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\rfn VVHI* on *b<* Plain**
Wt» bad the pWure «d an interview yesterday
with Copt, J Pope, of the United States Topo
/raphicai Engineer*. who has iost returned from
»is expedition to the Llano Eftecado. ond is now
on hi* way to Washington. The object of Capt.
p 0 t,<-•* long continued labors i* to piocure water
ror a new and much shorter route to New Mexico
*od the M> s:!la Valk*v, on the. thirty second paral
lel oHathudc, acrosa ih LUno Eatacado and with
thi* purpose lie ha* passed two seasons on that great
plain linking art-rian wells, and prosecuting other
labors. .
(’apt. Pope went out to the scene of labor* in the
*pnng of 1 850, from ladianola. by the way of San
Antonio, and formed his camp on the bantu of the
Pen** river, where it is intersected by the thirty
j-ocond paraiie! of latitude. From this point he pro
ceeded with his Working parties due ea»t a distance
of fifteen rniitiS, ond there sunk tin* first well From
the Pecos rivet the country a«*em» to the eye to be
a perfect level, but ins‘i urnental observation snows
that there is a rise of about feet inlidistance o'
thirty five miles: and from that point, whic.i may
be termed the narnmit of the pieiu, it continues with
u gradual descent eattwardly, tot e bill/* Irons which
run the head water* of several of the forks of tire
Colorado river.
In flnkipg the wells Capt. Pope found na difficul
ties in the geological forxaaUoD. This is entirely
composed of alternate strata of indurated day ar. i
cretaceous marls of every variety of color, easily
!*>rod through, but sufficiently hard to prevent the
walls of the boring from falling and incommoding lb#
labor.
The first stream of water was struck at a oistance
.rs 3fAJ feet, and it rose tt> a height of 70 feet in the
tubing. Continuing the labor, through the same
formation, the second niccasa of water was struck a*
a depth of fill fe< t, which rose 400 feet in the well,
* or about 50 feet higher than the first str am. I nose
tab ;rs demonstrate*! the existence of water streams
beneath the surfaee, but ii* winter was approaching
and the material which he had brought having been
exhausted, Capt. Pope went into winter quarters on
the Banks of t£c Rio Grande.
)iuviug received fresh supplies in the of
the present year, he returned to the Llano, and in
April last resumed Jus labor*there. His former at
tained result* having demonstrated the existence of
abundant water beneath the surface, he went five
inlunJ east ward from th*- first well, arid there sank
the leci/nd. In the prosecution of this work he
struck the same stroam* that he had found in sink
ing the first well, and on reaching a depth of 800
met L»* encountered another which rose *SO feet in
tin* tubing. At this point the material wan again
exhausted, »md the small appropriation made by
Congress for the experiment bad been expended.—
(;* p<»pe wti obliged to suspend his labor*, and
is now on his way to Washington to make his full
report thereon.
Tue. remits of this work have been eminently sue.
< >ful, for they demonstrate the feasibility o f the
plan of procuring water on this great plain by the
sinking of arteniau wells, and it is much to be hoped
• hat Oongn m will make another appropriation to
• ontuiue and perfect the work. When comporrsd
with the expenditures that have, been made in sink
ing artesian wells iu other places, the expenditure
fins been very insignificant, the appropriation hav
.ig been only $ 10,000, w»* believe.
Through the absent of water th© Llano Estaeado
forms a complete barrier to travel between the
western town* of L raisin ua and Arkansas to New
Mexico and the Manilla Valley, a’ong the. line of the
.42d parallel by a route which is some hundreds of
mil- rtlioi ter thou any other. It is covered through
out with grama gras*, whichisOiteof the most nu
tritious of the grasses for cattle, and which has the
gieater advantage that it is not killed by the cold of
winter, affording abundant pasture all the year
round. Fuel, too, ia everywhere obtained with
great ease in the mosquito root. This is a remarka
ble root, and might be more properly termed a sub
tori uneau forest. It© stows penetrate the earth to
n distance of seventy feet in depth, with ratnificft
f ions similar to the branches ot trees, and with a
dei.i and hard wood stem from five to eight inches
in diameter. We have been informed that it makes
excellent charcoal, and Capt. Fop© was so struck
with it that he is taking specimens to Wabhh.gtan
tor the examination of the department. The sup
ply is most abundant.
Our readers arc ulrcady familiar with the fact of
the great gypsum formatin in this region of country.
The laboi ' of Capt. Pope have brought to light
miother abundant source of agricultural wealth
there, in the great beds of cretaceous marl which
lie Las discovered. Then® marls are of the best
k ind of fertilizers, and can be only compared to
goat subterranean deposit**# of guano. When
treated with acid*, they all effervesce, showing the
abundance of lime in them. We trust that, the Go
vernment will prosecute the labor* so successfully
begun by this expedition. They will not only open
a new and much more advantageous route to that
great central region of our continent, and to the
I’acific shore, but bringing to the surface of tin*
Llano Estaeado the abundant streams of water that
How beneath it, will confer a value upon a vast
trad ot public land* now worthless from the want
of that element.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin of Wednesday.
The tod of* Philadelphia.
No city i a til* United Staten lias ever polled ho
large a vote an that curt by Philadelphia yesterday.
Ahr.ongli the rctunm mo probably not all fully re
port «;d, if fitill exceed#, by 11,217 votes, the entire
poll for Mayor in May last. Wo give below a sum
mary of the entire vote* of the city cast ut all the
important election* since 1848 :
Dera. Oppo'n. Total,
1818---(President,) 21 ,508 32,106 53,014
1*52- do 28,022 317 5*2,014
1851 -(Governor,) 24,930 28,879 53,815
1855—(Canal Coin.) 28,284 129,0-10 55,3*21
1835—(Mayor,) ‘23,531 2.'».?25 55,‘2.»9
1 850 (Canal Com.).. - .31,51 1 31,93*2 66 47b
We have alao,at this election; shot far ahead o
the largest vote ever polled in the city of New York,
art will be seen by the following comparative state
ment of the total voteu in the two cities for a eerie#
of years:
PKILADKLPIIIA. 1 NKVV YORK.
1818 51,014 1840 52,047
1852 52,309 I 1852 57,547
1851 53,815 I 1853 15,386
1855.. . . 51,3*21 I 1854 (Mayor) 59,643
1856 (May) -55.359 j 1851 (Gov.) 60,367.
JHS6 (Oct ) 00,06 | 1855 (Sec. 5tate).56,017
The im of 11,217 votes within five months
ih ho enormous, that no one can prcleud fora mo
rn.mt that it iH a legitimate increase. At the elec
tion ol May lust, thorn was great excitement ami a
full vote was out. That there should bo an in
»• reuse of 11,217 in fi /e months is utterly beyoud
I*, lief. The fraud* rumored must have been ful
ly carried out. ft h the perpetration of such out
rage ns this that la to put cur institutions to the
lert. The people cannot Jong endure their repe
tition.
Lancaster, I*a., Oct. 14.—Thomas 11. Clay, son
• of Henry, and President ol the American Councils
of Kentucky, spoke iu the Fillmore meeting inr this
city last night. Ho declares that Kentucky will
.•anther doctoral vote for Fillmore, regardless of
th.* action of ull other States. He opposes uny fu
sion in Pennsylvania, and avows his intention and
th.- intentions"of the Councils of his own State to
tight only a battle of principle.
Kxtknsivk FoStcaWKs in Boston.— A series of
very extensive forgeries became public in Boston
on Monday afternoon. These forgeries, so far as
ascertained, were ns follow s : One check for $3,000
purporting to bo signed by John H Pcacson & Co.,
was presented to the paying Teller of the North
Bank, by n young man who represented himself as
being in their employ, but inquiries were instituted,
v hen the check was found to be a forgery, so skill
fully executed ns to elude the suspicion of the bunk
officer*. While the signature was under examina
tion the young man escaped. Oue for $1,075, pur
p u tiog to have been drawn by Messrs Stimsou,
Valentine tV Co., 55 Broad street, on the Bluck
htoiie Bank, was presented and detected, but while
the Hignature way being examined the person pre
sent iug the paper found it convenient to make a
Mitldeti exit. Three other forged checks on the
j.ame Bank, for different amounts w ere detected,
but the individual offering them eluded detection.—
Another forged cheek was in the name of Messrs.
< Y Poor A: Co.. 75 Broad street, for $970, outlie
Exchange Bank This cheek was presented at the
* our ter for payment, but not being promptly cash
.3. the precentor suddenly decamped. A check
(m s7otl, purporing to have been drawn by C. H .
t-'orbusl), on the Atlas bank, was presented at the
evunter and paid—the person pres nting it receiv
ed one $599 bill and two SIOO bills on that bank. A
Mi-gtd check uu the Atlantic Bank, (the amouut,
A: o', not ascertained.) and another on the Granite
Bank for S9OO, were uL •> presented for payment,
but on account of the paper being too closely scru
tinized, the presenter m eaeli instance beat a hasty
jotr. at, and ihus tar has avoided deduction.— Balt.
A mer .
A Vu.i ias ('Ai-.air.—TUf Clcveluad Herald re
that mi Saturday m ii'iiy, a nmu named Mott
ivaa arrettiil near Shelby. charge of bavins'
lilaced obstructions on the track of V. C. A C. K.
K on the night of the tih nit . w.deh reaulted in
i. : .icing the train off, mid inflicting serious injuries
to various persons upon it. The mutter ivae un
funded to one of the Chicago Independent police.
~-eli known ni connection with several adroit arrests
fit. ly, but whose name lias escaped us. He having
assumed a strange garb, was according to plan.
Ihrust off from the train one day last week, for not
p n >mg bis fare, and in the vicinity of the ipto aivi
~.eid, lie was very angry, and breathing curses
■md maledictions against every boily connected
~ fmiiroad, found much openly expressed
i vmpathy among several of the neighborhood, and
they, upon his wish to have revenge for his injmi ,-s,
pro|<osed a plan, and told him how they bad served
the railroad folks on the Itli of tieptember. A plan
was arranged for a similar piece of mischief, and
the officer conveyed the neo ssary information to
the railroad people who were assist in flic arrests. —
flu Saturday night be. mcoiupany with three others
proceeded io piaee and fastened a timber in the
track which, if struck by a train, would insure ccr
i ain destruction At igi ven signal from him! hose who
t> ere to arrest rushed from a place of concealment.
•I.itt was caught, but the oilie r and the other two
.senpcitf. and wlietherf he officers succeeded in arrt's
ting then! or net. or what has been the result, was
net known upon tiie arrival of the last traiu.
Scrcrssvi L Vol e i • M Chicaoo ToJUver
rooi..—The European Tine s of the-JTih nit. notices
a successful c .miucrcud experiment of much itn
mirtanee and of n ratlier startling description. This
IS lie itsts Ilian the voyage of the sehoeuer Hear.
Richmond from Ciiicago. 111., direct to 1.-verpool,
with a cargo of 100 tors of grain The Richmond is
described as a rakish schooner of 3SO tons register,
drawd.g nine and a half feet of w ater. A direct
\o\ age like lliis, which saves Irausiiipmen; at liul
l.iU or N'ew-York, must, it is clear, pour into Krg-
Und the produce of the \ort*iWestern States of the
1 c.on bv waves the St Lawrence, at a price which
not tail :o'a id to the trade and wealth of both
e mutries. In poiut of time audeheapness no doubt
o e tarfainad thai the m-w route will suivesstully
i uetc with the N'i w-1 ork or Black Sea routes to
England. The Richmond made the* passage in 6(1
vs which Included i.tVltlmiles of inland waters:
lit she wru* detained It.' days in the St. Lawrence,
.o: ; that delay i* not likely to occur again. The
. N ugc opens s 111 w era in the grain trade, as we.ll
r.s j: ship navigation. Chicago, that Wonderful p. rl
of tue lakes, will receive a new impetus upon the
, ad to nWrooohtan treatin'*. — ii-nt. Amer.
Another Cham.l nge.— Theßichmond Enquirer
t.f Tti*>d iy, contains a corrcsp .nder.ee. the ti;-st let
ter .a Nvnioh is a diallerge to the Hon. John M Betts.
'llllll Roger A Pryor, Esq., in w hich the following
VrgU-g- » d:
• IK termined to afford yon no apology for eva
->vg tue-s-ue w,t.-. myself, l consented to come
~c to a level with your son. Having disposed of
im. I gow confront yen. and demand the satisfac
i on ivhkv geutU ineu or.- always ready to render
u se upon sl hom they tiave mtlicted wrong and in
sult.’ T .
This letter is the lltii instant. &ud on the
lul b Viug dnv Mr. replied in a Ion" com muni
cati-*n, peremptorily defining to meet Mr. Pryor.—
-•i Kt trs reviews In detail tu- -round upon which
t-t c.ahtuge is made : denies Lavi-m iutiueiieed his
-ou iu s, eking a conflict wiii* .Mr. Pryor. and states
*iiHt ou the contrary he took eTiry possible means
to prevent such occurrence; aud among other rec
•us lor his own determination not to engage iu a
.• uel, gives this conclusive one in the ey«ai of sensi
:*hi men :— Balt Amtr.
