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view to e-*iiveuieure ar*«i ci/ifort. It is situated in the
ihe i*i m. • ri -t , < An emuibus is always in readiness
to oor ve !.i : r' u> aul ftvtn the Depots on the ani
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l*n Virginia. v.-i ha> b**a u» Georgia about two years.
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generally.
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a Saw perfectly even in thickness. They w ill require
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will be found more even and nuiform thas any saw *n
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ment. M . • uay be a ured that the.r Servants will
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hp7-vi.;ii., WILLIAM VINEYARD.
LET THE LADIES READ THIS.
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la aa ar ,c-,e iu: cu*.*d, vrk U they can buy, w ith the
tail a-bur:in »*. that * .ey are ]h-4 ect iu every respect,
and uniformly i • t as i s the case with most other
Needles now in i-e. w* l a mai,’ p rtixrr. of a paper
prove good, but eerry nudlt is wamoitu*.
B, u and i.-i;. J•.\V. ~ \t*E’S GOOVKLESS
PERFECT i-ltd Li.EDLES, to be found at all the
SU) res. jaaii l -w Cmo
I > ANA WA Y from the sab-cr ton the 30th of May
J\ last, a Negro Man named ABEL, of black com
plexlou, stout bfftU. 1«» ." abotn b'Wpouu,’., There
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Cjjnmicle &
Addri «« of ITou. Edward Everett,
Sir :—On b* naif of a of the EHrectors
ot the Builder Hill Monameut Association, I have
; hmioßto surrender to you, arthe President of
brnif yonder marble statue oi Genera Joseph
V. rret., who laid down I is lite for h«e country on
t;poU eighty two ye.-.rn ago tiJsday. In this act
oi grateful cotzmiemoration, we do but pay an early-,
pr *ni»ed long deferred tribute of afT- etion and re
n**ct, to one of the ir . -ift zeakras obaiupionn aa<i
•11.' promote,b f»f American liberty and inde*
pendencft—4be dnstinguished vietisri in the
<•? >e A j far •itis in our power,^re wipe off the
; uproar: 1 1 whicii has rested uppr, ux for two genera
• •f «. A early aa the Mh of April, 1777, it wiu«
r.-d by t'*e Ccu,* .-w-ntal Congress, that a moan
i -MttHbould be erected to the memory of fteneial
Warren in :’,e town of Ti >-ton, and to the memory
*•; General Mercer in FredeTtck^iburg, Virginia
i. * marl.:-of which those inontimectS are to be
cf*< -. d huj not yet been quarried. In 1794, the
rn« n,hc.*-</ King dJy Ige of Masons in
( r • Htown erected on the summit <•{ Bunker Hill
u Tuscan cpluann, in honor of General Warren and
hirt brave inanic . The property of tin
spot on which this monument stood was, by the do
nation of the Hon. James Russell, vested in the
and wan ceded by them to the Bunker Ilill
Me; ament Association in 18 21, on condition tha f
..me trarcof tin ir early patriotic effort should be
b'-eaerved within The more appropriate and perma
nt monument, wi.ich tbc association waa about U>
*>< This r ledgc* was fully redeemed in 1845, by
allowing the lodge to p)a'-e within tlieir great work
a»: ,-x»u t < \>y in marble of the original monument
and of the in-c ipti >ns upon it.
At the celebration of the anniversary of the bat
tJe, in 1850, three-quarters of a century after the
event, it occurred to a generous and patriotic
/ x n present —wJioro heart and hand were ever
; en to the calls of public spirit or benevolence—
• lab: Thomas■ Handasyd Perkins, that the time
h- i come, when the duty of erecting some perma
i « ~t memorial ol Gen. Warren ought no longer to !
1.-* neglected, find a contribution of ore thousand
: Hih wa-. liberal,y offered by him for tbis purpose
1 i offer, c< • ’ained in a letter to the late lamented
Dr. J 1m C. Warren, was referred to a committee
.■j fj„ I dree*ora of the Bunker Hill Monument As
v’;».n ; by whom, after due consideration, a
• rbv r' itue, to bo executed by sisne Americana
u d aid »e most BUitabß
, f i| M . memariai. Tin » reewmnendation was adopt
* d by the Directors, was approved by Col. Perkins,
.ii.d hn; been carried into effect by his generous
. : -scription and the contributions of other liberal
1 < nef«, torH. The work was conbded, in conformity
w,th the expressed wish of Col. Perkins,to Mr. Hen
ry Dexter, of Cambridgeport, a meritorious self
'ijht American artist, who, in its execution, has
ui.iied the sympathetic ardor of thenatriot with the
»ii.cautious zeal of the sculp to a lie has adopted
!,t ; original portrait of Warren, by Copley, as the
basis of Lis likeness, and has no doubt attained as
* t a 1 ■ mblaoee of the youthful hero, as it is
i >w in the power of the art to produce. In hh
;*r< '-nee, aod that of his work, it would l»e alike *u
; rlluouh and indelicate b> enlarge upon its merits.
I j-erform the la. t pleiu?irg and honorable duty of
the committee for procuring the statue, in now
t ransferring it to your official possession, and placing
it th ough you iu the permanent custody of the
Bunher Hill Monument Asseciation.
Tne performance of this pleasing and honorable
. tat ti nd« d a v • adn<in the inter
val of seven ye are, which has elapsed since the work
w •.'•proposed, ils mat and greatest benefactor has
p i ed away an l with ha tiw other eariieet and
largest contributors to the statute, our late respect
e 1 and liberal fellow-citizens, John Welles and
Samuel Appleton, and the two noble brother patrons
•i .d philanthropic under
taking, Amos and Abbott Lawrence. One half of
th cost of the statue was defrayed by these live
ctoi -the reelffue i:« the more ro
cent, donat ion of living contributors. The pedestal
t f beautiful vcnle antvtu* i the contribution of the
t unily of the lute I)r. Warren. For whatever of iu
terest .here is in this occasion—for whatever of aat
• ,f.ciion we enjoy, iu seeing the first beloved and
youthful victim in the cause of American liberty re
ored to us in enduring marble, we are indebted,
m the first instance, to the large hearted, warm
hearted men whose names I have repeated. They
ha\ e all passed away, and with them has also passed
way another honored associate, the friend of near
ly half a century, who would have enjoyed a eilent
Mit intense gratiffeat on in this day’s proceedings—
the late lamented Dr. John C. Warren, the nephew
. General Joseph Warren, whose warm and active
:merest in the commemoration of the 17th of June,
1775, transcending the limits of name and kindred,
.nd led him to consecrate the strenuous exertions of
more Ilian thirty years, not merely to the erection
<>f the monument, but to the illustration of all the
memories that cluster round Bunker Ilill. And
may it be permitted to me, sir, as the only survivor
< f the first committee appointed to procure subscrin
tioi.a in 1825, and oi the executive committee cloto
« d with the full powers of the directors, in the con
traction of the work, to slate, that among all the
. xx . i era< verinj l and judicious friends of the
Bunker Hill Monument, there was none who from
lir.-i to last contributed more effectively to its sue
ce (did prosecution aud final completion than Dr.
John C. Warren.
Nor let it bethought, sir, that in erecting the
'tat ue of General Joseph Warren aud bestowing the
r: of this day exclusively upon him, we forget
the services of the brave men of whatever rank,
who partook, with like courage and patriotic devo
id the perils of tlie ever memorable 17tli of June,
1775, whether with him they gave their lives to the
country, or survived for other fields of danger and
other calls of duty. To honor without attempting
to enumerate or compare their names —to mark to
ih«‘ l test generation thespot w here they stood aide
by side through the live Jong hours of that anxious
toilsome night and that tremendous day—and brav
ed iu their most terr ble form, and most of them for
the first time, the perils of the battle—is the object
of the time defying work, which crowns the hill on
which we stand. It commemorates no individual
inrn or State. It. elands i* deed on the soil of Mas
cachuectts, where the battle was fought; but there
it t urds equally for Uounectfaitt, New Hampshire
and Rhode 1 land, and the younger sisters of the
N< w England family, Vermont and Maine, whose
tio<*pa chared with uoi.i Hie dangers and the honors
of the day. It stands for Brescott ami Warren, but
not less for Putnam and Stark aud Green. No
name adorns tUqshift; but ages hence, though our
alphabets maybecoinc as obscure as those which
i on l r the monuments of Niuevah aud Babylon, its
uniuscribed surface (on which monarchs might be
proud their titles,) will perpetuate the
I7thof June. It is tl.e monument of
• l -vi t‘;“ t>Htth« of Bunker Hill:
« i all the brave men who shared it perils—alike of
Prescott and Putnam and Warren—tin chiefs of the
day, and the coloredpm.n, Sarleiu, who is reported to
i the Lc.Uai t Htoairn as he mounted the
parape f . Cold ns the #tbds on which it rests, still as
he:i\ • ' it it is yet vocal,
el<>qaent, in their undivided praise. Till the pon
derous and well compacted blocks of granite, which
• «•. mi .-MiLqurhe will heave from
shall fallMWader, it will stand to the
••tost distant posterity a grand impartial illustra
i jii—(nature's own massive lithography)—of the
noble page, second to no other in the annr.ls of
America, on which History shafi write down the
names and the deeds of the f7th of June, 1775.
Hut while the obelisk, unappropriated to any in
dividual uanu* how ever-brilliant, forgetful of no in
i ividual however humble, towers iu serene
almpUcity, the one impartial monument of the day,
—it seemed proper to the lrranithvnt proposer of the
work we now inaugurate, and to his liberal associ
ates in tiie undertaking, that a beginning should at
length be made ot a separate commemoration- of
those, who rendered especial service iu an action
which gave a character to the whole succeeding con
tet-l ; a battle in Which the loss of the enemy exceed
ed two-fold that of Saratoga, Mouiuoulb, or York
town, or of any other conflict in the war; aud which,
disguising a disastrous defeat with the name of vic
tory, was, in the language of Gen. Burgoyne, who
wi.nt ssed the engagement, “the loss of the British
Umpire in America.” No one, I am persuaded, will
tiiinK it unjust that the first statue Wts been erected
i,i Warren; uo one but must desire that the example
thus set should be followed by those of Prescott-, of
Putnam, of Gardner, of McClary, and of whotnso
. v < r else a grateful posterity may deem worthy to
be associated witli them in these posthumous fion
ots. I need not tell you, sir, that il has long been
in contemplation to erect a permanent lodge on
son.c portion of these consecrated grounds, which
shall afford an appropriate place of deposit for the
archives of the association and for the relics and
memorials of the battle, a- d there it is probable, if
this design is executed, that the statue we this day
inaugurate, wdlbe definitely set up, to be stuToun
t*d. U t us hop*.-, with the busts aud statues of maxiy
i-t hers of the brave men who stood or fell iu thecause
of the country on that momentous day.
Iu these ways and by these works—by themajes
tic structure which pmuts its unuiscribed shaft to
t h skies, ami by the monumental statues which we
dedicate to individual merit, a grateful posterity
u i’l seek to honor those to whose wise and brave
counsels, to whose t<tils and whose blood, we are in
debted under Providence for this rich heritags of
public and private prosperity. Os these—in this
part ot the Union —there is no name to stand be
fore Warren’s.
Prudent, resolute, fearless, not yet thirty-five
years ct age. Warren was in reality, as President
1 i the F ovincial Congress of Massachusetts, and
Chairman of the Committee of Safety, the efficient
head of the patriot cause hi New England. In ad
dition to these important offices, three days before
the battle of the Uth of June, he w as chosen Major
General of the Massachusetts troops. He was hi m
st if opposed to the occupation of Bunker Hill, but
that measure having been resolved upon by the
Council of War, Warren determined to support it
with his presence, and if need should be, his blood.
Mr. Gerry, his assoc into iu the Committee of Safe
ly. in conference with him on the 16th, strongly dis
suaded his joining the detachment, which had been
ordered on this eventful errand. * It will be mad
ness.*’ said he, “to expose yourself where destruc
t .on will be all but inevitable.*’ ‘lam aware of
ibis.** said Warren, “ but 1 live within the sound of
the cannon ; l ow could 1 hear ’heir rearing in such
n cause and not be there Again Mr. Gerry re
monstralod and conolmied with saying, “As surely
as you gi' to the hill you will be siaiu.” Warren's
reply was—
“ Duli t* ct decorum est pro partria viori."
