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Poi.tr, Oa., S*pt. 6. I*.W.
Dfc\R *»!R :W-aw m \h< CoHbt}UUioiwU*t of
ilur -W «n«t . a ounnmnication from the Hon. Wm.
U YqiJeey. of AUbcona ; in reference to an auiiei
in \S eri Poiut on the 30th of Au
j'.-L In t.’iin communiea?’.oL he suj *s, Know
.Vothintri? fmoliifinrti haudbiils that / trould te there
and repre sent the Jleraocracy.”
it i» not our object to raise a question of ve
racity between Mr. Yacr ey and ourselves, but while
wy have no he uiiatioii to do injustice to him, by male
ini' out u ense uj»i«ir!y, we are determined that be
shall not, by perversion of language, jdace us in a
li. :e attitude. The Know-N T otbir-gs (as V* styles
D.“, never said in their handbills, or otherwise, that
>L. A ancey nu/uld 6e here on the 30th and represent
the Democracy, for the very reason we never be
hoved be would come and diseuas the political ques
tions upim equal terms. We said, as will appear by
he: annexed handbill, to which Mr. Yancey refers,
.mtthe 4 H«m Win. L. Yancey, of Alabama, and L.
J. Garfre!!, of Geotfeta, are especially invited to be
fif*-sejjt, mid d»* aa- the political questionstliat now
agitate the public mind.”
Now, it will appear evident to all men of the least
obsci v afio%that there is a vast diiference in saying
positively ;.ud mi equivocally that Win. L. Yancey
•*v\»»uldbe there (her e) and represent the Democ
racy,” aud in saying that the said gentleman is
♦** -pccially invited to be present,” dtc. Here is the
hand bill referred to :
(it and Hatty of the Aim •'< on Party of (ieovffia
and Authaiua, at Went Paint, (Ja.
The citizens of Georgia and Alabama, without
distinction of party, arc respectfully invited to a free
barbecue to be given by the American Party of
Ai-.bama at.d Georgia, at West Point. Saturday,
August 30tii idstant.
The Speakers of the American Party who are in
vit'.d mid cxpte<rt«3il to attend, are, Hons. 15. 11. Hill,
II V. M Miller, A R. Wright, r. S Bartow, of
Georgia Hon Jc r <\ Clem*-us, Hon. H. W. Hil
liard, Ho ii. T. H Watts, Hon. W. P. Chilton, 11-. n.
\. f.. Parsons, Gol. Cha- 4 of Alabama;
W ti. Browniew, Tcnm-ssee
Hon W. L. Yancey, of Alabama, and L J. Gar
frell, of Georgia, are especially invited to be pre
s« nt, end discuss the political questions that now
agit«t«*ih<- public mind.
The Ladies are especially invited to be present.
West Point, August 15, 1856.
Another poiut wt wish to notice : he says, “1
buve never received a line from their committee in
viting in*-. I have made no engagement with any
one to be there.” Y\V will answer by analogy, one
for all, itch a miserable subterfuge. Suppose the
Honorable American gentlemen, who were with us
on the 30th, lmd waited for the Democratic Commit
teerm n to have extended to each of them ;i
special invitation, uo you suppose that we
would have been represented on that day, as we
were, by the able expounders of the American prin
cipled, viz : Hill, of Georgia, and Belser and Watts;
ol Alabama 7 No, sir! If such men were to re
main quietly nt home, or strictly pursue their legal
iut crests, until called out to show up the enormity of
Demoeratio inconsistencies, by Democratic com
mittees, the Samson would escape unshorn of hie
locks.
Thin busmen* of Inviting Democratic oiator.i for
the occasion was committed to Democratic hands,
and if Mcsarfl. Yancey and Gartreil were not spe
cially invited, further tiian appears on the face of
the handbills, the sin lies not at our door, but is just
ly chargeable to the corresponding committee of the
Buchanan and Breckinridge Association of this
[d ice, as may be seen by the subjoined c >rrespond
euce :
West Point, Ga , Aug. 19th, 1850.
To the President, drC. of the. West Point Fillmore
Club:
GtML.MKiV—llic undersigned having been ap
pointed by thr Buchanan and Breckinridge Asso
ciation of this place in procure speakers for the pur
pose of addressing the people on the great questions
mvulved in the present, Presidential election, have
observed ft opt l and-bills, placed about our streets,
that you are -to have a public Barbecue at this place
on th<J 30tli inst., nudliiat you have invited many
distinguished American speakers on that occasion,
and also have invited the Hon. Win. L. Yancey, of
Alabama, and the Hon. L. J. Gartreil, of Ga., to be
present on that occasion and address the people.—
Now, the undersigned would be glad that you in
form thorn upon w hat terms, and under what con
ditions, you will allow the said Yancey and Gartreil
to pnrth ipute in said discussion ?
The undersigned would also like to know, in the
event of these gentlemen not being able to attend,
v oulcl oilier gentlemen be allowed to act ns their
alternates I We are,
Very respectfully yours, & c.
Sam i,. T. Whitaker, T
W. C. Darden, > Com.
A. VV. Reese, )
The following letter was written in answer to the
above ; granting everything that the Committee
on the part of the Democracy could possibly ask :
West Point, Ga., Aug. 19th, 1856.
Gentlemen —Yours of to day is at hand, and in
answer to your inquiries, we, on the part of the
Fillmore Club,.say to you that any speakers you
may desire 1" have present on the doth inst., to dis
cuss the political questions of the day, will be allow
ed equal tiaU' with the American speakers, but we
’misi decline making any arrangements, as to who
diaU discuss the questions with your Democratic
champions This part of the arrangement must be
made by the speakers themselves.
Yours, very respect firilv,
11. G. Tate, )
B. F. Reid, >Cor. Com.
A. C. Frost,.)
To S. T. Whitaker, W. C. Darden. A. 11.
Reese, Committee.
There is unother somewhat strange circumstance
connected with this epistle of the Hon. Win. L.
Yancey; lie says—-“My health, however, is such
that I shall not be able to speak at nil on that day—
though 1 hope to be able to enter on the canvass
again on Uie 3d of September.’'
Now, it will be remembered, that this letter was
written on the 28th to the Constitutionalist of Au
gusta. On the 29th of the same month, he wrote
to Dr. A. 11. Reese of this place, that on account of
i .l health, he would be not unable to attend the West
Point Grand Rally, to be given on the 30th. Not
withstanding ill health and the invitations of Ame
ricans and Democrats to attend West Point on the
30Ui, we bull the lion. W. L. Yancey in Atlanta,
Ga., sending a challenge, wirh prescribed terms, to
Colt A. K. Wright, of Jefferson, to enter into a dis
cussion on the 3dth, in the city cl Atlauta. On the
very day, according lo his own showing, he would
huve been unable to enter into a dlseusssiou at West
Point. There must be something rotten in Den
mark ! However, on the 3d of Septemoer he hopes
1 » be able to enter on the canvass again.
Now, the only rational solution of this strange
conduct on the par. of the Hon. Wui. L. Yancey, is,
that he mu-d have left his medical adviser in Mont
gomery, Alabama. For surely if he was able to
s : ik iu Atlanta, he ought to have been equally as
well prepared to speak in West Point.
But we hope those four days, intervening between
the 30th of August and the 3d of September may
yet so miraculously restore his wonted strength ami
vi „or. as to enable him to meet us (the American
party • at West Point, in discussion, on equal terms.
It >eems thatUio gentleman must have entertain
> d thv opinion, late in the evening,on the 30th, that
.■ had < nough of physical strength still, to meet
Gol. Wright in discussion, but not quite a sufficiency
to face llill. Reiser, or Watts.
Very respectfully yours,
H. (VTate, N
B. F. Reid, > Corres. Com.
A. C. Khost, >
For tic Chronicle A* Sentinel.
To the Old Bine Whig?, of Gcrgin.
“As some persons seem to have mistaken l>oth
emotive Mid elject of our appeal to Old Line
Wh it is proper that we should acquit ouselves
•: tun unjust aocusatiens to which such misconstruc
cApeses us. HV incite no man irtft Whigprin
• • «■ , > f « :he l>, more,itu' par tp. Such an over
u*‘ would lx- {is insuitint to hi .a as unjust to our
party. A person with Whig convictions cannot
onsretcutly and honestly profess to be of the Demo
i I'm lie jmu ty. .4 fierson rnth IV hit? convictions can
.'■■'lft' admitted tufa the Democratic organization
V, A/ M ,'<)/»!( extent corrupting its integrity and
net, t.g ,!sir: We have a creed which
> I'-.dutes test of Democracy, and to which no
Whig eau honestly subscribe. because it is abso
‘ irreconcilable with the principles which he
P:oiesses. " e object to fusion, because it is neither
consistent \v th per»mal ror political honesty. 11V
{'.• l\ htg :o cme <r.*o the democrat ; c party
r. ,jc<s hr « booses r« , ri/y and from conviction t*>
0.. m»t hc< on.- • and to profess allegiance to
Old Line >gs of Georgia. those who have hou
• -*ly cherished the principles of that conservative
and gallant party, and who have so often done bat
no in defence ot tiiose principles, which were pro
mitigated and sustained bj the greatest and best of
American statesmen. Clay and Webster, read and
ponder on \t:o above, which was taken from a lead
ing Democratic paper, the Richmond Enquirer,
and determine whether you can consistently enter
into the Democratic party upon the conditions pre
- bed. Can you believe that it "is possible to Cor
npt the Democratic party, by connecting vour
seives with it 1 Have the old Whigs so lost their
self-respect as to enter into and assist a party that
addresses them in this iusolent and insulting lan
guage! Old Line ; Whigs of the Sth District. are
you willing to support the Democratic party upou
such terms l Are you prepared to voluntarily ab
jure and spit up your time-honored principles ?
iH»v# von lost all regard lor the teachings of your
much loved Clay, your Webster. Berrien and voar
Dawson ? And are you willing to give the lie to the
« --r-vy of your fvMoier professions, by giving your
... inee to the- creed and platform of the time-eerv-
u ~ f ‘ D '*ds-hrniilng of Democracy,
V * J -™' a h * advance, that you cannot join their
j..,wy corrupt- , ? integrity, and de-
Jamchiug Us pn r.cijHe* r
‘ n^ Vi • a, in the pres** called
Demoenutc party! Bah. It would be M , 0
7 ' ‘ rottta .‘-- 11 »«*’ that the „; d
i..t‘ \v ::v> treat the above in that spirit which
it M riohly dfv.T\ .s—that they will refuse to as™,
r. [arty who r. quir.- tl.-ui to alyure aud abandou
tueir arxrtut faith and long eheriehod principles, be
fore they can be admitu-d into their counedi.—
li ther let us march up in November in a solid
phalanx, and show this se..'-styied Dcmoeraev. that
w > " oiled corrupt onrsi.ves by joining their or
gantzation. hei us show to these new lights of De
lo-.craey who bid fair to “ owe their greatness to
tueir country's ruin," that we are still Whigs, and
hate not forgotten the teachings of Washington,
Jeticrsou and Clay. In our hands is the destiny of
this l. nipn. \\ e have a great responsibility resting
upon u-. u~ as Wn.gs, m*-et it hke American
freemen. Let us throw our undivided strength ami
influence for that pure aui incurruptahle patriot
and statesman Miliard Fillmore. He has acted with
us in days gone by. We all know him. We know
him to be honest, capable and faithful to the Con
stitution—the whole country has .confidence in liiin.
He can harmonize our now distracted country, and
preserve our glorious Union. Then rally to him old
line Whigs of Georgia. Why stand you idle when
your brethren are all ready in the field ? Arouse
Whigs of Georgia. your flint and try once
more to be the means of saving our glorious coun
try. You hold the balance of power in Georgia,
cast your votes for Fillmore, and he will be triom
phantly elected, our union will be preserved, and
countless million* w ill rise up to call you blessed.
One of the Old Whig Giaiid.
Fillmore and Doiiel*on Club, 1215 d Bint., It. C.
September 6, 1856.
The Club being called to order, the following pre
amble and resolutions were pained :
Whereas, a mass meeting of the American par
ty has been called at Alanta on 2d of October, and
we approve of the objects of said meeting—
Revoked , That the President of this Club appoint
a delegation of twenty-five members to represent us
at said mass meeting, and that we recommend all
other Fillmore and Doneloon Clubs in this State to
have their Clubs represented at said Convention.
