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JAOII , (.■ thia present organization,
1 •ii I’ .• - g ba. i-njoyed the incre&x
,i ; g a nnd support fan Intelligent public. Itn
ii . t •t.Mioand Iboh.ghefttretpect. This lu*titution
FIVi; <-I NERAL DEPARTMENTS !
, CO.!.LK'IK DA6PAHTMKNT. which embracet
% <■•.:-.*in mik- Young Ladies though
II Art AGADKrtIU D?APTMISNT, in which pa
j, m- tr'-j .%• pare.* for Collette, and a good basis
If / Ml\siC [>£Pa hTMKNT, with tried teachers,
,r r., Vi li, Kiuie, AC Advanced
P |. arr. luo ■: I. In c . pn- .* .Vudc, if desired. Frol.
IV WORN'AM .rtTALUKFARTMBNT, in which
pu . . ’a -i ‘l-iitit gtn • 9 an'l Wat*-r 010r.4. Gre
turn t'a * u ‘ ‘t*o t I -lont i g Pn c ling Mom-cbo
-id r- .*!•*■ r cm* i, H > Fiuit. Ac
ar* , 1 I . cieilif • er* and Frac.sca I’r u* ip.es o U
* ‘Vffairn Tw .hours nu every Tuesday, Thurs-
Tlif> ;i m tin • -inployod vaili not in the leant interfere
i l the ol'< n lege in (Jeorgia giving attention to
i < lt*tt>d of in-true ion are thorough scholars and
oxj*“'! eii tfiuhers, three of whom gradual and with
honor al Mercer Un vers ty
A BriNUVOLKNT INSTITUTION
I’l.- Is, where the daughters of Ministers of the Gospel of
id-ri ‘• ! cat s, are educated WITHOUT CH a GE
I’ h. rUI I *N . )M< reov* r, worthy indigent orphans
and daughters or ecd. Ministers will be boarded from
, • 4 ..ei .intlen tuan the usual rates.
not allowed we r , is iof w rn. A pupil’s dressing
t ;• v.-ar, t cc-1 not cost more than from S3O to SSO.
UOt BD OF TUUHTEKM.
Uev ADIEU SHERWOOD, D. D , Griffin, Pres’t.
itev ■ VLVaNIJS LANDRUM, Macon
U*v ELI i All J. PANNAL, LouLville.
i!<*o UINUINNATUft PEEPLES, Forsyth.
I! •. JiIHNT.OROWDKK, Moor e county.
Col. JAS H PINGKARD Forsyth.
l/U LA IN F PO .’UEK, Fsq [’ Forsyth.
Jo HKPH J. CAR N, Esq , Ma on county.
O^ t, 1 1 EL SANFORD, Esq., Forsyth, Secretary.
FtCULTV.
Hrv WJf u .Wil KES, A M, President,
p .,,f h T \ SID' ItY, A. M.
n, < i,() r W’ILHUBN. A M
Prof VVM •’ St ’K K A M.
Mrs M AitY A. WILKES.
Mrs. KATE AHBU HY.
I VMAA A i AFFORD.
koXIK A CHAPPELL.
r ‘ yp,r; Music,*so; BohA
• mlm, ami v* ashing.
I Spring rerm will begin on tha 17th JANUARY.
Fni taiiUor'U'ormatloD, address any member of the
. amity,(i * “ vviIJ.IAM C. WILKES, Pres’t.
RICHARD T. ABB UR Y, Bey.
Forsytli, Oft., Jan lt, 1851). jam*
UNinioK iIKLOVV Till.
ttJJCII i\ICS ItAVli.
I > t ,v Goods, bought of the Executor of the
1 i Mr I? F t tb re are a grest many articles
. , lD *of the Him of bu loasa wUdi I eanry on,
_ |u j w l : ii jj t yof intend to keep in fu'tire. Among the
T I kf’Y- r vlI ilaD, DEEP WELL AND FORCE
• ’ x ,| N MILLS, SIaAW CU I'TBRS,
‘ v i vi-'K ORlvB C ARPENTERB TOOLS,
’ V { .i<M’l’r S 4WS BRADS, G S.
