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BY WM. S. JONES
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yw, dussfurr.;*' g pap- r«? . . rvc of
or n fret copy to all w!k> nay procure is Five sub-
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10 line* or fees) Tor tin fir*. 1 i nland fifty cent*
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FOR SALK
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Lun.ber. and *M bn stock, U,;-Jiur witu ad Li.*, finished
*' r***:i<. n i ’ : t, .. • hiw, &re re-;*ectfuity invited
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Intf f'Mj a< n- f 1200 and
good repair. A good Water Oin and Ferry across the
Cliattahoxrhec nv<!. 1 v© v... ;•.**• at any
tunc atm. ■ i
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us Brick Dm 11 .
within a i,,
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and
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Cave Spring. July 10, p jyHwtf
POWEILTON MIILS FOE PALE.
Ar;;;:" 1 :;.,- . . .i’A/r,
for sale. The Ni;.: .... • . ... i.| v< ,
one anil a i
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operation.
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river and Poirel's cr< ....
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Goods Forw, 7 1 F: of Charge!
AirairsTA and savannah railroad.
Attentioni mean o t
. coniM! " • witl
Northern Ports. Tl ■ « t IR.Vi CLASS
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that to wh eh w< i• i * . i ; ivo ail our time; and
no I " 111 • Ltl )B, tu
Aqtritottaofli for it U o full I uto conduct
it
ultimately to r tni.i it
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Road an I . ■
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tag and ForwardU Into* I ban th&i oi
seeing that ALL C!1 A l*<«I • ■ t *ti** lowest rates.
IV l*y R«iln r et! ot { no per
coni ran’ We made in hn.crauee between Northern
Port* and Align-■
All Goods i ' oF ( IMIS
SIGNS. Thryalmuldb*- ?rj ked ate of the C. U. li.
Agent.” Savannah.
Published by order of the Poav.L
FRANCIS T. WILLIS, President.
Ju’y 1, 1855. jy~t>
ASSISTANT TEACHER.
A\ lM N<« I. AO i.i • ■ M’tbii -I* educa
tion and i n m »e brancht b
Ltuatk ii AI
Assistant in I The
highest loslluiomalrt will l iurnislid.
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Virginia. • u b
FORMAN S IROiY PLOW-STOCK.
t 1 mi ic w
I te the s > . .i i »\V l*r the
oowntltn of R JofPBT*
mb Wa 1 ' • 1
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em tn\ention • . tested to protn
that it run • more - ulilt -
in • >
BiyU-lOi IW •" •:» ’ • t’ ' b; :--.s
more firmly, I t ■ . and »•. in the
end. t.'. i B] 1 11>
abatement to fully *•-. tsdned bynn - «rtif ttei to
our possession from the most practical arid s'wenftil
•
;n ndlng • . • Ucates
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person tv'.v* a* old like ling to
refer to m v 1:5
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tructno usage of ' taiha Kcgroes, r.:»dwed.-nbtnot
thAt iUgsaod iu -in ;cct: » ■> O' f** P ecu
nlary beuv. Ut u y* . ■
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will bo fn .‘i *
any plantation • d»
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he sol I on f*»< • ■
Store*in Augu .a, or L bi u ;-N »v -• ».
dec lb- wif AUfc u -(■. Ja.
$-0 REWARD.
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five fe t 165 or
170 $«. ft
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jail. Mean
would not tall who
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named Feita, ah 'r :o i t- t
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pi acted '
thorpe count]
at,* taken. Wa U . . CUB
help it. We w/. ul ; :>oa
who win
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OfH«D
W. W MMPSON.
Culvert, n ,> - .i •
tv Knoxvili. l
account to this* odicer f . :. m N
$25 REWARD.
IWI LI. i-sy the . . < . :. dou and
lodgment ta jaii v. v-.v b y t ‘ ;?id he
bo taken nt a d '
taking him cb. r 1 ’ *d
(Utiou to the tuv i. . i * .- -tending
hi> delivery. Harry t - id >i-ia.l 1■ k-lavorand
plasterer. aNntt So yea. -of a • l xoh .. .. ■L v a. erect,
and weighs prohabiv . ..; U - at v.: the
country working on * * 'l w::‘ u: t'.ns au
thority. Had-mbti - 'na .t'. xuk. • He claims a
w -.to at Mi ' • -. dm. a. ' re also at
Oov. Schley # K:c / l i.'.y bong i:
Burke. Jcrters >n aud Wa - - ?* -; *l>o over
in Carolina. All porsous a.. . . y cant ned agamsJ
employing sal<y»oy. or any v . 1-r mechanics, with
out
tnySdwtf JOHN .. Ox
S3O reward.
t PAN AW AY, I input.
it nan. : ' r > ' . -... gro
Man FRANS !!• . . - . . teet ten ;r.-
ches high. *t r iuln«
speech, and ha-* - 10-*t t K ' «L‘.t He wa* raised
in Virgiaiascut h«- < mi :• <.•!-> v me. . ’.it twe years.
The above reward v • . : ' U. loiiwrjr to me,
or to anv tail so that i can get i.-’. t.
JOHN A. HARRIS.
The Southern R order w..i; • -h; .1 forbid, and tor
wardact-oumt to thi- otf.ee for pay • lit.
$dJ REWARD.
I WILLp the above reward ror the apprehension I
X and delivery n \. ent in any safe jad
in Georgia s. nth * • * an get him, of ..
Negro Maonauu-d WILLI i d u, SLee and Boot
Maker, is ci ppied i , Li- f. feet 4 ic€
inches high ; stammers ii * • - . of oavV. c mplexion,
can read and wciie, and w.*\ a pass of bis own
writing HU father • - yra , K .-udi, mother
at Shell Bluft 1 purcl .v-eo Tm \\\ , m
back. JOHN V' SUTTON,
awlb-wtf Raysvilie, Ga.
AUGUST AW ORELS, AUGUSTA, GA!
riniE CNDBRSUJSEDJsxk),; tae medthe ex
I tensive M ACHIN' i. SHOi'S SNHKY and OAK
SHOP, a :th au She raackir at!r he 4 to the sa. .. here
tofore belonging to the Company know u a.' the ‘ Augusta
Machine Work-'/’are* u v mi , xecute orders
•
MINING MAbHiNJ bY, I N* INKS and
BOILERS, SAW MILES, c ' \FTIN*', ana
PULLEYS. RAILROAD CARS a. IR< ‘Ns. ME AM
BOAT MAOHINKRY. and « voi-y d -Mpt.on -r work
usually made u tirst-class Machine Shop-, of iron. Bras#
orWmM O.Vp-i • for work, no*
must be aoeoißpaxtieJ wish cash deposit of 50 percent,
on the supposed vaiue of the work ordered, and the re
mainder t»ai J on delivery of the work. Address all let
ters on business to ’ L. HOPKINS «fc CO.
PROPRIETORS:
HknktHCl mmino. j Gio. W. Summers,
WM. D’A.vtiov \C, j R irkrtY. HARRIS,
sep3o-.iAwfiin Lamhkth Hopkin.-'
~ISWTON COUNTY LAND FOR SALE”
HKINCi dm . ins of 1... .1 V : % i *>:u .• my PLAN
TATION, Ivin* in Now ten county, on South River,
13 miles west ofCoiington. and 4 ai**.» aStve tbe PeacL
Stour Shoal*, acres —A O of which is
cleared, the halam t weo.in.ud, w ell watered and
well timbered. There L about x>o acre.* of good river
bottom. The* .uildUigs mi'* very comfortable and mostly
new ; good Gla and Screw ; t**od Uri lards, Ac.
I uerr ia nn the phu-.o a got»d Mill Shoal that i.- sufficient
for - any kind ot u.aehujery that a person would like to en
gage in. I will sell low ana c«u accommodatiiig terms, if
I can do so by the i#t of October
*» r>lor JOSEPH REAGAN
4 tOVV PtAS. 100 U f/ttshels in sforg, on consign men
\J JMbUor sale by irnyie M. W WOODRUFF.
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
vfjjnmiflc & Sentinel.
For He Chronicle 4* Sentinel.
The C'anae* of the Crials.
Mu. Editor :— Whither are we tending ? laour
ship of Stale drifting towards those brokers upon
v.. ieh the wisest of who framed ourConstitu
ti*»n, .‘. .red it might ultimately go to pieces ? We
t i-ink it is, and unloss its progress can be arrested,
it.- fate i* inevitable. That the body politic ia dia
etsed beyond former example in this cruiiitry. none
w in deny, that tbe words of the poet who, speaking
of un. has said, that though young, we smell with
“the taint of empires near their death,” would
seem now to l»e truthful prose rather than poet
ry. Wli.-.t have been the causes of this sad state of
ii. i’gs ? To what are we to attribute the “crisis”
j ” i n-h Mr. very properly designates as the
I “in- .'t awful which this government has ever been
I in'* ? We shall attempt briefly to point out a few
| wl it w believe have been and are these causes,
b . ; :note and prox :..ate. and then endeavor to
I -ugg. -' a i iuedy. This latter task, namely, the
Ki//.-..»ii;g the remedy, we shall approach with
| :,.u i iifhdence and many misgivings, both on ac
■ < - int of the inverate state of the disorder, and our
I -wi! ii tbilityto prescribe. The first cause, then,
! rid we sincerely believe the great cause of all the
| . vile that surround us, is to be found in the fact that
• •ur chief executive magistrate is elective periodi
cally at short intervals, and added to that, the prac
tice w hich has prevailed of appointing to office none
but those who have been his supporters, and re
luovirg all who have opposed him ; in short, the
j .< tical enforcement of the doctrine that “to the
v ictors belong the spoils.” All history hasf taught
| s a false le-.* n, If any people have long preserved
their liberties under such a government. The
. ainers of our government were well aware of this,
and many of them feare d that the election of our
IVe.: le its was the rock on which we should foun
der. We are constrained to admit that we have
reason to dread that their fears were well founded.
>o groat was the apprehension at that time of tbe
dangers to be apprehended from this source, that
other methods than that of electing our Presidents
uer suggested ; among which was a proposition to
ni • in.:t who should fill the office, by drawing by
lottery from some select body of distinguished men ;
which might have been adopted, had not the deter
minatiiui that General Washington should be Presi
dent been so universal, that no method which could
render that result doubtful would be submitted to.
Ari l, furthermore, the construction which was then
piiv up*.n the Constitution was such, that the dangers
to arise from such elections were few and incon
- deruble compared with what they have turned out
to If under a different construction of that instru
ment, which has since and" now prevails: we mean
the power of removal from office. No man who
voted for its adoption believed the President pos
i-se I such power under its provisions. While it
was before tbe people for adoption or rejection, Mr.
M lison and Mr. Hamilton each, wrote an article
upon the Bul j.*ct, and both concurred in opinion
that the President could remove no officer whose
appointment required the co-operation of the Senate,
without the consent of that body; anil, although a
d iV rout v instruction was given to it afterwards by
Gmi/rccS, yet, the people had adopted it under the
cuii ruction given by Madison and Hamilton, two
ol the ablest expounders of the Constitution we
have ever had.
liut the evils which have been produced by the
exercis' of this power were not much felt before the
year 1829, for although the sagacious mind of Mr.
Jefferson had discovered the great power which the
holding out the offices had to induce those who join
ed a party to co here and keep together, and there
by to i .cicape the power of the executive; and al
though ho began t*» remove some from office who
were adin-rrnfa of the party he had supplanted, yet
such was the honesty and patriotism prevalent at
that time, that the removal of faithful officers for
opinion sake, was everywhere so generally con
demned, that he was compelled to abandon it, al
most as soou its he commenced it. And although
sonic of his friends had began to talk something
about rotation in office “being part of the Dcmo
tratio cieed, (platform having never been then
heard of) in order to counteract the effect of the
i diutn which the removals from office would, if per
sisted in, have thrown upon its practice, Mr. Jef
fcison took some pains to promulgate the rule which
i !•» .• .ijuiro only whether the offi
cers were honest, cupablu and faithful to the Con
stitution. And this test was adhered toby alt Mr.
Jefferson’s successors until 1829. At that time, and
during lue canvass which preceded it, great clam
ors were raised, ami much capital wus made by
charges that 'there was peculation and embezzle
ments of public money by the officers of govern
ment ; that the administration was a most extrava
•_ mt rind wasteful one ; that “the honest old soldier
v mining in to clear the Augean Stables, and,
like Herculc?, be would do it in a day.” How
much truth there was in the charges, that either
embezzlements were going on, or that the adminis
tration had been an extravagant one, will appear
wlim it L remembered that, iu order to prove the
charge of embezzlements by officers, a rigid scru
tiny took place, and throughout t lie whole length
.•ant bit inltli of the land .aud all the numerous and
ir.uitifnri'.u* offices where public money was re
cuivid, but one could be found who was in arrears,
and lie for only twenty-live hundred dollars ; and
the charge of extravagance will be repelled by the
re. licet ion that the yearly expenditures of the
government were not half so large as under itsiin
meilinti successor, and but little over one-fifth of
what it m>w is. Yet the honesty and faithfulness of
the incumbenst in office was insufficient for their
]ki<-lection, mid a very general removal was made,
r , effec t of these removals will appear when we
. h« rt to the tact that before the end of the rule or
dynasty by which these removals were made, and
wl.ile liu dos those appointed to fill the vacancies
oec;. ued by the removals, were still iu office, em
bi //.lemcut* became so common in all the depart
ments. from the Custom House in New York, down
throughuil the laud offices, mid all others to the vil-
Juge port-offices, that the accounts of them daily in
the newspapers, almost ceased to produce surprise
or sensation.
