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BY THE Pr.B'IA.
The steamer Ferifia arrived nt New York Wmd
morning. Herantes from Liverpool ore *o
25th July. _ . , * _
The otaainnhip Ericsson Mailed from Liverpool for
W. w York on Wedin**dav, the 22d July.
l'he steamer City of Baltimore arrived at Liver
»*, .1 at 5 o'clock on the afternoon of the 21at.
* 'Hi «ir t North Star and Jason arrived at
Southampton on the evening of Wednesday, the
22d of Julv „ c .
Th» I s frigate Susqaebaima, (.apt. Sands, «r
rj v **d in tfi< M rsey on Sunday, the 19th of July, j
at- i ai; ( 'h« r#*«l near ler • otiHort, tiie Niagara.
I j steamer K'iinborgi) arrived at Glasgow on
r J{, ita!N -In the House of Commons on
M«»ti«iav, Mr. V. Smith, on behalf of the Govern
ii • u* den.ird th‘- truth of a report which had found
it* wav into print, that the army in Bombay had
broken out info mutiny, and stated that the
official advice* from India pointed to the
iTtc vote of half a million sterling on account of
♦ 1 IN * • i.’vn war. iud four hundred thousand for the
t 'hioesc hostilities, w as agreed to.
During ti*« debate on the latter question. Sir C.
Wood stated 1 Li??, the arrival of the gunboats in
< an* Driver would on a bio the British admiral to
destroy the war junk. 4 *, and beyond that no hoatili
??■ - wonM be j-utered upon until the arrival of Lord
Elgin at Pekin, and the result of his mission to the
Emperor was ascertained. After that, if any further
hostilities took place, they would probably be con
fined to Canton, which war the wish of the British
Government, and s eated to t>c the vri*h of the peo
ple of Chinn a h well.
< »ii Tuendsy, .July 21, Lord Jol.u Kohh.:!l renewed
hi.- motion iJr leave t-> bring in a bill for the ad
motion of Jews into parliament , and, after an
ar.im.Ved debate the m< tion was agreed to by a vote
orjf6tol.Uk
On ?! . .V in the House of Lords, the
luibji < % { ,f J'vvi-li disabilities was alluded l4> by Lord
Campbell, who gave A a his opinion that if the
Common* aided 'independently e in the
matter, by omitting from their form of oath the ob
iw tionable r- nfence, a revolution would be the con
On Wednesday the proceedings were devoid of
On Thursday, in the House of Lords, the Queen’s
answer to the’ address upon the subject of erni
"ration of free n*»groe* from Western Africa was
received. It merely gives an assurance of an
*-ament d* -ire to discourage all schemes for the encii
i;raiion of negroes, that are calculated to promote
slavery.
1' ' gnatiou of Baron Rothschild was an
and a i « w writ was ordered for an elec
tion in the city of London to fill the vacancy. A
public meetiiig was heal by the electors ol London
upon the subject, and a pledge was given to again
return Rothschild iu i one of their representatives
in Poliiam* nt. A resolution was also adopted
calling on the Government to use its entire influ
ence for the immediate settlement of the Jewish
question.
On Friday the House of Lords debated a propo
sition to e,. »i (1 i.onmnent to Lord Raglan, but
nothing definite w«« arrived at
Ihe pr<*»n ding-, in regard to the Atlantic tele
graph ' ible continued to ineiease in interest. The
shuji liolders of t ! e Company at Liverpool had
giver, H grand banquet to the officers of the Niagara
and Hu quG.anrm, and tin completion of the ship
mi nt of the cable on the Agamemnon had been cele
brated by a grand '• f< in the park of Sir Culling
Eaidley, nen Frith, on the Thames. Nearly a
thousand peison wee present at the latter order
tainiiieii!, including Fro:, -nor Morse, Mr. CyruiW.
field, Hon. Henry./ Raymond. Cant. Hands, of the
.Nii* juehanna and others. Mr. Field, in returning
thanks fora toast, read a letter from Picsident Bu
clianan staring that he should fi*el much honored if
the firs* iin*st4‘jg«' nrrofH the* Atlantic should be one
from Queen Victoria to the Pre.-nJent of the Uni
ted St 1 tea, and that he should ‘-ndeavor to an
*w< r it in a spirit and manner becoming the great
occasion.
I »>• Agamemnon left Greenwich on the 24th for
Hljoerne-H to have her compasses adjusted, after
which H,.e will proceed direct to Cork.
An important alteration in the arrangements for
laying the cable ha.» been determined upon, and the
plan now is, instead of commencing in mid-ocean,
to submerge the Vliole cable in a continuous line
from Valentin Bay, in Ireland, to Newfoundland. —
The Niagara will lay the first hall from Ireland to
»h' middle of the Atlantic; the end will then be
joined to the other half on board the Agamemnon,
which t. k< -it on the coast of Newfoundland. Du
ring the. whole process the four vessels will remain
together and give whatever assistance is required,
(on laid commit mention is to be kept up with the
const of Ireland during the progress of the work,
and tie w ires are lo be nt once curried from Killnr
n* y to Valentin Bay, so as to connect with the Brit
ish and Irish fines.
At the dinner of the Royal Agricultural Society
of Im,gland, which had been holding its animal show
tßa 1 iry, Lord Porta an introduced as a guest
Air French, the Vice President of the Agricultural
Society of the United States. Mr. French was
wti rinlv received and addressed the audience at
l«ngtli.
Tin* American horses, Prim and Prioress, which
lifol bei ii i utcred to run for the Goodwood Cup, had
attracted attention in betting circles and were
backed at short odds.
Uonsiderablo rioting resulting from the ill-feeling
cngi mi- r« d by tin twelfth of July celebration, had
taken place h« tween the Orangemen and Ribbon
men nt Belfast, and on one occasion a severe colli
sion with the military won the result, but without
loss of life.
tin the -'lst July there was great rejoicing at the
town ol Boston, Lincolnshire, consequent on there
opening of the Southwest (.'-Impel of the Church in
that town, which has been restored by the citizens
o| Boston, Massachusetts, ns a memorial to John
( ■ itton. Mr. Dallas, the American Minister, the
Bishop ol Kentucky, and cx-Muyor Bigelow, of
Boston, Mass., were among those who took part in
•he proceedings. An address was presented to Mr.
Dallas on the occasion, and two speeches were
made by that gentleumu in the course of the pro-
Then iaarumorof the appearance of the pota
-1 i mi blight in tli** province of Munster, Ireland, but
it wan nm regarded ivh very avriouH.
In tin* House of Lords, in the discussion on tin*
addr< *h of the Queen relative to the importation of
free Africans into France, and the slave trade gen
erally, Lord Brougham read the following very
• minim and instructive letter, sent by the King of
< ilabar, in answ rto a British merchant, who had
written to his Majesty to know whether any of his
people would engage themselves us free laborers:
Oil) Cai.ahah, June 5, 1850.
Dr mi Hin I received your kind letter by the
Magistrate, through Captain Todd, and by your
wish 1 now write you to say, we be glad for supply
•you with slaves. I have spoken with King Arcln
bitry, and all Calabar gent leman, and be very glade
to do the sum. Regard to free emigration we man
no will go for himself. YVe shall buy them alsain
we do that time stave trade bin. We be very glad
for them man to rome back again to Calabar, but
Ih mi iLnt time they for West Indies he no will cum
back her.
\\ e nave nil agreed to charges four boxes of brass
an«l ropper rod for man. woman and children, but
shall not be able to supply the quantity you men
tion. t think we shall be able to get 100 or.ooo for
one vessel, and be able to load her in three or four
months, for we cannot get them all ready to wait
for the ship. She will have to com and tak them on
hoard as they coin. YVe have no place on shore to
keep them. The ship will have to pay convey to
me and Archibury, out no other gentlemen—say
10.000 copper for each town in cloth or any other
•article of trad. I shall bo very glad if tin* term 1
mention will suit you, for we shall not be able to do
it at a less price, and man to be paid for with rods.
I shall be very glad when you write me again to
make arrangements with your captain what time
the ship must come, hoping you are quite well, be
lieve me to be,
My dear sir, your humble servant,
Eyo Ho.nfsty Kino.
The London Globe ‘‘does not believe that the
Queen will \ isit Frauoe this Autumn.” Her inten
tion to do so, however, was o flic tally announced in
Paris.
the Cork Examiner, on the strength of a corres
pondent who had made a wide tour of personal ob
servation, says that the potatoes are generally dis
eased and that the crop realized will be less than
that of last year.
We lmve alluded above to the progress of the
sMpmeut of tlm telegraph cable. In the London
Times wo find tin* following further information
relative to the cable. The difficulties mentioned
mnv possibly prove more serious than is anticipa
ted
While looking at the ponderous mass ou board
the Agamemnon, one cannot fait to be struck by the
heat of the place in which it i. stowed away, a heat
which might ejeit* well founded b ars as Io its in
fluence on the gutta peivlci. If we are not misin
formed, the heat of the sun destroyed many miles
of the wire by melting out the gutta perclia while
the cable was lying iu Glasse A Elliott s yard.—
Proper precautions should be taken to avert risk
from this point.
YVe have already > xplained to our readers how
the cable is routed with closely woven spiral wires,
to prevent damage to the core in paying out ; but,
in consequence of the two halves having been made
tit diffeteut places—one at Birkenhead, by Messrs.
NewaH, and the other at Gr< < nwicli, by (.Basse \-
ElSiot, a most egregrious blunder has been commit
ted It will scarcely be credited, but it is never
theless true, that the twiri of the spiral wires of the
Birkenhead hr:it' is in exactly the opposite direction
to the twi : of the v evs in the half made at Gieen
wi. h Thus, when joined in the centre of the At
lantic they will form a light hand and a left hand
screw, and the tendency of each will be to assist the
other to untwist, and ex pi*, the core. By attack
ing a solid weight to the centre joining it is hoped
this difficulty ami danger may \>e overcome, but
none attempt t • conceaithat the mistake is much to
be regretted. YYY arc informed that Messrs. Glass*
*\ Kiliot had ueurly 100 miles of their portion of the
cable completed before Messrs. New all commenced
theirs, and that therefore the fault rests with the
firm which began last.
Tt»e apparatus to be used in paying out the cable
is also looked upon by the engineers as very ill
adapted toils purpose. With a cable of such* ex
treme lightness and no great strength, and attached
to a vess« 1 like the Agamemnon, the slightest possi
ble check or hitch occurring would part it like a
thread. Th« friction drums should therefore have
been of the slightest kind consistent with preventing
a “rush," ami iu fact only sufficient to ease it over
gently. Yet it is no exaggeration to say that the
maclunerv to be used is the very reverse of all this
. al its massive aspect strikes dismay into every
well wisher to the scheme. Some of the tirst engi
neers of the day consider it too heavy, and have
expressed mos unfavorable opinions concerning it
and its probable effects upon the cable : and even
those intimately connected with the plan and itsde
tails do not dir guise their regret that such a ma
chinery should be resorted to.
France.—One of the arrested Italians is said to
have made a full confession of details of the regent
conspiracy.
It is intimated on the one hand that the French
authorities had p-o i grounds for the military dis
play aud hasty arrangement* which they made at
Bferanger’* funeral, on account of the movements of
the secret societies ; but ou the other it is affirmed
that the alarm of the government was groundless.
..s no demonstration was intended.
The Pa vs says that the British government has
already communicated to Max aim that, although
England would continue to afford an asylum to po
litical refugees, he could not any longer be allowed
to prepare expeditions against foreign states ou
English ►oil. It is also stated, from other sources,
that the British Cabinet had promised to subject
Maaaiui to a strict surveillance.
A report had been current of another attempt ou
th* t .. . - t r.ombitTcs. but jff appears to
be unfounded.
The Paris correspondent of the Independence
Be j. o i *omi* French ani
Erj. V. > ;v • sptk&fi f.
T • of
I’’ i • ». N.:,< '.effW.
rk* ■ M ffAjfp troops
?« • am! ».« I'i.u.x en:ir« lv \vflPm founda
tion.
Spain.—The Captain General and the Civil Gov
*rn'»r ot the pi via :i.ee of S< ville, *»ere to be brought
before a council of war on account of the late trou
ble** r
The execution of insurgents ha-i been stopped by
the Government.
The London Times publhtheg a despatch from
Paris dared
ernment. after .- one hesitation, has accepted the
otter of mediation in the Mexican question made by
L* id Bowden and the Marquis de Turgot, in the j
iam* of the Eng...-h aud French Government
Pa* ssia —Accounts from Berlin sate that the j
repiy of Prussia to the late Danish note has been ;
w tten, and contains a promise (O remain passive j
until after the meeting of the stales of liolstein.
The answer of Austria is said to be to the same j
effect
The proposition of Trunin, to augment by twen- \
lj pev cent, the duty oh‘beet root sugar, is' said to
have • very change of being adopted by the Zollve- ,
rein
. rer \ —lt is uid-that the endeavors to effect’!
f . h. tioii between Austria and Russia are not
L prove successful
i v *uui r.—it is statod that *. lehism exist* among
tbs Owmtiimionpni ,-n the mutter of the Priwip«ii
tif-s Those of England, Austria and Turkey form
the minority. , , ~ , u ‘
Portugal —TL* fewmn of the Cortes bed been
closed The Concordat was pat-ed by large major
i; |,.s s „ both houses, but so altered from its original
spirit that it was thought the Pope would not con- ■
rent to receive it.
