hriswold,
ami that did not take place out- ide of the House,
but they fought with hickory sticks. *pit boxes, and
tongs, all over the House of lvepresentalives
[laughter] when it was in session. Hut tuey did not
turn them out ; they said, let them both go, they
are disgraced enough already. [LuugiiU-r.J
Mr. Butler reviewed Mr. Suuiuer's speech, ciaim
iug that he had convicted Mr. Sumner id a proclix i
ty to error, calumny and uusrepivsoutatiou, and thus
eftectually turned tbe guns which Mr. Suuiner had
j)oiuted at him.
Mr. Wilson said he had li&tened to Mr. Butlei's
'■pet'cli with painful emotions—more than twenty
days ago a Senator of as<»vereiga State was -au k
t ndtnvn on the th <U' of the Seimte for words spoken
iu debate. For mote than three weeks that Sena
tor had been confined to hi* room and ou a bed of
pain and anguish. The moral sentiment of the
country had been outraged, givssly outraged bv t! •>
assault on the treedom of debate and on a Splinter
for words Used in debate. lutelligenee of this trans
action is dying abroad over the oi\ :lir.ed wt»rM. ami
wherever Christianity has n foothold and civilisation
gk*w-s the fact will inetd the sti*ni condemnation of
mankind.
TV* Senator of South Carolina !ms spent three
hour** and a bail' in vindication aud apology for an
assault wh.cbi* nofNinillrVdbi : lie history of then*-
i on; ami ha* commented on the pn sent i audit loti
Mr. Sumner in a nianr. r not e\ hibi? ■ g - .1
* He Mr. Wifcon) knew personally.
< to be gwwly unjust He knew that for
» Mr. S
m bed from injuries ami the effect* of blow* iulik u.-d
o;» iio
Mr. Butler I was deGoate, and only alluded to
»;o evidence of others.
Mr Wflaun caused to be lead a note from l)r
I .itidavy dated the !\th instant to this efft: "l
rave tx*en in attendant on Mr. Sumnera? hi? phy
sician or. the acri-unt of injuries received, from the
V *i iof May to the present time . part of tins pt
riod ir consultation with I>rs. Petty and Miller. I
have v«irv t him at h%-!>t ooce a day. During that
V 1 ’* *1- Sinr. ti< r has been confined to hi* room and
'.Tmtrr M Ib, tilin'- t.» lu? bed. XVilh.r
' -i e, Mr Sumner cable wuder my charge
>- *ii Al\ kUh vIo tout is. into the country
71 A »'!>•>' u* mu an . aud not atum.pt to enter on his
j»UI-no UUtle«* iv.r Htuif Imfc* t«. v,, u „. "
M- H .Isou nsMia.ii,c «u ,„■! Mr Balk-r had
i, k,-„ Iu an«> I- M
Mr. Bul.rr. 11.W1VH X,: • t ,u,„ l- U.u oriii
Mr. \\ ihkiu. « ih iu tin Senator's t miettanshe
U>td every word wiiieh a fertile inuHTinuiw « c<»uui
u-h* ut or strong pas>.oii irnguot- 'i Senator
S<>utl> Cnrulit .» bad tnkeu full r« Vvnjt uere tor
' * ■ .. .II Jjuior.rr, t < M • \Y. .
s.-i* ) did imU take exc*-j*i.»n to t i*, 7 was the way
Mr s«ni im r * hove been -.net. rot bv
bl-nra.
Mi. U'iijWM. Mr Butler's denial.
..: Mr Sumner did mak.- >n> ■ .;uo*nnon 1
{r> l *' tl»e Coi*>HUjUuu ui N»n«n Cwhich
'
a frpnblu*, >!ie ha*! wiaUHiatwat h-atti:*-* »« h«-r
J IU eliderved itcasS* itii*. of u* owl
•‘i M * " ? !, d U'l.iiM :li hi', lib t-.l u. ySi ?, •.• . ,
tuou if oasutU <l ile had ami n«>u!d cm.-t ni.« to
v‘.t. jn-'t aaeltenubv tol-rtw !»t S..uth V*r»X,t>n --
***-fa*coMamoiom th ot It w « nf
part of oouutrx, umi «|n
oomyL** onc-temi, pan,., w u ,. ,
Wi * Os pyfc-’l loUe whole Mrtt- ~ «*f v , , - f, t ,j I
i a , a; V, .
uacoßßiry, 1
~.l ‘ *** 2? e »«• flumtrne tint Son ft Carol!-
ill ““""C lhc revotatioahrv war, a^
autged by his Mi Satancr.) lit cvulij
prove ti.ie hr the corn-Bpontl'-nre "f -he (rr-t.e- j
nccc Miry for uu i. to .day at h -n-e to keep negro* , j
A =-I*. My. Untie* refwskx l|ui Heath C;«:\»b:ja j
jd.e.thog ' coda where M* abed only g:u- i
I-m+ in thahf atcsi. it was ks> ■. absurd and
r.-i.snW*i- and .iostiffilr. 6’Jinner in asserting
fiiaSMr. Hutler wash «ein hi- expres ions and lia- !
b e to error.
Mr. Bu;ii.iar wro t. ?i* Jut Senator from S* nth
TJaroliqii had Hfcrtcn, -the aggrey- r-. and llr.Wil
e-m ptriceededWi rthow from Mr. Hutler’> speech,
delivered about four years ago, that w hen Mr. Sum- !
ner propiMed to repeal the fugitive -lave law. Mr.
Hgtfer qhjvctp4* Mr. Sunnier, taunt- .
mjrly if h** wtnmH to make 'ar. oratorical d:.-
play V' The remark waa d* signed to wound tl.e ,
scnVibilities of a new member, to bring upon those j
vi-lio advocate iibertv, sneers and laughter, but j
which fata:.tn men arc- r.or.* learning t** regard with
Mr. Wilson charged that Mr. Hutler was the ag
gresaor, and aesailed Mr. Sumner before the latter
had altered a word on the h »*#r of the Senate. Mr.
Wiieoii quoted fr«*m Mr. Hutier * Hpeeches since
that period, showing that Mr. Hutler had applied
ito Mr. SuiiUi<jr such phrases a- “tiangitig ;igiiat*M
| —“rhctoruiid advocate”—“it seems to me it he
| (Mr. Sumner) wished to write poetry he o .»u!<i get u
j negro t «* *!t for him”—“pseudo pbilanthrophy
“proft*s*ii ns of phiiant hrophy of adoption more than
I of affect ion’’—“machinery oiled with northern fana
j tiennu, ’ etc.
Mr. Wiieon thought Mr. Sumner right when he
1 .-aid Mr. Hutler wae one of the chieiioins of a *•_
j tionalisui .it war with fundamental the ideiis wincu
I uaJeriitj oiir democratic inetitation*, and art-at war
: wi-li Uie r«poe<-atKlliat mony of tint country. .Mr.
liut'or.tn his first fpoocli in rej.ly U> -Mr. Simmer
unuie fierce aaaonks on Massachusetts, stating
i tuuoae otu-r tliiugo, alio Wita govcrnetl by "sickly
nc-jitiiacutality,’' "anti-uetfro State,” etc.
Mr. V.'iiwu defended Mtuo-acJiusetts and tin; nc
liou of its Ecgislaturo regarding tbo asaauit on Mr.
j Sumner, saying, in conclusion, they had quite
! enough of this asserted superiority, social and i>< >-
.Uic.-d, fro;n S.,uti;crn Kourcc. If lito South aid
j hold q-.-rr him the plantation whip, lie should speak
i his sentiments freely ; and more freely because his
I colleague lmd been (stricken down for words spoken
in debate ; and hecau?' there are those who claim
I the right to question Senators for words spoken in
| debate.
Mr. Butler said lie did not blame Mr. \\ i:son for
inking his colleague’s part, hut when he hail gone
1 back to those old reports, previous to dune taol, it
| made him think w hat lie would he sorry to suppose,
nnmelv ; That mortified vanity, arising from for
i tner conflicts, had been the cause of this last assault
of Mr. Sumner upon him and his State .Mr.
: Sumner did not say that in his affidavit, hut,
Hint what he uttered was in reply to his (Mr. liut
icr's) speeches of this session. He could not go
i hack anti recapitulate these old speeches, for they
j were long rtiuce forgotten.
In commenting on the revolutionary services
! «>t Sonth Carolina, anked Mr. Wilson how many
' buttles Massachusetts had fought in the Kevolu
tion ?
Mr. Wilson replied, they were but f* w, because
the enemy considered il safer to go to South Caroli
na. jApplnuae] They had met them at Concord,
Lexington, Hunker’* Hill, and would have met them
elsewhere, but the enemy took goorl care to keep
out of the State. The charge of Mr. Clay that
Northern Senator* fawned upon Southern Senator*,
when permitted to make their acquaintance, was
language he had no right to use.
Mr. Clay said the charge heretofore made was just
this, that men from the North would come here and
court the acquaintance of Southern Senators. He
did not charge Mr. Wilson w ith such conduct, but
there were those who agreed with Mr. Wilson in
opinion that did so. He regarded it as duplicity and
hypocrisy unworthy of a gentleman. No fair-mind
ed, honest, straight forward man would be guilty of
such conduct.
Mr. Evans here obtained the floor, and the Senate
adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
Again there was no quorum present, and the
House adjourned.
The California Mail Great Excitement in Sail
Hy the arrival of the steamer George Law at New
York and the Daniel Webster at New Orleans, we
have California dates to the iilst ult.
The steamer John L. Stevens brought down nearly
in gold.
The outward bound parsengers per George Law
left Panama on the 31st of May on the steamer
Golden Gate.
The steamer Golden Age, with the New York
[ passengers of April 20th, had not arrived at San
Francisco when the John L. Steveus sailed, and was
i six days overdue.
I The British steamer Hermes was lying at Aspin
wull.
i The brig Quadrat us went ashore at Coose Hay on
I the 4th ult., and Mr. Simpson, of San Francisco, and
j Mrs. Macdonald and child were drowned in attempt
j ing to reach the shore.
j The California markets were very dull. Gallego
i and Ilaxall Flour was selling at sll 50 ; Mess Beef
| $lB 50; Hums 11 cents; Butter 15 cents; Lard
j 171 cent*.
j Thk M i rt)ku of Mr. Kino. —The business houses
| we e all closed on the afternoon of the 20th in con
sentience of the excitement caused by the murder
of Mr. King.
Casey, who murdered King, was a member of the
Hoard of Supervisors and the editor of the Sunday
Times.
The at tack of the Vigilance Committee upon the
jail was made in military order, with a force of
twenty-five hunered armed men. They surrounded
the prison aud pointed a bras* eighteen-pounder at
the door. When all was ready for the assault the
committee made a formal demand on the Sheriff’
for the surrender of the jail, and the Sheriff be
} ing totally unprepared surrendered immediately.—
The prisoners Casey and Cora were then taken
out by the committee and carried to their head
quarters.
