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w ,j lt „ m>m tiu lxgW-'iluri o* Know, lirooUM,,: •
dcuiat* u r«.tl of f »pprcUSSdii 4HW wioiiige htrtl :
wrong which wOuidj be b« mtMrfril t<* the Lti I
Uim.M- <.■ >!-v ••■ ■• »« <h *' !
Vnmlof- who to t % roiuze *»V*-r Uh* cjiizen* of <
H« ft.gU4.aUgU .vi»p ut U*t,- • c - V ;>'d j
o ■ ri h. of fne riTiffiaSriaw !
<•«•:,-til afiou of the-Uniu-i St-Ues, * ?*jeeiaiiy i,.* ' j
r»*iMtiv« to the freeuotf* of -j : rr I;
Ah Kurliugfuftcdefended Mi* <’
general and specific charge, ctauniuc ihn» in ®W tbiSf j
. mist mites true HTvAIUMI, l!« is* the h*>* > «*»<*. J
HJiti i*«r llßftflt pCrfofiUhUCr s - UT|>< nOr to itti l*v-‘
pcUriot recollertiou*. ll*- w«« sorry to f,t !f
--oi her list ol no IV - • 1 ol , !'*
United Slat**, who bad beaberat* y per\ erted lor
-Im< v Jo eulogize the South at toe expeus- of the
North* and become the chieftain of beetMinahein.-
AlaaouchßoeU* believed with .SoUlhCaromia that the
Fugitive Slave Law inuncou*t»! tH/nal.
At] Keitt naked Mr. Bui.iuga.ue tor ii - •li»oi *y
relative toS/utith Car- iiua.
Mr Burlingame ciujd the *if the CL ii« -
i,,n At.reury, which spoke of tie Fugitive Slave
uiw a* an infringement of one of lie- owed rlieu.-h'd
,nimu|»i** of the Constitution. In conclu-ion i*
. c torrid to Mr. Sumners speech as purify and noblo
men |u iu centime lit--, aiid .-e verity in itfe strict un-.r
tyraunv. Mr. Sumner ue% t.i Lad ap‘
♦ uemy-—Vip character w?o* *« pure a the -n< w
vhiel. falljs on bh nativi *. i- II- b«i»rt
oig with kind teaa for every bui«xui h* .*
th«; upwritfht fonti of a man. If’ "' i -~ un ac* oju
phdied •cbolar and chivalric nth run A mt .n
f>*-r ot tiii- liotiae, who had taken ti.c •>;£. : to f>-*p
th« Constitalioii, -toh- into the Senate nod
mote hi in an Cain smote hir brother.
Air. Keitt. Itv? fume. (ty-ii-ation.
Mr. iiuiiiiitfnme replied tliailie would not ban *y
•-pithets, but was r**rpoiwihie for his own language
only, ttifl doubtless thegentl'UlftFwa- ri*\*msibUi
lot nU.
Mr. Keitt. ‘ I am.
Mr. Huriingume, ash-r -i.* .Ling and n. ve-reiy
eoudemning toe assault naked : “Cau you that«.i»v
niry ? in what code of honor did you get authority
tor that 1 It we are not t>> have freedom of fepeeci.
what o all thi*♦government worth 1 it we are to be
ended to account by wuiie gallant nephew of aoiua
gallant undo for acme thing which does nut »uit th* ir
sensitive nerves, wo want. Uj know if. if the eon
diet ia to be transferred from the peaceful mteliee
rual, whore iiouors arc equal and easy, we d* sire to
know it.
i iie time may conn* when MaMMiehusctts may
witiidraw her reprefM iitativer to Iser own Ikihm—
when safety if not t-i be loumi i«*r thoui under the
Hag of our cuuunon « ountry —but while repre-
Miitativi - are here they will sp«cak when and how
they will, uncaring for eoa*"*|uenceH. If they are
prewidl too long and Um fur, t hey will not shrink
fi«<>n the det- ner of the honor of the Common wealth
of Mumsaehusetb) and fn-edom of speech.
Mr. Keitt nought to obtain tin- floor, which '
s-wardod to Air. Curliic wi*o declined to y»* :*l it.
Mr. Keitt gave notice that he w*ou!<l on Mon
day reply to Home points of Air. liuiiingauu.'M npeecii.
Mr.Uuditigftßteafler conciiidiug hissp- ech war
privately congratulated by his fi icnd«.
Mr. Cathie condemned the Cincinnati rcaohUi<au>.
or, ur he said, the illibuttering platfom . Mr. Fie
monJ would not receive the * lectoral vote of any
district except tiiat represented by Mr. (iiddings.
The contest in between Mr. i illmrrre, the candidate,
of the National party, and Mr. Buchanan, who is
upported by a faction.
.Mr. VVushburne, of Maine, urged the neecj-.sity of
u union of the opp-mcntH of the AdirtiuuftraUoii and
flmse adverse to the extension of ahurcry in the 1 er
l itorio. He examined the platform ol theCincin
n.ui Convention in connection with the principles
mi an t-c.< ;dent» of Mr. liuehoum. and with the u< e
-1 liijeM of the Democratic party, concluding by say
nig that it was inexpressible n hes to emerge from
tin dark uful fetid atmospliere. reekingWimabame
and w.**ngH, into the dear light and healthful
breezes of truth and liberty. He spoke of Col. Fre
ni out as the m Lund aid bearer of freedom iu thin <on
i« t, a Hfiong and tru- mail, whoso aim would be to
maintain the principlea of the Constitution cud
ioing luick the Goveriiiiient to the poliey of Wash
•i;'ton and Jefferson Mr Woshbunie triumphed in
!; 11 11 1 nay, undoubted conviction—that the pro
ceedings of the Bepublicau Convention would l>e
-• ii-tallied by ii hirgc majority i»f the Aincricnii peo
'l’hc House then adjourned.
IN SKXATK June -d.
Mr. Kish presented a letter from George .Sumner,
brother of Senator Sumner, It states that the im
ju.mHion whieli might be drawn from Ur. Hoyle *
• Her, that the latter was dismissed from hi* attend*
.in*upon Mr. Suumer on account of the character
ot In.' testimony before the House Investigating
< oiiiioittee, wa* unfoundod, a* ho did not know at
tin- time Ur. Hoyle wa# dismissed whut his test into-
Senator Suumer wa* miffering from high fever
tilt hi* j>uhe at KM, mid Dr. Perry being willing
lo I (ike el large of the case, I>r. Hoyle * service* were
no longer required.
Ah, Toombs gave notice of hi* intention to intro
duce n bill to take 1 lie census of Kansas in order to
pml M.*t the exercise of tin* elective franchise in the
lei.-itory, and provide for culling a convention to
• .i in a constitution preparatory to admission into the
I" inon.
Mr. Toombs briefly explained the provisions of the
lull which he proposed to introduce. He desired to
i >i\i miiic complete and tinal measure* adopted for
tin-pacification of that territory; audit seemed to
him that in order that this should be effected, there
hould first be a census taken of the present inhabi
tant. This would take away all motive for either
• • tiiai ol the Union to attempt to force people into
Kansas, and thereby endanger the peace of the
< .untry in order to promote a sectional advantage,
by having institution* made for the people- of that
ici ritory by a jiopulation who have no interests in
the quest ion. It also proposes to protect the free
dom of the ballot box, and to that end submit Bitch
qm-Htion to five commissioners to be selected by the
1 -resident, who shall cause an enumeration to be
made for the purpose ; first, of having a proper dis
Kihution of representation, so a* to give a lair and
. -jual representation to a population very un
equally distributed over the territory; and second
ly, of having a registry of all the real bona fide in
habitant* of the territory.
The bill provides that all white male inhabitant*
ol il yearn of age, shall be registered a* legal vo
ter*. It also provide* that Kansas *lial! lie admitted
into the Union a* a State without delay. A* soon
* the census shall be taken, and it ascertained who
oe the rest! iuhabitiiut* of Kansas, they shall pro*
. • ed forthwith to the election of delegate* to n con
M illion to form a constitution preparatory to their
aimission into the Union as n State. This election
in would nave take place on the first Tuesday in
No\. mlier; for that would give sufficient time. It
c ould allow four month* residence to the inlinbi
i aids; and that would boa day when the people of
t la* diJlVreiit State* ot the Union would be preven
ted, in eonsequmce of being occupied in their own
Stile with the Presidential election, from oven at
tempting to defeat the wishes of the people of Kan
as, by Interfering with their election. This mea
m e wo* liable to but one objection, and that wu*
not an objection of principle out of expediency.—
It was solely ns to the smallness of the number
«.| inhabitant* there ; but that objection was waiv
. I by a considerable portion of the Senate, and
h\ a large part of the people. Believing that this
proposition would meet a favorable reception, and
b« proniotive of good, lie should, at an early day,
ask leave to introduce the bill of which he now gave
notice.
Mr. Wilson explained that the error in the Globe
report, of his speech, to which attention was called
by Mi Butler, on Thursday last, arose on account
«if lit* being absent from the city, and Icaviug an
other person to read the proof sheets of the speech,
who made the mistake. The error did not occur in
the uttered remarks.
Air. Kvans replied to Mr. Sumner'* attack on
South Hamlina, vindicating her revolutionary his
tory. defending her institutions, and treating the
object in u cairn, dispassionate, mul dignified man
\\ hen lu' had concluded, All*. Hunter obtained
the floor; nml, uftei an Executive session, the Sen
ate adjourned.
HOUSE.
I his week, l*v previous agreement, hud been
• \ apart for the consideration of territorial busi
n- • A Hill authorizing the President to cause tin'
s-*uf hern boundary line of Ivans as to be surveyed,
was parsed.
.Mr NYnkeman gave notice of his intention to
introduce a bill amendatory of the act of ISIS,
prohibiting the introduction of importation of slaves.
The bill establishing two additional land district#
, i the territory of Minnesota, after being debated
w as laid aside to be reported to the House.
Hie bill authorizing the people of Oregon to form
. v’- nstitution and State government, having been
taken up.
Mr. .1 ones,of Tennessee, moved all amendment,
ijuiring the territory to have a population equal to
• . representative ratio established under the ecu
IS of I Sot).
This gave rise to a debate which was not conclu
ded when the committee rose.
flu discussion to-day being strielly confine ! to
. subjects be fore the House, Mr. Iv* it t was ore
. utedYrom making his speech lu reply to Mr. Bur
lingame.
'I Harris, ot Maryland, presented the men.eri
•t M’> Adams, widow of Captain George Ad
. of the United States Navy, asking the allow*
•t a pension. Keferred ?«> the committee on
Pension*.
The House then adjourned.
IN SI'.NATE « June .1.
sir. Mason introduced a joint resolution which
i i"‘ d. appropriating lbr the purchase
>• ;>nd u.-iota: :«»u to the British Government of the
h olntc, late of the British Navy, wi/.eh was
abandon, d in the Arctic seas and found by the crew
. ; :.u American whale ship, by w hom she was
; .• ught to this country.
M Geyi r intivdiu ed a bid supplementary to t!ie
K
i , ..i. i to provide for the thilhfu! execution of said
tb, territory of Kansas, according to the true
: and meaning thereof.
M Hunter replied to the attacks of Mr. Sumner
. State of VinfUiiu, ami cu:nnunu-ion the
• ions of tie Massachusetts Legislature. He re
eked that lie knew of no previous instance in
; a ot any Stale Lad stepped for
v. -4 b> prejudge a e i>-. of this kind; and lie
TfougU it < *‘:*M .only result in inerea-ing tin-ex
•|*-.alien ot t«mt uiiibtiuuaic seetienul feeling
\S et. was lew threatening the peace of the
" 1 *•' s e.mdiy matcudoitgcriiig li . perpetuity of i
.t' e..- ‘itlitiehs. Massachusetts mid uotliuig to 's.V :
■ ■ y wa} ~f rebuk. to Mr. Suniini f.-r h.s .‘tie; si\* I
■ .
icdly « r. • rstd lliKt sjievyh. and tkauke \ hit.: . r
Mr U» proctv&d tvv r, p,-; *he attach Mr. !
* • \ ’on ;. b. ing .s; . . .
*" brought n> cattle to too jJuunbh f . ' ~-iv ;
:ho negro to read the w aid of life. The fouudati n*
tb» .v .*»:••: . st< d, wais •
•' ardtht sh\. bad. e\;.-.»>d in \ >at „ t
• Ir 'uaUk- * “if ouo'Vuw ’^toother
hit Mr. Hunter argu -d that >:.v. y w..>.., ...
• omfifWfer tbe colored race, uud no comuwnbv
n«> to be blamed on the ;i>s. pa, aide in, id v U> of a
iUitiMioii. He alao ossav,d »<> pro\ ,
. • . vtaci. ot Mr Bum k> an .d >
jt« it n r. a*h of pmiiqsy. but merely a uiatter'fbr
Si• , x,4r d\e iunwtKf .r.Md fejutta »i I*»w.
Mr. F -u*r eiKniued the th***r but gave wsv to
M v ~*rd. who replied Mr Hui.u urgu
m.-ui hi i-< Be ok® Tb* remarks which .mi
.
op-ux W.rse.. ;ideH:li«d by-u.aay of lit* N r:h as ;
; w..a .n.n i
IpCN e men giad to* ha ye. tie aiddn dr o]
.•w ih** .S,u&tor fr«M»* \ irghnat ol «n a . •
■ . .... tv. t’j/llion. im\: ?t i . .v . . , -
M Pm*.- * - . lit \i v ..... , * , . .