The lonian Islands.—ln the Chamber of Repre
sentatives recently a statement having been made
that a movement was on foot to make Corfu a Brit
ish colony, an animated debate took place in
denunciation of such a scheme, and a strong de
monstration was made tn favor of a union with
Greece.
Italv. —lt is said that a convention is to be sign
ed between the Sovereigns of fits Italian states,
with the exception of the King of Sardinia, to gua
rantee each other against revolutionary attacks.
India. —There is nothing later from India. Intel
ligence was hourly expected when the Persia sail
'd. All sorts of rumors were continually started,
but it was supposed they had reference to stoc k
jobbing operations, aud obtained but little credence-
A mass of papers had been laid before Parliament,
but they added nothing of importance to the publish
ed accounts.
Tut Mit in r.—From papers laid before Parlia
ment relative to the Indian mutinies, it appears
that the Sepoys did make serious objections and re
monstrances against being required to bite oft the
ends of cartridgea greased with tic- fat of nigs ami
cows, and that the commander in chief had institu
ted experiments to ascertain whether beeswax
could not be substituted for tallow. In the mean
ti m « orders had been given that the biting off of the
cartridge ends rim!! be abolished in platoon exer
.j . - Tim fodowing despatch from tla; Governor
General in Council to ih*- Last India Company,
though recapitulating, to some extent, accounts al
r< adv received,*is interest as an official narra
tive of the stat** of affairs at the date of the latest
advices :
Foki Willian, June 5.
We tnujsmit herewith, for the information of your
Hon. Court, a continuation down to the present
date of the narrative forwardedby the last, mail, ta
ken from messages by the electric telegranh, of
w hat has occurred at different stations in the Presi
dency, in connection with the disaffection prevalent
in the native army. A report received from the
Hon. Lieutenant Governor, Northwestern Provin
ce, is transmitted herewith, but it brings events
down only to the 22d of last month.
We regret that we are unable to forward reports
from Agra of a later date and detailed reports irom
other stations, but we have received none. We
have called on the civil and military authorities to
furnish u« with reports of all that has happened at
the several stations, but tin* pressure upon all per
-ons in authority has been so great that it is not to
be wondered at that they have not found time to
compile connected statements of occurrences.
Your honorable Court will observe with satisfac
tion that the tidings now sent to you are not with
out an admixture of hopeful intelligence. The 70th
Regiment of Native Infantry, stationed at Barrack
pore, has come forward to declare its loyalty and
Its desire to emulate the European troops in pun
ishing the rebellious regiments at Delhi. The Gov
ernor General proceeded to Barrack pore, and per
sonally thanked the regiment at a general parade ;
and we have reason to believe that this act, while it
Ims had a Very beneficial effect in strengthening the
loyalty o; the 70th Regiment and others at Bar
rackporc, will have the happiest influence on the
mi nos of ail well disposed men in the native army.
The three companies of the 34th Regiment at Bar
raekporc lost no time in follow ing the good example
of the 70th.
Meanwhile we had already received a spontane
ous declaration of loyalty from the Irregular Caval
ry of tfte Ruingbur Force, in which the infantry of
that force participated. And it was further reported
that the Raingbur Irregular Cavalry had signally
marked their sincerity bv having, on first hearing
of the outrage committed by the mutinous regiments
at Meerut and Delhi, written to their comrades who
were on leave in the district, to offer their ser
vices to the general officer commanding the Meerut
Division.
The 6th Native Infantry at Allahabad has also
come forward with an assurance of its devotion to
( Joverninent, and an offer of its services against the
mutineers.
We have publicly acknowledged these several
declarations of loyal aud soldierlike feeling.
On the 30th of May last a *part of the Meerut
force was attacked near Gkazeeoodden Nuggar, by
ji large body of the insurgents from Delhi, with live
gun*. The insurgents were thoroughly beaten by
i.ur troops, and dispersed with # much loss, and the
five guns, with ammunition and n great quantity of
intrenching tools, were taken from them. Our loss
was II men killed aud wounded, chiefly of the 60th
Royal Rifles, but the greater number of these were
injured by the explosion of a tumbril left by the fu
gitive insurgents at the bridge on the Hiudun Nud
der near the place where the action was fought.—
This victory will, no doubt, be of great value in
proving to the mutineers and to the whole anny the
prowess of our European troops, even in compara
tively small bodies ; and its occurrence just now is
.-till more important, when, owing to difficulty in pro
curing sufficient carriage, and in moving the siege
train which his Excellency the Cfunmande-in chief
was organizing for the attack on Delhi, a delay of
some days must take place before the attacking force
can reach that fortress.
But we deeply regret to say that the attack will
not be made by Gen. Anson in person. An allusion
to his having died was received by us on the Ist
Inst., and on the 3d this was confirmed by tidings
of his excellency’s decease at Umbnllah on the morn
ing of the 27th of May by cholera. Gen, Anson
must have proceeded to Karn&ul some few days
previously for a message from his excellency has
reached us dated Kurnuul, May 25. It is probable
that he had been obliged by illness to return to Urn*
bnllah where he died.
We lost, no time after the receipt of this melan
cholly intelligence in transmitting to Uinballah, by
such means as may be available at Cawpore and
Agra, and northwest of those places, our instructions
to Muj. Gen. Sir 11. Bernard, K. C. 8., commanding
the Sirhindli Division, to assume the command of
the force proceeding against Delhi, and we have
urged upon that officer the necessity of his attack
ing the insurgents and mutineers at that place at
the earliest possible date ; the continuance ot order
and quiet, already much imperilled by excitement
at the most important stations of Allahaba, Cawn
pore, Lucknow and Agra, and in the adjoining dis
tricts, being dependent on the early and single dis
comfiture of the rebels in arms at Delhi and its
neighborhood.
Major-General Reed, C. B . Her Majesty's ser
vice, commanding the Pcshawur Division, succeeds
by rigiit of seniority, and accordingto custom, to the
command of the Bengal army as Provincial Com
mander-in Chief; but consideringthqemergency of
existing circumstances, and the absolute necessity
of committing the command of the army of this Pre
sidency to some officer of pre-eminent qualifica
tion* in point of knowledge of native troops and In
dian experience, we have thought it right to re
quest Lieut. Gen. Sir Patrick Grant, K. C. 8., the
Goinmandcr-in-Chief at Fort George, to come to
Calcutta with all convenient expedition, to assume
the office of Acting Commander-in Chief of the
Bengal army. We trust that this important mea
sure will be approved of by your honorable Court.
It is temporary only, and it will rest with the Home
Government to appoint some officer to succeed to
the high office of Commander-in Chief in India and
of the Bengal Presidency, in succession to the late
General, the lion. G. Anson, deceased.
Every effort is being made to despatch European
troops to Cawnpore. The 84th foot have been sent
up almost entire; a detachment of that regiment
is expected by the Coromandel immediately from
Rangoon.
The Ist Madras European Fusileers have been
also sent up by transit carriages, by the bullock
train, and by steamers.
Os the tilth foot, who have just arrived from
Bombay, 360 men will proceed on a steamer aud
flat immediately, aud the remainder of the regiment
will be sent up by dawk carriages and the bullock
train.
The other regiments expected from Bombay aud
CVvlon, will be pushed upward as rapidly as possi
ble.
We are now dispatching instructions to Rangoon
to send round Her Majesty’s 29th foot as soon as
tlu* corps can be brought down from Thyetmew.
It is our confident hope that by the next mail we
shall have it in our power to report to your Hon.
Court that signal retribution has been inflicted on
the mutineers and rebels at Delhi, and that the im
mediate remit bus been the perceptible tendency in
all the districts to return, at no distuut period to
quiet and good order.
Our English papers contain many private letters
from India, dttailing the events that have there
transj We select the following from an English
ojjicti I la, n hoy of nineteen years of age, to
his sit escribing his escape from that city :
•Meerut, June 1.
\Yi.‘ aid have thought when I Inst wrote to you
.ill the awful circumstances under which I was again
to put pen to paper ? However, by the providence
of Almighty God, your brother has been spared
from theiearftil massacre that has taken place at
Delhi, and though lie is a perfect beggar, yet, thank
God, he is still alive and well. There is only one
other officer of my unfortunate regiment out of those
who were with it at the time of the mutiny who has
escaped to this place, and he, poor fellow, is in the
hospital with a musket bail through bis thigh—Os
born, our adjutant; but I am glad to say there were
three others on leave for a month’s shooting in the
jungles at the time o the outbreak, and who have
consequently escaped—among them my chum
Wheatley. \
There were three native corps at Delhi, besides a
battery of six guns, and not a single European sol
dier. It was about ten o’clock on the morning of
the 11 th that we first heard of some mutineers hav
ing come o\ er from Meerut, and that our regiment
was ordered down to the city, where they were, to
cut them up. Os course this time wo’ had not a
doubt as to their loyalty. Well, the whole regiment,
except mv company, No J, and our major’s the
Grenadiers, (who were ordered to wait for two guns
and escort them down,) at once went off to the city,
distant about two miles. *On arriving at the Cash
inerc-gate which leads into a small fortified buston
called the Maiuguard, from which there is another
egress to the cry, they were met by some troopers
of the 3d Cava ry from Meerut, who immediately
charged down upon them. Not the slightest effort
was made by our men to defendlheir officers, and
they were nearly all shot down at the head of their
companies by these troopers. In fact, our poor
Colonel was seen to ha bayoneted by one of the
Sepoys after he had been cut down by a trooper ;
and then the fact of neither a Sepoy nor a trooper
having“t>een killed is enough to convince one of
their treachery. Well, soon after our two com
panies. with the two guns, (for which we had had
to wait half ;:n hour.) also arrived, and on going
through the Cashmere-gate into the Ma-nguard,
and thence into the city, where all this had taken
place, the Sepoys and mutineers all boln-d, being
heightened at the sight of the guns, and before there
was time to open upon them they had all disappear
ed into the streets.
N\ e then went back to the Mainguard. determin
ed to hold that s gainst them till more reinforce-!
ments arrive from cantonments for which we im
mediately sent. In the meantime we sent our par
ties to bnqg in our poor fellows, who were all seen
lying about in front of the Mainguard. I myself
went out and brought in poor Jsarrowes. It was a
most heart-rending sight. I assure you. to see all
our poor chaps whom we had seen and been with
that very morning talking and together at
our cofiee-shop.Tying dead side by side, some of
them dreadfully mutilated. 1 had never before see u
a dead' body, so you may imagine what an awful
sight it was to me. The poor Colonel was the only
one uot killed outright ; but he, poor man. was
kicked to pieces. We “sent him buck to the can
tonments, where he died in the course of the day.
It must fcavr been about 4 o’clock iu the after
noon, when til of a sudden, the Sepoys who were
with us. in the Mainguard. and on whom we had
been depending to defend us in case of attack, be
gan firing upon us in every direction ; a most aw
tul scene, as you may imagine, then ensued —people
running iu every possible way to try and escape.
I. as luck would have it. with a few other fellows,
ran up a kind oi slops that leads to the officers’
quai t ts, and thence, amid & storm of bullets, to one
ot the embrasures of the bastion. It is perfectlv
miraculous how 1 escaped being hit; no end of poor
fellows were kuoektd down ail about, and all too bv
tlieir # meu : it is really awful to think of it .On ar
,'riv ing at the embrasure all at once the idea occurred
to me of jumping into tin ditch from the rampart
frpne would Lave thought it madness at anv other
time.) and so try and get out by scaling the oppo
site side . but just as 1 was in the act of doing sol
heard screams from a lot of unfortunate women who
were in the officers* quarters, imploring for help.
I immediately, with a lew other fellows, who like
me were goiug to escape the same way, rau back
to them, and though the attempt appeared hopeless
we dstermiued to see if we could not take them
with us. Some of them, poor creatures, were
wounded with bullets: however, we made a rope
with handkerchiefs, and some of us jumping down
first into the ditch, caught tliem'&s they dro >ped, to
break the fall. Then came the Aliffieulty of dragging
them up the opposite bank; however, by Gods
will, we succeeded, after nearly half an hour’s
iubor, in gtjting them up; and why no Sepoys
c * llie .*md ahqt every one of us while getting across
all this time, is a perfect mystery. The murdering
w as going on below all this time, and nothing could
na\ e been easier than for two or three of them to
come to the rampart and shoot down every oue of
u.v However, as I sav, we somehow got over,
and, expecting to be pursued every minute, we
l»-m our steps to a house that was on the bank of
the nver. Tins we reached in safety, and getting
something to eat and drink from the servants (their
master, young Metcalf, had fled in the morning r
s’opped there till dark, and then, seeing the whot
of three cantonments on fire, and as it Were a regu
lar battle raging in tnnt direction, we ran down
to th* river side and made th* be*t of eur war
along it* oanks in an oppeeit* dir**tion.
It would be too long, iny dearest sister, to tell
you of how for three days on<knights we * andered
in the jungle*, ftomet'mes fed and sometimes rob
bed by the villagers, til! at length wearied and foot -
wire, with shreds of clothes on our backs, we arrived
at a village where they put us in a hut and fed us
for four days, and took n note from us into Meerut,
whence an escort ot cavalry was sent out, and we
w<%e brought safely in here. We started f.om
Delhi with five ladies and four officers beside my
self, but afterwards, in our wanderings, fell iu with
two Sergeants’ wives and two little children, with
two more officers and a merchant, so altogether, on
coming into Meerut, we were a body of seventeen
soul?. Ob. grant Heaven, to think ot the privations
we endured, and the narrow escapes we had. VV e
used to ford streams at night, and then walk on slow
ly in our dripping t lying down to rest every
half hour, for you mow remember that some of the
ladies were wounded, and all so fatigued and worn
out that they could scarcely move.
