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January, 1G56.
; n ■ :i;i tivaTOß - » lary octavo of thirty two ps^c*,
.. .. . . •.- in the v.-ar. It contains a
. . / a ■ r amount of ravioli* matter than any Ajrri-
VALUA :i !. ORIGINAL CON IHI ACTIONS
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cii- I. " i \r r •». r.mn, Ten Dollars.
A. W »l. JONES, \uirn«ta, C*«.
' p Her --ns act a U-•».:*. and obtain Sub*
■' "»• ••* '• 1 • "I - M Mi- ;-a;x‘r at Cinh prio.-,.
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I i U > 1.1 HEAL E.STATK in
«ii W.-n *.,n. W.-.ric.n >unlv. Ga. eniiM-ting
ot . i«M., .V H i • , ao.J Lot 1.1 about live acres of
in- i A : h. a.m:.- Shop.ml Lot. T.h.L, Machine.
L'o.nrr *ii*! ,•!! h, -i t j.;» tJ.er with ah his fl»i*h«d
El -lo ui’teesi i.. t a-?i»t. tiion .an.l dollar* worth of
• ;nr ■ - ,a •• .«• ~.!f. ■i 1 ii;v ited
• ’ tiEOHt.E E l/osilViH
FOB •
| NOv\ off. . LAnii tnd !;%i\i :• noa th*
• i At-I RM I one mil.' ■ mli of 1 1.,* I w. ll r. u
M « .ufactm>. IM c -nhan t D- Kali. «*.nuU. . containing
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>' 'h , |.., K Atlanta t-> 1 pp*. C.. « ‘ For fur
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TOR SALE. 0
■ OFFER ion i AR.M for . in (tui. th,.rp«- county
L lying on •I • • • I
Os Lexington, containing about nine hunted acr.
The upland U fret *nrt productive, on« hundred acres
or ti.oi-e of line t,..t! ..I, land v j miT under good f. nee,
anil in i entkeKann being undet good
t I. n..; and • . . wnt.-n-d 0.1 the premises there is a
■ t .-r .i-h dw I! - 1; MO house-:, and other lieceeiuirv
111! .1. iv.rtiin JI oil--e and Packing Screw, both
orchards
• » led. d i nit The pin. .i- healthy, and within three
mile", of E.m;,: : • , Depot. A i"<-'d bargain will be given
. In if M'M, J. OtiILN IE.
FOR SALS.
l NOW i i \\ i \ i ION,
1- «>r Jo in !<•< -•> .tli <>| (V.hunluH, (la. iu Harbour
r-" ■ . Ala . lying *>n tb* l Cbatfaliooeheo river, rmitaiii
• - i i 1 .1 i i tate of cultivation and
pbb A •"i water Gl i and Ferry acroi i the
• !;at :.i!i •rht'.-r:-. ir. 'l*in* above will bo for sale at any
•„fl ll i.l|. • , T.-nns t«> Mill pnf
m \ i i m:u* \ v i:i:!. i r
TO MEN OF TASTE AND CAPITAL.
r | I III‘. -uli riln-r, wishing i« remove t>» Southwestern
I <»ct ;i. |*r«»|>< *-- to si-11 his lan* near Cave Spring,
n V i in’s V-iIU-y. Floyd county, (la., containing 317
Hi-r*- ~ more orb- returnod Ist quality oak and hickory
mostly ol‘ soil and surlaro not t<» wo -h ; some 160 acres
*•!• .!■ • I and imd- r good tiling*' ; the remainder generally
;
power without, darning, orchards of many well selected
v. lie-lie , < • per indy of apple. , .and a huge and commodi
u ; liru k Dwelling, surrounded hy tine scenery, and
within a mile of the village, loin; noted for its educational
advantages. All who have examined the premises, con
roinblues the elements
of In oily, t riiiiiy convenit i e and healtlifulnesa to an
e\teat .-Mol,i. if ■■ \ r:. .-d in tbi country. Hut
i ome and i e for yoiw ;• !\ ~ .tod the character, location
and i\ .oai,vs of'the {dace can hardly fail to satisfy you
that it i-s a No. I article, not object to the fluctuations
oft he market For terms, apply on the premises.
W. L> COWDREY.
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VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE !
Min \Ti:i) m Ivuad. c. unty, Ala, on the road
leading from llaynevuie Ponton, ten mile, from
the l.iti, i pi,i v. Said .a; > « >iitains lbßo acres of land,
..it,*; , null r ■ .mi fe: r. . w ell ditched, and in a high
.tato i c,,:t n. The improvements comprise a good
new dwelling h'*u- o, containing four rooms ; a large two
story trained (fin Hou-e and a line Screw, recently put
up ;'e*« elleut Stahl* . and a I M il-house. The unim
proved Land Is well til . I pel i«»r quality,
'fhi plantation ha ; ad\milage « over any other in the
. < . w itii i ieh bla< iv soil,
tbe oilier fei: do hammock, H ing in tbe fork of Ash and
p.uani-r cr.u k.-« I In- prairie portion of the farm is alum
, ... ;aud> by a number of
•pi . . conv on font to the negro quar
in range for
• i.vk, and line .nith : • Ph«‘ plantation will be disposed
of privately for a division of au estate. ....
\nv nil *nna»i-»a ■ -atinp to it can be obtained bv ad
dvi - ,‘o.g me Tu lu gee. Mamu county. Ala. Those
vV I„, wrdit. !•- at it n ill plea-u-call on the Overseer.
i lios. P. OAKY, Ex r
oplil w.'m of the estate of W. L. (Vary, decease*!.
MELL’S PATENT PLOW STOCK !
r IMI E und. i r eed has invented and patented a most
I valuable IMPROVEMENT IN THE PLOW
STOCK the t’ouniy Right- for which he desires to sell.
Ho prefers to lot otaer* speak its praise, and therefore
well and f»• u y hi; nin the community in which
they ic-'.i, Ile in ght introduce many others, but. the
plow Siock w 1 >pe-<k for it.—-U whenever examined.
.1 VMES li. MKI.L.
Kicoboru. Liberty county, O '
This i«* to certify, that 1 have, with my own hands.
thoMughli tev d the newly invented Plow Stock of
Melt, Hop in point of simplicity and perfec
tion. l have n ver.seen or used Us equal In it is com
bin'd eve. c tiling Fiat I--mid wish in a Plow Stock, and
it. in my opinion, i* t!'.e cheapest ami the best that has
over been ottered to the public l speak from hn\ing
li ed It With mv own hand- I was raised to follow the
I»u»w. and tlinik that l know how one ought to run 1
would * beerfully thank auy one. who will thoroughly
try it, to point out to me one riiqp.e fault in it. It is
es-ber upon the horse and plow man than am that 1 have
ever used
The principle upon which you regulate the depth ot
the Flow, is - tuple, and \. • perA ct. as to commend
i; , uu ,-iic • and tin Stock is adapted to any kirnl
of F*. ' ilre i. is, moreover, just as light as any could
des.ro it . ' >• l would recommend to auy aud all, it
thovwDhthe best ar.ci cheapest Flow Stock, without
hesitation to gel Mr James It. Moll s.
IV:;.mi l. 11 a April lb. l> WWo
lucor.inanv with .--neral others, l. this dav, witnessed !
the iaii. iMi Jan: B M i. - Flow Stock, by Mr l>. W.
Wii- .n, and c!;eorfa*ly state that all pre sent w ere fully
sarisrted that it does every thing a- stated above. 1
w ..aid, m.ueo- . r. state that I have been using them on
confirm me in the opinion of the superiority of &r. Moll's
Plow Stock to all other* now in use
Ponthdd. (la.. April lb. itvd. THO* IV Janes.
»1* 1 ‘ .
FORMAN S IRON PLOW-STOCK.
'|Mli: mite sign 1 having purchased the patent relit
I . ■ . • -.al ly •;.id , V Flo *W U the
co.t u sK . • ...Mid. Folumbi .. l.huo !u. I*. \ Jeffer
son. \\ xsUlngton. Si men ae.d Kso.vuuff. are pa.tdjo
era tav<nit<"ii a *d ha- iH'.'ii tested to p»x»ve
that it runs more -ieadily. breaks and pulverises the soil
more thoiv- igtbv. eh gx in rvugh lan*k i> more easily
a.lyi't* d for .Jeep or shallow piowiug. holds the shares
more rirmlv. last .a.. longer, and is in the
e d. far ch* ap< r than any other sun kiu w in use. This
statement is fully an*tamed by numerous certificates in
onr p«'"« -;on from the moat practical and successful
planter* in the country. We will have pies it re
in sending a eitvular containing some «>fthase certificates
and » m re parto u.ar description of the plan, to any
person who w lid like to them. W e are w i.ling to
refer to .mv one who ha.* given this Flow a fair trial. In
the Nov No .*f'the Southern Cultivator, p. 345, the edi
tor of that work -ay “Aider giving this Plow a fair
and impart..d trial w. .*u truly *av. that we regard it as
a m. -t valuable improvement ou all common wooden
implement of the kind tn-w in use. For general efficien
cy and eonvon eucc, a* well as special adaptation to deep
iilage »<r sub-oiliug, we know of nothing that surpasses
t. while on the >c<>re of nenomy and durability, it is
aitog» u.r unrjvab'd. N plow w ith w hich we are fami
iar. L-<o w ell eaicnlated to resist the careless and des
truci.ve u-age of Plant at ton Negroes, and we doubt not
that its general inmnlutt-.m w ould be . f very great pecu
...
This Stock is adaptetl to -vx dolereat shArx's or points
cnibrao. ic everv variety which a planter will need
from the beginning to the eng of the year These shares
o be furutshed with the Stock, when deau-d ; though
j.,v | Jautation smith can make them after once seeing
' n’J.’ii' f..r conntlej. for Shop*. or tar rUuitttion*, will
t,. M>:.l on wavuWe terms- Apply »1 the Hardware
S ■■ I t HlllA-Ui'
■Us L.- wtf August*, t«*.
$lO REWARD :
STOLEN from the sub', rll or. on the night of the 4th
> .a : . .1- '.or POCKET BOOK, con
taunts some SPJ or #ls in :« : cy. and two netf* one
an,! some cents, made In James M. and \\ illiam
K Wb :<■. fayabie to me. dated *>th Jauiiarv. 185 b, due
at t" . vo mouth* : the other for £l7 50. made by A. E.
Da'uiellv, payable to J. A Slone, dated about the iXI or
December !i<V due one day after date, and .-uo small note
on mv~o.t. which 1 had pa d. and torn off the name. I
wii\ pav the above reward for the recovery of the paper*,
and a>k n • .. n ~ All nersons are hereby cautioned
Cot trade tor notes,‘and the makers not to pay
thorn, eveej t to me G !$. P ANNELLY.
February 13, 1856.
930 reward!
I> \\ %\ • f "e- li 'criher. residing in Put
\ tarnc aty ut-Me . .n August last,my Negro
Man FR WK He is about 35 years old. five feet ten in
che* fcii-h. medium vie. has a slight impediment in his
sj»oeoh. and ha* lost the sight of one eye. He was raised
in Virginia, and has been in Georgia about two years.
The above reward will be pan! for his delivery to me,
or to any iaii so that I cau get him.
it JOHN* A HARRIS
The Southern Recorder will publish till forbid, and for
ward accouat to this office for payment
S2O REWARD.
1> \N AIVAV, from ffx John u, about the 15th of
\ l.)e, e.uber, 1853, a negro man named JOHN—he
son:- < ' call* himself W ESSLEY He i* about thirty
five 'ears old. about five feet eight <t ten Inche* high, of
a yellow complexion, with some of Lis front under teeth
out and a small sear over «»ne of h;> eyes. I do not recol
,' w , .p eV o. The subaorfber pay t:.e above re
ward ir the*delivery ot said boy to me. or his confine
rn,. . v . that I may get him
, : . ... .. < >< t j? w sin* E W JOHNSON,
FUL ON HOUSE,
ATI,. A N’T.4 . tiEORiilA,
RY A. W REEVES
NTINEGAH 10 bb: White Wine and 30 bbU. Cider
VINEGAR for 8 ale bv
py EBTKB A RICHMOND
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
Cljitmidc §cntiuc(.
TO THE MEMORY OF MRS G. W. W
It ;» not it, the parting h ,tr when those we fondly love,
Have breathed to u- their la> t farewell, and wit:ged
their way above ;
Nor yet, when »r» the darksome grave we lay them to
their re *.
The hbarjM-t px-ng of sorrow rends the stricken
’Tin when v.o -ek our lonely home and meet no more
Whi. J. could the darkest cloud dispe l and every care
And When me meet around the board, or at the hour of
prayer.
