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lion. W. P. 11-tn-H** Speech.
Extra* *s from a delivered in Con£re«t» on
the Kan.i.’.k a;ci Nebraska Hill. April <b and
25th, by the Hod. WiHe P Harris, a Demo
craUe member from | appendix
to Vof. 22, pages 548,5i0
and 550.]
Ihe biii c,;*ne to the llott-e un«i* r a very strong
and fdvoriDg breeze. The very nnassenger who
•iccovrpuund it to the Hoase setined to nave de
rived more or leaa of inspiration from hi# Blight and
temporary nMoelation with the great non-inter ven
tion and nuprenriary embodied
in it.
My .State, sir, seat an instruction to her delegation
to vote for the Nebraska bill. She struck it while
it was .11 the wing—before it wa> matured ; at a
time when * very day was marked by a change—by
a new amendment, and to quote the language of
the great Viigimau, when it got to resemble “the
Chamelion on the aepen leaf, ever trembling, ever
changing/’
Sir. it ia one thing to put my lips to the water,
where the thread of that giant river issues from the
base of the mountains ; it is quite a different thing
to taste it, or -vrim if. after the Ohio, Missouri, the
Arkeand Ked Rivers, tiie Dig I hack and Little
illack have emptied their muddy currents into it. :
Muddy motives have mingled with the measure. I
turn from that water now with the invincible re
pugnance of hydrophobia.
1 know where I stand: I know that to disobey
11.structions from my State is a hazardous thing,
but it should be remembered that the soil of my dis
fcrict h is not upon its face the imprint of the iron
heel of conquest; itwa. not overrun by that mixed
heid of politicians, who hesitated not to apply the
epithet of traitor to men whose only crime was an
i neffeetual struggle to proem ea recognition of the
principles of inequality amongst the States and it
my good fortune to be able to lift an unshackled
i.rm in defence of tl*e respectability of the party to
which I belong.
At tin- time the resolutions in favor of the Nebras
ka bill were passed by my Stab*, that bill was still
before tic Senate, and afterward* underwentimny
judgment, an important modification. To relieve
my attitude now from an apparent inconsistency
with thes< instructions, it is important that I should
show my objection* to the bill, and the course I in
tend to adopt in regard to it are not in conflict
with the views and opinions which prevailed at
home at the time these instructions were framed.
[ am confident that opinions respecting the charac
ter of this measure have been hastily and inconside
rately adopted in bosh sections of the Union, and
have led to errors North and South. The idea that
the Missouri restriction was to be absolutely taken
oft* the Territories, and that slavery' would have, by
the effect of the bill, liberty to go there, has been
seized upon, and public attention has been direct
ed—has been fixed with great intensity upon this
single idea, to the dial , gard of the actual provisions
and the necessary legal effect of the measure. It
cannot have escaped the attention of members that
most of the speeches, especially the early ones,
Which formed public opinion all over the country,
were directed to the repeal of the Missouri act, and
the merits and demerits of slavery abstractly consid
ered. These themes have been harped upon—
blown upon, to such a degree that the actual mea
sure has been thrown in the background and ob
scured. The progress of the measure and of dis
cussion from nrst to hist, has been well calculated
to distract and mislead public opinion. I beg to re
fer, for example to an article in a leading paper in
the district I represent—a paper published in the
city of Natchez —a Slates rights Democratic paper
of high respectability, and edited with much ability
generally. Jt is Weil known that the party to which
that paper belongs think tiiai the people of a Terri
tory ought imt to be entrusted with power over the
subject of slavery. I have mislaid the papei, but
the opinion which it expresses is well remembered.
That .-pinion,« a,,. • " d about the middle of March,
Wat?, that the original condition of Nebraska, as a
slitveholdiog Territoiy, was restored by the bill;
ami further, that the bill denied to iiiu territorial le
gislature control over tin* subject of slavery until
the formation of the Si ate Constitution; and that,
unless these things were recognized in the bill, that
it was a cheat.
Now, sir, I ask all eaudid own, if the original con*
dition of Nebiaaka as a siaveholding Territory is
restored ! Does the bill deny to the Territorial Le
gislature, control over the subject of slavery until
t!:* formation of the State Constitution? i will un
dertake to show that the original condition ot the
Territory is not, and wa« not intended to bo reato
red : —timt jiorthern men, while professing repent
ance for a wrong, are not prepared, to make that
repentance acceptable to the South by spiking res
titution. Further, 1 will undertake to show that the
bill deliberately, intentionally, and undeniably con- j
fei s upon the Territorial Legislatures power to con
trol the subject of slavery. If I succeed, I will
have shown how far intelligent men are at fault in
i *e South, and how little there la in the bill to com
mend it to their support, and will, mike came time,
have shown my objections to the bill.
Tlu* bill confers power over all rightful subjects of
legislation. If it had said nothing more, it might be
doubted whether il gives power over the subject of
slavery . but this doubt is cleurnd a,, k» no equivo
cal manner by another clause which pruw>-ds to
declare in Bub.*danoe, that Congress does not intend
to legislate slavery into the Territory, or exclude it
therefrom by this bill, but intomb to leave the peo
ple, not only of the. future State, but »>l’ tl'.i * present
Territory, free to form and regulate their domestic
institutions in their own way. These words, form
ami resfHlat-c? used in immediate connection with
the matter of slavery, are pointed directly at it, and
wore, as it seems to me, intended purposely to indi
cate what was intended to ha embraced by the
words “rightful subjects of legislation.” This lan
guage was obviously designed to indicate two
things: tirst, that Congress intends to disconnect
itself with slavery in the Territories and States, as
though it bad anything to do with ike subject any
where : and, secondly, to lodge the power ovprthat
subject somewhere else, and where f In the Terri
torial Legislatures, during their existence, and in
the States, when they shall be formed, it is not
possible t«» give the language any significance, un
(e*» y«u ascribe tins meaning to it. The words “do
mestic iuntitntions” include slavery according to com
mon understanding ; and being used in direct con
nexion with slavery, wera necessarily designed to
embrace it. Now, it cannot bemud that it only means
that th« people, when they form their &g,te go
vermnctit, may form and regulate their domestic
institutions by a fundamental law, because there
i« In the bill preceding J hi* passage, in the very
i rst section, nn explicit and umiuctakable decla
i«t ion, which deflea roiflConfttrucLiou by ij*<j dullest
understanding, to the effect that they skull have
ibis right as to slavery when they come into the
Union. Those who may contend lor this construc
tion will be driven to assume that this “form and
regulate” clause was only designed to explain the
first, ns the Badger proviso was intended to explain
if - Douglas clause ; thus heaping explanation up
on explanation, and making confusion worse con
founded* I take occasion to say, that there is not
nn enlightened court in America that would not feel
Uself bound to decide that it was the palpable —the
evident intention *;f the framers of this act to give
the power to the of the Territories as such—
and that the language used u #piple for that pur
-1 Those who deny any inherent right m die people
».f a territory to control the subject of slavery, end
also deny tbv right of Congress to control, or to
confer the power control it on the settlers in the
Territoviea, ought to consider well whether it is en
tirely consistent to vote for ,*»law by which Congress
thu s confer the power upon (<«*.» dubious reliance
that the Supreme Court will declare this feature in
the bill unconstitutional. In the first you
give your full assent ton contrary decision, by vo
ting for the bill; for that court will be too charita
ble to suppose that you knowingly violated the con
stitution. That court has solemnly declared laws
of Congress unconstitutional: and it is a princi
ple with all courts to sustain a law, if porimbl l .
There has been much said about this sovereignty,
this right of self government in the people of the
territories. It would ajipenr that they had up to
ikis time, suffered under an unmitigated tyranny
Ti*e government has uot abused the po-.*r which it
has assumed, so far as the people of the territories
are concerned, it. has exercised it leniently and
benetieieutly. The people of the territories have
lleen nurtured aud cherished byt&? maternal Gov
eminent, ami they diaerve to he, for the people
who subdue the wilderness and encounters hard
siiij ?, are entitled to its highest consideration. Bur,
sir. it is a droll idea this, of their being invented
with sovereignty as a political counmiunity ; they
do i*,. desire to be tlius magnified until they are
prepared to differ the l nion. It left to themselves,
tlu*v would decline ,q accept the burden of man
aging their own affairs, aid paying their own ex
penses.
The v have a government 6ct over them, their *<2-
lations with ’.hat government prescribed, the num
ber of representatives apportioned, the qualifica
tions of voters prescribe a. In fact, all the well
known features ot’popuW sovorejgnty are denied
bv this bill The government thus established can
not be changed by them ; but maybe changed by
this Government at pleasure. Surely, the bill, si- !
i i ..ugh it gi\ »*s poorer over ike subject of slavery, is
a burlesque upon tin* notion tluu sovereignty or I
s -'t'-'ovmiim:iit res d« s, on a right, in the ,;e/»ple of
a Territory. They are r-uhoidinate political corjk>- ,
rations, the creatures of tk* Federal Government.
Th- v have the inherent capacity to become sove
reign <ximmunities, but they are as far from it in
the territorial state as the child is from the man.—
Now. as a matter of consistency with the spirit of
i*ur institutions, the Govetnnuy; should, through
gome mode, consult their wishes as to their demes
ne concerns —leave them, as tar as consistent with
: he general interest ;.ud the rtsrkU t •/others, to regu
late them Tkk* ldo not pretend to dispute: but
us regards their right, or the justice and propriety
ot giving : hem tie power to exclude my property,
as a citizen of one of the States ot' this Umou. or to
make iny right to retain and enjoy such property
there in any way dependent on their will, f d<> not
deny it. I deny this power to ti.e Federal Govern
ment I deny il to the Territories- Ido not con
sider there is any gain to me in transferring the
exeti io of this power from here to Nebraska. If
driven toetKkW between these alternatives, I would
prefer to let the powet icv.vAh here, where my State
uus a > oice in this House and in the Senate.
1 have shown, 1 think, that whatever may be said
about it, the bill gives the power over sla> ery to the |
Territorial Legislature. 1 will advert to the other 1
branch of the subject. 1 suppose 1 need say noth
ing as to the point whetbm .v ;i»t the territory is re
quired tv its original condition as a stockholding ter
ritory. Thai is clearly not so. and no men here
thinks -so. slavebolding territory once, but
that condition was changed by ;Ue Missouri act of
I'fcJO. and it is the avowed intent: of this bill that
that condition shall not be restored.
The'Badger proviso contains a positive declara
tion that that condition slu ’d not be restored. 1 will
now proceed to consider that proviso, and state, at
the outset, that its effect is to take from the repeal
the Missouri act everything but the uanie of the
repeal It annu’s the act, but declares that the evil
which it aid >*.;rii ’ive after it; that its consequences
shall continue and thh. too. in the name of non-in
tervention. This effect of the proviso, when token
l: co u licet ion with the clause which it ii-s-rted it
is dr ri med to explain, leaves the slave States
with no few :v- their rights, and commits
u t in. regardless o* the Constitution, to the whims
<*• ‘’.price of the ifirst Territorial Legislature which
may assemble.
I .Uidertake to say that the opinion prevails ex
tensively. that slavery cannot exist except by the
sanction ol local utw The opinion prevails esten
tively North ana South. I throw out this sugges
tion simply to show that your boasted tabula rasa
u vi very doubtful operation in a practical point of
view. When Igo home to my constituents, I ex
pect to be asked. Well, jir Lave you repealed the
Missouri Compromise f Wiiv, yej. -Sir. I mav say,
after a fashion, we have. It is put down so In the
bills. But to come straight to the point, have you
secured the right to carry slaves to Nebraska?—
Well, now, to tell you the truth, I cannot say that
I know w i eiher we have or not! That is left to
the coarts to decide. Well, then, what have you
positively go: by the bill that you know of, after
this tremendous hurry ? We got, sir, a tabula rasa.
.Laughter ami applause.] Our great eonstitutiaal
guarantees are reduced to the promising .condition
a prospective lawsuit of verv doubtful issue,
f m -“ ch ***** of a than’ a rasa.
IW) J P r y*P*ct is the result of the combi
“a intervention * aDd
[A/. *<>.»« that .larrry .amu/texitt in the Terri.
,r,tJunt a **<* to* Protect u. Hear inn.]