A* soon as the death of Mr. King was announced
the bells of the city were tolled, the stores closed
and ull business suspended. The fronts of most of
the buildings were also draped in mourning and a
most intense feeling of excitement pervaded tiie en
tire community.
The two prisoners, Casey and Cora were then
both tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal of
j twenty-nine persons and sentenced to be hung.—
j They were to be executed the day following the fu
neral of Mr. King.
The excitement touching this affair extended
throughout the state. One thousand armed men
in the interior were said to be ready to hasten to the
assistance of the revolutionists in the city.
The Alta California of the 15th May, gives the fol
lowing particulars : We learn from Gen. Estelle,
who was an eye witness, that Mr. King did not thaw
any weapon, but was met in the middle of the street
by*Casey, who said : “Are you armed? to which
Mi . King made no reply, but looked at Casev. Ca
sey threw off his cloak, and presented a large navy
revolver, saying, “Draw and defend yourself,”. at
tht! same time taking deliberate aim, and covering
his victim with a well-directed shot, the result til
which is known.
He then cocked the pistol again, but seeing his
opponent stagger iuto the Pacific Express oflice; did
not attempt ti second shot. Some person caught
hold of him and told him to give up his arms, which
he refused, and showed tight to him ; but on the ap
proach of two or three officers, he remarked that he
would go. but lliey must not take hi- arms, as he
was not going to be hung.
The good people of the Atlantic States will proba
bly construe the fact that the taking of Casey and
Cora from the jail was done on the Sablmth, into a
disregard by the people of San Francisco of |t lie sa
eredness of that day. Without speaking now of the
general emergency which ba* arisen, we are assured
that the direct cause of the proceedings o i Sunday
was, that some information was received by the
Executive Committee in the morning which render
ed it absolutely ne a ssary that Casey and Cora
should be immediately taken.
The same paper, speaking of Casey after he had
been delivered into the custody of the Vigilance
Committee, says :
It was said that Casey was engaged yesterday
nn st of th«* time in writ ing, about what of course is
unknown. It is well known, however, that he might
write many thrilling and startling events of San
Francisco, and we hope he will feel constrained to
make a clean breast of all his connections with ras
cality in this community. He is a remarkable man
in his way, and possessed of courage and bravery al
most nnequnled. lie is said to be strictly honora
ble among his clan, but revengeful to bis enemies.
He has accumulated a fortune hereof some SJO,tIOO,
yet never was known to do an honest day's work in
the country. Soon after he was released from the
prison in New York, lie came to California, and was
at once elected Inspector of Elections in the Sixth
Ward, where he presided and held sway up to hist
fall. He has probably done more stuffing and ticket
shifting than any man in the world. He has elected
ollicer alter otficer, and shared with them the spoils,
and it is altogether likely that he elected a Governor
of our State at one time, as some large stuffing was
done here that year, and he would be the man to do
it The majority was very small, and was always
claimed to have been stolen in this country, lie
lias made this inspection business a means ot’ liveli
hood, and has held the city and county offices in his
gift, to be sold out to tin- highest bidder, or awarded
to those who would divide wit i him the largest pro
portion oi* the emoluments, or the best appointment
under the man he should elect. In this manner he
has accumulated a fortune, and this life has led him
to his present situation.
We learn from the Evening News, of the "-21st,
that a meeting was hold on the evening of the gfith,
at the rooms of the Vigilance Committee, to take
action with regard to rak-mga fund for the family •
of the late Mr. King. The News says :
Messrs. T. W. Park. F. W. Maeonilrav, Carlisle ;
I*. Patterson. John Si me, and S. P. Dewey, were •
designated as a committee to superintend the plan. !
It is iu contemplation to receive contributions j
throughout the State, of one dollar each, from the j
friends and admirers of Mr. King—the funds so mis- I
cd to bo devoted to the use of his family, and also
to the erection of a suitable monument to his '
memory. The committee will, it is premised, ap |
point sub-commit toes throughout the State, who !
will receive and transmit the contributions.
*• The Alta California annouuci s that a new line
e : «>f sailing packets has been established to run from
Bordeaux direct to San Francisco, leaving Bor
deaitx on the loth of each alternate month.
’* The French Consul at Sail Francis-o anuounc.-s
• ' that New Caledonia is open for French and foreign
colonists.
V A very perceptible sheet of an earthquake was
felt iu Ba.ii Frnn<‘iseo ou the evcuing tiie H>tu of
May, at liall-past 'J o clock.
( The tVdiowmg paragraph, from the Alla California
«T May 12th, shows limt rich strikes ure still oeca-
sioually made in tlie mines :
[ Mr. Wl.eeler. of Big Oak Flat, stnn-k upon a
rieh l ad of auriferous qiuutz one day lust week, and
t _ took out. during the afternoon, over worth
,j of gohl. Tlie shaft in which the rich strike was
e innde is upon the same Vein, although at sou;c d.-
taxioe, ou which the rich mines are that were d'.s
r covered last summer.
. Tt:e steamship America, la longing to tl. Rss-iau
i (.levelurnent, arrived at San Fraia isco •-n the l. lh
,j ot May froui New V< :k • . Panama.
its fitianeiai review, remarks :
Tee yield of gold throughout the mini s contiunes
t| without any perceptible diminution, it iu reality it
h imf still on the increasi'. Water is u«»w abun i;.:it
tl in most of tlie most prolific districts, an.! the fullest
i | advantage is taken thereof by the miners, w ho. in
‘ | umny sections ot'thec»>nntry are literally working
r { uig'at ami day. In even* direct im w, hear of r-.-v
i ami rich discoveries made—of new tnoin !> ■ j *l.
j of new loads struck, and of a most determim d n--
tivit vof the w • ; minirg inter* st. It is only to be
i n-grcUctl that »o wide u th-id for pr**:iUil*U* is
si• poorly oci'upieil, and that with ail the chances
w undi the mines present for* ample leniuin ration for
l hocust laU.r. si> mau*. thousand sl.ould remahi
. I wholly untouched.
j The faiic.tx-of Messrs. Anr* uti. Cavalier A (o.
j alluded to in ourknti, appears to have produced but
[ j little effect on the public mind, and was attended by
l J n«> coiiseqin i.ees *>t any importance. Their UabiU- :
i | lief were small, and ir i> said m *stly he’d abn*ad:— ,
r ] Attachments were sued out to the extent of some
T er»- have ab > been a few iner«a:i!;l
- j failures principally in tiie dry gooiU line,
but the s were n**t particularly seven- in any of
» them. They are attributable principally, w* pre
sume. to the amount of overtrading and the difth-uS
[ ty of collcetingnp debts under «nr present syst. in !
Ot’ credits.
latere*!is# (run: Panama.
We have news from by the l>anie |
WVIbUi r. to the 3d ms*
There was m; impression among th* l J’anr.uu n -
that tin- let hm us wan about to be in vat it'd by a;
large foree of filßuistetif. This wcaaioned mueii ex ;
citi-uieiktand n<> little alnrui. M.uiyof the natives]
different parts of Ihe intu im
The strumships (. ~r tM and Llu le Sam, 'once, Jy
♦.* t..e N .yangrua an i California line. w«-rc ivi.ig m
1 anuinn harbor on ti. e ±*d uit.. waitinir «*rd.*i -Ji »m
New i«nk.
c ie ;ni t: ->m the Panam,-; Star tliat on a re'*»:
l>t ii linougti hum t *itv thai tlu- steam
t :-*} -V!T4 Nt-vaua Was aU-n*. arriving w itk i »>-
.> :k i-rsar. i fikouaß Hie GovermM*"ot Panama
) q }• «rd U> Coi. Ward, the l . S. t'oi«o’. to have
* their arms taken from them prior t** their land!.-nr
to which the Consul replied that he could uot con
’ the p&sseiurers after t-enias-.-icr.- of
1 ffie laui of April, bnt **ft*oim>e, u.-e hi . n
giavwrs to keep qttiKi.ts* and -peace auuuig them
eh.fh-d tqcy arrive.
We le&ru from the r. of the 27th uli.. ti:a the
Governor of Panama i>sutd a circuit to tLydiftVi -
cot Consols announcing that any i u-ulk-u of armed
foreigner, o» whatever pretext, will be looked up |
on by him as illegal, ana that he will tue%is utmost
power in »ppo*u>2 it. Tl.*» circular appears to have }
been railed »< rth by a iu»: which appeared in the j
Pa'.auieii" . citing iiutt,in • -;e of an outbreak, the
:»r igu« • .. uhl i.Kvitoy tin r t<r i utual protect*
t: »;i. T,je c<>U;:iit: vrith much severity on
the action of Ike Governor. Among other things,
it pay* •
Conshierabi exeit incut was caused in Panama,
on Sunday night, the 25th ult, by the ruflianlv con
duct of a’drunken .-ailor from the steamship Cories,
lying in the harbor. The commotion w efficient
t'» bring« u* an exhibition of the fact that the of- I
fkvra of the sloop-of-war St. Mary.-. lying «;ft Paua- j
in*, are wideawake, and that in ca*e of any ou
break wkiie they remain in port, ample protection j
will be promptly afforded to our citizens resident
there. The Star say* :
I: appears that the cr< w of the Cortes had left the
, tul * a ;*U Saturday many of be j
came intoxicated. During the evening a party Os I
• •io:n went to tiie Shade* and demanded more liquor
Wi.e hwr- refused; upon which one of them (an |
I .;r-. ’V j.’..- and oft- r making a great |
deafof noise, tired three times at the bar keeper.—
o>.r of the shot* g«*i ng off. after bunging lire, the
b,i. ei.t* ring ti c ti *or. th*. others missed fire, aud
. ;»:j?e«{Uenily the liie of the 1 ar keep r was saved.
'I lie seouudrel then proceeded down Main street,
WiM-re ii»* fell in wi'ii the French Consul, andut
!. ;M'-u-d to shoot him. A jiersonal encounter innne
diau-iv took pi ate between them, in which the Con
sul, after a paid deal of difficulty, succeeded in dis
arming hi* antagonist.
Tiie viiiaiu was soon after arrested and conveyed
to prison. As the excitement was spreading outside
the wails, and a report whs circulated there that a
native woman had been shot, considerable alarm ex
isted as to tise resuit, and a signal was given which
brought the armed boats of tiie St. Marys to the
beach in a very few moments. No attempt was
made, however, to land the force, and the men were
merely kept in readiness until it wu.- ascertained
that no necessity existed for their services; when
they returned to their ship. .
The Star of the 3d inst., says: Tiie last mail
brings intelligence that .Judge Bowlin, U. S. Minis
!•-: a! B**g«>!M!**riir: trial, \»r ill
which may probably interfere with his visiting Pa
nama, as instructed, to meet Mr. Corwine in inquir
ing into the massacre of the 15th April.
Niearngna News.
Tiie intelligence received from Nicaragua by the
Daniel Webster i* uiiiiii].*ortant..
The report of the detention of the steamship Ori
zaba. and the blockade of the port of San Juan by
; the British sloop-of-war Knrydice was unfounded.