This and other measures of the party which it is
no* now necessary to enumerate, prostrated them ;
but m veil States in the Union could be found to vote
for their eontinuanco in power. They were beaten,
and tho Whig party under the lead of Mr Clay,
again came into power. And nobody will pretend
that those officers who had proved themselves so
untrustworthy, should have been retained, and ac
eoidingly they were removed and others appointed
hi their places. This was just, aud no one had a
right to coinp»l:tiu. At the next turn of the wheel
i lie pow er changed hands, more on account of the
l \t- make-weight being thrown into the canvass
ii.au anything else. And now. Governor Marey
v lie out openly with that celebrated expression of
the unprincipled mercenary who first said “to the
vietor.s belong the spoils.” All will recollect that
on tee first promulgation of the application of this
rule of pirates to the civil government of the coun
try. the moral sense of most men was shocked, aud
neither party would admit the {propriety of the ap
p!i. ,i*ion of so demoralizing a rule to the offices of
government. The Whigs insisted that the removals
oade by them of the officers of the government who
Imd boon guilty of embezzlements was neither im
proper or proscriptive, and could not be characte
rized as removals for opinions sake ; but on the as
cendency of the Democratic party, the rule was
-i-u >1 - n »< a correct rule of party action,and was
applied accordingly. The other party, on again
. g on . applh d the same role, audit may
now be considered us it has been for several years,
:i n doctrine and practice of all parties. And it is
this which has caused our Presidential elections to
l« i me mere mercenary struggles. Three hundred
millions of dollars are now held, forth, (and it will
not be long before it will be double that sum,) as a
-i .uulii g bribe to be distributed among the success
ful party. And this, in our opinion, is the source of
all our evils. The worst men in the country enter
ilie canvass, urged and incited by the worst princi
ples «<f human nature, who seek to elevate some in
i .vidu&l to office for the purpose of elevating them
s Ives or their friends. Capacity or integrity is by
~o means required; if he is able to distribute the
sp ;ls, it is sufficient It is expected—and such ex
it vi at ion is not often disappointed—that the Presi
de nt. when elected, will deal out the spoils in pro
; 'km to the labor performed, and the influence
brought to bear in procuring his election. And this
practice has become so settled, that the partisans of
the aspirants have come to consider the offices and
their emoluments as the patrimony of a set of elec
tiontvring partisans, many (not to say most) of
w . n mav be designated as a set of “clever scoun
drels.”
The method of bringing tlie candidate before the
people is also objectionable. This is done by a few
irresponsible persons, generally selected by a few
persons of some town or village, or other mode no
better, who assemble at some point—Baltimore or
Cincinnati, or some where else—w ho, having met,
disputed and voted for days, dually select some in
dividual, perhaps the least deserving of any of the
.spirants, which being done, he is at once known
as the person to distribute the spoils, and all who
hope to share, at once enter the canvass and vie
with each other who shall be most zealous and in
fluential in elevating the nominee. In general,
• here is certainly little difficulty with the rauk and
die of the party ; they are marched up to the polls
and vote w ithout much volition of their own, and.
iu fact. ha\ e nothing to do in the elections except to
follow their leaders.
A difficulty does sometimes occur, in managing
certaiu influences which certain individuals possess,
g. m-rally aspirants for office who stand back as a
kind of reserve corps, who for a time do battle on
i ther side : they strike few if any blows at all, or if
any. they are given in such an equivocal manner as
10 leave the people iu doubt which army (for there
are always more than oue iu the field.)’ they were
intended to aid. But so soon as they* discover, or
imagine they have discovered, which army will be
\ ictorious. they march into its ranks time enough
to share the spoils—sometimes upon one pretext and
sometimes upon another, no matter what or how
preposterous. We have seen some of this reserve
t -orp> just before entering the ranks and going
, /t ; v into the service of the combatting armies,
declare it was “dying with the dry rot." Another,
about the time of performing a like feat, delared it
v. as covered over "with innumerable sins.” Now
how rottenness or sinfulness, or both taken togeth
er, can be reasons for going into the support of a
parl y striving to rule, is to our weak perception in
c.uupreUensible. We must be excused for suspect
ing that t ’.ere was another power which has Wen
-I inaptly called the "cohesive power of the public
i • u^ oor - has had more to do in this matter,
and e\ erv occurrence of a like character, than any
o:her consideration whatever
It U cot our intention to give to this article a par
t> < haracter, and certainly not a persoual one' It
1? true thus wholesale removal from did grot
take P*ace under the rule of the Democratic pa£y
! out the W hig puny may have done the same under
the like circumstances. We desire to deal with
tacts, and if a detail of them shall make it personal
or have a party operation, it is no fault of ours. We
believe this practice, if it be persisted in, will end
in destruction when taken in connection with our
Preeiddhtial elections. And the time of the begin
ning of this practice, when our liberties are gone, as
go they must, will bo pointed to by the future histo
rian as the era when our destruction commenced, as
the end of the reign of the Antonines is pointed to
as the commencement of the decline and fall of the
lvowan Empire. It is not our purpose to detail all
the evils which have afflicted the country since the
practice in question began to be general, they are
within th recollection and knowledge of most intel
ligent readers. I will merely glance at some of the
difficulties and with wnich we are now sur
rounded, and endeavor to show that thin periodical
election ot our Chief Magistrate and the nhd
hunt after offices’’ consequent thereupon is the cause
of them. After the Compromise of 1850 the coun
try was comparatively al peace, all the common
classes of the country had acquiesced in its provi
sions, and it was considered as “afinality” in the
settlement of the slavery question . not so, however,
thought certain politicians, President-makers, and
lovers of office, hunters of ** the loaves and fishes.”
Hence it was not long before that apple of discord,
the Kansas Nebraska bill, by which tbe Missouri
Compromise line was repealed, was to the surprise
of the country, ushered into the Senate. A bill un
called for by the people of the country—none had
called for it-—there was not the slightest necessity
for the organization of tbe territory at the time.—
We certainly did not need it on account of any over
population ot the territories already organized—
they contained millions of acres, with little or no
population. It was slated in Congress at the time
and not denied, that there were but four white men ia
the territory besides government officials. The Mis
souri Compromise line had been established over
thirty years, and had given peace and quiet to the
country all that time. It was settled by abler and
better men than repealed it; the faith of the coun
try stood pledged to its observance. The North
could not be displeased, for it provided for every
foot of the ierritory as free from slavery, and the
South could have no great wish to send slavery into
a country in which the thermometer stands at 29
degrees below zero a great portion of the year. It
was for Pre.-’dent-making purposes then, ami for
that only its organization was sought. At first it
was opposed by Mr. Pierce and his organ, the Wash
ington Union. What appliances were made or
what influences were bi ought to bear upon Mr.
Pierce and his organ we are left to conjecture, it is
known, however, that it was not long before Mr.
Pierce and his organ were both found sapporters of
the bill, and using ail their efforts its passage. What
evils it has produced, and is stili producing,, all
know ; where its effects may end none can foretell.
War and bloodshed, devastation, destruction of pro
perty, and loss of life, are not the only injuries it has
done and is still doing. It has not only re opened
the slavery agitation which had subsided under the
operations of the Compromise of 1850, but has fully
and completely sectionalized the country, arraying
each section in fierce antagonism, the one against
the other, and how long it may be before the fair
fields of this great commonwealth may be drenched
and stained with “ traternal blood,” Heaven only
knows.
Aside from this, all know the measures resorted
to in order to create makeweights to insure the
nomination of Mr. Pierce by the Cincinnati Con
vention. We will mention only a few as samples of
the rest ; the dismissal of the British Minister and
tbe Consuls, which Mr. Toombs, one of the Presi
dent's supporters, called (and we think properly)
“a petti logging business,” declaring at the same
time, that there had been no violation of our neu
trality laws, as the President pretended. The effort
to have placed at his control several millions of dol
lars for the purpose of being used fur warlike pur
poses against England, and other demonstrations
which might, and probably would, have involved us
in war with that nation, lmd there not been abler
men on each side than Mr. Pierce and his coadjutors
were. The farce of the reception of a Minister from
Walker a few days after he had refused to do so,
when nothing hud transpired to make it more proper
to receive such Minister than existed at the time of
the refusal, except that the power of the filibusters
had been ascertained, perhaps, to be more potent to
operate in the elections than he at first thought it
was. In short, as the time approached for holding
tbe convention at Cincinnati, his vibratory policy
seemed to thicken upon him, that one might have
well imagined the curse of Reuben, “unstable as
water thou ahalt not excel,” had fallen upon him.
And so indeed it had, he did not succeed. All this,
we aver, has coine of this President making ; and
the possibility, nay the piobability, is that we shall
have a Black Republican for President. But this
is not all, nor perhaps the worst that has come of it.
Our public men, our politicians, and particularly the
reserved corps of whom we have above spoken, and
indeed to some extent the whole community ; at
least all who hope ever to share in the division of
of the spoils, are such that however fluently they
may talk of their devotedness to principle and love
of country, yet their secret creed is that “principle”
is one great delusion, and consistency, love of coun
try, and “patriotism” is another. This Is the fear
ful state of things. Republican simplicity and
honesty, ill the sense which our ancestors under
stood it, seem to have been all laid aside in the
counsels of the country. A race for the spoils Ims
become the occupation of politicians. That, if not
arrested, it must end in ruin, all reflecting minds
should feel convinerd that, instead of the inheritance
left us, remaining with us, as we had fondly hoped,
we have come to discover, new spiritual Pythons
plenty of them ; enormous Megatherins, os ugly as
ever were born of mud looming hugely and hide
ously out of the twilight future of America.**
Can a remedy be applied ! We think it can, and
shall proceed to point it out. In doing this, we
sluxll be as brief as possible, having already taken
up more space than we intended. We propose,
then, the passage of a law which shall compel the
appointment of all the officers of government ex
cept perhaps cabinet officers, from all the different
parties who have put in nomination candidates for
the office of President aud Vice President, which
shall have received one-fourth of the popular vote.
The appointing the officers of government from the
different parties is not a new idea, or novel doctrine
of ours ; such a course was recommended by no less
a personage than Gen. Jackson, he advised Mr.
Monroe, on his obtaining the office of President, to
appoint even the officers of his cabinet equally from
the federal and republican parties. And this, not
withstanding the federalist had opposed the war of
1812, had held a convention at Hartford, the object
of which, it was charged, was to make a separate
treaty with England for the Northern States, and
withdraw all support of the war—in short to set up
a separate and independent confederacy. Yet Gen.
Jackson, whose patriotism few will be found to
doubt, did advise the appointment of an equal por
tion of this party to the most responsible offices.—
No such piratical war cry as that uttered by that
adept of Tammany Hall intrigue and corruption
had then been uttered, none would have dared to
have done so. The offices were not then thought to
belong to the victorious party, they were not held
out as staudiug bribes to buy up recruits and re
ward the followers of a party. Let this be put a
stop to by some law such as suggested, or by some
other means. We forbear to enter into details of
such law, our object is to turn the attention of the
people, rather than the politicians, to the subject. If
the people do not take the matter in hand them
selves, we can hardly hope for redress. When it
is recollected that the pay to the officers of govern
ment amounts to more money than all the slave la
bor of the South produces, and this is in the hands
of the rulers, all composed of the dominant party,
is it to be supposed they will easily be induced to
divide it ? Yet the obvious justice tor such a divi
sion is manifest, the money is paid by all, and vet
one party receives all. How potent must such a
power be build up and keep a party together ? Is it
etrange that one thus created, should become a plun
dering party, and do we not discover signs of its be
ing more and more so ! The pay of many of the
officers have been lately increased largely—in many
instances, more than two thousand dollars per an
num—the pay of our members of Congress has very
lately been increased from eight dollars a day to
over thirty dollars a day—during half the session,
and it can hardly be less than twenty dollars during
any.one session. This is increasing the “cohesive
power of the public plunder” per saltern, by large
strides. If this is not rebuked, and such things as
these exist “in the green tree, what will it be in the
dry ?” Wo repeat, then, the expression of Mr.