Tbtr, u an nrguinent tbal woud, very weU, and
it is that th»* Constitution carry* slavery into the
Territories, am! protects it there. Between you and
me, Mr. Chairman, th * Constitution don’t carry a
slave anywhere, except it be a runaway, and it docs
take him back from a free State to his*master in a
slave State. There is a law for that. Bat. sir. in a
Territory from the face of which all law has been
swept, in what way does the Constitution protect
slavery 7 There must be local regulation, to ena
ble you to inv'oke the Constitution. Is the Consti
tution to keep a marshal there to prevent the slave
who may be carried there from setting up for him
self 1 if Nebraska i* to remain free of local law
relative to slavery, like an Island fresh risen from
the sea, and two men, a black man and a white
man. find themselves there, will the Constitution
decide which is the master and which is the slave ?
I confess I should feel that there would be seine
ground to apprehend that the black man might turn
tlie table upon me.
The natural effect of taking off a restriction would
be to restore the right which had been restrained .
but this bill negatives the idea that the right is to
be reinstated ; and so careful is it to prevent this
just consequence, that it makes a positive declara
tion that if it is possible to find any »ort of law na
tural or revealed, French or Spanish, recognizing
or protecting slavery, that law shall be swept away.
From the Hartford Times, of Am 7. 21.
Foil of il»e “Old Charter Oak.”
The famous old Charter Oak of this city, so noted
in song and history, fell with a tremendous crash
during the great storm at quarter before J o'clock
this morning, (August 21, 1856.)
This noble old tree stood upon the beautiful
grounds of Hon. Isaac W. Stuart, late the Wyllys’
estate, in the southern part of the city. About three
yeas ago, some boys built a fire in* the hollow of
this tree, which burnt out the punk, and though it
was feared that this would kill it, such was not the
fact. Fresh sprouts sprung out the next spring,
and Mr. Stuart took great pains to preserve this
valued relic of the original forests of New England
but more especially interesting as the tree in which
the old British Ch&J ter of Connecticut was secreted
and preserved. At this time the hollow in the
trunk of the old oak was so large, that a fire com
pany of twenty-seven full grown men stood up in
it together.
Mr. Stuart had u stout door made to shut up the
entrance, and he placed tin caps upon the stumps
of broken limbs, and for the past three or four years
fresh sprouts have grown upon most of its limbs,
though other limbs were decaying. At the time of
its fall, young and fresh acorns were growing on
every part of it. Thousands of the people are visi -
ting the tree, and bringing away such sprigs and
parts of limbs as Mr. Stuart permits.
Watchman Butler says he stood at the head of the
street at the time of the crash. The wind had been
blowing freshly from the northwest for tin hour or
more. He first heard a loud crack, and saw the old
oak swaying in the breeze ; a crackling noise fol
lowed, then the crash—all within the space of half
a minute—and the famous monarch of* the forest,
whose history is so intimately entwined in that of
Connecticut, was prostrate upon the earth! One
thousand years ago, when it was in the prime of
life—when its years were half numbered—its far
reaching branches had sported in fiercer storms and
more swift-winged winds. But now, since full two
thousand years have smiled and waned upon its
youth, its prime, and its decline, it had become
grey and decrepid, but was still tenacious of life : it
still clung to the lovely spot which gave it birth, by
its far reaching l oots, running a long way up into
the beautiful hillside, and downward to the sharp
cut below. Firmly, aye, proudly the oak stood,
seemingly conscious that nature had marked out for
its own accommodation one of the most enchanting
retreats in the State, and that destiny had accorded
to it a notable and everlasting historic page in the
story of Connecticut—one of the patriotic and ori
ginal thirteen States of the Union.
Proudly it had stood, and when tottering with
age, and reduced with a mere shell of a few inches,
by the steady inroads of Time itself, it still clung
with soundness to the loved spot on which it hud
witnessed the decay ami downfall of many of its as
sociates—the paljj an;] the bloody wars of the red
man, and the red man’s de^&y—£jie birth and deatli
of generations of the white man, whose axe had cut
away its towering comrades of the olden time. But
whilst preserving a fair exterior it was inwardly
wasting away, and was obliged to yield and fall in
a storm far less severe than many thousands that
had preceded it.
Before Gov. Wyllys ggifto 1° America, he sent
his steward forward to prepare a plqpp for his resi
dence. As he was cutting away the trees upon the
hillside of the beautiful “Wyllys place,” a deputa
tion of Indians came to him aiid requested that he
would spare this old hollow oak. They declared
that Jt find “been the guide of their ancestors for
centuries/’ ft yras spared, to fall this day, having
finally yielded to tliij process of natural decay.
The tree measured 33 foot in circumference at
the bottom, and it has broken off so' as u» icaye 8
feet of stump on one side and 6 feet 011 the other
the st ump measuring 21 feet in circumference at its
top.
The charter of ivjkg Charles the 2d, for the colony
of Connecticut, arrived in Hartford in 1662, proba
bly in the month of September, riiougi; 1 precise
time is not now known. 011 the ninth of October it
was publicly read to the assembleu freemen of Con
necticut, and was declared to “belong to them and
their successor*.,” snd the people evinced their gra
titude by appointing a oominittee to take charge of
it, under the solemnities of an oath, and to preserve
this palladium of the rights of the people. It con
tained many liberal provisions, as may be seen by
examining ;t in the Secretary of State’s office, where
the original copy L „l;Jl preserved with care. It was
tin* organic law of Connecticut rill the present con
st it ut ion took its place in 1818.
fn 1686, the General (government of New Eng
land wfi£ dissolved by James the 2d. and anew
government vvtu instituted, with Joseph Dudley as
President of the Commissioners. Connecticut re
fused to surrender, and when the third writ of quo
warrento was sent to her, Gov. Treat, in January,
Jtiß7, called a special session of the Assembly, which
refused to accede to the demands of the new king.
They still to their charter. In March, another
special session war, eoiwened but still the represen
tatives of the people refused io “surrender.” In
May they met again in regular session, under the
Charter, and re-elected Treat as Governor.
On the 3ist of {October, 1687, Sir Edmund An
drosfl attended by members of his Council, and a
body guard of soldiers entered Hartford to take the
Charter by force. The General Afumfibly was in
session, lie was received with courtesy but cold
ness. He entered the Assembly room and publicly
demanded the charter. Remonstrances were made
and the session was protracted till evening. The
Govern 4 '!' and his associates appeared to yield. The
Charter way tuvUgH in and laid upon the table.—
Sir Edmund thought the ia&t mqipeut of the Colony
had come, when suddenly the tights 'were all out
and total darkness followed! There was ho noise,
no resistance, but all was quiet. The candles were
again bgl.t -d. but the charter was gone ! Sir Ed
mund Andros* w n.» He declared the
Government of Connecticut £0 be in his own bauds,
an./ that tne Colony was annexed to
and oiitur sew England Colonies, and’ proceeded to
appoiut officers VJ hilst he was doing this, Captain
Jeremiah Wadsworth, a patriot’.of those times, was
concealing the Charter in the holloJV ;»f Wyllis* Oak,
now known as The Charter Oak.
In 1688, King James abdicated, and on the 9th
of May of that year, Gov. Treat and his associate
officers, resumed the Government of Connecticut
under the charter, which had been preserved in the
Old Hollow Oak.
Mr. Stuart had Colt’s Armory Band come up this
noon, and played solemn dirges for two hours over
the trj nl: of the fallen Monarch of the Forest. He
is a generous parted man—a worthy proprietor of
the lovely hill side th JL ’.nurtured for centuries such a
noble tree.
A daugerreotype likeness of the x’aUcfi typo was
taken to-day.
The city cells are to be tolled at sundown, as a
mark of respect entertained by our citizens for the
fallen Monarch ’’
The Goi.i> Mines of Biiazn.. —4 late British pe
riodical contains a letter from a Danish
some note. Prof. J. Tli. Reinhardt, on tlie newly
discovered gold mines of Brazil. The mines are sit
uated in the province of Maranhao between the rivers
Tury as.su, and Gurupy, along the valley of the Ma
racassunie, in about iV of South latitude, and not
far from the Atlantic coast. The gold is found in
dust. grains and masses, in a layer of sharp gravel
and ferruginous clay, varying in depth from a foot
to a foot and a halt, and covering the hilly country
as well as the valleys, fn the underlying rock, a
“ schistose, argillacious, ferruginous quartz,-’ a
quartz vein has been discovered, which is so rich
that ;t is supposed that it must be near the bed from
which tW h».‘.;,e gold has come. This is probably in
the Sierra Catherina, a country inhabited by savage.
Indians.
The existence of these mines was first suspected
by some traders, who, in their dealings with run
away slaves —Quilomboe—obtained gold dust from
them. This suspicion was confirmed by the officers
of a detachment sent out against these runaways,
and a lev, capitalists in Kio Janeiro sent out a com
mission to look into itr*<ter. From San Luis,
the principal city of the Province, they passed
through luxuriant primeval forests, full of precious
woods and extraordinarily rich in valuable vegeta
ble products, such as gum copal, a kind of Brazilian
mastic, several kinds of pitch, copaiva, Brazilian
clove trees. and the like. The expedition
spent several days In tin* In au extent of
fifteen or twenty mile*, they'found oic v eg iftines, all
worked by runaway slaves. The day after the
workujen of the expedition commenced operations, 1
one of til- :.} found a stone >ix iuebo long by four
broad audtuo wa* a half thick, which, after several
pieces had beeu broken on fo r specimens, yielded
six ounces of gold. They found out littic aier m
the dry season; still they report that it would not
be dirficult for a large company to lc-od a oaualfrom
the Garupy or the Maracassume. A company with
a capital of $250,1HH) has been formed to open
the mines regularly, anti with all the best appliances
and the Brazilians hope toon to rival the golden re
sults of California ana Australia.
Fremont Stock Declining.— -The Philadelphia
v , rt of the 23d iust., says :
The iudicatiom: that reach us from all quarters of
the rapid decline of Fremont s*.oek, readily account
for the panic that prevails among the leaders of the
Republican party. There is no doubt that if the
stampede troin the ranks of the disunionists con
tinues at the same rate which has prevailed
for the past two weeks, their candidate will lie left
with little more than the old abolition vote proper
in t very State.
The independent Watchman, a valuable and in
tiuential paper published at ithbfc, and edited with
marked ability l>y Myron S. Barnes, Esq.. Co«n£3 to
ne wuh the Fremont banner that has hitherto waved
from u» mast-head. hauled down. In a full and well
written editorial ihe reasons for the change are clear
ly and calmly set forth. The writer says : "We at
the tust. before th« Philadelphia nominating con
vention, opposed the nomination of CoL Fremont
on ground* that were perfectly satisfactory to our
self, at least. It is not necessary to recapitulate
those objections here. We have fully explained the
matter to some of our personal friend.-, and they
have agreed with us to the conclusions arrived at.
When we hoisted the name of CoL Fremont, we had
>trong hopes that these objections to him might be
removed, but instead of this, the matter presents a
worse and more alarming feature at this very mo
ment.'’
'The example of the Ithica paper will be followed
by many an honest ‘‘watchman" over the interests
of the Union. Papers that are capable of under
standing their duty, and independent and honora
able enough to do it, will one by one disown the
purtv of disunion, and rally beneath the National
standard.
Thus it is. and continue to be to the day of
the election. Thousands ci hoaec*. yell meaning
men at the North have been seduced into the Free
soilcauip, and they have only to know me character
and schemes of their associates to abandon them with
disgust. _
of Massachusetts.—Speaking of
the nomination of Mr. by the h illmore
Convention of Massachusetts, as their candidate
for Governor of the Commonwealth, the Courier
says:—
The nomination meets the approbaiion of all the
mercantile men of our community with whom we
have associated, and their universal idea is that he
should accept the proffer, and there is no doubt that
he will de so, caring nothing for the consequences.
He is the moat popular man whom the Fillmore
delegates could place in nomination—he will have
the whole Whig and conservative- vote of the State:
an, in the division of his opponents, and the strength
of his friends, he is most likely to be the next Gov
i emor of the Commonwealth.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 3. 1856.
Freedom Mirickin# for Aid.