Resolved, That the delegation be empowered to
fill any vacancy that may occur.
Whereupon the President appointed the following
delegates :
John B-jGreiner, Jno. W Brandon. Fielding Bran
don, Thomas T. Brandon, Jas. E. Burch, W. Tow
ner, D. Morgan, J. K. James, Kdrnund Tabb, Thos.
Tabb, J. K, Arrington, F. It. Shaw. Michael Bois
clair, Jr., A. W, Carmichael, G. B.Hoek, Sol. Bar
uy, Robert Wiggins, Alex Deas, Ansel Shaw. Wm.
Deas, Middleton Sigo, George Davis, A. J. Deas,
C. C. Burch, Jesse Burch.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting he
published in the Chronicle 6c Sentinel.
Robert Y. Harris, President.
Robert Wiggins, Secretary.
For the Chronicle 4* Sentinel.
:>lr. Jenkins* Letter.
Mr. Editor: Mr. Jenkins has at last made a
public exp>sition of his opinions in regard to the
Presidential question. He tells us that he shall cast
his vote/or the Democratic nominees. At this, no
one will be surprised wdio has observed the anoma
lous position he has occupied for the past year or
two. We all, howevei, have reason to feel astound
ed at the singular process by which he has brought
his mind to this conclusion.
Mr. Jenkins is of opinion that Mr. Fillmore’s
chances of election are not near so good as Mr. Bu
chanau'B. This, in fact, is one of the chief reasons
why he abandon'd Mr. Fillmore aud his old friends,
and goes over to Mr. Buchanan. Now, I never
supposed that, weakness or misfortune furnished
any sufficient cause for deserting a friend or a par
ty. There is an old saying, that if you start a man
down hill, everybody is ready to give him a kick.—
This may be true of the hypocritical and selfish,
but not with the brave and generous. The greater
the need of your friend, the closer should you stick
to hi in—especially if he be right. Mr. Fillmore's
weakness, iff my judgment, is apparent, not real.—
Such as it is, it has been occasioned by just such
timid friends as Mr. Jenkins, who suffer their better
reason to be imposed upon by the Democratic cry,
that Fillmore is a very amiable man, and made a
good President, but that he stands no chance what
ever of being elected. If people would only believe
lie had strength he would have it. If they would
take heart and go to work, and not suffer them
selves to be seduced by the tricks of the Democrat
ic prince of darkness, he might be borne in triumph
to the White House. Faith—faith, as a grain of
mustard seed, is all that is wanted.
Suppose our immortal fathers, as they entered up
on the seven years of toil and suffering by which
our independence was wrought out, lmd reasoned
in tin* Maine way, what would havo been our pre
sent position ? Suppose they lmd listened to their
tory neighbors, who were forever reminding them
of the power of Great Britain and the weakness of
Gen. Washington ; we should this day, in all proba
bility, have been the meek and obedient subjects
of Her Majesty (Jueen Victoria. Go into Any nook
and corner of Georgia, or of the South, or of the
whole country, aud every second man you meet
will tell you he prefers Mr. Fillmore to either of the
other candidates, and many of them will add that
they “ would vote for him with unspeakable plea
sure,” (to use Mr. Jenkins’ language.) if he believed
he could be elected. Now, it always seemed tome
of very little consequence whether a man voted for
a candidate or not, if he could be elected without his
help, and that the surest way to defeat him, is for
his friends to talk aiubcct just as Mr. Fillmore's are
now doing. He is stronger with the people than
either of the other candidates, and but for the fatal
delusion with which many of his timid friends seem
possessed as with “ seven devils,” there could be no
reasonable doubt of his ultimate success.
But Mr. Jenkins calls our attention to the Demo
cratic party. lie says :
” There it stands, armed and equipped cap-a-pie,
with imposing mien, but with unnumbered sins upon
its hoary head. Prominent among these, in my
humble opinion, is that of having brought our pre
sent troubles upon us, by individual indulgence of
its lust for territorial acquisition, glazed over by the
lallaeioUH pretensions of ‘ extending the area of
freedom” —the demagogue's hobby and the filibus
ter’s apology. That will be a dark day for the coun
try, when conservative old line Whigs identify
themselves with this party.”
Such is the estimate Mr. Jenkins puts upon the
Democratic party. He tells us it is “hoary” with
“unnumbered sins,” and charges it with having
brought “our present troubles upon us.” And yet
he counsels his friends to unite with this white
headed political sinner in the vain hope of remov
ing the ills which the old sinner has brought upon
the country. It seems to me, it would be about as
w’ise for a preacher to advise his flock to enter the
service of Satan in order to assist him to extirpate
the “unnumbered sins” which lie brought upon the
world by the seduction of old mother Eve. It is a
novel idea, to rely upon a party to remedy the evils
which itself hud produced. I have hoard of physi
cians who would lake a patient to the brink of the
grave, and then gradually allow him to get well—
ail for the purpose of getting up a reputation for
a fleeting wonderful cures. This would seem to bo
the policy cf the Democratic party. They go de
liberately to work to produce a crisis ; indeed they
are fond of deep-sealed agitation anti great com
motions. They are thus enabled to play the patriot,
and to call upon the people to fly to the rescue. —
They conduct the country to the brink of disunion,
and then invoke the aid of the people, “without
distinction of party,” to save it from destruction.
The present crisis is the .work of design. When it
shall have passed away, the party will get up au
other as occasion may require it. This is Demo
cratic policy. The leaders know how sensitive the
.South is upon the slavery question, and think by
geitiug up a quadrennial excitement and volunteer
ing on the side of the South, they can secure our
votes. It is like laying a trap for a generous heart
ed friend, aud then ruskiDg to his assistance, and
to win his gratitude.
The wonder is, how so sensible a person as Mr.
Jenkins should suffer such a transparent deceit to
be put upon him. The truth is, he is entirely too
immaculate for tlie parties of the day. He would
not suppoit Gen. Scott, because he was a military
chieftain. He would not go with the American par
ty last year, because he objected to some trilling
detail in its exploded ritual. He would not suffer
his name to be used for the United States Senate,
lest he should hui t his friend Judge Berrien’s feel
ings, and that when he knew, without the interven
t.ou of his name, that Mr. Toombs would be chosen.
Such a man is altogether too good for politics, and
he should keep clear of them, unless he is ready to
go iu like other men, and strive to correct and ele
vate them. Had Mr. Jenkins placed himself last
year at the head of the American party, aud led it
out of the Wilderness and placed it on firm ground,
he might have been able to do what he is now pow
erless to accomplish, viz: to unite the people of
Georgia in one compact phalanx. He says, in his
letter, that the object of the American party is “a
good one.” Why, then, has he not helped it on l
Did he object to the ritual—to the outside form ?
The French objected to Dr. Franklin's blue stock
ings, and about as wisely. Achilles iu his tent will
do well enough for a poet to sing about ; to practi
cal, every-day people, however, he cuts a very ri
diculous figure. Old Elbert.
For the Chronicle 4* Sentinel.
Washington, Sept. 10, ISO 6.
Mr. Editor : 1 noticed in the Constitutionalist
of the 9th inst., something in relation to a party of
“Faatastics,” which appeared in Dahlouega a few
weeks since. I was a member of that party, and in
pity for the editor of the Constitutionalist > I will
try and quiet his mind in respect to us, as I appre
hend, from the timid nature of the man. and from
the fuss he is making about us. that he is inclined to
honor us with a greater degree of suspicion and no
toriety than is necessary or pleasant to a party of
unassuming boya, whose object, in their excursion,
was neither an electioneering expedition, nor to
gain newspaper notice: but they were simply
on a hunting tour to the mountains.
The fantastic dress, on which the gentleman
set-ms to delight in * ‘pouring out the phials of his
mighty' wit and ridicule, was simply a red flannel
shirt, which we would have left at home in pity for
the poor Buchanan men, had we been aware that
their condition was so precarious that they would
give themselves so much trouble because a party
of harmless boys happened to wear them.
In conclusion, 1 will remark that the editor of the
Constitutenot is t must either be hard up for politi
cal capital against Fillmore, or sadly deficient in
taste or manliness, to attempt to make capital out
of the harmless enjoyment of boys.
Please tell the editor that we are not students of
Franklin College, but are from Washington, Ga.
Fantastic.
Fillmore in Tennessee.— The Charleston Cou
rier publishes the folk)wing :
K noxvillc. Sept. 6.—“ We had a glorious meeting.
It ***** the largest ever held in East Thttfirr—r. —
Uli * keil spoke four hours and ten minutes—
the greatest Speech I ever heard, and I have listen
ed to Choate when he was himself, Prentiss and
others He held his audience spell-bound for that
great length of time. I never listened to such a
speech or witnessed such an effect from one before.
It is worth a trip to to hear him. We
are doing gloriously in Tennessee, and will carry
the State, certain, by a large majority. I wish I
had time to write you more at length, but must for
bear for the present/’
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 17. 1856.
From the Columbus Enquirer.
The JCftsßatf Bill - Sovcreicnfy.
As soon as the vote on the Kansas bill was taken
in the Senate, and it was announced that it had
passed that body, Gen. Cass rose and said : “I con
gratulate the Senate and the country on the triumph
of Squatter Sovereignty:” and there was not a Sen
ator who raised a voice of dissent.
Iu the House of Represen:atives, on the 28th of
December last, pending the election of a Speaker.
Mr. Seward of Ga., (Buchanan Democrat.) offered
the following preamble and resolution:
“Wberea>. It is apparent, under the existingdffer
ences of opinion in this House, that no organization
thereof can be effected without some effort to unite
all that agree on the doctrine of non-intervention, as
asserted in the Kansas and Nebraska act, viz : that
the people of the Territories shall be left perfectly
free to regulate their own domestic policy; and
whereas, it is indispensible, to effect an oiganiza
tion, that all differences of opinion on other ques
tions should be postponed, without compromise or
concession on the part of any members-voting for
this resolution—
“Be it Resolved. That Wm. A- Richardson be cho
sen Speaker ol the House of Representatives, for
the Thirty-Fourth Congress.”
Mr. Humphrey Marshall (Fillmore American)—
When the Gentleman from Georgia says that they
agree on the principle that the people of the Territo
rics shall be left to settle their domestic institutions
in their own Way, am X to understand him to assert
that, in hig opinion, the people of the Territory, in
their Territorial Legislature, may legislate to pro
hi bit slavery?
Mr. Seward. These questions in regard to legal
points are not properly to be considered in this
House. (Laughter.) Hence we find a difficulty;
and the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Foster) said
the other day that the Kansas and Nebraska act
was a measure and not a principle. Whether the
doctrine of squatter sovereignty iu the Kansas and
Nebraska act >s constitutional or not, is a question
to be hereafter decided by the couris. Our business
is to make laws. It is the business of the courts to
construe them. If they are not constitutional, the
courts will eo decide. Therefore this is not the
regular tribunal to settle the question .- but when
they arise under this act, and are presented to the
courts, they will be settled.
(So Mr. Seward did not deny that the act embod
ied squotter sovereignty, but piddled about its con
stitutionality.)
Mr. Marshall—J have uo hesitation to state my
opinion upon the point proposed, aud I will here
observe to the gentlemen present that, when state!,
my position may easily be understood bv all men.
Jl looks the some u ay, .Worl/i and South. Ido not
believe tbe Constitution has conferred upon Con
gress the potter to prohibit Uarery in the Territories
by a legislative act. fdo not believe the people of
a Territory of the United States, through the !'<•/•-
ritorial legislative Assembly, and [.ending the Ter
ritorial Government, possesses the power to pro
hibit slavery in the Territory. I believe that the
territorial government is the creature of Congress,
and that the people who live iu such a government
must necessarily abide by the limitations imposed
upon it by the authority which created it and bus
tains it. The institution of civil government in the
territory is the act of Congress, and, by such act,
Congress declares how the departments of the ter*
ritorial government shall be divided, vesting the
appointment of some officers in the President of the
United States, whilst others are to be appointed by
tbe people of the Territory— the latter power of the
people being a grant from Congress. Congress
might institute the Government, and has done so,
excluding the people from all participation in the
choice of officers. I believe that all the powers the
people ol a Territory may exercise, Congress can
exercise, and that such peop! • cannot exorcise any
more powers than Congress chooses to allow them
to exercise ; because the stream can never rise
higher than the fountain. That is my position. w *
\\ hat I want before I vote on eucli a reso ution
OjS this, is, that gentlemen shall define the principle
they intend to assert, and attempt to define their
principles by reference to an act of Congress,
which, as we have seen, is interpreted at the North
one vt ay by their own party, aud, as we believe, at
t.ie South, as exactly the couverse of the northern
construction.
