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Ctpnidc & S’Cntiucl.
kTuOPKAM IM'KI.UUKSn:.
ET THE At l A
Th.A.'»left P M on Saturday,
thr * t'j uiL Her new. • .—fly confined to par
ta nl»r» o< lie luearm-tiou u. 'P« u ‘ ,
Ti,« Hermann an vcd at Souutampton on tbe
momintf of Satar.iay tire 'JSth nit.
Th*l»-ch«*ctio» I' S’’* l *—MaJnd jOTntale
of July 18th have been received, tad prevent u*
witn lie “ot eia! .v count of the tueutTeetwn. The
National Guard had been almost entirely dieanned.
A beany IS. *> muek. te and a oonnidurabk' quuuuty
ofpiftoj., •obm*. aud lane** had been collected,
and domiciliary vfeiia were being made to seenre
aii tbe arum m tbe baud* of tbe citizens. N ameroua
bod been made, and there i* do longer fear
of any further outbreak in the Capital. The casu
altiea o< the royal troops are estimated at V> or .At
killed, and 150 wounded; the In**** of the ins ur®
g-enta are not known. Tbe royal troops engaged
Sonssted of 13 battalions, with pieces of artille
ry—-iu ali about 16,000. The cavalry, 3000 in num
ber, were employed outside the gates, in k* epmg up
the mmmumcations between the three corps into
which the rovai forces were divided. Queen Isabel
la * exultation i» described os great, and she had
r»waided the officers by a general peruussiou to
fciM her hand, “iu the very clothes they wore during
the struggle ' Wounded offices and soldier* are to
bs promoted a graae, with pensiour and crosses A
Complete chang is made in the pcrsonncl of the
Governors of Provinces, and ail persons in authority
« o<• ‘‘behaved feebly in the presence c/f disorder, ’
have beeu disuiisse<£ At Barcelona, the rising was
00l put down until after a good deal of fighting, ex
tending over two days
From Saragossa there is no further news than ♦liAt
a portion ot tue troops remain faithful to tb«- Queen,
and that tbe mnurrw‘l mhi is confined to that city.—
Government was deepatchmg all available troops
towards this last stronghold ot the insurrection, and
their insuu* Hoi s ur. , if opposed, not to be led
into street fighiing, bat to bombard the city from
tbe adjoining lorn Nothing positive » yet known
eg Esparto o, hat it Se tqs probable that he has
been permit led to leave Madrid, although nominal
ly under arrest. O Dour oil expects to receive, in
a day or two, news of the an omission of horegos
ss. sud with it, o1 toe whole of Spain to bis Govern
ment.
Advices to the 19th leave do donbt’hat tbeO Don
neli Government. reigned supreme at Madrid. Ihe
cit} st that dan was repotted ‘tranquil' Ksporie
r«» w«s stili at Madrid, aud a/ cording to the Isindon
Turns' correspondence, O’Donnell liadoffeied him
ort* to any p*»rt of Bpa.ii, and t«» go abroad
Ao official retum *ay« the lons of the troops in sup
pressing the insurrection was • officers killed ai d
ill w. umied . 32 soldiers killed, 3 missing, and 1112
Wounded. No relur»j is made ol the loss sustained
by the tjMMirgtfuts, but private accounts say that
the iro ps oeiiaved with great ferocity, and butch
ered t > i.jihuht ot tin* National Guard af
vr they had « uss* dto resist. B«isii.« as was begiu
nit'g to l>e resumed, aud crowds dully visited the
soloes of the conflict. The artillery had dam
age I a number of buildings ; among them the pal
govs ol Ml din a-Cell and the Piaterias ; a .so.
toe residences ol the Count de Ouate, tlie Countess
Moot jo, .aid others in the streets of Milanese and
Toleuo
Lord Howden, the English ambassador, was ab
m-i,' iroid his pest when these events took place.—
He has received outers by telegraph to return in
to Madrid, via Saragossa.
Marshal Narvaez, on the revolt breaking out, of
fer*.! his services to U’Douiiell, and has received the
appointment ol Minister to Pans, in the place ot Hr.
Olozaga.
Tin- Duke of Alba, brother-in-law to the Em
prrns Eugenie, is appointed Mayor of Madrid, pro
Kin. .
Patricio Esooeura had sought refuge at the Bri
tish Embassy ; his hrotbei, who held a command in
the insurgent ranks, had escaped.
The Madnd Gazette pubhstn •* a great number of
rr. uioU*.i*M and dismissals ; all the generals and
oil. tliceiH who were wounded have obtained their
u« a *p, and the soldier* who distinguished thein-
S».-lvi-»*, or who have been wounded, receive decora
tions and pensions. The Queen had 311,000 cigars
distributed among the troopa. 8< veral governors
of provinces have been placed on the retired list.—
There is a so a decree removing General Prim from
Ins iunctions of Governor of Granada, but the
Qoi en reserves to herself “to utilise his services on
lus return from abroad." General Prim some days
hack left for Spain.
At Bakc kt.oNA. —The Paris Monitmr of the 24th
fays: “Tuelast news from Barcelona announces I
Ihut the conflict there was very keen, but that the
success of the Queen's troops may be considered as
••♦cured. On the 18th the firing lasted from five in
lb*- evening until midnight. <)u the 1 lith it was re
sumed from early nionnng till Bin the evening. On
the 29th it lasted the whole day; aud on tin* 21st
from morning till 3 o’clock in the evening. On the
last day the insurgents being driven from Union
street, Hue Nuevo of the Kainblo and from the hos
pital of La Juoqueru, their principal positions, be
took themselves to the country, where the cavalry
soon rode them down and sabred them. Geionn
and La Jniiqoern are still in a state of insurrection.
Tranquility prevails at Kigueras, and tlic* garrison is
prepared to suppress any outbreak. It is thought
the victory at Barcelona will arrest the other move
ments in Catatonia. ”
Pan*, Evening, Thurtday, 21/A.—“On the 23d,
at BA. M , the Koyal trootiH were master of every
poilit of Barcelona, but still remained underarms.
The struggle was very sanguinary. Preparations
were being made to execute the persons who were
tuk» n with arms in their hands. Gen. Kuiz coin
mauds the garrison at Geroua, which place ha* ,
Mar unites, Thursday, July 24.—The ('id has ar
rived with Barcelona news to the 23d, at 8 A. M.
Tlu* troops were masters of all the positions, but, not
withstanding the tranquility of the town, the soldiers
still stood to their uriim. The shops are re opening.
The struggle was must b’oody.
According to the estimate of the captain of the
Cid, the number of the killed aud wounded on both
aid* * cannot be less than 1,200.
Families who have abandoned Barcelona are still
arriving here, but not iu such numbers as during
tbe lad tew days.
'1 Ite imporiai.ee of the determined resistance of
Baicelouu in immense, it had been calculated that
that city, which is very republican in its tendency,
aud was mippom d to be di-satisfied with Espartero’s
rvHiiiexiou witu ODonuell, would not pronounce.
The grillunt conduct of the inhabitants must have
greatly thwarted the military calculations ol O’Don
noil, a’id is calculated to encourage resistance in a
niu’titude of other places. In fact, it limy now be
said that if Barug- -sail from which wo have tiflol no
news whatever for several days, is stilTin a
vigorous oonditiou, there is g«x>d hope that <) Don
nell s coup d’etat will tail. 11 in nruiy is gnot large,
aud he must bum tin* utmost embarrassment to
ku'wv how to distribut** it.
The insurrection which the Mouiteur admits to
bo going ou in Uuruim i« very serious. General
Buts, one • f the best generals in Spain, and a de
t* named Fog res# tots, communds tiio insurgents
Ui.ro
There are rumor* to-day among Spaniards of
uinuy uew r sings in the 1 rovincea.
Tuo aiutwineni that a battalion of the Almanza
regiment, scut against Saragossa from Pamneluna,
bad fumed agonist O Donnell, it confirmed. The
battalion "piouotiuocd” at Soria, while ou the liuo
ot mat oh.
/’(irti, /•'/ iday Month? July 35. —The Moui
teur ban the following from Saragtnwa dated the
St'tb i
“General Falcon ha* passed in review 10,000 men
A battalion which h.idnmrohed against the city from
Tude’u joined ibe insurgent* upon reaching the 1
place. 15,000 militia or peasant# hud inarohed from
Oai.ct to join the iusn*gent Amgouese. At tlio
Navarre frontier all was tranquil!."
FkbrOll Iktkhvkn noN.— Boulogne, Friday
Evening, July Ah—All tut* troop* in camp her* are
ordered to the frontier ol Spain.
ptn i*-, Friday Evening. —The news which (onae- ’
count ot its gravity) 1 pave it a hesitating manner
tiiree days ago, nnmelv, that . r »,<KH) men had been or
d-red t«. march fbnn S tl.onuy (Lyous; for the Span- !
iah rentier, turns out to be perfectly true. Thu h>- ■
o*l Journals announce that General Latontalne’e di
rinon lui# Uwid s. looted for the service. A division
In upwards of 5,000 men. There is now no doubt
wnaf. ver that n large army is being concentrated ;
ou the Pyrenees with extraordinary speed.
There has been some agitation at Sauuiur, ow i
lw to the dearness offo«»a. A battalion of Clias j
H«-urs was »eui thor from Path* ths day before yea* ,
ter day.
Okkat Britain.—ln Parliament the question .
was asked, by Mr. Murrough whether the British 1
Government was prepared to adopt any, uud what
measures for preventing armed interference by j
JYanoc- —in the affairs of Spain ?
Lord Palmerston replied that there was*, at pres- j
sot. iH>thmg in the internal affairs of Spain that
<v>uid in huv way lend t«> the interference of the
French Government, upon the general question of
Interference he could only nay that the Emperor of
the French is a man of great justice, and he would
feel, that in any case, foreign interference in the
utTairs of Spain would be unjust. He was also a
man of great sagacity, and events had shown that
the interference of those who had been led to in
terpose in the affairs of Spain had been attended
with disaster to themselves . but there was no rea
son for appivheuding that the Emperor of the French
bad anv such intention.
M ftoebu* k. according to notice, moved that
Janies Sadlier having absconded from public justice
be expelled i i « a.*-it m P irlia ns nt. Consider
able discussion ensued as to the expediency ot pro
eipitatc action in the matter, and, eventually, the
motion was withdrawn.
Although there are several candidates in the field
(or the Parliamentary seat of James Sadlier, some of
the electors of Tipperary have invited Smith
O’Brien to come forwan! as' their representative.—
He, however, declines.
The London papers give a summary of the re
pent of the Crimean euquirv at Chelsea. It amounts
to an exculpation of the officers implicated.
Government has di tennin. il to erovt defences
along the northeast coast of Scotland—and, pros
pectivelv, also, on the Western coast.
Mr John Shakspeore, of priory, Ashly
de la-Zuuch, has given j£MH) to purchase certain
property on either side of Shakespeare’s house, at
Stratfbrd-ou Avon, and to it store that part of the
premises known as the Swan and Maidenhead to its
original state.
A prosjHvtus has been issued of the “United King
dom Vmvision Company”—capital £soo,ooo,its ob
ject being to carry on an extensive busmens in
>»n a istqjfs and provisions, chiefly from America.
1 lie pm ognriou of Parlinment was to take
place ou Tu. sdav. the '£Hh u!t., by royal commis
sion.
Fkasce —The Emperor has sent from Pombieres
a circular to the Prefect*. ordering them in positive
.orms. to allow ♦«» all Protvstatit* within their respec
tive dial riels, the free ami undisturbed exercise of
tkair religion.
Two camps will bo formed near Paris iu August
and. September, oue on the plain of Savoy, at Ver
and the other on the plain of St. Maur, near
\be wxrh! . f Vincennes.
A ns*- in! s? being struck to commemorate the bap
tisn. of in.- yourg Napoieou. It reprern ot# the Eui
•vror h* kiliu; h # mm aloft to :Le view of the Specta
Tor* iu N re Daw e
Itaii -The Neap* htan Government aurour.oes
Owt Ei giisb siiips shall eqjoy the same privilege as
Neapolitan auu those iu ‘ther nations wno have re-
trvati. s; afe'. that the ten percent extra
*u’y on whea: iu Engii&h ships to France, shall be
.*'o wmed
Go. . Garibaldi, ou leaving the little island «Cup
rvir, wtiieh he h«s purchased, went to the ba’lis of
Voltogi- ■. where the v»urg men oft be place gave him
o srenaJs On thefohowu gdav Garibaldi thanked
tiiein in a K-tter, ot which the allowing u*tht* oon
clc ring »
* Young peo *W* if f e rising generation ! You
are oallcd t.» arcs mp'ich design r.sav ui-
U-sied to th 3 Krext me .-t lulv in ivt-r\- > ,^t! w
uuty of the graat people that produced ti. Achi
ur. cstjn ai;U the Imoiaim. l PrnUb‘ Jts
Ih. Italiau« : .u arvry proiriuoe of ihe peu usnla are
ready V> ra’K - r the gk rieus flag w*n cwr> . rind,
*..r uy pert. gLwi t. at l oau a.d* my tow fe.- lta' v .