'l* >weet and becoming to die for the country/*
1: at d;iy. the loth, he passed at Watertown, the
j-* ■ ot the Provincial Assembly, remaining there
“'i P art ot 'he night, iu Hie discharge 6f the
public business At .10 clock, on the morning of
He i. th he r»>de to Cambridge, and suffering severe
y from headache, threw himself ou the bed fora lit
t,e rt jx*se. the »ast he ever on earth When
intelligence reachea Cambridge that tiie enemv was
m totion. it was oonuininicaied to him by tWneral
Ward. He rose from his bed—declares! that he was
wel mounted his horse and r*xie toUhar’estowu.
•I u- - elected a Major tWneral, he repaired to the
field as ii voitfcuteer —refused the coanuaud which
was tendered ium by Putnam and Prescott—in
quired where the attack would be most formidable.
*ud • hued himself th#r** —auMMOgtho foreiiKnetiu tke
confi ct, am**ug the la*: in the lingering retreat, till
ie was struck with a bullet in the head, and fell to
rise uo more. The next morning the body was
found by I>r. Jeffries and General Winslow, who
vh-ued the field, and who saw the spot where if was
; buried.
The following spring, after the departure of the
voyal forces, tuo honored remains, identified by sure
indications, were re interred with appropriate fu
t er«l ceremonies iu Boston. The pail was borne
by General Ward and other distinguished asscci
m■-> iu aims and the opening words of Morton, the
eulogist—“lllustrious Relic? 1 what tidings from the
G'ave!”—produced a thrill in the audience which
clung through life to the memory of those who heard
it. Iu the official account ot the battle, prepared a
- on time afterwards, at tiie instance oi the Com
mittee ot Safety, Major General Joseph Warran is
named first among the dead, as “ a man whose
memory will be endeared U> bis countryrm*n, and to
the worthy iu every part and age of the world* so
long as v;rtue and vaior shall be esteemed among
mankind.*’ Eighty-two years have passed away
since these prophetic words were uttered, and we
now behold a pledge of their tulfiiment in this great
assembly gathered to do honor to his name, and in
ihe attendance of so many of the most distinguished
of our community, and of the land.
We are deprived, indeed, by a cause which de
mands all our sympathy, of the desired presenc* ot
the illustrious Chief, the Lieutenant General of the
armies of the United States, whose own blood has
n*_t been spared in the service of tins country, who
has fought her battles victoriously in every climate,
from the Canadian frontier to the tropics, anu who,
more favored of Providence, has lived to an honor
ed age, to enter into that reward of gratitude and
veneration, which it wa ;i given to Warren to de
serve but not to enjoy. But we are honored with
the presence of the chief magistrates of several sis
ter States, and especially of the empire State of
New York, worthy representative of a noble Massa
ehnsetta sire, Governor of a State whose population
equate that of the whole United Colonics on the day
when Warren tell; of others who Lave eerved the
repu Hein poet*! of honor and usefulness, in differ
out parte of our common country; of these patriot*
military corps, and civic and literary an I benevo
lent fraternities; in> word, of this vast multitude
of every age and either sex, assembled to pay
' homage to tm* marble presentment of the youthful
hero eager to crown with this earthly immortality
of faiae the first great martyr in the cause of Ameri
can Independence.
Nor is it the least of the satisfactions with which
we pay then*; honors to the memory of Warren and
eeiebnite the anniversary of his sacrifice, that we do
it with no feeMngs of unkindness towards the land
«>f our Fathers. Time has long since poured its heal
ing balm into fcae wouuds of the Revolution, and
the ancient ties ol common language and kindred
blood have resumed their force. Reason and Hu
manity alike forbid that the fierce collisions which
unavoidably attend the disruption and reorganiza
tion of .States should open perennial fountains of ua
tiotutl bitterness. When the excitements of the
struggle are past, the great movements of public
policy should be a* calm and passionless as the
march of the planets through the sky. While we
[my due honors to the illustrious men who led the
armies of the Revolution, we rejoice to believe and
to know, that the great separation which they ef
fected lias been productive of equal benefits to ooih
countries, and that the enlightened English states
men of the present day, like the Burkes and Chat
hams of the Revolutionary period, acknowledge
toe soundness of the principles for which our Fathers
flew to arms, and. are, everywhere extending their
application throughout the colonial empire of Great
Britain. Henceforth let our only contest with the
father land be a generous emulation In the arts of
peace. While I speak, the public vessels of the
two countries are bound on a joint errand to the
uiid ocean, not to stain its waters with fraternal
blood, but to knit the two continents together by
those mysterious bonds by which modern science
and art, outstripmg the laggard hours, annihilating
the width of the oceans, aud Hashing like thought
through their rayless depths, is bringing the whole
civilized world into the magic circle of instantane
ous communication.
But, alter all, the obelisks we erect and the statues
we set up are but expressive symbols. The proud
est monuments to the memory of our fathers are not
those which are carved by the skillful artist from
blocks of marble, or reared by the architect in ma
jestic piles of granite. These indeed have their
value and their interest. They mark for the latest
posterity the scene of some momentous conflict;
they redeem from the power of time and decay the
features of some noble countenance and the propor
tions of some manly form, causing the poor dust to
start into life again from the molten bronze or the
quarried marble. But these are not the rewards for
which Warren and his associates braved death ; not
the monuments which will best perpetuate their
fame. The principles of free government for wh : ch
they laid down their lives; the national independ
ence which by united counsels and painful sacrifices
they achieved on hard fought fields , this great fami
ly of {States which, with prophetic foresight, they
bound together in a fraternal confederacy ; this ad
mirable adjustment of local and federal government
—the most exauisite contrivance of political wisdom
which the world has seen—these shall be their en
during monument. Nor less eloquent in their praise
rdiall be the material prosperity which has resulted
from their wise and patriotic measures. The world
surrounding ocean whitened with the sails of
American commerce, which before the Revolution
was hemmed in by the narrow limits of colonial re
striction ; the hundreds of cities that line the coast
and crown the banks of noble riyera, and which have
started from the soil since the establishment of in
dependence ; the vast wilderness whose primeval
forests are yearly bowing to the settler’s axe, af
fording a home to the redundance of our own popu
lation aud the hungry millions of Europe ; these
boundless prairies over which the living wave of
population is pouring like a rushing tide, bringing
with It to the utmost verge of settlement the last re
mits of civilization, railroads following the line of
the recent Indian trail, electric telegraphs to con
vey intelligence where the mail coach was a thing
of yesterday ; great steamers on rivers and lakes
traversed within a generation by the bark canoe—
these proclaim, in language more expressive than
inscriptions on the monumental granite—in forms
more signiheaut than the sculptured marble—the
worth and the memory of the great and good inen
who sowed in weakness the harvest which we raise
in power, who in the doubtful elements of national
greatness which opened upon them in a visionary fu
lure beheld the germs of this palmy growth, of this
imperial abundance, as the sculptor beholds in ad
vance the muscular limbs, the glowing features, the
I riumphant expression of hia marble hero, in the
heart of the shapeless block.
Finally, my mends, let the recollections of a com
mon dunger and a common glory, which the day
and the spot awaken, bring with them the strength
ened love of a common country. The patriotism of
our fathers, and especially of the illustrious man
whom we commemorate was of the most comprehen
sive cast. In a letterof the 21st of November, 1774,
addressed to Josiab (Quincy, another early-lost de
voted champion of American liberty, General War
ren declares that “it is the united voice of America
to preserve their freedom or lose b their lives in de
fence of it. lam convinced that the true spirit of
liberty was never so universally diffused through
all ranks and orders of the people in any country on
the face of the earth, as it now is through all North
America.'
Ou the day ou which Warren fell, Washington
was commissioned as “ Commander iu-Chief of all
the continental forces raised or to be raised in de
fence of American Liberty.’’ Massachusetts and
Connecticut had their armies iu the field, com
manded by their favorite generals; but John
Adams took the lead in promoting the nomina
ion of a general from that part of the Union
where there was as yet no force embodieJ, eager
to give a striking proof that no local feeling
swayed New-England { by entrusting the command
of her army—for suoh it was—to a leader from the
banks of the distant Potomac, whom he already de
signated as the “beloved Washington.’’
The melancholy tidings of the death of Warren
was received with poignant grief throughout
the country, and it may be doubted whether the
most briliia t success on Bunker Hill could have
done as much to bind the colonies together, as the
noble, though iu its immediate results unavailing,
resistance; the profuse, though at the time unprofit
able outpouring of human blood.
A great revolution must be inaugurated with a
great sac rifice ; and all the loftier passions are en
nobled by the purification of sorrow ; nor is it cer
tain that Warren, had he assumed the command and
driven the enemy back to his boats, would have
done as much to kindle a chastised and resolute en
thusiasm throughout the country, and unite the colo
nies iu the ininending struggle, as wheuhe shoul
dered his musket anu fell in the ranks. And, oh !
my friends, let the lesson of fraternal affection which
lie taught us in his death be repeated in the persua
sive silence of those stony lips. In his own heart- 1
storing language, let “the voice of our fathers’
blood cry to us from the ground aud upon this
*acred day and ou this immortal hill, let it proclaim
a truce to sectional alienation aud party strife, as
the medieval church proclaimed the “Truce of
Gt*.”
Wherever' else the elements of discord may rage,
let the billows sink down and the storm be hushed,
like yonder placid waves at the foot of Bunker
Hill. Here let the kindly feelings that animated our
lathers rovive in the bosoms of their sons, assured
that—should “malice, domestic or foreign levy’’ in
vade us —-.1 living champions should fail, that monu
mental cheek would burn with the glow of patriot
ism, that marble sword would leap from its scab
bard, and the heaving sods of Bunker Hill give up
their sheeted regiments to the defence of the Union!
The Manners of Young America. —A corres
pondent of the Tribune , who was present at the
sumptuous dinner given at St. Louis to the railroad
excursion party, thus comments upon the manners
of certain New York sprigs at the table :
“At the dinner—which wa6 not a railroad dinner
at all, butau ample provision tor four or five hun
dred more than partook of all the delicacies of the
season—one thing was observed, which it would be
unfair to mention were it an isolated case, but
which illustrates a frequently observed characteris
tic of young New York, not greatly to its credit.—
One or two parties of youth, who are ‘in society,’
began their dinner by emptying all the strawberry
dishes within reach into their own saucers, aud put
ting all the bottles of wine they could lay hands
upon, after tilling their own tumblers, under the ta
ble to keep for future use. During the residue of
the dinner they conducted themselves on a similar
principle—the principle that obtains among animals
who are not ‘iu society/ Is it at Fifth avenue
midnight supper tables that such manners are
learned ?”
These are the fast and fashionable youug fellows
who, at social parties, rush in like fools “where an
gel* fear to treadwho monopolize the best wines
aud the best viands at supper. tread on everybody’s
toes in the crowd, with the nonchalent air of the
jackass dancing among the chickens : and who
think it the height of good breeding to get a9 “tight
as bricks ’ whenever they can get hold of the O. P.
(Other Peoples) brand of wiue. They smoke in om
nibuses, stare modest women out of countenance,
and make themselves disgusting generally But so
long as they can boast of rich “Governors” to pay
their bills, •‘society’’ tolerates, tailors trust, and fools
flatter them.—.Y 'etc York Mirror.
Fire at Cate May. — A serious fire occurred at
Cape May, on Wednesday night, destroying the
Mansion House and the Kursaal. 'Two small
houses ware also consumed The neighboring ho
tels escaped- The Mansion House was one ot the
oldest establhfiiuieuts on the island, and was for
maty years occupied by Col. Ludlam. The Kursaa!
was located immediately in the rear, and was used
generally for balls and' concerts. Cape May has
been rather unfortunate within the last year. The
destruction of the Mount Vernon House took place
several months ago, aud now a similar calamity has
happened to the Mansion House, thus greatly re
stricting the hotel accommodations at this favorite
seaside resort. There are, however, still enough
left to comfortably lodge several thousand visiters.—
Halt. Amer.