U*-! •o’Un- >.!.!• Ui> ! . j • ;.am i». . ...
M IVativ. •».. ekousum of the r. ew .
im •-.'iUg ;trn ibc catsuit on Mr. SUium- r. def«*n*Vd j
the
jdi lht.if-5 jugmoAd egndist »i
Mr uijem.d.
i .y. uitfX *t u udj -arLr d
i';. 4 : J' l /1 »C ,
i Ml at!**-. 40^W?Ts
Air VSLmw v mtaMSHSkI S.tuU !
ro|.rtl: .-uiU ,4v;«rrv tl»« j eet-c hi Ksiu-a». w<n»% j
** r.-'ui.-J to (lie Couiuuttotoa T#rritori<-.v
Thw UoMp s>*a rcnußbd ihr Hut
Xft'ror *>lw r *?> Wf Orntfni Is forte a Cor*S
i Oo ;;; n bi~ p.i£*d uvvXf; ud c»her re*
luting u. -he territories ttft&krei
V. . a the foirtniu ii. • , oner.ftbeif).to explain
•• t .-p;.row- i- w |. tv &iMwk adr
d .d
1
Th IfcgH tie i.a* jptir; i
IN MINATi: ..Jun* -o?
Mr. \V sonhr inteiil e pnli ion nghe
of the A1 uuftu hu i»-* K*-: : '.*rati! Aid Society, --tt mg
|, . • ?M.m‘ ■ riixalt *. and st itje/tluit
•
, r: ? v r.-]*ort of tl," n-.nittw? .on TmiUm.—;
; , . * :i. • .<> . y v.n- not tin* cause of the
oi Kan*as. having itever ifffrinffwd any
!*; * u ?:.?• rfl • d with tl. peaceable execution ol
T s v Vo-ver Invesie.] one floHfif in rhc purchase
ol uiikuJiium ol war . never dent out? arsons to
- ir • *l;e elections in Kansa-, nor hired a ivy man,
except n* ti tfusiness agent, to go there. They never
paid i '.e pciv-age of a single emigrant *; nor is it
within the knowledge of the company that any
;je.hn* gone nut under their auspice*? will] any
other view than settling and staying in the Terri
torv.
J'ney > represent that their property has been
destroyetl by recent outbreaks, ana pray that the
.iMfl that COW
p.-nsatina may l>e made for the U»sses and injun«-s
.uey have *m-rained. Tlie petition w« referred to
:L** committee on Claims.
AJ Johnson look ' \ccptkm to - -me of the com
ments of Air Seward y-'atefday,on the ocrodwl ol
Air. Ur:*’ iu rts?*atilting lloraec tircelej' soma time
Air. S« war l indicated the correctness of what he
kad said according to the far ts. f*«t far as they weie
within hK knowledge and recoUeOtkm. 11 »* did not.
bow« ver,«t the time remember
on which Ui- assault was uiarle.
Tiie Hous- bill to change the time of holding the
t inted .States Courts in i eanor--» « was passed
Mr. F.wb r spoke on Kansas matters. Ho alluded
to the passage of the Nebraska bi 1 about theliourof
j-ridnigiit on the 2oth of May ISM. Tj»«* darki»e«a
V vhieh then enveloped the earth, yielded to the light
of! he coming dav. i.nt the darkness and gloom
.shici has b< ntau-.d by that bill did not pnm
away, but have l»e« u increasing until they now eu
vr-inp i l .- who i’tnrl with .1 broad biack shadow.—
He proceeded to give a hiatory *»f the event* that
surer cried the pitrsnge of that bill and Hpokc wdtii
♦•amcstneHß i»« defence of the Emigrant Aid Srs icty.
He also \ indicated l*roft» sor Sillirnan and the Rev.
Messrs. Ih-r-eiir r and Dutton. The meeting at New
Haven in Mr. Dutton’s church was lo bid farewell
to tin ir friends who were about to leave for Kansas,
and th<* aruie furnished were merely for nelf-dcfcnee •
nud it was a significant fact that no one of that.par
ty who were then furnished with “Sharp' K-nr-s”
had ever been engage«l in any of the disturbances
in t hat Territory.
Frol* sor Siilunaii Lisbei-nconnected w ith A ale
College for fifty years and during that time not
le-.-i than four thousand young men have been cdu
cj'.Uon tb-*re, no one of whom ever received other
nan good hittuenecrt from him. Mr. Beecher, paator
■ a Diyiooutli Chun h. Brooklyn, was well known to
Me (votiui *V. He might have his failings and eco-n*
trinities, but he and hia congregatian were ever to
be found in tbe foremost rank in efforts to ameho
. ate the couditi.ai of mankind. If he had no stone
cast at him except by those who had done more
than he ha* fin the good of hi* race, he would be
much more likely to attain the age of MethusalaJi
than to suffer the martyrdom of bt. Stephen.
M. F« rv.i* on to disc uns the question ol sia
. erv in t >• S;ale and slavery in the rerritorie*,
<iverriav. ry in the State# the General Govern
, ... . i )l0 pbw< ; : and where thefigf jraauo pow
t , *1 re .vhs no responsibility nud should bo no in
; ■ iined-iling. Hut tin ex';-once of slavery in the
I•ijr■ »i e.- • - nn entirely different matter. lie
ji,en attempted to discover what was the great
principal of the Kansu* and Nebraska bill. Being
• .iriUceessful in hi* search, he proceeded to lay down
V hat he coi. deled to be the true doctrine, which
was, that Uoiigrcf- had exclusive power over the
matter, and if slavery w«* right, he could not see
1. w tl: African *!uve trade could be wrong. Hut
would recommend that wherever slavery existed
in the Terri tori* * i: should be abolished, and wher
ever it did not exist, it should be forbidden.
Mi. Benjamin expressed his gratification at the
tone aud temper of the speech ot Mr. Foster, being
so different from what, ho had been accustomed to
hear from those eutertaining such opinions on the
the subj et of slavery. The question had been dis
< a.--ed in a manner eminently becoming a Senator
ivpn renting one of the sovereign States of this Con
*' On*motion of Mr Weller the Kansas bill aim all
the proposed amendments were re-committed to the
committee on Territories.
Mr. Weller gave notice that he should move to
t.ike up the wagon road bill to California, to inor
Fo After an Extcutive session, the Senate adjourned.
110 USE.
Tin House passed the bill authorizing the Presi
(l.nt to cause lobe delivered at the expense of the
fj.itcd States, to the Territories of Utah and New
Mexico, such arms a* they arc entitled to under the
existing law*. .
The bid establishing two land districts in Kansas
was tabled by majority.
'1 il,- House pro—eded to the consideration of the
bid i p aled Ironi the committee on TerritorieH, for
the adinission of Kansas as a State into the 1 nion
with the Topeka constitution.
Mr. Grow said that ou the i3th of May, IS->->, an
act was pu.-si d organizing Kansas as a Territory.—
'i'he ceii ;us of February, showed twenty-live
■ • 1 ction which
chose t-lui legislature which enacted the code ot
I, ..I Kansu-, xixty-tbree Imudrvd and tlm ty-oue
voli-ru. Tiu.-e lawn Oie people believed were op
pri e uini wrong, and emanating from u-urpu
ti.ui oi Legislative power, tlw-y uie not bound by
11. nidi ations of justice mid right in submitting to
Senator (‘‘bn ton recently declined tlioau
mu., to be unexampled, palpably unjust and oppres
>iv. . and some of them unconstitutional, besides
being insulting to honorabld men wtio uiigUt dit
fer troiu him un political (questions. The peo
ple of tin- Territory, believing that “resistance
to tyranny is obedience to tied,’ nailed a eon
vention, in a constitutional and legal way, and
adopted a State Constitution at Topeka. Air.
Grow gave u history of the attendant proceedings,
and spoke of the difficulties in Kansas, and the
fruitless efforts of the Federal authorities to prevent
them. ... .
Mr. Stephen* gave notice of his intention to sub
mit a sub. litute for the bill, to guard against all the
evil* of which Mr. Grow complained.
Mi . Smith, oflVuuim'O, said that reason and not
passion ought to reign. We have passed through
iiiaiiv.- ein- of disturbance t-.nce the adoption ot
1 1 .4 UmistUniiuu, but at lust, pat riots have been wil
ling to come to a reasonable couclußion on the ques
tion* which divided all sec lion* of the country. The
gent h man from Pennsylvania had denounced the
Executive for a failure to enforce the laws, or narti
ality in their e.; ‘cation; but Home men in the South
utter H.rniiur complaints. This furnishes the highest
evidence that the President had nobly done Ins duty
to the entire country, but this was not the tune lor
recrimination, but, if possible, at once to quiet the
prevailing excitement. He thought that the bill re
( i utly introduced in the Senate by Toombs, equita
ble and just, and based on principles so far as slave
ry i* concerned ox which all men who love the l m
*ni ciui unite. . . .
Mr. Smith believed that both sections have acted
imprudently regarding the K visdifiiculties, which
.ti hist bringing into disrepute .i 1 fair lame ot our
lb public. Hie President has done nil in his power
j t*» prevent insuirection and preserve the public
m u* e, and he wa* gratified to know that theExeou
trie’s cllbrts are likely to succeed. But Congress
hu . done nothing, notwithstanding the reeommen
ittition of the President for the adoption of additlon
aJ measure* to secure tranquility.
Mr. Grow moved that the bill be recommitted to
lint committee on Territories.
Mr. Dunn said he understood Air. Grow' * design
was to prevutthe bill being sent to the committee
of the whole on the state ot the l niou.
Mr. (trow replied in the allirmative.
Mr. Dunn expressed the hope that a bill involv
ing so many important principles would be sent to
the committee of the whole on the state of the
Union, with a view to the widest discussion. Ex
perience had shown that to be the best, place lor
that purpose, amendment* may be there offered and
fully debated. If what appeared in the newspapers
were trite, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor
. t Kansas, and all gentlemen connected with the
State Government of Kansas arc- under indictment
for i.e.is. which oft’ net: is not bailable. Suppose
Kansu* wore admitted into the Union, what provis
ion did the gentleman from Pennsylvania make for
that state of affairs ! Let the tribunals of the coun
try take their quiet course.
Talk of a dissolution of the Union ! It would be
mockery in comparison with the revolution and
| blood-riied which would ensue under this condition
;of things He could go far to establish freedom in
that Territory, but would oppose all measures to es
tablish it by a subversion of <>ur country. He was
not to be moved by outside pressure or by inside
persuasion.
I d ict this important measure go where other impor
; taut bills go, or be there ronsulered.
i Mr. Grow said the gentleman from Pennsylvania
j knew as well as any man, that to send the bill to the
committee of the whole on the state of the Union
was to kill it effectually, and therefore it could n i
be liVetuully nmended. Any man who should vo>-
to stud it there miglrf as well vote against the bill
directly. The question was whether the House
were rendv to reliev; the people of Kansas from
tl*ir present cjq*ivssion by admitting them as a
State. AVhat light would fhiis be trampled down ?
As to the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor be
inj; indicted for tree, m, the.admission of Kansas
into the Union would perhaps furnish a remedy,
but if not, provision could be made to meet the
Mr. Dunn (Mr. Grow withdrawing his motion)
moved the bill be referred to the committee of the
whole on tie State of tin* Union, pending which
motion t! * House w ent into committee on territorial
bills, and subs- pu ..riy passed that for the construc
tion of a roa*l into the territory of Minnesota.
The lions then adjourned.
IN SENATE June 2d.
The Ui.air laid Kdbr-* the Senate a communica
tion from the Secrt-tc.ry of th-c Interior, in answer
»»* a .v sel'.i.ien inquiring what legislation, if any,
is necessary ti» give full force and effect to the
a -t known as the Swamp Land act. and to quiet all
• -
thority ot tin- Federal and State Governments re-
spectivelv.
Ou uu.Vum l*y Mr. Adams, his resolution was ta
k> u up for eons'...ration, providing that tin* present
s« ssiou of Ooru'.esS shah terminate on the -'Sth day
of July.
Mi.JScv.ard opposed the resolution. He thought
!: a busim -s of Congress v, as in no condition to al
of .. -.v, i BpC
ei,i!!y a d..y aoeatiy as the one mentioned in the res
.•kit ton. The t,t\ at question of the day. the Kan
>..s question, hud not been taken up in the House,
and ever. ! teJ only reached an intermediate
ige. lh"-eo;;h! r. t roi.sent that a day for ad
journment > . idd be ti'ced. until it should be decided
ait puui was to b< adopted for restoring peace to
Kir.>.>. Ti.ere were otherimportant subjectslike
v. s ■ wau . ought to be disposed of. sin h as the
e'tie., oi the Naval Board, the California wagon
i bill, and the I'acitie ihnlroad bill. IK was
v ous to i lose the St-s.-iou before the heat of the
aider should become intolerable, but he thought
better to wait until at least one or two of these
. ‘ .am su’.-i.-ets w\-re disposed of before fixing
V. Ike -u. au iavored llie resolution. He did
. \ct. tius Congress would adjourn until
, .la ss i.e time ufixed soon.