1 show gix'e to iu i.m-kii b»* so God. the remeiudi r
oi mj tiV Gcitim GiiiBUDL"
Gskmaft.—There is a mania for ©stublkhiug
Cr\ dit> Mo v iliers, jus? at present, iu Gennany. To
*£cee tn TWnua. FrankWt, Lelpsio.
TV'tau a*: others, of which the Shares are at p e
ruxre ranging from 10 to 90 per cent., there art
iv additions whicn nave /net beeu ir.lrodnced at
± srfia.
Icrkct.—L* iters from ConstaßtmepV say that
llis Ttt? kWi G vertinieat is directing rttent*on to a
rrfami cn ti»e monetary rvsttwt*, and the eeUibiieh
tnsut cf a bank The’outr pnjt-cts li t prx*n)iee
•uccrr»sn» those - ♦ M<-*srs Yv«n 5c C«*
tlttd Ot the Rothsehilds. I. is s<iiu l. t orders hnvt
b* or t>-iv ivsd fixnu Puri# ton di’e the .v. cuati >■:
*M Ta kex by tu.- French trv*>p'«j, s.- tu«t by t:.« I.*wh
* t August tw : a Free- 1. iim. i sh .”. n-ir.niu iu the E in\
Marshal Pehmier Lad h«d fr'endly ;;udiei,« r-»,
L ui br.uk fosudwnh All thv i ighTu k
«a2i lux ctimarie# Moiled the M excepting
Ouia Pacha, who merely ut his c>-mpl'cueuts b>
iu; aide d**-c amp. The d'Cii' U « f the u. w- lire o:
dentalwitioii between and Turkey Seeiuus.l-
with d : fficalti« *. The Treaty says th\t the
tr iitiej- ohn l cniss t.* the p uth of Bk*lgnti! ; but d<K »
U. s menu Old Pelgrad* bJu-xtad five or kegUie
to the north of [»ke Yalpouk, or New Ik--grade, Oii
tb« boakai-f the same lake ? liu>.-:a nit-ieTr- on the
inVCkT vxmd.m* whde tL- T ;ks«"d their ei ica say
vhs? tbs ofbtr meant. It is affiimod the
by tfcsKL-R.au pWxdpotaatiaridi a?
3i# 'ngreks ci( Paris bad caxi> Old mark
atisa*
MtsCKT.r.Avror< Itf.m“.-A shade of anxiety is ex
prersed lest the Hussians should purchase the port
J, 5 Milo from the Greeks, and convert it into another
Hebastcpol. ...
The recent troubles among tbe Mormons in Co
penhagen was on the subject of polygamy. Ono
party objected to the practice, but the large ma
jority upheld Jt. The police were called to de
cide.
Tbe Pope* has contributed funds to complete the
'monument to Tasso, in the church of Bt. Onofriua,
where the great poet lies bnried.
Letters from 8c Petersburg say that there was
much talk in that citv reflecting the approaching
marriage of the Grand Duke Michael, brother ot the
Emperor, with the Cecilia Augm-ta, of
Baaeu. Another subject of conversation i?, the
great magnificence expected to be displayed by
the foreign ambassador- nt tbe Knperors corona
tion.
A Court Martial has been held on tbe matineem
«*f the North Tipperary Militia. Four are sentenced
to death, and two more are handed over for trial by
tbe civil power
Accounts from the Southern Tyrol state that
the gTat>e disease is making great in that
count ry.
A number of arrest- were made in Paris on the
19th, 20th and 21st, of workmen who formed in
groups on Faubourg, St. Antoine, to talk about tbe
affairo of Spain.
Correspondence of the Ifa/timore American.
TIIIKTY-FOI KTU COMdiKSa-ht Swion.
Washsgtof. August 2.—The Senate was not in
session to-day.
HOUSE
Tbe House paae'-d eleven of its own and eix of the
Senate * private bills.
The Iloaoe then went into committee on the For
fication Appropriation bill
After the bill bail been amended, on motion of
Mr. Stanton it was reported to the House with a re
commendation to strike out the enacting clause with
a view to its defeat. This was agreed to—yeas 6b,
The point was raised that the first business now
was to vote on the amendments, but the Speaker
decided that as the only thing reported to the
House was the recommendation to strike out the
enacting clause, the amendments were thus cut off,
and the vote must be on the passage of the original
Mr. Matteson moved that the bill be laid on the
table ; but the motion did not prevail—yeas 66 ;
nays 92.
The bill was then passed. It appropriate a f 1.-
583.300, including $150,000 for Fort Carroll, Mary
land.
The House then went into committee on the bill
mak ng appropriations for the Legislative, Execu
tive, aud Judicial expenses of the Government, for
iiieyeor ending June 30, 1857.
Mr Herbert, of California, made a personal ex
planation in answer to the various charges lately
brought against him from all quarters of the Union
—from the Pacific as well as the Atlantic coast—
impugning Lis character as a man of honor and in
tegrity. Ho far as he wns concerned individually,
he felt a perfect indifference in regard to such char
ges ; hut his duty to the House required hirn to meet
! heiu and brand them as falsehoods. Not one of
ti.4'in could t»e substantiated, he cored not who ns
serted to tbe contrary He bad a character for
which be was unaer obligations to no man living,
i,ii* • which he had made for himself, and which Lc*
believer! would compare favorably with the purest
in the land. These charges were made in Lis own
State by political enemies—by men who had always
been in hostile array against him—and he regarded
them, therefore, rather as compliments than bearing
any disgrace.
Air. 11. then referred to the Evening Star, of this
city, and “8,” tbe correspondent of the New York
Times, us the fountain head of these charges, and
was proceeding to comment upon the character of
both, when the time allowed under the rule of de
bate expired, ai.d he was obi ged to close.
Alter some discussion on several clauses of the
bill, at four o'clock the committee took a recess until j
seven o’clock in the evening, when a number of
political speeches were made. Adjourned.
IN SENATE Aug. 4.
Mr. Wilson offered a resolution, which lies over,
instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to re
port forthwith a resolution authorizing the President
to direct the District Attorney for Kaunas to enter
a nolle proneque on each indictment against Messrs.
Robinson, Smith, Jenkins, John Brown, Williams,
O. W. Brown, and Deitzler, for treason against the
United States.
The debate in the ease of Richard W. Thompson
was resumed from Friday, but the subject was not
disposed of.
The following internal improvement bills were
then debated and passed For continuing certain,
public in the State of Massachusetts; for con
tinuing improvement of the harbor of New
Castle, Delaware ; for continuing the improvement
of the harbor of Erie, Pa.; and for continuing the
improvement of the Mississippi river.
The Senate also passed bills for the improvement
of Rock River Rapids and the Tennessee river.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House passed the bill providing for the ap
pointment of a commission to run the boundary
fine between Washington Territory aud the British
possession, under the Oregon treaty, there being
conflicting claims to valuable islands, owing to the
undetermination of the main channel southerly from
the Gulf of Georgia to the Straits of Fuca.
Mr. Purviance moved a suspension of the rules,
to enable him to introduce a resolution that the Ju
diciary Committee inquire forthwith and report by
whut authority the recent arrests of Messrs. Robin
son, Deitzier, Brown, Smith and others, were made
in Kansas, together with the offences with which
they stand charged, and if they are imprisoned on
the charge of treason for participation in the forma
tion of the Topeka Constitution, to report a bill di
recting a nolle proseque to be entered upon said in
dictments. The Committee to have power to send
for persons and papers. The motion was disagreed
to. Yens 106, nays 74, not two-thirds voting in the
ndirmative.
Mr. Harris, of Maryland, moved that the Commit
tee of the Whole on the State of the Union be dis
charged from the further consideration of the Senate
lull 03, being a bill for the improvement of the Pa
tapsco river, and to render the port of Baltimore
accessible to war steamers of the United States;
(it appropriates £100,000) and that it be put on its
passage.
Mr. Phelps objected, when Mr. Harris moved that
the rules be suspended, which motion was agreed to
—yeas 130, nays 38.
The question recurring on ordering the bill to a
third reading—
Mr. Harris stated that the ease presented many
strong points, which under other circumstances he
would have enlarged upon ; but that, as the House
hud suspended the rules, under circumstances of
uiaiked kindness, he w uld merely sny that the
War and Engineer departments had concurred in
recognizing t he import i nee of the work, and he wou d
commit the bill to the justice and consideration of
the House.
The bill was then passed by acolammation, only
thirteen gentlemeu desiring the yeas and nays.
[This is the only ease, we believe, in which any
such bill has been passed without a vote ol yeas
I and nays ]
Mr. Denver moved a suspension of the rules, in
order that he might report from the select commit-
I tee on the subject, a bill to construct a railroad ami
telegraphic Hue from the Atlantic to the Pacific
! Oceans. The motion was disagreed—yeas 106, nays
j 74—not two-thirds.
Tbo House passed the Senate bill authorizing
! .iny two Judges of the Court of Claims to act as a
I quorum for the transaction of business, and the ap
‘ pointmeut of an assistant solicitor aud an additional
clerk.
' On motion of Mr. ZollioofTer, a resolution was
adopted instructing the committee on military af
fairs to iuquire into the propriety of purchasing live
hundred acres of ground, including the Hermitage,
in Tennessee, to bo used as a branch ot the Military
Academy,
Mr. Grow moved that the rules be suspended
' with a view to take up the homestead bill; but the
motion was disagreed to, not two-thirds voting in its
, favor. .
The House then resolved itself into committee of
! the whole on the state of the Union, and resumed
i the considerations ot the bill making appropriations
for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial ex
penses of the Government, for the year ending June
| 30 1857.
j The House took a recess until 7 o'clock.
I Evening •Session. —Mr. Cullen read an extract
i from the Savannah Republican, purporting to give
j a sketch of the remarks of Mr. Cobb, of Georgia,
f delivered in this State recently, in which Mr. Cul
[ 1 u s name was incidentally introduced. Mr. Cul
) leu wished to know whether Mr. Cobb used the lan
guage quoted.
Mr. Cobb explained,—the position he had taken
■ was that it would be dangerous to throw the elec
-1 tion of President into the House, which would result
* in the choice of Fremont. The Republicans now
1 have thirteen States. If a Republican shall be
elected in the place of Mr. Allen, and one in Mr.
. Trumbull's district, Illinois would be added ; and it
1 Mr. Hall, whose seat is contested, be ousted, and a
; Republican be elected in his stead, lowa would lie
j secured for Fremont. Fifteen States thus certain,
! his election would be dependent on Mr. Cullen, the
] representative for Delaware. He was unwilling to
| trust it there, countering Mr. Cullen’s course in the
i election of Speaker. Was it not Mr. Cullen’s fixed
opinion that he will not, under any circumstances,
vote lor Buchanan •
Mr. Cullen replied that Mr. Cobb lmd no ground
for saying what would be his course in such a con
tingency. lie came here as a National American,
ami against the votes of every Democrat in Dela
ware, excepting half a dozen personal fri* mis. Was
it expected that be would support the Democratic
party, and vote for his enemies ? He fervently
trusted that the election would not be brought into
the House, but if it should he would vote for Mr.
Fillmore first and last. Not for Buchanan, nor Fre
mont. Aud he was satisfied that Mr. Fillmore would
receive a majority of the States.
Mr Cobb said, in his appeal to his constituents
he did not mistake concerning Mr. Cullen’s position,
which was one of danger to the South and favorable
to Mr. Fremont.
Mr. Cullen repeated that it was his duty to vote
for Mr. Fillmore to the last, and if God should per
mit the election to come into the House, he should
fea’lcssly do his duty.
After some further political debate cf no particu
lar interest, the House adjourned.
IS SENATE Angrist 5.
The Senate passed the House bill for measuring
the boundary line between Washington Territory
and the British possessions.
Mr. Seward presented a petition from Charles
Kobinsou and others, now confined in Kansas
on a charge of treason, praying for relief. Re
ferred.
In presenting the petition of Mr. Robinson and
others, Mr Seward said he desired to refer it to the
committee on thejudiciary, and ask their attention
to it at as early a davas possiblh, because the time
ass.gned for the trial was near at hand ; and the
nature of the case was such as to require the most
profound consideration. These trials arise out of a
contest of political opinion between citizens and
parties of the United Stabs, w bich divides the two
Houses of Congress and the departments of the go
vernment, the President being on oue side and the
House of Representatives ou the other. Political
trials are almost unknown in this country'; the em
ployment of the judiciary to setile and establish po
utical principles and politics is a resort that has
never been made with success and with good re
sults to the peace and harmony of society in any five
ovur rv in the world. If you refer a thing—
klr. Weller, (interrupting)—l obitc; to the discus
r'.ou of tiiis question now. It is out of order I
\ e some rej-orts to make, and I know’ other Sera
tors have; and we do not wish the whole of the
morning hour consumed with a discussion of this
question.
Mr. S< ward. I hare but a word or two more to
add. I h<»i>e I shall be allowed to proceed.
