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SARSIPARiLU MSIPoj ft,
DENNIS’ ALTERATIVE.
IJNT IPITSTT BOTTLES.
FOB PURIFY]NO THE BLOOD.
rIMI.M SARSAPARILLA a. with it dll .
J. . hyeician> kootv to be goo It h-s b■ v J
&ud foil ad good. It vfcffie run only fee t ‘irnfu-i: By it- |
|9od effects and tta** i ; .. thr.i eat* b“ made of it I
i'or porifying the blood, it istUe bfMUn d.ct■ •• th I
day.
For Females, it in ©xceik nt in tilaaaf © 1 arifilr,# irom n |
debHiUtod stale ot health, ami to Ir. j rove t’ e e- i>- j
ploxton.
For Olilldren, 1$ keeps them healthy, o. them I
lets liable to attack* otrihea*©, and Datfc *t preventive I
of worms. With Bxpectorants, it ib ercoUi nt iu <l.: ca. e I
of the lungs.
It !a the best medic.ne in which lodide of Potas* urn
can be given, for, with the bfirnapart'.la, It w-i'! b-.v
much better effect
With Conalba, (l ox. to the bottle,) the Hair U icn
dered more useful and certain In pro'll* G *ta <■” r
for tt would be administered u a pirlfyr / mtdeine.
Physicians prescribe it b’ ca-se it aoi h tIM-ir *>nr
p*e better than any BartaparUJa 1 bey an rt,ou. n •<
Newspaper advertuem* ntH aree io.> expensive l > au
meraic alt the virtue* ant gr. at Oer.eii. ag o*’’
the of the (JKOKGIA SARBaPAKIIiLA COM
FOUND.
For wvle at the Sou’h bv Druggint-: generally ; in v
York, by UAH HAL, HISLEY ol KITCHL ..
aepS wDt
_ COTTO>
I IIAVE appointed Maj THOMAS TOBIN, the
City of Augusta, my Bole Agent for the , ‘
Fights for th” mnnufactore and uaeof myCOT * O:.
FAN, for rttateH, Countloi, or individuals iu th> , -, t .
of Sooth Cur.dina, Georg a and Florida. The n eot
the above I*an is to clean Cotton o f ,ar. , < . t L* .
li ab, previous to Its being g’ * and
THOS. OLIVER, Patente \
sepl?*i3Aw.Jm* Yaxoo City Ai .•>• H ;i.
TO THE PLANTERS
EMPIRE STATE. |
1 WOULD most c-ralmly invite tho a.tH. i.,.
friouds and toe Piauter.* i ruby, to i ‘ I
Invented by myself, aud pat>;n: don the *'Jih O. d - r I
J 857.
The object of tills invention ia to increaso \’ y i*. ii'o |
of manual iabor. Itfiiuritri hxve been tho.i; I
m! upon my own fstm ; and It bus ;*r**’ T *. , ialy J
in’reduced to th*- n iL'* > M
Georgia aud Florida, v. ho p!a itF ;• ••• • ‘
on it, and are avaitlur them cives of it< grew a - i J
tage.s. I can assert from actnal test, that . r*"voby j
the use of this implement SO to 100 p. r cent inauuai !• I
bor, as w*ll be testified to bv hundreds wbo i*ro Acquaint- I
e twiih its uperior advcntagev.
Tlio Double-Acting. Ci'cl"-Adjunt.ir: v •
P JL O W ,
Is SO peculiarly can r ♦-<■ tti .1 u mn 7 -*• [
>ne, two, or Uiree shares of anv v% i<i ii ,r.i oto t
es, deep or shadow. >liso. s • *uV.- i-..’ * 1 ■ ■ “ 1 !
share in ad anoe, and immediately ii tho L .• ■. j
•oiler, turning over the rurfaco sol! and thorou.;l>iy put- J
▼arising the subsoil. ; i
I offer liberal iuduoemcats :n tho t ale ol county and j
Blaterighti. Address V. B iV A.GlttJ -Bw.
Thomaavile, (,a. |
Variety Farm, Thoiras ( ,r > Ca w ' l j
LOOK j IKRK.
Farmers, Planters and Keepe r tsi ‘
HOE-SES.
“ Keep your Horser. in Good Conditio a . j
GERMAN VEGETABLE HUE FSlffl I
rfNHK extraordinary virtues of tL- ‘.-.brc.ed i* -
l MAN HOaSE POWDER arc attested by thonsanrtb
who have used it It is composed ct Vegetable i> .
and Herbs, aud is highly reocminiaidee tor u. < fhrjs .n.
prevention ©fall those diseases to which t ‘.mtuai *. •
Horsi —isbubjeet; as Distemper, lltdc-b.-i/na, J.. •v* *t- ;
ness, Loss of Appetite, Inward Sprain.u Y* % bcw \\ a’--r, j
Fatigue irom hardexerrisaor v. .r/. li* sunmatton • t. • .
Ryes, Debility, Wasting of Flesh, Ac. it - ? n r - ij j
gross humors, prevent-’ horses fr l- ■ • e.ei .ig ■>
foundered, purifies and cools thu i/. v od, aud imp. v .
their general condition. The co-’ * ,v ’ !
mand for thU celebrated ‘
of those unmistakeable proofs of ite worth, in cs i e:
Hide-bound. of ,-v petite, Drowatm- ,, 5, rat u-.-,
Distemper, Indammatien ot to Lyes, it improves ” :
condition of Skio i imparta a t..u‘ c> at •
Hair ; it ia Condition Pow.er. I aimei ■ am: .
Planters aionld not be without this vaiiiac-le i on dor.
For se. wholesale aud retail, by
FISHER A HEINITSU, J
Columbia, S. O , i
Adbt PLUMB & LEITNER,
Wholesale and Retail Druggiata, Augusta, Ga.
mvSlFwly j
DROPSY CURED.
TiHK HLtetri
. every dea.'r.jitieii. lie can be on pen.uui. t.ve
ulles soruh of Uuioa I'. or ad.j ■ _
I'uion Point, Ore(neriiuut>, Oft. Tl.e Mt.’.lo ..e -; n
be uent tnywheni by vi iroed, wltl. alrr-’ ‘ 10.
firing it; or, 1 will tt rrt perao Uy. . r*; ••
ed, mijl pld for nty tni.ole 1 -‘i uv ■>
■flUeted with Dropsy, or cure them, Vov i.'i r. ?
prefer, lifttiftf'fi'.’tory reforoncr • v.von. .;.
Jill,US O. BBC;’ 1 0
Xlatr of U.'irgui. (irtett ■: nty 1
This to to certify that uij father lied negro n: v. * •
aided with Dropsy in ISM ; he had been n . s’
vend physicians without unj euro, e oca ho 1 to
MG. Broome for bfcraiaMy, whioh cured bun. I to
■lilt living. end In good health.
Jan. SI, leiJS. fifstf CHAXfIOf.
Union Point,'’reone-0., April 7, It
ap9-wttanl’S9
DRIED PEACHES WANTED.
rpilK igheateashprtccapa.dforDlt] ii n
X l.y A V HEP I S,
•epSS-wStn Commission Merer.* nt. rn-rd-t.
MED*CAJL COliitF 3E OF GEOHGIA.
AT AUGUSTA.
THE ANNUAL COURSE OF LKCTUKts in ‘ ?
Institute will begin on Ihe flret Monday in NO
VEMBER neat, with an Introductory I.cd.ire by .....
JONES
O M. NEtVTON, M. D.. Emeritus. Urol if Acs: ray.
H. F. CAMPBELL. M. D, IT oi Ana:- r_y.
X* A DUOAB, M. 1., Fret Surgery
JOSEPH JONES. M. !>., Plot. Cntr.t try *:..i Thar-
LP. QARVTN.M D„ Prof. Materia M.w .The -1
peatica and Medical Jurirpradeu, o.
LD. FORD, It D., Prof, ln'titutwi and Pi act 1 <’ > r
Medicines.
H. V. M. MILLER, M. D , Prof. Phy oiogy an t I’a
thologtcal Anatomy
J A EVE, M D , Prof. Obstetrics
ROBERT CAMPBELL, M. D, Dor.. i*tor c:
Anatomy.
R B. SIMMONS, M. D , Assistant Deri itr; • -
H.W D FORD, M D, Prosector t Prd
T. P. CLEAVE LAND, Curatorof Mu.enni
Ticket* for the whole Course
Marticulation. to be tahen on e.
ITactical Anatomy, to be taker! ere
Hoc hither •nionranon, apply to am e-r-'irr ■
Faculty. or tc i. p. UaKVLN, y. .
jyta> twlwivrtNl
sls HE\?AKD f
RANAW.O • via in, .or,, r ..
- ty. AU .on tli® night of a a,--. > jv % mv icy w] lli
H® i® of dark complex: a, . .t . —. f tv : •.
intbft® high, weighs about 146 or UO p.^ A :d . r
wts toot ihrougL tl®toy fan 0 < ? w ; v
woirad watnot emvr. iv w e.. tr'Qvr. hj ct. a- tr\ i
to make hi* way back to Laare::> u* r ‘ Su.ltb'%. /
Itxu. I wiii gir toe above rt jxd tor „ (W.\trv ;o ‘
cm or ®at® coufimrusci in
A P. PURGEUKSCK I
Near West Point, Chamber., couutj, .
•®p2S*wU
©25 REWARD.
STOLEN from u. 7 renuieuca. .: tti* wt, .err. ;, 1
of Hairi® county, oa Thursday 1 ■ u.
•JJd msian:, a while or grey HOR^t.; whit? Ciaut? ani
tail, about xa > ears old. ta.l CK-ciinc “ a.hs ..*3
pace® fast under ttic saddr® b !t*d m thel* f *><■•
allround; one of his foraLg* a;*;* -- :o l; ~ • *
tiwolita oa tc® front t>art o t-e leg ja*t be c w “
Volau There is a small sore ou tbe rfi bdo* : t ob - ..
caused by the saddle There vras a• .v
ind.ridual Seen in the ntLhborhoodin :hc- ■ 1 er.-*
&>r® tie then eras * ouiuj u®d He m a cLu*i v .y. >-•
Ml urn, with *mali wLi.sers, acu b about 40 years . .u.
washing at>out 175 pounds.
I will gUe Tea Dot tart for the Horse, or Trreuty -nve
Dollars for the Hers.* and Thief, h ev: eci® to cot*
net hhn
Any informatics'resoecLUi, svid Ror e wi;l to thank*
fully received. Address EbU-sH BULL NS,
sepdO sgt Wv.sv 1 Ga.
TWENTY DOIILARB REWARD
WILL be paid for the apprehans:.’ and confna
meat m any Jail m this b ! t® of our uoy LA V’
gON. He ‘3 ba *. abool 2j >eara 6 r : -< \
huh,
wa® raised bv Mr. J Jenum.gs wear At-oa*,D* a. *jvr 1
the last rear ww owne and i t-y —r. .ncu.:’
rnJck. at’the Gold Mine* m On tat ...
Hj Mt.U HE. p. -r. A t IL “.,
RAN A WAY
T'KOSI hsnbscr:br, in G ncllc -t cD‘ -t t
I? of Buford. * Mntott > trlBL, *t at c -c**u ;= .
old, five t®si (our vecca® h gh. and>try erect *
flTtf dotl i# will be paid to jv: y no that wu. apprehtud
aud place the t.d tiiri In an;.* Jan la it .a eta e, or m
the Ja-ls of havanu&n or Augusta, G orgia.
U U cupposad the Gin has ire® p**.ee
D PETERMAN.
Gilll®QßVllia 8 C , Pep*. *7, 185® ct3®rs;
b mZIXIRviT ted7 ‘
THB uad®r’.gLd wsh ;o engage 1 MILI ER
w o oad®ssia£d Grinding W teat and Com, i r the
neat year. One wh.’ can eom® well recommenced, will
receive Übtral vrage*.
GLEKN a DANIEL.
Wood*-took Mill®, Oglethorpe county
F g A mAh with a family would bt preened
ffgU w^
li f’ft YTV f i v no
lUIHi
I
I \ c • r ‘- - ‘ ‘••• •• s ' r : :**■* j r.- at At gusts. Oa., I
I :
I paper'’ pi aits of Vt: Lam oil r?c*~ la . afu 1 defcrtp-
a -
Ii! ■ **! ,Tr i 4 ”i . u °.?
■ ■ .. -n : •.. •- 1. n-u,•••!.• h |
5 Ml
eca *’ ta toa : . rat{-o lor stock of ail kin-i- . prime; I
[
I ‘Wil and ‘./itter . ; ‘ , wL<-,i'-! the wood from the
Farm bemvo.-ed at ran:urn-Ailng pm.., . Ihe
I tjffito J L .;n
. ‘ t ;ih s n
|| ‘ ;? ’ VCJ
i
\
! JAMEF Id DAVISON,
Land Agent and Jlpxl Estate Broker.
- ’
GAVANNAi- RTV£S v LAND
FOR SALE.
1 TVt'iONMy.i.rt".’ 11 1-
r ; -1 ‘n • *h’-t!jrM V '’".d rw ” bn.’olS!
i i: ‘ t! i. U ‘ iV' T n o***4 --Ilne’ fr 1
i XjZIST O O J-j-C-T t c jnt
! MALE AND FEMALE SCHOOLS,!
i r H }. i
i n •
i On th- fi’ st Tn: f -’an in 1 • *.CKM { CR • ext. the Board
; wid moot for uj purpose oft Powder - g appiimionx. (
|
COAL.
I mnR Agent off e AE:aa M-umgCo-jinany of Tenues j
I U ‘ ‘ 1 1 * u.tunpC.OA.j, I
! ®': v *;• ‘£ L. *or nhek- i*/ constantly on hand, j
j O •!..isuaV i t'Ootii.u of the Ajout, Broid J
V Oak j*.*.;. .‘in! i:>u lv: atm PTE
Back SKINS, - ,i, R : 1 r.Vu Glove CaIfSKIKS;
Opera nad Kip SKINS.
Last, Boot Instep Ctratchcrs, Toe
S- ; TANARUS: _s. Crimps, Gii.v-.nt: Boards.
Olatnp®, Iron end Wooder Peg Jacks iron CUoattw
C’isaips, Head Blech®, n- rl Gutters Peg Cutters, Heel
Breaks, Rban Piles, Ratpi. Pincers, Nippers nunnery
Pit, See*mg. Square. Srai. C.i; g and Heel Awl®;
Paten? Aw) , Paten V\h a cud Iren Awl Handle^
1 nr.vLbS. t'.-enc?
