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Bv tin* arrival «t h-iv* «!* ‘l"<*f E'»r< P Ha i "’ ” i
u> the Pith instant t !
Parliament t* t** )>'’ ub (lr viw, nfin j
eon#eou*ntlv th*- /Is.’.! p- ri-xi «»f fx»nw> r » **' '««**»• ‘
Vi'u* . u via ■■ •of .ue Guard* into Loud'non |
Sr ;r M«n> from me fnmet too* puu?, iuUnyna- ;
f ; u U e r T*-‘ Mi ihe linen*
w,, tin V# r. ui. and ufoai their rt*»M*hing Hrd* (
*V,4 \vh*?r« th*y w«rt* the KeWVte J
wry iinpr«MMV«t. ibe number of oil \ ■
, >«j MQfl, but oftfac*c only about 3‘rtlv bad been in ]
•h. Crimea Many of tbe latter |Mirtk ipp'd in *b‘ J
, . ;on«- #*t th«- Alma and at lukernrarin, aad feui I
-*"•!» the menvnrbje clung**. at Bslaklaya* I ■•'*
*l. v vra*» ♦•xeeeditigiy fine and «V'..rything pr * J
* ' -dT wait: .. 4 . !
The Qur*m at Aidershuti.— Owing to me *M" i
facombi* -rate of too weather. the review «n I
V' ..lav the 7th iind . at AMensfcott \rn& counter
manded ,
Os; Tuonlav moiDinf at him past ten o clock. tne
Utifwn and Prince Uon*<*rt, with tho Uruiee of
Wah*f. l«-#t th*- Paviflfen, hv! her Mijjeirty reviewed
the troop- Tir- King ni the Belgian*, the Count
~t Ft refer*, Prim •* <>*cat of Sweden, and l!>:- Duke
‘ Cambridge, accompanied her Majesty. Lord
pMUKur*, Secretary of State for the War Do part
; ent 'tM ii» attendance on the Queen.
nmcrtiately in the front of the line the officers of
each reg reent with a certain number of privates,
•e!*-(*ted from amongst the oldest and too* 1 gallant
u*i. »u each regiment. formed in square, from the
opjwr centre of which her Majesty adduced UKiQ
in tL* following' terms :
Officers. Oificern, ami Nui
-4tunr«—-1 wiah pcrwnially to convey, through you, to
the regiment! hero this day. my hearty
welcome on your return to England in health and
full eflb iency Say to thorn that I have watoheo
m ioiiilf over the diffiedltiM and kardabipa which
th>? v havefco nobly borne ; tWit I have mounted
wdt) deep sorrow f<jr the b rrtVe io« n who have fallen
inx rheir <;ountry and th;. * 1 Have fell proud of tbM
valor wtiMb, with their jniHant aHies, they have d »
played on every field. I tiiauk G</<1 that your dan
ger- are over whilst tiie gtory *#f yourdoeos remain.
B’it I know that, should yonr service-* be again re
,»aired, you trill be animated with the Hams de
votion which tn the Crimea lias rendered yon in
in/ible.*'
The sjiokc from an open carriage. She
wris in p riding habit, end wore a round hat.
Her Majesty spoke with a<• learnen of enuncia
tion which rendered her woiiU diet met
rbrr agboct the wfmle square. At the close of her
address the Queen bow# J graciously to the vera!
corps, and at the call of tien Knollys the offii e,r
ar>n T; n. acknowledge#! the Ui*iinguwhed compli
m. -rt jjafd lo them, ny tfarw rounds of hearty
beer*.
Th** Qm-en ha* < onferred the title and dignity of
baronet of thofToiled Kingdom on Sir Allen M’Nab,
late prime minister inCanadu.
11 , - in fed by the Daily News fthat tlu-. retiring
I ■•■•!'; , of tl,< Hihlrr.p of London is to be jCtKK)O :
tl of •>./■ Bishop of Durham. A reference
, 1* -1 Parliamentary Coinpanion chows that
th«- p. e- iit JJichop of Ixmaon who retire on the 1.-t
. f • *u:t>er next w a- coop erated Ilisltopof Cliif
i<: and t ranslated to the nee of London in
l- 'H, , that he will have enjoyed n tenure of ‘M
v* ‘ <f* of office. The Kight Kev. prelate ia in his
,•* venr. Dr. Mnitby. the retiring Bishoji of Dur
first consecrated Btfbop of Chester in 183 i,
. .-I translated in 18»f». The Right Rev. prelate i
<o the S7th year of his age.
The DtiiJon Star of the 11th inst. *ayw :
Yesterday the Admiralty issued orders for the war
r -, rn» Driver, under the command of Captain
f and two more gun boatn, the ()nyx and
, Commodore Wilson, to proceed across
Aihuitle. with the object, it is said, of joining
f, , .nidnble fleet of ships of war there coucentra-
h \\ in Smith <»Jlricn arrived ut the Shcibonrne
Ji **•!, the Bth.
(hurra! \vrUiftm* at Colne.— On the IHhiiifst.
». Sir W. F. Williams was returned without op
j.. 'mu fin member for Caine, in th#* room of the
1 m i of Shelburne.
M'thnyof the Tipperary Miliha. —A mutiny has
• u pV'ic*’ i*i tho North Tirx rary Militia, at, Nc
.. *i; .Major General Sir J W. < imttertou, ooin
- dii / the Cork district, dispatched a lurge body
. »»f tin* line from Limerick t<» quell the mil
iii On Tuesday evening stio men from different
i« I'irnents arrived* in Nenugh, and being admitted
, th< < arracks without opposition, demanded of
lie- militia to give up their arms, which they refused.
v . < tiring occurred outside, and during the af
i,. ■ , ine fiv*-or six of lie regulars were woun
and one killed. A civilian was shot dead.-—-
Ti e militia imitine* h were, however, taken pris
• having had three killed and eight woun
,'d Th** cause Os tie* mutiny appears to be that
L in* a jicremptorily refused to give up their cloth
ing and arms previous to their disembodiment, and
then attacked their officers and committed other
v ntrage*.
!/, ir* i ary of flu /h< la rut ion of / mlepe tide nee.
On Friday, the tth instant, a miiuptuou.-i dinner
iv* n bv Ah* IVabody, at the Star and Garter,
j;. i.'. oii*!, to upwards ot IUU Ainerieans, and n few
Ui linh gentlemen, in oomtn*• 11 lorntion ot the 80th
v< i-:u v of the declaration of t li«- independence
. 'lie United States. The grand dining hall was
fitted up for the occasion with the busts of the
•i i n and of Wasliington, the American eagle,the
'•■iidnrd of England and of the United States, and
1< v apj priittc decorations. Mr. Veabody took
~ f hair shortly after seven o’clock, supported on
i ho right by th*" American Minister, Mr. Italian, and
. n (In- 1* ft by Mr. W. Brown, M. I* . Mr. St*dl, of
.Mane! ester Mr Morgan, of London . Mr. Nomcr
r • of R.i toii, United States; Mr. I*. N. Dallas,
.i»tit v• f Legation ; and Mr. Croakey, United
< 'onsttl at Southampton, acted as \ iec i'resi-
M;. John Mnogregor, M. !’. Mr. S (' Hall,
. ud Mi *• E. Jones, the sculptor, were among the
English guest*.
Mr. \V Brown, M. I* , proposed the health of the
, ii. ii .Minister, wlm replied ns follows :
!).i! -It is extremely difficult, tuitid ex
f . , of so much personal kindness not to lost*
i *,t i'..v a moment ot the great national demons! rn
. ion ■ -lint of wliicli wo nrc upsemblod, uml I
,ttuni you my most hourly tlnmka for tin* personal
. i,.!i.U4*n» you have paid me. I rejoice to find in
1 l< •: t **o may ardent nud patriotic Americans
..»< 11„ celebrate the unniveitwiry of our indepen
[ Loud eon rs.| We are, oh u country, but
. ii\ years of ago :we are, at tliis moment, honor
«d by (of olio of the loading men of
Ami nca. who is only one year younger than his own
on n try -General fiercer (cheers) ; blit, notwith
...sdin-r the youth of oui country, how justly proiul
iMOV we be of her. | (-lleei s. J At the t ime of her
iat’t) he wap a puny creature, sickly, feeble, di
. lx>oknt.liei now. She then contained
•mt ,‘HHl,tioo Her population i.i now v 4?,000,001). —
•f. i ten ii'H \ was then a margin on the Atlantic.—
. 1 is liov/ an immense continent, Ih r wealth was
h» n comparative poverty. Her resources now are
. (Ufllly e vliHUHtless. [Chews.]
ip - moral greatness, too, beara a lair pn»|iortion
o i r j.i sieinl davlopemwit. There is in her pbys
. ml e i.tiguration everything to delight the eye
out exalt the imagination; she has the noblest
», th most extended lakes, the widest rb
,ih tin* richest prairies Ami in harmony with this
■ »li« pi..gross of her genius and of her moral prin
. : t .|,-s, ,ud the great elevation of her political max
ji heers.j When Americans look back at the
!n»it i • i **d during which their country has existed
, (oi tl,< theatre of the world, tlioy have, therefore,
. ... r* anon t<» lie|proud—UdieeraJ nay, I go fur
i ii« i, t ini » i ent country, whence sprang the chiet
piork of th«- I ruled States,has reason to bo proud.
. ( j., . , 1.1 In all our groat characteristics we may
! r . • mat., n mble the people of Great Britain.—
Wi me brave -| cheers j—we art* commercial; we
tier. nud. perhaps, iu some retpects, wp trnns
. ..i In having carefully seperntod civil ami
. . ; ,I -. lilurtv | Cheers. | But resemblances of
1 \S. -It. »I .it hint-i*, instead of being the cause of
. • ' aud union, are often theonune of diflio.nl
and dispute.
J u bru\ e men arc equally fearless of each other;
’* ~ i never yield to the other on a point ofhouor,
ij!V refute, they sometimes oome ittfco collision.
. Mie.x'uauts pursuing the same oouise of adven
vvi’l ouutimes find their interests clash. The
. p'uii ,*i the press, too, w hioh in free countries should
* , ; l.r free, often hi ings on a state of feeling which
pi-tca to Ut dealt with by the wisest and most
un itiatury ineamires. I Loud cheers, j It is a mat
. or of sincere regret, but perhaps it is in the order of
tr'i evidence, that the .freest nations are not always
Min.rr.it friends. (Hear, liear.J 1 cordially
eiinvil in the first,second and third toasts that
. e proposed. With regard to the second, permit
~; obaeiwe that if there is one feature ot the
u-.ui eiiaraclet more prominent than nu
t,„ I, it I, the heartiuoiss with which they receive
. . ttias, of the Indy w hose mime is always foremost
i 1 e hearts of KngKshmen. i Loud cheers. 1 I ask
v countryineit who are acquainted w ith the mii
—al spirit of America. who know the extent to
-b w i t u» ry our civilisation, whether we do not
v ivs drink a double bumper to the ladies in prefe
, , to tin- gentlemen ’ iChcers and laughter.]
v, to the present toast, gentlemen. 1 thank you for
•»-, manner in which you have received it, Lis only
,- u oeieg that it comes from William Brown, of
I ;vh»im»i4. {Loud cheers.]
A i ; ih Mu .lami - Sadukk.—The Liuio
. K rieoniide :;\s that there is reason to believe iu
’.*rr etnew of a report which hoe been fcirenla
-l to the cfVool that Mr. Jatnc* Sndlitr. M. P. for
1 «po!. *v. aed director of the Tipperary Joint Stock
P.nVk, has Nen able to elude any criminal proceed
\ | Ue connection w ith that notorious sw iu
:n;v!d entail. It is added that he got into n
;>» n,.*ar Kingstown in the presence of two deter*
- .irderwhese surveillance he was. and that the
t 1 i man waited in vain for his return, as the yacht
-,t' !Vl>nbliu harbor bv an emigrant ship, in
*i he pnw . th dto America.
! w< v Tii. Mi'niteur has pnblisiied the follow
v y : e . -patch from Vice-Admiral Tro
re.mnier iu Chief of the Mediterranewi
• d: ’«'d on boanl the Bretagne. July t‘>:
' : dav. .I;viy tin* definite evaluation of the
C to* k pirn c. The Marshal embarked on
• i { the Boland, which got under
It- lovtagn*’, w hich iunl just anchored at
K - ' with the last m t‘ ’ were
1 . an* expected tonuu row in the Bos
' M utimp ey is. it appears, the otTiecr
• v :-»s ia t;i« Crimea, eh.M'gisl with consular
, r , s n**n) Mit'li time a"* e. rvgnlar consul is *p
{ M .u. , th* folk*wing ofiioial noti
s.,-v, ral nmmals i*i Prance, as well as
. . .i _ • accredit a statement that the
dMHi to go to Areneai>erg and tft Brt -
ti !■[ ii*r o; Austria. The state
•
, ... ij t of thn *bmth remittance «f
. • : i, r . .*• ,mH) fraiACs subscribed by
»;AtlOn ”
* !** «»’- t'icittauPn* . of itrieat». Ufts ad
«>c■■■talkwing i**rt»H* to the ad'mojtJmtor of
. «*• e ,-v ft: ,-1 Means family at Paris ‘ I learn
pvjr*»; Si: , that the KuipuVu* tms jn-s pvo
.