Bl ’ ’ K and’ PL ‘ I WRING TROW-
I I/: DRAW WO KNIVES,
I.ES KAoEN A'
i ii’ 1 per sou * : i. iiigtobuy ay of the above men
. . ‘ ** , r ~A j w |;i | theul cheaper than ANY
il lID R E l Ei .i Augusta, ai'd lor less than war
r 'l t joe’ *, o,v* in utoro a very line and full stocko>
i> ij i %V are Tin Ware ; Oook, Parlor and
H v v .<• ‘ u H i.i'ilyu ant rumps, wth Block
I’ n ! mid Calvao. h 1 iron Pipe# and a general
mr ni * f• v r , nr cle ‘n tbeli n-e Furnf hiLg line
t. M-1 ha‘i tie • • - ivr c. mug add ti ns to it
„ y ti. : <!• and tb**f übiic aro respeetmlty Invited to
gi ,* < a c*,i end satis y theiuseives that’l am selling
,J * :,:; V -A-wt’r‘ h ’ “ V-, J. HTTP KM ASTER
iIKOFSI t'IRED!
r,, ■■ Tmlfi pr. fenaes to rare Droiwy of every
Iv, i Ho can tvs- u personally rive mi ce
i r ’’Hi Point, or addressed by let er to Union
.. .. umv.U- rise m• du-inecan be sent
. t road wlib lirect on, for Jivoni*!!; or 1
“ ! |,’, u .l > Tally. .. requeeterl. and for n.y
.......... ~. if. ‘ now oe . ttikted w ith Dropsy, or
lit. iuy pr* er. Kemt me Ten
,la, i.l 1 wti. .ra.’ metficioeenough forot.e month.
MILES G. BROOME.
Tin* is to certify tha* my father bad a xu'gr.i man ai
tUd .iw tli Di .'j sy ‘ Its>3; he had been treated by
, ~ r.: physictai.s without any cure, when he applied
i> m.o. ort- me tor his remedy, which cared him. ll*’
iS stui living ;md in good health.
11. Champion,
i* t •t o t • ’ jb.atl had a negr > woman badly *l
-with Dropsy for a considerabie time. She wa*
aitcodt Jby s veralphjsui us they faded to make .
cure 1 beard of G J. Broome, and put her under his
ire v. nir • i u it- than a year she was t* oroughly
cu *d > Dr JAMES lAVANT
LOOK JIERK.
Farmers, Planters ami Keepers of
HOBSES.
Keep youx Hoises m Good Condition
iiiimTsirs
s:mi mm mu funis
‘l'tHv ztr wjniinury virtues of tb* etnebiMed OFU
l \l vN Jt*o VDBR are attested by thousands
who h-vc it it is composed of Vegetable Roots
avd Hero* and U highly recommended for the cure and
prevention ~i .Ui those JiaoiMieis to w fetch that auinmi—tbe
—naubiect: as Distemper, Hide-bound, Drowsi
er L. -a of .\ppetite, inward Sprains, Yellow Water,
Fatigue h .rd exorcise or work, Inflammation of the
Ky. i Demlity, Wi>tmg<rf Flesh. Ac. It carries off all
gross timaors’ ,r*vent- horses from becoming stiff or
v ’ >ujdon*d. punflu and cools the blood, and improves
genera! condition. The constantly iucrea*:Dg de
'viwu and tor •: Is ceu-'rated ‘ HORSK MEDICINE” is one
*-)f tissue nnn'.- 1 akeable proofs of its worth, in cases o.
y*<v <*’ \nd, 1 ot ppetite. Drowsiness, Fatigue,
Distetnpor, Inflammation of tue Eyes, It improves the
coaditioo of the Skta ; impart* a fine glossy coat of
Ha. - ;itis * universal Condition Powder Farmer and
Planters shv ua not be w ithoat this valuable Powder.
For -ale, wholesale and retail, by
FISHER * HEINITSH.
Columbia, S. C.,
“’ PLUMB & LEITNER,
WuoiMa.i’ aud Retail Urcgf August*, Ga
nrN- l y
BANES’ BAKES’ LANDS’ LAKES!!
* l.tKiil qunt fT of the beat Planting and Pare,
ag LANDS - tut:.,'rn’Gi'orgia,andeisewhere.ic
Tract* ot to J.JOt’ acres to suit purchasers Also,
ten to fifteen leagues of sioct Tens Lands, with clear
tities is oc • ugat v-j low rates at the the Georga
Land<'*''t u Cugusta . .
B i: s [■'..< lugosut S icatoah. Athens, Aud the
. ,■ ; t, 1 -la. jnrg suspruiied Banks, wil ; beta
, . svEu-at a’ par va ue Negroes will be taken al
ar. and the highest ca.h . allowed.
