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IN SENATE Aprdo
c„„,,1-0 Cas wei , -snted, among others
m ‘ ot New-Yotk in •
ri'V of tf-rT“!-’- • -neral bankrupt law j
pS i
..f hia InatnicUona ihe V S Commitwioner to j
r;n, Mr lb*B*nut*. NeW Jeraey i
to promote I-ieut. j
brought up his police bill for afford- j
Mr urown uru g y property in the
iri Th® bill prorßm for a patrol j
.n tLe D>r-n<i, f find***? i^thc
‘ ‘ A n^ k , ° | Jtotoad _ in
Ki Douglas Bai l that all knew that no man’s lit*
pi Avenue “We mud
; ‘ - : t “ r y°° wni and r*v toe <• imuuimiy - hud -
at ribated in part the P revad !^
- owdyiam to the bad exainp;- ot men m > yjjW
• la©*;;-, and partly to the irn ‘*mpeUH’ - 01 u p*•
iffttlation* * r w iUc Kill Ar.fl
Mr. Wilson said he would v, e for the and
*AP^- U fHne debate the bill was passed substan
~ ■ , trixju( ed ny Mr. Brown—yeas 31, nays 9.
Mr Douglas, non. the Committeei on Territories,
-ported nil! for admission of Oregon mU, the
Union. ‘lhe beuate then adjourned.
. HOUSE.
Th* Hoa-*-* took up the ben&t© e amendment to
M r Ouitman preyed tlia original number of regi
ias,r.e. i> aatfae troop® ebould move immediately
Mr Hughes* that aa I'exan wa to have
regiment, New Mexico ought to have an op
i wAinity to raiae one in it® own defence.
r! Otero ar-iuiesced iu this view, particularly
~-4iir- s,-gu srs were being removed from New
M§2co to Utah.
jj (tJ „ , . ,-erred in ad the Senate fl amend
liwbt- wli.cii would leave it discretionary with the
rrfcn lent to ad ept one regiment of mounted vol
for the defence of Texas, and twoforthe
protection and supply of emigrant trai .e, and the
t-npprerson of Indian Thin wan agreed
to by a clever majority. *
The House finally concurred in the amendment®
of the heuate to the army bill for two regiment® be
hide* lhfjse required tor Texas.
Mr. Goode reported a bill for the appointment of
oa© hundred men tui au auxiiiery guard of protection
for the citizens of Washington—referred for con
sideration. - A -journed.
IN SENATE Aprif 6.
Mr Slidell having filed with the Secretary on
Friday last a written declaration that he intended
tu reconsider his vote to disagree to the House
amendment to the Kansas bill, which yesterday and
“ day he renewed verbally, without taking any
ac'iou claiming the right to keep back the Jml three
‘stuaV inoved’to enforce the order of the Sen
ate, uo single SeuaUir having power thus to ob
struct business. ..... l-
Mr Hhuell referred to the rule and insisted on hid
iiayard explained the custom in sucb cases,
< XI, I ,ig the opinion that it must be left in the
Oise i .mi of the officer.
(■(cm derable pailiameulary facing took place,
but finally the wnolc ruhject was laid on the tame.
Toe Minnesota bill was then taken up as the spe
cial order. mnmnnt of the di-Otlir 1 "”
Previous to the commencsment oi ine utscus o ,
Mr Iverson read trom the Globe in vindication ol
sine remarks which be exchanged with Mr. Doug
las recently, implying Ihe latter's lukewarmness in
n spent to Miuueso’a Some warm remarks were
UI -de by both gentlemen.
The bill was iheu discussed. Tne words “in
pursuance of said net of Congress’’ being omitted
Woiu the preamble, the b.ll was ready to be re
ported to the Senate, no amendment being pend
""Mr Ken'o'dy made a strong speech against Ihe
Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, replied,
e Sim ■ e ( l i ; )UtiK
l he House went into Committee oi the Whole on
the deficiency appropriation hill.
After some time spent, without i uuing to aeon
eIMiOU on the subject Ihe House adjourned.
IN SENATE April 7.
Nml inffof genet nl -• ld tran-pire I up lo
* ’ dcn*ion foHowed .he reception of
H e adverse report of the Committee of Printing
against printing of the eulogy on recently deceased
hen atom . . _ f
Mr Seward explained that, uib vote in favor of
printing was not influenced ny personal intere t
ExV* , ' rftt * (l funt,?ftl hottorß wwe leo spoken of a®
’ VtJners lf€i~ onden, Brown, Hale and others, spoke
* Mr*.**! lavnerou H*d in behalf of ibe committee that
ail nlcture books would be rejected in future. Some
ihitiv nr forty thousand dollars had already been
Messrs Houston and Mason spoke in favor of
* kmnny Mr Houston’s motion to print the eulo-
wan disagreed to.
Th. Minnesota bill was resumed, and after re
mark® by variotnSenators, Messrs Houston, Brown,
sci nart WilK'n Kurt other*, Teepecling lh olalwe of
tl„. CmiKtjtDtiou giving prrmi h.n to olieits to vote,
t'.in (nil ivh< pushed v*a =l s nays it. The nays
Ihe hennte then w* nt into Executivesession and
subsequently adjourned,
t oHKMtTi'tw. —In thu N-iiatc report of yesterday
tl.rditiieulty reported wan between Muaan Fitch
Aiul Doubles, aud not between Mr Iverson and
HOUSE
Mi Otero introduced a bill for the construction
,-,i vrut'on and cinigiaots road in New Mexico.
The Hunite then went into Urnnmiltee on Ihe
Deficiency ApproprirtJon bill.
M Uetobei f aid iho Committee on Ways and
Means wer** planed in an embarrassing position.
They had been bred on from the Democrat ic side
and the House, by some against all the provisions of
ti t. bill and by others against particular provisions.
But nil seemed to concur iu the conclusion that un
it -S Ihe bill in its every provision can be made at
, „ptable to them, they are prepared to vote it down
mid leave the Government without means for carry
~ oU | the policy which it has inaugurated.
Her bowed that the tir*c millions ofdollats ank
i IM anticipation of the regular appropriation
would enable the War Department now to make
cheaper contract* for the transput tat ion and supply .
i the army in 1 tali than if delayed till autumn.
A million and a quarter of the deficiency to be
bill i tuna >* h 1.-Ktu y from the pie-
V "lithewßfiipudifiou impro|wrly begun, as
m WR | a, itiil tlu* House pass a resolution de
caring that ntuellion exists there and subeeijueutly
[>Hsa * ( u n to furnish volunteers for the army f
* It was now too late to urge as a plea for the de
fect of tlie deficiency bill that the President did not
consent ol Countess before be began reiu
’ Mr Vet’ tier then defended the bill generally.
V debate ensued on various amendments Final
ly it was reported from the Committee with a re
commendation that it be recommit led to the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, with instructions to r
(Mirttho appropriations in separate bills.
’ Pending the subject the House adjourned.
IN SENATE April S.
A discursive debate on the expensive printing
of picture books, in connection with exploring ex
peditions. Lieut. Emory’s expedition was especial
ly under discuses ‘it. ,
Mr Johnsou, of Arkansas, and Mr. Brown reptt
diatod tint practice of Congress paying immense
sums for xoology, botany, etc.
Mr Bright do tended Lieut. Emory as having
brought back finO.WO from the appropriation lor
bis survey He also contradicted the opinion that
these scientific works are useless. Ou the con
trary they are regarded as authority, and several
have been reprinted in England and elsewhere.
Ke-sendeu urged that Congress should not
order the publication of any work until all the man
utWiul wan in Tht* works certainly are valuable,
t’ ut a judicious, rather than injudicious expenditure
h ( required. He a.-ked Senators, individual
v not to rui eurage the printing of books so gratity
Arkansas, gave notice that he
would on Thursday, take up the act to amend the
act approved August. 1
tiie public printiug and eetablisliing me pr te tue
for. H this be P-. rssed it would put a stop to bose
abuses respecting which ro much ha® been said.
Mr GwUi moved that the Senate take up the bill
<, r sMkiiveviiur the mails by railroad from the Mit
’ ... Kiver to Nan Kinncisco. lie briefly explained
the several section® of the act. aud urged the neoes-
Pity of Immediate action.
Mi Broderick also asserted the necessity tor ear
ly action , . i . ,
The President miormed the Senate that he had
sigued bills to secure lauds tor the acmeauet and
t,. permit Lt ,1. rtrev s to accept a sword of houor
’ €SnS£m
ii'gl ad a leiigihv review of the course of Qen.
a'lfldV'oi asttmaV f.® M?
a despotism or Mexico, under Saul a Auua. the Uui-
Tie subiect was tiieu deferred till tomorrow, and
the Senate adiourue.l urrtl Monday
HOUSE
Mr. Washburn, of l mois moved to lay on the
* abie the deficiency bill, which was negatived, yeas
43, nays 143. „
’ The bill was then n f H ' D ltß P*"*** ““ d re ' ec ’
T Montgomery the House pro
- ‘dadtotbf wmsid- atiou of the Kansas bill
’ ‘mT Menus ved Out^th^Jfo^^lhere
yeas l V 1 k ’ *on the adoption of Mr!
tba question fca , eiK ; U :ent. with the exception of
Montgomery .. and Bowie, who pair
. and off. reducing bo|t sides iMtruotin _
• Ways and Means to wgort six
xtl uxu w <(-*\wirg the condition of tb* army
t*qturc. Ml ' r .‘ resolution He wa?
. Washington, Apr. >—The Senate was not in I
ftaioii to-day
porsE
’Mr Lovejov mad? &a ineffectual effort to intro- j
dm ? a resolution calling OB tbe Secretary of War j
to inform the Ho bow many army officer* are j
absent from their dutse* and at the seat of Govern- !
meat, and bow tracy bold civil office by election or
otherwise
Mr Branch spoke with rett-rence to the recoil*,de
• ejecteo U beei'aiea i-.-t to qeclare that the mou- ,
roaaexpeorbtnrv* oi: the army had a-mostreach
. I'inud a reform, ami he way I
toll re declared by tbe Hi use. u the forming a reeo
at ion that Utah was in a -iate of rebellion. and it
- now too -ate ami would be nujast to undertake to
control the discretion of the President aa to the dm- j
ji>em ot Rx T? jc-..e in reply, tad that the Quar
lern.atif r'iinier- ..o’ not tend estimate* ou Li*
own nt.pwßMb.itlv, but ‘.Vy were receded with the ,
endm toent of the tie- jetary of \N ar
.Vi *■ 1 w!u r” f - i witii tbe ezpiaottkxi and
<%Mi hv wajt triad to tjQ d ti&i no property ,
had bt*-u perpetrated by axiy bureau onicejr. •
The Houee refuted to recvmm.t the bill to the
Commit?*# of Way* acd , 1
ne < votabr which tbtfbiil wac yefteraay rejected r
’the question was then taken on the passage of i
bm Rn j i, was decide irlb- affir- ative— yeas ‘
111. nays 97.
fn reported death_of Hon
Thos H Benton, the House at half-past 2 o clock
adjourned. It wad previously reaoived to adjourn
till Monday.
HPBKUH of HON. JOSHUA HILL.,
OF GEORGIA,
In thf Hons* of Repr&tnlaJLtou, March 29, IBsfc
on tk* billlo admit Kan*/mtnto the Union as a
Tt*<- Hou®e being in the Committee of the Whole
on the State of the Union—
Mr. Hill said . - ■
Mr Chairman : I congratulate yon, sir, that af
ter this protracted diacussion. we find you to-day
•till abl* to occupy yonr seat; for. from the long and
wearisome task wtuck-ha® devolved yon, one
might well that you would be found in the
condition ot the afflicted man of Ux, “ broken m
nieces with words ’ Cotrld there be sack a thing
a® a representative without & conetituency. 1 should
n* ’on this occasion uti**r one single remark But,
nr. i* if* in deference to the high-*pirited and intelli
gent people I have behind, and whose Represent*
live lam that fa upon this occasion to make
f wii the feeling* and Sentiment* which will g( v
en me in the course 1 shall take in regard to the
I :. riot iuapprof riat*- that in the beginning I
rhouid -ay. that, in kind anti familiar
J have held with gentlemen of varfaHi® ehadefe of po
lirir■•-!? opinion —and lam happy to say 1 know ene
1..--, pe- -..rally, among who occupy this floor
i bw -1 •• • forbear the expresrion of
my peculiar vies a ujon Qi s floor, lest perchance I
iright sa; something tjiat might wound friends of
tht- party or of that, lhopt; that 1 have ® kind a
nature a® become® Any man , but I have found, in
such case®, that it is safest for a man to be hi® own
judge of the course propel for him to pur-ue and
ru J have retermin* , irrespective of th® advice
given me, to go my own way I am like the French
man. who consulted his wife as to the,mods of build
j ing his house, and when,after hearing his plans,she
agreed that they were moot admirable ; he aaid
| “ well, madame. it is very well that you think so.