T.m then the heart most feel> it> loss—the loved one is
And thus v> Idle day and r« ,nths steal on, an memory
Ti.c ' - • of departed joys, our grief i -Erred anew ;
Th* ugh Faith may own a father s hand, yet Nature will
A..-I feel how hard it in t<* -a v—‘ Ifedoeth ail things
O, muuniful waa-.ru> of llic pa.t, ye u ear our live*
Ve haunt ns in our dreams by night, and through each
The home which had like Eden’s bower, in blooming
beauty smiled,
Ye make a barren wilderness, a desert waste and
wild.
But why thus yield to fruitless grief ?—is she not happier
far,
The tainted one for whom we mourn, than we who
ling.-r her* t
to fl
watchful eye.
Saw .Lingers gathering round her path and called her
N .t long shall wo her loss deplore, for soon the hour
will come.
When we with her so fondly loved shall slumber in
the tomb;
Then let the remnant of our days be to His service
given,
Who bid our idol in the grave, lest we should fail of
Heaven.
N<.t willingly ii.- Lord afflicts, nor grieve* the m -i
I I an earth, and break the
power of sin;
H< waadea ng from our path, and sent the
chastening rod.
To turn rat* feet from error’s way, and bring us home
to God.
Shall • :• ■ - w • .!■ tgu, and waste our days in
l Ugrateful for the num.-rous gifts that Heaven in
mercy spares ;
Let faith and hope be cherished still, and brighter days
shall dawn,
And plant ofpcaci shall spring anew from seeds in
wrnrn own. A. P. C.
For the Chronicle <V Sentinel.
SOSO OF THE CAGED BIRD.
• Time was when I was free as air.”—CW/xr.
Oh ' hear me away to my native hill,
To those towering, treasured trees,
Where my song was free as the rippling stream.
And soft as the summer*breeze.
Where days passed hy as the minutes here,
When with my companions I'd roam ;
Where life was a beautiful vision of joy.
Then bear me back to my home.
The dear birds around me, so free, unconflned,
Are merrily singing their songs,
1 mimic their gladness, yet for that dear home,
My sail heart, unceasingly, longs.
Their glad notes, 1 love them, my heart’s healing halm,
I echo the sad tones of seine,
Then, quick, oh ' how soon I would leave them fore’er,
oh ! bear me away to my home.
( »h' here all my wants are attended with care,
lint f pine for my dear native hill.
Tho’ long years have passed since I sung my home lay.*,
I treasure their memory still.
The flowers are fairer, more beautiful here,
Hut my home birds are trilling their “conic.”
Then quick, loose my cage, let me breathe the free air,
And bear me away to my home.
Augu»ln, June, 1H.76. A RENE.
Aiillfird Fillmore.
M»e New Orleans Picayune gives an interesting
account of the life and career of Mr. Fillmore. “He
was born on the 7th of .Jaiumry, 181*0, at Summer
Hill. Cayuga county, New York. His father, Na
thaniel Fillmore, a former, removed in 181!) to Erie
county, where he eultivatad a small form. Owing
to the humble circumstances of his family, the early
education of Mr. Fillmore was necessarily of the
most imperfect kind, and when old enough to learn
a trad*- la* was apprenticed to u wool-carder, in the
town of his father’s residence. During the four
years thus employed he availed himself of every
opportunity of improving his mind, and supplying
tl. -defects of his early education. At the age of
nineteen he made the acquaintance of the late Judge
Wood, of Cayuga, a man of eminence in his profes
sion, who detected in the humble apprentice talents
that would qualify him for a higher station. He ac
cordingly received the young man into his office, and
offered to defray the expenses of his education; a
considerable portion of which, however, young Fill
more chose to provide for himself by keeping school
apart of the time. In 1823, commended the prac
tice of the law at Aurora, in Erie county. In 1830,
having been admitted to the Supreme Court, he re
moved to Buffalo, where he formed a partnership
with an elder member of the profession. T/.e year
before, he had been elected a member of the Legis
lature of New York, and this was the commence
ment of his political career. Being a Whig, and
at that time in opposition to the dominant party of
*»f the State, he had little opportunity of distinguish
ing himself. Among other measures, he took an ac
tive and prominent part in the movement for the |
abolishment of imprisonment for debt in his native
State.
“In 1832 he entered Congress. At the close of the
term, in 1-835, he resumed the practice of his profes
sion and pursued it actively until, in 1837, he was
called upon again to represent his district in tiie na
tional House of Representatives. During that Con
gress he took a leading part in the business of the
House. lle was successively elected to the 2Cth
and 27th Congress, and grew in reputation as a man
ot talents and great business capacity. Declining
to be a candidate for re election he returned to
Buffalo, and again devoted himself to the profession,
of which he had become one of the most eminent
members in the State.
“In 1844 lie was prevailed upon to accept the
Whig nomination for Governor of New York, but
shared in the general defeat of his party. In 1847
there was a change of administration, and Mr. Fill
more was elected Comptroller of the State, by a very
large majority. The next year he was nominated
ou tin Whig ticket for the Vice Presidency, with
Gen. Taylor as President, and was elected. Re
signing his office of Comptroller of the State of New
York, he assumed the duties of his position, and in
them acquitted himself with courtesy, dignity and
ability until the death of Gen. Taylor, in July, 1850,
<2. \ ated him to the Presidential chair, llis term of
office expired on the It ii of March, 1853. How he
tilled it is matter of history, and needs no new ex
position at our hands.
“Reining from office with the universal respect of
his countrymen, Mr. Fillmore returned to Buffalo.
But sorrows began to press on him. aud he was des
tine*! t*» drink deeply of the cup of affliction. The
loss of his wife and that of his daughter, followed
or.ch other at the briefest interval. A visit he had
promised himself the pleasure of making to this sec
t:-m of the country, was necessarily postponed fora
\ ear, after the lapse of which he came to the South
and West, and was everywhere received by our
: people w ith the great cordiality of welcome.
• It is pleasant to an American, who loves his coun
try and reveres its institutions, to retrace the inci
dents of a life like that of Miffard Fillmore. Os hum
ble origin, with few early advantages ; a self-made
man, he had raised himself, by his own exertions, to
a position of lofty eminence ; affording a fine illus
tration of the peculiar boast of our country that its
highest honors and dignities are the legitimate ob
jeets of ambition to the humblest children in the
.and, as w ell as those most favored by the gifts of
birth and fortune.*’
£kom Hayn. —i apt. Jardan, of the brig ll«»ban,
■• .it .lac;not. arrived nt New York, reports that on
t..e night of May 21, in consequence of torrents of
vain l aving fallen almost without intermission for
three days preceding, the stream called Orange
overflowed and submerged a part of the city, and
undermined and carried away from twenty to
tweuty-five houses with persons iu them, and seve
ral were drowned while others escaped bv boats.—
A great many of the inhabitants are without an
asylum,clothes, or any common necessary. It is
almost impossible to describe the damage, not only
in the city and vicinity, but Übewise in the interior.
All the banana trees were rooted up and washed in
to the river, with animals and other property. The
high roads to the capital are become almost imprac
ticable. and the storm appears to have been preva
lent throughout the island. A great deal of coffee
was washed away, out of the stores of the specula
tors in different parts of the city.— Balt. Amer.
A Xkw Anecdote or Thackeray.— The author
of “Beniamin Disraeli, a Biography," is a Mr. Abra
ham Hayward, who, it appears, from a London pa
per, has a fondness for high society, a distinguished
member of which he considers himself: and. one j
day. being asked to dine with a certain Duke,
and finding that Thackeray was also invited, he pro- ,
posed that they should share a cab there together.
°n their way Mr. Hayward was very grand in hi?
diyc mrse. and was kind enough to instruct his
lx ion\i as to the manner iu which he ought to eou
uiu-t himsdf in the distinguished company which
he was about to join. Thackerav bore it all very
patiently and apparently listened very attentively
revenge. When they had arrived
~t tin ii utsuuauon, and were standing in the hall,
surrounded by a crowd of wkmn liven- sen-ants,
1 i.aekajav " adieu gravely up to Havward, and. in
an audibk voice, offered to toss him tor his share of
ihe cab tare ! ou can imagine Mr. Havward's dis
may at what he considered such dreadful vulgarity.
The Dispute between Spain and Mexico.—lu
the session of the Cortes, held at Madrid on May *23,
M Cerdiui, in his own name and that of several
other deputies, presented a motion, declaring that
the Cortes offered all their support to the govern
ment to exact, by the best means possible, from the
Mexican government, the satisfaction necessary for
the ill-tn atment of Spanish subjects.
The Minister ot tue Interior, after giving some
details ou the subject, declared that the government
- - • u
ty should proceed to the Gulf of Mexico, to exact
at every cost {though he hoped violent measures
would not be neoesaarvj the satisfactions and repa
ration due to outraged Spanish dignity.
This declaration drew forth loud applause, and the
i motion was unanimously adopted.
A Madrid letter, of 25 th of May, aavs ; Several
; cabinet councils have been held to decide definitive
ly what shall be done with respect to Mexico. There
is every reason to believe that war will be declared
against that republic, if it should not give just satis
faction, by retracting what it has done with regard
to the Spanish convention.
Patagonian Colony. —The famous Italian refu
gee, CoL Olivieri, lately undertook to establish a
: military agricultural colony at Bhia Blanca, in Pat
! agonia, as a sort of armed outpost to afford greater
security against the incursions of Southern Indians,
j Having landed his first colonists, and “ prospected
1 his claim,” the gallant Colonel, with a very slight es
j cort, returned to Buenos Ayres, overland, crossing
! a frightful desert, and meeting with many adven
| tures. He wants 400 soldiers, with which to prose
cute operations against the Indians; the Buenos
1 Ayres papers say he will get them.
The Cotton Trade.
The folU-.v vUiiz ttatiatice relating to the Cotton
Trad** were laid before the House of Represents
tives last week, by Mr. Secretary Marcv, in an
liwerto a resolution of the 12th May :
American Cotton n received free of duty into
Great Britain, Sardinia, Belgium, Austria, Sweden,
Holland, Denmark, Tuscany, and British North
American Possessions. In France, the duty on ‘220
lbs. is $3 75 in national vessels, and $6 48 in foreign
vessels; by the treaty of 1822, United States vessels
are equalized with French vessels. In Spain, the
duty on 101 lbs. is 79] cents in national vessels, and
£1 85 in foreign vessels. In Russia, the duty on 36
11*. w cents. In Bremen there is an ad valorem
duty of § per cent.; in Hamburg ] per cent.; in Nor
way nearly ] cent per lb. In Mexico the duty on
101 lbs. is $1 50. In Cuba the duty on 101 lbs. is
19] per cent, in national vessels; in foreign vessels
27] per cent, on a valuation of $5. In Sicily the
duty on 192] lbs. is SB. In Portugal the duty on 101
ibs. is 21 5 cent. In the Papal States the duty on
74 Bb-100 lbs. is 10 eta.
The amount of Cotton exported from the United
States to the principal commercial countries of the
world, was, in 1851, 927,237,089 lbs.; in 1852,
1,093,230,639 lbs.: in 1853, 1,111,570,370 lbs ; in
1854, 937,833,106 lbs., in 1855, 1,108,424,601 lbs.—
being au annual average of 1,025,659,156 lbs.—
Nearly three fourths of this Cotton was exported to
Great Britain, the quantities sent there, being, in
1851, 670,645,122 lbs.; in 1852, 752,573,780 lbs.; in
1853, 768,596,498 lbs.; in 1854, 696,24",047 lbs.; in
1855, 673,498,259 lbs.—being an annual average of
712,312,141 lbs. Os the remaining quantity, consid
erably more than half was exported to France ; the
amount sent there, being, iu 1851, 139,164,571 lbs.;
in 1852, 186,214,270 lbs.; in 1853, 187,226,913 lbs.-,
in 1854, 144,428,360 lbs.; in I&ms, 210,113,809 lbs.—
being an annual average of 173,829,584 lbs ; while
the annual average to all other countries was
139,515,431 lbß. The annual average amount of du
ties paid in France was $2,939,300 25.
The quantities and values of cotton manufactures
and yarns exported from Great Britain and from the
United States respectively, to all countries, for a pe
riod of five years, from 1851 to 1855, arc given as
follows. It should be observed that 1855 is incom
plete, as the report only extends to October 31 :
GREAT BRITAIN.
MANUFACTURES. j YARNS.
Y’ra. Quantities. I Value. j Quantities. Value.
Yards. | Dollars, j Pounds. J Dollars.
1651 j 1,543,161,739) 110,246,010 143.900,106! 33,210,010
1652 ! 1,524,250,914 106,242,290 145,476,302 33,273,275
1853 j 1,594,592,05.1 1:,.5<;:i.7im. 1 D.53!;;i. 1>
185-1 I 1,692,977,4761 110,884,300! 147,128,4981 33,450,935
1855*1 1,551,780,2561 104,492,740) 131.276,1091 *26,045,455
UNITED STATES.