Mr. Ciingman (Buchanan Dein.) —With respect
U> the matter of the people ot* Kansas prohibiting
sjaveiy, my opinion is this : if it were a new propo
sition I admit I might go with my friend, [Mr. Hum
phrey Marshall : J but we have had so many prece
dents in the action of Congress, and in the decis
ions of the courts, that I have no inclination to dis
pute them. In other words, I say this : that have no
doubt the people of the territories might decline to
pass laws protecting slavery property. I know of
no provision of the Constitution which says they
shall pass laws to protect slavery. If they decline
to pass laws for that purpose, then you leave (he
mutter us it was prior to the organization of the
territory—jurjt as if no law existed on the subject
Ihe inclination of my mind is, that under that act
the people of the territory may protect or prohibit
s.avery ; but I shall submit to the decision of the
ccurts when they shall give, an opinion. * *
I believe that the people of the territory may, under
that act, either' prohibit or establish slavery ; and
my impression is, that that will be the construction
which the courts will giv'e to it.
Mr. Jones, of Tennessee (Buchanan Dun.) I
believe that the great principle, the right of the
people in the Territories, as well as in the States,
to form and to regulate their own domestic institu
tions m their own way, iy dearly and rouivocally
embodied w the gansas-tfebraska act;‘ami, if it
is not, it should have been. Believing that it was
Jhe living, vital principle of the act, I voted for it.—
I hose are my views, honestly entertained, and will
be defended.
Such lire (lie views of Southern Democrats in the
House, iu reference to the squatter sovereignty fea
ture of the act. We have not collated the opinion
of Northern men of the same party, because the
gram// sentiment of that branch is confessedly sim
ilar ; it is this feature alone which commends the
act to them, and enables them to hold it up before
their people as “a better measure for freedom than
the Wilmot proviso.”
Mr. Seward’s resolution was finally withdrawn by
the mover, to cut oft’an ameudinent which Mr. Mar
shall signified his intention to offer, repudiating
squatter sovereignty.
Senator Douglas was the originator of the bill, and
he has on several occasions upheld the principle of
squatter sovereignty contained in it. As recently
as the 30th ot June last, (since the nomination of
Buchanan) he made a report to the Senate from the
committee on Territories, from which we extract this
paragraph :
“The existing government in the Territory of
Kansas was organized in pursuance of an Act of
Congress, approved Ma> 20, 1851 instituting tem
porary governments for the Territories of Kansas
and Nebraska, preliminary to their admission into
the Union on an equal fooling with the original
States, so soon as they should have the requisite
population. The organic law of Kansas is identi
cal with that of Nebraska in all its provisions and
principles. Each is based on that fundamental
principle of Belt-government which underlies our
whole system of republican institut ons, as promul
gated iu the Declaration of Independence, conse
crated by the blood of the Revolution, and console
dated and firmly established by the Constitution of
the United States. Each recognizes the right of the
people thereof, while a Territory, to form and regu
late their own domestic institutions in their own
way, subject only to the Constitution of the United
■States, and to bf: received into the Union so soon as
they should attain the requisite number of inhabi
tants, ou an equal footing with the original States
in ail respects whatever.”
Hie Cincinnati Democratic ’platform endorsed
the Kunsas-Nebraska act without qualification, and
Mr. Buchanan accepted that platform with an ex
press reference to and endorsement of the squatter
sovereignty feature of the act, stating its intention
so clearly that Martin Van Bui en adopted his lan
guage to demonstrate the declared right of the peo
ple of Kansas, while in a territorial state, to exclude
slaver)'. That the Convention meant to uphold and
assert squatter sovereignty by this platform, is
shown by the interpretation put upon it by its au
thor, Hon. B. F. Hallett, of Mass. In a political ad !
dress delivered by him in New Hampshire, on the
4th of July last, he said;
“The issue is not, us they pretend, whether slave?
ry shall be established or whether a single
human being, not now a slave, shall be made a slave
there. But it is solely whether the real people who
mean to make Kansas their home and be governed
by its laws, shull have the right, in common with
every State that ever entered into this Union, of de
ciding deliberately for themselves whether they will
allow slaves to be brought from other States Jand
live there or exclude them from the Territory— or
whether we of the North, who hold no slaves, by a
bare numerical majority against the South, shall un
dertake to settle it beforehand for them ?”
So we have shown that Gen. Cass, the “father of
squatter sovereignty,” recognized this act as a
bantling of his own ; that Senator Douglas, the
framer of the bill, officially reports to Congress that
it does confer upon the Legislatures of the Territo
ries. the right to exclude slaver)’ ; that prominent
Southern Democrats in die House of Representa
tives, gave it the same interpretation; that Mr. Hal
lett, the author of the Cincinnati platform, declares
t hat he endorses it as containing the same principle ;
that Mr. Buchanan accepts the platform and the
net as an affirmation of the “right of the people of a
Territory, like those of a State,’' to decide the ques
tion for themselves ; and that Martin Van Burcu,
the great recruiter of the Freesoil army, quotes Mr.
Buchanan’s own language to prove that the act re
cognizes squatter sovereignty, aud supports him
under the assurance that he will, if elected, make it
efficient as a means of promoting freesoil. Could
we add strength to this chain of evidence, or make
more complete and conclusive, if we should fill our
paper with similar testimony ? We think not, and
therefore forbear.
Mr. Fillmore.
The Charleston Courier of the 28th ult, contains
a long argumentative and calm letter from a “South
ron.” now at the North, ia which the South is urged
to support Mr. Fillmore. The writer argues that
Mr. F. is the only candidate that can be elected by
the people, and regarding Fremont's election as aii
ini possibility, considers Mr. Fillmore’s prospects
with the people and in the House better than that
of Mr. Buchanan. After bestowing the highest eu
logium on his Administration whilst President, the
writer enforces his claims not only as a national
man, but with those constitutional sentiments which
render him especially acceptable to the South. The
writer having lately had a free intercourse with Mr.
Fillmore, says:
“I have it from his own lips, and that at a time
when he had passed from a successful administra
tion of the National Government to the retirement
aud privacy of private life, and when he was with
out a prospect or even a wish for renomiuation or
restoration to the Presidency, that his opinions had
been revolutionized and his prejudices dissipated
on the subject of slavery in the Southern and
South-western States. that he believed the so call
ed freedom of the black aud colored population in
the non-slaveholding States to be a mockery and
a cheat, and that slavery was the best condition of
the African race in this country, best both for the
black race and the white race, and that the Union
could o iiy be perpetuated by a faithful observance
of the constitutional rights’of the South, and by
non-interference with slavery on the pan of the
non-slaveholding States and of the General Govern
ment ; and his convictions were greatly strengthen
ed by his Southern tour, which brought him in con
tact with and made him an eye-witness of the work
ing of our domestic institution.”
Arrest of a Srrpo?ED Incendiary. —The fire
at Cape May which has been attended with such
heavy pecuniary loss, and so deplorable a waste of
life, is attributed to design. It see m 3 that an Irish
woman, belonging to this city, who whs engaged at
the hotel as a domestic during the bathing season,
went tLt-re yesterday and demanded pay for her ser
vices. She was put off for want of I unde. and she
became much excited, threatening, it is aUedged, to
•‘send them all to h—ll.” She subsequently called
on the Mayor of Cape Island and stated her case to
him. making use of such violent threats that the
magistrate admonished her to use more caution.—
Yesterday morning this woman was arrested and
committed to prison to await a hearing.
The affair has created a sensation at Cape Island
and in its vicinity, that is without a parallel in the
hhtorv of Cape May. Serious as the disaster is.it
sinks Into insignificance in comparison with what it
might have been had it occurred a few wet-ks ear
lier, or had the wind been in such a direction as to
carry the flames over the town.
FiLTRAUjO* ATMOSPHERIC; PrESURE.— A
new description of fiber has been brought forward
and exhibited. A pint of water, cart and turbid,
was poured into a glass vessel, and in an instant
it was poured forth clear as crystal This very rap
id process oilfiltratkm was produced by atmospheric
pressure on the water, and it is claimed that a thou
sand gallons may be filtered by the same process in
an hour.
Woman** Riffhta.
A young Southern lady addresses the follqwiog
communication to the Edgufield Informer. It is
written with much spirit and displays a fine appre
ciation of the ennobling duliesof woman as wife aud
mother:
“Waat are Woman 2 Rights,l”—To stand in
the public hall aud let her voice, raised above the
love-toned key of home vibrate through the eoger
!y listening crowd, who amde shrug their shoulders
aud feel so comfortable under tbe knowledge, that,
she is not th> .r wife, sister, or even anybody with
whom tuey are acquainted. It is fine sport for them
to sit and listen to her, a stranger, descant upon a
nation's affairs, a subject of which she knows so lit
tle that her hall-fomied ideas do not even meet with
criticism,contempt, ridicule, and pity, are the only
feelings which woman can excite as an orator. Ic
is a task for which she is not fitted, nor indeed ev
er can be, even were she to mingle daily iu the so
iety of moil, aud Lear fionyly. expressed their ever
changing vie ws. No, th <is not “Woman’s Right,”
nor should it ever be he»- pleasure. To dress her
smiling baby in the morning, aud then feeling that
she has discharged her duty towards it for the day
consign it t»* the care of ■- hireling ? Smootbe the
bright curls of her little Ur « year old daughter, and
send her off’to school, when she had so much rather
play iu the gre4n shady pari? and recite those few
easy lessons lo dear mamma ! Hurry off her hus
ujftid before he has finished lighting his morning ci
gar, tell him as he goes down the steps that he has
over turned her work-box and left his hat brush up
on the bureau? Give afe v liasty and half inteln
gible directions to the servants, then draw down
the blinds, and throwing herself upon a couch, com
mit her huobaud, her children, and her household af
fairs to the Goddess of chance, ami bury her thoughts
in the contents of some light indifferent novel?—
These are not ‘Woman’- Uigbls (for they are tram
pling upon the rights of those who arc nearest and
dearest to her heart,) but they are alas too often
her pleasure.
gProud man asserts, liiat * Woman’ has no business
kith political matters, is her sphere.”
Y6B, ‘home is her sphere,’ and n true-hearted worn a.
would wish for no other ; bat home is composed of
husbands, brothers, sous, and if sue has no business
with politic s, then she has to business with these
relations in life.
Where is the American wife that does not wish to
be tiie intelligent companion her husband ?or
the mother who docs not wiehio be the first instruc
tress of her children ? Where is the wife who lmd
not rather by capable of entertaining her husband
at hoi.se, in preference to having him sock the con
stant companionship of his male friends ?
The husband sits down to his table, asks the bless
ing of God upon his food, and then, feeling in good
spirits, he commences his dinner a*id a capital cot
ton story, both ut the game time ; his wife does not
much relish the joke because she cannot understand
it. but she will not be so selfish as to tell him so, his
mind and all its energies are constantly devoted to
hoiiest labor, and if he talks at all, he must speak of
wliat he is thinking, so she raises her eyes now aud
then to his face with a half curious, half amused
look, and answers yes or no, at regular intervals,
but sometimes she says yes, when she should have
said no, and then feeling that lie has only been wast
ing his breath, lie pushes his plate away, with qn
imfiatient ehaw! its no use telling you anything.—
But cotton is a very dull subject to those whom it
does not concern, mere are matters of deeper im
port, and which create a livelier interest even iu the
mind of a woman.