: Nothing of the sort had taken place, or was intend
ed. The information was gained by personal in
quire.
The Minnie Shaffer's passengers, 120 in number,
together with those of the Daniel Webster, 50 in
number, embarked together next day after their ar
rival at San Juan, and went up the river unmo
lested.
Sclilessinger is reported to be in Honduras.
Coartland Cushing died at Pnnt.a Arenas on the
- j 111 1 . lie was formerly IT. S. Charge d’Affairos at
Ecuador ; lie has be.Vagf-nt for the Transit Com
pany for two years at Virgin Buy. The funeral was
respectably attended—the American Consul officia
ting. Present, tlm British Consul, Mr. Green, Cap
tain T rli ton with his officers of the Eurydiee, aud
many respectable citizens.
The Transit route is in full possession of General
Walker. Considerable sickness prevails among his
troops.
The Costa Rican army, it is said, sustained a loss
of fully fifteen hundred men in battle and irom
sickness during its unsuccessful campaign in Nica
ragua.
General Walker, we* learn, has made his head
quarters at Leon, and marched all his troops trom
Virgin Bay and San Juan del Sur to that place.
We hav*.* no accounts of the progress of the revo
lution in Costa Rica. The Costa Rica mail is now
convoyed totlu* Atlantic, via Cartage, to Salt Creek,
forty miles south of San Juan del Norte.
.Mexican News. —The Spanish Fleet at \ era
Cruz.
The Steamer Texas has arrived at New < Means
with dates from Vera Cruz to the Bth inst., and
from the capital to the sth inst:
‘•The new Spanish Minister near the Government
arrived on the 28th of May ami proceeded to Mexi
co. A licet of armed Spanish ships has arrived,
probably to blockade the port of Vera Cruz, if Mexi
co does not come to terms with the Spanish Minister.
It is composed as follows : Steam frigate Isabelle
•2d, steam frigate Ullou, sloop Cortez : and five oth
ers are expected to join them. Great excitement
and consternation prevail. * War with Spain'—
Death to all Spa iards V is the cry."
The new Minister, backed by the fleet aforesaid,
was in the city of Mexico ou the sth inst. The
Extraordinary \»f the 31st ult., speaking of his ar
rival at Vera Cruz, thus notices the effect it pro
duced at the capital, and explains the nature of his
mission:
The difficulty between the President and Con
gress was only settled when news arrived hereby
telegraph of a Spanish licet being at Vera Cruz,
where the new Spanish Minister, St*nor Don Mi
guel de los Santos Alvarez had lauded. This looks
rather belligerent, and it is as well to make a note
©fit in passing.
It seems that some few years ago the claims of
Spanish subjects upon the Mexican government
were pressed, and a settlement resulted, called the
“Spanish Convention,” whereby Mexico acknow
ledged an indebtedness of £5,802,062, the interest at
3 per cent, on which was to In* paid annually, and a
sinking land of 5 percent, to be created for the ulti
mate extinction of the pr ncipal. But scarcely was
the ink dry upon the Convention papers, before it
was discovered that fraudulent and most bare-faced
impositions had been practiced in the allowance of
some rather large items. The result was that the
Mexican government called for n revision of the
“Convention,” which was promised by the Spanish
Ambassador. Delays ensued ; no revision took
place, in oonsequence of obstacles thrown in the
way by the said Ambassador, and at the same time
a pressing demand was made for the payment of the
interest, Ac. A very bad feeling was created be
tween tin; two governments on the subject. Senor
Znyas left abruptly, threatening vengeance, and
now a new minister has come with ships of war and
other amiable persuasions. And thus stands the
question.
Congress was in session, busily engaged in trying
to patch up a permanent constitution in pursuance
ol'tlie plan by Ayuthi, but making very slow pro
gross. Tlw influence of Comonfort is said to pre
vail with it ; but there were rumors of insurrection
ary tendencies, and brewings of revolution in the
capital, ami Comonlort had retired, it is stated, with
s : x thousand soldiers, lromthe National Palace to
the villa of Tacabaya—how long to remain may de
pend upon contingencies.
The people were startled and Congress is non
plu- i-d by the sadden and unexpected resignation of
General Alvarez of his commission us General of
Division in the Army, and also his position as head
of the nation. Various reasons arc assigned for this
step-some attributing it to age and bodily infirmi
ties. ami others to political consideration*. The dif
ficulty in the case results from the foot that Comou
fort, the acting President, was appointed by Alva
rez I’n sn/r/if siibslUufr, and that Congress ratified
tiie nomination.
Latest Accounts from Fiordin*
The Tampa Peninsular of the 7th states that oil
the :28th tilt., while .lames 11. Uhitoll and .lames
Hobarts, two men belonging to the volunteers at
Fort Dennud, were driving cuttle towards the camp
they were suddenly fired upon by six Indians, liar
roll received one wound in hia right shoulder, and
the horse lie rode was wounded by three balls. A
retreat was immediately commenced; an Indian
attempted to stop llarroH by catching his home, but
tailed in the attempt. Both made good their retreat
to the encampment. Harroll is now in the hospi
tal at Fort Denaud.
hi consequence of a severe rain which was falling
at He- time, no trail could he discovered till next
day, when it was struck some twelve miles from tin
scene of action ; at a distance it merged into a
arger one; found a place where the Indians
had encamped for the night, which indicated that
there was a e msiderable number of them : pursued
still further, when it was so augmented as to justify
the conclusion that, then* were from HO to Iflb In
dians. We have not learned why the pursuit was
given up, but presume it was because of the inunda
; ted state of the country.
j A passenger on the l\ S. M. steamer Florida, in
[ formed us that two Companies were operating in
| the (Jiilt-Hnmmock, in LevyfwUlity, in accordance
i with Gov. Broomes instructions to Col. M. Whit
! Smith, and that Indian signs had been discovered
j within two miles of Cedar Keys,
j On the evening of tiie doth ult., Chai, an Indian
• who, with his wile Polly, surrendered to (Jen. Ilnr
-1 ney in 18-10, and has been under the protection of
! the whites ever since, acting in the capacity of guide
i and interpreter whenever required, shot himself.—
. We have heard no plausible reason assigned for this
; act, but presume he was troubled in mind, and chose
■ this, as the Indians conceive, brave way of “shuf
i fling otf this mortal coil.’ - This casualty happened
’ at a Post a few miles below Punta Kassa. Poily is
, now at Fort Myois.
Corporal Manning, of the V. S. A., was shot by a
sentinel at Fort Myers a tew days ago. lie was at
tempting to pass tlie sentinel, on his hands and
knees, and failing to answer the challenge, was
I shot dead.
Tlie Steamboat Explosion in Canada*
A despatch from Montreal, relating to the steam
boat cx pi sion on the 10th inst., at Longueil, three
mdes lions Montreal, says that twenty-seven dead
bodies had been discovered, and that the search was
being continued with the expectation of finding
more. Those injured, not killed outright, have since
died. One of tie- engineers has not yet been found.
It is reported that the engineer let the water get too
low in the boiler of the boat. An inquest was be
ing held on the bodies. The names of the killed
were not given.
The Montreal Gazette of the 11th says :
“As our reporter approached the scene the boat
was seen sunk beside the wharf, her upper works
over the bulwarks being above the wa or. Men
were floating about in small boats over lu-r decks,
searching t r the b.» ii«s ot those >uij!.. All around
her tie b sggageol the passengers, beds. &e., were
floating tibiHU iu every direction, ami efforts were
“On lauding. ti • larboard boiler, weighing several
b»i:s, was found lilted out of the hold of the vessel
aud pitched bodily on the wharf, about one hundred
feet from tlie water. It was crushed into a perfect
wreck, and the debris steam pipes and fragments of
machinery were scattered far and wide. One mass
of iron, weighing live or six hundred weight, had
been lifted high iu the air and had fallen through the
roof of the freight shed, crushing its way through
every thing till it reached terra frma, "The star
board boiler was also lifted bodily out of the hold,
and falling on the bow of the vesst 1, crushed it, and
letting in the water, cause.l tier to sink.”
The Moutrcai Herald of the 11 tli inst. states : The
steamer was a new b<*a’ and had only been runuiug
about ihic v kThe i.giot-t-r wa.- a Scotchman,
but be had been in ike habit of heating up the boil
ers sv»uu times until they were re*l hot. The nien
v. h » made ti. machinery for the boat had repeated
ly told him that the boilers would not stand the
- -
>;sud ;n keeping up the steam to the utmost pitch.
It is oi.ly a tc-w days ago, we are informed, iu go
ing r.oi o.ss io l,ongut ii, they had to stop the vessel
t;;l the boners cooled. \\ • believe thev were in a !
-imiiar state yesterday when the explosion took j
! plaoe.
1--
; edin the fore pun of the >t- .rner. as Hie number «*f
• .»»♦ nirersvvas n*.t e tm etiy kn« wn, but it is snp
’ pa»sed titat between 'S> and 'M hav* gone down ; aihl
j all yesU niay afternoon men were at work with
grappling irons to get lip the bodies, but without
Hr- non iv Pksvsvi.v\ma. — The Pittsburg
• *<»uxett'-" the oldest journal w< st of tlie mountains,
that in Pennsylvania Mr. liuehanan “/>».«-
| m> sti f'nrztli tha! may be rail*(l formidahtr. —
j His noutinafion mmply keeps those in (lie party who
otherwise would have Iw n driven from it, but It
brings no outside aid. We have not seen or heard
• done «• 1 lii2*■ U big. Repablit-an, or American, who
i will vote for him; aud n~e kiunr that there ore It tn -
I 'lre.h of L> moerni* i., Hu* country tcho voted for
l • « - -ul not. it Ha r any circumstance*, n>fe
*lu i v -Pierce carried Pennsylvania by an iiu
: metist: majority, and be cl trained sweeping majoii
tJcs ui (5 revile, Fayette, \V« more land, Armstrong,
! t larit»n, \ ei ango, Butler, Mi n-*-r. Crawfonl, War*
| reii. M<l\ au. Potb-r. Br;uitord t Sus<|iu luuma, and
rioga count Us. I: was by means of the*e counties
S
- n ties ma - .
1 nan, and the few that will not do so w ill be able to
give but nominal majorities for him. "
J
IF v KSMiTKiMi is Ti i*KFt. —A oorresjxmdent I
«*i t.'ie S<-w \ o. k Cotiiiiiercial, writing fr«wn Con- |
stanti»*|de, give- the fV»!lowing description of the I
way in which Turkish bhvksmiths do tiieir work :
"In passing a blacksmith's diup the otiu-r day. 1 {
ob>* rved an attempt to shoe a umle. 11»e aninml \
wus very refract<-i v, ?:nd not at all ioeiskd to have
any liberties taken «.. .: his ui.d--r>tamihigs. After
M-vcfu! fruitless ,‘iitesuj is to cc; <|ii* r his obstinacy,
four Turks took hold of him, threw him down, and
lushing his legs to a sti- k. r- !!*-d him over on l.is
back. and put his shoes on at th ir -eLsnre. It was
a novel but vcn r effectual met hod. At best it al
ways takes three men to shoe a horse—one to bold
him. another to bold up his loo!, wbiic a third fastens
on the shiH.-."