1 for it i® all the same. the house would have been
I built that way any how.
I do not propose to addreefc myself exclusively.
! by any mean®, to the immediate subject under con
! sideratiou. I propose to take a somewhat wider
! jange. lam in the habit of doiDg so. I am. in the
j habit, I may say, of inveighing against that spirit
winch pervades the American nation, and which is
| so hurtful, in my judgment, toils prosperity and
; well-being. 1 speak it in no unkindnesa of spirit to
thoee who are now in power, or to those who will,
in all human probability, succeed them. But the
! evil of the day is, in my judgment, the partisan
| spirit that pervade® the laud—the spirit that tole
rates nothing of manly independence in thought,
I -or action, but requires bbnd obedience to the dic
| salea,and behest® ot parry. Sir, dear to me aa are
| trie fortune® ot the organization to which I belong,
and devoted a® lam to them, i!lfc should ever au
| sume’the control of this government, (which, I cou-
I fees, looks at this time like a very remote possibili
ty,) and should presume to dictate rules of thought
j and action to me, I would leave the organization,
i and if I could nos find one agreeable to associate
| with thereafter I would stand aloof, though I shoulu
I atand by myself.
For the lew thought® which I may utter on th‘l3
occasion—forthey will be few—l beg the indul
gence of the Hou=e. I Had prepared something in
a wholly different vein from that in which I now
propose to speak, but I have yielded it up to my
own better judgment. If my thoughts suit not
others I can only say in the spirit ot the remark of
the renowned Bacon : ‘.So I think r let those who
can, think more wisely.”
Air. Chairman, the year 1851, a year ever memo
rable and renowned in the annals ofthi® nation by
the extraordinary events that markad its passage,
dawned ou the American people aa peacefully, a®
happily, and a® benignly, as any one tiiat had mark
ed our brief but blessed career as a nation. The dia
appoinUneut® and acerbitiee growing out of the thfen
recent presidential election had subsided in the
country. Under the* influence of the legislation of
1850—known 9® the compromise measures of that
year—aud of the wise and couservafive Adminis
ir&tion ol him who justly earned the proud title ©f
the “Model President,' ” the country was marching
on without a. single obstacle in its career of progress
and glory.
Sir, I have been accustomed to think that, in an
evil hour, (I tru-t that it nlay yet prove otherwise,
for I tain would that good should come of it,)
torsoqae purpose, as yet, perhaps unavowed, and
certainly by me not wholly understood, it became a
matter of Democratic policy to inaugurate territo
rial government® for thoee immense wilds and
wastes, solitudes of prairie and forest, known as
Nebraska and Kansae. I never could perceive the
necessity of these measured at the time. The high
est estimate that was made by the speaker on the
occasion was, that in allthose vast .erritories there
were not over nine hundred white souls, consisting
as they did of hunters, -trappers and traders, with
very few women and children among them. If I
were disposed to be invidious, I might conjucture
that the motive for the organization of the?e terri
tories was to carve opt offices for dependant® and
expectants. Ido not know that there was any
u li de-igu, and therefore I make no such imputa
tion.
iiut, it it. had stopped there, although I think it
wo.- a premature act, the country would not have
rumplaiued. It was not a very grave error, it error
it was. But the momentous part of the matter was
this: that m this adtot legislation the Democratic
patty adopted the suggestion of a then political op
ponent—Mr. Dixon, of Kentucky—to repeal a men
sure which had stood 011 the statute book for thirty
year® , which had received sue sanction of a slave
holding President and of a Cabinet second in intelli
,rei.ee and worth to none that ever graced the Fede
ral city It had existed through successive admin*
i t rations, including that oft e heroof the Hermitage
—devoted as he was, heart and soul, in every pulsa
tion, to tho interest® of the South. And during all
that t ime no man had come forward and asked for
it® repeal.
Sir, it is a matter of history that., at the time the
piop'oeition was made, the Washington Union, then
conducted by a politician of signal ability, came out
in an editorial the very next day, and denounced
the proposition as a Whig trick, designed to divide
and distrac t the Democratic party. The more cau
tious ana distinguished chairman of the Senate’s
committee on Territories, who had reported thoee
bill®, did not fol ow the lead of the organ ot the par
ty He, like a prudent generalissimo, took time to
reflec t upon the proposition Ay, sir, he slept upon
i aud when his Strong and vigorous intellect came
to a conclusion, he rose, like a strong man, from hia
slumbers, resolved that he would do the deed or
perish in attempting to execute it. The suggestion
was iiicorporatodlnto those Tner.aures, and became
I part and parcel Os them, and impartial history must
ever recoidlthat whatever of glory, of renown, or
I of shame, may attach to the transaction, the name
; f the rtirttiuguiShed’ Senator from Illinois must,
stand out 111 the front rank, towering above all
others, as its advocate and defender. There lie
stands yet and no mutter how he may be condemn
ed and derided to day, he is regarded as the father
of this great measure, and history will so record
him.
liut there was another who had been thought
worthy, at ode time to bear the standard of Hie De
mocratic party to battle—a veteran in politics, and
a statesman who [stood deservedly high. I allude,
fir, to General Cass, whfl, on the 20th of February,
IS., \j in the Senate of the United Stales, gave ut
terance, in a careftilly prepared speech, to the ex
pression iff doubts and misgivings as to the wisdom
and proprit ty of this act. The distinguished Sena
tor said *-
“Mr. President, I have not with Ire Id the expres
sion of my regret, elsewhere, nor shall I withhold it
here, that this question of repeal of the Missouri
ooinpi oiQU6, which opens all the disputed points eon
weoted w ith the subject of congressional action upon
slavery in the Territories of the United States, has
been brought before us. Ido not think the practi
cal advantages to result from the measure will out
we : gh the injury which the ill-feeling, fated to ac
company the discussion of this subject through the
country, is sure to produce. And I was confirmed
in tins impression from what was said by the Sena
tor from Tennessee, [Mr. Jones,] by the Senator
from Kentucky, [Mr. Dixon,] and from North Caro
lina, [Mr. liadger,] and also by the remarks which
fell from the Senator from Virginia, [Mr. riuuter ]
and in which I fully concur, that the South will
never receive any benefit from this measure, eo far
as respects the extension of slavery; for, legislate
as we may, no human power can establish it in the
regions defined by these bills. And such were the
sentiments of two eminent patriots, to whose exer
tions we are greatly indebted for the satisfactory
termination of the difficulties o£lßi>o, and who since
passed from their labors, and, 1 trust, to their re
ward. Thus believing 1 .should have been better
content had the whole subject been left as it was by
the bill when first introduced by the Senator from
Illinois, without any provision.regarding the Mis
souri compromise. lam aw are that it was reported
that I intended to propose the repeal of that mea
sure, but it was au error. My intentions were
wholly misunderstood. 1 had no design whatever
to take such a step, and thus resuscitate a deed of
conciliation which had done its work, and done it
I well, and which was hallowed by patriotism, by suc-
I cess, uud by its association with great names, now
i transferred to history. It belonged to a past gen
eratiou; and in the midst of a political tempest
| which appalled the wisest and firmest in the land, it
had said to the waves of agitation, peace, be still,
; and they became still. It would have been better,
in my opinion, not to disturb its slumber, as all use
ful and practical objects could have been attained
1 without it. But the question is here without my
| agency.”
Thus, sir, discoursed Gen. Cass. But in the same
! spirit to which 1 have alluded, he atterwards over
i cane hie convictions ot the impropriety of this re
j peal, and gave his vote for it.
Mr. Chairman, let it not be understood, from what
L may say here in relation to the repeal of the Mis
souri Compromise, that 1 was ever its eulogist or
its advocate . for however vain and presumptuous
it might appear iu me to dissent from its great au
| thon? and advocates, I Buffet say in truth, from the
oouvieti nfe of my best judgment, that the measure
was extra constitutional So believing, had I been
acting a! the time of its adoption, I do not scruple to
gay that I wouldbave seen the unionof these States
further imperiled than I believe it wasiu 1820, before
l would have voted for it. It is said to have saved the
Union. Certainly, if it deserved to have this said of
i .it was a rare merit indeed . for I take it upon
myself to say, (perilous, perhaps, as the expression
may beta-day.) that if this Union could be restored
to the purity w ith which it sprang from the fires of
j the Revolution, there is scarcely any sacrifice upon
| earth that I could make myselt that 1 would not
freely sutler for its preservation. But, sir. the Union
of to day, 1 great fear, is not the Union of seventy
; years ago. 1 know* lhat we all profess the same de
gree of attachment for it that the men [who framed
it professed . but every* mao has his own ways in -
, these degenerate days of loving the Union.
Ihe extreme man of the South demands every
■ concession to his requirements, and that there shall
be no denial of the smallest right that he may have
! iu the institution to which he is so fondly devoted
and not only this, but he insists that those who in
’ trude their opinions and intermeddle with slavery.
even by discussion among themselves, are inimical
i to the Union, and unworthy of his association.- On
| the other hand, we hear other gentlemen say, we
are attached to .the Union . we are brothers, we
wish to preserve the Union ‘ We say that we will
i neve* cooaqpt, however, that the hated institution
! of slavery shell goons inch further upon American
■ soil. Now. sir this is a novel mode of showing af
; section for the Union! Perhaps at tbe same time they
, wiil disclaim that they have any design or desire to
interfere with slavery in the States, or with the in*
i ter-siave trade. This is held as highly cotnmenda
ble, as great magnanimity and Brener sity ‘ This is
not my mode of estimating the duties of citizens to
the Union, and it i> not one of the reason? for my
attachment to it. I go to the charter of our liber
ties Igo to the Constitution, and refer to the men
who framed that infUument. and t the motives
which a* tua-ed them at that time. Without arro
gating to myself to be purer aud better iu heart, or j
superior To other* in love lor tbe Union and in tried
patriotism. 1 say that 1 will stand by that charter. !
so long as 1 am able to interpret it, l will claim, as j
a southern man. allmy right? and my equality ia the
Union, and I will be content with nothing fe- At j
the same time. I will not say t otbe North, in angry j
tone and defiant language. * come on and wreet
these rights from us. it you dare ‘ * I will not speak j
of bloody fields and desolated homes such lan
guage. in my judgment, wiil never convince theun j
corstaiukng of any man—certainly not that of a ta
natic It is not the language of a brother and,
so long we Live in this Union, we are brothers
1 will return. Mr Chairman to the repeal of tbe
Missouri Compromise. When the deed was done,
w ben tbe blow was struck, and when the compro
mise of 1820 slept with its fathers, there arose
throughout the land a mighty clamor, and a wail
went up. long, loud and frantic, and, 1 am sorry to
say, it < ame from those that loved the lost one far
better in death than in the pride of “lusty life.”—
Beside its bier, bedewed with some rears of honest,
manly sorrow, there stood as chief mourners the
and the Free-Seiler; they came to per
lenn tiie last office* for this legislative victim.