The following is an extract from a letter from Dr.
Kay, Principal of Bishop’s College. Calcutta, dated
Junes:
“Tb*‘D*rihi in>rion has been completely nwept
awav Rumor to this effect were current from the
beginning of the outbreak, but we kept on hoping
that some members of the mission might have es
caped It is not, indeed, absolutely certain even
now what has occurred. Vet even the most san
guine are compelled to believe that the Rev. Mr.
Jennings aivi his daughter, the Rev. Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. Sandy*, and Chimmum Loll were all killed
Capt. I>ougi/u?3, too, a warm supporter • f the mis
sion, shared their fate. Os Rain Churder and Louis
Koch, the laPerof whom left college only last Jan
uary, nothing is said; they may, therefore, have es
caped, though our hopes are of the faintest kind.—
Two Lative Christians succeeded in escaping to
Agra. One of them .-‘ays that he saw Mr Hubbard
fall, the other that he saw Mr. Handys* dead body.
And Mr. Jackson has been spared—his life given
him for a prey ? Surely the place where they fell
will henceforward be a hallowed spot. May it prove
the need plot of a future large harvest of souls tu be
gathered out of that ignorant, fantastical popula
-11 The following facts are mentioned in a letter of
the Rev. A. F. Lacroix, addressed to the Rev. A.
Tidman D. D., Foreign Secretary to the London
Missionary Society, dated Calcutta, June 3d, 1857 :
“At Benares there were great apnrehensious; but
from a letter I had yesterday from Mr. Buyers I see
that everything was quiet there. From onr mission
aries at Mirzapore and Almffrah I have not had ve
ry recent intelligence, but from public accounts I
know that both these places are safe. Great fears
have been entertained at nearly all other missionary
stations in the Upper Provinces. None of the mis
sionaries, however, up to this date, have been ac
tually injured except at Delhi, where as far as known
not one has escaped the fury of the rebels. They
were the Rev. John Mackay.ofthe Baptist Society,
• whose guest I was when at Delhi three months
ago;) Mrs. Thompson, the widow ol the late respec
ted missionary of that name, and her two grown up
daughters ; the Rev. Messrs. Hubbard and Sandya,
of the Society. It is feared that all
these, with the Rev. N. Jennings, Government chap
lain, and his daughter, aud a’l such Europeans of
both sexes and ages who were unable to flee, have
been cruelly massacred/’
Australia. —Advices from Melbourne to the
30th of May had been received iu England. Gold
was selling in Melbourne at £3 17s. fid. '<l £3 19s.
Cd. Flour £‘32 per ton. A brisk business was be
ing done in imports, and confidence was re-estab
lished.
The steamer Great Britain left Melbourne for
Liverpool on 21st of May, with 101,600 ounces of
gold.
A duty oflOs. per lb. had been levied on opium.
A new Ministry, with Mr. Haines as chief secre
tary, had been organized.
At Sydney the tallow market was firm, and wool
had advanced, selling at Is. sd.a2s. 6d. lb. Flour
and freights were unchanged.'
From Ike City Article of the London Time*.
THE LATEST.
London, Saturday, July 25.—The conviction that
up to this afternoon no news has been received
from India, and consequently that all the recent re
ports have thus far been totally without foundation
has been followed by a diminution of excitement in
the Stock Markets. Prices, however, have not ex
perienced any permanent rally, although the first
transactions were at an advance of jj
The absence of animation throughout the day
was mainly attributable to the anxiety regarding
India and an increased demand in the discount mar
ket, where there was pressure coupled with slight
withdrawals of bullion from the Bank ; and the fa
vorable appearance ot foreign exchanges contribu
ted to the general dullness. About F 30,000 in gold
bars was taken from bank for the purchase of sil
ver on the continent.
These withdrawals are thought likely to continue,
unless sortie Australian or Californian arrivals soon
take place. Notwithstanding the recent further re
duction in their stock of bullion, the Bank of France
have lowered their rate for advances on stocks and
shares from six to five and a half per cent. The
latter was fixed as the discount rate n mouth back,
but the Bourse was excluded from the benefit of
the alteration.
The steamers and clippers engaged by the India
house far the conveyance of troous, are to forfeit
£3O per day for every day beyond 70, occupied in
their passage to Calcutta, while they are to receive
£6O for every day saved from that time.
The sailing clippers James Baines and Champion
of Jllie Seas, will each take a regiment. Some per
sons are disposed to anticipate that the performance
of these vessels will equal that of the steamers.—
The terms paid for steamers* tange from £35 to £49
per man; for the James Baines and Champion of
the Seas the rate is £25 per man, and for smaller
sailing vessels is £lB.
The Golden Fleece and Lady Jocelyn are order
ed to be ready at Portsmouth on Wednesday next.
There is a penalty of £ 10 for each day’s delay.
The Vestis, with the mails, would probably reach
Malta from Alexandria yesterday. The distance
from Malta to Cagliari is 340 miles. So that a steam
er despatched immediately would reach the latter
place this afternoon, and the government may be
in possession of telegraphic news in the course of
the evening. Should ’the steamer from Calcutta
have made un early arrival at Suez, a telegraphic
despatch may be hourly looked for in Trieste.
From the City Article of the Daily Nem&.
The Times continues very sensitive pending the
receipt of advices from the East. Throughout the
day the stock exclmnge business was greatly re
stricted. In the* general/discount market the de
mand for money Was again good. Ae the end of
the •month and the 4th of August draws near the
commercial demand may become more active.
During the week tjic necessity of paying for the
silver imported from the Continent has Cot only led
to the absorption of all the available supplies of
newly arrived gold, but has caused some withdraw
als of the gold from Bank.
The Bank of St. Petersburgh has reduced its rate
of discount to three per cent.
Correspondence of the Newark Daily Advertiser.
The Italian Outbreak.
Genoa, July 10,1857. —Italy is morally volcanic;
the seething elements are never quiet, but the erup
tions expend themselves iu gas, that occasions no
very great alarm. Men of consideration have be
come thoroughly persuaded that nothing is to be
gained through feeble insurrectionary movements
iu the face of armed Europe, and these fitful out
breaks are therefore confiued to classes who lack
even discretion to keep their own secrets. With
out leaders or resources, and having no aptitude for
combination, they readily fall into their own snares;
being just mischievous enough to afford an apology
for keeping the poor country in a state of siege.—
Precisely of this character were the recent disturb
ances iu Leghorn and this city, which hold a lnrge
per centage of inflammable elements. Mazzini, a
generous enthusiast, living in the midst of the wait
ing exiles iu London, ever on the eve of some
“g eat crisis,” and whose rash enterprise in Italy
always miscarry, is charged also with this abortion
—calamitous to all concerned.
The police had been some time admonished by
he mysterious signs which always show when know
ing people are big with great secrets, and especially
by the presence and movements of Muzzinvs
friend, Miss White—one of England’s strong-mind
ed women—and at the fitting moment forestalled
nil explosion by the proper arrests, with the loss of
only one life. The story that the Agitator himself
was here in concealment, ready to be installed chief
of the new republic, lacks confirmation ; though
testimony has been found among the prisoners of
his agency in the movement. Several boxes of
arms, swords and stilettos, considerable deposits of
ammunition, and two or three destructive mines
have been recovered from the h’ding places, with
packages of patriotic proclamations and handbills
for the crisis. Oue of the latter, which I have seen,
indicates to the patriots certain rich houses to be
sacked and pillaged iu the great blow for liberty !
These thiugs were doubtless furnished through the
contributions of credulous friends in England. The
fair Pythoness is among the prisoners, having in
voked invain the interposition of the British Em
bassy. Arrangements re made of course, to cut
off all telegiaphic communications.
It appears to have been a part of the plan to
steal the little armed mail steamer Cagliari, which
runs to Tunis, and accordingly the -day before the
arrests, rorae thirty passengers appeared with the
u*ual passports. Soon after leaving port, theje
proved to be a baud of the late Anglo ita.ian Le
gion, recruited about the close of the Crimea war,
under a filibustering Colonel, who put the Captain
in irons, and steered for the little Neapolitan peni
tentiary island of Ponza ; where they rescued 300
prisoners, and proceeded to land at another point on
the coast, to commence a revolution in Naples.—
Unexpectedly encountering a formidable detach
ment of troops, they were soon utterly cut to pieces,
full one-half of the number, including iheir leader,
being shot. Meantime, the steamer was captured
by a Neapolitan frigate.
As if through concert with their fellows at Genoa,
a simultaneous assault was made by somo two or
three hundred stragglers, without efficient arms or
organization, upon the garrison at Leghorn—in the
wild hope that the troops ws>uld fraternize and de
liver the city. Through the suddenness of the
shock, two or three officers were killed, but the des
peradoes were almost immediately subdued with
great slaughter, and nearly all who were not killed
have been taker, prisoners to await a more painful
fate. The British fleet from the Black Sea, Admi
ral Lyons, happened to be in the harbor at the time,
and the miserable victims appear to have been ani
mated with a fanatical expectation of sympathy and
succor from that quarter; whereas, on eeeing the
character of the wild adventure, Lord Lyon?
promptly put to the service of the authorities a thou
sand men, which of course was quite unnecessary.
A few* days after, the Admiral and his officers were
all invited, through Lord Normanby, the British
Minister, to a complimentary dinner at the royal pa
ace in Florence.
No one deprecates these suicidal outbreaks so
feelingly as the enlightened friends of freedom in
Italy ; men who most deeply sympathize iu the
sufferings of their country. For they know by bit
ter experience that they do but serve to augment
these sufferings and prolong the day of deliver
ance. Here in Sardinia, which is flourishing
apace under liberal institutions, where the people
enjoy the fullest social privileges that any people
in Europe can possess, they are wholly without
apology.
I am happy that there is just now a fair prospect
fora good vintage this year. The harvests have
generally proved abundant.
Hudson's Bay Territory. —Governor Sir Geo.
Simpson arrived, on Saturday last, at the Hudson's
Bay House, Laehine, from his annual visit to the
Red River settlement.
The news from the Indian country is reported to
be on the whole favorable, although that fearful
scourge, small pox, had been prevalent iulhe Upper
Missouri country during the Winter, and it was
feared it might spread among the Indians to the
Northward. Great efforts, however, had been
made to arrest its progress by vaccination, supplies
of fresh vaccine matter having been forwardea, by
the Hudson’s Bay Company, to all parts of the in
terior, during the Winter and Spring. It is belioved
that these precautionary measures were adopted in
time, and tnat the result has been the saving of
hundreds if not of thousands of lives.
It is gratifying to learn that the Indian trouble in
Minnesota had not extended to the British territory;
but, on the contrary, that the Company had suc
ceeded in bringing about a peace Detween those
mortal enemies, the Black feet and Croes, who have,
at last, ceased to take each other’s scalps. From
Oregon, too. the latest advices are satisfactory. The
Indian war in that territory had ceased, the British
Fur Traders having done the United States Govern
ment good service in the matter. Their influence,
from their long and friendly intercourse with the In
dians. is powerful with them, and has been exerted
invariably, and at length successfully, to aid the
United States authorities in the re-establishment of
the peace of the country.
Ihe Spring, we learn, had been unusually back
ward on L ike Superior and throughout the Compa
ny s territory, the last ice having onlv passed the
Sauit Sle. Marie on the 6th of July—the latest date
on record.
We learn that Sir Geo. Simpson, on his return
journey, met Capt P&liiser’s scientific exploring
party.’on the river W'innepeg; and the Canadian
party, under Mr. Glad man s guidance, at the Sauit
Ste. * Marie—the members ot both parties being in
good health and spirits.— Montreal Herald, Au/crust
stk.
A Great Change.— Forty years ago, when the
old bridge across the Monongahela rfyei was built,
all the iron work was brought to Pittsburg from
Huntingdon, there not being at that time a aingle
rolling mill west of the Allegheny mountains at a
cost of per ton. Now, the rolling wide of
Pittsburg and viainity are counted by the hundred,
and good iron caxx be had at S6O per too. or less than
one-pTurth the price forty years age.
Kenrfu! Tinned? in K«n*n«.
Telegraphic. dispatches already publised. gave an
account of & fearful tragedy enacted at Leavenworth
citv. Kautas. on Friday night and Saturday morn
ing the let inst. Andrew Stelftirt, Esq., editor of
the Steubenville (Ohio) Union, who left Leaven
worth on Saturday night last has furnished the
S'. Louie Democrat with the following details:
On Firday Bight, the 31st ult., a man named
Stephen*, living in Kansas city, came up to Leav
enworth , and. while epreeiog around, west into a
drinking shop called the Ward House. The bar
keeper, named Barnes, became very friendly, and
afisr getting Stephens quite drunk, proposed a walk
up the river, and took him to a spring on the bank
of the Missouri river just above the Planters’ House,
where they were met and assaulted by two men
who demanded their money or their lives. The bar
keeper, Baines, gave his money up and ran off.