• Your life could not be the value of a pin $ pom:
i. ui . and lam sure 1 should derive no comfort
from making your wile a widow or your children
‘hliiei leas—Uterctore 1 have no desire to take ii;—
>% Lbot my own life is not only of value to me, but
mdispeOfcable to the support and happiut«& of my
' unity. and 1 hopetomr*ke it usefcf to my country
-therefore. lum no* disposed U> place it at your
•■iispoeaL”
The Alabama Cotton Crop.— The Selma Rt
y-rti r, of Wednesday 7th iusl., says : *
It is now reduced to a certaiuty that the present
. .turn crop will be exceedingly abort. Notwith
! inding the disastrous spring and summer which
had; yet hope* 5 luid been entertained from later
iieations that the crop would be an average one;
!»ut th»* early frost lias now completely dispelled
, very hope-, and accounts frr.ui every quarter have
row satiSfled every sensible man that we are to
have tbceuurte.l .won which wc have hnd for many
••are poet Manv. four piantcru will l.mah pick,
icf O.!- week, anil iu ihe couraeof a few week* the )
oit crop of Alabama will be gathered
Frvmjttu HmUimi * Amcr,n, 17 th insl.
fdenuiboHl C ©llision—Nine Live* Lost
About five o'clock on Tuesday morning the steam
er Monmouth, bound to this port from York River,
was run into off the Wolff rap Light, by the brig
Windward, hence for New Orleans, by which ah*
was completely disabled. The brig struck her
amidships, carrying away the larboard wheel and
wbeelhouae, and displacing the shaft from its posi
tion, besides causing her to leak badly. The brig
was also injured, and her captain was obliged to
put hei into Norfolk for repairs. Finding tnat he
could not proceed, Capt. Dans.y, ot the Monmouth,
cut his anchors with a view to wait for the Gladia
tor, by which he hoped to be towed to New Point.
The steamer passed, and *he wa- heard, but
could not be aeon but once for a few minutes, in
consequence of the thickness of the atrrmephere.—
The boat lay at anchor all day, and towards evening
a gale arose and it was soon discovered that she
was settling.
The at once began to construct raffs as the only
hope cf safety, and before the steamer Louisiana,
from Norfolk, on her upward trip, reached her,
there wn* nothing visible but a portion of her upper
works, and Abe see. whb breaking over her. Capt.
Russell determined to do everything possible fur
the sufferers, and descrying a raft with a number of
persons on it, despatched two of bis boat.- to their
r-.scue. They had cot proceeded far. when one of
them «waraped. But the oilier kept up and suc
ceeded in saving eleven persona which the raft con
tained. Two other raffs were overtaken, one of
which held two persons and the other one, allot whom
were safely placed on deck of the Louisiana and
properly cared for. Two or three of tho.,e rescued
were in an exhausted condition, and but for the
timely aid afforded them, would Lave perished.—
Learning that Capt. Hewett, of the schooner Ada,
of this port, was on a raff, and that eight persons
were left on board the Monmouth. Capt. Russell
ran up to her, but there wae no person to be seen,
aml there arc fears entertained that they ail per
ished. When the steamboat was struck, the con
cussion was so great that her aiuoke pipe was
thrown down, ho that all hope, if her machinery was
not injured, for working her to land was lost. At
Beven o’clock on Wednesday evening, the steam
boat went down, after lying at anchor tor thirty
eight hours.
The following i* a list of those saved from the
wrack: _ __ . , ,
W. S. Dansey, Captain ; Thomas J. Eflora, clerk ;
J. C Deaney and Charles Reeder, engineers . R
il. Cannon and .James Hutchinson, mate*: Henry
Branderr and George Blake, colored, firemen Wil
liam Breman, white, and John Hach and William
Stockley, colored, deck hands ; William Truitt,
colored, wheelsman; Mary Robinson, colored,
chambermaid, and Theodore and Jame* Davidson,
children, paaseugers, all of whom were brought up
yesterday by the Louisiana.
The following are supposed to have been drown
ed ; —James Davidson, Mrs. Davidson and two chil
dren, passengers . Matthias Mathewn, steward;
William Woodland, cook ; Charles Phillips, coal
heaver, and Perry Ridgway, deck hand.
Capt. Hewitt was last on a raft going to
ward* the sea, and though he was supplied with
four blankets it is feared that he perished. At the
time of the collision the brig, it is said, had no lights
out, as required by law, nor was she een until it
was impossible to escapefrom her. The Monmouth
belonged to a company of planters on the Pamuu
key river, and is a total loss, there having been no
insurance on her. The office!* made a signal of dis
tress to those on board the light boat, but no atten
tion was paid to it, end there is no doubt but fort lie
praiseworthy efforts of Capt. Russel, the whole
number would have perished. The passengers on
the Louisiana sneak in the highest terms of his con
duct and of his first mate, Mr. Ward, who did every
thing possible in the rescuing of the wrecked and
administering to their comfort after lie got them on
board his boat.
Tfie Davidson children, who were made orphans
by this calamity, were kindly cared for, and a sub
scription of eeventy-five dollars was collected from
the passengers of the Louisiana, S4O of which is to
be applied to their immediate necessities ; $lO were
given Allen Ward, the mate, and $5 each to the five
seamen who labored iu the rescue.
DinHrn refill.
The letter-? below, which we find in the Cincin
nati Gazette and Louisville Journal, show that the
Democratic leaders in Ohio are reduced to such des
perate extremities a.j to resort to the expedient of
taking into their pay certain venal politicians who
have joined the American party ana are actively
engaged m the canvass —ostensibly in behalf of Mr.
Fillmore, but really for the benefit of Mr. Bncban
an. The number of American speakers who have
thus taken “the bounty” from the Democratic mana
gers must be very few. Few or many, their names
should be mode know n, and themselves held up to
public execration.
In the following statement by M. A. Bolling
who, it appears, has been in the habit of making
Fillmore speeches, the author exposes his own
shame along with that of others ■* — Nashville Banner.
Cincinnati, Oct 6.
1 have charged that the Democratic party of Ohio
has to a great degree furnished the money to the
American party of Ohio, for the purpose of maxing
the State canvass, and I have understood that the
same has been denied. I therefore make the fol
lowing statement, to wit: I received from Douglas
& Co., S3,IKK) in New York City on the 23d of June,
and disposed of the same for the interest of the Fill
more party of the S‘ate of Ohio. These funds were
contributed by the Democratic party. 1 have rais
ed funds fiom Charles Rule and J. J. Farren, and
paid the same to Norton and the Secretary of the
►State Committee of Ohio, and 1 know that the Fill
more men who are stumping the State are paid by
the Democratic party.
I also state that J. .J. Farren paid to E. P Norton
SIOO on the 23d of Sept. 185 b. I also state that
James B. Guthrie, Vice President of the State Com
mittee oi Ohio, received money from Charles Rule,
of Cincinnati, I have received money from inem
hcra of the Democratic party hereabouts—from
Joseph Cooper $100; from \V. Griswold, candidate
for Board ol Public Works SIOO ; from J. S. G. Burt,
$55, paid at the instance of Governor Medill—and
various large sums from other parties.
To all this I am willing to swear.
M. A. Bolling.
The subjoined letter to Bolling is from W. Gris
wold, the Democratic candidate tor Board of Pub
lic Works. Jt is manifest that this Democratic can
didate k runes that in a single handed contest in Ohio
betweeu the Republicans and the Democratic
parties, the latter would be no where. Hence his
anxiety to have an American ticket run and suppor
ted.
[Private.] Circlevii.i.e, Aug. 2, 1856.
.1. M. Bolling, Esq—Dear Sir : —Your letter
came duly to hand. I hasten to answer, as it is
impossible for me to go to t in* city for some time
yet. I have nearly twenty Democratic meetings to
attend during the next two weeks. Tin* Democra
cy in this part of the State are rousing up beyoud all
precedent. They are getting alarmed at the Abo
litionist sentiments and disunion doctrines of the
Fremontcrs. J think you would get aid from the
(Jongressional nominees in several Districts. You
ought f u see Burl McClain and Cooper, and ask
for some assistance. Show them your figures, and
tabors and necessities. Would not Emmett, of Wa
verly aid you ; he has bet high on Fillmore, and is
doing all lie can in that line. There is great fear
yet mnongthe Democrats that the Fillmore men and
the Fremontcrs will uoiteon County, Congressional
and State tickets. In our county the Fremontcrs
have nominated a part of the Fillmore ticket, and
part new men. If you can only get your tickets
into the field, that is if you can get Independent
Congressional nominations, and a Fillmore State
Ticket made of men who will stand , and that is
what many of them wont, you will be able to get far
more. 1 have talked with a number of Democrats
who would be ready if they could see a three cor
nered fght. I would get all your nominations made
as soon as you can, that will give you a great im
pulse—a great many of the old Whigs want a full
ticket, and that would encourage the. Democracy to
a greater effort. The Democracy are going to tight
a noble battle in Ohio. They are at work in every
point of the State, united and determined. We shall
poll one hundred and sixty five thousand Demo
cratic votes, and thirty-jive thousand rotes for Fill
more wilt insure a Democratic triumph. ’The only
thing is to get a State Ticket , one that will stand—
that done, and it tall not require one-half of the es
fort to do what you need. You ought to cal! on
those I mention. Drive ahead with your work—
you cant do a Utter deed for the State and nation.
Next week Cox and myself have two meetings daily
in our county. We shall make up every vote in the
District, Notice of your meetings in this District
ought to be given in time, so as to raise good
crowds. I will go to Cincinnati as soon as 1 can.—
Let me hear from you often. Truly, yours,
W. Griswold.
Why all Patriots Should Vote for Fillmore,
The Hon. Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina,
in a recent public speech used the following lan
guage :
“Mr. Fillmore is, privately, a very respectable
gentleman. He made a good President, and 1 be
lieve sincerely that if elected he would desert his own
party, and make a better President than we think.
But that is the very thing / don't want. 1 am afraid
he would do so well that he would throw back the
prosp*'cts of disunion."
Mr. Brooks is a Democrat and an avowed Dis
uuionist. But does he not assign the best reason in
the world why all men of all parties who desire the
preservation "of the Constitution and the Union,
should support the election of Mr. Fillmore ? Why
does Mr. Brooks oppose Mr. Fillmore and sustain
Buchanan ? He tells you frankly and bluntly. lie
tells you that he is ardently iu favor of an immediate
disolution of the Union, end that he fears his wishes
ami purposes in this respect would be thwarted
should Mr. Fillmore be made President. Should
not this argument of Mr. Brooks against Mr. Fill
more serve to impel all loyal and patriotic citizens
to stand by and sustain Millard Fillmore to the bet
ter end ?
The very best reason why Mr. Brooks don’t want
Mr. Fillmore made President, **l am afraid," said
Brooks "he would do so well that he would throw
back the prospects of disunion !" Hear that, peo ;
pie of Virginia and the South. Is not this the first
time in the history of the Government that anybo
dy’s election to any oiliee, much less the Presiden
cy, has been openly opposed upon the ground that
he would discharge his duties too well and too faith
fully l Verily, this is the highest compliment ev
er paid to the patriotism, integrity and wis
dom of any candidate for public station; and Mr.
Fillmore is the most fortunate of men iu being op
posed for the Presidency, and by his bitter enemies,
for a reason like this.
We implore the intelligent and patriotic people to
causider well Mr. Brooks' objection to Mr. Fillmore,
and then say whether that objection is not a conclu
sive and overwhelming argument why Mr. Fillmore
should be elevated to the Presidency of this great
Republic. We implore them to consider whether
the election of either Fremont or Buchanan would
not almost certainly eventuate in the violent dis
ruption of this now glorious Union, and iu the
fearful and indescribable honors of an interminable
civil war. We implore them to think and to delibe
rate well before they vote, and then, os patriots
and good citizens, to vote for him who “will do so
well that he will throw back the prospects of dis
union." Ia a word, vote for Fillmore, and preserve
the institutions and the glories of the Republic.—
Tic*. Whig. '
The Fillmore Demonstration in Boston.—
The Fillmore torchlight procession iu Boston on
Wednesday evening is described by the public
journals of that city as an affair worthy of the cause,
and everr way superior to anything of the kind at
tempted In that vicinity for years. A Fremont pa
per says it has had no equal since the great torch
light procession in the Taylor campaign.
The weather was very favorable, and [the streets
through which the procession passed were thronged
with thousands of spectators, interested witnesses
of the grand pageant.
Soon after dusk the several divisions began to
form in the places assigned to them, and at eight
o’clock they began to re-form into line and move off
on the route laid out for them. They marched up
Washington street to Biackstone and Franklin
squares, where they were met by the Roxbury,
Brookline and Dorchester delegations. As the pro
cession approached, they were received with a
brilliant display of fireworks, including blue lights,
mines, rockets. Roman candles, &e. A halt of ten
minutes was here made, aud then the procession
moved on, countermarching, and passing down
Washington street, the Roxbury, Brookline and
Dorchester delegations falling into line iu their
appropriate places. At this point the procession
pro.-, uted an appearance of unsurpassed magnifi
cence. The number iu the line was Very great,
and the general illumination by the Whigs and
American citizens added to the splendor of the
scene.
A beautiful feature ol the occasion was thirtv
one barouches*, each carrying from two to four
ladies, some of them dressed yi white, and carry
ing beautiful boquefs in their bands. j[ u each car
riage was carried a large transparency in the shape
oi a star, bearing oh one side the name of one of vhe
State* of the Union, and on the other, the date of
its admission into the Union.
New York Foroeiues. —Henry U. Barry, a
brother in law of Charles B. Huntington, the heavy
Wall street operator :a lbrged paper, was arrested
on the l»kh iu*t., charged by Win. H. Halsey. Wall
street, with having been a confederate and co-ope
rator with Huntington iu his forgeries on the firm of
Phelps, Dodge A Co. The charge is based upon
the tact, that Mr. Halsey has come into possession
of certain letters from Huntington and Barry, ahow
mg that the latter filled up many of the forged notes
which Huntington subsequently passed. The ac
cused was taken before Justice Osborne and ex
amined, aud his explanation was so satisfactory that
the District Attorney merely required tliat he should
give bail to appeal' as a witness against Huntington.