\\ by. sir. Mark Antony, in the depth of his pathos
ver the piece of bleeding earth” that lay before
him, the
‘ Re .oa ol ihs noblest man
Tfcl*l *TPI at lit, ltd? of t>ri. ’’
was cot more eloquent in la* sorrow than were
tries? disco,isolate*. Might not some Democratic
Bnra. , negate the affecting scene, hare pro
phetically exclaimed: ‘ Here comes its body
mutinied by the Abofttionist ana Free-Sober who
” though they Lad no baud in its death, shall receive
th? benefit i its dying—a place iu the Couuu. - t -
w ealth—as which of you shah not 7
Was it true that, up t > the time of its lamented
death, these worthies had sought to preserve this
cherished object of their peculiar regard ? Let the
histoiy of their affectionate solicitude give the an
swer. Yet their lamentations were as pathetic ana
heart-rending a® were thoee ol K&cbel mourning lor
her children, refusing to be comforted.because the
Missouri compromise “was not. I though., a-*
Gen. Caes thought, that if the country could lea
eonably have been expected |to acquiesce in-the
measure of repeal, it would have been patnctic and
proper. No evil eould then have Bprnng from it-
I knew that, surrounded by fanatical influences,
there were men of milder mood, not fitted by nature
to grapple with sterner spirit®, who, when this bue
and cry was raised, mustered in crowds and came
to the rescue, and placed themselves under the ban
nerof the anti-slavery party. When it issaidto
me that I am over cautious in a measure that is ab
stractly right, and when I ought not to have desired
anything more than its passage, I reply, that if these
fanatical cries be music in the ears of some men,
they grate harshly upon mine. They please me
not. I could not laugh such things to scorn. 1
looked alone to the dfeaded consequences to my
country. It has been written that Nero, the tyrant,
fiddled when R une was burning; but the historian
ha® not told us that the conflagration was the ks®
destructive. 80 it is her®. Making this reply, they
may say that the measure, if not absolutely nec*a
t-iary, was one that was an act of justice to the
South, under the Constitution, which was violated
when the Missouri compromise was passed. Con
ceding this to be true, it seem® to me that if there
was no practical advantage in the thing, it was a
most unnecessary hazard to the institution® of ihe
country.
it occur® to me, iu connection with this subject,
to advert to the action of the distinguished gentle-
man from Virginia [Mr. Milison] who took a view
of this subject which nearly coincided with my own
at the time. I have not lost sight of him. but have
regarded him with interest ever since. He was de
nounced in the South as being untrue to the action
lie represented, because he dared to vote against
the passage of the Kansae Nebraska bill. His in
telligent constituency—among the moat intelligent,
i nefieve, to the State of Virginia—-have returned
him again and again, and thus vindicated the pa
triotism of hi® (©arse. Certainly it will not be ex
pected of me that I shall etaud upon this floor aa a
panegyrist of the distinguished Senator from Illi
nois ; but I am apt to think that he whom I have
so often and so recently heard, in my own tStat?,
and in my own district, extolled as “a Saul in Israel,
towering above the political hosts,” is the same to
day that he was in 1854. Men—and I thank God
it w bo —are not like chameleons, certainly great
men are not—and I class in that category the dis
tinguished statesman from Illinois, because his own
party stamped him with that seal, and they cannot
take it away from him. He is intellectually to-day,
as he has been heretofore, worthy of the sobriquet
which ha® been applied to him, “the Little Giant.”
Is he less honest now than he .was in 1854 ? Why
should it be said so ? I® any man more hone®t,
more sincere, than he wa? in 1854 ? And this ex
plains the question which I put to the distinguished
gentleman irom Virnia, [Mr.Smith,] the other day;
does the tact that a gentleman who disapproved of
the legislation of 1854 and now approves of the ad
mission of Kansas under the Lecompton conetitu
tion, make him a better Democrat than he who de
voted life, soul, and every energy he possessed, to
the adoption of that measure ? Well, this is all of a
piece with that sort of generosity to which I have
adverted.
Sir, once for all, I denounced the proscriptive
policy which would bow down and crush out the
b ighfcct intellects at the mere bidding of the para
sites ponderers who bask in the sunshine of power.
There was a better day in the Republic—the day
of “the era of good feeling,” as it has been termed
—when even Cabinet officers, the constitutional
advisers of the Executive, could disagree upon
great and important questions of State, and were
etill esteemed worthy to sit together at the council
board. At the time of President Madison’s admin
iatration of the Government there were some of hi®
Cabinet opposed to the great measure of his Ad
ministration, the Bank of the United States, then a
question paramount to all others. The Executive
did not exact a blind obedience to his own peculiar
view®. The policy which doe#so, has been inaugu
rated in later but certainly not better days.
This spirit has extened itself, and I find in the
government organ i \ this city, only two days ago,
ck diatribe poured out upon the heads of two vene
rable and diutinuuished men, of ripe experience, and
whose oft-exhibited firmness aud integrity of char
acter, united with a rare knowledge aud intelli
gence, entitle them to rank as statesmen. I allude,
of course, to the vituperative attack which the
Washington Union has seen fit to make upon Sena
tors Crittenden aud Bell. Though I dissent from
the conclueions of those distinguished gentlemen, I
should be wanting in truth and sincerity if I did
not say that I know, from my intercourse with
them, that their present course is one dictated by the
same love of'country, and devotion to the pacifica
tion oi the land, which has hitherto marked their
long distinguished career. But, sir, wre have at
last come to this, that Douglas and Bell and Crit
tenden aud a host of others, who have beers, hitherto,
considered worthy and patriotic, if they make but
one false step, come to one false conclusion, all
their good deeds lor a lifetime are to be concealed,
and to go for nought. Is this just, is it proper ?
Where will it lead to ? Does it not lead to the ab
jeet submission of the human intellect, or ruthless
proscription ! That ife not my mode of carrying a
measure. If it cannot be carried without bitterly
debouncing as wanting iu integrity and patriotism
those who may differ with me, 1 would rather it
should fail. Such a course suits not my taste, and
never did. Circumstances which cannot be avoid
ed divide men who are as honest the one aa the
other, aud charity demands that you should be pa
tient aud forbearing with your erring brethren. I
do not arrogate to myself such a degree of compia
coney as to say that l know and feel that I am
right in the position 1 take to-day. I sometimes
have mitfgivHigfi as to the convictions of my own
judgment, and well 1 may, when I see differing with
me men of the best intellect in the lands aud whom
I know, tiom their antecedents, to be a3 patriotic
as I can pretend to be.
Sir, iu relation to the immediate subject under
consideration, I had prepared, to some extent,
(though I shall forbear to trouble the House with it
at this time,) a succinct history of what has occur
red iu Kansas since it became a Territory and the
progress of event® which has matked its history.—
But it isflutticieut for my purpose to state that 1 am
satisfied, from what 1 have read aud heard, aud
from what I know, as well as I can know facta
which did not transpire in iny immediate presence,
that the Lecompton convention was a body that
was legally constituted, called by the proper au
thority, and lawfully convened.
It is my judgment that they had power to form
sucb a constitution as, in their wisdom, they might
see fit, provided it did not. run counter to the ob
ligations of the embryo State to the Constitution of
the United States, and that it. was republican in
lorm. I am satisfied, from an inspection of the
constitution which they did form, that it contains
all the elements that entitle it to be received aa the
constitution of anew State. I even go further,
and say that its framers have collated with signal
success and ability, from the various state constitu
tions, all that 1 think waa most worthy 01 adoption.
It stands to-day, in my judgment, one of the best
inst.ument® ot the sort that it has ever been my
fortune to read. Intrinsically, then, I say, there is
nothing in it to complain of. Perhaps some of my
triends on this side Os the House may think that it
has auti-republfcan features, because it establishes
or tolerates the institution of slavery. Despite what
Governor Walker had said, and even thrfugh he did
say it, under the direction, if you please, and sanc
tion and approval of the President and his Cabinet,
the convention had full power to submit just as
much of the constitution to the people as they
pleased, or to submit no part of it, if they so chose.
These, I think, are sound views. The conven
tion has framed a constitution, and pecause there
was one great subject of exoitement paramount to
all others in the Territory, they determined to sub
mit that sub modo; and that is the chief complaint.
Sir, 1 am inclined to believe that, if that constitu
tion had ignored slavery as an institution of thenetf
St ate, there would have been no opposition to it.—
The people of the Territory had the opportunity to
vote against the slavery clause. They did not avail
themselves of that opportunity, but refused to goto
the polls and assert theif rights. Their reasons for
that course—whether advised frem outside of the
Territory or from within—are unknown to me. But
I infer that the advice came from distant communi
ties, aud for purposes foreign to the interests of the
people of Uie Territory themselves. Shall this mis
erable agitation which has enlisted the interest and
excited the sympathy ©f the nation for years, con
tinue to go ou increasing in magnitude, and perhaps
increasing in danger ? Sir I, tor one, think it wisest
to stop it where it is. Let us take the instrument
which they have sent us as their constitution, and
leave them to amend it as they may hereafter see
fit. Itseems to be the conceded doctrine that they
can do so. It is the doctrine of the President. Ac
cording to my opinien, they may, at least, change
it as the constitution provides, and in no other mode.
They are bound by what it prescribes. If it omits
to prescribe the method, they may alter it accord
ing to their own volition. And then this/oul blot,
this miserable stain that now lies like an incubus on
the community, and shock the moral sense of the
people of the North, will be wiped away and Kan
sas l>e fitted for companionship with the sisterhood
of the free States.
I, sir, as a Southern man, have never looked for
Kansas to be a slave State, and have never expect
ed it. That was one ot the reasons why I thought
the repeal of the Missouri compromise was unwise
aud unnecessary. I thought that it would work out
no practical advantage to the South, aud might end
in serious detriment to the Union. lam still of that
opinion. Ido not believe that it can ever give one
foot of soil to slavery ; I trust that it may never
extend freedom beyond where it would likely have
been limited if the compromise had lived forever.
But it has been supposed and often spoken of, that
the opposition arises from the desire to get posses
sion of the Government. These are speculations
which ruu through the human mind, and you can
not get rid of them if you would. Perhaps it may
be *wise for politicians, when about to enact
measures of great magnitude, to consider the
effect which they may have on their party organiza
tion. But. standing, as I do—or It ing, as I might
more properly say—between the upper and the
nethet millstones, I can feel but little interest in any
movement of that 8u rt. One has been grinding
and crushing the principles which I have advoca
tod, and the other* but emulates it at every oppor
tunity that presents itself. 1 can say to my con
stituents, Americans and Democrats, that I am glad
to see thai this Kansas convention has taken a step
in the right direction. Senator Douglas has stig
matized, or eomplaiued ot it, because the consti
tution contains what he is pleased to term “ a little
touch of Know Xothingisnr * —an American feature.
Any affirmation, from any quarter, of what we
know is thq true policy of the nation, is grateful to
my heart.
Now, a word of kind advice, kindly spoken, to
gentlemen-on this side of the House. It is this : if
you contemplate the possibility of acquiring posses
sion of tbs great “Government, think. 1 beseech you
before you take the reins in your hands, or before
you agaiu aspire to contend for the empire, whether
you are to go headlong in your career of denuncia
tion of the South and her institutions, and yet hope
to administer this government in peace.
l roperly speaking, not one word should have been
s\ij in connection with this constitution, that in
v Ives the question of slavery It has been dragged
in here most improperly. It is a thing tuat beion t
ed exclusively to the local community. It is wrong
that the merits or demerits of the institution ehould
be discussed here, because they have nothing to do
wth the question which we are considering. And
I. for one. as a southern man, decltre that, though
1 stand second to none in my advocacy of our cher
ished iustituti n, born as l was amoDgst it, as were
my ancestors, all slaveholders determined, as I am.
to adhere to it and to abide Us fortunes, let them
lead me where they may: desiriDg to die, when my
time shall come iu the will of Heaven, and to be
buried in the land of my fathers, still I will not con
sent to debate the question upon this tioor, because
it is not legitimately before us. I know what my
rights are. and shall be ready, when the time comes,
.f it ever should—which God in bis mercy avert' —
tp a sen them to ’.he utm, st extreme I shall stand
prepared to take my destiny with those who are in
.itseolubly linked with me These are no idle enun
‘ nations 1 deal not in them, l'bey are the earnest
1 convictions ot my heart, and 1 will deceive no man
1 ay to the North, before you shall succeed to pow
er. if you do obtain the possession of the Govern
j meut.’by all the glories of your boasted Bunker
Hill by tbe memories of your Pilgrim Fathers.whom
1 have never tradneed. and never will, by the com
mon blood that was poured oat at Concord and Lex
ingten and Saratoga &ud on the battle fields o: the
South. 1 im. lore you to give up and abandon this
idea, which is suicidal to the Confederacy, of re
stricting the institution of slavery to its present lim
its. What would you say, in the event onr country
shall expand 1 But if yon have determined to go
on, if you have sworn tn your hearts never to re
lent, you may, and perhaps win, have the power;
but whenever you seek to use it, the unhappy day
will have arrived when this nation, and civilized
man throughout the world, will have cause to la
ment the dire calamity involved in your success.
I have sometimes thought that 1 have done injus
tice to our northern friends. I say it not as a taunt.