F. \ix, who wa* implicated with Estnunpea. and
e-entciKtedby the Cuban aui noli ties to the gnileys,
ha- been p&rdo .od by the ot Spain, a;. J has
returned to New York.
WEEKLY
(Li)ronitk it
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AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MDKMNG JUNE IS, 1856.
CnKO !< hi; Sc SENTINEL,
FOR THU CAMPAIGN.
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Tki W: I iyfor iM.
Daily l dr. for 1.50
I* is our purpose n-.ke the influence of the
Ot&pnictc A* N It in the approaching caa
va-s: and we. therefore, submit the above terms,
with the hope, ihut American l'arty throughout
■■ ■ v in <nr desagifc—
To do this unv: certainly and effectually, our
friends everywhr.-, must circulate the paper. Aye,
loose your strings, and scatter the paper
among all classes of people, especially those who are
not in the habit of taking a paper. It will be an c-asy
matter for a few individuals in each county to sub
scribe a sum sufficient to send from one hundred to
two hundred paper* it; every county in the State,
where they are needed ti* enlighten the people.—
And this is the p! mto pursue. l>o not fold your
arms and wait for Mich people to subscribe. As,
a hifit to the wise is sufficient, we do not deem it
necessary to enlarge on this topic; and only desire
to say in conclusion, we are ready aud willing to do
our whole duty. All wo want our friends to do, is
to help u.> to accomplish the greatest good.
Air. Fillmore*-. Patriotic Letter.
The acceptance bv Millard Fillmore, in
words simple and to th purpose, of the American
nominal ion for the Presidency, will be read with
heartfelt rejoic/ng by every friend of the Union. It
Will also strike terror into the ranks of the Blchan
\sites, the Black Republicans, the Bolters aud
other miserable seetionalists.
Sotne one circulated the report that Mr. Fill
more’s acceptance was contained in an epistle of
several columns in length. We doubted this report,
from the first. Why should a patriot without guile,
a statesman of enlarged and liberal views, sincerely
devoted to the Constitution, and a man in the no
blest acceptation of the tetm, fill columns with
vain protestations ? Mr. Fillmore points to his
past services in behalf of his beloved country, and
says, that “should !i,» choice of the Convention be
sanctioned by the people. 1 shall, with the same
scrupulous regard irir the rights of every section of
the Union which then influenced my conduct, en
deavor to perform ev< ry duty confided by the Con
stitution and laws to tl <* Executive/’
With Mr. Fillmouk, a glorious past ensures a fu
t ure proud and honorable. 1 low different to that of
the Democratic nomine*, Mr. Buchanan, who has
turned his coat so often that he seems to possess the
properties of the Chaim- lion. That old sturdy Dem
ocrat, Andkew Jackson, truly observed to General
Armstrong, that “ Mr. Buchanan was an tmrelia
bleman.” In endorsing the Pierce platform with
variation*, a la I'dibuxlcro, we have a clear proof
of the calamity that would be fa l the Union should
Buchanan be elected. Filibusterism, suggested
and sanctioned by the Cincinnati platform, would
probably be the order of the day, unless checked by
Congress.
Turn from the contemplation of such a picture
and listen to the words of Mr. Fillmore. He is
sincerely “ anxious to see the administration of our
Government restored to that original simplicity and
purity which marked the first years of its existence;
and if possible to quiet that alarming, sectional agi
tation, which, while it delights the monarchists of
Europe, causes ewry true friend of our own coun
try to mourn.” Speaking from profound experience
lie tells of the delight which monarchists feel in wit
nessing the shame which Mr. Pierce has east upon
the country —a shame whith would be deeply aggra
vated should Mr. Buchanan succeed to power.
Let us trust that this humiliation will be spared our
country, and that every Southern man who is now
being led by the nose by the imperious power of par
ty, will see the err. »r of his way, and mounting on
the broad platform of Mr. Fillmore aid in the per
petuation of our rights and liberties.
Tlic I'lisionistM at the North.
The press of New York, with one or two honora
ble exceptions, is rapidly becoming black with the
spirit of Abolitionism. Philadelphia is following in
the same wake. The perpetuity of the Union is
uncared for by these writers, provided they can
ride on their hobby into power. Sympathy for the
negro is not part of their creed, as is fully exempli
fied by his wretched condition in the Free States;
but his name is use.l to conceui their traitorous de
signs. With a large portion of these politicians
the cry of “Kansas for freedom” is raised, although
it is evident to all that the wishes of the majority
of the emigrants to that territory must eventually
decide the quest ion whether it shall be admitted as
a slave or free State.
The Anti-Slavery Know Nothings and the Black
Republicans despairing of obtaining power on their
own merits, are eager to coalesce and thus cast
their whole strength on one candidate for the Presi
dency. The incongruous materials of which this
coalition would be made up, may be conceived.—
Know Nothings and Sag Niehts, Whigs and Demo
crats, Catholics and anti-Catholics, Atheists and
Quakers —all would unite for the unholy purpose of
destroying the Cmistituti -n and insulting the South
ern States. To obtain a candidate that would repre
sent this mass of emitraditions has been a serious
difficulty with them. .Judge M’Lka.n, Speaker
Banks and Col. Fremont have been most frequent
ly meutiourd, and at length the New York Herald
and Tribune have declared their preference for thi
last named person.
The discredit to the reputation of Col. Fremont,
will be equally great whether he succeed or not in
obtaining the nomination. A man born and reared
in the South, and who derives that spirit of adven
turous daring which has indissolubly connected his
name with the early fortunes of California and tlie
surrounding territories, entirely from his Southern
culture, should have been the last to prove an in
grate to the friends and the home of his youth. The
snares of the Northern politicians have, however,
beguiled him, and a nature that seemed fitted solely
lor deeds of great emprise v» ill be corrupted by the
mean and unscrupulous proceedings of crafty men.
The platform which the Fusionists adopt will
be more extravagant than that of the Democrats.—
Every foul passion or prejudice will be pandered to
in order to secure votes, an i while the organs of
every ism are looking forward to their Millenium
by means of niggorism the country will be threat
ened with anarchy and confusion. {Success, is of
course, impossible to tlie-e incendiaries; but
the shame they cast upon this great Republic
by their attempt t * destroy its laws is deeply to
be deplored. If reason were not dead within
them, the conservation character of the South and
the high moral tone among its citizens would so
contrast with the revolutionary elements in their
own States and ti e defiance of all truth, religion and
purity by their leaders, that they would, instead of
seeking to destroy our rights, rather humbly at
tempt to imitate our virtues.
Mr. Buchanan 7 * Federalism.
The war of 181*2 to 1810 has very properly been
designated the second revolution. In that memora
ble contest, while Clay, Cuawfoiid, Calhoun,
Trout, Lowndes, and a host of other Republicans,
were summoning in trumpet tones their country
men to the battle-field to maintain aud vindicate the
rights of American citizens on the high seas, J ames
Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, the present Demo
cratic candidate for President, was desecrating the
ever glorious Fourth of July by denouncing the
administration of that puie patriot and devoted re
publican and statesman, .James Madison. Tints
giving to the world the most unequivocal test of
his being a Federalist of the deepest dye. On the
ith of July. IS 1.',, he delivered a carefully prepared
oration, in which he utteredthe following sentiments:
“ Time will not allow me to enumerate ail the
other wild and wicked projects of this admin'istra
turn. Suffice it to >«iy, that, after they had deprived
us ut the means of defence, by destroying our navy
mill disbanding our army, after they Imd taken
nwey from its the > wer of recruiting them, by
ruining commerce, the great source of our national
and individual wealth • after they had, by refusing
the Bank of the Unite i Sta continuance of its
charter, embarrassed the financial concerns of the
goveruiiM and withdrawn the only universal pa
per medium of the country from circulation ; after
the people had become unaccustomed to, ami of
course unwilling to bear taxation, and without
money in the Treasury, they rashly plunged us into
a war with a nation more able to do us inju
ry than any other in the world. What was
tin-dreadful necessity for this desperate measure ?
Was our country invaded ? No! Was it pro
tect our little remaining commerce from the injuries
it sustained by th*- orders in Council ? No ! Com
merce was no such a favorite, and the merchants
wished for no war on that account.”
31 r. Buchanan Thorough' Msßiisred.
A vknekat:le citizen (Mr. A.) of Washington
City, related to the Kditor of the Organ , the follow
ing incident in the checkered lifeof Mr. Bccrasas,
which attests how hostile lie was to the war of 1812,
and every body in any manner connected with it.
He was so hostile t«» the war, that he could not
treat with common courtesy the hardy, toil-worn,
patriotic mechanic*, who were building ships of
war, to defend and protect the national honor.—
What think the conservative patriots of the South
! ofthe propriety of confiding the preservation of the
national honor to the keeping of such a time-serving
. placeman and political chameleon ? Better, we
| think, confide it to the ever devoted, unswerving
I patriot, Millard Fii.lmokk, who has been tried
; and was n- -t found wantin ' who never turned away
j in disgust from the mechanic* who built h!»co*utry's
; ships of war. lint to the ane cdote— here it is—read
! it-’
| A venerable citizen ~f Washington (Mr A.) in
the year I*l3, was the head of a gang of ship-ear
| penters who went from Kensington, near PLiladel
j pliia, t«» Kric, for th*- purj-:.-- of building Commo
i dor<- Perry* fleet. (>u their way to Erie they pa.>»-
j oil through Harrisburg, where the Pennsylvania
Legislature was then iif><.ssion, of which body Jas.
Bin Inman was a memb-r. Tin- legislature invited
the carpenters to attend its session and received
tiiem standing. But James Buchanan was so bit
terly opposed to the war that he refused to partiei
; pate in tliis mark of i« sp,;ct to these patriotic me
i ch&nh s. and hf* thr lit.,
: Xo comment is necessary on the above. Every
j mechanic in the country will make his own comment
i on it at the polls.
The Apple that F.ve Ate.
I Philosophers of a!! ages have differed as to the
j kind of apple of which Eve partook in the Garden
; of Eden : but. to our mind, the question is no longer
! one of doubt. The apples were “ Early Harvests, v
most tempting to the eye and still more tempting to
the palate. l>. Redmond. Esq., of ••Fraitland," has
presented as with a basket of these apples, which
surpass anything of the sort that we Lave previously
tasted. The fall of man was after all not so great a
misfortune, considering that Adam must have
brought the seeds of the “ Early Harvests” with him
out of Paradise.
A Delicate Enquiry. —An exchange paper
wishes to know if there is any harm in young ladies
sitting in the lapse of ages,
Tb? Aged Filibuster.