Cass, that the country is in a crisis, the most awful
through which it lias ever passed. And this we do
humbly conceive has been produced by this periodi
cal endeavor to create a “spoils” dispenser for a
party, rather than a statesman to rule the coun
try upon broad comprehensive and national prin
ciples.
This desire for the “spoils,” and the manner of
dealing them out, has caused a set of politicians to
spring up amongst us, who are “characterized by a
peculiar levity and inconstancy, an easy apathetic
wav of of looking at the most solemn questions, a
willingness to leave the direction of their course to
fortune and popular opinion, a notion that one pub
lic cause is pretty nearly as good as another, and a
firm conviction that it is much better to be the hire
ling of the worst cause than to be a martyr to the
best.” “This has been strikingly verified” in many
late instances—men who “dart wildly from one ex
treme to another, serving and betraying all parties
in turn—showing their unblushing foreheads alter
nately in the van of the most corrupt adminstrations
and the most factious opposition.*’ These have
been some of the demoralizing effects of this bnbing
system. These men are the descendants of our
worthy ancestors, the successors of the Washingtons,
the Madisons, the Clays, the Calhouns, and the
Websters! Was ever degeneracy so rapid and ap
palling ? Is not reform called for ? Is not a change
a duty laid upon all patriots, and one of imposing
obligation ?
Let the common people ponder the subiect; and
as they regard themselves and their children, the
character of the country and the perpetuity of the
Union, come to the rescue. Let them see to it that
a change shall be effected—let them adhere to prin
ciple with that fixedness of purpose that animated
the Hampdens and the Sydneys of former times, and
the Washingtons and Hancocks of more modern
times. Palinurus.
Election Statistic*.
The following statistics of the last election for
President will be found interesting at the present
time, andßhould be preserved:
THE ACTUAL VOTE.
The Pres dential Election —lßs2.
Democrat. Whig. Freesoil. Electoral
Franklin Winfield Johnl*. —Vote—
Free States. Pierce. Scott. Hale. I*. S.
California 40.585 35.788 100 4
Connecticut 33,249 30,359 3,160 6
lllinoise 80,577 64,747 9,731 11
Indiana 95,299 80.901 6,934 13
lowa 17.762 15.855 1,606 4
Maine 41,609 32,543 8,030 8
Massachusetts .. 45.875 52,683 28,023 -13
Michigan 41,842 33,860 7,237 6
X. Hampshire.. 29,971 16,140 6,622 5
New Jersey 44,301 38,551 259 7
New York. 284,889 262,158 25,433 35
Ohio 169,160 152,526 31,782 25
Pennsylvania... 198,568 179,182 8,524 27
R Island 8,735 7,626 624 4
Vermont 13,044 22,173 8,621 5
Wisconsin 33,658 22,240 8,814 5
Total 1,156.393 1,020,063 155,500 158 18
Pierce's plurality in free States 136.330
Pierce's minority in free States 19,170
Slave States.
Alabama 26.681 15,038 9
Arkansas 12,179 7.43 U 4
Delaware 6,319 6,294 62 3
Florida 4,318 2.875 3
Georgia 39.688 15,798 lO
Kentucky 53,806 57,068 365 l2
Louisiana...... 18,647 17,255 6
Maryland 40,028 35,088 54 8
Mississippi 26,840 17.548 —7
Missouri 38.353 39,962 9
North Carolina. 37.744 30.058 59 10
South Caroliua. (Electors chosen by Legisla.) ?
Tennessee 57,125 58,943
Texas 13,530 4.988
Virginia........ 73,872 59.020 l5
Total 415,330 366,871 440 96 _24
Pierce's majority in Slave States 84.459
Pierce's majority in the Union 65,289
AGGREGATE VOTE.
Franklin Pierce 1,607,723
Winfield Scott 1,386,934
John P. Hale 155.940
Independently of the above, Daniel Webster
(Union Whig) received 2,124 votes in the free States,
and 5303 in the slave States , George M. Troup,
(States’ Rights) 2300 votes in Alabama and Geor
gia : William Goodell (Abolition' 72 votes in New
York; and Jacob Broom (native or Know-Nothing)
2435 votes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
Whole number of votes 296
Necessary to a choice 149
For Franklin Pierce........................ 250
For Winfield Scott 42
Health of New Orleans. —We have much
pleasure in stating that there has been but a single
death from yellow fever in theChanty Hospital du
ring the present week. The increased number of
deaths from yellow fever iu the city last week, was
owing, undoubtedly, to the sudden change of the
weather acting upon old cases. The fact that there
has been but one death in the Charity Hospital from
it, is sufficient evidence that there is so little yellow
fever in the city as scarcely to be worthy of notice.
\V e promised, however, to keep our distant readers
m t he exact truth, and we shall do it.
The weather during the week has been delightful,
and the city is rapidly filling up with men, women,
children and me<chandize Bulletin, 4 th inst.
The Governor of Maryland has set aside the
2Uth of November next for a day of Thanksgiving.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 15. 1856.
A .Northerner Defending; the South.
A few* days since, Mr. Speaker Banks, or Massa
chusetts, made n speech from the steps of the Ex
| c hange, in Wall street New York; in which he took
j occasion to refer iu disparaging terms of the com
: mereial importance of the South; whereupon a
j number of gentlemen of that city addressed the
i Hon. S. B. Rlgoles, the subjoined note, which
j drew forth his reply, in which he scatters to the
i four winds th* positions of Mr. Banks. The reply
j of Judge It. is overwhelming, and should be read
: and carefully studied by every mau in the country
i who feels aDy interest in the subject of which it
, treats. Judge R. is among the ablest men in the
! Empire State—and is eminently distinguished for
his patriotic conservatism and devotion to the Con
stitution and Union. He was a prominent actor
and working member of the 4 Old Line Whig** Con
vention, recently assembled in Baltimore, and a
most enthusiastic supporter and admirer of Mr.
Fillmore.
New York, Sept. 30,1850.
Saml. B. Ruggles, Esq. —Dear Sir—We respect
fully ask you to give some attention to the address
delivered by Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts, on
Thursday last, on the steps of the Merchants’ Ex
change, in this city. We think it contained falla
cies which ought to be exposed, aud the task of their
exposure cannot be entrusted to any gentleman
better qualified, from your loDg aud intimate official
connection with the internal aud external commerce
of the country, to comprehend and review the great
commercial theme to which Mr. Banks professedly
addressed himself. If you can comply with this
requegt, you will greatly serve the cause of legiti
mate commerce, and gratify a number of merchants
and other citizens, among whom are your friends and
fellow citizens,
Hiram Ketchum,
C. A. Davis,
A. C. Kins land,
Wm. B. Astor,
Shephred Knapp,
Theodore Dehon,
Howell L. Williams,
William Chauncey,
Chester Driggs,
aud others.
To this letter Mr. Buggies, returned the following
answer :
Gentlemen—Permit me to express my thanks for
the kind and lespectful terms in which you have
seen fit to call my attention to the address recently
delivered at the Merchants’ Exchange of this city
by the Hon. Mr. Banks, Speaker of the House of
Representatives of the United States. Under the
circumstances, 1 certainly cannot withhold the opin
ion you request me to express. The coming elec
tion,"the most important since the formation of the
Government, involving in its possible, if not its pro
bable, consequences the future destiny of the Amer
ican Republic arid the American continent, is neces
sarily a matter of* the deepest and most vital inter
est to all whose lot, like ours, is cast in this its com
mercial capital anil centre. We have all of, us la
bored as best we could to build up its present pros
perity, and secure its honorable renown, and none
of us Call now remain indifferent to an event which
may seriously check its onward career, if it do not
lead to its utter prostration and ruin.
The great struggle now agitating the American
Union Ims called forth the address in question—from
one occupying nearly the highest office in the Gov
eminent. Iu this address the Speaker of the nation
al House of Representatives, standing in the commer
cial heart of the nation, maintains as a cardinal po
litical truth that the executive power of the Union
ought permanently to becommitted to the Northern
States. Not that a proposition so bold is uttered in
express terms, but the whole philosophy of his ad
dress rests upon it.
To maintain this dogma the speaker exhibits be
fore the men of business of New Yolk an array of
statistics from which he deduces his political conclu
sions. It is due to the address to admit that its lan
guage, with some exceptions, is dignified, and at
times animated and impressive. It bears marks of
elaborate preparation and is well calculated to mis
lead an unthinking aud unexaminiDg multitude.
Its admirers who control the Republican press, de
clare it to be most eloquent, comprehensive aud
statesmanlike, and from its rapid circulat ion through
the Union, it is evidently intended as the great in
tellectual effort of the campaign. As a citizen of New
York, to be affected by its doctrines, 1 therefore
yield to your invitation to examine somewhat the
accuracy of its statements, and if time shall permit,
the soundness of its conclusions.
The fundamental proposition and cardinal idea of
the address is that the sixteen non-slaveholding states
greatly exceed and excel the remaining fifteen slave
holding states in all the legitimate pursuits of nation
al industry, and that this is proved by icomparing
their respective products of material wealth, and up
on this allegation the speaker contends that the six
teen non-slaveholding states are now entitled to di
rect the government of the Union.
The reason assigned for this alleged superiority is
the existence of slavery in the fifteen States, a re
gion where, in Mr. Banks’ language, “there is one
man down and another man holding him down one
portion of the people doing nothing and another
portion of the same people helping them to do noth
ing.” This is his first reason and the second, which
he denominates “the secret that accounts for the
difference,” is that the men of the Soutli abandon
ing agriculture for the time, aud having no lit
erature, no science, no mercantile power, no me
chanical or manufacturing industry “ have given
their whole attention to the government ot the
country.” “They are immersed ” says Mr. Banks,
“ in the methods of obtaining offices of honor, of em
olument and trust from the Federal Government."
Having thus philosophically discovered the secret
of the evil, Mr. Banks’ remedy is obvious. It is to
deprive these misguided men of their offices, for
says he “what will they do when they are despoiled
of their offices of honor and trust and emolument in
army and navy, and the Federal Government? 1
will tell you adds he “what they will’do. They are
out of the government according to their own state
ment. They must do something and that necessity
will turn them immediately to the increase of the
material wealth of that section of the country.”—
“They will come North I’* “They will go into the
middle of the States and there will ‘see men opera
ting’ with mechanical inventions,” —aud what asks
he “will the Southern men then do but provide a
substitute for si eve labor by the adoption of the me
chanical inventions that have distinguished the in
dustry of the Eastern Middle States. Thus, says
he “by this single change we will pave the way for
a vast change in the history aud the institutions of
this Government.”
Here then is the successful solution of the great
political and economical problem which heretofore
has tasked the highest wisdom of our patriots and
philanthropists. The proper distribution of the
black race over the American continent. The grand
continental result supposed by some shortsighted
statesmen to be a work for generations, if not cen
turies yet to come; is to be attained in November
next by simply “ despoiling the South of their offices
in the army, the navy and the federal government.”
Now when we consider that not more than 50,000
at the utmost, of the t tal Southern white popula
tion of seven millions, are in possession of the offices
in question, and that it is not certain that all even
of them will undertake, after their election, tlie task
of wandering through the North to examine the me
chanical contrivances for dispensing with slave la
bor ; it may be doubted whether the means proved
by the statesmanship of Mr. Banks will prove quite
adequate to the end. It is gratifying, however, to
learn from him that he does not view this general
sweep of his ‘‘Southern brethren” from the army
and navy, as a sectional process, but views it as an
eminently fraternal and national proceeding. “With
tho institutions of the Southern States,” says he,
4 ‘local or traditional, we have nothing to do, and
“I dismiss the matter by asserting that the declara
tion that we intend to interfere in their affairs is a
bold and baseless slander.” Contenting himself
simply with turning them all out of office, because
they are slaveholders, and with their consequent es
forts to substitute mechanical inventions for slave
labor, he refrains from inquiring what is to become
of the four millions of helpless blacks whoso labor is
thus superseded.
lie deem* it quite a subordinate matter to inquire
whether these four millions of blacks, who in thirty
years will increase to ten millions, are to be sent
further Soutli and where—or distributed among the
States, aud which—or sent to the Amazon, or to the
Niger—or left to perish by starvation, or to cut their
own throats or their masters.’ Details so petty, the
comprehensive statesmanship of Mr. Banks does not
condescend to embrace.
And now for the statistics of the address which
drew down the enthusiastic plaudits of the intelli
gent audience assembled in Wall street. They are
certainly very remarkable, dealing with matters in
no small way, but presenting pictures that inflame
the imagination with the sublimest visions of na
tional glory.