1 >saivi ti ;it ad the questions alluded to
| ' ' ■ : t v,u New York had been thorough
>l - t><v. d. :.:;d t: re was no reason why a vote
;I '• : >h' i ene- ehat an early day. *No new
._»: o .. • tk; .. i j.enthein by a further discus
' ' ! ‘ * - --• ms may to ask th.o Senate
■ ' v w*tk, to take up the Kansas
< i ..own until it was disposed of.
* . N .. .. the S, .ate was‘tired of
■ •e-i: : Hreeuid command the at
• ujx*uthal subject.
' ■ • . -• nte;;<urt-* was enough.
' ' ' v 1 1) be disposed of in
Uhu 'tipon them
* ; b'*' : , * a >- with an oration
*’ * •* “ 1 a’.ether oration the
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5 - * d • •••* ' u
w--.*U *s.v*Ss vdent t. • * t*.» ks, no
.... .V r a tit s hit* r »*r r; ra ; day be fixed for
U--j *ra»e». T .t v. ;> •: > - but
K mltiu* • S * -■; that tlx ty :s .Ms^cder
•• K i «•: Kansas
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I, :e ... .4 k - . . \ u..-.;s if C-on
s y o .i nth ni. • w.-alt y*4<.' *‘>r tlK‘
.. a .. ,u- ■«. : or ticii i♦; ne i .-.rhtr day than
ta*.at tt< no h**pe that m,. g*w*d w»*n!d K
m. du : ‘ y this .C b.s * • t n*«.s in
» rcM»iu4; !» w - acr rd i*>.
» • t : 'iOtktti «.1 Is >. C 5 . a r.-»»'w*d was
to exar. 4 i».rt |C.« bias i .-v.UX-. tie tl
tbKvdtevUir.e *• t»; 1«• eb-M
tUid Vm in-sd..,a, «,,d . j
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port by but or otherwise J
A proUncted diseusaiou ensued on sunury propo- J
*(%\ atneß«hpeatb to the rules of the Js-uate. 1
d-t* Mih**
Whir*- %-fts Sv."r*. ir-.'ikes i! Ur«* defy * n*c
t.» ca*\ Srnato • ? order they Violate par
liamtutarv dec orimt.
Mr. Welh-r called up.Qc- bill for t-»e const ruction
of h nil"ury ro.-. ! from -me p »inf in the State
; Lii» u’i vi Salt Lake City to Cafooh Valley
in. itb-ment, on th-. fifbntier of Oafifoniia, and for
•he establishment o: muitary posts ami tin* sink
ing of we!ki ' bf'i htpOD, which v/as read the third
brae and pas-ed.
Mr. Slidell introduced a joint rtoohtti.m for the
relief ot the sugar pi inter- <»; Ddusiana, which was
’■•wi tlir«-e tim< and j-awuC
Ti»e S. n? ; ?e thefi adjourned.
HOCSE.
Tlifc bill to admit Kansas into the Cuion was ta
ken up. ; . .
Mr. I Sinn said his object yeaferday in moving to
refer tiie l>ill to the committee of the wi»*»h on the
state of the Union was not to embarrass action, but
to insure action arid produce saiiefnction. but ni* the
gentleman from Penns vK" an is. (Mr Opow,) thought
such a ref.'reoce wtm 1 *! kill the bill, l.i* now pto
posed to let it remain f«r omundenitum before the
House with the understanding that n general debate
shall continue until terminal* d by the previous ques
tion Tin u members to be allowed t*» offer amend
ments and make five mhiUt* sp»-c« h« s in explaim
lion as provided by the rules. By this means the
bill may U-pel feeted.
Mr. Wasfibuine, of Maine, asknl M< Uuun
whether In* pr*»p*i- d any termination to tin* five
minute* debate.
Mr. I hmu. Let the understanding be three day*.
Surely in ho great matter this tinu is brief enough.
Mr* Stephens thought this would not accomplish
the object. Tl»e tl.n : days might be taken up in
calling th«- ycaa and ua\s. The bill should In; «x»u
sidi-red in committee of the whole on the state ot the
Mi Campbell, of Ohio, said to send the bill there
w i*i> Li be to commit it to the tomb of the Capuletp.
11. . !• 1 that a little more than two years
ago. when Mr. Cutting moved to refer the Nebras
ka and Kansas bill, which has brought ho many
troubles on the country, to the committee of the
whole on the state of ’the Union, Air. Kicliardeon
appealed to the gentleman not to permit it to go
th»*r«\ as that would be equivalent to a defeat, and
this position was likewise taken by the gentleman
fr**in (b *rgia.
Air. Stephens replied that Mr. Campbell mistook.
He was !;• >t present at the time the Kansas and Ne
braska bill was passed, and had nothing to do with
bringing troubles on the country.
Mr. Campbell said “the tree is known by its
fiuits.”
Mr. Stephens rejoined, that evil i a not the fruit of
that tree, and lie should speak of it hereafter.
Mr. Campbell. So shall I
Mr. Stephens. Send the Kansas bill to the com
mittee of th«- whole, and the majority can bring it
before the House whenever they choose.
Mr. Campbell reminded the House ol the fact
that when Mr. Cutting moved thus to refer the
and Nebraska bill, Mr. Breckenridge, the
Democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency, said
that Mr. Cutting thought by this side blow to kill
the bill, and accusedkim indirectly of treachery,
whi'-h difih-ulty came near being settled on a field of
conflict.
Mr. I )imn said explicitly that he never would vote
for the bill iu its present form. He wanted the
measure secured, but surely not in the revolutionary
form contemplated.
Mr. Haven said that under all the circumstances
he was against the bill, unless it shall be essentially
modified. He thought action thereon even now to
be premature ; the House should first have the re
port of the select committee on Kansas nffuirs, in
order to determine the sources of the present
disorders iu that Territory. He would favor no
• xtreme measure, but wanted to meet this question
on the broad basis of fact, governing his conduct
without reference to either North or South.
Mr. drove gave notice that he will on Saturday
move the previous question on the bill.
Mr. Morrill, from the committee on the Tcrrito
i ies, repelled a bill topuuish and prevent the prac
tice of polygamy in the territories of the United
States, providing a penalty of SSOO and imprison
ment of not less than two or more than five years.
Mr. Morrill said that there was but one dissent
tent voice in the committee, and that the only diffi
culty was as to the power to legislate upon this sub
ject. Referred to the committee of the whole on the
ktate of the Union.
Various bills for the benefit of the several territo
ries were considered, but none passed.
The House then adjourned.
IN SENATE June 27.
The Senate passed the House bill authorising the
President to cause the Southern boundary of Kan
sas to be run and marked ; also passed tne bill re
specting the harboring of deserters, and to protect
the public interests in regard to the enlistment and
discharge of minors.
Amrng other bill* passed, was that from the
I louse, establishing two additional land district# In
the Territory of M innesota.
A message having been received from the House
announcing that intelligence had reached that body
of the death of the Hon. Thomas 11. Bayly, one of
it* members,
Mr. Mason delivered a eulogy on the public and
private character of the deceased, and concluded
by offering the usual resolutions of condolence
with the family, and regret for the loss of that
statesman.
Air. (’ass contributed his brief but eloquent testi
monial of respect, and was followed by Mr. Seward,
who concluded hi.; remarks by saying: “Let no one
censure me for throwing a simple wild flower among
the wreaths that gather upon the bier that is passing
before us, and opening our own way toward tjie
scene where we shall all, whether we shall have
parted here as friends or enemies, shall meet again,
in the presence of our common father and judge of
ail men. 1 ’
The resolutions was then unanimously adopted,
and the Senate adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
Mr. Mullen, of Virginia, announced the death of
his colleague, Mr. Bayly, passing an eulogium on
hi* public and private character, and offered the
cuntomary resolutions of respect. Messrs. Goode,
Cobb, of Georgia, and Campbell, of Ohio, spoke in
favorable terms of the deceased.
HI HOPE AN NEWS
HY THE ASIA.
The Asia left Liverpool shortly after 4 o’clock P-
At. on the 14th June, and brings the London papery
of that morning.
In the House of Lords on Friday evening, the
13th inst., tin* Earl of Derby said : In consequence,
my lords, of the very serious character of the intelli
gence said to have been received within the last
few days, and of the critical state of our relations
with the United States of America, l shall abstain
from offering any comment upon the question which
I feel it my duty to put to her Alajestv’s Govern
incut, aud I hope that in so doing 1 shall meet with
the approbation of your lordships.
The question which i wish to put to the noble
eari, the Secretary for Foreign affairs, is, whether,
in the last few days, the Government have received
any official information from the American Ambas
sador to this Court, of the intention of the Govern
ment of the United States to suspend all diplomatic
intercourse with this country, by dismissing Air.
Crumpton and withdrawing the exequatkr* from
the three British Consuls ? 1 wish to know, also,
whether, if there were any such communication, it
was made in writing ; and, if so, whether her Ma
jesty's Government object without delay to lay that
communication before Parliament ? I wish, also,
to know whether, in the event of such a communi
cation having been received, her Majesty’s Go
vernment arc prepared to state to Parliament the
course which they intend to advise her Majesty to
pursue '{
The Earl of Clarendon—My lords, in reply to the
question of the noble earl, 1 have to state that the
• lay before yesterday Air. Dallas, the American
Minister at this Court, communicated to me a ties
patch from hi# Government, in which it was stated
that the-assuranees given by her Majesty’s Govern
ment were satisfactory as regarded the fact of no
instructions having been sent and of no intentions
having existed on the part of this Government in any
way to violate or infringe the law* of the United
States. The answer given to Air. Dallas with re
spect to Mr. Crumpton and our Consuls was not
equally satisfactory, and it appeared that they
were still to be considered as representatives un
acceptable to the Government of the United
States.
The President had therefore determined upon
sending Mr. Cramptonn his passports,and withdraw
ing the exequaturs from the three consuls. The des
patch was read to me by Mr. Dallas, and a copy of
it has been furnished to me, but her Majesty's (jo
rerument hare not yet finally determined upon the
course which they trill recommend her Majesty to
pursue. As soou as they have arrived at a final de
termination it will be their duty to lay a copy of the
despatch on the table of the house, and to announce
lo Parliament the decision tq which ihey have come.
I think it right also to mention that Mr. Dallas, at
the same time, in communicating to me another
despatch relating to questions with regard to Cen
tra! America, informed me that Air. Marcy stated
that there were certain points upon which it was
possible that the arbitration of a third Power might
be usefully resorted to, bat, at the same time, Tils
opinion was that the whole question might be set
tled by direct negotiation.
In the House of Commons on the same evening
Mr. Disreali said 1 would now make that inquiry of
the noble lord which I was prevented by hi* absence
from making yesterday. 1 would ask the noble
lord whether information has now reached him that
diplomatic relation* between her Aliyesty's Minister
at Washington and the Government to which he
was accredited have ceased .’ Whether, also, the
noble lord has learned that the exequatur has
been withdrawn from several of her Majesty's con
suls in the United Stab * And, if this information
be true, whether the noble lord is prepared to in
form the House what course her Majesty’s Govern
ment are ready, under these circumstances, to take ?
j Hear, hear.]
Lord Palmerston replied —Aly noble friend at the
head of the Foreign Department received late on
the evening of the day before yesterday, from Mr.
Dallas, two despatches addressed to Air. Dallas by
Mr. Marcy, the Secretary of State for Foreign Af
fair* in the United States—one upon the subject of
the recruiting question, the other upon the subject of
Central American affairs. The question of the right
lu*n. gentleman relates to the first, and 1 shall con
fine my statement to that. It resulted from that
despatch that the United State* Government, al
though perfectly satisfied with the explanation of
fered by her Majesty’s Government and conveyed
by Lord Clarendon, with regard to the course which
Li-r Majesty’s Government had pursued, aud al
though they*deemed that explanation as perfectly
settling the question as far a* the Government was
concerned, nevertheless, for reasons which they al
lege, and upon document* of which they send copies,
tie v do not express themselves equally satisfied
with regard to the course pursued by her Majesty’s
Minister at Washington and the three consuls, at
New \ <*rk . aud they
expressed to Mr. Dallas, for communication to her
Majesty’s Government, their intention to deliver
passports to Air. Cramptou, and to revoke—which
ot course every government has a i igiit to do —the
(.< i'fjitc*ur of those three consuls. With regard to
the course which her Majesty’s Government deem it
right to lake on a matter so important as that, the
right hon. gentleman and the House will feel that
until the Government have had an opportunity of
giving full consideration to all the circumstances, it
cannot be expected I should say anything further.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. li. Baiiiie—l wish to ask the noble lord wheth
er ise will fix a day on which I can bring on the mo
tion of which I have given notice ?
Ix»rd Palmerston —I desire to give every rea
sonable accommodation to the honorable gen tie man.
Therefore, if it does not suit him to bring on his
motion on Monday, when the army estimates are
proposed, he shall have his choice of Thursday or
Fridav.