Mr. Weller did not prt s the objection.
Mr. Seward said that political conviction and
of attainder, however obtained and how
ever popular when obtained, were always subse
quently rex list'd, and it would be a singular judg
mi rt if this class ttiat should so escape being as
s .ed or reversed several times. This has beeu
»'xpertsr. e in England and also in th.s country .
Af** ’. passing fiuirriver and harbor bills the Ben-
uteo jn^rced.*
| HOUSE.
set apart for the consideration
ot jus * ess reWitt t<. the District of Columbia, the
d n,v
1 • r ' - b; :» v re passed : To enlarge the
au ‘r Vp V the Alexandria C 'w.ai Com
p. iiV. MIO giving t..e &s*kTi . i Congress To the act
i: \ :r,riMa »*.
11 :l * Uj t % lUt "*": v ‘ » the line of
‘’axial f° r iiT ga.i: g au«i tor mauuf.ictur
ngpurp se# lhe Se-ate oiii tor t. ‘promoting
Priu arv tv i w rhout the ciUt *> ot Georgetown
aud M tishington, and gri ing the City Court author
ity to impose taxos tor that purpos* —the question
fi’vt to b«* submitted tv* the |.e«*j.lefor Ibeir approval
Tl eb il iiK*-‘rporaii!-g \ ■ C«‘.'u:n ; la L rary ofCajv
it H The Senate bill f.»r tlie relief of the C«-
imnbia Hartvony tk»c»ety of tin-c-i«.y ot \\ i «’i:rgtv»n.
The S» r ate bill rv» establish a Library for young men
in ti»e Di-trie; of Columbia. The bill to incorporate
tit Washington BrnZi4e (ins ! t ('ompaiir. The
biil autburujig tlie U. S. Ci.cuit Court tor the Dis
like; v.f Coluuibla to decree the >aie ol nal estate iu
v v-r: ala .coses.
The House laid on the table the Senate bill pro
laying (o repeal the act wh en auiLv r.z* > th* erec
tl uof au ar£ucr> in the city cf v uud
parsed ths ftenats bi r l to am end f u© Chart* r t
GsorgeU; u.
Tb« Boos* then tsek a recess til To\ ck.
Eren.np Session. —Mr. Cragin contrasted the
past with our present history to show how far the
government has departed from the doctrine of
Washington and Jefferson on the gTeat principle of
human rights.
Mr. Underwood vindicated slavery as being the
best condition for the blacks of this country, and
justified the repeal of the Missouri restriction on the
ground of its uncoostilutionality. He also defended
the principles of the American party.
Mr. Leiter arraigned the Northern Democracy
for their departure from anti-slavery extension prin
ciples, in which they formerly triumphed. He said
be would try to convict auu sentence them, and
. when November comes they will :• executing
| them. Adjourned
IN SENATE Aug. C.
Nothing important transpired during the morning
hour. -
Mr. Seward introduced a bill for the change ot
revenue in certain criminal causes now depending
in the courts of the United States for the territory of
Kansas. Keforred to the committee on the judic-ia-
Mr. Evans reported back the House bill to pro
vide for the* settlement of the claims of the officers
of the revolutionary army, and of the widows and or
phan children of those who died in the service. The
bill whs discussed uotil tbe expiration ot the morn
ing hour.
lb* Senate proceeded t*» tho-consideration of the
int4-rnal improvement bill*.; and. after debate pass
ed the bill for the improvement m the harbor of
Apaiachieolp, Florida, and the bill for the im
provement of the Illinois and Red rivers, and the har
fiors of Charleston, South Carolina, and Cape Code,
MaasaeiiUH-tts.
The bill for the improvement of Taunton river,
Massachusetts, was rejected. .
The Senate paired uu additional number of simi
lar bills, aud thou adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mi. Orr presented the credentials of Mr.Keitt,
who war* Sworn in.
Mr. Thorington reported a bill granting lands to
Nebraska, Minnesota and Kansas for Railroads.—
Referred to the Committee of the whole of the State
of the Union.
Air. Bennett, of New York, reported a bill grant
ing lands to Mississipppi for railroad purposes.
Passed—yeas 93, nays j'J. The bill grants 1,500,0U0
acres.
The House then went into committee on the le
gislative judicial and executive appropriation bill.
The clause appropriating SBOO,OOO to pay the ex
penses of the Courts of the United States having
been read—
Mr. Grow moved a proviso, that no part of the
money shall be expended for prosecuting or detain
ing any person or persons charged with treason or
any other political offence ‘li Kansas. He desired to
withhold support from the Court in the Territory, in
order that the prosecutions for alleged treason may
terminate.
Mr. Phelps wanted the question to be met in an
open and manly way. The amendment in effect
proposed to shield traitors from deserved punish
; merit.
Mr. Stanton moved to amend by adding, “or any
prosecution which has heretofore been instituted for
political offences.” He wished to express his dis
approbation of an army having beeu employed in
the nefarious work of crushing out the Iree-State
settlers: and to preclude the United States from
paying out even one dollar to filibustering and ma
rauding parties.
Mr. Keitt contended these amendments asked the
House to make itself a judicial body to determine
whether treason has been committed, and decide in
advance of the proper tribunal whether the laws
have been violated.
Mr. Grow’s amendment, together with Mr. Stan
ton’s, was adopted—69 against 57.
All the clauses of the bill having been acted
upon, the committee rose, when Mr. Campbell, of
Ohio, offered a substitute for the bill, omitting
the general provisos, which had been added with
reference to withholding appropriations for the
support of the government iu Kansas, and striking
out tli** sum projiosed to be appropriated for the
Legislative Assembly. lie gave his reasons for tliis
course.
The House then voted on Mr. Dunn’s amendment
“that no pari of the money appropriated to be drawn
from the Treasury till the passage of and the Presi
denrial epproval of the act for the pacification of the
troubles m Kansas, which shall, among others, con
tain provisions for restoring the slavery restriction
to Kansas and Nebraska. This was rejected—yeas
•15, nays 110.
The question on Mr. Grow's amendment to the
appropriation for the Judiciary of Kunsus, that
the money shall not be drawn from the Trea
sury till the criminal prosecutions pending iu the
Territory against persons charged with treason
or alleged violation of laws passed by a body of
men at Shawnee Mission, claiming to be a Le
gislature, shall be dismissed by the Court; and
every person who has been or may be restrained
of liberty by reason of such prosecution be re
leased nrom confinement. Agreed to—yeas 84,
nays 64.
[The amendment of Mr. Sherman, similar to the
above, was previously rejected by a vote of 39
against 111.]
The clause appropriating $20,000 for the expenses
of the Legislative Assembly of Kansas was stricken
out. Yeas 90—nays 58.
An amendment that no part of the money be ex
pended for prosecuting or detaining any person
charged with treason, &t\, was agreed to. Yeas 82—
nays 62. ££
The bill was then passed. Yeas 84—nays 55. Tin*
Dremocratfl, together with the South Americans and
Messrs. Dana and Bennett, of New York, voting in
the negative.
The House here took « recess till 8 o’clock.
Evening Session. —The House proceeded to vote
on the amendments reported to the bill by the com
mittee.
The question was stated, but without coining to a
vote various gentlemen proceeded to express their
views on the political questions of the day.
Adjourned.
IN SENATE August 7.
On motion of Mr. Weller, a resolution was
adopted, calling on the President for any cor
respondence relative to the refusal of Honduras
to receive a commercial ogeut from this Govern
ment.
(hi motion of Mr. Seward, a motion was adopted,
requesting the President to communicateSanv infor
mation he* may have, and his opinion on the expedi
ency of establishing an American Consulate at the
Leuclien Islands.
The Senate took up the Anny Appropriation bill,
the question being on striking out the following
amendment, made to it in the House, namely :
“Provided, that no part of the military force of the
United Stab’s shall be employed to aid in the en
forcement of the adeged laws of the Legislative As
sembly of Kansas, convened at Shawnee Mission,
until Congress shall declare whether the laws are
valid or not, and passed by a Legislature chosen in
eontormitv with the organic law; and until Con
gress shall so act, it shall be the duty of the Presi
dent to use the military force of the United States
to preserve the peace, suppress insurrection, repel
invasion, and protect the persons aud property ot
citizens therein, and on the highway of Missouri
and elsewhere, against unlawful seizure and search;
and that the President disarm the present mi
litia, recall all the United States arms, and pre
vent armed men from going into the Territory to
disturb the public peace, or enforce real or pretend
ed laws.
Mr. Hunter said the amendment was irrelevant,
and if there were no other reason, it should be rejec
ted; but for the House to insert such a proposition,
and to insist upon it, to stop the wheels of Govern
ment, was not only factious but revolutionary.
Mr. Wilson said if the bill should fail to pass, the
responsibility will rest on the Senate, mid not on
the House, which made a thorough examination of
the affairs of Kansasy and ascertained there has
been a violation of the organic laws tramping down
the rights of the people. The House had acted with
patriotism and intelligence.
Mr. Wade maintained that the invaders made un
just and tyrannical laws, to which no citizens ought
to submit. “Pierce, the traitor,” he said, “now sits
in the Executive chair, stimulating the people, as
fast ns he can, to civil wars.” The object of the
House’s amendment was to preventoutrages in Kan
sas, and should meet the approbation ot every pa
triot.
Mr. Thompson, of Ky., contended that the amend
ment should be strickea out.
Mr. Trumbull thought the amendment was just
and proper.
Mr Hunter said that if the bill should be lost by
the persistence of the House to that proposition,
the entire country would be indignant.
Mr. Butler said it was the most unconstitutional
proposition which had ever been adopted. From in
flammatory violence, and unconstitutional modes of
obtaining objects, it was calculated to produce a
crisis which would induce the South to take care of
herself.
Mr. Fessenden favored the amendment. The
House wore willing to make appropriations upon
that to be expended in Kansas. The Senate would
defeat the bill ou accouut of this, on them be the re
sponsibility.
After further debate the Senate struck out the
proviso by a vote of 29 against 9.
Mr. Seward made a long speech against the bill,
and Mr. Stuart replied.
The bill was then passed by a vote of 27 against 8.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House went into committee on the Naval
Appropriation bill.
The Senate bill to carry into effect the act enti
tled “an act to provide for the accommodation of
the United States Courts for the district of Maty
land, and fora Post Office at Baltimore, Maryland,’’
approved the 17th of February, 1855, was referred
to the committee of Ways and Means.
The House considered, in Committee of the Whole
on the State of the Union, and subsequently passed
the Navy appropriation bill, which contains the fol
lowing items : For completing the extension of the
boiler shop, Washington Navy Yard, completing the
conversion of the old ordnance to machine shops,
timber shed, pavements,drains and gutters,grading
and filling, dredging, extension of iron foundry,
machinery, and toois, and for repairs of all kinds.
£221,088 ;* and for completing the repairs of the brass
foundry, destroyed by fire, $5,500; for building and
completing iron shed* for ordnance purposes. $22,-
000; and for erecting improvement, ami repairs of
buildings and groumis. aud the support of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. Maryland, $395,595.
The House then went into committee on the bill
making appropriations for the survey of the coast,
the Light-House establishment, survey of the public
lands, etc.
Mr. Davis, ot Md., offered an amendment, which
was agreed to, appropriating $200,000 for the pur
chase of a site iu the city ot Baltimore for the erec
tion of a building for the accommodation of the Fed
eral Courts.
The House took a recess till 7 o’clock for geueral
political debate.
IN SEN ATE - August 8.
The Senate passed the House bill granting ft mil
lion aud a halt of acres of laud to Mississippi tor
Railroad purposes.
The Senate passed several private bills and final
lv, for want of a quorum, adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Washburne, of Maine, reported a resolution
to pay Ex-Governor Reeder mileage and per diem
to the time his claim to the seat of the Delegate
from Kansas was decided—adopted by 23 majo
ritv.
The House proceeded to the consideration of the
bill making appropriations for certain civil expenses
of the Government (including those for the ligbt
bouse establishment, aud the coast and land surveys'*
for the current fiscal year.
Mr. Goode offered an amendment appropriating
$300,000 for the continuation of the Washington
aqueduct. After debate, it was rejected—yeas 49,
nays 74.
Among the items in the bill are the following:
For continuing the Treasury extension, $400,000 :
for the completion of the buildings, etc., connected
with the Insane Asylum of the District of Colum
bia. $173,003 : for filling up the ravine in Judiciary
Square, $3,000 : for the construction of the new
Franklin engine house, $5,000 ; etc.
After debate, without disposing of the bill, the
House adjourned.
Yale College. —rrom the Triennial Catalogue
of Yale College just published, it appears that the
total number of alumni is 6.497, of whom 3,311 are
deceased, and 3,186 are living. Os this number
1,661, or nearly one in ew?ry four have been minis
ters. 741 of whom are living. In addition to the
alumni ot the college proper. 26 have taken the de
gree- of Bachelor of Scieuoe, 571 of Doctor of Medi
cine, 70 ol Bachelor of Laws, and upon 732 honorary
degrees have been bestowed. The total number of
those who Lave received degrees from the college is
7,890. The largest class ever graduated was that of
1547. which numbered 128; while thai of the preesent
year numbers 93. which is nearer the average uum ber.