Mr. Hanks himself is profoundly convinced, not
only of their importance but of their accuracy. Hear
him—“ln what I have to say to you I mean to re
ly upon great facts, above all questions as to [their
7 rum, and facts which if admitted remove all ques
tions as to the policy by which we should be direct
ed in the impending controversy between twenty
seven millions of freemen for the chief otiices of the
republic.” “I see before me a nation which has
produced results such as the world never before has
witnessed, and such as the mind of no intelligent
man has heretofore been able to conceive,” and
then comes the great fact— embodying a proposi
lion so vast and comprehensive, and yet so con
densed, that the orator declares it to be “the product
of all that he has to say.” In its grand simplicity it
is this, that the people of the United States in the
year 1856 will give to the world as their portion of
the industrial product of the human race forty five
hundred millions of dollars !" “a sum greater* by
an eighth than the entire national debt of the Brit
ish Empire that has been accumulating for two cen
turies.”
The newspapers inform us that the annunciation
of this result was received with loud applause by
the crowd in \\ all street. How far that commenda
tion was creditable to the intelligence of those who
bestowed it let us briefly examine.
In the first place, if it were true that the nation
produces forty-five hundred millions annually, it
does not “remove all questions in the impending
controversy” whether we shall elect Mr. Fremont
to the Presidency and “despoil our Southern breth
ren of their offices in the army and navy.” If the
North produced the whole forty-five hundred mil
lions, and the South did nothing whatever but keep
the black race in subjection, it would not follow that
the South should be excluded from all participation
in the Government, for if, as some contend, the
black race be nothing but a burthen on the com
munity which contains it, the freemen of the North
should be thankful to the South for bearing the whole
of the burthen, and thus leaving them unfettered to
accumulate that forty-five hundred millions annually.
But unhappily for Mr. Banks and his admiring
auditors it is not true that the nation annually pro
duces the 4500 millions—for look at his own analy
sis. Fifteen hundred millions, says he, are produced
by manufacturing and mechanical industry—sixteen
hundred by agriculture. This makes thirty-one—
and the residue, fourteen hundred millions, where
does it come from ? Let the commingled rhetoric
and statistics of Mr. Banks answer :—“ The Seas.
that are whitened with the flags of the commerce of
New York, each signalising the name, thecharacter,
the affluence, the business, the influence of its mer
chant princes, contribute to this great product of
4500 millions, fourteen hundred millions as the
share o? commerce.”
Now. gentlemen, what do the seas thus rhetori
cally whitened, in fact produce ? That is to say,
what articles of commercial value ? They pro
duce a good many codfish, many mackerel, and
here ana there a whale: the total value whereof
when caught, barrelled and landed in the United
States, hardly exceeds thirty millions annually, if it
amounts to that The portion of those products ex
ported in the year 1855 was less than four millions.
The remainder then of Mr. Banks’ imaginary four
teen hundred millions consists wholly of the very
products of agricultural, manufacturing and me
chanical industry which commerce had placed on
the seas, bnt which had been previously computed
and embraced in his first two items of fifteen and
sixteen hundred millions. And thus we behold the
Speaker in his very first plunge into the sea of
figures, going astray to the tune of thirteen hundred
and ninety-sir millions. If this be “the music of
the Union,* which Mr. Banks describes the Northern
pioughboy as whistling, his political psalmody, to
say me least, is capable of improvement.
But again. The Speaker asserts that of the 1600
millions produced by agriculture, the fifteen 6lave
States contribute but 45 per cent. How this asser
tion is proved does not appear, but if it be true it
does not show the slave States to fall short of their
just proportion, for they have less than forty per
cent, of the total population and only twenty-five
per cent, of the white population. Why then should
their agriculture be required to produce even forty
five per cent. ?
But the truth of the statement must be more than
doubtful. Tbe very sun of the South, so unfavora
ble to white labor as to make a t>ia< k population
necessary, is peculiarly favorable to agricultural de
velopment. Time is wanting to compute the com
parative product even of cereals—but if flocks aud
herds form part of a nation’s wealth, and mankind
has held them to be things of value since the days
of Abraham, then the in this important ele
ment very far exceeds the North. The census shows
nine millions of cattle standing South of the Poto
mac belonging to six million of white men, and only
eight millions North of it, belonging to fourteen
millions of whites—and wbat statesman entitled for
an instant to the epithet does not perceive the rapid
increase of the cotton crop ? It may be true, as the
Speaker ventures to that the men of the
South abandon agriculture in quest of office, but
the official statistical tables do not show it.
But again, Mr. Banks was addressing and affect
ing to instruct a body of merchants—a commercial
community from the’steps of their own Exchange,
—why on such an occasion and with such an audi
ence, did he omit to state the respective proportions
which the agriculture of the South and of the North,
contributed to the commerce that whitened the seas ?
Did he not know that oi the 1600 millions produced
by agriculture, at least 1200 millions are consumed
on the spot and never reach the sea at all ? For
how much of the hundreds of millions estimated as
the value of the hay, and cattle, and poultry, and
milk, and eggs, which help to swell the aggregate,
is carried at all iu the vessels of the merchant prin
ces ? How much even of the three hundred millions
of Indian corn goes to sea ?
And above all, does not Mr. Banks know, and do
not the New York merchants know, that of every
100 millions of Southern cotton, at least 90 go to sea,
and 14 out of every 20 millions of Southern tobacco.
While of the total product of Northern agriculture,
estimated by Mr. Banks at 880 millions, less than 40
millions are exported either to foreign countries or
coastwise ?
Does he not see, and do not all of us, whether
merchant, banker, landowner or mechanic, see aud
feel that the agriculture of the South thus disparag
ed furnishes the very foundation of our commercial
prosperity ? And can this trading, navigating city
be induced, by any pompous aud idle parade of
imaginary thousands of millions, to dissolve their
fraternal and national connection with the whole
magnificent domain spread out South of the Poto
mac—the very Indies of the American republic—
and aid Mr. Banks and his associates in excluding
that grand division of the Union from all parti
cipation iu the honors and emoluments of the gov
ernment ?
But I find the subject growing on my hands,
beyond the limits of a single letter, and I must re
serve for a further communication tbe remarks on
Mr. Banks' political deductions and bis statistics
of foreign commerce which the subject requires.
With great respect, I am your friend and fellow
citizen Samuel B. Ruggles,
24 Union square, New York.
To Messrs. Hiram Ivetchum, C. A. Davis, C. A
KiDgsland, Wm. B. Astor, Shepherd Knapp, aud
others.
Mr. Ruggles’a Review of Mr. Rank’s Wall street
Address, Concluded.
NeyvJYork, 2d Oct ,1856.
To Messrs Hiram Ketchum, Wm. B. Astor, and
others.— Gentlemen: —l closed my letter of yester
day, after attempting to vindicate the material indus
try of the Southern portion of the American Union
from the disparaging comparison made at the Mer
chant’s Exchange. in the address of Mr. Banks, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the
United States.
In view qt the peculiar geographical importance
of that section of our common country, and the char
acter and value ot its products, I ventured to call it
“the Indies of Republic.” The phrase
was not selected for any merely rhetorical purpose,
but simply as a term of description, affording the
means of arithmeticle comparison.
A moment’s examination of the history of Europe
will show that nearly all its civilized nations have
sought to increase their commercial and political
power, by acquiring territories or colonies enjoying
a tropical climate and yielding tropical products.—
But these dependencies have always 4 been widely
separated from the parent state. The West Indies
ot England, of Spain, of France, and of Holland lie
far away, across a stormy ocean, —while the East In
dies of the same powers are seperated by the breadth
of a himisphere.
But the Indies of the American republic lie within
its very borders, aud are bounded by the Chesapeake
and Gulf of Mexico.
They are cheaply and constantly accessible by the
commercial and navigating states, both by land and
by w r ater —not only by the open ocean in front, but
by the great national navigable river of the interior,
flowing uninterruptedly from the land of the oak
and the pine, to that of the palm and the olive.—
And herein lies the deep secret, the very inner life
ol our exititeuce—furnishing the key to our commer
cial and political history for ages to come.
Ilow singular, then, the spectacle of a statesman
disparaging this geographical portion of our wide
spead empire, for the reason merely that its pur
suits are mainly agricultural, while those of his im
mediate neighbors are mechanical and manufactu
ring. Does he not see, and can he not feel, that
this very difference of pursuit, growing out of dif
ference of climate, is a providential boon, bestowed
upon our nation for the very purpose of creating the
necessity for national commerce aud national com
munion ! Does he not perceive that if the cotton
planters of the Carolinas made pin:*, and buttons,
and wooden clock, —they would not buy the pins,
and buttons, and clocks of New Eugl nd l That if the
cotton plant grew on the slnres of Massachusetts,
the cotton planters could not be shod by the shoe
makers of Lynn ? Can lie not understand the great
truth that the nation’s difference is only the nation’s
peace ?—that New York and Pennsylvania are ge
ographically interposed, as commercial agents, to
bind in' harmony by the golden bonds of com
merce, these remote extremities, discordant only iu
name, and haimonious in their mutual interests and
necessities ?
But let us look a little at the arithmetic of tho
case. Let us ascertain the pecuniary value of the
geographical conjunction in a single nation, on a
single, unbroken continent of the temperate and
the tropical regions—and for this purpose lotus com
pare the East Indies of the British Empire with the
Itidies forming an integral continental portion of
the American Republic.
The British Territories in India, including the
tributary states under their authority, embrace
1,200,090 square miles and 140 millions cf people.—
Their total commerce with England in the year 1852
amounted only to ten millions and eighty-seven
thousand pounds sterling—a little less than fifty
millions of dollars. Iu the same year, the products
of our American Indies, between the Chesapeake
and the Gulf, directly exported to foreign countries
were 42 millions of dollares, and the residue sent to
the North, either for export or consumption, were
certainly not less than twenty millions—being in all
62 millions. This sum w r as returned to the South
in equivalent imports, makiDg a total trade of 124
millions, —more than double ofthat of British India.
Iu the twenty years that have since elapsed, these
two great commercial Empires of the world have
been running an animated iace—for under the vig
orous and enlightened administration of the elder
England, its annual commerce with British India
has swollen from the ten millions sterling to twenty
six millions five hundred and titty thousands pounds,
or one hundred and thirty millions of dollars, while
the energy of this new England, of the Western
World, lias enlarged the trade of its American In
di< s from 124 to nearly 350 millons of dollars.
I am unfortunate in not possessing Mr. Banks’s
liapny faculty for dealing with millions by the thou
sand, and must fain content myself with creeping
along by hundreds of millions—but I will aver that
these our Southern States, which he deems it pro
per and patriotic to disparage, do row actually and
annually contribute at least 300 millions to the com
mercial strength of the Republic—and I will fur
ther predict, that if the American Union can be pre
served from the assaults of demagogues, and sen
timentali ts, and half-crazed fanatics, this same 300
millions before the close of the present century will
nearly approach, if it do not entirely reach, one
thousand millions—animating aud invigorating to a
corresponding extent every department of national
aud continental industry, and every element of na
tional and continental strength.
The question is then presented to the merchants,
mechanics and landowners of this great continental
metropolis, to the million of inhabitants congrega
ted around the bay of New York, already possess
ing a thousand millions of wealth —the very product
of the Uuion, —itself the very type and exponent of
the Union, —do they approve the political proposi
tion to despoil the Bouili of every national office and
deprive it of all participation iu the government of
the Union ?
If we look further into the address of Mr. Banks,
we shall find ourselves comforted by the assurance
that other regions remain on the globe far more val
uable to us than the Southern States. “We pro
pose,” says he, “if the people of the North should
conceive, and inaugurate a policy of their own”
among other things, “to cultivate amicable rela
tions” with neighboring nations, and especially with
the South American continent. “Forlook!” says
Mr. Banks, “at the South American States. What
do we see in Sout h America ? A territory ten times
as large as that of the United States —a country
more fertile than any portion of the United States.
While we give 4500 millions annually of accumula
ted [industry, South America is capable of giving
four, ten —nay, even one hundred times more of ac
cumulated industry. She ha *2O millions of popula
tion and 10 millions of square miles.”
Now let us cooly count these sums: —Four times
4500 millions are 18,000 millions ; ten times 4500 mil
lions are 45,000 millions; one hundred times 1500 mi
llions are 450,000 millions, or written out arithmetic
ally in a single line, $450,000,000,000. Oh! Mr.
Banks! why did you leave your own sensible and
sober State of Massachusetts to come among us poor
barbarians, to dazzle our eyes and turn our brains,
with this effulgent row of figures ? But savages are
caught by glitter and gew-gaw. Let them swallow
the 450,000 millions and be thankful.
But even here the “eloquent and comprehensive”
speaker does not stop. Even the 450,000 millions
fail to satify his imperial appetite. The two con
tinents of America did tolerably for a beginning.—
But a richer repast must be added, drawn from the
long buried stores of the dead, old oriental world,
where the statesman sees a still more glorious vision.