A Runaway River —A Deserted Totcn— The
Nebraskian, of the Ist inst, describes a flagrant
outrage upon “Squatter Sovereignty” as having
been late!v perpetrated by the Missouri, in the vi
oinity ot l)e Soto, Washington county, in that Ter
ritory. The ice gorged in the bend ot the river a
few miles above that town, and the water, with a
criminal disregard of the rights of De Soto and her
ferrv privileges, took a short cut across the l*eod,
forcing a channel near Calhoun, lowa, aud making
De Soto an inland town oi Nebraska, some four or
five miles from the river, to the infinite disgust of the
inhabitants of that city. By this arrangement a
few thousand acres of land will be added to the ai'
ready extensive domains of Nebraska.
Alleged Smuggling os Board the Steam
shif Fulton.— Thomas Rone, steward on board
foe steamship Fulton, was arrested on Thursday af
ternoon, charged with having attempted to smug
gle into port on board the Fufcoo, a large quanty of
diamonds, rubies, oriental pearls and jewelry of dif
ferent descriptions, valued at nearly SSO,OOW. Two
C ustom Uouae.ofhoerg bonded her off Staten Island.
I pou inspecting the cargo of the steamer and bag
gage of passengers, they d .-covered the diamond,
rubies, Oc c store d in small boxes placed in differ
cot parte of the vessel.
Labor and Edscstion.-A school has been
opened at \\ hiteneyvilie, Conn., to give young men
a practical education Connected with the school
is a large factory, filled with machinery, for the
manufacture of toys. This branch hae been selected
as it comprise* the largest variety of trades. Each
pupil will be required to devote five hours each day
day to the educational department, and five hours
each day to the mechanical department, aud to keep
a day book and ledger of his works aud it* results.
\*ir York Tribute.
Xxvv Route for Emigration.— A recent west
ern paper tells us that a large number of European
emigrant* are reaching our western States and
Territories through Canada. An instance is men
tioned in which six hundred persons were sent to
Milwaakie by the Canada line. This current will,
it is said, continue throughout the season. Already
thousands nave gone by it to Minnesota, lowa and
Kansas. Byway of explanation, it is said that
robberies, trauds and outrages perpetrated upon
emigrants landing in New York, and at almost
every city on the Northern route to the West, for a
series ut years, especially at Albauy and Buffalo,
have caused a desire in Europe among the eraigra
i Gng classes that the New York route should be
• voided.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 185*
Mpperh of Get. Walker i»t Topeka.
Fell or-Citizen* Upon the invitation of the eiti
zena of the lovrn of Topeka and its vicinity I rise
to commune with you, m regard to those most im
portant interests which are connected with the ad
ministration of the Territory of Kansas At the
earnest request of the President of the United States
I consented to come here and occupy the position
of Governor of Kansas. Ido not come among you
*ia a volunteer. I have not sought this position
On the contrary, I have accepted it, and, I am free
to say, with great diffidence, growing out of the
conviction impressed upon the minds of the Chief
Magistrate of the Union and all his Cabinet, that
the peace not caly of this beautiful Territory of
yours, but that of the whole Union depended upon
the settlement of these difficult aud eiciting ques
tions which have heretofore introduced civil war
and discord throughout your borders.
When, therefore, tiie matter was presented to me
it* that light by the President of the United States
aud nH his Cabinet, I felt called on, notwithstand
ing my deep sense of the responsibility which I was
required to assume, to withdraw my 'decimation of
this office, and accept the proffered trust. lam
now here ’his day, then, fellow-citizens, to address
you upon these grave and momentous questions
which concern so much not only your own peace
and prosperity, but that of the whole Union.
And here permit me to say, that it has been my
lot to have traveled through every State in this
Union except California, and 1 must say that I have
never seen, anywhere, any region for which God
has done so much as the Territory of Kansas.—
[Cheers.j All that you want is peace and prosperi
ty, the recognition of the principle that the people
of Kansas alone can rule here, and its exercise in
connection with all the great questions which have
disturbed the quiet and harmony of this Territory,
in order to make not only the town of Topeka one
of the most prosperous of the Territory of the Un
ion, but to make Kansas soon, at the proper pe
riod, to become a sovereign State, one of the
mo3t important and flourishing of the whole con
federacy.
Now, gentlemen, this is a practical question, and
I take it you are practical men ; that you do not
look to theories but to t acts and results and you
desire to ascertain what is the best mode in which
a peaceful adjustment of these most deplorable dif
ficulties can now be made.
On that subject, gentlemen, I desire to read you
a few extracts from my inaugural Address just
published in this Territory together wilh my in
structions from the President of the United States,
pointing out the mode in which the Chief Magis
trate of the Union, just elected to that high position
by the whole American people, as well as his Cabi
net ai d the humble individual who now addresses
you, believe these questions can be peacefully set
tled ; and settled, not by a party whether it be for
or against slavery, but by the whole people of the
Territory of Kansas, who, as is their sovereign
right, by that principle which lies at the foundation
of all our institutions, shall determine by an actual
majority of the votes of all her people, what shall
be their own Constitutional and their own social in
stitutions.
I speak not now in regard to the past, or any re
gistry of votes. But I speak as regards the future.
My doctrine is this, that iu the future, when the
Constitution shall be submitted to the vote of the
citizens of Kansas, that it shall be submitted to the
vote ot the whole people. Ido not mean those who
are now registered under the territorial law. Ido
not mean those who were residing here on the 15th
of March last, but I mean the whole people of Kan
sas—not only who are here now, but those who
will be here next Fall as actual residents—that they
—the people over whom these institutions are to
operate—that they, by a majority of their votes,
shall decide for themselves what shall be their Con
stitution and what shall be their social institutions.
On this subject I desire, I repeat, to read to you an
extract from ray inaugural address to the people of
the Territory of Kansas, together with the views of
the President of the United States.
Qfclndeed, I cannot doubt that the Convention, (I
mean the Convention which is about to meet in
September next,) after having framed a State Con
stitution, will submit it for ratification or rejection,
by a majority cf the then actual bona fide resident
settlers of Kansas.
With these views, well known to the President
and Cabinet, uad approved by them, I acceptedjthe
appointment of Governor of Kansas. My instruc
tions from the President, through the Secretary of
State, under date of the 30th of March last, sustain
“the legular Legislature of the Territory” in “as
sembling a Convention to form a Constitution,” and
they express the opinion of the President, that “when
such a Constitution shall be submitted to the peo
ple of the Territory, they must be protected in the
exercise of their right of voting furor against that
instrument; and the fair expression of the popular
will must not be interrupted by fraud and violence.
I come now to my own individual views—l re
peat then, es my clear conviction, that unless the
Convention submit the Constitution to the vote of
all the actual resident settlers of Kansas, and the
election be fairly and justly conducted, the Consti
tution will be, and ought to be rejected by Congress.
[Cries of “Good.”]
Gentlemen, on this subject I wish that there
should be no mistake, no misapprehension as regards
iny opinions and the policy which I shall deem it
my duty to pursue in the adminislration of the Ex
ecutive Department of the Territory of Kansas. It
is involved iu u few simple words: That the
majority of the people of Kansas must govern—
[cries ot “right”]—that the majority of the people of
Kansas must adopt their own Constitution or
reject it—that the majority of the people of Kansas
at the polls must decide whether they will be a
Slave State or a Free St ite. [Applause.]
ludeed, under whatever specious disguises any
other doctrine may be presented, I believe that
the man who desires that the minority of the people
shah establish institutions for the majority, is,
whatever he may call himself, neither a Democrat
or a Republican, but a monarchist or aristocrat. He
desires that the few shall govern the many, whereas
the great fundamental doctriue which lies at the
basis of all our American Institutions, and upon
which they all repose, and which has been carried
into successful operation in every other State but
Kansas, and which, gentlemen, with your aid and
co operation to sustain me. it is my sincere hope
shall obtain its fullest realization here, is the rule
of the majority.
Now, then, gentlemen, as to the mode in which
this is to be accomplished. I presume we all agree
—at least I hope wc do—as to the doctrine that the
majority of the people of Kansas shall establish
their own CousUtut'on aud introduce such social
institutions as the majority prefer. But how is this
to be done ? The Congress of the United States has
established for Kansas but one mode of action on
this subject, and that action is through the Territo
rial Legislature.
Now, none of you can regret more than I do any
of those deplorable and calamitous circumstances
which have .taken place in the past. For myself, I
wish to overlook the past and look forward to a bet
ter and brighter future. That Territorial Legisla
ture has, iu respect to the authority over this ques
tion, been recognized by the acts cf Congress of
1856 and 1857. That Legislature has called a Con
vention to assemble in September next. That Con
stitution they will or they will not sbbmit to the
vote of the majority of the then actual, resident
settlers of Kansas. If they do not thus submit it,
I will join you, fellow-citizens, in lawful opposition
to their course. [Cries of “Good” and cheers.] —
And I cannot doubt, gentlemen, that one much
higher than I, the Chief Magistrate of the Union,
will join you In opposition. But gentlemen, for my
self, I cannot doubt that that Convention will sub
mit such an instrument as they may frame, for the
adoption or rejection of the whole people of Kansas,
to all who now are or then may be actual, bonafde *,
resident settlers of the Territory of Kansas. Then,
at that time, aud in pursuance of the method desig
nated by the laws of your country, by the inatruc
lions of the Chief Magistrate of the Union,|who was
placed there by the people and sworn by them to
execute the laws, I do not entertain a aoubt but
that that Convention will submit to the whole of the
then bona fide settlers of Kanses, the determination
for themselves by an actual majority of the whole
people whether they shall adopt or reject that Con
stitution. If they reject it, there is an end of that
Convention. It has performed its office. It has
ac[journed never to meet again. [A Voice—What
next ?] What next, you ask, gentlemen ? There
are two other easy exits from the difficulty, and as
the auestion is a practical one, I propose to answer
it. in October next, not under the act of the late
Territorial Legislature, but under the laws of Con
gress, you, the whole people of Kansas, have a right
to elect a delegate to Congress, and to elect a Terri
torial Legislature; aud through that legislature you
can speak your views and instruct them either to
call a new Convention to submit a new Constitu
tion for the consideration of the people, or they can
instruct their delegates to Cong« ess, chosen by a
majority of their own votes, to ask Congress to pass
a law authorizing the people of Kansas to form a
State Constitution for themselves.
It is quite certain, gentlemen, that in this mode
there is in any event a peaceful, tranquil, quiet exit
from all the embarrassments and difficulties by
which you are sin-rounded, aud that the time is
rapidly coming, if it has not already arrived, when
the rule of justice and the people shall prevail in
Kansas. [Cheers.]
Then, gentlemen, what is the other mode which
is presented 1 You are about to have assembled
here at Topeka, next week, what is called the State
Legislature, for they tell you that they are now
about to convene a Legislature for the State of Kan
sas. Who elected that Legislature ? [A voice—
“Thepeople.”] The people! why the whole vote
given for your so called Constitution, as claimed by
yourselves, was but 1,731, whereas there are now
registered over 10,000 votes, residents here on the
15th of March last, exclusive of the tnousands omit
ted or who have arrived here since that date. The
people '. Do you mean to tell me that 1,731 votes
constitutes the whole number of votes in the Terri
tory of Kansas ? [A voice—“ That was a year and
a half ago."] But should those 1,731 votes a year
aud a half ago impose a Constitution tor all time to
come upon the present people of Kansas ? [A
voice—“ Not against their will !”] Should the con
stitution be submitted to their will lor adoption or
not? [A voice—“Yes.”] That, gentlemen, is the
great question, so far as they are concerned. But I
understand you claim to be a State now, and that
vour so-called Legislature, chosen by a small num
ber of votea, propose next week to enact laws to be
enforced in Kansas. This miserable minority, con
stituting not one-tenth of the present people of
Kansas, propose, in absolute defiance of the acts of
Congress, and in open rebellion, mark you, gentle-,
men, not only against the Territorial laws, but
against the laws and Government of the United
States, to assemble here. and. representing 1,731
people, impose this constitution. by force, upon the
people of Kansas, by the euactmant of laws. [A
voice—" Where are those 10,000 voters that are not
on the record ?**] Some inadvertently omitted,
many who would not register, and thousands who
have arrived since the 15th of March last. As re
gards the register, however, I say to you that it is
of comparatively little consequence if the Constitu
tution be submitted to the whole people.
