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Arc abo pßbfftsiv-t at tout olfice, ar c mailed to ral>-
wcribern at t.Vj t,. ,<if , j j atca, uamclv;
Daily Pare a it sc,it by mail... A? per annum.
Tm.Wb«« iv ti'....
Tux WBWM.Yr-Bevecty.fi v« t-tst* per tay mm
10 lima or tear, for the fir- 1 iawrtfac, and fifty cent*
or ear-b eubeoijutnt imcrtio
FOit SALK
«Bfe«*ta>*d, b«ta«drouth,! if ? ring the State,
. offer* a*, private .!<• nil n BEAI. KSTATE ,r,
the townof Warreinon W&rrer,, -unt Ga. t nng
'•fa D.vHiJujp llou- fiii - ’ to,i of a~. tive *'•••*-of
Land. Alao, U«Cij'mg« hliop and ro’ Too!*, Machine.
end 'luili.i-hou work.
work ran eiuitiy ten: d of, *t good prieas, at UiU
PeiWf. •rintitiig to ;.u-ekaoe. ere regretfully Invited
PoMeMnon wiuin given at aiy unit , to unit »ke oar*
Warrenton, Oa June .1, !£#, ’* ' je7-wtf *
r NOW offer for •*!* u.y entire River PLANT AT ION.
county. Ala., lying on the G hat ta hooch •*<* river, w.utain
tog 2400 arrfiß, 1200 in a fill'. *tau: of cultivation and
good repair A good Water Min and Perrv a*» »* the
Chattahoochee river. The abov, will * lor sale at any
time nntll sold and p<M> -won gi an. 't rm« to suit pur-
_ [Jaagl-tf ) M ATT ttiaw AVBKKTT. _
TO MEN Or TASTE AND CAPITAL.
f I 1 II K KiilwwrJbrr, wtolnng io remove to Soutow extern
JL Georgia, pfiipmiH. in sell hU plat* near Give Spring,
« Vnnn’H Valley, Floyd '■ <unty. (h.. containing :ti7
acre*, more or ictv*. reptrncd Ist qualify oal- and hickory
mostly of noil and a?,-taco not u, wash , some i C() acm
c ! eared and under good tiling! . the remainder generally
well timbered. It has several .qu-jug* of cool bine Lime
stone water, two constant ..vrein:. ;. &n elective water
power without daming, orchrr-ds of many well selected
varieties, especially of apple •, and a largo and eomwodi-
U« Mrlck DWdliug, *u>T<>nnded by line scenery, end
within a mile of tin* village, long t ;> d for its educational
advantages. All who have exam i the prerni.<i», con
cur in the Opinion that to puu,r mihu.,--* tin* elements
of beauty, fertility, convenience &id heaiihfuiuc- ito n
extent seldom, if ever. - • iit din t.‘ country. 'tit
come snd see foryo«uHolv» . and the ; cter, location
and resource? of the piaoeeati hardly f..l to ity you
that it is a No. i article, not subyo-t :■> the nations
fthe market. For psruts, apply on tie premise*
' ' * W. I>. COWDREY.
Cava Spring, July 10, l•' Ji. jy i.l wtf
* POWELTOIf MILLS FOR SALE.
AH the undersigned is desirous t'» move to Bonthw• ■
. tern Georgia, he now offer i h, MlLL&and LAND
lor sale. The Mills are situated on the Ogfeeh c River,
one and a half mhos from Poweftan, on the road to Cmn
sots of runners, two wheat and two ««n The Flour
Mill hasjnst boon completed anew. The corn cistern
will exceed that <>f any two m I s.on the riv- . nod the
wheat custom will equal hu <u, T! * i-ois so situ
ated a>* to remain in it and s tho K a. .*■ and Gri st Mills In
operation.
v The LanAlies to Hancock co .aty. ok u('th‘* Og ebeo
river and Powers creek. The Lw. ,7 M acres,
more or leas, and will c<pn! any iand in the county in
producing com, wheat, cotton or os r gjains. Those
wishing to buy, wiil rail and m * f>r si.-m • Ives. The
place Ih healthv and bus ai or llcnt Weil of water in
the yard , in fa.-t, uo plantation Is bettor furnish ort with
good Springs of water. OOLI MB If is F .SHIVERS.
toyfls
Goods Forwarded Free of Charge t
AUGUSTA AND SAVA N * \ U HA TLRO.A •)
\TTKMTION Is called . ‘this lb-ad as a tnemis of
communication .viili the S ;, board ami thence w ith
Northern Ports. Time arc now i v FIRM r CLASS
STEAMSHIPS and Six Lines of Fast Nailing V.-•** i
running with regularity «ii«! dispatch between New York
and Savannah ; gi.««> a Steamship Line from Philadel
phia, and Sailing Vesstds from thru Balti:-.a re and
Boston, making the communication between the North
ern elites aud Sava.mali as reliable n r CERTAINTY
AND SPEED, as that to any e; or Southern Port.
This Roa-l can expect only tin; business of Augusta, the
Towns aud Cdunttort tilong the lme of the Gc *vg’a Rail
road, and those Countie iyingto the North of that Road.
Other Roads have a larger field of operations that caunot
bo neglected merely to secure so Itm :<ul r trade a*
that to which w-* mud no ?• v« all our rut; ami
no competitor will i»eallow «'d, bv , • iur at!cation, to
deprive us of it, for it is our lull detenu *>nation to conduct
it with lliat fidelity, dispatch ami economy, which i s sure
ultimately to gain and retai, it.
As regards Rales, they shall b« as low as by any other
Road ami in order to reduce all charge to a u:hiimum
fate, contracts for Drayngo have abt.ady been entered
into at Hr van nab, arid no ona connected with the Roceiv
ing and Forwarding has any other interest than thp.t ot
seeing that ALL CHARGES nr© at the lucre, t rates.
JfgP’”'By Il&ilroari ti saving of one quarter ot one per
cent can be made in the lusuraneo belwecu Northern
Ports and Augusta.
All Goods FORWARDED FREE OF COM MIS
SIGNS. They should be mark'd “atiu -of the O. l-f it
Agent,” Rarvaunah.
published by order of th- Board.
FRANCIS IV WILLIS, President.
Ju’y 1, 1H5"». jya6
ASSISTANT TEACHER.
AYOIJNjU LAD Y, eminently qualified, by educa
tion and t!xpcrieu< , o, to instruct in ail tho branches
of a thorough English education, desire* ;i situation as
Assistant in some Female Seminary, at the South. The
highest testimomals will be fumislied.
Address Miss C. F. G., lluniLown, Acoomae county,
Virgtnla. »epSd w4t
TORMAW'S IRON FLOW-STOCK.
rpHK undersigned. having mm-hascd tb«- patent r»«fht
JL to the above valuable and popular PLOW for the
counties of KiohmouL Columbia, L*uc« !u. Burke, J offer
non, Washington, Seri von and Ktmuraa), are prepared to
urntoh it to plantui* at the manufacturer’* price, ibis
•dock, which ix made entirely of wrought iron, i» a South
ern luvemion& iU ha* been sariiciently te-aod to prove
that It n»uß m‘*re steadily, toeakn and pulv rsze the f oil
more thoroughly, clog* ie-, in rough laud, u>nn re easily
adju:,t, (l for deep or shallow p! ring, holds tho pharos
more firmly, lad* I. ■ aud is, In the
end, fa. eb. apor «1. • • y other si » , *.v in u.<e. This
statement la bynumer*. certlihatc iu
our possession from the most practical cud successful
plauters in the oouuiry. \Yc will haso picture
intending a circular containing so. .. cf«hssn ecrtUicattr*
and a more juti i .?’.lc.r de* *ion of the plan ■ • any
refer to any ore who hr givcu this 11 ew a fair trial. In
the Nov No. of tbo Soothe n U.u .; ; V ‘‘ ‘V 1 '
tor of that wor*. raye: -UVr giv! . U-is Plow a tnir
and impartial t»hd wo can tru , -ay, that w o regard it as
■A most valuable improvement on all t r . v ooden
i raplemeuts of tbs kin-1 now La ueo. e'er general enkion
mV and eoavonioQCv as wei! «• ia adaptable o deep
ill age or acbsoiUng, v*e know of nothing th;it surpasses
t; while ou the acero of economy and durabil : . It is
altogether tmrlv&iotl. No pi. v .tb which vre . • r.u.l
->*r, hi so wdß calculated In reslut the curthva p- •.! dts
irurtlvo u<.ag< of Plantation Negroee. and wo doubt not
that its gout-: &X Intrr in '-uv.•> «M l of very gr<*r p' u*
• utary beneflttothc t ' f .
- etnbraoUig ewery variety which a planter vo ' I need
from the beginning to ten end of the ye-.,.. The - shares
will be furn-ibis'V i*x tho -Stock. -Ten desired . hough
any plantation ‘r. - h r*a *r.*ketfc«tt .-trier or. seeing
them.
Rights for cot .x “ca, f.• ' >pa, <v* r rianlatt- • w.ll
;
Htores in Augusta, or ft iro.-is I. O. FIT TEN & Co.
deolS-trtf Angus a. Ur..
■ > ANA WA V »ni«nriberon 40. »!*y. a No*rp
IV Man n«!'.oa W ' UN i . a* ■ - «W,
live feet eight or nine inch j high, weighing about or
170 lbs. It to likely uo will make \is way to le a *t*\
as he runaway tw< yea:- and s •*._ ol iaM»> ••' die
jail, Monrce county. T.—-yo-i. r." r nino mon !l - and
would not tell who h;-l . U ne.> v d to. ii. has in r. ij any
with him a Negro .'<•■» boloug'ug t*» V*’ XT. ‘fto* .
named Felts, about CU year.- ..id o.- *iU 5 feet or tv*
« inches higti, weighs about itk). i 170 1 hml'd . . com
plected. .They were I t see?; near bex'ugt Ogh
thorpe countv, Oft wl.b p»-•>.-* to g>> to <‘h.o. ’.t v
are taken, Washington w d not toil his ov. uei * t- oar
help it. Wo will pay the a vt reward to ary pers 'U
who will deliver them to us or pui them in - ‘
J all so that we can got then- or tvv euty dollars • . .'her
of them. WASHINGTON ! BRA N 1 U’.Y,
W. W SLMFSON.
Onlverton PoatofUee. Hancock county. Ga.
Knoxville Register < y tour times and -ward
account to this office tor p«> uieut. i •. 1
$96 RSWABD.
I WII.I. lAy th ' »! . V, : r -' u .. . ». a
L lodgmout In jail »-t my l»«»y UAMvi S .1
be taken at a distance t: Augusta aadti.- ••cr>* c.
taking him choose to hr • . m 1 me, I wUi pa\ a I
ditton t« the nil flu it v-v'.-ary >s| .• uditg
his delivery. Harry (Mart:n) is a dra; rate UHi k-la . and
plasterer, years of ago. hi.u ‘ c '
and weighs probably 165pouch' Heisgon.ga • t K
eouutry working ou h; • own v - n.t r..r 1: •:?.•.• n«
thority. Bo <h>ub?io'-J has e i u*« t.ck-. a. ! o • u . a
wife at Mr Greim r’s near San l<*r*v sc, aud on. a.-o ;.t
Gov. Schlev’s Factory 1 have heard cf his -.ng |
Burke, JexTeraon and Wash ; a counties, am oon
n Carolina. All person> are h.-reby cautioued against
employing said boy, or any of my other median' . wllh
ont permissionfbom me or iv.y A n'..
“ tayfy-wtf JOHN H FITTKN.AngUBtr.Qa. j
S3O REWARD.
Ran it? i v.
uam county, hear MertflJ, la Adjust last, my Ncg.o
Man FRANK tie ah -t *>.** ye:,-' d. ilvc tV- ten i j
ches high, of medium sdze, has a -ilgr.t impediiucut ink j
speech, and has lost the y!: of one ey Ht " - rais.. ; j
in Virginia, and bas been >n v-' rgnt abort two ycav
The above reward v. u< paid f> iis de livery t m ,
or to anv jail so that Icau .-ict^i
ia&l wtf JOI NA. HARRIS. !
The Southern Recorder v. 1 p.ibiisatUl i' -r i, and for- ■
ward account to this oflaco t -r \.» vn *nt I
S2O REWARD.
I WILL pay the above reward u, a; re' cnsU .t j
A aud delivery to me, or t::e i -igement \v au\ afe .ta j
iu Georgia er S»-uth Carolitt.i > that 1 ruugctb f
Negro Man named WILLI AM. He -a S • ito.
Maker; is crippled in bis right leg; is about foci 4or 6 ]
inches high ; stammers to taika-:;. cf dark com plea mi |
can read aud write ar.J may ::a c a pa.'S of hei >•»
writing. RU father lives m Oraugebuig, ruid las moth* r
at Shell Bluff. I purchased him from G rc« u A
back. JOHN i SCTTON.
auiS wtf Ua\ svii:>, tit
ADGUSTA WOBKS, AUGUSTA, GA!
TUB LM>R&SU;NK£D. uavlug purchased the e-
X tensive MACHINi ctIOPS, FOUNDRY audCA A
SHOP, withsdl the macb . . « -dio tbe same, bet
tofore belonging t« the Company known as the ’*Augu»:a j
, Machine Wortrn.” are now to es«cute orde
forCASTINGS. MILL GEARING GIN GEARIN’
MINING MACHINERY, MTaM KNGINEs * :
BOILERS. SAW MLLI.S. c m t , c SHAFTING ai i :
PULLEYS. RAILROAD v. ARS a • - ißox , S Wn
BOAT MACHINERY. - wry ' . * >uof w ' >
usually made iu tirst-c.:.>- MachuK SUcj >, >t u a
or Wood. Orders for work, m.s Si*ecic o eontractod u.
must be accompacued wiih dej -slt of 50 per c«i j
on the supposedvalue of the work ordered and the rv.
wainderpa I on delivery of the work Ad.lre.'S ail 1, .
tern on business to L. HOPKINS sic CO.
PUOX’RIFT »RS.