Thl fact having been fully established by 1 demo
cratic tfccliiuony, that Mr. Uuhanas ha • been
vacillating and h’.ippcry on the slavery Issu**, and
that Luc South ;mty jvosv-ibly be .fining on a broken
reed If it puts its.trust in him as a conservator of its
rights, we turn from domestic questions to test his
strength -on foreign relations. The South, while
willing to maintain the national honor at any sacri
fice is totally opposed to entering upon an unjust or
a needless war to gratify the spleen of foreign voters,
or to cater to the unholy wishes of loan and contract
mongers. Eminently conservative in its tomythe
South can never tolerate the man or men who are
eager to provide® war in order to gala a momentary
popularity with the reckless and incendiary spirit
which is unhappily afire in every Northern city.
It is then n matter of great import to learn wheth
er Mr. Buchanans election would be iuducive of
peace or war. The saber age of the Democratic
nominee is thought by some to bo favorable to
peace, but unfortuuutely with such men increase of
years does n.»t bring increase of moderation. The
mind being more feeble, causes it only to be more
easily led. and those who seek only to court the
popular breath, will act regardless of consequences.
Wars of the most momentous nature have been en
tered into by feeble old men, as for example, the
late European war, where poor old Ahekdsen, a
person even more aged than Mr. Buchanan, plung
ed England into a contest in which she ought never
to have taken part. Aberdeen, moreover, was
conscieucionsly opposed to war having taken avow
when he rode across the field of Waterloo imme
diately after the days of carnage, that he would
never directly or indirectly part icipate in the revi
val of such scenes. He kept his words while his
mental powers remained, but when he sank into
senility, all his virtuous resolves were of no avail.
But with Mr. Buchanan there are no scruples
us this kind to deter him from wrong-doing. Hear
ken to his discreditable words in the Ostend re
! ports, signed by him and Ministers Soule and Ma
j sun, where, utterly regardless of the contempt he
j was casting upon the great, country he so misrepre
! rented, he declared that if Spain would not sell Cu
| ba we should be justified in wresting it from her! —
Yes, three Plenipotentiaries appointed by President
Pierce to the Courts of England, France and
Spain, meet in council and publish a manifesto to
the world,stating that if the United States cannot
buy, she is justified in stealing. “We can afford to
i disregard the censures of the world,” adds this dis
■ graceful record of Bucha.ven’s shame, and the only
! restraining motive with him was the query if Amer
ica possessed the power to act the part of a success
full pirate. There wus no thought of his country’s
: honor, no respect for tiie world’s opinion; but mere
ly a mean apprehension that wc were not strong
enough to steal with impunity. In recollection of
this buccaneering conduct, we might expect to hear
that the great powers of Europe would place their
military and naval forces on a war footing immedi
ately it became known that Mr. Buchanan would
be the President of the United States.
We know it will be pleaded by the blind follow
ers of the aged Filibuster, that the Ostend report
was issued for Buncombe as much as for Cuba, and
that he would go through any unseemly perform
ance merely to secure a vote ; but this will not suf
fice. The crisis demands a man who will think more
of the national honor than his personal aggrandize
ment. We feel assured, looking at the antecedents
of Mr. Buchanan that not only would the peace of
the world be jeopardized by his election, but that
the fame of our country would be seriously tarnish
ed by liis rule, if Congress should sanction his fili
bustering propensities.
Atmospheric Changes on Health.
Mr. E. Meui am, of Brooklyn Heights, who is a
sort of monomaniac on the subject of the weath
er, states in the New York Herald of the Bth
instant, that sudden changes of temperature are
not injurious to health ; it is only when the quality
of the changed air is bad that sickness ensues. He
illustrates this by referring to places where the
atmospheric changes are most remarkable, and yet
the inhabitants arc healthy and long lived. In
tense heat docs not, lie says, affect health injurious
ly when thunder and lightning are absent, and so
with intense cold. II is thermometrical records for a
long series of years convince him that sudden chan
ges are beneficial to health. Thunder, which is in
jurious to meat, milk and beer, is equally so to the
human being. When cholera was at its height in
New York City in 1832, there were six feudal thun
der storms. The “Potato Rut” results from thun
der storms, while the milk of the root is in the state
to be affected. Mr. Mekiam alludes to the. liealth
fulness of the atmosphere of the Mammoth Cave of
Kentucky, where lightning is never seen nor thun
der heard, uml where workmen have been engaged
for years in making Saltpetre, and no case of sick
ness has occurred-among them.
He concludes his singular communication by thus
referring to the connection between yellow fever
anil thunder storms, and suggesting that the fe
ver might be rooted out by refrigerating the neigh
borhood ;
The records of the yellow fever tit Norfolk and
Portsmouth, last year, compared with the records of
temperature and of lightning, show that the most
appalling mortality by the pestilence was when the
thunder storms the most active. When Dr. Barton,
President of the Sanitaiy Board of New Orleans,
called upon me to examine my meteorological record
of 1853, for that portion of the year in which the yel
low fever prevailed so fearfully in that city, 1 said
to him, “If you will refer to your record for the day
in which the fever was most fatal, I will refer to my
record end see what was tliejstate of the atmosphere
on that day.” He said the :20th of August. On
that day more than 300 were numbered with the
dead. Our record says, “ 20th of August—great
thunder storm at New Orleans, reaching to Mo
bile.” Here the two records met and united in their
testimony.
It is admitted by all who have the experience and
the opportunity of observation, that the yellow fever
will not remain for a single day in a frosty atmos
phere; then why not, in the commencement of the
pestilence, while its ravages are confined to a few
cases, refrigerate the district ? I can, with pounded
ice aud salt mixed, cut down a field of vegetables
in a single night, by strewing its surface with the re
frigerating mixture. That which will destroy vege
tation will destroy, yellow fever poison.
Suspected Poisoning. —ln the Natchez (Miss.)
Courier, of the 6th inet.., we read : Two young men
from the county of Lawrence, Miss., named Albert
Johnson and Wesley Russell, were found on the
:21th ult., about one mile from Ilolmesville, Pike
county,on the Monticello road, greatly suffering
from spasm and convulsions. They were travelling
from Lawrence county, with two negroes whom they
were running into Louisiana. Medical aid was
soon obtained, but one of the men (Johnson.) died;
the other was soon pronounced out of danger. It
seems that they had been poisoned, a bol tic of whis
key, from which they had freely drank, being found
to contain a deposit of stryehine. The negroes are
now lying in the Ilolmesville jail under suspicion of
the murder, and every effort is being made to ferret
out the true facts of the case.
Convicted.— The Superior Court of Gordon Coun
ty was occupied four days in the trial of Fiunkmn
CfKTis, indicted for murder, when the jury return
ed a verdict of involuntary man slaughter, with an
unlawful weapon. The Calhoun Statesman says:
This case excited intense interest—a youth
near this place had been suddenly killed by anoth
er, who on his trial was surrounded by his afflicted
parents and sympathizing family connexions. To
see two youthful brothers on trial for their life, was
calculated to enlist the sympathies of the commu
nity in their behalf; while the sympathies of oth
ers, were enlisted in behalf of the family, who had
been berieved. The trial of W.M. Cl nris was post
poned.
Da iu so Attempt at Robbery in Co limi: us.—
The Columbus Sun, of the 13th instant, reports that
an attempt was made on Wednesday night to rob
two iron safes, in the store of Messrs. L. B Duck
&. Co., by blowing them open with gunpowder.
One of the safes whs literally blown to pieces; the
ceiling was also broken overhead, either by the
concussion or the flying fragments. The money iu
if. however, {gold to a considerable amount, was left
untouched; but the papers it contained were just
beginning to take fire, when the police arrived and
and stayed proceedings. The thieves affected their
Outrage ok Americas Citizens. —The New
York Ifri aid of the 9th inst. publishes a letter ad
dressed by Mr. Hugh R. O'Neil, dated at Cuballo-
Cociia, in Peru, to Mr. John Boyle, chief engineer
of the Amazon river exploring steamers, relative to
tin- late murder and robbery of six American travel
ler-at Tabatinga. The Americans, journeying from
Tingo Maria, were met in the river below Tabatin
ga by a party of Brazilian soldiers and Indians, and
shot and stabbed in a cruel manner. Their effects
were afterwards carried away by the troops. Mr.
Boyle has arrived in New York, and confirms the
story of Mr. O’Neil. The officer and men who
were engaged in the massacre were, when lie left,
in prison at Bara de Rio Nigro, awaiting a removal
to Rio Janeiro for trial, if demanded by our govern
ment.
The American Convention which assembled in
Tallahassee, Fla., on the 2d inst.. nominated the
Hon. David S. W acker of Tallahassee for Govern
or. and James M Baker, Esq., of Columbia county,
lor Congress.
Tired of Freedom.— The Clarkesvill e (Teun.)
Chronicle ofthe tith inst, has the following: Mr.
John S. Hart of this city received, a few' days ago,
his negro man Jo. who ran away nearly two years
ago. He was apprehended in Indiana a few miles
from Henderson. Kv., to which place he was taken
and lodged in a jail there. Joe says he has been
all over and Canada, but being a free
nigger aint the thing it is supposed by most of col
ored individuals to be. He says he became entire
ly disgusted with everything north of Mason and
Dickson, and was on his way back to his master
when he was taken up! Joe is a mighty smart nig
ger.
Transportation of Cotton.— The Houston
(Texas) Telegraph says cottou lias been brought by
wagons to that city from Fort Washita, in the
Chock taw Nation, twenty-five miles north of Red
River, a distance of four hundred miles.
Arrival of the Steamer Isabel. —The Isabel
brings news from Havana to the 10th inst. There
has been a meeting of the principal merchants of
that city to devise some mean* of alleviating thfe
tightness now felt in our money market. They have
unanimously recommended the introduction of
American coin at ita true value.
Sad Catastrophe at Morale. —Mr. Alfred G.
Koss, Quartermaster of the Irish Volunteer Regi
ment of Mobile, having spent last Monday on the
Camp Ground, returned to the city much fatigued
and it is supposed fell asleep on the window sill of
his room, as he was percipiiated to the ground and
killed. Mr. Ross was much beloved in Mobile. He
was an Alderman of the Second Ward.
Edwin Forest.— lt is reported that Mr. Edwin
Forest is about to marry Miss McM a kin, daughter
of the proprietor of the “ Saturday Courier, Phil
adelphia. This seems very unlikely, however, as
presume it u. be absolutely necessary '-to be nfi
with the old love before be takes on with the new.
Canadian Import incudes.
Thai part of the American continent over which
stagnation aud the British lion hold an equal sway;
that dreary region where priests and ighorance walk
side,by side : where a babel of tongues is hertrd and
whole IfizuH-ss, stupidity and lack of common in
gentt.ty are ever seen ; that place where feudalism
is & liable ; where French peasants, in their
miserable patois talk of their lords ; where Irishmen
revel'in all their native thriftlet-siiesfc ai d poverty ;
that portion of the world where Rip, Van Winkle
might have awakened from his long sleep and found
no change ; that country, in tine, called Cuuada,
has come before our notice by reason of the libel
lous spirit displayed by the obscure individuals who
eke out a wretched existence by editing newspapers
in aToc&Bty where readers are to bo counted l>y
units, and where a public writer is rattier a pan
derer to the vilest prejudice than an appealer to
general intelligence.