It may suit the purposes of faction to ask such
questions by those who. refused to register, but
the substantive fact is that the Constitution can be
of no force or effect unless it is submitted to the
vote of tbe people, and if it is so submitted to is for
them to declare whether they will adopt it or no!—
But here comes a body of men acting in defiance of
the laws of Congress, and in open rebellion against
the Government of the United States, representing,
according to their own statement, less than one
tenth of the people of Kansas, who come forwara
and say that the people next fall shall not decide
this question ! That neither you nor I, nor any of
our fellow-citizens elsewhere throughout the Ter
ritory shall have the right to determine whether
we shall accept the new Constitution, or reject it!
Gentlemen, I come here for purposes of peace
and pacification. I come here to inaugurate the
rule of law, of juatioe and of the whole people of
KaD»aa by giving them all an opportunity of adopt
ing their own Constitution, instead of allowing a
handful of 1,731 men to thrusts Constitution on
them, by adopting a code of laws, for I am told
that they*have actually a code of laws prepared by
their various committees, cut and dry, to put in op
eration as soon as they meet, binding the whole
people of the Territory and depriving them of the
right to decide on their own form of Government
and to adopt their own Constitution.
Now, then. I repeat that I come here for tbe pur
pose of restoring and perpetuating peace, but I tell
you candidly that my instructions and my oath of
office require mo to put down the execution of such
laws, ana for the good of the people of Kansas,
they must and will be put down. [Cries of “never
never.” A Voice—“Do uot the people ot' tbe Uni
ted States aay that those laws are right ?”] The
people of the United States have just elected a
President who declares that auch law? would
be unconstitutional, null and Toid. (A Voice—
“ Who cares ?” ] Nay more , the people of the
United States nave elected a majority to Con
gress who entertain the same opinion with him.—
This is a matter involving the peace, happiness
aud prosperity ot the whole people. Your towm
| will advance in importance and wealth, your claims
j will increase in value, harmony and good will reign
throughout the Territory if the people who are now
here and who will be here in November
ber next will only decide for themselves what shall
be their own form of government, and their own so
cial institutions. But what is it this Legislature
proposes to do ? Wi bout the slightest necessity,
without the slightest pretext or apology under the
mode of adjustment now proposed —i speak not
now as regards the past, I wish to God that you,
and I, and all of us could nib out the past. [A
voice—“lt cannot be done.’* Another voice—“ Rub
out the bogus laws.’’] Rub them out, gentlemen, if
you please, by a vote of the people. [A voice—
“We cannot get that.*’] You can get that. [A
voice—“ Give us a fair vote at the next election.”]
You will get that. At the next election in October,
when you elect the Territorial Legislature, you can
then also, by a majority of your own votes, adopt 05
reject the Constitution presented for your conside
ration next Fall. Now, what, I ack again, is pro
potted to be done by this Legislature ? It is pro
posed to put in operation a body of laws. But you
must remember the passage of laws is no farce ; it
is not a humbug. [A voice—“lt has been here.”]
A law is a command , it exacts obedience from the
whole people, and is to be actually put in force in
the Territory. What is the consequence ? Why
you thus produce an absolute, clear, direct and posi
tive collision between that Legislature and the
Government of the United btate6. There are two
sets of laws then to govern you. Every man’s
contract, every man’s title, every man’s pot session
will then be involved in difficulty, and, in the course
of three or four months you will have a large im
portation of lawyers. [A voice—“We have plenty
of them now.” Laughter.] It will involve you iu
endless litigation, from which there will be no possi
ble extrication. Now, gentlemen, is there any neces
sity for this? [A voice—“ None—not a bit—there
never was.’’] Can you not peacefully decide this
question in the mode pointed out by the act of Con
gress, if, as you can and will have, a full opportunity
of recording your vote. [ A voice-** Why have we not
had it ? ”] Gentlemen, I was not Governor of Kansas
and Mr. Buchanan was not President of the U. States.
[A voice—“ How are we to get it ?”] You will get
it by the Convention submitting the Constitution to
the vote of the whole people. [A voice—“W T ho is
to elect the Convention ? That is the grand ques
tion.”] Gentlemen, it is a comparatively small
point by whom the Constitution is to be submitted.
Don’t let us run away after shadows. Do not re
fuse to register and then say you can’t vote. The
great substantial point is this : W r ill the whole peo
ple of Kansas, next fall, by a fair election, impar
tially and fairly conducted, by impartial judges,
have an opportunity to Jecide for themselves what
shall be their form of government and what shall
be their social institutions ? I say they will, but I
go a step further. [A voice—“ Have you the pow
er ?”] If I have not the power to bring it about ;
if the Convention will not doit, I will join you in
lawful opposition to their proceedings. ICries of
“good, “good.” A voice—“We will hold you to
your promise.” Another voice—“ How are w’e to
vote for this here Conventon ?’’ Another voice—
“ Nothing can be asked fairer than what he says.”]
Well, gentlemen, I have no power to repeal the
laws that have been passed in reference to the Con
vention, and if those laws have not been fairly exe
cuted it is simply no fault of mine. [A voice—“ Has
not James Buchanan power to repeal those laws 7”
Another voice—“ Hasn’t he sanctioned them ?’’]
lie has had nothing to do with them, but the Con
gress of the United States has authorized the Terri
torial Legislature to pass laws. The President of
the United States has taken an oath to carry the
laws into effect, aud it is for you, if you are opposed
to those laws, through the people’s vote, to repeal
them. [A voice—“We cannot get at them.”]
There is not the leart # difficulty about you getting
at them. [A voice—“ Keep out Missouri and we
will do well enough.”] Well, gentlemen, I pledge
myself to you that, so far as my power is concern
eel—and I do not doubt that you are not in any
event to have re-enacted here the scenes of the
past—but so far »3 my power is concerned, I
pledge mvself that the people of Kansas, and of
Kansas alone, and not the people of Missouri or
Massachusetts, or of any other State, shall inter
tere, even by one bingle vote to decide for the
people of Kansas what shall be their institution.
[A voice—“ That is my doctrine.” Cries of “Good,
good.”] But, gentlemen, they hall decide it for
themselves. When these views of mine are not
carried into effect—when you see that you will not
have a full and fair opportunity to decide for your
selves what shall be your form of government and
your social institutions, it will then be time enough
to complain of me, but not till then. [Several
voices—“ That is right.” Another voice—“ What
about the bogus laws ?”] And now I am asked
what about the bogus laws ? Why, your very
Governor, Mr. Robinson, has acknowledged those
bogus laws by putting into effect a charter passed
by that bogus Legislature, and so have many of
you and nearly all the people of Kansas. And if
the bogus Legislature has power to pass charters, it
has power to pass any other law not in conflict with
the Constitution of the United States. [A voice—
“ How are these Inspectors to be appointed?”]—
They must be appointed fairly and impartially, of
course, f A voice—“ Who is to appoint them?”] I
doubt not that the Convention will prescribe a fair,
just and impartial method, as they do in other
States. [A voice—“ They did, in giving us twohun
dred and eighty voters in this county.” Laughter.]
Well, gentlemen, let us look at that question.—
What have these two hundred and eighty voters to
do, if you have all a fair vote next Fall on the Con
stitution ? [A voice—“ There has been no census
taken.”] That has nothing to do with the question;
But whilst I must deeply regret and deplore the cir
cumstance that there has been an insufficient cen
sus, what am I to think when told by those who pro
fess to represent the Republican Party of this Terri
tory, that tell you that you should neither register
or vote ? You were kept from registering, as you
all know, by following the advice of these party
leaders of yours, aud then complain they cannot
vote. You could have registered here if you pleased,
and hundreds in this Territory, since hearing my
plan, have expressed to me their deep regret that
they had not registered, and many of your county
since my arrival have changed their position and
resolved to vote. Every man who responds that he
will not acknowledge those laws has been deprived
of no privilege in not being registered, because he
declares that whether registered or not, he will not
vote. If you dislike the Convention, do you best
oppose it by standing aloof and allowing a majority
of other persons to adopt their Constitution, or by
voting down that instrument ? Jf you do not vote
next E'all for or against that instrument when you
have a fair chance, Congress will act as though you
had. No, you cannot defeat the Codstitution by re
fusing to vote. [A voice—“ The Governor is right,
aud we will vote then.”] Now, gentlemen, I really
believe I have detained you too long. There is
nothing on earth that I love more than free opinion,
a free press a'd popular discussion. [Cries oi
“right.”] Instead of objecting to it I love to hear
some few of you differ from me or ask questions.—
Come let us reason together. Discarding passion
and prejudice, regreting as you and I do, all the dis
Acuities chat iiave occurred in the past, let us ask
ourselves this great practical question: What is
best tor the great future of Kansas ? [A voice—
“ The Topeka Constitution.”] Well, gentlemen, I
hope no one will say so, unless the man who be
lieves that 1731 voters should deprive some 20,000
or 30,000 voters now in the Territory or that soon
will be here of deciding their own form of govern
ment for themselves.
[A Voice—“ How was it when the people of Mis
souri came here ?”] I have nothing to do with the
people of either Missouri or Massachusetts. lam
ODly looking to the future. And I say if you desire
war—(loud cries of “No, no)—if you desire conflict;
(“No, no;”) if you desire to enter into a rebellion,
not against the Territorial laws only, but against the
Government approved by the President aud the
acts of Congress by the present enactment of State
laws. (A voice—“ Not now.”) There cannot be a
State Government without a State Governor, with l
out his superseding the Governor appointed by the
President of the United States under the 'aws of
Congress. There cannot be a State Government
without State Judges, and there cannot be State
Judges w ithout their superseding the Judges ap
pointed by the President of the United States, un
der the laws of Congress, or a State Legislature with
outsupersediug the Territorial Legislature. It means
that, or it means nothing. Surely this is open re
bellion agaiust the Government of the United
States, to which you tell me you do not mean to re
sort.
Now then, gentlemen, I return you my most sin
cere thanks for the kind and indulgent attention with
which you have listened to my remarks.
[A Voice —What as to the taxes ?]
Long before I am called on for any official action,
the reign of law, of justice and of the people will be
so fully established here that, as good citizens, you
will all cheerfully pay this small pittance to support
your own Government.
[A Voiee—We will have a great deal more confi
dence in the vote of the people to be given next
Fall if you will tell us by what authority the Judges
are to be appointed ]
I will answer that questiop, for I have no doubt
it is fairly asked and in a fair spirit.
[The Voice—lt certainly is.]
I will say then to you, gentlemen, that if they do
not appoint a fair and impartial mode by which the
majority of the actual, bona fide, resident settlers
of Kansas shall vote, through the instrumentality of
impartial .judges, I will join you ail in lawful oppo
sition to their doings, aud the President and Con
gress will reject their Constitution. [A Voice—
“ Will the Convention appoint impartial judges ?”]
It is their duty to do so. [A Voice—“ Will they do
so ?”] Gentlemen, I am not the Convention, but
I do not doubt they will give you impartial judges.
[A Voice—l will ask the “Governor if there is any
one who will be allowed to vote for this Convention
except those registered ?”] As regards the past, I
have got no power to recall it. The past is irrevo
cable, even Dy Almighty power, and I profess to
have very little power, much less such power as
that. Over the past, I have no control, but over
the future I have ; and I say to you that unless a
full and fair opportunity is given to the whole peo
pie of Kansas to decide for themselves what shall be
tbeir form of Government including the great sec
tional question which has so long divided you—un
less,! repeat, they grant you such an opportunity. 1
have one power of which no man or act of men, can
deprive me, and to which I sholl unhesitatingly re
sort, aud that is, to iein you in lawful opposition to
theiaacte. [Cries of “Good, good,” and loud ap
plause. during which the Governor withdrew.]
Safe Blown Up.—Yesterday morning, there
was some little stir in business circles, at the intel
ligence that on the night previous the counting room
of Messrs Tanner ana on the Galena and
Chicago Union Railroad dock, in the North Divis
ion, had been entered, their safe forced open and
rifled ot its contents, and their books so cut and mu
tilated as to be almost entirely worthless and uia
cipherabie. Our reporter visited the office, and
found that the rumor was true, and that the singu
lar circumstances of the affair had so strongly turn
ed suspicion against Joseph DeGrapb, the head
book keeper and confidential clerk ot Messrs. T. &
A., that be was already under arrest, having been
taken into custody by Capt. Yales.
The safe had been evidently opened with a key
which still remained in the lock, the latter was m
perfect order, although powder had been burned in
and against the exterior surface of the door, which
was blackened and disfigured, apparently for the
purpose of deceiving, aa not the least injury had
Deen done by powder.