Mr.' M. Gibson—l understand the noble lord to
state that Mr. Dallas made a communication to
the Government with reference to the Central
American question, as well as the recruiting
question. May 1 ask the noble lord whet, er he
feels at liberty to inform the House whether
any answer is contained in that communication
to the proposal to submit the Central American
question to arbitration; or whether he wiU state
what is the nature of the second communication.
lxwd Palmers on—l i would be necessary to en
ter into details to give any minute explanation of
that point. The general tenor of the communica
tion :s that the United States Government think
the main parts of the question can best be set
tled by direct communication between the two Go
vernments.
Mr. H. Baiilie—As the noble lord has been good
enough to allow- me to name the day, I will say
Thurs lay.
1-or’ Palmerston—l hope the honorable gentlt
inan will give us notice of what he means to move.
Gibson—ln case of direct negotiation foil
” ' ' ! ‘‘‘ American Government refuse negotia
. Uairorrstou—There is uo refusal of arbitra
—l wish to ask the noble lord
’ i*V‘ ,T L O t c » decisive «»-p is taken, the
I ot un> House will 1* taken ou the subject ?
K;:d Paunerstou Tin- practice of the Govem
>r.’. r> oi tins wantry, acting npon their own re-
<eheei s ; is to take the coarse which they
tr-ny I. k r:g!it. uiear ) J
Mr. C . Hind!**} .i.- the packet goesto-i»orrDw to
Unit States, arc the Government iike-iv t«> send
- an.-u-t* to the despatch by it ?
K**r*i Palmerston made a rt mark which w;t> in
•n'tiblc.
Mr. DTsraeli—l was about to a>k another qm-*-
; *ll when an h«:u«<>rablc member interfere*!, i may
1h allowed to express a hope that the ncibh* i>»rd will
lace the dcs{*au hes on the tabic* before thb* debate
* akes place.
v■ - ■. t !>~nt >!■ ”11 ’ <nff
tin- in iciiiuT ! ic ti"V*TßUH>ntm*» reply W U>£ j
.patch'*. / (
]/wd J kiHaeli.—l wish t« s»y a few word? With
leferenceto the Matcment of inv noble friend at the
ilead of the Government It anneal* from inv no
bit- trie mi'.- statement. that her Majesty a Minister at
Waehinuton hue been fornwlied with l,Ls paesport.-.
and iie.ir.-d to leave America ; that Mr. DaUae.
the American Minister at thl- Court has been
furnished with instruction* with regard to certain
iMlints connected with the Central American
■uestion uikjii which it is desired that direct ne
iotunion abnvld take place h. tween thetwocoun
r, and that with regard t.i "titer points ail ar
t,it rat ion will be agreed to 1 do not wish at all
find fault with mv noble friend for not giving fur
ther information to tin* Him**. but 1 thnik tins is a
in<*f t nli. tl «tnt<- of nfl'nirs. and that the House
ought to lm\ome information with respect tint.
Hem i
I do not i on prop**** to ask my noble frieiid any
oue- tion. as he has stated that the Government has
not d. ei'h d u|kmi the course they will take ; but I
shall think it my duty mi Monday, before the House
, titer* upon the consideration ot the army.estimate*,
t" ask my noble friend for Home explanation of the
. which the Government prtqioae to adopt.—
It i* not |ievbapH desirable that this House should
require anv discussion to take plaee upon these sub
jects Although it would be somewhat of a surren
der of ti e privilege* of the House, 1 can conceive
that ei'vuHntauces may be such that all discussion
and explanation ought to be avoided; but 1 cannot
hut perceive Hint while the House is silent upon
these subjects, that they have been taken up by the
newspapers, and that article- have appeared in some
of tlmsi newspapers rather calculated to give the
Americans an impression highly unfavorable to the
continuance of peace between the two countries. —
Hear, hear.)
Now, I am so persuaded that this House and the
whole nation earnestly desire the continuance of
peace (cheers), that I think it is most desirable ‘hat
my noble frieud should take an early opportunity of
stilting the views of the Government, I shall, there
fore, on Monday next, before the House_ goes into
committee of supply, ask my noble friend what
course the Government intend to pursue with regard
to Mr. Dallas, the American Minister at this Court.
and whether the negotiations proposed by the Ameri
can Government will he entered into by her Majes
ty’s Government.
Opinions of the Press.
From the London Ttmes, June ll
if there ever was an occasion on which the bold
est might wish to be silent, it is when on the eve of
a collision between two worlds, and what is worse,
two peoples of the same race and tongue, there ar
rives a message of the gravest import, which must
be replied to, yet which admits of no simple and
consistent construction. We have no reason to be
lieve that there exists anyjprivate clue to the enig
Ilia with which American diplomacy is trying the
ingenuitv and the courage of our statesmen.
The Americnu Government takes the very; strong
act of dismissing our Minister and three Consuls.
By the side ol this strong act it has sent what is de
scribed as n conciliatory document, expressing itself
fully satisfied with the course taken by the British
Government, and hoping that the dismissal of the
Minister and Consuls will not be taken amiss, if
the dismissal was for one thing, and the accompa
nying civilities for another—if there were only a
difference of tone between an act and a document
that happened to lie entemporuneous, that at least
w ouhl be intelligible. But they are upon the same
subject.
The American Government has always maintain
ed that our Government has been implicated in the
proceedings of its Minister and Consuls. It it has
now given up that charge this is the first time, and,
without the document before u-, we are at a loss to
imagine in what words it has done this. But, what
ever those words, by whatever contrivance of cour
tesy it acquits our Government of the charge, it is
impossible to disguise the fact that the dismissal of
tiie Minister and the Consuls is the actual reply to
the explanations of our Government, the actual re
sult of the controversy, and the thing which the
American Government all along threatened and we
deprecated.
As for the effect on the world at large, not only
upon the great theatre of nations, but what is more
important, the two peoples immediately concerned,
an act must have infinitely more weight than any
quantity of words. It is a very old and familiar
saying that speech makes small impression com
pared with a startling spectacle. But in this case
we are not even allowed to suppose that the
American Government lias our conciliation very
much at heart, as a final object. It is a far more
natural construction of this double policy that it
wishes to persuade us into suffering an insult.
II wishes to dismiss our representatives, and so
take a verdict in its favor, without any inconvenient
consequences. It would assume the power to boast
that it had done to us wlmt we ventured not to do
in return. But that is not the whole of the compli
cation. Together with an act of insult, and words
deprecatory of our resentment, there arrives also a
communication offering a prospect of settling our
Central American differences, and assenting to our
proposed arbitration. Thus, amid courtesies and
hopes, there is a sort of lure held out that if we take
a defeat upon one question, we may possibly obtain
a settlement upon the other.
When one has to encounter strange, unintelligi
ble, and compromising conduct, one has to choose
commonly between two ways of meeting it. The
first recommends itself on the score of discretion,
and even charity. It is that we should attempt to
make the best of it, to hope for the best, to do for
the best: that we should yield and comply if we
possibly can; that we should look for any loophole
to escape from an impossible position, and strike a
bargain, in vvjiieh we must not expect to have en
tirely our own way.
No doubt, such a course is often possible and wise
but it is never safe, unless it comes in the form of a
comprehensive offer, or from some one qualified to
make such an offer and oonclude upon it; or on
some occasion in which all the questions at issue
may be reviewed and decided. In the present in
stance, we see nothing at all hut a move as in a
game of chess, where the player is committed to
nothing but the move, and every subsequent step
ill the game is left to his own supreme discretion.
The American Government has dismissed our
Minister add Consuls for a reason which our Gov
eminent maintain to he no reason. That is the on
lv substantial part of the move. That the Ameri
can Government has done it in such away as to in
duce us to take it as quietly and patiently as possi
ble is a minor affair, and, of course, is to be expec
ted. The question is whether y,e eon accept such
a rebuff. The more logical course is to reply in the
very terms of our antagonist’s move. He has dis
missed our representative with the utmost possible
civility, and in the entire confidence that we shall
not be offended. We can, if we please, do the same.
We can let. Mr. Dallas return to the United States
with the assurance that we have no ill will to them,
and only regret that they have put a wrong con
struction on our conduct. Mutalis mutandis , there
is not a word in the communication reported from
Washington that may not be returned in the most
cordial spirit. Os course, we would very much
rather that the controversy advanced step by Btep
nearer to a solution, but it is the American Govern
ment that leads it the other way. The American
Government tell us that our Minister and Consuls
have become disagreeable to them through their
connection with a disagreeable affair.
Mr. Dallas is personally an agreeable man, but he
has been made the channel of the intelligence that
Mr. Cramptou and the consuls have been dismissed.
This, of course, must make Ids presence painful to
this country. Such might he called the logical mode
of replying to the lust move on the American side.
That move has been made with much art, and the
reply should be made with not less. These are the
two courses open to our Government, and wo pre
sume it to be now anxiously engaged in the choice
between them.
_ _ From the Liverpool Times, June 14.
earnestness and rapidity with which the Bri
tish steam fleet on the North American and West
India station is now being fitted out and reinforced,
looks as if Dord Palmerston’s government really
contemplated a brush wit 1* the Americans. Even
now the work of preparation is still going on. Mr.
Fillmore, when he was here the other day, emphati
cally declared that there would be uo war ; but he
merely spoke from his own view of the question,
and could not, of course, guage what would be the
proceedings of our rulers.
llut the despatch of these vessels of destruction,
to be followed, it is said, by a long array ol gun
boats, has an ugly appearance, and Lord Palmers
ton would do well to pause before he embarks the
country in a conflict from which it cannot, with
honor retreat. Every sensible man regards a war
with the United States as the greatest calamity
which could befall this nation, and the Premier will
not he supported by the public opinion of the coun
try if he should push matters to that extremity.
From the London Morning Post.
The United States Minister in London, has, we
understand, communicated to her Majesty’s Govern
ment the determination of the Cabinet at Washing
tod to hold no further diplomatic intercourse with
Mr. Crampton, and to withdraw the exequatur from
the three Consuls who are alleged to have infringed
the laws of the Union.
This declaration, we believe we may state, is ac
companied by offers ostensibly conciliatory, inas
much as Mr. Dallas has not received authority, if
we retain him here, to treat with full power con
cerning the questions at issue in Central America;
and in case of non-agreement with Lord Clarendon,
to refer the matters to an arbitrator to be jointly
agreed upon.
The American Government has thus, in the rash
enforcement of its policy, taken the dangerous step
of insulting England, accompanying tin- outrage by
an offer which is intended to bribe us into quiet ac
quiescence.
This is the real purport of this act, so conciliatory
in appearance, but in appearanee only. Substan
tially it is of no value, because the American Gov
ernment must be well aware that it is impossible
forthe Cabinet of this country t > discuss any mat
ters with Mr. Dallas whilst Mr. Crampton is for
cibly suspended from his functions in the United
States.
We maintain that neither this country nor Mr.
Crompton, in his capacity of representative of this
country, has done anything to justify this extreme
measure; and we cannot,consistently with what is
due either to the oonntiy or to Mr. Crompton, con
sent to accept a specific and direct insult for the
sake of a pretended equivalent in the shape ot the
concession of an arbitration of the Central Ameri
can question, which is a matter standing entirely
upon its merits, and totally unconnected with Mr.
Cramuton, or with anv of the acts imputed to him.
Under these circumstances there is but one course
which the country can expect from her Majesty's
Government. The dismissal of Mr. Crampton must
be followed by the dismissal of Mr. Dallas.
Lnter from Havana.
Tiie steamer Isabel has anived at quarantine in
Charleston. The Havana correspondent of the
Courier writes under date of the 25th instant, as
follows:
The last English steamer brought out official in
formation from Spain that the home government had
given orders for several vessels to be despatched to
this station. This looks somewhat bellicose, as the
Cortes were yet unacquainted with tlieir new min
ister's success*. Some assert that Spain sends out
these reinforcements in ease that England and the
United States get into a war on the Nicaragua
question. The most probable object is Santo Do
mingo.
An armed intervention in this island has been se
riously eutertaiued by the French and Spanish go
vernments. If I am not much mistaken it will be
attempted before the end of this year. The Diario
de la Marina in its editorial this morning expresses
the opinion that no serious difficulty will occur be
tween Mexico and Spain. On the whole the article
is very conciliating.
The rainy season, as usual, has brought *>itk it
the several*dread diseases that have afflicted this
city for the last few years. The**e is a great deal
of malignant dvsenterv caused by the bad water.
The physicians doYt call it cholera, not to frighten
the inhabitants. The yellow fever was never more
fatal in its attack' than just now. There is a great
deal of it amongthe shipping. I have heard of the
death of two foreign captains. Many of the young
men who came out with General Concha, have al
ready fallen victims. The last vessels arrived from
Spain with recruits, were filled with cases of yellow
fever before tney reached here.