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cr u. -o**r*, Liiheritauce, l have «, oh rat’s si t-vi-rv
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-Ifr.>C by wv or; ‘ge seUktuenL Bk- proper
„ td r ;nv bv tie* King, mv behaved fa
- .... d.med it
. t , 4> r.ctf-.e UiO d'od«u.-. i>u« hcsS of Sax*-
*Mm& r o d ■ • . \
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rpl»..iiti. u.
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f . s .ore «ma! f » iu.it ;ua t.,. «*
k - . p -,: i,** b c«u .-i Powers.
. *,, -iwt»d*'td of the Daily News at
' . - •’
’ . _ . . , * r» a;aiu »iukM. -otd iiiat tiie Am*
t wl m • iu-ing j>remature dutbreak*.
m ' ommiseifflu i.aa onidemned iworw than
. | Uii . ■ for supi-oacd The
iKUi. 'tnnJ* who to Twenty year*
imrr i jumetit ;re given, an»o' : w hom are three
!.-Tto <r *prlet«ve and on- artist, uI! with wires and
„ Among tin* condemn-*! is Giovanni C»!
7>k\ i.; rive of Piedmont, residing in the Duchy ot
M th ia. #srtrs€ou.on; T y ii»e Austrians’ who havfcrv*
d ie -rii«» inAlodciia, have coniinitt#*d n
‘ rr Vt ..ut.eg. on IV I.; ud in - utewdng ony «»f hei
aLitc*-* ia : e.cnty .years inipfisOQqMMt. The wri
te «itli >ii she goveniHieoU os England and France
p.» nrt,- :a, ph*y, and ; n.** that, if they demand the
i«i-- ur:i I.l.*eriut'Co of this uuai, gt>slwiii lie
..*r -. and more Austrian oppio-v-a in Italy wiil be
piev’t-nted. tlnu* can be aoixiniptiKliCsi by a cartload
~f proloco>.
A k tter from Turn, dated the 6th jus taut, -tates
that in cofiswmcijcc of the critical state of affairs* in
Parma, d Normandy lias gone there from Flor
ence, and had already had several interviews with
th** Msrrfuhi of Pailaviehio, Minister of Forcdgn Af
lttir«*. Wile the Austrian General Count Creuueville,
and with the Dufchesa herself.
Br.u*.—The Madrid lorrespor.deiu of the I/*a
don Times w'riies,:
The situation *»l Spain is sufficient to inspire set i
ous ooeasinefts, if not alarm among those who are
derinuc* of seeing that country strong and prosper
oto. The ia*e exoessefi afford sufficient evidence
tiiat ilie revolutionary spirit iias infected a pari of
the population. One eannot be struck with this
siinuiUuK'OUfc character of the recent excesses per
i tea<*-d on points distant from each other, and
without any pretext to justify them. The destruc
tion of manufactories in various parts, and the at
tempt to bum the standing crops along the line
• ' -•
! pidity of crime. The crops were burnt because
!>rea«l was dear, as if the destruction of the mate
rial of which bread is made would render it more
plentiful.
i mentioned that, according to the official des
patches. no disturbances had taken pho - in Xiarce
>
hendany. Ihit it lias been ascertained that iiw-en*
‘lhiries quitteu Barcelona f*'*r the BKinntains, and
li.iv* attempted to burn another maun factory near
11,',. wtu of V tbuMS tliiUK* «*«*• i'anlly hi- < ~n-sid-red
sid-red as mere isolated acts of outrage, that may
occur in any cfao* of society. There arc evidently
traces of a preconceived plan, and the official jour
nal of Madrid stated lately that the disturbance nt
Valencia were involved in great mystery. Each
party will no doubt c ast the blame on tlu: other; but
whether it be Socialist or Carlist, or reactionary
in tlie Polaeo sense, it is certain that the .state of the
country gives cause for great disquietude.
Ti'RXi.v—Genera! Codington and Marsiial Pc*-
!isrier,tl.!- Fr-ncliand English Commanders in-Chief
were at Constantinople in the* beginning of the pres
ent month, where a festival was about to be held in
Ihtir honor, alter which they would leave for West
ern Europe.
Kirs*;! * —lt is now .-‘lid tl;-u- the Czar >. sincere
in his desire to abolish serfdom. A plan for its gra
dual extinction now commands the attention of the
Russian Government. It is proposed to raise a
loan, by means of which the Government will pur
chase the serfs from the private owners, and then
liberate them under certain -condition.
Co.mmkkciai.. —The London Time* of Friday
e/euing, litii instant, says: The* English funds
opened this morning at the languid prices of yester
day, and although a slight improvement subsequent
ly occurred, it was not maintained. Consols for
money, which left off last e vening I's|, were first
quoted to to which they again relapsed, after
n temporary advance to For the 7th of August
the* last pri-c was TYj. Notwithstanding the* dull
ncssofthe market, money was easy throughout the
day, the rate for short loans being only per cent.
A small failure was announced in connection with
the settlement of the recent Consol account.
The returns of the Bank of France for the past
month are very unsatisfactory, and together with
the alarm caused by the inundations, are fully sutli
cient to account for the distrust lately prevalent on
the Bourse. The stock of bullion has experienced a
diminution of ,£1.&00,000, and stands now at about
£9.31)0,000. At the same time the pressure for 1110
iii y lias led to an increase of £3,530,000 in the dis
counts, while in the advances to sustain the Bourse
there has also been an augmentation of £ I SO,OOO 011
Government Securities, and of £2l£ooo on railway
stocks. There has likewise been an increase of
£804,000 in the note circulation. The balance to
the credit of the Government has decreased £500,-
000, and the deposits show an addition of £1,060,-
000. Notwithstanding the rapid efflux of the bul
lion, it appears t hat £13,400 were paid during the
month to meet the loss froui purchases ol gold on
this side.
Correspondence of the Baltimore American.
TJIIRTV-FOUtTU UONGItfiSS—I»t Scaaion.
IN SENTE July 21.
The Senate passed a bill amendatory of the act of
December, 1732, concerning the registering and re
cording of ships or vessels, the object being to make
it conform to the present regulations of the Treasu
ry Department.
On motion of Air. Hall, a resolution was adopted
culling on the President for information whether any
instruct ions have been issued to any military officer
in commuud in Kansas, to disperse any unarmed
meeting of the people* of that territory , or prevent
by military power any assemblage of the* people of
the territory.
The Senate amended the bill providing for the ar
mament of fortifications, alterations of small arms,
& 0,., reducing the appropriations from three millions
to eighteen hundred thousand dollars, and then pass
ed it—yeas c 27, nays 10.
On motion of Air. Cass, a resolution was passed,
providing for uu adjournment, (the House concur
ring) on the eleventh day of August.
A bill was passed regulating the fees, costs, and
other judicial expenses of the government through
out the United States.
Bills were passed making appropriations for the
improvement of the Delaware breakwater, cer
tain harbors in the.Sfate of Maine, and of the har
bor at Marquette, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wis
consin.
After which the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House proceeded tc the consideration of the
Nebraska contested election case, the committee on
Elections reporting u resolution that Bird !>. Chap
man was not, and Harrison P. Bennett was elected
the delegate to Congress from that territory.
Mr. Watson having made u speech in favor of the
resolutions, Air. CUngman obtained the floor, and
moved u suspension of the rules in order to net up
on the Senate's resolution fixing a day for the close
of the present session. The motion was disagreed
to—yeas 107, nays SJ, not two thirds.
Mr. Sage moved a suspension of the rules, with a
view to act on the bill to continue the improvement
of the Hudson liver above and below Albany, and
b* low Troy. The question was lost, not two thirds
voting in the affirmative.
On motion ofAL'. Stanton a resolution was pass
ed, fixing the daily hour of meeting ut eleven in
stead of twelve o'clock.
Air Smith, of Tennessee, moved to take from the
Speaker’s tabic the resolution of the Senate, passed
to-day, to adjoiun the two Houses on the eleventh
day of August.
Mr. Dunn gave not iec that he should move an
amendment, provided, that on or before that day an
act shall be passed and receive the Executive sanc
tion for the settlement of the troubles in Kansas,
containing, among its provisions, one for the re-es
tahlishnicirt of slavery restriction applicable to Kan
sas and Nebraska.
Mr. Meaeham gave notice of a substitute, to take
:t n cess from the Ith of August to the 20th of. Octo
ber, providing that no extra mileage be paid to any
members, or per diem during the recess.
Mr. Dunn moved that the resolution be laidupou
the table, but the motion did not prevail. Yeas 55,
nays lUS.
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, moved that the second
da) of September bo substituted.
After some debate involving the question of bu
siness to be transacted, and during which Air. Dunn
declared he should support Air. Fillmore, the House
adjourned without coming to u conclusion on the
resolution and the amendments pending. The tem
per of the majority is evidently in favor of an ad
journment by the 18th of August.
IN SENATE Tilly 22.
On motion of Mr. Seward, a resolution was adop
ted. directing the committee on Manufacture*
to inquire concerning the extent to which iron
may be submitted tor wood, stone and brick,
in the erection of public buildings in tin* United
States.
Mr. Butler introduced a blil to regulate the com
pensation of member of Congress. It proposes to
give to each member a salary of $3,000 for each
regular session, instead of the present per diem, and
for extra sessions the present per diem and twenty
«'» nts per mile for travel each way.
The Senate concurred in the amendment of the
House to the fennel's absolution fixing the ISth day
of August for the termination of the session of Con-
Tht* bill for continuing the improvement of the
Harbor of Racine. A\ iseonsin, was passed.
The bill for continuing the improve'incut of the
Harbor at Ivoinisha, Wisconsin, was discussed—tlu*
debate taking a wide range ns to the constitutional!
iv and expediency of such iuk nml improvements.—
Finally the Semite passed the bill, and then adjourn
ed.
HOUSE.
The House passed the Senate's resolution with an
amendment fixing upon the IStii of August for the
close of the present session. The vote stood aye*
.123,nays 51. The House then lesumed the Nebras
ka contested elect i m ease.
Messrs. Jewett, Foster, and Stephens, of Geor
gia, spoke in favor of tie sitting delegate. Air. Chap
man.
Mr. Washbume, of Maine, argued on the other
side, in favor of the contestant. Hiram i*. Bennett.
Mr. Chapman represented his side of tin- question,
and was followed by Air. 11. I*. Bennett, who spoke
in his own behalf.
Finally, the House rejected the resolution, decla
ring that Mr. Chnoman w,-.** not elee'ed.
Adjourned.
IN SENATE July 23.
Air. Seward presented ail invitation from All.
Vunderbid, to visit, on Saturday morning. Ins new
iht n steamer, lying eft' the Arsenal, stating that
faei'ities will be offemi for that purpose.
The Hon-e bill relative tot lie improvement of the
Savannah river was passed.
Mr. Mainny, from the committee on Naval Af
fairs, reported a joint resolution authorising the
acceptance, by Lieut. Maury and other naval of
ficers, of im dais from foreign governments for
services reader cl to science and humanity—pa>s-,
ed"
Tlu !..’i fer the vllei rt Doun Uiaft. whs passed
Mr AY elk r moved to take up the Pacific Railroad
bill. Along discussion ensued on tiie priority of
busint !*. Manv Senators di siring to go on with
: - Uiurnn: In • x cir.cnt b.fe- Finally, Mr. W ol
.c;. nne.mg the d:r. i:k iy to be consumed fruitk ssly
withdrew ti e motion.
lhe bill for coutiuuing the improvement ol the
hxrbo; of idiehoygan, \\ lscousin. wt> taken up and
| fee same iosous.-;ok wrneh was had yesterday was
ni dudstauen repeated.
| The jjeuato passed lac bill for the improvt«m« ut
; >... b‘*ygan. harbor mid tin a adjourned.
HOUSE.
»». nu>tio!i >-i Mr. Barksdale a resolution was
. ti-'p-ted provi -. .ng tor evening sessions this week for
T >.. r laid before the House a eomxnuniea
*.•>: •- nt Secretary. • f the Treasury reoommend
' g b*g .>»?»: i>)*.» m. •« effectnafly to prevent the under
j An rcUia,« tiort wa.- made lo reconaidcr the
• by v. * • House yesterday confirmed Mr.
«’ . t..« »» < . tu- .:v;a Nebraska, entitled to
• A resolution w.;s p.,sstd paying Mr. Bennett, the
| «•*■»<* stniit. u-..* ivr, per diem lo date.
1 a . ’ .'ti tu.iore the House au iuvitation
■ «rrtramahip
U * O’ up tlw* New Mexico contest .
i ; K « • ' * .> reported resolutions
. *«• <v, ; , ..-'that Mr. Ot?ro was
• • . N-i» Mexico.
- , ... ;. ldress the House
'* :i K . a statement to
d Q <- . HyiiigMr.Gal
< -n. uu i.nv *1 • • '< If i>'i a delegate
.