Hl'hßl H. CVMMING. GKO W SU *.MKRS,
W.M D’ArrwKiC, Ror. iir Y. Harris,
»ep3CkdAw6m LA*tHy.Tt- Hors .v=
253 NEGROE S FOR SALE.
JHAVE become unabi*to attend y? my Cote jh l
tale properly, and therefore wdl o ;er a aii for sa
at auction, on Monday, the 15tb day oi December nex\
The Plantation i§ situated about twenty nor: .
from Jackson. Mississippi, the true Gotten Latitude, ax ;
about ten miles west of the g ~eat Northern Railroad from
New Orleans to the Northern Siates. The whole tra-t
contains 35tK) acres—277o a . res are under successful cu ;
tivation—whicu will be sold in two tracts. Two goc a
new Gin Houses, with four line Gut Stands. There w .
be sold at the same time about 100 Mules and all tit a
farming implement
The Negroes are trained rt>tt*m hands, and are a val
uable lot, and will be sold ia tamil.es. Tho Negroes
and Implement* wiil be soul for cash or its equivi
ients. The land wid be sdd for one third cash, ti e
ba'ance in two equal msiaimenta, due in and one twj
yaars.
*»ep*il-widec7 MARK ¥1 GOCKRILL.
SITUATION WANTED.
A N •xperUQctj Overseer, a man of steady 1 abits and
unt’ruur lncliiatry, wilL a rmail family, desires a
SITUATION tur the coming vear. Good references
can be given Addr*** farmer, Madison. Ga.
oct2Jw2t
ROPE, no coUs~i^ha r ;i sol 7 3 Hemp Leaf ROPE
for sale by HAND, WILCOX.* CO
•P
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
C|roniflf &
Fr in the Lomstille Journal.
The Drmorratir Parly ( umankrd.—Squatter
>ov< pfcjKnty Defined*—The Freeeoiliam of
the Democratic Platform Proved from the
Records.
The So a them organa of the Cincinnati Platform
party are now struggling in the toils which were set
t>y the:*..-five*. They hoped to deceive the South
into the support of their infamous Squatter Sove
reignty doctrine, and thue to cheat th»- South into an
r-i.00r.-H-meut of u principle more Insidious than
Will not ProvUoi.-m .*elf. The Cincinnati Platform
a bargain by which the South wm to be soidto
Fr. »-*>; The cou.iciencelese plotter* of this in
trigu- hoped to h*cai)« detection, but the exposition
of their \ ciainy luia been made, and now the very
M i l © -ham Democratic organ*, which a few weeks
ago w< re loudly praising the principle of squatter
«.ver<;:;riity. and attempting to defend it, m the
hg'iag ot their squatter sovereignty leader, a*
•• derived from the original and pure fountain of
if.>i*i mate political power,” aod “founded upon
principles up. ancient as free government ifrdf,”
n • . iw'. : . •'iy endeavoring to deny their
tab} f J\ y abandon the position assumed by Bu
cS .uan and hia friends, the Van Burena, and deny:
thru there i J any squatter-sovereignty’sni in the
Kansaa-Nebrawka act. or in the Cincinnati! Plat
form . and nay that, if it is there expressed, it is no
more than h eor.i lined in the territorial bills of 1850,
known a r .. C* mpromhe measures, and that, after
. i, it is ajunieial question, which only the Supreme
( ourt of • -(■ rnited States has a right to determine.
Tiii.- • abjectly begging the whole question. The
Sag-Xicht organs ar** at tbii late day endeavoring
to mystify the people ot the South in regard to squat
ter sovereignty. They have discovered that wherc
ever it is rightiy understood il is indignantly repudi
ated by the people of the South, but they shall not
thus escape.
sovereignty iathe doctrine that the resi
dents of a Territory, while in a territorial condition
.have the right to frame such domestic institutions
as thoy choose, and in the vxerc>*> of this right to
onoheh or > > staUish slavery. TLe practical effect
ot tijis do' trine is to secure to freesoilisin every inch
oi Territory to the Union. The superior
htcihiies of the anti-slavery population of the North
in peopling t'ne Tenitories by pouring into them a
tide of foreign immigrants give them all the advan
:.ag»Tfl they seek for excluding slavery from all the
Territories which are yet to be erected into States.
Slavery i- recognized by the Constitution. By
that in&tru ent slaves are recognized and protect
ed as property. The South has always contended,
and that opinion has been hitherto acquiesced in
wry g.-.aerally, that the Territories have been ac
quireu by the common blood and treasure of the peo
ple of th< whole Union, are the common property of
all tin people of all the States, and that, ichVt they
an-. n n territorial condition , the people of any of
the States have a right to go into them and to take
with them their property of any description, inclu
ding slaves, and are entitled to the protection of the
Constitution for tlicir persona mul property until a
State constitution shall be adopted and the territory
erected into a save* -ign Slate.
Heretofore the effort of the Freesoilers has been
to place the anti-slavery restriction known as the
Wiirnot Proviso in the constitutions of all new States
applying for admission into the Union. Until sug
; v-ted by the devilish ingenuity of Stephen A.
1 louglas, for the purpose of re-opening slavery agi
t i! on, no attempt w as made by the most ultra atjo
lition schemers to go behind the adoption of the
State constitution to effect the exclusion of slavery
from new States or from the Territories by Congres
ioiia! legislation Until then, the great object of
the abolitionistb hail been to require that every
i: • w State should adopt an anti slavery constitution
before its admission into the Union. Upon this the
whole fight had been made. The South contended
that the ciLiz its of a Territory , when regularly
a scmbU d in Com ■ntion to form a State Constitu
te f, and not fill then , have the right to adopt either
a pro-slavery or an anti-slavery constitution, and to
! nutted into the Union either wdth or without
shivery.
1 nth* Territorial bills for Utah and New iVioxico,
whit 1; w ere included in the series of measures known
a- ilie ( im»promis( measures of 1850, the principles
contended for by the South were distinctly recog
nized and settled. Both sections of the Union ai;-
quiesced n this settlement, and both the old Whig
and old Democratic papers agreed to abide by it as
>\ filial adjustment, in principle and substance, of
the whole slavery question, ami promised to “resist
ail attempts at renewing in Congress or out of it,
the slavery agitation, under whatever shape or color
ti attempt may be made.” The continued agita
tion of this dang' rous and exciting question was
thus « stopped. The Fieesoil fanatics of the North
were completely disarmed. Tin* hydra-headed mon
ster Abolitionism was subdued and silenced and
peace was restored to the whole country. There was
no squatter sovereignty ism in the Compromise mea
sures of 1850, for by them the right of the cit izens of
tlu Territories, while in a Territorial condition, to
hold slave property was especially recognized, and
provisions were made for the protection of such pro
perly during that period.
The Cincinnati platform “recognizes and adopts
the principles contained in the organic laws estab
lishing tli* Territories of Kansas and Nebraska” as
the platform of the Democratic party in regard to
the slavery question. To cheat the South into a
support of* the infamous doctrine of Squatter Sove
reignty, it also asserts that these “principles” were
the basis of the Compromise of 1850. Ties is a great,
staling, unmitigated falsehood upon the very face
of the platform. Tin Compromises of 1850 losirict
the rights of suffrage in the Territories to Citizens
of the United States. The Kansas Nebraska bill
confers the right upon aliens and actual residents,
or squatters in the Territories. The Compromise
measures recognize the right of the citizens of the
i’erritoiies to uol I and have protection for their
slave property in the Territories while they arc in a
:< rteoi tal cone itivu, uml until they are admitted as
sovereign Slates. The Kansas Nebraska bill gives
to the aliens and squatters in the Territories, while
to a territorial condition, the right to legislate upon
the subject of slavery and to “decide for tlicrn
civcs " “like the people of a sovereign State/*
"whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their
Limits.’' The Kansas Nebraska bill takes away
the protection guaranteed to slave property in the
Territories during their Territorial condition and
confers upon the aliens and squatters there the
right to exclude slavery therefrom. This is Squat
ter Sovereignty. It is the doctrine advocated by
the North ns a better and more effective and more
practical Fieesoil measure than the Wiirnot Provi- ,
<>. In practical operation it will forever exclude
slavery from all our Territories which are not already
covered by the Wilmot Proviso restriction. This is
the Squatter Sovereignty doctrine which has been
denounced by all parties in the South, and denoun
ced moat emphatically by the Southern Democratic
party up to the very moment of its adoption in the
Cincinnati platform and its explicit endorsement by
James Buchanan in his letter of acceptance. In 18 IB
i his Squatter S u en iguty doctrine was first obscure
ly intimated by Gen. Cass in his celebrated Nichol
son letter. It w b then scornfully and indignantly
repudiated by the whole South. The Democratic
State Convention of Alabama declared that “Con
; n baa no right to inter!' re with slavery in the
States and Territories, an A that the inhabitants of a
Teri dory hare no right to do so until they meet in
'onrention to lone a State constitution.'' John C.
Calhoun denounced this Squatter Sovereignty doc
trine as “worse than Wilmot Provisoism , and £as
•• •' mostodA sdoctrineeveradvancedbf an Amer -
N lahviße Union and American, the
chief organ of the Tennessee Democracy, said it is
“ifncompatible with the Constitution” and **» doc
trim if all others the most odious to the South.” —
The Democratic State conventions of both Alabama
and Virginia declared that it is “as i defensible in
principle and dangerous in practice as Wilmot
Prvrhoism,” and that they “ will never support
any candidate for the Presidency who maintains it.”
The Kichmoml Enquirer, the chief organ and most
vindictive and furious supporter ot the great leader
of the Southern disunion party and most prominent
of all the Southern Democratic organs, only a few
wm ks before the adoption of the Cincinnati plat
form said :
“Among the fair but fal«e and fatal theories of the
day, none attracts so much homage as the ‘squatter
sovereignty’ courtezan. There arc none so radiaut
with meretricious charms, none so ready with de
ceitful promise, and none so sure to cover their vic
tim with shame and reproach. The sovereignty of
the people is a noble principle, and should com
n„i:id mtiv- rsal homage. 'Squatter Sovereignty'
is ,m iiiifH>sture—a counterfeit copy—an ugly idoi
4 -■ f l>v men's hand*, and should be kicked o[f
tr, , ,-h .'.t .-U >■' chert it sits <n mock majesty and courts
the, at ion of foots and demagogues ”
While the Southern Democracy were thus vio
lently denouncing this doctrine, “of all others the
most odious to the South,” the Freesoil Democracy
of the North were everywhere falling in love with
it as a better Freesoil measure than any that had
ever been suggested. Northern Democratic Sena
tors and members of Congress and Northern Demo
cratic organs have been tilled with extatic delight
by the adoption of this principle, which promises so
easily to effect all their Freesoil purposes. General
Shields, n Democratic Senator from Illinois, declared
iu a speech at Springfield, that the Kansas-Nebras
ku bi l eject naily prevents the admission of another
.a start territory into /he Union." Governor
Wri. at, the Democratic Governor of Indiana, de
dared— "the Kansas-Nebraska bill is the fast Wit
i ■ enactcd r ast my South era brethren
‘find < at. ' President Pierce himself said of it :
* / eonsidtr inis tail proposition in favor of
free/term .” and President Pierce's own home or
pin. the New Hampshire Patriot spoke of it thus:
“The abolitionists have harangued for freedom,
preached for freedom, and, as they say, prayed for
n -• dom over this vast territory. Should they not
; hank heaven aud be content when they receive what
tl)t v asked ? Indeed they now admit, almost without
an exception, that such results have been secured by
‘ Nebraska bill—results grand, permanent, and
glorious, such as no single act of Congress has ever
before secured. The Nebraska bill works glorious
ly and triumphantly for freedom. No act of any
President or anv Congress has secured so much and
so suddenly and so easily for liberty.”
This is the measure which the Democratic party
has adopted as the corner-stoi eof its faith. These
. the principles which they are moving heaven
tuid carta, ana stifling their consciences and per
■■ iring themselves, and making the very atmoe
phere around them thick with talsekoods,* frauds,
and villainy, to induce the people of the South to
adopt. This is the vile bargain by which the lead
trs of the Democratic party have endeavored to
Mma the Southern Democracy and sell them to tho
Northern freesoil faction.
In their anxiety to conceal from the masses of the
people the hideous deformity and the rotteuuees and
orruptiou of this wretched platform, some of the
- -.ithern Democratic organs and manv of the De
ri. stump speakers in the South have had the
ast.mg impudence to declare that thereto no
squatter sovereigutyism in their platform, nor even
m the Kansas Nebraska bill. They certainly wiil
nut controvert the testimony of their own candi
idalcs for the Presidency and Vice Presidency,
ho ,- a of whom ha' v not only declared that the prin
ciple of squatter sovereignty is distinctly aunounc
i d in the Kansas bill, but have themselves adopted
.•ad endorsed it without any qualification whatever.
Iq bis letter of acceptance, in allusiou to the Kan-
Nebraska bill, Mr. Buchanan says;
This legislation (the Kansas bill) to founded up
on principles as ancient as free government itself.
: ...d. in accordance with them, has simply declared
that .V n .yp. I ,' of a Territory, like those of a State,
s 0;,'.: decide for themselves, whether slavery shall or
i it n-.r exto t wi. hin their limits.'*
. u , !i t ! which was made bv John C.
. 1 camridge. in Septe:nber last, ou the Tippecanoe
i vit'tc ground, and which has been extensively pub
-1 “ vliea , m Democratic newspapers, this De
mocratic candidate for the Vioe Presidency said
I am connected with no party which has for its
object tke extension ot slavery, nor with anv to pre
vent the peopie of a State or Territory fromde
'fefi tftTZZ '* ,enccor . dkextoete
t "’’ n C’ f .<«»/»«. I happen*, to b« Jo Con
gress when the Nebraska bnl pnssto.and cave it rr,,.
vote, and because it did what it did. viz. fr
kiuncJedged the right of the people of the Territory
to stifle the question for themselves, and not be
j case I supposed, what I do Dot believe, that it le
gislated slavery into the Teiritory.”