1651 I 17,203,945 137, *260
1852 7,067,433 131.716
1853 No data. 6,746,300 No data. 22,524
1854 |5,48«,201 149,315
1855 I 15,857,181 [None.
From the copious remarks which accompany the
statistics, we extract the following:
Great Britain.—The annual average importa
tion of cotton from all countries into England, the
last five years, Ims been 838,335,984 pounds, of
which amount, according to British authorities,
661,529,220 pounds, or more than three-fourths,
were from the United States. The annual average
exportation to the continent and elsewhere has been
122,810,688 pounds, or about one sixth of the total
quantity imported, leaving 715,525,296 pounds for
the annual average consumption. About one sixth
of the whole amount imported was from British pos
sessions.
In 1781 Great Britain commenced the re-expor
tation of cotton to the continent and elsewhere. In
1815 the quantity thus re-exported had risen from
an annual average of one million pounds to that of
six million pounds. In 1853 the aggregate amount
exported exceeded 148] million pounds, of which
nearly 83 million pounds were*denved from the Uni
ted States and more than 60 million pounds from
the East Indies. The quantity of American cotton
re-exported by Great Britain to the different mar
kets of Europe, when compared with the quantities
imported, is much less than of that imported from
some other countries—a fact which suggests the
seperiority of the American article and its better
adaption to purposes of fubrile industry. For ex
ample—about one-tenth of the cotton imported from
the United States is reexported, against nearly
one-half of that imported from the East Indies. A
comparison between American and East India cot
ton sliows u difference of 100 per cent, in favor of
the former—the cotton of the East Indies con
taining twenty five per cent of waste, while that of
the United St tiles contains only twelve and a half
per cent. The fibre also of the latter excels that of
the former.
In 1788 the efforts of the East India Company
commenced for the promotion of the growth ot cot
ton and for the improvement of its quality in Brit
ish India ; and the first exportation of the article to
England was made the same year. In 1814 the ex
portation amounted to 4.000,000 pounds. It now
averages some 165,000,000 pounds per annum. An
area of about 8,000 square miles is said to be devo
ted to the culture.
Liverpool is the great mart of the cotton trade of
Great Britain, and of Europe generally. Thus,
while the total imports of that article into the Uni
ted Kingdom, according to the British authorities,
iu 1852, amounted to 2,357,338ba1e5, the quantity
at this port reached 2,205,738 bales. About six
sevenths of the cotton received at Liverpool comes
from the United States, and of this four-lifths is es
timated to be imported for the factories of Lanca
shire and Yorkshire.
Since March, 1845, cottons have been admitted
into British ports free of duty. Prior to that peri
od the duty was of and from British possessions
8 cents, from oilier places 70 cents per 11*2 pounds.
The number of spindles in operation in England is
estimated at more than twenty millions.
The value of cotton supplied by the United States
to Great Britain in 1855 was $57,616,749, being
about the average each year for the last four.
The quantity of cotton exported from the United
States to England in eleven months of the fiscal
year 1.856 is estimated tit 2,755,000 bales.
It appears from “ Commerce and Navigation”
that the importation of raw cotton from the British
West Indies into the United States has increased
for some years past in a ratio quite proportionate to
decrease of such importation into Great Britain.
The average price per pound of cotton, from
1851 to 1855, inclusive, in the United States and
Great Britain, respectively, is shown as follows :
Average price of cotton per pound—
Year. Iu the United States. In Great Britain.*
1851 12.11 cents 121 cents.
1852 805 “ 11l “
IB’W 985 “ 12 4 7 ”
At Manchester.
Prance. —Cotton constitutes in value more than
two-thirds of the domestic exports of the United
States to France. By virtue ot the treaty of 1822
it is imported, like all other “articles of the growth,
produce, or manufacture of the United States, ’ on
the same terms, whether in United States or nation
al vessels ; bat the importation must be direct, and
the origin of the article duly authenticated. A min
isterial decree of December 17, 1851, enlarges the
provisions of the treaty relative to the direct voy- j
age, so far as to extend the equality between the i
vessels of the two nations when importing cotton, '
even should the American vessel touch at a British .
port: but, in that event, the captain is required to
exibit a certificate from the French Consul at that
port, stating that no commercial transaction there •
took place.
The French Government is directing its efforts to f
the deveiopement and extension of the cotton eul- •
ture in its colonial province of Algeria. To that j
end, in December, 1853. an aggregate value of 20,- !
000 francs, in prizes, was offered by the Emperor to
the most successful cultivator of cotton m that
province. The result is announced as most favora
ble. In December, 1854, the entire sum was divi
ded between three rivals, whose merits were judg
ed equal—two of them being‘French colonists and
one an Arab—a gold medal to each being also awar
ded. To the meritorious of the second rank a silver
medal to each was presented.
Next to Great Britain, France is the largest iin»
porter of American cotton; and what Liverpool is
to the former Havre is to the latter. At those two
points the importations are concentrated, rmd thence
distributed to the different markets of either Em
pire, or are re-exported to foreign countries. The
re-exportations of France are cniefly to Switzer
land, by railway: next to which country in this
trade come Sardinia and Holland : small quantities
being sent also to Spain, Austria and Italy. Next
to the United States. France derives her supplies of
cotton from the Levant; and the third place is held
by South America.
Spain.—This kingdom takes from the United
States about four-fifths of all her cotton, the quanti
ty, during the last five years, reaching an average
of thirtv-four million pounds per annum, and show
ing an increase on the five years immediately pre
ceding. Next to the United States, Spain imports
cotton from Brazil, while her West India possessions
hold a third rank in the trade.
Hanes Towns. —The States of Germany are sup
plied with cotton consumed in their factories chiefly
through the Hanseatic cities, Hamburg and Bre
men. Bremen sent to the Zollverein in 1853 cotton
imported direct from the United States to the value
of $884,772.14, and to Austria to the value of $156,-
153.21. The factories of Prussia and Saxony art
numerous, and import not only the raw material
from these cities, but also large quantities of yarns.
The number of spindles in operation in the States
composing the Zollverein is estimated at upwards
of 1,000,000.
Belgium.—Most of the cotton imported into Bel
gium is Sin the United States, and is consumed in
her own factories at Ghent, Liege, Antwerp, Ma
lines, &c., which are said to employ a capital of
twelve million dollars, and more than* 122,000 ope
ratives, and to turn out an anuual value of seven
teen million dollars in fabrics which are in high re
pute.
Sardinia. —Sardinia imports on an average some
four or five million pounds of cotton each year from
England and France, and about the same quantity
from the United States . although in 1855 the im
portation from the latter country suddenly rose from
1,645,372 lbs. the preceding vear, to lbs.
Switzerland. —Four-fifths of all the cotton con
sumed by the factories of Switzerland is estimated
to be imported at Havre, whence it passes through
France by railway, being burdened with heavy
charges in the transit.
Since 1815 Switzerland is stated officially to have
quite superseded, in the markets of Germany and
Austria, the varus of Great Britain. In 1830 that
Republic hail in operation 400,000 spindles; in 1840,
750,000 ; and in 1850. 950,000, the number being
more than doubled iu 20 years.
According to Swiss official custom-house reports
that Republic received cotton from the United
Mates as follows, the years specified :
Pounds. PnnnHfl
I*3o 15.942.740 1852 19 065 200
1 -Sol 13,729.320 j 1853 ISAH.iSo
In return, cotton stuffs, as follows, were sent to
the United States :
Pounds. Pounds.
IS3O 3.226.300 1852 4,077 ‘*2o
1851 3.509.660 1853 5.265,150
In 1855 Switzerland returned to the United States
in exchange for raw cotton, the same article manu
factured to the value of $212,700.
Russia. —Before the breaking out of the late war
the manufacture of cotton in the Russian Empire
was progressing with extraordinary activity. The
number of spindle# exceeded 350.000, prod ucing an
nually upwards of 10,800,000 pounds of cotton yarns.
The barter trade with the Chinese at Kiachta stim
ulates this branch of manufactures in Russia, as the
article of cotton velvets constitutes the leading sta
ple of exchange at that point for the teas and other
I merchandise of China. Iu former years this article
was supplied almost exclusively bv Great Britain,
but the Chinese prefer the Russian manufacture,
i and hencethe steady progress of that branch of in
dustry. Thus the annually increasing importations
i of the raw materia, and consequent diminution in
j the quantities of cotton yarns imported is account
ed for. U ere raw cotton admitted, as in England,
i tree of duty, the United States would most proba
bly supply, in the direct trade, the whole quantity
consumed in that Empire. As it is, the commercial
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1850.
i eforu:B in Russia, already announced ofti*-ially and
now in progress, comprehending as they do the es
tablishment of Arneneau houses at St. Petersburgh,
must necessarily tend to that result.
There are at present in Russia, or there were pre
viously to the war, 495 cotton factories, employing
i !
736 pounds of yarns and corresponding amounts < f
textiles.
Sweden.— The importation of cotton in 1851, ac
cording to Swedish official authorities, amounted to
7,989,128 pounds, against 1,832,431 pounds in 1841,
and 794,4134 pounds in 1831. In 1843 these authori
ties show an importation of 2,COO,ooopounds,against
9,883,572 pounds in 1853, which latter amount ex
ceeded that of the importation of 1852 by 1,247,041
pounds, ud that of 1850 by more than
pounds, being the largest of any preceding year. In
1818 the amount was 8,074,020 pounds.
The value of cotton manufactures exported from
Sweden in 1850 was $46,000, against $7,500 only in
1851.
Portugal. —This kingdom imported 1,911,451
pounds of cotton in 1855, of which quantity 144,G00
were exported from the United States and the resi
due from Brazil.
Brazil. —The exportations of cotton from Brazil
1843-’44, and 1853- 54 are stated by Brazilian offi
cial authorities as follows :
1863-’54 28,420,320 lbs.
1843-M4 26,056,160 lbs.
Increase in ten years 2,361,160 lbs.
There are insuperable drawbacks to the exten
sion of cotton culture iu Brazil, among which may
be reckoned the ravages of insects, the peculiarities
of the climate, and the expense and diflieulties at
tendant upon its transmission from the interior to
the coast. It has long since been ascertained in
Brazil that the cotton plant will not flourish near to
the sea, and the plantations have in consequence
receded further inland, as well to avoid this diffi
culty as to seek new and fresh lands. Pernambu
co is the principal cotton growing province of Bra
zil
Egypt.—The cotton culture in Egypt commenc
ed 1818. The comparative tabular statement sub
joined, derived from official sources, showing the
quantities exported at the port of Alexandia and the
countries to which exported, respectively, for a pe
riod of three years, from 1853 to 1855, both inclu
sive, would indicate an increase in the culture by no
means rapid in suceeesiveyears:
i'cmuls of cotton exported to—
j j Kl«.- I All cauu
<s. r.ritiiinl Kriuiri. UGisirir.. j win-re tries.
1853 ■ I 10,721 W 0 6,321,000 j 397,8001 43J
185J..| J 1.938,700 7.451,100{|0,163,201'| 988,500) 43.540.500
1,451,2 T 0,9 6,874. WO
\ .«.. : . :! '<•
Aver. I 23,452.900! 9, 210,«tMij «J,753, 70(»j 684.800! 42.102,000
It'to the aggregate exported be added from five
to six million pounds worked up in the country,
a liberal est imate of the annual amount of the cot
ton crop of Kzypt will have been made. The fac
tories established by Mehemet Ali are, it is stated,
going rapidly to ruin. The cotton goods manufac
tured are coarse “caitas,” or soldiers’ “nizain” uni
form. Much cotton is used also in making up di
vans, the usual furniture in Egypt.
Additional California News.
A melancholy accident occurred in San Francisco
on the sth ult., at the May Festival of the Turn Ve
rein Society, by premature discharge of a cannon,
with which two men were firing a salute. Both
were horribly mutilated about the arms, aud one of
them, Charles B. Dagget, died on the following day
from the injuries received. The other, B. S. Tabor,
a German, has had botli hands amputated near the
elbow, and is doing well.
The City Controller has submitted a report of the
finances of the city for the current year, by which
he shows that there has been about $1,500,1)00 from
last year. This reform is attributed to the opera
tion of the new charter, under which we have been
working since July last.
Immediately after the departure, of the last
steamer, efforts were made in many parts of the
State to organize volunteer companies to go down
to Panama, to protect passengers on the Isthmus,
and, if necessary, to chastise the natives of Grana
da for the late slaughter of Americans. Public
meetings were held on the Plaza in this city, and
muny patriotic were made, and persons
enough appeared ready to goon the expedition, but
it, was finally thought advisable to postpone any ac
tion until the arrival of the next steamer.
The State Council of the Know Nothing party
met at Sacramento, on tin* 13th inst., with a good
representation from all parts of the State. Resolu
tions were adopted removing all secrecy and the
different degrees. Also endorsing the Nebraska
question and the nomination of Fillmore and Donel-
The difficulty in the Democratic party in this
State has recently been revived by a correspond
ence between M. S. Latham, Collector of this port,
and several Democrats, who claim that he has not
shown certain members of the party sufficient con
sideration in his official favors. The complaint comes
from the branch of the party called “Purifiers,” or
who claim to be contending for a reform on party
matters. President Pierce lias been addressed on
the subject.
