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We were (lceced to eef so ••rif* •V’l 1 .") hTbiirbe
oltizen* of ffii. and ‘X“”ens. ou Saturday
r*ue at ”“ ber * l?PJi'/fa.e of one of the speaker and
?££ j
crowd; but*tlie reality far ««eded our expecta
tlo I n "_ originally onr intention »o K've a general
„ , i ,':,r dieeuremn. but this we are unable to
™ ornctnded till Saturday
‘eV „ , K,,<l we are obliged to leave borne eariy
M!‘nd.y ™T,m7g a,“ . anno, return to Ibe office un
til after .be publication of tbe p»p* r - , j
Col IMI opened in an bou. and a half. Judge
Rrown followed in an hour and three quarters ;
Hill replied half an hour; Brown fifteen minutes
and 11 ill live# There may be some inaccuracy in
ibis statement of the division of time . but, accord
ing in our recollection o is correct
Hill commenced with the remark that the whole
world, though dependent upon the people of the
South foi nothing i - s nakedness, is. nevertheless,
opposed to and making war upon us Our only
safety was ina written < onstilution and an honest in
lerpretation thereat With this we had nothing to
fear hut politicians bad endeavored so to construe
the constitution as to rebus of our rights. Kesiew
ed the history of Northern aggression from the in
troduction of the Wilmot Proviso dowti to the (>re
cent time—lncluding the squa'ter sovereignly <*l
BucLauan, Cam A Co., which the Supreme Court
lias decided to lie unconstitutional— dealing me
doctrine of alien sufTrage sundry heavy b »w s in
**s7s**l referred to tbe history of the Kansas bill
—US unanimous endorsement by tie
fc-islature while it was before Congress and A./erc
the adorHion ny that body of Mr. Kichardsou s
Tuffr,,*, Intun-. Adverted to the virtual re
peal of This alien Mid age feature by tbe nro slave
-17 Terr.tonal legislature of Kansas, and then the
Subsequent endorseinmi. Os alien suffrage in tbe
Cincinnati platform and Mr. Buchanan’* inaugural.
Referred to the cry during the Presidential earn
naign ..I " Buck, Breck and Kansas I ' exhibited a
hand ' til with these watchwords iu glaring capitate
mis was the entertainment to which the Mih
was invited, “Buck, Hreck and Kansas Wed
aaid the eloquent speaker, we have got Buck «md
Breck, but WHIKt is Kansas. His opponent had
boasted at Lexington the day before that Buchanan
had married tbe tv nth. he had retorted by saying
be made a bad husband, as lie bad in less than four
Months trktpped hit irifr 1
Referred to and contrasted the views of V an 15m
ren, Camhreleng. Shields, and others, with those of
the Southern Democrats-each < laea-claiming that
Mr Buchanan would c rry out its peculiar views —■
He insisted that the President mu-t. necessarily
prove false to one or the other. Who has he deceiv
ed t He answered this by showing that tbe Geor
gia Uemocraiic Mate Convention had solemnly
charged I ha' Walker had violated the principles of
the Ka sen bill, and that if the President wished to
carry out the principles upon which he was elected
he would remove Walker-which, according to
Judge l i omas (the chairman of the committee wh •
rep-.rted the r. -olutions) simply means that it he re
tus-'S to do so, he is n trnttor ' Walker had been
chaiged wilh violaiing the Kansas hill by insisting
that me “inhabitants of the Territory should vote
upon the adoption or rejection of the Constitution
To this \\ ..Ik'er replies that it is no violation of the
Cincinnati platform or Buchanan'* inaugural. VVht n
charged with intervention, Wa'ker claims that the
Kansas hill was only intend, d to prevent Congrn
aional intervention —that Executive intervention
or any other species of intervention is no violation
of its provisions.
Asked Brown what construction he placed upon
the Kansas hill —whether he adopted that of Walker,
Buchanan, Van Buren A. Co., or the Southern con
struction which is opposed to intervention by l’re.-i
dent, Congress, Governor, Territorial Legislature,
alien’s and everybody else except th o Inna Jde
cUt~ens of the territory when they frame loeir con
stitution. This woe hi* view of non intervention,
and he would be pleased to find Judge Brown agree
ing with him .
The atruKgle in Kanaaa wob between the North
and the Mouth—the .South deeired to Sou liter ruze
and the North to Abohtiomze that territory. Who
are Walker and Buchanan helping ? Georgia, Mis
dinni]H)ii Alabanm, nod other southern Staten, did
not believe they wore ah listing them. On the other
hand bo allowed by extract* «f Block Repub
lican paper« that they, iih well ft* Northern
Democrat** generally, etaud up manfully to the Pre
sident and Walker —inaicting tut they do that their
recent course of tnlion is 44 the first tribute of re
smetlo the anti sloven/ sentiment of the Northern
Mates that ho fine front the federal Executive
for the last twenty years I
He challenged Brown to nuawer three distinct
charge* . 1. Thru Walker made known to the Pre
sident bis viewH before gomg to Kanaaa—ahowiug
by bin Now-York speech, ttiat tie then and there an
nounced the same doctrines contained in his inau
gural If, in flit- lauguage of the third resolution, the
President ought to recall Walker for what he hud
done, he certainly ought never to have appointed
him, knowing that he wn*going to do if 2. Walker
any* the Administration were fully advised of and
approved h> views before h aving Washington. 3.
Admitting ttiat in I hi?- Wulkei ban lied, the country
in informed, through thecdli- ial organ, tha the Pre
eideut, since learning what Walker ha« done, ap
pro vea of i*i- whole conduct and policy in Kaim in'
iJe. ahowud that Kannas and all future Territories
mu-i in* vitably become free States under the Bu
chanan \Y nlkor policy. The pro slavery party in
KaiiHhd hud been in power all the time before
and up to Walker’s arrival there—had panned just
suoh lawn **s they wanted—and now what hPaoaun
«fl thin great ohauge l W'hy are we toloee Kansas ?
Who hang.venit to freedom f Executive interven
tion— Buoha nan’s and Walkei’s policy of overrid
ing Territorial laws, leaving the constitution to the
tender mercies of all the vagabonds who may- be
carried into the Territory expressly for the purpose
of voting against slavery, amt then return the next
day to their homes in tbe State* ! I repeat, said Mr.
11., wo have got “Buck and Breck,” but where is
Kansas/ The South is to-day put upont he block
-Buck the auctioneer—-crying ‘‘Going, going!
gone ' Sold to the Abolitionists !”
This was a great question—it swallowed up every
thing else the peace and safety—yea, the very
existence id the Union depended upon ita solution.
It was a solemn issue—no tune for trilling. A can
ditate before the prop&i ought to make a clean
breast of it. lie had done ho. All men knew his
position, and ho stood ready to answer, categorically
any questions which might be propounded by Judge
Browu or any one else Would his honorable oppo
nent do as much f He feared not. He had repeated-
Jy put to him a simp'e question in writing, tie had
not yet answered it directly. 110 would again pro
pound It. and insist npou an answer. The people
wanted it —did they not ? (Hundreds of voices—
“ Yes, yea”) lie referred to the fact that Mr. Brown
had insisted that Buchanan should have a longer
trial before lie condemned him—but would not fix
upon the length of time, To obviate thisdifficultly,
lie had put. tin* question as follows, and would to
day ins si upon a plain, direct answer: 1. If Mr.
Buchanan should not recall Walker at all, do you
then say that your election shall be considered las a
condemnation o! the Administration / 2. Or it you
don't like that form, take it ns follows: If Bu
chanan don't recall Walker at all, will you sustain
his Admi istration ?
Cel 11. next discussed the public land question—
showing that Georgia had been cheated out of four
millions of dollars—which had gone to foreigners,
speculators and members of Congress, for the pur
pose of building up free Slates—instesd of educating
our poor children!—tha* under a Democratic tariff
Southern men are taxed double their proportionate
amount,and get nothing iu return! ll* exhibited
Democratic policy iu regard to internal improve
ment--the division of the Territories so as to make
ifittiu number of fir.ee States, to be settled by
aliens, Ac., Arc. Aud all this we are exhorted to
bear with, and when betrayed and lobbed, and our
deartst • ights invaded, we must not complain, lest
we “endanger the harmony of the National Demo
cratic party'-’’ Great God! how many more sacri
fices are wo to make to this Moloch which has be
travtui *obbed aud ruiued us ?
Ws eauxiot pretend to give even a synopsis of tbe
powerful, maaterly, argumentative and eloquent
opening speech of tUe matchless Hen Hill—it is but
a hurried glance at some ot the most important
{)ointß presented by him. Those alone who heard
dm can form any adequate idea c J this masterly
effort, which was, perhaps, the bo*, speech ever de
li veied in the county.
Judgo lirowu rose dispirited—morose—gloomy—
•'melancholy ns a lame duck"—and, as we thought
“cowed." to borrow a phrase from Young America.
In a dull, prosaic, {Malm eiuging tone, with a little
bit of the uttsnal twang, tie labored through his hour
aud three quarters—lns speech consisting of a re
hash of all the “forcibly feeble” twaddle of the
Federal Untan and lesser />/#« moeratic lights—al
beit his ex Houor professed a sovereign contempt
for editors and newspapers! His friends cannot,
uuder the oireunist'ttuvs, expect us to give an out
line of his speech, when they can so easily tiud the
substance of it in al i ost any stupid Democratic
paper they may pick up! We had termed rather a
favorable opinion of him—had h ped for better
things—aud we must frankly say, were greatly uis
nppointed.
it is needless to say anything more about his
speech, further than that fo* dodged—skulked—
* waked—"backed out'' of a direct answer to Hill’s
question.
There were many points in Hill's rejoinder well
worthy of mention, but we have not time to advert
to them. He pressed home his question upon Brown
—coaxed, begged, da-ed,challenged and threatened
in vain. Bro.-i c ould not and did not gire a direct
anticer ! When a man refuses thus to auswer a
question of such stupendous importance, no man
teko love* prtnctpl more v.an part# trill vote for
him J Hence, we btlitveth.it it lit shall continue
lo persist in tins course he will be badly bea’eu, and
lie ought to be As Col. Hill remarked, w.th great
truth and force, whenever love of party will lead
man to tolerate such nor. committadsm on a ques
tion which is shaking the Cuion trom centre to cir
cumference, they are uo longer freemen but the
»laves ot party '
We believe that all intelligent men who will can
tiidly avow tbt-i true opimou on the subject w ill
uuauimcutfly unite in the verdict that “Our Ben”—
“glorious Beu. Hill”—gave “Yes, sir ee, Bob”
Brow u as complete a drubbing, as thorough a using
up. and as net foot a Waterloo defeat as ever one
limn caught at the hands of another. Several De
mocrat* expressed themselves to us on the ground
—not so warmly as we have above, it is true—yet
very decidedly m favor of llill.
\\ o are wt h aware that those who arc blinded by
prejudice and party rancor will not agree with us—
indeed, we have heard that some go so far as to say
that Brow u got the better of the argument! ! —but
we give our honest, candid opiuion, and the public*
(Ati take it for what it is worth— Watchman.
Another Letter from Judge Thomas.
Judge Ihomae writes the following letter to the
Const it utn n&list it will be seen that while his
i>ajty have deserted lmn almost to a man. he is wil
ling to aUnd aurne and oat Ue for the truth and an
injured bouth. \\ e doubt if Judge Wright will eou
►cent to occupy the position assigned him by the wri
ter, and voluntarily taken by hiiuselt at the late
Democratic Couveutum. The Democratic candi
date for Gov* rnor is dear out of the track for he
declared at St Andrew'** Hall a few evenings ago
that bn would uot “declare war against the Admin
istration. even should it fail to condemn Walker, or
to remove Jutw. Judge Ihomas will soou tiud out,
jf be has not already done so, that he is too honest
Sbrhis party :—i Sar. Rep.
Et bfuton, Ga., Aug. 10.1557.
Mr Editor ; I learn from several friends that the
classification of Judge Wright.of Floyd, as a South
ern Rights man in 1850, in my letter of the 20th Ju
ly, wasii correct. I did not intend to do nim ixjus
tice, and 1 know he wsli readily acquit me of any
such purpose. There was no material difference in
orincipie between Judge Wright and myself in re
lation to Walker’s conduct in Kansas Hie substi
tute d*c’aied that the Inaugural Address cf Gov.
Walker was *a direct aud palpable violation of the
covenant of the Kansas and Nebraska act, and of
the Cincinnati Platform/’ and further, “if it did cot
involve his removal, calls for the unqualified disap
probation ot the Pres dent/’ I preferred to express
further, that fidelity to his principles demanded of
.Air. Buchanan hie removal from office. This “<Ji
iect aud palpable violation” has continued • there
has been no disapprobation ot tbe President made
Imown, either qualified or unqualified, and Gov
\\ alker has not beeu removed. In view of these
facta. Judge Wright and those who voted for his
1 übstitute stand, I presume, where they ought to
eland—“in diiei t and paipafoe’’ hoeti itv to the Ad
tnuratration, iu its efforts to turn the Georgia De
mocracy into a Freesoil party, by makiug them an
l rove or excuse Walker s treachery in Kansas -L
Claiming them, then, as allies in the great w.>rk of
i ontendiu*: againet this infamous scheme, I could
iutend them uo injustice. On the contrary, I re
joice that the Democracy of the Fifth District se
lected a standard bearer who had the honesty and
l»oldness t. -tell the “President of our choice" that
ine oondu. t of his appointee was a “direct aud pal
j able vioiatioa of the law of the land, and that the
case caUed fur his the President’s, unqualified dis
x pprobatK.il or removal from office If
tuese bold declarau. nn- 01. their candidate are any
i.idex to the foe bugs ana views ol those who noiu
him, Us. Hu&ap** Uttfoaid and
comfort from tbe Cherokee Democracy in his vii*
efforts to abolitionixe tin? fcsoutk.