The Montreal Advertiser of the 31st uit., being
wrathy at the dismissal of Mr. Ckampton by the
Uuited States government, does not point cut the
faults of the act, but falls to slandering the Ameri
can people in this wise :
One thing only prevents a war with England, one
only stays a civil war in Kansas. The American
eagle is a half breed between the carrion vulture
anti a dunghill rooster. lie lucks the courage ne
cessary for fair combat,, and he crows the loudest
when furthest from liis enemy. The men of tin*
Revolution are dead ; their inferior children of 1812
are in their dotage; the preseut generation, raised
on hot cakes and sweet tixins, and stimulated with
tobacco juice, is all taik and no cider, us destitute
of the stamina ou which courage is founded as its
mothers are of flesh. Look at the women.-—charm
ing at sixteen, faded at twenty, toothless nt twenty
live, hideous at thirty, dividing their time between
their rocking chairs and their beds, incapable of ex
ertion, incompetent to exercise, ever ailing, listless,
lazy, straight up and down, like an old fashioned
clothespin, making up the deficiency of their deve
lopments with whalebone, cotton wild bran—are
these the things to suckle heroes ? The race has de
teriorated, aud is dwindling uway ; and but for the
eonstaut introduction of new and healthy blood
from immigration, would disappear in a century.
The moral deficiencies of the people are equal to
t lie physical; the boys slang each other but never
light: the men assassinate, but never come to
blows ; they talk terrible tilings in public, meetings,
and confine their terrible doings to a concealed shot
or a sudden slab at an unprepared enemy. Minis
ters or the Gospel advise bloodshed, and take up
subscriptions for rifles ; everything necessary for a
combat is sent to the scene of contention but pluck,
the men are white- livered, uml afraid of each other;
and if one party advances, the other runs away;
houses are plundered and burned, aud unarmed peo
ple butchered; if the assaulted pick up courage and
advance again, the assailants ruu in their turn and
like scenes follow their footsteps.
Was ever the like read before! The American
eagle declared be of illegitimate birth ! That glo
rious bird which is continually extending its flight
over new regions and spreading its protecting wing
over the oppressed of all the world, and willing to
shield even Canada from ruin, is treated with in
sult by this rude personage. The bird of Jove
should descend and pluck out tiie eyes of his poor
ttaducer. And then our ladies declared to be “hid
eous at thirty,” and “straight up and down, like an
old-fashioned clothes-pin, making lip the deficiency
of their developments with whale-bone, cotton and
bran.” If the eagle should spare the eyes of the
foul writer, the ladies should tear them out. Docs he
mean to insinuate that he has exumined our belles
to learn whether they are made up of artificials or
of real flesh mid blood, or does he publish his coarse
aspersions on mere hearsay. ? Because the stars
aud stripes floated over the United States, does
that fact tend to make the ladies less healthful than
those in British America ; or by what philosophy
does he maintain that the one is subject to infirmi
ties which the other escapes. Our ladies may not
have the rude health and robust frames of English
country lasses, but they can certainly vie belli
physically and intellectually with any Canadian
dames.
The assertion, that the men of this country have
not the courage of their forefathers has yet to be
proved. Canadians have never given any proof of
possessing that pluck of which this writer boasts,
and the chief reason why such a fellow has no brave
American ancestors to speak of is owing to the Ca
nadians in the days of the War of Independence
having thought more of their safety than their honor.
Ever submissive, nay almost truckling to their
proud English masters, they have sunk so low that
now they .are only notorious lor the ease with which
they consort with runaway slaves. The discontent
ed negro runs to Canada ns naturally as a rabbit
runs into a burrow, and finds proper associates there.
Not content with calumniating the American eagle,
and the men and women of the Union, the writer
depreciates our army and navy:
We do not think there is much occasion to be
afraid of them, whether there be war or peace. A
contest in which there arc more hard knocks to be
got than plunder is exactly the one in which our de
generate cousins have the least desire to engage.—
Let them hold Kansas meetings and Sumner meet
ings, and Crumpton indignation meetings if they
please; talk is their peculiar vocation, a national
institution, and one of the most innocent. With a
population which, eager and ready to invade the
rights and property of others, is without the courage
to protect its own ; with an army made up of the
congregated scoundrels of all nations, ami a licet
manned feebly, as it is, with such a set of riff-raff,
that while one half of the crews are in irons, guard
boats, while in harbor, have to watch day and night,
to prevent the desertion of the others, and the ser
vice so unpopular that a single steamer lias taken
mouths after it was commissioned to obtain a crew
—there is no more to be dreaded from war vapor
ing, or the reality of if from the United States,
than from similar gasconade, or actual action, on
the part of his Serene Majesty, the Emperor of
Timbuctoo.
It is simply ridiculous, and should be treated like
tiny other burlesque.
“The congregated scoundrels of all nations,”
were precisely the material from which England
sought to gather her Foreign Legion, but it is cer
tainly not a true description of our army ; and as for
our navy bis statement bears falsehood on the face
of it. To use the writer's own words, he “is simply
ridiculous, and should be treated like any other
burlesque.”
Engle Col toil Gin.
We had the pleasure of examining a day or two
since one of these Gins at the office of D’Antignac,
Evans & Co., of this city, and tuke pleasure in
inviting the attention of the Planters to it. It has
an iron frame, and is altogether the finest looking
Cotton Gin we have ever seen. Indeed, it appears
to be a most complete and perfect machine. As to
its capacity for speed and making fine cotton, of
course we cannot judge, ns it has not yet been put
in operation ; although the proprietors produce satis
factory testimonials as to both, from two well
known and highly respectable Georgia Planters—
A. Pope, Jr., of Washington, and Ge<>. Jones, of
Savannah. We make an extract from the manu
facturer’s circular :
The Proprietors of the Eagle Cotton-Gin Manu
factory, at Bridgewater, Mass., furnish Saw Cotton-
Gins of every description, adapted to every variety
of cotton, and warranted superior in every respect
Power-Gins, of from 25 to 80 or 100 Saws each,
for horse, steam or water power —will turn out from
two to ten bales per day of clear cotton, of 450 lbs.
each.
I land-Gins, of from 10 to 20 Saws each, so con
structed as to be driven by cranks upon the Saw-
Cylinder shaft, or at a much greater speed by an
extra driving pulley—will clear from 150 to .‘2OO lbs.
per day.
These Cotton-Gins combine all the late improve
ments in machinery, and are warranted of the best
materials and workmanship.
A Medal was awarded to the Eagle Cotton-Gin
at the World’s Fair, at London, and by the Agri-
Horticultural Society ut India.
The Eagle Gins are manufactured by Hyde,
Bat i s & Co., Bridgewater, Massachusetts. See
Advertisement.
Sumner a Pl voarist. —The Northern journals of
Mr. Sum ne it’s peculiar stripe of politics have been
quite lavish in their praise of that speech. They
have pronounced it Demosthenic, &c., and the Buf
falo Republic takes occasion to show that in this
respect they are not far out of the way. It quotes
Demosthenes’ great oration on the crown :
“It cannot be that you have acted wrong in en
countering danger bravely for the liberty and safe
ty of all Greece. No ! by the generous souls who
were exposed at Marathon! By those who stood
arrayed at Platen! By those who encountered the
Persian fleet at Salamis, who fought at Artemisium !
By all those illustrious sons of Athens whose re
mains lie deposited iu the public monuments! —
* * * What belongs to gallant men they nil per
formed—their success was such as Providence dis
penses to each.”
The following is from Senator Sumner’s speech :
“But it cannot be that she acts wrong for herself
1 and children, when in this cause she thus encoun-
I ters reproach, No! by the generous sonls who
I were exposed at Lexington—by those who stood ar
rayed at Bunker Ilili—-by the many from her bo
som who, on all the fields of the first great struggle,
lent their vigorous arras to the great cause of all—
by the children she lias borne, whose names alone
» re national trophies, is Massachusetts now vowed
irrevocably to this work. What belongs to the faith
ful servant she will do in all things, and Providence
shall determine the result.’’
Rev. 11. W Beecher’s Church in Danger.—A
rumor was current in Brooklyn, X. Y., on Friday
and Saturday last, that an attack would be made on
Dr. Beecher’s Church, on Sunday evening. Pre
cautionary measures were taken,however, the May
or, Chief of Police, and a large force were present,
but everything passed off quietly, although a large
number of suspicious looking characters were seen
lurking in and about the Church, which was crowd
ed to excess.
Mr. Burton, the popular comedian, has closed
his theatre in Chamber.s-street, New York, and pur
chased tlie theatre on Broadway known as “Laura
Keene s Varieties,” and will take possession on
September Ist. The papers were signed on Satur
day evening. It is understood that he has only pur
chased the building, and has twenty-one years loase
of the ground, with privilege of renewal at an annu
al rent of SIG,OQO !
The Dismissal of the English Consuls and
Minister.— The New York Journal of Commerce
opeaking of the probability of the dismissal of Mr-
Dallas, by the English government, says :
The retiring British officials left behind them posi
tive statements iu regard to the course which the
British Government will pursue in reference to
their dismissal, which we suppose is the real cause
of ail the present uneasiness. They stated, it is said,
that Mr. Dallas would be immediately dismissed,
and diplomatic intercourse with the United States,
suspended. This may be their opinion, but we
doubt if they are in the best position to judge of the
course required by the British national honor. Those
Englishmen in business here, whom we have ever
found best informed in relation to the sentiments
of the British people, do not believe that the Ame
rican Minister will be dismissed, or that any hos
tile attitude will be assumed towards this govern
ment.
The Asia, which sails from Liverpool, on the 11th
June, will bring out the comment of the English
press on the affair.
A Bad Witness.—The witness who went North
and made the statement that he saw Mr. Kzirr
standing near, during the Sum>* k * u,eal J t ’ a
pi-toJ trader his coat, fetha* noticed by the Provi
denee <R. I.) Post:
»rt ii r Unutiurr who makes Use statement is an
villain, altogether .too well
known in U.i.city to need a a extended notice from
We expect to hear ol him next as ‘‘Lieuten
ant Colonel ' Bunting. direct from Kausas, where
he was an eyo witness of the “burning of Law
rence I *
The brig Bremer, which cleared from New’ lurk
on Saturday for St. Thomas, has been seized on sus
picion of being a slaver. She was found to be fitted
up und loaded as vessels engaged in the slave traffic
usually are.
Mr, Fillmore’# Acceptance*
It affords us sincere pleasure to lay before our
readers the subjoined letter of Air. Fillmore, ac
cepting the nomination of the American Party for
President. It is a high-toned, conservative and pa
triotic letter, evincing throughout an earnest and
sincere devotion to the Constitution and Union,and
to the- great interests of the country—the whole
country. We desire no higher or better guarantee,
than his pledge to administer the government es he
did during his former administration. Then he gave
peace and quiet to the nation, and if elected, he wil
agaju dy the ?ame thing. This letter will secure to
him thousands of votes from the conservative men
of all parties.