The books were in a wretched plight. Some one
had eviden% worked long and laboriously for their
destruction. The pages were cut deeply in every
direction, and whole handrails torn out and missing.
It was this circumstance which first led to suspicion
of DeGraph, as it seemed singular that a mere pur
pose of malicious mischief In a night prowler should
have expended itself in this manner. The purpose
was believed to be at once the obliteration and de
struction of the business records of the firm.
It is known that $606 was in the sate—s4oo tm
deposit for safe keeping Ijt other parties. This
money is missing ana how much larger a sum is
not known.
DeGraph was lodged in jail, and officers visited
his residence in the search for the money, which,
however, was unsuccessful.
The young man implicated has a wife, and has
been for some seven years a resident of this city.
It is stated that he has been living rather fast. For
some weeks past hie management of affairs in his
department of the business nas been awakening the
distrust of the firm, and they have watched him.—
They have been demanding of him a balance sheet,
which for one reason and another he has dee med
giving. On Wednesday, Mr. Andrews, with some
eamestnees, told De Graph that the balance eheet
must be forthcoming ol the suoceding day, (yester
day; and the events of the same night have inter
vened to prevent the promised compliance of the
order.
No examination of the affair has been had as yet.
I Messrs. Tanner Ac Andrews are the Agents of the
People’s Line of Buffalo and Chicago propeliere.
j Correspondence Savannah Republican.
‘‘lrio.h Rebellion in the
Athens, June 19, 1857.
Gents : —The Gainesville Convention met on the
appointed day, and the “fiat” of the Cobb faction
has been published. Hon. James Jackson is to go
to Congress. But, as was anticipated, .here has
j beeu some splitting and bolting. Let me give you
a summary of their proceedings, a& I have gathered
from one or two Democrats.
Nathau L. Hutchins was an aspirant for the nom
ination, but the Jackson men, not disposed to have
more than one Richmond in the field, disposed of
his claims as soon as they wont into convention, by
passing a resolution recommending him for the
Judgeship. This, you perceive, rendered him Con
gressionally dead. They then proceeded to ballot
for Congressman, when the McMillan men, not like
ing the symptoms, bolted, in dead earnest It was
thought that Howell Cobb had quiets the Irish re
bellion, but it seems to have been a mistake, for
they bolted in a body, and never returned. So
that we may expect to see McMillan out. before
long, as the nominee of the Irish faction. It is said
that if these men had remained in the
and had adopted the two-thirds rule, Hon. James
Jackson could never have the nomination
provided the Irish had stuck to their man.
There was some irregularity in the vote of Lump
kin county ; as it was, one delegate gave the vote
of the county for Jackson, when the two who were
absent were McMillan men, there being but three
delegates from Lumpkin, and two not prest nt when
the vote was taken.
How do you think the Secretary will relish this
unruly conduct on the part of his “furrin” corps ?
They wanted Howell there, badly, for the democrats
admit that they never have seen just such jarring
and sparring between men who pretend to meet for
one and tiie same purpose.
Yours, <fcc., Tickler,
Sentence Day. —His Honor, Judge Fleming,
yesteiday passed sentence in the following cases,
which were respectively tried at this (the May) term
of the Superior Court:
State vs. Felix O’Neil—Charged with an assault
with attempt to murder. Verdict—guilty. Sen
tenced to three years' hard labor in tiie Penitentia
ry.
State vs. Robert Wyse— Charged with htrcsnv
from the house. V eruict—guilty. Sentenced to
three years’ hard labor in the Penitentiary. In this
case a motion has been made for a new trial, which
hes not yet been granted by the Judge; in the
meantime he has granted a supercedeas.
State vs. John Reed —Charged with simple larce
ny. Verdict—guilty. Sentenced to be confined in
the county jail for thirty days, and thereafter dis
charged, on the payment of costs.
State vs. Joseph Solomons—Charged with assault
and battery. Verdict—guilty. Fined twenty dol
lars aud to be discharged on payment of costs.
State vs. John Currau, John McLaughlin, and
James Maher—Charged with larceny from the
house. Plead guilty of larceny under the value of
twenty dollars. Sentenced to jail for thirty days,
and thereat ter to be discharged on the payment of
costs.
State vs. Joseph Lutier—Charged with man
slaughter. Verdict—guilty of assault and battery.
Fined one hundred dollars, and thereafter to be dis
charged on payment of costs.
State vs. John Walker—Charged with an assault
with intent to murder. Verdict—guilty. Sen
tenced to four years’ hard labor in the Penitentiary.
— Sav. Rep., 24 th tnsl.
The Effects of Alien Suffrage.— The demo
cratic party being committed, by the legislation of a
majority of its representatives in Congress, to the
doctrine, “infamous aud iniquitous,” that citizens
of a for ign government—subjec ts of European
princes or potentates—are to be allowed to vote in
this country—that the great distinctive right and
high prerogative of an American citizen ’s to be
bartered away for the barest partizan purposes—let
us 6ee what is to be the result. What is the sacri
fice to be made to this great moloch of democracy ?
At this moment we have seven new’ Territories,
which are only partially settled. We allude to Min
nesota, Oregon, Nebraska, Washington, New Mexi
co, Utah aud Kansas. These* Territories contain,
according t;o acomnendium of the census of 1850,
published in 1854, the following area :
Minnesota 100,025 square miles.
Oregon 185,030 “ “
Nebraska 355,823 “ “
Washington 123,023 “ “
New Mexico 107,000 “ “
Utah 297,170 “ “
Total 1,986J36 or 824,125,040 acres.
Kansas 111,798 or 73,040,720
The first named six Territories contain 2,280,130
square miles, or 824,120,040 acres of land, and, as
the total area of all the States and Territories be
longing to the Union is 2,936,100 square miles, they
comprise nearly one-halt' of the whole. They run
through some seventeen or eighteen degrees of lati
tude, and embrace many millions of acres of the
finest land and mineral deposits, and the finest cli
mate and the finest river iu the world.
All this vast territory is to be surrendered to free
soilmm and foreign rule under the doctrine of alien
suffrage ! “Infamous” indeed—doubly infamous
is such a policy. Let the people of Tennessee, at
least, repudiate it in August -Nashvil/e banner.
Destructive Fire in Atlanta.—About half
past 6 o’clock Tuesday evening, the large Planing
Mill and Car Shop of Mesne. Winship, Farnsworth
&. Co., took fire and was, in an incredibly short
time totally consumed, with all its contents—books,
papers, tools, lumber, everything. Among the arti
cles destroyed were two fine Passenger and several
Box Cars nearly completed. The loss is fully Thirty
Thousand Dollars, winch we regret to say, falls en
tirely upon the enterprising proprietors—there being
no insurance upon the property.
The State Road Depot was in imminent peril from
its contiguity to the burning building; but, happily,
through the Firemen aud citizens—all working
as if tor dear life—it es*caned with very slight da
mage.
This is, perhaps, the most disastrous fire with
which our city has yet been visited, inasmuch as it
has deprived a large number of worthy men—me
chanics and laborers—of employment, at a very un
propitious season of the year—to say nothing of the
very heavy loss sustained by Messrs. Winship,
Farnsworth, & Co. They have the sympathy of
our entire community ; and we trust they will soon
be enabled to re commence their business.
Several cars loaded with lumber, and a large
quantity of lumber in the yards adjoining the mill,
were also consumed.
The main track of the State Road w’as burned the
whole length of the mill—about three hundred feet
—which would have prevented the departure of the
Passenger Train last night; but fortunately aside
track was uninjured and the train left as usual.—
Atlanta American.
Democratic Policy. —The Augusta Const itu
tionalist says:
“It bas never been a part of the policy of the
Democratic party to make Kansas a slave State,
and it is difficult to understand how it can with any
justice be denounced for the failing to accomplish
something which it has never proposed to undei
take.”
Nor has it ever been a pr.rl of tbe avowed policy
of the Democratic party to make Kansas a free
State ; yet, according to your confession, that is
just what they are about at the present time.
Will the Constitutionalist tell us who it was that
exhorted the people of Georgia to “ vote for Bu
chanan and save Kansas to the South.”
Again, the Const'.rationalist says :
“ Northern Democrats, irith perfect fdelity to
their party obligations, may desire that Kansas
should be admitted as a free State , and use all le
gitimate means (if there are any) to secure that re
sult.”
This appears to us to yield the whole ground for
which the opponents of Democracy have all aiong
contended. We have had it daily rung into our
ears that the northern Democracy are the peculiar
friends and allies of the South ; but here is an hou
est. confession from the leading organ of the party
in Georgia, that a northern Democrat may not only
be a freesoiler, but may absolutely intervene to ex
clude the institutions of the South from the common
Territories, and yet, in so doing, he will in no man
ner violate his party obligations.
What a precious exposition of the Democracy we
have here! Will our contemporary tell us what it
is that prevents the entire Abolition party at the
north from being taken into full fellowship by the
Democracy, except, that they refused to vote for
Buchanan ?”— Savannah Rejmbiican.
American Tract Society. — A meeting of the
South Carolina Branch of this society w r as holden
last evening, at the Depository on Chalmers street.
The object of the meeting was announced to be the
hearing of the report of the Committee appointed to
consider the relations of the South Carolina Branch
with the Parent Society.
The report rehearsed the history of the American
Tract Society, dwelling particularly upon the abo
litionizing tendency of the parent, Society during the
last few years, which culminated in the last anniver
sary ; and, though the South Carolina branch w r ould
feel justified in severing the existing connection, on
account of late encroachments wdiich they believed
were opposed to the constitution of the parent So
ciety, yet the Committee advised an intermediate,
moderate course, and reported a series of resolu
tions declaring that they will not secede until an op
portunity for remedial action has been afforded the
parent Society; that a correspondence be main
tained with kindred Southern branches, with a view
to unity ofi action ; that they inspect and pass upon
all books sent into tbe State by tne parent Society,
choose their own officers, and in every respect
make ready for an unconditional separation, in case
the parent Society does not relieve herself from her
present uncenstitutional and hostile position;
The report is a very able one, firm-spoken and
high-tonwi. It will commend itself to all Southern
Christians. It will be furnished to the city press in
a few days.— Charleston Mercury, of Wednesday.
A Substitute for Ste-iM. —A professor in Bal
timore haa invented a motor that the Patriot thinks
may prove a substitute for steam. It is produced
by a compound of de.sulphated bi-sulphuret of car
bon, coel tar, and volatile or fixed oil, which, under
certain influences of heat, becomes powerfully ex
pressive aud thus gives momentum. The heater,
where the gas cr fluid is introduced, is submerged
in a cistern of heated oil, kept hot by a gentle fire.
In this condition the gas expands, gaining its power,
and passing through pipes and valves, acts upon the
piston, giving motion to the engine. The appliances
are simple, easy of comprehension, free from com
plication, and not subject to accident or disarrange
ment. Thus a steady active force is at all times
kept np. The cost of this fluid is estimated at ten
cents per gallon, and it is demonstrated that eighteen
gallons, by careful attention, will run au engine of
the capacity here noticed, for one year.
The Dred Scott Decision in the New Hamp
shire Legislature. —The committee of
the lower branch of the Few Hampshire Legislature
have reported a series of resolutions ia reference to
the Dred Scott decision. The resolutions declare
that the great power vested in the Supreme Court
of the United States requires that its action should
be the object of constant and vigilant observation,
that the Dred Scott decision ia repugnant to the
Constitution aud subversive of the rights and liber
ties of the people, the result of pro-slavery sympa
thies and an improper desire to strengthen the slave
boWicg interest, and evinces a desire illegally to
control the action of Congress. A bill was also in
troduced, providing that no person of African de
scent shall De disqualified from becoming a citizen
of the State, and every slave brought into the State •
shad be tree. Every person who shall be deemed
guilty of felony, and on conviction shall be confined
to hard labor not lese than one, nor more than five
years, provided, “that tho provisions of this section
shall not apply to any act lawfully done by any offi
cer of the United States or other person in the exe
cution of any legal process.”