Thus both the Democratic candidate for the Pre
| sideocy aud the Democratic candidate for the Vice
j i > re'idency. standing upon the Cincinnati platform
which adopts the principles of the Nebraska bill as
j <‘&niinal points of Democistio faith, have emphati
• t ally declared, int erms that admit of no other con
struction, that the Kansas-Xebraska bill unequivo
cally asserts this detestable principle of squatter
sovereignty and they themselves endorse it fully and
■ plainly, knowing, as they must know, what it u» and
i what will inevitably be its results.
| There to no means of escape for the Democratic
{ P«ty from iu endorsement of this monstrous abo
lition principle. The unqualified approval of the
~ v-4
Kansas-Nebraska bill has been made the teat ot
true Democracy. It is vain for Southern Demo
cratie organs now to a tempt to mystify the people
of the South as to the true meaning ot the bill. Not
only has it been clearly defined by Buehansu and
Breckinridge, but the Congressional records pre
sent incontestible proofs that it was the intention
and meaning of those who concocted this nefarious
swindle, to incorporate in it the “ Squatter Sove
reignty courtezan.” clothed in such verbiage as to
hide, if possible, from the South its naked and re
volting deformity, so that it might be used the more
insidiously and the more surely for the benefit of
freesoiiism. Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, was the author
of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, anu he Las emphati
cally declared, in the debate upon the bill for the
admission of Kansas, that it was the true intent and
meaning of the bill to confer upon the Territorial
legislature the power to exclude slavery from the
Territory.
To show this matter plainly, and beyond possibili
ty for doubt or cavil, we quote from the record—
the Congressional Globe—giving the Senate debate
of July 1856. on the bill for the admission of Kan
sas—pages 796-7-8.
Pending the debate, Mr. Trumbull offered tue fol
lowing amendment, as an additional section to the
bill:
And U itfurther enacted , That it was the true in
tent and meaning of the “Act to organize the Terri
tories of Nebraska and Kansas” not to legislate
slavery into Kansas, nor to exclude it therefrom,
but to leave the people thereof perfectly free,
through their Territorial Legislature, to regulate the
institution of slavery in their own way, subject only
to the Constitution of the United States, and that,
until the Territorial Legislature act upon the sub
jeet, the owner of a slave in one of the States lias no
right or authority to t<ike such slave into the Terri
tory of Kansas and hold him as a slave : but every
s’ave taken to the Territory of Kansas by his owner
for purposes of settlement is hereby declared to be
free, unless there is some valid act of a duly consti
tuted Legislative Assembly of said Territory, under
which he may be held as a slave.
This amendment was voted down, because, as sev
eral members declared, it presented a “judicial ques
tion,” was “utterly irrelevant,” flee.
Mr. Trumbull then offered the following amend
ment:
And be it further enacted, That the provision in
the “Act to organize the Territories ot Nebraska
and Kansas” which declares it to be the “true in
tent und meaning” of said act “not to legislate
slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude
it therefrom, but to leave the people thereofperfect
ly free to form and regulate heir domestic institu
tions in their own way, subject only to the Consti
tution of the United States,” was intended to, and
d ><■* confer upon, or leaves to the people of Kansas,
i • p v/er at any time through its Territorial Legis
latui r. to exclude slavery from said Territory, or to
recognize and regulate it therein.
On motion this amendment was amended by ad
ding thereto the words—“subject only to the Con
stitution of the United States.”
Mr. Douglas. The reading of the amendment in
clines my mind to the belief, that in its legal efVect it
is precisely the same with the original act. Hence
i should have no hesitancy in voting for it except
tbut it is putting in this bill a matter which does not
belong to it.
Mr. Trumbull. Mr. President, 1 will avow very
frankly what my object is. I know very well that
this Kansas Nebraska bill is discussed very diffe
rently in different sections of the country. It lias
a Northern and a Southern look. In the Northern
States it is advocated on the ground that the people
of the Territory at any time tit rough their Territo
rial Legislature have the right to exclude slavery as
they please. I understand that a very different
opinion prevails in the South. * * * *
Now, sir, it was fbr the purpose of arriving at u de
finition of what was intended by that bill, which is
construed differently in different parts of the coun
try. that I offered this proposition.
Mr. Douglas. Perhaps I know fully as well as my
colleague liow that question is discussed in the
Northwest. I say the construction put upon it has
been this : By the 6th section of the KansaM-Ne
braaka Act, we conferred on the Territorial Legisla
ture authority to legislate on all rightful subjects of
legislation, not excepting slavery ; then another
clause declared it be the true intent and meaning of
the act not to legislate slavery into the Territory, or
to exclude it therefrom: but’ to leave the people
thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their do
mestic institutions in their own way. subject only to
the Constitution of the United States ; and, there
fore, all the power which it is competent or possible
for Congress to confer on the Territorial Legislature
is conferred by that act. it is conferred subject to
tue limitations of the Constitution ; but those words
do not alter or affect the meaning of the clause.
*■ * That is the way in which the friends of
lie Nebraska bill have argued the question. * *
Everybody on the other side of the chamber has
said by lii« vote (on t-lie firnt amendment of Mr.
Trumbull) that it was the true intent and meaning
of that act to leave the quest ion to the Legislature, of
that Territory. They have so voted because they
say it is pertinent to this bill to declare that. * *
They know that we vote against putting it in this
bill, because it is improper to put it there, although
it is just what the act declares. Now we understand
each other, and I hope, therefore, we shall have no
further controversy.
Mr. Trumbull. My colleague says that we who
vote for this proposition declare, of course, the true
intent and meaning of the act to be to confer on the
Territorial Legislature the right to regulate slave
ry, and he hopes we shall not deny it before the
people.
Mr. Douglas. I will expose that quibble now.
My colleague said he offered the amendment in good
faith, in order to find out the true intent and mean
ing of the act; and us he voted that way, 1 took
his word to be true. 1 stated that I voted against
his proposition because, although it expressed the
true idea, it was improperly attached to this bill.
Then he lias reversed what I said, in order to make
his charge true. If he will represent me as I said,
his charge is not true. He puts into my mouth
words which I did not utter, suppresses those which
I did use, and, founded ou that misrepresentation,
makes a charge which is not true.
How earnestly Mr. Douglas repudiates the idea
that he is opposed to Squatter Sovereignty! how
zealously he insists that it is the true doctrine of
the Kansas-Nebraska bill!
Mr. Trumbull. The Senator misunderstands me.
I did not put. any words into his mouth. We have
not yet voted ou this amendment.
Mr. Douglas. The one on the point to which I
have alluded (Mr Trumbull’s first amendment) has
already been voted down; and I stated at the time
that I voted against it because it would be impro
per to attach it to this bill I agreed that its
legal effect was the same, as that of the original bill.
If we had voted against it because such was uot
the meauiugof the act, the charge would be true ;
but we declared that the amendment expressed the
true meaning of the act, aud we voted against it be
cause it was improper to be attached to this bill,
for the reason that by this bill we provide for super
seding the territorial governments by the establish
ment of a State government. YVe voted “nay” be
cause this was the wrong placefor it. Th other side
voted “yea’’ because suen was the true intent and
meaning of the act.
This record is conclusive. The maiu feature of
the Cincinnati plutform to the principle of squatter
sovereignty The Democratic party iu the South
have thus beeu shamelessly betrayed iuto the hands
of the abolitionists. Thus a party, claiming to be
the peculiar guardians of Southern rights and South
ern luteresis, are actually a<«vocatin£ this Freesoil
measure as a cardinal priueiple ot their political
faith, a measure which John C. Calhoun and other
great Democratic leaders in the South have de
nouuced as “the worst form of despotism on the face
of the earth,” and declared that “it should be regar
ded in no other light than as a skillful weapon, tor
ged by the abolitionists and used for the prosecution
of their cause ” The last convention of the Freesoil
Dem. crats of New York, in accordance with the
opinion of their distinguished leaders in the Senate,
declared “that squatter sovereignty was more use
ful to the Freesoil movement than the Missouri
Compromise itself.” There is no necessity, said
their orators, “to restore that compromise ; there is
no neea to disintegrate our party on accouut of its
repeal; that very repeal has secured the principle of
squatter sovereignty, and we need nothing more to
drive slavery out of every territory, and assert the
rights of our African ‘friends and brothers!’ ”
Are the people of the South prepared to give their
approbation to this doctrine? Can Southern Dem
ocrats give their support to a party that has made
this Freesoil measure the chief article in its creed,
or their votes to candidates who, like Buchanan and
Breckinridge, have publicly, in their letters and
speeches, endorsed, and who now maintain this
abominable squatter tovereignty doctrine, a doc
trine more hostile to the South than any YVilmot
Proviso ever presented, and which forever excludes
the Southern States from any participation in the
benefits of our vast public territories ? This is the
head and front of modem Democracy. We cannot
believe that the masses of the Democratic party at
the South are willing to bo thus sold to Abolitionism
aud cheated by unscrupulous demagogues into the
support of abolition measures. Let them be warn
ed in time. No false clamors of “fusion’’ can hide
from the«gaze of the people the hideous deformity of
their squatter *sovereiguty platform.
A Glimpse at Buchanan Democracy.
Some of the people of the siaveholding States
have been cheated into the belief that the Buchanan
party iu the free States is not opposed to slavery or
its extension. We tell our readers, aud we have
cited a thousand evidences to prove the fact, that
the masses of the Buchanan men in the free States
are thorough freesoilers, avowing themselves such
whenever and wherever they think that the avowal
can be safely made. YVe have at this moment be
fore us, the Pennsylvania Argus of the 9th instant,
one of the most influential organs in that State. It
says :
The Democratic party to now. and alwavs has
beeu. opposed to the extension of slavery. The re
peal of the Missouri Compromise was simply a aues
tion of expediency, and whatever may have been
the motives for its repeal, we honestly and sincerely
believe that its practical results wiil be a death blow
to the extension of slavery.
Compare this with the Ohio handbill we copied
a few days ago, announcing that those two
great champions and candidates of the Buchanan
Democracy of Ohio, Dr. Wayne Griswold and Hon.
Jno. Cradiebaugb would speak at a designated place
and time, aud calling the * meeting as a meeting of
the friends of the Union, those who are opposed to
legalizing slavery in the territories, and who are
opposed to making all children bora of slave motii
eis in those Territories for the next two years slaves
for life, this evening, Saturday, September *30,1856,
at Wittich’s Hall.
Aud side by side with this call, let our readers
look at the other Buchanan handbill we copied, an
nouncing the raising of two hickory* poles at Sou.h
Bloomfield in Ohio on the 29th ult., and a grand Bu
chanan mass meeting upon the occasion, to be ad
dressed by Hon. S. S. Cox, Hon. J. Cradiebaugb,
Hon. E. B- Olds, Dr. Wayne Griswold, and others
of the most dtotinguisin-d Buchanan men of Ohio.—
In that handbill, the call was made in large capitals,
Come up and help arrest the spread of slavery over
the vast Territories of Kansas and Sebraska ! !
The Black Republicans in Cougress have voted to
pollute those Territories with the curse of slavery.
Thus it to an actual fact that in Pennsylvania and
Ohio the Buchanan men on the eve of the recent
elections in those two great States, openly election
eered for the abolition vote on the ground that their
party to far more an abolition party than the Black
Republicans. Yes, they actually go to the length of
assailing the Black Republicans, the abolitionists,
the Fremontere, as being too friendly to slavery* and
of electioneering for themselves upon the pretence
that they will withstand the Black Republican ef
forts in favor of slavery. They pass themselves off
upon the Northern masses as the only simon-pure
abolitionists in the country; and cry* aloud for the
election of Mr. Buchanan as the very* consumma
tion of the highest abolition hopes and aspirations.
Isn’t ali this a beautiful spectacle for toe contem
plation of a Southern man f— Lou. Jour.
New French Coinage.—'Thereceni gold coinage
of France has been limited to the Napoleou of
twenty franca value and the double Napoleon of
forty francs, called under the Bourbon regime the
Lome, and the double Louii. The silver coin are
the five franc piece, the franc, and the demi-franc.
It is now stated that in consequence of the extent
of the exportation of the silver coin and its conse
quent scarcity the issue of gold five franc pieces to
authorized, and that the bank of France has made
a contract with the mint for the coinage of 10,000,000
of these coins, amounting to 50,000,000 francs, and
to famish them at the rate of 175,000 francs, a day.
Ihe of these coins, if of the same standard
and comparative weight aB the Napoleon, as they
doubtless will be 96 cents and 65,100 of our cur
rency ; or 3 and 37-100 ptr o*nt. lew than the Ame
rican dollar.
Philadelphia, Oct. 23 -Judg. Burrill of the
Supreme Court of Kansan Territory, died to-day in
this city.
AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER *>9. 1856.
From~fhe Baltimore Patriot of Saturday
Lute-i from Nicura^ua.
The steamship Texas. Capt. Forbes, from San
Juan del Norte, via Key A\*est, put into Hampton
Roads on Thursday for a supply of coal. She has on
board 74*2 passengers and $15*6,563.66 in specie.—
Some of the passengers came up in the Norfolk boat
this morning. A friend has furnished us with files
of late Nicaragua papers.
The New Republic was reported as quiet when
the Texas sailed, and everything about Sau Juan
bore the impress of improvement.
From the El Nicaraguense we lake the following
items :
Lndependksck Day —Monday, the 15th day of
September, was celebrated in this city with becom
ing enthusiasm, by the native population. The day
was ii e our Fourth of July, being the thirty-fourth
anniversary of the Declaration of Nicaraguan Inde
pendence trom old Spam. The President's mansion
and the other principal houses in the city were or
namented in front with palm leaves. Every house
had a flag swung out from the window ; and the
different foreign representatives display ed the ban
ners of their respective countries. The American,
French, Danish, Russian, English, and Prussian
dags were displayed in front of the Legations and
Consulates. The city wore a gay and brilliant ap
pearance ; and at night a genera! illumination of
the public and private houses took place. In the
morning, the principal officers oi State and of the
Municipality assempled atthe Hall of Justice, when
forming a procession, they marched to the church.
The Rev. Father Vijil officiated in the performance
of High Mass, after which the choir chanted the Te
Deum.
Gran ada to be a Future Venice. —At no great
distance from the city of Granada are situate a
cluster of the most beautiful and fertile islands it is
possible to conceive. They vary from a few square
yards to several aauate miles in superficial extent.