Philadelphia, Feb, 2G, 1856.
Sin :—The National Convention of the American
party, which has just closed its session in this city,
i: is unanimously chosen you as their candidate lor
the PresidencyV>f the United States in the election
to be held in November next. It has associated
with you Andrew Jackson Donclson, Esq., of
Tennessee, as the candidate for tlu* Vice Prosi
deucy.
The convention has charged the undersigned with
the agreeable duty of Communicating the proceed
ings to you, and of asking your acceptance of a
nomination which will receive not only tho cordial
support of the great national party in whose name
it is made, but the approbation also of large num
bers of enlightened friends of the Constitution and
the Union, who will rejoice in the opportunity
to testify their grateful appreciation of your faith
ful service in the past, and their confidence in
your experience ami integrity for the guidance of
the future.
The undersigred take advantage of this occasion
to tender to you the expression of their own gratifi
cation in the proceedings of the convention, and to
assure you of the high consideration iu which they
are, yours, & c..
Alexander H. 11. Stuart,
Andrew Stewart,
Ekastls Brooks,
E. B. Bartlett,
William J. Eamks,
Ephraim Marsh,
Committee, &o.
To the lion. Millard Fillmore.
Paris, May 21,1850.
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter, informing me that the Na
tional Convention of the American party, which has
just closed its session at Philadelphia, had unani
mously presented my name for the Presidency of
the United States, and associated with it that of An
drew Jackson Donelson for tho Vice Presidency.—
This unexpected communication met me at Venice,
on my return from Italy, and the duplicate, mailed
thirteen days later, was received on my arrival in
ibis city last evening.
This must account for my apparent neglect in
giving a more prompt reply.
You will pardon me for saying that, when my ad
ministration closed in 1.853, i considered my politi
cal life as a public manat an end, and thenceforth
1 was only anxious to discharge uay duty as a pri
vate citizen. Hence 1 have taken no active part
iu politics, but.l have by no means been an indiffer
ent spectator of passing events, nor have I hesitated
to express my opinion on all political subjects when
naked, nor to give my vote and private influence for
those men and measures 1 thought best calculated
to promote the prosperity and glory of our common
country. Beyond this 1 have deemed it improper
l'or me to interfere.
But this unsolicited and unexpected nomination
lias in posed upon me a new duty, from which 1
cannot shrink; and therefore approving, na 1 do,
the general objects of the party which has honored
me with its confidence, 1 cheerfully accept its nomi
nation, without waiting to inquire of its prospects
of success or defeat. It issullicint forme to know
that by so doing I yield to the wishes of a large por
tion of my fellow-citizens in every part ot the Union,
who, like myself, are sincerely anxious to see the
administration of our government restored to that
original simplicity and purity which marked the
first years of its existence, and, if possible, to quiet
that alarming sectional agitation which, while it do
lights the monarchist of Europe, causes every true
friend of our own country to mourn.
Having the experience of past service iu the ad
ministration of the Government 1 may be permit
ted to refer to that ns the exponent of the future,
and to say, should the choice of the Convention
be sanctioned by the people, L shall, with the same
scrupulous regard for the rights of every section of
the Union which then influenced my conduct, endoa
vor to perform every duty confided by the Consti
tution and laws to the Executive.
As the proceedings of the Convention have mark
ed a new era in the history of the country, by briug
inga new politicaloi ganizaX ion into the approach
ing Presidential canvass, 1 take occasion to rcafirm
my full confidence in the patriotic purposes of that
organization, which I regard as springing out of
public necessity, forced upon the country, to a large
extent, by unfortunate sectional divisions, and the
dangerous tendency of those divisions towards dis
union. It alone, in my opinion, of all the political
agencies now existing, is possessed of power to si
lence this violent and disastrous agitation, and to re
store harmony, by its own example of moderation
and forbearance. It has a claim, therefore, in my
judgment, upon every earnest friend of the integri
ty of the Union.
* So estimating this party, both in its present posi
tion and future destiny, 1 freely adopt its great lead
ing principles as announced in the recent declara
tion of the National Council at Philadelphia, a copy
of which you were so kind as to enclose me, hold
ing them to be just and liberal to every true in
terest of the country, and wisely adapted to the
establishment and support of an enlightened, safe
and effective American policy, in full accord with
the ideas and hopes of the fathers of our Republic.
1 expect shortly to sail for America, and, with
the blessings of Divine Providence, hope soon to
tread my native soil. My opportunity of comparing
niv own country and the condition of her people
with those of Europe, has only seemed to increase
my admiration and love of our blessed land of liber
ty. And I shall return to it without even a desire
ever to cross the Atlantic again.
1 beg of you, gentlemen, to accept my thanks for
the very flattering manner in which you have been
pleased to communicate the result of the action of
that enlightened and patriotic body of men who
composed the late convention, and to be assured
that I am, with profound respect and esteem, your
friend and fellow-citizen,
Miij.aki> Fillmore.
Messrs. Alexander 11. 11. Stuart, Andrew Stewart,
. Erastus llrooks, E. B. Bartlett, Win. J. Eames,
Ephraim Marsh, Committee.
Life in New Orleans. —Mr. Scully, late Clerk
of the First District Court, New Orleans, was ar
rested last week in that city, charged with carrying
concealed weapons, and held to bail. Gen. Lewis,
the Mayor, was examined as a witness for the de
fence, and stated that during the lute election ex
citement several citizens had come to him and
asked permission to carry arms, lie told them
they might carry them openly. His own private
opinion was that any man who would have a chance
at all of protecting his life, should be armed for the
last few days. The True Delta of the 7th inst., in
commenting on the above ease, gives the following
startling picture of the state of society in New
Orleans:
In any well regulated society, where the laws are
faithfully executed, where person and property are
protected, the carrying of concealed weapons is a
dastardly act, ar.d should be punished, as it is made
punishable by the statutes of this State. When,
however, society has resolved itself into chaos—
when all law and order are at an end—when bullies
and stereotyped assassins walk the streets unmo
lested, as is and has been the case in this city for
the last eighteen months, matters assume anew
phase, and it behooves every man whose life is
worth anything to himself or his family, to be in a
position to defend himself. Such is the case ut pres
ent in New Orleans, and we will venture to assert,
without the fear of contradiction by any decent
man whose Word is worth anything, that there iH not
one man iu ten iu this city, ut this moment, who oc
cupies any prominent position (we leave out the
assassins who are always armed) who does not car
ry about his person some concealed weapon of de
fence. This fact is too notorious to admit of doubt
or cavil. Well, the matter has come to this—that
any man who muy become objectionable to the bul
lies who at present terrorize over the authorities,
and actually govern this city, must make up his
mind to run the risk of being mulcted in the nice
little sum of $250 a day for carrying concealed
weapons, or bo every moment of his life at the mer
cy of assassins, without the means of defending
himself.
We would suggest to all parties who have any
thing at stake in the community, and who may con
ceive themselves an object of aversion to the bullies
who now govern the city, to go armed to the teeth
—to carry their arms openly, that all may see
them, and above all, to use them on the right
parties. There must be an end to this state of af
fairs, or society may as well be at once declared dis
solved.
Pierce Having his Revenge on Old Buck’s
Phi ends. —One of the chief supporters of Mr.
Pierce in the Baltimore Convention, says the
Patriot , was V. I). Parris, of Maine ; for his ser
vices he was, after the inauguration, rewarded with
the special agency of the Postoflice Department for
New England. He was recently in Washington, on
hLs way to Cincinnati, as a delegate. The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Herald says
he called on the Postmaster General and Presi
dent, and, in a conversation respecting the Con
vention, stated to them candidly that his vote
would be given to Mr. Buchanan. Soon after his
return to his hotel he received the following charac
teristic note :
Post Office Department, t
May 20, J Hod. $
Sir : I am directed by the Postmaster General to
inform you that your services as oflicial agent of
this department are no longer required, and that you
will deliver into the hands of the Postmaster at
Portland, Maine, the mail keys, papers relating
to depredation cases, and all other papers ap
pertaining to your office, now in your possession.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
lloratio King,
First Aess’t. Postmaster General.
Hon. V. D. Parris.
“In the Name ok the Prophet-Figs.”—WitSi
out making any great pretensions to proficiency in
horticulture or pomology, we may be permitted
to state that we yesterday gathered from a tree in
our office yard, two Figs of the kind known as Ali
cante, measuring respectively 8 and 8£ inches in
circumference, and weighing together, half a pound
an ounce. The trees were planted and
have bfcfcn tended by our zealous horticultural friend,
Joh n Hill, and to him rightly belongs all the glory
of producing these mammoth specimens.
Later from Venezuela. —The steamship Ten
nessee arrived in New York on the evening of the
Ilitli, with news from Venezuela to the Ist, and ad
vices from St. Thomas and Porto Rico to the
6th instant. At the latlter place there was a
great deal of sickness in May. Captain Snow
hall, of the brig Delta, died on the XJ4th, and
Henke Jackson, one of the seamen, on the 28th,
both of black vomit; the mate and a seamen
named Tobi as Dalling, also belonging to the Delta,
had been sick, but were recovering: another sea
man, a Chilian, named Joe, was taken ashore sick
on the 29th. Three of the crew of the brig Marshal
Ney were on the sick list, and Capt. Parsons, of the
brig Arcadia, was also sick. The British bark Ju
liet Krskine, of Cork, had lost her captain and first
officer, and had been waiting three weeks for suita
ble men to supply their places. Small pox also pre
vailed to some extent. Cholera, however, had al
most disappeared from Porto Rica. Some severe
cases occurred lately at Caracas. Venezuela, gen
erally speaking, was very prosperous.
Democratic Ratification Meeting in New
York.— There was a large gathering of Democrats
in the Park, New York, on Wednesday evening to
ratify the nomination of Messrs. Buchanan and
Brfxkenkidoe. Lorenzo B. Shepard was the
Chairman. Judge Douglas, Gen. John E. Ward,
of Georgiu, Mr. Comj, of Gu., and lion. T. Butler
King, of Ga., made speeches.
Buchanan Repudiated.— The Buffalo Republic ,
a leading organ of the Radicul Democracy in tUs
Btate, repudiates Buchanan. It concludes a long
article as follow s :
“But we have neither leisure nor space to oursue
this subject to day. Enough, that we now' declare
that, under no circumstances (although always act
ing with the Democratic organization, and ardently
attached to it by a life long association) can we
support the nominees of the Cincinnati Conven
tion, u()ou the platform which that body has adop
ted.'’
