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TERMS, &Q
T H it W4* KX L Y
l*at»li»ti#Ml . \t ry Wt-dkind**’.
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v (‘nr i- (f iii« paper at the fate of
cjv c ")i'iE3 FOR TEN DOI.LAES.
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1 !■ fo.ward up the
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OMj DOLLAR A . UAK IN AJ A ANUfc
DA MI.I, tKh D ano !> UED.4O*D. *f<»R*
:((ccuth Volume will ft*
January, lßb7.
TilKCui ltvltOH i a L it (Ut;*r oof thirty tW
a rr.ir.n,*'* I n,i7f - m the y«iir. I#r»taalr* a,
Mill' I aiii'ouu oi !*«;i4i.•<¥*.'u<T4J**a «ny A*rt
i : iml.l <<uriwi. ..f :fch. **> o#- • HN« m. r. In * Ufuioit to
WILE ORIGINAL 4 *j.A*IHU;i:TI(>NS
rom t... ot ! fus wo*t nit r u»6 yikU./umf
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•yy ' - yyt ~ail’ M y “ r :r :'•£
'I n •; 7{v f * J V, i*j t :*dfeered iO+j/tilfl hid
i. ><• i:uo f -will if.f jotj.-T I . <n»i. uni. , ; n*- ru >uay at
c'liiir'. .cn tin! order l*- li.iU. of a!f njiei^c-paytiuj.
»;a , a . ».vo.| t, t j All romitp-rf-Tiy mast
AVlv s-fl-M-uieni'* ■ * “ *' *
111 . :f (hp DOI.I/iW'. v»*r «-(• of twt.lvft liimw,
Tii"|t >*!). . UJU> ao(U«'ft. '!’»► UOII.AM
\V VI. .iOPUvS, 'ttffiHA, t-H.
v, INji i» who wIU mrt a AkuiU, and ol>umb *tiub
' . Will '•••:■. ~.-•■•• I Hith :»«• pap-r at Cl»l.
Kbit SAbfl
FOR feAL.fi,
r | MI »•; -.11 !w Igned, being ofioa/lng th® Biate
ii. i irt V* rrflWon, Warren roomy, 44 u , r«n«*i»rt*ig
of a i)wr riff lion,. v mil I.ot <M nf»out five a<r»H«f
.an . Alo<«. his OarflAge and Lot, '1
umhi. •«! nil ft, : HUKk, together vvith aU hte finixhM
I’.- .m UlKo n to twftOy thou.nanfl dollar, worth or
rk, viM-:,e» ,- * .|t ot, at good pricil, at th>
i , «*i ii. wishing to purcliMP, are iK»|jePtfidljp invited
call and for theniMelvugL
chaser OKOiUxK L HASHER,
rou SALE.
INOW rdfoi tot ’ .. ntira RKer fiEAItTATiOJN
‘»H r $i- : 01u.n1,..; fU .1. iiarhotir
good repair A g<■ <d Vv'a i-r t.iir'fu d F«■. v Arro;« tbe
tJhaH .vh.irH hwe »iv«r. 'fbe abovo w ill he fftr at ap>
jjTtfyr "i ari ui, .vA\-rK.n4 ur
to mi,a or Taste ajjd chht,l.
I •;>«, |.r0,..™» to i.1a,.! n.arCft\T>.spring
1. V . 1 Vall-i'. Kloy.i Mnmty, lln, •tutoluing-sn
*<"• ■ - ifWi,.-I I,! u.U an., hkkorji
r
powi-r wili.iiov.l'iiiimg, lif-iUof ii.aoy n(ll w-ku-tcil
varielW‘ 4, oHpivially ot apple und airirgr and <'Orujpn#t
uh Brick Dwelling, i-urrotmdod by anti,
within a mile of the village imtg noted A,r ifs culm atioutkl
AdrautageM. All who have acta iuedll# framl
fc;. cur m the opinion that thU pi a#. , fiahinr « the ele nyiUs*
of hoatity, tt rtiluy, eon . iLeave Aid he ; s to an
(jxtout seldom, eiptaUed in tlflx oaimtcy. ltut
come and see tor your *e l v,-;, aud the «i*ar«; u*r, libation,
and re.sont, r < of tho plaoc -.an hardty (atldonatfeiy you
that it in m Ni. I article, j*>t sanftv' o t»»e
f lu. market. For terms, apply on tb- prere **h.
W. 1> I’OW ARhT
~
FuR SALE,
A I*l. \NT \'riON containing FfiOO acre?? Land, wfell
/\ Hmher. d; *J<H) inues cleared ami nm‘duetts the besi
rtou and IhoviM inH.d ftti kUiJ- A good
Iwo'Htorv Dwrd.ug, containing seven rodtns, with foftr
lire p .i aud 40 t*;Pt l*iit; KitCfu-n, riniuke Hon e
two story t ‘ tton liouao, (tin and oilier heuidirgs,
. arei-nlh pf ttl; a V'etl or good water: * fiLL'*
ran ;.'for fi-.,- 1 :,ndC .Wh*. I'isi and
in Uu. abuiwlaneo. Atu re healthy, tduluJUvt U»«-»Uoa>
. i, r; .Mo he f./iiiuT in fe<.ufh*-.u A'* a. PflriUcr pur*
iirui:i, .in boo falmul hy ai'pllfHtlon tatL.* subscriber
JU S; .-'..H-h V. WOOi-UQT.
uovlh wtf « . . • -1
' LAND AG BITOT.
1| Oil r. W, SIAI U-s*vKowmtn, t>'W«*tH county, .
V Will r>. I'll »« 1*111. Ml) w the SAI.K UH PUB
( HANK f)K I.AJiIH m any pari .if llj.’ Slak- I
iwnifu: l.and tii tTicroki*- or ?kmthweKtern
who r< idojit %«J. itance :*ud
have ih .oat • ended Mby i cinTiug me thtdr umbbor
ai <1 muni .u'iilh •. and infwolr of eftordey to sell «Ti.l
, * tnako tiile- I will ;d o givd parti* uU' aitCTP i.mi to btij?
ing Laud who may desire it. j*l w.«nt
Oooda I’oiWjiili fl Stba trf CUaigt!
AtjanSTA A-ThsAVANNiyi kULbmd
* A !• I'KVNliti raU.-rtiuthPß v u ■ m«te< rs
iV eomn ifleation w ssh Mm. ReCbeer.l .'uml •hottec with
Northern Fort*. There are now joer FIRST O’LAHH
.SThAMSliri SanilsHtlnu. o.f >V=t Sailing Tw .M%
ru.mlug withrept!«rltyand(%patci,l>etween.iHew Verk
and S.v turah also a Steam !:.*» am iron Fbiladei
phla, an<T Sailing Vewsel v from t hbf poiT, Palttju ajid
Bo.sfbn, urns tbo North
ern Otic an t fckivfvrmah as rehablo for G'.fBTAINTY
AND S! 5 f?J), as that 10 any other Sout!u*rft'>Prt.
rtu* lie.ml Can cx|mm i.*nly the basttio. a «|{ Augndte.rlic
row us and t;«HHuies along tky lioe (tAUto t>o .gia Hftil*
road, a.. . tlm.M- {’udatiCMiyuia to the ii.iftU of that Road.
O’hei ll $ h have a lu: ger H*dU of operations that cannot
bonoghat. i merely to e uro y'> limited u tsada as
that t;> wcfe 'di wi must al- a«' give,aH oar ai.d
n > comp ;‘.tor w tilt» aMm. i, bv supc W lo
deprive ns ,»f it for it ia our f»;I " topi'tjduot
it with thr.t ll hlity, dispatch aivdbauii vahichfiaura 5
ultimate'y to gain and (etala.it. . .
Hoad ami in order to reduo ■ r'l -■» a m’ifl»dsn
rata, o itractab D ,e
:nfo at Savau ••. an ; - h .mae*t <1 v.. * tfto Itbgj'fV*
Ing and Forwarding ba .wother iiite-asi than that of
seeing rt at ALCiftIIARdES are at Um€uw e4
C3T By Railroad a avlagafoae Ifuarter of .«< ;n»r
«•'.it can bo made ;* th ’ In- lirf.n* .-between Northern
• All floods* FO.'r.VAKDETI F'jVicJ OF MIS
SIONS They Jho-tld be mai-kod yu. , r R. R.
Agent,” Savauubh.
Fub*h»hcd by order, film T?«anl
FSUWCLS 1 WILLI*, ftv rAvmU \
C OI J B M AN ’H 6 Ujß b ,
BY LANIEK A F.ADV,
KN©XVfT.I.*. TffN
II to nude; signed having taken charge of tliintl/irga
. ami c..«in»oviit‘U* Heu*. >ertfuUy flnftcit aud
hope to *n *rit a liberal share ot patom : • Ihv i^ux#V
tui m• i* iin the m<>-t ugh ami modem style. xvilh *
v:**nr . • oenvtuifnccam! <m-tifpn It is ituatod in *fce
heart <’» the t ity. V'uv«M .out toall the l>iN,utKs. and en
the |u i,*al ■»ee' Au omnibus : a*way '.u rcadi©e«
to nmvo / pa#- tig *to and from tlie l)rj>d ©i Cite aari
val ami 'S-partm oof tko ears 1 f<r M'Utvale
Spring- arri\ . ami departs dailf.
Th- #. •\\ . .bo ied the «*»est t#»n market
affnnt",a;i*ti •■» pains wiLl bo spareM to remler guest:-
S WYfi • N :
Jiilx- ’ : ... . iv2* f I Jnp \ KAI»Y
S3O ,^tWABD.
i> AM.UY.I V . from t: ui ■ r.-sldm*. ta
V i..*’UC- .T\. M.-rri Ip Augc u»u my NYgro
Mau FR VNK. Me u' myut 25 years oitl. fix ►*TkevA«j in
ches high, oi medium su«>, has n slight impetKmjSl I© nth
speech. ami ' a • -t the •%'. tot <gpe eye Pfo vriLarifertl
in V « . 'via. . : u in about «v> o
Tile v ve reward will be pt- ml 6 * hi ftekvfgy .o me,
or to anv jxilso thaU op: get tin*,
ja-y; :f .h>l!N T .\* HABBjW
T ie s uthern Recuc.ler will palib-u till Wubid,loalfcf
w an! a.v.mm to :is : ,* for payment
K. K. Bl XU.,’ * if R. FRA|CIStO. ’
t?Ar- If i. FftAfcwlSOf>/
I)KOIM t I*l' ifro \1 HlsflON WRRPJJANTS,
M..« *u i v. xx . s t fl onV-■•.itr. s.Mon. Baeotu 1.-aiui.
Flour, to n. Oa; Feathers, and V««ues*ee Produce 1
l iiiipp . .-s ofln refvupon pifUupt «©tufV.s..
feU i Til*-
andC u# ‘'Hm*xvi?H»T Morgan A 0»*. ,
J ; Jfcv.ie l*. t.itt U.CmutWU*. NsAft die ;
K .■ i\i 4, Caujdbei', lin **»r a t J. a kt.
ew - More! at*©i Htti Tenaesae g#uefally.
\£Ljßii .-ftfjtyhs' *.7w*.
PAI'KNT OKul TO.
II tn\<: , \nvl>a>©4 It ru Mr, Wm n .>U
I i • . i _atiw js;i *f yulai axapotwr **• An^
for xvh»« hx% <• r.a\. paM hm a large o.m, kml vee t**y
•>oie p < o* t .♦* rdwaid m\y par* J
aou g x iff...: «>u ot r in >u:s on 1
! lr- • o. :uy Mu ' xy./ el lh.*t |
a San iOi t.vily «-\ra m t.. I. ■■ m - *i Sry wul ‘X* j
]e— - ojt--xvlll uot lw..r xx 1.. n.i tg—xrlil *aw mpootli J
--»ve ! » uk e-:. ea 'ng- atfyx thar 1
V u Saxx A«v ■ from an extr? fptsuiay -fOt *: j
'• ««rr« " y■* 4 .*r owe nw ai nm* UJj §li -
VY- re . tul.y uiioim all iters of DtnSer,
t***u ' % V-..1 t n * >i v vstaMttfito * but :
w »•.: w»p* !.. -i. . ; ;\a.t'xv rkt■ an'higs i
xx ioun i more v v. u ami uuiiurn: tha any saw « ]
<* ■ dbyCAKiIU AAM. A ttKA\ Augua- (
*■-.Q** * * WgT CH & F.iqiTlTH.
PRACTICF of SOBCWKY
| )*V fH Ls pvapared to aftdh !
uuxv i “ Fo.w ? ueh patient# aj* i
L;./ ' - *■,«<•< -ito luAFr dur, *1 oueratuia or troat* {
»v! . 1 «•***■** Snrud 31l |
WOXIOE.
T ! r y-.i«wi Bjii, j
«Md U« . . * - 0 . *;-*■ *?■ •-«. •.:! <U left 1
rhrw or- »nV. V.. A M.
«,uk Oowi, ' I ? ' l Mti-r. • * iW
„..., ~i „.. • .^ u .i'., -U 1'"-‘.»X«tioi'til.
3ST **■ «X |
,ty. -a. . / ' * ** U» ’
’ *'■•« ' ‘ WILLIAM !
LET THE LADIES READ “THIS ~~
11- II n< l • iat . ... u’Utl' iio ii iitli songUl fr-r, .aud
I bereiofcre so vtri diH.ult V i*a ,n,as a iKkMJ
NthULE ai: tbs L«dio-»iil rt. ..-fta; at i*S; tLeae
*•“ * iusri«luc«i. Hhicb U.ey taa buy, wttft the'
lull a-nranif,that they are I't-r't-o: u. *v. Xy n-spivt.
. u in dha wth - «t 0U i
AeeiL. s norr sti u.e, will a rmuJl portion of a |*p«r
- prove g i.d.buiM-rry y,,dleiowom*nuA. *
• J l '■ J. LAWIitXU* SnOOVILHM
PBEIKCT EYED KEMDLES, to bar-found at :tu tt r
Stores. jttit-n^tDo
WOTfCE 4
A 'o' ~KR v o>> ho *¥«“•’« a#:« * l>r II A
■**- Kamaax - " " M piear-v turn •! Uam.. m
ately . and tao<4Tiudebte<i. to pay at wm e,
cs 1 am dc crmmxxd to settle up »» d F>tate a», soon as
he same can be done legally.
A M « KAWFOKD A.inTr exoffirio.
App! n.% Columbia 00. March u#l& r >? tifcio
DJEi. EOBEBT SOOtSate
i\FFJ;H«i bis professional services to the pnblic.
Reference—Dr. H. 11. Bte:uer. at whose office he
may be found during the day \ at uight # he may be louud
I the Augusta Hotel jaxOb-am
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
I'lrtonicif &
fsp-ecfc of;Worker.