Col. Zabriskie, of Sacramento, (Democrat) and
Geo. C. Bates, (Republican) after making several
attempts to have a public political discussion at Sa
cramento —which was prevented by the dislike of
the people to listen to a discussion of the principles
of the Republican party—finally got a hearing, aud
the debate came on before a large auditory in front
of the Orleans Hotel.
An attempt was made on tlie 6th instant, to fire
the steamer Young America, on her passage from
this city to Marysville, and within five miles of Suc
rameuto. One of the state rooms had been en
gaged, and every precaution taken to successfully
burn the boat. Everything about the room was
saturated with camphene. and one or two full cans
were also in the room, for the purpose of more rap
idly communicating the Humes to all parts of tin*
boat. The torch was applied at about three o’clock
in the morning when all were sound asleep. Fortu
nately the Humes were extinguished before they
extended beyond the room where they originated.
Captain William Galloway, a partner in the ves
sel, was subsequently arrested upon suspicion of be
ing guilty of the offence, and after a full hearing be
fore the Mayor of the city, was held to answer be
fore the Grand Jury on bail of $3,000. The evi
dence was entirely circumstantial, and such as can
not possibly convict a man of his universal good
and irreproachable character.
From Ike Oregonian, May loth.
Later from Oregon*
We learn that the volunteers, numbering ”50, un
der Gen. Lamerick, surprised a band of Indians, en
camped on a bar of Rogue River, near the Mead
ows, and firing upon them, killed thirty, and com
pletely routed the remainder.
The volunteers lost none, and had two wounded,
one (a Mr. Mercer, of Mr. Wilkinson’s company,)
badly, and it is feared mortally. lie was brought
into ihe hospital at Deer Creek, and it is thought
has died before this.
The Indians fought for some time, but finally re
treated. Gen. Lamerick made preparations to fol
low, hoping to strike an effectual blow’. The vol
unteers captured ten horses.
Mr. B. also states that a Mr. Mcllarkness, of
Grave Creek House, while carrying an express from
Grave Creek to Gen. Lamerick, was fired upon ; he
fell from his horse, and was horribly mutilated by
the Indians, while alive, us the wound was not
mortal.
A Talk ok Horror.—We heard a Hying report
some few weeks since that several Indians had been
murdered at the Cascades, but we forbore to say
any thiug about it till we co ild learn the particulars.
We have since learned the particulars, and with a
face crimsoned with shame for the human kind, we
proceed to lay them before the public. The Indians
murdered, consisted of the family of Spencer, a
chief, who resides at Vancouver, and was made up
of his father, an old gray headed Indian, Spencer's
wife and four children—a daughter nearly grown,
and three younger sons, one of which was a sucking
babe. The Indians had been up to the Dalles, in
the service of the U. S. Government, and were on
their wav back to Vancouver, under charge of Col.
Joseph Meek, and having regular passes about their
persons. In making the portage at the Cascades,
it seems that they were overtaken by 7 men, (if
such they might be called,) and forcibly taken from
Col. Meek, whose life they threatened, and one after
the other was murdered by means of a strong cord
' which was tied around the neck and twisted with a
stick till life was extinct. The girl was violated by
these fiends before her life was taken. The annals
of Indian barbarity furnish no instance of cold
blooded, diabolical, cowardly villainy, that can
much transcend this act, which Ims stamped the
character of our Territory with afoul blot, which
will stick to it long after the perpetrators of that act
and those who countenance it, are dead and damned.
A few more such acts as this, and Oregon will be a
by-word and a hissing among the civilized nations
of tin* earth.
Mr. Butler’s Speech. —The Boston Courier,
an independent paper opposed to Mr. Butler’s
principles, says:
We re publish to-day, from the pamphlet edition,
the speech of Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, deliver
ed in the Senate of the United States, March sth.
IS5(>. We have preferred to give it entire, instead
of portions, which we have been, repeatedly request
ed to publish, in order that our readers limy have
ample means of forming their own judgments in re
gard to it. We have read this speech with no little
surprise, after hearing so much ot the Southern de
nunciation, which, it has been said, provoked Mr.
Sumner's retort. As to the political opinions of Mr.
Butler, as developed in the speech, it is unnecessary
for us to say anything. Apart from these,no honest
mind could help admiring the genuine ability dis
played, the patriotic sentiment evinced, and the
truly gentlemanly tone and tenor of the entire per
formance. We have been at a loss to discover in it
anything calculated to give personal offence to any
one, unless it be in the use of the terms “fanatic,”
“fanaticism,” &c., which have been so commonly
applied to that wing of t lie Free-Soilers represented
by Messrs. Sunnier, Wilson, &c.j as hardly to war
rant any particular outcry at this moment. In a
word, the speech of Senator Butler is a statesmanlike
and practical production, not a mere piece of rheto
ric, though rising sometimes, as will oe seen, into
the highest regions of oratory, and is, in fact, a real,
bona fide argument of that description which is so
addressed to the minds of men as to be likely to have
its due effect upon them.
Queen Victoria’s Children.— The Queen of
England may not be a great sovereign, but she un
doubtedly deserves the higher praise of being a true
woman. Considering the orce which is added to
her example oy her exalted position, it can hardly
be doubted that she confers a greater benefit on her
subjects by the mod«*l she exhibits of all the woman
ly domestic virtues than would result from great ca
pacity of affairs of State. The Toronto Globe has
taken pains to collect from the English papers an
account of the manner the Queen brings up her
children, from which we make the following ex
tract :
“ It would seem that the whole household is up be
times, that the young people breakfast at eight and
dine at one, which hours some people think decided
ly vulgar. During the forenoon they keep to their
books. Then the ooys are drilled in military exer
cises, while the girls, we suppose, practice calistke
nies. After this they have an hour of music and
dancing. By this time dinner is ready, and when
its toils are ?urmounted the children go to the riding
school, from which they proceed, the princesses to
drawing and music, and the princes to a carpenters
shop, where they hammer and saw and tarn till they
are tired, after which they occasionally spend some
time in a laboratory fitted up for tkeir"peculiar use.
The * school is now* ended, and while the girls go
out to play or ride, the boys go oat to walk, play,
ride, or shoot till tea time. Then comes the prepa
rations for the lessons to-morrow, and then to bed.’
Such, according to the English papers, is the daily
life of the Queen's children: and when we add that,
j morning and evening, they are trained in the truths
°* religion, we believe we have before us the fact,
that the first family in the Empire is regulated in a
:a ~°n it were well for a good many other
families if they would imitate.'’
h rum hay al. The bark Azop. Captain Burke,
amved at Boston yesterday from Faval, which
port she left on the 13th of May. There* was onlv
one American vessel in the port* at the time she left
hayal. and tnat was the ship Adrian, Hunter, from
Baltimore for Beuast, which had previously put in
to that port xeakv. We were in hopes of bearing
from that vicinity ere this some tidings of the long
looked for snips Ocean Queen, captain Smith, and
Driver, captain Holborton ; the former left London
on the 12th of February, and the latter on the 13th
of the same month from Liverpool, both for New
York. There were a large number of steerage pas
sengers on board of each of these vessels.— S’etc
York Com, Adv.
The Uprising m San Francisco.
A corespondent 4.f the New Orleans Picayune
gives the following graphic account of the murder
of Mr. James King, editor of the San Francisco Eve
ning Bulletin, and the determined action of the peo
ple to secure the punishment of the murderer:
It was o:i the evening of Wednesday, the 14th of
May, I had onlv put foot on California about four
Lours, (having just arrived in a small schooner from
the Society Islands.) and was loitering, a perfect
stranger, about the corner of Montgomery and
Washington streets, the most public thoroughfare in
town, when all at once my attention was attracted
by the report of a pistol, as also by a cloud of smoke
consequent upon the discharge. The man who fired
it was pointed out to me as Casey, the editor of the
Sunday Times, and he was now in the act ot repla
cing hfs cloak, which, for the moment, he had thrown
off. and under the folds of which had been concealed
the deadly weapon, a single-barrelled pistol. He
was about proceeding on his way with an air of
perfect security, when he was seized by two men,
who walked him straight off into custody. For
curiosity, I followed alter him, to mark the appear
ance of so desperate a man. He was rather short
and slim, with small features, and dressed in plain
black clothes. He had rather an anxious look, was
very pale, but otherwise he seemed satisfied with
the deed. His victim, Mr. King, of William, was
the popular editor of the Evening Bulletin, a journal
recently established by him, in which he has always
endeavored to discourage gambling and other vices
which are abuses too common in this country.—
Cassey was a man held in very bad repute here,
and a disparaging article concerning him hail ap
peared iu the above paper, which gave rise to Ins
revenge.
No sooner had the pistol been discharged upon
Mr. King, than he walked off the middle of the
street, where the affair occurred, with a quick step,
until he gained the threshold of the Pacific Express
office. His appearance indicated that he had re
ceived the bullet, and lie kept his eye on Casey as
he went, seeming to expect a repetition of the shot.
He said some words, which to me were inaudible.—
He was let in, and the doors of the office were im
mediately closed, but with some difficulty, iu the
face of tfie crowd, which, in their solicitude for the
safety of so popular and respected a citizen, had
rushed up to inquire if he had received an injury.—
In a short time they commenced to break the win
dows from the inside. This was sufficient indication
to the crowd outside that Mr. King was in a preca
rious state, and yells of “where is Casey,” “hang
him,” Ac., resounded on all sides. At hist a great
part of the mob made a rush to the jail, where Casey
was supposed to he, and I expected every moment
to see the building torn to the ground by the infu
riated mass.
Their attention, however, for a time, was divert
ed by a few men who were stationed on the balco
ny of a house, each of whom harangued the people,
exhorting them to take the law into their own
hands, at the same time warning them against
haste, advising them to act together, and with some
system, by which means they could better gain
their ends. They pacified them a little, and by this
time two companies of military, in plainclothes, had
collected, and were guarding the jail. Intense ex
citement prevailed, and great fear was entertained
lest blood might be shed ere morning. Reports
were going that Mr. King was dead ; that his bro
ther, at the head ot a company, with a cannon, was
about to blow the jail up ; however, fortunately, no
violence ensued, but people of every class seemed
to be of one mind, and that, to take the matter in
their own hands. They alleged that the authorities
are men elected by the gamblers and others of bad
character, who, by ballot stuffing, intimidation, and
the like, have obtained their object.
The consequences is that the authorities encour
age those who place them over affairs, and if one of
their lot happens to be brought before them for any
offence he is pretty sure to get off. Casey was one
of the head meu, and uo doubt expected an acquit
tul. but the people are too fond ot Mr. King, and
their indignation was not to be suppressed. A com
mittee accordingly was formed, and for the next
.three days a continued crush of citizens were at
their rooms for the purpose of enrolling themselves
in the cause. The excitement during his period was
intense; business was at a stand-still, and instead,
people occupied themselves discussing the matter;
every few steps a cluster of men were to be found
in eager conversation. Up to the following Sunday ;
the intentions of the vigilance committee were kept |
a close secret, and persons could only guess what |
was about to occur from the mysterious movement
about the city of quantities of arms. Sunday, how- j
ever brought interesting events. At about half-past <
10 o’clock in the morning, while on my way to
church in Bush street, my attention was directed to ,
a crowd of people assembled in one of the principal 1
streets, and on approaching I found the object of at I
tendon was a mounted brass gun in charge of a
company of artillery. Shortly there marched up a
hunareumen armed with muskets, who surround
ed the gun in the form of a square, us if to protect it.
This seemed ominous of something. No one ap
peared to understand or know anything about it.—
Some said it was in the hands of the authorities who
were about to suppress the excitement; others said
it was in the hands of the Vigilance Committee,
which indeed turned out to be correct. Such being
the case, the mark in plain letters of California
Guard, upon the carriage, told no less a story than
that the military had revolted against the autlioi
tics and attached themselves to the people. I con
tinued my way to church through this extraordinary
scene, and on my return to the streets, between 12
and 1 o’clock, the greatest excitement prevailed.—
The people were nil walking rapidly towards the
jail, for which place I also hastily made iny way, and
stationing myself among a mass of persons on the
hill which terminates one end of Broadway ; this
hill overlooks the jail, and is distant from it but a
few paces. From this spot a striking scene pre
sented itself. Every available space below was
densely crowded with spectators, with the exception
of the end of Broadway, in which the jail is situa
ted; this was occupied by 3,000 citizen troops, all
drawn up in order of at* nek in regular columns be
fore the jail, immediately in front of which was
drawn up the mounted gun of which l have already
spoken, which they proceeded to load and then de
liberately pointed at the door of the jail, while its
company stood by prepared to act by orders. Next
appeared the committee, composed of about twenty
gentlemen, who proceeded to ascend the jail steps.—
They gaining admittance, then demanded an inter
view with the Sheriff, with whom they held a short
conversation, after which the prisoner Casey ap
peared descending the steps, followed by the com
mittee. On gaining the pavement he stepped com
posedly into a carriage which at once started in the
direction of the rooms of the committee, surround
ed by a strong armed force ; here the prisoner was
left m custody.