T!.** New York Courier t y Enquirer of the 25th
instant, publishes the following despatch from
Washington :
The Free State men of Kansas despatched Mr.
Arny as a special messenger to Washington, to call
upon the President for protection. The President
wa a too much occupied to see the Free .State agent
when he called at the White House on the subject,
and lie was referred to Mr. Sydney Webster, the
private secretary of the President', who informed
him that the Free State men would have to take
caie of themselves—that the President was juatnow
so much engaged that he could not attend to the
matter. Mr. Arny left the following paper in the
hands of the private secretary :
[Mr. Arny to the President.]
To His Excellency * Franklin Pierce, President
of the United States.
Sir : —A few days ago I had the honor to address
you as secretary of a mass convention held in Mc-
Lean county, Illinois, and to transmit to you certain
certificates rod affidavits, in relation to outrages
perpetrated by citizens of Missouri upon peaceable
emigrants from our State and county, while on the
Missouri river and other public highways of that
State, en route to Kansas.
Since then the “National Kansas Committee” lo
cated at Chicago, Illinois, have received from the
“Central Kansas Committee” at Lawrence, Kan
sas, official information in regard to the preparation
of citizens of Missouri add other States to drive out
of the Territory of Kansas, or murder “all the Free
State settlers.” The facts will be found testified
to in the affidavit of Robert Morrow, Esq., herewith
enclosed.
The committee are fully satisfied that, unless the
General Government immediately interpose, to pre
vent the incursions and outrages contemplated by
armed bands of men from Missouri and other States,
who are prepared to overrun the Territory, that a
civil war will be the result, which will involve the
whole Northwest against the South.
It will be apparent to your Exeelleuoy that any
militury demonstration, such as is contemplated by
citizens of Missouri and other States of the South,
against free State citizens of the Northwest, who
have left their former homes to settle peaceably in
Kansas, will justify those persons, and also the
States from whence they came, to resort to similar
means in self-defence, and especially so if the Exe
cutive of the United States, or of the State of Mis
souri, should fail to adopt measures to prevent these
unlawful acts.
As the Free State citizens of Kansas deprecate
civil war, and have evinced their desire for peace
by their submission to robberies and other outrages,
they appeal to you to protect them . and in behalf
of their committee, whose credentials 1 beur, as also
in behalf of the National Kausas Committee, of
which I have the honor to be a member, I solicit
your immediate consideration of this important sub
ject, and the interposition of your poWer and uu
thority, to prevent the impending civil war, and its
attendant horrors. W ith all respect, yours,
W. F. M. Arm .
Washington City, Aug. 21.
Semi official Account of the Attack on Franklin.
The undersigned would hereby certify that lie
left the Territory of Kausas on the 15th day of Au
gust, 1856, and makes the following statement of
the leading facts connected with the present state of
things in that Territory, from personal knowledge of
the circumstances : —Since the attack upon Law
rence, May 2lßt last, with the exception of a few
skirmishes, matters in the Territory have remained
in a comparative auiet. The presence of the Gov
ernment troops, while it seemed to produce a check
upon the designs of pro-slavery men, served them
with an opportunity to make more extensive prepa
rations. Provisions and arms, both guns and can
non and ammunition, have been secretly introduced
into and stored in different parts of the Territory;
bands of from 50 to 200 men each, from Missouri,
are fortifying themselves in a continuous line
through the settled of the Territory in readi
ness for a simultaneous descent, by night ppon the
sc ittered and defenceless free State people. Men
from South Carolina and Georgia, commonly call
ed Buford men, remained in Kansas, and erected
fortifications, calling them colonies, in different
parts of the Territory; the fortifications number*
cd some ten or twelve. There are three in Doug
las county, two at Ossawatomie, one of them
commanded by Coleman, who murdered Dow;
and the rest extend along the Missouri river.—
The Missourians have been furnishing the Geor
gians, Carolinians, and then'own men with provis
ions, ammunition, &,c. When all was ready, the
Missouri borderers made an avowal of their plan;
they thought they had the Free State men in their
power; they resolved to execute it. The question
as to the time of attack wa» tlie only point, ant] this
was settled on to take place immediately after the
adjournment of Congress. Fully satisfied that
extreme danger impended over the Free State men,
they (tlie Free State men) appealed to tlie military
to afford them protection by the dispersion of these
armed bands. This was refused in the case of a
band of upwards of one hundred men, encamped
about six mile* from Lawrence on Washington
Creek. The river, meanwhile, was guarded at eve
ry point, and no Fret! State men reached Kansas up
the Missouri river or through the State of Missouri.
So certain were the Missourians and other pro
slavery men of success, thatou the 12th, Mr. Hoyt,
formerly of Massachusetts, was shot down on the
prairies by the ruffians at t’;e block house, near
Washington Creek, and on the same day another
Free State man was killed by these brutal murder
el's. Seeing this state of tilings, knowing that life
or death hung upon the crisis, tlie Free State men
resolved to meet it like men. They could not wait;
to do that would be to secure the success of the
ruffians.
They decided not to do it, for not only would their
property be sacrificed, but their children
ruthlessly robbed and murdered. They concluded
that the time had cpme. having been refused protec
tion by the government troops, vheg they must de
fend themselves. Franklin was one of the dent, of
the ruffians. They occupied a block house in the
town. This block house tlie free State men attack
ed and carried on the night of the 12th of August.
They lost one man, killed—Edward Sackett, from
Detroit—and two were wounded, and seven others
were slightly injured. The ruffians being strongly
fortified, escaped ; only four were wounded. They
surrendered and were permitted lo leave. The
free State men took sixty stand of arms, one cannon,
powder, and a large amount of stpres. Tlie most
of the arms' had been stolen from Lawrence, aud
were identified —there were a few United States
muskets. The story of the St. Louis Republican
and other papers, in regard to the killing of the Post
master and robbery sis mails, etc., is untrue—not a
building, not a citizen, nor the property of a£y citi
zen was searched or disturbed.
The asssault was confined to the marauders’ den
—it began there and ended there. I left Leaven
worth on the 15 ; very little was known there of the
difficulty at Franklin. Tlie pro-slavery meneup
posedthat “rho abolitionists were routed, and con
tent.” At Kansas City the t>asa was different—
some of those who escaped from Franklin had told
the truth. A large meeting was called on Friday
afternoon, the Jsth instant, and the citizens agreed
to raise their quota of 2,000 men to overrun Kansas.
Atchison and Stringfellow were on the boat and
got off at Kansas City. Next afternoon, the 16th, we
arrived at Lexington ; there, too, the news of the
defeat of the ruffians at Franklin was known, and
a large meeting was hold, and the citizens of Lex
ington resolveS to send their quota of men to sub
due tlie free men of Kansas. Wroth all that 1 saw
in Kansas Territory and on the Missouri river, I
am fully satisfied that Missourians, Georgians and
South Carolinians are about to invade the Territo
ry and destroy all free statemen, and civil war,
with all its attendant honors, will prevail, unless
the general government immediately interferes to
prevent it.
Given under my hand and seal, this 19th day of
August, A. D. 1856. Robert Morrow.
S!ate\of Illinois, Cook County, ss. —Subscribed
and sworn to before me. Louis ?>. Hoard, Clerk of
the Cook County Circuit ,in and for said county. —
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of our said Circuit Court, at
Chicago, this 19th day of August, A. D. 1856. L.
D. Hoard, Clerk of Cook County Circuit Court.
The Great Frmhet AT the North. —A cor
respondent of the New York Time* writing from
Poughpeeksie on the 21st says:
For the last three days there has been a continual
rain on the Hudson River, from Hudson to Yonk
ers, audit is estimated that $200,000 worth of prop
erty has been destroyed. The greatest loss is in and
about Poughkeepsie. Most of the bridges have
been swept away and entirely destroyed. Among
them are the following: The Manchester Bridge,
covered, near $o,000: the Washington Bridge,
stone, cost near $3,000 ; the bridge in Bridge-street,
s.">oo, and the Mansion street Bridge worth S2OO. —
In duchess-avenue, the road is washed to the depth
of ten and twelve feet, and the water rushing down
like a mighty i»ve;\ slagy of the citizens were un
der the necessity of using the fire . ngine and force •
pump, in order to save their property from being en
tirely destroyed. The track beginning at the depot,
amrextending for about a mile north is entirely in
undated with water, and several ears are literally
half buried in it, rendering traveling through direct
impossible. The mail tram due in this city at 2:15
P. M- did hot arrive here until 6:15 P. M. At Pough
keepsie the- pas-engcr* La> • to change oars in order
to proceed to and from New York. The abutment.,
of the drawbridge between Fishkill and Pougbkeep
sie ure entirely swept away, renderiugtraveling ex
tremely dangerous.
A dispatch from Albany on the 21st states :
A severe rain storm prevailed here for thirty six
hours, ceasing this morning. Great damage has
been done to the crops, and bridges and mills Layp
sustained serious iiyury. The trains from the West
were stopped.
Kenwood Bridge. over Normanskill Creek, three
miles below the city, was carried away. Congden’s
Dye Mill, four stories high, in the vicinity of the
bridge was swept away; also Kirk’s Grist Mill. Lo
ver Island is overflowed, and the garden crops de
stroyed.
All the docks and piers here are under water, and
goods are rapidly being removed from the ware
houses along tnc river, which will be submerged, as
the water is rapidly rising. It rouse four feet from
five last evening to seven this morning.
The Storm in Terrebonne Parish, La.— The
Houma Ceres of the 16th, give- tyie muowmg dp
tails of the damage inflicted by the storm on the
10th inst. in Terrebonne :
On Sunday morning last we noticed in this vicini
ty immense numbers of sea gulls and other ocean
birds, a sure indication of disastrous winds and
storm at the coast. About 10 o’clock the wind had
freshened from a pleasant breeze to a violent torna
do, ai*ion;p&2ied with a deluge of rain, the wind
bowling fiNjin nearly due <s*d. ThL s;at.e of things
continued without any intermission until Monday at
12 o’clock M.. when the wind lulled a little and
veered to the South, and finally to Southwest and
West, since which we have been deluged with heavy
showers of rain and sweeping winds. During the
first twenty-four hours of the storm the greatest
alarm existed among the inhabitants hero. they
expected every minute to see their dwellings demol
ished bv the raging element. Shade trees and fences
were blown down in every direction, but fortunate
ly the buildings in this place escaped almost unin
jured.
We are sorry to say that the country people did
not escape so cheaply. Rumor says that a portion
of the sugar house ot J. M. Pelton. on Grand Cail
lou was demolished the stable of General Quit
man of the same place, suffered a like fate, kill
ing a large number of mule- and other stock in its
tall; the new sugar house of Berger & Brown, on
Little CaiT.ou. was also blown down, and no doubt
many others from which there has been no report,
have suffered severely.
The crops present a* most melancholy sight. Corn
and cane are laid fiat with the earth, ana their foil
uge B whipped into the most minute shreds. If the
swift torrent of a water course had been turned on
to the cultivated fields and suffered to run for a num
ber of hours, it would not have flattened and wash
t-d the stalks into the- earth more effectually than did
the long continued tornado. The loss will be im
immense, and instead of this parish furnishing a
large quantity of sunflus com for the market, we
fear our planters will have to become purchasers
themselves, cane may possibly revive to a
certain extent but can never entirely overcome the
shock it has received.
The storm Las caused Bayou Terrebonne to
rise to an unprecedented height. A ship of the
iine might float clear at this place, while above
and below here, the water has encroached npon
the roads so as to render them almost impasaa
ble We are glad to notice that it is beginning to
recede.’
Health of Savannah. —There were only thir
teen deaths in Savannah during the week ending
the 26th inst. #
Tlie Czar nm! Prince ->teuiclrikof*.
a There is probably no country in Europe where a
1 letter, like the following, from the Emperor Alex
ander to Prince Memchikotf. would not be consid
ered too great a condescension of the sovereign to
the subject. It was addressed to him on the occa
-1 sion of his celebrating his fiftieth anniversary in the
t public service. It is ennobling alike to him who
t conveyed, aud to him who received, this graceful
. and touching testimonial of appreciation of long and
* faithful public service :— Chat. Mercury.