p—wa- I.vurous of torutn settlement*, or making
•safe investjueuts. will find it to their interest to rail at
r.rOfi . T.a-ren Range Augusta. Ga
JAMES M DAVISON,
Laud Agent and Real Estate Broker
oetlT-dlwAwtf
E'V i.\ ;itOY who likes goed Horses, gindCatUe
, i ~.. S’leep should lake the AMERICAN
STOCK JOURNAL, published monthlv at 140 Fulton
Street. Nev York, a; SI per vear. Specimen copies
gratis— -end and set one. leW5-tI
£j.Lffc Vit -V'>>{4. jfc j&
FOB SALE,
*e * O ACRr'-k Pine LAND lying each side of the
4 ehvj Gsorg-a Railroad, wo miles above Berzelia;
15u acres ot iwhu-h arc In cultivation, the remainder well
timbered. . here ~s on the place a good Dwell,ng and
nnthuudingsand a-t-oudid Weilofwaier. 1 have also
Cattle, Hoises. Mali - Hog.an ‘laatationTools,which
1 willaellwijh the place. Address
H. A. MERRY,
janer wtf 1 ,. -la, Columbacotmty, Ga
FOR SALE,
IS”) O ACKKSoILAND On the land Is a fine
new House. Kitchen, rmoae Hoase. and other
outli oes, sitnaud 200 yard* from iisaey s Depot, on
the Georgia Ka ircad, Ogle Acrpeoouuty—a good loca
tion for uc caau ii.ug Possessiongiv-iu immediately.
F.n.i ureon to premisea 0. A. IsPLKRV.
fet>i-w*
$25 REWARD.
KANAWA V from J H ALFORD, Augusta, Ga,
s or about -4 years old, 6 feet high, named JOHN
nON, formerly belonging to Thoa Carr, near Athens
Ga.
ESP* Athens Banner please copy and send bill to this
giJ febSwSm
Cbronick ti Sentinel
U
Keparr of tbe Augusta Bible r^oe’ety.
The Managers of tfce Augu“‘a Bible Society, in
presenting their 42d anca&l report, gratefully record
tbe fact >bat a liberal pecun.ary eupport b&s been
continued to the sacred cause which they represent
The gross income for the past year was $1 ; 134.*29,
distributed into its sources as follows:
Balance on band at last re;x>rt, $137 69
A-ianal c© tributkm by Augusta Female.*
Bible So ciety 130 00
Hale of Books at D p sitory 80 8-1
“ “ by T 8 Tyson
Colporteur in Richmond eo 139 26
Coiiectkms by tbe Want Committees 573 50
Contribution through D. II Wilcox 100 00
The great bulk of this sum was ordered by the
Board to be placed in the hands of Rev. G J
Pearc-e, tbe cfiicien* Genera! Agent of the Bible
Sot ► > ic Georg a. and through him to be employ
ed in behail of the cause throughout the State. Ac
cordingly. the Treasurer wa* ordered *o give this
direction to $805.88. A donation of SIOO.OO wa*
made to the parent society. The sum of $228.06
was expended on account of books.
In this manner, the entire cash income Las been
exhausted, leaving no balance f<*i the ensuing year,
exc pt n the shape of books yet remaining in the
d*r “<tory.
‘i Liri balance, however of Bib’ee and Testaments
is considerable, amounting to the value of $247.69.
Th s st x;k, n*>w on toe shelves of our Depository is
probably ample enough to supply tverybome want
c i tbe Society for the whole com ug yea*-.
The city of Augusta and county of Richmond
were, at the Boa and a request, explored by an active
Colporteur, under tbe cirec’ i-u of toe General
Agent He visited famiiie in the city and
831 additional in the county. One Di nth of these
2,142 fami iee w**re deeti ute of th* w*rd ot God,
an.l he doi a*ed 21'3 Bibles and 168 Testaments to
> ucf: ue were unable or to purchase , 139
Bible* fend T^ntaments were sold in hia rounds—
thus i;xk r r 510 volumes put into circulation to
suppiy the wants i nmeci itely a* r.ur own and- re.—
.S > v.at *he entire sum expended for the Board, un
der the manageTT). nt of Mr. Pearce, was distribu
ted is follows:
Books made use ol in .-undry p’ar es $ .07 50
B iks and ColjKirtage in Paulding county.. 263 B 0
Books and Colportage in Gwinnett co 195 30
Books and Cos portage iu Richmond co 139 88
Thn de'aued statement of expenditures ii due to
the of our fund*, who, having furnish
ed flic money, ae nafu ally concerned to know
where and how it has been employed. Mr Pearce
writes tba’ hie agent in Pauiding county f.mnd
about one fifth ol the lamilies m etitnte of tbe Holy
Word, and this, although the Bible Society of Ma
rietta had had an agent in theeame field only some
two or three ye&;* before. Ho tar as Gwinnett
county has been explore !, the destitutions are in
the proportion of **ne eighth We have already
seen that the destitutions ii Richmond county are
as one ninth.