From the Savannah iSepubhcan.
The Nebraska Bill—Mr. Stephen In«I«c Dou
gl h» and (be South.
A correspondent of the Augusta Consttivtwna
ljj,f' in giving an account of a speech recently made
by the Hon. A. H. Stephens, at Foam’s Bridge,
says:—
“His defence of Stephen A. Douglas from the
foul mouthed aspersions of his would be calumnia
t >ra at the South, was masterly and to the point.—
Language would fail to express his utter contempt
and denotation of that Southern man who would wil
lully traduce Stephen A. Douglas. As tor himself,
‘he would rather Be a dog and bay the moon,' or ‘a
toad and feed upon the noxious vapors of a dun
geon.’ than to be such an one. A* to the charge
of hi« Laving denounced this * gallant man,’ be
most unqualifiedly denied having done any such
thing."
We sliall not plead guilty to the charge of having
‘’calumniated” or “traduced’ Mr. Douglas, or any
one else, but we are among those who Lave locked
on with astonishment when great men at the South
have held up a principle before thepeople as essential
to the security of tneir constitutional rightsand equal*
ily, and in the same breath have covered with
laudations a man who is opposed to that principle.—
We propose briefly to make it appear that such are
the fact* in the case of Mr. Douglas and his southern
friends and supporters.
The day bar. parsed when sensible men are to be
deluded into the support of a man because he is the
advocate of the Nebraska biii. The South cares
nothing for bills—she is contending for the princi
ples and things. The great doctrine that the power
did not exist to exclude her from the Territories,
was what she fought for in 1850 and 1854. It was
what she had been taught was her right, and she
had noble champions to stand for her in its defence
upon th»> floors of Congress and declare that she
would submit to nothing less. Where are those
men to day ? Let the hustings in the present polit
cal campaign answer the question.
The Utah and New Mexico bills, constituting part
of the Compromise of 1850, recognized and estab
lished this principle by declaring that the Territories
should come into the Union with or without slavery'
as their Constitution* —not their Territorial laws—
may prescribe; the Smith was accordingly satisfied
with those bills. They contained a great principle
practically set forth, and upon which she could rely
lor protection for the future.
In 1854, new Territories were to be organized,
and the question again came up. The South con
tended for the same principle, and, with the excep
tion of one or two Senators and Representatives in
Congress, nustained the Nebraska bill, because she
thought it embodied the same principle and secured
the great rights for which she had been so long con
tending. Our Representatives came home at the
close of that Congress and assured the people that
such was the true import of the Nebraska bill—that
it took the power over slavery out of the hands of
Congress, and at the same time wrested it from the
grasp of the Territorial Legislatures—in other words
that it secured non-intervention to the South against
the vkotr vorld. The Territories were to be left
open for settlement from all parts of the Union du
ring their entire Territorial existence, and slavery
wa* to be settled only when they formed their State
Constitutions and applied for admission. As such,
and in no other light, did the South give her sanc
tion to the Nebraska bill. We appeal to every lion
est man in our border* to say if this is not the true
history of the case.
Up to as late a* February last, Mr. Stephens of
this State held this same doctrine of universal non
intervention, and declared in the House of Repre
sentative* that the power to exclude the slaveholder
from the Territories belonged neither to Congress,
to the people of the Territories, nor to any body else
—iu fine, that such a power had no existence what
ever. Both Mr. Stephens and Mr. Toombs have
often and over denounced the doctrine of General
Cass* Territorial Sovereignty, as indefensible in
principle, a wrong to the South ana as odious as the
Wil mot Proviso. Marvellous changes, however,
have occurred under the new political revelations of
1850.
How stands, Mr. Douglas, then, in regard to this
great principle, so dear to the South ? and in the
examination of his position we cover the whole De
mocratic ground at the North, embracing their can
didate for the Presidency, and we regret to add, no
small number of his prominent Southern supporters.
He is a supporter of the Nebraska b*ll; he was its
putative father, its able advocate and friend—but
is be the advocate and friend of the principle to
which we have alluded, and on account of which,
alone, the South gave her support to that measure.
The answer to this question will decide what ought
to be thetiue relations of the Southern people to
wards Mr. Douglas. We assert unhesitatingly that
he is not, and never was, the friend, nor yet even
the apologist of that principle. As soon as the Con
gress that passed t lie Nebraska bill adjourned, he
went before the people of his own State, (by whom
the measure had been regarded with odium J and
took the slump in its defence. llow did he defend
it ? On the ground that it was a measure of justice
to the South and secured her an equal participation
in the Territories ? Never; but on the ground that
its principle was freesoil, and its effects the exclu
sion of slavery. First, as to the principle : The
Chicago Times, understood to be the organ of Mr.
Douglas, reports a speech made to the good people
of that city, from which the following extract is ta
ken :
“The great objection you have is to the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise. [Cries of yes, yes, yes.]
Well, what was the Missouri Compromise ? It was
the prohibition of slavery North of a line, and the re
cognition of sla very South of that line ! Was there
(he asked) a man in this crowd who was in favor of
recognizing if South of any line /”
Again, at a mass meeting in Indianapolis, in the
State of Indiana, Judge Douglas said :
“The objection to tiie Missouri prohibition is, that
it is unsound in principle, and legalizes slavery
South as much as it prohibits it North. What one
man now, fu this vast assembly, is willing tore
store :his line ? If one, let him give his name.—
Is there an abolitionist present who is willing to re
store this line l Is there a Know Nothing? If so,
give us his name, for Barnuin wants him. Any one
can make his fortune by exhibiting him as u monkey
show.”
In a recent speech, delivered at Galena, in favor
of Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency, lie is reported
in the Democratic papers to have said .*
“They call me a pro-slavery man. But I am,
like you, opposed to slavery, and rejoice in the poli
cy which lias made the slaveholding States of seven
ty years ago free States at lb s time. I am proud
that my adopted State of Illinois is a free State, and
will remain so. All Northern Democrats arc op
posed to slavery.''
So much for the principles of the Nebraska bill,
as understood and advocated by this peculiar friend
of the South. [The last extract will enable our South
ern readers to form some estimate of the claim of
the Northern D mocracy to be regarded as frieud|y
to us and our institutions.] A word now upon Mr.
1 )ouglas’ opinion of the practical effect of that prin
ciple, when applied to the government of the Terri
tories.
In another Illinois speech, made after'the passage
of the bill, lie used the following language:—
“The people of California, when left perfectly
free to ao as they pleased, formed a constitution
prohibiting the introduction of slavery. Califor
nia, therefore, became a free State , not at the bid
ding, or by the dictation of Congress, but under
the operation of the principles of the Nebraska
Bill"
Again—“ Slavery was abolished in New Ha rip
shire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Penn
sylvania and New Jersey under the operation of the
principles of the Nebraska Bill , which, under tha
Constitution of the United States, leave the people
of each State free to form and regulate their aouieu
tic institutions in their own way.”
Ilia then colleague in the Senate of the United
States, Gen. Shields, (who has also been landed
at the South for his support of the Nebraska Bill,
and held up from every stump in Georgia last
year as our friend and champion,) defended the pas
sage of the bill on the same grounds. In a speech
made by him at Springfield, in his own State, he
Baid:
“Kansas and Nebraska were now free, and the
people there would keep them free * * *
* * the establishment of slavery in these Territo
ries was not only improbable, but impossible.—
* * * * * * Thi? principle of
non-intervention would not only keep them such as
they now are— free— but would, by its full and fair
operation, if tec acquire the Continent to the Isthmus
of Darien, work with such powerful force and effect,
that no man could ever sec another stare State on
this Continent
Such, people of Georgia and the South, nre the
sentiments of the men whom you are called on to re
gard ns your friends. They are to day the princi
ples and*sentiments of Mr. Buchanan and the Dem
ote tie party, who, we are told, constitute t he only
hope of the South ; while we are exhorted to turn
over the government of the country—the destiny of
twenty-six millions of freemen —to the hands of such
men, to be managed upon such principles. Are
they your principles? That is the question now
pressing upon you. Ibis the South become weary
of freedom and insensible to her rights and honor l
If she has, then she is prepared for the sacrifice, but
not until then.
There is a candidate for the suffrages and confi
dence of the people, who holds in abhorrence these
heretical doctrines so pregnant of harm to the South.
He has stood by us iu the hour of trial, nobly, and to
the sacrifice of* himself. That man is Millard
Fillmore! Shall we desert him now, when he
comes forward for the proofs of our gratitude and
faith l
What Disunion Would Do.
It is not the wild words which the disuuionists
North ami South utter which are dangerous in them
selves ; the real peril lies in the spirit they evoke.—
Once in the whirlpool, thev must swim with the cur
rent. The French Revolutionists of 1789, when
they proclaimed liberty throughout the land, never
dreamed they were inaugurating the reign of li
cense. While denouncing the cornintions of the
Church, they never once contemplated countenanc
ing the worship of a harlot, as the personification of
the Goddess of Reason. The moderate men of the
Gironde succumbed to the fiercer spirits of the Moun
tain , the philosopher to the Jacobin : liberty degen
erated into anarchy and the despotism of the feudal
oligarchs was exchanged for the more ferocious rule
of an excitable populace.
In these days it were well if those who advocate
disunion would pause, before they go too far, and
consider thoughtfully the consequences. If peace
able secession were possible, it would still be pro
ductive of incalculable evil to the body politic,
inasmuch as it would destroy the faith which
men now have in American unity and perma
nence—would derange irreparably the public cred
it—paralyze tiie national arm encourage for
eign powers to presume upon our shattered aud
uncertain relations towards each other, and be pro
vocative of incessant strife between conterminous
States.
Reason as we may, it is impossible to contemplate
a separation of the States, without experiencing ap
prehensions the most painful and humiliating. The
aggregate of power which, while we exist under one
government, we can bring to bear upon all ques
tions affecting our interests, would be frittered away
when divided into petty sovereignties. The claims
for redress, which we are now capable of enforcing
against any foreign nation, who might wrong our
citizens, or insult our tlag. would be met with con
temptuous indifference. Conflicting tariffs and the
petty squabbles continually arising from complica
ted rules aud innumerable custom-house officials,
would add increased bitterness to the feud which
now exists between several of the States. The di
vision of the public domain could only be settled by
an appeal to arms.
The annual loss of slave property would be quad
rupled, thousands of Northern looms and hundreds
of Northern vessels would be thrown out of employ
ment, aud the national name, together with all
that goes to makeup the power, the wealth, the
progress and stability of an united people would be
lost forever.
\Ye cordially endorse, in its true intent and mean
ing. the following sentiment uttered recently by a
Northern journalist. It is eminently national, and
is strictly in accordance with what was ouce ac
knowledged to be a leading Democratic princi
ple, though we regret to say that it no longer
meets with acceptance from prominent Democratic
leaders :
“The best way to “crush out the spirit of disun
ion, cow so extensively rampant,” is to put down
everv party that threatens disunion, especially of
disunion as the consequences of an election legally
and constitutionally held, aud to rote steadily against
any candidate rrho dees not make the preservation
of the Uni ?n, at all hazards, the cardinal doctrine
of his faith. — Balt. Amer.
The Knickerbocker is responsible for the follow
ing : A tall, green sort of a well dressed fellow,
walked into a Broadwav saloon the other day, where
they were talking politics upon a high key. and
stretching himself up to Lis full height exclaimed in
a loud voice, “Where are the Democrats ? Show
me a Democrat, gentlemen, and I'll show you a
iar In an instant a man rtood before the uoisv
inquirer, in a warlike attitude, and exclaimed, “I [
am a Demo rat. sir!” “You are ?“ "Yes, sir. I
am ‘ ' “Well, just yon step round the corner with
me, and I'll show you a felfov who said I couldn’t
find a Democrat in the ward. Ain't he a liar ? I
should like to know V
\\ hi Don jr he Speak Out.— The leading Demo- j
era is at the North arc advocating tiie cause of Bu
chanan on the ground of his Squatter Sovereignty
doctrine. New, it Mr. Buchanan entertains no such
opinion, why don’t he speak out ? The Southern
Democrats say one thing of his letter of acceptance,
and the Northern Democrats swear another—the ex
planation anil the breadth of the assorder—
antipodes to each other. Now, does not every
principle of patriotism and honor require that Mr.
Buchanan should burst through the platform that
holds his tongue and speak out ?
WEEKLY
Cimnticle &
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AUGUSTA, GA.
WKD.V'ESDAY MOltMXi OCT’B. i'i, 1836.
NATIOITAXi CANDIDATES.
FOE PRESIDENT,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
Os Xew York.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
ANDREW J. DONELSON,
Os Tennessee.
ELECTORS.
WM. H. CRAWFORD, ofTerreli.
BENJ. H HILL, of Troup.
WM LAW. of Chatham.
WM. M. BROWN, of Marion.
WASHINGTON POE, of Bibb.
E. Y. HILL, of Troup.
GEO. W. GORDON, of Whitfield.
C. PEEPLES, of Clark.
E. H. BAXTER, of Hancock.
A. R. WRIGHT, of Jefferson.
ELEI TION TICKETS*.
() i. n friends throughout the State are notified
that we wih supply them with Election Tickets at
Fifty Cents per Hundred.