When he got to the lower end of town he gave the
alarm that a man was being robbed up the river at
thespring. Several parties of citizens .immediately
went up and arrived on the spot just in time to find
poor Stephens crawling out of the river, his body
and head beaten and bruised with stones and clubs,
and his chest and shoulders bearing several terrible
stabs and cuts. The citizens ran to hie assistance,
but the unfortunate victim, though struggling to
speak, was too far gone, and presently died with
out being able to utter a single word about the
manner of his death, or tue names of his murderers.
Suspicion at once alighted upon the barkeeper,
Baines, and so outraged were the people, and so
violent the presumptions of his guilt, that a poesee of
the citizens at once arrested ana held him in close
custody. The news in the meantime spread like
wild fire all over the city and the exitement grew
intense. An immediate trial of Baines was demand
ed, and finally it was agreed that he should be bung
on the spot, without judge or jury. A rope was
procured and put around his neck, and already he
was being drawn np to the limb of an overhanging
tree, when he expressed a wish to make a confession
The crowd yielded and let him down to the ground
He said that he add two meD, one named John
Quarles, from South Carolina, and the other called
Knowlton, had laid the plot by which Stephnes was
robbed and murdered, and that the same men had
murdered another man a short time before and
thrown the body into the Missouri river. He stated
si-o that he and the men Knowlton and Quarles
belonged to an organized body of twenty five meu,
who lived and carried on the business of robbing
and murdering in Leavenworth city, on the island
opposite the city, and in the towns of Lawrence
and Topeka. He then gave the names of as many
of the gang as he could remember to the authori
ll As soon as Baines had finished his revelations he
was committed to the calaboose, a one-story stone
building, about sixteen feet square. The crowd
then went off in pursuit of Quarles and Knowlton,
and ill a short time had them arrested. Among the
revealed conspirators was Wm. Woods, the proprie
tor of the greater part of Leavenworth Island, and
regarded by his acquaintances as an honest man
and good citizeD. A party proceeded at once to
arrest him, and. after making a thorough search of
his house, found twenty-five hundred dollars in coun
terfeit money, a lot of counterfeiting plates and oth
er instruments, and a knife and pistol belonging to
the murdered man, Stephens. At these conclusive
proofs of the correctness of the confessions of Baines
the people were deeply moved, and held counsel to
gether in large and small parties during the whole
night.
The Proceedings os Saturday.— We here give
the riarrativ eof Mr. Stewart. He says : ‘ I went
to the mayor’s office on Saturday morning, and
found an immense crowd awaiting the result of the
examination of Wood and Knowlton. Baines and
Quaries were i:i the calaboose. While the exami
nation was going on, Judge Lecompete was outside
making a speech and expostulating with the angry
crowd in favor of law and order. The cry of ‘Hang
’em, the d—d murderers,’rose frequently from the
mob, but the milder counsels seemed to be prevail
ing, when at ones some one shouted, ‘To the cala
boose !to the calaboose!' and away a crowd of
about fifty maddened men started in that direction.
The balance of the people followed after in smaller
parties, leaving Judge Lecompte almost alone, and
the mayor’s office relieved of its throng of specta
tors. They had been gone about fifteen minutes,
when I heard a great yell. I started after the crowd,
and followed it to the bank of a creek, which di
dides south and north Leavenw '-th, whert there was
» steep bank, and on its edge a large elm tree. I
reached the spot just in time to see Quarles suspen
ded fiom the tree, grasping in the agoni. s of death at
the rope which was around his neck, while several
of the mob were swinging on to his arms and legs,
to make his death sure. His body had hardly ceased
its convulsions when the shout was raised for Baines.
The rope was placed around his neck, and he was
led to the edge of the band, when some one of the
citizens appeared by his side, and with a watch in
his hand demanded five minutes' time for furthei
confessions. They granted it; when Baines said, if
they would let him, he would show them another
man in town who was concerned in the operations
of the gang. He vas then taken to the ealabeose,
but for some reason did not give satisfaction to the
people, «md they demanded his body to be returned
to them. Judge Lecompte again addressed the
people, and with some effect, for they seemed to
divide into two parties, the one clamoring lor the
hanging of the prisoner, and the other demanding a
trial for him. Marshal Denis of the territory was
also present, and though he exerted himself with all
his power, he could not maintain his position at the
door of the calaboose, nor prevail on the crowd to
disperse.
The w ife of Baines also appeared; and, inspired
by the dangerous situation ot her husband, took a
heroic stand on the entrance, and endeavored by
frantic threats and entreaties, to stay the wrath of the
populace. But all efforts were unavailing; the
peace party were overpowed. Judge Leeompte’s
voice was drowmed by the shrieks of the mob. A
large piece of hewn timber, perhaps twenty-five
feet long and one foot equure, that was lying near,
was lifted up by a crowd of men, and plunged with
fearful i fleet against the calaboose door. The sight
of the wile’s distress and the sound of her screams,
mingled with the rageings and shrieks ot the infuria*
ted mob, was too much tor me, and I turned my back
and walked away. , I heard another blow from the
piece of timber, and a simultaneous shout from the
crowd, which told me that the door had given way,
and the pri oner was at the mercy of the people. I
walked hastily around the square, for with all its ter
ror, there was a fancination in the sight, and reached
the spot just in time to ae» the mob rushing down
the street with the prisoner toward the creek and
(lie elm tree. I pursued, and when I reached the
spot the body of Baines was already in the air, and
Ins last death struggles were shivering along his
limbs. The crowd then appeared to be satisfied.—
Woods and Knowlton meanwhile had been placed
in an omnibus and hurried off to the fort. The city
continued very much excited up to the hour I left,
but no further violence was anticipated. All sorts
of stories prevailed, and many ol the mysterious
d’sappearanceß and robberies which have occurred
in the territory are all being referred to this bund of
murderers.
St. Louis, Aug 6. —Advices from Leavenworth,
dated Monday, state that Woods and Knowlton,
companions of those hung last Friday, were on trial
before the Judges of the Vigilance Committee. The
people were intensely excited, and expressed a deter
mination to lynch the prisoners at all hazards. Judge
Lecompte and Gov. Walker addressed the populace,
but lulled to pacify them.
I>lail Robbery Case-Fugitive Slave (‘use.
Springfield, 111., August 1, 1857.—W. C. B.
Gillespie, who was journalist of the house of repre
sentatives here at the last session of the Legislature,
and who was lately appointed route mail agent on
the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad, was ar
rested last week by U. S. Marshal Dickson, at the
instance of F. D. Preston, Esq , general mail agent
for the Northwest. Mr. Gillespie was charged with
abstracting money from letters. The examination
took place before U. S. Commissioner S. A. Corneau,
on the 29th and 30th ult. The following are the
circumstances:
J. N. Mitchell, merchant at Bath, 111., mailed a
letter on tbe evening of June 24th. enclosing a draft
and $l5O in bank notes to the firm of Parker, Rus
sell & Co., of St. Louis. The postmaster at Bath
closed the letter after having counted the money
twice, taking pains to seal it all round with gum so
that it could not be opened without tearing the en
velope. He registered the letter, marking it “R.
26,*’ then stamped the postmark on it with blue ink.
The postmark was dated June 25th, and the letter
started from Bath on that morning, reaching Spring
field the same day, from whence it was sent by the
evening train to St. Louis. Gillespie was in the
charge of the mail on that train.
The letter arrived at St. Louis on the 28th. When
it reached its destination it had been broken open,
S4O of the money abstracted, the figures in the let
ter changed to suit the amount, the letter placed in
a different envelope, a postmark stamped on it with
black ink and again reg stored in the same hand
writing, which is averred to be the prisoner’s. The
case seems to turn on the identity of tbe handwri
ting. The weight of evidence rather went to es
tablish this point, both by the acquaintance of the
witnesses with the prisoner’s hand, and by the simi
larity of thewritiugin the manuscript journals of
the last house, which was done by him. The fact of
Gillespie's having borrowed a stamp used for post
marking, and having had black ink, were also
brought out, together with some other little points
which I have not room to detail. The attorneys
were MeClemand for the prosecution, and McWil
liams for defendant.
The prisoner was held to bail in the sum of $2,000
to appear at the next term of the United States Dis
trict Court. He gave bail—G. and M. Littick, of
Christian county, are his bondsmen.
Hiram Mcelroy, claimant, vs. Fred’k Cle
ments, a Negro. —This case, under the fugitive
slave law, came up yesterday, also, before United
States commissioner Corneau. Messrs. McClernand
and E. B. Herndon appeared for claimant, and W.
11. Herndon and J. A. Rosette for the fugitive.
It teems that Frederick Clements was a slave be
longing to Hiram McElroy, living in Union county,
Kentucky. Frederick had a wife and children liv
ing in I'licois, just opposite Union ; and being
rather a favored nigger, had, and took the privilege
now and then, whenever he felt like it, of just step
ping over into Illinois to see his family, generally
staying as long as he pleased. The negro came
over on such a visit during the first phrt of June;
his family had in the meanwhile moved up to At
lanta, some fifty miles North ofSpringfied, whither
Fred followed them. This time he made a longer
visit, staying until arrested last week by the mar
shal.
The commissoioner to-day decided that Fred
must go back to his master, and has delivered him
into the custody of the agent. The trial went off
quietly ; although the negro has b. en confined here
several days, there has been no execitment what
ever, Mr. E. B. Herndon, one of the claimant 8
attornies‘ took the very strange and extraordinary
ground that the negro had no right to appear in
court by counsel’ but it was overruled by the court.
—Correspondent of the Missouri Democrat.
Tremendous Hail Storm, Tornado, Water
Spout and Whirlwind. —A letter in the Detroit
Advertiser, dated Clinton, Michigan, July 31atsays:
At eleven o’clock to-day the sky became densely
black, and soon the rain began to fall in copious tor
rents, followed by the most tremendous hail storm
ever witnessed in this section. Gardens suffered
severely in this village, but the scene two miles
south of this place perfectly beggars description.
The hail stones, incredible as it may appear, were
in many instances larger than a goose egg, or a
common sized teacup. These huge balls of ice,
driven cs they were before a furious gale of wind,
severed the corn from the root, totally destroying
whole fields of the most promising corn; in seme
instances ihe corn stalk was left standing, every leaf
stripped off, giving to it the most unparalleled ap
pearance of ruin. Almost every window looking
to the north was demolished. I have been inform
ed by a gentleman of undoubted veracity that the
hail was driven with such force as to penetrate
through the siding of his barn, which was built of
inch white wood lumber. We are fearful that we
shall hear of cattle being killed further south, as
the storm appeared to be even worse in that direc
tion.
A letter from Beame county. Canada, thus de
scribes a terrible waterspout which devastated a
portion of that county :
A large and dark cloud was overhanging the place
on Sunday forenoon, 18th of July, when a noise, as
that of the sea in a storm, gave warning of the ap
proach of something unusual. Soon the cloud seem
ed to burst, letting fall toward the earth a long train
somewhat in the shape of a funnel, with the small
end turned downward. It revolved rapidly, hiss
ing like escaping steam, and swinging to and fro,
and imitating the contortions of a snake. When
the small end reached the ground it lifted and ear
ried away in its revolving impetus whatever it came
in contact with. Boards, timber, stones ard por
tions of bouses were whirled in the air and thrown
to a distance with a fearful report.
Several houses were thus razed to the ground.—
One horse and three cows were drawn by the pow
er of suction to the waterspout, and after beiDg
raised high in the air were let gradually down ; they
escaped uninjured, and were only covered with
mud. Five carts were carried t* a great height
and thrown across some fields into the woods, being
smashed by the fall. Large trees, such as maples,
have been "uprooted and removed a distance of five
acres.
Railroad Accident.—By a private despatch
received in this city we learn that an accident took
place yesterday afternoon, to the express train go
ing South, on the railroad, about nine miles from
Goldsboro’, N. C. No one «as killed, but the ex
press and several other cars were smashed up, and
several persons injured. The express messenger
and a gentleman from Johnson county, N. 0., were
badly. There were about thirty passengers.
Including negroes, on board.— fk. Cm
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Eighth District Nomination.
It will be seen by reference to the proceedings of
the Convention, which met in Warrenton on the 6th
instant, that Thomas W. Miller, Esq., of this city,
has been nominated as the American candidate for
Congress, in this, the Eighth Congressional District.
This is a good, nay more, a first rate nomination-
Mr. M. has long been a resident of Augusta, where
he has devoted himself to the duties of the legal
profession, never having been in public life, except
as Mayor of the city. He is an “old line Whig ,”
of the strictest State Rights school, but has acted
with the American party, because its leading princi
ples and policy have approximated neater his con
viciion of what the principles and policy of a
party should be, than any other. He was never a
member of the “Order." He is a gentleman of fine
capacity, well versed in the political history of the
day—devotedly attached to his native South, her
interests and institutions, and we have no hesita
tion in saying, will make a most faithful and excel
lent Representative in Congress. He is a gentle
man of high social position and unspotted reputa
tion—in short, just such a man as his friends will
like to work and vote for, and now is the time to
unbend themselves and call forth all their energies.
A Sympathetic Editor.
The Editor of the Constitutionalist seems to be
very much exercised, and to have had his sympa
thies greatly aroused, because he supposed, we had
“got our foot in it,” as he elegantly expresses it,
in our comments upon the communication of “Mcln
tosh” in the Savannah Georgian. While we assure
him he is quite mistaken in his supposition, we are
not at all surprised that his sympathies should have
been so much excited. “Misery,” it is said, “loves
companyand as the editor has been suffering
greatly for some time, for his temerity in “puting
his foot in 1 ' the Buchanan-Walkkr Kansas af
fair, he was no doubt relieved to think that some
one else was a victim. We are glad that we have
afforded him some relief, however temporary from
his great agony, and only regret that it could not
extend to the convocation of Democratic doctors,
some time next winter or year, for consultation upon
his case. In the meantime, we hope by the use of
opiates and other palliatives, he may pass the time
comfortably ; a forlorn hope, we fear, considering
the very severe injury which his foot has sustained.