Life in Kansan*
The most extraordinary place in the world is un
doubtedly Kansas. There deeds of unheard of
valor are daily performed, that throw the exploits of
ancient warriors entirely into the shfidc. Cities are
levelled with the dust , many a gallant soul sinks
to the earth, after several hours hard fighting, and
yields liis breath ; others are panting for glory, and
rushing on to take part in the fray; ladies, forget
ing their tender nerves, are thinking only of their
ieA olutionary sites, and loading their husbands’ and
their brothers* rifles, or riding across tho country
with kegs of gunpowder concealed about their pri -
sons : the very children are martially in ninu
While we are mourning over the fearful sacrifice of
life and the terrible destruction of property, another
despatch comes to hand, which informs us that tho
city which was destroyed, is almost unharmed ; that
the heap of dead men have picked themselves up
und walked away ; that the ladies are attending
balls dedicated to Madame Terpsicore, instead
of Monsieur M ars, and that the childrenaro literally
iu arms.
\\ e feel relieved for an hour or two, when sud
denly another despatch is received, detailing an
other battle: accounts pro-slavery and anti-slavery
differ materially as to the number killed on either
side, and as to the final result; but still it appears
evident that there has been a sanguinary light.
Sheriff Jones, who has been killed and resuscitated
times and again during the last three months, has
obligingly consented to lead the pro-slavery troops,
and, as might be expected from his antecedents, has
again found a gory bed. Several of tho prisoners
have been summarily hung. This is war with a veil
gcance, at last we almost are ready to say, when
another despatch acquaints us, that the great bat
tle was only a small fight, and that but two or thri o
were killed. We yet live in hopes of learning that
the name of those two or three killed was Fhcenix,
and that the gory bed which Sheriff Jones found,
has been transformed into a feather bed.
Really, these Kansas despatches are becoming
discreditable. Is veracity dead that tlu* truth ran
never be spoken there. The best cause in the world
would be damaged by such a reckless course. We
would suggest that truth should be a sine qua von
with Kansas reporters ut least from the South. So
many conflicting statements are now published that
we know not if we are reading ‘‘Baron Munchau
sen'' or American history.
iiaiiNiH Mailer*.
J Alter of President. Pierce to Pol. Sumner.
The Kansas Herald Extra rtf the 3d of June con
tains the following copy of n telegraphic despatch
from the President to Col. Sumner, of the U. 8.
Army. The document was furnished for publication
by J. B. Donaldson, IT. S. Marshal:
Washington, May 23,185 ii.
To Col. K. V. Sumner , Port h'arenicoi th .*
I have just sent by telegraph to Gov. Shannon n
despatch, of which tin* following is a copy
“Since my telegraph of this morning was sent the
Secretary of War has laid before me Col. Sumner’s
letter to you of the Pith inst. This suggestion
strikes me as wise and prudent, and 1 hope that be
fore this reaches you decisive measures will have
been taken to have the process in the hands of the
Marshal quietly executed.
“My knowledge of facts is imperfect ; but with
the force of Col. Sumner at hand, l perceive no oc
casion for the posse, armed or unarmed, which the
Marshal is said to have assembled at Leeomptou.—
Tho instructions issued to yourself and Col. Sunnier
during your last visit to this city must be ofticicntly
executed. Suflicient power was committed to you
and you must use it.
“ Obedience to the laws and consequent security*
of the citizens of Kansas are primary objects. Von
must repress lawless violence in the Territory iu
whatever form it may manifest itself.”
Franklin Pikiick.
E. V. Sumner, Colonel First Cavalry.
Another Call to /he Missourians.
The Lexington (Mo.) Express of the 3d instant,
contains the following despatch, “ handed to it for
publication by several responsible gentlemen
Westport, June 2, 2850.
Gentlemen: A messenger, reliable and trustwor
thy, has just arrived from Cant. Pate, of the Law
rence Shaip shooters, stating that lie is in great dan
ger and surrounded. He has several prisoners
John Donaldson has been killed. Foreman and
four others are taken prisoners by tin* Abolitionists,
and before this they are probably murdered. Whit
Held starts to-night for Hickory Point, the place of
the last massacre, to aid our mm or die.
Respectfully,
C. E. Kearney,
Henry F. Hereford
A. S. Johnson.,
*l. Buford.
To Col. Anderson, Capts. Shelby, Trigg' Walton,
Sawyer, and E. Windsor.
i- Mr. Evkrettiv —We paid, says the Richmond
y Despatch , what we conceived a well deserved tri
butc to Hon. Edward Enekett for his refusal to
participate in the Boston meeting of sympathy with
e Mr. Sumner. The public has been since apprised
that the refusal was not based on any disnpproba
tion of the objects of the meeting. Most sincerely
o do we regret to see the following, which we find
k r in the New York Herald, credited to the Boston
® Allas :
“Several of our citizens being desirous of expres.*-
c ing their unqualified approbation of the late spchch
of the Hon. ('harh's Simmer, in a substantial testi
)i- moniul, circulated the following document for signs -
ii tures yesterday, in this city, and in Worcester, at
,f the Convention:
o “Being desirous of expressing to the Hon. Hilaries
il Simmer, in some permanent and appropriate form,
r our admiration of his spotless public and private
character, of our lively gratitude for his dauntless
courage in the defence of freedom on the floor ot
[. Congress, and especially of our unoualilied npptoha
«’ tion of his speech in behalf of free Kansas, delivered*
in the Semite on the 120th May last—a speech char
acterized by comprehensive knowledge of the su ti
le jeet, by logical acuteness, and by Spartan intrepid!
ty in its chastisement of iniquity, for which lie has
well nigh lost his life, at the brutal and cowardly
A hands of a creature for which, thanks to the rarity
i, of their appearance, the English longue has, as yet,
no appropriate name, we deem il alike a privilege
and an honor to participate in ottering lum some,
suitable token of our sentiments. For this purpose
il we subscribe the several sums set opposite our
u names.
Among the signatures to this document are those
15 of Josiah Quincy, Sen., Henry W. Longfellow, F.
e D. Huntington, Jared Sparks, R. II Dane, Jr.,
e Alexander 11. Rice, Edward Everet.', George Bliss,
Cliarks Hudson, Win. Brigham, J. '/. Goodrich,
Curli* Pierce, and about eighty others.
v Stabbing Affray.—A quarrel took place yester
day afternoon between Ai.i.kn Dieiii. and Holland
e Rowe, in the house of the latter, on Washington st.
r Diehl assaulted Rowe, when the latter stabbed hi <
J aggressor iu seven places—fom of the wounds being
, in the back and the others in the head, shoulderand
- wrist. The wounds are thought not to be serious
* Rowe was arrested, but his examination was post
r poned until lids morning.
h Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.—The receipts
I of this Road, for the month of May, is as follows
Wasli n Total fur
» Main Klein. Branch. both roail
1 For Passengers— $02,178.45 :i1,:577.7-1 |m
I For Freight 375,287.79 10.471 385,7*. *O6
* $347,460.24 $11,852.0! $479,318.25.
This result, compared with that ol the correspond
' ing month of last year, shows a gain in favor of tho
i past month of $85,861.00 on the main stem, and
- $7 ,(»10.56 on the Washington brunch—making a
> total gain of $03,502.1 f».
] The following will show the exact receipts during
| the month of May last year, as compared with those
of the same month this year .-
* Years. Main Stem. Wash’n Branch. Total
•1850 437,100 21 41,852 0J 479,31 s 25.
* 1855 .351,004.01 34,211.45 385,816 19
* 85,861.60 7,041)50 93,502.10.
i
; Extensive Conflagration near New Oil
f leans —Several Steamboat* /turned. —The New
Orleans Delta of the 10th inst. says :
The alarm of fire which was pealed out so loud and
furious last night, at half-past eleven o’clock, was
i occasioned by the burning steamboats which were
lying across the river at Algiers. As there was no
’ communication with the other side up to the hour
when we were obliged to report, we cannot, posi
tively name the boats, the loss, or the amount of in
i alliance.
The following bouts, we believe, are burned : Tho
“Frank Lyon,” worth about $30,000 —the “D. it.
1 Stacey,’’ valued at $lB4lO0 — he “A. Clark,” SB,OOO
—the “New Latona,” “Mary Bess” and “Music,’’
, and two or three others. We understand that the
Merchants’ Insurance Company is considerably in
terested. The total loss is calculated at not less than
- $250,000.
, Brunswick Stock in the N. Y. Market.—The
New York Evening Post, in its report of last Satur
day’s Stock market, says:
“The novelty of the morning was the reappear
ance of the stock of Brunswick City Company of
Georgia, of which five hundred shares were sold at
’ 7|, it having been previously floating privately and
heavily under 0 percent. New parties have come
into the Company who are also connected with the
Brunswick and Florida Railroad, now in process of
construction through the State of Georgia to con
nect the Gulf with the Atlantic, and to save a long
and risky voyage round Florida by sea.
“The Stock of the Brunswick City Company,
00,000 shares, at a par value of SIOOO, is now selling
for7J.*’
Col. Charles F. M. Garni it of Virginia, has
been tendered by the Emperor of Brazil the ap
pointment of Chief Engineer of a great Nation
al Railway, to be constructed from Rio, to some
point several hundred miles in the interior of the Em
pire .
A Negro Killed.— I The.Weturnpka (Ala.) Spec
talor of the 10th inst. says : —A few days since Jno.
L. Jordan, living a few miles east of this place, shot
a negro man belonging to him under the following
circumstances : The negro was rushing towards
Mr. Jordan with a hoe, Mr. Jordan shot him in the
leg to disable him, thinking the wound was a slight
one, went off for a physician. When he returned
the negro had bled to death.
A Model Farmer but not a Model Man.—The
French Emperor has purchased the ancient domain
of Fouilleuse, between St. Cloud and Mont Vale
rein, where he intends to establish a grand model
farm. He proposes to collect specimens of the best
agricultural implements, and the most perfect races
of all varieties of cattle.
Later from Havana.—The steamship <*uuker
City arrived in Mobile, on Monday, with dates from
Havanatothe 17lhinst. The city continued healthy ,
and business very dull, owing to the stringency of
the money market.
The U. S. steam frigate Merrimac, Captain 1 f.x-
I dergast, was left at Havana to sail on the Bth foi
Key West, where she would undergo some lepaiis
previous to leaving for Southampton, Eng nw , on
the Ist J uly.
ARCH,.,SHOP Huohes, tire Roman Catholic Pre
late, was to lecture at the Academy of Mns.e, New
York on the 12th inst., in behalf of the Church of
the Immaculate Conception in that city. The sub
jc«t was not a very pious one being the Life and
Times of Daniel O'Connell.
Black Incendiaries.—The Dahlonega Afoun
lain Signal of the 7th inst., says tlmt four negroes,
two tire property of Mr. Julian and two the propet -
ty of Mr. Jacob Mabt.n, have been committed to
the jail of Lumpkin county for the offence of burn
ing the store bouse of Messrs. Sanford A Co.
Counterfeits in New Jersey.-Two men and
a woman were arrested in South Camden, N. J .
the lUth inst., on a charge of counterfeiting b
notes. They were committed to jail. It >»
unfinished notes were found, to the amount o ? ,
000—not all, however, on New Jersey iiall *
some on tbs Banks of other States.