The frieuds of Fillmore and Do.velson iu every
county should eupply themselves in time.
Agitation—lt. Causes ami Cure.
Democracy has fallen out with Mr. Fillmore
for the mere expression of nis opinion that the evils
under which the country is laboring are the effects
of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. If those
evils have not been caused by that repeal, to what,
then, are they owing ?
Previous to that measure the whole country was
at peace, under the assurance given by men of all
parties that the Compromise of 1850 should be a
final settlement of the slavery question—all was
quiet, and every patriot hoped there was an end of
vexatious sectional dissentions. Abolitionism was
dying out for waut of agitation, its favorite al.meut,
and men were beginning to breathe freer, because
they no longer apprehended impending ruin to the
government. Suddenly, in utter contempt of
pledges, in most shameful violation of plighted faith,
demagogues, for selfish and unworthy purposes,
sprung a new mine, the Compromise of 18:10 was
repealed, and the country was again plunged into
agitation tenfold worse than ever.
We do not suppose that politicians by trade, con
sider agitation an evil—it is in fact the storm where
on they ride, but every right thinking man so es
teems it, and one of the greatest of Southern states
men (uo trading politician) deprecated it as most
detrimental to the slaveholder, an evil of the first
magnitude to the South. Which party has aroused
it and urged it to its present violence ’ Not the
Whig party, that, we are told, was extinct after the
election of Pierce. Was not the Freesoil party
warmed into life and nourished into gigantic size
and strength by Democracy—and was not that
repeal a Democratic measure ? Democracy is the
great first cause of the troubles, it had the majority
iu Congress and the country for years, it has had
full control of the government, it had the power to
afford peace to the people and security for their
rights. If it has not done so, if by its measures it
has increased sectional divisions and brought dan
ger to our institutions, ought it not to be held to a
strict accountability, or at least be required to pro
vide immediate ami effectual remedy for the evils
produced by its agency ?
What remedy do they propose? First, the elec
tion of the Cincinnati platform. That, it is true, de
olarcs against agitation, but it is not the first plat
firm of that party which has done the same thing.
Buchanan, its representative, has not the power or
the mural courage to controvert the will of those to
whom he may owe his election, and they arc very
far from desiriug to re-establish the peace they have
destroyed. A mere politician by trade, whose
course through a long life can be traced, not by any
great deeds of physical or moral courage—not by
any sacrifices of self for the common welfare, but
only by the offices he has held, and the salaries he
has received, cannot be expected at the eleventh
hour of his existence, to change his nature or the
habits, acquired in a long course of political manoeu
vres, and risk his reputation as a Democrat, his
standing with his party, by deviating from the path
lafd down for him by his “illustrious predecessor”
in the Presidency, in whose footsteps he is pledged
to follow. That path is not one which recommends
itself to any lover of his country.
Then, as a remedy, cornea that great panacea,
disunion, failing the election of Buchanan. What
sort of millenium is that, in which men of the same
language, descent, and Christian faith shall be ar
rayed against each other in deadly strife ? What
s irt of peace, which is inaugurated by civil war and
bloodshed ? What sort of prosperity, with a people
ground to the earth with taxes to support licentious
soldiery, and their greedy leaders, with agriculture
neglected and commerce ruined ? All these evils
are to be consequences of this their favorite remedy,
according to their own confessions, that it must re
sult iu civil war. They present us fairy and fancy
pictures of the power, greatness, and happiness of
the Soutl, but they say nothing of the scenes of
horror we must pass through to realize them.
But it may be asked if there is no security in the
election of the Cincinnati platform, if by disunion
we rush from “ ills wc know, to those we know not
of,” what hope is there for the country ? We
answer there is but one course left for those who
desire peace and the continuance of our institu
tions. Let the conservative men, North and South,
•rise and sternly demand that agitation of the slave
ry question shall cease. Let them declare that poli
ticians shall no longer stake the existence of the
Union upon the result of their games for political
power. Let true men band themselves together, as
4i(l the Union men of 1850, and pledge themselves,
sic did Messrs. Toombs, Stephens, Cobb and others
!a 1851, to vote for no man of whatever party, for
any office, who is not known to be opposed “ to the
renewal, in any form, of agitation on the subject of
slavery.”
Let the South declare her determination against
all agitators ; to stand on the ground she has taken ;
to abide by existing legislation ; to endure no en
croachment, and not to encroach on others. When
attempts are made in Congress to introduce the
subject of slavery, let Southern men say to the
North, our position is taken—the argument
on this subject is exhausted—if it is forced
upon us, we must part; let us no longer waste time
in these useless discussions, but proceed to the le
gitimate business of the country. Place at the head
of the government one who will discountenance
agitation—one who will use the power of the execu
tive for the advantage of the whole country, and
not for the advancement of party schemes. So shall
the villainous plots of disunionists and traitors be
frustrated —so shall we no longer have men at the
South denouncing the Union because the nominee
of their party is likely to be defeated, or men at the
North calculating its value in dollars and cents; so
shall a calm reign over the country again, in which
our people may bring back the government to the
purity it has lost.
llow it is lo be Done.
The Edgefield Advertiser lays down the follow
ing ns the programme of performances if Fre
mont is elected. One great difficulty in the way
will be that, (if they have the chance to act) the
people of no Southern State, unless it be South Ca,
rolina, will follow the Buchanan leaders to destruc
tion ; another will be, that all the Governors will
not toe the mark; another, that the North won’t di
vide the public property ; having it more within
their reach than the South, they will grab it at the
first movement towards dissolution, and their an
swer to a Southern-commission would be probably,
“Don’t you wish you may get it?" Another, that
the first negro that run away from Utopia, (as we
suppose the Southern Republic would be called,)
to the Northern Republic, would bring on war.
Constitution, fugitive slave law, and ail other laws
berng abrogated, how else are we to get him back
but by force of arms ? It is hard to tell whether
all these disunion plans partake most of the ludicrous
or the absurd and sorrowful:
The Process of Disunion.—ls Fremont be
elected, the time for Disunion, it is thought, will
have come. The steps proposed to be taken are
these:
Ist. The Southern Governors are to call their Le
gislatures together.
cM. The Legislatures are to elect Delegates to a
Southern Congress.
3d. That Congress is to assemble at Miiledgeville,
Ga.
4th. Its first work will be the election of a tempo
rary President.
st. It will then proceed to form a new Constitu
tion.
j 6th. A Commission will be forthwith appointed to
i meet a similar Commission from the North to divide
i the public property.
j If all this be peaceably carried out, the new Go*
i vernments will at once go into operation, and
' probably enter into a treaty of some sort, at the
J start.
! If otherwise, we must do the best we can. But no
; one apprehends either war or any material shook to
; the business transactions of the world.
No Electoral Tickets.
Mr. Stephens in his discourse here on Tuesday
night echoed the old song “no chance tor Mr. Fill
more,” and averred that there were Fillmore
electoral tickets in only two or three .Northern
States. Mr. Stephens has certainly not read
the following pathetic address to him on the sub
ject by the New York Express of the 6th inst :
“Oh, Alex'. Alex ! Alex! In th£ straighter
days, thou wert better informed. AI? illmore elec
toral ticket exists in every State of the Union, ex
cept South Carolina, —and there, none exists, only
because Electors are elected by the Legislature.—
In New Hampshire, last of all, a Fillmore Electoral
Ticket is created.
This “no chance” humbug, Aiex, is about over.
It has had its day—died off, and is buried.”
A Terrible Seige.
Our city has been dreadfully bombarded during
the past week by the Democratic big guns. The
cannonade has been almost incessant. First we
had Mr. Styles, his shot never reached the out
: works, canso—powder too weak. Next we had
! Mr. Toombs —never grazed us—powder too strong
! -over-shot; then we had Mr. Stephens —gun like
I' that old musket recorded in song, that
•• When aimed at duck or plover,
Bore wide and kicked the owner over” —
Result—nobody killed —nobody wounded—nobody
i deserted. The Sebastopol of Americanism in Geor
gia good for a large iqpjority for Fillmore in No
vember,
We regret to state that Gen. Gadsden's pound
ing and thrashing mill on Cooper River was consum
ed by jlre on the night of the 15th instant, with
between two and three thousand bushe’s of rough
rice.
Mrs.*Smith, of Tobin’s Garden, favered us yea
terday with the most beautiful and tastefully ar
ranged Bouquet, we have *een for years. The
Garden must be very attractive to prodime such
rare, choice and elegant flowers.
Treason Unmasking Itself.
It has often been charged that a plot for destroy -
I ing the Union was in existence, iu which the Demo
j era tic Governors of the Southern States were the
'• chief couspirators. No tangible proof of the fact
his, until now, appeared, except the verbal declara
tions of furious fire-eaters, which havehitherto pas
sed as unmeaning bragadoeio. But the plot is now
fully developing itself. Some time since the New Or
leans Della gave intimation of what was on the ta
pis. In au article praising Gov. \Y ise’s course, it
had the following :
But Gov. Wise does not confine himself to words
alone ; he has commenced to act. W e understand
he has summoned the Governors ot the various
Southern States to meet him in convention at Ra
leigh, N. Carolina, for the purpose of decidingon the
course to be pursued by the South in the present ter
rible crisis. It will be an august council, and we can
easily anticipate the nature of the policy which it
must adopt.
The prognostications of the Delta were founded
on good authority. Several of the Governors prob
ably met in llafeigh on Tuesday last, and the people
of Georgia may at this moment , so far as their Go
vernor can do it, be committed to disunion! We
copy the following despatch from rhe Baltimore
Sun:
Columbia, S. C., Oct 13— Reports are in circula
tion her.- that the Governors of the fifteen Southern
States wiii meet at Raleigh to morrow to consider
what steps are necessary in the event ot Col. Fre
mont’s election.
So, it seems the first act of the drama is now be
ing played out, and we are pledged, or are about to
be, to a ruinous measure, of which the people of the
South have time and again declared their detesta
tion, and to which a largo majority are at this mo
ment opposed, could their voices be heard. But it
is a part of the plot that it shall be consummated
before the people can be heard. “It is to be imme
diate,” says one Buchanan leader—“lt will take
place between November and March,” says anoth
er. Why immediate ? Why within the time speci
fied I Because in that time no election takes place
in which the people can by any possibility declare
their sentiments. These plotters fear the people.
Is this a republican government ? Was Governor
Johnson elected for this purpose? Was lie elected
to obey the insane behest of Gov. Wise ? By what
right does he leave the duties he is sworn to per
form, and go preaching for Buchanan, and plot
ting destruction to the best interest sos the people
who elected him, far away at the North 7 We have
long suspected that this «as the “great principle”
he was elected to represent, and our suspicions
gather strength as time passes.
If the people of Georgia will endure this, if they'
will suffer themselves to be led to destruction,
bound band and foot by these reckless Buchanan
demagogues, then they are not the free and gallant
men we have thought them ? We do not think they
will; the breed of sturdy old Union Democrats and
Whigs i 3 not yet extinct. There is but one party
in the field with whom Union men can affiliate, that
party presents to them Mill ard Fillmore, as a
candidate —a man in whose heart is no guile, ou
whose tongue there is no deceit, ou whose hand
there is no stain of dishonesty, and whose character
even his enemies dare not say aught against. Come
up Union men at the only election in which your
voices can be heard, and declare to these conspira
tors, in the words of Old Hickory, “the union
SHALL BE rRESRRVED!”
Since the foregoing was in type we have received
the Raleigh (North Carolina) Register, of the 15th
instant, in which we find the following article :
Is it True ?—We have heard something more
than an intimation, that the Wise and prudent Go
vernor of Virginia, is to meet certain other Govern
ors, and a few other individuals “like unto him
self,” at Raleigh , on thelGth instant, then and there
to fix upon some plan for effecting the immediate,
withdrawal of the Southern States from the
Union, and tie establishment of a Southern Con
federacy in its stead !
Are we, then, thus near to that result to which
all wise men have looked forward with horror ?
Are these few mad men—these political lunatics—
about to apply the iucendiary torch to the most
glorious fabric which human wisdom ever con
ceived ?
If so, bv what authority do they act ? Who au
thorized them to commit us to j a issue so momen
tous ? Are the people willing to sanction any act
of madness, which would result only in disunion
among ourselves, while it would unite the North as
one man against us ? Something is clearly in the
wind. If it is mere leather and prunella,’' w r e have
had enough of such ridiculous exhibitions; while, if
it has any meaning, it is time the matter was looked
into by one and all.
We find the foregoing, says the Register, in the
ast “Norfolk American.’’ It was the first inti
mation we have seen of such treasonable move
ment.
The rumor is confirmed ! There are at present in
this city Gov. Wise, of Virginia, Gov. Adams, of
South Carolina, and it is confidently expected that
Gov. Johnson, of Ga., and perhaps others will favor
us with their presence. They are here for the osten
sible purpose of attending the State Fair, but for
what, iu reality, the statement of the American too
fearfully indicates. Else, what means this unusual
and extraordinary convocation of Southern Gover
nors ?
If their object be, as alleged—if these dignitaries,
invested with no other authority than their own un
hallowed desires, have assembled upon the sacred
soil of North Carolina to meditate upon schemes of
disunion and treason, we tell them, nay ! The peo
ple of North Carolina (whatever its Executive may
do or suggest,) will not follow the lead of any set of
fanatical zealots, who would break lip this conse
crated Union of ours, in advance of any overt act,
in advance of any positive aggression, fa advance
of any invasion of our guarantied rights! When
there is au actual invasion of those rights, the South
will stand as one man, beating back the invader
or sacrificing all in the attempt. Our objections are
not, and never have been, (as the American says,)
to resistance to invasion or to the strongest unity of
the South, in reference to things of almost too mo
mentous a consequence for mortal brain to compre
hend—but they are to a course which would dcsti
nate ourselves, and limit the strife within our own
borders.