Thk Affair of the Orizaba avd Capt.Tarle-
X njf.—lt will be recollected that recently the public
inind was much agitated by apprehensions ot col
lision and trouble at San Juan de! Norte, based up
on an affidavit made by Capt. Tinklepaugh. of the
Orizaba, charging Capt. Tarleton. of her Britannic
Majesty’s frigate Eurydice, with insulting the Ame
rican tfag by detaining the Orizaba, See. The Se
cretarv of the Navy immediately ordered Commo
dore Pauld'ug, of tne home squadron, to proceed to
San Juan to institute inquiry. We learn that satis
factory dispatches have just been received at the
Naw Department from the Commodore. It seems
that Capt. Tarleton was awakened in the middle of
the night with an application from American citi
zens for the protection of Americ n property. To
this application he promptly responded, proceeding
at once with Capt. Tinklepaugh to the office of the
Transit Company. Capt. Tarleton, it appears, then
visited the Orizaba to ascertain if there was any
ground to justify his intervention in behalf of Ame
rican interests ’? and soon satisfying himself that
there Mas no case for intervention of a foreign offi
cer, h« retraced his steps immediately. Commodore
Paulding’s Hag Mas saluted by Capt. Tarletou
promptly on his arrival in the Susquehanna, and the
investigation and all that occurred clearly indicate
that Capt. Tarltou bad no instructions or disposition
to interfere with our eountrymeu, but that be was
improperly persuaded to act as he did by certain
American citizens, whose names and motives it is
unnecessary to mention or discuss.— Washington
I’nwn.
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WfT.’kLY
Cjjnmick it* Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY UOKMNd JI U J, 1536.
FOR PRESIDENT.
MILLARD FILLMORE.
Os New York.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.
ANDREW .1. DON ELM) A,
Os Tennessee.
CIIKONIrI l \ SENTINEL,
FOR THE CAMPAIGN
Wee kl y Paper, 10 copies for s">.oo.
Tri-Weekly Paper. I ropy for 1.00.
Daily no 1 do. for 1.50
It is our purple to make the influence of the
Chronicle \ Sentinel Cc lt in the approaching can
vass ; and we, therefore, submit the above terms,
with the hope, that the American Party throughout
the State will cor.lially aid us in our design.—
To do this most certainly and effectually, our
friends everywhere, must circulate the paper. Aye,
loose your purse strings, and scatter the paper
among all classes of people, especially those wLo are
not in the habit of taking a paper. It will be an easy
matter for a few individuals in each county to sub
scribe a sum sufficient to send from one hundred to
two hundred papers in every county in the State,
where they are needed to enlighten tin- people.—
And this is the plan to pursue. Do not fold your
arms and wait for such people to subscribe. As
a hint to the wise is sudicient, we do not deem it
necessary to enlarge on this topic , and only desire
to say in conclusion, we are ready and willing to do
our whole duty. All we want our friends to do, is
to help us to accomplish the greatest good.
Will .Hr. Dalln*. be Dhtni-sed f
The question of the most stirring import for the
next few days, will be the one we have written
above. Judging from the ame of the English papers
on receipt of the official statement of the dismssion
of Mr. Crampton and the three British Consuls from
this country. Lord Palmerston will be fully sus
tained outside of Parliament if he decides upon
handing Mr. Dallas his passport. It is true there
are addresses from the Liverpool Finance Reform
Association to the commercial and industrial classes
in America, and from the citizens of Manchester to
the people of America, advocating peace doctrines ,
but the former of these documents so clearly insinu
ates that America is in the wrong, and the latter is
so filled with stereotyped phrases about the horrors
of fratricidal war that they are not likely to prove
of much utility. Everybody knows that an address
can always obtain any number of signatures, no
matter what may be its nature ; and while we do
not doubt the sincerity or the good motives of the
parties in Liverpool and Manchester concerned in
this movement, we arc not sanguine of their suc
cess.
Public opinion is very muck controlled by circum
stances beyond public comprehension. If a certain
number of men speak or write in away to suit their
own ends, public opinion can easily be brought to
coincide with them. We fear in spite of the close
relationship and the mutual commercial ties that
bind England and America together a few unscru
pulous politicians could cause, without much diffi
culty, a war between the countries. If Parliament
will support Lord Palmerston in the act of re
proval, we are inclined to think that Mr. Dallas
will have to leave. Palmerston himself owes his
popularity so entirely to his bold spirit that we
much fear he will not adopt a moderate course
now. Throughout his long public career he
has been an intolerant foe to reform, an aristocrat
of the old school, and a Tory in every act of his life,
although for porsonal motives lie has been connect
ed with the Whigs for nearly thirty years. The only
cheek to him will be the possibility of Parliament
placing him in a minority, and thus compelling him
to retire from office.
Mr. Cojiden and his small party of Manchester
men ; Lord John Russell and his still smaller
force; Mr. Glansn >n k and a section of the followers
of the late Sir Robert Peel, will doubtless vote for
the retention of Mr. Dallas; but the only men
that can be of any danger to Palmerston are the
Conservatives. Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli,
the leaders of this party, are remarkable for the
caution with whiph they speak on the American
questions. While they threaten Palmerston with
a debate on the subject, they leave him in doubt
whether they will censure him for going too far or
not far enough. The material with which the Con
servative party is made up will best solve the
difficulty.
Sturdy country gentlemen, who love Church and
State almost as much as a fox hunt or a bottle of old
Port, who view’ American success as something ve
ry much akin to Red Republicanism, and who have
a quiet conviction that it will eventually destroy the
British game laws and the laws of primogeniture,
unless an attempt be made to suppress its further
progress, form the leading spirits among them.
They look upon Mr. Co {.den and his peace notions
with contempt, and it ia to be feared they w’ould
rather vote against Mr Dallas than for him. Wc
shall not bo .surprised, then, if our Minister should re
turn home shortly. Lord Clarendon will doubt
less writ© with the best grace in the world, regret
ting having logo so far, and peace may still be
conserved.
The Mail for 111© C risis.
The glorious reception awarded to Mr. Fillmore
on his return t« his native country, speaks well for
the gratitude and patriotism of the Republic. The
blessings he conferred upon all sections of the land
during his administration offer tiQ wide a coutrast to
that of his successor, Mr. Pierce, that even the
least thoughtful flip compelled to reflect upon the
change, pence and prosperity, good will to all men
and in return cordial respect from every foreign
government, were the happy result of Mr. Fill
more's integrity to the Constitution. Civil strife
and sectional hatred, ill-feeling among all men at
home and contempt and disdain from abroad, have
been the unhappy fruits of Mr. Pierce’s misiule.
Talleyrand’s maxim that a political blunder is a
crime, was never more completely verified. It was
a political blunder electing Mr. Pierce to office, in
order to propitiate the foreign revolutionary demo
cracy. It was a political blunder in permitting
Messrs. Buchanan, Mason am] Soule to remain
one hour longer representatives of the United States,
after they had brought discredit on their country
and themselves, by signing the Ostend document;
finally, it was a blunder to accept the nomination
of Mr. Buchanan, a man whose name can excite no
enthusiasm, and who. if it were possible that he
could be raised to the Presidency, would be totally
unequal to grapple with the dangers that surround
the country.
A great nation nevpr repeal s a great blunder,
therefore it requires no prophet to tell us that James
But hanan can never bt* President of the United
States. In swallowing the Pierce platform he
sealed his doom. Day by day followers of Demo
cracy will be found dcst i ting his standard, until the
fact becomes patent to the blindest Democrat that
the next President must be an anti Pierce man.
The contest will be between Millard Fillmore,
the true statesman and faithful friend of the Union,
and Col. FrEmont, the Black Republican and would
be disunionist and insulter of the Mouth. Black Re
publicanism means no more Slave States, the de
struction of balance of power between the North
and South, and the gradual overthrow of Southern
institutions. The South would be wooing death ns
well as dishonor in permitting the election of Col.
Fremont.
It becomes, then, a question of alarming import
whether it is probable, in the present aspect of par
ties, that the Black Republican candidate can suc
ceed. The electoral college of the United States
consists of 2% votes, of which 170 belong to the Free
States and 120 to the Slave States. The successful
candidate, if elected by the people, must consequent
ly obtain 110 votes. When we dispassionately re
gard the fierce opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska
bill in the North . when we find the Germans and
Irish in the Free States declaring their aversion to
the South, and repudiating Buchanan almost cn
masse; when we witness the unscrupulous spirit
displayed by the leaders and journals of the Block
Republicans, and witness the number of converts
they continue to make, it would be weakness on
our part to deny that Col. Fremont is a most formi
dable opponent. T« thwart the nefarious designs
of this party it is absolutely necessary that Mr.
Fillmore should be supported by every lover of
the Constitution.
Let not his appeal to conservative Whigs and
Democrats fall dead upon the ear. In his response
to the Whig General Committee, in New York city,
on the 24th inst., he alludes to the indebtedness of
his country and himself to the conservative portion
of the two great parties which rallied round his ad
ministration in 1850, and he looks forward to a re
newal of their confidence and support. He is so
unquestionably the man for the crisis, his antece
dents are so truly great and noble, that we can but
hope that party tactics will be forgotten in conside
ration of the common danger that threatens us, and
that every patriotic man will rally to rbe standard of
Millard Fillmore.
ISticlmnnii Stock Declining.
The stampede of the Alien voters in the North
and Northwest, from Buchanan to Fremont, is be
ginning to open the eyes of his followers, and they
almost imagine they see the handwriting on the
wall. They feel that the loss of that vole sounds
the death knell to all their fond anticipations of
spoils, for they know that its loss seals Buchanan’s
fate: and places the contest between Mr. Fillmore
and Fremont : and this will be patent to the whole
country in a very brief period. The Germans of
the Northwest in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
and Wisconsin, and they compose nearly hall the
voting population of those States, are already hold
ing immense meetings, and ratifying en masse the
nomination of Fremont. And Robert
the great leader of the Irish in this country, is lead
ing off in the same line of policy. They are all for
“free speech, free sail and free labor , against flare
labor." These are the sentiments of the men. who
Mr. Stephens declared a year ago. were such relia
ble and true friends of the South
-of Mr. Jennings or the U. S. Hotel.—
Mr. Jennings, the highly esteemed proprietor of
the United States Hotel, in this city, died at an ear
ly hour on Sunday morning, after an illness of a
week’s duration. He was a worthy man. and the
announcement of his death will cause pain to his
numerous friends. Mr. Jennings was a native of
Massachusetts, but had been a resident in the South
for many years.
£ Mrs. Gibson, wife of Capt. Gibson, of New Or
leans, died on the 20th inst. from the effects of the
wounds she received while to protect
her husband from the assassin Edward Wisely.
The deceased was a native of Louisiana, and in her
ye*r.
fTcmctl Detwfwry.
The Free Soil i.v.n of Mr. Buchanan, so fully re
vealed in hi? speech in the l*. S. Semite, on June 8.
1844, on the admission of Texas, is sought to be ig
nored by recent converts to his name. In that
speech he used these remarkable words :
“In arriving at the conclusion to support this
treaty, I had to encounter but one serious obstacle,
and that was the question ol slavery. W Idle I ever
have maintained, and ever shall maintain, in their
full force and vigor, the constitutional rights ot the
Southern States over t heir slave property. I yet /eel
a sfrornr rt pug nance by any act of mine to extend the
limits of th. I'nhtnorer a item staveholding territo
ry. Alter mature reflection, however, I overcame
these scruples, and now believe that the acquisition
of Texas will be the means of limiting, not en
larges*. the dominion of slavery.
••In the Government of the world, Providence
gene rally produces great changes by gradual means.
There is not hing rash in the counsels of the Almighty.
May not, then, the acquisition of Texas be the
means of gradually drawing the slaves far to the
South to a climate more congenial to their nature :
and may they not finally pass off into Mexico, and
there m/nglr with a rare trhere no prejudice c.risfs
•igainsl their color ? The Mexican nation is com
posed of Spaniards, Indians and negroes, blended
together in every variety, who would receive our
slaves on terms of perfect social equality. To this
condition they never can be admitted in the Uuited
States.
“That the acquisition of Texas would, ere long,
convert Maryland. Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri,
and probably others of the Northern slave States
into free States, I entertain not a doubt.
He felt "a slronff repugnance” to the reception
of Texas, already a Slave State, into the Union, be
cause of the existence of slavery. With such a re
puguanee to the institution, what reliance can the
South have that lie will ever consent to admit any
territory note free, if the people should determine to
make it a Slave State, unless he should believe it
would “ limit . n<>t enlarge , the doni/i&r>.> if
These sentiments uttered after “mature reflec
tion" by Mr. Buchanan at the age of 53, proclaim
him to the world as a Freesoiler of the rankest dye.
It was the knowledge of this fact that made him ac
ceptable to the Frecsoil Democrats in the Cincin
nati Convention, who nominated him in opposition
to the two men, Messrs. Pierce and Douglas, in
whom the Southern Democracy placed t heir trust.
There are now two kindsof followers of Buchanan,
the one who supported him advisedly, knowing his
Freesoil character, and such an one is as much a
Freesoiler as is a follower of Mohammed a Moham
medan : and the other who takes him as a last re.
source, who succumbs, in fact, to the North.
We refer to the tone of the Southern Democratic
press before the meeting of the Convention to . how
the earnestness with which they supported Pierce
and Douglass ; we refer to their spirit afterwards
to prove the reluctance with which th y accepted
Mr. Buchanan. The Southern Democracy had, in
truth, so prominently stood by Pier( e and Doug
las on the Kansas Nebraska bill that to fail in
nominating one of these men was to suffer severe de
feat. Th© humiliation was complete when the
Freesoil phalanx stood firmly on the nomination of a
notorious person like Buchanhn, who in the most
solemn council chamber in the land had alluded to
the Almighty, and suggested that He was against
the eontinuance of the institutions of the South.