Kit. E> .let . iron. 7 ::c rxC Or: per Bparal: • s 800 ca.d
Shco 1 1 r Li.'l-VPng TSeelSiceT K;v. fa Hr h’
I Lee* lU.I, Wax, Heel Shaves, Edge Planes. Sand
b .ne.“ Clearing bw’nf*. Brb and Indiana Stone
pump Sticks Long sticks, BivtOoni. W.-b Cotton and
La. “. Ttvi.i Currying EntveK, Ficshere. G.ainic K
Ku!V.>s. \: Steels. b am Face*; OKs, Copper and
Steelmakers, Scoarin* ~:d Lta.jtln g Bruges. Scot
Jacks, Ac CON LET. FOIiCE A CO.,
CFposi’cinsitra'vce Hank
Ttbe resol: of nary years* per indents made by a
I medical man. a dealer in sic vee, la efforts to meet
ar i ct.rces.'*.tllv eombst ?Le diffarcut i!is and aches
tee* otheria itoreor compound yet dir*
covered f r the r . .va gailLcru us :
Sore® or Erupt ionaof the Sk 3. Ulcerated Scree cn tnc
i?fld Ycbe. iy!S Ache, flkSi Sf Tctv
I g ■•© Throat, Swcilea or r?oak Eyta tn ciin
1 orCrtu'ked*^p;-iee?*Fe S<:vs. :'ld Head, Pre>b
| gwja Pruts ls, all Fa ns in the Ltauds Joints,
| tspraics and Strains, Swollen Feet and Ankle*. Borns,
vs bo m. wt 6 i r tie workings cf this great
•o. thernai sueccv'u Jv-.rectork: hoaltog art,oi
aii th® rvmrd: ; which have been rn: torwarn tor purl:®
,- s ; f'ftb? first arplicr ti-r i x*? uotg.ve relief.try the
ftcQwwM for the j'roduc
•H -atina'ia. -taxru or in the an. It would
tt ra: s At - ; or. tier, the wocicrfhl cure? pro-
fLrsavemi- unfc^ l Ge^/*afL-y Daafcrtt, Nagel
* Cft; * Ncchela Go: Brooks A j
.* crivbyLL ’ v A) J.. D- v t .Vhosrnl la j
* V in^th of T "c"cbwttfe,Tj ctiot uot j
the lever a tho wot appuoatlau. uu; |
wtun * nz7 ™. s _ u ® tLfl ' <cr
i Every t>, ae sa propt3ty c—wilt ca- <
! b.A l ~-ctseea a* ester aejar ontteir piusu- t
j 1....: ovt.- UonbaOß. Try it—it -j its baaba, Ha ‘■
’ aW. CROFT Aft-’ At T--a
PLASCTATION BROGANS
Burch & kobert u, * arge
*tock f B.atk au-d Rn**tn. Sic®)® and D ate bc:e
BBGiAaSfe. pia*itatioc wear. Aao Wcxnv s Leath
er BOOTS, wiiu id without h.els. sHfc-blo for hcu*c
wtranrs Call aud see -€m.
BURCH A BOBE .
Ocposit® tte a Expiett* Ofeoe,
Srp 12 Hroad re®L Ga.
RATH F/JFEH MILLS WHIPPING FAFIB
f) r 1 .i\ EhA.'i® assorted sites and qualities, jn
O 0 UO received trom its aci*s, and for sa.® *ow set
a (usoctm: c: hfteeo per cent to persons tak.nr
ten reams st a uma
>tor Boom oa Rey::d-irh to rear of City Bank
*t 630. W WE.TER.
Ciinmiclt ft
White P-oto*rapiie.
ET JOHN V.'. FO&BET.
Pbot graph ‘>t Mr. Hl'ch. sav m A Denou.tc
po ’ ‘ # Afer Air. Hr- j
c- .ex. Kuoaia policy
* :wV h’- Detnocre-c party; alter J cage
. D ivT kea f.ia&. r 3t celebrated speech in
; . >; -na ?, and- fact bed becoue noton
f.- * • he in'#viCrT can e of the of the
j pT R’ ip.e to whica we stood committed in 18.'*G vra?
i e *hr - -to ce?-.oa conciqg fro a certain pd)!ti-
I ‘i rte or fur Bryn'.fcni Sta ee ; {cot the peo
| ‘ :v->uß, hut tLe politiciahe and mana
?.t-r ’l cnezempled was re
, • ; { ;.:r t- puix- . of b ufr.idL'iufj thoae who
I \jc and with Doug law and Governor Wise
I t.r and GoTercor Wa icer, arid to compel them to tak
j “j‘ ; JIV -'"‘a” after my interview with Mr. Bucha
i n eit. or.zi. v, to iiwiuudL fhec Ay relatione with
I ; - e-j.-r‘.r'£tra::.JL; bntlgrasecon convinced that
1 u k?al 2 :.£*?.d icy m€aihc.xi and recalled all that
! I had i favor of the Cinriunau p atforrn ard
j: . r • popular eovereignty,! would be call
I u . • • bj-lr tu- blunt li a violent OoLidon.
I AuJ i in •- - -7: - J nevy, ISAB, up to bep.
j i V e . V L u I apou at Tarry town, there wnd no
, , . vje io ba coined and by
I’ > *;• ? a, *ra’ion egain-.t the journal
j : , j -.r t u ei-vr.sr and the editor, ana the
! *. .. -uh wu .m I aui proud t.o co-operate in
•*; { c o. Kvtry triced who bad beeuap
o ; -r* 4< fllioe, uu: wuo fct'il and \red to sympathize
..i:Lru mmy a lor principle, was
I, ! *
ii ‘■dc ..■■ dto ba “cud'-r tLe pty of the iilaek
[i* ,j„- ..;; tud to cap the climm tho estao ad
ujiui.-irat'.ou orgftUi enough to foiege
t'ltad proved nuyaeli ungn’.efftl i ’ .Id oe.’ Bu
f ( to.'in i.v r. •; to follow birn iahia oeUeyel of
P:; jtockapii LtsDSCAre ov Naticnal De ••
i ou- v to ■■.i.hck in* in my Uurinees, and *o
..l.eftO’C untried to ci ip;’e ray enterprise. J u
a word there we* an lagenuity of proscription, a
-. . ..- od.a rtcuic ci p asocution,
J w ,:c ■. u ci rr.-j mere than once to mq -Jire in tbe
.uii” -ire ot Guv. Walker, whether indeed *• we
were hv'.av in tLe laa year of American indepeo-
I oence < r .ae lir.. vest of the American monarchy 7”
I ! scuv ’tLe barest wretches—men who had never
b-en ret! n.asd bv t e Democratic party in this
s ■ ii- , -A wii.i, in 18oG.“l:ad eeareelv tva ouini n o
iivo?,'. -aav to’ -o ror h r or Fillmore —£ eav
t! ve rnel no'ir. iy clothed with the power of the
Kectral Ad;n nietration, l>ut author/zed to epe-.k in
and funoon of men who had created it. 1 saw the
motley lb*.. Kedera. Government expended to break
Oown the regular organization of the Democratic
part y whenever and wherever that organization
v,.'t committed t.> the scandalous Kansas po!t
----e ■■ ‘.fti.ot Admin;...f r i:ion. I saw geuatois turned
i’.t.: ‘ -c-jlatoro :n order to induce them to desert
t Li ten and spoken promisee to the people; I
i aw Itprejeii:itivee pur. L&ced to betray their c-n
----sfilitents. a; aS uluorc slaveholder purchases Lie
ei-.v'c; ; isavr newspapers openly and actively en-
X ged with ms on the aide of conscience aud the
constitution, threatened or bought into eilenco or
a. laie.cence ; I wilneeied an era of (.IBcial despot-
I .. i and an organization of official insolence, such
a., Lad it taken place und.-r an opposition Adminis
traticD, mid ngainet the Democratic party, would
have Lurleu that opp rition into perpetual obscurity
Photograph of Mr. Buchanan in as Appeal
ing Attitud* —I visited Washington early in De
ocr.Ler of 1857, nnd Itad an inlermewof someth a:
hows irisk Mr. Buchanan on the Jirtt day of the
meeting of Congress vs its tote session. - * *
What lire object of that interview was, may be
ima” in; and from the fact that no other subject could
have b on discussed between the parties, for, as I
have said in these remarks, and as the columns of
the Plena will show, 1 had no cause of public diffe
lwnce with Mr. Buobanan beyond that of Kansas.
We hud long since ceased to talk about private
5.,,,1 is. Sat only did tbe conversation asdetailed
he place, bnt, as the many friends to whom 1 re
latorl ;t ufier X left the President's mansion will re
member, many other things were omitted iu the
s'cement v: Licit I gave at, Tarrytowu. Among
. , the President paid to me, ‘'lf you aud
Walker arid Douglas will unite iu support of my
Kaneau policy, the people of Kansas will vote at
uk- ■■. chon v liicb is to coma off on the 21st Decem
o i ” t.hat.election. it will be remembered,having
been called under the auspices of the minority Lo
gklatu e, for the purpose of putting through the
Lecompton Const t.ution, and was held under cir
oumotaacoa of fraud and iufamy, which will notsoon
be forgotten.) il - said further, “I know that you
I’ve the string side ot this question. I know that
vou can Cal y i ff’ the people, but I appeal to you to
stand v ilh me, because if Ido not adhere to my
new poliey, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi will
p.obabiy scCtde from the Uaton.” It in probable
that the memory ot Mr. Buchanan will bo stimula
ted when he reads these sentences. As for the
Washington Union, whether it epeaks for him or
ii -.''in the above extract., I tun unable to say. If
it dees, the memory of the President is moat ; e
As to my offering advice to Mr. Buchanan, I have
only to remark: while Ur. Wendell, of the Washing
ton Udloii, was unknown in the political world, and
while editors of that same paper were _ coining ca
-1 tunnies against, the President, my advice audeoun
Pel to him were not only gladly and kindly received
bus t urues ly solicited. 1 -poke ass eely to him at
all times when lie was not President, as 1 did alter
h i election and his installa ion.
Another fact hi connection with this interview
with tee President i may mention, and it is this :
tii if, one or two days after it transpired, I reinroed
to Philadelphia and whilst sitting in my office in
Oswri;! .. . w3\..’ id b- . y . !ri-n. i ‘r*''U
South, ra Sow l'ork. vAWtu'l Bad met m Washing
ton, and who called on me to say that he had been
and esired by the President to stop ovr-r and s* e me,
and to ass are me that h.e (the President) intended
| to m ike tic K ieses policy a test upon the Deino
lc-aiieiai y, and that no man would be tolerated
i by Us Adliilmstratiod who did not approve aud
I support this policy-.
j Heap and Shoulder Photograth of the
( Washington Union. —The Union goes on to say,
I r oehuig of the report of the Cabinet meeting ;
j “The story he tells of the Cabinet meeiing is, like j
| t count of Ms own convsrsa ion wholly fabit- J
: We ventuxe to assert that Mr. Walker never j
j .. imte and any one to say that be insulted the P/es-
I ■r.nd Cabinet by expressing a suspicion that
i : . y would beitave treacherously.”
: ‘l li. , a asouiewh ;t unfotiuca'e denial, appearirg,
! . i ii doe.*, in the Washingten Union, inasmuch as
I the rrport of that conversation between Robert J.
i IV, ;:/.r nod the Cabinet was communicated, by one
i 0 f tin editors if the Washington Union, on more
! rs-ni one occasion, whin there teas no confidence
j t un med, (.).■(/ at the time Hutted torwns ihfknown
I si-bite and active adversary of the Kansas policy
; of the Administration. The name of tuatedi.or is
’ Col. Simeon il. Johnson. I believo that, lie ia now
attached to the Washington Union. If he denies
1 the statement, here made, 1 shall be compelled to
j make it good by furnishing tbe ua eor names of
I respectable witness ! who wt-ra present when he
described this celebrated interview between Uov.
1 Walker and the Cabinet, and President Buchanan;
* a,i<i"ih"u , without calling upon Gov. Waiu-r, or the
i i>, n’t, or tl j Cabinet, I beg to rest this part of
i my etateiiic'd iii K-n the distinguished authority of
j tbe editor of the Washington Union himself,
j Full Length Portrait of James Gordon
; Ben net. —Among tiioie who have volunteered to
{ . iy their ready abuse of the Tarrytowu speech, ’
| j the editor of ice New York Herald, the in
: ; U,} c;’e.. Gordon Beiinet. Addressing, as X
1 d'"’ a mixed audience, breauee I presume, tbisstate-
> w- be lead by m,-u of all psrtie'-, I tiru ear.
: -blti commit no offence when I recall public at
iter.lUm to the manner in which this atari ooaduuted
j anewr.'iptu during the campaign of 1856. Alontr
s lif, of aboiue, n life b.-ishteaea by uo smg'e deed of
i virtue a i so of selSshness, of jealoasy, of eatrucUm,
S we ß fittingly illtw.mted ia the columns of hianews
i r'aper during that memorable struggle. Absent in
i i'-,;.-one when Sir. Buchanan returned from Eng
land Bennett came to New York shortly alter and
oast about to see which of the great parties had the
I bes- cl.astro of success. Finally, his years of ha
! tred 1 1 J antes Buchanan obained the iuaatery, and
1 . . laced himself in the hands of the friends of Fre-
Lio'ut—whether or not for a consideration I aur ua
tlThru grown rich in a career of vUlainy.
TTls attache upon persona! character, bis terrorism
o.c” actors and actresessas, his reckless intrigues
~h n t bnsiness ruon and business interests, all
combined - ad u'.ed hit pockets, end he now aspired
to a rrspeclable represi ntative perijon at some
I'orcVn court. Ic stated that when he applied for
Leu a position under the Administration ot Presi
den BrSrce his petition was scouted, ana be be
-ao e the assailant of that Administration. How
re tolled to defeat Mr. Buchanan, the columns of
hie journal will show. He seemed to have aban
don i all remc-so. Hie agents penetrated every
secdou cf the Union: raey nuog about Lancaster,
wu „ 1 8 Mr. Buchanan rtsidea; they lingered at
Washington; they were in the South and in the
North, and all talked the same way and ncttdm the
ssure common calum: i-s: There was cot a fubri
m i u no matter Isow vile, tnat did not find ready
circulation through the columns of t e Herald.—
Tue most sacred secrets were exposed to the public
e early Use of Mr Buchanan, his intimate con
fidential relations, aud especially that portion which
he himself has most seduonaly hidden from noto
nety, was ruthlessly laid bare to the vulgar gaze.
This jackal of the press, who grinds Ini envenomed
to.-th even ir.to the grave itself, tore up the ccre
me; ts of the iuuocent and helpless dead, aud shook
ir.to the eves of the etariled public, secrets which
evtu Mr. Buchanan’s friends did cot dare to allude
to.
PHoTooßxrn cf Mr. Buchanan Ccttinq oft
Hk B. r.'ETT - Ears—Mr. Buchanan said to me
one da' 1 , taking up the New York Herald, while I
v, .s on a visit ,o .vneaLsad, hy am I thus to
be trade,',d and pursued by this infamous^ knave *
Have Ino tr euts wno will visit New York ana
pamsh ‘ nas be deserves I Ha oars should be fa
keatfi'ia the public streets.” 1 never saw Mr.