Beyond these, and separated trom them by a deep,
navigable channel, stands the large island of Zape
taro, whose bold headlands and irregular surface
serve as a guide to all who navigate the lake. Za
taro is in its western extremity scooped out so as to
form an almost circular bay, and the shore of the
mainland opposite having a deep curve, an almost
circular bay is formed, of several miles in diameter,
feo securely sheltered by highlands a.= to make the
slightest skiff lie secure upon its surface, even when
stoiuis may be latihingiuto fury the more exposed
parts of lake Nicaragua. The southeastern part of
this bay is also entered by a channel of deep water,
which divides the southwestern extremity of Zapa
tero from toe mainland. The northern part of the
bay is bounded by the cluster known as the “Thou
sand Islands,” each one of which to oui mind, is in
a short time destii ed to be full of houses, stores and
commercial warerooms, and where vessels of con
siderable tonnage can move from one depot to an
other with more ease than the ox-carts now used in
Granada move from one street to another. On this
city of a thousand islands pure cool water will be
always convenient, and it would be impossible for
impurities or infections to exist in its vicinity. Here
canals will occupy the place of streets, and light
fairy-like pleasure boats will supercede horses.—
Here, instead of Wall street, we will have u Rialto;
here will be seen and heard senors and senoritas in
their gondolas, singing love-songs in the star-light;
and here will be the most pleasing combination of
health, convenience and beauty in any city upon
which the sun over shone.
Execution of Jennings Estei.le —At 5 o’clock
P. M., on the evening of Friday, the 19th inst., 2d |
Lieut. Jennings Estelle suffered the extreme penalty
of the law, by being shot on the Plaza, for the mur
der of 2d Lieut. Charles Gordon, in the guardhouse
in the city of Granada, while acting as officer of the
guard. Estelle had been previously arrested for
shooting Thomas Edwards, and was, when he com
mitted the unfortunate act for which lie suffered
death, a prisoner confined to his quarters. He had
a fair and impart ial trial, and the gentlemen who sat
in judgment, gave him every opportunity to estab
lish a defence, but in this lie utterly failed. The
deed was committed without any provocation, or
without any aggravating circumstances. He was
sentenced to be hung; but the commander in-chief
caused it to be so far mitigated as to allow him to
be shot. There wan a large concourse gathered to
witness the execution. Estelle walked with a firm
step by the side of a reverend father of the church,
who prayed with him and for him from the guard
house to the place of execution. When lie arrived
at the spot where he was to breathe his last, he re
quested that his hands might be untied, as he wish
ed to address the crowd. This request being grant
ed, he spoke in a firm unfaltering voice. In his
speech he asked the forgiveness of the officers and
soldiers of the Nicaraguan army. Voices responded
fronythe crowd, “ God forgive you.”
Shocks of an Earthquake. —Two very distinct
shockß of an earthquake were felt one day last week
in the city of Rivas and its vicinity The shocks
followed each other in quick succession, and were
of sufiicient force to shake the adobe buildings. No
injury w as done by them.
Vessels at San Juan. —We learn from Thomas
F. Fisher that there are eight British steam war
vessels at San Juan del Norte ; and there are, in ad
dition to those, one Italian merchaut vessel, one
English, one United States, and one vessel belong
ing to Nicaragua.
From, t/ce Columbus Enquirer.
Metier from Hon. 11. 11. Hill.
LaGkanue, Ga., Oct. 17, 185 G.
Messrs. Editors: —Allow me through your paper,
to explain to our friends in South Western Georgia,
the reasons why I did not attend the meetings at
Hard Money, Cuthbert, Fort Gaines and Blakely.
1 wrote to Mr. Brown giving reasons that 1 was
afraid would prevent me from attending those meet
ings, but the obstacles expressed to him were over
come, and I actually reached Columbus on my way
when suddenly the weather changed, from being
dry and warm became very cloudy and cold, with
a slight disagreeable rain. From much previous
exposure and almost constant speaking, my lungs
were in no condition to travel so far in the open air
through such weather. I apprehended serious con
sequences to me if I attempted it, and the prospects
for the meetings to be held at all 1 thought doubt
ful. If my health, however, had been perfect as
usual, I should have gone any way, but the condi
tion of my lungs rendered it imprudent, and upon
consultation with some of my friends, we concluded
I ought not to make the attempt.
This disappointment will always to me be a mat
ter of serious regret. I really desired to see our
friends in that region of the State, and besides it is
the first time I ever fade l to attend appointments
which I had promised to meet. I like punctuality
in all things, and my first failure to meet engage
ments lias occurred with that portion of the State
which I confess I was most anxious, above all oth
ers, to meet.
not every patriot now vote for Mr. Fillmore 1
Look at the Brooks disunion festival—read the dis
union columns of the Democratic press, and hear the
open disunion speeches of the leading Democratic
speakers ■, then answer me, honest men of every
political name, is it not time for patriots to band
together, and support a man wehsve tried and know
to be true? Disunion is the cry if Fremont shall
be elected, and yet if every man who says this would
aid us for Mr. Fillmore, Fremont would certainly
be defeated and the Union saved, and sectionalism
everywhere be starved for the sheer want of food !
Americans ! that battle for the Union is upon us.
Our leader is worthy The miserable cry of weak
ness raised against him actual trial has given to the
winds, and every candid man must now see that he
is the only man who cau save the country from a
sectional disaster and death Who would be a de
serter now / Don’t wait for your neighbor to work,
but go to work yourself! Let every man be a lead
er and every leader u soldier, and every soldier do
his duty, and I tel. you we shall carry Georgia—we
shall achieve success, and by our success we shall
save the Union, give peace t »the couutry and re
store confidence 1o her embittered sections, because
we shall have a President whom the rightcuvs love
and the n icked fear and respect.
Very truly, &e.,
B. H. Hill.
Dcmoccncy Abandoning its Principles.
A correspondent ot the Charleston Mercury, a
thorough Democrat, exposes the faithlessness of ihe
party to its professions, in the following strain; truth,
every word truth :
‘The Democratic party, to which the South has
so long given her confidence and support, has, in
the midst of the fight, abandoned every principle of
its faith. The champion of economy, it rushes into
the wildest extravagance; the foe to inlermil im
provements, it pours millions into the riveis and har
bors of the North and West: pledged to free trade,
it perpetrates its discriminations in favor of North
ern manufacturers, and wrings millions of surplus
revenue from the industry of the people ; the advo
cate of the Nebraska bill and squatter sovereignty,
it invokes Congressional intervention, and repeals
the/Territorial laws obnoxious to fanitieism. There is
not a single article of its faith, not a single pledge,
not a single principle, which the Democratic party
does not now openly repudiate. It stands before
the world blackened with the proofs of its faithless
ness and corruption. And what is the picture at the
South ? Where are those statesmen who once guid
ed her counsels by the light of fixed principles !
Alas ! they have fallen by treachery or death, and
none come to the rescue. I n their places stand either
mouthing demagogues, shor!-sightcd\ time-servers ,
or men without purpose and without wisdom. —
Among all her representatives in Washington, how
few are alive to the perils which beset her, or seem
to recognize the necessity of a Southern policy ? Os
speeches there is no want—of bluster no diminution,
but we look in vain for any effort to move the
Southern heart, to animate and unite her patriotism
and intelligence, and to mark out for her people a
distinct course of fiction. A sad waste of mediocra
cy, of party servility, of petty jealousies, sits like a
nightmare upon the spirit of her people.’'
Campaigning in South Florida. —The Phila
delphia Ledger publishes a letter from Camp Eaeha
wauee, South Florida, from which we extract as
follows:
At this momeut not a soldier believes
there are 300 Indians in the State, ana yet they are
permitted to defy the whole power of the govern
ment. This, however, is a particular service. Here
regular troops are utterly useless. Brave and gal
lant as they may be in an open field, here they are
not worth a straw. The service is one in which
there is no glory to be obtained, and in which
is no opportunity for distinguishing a soldier. The
Indians, secure in impenetrable swamps and ham
mock. cannot be reached by regular troops. The
use of bloodhounds was first suggested by General
Taylor, but he also expressly declared that he would
use then? only to “find and not to fight” the Indians.
If hounds are not used, then I can imagine only one
other plan, which to my mind, holds out the most
remote prospect of success. And that is this: —
Commence at a point on the Gulf coast, which will
stnke the lower end of Lake Ocheechobee—con
tinue that line eastward to the Atlantic coast. On
this line let there be at every twenty miles a fort or
farrisou, with at least two companies to each tort.
den. when the fall campaign is commenced, lei one
company advance southward, and fire everything
they can find, while the other company remains be
b'lna, to intercept any Indians wuo may attempt to ■
attack the frontier settleim nts.
Even this plan would be attended with great
difficulty. In some of the hammocks the under
goowth is so deuse that companies, after hard labor,
have only penetrated eight miles in one week. I
have myself got entangled in one, and only got out
after great labor, aDd with every stitch of clothing
torn off my body. After you get down some fifty
miles south of tee line I have proposed, these ham
mocks become swampy, and then they get so that
for miles you only see the top of the grass above
the water. Since I commenced my march with this
company, I have for miles waded in swamps waist
deep. You will thus see, gentlemen, what son of a
service we are in, and when to that I add that I
would, at this moment, give a five doL&r gold piece
for one good drink of water, you will readily believe
me when I assure you that our sufferings are in
tolerable.
Attempted Revolution in Mexico.—By the
Havana papers received yesterday, we learn that
on the 26th ult. an attempt was made in the city of
Mexico to overthrow Comonfort’s government; but
without success. We have no particulars further
than that the government had knowledge of the
contemplated movements and easily suppressed
them, seizing a quantity of arms and probably ar
resting the insurgents. We sincerely hope that the
efforts of the agitators and demagogues, to create
disturbance and another revolution, may be thwart
ed. We believe the present government is the best
one Mexico has had, and trust it may be permanent.
What instructive lessons do the perpetual and at
tempted revolutions in Mexico and South America
afford to the people of these United States! Yet
our demagogues appear either wholly indifferent to
them or utterly incapable of reading them. No
wonder the word Union has such magic with the
honest and thinking men of this country.— S. O
From the Savannah Republican.
Tbt* Bare ElecTlon* at the North.
We desire to offer a few reflections this sub
ject, both as regards the result ot the elections, and
the influence it should exert at the South.
So far as In liana is concerned, it may be set down
as a fixed fact that the Democrats have carried the
State, by a majority in the neighborhood of five
thousand. In Pennsylvania has been the great eon
test, not so much for any distinctive principles that
divide the contending parties, as for the bearing
the result was likely to have upon the approaching
Presidential election. The accounts that have
reached us are not definite enough tu be entirely
satisfactory as an indication of the result, but we
will concede that the State has gone Democratic by
a small majority—say from three to five thousand
Ohio has. unquestionably, tkrowq a large majority
for the Black Republican party, and left us without
doubt as to the position die is to occupy in the Pre
sidential race. It is to the first two that we would
confine our remarks.
So far as Pennsylvania is concerned, whatever
may be the appearance of things, it is evident that
no party can claim the result as an index ot its po
sition in the contest to come We think it by im
means an evidence that the State will go for Bu
eh an.an if the opposit ion to that gentleman is con
centr&ted upon a tingle electoral ticket. The De
mocratic party may iu.ve triumphed in the recent
election, but it should be recollected that it was a
compact, well disciplined body, fighting, not so much
for victory as for existence ; while aga.nst it was
arrayed on undisciplined, inharmonious opposition,
without a head, and, so fat- from being animated by
a common bond of sympathy and purpose, iu many
parts of the State warring among themselves. In
stead of being united, the r. were in a number of in
stances, three parties in the field, each standing on
iiaowu bottom, and struggling for its own success.
Then, again, the immense frauds, swelling the vote
into unexampled and startling proportions, at least
create a doubt of an real Democratic ascendency
in the State, if, indted, they do not prove—as they
do most conclusively tokis —taut no such ascenden
cy exil- ts »
But granting that bo« in Pennsylvania and In
diana, there is a genuiji , reliable Democratic ma
jority—what are thefobvioua eoncusioua to be
Grown therefrosrZ ore several, but wo will
allude oniy to a few
Fremont are desperate, hope!ess-*-that while he is
running exclusively for the Northern vote, two
large States of the North, casting forty electoral
votes, the loss of which N absolutely fatal, have
slipped from his grasp. The consequence is, that
while he may interfere with the success of others, his
own success is left with ut the shadow of a hope.—
This “raw head and bloody hones, ’ then has seen
its day at the South, and wo hope io hear no more
of those insidious, hypocritical appeals to the oppo
nents of Buchanan, that they should vote for him in
spite of their principles and piejuoieea, in order to
prevent the election of a Black Republican Presi
dent. That argument is at an end, or the Demo
cratic triumphs in Pennaylvanir; and fndjaija are a
cheat and a delusion.
A second aspect in which we desire to present
these Democratic victories to the people of the
South is this : Are they victories for or against us 7
This is a serious and important question, which
every Southern man should weigh and decide for
himself, ft brings up thegreat issue at. the bottom
of this contest, and involves the claim of what is
called the Democratic party, to the respect end sup
port of the men of the South.
We allege, and defy contradiction, that the iuo
cess of the Democratic party, both in Pennsylvania
and Indiana, is a victory o\er the Soatn and he; iu
stitutious. The battle was fought against slavery,
and it was prod inr.ed throughout those States that
tue Democratic party was opposed to our institu
tions, and in the Nebraska bill had adopted a mea
sure that would check forever their extension. We
have, before, alluded to the speeches of Douglas
and others, in whiph these positions were boldly ta
ken and proclaimed to tho p..oplp. The truth ij, the
people were opposed to slavery, and the Democratic
parry erbot it ionized itself in order to carry the elec
tion* What man in his senses and who knows any
thing of the past history of Indiana and the present
sentiments of her people, will dure to rise up and
deny that it is as thoroughly hostile to the institu
lions of [he South as even Massachusetts, herself?
Ia there a solitary Democrat among those recent ly
returned to Congress, who D willing to interpret
the Nebraska bill as to allow the slaves of the South
to be carried into the common territories of the
Union? We assert, unhesitatingly, that no man
could have been elected in that State after an open
avowal of such sentiments. Is that the sort of vie
tory to throw Southern men into raptures, and to
placard Southern newspapers with announcements
of “ glorious triumphsV* If it is, we are prepared
for the yoke, and deserve to wear it!