It seems «!'■>, I was wrong in attributing the art!-
designed ‘ *>,n ::i Rights/’ m your paper to* mem
rer of tb* < . rit catiou ft*<raa the County ai Oaik.—
9tiis mitt*’ - * in the article signed •'Troop/'
y. htoh w? u by tue and pnbltahod in your
deiiy of the wh iiet In Ihie *so I cheerful!, stand
With tbe*“e two exceptions, no point of factor
conclusion in either of my letters has been success
fully controverted. Respectfully,
Thomas W. Thomas.
Correspondence of the Columbus Enquirer.
Letter from Border Ruffian.”
Road the following letter from one on the spot
every way qualified to arrive at a correct opinion,
and then ask y ourselves if tkv South is longer deceived
by tbe Administration does she not deserve to reap
tbe bitter fruit which she b** sown ?
Lykim County,Kama*, July 18,’57
Ed. Enqusrer: —Tue Government land sales at
Pool a closed on Monday last, having been conduct
ed throughout in a manner highly creditable (in
their eeru-ral course) to the officers superintending
the sales, to the liberal policy of the Government,
and to the orderly and temperate deportment of the
crowd in attendance. Except the political demon
stration of which I have advised you, there was no
manifestat ion cf a riotous spirit at aLy time, ana
personal difficulties were remarkably few and nj v *
'er serious. Every tract of land offered was sold
which I presume to be aa anomally in the history
of our land sales and it sb >uld be borne m mind
that it was at a considerably higher valuation than
the old minimum price, $1.25 per aj-re. I think t
Lbe quantity sold was about 21 1.000 acres, aK^
Burnt that $1.75 per acre was about the a y^ ra JU
price obtained. At least twice this price would pro
bably have been realized but for the claiming
systeffi, which met with just encouragement from
♦he Government, though I am aor/y to have to add
that it was greatly abused. Very “few and far
between” were the tracts that were pronounced
vacant and nut up to ttie highest bidder, and these
invariably brought prices above the valuation.
J’arties from every section of the Union had long
been hunting up and claiming the timbered and
choice prairie tracts, and had pretty weli taken up
all these some time before the sales but some two
or three weeks before the bales a whole army ol
claim seekers came down upon us like an avalanche
of grasshoppers, fastening upon every blade of grass
of tbe pr*iiri> s, aud establishing themselves upon
eveiy quarter section of the roiling domain. Most
of these law- comer* were from the Northern States,
being ‘ small fry” speculators, many ol them with
out tbe means of buying in their land .at the sales,
and none of them contemplating settlement m
good faith. Tiiey have now accomplished their
purposes, have bought in or transferred their
■‘claims,’’ and are all off for the Deleware anti
other reservations, to repeat the same process
there
Probably the largest laud buyer at the tales (pur
chasing cUimn for these small speculating “settlers ”)
was J. C. Ayer, the Cherry Pectoral and Pill man,
who is repotted to have invested sbo,ooo. A gen
tleman from Virginia bought a large quantity of
land in our immediate ne ghborhooa, and contem
plates providing settlers ot the right stamp with
cheap Louies. I have little doubt that the {South*
erne;s I Miss'urians included; secured the greater
proportion of the choice tracts, and cons'itute a ma
jority of the bona fide settlers; but the army of
Y’ankee pedlars may have appiopiiated the larger
quantity of the land sold. A lew border Missourians
and older settlers of Kunsas have been very accoin
modarlng and obliging iu aiding strangers from the
Souib in making and securing good locations. I
may mention, as promiinnt among these, without
doing injustice to o hers, Col. Cuthbert Mockbee,
of Cass coun y, Mo., just on thejine, who has ap
plied himaeil cheerfully and industriously to the ob
ject ot securing the best claims for settlers of the
law and order party, and whose house for many
weeks, has been thronged with land hunters to a
degree that would have delighted the proprietors of
even your large hotels. lam glad to be able to say
that he has b >ught quite a number of desirable sec
tions himself, both in Kansas und Missouri, and can
still give Southern emigrants good locations and
satis actory bargains. Ilia thorough knowledge of
the country, too, will be of great advantage to any
one calling on him. Baptiste Paola, a chief of the
Wea tribe, living at Paola, has also been greatly
instrumental in establishing at that place a strong
and growing settlement of the law and order party.
A gentleman in his manners, exceedingly liberal
and accommodating, public spirited and patriotic,
he is liked and respected by all ; and his bouse, too,
is a favorite stopping place for us many travelers as
he can accommodate.
Paola, during the first week of the sales, exhibit
ed an extensive area of wagons and canvas. The
little settlement not having accommodations for a
twentieth p&it of the crowd in attendance, frames
were every where put up and covered with canvas,
and wagons were ranged round about as thick as
cotton wagons in your streets in ihe busiest of the
seas« n. Ihe principal “hotel” was a large frame
covered with canvas, having a dining table iu tbe
centre and open sleeping berths ou both sides, some
containing mattrasses md some only loose straw.
In fact, it was arranged in regular steamboat lash
ion, minus the movable table and the dot rs of the
“state rooms.” The fare at the table was pretty
good “fore a new country ; ’ of the sleeping facili
ties I cannot speak experimentally. There were
also inauy little canvas covered stands, where “re
freshments” of the liquid aud eolid kinds were sold
at prices too fabulous t > note. As the rales pro
gressed, these and the wagons constantly diminish
ed in number, until at length the whole village bore
strikingly the appegrance of “some banquet half
deserted.’*
In the political world, the humbug electioneering
cry of last year has become tbe stern reality of the
present. Yes, Kansas “bleeds” to-day ; but it is
her Southern side that the treacherous sword of
Joab pierces, and thence that the crimson current
flows. The constitutional principle o f non-interven
tion, established as the true policy of the Govern
ineut during the model administration of Millard
Fillmore, has been set aside to make room for parly
expediency , and a Democratic Administration is
again urging on the work of wresting a Territory of
the whole Union from the common participation of
ni-arlii one half of it, and giving it, over to Freesoil!
This is the policy of Buchanan and Walker —this its
design, and nothing else—-and to this complexion it
will surely come. The “National Democratic Con
vention” of Kansas endorses the project, and the
whole paity everywhere will “acquiese,” aud glori
fy, because a Democrati Administration lias done
the d ed ! It is now said tnat the leaders have re
solved not to form a constitution admitting slaves
at all, but will only secure to their owners the pos
session or proceeds of the few now in iheTerritory ;
and will submit the question olsl avery or Freesoil as
a separate and isolated issue, and help to secure the
triumph of the letter. The Kansas correspondent
of the St. Louis Republican (a Buchanan and Wal
ker Democratic pap* r, pretend.ng to be Southern
in its principles) writes from Lecoinpte that there is
now perfecthar i ony between “the pro slavery and
freesoil Democracy, and that they will hereafter
act together in entire unity—adding that a large
majority will sustain the distinct proposition to ex
clude slavery from the Territory ! Is this the euter
tainuK-nt to which the South was invited last year.
I see that your Georgia Democracy have resolved
that old 1 tuck is not in favor of Walker’s policy,
aqd will recall him. Hopeful and credulous party
that! No one here ever questioned for a moment
that the said “policy” (hateful word !j was the in
junction of the Administration itself; officials in this
Territory would have undeceived them. They all
sing the same song, and all declare (as did the De
mocratic Convention at Lecompton) that the Con
stitution should not be sustained or enforced auless
submitted to the direct vote of the people—to that
factious minority that refused to register for the
election last spring because it would have been out
voted, but had since been bolstered, recruited, and
petted into a majority ! A treasonable faction dis
franchises itself, and the Federal Government steps
iu and threatens to trample the laws of the Territo
ry under foot uuiess the other, the law-abiding par
ty, give way to their whims aud schemes ' And thus
ends the Kansas drama. The curtain will soon fall
before the most astounding act of treachery aud bad
faith by which Democratic actors ever wronged
aud outraged the suffering South!
We are suffering from a six week’s drouth, which
has destroyed the prospects of corn iu many locali
ties, and is even drying the grass on the praries.—
Partial rains have fallen rouud about, but the drouth
appea'S to be nearly general iu this section. With
this gloomy prospect in our own regiou, we rejoice
to hear of your bountiful gram crons nt the South,
and congratulate you ou your goou fortune in hav
ing this year raised your own cereals.
Yours, Bokder Ruffian.
Late and Interesting from Rio.—-An arrival
at New York brings dates to the sth of July. No
transactions in coffee had taken place worthy of
mention, and t are no quotations iu the papera.
The city of 1 vas healthy ; no oases of yellow
fever being r* - d among the 819 patients in the
hospital, and l *.vo fatal eases of that disease on
the previous d. v.
The British fleet, consisting of the sleam frigate
Furious, Commodore Osborne, and fifteen steam
transports and guuboats. sailed eu route from China
on the -lilt of July.
The American national anniversary was cele
brated by llio vtssels of all nations dressing iu
their best and the men of war saluting the American
tlag.
The American bark Conrad, fr*m New Orleans,
with a cargo «>f 2,350 bb!s tl »ur, commenced to dis
charge at 3 o'clock P. M., July 3d, and at the end of
twcuty-lour hours had taken iu 4,000 bags of coffee,
and been cleaned and made ready lot aea. The
Rio papers record tilts feat as an unprecedented one,
and say it deserves to be spread far aud wide,
as an instance of the promptness with which
commercial business may be transacted in that
port.
The Imperial Parliament was in session. Among
the subjects uuder debate was one to pay the cus
tom house and other employees sufficient salaries
to support them. At preseu the stipends of offi
cials in Brazil are littie more than nominal, aud bri
bery is considered a matter of comae, as all travel
lers and merchants who have busiuess with the cus
tom hous aud cousuls can testify. Another project
contemplates the complete revision of the commer
cial code, and ine the enactment of more liberal and
commercial laws.
A contract had been entered into for the construc
tion of an i'ltpeiari highway from Hi »to the distaut
province of Mini Gorans, where all the diamonds
come from. A railroad is to follow.
An extensive monied company had just beeu in
corporated. It is called the “Banco Industrial
Hippothecario *’ Its objects are: 1. To promote
the colonization of the country by every practica
ble rneaus. 2. To promote all railroad projects—
the openiug of new reads, streets and public
squares ; the construction of new edifices, aud the
disturbu’iou of the lower orders advantageously.
H. To secure city ami country property a la Credit
Mobilier. 4. To undertake any opt ration in credit
teuding to develope the resources of the country.
Shocking Affair —Four ) oung Ladies &rown
ed in Water Thursday evening of this
week, seven young ladies, residing in Waterville,
went into w hat is cal ad in Crummett’s Stream,
about one fourth a mile from Waterville Milage,
for the purpose of bathing, and in a very few* mo
mt-nte four of the seven found a watery grave.—
The bank is quite steep, and it is supposed that one
or two of them ventured beyond their depth, aud
the others were drowned in*attempting their res
cue. The alarm was instantly given, and three of
the bodies was found a short distance from the spot,
floating on the surface of the water, and the other
wa* found iu the stream. They were not in the
water oyer thirty minutes, and although efforts were
made for several hours to resusciate them, thev
proved lruitless. Two of the young ladies who
were drowned were daughters of Mr. li. F. Soule:
and the other two were daughters of Mr
Giant, a pioaa forte manufacturer, now at work in
Boston, but who resides in Waterville. Mrs. Grant,
the mother of two of the girls, rushed into the water
difficultv* was h J eraelt **ved with great
rr/‘L^^, Tbfir varied
fi/candidlte e'w York fmc/mjJk 6
su-,B box. i. denounced bv the New
aa an ox defaulter to the lure ofTbout
Even if true, this „ not ineouebfem with nhvlTl
o urage. Benedict Arnold might at
obtained a gold snuff box ae 'the bravl./ of
brave,-’ though, as events proved, a /-rand'
tinancmHy. and every other way XevertheW f
the chaw be true, we are sorry to see Old HU-’ko
ry s snuff box finding such a place of depoeite it.
could hardly have supposed thst a Government de
faulter. howev.-r highly endowed with pluck, could
have the face to accept that which was expec ed to
be a testimonial of virtue as well as of valor.—
Richmond Dispatek.
Sir Colin Campbell-—ln some reminiscences
of this distinguished soldier, who has gone out to
command tbe British army iu India, the Washing
ton Union says that, in one of the battles of tbe
Crimea be imitated with success the manoeuvre of
Col. Jefferson Davis at Buena Vista,* receiving a
ctiarge of cavalry with infantry, formed, not in hol
low square, but m two lines, spreading from the
C^ nl ‘ re ’ 80 46 to P° ur R flank fire upon the
advancing column. The manoeuvre was one which
at the time excited much remark, and a good deal
of attention axnoug military men.—ificA. Ihtp.