Buchanan more ex. ited iiaa he was ou this and
otter occas'.ctis, under Brnuett’s utfliceneed and
Cru 1 slanders, anc 1 be ieve that it is to my pm-
deuce nd oompaesicn that Bennett is this day per
mitted to walk Broadway with his long ears on ins
Scotch be .and I well remember bow, alter the cam
pa>.j the first impulse of tbe Democrats all <wer
• . Union was to nave a settlement with the New
York Herald. That paper had expended all ot its
influence and a go_.Ki deal cf Fremont's money in
1. eg to def -at Mr Buchanan.
Tr .toorath or Mr. Bcchasas Embka-isc. Mr
BesskTT.—Thousands of Democratic editors
throughout the country felt that Bennett deserved
to be csstigaU'd, and at the solicitation of a uumber
cfdis'-icguisbefl men, then in Philadelphia, I sat
down arid prepared a somewhat caustic article,
ctnjw n< b'.xi up in faithful oo.ors. Mr. Buchanan
attom ed me b. coifing my attenUoc to this ani
cie a-id complained of •he proprietor of the paper
for publish! *g it. Ills him that I had myself
WTtriec i . idle t a* I uaa written it because it was
demand, and b> o- mmon decency, and hy ordinary re
trec: for the o, iant men who bad been traduced in
th-jouinsl. and especially for the thou-: acds ot
strum -Bg ediut'S throrg: out the Union, who Lad
regarded the Herald as b * mcs infamous, retenl
le- and savage enemy. “ Weii,’ said ne. “ I regret
ti- I cave ml.ten to the proprietor ci the paper
: ab at u s article, bull desire tuat Mr. Bennett
1 -cnTsu. port my Admin stratum.”
i I CSL flow petceive that tte man who was tbus
I v i , r ,- -o oonrt the mc abandoned end the most
I Samoa'* editor upon the face ot the earth-the
i m&u who was thus wdfcg to procure toe support
! of James Gordon Bsubett after he had poureu the
v ials of Utter and ui’ wrath upon his
b®t.d, aiid after be taa txodooed tbeb-'Uck, -
traytd toe Hsoabiicons. and then rebuked oy me re.
suit of the election—was evs-r at t_a. daywesolved
intis v s adn-xto turn his baJt upon tee gat'acl men
1U tiio Ci y ana State, who bad suirouuoed mo a*
with a wal: of fire, and who had carried him for
ward into the Presidency after twenty years o.
hard, unremitting and ehivairic toll.
A CcNPßonise —A. bov was csoght in the act of
stealing dr ee berriss m’front of a store the other
day.aLd was locked up j c a dark c-ioset by tbe
grocer. Tse boy begging most pa
tbet.caiiy to, be released, and after using all tte
persuasion that bis year g unagiraticn could invent
proposed —*'Now, if you U let me out and send for
my daddy, be'iipay you for ‘em aod tick ms betide*”
Ttii appeal was too meet for the grocer man to
•tand out agumt
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1858.
Northeru Democracy—Aerator Dcuslas.
Tb- Co’i'.mbus, Ga , “Sun” a central paper, wi'b
Democratic effiaitie?, publishes the suljoinedaitich
from the P'nnjJyrar.iar., a Buchanan organ, aic
av&iie itotll ol the oppvrtnnity to iecture the D t o
las Democrats of the South in tbe fcliowir: - etraio;
From list Sun.
Douglas a Black Republican. —The prayer*;
Usee,.-*, ot tho.eDainocrttic papers ic La S;u:h
e:n cob dry which eave be-a upbuidkg the arc;
traitor. Stephen A. D uglas,” and ecaeavormg t
tram him oo*n ihs ter ale ci the SoEthem pe;
pie as a sound ana rt:;ab:e man upon the mnveiy
ijut.-'.icu. is invited to tl.'-'article token iroui tb
PannsylvaiiiKja, ia woicu tbe charge is gravely auc
Ucfi.iite.y mane that he has comederr.teQ will
Horace Greeiy, ihe very beau acr front ot the
Black purty, lo defeat Senator Greet,
o. diisooun, I >r U. S. Senator, with the very w.rs:
B urk btepuoucau Sou'h ol Mason and Dixon's line
Those enrages are not merely toie rumois, vaguely
ccargsd end circtlattd to accompusa a tpecili.
purpose, ba: they aio madeoverme sign manna.
->i re .pmEsiole ineu, and tue witnesses put upon th<
sta. dto prove th in. lie witnesses are called upon
to ails pc. the qussnons propounded to them, p—n
iy, cand;u,y, anU onequivocahy, and which, it aa
swe.-ed as the proeecuior ot ‘nacasa expects tiiern
.a bo aeswerea, wi l an cieariy convict ..poen A
Dougin* of coulederating v.i h Blacit i..:puo.icon
‘.sin. to dcient a SoutLtio Democrat, as any e.v
was ever ptored many Uourt oi jus.ice Ever
tince jar. Buchuaau scvwed a disp.,siiion to have j
loin hing to say ui regard to tbe appum uients tn
rauEior Douglas has bean uown upon bun
>hg h s whole Cabutei t lisa a thousand of br.ck
spariug no epithet ol abuse either for iha president
or ihosi wno uj’ao.dhii,, a >7eli in his sump
speeches ihronghoii I imoii, as in bl.cosveraati.bs.
ietfera, fco. For this reaton he hO9 been d.-ounc
ed Ly almost every Soumern Democrat:.; p- • or, as
well as private ana public members of the Djiuo
e a io party.
isui in me full face of the evidence heretofore
auuuceu, some Democratic papers, who had great
cOnU . ice ur itr. DoOglhS souiMnccs, have be. h
loih to be.ieve bint guilty of entire apostacy, anu
usio been bolding out the onvc branch
and bt u iuvun:.ag a.I ©ores ot excuses for him,
uoubtioau satisfactory to themsetvte, but lai.mg to
convince the people that ha was aiiylhing but an
aposlate Irom the parly of wuicu he had been a
ur.glr. and rhiniag light. How th-sa pap.ra and
peisoiis will act tn toe face of this now proof just
Drought to light, rtmains to be seen, llow will oui
c .temporary oi the UonsiitatlouaLsi, Lion. A. K.
Wright., anu olher bright ligbis, act in view ot tbia
new phase upon the “Little Giant's'’ present poiiti
oal position? Will they still wish to woo Liui berk
to the Democratic ranks, ana foist him upon the
Southern people as the oo.y Democrat that can be
erected lb trident iu I860? It this is the (east to
which tbe Democracy is going to invite the South,
we aey give us Know Nothiugism, ii ark Republic
ctuijni—ahything beiore Democracy. It we are
to have a iiepubhean Presiueut, let us have an out
and out, “ayed in the wooi ’ one, that we may
know where to meet him and prepare to fend off
the blow where we know it will tail, ratter thau
have one who, while he holds out the hand of pre
uucied friendship, stabs us to the heart with a dag
ger which he has concealed beneath the cl.sk of
uy poci iey. ,
From the Pennsylvanian.
Serious Charge against Senator Douglas.—
Irauu ii. Sturgeon, E-q , iu a letter to Mr. N. Bas
eball, wluca appeared m the St. Louis Kepuolican
of the 22d, niaket the following serious charge
against Senator Douglas. We call attention to the
charge as furnishing evidence on which to found a
belief that Senator Douglas is directly implicated
in the attempt made by the New Vu:r i ribuae ana
a filer leading Abolitionists papers to le-eicot him to
the Sei ate of the United States. The return which
Senator Douglas was to make for this aid from the
Abolitionism is set forth by ths Senator himself, ft
was the Defeat of “Jim Green,” and the election of
the notorious F. P. Biair, ,Jr., iu his stead. The fol
lowing is the extract from the letter to which we
refer:
“In my former reply to Coi. Kennett, I stated
that F. P. Biair, Jr., bad written a letter to B. Gratz
Brown, editor of the Missouri Democrat, which iu
substanoe sustained all the charges preferred by the
Jefferson Examiner—that the New York Tribune,
the leading Abolition pa, er of this country, coun
seled its ftiends to make no opposition to Mr. Doug
las’ return to the United States Senate. I well
knew that it would never have done this without
most satisfactory assurances from Judge Douglas.
“I cal! upon Mr. Eliur to Etate whether he did not
write such letter to Mr. Brown ? X call upon hint
to state whether tbe substance of ail the charges
made by the Examiner against Judge Douglas are
not true! I call upon him, and call on Mr. Colfax
of Indiana, to state whether Mr Blair did not re
ceive an invitation through Mr. Coli.-iiy Member of
Congress from Indiana, t j call upon him (Douglas.)
and whether the message, as it cams to him from the
lips of Judge Dcuglae, was not— ’- 7hil Mr B air 1
wish to see. him ; I wish to give him Jim Green’s
place in the United States Senate!'’
“ i call upon Mr Biuir to sta s 11 tuat took place
at that interview. I cal) upon all with whom Judge
Douglas spoke on this subject to g-ve to the coun
try me inferu-ation they may pos ceo. ic, is due to
ton people of Illinois that they should not be rlc*
ceived, and it is due to Judge Douglas, that if the
charges be not, true he should be acquitted. Think
o; a man sh uting over Biair’s defeat by Hamlet,
who was wi ling to lend b;e aid to put F. P. Biair,
Jr , ic the United States Senate iu the place of our
great, gallant, and able defender, Jamts S. Green.
Whit hypocrisy!
“Is there a Demoora* in Missouri whose blood
does not run led hot through his veins in the con
templation of such duplicity ? I appeal to ail who
h .vt knowledge iu the ir breasts ia regard to the
charges made iu The Examiner, t; come forward
and gixo ia their testimony It Judge Douglas be
gulliy let him Lo cuu.ieuin*sii, and if out, h r. ni:n be
equated I care not wbat injunction of aecresy
may havo been imposed, tho matter ha now a©- j
sumed that pha-ti tuat the truth cannot with proprie- :
ty bo withheld by any man.”
The charge of Mr. Sturgeon is boldly made over I
his own signature, the witnesses are called to the :
si md by name, and they must ans wer yes or no to :
the q ucstions. Senator Douglas has bem ami is
playing a hazardous game, bidding too high for the
place iia holds. The invitation from Douglas to r
prominent Black “Republican” of Missouri, sent ,
through a leading member of the spoxie party in ,
11. 1 .. us, aid rho object of tho proposed interview, ■
are ail links in a chain of evidence which it w.li bo i
S difficult for Senator Douglas to break.
| i'ne fact t kut the Senator wished to defeat the
Daily in Missouri, anu place iu the Senate of the 1
United States a bitter and uncompromising enemy .
of tho Democrat ic party and its principles, furnishes ;
the standpoint from which to view all his’ actions ;
upon the tu. j jet. His attack upon the President,;
hia break with the National Democracy, his affiSia
tiou with the Black “Kepnblicans,” his abandon
meat of the Dred Scott decision, are ail a part of j
this scheme, which tvas to be opened to F. T. Biair, 1
Jr., in the interview solicited. This is new light upon .
the path of Senator Douglas, and the National Da- !
n.ooraoy in all sections of the country will read bis i
past and present course by Its illumination.
Whin Bemocrucy Means.
The national b. mogencousnees of the Democracy ’
is the harp of a thousand strings, upon whioh all
parly musicians coutinnaily play. They are a na- :
tionul party, the/ 6ay ; a unit; tbe only homoge
neous political organization; and therefore it is, j
they contend, ths Whig must abandon his Whig- :
gery, the American his Americanism, and hereaf- i
ter shout the praises of this modern pie-bald system !
whioh hu3 clothed itself in the garb ol Democracy, i
Bu s is the Democracy homogeneous 1 Do D;x
aud Van Buren, the quondam Free Soiiera of New I
York, agree in anything but clinging to the same |
nvine, and voting for tbs earns candidates, with I
Y ancey aud the Southern leaguers of the South, or
ivilh Stephens,Tcombs and Jones, the Whig-Demo
crate of Georgia and Tennessee ? The Washington i
Union denounces Douglas; Air. Stephens of Geor
gia, Senator Grco , of Missouri, and the N. O.
D-lta, desire his success. In Ohio, the State Con
vention praises up Mr. Buchanan, and ystendorsei
the pnuciple upon which Mr. Douglas broke from
the Administration ranks. In Indiana and elsewhcro,
they nominate auti-Becompton men upon the re
gnisr Democratic ticket, and yet south of the cen
tral lino they proclaim all doubters of Lscompton
ism to be traitors and heretics.
Auother instance is before us. In the South, De
mocracy now telle us that tue party doctrine is that
Kansas, having rejected tbe Kugiish bill, mu6t now
wait until she has 93,'.i00 inhabitants, before s..e
can again come before Congress asking admission.
Teat ihat bill gave her two alternatives; oaoto
come into the Union at once under the JLecomptOD
Constitution; the other, to refuse and stay out until
her p puiation had trebled. Democracy tells us at
the “South therefore, that any applicative by her
must be rejected untilshe has the reo_ui6iie pop i&-
tion Now what does ir say at the North"? ’ Let
us see. The Democrats of the Sixth Congressional
District in Maine have nominated Hon. Bion Brad
bury as their candidate for Congre.-s. In his letter
accepting the nomination, he speaks as follows ou
the subject of the admission of Kansas into the
Union :
‘V will only ad 1 that it is generally conceded
that the people of Kansas will, by their voice on
the 2d of August next, reject the proposition made
to them in the English bill.
‘•ln such an event I am in favor of the early ad
mis ion of Kansas into the Union as a Ime S ate,
under such a constitution as the actual inhabitants
of that t'-rritory shall approve, not contrary to the
constitution of the United States—convinced that
such is the overwhelming voice of the people of
that territory.”
Mr. Brady, if elected, will vote Kansas into the
Union a free State at once, without regard to popu
lation. And yet he is a National Democrat homo
geneous with the Southern Democrat, and they will
shout over the election.
Out upon such deception. Democracy relies
only upon a name. It Lugs to its bosom all who
vte its ticket, and that, without regard to princi
ples. Its aim is the retention of office, the grasping
of the spoils: and so long as peopla use that party
name as the shibboleth, and vote the ticket that
leaders or caucuses prepare, they are not likely to be
found fault with tor mere matters of opinion. It is
their want of honesty with regard to the meaning
of their platform, the settlements and their bills,
that Las added so much to the fearful agitation es
grave sectional questions for the last few years.—
Platforms were interpreted in States and sections to
suit locality. They were designedly constructed
for that purpose. Bills were made party tests,
which prominent men of the party are now obliged
to denounce as cheats—and all, in order that men
who did not think alike, might be brought to vote
together for tbe same Presidential nominees, ana
that tbus spoils and office might be retained,by a
Democratic dynysty. And yet the mor ent an at
tempt is made to unite the opposition upon oee set
of candidates, these very party leaders raise tteir
e--es to heaven at the iniquity, and snuff .resson in
the gale. We ere sick and tired if seeing political
hypocrisy assuming an air of such self righteous-
ness.