The Forsyth Convention.— Thia body, we
learn, had eight b&llotinge before they made a nomi
nation. on the first ballot, the vote stood thus :
DeGraffenried 5
Smith 9
Ramsay 12
Bailey 17
Seven more ballotings were had, but under the
two-thirds rule there was no election. Finally, on
motion, Mr. Bailey was nominated, unanimously.—
There were 43 delegates in attendance. Besides
the persons named. Mr. M’Gehee, of Houston, re
ceived a few votes, after the name of Ramsay was
witndrawa. The Macon “Regency” that managed
to kill off Bailey, two years ago. were themselves
killed off, effectually, at this Convention. Bailey
is avenged ! — Macon Citizen.
There were 334 deaths in New York last week a
decrease of 19 as compared with the previous week.
Os this _ number 44 were by consumption, 22 by
i: U H O PJE A \ IST K L L 1 G E N CE .
BY THE ] ~ 4
Great Britain.—The proceedings of Parliamenl
during the week possessed little more than local in
tereet.
In the House of Lords a petition in the long pend
ing case of “Sheddon vs. Patrick,” in which a large
amount of property and the va’idity of a civil mar
riage, according to the laws of the State of New
York, are involved, had been presented, and"at
tracted a considerable share of attention. The
House refused to entertain the petition.
In the House of Commons Lord Palmerston an
nounced that the French Government had given no
opportunity for remonstrance in regard to the tiring
upon a British merchant vessel by a French war
schooner, at Bejleisle, but had promptly expressed
regret at the unjustifiable o-vurrence, and dismissed
the officer who ordered the shot to be fired.
Ihe oaths bill of the Government for the admis
sion of Jews into Parliament was read a second time
without discussion, although Sir F. Thesiger an
nounced hia mention of moving in committee that
the existing objectiouable sentence sh* uld be inser
ted. The Roman Catholic members of Parliament,
headed by the Duke of Norfo k, were in opposition
to the measure, and had waited upon Lord Palmer
ston ; and had also held a meeting for the purpose of
securing relief for the Catholics f?6in the objection
able passage in the oaths now taken by members of
the Legislature. The interview with Lord Pal
merston not being deemed satisfactory, it was re
solved to support amendments to the bill in com
mittee embodying the views of the Catholics, and
to memorialize Parliament to frame aa oath for ail
classes without distinction of creed. It was antici
pated that this movement would jeopard the bill,
and some of the Catholic nresses opposed the inter
ference.
In the House of Lords the Princess Royal’s an
nuity bill had passed unanimously.
A numerously attended public meeting had been
held in the Liverpool Exchange on Friday, for the
purpose of helping on the movement to obtain au
increased supply of cotton. Numerous speeches
were made by prominent cotton dealers aud the fol
lowing resolutioLo were adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting is deeply sensible of
the inadequacy of the present supply of cotton to
meet the requirements of manufacturing industry ;
that such supply being almost entirely from one
source, is uncertain aud precarious in quantity and
unduly fluctuating In price, causing thereby loss and
inconvenience to the consumer, aud endangering
the stability and future prosperity of this country.
Resolved , 1 hat in the opinion of this meeting the
colonial dominion- and other dependencies of Great
Britain afford ample resources or the cultivation
and development of'the cotton plant, and that it is
the duty, as well as the interest of the British nation,
to aid in the promotion of those measures by which
the growth ol cotton may be established and extend
ed, not only in the British dominions, but in all ac
cessible countries.
llesolved, That thia .meeting has observed with
satisfaction the formation in Manchester of n Cot
ton Supply Association, havir.g for its object the
more ex nded supply of cotton, and this meeting
pledges itself to render to such Association every
support; uud that a corresponding committee, in
conjunction with the Cotton Supply Association,
consisting of five gentlemen, be and is hereby es
tablished in Liverpool, for the purpose of enrolling
members, receiving subscriptions, and conducting
all business connected therewith.
Messrs. Newall & Co., of Berkinhead, completed
their half of the Atlantic submarine telegraph cable
—twelve hundred aud fifty miles—on the Bth of
June, and on the following day gave a banquet to
about 600 of their workmen and families, in celebra
tion of the event. The process of spinning this
portion of the cable occupied 80 days. The cable
was being transferred to small vessels, to be tran
shipped on board tbe Niagara as soon as she arrived
iu the Mersey, which it was expected would be in
the course of a few da>s. Experiments with the
cable demonstrated in the most satisfactory manner
that telegraphic communication along the whole
length of wire was perfect.
The shipment of the cable at Greenwich on board
the Agamemnon had been uuavoidly delayed, but
would, it was expected, be commenced on the 15th
of Juno.
A iarge number of men were at work upon Abe
Niagara at Portsmouth, where the vessel attracted
much attention ; and had been subjected to a great
deal of critical inspection. The London Times is
compiimentaiy enough to remark that the critics
“agree upon onepoiut—the vessel’s ugliness !”
The American schooner Silver Key, from Boston,
with hydraulic apparatus for raising the sunken
ships at Sebastopol, arrived at Malta on the 2Gth of
May, and sailed again on the following day for the
scene of ope r atim>.
France.—The Moniteur of the 11th inst., pub
lishes an Imperial decree closing the sittings of the
Senate.
Marshal Ran don, after reporting hia own losses in
the expedition against the Kabyles, estimates the
number of the enemy killed at four huudred, and
wounded at eight hundred.
The crops present so promising an appearance
that it is hoped the next, harvest will nearly suffice
for the eutire consumption of France.
It is rumored that the Gov ernment lia9 decided
on removing at an early period the interdiction
agaiust distillation from corn. The blossoming of
the vines has commenced in the south, and is going
on most favorably.
M.Foald,the French Minister, has received an
invitation to visit his Majesty at Windsor.
Dreadful Occurrence at Florence.—Paris,
June Pd.—At Florence last night the scenery of the
theatre caught fire during the performance of the
Siege of Sebastopol. A panic arose, and 43 persons
were killed aud 131‘wounded.
The following is another account of t Is* above
calamity :—“Leghorn, June 8.-—Yesterday, at tin
Theatre des Acquedotli, during the performance of
a piece entitled ‘The Capture of the Malakoff.”—
The fireworks ignited the scenery, and the flames
spread with great rapidity. A gieat panic ensued,
aud two hundred persons have been wounded or
killed. The Grand Duke came to Leghorn this
morning as soon as the news of the catastrophe
reached him, and directed that the persons injured
should be conveyed to the hospital.”
Switzerland. —A telegraphic despatch from
Berne, dated June 0, announces that the Federal
Assembly met there on that day. The of
t he Federoi Council proposed and recommended the
ratification of the treaty relative to the affairs of
Neufchatel, and the President of the National Coun
cil expressed himself in the same sense. The treaty
was referred to a committee.
The following are some of the details of the acci
dent at the Hauenstein Tunnel, in Switzerland, con
tained in a letter from Basle, of the 4th :
“ The Hauenstein tunnel is on the centre railway
which unites Basle to Aarau, Lucerne, Borne, and
other towns in tbe neighborhood, and is five kilo
metres (about three miles) in length. The cutting
of the tunnel having been commenced p.t both ends,
progressed satisfactorily until only about three hun
dred metres remained to be pierced. In both sec
tions are several shafts for extracting earth and let
ting in air, and in the northern one of the shafts, i
bearing the No. 1, which :s about 800 metres from
the spot where the works are going on, was sup
ported by solid wood l work to prevent the fell of
earth and stones. In the tunnel afi e was constant*
ly kept up, in order to increase the circulation of
air, aud at the very bottom of the shaft a forge
wtfs established. 3Tie wood-work of the shaft
became extremely dry, and at last, on the 28th ult.,
it caught fire.
The flames shot up with extraordinary rapidity,
and set tire to all the wood work in the shaft, which
was not less lhan 200 metres deep. A column of
flame rose high above the shaft, forming a terrible
spectacle. Altera while a thick column of smoke
succeeded the flames, and indicated that the bottom
of the shaft had fallen in, and consequently the re
treat of the laborers, whom it had been impossible
to warn, was cut off . To describe tbe scene of an
guish which ensued would be impossible. People
rushed in crowds to the entrance of the tunnel, to
render assistance to the victims, and they reached
the mass of earth which had fallen in; but a large
quautity of coal which had collected near, suddenly
caught fire, and it created such volumes of smoke
and gas that many were overcome, and had to be
dragged awfty by the others; seven were dead, and
alm idred others were got out in a pitiable state.
At length something like order was established, the
workmen being termed into gangs, who replaced
each other every ten minutes.
Fire engines were employed to throw' clmlk water
into the tunnel, to extinguish the fire and neutral
ize the noxious gas, the pipes for conveying pure
air to the workmen were established. The cutting
of a gallery in the mass of « earth has b«en
commenced, though the fire is not yet completely
extinguished. But no hopes whatever are enter
tained that any of the men buried will be got out
alive, for though they had an open space of about
800 metres, and though in it there is a spring ot wa
ter, and they had four horses which they might kill
for food, it is certain that the noxious gRs must have
suffocated them. Os the 54 men buried 32are Swi s I
4 English, and 18 Germans. The wives of the En
glish workmen who have perished have behaved in
the most admirable manner, not only constantly en
couraging those who are endeavoring to reach the
unfortunate men hi the tunnel, but attending care
fully to eucli as suffered from their exertions.
Since the above account was written, intelligence
has been received of the extrication of 32 dead bo
dies, but we regret to learn that 16 of the laborers
employed lo open tbe gallery have perished by the
poisonous vapors which were collected there, ma
king the total mortality with the 54 men buried in
the first instance, no less than 70.
Si'ain. —A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, of
the Bth of June, says that the Ministers and Sem*r
Lafragna, the Mexican Envoy, had not been able
up to that date to effect a settlement of the difficul
ties with Mexico.
The House of Deputies had adopted the bill pro
viding for a levy of 50,000 men.
Austria. —The Emperor has signed an ordinance
which prescribes that two-thirds, at least, of the
public functions of Hungary are to be confided to
natives. The authorities are aleo enjoined to receive
documents aden es9eii to the Government when drawn
up in the nations! language.
The Wiener Zietung publishes the text of the -
currency treaty recently negotiated between the
various Gerinan States. “Union coins” are to be
minted.
Marshal Radetzky still survived, but the condi
tion of hia hesffh was unsatisfactory.
Sweden. —Dispatches from Stockholm state that
th; health of the King of Sweden was causing great
uneasiness.
Tu rkey.—lt is staled that the Porte had deman
ded of the Belgian Government the recall of its
Ministers, and tbe latter having refused to comply,
a suspension of diplomatic relations was looked for.
No cause is a.-sigoed.
Persia.—The text of'the treaty of peace between
England and Persia, Is published. It is-agreed
among other things, that the Shah of Persia recog
nizes the independence of’Herat, and of the whole
of AffL'haiHHtan, and will never attempt to mterfere
wlffc the independence of those state#; and incas*-
of differences arising between the Government of
Persia and the countries of Herat aud Affghanist in,
they are to be referred for adjustment to the British
Government.
Also, that the existing agreement between Eng
land and Persia, fqr the suppression of the stave
trade in tie Persian gulf, shall continue in force for
ten years "after the expiration of the original treaty
fwhich occurs in 18*32.) and thereafter uutil it is an
nulled by a formal declaration on either side. Ample
provision made in the treaty for the adjustment
of the pecuniary claims of British subjects.
The publication of the text of the -treety has
camsed some amusement, as tha tenth article pro
vides for a number of apologies to which the Shah
and hi" Minister must submit, iu consequence ot a
very offensive letter which the Shah had written to
his Minister, repeating the British Ambassador, Mr.
Murr&r. The penance thus exacted from the Per
sian s(cnari h and hia adviser is very buiniliatiag,
and Mr. Murray master of the situation. The
gentleman is certainly happy in repiesenting a pow
er w*Uk§i cad exact such obedience from barbarian
king*, albeit the cost in blood and treasure has been
very serious. . ,
Circassia.—The truce between the Russians and
Schamyl having come to an end, the I'usaians, un
der command of Prince Bar/ttinski, had opened a
are ,o the second,
“g™ 0 Strived at Madras
en route for China. „ ...
It was supposed that the bu Jr of the British army
in Persia wou’d remain there for some months to
come. The general health of the troops had been
A telegraphic dispatch from Meerut, thought to
tie exaggerated, says that the 3d regiment of Ben
gal cavalry were in open mutiny; that several offi
cers and men had been killed and wounded, and
that the officers’ bungalows had been burnt down.
From the London Times.