,fSv3* rV H T 's" s r J Hr »•**»*•—Madauie Storms,
? f HoUand has pnrohafed a large tract of
Und, Sato from Kingston, Tennessee, and 3 mile*
trom the TeDnenee river One fe *iutial element
waich controlled the selection was tLe be'ief th.t
wernld be favorable iu tfce rearing cf the grape If
this exptrliin ut should prove eueces-ful, it is be
lieved that it will be the oommencemeut of, large
emigration of the Dutch to this country. 6
A gang of notoriou oouaterfeitera. believed to
have branch** in IxinievtUe, St. Louis, Indianapoii*
and Ckn tnnati, have been arrested In Wooeter
dark oounty, Indian*.
From Ike Set York Tnbune.
Lot* of the Bark llaon.ro at !■*«-
At the Caetle Garden, yeaterday, we saw five of
the paaeer t-er* and two o: the crew of the Monaaco.
The remainder of the survivor* were wandering
about the city in various directions. Those at Caa
t!e Garden were in charge of the Kev. O.G. lled
a'rom. pastor of the new Bethel Ship, at Pier No. 1 1
North Kiver. The following statement of the dis
aster was dictated in hia presence by the survivors
Kjjlrativi or THE SC BVIYOM.— The American
bark Monaaco, Capt. Dadey. started on ibe l.lih day
of June, from Gothenburg, with 61 ,
gers. and twelve officris and seamen .or New t oon
wereYingie
About
Md though a gonddookout was kept notbmg
rt uld be perceived before sbe struck. Tne disas
ter occu, red in tne mate s watch. The captain ran
up immediately from below, without waiting to
dress, and jumping into the quarter-boat, which
bung on tne' aav its, placed liis wile beside bim, and
shouted ‘ Haul the mail braces, we nave stiuck an
The’sailors sprang to obey the orders, and tbe
passengers ran out from the bouses on deck, ana
lent their assistance. Some of the sailors ran ‘
« a d and lifted up the fore hatch, to see if the wa
ter was gaining on the ship. They found that the
water was already over the water casks home
the passengers aud sailors worked at the pumps,
while others assisted in launching the long boat,
which laid on the top of the forecastle. C apt. Dai
:»y during this time, remained in the quarter boat
wllh hi- wife, and called upon the steward to bring
bim w;iter and provisions, which he did. borne ot
the sailors and passengers tried to get into the quar
ter boat with the Captain, but he said, Don t
come here, or I will shoot you.” We cannot say
whether he had any weapons, but think that the
steward, at Lis request, brought him some.
The long bpat was got out and launched, after
much severe labor, in safety. We could not tell
w hat object we had btruck we could only see some
thing tall and murky looming up through the mist,
and believed that it was an iceberg. The ship be
gan to sink rapidly, and Capt. Dailey, with the three
or four persons in the quarter boat, tried to lower
that iuto the water ; but foun 1 that they could not
ou account of the nearness of the vessel to the ob
jec' on which he had btruck. The Captain then
finding he could not launch it. got out of the quarter
boat, ran to tbe port aide of the vessel with his wife,
and descending by the mizzenchains with bei, they
were taken into the long boat by the mate and
others The Steward, who had been btting out the
quarter boat with water and provisions to save the
Captain and bis wife now held a lantern to the miz
zeu rigging to enable them to get safely into the
10 had he and his wife got into the boat,
which wus now pretty weli loaded (sixteen persons
having taking refuge in it,j then he cned, Shove
h r off the ship.' The steward climbed up in the
rn’zzen rigging with his lantern, aud cned, "Oh,
Captain, are you going to leave me here . Captain
Dailey, will you leave me here 7” This he repeat
ed several times in tones of painful entreaty. The
captain said nothing more than ".Shove on the boat”
which we did as it was deeply laden, and wo Id
have been in danger of going down with the ship.
Y\ e shoved off a little from the bark, leaving the
passengers at work at the pumps for dear life One
of them jumped overboard from tbe bows and tried
to leach the boat; but be perished iu the attempt.
Several of the sailors only reached us by swim
ming.
We afterwards learned from one of tbe survivors
on the vessel that the 1 assengers, wheD they found
themselves deserted by the officers and sailors, calm
ly left the pumps, and went into their cabins, appa
rently resigned to their fate. We laid during the
night about half a mile from the ship, but could not
see it. We suppose that some of the people might
be saved in the morning. The weather was very
calm, or we never should huve survived. At dawn,
the fog having disappeared, we could see land, and
found that the ship had struck ou a rock (as we sub
sequently learned) off Corbin Head, about six miles
from a fishery called "Burin, ’ in Burin County,
N wfouudland. We also found that our vessel had
not entirely sunk, but bad gone (1 own head fore
most.
The rigging was all standing as we had left it, and
the ship was submerged forward about ball way up
the foresail, and the stern was five or six feet out of
the water, but wet by the spray. We found two
passengers and the steward alive in the starboard
mizzen rigging—all of ihe rest were drowned. It
was about half an English mile from the vessel to
where we could land wilh the boat. \Ve rowed
ashore and lauded twelve of our people, including
the captain and his wife, and the other tour took the
boat back to Ibe bark and saved the steward and
the two passengers. The rock against which the
bark struck was at least three times higher than her
mainmast and quite perpendicular.
About three hours after landing we succeeded in
hailing a passing fishing schooner, which came to
our assistance. Capt. Dailey said he did not know
where he was, aud supposing that the Islaud was in
habited by wild people, was very anxious to get
away. He had previously sent three persons to re
connoitre, to see if there were any Indians about.
They went armed with knives anti sticks at his sug
gestion, but did not meet with any adventure. The
captain of the schooner told him that it was Carbon
Head, on which he had lost his vessel, and that the
place was inhabited by civilized people. We got
our breakfast on board the schooner,aud then went
ashore again. The people belonging to the schoon
er then set to work to save the sails and rigging of
the hark, in which they were soon assisted by the
crews of a half dozen other schooners, which short
ly came along.
From California*
The mail steamer Central America has arrived at
New York, with California news to the 20th ult.
Captain Garland, of the Marine Guard of the U.
S. ship Independent-", is a passenger on board the
Central America, having in his charge 101 of the
crew of that ship, whoso time have expired.
Edward McGuire, seaman from the U. S. ship In
dependence, fell overboard on the 9th instant, and
was drowned.
General Summary of News.— We make up
from the weekly Alta California, July 18, and the
Weekly Bulletin, July 20, the following summary of
news:
The State.—Mining matters, as usual, possess
much interest. New discoveries of placer claims
and quart/, veins are constantly being made in all
parts of the mining regions. Fluming operations
on the streams are progressing rapidly and favora
bly, as the waters are nearly down to the summer
lei el, thus enabling the miner to easily drain the bed
of the river.
Agricultural products are good, and the crops or
grain are being harvested in excellent condition in
moßt of the counties despite the unprecedented
drouth which has prevailed.
Both the Eepublican and Democratic parties have
held their State Conventions, and nominated tick
ets. The Republican ticket is as follows: Governor,
Edward Stanly; Lieut. Governor, D. W. Cheese
man ; Supreme Judge, N. Bennett; Comptroller,
L. C.Guun; Treasurer, Lelaud Stanford; Attorney
General, A. A. Sargent; Surveyor General, P. M.
Randall; State Printer, F. M. Murdoch. The fol
lowing is the Democratic ticket: Governor, John
B.Weller; Lieut. Governor, Joseph Walkup; Su
preme Judge, Stephen J. Field; Attorney General,
T. 11. Williams; Comptroller, J. W. Mandeville;
Treasurer, Thomas Findley; Surveyor General, H.
11. Higley, State Printer, John C’Meara.
The Demociatic State Convention assembled at
Sacremento on the 14th, and adjourned sine die on
the night of the following day, after a boisterous ses
sion. As was anticipated, the Administration, or
anti-Broderick party, were greatly in the ascendant,
and bore down all opposition. There was a desper
ate effort made to adopt stringent resolutions con
demnatory of the Vigilance Committee, but the ma
jority were evidently indisposed to renew the agi
tation on t hat exciting subject.
The following nominations were made, and after
war's declared unanimous. For Governor, John
B. Weller ; for Lieutenant Governor, Joseph Wal
kup; for Comptroller-, J. W. Mandeville; for Trea
surer, Thomas Findley ; for Judge of the Supreme
Court, Stephen J. Field; for Surveyor-General, 11.
11. Higley; for State Printer, John O’Mears. There
is little doubt that the disaffected will all give in
their adherence to the nominations. The Republi
can candidate for Governor, Edward Stanley, has
already opened the campaign in a speech delivered
in Musical Hall, in this city, on the evening of the
15th, before an immense audience. He fully defin
ed his position, and took grounds in favor of the
pilncipfes of Republicanism.
A State Nominating Convention of the American
party has been called by the Sachems, to convene at
the Capital.
It is surmised by some that no uominat on for
Governor will be made, but, by others, that a full
Know-Nothing ticket will be presented to the peo
ple for their sullVages.
The Supreme Court, within the past fortnight,
have render’d several important de isions, one in
the suit of Adams vs. Ilaskell 4- 11 oods, which in
volves two propositions: First, whether a creditor of
the firm could pursue his remedy at law, after the
bill was tiled and the Receiver appointed, but be
fore a decree of dissolution. And second, whether
a creditor could attack the whole proceedings on
the ground of fraud and collusion between the par
ties.
The Court, after elaborate argument, concluded
that the interveners having acquired a lien upon the
property of Adams ,V Co., by attachment and judg
ment prior to their decree of dissolution, are entifled
to the fruits of their judgment, and must be first
paid. The Court further decides that the bill of the
interveners show a state of facts which, if true,
would vitiate the #liole proceeding in the Court be
low, under the provisions of the 20th section of the
act concerning fraudulent conveyance.
In theatticfds there is some stir. Mrs. Julia Dean
Ilayne and Mr McDonough, are playing a success
ful engagement at the American Theatre.
A dreadful accident occurred in Tuolumne county
ou the 12th June, from the bursting of the great
reservoir of the Tuolumne Water Company. This
reservoir is located in the mountains, four miles
from the Stanislaus river ; when it burst, a vast
volume of water rushed --'own towards the river,
carrying every thing before it, and overwelming the
miners at work in its course. Same sixteen lives
are reported to have been lost ; and all the damage
had not been ascertained.
J. W. Finley, a native of Baltimore, Md., but for
a long time a resident of San Francisco, where he
was much respected, committed suicide on the 14th
June, by shooting himself. At the time of the com
mission of the deed, he was one of the Justices of
the Peace for this city and county
City.—The Finance Committee, appointed to
examine the books of thelate County Treasurer. R.
E Woods, disaor-ered on thefitn inst another defal
cation of SII,OOO ; money paid to the Treasurer by
auctioneers for State duties in the month of Decem
ber, 1555. The Treasurer and his Deputy are una
ble to explain the matter.
A difficulty occurred in the Sazerao Saloon, on
Clay street, on the morning of the sth instant, be
tween Willis Corse, the proprieter, and James Me-
Cleary Gordon, the latter struck the former, or trip
ped him down several times; whereupon Willis
ilrew a pistol and shot Gordon ; the ball entered uu
del the right armpit, passed downward through the
right kidney, and lodged in the bones of the hip.
Willis gave himself up to the authorities. Gordon
was removed to Dr. Cooper's eye infirmary, on
Mission street, where he died on the Gth instant, at
half-past six P.M. Deceased was a native of Balti
more. aged 24 years.
Sandwich Islands. —Our advices are to June
30th. The volcano of Manna Loa was again, in a
state of eruption. The sugar plantations were in a
flourishing condition. An effort was being made
for the endowment of Oahu College.
Oregon —Our dates are to the 9th inst. The
official majority for Lane is 2,000 and in favor of a
Convention. 5,938 A leadmiea had been discover
ed. and the Colville gold mines were Haltering.
Nkav Police System.—Not the system now
struggling into existence at Commissioners Hall,
but a newer one yet, invented by an ex sea cap
tain, now a well-known and highly respectable
ship owner in South street. The captain's family
being out of town, for the summer, he occupies two
rooms ia the second etory of a fashkmable lodging
house. At these lodgings be has a few little pic
tures and curiosities, and a collection of papers, of
little value to any one but the owner. Having oc
caemn ter leave town for a few days last week, with
tne fact before his eye that moet rooms vacated for
with 11 ?,,* o ' r*. w . ere entered and ransacked, and
wun but Utile conbdenee in the Metropolitans, the
captain arranged matters as follows :
... *, ? &b ‘e m one room he wrote, rry -Look on
the tablein the other room. Mr Thiel "J"' Anri
dot
lars and no questions asked, any tune after Moidav
next. Tins paper was duly signed by the Captain
and couid not tail to strike the eye of any person
entering the room. The Captain returned'on Mon
day, and found that hie rooms had been entered, as
he anticipated; but everything was in peafect or
der, and nothing missing but the memorandum and
promise to pay. On W ednesday, a very polite
servant called on the Captain at his yffice in South
street, and presenting the two papers in an envel
ope, remarked that a gentleman, waiting outside in
his carriage, would be pleased to receive the mo
ney. Thereupon the Captain forked over the ten
dollars, observing the conditions faithfully, and
never even looked out of the window to see the car-
riage drive away, or try to get a squint at ite oocu
pant. —Journal of Commerce
ci&S® 1 -- RiT,:r 7 fw * WBUfr “
'V*" A;'
vfp.; • £ ''&bßEEsb&
Frcm the A\ O Pica yum, 12th tnst.
I.ate and In:ere»rin* from Mexico.
The mails of the steamship Texas reached us this
morning by the steamship Atlantic. ate J are *°
“e 7«li lost from Vera Cruz; to the 3d from the
caDttal —two weeks later.