In about an hour afterwards, another prisoner
named Cora, accused of a similar offence, was de
manded by, aud surrendered to the committee, and
taken also into their custody. On the following
Tuesday, at half post I I*. M., the painful intelligence
that James King, of William, was dead, spread like
an electric shock through the whole community.—
The city at once was in a renewed stale of ex
citement. Every one flocked to the space before
the committee rooms, (a certain space of which was
kept clear by mounted troops,) expecting the im
mediate execution of Casey. A carpenter busily
engaged at one of the windows attracted considera
ble attention, and it was supposed that he was pre
paring the hanging apparatus, but here they were
disappointed ; and up to the time the steamer left
on Wednesday, ats P. M., although more or less
of a crowd had been continually assembled, in ex
pectation of the execution,it had not yet taken place.
This absence of impulsive movement shows that,
the committee desire to do nothing rashly, and that
they are willing to give him a fair trial; and the
prudence of the committee all throughout this affair
cannot but elevate its members in the estimation of
the citizens.
Permission was given to the public to view the
body of Mr. King, and of this, numbers took advan
tage. It was an affecting sight indeed to observe the
mute and at times unrestrained sorrow of the
beholders, who gazed upon the dead features of
him who had been the bold ami noble protec
tor of virtue—of him struck dead by the hand of the
assassin—perishing a martyr to the cause of the
welfare ot the people, of their country, and of their
homes.
Fkkelt ok Color upon Health.— From tever
al years observation in rooms of various sizes, used
as manufacturing rooms, and occupied by females
for twelve hours per day, I found that the workers
who occupied those rooms which had large windows
with large* panes of glass in the four sides of the
room, so that the sun’s rays penetrated through the
room during the whole day, were much more healthy
than the workers who occupied rooms lighted from
one side only, or rooms lighted through very small
panes of glass. I observed another very singular
fact, viz : that the workers who occupied one room
were very cheerful and healthy, while the occupiers
of another smaller room, who were employed on the
same kind of work, were all inclined to melancholy,
and complained of pain in the forehead and eyes,
and were often ill and unable to work. Upon ex
amining the rooms in question, I tound they were
both equally well ventilated and lighted, i could
not discover anything about the drainage of the
premises that could affect the one room more than
the other; but I observed that the room occupied
by the cheerful workers was wholly whitewashed,
and the room occupied by melancholy workers was
colored with y lion- ochre. I had the yellow ochre
washed off aiid the walls and ceilings whitewashed.
The workers ever after felt more cheerful and
healthy. After making this discovery, I extended
my observations to a number of smaller rooms and
garrets, and found, without exception, that the* oc
cupiers of the white rooms were much more healthy
than the occupiers of the yellow or buff-colored
rooms, and wherever I succeeded in inducing the
occupiers of the yellow rooms to change the color
for whitewash, Talways found a corresponding im
provement in the health and spirits of the occu
piers.—Correspondent of Lhe Builder.
The Banks ok New York. —At a recent meet
ing of the stockholders of the Bank of Commerce of
New York, some highly interesting facts were sta
ted, in relation to that institution. The Bank of
Commerce was organized on the Ist of January,
1839, aud commenced business in April of that year.
The present number of stockholders is 1,370, and
the average number of shares held by each person
is 36J. Tne eighteen associates composing the first
board of directoi s subscribed $1,505,000 of the capi
tal and the remaining $3,31*5,000 was subscribed in
February. 1840. Os this subscription the last in
stalment" was not paid up till May, 185*2—thirteen
years after its subscription. There was an interval
of eleven and a half years between the final and pro
ceeding payment on instalments.
There are two shareholders holding one thousand
shares each—one residing in London and one in New
York. The directors have, as is known, resolved
to increase its capital to ten millions of dollars—
gradually. however, as an increase of one only
takes place this year. The articles ot association
provide for an increase of eapftal to twenty millions
appropriated to private shareholders, and beyond
this, by a permission for addition subscriptions or
on behalf of the United States of America, or on
behalf of auy or either of the seperate States, as
the Board of Directors may deem fit. The institu
tion is a close corporation. Its directors are elec
ted for life, and they elect their successors. The
stockholders have no voice in the matter.— Balt.
Auier.
The Italian Question. —The Paris correspon
dent of a New York paper says :
The Italian question presents one new point : the
fact that England has appropriated all her transports
in the Crimea to the use of the Sardinian soldiers,
leaving her own soldiers on the shore sitting on their
baggage, has thrown alarm into the Roman Catholic
camp in France. For two days the Roman C'atko
lie journal* of Paris bave been erving “Eire!” to
the faithful, with a noise that aught well betoken
the conflagration of the Church. The strange per
sistence of the English journals in calling for help
for Italv the open manner m which they evoke rev
olution the onlv salvation for the country, natu
rally renders the Roman Catholics of trance ner
vous on that question, and they watch with a jealous
eye every movement made by England in that way.
It was to be expected, therefore, that such a move
ment as that we have just seen in the Crimea,
where Eugland is hurrying home the Sardinian
troops with such great sacrifice to herself, would be
the last argument needed to confirm the anti-reform
party of France in their belief that England was
urging on the standard of revolution in Italy.
The London Times of May 17, says Some of
the Calcutta and Bombay papers brought by the
last mail state distinctly that orders have been sent
out to India for the annexation of Hyderabad, in
the Deccan, as ©oon as the Oude arrangements are
complete. It is also stated with much confidence
in tne Bombay papers that the preliminary steps
I have already been taken towards the absorption of
Baroda. We are authorized to state that no such
measure has ever been ordered, or even contain
plated.
Wild Catiann.
• The Atlanta Intelligencer contains the following
interesting communication in relation to one of the
Dalton wildcats. We congratulate the Atlanta press
and public who have so earnestly and zealously at
• tempted to vindicate and defend the Wild Cat swin
dling shops, that the poisoned cup is returned to
their own lips—it is a just retribution, and we hope
they will drain it with whatever of philosophy they
can summon to their aid :
Editors : The managers of the Planters
A. Mechanics' Bank of Dalton are entitled to the
everlasting gratitude of Wild Cats for some of the
latest tricks “now out,’’ taught for the benefit of
that interesting race of animals. You have in some
of your recent complimentary notices of the Dalton
“dead full,’'as you aptly name the thing, satisfied
the public that the Planters & Mechanics’ Bank
have given to the world some of the rarest illustra
tions ot a “new way to pay old debts/’ that have
ever been furnished in the whole history of banking.
Permit me to give you my experience in a late
meeting I had with this felino monstrosity. On the
1 lth past, I civilly took my seat in the cars for Dal
ton, taking besides the seat about four hundred dol
lars of the pictures of the Planters A Mechanics’
Bank in my pocket. Having the fear of Mr. U. L.
W right's fate before my eyes, I was nervous, you
may depend upon it, I calculated the chance of
getting more kicks than coppers before my expedi
tion was ended. Upon reaching Dalton, *! walked
in quietly, like any “nice young man” should have
done, into Kibbee’s Bank and modestly, very
modestly, laid down, in three homeopathic piles,
$l3O or thereabouts, and meekly asked for the
gold. With nothing worse than the question
it I had any more and some very significant
sour looks, i got through that fiery ordeal.—
The next day, treading as cautiously as if I had
been walking over sleeping babies, I visited Mr.
Kibbee’s hollow, and handed him an additional SSO
and respectfully asked for the coin. That same
eteioul question was put, “have you any more/’ and
the money after slow labor came forth. “Slowly
and sadly” I handed out the second fifty, and as I
did so I saw the Cashier, with velvet tread, glide
out of the Bunk, leaving me with the dreadful Kib
bee face to lace and entirely unprotected. Very
soon the Sheriff of the county came in by pure acci
dent, 1 beg you to believe, and took his stand close
by my side. At that moment the acting Teller,
Kibbee, who, in relation to his Bank, is as doubtful
a person as ever Melchisidec was, had couuted all
of my last fifty with the exception of three dollars.
\\ ith one eye on the Sheriff and a look to my pile,
I paternally reached out my protecting hand, and
gently laid it upon my money. Much quicker than a
duck pitching into a gad-liy \>ur Kibbee was I'-ith
me, and we looked for the world like two Sand llill
cranes pulling at both ends of a snake. Kibbee
was for one end of the bills and 1 was for both. 1
am now prepared, in one sense at least, to declare
what 1 do know, that Planters and Mechanics’
Bank bills are “good pope l declare, gentle
men, that if a rope at the proper time should be
wanting, we could hang Kibbee with a string made
of jiis own bills rather than have his destiny disap
pointed. For a long time the struggle was doubtful,
and for awhile I thought the wild eat would triumph.
But we called a parley and Kibbee told me lie
would pay up if I would give him up the bills.—
With faith, 1 must confess, not much nigger than a
mustard seed, I resigned myself to his mercy. But
the idea of depleting his treasury to the fear
ful extent that paying out near four hundred dollars
must inevitably do, was too much for Mr. Kibbee.
He swore he was a l>n!ly man, avus afraid of no
man on earth, and luul come from a quarter where ■
he had passed through such scenes as we were en- ■
acting many a time, and then ordered me out of his \
Bank, and kindly assured me he would kick me out. ,
To all of which 1 “suitably replied,” though neither (
“loudly, eloquently or at great length,” I meekly
answered that I could not with a clear conscience ,
say that 1 was afraid of no man. For 1 feared |
lvibbe—but his Jingers rather than his fists. 1 told ]
him 1 flattered myself that I came from a quarter
where such scenes were not common and where gen- |
tlerncu had not to light for their purses, and as to his |
kicking me out of his Bank, if he would pay me my ,
money 1 could upon a different principle in dyna- |
inics relieve the premises. After much ado, more <
hard swearing than 1 ever heard in one bank be- ,
fore, I got my money—but it came slowly and cos- j
tively, and not until the Sheriff had fastened me ,
with a garnishment, compelling me to go to Whit- ,
field Court to answer what I was indebted to one ,
Glen F. Lewis, living away off in Ohio. This man
lof course knew notliing about, care nothing about, .
owe not a centime of a cent to, and never intend to. ,
This Bank and the man of all work for it, this Kib- ,
bee, are a disgrace to Georgia.
Yours, John F. Bedford.
Atlanta, June 18th.
Anti-FillmoreConvention-Third Day.—Soon
after the President had taken his seat, ou Saturday,
the 14th inst., Georgk Law, on the part of the Ex
ecutive Committee, presented their report, with the
following resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted :
Resolved, That this Convention proceed to indi
cate, by a series of ballotings, its preference for
persons to be placcdin nomination for candidates for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United
States.
Resolved, That the persons who shall receive the
votes of a majority of the members of this Conven
tion in said balk tings for either of said offices, be de
clared the choice of this convention for nominees for
said offices.
Resolved, That when such preferences shall be
ascertained, by the result of said ballotings, a com
mittee, consisting of one from each State, be ap
pointed to confer with said proposed nominees, and
also with the Convention which meets at Philadel
phia on the 17th inst., with regard to such nomina
tions.
Resolved, That this Convention continue in session
during the coming week, until the said committee
report.
Several long winded speeches were then made by
various delegates. Three informal ballots were then
taken with the following results :
FIRST BALLOT.
Nathaniel P. Banks..l3 I liob’t.F. Stockton 14
John C. Fremont 31 Win. F. Johnson 6
John McLean 20 | Salmon P. Chuse 5
Whole number of votes 121
SECOND BALLOT.
Banks 18 j McLean 10
Fremont 36 | Johnston 1
Stockton Iff |
Whole number of votes 118
THIRD BALLOT.
Banks 46 I McLean 2
Fremont 37 Johnson 15
Stockton 18 | .
Whole number of votes 118
The Convention then adjourned until Moneay.
Anti-Fillmore Bolters Convention. -—Fourth
Bay.
The members of t lie Convention re assembled ou
Monday, Uh* 1 Gth inst. The morning’s session, says
the New York Herald, was enlivened by the seces
sion in a body of the New Jersy delegation, and the
subsequent bolting of individual members from the
New York and Pennsylvania delegations, and of
I Delaware’s sole represent ative. The ground of se
cession was alleged to be that the sentiment of the
Convention was more in favor of republicanism than
of Americanism. There were several informal bal
lots taken in the morning session without any choice
having been made. The first ballot taken in the
afternoon session—the ninth in number—resulted in
tin* informal nomination of Mr. Banks, the vote be
ing as follows :
Nathaniel P. Banks, jr-, of Mass., 53; John Mc-
Lean, of Ohio, 24 ; John C. Fremont, of Cal., 18.