I have thought that they acted as politicians mere
ly, using an abstraction for the purpose of obtain
ing power, and not in their hearts cherishing the
sentiments they profess. But I have seen exhibited,
in the course of this discussion, unerring evidence
to mv midd, of a general sympathy with strong
anti-slavery sentiments—ay. with abolition itself,
and it has inspired me for the time with indigna
tion and regret. I deeire the preservation of the
Union. It cannot be preserved, in my honest opin
ion. uniessjthesc ultra opinions are surrendered upon
the altar of our country. In the midst of these va
nous considerations, the committee will pardon roe
for saying that I have been accustomed, in th*
dishing of the great parties of thi? country, to look
to that small, devoted band which is scattered
throughout the States of this Confederacy, who
preach peace and good will to all good men, and
who appeal to all to come up with them in the work
of reforming our Government, of correcting the
abuses which have crept into it, and of Americaniz
ing every institution, a® Ibe nation’s last hope.
From Texas.
The New Orleans Picayune oi Tuesday last, has
news from Texas to the 3d inet.
The Columbia (Brazoria county) Democrat re
ports fine growing weather in that part of the State
for the last few weeks, corn and cane apparently
doing wed aud the prospect of an abundant fruit
crop very promising.
Tne Texan mentions the arrival ot large quanti
ties of com at San Antonia, from Mexico; but pre -
diets that the coming crop will put a stop to impor
tations of the kind.
We learn from the Civilian that the ship National
Guard has just cleared for Liverpool with 2,906
bales of cottou—the largest cargo ever cleared at
Galveston.
The Goliad Express states that the country be
tween that place and the Rio Grande is almost cov
ered with horses and mules from Mexico. Seven
or eignt large droves are mentioned. The Express
buaiuess is beooming extensively toll owed
by traders from various quarters, and a continuance
in it by many we are acquainted with gives ample
evidence that it ia becoming more profitable an
nually. Thousands of horses and mules exchanged
hands at this place last spring, and we should not
wonder if double the number are disposed of here
-this season
It is said that the stock-raisers of Mexico, who
heretofore held their stock for high prices, being
justified by the demand, sell much more willingly
now, and perhaps at reduced prices, owing to the
unsettled state of the country.
The Austin Intelligencer, of the 26th ult., speaks
joyously of crop prospects. It says :
We receive the moot encouraging accounts of
the wheat crop everywhere. The fields all along
the load from Austin to Red River are indescriba
bly beautiful. So tar as the rains go the wheat is
now safe, Ihe ground being so thoroughly wet. The
oaiy danger is from frost.
The corn is coming forward beautifully, and the
peach trees are loaded with fruit. No country ever
looked more inviting than Texas at present.
Some eighteen wagons and thirty men (we learn
from the Intelligencer) passed through Austin, a few
days ago, on their way to the Staked Plains. It is
said they are making for the Wichita mountains
where they expect to find gold in great abundance.
Col. Ripley, who was sent out to San Antonio by
the War Department, for the purpose of selecting
the site*for the proposed arsenal, an appropriation
for which was made by Congress at its last session,
had left that city with the intention of examining
other towns, having declined making the location in
San Antonio, on account of the exorbitant price®
demanded by property owners for the requisite
grounds ou which to locate the buildings. The
Herald understands that Col. Ripley will examine
Goliad, Victoria, and perhaps Galveston, before
making the selection.
The Ban Antonio Herald learns that, on the Me
dina there are fields of corn more than a foot high.
A cotton and woolen manufacturing company has
been incorporated at San Antonio.
Frightful Destitution in Ireland.—The
Catholic clergy of Donegal, some time ago, issued
an appeal on behalf of the peasantry of certain part®
of that county, amongst whom, they alleged, great
destitution and distress existed. In consequence of
the truth of their statements having been question
ed, a special reporter, at the request of tne relief
committee has been se\it down by the proprietors of
the Dublin Evening Post to make investigation on
the spot, and in a communication tc, that paper of
Tuesday, the 16th, we find the result of hia visit and
inquiries.
Gweedore and Cioughaniely, the districts in ques
tion, embrace a territory of mountain and bog,
with an occasional strip of arable land ying on the
northwest of Donegal. The weather at the time of
the visit was very severe, and the ground covered
with Bnow. On reaching the scene of destitution,
says the reporter, “ I perceived perhaps one hun
dred or one hundred and fifty persons, male and fe
male, waiting with their petitions and memorials in
hand, to be presented for relief. Os these the ma
jority were matrons, barefooted and without stook
ings, and some ot those who possessed the luxury of
stockings had not shoes or brogans. The bare
limbs of these women appeared to be swollen and
covered with chilblains.”
He visited some of their houses—if houses they
can be called. Here iB a description :—“ I entered
one on all fours through a hole m the wall, and I
there found an aged matron. Father Doherty pre
ceded and led the way, or I dare say I should have
been denied admittance to that abode of misery
and destitution. Bhe was seated before a fire on the
hearth, the turf of which had been dug by the male
members of the family. There waa no window or
aperture to admit the light of day, save the hole by
which I entered. There, and elsewhere, there waa
no time to be lost. The inquiry was proceeded with
by Father Doherty, who showed me the bed on
which the family lay, and here is a true description :
“The head ol the bed was in the corner, a few
sods of earth at the head aud foot to support it; a
board lor the side, with a few sticks thrown across,
one end inserted in the wall, and the other end sup
ported by stones and turf. There was no bed-tick;
uo clothing, with the exception of a woolen rag,
which could not bear the name of a blanket, nor was
it sufficient in size for a single grown adult, certain
ly not fit to cover a person of full growth. Here in
this hovel, unfit for the habitation of a single human
creature, there were seven persons—l think the
number waa seven.”
Os their food he says—“ln another house we ask
ed what their food was, and they exhibited a metal
pot which contained the meal for the family. This
was chopped or pounded potatoes in a pulp, and
with this pulp re-heated, and with eome sea-weed
which they exhibited in a woDden vessel, called a
noggin, they made the dinner and supper iu one meal.
Ihe system regimen certainly cannot present the
idea of Baron Feuuefather’s ‘opulence.’”
The two following pictures of distress, he says,
apply to hundreds ot casus ;—“The day was awful
ly severe, and all who could remain inside doors
without the pressing necessity of going abroad were
huddled about the fire. In one of these domiciles
there was a female, and she was one of many in the
fifteen or twenty houses I explored in this part of
Gweedore. She was about sixteen, and when called
upon by Father Dougherty to come forward, she
advanced with au air ot confidence, perfectly un
conscious ot her gratefulness, and beauty ot her
form. This poor helpless child was not clad, unless
you could call a shapeless garment, thrown over
without inner covering, clothing.
“But in this house there was another female, o.der
than the one whom I have just now introduced.—
The girl was about twenty, or thereabouts. This
poorcreature had neither shoe nor stocking, and
avoiding the presence ol strangers, she shrunk away
back into the obscure corner in the dark, from which
she had been reluctantly drawn by the priest she
revered.”
Iu conclusion, the report states —“What I have
now said of a few cases might apply to all I have
seen of deplorable distress in this district of the
Gweedore, adjoining the place where the chapel
was burned, aud not far from the residence of ka
ther Magee, the parish priest. But I was informed
by many that there are district® still more miserable
and desolate in the more remote and isolated part®
of Gweedore.” _
A New Game. —Since the arrest of the great con
fidence man, Roberts alias Robertson, another game
which has been successfully practiced here has come
to fight. The operation is as follows : The sharper
meets with and ingratiates himself into the affec
tions of some verdant stranger, who is believed to
be iu possession of more ready cash than the law al
lows these hard times. The countryman or stranger,
if inclined to indulge in .liquidities, is treated fre
quently, the operator, in the meantime, pretending
to drink, but studiously avoiding to do so to an ex
tent that may impair his faculties. Gradually and
apparently, very naturally, the city gent becomes
intoxicated, putting-on all the airs of a drunken
man. He has made himself so agreeable to his
new friend, that his innocent victim, in the warmth
of his newly formed friendship, insists on taking
care of him. The fellow, all at once, recollects that
he has a considerable amount of money on his per
son, and asks his country friend to put it in his
pocket-kook for safe-keeping until he is off of his
little spree. This reasonable request is immediately
complied with, and the countryman, who by this
time is getting quite mellow, tenders his purse, and
the operator in the case pulls out a roll of money,
genuine or spurious, and puts it in the pocket-book
or purse of his victim. This done, the pretended
drunken trickster affects to feel sufficiently safe to
indulge in a few more drinks with his dear friend,
the holder of his funds. The countryman drinks,
and soon becomes really and completely inebriated.
His sharp friend then grows somewhat sober, and
insists that, as his nerves are now steadier than his
friend’s, he shall be intrusted with the keeping of
the funds belonging to both parties. As he has, so
short a time before, reposed such confidence in the
countryman as to entrust all his money to his keep
ing, the countryman can do no less than reciprocate,
and forthwith hands ovsr the bag. In possession of
the treasure, the sharper parts company with his
friend on the first opportunity that presents itself,
and makes the best of his way to a place of safety.
The innocent victim of misplaced confidence, on re
covering from hia debauch, finds his head considera
bly heavier than his pocket, and on inquiring for his
friend discovers that he has vanished. A case pre
cisely similar to the one described, occurred in this
city day before yesterday. The police are on the
look-out for the swindler, aud it is to be hoped that
his arrest may be soon effected. —Memphis Bulletin.
Washington, April 7. —Mr. Colins, the U, S. com
mercial consul for Amoor liver, has completed his
exploration and submitted the result to the State
Department, together with two maps, one of the
Amoor river and the other showing the relative po
sition of northern Asia and onr Pacific coast. A
company has been formed, sanctioned by the Em
peror of Russia and placed under tbe special care of
the Governor General of Eastern Siberia to pro
mote and develops the commercial and industrial
pursuits on the basis of the Amoor. Mr. Collins
shows the prospective importance of that trade to
our own country.
Much solicita ion is expressed concerning the de
ficiency appropriation bill which is now more clear
ly than ever threatened with defeat in the present
form. The interest is heightened by the fact that
the supplies for the Utah expedition depends on its
passage, aDd money is wanted for the immediate ne
cessities of the service.
Tbe War Department transmitted to the House
to-day full particulars of the contracts for the sup
plies of the Utah expedition. They do not sustain
the published statements of exhorbitant prices. The
rates of transportation to Utah depend upon the
season during which the service is performed.
The Senate returned tbe Kansas bill to the House
to day. By general agreement the latter will take
it up to morrow at 1 o'clock.
Dennis Mnrphy was unanimously confirmed by
the Senate to-day as paymaster at Harper s Ferry,
Enough is known to warrant the assertion that
Governor Powell and Major McCullough, the
peace commissioners to Utah, will be instructed to
assure the Mormoue that it is not the desire of the
President and the United States authorities to make
war upon them, but tosecure the enforcement of
the laws, to which end they counseled to
participate. The commissioners will also inform
them that seme troops will be retained in the Ter
ritory to protect emigrants to the Pacific against
attacks from hostile tribes. They will go out with
the next reinforcements.
Scspcnsion of Trade with Canada.— W’e have
before alluded to the circular of tbe Treasury De
partment, lately issued, which requires that a con
sular certificate shall accompany ah importations
exceeding in valne one hundred dollars, says the
Rochester Union of yesterday. The effect of this
order will be to materially diminish our trade with
Canadian ports, nnleee more consular agencies are
established. There is no oodsul on the North shore
of the lake east of Toronto, but there are many
ports with which we are in daily communication.—
The Canadian papers, in view of this circular, are
bidding us a formal adieu, not expecting to meet our
merchants again while this regulation is law Cn
less the ruie is rescinded or modified, as we trust it
roav be when fairly understood at Washington, the
trade of this port will be materially diminished.—
Buffalo Republic.
Bold Mail Robbery —On Saturday night last,
when the cars going up from this city were about a
mile beyond Auburn, the maii car was wrenched
open and the Atlanta pouch sx.racted and thrown
on the side of the toad, where it was subsequently
found, rilied of its contents. It contained a large
number of letters, and from some of these, which
the rogues left on the ground, it is supposed a pretty
smart haul of money was made. Os course the rob
ber left this point on the cars, or got on them at
some of the upper stations, for the purpose of com
mitting this robbery.and doubtless had a confede
rate stationed at the place where the pouch was
thrown out. This is an entirely new game in this
section. — Mont. Confederation, 6tk inst.
A Fashionabe Convert —A lady residing in the
vicinity of New York, tke wife *f one of our moet
distinguished citizens, and well known in the fash
ionable world, has testified her interest in the revi
val movement by converting the elegant billiard
room attached to her house into a place of prayer
meetings, in which her neighbors are invited to
participate dally.—A - . Y . Pott.