How stands the case in Pennsylvania 7 We find
such traitorH as John Van Buren favorite defenders
of the Democratic faith among the “peculiar friends
and allies of the South.” In one district a rampant
abolition Seward Whig is brought out as the Dem
ocratic candidate for Congres3, lest some might
doubt the hostility of the party to us and our insti
tutions. We beg leave, in this connection, and in
proof of our position, that the South has nothing to
expect from these victories but chains and degrada
tion, to present i, picture for th;: contemplation of
southern men, and especially the people of Georgia,
It will be recollected that Governor Johnson and
Howell Cobb, of this State, and other distinguished
Democrats from the South, have been stumping
Pennsylvania, to save, if possible, the sinki g for
tunes of the Democratic nominee. We find in the
Philadelphia Saturday Et ruing Post, of the 27th
September, the following portrait of a Democratic
procession, which was addressed by these gentlemen
on the 17th of the same month. Here it is, and let
every southern Democrat read and judge for him
self;
“A very large Democratic m; etiug and torchlight
procession was held in this city on the afternoon and
evening of the 17th. The meeting was addieased
by Gov. Johnson and Ilowell Cobb, of Georgia ;
Floyd, of Virginia, The torchlight procession,
was exactly one hour in passing the corner of Fifth
and Chestnut streets. The buck’s head and antlers
was a favorite emblem, and appeared on buuners
surmounting hickory poles ; and the Twenty-fourth
Ward displayed a stuffed buck, carried on a plat
form, supported on the shoulders of two ardent
friends of the Democratic candidate. Among the
banners was one representing tlyee negroes, with
blood streaming from their heads, and underneath
the title ‘Bleeding Kansas!’ ”
Is the triumph of these people a triumph of the
South, or is it a victory over us and against us ?
In conclusion, w would say to the friends of Fill
more, there is nothing in these elections to dis
courage and dispirit us, but everything io nerve us
to a bold and continued struggle for the South and
the Union. There is cause of alarm for the coun
try—a crisis in which no man should shrink from his
duty.
A northern cotemporary very justly remarks, “as
the fact stands, the election brings no additional
strength to Mr. Fillmore, but leaves him just where
he stood before; for we do not suppose that any of
his friends have anticipated any other result than
that Mr. Buchanan would carry his own State. His
doing so, therefore will in no degree abate the zeal
or damp the hopes of Mr. Fillmore’s supporters.
They stand where they have stood from the day ot
his nomination, and will stand until the popular will
is expressed on the fourth of next November. Their
appeal is yet to be made o the people of the whole
Union, South as well as North, and their support yet
to be drawn from the slaveholding aa well as from
the non-slaveholding Htates *'
A Live Snake in a Live Man. —A ger.tleman
whose name we did not learn, says the San Francis
co Golden Etgle, arrived in this city from Bird’s
Hill, for the purpose of pr« curing surgical advice in
relation to the possibility of removing from the
stomach a snake, which has inhabited that
locality for the past fifteen years. Exactly at wh<ch
time the reptile was taken into the stomach, the
sufferer is not aware. lie felt its presence in the
vicinity of the kidneys many years ago ; but the
pains experienced, although sometimes acute and
troublesome, occasioned no alarm until about two
years since, when, one day leeling quite unwell, he
placed his hand upon his bowels, and distinctly felt
the snake crawling within him. Since then it has
grown enormously and has attained a length ofat least
fifteen inches, and a size round the middle of five
or six inches. Its proportions can be pretty accu
rately ascertained, as its entire shape is fearfully
obvious to the touch. It is quite active, and pos
sesses an insatiable appetite, judging from the
amout of food and water consumed by the sufferer,
who is continually parched with tbrist, and not un
frequently requires from three to four gallons of
fluid daily.
Through the recommendation of an Indian, he
has lately found considerable relief from the inces
sant thirst of drinking water liberally diffused with
vinegar. Ho has made several ineffectual attempts
to dislodge the “ va mint” by starvation and the
free use of stimulants. On one occasion, he ab
stained from b th food and water for three days, in
the hope of bringing the occupant to some sort of
terms. Tb<* first day, the enuke became uneasy:
the second, boisterous : and the third, furious, bur
still the man held out. At the end of the third day,
however, his snakeahip commenced an attack upon
the walls of his prison, with what appeared to be u
tolerable full sot of teeth, and the result was an im
mediate supply of food more agreeable to both par
ties. As may be supposed, the man is reduced to a
perfect skeleton, under the extreme torture of mind
and body preying upon him night and day, but lie
does not despair of finding a surgeon in the city
sufficiently skillful to make an incision in the abdo
men and remove the reptile.
We have read of similar cases ; but this is the
first that ever came under our own observation, and
we hope it may be the last, for we have felt ‘‘all
overisli" ever since.
An Interesting Exhibition took place at the
New York Chrystal Palace on Thursday. A contest
for superiority in steam fire engines was the occa
sion. The New York engine, one of the two enter
ed, exhibited the following result : From the time
of firing up, in 11 £ minutes, the steam guage indi*
cated a pressure of forty-five pounds. One length
of hose was attached, which with the thirteen feet
belonging to the engine, made the length of hose
played through sixty three feet. With an inch and
a quarter nozzle, the distance thrown was 178 feet ;
with an inch and a half nozzle 125 feet. The pres
sure of steam during the trial varied from 90 to 120
pounds. The engine it is said, has done much bet
ter, having thrown water a distance of 207 feet in
the Pa*k. The contesting engine was Holly’s pa
tent. The time occupied from starting the‘tire to
getting up the steam to 2c pouuds, was 21 minutes;
the length of hose played through 50 feet, with a 3-8
and 1-1(5 iuch nozzle 30pounds of steam pressure
water was thrown 155 feet 10 inches ; with all
and 1 l 16th inch. 1831 feet. —Charleston Evening
Sens.
Fattening Turkeys. —The alimentary proper
ties of charcoal are very great; indeed, it has been
asserted that domestic be fattened on
it without any other food, and that too, in a shorter
time than on the most nutritious grains. In an ex
periment made to test the valve of the article, four
turkevs were taken and confined in a pen, and fed
on meal, boiled potatoes and oats. Four others of
the same brood were also confined at the same time
in another pen, and fed daily on the same articles.
but with one pint of very finely pulverized charcoal
mixed with their meal and potatoes : they had also
a plentiful supply of broken charcoal in their pen.—
The eight were killed on the same day, ana there
was a difference of one and a half pounds each in
favor of the fowls which had been supplied with
the charcoal, they being much the fatter, and
the meat greatly superior in point of tenderness
and flavor. This would appear to establish, beyond
a doubt, the benefit of charcoal for fattening pur
poses.
Mormonism in Denmark. —Monncmsm is making
such progress in Denmark as to cause the religious
and reflecting part of the inhabitants to look wi h
dread to the future, as it might exercise a most bane
ful influence on the peasantry and lower classes,
| w ho are exclusively to be found among the convert t.
Several petitions have been sent in to the Govern
ment from different parts of Ihe Kingdom, praying
that a stop may be put to tue nuisance, and that the
Mormons be prohibited from exercising in fixture
their religious ceremonies with so much demonstra
tive ostentation as they are now allowed to do. Jut
land is the part where the great hot bed of Mormon
proselytism is to be found; and, as they ev**u ually
make up caravans or parties of four or five hun
dred together, to emigrate to America, in order to
settle on the banks of the Great Salt Lake, it will
ha ve the effect of ultimately depopulating the pro
vince to a great degree, and depriving ns agriculture
of man v indust-ious hands It is eepeciaHy to this
point that the petition to the King, ju?-t sent in from
the town of Aalborg, and signed by upward of 200
i»f the principal inhab’tants, lays so much stress, and
calls the attention of the Government.
New York, Oot. 22.—ft is rumored that several
parties are engaged in fitting out slavers, in oonae
quence of the recent decree of President Walker
re-establishing slavery in Nioaragua
Tefal ii©s« ot tbs *Heainship “( iiv «>f *
nah,” oi' Baltimore—Safrlv of iter f'-rw.
The fine screw steamship “City of iSavaonah,”
formerly the “Freeman Ks\vdon,”*uf the Baltimore
and Savannsh Steamship Line, has been h\-i at <r *.
The following particulars of the disaster is turuiel ed
by Capt. P&soal, her late commander, to the Ex
change Reading Rooms :— Balt. Pat.
The City of Savannah which belongs to the line
recently formed in our city for effecting regular
steam communication will; Savannah. v\ - lost at
sea on the afternoon of Thursday last. Imvi.-.- ,-nrimg
aleak, which compelled her aband-mm n it ap
pears that the steamer left Savannah tor to port on
Sunday, the 12iL, seeming tn the best rmt i.ig or
der. and was making very good rime cor.ri lei ingihe
roughness of the Weather, until Tuesday ni; ht when
she sprung aleak during a heavy gale tou.r X. E. to
E.. the vessel being off Cape llatteras. \Y. by S 1
about thirty miles. Capt. Jamt- Pa.- ; • *• r cotv i
rnauder, immediately commenced search for the I
icak, but did not succeed in finding it, . ough it
was doubtless forward. It was iheu dee me i ai i
able to lay to. which was done under t e ret; d
top sail, and fore top > di. In the meai.iam hands
were bard at work at the pumps, aide 1 I . the in
jection bilge pump, which was kept in arrive mo
rion by the engine. Some of the former v. e.c ren
dered useless iu const qence of their breaming
choked, iije deck pumps choking on Tin i -d iy, mid
m defiance of superhuman efforts the leak c< ..tinned |
to gain until the water was four feet deep,. tgum
jfig access to the.fii e room extinguish!** \;. f! tint-s
in the furnaces It was utterly impossible, there,
fore, for the vessel to reach land in that helplessoon
ditiou, and che remained exposed to tl. *• • - : ry tJ f
the sea, which was running high, ui<ui t..uivday
morning at 8 o'clock, whm the teak Sylph, Cart
Jones, from Boston for Baltimore, with u . r.’go of
sugar, hove in sight.
As soon as the captain could distinguish th* signal
»»f distress, he bore down hard for the st ■ : • r. ■. <d
after tfkiiffviUc.oxsauship had the proud fuctio:*
"f receiving safely in the coo fort a ole c..X.n ■ i h:s
own faitiiful vessel the entire crew of tor hi fated
steamer, numbering nineteen sepis 1 >\jms u»
abandoning the steumcr, the crew p’«*kt«! up \ f< w
articles »*wt convenient to carry, an t maiming tue
boats left her to her fate—the captain aud tugineer
being t it* last to leave. Anriaug ou the s yiph,
they were- t*kno>t c.oc.qJclcly ex r verb in cjnsi
quenee of remaining m the water fm/ . i,* It g.s ,
find feet ut the men were much awoken ami stained
i i consequence of exposure to the copper t r.- water
The Sylph remained by the steamer until three
o’clock «n the evening, at which hour the i ter was
abandoned.* to two hours afterwards «-!iu stink
stern foremost She was then about 100 •* f s- ath
cast of C-ipe Henry.
Every possible kindness was exter.ih 1 to the
crew by Uapi. Jones, ihp cubic- and bc*-tl«s and
good cheer of the domestic larder being availed of,
with an invigorating “ splica of their m dubr cert'
frequently administered, of course, mud'- ’ illy.—
On Saturday morning, ut 10 o'clock, the lb e steam
er Mary Washington, under the command f Capt
Masyu L. Weems, whilst tor Chesa
peake near oove Point ran afongriuc li Sylph
and received the crew of thesteamer. r i ■ y were
made even more comfortable then, and aft r 7 h urs
rapid steaming safely reached the Monumental city.
The authorities of the Company owning tin* steamer
of which Win. T. W alters Esq., is the President.
audClius. M. Dougherty, Keq , Treasurer, give the
highest praise to Captain f*&soai ami to Mr A. L.
Foote, the chief engineer of the steam* r, n:ul to tin
active creiy for tfieir unceasing efforts to f ive the
vessel, aa well as for their prundent management;
whilst to the officers of the Sylph and Mary Wash
ington the highest credit is due for tlicjr generous
hospitality.
The Savannah was comparatively a new vessel,
and built in Pittsburgh. She wis insured in several
mail no offices of that city, Philadelphia and Haiti
more, for $20,000. She cost the present Uompuny
abouts26,Uoo. lier cargo consisted < f 12bnYsof
feathe.s, 18 bbls. of whiskey, nearly 800 bales of
pot ton. rtfJO boxes of copper ore, foarto the ton, 5)
casks of rice, and 111 bales of domestics, all of which
were consigned to variom firms of this city. The
carg and vessel were estimated al $100,()( {).'
From the iX. V. Sunday 1 lei aid.
The Great French Railway Fraud.
Another chapter in the history of the gra d fraud
lately practised upon the Northern Railroad Com
pany of France by Charley Carpente r and Lewis
Grelet, cashiers in the above Comp iny, has just
been added, which will well nigh conclude a tale of
unusual interest, not only to the mercantile classes
of the Old and New Worlds, but to the in habitants
of entire Christendom.
Charles Carpentier, late cashier in the Northern
Railway Company of France, was arrested on
Thursday night, in a farmhouse, about, ten miles
back of New burg, Orange county, N. Y., by two of
the United States Deputy Manbiab, a: -i was con
veyed to the Eldiidge street jail, in this city, on
Friday, where he now remains iu close custody.—
Carpentier was dres ed in the diguise of a farmer,
and was divested of his moustache when the officers
succeeded in arresting him. The fugitive was cap
tured while asleep in bed, much to his surprise and
mortification. Ills captors will receive tee promise
reward of SI,OOO, offered by Belmont’s agent in this
city for the apprehension of the prisoner. No money
or property ot q.uy consequence was found in the
possession of the fugitive.
Carpentier expresses great astonishment at the
adroit manner in which his capture was affected.—
He says he did not tell any one where he was
going when he left New York, but. on the con
trary, hinted that he was going to Philadelphia,
when his intention really was to secure himself in
the interior of this St ate until a favorable opportu
nity might present itself for his escape.
He proceeded on board the Brie Railroad cars,
and getting off some distance from New’burg, wen
ded his way into the 'interior, and there hired him
self out to a farmer ut a very small compensation
per month.
As wo said before, he was fast asleep when the
officers made their appearance at his bedside, and
summoned him t put on his clothing k ;ind prepare
for a journey to New York, lie set med greatly
nonplussed, aud at first denied that his .wane was
Carpentier, but the presence of a photograph of the
prisoner's made all denial useless.