“Look,” says he, “at where we stand! Here is
Wall street! On the spot to which we now direct
our eyes, we twenty days’ journey from the
populous cities of Hindostan, of China, and of Asia,
—the depositories of the world?* wealth for hundreds,
and for thousands and for tens of thousands of years,
—a wealth which is fabulous in its origin, tabulous
in its extent, and is the accumulated wealth of sev
en hundred millions of people. ”
Now, gentlemen, I am getting almost tired of
“accumulated wealth,” but as Mr. Banks proposes
that we make a railway to the Pacific, to reach this
accumulation of tens of thousands of years, I w.ll
merely observe first, that it has probably grown
somewhat musty by this time—and next that I fear
Mr. Warren Hastings and his worthy successors
have got ahead of us: —inasmuch as the total com
merce of the same Hindostan amounted in the year
1832 to less than fifty millions, as is above shown.
But seriously. No man who loves the Union will
object to a railway to the Pacific, nor even to two
railways, one from the Northern and the other from
the Southern States. They are works of urgent
continental necessity, not for the purpose so absurd'
ly proclaimed of gathering up the accumulated
wealth of tens of thousands of years, as for the
plain practical object of preserving the integrity of
our great continental union and preventing its
Pacific division from being dismembered from the
Atlantic.
Bnt does Mr. Banks or any of his admirers ima
gine that under the administration of Mr. Fremont
and the violent agitation, if not positive disruption,
that must inevitably ensue, the country will be in
any humor or any condition to prosecute tiiese vast
and difficult undertakings, requiring peace and re
pose, and the cordial acquiescence and patriotic
union of all parties, with a wise, upright and con
ciliatory President at the head ? “California,” says
Mr. Banks, **is the child of the compromise of 1850.”
And if so, who so likely to preserve it to the Union,
as he who brought it in ? To whom can the task be
more properly committed than to Millard Fill
more, the well tried statesman whose name is
stamped with imperishable honor of that verv com
promise ?
Under his wise and beneficient administration,
the country would again return to the peace in which
he left it. Common sense and common justice would
resume their accustomed sway. Our merchants
might not be favored with exciting addresses, dia
p&raging their Southern brethren, and sowing the
seeds of fraticidal strife, but they would enjoy the
tranquil blessings of a paternal and impartial go
vernment, protecting the interests, and respecting
not only the rights, but the feelings of all who claim
as their common heritage that august and glorious
Union which God has graciously entrusted to our
keeping, to test and to try our justice, our forecast,
our forbearance and our wisdom.
With respectful regard, I remain, faithfully, your
friend, Samuel B. Ruggles,
24 Union Square, N. Y.
Tlie Jinn of the Pe»rle.
A friend, who was an eye-witness of tbe f<i-’’»*wing
incideut, says the Raleigh Register, narrated it to us
as an illustration of genuine love for humanity. Ti e
principal actor in the scene doubtless never expect
ed that it would have attracted attention, or have
been made the subject of a newspaper paragraph;
but it is so characteristic of true nobleness, that we
produce it in tbe words of the narrator :
“In the year 1851,1 chanced to be one of r. party
who were taking an evening ride in the subiubs of
the City.of Washington. On nearing one of tho
cemeteries, the attention of one of our party was
arrested by a female, with three small children,
seated near tlie closed gate.
She seemed deeply afflicted, and her miserable
apparel, and that of the little ones, told a tale of suf
fering which was truly distressing.
We had gone but a short distance when the per
son, whose attention had been arrested by them, or
dered the driver to turn, aud drive to the place
where they were seated.
Descending from the carraige. he approached
the woman and inquired the cause of her sorrow.—
In a plain and simple style she told her story thus :
Two years before, her husband left his home to
find a better one in America. He had worked very
hard, and saved money enough to send for his fami
ly, and had a small home prepared to receive them.
That day had arrived, but, alas! not to meet the
glad husband and father; for, two days previous,
he had fallen from a staging, where he was at work,
and now, said she, pointing to the gate, he is there.
I've come out with my little ones to see the grave
but it’s too late. The gate is shut and we must
come back to morrow. The poor woman was quite
overcome, and the children slirieked aloud at be
holding their mother’s grief.
Will you take a seat and ride home ? said the gen
tleman. O thank you, thank you, sir, but 1 could
not think of it. He insisted ; and taking one of tlie
forlorn little creatures in his arms, he placed it in
side the carriage. The mother and remaining two
children followed. Our frie d took a seat beside tlie
driver and ordered him to drive as the woman had
directed. The little ones soon dried their tears, and
entertained us by their innocent prattle, the young
est one often asking if we were going to take him to
his father ?
A half hour’s drive brought us in front of a poor
little hovel, which the woman said would be home,
if Jemmy was there.
Assisting the party out, our hero *cnducted them
to the door; then drawing forth his card, he r.skoi
the woman’s name. “Bridget Murphy,” said sno.
Writing it ou the blank side, he handed it to her,
with a bank bill saying, “ when you need more, e*_d
that card to me;” then, biddi g her a kind good
night, he took Lis seat, and we rode iu silence to our
respective lodgings.
That mau was Millard Fillmore, the President
of the United States.”
Our “ Faithful” Northern Alii* **.
Even in tlie State of Michigan and in the city
where Gen. Cass himself resides, the Democrats
are deserting to Fremont and Black Republicanism
by hundreds at a time. An address just issued by
two hundred and fifty democrats of Detroit to their
Democratic brethren of other parts of Michigan is
published in the Detroit Advertiser of Saturday l i t,
commences as follows:
“ Iu view of tlie almost irreparable injuries that
have been inflicted upon our Democratic inst itutions,
the long established principles of the Democratic par
ty, and the peace and prosperity of our beloved coun
try, bv the administration of Franklin Pierce, and
the still greater injury threatened by the election ot
James Buchauau, who has given his unqualified and
cordial approval to all its wicked measures and
stands solemnly pledged, as well by his own declar
ation as by the Cincinnati platform.
“ We the undersigned, who have unitVnr.ily acted
with the Democratic party, and who voted fi r
Franklin Pierce in 1852, feel it to be our duty ns
Democrats, as friends of our country, and as good
citizens, publicly to declare our determinati toop-
Sdsc, in every honorable way, the election of Jam. s
uchanan, and to give our influence aud our vet
to Jolm C. Fremont, and set forth the reasons whit li
have impelled us to this course.”
Just see how faithful and how unwavering these
Northern‘allies’ of the Southern Democracy are !
Right under the nose of Gen. Cass, and. as the Bal
timore American well says, in the face of the cry of
Fillmore fusions , two hundred and fifty life-long
Democrats decamp to the aid of Fremont, and Sum
ner, and Gree *y. What does this portend in a
State claime' certainly for Buchanan ? Does it
show that his urospects are improving much in the
North ? Verily there will be hardly a bak< .
dozen of Northern Democrats supporting Buchanan
by the 4th of November, llis case 13 utterly and
forever hopeless.
The Coolie Trade.
Some idea may be termed of the horrible incidents
of this nefarious trade from the following extracts
from the log-book of the American ship “Waverly.”
The“ Waverly,” bound from Swatou to Collao, with
450 Chinese coolies, was temporarily detained at
Cayito, a port about six miles from Manilla. The
Chinamen, supposing themselves to have reached
their destination, attempted, on the 27thof October,
1855, to go ashore, but were prevented by an ex
pedient which resulted iu the tragical catastrophe
here detailed:
“Saturday, October s27.—At 11 A. M. the coolies’
cooks came oft’, nud refused to cook any loir.c r
without they could get their wages paid down every
month. I promised I should do all I could when
got on shore ; but thatiwould not satisfy them, and
all the coolivs came alt for the intention to kill me
and Mr. Weeks. I got the men all aft,, and got the
arms on deck, and they began to show light. I
killed about four or live, aud drove them ail down
below, iu between decks. In the afternoon, aid
P. M., 1 was obliged to get water on deck. 1 went
down, and found they had broken the lock on llr*
cistern hatch, and had got hold of some of the pro
visions. There was one of them who v/as very im
pudent, and I killed him. At 4P. M., I found they
were breaking off the forward hatch, and two of
them stood on the steps, trying with all their
strength to come on deck, but 1 shoved them down
and shut the hutches on again. Watched the ship
inside and out. At 8 P. M. set the watch, with one
officer and six men. i think I should have no trou
ble with the coolies, if I only had a good interpreter
aud doctor for them on board, for that is the great
est trouble for carrying coolies, and by having had
lots of coolies on board is very fatal.”
“Sunday, October, 28.—At 12 midnight, between
27th and 28th, took off the hatches for to let the coo
lies come on the deck again. Got some lanterns and
went down myself lor to let them up ; but to our
great astonishment found that they had murdered
one another. They had broken the bars of the
hatches, and broke two or three of the after
bunks down, which they had used for weapons. I
was an awful sight to look at; some were hanging
by the neck, some were shoved down in the tanks;
some had their throats cut, and the greater part of
them were strangled to death. 1 went to work aud
took all the bodies on the deck, aud provided some
water for the living ones, which were all the poorest
and sickliest on board the ship. At 3, P. H.,the gov
ernment steamer came down and anchored a cable’s
length from us, and sent her two large boats along
side for to discharge the dead bodies into. Got
through by 10 o’clock, P.M.
In relation to this terrible event, 11. N. Palmer,
acting United States Consul at Manilla, und< r date
of February 15, 1856, writes:.
“The first news was brought to this place by a
clerk of Messrs. Matic, Monchacatone & Co., agents
of the Waverly, who, on learning what had taken
place on board, came immediately au din formed his
employers, and they, foreseeing the fatal conse
quences likely to result from confining so many
men in the ’tween decks of the vessel, sent him im
mediately back to Cavito, with implicit orders to
the Captain to open the hatches. He arrived there
at midnight, and, at his request, the hatches were at
once removed, where they found, as before tated,
that some three hundred men had been suffocated.
The bodies were buried immediately by the autho
rities, who after discovering that there was no con
tagious disease on board relieved the ship liv.n
Quarantine, and on the 6th November, the officers
and crew were taken from her aud placed in prison
until the affair could be legally investigated. The
trial is not yet concluded, an l nothing official can
yet be known in regard to the testimony giv n by
the various witnesses in the case; but unofficially,
I learn that when the captain went below at three
o’clock, he was accompanied by one man only, who
states that no attempt to revolt was made, and the
men were peaceable, but that the captain, v. ithout
any provocation, shot two of them with his revolver,
killing both. Also, that, while the coolies were in
confinement below, hot water was poured upon
them through the seams of the hatches. Captain
French, in various conversations with me, admits
this fact, but says the water was lukewarm only,
aud was done ‘merely to frighten them.’ The ship
and the remaining coolies (with the exception of nine
detained as the ringleaders of the revolt) we re re
leased by the authorities. The coolies were em
barked in the Hamburg bark Louisa, for Call s, and
the ship proceeded to China on the 2d inst.
Hhdrophobia. —The death of Mr. Sullivan, an
assistant at the dog pound, in New York, has been
previously referred to. The Journal of Commerce
published the circumstances attending his death.
Mr. Sullivan was bitten by a dog in the rig lit leg,
and lunar caustic was applied to the injured part by
a physician. The wound soon after fostered and
discharged freely, but without causing Mr. Sullivan
any serious apprehensions, and with the application
of the usual remedies, it was hoped would heal over.
On the 17th instant, or iabout three weeks after the
bite, however, Mr. Sullivan, in attempting to drink,
experienced great difficulty in swallowing, and oth
er symptoms of hydrophobia subsequently followed.
Medical assistance was called, and several remedies
applied, but the patent grew worse. Medicine was
administered by soaking a rag in it and applying
that to his mouth, when the sufferer sucked, in the
medicine through his teeth. It was found necessary
to bind his arms and legs, to prevent him from inju
ring himself or others; but through all his sufferings
Mr. S. retained the full possession of his mental fac
ulties. A large number of physicians were called,
but their methods of relief were unavailing, und Mr.
Sullivan died on Friday night.
European Gold and Silver Coin. —The go
vernments of Europe, it is probable, will be forced
to resort to the same debasement of their silver coin
as has been practiced in the Unite! States, in order
to prevent its absorption by China and the East In
dies. This displacement of silver by gold has been
going on ever since the discovery of gold in Califor
nia and Australia, and still progresses with extraor
dinary rapidity. The margin between the two coins
it is stated must necessan y be large, eince if it
were less than 8 or 10 per cent, there would be a
prospect of another alteration becoming requisite at
a future period. In England the silver coinage was
originally 8 per cent, below its nominal value as
compared with gold, but owing to the depreciation
of gold the difference is now only 3j per cent.; and
there is consequently a possibility that long before
the inequality, even in that country, may entirely
disappear, bo as to render a new debasement neces
sary in order to prevent it from being sent out of the
country. The London Times states that the conti
nental governments are considering the propriety of
resorting to a gold stindard exclusively for their
currency. The exhaustive demand presented from
China and India will doubtless necessitate this
movement, but it will enhance the demand for gold,
and will have an important bearing upon the feature
of every money market— Balt. American.