Os *ia«#r fay might b--mi. ifr*n. Walkf.e delivered
«ii nddr*m. b • tfc* f it**..** oT New Orteeim,
.v-jejit in »'. e«reutc in KicarAßua A stjtnd w ms
eitgvid in Ciiißt s&wt. and about eight litoiwaud
eroded a the plat form, while the balvomea
a?KI were throng** ll with ladSas.
e ake the f- 4}wiag r*-r>ort of inn speeoh from the
irtfr'i • -■* :
Pwlmr-Oiti cwyr I stAod bffor/- yon md to vindi
■ h o.:U»e, i*w h fiewb none Whaf i« just uoc-df?
Vi. diCalioi l f l ithi ecmoouiae of mt’xi'ms and the
•yMpafchy hare mamfe/'ed thp iutereatyou
•»<-*. Hul. I cam! t** vitidtcate and the
■*- hyai.ioh a a A.smc&o cause fca i b*str. npheht
by ATnerfCMi (itizen- | ri oramining the native*
aow. f A?k fw to *fief-ard all pr#*ttidice».
e.hd to -“taufll ere a*- »fj r , '?n were judge
of ldaiiny-T*o judge withoot tear or favor.
HIUIV niisviupuious have been ftie rrieani* report-..
ed lYTt'ipiare me in aiakre light befote my country
*h«me it in pe<*es«ary to remove, and I ehal
my - uemiee to point to a wugle act of mine
vfiueb been in \ rotation of civil, nationaf. ot in-
Ls i. iUoaaJ ngkta ichalleoge any one
present- to nama. -any a<;t of mifee in Nicaragua
whu k has yot been stamped with the seal of
tOsiioe.
/ •*® r ® ;irf * J 4? who (‘barged upon me »«eh
m t. ver; a*-, to a’ teijuipt to vindicate them, would be
a »*xockei v. There are those who have *
’s a ujfroi tne motives of avarice and r;»ere perßoiia!
,a*t . Kr. »m »n* h I acorn to vindicate rnyaelf The
net. wlio wnm'witiimein Nh.araga, o«nm
tryiifAr; in arme— grill vindicate u*o ircan the charges
>f iikVhxg ejifert at nod suoh motives. But there are
••iber motive? not ko degr ding atfi.ft blush, that
I <t* soldiec ot for: uno,/dfempt irg to carry
•*«». my -mu* tiwii, to make sos mjuwit a came and
4 ; us. I hf» imputation \ rojecl as egunfound ,
u a:ui I hopv* to r oiivkice you that I wa< not a
;i»c.r«>i»ldier c*i fortniA*. risking the liven and for
iuue*of wy countrymen for the ».ike oi ambition.—
Tue action of my traud prove auobler motive.— (
iHT Irnve exerted.tiayartlf for anypurpoac, it has been
M* fexteiul American iidlnenee and AmcTiCAuize Ni-
Spar&gim. .
Yor thirty live ycars, a straggle for liberty had
H« mi |,oiug on among the Central American ftepub
a*s. The civil wars showed that the people were
It, apaiilo oi gd’venimcnf. Nicaragua was hi a
elate of tmaxwy when I aceeitted tin* offer of Ca<f
<tUmu* Y r#?fuHed to act IB opAn violation <»f the
ia’tvc ot the United Slates. But 1 eaid there waa no
vioia emof the law sos out country in their asking
um t tight m behalf 6f the Democratic party. I
s»iit ai agent to C'ribtiflen, to tell him that the con
tra#4 between us ruHst lie made accordingly , that I
bwi ,M in vital ion from Gen. Candorae to apsiet the
Hfmdui ians.and would go there if ( 'astilion appre
hended any danger from the presence of Amencan©
in Nic agwt. (Hj bonded knees, and ■with suppliant
1 < ***.-■, the Prpvidoijai Breeident of Nicaragua iuais
te.dAhatl should r»unain, and wished the Ameri
cmu** »<i b«- on his own Fide, for he knew them to be
loyal and true.
Aft£r my •acct iff on the transit route, 1 made a
treaty by which the ofAmerioans was ap
‘ proved by Corral and his t*AHy. I did this to secure
ib‘-good win of All. There w' .i 9 7iot a Nicaraguan
wtfAca.rrid nay, iirt.lm liner*«»i^'this treaty, that he had
not apy veu tho presence of the Americans. S*rven
(lays aft»*r, in tlui ]»r»- ’.-net* of the before
Coiral and ntyseff wer-* nworn to the
ii itv. and before the ink was seargelg dry <m the
onper, he penned m* letters Lo the Hondu
ri n» agamst llte Amoricaus. These fell into u*y
iuoi'le. nad T‘ft If that I might have brought him to
th*+block ; Jiiel by the provisions of tfe treaty he
could :.<H hove ev uiod his execution. This traitor,
p ojrod tgrbe guilty, plead nothing i•. his extenua
'Hu, but b*v,K f 'd for mercy. I felt then, as now,
rb-it a eoprt Whh hu act of wisdom, and
irerey the pert ol folly (Applauwi. j
Lt It that jusliu*- and mercy would stiil be meted
.r.l ;»i,d :be tin six mpnkha after Corral’s death his
j : i*ty would t) • vacquishen. After the exeerfflon of
r v I, *■ Uiv, pn iv wentovef to t.h‘* Deuiocrat
• ; side ;ibd Ijrn. Cabanar* assisted th«- I londnrians.
I weiit by invitati**ii, to tlie auce of the Ni
j's uans, Getfi lieiai jajncd in the application
vvhk h>\vup mad* to pie. Kvory excrfioQ was made
io iutlm nee me to take Hie Americans to Honduras.
1 replied (hat American* were there as friends to all
nor* ■••«. By my enggestionH commissions were sent
I*l H*mduru.s and allth* States, statjiig that we de
-».• d pt ay?, that oui policy was pacific, and that un
der »he 'nrcumsiauce* to take -ides was illiberal
hfjr.ifiw'knowlodged the truth of iny euggestions.—
Pt was not a Democrat, aud was not In favor of as
slating Cabanas. Deputies wereaunt by my advioe
alingtbii! we desired pead* 5 , We shall see how
far Hu* whs granted.
J tii * * in* in tunc, a** important event Uwoapired.
Vt Hie suggi'st i *uh of J >ou Pat* cio Bivas, an Amo*
neat, whh <nt Jo represent the Government at
WnshUigton. I oppo. ed thi. as bad policy? but I
wum net in ausliorhy, mid my *<ppo itiou w r «t* una
vailing They wnuted an Amenenn to i-peak the
Am< itc.-m language. Yon all know, fellow citizens,
how he was received. None can paint the surprise
*d ! he Ni laragipins, because, on the plea of Pierce
iwl M.ucy, he was rejected on account of his being
hoi nin flj*e Uciited States. 1 well knew the result,
«nd told them of the rotations that existed between
the I nited States and Nicaragua: bat I assured
them i-ha 1 , my oounUyinen knew a power higher
than Uiatof presidents and cabinets— liiat I Uaain
fi .rtc ceiifi h.nee in f!iat higher pOwer wli’Cli the
people held in their own hands—the true American
- >Vi reiguty. [Applause J
The alliance which -followed between tha four
Gentral American States—the combination agaiubt ,
Amermau citizens in Nicaragua—id due to Pierce
and Mercy, uuder their rejection of the Nicaraguan
Minister. This brought tiie matter to maturity
Immediately the Costa Bicans, the supposed Weak
est power ol liuat conibiuation, oommenced hostili
Ues by an open dedarafion of war. Then followed
Ihe almost anomalous decree by which the Costa
Kh un* made war, rot against tne State, bid. against
tlHvVmorictuu. in Nicaragua. Thus commenced the
war of the laces- the great battle of the mongrels
and the white men,
This war, then, was not begun by the Americans
in N’i* aragua . aud 1 challenge the production of a
single act *u which they did anything but uphold
tlie pledges made by the jiooplt oi Nicaragua.—
After this it appears that Don Patricio Kivas plotted
With the Northern States I**T effeoting the desertion
of ruch Americans as could not be expelled by
force. American rights w ere ignored in Nicaragua ,
brih** of money aiid even lands K wcCe freely' offer
ed in the face *»f our having braved war in its worst
fui U F. nun suffered the loss ot lifb by* the rage of
tamnenud pestilcii. e.
Thev. hoAvevu, pretendedtp be convinced of my
aseuruLK’* s of the merits of my position, and were
willing that nn election of President should go be
forti tiie people This 1 desired, tori well know that
:lio mass ol UieUi detested with an implacable
litUHid the tor fed, military service ot the Costa
Kicantt.
Tin? ohudirtu waa fiocieod. but only think, the
Nitiuif was übi declared, be-faro Kivms vvae i>lottiug
a wider the pretence that th<- people
w« r» overawed by my pre.-euee. But “the wicked
lit e when m> nnui pursnelh'’—l was not there ; they
xvttf»* mnniuej. froin their own x'onftoienee#». J*f ot -
vvUiatiUidiiur tbin oonduot of Uivna, the election
rmulo d .a my clevaiiou to tlie Plrwiiieaoy. J3y
ihia, leteruHortb th»“ only protector and lawful
representative of flu* TxicaragJiflnK. Uivap was
jfrex icuftly but. the pro\ htfpnal President-. I was
iTomuum m-Chief*d oju- portion of the army, and it
was 11oY»ugh me he was lupned im the iHraitiuiiy 1
w.-.a joint sponsor, and as ter tlie. death of Corral,
wfl ‘he sole cause of his elevation. I was bound
by oath Ly put Uivas cut when 1 was sworn in, but
- I just>bed betore the world by the unmistakable
voice of the people, w ho knew the thets under which
1 bad been elected.
1 nted not rocotiut the events wliicii followed. !
have but to vuidiente the acts of Aip eric Alls in
Ton all known how long and how
successfullyT strived . with what means 1 forced
i .rk the enemy ; braved that worst of foes, the
mrkiiia in st ileiroe, tin n racing w*th viol type ein
OratiHvirt. But tor a in w indiumre, which, 1 re
.ret to say. Comes lint little less from my own than
a foioigu eounirv. we might still hune been .in arms
N k na^uH
it is probable, wo had no right to expect sympa
thy from the llrilieli. even if determined at the sac
i in-e oi the honor and r»<rHts of British officers ; but
i n«x*d rut tell you that officer ot the British service
dtHKTt.iui ti\>m pur aimy. They but,
obrv%d the dutuirt es a Superior authority. But
yv kaU*'vertke position of these officers, 1 could not
hut tWuk. that-, iui!’ s s gowrued by sonic strange
collusion they would not tbps have iuleifercd with
Amcrtern < iti/.0n.-.
ii 4 is to explain it, except by supposing
tlail Americans Were on the- same side witk. the
Brlhsk t »nrwoM ancmigs weie-Americans. Ohl
thai Uu y 1 ?ui been boi in some ether country. It
is our shame that they should at their birth iiave
breathwdcfie s.vne air us lamest Amerieaiis. It was
i»ot uhiii thi last exigency—that of reverse and dan
—a*; Aonerieau, the name and arms of
an Atn# ncan odio r, v t'nsnmtr.ated what British in
ty”rtiPr«|H»> had begun. It U* a dnty to uiyssif to *x
\ laii. why w t arc no loiter m arms.; and. < mt. how
' \er ms-eniticaiit might be Uk repivsx uUitity of
our #»o»Kmmeat. 1 shottld n‘sp»*ct the American
tlau%s much in lum as in the highest otiioer and
tliiw. in x served the right of appeal
—not to the govsrumdut but to t h * governorj l —to
the pex>t»lo tiicinseivcs.
C*pt Davis mude represents ions which I couid
naii rbei*» ve wtre true; and American as he was.
| !. an act which was ready one of war
i -oi. Kicar. yua. But consider, felTow-citizens.
That that Utile vosaei, the Granadu, was covered
'vith gk n by Ame&can bunds. Sthe was mauued
..y Amxiioans, had mat a vessel oi il-e enemy and
ai.e ofi victorious in au engagement unequ&Ued in
The ai.unis of naval Har are since the days of Paul
.?«me# Yes, fellow-4 itiaens, that event, in which
(he little Nicaraguan sclmontr was saccesMul. will
be lectu red to with prich byfbe historiAU. and the
Wcvcutl. (if April wih iorg be remembered by the
American people. Who ot you cannot feel pr uu
at u»e spirit ot manhuo<l manifested by an Aiperican,
bvrtu in your nffdsf * Yes, you can but feel that
,d b 'h 3 vrisef was a fact in tue nfetory of Amen-
Wm enterprise, surrounded with glorious memories
\ xvhmh cf*nrv. U erased. Yet, despite th® glories
r -he bus Sttach#d to our fame,Lbere wr- noi wauiiryj
i tin u ravin H> co«uinU,au act of which every
! iuvtx <« uia t'or.uwy slni dd be ashamed.
It waa reservad t C apt Davis k> make hiniseii
| a party to -la albaucO nith the British ami ikemon
xfela of CcnUdf Anfforien to drive hi - own rate irom
tlie Ist hum- fie exp: eest'd his determ luatiou to
,*ciae the D-Anoxia, and we W-oCt boumi to } ieki to
to imn. Yew* fellow-- lumens, we were tV>rcsed to
make tern?- . ».d to surrender to au officer of the
Amtitcan Navy.
GrfcalfvrSs ear whea we k ailied that
tbe.Amerff'ans had thus interfeieil with the Amgri
cau cause tn N n teegikv. Why this actiou ,01 Da
ys be*-aule be uavl rev ived iusif-ux tious from
Wasbimftdti. But.why were these maixuctknis
tsmue between the Itarey tseaiy, as it xva&,4md*he
Amerioaus in Here was the starting
sdiinoe. The American Mmister to Kurland, and
iHt- Aurtiuoirists at the North determined that
fc iaverv shouiu oe excluded fnmi a place over which
Aiut-n- ans bad no con Dot.
I l ore n« what may l>e the ideas of thoee pre
sent, or* Wi.ut they may say in justification, it was
but a combination to txciuue tile action of asove
| r«4ftity of Honduras from the Bay Islands.
w«eu tb» Status Os NvwOraaadii and Costa Ric a
Uiert existed a question of boundary originated
limuoiy thiougfa men at New York, the agents ot
1 ' u ' Uitttd pcx ■ iup any. #
The iv . lustiou of terrkt<*ry between
New 6nu?adaand Costa Rica, and betwx-on tost a
hiSTV! ’-oaracua in relation to the Buena Costa
•vwu.i&x; M-qyiiv -ounlry. Ihe it lea 4*t thisques
* 11 baiiHOm to tiller im<• an agroe
? - °®** l ** k thafcsiaverv should be exclud
*jr .*** r , 0l . M^f 'Ur*ed British intrigue in the desire*
* m these goveratneuts with
cur mat.Lutk*tte. Unre let petty that I
lu n-.: w*h U> «a«iu poubtHl iiMsku^ou ibu,ulj«Ot.