Xi,e principal news of interest, as ever, concerns
the difficulty with Spain, of which none of the papers
at the capital anticipate a speady or amicable ad
justment. The last Madrid mail arrived the 3!st
ujt. with important for the Government,
was particularly unsatisfactory. “ Spain contin
ued.*’ says the Extraordinary, “ to exact all of her
original demands, and Seuor Lafragua, equally
stern, refuses to yield a point of the grounds first ta
ken—not to allow the Spanish Convention, and not
to give any indemnity to the families of thbae assas
sinated at San Vicente.”
The same paper, doubtless to a degree in the con
fidence of the Government, says :
Altogether, we cannot 3ee that anything towards
an amicable termination of the present trouble has
been arrived at by our latest dates, and the chances
are all on the side* of the breach being made wider
by the receipt of the late instructions from the Gov
ernment of Mexico by Senor Lafragua.
Tl»e instructions here mentioned are those to
which we have before alluded as* containing an ulti
matum, upon which the last negotiations were based.
X<» despatches had been received from Gen. La
fragua since their arrival at Madrid.
fu the meantime, the papers abound in notices of
preparation for war. The defences of Vera Cruz,
in particular, progress with the most remarkable ac
tivity. •Temporary works," says a letter to the
Trait d*Union, “have been thrown up outside the
fortifications of the city; the artillery of San Juan
de Ulua has been put in its place, and many pieces
of great calibre added ; munitions of war are every
where to be seen, aud the enthusiasm of the people
is at its height ” As to the movement of troops,
the Vera Cruz Progreso,sth inst., says:
The Hidalgo battalion of National Guards lias
been incorporated in the Zuloaga brigade ; that of
Tlalpam in the brigade of Echeagaray. The troops
are ready to march at any moment whithersoever
their services are demanded.
On the 22d ult., the fourth Regiment of Cavalry
left San Lu : s Potosi for the capital.
The Spanish war-steamer Leon, of the Havana
squadion. arrived at Vera Cruz on the *2Btb, on
what mission i; net stated. Sbe was anchored at
Sacrificios. .
The papers abound in a thousand rumors and
statements, of what importance, we know not, on
this subject. We give one of the latest from the
Monitor:
It is sa : d on authority of letters from Havana that
the Captain General has orders to put the Spanish
squadron in motion towards the end of September,
the placed of destination being Vera Cruz and Aca
pulco. It is rumored that Santa ’Anna will accom
pany the expedition.
The Monitor more authoritatively adds :
The Supreme Government has entered into a
contract for the manufacture, withiu the shortest
time possible, of a large quantity of arms, of the
very best quality and character. In all the States
the National Guards are putting themselves in a
state of admirable efficiency. There is much en
thusiasm among all classes. We insist that the
President ought to make a solemn levy, and thereby
give public evidence of the spirit of the Republic.
The opportunity is excellent for the consolidation of
liberty in Mexico.
Intelligence of instructions to Mr. Forsyth for the
negotiation of a new treaty with Mexico, had reach
ed the capital and excited the liveliest interest. The
Extraordinary, good authority, says :
We learn by a letter from Washington that the
first injunction of Mr. Forsyth’s government is for
him to settle forever the difficulties concerning the
Tehuuuteyec transit grants. * * * * After the
disposition of the Tehuantepec matter, negotiations
will be commenced for a treaty between the United
States aud this Government, in which it Uto be
hoped the Mexican Government will not neglr-otto
arrange matters so that she may have the sal*- of a
small amount of drafts on theUnitnd Siatus Trea
sury.
Elsewhere the same paper states more distivc<’y
the supposed purport of the forthcoming iua ai t oua
—the comsumination of which it Lopes nothieg will
transpire to retard:
To give Mexico aid in many ways : 4at. By di
rectly furnishing herwith funds. 2d. By amicably
settling with her the annoying claims that have
been for years accumulating in the United States
legation in this city. 3d By establishing such com
mercial relations, that hereafter the comme ce of
this country will be forced to go forward ins ead or
keeping the downward track which has character
iced it for the past few years ; and, above all, by
assuring Mexico that she Las a neighbor who is am
bitious to ass ; st her, rather than press her down and
absorb her territory.
The papers at the capital ridicule the idea that
letters of marque have been sent to this country in
ai ticipation of the war with Spain.
The Pinto war at the South still continues, with
out any prospect of a speedy close. The depre
dationsofthe Indians were of the most barbarous
character.
The Vera Cruz stage which arrived at Mexico
the 25th ult,, was twice robbed on the road.
A serious difficulty has arisen between Mr Smith,
U. S. Vice Consul at Mazatlan, and the authorities
of that port, growing out of the sale of the latter, of
a vessel “bearing the American flag, on an unsub
stantial claim, and with the sanction of a person
claiming to be owner, whose name does not appear
ori the vessel’s papers as such.”
The Vice Consul entered bis protest, and for this
act was thrown into jail, in default of paying a fine
for contempt, alleged by the Court to have been
committed. He was afterwards released on the
order of Gen. Yahez, but struck his flag and refus
ed to have any further transactions with the autlni
ties in an official capacity until a due apology be
made. In the meantime a statement of the case is
on its way to Weshington. The Extraodinary adds
that our Government will be forced to demand an
apolcgy.
Lower California is again in a state of revoil,
and plundering is the order of the day Otherwise
the Republic is politirally at peace. The crops,
however, are turning out badiy, and every one
looks forward to high prices.
Important from Utah.
The Sacramento Union contains important news
from the Valiev of the Great Salt Lake. It will be
seen that the Mormons are not only waging war
ngainst peaceful and unoffending citizens, but that
serious dissensions arc rapidly thinning their own
ranks, and that many of them have already left for
the Atlantic States. The Union Rays :
Crandall’s pioneer coach arrived in our city at
one o’clock this afternoon, from Carson Valley, with
the express matter, the mails and passengers —
travelling time 15 hours. Dates from Salt Lake are
to May 30.
Mr. Wilkens, who came passenger, is direct from
Salt Lake, where he has been residing for nine
months, having had to ffee with his family to Cali
fornia.
Wilkins and party is composed of twenty six per
sons, eight of whom are women. After leaving Salt
Lake they were arrested by a large body qf’ Mor
mons, and taken buck on a charge of horee stealing.
As no evidence, even for a Mormon Court, was
offered against them, they were discharged, at the
request of one Mesick, who knew three of them in
San Francisco—he being the Clerk of the Court.—
After that they were hunted like wolves, night and
day, until they reached Goose Creek mountains,
over one hundred miles from Salt Lake, when the
Mcrmons made a charge on them, and killed six of
their animals.
One half the population would leave, and will do
so, if the Government eends a sufficient force to
protect them.
Brigham declares that if the Saints will stand by
him and the Church, he will be President of the
United States in less than ten years.
Williams, the lawyer, had fled. The destroying
angels were on his track, and it was not known if
lie escaped them. Open and avowed murder of all
who have and are becoming obnoxious, is advoca
ted in public assemblages ; in fact, an offer was
publicly made in a meeting, by one of the faithful,
to murder two Gentile traders at Box Elder, near
the city, who had incurred the displeasure of Elder
Lorenzo Snow, if they did not leave by June 1.
A train of one hundred wagons had left Salt Lake,
bound for the States, all of which belonged to
Apostles.
New dissensions are continually arising. That
which causes the most ill-feeling is, Brigham sell
ing young girls to old men. Several heads of fami
lies have Deen put out of the way, as they call it, on
suspicion of tbeir being apostates, by which means
they prevent the family trom leaving. Several who
heretofore have been in the confidence of the high
priests are known to have been murdered in at
tempting to leave secretly.
Seven ladies, with their families, whose husbands
had made their escape, begged to be t .ken away
by Wilkins’party, expecting daily to see soute of
their number dragged away to the harem of some
i of the annointed.
j Brigham preaches open rebellion to oil attempts
j on the part of the Government to establish a foot
J hold in his Territory. He has inaugu ated a uew
! law, by which he go erns disobedient wives, b’. de
: grading and making menials of them, depriving
! them of the right to marry or have a protector. It
is called an “Earthly Hell.”
Vorcign Mi*<*ellnny.
The Atlantic Telegraph. —The two steam
frigates Niagara and Agamemnon, with their por
tions of the cable on board, arrived at Queenstown
on Wednesday. It was expected that the steamers
engaged in the expedition would proceed to Valen
tia on Thursday, that the shore rope will be landed
on Monday, and tbe work of sinking the cable com
menced on Tuesday next. The terminus, it is
understood, wiil not be on the Island of Valentia,
but in a small bay iu the neighborhood, on the main
laud, where the bottom is smooth, free from sunken
rocks, and protected from the Adamic storms. A
house Is being constructed at the terminus into
which will be introduced the end of the cable, and
during the process of laying no person will have
admission there except tne secretary of the company
and his assistants, and they also will avoid all com
munication with pei sons who may be attracted
there by curiosity. The machinery on board the
Niagara has been satisfactorily tested. It appears
that the telegraph between Valentia and Kilamey,
about 4(1 miles, is in progress, but will not be com
pleted for about a fortnight: so that for the present,
all intelligence respecting tbe progress of this migh
ty work will be sent by mail car once a day to
Kilamey, and thence, Dy way of Dublin and Bel
fast, to all parts of Em ope.
Trial and Conviction or Bacon for Adminis
tering Arsenic to his Mother. —Bacon's trial,
for the murder of his mother, took place at the Lin
coln assizes, on the 25tb. The prisoner who was
weeping during the trial, pleaded not guilty to the
indictment. This case, in all its details, has been
frequently before the public ; but a brief statement
oftbe facts will not be uninteresting. His mother
was an aged woman, and resided in Stanford ; she
was possessed of some property. On the 13th of
May, 1855, she dined with her son, and was taken
very ill, and was purged aud vomited a great deal.
She was taken home ; she recovered, and was well
on Monday, but on Tuesday she was again taken
ill and died. All tbe symptons were those of arse
nic, but the medical men would not pledge them
selves that her death was caused by it, although
there was no doubt it Lad been administered. Pro
fessor Taylor, on his analysis, found about three
quarters of a gram of arsenic. It was the opinion
of Dr. Taylor that the poison had been administered
shortly before her death. Although nearly three
quarters of a grain was found, it must not be forgot
that she had shortly before her death been suffering
from purging and vomiting, which, of course, would
carry off a large quantify. It was two years after
her death before it was found, when the body was
exhumed from Casterton Churchyard.
One important fact wa9, that the prisoner's mother
was possessed of several houses, which he believed
he would come into at the death of bis mother ; and
immediately after thet event he took away the rent
book ; but it did not turn out that the property was
left In that way, as his mother divided it among tbe
rest of the children. It was provt-d in evidence that
the prisoner had purchased arsenic ODly eight days
before his mother's death. He had some time be
fore endeavored, to procure that poison. He sent
his lad for it, saying that he requirea it for hardening
iron, but the chemist refused to sell it. The next
time he procured it by stating that it was
for poison ; ng rats. Professor Taylor and other
medical witnesses were examined, and, when the
case was concluded, the jury, after a short absence
from court, returned with a verdict of “guilty.”.—
The judge then passed sentence of death upon the
prisoner, in the usual form. It is thought that the
prisoner will probably not be hung, but sentenced
to penal servitude for life.
Distinguished Convicts.— W'e recently copied
a paragraph from a Liverpool paper, describing a
remarkable set of convicts about to be sent from
England to Western Australia. Among the con
victs are Sir John Dean Paul: Strahn 6l Bates, the
fraudulent banker?; Robson, the Crystal Palace for
ger; Red path, who commit, ed the forgeries on the
Great Northern Rahway Company : and Agar, who
committed the great gold robbery on the Southeast
ern Rahway. The notorious bank forger. Barris
ter Seward, alias Jem the Penman, the putter up
of all the great robberies in the metropolis for the
last twentv years, also goes out in the same ship.
It must be admitted that rogues of every degree
in England. The administration
rw.r^^ Ula x>' US L lc ® ‘ n t E® t 00,111 try does not respect
r.> ... either rank nor wealth are there permit
ted to screen a man »ho has degraded himself by
minishminwlr . Btat **. <*> the coutrarv, the
punishment of a rich criminal is the exception, no
the rule. There are no greater worshipper l of we Ith
than the Em hah, but Sammon dees not reign in > ~e !
Tnqple of Justice. One oause of the prevalence
crime in this country, is no doubt the lay-v a -d >u- ,
equality in the administration of the laws.— Rich
thepatek ' |
WEEKLY
Cjjtmtkle & SkntindL
AUGUSTA. GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUG. ID, ISM
FOB GOVERNOR,
BENJAMIN H. HILL.
OF TROUT.
FOR CONGRESS.
3d District, Hon. ROBERT P TRIPPE.
4th “ Col. M M TIDWELL.
7th *• u JOSHUA HILL
Bth “ ‘ THOMAS W. MILLER.
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Our correspondents must exercise as much pa
tience as possible. We devote as much space, as
we cau, not to infringe upon the news department
of our paper, to their favors, and will dispatch them
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Correspondents should always write in a clear
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Hon. B. H. Hill’s Letter.
This able and powerful production requires no
commendation at our hands, to induce every intel
,; gent man, into whose hands it may fall, to give it
a careful perusal. It should be extensively circula
ted, and read and studied by every voter in the
South.
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Scatter tlie Document*.