Mr. Banks was then declared the unanimous
choice of the convention for the candicacy. The
convention then proceeded to vote informally for a
candidate for the Vice Presidency ; and on the first
vote Win, F. Jolmston, of Pennsylvania, receiv
ed a majority, aud was subsequently declared
the unanimous choice for the candidacy of that
office. The vote for the Vice Presidency was as
follows :
Win. F. Johnston, of Pennsylvania 59 ; John C.
Fremont, of California 12; John Bell, of Tennes
see I; Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine 7; Anthony
Colby, of New Hampshire 5; Lewis D. Campbell,
of Ohio 7; Thomas Ford, of Ohio 16; Chauncey
Schaffer, of New York 1.
The Convention was subsequently entertained
by speeches from Ex-Mayor Conrad, of Philadel
phia ; Mr. Johnston, the Vice Presidential candidate
and Mr. Ford, of Ohio. After the adoption of a
platform and the appointment of a committee to
wait on Mr. Banks and to confer with the Republi
can Convention, the Convention adjourned till
Thursday, at 10 o’clock.
The bolter’s met at National Hall, and organized
by the selection of A. S. Livingston, of New Jer
sey, as chairman. Speeches were made by S. J.
Bayard, Allen, Jones, Livingston and Halstead, of
New Jersey, Rauch, of Pennsylyania, Jones and
Hildreth, of New York ; E. J. Perrin of Tennessee,
and others. The committee on nominations repor
ted the names of Commodore Stockton for the Presi
dency, aud Kenneth Rayner for the Vice Presiden
cy, and the report was unanimously adopted by the
Convention.
Occupations of the Americans. —The census
returns of the occupations of the people of the Uni
ted States are curious and instructive. The num
ber of barbers and brokers is about the same, and
between the two, people get well shaved. There
are about eight professed doctors to one profession
al undertaker. Only eighty-two people informed
the census takers that they were “ authors,” while
no less than two thousand individuals assumed
to be “ artists.” There are one hundred thousand
blacksmiths, and the same number of merchants.—
The lawyers outnumber the bakers by ten thousand
there being twenty-four thousand of the former, and
fourteen thousand of the latter. The hatters and
the tobacconists are about equal in number. The
carpenters number two hundred thousand; the ma
sons sixty four thousand; the tailors fifty thousand:
the wheelwrights thirty thousand ; the sadlers twen
ty-three thousand. There are more confectioners
than watchmakers ; more weavers than teachers;
more vinegar makers than showmen ; and the same
number of wagon makers as editors. Strange to
relate, that among the returns of the trades, not a
politician is enumerated : and the table of the pro
fessions do not include a single patriot.
A Sumner Association. —The Baltimore Sun
says:—A “ Sumner Association” has been formed
in New-York city, aud has resolved to present Sena
tor Sumner a civic crown and service of plate, as a
‘ tribute to his championship of free speech. Would
it not be well to present a civic crown to the State
of Massachusetts ? A year ago she felt herself per
fectly ‘free’ to violate an express provision of the
federal constitution, and to openly proclaim nullifi
cation and resistance to the laws of the general gov
ernment, by placing on her statute book what is
known as the “ Personal Liberty Bill,” and her pre
sent Legislature has re-affirmed this outrageous
measure by refusing to repeal it. If, therefore, Mr.
Sumner is the champion of “ free speech.” the State
of Massachusetts is the champion of “ free legisla
tion," and the fauaties of the North should not over
look her claims in the distribution of civic crowns.
Preserving Meats. —lt has been ascertained by
Mr. Demait, of Pans, that meat of all kinds may be
preserved by suspending it on cords in an air-tight
chamber, which has a furnace at its bottom. The
chamber is then heated up to about 100 degrees Fab
reinheit. and a preparation of 4 ounces of the flour
of sulphur, 21 of lime, and a handful of green mint
leaves are thrown upon the fire, and the doors
closed. An opening in the bottom of the chamber
admit- the gas from the furnace, to the action of
which the meat is submitted for 18 hours. It is af
terwards dried. The process is stated to make
finely flavored diy meat, capable of keeping a long
period. Its consistency anocharacteristics are much
the same as those of the smoked beef in use in this
country.
Charleston and Savannah Railroad. —We
learn that the Board of Directors of the Charleston
and Savannah Company, at their recent meeting, on
the sth instant, ordered the erection of a wharf at
Steinmever’s landing opposite Charleston, as pre
paratory to the reception of iron, and to meet the
progressive wants of the road. They also directed
that portion of the road betwixt the E dip to and Sal
kakatchee bridge, to be placed under contract forth
with. There will thu* be fifty miles under contract,
from Steinmeyer a landing on the west bank of the
Ashley, to Salkahatchee bridge. This will leave
about thirty-four miles to be filled up, to the cross
ing of the Savannah river, near Puryaburg. Soon
we hope to be able to announce the commencement
of the work on this side of the river. —Savannah
fiepubltcan.
AN ORATION.
Delivered before the Washington Association of
Lancaster, on the Ash of July, 1815.
BY JAMES BUCHANAN, ESQ.
Thirty nine years ago, upon this day, we were de
clared au independent people. At that time the
Continental Congress burst asunder the chains which
bound them to Great Britain, and resolved to be
free, or perish in the attempt. Upon that day they
presented to the world a spectacle of wisdom and
tirmuess which has never been excelled.
To make a proper estimate of their conduct, we
must take into view the then situation of this coun
try, compared with that of our enemy. On the one
side, the armies of Great Britain were numerous
and veteran ; they were led by commanders who
had acquired military reputation in every clime;
they were supported and furnished with every im
plement of war by a nation whose wealth has, upon
different occasions, purchased the services of all the
crowned heads in Europe. On the other side, our
armies were small and unacquainted with military
discipline; our officers were destitute of experience,
aud were so miserably poor that our brave soldiers
were not more than half clothed, aud their wintei
marches over the frosty ground which they were
defending, could be tracked by the blood that flow
ed from their naked feet.
But even these were not the only disadvantages
under which we labored. Whilst our enemy inva
ded us from without, the torch of discord and of trea
son was lighted up within. When Independence
was declared, the mother country hail a powerful
party throughout all the middle States, and many
adherents in every other part of the Union.
He In comes very Patriotically Inclined.
Dreadful, therefore, was the responsibility of that
Congress. Had not victory crowned their banners,
their names would have been cursed by the people
of this country as the promoters of a destructive
civil war, while their blood would have flowed on
the scaffold as a sacrifice to appease the spirit of
British vengeance. In this awful situation, whilst
the dark cloud of destruction appeared ready to
burst upon them, they declared to the world our in
dependence. They thought that—
“ One day, one hour, of virtuous liberty
Was worth a whole eternity of bondage.”
Everlasting honor to their names ! The gratitude
of u free people will forever hallow their memory.
It is not my intention, as this time, to give you a
narrative of those glorious events of the Revolution
ary war, which led to the recognition of our inde
pendence by Great Britain, and by the world.—
They have been the subject of so many orations,
and of such general interest, that they are familiar
to every mind. The present oration shall contain a
short historical sketch of the most prominent ac
tions of the party now in power in this country, and
their consequences ; and also inquiry concerning the
course which souud policy dictates that thegovem
ment of the United States should pursue in future.
The importance of those subjects, although not
strictly connected with the celebration of this day,
will, 1 trust, be their apology to every mind.
He Touches the Democracy Lightly.
There was a powerful faction in the United States
opposed to the adoption of the Federal Constitu
tion. The indiN iduals of which it was composed
were called anti Federalists, and were the founders
of the Democratic party. They gloried in setting
themselves in array against our present admirable
form of government. The authors of this opposi
tion were chiefly demagogues, who might have risen
to the head of a State taction, but who felt con
scious that their talent would be eclipsed when the
luminaries of the United States would be collected
around the General Government. To gratify their
ambition they wished that this country should con
tinue divided into a number of petty State sove
reignties, without any efficient government for their
control.
This they desired although they hud the example
of ancient Greece before their eyes, and well knew
the clashing interests of the States and their mutual
jealousies kept alive by alliances with different
nations, would have made this country a perpetual
theatre of contention and civil war, until it had fled
for refuge into the arms of despotism. They pro
duced ruin to the State government and to the liber
ties of the people, from the powers of the Federal
Government. By these means they succeeded in
alarming the fears of many good men, and inducing
them to believe, that government, which is now the
palladium of their safety, would be the instrument
of their desperate efforts the constitution was adopt
ed, and Washington was elected President.
It might have been supposed that these faction
aries would have been awed into silence by his wis
dom and virtue. This was not the cast*. The op
position which they had given to the Federal Go
vernment was now transferred to its administration.
At first, indeed, the voice of calumny dared only to
whisper against Washington and his measures, but
ere long it was heard in thunder.
When the French revolution commenced, it was
hailed by the people of this country, generally, as
the dawn of rational liberty in Europe. But
when, in its progress, it hud become the destruc
tion of religion and morality—-when thousands of
citizens were daily sentenced to death, and butch
ered without trial and without crime—when all the
horrors of anarchy were poured out upon that de
voted country at home—and when, Attila like, it
had become the scourge of God to foreign nations,
the Washingtonian party began to entertain fears
of its result, and thought it necessary to stem the
torrent of French influence, which was rapidly
overflowing our country. To this duty they were
imperiously called, as it was not only in theory one
of the avowed objects of that government to spread
revolutionary principles over the whole world, but
they lmd actually attempted to sow the seeds of re
bellion throughout the United States.
He accuses the Democracy of Libelling Washington.
True to their original principles and their first
love, the Democrat ic party of that day became more
the friends of the French as they became more the
enemies of social order. When the proclamation of
neutrality was issued by Washington—that procla
mation which is now almost universally admitted to
have been the salvation of our country—that pro
clamation which impartially placed England and
France on the same footing, and laid open the com
merce of the world to America, they were enraged
that we hud not entered into an alliance with the
French Republic, and waged war, under their ban
ners, against the human race. But, when the trea
ty of peace with England, commonly called Jay's
treaty, was ratified by Washington, torrents of
personal abuse were poured out by the 1 Jemoeratic
party upon his head.
They only charged the Father of his country with
an intention of destroying his own beloved offspring.
To such a pitch of ingratitude were they carried by
their diabolical passions, that they dared publicly,
and without, the slightest foundation, to accuse him
of secretly putting his hand into the treasury, like
a felon, and appropriating, without authority, the
money of the nation to his own individual use.
That man, whose youth had been worn out in those
splendid military achievements which made our
country independent, and whose age and experience
had been devoted to the creation and organization
of the Federal Government ; that man who had
never received one farthing more of the public mo
ney that what he had expended in the public scr
vicej was accused of being a base peculator of the
public treasure. During t his cruel persecution, his
noble mind felt sensibly the stings of his country
men’s ingratitude. In the bitterness of his soul lie
had been abused, to use his own emphatical lan
guage, in “ such exaggerated and indecent terms,
us could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious
defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket,”
Says the Democracy arc not the Disciples of Wash
ington.
Wlmt must be our opinion of an opposition, whose
passions were so dark and malignant ns to be grati
fied in endeavoring to blast the character and em
bitter the old age of Washington ? After thus per
secuting the savior of his country, how can the
Democratic party dare to eall themselves his disci
ples.
But no opposition could divert the steady soul of
Washington from his purpose. He had digested a
system of policy which lie steadily pursued, amid
the storms of faction. Ilis successor in office for the
most part walked in his footsteps. To continue at
peace a nation must be ready for war, was a max
im by which the Federal administrations were con
stantly directed. Under their auspices, therefore,
public credit was well established, as the best means
of public defence.
The debt of the revolutionary war was funded,
and moderate taxes were imposed. A navy was
built for the protection of commerce. We consid
ered all nations equally in war, as enemies, in peace
as friends ; and therefore a strict neutrality towards
all was preserved. It would be impossible to enum
erate every wise measure of the Washingtonian ad
ministrations; suffice it to say, that during their con
tinuance, the prosperity of this country was unex
ampled in the annals of time. The dreams of fancy
where almost realized. Cities rose up as if by
magic throughout our country and wealth flowed m
upon us from all nations. The wilderness, yielded
to the hand of agriculture, and fields loaded with
the richest harvests covered those gloomy forests
where wild beasts but a few years before, had used
to roam. Happy, indeed, were those people, had
they but known their own happiness. Notwith
standing their prosperity, faction still continued to
rage and to increase.
What the Democracy would do for Power.
The posession of power was the end of opposi
tion, about the means they were regardless. Their
leaders pretended to tender solicitude for the wel
fare of the people. Their voices were loud in favor
of public economy, and against a navy, an army
ana taxes. Although France had wantonly cap
tured a number of our vessels, without cause, had
actually demanded tribute from us, and had threat
ened our country with invasion, and with the dread
ful fate of Venice, if it were not paid ; although she
had twice refused to recognize our ministers, who
went supplicating for peace, they were opposed to
raising an army or a navy for our defence.