A* fairs in China —According to the news from
China by the mail which has just arrived . Sir Mi
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on the other, preserved their position of mutual ob
servation. The trade w’ith the Northern Ports went
on as usual, except iu so far os the success of the
rebels obstructed the operations inttea fact to
be regretted as affecting the comforts of our people
at home, as well as diminishing the public revenue.
From Hong Kong we learn that another attempt at
murder had taken place, and that th offenders
were likely to be brought at once to justice. All
else was stagnation. Just six months had elapsed
from the time that the lorcha Arrow had been beard
ed by the myrmidons of Yeli, and still the British
Admiral lay at the mouth of the Canton Uiv r.
waiting for reinforcements from home, anil watch
ing on the horizon for the little trails of smoke which
should announce the arrival of the promised gun
boats.
The winter and spring had ended—that ip to say,
the time for action had passed away, and she Jteav
of summer were once more about to spread drowsi
ness over the flaet and colony. Nothing was active
but the deadly hatred of the Southern Chinese to
wards tfie “baibarians' ’ who threatened their coasts.
If the accounts received be true, the authorities of
the Canton province are still iu their drdam of ex
termination. The destruction of Victoria, the seiz
ure of our steamers, and the decapitation of our
people were stiff contemplated by “the gentry” of
San-on, the district opposite Canton* Led on by
literary Mandarins, who have taken high honors,
l he people of this part of the country are continually
meditating the surprise and capture of any unfor
tunate vessel which chance drive within their
reach. We may expect to he*of one or two mur
ders and one or two executions within th 1 next lew
weeks, the arrival of eteaui sloops aud guuboais
•wiil be announced, and the usupl details of ueataud
fever will be given* But Hong Kong will remain
in it. present stale of sleepy restlessness until the
London world has been dispersed to all the corners
of Europe and has began to assemble amid the log
ami sleet of November.
The Rewards for European Heads at Can
ton. —There was examined to-day at the police sta
tion, by the superintendent of police, Mr May, a
Portuguese sailor called Jose Maria. ll** is but
ten days returned after a two or three months’ cap
tivity at Lautoa aud the Boeca Tigris, to which
place he was carried a prison r iu January last,
upon the capture of bis lorcha by the Imperialist
forces. His statement is not uhiiiteresting. Dur
ing the whole time that he was in prison he was fre
quently called upon by the mandarins to inspect the
heads which the “braves,” some of whom he knew
as boat men of Hong Kong, brought from Hong
Kong, Whampoa, and Cumsing-moon, and to say
whether they were European heads or not. There
were about a score of such, including “two old ones
with white hair.” The children used to drag them
about ami play with them during the investiga
tion. If it ended satisfactorily, the claimant re
ceived 150 taels of silver for each head, with an
order for the like sum on the arrival of the head at
Canton.
One of Ins crew having died in prison of a wound,
the mandarin ordered his cars to be ’em off before
buria 1 , “for,” said he, “I tffi 11 be able to detect any
man who may dig him up and try to impose the
dead man’s head upon me a? a fresh one, .and claim
the reward.” There WTSre said to be about thirty
Europeans in the Canton prison, including old Mr.
Cowper. It is difficult to understand by what in
flueitce the Governor of Macao obtained the release
ol Jose Marie. When the man himself claimed pro
tection as a Portuguese and subject one mandarin
Baid,“We are at with war with all and
another, “You and the English arc Christians all the
same,” and a third, “You are awhi.e man ’ But
«released he is, and all hia comp my, by the inter*
er ssion of the Governor of Macao.— Letter from
Hong Kong.
miscellaneous.
Disputes with America. —Lord John Russell
presided ou Wednesday, the 10th instant, at the
anniversary dinner of the Metropolitan Fire Hospi
tal. and in proposing the-health of the captain aud
officers of the American frigate Susquehanna, said
he had always found that whenever there was a
diplomat ic difference between England and Ameri
ca, it was immediately smoothed away, if so fortu
nate as to be placed in the hands of an English and
American naval officer. For instance, Sir George
Seymour and the American Commodore had iu a
very short time settled the long-protracted dispute
of the fishery question.
Shooting on Board an American Vessel.—
A young man. calling himself Benjamin Burech,
Was charged before the Liverpool magistrates, oji
Thursday, with shooting John Ward* The prisoner
is mate of the American ship Frank Pierce recently
arrived from New Orleans, and at, preseut lying 11
the Sandon dock. There had been considerable
jealousy between the prolocutor and the prisoner.—
The latter had threatened to shoot Ward on the
first opportunity, and had employed some people to
waylay him, but Ward had frustrated the plot.
On Wednesday, night Ward, who is second offi
cer of the ship, went on board, but no sooner wo*' h«
in his berth than he wasshot in the hand. On look
ing around he perceived .the prisoner lying iu an
opposite berth, aud with a revolver in his hand.
The police was sent for, and the prisoner taken into
custody. In his possession a lour barreled pistol
was found, one of the barrels of which had been
fired off; the other three being loaded with ball
Ward was taken to the Northern Hospital, where
his wound was dressed. Thu ball had gone through
the palm of h'l3 hand obliquely, but the wound was
not dangerous. The prisoner was committed fin
trial at the assizes, bait being accepted for lii3 ap
pearance. Mr. Mansfield remarked that the Ameri
cans might call the case a “difficulty,’ but it war
one which would not be passed over with impunity
in Eng laud.
A Slave that Won’t rs. Free. —The Macon
(Ga.) Telegraph gives the denouement of the case of
Henry Dixon, who had been claimed by Gov. King
of New York, from the Governor ot Georgia, us a
citizen of Now York, unlawfully held in bondage by
James Dean, of Macon.
Dixon w’as born in Michigan, subsequently emi
grated to New York, and thence to Maryland,
where for some misconduct he was inflicted, tried,
convicted, and sold under order of Court. Affer
sundry transfers he came at last into the possession
of Mr. James Dean, who knew nothing at the time
of his previous history, and bought him ns a slave,
which he still remains, by order of the Court before
mentioned. Dixon claims to have been born iu
England, but, this is extremely problematical.
It seems that some two years ago, the case of Dix
on was presented to the Governor of New York,
from Rochester, by Ashley Sampson and others, and
thereupon an agent was despatched to Macon, to
inquire into the facts and redress the wrongs of this
child of freedom. The agent, after some fruitless
inquiries, intrusted the case to Messrs. Poe & Grier,
Attorneys of Macon. The latter opened' a negoti
ation with Mr. Dean, who in due consideration of
all the facts, agreed lo accept a Bum much below the
value of the negro, to wit: some six or seven hun
dred dollars. Information was then forwarded to
the parties in New York, who went about to raise
the money, and eventually the funds wore raised,
and Messrs. Poe St Grier instructed to proceed at
once to tender the glorious boon of freedom to the
captive from homo aud liberty. Mr. Doan, beiDg
notified, delivered him to Messrs. Poe & Grier.
The enslaved Dixon was du'y informed of all the
proceedings which had resulted in his emanciption,
but instead of being pleased, he absolutely refused
to bo free—to leave his master—to leave Georgia
and go to New York. He said Mr. Dean was very
kind and that he himself was as free as he ever de
sired to be. He said if he returned to New York
the interest of those people in him would cease the
moment he was free, aud he should have a harder
time in gettingfalong there than iu Georgia, whereas,
in Mr. Dean lie had a friend and protector who wou'd
not permit him to suffer. Mr. Grier reminded him
that Mr. Dean might die and he would then fall into
other bauds, but Dixon replied he would rather risk
it than to go New York.
The Grave of Henry Clay. —The editor of the
Presbyterian, being on a visit to Kentucky, thus
writes to his paper concerning the grave of the la
mented Clay j
From the spot where Henry Clay lived it is na
tural to pass to the resting-place of his mortal re
mains. On an eminence, a short distance from Lex
ington, in a beautiful cemetery, adorned with that
equisite woodland and verdure which characterizes
this region, rest the honored dust. Here, after that
memorable and imposing funeral march through
mourning towns and cities from the Federal Capi
tol where he breathed his last to the homo where he
was accustomed to repose from the toil and strife of
public alfairs, his mortal remains were laid to si *ep
the long sleep-wben the work of life was done. At
present the spot is only marked by the turfed hil
lock which covers the grave ; but his old friends
and neighbors are about erecting a noble monu
mental shaft, which will be alike creditable to their
liberality, patriotism, and good taste, and appropri
ate to the office for which it is reared. It is to be
of Kentucky stone, one hundred and twenty-five
feet high, surmounted by a statue of the deceased,
and provided with a vault at the base, in which will
be placed a sarcophagus containing the remains.—
On such a spot as this one can scarcely help mo
ralizing on the transitory and evanescent nature of
all human distinctions and all earthly fame. Y mder,
in front of that Court-house, in the adjacent city, is
where assembled multitudes were first electrified by
that lofty and graceful oratory, which was destined
to entrance a nation. In the years which interven
ed between that first unfolding of his gifts and the
hour when his voice was hushed in death, what
honor and renown were won ! And yet bright as
may be the halo which these earthly achievements
cast around his memory, whal is all the glitter of this
world's glory to the eye that is sealed in death !
How unspeakably more important the glory that
never fades away!
The Frigate Niagara and the Telegrph Ca
ble. —A correspondent of the New York Jltrald,
writing from on board the steam frigate Niagara,
It i« now decided that our veaael is to be employ- |
ed in laying the cable after ail, aa it has been found
on a closer inspection that, without material damage
to any part of her abundance of space can lie affor
ded for the coiling of twelve hundred ancLiifty
miles of it in a circular form. Tnespace require-i
is nineteen thousand cubic feet t instead of tyfenty
four thousand, as was stated in a former letter ; and
a minute examination has proved that there is one
thousand more than i- required. Meantime the
manafacture of the cable proceeds at the rate of
about 50 miles a week in each of the lactones, to
that the wljolc will be completed with.n four weeks,
at ihe very latest. An accident occurred a few day;
since which came neinputting a stop to the enter
prise, for this year at A fire broke out on
Saturday last in. the factory of Messrs. Gin*-.
Elliott <S I Co., at Greenwich, where one half of Hu
cabld is being made, but it wua fortunate'y cx in
guished before it reached the principal buildings and
workshops. A few sheds were burned down and
some outhouses destroyed, but beyond this flic da
mage was not of such a character as so interfere
with the centinuance of the work. We are now d
appears to Liverpool and take the portion
which is lying in the factory at Birkenhead, the
Susquehanna to accompany us as was originally m
tended. ... ...
In regard to the Niagara being unsettled • tne
work for which she was appointed by our goveni
ment, it is only necessary to reiterate what Ik -
already staled, that a nitauteexaitimatiouhaspro.e i
Hret*oi'“n d th" “V hoi™ to lind en the main
wV tL third on the after or top deck, the fourth
nTa’cordon o! the ward-room and the fifth on the
“ }i To make way for jt in the ward-room
it will be absolutely necessary to remove.severa! of
the officers’ state-rooms, and tome alterat-.ons will
be required in the steerage. From this it will be
observed that whatever arrangements may l ave
been made to take it ill 040 coi! on the Agamem
non we have eouciuded to adopt another and a
safer plan, and it is doubtful whether the officer in
command of that vessel will risk its safety by hav
ing such an immense weight in one portion of iv
holds.
The SouNb I>i es Upon Americas Commerce.
—Notwithstanding the abolition of the sound dues
was the effect of the expressed determination of the
United States to submit no longer to this tax upon
its own as well as of- general commerce, the mer
chants of this country remain a year longer than
those of other nations deprived of die advantages
of the abolition of the dues. Our vessels are not
compelled to pay the amount of money hitherto
levied at the east'e of Kronberg, but they are com
pelled to stop and give satisfactory bonds for pay
ment, uu.il our government ratifies the treaty
which other governments have ratified. This rati
fieoi ion, die Washington Union says, cannot be
Ukstku.-tivk fi.uoD.—A moat destructive and
latai flood occurred at Ithaca, N. Y., on the 18th
' -Iletter to the New York Post says :
„ the , S ' x Mile Creek, gathered from
I !•<. i. a ,y 1‘ !t 5n,,.;, broag! t with them trees unshorn
I I toot , (" hi ano.ies sweeping uway the log boom
jut! o t.'.os s,.w nml pond about one mile above
(i ts Village, and bru ging down by a rupture iu the
.lam, the mvemulatt d waters of the pond, ns wejlaa
Hi. l l'irge stork ot 10,. secured by the boom. The
do'll of the 1 lab' y grist mill gave way, and poured
ti e>u fined waiers of tlio second millpond into the ■
already swollen stream.