The canvass is daily increasing in interest and
excitement, aud if our friends would succeed, they
must enlighten the people as to the monstrous eha
ricter of the Buchanan-Wai.ker fraud in Kansas.
To do this most effectually, the fads should be
placed in the hands of every voter. Give each a
document, which traces the hideous fraud wi ll a
pencil of light—rendering it clear to the commonest
mind.
The ekies are every where bright and brighten
ing , and if cur friends will but do their duty, a most
glorious triumph will crown their efforts.
Augusta New* lieiii*.
Our citizens will doubtless be quite as much sur
prised to hear of the extreme heat through which
we passed on Friday last, as to learu that “it is re
ported the yellow fever has broken out, being
brought here (to Augusta) by a Spanish ship,” both
of which items of news we find telegraphed from
Augusta—the first in the Baltimore papers, and the
! latter in the Nashville Danner. The clerk of the
weather came within about 18 or 20 degrees of the
temperature in a fair test; and even he is much
; nearer than the yellow fever reporter, as a ship can
not get nearer our city than one hundred and thirty
> miles. The simple truth is, the temperature at noon
on Friday, in a fair exposure in the shade, was 86°
to 88^—and Augusta is remarkably free from dis
, ease of any and ali kinds. Nothing like fever of
* any sort in existence.
Augusta, August 14.—T0-day was the hottest of
1 the season, the mercury at noon standing iu the
1 shade at 10fi degrees, and at nine to-night 96 de
r grees.
i Augusta, August 13.—1 tis reported the yellow
t fever has broken out, being brought here by a
Spanish ship.
The Election iu Kentucky*
» The returns from this State are complete in all
* essential particulars. The congressional delegation
will stand eight Democrats to two Americans, as
• follows :
t Ist District. Henry C. Burnett, (d.;)3£l, S. O.
' Peyton, (d gain ;) 3d, W. L. Underwood, (Amcr.;)
4th, A. G Talbot, (d ;) sth, J. H Jewett, (d. ; ) 6th,
s J. M. Elliott, (d. ; ) 7th, H. Marshall, (Amer.;) Bth,
! J. B. Clay, (d. gain ;) 9t.h, J C. Mason, (d. gain ;)
1 10th, J. W. Stevenson, (d. gain.)
y Garrard, the Democratic candidate for State
, Treasurer, is elected by a majority ranging from
‘ 10,000 to 15 000. In the State Senate there will be
4 tie. In the lower house the Democrats will have
, a majority of about twenty-five.
• This is a pretty strong and conclusive endorse
ment of the Buchanan-Walker Kansas policy ; to
which Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee
respond in thunder tones, Amen. The Georgia De*
mocracy, too, are also making ready “to bend the
j pliant hinges of the knee, that thrift may follow
fawning and will, on the first Monday in Octo
ber, so far as their vote is concerned, proclaim their
acquiescence in the Buchanan Freesoil policy.—
Whether they can rally their forces sufficiently
strong to commit the State to this policy, is yet a
mooted question, as there seems to be quite a num
ber of honest, patriotic, true-hearted Southern men,
who prefer to stand by the South and the country,
rather than obey the dictates of the spoilsmen.
Gen* Atchison and the Georgia Denfocracy.
The Columbus Times 4* Sentinel , of the 13th
instant, says :
“We call the attention ofnur readers to the letter
of Gen Atchison, of the Territory of Kansas, which
i? published in aim her column, which places our
triends in a right position in regard to that corrupt
official. Gov. Walker.”
Gen. Atchison in the letter referred to, speaks
thus of Governor Walker :
“Walker has done us and our cause more injury
than Haie, Chsss. or any other Abolitionist could
have done ; yet, I do not despair.”
Why does the Times 4* Sentinel persist in en
deavoring to distinguish between Walker aud
Buchanan ? Why denounce Walker as a “cor
rupt official and utter no word of complaint
against the President ? The Pre.ad* ut is the prin
cipal and Walker only the agent who has carried
out the instructions of tbe principal. Does not the
Times &r Sentinel know that the President read
and approved Walker’s inaugural before Walker
left Washington City ? If it does not know this
fact, it should set about informing itself, before it
attempts to enlighten public opinion. Does not the
Times 4- Sentinel know that the President not
only approved the inaugural before it was delivered,
but that his o"gan, the Washington Union , has since
proclaimed his approval and endorsement of that
document ? What, then, is the difference between
Buchanan and Walker, that Walker should be
designated a corrupt Walker is only
the agent, bound to obey the instructions of the
President —that he ha* obeyed them the President
does not deny. Is an agent “ corrupt ” because he
obeys the instructions of his principal ? Will the
Times 4* Sentinel inform its readers which is the
more “corrupt” the President or Walker ?
The Greene County Meeting—Truth*
The following paragraph from the Temperance
Crusader , gives quite a different coloring to the
proceedings of the meeting in Greene, from that
given by a correspondent of the Constitutionalist.
It seems to be quite a difficult accomplishment for
a democratic correspondent to tell the truth about
any political event. The story was, however, alto
gether too transparent to be credited by any intelli
gent man, thatJMr. Hill's friends anywhere, dread
ed or feared his coming in contact with Mr. Brown
or any other man of the party in the State.
From the Crusader.
“Fair Play.” —ln Saturday's Constitutionalist,
we are informed, very shamefully misrepresents the
proceedings of the American meeting in Greensboro.
He is in eiror all the way through, and seems to
have labored very hard to manufacture a /te, and a
very unreasonable one indeed he did bring forth. It
appears like an inevitable result of political meet
ings, is the creation of lying, shalloir-brained netes
pappr scribblers.
The truth concerning that portion of the proceed
ings which “fair play” denounces, is this : A mo
tion was made to invi e the candidates for Governor
to speak in Greensboro, and was upon the eve of
being put by the Chairman, and would have passed
unanimously, but Maj. R. L. McWhorter just then
moved that B. H. Hill, Esq., be invited by the
American Party, and that the opposite Party be re
quested to invite Judge Brown to meet him at that
point. The motion passed, and a committee was
appointed to notify the Democratic Party of the
resolution, and they held a meeting immediately
and invited Judge Brown.
From the spirit and disposition heretofore mani
fested by the American Party of this county, we
presume they are not “afraid of discussion.” We
make this correction because we like to see the truth
circulated about everything, even political meetings.
This Convention was a county affair, and we dis
like to see the proceedings of an honorable body of
our fellow-citizens so basely misrepresented, under
the weak guise of fair play.
-
Fashion Lise. —This line (says the Savannah
Republican, of yesterday morning,) which consists
of the steamers Amazon, Columbia and Talomica,
was completed yesterday by the arrival of the last
mentioned boat from Charleston. She will proba
bly leave with freight for Augusta to-day.
An Interesting Incident.— Capt. Woodhcu,
of the steamer Augusta, which arrived at Savan
nah, from New York, on Tuesday last, reports the
birth of a daughter to a lady passenger, Mrs. T.
Churchile. The little stranger was duly chrißten
ed, in honor of the vessel and her commander, Au
gusta WooDHULL Chukchill.
The Chicago Journal records the murder in that
city of Mrs. Deidricb, nearly 80 years of age, and
the arrest of her sod and daughter for the unnatural
mime. They were Germans in extreme poverty,
and engaged in drunken brawls continually.
Exposing the Demagogue.
The Central Georgian Bays :
“ We have been credibly informed that a gentle
man of Coweta county, who has heretofore acted
with the Democracy, but now repudiates them
and the Administration, received a letter from
a distinguished leader of that party in this State, de
tailing the plans for the campaign. They must say
as much as possible about Know Nothings, signs,
secrets and oaths, so as to divert the attention of the
people from the true issues now before them, and as
little as possible about Walker and the Administra
tion. The gentleman promptly exposed the secret
cii cular of the Washington, Ga., Regency, and
now acts with the American party.”
This then is the game in the present canvass of
the political knaves and tricksters who have be
trayed the South : Fearing the people are about to
open their eyes and to avenge the treason, they
hope to draw off their attention by haranguing them
about dark lanterns, secret signs, and oaths, while
Buchanan and Walker are selling the South and
her rights to the Northern, Freesoil, National De
mocracy. It won’t do to talk about the Buch ana >
and Walker policy in Kansas—oh, no ; that can
not be defended before an intelligent people, but
you may deceive and betray them again by an
adroit intrigue, and therefore you must make a
great noise and fuss about dark lanterns, seerel and
oath-bound associations, and by this means you
mey commit Georgia to the support of the Alien
Suffrage, Squatter Sovereignty, Buchanan and
Walker Administration. Are the people of Geor
gia, and the whole South, suoh abject slaves to par
ty, such submissive collar men as to tamely submit
to these things 7 We shall see.
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American Nominations.
Terrell Co. —For Senator, Matthew Williams,
Esq. For House, Samuel Williams, Esq.
Lee Co.—Samuel Lindsay for the Senate, and
Philip West for the House.
Webster Co.—Sampson Bell, Eeq., for the Senate
andL. B. Causey, Esq., for the House.
Scriven Co.—William S. Moore for the Senate,
and D. E Roberta for the House.
Stewart Co.—T. W. Battle for the Senate, and
J. Hadden and Mark Holloman for the House.
Spaulding Co.—H. P. Kirkpatrick for the Sen
ate, anp James Lavender for the House.
Worse than Squatter Sovereignty. —The
American party contended last summer in political
discussion, says the Altmphis Eagle S? Enquirer,
that the people of a Territory could only perform
sovereign acts when they did so through the me
dium of a Cous.itutioual Convention. In this,
some of the Democracy agreed with us. A majority
of them concealed that dower to the Territorial
Legislature, but it was denied by no one that the
Constitutional Convention had the power. Now,
how stands the case ? The Walker Democracy,
while they concede to the Constitutional Convention
of Kansas sovereign power, concede the same pow'
er to the people, by submitting to them the appro
val or rejection of a Constitution when framed. —
That is not the worst either. The Constirution of
Kansas is not to be submitted only to the people
who authorized its formation and whose act it is, bu*
to another set of people who will come into
the Territory after the instrument is framed and the
sovereign act performed. A majority of the people
who will vote on the adoption or rejection of the
Constitution, will be those who refused to vote for
delegates to the Convention, and those who have
come into the Territory subsequently from the
States, expressly for the purpose of voting. So that
the submission of the Constitution of Kansas to the
people will be the first example on record of the
sovereign act of one people beiDg submitted to
another people for acceptance or rejection. That,
in our opinion, constitutes the blackest hue of Squat
ter Sovereignty of which the mind cau conceive.—
It would te no worse to submit it to the popular
vote of Massachuse'ts.
Editorial Accessions. —The Atlanta American
contains a spirited and well written Salutatory from
F. J. Robinson, of Lexington, announcing his con
nection with the Editorial department of that jour
nal. The services of J. S. Peterson, of Lawrence
ville, have been secured in the Commercial depart
ment. We congratulate the American, and wel
come the gentlemen most cordially into the Edito
rial fraternity.
Found Drowned. —L. Levy, Esq., held an in
quest yesterday on the body of a negro man, found
in the Canal. He was not recognized, and in the
absence of evidence, the Jury rendered a verdict,
“found drowned.”
If any person has a negro missing, they can ob
tain a description of the dress of this boy by apply
ing to L. Levy, Esq.
The Cassville Standard on Judge Thomas’
Letter. —The Cassville Standard publishes the
letter of Judge Thomas, -and accompanies it with
the following remarks: —“No paper in Geoigia, we
believe, has endorsed this letter except the Know
Nothing press —they seem to be delighted with it
because they think it will make a split in the De
mocratic ranks—but they are sadly mistaken. The
letter, to say the least of it, is written in bad taste,
with malice aforethought, and does no credit to the
head or heart that conceived it. It is no way to
meet an opponent, or to discuss a grave question
with such venomous language. We think the Jndge
will lead about as many true Democrats with him,
upon this sensation, as followed him in his celebra
ted Tugalo strike.”
Important from Kansas. —An extra from the
Lawrence Herald of Freedom, under date of the 3d
instant, conveyß startling intelligence of the descent
of the Cheyenne Indians on Fort Riley. The extra
says:
Official evidence has reached Governor Walker,
through the commanding officer at Fort Riley, that
the Cheyenne Indians in force, have reached that
station, where there is no fortification, and only half
a company of infantry. The commanding officer
at the Fort asks for immediate assistance, -‘an at
tack being hourly expected,” and the garrison filled
with the wives aud children of absent officers and
men. The official report represents that “the In
dians had driven in all the settlers and committed
several murders in sight of the poet.” Under these
circumstances Gov. Walker has sent Col. Cooke,
with the whole force under bis command, to the
point of danger. Col. Cooke started with the ad
vance at BA. M , to-day, and by forced marches
hopes to reach Fort Riley to morrow evening, ac
companied by the Governor. The rest of the troops
follow immediately, and will proceed with all possi
ble expedition. It seems to be wisely ordered by
Providence that the troops, who are now here so
much nearer Fort Riley, should thus be enabled to
reach that point in so brief a period to give speedy
protection to the garrison and settlers, and it is
hoped, inflict summary chastisement upon this hos
tile tribe.