! < .w . X-.»v Mrii
* . ii-- *“ u •• *•*•* • • lliectioo.**
- .. i* .•*. . - ‘ as >*->*,»£** in as the
tJZiy'i Uawdextia m iv|*u: of ' u*
,• . , t pr o I**o .’. " m fee House
.* L i.r '• **' t h *m.n ■,! ‘d l"* , " - ■** I Cp* *1 *
"-i'u acl imlc-.i. Hu statfd I
tha* there were fifteen thousand employed in the
war of IST', <*f whom, probably, not more than two
thousand ;re nor living. Hc enlogißedfibeH’ servi
c*.,, which be e*»»<teudHl k*d i»nt o«eu snffis ieutly
appreciated.
£r. Sapp argued again--1 slavery 4xU v- Y-u. H*
conld . no rea.T#»ii why his'party wai called
Bla' k Kcpiffi'kvm* other than (hat t?>* people of
the North tamely submit to the fugitive slave
law, ami subject ’themselves to be n» gro catch
ers of the South. He predicted tied next Xovem
Wr the DeiuocrafK pnrty would be the
the things that were, and a L’<-publican would be
placed 111 the White whs* win stand the
broad basis of the Cniou.
Mr .Volk. Who’s that ?
Mr. Sapp. Fremont—Freedom—Liberty. {Laugb
ter.J
Mr. Barksdale in;;fie a aj*«*ei !; arguing that Know
Nothingisoi at toe North i- aboliti' tuzy-d.
Mr. Clawson condemned the administration and
its co-laborers for the repeal of the Missouri f '»m
prouiise.
The House then adjourned.
IN SENATE -July Tl.
Tiie Senate proceeded to the consideration ot
the bill to authorize the protection of citizens of
th* L’i ited States*, who may discover deposits of
The lull provide* that whenever any citizen of
the United States shall discover any new guano isl
and, etc., not occupied by persons belonging to any
other government, and occupy the same, they
.-hall be considered as appertaining to the United
Slate* Discoverers are allowed the exclusive
right of selling and delivering such guano, which is
to be only for the use of citizens of the United States.
Any breach of this privilege ia to work a forfeit
ure of its rights. The land and naval forces are
to protect such islands, and the laws oftheUni
ted St ates are to extend over them. The bill was
i>ih«* tor the improvement of the harbors of
Milwaukee and Kalamazoo were passed.
The bill for the improvement of the at the
mouth of Grande River, was discussed till the Sen
ate adjourned.
HOUSE.
There being a very slim attendance at the meet
ing of'the House, a call was ordered to procure a
Uhl attendance. The doors were closed t<* hear the*
excuse* of tiie absentees. No excuse was offered
for Mr. Burlingame. .
After consuming an hour and a half in this busi
ne.**, the House went into committee on the Army
Appropriation bill.
Ti:e clause appropriating $3,*J70,L0 for the pay of
the army having been read, Mr. Barbour offered
an amendment—that Congress hereby disapprov
ing cede of alleged laws communicated,
claiming to have been passed by the Territorial
Legislature of Kansas, and disapproving of the
manner in which tiie said alleged laws have been
enfold d bv the authorities of the Territory, express
ly declare that until all such alleged laws shall be
confirmed by the Senate and House of Representa
tives, as having been enacted in accordance with the
organic law by the people of Kansas, no part of the
military forces of the United States shall be em
ployed in their enforcement; nor shall any citizen of
Kan.; - be required to act as the posse commitatus
of any officer acting as Marshall or Sheriff of said
Territory.
Mr. Puelps raised a question that the amendment
was not in order. ......
The Chairman, (Mr. Letter, ot Ohio,) decided that
the amendment merely proposed .to regulate the
appropriation, and was therefore in order. The
decision u-.-ls sustained by a vote of ayes, 111 ;
noes, 51.
Mr. Baibour -aid his resolution was to stop revo
lution, etc., by preventing the enforcement ot laws
passed bv usurpation, and disgraceful and shameful
in their character. Never before had the army been
employed to arrest or disperse citizens who are pre
sume-d guilty of violating sham laws.
Mr. Phelps replied that the amendment proposed
that there shall be no laws for the government of
twenty or thirly thousand people, and would close
the courts against the redress of injuries in civil
cas«*s. The army was *ent to Kansas in obedience
to the application of the Free-State men. and for their
protection. . .
Mr. Stephens did not think that Congress had
power to control the J‘resident in the niuuuer pro
posed. The President being Commander-an-Chief
of the army, they could not impose conditions upon
him. The Legislature, nothing having been dis
closed to the contrary, was legal, and the laws must
be enforced until abolished or changed by proper
authority. If lie had his way he should w ithdraw
the army from Kansas, believing the people there
capable of self-government, lie did not want troops
to enforce law's.
Mr. Giildiugs declared that the Missourians, and
nut the people of Kansas, had enforced those laws.
It was an usurpation not to be permitted ill a repub
lican govenimeut : u despotism never before known,
lie was willing tliut Iho army shall be withdrawn,
and not employed to disperse persons peaceably
assembling, or to arrest them on mere allegation of
offence. . , • .
Mi . Whitfield, for once in hi* life, agreed with
Mr. Giddings, that the army should be withdrawn. He
had for a long time been anxious for this, and would
not give a farthing for laws which could not be sus
tuiiied by In* people. He denied the right of Con
gress to repeal the laws of Kansas, lhe Supreme
Court of the United States was the proper tribunal
to pronounce upon their legality. But lor the in
flammatory speeches made here by northern men,
Kansas would noiv be as quiet as any part «>t the
country. The Missourians, us charged, were not re
sponsible for the disturbances.
Air. Savage said it was the duty ol the President
to enforce the laws und suppress all insurrection ;
hence the propriety of keeping military forces in
Kansas for the preservation of peace, lie charac
terized the object of the amendment to be to seize
a power which Congress had no right to exercise :
and a part of the game to obstruct the operation of
the laws.
Mr. Sherman said when he was in \N estport he
saw a large force of armed Missourians taking up
the line of march for Kansas, to enforce these preten
ded laws. These things arc now done. Massachu
setts men, and others from free States, are preven
ted from travelling over the highways by the Mis
sourians, and excluded from the territory. Mr. Whit
field started with a company from Westport. ll<*
saw him go. . 2 _ .. .
In answer to a question by Mr. \\ Intfield, he
said Mr. Whitfield informed him at that time that
he was going over for peacetul purposes, to prevent
a fight.
Mr. Whitefield explained at length, to the ef
fect that he did go with a Missouri force. He went
with a small party to prevent a difficulty; nothing
more.
Mr. McMullen thought the pending proposi
tion was a direct attack on the Executive depart
ment, with which the House had no right t© inter
fere.
Mr. Cumback said the amendment is to prevent
the enforcement of laws that were never passed by
the people of Kansas. He was glad to see that the
opposition side of the House intended to place
themselves on the ground of carrying out th-* ori
ginal plot of repealing the Missouri Compromise,
to make Kansas a slave State. Free-State men
have a right to go there in such numbers as they
choose.
Mr. Florence indignantly denied that lie had voted
to repeal the Missouri restriction for the purpose of
making Kansas a slave State. The gentleman from
Indiana should not so accuse members of improper
motives. , f „
Mr. Cox did not approve of all the laws of Kan
sas, but he wanted them enforced till they were re
pealed or modified. Hence he would keep the army
there till the people return to a sense of justice and
p.Oj
r. Kenuett attributed the troubles to a deliber
ate determination termed among certain members
of Congress ponding the Nebraska and Kansas bills,
to make Kansas a free State. The adoption of the
amendment would leave the territory in a condition
of discord and civil Avar.
Mr. Stephens, replying to Air. Cumback, said that
as a Southern and national man, it was not his ob
ject in voting to repeal the Missouri restriction to
make Kansas a slave State. He wished to leave -it
to the people to select their own institutions.
Air. Craige made a similar avowal.
Mr. Quitman, in condemning the amendment, did
not believe those who spoke in favor of it would
dare usurp power not granted by. the Constitution,
by assuming the functions of the judiciary and de
prive the President of the duty imposed on him by
that instrument.
Air. Wakeman contended that Congress can repeal
not only a part but all the laws of Kansas. The
\ Constitution gave ample power and the. Senate has
so declared in its Kansas bill.
Mr. Seward said that Mr. Wakeirmu stood forth
astheop. n violator ot the Constitution. He was
opposed to a withdrawal of the forces because if this
was done, civil war would forthwith ensue.
Mr. Millson deprecated the introduction of the
amendment.
Air. Simmons advocated it on constitutional
grounds.
Mr. Stanton moved an amendment declaring the
laws of Kansas null and void. He would stand by
this even at the hazard of the loss of the bill. [Cries
of agreed.)
Air. Letcher and Air. Bowie earnestly opposed
these proceedings.
Air. Stanton's amendment was then agreed to—
yeas 67, nays 56.
Mr. Barbour's proposition as thus amended was
then adopted by a vote of 7*2 against 57.
The House has yet to vote on the act.
The committee here rose.
Air. Washburn, of Maine, from the committee on
Elections, reported a resolution declaring Mr. Whit
field was not elected to a scat in Congress, and that
Air. Reeder be admitted to a seat as the delegate
i from Kansas.
. Mr. gave notice that he will call up
! the resolution on Wednesday.
I The House then took a recess till 7 o'clock.
I />< ’l'ult Sr as hot. —Air. Clark condemned there
[ peal of the Missouri Compromise as the source of the
I strife and heart burning prevalent in the country and
! the blood shed in Kansas.
Mr. Campbell, of Kentucky, gave notice of
ills intention to speak of the corruptness of the
Government from the period of Mr. Buchanan's
connection with it. holding himself responsible in or
out of the Capitol for what he might utter.
Mr. Brent on argued against slavery extension,
and exposed the inconsistencies of the Democratic
platforms on that subject.
Several members availed themselves of the oppor
t unity to let off political speeches, occupying the
time of the House till after ten o’clock.
Mr. Burlingame has returned and appeared in the
House this evening.
Adjourned
IN SENATE July J 5.
Mi. Wilson submitted a resolution (which was laid
over, calling upon the President of the United States
to iuform the Senate whether the reported reply of
4 Gen. P. F. Smith to the citizens of Leavenworth,
who asked for protection from armed marauders is
true; and if so, whether the reply was in accordance
with the instructions of the {resident or the Secre
tary of War.
A motion was made to adjourn until Monday,
when the Senate adjourns to day.
Air. Adams called for the yeas and nays, which
were not ordered, only four Senators seconding the
call.
Air. Adams remarked that it was extraordinary
such a motion should be made within three weeks of
the close of the session, when there was such a mass
of business yet unacted on, and it seemed that Sen
ator were afraid of recording tl oir vct<- <»n th*
question.
' Air. Toombs said he would answer for it that no
j body was afraid but the Senate were now f*u ai.tad
of the House, and if they sat but three days in the
week it would be just as well for the country. He
did not believe that there was a single bill on the
calendar that ought to pass*. The cal! for the yeas
and nays was renewed, and the motion was agreed
to—yeas nays j.
The Senate took up the private calendar, and
passed six bills : also the bill providing tor the com
puls cry prepayment of postage on ail transient prin
ted matter.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
The Speaker iaid before the House a cummunica- j
lion from the President of the United States, re- (
commending an appropriation of 0 to » -om- ;
pitte the purchase of tiie lot and building in Puiia- !
aeipLia tor a City Post Office; also $50,000 for tit- '
ting up the building, etc. Referred to tiie commit
tee of Ways and Ale&ns.
The House then proceeded to tiie consideration
of the private calendar, and laid aside a large nuin
ber to be reported t<* the House, including that from
the Senate for the relief of the widows and orphans
of the officers, seaman and marines of the United
States >'toop-of-war Albany and tiie brig Porpoise.
The House passed tue bills above referred to. be
ing twenty in all, and took a recess till 7 o'clock.
/;,> hiftsr Se*-*iou. —Mr. Crawford, in speaking on
the slavery question, said the North never respect
ed. the Missouri restriction, except when it worked !
to their advantage, which was wink the South ac
knowledged it on the Oregon bilL The Com promise
measure of 1850 gave the South nothing to which
she was not entitled ; and now what was thus se
cured then, is to be repudiated by the two parties
opposed to the Democracy.
Mr. Jc wett said thartf Fremont shall succeed on
pur. ‘y grounds, the result would be dis&S
--; :r»us to the l a ion He then proceeded to shew
that tU principles and policy of the Know Noth
ings were in direct conmcL, not only with the Fed- j
ot ;d Union, but with tiie C onstitution of even' State !
of which he had aiiv knowledge.
Mr. Cox defended the principles of the American |
party, sayiag that it was illiberal in his colleague fe !
k*tgc i hem, in the absence ©f a knowledge . f :he
♦*K with a Jeep iaid conspiracy
After further debate of a similar character ibe I
Moose amounted.
WEEKLY
(Lljrmitdf & Scntind.
0
AUGUSTA, GA if
WEDNESDAY .tIOKMM. J f I. Y 30. 1*56.
NATIONAL CANDIDATES
FOR PRESIDENT,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
Or New York.
FOK VICE-PRESIDENT,
ANDREW J. DONELSOA.
451 TeoMasee.
ELECTORS roll THE 'TATE AT LAROF..
WM. H. CRAWFORD, ofTerreil.
BEXJ. II . HILL, of Troup.
ALTERNATES FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
F. S. BARTOW. of (’hat uam.
Dr. H. V M. MILLER, of Floyd.