Whe n the storm cloud beats without and even
wdien it does not, the husband puts on his slippers
aud draws his chair up to his fireside, evincing by
this simple act, his desire to spend the evening
there, lie commences one subject after another,
but his wife has nut read ‘Harpers,’ she has not seen
tbe lust papers, and dqes not know wlmf h© is talk
ing about—perhaps he lias nothing to read, so ‘poor
fellow* lie must either listen to the petty annoyances
of a day. slander his neighbors, or mope and do noth
ing until bed time. This is a dull way to spend the
evening after all the wearying vexations of the
day’s business. The wife feels it. she looks upon
his broad manly brow already shaded by lines of
care, she thinks how kind it was of him to spend
the evening with her instead ol going out doors.
She views the broad opening before her, how easily
her influence might be wielded for good, and sighs
as one opportunity after another glides past her un
improved.
Let the world sneer on young wife, but if you
love yourhasband seek to make his home happy ;
make Lis fireside one at which he will love to linger
iu the long winter evenings. lie is young now, he
is kind, loving and true, by your influence lie may
remain always so. Rein niber what he may come to
through your neglect.
The inebriate, the vagabond and the scoundrel,
do not. all at once descend from their proud man
hood down to the groveljing platform of ignominy
and crime. lie finds no geniality, no entertainment
at home; he steps out for air and exercise, he drops
into the public saloons mi nty for pas-time; to look
oil scenes of revelry, may satisfy foi a while, but not
long. He, who prayed—“lend us not into tempta
tion, but deliver us from evil,” knew' better than
any how easily lead astray was the bumuu
heart. It is easit r to keep out of the way of tempta
tion than to resist it when we meet it face to face.—
It is easier to keep the love of a husband than to
win it back. It s easier to retain your influence
over his mind and habits, than to regain it when
once it has passed away.
Think nothing too much trouble or too trifling,
that will add to your husband’s Impp ness. If you
have not a taste for politics, cultivate one, make
yourself mistress of all the leading topics of the day,
talk with iiim of what interests him, not with yawns
and indifference, but let the tone of your voice, the
light in your eye and the smile upon your lips, ex
press a lively interest in what you are saying. Think
os well asfread, aud advance your own opinions, be
they ever so weak and humble; man loves superi
ority aud lie will take a pleasure in enlightening you.
It is ‘woman s right 1 to make her husband happy
and entertain him a* homo, even if she has to study
politics to do it.
The bright and happy loo} '.ig school boy who
walks so proudly by your aide on the Fourth of Ju
ly. will as]v you why that day is honored above oth
ers; you ran aujwu rhini that. —and you tokeaplea
surc in doing so, but if he is an American boy lie
will not stop at one question ; he will carry you
back through the past history of your country, and
then onward to the future.—The mother cannot grow
weary of that bright questioner; she rejoices in the
blessed opportunity of giving the first bias to his
youthful mind,.and directing his unformed ideas in
the right channel.
It is “Woman’s right” to gain all knowledge that
may help to guide her children iu the path ol recti
tude and honor, for boys need sensible mothers
now-a-days more than anything else. Home is in
deed “Woman’s sphere,” but she should uot forget
how broad aud deep are its boundaries.
Slot* hie.
From the Glasgow {Mo ) Times of Sept. 2.
Kansas War— Particulars of the Battle of Ossa
iralomie. —We have just received, persteuuier Wm.
Campbell, and extra from the Western Dispatch Of
fice, dated Independence, Sunday evening, con
taining important news from Kansas. The letters
below were brought in by Mr. Shepherd, of Inde
pendence—a reliable man. He also reports u bat
tle had been fought iu the direction of Fort Scott, in
which thirteen Southern men were killed. No par
ticulars.
The letters from Captain ivied and Mr. Chiles fol
low :
Camp, Boi.i. Creek, Aug. 31.
Gentlemen :—I moved with 250 men on th«- Abo
lition fort aud town of < Issawatomie —the headquar
ters of old Brown—on night before last; marched
forty miles, and assaulted the towli without dis
mounting the men, iibout sunrise ou yesterday. We
had a brisk fight for an hour or more, and had five
men wounded—none dangerously—Capt. Boyce,
Win. Gordon, and three others. We killed about
30 of them, among the number, certain, a son of old
Brown, and almost Certain old Brown himself; a s
troyedall their ammunition and provisions, and the
boys would burn the town to the ground. 1 could\
not help it.
We must be supported by our friends. We still
want more men and anununtion—ammunition of
all sorts. Powder, muskets, balls raid caps is the
constant cry.
I write in great haste, as 1 have been in saddle,
rode 100 miles, aud fought a buttle, without rest.
Your friend, Reid.
Camp at Bull Cheek, )
August, 31st, 1850. $
Isaac Hockaday , Henry, and others : —Gents.—
Gen Reid, with 250 men, had a fight at Ossawata
mie yesterday. We had four wounded, Captain
Boyce, of Lexington, Frank Gordon, of Clay. Capt.
Boyce had his wrist broken. Gordon was shot in
the* shoulder. Young Jackson, of Howard, was shot
in the mouth—badly hurt. Geo. Gordon, of Lafa
yette, shot in the thigh. Young Parker, of Lafa
yette, was shot in the leg.
The Abolitionists made the attack. We killed 20
and burnt the town.
Same evening a large number made their appea
rance near Camp. We expect to have a fight at
Prarie City. We then march to Lawrence, where we
will have the big fight. We need men and means.
There are here now 1200 men, and 800 opposite
Lawrence that will operate wit h us.
Brown was supposed to be killed at Ossawotamic.
Urge all men to come on.
Yours, Jas. Chiles.
President Walker's First Levee.—On the
evening of the Dth instant. President Walker gave
Lis first levee. Tbe assembly was quite large, and
included membe rs of nearly all the old Spanish fami
lies residing iu the city. At the meeting the Span
ish senoritas and American Indies met for the first
timat: but we trust the agreeable entertainment of
that evening will conduce to bring them frequently
together hereafter. At about half-past eight o'clock,
the military band began to play, and that any of
the music might not be lost a quadrille party was
soon on the floor. The dancing continued until
about eleven o'clock, and was participated in by
natives as well a» the others, when the party retired
to partake of an excellent lunch. The eatables
having been disposed of, the dance was resumed for
a short time. The people retired at midnight. The
President did not dance, much to the regret of many
present, but confined himself to agreeable conver
sation with all who sought the honor of his company.
The pleasure that we enjoyed leads us to hope that
such entertainments may be frequently repeated.—
They serve as well to break tha tedium of our
every day routine, as to bring together and
familiarize the natives with their American fellow
citizens.
St. Paul. Minnesota, is now said to have a popu
lation of tec thousand souls. In the year 1849 it did
not contain five hundred. During the present sea
son twenty-eight thousand persona stopped at three
of the principal hotels. Thus the town is rapidly
becoming the leading city north and west of Chica
go, while other points, mere centres of speculation,
figure ten times more conspicuously in the newspa
pers. It occupies an admirable position, at the head
of steamboat navigation on the Mississippi, and in
the course of [ten years hence bids fair to became
one of the second class cities of the Union.
The London Athene inn says : “ Experience
shows that low prices induce the general use of
telegraphs. According to official returns published
at Berlin, the Prussian telegraphy which, in 1842,
did not cover their expenses bv $79,581, had a sur
plus revenue in 1855, of $401,431, and the estimates
figure in the budget for no fe.-c than $202,107. On
the Ist of January. 185 b, there were in the State,
comprising the German and Austrian Telegraph
Union, 234 stations, with 11,585 miles of telegraphs
opened.”
Kossuth and his family m e enjoying themselves
at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He lives very hand
somely, says a London writer, «*n the funds contri.
buted’in America for the “freedom of Hungary.'*
He has lost all his influence with us, for his selfish
ness and hypocrisy Lave become too evident, and
he is looked upon now as a political charlatan, who
piayed a bold game for riches and won the stake.
A precious evidence is afforded of the state of
feeling sought to be produced at the North by the
wretched affai. t»of Kansas, by the feci that the al
leged defeat and slaughter of thy Free State men at
Ossawatomie is heralded as “Stirring Sties from
Kansas!'’ It has heretofore been customary with
journals of respectability, and those desiring to rep
resent the views of Christian men and patriots, to
designate such things as calamitous and terrible to
contemplate.
Unwelcoxe Visitors.—TV gxsshoppers in im
mense swarms are making fearful havoc among the
grain on the Upper Mississippi. At little Fails, Min
nesota. they destroyed all ike crops. At Elk river
they appeared in a swarm that seemed like a cloud,
afrd lighting upon a twenty acre corn field, des
troyed the whole crop m a :-hort time. At Crow
Wing they alighted upon alarm and destroyed 5000
bushels of oaU-
There were twenty-lune deatke in Savannah du
ring the week ending September 9.
Von* on the Army fli!!.
We copy From tlie Tribune the following vote in
the IJous.*. arranged by States, on the motion tv
strike, out the Kansas proviso to the Army Appro
priation Bill :
YEAS —For Striking out the Proviso.
Maine—Thomas J. 1). Fuller—l.
-'New York —Solomon G. Haven , John Kelly,
| John Wheeter, 7'komas R. Whitney , Jehu Wi;
liams—s.
New Jersey— George Vail—l.
Pennsylvania—John Cadwalader, Thomas B.
Florence* John Hickman, J. Glancy Jones, Asa
Packer, J- b it. Tys<m fi.
Ohio —John Scoti Harrison. —l.
Indiana— Smith Miller—l.
Illinois —Thomas L. Harris, Samuel S. Mar
shal!—2.
Michigan—George W. Peck—l.
lowa—Augustus C. Hall—l.
Wisconsin—Daniel Weils, jr.—l.
California— James W. Denver — 1.
Total from Free States 21; IS Buchanan, 3
Fillmore dn Italics.)
Dei. aw are —Flu ha D. Cullen —l.
Maryland —Thomas F. Bowie, Henry Winter
Davis , ./. Morrison Harris, Henry W. Hoffman,
James B. Ricaud , James A. Stewart—6.
Virginia—Thomas S. Bocock, John S. Carlilv .
Jphn S. Caskie, Henry A. Eduiundson, Charles J.
Faulkner. William O. Goode, Zedekiah Kid well,
John Letcher. John S. Millsou, Fayette McMullen,
Pa ulus Powell, William Smith —12.
North Carolina—Lawrence O’B. Branch,
Thomas L. Ciingman, Burton Craige, Richard C.
I*nryear, Thomas Ruffin, Warren Winslow—(*.
South Carolina— William Aiken, William W.
Boyce, Lawrence M. Keitt. John McQueen, James
L. Orr—s.
Georgia-—Howell Cobb, Martin J. Crawford,
John 11. Lumpkin, James L. Seward, Alex. 11. Ste
phens, Hiram Warner—6.
Alabama—W. R. W. Cobb, James F. Dowdell,
Sampson W. Harris, Georg* S. Houston, Eli S.
Shorter, Williamß. Smith, Percy Walker— 7.
M ississ i ri’i—William Barksdale, Ilendley S.
Bennett, William A. Lake, John A. Quitman, Dan
iel B. Wright—s.
Louisiana—Thos. Greco Davidson, (jeorge Eus
lis.jr., John M. Sandige, Miles Taylor—l.
Florida—Augustus E. Maxwell—l.
Tex as —Louis D. Evans, Peter H. Dell—2.
Kentucky.—Henry C. Bumert, J. P Camp
bell, Lea tide r M-Cox, John M. RiUot, Joshua H.
Jewett, Aiek. R. Marshall, Humph' cy Marshall,
Samuel F. Swope, Albert G. Talbott, William L.
U uderwooj —lo.
Tennessee. —Emerson Etheridge, George W.
Jones, Thomas Rivers, John H. Savage, Samuel A.
Smith, William 11. Sneed, John N Wright, Felix
K. Zull kojfer —S.
Missouri. — William Akers, l.nther M.Kcnnelt,
Mordecai Oliver, Johu S. Phelps, Gilchrist Porter
Arkansas.—Alfred B. Greenwood, Albert Rust
Total Slave States, 8 ; In all, 101.
NAYS. —Against Striking out.
Maine. —Samuel P. Benson, EbenezerKuowlton,
fsruel Washburn, jr.—3.
New H tftfi’SH ikfe —Aaron 11. Cragin, James
Pike, Mason W. Tapp an—3
Massachusetts— James Buffington, Calvin C.
Ciiaffe, Liuus B. Cumins, William S. Dam roll,
Timothy Davis, Alex. Do Witt, Ckaunecy L. Knapp,
Mark Trafton —8.