After an army had been raised, notwithstanding
it was commanded by Washington, and destined to
act against a foreign enemy, they loudly expressed
their apprehension, that it was intended to destroy
our republican form of government and substitute
monarchy in its stead. The taxes necessary for its
support, afforded them a fresh theme of declama
tion. By means such as these, they succeeded so
well in their endeavors, that they at length became
the majority of the nation, and got its destinies
placed in their hands. How they have used their
power, it will be my endeavor to show.
What the Democracy had done.
They began with the destruction of the navy. It
had been supposed by the federal administrations,
that a navy was our best defence. From the locali
ty of our country, and from the nature of such a
force, they knew that it would be peculiarly calcu
lated to protect our shores from foreign invasions,
and to make us respected by the nations of the
world ; without, like a standing army, endangering
our liberties. It was also foreseen by them, that,
without a navy, our commerce would be exposed,
as a rich temptation to the avarice of all nations ;
and, inconsequence of our weakness, we would be
subjected to constant insults and injuries upon the
ocean, without the power of resistance. It had,
therefore, been their policy, gradually to erect a
navy, and that they had built a great number of
vessels at the time when the first democratic ad
ministration came into power.
At that moment the scene changed. They had
promised the people an exemption from taxes, and
unless they could perform, their popularity w'as in
danger. They did not hesitate what course to pur
sue. They immediately sold our national ships ;
they disarmed the country —left commerce unpro
tected and invited insult and injustice from abroad,
that they might not be under the necessity of im
posing a trifling tax, and thereby injuring their
popularity at home.
Thanks be to Providence, the delusion upon this
subject has vanished, and their conduct now appears
in its proper light before the public. The little
remnant of that navy, which had been fondly cher
ished by Washington and bis adherents, but which
was despised by the patriots of the present day, has
made the proud mistress of the ocean tremble. The
people are now convinced that a navy is their best
defence.
He Accuses the Democracy of Attempting to De
stroy our Commerce.
The Democratic Administration next declared
war against Commerce. They were not satisfied
with depriving it of the protection of a navy, but
they acted as though they had determined upon its
annihilation. At a time when the nations of Eu
rope were convulsed by dreadful wars, the United
States being neutral—and when, in consequence
thereof, all our native productions were in greatest
demand, and the carrying trade presented to our
merchants a rich harvest in every quarter of the
globe, they shut up our ports by embargoes and
non-importation laws.
By these means, the streams of wealth, which
were flowing into our national treasury and into our
country, from the thousand fountains of commerce,
were suddenly dried up. These acts of pancide
gave an instantaneous and a dreadful blow to our
prosperity. The voice of business was no longer
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heard in our cities. The stillness of death pervaded
every street. Dejection and despair sat upon each
man’s countenance. The newspapers of the day,
instead of being filled with arrivals, and sales of
merchandize, teemed with bankruptcies. And our
ships were laid up to rot, as melancholy monu
ments of the weak and wicked policy of our govern
ment.
Who that had witnessed these things, cannot ob
serve the hand of the Corsican despot, like that
dreadful hand upon the wall of the Babylonish mon
arch, writing our destruction. Who can avoid be
lieving that Bonaparte was the source of this policy,
and that it was intended to operate in unison with
his continental system. It might perhaps be unwar
rantable to assert that opr administration were ac
tually corrupted by France ; but that their politics
were biassed by a warm and improper partiality for
that country, there can be no doubt.
He Acknowledges that hi* tongue cannot portray
the Corruptions of the Democracy.
Time will not allow me to enumerate all the other
wild and wicked projects of the Democratic Admin
istration. Suffice to say, that after they had de
prived us of the means of defence, by destroying
our navy and disbanding our army; after they lmu
taken away from us the power of recreating them,
by riming commerce the great source of our na
tional and individual wealth ; after they had, by re
fusing the Bank of the United States a continuation
of its charter, and harrassing the financial concerns
of the Government, and withdrawn the only univer
sal paper medium of the country from circulation;
after the people lmd become unaccustomed to, and,
of course, unwilling to bear taxation; and without
money in the Treasury, they rashley plunged into
a war with a nation more able to do us injury than
any other iu the world. What was the dreadful ne
cessity for this desperate measure ? Was our coun
try invaded? Ns. Were our liberties in danger ?
No. Was it to protect our little remaining com
merce from the injuries sustained by the orders in
command ? No. Commerce was*not such a favo
rite, and the merchants wished for no war on that
account.
His Idea of Democratic Duplicity in Regard to
Foretgnisvi.
Besides, if the existence of the orders in council
had been its true cause, after their repeal, our coun
try would have accepted the olive branch which
was offered by England. What then was the cause '?
The one for which we professed to draw the sword
and risk our all, was to determine an abstract ques
tion of the law of nations, concerning which, an
opinion different from that of our administration,
was held by all Europe. To decide whether a man
can expatriate himself or not. In the decision of
this question our administration pretended to feel a
deep interest. The greater pari of those foreign
ers, who would he affected hy it, had long been their
earnest friends, they had been one of the great
means of elevating the present (Democratic) ruling
party, and it would hare bent ungrateful for that
parly to have abandoned them.
lie says Foreign Influence Controls the Ad minis- \
tration .
Superficial observers may suppose this to have
been the real source of the war, out whoever will
carefully and impartially examine the history of our
country, will find its true origin to have been far
different. It took its rise from the overweening
mrtiality which the Democratic Party have uni
formly shown for France, and th- consequent hatred
which they felt against her great adversary En
gland. To secure this Foreign Influence has been
the labor of their leaders for more than t wenty years,
and well have they been repaid for their trouble, for
it has been one of the principle causes of introdu
cing and continuing them in power. Immediately
before the war, this foreign influence had complex ly
embodied itself with every political feeling of a ma
jority of the people, particularly in the i\ r est, its
voice was heard so loud at the. seat of Government,
that the President was obliged to yield to its dic
tates or retire from office. The choice in this alter
native was easily made by a man (Madison) who
preferred his private interest to the public good !
\Ve were, therefore, hurried into war entirely unpre
pared.
The Administration Conquer a Disgraceful
Peace.
. What has been its results ? Exactly what rea
sonable men expected at its commencement. We
declared our intention ol conquering Canada;
whether for the purpose of annexing to the United
States or of compelling our enemy to yield the doc
trine of imprisonment, is immaterial to the present
question. Instead of conquering it, we have our
selves been invaded in every quarter, and the best
blood of our country has streamed in defence of our
soil. The very capitol of (he United States, the
lofty temple of liberty, which was reared and conse
crated by Washington, has been abandoned to
its fate by his degenerate successor (Madison,)
who ought to have shed his lust ill op of blood in its
defence.
After the (Democratic) administration had enter
ed upon the war, instead of coming forward with
manly confidence, and taxing the people for its sup
port, they basely shrunk from their duty in order to
maintain their popularity, and adopted the odious
system of carrying on the contest by borrowing
money. What were the effects of this policy ? Does
not every man in the country know, was it even
disguised by the administration, that the United
States would, in a short time, have become bank
rupt, had not peace been concluded ? Thunks to
Heaven, that we have obtained peace, bad and dis
graceful us it is; otherwise the beautiful structure
of the federal government, supported by the. same
feeble hands, might have sunk, like the Capitol, into
ruins.
How the Democracy Embarrassed the Country.
Thm system of anticipating our revenue lias left
an immense load of debt upon the country, the pay
ment of which will be a grievous burden, not only
upon the present generation, but upon posterity.—
This burden has fallen more heavily upon our coun
try than upon any other part of the Union ; on ac
count of our numerous and extensive distilleries.—
The late additional duties imposed upon whisky has
almost destroyed its manufacture. In its conse
quences it has not only affected the distillers, but it
has given a severe blow upon the prosperity of this
country generally.
Whilst the distilleries were in active operation,
the cattle and grain found a good and ready market
at home. The balance of trade was generally in our
favor, and wealth was rapidly diffusing itself
throughout our country. Hut Congress, by impos
ing a tax upon the article more grievous thdn it was
aide to bear, have destroyed the very revenue
which they intended to raise. This instance among
others of a similar nature, shoo s how totally desti
tute arc our present rulers of wisdom and fore
sight, even upon subjects immediately regarding
the pecuniary interest of the Government.
These are not the only evils consequent upon that
timid and time-serving policy. It has embarrassed
the government so much that it must be a long
time indeed before we can dare again to go to war
with any powerful nation, even for the maintenance
of our dearest rights. All these evils would in a
great measure have been prevented by sufficient in
dependence in the administration, to have imposed
moderate taxes at the commencement of the contest.
The credit of the nation would then have continued
good, and we might have avoided the painful spec
tacle of seeing the public stock sold in the market,
at an enormous discount, and greedy speculators
enriching themselves by its purchase, at the expense
of the toil and sweat of the honest yeomanry of our
country.
Instead of exempting seamen suiling unde., our
flag from impressment by the war, we have alto
gether relinquished that principle; because it is a
well established truth in the law of nations that if
a war be waged by one country against another, for
a specified claim, and the treaty which terminated
the contest is silent upon that object, it is forever
abandoned. Thus the Government have at least
yielded the very point for the maintenance of which
they professed to go to war, ufter having expended
nearly two hundred million of dollars.
We have not only obtained by the war anything
which we were taught to expect, but we have lost
many valuable privileges. All the numerous rights
and advantages guarantied to us by Jay’s treaty
have been relinquished. Nay, we have not only
been compelled to conclude a treaty which does not
contain one solitary stipulation in our favor, except
that there shall be peace ; but which unsettles the
boundaries of our country, and leaves to the de
cision of commissioners whether we shall longer re
tain apart of our territory, which wc held in quiet
possession for more than t wenty years.
Hut notwithstanding our immense national debt,
which, if the war had continued, would soon have
resulted in national bankruptcy; notwithstanding
all our property, even the very necessaries of life,
have been taxed heavily ; notwithstanding we have
not obtained u single object which we had in view
at the commencement of the contest, but have lost
many valuable privileges; notwithstanding our
country has been invaded in every quarter, and the
Capitol of the United States has been laid in ashes
by a marauding party of the enemy—this has been
called a glorious war! Glorious it has been, in the
highest degree, to the American character, but dis
graceful in the extreme to the Administration.—
When the individual States discovered that they
were abandoned by the General Government, whose
duty it was to protect them, the fortitude of their
citizens arose w ith their misfortunes. The moment
we were invaded, the genius of freedom inspired
their souls. They rushed upon their enemies with a
hallowed fury, which the hireling soldiers of Britain
could never feel. They taught our foe that the soil
of freedom would alwuys be the grave of its in
vaders.
The Country Ruined, by Democratic Rule.
Hut do the administration, who involved us in the
late unnecessary war, derive any credit from their
exertions? Certainly not. They were the spon
taneous efforts of the country, undirected by the
government. The militia who w'ere chiefly engaged
in these glorious conflicts, were often without pay
and without comfortable clothing. The dreadful
situation of the country compelledthenri to abandon
their families and the sweets of domestic life, without
any previous warning, to defend places which were
left utterly unprotected by their proper guardians
—places which ought to have been ready for a siege
at the commencement of the coetest. As well might,
Ferdinand the 7th of Spain, who was not in his king
dom, but who was nominally king, claim the glory
of rescuing his country from the armies of France,
as our government take to itselt the credit of expell
ing our invaders.
When we turn our attention to the regular army,
which w’ere peculiarly under the direction of the na
tional government, w’hat do we discover ? During
the first year of the war, that year in which it was
to have closed with glory, that year within which our
triumphant banners were to have floated upon the
w alls of Quebec, and all Canada was to have been
ours, the year in w hich that province was left unpro
tected, and the forces of our enemy were employed
in Europe, it experienced nothing but a continua
tion of degredatioH and defeat. Is there an Ameri
can on the floor of the house, who has not blushed
for his country a thousand times, during that dis
graceful year—until all the general officers, who
had been unpointed for political purposes, and en
trusted with the command at the commencement of
the contest, were disgraced; and until others had
fought tneinselves into credit and into notice, all our
battles ended into defeat.
During the lastyeur of the war, the regular army,
under their commanders, retrieved their lost cha
racter and performed prodigies of valor ; but unfor
tunately, on account of the impotenceof the govern
ment, they fought against such fearful odds that they
w’ere hardly able even to defend our northern fron
tier. Indeed, so dreadful was the situation of our
country for some time previous to the close of the
contest, that the occasional splendid exploits of our
heroes, like the gleams of lightning in a dark and
tempestuous night, only added new horrors to the
surrounding gloom. They only served to show us
what brilliant exertions our country might have
made, had we been governed by men who w’ere
capable of properly collecting and directing its re
sources.
But peace has again returned to bless our shores.
Again, Commerce, who has for years been weeping
over the misfortunes of our country, begins to smile.
Again we stand central to all the European powers.
W liat then should he the political conduct m future .