He is, however, very excusable, and deserves com
miseration. Like all new converts, to a faith
against which he has warred all his life, he was over
zealous in the cause of Democracy, aud being ver
dant enough to belive the Democracy said what they
meant, aud meant what they said, he “pitched in” on
the celebrated third resolution, with infinite gusto.
For a time his bearing was most gallant, aud he
lad on most nobly. In the midst of the conflict,
however, most unfortunately for him, an appari
tion suddenly appeared among his men, displaying
a banner, on which was inscribed, “the spoils will
depart /” This struck consternation into his ranks,
and their inglorious retreat was as sudden as their
onslaught bad been prompt, bold aud patriotic.
Then it was, for the first time, that the valiant
knight discovered that “he had stuck his foot in
it,” and had sustained a very serious injury, in his
pedal extremity ; since which he has in vain sough
relief by backing down; and, at last accounts, had
swallowed a powerful opiate, and was awaiting, as
patiently as his sufferings would allow, till the as
sembling of the Democratic doctors in grand con
sultation ; w'dch his friends sincerely hope, (if
he can survive till they meet) will afford him per
manent relief, and teach him a most valuable lesson,
by which he may profit in the future. That is :
never to calculate upon the co-operation of the De
mocracy in any question, however dear or vital to
the South, no matter what kind of resolutions they
pass, unless they are bound with “the cohesive pro
perties of the public plunder .”
non. B. H. Hill —That Statute.
The Buchanan-Walker journals have been in
high glee over the statement, made by some re
porters of the discussion in Carrollton, that Mr.
Hill was ignorant of the existence of a statute,
passed by the last Legislature, authorizing the call
ing of a convention in a certain contingency. The
Atlanta American , however, has ascertained the
facts and gives the following version of them, whioh
is certainly not very creditable to the reporters of
the Buchanan organs:
“Was Mr. Hill ignorant of such a statute? The
reporters of the Carrollton discussion in the Intelli
gencer and Examiner say he was. We have un
doubted authority for saying he was not. Both
REPORTS GIVE AN INCORRECT STATEMENT OF THE
FACTS*
“ The true statement of the facts are substantial
ly as follows : Col. Gartrell alluded to the statute in
question, and asked Mr. Hill if he would call a con
vention, should he becoj»e Governor ? Mr. Hill
admitted the existence of the statute, but said he
thought the Legislature could hardly have thought
the Walker policy cause for calling that convention,
as it seemed that the same party was now sustain
ing Buchanan whether he re called Walker or not.
There was no copy of the act produced by a lawyer
at Carrollton. • Gartrell a?ked a lawyer to furnish
hijn with the act, and he would read it before the
hotel, which he did not do after he heard Mr. Hill’s
reply. There was no denial that the act existed;
but the only question was, whether it was passed
for the Kansas Walker cause ?
“One word aa to these reports : We ask the ‘ In
telligencer’ aDd ‘ Examiner’ to say whether the
reports were not furnished J>y a Democrat who went
around with Gartrell for the express purpose of re
porting? We ask that Reporter to answer, un
equivocally, whether he did not first write a report,
which was more favorable to Mr. Hill? We ask
him, whether he did’ not afterwards remodel that re
port, on ac<*>unt of the solicitations of certain of
his Democratic friends? We ask who those re
modelling friends were ? Will the Editor of the
‘ Examiner’ answer these questions ?”
Letter from Mr. Bartow.
The Savannah Republican , of Thursday
the following letter from Mr. Bartow, which he
deems necessary to place him fairly before the
country; although the editor of the Republican
had previously vindicated him against even the
suspicion of any complicity in the matter:
Savannah, Aug. 4,1857.
To the Editor of the Savannah Republican .-
Dear Sir—l ask the favor, through your columns,
to make the following communication. I regret the
necessity, bu t can see no other way to protect my
self from the misunderstanding of friends, and the
misrepresentations of those, whose interests may
make them indifferent to my reputation. I left this
city about two weeks ago, with members of my
family, for Upper Georgia, and returned within a
a few days past. At the time of my departure I
was not cognizant of any movement in the District,
connected with myself, in relation to a candidacy for
Congress. Certainly I had never intimated to any
one in the closest personal intimacy, a wish in rela
tion to this subject. Since my return home, I have
been informed, and seen it stated in the newspapers,
that some of my political friends, partial to me,
and desiring to place me in public, employment,
hare, in some instances, by correspondence, sug
gested my nomination, without consultation with
me.
This movement on their part, innocent as I be
lieve it to be in motive ana action, and of which I
had no knowledge, has been made the pretence tor
subjecting them and me, to the imputation of in
trigue. lam persuaded that in this District, and
throughout the State, no such cha r ge could affect
my character, nor could it be readily believed, that
lei and in need of the arts of persuasion and in
trigue, to secure the good opinions of my political
associates. Yet I cannot consent that my good
name and honor, to me inestimable, shall be ex
posed even to suspicion. I take this occasion, there
fore, to declare, as I truthfully can, that I am dis
connected from any step which even calumny could
torture into an effort to seek my own advancement.
I deplore in common with a large portion of the
people, the factions which distract the District, and
it would give me pleasure to unite with them in the
supDort of a Representative, who should attract the
public regard. The state of the country, I think,
calls for a united constituency, and a condidate
strong in its confidence.
I adhere to that maxim of the American party,
“that the office should seek the man. and not the
man the office,” and I think it should be regarded
by the people. Entertaming these opinions, desir
ing no plaoe, content with tbe position I occupy, I
must decline being considered among the number
of those who are aspirants for a seat in Congreas.
I am very truly, yours,
Francis 8. Bartow
Arrest of a Postmaster.— Samuel C. Scott,
Postmaster at Collier’s Postoffice, Edgefie’d Dis
trict, S. C., was arrested, Friday, by Mr. Maguire;
special Postoffice Agent, charged with robbing tbe
m*n He is between fifty and sixty years of age,
and w© learn is a man of handsome property, and
has hitherto sustained a fair eharaeter
Georgia Democracy I nuinnked !
The following article, from the Fayetteville
Xorth Carolinian, of the Ist inst., one of the ac
knowledged organs of the Democracy of the “ Old
North State,” cannot fail to be particularly interest
ing just at this time ; and we commend it to the at
tention of every reader, especially Democrats. The
Editor seems to be perfectly familiar with the cali
bre, capacity and report of the 44 Georgia Demo
cratic gunhaving helped to shoot it ou former oc
casions, and he has come to the deliberate conclusion
that the spoils will certainly successfully resist the
force of its balls. It 44 kicks" terribly, and makes
a A thundering report , ’ but, he says, there is not
the slightest danger, as it is perfectly harmless. The
Editor is evidently posted in relation to the Georgia
Democracy aud their “gun,” however little they
may appreciate his making the truth known to the
Democrauy of the Old North State. \V e imagine
his brethren in Georgia will not feel excessively
flattered at his declaration that it is clear the admin
istration supports Walker , and those who denounce
Walker must denounce the President or stultify
themselves. This is certainly not very complimenta
ry either to the political honesty and independence
or the mental capacity of his Georgia brethren. But,
read it—here it is :
From the Fayetteville Sorth Carolinian.
Sustaining the Administration.— We per
ceive a sensible dimunition of the rancour and fe
rocity with which the fire-eaters bavft lately been
assailing Governor Walker. It is clearly to be
seen that the administration supports the Governor
of Kansas —and those who denounce Walker must
denounce the administration or stultify themselves.
As soon as Judge Brown is elected Governor of
Georgia, the Democracy will back down trora their
threatening ultimatum, and the Mississippi delega
tion in Congress will be found the most staunch
supporters of Mr. Buchanan. At first we were dis
posed to look upon the matter as something quite
serious and “prognoaticative of impending dissolu
tion”—but it h all fuss and feathers, campaign
racket and stump-thunder—no lightning in the
cloud. We clip from the Georgia Constitutionalist
the following morceau—the italics are our own :
“Those who vote against Judge Brown, indirectly
sustain Gov. Walker—those who vote for him con
demn Gov. Walker and all those-who sustain him.—
That the administration sustains him does not yet
appear, or to state it so that our opponents cannot
object, is a question upon which opinions are divi
ded. It is impracticable, even if we desired it, or
if it was demanded by the aciion of the State Con
vention, now to make au issue upon this subject
with the Administration. The issue is with Walker,
aud we sustain our position by electing our candi
date for Governor. When that is accomplished,
and the party is assembled again in convention, or
in legislative caucus, then with all the light before
them, which the developments of the next three
months may furnish, it must take action in the pre
mises again. If then the Administration is commit
ted to the support of Walker, and facts do not ma
terially modify the issues upon his inaugural as
they at e now presented, the position of the Demo
cratic State Convention must be sustained, and the
gun which it directed against Walker, must be poin
ted against the Administration. This, at least, is
the course which we shall advocate. We would
stultify ourselves by advocating any other.”
Os courss “facts” will be found, says the Caroli
nian, to “materially modify. <fcc., «3cc,” the charge
will be drawn by the political artillerists, aud the
good old brass “gun” wheeled back to its shelter
beneath the platform of 1850 ready for similar use
upon similar occasions. That old Georgia “gun”
is’nl a very dangerous piece of ordinance although
it makes a thundering report. We have helped to
“shoot” it some ourself, and we must confess that it
‘kicks awful. ' Secretary Cobb has doubtless ad
vised Mr. Buchanan of its harmless character, and
the President i 9 not at all frightened.
The Rome .Southerner—Judge Thomas.
As another scrap, in the history of the harmonious
Democracy, we publish the response of the Rome
Southerner to Judge Thomas* letter. The South
erner is evidently very much exercised by the
Judges’ Communication, and manifests a desire to
have him read out of the party, for daring to assail
Mr Buchanan for his efforts to make Kansas a
free State. How the Judge will relish this, we do
not know ; but whether he be read out cr not, the
signs of the times indicate very clearly, that ho will
be abandoned by the great mass of his party.
Receipt* of Grain.
The receipts of Grain in this city, by the Geor
gia Railroad alone, are about 16,000 bushels daily,
which are purchased by our merchants on their
own account, and to fill Northern orders. So rapid
ly is it despatched, either to Charleston or Savan
nah, that the depot is cleared every day of the re
ceipts. To accomplish this during the late spell of
wet weather, each dray was provided with a tar
pauline, which protected it from the rain. These
facts will afford oui readers some idea of the extent
of this trade, and the rapidity with which it is trans
ported to Northern markets.
Our Minister to Spain. —The Baltimore Amer
ican pays : —Whoa Mr. Dodge was despatched by
the Pierce administration to Madrid, as United
States Minister to Spain, the want of fitness in the
nomination provoked general censure on the part of
those not prevented by strong party prejudices from
expressing their honest convictions. It was evi
dent that a man thoroughly uneducated, withont
refinement or tact, scarcely speaking his own lan
guage with moderate correctness, and totally igno
rant of all others, could not, within the range of pos
sibility, be transformed into a proper representative
of our national interests at one of the shrewdest and
moat unprincipled Courts of Europe. The only re
commendation of t he appointment was its harmless
ness in a certain sense. Succeeding the active, in
triguing, talented Soule, people felt that Mr. Dodge
wou’d subside into a do-nothing nonentity at Ma
drid, and such a result the conservative mind of the
country willingly accepted as preferable to a
continuance of the agitation in reference to Cuba
Now, however, the inefficiency of Mr. Dodge has
become so marked as to evoke rebuke even from
Democratic journals.
The Washington Slates asserts, appaiently on in
formation so authentic as to remove all fear of con
tradiction, that during the pending of the dispute be
tween Spain and Mexico, involving questions Os
profound interest to this country, our government
did not receive a word of information in relation to
it from our Minister, ond asks very pertinently in
reference to this remarkable fact, if it is to be “our
fixed policy to maintain at Foreign Courts Minis
ters who are both deaf and dumb.” Perhaps some
thing of this freedom in speaking of Mr. Dodge’s
want of qualification is due to the desire of the pre
sent administration to disengage him from the at
tractions at Madrid without subjecting itself to the
necessity of a peremptory recall, but the facts are
not the lec-s significant of the impolicy of making
partizan services'and political influence, when un
attended by personal fitness, the medium to diplo
matic appointments.
The Mob Murders in lowa—Shocking Scenes.
—lt is time that the lynchings which have recently
taken place in* l,owa, were called by the right
names, and the legal tribunals of the State were set
ting about to vindicate the majesty of the law by
the punishment-of the wretches who have taken the
laws in their own hand. The hanging of William
B. Thomas, in Montezuma, was as foul a murder as
ever Vras perpetratod by a midnight assassin. The
Oshkosh Herald gives the following additional par
ticulars of the event:
“No sooner was the decision of the court given
(changing the venue, in order that he might have a
fair trial) than a regularly organized mob of about
two hundred men proceeded to the old courthouse,
where the prisoner was confined, and demanded
and by force took Thomas from the custody of the
sheriff, and amid the terrifying shrieks of tbe prison
ers and the most hellish revilings of the mob carried
-him-away to htree which they had previously pre
pared. in thesuburbs of the town. Here, without
•even adhering to the customs of lynch law, or abid
ing by the honor of mob force, they placed the rope
•Ground the prisoner’s neck and demanded a confes
sion of the crime. The prisoner plead his innocence.