Rhode Island —Nathaniel B. Durfee, Benjamin
B. Thurston—2.
Connecticut—Ezra Clark, Jr., Sidney Dean,
Win. W. Welch, John Woodruff- —\.
Vermont—Justin S. Morrill, Alvah Sabin—2.
New York— Henry Bennett, Samuel Dickson,
Edward Dodd, Francis S. Edwards, Thomas T
Flagler, Win. A. Gilbert, Amos I*. Granger, Thos.
K. Horton, Jonas A. llughsten, William H. Kelsey,
Rufus 11. King, Orsamus B. Matteson, Andrew Z.
McCarty; Edwin B. Morgan, Ambrose S. Murray,
Andrew Oliver, John M. Parker, Guy R. Felton,
Benjamin Pringle, Russell Sage, Geo. A. Simmons,
Francis E. Spinner, James S. T. Stranahan, Abram
Wak< man—2l.
New Jersey— lsaiah I). Clawson, A. C. M. Pen
nington, George R. Robbins—3.
Pennsylvania— John Allison, David Barclay,
Samuel C. Bradshaw, James 11. Campbell, John
Covude, John Dick, John If Kdie, Galusha A.
Grow, Sonathan Knight, John C. Kuukel, Samuel
A. Pur\ iance, David Ritchie, Anthony E. Roberts,
David F. Robison, Lemuel Todd—ls.
Ohio— Charles J. Albright, John A. Bingham,
Philemon Bliss, Lewis D. Campbell, Jonas R. Em
rie, Samuel Galloway, Joshua R. Ghidings, Aaron
Harlan, Benjamin F.Leither, Riclmrd Mott, Wil
liam li. Sapp, John Sherman, .Benjamin Stanton,
Edward Wadt—lJ.
Indiana —Jjucieu Barbour, Samuel Brenton,
Schuyler Colfax, WilPam Cumback, Geo. G. Dunn,
David P. Holloway, Daniel Mace, John U. Pettit,
Harvey D. Scott—l).
Illinois— James Knox, Jesse (). Norton Elihu
B. Washburne, James H. Woodworth—4.
Michigan —William A. Howard, David S. Wal
bridge, Henry Waldron—3.
w i sco ns in —Charles C. Billinghurst, Cadwalader
C. Washburne—2.
lowa— Janies Thorington —l.
Total, 98.
In the above list the names of Mr. Fillmore’s sup
porters in the House are put in italics. It will there
fore be seen that in the fist of nays the name of but
one Fillmore man occurs, viz : Mr. Dunn, of Indiana.
On the other hand it will appear that jive of Mr. Bu
chanan’s Democratic supporters voted against
striking out the proviso, viz : Knowlton, of Maine;
Sherman ami Oliver, of New York; Barclay,ot
Pennsylvania, (his especial friend,) and Albright,
of Ohio.
We hope to hear no more of Fillmore’s unsound
ncra and Buchanan purity.
Fifthi with Pirates*
The London Times, of the 19th ult., gives the fol
lowing particulars of Prince Adelbert of Prussia’s
fight with pirates in the Mediterranean :
Prince Adelbert of Prussia—the same, we be
lieve, who served with the British armies during the
Sikh campaign, but who is now High Admiral of
Prussia, was cruising recently about the Mediter
ranean m the Prussian frigate Dantsic. When off
11 iff coast it was unfortunately remembered,
cither by the Prince or by some ot the ship’s co ••
pany, that they were* near a spot where a Prussian
vessel had been plundered some years before by the
Riff pirates The Prince made up his mind to land
at the spot in one of the ship’s boats, and to examine
the scene of the outrage. Tke boat’s crew had pull
ed away from under the cover of the frigate’s bat
teries, and was nearing the shore, when u fire was
opened upon them by the Riffs, who tired from hi
ding-places on the beach. The Prince instantly
adopted the bravest, if not the wisest course.
He returned to the frigate, manned and armed
her boats, made his men bend to their oars, and
pulled in upon the beach with redoubled speed.—
Once landed they endeavored to charge their un
seen antagonists, but were taken at a disadvantage
which neutralized their superior skill, discipline and
courage. The Riff's had the cont’iieut of Africa be
hind them. They were well acquainted with every
rock and hiding place along the line of coast, aud of
course asked no better than to draw their antago
nists away fioui the beach, and from the protection
of the frigate’s guns. It was soon ascertained that
against.such fearful odds nothing could be done, and
the order was given to retreat. The Prussians were
of course fired upon during this process, aud by the
time they had regained their bouts, and got once
more under the protection of the frigates guns, the
Prince’s Aide-de-Uamp —his flag lieut* naut—Yvas
mortally wounded, seven men were killed and seven
teen mortally wounded (three of t hem were left on the
field and could uot be got off); n mate was shot
through the elbow joint, and the Prince himself re
ceived a bull iu his thigh.
Although the affair seems to have been carried on
with much spirit on both sides, nor is it uny imputa
tion upon the courage of the Prussian seamen that
they were,at length compelled to retreat when taken
ul fluch fearful disadvantage. The end of this sad
business is; that tbe Dantsic was taken beck to
Gibraltar, and some of the late inhabitants were
sent to the military hospitals, some consigned to the
earth with military honors. The English steam
sloop Vesuvius was at once despatched by-the au
thorities ut Gibraltar to make complaint of the cut
rage, and to demand redress.
Won’t Act with the Slanderers of General
Jackson ! —For the facts given in the statement be
low we are indebted to a reliable gentleman, who
was present on the occasion referred to :
Mr. House, of Clarksville, made an American
speech at Spring Hill, on Monday hint. The Demo
crats selected an intelligent and experienced mem
ber of their party to reply to the speech of Mr.
House. The Democratic champion took his seat
near the House until the aforesaid House began to
fall down with crushing power upon the slanderers
of Gen- Jackson. Mr. Houser read mom the Louisville
Courier—a Buchanan paper—showing how grossly
that journal traduces the name and memory of the
great statesman aud soldier. He also read from
tiie speech of Capt. James Williams—lately publish
! ed in the Nashville Union American —in which it
charged that Gen. Jackson was guilty of ‘ naked
falsehood,” in regard to the bargain and intrigue
affair.
When Mr. House concluded his remarks relative
to these slanders and their sources, the Democratic
gentleman who was to reply to Mr. U., ro"e in his
place, and proclaimed that i.e < u!d n t md would
i:ot act any longer with a party who encouraged
men and presses in traducing the character of An
drew Jackson The annoucement occasioned a
great flutter among the Democrats present, and
they found it impossible to conceal the painful em
barrassment thus occasioned.— Athens ( Tenn.) Post.
Condition of Ireland.— The following extract
from a letter of John Martin, addressed to John
Mitchell, upon the present condition of Ireland, will
be read with interest :
I have been now in Ireland for two months. My
hand has been grasped by many a kindly neighbor
and friend of old times, and iny eyes have
looked upon many a dearly-loved scene that I had
hardly hoped ever to visit again except in dreams. I
am congratulated on all sides upon the present
“prosperity” of Ireland. And to those who have
witnessed the years of famine, the present condition
of the country may well seem prosperity. There is
no longer starvation, and the laboring people are
able to procure enough of tolerable food, and the
number of paupers supported by poor rates has
greatly diminished, and beggary and rags are much
less remarkable than for many years past. Indus
try has recovered to a great extent from the effects
of the famine, and the desolation that was then
brought upon property of rich and poor that were
Irish, is nearly at an end. But lam afraid it is
mainly to the recovery of the potato crop that we
owe this happy change. For some years past the
potato disease has been gradually wearing out, and
the fanners and laborers have been profiting by the
return of this must valuable of Irish crops.
Yet, delightful as it is to see this comparative pros
perity in Ireland. 1 cannot heip remarking that, of
all people that 1 have seen or read of, the Irish en
joy the smallest share of their own country's pro
duce. My nation—alas!.that I should have it to
say—is the shabbiest nation in the civilized wurld.
Ever your friend, John Martin.
Ascent of Mont Blanc by a Lady.—A letter
from Chamounix of the let Aug. in the Savoy Ga
zette says:
“The great event of the day here is an ancent of
Mont Blanc, commenced yesterday morning at
eight o'clock, by a Mr. Forman, an Englishman,
and his daughter. They arrived safely at the
Grands Millets at three in the afternoon, and, by
the light of lanterns, left this morning at two, to
ascend the giant of the Alps. At ten o'clock the
small party arrived on the crest of the highest
mountain in Europe, and after a halt of an hour,
left on their return, and reaehed this place at seven
in the evening. This ascent will be talked of as
one of the wonders of the valley, both on account
of the short time employed, (fifteen hours to ascend
and seven to descend,; and oftLe intrepidity shown
by Mis* Forman of whom the- guides speak in rap
tures. This young lady ia the fourth fetoaie who has
performed the feat. The progress of the tourists
was eagerly watched during the whole day. aud
every window that Commanded a view of the path
was bristling with telescope.- like muskets from a
loophole. The arrival at Chamounix was a perfect
triumph. Ail the inhabitants and resident foreign
ers went out to meet them, and the whole re-enter
ed the place headed by the band of the guides in
full costumes, and amidst a salute of cannon.”
We are glad to learn that the bridge over the
Upatoie creek, whose partial destruction by the gale
caused gome little derangement of the boring of
the Railroad, has been tnoroaghly re
paired. ana is now as strong and safe as ever.— Ch.
Courier.
Ka&Miut.
The Washington Union of Saturday publishes a
broadside of order. , instructions and explanations
relating to the civil war in Kansas, the pith of which
was condensed into a column under the telegraph
head in the American on the same day. The practi
eal commentary on this new flood of instructions
was a brace oft» despatches from Kansas
announcing new outrages, fresh murders, another
town sacked, and individuals driven from their
homes by fire and the sword. Who were the offend
ers in these raids, whether those who suffered de
served the punishment, o# those who inflicted it
were justified, either by strong provocation or still
stronger necessity, is not a matter that it is impor
tant to determine. The fact that these outrages
have occurred, that citizens of the same country,
bound iu obedience and entitled to the protection
of the same laws, and having in reality no justcause
to stand thus arrayed against each other, are engag
ed in a cruel guerilla warfare, and that while the
government instructs, explains and orders, they arc
shooting each other down, sacking and destroying
settlements, with all the concomitants of cruelty
that might not. be out of place in a record of Indian
or Caffre hostilities, but which belonging to the his
tory of a great and enlightened, and professedly
Christian nation are alike shocking and humiliating.
\V hy is it that this condition of affairs is permitted l
Does the Federal Government confess itself impo
tent to hold in check the two or three thousand ex
cited factionists in Kansas and Missouri, who are
the active promoters of this civil war, or is the Ad
ministration willing to continue the Kansas excite
ment as a useful clement in the Presidential con
tests.
The United States troops have now been iu Kan
sas some weeks, they number at present, as report
ed, a force of one thousand men ; andjyet, beyond i he
guarding of some half dozen prisoners charged with
constructive treason, whom it would have been
good policy to have liberated mouths since, the
memory will be. taxed in vain for any serious, prac
tical use made of them in preserving the peace of
the territory. The opposite faction there from their
camps, send out their scouis, meet, tight and re
treat. and yet we hear nothing of the interference .of
the United States troops. In one ca* , the aituex
upon and destruction of Col. Titus’ camp, the foray
was completed under tho very obe«. rvation of a
force bf United States dragroous, stationed-at Lo
coinpiou three miles oft’; yet the assailants were
permitted to retire unmolested, taking their prison
ers with theiu, and the Governor of the Territory
afterwards actually treated for the exchange of
these prisoners with others held by him, thus ac
knowledging, tacitly at least, the existence of an
equality of right between the parties. The “cir
cumlocution office” seems to be au insvi; ution even
of Kansas, and “how not to do it” is receiving some
brilliant illustrations there.