I! p t : jjjh*-- tw I vra* bom in a Soliili
je. u •' s <«a e, wm u to© unfortunate that 1 cannot
1 ‘ slavery a cnnrai or political uro©g. My
g- umv in>( have been mtogeiher ol
, 1 toooiuj » wk. Sitoidve point,
i JUtLioa itau t bnve Utn ajnok »poa tin pryofof
t . I*M#URct to tB, origin ©f -!iii rrv i© American
history —wn>.< tnt:.4uceo itiuiw Ukundomitry j Wa
he a«ian Without fauax l Cvrunuky lew have s u*jd
by her til moral wor h thart I.a fires Caea--. thojspa
-4 lii-i. priesit who was tlw* head and trout of this ®i
j aLuST lie intiodueed kin the 16th centuiy, for
the relief of lh« Indians from the euhiediun of the
Spaniards It wer#- bettor that be bad fixed it per
1 iuanemiy not only in Cuba, but in other repun* of
Centra! Am erica. Certainly he wae wise aud far
more libera, for iris day tbau even she present foi
ioweraof CWrkson and Wilberforce.
Central Amerk-a wa« in a wc*r«*e eoaditioii than
under Spannish rule. The government wa*i going
to r uin. Mongreiieai w%s tut secret of its waning
iorturifch W iiat was to be done ? It was left for us
to Americanize Central Amcrif^a.
Oa whom rested the right of regenerating the
amnjgatuaied race ! Oa to other than the people
of the United States and especially of the Boat hern
BtAtes. I caJ! upoii yom, therefore, to eieettie this
mwfiAn. Voa cannot, in jnrtice to yourtelves,
slrjuk from the endeavor. You e&unot but con
tribute you* energies in carrying oat the great
principle of Americau m«u* iiee. As. for myself,
forced here »► I am, I can but appeal to you to as
sist in regaining the Amenc<tn ascendency. My
duty has been paid, and i would not tarn back on
. the path I Lave traversed. No, geuttemeu, forced
bore against my will, I feel that duty call on me to
return. [Applause. 1 All who are nearest and
dearest to me are there. There sleep men, soldiers,
and officer* whose rights I cannot fad to see per
fected
ilnre, too, the heirs of the those who have per-
iahed claim that I sliould return. Tiiat while I draw
r one breath I shall not leave a single stoue .unturned
to secure
thou, fellow citizens, male and female, whose freinds
and relatives have perished, to lend your aid—upon
the men toaisifct by their fortunes and purses—upon
the mothers to belt the sowrds about their sons—and
upon the maiden as she listens to the lover at her
until be shail have vowed to go forth on the
mission of his duty ; aye, fe'low-ciuzeus, 1 call upon
you all for the glorious recollections of the past aud
the bright anticipations of the future, to assist in
.carrying out and prelecting the Ameiicanization of
Centra! America'
* Tretnvndous cheering, in Ibe midst of which the
General retired.
From ttie Ntw York IVibune.
Nicaragua—flow \Vulker and lii» lUen Escaped.
Oen. Hen Ling sen. Col. Titus, and one sick soldier
are all that have arrived here of Wtflkers army.
Gem Jlenningsen had prepared a careful statement
ol ailairs in Nutaragua. and had copies made for
the papers of this city. These copies were entrust
ed to Gen. Ctt/.euuu, but for some reason not ex
plained that gentleman has not furnished the state
ment.
INTERVIEW WITH GEN. HEN SIN USE S.
Due ot the Tribune reporters called at the reai
dence of Geo. Henningsen, after the arrival of the
Illinois, and found him in Hie midst of his family.—
The General has furnished ua with the following
particulars:
Since the last advices rec eived here from General
Walker, the Allies made an attack on the intreneb
mentsat Rivas with a force of 2,t00 men. The as
sault lasted six hours, aud was hotly contested
throughout. As near as could be ascertained, the
enemy lost 100 killed and wounded, including 30
prisoners taken by Gen. Walker, one cannon be
longing to the Allies, also fell into the hands of the
filibusters. Walker’s total loss in this engagement
in killed and wounded did not exceed r >o or 00 men.
Kroin this time until the second week in April,
when Gen. Mora arrived and assumed command of
the Allies, no offensive operations, to speak of, took
place on either side. On the 11 tli of that month the
Allied forces, led on it was said, by deserters from
the Filibuster camp, made a desperate attack on
Gen. Walker’s intrenchments, and succeeded in
gaining possession at one time of the lower plaza.
About IbO had entered that portion of the town,
when Gem lleuniugsen succeeded in bringing Lhrce
guns to bear upon them, which mowed them down
with great slaughter. About half of them escaped,
and the remainder being surrounded were obliged
to surrender. After a good deal of hard fighting the
enemy was finally repulsed, but not without contest
ing the ground inch by inch, 103 prisoners in all re
mained In the hands of Gen. Walker after the fight
ing was over.
The hopes of the Filibusters were greatly sustaln
od by the constant expectation of relief from Col.
Lock ridge and party on the San Juan River, who
were daily looked for. Os course no correct intelli
gence could be obtained respecting his situation and
prospects, as all ttys avenues of approach were in the
Lanas ot the Allies. But as day after day no news
came from San Juan, the garrison at Ri as began
to despair and were fast losing their spirits, when’
information was received that Capt. Davis, of the
United States 8 loop-of-war St. Mary’s, had seized
the schooner Gramula, containing lialf of all Gen.
Walker's ammunition. Then, in view of the hope
less prospect before them, the design of retiring
from tip- country began to be entertained. Mean
time Capt. Davis proceeded to the seat of war and
endeavored to urge the contending parties to
come to terms. Gen. Walker, after prolonged aud
painful consultation with las officers, concluded to
e»4er into stipulations with (’apt. Da. is, and he
subsequently surrendered to him as an officer of the
Unitea Stales Government. The Allies were not
named in the instrument. By a full understanding,
however - , the retiring force s were not molested by
them—one of the Costa-Kican Generals attending
Walker and his staff’through the lines of the enemy,
a hostage as it were.
At the instance of Capt. Davis the women and
children, numbering about 70-, were removed from
the camp on Hie 20th of April. The formal capitu
lation took place on the 30thof the same month, and
the troops set out on the march to San Juan del Sur
ou the Ist of May.
The whole number of Walker’s men at the time
of surrender was 47*; of these 200, including offi
cers, wore effective, 175 were ou the sick and wound
ed list, and 40 were natives.
Provisions bad been exceedingly scarce during
the whole month of April, and the men had lived
chiefly on mule and horse meat nearly all that time.
Dogs, cats, and other animals were sometimes
killed to furnish a novelty. General Heuuingeeu
describes horse flesh as quite passable—when one
car get nothing better.
The enemy, the General states, had suffered much
from desertions, and on the Ist of May could not
have had more than 2,50(1 available men about Ri
vas. He thinks that, had Gen. Walker held out
two weeks longer, scarcely a shadow would have
been left of the Allies.
Gen. Henningsen has fortunately escaped without
a single blood-letting wound, though he has receiv
ed a great number of contusions. This is some
what remarkable, as he has been engaged in many
very hot encounters, and enjoys the reputation of
being one of the bravest, as also the most efficient
of Walker's late officers.
STATISTICS OF WALKERS CAMPAIGN.
General Ffenninjrsen's Statistical Account of
Watticr's Army. —The first period may be compu
ted from the 29th January, 1855, to the 11th of
April, 1856, comprising nine months, during which
time he fought 4,800 men, namely : 1,800 serviles,
3,000 Costa Kicans. The result left him master of the
whole territory of Nicaragua, aft era loss to the
enemy in round numbers of 1,000 killed and woun
ded, aud 200 to his own forces.
*2 3
Walker’s § K ®sg l o' SN
Forces. 5% = & !sd, 5 Com’der
: 3 = of
Date. (Aiu.jNa. ! >» * *j; ' -
1P55
J uue 29.
At Rivas 55 10 600 22| 300 Gen.
*i‘pt 3, Walker.
At Virgin.... 45 120 5501 0l 100
1856. 1 J j Do.
March 20.
At Rosa 300 OOOj 351 -iSclilessin
Aj-rll 1, | i i ger.
At Rivas 550 200 3000 140| GOOI Gen
I Walker.
j f f 2061 1,0001
SECOND PERIOD.
The second period may be reckoned from Ist of
September, ISSO, to December 12, of that year, ter
minating with the seige of Granada. During this
iimolie had to contend against about 7,000 men of
4h»* native and allied forces, the result being that
with a loss of 311 killed and wounded op his part,
and that of over 2,700 killed and wounded on the
pait of the enemy. At the end of December, the
hostile force was reduced to 1,600 men. who were
being thinned every day by desertion. In fact, but
for the capture of the Lake aud river steamers,
through English interference, the war might have
been considered virtually ended.
wrwsi
5= | 6 : °-5 4 5-
UN. !*!» US
blip;
12 I 3 A W Q« •—!
Is if© ie E 2 »*,
1856. Place. |' I —o.] Commanders
Sept. 1. iS. llacinto.; 40| 200j 26 — : j Col McDonald
Sept. 5..15. .laoiutou GO —• —Col. Cole.
Oi’t 12. Jm assay .a.:j«oo| 1800 70 t»nojGe«. Walker.
Oct. 13 Granada. ! 150- BtHJ{ ——i Gen. Walker.
Nov. 10 Transit... j2soi 700 25 70 Qsn. llom&by.
Nov. 11. Transit... 2GO, —Gen. Walker.
Npv. 17 Missaya.. ikOOl 2<fo: 90 sOo]fi,»n. Walker.
Nov. 24 Granada.. -70 28U0J 150 ISOOjGen. Walker.
Deo 12 G rauada.. i 1 GO; — —;Gl.Hennmga’n.
1 ' j 311(2700)
THIRD PERIOD.
The third period may l>e reckoned from the 25th
oi January, to the Ist of May, 1857, which ler
minated line seige of liivas, and during which time
Walker had 4*onieuded against over ui MX) of the
enemy, with a loss of 390 killed and wounded, and
between 2000 and 2500 to that of the allies.
ruifiui
i [ |iii ||j
Date, j Place. ' j i Commanders.
Jan. 25..-Obraje j 30012100' 15 GOiHenningsen.
- 20. . San Jorge' 400 2.300 92 350
Feb> 3.. “ 4 , 220 j-a 25’ 20 Gen. Walker.
“ 12b - i “ * 4 -tOOi —! 160
M’ch 4..‘.laeote 125* 90oj 39 Sanders.
1 ‘ Iti- 'xanjorgel 400'280i> 95* 400{4»en. Walker.
“ 23..(Rivas . l2t>oo 55. 40o ;
Apr. 11- ' “ j —j —* —| Goo|
Tota’..! ! j
Fore* of Walker from the time of his landing-in
Xioaragaal/o the Ist of May, 135", a space of
nearly two years, of Lockridges
force.... , T 2,518
Tot&i force rs the allies, exclusive of 1.200 Costa
Ricans, said to have been on the river 17,800
Oi this number 11,500 men were from Guatemala,
Cotta Rica. Honduras and Salvador.
Total killed and wounded of Walkers force, SI 5;
say : 850
Total allies killed andnrounded - *r. 5,800
This is without counting on either aide tliuse who
died of disease. The mortality in the enemy's camp
was very great Two Generals died at the siege of
Granada; and in April. 1856, of 2.400 men who re
treated from Rivas with Mora, at least 1,000 died of
cholera, only 500 entering San Jose with him.
To this force of 2,518 —the total force Walker had
under arms daring two years since his landing in the
country —it is hardly necessary to add the armed
citizens who fought at Granada and Rivas, because
they were, with a score of exceptions, disbanded
soldiers: and it must be borne in mind that if ma
ny unwoundeddied. a large proportion of the wound
ed recovered.
It is estimated that, during two years, of 2,500 en
listed or holding commissions, about 1,000 were kill
ed or died of wound? or sickness. 700 deserted, 250
were discharged, 430 were at Rivas on the Ist of
May. and 80 in garrison or on steamers on the riv
er. " Total, 2.46 s—leaving 53 unaccounted for.
* The New Jersey Ro is be ries—lmportant Da
vklop.mhnts.—lt was discovered yeeteiday that
the two men killed.on the Railroad at Highspire on
Thursday morning last, had been for several weeks
readouts of our town, and occupied almuse in North
street near Front. The disclosure of this fact led
to an immediate search of the bouse, mid the dis
covery of various implements used in the manufac
ture of counterfeit com and bank notes.
A w-juian in the house—supposed to be the wife
or mistress of one of the parties—confessed that the
men came herefrom Muncy, andhad some eonnec
firm with a gang of counterfeiters and burglars.—
This confirms our suspicions as to the Middleton
robberiei. The two men who were killed no doubt
were connected with the Muncy gang in theee out
rages, and the boat whose sudden and mysterious
disappearance from Middletown we alluded to yes
terday, there is reason to believe, contained the
stplen property. Afy n her search of the house was
made last night, and it was expected that addition
al development would be made, and a full eoafe*-
eiou » ited from the woman.— Hatruling HtraiJ
iMu !/ ""V.
There were 151 deaths in Philadelphia last week
*-24 of consumption.
AUGUSTA, GA, WEDNESDAY MOiLMXG, .lUXE 10,1*57.
Railroad Routes.
Alovsta, Ga., May 4.1857.
ToikeEtditor of ike South Carolinian.
My Dear Sir : —While resting here a day. since
I passed through your beautifulcky and tcasted at
Mr. Janney ’s luxurious board, I have been casting
my eye over the different routes by which tho travel
ing public are at present conveyed between the
north-east and the southwest: and the painful emo
tions produced by that inspection have led to the
following reflections and suggestions : The travel
from the southweet, through Georgia and the Car—
linas on northward, is now eaorrnouely great; and
it must continually increase. A very large nhare oi
it passes through this city, and now that the Mem
phis and Charleston road is completed, that flowing
tide must rise higher than ever before. But let any
man. from the stand-point which I now occupy, cast
his eye northward, and he will /eel the lismg of
?*rong emotions in his breast at the injustice done
to the traveling public by t ms direction of the pre
sent routes of travel between this and our National
Capita!. Starting from this place, we are all thrown
down first to Branchville, and then up to Kings
vilie ! And for what ? For nothing that is to be
seen or enjoyed at either plaee! And yet tee are
taxed in both lime and money for being thus thrown
out of our way / The reverse of this takes place
on our return westward and southward, from Kings
vilie down to Brauchvflle, and thence iip to Augus
ta, before we can take our proper directions home
ward 1 And yet, worst of all, if we follow (he main
route of travel northward via Wilmington, w - e first
are deprived of the sight and enjoyment of your
beautiful city— the most beautiful and interesting in
all the South ; then secondly, we are borne through
a country in a great measure devoid of attraction
to a traveler—at times unhealthy besides; and,
third, we are compelled to make another great el
bow at Wilmington, before we are again fairly on
our route ' All this ice must again undergo on
our return f
It is in no spirit of fault finding that I make these
statements, for I am not given to that vicious habit.