The platform which Buchan an lias swallowed so
complacently, contains this paragraph, among
others to the foreign policy of the country:
5. Resolved. That the Democratic party will
expect from the next Administration every proper
effort to be made to secure our ascendency in the
Gulf of Mexico, and maintain a permanent protec
tion of the great outlets through which are emptied
into its waters the products raised on the soil, and
the commodities created by the industry of the peo
ple of our Western valleys and the Union at large.
No sane person can doubt that ascendancy in the
Gulf of Mexico means domination over the Island
of Cuba. In the present aspect of the world this is
tantamount to a determination of entering into a
war with England, France and Spain, when right
would not be on our side, and when the public opin
ion in every foreign country would be set dead
against us. Such a war would inevitably be fought
in the South, and would as inevitably prove disas
trous. The value of our produce would depreciate
fearfully, the safety of Southern institutions would
be imperilled, and too late Southern men would
look with horror and abhorrence on the Buchanan
administration.
That “ Drop of Democratic Blood.”
We have just seen re-published, a 'ettcr written
by Mr. Buchanan in February, 1838, to the edi
tors of the Philadelphia Inquirer, in which he denies
tiie story in relation to the “ drop of Democratic
blood,” in the following emphatic language ;
“ / now pronounce the Stale slander to be utterly
and absolutely false , no matter from what source tt
may have proceeded, or shall proceed. I never did,
upon any occasion, public or private, whether at the
court-house in Lancaster, or elsewhere, declare that,
“ if I knew 1 had a drop of Democratic blood in
my veins, I would let it out,” or any words to that
effect. This ridiculous story is without a shadow
of fonndation.”
This is the first that we have ever seen of this de
nial—or any authorised denial of the story, to which
wc never assigned any importance; for his ultra
federalism was abundantly established, upon the re
cord, which Mr. B. could not deny. Whether,
therefore, he ever uttered these precise words or
not, is matter of no consequence, for his 4th of July
oration and his F c ‘deval circular abundantly estab
lish that it was the sentiment of his heart.
The Washington Organ, however, gives the fol
lowing version of the story, and challenges a denial
of It.
We will now state the facts in relation to this
matter.
When Mr. Buchanan had completed his legal
studies, and been admitted to the bar of Lancaster
county, he gave an entertainment to his friends. In
the course of theevening, a gentleman inquired of Mr.
Buchanan where he intended to establish himself?
Mr. B. replied that he had not determined. Someone
suggested that he should establish himself in a place
which he mentioned. Air. B. replied that that place
“ ’lyas too Democratic.” Judge K. then remarked,
“ why, Buchanan, you ought to turn Democrat, and
then you will succeed.” Mr. Buchanan immediate
ly replied, “if I thought I had a drop of Demo
cratic. blood in my veins, I would open them and let
it out.'’
This is a t orrent version of this celebrated affair,
and we challenge the Union er any friend of Mr.
Buchanan to contradict it.
Tlie Old Line Wliiga of Baltimore.
It affords us sincere gratification to perceive that
the old line Whig who have never united with
the American party are, everywhere, and with few
unimportant exceptions, rallying to the standard of
Fillmore. They have tried, him, and know him
to be safe and reliable, lie does not belong to the
genus Chamelion, and they prefer him again, be
cause he has been faithful to the Constitution. He
went into office before without giving any formal
pledges, and he transcended the most sanguine ex
p ctations of ardent and devoted friends. Note, lie
pledges himself that his former administration shall
be as a polar star to direct his future course. It is
not surprising, therefore, that the men, the true
patriots who stood by him before in the hour of the
country's peril, will not forsake him or the country
in the present crisis. The country wants repose —
repose from the strife and turmoil which a Demo
cratic administration has brought upon it, and those
patriotic sons, thp ohUline conservative Whigs,
want to recline upon a staff in which all men of all
parties can confide; and feeling that Mr. Fillmore
is such a staff, they are rallying almost en masse to
his standard. This is true in Kentucky, Tennessee,
Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, and indeed
it will soon be throughout the whole South. But
we are being h*d off. Our purpose was to introduce
the following paragraph from the Baltimore Patriot
of Thursday afternoon :
The Ward Meetings of List Night. —From
the reports received by us of the meetings in the
nineteen wards last evening, held by the Old Line
Whigs, we learn that they were very largely at
tended, and that the greatest enthusiasm prevailed.
The unanimity with which the name of Mr. Fill
more was received, gives assurance that the Old
Line Whigs, not only of Baltimore city, but through
out the State, will go en masse for this National can
didate. How can it be otherwise ? The old Whig
party was the exclusive National party, and now,
at a crisis like the present, when there is no other
candidate in the field who is really National, how
can any Whig think, for a moment, of casting his
vote for an avowed rival and opponent. Such a
consideration cannot, and will not be entertained
by one single true-hearted Whig. We have no
do. bt that the State Convention, which is to meet
here on the 10th of July, will be unanimous for the
national, conservative ticket, Fillmore and Donel
son.
The National Fillmore Club of New York.
The New York Express puts a quietus to the
story which was so industriously circulated, that the
National Fillmore Club of New York had repudia
ted Fillmore, and gone over to Fremont in a
body. The Express of Tuesday, says :
“PELION UPON OSSA,
in the way of tergiversation, daily characterizes
the ‘ Tribune .’ It heads a political meeting thus :
‘ The Fillmore National Club gone over to Fremont
and Dayton.'
“There never was a Fillmore National Club
formed in the city of New York! The National
Club of last year was for last year's election simply,
and died out in the autumn. A Mr. Van Riper was
its Piesident, and he has gone over to Fremont and
Dayton, and that is all there is of it. These .are eve
ry clay records of the deliberate cheats which the
Tribune imposes upon its readers.”
American Meeting in Hancock.
In consequence of the celebration at Culverton,
on the 4th, the meeting of the American party at
Sparta has been postponed to Saturday, the sth day
of July.
Tribute to Moral Worth. —The citizens of
Buffalo (the towns non of Mr. Fillmore) without
distinction of party, met on the 14th instant, and
passed the folloM-ing preamble and resolution :
Whereas, our respected and distinguished towns
man, Millard Fillmore, after a protracted absence in
foreign lands is about tu return to this city, so long
his home, therefore,
Resolved, That in consideration of the high offi
cial position he has occupied, and of his eminent
character and career, which reflect honor upon our
city, it is due to him that he be received here
with such public demonstrations as will testify the
high regard in which he is held by the citizens of
Buffalo.
Mr. Thomas Styron, overseer to Mr. R. 31.
Fuller, of Edgefield District, S. C., was pursuing
a negro Mith a stick on the 18th inst., when the fel
low struck him to the earth with a hoe and broke
the skull of Mr. Styron, who died from the effects
of the blow on Saturday. The negro has been
lodged in jail to await his trial.
East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad.—
The cars on the East Tennessee and Virginia Rail
road, run to 31orristown, forty-four miles above
Knoxville. The cars on the Virginia and Tennessee
Road, are now running to Emory and Henry Col
lege, ten miles east of Abingdon, leaving a dis
ta nee to be built of about 110 miles, which is pro
gressing rapidly.
Mr. Fillmore in Philadelphia. —A commit
tee has been appointed in Philadelphia to proceed
to New York for the purpose of extending a cordial
welcome to the ex-President on behalf of the citi
zens of that place. Wherever Mr. Fillmore may
go, the same joyous greeting will be sure to be
awarded him.
Report op Yellow Fever in Savannah — The
Republican of the inst. emphatically denies that
there is a single case of yellow fever in Savannah
orTybee, or in the ueighborh<*od, and Hiarges in
t crested parties with having circulated the report.
Its. Democratic PRHritb
No intelligent, fair-minded man Vriii tfueetiuu the
position, that if you desire to obtain correct and re
liable information of the political history and prin
ciples of a prominent politician, you should seek it
from his political friends who are impartial, and at
the same time pos.se;-* sufficient independence to ex
press their opinions fully and freely. If you ask his
most ardent admirers and blind followers, you re
ceive nothing reliable, because too eulogistic ; while
hi* political opponents are too often unwilling to do
him even-handed justice. It is, therefore, better to
have a sketch of the man from his impartial friends.
Impressed with the correctness of this position,
we have on all occasions, when we could do so,
availed ourselves of the opinions of leading and
prominent Democrats, as to Mr. Buchanan's politi
cal career and principles; believing that they would
do him no injustice, as they were brother Demo
orats. It is thus, we have introduced the opinions
of Mr. Irving, ofVa., Mr. Yancey, of Ala., and
the views of several prominent Democratic organs;
among the latter the Washington Star —a journal
whose devotion to the Democracy no man of any
party questions; it is a most zealous and earnest
Democratic organ. Its views are, therefore, enti
tled to be heard, and as such we commend the fol
lowing article to the attention of every reader,
whether American, Democrat, or Whig. It is a
fair, honest, and faithful history of Mr. Buchanan’s
political career, written out and published by a
prominent Democratic organ.
It is proper to remark that the article was pub
lished by the Star shortly prior to the Cincinnati
Convention, and the fact that the Star is now one
of the most zealous supporters of the election of Mr.
Buchanan, is but another evidence of the sagacity
of Mr. Calhoun, who declared that “tin* Democra
cy were held together by the cohesive power of the
public plunder."
From the Washington Star.
“We do not agree with the Times and Sentinel in
the belief that lie (Mr. Buchanan) is the greatest
man now identified with the Democratic party. He
has been in public life almost uninterruptedly since
1820. Where is the legislative measure ot domes
tic or foreign policy originated by him that has be
come a feature in our public history ! lie has been
at the head of our State Department and our minis
ter to the Court of St. James. Where is the treaty
negotiated or consummated through his agency, ex
cept the unimportant commercial treaty with Russia
which is almost verbatim a copy of many similar
treaties with other governments, before and since
made, in many instances by comparatively ob
scurc Charges d’Affairs oil the part of this Govern
ment !
‘ The idea of his peculiar popularity at the South
is worse than a mistake. It is a dangerous misap
prehension of the truth. Tin* South entertains no
devotion to men whatever. In her estimation they
stand or fail altogether according to their records,
and whenever before them for office, their records
only are considered.
“Now upon the question of protection, the record
of Mr. Bue anan is as palpably against the doctrines
of the South as that of any gentleman of any party
who lias ever been in public life. If in the conside
ration of the tariff* question lie has ever made any
but a high-protective-tariff speech, or given other
than a high protective tariff vote, the fact has es
caped our recollection. Upon tin* Pacific railroad
question lie c rtainly differs as widely from the De
mocracy of the South us any gentleman of either
party now in public life. Upon the slavery ques
tion, though until recently an advocate for the ex
clusion of slavery from all United States territory
north of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes of north
latitude—or, in other words, a Missouri compromise
man—lie now stands on the Kansas bill platform ; a
position which every man must necessarily occupy
who dreams of being a candidate for the Cincinnati
Presidential nominee.
“Left to himself, if elected, we could have no
doubt that lie would administer the government
with an eye single to the purpose of carrying out
the policy of the present Administration upon the
question. But we know perfectly well that every
man in the nou-slaveholdiug States, who, while
claiming affiliation with the Democratic party,
stands opposed to it upon the great overshadowing
issues of the times, is an ardent advocate for Mr Bu
clmnau’s nomination, avowedly because lie hopes
that in administering the government Mr. B. will
make the principle of the Missouri restriction his
policy rather than that of the Kansos-Nebruska act.
“We frankly confess that we have great distrust,
indeed, of the peculiar class of politicians out of
Pennsylvania who have fairly mounted on Mr. Bu
chanan’s back. Nearly every notoriously unsound
man claiming affiliation with the Democracy is
among them. The latter is unscrupulous and ener
getic in carrying their point, favoring special legis
lation, and, indeed, everything that the South
abominates and for which she lias long erroneously
held federalism alone responsible ; as one has biff to
spend some time around the federal capital to com
prehend the fact that those by far most dangerous
to the cause of the continued administration of the
Government upon the doctrines of the constitution
as made by our fathers and Interpreted by the
Democratic Statesman of the South, are individuals
who claim to be Democrats, as though only the bet
ter to enable them to aid the enactment of propo
sitions opposed by the mass of the States rights and
strict construction Democracy of Congress.”
That, reader, is the honest opinion of a leading
Democratic journal, of Mr. Buchanan's political
career, which we endorse as a faithful and life-like
picture, and it establishes most conclusively the fol
lowing positions :
Ist. Tiuit during his long political career he has
established no claim to distinguished statesmanship.
2d. That Mr. Buchanan i 3 now and has always
been fora Protective Tar if.
3d. That he lias been heretofore in favor of ex
cluding slavery, by act of Congress, from all the ter
ritory of the United States north of 36° 30'.
Ith. That almost every Northern Democratic
Freesoiler is for Mr. Il.’a nomination.
sth. lie in for the Pacific Railroad, and in this
“differs widely from the Democracy of the South."
6th. Nearly every unsound man at the North,
claiming affiliation with the Democracy, has mount
ed on his (Mr. B.*s) back.”
If these things be true, ami no intelligent man
who values his reputation for truth or honesty will
even pretend to deny them, with what consistency
can Southern Democrats, who nflect to be anti
tariff, anti-freesoil and anti-internal improvement
vote for James Buchanan ? Let them answer this
question to the public, whenever and wherever they
attempt to persuade Southern mon to vote for him.