ELECTORS FOR THE DISTRICTS.
ist Dist. —WM. LAW, of Chatham.
2d List.—WM. M. BROWN, of Marion.
3d Dial —WASHINGTON POE, of Bibb.
4th Dist.—E. Y. HILL, of Troup.
sth Dist.—GEO. W. GORDON, of Whitfield.
6th Dist.—C. PEEPLES, of Clark.
7th Dist. —E. 11. BAXTER, of Hancock.
Bth Dist,—A. R. WRIGHT, of Jefferson.
ALTERNATES FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Ist Dist.—A. H. HAN SELL, of Thomas.
•2d Dist.—RICHARD SIMMS, of Decatur.
3d Dist.—E. G. CABIN ESS, of Monroe.
4th Dist.—B. 11. OVERBY, of Fulton.
sth Dist. —J. R. PARROTT, of Cass.
6th Dist.—ll. P. BELL, of Forsyth.
7th Dist.—JOSHUA HILL, of Morgan.
Sth Dist.—LAFAYETTE LAMAR, of Lincoln.
Campaign Document*.
By the first of August next we shall issue a cam
paign document—about the size of the ordinary
weekly papere in the State —filled with matter of
deep interest to all persons who feel interested in the
present com paign. I. will contain —
Buchanan’s 4th of July Oration, denouncing the
War and Ur* Madison Administration : his Speeches
and Letters on the Slavery Question, showing him
to have been always opposed to the extension of
slavery, and in favor of the principles of the Wihnot
Proviso or Squatter Sovereignty; his Ost.-ud Cir
cular, proving him a Filibuster, ready to rob Spain
of her territory; and his Letter of Acceptance.
Also, Mr. Fillmore’s Letter of Acceptance, and
his late Speeches, together with numerous other
documents of great public interest. ’ vf* Price,
Three Dollars per Hundred.
Send in your orders, and scatter them broad cast
over the land—let the people have light, and they
will vote right.
Fillmore papers throughout the State will please
<*>py-
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL,
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
Weekly Paper, 10 copies for $5.00.
Tr l W K EK L Y P '.PER, 1 Copy for 1.00.
Daily do. 1 do.for 1.50
It is our purpose to make the influence of the
Chronicle \ Sentinel felt in the approaching can
vass ; and we, therefore, submit the above terms,
with the hope, that the American Party throughout
the State will cordially 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 who are
not in the habit of taking a paper. It will be an easy
matter for a lew 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 the people.—
And this is the plan to pursue. Do not fold your
aims and wait for such people to subscribe. As
a hint to the wise is sufficient, we do not deem it
necessary to enlarge on this topic; and only desire
to say in conclusion, we are ready and willing to do
our whole doty. All we want our friends to d«», is
to help ns to accomplish the greatest good.
i ncetidiary Fires.
Our city was the .scene of as many us five tires
between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
Shortly before eleven o’clock on Tuesday night, the
first alarm of lire was raised, Haines ha ving been dis
covered issuing from the only unoccupied house in
the row of Factory buildings, situate at the east of
the Factory, and known as Upper Pine Row. The
row consisted of twelve two story wooden houses.
The engines speedily arrived on the spot, and the
firemen worked with the utmost zeal, in the hopes of
saving some of the tenements, but all their efforts
proved fruitless ; the twelve houses were burned to
the ground, and a considerable portion of the furni
ture of the operatives was likewise destroyed. The
houses were owned by the Factory Company, who
valued them at so,ooo. There was no insurance.
There is not the slightest reason to doubt that the
lire was caused by an incendiary.
When all the Fire Companies, with one excep
tion, had returned to their homes, thinking the fire
had been subdued, a building immediately at the
north of the spot where the fire had raged, was
found to be burning. This is supposed to have
originated through some sparks having fallen on the
roof. Owing to the prompt assistance of the firemen
the flames were extinguished without any serious
damage having been accomplished. Immediately
afterwards the alarm bell was again sounded, and a
fire was discovered in some warehouses in the rear of
Mr. T. P. Stovall, Messrs. Ramey & Story, and Mr.
R. J. Howe, on Broad-street. A pile of empty
boxes outside the warehouse had been set on fire
and the flames had spread to the building. The
portion belonging to Messrs. Rainey & Story was
filled with bags of salt, which were got out without
much damage. Mr. Stovall sustained no loss. The
property destroyed of Mr. Howe’s is valued at S2OO,
which was insured.
In an alley leading from Reynolds to Bay street,
in the rear of Messrs. Whitlock & Coskrey’s ware
house, a stable owned by Mr. Sibley was next dis
covered to be on fire. Some horses in an adjoining
stable were saved, and the loss was confined to the
burning of Mr. Sibley’s stable. Damage trifling.
On one of the firemen reaching his home, long
after daylight, he found flames issuing from the
kitchen. lie succeeded in extinguishing the fire
without much difficulty. All these fires were evi
dently the work of some malicious persons, and it
behooves our City authorities to be on the watch to
guard against the recurrence of such scenes, and it
possible, to punish the culprits for the mischief al
ready perpetrat<gl. We learn that on Monday night
an attempt was made to destroy the Factory build
ings. Our gallant Fire Companies deserve much
praise for the untiring energy they displayed during
the whole of Tuesday uight.
Fire.—A stable, situate in an alley on the north
west side of Jackson street, between Reynold and
the river, was discovered on fire about one o’clock
Friday afternoon. The stable, which was the pro
pertv of Mrs. W.m. lloi.mes was totally destroyed,
and the flames spread to a barn belonging to Mr. B.
Conley, which was partially consumed. The
amount of damage is not great. The fire was evi
dently the work of some malicious person. A se
cond alarm of fire was raised about three o clock,
which again brought out the fir** companies, but this
time their services were not required.
The Perrin Brown I’iivnlnr.
The Athens Banner, informs us, that the circu
lar which we published some days ago, signed
Perrin M. Brown, calling on the Postmasters for
electionee ring funds, is a fraud, and has been so
pronounced by the Washington I'nio !
We do not exchange with the Union, and had not
seen its, or any other exposure of the ailedged char
acter of the circular, till we saw the Banner. We
submit, however, to the Banner, that a journal,
whose editor attempted to thrust his hand into the
public treasury, and tnk<? therefonn (virtually
steal) some $20,000 of the public money, without
authority of law, is not very reliable authority, •/.
any viat'rr. and especially when the character of
its friends is involved. The testimony of a journal
so debased, venal and servile as the Washington
Uniat. will not b - received iu sue!: a caw. Mr.
Perkin Buovn miy be ti e villain he is represen
tod, but to cstrbhfh his guilt will require additional
evidence.
Again, ii ll was a fraud, why did not the Union and
indignant frieuds detect and expose the villaiu ■
The thing was easy enough done. It was only ne
cessary to drop several letters in the Post office at
Washington, addressed to Mr. Brown, and let them
be advertised, and this would bring Mr. Brown to
light. That this was not done, lo«»k> altogether sus
pieious, and needs explanation.
Cnu’t sinus! ?rqnatter Sovereignty.
i The Athens (Geo.) Watchman narrates the .'ol
! lowing ven’ significant anecdote of an honest, true
| hearted Southern Democrat—a man who prefers his
I country to party, who cannot stand Buchanan’s
I Squatter Sovereignty principles. Here it is, read it:
•• SiGNiFR am. —An enthusiastic, whole-souled
! Democrat—who, like all sound, sensible Southern
men, regards ‘ squatter sovereignty as the most
dangerous and insidious attack which Abolitionism
| has ever made upon the rights of the South —and
; who, by ibe way. assured us recently that he would
I support no mar. for the I’residency who avowed it—
; when he came to read that unequivocal declaration
! in Buchanan’s letter of acceptance, ‘ the people of
i a Territory. like those of a State.' Ac., dashed the
| paper as far from him as he could, and would not
I finish the letter until the next day !”
That man has a large heart—a heart in the right
I place—he loves baa country, his whole country, her
' constitution and laws, above all he loves the South
I and her institution*—the home of his family and
friends: and Ilk a true patriot, he stands high
j above the dictation of party. He has the intelli
gence to perceive and tue independence to de
! uounce the subtle and insidious doctrine of Squatter
! Sovereignty mid the patriotism to repudiate James
| Buchanan, who openly advocates it. Let South
ern Democrats everywhere, whose patriotism and
| love of country, the South and her inslit&tioL.-) rise
I superior to their love of party, follow his noble and
j patriotic example.
| A Bale of New Cotton.—The New Orleans
I Fritzs Current says that a bale of Cotton of the j
! new crop was received in that city from the planfa- ;
tion of R. B. WoFford, DeWitt county, Texas, on j
the 15th inst. This is eleven days earlier than the j
first receipt last year.
A Democratic Elector out for Fremont.— !
At the Republican State Ratification meeting, at j
Indianapolis, la., on the 15th inst., Mr. Moreau, one
of the Buchanan electors, made a speech in favor ol
Fremont.
Fire in Columbia, Tenx—A very destructive
tire occurred at Columbia. Tennessee, on the night j
of the lfith instant whicL burnt the stable of Messrs, j
Carter, Thomas A Co.. 700 barrels of coin. 1 !
horse anti 10 new and valuable rtage coaches. The j
fire was supposed tu be the work, of an incendiary, j
Lorn estimated at SI4,OGU.
Mavrrv bi wed from Afar.
Os late yean? the Bi press has bestirred itself
to seek to comprehend th « questions which agitate
the public mind in the Stater*. The meagre
space iormerly allotted to A.Dericaii news has been
I gradually expanded, and now fi“d the editorial
; columns of the leading journals *Mten filled with dis
quisitions on the probable future *'d *1“-* nion. W e
I do not blame the English press for entering upon
j this subject, but we could have wish that the wri
ters had acquired a fail amount of im'vrmatioß lie
fore they deemed themselves prepared to discuss so
. iinponant a top;*..
In spite of seir-I-w kly . touinslui* and a host of
! British tourists, with note book in hand, a la Mi’s.
Trollope and Charles I)n kens, in spite of the
1 London and Liverpool newspapers exchanging with
tlic New-Yolk and journals. America is
really af>> ra 6 f.t to England. The books of
i travellers might truly lm described as a superficial
; glance at tilings in general. Let us in justice ex
j cept from this charge M!» Martineau’s works,
! which, although not free from prejudice, arc pains
■ taking and philosophical ; but Miss Martineau’s
sex precludes her from ever being an authority with
| Englishmen, and her lw>ok.s treat rather of America
; as she found it twenty years ago than as it is now.
i The Northern papt-rs with which British journalists
; are familiar, are chietiv the flippant Herald, the lana
j tic Tribune, tiie stolid, egotistical Courier \ En
i quiver, or the cautious Rational Intelligencer, and
I with this slight ground-work the public writers of
England attempt io comprehend our people and our
1 institutions. It L no wonder that they flounder
! about moat lamentably, and expose their ignorance
: on every occasion.
; The London Tim* .*, us must be apparent to eve
\ ry one who reads its editorials, takes as its gospel
j every idle story or Jang phrase found in the New
; Y r ork Herat!. It labors under the delusion that
j there are two parties in the country who call them
! selves nigger-drivers and nigger-worshippers, that
i Mr. Pierce is precisely that strange embodiment
; of imbecility and cunning which the Heratd delights
to describe him ; that political affairs are shunned
J by all respectable men and left solely in the hands
l of the unscrupulous and debased ; that filibusterism
1 and aggression are systematically employed to carry
j every poiut. and that an agitation, partly caused by
j slavery and partly by the next Presidential election,
i is always felt from one end of the country to the
j other. The termination of these things, the Times
; takes unction in declaring, will be a despotism or a
| digsolution or th * Union. This opinion, it is true, is
j faintly combatted by the journals of Liverpool and
! Manchester, many of whose writers have passed a
i month or six weeks beiwhen Boston and Washing
i ton, and who know that their subscribers are large
; ly interested in tl • welfare of the Union ; but they
| do not succeed hi counteracting the influence of the
On the question of slavery, the British writers pro
fess to know much since Mrs. Beecher Stowe’s
romance was given to the world. Whatever Mrs.
Stowe left undone, Greeley in the Tribune takes
care to finish. His Kansas romances, concerning
the bloodless slaughters of Yankee Gullivers ; the
destruction of cities that were never buiit,or if built
were never destroyed; his fierce imprecations
when danger is at a comfortable distance, and his
dire forebodings of evils that never come, are swal
lowed in England as simple facts, and the belief is
generally entertained that a civil war is hanging
over us which nothing but a foreign quarrel can
possibly avert. Thus Lord Palmerston's special
organ, the Morning Fust, wrote last mouth :
Slavery has been long denounced as the plague
spot of America by the best and wisest of her sons,
who probably saw in it that ultimate cause of the
dissolution of the Union, which, in sober truth,
seems now impending. It is said that there are
statesmen in America who see in a foreign war the
only mode of once more uniting for a common ob
ject those jarring elements which seem on the point
of falling asunder ; andeertan ly the demands upon
Denmark for the abolition of the Sound Dues, of
which America pays a hardly appreciable share ;
the quarrel, to say the least of it, unnecessarily
forced upon us about the unfortunate recruiting;
and the Nicaragua buccaneering, which threatens
still graver complications—all give color to the the
ory put forth by many who are supposed to be well
acquainted with the subject, that tor some months
back a race lias been going on in the United States
between civil and foreign war, whilst passing events
seem to indicate that the former is likely to be the
winner in that rat e.