Who is a Democrat? —The Richmond Euqutrer
of last week reads the Richmond South out of the
Democratic party. Last year the Bcutk read the
Enquirer out of the party Pray what u Democra
cy, and who are Democrats 7
New York Money Market.
Wednesday, April 7—6 P. M.—The stock mar
ket continues active, but not at all buoyant. The
advance of yesterday ha® been entirely lost. At the
first board to-day Tennessee State 6's declined 4
percent; Pacific Steamship Company, [; Erie,l;
Harlem i; Cleveland and Toledo, i ; Reading, 11;
Michigan Central, 1; Michigan Southern, old, i;
do. preferred, 4 ; Galena ana Chicago 4 ; Chicago
and R(X,k Island, 4. New York Central Railroad
opened and closed without material change. The
sale® of Chicago and Rock Island this morning were
larger than any other fancy railroad stock on the
list. It opened at 70 and sold down to 69f, seller
ton days, and some short contract® wero put out at
69, seller sixty days. The bearS selling this stock
appear to be well posted regarding its future opera
tions. It appears that competition, the bane of
railroad enterprise, has touohed this road at point®
which must ultimately drain its very life blood.—
The April dividend has been passed and is lost. The
October dividend will, without doubt, go the same
way, and with all the advantages the company
possess in its freedom from a large funded debt, the
stockholders are likely to derive very little income
from their investment. The stock has been pretty
well watered inside, and the resources of the 00m
pany cut down pretty well outside, so that a
road which was at one time a fine property has
run out much sooner than tiie usual time for such
results. .
Galena and Chicago was lower this morning, with
quite a moderate business. This road brings more
produce into Chicagothan ail the other lines centre
ing at that point combined. Tue Michigan South
en, both common and preferred, we te neglected
this morning. Cleveland and Toledo was dull and
depressed at the board. The earnings of the road
iu March left a surplus of sl”,^lM*. after the pay
ment of all the current expenses. New \ ork Cen
tral has fluctuated largely and rapidly for some days
past. On Monday it touched 80, and since run up
to 85 per cent. This morning it ranged from 824 10
834 per cent. Tnis stock has such a host of opera
tors to depend upon, and it is such a favorite securi
ty for speculation, that it cannot remain inactive or
continue long depressed. Hudson River Railroad
was firm at the first board, aud the sales were for
cash. This stock holds a good position aud is in
good hands. Tue company have passed through the
revulsion and depression with lees loss and damage
than any other. The decrease in gross earnings has
been more than made up by the saving of expenses,
leaving a greater net-income on a much smaller
business. This ie, after all, true economy and the
proper system of management Unfortunately our
railroad companies try to do too much business.
In their efforts to show large receipt® they lose
sight of the net result, and find very little in the
treasury after expenses are all paid. Railroads,
like individuals, are ruined by doing too much busi
ness. A small traffic that leaves a profit is much
better than a large one that leaves a 1038.
At the second board the market was several
shades better, with rather au active business. La
Crosse land grant bunds advanced 2 per cent.; Erie
4 ; Cleveland aud Toledo i ; Chicago and Rock Is
land 4 ; Milwaukee and Mississippi |; La Crosse
and Milwaukie 4; New* York Central 4 ; Hudson
River Railroad J. The La Crosee land grant bonds
have been unwarrantably depressed for some days
past, but are now gradually recovering from the low
prices touched. At the current quotations these
Donds are beyond all question the cheapest security
on the market, without the least reference to the
land grant. The road itself is sufficient security for
the bonds st the prices, even in the event of the
company not getting an acre of land. New York
Central Railroad closed firm this afternoon at the
board at 834 P© r cent., seller twenty days. After
the board the market was quite Duoyant, and closed
withs decided upward tendency.
The transactions at the Clearing House to-day
were as follows :
Total exchanges $16,990,417 98
Total balances 1,522,185 01
[Herald.
Attempt to Escape from Jail.
A Brave Woman. —About2 o’clock last Sunday
morning, a messenger came to Jailor Baker, in the
jail at Watertown, with the intelligence that a pris
oner named Spencer Wilson was sick, and wished
Mr. Baker to bring him some medicine. Mr. B. did
not hesitate to attend the prisoner, and brought him
a drink calculated to relieve his pain. While Mr.
Baker was holding the cup for the consummate vil
lain to drink, (for Wilson was feigning his illness,)
three other prisoners, named Eddy, Ward and Mis
sic, stole sljly into the cell in their stocking feet,
(Mr. B.'s b&jk being toward them) and seized him,
bore him to the ground, beat him terribly about the
head, and Abused him shamefully. One of the
wretches stepped on the throat of the prostrate
jailor, while the three others proceeded to gag aud
bind him—not, however, until he had maae suffi
cient noise to awaken his wife, who—brave woman !
—seized a revolver, and stationed herself at the
outer door leading into the hall, where she calmly
awaited development®.
Meantime the villains had picked Mr. Baker’s
pocket of his wallet, and the prison keys, and lock
ing him into the cell, coolly proceeded to prepare for
departure, considering themselves now “all hunk,”
as the phrase is. They pioked up their sat3liels,
which were oarefully packed, flung their coats on
their arms and proceeded to the outer door, for the
purpose of taking leave. What was their conster
nation on looking through the hole in the door, and
beholding, leveled directly at them, au ugly concern
with six holes in the end of it, and a little white fin
ger calmly resting on the trigger. “ Advance one
step into this hall,” said the delicate, but firm voice,
“ and you die.” The villains quailed. “ Come on,”
said Mrs. Baker, “ but the first man who steps
from tbat door I will shoot.” This was more than
the fellows had bargained for. But one of them
was cool and impudent. “ Pshaw !” said he, “ you
don’t know how to shoot it.” “ Yes I do,”*eaid Mrs.
Baker, “ 1 have been practicing this long time ; if
you don’t believe it, yoi\can make the trial.” The
fel/ows were completely baffled. They retired for
consultation.
With a refinement of deviltry worthy the arch
fiend, they returned with the intelligence that Mrs.
Baker might take her choice —either to see her hus
band’s brainß kuocked out, or to retire and let them
pass out. Here indeed was a fearful trial. What
did the brave woman do ? She quailed not for an
instant—her eye relaxed not its vigilance—her fin
ger trembled not on the trigger—there she stood
pointing the deadly weapon through the iron bars
of the hall before the door, and repeating her warn
ing to the villians not to come forward a step, as
they valued life ? We challenge history to produce
an example of more glorious heroism on the part of
a woman!
A messenger had in the mean time gone after
help, and it soon came in the shape of some of the
most resolute and hardy men in Watertown, who
speedily relieved the little woman from her guard,
drove the prisoners back into their cells, and set
matters “to rights.”
Mrs. Baker is a small, slim woman, with very ex
pressive features, in which courage andfirmness are
displayed in the keen, clear eye, and the resolute
lines about the mouth. We asked her if she would
really have shot the men, had’they disregarded her
warning. She said “Most certainly I would 1
Would'nt yon."—Utica Heratd, April 8. •
Washington Items. —l learn this evening thata
bearer of despatches to this government has ar
rived from Venezuela, and that General Paez is
President of that Republic, Monagas having re
tired. The purport of the despatches will b 8 known
to-morrow.
The fact that 3anta Anna, who had left Carthage
na promptly on receiving the news of the troubles in
Mexico, had delayed his departure from Bt. Thomas
to Havana, is considered evidence of a serious
check to the soi-disant Dictator’s aspirations. Ac
cording to reliable advices here Santa Anna lias no
party of any strength in Mexico. Unless there be a
great change through a general disorganization of
parties and by civil war, or by a powerful invasion
threatening to extinguish the rule of the Spanish
race in Mexico, he will not return to govern that
country.
There is, I am informed, an extensive organiza
tion in the extreme Southern States ajid at Southern
ports, to aid the liberal party in Mexico. It is not
said whether Comonfort, who is residing in Louisi
ana, is a party to this movement or not. In a few
days I expect to be able to give you some impor
tant developments.
Lord Napier is frequently at the State Depart
ment. There are matters of importance under con
sideration.— Cor. Herald.
Washington Items. —The receipts of the Trea
sury last week from regular sources of income were
greater than during any preceding week since the
revulsion. They exceeded $900,000; whether the
improvement is permanent or spasmodic cannot be
foraeen. It was reasonable to anticipate four
months since a revival of activity in the foreign
trade which has not yet arrived, From the unex
pected increase for last week, it is possible that the
payments into the Custom House may suddenly
swell to equality with the average of former years.
The Secretary of the Treasury is said to be much
elated with his brightening prospects.
The Committee on Foreign Affaire of the House
of Representatives are preparing, I learn, a mea
sure radically changing ana reorganizing the diplo
matic representation of the United States. It has
been resolved to recommend to the House the en
actment into law of a provision that no diplomatic
agent of the United States, under a minister resi
dent, shall be commissioned by the President.
It is stated that James L. Pettigrew, one of the
most eminent lawyers and distinguished citizens of
the South, has written to Mr. Crittenden from
Charleston, that the masses of the Southern people
cordially adopt bis proposition on the Kansas ques
tion.
Negotiations are now going on between the
United States and England for the abrogation of
the Clayton-Bulwsr treaty. The Senate and House
Committees 011 Foreign Affairs will shortly, by a
decided majority, recommend its immediate abro
gation. The English government, through their
Minister, professes to have no objection, provided
our government will make certain concessions in
Central America.
Washington, April G.—Col. Benton is dying.—
His disease, cancer of the bowels, has made such
progress that he cannot survive much longer. He
suffers extreme pain, and is exhausted to almost the
last degree of the physical prostration. But his
mind i® as clear and as powerful as ever, and the
high, resolute, Roman spirit of the old Statesman
struggles with indomitable energy and fortitude
against sickness and weakness and the awful pre
sence of the king of terrors. He dies in harness,
working to the last for hi® country and mankind.
An old and intimate friend from Missouri called
upon him this morning. Benton waa in bed, scarce
ly able to move hia hand or foot, and .• ot able to
speak much above a whisper. But he was hard at
work, closing up his Abridgement of the Debates in
Congress, which he has brought down to 1850, to
the passage of the Compromise measures. He
wa® dictating the closing chaptei of the work. His
daughter, Mrs. Jones, sitting beside the bed, re
ceived it, sentence by sentence, whispered in her
ear, and repeated it aloud to her husband, who
wrote it down, it was then read over to Col. Ben
ton, and received his correction, made with as much
anxious particularity a® if it were the maiden work
of a young author.
Resting a few minutes from his task, Col. Benton
entered into conversation with his Missouri friend.
He told him that in reviewing the events of 1850 he
was glad to find that the animosities of the past had
died out ic his heart, and he was not only ready,
but eager, to do justice to his former rivals and op
ponent®. He ap<:ke with much feeling of Mr. Clay,
to whose merit® and services he had awarded the
highest praise in what he wa® writing about the
Compromise period of 1850. — Cor. N. Y. Tribune
Jail Birnt at Franklin, Ten*.—Great Ex
citement —Almost a Mob — We are indebted to
onr excellent friend, Rowland, Conductor on the
Tennessee and Alabama Railroad for the following
particulars of the homing of the Williamson county
jail. It seems that l day or two ago, a man nnmed
Edwards, with several aliases, of this city, was
committed to the jail on a charge of stealing com,
bacon, etc., and, as is supposed was in possession
of a box of matches. At all events, during Wed
nesday night the citizens were alarmed by the cry
of fire, and on approaching tbe jail it was found to
have originated in the cell occupied by this man.—
All efforts to arreet the fiamee were unavailing, aDd
the building was entirely destroyed, after, getting
all its inmates out.
After the fire, it was ascertained that he had kin
dled the fiamee, and at once the cry was raised to
hang him. A rope was speedily procured and a
nooee placed around his neck, for the purpose of
swinging him up. but upon the appeal of some of
the citizens to the crowd, the purpose was aban
doned, and he was taken into the custody of some
of the citizens and has. we learn, been sent here for
safe keeping.
This fellow is an old offender, being, it is said,
one of the convicts pardoned out of the Penitentia
ry a year or two ago by Gov. Johnson SathnUe
Setet.
Lynching in Florida. —We understand from a
gentlemen who was present, that on Friday last,
while the Judge of the Superior Court of Nassau
Cos., Fla., was absent from the Conrt House, await
ing the arrival of talis jurors, a lot of Regulators en
tered and took from tbe custody of the Sheriff, a
negro fellow named Jack, who was about to be
tried for murder They took him to the woods and
dou btlees dealt with him as their law directs—by
tbe application of a grape vine and black Jack—a
a Regulators goilows. It seems the negro Lad com
mitted an inhuman murderxipon an innocent white
man, that was esteemed in the community and his
trial had been postponed from year to year—there
was no jail in Nassau and a veryjpoor one in Duval,
and fears were entertained of the negro's escape.—
Brunttcick Herald.