The “(lentcil Term.”
About a week since, the mercury began to mani
fest an “upward tendency,” starting at 89°, and
mounting steadily to 94 ; at which elevated posi
tion it took its stand last Friday, and remained un
til late in the evening, in a very shady situation in
our office. As the consequence of this superabun
dance of caloric, humanity generally haw been in
quite a “melting mood , M shade, fans, and cool
breeyeu have been at a premium, and iced beverages
and shirt-collars have “gone down” at an alarming
rate. Truly (in the language of one of the great
apostles of Democracy,) “our sufferings is intolera
ble,” and scarcely to bo borne; but in the suppo
sition that even a “ray of hope” will be cheering to
our readers, wc are happy to announce that the
mercury hod fallen at 6 P. M. yesterday to the Arc
tic temperature of 92° (!) with some faint indications
of a shower. “Keep cool," and take fresh courage!
—it is some consolation to know that the boreal re
gions of the North are now much hotter than we are
here—the mercury having rushed up so 96°, 98 , and
even 1. in New York and Philadelphia Inst
week.
Mu. Fillmore will not Decline.—The New
| York Express lias the authority of a letter from
Millard Fillmore for saying that under no cir
t cn ms Lances v'ill lie decline the nomination tendered
him. It was made by his friends, accepted
j from his friends, received without usking, and ac
knowledged without counting the consequences
of success or defeat. Mr. Fillmore writes that
, nothing but the wish of those who gave him
the nomination, will prompt him to withdraw
his name. The following is an extract from the
. letter :
“In reference to the efforts which have been used
- to drive me from my course, they wholly mistake my
. character. It is true I did not desire the nomina
tion ; but my name has been placed before thepub
l lie by iny friends, and there it will remain, regard
less of all consequences, unless they shall desire its
withdrawal.”
i Fall of a House at Richmond, Va.—A large
four-story brick building on Governor street, Rich
mond, Va., occupied by Messrs. llableston be
Bro. ns a, furniture store, fell suddenly to the
ground on the afternoon of the 21th inst. \\ orkmen
in excavating the foundation for a building adjoin
ing undermined this, which cause the accident. At
the time, Mr. Charles llableston was conversing
with two ladies in the front room of the first story,
but hearing the window glass cracking he ran in
to the street with the ladies in time to give the
alarm to the workmen, who ail escaped uninjured.
Mr. James Boswell, one of Messrs. Haiileson’s
t workmen, was on the fourth flight of stairs when
the crash took place, but fortunately the walls and
floor parted just where he stood, letting him pass
i through a crevice upoii the falling rubbish. Several
other workmen and passers-by had a very narrow
1 escape. The loss of the house is calculated at $6,000,
and the property of Messrs. llableston at SB,OOO.
Abolitionism among Foreigners.—The French
Red Republicans, calling themselves Travailleurs
Kcvolulionnairj *, held a meeting in New York on
Tuesday evening to celebrate the anniversary of
the French insurrection of June 24th, 1848, and
among the toasts drank at this meeting was the fol
lowing :
To Spartacus—Not the slave who gave the ex
ample of insurrection in the time of the Roman Re
public, but to the future Spartacus of the slaves of
America. May he teach them the rights, and they
will do the work of emancipation themselves.
This toast was followed by another expressing a
wish for the abolition of the army and clergy.
Killed by Lightning.—During the storm yes
terday afternoon a fine little boy, between five and
six years old, the son of Mr. Moseley, was killed by
lightning while playing under a tree near Houston
street. The poor little fellow had a steel belt around
his waist, which was split by the electric fluid, and
a piece of it flying against his chin slightly cut him.
A black mark down the chest was the only sign to
indicate the cause of death.
The Ostend-Sible Claims of Buchanan—ln
the Boston Chronicle a clever witticism is made at
the expense of Buchanan. One of his supporters
having spoken of the ostensible Claims of Buchan
an, the Chronicle retorts in this wise: It is very
true that Buchanan can show Ontend- able claims,
but his merits in that matter appear to be those of
a highwayman.
Hot Weather in New York.—The thermome
ter in our office yesterday, says the New York
Herald, of the 22d instant, marked 84 deg. at noon,
% deg. at three o’clock, and 94 deg. at five in the
afternoon. It was hot everywhere, and change of
locality seemed only to add to the intensity of the
warmth. The whole city seemed to smoke under
the furious rays of the sun, nor was there any inter
mission until “evening s shades prevailed.”
Douglas vs. Buchanan. —The Chicago Demo
crat says that the violent attacks on Mr. Buchanan
in Douglas' organ in that city were written by
Judge Douglas himself, and that a part of the
original manuscript of one of the articl es will soon
be placed in Mr. Buchanan’s hands.
Mr. Mathew, late British Consul at Philadelphia
mailed for Liverpool by the steamer City of Balti
more on Wednesday.
R. 1). Harvey has been elected judge, and T. W.
Alexander, Solicitor of the city Criminal Court of
Rome. G«.
t<Oul« Nn|»o)rO!ihfm
Ti:s cr.tidil'um of Eui-op.- with Lotsts KapoLeor j
as the arbiter of events is a curious study. It is
moreover a mournful one. With all the Inmate.!
civilisation of the nineteenth roiltury, with its learn.
*"« philosophy. its men of genius, its higlily
iirirosl common sense and its many handed pen
working to destiny the sword, tliere arises an ill
teatnred man, whose right to the very name he
bears is problematic, ami he heeoines the dictator of
all. He succeeds, because lie has studied keenly
ail the \ ices and intrigues ot the times, and because
he possesses one virtue which the age lacks-faith.
The grand old faith ol' the world lias died out, and
hopeless is it toseek to revive it. It must be born
anew by genius true to (tod and Mature ; not geuius
lost in schools of mysticism. The Europeans of the
nineteenth century have been worshipping eitUetdull
relies of dead days or imbibing the fumes of Her
man meerschaums and German beer, and growing
muddled have fancied they were inspired. Let them
awake from the delusion.
Hul the melancholy truth remains that the little
ness ot the age has caused Louis Napoleon to be
come gieat. Ihe perjured wretch who made drunk
a brutal soldiery and then bade them massacre the
people of Paris in order that a reign of terror might
last until he chose to change it into the reign of the
Emperor Napoleon he Third, knew well what
false gods were supreme on earth; knew well that
when the gutters had ceased to run blood, tine la
dies and smiling gentlemen from every people un
der the sun, would croud his ante-chamber and woo
his menials to grant them admittance to his balls,
and if they gained their suit would bask in a cold
smile trom him as flies revel in shambles. The
wretch stands out in bold relief from the myriad of
his satellites; including every crowned head iu Eu
rope, every one of those unclean things called cour
tiers, numberless political celebrities, and a large
background filled with divines, lawyers, editors and
ladies of fashionable virtue. They forget the crime
in the success, and would be all Louis Napoleons
if their cruelty were not nerveless.
The revival of the Empire and the military glory
of France, are events that cannot fail to affect the
entire world. Lovis Napoleonis.m is in the ascen
dency, aud ere the game be played out, many a
tieid will be red with gore, and many a ship will
have sunk in the death strife. Unrest is a striking
characteristic of the Empire. The man dare not
pause, or he is lost. Peace is to him perdition.—
He has converted France into a gambling booth,
and if the gambler fail to be expert he will be driv
en forth. The bauble for which he plays is a dynus
ty ; but this he can never win. He can but
lend the way to revolution; and a child of the
barricades will have a fairer chance of a throne than
the present child of the Tuileries.
In the days when Louis Napoleon was dream
ing of the proud destiny that awaited him when
he should have revived the empire, he was beset by
a phantom which haunts him still. It tells him of
the violent death that awaits him, and though lie may
gaze calmly at it and attempt at times to draw
the scene of terror, it is nevertheless torture to him.
It is the hand of retribution leading the criminal to
destruction. The greut want of Europe, which
must be supplied before peace be permanent, is a
financial genius that shall regulate money to the
wants of a great commercial and mechanical age. —
Louis Napoleon is entirely devoid of financial
genius, or indeed of any other kind of genius, but
having read of the South Sea Bubble, be has intro
duced the Credit Mouilier. Now when the credit
is exhausted, Louis Napoleon will be ns mobilicr
as the banks.
There is no stability to the empire and no length
to peaceful days. Excitement is life to Louis Xa
poleonism. War and conquest, whether in Europe
or elsewhere, must be the cry; whether for or against
England, or Spain or Italy or Austria, war must be
sought, and wherever there is strife Louis Napo*
leonism must: take part in it. The Empire is not
peace-
Mu. Fillmore in Bk oki.yn. —ln the New York
Nam, of the 24th ins-., we read: The friends of
Ex President Fillmore are making extensive ar
rangements for his reception in Brooklyn on Wednes
day to-morrow. Two hundred and fifty guns are to
announce his arrival on the side of the river. The
Fourteenth Regiment, Col. •!. C. Smith, is expec
ted to turn out on the occasion, and several compa
nies attached to other regiments will participate in
the display. The Young Men’s “American” Com
mittee, it will be recollected raised $b()0 some weeks
since to defray expenses,the Common Council be
ing prohibited by the charter from appropriating
money for such purposes. He will be received in
the Governor’s Room in the City Hall, by the Com
mittee of the*Common Council.
Morals ok New York.— The New York Herald
referring to a late charge of Judge Catron to the
Grand Jury of that city, says he reported that the
criminal calendar was no index of crime, as, not
withstanding the efforts made by police and public
officers, many, if not most criminals escape. The
learned J udge went on to say :
A check has been given to open or public gam
bling: but gambling, in a covert way, is, as I am
credibly informed, still pursued in several designa
ted localities. Dealers in lottery policies are as
plenty in this city as pigeons in the forest. Burglars,
thieves, incendiaries, perjurers, robbers aswessins,
usurers, cheats, mock auctioneers, extortioners, and
keepers of disorderly houses and brothels, are con
tinually busy with their deeds of fraud t violence
darkness and death. Intoxicating liquors are now
illegally sold in asinany as ten thousand places in this
city, and in not a few of those places these sales are
made on all days of the week.
The Herald says that this picture, instead of be
ing overdrawn, might be more easily heightened
than palliated. This is a great free soil city, which,
lets loose oceans of holy indignation upon the ini
quities of slavery, and the horrors of gutta pcrcha.
A Cry for the Enemy. —The New York Mirror ,
a journal published according to the Herald’s state
ment, chiefly for the amusement of the proprietor,
is becoming very Fremontish in tone. In its edi
tion of the ‘24th instant, it tells the following story:
At an impromptu gathering of Fremonters up
town, the other evening, an enthusiastic advocate
of the Rocky Mountain candidate put it to the
crowd, whether it were not better to send a man to
the White House who had completed his humani
ties by marrying an accomplished woman, than to
send there such a rusty old bachelor as Buchanan,
whose domestic hospitalities could only be seasoned
with the doubtful graces of some hired housekeeper ?
At this interrogatory, a gentleman present, who re
membered the maiden name of Mrs. Fremont,
(Jessie Benton) shouted, “ We’ll give'em Jessie!"
Graphic Potrait of Old Buck.—The New
Orleans Della :, a paper thoroughly sound on Demo
cracy and Filibusterisin, thus describes the personal
appearence of the elderly chainelion :
Mr. Buchanan is very tall and English-looking
having a burly figure ami florid complexion. There
is a defect or squint in one of his eyes, which gives
him a very peculiar expression, especially while
looking at the ladies. Mr. Buchanan is sliglftly bald
and his hair very gray—indeed almost white. His
manner is cold, calm and dignified, and decidedly
aristocratic. There is a peculiar expression of bene
volence combined with firmness which is very enga
Sing. His face wins on you the more you see it.
lr. Buchanan has either met an accident to his
neck, or has acquired a very disagreeable habit of
jerking his head suddenly down, as though his cra
vat were choking him, his shirt collar, tickling him
under the car, or something of the sort. When he
squints one eye into a good sly wink, and ducks his
head at the same time lie is looking at any of the
fair sex he certainly appears like an “old sinner,”
and one disposed to forget his years and the gra
vity of his distinguished position before the world.
Considering his political antecedents we are not
at all surprised to hear that he looks like an “old
sinner.’’
Russian Troops on the March.—The Cotriere
Jtaliano, of Vienna, contains the following rath
er extraordinary piece of intelligence from St. Pe
tersburg :
A large body of troops are now on their march
towards the countries washed by the Indus and the
Ganges. Arrangements lately entered into at St.
Petersburg leave no doubt on the subject. The
Prussian government is, moreover, endeavoring to
turn to account the experience acquired during the
late war, and has it in contemplation to introduce
material reforms in the military administration of
the country. The army is to be completely re-or
ganized. There will be eight special armies, each
composed of eight corps d'crmcc. Regiments,] in
time of peace, are to have five battalions of from
500 to 1000 men each, and eight in war. The rifle
men will be considerably increased in number, the i
heavy cavalry disbanded, and the light cavalry ma
terially augmented in strength.
French Finances.—The floating debt of France
is now over one hundred and fifty millions of dol
lars, the increase since January Ist is twenty mil
lions, and the amount of treasury bills afloat over
fifty millions. The interest on the war loans
amounts to over ten millions per annum. These
figures made public through the recent budget, give
significancy to the well-known fact, that there has
been a real deficiency in the treasury of France for
many years past, and indicate that the Emperor
must husband his finances and withdraw his people
from the wholesale speculations in railway and bank
ing companies, in which he has led them, if he
wishes to retain his position among the great powers
or even to be secure on his throne.