Precisely to pursue the political maxims adopted by
Washington We ought to cultivate peace with all
nations, by adopting a strict neutrality nut only of
conduct but of sentiment.
We ought to make our neutrality respected by
placing ourselves in an attitude of defence. We
ought forever to abandon the wild project of a phi
losophic visionary, of letting commerce protect it
self. In its protection w e ought to increase our na
vy. We ought never to think of embargoes and
noil-intercourse laws without abhorrence. We
ought to use every honest exertion to turn out of
pow er those w eak and wicked men who have aban
doned the political path marked out for this country
by Washington, and whose wild and visiouary
theories have length tested by experience
and found wanting.*
What Must be Done with Foreignism.
Above all ice ought to drive from our shores
foreign in/luence and cherish exclusive American
1 feelings. Foreign influence hus been m crc; ./ - ,
i the curse of Republics. Her jaundiced eye sec -• 7
, things in false colors ! The thick atmosphere of
f prejudice, by which she is forever surrouneed,
r excludes from her sight the light of reason.
Whilst she worships the nation which she favors
for their very crimes, she curses the enemy of th.it
nation even for their virtues. In every age she has
inarched before the enemies of her countries, pro
claiming peace when there was no peace, and # lull
ing its defenders into fatul security, whilst the iron
hand of despotism has been aiming a death-blow at
, their liberties. Already has our infant republic felt
i her withering influence. Already has she involv
ed us in a war which had nearly cost us our exis
tence.
Let us then learn wisdom from experience , and
forever banish this fiend from our society. We are
separated from the nations of Europe by an im
mense ocean. We are still more disconnected from
them by a different form of government, and by the
enjoyment of true liberty. Why then should we
injure ourselves, by takiug part in the ambitious
contests of foreign despots and kings?
Should this Washingtonian policy be pursued, our
country will again rise to its former greatness and
wealth. Under the blessings of Providence, we
may then calculate on a long andliuppy existence as
a nation. We may reasonably hope that our chil
dren's children, to remote generations, may be as
sembled together on this auspicious day, blessing the
memories of the men whom heaven entrusted with
the glorious task of making a great nation, free,
happy, and independent.
Fatal TraModies in New Orleans.
The New Orleans Bulletin, of the 16th relates the
following terrible events which occurred in that city
on Saturday night:
The Fourth District, usually so quiet, was on Sa
turday night the scene of two of t lie most bloody and
terrible tragedies ever enacted in it. They were,
however, totally distinct and disconnected,* though
occuring within a few' squares of each other and
about the same hour of the night. Wo will state
them in as few words as possible. A man named
Michael Higgins, a clerk in a cotton house, residing
in Eighth street, between Prytania and Nayades,
came home on Saturday night about 11 o'clock in
toxicated. He had been playing cards in a neigh
boring coffee house, and when he entered his house
he found his wife and infant child in bed. lie or
dered his wife to give him some water. She told
him there was water on the table with tumblers.—
lie again with imprecations told her if she did not
get up and give him some water, he would kill her.
She, alarmed, sprang out of bed and out of door.
She closed the door after her, as he had on previous
occasions threatened her, and she was fearful he
might attempt to put his threats in execution. He
instantly seized a double-barreled shot gun, which
was standing by, loaded, and placing the muzzle
against the door, fired. The load entered the wife’s
abdomen, and verging up riddled her intestines in a
horrid manner, carrying with it splinters from the
door, and even reaching ns far as tne stomach. The
alarm was given and the neighbors rallied. Dr.
White was instantly called for, out no human efforts
could save the life of the poor woman. She lingered
along between life and death till about 6o’clock yes
terday morning, when deatli released her from her
sufferings. Yesterday Coroner Mitchell held an in
quest on the body. A post mortem examination
was held and a verdict returned in accordance with
the facts just given. The deceased was only 21
years old. Both herself and her husband were born
in Ireland. She had been married several years and
had had several children ; the youngest only about
fourteen months old, survives. Higgins was arrest
ed and is now in prison.
The other tragedy occurred at the corner of
Apollo and Fourth streets, about the same hour—ll
o’clock—on Saturday night. It appears that a mao
named Edward Wisely —had been in the habit of
coming to the house ol Captain Joseph Gibson on
Apollo street, corner of Fourth, to see a negro wo
man belonging to the latter. Captain Gibson had
spoken to him on the subject, and some ill-feeling
had been engendered between them in consequence.
On Saturday evening, Captain Gibson was at the
house of Mr. N. 1). Marvel, a few doors from his own
residence on Apollo street., having a social talk with
Mr. Marvel and Mr. K. P. Phillips. Presently
Wisely came in, and Captain Gibson promised t«»
him to drop past difficulties and make friends.—
Wisely refused. The propos tion was renewed
three times and as often refused. Captain Gibson
remained so late that his wife came after him.
When they came out Wisely came out too and fol
lowed them. Mrs. Gibson observing that he was
following them closely, t urned and demanded why
he did so, and requesting him to desist. Soon after.
Mr. Phillips, who came out with Capt. Gibson and
wife, saw a large bowie knife in the hands of Wise
ly, and spoke to him. Before, however, there was
time to prevent it, Wisely made a thrust at Captain
Gibson and cut him in the arm. Mrs. Gibson in
stantly sprung between her husband and Wisely,
when the latter plunged his huge bowie knife into
her abdomen, inflicting wlmt is pronounced a
mortal wound. Captain Gibson instantly drew a
dirk and stabbed Wisely to the heart, and he fell h
corpse. These are the facts elicited yesterday at
the Coroner’s inquest from several witnesses,
Messrs. E. P. Phillips, .1. J. Burnet, W. 1). Marvel,
and Shepherd. Wisely was 27 years old, and a na
tive of Ireland. He was employed as a blacksmith
by Mr. Patrick Irvin. The verdict of the Coroner’s
jury of inquest was that the deceased was killed as
above stated by Capt. Joseph Gibson, in defence of
himself and his wife, at the time and place stated.—
He offered to give himself up, but nobody was dis
posed to arrest or accuse, him of any crime. Mrs.
Gibson was pronounced past recovery yesterday at.
two o’clock, and she is, in all probability before this,
dead. When Wisely was found by the Deputy
Coroner, he had the murderous bowie knife still
strongly grasped in his hand, cold and still !
State of Things in California. —The N. V.
Express publishes extracts from private letters from
California, written after the murder of King, which
give an exciting account of the State of a flairs in
the State :
The public, when the steamer left, w’as in a con
dition bordering upon actual frenzy. Every man
walked the streets armed to the teeth, and looking
upon his neighbor with suspicion. The “Vigilance
Qommittee, ’ says one of the letters, has upwards
of Jirc thousand members on its muster roll. Cn
Bey and Cora (the murderer of Col. Richardson)
would certainly be executed by this Committee on
the morning ot the 22d of May, the day after the
departure of the steamer. The Vigilance Com
mittee, moreover, we have the fullest assurance,
had determined to sit m perpetuity until not only
the city of San Francisco, but the entire Stale,
should be subjected to a thorough purification. < )ur
informants state that they have prepared a Black
List embracing the names of about one hundred and
eighty of the most notorious imiiderenq thieves and
black-legs—all of whom will be required to quit
the country, at short notice, or contemplate the con
tingency of summary judgment before the tribunal
of Judge Lynch. Among their names are said to
be the following :
“Dave” Broderick,from New York; Yankee Sul
livan, from New York; Charles Duane, (’‘Dutch
Charley,”) from New York ; Billy Mulligan, (“great
on the pistol,”) from New York ; Bill Lewis, (board
inghouse keeper ;) Col. James, (lawyer ;) Neil Mc-
Gowan, (judge ;) Daniel Aldrich, (blackleg.)
The two last mentioned, as soon ns the determi
nation of the Vigilance Committee leaked out, had
decampted to parts unknown —together with n nu
merous company of what our correspondent deli
cately designates as “shoulder-hitters” and “ballot
box stutters.”
A letter written just before the sailing of the
steamer says :
It is slated on good authority that all the officials
of the State intend toresigntfu ir office, and people
are now inclined to look on the Vigilance Committee
as the rulers and law givers. Citizen soldiers (not
militia,) are continually parading up and down our
streets, and awe mingled with idiocy, seems to be
stamped on everybody’s countenance. This law
less outbreak is certainly well conducted, ns you
may judge from the fact of the state Government,
be ing overthrown without a drop of blood being
spilled (except King’s) or a shot fired. The Vigi
lance Committee now extends throughout the State
ami it is said that every little town and hamlet
now bus its organization who have firmly pledged
themselves “to do or die”—although at present in
this city some of the members complain of the se
verity of the drilling and the duties they have to
perform.
The Steamboat Conflagration at New Or
leans. —The New Orleans Picayune , of the 10th
inst., gives the following additional particulars :
The steamboats destroyed at the Algiers landing
last night, w’ere the New Latona, the D. S. Stacy,
the Delia, the Piota, and the Mary Bess. We are
glad to learn that the Frank Lyon and Louis White
man escaped, and the total loss is much less than it.
was at first supposed to be. From all that we can
learn the fire originated on board the New Latona,
which boat, was in charge of the Sheriff, and had
two keepers on board. It is supposed that the boat
was purposely set on fire, but by whom is not known.
The Sheriff had no insurance on her, and, indeed,
we could not ascertain that she was insured at all.
As the wind was blowing very freshly at the time,
the fire spread with amazing rapidity, passing from
boat to boat as they were moored river
bank, and carrying complete destruction in its path.
Not only w’ere the several boats which we have al
ready named, on fire from stem to stern at the same
time, but three barges, two powder boats, and a
house on shore were also wreathed with flames, pre
senting together an imposing, though fearful spec
tacle. In the city, dome and spire were gilded by
the reflection of the lurid light, and hundreds of peo
ple rushed to the steamboat landing, in order to
witness the brilliant scene. The explosions of the
powder boats were also looked upon as imposing py
rotechnic displays.
We regret to add that Capt. Holmes, who had
charge of the Mary Bess, lost, his life ; at. least ho
has not since been seen, and it is supposed that he
was burned to death on board of his boat.
Os the boats destroyed, only the New Latona
and the Stacy were in the Sheriff’s hands. On the
Latona, us already mentioned, he had no insur
ance, and on the Stacy but SI,OOO. There was,
however, an insurance by other parties of SO,OOO
on the Stacy, in the Crescent Insurance Company.
We could not learn that there w f os any insurance
on either the Piota or Mary Bess. The latter boat
is owned by Cuptains Otway, Muggah and Lyons.
On the Delia there ww ari insurance of SO,OOO, in
tde Louisiana Insurance Company.
The value of the several boats destroyed is put
down in round figures as follows :
D. S. Stacy $12,000, New Latona sls 000, Mary
Bess SIO,OOO, Delia SIO,OOO, and Piota SI2,(MM).
The Camden Counterfeiters.— Some further
developments have been made in the case of the
counterfeiters arrested in Camden. The real name
of the so-called Montee is Ralph Osborn, who was
convicted and sentenced to Auburn Prison for
counterfeiting coin in October, 1851, and was pur
doned by the President of the United States in the
March following. Vanepps turns out to be the cele
brated Dr. Tasaut, of quack memory, formerly of
Albany, New York. The amount of counterfeit
bills found in the house now foot up the very neat
little sum of SIOO,OOO.
Dr. Tasaut seems by the correspondence found in
the house, to be the Grand Master, or at least one
of the leading spirits in the “Mystic Circle,” a Se
cret Order of Counterfeites organized throughout
the length and breadth of the States. Copies of the
Constitution. By Laws, Certificates of Membership,
&.C., have fallen into the hands of the police. — ('or.
Balt. Amcr.
Elopement in High Life. — A New York paper
publishes the following vague gossip, which is just
now a topic of surprise among the friends and ac
quaintances of the parties : “ A beautiful girl, about.
17 years of uge, daughter of a wealthy and promi
nent gentleman of this city, recently eloped to Eu
rope with an officer in the late war with Mexico, in
which he distinguished himself for his bravery and
heroism. He is a man of large fortune, and before
leaving provided bountifully for his family which he
lelt behind. The parents and family friends of the
erring girl are plunged in the deepest distress in con
sequence of her conduct; therefore, we forbear from
giving her name or that of the individual with whom
she has fled the country. She was genteelly edu
cated, and possessed all the accomplishments that
wealth could bestow. Her every wish was gratified
by her doting parents.”
For Kansas. — A body of emigrants, uuder the
conduct of Col. White, numbering more than 200,
reached Atlanta last night on their way to Kansas.
This number consists of about one hundred able
bodied men, and the rest of women, children and
servants. We hear that the party has been made
up of citizens from Monroe, Upson, Houston, Merri
wether and Marion counties. Col. Win. M. Brown,
of the last named couuty, contributed SSOO towards
the travelling expenses of the company, and Mr. J.
Neal, of Pike, about S3OO. —Atlanta Intelligence i,
1 9th instant.