The Georgia Baptist State Convention meets in
Amerieuson the 28rd inst. Rev. A Sherwood, will
preach the introductory sermon
WEEKLY
(ftijrmutle & Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GA,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRII, 14, IS3S.
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Cheerfully correct it. No necessity for getting iuto
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Office thieving, every letter containing money does
not reach its destination.
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bills are not cut. If cut, the party sending them
takes the risk.
Mr. Everett’* Oriuion.
The Hon. Edward Everett, was greeted Fri
day, by one of the largest and most intelligent
audiences, to hear his great oration on the charac
ter of Washington, we have ever seen assembled
in this city; and the distinguished orator held
them spell bound for over two hours. We feel how
utterly incapable we are to convey any just idea,
either of the oration or its wonderful effect; —to be
appreciated it must be heard. The highest praise
we can bestow on its rare beauty and colassal pro
portions, is to express the opinion that it was a most
worthy, appropriate* ami eloquent tribute to the
character of Washington.
Fatal Aflrny.
James Morris was shot on Thursday night last,
near Harrisburg, one of the suburbs of this city, by
Wm. A. Parduf.. We have heard no particulars
of this affray or its cause, save that Morris was
advancing with a raised s tick in his hand upon
Pardue, when the latter drew a pistol and shot
him, the wound proving moital.
Gray & Turley—Spring Goods.
Our readers will find in our columns this morning
a conspicuous advertisement of Messrs. Gray &.
Turley’s Dry Good-’ establishment. Their Spring
Stock, which they are uow receiving, embraces
great variety of Dress Goods, Linens, Domestics
Mantillas and Shawls, Embroideries, &e., for a
detailed account of which we refer the reader to the
advertisement. Our country friends, when pur
chasing goods, should not fail to call at this estab
lishment on Broad street, near the United States
Hotel.
Death of Hon. Joel Crawford.
The Constitutionalist of yesterday morning says :
“We learn from a gentleman of Columbus, who
passed through our city, yesterday, that this distin
guished citizen of our State died at his plantation in
Early county, a few days ago.
“My. Crawford was born in thiscounty, on the
15th of June, 1783—received his education at a
classical school kept by the eccentric Dr. Bush, or
Bushnell, in Columbia county—pursued his legal
studies in the office of the Hon. Nicholas Ware,
of this city—removed, after his admission to the
bar, to Miiledgeville, where, for a few years, he
was engaged in an extensive practice—served with
distinction as an aid to Gen. Floyd throughout the
campaigne of 1813 upon the frontier of Alabama —
was elected a few years afterwards to Congress,
then to the State Senate, from the county of Han
cock, to which he had removed in 1826—in 18*28,
and again in 1831 was a candidate for the oilice of
Governor, and in his long and useful life was em
ployed in many important public trusts, and honor
ed with many evidences of the confidence and re
spect of the people of Georgia. He has departed
to that bourne from whence no traveller returns, ful*
of years and of honors, and by his [death, one of the
few remaining links lias been severed which con
nect us with the men whose service in the camp
and in the council illustrated the early history of
our State.”
Superior Soda Water.
As we were passing the store of our friend, Dr.
W. 11. Tutt, yesterday, he invited us to take a
glass of Soda. We accepted aud was presented
with a glass of “ Cream Soda,” which, according
to our taste, surpasses any thing in the Soda line
we have ever tasted. To be appreciated, it must
be tasted, and we advise the public to test its qual
ity.
Gift Swindle*.
Every few days we have an account of the break
ing up and exposure of someone of the numerous
gift swindles, so frequently and extensively adver
tised by the press of the country. The latest expo
sure occurred in New York, a few days since. A
correspondent says :
“The police made a descent, or rather an ascent
yesterday upon a gift concern in the sixth story o
No. 308 Broadway, and airested two young men
named John Pierce and Joseph Rogers, found iq the
office. These parties appear to be agents of Adams
& Banks, the ostensible proprietors of a small
weekly newspaper of the circular kind, called “Cas
ket of Diamonds.” According ‘o the plan each sub
scriber on paying a year in advance for this sheet,
which is filled with a tale called t)ie “Hasty Mar
riage,” “The Lottery Ticket,” fearful snake stories
and other extravagant matter, was entitled to a tick
et which might at the end of the year draw him a
prize of $20,000 worth of pure California diamonds,
set in every conceivable style of elegance, &c. —
Subscription money had been forwarded by country
g-eenies in abundance to the address of Adams &.
anka, No. 40 Sixth avenue.
The Kansas Bill. —Gen. Duff Green publishes
a letter in the Washington States insisting that the
South ought to resist the Lecompton bill, out of re
gard for Its own honor as well as its interests. Be
ing in a minority, he says, the South cannot afford
to put herself in the wrong.
The South will doubtless feel very grateful to
Gen. Duff Green for bis extreme solicitude for
the protection and preservation of her honor, how
ever she may appreciate his patriotic (?) eugges
tion. Perhaps the General, notwithstanding his
great zeal for the South, may profit by the bint, that
when the South desiree his advise on a question of
such vital importance, she will make haste to ask it.
Strawberries.
Mr. L. L. Antont favored us ye sterday with a
small basket of Strawberries, the first we have seen
this season from this immediate neighborhood.—
They were large and fine, and we learn from Mr.
A. that the vines are well filled, and the fruit pro
mises to be unusually large and abundant this year.
Public Land Sales is Nebraska. —The Presi
dent has issued his proclamation authorising sales
of public lands in Nebraska, to commence on Mon
day, the 6th day of September next. The quantity
of lands to be offered at these sales, amount in the
aggregate to 2,268,976 acres, as follows: At
Brownsville, 905,786 acres .at Ni braska City, 699,-
666 acres and at Omaha City 653,63d acres.
Finances of Virginia. —The auditor of public
accounts of Virginia, reports that the amount to be
added to the public debt of the State, under acts of
the last and present session of the Legislature will
be $2,925,800; but that it will not be necessary to
increase the State taxes to meet the liabilities grow
ing out of the recent appropriations. The present
rate of taxation is sufficient to meet all the ordinary
expenses of the government, and produce a sur
plus annually of more than four hundred thousand
dollars.
Demonstrative Wit.—An Irishman being ask
ed, on a late trial, for a certificate of his marriage,
bared his head and exhibited a huge scar, which
looked a though it might have been made with a
fire shovel. The evidence was satisfactory.
Letlers lately received in Washington from Ma.
deira, state that Ex-Preqident and Mrs. Pierce have
experienced much benefit from the mild climate of
the Island. ‘
City Election.
We subjoin the result of the election yesterday
for Mayor and twelve members of City Council.—
There was no opposition candidate for Mayor :
for mayor.
, . , B Conley.
Ist Ward ij
2d Ward \J 3
3d Ward 111 111 Imi!ll2
4th Ward 111.11111208
Total Mi
EOR MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.
FIRST WARD.
F. Blodget, jr., 155 1 J. E. Macmurphey . .109
W.II. Tutt.:.. 136 S.D. Heard 87
J. O. Clarke 132 | J. T. Gardiner 73
SECOND WARD.
J. M. j Dye 106 I G. W. Evans 94
J. D. Smith'. 117 At. N. Dr Isttre 92
J. G. Sledge 96 I R. J. Bowe 6<>
third ward.
W. E. Dealing 105 I 1.. D. Ford 109
U. H. May 107 | Scattering 9
FOURTH WARD.
B. F. Hall 219 I C A. Platt 145
W. V. Keener 178 IV. H. Salisbury... 108
11. Rigby 171 | Janies Garregan. -.109
Names of Democrats in Italics.
Improvidence and its Consequences.—A New
York papef contains the following communication :
Sir:—l owe yoiMt debt of gratitude l fear 1
shall never be able to nay, (o that benevolent in
dividual, Mr. John W. Farmer, w ho has supplied so
many w ith food through the past winter. Myself
and family have been daily recipients at his table,
and had it not been for this means of obtaining
food, I have no doubt we*should many a day have
gone without food. I am by profession a book
keeper. and up to last August had been iu receipt
of $1,2U0 per annum, but having a large family, and
like most men, not dreaming of a reverse, had lived
up to my income. I trust the lesson I have learn
ed by sad experience, will make me more frugal in
the future.
I have now obtained employment, and shall, 1
trust, never more be in my present condition ; but
I take this public method of returning my sincere
thanks to Mr. Farmer, for his kindness to me and
mine, and pray that every blessing this world can
bestow may rest upon him and his family.
The Courier 4* Enquirer copied the above and
remarked: It would be curious to learn how many
of Mr. Fanner's beneficiariesduiingthepastwiu
-ler fairly belong to the category of this winter.—
Would it not be safe to say that at least forty-nine
fiftieths were reduced to the humiliating necessity
of eating the bitter bread of charity by their own
previous extravagance and misdoing? We luve
no doubt that facts would fully bear out such a
statement.
Among the most important of common things which
it is desirable that people should be taught in these
days is the use of money. There is no nation iu the
world so hard working as the American, and theTe
is none that seems to value money less after it is
earned. On all sides we see abundant evidence of
the recklessness of our expeuditure as a people. All
classes are, to a greater or less extent, infected by
the malady. Professional and business men spend
lavishly in keeping up appearauces, aud striving to
obtain front seats in society ; aud multitudes of day
laborers, though they may have no ambition as res
pects social status, spend quite as lavishly—chiefly
in the indulgence of a diseased appetite for drink.
The popular notion seems to be that the right use
of money is to spend it, aud that as fast as possible
During the last few years, the earnings of almost all
occupations have been such as to enable the indus
trious not only to live in comfort, but to lay by a
considerable store of earnings against hard times,
sickness, and old age. Surely this is one of the
right uses of money—to serve to build up a man’s
independence, aud protect him against the contin
gencies of bad times, accidents, helplessness aud
disease.
But it is a notorious fact that great numbers of
even our best kind of merchanics and operatives,
notwithstanding the numerous facilities uow offered
for saving, are rarely more than a few weeks ahead
of actual want. Os course when there is a reverse
in business—a reverse such as may at any time
come —the wolf is forthwith at their door. Improvi.
dence is too tame a word, when applied to such
conduct; it is downright recklessness. The saving
in prosperous times of a single shilling a day, would
perfectly insure against all suffering for - lack of
employment wheu hard times come, —prosperous
times being the rule and hard times the exception
And yet, on the average, a sum larger than a shill
ing a day is spent for mere drink alone. It has
been ascertained that the average expenditure of
workiag-class families in all England amounts to
about nineteen pounds per annum for drink.
If not as much in New York city, it certainly
must be half as much, as that would be at the rate
of more than one of our shillings per day. But this
is only one of the manifold modes of violating the
rules of common prudence and economy. Mr-
Fanner has done a noble work. He has saved
thousands from an extremity of suffering, if not
from actual starvation. But however laudable may
have been this bounty, its reception was no less a
humiliation. The man or woman who was forced
to partake ot it in consequence of his or her own
previous want of forecast and self-control, has done
an injury to personal independence, the sense of
which ought to rankle for years. It would be well
if all, like the writer of the above, should profit by
the bitter experience.
The War on the Amoor. —Among the items of
news by the last steamer, was one announcing that,
the advanced posts of the Russians, at the mouth of
the Amoor, had been attucked by the Chinese, and
so suddenly that the former had been compelled to
retreat thirty leagues up the river. Whereupon
the Chinese destroyed the Russian settlement. The
matter is further explained by Mr. Collins, United
States Commercial Agent at the Amoor, who is now
iu the city of Washington, it appears from his
statement, that the Chinese claim jurisdiction over
both banks of the river Amoor, which claim Russia
resists. The object of Count Pontiatine’s embassy
to Pekin was, iu fact, to procure an adjustment of
this boundary; but the Emperor of China refused
to receive him. It now seems that the Chinese
have asserted their pretensions by force. Along
the north bank of the Amoor, claimed by Russia,
depots are established for materials for ship-build
ing and other purposes, which, it seems, the Chi
nese have attacked and destroyed.