1 “Prince Alexander Sergovitcb—the completion of
the fiftieth year that you have passed in the service
of the State, furnishes me with tlie most agreeable
• opportunity of recalling the eminent sendees, both
military and administrative, tiiat rendered conspicu
ous your indefatigable, zealous, and loyal devoted
ness during the reign of tlie Emperor Alexander I of
blessed memory, and during the reign of my late
father, tlie Emperor Nicholas.
“In the memorable period of the years 1813, 1811
and 1815, you took part in the capacity of aide-de
camp, and in the functions entrusted to you by your
Sovereign, in many actions within sight of the ene
my, and everywhere you gave proof of much per
sonal bravery aud great self denial.
“In the course of the war of 1828 against the
Ottoman Porte, which was so honorable for you in
evefy sense, the capture of tlie fortress of Anapa
covered you with glory, as likewise the army that
fought under your orders. On that occasion you
hoisted, for the first time, to use tlie words of your
own report, the flag of commander-in-chief of the
naval staff, functions with which you had just been
invested by the confidence of the monarch. Your
label's and the dispositions you made at the siege of
Vania, in which you were severely wounded by a
gun-shot, are no less worthy ol eulogium. Your
name will remain forever connected with the history
of the incomparable defence of Sebastopol, that you
maintained tor eleven months,
“It is to you that belong the first brilliant pages
of the annals that will relate to posterity the history
of an obstinate defence against the immense forces
of the enemies.
“In enumerating your military merits I am happy
at being able to mention your civic carerr. During
the twenty-six years of your administration of the
naval jurisdiction, agd durjpg your equally long ad
ministration of the great Principality of Finland,
you constantly enjoyed the unalterable good wishes
of my father of imperishable memory, who esteem
ed you, as he expressed to me before the supreme
hour of death, ns his companion and friend.
“Moreover your merits and high capacities have
caused other functions in other branches of the Go
vernment to be confided to you, and in every in
stance you distinguished yourself by indefatigable
activity and great sacrifice of sell. In fully appre
ciating the eminent services you have not ceased to
render for half a century, 1 consider it ray duty to
express to you my cordial aud sincere gratitude, and
1 Ih.’i. that, amid the labors that await me, I shall
obtain your valued assistance, and your old devo
tion, for the welfare of our beloved Russia.
“I remain forever yours, affectionately,
“Alexander.”
Fillmore in lowa.
A correspondent of the Montgomery (Ala.) Mail.
writing from lowa City, under date August 12th,
says :
“The American cause here is progressing rapidly
notwithstanding the denunciations of th»* illack Re
publicans and the Democrats. They ridiculed the
idea of Fillmore and Donelson carrying lowa, but
now the scene is changed. The noble and National
American sentiments Mr. Fillmore uttered in his
Albany speech, having won for him thousands of
admirers in this lovely State. Fanaticism and dis
union may be preached, but the beautiful strains of
peace will sweep over the prairies of the Far West
and find a resting place in the hearts of our sturdy
yeomanry. Millard Fillmore is beloved in this
State, and the overwhelming majority he will re
ceive in November will demonstrate his popularity.
“This town is well known as the head-quarters
and rendezvous of Jim Lane and his traitors, but
there are enough national men here, of all parties,
to elect Fillmore aud Donelson. The Republicans
arc composed of Abolitionists and the Democrats,
of a few Catholics and foreigners, the majority of
them are for Fremont. The Democratic party here
is dead, aud the State election resulted in their de
feat by 15,000. The usual Democratic majority was
5,000. The truth is evident that James Buchanan
is not a candidate. The issue is between Fillmore
and Fremont, and it is therefore the duty of the
South to unite on Fillmore to defeat Fremont. The
>respects of Fillmore aud Doneleon in this State,
lidiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other
Northern States, are cheering.
“Tlie Americans here have had several meetings.
The club, (at tlriu place,) pursuant to a short notice,
met at the Courthouse, and organised by calling
Dr. Crosswaite (formerly of Tennesseee,) to the
Chair, and John Kennedy acted as Secretary. The
Chairman stated that the object of the meeting was
to form a Fillmore and Donelson Club, to favor the
election of the nominees. The committee reported
a Constitution aud By-Laws, which, on motion,
were unanimously adopted.
“Several song* and patriotic speeches were de
livered, amid rapturous applause, in vindication of
Millard Fillmore and Americanism, and against the
insidious wiles of Fremont, Abolitionism and Bu
chananism. They also declared that Congress had 1
no power over the Territories, and if the people '
/ ran/rd slavery let them have it. Where has a
jJeitfOeratic meeting, North, dared to say this, ‘
even in the hot bed of A coin'll,) a sr.} ? The meeting !
adjourned with three hearty cheers for Fillmore and
Donelson. (
“The cause here is onward and Millard Fillmore *
will prostrate Abolitionism and Buchananism .— '
Americans of Alabama, arouse, and organize in
every township /” {
llawkeye American. *
_ i
Mr. Buchanan i.aius Mr. Fillmore.— On tlie
? til of October, 1852, Mr. Buchanan made a speech '
at, Greensburg, Penn., in support of Gen. Pierce’s
election. The following are extracts from that
speech. We commend them to the attention of his j
supporters who me now denouncing Mr. Fillmore ,
as “ unsafe.”— Nash. Patriot.
“Tosecure the vote of Pennsylvania was one of
the main inducements for the n -mination of Gen.
Scott over the head of Millard Fillmore. Is there
one unprejudiced citizen of any party in the United ]
States, who can Lay his hand, upon his heart and de- ,
clftrc that he believes General Scott would make as
good and safe a President as Mr. F Umore ? No, *
fellow-citizens, nil of us must concur in opinion 1
with Mr. Clay, that Fillmore had superior claims
and qualifications to those of §cott for the highest
civil station. Availability, and availability alone,
produced the nomination of Scot):.” * *
“ lie was anxious to secure tjjp votes of the Free -
soil Whigs of the Seward school in the national
convention.
“ Mr. Fill more, his competitor, had ' spoken out ]
like a man in favor of the Compromise, and had
thus done his duty to his country. He was for this :
very reason, rejected by the Whig National Con
vention,'and GeR. fcebtt was nominated by the (
votes and influence of the Northern Freesoil Whigs.” \
“ But the Northern Freesoilers had not quite j
sufficient strength to secure his nomination. To {
render this certain, it was necessary to enlist a small j
detachment of Southern Whig delegates. To attain
this object, Scott had merely to write a brief
uote to Mr. Archer.”
“ This p ’edge, which, on its face, was intended ,
ex clusively for Gov. Jones , Mr. Bolts, Mr. Lee , fyc.] ,
all of them Southern Whigs, proved sufficient tr, de- ,
tack a small division of the wing of this party from
Mr. Fillmore, and these uniting with the whole body
of Northern Freesoilers, succeeded in nominating
Gen. Scott."
Utah’s Application for Admission into the
Union. —The Desert News—the organ of Brigham
Young and of the other Mormon patriarchs—con
tains a long history of the experiences and tribula
tions of that scot in the far off Territory, closing as
follows:
We have successfully met the hostile red men ;
we have with like fortitude and success, nearly
passed through the scarcity caused by the drought
and devourer of the past season, and severity of
the winter of 1855 and ’56, we are now patiently la
boring upon scanty meals, to secero ouf crops from
the parching rays of a burning sun, while tlu; pro
duce of many fields has already furnished suste
nance and vigor to our enemies, the iuseets, and
that of numerous other fields is entirely scorched up
in spite of all our efforts.
In view of these facts, aside from many others of
a kindred nature, and also of a commercial, political
and constitutional cha’actpr, shall Utah u preueut
appeal to Congress be unheeded or neglected ?
She is asking for admission to the Union, after the
fomi of the most approved and customary prece
dents : she is widely known to eminently possess the
only two qualifications prescribed by the constitu
tion for new States, viz *‘A substantial civil com
munity, and a republican governmentshe Ij, oc
cupying u region winch other, would flee from : she
is tamely submitting to the privation of many equal
rights, amid all other hardships ; and now when ask
ing, what is here of right, the privilege of extending
the area of State Government, civilization and tole
ration over a region of wild mountains and desert
plains, is it possible that in so enlightened an age,
the first voice or objection will be raised against her
request ? We shall hear
Changes in Favor of Fillmore.— . Several
leading journals, within a short time, taken ground
in favor of Mr. Fillmore. Among these we may
mention the Trenton State Gazette, the Salem Stan
dard, the Hudson County Courier, the New Orleans
National, the Utica Gazette, the Ithaca Indepen
dent Watchman, the Bloomfield Mirror, the Cul
peper Observer, and iaot, least, the Maysville
Eagle.
We may add, that the National Defender is the
title of a new weekly, which has just been started
in Norristown, Fa., whioh is also in favor of Fill
more for the next Presidency.
The American Banner is the title of a new Fill
more and Donclson paper just established at In
dianapolis. It is to oe the central organ of the
American party in Indiana. It starts into life with
a subscription of ten thousand.
The Somerset, Pa., Whig has also run up the Fill
more flag. The ditor, in allusion to the fact, save :
“We do this at the urgent instance and request o
numerous partv friends, and in accordance w*th
what we believe to be the largely prevailing senti
ment of the country.”
The editor of the Brownsville iTenn.j Journal
has abandoned the Democratic party, and de
clared his adhesion to Fillmore and Donelson. So
it speads. Within the past few weeks, papers in ail
pans of the country are deserting from .Buchanan
and Fremont, and flocking to the standard of Fill
more. The good work has commenced, and “the
end is not yet.’*
The Fillmore Press in Virginia.-—The at
tempt to impose upon the people of the North the
idea that there are but three or four Fillmore pa
pere in Virginia, is in character with the course of
deception pra ticed by the Buekaneer and Black
Republican j unials. The game was commenced
by the Washington Union.. #jice t\»\, months ago
with the statement that eight or nine of the electors
appointed at the Staunton Convention had refused
to serve, because of their indisposition to support
Filimore, thi* statement was repeatedly contradict
ed. but not one of the iocofoco or freesoii journals
hare corrected the misrepresentation they copied
with so much avidity. The New York Herald now
endeavors, by professing to refer to its exchange
list, to create the impression that there not half 5 a
dozen Fillmore journals in Virginia. We hav? at
this moment upon our table thirty-two papers pub
lished in Virginia, which are zealously supporting
the American candidates. Our impression is. that
there are about forty American papers in this State,
and that there is but little difference between the
circulation of the Buchanan and Fillmore journals
in the Old Dominion. The Americans and" Whigs
of Virginia, are every day becoming more convinc
ed of the impoitanev of making the moot strenuous
efforts to carry the State, and we have many rea
sons for indulging strong hopes of success. A few
timid and time-serving politicians have deserted to
the filiisbuster and squatter sovereignty standard,
but the masses of the intelligent people have as lit
tle idea of supporting these dangerous heresies as
they have of reducing the wages of labor “to the
uniform standard’’ of ten cents a day. — fiat. 4sfc/.
Sickness in Virginia. —The Charlotteville (Va.)
Advocate says : We learn that there is a great deal
of fatal sickness in the northern part of tins county.
Our informant says that the dysentery is nearly as
fatal in proportion to population in Sluflett's Hollow
as was the yellow fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth
last summer.
W e ate informed that the same disease is prevail
ing to a very considerable extent in portions of Am
herst county. At New Glasgow it has been very
fatal—some -even or eight deaths Laving occurred
recently.
Speaking nt Hancock C ourt.
\\ e spent two day* at Hancock Superior Court
last week. The attendance of the people was larger
than usual. On Tuesday, at 12 o'clock, after Court
had adjourned, the Hon. Thomas W. Thomas, of
Elbert, addressed the people in the Court House for
near two hours, on the questions involved iu the
Presidential canvas*. We did not happen to be
present, but understood that he was more concilia
tory aud dispassionate than had marked the course
of most Democratic speakers heretofore in the cam
paign. He admitted that Mr. Fillmore would, if
elected, administer the Government to the best of
his ability, but objected to him because lie advoca
ted “the restoration of the Missouri Compromise,
line. - We heard of no proof being advanced to
sustain this assertion, nor is it, incur judgment, well
founded. In all that Mr. F. has said in his different
speeches and letters, we have seen nothing to au
thorize such a conclusion. It is true that Mr. F.
condemned the opening of the question, as calcu
lated to raise undue and unnecessary excitement,
but he has said nothing to show that lie would favor
the repeal of the Kansas and Nebraska act, as it
now exists. Directly to the contrary, iu all that he
lias ever said, and by all his acts while President,
(which speak stronger than words,) he has been a
pacificator and a law-abiding man—having restored
peace and quiet to the country, when heretofore
as highly excited as at present. Such a charge,
therefore, we hope will not be repeated in future by
the candid.