The remarkable ignorance displayed in this state
ment, must b<-patent to every reader. It 3s the
turbulent foreign population in the North that
clamor for war an i not Bout hem statesmen or South
ern States. The voices of even Southern Demo
crats have been raised in the Senate in disapproval
of Hie heedless course of President Pierce on the
Enlistment Question. The South is always prepar
ed to meet the foes that threaten her and will never
be found challenging a foreign enemy merely for
the purpose of temporising with those nearer home.
In the same article the Post said :
The Northern States, though in some respect our
natural rivals, are our natural allies. Should war
unhappily break out, the first effect would be a strict
blockade, and the capture of neariy all their sea
going ships, which would annihilate the carrying
trade—the principal staple of industry. They would,
therefore, feel its effects the first, and the most
severely. The South, however, would continue to
export its produce—burdened, indeed, with the ex
pense of transport to n Mexican port—on the
strength of the recent ly adopted doctrine that neu
tral bottoms make neutral goods; and it would
speedily appear that the United States were
carrying on a war advocetad mainly by slave
owners, and supposed to be undertaken in the
interests of slavery, in which the Southern
States suffered little, while the Northern—the
opponents of slavery—bore the whole brunt. How
long after such a discovery as that would the war
last or the Union either ? For this reason let us
look upon the Northern people as men likely soon
to become our firm allies.
In the event of a war with England, Southern
cities would be as liable to a blockade as those of
the North, and it would be impossible for the South
to continue its trade uninterruptedly. The great
ga n would accrue to those who could fit out the
larger number of privateers ; we need hardly add
that the shipping belongs chiefly to the North. The
natural rivals of England may be the Northern States,
but her natural allies are the Southern States so
long as they are treated honorably. It is they who
supply her with that produce which affords a liveli
hood to several millions of her people. It is they
who for the kst half century have enabled her to
maintain her supremacy as the first manufacturing
country in the world. The breadstuff's which she
procures from the North might, in an emergency, be
supplied by the continent of Europe ; the cotton
which she obtains from the South could be had from
no other portion of the globe. It is the Northern
States who seek to compete with England in manu
factures, and who deny her that reciprocity in free
trade, which the South is willing to bestow. The
painful lesson which England has learned in the
ruiu of her West India trade, should cause her to
eschew Northern fanaticism, and to appreciate the
labors of the South. These labors do more to con
serve the peace of the world than all the elements at
work elsewhere. Next to the ungrateful North,
there is no land tint the South so enriches as Eng
land. It is time that British statesmen and writers
were alive toHhese truths.
Buchanan’* S’ro.specls at the North.
The editor of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph , (Mr.
Clisby,) a zealous Buchanan organ, who is now
at the North, on the lflth of July iust., wrote home to
his paper, from which we make the following extract,
showing his opinion of the chances of Buchanan at
at the North. Being a zealous Georgia Buchanan
it< , and standing side by side on the squatter sove
reignty platform with Martin and John Van Bu
re n, and the whole of the Buffalo Platform men of
that ilk, he had a favorable opportunity to mingle
among his political brethren, and ascertain their
views of the prospects of their leader. As to his
opinion of Fillmore’s prospects, it is of no value,
because obtained from his enemies, most of whom,
like the editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer, would
prefer Fremont to Fillmore. But to the extract.
Here it is :
‘ Be this as it may, however, the current, floating |
opinion here is most decided that Fremont _ will car
ry, without difficulty, every nou-Sluvcholding State
—err,' Fc.nnsyi am a. I have just seen a friend,
who returned yesterday from the rural districts in
Pennsylvania, and he says the drift is all for Fre
mont, so fur as he could see. So West ward, I hear,
all the indices of the j pular feeling are f*r Fremont.
I saw yesterday a Southern friend who has been lo
eomotlug round V'-nnout and the strongest Aboli
tion regions of New England—a talking and ob
s. i ving friend and a“dy* l in the wool” Democrat.
Ho said he. found only three Buchanan ancl one
Filhnoic man in those parts. In the city here
w! u ! •> usually rather libera! and cosmopolitan in
opinion, t!.' Fret-soil ticket, so far. rules the roost.
The n < * moderate <<t the old. Whig party are go
ing for Fillmore —but the bulk of that party is go
ing for Fremont. The first classification named
comprehends all of the mere modern political devel
opment of Know Nothingism, which Mr. Fillmore
seems likely to get. Buchanan’s vote, so far as
can be judged, is confined to the regular Democracy,
shorn of the more Freesoilish and fishy portion
of the same.”
There, reader, i.- the- opinion of a Southern Demo-
J ci at. What think you ofTt f Did you ever have a
more hopeless case presented to your view, than
Buchanan s, as shown by his friend. Aye, and
i what think you of the cool impudence of those
! trickster.® and intriguers at the South, who have en
deavored to persuade you to vote for him, as the
j only chance to keep out Fremont Vote for Bu
! chanan to keep out Fremont ! and yet admit that
j Buchanan can’t get the vote of a Free State!—
| Verily the cheeks otVoeh men must be formed of
: some metal that would put brass itself to the blush!
Huzza then for the old Federalist and Squatter
Sovereign, say we. We most heartily rejoice that
| his tiir'.-serving, truckling policy, and political in
| triguing are likely to meet their just reward.
.Shooting in-'o ffcc Covey.
A correspondent of the Wilkes Republican thus
| defines a resolution introduced at a late meeting of
the American party of Wilkes :
•The resolution was intended to distinguish those
j who still dared to adhere to theirplighted faith, from
I those who knowing their duty did not dare to do
it— to draw a broad line of distinction bet ween us,
! and those who pledged themselves in the most
solemn manner to th - support of the American prin
| ciples, and who in them hearts stiii believe those ;
principles right, yet * tightened by majorities have
| cached out . scared by the abusive bluster ol stump
; orators wriggled c- l startled by the explosion of
i big guns have jumped ov l ; lured by the hope of
j office have sneaked out .- baited by the promise of
i ’ thirty pieces of silver” or less have crept out ;
j slushed a*! over with “Diinekratie” soft soap have
| slipped out , fastened to the coat-tails of great men,
| or would-be great men. have been jerked out.
“From all such we desire to be distinguished—
| hence the resolution. *
This shot must have winged quite a number of
the pigeons in the Democratic party of W ilkes, and
they are doubtless yet writhing under the effect of
the barbed arrow: for if ever there was a place in
which individuals calling themselves men , and who |
pretended to think and act for themselves, j
“backed," ‘*f rriggledN “j u rapedneaked , “crept J ' j
and “jerked'' out of a party, either without an ex- \
cuse, or upon the most shameless apology for an ex
cuse, it was in Wilkes.
Incendiaf.t Fires.—lt will be observed that the j
Mayor has offered a reward of SSOO for the appre- '
hension and conviction of the incendiaries. if white j
persons, and $250 if colored, who caused the fires i
in our city on Tuesday night. Every possible exer
tion will be made to bring the culprits to j untie*:, nud j
we bops whh g*K*d success.
Ready to Embrace Sqantter
The following article from the Savannah Repub
lican, reviewing the position of the Democratic or
gans m Georgwy-ou that most odious doctrine of
Squatter Sovereignty, is as true as it is forcible and
pointed. In I*4B they denounced the doctrine most
vociferously and madly asserted C’ass* Nicholson
letter contained no such vile principles; and when
Cass said in the Soneate. he did not see how any
sensible man could place any other construc
tion upon his language, they denounced him
from Delaware to the Kio Grande. Since that,
they have been "billing and cooing with the free
soi! democracy of the North, and now they are
ready to embrace and swallow the whole doctrine—
notwithstanding all their vehement denunciation of
it. Since they find Buchanan is au open advocate
of it. and that his friends, North and South, declare
that it is the great principle of the Kansas bill, they
begin to couclude the only chance is to gulp it
down, with as little grimmace as possible, and
Bwear that it is not so terrible as they have hereto
fore pronounced it:
From the Savannah Republican.
Getting Ready to Jump.—-When a man denies
the existence of a thing, and at the same time goes
into au argument upon its legitimate effects and
consequences, it is a pretty sure sigu that he is
about to abandon the first position. The reflection
is suggested by the recent course of the Democratic
press upon Mr. Buchanan's letter of acceptance. —
They deny most stoutly that it contains any ap
proach to Squatter Sovereignty, yet in about every
other paper we take up we find some attempt at
apology for the doctrine. Some of the wisest of
them are getting to be of the opinion tliat after all
“Squatter Sovereignty’’ is not half the monster that
it has been represented (by none more than them
selves) to be. One says it is a “delusion another
that is of “no practical importance whatever,” while
a third maintains that even if the President held to
the doctrine it would not be in his power to hurt the
country by its “practical enforcement.'’ Indeed,
from au absolute horror and detestation, the whole
party seem to be getting as familiar with the mon
ster as the frogs were with the log sent them by
Jupiter for a kiug. We should not be surprised
soon to find them, like the frogs, quietly seated
upon ir, singing their songs anu swimming most
gloriously !
These facts are “straws,” and we beg leave to
call the attention of the more innocent among our
Democratic friends, to the direction to which they
are pointing. Whatever they may think of Squat
ter Sovereignty note, they need not be surprised to
find themselves called on, between this and the elec
tion, to countenance, defend, and embrace it.—
Stanger things than this have happened, and the
j more recent history of their party shows that swal
lowing even a camel of a heresy is but a circum
stance if by the pill the patient is to be restored to
health and the spoils. In order to carry the next
presidential election, they have already taken down
the Pacific Railroad, widle that monster of Protec
tive Tariff has gone in the same direction. At Cin
cimiiiti they swallowed Van Buren and his array of
freesoilers, while a Democratic Senate, whose throat
seems particularly capacious, has recently bolted
the ‘ Secret Blade of Joab.” and washed it down
with the waters of the St. Clair, St. Mary, and the
Mississippi. We mention these facts to show that
nothing is strange in this day of political legerdemain
and that the Democracy, in order to elect Mr. Bu
chanan, are ready to espouse or to reject anything,
and to submit to any sacrifice to their principles ana
humiliation of themselves.
Buchanan in New York.
Sanford Harrison, Esq., a prominent Demo
crat of New York, has issued au address to his fel
low Democrats, in which he states that he has just
returned from a tour of the central counties, and
finds that the leaders of the Democracy have all
gone over to Fremont, and that there is no hope of
carrying the State for Buchanan. In tins condition
of affairs, he urges his political friends to vote for
Fillmore, and thus save the State from Fremont.—
This, he thinks, will throw the election into the
House of Representatives, when he & confident Bu
chanan will be elected, or if not, Breckenridge will
be the President.
The above paragraph shows the progress of polit
ical events in the State of New York, and utterly
demolishes the game of the Southern Buchanan
tricksters, who are seeking to make the impression
that Fillmore can get no votes at the North. So
far from that’s being the case, we are informed that
leading Democrats in Congress now admit that there
is scarcely a prospect of Buchanan’s getting a veto
in the free States, Our only fear now is, that he will
be withdrawn by his friends in order to defeat Fill,
more. Even Illinois, the stronghold of the Democ
racy, where live all those “sound National Demo
crats and foreign voters,” upon whom Mr. Ste
phens pronounced such eloquent panegyrics last
year, is now, we are informed, given up by Doug
las, who admits that Buchanan stands no chance
there. Pennsylvania too, it is said, will repudiate
the old Federalist and squatter sovereign. What
then becomes of his prospects of success ? They
vanish like the baseless fabric of a vision. At the
South his chance is little, if any, better than at the
North. His nomination has fallen still-born in eve
ry section of the South. There is quite too much
gallantry at the South to support the man who de
nounced the war of 1812 and the brave-hearted pa
triots who sustained it; aye, and they are too deeply
attached to the South and her institutions to sacrifice
the dearest interests of their section to party, by sus
taining the man who advocates squatter sovereign
ty. The honest, true-hearted patriots of the South
will everywhere repudiate the old Federalist and
the squatter sovereign.
K uisas Hill—Democracy Ilnckhijr Down.
The new Kansas Bill, as it passed the Senate, is
a complete backing down of the Democracy. They
had sworn by the old bill, and made it u part and
parcel of the Cincinnati platform, and now are
compelled to acknowledge it a perfect failure—a
complete humbug. So much for the value of De
mocratic platforms. The Mississippi Flag of the
Union thus chronicles this sad discomfiture and hu
miliation of the Democracy :
“The new bill was passed by a vote of 33 to 18,
Douglas championing it , with nearly all the original
supporters voting for it, thus again resuming the
power of Congress over the Territory ! The original
bill was endorsed l in all its features' by the Con
vention, and made a main plank in its platform.
Old Buck stepped upon it, and declared it just the
thing. But, alas ! for the stability of Sag-nicht plat
forms!—his own friends have now knocked this
plank from under him, and left him suspended in
mid-air, as far as the* Kansas bill is concerned.
“But further—the bill is now made more accepta
ble to Americans. During its pendency, Senator
Adams, moved to strikeout the following clause :
“ ‘lncluding all persons who shall have filed their
declaration of intention to become such, in compli
ance with the naturalization laws of the United
States.’