Homicide in Girard. —We learn, says the Co
lumbus Sun, that a recontre occurred near Girard,
Ala., on W ednesday, between a man by the name
of Veasy, or Beasy, and a man named Lewis What
ley, in which the latter received a pistol shot from
the hand of the former, causing his death in a few
hours afterwards. The ball took effect in the side,
just below the short ribs, and lodged near the back
bone. It was extracted by Drs. Ellison and Car
riger, of this city, but it was found impossible to
save his life. lie walked home after receiving the
wound. The origin of the difficulty was some re.
ports connected with the reputation of the family of
the deceased, which it is stated Veasy circulated,
and Whatley, in company with one or two other
persons, went to see Veasy about it, and commenced
abusing him, and struck him with a stick,
when Veasy drew a pistol and shot him. We
understand the Coroner’s jury returned a ver
dict that the deceased came to his death by a
pistol shot, from the hand of Veasy, done in
self-dence.
The Purchase of Mount Vernon. —The
Charleston Courier, of Wednesday, says: “A pri
vate dispatch received in this city from Richmond,
communicates the welcome intelligence that the
contract for the sale of Mount Vernon lias been
concluded, and the title of that predial shrine lias
been transferred to the incorporated Mount Ver
non Association.
“The details will reach us in good time, and will
encourage all concerned to persevere under more
favorable assurances to complete the monetary
conditions of the sale.”
A Wonderful Conversion. —The New York
Herald, which has a queer way of bearing upon all
■ides of a question, after abusing the Crittenden
amendment and defaming its supporters, now urges
its adoption as the best means of settling the
Kansas question. Here is the latest recommenda
tion :
“As the only remaining consideration to every
peace maker now is the speediest possible removal
of this bone of contention from Congress, why should
not the majority of the Senate recede, or at least
permit the Crittenden bill to go through by default ?
It is not necessary that any administration member
should vote for the bill. The absence of eight or
ten Lecompton men when the vote is taken will
answer the purpose.”
Who Did It? —The Montgomery Advertiser,
(democratic) is not afraid to confess the truth. It
thus speaks out on the miserable plea to which the
democratic press of the South has resorted to cover
up the shame of its party :
“The American party has defeated Kansas ! Won
derful discovery. How will the great and glorious
Democracy of the South be prepared to hear that a
miserable and contemptible minority of Kentucky
and Maryland Know Nothings, who never were of
sufficient, importance to deserve even the calcula
tion of their vot‘s, and whose only merit was their
insignificance, have suddenly become powerful
enough to defeat the South upon a question of most
vitvl import to her safety and honor. Will not the
Democracy of the South, who have worked so long
and so nobly for the success of the Constitution and
the South, and who had the satisfaction of summing
up a majority for their party of twenty-four votes at
the opening of Congress, be astonished to hear that
the majority had been overcome by five Know
Nothings. Five scattering votes overturn a solid
majority of twenty-four.
Wonderful Growth of Kansas Cities.—A
Kansas correspondent, in allusion to the rapid
growth of Kansas, says :
“The growth of Western Cities has always been
quoted as something marvelous, and this one of
Leavenworth will not fall behind the most marvel
lous accounts of their progress. Less than four
years ago not a building was to be seen on the Bpot
where now resides at least eight thousand people.—
In the space of three years and a half it has grown
up to its present proportion,-, and is still increasing
rapidly. Two daily and three weeklies are pub
lished in this city. The various printing offices are
overrun with job work, and business generally, is
prosperous In addition to the progress in the news
paper line, the citizens are preparing for the intro
duction of water into their city, and also intend
lighting it with gas. A great deal of activity is
apparent, arising from the preparations being made
here fer the Utah Expedition.
A Fugitive Slave Mob. —A gentleman named
Stump, from Virginia, accompanied by aC. 8.
Marshal, visited Blairsville, Pa., last Thursday, and
arrested a fugitive slave. According to the Pitts
burg Gazette, however, he was immediately res
cued by a mob ofwhites and blacks, and Mr. Stump
an and the Marshal compelled to beat a retreat after
being roughly baudled.
Mount Vernon. —Eight hundred dollars, which
were raised in Louisville for a benevolent purpose
and not used, have just been appropriated to the
Mount Vernon fund by a vote of that city.
The let Crop.—lt has been estimated, says a
Boston paper, thdt double the quantity of ice has
been out this year than eduring any former season.
Mr. Wilde, of Medford, has housed 450,000 tons at
Spot Pond, and other parties have cut 100,000 tons
more.
The* Opera.
After a comparative dearth of t cents, our
citizens are to be favored with a ehc-rt season o f
“ English Opera,” by the New Orleans Optra Com
pany, which has been filling highly successful en
gagements in Charleston, Savannah, Macon, Co
lumbus and Montgomery. If all thatour cotempora
ries of the press tell of this company and their pleas
ing entertainments is true, they will doubtless be
well patronized during their short engagement. The
Charleston Standard, speaking of Miss Hodsoji s
benefit while in that city says :
MissHodson’s benefit, last night, was a “ bump
er,” indeed. The only adjective that will give our
readers who were not present an idea of the house,
is suffocating. There was not a sea* to be had in
the drees circle, pit or family circle, and there was
hardly room enough to stand in the lobbies. The
large attendance was a deserved compliment to Mis
Hodsou, who is a correct actress and sweet vocalist.
The entire performance parsed off very well—Wer
ner’s Band officiating as the orchestra
with their usual ability. This evening will be pro
duced the Opera of Era Diavolo, one of the moat
pleasing ever put upon the stage.
It the audiences for the future are to be as large
as that of last night, we would suggest to the man
agement that the doors be opened at an early hour
—as. last evening, several hundred people were
waiting for half an hour at the doors before they
were opened.
Disturbance at a Baptism —The rite of bap
tis.n was administered on Sunday, at Providence,
to over fifty persons. At Thurber’s Pond, where a
number of persons from the Fourth Baptist Church
were immersed, about three thou and persons wore
assembled, half of whom were Irish, as Mis Carroll,
who was converted from the Catholic to the Pro
testant faith some time ago, was one of the persons
to be baptised. On entering the water, says the
Providence Journal, she wa3 iusultod with cries of
“kill her,” “drown her,” &c., the crowd being with
difficulty kept behind a rope which was drawn to
keep them from the shore. After the ceremony, the
carriage which conveyed Miss Carroll to her resi
dence was followed by a large crowd of Irish. The
presence of the police, however, prevented any
further disturbances.
These, and such as these, stupid, ignorant, bigot
ed creatures, the Democracy and Black Republi
cans declare, are fit to participate in the manage
ment of this free government
Pear Blights. —The following, which we find in
the Columbus Times \ Sentinel , is a matter of no
small interest to our horticultural friends, and to the
public generally : “ A disease or an insect too small
for microscopic vision, is destroying many of our
finest fruit trees and causing some alarm among the
cultivators of orchards. For a long time, this die
ease or destroying insect was confined to a Northern
oKmale, but it is now transferred to a Southern soil
and threatens great destruction. The finest pear
trees wither and die in a few days. Wo are inhum
ed by our friend, R. J. Moses, Esq.,*of this city,who
has the finest orchards in the country on Eequiline
Hill, that the symptons of decay are first observed
at the ends of the leaves, which soon turn black and
the blossoms fade. Its progression is downward to
wards ti e roots. It is beyond doubt contagious,
aud spread* rapidly. The best remedy is to lop off
the limbs of the tree, when its leaves are being tinc
tured with blackness or cut the tree down immedi
ately and burn it, eo as to destroy the insects.”
An Ex-Lecomptonite. —The Vicksburg Whig
(Miss.) publishes a letter from a pro-slavery man
who was a member of the late Lecompton Constitu
tional Convention, yet who has recently returned
to Mississippi. Being asked why he did so, lie re
plies :
“ My reason for leaving is, I think, a good one.
I cannot stay any longer. I have been, as every
one must be, identified with politics. 1, unfortu
nately for my future prospects in Kansas, have ta
ken an active and rather prominent part And
now, to confess the truth and shame the devil, we,
the pro slavery men, cannot expect any mercy or
favors from the d—d abolitionists ; for, although we
have been in a minority ever since 1 came to Kan
sas, we have denied t his, to prevent discouraging
emigration from the South, and have bullied ana
swindled them in our elections, until even I admit
they have a right to feel .outraged. To-day they
out number us at least four or five to one. The
disproportion is too great for us to light any longer
—the mo r e so from the fact th&l the ensuing spring’s
emigration will swell their majority to probably
eight or ten to one ; for our men are leaving daily,
and theirs are pouring in.”
Interesting to Slaveholders.— A white man
was lately convicted in Georgia for the murder of a
slave, and another case has just transpired in Y icks
burg, Missisippi. A man uained Davenport, charg
ed w’ith killing a slave, was convicted of man
slaughter and sentenced to seven years hard labor
in the penitentiary. The Vicksburg Whig says :
This was a case of some importance to the slave
holders. ‘Hie accused was an overseer, and plead
ed iu his defence that the slave was resisting his
authority w’hen he gave the blow causing death.—
We learn his honor, Judge Verger, at the instance
of the State, charged the jury to the effect: That
the slave, when his life was threatened or eud an
gered by the infliction of cruet and unusual pun-,
ishment, had the right to resist even the master,
and that his resistance, Under such circumstance#,
would be no justification to the accused for killing
him.
, Condition of Affairs at Washington. —The
Washington correspondent of the New York Times,
in describing the sad condit ion of affairs, in a letter
dated April sth, says that “Washington is a pande
monium. There is no other city of the Union, not
one, in which the life, the person, and the property
of the citizen are so unsafe as in Washington. You
speak in disparaging terms frequently of New
York, Baltimore ad New Orleans. Compared with
this place, New York is a field of Elysium. It has,
with its suburbs, 900,000 inhabitants; Washington,
with its suburbs, has less than 70,000. Yet 1 doubt
whether there have been so ♦many deaths by vio
lence, so many riots in New York as in Washington,
during two years. And the whole of this terrible
scene of anarchy, crime aud confusion, is the result
of mia-government. The social crisis which we
have reached is traced, iu every candid citizen’s
mind, to the •editions arising in party contests, and
the incompetency aud vicouenessof those entrusted
with the administration of law. Murder, riot, rob
bery and arson rule the city. They stalk abroad
and take possession of the streets by day and by
night. Each week the peaceful and worthy citizen
laments the black record of its predecessor, and
hopes that the next, will bring him Die immunity
from danger and insult which he formerly enjoyed.
But crime grows by what it feeds on, and has now
become unendurable. The patience of the commu
nity is exhausted.”
The Kansas Constitutional Convention.—
The Leavenworth correspondent of the St. Louis
Republican say*, that the Constitutional Convention
adjourned on the night of the 3d. Under its action
negroes are allowed to vote on the constitution, and
at the first election thereafter, a vote is to be had on
the question of negro suffrage. Foreigners having
declared their intention of becoming naturalised are
also allowed to vote. The question of negro suf
frage caused a good deal of excitement and angry
discussion, and the representatives of several coun
ties signed the constitution under protest.
The Leavenworth correspondent of the St. Louis
Democrat, says that, the policy* recommended in the
address to the public, framed by one of the con
vention committees, is that they should give-to the
Leavenworth constitution, a hearty ratification, and
refuse to accept any organic law derived from the
Lecompton constitution, or the Government.
The addrees does not recognize a possibility of the
Lecompton constitution becoming the fundamental
law, even though Congress receive it.
The same correspondent say§ that the convention
would not tolerate the policy ot any free state men
qualifying themselves, under the Lecompton bill of
rights, and that it dadared thfe right of all men to
control their .own persons, to be prior to the law and
inalienable.
Mount Vernon Purchased. —We are happy to
announce, says the Richmond Dispatch, that on the
6th inst,., in the piesence of the two parties, and the
counsel of the Association and the proprietor of
Mount Vernon, a contract was formally entered
into, before a notary, between John A: Washington,
Esq., and the Regent of the Association, for the
purchase of the Home and Grave of Washington
the Association. The particulars wil be given in a
few days.
A Cold Blooded Murder. —The Atlanta Intel
ligencer of Sunday morning says:—On Wednesday
evening last, between sunset and dark, a gentleman
by the name of Samuel Landrum, from Benton
county, Alabama, was attacked by a party of par
ties as yet unknown, on the McDonough road,
about three miles from Atlanta, and beaten .on the
head with a slungshot to such an extent, that it is
believed he cannot survive. The deadly instrument
with which this atrocious act wen committed was
found near by. It consists of a ball of lead attached
to a leather string run through a hook. Mr. Land
rum has been attended by Dr. W. F. Westmoreland,
and all that surgical aid cay eflect to bring.abont
his recovery has been and will be done ; we sin
cerely hope it may prove successful. Suspicions
attach to certain parties who were mysteriously
prowling about Atlanta and suburbs during the
past week, and we hope that if they were the
assassins they may be speedily brought to justice.