“ Let the people rouse themselves to this matter,
for they know not the day nor the hour when these
political zealots may commit acts, over the results
of which the world may be called to mourn
through ages. Wild and ridiculous as the mad
schemes are, it is doubtful whether they are as much
so as their authors. Let the issue they have raised
be met at once. Let the people decide, whether
they are or are not in favor of immediate dissolut on
in advance of overt acts, and whether the South
acts in concert in this matter or not.”
We shall have much to say upon this subject in
our next, when we shall know more of the treason
that lurks in our streets. In the meantime, will the
Standard, (as the organ of the leaders of the De
mocracy,) which is doubtless in the whole secret,
answer us the following questions:
1. By whose invitation came these gentlemen to
North Carolina ?
2. Why did they meet here just in time for the re
turns of the Pennsylvania election?
3. What does it say to this attempt to hitch our
conservative, Union-loving old State of North Caro
lina to the car of disunion ?
A UluswHy Trick.
One of the most comical dodges we have ever
known in politics, is that performed by the parti
zans of Fremont, to evade the charge made against
him, that he is a Roman Catholic. The charge it
self is a matter of no great moment, but it is made
of some importance by the meanness displayed by
Fremont, in suffering his partizons to deny it after
it had been very satisfactorily proved that Fre
mont was married by a Catholic priest, attended
mass regularly at different places, &.e. His friends
now declare that there are two Fremonts, that
both were in the army, and that there is a strong
personal resemblance between the two. That the
man that was married by Father Hoksleigh, in
Washington, who has been proved to be a devoted
observer of all the rights and ceremonies of the
Catholic Church, is not the Fremont, but that Fre
mont. That the Fremont is an Episcopaliau—but
that Fremont is a Catholic. Here are Shakspeare’s
two Dromios over again. It is to be hoped the
Freesoilers know whom they are going to vote for,
and that those “who go about to kill him,” will, for
the sake of that Fremont, make uo blunder.
r * Election Frauds in Pennsylvania. —Some of
8 our cotemporaries have estimated the amount ex
k pended by the Democracy in buying up votes,
!I treating, and other electioneering appliances, at
18 a half million of dollars —moat of which was levied
out of Government office holders.
c ' The increase of the vote in Philadelphia, nearly
e one-sixth larger than ever before, corroborates the
charge that thousands were imported from other
y States to vote in that city. At the Presidential elec
tion these voters will all be wanted at home, so that
there will be no chance to play off that old pipe.
?, laying trick. It is nonsense to suppose that Phila
delphia, with a population scarcely two thirds that of
* the city of New York, could have 6,000 more legal
i- voters.
o Once More. —lt is continually and persevering
e ly asserted, that the State officers on the Opposition
) ticket in Pennsylvania, were “all Free Sailers.” —
d Nothing can be farther from the truth as we have
e heretofore shown. The ticket was nominated in
March last, months before the nomination of Bu
-0 chanan and Fremont, without reference to the
Presidential election, and was composed of one old
line Whig, one American, both of whom are strong
Fillmore, and one Free Soiler, who afterwards de-
Y dared for Fremont, and whose opinions as to the
Presidency could not of course have been known.
E How many times more shall we have to repeat these
11 facta.
i ——
“Best Abolition Measure. ”
Hon. William Montgomery, an old line Buchanan
r Democrat of Pennsylvania, recently delivered a
speech in favor of ‘‘Old Buck,” in which he said the
Kansas Nebraska act was the “best a!’oUtionmeas
ure ever passed,” and that it was a "deatk-bloic to
slavery propagandism." And the way the thing is
j to be dune is thus stated by him elf :
“And it matters not how far our limits may expand,
with the assurance that they will be entitled to de
mand admission into the Union, with the fonp as gov
ernment they may adopt. Sorthern and. European
immigration united icill insure a majority in favor
of free institution*?'
* The people of the South are daily and hourly
' urged by the organs and leaders of the Bi chanan
? party, to endorse the Kansas bill, which the sup*
‘ porters of Buchanan at the North declare to be
* “ike best abolition measure ever passed. \\ ill
» Southern men permit themselves to be thus deceiv
? ed by the political tricksters and intriguers, who
are ready to sacrifice the dearest rights and inter
ests of the South for the sake of the epoils ?
Inquest.—An inquest was held by L. Levy,
Coroner, on the body of Fielding Bradford, at
the Sand Hills on Saturday, who was instantly killed
by a pistol shot, the ball passing through his lead.
The Jury, after a thorough investigation, rendered
the following verdict : From the testimony of ah the
witnesses, we are unable to say that the deceased
came to his death in any other manner than by the
accidental discharge of a pistol held in his hand.
The Union Legislative ticket in the oldjcityj prop
er ol Philadelphia is elected, but in the county, the
Democratic ticket is elected, giving that party a ma
jority in the Legislature, and securing to them the
‘ election of a United States Senators
Modern Democracy.
An old fashioned Democrat of the Jefferson and
Jackson school would be very excusable in refusing
to recognize the modern party which lias usurped
the name of Democracy, sis the one in whose racks
he formerly battled. He might truly say, our old
banner had no disunion motto emblazoned upon it
—our Governors did not go wandering over the
earth, plotting disui ion, and praying (if they ever
pray at ali) the prayer of the old Scotch freeboot
er in time of peace, “Lord, turn the world upside
down, that wegentiemen may live!” An old Dem
ocrat might say', we had men of our own who had
talent to guide us—we had no need to promote new
converts, immediately upon their conveision, into
the_higliest places; Jackson, the greatest of our
leaders in his generation, was never anything else
but a Democrat —never a Federalist, as Buchanan
was—never a disunionist, as the Nuliifiers can tes
tify. How often, as some new instance of mad
ness or folly on the part of the nullifying leaders of
modem Democracy, meets his observation, will
such an old Democrat be tempted to exclaim, Oh,
for one hour of Old Hi.kory!
But he is an “Old Fogy!” Experienced wagon
ers are always careful to put the truest and steadi
est horses in the most important place—that is, at
I the wheel; they always find their services doubly
| valuable ; they will not only steadily pull ahead,
but, what is better, they will hold back when ne
cessary. Such is the use the country lias now for
Old Fogies. The car of State is rapidly running
down hill; Old Fogies are turned out in contempt •.
“Young Democracy ” which now pretends to guide,
never thinks of holding back—disdains the restrints
of harness—has a soul above breeching.
Marvellous is the speed of young Democracy—
very marvellous! Jockeyed by that venerable
youth, James Buchanan, (whether it is guided by
him, or has runaway with him, is not for us to de
cide,) young Democracy careers over the country,
plunging through all constitutional obstacles, blind
to all consequences—bolting, without cause, from
the beaten track—knocking platforms to pieces—
bustling from its path old Democrats and old Whigs
who, warned by the experience of the past, pause
cautiously and stand aghast, conscious of their ina
bility “ to go tliepaee”—regardless of the rights of
others, it demands Cuba for its pasture ground and
the Gulf of Mexico for Us watering trough; “ Moab
is its wash pot, over Edom does it cast a shoe!”
Occasionally some amiable, estimable and confiding
old fogy is cajoled into mounting the “ iron-ribbed’ ’
courser for a short ride on the crupper—but, alas,
once there he is there for life—he is as effectually
prevented from dismounting by the capers and cara
coles of his fidgetty steed, as though he had been
bound to bis back, like Mazeppa. And so, before
the eyes of an astonished world, t lie fiery steed
prances and plunges, breathing forth “ battle, mur
der and sudden death” t> all who stand iu its way.
Earnestly, however, and in all seriousness, we
call upon those who wish’to see their country ar
rested in its downward course—who desire to have
the institutions, won for them by their ancestry, per
petuated for their children, to interfere at once and
actively in the present contest. The decision of
that contest is now not many days off, but there is
yet time to do much, if conservative men would but
consider and realize to themselves its immense im
portance. We know that any allusion to revolu
tionary times and men is considered by Young De
mocracy to be Sopbmoreish, and Fourth-of-Julyish
and old fogyisli, and all that; but we think it can
do no harm, occasionally to refer to the examples
and precepts of the Fathers of the Republic. There
was onoe an old gentleman named Thomas Jef
ferson, of high and well deserved reputation as a
statesman during his life, in the estimation cf many
men, and whose name was revered by some old
Fogies after his death, but being in bad odor with
some of the leaders of young Democracy, it has
gone somewhat into oblivion of late. Standing up
on the brink of eternity, and looking, with the eye
ofa prophet, far into the dim and misty future, lie
predicted the day which is now upon us.
“I regret, ’ said he, iu his letter to Mr. Holmes,
“that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless
sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to
acquire self-government and happiness to their
country, is to be thrown away by the unwise ami
unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only
consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.
If they will dispassionately weigh the blessings they
will throw away, against an abstract principle, mere
likely to be effected by Union than by scission,
they would pause before they would perpetrate this
act of suicide on themselves, and of treabon against
the hopes of the world. To yourself, as the faithful
advocate of the Union, I tender the offering of my
high esteem and respect.”
The day foretold by Jefferson is at band. Are
the voters of Georgia willing to follow party lead
ers, blind with rage at the probable loss of the
power they have enjoyed so long ? Will they
trample the “blood of the generat.on of 1776” ruth
lessiy under foot ?
Democratic Blunders.
The New Orleans Creole truly remarks, that “a
blunder in politics is a •rime,” and that the leaders
of the Democracy iu Louisiana feel that the entire
movement of the party has been a series of blun
ders. They blundered in allowing the North to
nominate James Buchanan as their candidate.—
“They blundered in avowing allegiance to the Kan
sas bill as a test of Democracy without any defini
tion of what its construction should be. They
blundered in nominating J. C. Breckinridge—a
doubtful Southern man, Vioe President —instead of
one who was firm .'i' ll true as steel. Then Bu
chanan blundered iu announcing his'approbntion of
the doctrine of squatter sovereignty. And J. C.
Breckinridge blundered in declaring ‘he belonged
to uo party which desired the extension of slavery.’
And their leaders, in this, blundered worse than all,
that they boldly endorsed the doctrine, and then
showed they were not in earnest, by attempting to
explain away their endorsement. Their action from
the day the nomination was made at Cincinnati up
to the present moment, has been but a series of sin
gular midakes.”
Freemen of the South, will you endorse these
blunders, and approve the odious doctrines of Bu
chanan and Breckinridge, Squatter Sovereignty
and all; or will you, like independent men, think
and act for yourselves ?
All*. Fillmore.
One of the mobt remarkable features of the pre
sent contest is the unanimity with which Bis oppo
nents pronounce Mr. Fillmore capable, honest and
faithful. No respectable Democratic orator, as far
as we have heard, has failed to do justice to his faith
fulness and integrity. The only objection they
seem to have to him is, that '‘’there is uo chance as
they say, for his election, and that Mr. Buchanan,
in whose favor they have not a word to say, can be
elected.
Now, it oecurs to us, that by this line of argu
ment they pay a very poor compliment to the sense
of justice and intelligence of the people they are
addressing. It is, in effect, saying to the people,
here are two men-presented for your suffrages—one
of them is a good man, just, able and honest—one
who has once restored peace to your distracted land,
and saved the Constitution and the Union ; as to the
other, we have nothing to say. The honest and
capable man, so deserving of your gratitude cannot
be elected, you will not vote for him because he is
honest and capable —the other is a time-serving
vascillating demagogue, but he can be elected be
cause he has ou his side all the party managers and
stump orators, andpolitieal tricksters and intriguers,
who are skillful in guiding and governing you.
They, by this mode of reasoning, also impugn then
own honesty, for it might be well asked : if Mr.
Fillmore is the man you say he Is, why ure you
not advocating his election ?—is it because he differs
from you in the qualities you ascribe to him ?
W e anticipate with confidence that in the coming
election the honest men of the country will vote for
him who most nearly represents their principles, and
that the unprincipled office-seekers, demagogues
and their dupes will vote for him who best represents
theirs.
Fillmore in California. —The last advices
from California by the George Law, just arrived,
says the Richmond Whig, are of the most cheer
ing character for the prospects of Mr. Fillmore In
that distant State. Senator Foote and Bailey Pey
ton are actively traversing the State, and making
telling speeches to large audiences in advocacy of
Mr. Fillmore’s election. We cannot doubt that
California will take her position side by side with
New-York, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, 1> u
siana, and others of her sisters on the 4th of Novem
ber. In a word, she will cast her vote for Fill
more, and that will be glory enough for her. The
following account ot Fillmore’s prospects there, we
take from the New-York Express :
“ We have the most cheering intelligence from
California by the George Law. Both private let
ters, and the newspaper accounts, give every rea
sonable assurance that the Golden State is safe for
Fillmore and Donelson in November. As a solitary
illustration of the spirit and enthusiasm with which
our friends on the Pacific side are pushing the can
vass, we may state that there are now twenty-four
newspapers in California, which sustain the good
cause. The names upon the Electoral ticket are all
of the right stamp. The speakers are canvassing the
State with au energy and determination to win—
and now that the ballot-box stuffera have been thor
oughly weeded out—there is but little doubt the
free, fair, untrammeled expression of the people’s
will, next month, will be in favor of Fillmore and
Donelson. This is good news, and as true as it is
good. It indicates that California is not ready just
yet to “let the Union slide,” nor anything like pre
pared to strike fifteen stars from the national banner.’ ’
Squatter Sovereignty in Alabama. —We
learn from the Xortk Alabamian, that at the recent
Democratic demonstration at Tuscumbia, the Hon
Geo. W. Jones, M. C. from Tennessee, came out
flat footed for Squatter Sovereignty and Buchanan.