Fire in Savannah.—A fire broke out in the up
per story of the Planter’s Hotel, Barnard street, Sa
vannah, at an early hour on Friday morning. The
damage to the Hotel was confined to the rooms and
boarders’ property on the attic floor, but considerable
loss was sustained by Mr. A. 11. Champion, whose
grocery-store adjoins the hotel. The total loss is
calculated at upwards of $4,000, which is covered
by insurance.
Fremont Ratification Meeting in N. York.—
The Tabernacle, New-York, was filled on Wednes
day evening by the supporters of Col. Fremont and
Mr. Dayton, the nominees of the Black Republican
party. Mr. Thos. B. Stillman acted as Chairman.
Judge Emmet, Judge Edmonds, the spiritualist,
Mr. Howard, M. C., and Senator Trumbull, of
111., und others, addressed the meeting. A letter
was read from Mr. Seward, approving of the
nomination. At the close of the proceedings in the
Tabernacle, a procession was formed and the crowd
inarched to the residence of Col. Fremont, and the
Colonel favored them with a few commonplace re
marks.
Fatal Casualty. —The Columbus Time» 4* Sen
tinel states: On Monday night, 23d inst., as the
passenger train was coming in on the Opelika Rail
road, it run over and killed a negro man belonging
to Col. R. L. Mott, of this city. The accident oc
curred at the plantation of Col. Mott, near Dover.
The negro was lying on the track, apparently asleep.
He was not observed by the engineer until the train
was within a few feet of him, too late to check it.
The body and head were crushed and mangled in a
most horrid manner.
Padre Vijil, the Nicaragua Minister took his
departure from New York on the 24th by the stea
mer Orizaba, for St. Juan. It is uncertain whether
he will return. About 150 recruit* for General
Walkkk, were said to be on board the Orizaba.
Kobt. S. Ba.lev, Erq fonnerly editor of the
Lancaster (S. C-l Ledger, died on the 20th met. lie
wan a native of Charleston.
One'of the drivers oil the mail route between
Montgomery and Stoctou, Ala., lias been arrested
on suspicion of having been concerned in the recent
mail robberies perpetrated on that route.
Fiilmme f; : Qnatkljui , * * -
Twr. etiihttftiasm that welcomed flic Kx President
m New York wnfi fully equulled on his visit to
Brooklyn, on Wednesday-. Tb 6 procession wa-*.
greeted by the chcc-rs of nsoefubled tlumsai.ds. fito
everywhere it was discernible that Mr. Fillmore
wan the favorite son of America. Banners, pfccu
liarly appropriate in their inscriptions, were born -
by the American Clubs, such as ‘.-America for tl.e
Americans;” ‘ Welcome, Fillmore;” “Our course
is onward : “The Union must and shall be pr«
served “We know no North nor South no East
nor West—our whole country.”
On the arrival of the i*o< cssbm at the Ciiy Hall,
the Mayor delivered an address, to which Mr. Fn i
more responded in hia happiest manner. In the
course of his reply, he said :
Sir, you have been pleused to make allusion t«i
the remains of the heroic dead, to the bones of th,*
martyrs to the American cause: who rest in a com
mon grave in the vicinity of this city. Can it he
ptwsible that the descendants of those noble patriots
will basely sacrifice the liberties which they dit d !•<
bequeath to us / (Cries of “Never. ) No, never
Remember that the great leader of the Revolution
was George Washington. ( Applause.) R.»membH
that the advice he gave to his fellow-citizens— the
parting advice —in his Farewell Address, was, that
ins countrymen should stand by the Union (re
liewed applause;) that you should frown upon every
man, no matter what might be his pretensions, who
should presume to be a patriot and yet commit an
act that would dissolve this glorious * Uuion. (Mon
applause.) In speaking as 1 do, 1 know that l give
expression tli the common sentiment of the Ameii
can people. lam not willing to believe that there
is one within the sound of my voice who is not a
lover of the Union, and who w ould not sacrifice his
life iu its defence.
Mr. Fit.lmore was afterwards introduced to the
ladies of Brooklyn, to whom he njade a gal him
speech. He then addressed the Citizens from tin
balcony, and in the evening, after dining w ith w
Mayor Kinusland, he was honored with a serenade
No Yellow Fever in Ch»rle*lon or Sovnutinfi.
For some days Dame Rumor has given currency
to the report that Yellow Fever existed in Charles
ton, which iuduced Mayor Evans to telegraph the
Mayor of Charleston, * dvising him of the report ,
and expressing hia desire to correct it if untrue, to
which the Mayor of Charleston returned .the follow
ing prompt reply, which we take great ph a auv in
laying before the public :
Mayor’s Office, (
Chari os ton, dune \
The report has no inundation. No-informalfen
has been received at this office, either from the Re
gister or Port Physioiau, or any one else, of the ex
istence of a solitary ease of Yellow Fever.
Wm. Foritier Milks,Mayor.
To Geo. W. Evans. Mayor of Augusta.
The same report regarding Yellow Fever having
been extended to Savannah, Mayor Evans deemed
t advisable to Telegraph on to that city, and heu
evening he obtained the following answer:
Mayor’s Office, Savannah, .linn l 7
The rumor of Yellow Fever being in this eitv n
totally unfounded. The general health ol the plan
was never better at this season of the vrar. Tin
cases of ordinary fever are fewer than* generally,
occur at this time. Please contradict the report -
prevailing in Augusta.
Edward C. Anderson. Mayor.
Hon. George W. Evans.
1 Fire.— An alarm of fire was raised shortly aft« i
1 four o’clock yesterday morning when it - : »m.u
discovered that the upper floor of Mr. M. W. \Y«ifci>.
ruff’s corn and provision warehouse, situated «r
* the corner of Reynolds and Mclntosh streebj wfl
* inflames. Before the Engines could effectually 1 .
brought in operntionlhe whole of the eoiitf-nls
1 this story, consisting of several hundred sacks <»t
rye and corn were destroyed together with about.
100 sacks of Hour and a quantity of bacon sforett
1 on the ground floor. The upper story was gutt. it!
and considerable damage was caused to the lowei
premises by water. The loss is calculated at lulT\
* $2,000, which is covered by insurance. There i
no doubt that the fire originated through spontaiieoi
combutions.
The Buchanan Ratification Meeting is
Ch arleston. —This affair came oil' on Thursday
j. night at South Carolina llall. The Stand"rJ say •
the excessive heat kept many away, hut to judge
from the account it was cool enough. Nels»».\
Mitchell, Esq., presided. Letters of apology wwv
read from Judge Douglas, Col. Our and ('••!.
Brooks, and speeches were made by lion. Jam*
Simons, lion. W. 1). Porter, and Charles M \<
ret ii, Esq. Resolutions were passed endoising th.
nomination of Messrs. Buchan vn and Bueckks-
RirxiE, and approving of the Cincinnati Platform
The meeting then quickly dispersed.
Preserve Yol k Health.—The following, from
the Medico/ SjM'citi/ist, applies as well this loeali
ty as to that for which it was prepared, li contain
suggestions upon which all may ponder with profit
“The germs of pestilence are hatching in the ele
ments. Everything points to the approach of tt
sickly summer and autumn. It should, therefore, l».
the care of every person to preserve the sevcitU
i functions of their body in full tone. Disease fall
: first upon those whose organism is already disordei
ed through their own neglect. Guard well against
. constipation, and its opposite. Eat nothing indige
1 tible. Avoid all green and half matured vegetables
’ and fruits. Pay strict, attention to the cleanliness ni
the surface of your bodies; and above all, begin.
, the work of purification about your yards and in
your houses early—and do it thoroughly. (Vault
, ness, simple diet, and regular habits, will form the
r strongest protection against the coming epidemic.-
4 As no tnan can tell where the arrow of death -ma\
! fall first, he is the wisest who first puts his house in
order.”
Red Ast rac a ns.— Frtiitlands Farm, under Ho
management of D. Redmond, Esq., seeim destined
to gain a reputation that will boos vast profit to
him, and great pleasure to others. We have already
dilated upon the richness of tin; fruits he iuises
’ there ; Apricots, Peaches, Strawberries, Raspber
ries, Cherries, Apples have come before us in rapid
’ succession, and now we have to thank him Ibr some
fine large rosy mellon full-flavored Apples, known
as “Red Astracans.” They are worthy of Fruit
! lands and our palate. What more can w e say in
their approval ?
‘ The Christian Union. —We, are in rest »pf M
the July number of this instructive serial, which mi
I der the editorship of Messrs. Lamar A Thomas.
■ always contains healthful food lor the mind. It i*
the only work of the kind published in Augusta, and
’ it should be liberally supported.
r Democratic Ratification Their
was an assemblage ol the friends of JYicnhi Bi
1 chanan and Breckenriduk at the City Hall last
night to ratify the Cincinnati nominations for the
f Presidency and Vice-Presidcncy. Judge Starnes
| presided. The attendance was not large, and the
, speeches were very labored.
\ Aijrahams Tobias, Esq., a native ol' Charleston,
and many years extensively engaged in business
there, died in that city on Thursday in the filth
year of his age.
Paris Agricultural Kxmim ion.- The
but ion of prizes at the great Agricultural Exhibition
in Paris took place June JO, and the United St uter
us usual, drew prizes on every thing which she pie
sen ted for serious competition— nmnLcrinx Ac- ~//
jecU ! Pitt’s Buffalo thresliiog machine drew n
first class medal, and has been sold to Hie Emperor
for 2,200 francs ; Manny’s reaper drew a first e la-,
medal; a barrel of Col. Alston’s (South Carolina)
rice, do.; McCormick’* reaper, worked by French
men, a second class medal ; a specimen of some
body’s peppermint essence of New York-, an inferim
medal.
M’lle Camille Urso, the distinguished jnve
nile violinist, was married on Thursday evening.
June 2fi, at Nashville, Ten n., to a Mr. Georoe M.
Taylor.
Josiah Kilgore, Esq., a prominent efiv/.en *0
Greenville, S. C., died on the 22d June, aged sivly
five years. " .
The Ohio papers record the death oCJudg-
Colwell, who served at the siege of Fort Meigs
in 1812.
Execution of Du. Palmer.—William l*.yi
-MKR, the surgeon ofitugely, England, c,ou>it'leJ ot
poisoning his friend., .John Pau. qns Cook, with
strychnine, was hanged at Stafford on Katurdav
morning, the 1 4th inst., in the presence ot
persons. He made no confession. ''rJlHflSSk/
M. Dillon, French Consul at Sun
been named Consul General lit, Port
Paris letter states that he has insthtfftibns to inti 1 *4
that France will not permit Soulouque to invadettf*;.
Dominicans.
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A subterranean railroad is now being laid down
in Paris in the middle of tho Boulevard dtt Sobasto
pol.
French Freedom of Specch. —M. Bf.rgoi 1 '
noux, formerly the Editor of the Evianapator
Toulouse, was lately sentenced by the tribunal
Villeneuve sur-Lot. to two years’ imprisonment, tbi
having spoken ill of the Emperor of the French
in a public carriage.' The public prosecutor ap
pealed against the Sentence, a* too light for the
offence; and the imperial 'court ;nt Agen has now
condemned M. five years’ im
prisonment, and five years’ deprivation of civil
rights.
Missouri and Kentucki.—An iiitelligant friend
of the editor of the Nashville Patriot, recently con
nected with the prewi in Bt. J,,min, at this time so
journing in I,is native State, Kentucky, writes «.
follows:
“I run convinced Fillmore will carry by
10,000 majority. The nomination of Breckeiuidgc
will have no effect or, Kentucky—it will give nhoiil
5,000 majority for Fillmore.*’
Destructive Fire at Thibodeaux, /.a, the
■ principal business portion of the villago of 1 hits'
deaux, 1.a., was destroyed by fire on the night ot
June The principal sufferers ar e Messrs. Hon
TON, Edward J. Bamereux, and Drs. Durac and
Hordes, who lost their all. The lohs is estimated at
about $50,000. The fire is said to have been can
by an incendiary.
The New Fork Ileratd announces that M“J"'
lleiss, formerly proprietor of the New Ors•«ns <>•‘
ta, will shortly ho appointed successor to r ,
Vijii. as Nicaragua minister at M as ung on
The Newark N J., Ncrcary says Commodore
The Newark, re » declincd the nomination
Stockton has absolutely
of his holtiug friends at New link last week.
Two deaths occurred in New York city on th,
yist inst., from covpdc tpletl.
Tkkkieic ShUai.l in New York.-A gain ot
wi „d suddenly arose in the neighborhood of
York City, on Sunday afternoon. A sinal
from South Brooklyn was cap sized, and V
sons out of five were drowned. The name of the
lost were Robert Hanna, Catheroe
and Margaret Crane.
Death from Sunstroke.-Chaui.es
a young Irishman died from sunstroke, m
ton on Monday. .
Steamboats ITnuk a log, on
FndayT«'"'Tn the'vicinity of Bax^Lo
sunk- Supposed to be a totul loss. << 11
are iifformed.