Nor do I complain of any of the railroad companies
for locating their roads as they have done. They
each aim at subserving the interests of ther respec
tive States, and nobly have they performed their
dutv. My wish is simply, that some additional ac
commodation be made by which the traveling pub
lie may pass on str(lighter lines , and Ihrovgha mote
inviting and healthful country. One vast im
provement would be, a railroad direct from this city
[Augusta) to Columbia. This would be a great
saving in time and expense, at the same time that it
would afford to every traveler the no small gratifi
cation of seeing your most beautiful city—an attrae
tion at once for its elevated and commanding posi
tiuß, the giandeurof its rising State House, the
number and excellence of its institutions of learn
ing, aud the salubrity of its climate, its wide and
umbrageous streets, its showy and comfortable resi
dences, aud its numerous aud highly cultivated
lots—reminding one of Eden’s pristine beauty, with
its embowered innocence—nature playing her vir
gin fancies, and yet art having superadded all its
skill; and the two conjointly, as Milton would say,
“pouring forth enormous bliss.”
Another most important accommodation would be.
the filling up of the break in the railroad connection
between Greensboro’, N. C., and Danville, Va.—
That completed, a direct and most inviting route
would be opened between this city and Richmond
—a route at once healthy and pleasant—well adapt
ed to travel at all seasons of the year—presenting
much that is pleasing in appearance, ana affordiug
at once to the weary traveller, at every stage of his
journey, good accommodations and attractive rest
ing places. Even a«i it h.—there being good lines of
stages between Danville and Greensboro’, with
two daily trains each way ou the Charlotte aud Cen
tral roads—l decidedly prefer that to any other
route. Let the public try it once, and they will be
highly gratified with the experiment. In this con
nection, allow me to note the admirable manage
ment of the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad,
under the care of the present estimable President,
W. Johnson, Esq ; and comfort of the weary tray
eler to be at the excellent hotel at Charlotte in care
of Mr. Young. While (wish well to eve ,- yother
road, and to all parts of our country, yet 1 think it
due at once to the Capital of your Slate, as well tis
to the travelling public, that this route be speedily
completed.
I give it, moreover, as my settled conviction, that
if it be nit done, results will follow which not only
Augusta and Columbia, but most of the citizens of
the central and lower parts of both South Carolina
and Georgia, will ever regret. The through travel
will be lost to all the routes now established ! Much
of it will be thrown entirely out of the State, upon
the Tennessee aud Virginia roads; or, if it go through
Sftuth Carolina at all, it wili leave your beautiful
aud attractive Capital far below its line of direction!
You are aware, my dear sir, that a road is in con
templation from Atlanta, Ga., to Charlotte, N. C.—
Now I hold that there would be no need tor such
road, were Augusta connected directly with Colum
bia. Nor do I believe that the “air-line road,” if
built, would, in the present century, pay expenses .
because it is not in the line of direction for the trans
portation of the staples of the States through which
it must pass. And yet it will be built , if thi3 central
route be not t speedily opened—the route via Au
gusta, Columbia, Charlotte, Greensboro’, Danville,
and Richmond.
In making these statements and suggestions I
am conscious of no other motive than a desire to
promote the highest interest* at once of the travel
ing public and our seaboard States. I freely confess
my own partialities for the route through your city.
It I have erred in my estimate of its superior advan
tages, please charge it to human traility, and not to
wilful mistake.
Wishing health, happiness and prosperity to
yourself and the citizens of your delightful city,
I am, dear sir, very respectfully and truly yours,
Viator,
From the Cincinnati Gazette, of Friday.
Fugitive Slave Case!
United States Deputy Marshal and Posse taken
into Custody !
There has been great excitement during the last
two days in Greene county, Ohio in c onsequence
oi the arrest of four individuals charged with aiding
a slave to escape. On Tuesday, United States
Deputy Marshal Churchill, accompanied by eleven
assistants, left this city for Mechanicsburg, Cham
paign county, Ohio, eleven miles from Urbaua, hav
iug with him a wartant issued by Commissioner
Newhall, for the arrest of Charles and Edward Tay
lor, brothers, Russell Hyde, and Hiram Guttridge,
who, says the warrant, did, about the 21st day cf
August, 1866, harbor and conceal one Add White,
of. Flemingsburg, Kentucky, who had, previous to
said date escaped into the State of Ohio, and was
then a fugitive from such service and labor, so as
to prevent the discovery and arrest of the said Add
White. The offence charged, it will be observed,
is not that the slave was aided in his escape from
his master in Kentucky by the four accused persons,
but that the}’ sheltered and protected him in Ohio ;
or, in other words, they “put him through” on the
Underground Raihoad. The penalty for the offence
is a fine of a thousand dollars and imprisonment.
On Wednesday morning, the Deputy Marshal
left L rbana with his posse, in hired carriages, and in
Mechauicaburgaud the neighborhood succeeded in
arresting the four accused individuals. While the
arrests were in progress, the most intense excite
ment was created in the vicinity. The news spread
rapidly, and a determination was expressed to use
every meuus the law provides to rescue the prison*
lrom ,an^e of the Border Ruffians, as the
officers were called, whose sole object, it was con
fidently, though erroneously asserted, was to take
them over to Kentucky and lynch them.
A writ of habeas corpus was procured from a
Judge in Champaign county, and the Sheriff at
tempted to serve it, but before be could do so, the
officers had conducted the prisoners beyond the
bounds of the county. A second warrant was then
procured in Clarke county. The sheriff in this in
stance pursued aud came up with the party ; but
they refused to obey the writ. The sheriff not hav
ng force to compel obedience, they proceeded on
their journey to this city. A third writ was then
obtained in Greene county, and the sheriff of that
county, with his posse, served it upon the United
States officers at six o’clock yesterday morning, in
Jamestown. The United States officers resented
the act of the county officers in seizing their horses
reins before making known their business. A warm
altercation ensued. The sheriff and his men were
assisted by an excited crowd of two or three hun
dred persons. Rifles and pistols were displayed.—
The Marshal and his men drew their weapons, and
several shots were fired. Mr. Churchill discharged
his revolver at the crowd, but no one was injured.
The conflict was sharp and stubborn, but superior
618 P rev, dled, and the Deputy Marshal with
all his posse were made prisoners, and a despatch
received yesterday afternoon stated that they were
to be sent last night to Springfield for trial.
The following despatch since received from Cin
cinnati gives further particulars of the affair:
Cincinnati, May 29. —The United States Marshal
telegraphed to the Secretajy of the Interior to-day
for instructions regarding the arrest and imprison
ment of United States officers at Springfield ; but
the nature of the instructions received has not
transpired.
Judge Leavitt, of the United States District
Court, issued a writ of habeas corpus to-day, and
the United States Marshal has gone to Sp
to serve it. In case ot resistance being offered, it
is reported the United States troops will be called
out.
The Cincinnati Commercial of Saturday morning
contains the following additional particulars:
W lien incarcerated they telegraphed to this city,
and 1. S Marshal Seifert telegraphed, we are
informet', to the Secretary of the Interior for
instructions,and in consequence of thoee instruc
tions. a dispatch was sent to Churchill and his men
to stay in jail and not accept bail. A writ of habeas
corpus to bring Churchill and his men to. tins city,
was promptly issued by Judge Leavitt, of the
District IT. 8. Court, and sent on to be served on
the Sheriff having them in custody.
It is rumored semi officially that if this is not
complied with, writs will be issued tor near a
hundred of those implicated in capturing and
taking into custody the Deputy U. S. Marsbai and
his assistants.
The only one againet whom United States war
rants were got out, who has yet been brought to
tcia city, is named Isaac A. Sargent. He was
arrested by Deputy U. S Marshall. John Kiefer.,
aseisted by Deputy Sheriff Nelson, of Springfield,
in so private a maimer that no one else m Spring
field knew of the affair until be had been some time
started on the care for the city. He is saspected'of
being concerned in opposition to the Fugitive
Slave Law. and charged with being ia correspon
dence with underground railroad directors. He was
yesterday admitted to bail and ieit for home. His
traii is to take place before United States Colli
missiener Kewhall on Monday next.
. A Fuiy-sr Expuosiok.—A baggage-man at the
Centra! Depot yesterday, while handling a trunk in
the usual slam bank manner of that useful class of
citizens, threw it down with such force as to explode
a pistol within. The piste! exploded a canister of
powder, the powder exploded the trunk, and the
trunk exploded the baggageman, tumbling him
neck over heels : and served him right at that. If
such an accident could happen semi occasionally,
it would be a glorious thing. It might kill a few
baggage-emashera, but the community eould endure
that loss in consideration of the gentler handling
■which their luggage would receive. —Jivjjalo Com
mercial.
Singular Accidznt. —We ieam. that a few days
since, a negro on Co!. C. T- Pollard’s plantation, a
few miles beiow the city, was riding a mule, holdiug
a plow before him. and between t£e handies of the
plow an axe was placed. The male became un
mauagabie and threw the negro 5 tbe blade of the
axe foil edgewfoe across hjs wrist, aud the plow tell
on the axe, sewing the wrist nearly to the skin on
tbe under side.
Dr. Geo. Pollard dressed the wrist a few hours
after the accident occurred, aud finished the ampu
tation the next day. The negro is doing well
Montgomery Mail.
As Isrpo*TA»T DecisioK. —The decision made
on Tuesday by the Cireuit Court for this District,
in the case of Combs vs. Hodge, embraces the
settlement of a point of law of general interest and
importance every where, viz ; That certificates ol
the debt of Texas, endorsed by the parties to whom
issued, and placed by them m tbe hands of an agent
to be transferred on the books of Texas, could he
sold to a bona fid- purchaser without notices so as
to vest in him the absolute tide to them. Its impor
tance arises, from its applicability to transactions in
stocks generally WanMinetm Star.
A dentist presented a bill for tbe tenth time to a
rich .-kin flint. “It strikes me, ’ said the latter, “that
thisis a pretty round bill.” “Fes, repk-d: tbadeo-
U*L “I've seen it round often enough to Imkkt it
appear so, and I hav* called new to get .’^s.juar-
The Cloth ug Trade ofYork.
Tbe Xf* York Exp ms. speaking of the changes
and improvements on the various branches of busi
ness in New York, within the last few years, refers
in the following terms, to the house of Dons .t
Co., » hich ranks &rsf in magnitude and reputation
among {jygjCgotbing Emporiums of the metropolis :
A hiaory of the mareho* trade i n this citr during
the last twenty years, would form a .-.taking' iilnstra-
Uun of the originality and force of the American
mercantile character, lae rapidity with which
new bdMneas ideas are generated in our mids;. the
vast -rMe on which thev are carried out and the
success which usually attends their development
are unparalelled in the commercial work) and ex
<3te the surprise of foreigners U> a greater degree
than any other characteristic of this busy metropo
het ns take, a* a caae in point, the ready made
clotting trade. In Hie hand-- of a few men' ot rare
energy and sagacity, it has been changed within fif
teen years, from an obsefirt occupation, to amanu
tactuiing and commercial business of the highest
class. New York is to-day the greatest clothing
mart in the world. The cause of this vast expau-
SI 9P *® *»2Z explained. The garments of the ‘slop
seller ot fitteen years ago, have been superseded
by ready made fabrics unsurpassed iu elegance and
excellence by any in the world, and actually cheap
er than the uncouth clothing they have displaced
The men who revolutionized the business understood
the A of time in tbe American market. In min
wtering to the instant supply of a general want, and
doing so m a manner that left nothing to be desired
on the part ot purchasers, tbe£ displayed a profound
knowledge ot the requirements of their countrymen.
W e cau well remeinbqr when the “slop shops”
were the only clothing emporiums, and laboring
men their only customers. Now it is an ascertained
tact that the clothing business gives employment to
a greater number of bauds than anv other branch
of our manufactures. The House of Dalvin Co..
(which ranks first in magnitude and reputation, and
is therefore a£ri>pros to purposes or illustration J
employs 2000 persons. What other manufactory ot
any description, in New York, gives occupation to
an equal number ? We remember when the firm
ope tied their marble Warehouse in Broadway, how
confidently it was predicted, by shallow reasoned
who looked at the expenses, but knew nothing of
the bustness or of the men, that the enterprise
would tail. Mr. Devlin calculated differently; he
looked to the whole continent as his field, and felt,
we presume, that, to cove-rthe ground, it was only
necessary to produce clothing of the very highest
grade ot excellence, and sell it at the most mode
ate prices.
This idea he seems to have reduced to practice,
and the results he anticipated have followed with
the exactitude of the solution of a problem. The
clothiflg of the concern is a st aple of fashion in every
city of the Union, and tbe name of the house ap
pears to be as good a guaranty of the superiority of
its garments as is tiie Comptroller’s signature, of the
genuineness of a bank bill. Strange as it may seem,
too, the celebrity of their ready made stock is^re
flected on the custom department, and vice versa.
Cheapness and superiority appear to be the Alpha
and (jymega of all departments of the establishment
—in fact, they are thd cabalistic words that have
raised the clothing trade to its present remarkable
position among the business interests of New York.
There are many other extensive clothing houses
in the city, all nourishing and likly to flourish, to
which we should be glad to refer if space permitted;
but as our only object was to give the uninitiated
some idea of the vast amount of industry, enter
prise and capital employed in a branch of trade
which is of only some fifteen years growth among
us, we selected the leadig house, byway of exam
pie. t
Singular Discovery of Crime*
Our citizens were again alarmed, this morning,
by the sad news that two men had been killed near
Highspire, about four miles below town, on the Har
risburg and Lancaster Railroad. From all the facts
we can gather, it appears that, they were walking on
the railroad track about half past 3 o v elock, and that
they were observed i>y the engineer of the passen
ger train, Mr. Nichols, who at once gave the alarm
by his whistle, but at the same time a freight train
from Harrisburg w i caching the men, on the
other track, d ct;> mt of them; and we have
no doubt tun j.tae ui Jitunate persons, observed
this tiaiu coming. Not being aware that another
train was right after them, they stepped on the track
on which the passenger train was coming, immedi
ately in front of the engine, and consequently were
at once knocked off the track and killed.