On the next day, the Hon. Eli H. Baxter, for up
wards of two hours, in an able and manly speech,
discussed the same question. As Mr. Thomas had
admitted most he would contend for in Mr. Fill
more’s behalf, he went into a review of the Demo
c.ratic platform, showed its two phases and design
merely to catch votes, and that it had already been
violated in Congress by its makers, in immense ap
propriations of money over the President's veto to
works of internal improvement. lie showed off
the want of sincerity, the double dealing, the prodi
gality and corruption of the present Federal Admin
istration aud its efforts to monopolize power alone
for party purposes. Tlie Democratic party, lie said,
had made fair professions, but what had they done ?
They had denounced a high tariff. Look now at
the millions in the Treasury—an unnecessary tax
upon the people. Why had not the tariff long since
been reduced ? Instead of that, salaries of foreign
ministers and other public officers had been unnec
essarily increased ; drones, political bankrupts and
hangers-on, disloyal sectionalists, an infidel and po
lygamist, Robert Dale Owen, and tlie like had
been advanced to iiublie offices, and the Govern
ment thereby weakened, demoralized and corrup
ted. He cited evidence to show this, and went
more into detail than we have room or time to re
capitulate. We ourselves thought that if the people
throughout the State could only hear Judge Baxter’s
speech, sustained as it is by facts,, there need be no
other for the campaign to ensure Mr. Fillmore’s over
whelming! triumph.
In concluding. Judge Baxter very happily intro
duced the anecdote related of Gen. Washington in
the troubles of our Revolution, iii illustration of Mr.
Fillmore. In the most gloomy period of our revo
lutionary war, when things were about on an equi
poise, suspicion and jealousy excited one against
another, it became necessary on one occasion fvr
(fen. Washington to travel in disguise, and at night
having stopped for lodging at a wealthy gentleman’s
house, alarm and anxiety was excited in all the in
mates as to who he was?—what his mission, &c l
The General continuing mute through the evening,
aud no discovery having been made iu regard to
him. he was conducted by a black waiter to his bed
room. This faithful old black waiter having with
the family partaken of the general uneasiness and
intense alarm existing, after beiug dismissed from
the bed room, was from curiosity induced to tarry
at the closed door and peen through the keyhole to
see what the stranger should do. He saw him on his
knees in the attitude of prayer. It was enough.—
Guffey repairs to the family. "No harm , Massa, in
that man. He prays.” The announcement allays
all fear with the poor ignorant African, as well as
all others. So it was, said Mr. 8., with Mr. Fillmore.
When Geu. Taylor’s death was announced to him,
and that the duties of President had devolved upon
him, lie spent the night in prayer that God would
give him ability and grace to do his duty impartially
to iris whole country, and God did give him ability
lo do so. Peace and quiet were restored. Facts
testify to this. And who is there, said Mr. 8., that
has not faith iu a praying President? —Southern
Recorder.
Jlr. Fillmore and the Fugitive Save Law.
It has been said, remarks the Richmond Whig,
that Mr. Fillmore reluctantly affixed his signature
to the Fugitive Slave Law, and that so violently
opposed was he to it that he would uever harp
executed it. To show how ridiculous all these
charges are, we have only to call Democrats them
selves to the stand, and make them testify to the
truth as it is.
On the 3rd of November, 1850, the Washing
ton correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer, now
Mr. Fillmore’s virulent enemy, but then his extra
vagant eulogist, wrote as follows to that paper;
“A distinguished gentleman from the West—an
ex-Senator—called on JRr. Fillmore, and, after ex
changing tlie usual courtesies, was asked by the
President how the fugitive slave bill was received
in the West. The reply was, (hat the law, although
unpopular in his State, would doubtless be enforced.
The remark was playfully made that, as the presi
dent was sworn to ‘preserve, protect and defend the
constitution and laws,’he (the ex-Senator) presum
ed Mr. Fillmore would execute this law. ‘To the
very letter, sir,’ was the instant reply of the Presi
dent, ‘to the very letter, sir, whatever may be the
consequences.’ This reply was worthy the palmiest
days of Old Hickory himself.”
The Washington Union, then edited by Andrew
Jackson Donelson, copying this a few days after,
added the following:
“It gives us pleasure to state another anecdote
about the President, for which we vouch, as we iiad
it from two gentlemen of the West, with whom tlie
President had just been in conversation yesterday
morning. They were applying to him for the ap
pointment of a gentleman as Attorney for the Uni
ted States in one of the Western States. After dis
cussing the qualifications of the candidate, Mr, Fill
more remarked that there was another qualification
which he considered indispensible. He said he was
determined to execute faithfully the fugitive slave
lay, and would appoint no man to office who might
be called upon la assist in the administration of
that law, who would not zealously co operate in
its execution .”
“On another occasion we understand, from gooff
authority, that the president declared ‘that the lair
should be executed, at every hazard—even at the
risk of blood.'
“This is the spirit alone in which the Union can
be preserved.”
The National Era, the Abolition organ at Wash
ington, referring to these incidents, said •
“It aeems, the infamous Fugitive lavy is a cherish
ed measure of the present administration. A man’s
fitness for office is to be judged by his opinions of
that law. In its superabundant zeal to secure the
arrest of runaways, under a law which furnishes
temptations, and secures immunity to kidnappers,
the administration is determined to carry it out,
even at the r isk of blood."
The Emeute at Mobile.— We have further in
telligence from Mobile in relation to the recent ac
tion of the Vigilance Committee, in the case of
Messrs. Strickland Cc Upson, the booksellers. It
appears that the publication which was found in th‘e
jossession of a slave, was the well known work of
Frederick Douglas, entitled, “My Bondage and
Freedom,” and that it was for sale, and had been
sold by them to some considerable extent. The
publishers, on being called before the Committee for
an explanation, made exculpatory statements, which
by an examination of their own books, appeared to
be false; and dreading the consequences of their
misconduct, and alarmed at the remark* which were
made to them by some of their acquaintances, they
suddenly disappeared from the city. The Commit
tee of Vigilance throughout the transaction behaved
with prudence and moderation, being rather a com
mittee of inquiry in aid of the existing laws, than
intending to take the law into their own hands.—
Whatever threats may have been uttered by other
individual*, they were cairn and deliberate in their
action. Mr. Strickland is an Englishman; Mr. Up
son a Scotchman. They are said to have made a
fortune of $60,000 in Mobile. They have sought
to requite the kindness which has warmed them in
to this state of prosperity, by sowing broadcast over
the State the seeds of a St. Domingo revolution. —
N. Y. Herald
Death of a Fast Horse —The “Milwaukie
Wisconsin" tells of a horse that recently died iu
Oregon, 111. He was very ugly, and would not (be
harnessed under the saddle, he could make extra
ordinary time. lie could pass over 112 miles in 12
hours. His usual time from Oregon to Rockford.
miles, was iwo hours. The (motor who owned
him, and who alone could ride him, has been heard
to say that during six years past he has ridden him
upwards of twenty thousand miles, and that during
a 1 this time he was never known to trip or stumble
so as to arrest the rider’s attention. He was sav
age, because he was formerly a wild horse on the
plains of Arkansas.
*Sr. P ul, Mi ne->oi Y. —fct. Paul, with eight or
nine thousand inhabitants, does the trade of some
(ighty thousand people. Her external trade is
transacted by some dozen wholesale and commission
houses whose aggregate account per year is not
less than $3,000,000 and probably much more. One
firm alone, J. W. Baas &. CRI, does a business of
$600,000. Her local trade affords employment to
150 establishments in different branches of merchan
dise, of these 25 deal exclusively in groceries, 13 in
drj'goods. 15 in iron and hardware aud 15 in cloth
ing, Ac., Ac. An average of ufty steamers per
week (except in the lowest water) are employed in
transporting her freigts. Her total business in mer
chandise, sold per year is estimated at no less than
between six and seven million of dollars. In 1850
it was $131,000 all told.
Large Investment.—Hon. William Sprague, of
Rhode Island, has purchased the water privilege on
the Shetucket river, and a large tract of land in the
vicinity of Lord’s Bridge, in Lisbon township, some
ten or twelve miles from Willimantic and has qev
aval hundreu men at work preparatory to putting
up a cotton factory of a large size, which is to be
completed and put in operation as soon as may be.
The length of this structure will be 950 feet, breadth
80 feet, four stories in height, intended to run 1,200
looms, with 50.000 spindles. For the accommoda
tion of the operatives in this immense establishment,
Mr. S. intends building some two hundred dwelling
houses in the adjoining town of Franklin, whicn
will afford homes for all in his employ. —Connecticut
paper.
A.'other VEsstL Wrecked during the Gulf
Storm. —The New Orleans Picayune of the 24th
inat., says :
We learn from Captain Palmer, of the towboat
Olivia, that the schooner Ellen, Captain Stewart,
which went to -.ea from ti.is port an iheßth inat.,
has been wrecked, and it is feared that all bauds are
lost. Part of her poop, and her stem, were seen
ashore on the 20th inst., about twenty miles to the
westward of the South we.-1 Pass. Her name, “El
len," of Richmond, could be distinctly read. She
was cleared at the Customhouse in this city on the
7th inst. for Matanzas, by J. B. Murison, with a
cargo consisting of 100 tierces lard, 72 hogsheads
coal and 50 empty barrels. Capt. Stewart * wife,
children and niec/ etc on board with him. We
have not yet learned the number of the crew, or if
there were any passengers on board.
Sir Charles Napier in Russia. —A letter in
Le Nord, from St. Petersburg, dated the 28th ult.,
says :
Sir Charles Napier intends leaving St. Petersburg
shortly, but in thfc meantime he is the object of a
curiosity which proves rather annoying to him
sometimes. The other day the old seaman went to
Pauiousk to hear Strauss' music and see the com
pany. but he must soon have perceived that in pro
rising to himself to enjoy the rural scene in tran
quility, he had reckoned without his host. No soon
er had he arrived than he found himself surrounded
with a crowd of gazers ; wLq never loft him for one
instant, it he began to walk, on walked the crowd;
if he sat down in any nook of the garden where he
fancied he could be alone, the nook became in a
twinkling the most thronged part, and groups gath
ered thick and dense. Sir Charles tried frequently
to escape by changing the locality, but he did not
succeed. Dodged from alley to alley by this curi
osity so flattering to his vanity, but so annoying to
him in his stroll, he fairly fled from the garden, and
did not breathe freshly again till he. himself a
short time after in the train which rapidly bore him
away from St. Petersburg. Even celebnty has its
drawbacks, and Sir Charles Napier has experimen
tally convinced himself of the tact
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
Additional by ibe North America*!.
The Emperor of France returned to Paris but
was to leave again immediately for the baths of
Biarritz.
The London papers notice certain extraordinary
statements that circulate in Paris respecting affairs
at the Tuileries, and call on the Emperor to stop the
calumny. r
The intelligence from Madrid simply mentions
that there is nothing new. and that quiet is reported
throughout Spain.
Dspartero had taken amicable leave of the
Queen.
General Serrano is appointed Spanish Minister to
Paris.
O’Donnell had not published the programme of
his ministry.
The Russians have notified that they are ready to
give up Kars to the Turks. Russia still maintains
that the Island of Serpents belongs to her, and it is
rumored that Louis Napoleon has sent a supplemen
tary note to be inserted in the treat}* to settle the
point.
Portugal has officially notified her adherence to
the doctrine propounded by the Congress of Paris
respecting the rights of neutrals and arbitration.
Distressi ug aeeounts had been received from
Madrid in regard to prevalence of the cholera in
that city.
The Czar's coronation is now fixed for the Sept.
6, new stvie.
M. Wafewski and Duke Pelissier are to distribute
the Turkish medals to the Frenoh army. Only tlie
wounded and invalids are to be permitted to accept
thempdqjs. Walewski had resumed his functions
as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Pelissier had a mar
tial welcome on his arrival iu Paris.