Tte rope was drawn over a limb, and the prisoner
swqpg into the air. After a few struggles he was
let again commanded to make confes
sion. - Again he pleaded innocence of the crime.—
Again he was hung up and a fire was kindled be
neath his feet. The mob threatened to burn him if
he did not confess the murder. Again he was let
down. From the strangulation received, he had
lost his strength and his voice. The mob still de
manded a confession'. The prisoner, in the faint
ness of death, persisted that he was innocent.—
Again he was hung up, where he remained until he
was dead.”
The Herald says that this makes the tenth vic
tim.of mob violence in lowa since the first of April
—four in Jackson, five in Cedar and one in Powes
hiek. _
Religion in Beaufort —Baptising Extraor
dinary.—The Rev. J. M. C. Breaker, of Beaufort,
S. C., writes to the Southern Baptist, an account of
A revival there in progress, from which we take the
f&Hpwing:
On Sunday last, the 12th inst., I had the pleasure
of baptizing in our beautiful “Jordan,” and in the
presence of thousands of interested spectators, two
hundred and twenty-three rejoicing converts. Three
of these were white. The most of these convertions
are the fruits of the revival which has been prevail
ing among our colored people for the last five or six
months, and which was commenced and has been
carried on chiefly through the efforts of the church
itself.
From this circumstance the reverend gentleman
deduces the following argument upon a much moot
ed point among religious controversialists:
I will only add, that the baptism, though perform
ed with all due deliberation, occupied only an hour
and five minutes. This is nearly four in a minute.
And thus we it actually demonstrated, (which
our Pedobaptist friends would do well to notice)
that the three thousand on the day of Pentecost
could easily have been baptised by the twelve Apos
tles—each taking two hundred and fifty, in an hour
and thirteen minutes!
Money Hoarded. —According to [the treasury
estimate, there are in this country about $250,000,.
000 in gold, of which little more than a fifth is in the
banks—leaving little short of $200,000,000 to be
found elsewhere. The treasury hoards very com
monly from twenty to twenty-five millions, leaving
probably $175,000,000 to be sought among the peo
ple. Allowing $50,000,000—a liberal estimate—to
be in actual use, there remains $125,000,000 which
is hoarded by the people, and to an extent six times
exceeding the treasury.
One of the Kansas Pro-Slavert Men.—Ran
som, says the Georgia Citizen , who has been nomi
nated by the Democrats of Kansas, as their candi
date for Delegate in Congress, is a notorious Free
Seller, who opposed Gen. Cass for United States
Senator from Michigan in 1849. These are the sort
of pro-slavery Democrats in Kansas, who sustain
W alker, and whose support is deemed conclusive
by the Buchanan presses of Georgia, that Walker
and have done nothing to be condemn
ed by So j them people !
Brigham Young will Submit. —The Washing
ton correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, usually
very correctly informed, writes :
The apprehension of difficulties with the Mormons
has subsided. No opposition will be made by
Brigham Young to the execution of the laws by
the Federal officers. Brigham Young has not writ
ten a letter to the President, as was stated, but he
sent him a Mormon newepaper, with an article, offi
cial of course, marked on the margin, in which Brig
ham’s policy is set forth, as entirely peaceful, and
subordinate to the United States laws
Et tu Brute.
< We had fondly hoped, says the Gr'.tfiu Union ,
that the Times <fc Sentinel and Augusta Constitu
tionalist, the people of the South had two Demo
cratic ergans, at least, in whom they might rely for
a firm maintenance of their rights and houor ; but
alas ! the Utter of these papers has wotully disap
pointed us, and condescended to a quibble over the
interpretation of the third resolution. If the Demo'
cVatic Convention at Milledgeville merely sought
an “issue” with Gov. Walker, the agent of the Ad
ministration. it “stultified’ itself indeed. What
could it expect to gain by a denunciation of Gov.
Walker, any more than an individual could gain by
denouncing an officer who serves him with a legal
pijpess issued by a competent tribunal l Walker is
nol amenable to the Georgia Democracy for his offi
cial acts, he is not amenable to the South. As the
simple agent of another, he accounts to his princi
pal, while the principal—who is the
ought to account to the people for the acts of his
subordinate. He either approves the course of Go
v€?rnor Walker c he does not. If he does approve,
Walker is e\ .merated; if he does not approve,
Walker sho. ud have been, or immediately must be,
recalled. There is no escaping this conclusion ; and
it is because the Constitutionalist and other parti
zaft leaders of Georgia, believe that the President,
if pressed to answer, will avow the acts of Walker,
that they a e so reluctant to make an issue with the
Administration—at least until after the State elec '
tion is over ! The idea, in the following extrat, that
“those who vote against Judge Brown indirectly
sustain Gov. Walker,” is decidedly rich. The truth
is,*and the Constitutionalist knows that those
who vote for Judge Brown, under existiug circum
stances, sustain both Walker and the Democratic
Administration; whose agent he is, and whose policy
he is subserving, (because every intelligent man
believes and knows that the President approves
Walker’s course). The argument below, is un
worthy the character of a journal making preten.
sion to fairness and candor. The consciousness o's
having to resort to such disingenuous means to
bolster up the cause of party, must be humiliating
to the more honorable class of our Democratic con
temporaries. We need only to publish the extract
from the Constitutionalist’s article, to convict its
editor of absurdity, at least, and here it is :
The issue which it made upon that address was
with Walker—not the administration. Those who
vote against Judge Brown, indirectly sustain Gov.
Walker—those who vote for him condemn Gov.
Walker aud all those who sustain him. That the
Administration sustains him does not yet appear, or
to state.it so that our opponents cannot object, is a
question upon which opinions are divided. It is
impracticable, even if we desired it, or if it was de
manded by the action of the State Convention, now
to make au issue upon the subject with the Admin
istration. The issue is with Walker, and we sustain
our'position by electing our candidate for Governor.
When that is accomplished, and the party is assem
bled again iu convention, or in legislative caucus,
then with all the light before them, which the de
velopments of the next three months may furnish,
it must take action in the premises again. If then
the Administration is committed to the support of
Walker, and facts d'> not materially modify the is
sues upon his inaugural as they are now presented,
the position of the Democratic State Convention
must be sustained, and the gun which it directed
againtet Walker, must be pointed against the Ad
ministration. This, at least, is the course which we
shall advocate. We would stultify ourselves by
advocating auy other.
Consecration of Bishop Barry, of Savannah
—The Baltimore Sun of Monday,‘-2d inst., says :
At an early hour yesterday morning, with a view to
witness the solemn and imposing ceremony of the
consecration of an episcopant, an immense crowd
of persons went to the Cathedral, and before ten
o’clock, the hour appointed for the ceremonies to
begin, that immense structure was tilled to its ut
most capacity. The clergy, composed ol the Most
Rev. Archbishop, Bishop Fortier, ol Mobile, Bishop
McGill, of Richmond, Bishop Neuman, of Philadel
phia, Bishop Young, of Erie, Dr. Lynch, adminis
trator 6f Charleston, with the priests, marched in
procession from the house of the Archbishop, and
took their places within the altar, Bishop Barry
occupying a seat to the left of the principal altar.
The Archbishop was assisted by the Revs. Elder
and McNally; Bishop Portier by Revs. Du
briell and Menu and Bishop Neuman by Rev.
Messrs. Obermeyer and McColgan, Rev. Mr. Forte
acted as Master of Ceremonies. The mass was
celebrated by the Archbishop, during which the
consecration took place by the laying on of
hands, Bishops Portier aud Neuman assisting. The
sacrament of the Lord’s Supper was administered
to Bishop Barry from the hands of the Archbishop,
after which the newly consecrated episcopant walk
ed through the aisles of the church and blessed the
congregation. Bishop McGill, of Richmond, preach
ed from the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians, 2d
chap., 19 to 23d verse inclusive. At the close of the
ceremonies the clergy again formed into procession
and moved to the episcopal residence. The whole
ceremony was of a very interesting, character.
Winding Up of the Ocean Steam Navigation
Company.— At a full meeting of the stockholders
of this company, held in New York on the 23d, it
was resolved to sell their steamships and liquidate
their affairs. The Journal of Commerce says :
This results from the withdrawal of the contract
for conveying the U. S. mails—the profits from
freight and passengers alone not justifying a con
tinuance of business. The necessity for such a step
is much to be regretted. The steamships Washing
ton and Hermann, forming the line, (between New
York, Southampton and Bremen,) were the first
efforts of any importance made by our shipsbuihlers
in the construction of ocean steamers, and they con
stituted the first American line of trans-Atlantic
steamers. The company was established in 18-17,
and their two ships were launched hi the course of
the same year, fiom the yard of Jacob A. Wester
velt. We are informed that during their term of
service, they have made more than one hundred
passages across the Atlantic, and have never lost a
passenger or met with a serious accident.
Although a liquidation has been resolved upon,
it does nOt appear that the affairs of the company
are in a very bad condition. At the commencement
of operations, the running expenses were very
heavy, owing to necessary alterations and repairs ot
machinery, absorbing a large portion of the receipts ;
but latterly diviejeuds huve been made with tolera
ble regularity amounting to thirty sev<su per.cent,
on the capital, so that there is now a sufplus on
hand. And if the steamers should be sold at a fair
valuation, the investment will have proved in a
good degree remunerative.
A Dangerous Counterfeit* —The Montgomery
Messenger has been shown a counterfeit purport
ing to be a five dollar bill on the Bank of George
town, South Carolina. The counterfeit has a figure
of liberty on the right band side which is not in the
genuine ; on the left hand side of the counterfeit is
an eagle—on the good bill a female head. The
counterfeit can readily be detected, as all good five
dollar bills on the Bank of. Georgetown have a red
check back. The color of the printing is rather pale
when compared with the genuine. The engraver’s
imprint on the good bill is “Rawdon, Wright,
Hatch & Eden, New York,” while on the counter
feit it is “ Toppan, Carpenter &. Co., N. Y.” This
counterfeit is dangerous, as it is a new issue from
the dens, and one which has not yet been exposed
by any of the published detectors.
Water Gas. —According to-the Courier des
Etats Unis, a French chemist, M. Gillard, has at last
discovered and put into practical use the gas made
from water, not at the laboratory or at an exhibition,
but in illuminating a whole town. The ancient city
of Narbonne, France, glories in a light the elements
of which are drawn from its antique and beautiful
canal, the flame looking like the electric light, daz
zling but not tiresome ; as white as can be, and
without vaccination or smell; all burners being
similar to so many planets.
Fall of a Building in St. Louis. —The St.
Louis papers contain accounts of the falling of a
building in that oity occupied by Monks Ghio,
dealers in liquors. The accident was caused by
overloading the building. Six persons were buried
in the ruins and badly injured. No one was kill
ed outright. The Democrat thus describes the af
fair :
A gentleman of the Washington foundery, oppo
site, standing near his place, heard a quick cracking,
and looking up saw in the wall of the building a sud
den opening along the line of the fourth floor,
which, while he ran, was instantly succeeded by the
descent of the whole wall, from the cornice to the
pavement.
The Returned Filibusters. —Among the 204
of Walker’s men who arrived at New York on Tues
day in the Roanoke there were 27 who are sick,
and wib have to be sent to the hospital. The Her
ald says :
Although the number of wounded was not great,
it was truly horrifying to pass through them, as they
lay in their hammocks, mingled indiscriminately
with those of their companions in arms who w6re
laid up by sickness. Many of these poor men have
lost a limb, (either hand or foot,) others have re
ceived wounds equally severe, though not depriving
them of the use yf any particular member, while
some are suffering from contusions, and slighter
wounds, which the Lot weather and original bad
treatment {caused to become ulcerated, and there
fore They speak in high terms of their
treatment on br ardthe Roanoke, and all condemn
Walker as careless of the lives of his men. Wm. J.
Smith died on the passage to New York.
An Old Office Holdf.r.— John Mountz died in
Georgetown, D. C., on the 31st, at the age of 87.
He had been clerk In the Corporation of Georgetown
ever since 1791-np to January, 1857, a period of
sixty-six years , a longer period, we dare say, than
any man ever filled office before.
Important-Discovery in the Iron T**de.—
A British journal says that Mr. John Harding, men
aging partner in the Beeston Manor Irqu works, *
Leeds, has just'patented an improved method of,
freeing ironstone and other metal ores 'rom shale
and ot^er*extraneous matter. To those who are not
acquainte d*with the mode'of winning iron-stone and
preparing it for the blast furnace, it may be neces
sary to premise that the iron ore'ls imbedded in
shale, which must be removed prior to the ore be
ing sent to the blast * furnace. Hitherto this has
been accomplishred by spreading the ore upon the
surface, and subjecting it to the action of the weath
er until the shale is sufficiently loosened to allow of
its being chipped or “ napped” off the ore by man
ual labor. This is a work of months and years, and
it is not only a long but a costly process, in conse
quence of the number of men necessarily employed
in spreading, chipping, &c. Mr. Harding’s dis
covery dispenses altogether with the necessity so t
subjecting the ore to-the action of the air, and by
the application of steam accomplishes in two or
three hours that which has previously occupied one
or two years.