A Savannah Man Taken in. —The New York
Tribune, of Saturday, Bays : “A gentleman from the
city of Savannah, Ga., at present staying at a hotel
in this city, was allured last evening into a gam
blingcircle. The party—numbering several—play
ed at cards, drank as they proceeded, to the com
plete prostration of the strange:, who is thoroughly
convinced that his beer was drugged with a view to
his Bure defeat and robbery. Before 11 o’clock he
had lost $576, all the cash which he at the time pos
sessed ; subsequently his gold watch was staked for
S2OO ; which, on its appearance, was forcibly car
ried off by the gamblers. The watch is the proper
ty of the gentleman’s sister, and its loss to her ib
his greatest affliction. He is well to do, and says he
would not have lost it lor vastly more than its value.
William S. Wetmore, Esq., was to give a grand
Fete rhampetre Monday, at Newport, commencing
at three o'clock and seven. The preparations for
the dancers arc an immense tent, 80 feet square, the
ground enclosed in it being entirely boarded over.—
Another tent, 50 by 25, is to be spread for refresh
ments. The tables will be luxuriously spread. The
Germanises are engaged for the occasion, and all
the other arrangements are on the same princely
scale. Upwards of 2,000 invitations have been is.
sued.
Emigration. —Durmgthe month of July eighty
#three emigrant-carrying vessels, including seven
steamers, arrived at New York, bringing 27,192
passengers—being 10,000 more than were landed
here during the corresponding month of last year
Os this number 415 were first class passengers. The
remaining 27,177 were taken to the emigrant depot
at Castle Garden, and were sent thence to different
points of the oountry—but mostly to the West.—
Nearly one-half of the number of arrivals daring
the month were from the port of Liverpool.
The Cotton Bond. —At a public meeting recent
ly held in Manchester, Alderman Mason stated some
interesting facts in relation to the value of cotton,
not only as an article of manufacture, but as a bond
of friendship between Great Britain and the United
States. He said that the first bale of cotton was
imported into England from America in 1782. At
that time, the entire consumption in England amoun
tep to 20,000,000 lbs. nearly all of which came from
the British West Indies, the French and Dutch
possessions, and from Turkey. The consumption
at the present time amounts to 900,000,000 lbs.; no
less than 700,000 workmen are engaged in the trade
and a population of from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 is
indirectly dependent upon it. At this moment there
are 30,000,000 spindles and 30,000 looms at work,
or there would be that number but for bad trade.—
In 1845 there was in the various ports of England a
stock of cotton equal to thirty-nine weeks’ consump
tion, and at the close of 1856 it had dwindled down
to about twelve weeks’ consumption. Four-fifths of
the entire supply of cotton comes from America,
and thus the bond between the two countries is the
most important that can be conceived.
Missouri Election. —The Washington Union
has a private dispatch from St. Louis, expressing
the opinion that notwithstanding the reported suc
cess of Rollins, the election of Stewart, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor, by a small marjor
ity, is probableL
A case of pure and unmistakab'e Asiatic cholera
occurred in Newark, N. J., on t Saturday, and the
cauhe assigned is the filthy con dition of the out
bouses in the neighborhood where the case appear
ed. Two deaths from cholera also took place in
New-York qity last week, wbenb out of 551 deaths,
no leee than 260 were from boiyel diseases, 115 being
of cholera infantum.
Another Transit Route. —The Mexican papers
snnonnee that arrangements are in an advanced
state of progrees, and will be completed the present
month of August, for the establishment of regular
horse and mule trains between the city of Mexico
and Acapulco, on the Pacific, to run in connection
with the California steamers, which touch at that
port about the 7th and 22d of each month on their
upward trip, and on the 13th and 28th in passing
down. They think the passage from New Orleans
to California can be made at less expense via the
ancient of the Aztecs than by the Panama
steamers. The' roads from Vera Cruz are good, and
traveling expeditious and delightful; though noth
ing is said in this connection of the bandits, of whioh
we find suffioiehtly frequent mention elsewhere.
Forthcoming History from Santa Anna. —ln
his recent letter, repudiating the authorship and
sentiments of the Carthagena manifesto, of the 7th
of April, Santa Anna states that he is engaged in
the preparation of a narrative, not oDly of what he
“has himeeif done for his country, but of the acta of
those who have controlled her destiny, on the three
several occasions on whioh he was compelled, by
unfortunate circumstances, to separate himself
from herin other words a history of the three
most important revolutions of the Rcpubho. He
says that the publication of the work, which seems
to be nearly ready for the press, has been delayed
chiefly for want of certain dates not hitherto in his
possession. The old chieftain s narrative will be
looked fur with a great deal of inteiest.
The Weather.—' The thermometer in our office
yesterday indicated a temperature of 91 deg. at noon,
and 10 o'clock P. M , the Mercury had only fallen
two degrees. This is the warmest weather we have
had since June, when the Mercury rose to 93 deg.
At the election which took place in North Caro
lina, the people were required to vote upon a pro
position to amend the Constitution es the State so
as to allow all legalized voters for members of the
House of Commons to vote likewise for State Sena
tors. This is the measure popularly termed “free
suffrage,” which has been under discussion in the
State for several years past. It reeeived the sanc
tion of both branches of the Legislature, and, from
the aspect of the returns so far received, has proba
bly been approved by a large majority oi the people.
Postage Stamps Not Redeemed. —The first
assistant Postmaster General, H. King, writes July
25,that —
“There is no provision whatever in the P. O. act
authorizing the use ot stamps as currency; nor is
there, for that reason, any provision for their re
demption by the Department, where, by such use,
they accumulate in inconvenient quantities in in
dividual hands. If persons receive them as re
mittances, they must rely for reimbursement on the
sale of them.”
Hot Weather— On Saturday and Sunday the
weather was intolerably hot at Cincinnati. The
thermometer ranged from 98 to 100 degrees in the
shade. Five men were sun struck on Saturday,
one of whom died, and another was hopelessly ill.
The heat is said to have caused the death of several
horses, mules and cattle. On Sunday afternoon the
city was visited by a violent thunder storm.
The Cotton Trade.— Out of 900,000,000 lbs. of
ootton imported into Great Britain last year, no less
than seven hundred million pounds were from the
United States. A rise of one penny on the pound m
the proe of cotton involves a national loss to En
gland of $20,000,000 to $30,000,000. The depen
dence of England on the United States for supply
has increased from 45 per cent, of their consumption
in 1801, to 80 per cent, at the present time
Freights. —A London letter to a commercial
house in Boston says : “Owing to the large number
of troops to be sent out to the East Indies, heights
will be better. Upwards of twenty large eteamers
and twenty-five sailing vessels are chartered to take
them out at JC3O to £4O per head for steamers, and
£lB to £2O for sailing ships, finding provisions,
New Sfurious Note.— A new $lO note on the
“ Merchants’ Bank," Baltimore, Md., made its ad
vent in Cincinnati on Tuesday last. It has for cen
tre vignette two human figures, figure of monster
standing on chest, &.C., aud letter X each side.
Genuine bill lias for centre vignette a railroad train
This difference will enable our readers to detect
this attempt to impose on the public.
It was conjectured the other day that the highest
salary ever paid in this country is that of $25,000
granted to Mr. Moran, President of the New York
and Erie Railroad. The New. York Mirror says that
the head man in'Stuart’s sugar refining business re
ceived for years an annual salary of $30,000, aud
that he resigned his place for some more profitable
employment.
California Mail Link— The New York Com
mercial learns that the contrast sor the semi-month
ly mail by steamship from Haw Francisco to Olym
pia, has been closed with the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company at $122,500 per annum, from 10th of
October, 1857, for four years. The steamers are to
comiect witli the Aspinwall or Panama lines, and
touch ar Humboldt Bay, Trinidad and Crescent
City, Umpqua City, Astoria, Shoalwater Bay and
Port Townsend. A negotiation for the arrangement
has been for some time pending between the Go
vernment and Mr. Davidge, President of the Pa
cifio Mail Steamship Company, aDd is now success
fully brought to a close. The new arrangement
will be a great convenience to the public, while it
will contribute largely to the revenue of the Pa
cific Mail Steamship Company, and add to the im
portance of the route.
Accident on the Grkbnvii.lk Road. —We re
gret to learn, says the Columbia South Carolinian,
that a mournful accident occurred on Wednesday
at the Saluda Bridge. The passenger train had a
short time previously passed over the bridge, but a
freight train which followed was not so fortunate.
The engine and tender, with several cars, fell
through, from a pier giving way, and Mr. Dobbins
and Mr. Morrison, firemen, were killed—the en
gineer escaped.
The agents of the Great Eastern are now negotia
ting for three voyages across the Atlantic instead
of one. This will enable return tickets to be issued
in America; and if the ship pays we may yet see
her permanently on the Portland station. Upwards
of six thousands tickets have already been issued.—
Says the State of Maine: “It is our deliberate judg
ment that the Great Eastern will continue to run to
America instead of Australia, and be merely a
pioneer ship of the European and North American
four days’ line of ocean steamers.”
The Queen of England has recently been living
in camp with the soldiers at Aldershutt. She had a
good opportunity to try the comfort of living under
canvas, as a heavy rain storm prevailed daring a
part of the time she was there. There were grand
reviews and sham fights got up for her to witness,
with all the various plans of attack and retreat.
There were 73 battles fonght during the year 1855,
with an average loss of 1,000 men in each ; more
than 300,000 soldiers are estimated to have perished
by disease and battles. The battles average more
than one a week. 1855 was thus one of the bloodiest
years in modern history.
Pearls found in Spartanburg.— The Spartan
burg Express says : There were shown to us, a
few days ago, by Dr. W.C. Kilgore, three beauti
ful pearls, which he informed us had been taken by
one of his neighbors from some muscles found In
Ben’s Creek. They were submitted to the inspec
tion of Mr. Charles Bechtler, of our town, who has
been engaged in the watch and jewelry business
for a number of years, and is therefore very com
petent to judge of their character, and he pronounc
ed them genuine pearls. They were of a bright
brilliant color, almost transparent. We would judge
them to be of considerable value.
The steamers and clippers engaged by the India
House for the conveyance of troops to Calcutta, are
to forfeit £3O per day for every day beyond seven
ty occupied in their passage to that port, while they
are to receive SGO for every day saved from that
time. The terms paid for the Bteamers range from
£39 to £49 per man. For the James Baines and
Champion of the Seas the rate is £25 per man, and
for the smaller sailing vessels it is £lB.
A Cambridge Degree Conferred on a Jew. —
The Clerical Journal announces that the commence
ment witnessed the first admission of a Jew to a
degree in the University of Cambridge. Mr. Ar
thur Cohen, a nephew of Baron Rothschild, and a
fellow-commoner of Magdalen College, was the suc
cessful candidate.
Gas and Steam in Egypt. —A company from
Nycahas entered Into a contract with the Egyptian
Government to light Alexandria with gas, and has
already commenced the construction of the works.
The Nile Steam Navigation Company has already
three steamers running, and is expecting nine offi
cers from Holland and England.
The Grasshopper Plague.— Grasshoppers are
said to exhist in great numbers in New Jersey this
season. Whole fields in the neighborhood of Bel
videre, are made desolate, as if recently ploughed.
Young clover seems to be their favorite food but
when hard pressed, they devour mulleins and alders
tripping th em clean.
It is estimated, says the Washington correspon
dent of the Philadelpnia Press, that the new Dome
for the Capitol will weigh 7,500 tons, and that its
erection will take ten years. The new Houses of
Congress will be ready for occupancy by a year
from next December, and not in the coming session,
as it was expected.
The Expulsion op Matteson to be Moved.—
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times writes : By the way, I understand from
(food authority that Col. Keitt, of South Carolina,
declares his determination to move the expulsion of
O. B. Matteson from the House, next winter, if he
resumes his seat without a re-election. This will
bring up the whole question of Congressional corrup
tion again.
Free Negro Emigrants to Miiico. —The
Mexican Extraordinary expresses the opinion that
the free negro settlement, on the banks of the Po
poloapam, in the State of Vera Cruz,compos*ed prin
cipally of emigrants from Louisiana, will prove any
thing but a blessing to the country, and calls the
special attention of the Government to it. The
present generation, with habits of industry formed
in this State, have engaged diligently and success
fully in the cultivation of maize, but in view of the
history of Bt. Dimingo, Jamaica, <kc , and the na
ture of the African race, augurs but poorly of the
future.
The following paragraph from the Chicago Times
gives an idea of how harvesting is done in the
West:
“A friend of ours says that one day last week. he
went up to the top of a hill called Mt. Zion, six miles
from Janesville, Rock Co., Wis. and counted on
the surrounding plain one. hundred and sixty-four
horse power raping machines, busily cutting down
il 1.. There were one thousand men, women and
bo„ ollo winger, binding and .hooking up the
l.u„. vm It was a sight worth seeing, to be
hold therein falling and being gathered up at the
rate of two hundred acres per hour ?
The St. Louis Insurance Company have made a
very remarkable dividend —15 per cent, on the past
quarter’s business. Good luck seems to be the pre
siding genius of this Company, aided, bo doubt,
very materially by good jud^nent.
Loiter from (he lion. Br 11. Hill.
LaGkangk, Ot, An;;. 14,1857.
Mr. Editor :— Many friends, Democrats and
Americans, have requested me to write out the
views which I have, on several occesions, hid tho
presenting to the people, on the subject of
unrestricted suffrage—its origin—bearing upon
slavery, and its connection with the Buchanan-
Walker policy in Kansas. Iu addition to this re
quest, frequently repeated, two other reasons com.
bine to induce me to do so :—lst, the constant and
oft-repeated and miserably perverted accounts,
which certain opposition papers and persons persist
in giving of what 1 have said ; and 2(1, because I
wish to be distinctly understood on this, as qn all
other questions ; and, fully convinced of the cor
rectness of all ray facts and deductions, I am willing
to submit them to the scrutiny of friends, the malice
of foes, and the calm consideration of alf honest
men, and especially of those Who6c destinies are
with ininq— in the South.