The Algerine Moniteur describes a reeeut success
ful attack by a column ofß,ooo men on a strongly
posted force of Babois Kabyles.
Tlie following extraordinary paragraph is from
the editorial columns of the London Star :
There arc some very unhappy rumors floating all
over Paris about the state of things established at
the Tuileries, which it is very much to be hoped are
entirely without foundation. Moreover, the state
ments gatVer strength, and are repeated (from day
io «iay. No doubt the legitimist aud republican
parties in Paris will take care that the stories do uot
lose exciting interest in the repetition. We are
iiorry to add that the character of the Empress her
self continues to be cruelly aspersed. Now that the
Emperor returns to Paris it ought to be hi* first
duty to bring the authors of these calumnies to iu*
tice.
India and China.—Telegraphic advices autici
patory of the East India mail had been received.—
The dates ore to July 10 from Bombay, where ex
change was quoted at 2.13]. Money was easier aud
freights had declined. Trade was quiet. At Oal
eutta exchange was steady and produce dull,
h reights low. American shipmasters accepted $S
per ton for the UqUeff fttateg.
Madeira, kc.-—The West India mail conveyed
disastrous accouuts from Madeira. In Funclml
alone there had been 5,000 cases of cholera, and
1,500 deaths, out of a population of 28,000. There
was a deficiency in medicine and doctors, and
the dead roinaiued unburied. Fires werekept burn
ing to mitigate tlie pestilence arising from the putri
tying bodies. !
John A. Martin, for many years U. 8. Consul at
Lisbou, died on the 3d iust., after an illness of only
eight hour’s duration.
the latest.
Russia.—The Nurd affirms ihc Kusiuau
Government has made a us railway lines
to capitalist*, exUhfitng upwards of 3,000 English
miles.
According to the Brussels Nord, the Czars i
coronation has been postponed uutil Sept. 7th, uew
England. — London, August 7 — Evening. —The !
great pianoforte manufactory of Broad wood 6l Sou*
i* now on fire, with little hope of saving any portion i
of the valuable stock.
Plymouth. August i2.—The royal squadron was '
off this port at 11 A. M., and the yacht with
her Majesty and the Royal family on board entered
the Sound and dropped anchor near Mount Edge- \
combe.
The Harvest in France —The harvest had ter- j
minuted in the south of France and was proceeding
iu the centre aud north. It proved inferior btyouu j
the Garonne and along the banks of the Rhine; mid- 1
dling between the Garonne and the Loire ; but mag- i
niticent in every part of the country north of this
last river. The new wheat brought to market was
of a superior quality. There was immense arrivals J
of wheat at Marseilles.
yy THE NIAGARA.
Xvir York, Aug. 2U.—The following quotations
are reported per Niagara, of the lGth inst. Southern
Flour 30 'a 325. lied Wheat Bs2 w 9aGd •, White 9s9d
a 10s6d. Com—White 31h <£3lm6<l; Mixed 30sGd
®3ls.
The Emperor’s fete on the 15th was grandly cele
brated. The Te Deum was sung by all the churches
in France.
The Orleans family have left Hamburg for Ostend
on the receipt of a despatch from England.
The cholera is increasing in Lisbon
Additional by (lie Niagara,
A lamentable accident occurred pn hoard the
Canadian on tjte homeward passage. The Rev.
Wm. lyiarsh drank, in mistake, a quantity of disin
fecting fluid, notwithstanding every care, it
proved fatal. His body waa taken to Liverpool,
and an inquest held upon it.
Gen. La Marmora has, in the name of the King of
Sardinia, invited Gen. Canrobert, who is at the Sar
dinia watering place, to visit Turin.
According to Italian correspondence, the Nea
politan army is greatly dissatisfied with the govern
ment.
The concessions made by the Russian government
professedly to facilitate the imports of foreign goods
amount to very little, and relate to such matters a,i
abridging the time allowed between the delivering
in of a decision of contents and the deposit of
the goods in the bonding warehouses at St, Peters
burg.
Great Britain. —From every part of the United
Kingdom the harvests are of a favorable character,
and but little doubt is now entertained that the grain
crops will be at least a fair average iu quantity p ( qd
quality. In Scotland the crons ar? very heavy.’—
With respect to potatoes tliereHs a general concur
rence of evidence that the crops, though not entire
ly free from disease in some parts of England, Ire
land and Scotland, promise to be abundant and ex
cellent. The late rains have been very beneficial
to green crops. Harvest operations are now gene
ral, and so much labor is wanted, that farmers have
ouibld railway contractors, who find themselves
compelled to suspend for the present all but their
pressing contracts on the public works. Sir Mor top
Peto, iii a letter, suggests that the government
would act most wisely if it would permit the regi
ments stationed in the rural districts to imitate tfie
example of the French soldiers and earn wages hv
helping to get in CQJP,
Hiss Nightingale has returned to her home in
Derbyshire, avoiding all demonstrations of wel
come.
France. —Friday, the I,sth inst., the Emperor’s
fete took place. Salutes were fired at six o’clock in
the morning and at six o'clock in the evening. At
midday mass was celebrated in Notre Dame, iu the
presence of the dignitaries of the State. The Te
Deum was sung in all the churches of France. The
afternoon, from 2 o’clock to G, was devoted to dra
matic representations of military events, baloon as
cents and various kinds of games. There was an
evening concert in the garden of the Tuileries, and
other gardens and the Place Concorde were illumi
nated with colored lanterns. At 9 o’clock there was
a display of fireworks at the Barriere de L’Etoile
and the Barriere du Trone.
A private despatch from Hamburg states that
there is some movement going on among the Or
leanists. The Duchess of Orleans, the Duke of
Chartres, with M. Thiers and their auitcß, had left
that city for Qtiteud, iu consequence of a despatch
received from England.
The Mouiteur publishes a decree opening a credit
of five hundred and twenty-two thousand francs for
the payment of the interest and sinking fund of the
share guaranteed by France on the Greek loan of
1833.
Marshal Pelisrier’a title Is Duke of the Malakofi’,
with a pension of one hundred thousand francs per
annum.
M. liouland has been appointed Minister of Pub
lie Instruction.
Spain.—The news from Spain is whpl.y uninter
esting. We have a report in the (rrazettc de France
but which requires confirmation, that disturbances
hud arisen at Cadiz, in disarming the National
Guard, but with this exception the general dis
arming is everywhere being carried on without re
sistance. The fears entertained of scarcity were
diminishing.
Portugal. —Government has .cut the var iteain
er Mindello to Madeira \7ivk a cargo of provisions
and medical stores. Cholera was increasing at
Lisbon.
Italy.—A report was circulated in the Paris
Bourse that there had been an attempt at insurrec
tion in Naples. It was not, however true ; and
from the precautions taken to repress, any attempt
at rising is unlikely. The secret liberal press has,
however, just issued another proclamation to the
people, calling on them to agitate firmly but quiet
ly. Garibaldi publisher in a Genoa paper a letter
saying he has just discovered that the gallant Ro
man, Ceceruacchio, his two young sons, and five
other victims, who were reported to have escaped,
were shot in celd blood by the Austrians in 18-19, at
La Contariua, and that the massacre was concealed.
This statement has created great excitement
throughout Italy.
It was reported that the submarine cable from
Sardinia to Algiers was broken and lost iu the lay
ing. The accident, however, it was subsequently
stated, was not so serious.
The Black Sea.— The English war steamer Gla
diator has returned from the Isle of Serpents to
Constantinople, and reports on the island fifty Tur
kish and eight Russian soldiers.
There was no armed seizure of the island, as
was reported. The island is nothing but a bare
rock, of very limited size, and contains only one
building, with the Turks and Russians living to
gether, and the latter are treated by the former as
their guests.
The Gladiator had left again for the Black Sea,
with new instructions of a more positive nature.—
The English pre*s protest strongly against the in
difference expressed by the French Government as
to whether the Isle of Serpents belongs to Russia or
Turkey. The proof that the Isle of Serpents—called
also Fidouisi—is very valuable is that all the allied
fleets made it a rendezvous before landing the army
at Eupatoria.
The remainder of the allied fleet have not yet left,
and France and Turkey having no disposable ukipc,
four English ships have joined Adipiral Steward's
squadron, now cruising Ijefore Baltschik.
The evacuation of Turkish territory by French
troops terminated on the 15th, and on the 18th Te
keduin Pasha is appointed Governor of Kars.
The Internationa! Commission, which has remo
ved to Jassy, persists in requiring that Russia shall
give up the town of Belgrade.
The Archbishop of Khemon ana Taiorda has for
mally consecrated the South side of Sebastopol, pre
paratory to its being rebuilt.
Quarantine regulations are re-established in the
Russian porta of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azof,
the same as before the war.
It is confirmed that Russia is contracting a first
class naval arsenal on the Island of Kasko, in the
Gulf of Bothnia.
The harvest in Asia is reported Lad. conside
rable stores remain iait year.
The LatextX by Telegraph.
Saturday, Aug. IG, 18o6.—Her Majesty and the
royal family returned to Osborne from Plymouth
yesterday.
The Divan has received a formal communication
of the Russian government’s claim to the Isle of
Serpents.
Kars will be delivered up immediately to the
Turks.
The Daily News remarks that for these two acts
on the part of Russia, there is said to be but little
doubt that we are in a great measure indebted to
the prompt determination of Lord Palmerston.
The London Times, city article, dated Friday
evening, says : The English funds continue to show
a total absence of fluctuation. The demand for
money in the Stock Exchange was rendered more
active by the foreign stock and share settlement out
of doors. And at the Bank of England there was
likewise an increased inquiry in foreign exchanges,
without change in rates.
The com market this morning was again without
recovery.
A prospectus has been issued of the Bank of To
ronto, in Canada, with a capital of £50,000.
The returns of the Bank of France for the past
month are on the whole satisfactory.
The Journal of Vienna states, that as soon as the
Austrian Cabinet was informed of the indisposition
of Russia to restore Kars, and the occupation of the
Island of Serpents, it addressed an energeticremou
strance to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. Th e right
of the Porte to Serpents Isle waa recognized.
VOL. LXX. — NEW SERIES VOL. \\. NO. ;JL
The Vitality of Negroes in the South.—
Dr. Bf.nnett Dowler, the learned editor of the
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, has
written an article on the Vital Statistics of Negroes
iu the United States, which contains much invalua
ble information, ne adopts the celebrated axiom
of Jeremy Bf.stham that “of all the actions of man,
those which preserve the individual, and those
which preserve tlie species, are undoubtedly the
most beneficial to the community,” and he satisfac
torily proves, that the vitality of the negro in the
South is far greater than that of the mast favored
classes in Europe. We give the following extracts
which should be attentively studied by croaking
philanthropists :
If the vital statistics of the negroes of tlie South
ern States of this Republic, be compared with the.
vital progress of the aristocratic classes in England
it will be found that the comparison will be to the
utmost degree unfavorable to the latter. The
Westminister Review for April, 1847, says, that
“in England, in a great majority of eases of the
Baronetages become extinct for want of male heirs,
though many of each have female representatives.”
M.Gnlignani in his Guide to Paris, (1844,) says,
that nearly all the old Parisian families are extinct
—particularly the male portion, and that in the
great city of Paris, not one thousand persons can
reckon their ancestors as far back as Louis XIII.
The nuinercial history of the slave population of
this Republic, compared to the ratio of increase in
France is immeasurably unfavorably to the latter.
According toM. D’Angeville, aud other earlier and
later authorities, the ratio of increase in France re
quires 139 years, and according to the very latest
census, 142 years, for the duplication of the French
population.
The slaves of the United States increase more
than five times faster than the population of France.
In 1810, the slaves numbered 1333 centenarians,
and in 1850 the number was 1425, while all Franco
had in 1837, 4 but 120of this age, an] unusual proper- 1
tion of whom were coonentrated in the valley or the !
Garonne. The French population had then, accor- :
ding to the census, but one ceutenarian to 240,000
inhabitants. According to the last census of the
United States there was one centenarian in every
2118 slaves, a ratio 98 times greater than iu the*
FrenchlEmpire.