We may hope tln',t thy profusion of orders and in
struction;; thd government has now made public,
have hidden within their'formal wordiness something
of an earnest intention to act, but the expectation
is rather a faint one. The project of calling out
regiments from Illinois and Kentucky strikes us as
farcical if not calculated to complicate existing dilii
cullies. It will tuke to raise and officer and
bring into service these regiments, aud when on
the scene ot conflict they will be more apt than not
to become the supporters of the opposite faction-,,
rather than impartial preservers of the peace. It fe
but a small matter of gratification that the sectional
fanatic ism of the House was beaten down in its ef
fort to prevent the Constitutional use of the Army
for the suppression of domestic revolution, if the
President lias already found that Army insufficient
or inefficient io answer llie purpose, and is at this
early day forced to fall back upon his ulterioi pow
ers of calling out the militia of the adjoining States.
Wliut is wanting in Kansas is not an immense force,
but'determination in using it; an unalterable pur
pose in making the United States soldiery a party
to every light, and in forcing those who appt al to
arms to use them against the government. There
would be one such tight, and then peace would fol
low.—Balt. Amcr.
Tin* Vermont mid Maine Elect ion.**.
The annihilation of the Democracy in Vermont
and Maine, as demonstrated by the State election,
is well calculated to open the eyes of the Southern
people to the fact that there is uo Democratic part y
at the North. Their presses and orators at the South
may boast as largely as they please, but facts and
figures —which cannot he misunderstood—show t hat
the Democratic strength in the non-slaveholding
Status is a thing that was—a power that has been
obliterated ami has passed* away. Iu tho little
State of lowa it is beaten eight to ten thousand
votes; and in the small Slate of Vermont, having
only three Representatives in Congress, it is beaten
by the unparalleled majority of twenty thousand
votes ; while in Maine the party is completely over
whelmed. Frobubly four-fifths of the voters of Ver
mont have thus declared their hostility to Buchan
an. It being thus apparent that he stands uo earth
ly chance of obtaining the votes of these States,
should not a patriotic regard for the constitution and
the Union induce the Democracy of lowa, Maine
and Vermont to withdraw their electoral tickets (if
they have any) and allow a fair and square light
between Fillmore and Fremont? They now see
that they cannot hope to prevail—tlieir strength is so
inconsiderable as to deprive Jkem even of a hope of
smuggling iu their electors through the division of
the other parties, for they cannot rally even one
third of the voters for Buchanan; and where the
proipecfc is eo hopeless, it must be the part of wis
dom to withdraw from a contest that can only em
barrass the other national party, which may be able
yet to retrieve tho fortunes of the field and save
those States from the clutches of factionists and sec
tional agitators. —Columbus Enquirer.
The Glories ok the Night.— Hon. Edward
Everett, in his oration at the Inauguration of the
Dudley Observatory, in Albany, New York, gave
the following beautiful description of tho night sea
son:
1 had occasion, a few weeks since, to take the
early train from .providence to Boston, and for this
purpose rose at two o’clock in the morning. Every
thing around wut> wrapped in darkness and hushed
in silence, broken only by what seemed at that hour
the unearthly clank and rush of the train. It was a
mild, serene mid-summer’s night, the sky was with
out a cloud, the winds were whist. The moon, then
in the last quarter, had just risen, and the stars
shone with a spectral lustre, but. little affected by
her presence. Jupiter, two hours high, was the
herald of the day ; the Pleiades just above the hori
zon, shed their sweet influence in the East; Lyra
sparkled near tin* zenith; Andromeda veiled her
newly discovered glories from the naked eye, in the
South; the steady pointers fur beneath the Pole,
looked meekly up from the depths of the North to
their sovereign.
Such was the glorious spectacle as 1 entered the
train. As we proceeded, the timid approach of twi
light became more perceptible; the intense blue of
the sky began to soften, the smaller stars, like little
children, went first to rest; the sister beams i»f the
Pleiades soon melted together; but the bright, con
stellations of the West and North remained un
changed. Steadily the wondrous transfiguration
went on. Hands ot angel* hidden from mortal eyes
shifted the scenery of heaven; the glories of the
night dissolved into the glories of the dawn. The
blue sky now turned more softly gray; the great,
watch-stars shut up their holy eyes ; the East be
gan to kindle. Faint streaks of purple soon blushed
along the sky; the whole celestial concave was
filled with the inflowing tides of morning light which
came pouring down from above in one great ocean
of radiance, till at length, ns we reached the
Blue Hills, a flash of purple fire blazed Out from
above the horizon, and turned the ruby tear-drops of
flower and leaf into rubies and diamonds. Iu a few
seconds, the everlasting gates of the morning were
thrown wide open, and the lord of day, arrayed in
glories too severe for the gaze of man, began his
course.
Ascent of Mount Ararat. —An interesting ac
count appears iu the London Times of an ascent of
Mount Ararat by five Englishmen. The nativesbe
lieved the feat to be impossible, and that the sum
mit was guarded by Divine prohibition. Itis 17,323
feet a hove the sea-level, and terminates in a precipi
tous snow-capped cone, which hag hitherto foiled all
the attempts of explorers. Major Robert Stewart
who was one of the party, and who writes the ac
count ofitfiom Erzerourn, states that on reaching
the top, lie stuck to the liiit in the snow a short
double-edged sword. Thev also drank the health of
the queen. On this he observes “Her Majesty's
name is probably the first that has been pronounced
on that solemn height since it was quitted by the
great patriarch of the human race, as no record or
tradition exists of the ascent having ever been made
before.
Duel. —A duel was fought on Friday afternoon,
between 4 and 5 o’clock, near Ferry—or, more
properly, Washington Point, Norfolk county, by
two of our citizens. The card of Dr. Perkins,in the
Daily News, relative to a slanderous report, caused
an individual, whose name we have not learned, to
send a challenge to Dr. P., which was promply ac
cepted—the weapons chosen being broad swords,
and the time and place as above mentioned. The
parties, with their friends and a physician, accord
ingly repaired to a field not far from the village on
the point, and a desperate fight took place, with
heavy and keen edged swords, which resulted m the
injury of both parties. Dr. P. received a deep and
severe cut on his right arm, and dealt his antagonist
a dreadful gash in the face and on one arm, wound
ing him also in the abdomen. The injuries, we
learn, are not of a serious nature; and as medical
aid was immediately obtained, the two combatants
will probably be ready for another battle, if neces
sary, in a week or two, although it is quite probable
they are well enough satisfied with the result of the
bloody encounter. —Norfolk Argus, of Monday.
Old Line Whigs of North Carolina. —We
perceive by the Salisbury, No/th Carolina Watch
man. that tiio Old Line Whigs in that Congression
al District, are requested to meet at their usual
places of assembling in the several counties, and
elect delegates to the Whig National Convention,
to convene in Baltimore on the 17th of this month.
It is suggested that each county elect a delegate to
said Convention, and that such number of delegates
as may be thus selected and attend jointly repre
sent the District. The same course is recommend
ed to the other Congressional Districts in the State,
and that the Delegates who may meet at Baltimore,
select two of their number to represent the State at
large as Senatorial delegates. It will be necee.saiy
to act with promptness, as the time is short.
The Cholera. —ln India we hear of the cholera
having broke out with a degree of virulence natu
ral to it on the spot where first cholera appeared to
scourge the world. It is described as making great
ravages iu Jumna. Many English had fallen vic
tims, and the natives are haid to be almost insane
with fright. They declare that a mysterious horse
man is riding over the country, and wherever his
horse’s hoofs strike, t .e-re the pestilence appears. —
They are actually offering up figures of this demon
rider in the temples. The spread of the pestilence
seemed imminent at tbe latest dates.
Fikk.'—The Dlau'tiig mill and workshop of Messrs.
D. and K. 11. Biker, above the forks of the road, was
totally destroyed by fire last evening. The building
was an extensive one, and there was a considerable
amount of materfhl on hand. We understand that
the parties were fuliy insured, but the breaking
up of their business must, in itself, be a very serious
loss.
We regret to state that a serious accident occurred
in the -Etna Fire Company in going to the scene of
the conflagration. Mr. Heffrcn, a member of the
Company, was run over by the engine and his foot
badly crushed.— CL. Mercury.
Spread us Mor.mosi.-m. —This singular religious
delusion is spreading with wonderful rapidity. The
“Latter Day Saints,” as they style themselves,
evince great activity in making converts to their
faith. In Great Britain and Germany, thousands,
mainly from among the agricultural classes, have
joined them. In Hamburg they nave issued a Ger
man translation of the Book of Mormon. In Sax
ony they have succeeded in forming a society of ad
hereuts in the city of Dresden, carefully avoiding
any collision with the police, who are ever on the
alert for new religious sects, suspecting every new
doctrine to be a mere cloak for some political plot.
The apostles seem to have plenty of funds at their
command, apparently derived from England, with
which, they aaaat the needy among their prose
lyte-. All through Germany they are making pre
parations to leave for the New Jerusalem on the
Great Salt Lake..
Planters from the country continue to report im
mense injury to the crops bv the ga : »j. There is no
doubt that the damage to the cotton crop has been
very serious, and destroys all hope that the yield in
this section oan be near an average one. The ffud
on ttie trees, too, is almost destroyed. Both the
peaches and apples left on the branches were so
much bruised by the wind diving them violently
together or against the trees, that they are rotting.
—Columbus Enquirer.
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XX. NO. 38.
Fruit.* ofSqiiurter Sovoroi«**iy.
The readers attention is invited to tho following
picture of the State of things in Kansas* and while
perusing it, we beg him to reflect that it is the fruit
of Squat ter Sovereignty rapidly maturing. This is
the principle which the South is asked to endorse
by the Spoilsmen to make it tho precedent for all
time. What say the patriots of the South, are they
ready to endorse Squatter Sovereignty ? Let them
respond at the Polls :
From the St. Louis Intelligencer.,
Deplorable Condition of Affairs in Kansas
—A gentleman, who stated that he was direct from
Kansas, called upon us Tuesday evening, and rela
ted a most distressing account ’of desolation, rapine
and bloodshed, produced by the disturbances in
Kansas Tenilqjy. His own case is one of extraor
dinary misfortune. lie said that he kept a small
store, and iu conjunction with his brother, carried
on a farm on Vermillion river, (in the interior por
tion ot the Territory) where there was a small settle
ment. About the middle of last month, a band of
marauders who, he believes, were Free State men
took possession of his store, rilled it of what they
wanted, and then set tire to and destroyed it. They
went on the farm, hard by, where hi 3 brother was
ploughing, and demanded the horse lie was then
using auu what stock and provisions lie had.
Upon being refused, they shot him, killing him iu
his trucks, and took and carried oft’ his horses, and
whatever, else tempted their cupidity. Being driven
from house aud home, the person who called on us
states that ho started on foot for lowa Point, (the
nearest poiut,) together with his wife and four chil
dren, and truv tiled thus for two days, when lie fell
in with a wagon, in which the owner permitted him
and his family to ride. Exposed, in the journey on
foot, to the weather and to privations thut manhood
could scarcely withstand, his wife anti children took
fcick, and she and two bf the children died and were
buried on tho way, Ue arrived at lowa Point w ith
the other tw > children, and came thence to JSt. Louis,
aimed, broken-hearted and deprived of all that was
dear to him on earth.
He states that the Territory is overrun with plow
ing gangs of thieves and murderers, who levy indis
criminately ou the property of the Unarmed and tie
fenceless, and sc. uplo not at aison and murder to
gratify cupidity or revenge. Both pro slavery men
and aboliuoniftts are cugageu in the inhuman busi
ness, and have iu their power the lives and proper
ty ofa'l who ore unable to defend themselves. There
is no law or justice iu die Territory; might reigns
over both. Any numbered of companies, large and
small, are pouring into the Territory, fl am Nebras
ka and from Missouri, and to supply themselves
with provisions aud necessaries, they seize and ap
propriate wlmtt ver they can.
H o have no reason for doubting this statement.
The man who called on us is u siuipie uiindeU,
straightforward country man, whose manner and
appearance area guaranty that lie could not, if ho
would, dec; ivo. lie gave us his name, stating also
that lie was a native ot Kentucky.
The Atchison party have issued another bulletin
“To the Citizens of Missouri,” which we find in the
Kansas City Enterprise ofFriduy. We copy :
To the Citizens of Missouri : —A report Ims been
circulated with great assiduity through the State,
that the difficulties, in Kansas arc settled. Tiffs re
port has been circulated by two classes of men,
those who wish some excuse for not assisting their
friends in Kansas by their presence, and those who
are.too sordid to aid with their money. YVe st ate*
now, distinctly, that affairs are daily grow
ing worse—-that we do uot intend to abandon our
friends in Kansas until Lane’s bandits are made to
respect the laws and submit to them.