The officers conveyed their prisoner across the
river in a boat, and took the Hudson Kiver liail
road cars for this city, where they arrived without
any obstacle. The appearance of Carpentier was
somewhat novel. He was dressed in eoar. < farmer’s
clothing, aud although he tried to divest himself ol'
everything that might serve to betray him, yet
there were unmistakeable signs of the polished
gentleman about the man whenever the observer
chose to scrutinize his personul appearance and
mode of carriage.
Carpentier has not yet been permitted to have in
tercourse with Grelet, or any of the other French
prisoners, and although all parties toe under the
the same roof, yet they arc unable to communicate
with each otuer.
The prisoners were quite anxious to s* e one an
other yesterday, but the keeper ot the prison in ac
cordance with the United States Marshal'*, orders,
refused them that privilege. No one save Mr. Gal
braith, who is counsel for the accused, was permit
ted to hold conversation with Carpentier.
The prisoner says that he has arrived in t) is
country quite poor, and has hardly as n o h mo
ney as would defray the expenses of a journey to
Europe aud back. His story i relation to the
fraud upon the Northern railway varies but little
from that of Gr* lut, and throws iso t upou the
subject, further than that already published in the
columus of the Herald from lime to t me as the facts
transpired.
Yesterday morning it was announced, through the
agency of the police, that a tin box contain: tumu li
treasure was found concealed in the sub-celler of
the tenement Louse No 187 West Sixteenth street,
and that upou opening it, it was di. -ov. >v-d to be
the property of Charles Carpentier, the fugitive
cashier f ihe T’orrhern Railway Company of France.
The most ridiculioils aud exaggerated rumors were
circu.ated in regard to the affair, crl u' ated to
make one believe that the wealth of the Rothchildn
was found stowed away iu the so f same tin box
Our reporter made inquiries iu relation to thy mat
ter, and found that the rumor, as far us it related to
the finding of the tin case, was tue in every parti
cuiar, but the contyntsof the box itself were not by
ariv means as valuable ns was represented.
The search and seizure were conducted by Ser
geant Brown, of the Chiefs office, and Deputy
Marshal Ryer, who receieved their cue from Mr
Tissandier, the Inspector of the Northern Railway
Company, who made an affidavit in relation to the
matter.
Upon the affidavi! a search warrant was issued by
teh mag strate, and the name was placed iu the
hands of Sergeant Bio- v, of the Chief’s office, and
Denutv United States Marshal Ryer for execution
The officers at once proceeded to’the house in ques
tion, (atenement house,occupied by several fami
lies,) and took active measures for ferreting out the
concealed property. In the cellar, winch was filled
with coal, a tin box, containing the sought for pro
perty, was, after a good deal of trouble, discovered
and taken possession of by the offie rs. The box
was buried in the ground, and the spot v. as covered
over with coal, but. the police, it appears, had but
very little trouble in finding the very place where
the treasure was buried.
The police conveyed the tin case to the office of
Belmont, the banker, where it now remains, in
charge of Mr. Christinas. On examining thy box it
was found to contain a couple of gold watches, a
guantity of gold coin, and some papers, f value 1o
none but the owner. There has been no official
statement afforded us of the coat* of the box:
but we presume we have descii’ ’.its contents
pretty accurately. If we have not, ■■ oppose Mr.
Belmont’s agent will be kind enough ■ - i us right,
and clear up the mystery attending die aforesaid tin
box.
Dr. H. V. M. Miller. —On Wednesday the loth
inst., although the weather was inclement and ex
tremely disagreeable, some two hundred or more of
our citizens assembled at the Court House to hear
this champion of Americanism discuss the noliticai
questions ot the day. An invitation had been ex
tended to the Anti’s to meet him in the field of dis
cussion, but none thought proper to accept the in
vitation so kindly extended, which was not only
a source of regret to Dr. Miller, but the entire au
dience. That no misrepresentation should go
abroad, Mr. Miller, in his opening remarks reques
ted that if he should utter anything which would be
gainsayed, to make it known at the time, that he
might stand corrected. He then proceeded to the
investigation of the questions of the Cay. and the
political character of the candidates for the Presi
deucy, and for three long horn's he held the audience
completely spell-bound.' Such a scathing as fell
upon the* Cincinnati platform, James Buchanan,
and the leaders of his party, we have never before
heard—the rottenness of the party was shown forth
in all its gangrene and corruption. In his remarks
on the principles of the American party he was
truly happy, showing conclusively that the princi
pled should be the chart and compass to direct the
ship of State, and that Hon. Millard Fillmore was
the only man that could direct her safe to proper
moorings.
After Dr. Miller had closed, Gen. Gordon, Elector
for the sth District, was loudly called for, who en
tertained the audience for about thirty minutes iu a
manner pleasing to all; giving additional evidence
that Mr. Fillmore is the man for the times and no
mistake. —Dakloneqa iSignal.
Marine Disasters —lue L' S. M. steam ship
Keystone State, arrived here yesterday, from Phila
delphia, reports that on the 19th, at 11.30, A. M..
Cape Henry bearing north-west, distant sixty mlirs,
boarded the schooner Race Ruck, of Sag Harbor,
loaded with coal, from Philadelphia, bound to Fall
River, flag union down, both masts gone close by
the deck, was dismasted on the 16th. Captain and
crew did not wish to be taken off. When the steam
ship left, a brig was bearing down to the schooner.
At 2.25, P. M , spoke bark Maria, of and for Boston,
from Norfolk, corn-ladened, on her bean* ends, and
a band ned by her orew. She was boarded by a brig
on the morning of the 18th, which remained with
her when the steamship left, stripping her.— Sav.
Rep., of the. 2 '2d irut.
California, by the votes cast in the State is the
eleventh in the confederacy, but taking the popula
tion is only the twenty-fourth State in the Union.—
This is caused by there being more full grown men
in proportion to population than in any other State.
The Californians are disposed to grumble at thi9
condition of affairs, because it reduces the influence
of the State in the Electoral College, where it has
only four votes ; but they can alter the condition
themselves much more readily than the Constitution
can do it for them. Instead of running away From
their wives in rhe Atlantic States, as many of them
do, they should take them with them, and thus con
tribute*to destroy the inequality which exists be
tween t ( e voting population of the State and its rep
resentation.— Phil. Ledger.
Tennessee.— MajorT. W. Turley, (American) has
! been elected Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit
of Tennessee, over Judge Barton (Democrat) to
I BU PEjy v &canoy occasioned by the death of Ma
-1 jor Hrades Majority five hundred
Affairs iu McnruKim.
A correspondent of the New-York Herald, writing
from the city of Granada, under date of October 2d,
gives some particulars in relation to the condition
ot affair? in Nicaragua, and the position assumed by
our Government towards General Walker, that are
j P er - ls to toore nearly accurate than those coming
; l «rough W adverts organ, Ei A icaraguensc :
I U.-. V.. been somewhat disappointed in the ap
, i narauce of the city of Granada. I had been led to
; soppose that it contained within its limits seme ten
or to to ve toonaand inhabitants ; but from a careful
PtM-otm. exp,oration and estimate, I ant inclined to
, tiiiiiiv that the entire population, American und na
i -n e docs not at present exceed two or three th m-
I -and. tn former days Granada must have been a
! majfnifivt nt ei,y, and thisthe buildings, yet ioastute
i of preservation, clearly indicate ; but a" large per
il the city, churches included, is now in a state
i dilapidation ; and this is also true in regard to the
ot: cremes of the republic. A better state of things
cannot he hoped for until internal wars and revolu
e-.se. aud Nicaragua becomes -entirely Xorth
Americanized.
The iVrgident, General Walker, appears to be
very populu. vith the annv, and with the American
portion of the citizens of this Kepnblic. That he is
qualified for his present exalted position cannot be
doubted, and that lie exercises the supreme antliori
j ty with which he has been elo bed. with great judg
ment and moderation, is universal'}- admitted The
heats of departments and other officers of the ad
ministration, civil and military, appear to be gene
lad} men oi experience and ability. A majority of
these, not iuelttd :. the taunts of departments,
mv Amer cam and Europeans A large ma
jority ot the native population—legiiimis sand libe
v Is, Cliamorists and ljivasites, Leo- itesand G e a
bums—are believed to be hostile to the Waiter ad
ministration and to the North Americans generally,
indeed, I haye beep, assured on the authority of a
li gii-boru native lady, friendly to Getur.tl Walker
..mi to the cause of progress, that there are not more
limn eigt.iy families in G - i.ada entertaining senti
ments.n tuia subject iu consonance with her ovu t
an i yet cm ddence in the ultima'© success of I>re
dm t Wni t« r appears to be daily gaining strength
Tiic m um between the Chanfristaj aud Eivaa
it h, furthcoverthrowoiGeneral W.l er.cgu be but
temp, vary flu. present, cot appears to h a
fc i it.g t a,i expulsion ot destri .tiou of Walker ami
i.ts tinny, the intestine broils between tue "serviles”
aud • liberals' w ould undoubtedly be renewed with
mer, used violence. Gem-ral Walker is emphatical
ly the head of the government, performing himself
eauy duties belonging to the several departments;
and no other man in Nicaragua o„u}d an Veil fill his
. lit dt the or,-lent c.isi.uf public atfairs He seems
to ha Vi. oteti designed by Providence to work out
the political salvation of Central America.
The late recognition here of General Walker’s ad
ministration by Col. Wheeler, United States Minia
'•■!’, appears, by the lust official advices fj-otp. Wash
nylon, to have been virtually approved by the Pre
, idem of thp United mates, though Mr. Oakemtth
bad not, and probably will not, be at present necred
i'.-d by Mr. Pierce as Munster from this republic. 1 1
is probable thal no change will be made in the pres
<■ it relations between this government and that of
the United States until after the ratification of the
treaty in reference to Central American affairs, ne
gotiated by Mr. IJ dlas atthe Court of St. .fames,
in the, meantime Major Heine, (who arrived here by
the Tenues eu on a flying visit, aud returns by the
n- xt steamer) will, probably continue, bv authority
of President Walker, and with the approbation of
President Pierce, to exercise tjje functions ot Charge
i'Ali'iirs to the United States, from the republic of
Nicaragua. And Mr. Wheeler, it is understood, has
als o received from Washington authority or instruc
tions to correspond on certain important matters
with the Nicaraguan government; Huts, asl have
before remarked, virtually recognizingthe adminis
tration of President Walker
s ince the "boyc wao written, an event has occur
red which fully establishes the views I have express
ed in regard to the feelings entertained by Presi
dent Pierce towards the present government < f
Nicaragua. A beautiful national dag was, on
Tuesday last, presented by Col. Hall, from Mr. A.
C. Lawrence, of New York, to the ride battalion of
Nicaragua, commanded by Col. Anderson; and
on the same evening a party was given in honor of
the occasion, by Col. A. ahd the other officers of the
battalion, at which, among other distinguished
guests, Col, Wheeler was present, and at which much
wine was diposed of, many toasts responded to, and
many speeches delivered.
In reply to a complimentary sentiment, Colonel
Wheeler declared himself to be heart, and soul in
favor of the present administration of their repub
lic and expre .sod his belief that Nicaragua would
ultimately become a star of the North American
f. mfoderacy. l}o further announced t hat he was in
structed by his last despatches from Washington to
•wpvess lo the President of Nicaragua the earnest de
sire of the President of the United States that peace
and prosperity might attend the republic.
In regard to the positions and movements of the
military forces opposed to General Wah er, reports
are from time to time so contradictory that it is al
most impossible to adopt any safe conclusion. Cor
rect information as to the two battl s fought ttt San
Saciuto Ranch, you will have already received by
the Tennessee. It is stated that in tli last of these
two battles—that in which Colonel Cole was killed
—the American loss is ascertained to have been
some thirty killed, missing, and mortally wounded.
The loss ot the enemy is of course unknown. The
enemy's forces (about 800) it is reported, remained
at Sail Jacinto for two or three days subsequently
!o the tattle, and then marched t > Managua, some
forty.five miles northwest of this city, and about
equidistant lrom Granada and Leon, the American
garrison having left Managua and taken up their
quarters at Massaya, a city about twelve miles
northwest of Granada, on the route to Managua.—
The enemy’s force now concentrated at Managua,
is reported to be about 1,800. The available Wr'k
er, or patriot force, at Massaya, is estimated at 500;
at Granada 4GO, and at Rivas, San Carlos, and Sa
rapiqui, (south of this city,) about MOO men, all pro
vided with plenty of arms and uininunUion. Six
howitzers, throwing twelve pound shells, purchased
in New York for Nicaragua, and to bo received by
the cleamer Texas, now due at San Juan dei Norte,
will greatly increase the efficiency of Gen. Walk
er’s operations, and much astonish the natives
should these howitzers be turned against Managua
or any other fortified adobe town iu possession of the
enemy. 11 seems that after the occupancy of Ma
nagua by the enemy, they posted pickets along the
route towards the Massaya, who were subsequently
driven back by the rangers, since which time they
have remained encamped in Manag a ; and from
the information last received at the Adjutant Gene
ral’s office,- it appears that they are w tbout cannon,
and poorly supplied with ammunition and provis
ions. The belief is expressed by the Bdjutant Gen.
(Thompson) that they will soon disband or retreat
to Leon.
Return of the Arctic. —The Steamer Arctic
which has been on an expedition across the Atlantic
to determine the feasibility of a submarine telegraph
uniting the Old and New Worlds, returned to New
Yo:k on Tuesday. Os the results of her explorations,
t:i. Joum il of Commerce remarks :
She c m pleted her undertaking in the most
satisfactory manner. She sounded the Atlantic all
the way across, finding the greatest depth 2070
fathoms, (more than two miles.) The bed of the
ocean, in the section traversed by the Arctic, is a
plateau, as already announced by Capt. Berryman,
who had twice before sounded across the Atlantic.
Tne b- ttom n the deeper part is a very fine mud,
of a mouse-gray color, so soft that the Hounding
instruments »requeutly sank several feet into the
mud. Tney b ought up specimens of the bottom,
at every sounding, in quill?, which were attached
to the sounding instrument. Towards the" shores
on each side, this mud changes to a fine green
ooze. No oth r substance were met with, no rock,
nor any thing that might prove fatal to « telegraph
wire. The wh le distance acr -ss was found to be
1(510 sea miles, from St John. N F., o VaieutiaHar
bor Ireland. The gre test depth was found nearly
iu the centre between th no two places.