The nationality and homogeneous:)ees of the De
mocracy simply consists in vcmg the Dem era ic
ticket t'-cm Ms ine to Texas, with regard to how dis
ferentiv Mams or Texas interpret Democracy and
its meaau es Tee spoils once secured, they can
afford to quarrel with each otter about terms. Until
t tie is done, they are harmonious, hotaoseueaus,
national I— Seiche: Courier.
A “Dot” for Sjuthurs Douglas Mes—'Tte
Washington correspondent of the Phi-adeiphta
Press, w: it ts that j sumai t
“Very little rej “.icing is manifested here at the l
despatches indicalive or Democratic victories in ;
Maine, inasmuch as every candidate icho ran for
Congress m that dtate teas teiih unbroken unanim
it ylaced up.n Ike Douglas popular sovereignty
platform. Ail of tnern supported this platform |
cheer imy ”
“Now, be it recollected, that the “Demtcra'ic
victories” in Marne resulted in the election cf an
entire Black Republican ticket—based upon the
“Ocurlas popu ar sovereignty platform Tobe ;
consistent, those Southern men who advoca'e the
cause ot Douglas must approbate the triumph of Au
friends in Maine: Wllst eay you, gentlemen ot
tbe Augusta Conetitutioiialiet, Macon Telegraph,
Toombs, Stephens, Nesbit, es of ? Are you willing
to he massed with Maine Brack Kepu iicani.- m ? If .
no* confess you r sins, and renounce Douglas.—/a- .
dependent South.
The Charleston Meroifry says that “Mr. Douglas
btl the White Ht>o* in his heti” No doubt of
it. but we guess he will never have his head in the
White House except as a visitor—nor even as that
during ths Buchanan admiaitt.ation.— Louitnllc
Journal.
oru k.el,a.iuls \m 4 . <ai.-a. j
A;: * J.;}* - *it. :
? vecfUit e vesta coni; A with the nee. rneg.-t *-
i as in CLina, which, oi-der tie conduct .of Mr.
hi able j:* ’.*i ... - .; .
jrufht t s?u ecccesit * ‘anifei.c i ; - us on cf i
fLy ezy, cl Ue &r:iy o 4 -he at ©tier en : hr. u<{: j
jh r- receive st, *• :• ??edair.icftr a::eqiiaT- ■
we’l-wrjttesj ate|ee : jed oi the A
ask with wbchhe WeeC-f.>ed” in c Dvioaer tu* I
-flecid tbe highest hoi- to a tbe -i at and *kLi !
b( v. : ;-1 ul tb- r-a-’sot i p paWua E:a
ire, anti without vkm..iLu j L * C v the act*
a ponerembroiiediuL-jsUli ie= with the t vo ied I
iDy aaiioMouLaropi, Jnul
, , Tif.n r.-i.x, July 2,1808.
Ah tine uidu will esny h'a.e ueuzr wn.eh Mr.
- - 1 - L v.i:is tbe Cbictee
pcrtur j, t:cb l. club* ol: rv: a t to ccd joa tan- |
paidLsmun 1:.-. I looiuo.’ rosso . I find
our *<mJ ct.£ Cffiw ot I
No . ulitr does Kha c . vcr and very reckietre I
jcrrtapL>.ideni.cT tbe * ii-L u s utoc tew.,.- by I
[ sarcaetm at A aori .'ja aoanc.;.ty, u i tb3 atiuaae I
ol ,end the lc.ee or tirjuuisTa--6eß cc-i;i>vi kj r i
j&.an-iwr io t: bau k 1*005.-. e-i \:i’u &|opi*uU*e ..y !
tae papers ol :ueU ...od S'aies, hoc in* ne'.ne btu-ie I
-wiaeiiu!. oi i.-Mu • 6Q. oiiulsOt. sut.l;: tu.- put |
oy cf ar guver, and. . , u::c wbiob are r: prcrtuctd j
Reed* 00. - lc, tnat lam unrj w, h-;e
Okoa given to tn . public ; ena sct ihe * i'i nee * j
bai ceu u'.uced “ ii.eoaifly eubtude on fcca.u ihe j
ji. Lj h ” ti.ic* rj;4in sv -t Lome have v. olu j
f not tea: to uu dol rath p.;l mt.l mfo the I
-•-- •u :o wr in tVidic;. Giee: B. . 1, mui Pm— !
involved thei-ueuii •<, Ftrut.. ui , by ait-ference ‘.<l I
a :e.v patent tw eey how tae ma .u r rul y I
bteous, aud tow idr Kee-a, :a the in : oi nuick d.ca I
and perpieiiu.-s wu.uu I smpji;: have tjrc y ii.cJ |
hia eqaamm.ty ttaagvad lempar, has cuttcatdett j
wall.
D-i me enliven my dory by a dt icriplion of the
place where my Lt.ef is Dated. a,:j he odd scoi.-e
.uatishoaily—font varies utuo—oeioiu ui, .yes ,
I‘ieu-LBiu is a Urge w..ued ci'.j, ot 2Ut,i,lhl ichaut
tauts, situate ; liOoUt 6. vealy mdes ir,,ui ana
uy the river Pei ho, ub nt sixty miles irom the eea,
at the contlaence us the river anDonce Grauu 1.1
uai. If you wdi take the trouble to lake from the
shelves these dibuj!;l books aesenbieg Lord ii,;-
cartney’s and Ijjtu Atulinrst'a JSmbassiea in the
Days of Duke Ho anU the ko.au, you wdi see ail
auout Tien ts.n ; for, subs..utticg one multitude ot
guzmg, open uiuUtiie*! Uiiiii&meu lor fiiioiiitr, i tus
pect ibe Tifcii tbn oi Lo ds.> 13 tee Fien-tism or t xty
>earß ago. Untn no v noiortiga flag over fl-iv
acre, no lorergu veytel had tr anchored leu miles
above tho uk,r. Pour ynaro <go the Aided. Powers,
represented by Sir. McEano *ad S:r doLn bowanij,
apprpacLcd and crossed tho -av ; and Dr. Parter
tiiid Mr. aMedhurst were scl.- to pave Lbo way lor
diplomatic progress; but November gales and
Camece impassivity deleatouit. ihe timohadnot
come iSi'o.v, i’rem tbu iiouso where I live, wbat a
different tceno! in the river in liont o; the ciry
lie closely anchored a Hubs] an and American steam
or, aud a line cl English gnu and dispatch boats
irtuihYer?ely to shi a and in the imperial Ganai,
where lions but munuesi tii boats ever dared to fl*..fit
beiore, ore cue English aud three large Piencb
rnen-oi war, several drawing as much as eleven
feet water. Directly mlrcm a dou ihe canal is
the joint residence —rather a siiowy bui.diQg acd
once e —oi Eord Elgin and
Baron Grot, then* enßigns flying over their respec
tive houses aud guarded by marines kiA solaiera.
Admiral Seymour’s the “Coromande;,”
and Admiral ivigaull do Gtuoui.il>’;, the “Ava
lanche,” are close ia front. A uiiie further down
the stream, cn i.a right btd:k, are the ncighboiiop
houses ot the American aud Kius;an Legations.—
Mr. lieed ha/J with uim a scua l guard ot marines
and bdiiois, and been lerLunate t fla-d
Chinese quarters iu a Lou 50 of tolerable comioit as
things go, and tbe atiraction or c nuosaaou of a
pretty garden. During the heat o f tho nay nothing
13 atirriog except the wondyl* stricken Chinese who
come to gd/.e. Towards evening, as u mu'uei - o 5
regularity, you may eee Mr. Reed ia his m at, and
Count Poutmtine in his, moGestly puihng up the
river past tne men of-war tp wak in the fluids out
ot town ; anu Lord Elgin, dith a Chinese pith hoi
uaei a*id costume mat Wvuli amuse his Scotch ten
antry, trudging along on n;j accustomed stroll.
Night comes on, and ihe yhiueae go eariy to bed,
(for Liiey have that- ujer.t.j and nothing is hefj.ru
bat the bands playing the retreat on board tho two
ii-ig-i'.'tips. I t Luo duoi wayaot tae Miuislcrs c uid
bo walubcd, it wouiu be louud tha~. the neturalPo.y
era had by *ur cue moot visnsi s. There is scarcely
au flour mat & chair, Wnifl a was nor. in
\ t ttiting, eppeciaily at tiie doer.
weefls —one u&y very.like biiother—has this e -cial
conditiuii oonu.-ueti, Vuried u> hupnaiilies vih.ca
dipiomatic uilfiouities canflut ch_ k, aii paiMeu
eeommg to agiet on waat L- id s>..oWfcil once C-.i.cd
ihe luoiicaung p:oct-Bs 01 giving good dinners.
Sico ia the tctiiO, anti now ioi the aolors anu ihetr
acts.
To make this in eliig-.ble I miui go back to a be
ginning Etnii Aiuttncau xMmister in Cniua has
come to what seemed something 01 a'crisis, and iht*
(hLsr&cier o.t Ainei lean aipiomacy elan..a well, ana
wiU be better approved the umre ii is unaeistcod.
Tne lmta.ion 01 u.ur dipioinauc relation with China
wao in Mr. Tyler’s tune, when Mr. Vcoster w&s
Seoretary oi j>tate. Tho lirst mission was offered
to Mr. Edwmti Everett, a iti on hisueciimng it Mr
!
[ known, vctiM Liiv'tand xnoac Ducoorafui. H*’ tut—,
ihe good loiluno t j come ati>. r u war . na not id j
tne miuritof one. Iheu cams C j:u<.uodovo Dittole !
to excuunge r&tilicaii ns, <2::d alter him iUr. A. H. |
Evero.t, who died at Canton r* jio g alter n:s ar- J
hv al. Mr. Davis buoci eded, who by common e-m- .
Bent did service iu coi eohda-.ing tbe jud ond I
tunodoxju of bis post, and disonurging its current j
duties modest y Uxict well. It w-c on his anivai in i
1848 tuat the last peiamal mtorv-ew cooarred in j
the (South De ween an loipeiial aud Atueiicau Coin- S
miscioner. Ue wa.- sueceeCod by Mr. iiuciphiey [
Marshall m 18J.3, the pubiicationot whose aeapaten- )
©s oy C vugresa din great service and p:ov*ea Li3 f
ein mem ability. lie .van hero when the lebelion !
v/as at thn mu tide of victory. Mr. IdcLiiiic was <
he.-o in D.54, visited tho rebels ui Kwakiokf, and \
found them ■ I aid, had |
no bolter fcuootss with tne ImpeiMhs a a . the nor.ii, :
though what bediu wasVorv v.-cd done. Da- Par- \
her was then appointed, anu mere is ceitainly a j
concurrent testimony m Chmu to bis mtegri y ot i
purpose and h.ge n-ctives. Liu wa? the j
evil hour oi actual conflict with Yeh and his party .•
at Canton, and it is not to be w-udt-ied o.t that u
should have yiuidoa re’ .y at sen- to and ;
co operation with the jongiisu. It Wad vu-ry hard
! to remain neutral.
Such were the antecedente to Mr. Reed’s misblcn j
; as he began it on bi s aimalm C .nia m
| last. It ia ail very weii ter q !ct Buecuia oru at
| homo to scy how easy tbs duty or keeping your \
| balance is, but any one who w*B iu CIL a. Ivat
wildr* can better judge ol t o cbiS ut> and the ‘
merit oi i-ic .c . Everybody w..,s ia il -:Ae. Tho 1
. merchaut was irr taiud a-, rho iu emit ion of com- ‘
merce, and laid tue blame on the Cham a .1; losses
J haa been incurred by ail parties, and debare ran |
! high as to the propriety of tbe measures tube adop- ;
i teu to obtain redress. These were cubetaritio! k
’ grievances Yeh, in order to dislodge the E-.g:i h *
■ delenci the city, baa burnt the ; ctoriee, MM
j they baa retahatou by bring tea -a of the J
j Chinese merchants Previous to th s ihmirai Sey- >
■. mour’s fcheli3 had destroyed Som .- r>r* p-. Dy and tbe j
| houses of some missionaries; and Secretary M&ioy’e {
[ Grey town acctrine, doxtt;:ou= t y adopted ty Lord j
{ Palmerston, that the assailed party rauct always \
[ pay the damages, made new con verts to the war S
SiUtimeat. Ihe military W‘.u wc/o restiesfl, the I
diplomatic fobs were irntabio.
In thiß excitement Mr. Rocd completely main- J
tained his reserve and hie independence, aud th-a }
it was * hat bio ‘‘sulky aojitecc” waspiomineiitly de- j
nouuced. Ho wrote to Yeh, as he was instructed]
to do, and Yeh auswereu him, not at all discourt-o* j
ously, as was assei tael, but ev^ively; and Mr [
Iteed did not. fly into a pansioa and threaten t. tight ,
when he knew he could not. The trials of solitude i
and inaction are very severe to an ive and aoi-j
bilious man, aad Mr. Ee=d bad hia snare of them 3
for three months after hia arrival -, but he p;-tr levered! j
to tue end. Woo will 11 A say, Lokiug at the eu- 1
taaglemeiits of Canton, six mouth3 alter the corni \
nal victory was won, and see.- the .English and
French army and navy engaged m miserable police
duty, watching outb.eaks, guarding re3tießsoiflcialb ;
v/ho wiUnot keep in their places, tincken by ais !
e ise and tbe feariul power ol die tun—who, seeing
all this, will not be grateful that wo were not
dragged into this worthless melee? What would
thelnation have said it tbe crews of the Minnesota
aud Powhatan aud the rest cf the squadron bad
been turned into special constables to help keep tbe
ptace ut Canton ; and Mr. Perry or Cam. Daponi
associated in a joi t commisaion with Consul Parker
and Col Hallo way in taking care that Gov. Pib
kwei stayed in his place aud the Coljeotor of Cus
toms or Hoppo did not run away ? Yet there were
foolish people who thought this ought to be, and that
it would be a good thing to have a joint protectu-
r&teoi Canton.
All this time the public mind was filled with ab
surd stories of diplomatic conferences a., Macao, to
some of whi.fa, so ran the story, the American Mio
ter was iuviied and from mo it u; which he was ex
cluded. There was do word of truth in a ■ this
Mr. Reed and Count Pontiatine were q uetiy living
together, the guests of the same gen U .nan at Ma
cao, and no doubt talked over their own affaire very
fully and confiueutialiy ; bn* beyond that I am very
suie confer-nces never went.
iso matters continued till _'._tter the fall of Canton
at the end of December, 1857.