About 70 young men have been admitted to the new
Freshman class, and a large number are awaiting
iheir examination at the end of the summer vaca
tion.—Bali. Amer.
Republican Palaces. —lt is said that there are
at least a dozen private residences in New York ei-
Lerected, which cost from sllK 1 ,000 to
v I^o,oo0 'each, rivalling in magnificence the royal
palaces efEurope. and inferior only in point of mag
a* i 6 most dwelling in the citv is re-
P . or !V' sWt $060,008. In a rv«denee
L * n gorgeous style,
SO-1.000 was eipendeS ,n few or five of the apkrt
iSf. R £ • n fi:u d »P«t a cost ofW
$2d,000 to $30,000.
It is reported that two of the crew of the schooner
Star died of yellow-fever while the boat wag lying
at Newark. N. J., and that the oe plain and the mate
are now sick with the same disease
New York Politic**.
A Baltimorean, residing iu Albany, New York, j
thus writes the Baltimore Painot:
New York, Aug. 5,1856.
I did not leave Albany until thin morning. 1 came
direct by the Hudson 'River Railroad route, and
was about four hours in accomplishing the journey
—a distance of one hundred and fifty miles. The
road over which I have come is in good travelling
condition, and I think affords a pretty fair combi
nation of all that is calculated to render the ‘travel
ler secure and comfortable. It was raining copi
ously when I left Albany, and still continues this
i evening.
Since my arrival here 1 have heard considerable
talk iu public places upon the subject of politics. In
I the hotels, where there is always a collection of per
! sous from everv part of the country, there is ueces
! sarily much diversity of opinion, but among the re
! t-identr of the city, and those who spend the largest
I portion of their time here, I find but one sentiment
I and opinion, and that is that Millard Fiiimore ought
! and will be the next President of the United States.
I Mr. Fiiimore ha* evident y a very strong hold upon
j the affections of the people, and I think I can safely
Isay, that, whatever may Dethe result of the elec
tion throughout the State, be will carry this city, at
least, by a large majority.
| The American party polled a very heavy vote
I here at the last State election, and he will not only
get that same v ote, but two thousand of Old Line
conservative Whigs and Democrats, who did not
belong to the party then will give him a hearty and
enthusiastic support in this contest. The signs of
the times clearly indicate this, and if Col Fremont
is not defeated, and the spread of sectionalism and
uisuuiou thus driven back, it will only be because
the conservative, union-loving men of the South
have not done their duty in the campaign by com
batting the enemy under the American standard.—
Mr. Buchanan has declined to rapidly in the estima
tion of the people since his nomination—to ever ral
ly successfully the opposition to the Black Republi
can forces, and the only salvation for the country is
t , be found in a united and determined support of
the American ticket. This is the way in which the
matter is viewed here, and hence the majority of
which 1 have spoken. The Tribune, Times and
Herald, are aii within a stone s throw of the window
at which I write; but depend upon it, the great
majority of the people of ihe city will record their
verdict against the revolutionary and disorganiz
ing doctrine of which they are the acknowledged
expounders.
You have doubtless already seen from the pro
ceedings of the Democracy at Syracuse on Thurs
day last, that the Haras have again been outgener
aled by the Softs. The pretended cordiality and
I unanimity with which the two Conventions came
together and nominated one ticket for State officers,
is all a monstrous humbug, and the hostility between
the two wings of the party is really as great now as
it was wbeu Green ('. Bronson was removed from
the eellectorohip at this port, and thus the contest
between the t*o factions re-opened. The Softs,
like their distinguished leader, John Van Boren,
can swallow almost anything, but the Hards feel
sore upon the result of the Convention, knowing
full well that they have again coalesced w ith the
verv same men w ho defeated them iu IS4S, aud they
are only kept quiet by an apprehension that it may
dampen the zeal of their friends in other sections of
the country. They know very well that Mr. Bu
chanan cannot by any means carry New York, on
account of the unpopularity of their candidates, aud
the Cincinnati platform, but yet they are willing to
| let the Softs pursue their old course, by having
everything their own way, in order to inspire their
friends elsewhere with confidence. Tins is the
game which (not the Democratic masses) the Hurd
and Soft-shell politicians of the Empire State now
seek to play upon the party in other sections of the
Union.
Coimneuceincnt Week.
Everything is bustle, confusion aud merriment
in Athens this week. There is an unusually large
crowd in attendance upon the College exercises.—
We have only time to give the programmes of the
different claeses:
Sophomore Prize Declamation.— Monday
evening. —S. T. Bcasly, Troup co. Ga.: Adams ana
Jefferson — E. Evcretf.
Win. Barron, Clinton, Ga. , Byron— Pollok.
B. B. Fontaine, Columbus, Ga.; Address iu behalf
of the Greeks— Lacey.
A. P. Hodo, Pickens co. Ala.; Rienzis last Ad
dress to the Romans.
Wm. Taylor, Cuthbert Ga.; The Bible— G. F.
Pierce.
G. G. Ragland, Columbus, Ga.; Bernardo del
Curpio— Mm. Hem an » .
J. L. Chandler, Mobile, Ala.; National Monument
to Washington— IVinthrop.
J. Taylor, Cuthbert Ga.: Love of Country—Dar
den.
J. R. North, Newuan, Ga. ; The Hermirage—
Belhw. 9
J. B. Wolfe, Dublin Ga.; Mexican War—//. Clay.
R. W. Adams, Athens Ga.; Tribute to Washing
ton — Prest Harrison.
Wm. Ward, Brazoria co. Texas—Spartacus to
the Roman Envoys.
E. P. Ilill, Marshall, Texas ; Bliss of Matrimony—
Anonymous.
JUNIOR Exhibition. — Tuesday Morning. — A.
D. Burns, D. S., Chattooga co., Ga.—Posthumous
Renown.
J. P. C. Whitehead, P. K. S., Burke co., Ga.—
John M. Berrien.
J. Beasley, D. S., Troup county, Ga—Mission of
Woman.
J. 11. Blount, D. S., Jones co., Ga—Palestine.
K. A. Quarterman, P. K. S., Liberty county, Ga.
—The Nineteenth Century.
S. W. Harris, Wetumpka, Ala.—The Influence of
a Mother’s Tears.
A. P. Parrotte, P. K. S., Hancock co. Ga—Ge
nius : a Rare Endowment.
J. L. Couper, P. K. S., Glynn co., Ga.—Poetry
and Painting.
J. F. Park, P. K. S., (Excused) Greenville, Ga—
Mormouism and the Mormons.
B. MeKinne, D. S., Jackson co., Fla.—Sufferings
of Men of Genius.
The Prize Medals contended for Monday utter
noon by the Sophomores, were awarded to J. L.
Chandler, of Mobile, first ; and S. T. Beasley, of
Troup co., second, by Hon. 11. W. Hilliard, in the
absence of Mr. Lewis, of Hancock, to whom the
duty had been assigned.
Commencement Day.— Wednesday Morning. —
James W. Moore, D. S., (2d honor.) Beaufort, S. C.
—Latin Salutatory.
Frank M. Potts, I). S., (Excused.) Troup county.
—“Biue Jeans Coat and Copperas Pants.”
Edwin D. Newton, P. K.S., Athens—Genius of
Burns.
W. 11. Sims, I). S , Lexington—l count ouly the
hours that are unclouded.”
B. H. Crawford, D. S., (Excused.) Columbus,—
Preston S. Brooks.
J. 11. Wilkins, P. K. S., Jefferson county—Jeru
salem.
Frank M. Green, 1). S., Barnwell Dist., S. C.—
Man’s Mission.
E. J. Hall, D. S., (Excused,) Fairfield Dist,, S. C.,
—“ Otiuin cum dignitate.”
W. H. Mattox, i). S., Elbert county.—Nicaragua.
Lucien S. Wilson, I\ K. S., (4th honor,) LaGrange
—The Utilitarian Spirit of the Age.
W. T. Walton, D.S., (Excused,) Columbia county
—‘-Beauty unadorned adorned the most.”
J. B.S. Davis, 1). S..Newnau —Moral and Intellec
tual Deformities aud Beauties.
James M. Hull, D. S., (3d honor,) Athens—(Ex
cused.)
E.D. Beman, P. K. S., Hancock county,—Signs
of the Times.
W. M. Chase, P. K.S., (Ist honor,) Athens—Vale
dictory to the Trustees. Faculty and Audience.
Jc.hr. Lamar, D. S., (Ist honor,) Macon—Valedic
tory to the Class.
Degrees Conferred. —Southern Banner.
Fillmore in Clicrokce.
A correspondent of the Savannah Republican
writing from Catoosa Spriugs, August 4th, says :
Fillmore is gaining daily up here. I
meeting of our friends in Rome on last Thursday.
We had a very large gathering, 2,500 or 3,000 per
sons present, and I never have witnessed such en
thusiasm as was manifested by our friends then as
sembled. Dr. Miller, Col. Fouche, Mr. Lumpkin (a
son of Jos. 11. Lumpkin.) and A. R. Wright spoke.
In this(Cutoosa)coumy there are large accessions
to our ranks—we are gaining also in Floyd, Chat
tooga, Polk, Paulding, Walker, Gordon and Whit
field. We have lost some votes in Cues, but our
friends say that they will recover them all by the,
first of November. We have cheering news here
fiom Tennessee. The contest there is not now re
garded as doubtful even by the Bogus Democracy ;
nil give it up for Fillmore. In Alabama the recent
accounts are that if we do not carry the State we
will make an exceedingly close race. Push on the
ball in Southern and Eastern Georgia. Some one
should make at once an active canvass for us in the
Ist District. Will no one step forward in the good
work ?
A Bitter Pill. —The Sparta Georgian, nays :
The Democracy are quakeing at the production of
a full version of the Sanford letter in which Mr. Bu
chanan say*, ‘Having urged the adoption’ of the
Missouri Compromise, the inference is irrcsistable
that Congress in my opinion, possesses Ike power to
legislate upon the subject, of slavery in the Terri
tories. And in the next sentence he says “this juic
er must l*e exclusive
A gentleman in this town, taking advantage of
the unterrified , sauntered forth, paper in hand, and
showed it to several leading Democrats. The first
one as if the pill was too large or too bitter, after ex
amining for himself, said, ‘well, I cannot stand that.*
The second one, who went over from the Whigs as
fire enter, pronounced it a forgery. The third one
hemmed and hawed, and looked this way and then
that for an explanation, and finally said, he had no
doubt Mr. James Gardner of the Constitutionalist,
could explain the matter. We hope our confrere
will print the whole of this notable letter, and come
to the help of ids friende, as best he may, for we will
forwarn him in time, that unless he explains it a
wav better than lie did Mr. Ward’s speech, it will
lose Buchanan many a vote in the State.,’
A Serious Accident Caused uya Bad Prac
tice'.—Ou Friday lust near the time of the train
leaving for Augusta, Mr. Joseph Winship of this
city, intending to leave for New York, in attempt
ing to get on the train while in motion, was caught
by the step of the ear, had one leg broken, and was
otherwise badly injured, and escaped, as it were by
acrid nt, being crushed to death.
This accident oeeurred not as the train was leav
ing on its trip, but when starting in pursuance of
that abominable practice in this city of moving and
shifting the trains back and forth just before the re
gular time of leaving. It is an every day thing to
see trains starting and jerking back and forth when
the depot is full of people just before the time of
starting out and as invariable, and as if intended, to
make fun and startle passengers, ten, fifteen or
thirty persons may as often be seen springing and
jumping upon the train, and fcs many boys and
fools shouting and hollowing at the apparent spoil.
It is a wonder that more persons are not hurt, and
killed by this practice than there are.
Now we ask if there i? not seine remedy for this
evil, and some means by which passengers can be
protected from it, and be informed as to the time,
aud proper time, to go aboard of the ears ? Certain
it is on the other large and crowed Kailroads the
danger aud annoyance do no t prevail, aud why
should they prevail here ? — Atlanta Discipline.
Mount Verson.— Mr. Whitney, of New Y’ork.
has introduced into the House of Representatives a
bill providing for the erection of a government arse
nal at Mount Vernon. The object of the bill is to
get that sacred spot into the possession of the Uni
ted States Government. Tue present owner has
committed himself to dispose of the estate to the
Government only, aud for Government purposes.—
To this end the present bill is offered, and will, it is
hoped be successfully carried through. The various
contributions already made throughout the country
for the purpo>e of making the purchase, can be do
nate! to the United States Treasury, to be applied
to this express purpose, and once in possession of
the ground, the public works can be commenced
whenever it is deemed best . Mr. Whitney will press
the passage of the bill this session.— Baltimore
American.