The Frerch Fugitives to be Returned.—
The President has transmitted from Concord a war
rant of extradition in the French fugitives case. It
authorizes the arrest of both the Grellots, Parot and
Carpentiei. All of these parties but the latter are
nowin the Eldridge-st. jail, in default of the requi
site bail, in the civil suit brought by the Northern
Railway of France against them. They will be de
livered up to the U. S. Marshal under the criminal
warrant, and will probably be examined before one
of the commissioners to-day.
Before issuing the warrant in question, the Presi
dent consulted Attorney-General Cushing and Sec
retary Marcy, we understand, w-ho both gave opin
ions m favor of the legality of the proceeding under
our treaty with France.
M. Townsend took an order on Saturday in the
civi cause to show cause why the name of Felieite
Debut, impleaded as a defendant, should not be
struck out of the record.
Effects of Worship on the Insane. —An ex
change says, on the authority of Miss Dix, the phi
lanthropist, that among the hundreds of crazy people
with whom her sacred missions have brought her
into companionship, she has not tbund one indi
vidual, however neroean44«Bbk»Bt, that could not be
calmed by Scripture and prayer, uttered in low and
gentle tones. The power of religious sentiments
over these shattered souls seems miraculous.
! Fillmore*!* Manliness* ol* Character.
The developments of this canvass place Mr. Fill
more—whatever may be the result of the election—
in a position even more elevated than tlie exalted
j one which he occupied, in the estimation of all just
men, when he descended a few yearn ago from the
roat of power. They exhibit to tbe world an ex
ample ot moral power—an almost sublime loftiness
ot patriotic purpose —which startles fiomits infre
qiu ncy, and compels our admiration the longer that
we contemplate it.
We opposed the nomination of Mr, Fillmore by
lue Convention, because we believed that it was a
j moral impossibility, that any Northern statesman,
j .'Urrounded by existing popular conditions, could
y id to the Soutli the whole of her rights under the
U. nstitutiou. We saw, that under the Nebraska-
Kansas Act, Democratic politicians apparently con
ceded them to us, but we knew that by that cuu
ningly-devised trap, Douglas, Cuss and the rest
< re trying to make the North believe—what was
tiue—that the Squatter Sovereignty construction
v uld make all the Territories free soil ; while their
p :.'tizaus at the South were representing them as
m. a who had hazarded their political lives, for the
ole purpose of doing the South full justice. All this
Kausas-Nebrnska business we very soon saw was
a fraud, by which the Northern Democracy simply
swapped Wilmot Provisoism for Squatter Sove
reignty ; befooling the South by leaving the ques
tion as to the latter open, on the face of the act. We
knew, or believed, that there was not n single North
ern Democratic statesman living, who was willing
to give us the Kansas Act, accompanied by a ne
gation of Squatter Sovereignty. Nor does such an
one live !
We are satisfied from tlie first, that Mr. Fillmore
would not favor any ut tempt to restore the Missou
ri Compromise, although he denounced its repeal;
because we knew him to be a patriot aud opposed
to the agitation of the question of slavery. We knew
therefore, that as a mau of peace and a patriot, he
must stand on “existing laws.” But while we
thought this—believed it confidently—we could not
realize, when we looked around ou the Douglases,
Casses, Biglers, Richardsons, and the rest of the
.'. li-constitutcd champions of Southern Rights, and
saw them shrinking from the assertion of our rights
in the Territories until Conventions to foim State
Constitutions should make them permanent or ex
clude us—when we saw them shrinking—that Mr.
Fii!more, who made no special professions, should
shame them all, by declaring, in the face of the ex
cited North, against tiie doctrine of Squatter Sove
reignty, and in favor of that constitutional and only
true mode of deciding the question in the Territo
ri< s, for the South has always contended and which
was reduced to practice in the Utah and New Mexi
co Bills.
But Mr. Fil.more did do this act of high moral
courage, and authorized the publication of his decla
rations made by Col. Williams, a wealthy planter of
the South. And this act is in keeping wi;h tho lofti
ness of position assumed by him in the whole cam
paign. Ilb first words almost, on reaching here,
’ .vre a denunciation of the designs of Black Repub
licanism as “moral treason.” Why, the whole
North stood agape, for the moment, at the Napole
onic boldness ot the man as ho stood there in his
quiet dignity—-the South paused a moment, ns it
were, to see if she had heard aright, and then thou
sands shouted their admiration of the moral gran
deur of the man. It must even have stirred up
what was chivalrous in the heart of Mr Buchanan,
for in a very few weeks thereafter, in a letter to
some New York Committee, he uttered a feeble
echo of the noble and manly sentiment.
Thus Mr. Fillmore has assumed a position for
rigid, without regard to consequences, which none
but a truly noble mind would have dared aspire to,
ur.der the circumstances. It is a prouder position
than any political station could give, and it wins for
him a commanding r iche in our history, aside from
all pa t services to his country, and makes him in
dep< udent, for his fame's sake, at least, of votes for
th • Presidency.
This high manliness of our candidate is, we be
lieve, appreciated by the masses of the people.
Thousands have been deterred from declaring for
him, only by the specious, deceptions anti-Ameri
can trick, which made them believe he “had no
strength.” That spell, however, is now broken, and
on all sides we hear of live retractions and recanta
tions of persons prematurely committed against
him, early in the canvass. They see how that
among conservative men, men who wish to pro
serve the government-, ho Ims hosts of friends eve
rywhere. A man, with such characteristics as Fill
more’s, can never bo weak in the affections of any
free and enlightened people.
The article from the Buffalo Advertiser, which
Mr. Fillmore has endorsed is full, satisfactory, con
clusive. Like Mr. Fillmore’s character, it is open,
!*eight-forward, without dodge, shuffle, or equivo
action. —Montgomery Mail.
From lit c Delete arc (Ohio) Gazelle , Oct. 3.
A Terrible Calamity.
Just as our paper was ready for the press yester
day evening, we were startled by intelligence that a
terrible tragedy had occurred at the Fair Grounds,
by which eleven persons were instantly killed, and
some thirty or forty injured more or less seriously.
The accident occurred from the bursting of the boi
ler of a steam engine on exhibition from the estab
lishment of lhadly, Burnham, Lamb & Co. In the
hade and confusion that prevails it is impossible to
get the particulars with any degree ol accuracy,
and indeed we are not in a condition t<> seek details,
but of of those killed six belonged to this town :
Mrs. Walker, widow of the late Anthony Waler.
Tlios. Williams, cabinet-maker.
William, son of S. Flinch, Esq., aged about 8
years.
Louis, son of B. Powers, Esq., about the same
Henry Stimel, son of Daniel Stimel, aged about
15.
Who the others thut were killed ore, and where
they came from, we cannot learn. Among the in
jured is our oldest son, llenry C. Thompson, a boy
of l 1 years, who is Beverly scalded in the face, and
his leg probably fractured.
The Fair was passing off most pleasantly—an im
mense concourse of persona present—when this hor
rible occurrence put a atop to it, and east a sudden
gio in over all, and earned deep distress to the
homes of many of our most esteemed citizens. We
had left tli3 grounds but a short time before the uc
cid at occurred, and when thus spared being an
eye \vltnes3 to the heart rending occurrence. God
l rbid that we shall ever be called upon to record
another like.
P. >S. —Since the above was put in type, we have
received the following list of the killed, as also of
the several wounded, as far as ascertained :
Killed.-— Mrs. A. Walker, Thomas Williams, F.
Smith, Louis Powers, William Finch, a son of Minor
Tone, of Liberty; two Neffiseti, names not given;
Mr. Crook, residing on the plank road North of
Columbus, (the person whose body lay for some
time unrecognized in the Mayor’s office;) Airs.
Shaw.
1 it ally Wounded. —Another son of Daniel Sti
mel ; Mrs. Jeremiah Markle and child ; (child since
died )
Wounded. —Slingluff, student, badly scalded;
Beuj. Newberry, of Berkshire, leg and arm broken i
Keu i and Kelley, students,each a leg broken; Mrs.
Jacob J. Gro39, of Troy, badly scalded; S. S. St al
ley, student, of Waldo, scalded; son of Lewis
Breese ; son of 11. P. Havens ; J. P. Slack , Mrs. It.
Mickle ; ltawley; Miss Veley; Bacho
ler; J. .darkle; B.lloes; J. Nicholson; A. Wells;
11. C. Thomson; son of M. L. Griffin; Wade;
Gavit.
The engine on exhibition was “liumley’s Patent
Rotary," a novelty which attracted much attention,
and was at all times surrounded by a crowd of spec
tutors. We have heard n > cause assigned for the
accident.
The Columbus, Ohio, State Journal, received since
the above was in type, has the following additional
particulars;
We learn thut on the morning after the accident,
Welch & Lent’s circus came into Delaware, and on
hearing of the disaster, the manager offered his
teams, &0., to attend the funerals, and declined to
exhibit in consequence of the calamity. In the evo
ning a number of the citizens contributed ft purse to
reimburse the circus company for their expenses,
but they declined to receive it, and handed the
amount over to Mrs. Nuffus, one of the sufferers.—
This conduct on the part of Messrs. Welch & Lent
is dcserviug of all praise.
Five of the killed were buried at 3 o’clock, and
th" funerals attracted a large crowd. The proces
sion was estimated 03 being a mile and a half in
length, and the streets of Delaware were crowded
with spectators.
The boiler was thrown ninety feet from where it
was on exhibition. The cylinder and its attach
ments were thrown sixty feet—one of the governor
balls was thrown 150 feet, struck a boiler that was
partially embedded in the ground, and bounced
from that and broke a student’s leg who was stand
ing some 15 or 20 feet from it.
Mrs. Walker was walking arm-in-arm with her
brother-in-law, F. C. Welch. She was the worst
mangled of those who were hurt, while Mr. Welch,
with whom she was walking, was unhurt. The cyl
inder killed her.
Wo were in error yesterday in stating that
the boiler was an old one. It was a new boil
er, and was built in Sandusky city. The wa
ter guages were tested not one minute before
the explosion, and water ran from both of them.
The engineer, at the time of the explosion, stood
withhis hand on the mouth of the throttle-valve. —
lie was uninjured, but lost his hat, which disap
peared very mysteriously—no trace of it can be dis
covered.
Messrs. Powers and Finch were standing by, and
saw their son- killed before their eyes. Mr. Wil
liams was standing some fifty feet l'rorn the engine.
He was killed by one of the furnace doors.
Steamships. —Though but eighteen years have
elapsed since the first vessel wholly propelled by
steam crossed the Atlantic, now there are fourteen
line of steamers, comprising forty-eight vessels ply
ing between Europe and the United States. Re
cently not less than fifteen arrivals of foreign steam
ers have taken place in a single month. Out of
these forty-eight steamers, but twelve are of Ameri
can construction. For nine years the British had
the monopoly of the Atlantic steamships, before
American enterprise undertook to compete with
them. Four of our most valuable Atlantic steamers
have been entirely lost; two having been driven
ashore and broken up ; a third was sunk by a colli
sion, w ith all on board ; and a fourth, the noblest of
the fleet, has never been heard from, but is sup
posed to have struck an iceberg. The foreign com
panies have lost, in all, four ships from their Ameri
can lines. The value of these eight steamships is
set down at .<3,537,000, exclusive of cargoes. On the
California route there have been lost seven fine
steamers, mostly on the Pacific coast, viz : the Inde
pendence, w’hicn sunk in the Pacific, with 120 lives,
and the Tennessee and St. Louis—total w'recks. The
Sun I?’rancisco, valued at $300,000, was lust in the
Atlantic in the same year, with many valuable lives,
the Yankee Blade in the year following, besides the
ill-fated Rhode Island, and the North Carolina in
the year 1855. It is estimated that one thousand
four hundred and twenty lives and $7,930,000 in
property have been lost in steamships since the
year 1853. In a pecuniary point of view the At
lantic steamers, it is said, have not been profitable
to the stockholders.— Phila. Ijedger.
Mu. Hilliard* n North Alabama. —We had a
brief interview with Mr. Hilliard a few days since,
on his return from North Alabama. lie expresses
great satisfaction at bis reception at his several
speaking points, in that hospitable region. Marked
courtesies were extended tohiin by gentlemen of
both parties, and he hud always fine audiences. Mr.
11. was assured by our North Alabama friends, that
Mr. Fillmore -would receive a stronger support in
that section, than was ever received by any candi
date of his party.— Montgomery Mail.
Magic Mirrors. —A novelty for the dressing
room, certain to receive immediate approval and
adoption, is the miroir fact el nuqut. Have you
seen it—that happiest consummation of the ap
fdiances of the toilet. No more twisting off of the
lead to get the merest idea of one’s back hair; no
more blind faith in the mechanical accuracy of one’s
fingers in arranging its massive rolls and braids;
but, by this magic mirror, the gift is given us to see.
at least a part of ourselves, “as ithers see us,” —
Putnam's Magazine.