The Law and Order men, now under afiis in tho
Territory, determined that the laws shall be main
tained, amount to 1,000, and must have 500 move
within one week, or all must be lost, and Kansas
must be abandoned to the bandits.
D. It. Atchison, dames Chiles,
A. W. Doniphan, John VV. Reid,
Oliver Anderson, S. A. McLean.
Kansas Territory, Aug. 29, 1856.
•Sun Francisco Vigilance Couuuitt«ic.
The correspondent of the New York Journal of
Commerce, writing from San Francisco, under date
of the fsth ult., gives nn interesting account of the
V igilance Committee, of which, it may be, ho is a
member. After stating that the Committee is a
secret body—every member being sworn to secrecy
the writer proceeds :
The Executive Committee is composed of about
forty members, besides two secretaries. The pre
sident of this body is understood to be Wm. T.
Coleman, Esq., a merchant of high and honorable*
standing here and elsewhere. The others are taken
from all classes and conditions of
doctors, lawyers, shipcarpeutevs, masons, black
smiths, carpenters, ironmongers, —perhaps two
thirds *of the whole are composed ol mercantile
jobbing houses of our city. There are two or three
French and Germans in the executive body.
The General Committee is composed of about
0,000 members, whose names, residences, and places
of business are duly enrolled, and signed to the con
stitution. The committee is divided into about 35
divisions or companies, three of cavalry, two of ar
tillery, and the remainder of infantry. These are
commandyd by proper officers, and are - weekly
drilled, aud each company take their turns for guard
aud garrison duty. The whole is divided into bat
talions, and duly commanded by a Grand Marshal, ,
his aids «fcc. In fact, it is one grand army, com
posed of our best und most highly esteemed citi
zens.
There are about 100 men constantly On duty, day
and night, in and about the gurrison, without puy,
fee or reward; all voluntary; lour hours off and
on during the twenty-tour hours—one company on
during the day, another at night. The police is go
verned by a captain and his aids, all under pay.—
Rations are furnished to all on duty in the garrison.
The Executive Committee is sub-divided into com
mittees, who have their secretaries. The latter only
are paid. There is also the “Commissary Depart
ment,” “Quartermaster’s” office, & e.
The armory and magazines are uil iu perfect or
der, ami (very thing is ready for action, The mo
ment the alarm bell is sounded—-two taps of the
committee bell would, in thirty minutes call out ten
thousand men, night or day, half the number armed
and equipped, “us the law directs.”
1 should have stated previously that the various
sub-committees are designated as follows :—Evi
dence Committee, Qualification Committee, prison
Committee, Finance Committee.
The expenses of the General Committee are ail
paid by voluntary contributions by our citizens.—
The total and entire expensed up to this time probu
bly exceed $ 10,000. Ihe present expenses ot rant,
clerk hire, <fcc., probably at this moment do not ex
ceed five hundred dollars per day, though they have
run up to $7 00. Everything is done on the cash
system. Bills are paid off daily from 11 to 12—clerk
hire, ©nee u week, (every Saturday.) The garrison
is, in all respects, in goou military order. Burrocks
i’or 150 men (relief guard) with blankets and mat
tresses, sutler’s quarters, 6ce.
The establishment is even provided with horses,
everything ready and on the premises for a cam
paign. To show the true feeling of the people, I
have seen frequently men on duty, with their white
locks over rixiy, and others, 65 and 07 years of age.
Probably a score of these old gentlemou do guard
duty night and day; watch ut their posts, in or out
of doors, or whenever duty calls, und these too are*
men occupying the high and honorable calling of
mercEuiifa, mechanics, &e. These men shoulder
the musket and, uud drill as good as shoulders, at
tend reviews, 6ca.
I have said previously that there were clergy
men in the committee, probably twenty in number,
mostly Methodists, but a few ot other denominations.
In nearly ail of our churches (protefitonts) pastors
have spoken and preached approvingly of the com
mit tee and their acts. 1 may enumerate the Right
Rev. Bishop Kip of the Episcopal Church, Rev.
Messrs. Briggs and Thomas of the Methodist Church
es, Rev. Mr. Cutler of the Uuit&riun, Rev. Mr. Wi
ley of the New School Presbyterian, Rev. Mr. Lacy
of the Congressional, and Rev. Dr. Anderson of the
Presbyterian Old School, and many others whose
names Ido not now recollect. The Rev. Dr. Scott,
1 believe, is the only clergyman who has refrained
from alluding to the subject in his pulpit, lie is,
however, not friendly to the acta of the committee,
and the elders arid trustees of Calvary church made
a formal request that he should not bring the matter
before the congregation—but simply to preach
Christ and Him crucified to his hearers. I have; no
doubt that lmd Dr. Scoff been in the city at the
time of the organization of the committee, he would
have spoken out boidly against it. AL all events,
the law and order men c laim him ns their friend and
advocate.
In regard to the public press of this ciiy, ail are in
favor and strongly endorse the acts of the eommit
mittee, save and -xcept the Sun and Herald, whose
circulation combined is not, probably, more than
two thirds of the Bulletin, while the Alta, Chronicle,
True Californian, Town Talk, Globe, and . omc
three French papers, and all dailies, the weeklies,
not excepting the Christian Advocate, the organ of
the Methodists, and the “Pacific,” (new school.)
The press throughbut the State, and so also of the
citizens of the entire State, are “vigilantes,” and iu
case of need are with us.
The writer states also that parly politics have
notiiing to do with the organization, and that lead
ing members have been compelled to withdraw in
consequence of having broached the subject of par
ty. He says the Bole object of the committed is to
rid the the cityand state of the murderers, rowdier
and ballot-box staffers.
He states that the strongest opponents of the
committee are southern democrats.
Visit to Northern Crimea. —A correspondenf
of the Rondon Times gives some interesting focts
developed by a tour made by Major Jf&mincrtfey
and two other British officers in the North of the
( 'rimea. It is said to have demonstrated very clear
ly the enormous difficulties experienced by the Ktis
sians in maintaining their position in the Crimea, !
and to have shown that if the allies had advanced
after the Blb'September, (when the South side of
Sebastopol was captured,) and followed the enemy,
supposing they retreated,or defeated them it they
stood, the whole Russian army of the South must
have surrendered prisoners of war, and that Cner
son, BerislafF, Nicolaieff and Odessa would ..av<
b< a seriously menaced. Ail the North side, with
its military stores and provisions, together with the
magazines at Baktchi-Sarai and Simferopol, and
about 60,000 or 70,000 men, would have fallen into
the hands of the allies.
The reason assigned for this conclusion ia, that
there are but two outlets from the'Crimea —on*, by
tue Isthmus of Perekop, the other by the bridge
over the Putrid Sea at Tchong9r r the approaches to
which lie over waterless, foodless platens, broken
by deep salt lakes. The wells are scarce, one hun
dred to two hundred and fifty feet deep,wieldT but a
scanty supply of disagreeable water. Coder these '
circumstances the Russians were obliged to pour it.
their reinforcements by driblets, carrying watt r with
them ; they could not have marched a buiy of s,With *
or 6,000 men by either route in dry weahl or. An
army of 70,000 or 80,000 men; thereto re, broken and
dispirited ,hemmed iu by those obstacle* ana pressed
by a victorious enemy, would have fallen aii easy
prey. The Russians themselves eoc teas that their
case was hopeless had their lines been attacked and
broken. The neglect to pursue this course is at
tributed by the writer to the councils of the u
lie says it is believed by many that Marshal Pelis
sier received orders from the after the fall
of Sebastopol not to attempt anything further against
the enemy, inasmuch as the glory of the arms oi
France had culminated pt the Aialakoff, and the
prospect of an agreeable peace was visible to the
keen eye of the accomplished politician. If such
were indeed the case, the Czar is under deep obli
gations to his imperial cousin.
Railroad Statistic —Mr. Guthrie, Secretary
of the Treasury, has prepared a set ot -‘lnterrogato
ries 1 which are to be addressed -to the President* j
of Railroad Con.p as. ’ v\;• . a view to'the compi- I
iation of Railroad Statistics of the , United states. —
The questions embrace aii points connected with the
history and operation of each road—its--length, cost,
termini, branches, amount of double track, capital,
bonds issued, floating deb - , operating expanses,
amount of freight and number ot passengers carri- d,
dividend 0 , av« -age speed of trains, iriib-s run, cas
ualties, &c., «ke. The .Secretary requests that the
answers to these interrogatories may be given from ,
the last annual report of each company, with the Cate
of the report; that i hey may be inserted in the b.anx.
left opposite to eac h raferrogfttory; and that the in- j
ter: ogutories so afhwfcred may be returned to the • (
department at the earliest period practicable— j
When the compilation is compjefeu and printed, it j
is the Secretary’s intention to send a to each j
President, partly to requite the favor sqUcded, awl ;
partly to disseminate the information collected and j
combined.
Bishop Pierce left for Kansas hist wi ek,
to hold n Mission Confe.> nce there. We h< ■}»■ he 1
will not faii to resume at an eaily day, his luci- i
dents of Travel,” as his former tour was received |
with such a zest by the public. —Sparta Georgian. |
Tin* li.n u- .1 o ,*. v ••, .
The St. Imuis i\ n, . : ~v
has the following additional particulars üb.'\: tin;
battle between ther free State men and Southern
ew at Ossawafrmie.
Tiietown of Ossawateinie was c > ,np •,j <y:
thirty to forty houses, and wusa t vvn p'.c <• 1*
fore the Kansas difficulties, and had a pupi
about two hundred. It is situated i imi. di-ileiv !
tween the forks of a branch qf the (»:_•• riv< •
tlit; Botawatomie river. The die rue;. *> . . > •
country lmd occasioned an almost t ta' d.; r.i
the town by the families living i:i i'. id nl '••
of the fight it was occupied by about tiny arm. .1 f.» e
State men and a few women and childi m.
At six o’clock on Saturday morni.i_\ ju-Y
sunrise, a proslavery party ofabAut !■'•* • ... u
Gen. Keid, made their appearance b.m * • j . .
having in their command a piece of v . . u 1
most of 1 hem mounted. They had in:: U- . l
march of thirty or forty nilhs from tluir e.-mp on
Bull creek. As soon as the Free State • m.
scribed the pro slavery force, they put tin
under the command of Captains Blown and 1
graft, formerly of Ohio, and sought .-.lie' i t
growth three hundred . , -, •:
taut from the town. The pro-slavery force i.
tained tlieir ground at about ball" a o ’. ' , an l <. r.
menoed firing with their canon, which, was so ,
with prape and canister shot and dugs.
They had an advantageous posit ion, and cue!-. . •;
charge of the gun raked the ambush ni th l .
State forces with fearful effect. One of .ur :
nuts states that he saw three cf his com-,
once; still they returned as britk a f. ■ .
could, and succeeded in woundin', sev. .! >l t .r
euemios. After some ten or a d<»/. - 1 s
from the artillery, a company of about •: . . ». :
pro slavery fbree dismounted from th.-ir id: • .
having surrounded the place of iv.iv.t, me a
charge and completed the entire rout ol ;ii • V
State men, several of whom, in attempi-ng to »
the along which the fight ra • .• ..
in the \v; 11 «• »■. ami
badly wounded as not to be able tosav «.• ~i ■
from death by drowning.
One of our informant* stair- that ho ■ »w .
of Captain Brown i Iho water. He h'-cw it \
• him by his coat and hut. lie thinks tuei. ...
doubt*of his bmng killed. Seven of the Fr<v .m- •
men were captured, aft m wlih-li th * to.. .* v .
tire and entirely destrcycil.
Iu marching.buck tt> the camp o. Bull (
the prisoners were cuhjcet to v.-yy e.-ufo r... ,
and two ol" them, cue named William?-•. an .
er ‘‘Dutch Charley,*' were taken out of tin •••. ;-
and shot by their ipfuriate'd Tiem-fos. i, =
wad a Hungarian ‘and fought Under K > ; i
since Ida removul to this country, hud lived 'n i.
sms and taken a very active pari with die JY.