Canton having laiien, the first .rciiient that fol
lowed was the discovery by the camera in Yeh’e
vamum of certain important document?, ard among
them the originals oi the ratified treaties w.th Eng-
LiLd, the United States, ana France. RitLer an
undue importance was attached to this at ihe time,
and it was assumed that neither ihe tree its nor
tbeir ccntents had ever been couimnmcated to the
Emperor, aud even were not known at th ecanilal
This c riainiy is n->t so, for there is in existence (I
have seen the b ok in the hands of Mr. \VTijiams,
onr Secretary of Legation.) a vu.uat- printed at
Pekin by authority, containing the tre‘- lies and
tariff's. Retaining the originals et Cautou TU.
merely an expression of tue Cuine6e idea (now dis
pelled, I hope forever,) of hanaferriig ailtoreigu
affaire to ths ex remit? of the Etnpite a muo tj
more interesting document wa? tottnd, an Imperial
decree directing the treatm nt ot ba-b -.nans, and
approving Yen's conduct towards Air. Puks-.
Lord Elgin sent this copy of the Am. - treaty,
suit in a S’a-e of good p'reservation es.- r thirteen
years, to Mr Rseo. and i we-k-p: ty him till
within tne last week, when it was Lanced to the
two la p eriat Como resion -r= here, and very proper
ly end rtspe Unity received by them
Early in February there came the first w -i 0 f
confidence and frienuiintss It? do Ah ‘ , Powers
to the neutral Minister.. It was a frau* w; , ca . ioIJ
ot their pas* policy emd future inter: i .ns vr.tu nn
invitu.fou, earnestly and c.a t,ou-;> -xpre-s a,
that the American and Russian Pleo p. :..c'.,nn s
ihr.trtd give tdo course their stijfoorr. Lrr Eigij
tad made the .-ame apples 0” ‘o Mr. Parker on !
ht: art; a! ic Chmh in Jl.. . lie’ At • ... ■ , g-_ r
ailuecorrsepoodence of L-ra E a ,u ar.d Her c
Gros with Yeh b. Ire the !a!i o* Canton * h: _ c a
■ mumoaied to Mr R.-ed ; sad as .~e loirner has ail
I been laia betore Par lad-ea’ I may so far refer to it
* to say, witnoot at all con.mi ting m\-, u u . r ..
: served approval of ris w o. c.urse m.r ::
meet crocitabie. and ihe. r.e'ti e - m.d,r„., a; .d
. reluctant resor to arms. I u.vo every r,necm to
l think too that Barbu Gros wss our ie-- so.
j Tne Al. es invited tee oed rai- so ulitsm a peace
i fulmovement to tnenoriu, anu in an apoeat, rimul
I t.ueoue but dL-tinct, ;o me Coin ot Peso.
point a pienipoiettiar> to t t them ~r Sea gcai.
Coinaidently with th s was tne removal ot t.- Je b ocx
adeof the Canton riv-.r on the PJ:b of Fetruary,
alter s'X months’cu >rioL, aude joint coofiinti n j
that affairs was restoted to a treaty basis TGere
conia of course be to hesitation m tbe eobduot to
be pursued by the neeTa,-, aoo an atb;, : ~K .....
ewtr was sent by Mr Reed aud Count Pontiatine,
■ with drafts of the letteis they f-op. sed - 5t .. dto
Pea. These paper, when piolebed w..l eoeok
jh r then e.-.er A: tue de-vatcues tn tjrtn
1 aueut ‘ -emida.coi Feoruiuj, and were u-i,e.ed
to the Gevernoi-Genersl a baohen c.-t the Uo c In
the “Momteur” ot Ami, and ceptec let . iha Times
of the 30th, hae been tt iicn.jird an efficia! letter
from M de Contades, one of the French attaches
deeorihing what occurred there; bat one wofod
•ever inter from it that the Rueiaa and Auericgn
j . % e t? taries had anything t> do w.;h it Yet a! 1 the
! ronaiua cat cnb from ihe f nr Powers werereceiv*
j t same t:mo and with tbe same respect, all
U -nt lu P..ka by the earn- me scager.
j 1T.3 ii .is’.era arrived at Shanghai at the oed of |
Lieu potent: ;~y came to *•:'?-1 them, ur. but vtry i
. .u-.-• r\ ren tes Ihr u n hthe G v.rm'r-Gfezxe !
: , IV: -ue CjaD-i.-. at Prkia had n -eic ;ed ;
; poult.oi .DHdf.-c.-L.- oii, tfast ai. iDCi-naM.Vji- j
n.c?.io:>er had bettn u ,0 Can on ii Yeb’s place, !
I a..d thither the foreigners mas go to sum ticu
;?. >. could of courrie be no hesitation to wbat I
j ou^. ttu be -cue now, and r. * aituniitive was le.t
j :o adva&to e* once cu i repeal lue peaceful tx-
I pcr:o.eut the e pti .1 Letters to that efl'ec*
.i vr-re accor !n*ly from Bbaughai, aid
I about the iii hoi Apr? Ue Western Anioaj?6dor3
j icrtne Gulf o: Pichill, airivicg between the
j 16*u acu hos that mo *!:il this order, Russian,
j E.'glicb, Amencan, French.
| To te “ co oj.-Mot*. hich v, as thus inii luted,
W/aie there were manifest advantaged, teere were
cou e embarra emen.s tfleore icju aud practical
j Arc or, tin alter \rae tho difficulty cf personal in*
j G-. n ieu.cn see much m jre o* each other
| v. 11 k. >ic. where tuey can c rop iu anc pay hiexidly
j wM lu'or.x- jul tn eu open road .cun, Lke
i Lai on tec Pc.-ho, iu tfia m-• ids of April, when
* every ot: .I uj broU ifli a gale oi wind and sand
| hi i-te hid the 1b pe from each o her, interdourse
very ff.a.vatd. Count Pontiatice. who,
I Oc.ug a sailer, minded tsmpeet? a .ous boa'log
I lea.:, wa.-, cj 1 .3 oocaeion coi:icehci by str.-es
lof w-u v: io reman: pa■ of a itey and l l n gat
jOw uou.d tee “ MkidiSMppi’* win Mr. Ueed—>
1 But t„o liy.L.ic&i ciiScul iti wore notlees, and
1 >ou iLii.y ix -rri. e sow iivt.e v-usl coc e.e ‘.oe
: re ;; -.j or bas been, when I tell you that
I trim January, when tuo neutral codperatioa wa
i uoLci.o.*, u tu.u : loan ? ic..- uur Plfcui*i .’te!it!ar;eß
U: -ts: -Cj d-ii*. U •: i.* e mo ne on board the
“ Aanacier-.u” in tut Gals. Ana tutre t.o t v.ms
I that spraug up c uiciitiy hej-.u uu-y of Dustiau
n. u A.'ucr.Ciii uftihaliuu that h&s been tue
**’ * CO. Tl Cnh.jL Iterm.tTme and Mr. Keed
aiw a grunt and al of etch other, and conferred as
ir 9.M0 who were most.. . ire us to avert fur t her ho •ti .i*
ties,v. rv cc.tsin ; > a each of thorn uuut nave
:.au pa* .: a ivr .so.a iou i : . tis ba 1 not been to ;
v. M’ -u the mn ■ y : . be publish
e: i A.-t::o v.. ecvu-j to t:..; erunte u:-.-gr;'y with
wim lx Uj y eu-ieavored t. prometo the views of the
A lios, i. vruua ,c imputing & rocs- uuwonhy
mot.vs to Lord Elgin Hisd Baron Grue to unegine
thut they uirant tube and etators, auu expected ihe
Rutsiaa ana Americ m Mtuistrrs to await the slow
’ iwolutio sOl tueir will, and then to ioliow them.
Lbo irutb was, and tbisTvaß manifest to all in aud
out of conn il, the Enghah and French diplomatic
chielß, and 01 cource their Siibordimitts, were aUTna
slate of iil di guised ill-temper. Here wxa L *rd
Elgin anxious ror a coup-de main, ai xious to push
up tbe river ana show bis forces; and hove too were
Russian.*, and Americans, and Frenchmen, while
ne, euc or alibi: o rea’ licet, bad bat one gun boat and
no admiral V/. tn tae two admirals did come they
were cautious and deliberate, and were not to be”
pushed i;.to piemidure military movements by mere
diplomatic urgency. NeitMr ths Ministers nor
tbeir Adiniralß made any secret of tbeir discontent
with each olher ; and v.'ui c tbe colonial newspapers
and ieiter-wii‘ers iu the fleet were edibblirg about
tbe annoyance oi ‘* iatrus.ve neutrals,” the annoy
ance anu irritation were cf a very different charac
ter.
It was in this interval that the best news earae,
like a bolt from a clear sky, of the fail of Lord Pal
merston’s Ministry, the unpleasant state of feeling
in France, and the restoration to power oi Lord
Derby, the opponent of the China war. No on©
could icil what might be Lord Malmesbury’s Dext
despatch. It v?aa ntou-asary to be in a huny, and
yet the Admirals, who felt their military character
at stake, would not be hurried.
The neutral Ministers, having no such troubles,
wore very plecid. New litters were sent by each
of the four simultaneously to Pekin demanding a
Plenipotentiary to be sent lo meet them, and six
days allowed for that purpose. Within the six days
not only did two high officers, sent specially from
ih-i capital to make inquiry into the demands of the
foreigners, reachTaku, butateoTau, the Governor
General of tue province, who announced himself as
Imperial Commissioner on tho part of the Emperor.
Jterc ocouired the first divergence among the Pleni
potentiaries, and the aifferonce of opinion was quite
cnaracteribtic of the parties—the Allies severe and
ex&ciibg, the Neutrals conciliatory and moderate.
Hud it suited the views of Lord Elgin cun Baron
Groo to invite the Russian and American Ministers
into ecu V. re ace ou fair terms, even this difference,
immaterial and temporary a9 it wae, might not
have occurred. It was this : When tue Governor-
General arrived he announced-himself merely &3 an
Imperial Commissioner, but Gid not state, in so
many words, that ho woecloihed with “full powers.”
The Allies, on this ground, absolutely re used even
10 see him. Count Pontiatiuc and Mr. Reed thought
-hat intercourse v/as -al important, aud
that urn wtmtuf powers would appear afterwards,
an • could then be made h matter of scruple. They
therefore dt ;ermined 10 see tho la p -ri-U Commi
itiouer. u u th--> Eucsivn Count wasac ually ooehttre
with him, u’ -eu, wite- nt oas wor? of notice and
within ihe tix days ivlowod all tbe English dispatch
anu guu bottle entered the river ai:<i anchored 0 ose
the furtß. Hie Chinese were fearfully excited,
aud Wtie with difficulty prevented from firing on
th- m.
*Mr. Reed went iu the ner day and had several
interviews with ihe Commissioner, who treated him
wiib the greates courtesy, defined bia power?, which
v. not unlike hia oivu—able to negotiate and
h u refer 10 hia sovereigu for rat fi -.ation—-and in
dicated how far and on what points he could treat.
Iu order, however, io afford the Chinese another
opportunity, the Eogli-h and French Min sters dia
patched a second letter to the capital asking that a
U g officer be appointed to treat with them who
had *’ uli powers*,” that, i#, w-aii styled a Plenipo
tea iary, a Kiyiug formerly was, and grab ed s*x
BrtVH bm i.>;u UA twvive at Tabu Ot ovtlr. eTaUh&d
‘ n . such title, ana ho did not go as fr a* hia euc-
I <*. at h sc iy did, but bis appentment seemed
like a bona tide attempt at utvonation ; and for the
undo of the good name of the Allies if ia a pi-y that
• he was bo contemptuously rejected, and all further
I c>ufete.:ct with Sm by anyone broken off by th?ir
l ect i.k on theTekuforts on the2oth of May. Ls?e
libaatv/saty- lour hours’ notice of this was given to
the Neutrals; and Mr. Wiiiiitns wes actuiily on
5 shore in conference oith a high officer, the pro
! vmctftl treasurer, deputed to meet him. when he
was i*oallfcd by a note from Mr. Iteed informing
him ii: af:er a summons of two hours’ time in
v. hioh 1.0 surrauder too forts were to be assaulted
; Tne tetrong arm waß to decidy every thing with
; tbtse helpless (hough perverse Cflinese.
O. that attack *,:id i.s result .t io not worth while
; to tay much, but 1 conio*3 to i-n anxiety to know
wiiut vvdl be iho judgment of tlia world anu of Chris*
■ten Fn. and on ic. With jjs here it is difficult to
j hc'-pour judgment clt&r irom a sense of material J
• co . * -.quoucec, for cortaiuly the full of the forts had ?
! groat mfiueuc-'; but some plain-minded, right-think- \
; iu ; . Hi- n r, t i diefauce, who care neither for opinion {
; be. o. ;ud m-.y ask v hother it be right to go to war j
bec-'uaoa ffiiiiicter does nor put ‘‘Plenipotentiary” j
■ on his card, and because a Caiuet-e statesman uoea |
- not conform to tho strictest rule of diplomatic tech- j
■ aioality* j
Il ,wever, the doom went forth. Lord Elgin aud
; Baron Gr is threw themselveaou the Admirals, and |
: the Admirals eaid they could not advance any near- |
f ert iPekm v/itbout taking the forts; and so, after |
| ‘summons, as I have euH, of but two hojrs, the
\ forts were attached by auoverwhffmmg force, and j
: of course taken. loauuct out think that Lord El- j
aiii—wlio is not a war man—*sbranii irom tne step, J
? i>ut it wa a neo9Bsiy in the Aided counsels, aud l
ih i deed was duue.
I Do r cu flapoen to remember Baron Groa s at
j tempt at meciation iu Greece; in 185'), whan he was
I the litutral and Great Br'tain was tne act^.Uanc;
> when ho begged the English “in God’s name” (t
j ou a& Us very word**) to .dop an attack on u v/eak
( uati 1: 1 Or,* what is eti!! more perriuent, do you
■ r-o-i'icO’ the Rue.-ian protect ou Lire occestea when
! they told the English 1 hat their conduct was each
! as ‘‘to author zo all groat Fo we;3 ou all fitting occa*
, oious tuieooguize towards tho weak no other rule,
ao but their dwu strength?” What
t v- 0 . iti havJ’been thought if Mr. K.;ed and Count
•Po - in*-no Lad used eucu language ? Aud yet, be
| <■ tUSL taey simply tried laithsnu humanity
10 paciiioate, and per.,Bade tho Chinese to >i ; ta tee
I notiit of etiquette, they were tho objects ot what I
I can only describe a:t eullcn censure. I have every
i reason to believe that the irritation was transitory,
for Lord Elgin formally thanked Mr. Kaect for hia
I good office# aad for what he had done.