“Thisimportant amendment was intended tore
store the government of the territory to American
citizens, and it was adopted. The vote is an inter
esting showing of hands.
The amendment of Mr. Adams was adopted by
the following vote :
Ayes 23. Nays 16.
Adams, of Miss. Allen, of R. I.
Bayard, of Del. Bigler, of Penn.
Briggs, of N. C. Butler, of S. C.
Brodhead, of Penn. Cass, of Mich.
Brown, of Miss. Dodge, of Wis.
Clay, Jr., of Ala. Douglas, of 111.
Clayton, of Del. Evans, of S. C.
Collamore, of Vt. Jones, of Tenn.
Crittenden, of Ky. Pugh, of Ohio.
Fessenden, of Me. Seward, of N. V.
Fitzpatrick, of Ala, Slidell, of La.
Foot, of Vt. T()()MBS, of (la.
Foster, of Conn. Weller, of Cal.
Geyer, of Mo. Wilson, of Mass.
Hunter, ofVa. Wright, of N. J.
Iverson, of Ga
Johnson, of Ark.
Mallory, of Fla.
Mason, of Va.
Ried, of X. C.
Thompson, of Ky.
Yulee, of Fla.
“ Douglas and Seward, Butler, Wilson and
TOOMBS, in the negative—a mingling of Dema
gogues, Secessionists and Abolitionists! Mr. Bu
chanan’s mouth pieces, Bigler and Slidell, voting
with them that foreigners shall he. permitted to vote
h<fore they are naturalized !
‘‘What will the Buchauanites do now ? Will they
leap at once on the new platform of the Senate bill !
Will they eat their own words in one short month,
and acquiesce I If ‘‘the people of the territories
iike those of the States’’ have the right to govern
themselves, why should Congress interfere ? We
siiail see some shuffling—of course we shall.”
Circumstances Alter Cases. —The Centra/
Georgian says:—When Mr. Fillmore was run
for the Vice-Presidency in 1818, he received the
full Whig vote of the State of Georgia, and some
thousands of Democratic votes, giving him a large
majority over his competitor, notwithstanding his
record on the subject of slavery was of such a black
character prior to that time, according to the Demo
cratic prints of the present day. By a Providential
act he ascended to the Presidential chair, and from
that day to this he has shown as fair a sheet on the
slavery question, as any public man in the whole
country. Not an act in ul! his official or pri
vate life since then cun be pointed out, showing him
in the least degree sectional or favoring the North
against the South. Having mode the tour of the
Southwestern Slave States, he announced on the
steps of the State-House dour in Montgomery, that
the anti-slavery prejudices of his early education
had been obliterated by what he had seen in. the
South of the happy condition of the slave. Not
withstanding all this however, there are men, old
Whigs, who voted for Mr. Fillmore in 1848, but
went over to the Democracy in the Toombs and
Stephens stampede , who now denounce him as a
Freesoileron account of his early slavery record.
They voted for him in 1818 with a dubious record
and when he had not been tried, and now they re
fuse to vote for him when he has been tried, and
denounce him for acts in his early life, while in 1848,
they either justified or contended that he had re
nounced. While withal they gulp down Mr. Bu
chanan. an untried man, with a much blacker re
cord than Mr. Fillmore ever had on the subject of
slavery. How badly does the consistency of these
men contrast with an old democrat of this county,
we heard announce the other day, that notwithstand
ing he had voted with the Democracy every time
since the election of Harrison, that Mr. Fillmore
had been tried and found true and faithful to the
country and the South , and he should not let his
party prejudices withhold from him his free suffrage
next November. Many there are quite honest, re*
fleeting men through the country, who will select
their President, like they do their merchant, doctor,
or lawyer, giving the preference to one who is tried
and faithful over all other competitors.
Homicide. —The Eufaula Ala.) Spirit, of the
22d ult, states that a man named Suggs was killed
in Georgetown, Randolph county, Ga., on Thursday
evening last by Mr. S. D. Betton. The deceased
was engaged in a dispute with another person in a
grocery, when Mr. Best on interfered for the pur
pose of putting a stop to it. Some words passed
between them, when Betton struck the deceased a
blow on the head with an axe helve, fracturing Ins
skull and producing death in a few' hour-.
Death of an English Tragedian.—Charles
Young, the great tragedian, died at Brighton, En
gland, on the 22d ult., at an advanced age. For
many years he shared with John Kemble, Edmund
Kean and 31 acre ady, the honor of being ranked as
one of the finest delineators of Shakspear s heroes
As Hamlet, Coriolanus, lago, and Brutus, he re
mained without a rival after John Kemble’s death.
Mr. Young retired from the stage in 1832, with an
ample fortune. The last original character in which
he appeared was Kienzi, in Miss Milford’s trage
dy of that name.
Repudiates the Squatter Sovereign.—Mr.
Ganawat. the Editor of th« Brownsville (Tenn.)
Journal, ha* abandoned the Democratic party, and
deelared his adhesion to Fillmore and Donelso*.
So it spread#
The Ba> Island* end Hondurne*
The rumor which has been circulated for some i
days that England was willing to surrender her |
claim* to the Bay Island? in favor of Honduras, is, 1
in a great measure, continued by the London j
Times, which states that Seoor Don Victor Her
ran, the accredited Minister of Honduras, had ur- !
rived in London to urge the claim of his government j
to the Territory.
“It is proposed,” says the London Times, “that j
Great Britain shall restore the Bay Islands, Hondu- i
ras recognizing all rights of property and interest j
which may have eorae into existence during British
occupation. The population of Ruatan does not ex
ceed 1,700, most of these being liberated slaves ;
and it is proposed that they should have the right
of becoming citizens of Honduras, or remaining in
the Island as British subjects, settlers in the coun
try. Honduras offers this solution of the dispute
between England and America, at the same time
that she urges her own claims, and declares that no
settlement arrived at by these two governments,
whether through arbitration or otherwise, can be al
lowed in justice to bar her rights. The republic
does not, however, stop here. Wiliug to give proofs
of amity and good will, lionduras is ready to code
to Great Britain by treaty, a right of way through
its territory from sea to sea, ana to make the ports
on each ocean, at the extremities of the proposed
route, free ports. A similar offer has been made to
the I'uiled States, and, it is said, will, no doubt be
accepted. Whatever value, then, a communication
across the territory of Honduras may possess will
be at the service of governments which are most
concerned with the traffic of the two oceans."
This mode of settlement, according to the Times,
would be entirely satisfactory to England, and it is
not likely to meet with any serious objection from
the United States Government. The change that
has come over the London press during the last few
weeks is very remarkable, and is probably owing
to the pacific couusels of Prince Albert and tho
King of the Belgians prevailing over those of Lords
Pal m k rsto n and Cla re sno x. As husband and
uncle of the Queen, these two royal personages have
great influence over Victoria, and it is very prob
able that their fears and suspicions concerning the
fealty of Lons N apolkok have urged them to ap
prove of any measure that would bring the dispute
with the United States to a speedy solution.
It the transfer of the Bay Islauds should, as pro
posed, be made by Great Britain to Honduras,
there would be nothing further to negotiate upon,
except the claims of the Mosquito Indians toGrey
town and the neighborhood—a trifling matter, which
could be quietly arranged between Lord Claren
don and Mr. Dall as. Thus we have a fair pros
pect before us of the settlement of the Central
American Question before the close of the Pierce
Administration.
In reference to the abandonment of the Bay
Islands, this singular admission is made by the
Times:
G rent Britain has no wish for territory on the
Cent rat American coast. Our own West India
Islands are fast relapsing into primitive snrage
ness. When the rich lands of Jamaica are being
yearly abandoned, and when in Trinidad and Gui
ana cultivation has almost ceased, it is not likely
that England will care to extend her sovereignty
further over tropical territory which can only be
brought into use by a system which has been solemn
ly condemned.
Emancipation is here declared to be a failure, and
philanthropy is proved to have been eminently mis
chievous. Fertile lands which afforded a wide
field to industry and enterprise, are fast relapsing
into barbarism. The slaves who were a source of
profit to their owners and whose condition in life
was one of contentment and improvement, have,
since they were afl eeted with freedom, sunk into
skulking savages, whose forms pollute the earth.
Wo are happy to see that the Times is waking to
the great truth that West India emancipation was
an unmitigated evil; it added fearfully to the taxa
tion of England, robbed the proprietors of a certain
source of future wealth, caused the land to run to
waste and desolation to reign in the place of plenty,
ami was above all an act of gross injustice to the
unfortunate negroes. _
.Minister (o Mexico.
President Pierce has recalled Gen. Gadsden, Min
ister to Mexico, and appointed in his stead Mr. For
sythe. editor ©f the Mobile Register. This event,
appeal’s to have attracted but little attention. Why
was (ten. Gadsden removed ? What has he done
which was not approved of by the government at
Washington ? What Ims he failed to do, which was
required of him ! Has he rendered himself
ious to the Government of Mexico ? If so, in what
way ! Or was Gen. Gadsden recalled to make
room for one who is more of a Democratic partizan,
and whose services demanded a recompense !
The country is interested in knowing the reasons
why Gen. Gadsden Ims been superseded. The mat -
ter should be suffered to be slurred over, or passed
by without a satisfactory explanation. It Gen.
Gadsden has neglected his official duties, violated
instructions, or compromised his government by
word or deed, the nature and character of the of
fence should be made public. If on the contrary, he
has been faithful in the discharge of his mission,
and has been removed for only party purposes, the
country should know it all, and the participators in
the shameful transaction should be held up to pub
lic scorn and reprobation. Will any of the Demo
cratic organs vouchsafe an explanation? Can the
Mobile Rrgister explain the transaction ?— Columbia
(N. C.) Times.
As the Times will not probably obtain the true
explanation from any democratic organ, we will
venture to suggest the most probable, amino doubt
true reason. It will not be pretended that Gen.
G adsden has not discharged his duties in strict ac
cordance with his instructions, but it was desirable
to give Mr. Forsyth some of the spoils. It made
no difference whether he had capacity for the dis
charge of the duties or not, ami no one familiar with
his reputation will pretend that he has any fitness
for the station. But they doubtless argued in this
way—ls Gen. Gadsden be recalled he will receive
his inti! of $4500, (wc believe that is the amount,)
and will only lose his salary for a few months. Mr.
Forsyth can therefore get his outfit, in fit and sala
ry, only be absent, from the country a few months
and pocket $13,500 of the public money, for his out
fit and infit, that might have been saved by keep,
ing Gen. Gadsden in Mexico. This is a specimen
of Democratic economy, combined with a division
of the spoils.
Interesting to Ladies.—Buchanan the Vic
tim of Cupid’s Darts.—The Charleston Mercury,
of the 24th inst., announces the receipt of advance
sheets of Harper’s Magazine, for August, (wehad
already obtained the number in the regular course)
containing a statement in The Editor’s Drawer con
cerning the old bachelor, James Buchanan. This
highly imposing document is written in the Minerva
press style. The old chamelion is discovered seated
in a richly furnished parlor in Washington in lively
conversation with a married lady. Unlike the New
Orleans Delta, which recently declared that Buck
looked like an “ old sinner,” and possessed an awk
ward habit of squinting at ladies, the scribe in Har
per lauds the fine personal appearance of the man.
The lady jests with him concerning his lone condi
tion, and recommends a friend who would be likely
to consent to become Mrs. Buchanan. The corpu
lent old personage hereupon unbosoms himself to the
ady ; he declares that his heart lies buried in the
grave of a young woman who took “ pi son” years
ago because her Ma would not permit her to wed
poor James Buchanan. We do not see the object
of the Mercury in publishing this childish story.—
Does the Mercury suppose the country wants a
heartless man for President. ?
Brooke and Burl interline*
The following Card appeared in the National In
telligencer of Monday :
A Card. —I am informed that the Memorandum
of a recent conversation of myself and friends with
the friends of Mr. Brooks has received, in some quar
ters, from its position, as appended to Mr. Brooks’
speech, an interpretation which does injustice to its
real meaning and to mv intentions.
This is what I say, aiid have said, in relation to
my speech : That 1 observed in it the rules of per
sonal and parliamentary decorum; that I could not
qualify or retract any portion of it, and held myself
responsible to any gentleman aggrieved by it.
This is the only construction which 1 supposed
would be placed oil the memorandum, which my
friends reduced to writing, that there might be no
misunderstanding. But, inasmuch us attempts, not
altogether unsuccessful, have been lnaue to pervert
its true meaning, I now withdraw it. And, that
there may not beany misapprehension in the future,
I say, explicitly, that I leave my speech to interpret
itself, and hold myself responsible for it, without
qualification or amendment.
A. Burlingame.
Washington July ID, l_Bsfi
Three Persons Poisoned by a Surgical (Ite
ration. —Dr. John Potter and his brother Dr.
Hazard Potter, with an assistant., all of Steuben
county, New York, were called upon last week to
dress a man’s arm, which had been mutilated by
machinery. The arm having maturated it was cut
open, and some of the virus mingled with the blood
of the three operatros,through scratches on their fin
gers. I)r. John Potter and the assistant have
died and Dr. Hazard Potter’s life is desparied of.