Wreck or a British Bark. —Captain Cham
pion. of the ship Victoria, arrived at New York from
London, reports that on July 13th, latitude 4 T .25,
longitude so, fell in w ith the British baik Rose,
Captain Luxtan. 21 days from Quebec, for Ply
mouth. Eng.; dismasted and waterlogged; took
from her Captain Luxtan, Lis mate and IS seamen,
and brought them to that poit. Captain Luxtan re
ports, on the night of tue sth ultimo, in latitude
4e.3u, longitude 47. struck an iceberg, which stovc
in the Rose’s bow to the foremast, when she filled
immediately. Being loaded with lumber, she did
not sink. They remained nine days on the wreck
before getting any assistance.
A Musical Steamboat. —The N. Y. Express
gives the following account of the new musical in
strument. the ‘‘Calliope A musical steamboat
has been cruising around the harbor for the last two
or three days, under the direction of the “Steam Mu
sic C 0.,” who, with a series of graduated steam
whistles, preteud to provide music on a grand scale
for the million. We were on beard this boat, the
Union, and can only compare the ‘‘music*’ as similar
to that of a wheezing, screeching hand-organ, very
much out of tune, but of course on an immeasurably
larger scale. In music, the performance of the Cal
liope may take rank with the dancing of an ele
phant or a bear in the Terpsichorean art. The ei
foct may be good at a distance—the machine may
become* useful for making signals at sea—but as a
music-maker, near at baud, the least said about it
the better.*'
Caere was one death from yellow-fever in New
Orleans during the week ending the 2d inr
WEEKLY
(£|rimitlt & Sentinel.
AUGUSTA. GA
WEDNESDAY MORNING AIR. 13, IS-56.
NATIONAL CANDIDATES
FOR PRESIDENT,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
Os New York.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
ANDREW J. DONELSON.
Os Tennessee.
ELECTORS for the state at large.
WM. U. CRAWFORD. of Terrell.
BENJ. H. HILL, of Troup
ALTERNATES FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
F. S. BARTOW, of Chatham.
Dr. 11. V. M. MILLER, of Floyd.
ELECTORS FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Ist Dibt.—WM. LAW, of Chatham.
2d Dist.—WM. M. BROWN, of Marion.
3d Dist.—WASHINGTON POE. of Bibb.
4th Dist.—E. Y. HILL, of Troup.
sth Dist.—GEO. W. GORDON, of Whitfield.
oth Diet—C. PEEPLES, of Clark.
7th Dist.—E. H. BAXTER, of Hancock.
Bth Dist.—A. R. WRIGHT, of Jefferson.
ALTERNATES FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Ist Dist.—A. H. IIANSELL. of Thomas.
2d Dist.—RICHARD SIMMS, of Decatur.
3d Dist.—E. G. CABIN ESS, of Monroe.
4th Diet.—B. 11. OVERBY, of Fulton.
sth Dist.—J. R. PARROTT, of Ca s.
oth Dist.—H. P. BELL, of Forsyth.
7th Dist.—JOSIIUA HILL, of Morgan.
Bth Dist.—LAFAYETTE LAMAR, of Lincoln.
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people light. Lay before the voters the truth and
they will vote right.
Campaign Document.
We have just issued a Campaign Document—for
general circulation, designed to enlighten the people
and to expose the gross frauds which are daily being
practiced upon them. We subjoin a table of con
ents :
Fillmore’s Speeches at Albany, &c.
“ Erie Letter.
Vote on Atherton’s Resolutions.
" Letter of Acceptance.
Buchanan’s Fourth of July Oration.
“ Letter of Acceptance.
“ Anti-Slavery Record.
'• Federalism and Frecsoilism.
Letter to Sanford.
“ Filibusterism.
“ Slander of Henry Chy.
Martin Van Buken’s Letter.
Old Line Whigs of Virginia.
Col. Fovche's Letter, together with many other
articles.
ry Price, Three Dollars per Hundred.
Persons wishing copies of this document, mud
send iu their orders immediately, or they may he
disappointed.
Col. Bee ion’s Speech.
To gratify a very general desire, we publish the
speech of the Hon. Thomas H. Benton, made in
St. Louis at the opening of the campaign. It is
among the most remarkable political expositions
which the* present condition of political affairs lias
called forth, and will be eagerly read by all parties.
To the Democrats of the South, it will doubtless be
particularly interesting, as Col. Benton is a zealous
supporter of Buchanan.
.Hr. DouplnNK—Kansu* BUI —Squatter Sove
reignty.
Mr. Buchanan, the Cincinnati Convention and
the Georgia Democracy all endorse the Kansas bill.
We have denounced it, and still denounce it, be
cause of the squatter sovereignty and alien suffrage
features, which we assert, arc as effectual for the
exclusion of slavery from the territories, and more
odious than tin* Wilmot Proviso. Southern Demo
crats, however, deny that it recognizes squatter
sovereignty, (there are a few honest and honorable
exceptions,) while the whole Northern Democracy
claim that as the great paiamount feature of the
bill. General Cass has so declared, aud Governor
Wright, of Indiana, asserted “that the Kansas
Bill teas the best Anti-Slavery statute ever passed
by Congress .” In addition to all this, we have now
the testimony of Stephen A. Douglass, the father
of the bill, the man who framed it, and lie testifies to
he squatter sovereignty feature, fully and clearly.
June 30th, 1856, only one month ago, he made a
report , as chairman of the Committee on Territories,
in relation to Kansas affairs, the first paragraph
which reads thus :
The existing government in the Territory of Kan
sas wa6 organiz'd in pursuance of an act of Con
gress approved May 20, 1851, instituting temporary
governments for the Territories of Kansas and Ne
braska, preliminary to their admission into the
Union on an equjil footing with the original States,
so soon as they should have the requisite population.
The organic law of Kansas is identical with that of
Nebraska in all its provisions and principles. Each
is based on that fundamental principle of self-go
vernment which underlies our whole system of re
publican institutions, ns promulgated in the Decla
ration of Independence, consecrated by the blood of
the revolution, and consolidated and firmly estab
lished by the Constitution of the United States.—
Each recognizes the right of the jx-oplc thereof while,
a territory, to form and regulate their own domestic
institutions tn their own way , subject only to the
Constitution of the United Stales, and to be received
into the Union so soon as they should attain the
requisite number of inhabitants, on an equal foot
ing with the original States in all respects what
ever.”
Render, this is squatter sovereignty in all its hid
eous proportions. This is the language/ of Stephen
A. Douglass, the great friend of the South! He
declares the great principle of the Kansas bill is
squatter sovereignty! The Cincinnati platform, the
Georgia Democracy, and Mr. Buchanan till endorse
the Kansas bill—therefore they all endorse squatter
sovereignty!
Thus much for the position of Mr. Buchanan.
Let us now see Mr. Fillmore’s position. He
stands before the American people pledged to carry
out the great principles of his former administra
tion. Tlie great measure of that administration was
the Compromise of 1850—which, among other
things, provided territorial governments for Utah
and New’ Mexico. These bills not only repudia
ted Squatter Sovereignty and alien suffrage, but
take the true Southern and Constitutional ground—
viz: that slavery enn only be prohibited or es
tablished in a Territory by the Covention which
forms the State Constitution. This is the only
just, equitable and constitutional ground—nay
more, it is the only ground upon w’hich the
South can hope to maintain her rights. And
it is the ground upon which Mli.ard Fill
more stands. Aye, stands like an independent
fearless honest, American patriot, who dares to tell
the freesoilers to their teeth that they are moral
traitors. But this true Southern ground has been
abandoned by the Southern Democracy, and the
odious doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty adopted by
their endorsement of the Kansas bill.
We shall take occasion in a few days to elaborate
these facts, and demonstrate most conclusively and
satisfactorily their truth to the mind of every candid
and honest man. In the mean time, let the people
of the South ponddr upon them as becomes Ameri
can patriots and Southern citizens—let them pause
and contemplate whither the demagogues and trick
sters who control end direct the destinies of the
Democratic party are hurrying the people of the
South. Let them contemplate their position, when
they shall have embraced this odious doctrine of
Squatter Sovereignty, and thus have sealed forever
the fate of slavery in the territories. It is infinitely
worse than the Wilmot Proviso, in all the length
and breadth of its hideous deformity—and every
man who supports Buchanan and endorses the
Kansas bill, endorses Squatter Sovereignty !
Mr. Stephens Endorsing .*. r. Fillmore*
In September, 1848, the Hon. A. H. Stephens,
addressed a meeting of citizens at Griffin, on the
questions of the day. After discussing at consider
able length, the various questions that ugitated the
public mind, during which he told the people that
Gen. Cass’s Squatter Sovereignty 11 was worse, if
any thing than the Wilmot Proi'iso ,** Le endorsed
Mr. Fillmore's soundness on the slavery question
in the following decided and emphatic terms :
“ But it has been said by the suppdMers of Gen.
Ones, that Mr. Fillmore *wras* an abolitionist. He
( Mr. S ) had for himself, examined into the matter,
both from his votes while in Congress, and from
those personally acquainted with him; and he would
assert without the fear of successful contradiction,
that Millard Fillmore was as true a friend to the
South and Southern institutions, as any mail,
Whig or Democrat, north of Mason and Dixon's
line.' The charge against Fillmore, was only
brought up to prevent a full investigation of toe
opinions and position of Gen. Cues.”
We commend this endorsement of Mr. Stephens
to those Buchanan, Squatter Sovereignty organs
who are even now, at this late day, after his model
administration, endeavoring to make the people be
lieve that Millard Fillmore caunot be trusted by
the South. Either Mr. Stephens did not tell the
truth in 1848, or they do not in 1856. That is be
yond dispute—whose veracity is at fault an intelli
gent public will have no difficulty in determining.
We have a great many relics of this sort on hand,
which we will give from time to time. Some of
them, we opine, will make some people blush for
their present positions if they have any sense of
shame left.
A skinnd National Democrat*
West Chester, Avgust I.—The Democratic Con
vention of Delaware county, has re-nominated Hon.
John Hickman for Congress by a near.y unanimous
vote.
“ This John Hickman, says the Columbus Enqui
rer, is the Pennsylvania Democrat ana friend of
Bach&nan, who threw away his vote on the last di- j
vision for Speaker, rather than give it to Aiken; who
voted for the bill to admit Kansas as a free State
under the Topeka constitution . who voted for tne
resolution to expel Brooks: and who carries all Lie
Black Republicanism with him in* o Buchanan
ranks. The “ nearly unanimous ’ nomination of
such a man for re-election does not recommend the
Pennsylvania Democracy very strongly to Southern
confidence.”
We wonder if some of the Buchanan organs can
not deduce from the action of this Democratic Con
vention in Pennsylvania, that Mr. Buchanan is a
first-rate Black Republican—and in favor of admit
ting Kansas as a Free State under the Reeder
constitution. It would be much more legitimate
than their attempt to attack Mr. Fillmore, because
some of his supporters voted for Davis amend
ment.
Death of Mr. F. A. Tuttle.— We regret to
learn that Mr. F. A. Tuttle, the civil engineer, who j
was well known and esteemed in oar city, died last
week in Huntsville, Ala., of hemorrage of the lungs.
Mr. Tuttle was a native of Massachusetts.
The Old Burk on the (loros of a Dilemma.
The pitiful plight to which the unscrupulous body
of men who have taken upon themselves the task of
vamping the condition of the “0/d Buck" is palpa
ble even to themselves. A party of gallant hunters
of the Fillmore corps have ridden the old fellow
down, and :.ow brokth-wi uded, aud with his legs
ready to give way under him, he is caught fast to a
tree planted by a Squatter Sovereign. It is quite
impossible to disentangle him from the difficulty;
his running days are at an end, and the only thing
for his keepers to do is to feast upon his substance.
Casting aside metaphor, it appears from the let
ters of travellers to Wheatland, that the friends of
Mr. Buchanan are already enjoying an otium
sine dignitate at his expense. There is a tavern in
Lancaster where the Democratic candidate often
presides, and with a choice crew around him, very
similar to that described by Goldsmith wdiere
Tony Lumpkin tmokedliis pipe and cracked his
coarse jokes amid the roar of his toadies. Like
Tony Lumpkin, too, the friends of Jas. Buchanan,
are desirous of passing him off as the victim of un
requited love, though his exploits agree badly with
this story, which is now flatly contradicted. For
ney, the quondam follower and toady of Edwin
Forrest and Franklin Pierce is now the chief
guide of the Democratic candidate. Buchanan’s
Anti-FoKNEY frieuds tell him to avoid the vile crea
ture, but he will uot heed them, and continues to
feast aud make merry as though there were no fourth
of November in the back ground.
All this tavernizing, however, is but an outward
show. Draughts of nectar even would not avail to
drown the anguish with which Mr. Buchanan views
his forlorn condition. No enthusiasm cr’. be
aroused iu any quarter at mention of his name
Placemen and politicians huckster about hiir ; but
the people, the great ]>eoplc of the South and of the
North, have not a word to say in his favor. Not one
shout issues from an unbought throat, when Bu
chanan appears. So devoid is his career of any
generous impulses that the party press is reduced to
the expedient of publishing a letter from a young
man Mho had to remind Mr. Buchanan that he had
promised to befriend him when he attained an age
that he could enter upon business, aud by this means
he obtained the loan of a few hundred dollars, for
which Mr. Buchanan declined to receive interest.