Increase of Jews. —An intelligent writer in the
North American Review supposes that no class of
immigrants has increased mure rapidly in this coun
try than the Hebrew. In 1850 a man might count
upon his fingers all the synagogues in the land;
n.>w there are least a quarter of a million Jews, from
eighty to ninety synagogues, and a multitude of
smaller communities where a nucleus exists which
will soon grow into a synagogue. The city of New
York alone lias twenty synagogues and thirty thou
sand Jews—about one-twentieth part of the popu
lation being such. There are synagogues in all the
chief cities of the seaboard—two in Boston; five in
Philadelphia, five m Baltimore, three iu New Or
leans, two in Charleston and four in Cincinnati.
A - . Atrocious Murder. —We regret to learn
that Mr. Edward Brown, formerly of Chester Dis
trict, S C., but residing at Portersville, Tenn., was
murdered on the 7th inst.. by a man named Thos.
D. Heftier.
The circumstances are briefly these : Mr. Brown
and Heftier had a difficulty which had been partial
ly adjusted, baton the morning of the 7th, as Mr.
firown was passing upon the street to procure pas
sage to Memphis, on business, he was met by I lof
tier who presented a double-barrelled shot gun
loaded with buckshot, and without not ice, discharged
at Mr. Brown both barrels, lodging fifty seven of
tine shot in his breast. He died instantly. Hoffler
immediately fled from justice, but a reward has
been offered for his apprehension.
Mr. Brown was one of the brave Palmettoes who
went out from Chester under the command ofCapt.
Dunncvant, and"during the campaign won for him
self, by his conduct and devotion to duty, the ad
miration and esteem of all with whom he became
assoc iat ed.— Co roli a a Ti m ex .
Democratic Mass Meeting. —From the unusual
lack of glorification in the Democratic press, and
positive testimony of American correspondents, we
are led to believe that the grand Democratic Mass
Meeting that was to be held at Atlanta last week,
resulted in a most inglorious break-down. Our own
despatch, from a reliable citizen of Atlanta, repre
sented the meeting as about half as large as the
American Convention in the same place the week
previous; while the Grffin Union says that “three
hundred and fifty passengers made up the sum to
tal of the array upon the line of the Macon & West
era Railroad .-on Friday morning.” Thus, is appears,
there is so little interest feit by the Democracy of
Georgia in the Squatter Sovereign candidate, that
even ‘ Barbecued Meats and Monongahela Whis
key v —which the Georgian Bays constitute the
great attraction at such places—failed to draw a
crowd.— Savk. Rep.
Old Newspapers.— Many people like newspa
pers, but few preserve them ; yet the most intereat
g n adii g ' nagii able is a file of old newspapers,
i’brings up the very age with all its bustle and
every day affairs, and marks its genius and its spirit
more than the most labored description of the histo
rian. Who can take up a paper half a century back
without the thought that almost every name there
printed is now cut upou a tombstone at the bead of
an epitab.
The Foot Race.—The great foot race betwee
the celebrated runner Shultz aud a negro man from
Athens, Ala., came off ye.-tcrday at the Nashville
course. The race was far sl,oooasiee, two hundred
yards. The negro was the favorite by olds of SIOO
to SBO, aud there was considerable outside betting.
Shultz was not in good condition, having suffered
recently with chills He disappointed his friends,
however, and won the race with apparent ease.
The attendance was large, and the race excited
great interest. —Nashville Banner.
An Ice Machine Las ,ustbeen completed at the
Cuyahoga iron works, C’eyeland. Ohio, which it is
stated, is capable of producing one ton of solid crys
tal icj in 20 hours. A trial has recently been made
wit the above result while the mercury stood at SO
degrees a the apart i ent. The estimated expense
of manufacturing ice by such a machine is $5 per
ten, or one-fourth of a cent per pound.
James Keefe, the young man tried at Rich
mond for forgery, and who swallowed the forged
paper in the presence of the Court some weeks
sir ee. was found pruilty ou Friday last, and senten
ced to three years imprisonment in the Peniten
tiary.
Coat, and Iron in North Carolina. —Mr.
Hangiiton, «»f Chatham county, N C.. baseMdbia
coal plantation on Deep River to an Eng'ish min
ing company for $140,000. Mr. Thomas Untbank
has «• Id bis farm, which Joins Mr. Hwg ton's and
confab 8 valuable beds of iron ore, to the same, for
SIO,OOO.
Religious Liberty in France.—Louis Napo
leon has positively an i peremptorily ordere he
prefects <.f France to allow to all the Protwtant* in
their district the free and undisturbed exercise of
their rellirion, desiriDg that he may hear of no oaoie
persecution of the Proteetants, aud they may never
agalng be disturbed in their worship.
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XX. NO. 44
I'eiinsvivnniit Politics.
Jst:t o\v will be tound the address of Mr. SaNi.ku
sos, Chairman of the Fin more State Committee of
which mention is made under onr telegraphic head.
The spurious ticket referred to is that gotten up by
the Fusionists anti composed ofFiLLMoRE and Fre
mont men.
TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
A spurious Electoral ticket, purporting to be a
Fillmore Electoral ticket, having been planted aud
circulated, the undersigned deems it hisduty to cau
tion the public Egains- it, and to state that the follow
ing is the genuine Fillmore mid Donebon Electoral
taket in Pennsylvania, which will be printed and
circulated, and which will be voted by those who
are in favor of the election of Millard Fillmore and
Andrew Jackson Donalsou.
[Here follows a list of names of the Fillmore
Electors.]
Eden ot the above Electors has accepted the ap
point ment {is such, and given a written assurance
that if elected, will vote for Millard Fillmore lor
President, aud Andrew Jackson Donelson for Vice
President of the United States. These letters of
acceptance have been deemed satisfactory to the
Committee, and uccordit gly approved. Proposi
tions hare been made by the Republicans aud the
Fremont Americans, to form a Union Electoral
ticket, the Committee, at a meeting at which twen
ty three members were present, adopted the follow
ing;—
Rr-ofcsd, That we deem it inexpedient to make
any alteration iu the Fillmore and Donelson K ec
tornl ticket in this State, aud that we tue firmly
convinced that any interference) with it would be
the means of giving the State to Sir. Buchnnau, in
stead of defeating him.
Resolved , That we decline to accept either of he.
projioHiitons of the Republican Sface Committee,
oh-- ft lied that the electoral ticket aiie tdy in the fie d
the oniy one on which ull opposed to Mr. Bu
chvtuau can successfully unite, ami pltdgiug it to un
compromising m position, and to the defeat, uudei
any and a', oiireuinstances of Ins election.
Tue tir&t of tike above resolutions w&s unanimous
1) adopt, d, and the tecond by a ‘vote ot twenty to
t »vo, one do jlini gto vote. Hn v iug thus resolved,
and ) übiished their proceedings, the ..uinmittee to
whom has boon entrusted the management of toe
canvass tn the State, cannot and do not recognize
any other electoral ticket ns genuine, or aseinanu
li from that body, or us being published aud cir
culated by their authority, but call upon all who de
sire the election of Fillmore and Donelson, or the
defeat of ttie policy of tlio present administration, i
as embodied an » tel forth iu the Cincinnati plat ,
form, to unite iw its support, {is th© only practicable l
means to defeat James Buehanau in Pennsylvania. <
It is pledged to the (I©teat «f Mr. Buehanau, aud all j
whosiuoerely desire his defeat, it is hoped, will see
the necessity of making common cause in its sup- I
p rt, and cordially uuite in their exertions to secure i
its triumphant election.
But two weeks more remain to organize and pro
pure for the election. Let that brief spaoc of time
bo devoted to active services by all who desire to
restore peace and harmony to the coun'ry, by the
elect ion of a President who is capable to discharge
th.; duties of that office, und who will be true to the
Conalitutiou aud the Union. Though we have suf
fered a partial defeat at the late S'ate election, con
sidering the fact that the State has hitherto admit
tedly been largely Democratic, and that the candi
date ot that party for the Presidency is one of her
own most distinguished sons, and the further fact
that immense frauds, amouuting to thousands, were
notoriously practiced by that party atthe late elec
tion, there is nothing in tho result to dishearten or
discourage m. On thooontrary, rightly considered,
it is a virtual defeat of that parly. They have elec
ted their State ticket by a meagre majority of a few
thousands, but have failed in obtaining more than
one-half of the delegates to Congress, while in both
branche of the Legislature it is now ascertained
almost beyond a doubt that they will be in a mi
nority. Such a result, is in fact, a defeat to the De
mocratic party, and indicates most dearly that
Pennsylvania can and will be redeemed outlie 4th
of November, if those opposed to Mr. Buchanan are
but true to themselves and strike the blow in the
manner in which it can be made felt. That can on
ly be done by supporting the electoral ticket above
given. Let, then, all who wish to obtain a triumph
in this State, cordially, harmoniously and unitedly
adopt it. In the language of Millard Fillmore, “Let
us nail our flag to the mast head, and if we go down,
let us go down with our flag still flying.”
John P. Sanderson,
Chairman Fillmore and Donebon State Committee.
PemiNylvnina election.
Paii.a Delphi a, Oct. 18.—The following addition
al official returns have been received:
Columbia county gives 1,699 Democratic majori
ty—an increase of 199.
Montour county gives 561 Democratic majority
—an increase of 11 votes.
Centre county gives 827 Democratic majority—a
decrease of 48.
Clinton county gives 181 Democratic majority—a
decrease of 69.
Perry county gives 158—an increase of 8.
Luzerne county gives L ,001 Democratic majority
—a decrease of 199.
Clarion county gives 053 Democratic majority—
an inerrase of 78.
Lehigh county gives 801 Democratic majority—
an increase of 4 r ».
Snyder county gives 250 Union majority—a de
crease of 50.
Union county gives 440 Union majority—a de
crease of 10.
Westmoreland county gives 070 Democratic
majority— a decrease of 30.
Alleghany county (three distiicta yet to hear from)
gives 1,298 majority for the Union ticket, au increase
of 98.
Tioga county (one district to hear from) gives
2,780 Union majority—an increase of 1,280.
Lycoming county give 102 Democratic majority
—an increase of 97.
Th Pittsburg papers report the majority in Wash
ington county for the Union ticket at 250.
The foregoing returns make the majorities about
out-third official, and the balance reported, foot up
as follows :
J)emocratio majorities 32,851
Union majorities 29,417
Democratic majority 3,434
Indiana Election.
Indianapolis, Oct. 17. — The following are the
members of Congress elected in this State :
1— James Lockhart, Democrat, elected by 3,000
major, ty.
2 Win. 11. English, Democrat, re-elected by 2,800
maio ity.
li—James Hughes, Democrat, elected by 1,700
majority.
4 James Foley, Democrat, elected by 1,200
majority
5 David Kilgrove, Republican, elected by 2,000
majority.
6J. M. Gregg, Democrat, elected by 1,200 ma
jority.
7 John G. Davis, Democrat, elected by 1,000
majority.
8— James Wilson, Republican, elected by 251 ma
jority.
9 Schuyler Colfax, Republican, close vote.
10—Robert Lowry, Democrat, elected by 500 ma
jority.
11 JohuU. Petit, Republican, elected by o small
majority.
Ohio Election.
UoLtiMBUs, Ohio, Oct. 18—Tne Republican plu
rality n tne vote for Governor in the State is 20,000
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ELECTED.
I> »Bt. Dlbt.
1 — O. H. Pendleton, (I)) 12—6. 8. Cox, (Dein.)
2VV L. Groe-tbouk, (,£>) l i—John Hhui man, (k )
3L. D Ciuupbe 1, <li ) 14—Philemon Blisti, <R )
4 M kl. Nichols, (It) 15—Win R. Sapp. (II)
./—A P Edgertou (D)pr In—(J B Thomps-u (It)
fi—J. R. Cockerel, (1> ) J7—VV in Lawjci ce, (l> )pr
7—Afl'-nn Uarlaui (It.) IS—lt. t l ' Reiter, <JC )
H—Beiij. Stanton, (It.) 19— Kdward Wa.le, )
0— Judge Hall (19 ) 20— J K. Guiding*. (R )
10 — 10.-epli iVlil er, (L) ) 21 —J. A. Bingham, (R.)
11 — V. C Horton, (It.) pr.
Philadelphia, 0ct. 20.— -The German organ of
the Republicans ot this morning repudiates the fu
sion electoral ticket formed under the management
of Weed, Johnston, Cameron, and other Fremont
wirepuller*. It also publishes a call fora meet
ing, signed by a number of leading Republicans, to
express their indignation at the conduct of the wire
pullers.
The report that the Hon. Francis Granger ex
pressed himself in favor of Buchanan while in this
city, ns asserted by the N. Y. Courier & Enquirer,
is a base fabrication. Mr G. strongly opposed him
in this State, and spoke eloquently iu favor of Mil
lard Fillmore.
We are likely to be deluded with spurious elec
toral tickets. The Democrats, taking advantage of
the determined stand assumed by the true Ameri
cans in Pennsylvania against a fusion with the
Black Republicans, are playing dQgame to distract
some who may not be well posted in regard to the
action of the Central Committee. On the other
hand, the Black Republican wire-pullers insanely
advocate a union ticket—crying out “union,” “un
ion,” when there can be no union, and are thus play
ing into the hands of the Democrats regardless of
the responsibility which their course entails upon
them. To meet this state of things, the Central
Committee this morning urge the Fillmore electoral
ticket, aud after alluding to the resolution passed ou
Friday last urges the matter thus :
Having thus resolved and published their pro
the committee to whom was entrusted the
management of the canvass on the State cannot and
do not recognize any other electoral ticket as gen
uine or as emanating from that body, or as being
published and circulated by their authority, but call
upou all who desire to see the election of Fillmore
and Donelson, or the defeat of the policy of the pre
sent administration as embodied and set forth in the
Cincinnati platform, to unite in its support as the
only practicable means to defeat James Buchanan
in Pennsylvania.