Our opponents are squirming awfully at the pill, but
we imagine they will make out to swallow it before
the sth of November. What a yielding up of prin
ciples for the hope of public plunder.
Mr. Jones is the leading Democratic member of
Congress from Tennessee. He is the same, man
who declared in his place in Congress, that the
Kansas bill recognized and maintained the doctrine
of squatter sovereignty, and that “it icas the true
doctrine Yet we have in Georgia men who have
the unblushing effrontery to assert that the bill
does not contain the principle of squatter sovereign
ty ! We are glad to see that Mr. Jones has had
the boldness to avow his principles at home before
the Southern people, and to declare that they are
the principles of the Kansas bill. If, therefore, the
people of the South endorse the Kansas bill with its
odious squatter sovereign principle, they will do
it with their eyes open.
Knoxville and Charleston Railrod. —Our
readers will be gratified to ham, pays the Knox
ville Standard , as we do from the Keowee S C.
Courier , that the work of track-laying, at the An]
derson terminus, on the Southern or Blue Ridge por
tion of this road, has already tfemmeuced. Iron is
also being received at this point and the road to
Pendleton, we are assured, will be completed by
the first of May. As we pen this we learn that all
the heavy work on the whole line of the road is un
der contact and progressing with all possible rapidi
*7'
Stamping (tarcruon.
The audacious attempt of the Democratic Gov
ernors to commit the Southern Stines to disunion,is
a signal example of the tendency that party has to
usurp power. T» constable of the poorest pinev
woods district in Georgia, lias, in reality, as much
authority to concert measures preparatory to seces
sion, as bis Excellency Gov. Johnson. Out of the
State, once over the line, and his authority is a per
fect nullity. Yet, Governors Wise and Johnson,
and the balance of the Gubernatorial crowd, have
the impudence to get up a second edition of the old
Federal “ Hartford Convention,” for the purpose of
destroying the Constitution and the Union. It is no
wonder that they support a Federalist for the re
sidency !
What are the Governor's Constitutional powers?
He is commander of the army and navy of Hie State
and of the militia thereof. A sinecure—an office
with no duties attached.
lie has power to grant. pardons, except for 1 rea
son and murder—this gives him no power to follow
in Aaron Burr's footsteps.
He has power to issue writs to fill vacancies in the
Senate and House of Representatives, to call special
sessions, and to fill vacancies in office, and a modi
fied veto power over all laws and resolutions.
These are the sum of his duties and powers, very
few and unimportant—so much so, that experience
in the case of Governor Johnson has proved that
Georgia, for the most part of the time, can easily
dispense with his presence. But in the Constitu
tion we cannot find any authority given to him by
any implication or construction, to pledge the peo
ple, against the will of a large majority, to disunion
and civil war. Does it suit the voters of Georgia to
allow their officers, whose time and services they
have bought for a valuable consideration, to
leave the legitimate sphere of his duties, to go Pre
sident-making and plotting against their peace, in
distant States !
This practice of Governors leaving the sphere of
their duties and taking the stump iu political con
tests, is well rebuUed in a letter from Gov. More
head, of Kentucky, in answer to an invitation to
address a political meeting in that State, in which
he says:
It has been the invariable custom in Kentucky for
her Executive to abstain from active participation
in party conflicts, and 1 feel constrained by a high
sense of duty to conform to the time honored cus
tom.
When entering upon the discharge of the dutVs
of my office, 1 became the Governor of the whole
State, and my highest ambition has been to discharge
every public duty imposed upon me, with impartial
ity, honesty and fidelity.
In . oncluding this handsome letter, Gov. Moke
head pays a just tribute to the memory ot Mr.
Fii.i.more, in the following terms :
No man of any party can doubt the honesty, fi
delity, or capacity of Millard Fillmore He hiu»
been tried and found equal to the crisis which at the
time made good men tremble for the fate of the
country. I was in Congress during the pendency
of the compromise measures of 1850, and, in com
mon with every other Union man there, can bear
test i mom to his exalted patriotism and unflinching
firmness. He is the only man before the people at
the present alarming crisis to which you allude, who
can breast the storm and bid its mutterings cease;
and for one, I cannot hesitate to give him my c-o: -
dial support.
Whal’d iu the Wind f
For a week past rumors have .been afloat, says
the Baltimore American, that a meeting of the Gov
ernors of certain Southern States had been convened
somewhere. Within the last two or three days these
rumors have taken a more definite shape, and it is
now said such a meeting was held in Raleigh, North
Carolina, on Monday last. The*Richmond 11/. ..* ,
of Tuesday, very properly desires .to know “what’s
in the wind?” Are these self-constiiuted represen*
tatives of Southern Democracy putting their wise
heads together to hatch treason ? Are they about
to enact the solemn farce of attempting to make
people believe that the party they would lain repre
sent is the Southern i üblic, and that if they cannot
have things their own way, something very terrible
is to be doue ? We even hear it rumored that our
own Governor had a share in this matter. We trust
he will think twice before he commits the Union
State of Maryland to any of his partisan vagaries.
The Whig says:
We learn upon undoubted Democratic authority
that a meeting of Southern Governors took place at
Raleigh, in th • State of North Carolina, on yester
day. Gov. Wise left here in the Southern train Sat
urday evening. Some nine or ten Governors, we
learn, have promised to be present. What’s in the
wind? Are these Democratic Governors plotting
treason? Have we another Hartford Convention
on a small scale ? What right have these, political
adventurers to assemble in their official capacity to
determine upon the course the South should pursue
in the event of Fremont’s election ? What /tower
do they possess in the premises ? Our crazy neigh
bor, we nave not a doubt, is at the bottom of this
whole affair. And what little constable in Virginia
has not more real power than he ? And then, too,
notwithstanding Democratic horror of scores?/, this
Convention of Southern Governors has been gotten
up in the most clandestine manner. For what pur
pose? Who knows ? Docs a solitary citizen of
Virginia or the Soutli know what these madmen
are after ? Will they publish the whole or any part.
of the proceedings of This conference ? We predict
not.
Gin-House and Cotton Burnt. —Sevinillives
lost. —We i egret to learn that on Saturday night last
the gin house on the plantation of Dr. B. R. Jones,
a few miles from this city, was burnt. Four negroes
were burnt to death ana three others so badly in
jured that there is scarcely a probability that one of
them will recover. We further learn that thirty
bales of cotton were also consumed. The loss will
probably reach $15,000 or SIB,OOO.
The origin of this dreadful calamity was, we learn,
thus: A girl was standing in the door of the lint
room with a candle, while the other negroes were at
work inside. The door, swinging against, tin,* girl,
knocked the candle out of her hand, and the lint im
mediately igniting, the room was instantly filled
with dame.
This should be a warning to planters and over-
Beers. if tire light must be used in gin houses, it
should be encased in thick glass and properly pro
tected by stout iron wire—such as arc used on the
decks ot steamboats. — Montgomery Journal.
A better suggestion is, never to let a light, wheth
er encased or not, be carried into a gin house—but
when night comes let the negroes return to their
houses and to rest. It is the worst possible econ
omy in our opinion to attempt to drive business
ahead by working in a gin house after night.
An Ebbingnd Flowing a Spring.— lt is not
generally known, we presume, that there is such a
rare curiosity in Tennessee, as an ebbing and liow
ing spring—such is the fact, however. It is situated
at a point known as “Ebbing Spring,” on the East
Teimo see and Georgia Railroad, about 22 miles
below Knoxville. The Spring is subject to periodic
rises and falls, at intervals of about eight minutes.
The Knoxville Presbytcriau Witness says i
“Suppose the stranger comes upon the spring
when it is at its lowest point, lie will find it di -
charging (without speaking with certain knowledge,
as to the exact amount) about 20 gallons of water
per minute ; if he will observe it, for four minutes
longer, he will find it so swollen that it will yield
about 60 gallons per minute, when it will then be
gin to decline, and continue to do so until it reaches
its lowest ebb, in about four minutes time—thou lie
may observe it commence its flood again, and go
on the same rou- d until he is tired and puzzled to
know why it is so different from all oilier springs.
The water is beautifully clear and is never in the
least muddied by its ebbing and flowing.
We leave it for the philosopher to explain the
cause of this singular phenomenon, and to tell us
when, if ever, it. will cease thus, to keep time with
the roiling stars.
New York City Mortality. —The report of 1 lie
City Inspector shows a farther decrease of 14 in the
number of deaths iii the city, for the week ending
Saturday, Oct. 11, as compared with the preceding
week. Total 355; men 62; women 78; boys 128; girls
30. The chief causes of death were, consumption 50 ;
infantile convulsion 21 ; inflammation of tiie bowels
10; infantile marasmus 35.
South Carolina Election. —At the election in
Charleston, on Monday and Tuesday, Win. P. Miles
was elected to Congress over his competitors,
Messrs. Gadsden and Cunningham. Messrs. Koit
und Boyce waare eleted from their districts without
opposition. For the Legislature, Win. 1). Porter
was elected Senator, and the following gentlemen
Representatives from Charleston : Richard Yeaden;
James Simons; Capt. Jos. Johnson, Jr.; Wilmot G.
DeSaussure ; Nelson Mitchell; Edward McCrady'
Thos. Y. Simmons, Jr.; C. G. Memminger ; J. Chas.
Blum; J. Junutlian Luca 3; H. C. King; F. D.
Richardson; J. J. Pope, Jr.; J. Johnston Petti- j
grew ; J. J. McCarter.
Public Sentiment in Louisiana. —The New
Orleans Creole states that Senator Benjamin s |
tour through the State of Louisiana is not likely
to give him any very exalted hopes in regard to
that State. His attempts to enlist sympathy lor j
the Democratic nominees are a total failure. Mr.
Benjamin never before was upon the stump in j
the State without awakening the highest applause.
But he now does not fail to meet with hisses In eve- !
ry place.
Fillmore in Californi a. —We have seen a let- j
ter from San Francisco, says the New Orleans Bul- j
lelin, by one of the most distinguished citizens of
that place, and at one time a prominent citizen of }
New Orleans, addressed to a friend of ours here, in
which he says that Mr. Fillmore will get more j
votes in California than Buchanan and Fremont i
combined.
What is the Matter. —We have been looking j
with some degree of trepidation, for some accounts |
of the Democratic mass meeting in Atlanta, but |
there seems to be a remarkable degree of taciturni- j
ty on the subject, among those who ought to know
all about it. Is it possible, after ail the preparatory j
clamor and loud flourish of trumpets, that it has ;
turned out a magnificent burst ?
Fire. —The alarm of fire on Friday night was i
caused by the burning of a small wooden building 4
on Lincoln street, occupied as a Grocery, and own
ed by Myers. Stock and house partially insured.
Loss small.
Pennsylvania. —ln 1840, at the October election, (
in Pennsylvania, the Democrats carried the State !
by a majority of 4,364, yet at the Presidential elec
tion Harrison’s majority was 349 ; in 18-18 it went j
for the Democracy at the State elections in October, j
and yet gave Taylor a majority over Cass of 13,- |
544 in November.
Fusion in New York.— Tlie New York Express
says : The “Brooks men” in this State will all vote
for Fillmore and Done lson, making no bargain
and desiring none—and if the Buchanan men don’t
mean to throw their votes away, they wiil do so
likewise—and that is all the bargain that exists.—
There are about 400,000 people in this State, and
they don't intend that the State shall go for Bu
chanan—lso,ooo of them are Fremont men and
250,000 of them Fillmore men—ail against Bu.
chanan ; and 150,000 Buchanan men and 250,-
000 Fillmore men that don’t intend to go for
Fremont.
Shipping at New York. —On Friday last there
were lying in New York aud Brooklyn 29 steamers,
155 ships, 110 barks, 133 brigs, and 305 schooners,
being 1,037 in all.
“Columbia,” has been selected as the name for
the new Steam ship that will take its place in the |
Xew York and Charlestsn Line, under the expe- j
rienced Berry, It is a good name and well bea- j
towed. (
t*>niM from Sonnior DoijsS ih,
NoUdug is wore common than to hoar houiiiern »
Democrats shouliug the praises of Stephen A. '
Doucjt Vs, as sound on th« slavery question, atvl |
sonietlmea the collar men give cheers for hljn at Ihe
bidding of the demagogues who are attempting to
deceive the South and betray the people into the
support of the K -as bill and Squatter Sovereignty.
To all such we ci>; uiend !h<‘ following from
this devotedf i u'd (l . the South. The Southern Da
mocta shon’d firing them about their necks for
convene; ); f u -t ce.‘ The first which we cull *
from Ihel> iv } /'.,<* p rrits a Democratic organ.
Here r *;» nd a Southern men :
i ( m th trrtt Free Press, Sept. 20.
Din ' dUh ' : 'TI-Sewt.M- IH.uoluh, at CM
OJIRO, said to tl.« 1 1- wd before him : -Th e great ob
jection you have is tin* repent of the Missouri Com
promise ’ [Cries of ‘yes yes, ] -Wei!,' oontimud
the Senate,, what was tile Missouri Compromise I
It was I lie prohibition of slavery Nor' h of the .me
and the recognition of slavery South of that line—
Was there, he asked, ‘a man in the crowd in favor
oireivgeUii.e slavery South of eny lnre V The 1.
o :imn hounds were dumb. Titov didn't, .-.esuvr
the qnesUon.