This wonderful instance of liberality is all that can
be found in favor of a man who has attained an age
very nearly approaching that allotted us for doing
good on this earth.
He did not take interest from the young man at
the time, but he now allows him to purade this act
before the country, aud thus he hopes to make com
pound iuteivst on the trifling loan. As with every
one of his political movements, it was uot so much
an action as a transaction. His speeches all smack
of the bartering shop. He appears always to have
been saying : “ I shall vote for the South to day and
for the North to-morrow, not because I think it will
be beneficial to the whole country, but because I
believe it will further the cause of James Buchanan,
aud bring him in compound interest.” Intrigue,
treachery and cunning have always been apparent
throughout his life. And this is the man whom the
Cincinnati Convention stumbled upon to cure the
radical evils that had eaten into Democracy and
made it a word ot ill savor to all. Never was there
so unhappy a choice. His antecedents had pro
claimed him to be an unreliable man long before
General Jackson made that discovery, and his con
duct towards Henry Clay, whose reputation he
sullied while living, and on whose grave he still al
lows a stigma to rest proves that as he was false to
friendship so would he be false to his country. What
man, with a patriot’s heart, can record a vote in fa
vor of James Buchanan ?
A Reward.
We are authorised to offer a reward to any mnu
who can find the following paragraph of Buchanan’s
letter to Sanford, published in any Southern De
mocratic journal :
“Any other construct ion of the letter would render
it entirely inconsistent with itself. Having urged
the adoption of the Missouri Compromise, the in
ference is irresistible that Congress, in my opinion,
possesses the power to legislate upon the subject of
slavery in the Territories. What an absurdity
would it then be, if whilst asserting this Sovereign
power in Congress, which power from its nature
must be exclusive, I should in the very same breath
ulso claim this identical power ‘for the population of
a Territory in an unorganized capacity.’ ”
It is a remarkable fact, yet nevertheless ti ne, that
no Buchanan journal, that we have seen, has had
the honesty to publish this paragraph: Why is this ?
They profess to desire to enlighten the people, yet
they publish an important letter from their capdi
date, and leave out the most important paragraph
in it—that one which defined clearly his views as to
the power of Congress over slavery in the Territo
ries. What a commentary upon the truthfulness
and patriotism of the Democratic organs ? Aye %
and lmw completely does it convict them of the pur
pose to deceive the people and betray the great in
terests of the South, to secure the triumph of purty
thus sacrificing w hatever is dear to the South for
the spoils. Great indeed must be “the cohesive
properties of the public plunder,” when it can lead
men, occupying the important and responsible po
sition of journalists, thus to betray their section.
Election by ibe House.
We Lope every reader of this paper will peruse
the proceedings of Congress on Monday, the 4th
inst., and note particularly the passage between
Messrs. Cobh, of Georgia, and Cullen, of Dela
ware.
It will be Been that Mr. Cullen pledgee himseif |
to vote for Mr. Fillmore to the last, should the j
election come before the House. There is, there*
fore, no possible chance for Fremont to get six- i
teen votes, the number necessary to elect him, un
less the Northern Democracy prove traitors to the
Constitution aud the country. And this is what the
Democracy of the South have all along feared.—
Hence their constant prating about the danger of the
election going to the House
In future, therefore, whenever you hear any Bu
chanan mau whining, aud lamenting the danger of
the election going to the House, for fear of the suc
cess of Fremont, tell him that it ean only be ac
complished by Democratic treason, a fact which
every well-informed man knows.
Friends Fa!l ins Out.
It is always matter of regret to see friends of
long standing, between whom there have been for
years the most intimate relations, suddenly sunder
ing all the ties that have bound them together, and
becoming alienated. Yet such scenes are often, too
often witnessed for the well being and harmony ol
society. A late instance has fallen under our ob
servation-one as extraordinary as it is extended
and almost universal. We refer to the Germans
and the Democracy in the free States. Heretofore
they seemed bound together by hooks of steel—
they knew each other only to love and caress. No
words were sufficiently soft to convey their tender
ness aud devotion to each other. “True love never
did run smooth” however, and the Germans and
Democracy of the free States have not proved an
exception ; and the consequence is, that the tender
words of the vote-hunting Democracy have turned
into the most bitter invectives. The Indiana Sen
tinel, in view of the fact that the Germans of the
North-west have repudiated Buchanan, gives vent
to its rage thus :
“We wish that the Dutch were in Holland, and
that Hollanchwas in h—l.”
The Cleveland (o*hio) Plaindealer, another Bu
chanan organ, reproaches them in the following
strain :
These hair-lipped Germans, these Red-Mouthed
Republicans know it, and notwithstanding all this,
they are now ready to lick the hand that was raised
to smite them. Had the Democratic party given
way and fallen in with the Know Nothing move
ment, there would have been passed by this very
Fusion Congress laws virtually driving all such
creatures out of the country, as men dangerous to
liberty and unworthy the rights of American citi
zens. It was from no love for them, traitors ns they
are to every consideration of gratitude aud justice,
that the Democratic party did not so act; but it
was a determination to stand by the principle of
“equal and exact justice to all men of whatever na
tion or creed,” which is the foundation of the Demo
cratic faith, that induced the party to defend a cause
which, with all other foreign-born subjects, protect
ed them.”
No Fusion in Pennsylvania*
The American State Convention of Pennsylvania
met at Harrisburg on the stli instant, when and by
whom the proposition to fuse with the Black Re
publicans was rejected by a vote of 72 nays to 18
yeas.
This will be sad news to the Southern supporters
of Squatter Sovereignty. They bad hoped and cal
culated largely upon this fusion in Pennsylvania,
but even this small prop is now knocked from under
them, and their case seems desperate indeed.
Elections in Alabama. —The elections in Ala
bama on Monday were confined to county officers.
In Pike, the vote was as follows : James Nall,
Dem.. for Sheriff, 1233 ; J. Brooks, Am., 11G1 ; J.
Cade, Dem., for Assessor. 1268 ; Mr. Tyson, Am.,
1106. S. M. Smith, Dem. for Treasurer, 1276 ; Mr.
Jones, Am., 1024.
Election of Circuit Court Clerk in doubt.
In Russell, the election was tor Tax Collector.
Robinson, Dem., is reported to be elected.
In Montgomery county, the only election was for
tax collector. All the precincts beard from but one,
gives Gause, American, 234 majority.
In Macon county, a Tax Collector and County
Commissioners, were to be elected. The average
American majority is over 200. The vote for tax
collector, two precincts to hear from, stands for
Mabson, Am., 806; Brewer, Dera., 652.
In Barbour county John C. McNabe, Dem., was
elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, aud Mr. McCor
mick, Dem., was chosen Tax Collector.
Great Mass Meeting of the Americans in
Guilford, N. C. —The Raleigh Signal describes
the American meeting on Guilford Old Battle
Ground, on Friday, the Ist instant, to have been the
most enthusiastic assembly of the people for many
years. There were about five thousand persons
present The prominent speakers were Hon. John
M. Morehead, Hon. W. A. Graham, aud Hon.
Kenneth Rainer. On Saturday the speaking
was resumed when Hon. Nathaniel Botden, j
Gen. Jno. A. Young, Geo. Davis, Esq., of Wilming- i
ton, addressed the people. The meeting adjourned !
with three cheers for John A. Gilmer, and six j
cheers for Fillmore and Donelson.
A Furore Movement in Massachusetts.— A
Fillmore State Convention will be held in Boston i
on the 20th of August, for the purpose of nomina.
ting Electors and a Fillmore ticket for State Offi
cers. The Boston Courier copies the call, and
says :
The above call comprehends all the men who are
in favor of the election of Millard Fillmore as Pre
sident of the United States, and it should be re
sponded to by men outside of “the order,” as well
aa Uj those within it. In New York, u very large
portion of the most respectable merchants, clerks,
mechanics, manufacturers, ship-owners and shin
buildere, have declared their preference for Mr.
Fillmore as a candidate for President, and Boston
should do the same thing without regard to conse
quences.
Sir. Heard, the young English gentleman of for
tune who married Lola Monte* shortly after her
separation from the Bang of Bavaria, died at Folk
•tone, Eng., la*t month, of cousumpttoa.
The Insurrection in Spain.
The fall of the liberal government of Espartero
in Spain, is one of the moat important even's of the
day. During the two years that this distinguished
Spaniard has been at the head of the government,
he has constantly been harassed by the plots of tho
various factions, headed by the Queen Christina and
Narvaez. The people respect Espartero more
than any ruler they have had, but he has apparent
ly become weary of combatting the miserable feuds
in the palace, the cabinet and the church, as well as
on the frontiers, aud has retired from public life.
This event had long been anticipated, and it had
doubtless been pre-arranged that it should be imme
diately followed by revolution. The personal un
popularity of the Queen, the arbitrary character of
her new Minister, Marshal O’Donsell, and the
prospect of the country once more falling into dcs
potism, were causes alone sufficient to induce the
people to rise in arms, and there is reason to believe
that the emissaries of the Queen Mother were ac
tively engaged to foment discord in order to lead
the way to her return from exile.
In Madrid the fighting commenced on the morn
ing of the 15th July, aud continued Yvith extreme
violence until the evening of the following day, when
the National Guards and the people having b«H?n
beaten at every point, surrendered their arms to
the soldiers. The loss of life is computed at nearly
one thousand, and it is said there has been no insur
rectionary fight to equal this in severity since the
revolution in Paris iu June, 1848. In Arragonthe
iusnrgents were still uncouquered at latest acOJUnta,
but the prospects are that victory would soon desert
them. The fact that Louis Napoleon had sent an
army of observation to the frontiers, would be alone
sufficient to cause ruin to the liberals, as he is
doubtless as prepared to crush liberty now as he
was when in 134'J he dispatched an army io Koine.
Marshal O’Donnell, will, iu all probability, be
enabled to hold his position for a time, but his
knowu incompetency as a minister will poorly com
pensate for his vigor as a General, and his position
will soon become precarious. Queeu Isabel would
willingly abdicate the throne ; indeed it was only
through the control that Espartero possessed over
her that she has consented to remain a sovereign
thus long. The people would gladly exchange
her rule for that of her cousin, Count de Montk
molin, who, according to the ancient laws of the
country, which prohibited a woman from wearing
the crown, is the rightful monarch. The rule of a
Queen in Spain, as well as in Portugal, has cer
tainly been a complete failure, and a change
could hardly be for the worse. It is thought by
some politicians, that Louis Napoleon, in imita
tion of his uncle, has designs on Spain for some
member of his family, and this seems not at all
improbable. A Spanish monarch completely under
the sway of the French Emperor would add greatly
to the power of Napoleonism.
But the most important sign connected with the
Spanish insurrection, is the eagerness with which
the people rush to arms to fight ngaii st despotism.
Nothing daunted by the mauy terrible reverses,
they have sustained during the past eight years,
they are still impatient to bring the contest to an is'
sue. The people of France and Italy also appear
ripe for revolt, aud it is chiefly on the stability of the
French throne that their folium's depend. If Lours
Napoleon’s gambling speculations can succeed for
another year or two, the general rising of the people
may be delayed, but one false step on liis part will
plunge him into the volcano. It is possible that the
people would be no wiser than iu former times,
though there would be little chance of their weak
ness inclining henceforth to mercy’s side. The des
potisms of the church aud the throne arc, however,
still combined to crush tho people, and the contest
would be sanguinary and desperate before victory
could dawn on the friends of liberty.
BurKlnry—BlOOO Reward.
“The ‘Cincinnati Platform' was broken into a few
days since at Washington. The entrance was es
fected through the internal improvement door, by
tearing off the Presidents Veto. It is suspected
that thejobjeet of the burglars was to injure Bu
chanan, who had been lost in it since his nomina
tion for the I*residency. It is believed that Messrs.
Slidell aud Cjiss were engaged in this transaction,
and that they had the sympathy of‘Old Buck,’
which accounts for his receiving no injury. The
above reward will be paid by the sorrowing build
ers of the platform, provided evidence for eonvie
tiou can be obtained. All the office seekers are ex
pected to be on the alert;”
The New Orleans Creole i* responsible for the
above. As the people doubtless feel some desire to
ascertain the extent of the damage sustained by the
public treasury, in violation of the good order, peace
and dignity of the Cincinnati Platform, we subjoin
the following statement condensed from the Nation
al Intelligencer .
The Intelligencer presents a tabular list of seventy
eight internal improvement bills, all originated in
the Senate, and all of which, w ith the exception of
three, have passed that body. The most important
of these bills have already become laws by a vote
of two-thirds in each house. The amount of nppio
priation required to meet the expense of this sys
tem of internal improvements is as follows :
Total amount appropriated in bills originating
in the Senate $3,136,333
To which add amount appropriated in House
bill for improvement of Des Moines Rapids,
Upper Mississippi, which bill lias passed
both Houses 200,000
$3,330,333
From which may be deducted the sum pro
posed to be appropriated in the bills laid on
the table or rejected by the Senate 240,000
Total amount appropriated by bill* that have
passed the Senate $3,096,333
All these appiopriations have passed a Democrat
ic Senate by a vole of about two to one —aud in the
1 louse a majority of the Democrats voted in favor
of the passage of the most important of them over
the President’s veto. So much for Democratic pro
fessions and platforms.