The train W’as atonCe stopped, aud the unfortunate
whose name is supposed to be Geo. Viekroy, had
been thrown off it r - track and had his back broken.
He was taken up lifeless, whilst Ihe other, whose
name is still uukbowu, had his neck broken aud a
* large hole in the > ? part of his head, was still liv
ing when takei u. The train returns. *.ere about
seven o’clock . it ! ; ;iie lifeless corpse of the two, in
charge of Covone? Barr.
We were permitted to examine the papers found
in a pocket-book on Viekroy. They contain a large
number of scraps of paper, cards and several letters,
all of which have some names and places of resi
dence written thereon, leaving the inference he
must have belonged to a set of men, who are or
ganized for no good purpose. 4 Viekroy was ele
gantly dressed. Several keys were also fouud in
his pocket which would open almost any kind of
locks, *
The companion of Viekroy still remains unrecog
nized—he had been struck by the locomotive on the
back pan of the head, where a large hole had been
created, and his neck was also found to be broken.
He was living when first discover* d, but did not
survive any time. A railroad way bill wes found
in his pocket, with the name ot David Ginter Mun
cy, written thereon ; but whether this was his name,
we are unable to say.
More of the Victims.—Since the above has
been in type, we hkve received a .despatch from
Middletown, which shows that a robfiery was com
mitted in that town last night.
These two men were seen at Middletown last
evening, aud we have no doubt now are actually
the robbers who committed the above deed.
Just as we are going to press we ieam that anotkr
er robbery was committee! at Middletown, leist night.
A lumberman named Finney was st opping
dig’s Hotel, where his room was entered through
the window, his trunk broken open, and in
cash taken. .The envelope which contained the
money was found on the men thatjvvere killed this
morning, but noue of the money. —HArrisburg
(Pa.) Telegraph., May 28. -
Marine Losses for May.—We publish below
our monthly table of Marine Losses for the past
month, showing an aggregate of thirty-three vessels
of which one was a steamship, six were ships, three
barks, four brigs, and nineteen schooners. The
total value of property lost was one million two
hundred and lifty-one thousand live hundred dol
lars. Tliis is the value of the property totally lost,
exclusive ol damages to vessels not amounting to a
total loss, and of partial losses of|cargo. The vessels
reported in this list are chietly American, although
some foreign are included—when bound to or from
an United States port, known to be insured in this
country.
Although the number of vessels lost is far below
the monthly average for this year, yet the value is
nearly equal to either of the three preceeding
months—the loss by one ship reaching a quarter of
a million dollars.
A summary statement of the losses for (his year
shows that they were iu •_ _
January. 125 vessels. V alue Off
February - -.....
March. ® “ “ 1,203,500
April 53 j ,64f>,700
May.'......'. 33 “ “ 1,251,500
Five months 342 “ “ s3^1 3,000
Vessels marked m are missing,Bupposedjlost; those
marked a abandoned at sea ; and those marked b
bnrned at sea.
Selrr. A ifreil, (wh.hr) (.ape Town, C. Cl. H. II uni, I Id. I<V«M
Oris. Annnw.M, Jfemeiljos, Bostou, m... tt
.ship A.Mand.lt? (whaler) Hung Knee, tortuis*..... Mg*
Ship Andrew foster .New tort:. Inver, I, a »*£«*
" Sc hr. Cadet. Marblehead. Skim’lioad “■■’J®
s,.Kr fiirlfu-. Kllgworr-lfa Boston vw
Sch": 111 Sundeis, Bs.fi.rt. N.C., New York..r.. 1 l.too
Schr. I>. ('. Foster, dames Hirer, New York “•S9! ■
Si hi. Iliad"* Northpurt, (ttooiener J4*
Brie FraocA/Jaae. Porsluud. t lentUen-s. *• *
Ship Falrou, N**r Orleaua. 8»c.........
.Ssiir. tJeowaua. Kui*-iou,.lu , New leih.. • J
Sohr. Grii. Tajlor. Baltimore. 11 sou. N \ - *
Rttrk ilt riiioine, Oregon, Melbourne •
Shit* Ht-len-K. Hooker. Cardiff, New Orleans «),irflO
Sciu. Jaujfii T. Bepbe, BwMd, WJJJ
HHm Kariiisau, Bottoiu l*ort au Prime. /«.. ,
sJl»r Here, Cardan a*, PWladetphia, a .i>B.oo<i
Scbr Ctahtfoot. Manila. Saj> > ramwco.
Safer. teaU, Plmadelj.WkfinmiMton. -
«• ~ -q J. New toot, Georgia, '/ . rW,500
SkaT Mari l’ayl‘»r. San Francisco, Tchnniftopec... .*..
Baric Prompt, Mobile, BjrTtiiirore...
Schr. Practice. Bumegat. New \ ofk. • ‘MK
Shiv R«»hert Park Ar. Mobtlo, Havre, h...... .....172,000
3chr. Reiffdeer. Nt-wbem. New <»rk, a
Bark Iteutless. < whaler) Cruising, m
I’.ria Rideafit, Boston. C., t>f \ irffuim.... 4.*m
Schr. Rinr/.». Klaitilig vessel, MoV.y Point J. 600
Btartin|>l re, Callao, ya4ji|»tou 110ad5........268.00
StJunship Teniiicai, <BrT,) N« w > urk, Glasgow, -#/. ,100,00(>-
Schr. W. W.FaJtdo, pfeUdclT-hia. Nev« IS.IKM)
-Schr. Wirt. James. Rwmdoat. New Haven 7,000*
[New York Courier Enquirer.
Tlie Mecklenburg Declm-ari in oflndenrndenre.
The late eauunem-rativ* celebration of the
Mecklenburg D Uy.! neflndependence, which
preceded tha; cjjasriC. Jed Colenie.-, by more than
ayear. and.idU' uuu.. think Mr. Jetferaon made
iu some uu x odel of hu menu table and
immortal Stow p-J?cr, (an allegation which he re
pelled. however, m the most pointed an auqnlified
manner,) may render our readers anxious to see the
filder document. H ere it is, as it emanated from
the pea of Dr. Ephraim Brevard, and was adopted
by the bold Meckienburghers ;
Declaration n{ Independence by tlie Citizens of
MeMenbwrg County, North Caroline,, May Hi),
1775.
In conformity to an order, issued by the Colonel
of Meoklenbnrg County in Nort h Carolina a Con
ventioo, luveste,; -.ritfa unlimited powers, met, at
Charlotte, in ‘ 1-. -amy. on the mr-neenth day of
May. 1775, wt • Abraham Alexander was ohosen
Chairman, anu 0 .tin Mr-Kxrtt Alexander, Secreta
ry. After afree aud lull discussion of the objects of
the Convention, ii was unanimously resolved,
1. That whosoever, directly or indirectly, abetted,
or in any way, form or maimer, countenanced the
unchartered and dangerous invasion of our rights
as claimed by Great Britain, is an enemy tt> this
country, to America and to tie inherent and inalien
able rights of man.
2 Mo solved. That we, tbe citizens of Mecklenburg
County, do hereby dissolve the political bands wbieh
have connected us to the mother country, andbere
by absolve ourselves from all the allegiance to the
British crown, and abjure all political connection,
oonttact or aasociatiou, with that nation, who have
watitigniy trampled on our rights and liberties, and
inhumanly shed the innocent biood of American Pa
triots at Lexington.
3. Retained, That we do hereby declare oureelvesr
a free and independent people, are. and of right
ought to b*. a sovereign and self-governing associ
ation. under th* control of no other power than that
of our God and the General Government of Con
gress ; to the maintenance of which independence,
we solemnly pledge to each iwber, our mutual co
operation. our lives, our ft-tune.- and our mostka
ered honor.
Ai-.rakav Alexander. Chairman.
J. M. AreXasder, Secretary.
Adam Alexander, Robert Irwin,
Hezekiah Alexander, Wm. Kennon,
Ezra Ab-xauder, Mathew McClure,
Charles Alexander, Neil Morrison,
Waitstii! Avery, Samuel Martin.
Epbrahn Brevard, Duncan Ochletree,
Hezekiah J. Batch, John Phifer.
Richard Barry, Thbmas Polk,
John Davidson, Ezekiel Polk,
William Davidson, Benjamin Patton,
Henry Downs, John’Queary,
John Rfenniken, Davidßeese,
John Ford, Zacbeuß Wilson, Sr.
M'iikam Graham, Wilson,
James Harris.
The hard case es a young widow with SJO,DOU,
compelled to give up her property if >he married
again, has been going the rounds ot the reapers, so ’
offset it, the Sandy Hill Herald relates how agentle
rnan residing in the town of Granville Washington
county, died recently and willed his wife a hand-
Bomesum—stipulating in his will that m case she
again married the sum wasto be .doubled “And,'’
pathetically adds the Herald,' ’may the gras* ever
be green upon his grave.”
Baraum, we are sorry to bear, has met with
everything but success in his visit to Eagland with
“Little Cordefia'Howaxd ” However, Mr. B. has
oßec-Jtisnlation, and that is that he is just as well
oft as though he had uiH-to-A pile, since the “cfock
hebtsXfollowed him to London, W* hear that it is"
nci\ dp- Baruum- s intontlou t« return here and take
the oeneJßt in full of the bankrupt act, aud then re
turn to Europe with his family.
The Wu*litngToti Riel*
The Washington correspondent of tiie BaHkiore
Amertecm furnishes the following account of the re
cent election riots iu that city. It is matter of re
gret that any should be iniuijtd who were not en
gaged in’in- riot, but such people should always *
leave the scent, when the military make their ap
pearance. We feel no regret, however, that some
of those engaged lmw received merited puniah
ment The laws of the land .should be enforced, and
the purity of Hie elective franchise preserved at
whatever sacrifice, and the authorities who fail to
disperse and put down mob vieloncd, with what
ever means necessary, arc little less culpable than
the mob: - *-
Washington, June 1, 1857.
We have had*terrible times here to-day, a re-en
aclmentof the scenes of last fall in Baltimore, the
soakiug weather Laving no effect in restraining the
political animosity, which has been lashed to a pitch
orfury that knows no limits. Blood has been shed
iu the Capital of the nation, ami men, shot down in
the streets like dogs.
The polls were opened at 8 o’clock this morning,
for the election of members of the City Council and
for Register aud Surveyor. Although there was an
uuusualcrowd around the polls; and indications of
a spirited contest, all continued quiet up to 10
o'clock. , Rumors were, however, in circulation
that a gang of rowdies had arrived from Baltimore
prepared to take part in disturbances.
At half-past 9 o’clock at the first precinct of the
Fourth Ward, among the voters In line awaiting
their turn were a goodly number of Irishmen and
some (Jerinauna. A gang of men, most of them
young, and many ol them unknown,suddenly press
ed upon the poiis, and fighting began. Pit this were
fired by the assailants and returned by the police.—
The Chief of Police, Mr. Baggott, at once proceed
ed to the Mayor to request tho procuring a requisi
tion upon the Marines to guard the polls.
In this rfot Hamilton Digg% a polic > otlicer for
tine First Ward, was somewhat injured by blows
with stones aud misstles; Capt. F. A. Klopfer was
shot in the forehead, but not very seriously injured;
George L> Spencer was beaten with stones: Jus
tices Goddard and Donn were beateu with stones
aud both hurt. R B. Owens was shot in the arm
aud severely injured by a blow in the face with a
stone. At 11 o'clock pistols were, displayed and
loaded along the streets by reckless looking young
men freely and unrestrainedly.
At half-past 11 o'clock tho second train of cars ar
rived troni Baltimore, bringing, as was alleged, be
tween thirty and forty more young men. We learn
that tire only arrest at the 4th ward upper precinct
was of JLohusou, a youth of IS.
At half-past ll o’clock John Chapman caused a
writ of tresspass to be served upon J. B. Hines and
11. B. Wright, Comujppionefs of Election in the Ist
ward, for denying mill the right of v oting. Other
write of like character have been served upon vari
ous commissioners.
The Mayor in the mean time addressed the follow
ing communication to the President :
Mayor’s Office, Washington, June Ist, 1857.
To the President of the United States:
Sir:— Upon Hie representation of creditable citi
zens that a baud of lawless persons, most of them
not residents of this city, have attacked one of the
polls, at wfficli the annual election is now in pro
gresH, and after wounding some twenty good and
peaceable citizens, have driven tiie remainder from
the polls, and dispersed tiie commissioners of emo
tion, and threatened further violence on any further
attempt to cany on the election, I respectfully re
quest you to order out. tbe company ot United States
Marines now in ibis city, to maintain tiie peace
thereof, the civil authorities finding themselves un
able to do so with the means at their disposal, aud
there being'no other United States soldiers in the
city at your disposal.
1 have instituted a personal inquiry into the mat
ter, and find that the weapons used were various
kinds of firearms, dubs, knives, and stones, and that
th facts os stated in the enclosed certificate are just
and true.
W. A. Ma<;ruder, Mayor.
I o’clock the weather was clear, and though
not nuy, quite sultry, but soon after a heavy vain
commenced to fall. An unquiet . pervaded - Hie
whole city. Every little excitement attracts an
eager crowd, of which boys comprise the larger por
tion. Strings of young men and boys, one or two
liundn I in number, move in a kind of irregular pro
cession from one point to another. False alarms of
61 riob arc constantly being spread, and a nervous
feelings is everywhere apparent.
There was some rioting at the lower precinct of
tho Second Ward, and due man was severely,
though not dangerously, wounded by a pistol shot
in the forehead. The assailants are said to be of
the same party here as at the Fourth Ward, first pre
cinct. Tney also made an assault on the Franklin
Fire Engine-house, took possession of it, and re
moved the engine.
Os a mob of two or three hundred persons upon
the streets, who were emphatically the disturbers
of the peace,’not one-fourth appeared to be eighteen
years old.
Ii is said that Col Joe Shiilington was slightly
hurt at *he Fifth Ward jn’ecinct. Mr. R. B. Owens
(who i* street commissioner fer thp Third and Fourth
Wards) was shot clear through the arm ; aud when
down, received- the blow upon the face so
injured him.
At a quarter before one the mob passed by, head
ed by a lame man—a otranger, aud after a scene of
some tumult on the Avenue, they returned with a
brass swivel, drawn by a long rope, amid cheers
and shouts, on their way to the Fourth Ward, se
cpnd precinct.
In the meantime the marines were on the way
frim the Yard to the City llall, where they
arrived about l o’clock. When drawn up, Colonel
Henderson said to them : “Soldiers—You have al
ways done your duty in the face of the enemy of
your country. I expect you now to do your duty
in upholding the laws of your country, quietly but
firmly.
At ten minutes past one the marines, numbering
about GO bayonets, under the command of Captain
Tyier. marched from the City Hall, by Louisiana
avenue, to JSixt.U street, aud thence northward to the
scene of trouble in the Ith ward, through a heavy
storm of ram.