It is pledged to the defeat of Mr. Buchanan and
ali who sincerely desire his defeat, it is hoped will
see the necessity of making common cause in iis
support and cordially unite in then* exertions to se
cure its triumphant election.
In speaking of the result of the recent election in
this State, '.he Committee very justly remark
“They, the Democrats, have elected their State tick
et by a meagre majority of a few thousand, but
have failed in obtaining more than one-half of the
delegates to Congress, while in both branches of the
Legislature, it is ascertained almost beyond a doubt,
that they will be in the minority.
Such a result is in fact a defeat to the Democratic
party and indicates most clearly that Pennsylvania
can aud will be redeemed on the 4th of November,
if those opposed to Mr. Buchanan arc but true to
themselves and strike the blow in the manner in
which it cau be made felt.
The Americans in Perusylvauia are not cast
down, but from all quarters we receive the most
cheering assurances that their vote for President
will greatly excell that of the party iu the recent
election.
HaßßiAjeg, Pa., Oct. 21.—The Union Conven
tion to form an anti Buchanan ticket, met here this
afternoon. Most of the counties were represented.
A committee, consisting of one from Oich Senate
rial D : strict was appointed to report a permanent
organizat ion. During the absence of the committee
au address from Chas. Gibbon, President of the Re
publican Executive Committee, was read/ expo
sing the course of John B. Sandersou in relation to
the election ticket, which caused much feeling.
Mr. Todd, of Cumberland (Fillmorite) was chosen
President, and made au eloquent Bpeech upou ta
king the chair.
The Committee reported electoral ticket as
agreed by the Union Committees of Philadelphia.
A committee was appointed to prepare au address
to the people. ,
The closing scenes were exciting, and the con
vention adjourned with nine cheers for the U
tiC *WA»Hi t :oTON. October 21.-Mr Oibbort »d-
SUnrfcraon * I
pbis paper* of b,-d»y- eii o )he eff( , Pt that the
American committee would join the Kepublican.
in Buchanan Electoral ticket, »ud toMmetr*
that meanwhile Sanderson was enter omn, a pr
position from Forney lor an a ‘>aac- with t.-e Dem
ocrat*.
The Wa? the Election w a* Carried in In
diana—Tee Lafayette Journal of th*l7ta instant,
eays:
A respons ble gentleman of this oity is prepart-d to
make affidavit that Judge Hamm on*’ the Democ at
io candidate for Lieutenant Governor, told b m a
short time before the election tii~t -ix hundred Irish
would be Imported in o Tippecanoe county for the
purpose of carrying the election,
Ut'CliMi r.,M Ui .1 «,rcai Question.
The London Times, in the extract below
r pleasantly comments on the settlement of ihe Cen
tral American Queatian, which heated politicians
tried to work up into a war between two great and
hind red nations. Almost every question of popular
excitement, whether threatening the domestic or
external peace of nations, is marked by the rise
from small beginnings described by the Times us
distinguishing the Central American Question, and
almost every one might be subjected to the same
harmless decline if people were as prone to view
them candidly and impartially ns they are to mag
nily and exasperate them. Our own countrymen
are particularly addicted to thi3 exaggeration of
party differences—especially during our quadren
nial Presidential fever, whou one party looks at
things through yellow spectacles and the other
through green ones, and respectively predict the
extremist public aud social calamities to depend on
the triumph of their particular color. Our great
Presidential strife is now at its meridian heat, and,
as wc have seen so many si-n'iar proxysms pass oil
quietly from their culminating point, we shall lie
pardoned for anticipating a like peaceful decline fur
the one that now rages.— Nat. Intel.
From the London Times.
Political and national events are apt to be small
in their beginnings and endings. In shape they
are pointed ut both ends and bulge outin the centre.
They make very little noise at first; then they get
to be understood,excite attention,create, discu-siou,
and form the subject of debate* in Parliament} then
they gradually withdraw and disappear from the
public eye, an occasional a’lusion in the press just
keep ug up a faint shadow ot existence, till at last
every trae »is gone. They are emblematic, in short,
of human lif*\ which is brought up in ihe quiet of
the nursery, is next f uud making a gwt show In
Parliament, or ut. the bar or in the fi-Id of ba tie,
and tiua'ly withdraws into the retirement wnioh re
cedes the quid of the grave. The great American
question has gone'through the firs’, und is now m
:uo last of those stages. U tviug widened out
from a very anniil point, it is now an ived at a point
tvgaiaj ana, having started in the retirement of the
■ nursery, in whi ;h it was t»Hiuing fa* the noise and
publicity which it subsequently attained, it has now
entered on the retirement which precedes u total de
mise.
Our readers may or may not have observed iujUie
column of American intelligence iu x.l '.day's ini
presMiou a document with the names ot Clarendon
and derail appended to it. This was I lie copy of a
convention between this country and the State of
Honduras, i»‘ Central America, and the purport of
it is that the l>ay Isluuds, near the coast of Honduras
are constituted a tree territory, under the sovereign
ly of Honduras, England withdrawing from all claim
of possession. The document with an K iglish and
a Honduras name to t, ti .i.-ites the great Central
American question ; AVxnudei ’s dust, fills up a bung
hole} the charges and recriminations of Govern
menu, the rhetoric of Congress and the House of
Commons, *ud the task of the political world repose
iti this little territorial arrangement with a small ob
scure and remote Republic.
We must observe t at due attention seems to bo
given i:i this document to the importance of secu
ring u neutral aud independent neighborhood to the
important isthmus which will probably before long
cut it. The interests of the whole commercial world
require an independent neighborhood there us a se
curity for free and uninterrupted commerce. The
republic of Honduras engages ‘‘not, to erect orper
nnt to be erected any foititications on the Raid is
lands, or ou any other islands, in the bay of Hondu
ras;” and Uit* ‘‘contracting parties agree -o o nmnu
’ ideate tlu* present o invention to all other maritime
Powers and invite th»-»» * ■ c-c- *t<* to it.”
The lVu:i»y,v.t.t *-* .non.
A gentleman of Salem, Ala.,s send the Colum
bus Enquirer the following extract from a letter
written by a friend in Pennsylvania a few days be
fore the late election. It was not desigued for
publication, but is so interesting at this lime that ho
sends it to us :
Mr. Editor :—l send you an extract from a private
letter lately received from a resident of Pennsylvn
nia, written a few d iys before the election. It may
throw some light upon the State of Pennsylvania
politics The writer is a gen'lemuu of character
and intelligence, not an active partisan, Bis state
ments can b<* relied on as truth. The extract is as
follows*.
“You ask what is the political complexion, a.id
probable; success of the Fusion State Tick-t / To
the first of your interrogatories, I answer decidedly
Fillmore. The ticket, as you doubtless know, was
nominated last spring, by opponents of the present
Administration, without ret poet to party. This
Union was before the ot 1* reinont and
without reference to the Presidential election. The
officers to be elected are Canal Commissioner, Sur
veyor General and Auditor General. Ot these two
are decided Fillmore men : the other is said to be a
Republican. As to its probable success I cannot
speak decisively. Bulb parties claim it. The Dem
ocrats have a well trained, thorough and complete
organization, and him making the most.strenuous
efforts ever made iu any previous compaigu. There
have been some fifty or Bixty Democratic stump
speakers from abroad. The opposition arc not as
thoroughly nor as completely organized, nor are they
making anything like as great efforts as the other.
There is a jealousy existing on the pnrt of the Fre
uioutcrs, which prevents them from giving an enthu
siastic support to he Union Ticket. A cons dura
ble portion of this vote will not be thrown for tills
ticket, especially in those sections where the 1 reign
vote preponderates. The refusal of the Fillmore
party to unite with them lias strongly mnbitterred
them, and even the fear of defeat will not bring
the entire oppositim to the support, of the Union
Ticket. The Frcniouters feel that the Fillmore
party has the advantage, and that success will iu
sure to their benefit; and hate them more, it possi
ble, than the Buchuneers ; for if Fillmore was out
of the way and a clear field between Buchanan aud
Fremont, Fre no. t would sweep the North like a
whirlwind. The only advantage the success <>l the
Union Ticket would be to the Fremout paity is the
favorable effect, it will have upon the other States
which are duobtful. Yet, with all these drawbacks,
I think the Union Ticket will be elated, but not by
as large a majority as anticipated.
As to the result in November, much depends up
on the result iu this coming election. Should either
party be defeated by a small majority, it will not
decide the vote. If the Union Ticket is defeated,
it may prevent the Republicans from bringing ou. a
ticket, and break dawn the petty local and sectiou
al prejudices which have in a measure paralyzed the
efforts of the opposition. There will be a larger
opposition vote polled iu Novmnoer than now. 'I ho
result ft tat in umbra."
Mr. Breckinridge again*! ilic South*
In order to prove this we will bring to the stand a
Democratic Editor, who has been sustaining tkd
election of Mr. Buchanan, and whose fealty to the
South cannot he doubted, We copy from the New
Orleans Del a as follows :
“ And further we say boMly and unhesitatingly
Mr Breckinridge is no* with us; he ts a uind u*;
he it the worst kind of a foe , a pretended J tend)
and we subjoin the proof ot what *e say. We had
hoped in wpite of Mr. Buchanan’s dangerous view
tin Squatter Sovereignty, to avoid any positive op
position to the Democratic ticket-; hut we prize the
interests of the South mure than those of any set of
politicians, good, bad, or indifferent, and when Mr.
Breckinridge assumes an attitude obviously kovile
to those interest*, *t becomes our disagreeable c oty
to expose him, to pluck the artificial feathers fiom
the chattering dnw, aud exhibit him in all bis origi
nal aud native ugliness.”
Hire follows tlie proof in which, among other
things, Mr. Breckinridge asserts that he dots not
belong to a (tarty that, lias for its object the exten
sion of slavery, and goes on to lo affirm the uhous
doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty. Tne 1 'eUa winds
up with the following catechetical appeal to his par
ty, and the would be. Vir. -Prci-ident:
“Why art*, you pposed to the extension of slave
ry, Mr. Breckilinage l Is shivery « moral evil ?
Then every pointer should manumit slavery to
morrow. la slavery a political wrong? If so, the
memory of John C. Calhoun shou'd be odious on the
earth. Is slavery, ou the contrary, politically and
morally right? Iu that case, v«hy should it n t ex
tend as far as possible, and why should the Demo
cracy take up arms against it? Under which king,
Bezoni&u ? You must take one horn of the dilem
ma or prepare to be tossed sky high ! Will the De
mocratic party accept its candidate’s position ?
Will it endorse the views of the Tippecanoe orator?
It can do it if it like, but it has no i igbt afterwords
to ask the South to vote, as a totality, for gentlemen
who entertain such anti-Southern views.
“The friends of Mr. Buchanan must toe the mark.
Are they opposed to the extension of slavery or not ?
Are they iu favor of Squat! er Sovereignty or not t
Are they resolved to save the Union at tne expense
of the South ? Let the organs answer. As South
ern journalists we demand a reply.”
Friends of the South.— A distinguished leader
in the Buchanan party, recently charged it on tho
Fillmore Union party in the South, that it was ma
king war on the true friends of the South, in attack
ing Mr. Dougins. Ah! indeed. And is Mr. Doug
las a friend of the South ? Then may the South well '•
say, deliver ine from my friends.
Not content with establishing ns a final solution
of the slavery question, the doctrine that the Terri
torial Legislature possessed “ authority to legislate
on all rightful subjectß of legislation , not excepting
slavery,'' he adds to this heinous wrong to the
South, the further one of put ting into the same act
die alien privilege clause. Not content with giving
the power to the Freeaoilers of the North, (who can
with such facility rush into the Territories,) to ex
clude the South from participating in the common
property of the Union, he, and his other Freesoil
compeers, open the flood-gates to foreign emigra
tion. The same act provides that it shall only be
necessary for au emigrant to declare his intention to
become a citizen, and tane an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States, and the provi
sions of the Kansas act, and he can vote as rightful
ly as any citizen. Landing at. New York, to-day,
he declares h s intention to become a citizen, and £
takes the prescribed oaths. Entering the emigrant
train West, the same day, iu ten, aye, six days, he §
may vote against admitting slave property into tho
Territory. A Southerner, au American citizen by
birth, whose father’s blood watered the tree of li
berty, lang syne—who himself has bled to defend
the American flag, is contumeliously thrust out from \
his just aud rightful heritage, by the votes of men
foreign to the soil, ignorant of the language and in
stitutions of the country, and mere puppets in the i
hands of the fanatics of the North.
And then we are told that Douglas and those who
wit h him gave these sons of ignorance, and often of
crime, this power over the South, are the “real
friends of the South.” Ob! shame where is thy
blush! Consistency whither tied! Well may the i
South doubt the patriotism of men who can take by
the hand, and fraternise with thoe», who have no
higher claims to Southern support than this.
[Natchez Courier.
Pennsylvania—The Prospect in November. —
That we can sweep this State by a large mojority,
on the 4th of November we are authorized to ex
pect, by the facts of the past, as well by the iudica
ion of the present. The results of the State and
Presidential elections in Pennsylvania since 183 C,
show that the Whig vote in the October election
always fell short of the same vote in the succeeding
Presidential contest, while the Democratic vote in
creased but little. Thus, in the October election of
J the Democracy carried the State by a large
n ro’rity ; and in the Presidential election which
followed, the Whigs, with scarcely a hope of suo
t*e»s, reduced that majority to a very low figure.
In the State election of 1840, the result stood
thus:
For the Democrats 130,551
For the Whig* 1 '•'» ‘*o2
Democratic majority *,049
In ti.e election of the same year, tb*
foli- w ng wus the rtsult—
1T arrisou 144,021
Van Bureu ..143,672
Harrison’* majority 34$
Thus, while we lost the State in O tober, we car
ried it u November.
‘u 1848, Johnstons majority over Longstreth*
was 301 ; Taylor's over Cues 13,554.
In Goto »er, 1852, the De mocrats carried the
State by 10,948; yet with this immense majority
o near y tw< uty thousand atarij g them iu the face,
ibe Wh gs n it only increased their vote 27,522 in
November, but actually reduced the Democratic
majority.
The acts are full of encouragement fort!:* fu
ture, and should convince us that with a igorous tff
forts aud thorough organization, that triumph 1$
otrtain.— Pittsburg Journal ,