The physiological deterioration of the free blacks, •
particularly in the nou^slaveholding States of this
Republic., as set forth and uniformly confirmed by ,
every official census, is unparalleled lu the ethuo .
logical history of mankind. This extraordinary de
generation does not apply to the low ratio of in
crease, but to. the high' numerical proportion of the
insane, the idiots, the deaf, dumb, blind and so forth. i
The Indian race in North America, estimated by J
Mr. Gatlin at 16,000,000 at the time the Caucasian
family settled iu the country, has dwindled down to
a few hundred thousands, without having suffered \
from similar deteriorations.
Mr. Alison, the Scotch Historian, in his work on
population, iu comparing the condition of the Irish i
with the blacks of the West Indies says : “Unqucs- i
tionably the condition of the uegrocs iu tfio West _
Indies, prior to their late emancipation, generally * J
speaking, was infinitely preferable. R is perhaps 1
the worst effect of that well-meant but disastrous
measure, it will approximate the condition and
habits us the negro race in those beautiful islands to r
tlu;t of the Jrish peasantry.” Indeed, this writer j
jays \t down an axiom, that “slavery results un
avoidably from the dependcut condition of the la
boring classes.” j
The condition of Negroes in their native land is <
thus drawn :
The negroes of Africa now lpuvo ihau ever oat one
auother. They are everywhere crushed out beyond
the limits of the slaveliofdiug States.
A French naval officer, who with his suite was
hospitably entertained by the Negro King of Daho
mey, during the Presidency of Napoleon, now Em
peror of the French, relates that tfie Ring feeds his
large army of female auff male soldiers on the flesh
of his captives, whom he can now no longer sell to
the whites. The French officer, shockeaat seeing
human beings thus butchered, frequently plead with
the King to abandon this practice, but was always
answered by his Majesty and Cabinet, with hearty
laughter for his cneffable absurdity.
“The chief ornament of the royal residence, con
taining 15,000 mhabitii,uto, ri human skulls, of which,
when a number was waited to pave a court or de
corate a ceiling, it was uot ap \;n\uieul process to
have some scores of persons masiiacyeed for the pur
pose ■” The fcmuki part of the army is nearly as
large as the standing army of the United States
usually is in times of peace.
Hon. Edward Bates’ Speech.
This distinguished old line Whig addressed the
people of St. Louis on the 19th inst., in support of
Fillmore. We make the following extract from
the Intelligencer*B report of itj
The Democratic platforms are multifarious, and
so blended with evanescent shaffe*, anff ipeßing
qualities, like the cplors pf the rainbow, that you
eqnnqt pqt a needlp at an point, and say, here vio
let pnd§, and blue begin*. They are fonped of ab
stract words, which are like a box with ft false bot
tom, which you can put anything into, or take any
thing out of, without being detected. For instance,
the Cincinnati platform declares that Congress has
no right to commence and carry on a general system
of internal improvements, leaving Congress either
to execute any number of specific internal improve
ments, or to commence, or to carry on them, since
the denial is of the right of Congress to coinmeupe
and carry on a general system. Another fyato.fo of
this platform is the foreign conquest plank. We
know whose mill aawpd if, wjiat sort or timber it is
made of, qud whet tort ol spikes nailed it down. It
came frqm the Conference at Ostend, between Mr.
Mason, Mr. Soule, and Mr. Buchanan.
The sum and substance of tlie letter issued by
that Conference is, that, if Spain is such a fool as
not to sell Cuba to us, we will tako it by force. Os
a part of the foreign policy embodied in was
the effort to secure the port ofScppquu, * u Domin
go. The Kansas Nebraska bill'is another, and the
chief feature Y f this platform. It is the perfection of
abstraction*, containing more studied artfulness,
and more falsehood than the same number of words
anywhere to be found—declares the people of
the Territories alone have the right to pass their
own laws and, fo;m their own institutions. And yet
the pacification bill of Mr. Douglas actually repeals
laws which the people of the Kansas Territory
have made. Congress has the right to legislate for
the people of the Territories, else it could not dele
gate power to the Territorial legislatures.
Mr. wa man of good talents and great
experience; bu( lye never originated a public mea
sure or led a public lyorcmcnt. Fremont is, I pre
sume, a map of attainments, courage and energy :
but fie is without political antecedents. Fillmore is
u man who has held many high offices, and always
left them with a better reputation than he carried to
them. Whiga are asked to support Buchanan be- I
cause he is a “national” man ; and yet this word
“national” is nowhere more heartily tfian
in those very quarters where Mr. Bv.chapan’s chief
strength lies.
Most Extraordinary* <&ccui\rencs. —The edi
tor of Felcysbuyg, Yft., Intelligencer , writing
from Alleghany Springs, Va., Aug. 20, narrates the
following :
You will before this, have heard of a most shock
ing occurrence which took place in Fiucastlc, a
nights since. A gentleman, with several ruothev
less children, arrived at that place, and in the course
of the night the inmates pf the Hotel wero aroused
by terrinc screams, and uu tracing up the sound,
found shat U emanated from the room in which the
gentlemen and his children lodged. Breaking the
door open, the horrified spectators saw that he was
laboring under a horrible dream or night mare,
was in the act of pulling out the tongue of Mr young
est child, whom lie had taken tq Seep in the bed
with him. He was immediately aroused to see the
body of his little child dreadfully bruised and lacera
ted, and told those who had awakened him, that ho
had dreamed that some one was murdoriug the
child and lie was trying to rescue It. His agony
was said to be. indescribable. At the time the pas
sengers left Fir,castle soy this place, the poor child
was alive but in au extremely perilous condition.
A Tric to the Head Waters of the Mis
souri.—The stoainer St. Mary recently returned to
St. i-iouis from a trip to the head waters of the Mis
souri. The Republican gives a notice of h,er long
voyage, from which wc make the following extract:
“The arrival of this boat yesterday morning was
announced by the booming of some cannon she al
way.j carviw \yi,th herfor protection from any attack
tie ‘untutored savages’ might take into their heads
to make upon the boat while away in the far upper
Missouri. She was gone exuctly fifty-two uays,
Capt. Labarge having intended to go beyond the
farthest point ever gained by stcan&boat. He
reached French Bend, one hundred and fifty miles
above the Yellowstone, without having to haul over
any bar, and turned back at that point, anticipating
trouble with the river above. The Elpaso, on one
occasion, went ten miles farther up the river, which
was the first and last time a boat had been so far
up. The distance to French bend is two thousand
eight hundred miles, so that the St. Mary, since she
lett port, has run live thousand six hundred
miles.
Rev. William Mosely, the “Old Ploughman,'* of
Georgia, will preach at Fellowship Church, near
Midway, on the 3d Sunday in September next, and
on Monday following, 22d proximo, he will address
the citizens of the county on the issues involved in
the Presidential eampaigu.— Clarion Banner.
The reverend “Ploughman” seta his coulter a lit
tle too deep when he embraces an appointment for
preaching and another for political speaking in the
same notice. If he would keep the two rows a little
farther apart, and discriminate so that the public
can deciae whether he is itinerating for Christ or
Buchanan, one or both of his enterprises might be
better promoted. We suspected that the cose of
the Buchanan party was a desperate one before
they called in tne clergyman, and we trust that he
will be enabled to administer consolation in their
dying moments. like the Alabama slaveholder
and his two condemned uegroes, they are now cut
ting with the last saw, and preparing for the fearful
doom that awaits them. We wish them a glorious
time of it “on the other side of Jordan.”— Coltimbu*
En//uirer. _
Dr. Kane and the AucTip Svarcu. —We pub
is hed yesterday ac article from the London papers
relative to knottier expedition proposed by the Bri
tish Government to the Arctic regions to make final
laearch for the remains of the official records of Sir
John Franklin and his party, ol' which traces have
at List been found. Dr. Kane has, by caramon con
sent, even among the English navigators them
selves, been looked to as tte bead of this expedi
tion, and has been tendered the command in the
fullest and mowt flattering manner by tuo English
Admiralty. He has heretofore declined it; but the
strong inducements held out in connexion with l,?*tc
ly renewed appeals from Lady Franklin, the officers
of the British Geographical thp Mini*
try, all combine towards inducing hyn to reconsider
his answer, and it may be that he is destined to
again venture upon the perilous enterprise of set
tling forever the geography of the North Bole, while
he performs the last offices for the lost navigutors.—
Rational %r<jbellig*ncer.
Yellow Fever in New Orleans.— We noticed
on Monday, says the New Orleans Bulletin of tfov
22d inst., in the report of inte*nents, five deaths by
yellow fever. We last evening paid a visit to the
Charity Hospital, in <»rdcr to ascertain whetherthere
wa.i a continuance of the disease, and are gratified
to be able to state that not another case has occur
red there since last week. This is cheering intelli
gence, as some peopie expected considerable iur
crease this week. Two of the cases last week were
from Vera Cruz, and the others were boatmen. We
announce, therefore, to pevsou? abroad, that the
same high state of health that has blessed. New Or
leans during the season thus far, still continues.
Distress**.— -A P« ris oorrespon
dent of the London Critic says that the Lamartine
subscription j,'oes on quietly, and had
somethinL' like 400, 000 f. sßo,ooo—a very
high figure for France, or any other country. Tho
sum would have risen much higher, but some one
Dointcd out that the dislrutct of the poet could no.
Ee very great, as, wholly independent of any pri
vate property he may possess, be u. in the receipt
of upwards of $15,000 annually from the «lft made
Mm Ey the Sultan, and for the use of liu m.no bv
two Paris journals. With the sum of SBO,OOO cash
in haud?the“um of $15,000 annually, together with
the possession and daily exercise of hn. popular and
mostprofitable talents, it does seem as though La
martinc might be able to extricate biinseif from his
difficulties.
The inauguration of a statute to Franklin, is to
take place in Boston on the 17th of Septeinbov* Th*
military have been invited to participate-
The Loss. of thk Nai m.r> --The N<w ( >rt. -
Bulletin ofthe t 2sth inst., says:' \W !nv« In .n .
furaislied by thf* Purser of the steun* 1
Perseverance, anc! Lien tenant Stevens, of t.,-
United States Engineers, with the followiiig.p.l
ticulars in regard to the wreck of this iH-foieu
vessel, and the passengers on board of he. .
of whom, beyond all .Question, with tla' officer-;
and crew, except the steward, have found whL
graves.
The Purser of the Perse verauce 1«* ft (1 ai v eah > <
on Wednesday, tho 20th inat., for Tim bailer 1
and, on the Government sonoonner E-wayc"
accompanied by Lieut. Stevens. United St at*
Engineers.
On Timballer and Caillou Islands large piee.
the wreck of the Nautilus were found, suoh as cvl
inderkelsons, kelson rider,tanka from the life-boat'
&c. The largest part of the hull was on Caillou
Island. One niece was fifty or sixty feet long.
In Caillou Bay lie saw Jim Frisbee, the steward
of the Nautilus, who was picked up on the W; .
inst,, by the F. M. Struck towboat, near Fort l.i\
ingston, Barrataria Bay. The steward was ttouthut
on a drift log, which he had swam to from the pier,
ot the deck by which lie first scoured himself.
The Nautilus passed the Light-ship at Ship l-dn;
Shoal oft Last Island, at Sundown on the nth in
At about i A. M. on the Sunday the steward an vs L.
cattle on the Nautilus wore down . some u. iev
tween decks listing the ship so that the (' piai.,
deavored toman her. When broadside to sen .1
vy sea struck her, capsizing her instantly. She',*
bottom up, and the steward saved himself on a »f.,
ment of the cabin, lie states he saw ('apt. Thump
son and a few others on the bottom of the shin, Ln:
they wore washed *>fT by the first sea. One or Iwo
he saw clinging, to the fragments of the wreck 1L
soon fell in with Mr. Johnson, the first .engineer, n\
kept oompa .y with him five days ; at the owl of tlui
time Mr. Johnson became delirious, and jumped in
to the aea and was drowned.