! tbe forts the Chinese fought ‘.veil; the Allies
o c coU'se fought better. The e.ition lasted more
I than wo hours, the Ckluese resolutely standing to
1 tueir guns and dying there; over three huouied
bo its were found*in the forts; most of the wound
ed Cea carried off. 1 warned over the field the
next” day and had my first (and I hope my last)
view of atresh battle fi Id. It was rum and deso
lation The poor cead Chinamen that, were iy.ng
about died in a good cause. They fought strictly
‘ U Tr enaction of tbc neutral Ministers before the
battle had one very capital effect. It made tie
U. in te desiro them to rema n and become mter
ces or 7 ; t friends. Butior tfis, it would have
beeu 4L. Bead’s duly, as lam confident it was his
wd-h to retire the moment hostilities began. Tee
Chinese were earnest that he ana Count Ponta t’.ne
Bhould remain, mid it the Allies advanced, accompa
uv them np the river. It was Loru E gin’s wish
■oo On the 28ih of May the Admirals reported
the river free, and on the evening ot the 29.;h Lord
Iv iiu arm Baron Groa in an Kn lish gun-bout, and
Count pontaitiue and Mr. Reed the Busaitin
steamer “Amerika,” went up, aU arriving at this
place on the m ruing ot the doth
Wuei. at t e capture ol the f aau forte tee Lng
lich aud French Admirals went on Doard the b&me
gunboat to lead toe attack, it was thought very pie
tur -one that, beside the signal ot .Jose ac ion,
tPeirli&tionai eirbigiuß were fl>ing at the e me raaet
h a But *neu, on the mornin o Sunday, the
3Utk of May, the Russian a. and American flags were
peacefully hoisted on toe ‘Amer.ka,” before Ti n
uia great and grave was the cavil at the comniua
tiou’ Mr. Heed was the guest of Count Pontiatine,
and the e citement lasted but three of four days,
when” each gentleman Having procured a honse on
eh; re ’ there were two Hog-staffs and Sep, .te flags!
The negotiations then begun and now, it is hoped
concluded, oceupiedjust fur weeks ,to all tney
were lour w eeks of great anxety and intern. It
was manifest frum the begin mg that there Wt3 to
ba seperate action at the will ot Lhe Allies, and the
neutral Minis era had to choose whether they should
oelereELi.Uy a-. ait the movements of the others or
go on quietly and sffective.y m their owd way.—
lhe hist newd tbatcame was that two Comuuis
s iimera-bad ar.tveh at Tttn tain, men ot me mgnest
rank in toe Empire, who did write -■‘Pienipoten
ti ary” on their cai ds. With th .e full powt a the
Aflies said tney wtie satisfied, though one may well
marvel at their acqu scence u se mg the torrn
adopted It was, ■Do as you piease, provided you
ao not contravene the interests ana ru-e= ol the
Em’ .ra.” i tey propotisd to meet tte .orei*ii Fi-.m
J ■'■iciiiez tOf'fctUer, but ibid plan w&* by com hod
consent and v ry properly demined TheKassho,
. .. c £ t . £BB Ui t .iDfc rfceptcie LigLer rusik taa
•oi in? o’.here, D*-iig *‘impc.riAi G'-ruuiiee;o2or
| Oiitißawkr iB-'oiutf,” and the uwiL
| v listers u-igiit nave tao r.o difficulty ot raut to
j fc V ; on. ldc Bbgiuit: E\r. auu ;ue Napoleonic
I 3*zl .a couia Ltvtr iia?o arruefeed it. So l ppily,
; ~’ r y I-J hb,d'.'. Oil Vittsd tLt Oi'ueT ot tile Uay
T and Eig..-- aud Bar-*u Gro3
| T'm'* ti - iaixt at :£ry e-oort. Air K=e
; l^L-.r t.n b> •me • ffi ere o: tLe a
| aDi turm scud a emtli gua c• f marines, wbile th*
j .. jrs-.U'-- Ato’ -viLii hii auu a
i , t vk c& arr) mg a
lhe Cohu is-im-r-. K. vei liangand Hwa-sta;a.
’ were men o! Cignised Gearing, and their whnlr tone
i n.r'.m-.u. very etr king. As :msletter is only
i ~ 5 ,j u give yon <‘na - may be Ciied tne on
e de facte. I .annul pretend toaeauimeiu detail u, t
j was-ignedou the Kituci June, the Am r,
,-en tn ! elb D. trie English m the 2bth, and the
i French on the 27th.
There were eotae incidents of curious interest in
the coarse i.f tbe Dt got iationa. There is no Cbi
aeee smusmaa, who, cowa to a recent period, has
had a higher reputation in the West than Hiving,
wb- negotiated with Sir Henry Pottinger the treaty
ofNa’-^i o -?, ifbicti UsnainaLed. tLa oo*aaa war oi
Mr. Cu--bi g aud M. He wm believed to
the modt, ii Lot the only liberal Chinee#*; an*
9 re t.i® !a iuu many were ihi etonee a c
myet-r *’ s an o Lai hart he n
dJom I fcoa very sure, had it been believed in
..C4 ji L .und uia’ K ying wool a appear oi.
f *oAge } it would cive Ocea nailed as a certain
ry oi happy nent. Poor old man! He
played abriel part,
. _££ lorever. Everybody waa astonished on tbe
9_h of t month, and none more eo than the Min
i utrs thcjssi7ss, to hear that Kiyisg had arrived
;n Tien tsin, and meant to put himself in commuui- j
o 1 ion with them, lie first announced bimeei as a i
p ivute man, and sent word with his card tba at a
cer'am hour he would call on each of tbe P.bc.po- .
1 tieriee Here again was there a divurgtnce. ‘
Lj o c.'gin repuiteu the old man, refusing positive- j
iy to ba.eanythiag to do with bim. Mr Reed aud
C 1 hilt Pjntia'.ine mforma'.ly received and returned
hie visit; ami I suspect ihey were not damaged by
I t i-act of coariesy to an eminent but now infirm
and fciokea public man.
Un the d.y alter he appeared at the meeting of
t!;e Uommis.-ioutrs, having prucueed bis “ lull pow
ers, bit’ tOv.-k little part m the conierenoe, and two
days a: er mysteriously withdrew from Tien tsin.—
■Soon the news came that, on his way to tbe capital,
he bad been arrested, tried and” condemned to
Doati). Such are the strange alternations in the
public life of a Chinese statesman.
Kiyiug'e visit to Tien tsin did no good. His re
putse Oj the Allies, and, it is said, their exhibition
to m:n 01 his letter, found at Canton, la winch ho
asteduf his success iu deceiving them in 18-12 and
ISd I, may nave damaged bun ; bnt, besides, his
..... -and hearing, though eminently urbane and
couitsous, indicated no special friendliness. He
evident y too, is broken iu health and spirits. He
ii-qui:ec hmdiy alter tome old friends, whom he
seemed to remember—Dr. Pa.ker, Air. Aluivieou,
Air Tnorn, and Mr Forbes.
Oi the terms of the treaties it would not be pro
per to say any tning beyond wbat is rumored
I abroad, for it seems to be understood bere tuat
they a.e not to bd prumugaied till they are ap
proved at home, and probably you wilt know them
qu.te os eooa as we snail in Cbma. It is perfectly
Wc.l u.;De.stood that, oeu es a thorough revision
OI -ho commercial details ot tbe old treaties, there
. .re provisions tor uireci corresponuence wild Ihe
Privy Councils a r the capital, the deposit of the
.eaties ana exenaugo of their ratifications at the
same place i peimarent or temporary diplomatic
residence at Pekin ; access Ac the luiericr . pros
pective opening ot the rivers ; aud liquidation of
ne claim, tor losae”. lia each trea’y contains
avory broad, most favored clause, tbe whole
forms one By-tern, and while each differs ia
positive stipulation, I refer in my conjectures as to
their contents to the aggregate. They will not be
ton .and far out of tiid way.
Air iteed leaves Tieu-aing to rejoin the Minne
sota tu moriow, and is the first of the diplomatic
body to go ; and, strange to say, as he goes down
tiic river, it is rumored that orders have preceded
~u, though the ink on the new treaties of peace is
harDiy dry, tor the English and French trropsto
advance ou the oity It is said, in explanation of
this step, that Lord Elgin and Baron tiros are not
satisfied with the torm of the imperial acknowledg
ment of their t eaties, and think themselvesjustifisd
in giving one more turn of the forcible screw which
has been employed with eo much effect. There is
something anomalous certainly iu signing treaties
of peace and friendship one day amidst great jubi
latum and marching up a hostile force on the next,
but, as the covenient phrase is, “everything in
China is exceptional.” I have no doubt that the
Chiaeee will yield, aud that the end of another
week wil) see the withdrawal of all the fleets. I
am glad, however, that Mr. Reed goes away, and
does not by his presence put in jeopardy the triend
ly leeiingß which, from first to last, the Chinese feel
and express to the United States. Baron Gros
after his treaty was signed became suddenly war
h e, and the change was attributed to the arrival,
happily too Into to do any harm, of the Baron Chas
scroti, a son-in law of Lucieu Murat, and, it is re
ported, the bearer of important despatches. He
oame from Paris to Tier.-sin in the wonderfully
short time of forty five days. Letters were receiv
ed from the United States by the same mail in sixty
six days.
Thus closes this ohapter in the history of the East
ern world, beginning on the day when a few vaga
bonds, on board of a spurious loroha in the Canton
river, gave a pretext tor a vexatious war, which, to
the auuoyaroe of trade and peaceful business, has
lasted ever since, costing millions of dollars and
thousands of lives. lam not quite accurate in say
ing that the cliEp er is closed, for the perplexity of
Canton and its transfer yet remain. The late news
thence is very sad Disease in its worst form has
appeared The climate is telling on the troopß with
sea: lul effect. Os the force which the Allies lately
marched against the Braves sixty sunk under sun
stroke. Hong Kong is threatened by incendiarism
Trade staggers along with uncertain security, the
Americans doing their full share of supplying rice
in their huge ships for starvation that war does not
abate.
All this topioal perplexity Lord Elgin must settle
before he goes home to meet Parliamentary honors
or Parliamentary censure, or his work will be but
bait’ done Assuming that this will be done and
satisfactorily, then will be the time for the world's
j udgnient to be prououuced en the whole reoord.
Mine, that of a disinterested man at least, and one
that wishes wel! to China, for its own sake and ours
too, clearly is that tho China war of 1856-7-8, in its
‘leginning and consummation, has been a*great and
pestilent mistake, and with much harm has done no
o rtlily good, ihe great end, so certainly pro
p ised, of chastisement to the Cantonese, has not
bean reached. They are as insolent as ever, and the
swarms of Braves sting rahohievously. A solitary
s'raugi r cannot walk with safety within a mile of
the houses of Hong-Kong, and I pity the pic-nio
parly that ventures, as American ladies used to do
wilh safety, to the White Cloud Hills, or halfway
tuere Yelqis captured andjcaricatured; tbe “Times”
correspondent, perrui ted to acoompauy the prison
er-o'-war to Caluctta, describing his habits with fero.
cions humor ; and Hwang is iu bis stead. Le Roi
est moi 11 Vive le Roi !
The disquisition ot ihe “Correspondent” on Yell’s
personal demeanor, his shaving, hiß spitting, his
eructations, (spec fically described,) his sea sick
nese, will eorve to excite many a smile in England
and new disgust at the caged monster, with whom
1 certainly have no sympathy ; bnt the doubt may
well occur whei her, alter afi, as Yeh was a prison
er of war, a man of mark, a fallen foe, the shutting
u j with bim, in one of her Majesty’s Bhips, a carica
ture correspondent, was tn good taste It is not
n ; lie, one may remark, the correspondence of*
O'Meara with his friend Fmlayson, of the Admi
ralty, about Napoleon and the ladies of his house
hold at S.. Helena ;too indecent, says Forsyth, the
editor of the Lowe Papers, to be printed, but> which
were read aland with great enjoyment at the table
of t he Prince Regent.
li-ialiy, as I looked last winter on what was once
the site of the foreign factories, where for years
there had beeu so much aotivity and prosperous in
dustry, so much sooial refinement and contentment,
where there were libraries and ohurohes, and sump
tuoua residences, now replaoed by heaps of un
sightly rubbish, uot a house or a tree left standing,
all swept away literally with the besom of deatruc
i tion, I could not but think but that in this confliot
! between European Christendom and the heathen
i 0-iincsf-, the heathen bad got the best of it. It is a
i poor calculation to assume that this can be paid for
; :u dollars and oents. Tbe steeled hand of war may
- itract a full pecuniary equivalent for the losses of
■ A. B. and C., but it will be done at the risk of gen
; oral bankruptcy and ruin, and anew dislocation of
I commerce.
i Let us thank Heaven that no drop of blood is on
i our hands. We have kept the peace like honest
’ men Lung ago Mr. Webster said there was no
I each thing as half-way neutrality, and the Adminiß
l tration and its representative In China have acted
! on that principle, and their reward has been the
| friendliness otibe Chinese, and, in spite of aooiden
: tat irritations, the respeot of the belligerents. Mr.
i Raed has never swerved to the right or the left
: from this line of duty, and that too without oflence.
i The anchorage of his education has held, and if to
j Lave been the means, while carrying out his in-
I Btrucions faithfully, of keeping his country out of
war, end y t in the end gained every thing that war
has g. ined, if this be a merit, then he surely de
serves the thanks ot his countrymen.
There lies before me now the National Intelli
n noer of April 6,1857, where I find these words of
counsel i
“In any co operation great caution and discretion
would be necessary on our part to avoid the suspi
cion of officiously intermeddling in the domestio
affairs or a distant Empire, or of violating our
treaty obligations by seeming, in the gniee of pa
citio intentions, to share in the hostile feelings which
precipitated the early stageß of the ‘Chinese ques
tion.’ As the peaceful relations between our Gov
ernment and that of Cbina have suffered no inter
ruption, the impropriety, not to Bay iniquity , of any
warlike demonstration on th- part ot the United
States, because a favorable conjunction had arisen
for the acquisition of ends the must desirable, is too
apparent to need any thing more than the bare state
ment ot the case to determine the judgment which
every candid and equitable mind will pronounce in
•he premises. Our co operation with Great Britain
and France, if undertaken at al, should be strictly
confined to objects within the range of peaceful di
plomacy ; and should be prosecuted without in any
way or to any degree compromising the strict neu
trality of the United States in the late dispute be
tween England and China. And in this spirit it seems
to us that airy naval force which our Government
may see fit to send to the Chinese waters should be
charged only with a pacific mission, and should
sedulously avoid the appearance of serving as a
menace or a demonstration to the Chinese authori
ties ; for which proceeding, as we have received no
offence, we could plead no justification save that of
arbitrary power seeking to impose its wishes on a
people likely to be influenced rather by their feare
than their reason, which, how far it may be proper
to consider any justification at all, we will not un
dertake to say/’
Principles like these seem to have regulated our
Minister’s conduct throughout.
The latest news is that the “Minnesota’’ proceeds
to Shanghai, to remain till the end of July, and
.hen visit Japan for the sake of the health of her
crew. Mr. Reed will probably return to America
iu the coming autumn. *
From the Philadelphia Press.
Acoustic Tunnels—Another Wonder.