During the Mexican war the idea of acquiring
territory as the result of that war, was advanced
and discussed. It soon revived a discussion ot
slavery or no slavery iu the territories, should they
be acquired. The agitation was getting warm —
some for the Missouri Compromise, others for the
Wilmot Proviso—others correctly against both.—
During this agitation, in August IS 17, Mr Buchanan
urged the policy of adheriug to the Missouri line,
and to satisfy his Northern brethren who wished to
adopt the Wilmot Proviso, and thus exclude slavery
from all the territory, he suggested the idea that
the inhabitants of that territory, South of 36 J 30',
would have the right to prevent iis settlement by
slaveholders, aud said it was ‘‘improbable that a
majority of the people of that region would consent
to re-estab.ish slavery." Why did he think so, and
what did he mean by people ? Let his own words
in to# next sentence answer : “They are them
selves, iu a large proportion, a colored population ;
and among them the negro does not sooialfy belong
to a degraded race!’ As far as I have been able
to search, this is is the first time the idea was ever
suggested of leaving the question of slavery to tho
“inhabitants,'' or all the people ot tho territory,
without regard to citizenship.
Mr. Walker, about the same time, adopted tho
same idea, and said that, “Beyond the Del Norte
slavery will not pass; not only because it is forbid,
den by law, but because the colored raea there pre
ponderates, in the ratio of ten to one over the
whites,'' and holding this power, they would “not
permit the enslavement of any portion of the colored
race.” Ido not intend to say that Buchanan and
Walker are now in favor of allowing colored suffrage
Ido not know that they have ever retracted tics
language ; nor do I know that they adhere to it.—
My present object is to show how, with whom, and
for what purpose the idea of leaving the question to
the inhabitants instead of eithens, was first origin
ated. Gen. Cass, in December 1817, iu his Nichol
son letter, adopted this idea and declared his wil
lingness to leave “the people inhabiting them (the
territories) to regulate their internal concerns in
their own way and Baid at the same time, that
“from the feelings of the inhabitants aud t lie laws
of nature, ‘it is impossible,’ as Mr. Buchanan Bays,
‘that it (slavery) oan ever re-establish itself,’ ’’
The South objected to Gen. Cass* and he was de
seated.
The first application of this doctrine was in iho
adoption of the constitution of California. Suffrage
there was unrestricted, and tho inhabitants indis
criminately voted. The South objected. A contest
arose, not as to whether this indiscriminate voting
in California was right, because the whole South—
all parties —agreed it was wrong, but a majority
finally agreed to the position of the Georgia Plat
form to “ abide” it, but at the same time condemned
it. Why did the people of the South “ abide ” it i
Ist. Because to resist after California was admit
ted, might disrupt the Union ; and, 2d, because at
the same time the doctrine of citizen suffrage was
distinctly asserted in the Utah and New Mexico
bills i and these principles of citizen suffrage and
non-intervention were agreed toby ail parties, as a
permanent adjustment of the slavery issue. In this
“ permanent settlement,'' then, unnaturalized alien
suffrage was repudiated !
In the session of Congress for 1853 and 34, the
Nebraska Kansas bill wasintroduced. The uni tain
ralized alien feature was incorporated in the bill-
In February, 1854, the Georgia Legislature passed
a resolution, unanimously, endorsing this bill,but it
is evident that by this resolution the Legislature did
not intend to endorse this feature of the bill; Ist,
because the object of that bill was declared to bo
the repeal of the Missouri line aud the extension of
the legislation of 1850, (the Utah and New-Mcxieo
bills;) 2d, because, from the bill which was pend
iug in t ha United States Senate when the resolution
was passed, the clause allowing unnaturalized alien
suffrage was soon after stricken out, and that main
ly by a Southern vote, showing the South did not
approve the doctrine; and, 3d, because since the
passage of that resolution no member, ns lar as 1
know, who voted, has dared to come out and say'
that in voting for tho resolution he intended to en
dorse unnaturalized aiieu suffrage, nor do I believe
anyone will now come out and say ho so intended-
The bill as it passed the Senate, however, did
not become a law. It went to the House, and there
Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, (the Democratic candi
date for Speaker,) offered a substitute for the Senate
bill, and this substitute did puss, and did contain
the clause allowing unnaturalized alien sujj'rage /
The question of slavery was to be left by that bill to
the people —meaning by people, aliens as well an
ci'lzens. The Territorial Legislature nsseuibled in
1855—and in accordance with a power delegated by
the organic act, changed the qualification of Totem
iu the future elections, restricting tlie right to vote
to citizens — native and naturalized. It lias been
Baid that this Legislature was pro-slavery, mid that
as foreigners were allowed to vote for members,
that unnaturalized foreigners must have been fa
vorable to slavery. The Legislature was pro-slave
ry, but how was it eleoted 7 I will not stop now to
show, bnt will simply say what every informed man
knows, and what no honest man will dt ny, this Le
gislature was not elected by unnaturalized foreign
ers. Ido not stop now to show this, because t here
is another and a better answer to the idea that un
naturalized foreigners were favorable to slavery, it
is this : f they were favorable to slavery aud e cot
edthis Legislature, why did Ibis same Legislature—
the most stringently pro slavery hody, perhaps, that
ever assembled— exclude, these unnaturalized for
eigners from voting afterwards, and confine the.
right of voting to citizens ?
In J une, 1856, the Democratic Convention met
at Cincinnati to adopt a platform, and nominate a
candidate for the Presidency. This platform leaves
the question of slavery aud the Constitution to be
determined by the “fairly expressed will of a ma
jority of actual residents." As far as my knowledge
extends, this is the first National platform that ever
extended the doctrine of suffrage to “actual rest
dents," instead of citizens, aud it was certainly not
inconsistent for that Convention to nominate as its
candidate, the man who first advanced the idea, ns
I have shown. Mr.*Buehanan was elected. I now
come to the important developments of this doc
trine, and I ask every honest man, as he loves truth
more than party, aud country more than mere sue
cess, and who feels that bis destiny is in and with
the South, to consider the facts that follow. I shall
stale them fairly, and I believe I can defy •ontra
dietion, in even unimportant particulars, if a single
syllable of fact that follows cau be considered uu
important.
There are aud have been two parties in Kansas ;
the one is the anti slavery or Northern party, and
the other is the pro-slavery or Southern party. —
These parties have, for some time, refused to have
the same laws or obey the same government. They
have separate elections and separate Legislatures
The anti-slavery party meet in their Conventions,
and assemble their Legislature at Topeka, and cer
tainly are acting in violation of all law, and are in
open rebellion. The pro slavery party act in ac
cordance with law, and therefore keep in the right.
During the last tailor winter, Ute pro slavery Lo
gislature took steps to frame a Constitution, pre
paratory to admission into the Union tvs a State
They passed a law authorizing delegates to be
elected to a Constitutional Convention. They pre
scribed a legal and proper qualification for votess,
aDd, to prevent fraud, and have afair vote of all the
legal voters in the Territory, they appointed a cen
SUB to be taken, and have all the legal voters to
register their names as living in file Territory, on
the 15th of March, 1857, three months before t lie
election, which was to lake place on the 15th of
June, 1857. This previous residence and itrict
qualification effect umed the power of the
abolition emigrant aid societies to thtod the Teirito
ry with indiscriminate voters ju t before the elec
tion. This Legislature also adopted the rule which
had been followed by a majority of the States-uow
in the Union, and made no provision for referring
tbe Constitution back to the people for ratification.
This was certainly all legal, all fair, according to
precedent, and ail safe to the South.
But this arraegement did not suit the Black Re
publican Topeka men, and they declared they
would not register their names as voters, nor par
ticipate in the election. Now, why I Will auy
Georgian weigh the reason—see the the istue, ant!
then learn on which side of this issue, Buchanan and
Walker both stand 7 I will now be so careful as to
quote the Topeka Republicans, Walker yiud Bu
chanan, in their own language. These Tqpcka Re
publicans assembled in delegate Convention a. To
peka on tbe 20tb of March, 1857, and there declared
on this subject as follow s ;
“ W hei eas, said act (the act of Lite pro slavery
Legislature above described) purports to disfrau
entse certain bona fide settlers of Kansas, who have
filed their declaration ot intention to become citt
zens, and are recognized as voters by tbe organic
act ; and, whereas, there is no provision iu the said
regulation for submitting the Constitution so framed
to the vote of the people of the Territory , Therefore
Resolved, That the people of Kansas Territory
cannot participate in any election under suolHßtgu
lation," &c, 4zc.
Now note particularly, these two reasons given by
these Black Republicans for refusing to vote at this
election: Ist. Because the pro slavery Legislature
in their act did not allow the foreigners, who were
not naturalized, but who had simply filed thegr de
claration of intention to become citizens, to vote—
plainly, because the act did not aliow unnatural, z
ed aliens to vote ! And 2d. Because there was no
provision requiring the Constitution framed to be
submitted back to a vote of the people for rntifea
linn. That party, in other words, through their
press, declare they will not submit to any Constitu
tion “without a fair vote upon that Constitution,
and without a fair, unrestricted vote, of tne bona
fde inhabitants, including foreign born aswsltn*
native born citizens,' doc.
In this condition matters stood when Wal
ker entered the Territory. The pro slavery party,
acting through citiieu suffrage and their duly and
legally oalled constitutional Convention, ami he
Black Republican party, insisting ujron unreslrict
ed suffrage, and that the Constitution should be re
ferred back, and alao claiming, that in contending
for unnaturalized alien suffrage they were standing
on the organic act— Kansas bill!
Now, which side in this controversy, did Oov.
Walker take? Just here iet him speak for himself.
In hisinangural address, he says :
“ Indeed, I cannot doubt that the Convention, as
ter having lramed a State Constitution, aill submit
it for ratification or rejection, by a majority ol the
then bona fide resident settlers ol Kansas.
“ I repeat, then, says Walker, as my c’earconvic
tion, that unless the Convention submit thsTGonsti
tution to the vole of all the actual resident settlers
of Kansas, and lha election be just,y and fairly
conducted, the Constitution wilt be, and ought to be
" R not [l 10
language I have quoted fioin the Topeka Republi
can! adopted on the 20th 8f March, -dvance the
very same doctrine of Waker in the above quota
tionsfrom his inaugural address and mark you, the
Black Republicans took the position first, the ,20th
of March, and Walker followed alter I hem—bw in
augural being delivered on the 27tb of J/«y Who
del Walker mean by “ps .pie' and *? ne in
tiers." Let him explain himself es heihas done in
bis Topeka speech ; while talking to the very men
v-ho adopted the above resolutions, tie sajsj
"I sneak not now in regard to the past, or any
nnstrv of votes ,- but I speak as regards the »u
--ture My doctrine is this .- that in the tutdVe, when
the Constitution Sba'l be submitted to the vote of
the citisens of Kansas, that it shall be submitted to
the vote ot the whole people Jdo not mean those
who are now registered under tbs Terri burial law j
I do not mean those who- were residing Wore on the
3 bth of March Inst i but I mean, tbs whole people
of Kansas—not oniy those who are here now, but
those who t esll he here noset fall as aetual resi
dents,’’ too. I
There same Topeka Republieat s hud also raid
that they would sut.mit to no On sti’U'inn which
was not thus submitted and vut»d on liv all the ‘in
habitants,” lh-r alien, the “foreign born ns well as
native born citizens ’ It. was ua-ural, therefore,
tor them to ask \\ Hiker what ho would do in ilie
event, the Constitution was not »■* referred back
Now let him answer again :
‘‘lf they do not thm submit it, I wi l m'n vou
fellow-eitzvns ( Topeka rebels) in lawful opposition
to their course. (Cries ot‘g«>od’ and cheers!) And
C oaxmot doubt, gentlemen, that one much higher
than I, the Chief Mogis'rate of tht*Un:e •. will \; n
you iu opposition." Is it wonderful tin* Rh,tk' Re
puolirart t cheered him 7 Will the ,S:.■//,
(hr cheer* ? Walker and the Black U i übhcMiis
tin n, are agreed upon the principled c*l i.iur fi'Mit
against the pro-slavery party.