Most of the passengers were standing on the .star
board side of the gangway when she went over. uii. ‘
from the fact of no life preservers having been
picked up, were probably anticipating no homed;
ate danger. Examinations were made <m Timbafiei
and Caillou, in hopes of finding some bodies.-
None were found by the officer* of .the Essavon..
but they heard at Timbalier, that near the Wreck
of the John Realise, at the LuFourcho Inlet, n
body of a man with black whiskers, and hav
ing blue clothes on, was. found, and it was
thought might, be Captain Thompson. On land
ing at the RoulesiS they found her deserted,
and could get no Intelligence. No other bodi«
were seen that could be identified ns belonging it.
the Nautilus,
The following list ofpa.Miigeiscontains all vh»>.
names could be learned by our informants ;
R. 1\ Denver, N. C.; Micajah Thomas, fend Jadv
Houston, Texas; 11. G. Bhfiodk,Fayv*it'iJci*.,Tex;
W. A. Kirwin, Freestone co., Texas; Rov'd T\V;
chell, Houston, Texas; Brownsville, T. \
Adolphe Holflf, Liberty, T««s ; S. A. lugraham, La’
Grange, Texas; J.D.Ellis, Washington, Texas;T A.
Mallory, Galveston, Texas; Judge J. Scott, Grim
co., Te\os> Pj. K. Graves, Wheelock, Texas; Mi
H- Guy, Wheolock. Texas; C. H. Short, X. <) ;
Cunt. Win.N. Muir, N. O.; Anderson Marsh, N. O
.J. Newman, Marshall, Ala., J. M. Adams, Marsim?}'
Ala.
From the statement of the rescued steward, i
would appear that the ship was suddenly overturned,
and that the passengers were not anticipating their
fate, but were in an instant, as it weto,'launched,
into eternity.
ThkWatek Sri'vi.v ok Phiiaiieumiia. Atv
port of the Sanitary Committee of the oily of Phil
dolphin, recently submitted to the Philadelphia
Medical Society, by Dr. Wilson Jerrell, furnish,
some interesting items of information in rehition ■■
the water supply of that oily.
The Fainnoust Works supply the Hist lon « >
of the Cunsoiidtttod City. The pumps atlm-lied
thereto, if run twenty-four hours, will raise t..*pr!v
11,000,000 of giillons per duy. The five reservin'"■
of (heso works will store when lull, upwards of H.
000,000 of gallops. The Schuylkill Works, i!.-
quartern of n mile above Puirmoiuit, wliioit supply
the eleventh, twelfth, thirteoutb, fourteenth, lifter m
twentieth, and part of the sixteenth wards, are . ..
puiile of raising 10,190,236 gallons per twenty-four
hours. The storage for there works will hold 9, in•
000 gallops. The Delaware Works, located oil tho
Delaware river, at Kensington, supply tin- seven
teeuth, eighteenth, nineteenth,'and part of the
sixteenth wards, will throw up 1,020,210 gallon i,,
twenty-four bouts, and the reservoir contains, wh, n
full, 9,284,000 gallons. Thefourtli or twenty-fourth
Ward Works intended to supply tho tweiity-fniuij.
ward, or West Philadelphia,Mantua and pail: ~,li t
cent, will raise 1,5 80,272 gallons in each 1 worn v :
hours. These works have no basin lev storage. lie ,
depend upon the volume contained in a stand pip,
five feet in diameter, and one hundred ami thin
feet high.
The water from these several works i j disfi il.atei j
throng!; iron pipes of various signs, from hit is !>, ■
in diameter, down to Ij ineli bore, over n siuTt,-
equaliii extent to 212 and I !dlh miles. From ;!.,
public works it is again conducted through lead. ~
pipea to private houses, laetoriee, ,Vr. fhc t :.i:
amount of water pumped by the first tlireo mini,,"
works, during the year 1854 was !,27u,< si;,p"
lons, or 11,MU,78b gallons per day. The high, :
average for any month was July, widely allows, it
gallons per day for each of the poinilrdion rooidni ,
tliut pari of tho olty supplied with We n-r ~r , tl . -,t
ing to tho average per day throughout the ,e.,
would givo each inhaWlant 33 gallons per dav. T| ,
cost of this supply to the oily is about ele\ ,-n
for each million of gallons.— Hall. Amrr.
The I'ROsrttcrs OK the Caniiiimi'e* rmt Tift-
Puesi PERCY.—The opponents of Mr. Ki'Jini,".:, io
both branches of the Union, remurl il,. i: . t..,,
Courier, playoff a mutual game e, 1 , depivi i iii,:e
with each other ill regard to hia iwospvetfi. no, I •,. ,
tually affirm, upon their ownahle ~i Ma .min ..
Dixon’s line, that ho hup ho strength upon the 11,.
side of the border. At the South, his Vo ~■,. ~
he has no strength at the North, without i.
ing that in the great State of the North he hi,nth,•
most earnest, zealous ami effective advocates which
can he found in Hint. Stnfe—that lie has as v ,
shown by the molding of his friends in the Mo-,
Hall lin Now York City, an immenao body of th.
most respectable and influential men who , mild h.
gathered together in. the great metropolis of n,, -.
who have such, ieade.ru ns Hiram Kclehuni is
Henry Rriiinel—and that southward, caul waul aim
westward, among tlm masses of 1%, Now York.-,
there is a feeling, asfnte pride among-■ th.-ii. i, I .
anil a personal reaped towards (him eanilhhit.-
which will give him thousands of votes at tin poll
In New Jersey Mr. Fillmore in miquestinnaht,
ahead of the other candidates iu the opinions i .t , hi
people—ln Pennsylvania he is stronger l!„m 1
luont is, and his friends are besought Dy t!.■ • sup
porters of the latter to form a mutual . uvl -i d ti,
et, which we hope they will not do- in Ooniiivii.uu
and Hhinlo Island they urcpowerful to ilnv,
gradually increasing in number—tuid in Mn -.n lm
setts wo by no means despair of acquiring the , !■
torn! vote pf the Slate tor him, when' we see that II:
statesmen and the lawyers, the active business im ,
clmnts, and the sturdy respectable and most intlu
ential mechanic* of our vicinity are almost , nth. I v
in favor of him for President. The thlnkiii-' nn,'
conservative people of the country are in lev. , ,
Mr. Fillmore—the imaginative and impulsive v,,t,
of the North is in favor of Mr. Fremont, and a ■
of it is guided by hands, in whose direction v, .
few sober and serious men would confide, with n
gat'd either to business or political calculaiinus
■ytie administration of President. Pierce lie.., i„ , ,
very uupopulav at the North, and some hJ its
uents think that in deciding upon it by their vo|,
in November they must lake either Seylla ,
Cliurybdis. They are not obliged to take either the
one or the other, for (here is a middle e.iur u lii< h
they can safely mVifiue in the support cl Mr Ki!<
more.
breech Loading Cannon {-—A few days ng<- w.
were invited by a gentleman from Lowell” Mr.
Barnes, to witness the operation of a caniimi In
vented by him and patented a few weeks sin. • |[«
was experimenting on the best mode <>j mnki; :
cartridges, and, though he was Dot salistii, 1 iiii
his efforts, we were more than satisfied, ye- ;i tm.
ished.
The gun we saw was about two feel long arid
about an inch bore. At tho Lieeoli end tin is an
arrangement by which a mun can turn a crank just
like a grindstone, and “shoot" as oftm lu-Yui;
drop a cartridge into a hole. By turning I hi* c rank
the cartridge is taken from this hole, fox . d into th.
breech of the gun, which opens to receive .t. th- .
closes. Tho gun iscapped, fired, and swabbed oi l
all in regular order, and without tho leu-: 1 , danger to
the gunner from premature explosion ; for wlJn lb
cartridge is put into this hole the gun i* all tight
but it somehow opens oud shuts, and slioots ko pi <
cisely “on time” that tho idea of dauger ) H iol
dreamed of. Wo onght to mention that the c; ;>r
are put on to a wheel that holds fifty or more, m!
ave luken from this ns often as needed.
Mr. Barnes has been employed he, retold re in 11 .«-
United States armory at Springfield, Mass., where
uumerous experiments in breech-loading cannon
were made by hicgjKDflf and others, and is thoroughly
posted in these matters. He says two men, one ■ .
drop ic, the cartridges and une to turn the crank,
CAD manage the largest uiaed gunstliat now rcijui •
from eight to twelve men to work, and that, he-can
discliurge any cautton as last us the powder in it.-
cartridges will burn. Notwithstanding tin carl
ridge* in ilia fittle peace-maker “did not go t . -ui’
him, we sav/five successive shots made in twelve
second*.
Applications for patents in Franco, England, and
Russia have been made already ; but if we could
keep this weapon entirely in our own control* tin u
would be little apprehension of warlik den ion aha
lions on the other side of the Atlantic.— Man. (A.
//) American.
A Horriijle St our.—The Paris Unionc, of ti
( 20th July, says : Most horrible stories arc now b»
iiig told of the conduct of the Legate Oraßiu llwp. at
; Bologna, and from inquiries made there is no doubt
of their truth. The Gardiiwi’s gar defier find
daughter who wan considered to be the
girt in Bologne, and was engaged to be ma . ied to a
young Bolognese. Hi* eminence took a fancy f*»
her, and attempted to seduce the gin, bj.it he not
listening, he bad recourse to Roman prcMU nmnsu
vers, and bar ished tie* propos'd JiiiHb/mci, bo f hat
the girl m’ght purchase Wreturn at tho expense ol
her bonor. But Ending even this would n«>l. d>,
under the ju'etext of heresy, tiio poor creature was*
taV»m irom her parents ami thrown ifito prison. Th.*
parents went immediately to the Austrian (ten mi
Degen field. Cardinal Gransellini pretended t
know nothing about- it, bat. the General knew Mb.
man, and tip earned force. The girl was set fit fib
erty and given over to her parents The ti .-atipeni
slm bad received in prison was ho horrible that wlnn
between shame and differing, the poor trill expired
in a few days.
£ Widows.—They are th; very mischief. Tlitje
nothing like’em lftheymak* up their mind io
marry, it’s I knew one that was terrible
afraid of thunder and l igntiling, and every time
BtonA oame oji she would run into Mr. SiWith’t Ih.u.*
(ICWaaa widower,) aun clasp her little, hanri , hi. 1
fiy around, till the man was half distract ed h» o■■
she would be killed , and the consequi nee wa '■»
w'ttH Mrs. John Smith befon- three tlmnder«doi i iat
tied over her head.
More Distinguished Aid to th* K/m-m.-ck
Cause. —The Pittsburg Chronicle aim nn.e. tii.ii
Gov. Pollock, of vania, hus decided !<• •
port Mr. Fillmore. He H) to address a hillin' ;e and
bonelHOD meeting at Shtunokin, Nortlmiibcrl.in 1
county, on the 20tti (Weduc day.) Gov.
one of the ablest men in Pennsylvania, and by odd
the most popnlar. Hon. E. C. Dele Van of A!b:inv
New York, the leader of the TeUrtperanei j.i.i iy m
that State, has niro declared for Fillinoiv. M, t»
wields a great iiitiuenoe with his party, and i. ?i \ m
uabl© aCcerfHion to the Cause.
Attemfted Assassination.— The Mobile T'ri
bune of the 2fiU) says W<- regret to learn that on
lost Sunday, Mr. Zeno Orso, whilst peaceably walk
king along the public highway, near his residem ••
in the north part of this county, was fired upon b
gome per>«»n hiving in ambush, with a double bar;,
shot gun. Mr. Orso’s condition is said to be a critical
one. He was dangerously wounded in the neck ucd
abdomen.
A man of the name of Jackson, was arrested by*
the citizens living near Mr. Orso, ami yesterday
morning was brought to the city, and taken befi*r.-
J. R. Eastburn Esq., and by him committed to jab
Wai .kino ON THE Water. —Galignani's (l*ar:s)
Messenger says: “An immense crowd was ii
bled on Tuesday afternoon,on the bridges and quays
of the Seine, to witness the movements of a well
dressed man who was walking on the river betwi • n
the Pont du Carousel and the lock at the Mint, aj
parent ly witii the greatest ease. He had each font
in a small triangular box, securely fastened w ith
straps round his legs, and in his hands he curried t.
long balancing pole, similar to th<*se used by rop<*
dancers, except that at each end wa attached
large inflated bladder. When getting off his bul
uiii’d, he dipped the end of the pole, and the r«. i-
Unce caused by the bladder touching the water re
stored him to ms equilibrium. 1