In these daysso.al of wonders as the electric
telegraph, the railroad, the daguerreotype, and a
dozen other statling inventions, tne public mind is
constantly, as in the days of St. Paul at Athens,
seeking tor “some new thing” greater than the last.
As tbe transmission ot intelligence in a short time
seems now the order of the day, I beg leave to
send you a copy of an article from Dr. Dicks’ works
on the subject of Acoustic Tunnels for the transmis
sion of sound, believing that great improvements
can be made in them, especially since the discovery
of gntta percha, and that we may be able some
time or other to talk to John Bull across the great
Atlantic Ocean Experiments were made in Paris,
by M. Biot, on the transmission of sound through
air in very long tubes, and through solid bodies
These experiments were made through long cylind
ricnl pipes, which were constructed as conduits for
fountains to embellish the city of Paris. With re
gard to the velocity of sound, it waa ascertained
that its tr ansmissioa was ten and a half times as
quirk as through the air. The pipes were over one
iiicusaod and thirty-nine yards in length. M Biot
was .rationed at one end, and a friend at the other;
tney heard the lowest voice so perfectly, as to hear
-he words and keep up a conversation on the sub
j :Ct of the experiments.
They wished to determine the lowest point at
which the human voice seemed to be audible, bat
could not accomplish it words spoken as low as
when we bisper a secret to another waa under
stood, so that not to be heard there vas but one re
source—that of not speaking at aU Between a
question aDd answer the interval was not greater
, nan t. r the transmission of Boned The time iu the
-speiiment tnrongh one thousand thirty nine yards
was about five and-a half seconds Reports of a
pi-. u! Lreu one end occasioned a considerable ex
. .“.ion at the o'.bet ; the air waa driven out of the
.ipe so as to give the baud a smart blow, and to
iri va light Substances out of it to, the distance of
. .If a yard, and to extinguish a candle. Don Gau
iaa, a: o ber tavan, proposed to build horizontal
tunnel* widening at the remoter extremities, and
tour.d at the qisiaace of nearly ba t a mile, the
iKiug of a waten Could be heard far better than
. -se to th ear. He calculates that a series of such
.:,nels or pipes woa’d convey a message niue bun
i red miles in an hour The advantages of such
, mutt be obvious, they might be laid be
ween railroad stations ; across rivers, and even be*
-ween dries, and the day wi 1 probably come when
rhev will be perfected so as to be used as much for
... distances, as they are i; -w in many large man
,t c oriea, and even in dwe’lings, on a amah scale,
an i kno*n as epe-king tubes. L. W.G.
Philadelphia. Sep*. 11- 18--8-
To be Imported —lt .eem that the Paraguay
tiiedili ,u is to do something prac’ica! besides the
seo ement of an international dispute Tbe Wash
us-too correspondent of the New York Tribune
sa s ; ‘-Measures are about being taken, thr.ugh
■naval expedition to Para nay, to introduce into
toe Un ted States the mate, or Paraguay tea ; also
a valuable medical plant called nard, believed to
be assure specific against tbe bites of venomous in
sects or reptiles ; and a peculiar kind of honey bee,
which builds on branohes of trees, instead of hives
or trunks of trees, as with the common bee,”
VOL. LXXII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXII. NO. 41.
I The Comet,
j This interesting body has nowaoproached so near
1 the bright star Aroturue, as to afftrd an excellent
j opportunity to compar its brilliancy and apparent
! size with that promine tstar of the fire’ magnitude
The id-a that this is the 31 year Comet which
made its last appeatencs in 1827, is belived to be
fa laclous It is n>w pronounced by a writer in the
National Intelligencer to be “one of the grandest
comets mentioned in history, * having a period oi”
about 29 i years, and whose successive visits toonr
system are on reoord for the years 104, 683 ‘,‘75,
1264, 1556, and 1858. It wiii be seen by a little
figuring, that between 104 and 683, it mast have
made two visits each of about 285 years’ interval,
but one of these is not reported ; that from 683 o
975 its cycle was 292 years; from 975 to 1264 2*9
years . from 1264 to 1556, 292 years ; and irnnu 1555
to 1858,302 years. Übe variations of its term arc
attributed to penuberations casned by the attrae
tion of heavenly bodies witlitt whose iufiuenee it
comes in ita far-reaohing excursions. Mr. Hiud,
taking these influences into his computation, had
calculated that this comet would not re appear to us
until the present year, estimating its perihelion
passage about the 2d of August. The moe ttlrik
ing appearance of this Oommet seems to have beer,
in 1264, when it created groat wonder and astonish
ment. This writer states that its tail theu ‘appear
ed fully one hundred degress in length, aud iu Chi
na it appeared curved like a sabre.”
We cut trum the Charleston Courier of Saturday, I
the following interesting notice of ts's Comet. It ts 1
dated “Col tge of Charleston, Sspt. 29fh
“The Comet will couttnus to approach the earth
until the 11th of October, when its ci-taoee wih be
Jnas* about fifty millions of miles, ODd its b igh’uess
greatest, and its daily apparent motion most rapid
Iu the first fortnight of October it wil traversa an
aro of nearly 60 degrees, more than equal to the
length of its wuole oourse iu the preceding four
mouths. After the 11th the Comet will recode from
both the Earth and Sun, aud will rapidly diminish
in brightness; it will cross tho plane of the Earth s
orbit on the 18,h, being then at its Descending code,
passing four tne north to tho sou h side < f that
plane, the ascending node having been passed
about the Ist of April, more than six months before.
Its oourse through the heavens will any it, mov
ing from right to left, very near to Aroturue, ia the
knse of Bootes, through the northern part ot Libra,,
crossing the Ecliptic at its descending node i
Scorpio, five or six degrees to the lef of Antares,
passing along the eastern sidj of the figure of tuo
Scorpion as represented on the globes, During the
latter part of October. In November it will pro-
ceed into those southern regions of the heaveus
whioh do not rise above our horizon, but observa
taries in the southern hemisphere will probably be
able to follow it to tba eud of the year. By refer
ripg to these constellations in tbe heavens, auy
clear evening, about seven o’clock, its future oourse
may be traced. Arcturua is the bright red star
nearly west at that h mr, fifteen or twenty degrees
above the norizon. Tho Comet will be v.try near
it on the -Ith and sth of October—possibly pass over
it. Siorpio ia in the southwest, near the hertz in.—
The planet Venus will be near Antares on the 16;h,
and on the 19th the planet and tbe Comet will be
qnite near one another. It will be seen that the
path will be a curve, concave to the horizon, and
through its earlier and larger portion esoending at a
small angle. In consequence of this small angle,
the hour of the Comet’s setting will not vary much
from eight o’clock P. M , each evening, for three
weokß to come. On the Ist of October it will set
forty degrees north of west; on the 11th, nearly due
west, aud the 17th, twenty-five degrees Bouth of
weßt. The tail, which is now inclined, the upper
part towards the north, will become nearly vei iical
from the sth to the 9th ; onward to the 17th will be
again inclined, but the upper part towards Ihe
south, and finally become almost parallel to the
horizon. The moon will be new ou the 6:b, aud
its light will interfere during the middle portion of
the month.
“No one appears to have observed that it follows
from the orbit of Watson, given above, that the
path of the Comet pierces the plane of tbe orbit of
Venus, at a point very near the orbit itself, and that
Venus and the Comet are both approaching this
point. Venus will pass it first, about the 12th, and
the Comet only a week after; but this interval will
give ample scope to the latter to pass without coil -
sion, its train inoluded, for at the rate which these
travellers on the celestial highways proceed, the
first twenty-four and the seooud thirty-six miles per
second, when nearest, on the 18th, they will yet ce
eight or ten mdlions of miles asunder. If, however,
further observation show that the Comat'a motion
is more rapid ‘ban supposed above, or the attrac
tion of the Planet acoelerate its mode of travel, the
proximity may be greater than we have stated
It will be worth while watohing the Comet at this
ime, to observe whether it undergoes any marked
physical changes.”
The Charleston writer denies that this is the com
et of 1556 because of the difference in their inclina
tion and because one has a “retrngado” while the
other had a “direct” motion. But certa nly the
coincidence in the time if its appearanoe, consider
ed in connection with Mr Hind’s nearly exact co n
putation, is very striking —Columbus Enyr.
A wr ter in the Washington Union anxious to cor
reot the “perturbation*” of the press with respect to
the oharaoter and career of our hi iihant evening
guest, ruat colum, says:
In numerous papers we have observed statements
that the brilliant comet now visible in t e north
west (known as Denati's) is the same which appear
ed in 12b4 and again in 1556. This is not correot, as
there is a wide dissimilarity between their pat a.—
The comet of 1556, known among astronomers as
Charles V’s is supposed to be identical with Tuttle’s
third comet of 1858, which can now be seen only
with the assistance of a telescope. Its period was
about 292 years, but owing to the retardations in its
motions, caused by the attraction ot the larger
planets, it is now ten years behind its time When
the comet which is now bo conspicuous was that
discovered, its orbit was found to be so near that of
the first comet of 1827 that the two bodies were sur
mised to be identical, and to return nvery thirty-one
years. This supposition, however, does not seem
destined to be confirmed. The accurate calculations
of its elements, which have been published, com
bine to render it almost certain that, several thou
sand years must elapse before it again visits out
system.
We also observe a paragraph in some of the pa
pers to the effect that a few evenirga since “the
three planets, Mars, Jupitor aud Venus, appeared
in range on the western sky.*’ This is somewhat
incredible, since while Mar3 and Venus are in the
southwest shortly after sunset, Jupiter is then be
low the horizon, and does not rise until about ten
o’clock, after which It may be seen in the northeast.
Venus is know in Scorpio, Mars is just entering
Capricorn, and Jupiter in in Gemini.
The Match Race over Fashion Course.— -Ti e
match race for £IO,OOO, over the Fashion (L. I.)
Course, between Thomas Doe well’s Slasher and R.
H. Dickinson’s Don Juan, took place on Friday.-
Tho match was made for the following reasons,
given in Saturday’s Herald:
It was made on the spur of the moment after the
handicap race of Wednesday last. Don Juan wen
the handicap by half a length then, carrying one
hundred and six pounds weight, and Slasher one
hundred and two. The result of this r ce did not
satisfy some of the friends of Slasher, and on© oi
them offered to run him against Don Juan, two mile
heats,’ wiih Northern weights up, fir £5,000 a side
By this arrangement Don Juan had to put up one
hundred and fourteen pounds, being a six year old,
while Slasher, being five years old, but cq-tally a?
strong a noise, had only to carry one huuured and
four pounds.
The same paper gives the following description
of the race:
Don Juan had the call in the betting at slight
odds, until he was brought on the track, when some
of the knowing ones became suspicious of his con
ditioD. This, added to the extra weight—ten poundb
--which he had to carry, induced many of nis
friends to leave him and endeavor to invest on
Slasher. There was little time, however, for specu
lation, and but few were able to relay or hedge
their money, and were consequently compelled to
take the ohances, and abide the result. After the
first heat, all hope of hedging was out of the quea
tion, as Slasher was the lavorite at any odds, one
hundred to twenty going a begging. But to the
beats:
First Heat.— Don Juan went off with the lead,
closely pursued by Slasher, the intention being pal
pable that his rider meant ro cut down Don Juan a.-<
Bpeedily as possible. Ho forced the running all the
way round, passing the stand of the first mile at bis
saddle girth. They continued in tais way a quar
ter of a mile further, when Slasher went up to his
head,’ and they ran down the back stretch a* if
yoked together. Passing the Mansion House, and go
ing on to the lower turn, Dou Juan began to flag,
and Slasher went in front a couple of lengths, wn ch
increased to four or five as he approached the stand,
landing a winner in 3:43J.
Second Heat.— Don Juan having eweat out free
ly, the hopes of his trienda began to revive. Tne
condition of the track, too, was deemed to be in hh
favor, as he was a shorter strider than Slasher, and
supposed not so liable to slip ; but still the / were not
sufficiently sanguine to invest a single dollar. At
the tap of the drum they got off as before, Don Juau
leading and taking the track almost , immediately
alter leaving the score, scattering the mud freely in
the face ot Slasher and his rider. The boy, how
ever, not fancying this, made a dash for the lead,
and took it on the backstretch on the first mile. Ar
Don Juan passed the stand it was obvious that he
was played out, nothing but an accident would
give him the heat. Slasher went on through the
next mile under a hard pull, an<i came home thirty
or forty yards in advance in 3.56.
The following is a oummary :
Fashion Course, L. I.—Friday, Oct. I—-Match,
£5,000 a side , two mile heats :
ihomas Dos well named b. b. 81asher, by
Childe iiarrold, out oi Sarah Wathiugton,
by Zinganee 1 1
R. H. Dickinson named b. h. Don Juan, by
Glencoe, out ot Dai knees, by Wagner.. 2 2*
Time, 3:43^—3:56,
Another interesting race, the same day, was be
tween John CampbeH’sbue Washington,and R.H
Dickinson's Gov. Wiekliffe, puree $1 OIJO, four mil.
heats. It waa won by the firdt named horse in iwo
straight heats. Time, 7:59—8.00.
The Danger of Using Letter Envelopes.—A
correspondent of the Boston Advertiser mention.
the foliowiug instance as showing that the troieru
convenience of envelopes requires to be used with
caution .-
“Many years ago the mails t# and from England
were conveyed by small brigs in pay of the British
Government, which touched on their passages at
Halifax and Bermuda; and during this arrange
ment a party ca this side remitted, with his owi
endorsement, a bill of exchange to his consignor in
England, which was protested for non-acceptanct
or non-payment, I forgot which. When payment
was demanden here the enuoruer refused, on the
ground ot want of seasonable notice among other
reasons; and though all of them, except that objec
tion, were finally abandoned, the plaintiffs cact
bore an unpromising aspect, inasmuch as the notice,
of protest dii uot reach this cou .try for some -ix,>
days or more a 1 ter the fact, wLereas the New Y rlt
packets had brought later dates by a’ least thir.y
days. But the plaintiff's counsel took the letter ea
closing the protest into the poet office, where, by
the poet mark, it was identified as Laving come ny
the aforesaid regular mail route, which fact
course settled the busiuets in favor of the plain',ff
Had an envelope been Used it might have h-en diffi
cult, ii not impossible, for cnybudy to Lave mace
oa;h that the cover eo marked had contained the
protest, if indeed the envelope bad been preserved,
which is not probable But there was no doubt in
regard to the conten's of the le'ter ”
Emigration—Tne N w Y*..k Heraid calli at
tention to the decrease in the j early aggregate o
mi gration in his country In th year 1854, 319
223 ecriigran's arrived at New Y-j-k , in 18” 5, 136.