The. next question is. do s Mr. Buchanan agree
wi h, approve, or sustain W; lker l [ say ho does
aii.l l will give three reasons tor it, either «>f wt.ieli
~,ust ttiiy man who >.s not determined to bo
a partisan:
i. I my Walkeris policy wnsknown an! declared
before he went to Kansas. In pruofof lids I refer
fcr.-t, ti a speech uftde by Walker in \„ w y„,.i.
the imh ot December last, in which | e the,v7 n d
"That the people who have s- ttlrd, or sha’l settle'
buna tide iu tlmt Territory, (Kattsa ) shall be mr'
mi.ted to decide the question for them-elves ’• 1
another speech which he delivered in New Verlc on
tin' lgihol May, beared ihe f slowing lan.._
“iso far as the utmost exercise of his "official voters
and Ida personal influence would go ie see,,re Unit
result, Gov. v nlk< r .-a .1, ho was deter mod ihe
po ip’e of Kansas should have an oppoitunily for a
lull, free and solemn expression of u.eii vo ce upon
the adoption ol a,y Constitution that might be
framed, alter a fa r aud satisfactory ce«:>u.-< of all ihu
bonft Ode inhabitants who might be iu tin* Ttrri*
tory fit he time*'* And he declared that In- «nu
• tiered it his duty to secure’hi* privily, “not only
as a point of law nnd of official fluty, as an «.fli. e r
of ilut Territory, but a point of honor ,n „ man nrj( j
a genfUman. Thi* L stronger language than any
used by the Blade Republicans! Surely, ti e pro
slavery Legislature in must have g«»i„. t. r
ribly out of the way To require that 'law and official
ditfy,'' and “honot as a man and a gentleman
si ould be resorted to to bring them l ight l But
3d, on this point, I say that Walker emphatically
BH)H in Uis Topeka speech—“ With these \i. ws, mil
knoicn to the President and Cabinet, and o; proved
by them, I accepted the appointment of Governor
ot Kansas.’*
- T. l say Mr Buchanan does not only approve nnd
sustain Walker, but actually pave him instructions
which Walker'could nut cany out, ai d net on any
other policy Lhao adopted by him. Now let
the i..Bturn ions speak :
“There are two great oljects connected w i'll (lie
present excitement growing out ot the affairs of
Kai bus, ami the attainment of which will hi iug it jo
a speedy teimina ion. '1 lies* were clearly and suc
cinctly stated in the President’s recent ‘inaugural
address, aud 1 tmbody the pa mgr pis in
munieatimi, asking your special attention to them.
It is declared in that instrument to it* * the impera
tive and indispensable duty of the gov. rnmont of the
Uuite<rstates to secure every resident inhabitant ihe
free and independent expression of his opinion by
tnsH.fr ’ Now, I have ebowu hat by the Ten Po
rtal ; or, the light to vote was re.-tnoted to the regia
t red eitizens residing iu the Ferrilory outlie loth
of March—three months before ihe election. Then
under thnUact all die res /lent inkab tin's could net
cite Walker could no: ve-'othr act. It vu
t d before he got there, lie could not repeal it
llow then could he carry out these ii strucii'i.M with
out d< nmudiug that the Co u\i w ion when framed,
and beloie its adop ion should be submitted hack to
a vote of "all the actual bona fde resident s> Weis'*
in the Territory ut the time of the submission.’' Bu
Ctiauhn k.ewof this «c before h i gave ihere in
atr notions. The Topeka Republicans had made the
fame demand bes ie Mr. Buehanan gave tle» in
structions. And tint Mr. Buchanan expect. W«lki-r
to di obt v an mat ruction t * which UU "special nth n-
Hon" was called, and acoouq aided with tlie sob mu
language—“it is the imperative and indispensable
duty of *the Uifitffcd States Governm**i.t t<> secure
this privilege to evesy resident mh/tbitant V' Wlmt
the Black Kt^publicans demanded ua part of tie or
gan io act, liuchau iu declared it was the duty—
imp! ralive nnd tudhpentab’e duty of the United
States Government to secure, and Walker’s “.spc
-citil attention" was cnUetfto it How dared lie do
otherwise, and sscape being recalled ! And what
informed man ever expected linn lo be j'toaUed for
such p|ain obedience ?
3. As the third reason fur saying that Mr. Bu
chanan approves and sustains Walk* r, I state that
wit It a full knowledge of wlmt Walker has done, lie
has not re-eall^iinn—lie Ims not. declared, not » w.n
intimated an intention to re-call him ! lie hiis not
rebuked him n declared an-intention >o re
buke him. Hr hag given no instructions to IValker
to abandon Ins policy. Walker is conlnued—.is
policy is in lull know, nnd the Gonvi nii.m is now
soon to assemble, and wHI «.-• inble under tl o in i
oflici il influence of Walker’s (delation and tin* Pro
sidcni's o ut in tied approval 1 Not only this bid
that Convention, in its last struggle, will «*■»• mblo
with the dec unit ion pul lished to the woild in the
Washington Union, nnd heralded as “by authori
ty,'* and uucontradicted, that Walker, in advising
the submission of this constitution buck to the peo
ple, acted with “ wisdom and justice ** And yd
this U the very thing which the libiok R* p oiioatH
had demanded before Walker arrived in Kansas,
nod which the pro-t la very in u had not granted,
and which eighteen Sta os of this Union ha 1 never
done I The Northern Democracy, in a ranas, are
sustaining Walker uud Buchanan—th • Black Ke*
publicans are largely doing the same— al\ «xc< pt
those who don t want Wn kcr to take tfair plan,
and thus th q credit of making Kansas a live St mI«; !
Now, when thi 4 pro-slavery Convention a-semhles
in Ivan.-as, it will find that the. very demand made
upon them by the Top- ka rebels, on the tillth of
March, is taken up by the Nordiern Democrats, the
Governor of lva sas, and the President, and the de
mand not moderated, but obtain'd y bocune ihsolejit,
and aggravated with the bull) in l '/Anal that unless
the demand be granted, they will not and ought not
to be admitted into the Union, and Hun tin Presi
dent and hi? Governor will really join the Topeka
rebeltp gainst them l Need 1 n k to whom this
Convention thus threatened shall look for approval
and support ? Georgians must answer this ques
tion for themso ves in October.
Having presented the uJbove fact 3, and having
shown she palpable agreement in principle between
the President, Gov Walker, and the Topeka Be-
PUjjlieaiiSj Ibe reader w 11 hardly In* surprised «l
hie following resolutions' adopted by these sume r«»
peka men, on that same day, the 20th of March,
1867, showing tliat they,even Men, know wh.it they
had 11 right to expect :
“Resolved, That Congress having present' d the
principle*' 01 «f natter sovereignty en nciat d in the
Kansas biU as the bars ot ihp .liijkml action of the
peoplo of Kansas, we ai© inflexibly deter** in d to
abide by its faithful execution, as wo ever have re
solutely opposed its violation, and ever will while
it remains on the statute book.
Resolved, That, the people of Kansas h five a right
to look with confidence to the pm cut GhiefExeiu
tive cf the nation lor an approval of flair tour nr,
and for his assistance in procui iug the r aduuHriou
into the Union under the Topeka Constitution ”
The President d**es not approve the Top* ka Con
stitution because it was not l< gady adopted, but his
able Governor, under his Inst reel ious, and under
the principle before demanded by these Topeka
men, shows how the same end can be accompl s' «*d
in a legal tray / A different l oad is travelled , but
the same point is reached I
I have thus shown the origin of thin dangerous
dogma of unrefit rioted suffrage—the most 1 d<« us
feature of squatter sovereignty, since this feat.uio
has not been declared unconstitutional. I have
show 7 ll Its bearings upon slavery thus far, but half
its hideou ness on this point has rot been told, nor
Oku Idoso in the llti.i b **f a letter I have shown
the connection of Mr. Buchanan with iis origin, its
design a id its pre?ent Io n ful devel-pnu-nt Jiu*
cimiian originated it —Walk* r was his firs disciple,
or perhaps < otemporaDeouc* expounder. Gen Cass
first made it a national doctrine. The Cmpmi ati
platform first incorporated if n to a national party
creed,and Buchanan, Cars and Walker standing on
that platform, oh they p’.ofe. s, are causing, the doc
trine into practical oneration, and malt ng it one of
the “fixtures" f Democratic faith. Whatever
leaders may do, I ca mot yet. b« 1 eve that Ihe m» ss
of the po »ple of the S utb wil ad *pl this fallacy It
willsi.oner or lalei explode with ter ible ruin. May
we not Indulge the hope that ti e >ou'hern p oplo
will so n see the fearful force in a renunk c»ntu ned
in the late lett< r of Senator Mu'on. 01 Virginia, him
self a Don .for at heietofore, 111 which In: i ts : ‘lf *
African slavery bo alt mutely excluded Inaii Kansas,
it will be effected by he numerical force of * rgau*
ized majorities, operating against the usuul lows
which govern emigration , and will present a new
and most instructive lesson to the Southern Slates.”
Hut. what d * «#ur opponents s *y the people must
do l I will state the positions and answers in brief:
1. They «ay “wait." Hut if we wait much longer,
the miseliisf ifi done, 'ill: Convention met.-is in
September, and if they are to be freed from Walker's
dictation and its influence, and the influence of the
President’s approval, he inu-t bo leumved soon
g.. “But Buchanan may explain this matter satis
factordy. Bui until that explanation does come,
we must oppoao him, else he may never so* d the
explanation, ut least to our satirist t.iori. He has
never informed us of anything wonderfully ex
planatory . ehind . Helms promised no explana
tion.
3. “But If Fillmore had been elected lie would
have done the same tiling.” This I“o not believe,
and you do not know. But, for the argument,
graut it. Then, it yon opposed Fillrnoie because ho
might have done wrong , ought you not |br the
great 1 r reason to oppuEs Buhanun who has done
wrong 1
4. “ But Fillmore ga>e it up in advance.”
Thiw you lit ow to be ft pirurtiun, and in used to
mislead, but for the argument let it be so. Tin u I
sey, if you opposed Mr bM ino-o or tell-ng you in
ad vanes you could not gu! Kan an, ought you l«»n«r
er to Hupp at the man mid ti e ) arty, who promised
it befo e ycu voted, and after you vote i refused to
fulfill the promise, nod absolute!/ ad pt and*morse
a Black. Kepubliean plan as 1 have shown, to pre
vent you from getting it.
6. “ But it will spl t the Democratic party if you
condemn Buchanan's sclinini tratioo.’’ Very iike
!y, and to a man wt o-lovca Irs pa ty better than
principle audhis country, this argument U unan
near able / Hut. to one wo loves princip’o aud hi*
Country bctierthan party, it needs no answer.
f». But what is your remedy 7 Where wi 1 you
go i ycu repudiate Buchanan a’ d the Democracy
—to tb -Know Nothings?” Wei 1 , suppose t ere be
no remedy. it any re sou we sLould support a
man who has injured us, because he bus nju'eo in
e > effectually that we cannot remedy i'. Must I
praise and justify the serpent t ha! strikes me be
cause his poison is so deadly m» t-» be bftyond eu e .
But i here is a remedy. If the v* hole South, at once,
woulft take a bol 1 position even now, the Conven
tion, noon to asemble in Kans n, n ight be enoi.u
ragfed tp do as they pVaso, and not obey the die
tales of Walker, Buchanan and he Republicans.
They will certainly not alt it unlei* sustained f om
tome quarter. But even fKm nsna be lost, we <or Id
at least condemn iLo p'int-iple and its support rs
and thus not be bound-b> »t ufl a precede, t lor all
other territories, and this is the great poiyt. But
there in a remedy, and none but cowards ana worre
will submit, to be ruined, and amely say . ”J
can t help it !'* Even if you hate the Americans,
who have never deceived or haimed you, still if it
be necessary to coircct Demooiacy it ought to be
done, even if you aro determined to go baca to it at
7. ffut it will never do to vote for you (Hill) b*
cause you opuoee the Kama* bill-'
If you mean the Kn bill an ae'ed on by Bu
chanan, Van Buren and the Topeka Repnbl cans, 1
do dbpose that b 11,in* ”plotter anl supporters;
but il vou mean a Kansas bill which honesty cm
ries out the principle* ol the Utah
co bids, then I do not oppose it, and the charge »
But look at your ‘Troup Resolutions ’ you
abuse the Democrats.” Ye* thoi-e Democrats »ho
have saddled on us aien suffrage—given the pub*
die lands to Railroad Companies passed 70 ntuual
improvement bills at one session-saddled cu us the
■"tariff—and bet ayed u* in Kansas, Ido oppose,
und if you helped to do these things by your inten
tional a' tion and knowingly, or note approve them ,
then Ido oppose you. and tinphatical > » iy, m a *>
opinion, your are not fit to be tru-ted with polit cal
power over ih s section of ihe Union. But n _you
mean those who were mis’ed into your suj port un*
der the plausible promises hat you were • pp« to
these iniquitk-s r then J say I do in t aud never have
abused them, and ther%arge « ft se
ll “ But the pro-slavery party m Kansas approve
of Walker’s course.” This in not so It c the n.Of
miseiable portion of th'd mi erable decef ti u
know this is paraded in the papers. I a **K*,.
Brown, iu the discussion at Athens, for Bicevuini*
ot this Statement.. H i ref ried mo to fcx beiiatcr
A’ohisoii, and other distil gui hed men iu Kansas, to
prov jit He did not show tbsr any oi ihtui did ap
prove it. We now have Mr. Aich sm s ettor oMr.
Baker, dated as late as July W-twce the aiSem
bling of that so-called Convention-in which he dis
tinctiy says th>.t “ Walker has don vs and our
cause, more injury than H"ls, Chase , or any other
abolitionist could have done /” 1 l ave now iu my
possession, tho authority ot m other distinguished
gentleman, lately in Kansas, whose name has beeu
largely paraded in the papers as approving Walker s
oourse, for saying that ihe charge is false.
'J Rise who siare the pro-slavery men in Kansas
arc $ favor of V\ a ktr’s p hoy, are und* r obiiga
lionst.» prove it true, bui not »a islied with that, ho
ere proving it uu rue. But even if the party iu
Kansan —tnreatwned, hectored and ordered, as they
are— should yield, it could not show thaithe threat
ening, hectoring aud dtdefing was right, or to be
adoj.trd as a prccedeu*,or the men who did it sus
tained I have shown that this very policy was uu
issue between the Topeka Republicans aud the pro
slavery party before walker went to Kansas. If
Walker js right, ike Topeka Republican* were right