The Oceanic Telegraph.— The following ex
tract from a letter on file in the Treasury Depart
ment, dated AugustlO, 1843, written by Samuel F.
B. Moree to the Hon. John C. Spencer, then Secre*
tary of the Treasury, settles the dispute as to who
originated the idea of an ooeanic telegraph : —“The
practical inference from this law is that a telegraph
ic communication on the electro-magnetic plan may
with certainty be established across the Atlantic
ocean.** Startling as this may now seem, the time
will soon come when this project will be realized.
Mr. Dodge, the American Minister to Spain, it is
said, has been there already too long for his reputa
tion as a diplomatist. The Administration is tired
of him, and want his place for another. He is soon
to be “crushed out/' as Caleb Cushing would say,
and may be looked for kerne very shortly.
Can’t Mu 'li Lorger*
The Blade, a Democratic organ, cot
eludes a notico of the recent discussion between
Messrs. Brown and Hill, and Gartrei.t, and
Tidwell* in that place, with the following aignifl
cant remarks :
“In the closing of his remarks}, he exhorted the
Democracy to stand firm and united—and if Mr.
Buchanan endorsed Walker, he would be foremost
among those who would denounce Mr. Buchauan.
lliat suited us very well, if he don't wait too Ifn z.
The Ist of September, is the outside of our waiting
for anybody or anything. We regard it bootless to
wait that long, but we shall do it out of courtesy to
the gentlemen whom we have at the head of cur
paper, and who endorse the MilledgeviiLe resolu
tions, but are ask ng time on them. Don’t under
stand us as backing down. Fof ourselves, wo art
satisfied—Buchanan never will rtcali Walker foi
his acts in Kansas. Nous Verrojis
We imagine the Blade will be sadly disappointed,
it it calculates that cither Brows or Gartrei.t., ot
any other Democratic candidate iu Georgia, v, il
denounce Buchanan by the first cf September.-
They have shown no disposition to di anything of
the sort, except the passage of that celebrated third
resolution, from which they have unceremoniously
backed down, (with a few honorable exceptions,)
and now r that Alabama, Tennessee a:id
have endorsed both Buchanan and Walker, they
will be less disposed than ever to kirk against, the
spoils. If the Blade does not back lown t it will be
compelled to repudiate its party on ihs first of S* p*
tember.
Will they do it f
Senator Brown in bi> speech at Tajoo, Miai, on
the evening of the 14th ult , apeakiug of the
Walker-Kausas policy, is reported by the Ya».»o
Sun to have said :
‘Tle*didnot believe that Mr. Buclmnan would
suffer Walker to retain his place as Governor of
that Territory, but if he did the South should ii.*e
up and Renounce him as false to the great princi
ples of the Kansas bill, and a traitor to her best in
terests. Hs, for one, would do so, and so would
every true Southerner.*’
Since the endorsement by the Demo racy of Ala
bama, Tennessee and Kentucky, in their receil
elections, of the Buchanan Walker policy, we
imagine Senator Brown will not indulge very high
hopes of the Democracy’s denouncing the adminis
tration. The Senator ceitainly did not reflect up: n*
the influence of the spoils when lie uttered that sen
tirnent; if he did, he is more verdant than we hud
supposed him. The Senator would have fouud no
difficulty in securing Democratic denunciations, if
Fillmore or Fremont were President; but against
Buchanan they can utter no such sentiment—the
‘influence of the spoils is too powerful; hence they
must preserve the unity and harmony of the Demo
cratic party, although the South be sacrificed. Alt r
such a declaration of the Senator, wo wonder
whether he would search in the ranks of the Demo
cracy of Alabama, Tennessee or Kentucky for a
“true Southerner .”
County Nominations. —Wo notice with much
pleasure, that tho American party, in their county
nominations, are selecting their ablest and be.-f
men, to represent them in tho Legislature. 1 his
the true policy. Let this be done throughout ti e
State, and the Legislature will reflect credit upon
the State. In Morgan, we observe they bavo nom
inated Joel A. Bilkups, for the Senate, and Ishar
Fannin for the House; and hi Fulton, James M
Calhoun and B. II Oyerby. These are litrorg
tickets ; all men of high character and ability, ami
would do honor to themselves and their constitu
ency in any delib rative assembly. Let party
throughout the State follow this excellent example
Wilkes Nominations. —Tho American parry o '
Wilkes county, we are rejoiced to learn, have mrli
the following nominations: For tho Senate Dr.
Wm. Q. Anderson, and for the House JoinT.
Wingfield and Toliver Jones. This is a good and
strong ticket—all men of character and sterling worth.
Dr. Anderson has several times represented tl
county —and alwaysraadea most excellent represen
tative. The people of Wilkes will honor themselves
by electing this ticket.
The Boston Journal publishes a letter from a cor
respondent at Leaveuworth, Kansas, giving an ac
count of the arrival at that place of a party of one
hundred Mormons, who had tied from the tyranny
of Brigham Young and the degradations of Mormon
ism, at Salt Lake, to seek ft more congenial asylum
in Kansas. These people report that nearly a thou
sand of the “Saints” were preparing lo leave Suit
Lake when they took their departure. Four hun
dred had started for Oregon, and others would strike
for the States. These deserters from Mormonism
are unsparing in their denunciations of its foulness,
and report much dissatisfactic n in Utah. They
also say that there ,is danger of another famine in
Salt Lake Valley, in consequence of the ravages .of
worms among the wheat. The Mormons are under
thorough military discipline, preparing for a conflict
with the United States troops.
The Oldest Man.—A correspondent of the St
Louis Republican , writing from El wood, K. T.,
says:
“One who lives on his claim near the edge of th ■«
city is perhaps the oldest man in America. If not ,
1 will venture a small wager that he is the most
active of his age. He is Mr. James O'Toole. lie
was born in the county of Donegal, in the North of
Ireland, somewhere about the year 1730. He was
and old man in the Irish rebellion of 1798, whan
becoming implicated with Lord Fitzgerald, ho fled
his country to seek freedom in our then young
Republic. His life has been checked with many
changes. He has been tossed about among various
scenes and by. many diverse circumstances. Ho
moved to St. Louis thirty years ago, ami established
the first brewery there. He moved to the Platte
Purchase iu 1838, and lived in Buchanan county,
near Bloomington, until two years ago, when lie
came to Kansas and made a pre-emption, and lie
can now walk eight or ten miles with case to visit
his friends or attend to business affairs. He says
his age is about one hundred and twenty-five years.
U. S. Mail Aoent Arrested. —On tho 23d nit.,
W. C. Gillespie, U. S. Mail Agent, was arrested at
the instance of F. I). Preston, General Mail Agent
for the West, in Springfield, 111., and lodged in jail,
charged with purloining money from letters passing
through the mail, and other offences against, the
post office laws.
Post Office at CnrfAeo, lll.—The yearly ex
penses of the post office at Chicago, Illinois, alnounl
to about $74,000. There are 87 clerks, at an nve»
rage salary of S6OO { there are 8122 boxes, which
rent at $8,298 per'annum ; 842 drawers, which rent
at $2,620. The receipts for the last quarter aro
stated ats2oTf,ooo.
University of Georgia.— The Board of Tins
tees of this institution, at their recent session in
Athens, elected Dr. Joseph Jone®, of Savannah, to
the cl air of Natural Science and French Lan
guage, and It. M. Johnston, Esq., of Sparta, to the
chair of Elocution and Belles Lettres.
Mr. Wm. A. Harris, of Sparta,.has been Unani
mously elected Professor of Natural Science in the
Methodist College, located at LuGrange.
The Memphis Navy Yard Grounds hare been
sold for $380,000 to an association of Northern capi
talists, who will establish thtreon several factories
and a repairing dock. 4
Chari s Flynn was killed in Memphis on Satur
day last, by a man named Webb, who inflicted a •
mortal wound on his head with the but end pf e pis
tol. Webb was arrested.
The Relief Vessel to the Case De Teud*
Turned Slaver. —Another exciting chapter in the
history of the slave-trade has just trauspired in the
shape of official correspondence bet ween the British
Consul at St. Vincents, Capo de Verd Islands, Lord
Clarendon aud Lord Napier. The New Tork Time*
says:
The occasion of the correspondence is the alleged
discovery by the British Consul ni, Si. Vincents, of
indubitable proofs that the American brigantine N.
Hand, which reached those islands Jrom this port
upon the lith of July, 1856, laden with corn-meal
contributed by our citizens for tho relief of the
distressed inhabitants who at. t at, time were suffer
ing the horrors of famine, departed immediately
thereafter to the coast of Africa, and .took on board,
near Cabaca de Cobra, two hundred Africans for
Cuba, or elsewhere, with which slio gAf off without
detection. The fact that the N. Hand was board
ed off the Cougo by 11. B.M. Hhip Teazer under
suspicions circumstances, anu that she has never
returned to New York, is given as confirmatory of
the suspicion that she was a slaver
Death of a Venerable Lady —Mrs. Margaret
Gilson died in Proctcrville, Vt., on the 17th ult , aj
the advanced age of ninety two years. Mi s. Gilson
was on a visit to Charlestown on the day the battle
of Bunker Hill was fought. She Was then fen years
of age.
Ugly Preachers.-—The Petersburg ExpKM.al
luding to The proposition of a lady of Charlestown,
Mass., to r< move the paplor of her church because
he wan homely, says ‘Tf such an objection were
considered good cause for removal, nine-tenths Os
the pulpits in Virginia would bo vacated imme
diately.”
Great Game of Billiards —The Albany Ex
press states that the greatest billiard match V*rfcr
made in this country is shortly to come off between
L. J. Higham, the great Albany player, Michael
Phelan and Ralph Benjamin. Thtse three gentle
men are.said to be the greatest billiard players in
the world. The match is to take place either in
New York, Philadelphia or. Baltimoae.
Tpe Enlistment Rumor.— The. New Tork Al
bion (English organ,) of Saturday, says
. “Sunday local journels state that the foolish ex
periment of enlisting men here for serves in th*
British army is about to be repeated. We cannot
put the slightest faith in the rumor ; hut if there be
a'ny foundation for it, we agree with„the Tribuie
that the operators should be at once proceeded
agkinst as criminals, or taken care of as idiots. The
latter course would be the better of the two. We
aranot aware that our government is hardly pres
ed for recruits; if it were, it could not have forgot
ten the lessons of 1855.”
A Sad Wedding. —After publishing the marriage
of Mr. Adam Tate, ol Chicago, to Missjeanett
Pettigrew, late of Scotland, th# Chicago Tribune
adds:
There is a bit of romance, ead enough in its char
acter, connected with this announcement, which the
parties will forgive us for relating: S ; x young
Scotchmen of this city, worthy men all, who had left
their plighted faith and lassies behind them when
they sought contentment and fortune on our shores,
united for the purpose of sending for those to whom
their troth was plighted. They are to, and did,
come out together. For mutual protection and so
ciety they took passage in the same vessel. The
perilous ocean voyage was made without accident,
and the party—a merry and happy party—arrived
safely at Quebec, where they took passage oh the
Montreal. Our readers know, and have lamented
the fate that overtook that ill-fated steamer and her
hundreds of passengers. When she burned, of the six
trusting andjgenerous girls, Miss Pettigrew wasjthe
only one saved. Her five companions found either
fiery or watery gravep, Miss P. was rescued, s’e
knows not how or by whom. Taken up for drowned
the struggle between life' and death was long and
doubtful; but at last decided In favor of the former.
TV:- kind hearted at Montreal learned her history,
and admirfed her modest worth. By them (for she
had lost everything but herself,) her immediate ne
cessities were supplied, and in a few days, with their
blessings and prayers, she continued her journey
hither. A few of the five young besides
the now happy lmsDand, hqji precious freight on
that steamer, attended the wedding On Tuesday
week. How sad that festive gathering was—!
how the shadow,of tlje JeaTful pasr dimmed ths
brightness of the present, wbo, that has nst felt ths,
destroyer's tousb, ean toll T
Amuiiut i toiniHiiiiii aiion from .Ituffii TUoirms*
1 here isj no mistaking the authorship of the fol-
JowM"K cominunii-Htion, whichpppeared i. the Con
ftilu/ionult?ru{ Thurnday. That it is from the pen
of Judge Thomas W. Thom**, of Eibcrton, ore
of tho Hue Hanan H ectors, n„ one who know . tba
man wil pretend to question. It must be deep'*
mortifying to Judge T. to see the men who, in solid
phalanx, stood by him iu the Convention, now, with
scarcely an exception iguomlnoualy retreatiug |,- Lin
the high position they had taken in the third resolu
tion. We are rejoiced to see, however, Hint such
defectlOh has lmd no influence upon i! <• .fudge :
j From the ComMut • -rlint.
He ißuchanan! may u :m ll l he (Walker) lift*
violateddl.e ptiuciplce ot the K tm. bill, ami yet
■ t,u> knowl *
| ™* r «. some dr fence for not r caliimr him ”
j,. "-*» Old Line Oemorr ,t '• in the Doily Constitn
twnahst, of Friday, 31 nt July.
| He is scarcely yet firm in his scat, his duties are
onerous Ins position difficult, and l uin w illing to
make allowance for the shorn ominga, to bo patient
with him ip Ins perplexities ”
■ f «... ri -a , .A. C. Walker.
Mr. half or: i desire to submit sonic fa- ts m d re
flections suggested by the extract., quoted above.