Fire is Savannah.—At an early hour on Tues
day morning the upper part of Mr. Hines’ boarding
house in Broughton street, Savannah, was discov
ered to be on fire. Before the fiames could be ex
tinguished damage to the amount of .SI,OOO was
done. The fire was supposed to be the work of an
incendiary.
Attempted Incendiarism at Savannah. —An
attempt at incendiarism was made in Savannah on
Tuesday night, between 8 and 9 o’clock, by some
persons unknown, carrying a large pile of hay and
white pine shavings to the open lot corner of Brough
ton and Whitaker streets. The design was evident
ly to fire the premises of Mr. J. D. Jesse, as the
shavings and hay were placed against his fence.
The watchfulness of the officers frustrated the vil
lany.
Cure for Cholera Infantum.—The following
is said to be a most efficacious remedy for the cure
of this fatal and distressing disease among children,
which parents would do well to cut out for refer
ence :
Take a pound of wheat flour, wrap it tightly in a
cloth, and boil it for three hours. When cold, cut
off the mucilage and a ball is left lesembling chalk.
This is to be given to the patient in boiled milk,
mixed with a small quantity of good port wine.—
The milk must be pure, and not from swill-fed cows.
The remedy Is simple and within the reach of all.
Exchange.
The Greatest Delicacies of the Season. —
We have been favored by D. Redmond, Esq., of
the celebrated Fruitland Nursery, with a basket of
Plums—those known as “Bolmar’s Washington,”
which are as large as peaches, and of the most ex
quisite flavor, as well as with five varieties of Nec
tarines, among others the Queen of the South, which
is of a pure white color, and the far-famed ‘‘Boston.”
These choice fruits will surely immortalize Fruit
land Nursery.
Kidnapping.—The Charleston Evening News,
of the 22d inst., says: Charlotte, a mulatto girl,
with two children, one about three months old and
the other about two years, both girls, belonging to
Mr. Rowe, of Orangeburg, were stolen and brought
to this city on Friday night last, by a Spaniaid, of
email stature, whose name we have not been able to
obtain.
Fever at Sea.— The bark John Griffin arrived
in New’ York on the 20th instant from Cienfugoe.—
The mate had died in that port of yellow fever, and
the captain and the seamen died of fbe same disease
on the voyage. The bark George Leslie who ar
rived on the same day from the same port, had eve
rv man on board except the captain »ick with the
yellow fever. The ve*ael« were removed tar down .
Jhe bay for «fety, together with tb. bark. Leo from j
Havana.
Fmiionr Ticket In Kentucky.
A Convention of the Freeeoilers and Abolitionist*
of Kentucky, recently’uiet at Lake .Springs, Madi
son county, and nominated the following electoral
ticket for that State :
•S h natural Electors. —l. C. M. Clay, of Madison
county. 2. George D. Blnkey, of Logan county.
ttfjnt tenhifirrs. — 1. Edgar Neadham, of Louis
ville; 2. J. H. Rawlings, of Madison county; 3.
lvcv. J. H. Davis, of Lewis county; 4. J. Graze
brook, of Barren county; 5. J. R. Wkittemore, of
Campbell comity; C. David Morgan,of Floyd coun
ty 4. \. 1 inmiiton, of Bracken county: 8. Janies
Latthbrooks, ot Davies county ; l*. Green Shells ot
Jessamine county: 10. John Wash, of Anderson
county.
This proceeding will give the vote of Kentucky
by a majority of thousands to Fillmore. The loss
of ihe Irish and German vote, the greater portion of
which is Freeaoil, will overwhelm Buchanan.
The Louisville Journal notices the nomination of
the ticket, and appends the following pertinent
comments, which are well worthy the consideration
ot Southern men of all parties, and as such we com
mend them to their careful consideration. It is a
severe, but just fate of the Southern Democracy,
t.mt the poisoned cup of foreign Fivesoilism has to
b«- drained to the bitter dregs by them. The lead
ers of the Southern Democracy have, with a duplici
ty and fraud, peculiar to themselves, persuaded the
masses of the party that the alien voters of the
North were sound on the slavery question, and
I thousands of intelligent men of the rank and die
have stultified themselves by affecting to believe it.
Now, perhaps, when it is too late, they will open
their eyes to the odious features of Squatter Sove
reignty and the alien suffrage in the Kansas Ne
braska bill r ami may visit their vengeance upon
those who have deceived them and betrayed the
South. But to the extract of the Journal. Here
it is :
We did not think the Freesoil men in Kentucky
I would have ihe hardihood to put forth an electoral
j ticket, but the leaders of that party, Cassius M.
Clay, John G. Fee, and their associates, are bold
S men who have long seemed to delight in defying the
resentment of the people of Kentucky. The Free
i soil movement has Been inaugurated here, and by
whom l Let our readers everywhere in the South
ern States mark the fact that it has been begun
here ns in Missouri, cxcl u sit'dy or mainly by Demo -
It is a notorious fact that the only abolition paper
in Kentucky, the Newport News, ns rabid an aboli
tion sheet as exists anywhere in the whole country,
has always been a Democratic paper. It zealously
advocated the election of Clarke, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, lust year, and lias always
bitterly opposed the American party because it
foresaw that the American party would prevent if
possible the consummation of the objects of the Abo
litionists.
It i, a notorious fact, that Cassius M. Clay and
John G. Fee, and the whole mass of their followers
in this State, voted for Clarke, the Democratic can
didate for Governor last year.
It is a notorious fact, that allot the electors upon
this Fremont electoral ticket, so far as their ante
cedent* arc known here,have heretofore been Demo
crat* and voted for the Democratic candidates in
Ihe last State election. George D. Blakely, of Lo
gan, one of the Fremont electors for the State at
large, was the Democratic elector for the third dis
trict in 1848. Both of the Fremont electors for the
State at large did all they could for Clarke.
The vote of the G< rnmn population of Kentucky
is estimated at 10,000. This vote has hitherto been
given to the Democratic party, but nearly the
whole of it will now goto the support of this Fre
mont ticket. In 1854 the Free German Republi
cans of this State held a convention in Louisville,
and adopted an ultra anti-slavery platform. They
have since continued to act with the Democratic
party only because they had no opportunity to vote
for Frec-soil candidates, but now they will in a body
leave the Democracy and sustain the Freesoil tick
et. It is evident to every well-informed man, that
the whole strength of this Fremont party in Ken
tucky, will be derived exclusively from the Demo
cratic ranks, and that this Free-soil movement wil
place Mr. Buchanan in a minority of not much less
than 25,000 votes in this State
Thus every day makes more apparent the truth
of the declaration that the great mass of the foreign
population in this country is strongly anti-slavery.
We have repeatedly warned the South of this fact.
We have called upon Southern men to protect their
own interests by aiding the establishment of policy
recommended by the American party, thus pre
venting the increase of this source of Abolition
strength.
The present position of political parties hits prov
ed the justice and propriety of the principles of the
American party iu regard to an extension of the na
turalization laws, and has demonstrated the hope
lessness of the Democratic party in the present con
test. One of the chief elements of the Democratic
party, particularly in the Freesoil States, has been
the foreign vote, mid now nearly the whole of the
foreign vote has abandoned the Democracy and is
found in the ranks of the Freesoil party supporting
Fremont.
We earnestly ask the people of the Southern
States to look at these facts and see for themselves
that there is not one single ray of hope that Mr.
Buchanan can obtain a single electoral vote in the
North; and in all seriousness we ask such of the
old line Whigs and old-line Democrats ns have in
tended to support Mr. Buchanan, to cease their
suicidal efforts to divide and distract the South, and
at once to determine to give the united support of
the South to Millard Fillmore, who alone can defeat
the election of Fremont.
We want Southern men, and particularly the con
servative Democrats of the South, to consider well
their position, and to deliberate candidly and seri
ously upon the circumstances by which they are
surrounded. The Democratic party is everywhere
uifected by the Fremont movement precisely as it
is affected bv it in Kentucky. It is shorn of its
strength and rendered utterly powerless, particu
larly in the North, where the foreign vote is the
greatest.
The defeat of Mr. Buchanan is a fixed fact. His
party was already greedy in the minority in the
North and this recent detection from it has been
so immense, so beyond all calculation, that there is
now not the slightest probability that the vote of a
single Northern State, will be given to its candidate.
On the other hand, the success of Mr. Fillmore in
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Cali
fornia is as nearly certain as any future event can
be. His prospects are fair in Ohio and other States
of the North. Under such circumstances it is plain
ly the duty, and we believe it will be the choice, of
many Southern Democrat* and of every Southern
American to support Millard Fillmore as the only
candidate upon whom the South can rely to prevent
the election of Col. Fremont.
Fillmore in Kentucky.
The Old Line Whigs, of Lexington, Ky., the old
body guard of the ever-glorious “llarry of Ike
West," the men who stood by him and defended
him from early manhood to the grave, have recently
held a meeting to take counsel together, as to what
they should do in the present emergency. It was a
glorious meeting—such as only the old conservative
Whig patriots could have. God bless them, we know
how they felt—we know how their hearts thrilled
and their bosoms heaved with patriotic emotions.
They felt that they were but doing homage and
honor to the great heart that lies entombed at Ash
land, when they rallied to the cause of the Constitu
tion ami Millard Fillmore.
A correspondent who witnessed the scene de
scribes it thus :
I have seen the enthusiasm of the Whigs in 1840,
’44, and ’4B, but it did not exceed that which now
prevails for Mr, Fillmore with every genuine Old
Line Whig in Fayette. It is both amusing and
gratifying to witness the indignation of any one of
those gray-headed veteran Whigs—who may be
properly called the body-guard ot Mr. Clay in all
his political campaigns—lasting through a half-cen
tury —when approached with that Democratic bait:
“the expediency of voting for Mr. Buchanan, to
prevent the election of Fremont.” The mere men
tion of his name brings freshly back to their memo
ry his complicity with the “bargain and intrigue
calumny,” and his more recent slander in 1814, that,
from his own knowledge, James K. Polk was a bet
ter tariff man than Henry Clay. Os all living men,
their hatred of James Buchanan is the most intense
and bitter j by him, they conceive, injuries most
deep were inflicted on the reputation of one whose
memory they idolize. In common with the other
Whig* here they do not simply prefer Mr. Fillmore
to Mr. Buchanan or Air. Fremont, but he is their
choice of all living men.
At the meeting yesterday it was computed there
were upwards of two hundred of the Old Line
Whigs out of the three hundred in the county, and
the rest sent word that they were with us, heart and
hand. When the first incidental mention was made
of Millard Fillmore’s name, cheer after cheer went
up until the very rafters of the building shook, and
wore prolonged to the complete suspension of the
proceedings for some minutes. The shout was con
tagious, and was heartily joined in by the large body
of spectators present. These manifestations ol ap
probation broke forth every time that name was
repeated. At the close of the meeting, a grand
round of applause was given, with a swinging
round of hats as an accompaniment.
In closely scanning the whole county, wo can
find but six persons, professedly Whigs, who do not
enthusiastically support Mr. Fillmore. Two of the j
six are sincere in the absurd belief that the only j
mode of defeating Fremont is to vote for Buchanan.
The developments of the next four weeks we hope
will open their eyes.
Fillmore in Alabama.
The Democrat, published at Moulton, North Ala.,
of the 17th inst., furnishes the following cheering
news. From other sources we are also assumed
that the old Jackson Democracy of North Alabama,
—men that know what Democracy is—are not
! inclined to swallow Buchanan and Squatter So
| vereignty. The old line Democracy of North Ala.,
j loved “Old Hickory” and like Inn they con
| sider an old Federalist “ unreliable .*”
A correspondent of the Memphis Eagle, writing
from North Alabama, says : The cause of Fillmore
and Donelson is warming up in this section of the
State, the ranks are swelling by continued acces
sions, and the “ cry is still they come.” Never was
a nomination more enthusiastically received—nev
er was a prospect more brilliant. Under the magi
cal eloquence of Senator Clemens—the proud de
fender of American principles, and the terror of the
Democracy, you may count upon the redemption of
our patriotic State from the withering blight of the
Foreign and anti-Americanism.
In East and South Alabama the prospect is equal
ly cheering. The Chambers Tribune says :
“ Old men and young ones, are falling from the
Cincinnati platform like leaves in autumn from their
stems.”
The Fillmore and Donelson ratification meeting
that came off at this place, (Moulton,) on Tuesday,
15th inst., was a most glorious jubilation. Indeed,
it was a truly refreshing occasion, and the speeches
were of the most cheering and enlivening character
—a short outline of each we propose giving next
week, also the resolutions which were passed unani
mously. The meeting, considering the busy season,
the excessive heat, and short notice, was fully as
large as its friends anticipated. We had nr pla
cards stuck up ovei the county—had no drumming
—made no extra exertion—-but only advertised
twice ; and the hardy sons of the soil, admirers of
Fillmore, lovers of the South and Southern institu
tions, came out in goodly numbers, trebling the
mammoth meeting of our friends, the unties, held at
Campbell's Springs on the Saturday previous for a
similar purpose.