At buff-past one another heavy shower was just
subsiding. All appea ed quiet at the 4th ward, first
precinct The moo, with brass swivel, knives, pis
tols and muskets were still there, and Tyler’s Ma
rines ane near them. But little voting is going on.
The Marshal of the District, Mr. Hoover, ana the
Mayo*, Dr. Magruder, were also on the apo£,
At ten minutes before two, the Marines Were at
tacked aud immediately tired, and killed and wound
ed several.
Several persona fell by the fire of the Mariues,
mortally wounded. Mr. Deems, of the Land Office,
was among them, aud is dead. A German boy,
Christopher, employed by Mr. Berry, tinner, was
severely wounded-; Juo. Fouche, very badly;
Samuel Cassiday, badly; a son of the late Mr. SP en_
cer, severely ; old Ms. Allison, late a grocer on
Massachusetts avenue, killed. Five dead bodies
were carried off, most of them unknown. Samuel
Fenton, was shot in the arm.
The swivel was iu tlie market house. Mr. Magru
der, Mr. Carlisle, and Mr. R. Wallach, hadjadmonish
ed those having it and Were booted at. An officer
of marines came near y with fifteen men. An ex-.
plosion of some kind opeured in tim market house,
and yre are informedk.marine fell, when the ma
rines were ordered to fire.
Another AccouNT.—The Washington Star, a
violent De r.ocratjc paper, gives the following
account of the riot: .
In the first precincf of the Eoufth Ward, this
morning a general fight occurred, id which several
and boys weye engaged, indiscrimi
nately. It seems that some forty or fifty Plug
Uglies came down from Baltimore tbi* morning. to.,
assist our citizens in the election to-day. After
floating arouhd Tor sometime without eflbctiiK.
anything of note, they pitched -Upon the Foiith
Ward first precinct, hh being the most eligible scene
for their operations. A long line of voters were
stnucfiug in the street, extending for some distance
from tlie polls,and composed principally of Anti-
Know Nothing voters. Tlie Plugs, assisted by
several large squads, of Chunkers and Rip Raps of
our owncity, endeavored to break into this liiie by
crowding, but. not ->ucce« ding in thjf! they left the
scene of action to coucert uiore Kosoie measures.
After a short tfieb they returned hjrkely reinforc
ed in numbers and with revolvers, atones, billies,
bri* k-bats, etc., they made a epneferted onslaught
upon tiie voters. A terrible scene now ensued, in
w’iiich the entire crowd participated. Stdfies and
pistols were rapidly discharged and men were i ram
pled to the earth, beaten, staged on, and severely
wounded. Among those in j fifed was R.B. Owens,
fourth ward (‘pmmissioner, who had his wrist badly
shattered by a pistol bail; A. Kfoffer received a
spent ball in h«forehead, which stunned hint, but
iufiictetl no serious injury. Capt. Goddard was,
with several officers, on the ground, and the captain
did good service with his long arms aud heavy fines
iu quelling the affray. lie was Severely struck
several rimes, but got off without any serious dam- 1
age.
An Irishman was so dreadful.y mutilated that Iris
features were entirely undietingufahabte, and his
head aud shoulders were covered with, blood.: The
noils were tonudowu by this imported gang of Bal
i*more v'i llians, the pavemfews were strewn with
, clubs and oliic: mi.--sih.-g. * *;'#’• -
N veral of the rhjg-leaders were arrested aud ta-
lo the guard house, among others* a yonng man
by Hm name of Johnson.
The buildings in t ue neighborhood were damag«:d,
th doors and windows being broken in on all suies.
111 the ekirmish Mr. Geo. D. Spencer receiv'ed a se
vere blow in the face.
An biff man named Cassiday, a granite cutter, rc
ceiveu bullet wound over the left ear, the ball for
tunately, however, glanced, and did not penetrate
the skull. He was taken to the residence of Dr. Pal
mar, who attended to the wound.
Mr. Matthew Emery was severely injured by 1 a
blow from a stoae. In coimequeoee of the distur
bance there was a general closing up of stores and
pieces of business quite early iu the morning.
At the first precinct of the Fourth Ward, the irffi
ters did all iu their power t« prevent *be riot,
placing themselves between the belligerents and
the voters in the Ud* with CaptainGbadsrd at Ike
head, who demanded the peace, when they rushed
on eiL mace, and with an impel uoeity which noth
ing short of a military force cuuM have withstood,
aud although the poiicefougbt like heroes, they were
forced to aUemkin-thß field to ti e poaseseioneftheee
hired miscreants.
Such an exhibition of murderous instruments as
Ahe party carried was sufficient to eauaC the pence
aijly disposed to keep as far from them as po sibip.
One man. was armed with a
sledge; another with ahnree pistol of large dimen
sions ; a tliird carried a miscellaneous assortment of
revolvers, bowie knives. 4>iilk*, an iron bar 5 while
a fourth cWied, beeiaes a side-pocket filled wfth
convenient stones, brick-bats, 4rc., Sdarge billet of
oak wood of sufficient weight ft> fell an «■ These
weapone were as tliickas muiberriee'm season,- the
parties brandishing themaboijt in amenaehrg man
lier, to tlie horror of ait those who were
thoLeivea, participants in t hesediegfaeafui scenes.
Mayer Magrudhr immediately sent a comuiuniefr
turn (actoinpadied by certifisates) to the President,,
asking that a company of United States Mariues
should be ordered out for the purpose of maintain
ing thepeafce.
The President forthwith gave the requisite, or
ders. f.i ‘
Orn- iialtimote visiters were, about J1 o'clock,
good eBOUgh to pay a visit to the .Second Ward
polls, wearing the K. X. ticket as a badge, and
siiLUting for' Dixon” as a rallying cry.
In a few mine ten their inevitable revolvers were
out. and some thirty or forty shots were tired, iu
quick succesiou. iu the neighborhood of Eleventh
street aud the Avenue.
Iu this affray a youug man residing on Thir
teenth street betweeu H and I, named John Ouze
ly. was shot in the knee. About this time some of
tie “solid men” of the ward were seen emerging
from theii residences armed with maekets, as if
they had some notion of going upon a gunning ex
pedition. The Pfng Ugiiea seemed to think the
(second Watd air was getting iosalu’uious, and
they left iu a body, probably with the design of “re
gulating ’ some of the other precincts.
Soon after the affray at the Second Ward, a de
tachment of the delectable Piug Uglies made their
appearance at the second precinct ot Fourth Ward,
and succeeded for a while in driving away the voters
from the polls. They were finally driven off by the
officers of the police in attendance, and they then
tallied under tie cry of ‘■‘to the Seventh Ward,” in
whichdireetion they proceeded.
At 1 o'clock, a noisy crowd of boys and men pass
ed up Pennsylvania avenue from the direction of
the Fifth Ward, dragging after them a small brass
Igun. Where they got it we are unable to say, but
it was said they intended to use it to defeud them
selves. Immediately after two ,'ctunmniies of the
U. S. Marines commaoded l>y Captain Tyler, went
so the City Hall, and reported for service to tlie
| Mayor.
I the Bloody End.—Shortly after 1 o'clock, P.
‘
M.. the marines, (two companies, 110 men in all)
Haven on the ground, firsT precinct to the Fourth
wares und»*r charge of Uapt. iVler. aud acoompaui
ea Mayor Magruder. The opposition had, in tbe j
meantime, procured a bra?s cannon, and stationed i
it at the Northern market-house, which they made
- their headquarter.
After the Mayor had addressed the crowd, stating
that tire soldiers were brought there solely to main
tain the public peace of the city which had been
flagrantly violated, the marines moved upon the
inaikt-t house to take possession of the cannon,
amidst every species of taunt and opprobrium, end
ing finally in the possessors of the caunon firing pis
tols at marines. The latter, however, moved stead
ily on, seized the cannon, aud then due warning hav
ing been given, replied io the pistol shots upon them
by a volley of ball.
The Plug Uglies then scattered, firing shots as
they did so from behind corners.
After ine smoke cleared away the terrible sight
was presented of four or five persons iu the agonies
* n d several othera fearfully wounded.
The uames ot those killed and wotmded, so far
as we can learn, as w’e go to press, are—
Alston grocery keeper, shot through the head,
dead. Thomas Willis, of Anne Arundle county,
Mu., shot in the bae-k; fatally, it is thought. A
colored man shot dead . name not known. P. F.
Sf*u- knee terribly fractured. Col.
\V ilhams of the Land Office, shot in the left arm,
w hue standing at his window in the 2d story of his
house. Col Deans, also of the Land Office, was
shot, but how seriously injured we did not learn.
An old man lay dead near Hyatt’s store, shot
through the head aud breast.
Another ipan shot in the abdomen near the mar
ket-house, dropp d apparently fatally wounded,
and was carried away by his friends.
The groan® of the wounded and the execrations of
their triends upon the soldiers, tilled the air, whilst
the sight of pools of clotted blood upon the sidewalks
and streets, made up a scene, which we trust as our
city will never again be called upon to experience.
Tlic Wnshfnatoii Election Riots,
The National Inteligencer gives the following ac
count of the disgraceful riots in that City ou Mon
day ;
\\ hen yesterday morning we gave expression to
our belief that the election of the day Would be
marked by general quietness and freedom from
disorder, we w ere never more sincere. During the
preceding four or five weeks which comprised the
qrnVase nothing like intemperance o; bitterness of
feeling on the subject of the election was vidblein
any quarter amongst us, although it was evident
enough that of the parties seeking the control of the
cit ygovernment would do their best iu a legitimate
way to gain their point.
Os course we could not suppose that any arrange
ments had been made for the introduction of bauds
of intrusive strangers from abroad to interfere with
the full and free exercise of that, very moderateshare
of voting which tails to the lot of cit izens in this
District. By the earliest train yesterday morning,
and, it is believed, by the subsequent train bands
of ill looking men, mostly a year or two under age,
with the generic and suggestive title of “Plug
Uglies,” arrived from Baltimore, orowdiug our side
walks, ami exhibtiug, by,their manner and speech
how well their employers had calculated in bring
ing them on to do .any work that w’as designed to
be criminal and disorderly. %
The firs! fruits ot this villanous importation were
manifested between fl and 10 o’olock at the first
precinct of the foiffn ward. There cun be no doubt
that all was quietly proceeding, the voters being
drawn up in line, eiich patieutly watiug his turn
when a sudden attack was made upon a naturaliz
ed citizen in the rank of voters, and an effort made
to drive all such from the polls. In. this onslaught,
and the defence which w as necessitated by it, several
serious wounds were delivered as well upon native
as naturalized citizens. The result of this was that
naturalized citizens were compelled to save limb
amt life by a general retirement from the scene ;
and it is matter of certainty that fear aud disgust
at such doings have combined materially io
diminish the vote that would have been otherwise
polled.
.About half past 10 o'clock the imported rowdies
appeared at the lower precincts of IheSecond Wa d
and (here filed about a dozen pistol shots, one ol
them taking effect on the forehead of a bystander.
Jt wa matter of astonishment to not a few that
these impudent disturbers of the peace were thus
allowed to range up and down without molestation
itepreseutatioiis having been made to the Mayor
ot the utter inability of the police and magistracy
to keep tlie polls open at the first precinct of the
Fourth Ward to all classes of voters, he deemed it
propel to apply to the President of the Uoiied
States for au adequate force tor that purpose.
The letter was referred by tlie President to the
Secretary of the Navy, who promptly placed one
hundred and ten marines, under the cummand of
Major Tyier and Captain Maddox, at the disposal
oithe city. They were accordingly marched to the
aforesaid precinct, General Henderson, of the same
corps, acPompauyiug the party in citizen’s dress.—
Before the marines left their barracks General Hen
derson addressed them as follows: “ Soldiers, you
have always done your duty in the face of the ene
mies of your country ; I expect you now to do your
duty in upholding the laws of your country, quietly,
but tli nil)' ” No sooner had the intelligence 01 a
call upon tlie United States military become known
than a number of young men, constantly-increasing
as they went along, got possession of a six-pounder
brass swivel, and hitching a long cord to it, dragged
it along Pennsylvania avenue aud up Seventh
street, with the object, as avowed by their adher
euts, of resistance to the mariues. On arriving near
the polling place of the first precinct of the Fourth
ward, the marines, with whom had gone from the
City Hall the Mayor, the Corporation Attorney,
Marshal Hoover, ex-Marshal Wallach, Capt. Bag
gott, and several policemen and members of tlie
Auxiliary Guard, found the swivel party on the
ground, with their pieete posted on the side-walk,
under the shed of (he Northern Liberties market.
The -Mayor walked up to the closed wiftdow of
the polliug place aud gave the order to open the
polls, (which had been suddenly closed, as we pre
sume, when the marines appeared,) and resume
votiug, to which the-only reply receivnd was from
persons outside, whivdeciared, using much personal
abuse, that the polls should not be opened. Tlie
Mayor then took a commanding position aud pre
cluded to address the crowd, amounting to about
twelve or fifteen hundreu peieons m p state of mad
dened excitement. The substance of the Mayor's
remarks was that of admonition to good order and
quielness aud the resumption of voting, calling up
on those present as good citizens to restrain them
selves within proper limits. In answer to com
filaiuts that the marines were brought, the Mayor
assured the assemblage that they were brought for
no hostile purpose, but to prefect citizens iu the ex
ercise of their rights aud elective privileges. In
stead of quelling the passion and tumult of the
crowd, the Mayor’s presence and remarks seemed
to have the effect only of exasperation, which was
exhibited in every'form of menacing violence short
of actual personal assault.
Tlie party 011 the opposite side of the street, and
about seventy or eighty yards above, were at this
time in a state of excessive agitation, bustling about
in tlie most violent way, and making demonstra
tions as to tlie purpose with their piece of attiliery.
At this time the order was given to disarm the par
ty of their piece, and a section es th • marines, un
der Major Tyler, advanced with fixed bayonets for
the purpose. This movement inducedthe abandon
ment of the cannon, and the retirement of the party.
They dealt, however, upon the soldiers ill return
volleys of stones and revolvers-sholß. The marines
on taking the cannon secured it in their hollow
square, themselves the while being fired upon and
oue of their party shot through Ahe jaw. He was
immediately taken up by Dr. Hoyle, placed in jiis
carriage, and conducted away, Tils wound is quite
iifHf—-r TW? order was'then given the marinesto
fire, which they did. Two persons immediately fell
on Massachusetts avenue, and in other directions
many weretfhot, several mortally.