I an not know, ot course, who is “An old Line De
mocrat but he writes like an hone.-: and trim man %
—I mean to say, the whole scope and torn* of his nr. '
j tide makes that impression on mo. Many know A.
C. Walker, and all who do, know him to be gifted
with high Siorid courage, and above til Kuspicion r 6f
lacking in fidelity to the fights and honor ot hisseo
tion. It is not to reply to thi s twog mlcuu-n tlmt
I write, but it is beoar.s>* they have spoken the feel
ing and views of a large class, who, like theirofelves,
arc honest and true
The whole Democratic Convention unanimously
declared that Gov. \\ vker l ad violated the Kansas
act the third resolution declared il, and Judge
i \Vrights’s substitute declared it, and all voted for
I one ir the other—even “Equal Riguts, ’ vho now
defends Walker in your paper, dcelnu-u
j being a member from lie eountv of Clark. if lam
j not mistaken. “Au O d L'lie Deirocrat” says “it
j cannot be di-putetfVy any sunporterot Mr. Bu~ hnu
| an who is both honest anu sane, that the pi it ciples
! of the Kansas bill have been most wantonly and
j violat'd l»y /»/.%■ i Buchanan's Governor
|in Kansas. ’ Col Walkei did not i he Conven
tion, nor in his late addicss. from which 1 I ave quo
te' 1 , nor will not now deip that Walker's i'-mit uial
| auit Top ka spi o h are, th- one a g»oss, then her
jnn insulting violation et tin Kansas net 1 shall not
now enter into an argunie f i«* pr-*vc over again Hie
truth of this alleged violation. This has been often
done, and I think to the } erfect satisfaction of every
Democrat in Georgia, ex cp’ t.b u* live.
There is but one principle iu the Ivmsas ac t—it
is these words, “ If being the tr:o intent and mean*
ing of this act not to legislate slavery into any Ter
ritory or Slate nor to exclude it therefrom, but to
leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and,
regulate their domestic institutions in their own
way, su' j -ct. only to the Constitution of t he Uuited
States.” All else ii\the act are details of organiza
tion. It was this principle alone that, carried Mr.
Buchauan into otlici—it everything else but pro
fessed fidelity to tins principle, Fc-mont. was as
good a Democrat, as Buchauan, and in son o things
a better, for he vo;< 1 for a high protective
tariff like Buchanan did Mr. Buchanan did not
get tho vote <t : ingle Southern s»«ti , \ccpt up
on tho ground that ho stood pledged to entry out
this He stood pledged to it by the Cin
ciunati platform his letter id acceptance, his inau
gural address, and by his oath of office.
*Now, let your readers remember lliat Ilfn princi
ple is, and was, not only a lent t of p iriy faith, but
it is and was tho law of the la..d, solemnl enacted
by Congress, and binding up n every official of tho
General G >vernment, ft > • the b gl est to the low*
est. We are t< Id t • [n\ e p tiicu< • vTi h tl e Presi
dent in his perplexities, lo wait for his message, to
wait till we hear his defence, he may be able to ex
plain, he maybe able »o r ml raic : on. dec. I
shall submit some pia.u extr.se..< from the Consßtn
tion of tho United States, and then leave such ad
viser* to decide for themsclvis how lone they can
wait, without being guilty of the moral crime of ex*
cusing and palifttiug perjury. This is strong lan
guage, but I shall simply prove it, and leave tho
truth to wo.k out its own frhimph
The Constitution says tho Pres dent “ b« fore ha
enters on the elocution of his office, shall lrke tho
following oath or affirmation: ‘.l do solemnly swear
4«*r affirm) that I will faithfully ex < u.e theoffiie
of P. esident ot the United States au J will to the
In st of my ability preserve, piotect, and defend the
Constitution ot t o United B;’lies.’ * ,lames Bu
chanan took this oath in the bice of heaven and this
nation. Has bo kept it l Did he “faithfully exe
cute the office of Prcaideut of the United State*,’'
as Ins oath prescribes t Iu the second mid third
sections of the second article of the Cons itution,
immediately following Hie oath, we find lmd down
what the “(flj<*o of Pn.sklent” is. Among other
duties, it Bays “ h«‘ shall t'ko care that the laws be
faithfully executed,” not party creeds but the laws
shall be faithfully executed.* A IV« • (!«•- I is bound
only by Lis honor to redeem any pledge to Ins party,
but when the matter to bo carried out is a law , 1 o
is bound by his oath. He nlmU not only faithfully
execute tho laws himself, in his own acts, but he
el>.all t .ke cart* that, they be fniUUully executed by
others. There is no room for cavil or doubt here,
all is pi uin.
The Kansu* act Is n law of the Union ; iBo princi
ple in it is a law which, like i.ll other laws, Mr.
Buchanan is sworn to take care is faithfully cxeui
ted. Gov. Walker has been, and now, guilty of
violating this law. Mr. Buchanan can preserve the
law from violation by removing Walker, and lie
cun remove him by simply writing Ins name; ho
fails and refuses to remove him, he fails and refused
“ to take care that.tho laws he faithfully executed,”
he fails aud rof jrcH to k< * p Lm outh, ilihily and
daily. Forty days ago this violation of the l w be
j/an —forty days and nights it In.a continued, and
forty times is Mr. Buclmimn a perjured njau. There
is no escape from this coup.hision. Blinded parti
sans, the timid, traitors, and hired scribblers, may
write until 4 even the world itself could net con- •
tain the books that Simula be written,’’ a d they'
will succeed in deceiving no one, not even them’
selves. There stands the violated emit, and its liv*.
ing light will sear lhe eyeballs of our guilty Chief
Magistrate. I would not have his conscience fur
his diadem, were it twenty times as brilliant.
Other Presidents have tailed in M eir pledges to
party, but this id the Amt time a Pros dent of the
Unit'd States him persisted day after day in the
wilful violationot bis oath of » flic* Nneh a tetri
bio o iine is not easily match* d in the history of
liuin—but two insta.KMM oe.-.ur ti» m», Jmla-. Iscariot
and Benedict Arnold Those who prate «<> rrun li
about the President ofourcho r and hi* print, fideli
ty would do well to study the history of the-ei, his
two illustrious predecessors in treachery. Some
criminals are like rivers—they begin in small streams
which increase as they flow until they swell into
a- Iglity torrent, sweeping along proudly ami de
fying control. Others may bo compared to that ter
rible cataract of the oloudff, t l»e water spout, which
astonishes and overwhelmed in a clear day. In this
last, class may bo placed the three distingnished'char
acters we are now considering. Judas wa* a very
good man, so far as we know, until his first, great
crime—at least I am sure “ho never cast a vote
against the t?outh.” He had followed the Saviour
to rough the regeneration and was promised one of
the twelve thrones from which to judge fbp twelve
triln sos Israel—and yet, for thirty paltry pieces of
silver he betrayed Him and became a mos perdi
tion. There was one diflcirnco In i,\vci*ii the Apos
tle and the President., and lam h< rry to t-ay if is in
favor of Judas —hr went out and hung In in si If.
May we nettbope Mr. Buchanan will yet follow his
pat riotic example.
Arnold bears a still closer i< semblance to Bu
ehanau. Arnold had fought, and bled on tnAny a
bloody field of the K \olution to lib< 1 ty fori ho
oppressed eolonn s. Buchanan had tallied and vo
ted for Southern Rights through many a hard fought
battle in the balls of Congress. Bath had got us
high as they could possibly expect to g*> (ai d herein
is the key to the treachery of both,) the path of am
bition lay behind them—they had reached the end.
But here the parallel ceases. Arnold got, about
fifty thousand dollars and u commission in the Brit
ish army, for his treachery. The pay of Buchanan
more nearly resembles that of Judas ; he betrayed
us and violated his oath tor the infamous plaunits of
our Abolition foes, the Herald,* Po l, 1 libune, and
others of that ilk.
Mr. Editor, I do not wish to violate the courtesies
of life., still lest* to do injustice. If I knew n Bolter
word to ezpr<‘-s the horriblo crime, tho atrocious
wickedness, of which our President has been guilty
and which is herein'proved on him, L would here use
it. It is known to you, that at a great sacrifice of
my best interests, I consented to occupy a place on
the Bu banan electoral ticket la t, year. My best
word given to the cause. L considered it a
high and solemn duty to do all in my power to place
him in the Presidential oh lir.
I have received nothing, I have a deed nothing, X
have expected nothing of personal advantage to
myself. AM that I ask' d was that t he Constitution
of my country, and the equality of my section re
main inviolate. In our late convention- we ap
proached hiui with theprofoundest respect; we re
minded him of our confidence in his integrity and
patriotism ; we brought to his notice the covenant
into which ho h d entered with us to take care that
the Kansas act. be faithfully e.x ; ;< uted ; wcJn nought,
hirn to vindeaf® his own character and our lights by
removing Walker. His own lips are closed, but. his
organ a? Washington replies bv traducing ai.d iris
representing our principle. * lie hie- brought us to
op*n shame, so far os tho crimes ot anothe v can do
«•>. What does it become freemen to do 1 Submit
and bo forever fallen l Never, never, in help me
(iod. U s infamy shall ring through^thit I«;iid so
long as I have a pen or voice, and can find a lice
press to publish the black record of our wrongs and
his perjury.
A Democratic convention in Kansan panned reso
lutionH, it is -aid approving WnlkVr'sconduct This
supposed fact, is strongly urgedupon us, by certain
editors and other writers, an excuse for Mr. Bu
chanan in retaining Waiker. It, w ill not.be forgot
ten that those who make this plea, were willing to
excuse Mr. Buchanan before the ‘act happened,
and further, in the same breath they declare that
the Georgia Democratic Convention.did not truly
represent, in the third resolution, the feelings and
sentiments of the Democracy hero A Convention
in Georgia has mi-r. presented, but a Convention in
Kansas cannot. Such is their logic. Such reason*
ere would have been in great danger, it they bad
livetUn the days of King Herod, w hen tin* innocents
were slaughtere d. But admii ’hat the facts is so,
that the Kansas Convention pa°*ed such a resolu
tion, and that they truly represented the pro slavery
party in so doing, and tho point of the third resolu
tion would not b in the least obviated. Our great
est objection to Walker’s course i J , that it viol An-s
the Kansas act and the pledges of the President,
the next greatest is that his dictation and threats,
that he and his muster will join the Black Republi
cans, may influence our friends there and bend
them to his will. This last result it seems has been
attained, and now we are told that his treachery
has been successful, and therefore we ought to sanc
tion it. As well might the vile seducer plead the
degredation to which his Justs bad reduced hie vidim,
or the justification of his crime. Such a pie . would he
precisely of a parity with this amended plea now'
made tor Walker. *
Bet me preßentvnlDther view of this now defence,
3 Whethrt- Knnsa". shall become a free or slave Slate
2 is a question for ber people alone to determine—we
have no right to complain, no matter what the de -
cision may be. But the question, whether the peo
ple of the* Territory shall be 1« ft perfectly free to
- form and regulate their domestic institutions, and
whether the executive of the Federal Government
shall interfere to persuade or dictate in.theprem
,ises, certainly concerns ail the- Btates, eyen if the
* people of Kansas do approve each persuasion oi
dictation ; and this question was not intended to
’ control" alone the destiny of Kansas The people
, of Kansas havo no power to'grant Mr Buchanan
a dispensation again! t his oath of effjee, llmt he
will tak- care the Kant as act Is fa.tjrfully execuUd.
3 They alone have no right to < ompomid < r forgive
the offense, when it is commuted against the laws
and Constitution ol the Onion. When we protest
against such a violation of both, we are no mer -
ftjipir wirti tire affairs of Kansas, hut are protect*
, jng our o»n rights end heritage, the Constitution
under which we live, ai d claim protection lor Ido,
dberty. nnd the pursuit of bapp ness Suppose
* Walker, instead of the terms he did dictate, had
dictated these : That unless the Convention formed
an r.nti-slavery Constitution, lie and Buchanan
| would join the Black Republicans against cur
, friends there, and suppose the pro-.uv.ry He
: mocracy had been so debauched by Ins bribes, or
I terrified bv his threats, as to approve it, won dit bo
then said wo have no right to eoiimhun 1 If nor,
1 why not! He had as much right, ffi dictate one
thing as another—as much right to dictate an anti:
slavery Constitution as the submission of their
Constitution for ratification, and to what class oi
persons. No one can deny tliis whose mental facul
ties are not benumbed by party spirit, cr his e y
hungry for party spoils. , . . »
I hone we shell hear no more about the people of
Kansas approving Walker Iris a ntJscra e .
terfuge to cover up the iniquities cd tin se in high
places, and all men must see tt m its true light a. ter
a little reflection. If there he any among-ns who
wish to gustain Mr. Buchanan in Ins course of treacti
ery to the Southern people, let them say openly, he
is in power for lour years in slide 0‘ ad opposition
—a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush—liia
treason does not make Jess desirab e the unices ho
has to bestow, and we will stand by him anyhow,-a
even if the righteous judgments of an outraged peo
ple should cover ns with a part of liia infamy. Let
them do this, and we will commend tl.eir candor and
admire their courage. TkouP.
August 3, 1857
liiAvr RoeXEkt.—Mr. E. Doughty,of Newark,
N. J., WUS robbed of his pocket bock at the Jersey
city depot, on Friday evening The weilet con
toinad a sfisak fsr sl,l*o, and si,loo in bills