The Intelligencer states that “ most of the objects
for which appropriations have been voted were in
cluded in the general bill which met the Presidential
veto at the last Congress, and the friends of the re
spective measures were consequently compelled to
present each item in a separate bill, to be tested up
on its own merits.”
The Savannah Republican notices the passage of
these bills by the Senate, and appends the following
comments :
“Thus goes the peon le’s money, aud ou schemes
that have been declared profligate and unconstitu
tional by the Democracy from the foundation of
the government. It is a harvest of votes as well as
of money, and bunco we see Democracy “pitch in”
m manse, not only without scruple, but they really
have the impudence to try and defend it. There is
but one exception to this that we have seen, and
that is in the ease of Senator Douglas. He voted for
ail of them and acknowledges the infamy! He
denounces the whole system as unconstitutional,
worthless, and extravagant, and yet he boldly
marches forward and gives his vote to every bill that
is offered. This is Democracy. Indeed, it seems
that Mr. Toombs, an old Whig, and Mr. Butler, a
sort of outside Democrat, aud a few others, are the
only opponents of this system of plunder that has
illustrated the Senate at its present session. Wo
commend the fact as a faithful exhibition of Dem
ocratic promises aud Democratic perfomances.”
Kentucky Flection.
We have already alluded to the fact, that the late
election in Kentucky was no evidence of the politi
cal cast of thejState, because in many counties, par
ty lines were not drawn. The subjoined evidence
is very conclusive on that point. The first is an ex
tract 'rom a letter to the Editors of the Columbus
Enquirer, written three days before the election by
“ a gentleman in Kentucky, whose position gives
him the best facilities of ascertaining the popular
sentiment of that State.” The letter is dated Paris,
Ky., August Ist, 1856 :
! “The best feeling exists in Kentucky in regard to
Mr. Fillmore’s prospects, not only iu the State, but
in the Union. The canvass here is progressing with
unusual activity and ardor. The elections on Mon
day will be only a partial test of strength, as it is
only in part of the counties and judicial districts
that the lines are drawn.’
The next is from the Louisville Courier , a Bu
chanan organ, published the morning after the elec
tion. That p iper said:
The election of yesterday, afforded no criterion
of the strength of parties, nor of the popularity of
Presidential candidates and principles. These were
secondary considerations to the personal popularity
of gentlemen who had offered for the various offices.
These facts show how rnucu cause the Democrats
have for exultation. They are evidently “ thankful
for very small favors.”
Pennsylvania American Convention.
Harrisburg, August B.—The State Convention
of the friends of Fillmore and Donelson, assem
bled at the Hall ofthe House of Representatives this
morning, and the Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Fay
ette was chosen President He made a happy ad
dress on taking the Chair, aud congratulated the
delegates upon the prospect* of the success of their
cause.
A full electoral ticket was chosen, Joseph R. In
gersol and Andrew Stewart heading the ticket as
Senatorial electors.
A proposition had been made to form a fusion tick
et, but it met with much opposition, although Mr.
Edie and others urged a postponement of the ques
tion, the vote was taken and it was rejected—yeas
72, nays 18.
In consequence of this decision, it is probable that
a Fremont county ticket for Congress and the Le’
gislature will now be formed.
The following is the electoral ticket elected:
SENATORIAL.
Hon. Andrew Stewart, Hon. Joseph R. logersoU
REPRESENTATIVES.
1. A.C. Flommerfelt, 14. To be filled.
2. Henry White, 15. Geo. W. Youngman.
3. Joe. J. liiley, Jr., 16. Josiah V. Hoshour,
4. Henry D. Moore, 17. D- S. Duffield,
5. Daniel O. Hitner, 18. George W. Patton.
6. Isaac Newton, 19. Joseph H. Kuhns,
7. Caleb N. Taylor, 20. John H. Wells,
8. John C Myers, 21. Wm. A. W'right,
0. Samuel Keneagy, 22. Henry Phillips,
10. Henry W. Snyder, 23. John M. D. Nesbit,
11. Kimber Cleaver, 24. Jas. N. Hethrington,
12. Robert F. Clew, 25. James Webster.
13. Samuel Yorke,
The vacancy in the Fourteenth district is to be
supplied by the Central Committee appointed by
the Convention.
Death of Hon. Edward Curtis.— This gentle
man well known as a leading politician and lawyer
died in New York on the 2d inst. He was a native
of Vermont, but removed to New York about thir
ty years since. He was elected to Congress
in 1836, and again in 1833, and from his position
as the representative of the commercial metro
polis, was made chairman of the Committee of
Commerce. He was afterwards appointed by
General Harrison Collector of New York, which
position he occupied for nearly four years, when he
was removed by President Tyler, to make room
for Governor Van Ness. Mr. Curtis eqjoyed for
a long time the confidence of Mr. Webster, who
was supposed generally to be in a measure under his
influence in reference to his political course. After
Mr. Webster died Mr. Curtis retired from active
life, and soon after was stricken by an affliction
which by depriving him of his reason, had made his
life use- lees to himself and his friends.
Mr. John Kyle, of the Arm of Kyxx, Everett
6l Co., one of the meet prominent dry-goods mer
chants of Columbus, died on the 4th tnst.. after an
illness of a fsw him
The nt their Work.
The most unblushing instance of effrontery we
have met with, its the publication, by the Democrat
ic press, of a garbled statement of a few actions in
the public career of the American candidate, which
is styled “Fillmore's Complete Record.” The
Erie letter and a few rotes in Congress are the sub
stance of the charges made against the illustrious
statesman previous to his accession to the Presiden
tial chair, and during the golden days when the
country was blessed by his enlightened role, but one
trifling complaint can the “complete record” bring
against him, and this, in spite of the dexterous man
ner in which it is dressed up, proves nothing deroga
tory to his character. The charge is, that Colonel
John Ml nkof, an officer of the United States Army
stationed in New Mexico, issued a proclamation du
ring the life time of President Taylor, directing
the qualified electors of the Territory to assemble
on a certain day, to vote for the delegates to a con
vention to be held at Santa Fe, for the purpose of
forming a State Constitution.
This Convention the Democracy designate as a
bogus Convention, and rail mightily at it; but the
point they seek to make against Mr. Fillmore is,
that after the death of General Taylor it devolved
upon him to reply to a remoustrance of Governor
Dell, of Texas, which had been addressed to the
General. Mr. Webster, as Secretary of State,
wrote, “The President (Mr. Fillmore) feels bound
to approve the conduct of CoL Monroe, in issuing
the proclamation.” In this reply Mr. Webster
conclusively proved that Col. Munrok’s proclama
tion had been made in direct obedience to on order
given him by the Secretary of War, under the au
thority of Gen. Taylor. Now, because tire procla
mation had become unpopular, the Democracy in
sinuate that Mr. Fillmore should have censured
Col. Mu nrob, a military officer, for having implicit
ly obeyed the orders es the Secretary of War. Is
disobedience in the army henceforth to be a virtue
with the shameless Democracy, that they dare to
censure Mr. Fillmore for the straightforward and
honorable course he followed ?
On this miserable foundation the cohesive De
mocracy proceed to lay down the rule that Millard
Fillmore, whose administration even the renegade
sou of Henry Clay is forced to admit was “ one
of the most successful and satisfactory sine*' the
days of Washington” is not fit to be trusted with
the reins of office at this momentous crisis. Be
cause he approved of an officer having tultiiled his
duty iiis Presidential career is to be blotted out from
the bright-pages of American history, aud James
Buchanan, the dexterous charlatan, whose whole
life has been a pitiful apology for manliness, whose
shillings have nearly equalled the wseatbercook s,
and whose complete record” declares him to be
an ill-disguised enemy to Southern institutions is to
be thrust down our throats. It is ludicrous to see the
spoilsmen so devoid of eyen ordinary Democratic
decency as to seek to vilify Millard Fillmore’s
Presidential record without the shadow of a charge
to bring against him. One trifling matter in con
nection with their “complete record” and their
commentary on the country’s dangers is not unwor
thy of notice. They, throughout, keep poor old Mr.
Buchanan prudently in the background, but not
more completely so than will the nation in Novem
ber, when it shall vote for a man worthy to be con
fided with the destinies of America.
Fillmore in New York.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail the follow
ing extract from a letter, written to a Democrat of
that city. The Mail adds : The writer is alho a
Democrat —an intelligent and conservative one, too.
Let the Southern friends of Fillmore read it and
continue to go ahead:
Syracuse, (N. Y ) July 28,1806.
“Well, how is Miss “Polly Ticks” away down
South ? Do you ever hear of Kansas, and “negro
worshippers,” &c.? Fremont, the sectional can
didate, is supported by the Seward Whigs and Rad
ical Democrats. When first nominated, Fremont
stock was high. But he is going down every day.
The exodus of the Radical Democracy of the George
Rathbun school into the Fremont ranks, places the
Democracy of the Empire State third on the list, be
yond all question. Old Buck has no chance for
New York. He is gone, hi this State, beyond tin*
hope of redemption. But we expect to carry New
York for Fillmore upon National grounds, ami as a
National man against a sectional party. Since he
arrived home, the excitement has run high for him,
and National men are coming to his standard by
hundreds. Mark it. Fillmore will carry New York.
New Jersey, Rhode Island, and. it is confidently be
lieved, Ohio. How think you ho stands at the
South ? National men at the North, or at least in
this State, are deserting “old Buck” for Fillmore,
because he stands the best chance tor success. Let
me henr from you as regards the South. lam down
on “negro worshippers,” and am ready to do oil in
my power to defeat them. lam for Fillmore first,
and Old Buck second. Anything but the “Woolly
Hoi Be.” * * * *
Your friend, J- W. S.
After reading the foregoing, says tlie Mail, every
Fillmore Club and every Fillmore man should re
double their energy. It is, us we have said, the let
ter of a New York Hard Democrat to his Democrat
ic friend, (a New Yorker by birth,) in this city, who
in a spirit of fairness, and because it is riftht that the
South should know whose chance asre best at the
North , allows us to make the quotation above. The
names of the parties can bo learned on application at
the Mail office.
Democracy Illustrated.
“ A few years ago the entire Democratic press
ai.d party of the South were lauding Millard Fill
more ns a lofty patriot, and as having made a con
servative, national President. At the same time
they were denouncing Martin Van Buren as a
traitor and Abolitionist. Now, however, to subserve
a party purpose, they have turned right round and
tell us that Fillmore is as big a traitor and abolition
ist as ever was Martin Van Buren!—that in fact,
Van Huron has a better record than Hllmore!—
and, to cap the climax, some of them go so far as to
claim that Van Buren is the patriot now, and Fill
more the traitor! Was ever such mendacity heard
of before ? Can old line Whigs and conservative
Democrats, stand by and quietly look on when such
infamous injustice is perpetrated in the face of high
Heaven?”
Then, Martin was making w&r against the Dem
ocratic nomination ; hence their denunciations. —
, Now, they have constructed a platform upon which
he takes his position, as he declares, without uny
change of his Freesoil, Buffalo platform doctrines
and they cordially welcome and embrace him! Such
is Southern Democracy. In 1850 and ’sl they
Hwore most lustily that, “ there was not a sound man
North of Mason Sc Dixon’s line”—now they are
shoulder to shoulder with Martin Van Buren In
support of the Cincinnati platform, and Martin
says, he has not changed!
The Keutueky Elections.
Knowing how much the drooping spirits of the
Buchananitks have been elevated by the reports
of the recent election for county and district officers
in Kentucky, we feel that it would be unkind to ar
rest or mar their exultation. We, however, have a
duty to perform to the public, who have a right to
be correctly informed, which we must discharge,
however it may cut short the enjoyment of the Bu-
CHANANITKS.
The following private despatch from a gentleman
of high character in Louisville to his friend iu Nash
ville, written two days after the election, shows how
little ground the Buchananites have for exulta
tion:
Louisville, Aug. 6, 1856.
There has been a test vote of party strength in
very few counties in Kentucky.
In most of the Judicial districts the American
party declined to make any nomination.
In several of them there were two independent
Whig candinates who were voted for indiscriminate
ly by both parties. In this city (the nearest
approximation to a test vote) was between the
candidates for City Marshal, American majority
2133.
Throughout the State the vote is so rut up among
independent candidates as to afford no indication of
the strength of parties.
We have heard nothing to abate our confidence
in getting a larger majority for Fillmore than wus
given to Morehead.
The Louisville Journal confirms the statement
substantially in the following paragraph, which con
cludes its notice of the election:
“In all the districts heard from ickerever a party
context kax been made , there have been large guina
for the American ticket. Iu many portions of the
State there was no party contest. We con give
every assurance to our friends throughout the whole
Union that Kentucky is all right for Fillmore and
Donelson.”