Mr. Strickland, bookseller of Mobile, who, with
his partner, was lately expelled from that city on
the charge of selling incendiary books, has published
his version of the story. It was charged against
Messrs. Strickland Upson that they liad been
tampering with the slaves and had been endeavor
ing to circulate'among them certain abolition pub
. that only three copies of such publi
'catton» were accidentally in his store, and were
sold to parties who purposely sought to entrap the
venders. This, he alledges, was the magnitude of
’ their offence.
The Governor of Wisconsin has vetoed the bill
granting laud to the Lacrosse and llilwuukje Kail
road.
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XX. NO. I*3
The Chinese Cnnc.
Our agricultural readers may be pleased to have
the testimony oi a Northern experiment to this
cane, for which purpose we present the following
from the Boston Traveller :
Chinese SugarCan e— [SorghumSaccharahnn)
—Mrssrs. Editors:—Some weeks ago i wrote a
•short article concerning this sugar cane, givin„ my
opinion of it as it appeared at that time, and pro
mised to let you hear from me again on the same
subject. My cane was planted about the 20th of
May. Tt came up well and has grown well, having
reached the height of ton feet. A few days ago—the
plant bci gjusteutof flower, or in other words,
past its bloom—l cut several stalks aud stripped off’
the leaves, crushed the cane, and pressed out the
juice, which I boiled down to molasses ; and a fine
article it is, of which I intend to give you both ocular
and “oscular” proof; as good as can bo bought for
->0 or 60 cents per gallon. The juice is very rich in
saccharine matter, yielding from a fourth to a fifth
ot its bulk in good molasses. 1 was anxious to make
some sugar, but not knowing the art, I did not suc
ceed ; I have not a doubt but the finest of sugar can
be made from it, and make it pay. I did not at
tempt to make champagne from it, though it is said
to make a good article. The great difficulty ia to
express the juice from the stalks, ami nothing that
I know of will do it effectually but a sugar mi. I, and
those we do not have in these parts. But if this ar
ticle proves, on a further trial, to be what I think it
is, sugar mills will be erected in almost every town
in the good old Buy State, and we no longer bo de
pendent on slave labor for our supply of sugar and
molasses.
1 hope it may bo so, for then we shall give slave
ry n serious blow, and perhaps Virginia will find the
demand for slaves to go down Suutli on the sugar
plantations considerably diminished, so as to render
the business of breeding slaves unprofitable for that
State. Then again there will be a great deal of sat
isfaction in knowing that we are using sugar and
roUjyses from cane grown on free soil by free labor.
If this article should succeed perfectly, we cannot
sufficiently estimate the glorious results of its suc
cessful cultivation. I fully believe, from my limited
experience, that wc may successfully compete with
Louisiana with its slave labor in producing sugar
aud molasses; for we have in this variety of sugar
cane a great advantage over that which they culti
vate, for this can be grown from seed, while that
which they grow never seeds, but is produced from
joints or cuttings of the cane, ami consequently (hey
ore obliged to save by from a third to a fourth of
their entire crop for tlie next year’s setting.
Then again with this sugar cane uo part ia lost, as
with them, but the leaves are stripped, off for fod
der; the top will answer for brooms like the broom
corn, and even the refuse cane is said to make a fine
article of paper. Tneu again most any ol* our land
will grow sugar cane, while their sugar land—at
least much oi it—has to be drained, at considerable ex
pense, and kept dry, ortho cane will not flourish.—
If there is so much in our favor, why may wc not
grow enough of this article to supply our own wants,
;i* wc do not tt i?!i to compete with them in other
markets. It is a fine article for stover, it is so rich
in saccharine matter; cows, pigs, and even horses
will eat the stock as well as tho leaves with the
greatest, avidity.
It is said that the juice when set with alum, dyes
a bueautifnl red, but in this I was only partially
successful, it coming short of my expectations. The
seed when riped is good for iattening fowls, pigs,
&c. I believe i! to be one of the most valuable ar
ticles that has been introduced for many year/, sec
ond in importance to few things that a farmer can
grow. _ It is very desirable that it should be more
extensively raised another year, and careful expe
riments made with it so as to determine its compa
rative value gs afi dd crop. I hope we may hear
from others who have raised it, that we may the
better judge its value on different soils and under
different circumstances. J. F. C. Hyde.
Newton Centre, Sept. 29, 1856.
Christianity in Turkey.
It was hoped that the decree of tlie Sultan in fa
vor of religious freedom would deliver tho Chris
tians of hisempiio from the long and cruel oppres
sion and persecution under which they have groan
ed. Conflicting accounts, however, continue to
reach Europe on this subject. A reliable English
journal statos that some ot the details are so util tot
ing, that it is but 100 < violent lhaL instead of free
dom, the Christians have gained nothing by the
Sultau’s decree but, a reign of terror. In many of
the districts, the sound of a bell lbr church is not
uulrequently the signal for Mussulman attack, and
the churches themselves are invaded and the doors
covered with liiili. A number of inetunces are men
tioned in which the Christians were outraged in the
most shameful manner. One of thei-eis the follow
ing : Three Christians who had the innocence to be
lieve that the Sultan’s decree of equality was u re
ality, addressed to Mussulmans whom they met the
courteous salutation. “ Peace bo to you,” instead
of 44 Allah bi,” to which they lmd always been re
stricted, and which was a sort of homage to Islam
ism. The poor fellows were murdered forthwith,
and many who hastened to take their part were
cruelly wounded. The next day the populace march
ed to tho church, killed the Sacristan, destroyed va
rious ornaments of the edifice, and after committing
every excess and indignity, and razing the church
to the ground, surrounded the Christians in their
houses, and outraged the women aud children.
The journal to which we are indebted for these
facts, says there is truth, it now is feared, in the
long discredited reports of a regularreligiouß organi
zation, spreading through Arabia to the Persian
Gulf, for what they deem the defence of the Koran.
Among the Bedouins, a prophetess has appeared,
who is a kind of Islamite Joan of Are, placed at (he
head of large masses of fanatics who are proclaiming
a religious war. Three of the Arab tribes have
flocked to her standard.
It is obvious, we think that nothing but the pre
sence of the allied troops will sustain the Sultan in
the liberal policy he has proclaimed. If tlie Chris
tians of the East are to be left in a worse condition
practically than they were before the treaty, the
world will justify Russia in coming to their relief.—
It irf high time that a barbarous aud persecuting
race should be made to cease from such horrid out
rages upon Christian men and Christian churches as
aie daily committed in Turkey.— Rich. Despatch.
Flood in New York. — Fifteen laves Lost —The
Keysville, (N. Y.) Republican, of the 4th instant,
contains details of a destructive flood which occur
red and took place on the morning of tho Ist. The
Ausablo river was swollen 1 y the heavy rains of the
day and night preceding, to a greater height than had
be°n known even by the memorable flood of 1830.
The upper dain being broken, the torrent swept
away the mills, factories, shops, and bu filings of eve
ry d» eription within its range; so with a dam near
the Lower Falls, everything in the forge and rol
ling mill was seriously damaged. The works of the
Perif Iron Company, at Cliutonville, were injured,
the bridges and saw mills carried off.
The bridge across the east branch of the Ausablo
is gone ; also the stone buiiding kept a as boarding
house, a few feet below the bridge, and Potter’s
boarding house, kept by Mr. Wolf. Three of Mr
Wolf’s children were carried off with the building
and lost. The widow Kennedy and daughter are
drowned; also one of Hie foremen in the rolling
m il—a I renelnnan. Eight dwelling houses are also
destroyed. A ( atholic stone church at Fork is
nearly destroyed, having been undermined and a
large part of the wall thrown down. Several small
houses on Hie flats below Roger’s from Works were
swept off before their occupants could escape, and
a number of their inmates perished. The dead
bodies of nmo persons who perished in the tiood
have been recovered.
A gentleman residing r.t New Sweden informs us
that he saw one woman screaming for help carried
over the dam there this forenoon. Os course no
help could bo rendered, and she was dashed to
pieces. Two men had a most miraculous escape.
They had climbed to the roof of.the house which was
floating down the river, and us it neared the bridge
at New Sweden both sprang for their lives and
reached the bridge in safety, escaping to the shore.
In a moment more the house and bridge were dash
ed to pieces by the fury of Hie flood, and swept down
the rapids. Bur-aus, bedsteads, chuirs, «fcc., have
floated dow n the river all the forenoon. Among
oilier articles, several coffins have been noticed from
some cabinet shop up the river. The loss of proper
ty on the river must bo very large. The Purmorts,
at Jay, are said to be heavy losers. All the booms
and logs are gone ; many expensive bridges and
miles of the plunk road are destroyed.
In this village the banks of the liver have been
lined all day with crowds of citizens, women and
children j looking with terror on the scene of de
struction, but entirely unable to render the least
assistance. October Ist will long be remembered
by the inhabitants of Keysville and the valley of the
A u nable.
Child Stealing n New York— lt may sur
prise many of our readers to learn that from 30 to
40 children are stolen every year in New York from
their parents, and never heard of more. Yet such
is the fact. In our advertising columns to-day will
bo found one of these cases, and a curiou one it is.
The sister of Mr. James McGaugh brings her child
to her brother’s, in Centre street, to spend the day
with him. In the evening she dressed the child to
go home, but while her back was turned, the child
ran out of the door and into the street. The mother
missed the child and went after it immediarely, but
though two days passed, up to last night no child
had been found, though the Alms-House and every
Station-House in the city had been searched to find
it. On the 16th of this month, a boy five years,
named John Joyce, was lost, but the brother has
not yet succeeded in finding him ; and at the Chief’s
Office, in the Park, will be heard many similar
stories. The child is lost, search is made by the
parents; days, weeks, months pass, but no tidings
of their little ones are ever heard. At last the
seurch is given over, and the matter is forgotten un
til a similar calamity brings anguish into another
family. The mystery is, what is done with the chil
dren? It may be that they are brought upas
thieves, or perhaps sold to some religious sect that
proselyte in this w ay. Something ought to be done
to preserve the children and save parents the an
guish of losing them.— N. Y. Tribune.
A North Carolina Professor turned Abo
litinist.—The last Raleigh Standard contains a
letter from a Professor in the University of North
Carolina, a Mr. Hedrick, in which said Hedrick
avows himself a Fremont man, a B ack Republican.
Mr. B. S. Jfedrick is quite a young man, a native
of the Western counties of the State, having lived
in his boyhood, as he says, near Lock’s bridge over
the Yadkin, in Davidson or Rowan. He graduated
at Chapel IPll, and afterwards spent some few years
at Cambridge, Mass., where,|with a natural aptitude
for such things, he no doubt adopted the tone
and sentiments of the place. His idea evidently is
that his expulsion from Chapel Hill will make a lion
of him among the Northern Abolitionists, who wid
give hi in an appointment, perhaps at Harvard or
elsewhere, in a latitude more congenial to his no
tions.— Wilmington (N. C.) Journal.
The Tennessee Railroad.— The completion of
this great road, the particulars of whose jubilee wc
chronicled a few days ago, is an achievement of
W; ich Virginia has great reason lobe proud. When
we see such natural obstacles overcome, and the
portals of the great South-west already reached, we
have reason to hope that the day of Virginia’s re
demption is not far distant. Let uh now push for
ward the Covington and Ohio Railroad, the greai
ect public work of the South, and when that is ac
complished, we may bid defiance to the rivalry of
other communities. A broad and deep tide of trade
will be poured into Virginia, and the shrivelled
veins oft he old Commonwealth will be filled with
new blood. —Richmond Despatch.
A correspondent of the New York Herald , at
Guayanm, P. R., writing on the 3th ult., states that
cholera was still very prevalent there, carrying yel
low fever and small pox in its train. Mayaguez was
ravaged by cholera, and many of its leading settlers
had died of the epidemic. Some of the planters had
lost as many as one hundred laborers, and from forty
sixty had been taken from others. Chinese coolies
could be imported to supply the loss, but.the Span
ish government objected very decidedly to their in
troduction. Ponce wus free from disease. At
Guayama trade was very dull. A severefought
prevailed there, and the caues bad suffered very
much.
Horse Snow.-Thcre is to be a great Horse
show in Boston, commencing the -Ist instant, it
will take place under the auspices of the Boston
Agricultural Association, of which the Hon. Mar
shall P. Wilder is the President, und will be open to
competitors from all parts of the United States and
the Canadas. Premiums will be awarded to the
amount of ss,od». There are three premiums o!
000 each, and numerous others ranging from S2OO
down to s2o. Some of the most celebrated horses
of the day are already engaged to be present—such
as the Ethan Allen, of Vermont; the Hiram Drew,
of Maine ; Ijancet, Flora Temple, Tacony, and
other fine animals.
Oriental Physician*.