The American party is in tine spirits. The news
from every aectiou of our widely extended country
is most gratifying and cheeriDg. It is at last ad
mitted, that Fillmore and Donelson are going to
make a run—that the race is not between Buchanan
and Fremont, but between Fillmore and the cham
pion of the Black Republicans. We hope old Ten
Centy will not back out as is expected by some.
Fillmore in Delaware.— A Fillmore meeting
was held at Smyrna, Delaware, on the evening of
the 15th instant. The Hon. Presley Spruance
presided. Several eloquent addresses were deliver
ed and the following, among other resolutions were
adopted :
1. Resolved , That as National Americans, we re
pudiate all sectional issues in the coming 1 residen
tial contest, and recognize only t«e interests of the
whole Union. , ... c
■j Resolved, That we mn»t heartily approve of,
andi endorse the Hon. Millard Fillmore M the only
Union and conservative candidate for President of
the United States, and Andrew Jackson Donelson,
[ ° T f ReJ/red, That we are opposed to the election
of James Huebanhn to the Presidency upon e
principles of the CmchinaOpUtforne Vfe cond^n
Lis known opinions in &Yot ofTeduci g rat 7 of
of the laboring men o —opposition to the
the P a "" E the piratical doctrines of the ,
Ostend j
~T ROAD HR man burnt— On Tuesday even- i
incr i *»th inst., the bridge over the Cbichasahu river, ,
near Quitman, Miss., on the Mobile and Ohio Rail- 1
road was burned by incendiaries. It was tired at <
both abutment*, and fell into the rivet. i
Bnciiaiian'i Letter
It is very remarkable that no Been ana* paper
at the South, (that we have seen) can be induced to
publish the whole of Buchanan's letter to Sanvord,
of Mobile. Why is this-? Do they desire to prat
tice a gross fraud upon the people ?—to persuad*
Southern men to believe an untruth upon a que«*
tion of such vital importance as the slavery issue 7
1 here cau be no other motive tor the suppression,
by the Buchanan organs, of a portion, apd a very
important portion, of that letter. They are evident
ly willing, and are seeking to sacrifice the dearest,
interests ol the South at the altar of party, to secure
the spoils. Great indeed must be the power and
“cohesive properties of the public plunder," when
it can force men to sacrifice the iuteretts of thei*
s« erion to adhere to the fortunes of an advocate oi
Freesoil and Squatter Sovereignty. Strange aa this
may seem, it is nevertheless true. There mum
have been a motive forth, suppression, by the Bu
chanan organs, and that motive is clearly drvef
oped when the whole letter is read. But to the let
ter, the whole letter —black as the record is, we give
it entire, for the information of the render, and we.
ask Southern men to ponder well and carefully its
contents: •
Wash liter o'N, August 2!, 1848
T. Sanford, Esq.—Dear Sirr—l have just re
oeived yours of the 12th inst ,in which yon submit •
to me the following paragraph, and aslv whether it
contains an accurate version of the conversation be
tween us, concerning my Berks county letter tu
the occasion to which you refer
“Happening to meet Mr. Buchauan at the Pram
dent’s levee on F ridny evening, 1 culled hi * ntton
tion to this letter, and asked him if he intended to
be understood as claiming that the population of a
Territory in an uuorguni/.ed capacity had the right
to control the question of slavery in such Territory
He declared that no such idea had ever been njair
tained by him—that the construction put upoKJn
language by Mr. Yancey was a perversion of TU*
plaiu and obvious meaning- that in his opinion th* N
inhabitants of a Territory, as such, had no political \
right (although they possessed all flu* private rights *
of American citizens) that, they had no power whal *
ever over the subject of slavery—and they con'd
neither interdict or establish it, . xeept when a*s«uu
bled in Convention to form a State Constitution
With the addition which I hove inserted between
brackets, this statement is substantially and a!
most literally correct, according to my recollection ”
In my letter to Berks county of the 25th August
1847,1 had said, “ under the Missouri eomprouu u
slavery was forever prohibited north of the parallel
of 3d degrees 30 minutes, and south of this parallel
the question was left to be decided by the people
What people? Undoubtedly the people oft he tei
ritory assembled in convention to form a State Con
atitution and ask admission into the Union
and not the first adventurers, or “first comers,
who might happen to arrive in the territory nswem
bled in public meeting. If a doubt, on this subject
could possibly exist, it is removed by the next an
oeeding sentence of my letter. 1 proceeded to atjiw.
“ Congress, in the admission of Te.v.-m, adopted tl
same rule,’ etc. And what was this rule ! Tin*
Joint Resolution for nnuexiuff Tcxasto the United
States, approved March Ist, 1815, answers the qu>
tion in the following words: “And such States a:
may be formed out of that portion of said territory
lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minute*,
north latitude, commonly known ns the Missonii
Compromise line, shall be admitted into the l uion.
with or without slavery, as the people of each Stou
asking admission may desire.' Such was the d
script ion of the people to whom 1 referred in tn
Berks county letter.
Any other construction of tho letter would ivndn
it entirely inconsistent with itself. Having myed
the adoption of the Missouri Compromise, the in
ferenee is irresistible that Coup re* \ in my opt u
ion, jtosscsses the power to legislate upon Fha sub
/iet of slavery in the Territories. \\ ha! an ob
surdity would it then be, if whilst asserting till*
Sovereign power in Congress, which power f rom
its nature must be exclusive, I should iu the v**ry
same breath also claim this identical power '‘for t'.
population of a Territory'in tin ui.organized capac
ity t”
In conclusion, I desire to nut orate and re-affin;
every sentiment contained in my Berks county lei
ter. I cling to the Missouri Compromise wiiu
greater tenacity than • rer, ami y> I firmly believe *
that it will be adopted by Congv.
Yours, very respectfully.
James Buchanan.
This reader, is the Harford lot tea entire—com
pletc—every word just as it was written I;
James Buchanan, in which h< declares ihu
Cong) ess alone has the e.rc/u. ire power to lei 9
> slate upon the subject of slarery in the Tern/i
--/ ies ! This was written in 1818, and is the very
essence of YViliuot Provisojsm in all its length and
breadth; it contains all that Wilm«»1 or Half Oi
Van Burkn or Seward or Bri tton King or Gn
dings or any other Freesoiler contends for ; it is the
very quintessence of the Wilmot Proviso.. NVii
was it any new doctrine with Mr. Buchanan —it, is*
an old Federal doctrine, this claim of sovereign mu
exclusive power in Congress, and lifts becii mate
tained by Mr. Buchanan through lifo. Th«*:-m.
principle was proclaimed in the Lancaster re,-.olu
tions in 181D —which as a member of the Commit
tee he presented to a public, meeting on tho 23d day
of November 1810. Here are the resolutions
Resolved, That the Representatives in Oongres
from this district lm, and they are hereby mo i
earnestly requested to use their utmost end ©avowee
member* of the National Legislature,- to prevent Hit
existence, of slavery in any.oj the Territories o
States which may be ereeled- by Congress
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, tb -
members of Congress, who, at the last session, sub
tained the cause of justice, humanity and patriotism
in opposing the introduction of slavery into the Stub
<lien endeavored ffl br formed out. oi the Missouri
Territory, arc entitled to the wannest thanks ofex»
ry friend of humanity.
It was this principle, combined with his life-low
hostility to slavery, that enunciated his sentiment'
in Congress in 1828, when In* declared slavery a
curse. Here is his language on tlu* 111 hof April
1820 :
“Permit me here, Mr. Chairman, for a mo inept
to speak upon a subject to which 1 have never be
fore adverted upon this floor, and to which, J trim
T may never again have occasion to advert. I ino#n
the subject o; slavery. / be/ietc it to be a great po
titical and a great moral evil. / thank Clou mt,
lot has been cast in a State where it dots not exist
’ * ' It has been o curse entailed upon ns b<
that nation which makes it o subject of reproach fl
our institutions:'
[See Gales &. Seaton * hVgisier of Debates, page
2,180, veil. 2, part .’.]
Again, in 1843, iu Ins Texas speech when he ex
pressed his purpose to “limit” and finally crush out
slavery, the same hostility is iimnifested.
Such were his views up to IHIK. But. h change
has come over the spirit of hi- dream, and we find
him in his letter of acceptance in June, 1850, openL
declaring for the doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty,
a principle which Mr. Calhoun lim- declared mw •
odious than the Wilmot Proviso. In Uuitlettcu Mi
Buchanan says : “The people of a Territory hk
those of a Stale, shall decide for tbemndv-es whetL
or slavery shall or shall not exist within then
limits."
Southern men, these are the principles ot the in/m
you are asked to support for President Woe?
think you of him and his principles 1
I Negroes in ;i Democratic l*roc**M«»»o*i.
* The Louisville Journal gives the following tic
j count of the processions of the Democratic ami
- ' Freesoil parties, at the lute muss meetings of tlwj
two parties in Indiana. We /ire not surprised at
| the position of the darkies, it only proves that they
do not forsake their friends in the hour of neod
: Buchanan has always hern opposed to the ex tension
1 of slavery, and the darkies of Indiana approves Ins
principles. We hope they will not desert then
friend Buck, for he seems just now to he greatly in
need of their aid ;
Thk Buchanan Ratification Meeting at In
dianapolis.—NotwiMistanding the the immense
exertions made by the Buchanan men to get up a
i large ratification meeting at Indianapolis, if. was f«i
j inferior in numbers to the Fremont gathering of the
preceding day. Ninety-four more ears were used
in carrying delegates to the Fremont Convention of
the I6tlisthan were employed for the Buchanan Con
, vention of the 17th.
Some of the Buchanan leaders undertook to
j laugh at the Freesoil procession of the 10tl^because
, there were negroes in it. Thjty- were abl« fj laugh
only twenty-four hours, however, for lo there wer*
negroes in their own procession of the 17th. A Hag
Nicht lawyer undertook to expound the law to th<
negroes in the Sag Nicht procession, and to oon
vince them that it was unconstitutional for them
to walk with white folks, but they snapped then
fingers in his legal face and kept on as long as the
procession did.
It seems, then, that the Indiana negroes are divi
ded in their preferences, some going for Fremont
and the rest for Buchaanan. Each candidate bin*
his peculiar claims upon them. Fremont is the icgu
hir Abolition candidate, but Buchanan went for the
agitation of the slavery question in tin* pulpits of the
country, wanted Missouri kept out of the Union un
less she would come in with an unt i slavery Con
stitution, supported the annexation of Texas avow
edly upon the ground that it would cause the dis
appearance of slavery from Kentucky, Tennessee,
Virginia, Maryland, and all the other planting
States, and now declares strongly for the rank Abo
ition doctrine of squatter sovereignty.
We hardly know which of the two rivals is like.y
to be strongest in the affections of their colored
brethern.
Letterfrom Mr. Fillmore.- -The following r »
a copy of a letter from Mr. Kim.more to Mr Oak,
of Philadelphia :
Buffalo, N. Y., July Ith, ISJti
Deal' Sir :—I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your friendly note of the 30th ult., together
with the beatifulcane accompanying it, made from
one of the joists which supported the door of the h
brary of the late lamented Henry Clay.
I acce.pt this token of your friendship aud respect
with grateful emotions, and shall value it not merel)
or mainly for its costly und elegant workmanship,
but chi* fly for the motives which prompted the do
nation, and the reminiscences awakened by the
sociation. I shall never look upon this cane with
out being reminded of Ashland and its noble posse i
sor. Though dead, he still lives ; and his voice,
speaking from his consecrated grave, calls upon bi«
countrymen to stand by the Union and maintain
the Constitution.
He was my friend, and I shall be most happy d
my conduct shall prove that I was worthy of his con
fiaenec. With renewed thunks, lam truly yours,
Millard Fillmore
Fillmore Twice Endorsed by Georgia.—The
Central Georgian asks: Will some of the wiß6
prognosticators give us a reason why Mr. f illmorf
cannot get the vote of Georgia. She has twice en
dorsed him. Once when he was comparatively un
known and when there may have been somn ground
to distrust him on the slavery question. At anotbei
she endorsed his administration in her approval of
its leading measures, by the largest majority eve*
polled in the State. And now, that b© placed be
fore her, for her suffrage agaiD, having done noth
ing to forfeit the confidence heretofore placed In
him, but everything that can confirm him an as
eminently conservative and national man, honest,
capable and faithful to the constitution, and to the
whole country North and South ; will Georgia refect
him ? Never. In doing so she would be untrue to
herself and forfeit her character for cootiotonoy,
and for those virtues and act*, which she ha-* mn
ed and sustained in him.
Large Firf.in morning
a fire broke out m Muller'*, lager bier brewery,..tu
ated iu Forty-fifth street, between First and Second
avenues, New York, and in a short time the flame*
extended to the Turtle Hay brewery, ana the brew
ery of Mr. Clements, on Forty-fourth street
three establishments were entirely consume ,
gather with six dwelling houses, iuvolviug « 0 ..
property estimated at about $95,000 , but »
portion of which was covered by hjsurap* •
,i his residence iu
The Hon. John F. May died at m
Peterebnrg, Virginia, gu of the Su
Po r rCo3.b":rd j udie.aldU.ic t , Hew..
*. n( fi.f. non Thos. H. Bayly, whos®
tather m-law oi t« e 11
laments demue we not long since had the melan
eholy duty of announcing Hu bereaved wife be#
U„w to mourn the low of father as well as husband