C an’t Ntnml the Squatter Sovereign.
The* New Orleans Delta , for many years the most
influential organ of the Democracy is Louisiana,
says:
“The Delta has not declared any intention of for
mally opposing Mr. Buchanan, though it is per
fectly true, that his notions of Squatter Sovereignty
are not relished by its editors anvmoie than by
threefour thx ofthe ear next and intelligent patriotx
of the. South. We cannot be reconciled on the
mere ipse dixit of any man, even though he happen
to be the choice of tne Cincinnati Convention, to a
system which John C. Calhonn declared to be the
most odiiw form of despotism on earth.”
Fillmore in Georgia. —A correspondent of the
Savauuah Republican , writing from Indian Springs,
August 3d, says:
I find the friends of Fillmore very enthusias
tic in regard to his carrying the State. There
will certainly be large gams all through Middle
Georgia, over the vote Andrews received for Go
vernor.
Another, writing from Laurens county, under
date July 31, remarks.
As to politics here, I need say but little. We are
all of one opinion, viz: that Fillmore is the man.—
And you know that old Laurens has always been top
up. She is still so. Fillmore men are numerous
here. Some districts iu this county will go entirely
for America’s sons.
Buchanan finds no sympathy in these diggings.
Out of 101 voters iu the 52d district, there arc only
two Buchanan men, and God send these poor delu
ded “Jimmy Boys” political light, to teach them
common sense, before the first Tuesday in Novem
ber next, for we cannot swallow Squatter Sovereign
ty without sacrificing the South.
Oar own correspondence from various sections of
the State give most cheering accounts of the pro
gress of tie good cause.
Buchanan Enthusiasm*
The Democracy of Upson county have recently
made a terrible demonstration in favor of Bu
i cha nan, we learn. After considerable effort to get
up a large meeting, and excite a little enthusiasm
for the Squatter Sovereignty candidate, they intro
duced the speaker, Iverson L. Harris, for whom
they sent all the way to MillegeviUe, to the euor
mouß mass meeting of seventy-two persons ' all
told, Americans included, some of whom at ten c e
in sheer curiosity and charity. The fact “» eVb
day becoming more and more appareu , a
Squatter Sovereignty candidate will «** *»
Georgia. ,
~ „ TTrnrr tr —The Charleston Mer-
A Hopley. lately -tranded on the co«t o
for the following extract from a letter
them, dated- llu , tKfOoh , July 22, 1856.
, . „„f»vorable last week for eav
‘Ohe weather wa« unfa ()ne , mall veeael bIU(
ing good* fr° m ,h f “ the way to thia port with her
been loaded, andi« on damaged. The
andV. sear 7 the tAnt will be
total Oapt Motony remain* at the
tfca Agent of thm Und ar writ ar* aep.t
this
English nmt American Manner**
Professor Mahan, the gentleman from Weal
Point Academy, who was lately refused admittance
to Queen Victoria’s levee, because ho presented
himself in a black stock, has written a long letter to
the London Star , describing the mauueie of Et g
lishtnen, and censuring them for the small respect
they show to ladies on divers occasions. Tlie Pro
feasor instances the churlish conduct of Englishmen
at church and at the opera, where he Ims seen lmlt s
who happen to arrive late, compelled to wait for soma
time for seats, while they themselves were c uufor
tably ©sconced in chairs or pews. This aris'-s, we
fancy, often from the exclusiveness which the Eng
lish are taught, rather than from a want of proper
feeling. A pew is rented exclusively by an English
family for the use of its members and friends, and a
pew-opener is generally engaged for the purpose of
supplying strang. rs with s.-ats. At the theatre, in
niue cases out of ten, seats me freely proffered to
ladies, though it is never demanded by them as a
light. Our habit of surrendering a seat nt once to a
Indy seems far more courteous, we will admit, but
the credit we take to ourselves for these ucts of
ceremony is often more than is due. The majority
of us are creatures of an arbitrary rule, and wlint
we do arises rather from force* of habit than from
any innate politeness.
The Frenchman, who is all civility to ladies in
fair weather, will in a storm thrust them from the
pavement and suffer them to endure any discom
fort provided he can a moincn: sooner reach a piece
of shelter. This exhibits the difference between
forms aud ceremonies aud trua politeness. We, iu
carrying out the rule of giving place to Indies obey
a very good custom, but probably in doing so we
never call forth the true spirit of courtesy. Tims
Professor Mahan would surrender his place at
church or at the opens because it had been u habit
with those around him ; but in visiting the Queen,
he would n« t go to the trouble of donning si ch at •
tire as court usage required, and would be cureless
about wounding her ear by brawling in her ante
chamber. The distinction between custom a.id cour
tesy was never more appareut.
Ladies ore of gentler natures than ourselves, and
demand our solicitude. The true object to ntiaiu is
that each sex shall become more companionable.
To us it has appeared a thousand times u direct in
sult offered to woman, to fiud the intelligent con
versation passing between gentlemen, suddenly
cense on her entrance, and small talk, scarcely
adapted for children of five years, immediately suc
ceed. No wonder we see listless ladies in rocking
chairs, and henr complaints of weariness constantly
falling from their lips. We readily give them the
easiest chair and the hardest lot. Sympathy is do
med while ceremony is accorded. The lot of wo
man in Europe is often very sad, but we question if
America can yet offer herself as a model to tbs
world in this respect.
Mr. Fillmore in Moiiticonicry, Jin.
The Editor of the Columbus Enquirer, says :
“We heard Mr. Fillmore say at Montgomery,
Ala., in 1854, that the night succeeding the death of
Gen. Taylor, when he found that he was called to
assume the Presidency, was ‘the only night of his
life that he lmd ever passed without sleep”—that ha
spent the most of it in prayer forabil t v and strength
to uphold and defend the constitution of hiu country,
and that he inwardly resolved, on that occasion, to
throw away prejudice and sectional feeling, and to
act as became tlie conscientious ruler of a great na
tion. Wo regret that wo have been disappointed
in our efforts to obtain a sketch of this entire
speech ; but the following extract from it, which we
have at hand, attests the patriotism of his resolution
ou that memorable night :
“During its troubles and anxieties, I inwardly re
solved to cast far from me any prcjudiecs that l
might have entertained against any section or party
in the confederacy, and to be guided only bv the
Constitution of mv country. That I lmd cnt<-rtnuu d
prejudices against an institution of the South, 1 do
not deny ; but my new pnudion ah guardian ot th*
rights of the whole Union, immediately following a
period during which 1 lmd sat ns presiding office r
of the Senate, and heard tlie question of slavery iully
discussed by the ablest deliberative body of the
world, formed a proper occasion to review and cor
rect my education, and I did so without cousuituig
a single individual, but solely with «n eye to the
Constitution aud the laws of the land.”
The policy and measures of his succeeding Admin
istration prove how truly and how well he kept th •#
patriotic vows. And now, continues the Enq i>er,
we are willing to throw the inward resolve of t<iat
night and the. acts of Mr. Fillmore's ndmini-ria
tion into the scale against all errors of his former
course. We arc willing that his enemh s may east
into the opposite acule all such gossameiy materiel
ns votes for the reception of obnoxious pi titiors, er
roneous curly sentiments aud prejudices, uutil their
entire stock is exhausted; and we will fearlessly ap
peal to the American people, whose great heart cun
appreciate true honesty, patriotism, mid moral
courage, to say whether there is another statesman
in this broad land who has given such signal and in
disputable proofs of official integrity, iuconuptible
patriotism, and reliable honesty aud fidelity, as Mil
lard Fillmore.
Fillmore Meeting in Rume.—The Knme Cou
rier contains u fltirring Recount of a Fillmore
meeting in that place on the ‘list of July. Although
only ten clays* notice had been given, the Courier
says, there were nearly or quite two thousand men
in Rome on the day above mentioned, and almost
all of them either enthusiastic Fillmore men, or,
being old Democrats, were anxiously enquiring
“what must we do V So far as we have heard, all
agree that it was the largest and most enthusiastic
political meeting ever held iu the county. Speech
es were made by Ilillyer Lumpkin, Esq., of A i hens,
Colouel A. R. Wright of Jetferson county, Dr. 11. V.
M. Miller and Colonel S. Fouehe of this county.-
The speeches were all listened to with much
anxiety on the part of the large and intelligent au
dience, and frequently interrupted by enthusias
tic applause. Much good seed was sown on that
day, and we trust that a largo portion fell on “good
ground.”
An excellent “barbecue” was served iy> on the
occasion, and everything passed off harmoniously
and happily.
Messrs. Pratt and Pearce —The Effect.—
The Baltimore American says :—The let tel's of
Senators Pearce aud Pratt,instead of causing a
depression of Whig enthusiasm for Mr. Fillmore.
appears to have the very coutrury effect so far ns
our observation extends. They; is now a general
desire apparent among the Whigs of Maryland to
show to the world that they are not in lending
strings, but act from their own honest and indepen
dent convictions. Their determination to give the
electoral vote of Maryland to the “ModelPresident’'
is now as eager and earnest, as it was wheu they
rallied to do honor to llesry Clay, the appeals of
Messrs. Pearce and Pratt to the contrary not
withstanding. The desire before these letters ap
peared was to carry the State for Mr. Fillmore—
the determination now is to give him a majority ex
ceeding tlmtgiven to Mr. Clay.
The Board of Health in New York against
Publicity.—The Resident Physician at Quaiuu
tine, New York, sent in Bin report to the Commis
sioners of Emigration on Wednesday iu reference
to the number of cases of yellow fever that huve uo*
curred at that place since the 18th of Ju.-e last,
when the disease tirst appeared. The Com misi'h di
el's were desirous of publishing it, but were pre
vented from doing so by a resolution passed by the
Board of Health requesting them to keep matters
secret as y’ fct - This policy the Commissioners
agreed to adopt, although they condemn it, and ar
gue that it will create more apprehension than it
will allay.
Elections.—North Carolina voted yesterday
(Thursday; for Governor and members of the Le
gislature. On Monday the 4th inst. elections w-ro
held in Kentucky, for several judicial and county
officers ; in lowa, for members of Congress and of
the Legislature ; Missouri, for Governor, members
of Congress, and of the Legislature ; Arkunsas, for
Governor, members of Congress, and Legis
lature ; and in Texas, for members of the Legisla
ture.
Burning of ahe Steamer St.Johns.—Three
negroes are on trial at Jacksonville, Fla., chraued
with having set fire to the stdtuner St. Johns. The
evidence against them is very strong, one of tbo
witnesses swearing he heard the negroes plotting to
gether how they should accomplish the deed. The
stewardess is also complicated in the mutter. The
burnt steamer is being ruised, and will "oe towetl to
Savannah for repairs. _
Victory in Mississippi.—We learn from the
'Jackson Flag, that Evans, the American candidate
of the Bth Judiciul District of Mississippi, has been
elected by a majoiity of twenty three votes. It
had been reported that Hancock, the Democrat,
was elected, but the contrary appears to be the case.
Last year this district gave the Democrats 1000
majority.
The Republicans.—The Cecil, Md , Democrat
states that the Republicans have determined to run
an electoral ticket in Maryland, and that Fransis P.
Blair is to be one of the electors at large. There
will bo tickets for this party in at least three of the
Southern States, viz : Maryland, Kentucky and
Missouri. Texas may yet be added to the list, as
the German vote there is very large.
The Severe Storm of Wednesday night was
more terrific in New York than any experienced
for a long period, and the rain poured down in
torrents for a brief interval. Considerable dam
age wus sustained, and, amongst other thing*, it
is supposed that the Fashion House, a costly
hotel recently erected on the race-course at
Newtown, Long Island, which was destroyed by
tire during the storm, was set on fire by the
lightning. The spire and tower of St. Luke’s
Episcopal Church, in Brooklyn, were so badly
shattered by the electric fluid, that they will
have to be rebuilt. Minor casualties are quite n*
merous. r
a^S, 1 " n - v " : The , Amerl6BC
.TL sta tc are in bigli spirit", and expect to earry
ti.eir ticket through mOHttrium hautly in Octobar.
Sc, it may be then, in November
The Newark (N. J.) Advertiser of the 2d instant
states: The Democrats of Patterson a few even*
ing since, it is said, cheered for Frid. DoOolas,
the Black Abolitionist.
The Merchants ie Planters’ Bank of Savann ah
has declared a dividend of four par cant on the oper
ations of the last six months. This is the fits' divi
dend of this new bank, and promises wall Wr tha
success of the institution.
Enoch W. Clark, Esq., a prominent Banker in
Philadelphia, died on the 3d inst.
Mr. Geo. M Waldbcrg, an old and respected
citizen of Savannah, died a day or two ago at hie
plantation on St. Catherine’s Island.
“’Tbi Wav thi Wind Blows.—At an election for
Tax Assessor in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, Mr.
Gacsi, tha Amarioan candidate, reoeived 473
votes, and Mr. Harris. tha Deiaoeaat, st» Ma ■
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