Lieut. Burton in his narrative -.f a Pilgrimage to
the Moslem shrines of Modi null an«l M< t en gives
fm amusing aoocunfc of the tuts which Oriental
physiciansjhave to resort to in order to obtain prac.
tiee:
“You must begin with the porter, who is sure to
have blear eyes, into which you drop a little nitrate
of silver, whiVyou instil into his ear tho pleasing
intelligent*;* that you never take a f e from the
poor. lie recovers, this report of you spreads far
and wide, crowding your doors with paupers. They
come to you as though you were their servants, and
when cured, turn their backs upon you forever.—
When the inob has raised you to, fame patients of a
better class will si wly appear upon the scene. After
some coquetting about S-tique'le,’ whether you are
to visit them or they call upon 3011, they make up
their minds to see you. and tojudge with their eyes
whether you are to be tinted or not; while you,
on your sids, set out with the dcterininatton that
they shall at once cross the Rubicon—in less class
ical phrase, swallow jour drug. If you visit tho
house, you insist upon the patient’s servants atten
ding yen. lie mud also } rovide and nay for an
ass for your conveyance, no matter if it be only to
the other side of t he street.
“Your confidential man accompanies you, primed
for replies to t lie ‘fifty searching questions’ of the
‘servants’ hall.* You ti e lifted off the saddle ten
derly, as nurses dismount their charges, when you
arrive at the gate, an i you waddle up stairs with
dignity. Arrived at the sick room, you salute those
present with a general ‘Peace be upon you!’—to
which they respond, ‘And upon you bo the peace
and the mercy of Allah, and his blessiug.’ To tho
invalid you say. ‘There is nothing the matter, please
Allah, except the health,’ to which the. proper an
swer—for here every sign of ceremony has its coun
tersign—is, ‘May Allah give thee health!’ You
then sit down, and acknowledge the presence of the
company by raising your right hand to your lip and
forehead, bowing tin white circularly. Each indi
vidual returns the civility by a similar gesture.—
Then inquiry about the state of your health ensues.
Then you are asked what refreshment you will take.
You studiously mention something not likely to be
in the house, but at last you rough it with a pipe
and a cup of coffee. Then you proceed to the pa
tient who extends his wrist and inks you what his
complaint- is, «fce. * * *
“The disease, to bo respectable, must invariably
be conn* eted with one of the four temperaments, or
the foui'elements, or the‘humors of Hippocrates.’
Cure is easy, but it will take time, aud you, the doc
tor, require attention; any little rudeness it is iu
your power to punish by an altera!;* ;i in tho pill or
the powder, and so unknown is j rolVsaioual honor
that none wili brave your displeasure. It you would
pass fora native pram i; loner jou must tin 1 proceed
to a most uncomfortable purl of your visit—bar
gaining fo.r fi ts No'hi: g n,-*’. illV-etiml arouses
suspicion than disintereslednei-shi a doctor. * *
v l’ropcrly speaking, the fee for a visit, to a res
pectable mun‘is “0 pir.stevs, but with the rich pa
tient you beginhy making 1 bargain. Me complains,
for instance, of dy.-eut ry an 1 sciatica. You demand
10/. for the dysentery and “0/. for the sciatica; but
you will rarely get it. Tin- l.as crn pays a doctor’s
bill as an IreliNUiii does his ‘rint,’ mailing a griev
ance ol it. * * ' Wn -e\ ir j oil r ivh-v-ribe u.ust
bo solid and mat* ri il, and if yen . mouuy it with
something painful—.mb;: rubbing uuio scarifica
tion with a horsebru.-h —so much t:.. better. Kind
ems*as our peasants in Europe, 1 ik«* tho doctor to
‘give them the value of tin ir n: •- beside whit h
lough measures act beneficially upon thru imagina
tion.
“So the llabim of the Kii of l’« >1 \ cures !i v< r
by the bastinado; patients are beneficially baked in
a bread oven a? Bagdad, and an Egyptian at Alcx
ai.dia, whose quartan resisted tin strongest? ppimn
ce? ts European pliyffo, was tfiVetuahy healed by
the actual cautery which a certain Arab Sh.tykh ap
plied to the crown othv 1.. id. \\ hen you adminis
ter with your own hand the remedy—half n dozen
huge bread pii!.-*, dipped in a solution <f aloes or
cinnamon water tla\ ored with j ••wife ;ida, which in
tho case,pf the dyspeptic r! 1 often sr.lfiee, if they
will but diet themselves—you are c a * ltd to sav, ‘in
the name of Allah, the. com pa.- a*-:-,be, the merciful.'
and after the pdbuit has been d-•:■■•*!, ‘Praise bo
to Allah, the cm r, the h< - r.’ You then call fur
pen, ink and paper, u;id write s »)..*• m.*h prescrip
tion as this:
“'ln the name of Allah, the e nnpusMoiate, the
mendful, and blessings and pence b up* n our
Lord,tho ProphH, and If family, .r I his compan
ions, one and all! lint afterward let him take bee’ 1
honey and cinnamon, and album gneoutn, of each
half a part., and of ging.-r a whole pint, • In*, h let liim
pound and mix v. ill 1 the imn y unit form boluses,
each bolus the weight of 11 m. kill, and of il let him
use every day a miskal on the s iliv.i, (that is tnsay,
fasting ) Vt rily its 1 ff« cf. are wonderful. And let
him abstain from lies';, fish, vegetable.*, sweet moats,
flatulent food, acids of all description, us well as tho
major ablution, and iivc in perfect quiet. &*• shall
he be cured by the !;• !p of the King, the Ilealer.—
And the peace.’ ”
Lieut. Hurt on’s great advantage in hit* travels
was his familiar knowledge of the IVisiau Hindoo
tani and Arabic language, by which I.* so th -rough
ly; deceived the natives that they thought him one
of their countrymen.
Great Fillmore Rally in Indiana. —A Fill
more gathering upon u great scale takes pluC" on
Monday next at Tere llaute, Indiana. Delegations
are expected from Illin-i , Kentucky, Ohio and
Missouri. Among the speakers expo -ted to be pr< s
ent on that occasion arc Horn John J. Crittenden
and Hon. Ji. Marshall, of K mtucky; lion. Edward
Ba r es, of Missouri; !!•>■•. R . hard W. Thompson
and Hon G. Dunn, « I Indiana ; lion. J. Scott Har
rison, of Ohio, and Hon. Joseph Gillespie,of Illinois.
So continues to throb the great heart ot the nation.
Then and Now.—While there wlh any prospect
that any Northern Whigs would vote for'Buchanan,
the journals in hisjnti n : twerc extravagantly polite
and magnanimous. It. was then, “the noble old
Whig party,” “the glorious old Whigs," “focinen
worthy of our respect,” ••mnguaniinoiiM and devoted
lovers of their country,” etc. Now, however, these
same “magnanimous glorious old Whigs,having
met and resolved to support Mr. Fillmore, the tunu
is eutirely changed. The sucking <love no longer
coos. Now it is “national humbug," Know Notii
ingismin disguise,’’“fossil remains,’’ “fungi," and
other such like choice expletives. All right gentle
men. Goon. The Whig.* of the country duly ap
preciate your disinterested affection and natural
delicacy, and will endeavor to merit a continuance
of your favors.— N. O. Delia.
The London Pott <f the :.:u;h of September lion
the following item in its city articles : Several
purchases have been made in 3VL xican bonds, in
consequence of its being stated that Ike llri’lh gov
ernment- hare at lc:r. r /Ji determined to interfere m
Ike bondholder*' behalf, so far as by duly impressing
on the Mexican government that the misappropria
tion of the customs’ duti»s and r venues specially
hypothecated to the bondh dders can no longer be
toll-rated, and that, in future they arc In he collec
ted by agents to be appointed by Air. Whithead,
the bondnolderd’ agent in Mexico.
Nothing New Under the Sun.—lt. would
seem that the idea of six shooting revolvers h some
two centuries older than C ’ <l. (Jolt; for the quaint
old chroniclei, Pepys, in his truss! up mg “Diary, ’ tells
us, under date of July 3, 1662, that “after dinner,
there was brought to -Sir W. Compton, a gun, to
discharge seven times ; the best of all devices,"
adds Pepys, “that ever I saw, and very servicea
ble ; ami not a bauble, for it is much approved of,
and many therefore made.” And again, under dale
of March 1, 1604, says the same old journalist,
“there are several people trying a new fashion gun,
brought by Lord Pctersbon.ugli this morning, to
shoot, off often, one alter another, without trouble or
danger."
A RemAiiKAMLe Cask.—A friend writes to the
Southern Baptist the following facts core* ruing a
lady who is a member oftho Baptist Church in Luw
tonviile, S. C. She will be seventy-three years old
on the 26th of next December, and ha s eighty seven
children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren now
living, ami there has not yet been found a swearer
or a drunkard among them. The most of them who
arc grown arc member.; of the Baptist denomina
tion. The ludy is still quite active, and goes about
visiting among the sick, often sitting up with them
without suffering any from the effects of it.
Extraordinary Longevity.—David R.dpe, a
negro, the property of Mr. Win. il. Moss, died in
the town of Corinth, Tishomingo county. Miss , on
the 22d ult., at the advanced age 11? years. The
Corinthian Pillar says he was a remarkably obedient
and polite negro, all attest who knew him ; and as
an evidence of his good conduct, lie was never chas
tised in his life. He had remarkably powers of en
durance, was n fine carpenter, and built a large
frame dwelling for Mr. Moss at the advance age of
Jl4 years, lie Ims during the present summer
drawn between three and four hundred shingles a
day, and nad frequently walked to Corinth, a dis
tance of two miles, after « hard day’s work, to sup
ply himself with sugar and coffee tor the mouth.—
lie was never sick in his life, ncr did lie overtake a
dose of medicine.
Death from Fright. —On Wednesday last a
horse attached to a buggy, and driven by a lady, in
passing the elephant belonging to Rice's circus, on
the road between Frederick and Jefferson, wheeled
suddenly at sight of the ugly beast, fell in the shafts,
and quivering in evory muse>, expired in twenty
minutes. About the same time u horse driven by
Rev. Mr. l>age broke loose from the buggy by a
sudden dash, at. sight of the elephant, and ran for
his life, without any fatal result, however.—Frede
rick [Aid.) Citizen.
Acquitted.— Jeremiah Baldwin, who was arres
ted by the Planter’s Bank at Memphis, Tenn., for
obtaining goods under false pretences has been ac
quitted of the charge. Ho has sued He* Bank and
others for false imprisonment, laying his damages ut
$50,000
. Suicide of a Murderer. —W. F. Allen killed E.
S. Hamilton, in Claiborne Parrish, La., on the 12th
of July last. On the 31 of September, by aid of a
handbill, lie was arrested in Brownsville, Texas, and
while being examined in the Judge’s office, blew
cut his brains with u pistol.
Heavy Loss. —The packet boat “Oregon" got
adrift Wednesday morning, at Troy, and capsized.
She was heavily laden with Hour and merchandize,
much o f which floated down the river, and sunk.
The loss is estimated at $15,000.
Gen. Walker has issued a decree granting to
every free white emigrant to Nicaragua a tract of
land of 160 acres, which, after a residence of six
months, he shall become entitled to. Should the
emigrant have a family he will be entitled to 300
acres on the same terms.
Business of the Pension Office.— lt appears
from a statement in the Union during the month of
September there were received at the Pension Of
fice 2,500 bounty laud applications, that 15,483 were
examined or re-examined, and that 6,955 warrants
were issued, to satisfy w hich will require 932,770
acres of land. The total number of applications re
ceived i 5258,100. warrants issued J / 2,91', quanti
ty of laud required 20,758,510. The total number
of claims examined up to the 29th ult., amount to
257,000.
The English Claim* on Mexico, which a Brit
ish fleet las bee; l sent to enforce, arise out of the
debt owned by Mexico to British Capitalists. Its
amount is $51,208,250, the whole national debt
am Minting to $102,038,912. In the way of interest
; ff/jlails upon Mexico an annual payment of
.j. *33,366.
The total number of arrivals at the port of Boston
during the month of September, was 1,007, clear
ances 657.
The New York Journal of Commerce publishes a
list of 48 steamships now running between this
country and Liverpool.
A schooner arrived at New York on Saturday
having made the mu from Savannah in eighty
hours.
One or Other.— “ Where Is your father 7" said
an angry master to the son of his habitually tippling
domestic. “He is down stairs, sir.’’ “Getting
drunk, I suppose." “No sir, he aiut.” “Whattheu? 1 *
“Getting sober."
Arrival ok Fishermen. —The Marblehead cor
respondent of the Su em Observer says that eleven
of the fishing fleet have returned, with an Aggre
gate of 194,700 lisli. Most of the fish lauded this
season has already been sold at fair prices, and our
citizens are reaping a rich harvest for their toils and
hardships.
The celebrated pianist, Thalberg, has arrived at
New York in rbe Africa, from Liverpool, lie in
tends giviu' a series of concerts throughout the
country, under the auspices of Mr. Ulinann, a mi*
tleman well known in musical circles,