State party. lie- was present at tie.* h i !•
Jack, and after the capture of the pro slavery \
ty was appointed to guard tv p’l ; .m.,i
whom was a man named Cfocm r.i. Tm
man was at the battle o' Ossawatomie, a d •»
the capture of the Free State meiirecogni oil U. l It
('Yu lev. He demand l
livered to him, uml taking him out • u*. Un.i ...,d.
Frcdeiiek Brown, son of l " tpiaia Brown, wis air o
killed. lie was one of the picket guards of t!ie
Free Sthte ciuOp ft O suwatdliuc, nml b< n g m,
prised: lc woSnliot through the neu:t by >- \iv<>e .
er named Martin White. After being » 1 o. ...
while lying on tlie ground with his
and open in death, another shot \yas fi.cde • n lfo
(livoat.
The above ia tho straight forward tale of i,n.i
party of men, and bears upon .is ince the imp « of
truth. •
The following is ;i pro slavery necom.t «•'."! y ; :
fight We find it in the St. LouisKenulmcan, <1- : .
•‘Camp at Indian Creek, Sept. 2d *
On Saturday, the 23d cf Aug, we left our r ai’
Westport, and took up our it » u .t- i Ac
Santa Fe, ut which phi'-e we*arriv' «l i!*<- same day
We found about ltltt pro-jl very inen one •.n}> d.
On the 24fli we formed a regiment, an 1 rei.i
CoJ. V- II- Uoßser, of Virginia, as temp ary oo.a
! mander in chief. On the ‘JhUi our foie, s hmi i
creased to 1,lot), rank mnl file We then went int<»
npt rinanent org.mi«a4i.m, and seh-eL d Ate.liisoa a
Major Gymeral, Keitl as Brigadier Ocmrd, itr. ,
as Colonel of the Ist, and Roßs .t of tin* 'M r
and gave the name of ourforees ‘-The Ami m l/i
Kansas Territory.” On th -.nth «a
took up aline of march for Oss; wat. nio, and <■::
camped that night gt Cedar Clock On tin v*. t?i
we resumed our ninl'ehuu^encamped at Bull (hr. k
Ou lha evening of tlv* (ien. Keid seh.,.d
men and one pioot* of artillery, und moved on to
attack (b-awattoinie.
Oil tliemorning of the 20th he anived near that
place and was attacked by 2J)O abwiitionists, under
the command of the notorious John Brown, who
commenced firing upon Reid from a thick < happti
rcl four hundred yui'jfs oil", (general Reid then i-n
ed hia men iii an open pi iurie, and Mnj. Bell fc-d
upon the abolitionist* with the artillery loaded with
grape. General Reid then made a successful eh e g
upon t hem, killing JI and took 7 prismei H. Ainoiig.-.'
the killed was Fred’k. Brown. The
Brown was also killeii by a pro slavery man named
White. Among the prisone rs taken is the son ol'O. ( .
Brown, of Lawrence noforiely; he will be human
ly treated, and set at libei ty w hen the war is m i-i
The other prisoners taken were shipped on the B. I.
Star, and a pledge exacted of them never to retun .
again to Kansas.
The pro-slavery party hoc five wounded, none l e
lieved to be dangerous. Captain Boyee received a
wound in the h itWt-lsfo, Frank Gordon in the Jell
shoulder; Jackson in the mouth; John Gordon in
the thigh, and Barker in the leg. The pro slav.-ry
men, contrary to the orders of .Gen. Rn d, blunt n«•;. r
ly all the houses of Ossawatomie. They tu<>k :«■
forty liead'bf cattle, a purt'of them Ik ing the : a
- Brown and his party had stolen !Y > ntlie G • hi
colony—six horses, two wagons and "Ohc < rri.e. < .
On the same day Capt ain Buys, with forty nit n, a 1
tucked the house of the notorious OtLaway Join : ,
burnt liia house and killed two aboliti 1.1 ! .b in ■
fled to the corn field, was shot at by Hays, and Y.
believed to be dead.
About fi J*. M., the 2(lth, the; abolitioni-: ns li
beling 2.50 men, paifie within about three-cpiarlem
of a mile of our camp, and attempted tosurpns •
they no doubt thinking t hut our ton es had be.-u o
much weakened by Reid's nmreh on Ossv.vr.Jto:.
that we would retreat and Ih'ive our baggage : but
not*so—thedrtim bent, and'soOn every m.n ; camp
was ready for Imttle. Seeing lb ft lwe were )v„ ,
to meet them tin y lied. The njost oft he m a \\\ i ■
in favor of pursuing them, but were prevea'.-d fro..i
doing so by General Atchison.
On the morning of trie 30th a council conum-md
of tho field officers and captains of the d'tie.vnt
companies, was. held, und by a large majority of
' those in council it \vm; deeidbd to fall back on lndi:i;i
Creek, until we could get mure provisions and am
munition, and to enable the soldi, rs composing r ■
arrfiy to become better drilled cud disciplined.
Oil the 3jst, the army took up the iiie - i man !>,
and eiieaiU|>ed at Cedar (.’reek for the night . <Y
the Ist. of September General Atehisbn r- Y . i. '
Jits corrwniaaioij, knd General Reid was selected in
his stead.
Our army, which had consisted of l,2fi(Jj had *..•
bceu reduced to half that amount, are now si ~,,»•
ed at Indian Creek, und from the last infon -uti.
that I could gel, the pro .slavery j n'ty only ,jM.,ib, i
about I,l*oo men in the terrjtoiy,of u hie.h uuii.li
600 are encamped at IndiamCn ek, and J.ct") , g...
If ol Kanm mi.-
The pro-slavery fog at pie •.. . .
ry, and plenty-of homes for cavalry ; but t! ■- .•
an effieibot. regiiucnt ol.' inl'mit ry.
The abolition forces in the territory done ...
1,200 men ; they are well drill, d, an t
them is armed with a Beee!u*r Bioi** and (In'
Friyer Book. They have two p;<«• • .
one the/.took at Franklin, and tee. «>. , i
Lecoinpton inexchange for the brav. I i> . .
aldaon and others.
< loop NKW S FOB M
ferred an inestimable benefit upon '
this country by their firm r«H Ato »• i-
Important patents, fit*: chief • f v. h ■
Woodsworth’s Planing M - hit
On the Olh of 1 tec. !•' sn
Anuer■icon, the Greet Monopoly, w ; ‘d '
generation has been a terror
inventors, and a cruel extpi:t.i"»:er t
working masses, will fail to the r. >o , A*i ..
and broad held for genius tfnd indu. I . v,.!i ti i i.
thrown wide open to alh.
All inventors having Improvement* i- n\-.n
mueliincs, whohave beendriv.-i. r> •• v< yii .
Woodworth Monopo’y ? m>./. t - i l
hiding }■laces. Ah f. .•.-•hiju’« who d« i. > • •
into the luintttr plaining bi' d.i.- •
necessary arrangemenh*. All .mv-Vini- .s ..--.v
prhjmre i«> t.-.l .
V/oilh I'
Clio locked’ up, bee,tii •ofa h , ,-d ..
may now b<-put into o, r. .in i~e . ...
lnmboi forking
December next. T..u~< wi.o ; i e‘i , i. •’■ .
to take advantage of; the 'ito:u-i:i i
ly to reap the riche** hnrve.-t.. In • ; ■ u <■ .
Congress has r fused lo extend the p..; i.v- 1
AfcCotmiek's (iri.iu ((paper, wide!. . • ...
Haywood's Rubber Patent, in • II: rl.i
Iron Casting Patent, 1810 ; N 0..:, •- l'.:o .
Patent, |KQ3. The only patent extio io:,. i ~ of. .i
during the session wa - to l ane A*. •
Mas. , for his printing pr« . 'J 1... j . j 1 .! ...
ready brh'ii extended s< m,n yi- !.•. t
sioner of Patents, and would iiave mored in 1 .
CoNVK.VTIO.V OK I)KAK Alt/T2. 'i t. 1
(N. 11.) J{cporf.”r says that : e ids* . > ,
New Ivngiand GnOandet As- ti >.
bold in that <-i! f wW( .
tended, and was a very inter t.rg oc«- . 'i ■>.'
■ • ano two fa
and gcntiemeji.
Tins eyereiaes cen.-isfed ffi ui •• '
the President, Thomas Brown,, - i ;l
I iug of scripture and prayer by S'in jet A I.
Connecli'Mtt.a d -.if mute preaches ; r*-»'»!'».
Constitution by tin secretary, and an oi ■
PxiMeWor Laurotti of LI aril rd
language. r l‘he orator was very ammated i -
matnier of delivery, and his audiofu e t-o i .
their appreciation of hifl eh ijiten' m - t.v olwj
bends. Itev. 'l’hon (irlmnd. : o' - y> wV )
son of the distinguished founder of- e !I:i • I ;
Asylum, interpreted tie* orstp/s r gn t
the hearing portion 4,,' the 1 ed ■<.»>■ '
Mr. Turner, JVni ipu! of the Hartford A ■ ,
mode an address in the sign utngu.ge Jf<
were alsr; mode bv Mr. »J. P. Mnr-h of ih . n ; .*
other*. The Repirtej- remarl tb:.? “os
reesa more intelligent he kL g ss-< mbbi ti..*; . »
lh.it cf t’ eae men and woin'tn dej . ■ 11
of hearing »«ifd «ipeecJi. ’Tli *yappe .r< : > !.•’ ;
ft.dgavi- pleugn% evidence of Wing w- u
do in the world.”
A Ngw r.-t; I'm Old Boots.-*A cr.;le.-p-.;
_pf t'ie C'mrlestiMi CUarier/writ;, £1;-ui baratoga
tells'tlie foUowiijg-amusing une -dote !
At the great baiUT the se.-. : which-.,. ;
the U. S. Hotel few nig,,;.. .■
.widowof Boston, w:tii blood
abd with sererjii Tt-spon il-ilit o- : t !.- -. n o
with, i*oiae s&yf10,000, and < ' .< r s.'», , • •■!
of jewelry On lmnh hly attired ]- • . hW ■ '
iu her manu.crs,Tnd accusto crd a< - ± -■ : >
'giuitbcnnu.she pleases, wju lhei ?n»:oo -<1 « r
and seeing one of the ip . • -mine gcn-hi: v
oaf ln-i, it Ii
■
relj she said to lipn, “Don’t y' 1 ! *• ’■
brooch ?’* pointing to the nab jeiv-1 h'-ch nd . 1
her bust. “Jfys, ’ iie rvi h- U. “I ■ i ■ ■
and still more the wonivr.” - : i h. o;
said she, “that lam an adi'ei turou- ]•• in, [ t>; -
vel, unattended Hr, P .with $-•>, • ;
about wry person, < r in t- y pi.**»■d
gentleman assented,'and she added, *'l . tel! -.u
h*W I m®bngo it. ’Vi- I’ be:*, ;*t ;i I
put dear o‘«i ileed D~ .n’ boota.outsidi- yi iny
clminbeT il-Jcr.fliid they protect mVfrorn robbery or
intrusion.”
Attempts sue x Curia id.- Ari. :
scene occurred iu the G• ■ < •M. 1 *•: u
Philadelphia, ''ast*hu:.dayi It Hpgo.ir
mured Bbker. walk.' J” up ii.-.j-'niud!*'' .
feucblug tile attar, turiTudi'o fts t-. i.uv he'M, r »• -
gat ion, and ho*n i;.kmg a f\ v • b»:rr< '• <i i r
trigger. The cap fortunaU-iy t xp-vuv.i w ith .ui
uitmg ihe powdi within i!-«* pistol, Jind l" *' l;
i'ould attempt to fire another bat rei*lhe p>htoi r, s
taken from his hand by tW-iof the n »«*-*• b. of the
church. During thia time the gr- utest ex d -r
prevailed amoqgst the emigre;*..tion, <-j i . o i.rd
woimth RT« iililnf, while •• *•(•• u 1
doors, but l 1 y -’.v.. • i-.-s to p-.-vecl ■ .
ohe fl • tl bem - illju t 1 hi Im.kil-g' ii V »*\ t
lock till pisto. i.>.iii h* . lo J 1 . 1 • n Ml
cLunge oi the polu • Id :. , •! i, for
[several days past been la- **i. g mica t.uipor^
ry insanity.