He (Dougins) struck the ‘abolition liomius'
•dumb, by proving u> t!i \n tiro the Kutms-Ne
braska act would operate in favorof fVredoiu!
A;:u this man (Douulas! was the choice, next to
the President Fierce, of the SWA,,Democracy,
as a candidate fnrthe oexi Presidency, tie* true is
sue, ns they sav, being ‘the principle of the lv,o,
N braska act,'and t/ny/ denouncing and renniia
tn g daily the very pi iceiple, which lie maintains is
the real principle’ of that act!
Was a more gigantic fraud ever attempted by
any political parly in this country ! Can the con
tinuance m power of suehupartvresult in audit bu‘
evil to tee country !
1 his ia certainly very conclusive evidence of hie
devoted ness to the South ! Let us now turn to an
other gem of the. same character. We copy from
the Columbia, South Carolina, '‘Times" i\ States’
Rights Democratic journal :
From the Columbia Times.
A Stranc.k Doei'.mkn r.—Wo received by tlu*
mail, on Wednesday last, a pamphlet under the
frank of the lion. *B. A. Douglas, bear:eg the
title of
‘‘READ AND REFLECT !”
which much astonishes us. We give an extract from
this s’ngulnr production :
1. Let every lover of his countrv remembe* 1 that
ii the pn lent C hewn to
the following official records, the Republican (Fre
mont) parts hive voted to violate the nio»t so ! :im
treaties of the United States with the Indians.
*J. That they have voted to violate the compact
with Texas, by which the United Slab s piuvlinsed
ail ;lmt part oi'Texas north of on 30 and included
it in New Llexieo, with the guarantee ‘ that when
admitted as a State the said lVrritory, or any p r
tiou of the same, shall bo re ceived ii-to sh Union
with or without slavery, as their constitution m.ny
prescribe a: the time ol their admission.”
3. That they have, by their votes, repudiated the
compromise n• ensures of 1850, which contained the
same guarantee in respect to the Terrko.u s of New
Mexico and Utah, and to the support of which every
Whig and every Democrat stood pYdged by the
platforms of the two great parties in 185'J.
4. lhat they have voted to legalize and establish
hereditary sla very in the whole of Kansas , and to
introduce, and establish slavery in a part of Kite
Mexico, and to declare that children who shall be
hereafter born to be slaves for life, and flair pos
ferity of Ur them, in violation of the great princi
ples •/ self-government , and State natality, > chick
shou d leave the people of each, Stale, and j'erri/or i/
“ /m’ifecllu jhr to form and regulate their domestic
institutions in their own way, subject only to the
Constitution of the United Slates''
The Tinus savd : “It iscs idem this docu
ment has readied us accidentally. It never uas in
tended lor this lat/tude, but as it lua full n into our
hands, we give the above extract simply to show
to what extent election tricks arc carried on by
men in high position. Further comment is unne
cessary.”
Men of the South, (we speak to die independent,
intelligent, reflecting men of the South, not to the
party hacks, whose highest ambition i' is to do the
bidding of political demagogues and tricksters) you
are familiar with the efforts of the organs and leadt is
of the Democratic party at the South to place
Douglas in power. They know his sentiments —
they know he is note and has always been a I'Yee
soiier—an openmul avowedailvocate of that most
odious doctrine,Squatter Sovereignty—they kn w,
too, that Ik on an ax holds the sunn opinions now
that Douglas docs ; and yet you arc daily and
hourly invoked to support him. What think you,
Southern men, of the conduct of the leaders and or
gans of the Southern Democracy ? Are you will
ing their action, and are you]p< a ly to ap
prove the odious Squatter Sovereignly do trine of
Douglas and Buchanan ? If so, you are ready
to sacrifice ‘ho rights of the South at the shrine of
party. You are, your own leaders being the judges,
guilty of *7 icrtclu‘>/, to the South." Pause, then,
and reflect—tuk« a new observation, and ascertain
into v, ha', port \.*u are drifting, when you find your
solve sicl by rid. .. if h the Van Buhkns and Buffalo
platform : ivn, a id advocating the identical jirinci
ples. _
Mr, .rj.iu.ic': Ai'i't pin aim* of till* Whi# Noini
na! iou<
Qui rca Y • '• .i pvius *, with great interest says
the Baltimore A. . rican, the subjoined eorreapon
deuce embiacing the letter of Judge Bails, inform
ing Mr. F hi. ah »kk oft lie nomination by the Na
tional WJ-ig Oonv< nthiii and his reply tv venting
that nominuti n. The reply is couched in the teive
and graceful language that belongs to everything
emanating from his mind ; and whilst giving free
expression to the emotions of gratitude awakened
by the significant expression of confidence reposed
in him by his old political associates, it breathes
throughout that spirit of devotion lo the Union
which was the special strong characteristic of the
body whose nomination he accepts.
Baltimore, Sept. 19, 1856.
To Millard Fillmore , Buffalo, N. Y.
Honored Sir .—Before you receive tin • U tter the
public journals will have informed you that the
Whigr of the United States have held a gem-i al
Convention in the city of Baltimore, oil the 17th
and 18th of this present month, for the purpose of
designating candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency of the United States.
The general proceedings of that Convention are
already known to 1 Lit world, through the public
press ; yet, by it« command, the pleasing ■ uty
has been imposed upon me, as its presiding officer
and responsible organ, to make known to you the
foot, that the Whigs of the United States, as rep
resented in that. Convention, separate and apart
from all other parties and organizations, have with
one voice, chosen you us their candidate for the
Presidency.
« We do not doubt that you will receive with plen
ure this new evidence ot the respect and love in
which the nation holds you; and we indulge the
hope that, you will accept our nomination in the
same spirit of patriotism in which it is made—tar
less for your own honor and promotion than for the
peace and prosperity of our common country. We
consider your election as necessary f<> the repose «*f
the country, and therefore our earnest prayer is
for your success.
In this communication I am not permitted to in
dulge in any expressions of my own opinions and
wishes, but speak only for the Whig Convention,
whose cervunt I am.
With the greatest respect and regard, J have the
honor to be, Sir, your obedient servant ,
Edward Bates, of St. Louis, Mo,
Buffalo, N. Y., Oot. J, 1856.
Hon. Edward Bah& —Sir : Vour letter at the
19th ultimo, come to hand day sterday, in
forming me that at a Convention el" he Whigs of the
United States, held at Baltimore ou the I? th and 1-kii
of the past month, I was honored by that convention
by being chosen with one voice as their candidate
for the Presidency.
Whilst some of my old Whig friends, whom I have
always highly respected, and whose patriotism lam
unwilling to doubt, are opposed to my election, and
are engaged, some on the one side and .“.ome on the
ot h' r, of political parties which are sowing the seeds
of alienation and distrust between different sections
of our common country, and waging a sect ional war
fare tending to weaken, if not destroy the Union of
these States, it is a source of inexpressible gratifica
tion to me to receive Che unanimous nomination of
the great representative body of the national Whigs
of the United States—no less distinguished for their
intelligence than for t.lieir patriotism—and 1 cheer
fully accept it with the prefouudest emotions of
gratitude and pride.
Although 1 am the known candidate of another
party, yet, I can see nothing dishonorable in receiv
ing the support of all Union-loving men, by what
ever political denomination they may be known;
but. i confess that I received lids flattering i
monial of the continued confidence in my personal
integrity and patriotism of my old Whig Iriends.
with much more than ordinary satis!/"- tion ; and
I trust, that, if elected, i shall do nothing to disap
point the hopes or dishonor the preference of those
who have so generously bestowed their confidence.
With renewed expressions of m, high respect tor
yourself, personally, and my veneration for the in
telligent and patriotic body over which you preside,
I am, sir, your friend and fellow efizon,
Millard Fillmore.
I Sadlkik at New Orleans. —The Dublin oor-
I respondent of the London Times says that u. fespec
■ fable professional man recently returned to Dublin
f/o n Now Orient id ready to aver upon oath if
called upon, that during his residence in ... hitter
place lie had seen John Sadleir, (the defttuliiug bro
ker,) boldly st riding through the streets of New Or
leans There could be, he insists, no mistake, as he
had been for many years familiar with the marked
features of that m-ver-to-he forgotten coufyfi e.
Health <;:• N*vv Orleans. —ltis scarcely
sarv f«,r us, ;;.r 5 ■ Nev.* Orleans Bulletin, of the
17thiubt., i.o .nue our notices of the public
health, as :i *-v r better. If there ia any yel
low fever it t‘l .<* n lining in the.ciiy, it is so little
a-t hardly to b worthy of special notice. The
weather uu. i;.g the week has been rainy, and it is
still rainii ,v s ««* : to. with a prospect of more.
South Carolina Gold Mines. —The Gold Mines
neartliis city, in South Carolina, are becoming, we
are pleased to learn, a most important interest, and
some of them ure being worked with much more
energy and capital than in former years. The mines
in the lower part of Abbeville District, South Caro
lina, worked by a New-York company, known as
the “ Dorn Mining Company,” are said to be now
yielding very rich ore, from veins worked at a great
er depth than formerly attained in that region.—
They are drained by a powerful pumping apparatus,
worked by steam. The appearance of the mine is
now reported as very flattering.
A Georgia Locomotive for the Fair.— -Messrs.
Nobles, of Rome, (Ga.) will have a rail road engine
in Atlanta next week for exhibition at the State Fair
in that p : ace, which was manufactured out and out
at their establishment in Rome. They contemplate
running it to Atlanta over the Rome Br;.:ioh and
Western 6c Atlantic Railroads.
A letter dated Westport. Mo., October 4th, says:
Reliable news has reached us here that Gen. Lane
has met re-enforcements in Nebraska, and was on
his return to Kansas with eight hundred men. Gov.
Geary has despatched six hundred men to meet
im, and if possible to take Lane.
Gen. Ament, an old line Democrat in Kentucky,
is stumping the State fur Fillmore and Donelson
with decided effect.
Rufas Choate, who lately turned Democrat,
has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the 4th District of Massachusetts. His reward
comes soon.
Missouri. —The Boonville Patriot, a new and
spirited journal, thus replies to the declaration that
Fillmore has no chance in Missouri :
The votes cast for the several candidates for Gov
ernor in August, formed no teat ot party strength in
Missouri. A great many men who stood at tnal
time committed, have since declared tliemaeiVta in
favor of Millard Fillmore, believing him to he the
only man for the emergency of the times. It m tiue ,
many of these men voted for 1 oik and Benton, but
they never pledged themselves to support ihe
nominee of the Cincinnati Convention— but now de
clare boldly for Mr. Fillmore.
tfr. Fillmore's Opponen . Non!, nmt onlli—
Thi-ir t linigr. toolra-tuil,
Tiik A Ibnny, .NewYoik, has recently
extended its reseori-liea into the political history of
', k <!ay, amciiK theeteettooeeiing documents corn
bu . in the different a etions of the Union, and the
riwiut of the investigation is shown in the following
anii U>. Southern men should read it, that they nmy
be made fnuiibttr with the manner in which this cun
vass is conduct, d. Kither the BtUHAKAS organs
."in iead.-is South ortho Black Republicans do not,
“' rush f'« they ail, or nearly all, use the
aamearßUKenb., and one or the other, or both, re
ran to fuVlmod to austniu themselves •
e efr M «
""'d y l 'YaiikmnMn
,vio li .«*'"**»
lithoi, then ettaeka are madefnunoppoaite quartern
and a very comical clashm* of -he oEargeaVroS
n xaios, him is Iho natural citnaeqtteucc. While one
!- siveaniiß that he is white, the other makes strong
...,th tu«t he is b.aek. In the eyes of the one, he S
a pin- Achy riouL'litaeo; lit the vision of the other
J- W V ,k « a '““t abolitionist. Upon no point
Inn mc do his assail,,uU agr, „ . and that one is, tho
necessity 0 | duwmjt thru- fir., at Ihc same ob
.i t—r: somewhat miriomi eon. lusiou when hath are
apxi'Utslye: W,vei'.„g. to pe.-suade the public that,
' a'more IS mil m the field at all, and really
st.mde i d ih, remotest prospect of can-vine tho
O‘IT vote of a siiiote State !