233; in 185 b, it was only 142 342; in 1857, 135 B*7 ;
and from the let of J tnuaty of the present ye-.r U
the 29te of Septemoer, the number of emigrant
wtO arrived in New York wee 61,323, showing a
failing off of 33 834 compared with the same period
of 1857. The Herald attributes the failing tff
the polisy of the English government to encourage
emigration to her own colonies, in which she h-.s
so for succeeded that Aurtraiia and Canada re
ceive|the great surplus of emigrants who w .uld oth
erwise have Bougnt their fortunes in the United
States.
But whilst England is directing the emigration of
her able-bodied and indostrionr labotes and meo an
icsto her own colonies, it is said that she continues
to throw upon our shores those who are physical,}
and mentally helpless, in some instances shipping
the population of poorhouses to this country, and
among them a considerable number of idiots and
lunatics. Our authorities should no longer submit
to ittob an imposition,—.RiWi. Disp.
From the O level and Plain Qe ter,of Sept 29.
Double Etopeuxvp* - * It. r null DeiiL-Ciwc
Outdone I
Mr. Lloyd, a h*- p. e: ble firm* rof Wj?k*
I iff© arrive l in ‘hf cry i te* eveid g in an excited
sra.eof mind. He soiigb out £* ’rthai Gailagi er
find told bira that his t*o daughters had eloped
Monday night with tw> hired in n, brothers and
named rcNoectivejy Chauncey Lewis au 1 Watson
L win M: Lloyd -aid he thought they were in
this city. The Marshal pu‘ on h ; s seven league
bojts and commenced walking rapidly round the
city. He found the enterpT sng parties at bwt at
the Franklin House, on Pearl street. Watson
Lewis had already married one of the sisters and
retired for the rfght Chauncey Lewis was making
arrangements to marry th 9 other sister when the
marshal appeared and took fi:ui and his intended,
to the police station Locking Ch iUncey Lewis
xp in the Watch House, Mr. Lloyo. took his daugh
ter to the Commercial Hou_e and looked her up in
a room.
Mr. Lloyd, in addition to being an extensive and
flourishing farmer, keeps a tavern in Wicklifft,
which is very favorably Known throughout this sec
tion. It is located near tho L k.*sh re, aid near
where the ill fated’ ;.uiu r Griffith was ’ urnedaome
years siuce. Mr. L* owns e ‘me four huntped *ud
fifty acres of land in Wick!-.ifa, and is quit© wealthy.
His dauglrers ars nauitd Maw and Ltura. Mary
is about twenty years old L -.u a ub >ut sixteen,
j They are splendid looking girlj and are fashi-m'.ably
| and richly dressed. Thyareboti: wed educated,
having enjoyed superior advantages in this re
spect.
The Lewis brothers era unoontn, uneducated and
overgrown speoinit so. humanity, -u ‘ can neither
real i.orwrbe. T- >v hi<e ■ out l> K Loyd some
s x months go II peid vVaieij, ts. *. Idost on©,
sl3 aud CudJ-Cey sl*s ut -:;iU l’j n\wy L*w.?,
tt e young man who dida\ g-t married auu who
parsed the night in the uch uou -c, is a very sleepy
aud stupid appearing you*.);: mao. Wo doub if no
knows enough to exercise the s igdO’ y aoommou
Shanghai oh.ckc-u g” un lei ve-- xtu-a if rums-
U© was released ’his morning a: l :o sugg**ut >n of
dr. Lloyd and requested to “ acoot,” wniob he has
tily did. lie promised, with t ar ,iu liiseye-.uev.r
to come wahin ten niles of Wiokhffe. again. A‘he
married brother of course banuot be interfered
with.
The parties eloped at about i 1 o’clock ou Monday
night aud were not until ui^ruing.
Tne brothers hired a horse and buggy o
aud went to Mr L oyo’s nou?e, wh re she girls were
awaiting them with t eir trunk-! ali packed. The
girls left the hoUoc noise ly and got into the buggy,
and the parlies moved slowly towards Cleveland.
One of the brothers walked all the way hero (about
sixteen miles,) and the overrode add orove Ar
riving here Ifiry stopped at the Commercial House.
In the cveuiug a Justice vai called iu and Watsou
aud Mary were man led. Cbauncey and Laura
concluded to postpone being uuued until toie rnoru
iug, which conclusion fortuoately enabled ur. Lloyd
to prevent the cere ony. The *purtiee all moved
from the Commercial to the Franklin, where they
were found as above stated.
This is tne most remarkable case of elopement
we ever heard of. It utterly eclipses the B ker
aud Dean case. What two handsome and cultiva*
t-d girls, as tha Misses Lloyd certainly wore, could
find to adm*re in two such fellows as the Lewis
brothers, H more than we car imagine Mr. Lloyd
aud his wife are overwhelmed with grief by this in
explicable oouductof their daughters.
Breach of Promise Cass jn Mississippi.—The
Kosciusko (Miss ) Chronicle of tho 17tn, records an
interesting “breach of promise” case, which was
decided at the last term of tho Attala Court—the
parties being Miss Amanda Burnley vs. W. J.
Sailis, and tie damage oiaimed £ 10,600. The
Chronicle says ;
The parties being cf the highest respectability,
and numerously related in the county, the amount
involved large, legal talent of the first order bang
retained ou each side, an 4 tho case being a novel
one in this portion ol the Union, it, naturaly crea
ted a great deal of interest, and drew together a
very large concourse of people, among whom were
quite a goodly number of ladies, the court-house
using crowded throughout tho trial, which lasted
the beet part of two days. Tho t stimouy went to
show, that after an engagement of marriage had
existed for over two years between the parties,
Mr. Sallis gave uotive in writing to Mias Burnley
ot his desire to be released of Ins engagement, ou
the score of bad health, but th°t Miss Burnley had
declined to release him, signifying her willingness
to wait until the defendant had reoovored from his
attack of chills, and that detea Jaut fai’iug to briDg
übout a compromise in another attempt some six
monthß afterwards had married uuotber y-ung
lady. This action, therefore, waa brought to ro
cover damages for breach or the promise of mar
riage, and tne loss which plaintiff oianned to have
sustained thereby. Tne defend mi’s o u?<se■, on
the other hand, admitted the breach of promise,
but contended that inasmuch a* plaintiff bad sus
tained no special damage, therefore she Was entitled
to only noßi'iial damages
The case was abL argued for the prosecution by
Messrs. Lawson and Ni.ea, and Messrs. Xr mkhu
Smith, R. S Huns n and JAP (Jampb- i tor the
and fence, in speeches of ‘hong anu learned Ben
tenceri,’’ sparkling with of rheioric, poo j y and
wir: indeed, ir is genera iy admitted that on no oc
casion has our court auch*a l-gal contest.
The jury retired and iutwohouia returned with a
verdict of ten dollars for the plain iff We under
stand that the youi g gfntlemeu on the jury stood
out for a heavy veruict, but that the married gen
tlemen overruled them. Tue will be carried
up to the high Court **f E r s -.d Appoaia.
Wild Love — A - • uvu at first eight” 4s
recorded by the Lon ou C’ourt ocular iu a story
of a man *’ who is now i-.i &t. Lt k mat In use, and
ha* been detained th r? ever :jnc tho ocourivnoe
ro -a pTaco, which consign el him io its Waifs Lady
was so exquisitely lai , eosnigulm y graceful.
ti a:, it was and tii Liifc tor tne eye o a men t<* bt-h ila
her without preferring her to any other of her eex.
A porter was amt from a railway terminus to this
Kay bv her brother; this mini, the pn sent occu
pant of 8f Luke’s, got to tho and or iu Paris Lane
just as the. beauly alighted out oi hc- r carriage irom
au airing in Hyde park. The air.r, who had never
seen Lady us sue waa then, tripping up staire,
naked a servant for the lady lo wliom the lbiter was
directed, and was answered, he might give the let- ‘
ter to him lor his lady. Ou the poor fellow’s refaeal
as he was ordered to deliver it into her own na’ da,
he was shown into her apartraect The man, b-ing
with the lady alone whilst she wae employed reaa*
mg the letter, fix ;d his eyes on her iutenuy, as if
lost in thought; but belore che hid don© reading it,
he violently, a id with transport, fi *w into hhr arms,
and gave her numb ile©B devourng kisses. Lady
w .3 so surprised tha: she losttf -rpower of cry
ingout; but in tho etruggK wit; eu Jh a suduen and
otrauge lover, she caught hold of tn-j stung of the
bell, rang i vioient'.y, end atv aid. ’.;tift,ired.—
From that moment the unhappy man o i his rea
son, aud wase-coauiiitred to t.nc mad houeo. It ia
due to Lady to tiat© rii© ia ;t, rh : tne maniac
lov Q r is trequonliy ’ isited, and whulfy supported by
her.”
The Fall Fash.u.o . • and uncom
fortabie beat oi t.c uuniu ji u-. ..a paving given
piace to the more brac.ng aud a<roeabie breezes
ot autumu, our dry goods stores nave commenced
r heir msual display ot Fall and W-uter goods which
every jear appear tu inert-a e iur.cimeoa and beau
yof design. Judging irom she appt rauce ot the
stores, a very lage bgsiuess is being done, m- st of
which is no doubt owtrg to the groa. u flux of
Grangers that are crowding • ur ho c!h aad st,ee*r’.
8 Iks, o* course, will demand our fim fliieurico,
and they arc well worth ell we o*o give them, for
we have never seen a better assortment in color
and quality than at pre-eut exb;biiod. Fiouu red
Robes and R.*bes aQiille :;re prevailing styles,
toge her with anew oeuiga named R ibe- n L%
which consists of a stripe i tinning up each breaatii
of the silk, being broad at the bottom aud gradually
becoming narrow towards the waist. flounced
Robes are more sash ion able for street drees than
the double jupe; email figures are much v/om ; wo
have eeeu some very handsome Robes with velvet
figure forming the flounce, the figure being tilled
in wit.i velvet an d this maxes up a very rich
dresi; these are also Burnt) pretty f hiuga iu large
quares, the centre being filled J with a small
figure of a different color.
Poplins as usual find plenty of admirers ; large
plaiusare much worn, some ot tharioue©t we think
ire those with a email velvet bayadere eirip©; these
toaks up very handsome.
Valencia, Merinos and Delaines are as v&ii rd and
ueat in design as n general. Delaines iiobes de
Ch.ach.re , with a sort of broohe border, are very
pretty aud from the pattern require out little trim
ming ; iu Meriuoa there is noth ng very i.e w.
. There id tho custom try assortment of French
Prints which make up chaimiug morning dresses.
Evening D.eased are made up of Ititfsioo, white
•tnd colored, trimmed wun Lice, Chenille, dto.;
hese by gas light are really beau i ul. T_ev are in
•'< “tyles, Flounced Double Jupe and Robes a
Quille.
l ii*c©s and embroiders this season seems to have
eclipsed all others. Point D A eucon and other rich
•aces have been imported iu a pro usion that argues
well for the confidence our merchants have in the
revival of bu mess. We were übtv/u one particu
larly handsome lot of 00l ars, sleeves and handker
chief made of Point D'Alencon and Point D An
gteterre mixed, and it lormed a must beautiiui pat-
Poinfc lace and black Chantilly laco flounces are
greatly-in demand, to be worn over light colored eilks
lor evening , Groseile, wiffi rich b'aok luce over it,
lot k-< very handsome. Point D Alencon and Point
D'Anglttcrre in collars, Sieeves and moucuuirs, are
imong th© novelties. Mtcbliu lace is farhionable
ooth lortrimming evening dresses, and iu oollara
and sleeves Tue eieevts are of various designs,
the lull fiow'ng sleeve with plain colored riobon un
der the puffi quoting over, ar© among the newest
atyles Point lace Coiffa ea aDd Baroet, trimmed
with flowers, are muen worn as head dresses. Col
lars and sleeves, puerr te matin are mostly of rich
French embroidery with Valenciennes lace inserted
trimmed wi b gioseelle and maroon plaid ribbon.—
N Y. Express , Jst i nut.
Several PEhSuNo Abkested Charged with
being Engaged in the slave Irade.—l’ u.ay be
rememberea that after a vessels u, as sunk at Mon
tank Point some Weeks buck, suspicions were urea
ted tnatebe was a tiiver.an'l the U. S. Marshal of
New York took tbe matter in hand, aud sent two ot
Ms deputies to inquire into the particulars, and they
arrested three men in that city, two at Boston and
one at New Bt-rf ,rd one of ti em alleged to bo the
mate ot the ship—which i- said to be tbe Haidee,
from Cuba, where she landed a cargo of nine hun
dred slave-. The prisoners are iu custody cf the U.
S. Marshal.
The Xla dee origiDal y railed from Kew York for
the coast • t Arii a. The captain lett the vest Jat
Cardenas, when the first mate, who hae been ar.
r-sted. took command of her. It is elated that the
crew baa some bad feelings totv.irhs >he mate and
ce was alraid that tt.y meditated doing him some
Injury.
The ma‘e is an American, and tbo crow w-.a
mostly composed oi Portu litre. Tee deputies
itatn that the ve-cel wae scuttled Lecauso she had
no paptra by which she coufd en er any port.
The Marshal ttr der-lands that toe r-maining por
tion of the crew have lett the Untied States, and
con-tquoutly Lae given up tne cLs-e.
The Marshal eayi he believes ho has done bis
day in making the arrest, the examination will
take place m a tew days. The prl-oners have re
tained as their <7mn-u-.l P J Ji a -nimson, Esq. the
late As:istaut U * i> „
Interesting ra ji a - L , Boston Travel.
lerbaasem a ietLcrfrjin B-yr.,u', dat- Augu tl’ ‘
o which it is stated that the A ne'ican Consul hi
that place Lad arrived tt-ere ab,.ut the nnrib- of
luly, wira bis family, and (ha: the raise - of'U flag
of ‘ho Go sulate, for lhe hist tim- iu six ra .nth?
Was a plea an’ sigh’ for tbe American res dents.—
lhe trial of the Jaffa criminals wa then in pro-
gress, arid if was regretted that the Dixon family
vhose numbers w re thinner’ by lhe Arabs there
had returned to Aa-er ca, i a it w_- feared tbat some
of tbe Hincreaots might escape punishment by
lack of means Mr tut:.- ilentiffcation. I: will be
r-coilec’ed lhat the remainder of this family, who
1 ‘ a . Massa-.hase.is, reached Boston but a lew
days since.
of disturbance* at Moons Lebanon had
reached Beyrout, ad the Pasha there, ■•ho is only
set- nd in dignity to the GTaud Vizier, had, upi n
the representations of die 1 olhuls ,; that piece,
depa'uhed a ;ri>op ol Solaitre to quell the febellion,
a • well as to protest the f.reigntrs. A numtier of
mis-ionaries, od their way to i iff r*nt par's of
Palestine, were at B-yr.-ut, awaiting Hie execution
ot the Jaffa criminals, fearing that it ought cause •
general insurrection throughout th# whole c untrv,
and preferring to remain under the protection of the
guns of the men-of-war collected in the barber.