Tho waters wild a terrible energy swept off the
whole line of buildings up a the haiik of t hi; « rej&k,
mil Hooded nearly the entire town.
Mr. Muva Reeves, daguerrean artist, buoyed up
by a Hoatii!" timber, was seen to rise high above
ij.t surface, with portions of his body, fin*a distauoe
ih n, struck by a log, lie disappeared, and to his
tn uvls were hist, bur by a strange good fortune bo
states that he emerged some rods below, ch aging
v. > ;i ;• death grap to his lloat. Ouward be floated,
among the v. reck of builili jgs and a fail, us surf,
au.i saw a ! ><w voyager in the same iapid cur
ie- I. Mr. David Coon, guusmilh, who clutched with
l !i -i the lloat end hung to it tih ho was stm k off by
a floating timber. At eleven o’clock in the night;
Mi; Itecves reached dry land, about one and a half
milt s from his place of starting. He states teat two
other persons he saw go down. He never after*
wards saw them.
During this lime the extensive morocco factory
mui tannery of Samuel Stoddiut, at the east audof
the siro!.ed bridge and the dwelling of James Glass,
a * , ® we 7 J portions of the beams of the Farm
». i.otcl. \\ ileox i livery at .bie, and other smaller
buildings in the vincimty, the entire livery stables
: d b&vus ot James Cowlee; the hat shop and build
bigs of J. Tickenor; a portion of Mr. K. S. Bsty'a
tannery; the tobacco factory of 11. G. Grant; the
distillery, and some barns of the Forest City Ilouao
had tumbled with a crush aud been swept off by
Jli flood. Piles of buildings rocked to pieces, and
logs had formed barricades iu front of the dwellings
on Cayuga street, where it runs parallel with the
creek.
I’iie stream becoming bloc ked up, a branch fork
ed out,.ploughing a channel among the dwellings in
tli3 vicinity, whose aff-ighled inmates hurried
through the rapids for dear life. A number of men,
w omen and children climbed for safety a tree stand
ing near the former bank of the creek. Darkness
[■ i»? ed in upon them. The plunging waters uproot
ed the tree. All «-st*.upcd to an island ; ndspent the
iash and
blind factory, except Mr. Ilawley, brewer, who was
c.vepi down t! * current. Ilis wife heard his fare
well to her ns lie swept, past his dwelling in the
Jnrktier;-. The morning f mill him far out upon the
mi ii, and this ahum-oil the coroner holds his in
picst upon his lifeless corpse.
U n it k n St at ks Kk v e s c k K kt u uns.—The Wash
ixigton correspondent of the New York Courier fur
nishes the following statement of tko quarterly re
turns of Revenue from Customs, including hospital
money, receipts from storage, and other incidental
charges for the present fiscal year, tit the principal
ports, have been as follows :
New York #42 299,761
Boston <», 50*9,989
Philadelphia 3,641,150
HaiShnoio 1,661,000
Charleston 5-2,030
New ( Means 3,410,000
Savannah 110,000
'• obile 13.,, 000
St. Louis 444,000
Cincinnati . 76,000
Portsmouth, Va.... 53,000
$58,887,900
Estimated for the remainder of June 2,500,000
Total ascertained and probable receipts for
the year....* #61,387,900
The returns frnpi New York, Boston, Philadel
phia, B.uitimore and Charleston, came down to the
13th of Juno, from New Orleans to the Bth. There
has been u great falling off in the amount of duties
collected a! all the p u ls during the present quarter,
im compared wit It the l.tst quarter of 1856, caused
by the entries of merchandise in bond, in order to
take adv&ntug of the reduction of duties on and
Altec July 1 The public stores In New York and
Boston crammed with u<fnds, and enormous pay
ments of duties will be made the first week in July
The falling elfin New Y'ork thus far in the quarter
has been aboutfnjnt),(ioo, at Boston $1,655,000, and
els' wliero, no doubt, correspondingly. The excess
at New York, up to March 3lst, 1857, wua $1,700,•
000 over the same period iu 1856.
If w«3 add to the total before given, the sum of
$8,000,000 which wi I have been withheld from the
Treasury, as the duties on goods imported within
the year, and warehoused on account of the reduo
tionof the Tariff, we shall have an aggregate reve
nue fr »m customs to he credited to the year's trans
actions. of $71,387,900. E-timating the receipts
from public lands at $8,313,600, ti e total receipts
from all sources may be set down at $80,000,000.
Anoihbk Asiatic Railway.— We observe
among other novelties in our last European files,
that a Company hay been organized in London, with
a capital of £ 1,200,060, for the construction of a
railway from Smyrna to Aidin, a distance of seven
ty miles, which will bring the 1 wo cities within three
hours of ouch other, instead of four days, us at pre
sent The imports nod exports of bmyrim amounted
in 1856 to $25,000,000. Thai c'ty contains 1(50,01)0
people, and Aidin 60,000, the latter being a conver
ging point for much of the inland traffic of that part
of the Asia Minor, on its way to the seaboard. At
» resent 10,000 camels are employed, at a cost of
£400,000 a year, to convey produce and merchan
bis; between the two places. When the projected
iuilway i* <*> nplo*ed, all li is animal activity will
bisnpponr. The Turbfsh Government has grunted
n concession (charter) for the projected railroad,
takes' ls, ooo shares, and guarantees a dividend of
six per cent. It, is in. ro than probable tlmt the
.creative in lueuco of the. iron hoiv.o will restore the
more cultivatcublc re gions of Aria Minor, now al
most a wilderness, to tho fertility, prosperity, traf
fic and population which distinguished that portion
of the world in the latter days of the Roman Repub
lic, end during the reigns of the earlier Caesars. —
Alns! the bygone greatness of Asia Minor is now
only attested by l.ho ruiue of cities and temples al
most innumerable. The agricultural elements and
roflousecH are vat, in tobacco, figs, cottox., poppies,
the mulberry for silkworms, wheat, maize, barley,
beans, flux, hemp, coeds, drugs, dye-stuffs, wool,
honey and wax. One of the best features of the
speculation is, that there are coal mines at no great
distance. Thus are many of the nations of the
earth, that had long passed away, about to bo resus
citated by the magical agency of steam.— Balt.
Amcr.
Terrific llail Storm in Washington.— A
special telegraphic d< spatch to the Baltimore Sun,
dated Washington, June 21, P. M., says :
Since 3 o’clock this afternoon wo have hod here a
succession of storms, heavy rain, attended with
thunder and lightning. One of them was accom
panied by n terrific fall of hail, some of which mea
sured six and a half inches in circumference, and
some of the stones were even la *ger and of various
shapes, not only round, but present ing the form of
| stare, of squares and oblong. The galleries of fine
arts owned by some of our citizens, the sky-lights
of the city postollice, the roofing of the railroad de
pot, the green-houses, the west fronts of the church
es, aud the printing offices, are nearly all entirely
windowless, whilst thousands of panes of glass in
dwellings are shivered The dwelling of the widow
Connelly, on Capitol Hill, was completely unroofed.
The fruit and vegetation generally are cut down.
During the storm the cat tie ran furiously over fields
mid streets, severely injured, and several persons
exposed were cut on the face aud hands. It is un
derstood that at some of the government offices the
windows were also much broken. The storm was
! particularly severe northwardly. One of our oldest
and most observant citizens states that there has
been no such storm here for forty-five years. Re
port says that it did not eeoch Alexandria. The
streets are Jiooded with water, and the amount which
has fallen causes additional apprehensions for the
canal above. It is supposed that the hail extended
only ten or fifteen miles ond this city.
Fatal Accident. — A men named Cornelius Far
racy, was accidentally killed yesterday morning, at
she sawmill of It. A. Alien &, Co., opposite the city.
The deceased, it appears, was engaged in fixing a
belt on a wheel, while in motion, when one of his
arm's was caught in the wheel; he finally succeeded
in extricating it, whim he staggered back a few
steps, and then suddenly fell forward, his head
struck the wheel and was split open by the concus
sion. He fell to the ground speechless, and was
immediately brought over to this side of the river,
and carried to his board.ng-house, where he lived
but a few minutes. The deceased wus a young
man, aud a native of Ireland.— Sav. Rip. -Md.
Later from the Orkgon Indians. —The Rev.
Mr. De Smet, St. Louis University, has received a
letter from Rev. Mr. Hoecken, Catholic Missionary
in Oregon, in which the writer states that the In
dian? among whom he lives have been quiet during
the late troubles in that Territory, but expresses
fear of disturbance in 1 lie future. With the letter
was received a beautiful manuscript grammar of
the Flathead Indian language, prepared by the Rev.
F.Mtngarini and the Rev. A. Hoecken. of the So
ciety of Jesus, which tl<; Leader, believing it to be
of the greatest interest to students of Indian ethno
logy and philology, hopes will be printed.
A Fitting Monument to Franklin. —The
tomb of Franklin—it a plain flagstone even with
the earth can be so called—io cone* aled from public
view by a venerable brick wail at the corner of
Fifth and Mulberry streets, P riladelphia. There
mains of the lightning philosopher are deposited
there, iu the old burial ground belonging to|Christ
Church. An appropriate monument bus been acci
dentally reared above them, in the shape of a tele
graph post, aud the lightning is at constant play,
over, if not under, the eyes of the man who first
chained4t to the earth.
.Military Encampment. —The following Volun
teer Con i.aniea have accepted the invitation to at
tend the Military Encampment in this city on the
4th of Ji iy—numbering about oue thousand:
Columbus Guards, Capt. Semmes.
United Rifles, Capt. Wilkin.-*.
Liberty Independent Troop. Capt. Fleming.
City Light Guards, Capt. Colquitt.
Putnam Rifles, Capt. Branham.
Floyd Rifles, Capt. Hardeman.
Marietta Cad ts, Major Brumby.
Irish .Jasper Greens, Capt.. McMahon.
W i hingt n Artillery, Capt. Kirkpatrick.
Otfletb-.rrje L<«ht Infantry, Capt. Bartow.
jjaoo Volant* < Capt. Smith.
Orflftliorpe Infantry, Capt Starnes.
Irish Volunteers, (.'apt. Walter.
Sa ,-aunah Volants, r GuariJs, Capt. Screven.
lienublu an B ueo, Capt. Anderson.
Clinch Hifles, Capt. Platt
Baldwin Blues, Capt. Rockwell.
MiUedgeville Recorder , 23 d.
A Conjugal Trial.—At Zurich,in former times,
it v.as the custom, when a teamed couple applied
lor a divorce ou ac: omit of incompatibility of tem
per, for il. j magistrate to shun up the pair for a fort
night in an isolated cower on the lake. Not only
were they condemned to a common room, but they
were supplied wiifc only one bed, one chair, one
knife, and one fork, so that their comfort depended
entirely on mutual complaisance. If, after the ex
piratiou of the fortnight, they persisted in their reso
lution, the tribunal ’aed a serious examination of
tiie cose, and, if possible, the divorce. Rut iu gene
ral, the quarrelsome pair did not wait for the end ot
tb ; trial to which tin-/ were subjected to become
reconciled, and to request to be released.—Galli
gam's Messenger.
Power of the Sun — A distinguished chemist, in
a recent lecture, while showing that all species of
moving power, have their origin in the lay .iof the
.-un, stated tliit while the iron tubular railroad
bridge over the Menai straits in England, four hun
dred feet long, bent but half an inch under the hea
viest pressure of a train, it will bend an inch aud a
half irom its usual horizontal line, when the sun
shines upon it for some hours. He stated that
Bunker Hill monument is higher in the evening
than iu the morning of a sunny day ; the little sun
beams enter the pores of the stones like so many
wedges lifting it up.
The Chinch a Islands. — The suppression of the
insurrection iu Peru, which must, iu all probability,
succeed the disastrous repulse which the revolu
tionary forces met in their attack on Callao, will
probable cause a revival in the guano trade, and
bring new charters into the market. At the last
dates there were sixty one Amerieau ships, of from
GOO to 1,700 tons each, loading with guano, some
under Vivanco and some under Castilla contracts.
The American capital invested Chinclias at