The crowd was now in full Might in all directions,
leaving the field to the soldiery,’ who did not, how
ever, long remain at the spqt, but were marched
hack to tho. City Hall. Later iu the day they were
taken to the railroad depot to receive and if neces
sary to talto charge of an expected reinforcement of
“Hog-qpes” from Baltimore, but who wisely kept
at home. /
Os tludkilled we are able to pronounce, we believe
with certainty as to ffr. Allison, a constable, aged
55year/; Ge-rge McElfresln Mr. F. M. Deeaffi, a
clerk ip the General Land Office and formerly of
Cumberland, Md.; Archibald Dairy in pie, a bag
gage-master on the Baltimore and Ohm Haiiroad ,
a colored-man named Kanoy Neale, of the Northern
Liberties, and another colored man from George
towrt named Redding. Mr. Ebenezer Hughes was.
very severely injured and ip*y have died. We
learn also 411 .t an mfant cmid was killed on English
Hill earlier in tire day by one James Slatford, wiio
himself was afterwards shot in tbe shoulder and
heck. A young man, Charles Spencer, was wound
ed with a revolver outlet; and another named Bid
diemam, Baid to have been active in the disturbance,
was struck with a ball, Others, more or leas severe
ly wounded, were a youug man named Mc&lue,
and a ybutli named Adams, who was carried to tlie
Infirmary. Col; Wilson, of Texas, was shot in thb
shoulder, but not dangerously. We have heard
of other cases, but forbear from extending the list
till we have hiujan opportunity ofifully authentica
ting our statements.
About three o'clock the polls at the disturbed ore
cincts were re-opened end continued until the legal
hour of closing. The “Plug Uglies,” finding them
selvee less pk-esantly- received than they had an
ticipated, silly stole away from the city, some by
way of a walk to Biadeusburg, and others by jump
ing on to the railroad train at' the last ntomeut be
fore starting. Their presence he r e and their abet
tors are openly and generally denountied, aqd it ft
well for them that they escape A'
In consequence of the violent threats uttered by
many to avenge their discomfiture on the jpersons
-of the Mayor, the military officers, th f msgistrate«
the marines, and even on the public property,lt
wa* deemed a proper precaution to bring hrtbei an
additional force of United-States troop*. Thic-,
therefore, wa* done last evening, and a ttr oug body
ot Major-French’s Flying Artillery from FortSfc-
Hetiry arrived at nine o’clock by railroad from BSI
timore.
a shout did we hetrfaud but lot an fieeasi’onai
explosion of fire arm.-; none of the usual tokens of a
just concluded election w ere to be seen or heard.
The Washington Union-gives the following addi
tional list of w-jowfod; •
Somers, saddler, probabiymortally.
Samuel Cassidy, foot in the head.
James Wright, of Anne Arundel county; Mil,fihot
liuftie -thigh.
Biddemau. tinner, shot la the arm.
James SiadbriJ, plasterer, shot Ip the leg and
through the- bgay.
Richard Owen, shot in the arm.
John Owen, stone cutter, shot in the hand.
A marine severely wounded.
Thomas Wiiis, Aiine Arundel bonfoy, shot in the
baek. „ ’ J
P. F. Beil, Seventh Ward, shot in the knee.
1 Rot ot the Baltimore rowdies .th
. John Fouche, severely.
Sam’l Fenton, in arm.
Mr. Lawreiison, (Mercury) shot through his hat,
grazifig his head.
It is rumored thaijieverai were kiiliM and many
wounded not iueuritffied in the above
whom are one or two women and a small boy.
All that were kSfod or wounded, With oue V two.
exceptions among the wounded, were peaceable
citizens, passing by or looking quietly on.
THE OTHER strik.
Th* acotwbts We IfoW published of the riot iu
Washington being all from Democratic sources, or
from those f-quany strong in their opposition to the
American party, we publish entire the following
slip giving the other side of the story :
tfoi Washington American Organ.
Otir city is in a state of great excitement. as our
readers will easily conceive, at the murderous our
rage perpetrated yesterday by a body of United
Jlfc&tea Marines under the command of Capt. Henry
B. Tyler. We say murderous —for no man, be he
who he may, who has even an elementary knowl
edge of the laws of the United States, will hesitate
for one moment, when informed of the facts in the
case as they actually occurred, to pronounce the ai
fair one of dtitberale/ind nnlful murder.
That there was a disturbance at the polls m toe
Fourth Ward is uot denied. But it was not ntso
formidable a character that it could not have been
suppressed in ten minutes by a force of resoluteacd
courageous policemen. Unfortunately, tbe present
police are notorious for their cowardice and luefe
fiei en ,.y—and on the occasion referred to, manifee
ted more than usual imbecility and weakness They
tied inglorkmsly from the field at an early stage of
the disturbance, and abandoned the ground to the
disturbers of the peaca.
The Mayor himself, we regret to state, was not in
a condit ion either to inspire respect .Or command
Obedience to the laws. And what is more, it is the
belief of many who have the best opportunities of
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arriving at correct conclusions, that the ordering
out of the Marines was deliberately planned before
fend by the Mayor and Capt. Tyler, who is himself
j a resident of the Fourth Ward, and a most bitter
and malignant partisan of the Locoloco school. In
corroboration of this assertion, we will state that
Edward F. Queen, a renegade Wing aud Roman
Catholic, declare# ou Friday or Saturday that “the
Democrats intended to vote early, aud that il the
Americans got tfieir votes in at all, i‘. would be
through a file of Marines."
When the Marine* had reached the City Ila 1,
before proceeding to the Fourth ward polls, Mr. Jo
seph H. Bradley, Jr., one of outmost estimable citi
zero—a gentleman universally beloved for the pur*
ty of his life, went to the Mayor’s office, and re
monstrated with him against the employment of the
troops. There were several gentlemen present,
among them Walter Lenox, ex-Mavor. and Doctor
Thomas Millet, an Alderman of the Second Ward
all Democrats. Mr. Lenox remarked that it was a
private conference, aud requested Mr. Bradley to
withdraw. Mr. Bradley declined, and again urged
the Mayor to withdraw tiie troops, pledging himself
in that case to raise a special police force to preserve
the peace. The Mayor refused, and ordered Mr.
Bradley to leave the oftioe.
Aud here let it be remarked, that the distubrance
of yesterday in the Fourth ward, was not to be com
pared iu extent or flui ceneas with that which oc
curred last year iu the same precinct ol’ flic same
ward, and which was suppressed by Mayor Towers
and his police in fifteen minutes without the loss of
a single life.
Aud further! at the time of the arrival of the M.u
rinesj everything was quiet about the polls, and the
election was proceeding in an orderly manner,
while groups of citizens were conversing peaoeably
about the e eotion as is usual on that day.
With regard to the cannon, about which so much
has been said, we will state that it belonged to the
engine company at the Navy Yard, aud when the
Marines took up their march for the City Hall, some
members of the engine company seized the gun and
followed the Marines with tho intent of defending
tlieir fellow-citizens in the Fourth ward if attacked
by the troops. The citizens of tiie b ourth ward had
no action or connivance in the matter—nor had the
Baltimoreans, if any were present. The gun was
brought from a section of the city at least two miles
from the FourtU ward.
This gun was captured by the Marines, and then 1
commenced the work of Jffeatli. The Marines nr ed
in platoons, in five different directions, killing and
wounding inoffensive citizens *■ landing peaceably
iu the streets, in the doors and windows of their
houses, and iff tfieir stores. One man Was killed on
tiro corner of the fith and Massachusetts avenue,
500 feet in an opposite direction froiu the scene of
the disturbance. Eight human beings were, thus
massacred, in cold blood, not one of whom had the
least participation iu (ho disturbaqce. The whole
affair was a deliberate and unjustifiable murder
which requires the most rigid investigation by the
civil authorities.
In the first place, there was no necessity for call
ing out.the marines at all. In theseooud place, there
was no necessity tor their tiring on the citizens. < ’ap
taih Tyler himself admitted this after the bloouy
deed was done. In the third place the Riot Act was
not read at all, while the laws requires it to be read
three times. Thus the whole proceedings were
grossly In violently of law.
There is no authority in the laws of thA Uuited
States for the President, or any other officer, to or
der out the United States t roops to suppress ordimt
ry disturbances of the peace. Iu case of insurrec
tion, and in the event of the civil authorities becorn
ing overpowered, the mUUia may be called out. —
But there is no authority for calling United States
troops into service until all other means ol suppress
ing an insurrection shall be exhausted.
Iu tiie opinion of .many residents of the Fourth
Ward, this whole difficulty which has resulted bo
disastrously, nr<*<e chiefly from the imprudeut and
disorderly conduct of Captain John H. Goddard,
who distinguished himself at an early part of the day
by his aggressive behavior towards members of the
American party. Goddtu’d was the Democratic
candidate tor Alderman, and was defeated, as he
deserved to be.
Above all, the conduct of the Mayor was utterly
inexcusable. His reckless disregard oflaw, and hi*
violent and intemperate deportment throughout the
day, cau only be accounted for ou the presumption
that he wasjbereft of nis senses by some artifice best
known to himself.
As (mother instance of the insane conductor the
Miiyor, we wilt state that after the murderous out
rage in Seventh street, and when a large crowd of
peaceable citizens were assembled in front, of tile
City Hall where was held the eleotion of the sec
Olid precinct of tiie Fourth ward, and when the Mu
rines were occupying the portico of the Hall, the
Mayor came out on the steps and commanded the
people to disperse, or lie would onler tht Marines lb
sere upon them ! At this threat, the crowd, fearing
another murderous ouslaugliL, gave way like frigid
ened sheep.
Alter the disturbance was over, and tire dead re
moved to the residences of their sorrowing families,
the U. S. Flying Artillery, from Fort MoHeury were
summoned to Washington, aud arrived at it P. id.
They were entrusted with the hppurlant dutyo!
guarding the houses of Mayor Mugruder and
Captain Tyler. Yet the streets were perfectly quiet
throughout the evening, as much so as those of a
country village
The strangest part of this strange affair remains to
be told. Up to this hour, no inquest lias been or
dered upon the murdered men. We have been
informed that no inquest will be held. Is this possi
ble 't
Finally, if as is asserted by the government party,
Americans were disiurners of the peace in the
fourth ward, how does it appear that in tiie fusillade
of the Marines, Democrats alone or chieiiy were
slain ?
Still Another Account.— The Washington
Star has another detailed account of the riot from
which we extract the following :
A German lad from the Seventh Ward, about
sixteen years of age, named Christian Lindig,
died during the night from a wound received in the
nook
Colonel Wm. F. Wilson, of the Laud Oflio—shot
in the left arm while standing at a secodd story win
dow.
Daniel V. Fenton, residing on South F street, Is
land, shot in the arm while standing upon the street
conversing with some ladies. His neck was also
grazed by a ball oorning from the opposite, dirco
tion.
HicT.-rd G. Hyatt, wounded severely in tiie shoul
der, while ctandiug in his store on Seventh street.
Heath received a buckshot wound in the
cheek.
Capt. J. McGuire, shot in the nose.
A young man, a tinner, named Biddleman, hud
his arm shattered so terribly as to require ainpu
tktion.
Morgan Farrell, residing at D. Johuson’s on
Greenleafs Point, .shot iu the head, the ball aud
pieces of the skull Were removed by Dr. Horgau
from the brain ; recovery, doubtful.
r Kibbey, arm fractured.
Two young men, named Palmer, were badly
beaten with slung shot, and one was shot iu the arm
and the other in the head; both will probably re
cover.
A young man named Sullivan, was attacked iu
his mother’s house and very badly beaten.
A boy standing between the two precincts of
this Ward had his face terribly mashed with a
brick back.
A man named Geo. Catherell, had his head se
verely cut on C street.
Mr. A. K. Sheppard received a slight flesh wound.
Charles Bestell, a young German of the best
- character, aud employed by Mr. George Junuinanu,
was one of those uufortuuates who were injured iu
the riot yesterday. He received a large bullet in
the right Bhoulder (entering below the shuuMer bone
aud coming out about seven inches higher) while
passing through Seventh street. The young man
is doing pretty well.
INCIDENTS .OF THE DAT
It is stated.positively that for tiie baleful visit of
the Baltimore “ Plug Uglies” we are indebted- to
citizens of Washington occupying prdminent posi
tions. It is Stated that these citizens of Washington
raised the money to bring on these Plug Uglies scut
agents to secure I their “services;’’ received this
crowd of hell lioundß at the Railroad Depot; took
them fu charge, andprovided them with an enter
tainment, preparatory to the work of the dap.
If this be so, does not the blood of the victims of
the tragedy of yesterday rest upon the heads of
-these citizens rather than upon their ignorant, be
sotted tools who knew no bettet than to do the
bloody workfor which they were hired and brought
here-to accomplish. -.
At alKevents, to the presence of these rowdies are
we indebted-for the scenes of yesterday, and the
pari ies acting as tools and leaders may divide the
responsibility as best they can.
We mustkeep the fact steadily in view, that these
imported buHies (why not say “foreigners?’') had
possession of the city up to the time the military
were called out; that they were marching iu a body
from precinct to precinct carrying mob law every
whore in their progress.
It all very well to say that the citizens would, if
called upon, have promptly organized aud put
down the rowdyism without military aid. It is no
torious that they were railed upon and appealed to
in the name of their sacred rights by public spirited
gentlemen to unite and crush out the mob, and thaf,
either through apathy or fear, not a man stirred
It is equally absdrd to say that the volunteer sol
diery could have responded to a call upon them.
Where were the volunteers? Why, scattered to
the four quarters of the city, at the election pre
cincts, or at their residence- or plaeea of business.
It is a fact worthy of notice, tJuft of the marines
who were <Ta;.edoilt sixty of them weft raw recruits
aud had not been under drill three days. They ere
nearly all natives. The charges of Their being “for,
eigu hirelings,'’ employed by, the executive, powdr
■to shqot down American citizens, is thus refuted.,
Soon after this the Plug Uglies, thinkii& that
Washington was getting too hot for tiled), started
precipitately lan the railroad depot, and pvbeu flic
doors were opeped prior to the departure of the
3 O’clock train, they poured,fn uejl jindU, nearing’
large carpet. 'hagoßramfoed wiJ%ihstol<* Jfcwle--
knives bilfiee and other
haste were they that they the -gaft
k eeper i-, away to put it beyond lyT.pow.gr to gt ’
a sight at their ticket*. When -li>#y /at ftairfy iy
the cars they are Said to have Mpp remijijtaory
docile and well-behaved, and’ To have pfqfmunin
marked contrast to their bravado air in the more
hug. Those of them Who arrived at the depot toil
late for the 3 o’clock train walked rapidly on-towands
Bladeusburg, as iffo,place us Wide a gap as poser
bio between themselves and this city before the,
departure of the next train.