The Union Enlarged.— The bill for the admia
s on of the new State of Minnesota into the Union
has been passed finally by the Senate, and will pass
the House, so that the Union may l re regarded as
consisting of thirty-two States. Before the year
1858 is over it will probably consist of thirty-four
States, as Kansas and Oregon are to be admitted.—
In another year we may have Ontonagon—com
posed of parts of Michigan and Wisconsin—apply
ing for admission. Then will come Nebraska and,
perhaps, Washington, and the Texans will probably
be asking for a seperate State to be made out ot
their extensive territory. The chances are fair that
within four or five year#, the Union will consist Os
thirty six or thirty-eight States.
AnEmbasst from Japan—A Paris correspon
dent of the New York Journal of Commerce says :
“ A gorgeous embassy from Japan is expected ;
after visiting our capital, London and perhaps
Vienna, these princes and other grandies of the
Mongolian race will cross the Atlantic, to learn
what, the United States arc, and what a Kepublie
means. They are quite as worthy of an elaborate
welcome as the Turkish Admiral, about whoee mis
sion and advent there has been in Congress and
Common Councils a /*, which excites some
smile -. on both sides of the British Channel.”
From Montevideo. —By private advices from
Montevideo, under date of February 3, we learn
that the disturbances which have recently agitated
that country have been effectually suppressed, and
that the present government is established on a
much more secure and permanent basis *han here
tofore. No further disturbances need be antici
pated, as the governments now in a position to ef
fectually quell any attempted insurrection.
The Utah Expedition.— The Washington Union
states that Gen. Persifer Smith has been ordered to
Utah as well as Gen. Harney, and that the chief
command will devolve upon Gen. Smith. Gen. 8.
is one of the most accomplished and popular officers
in the service —a soldier by choice and education,
of thorough aDd matured study in military science,
of great experience as an. offiafcr, and endowed
withal by a high and acknowledged military genius I
Kansas.—A letter dated Leavenworth, March
20th, to the Cincinnati Gazett? s ya that, in the
constitutional convention resolutions lad been of
fered and referred which, if carried into effect,
would result in the exclusion of colored persons from
the S'ate of Kansas. The suffrage provision repor
ted from the confers the franchise on all
male citizens over the age of twenty-one years,
without dia’inotion of raoe or color, and whoever
may be declared citizens by the State courts will
be entitled to vote, notwithstanding the Dred
Scott decision. A majority of the delegates favor
the striking out of the W'ord •‘male,’’ so as to leave
the matter resting with the IState courts to decide
whether women are citizens aud may vote. The
immigration of the season has already commenced
to flow into Kansas by every steamer.
The Revival in New Orleans. —The religious
movemeut has at length reached New Orleans. It
had been previously manifested in all the cities of
the South. The New Orleans Picayune says:
The movement, however, iu this city, consists, aa
yet, only iu the opening of places of worship, daily,
iu all parts of the city, aud in an unusual at tendance
on religious services.
It has been a rye attraction which, in New Or
leans, has called any considerable number of men
of business, gentlemen of leisure, or laboring men,
from their usual routine of pleasure or labor, during
the interval between Monday morning and Satur
day night, to visit our churches. The change, at
the present moment visible here, is the apparent
disappearance, to some extent, of what maybe
termed a characteristic indifference, and the grow
ing pordiality maintained between churches ot dif
ferent ere* ds.
At, the prayer meetings now held each day, at dif
ferent hours, in different places, and all attended by
large numbers, are to be seen quite as many men
as women, and the line of denominational division
in these reunions seem to be almost entirely broken
down.
Southern Railroad Movement. —A Conven
tion ha* recently been in session at Chattanooga,
- Term. The loads represented were : the South-
Side, Orange and Alexandria, Richmond and Dan
ville, Virginia and Tennessee, East Tennessee and
Virginia, East Tennessee aud Georgia, Nashville
and Chattanooga, and Memphis and Charleston.
The schedule adopted by the Convention makes the
entire line direct, without detention.
From Memphis to Petersburg ami Richmond, or
vice versa, the time required will be 58 hours, to or
frffm New York, three days aud eighteen hours.
From Memphis to New (Irleaus, the passengers will
have the choice of travelling either by railway or
steamboat, full arrangements being effected on both
sides. Tickets will be issued from all intermediate
points, and in fact every thing arranged complete.
The schedule will take effect the 17th May next, at
which time the staging on the East Ternessee and
Virginia road will be obviated, and4he entire route
one continuous line of railway.
Political Refugees.—The London Times, iu a
leader on the questiou at issue between Great Bri
tain aud France, speaks in the following sensible
and decided tone:
“It is no pleasure for peaceful communities to re
ceive refugees among them—it is astern social du
ty. These men have been driven from their coun
try by the violence of factions—they have passed
months or years in the midst of political tempests—
and they are not likely to settle down at once into
quiet citizens. If there be a ground of complaint
on either side, jt belongs to those nations on whose
shores or frontiers these bands of outcasts are
thrown. France in this matter has been a grievous
offender iu Europe What have England and
B lg uiu and the Swiss Cantons done that they
should be periodically oovered with the still burning
matter discharged from the French volcano ?
“Is it not well known that men of desperate
acter, of violent passions, of fanatical opinions,
roes of the club and the barricade, have
h nily expelled from France, year after
wander whither they choose ? Are we
sponsible for hese men 7 Are wo to turn oiaHh
into agents of police for each successful party
reigns in France ? Are we to demoralize <ur so
cial system by espionage, and, because a foreign
potentate chooses to recall the age of proscription,
to aid him by spreading a net-work of detection
which is odious to-our feelings, and the operation of
which must tend to injure our own moral tone ?
These things we never can consent to, and yet
they are demanded of us, since they are dein&naed
of others whose misfortunes it is to be weaker than
ourselves.”
Counterfeiters in Alabama —The Tuscaloosa
Monitor of the Ist inst., says :—“lt is rumored that
a gang of counterfeiters have been discovered in
the upper part of thiscounty, whose operations
extend into Mississippi, and men heretofore, of
high standing are implicated. We understand that
the matter has been investigated by the Grand
Jury at this Court; but. that, parties after whom the
Sheriff was sent have absconded. Let, them be
ferreted out if possible.”
New Canadian Coinage. —Canada has’ just,
adopted a Decimal Currency. The new coins have
been prepared at the English mint, and the first
consignment is daily expected to arrive. The si!
ver coinage consists of live, ten, and twenty cent
pieces. Cents have also been struck. As yet no quar
ters have’ been coined; but the convenience attend
ing their use will soon add them to the list. TIT a
chatigo will be an accommodation not only in
Canada, but also in our frontier States, between
whose inhabitants and the Canadians a large and
increasing business intercourse exists.
Virginia Legislature. —The Legislature of
Virginia adjourned Thursday, after transacting a
large amount of important business. Iu the House
the bill for the relief of the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad was defeated. About midnight on Wed
nesday night the General Appropriation bill wan
passed.
Suspicions of Franck.— lt, is stated rn the N
Y. Tribune that all French commercial houses hav
ing funds in this country to be forwarded to Europe ,
have ordered tlieic cm*respondents here to make the
transmission in bills of Exchange on London, in
stead of Paris, as usual. ‘They have no confidence
in the ponnauence of Louis Napoleon’s government,
and take (His means of making their money sure.
The gran of allowance that must be taken with this
statement ,is that the New York Tribune taken
every occasion. and frequently makes one, to slur
at the Emperor of the French and his government.
The Utah Commission.—A Washington telegra
pbic dispatch says that enough is known to warrant
the assertion that Gov. Powell and Maj. McCul
louch, the Peace Commissioners to Utah, will be in
structed to assure the Moimons that, it is not the
desire of the President and the United Stains an
thorities to make war upon them, but to secure the
enforcement of the laws, to which end they will be
counseled to participate. The Commissioners will
also inform them that some troops will be retained
in the Territory to protect emigrants to the Pacific
against attacks from hostile tribes. They will go
out with the next reinforcements.
The Cincinnati papers states that. Chap,. Me
Micken, recently deceased in that city, has be
queathed to the city of Cincinnati, in trust for the
endowment, el a free University, educational and
eleemosynary, a magnificent property, valued by
the executors at eight hundred thousand dollars, or
more. In 1803, the deceased crossed the Allega
nies, arriving lb Cincinnati possessed of a horse
saddle and bridle. He engaged in the flat boat
business, and rapidly amassed a foi tune. At. the
tune of hit! death he is said to have been worth con
siderably over a million of dollars , and after pro
viding liberally for a large number of relatives, he
bequeathed the above magnificent sum to the city
of Cincinnati.
Severe Gale at Norfolk—On Thursday last
quite a severe northeast gale, accompanied by rain,
set in at Norfolk. The wind continued to blow
very heavily up o a late hour on Friday night. The
Norfolk Day Book, of Friday afternoon, says :
Our reporter has been aw far as Sewell Point, and
reports Hampton Roads as looking quite gloomy,
with about 220 sail at anchor and others continually
coming in. At this time we can safely say there
are 350 sail at anchor in the roads. The wreckers
are under the impression, if the gale continues,
there will be many vessels ashore at Cape Henry
and vicinity. Since 1 2 o’clock P. M. the gale has
increased; the water is over several of our wharves
and it is now, 2P. M , blowing a severe gale. Thi"J
is considered, iu fact, the severest gale we have bjm
for months.
The Norfolk Argus, of Saturday, says :
This gale has no doubt caused damage along
coast. The Philadelphia steamer, due on Tb*
day evening, had not arrived yesterday aJfqitu
We learn that on Saturday the gale hnd pr*.
much subsided, and that, no serious damage Wl
done at Norfolk. wM
Designs of Mexico. —We learn, says the N. oJ
Delta, that two movements are on foot against tli/P
Zuloaga Government. The first movement is to
concentrate a body of Americans at Vera Cruz, de
signed to assist Juarez in recovering tiie power ves
ted in him by tiie Constitution. Rumor has it tha
a well known citizen of New Orleans is enlisted in
th3-cause, and will soon make a descent upon the
City of the True Cross. The second movement, in
which the gallant Gen. Ilenningeen is said to be en
gaged, is to push across the Rio Grande a force to
assist Vidaurri iu puttiog down the Zuloaga Gov
ernment, or forming the three States of Tainaulipas,
New Leon and Cobahuila into an independent Re
public.
ExplosioiFof a Locomotive.— l. oss of Life.
We learn from the Lynchburg Virginian that an ac
cident of a sad character occurred Wednesday morn
ing near Shawsville, on the Va. A, Tenn., road by
the bursting of the boiler of the engine engage-1
in drawing the gravel train. The engineer, an Irish
man by (he name of Morlarty, was fatally injured
and has since died. The fireman, a colored man, is
also supposed to be mortally wounded. The engine
is the same that previously bore the name of the
“Lynchburg,” and once before bursted near Forest
Depot, killing both the engineer aud fireman.
Ship Sarah Judkins Destkoved ur Fire at
Appalachicola. — More than 900 bales of Cotton
Burnt. —The following intelligence was obtained
from the Appalachicola Commercial Advertiser s
Letter Sheet Prices Current, of the 27th ult.:
11 The ship S rah Judkins, C'apt. Smith, loading
for Liverpool, was and slroyed by fire this morning,
at the West Pass anchorage. She had on board be’
tween 960 and 1000 bales of cotton—all burned
The origin of the fire it not known. Cotton all iu
sured, principally, we believe, in New York. ’
The Kansas Bill —General Duff Green pub
lisLes a letter in the Washington States insisting
that the South ought to resist the Lecompton bill,
out of regard for its own hoDor as well as its inte
rests. Being in a minority, he says, the South can •
not afford to put herself in the wrong.
Small Pox.—We learn from the Eutaw (Ala.,)
Whig that there have been several oases of Smal 1
Pox, at or near Bridgeville, in Pickens county, in
that State. The disease was carried there by a man
by the name of Hughes, who contracted it while In
New York.
At the election in Louisville, on Saturday, for
municipal officers, the candidates of the American
party were chosen. The Journal says the eleotion
passed off quietly. The aggregates of the largest
votes for Councilmen on each side are as follows
For the Americans 2,181 votes, for the Demoorate.
937 Votes, giving a clear American majority of
1,244.