>Ve are in poascssinu nt a pamphlet issued for
■ oiititern oircuhittou by the deirioeratio opponents
! .I< 1.-Iti; re I •nil] we design producing some of
tic charges brotijrnt therein againat that gentleman
and contrastiiijr tliem with the atl-.cks made upon
him in the No, Ih by the Hl -.ek Republicans. \Ve
have no desire t. noueta! the sins of our candidate
“ the pubßd eye, ns we ntv . i lingthat lie .-hould
s -.rd or ialt up n his own merits : but we submit
v. aether the elmrues brought agtiinst him, to be
• u.'cuve should not lie a trifle more consistent
\v.Li each other ! Let our readers judge lor them
lac the,,,' ha- been y, lsistcntiy made by the
J n “ ,v n " k " ‘ s a, ’ rt unprincipled of tin- Black Repub
organs m tins Suite, that Mr Fillmore in every
is ■ 111,-.; removed Fre. t nlnrs from ofliec durinsr his
adii'iu siiai., a, a.„t appoinicd pro-slavery men in
Iheir laaec. Uie South, ft „ ,-xm-tiv eoutrarv as
' ” r ‘ "Hi:,leiPly put forth , and Mr. Fillmore
. as, >U,I proscribing pro Slav .-rv men in his »n
--c nitno *i s. '*'e: \. otV . P Ilono Z
byglcT S '‘ (> lIOW the
™ 7;,; p, '""> the VantpWet pre
i) of Alien ' ' i'-.’v }’«*•>* by tho DoinocraUc
1..,] ) ot AliyU. loth. Coiunnttei, ai yVashtne
more and I- . Friends.” ‘‘Uuctianan and’l'tlluiovß
While Vk-rihe, ,1,-llt 11. conr"'"’ f ' OX " , " 0
cn-t rofi Into a secret bar __
•at-a wnh Foote and other ( Mr. FIU„,o,v, Appoint
fiat , d'lr : ''id' ! '■-,« »>/',r..t,.Office
,i M| (.'in
w f? ■■ re is '/«' m'V » ,( * r h»F s obvious
: ,s uie at. Lo JU to 111 Jf/tm las nounnations to t, flier
ir. - I.' > ' *ii / ...!'u^ i; ' st *“ t,u * Exooutive
fS 1 t‘*lO.a, B r’.-»s.orhk.k? I ,.wi‘^.ta
dig dda, "' u^"
rUddid lUt ’’"''s'i 1 V'-‘ r 9moimato
. T . ' •««» no/wtotu by Mr
, / d j b ’'nnorc, whose reaidouoe
r» , - or m. a,g was n, rth cl Mason* lMx
nairtt.t. He ruinttl outiou’s Ifaao inclu.linc three
™:u w ddv:z!'r <* »>°
01.-Vt ; =:*l.y 'the. .e jg ■r If d
'/“ m ". ot op,- a o.n of .1,,, u,.din,
w the , r, oembe-ra of bisUnblm-t tlio
-:"7 r 7 H* *»ve 1 h.anaa Convi,,; ,f
V A 1 ”"’ ,h oP^O'^'r^WTOfthaTrea
.'hohl;, * ;amiu n: Ab "
1 3. Rwry on,s of the ap
I pointed* before referred to.
i who lent taken any public
I position **h the slavery quos-
Jt.ion, w.as known at the time
lofk>sI ofk>s appointment l o f's- be
in favor oj the Prohibition
°. f Slavery in the Territo
‘t Most of those from the
- etion retained
jtn otil.e by Mr, Fillmore,
iw.io had previously been
[appointed liy President Tuy
lor. were Freosoilers or
Wilinot Pro v Iso :sts.
I From this it would seem
that fyi, have bcoe an
(advocate of the Wilinot Pro
v|so > c-e.ostitutt-d no valid
jobj.- -tion-in the mind of Mr.
I dim ore to appointment to
These will probably strike our r.-mk-rs as some
'.lint <Kiu' .:(factory clung, sto b • lii. ,
the *xno man, m tin- - m- c napoign, and rdHiing
t.i liio sc.nio [.cii.i'i of his jiuuk ■ cftl cr. ,u
tiny m. sliikc us.
I/oi uh now • .■uii.. I ... ~i, n ;„Ht
Mr. PUllmore by tht u two . .etciu in »«.
liiiii.M to tlic Pouit-i- ••. his uil.niiu.'-lra; mi ~n Uiut •
w.-li gn; .»•«! bi.no <>! uti n.the Ku.-Itivc SI ,vo
I/uw. Wr mu . u. *■ ■ k.tflt to ro
c..ncilotin- two couiiis in u.c /..Uo.vittghi-lHilnionte,
but WO suppcsic, with Mr. Toots, ilia.' its ol uoooii
.|ucncc." Mr. I>'UlutOi» in thus arraigned by Ml
nt.jMui. uts for his preliminary action in n inlion to
the law iu limit ion :
MU. ni-I.Mt.HS lUtSfOSH-ITIIK HONOR or IHr cAs
co i’.*ll nit .’/is Aoi.j* saiii or thr. hioitim.
OF THE 1 UUITIVE BLAVI | SLA\ i LAW NOT I IRE TO
b'W. | MR. if 11.LIU (.‘RE.
fro .t/a Ath. 1. re J<tunull)From ths l)t mocratic Pan
da‘y 9, IHW. 1 phi et
The bill would never have} With a laps© i f mujapry
be. n pa < <lat alt. but for.only equal to that w liich
theaciic I-. Ip it had fr•an forgot his discrimination in
the While. Hell so. An long: 1 favor of abo tion petitions,
h' (Jep. Iktyl r w;u livivif.*-.• * ban virtually claim
the f lavery factiou U»n red «d die Cum promise of 1850
iti vain t«» pas* it. lint .ns the iu sos his admiaiitira*
the moment l o was d. adit,- Hu| there wn« no eueh
whole power and belief at ihe date of the pas
patr-mage of tin Adminis sage of r lmeuires. lie
(ration was • xerled in iis.did not oven recommend
behalf, (dtices, < .'./rect.', ilieirpn- The emser
and pit-mi.seH ware lavished vative statesmen of the Bu
te buy ii;e vetys (it lliqu'e-iioii did not “rally around
ser.sativos * One ivavor-;iiis administratiorj.” They
ing member was tendered a 'iiad pa*-«d the measures at -
Foreign Mission to Bout.h t *r weary and exciting
America. Another y. as rc-j strife. M ho. power, the hon
warded with ft lucrativ*.. j"i>. ior of “tins legislation" wa %
Another got a Marshal.ihip.'tUeira, not
By these and like appliau ,
ces n anfllcient nhmlier of
dough faces wore hired ejtli-|
er to vote for tin- bill, ortoj
stay away and not voie at,
_ I
From tlic. Alb. Btu. Journal, i
Avff. 15,1856.
jy He forced the Fugi
tive tslave Bill through Con-
as a condition of
theadimsKien of Califom'a
emjiloyiug for that purpose
bribes iu the slmpe (1 (dii es (
and patronage eoufurrod up
on pliant members them-}
selves, or upon their rela
tives and friends.
Following Mr. Fillmore down to the flnal passage
of tbo bill, we find that it i-t juu! about as difficult
for bim D,» .satisfy l)oth parties of bis opponents by
bin action upon it after it became « law, as it was to
pi '3080 them by bi« courso during the time it was be
lore Cougrc.f S. 11. e arc tbeii charges, Hide by
oide, tnvi v t; hope oar readers will be Bufinfied witb
the compui isou:
MU. FTf.MOUK’s F.AGEUVESS'VK. FIJ LMORE'S OBJBCTfOU
TO SIGN THE FUGITIVE! TO SIGN THE FUGITIVE
SLAVE LAW. SLAVE LAW'.
From the Alb Fve. Journal, Fiqui t s o Democratic
Aug. 18, 1856. Pamphlet.
If lie. ©bjuvlad to any de l lleree, according to Ah .
tails <»f the bill, i». was iii«|Fifimore’s ©ivn candid de
privilege and his conßtitu-ielarfttton before an atulieaoe
tioual duty in veturn it with}of his own southern friends,
u statcinontof tbosu objec-i he doubted the constitution*
tiocs. Instead of Rojality of the nuiaßure
doing, instead of * von lte.*i wa . opposed to it boCftuse It
tating, be signed it immedi <'ld not provide a jury trial
atoly on it* passage; e’i (as prnjiosad by
dorsed it in hi bseqiu.nl (5».) to tin: rthscondlbgaiavo,
Mi .s.- -ge.H and Proelama- itnd ■' uly signed itAvhou as
lions ; lauded A in b* stired by Onttoudon that
Hpcoelies; rcwurdo i “it was not a violation of
who voted for it with Ofliues the Constitution." John J
and patrounge, and wase..»n-Crittenden, then, and not
stantly urging dur'-ng the Millard Fillmore, is entitled
whole time ho remained <:i to the credit of the uasont of
office, that it Ought never to; ihe Bxeeutivo for signing
be repealed,but should stand) the fugitive slave
forever, as a “
Equally severe and equally contradictory are
these remarkably nagneiour* politicians iu their re
view of Mr. Fillmore's posiUon, past ami present,
upon tlie question oftbe Missouri Compromise re
peal. Fred. Douglass and William Richardson
could not present n more striking contrast—oxter
tally we mean, of course —if placed side by side,
uhand* the following charges ;
Mu. Fillmore has not Mu Fit [.more has kk
HEMONS'I rated against MOXSTIIATED AG a I .VST
THE R* >"KAL OF THf I THE UCt»FAt OF THE
Missouri Com prom sf.J Missouri sprumisk.-
From the Albany Evening From the bomocratic Pam •
Journal. Aatr. J 5, 1856. * pidet.
lie liar uIU red no word of • He has depressed the. opiyi- *
remonstrantu against tin ion that the M ssouri re
breach of faith inro Bed in strictrous should never have
the repeal oj the Mis.-u>uri\bcen repeated. Ills friends
Comprnmfre, or the all -■>•••'ic* in i« -m.; have \o*.-d for
committee 'n
on the contrary his South- » in-tions. He i>« bound by
(Tit supporters proclaim his uU anP>cedent declarations
approval of them both, Us/- ,of principles to approve any
and urge liis ele-tion >;.•> tin*.con»titiitional and formal
.sure way to ,-avc Kaasas for legislation. Thereupon it
Slavery , !is as.scrted a domenstra
jticu, that Millard Fillmore
|will, if elected PreHicnt,
TA/‘ approve the icpoal of
■ the Kaunas Act, the chief
[object of rhe Black Itepub
Let us now glance at tbe niewsof our interesting
j ' pponentM, upon Mr. FillmoreV position with regard
. to the restoration of that compromb' , upon the dis
• tu: banco of which his opinions have b» vu clearly
i and sat isftietnrily set forth.
MU. FILLMORE AOAISSTiMR. FILLMORE IN KaVOR
THE RKSTOII \TION Oi l OF TMK ICK TOKA'iIOM OK
THE MISSOURI CoMJ’JIO I THF MISSOURI COMPRO
-3 MKE. j WISE.
Fr .u (’■' AV>. Fre. Journal, ! From tho Democratic Pam
* (Jot. Z, 1856. I pit let.
A correspondnat informs According to his avowed
; as that he. f eqaently nu-(principle.h of Executive ac
, counter* in db;< nns ion withUion. Mr, Fillmore
tho Fillmore Know Noth-under positive obligation to
■ in/-the i-gT' obstinate ;« (approvetho repeal of
. sort ion. that Mr. Fill rh». right of Kansas to ad
more is in favor of n cos to [mission as a Slave State,
ration of the Missouri Com the respiration of t o
, promise-. £&* N o thin g Missouri Compromise,
could be farther from the and even The repeal of so
truth. i much of the compromise of
11850 as may be still within
|the reach of legislation.
It would appear that Mr. Fillmore speaks too much
to Kfttiidy one of the parties and too little t'o satisfy
the other, if we may j'idge from the following para
P“P h * :
Ml:. HI.I MOTH. OPENS HIS [MR. FILLMORE KEEPS His
MOUTH. | MOUTH SHUT.
\F,‘ ■ tit .I(l,any Kvrning\[From the Democratic Pam-
Journo/. Aug. 15,1856.] phi a.)
He ir v.-e the pmr of the: Compelled by the
feouthei -i Stale.;. decia ’want of any authentic dec la
ring t hat ho had abandoned'ration of his intentions in
his “early prejudices against j respect to the existing regu
81avery," recanting hi.; for-jlatioij on the subject of Sla
mer speeches against it, and: very, groping in tho dark for
prose ing deletion to Its iu-jthe means of Ascertaining
tercsts, under the hypocriti-jthc chances of escape froma
cal plea of “saving ihe Ua position of national danger,
ioti thereby.. 2 we are compelled to the only
1 Andtioally, after abolition- rule acknowledged by him
ij;g h: own party because Rjself and friends, and infer
had become “minted withjlds future course from his
Free.-Mi,” and being him- ipast ajfcj
self abandoned by more than , &"i ■1 e rigid refusal ou
half of tho new one he join-blie i'»r. of Mr, Fillmore to
ed, be bow travel, up ar.l. make an avowal ofhh> intnn
do'.‘ ii, proclaiming that the;tio;i in relation to the
.South will make atreasone- presem questions pending
ble attempt t<» <l.ssolve the.before the country, compels
I 'nh ii and ought i o rnftke it, jus to add other evidences
it b.. i: stud and op . daily presenting themselves
tefera-sv
ore the Missouri mtrlc
£|
If these “items” in Mr. Fillmore's public account
do not sui.isiactoriiy settleeach other, then we must
foufcsa our ißimranoe of > - nature of a "tt off,
ami fimittiiu' d.-uita <* early traming ... book.
U., w ,. are wholly .DCMnpete.it to n.ake out a
lm , CO ’.beet We have chosen to take the “per
wntra ' side from *l"’ <lf the Kven.nK .Joi rna.
. we kuow that our immediate inends In this
Ci. have opportunities of .'oeing that paper, and
will therefore readily sec that our quotations are
faithfully made. »r . .
StNAioR JiAi.i.otiv mvKs up Ni'v York—The
lion. Mr. Mallokv, in a iteent speech at Tailahaa
see, admitted that Buchanan could not carry New
York , and that Pennsylvania wa» doubttul. So says
the Florida Sentinel.
Kemakkable Longevitt.—Aniau namedChuroh
visited Staunton, Vs , last week, with a load of
corn from Pendleton. He yeai» old, and his
mother, aged lU7, and his fatbeu, agW Uti yean,
are both living.