A large party of the “Plugs” had’stafted yester
day afterßoon from Baltimore to reinforce their
friends in this City, but wtre • hot ifi«d by their
compatriots that they would be called'npoti to tight
Government troops instead of quiet citaens.j upon
which they postponed their Visit till a more con
venient season. i ■r' , * ’
With the departure of our unwelcome visiters quiet
was restored and mtrfutamed throughout the night
Brigham Tolng Besieged in His own House.
—We tdke the following from an extra of theUala
veras (California) Chronteh published at Moke
lumna Hili, dated Monday, April 2btb :
Fiona private letters received from Salt Lake,
Mr. Thompson learned that the sefcism in the Mor
men Church has assumed a formidable character.—
The Gladdenites, or anostaten froip the Simon 1 ure
faith,as enunciated by Biigham.and hz adherent.!,
have o* late wonderfully iucreireed their onager,
and grown so rebellious that 1 ejPropbet to ...
to environ himself with a trnet>guard of the forth-
Mormons of Carson V.dtey ou aecqunt of
aimr-nlbes apprehended withtiieir Gentile neighbors
hS been peremptorily ordered to Salt Lake, by the
Proobet, but thinking it easier to negotiate a peace,
tiMV to sacrifice their homes, they have shaken
hinds with the Amelikites aud buried the toma
hank. m
Tragedy at Warren, Virginia —On Monday
evening last Nelson Shelton whilst under the in
fluence of whiskey, got into a frolic in Warren
Virginia, aud attempted to lake the lives of his
brother, Dr. Thomas BheUoii, and a Mr.. John
Burton. Just as tliesr gentlemen were attempting
to make theie escape from him into a house, Nelson
discharged his gun, loaded with buckshot, at them.
Mr. Burton was shot through the small of the back
and is probably mortally wounded ; Dr. Shelton
received one or two of the shot in his wrist. Shelton
was arrested.
Scarcity of Corn.— The Winnsboro’ Register
of Tuesday learns t hat persons in that District have
to buy corn, and that it commanded one dollar and
a quarter per bushel in Winnaboro' on Monday.—
The Register trusts, however, that the wheat and
oats crops will reduce this price considerably within
the next thirty days,
iHiniiu-a of Point. Decided I>> Hie Supreme
\ f'oiiri, at Allien*, iHny Term, 1857.
.Wynn, w, Kx’ra of Hooker. If a declaration ,
simply without process, is filed in office, and after
wards dismissed, this is such an institution or pen
dcucy of suit, as will prevent the bar of the Statute
of Limitation*!, if another action is begun in six
months after such dismissal.
Judgment reversed. Andrews, for plaintiff in er
ror. Keese & Thomas, for defendent in error.
Smith vs. Guilder. In an action of tresspass, for
cutting dgWn and carrying off timber, the damages
ure dot.restricted to the vftiue of the land trespassed
upon 1 , although plaintiff disclaims vindictive dama
ges, mit the jury may estimate the value of the
trees felled and carried, away.
Judgment reversed, vtfth instructions. Pottle,
for plaintiff in error. Stephens Johnson, repre
sented by Cobb & Thomas, for defendant in error.
Pat illo vs. Harksdale. The Court of Ordinary has
no now*r to grant letters of administration, even to
enable a party to establish a copy of a lost deed,
when the deceased, atthetime of Ids death, resided
iu another Slate, at. d had no assets in Georgia.
Jug men t affirmed. Davis, For plaintiffdo error.
Hilly or for defendant in eri;or.
Craig vs. Adair. The Clerk of the Superior Corn t
is not liable to an action for damages, for failing or
refusing to issue a ca. sa. at the request of a party
interested, before the ti. la., which had been issued,
has been returned to his office by the Sheriff.
Judgment affirmed. Glenn \ Hull, for plaint isl
iu error. Peeples, for defendant in error.
Nichols vs. Sutton N Porter. The Commission
ers of Roads cannot be enjoined by injunction,
from removing obstructions in or opening a road, in
pursuance of an order of the Inferior Court, the
complainant having taken no steps to procure a re
Cission of said order, or to have tin* same set aside.
Judgment affirmmed. Peeples, for plaintiff in
error. Hull, for defendant in error.
Henderson vs. Almond. Where the vendor offt
Gin warrants it to be as good as auy made, if not
then he will furnish one that is, and upon the Gin**
breaking, the vendee sends it to the vendor’s agent,
to be repaired, and the gin is not returned: Held,
that upon suit oy the vendor, upon the note given
% for th purchase money, the vendee may defeat the
action, by praying that the gin was worthless, and
lip is not bound to result to his warranty. *
Judgment affirmed. Hester «V Akerman, for ><
plaintiff in error. Thomas, for defendant in error.
Green vs. Howell and adm’re of‘Calloway. Where
judgment was obtained against defendant iu 1833,
and against a garnishee in 1813, 'the Court will not
vacate and annul them upon application made in
18Sli, although tlie record may disclose some singu
larities in the proceedings,
Judgment affirmed. Eon die & Andrews, for
plaint iff in error. Stephens, represented by Cobb
x Thomas, for defendant iu error.
Wyly vs. Stanford. 1. It is not error in the Circuit
Judge to state to the jury that there is confusion and
apparent contradiction in the testimony of a witness
anu direct their attention to it.
2. Where the vendee or grantee of property
belonging to a principal, and subject to the bar of
a judgment, gets the control of the judgment, and
undertakes to enforce it against property belonging
to d defendant>re?</ ity. he will not be prevented
from so doing, it he JiaS substantial equities which
can only be thus secured and protectetl
Judgment affirmed. Peeples & Hull for plaintiffs
inerror. Stanford, for defendant in error.
Amrriniii Alminn in Sumter*
lu accordance with previous notice, n portion of
the American Fatty of Sumter county, assembled
in the Court House at Americus. on Tuesday the 2d
June, for. the purpose ot appointing delegates to r<
present them in the Gubernatorial and Concession
al Conventions.
Thomas P. Cottle was called to Hie Chair, and
John CJ. Thomaa, requested to act hh Secretary. On
motion the Chair appointed a Committee ot live,
consisting of C. P. Crawford. C. \V. Hancock, Wm.
Coker, A. M. Little, and Cooper Godwin, to pre
pare business for the action ot the meeting.
The committee retired, aud after a short absence
returned and otTefed the following report, which
was unanimously adopted :
The American Party of Sumter county animated
by a love of country and a zealous regard for the
rights of the people, do adopt, the following declara
tion of principles,
Ist. We cordially re affirm the platform of prin
ciples sot forth by the American Convention in the
City of Macon on t lie Bth of .1 uly, 1 856. *
2*d. Wo earnestly condemn the treacherous
spirit, that last year assured the South that Demo
cratic influence and the organic act would make
Kansas « Slave. Htate, yet now seeks to reconcile
the public mind to “Free Kansas.’’
3d. We iudignaidly rebuke that reckless party
policy which, after’ needlessly evoking the spirit of
sectional discord that threatened our country, false
ly magnified the dangers and aggravated the alarm,
forelection prof Doses, and now with equal falsity
seeks to persuade our people that all is safe, and
qniet, and peace, w here there is no peace, no quiet,
no safety.
4th. The election of James lUichanan has set
tled no, principle, and restored no peace to the
country. It is but a mongrel judgment by which
the dispute ir deferred, until sectional feelings be
come more exasperated, and harmony more diffi
cult.
sth. The ultimate triumph of the American prin
ciplee is absolutely necessary to restore security to
the rights of the states—justice to all sections—and
harmony and good will to the whole Union.
6th. We are uncompromisingly opposed to letting
any election, in the State or Union, go to the oppo
sition by our default. Tbo American party should
always Vie organized, always represented Ly regu
lar nominees, .and ever early and earnest in the
field.
7th. We recommend the Bth of July—a day sa
cred to the history of our party in Georgia—as a
amiable day for the gubernatorial convention, and
Macon as a suitable place.
Hi.li. We recommend the Ist Wednesday in Au
gust as the time and Americus as the place for the
Congressional Convention in this district.
9ih. We heartily approve the vote of the Hon.
Alfred Iverson,.on the Minqesaota bill, against alien
suffrage, and iu opposition to his colleague
JOtli. W recommend the Ist Tuesday iu August
as a suitable day for nominating candidates for the
legislature ami that each district be fully repre
sented.
The following gentlemen wore appointed dele
gates to the Gubernatorial and Congressional Con
ventions : . # .
Gubernatorial. —Win. Bartlett, S. C. Elam, J.
E. J. Horne, J. U. Black, T. D. Speer, C. P. Craw
ford.
Concessional. —Wm. Coker, W. Moore, T. P.
Cottle, B. Joiner, J. W. Rowland, J. V. Price.
The Convention then adjourned.
Thomas P. Cottlk, Ch’m.
J. G. Thomas, Secretary.
Mortuary Statistics ok Massachusetts.—
The following table gives the fiumber of births and
deaths in Massachusetts for four years ending with
1855, showing the excess of the former :
Births. Deaths. | Births. Deaths.
1852.. - .29,802 18,18;j4 1851... .81,997 21,414
1853.. . .30,920 20,301 | 1855.. ..32,845 20,798
From this it appears that the births are nearly
11,000 in excess annually. About J 5 per cent, of
the death* are those of foreign birth, while 38 per
cent, of the births are of foreign parents. It must
be remarked, however, that the returns of deaths do
not give as foreign those who were children of
foreign parents put born here, so Unit the two
amounts cannot be fairly compared. The per cent
re of deaths to tin; population living varies re
makably from 48 ’<* 2.75, both extremes tiding found
in agricultural towns and the manufacturing places
generally exceeding but slightly the proportion of
the whole State.
In connecuon with the excess of male births must
be taken the fact that the number of females who
died in this Skate is generally u little larger than the
number of males. The numbers at different ages
are somewhat remarkable. Under five years of
age, on the
froth twenty to thirty about, It) males to 13 females,
whdet ui other peridds of life, the proportions vary
considerably. Os the causes of death, the most fa
tal is consumption, thepumber of deaths from this
cause in 1855 being 4j£>o, or 22.61 per cent of the
who!'*. Os fees >-3,719 w.*v males, an<f ',511 fe
males; more than onc lialfof the whole number
were between fifteen aud forty years of age, 4,232
between twenty and thirty.
The unusual number of 91 persons committed
Rdicide during the year, a lurger number than is sta
ted for ye years before. 26 persons perished by
homicide, against an average of II for five years
previous.
Terrible Steamboat Explosion at Toronto.
—About ten minutes of 4 o'clock thi* afternoon the
steamer Inkermau, of Kingston, blew up with a
tearful explosion, at the time she was backing out
from Upton A Browne's wharf. From some, as yet
unarcertaiued cauße, her boiler exploded at that
moment . Her entire c**ew have been either killed
or dreadfully'wounded and scalded. . The Captain,
Mr. McßrOome, Peter McLaughlin and another of
the crew are the only parties who do not appear to
have been scvkqisly injured. Bhe had no passengers
oa board.
Her crew numbered about 22 men, aud as yet but
JO parsons, including two females, have t/een res
cin&d, Iwq of whom are dead.
The after part of the boat is completely blow n
away back of the wheel-house, and above the bul
warks. An examination is now going on of the
wretjt, and the furniture is being removed. The
greatest excitement prevails. There in a living
stream moving to the wharf, and we find it at pro
sent.impossible to astierta n the names of the crew.
—Toronil Jj'utier, MoyW.
A CkaSh.—On Sunday evening, (May 31,) at 6
o’clock, the flooring of. the grocery store of Perry
Spencer, Esq., of our cjty, “caved in" and hogsheads
barrels, sacks, dbxes, filled with merchandise,
were preupitated, promiscuously about, eight feet
into the cellar. The <<t>noussion »vom great, enough
to burst open the frost door, v/hich had been lock
ed about five minutes before, by Mr. Spencer who
bad passed through me store.> Iso lives, fortunately
wrefosi. T' damageof repairing and restoring
things to order, wili atßount lo ! ,500 tos2,l>oo.
Cetnifirbui Khqr .
A R&HARK jLpLJt C-asy.—Oja, the fink day of April
last a Mi. Bfiis,- of.Henrietta, N. Y 5, a mamseventy
years of age, attempled to by cutting
bis threat, but, hi* object was frustrated, and his case
since attracted much attention from medical
jnuujrom -the fact th .fc foi more Jh an thirty days he
could take no food wbfttdvpr. During the whole
time fie had an insatiable thirst, and more than two
pkils of water were ased every day, a very little
finding its way into the stomach. R early the whole
quantity octt through the wound, which is
de.Huib’id oy the :
“The root of the tongue is divided from the hyoid
I,one Windpipe uninjured. The opeumg ink) the
rpiaryiix or top of thoguJlet haa been very large,
allowing ihe windpipe to fall about three me Les. 11
Is hoW, however, closing, and a tube has been inser
led for tiie purpose of iutroduciuK food.”
For the last twc-rjty ii ve unye the attendants have
succeeded in gettius a very little iiourishmeut d»wn
soup, Soc. Nature is inakiug a strong effort to
heal toe rebund, and were it uot for the advanced
age of the patient strong-Jjoyes might be entertain
ed of his recovery.
Methodist Church. —We learn from one ofthe
Pastors of this Churoh that a meeting has been in
progress for several weeks, aud is increasing iu in
terest daily, Several conversions have taken place
—and pn Sabbath lest four persons united them- -1 ‘
selves lo the church.
The Itev. James E. Kvaiis, .well known Anhis
community, as a great revival preacher,, is ireskb, «n. , '
city aud will assist i» the services of the ™
Regular services every morning at. 9 o'clock, »*■-
at night. —Columbm Ewjtiirer, 2d nisi. , ’y-
Why Stocks are Down and Money Tight -
Some of the newspapers stale that the indebtedness
of the several railroads of thw United States now
reaches the enornous sum of $170,0011,0(10 (and the 1 1?
report of the late Secretary of tiie Treasury con- “
tains a statement tliat $313,(00,000 more will be ’
required to complete only midi roads as are now
prqected. Why, then, should not money be tight
throughout the country?
DisAS'CROt s Fire at Shreveport. —The town ot
Shreveport was visited early Thursday morning, by
a destructive fire, which consumed the frame
buildings, on the'comer of Texas and Spring streets,
where it originated, aud the stores of Messrs. E, S'.
Kneelaud& Co.,J. U. Brown,audA. A.linos,with
all their, contents, before it conld be subdued’’
During the conflagration three or four - heavy ex
plosions ofguuppwdehvpccured, doing considerable
damage to the windows iu the neighborhood. There
was no insurance whatever on the buildings on their
contents, and . the toss will 101 l heavy upon the
unlortunate sufferers, especially on Mr. Enos, who
lias been twice burnt out iu less than six months.
Theorignof the tire, says the Southwestern, ig
unknown.