These counties are mentioned, because they have
been the immediate recipient* of our lasr year’s
donations, and their carefully supplied need wiil
serve to show Iht- wise destination of those dona
tion;*
It may be profitable to look, fora moment, at
the whole work which, up to the present time, has
ben acc tor the Bible cause, in the Stat e
of Georgia, under the exiting agency. It 3*ems
that over BMI counties have been thoroughly ex
plored within the last few years. Iu this field of
hard and seif denying labor, more than 90,00(1 fami
lies have tern vi-Ted ; over 19.000 of these have
bee:, supp ieb with the Sacred Scriptures; 18 000
copies (ts Testaments have been given to ebi'dreu
between 8 and 16 years of age; and the whole
number of volumes put into circulation has been
about 75,000
N"twithstanding, however, all tha! has been
done, there is still reed to urge oureeives to Ihe
putt” g forth of greyer ad greater < xertione. The
• u er< r Rri i* h . nogh \, the good o b*- >•<; mp* e i
m*■ pi ‘p im, Ih :x,*eD<ieds-al and lab *r
the Ui dive w pi and ourselves lor lh* U'most degree
oi activity so pressing, that every intelligent lover
of his race and servant of his God, will feel that
filmofct nothing Las yet been done Wiiile so much re
mains untried. It is, therefore, with great satis
faction, that we are informed by Hie Genera! Agent
ol tuis State, of his determination, “at the urgent
solicitation of the Parent Society, now to engage,
with all poeeibible energy,” in the work of a iho
rough re-exploration of bia entire field. But, if any
one shall abk : where is the need of repeatedly go
mg over the same territory—why will not one ex
ploration answer for at least one generation ?
the reply is to be made in the fact that, from the
changes and movement of population, there seems
to be no possibility of overtak-rg the final destitu
tions of any given section of coun iy Let this be
illuntiated by the colporteur’s experience iu a sin
gle county, say the county of Jackson. In 1852,
1,309 families were visited in this county, and the
deal'llulions were found to be 252 lo 18.>7 this
lenitory was again exj iored, and the destitutions
found to be 183. From these facts it would appear
to be necessary to repeat tho Society's work for
the benefit of a given number of fatni iee about once
in six or seven years. I-* this because tbe distribu
ted Bible:* are destroyed ? No, for during the seven
years there wh destroyed iu the county of Jack
son, oLly one copy of the acred word, so far as
could be ascertained. But it is now well under
stood that tli 3 continuous destitutions arise from a
two-fold source ; removals into the different parts
of the territory f poor families who have never
been furnished with Bibles, and a constant succes
sion cf marriages among the poorer cla&se-i where
the couples, in setting up for themselves, must
leave the family Bibles behind and wait for the
return of the colporteur to supply them with copies
of their own
it is thus that the work is always ahead oi us. It
is t iU3 that an unceasing demand is to be made up
on our sympathies and resources. It is thus that
G *d s providence is torever opening the way tor the
increasing spread oi His word of grace by the agen
cy of those whose continued giving to His cause is
to be the means of their continued growth iu great
Cbiistiau virtues.
In his la-t report, receive 1 within a few day?, the
energetic General Agent in Georgia says: “I have
already engaged some twenty colporteur.-*, and
many more are seeking to engage in this good work
ot an immediate re*exploration of our field. All
wo lack of being able to do a great work, at once,
is ample means, to purchase books and pay colpor
teurs.” And, exclaims he, as he looks over .he vast
population perishing for the living bread. “Rich
men—poor men—friends of the B ble and of im
mortal-oils, what say you 1 Do you say, Let the
wo and o the L rd have ir.-e course and|b • gloi *fieu? 1
Tbe Board ot Mangers of the Augusta Society
would love to be able to respond to such affecting
appeals as this, by a libera uy to pecuniary aid m
creased tenfold above ail former bestowmeuts
And why should we not ! Intelligent self denial is
all tiiifct is demand* and A proper estimate on the
part ot competent givers of tbe highest vulue of
money, is one great step iu the way of such a
spread of the gospel as will toon cause it to fill all
our State with Ls imperial able blessings.
Allow us to close this report by quotieg aa im
por ant extract from Mr Pearce s last letter to the
Boar*; ii us reference to tre immediate necessi
ty laid upon the Irieudsof the Bible Cause iu Geor
gia, to establish a Depository for Bible? and Testa
meats iu some such central place a Atiunta in or
c.er to give the enterprise a local permanency and
greatly facilitate tue operations ol the colporteurs.
Says this enthusiastic Agent: “We need and
ought to have a Bible Deposito y in Atlanta, worthy
tie Book and tlit cause, and ample to meet the de
mands of the work in Georgia. One noble soul j
(now with God,) gave at a single dash sls 000 to
get up a great Slate Depository for the State of
Alabama, m the City ol Montgomery. The city
having giveu $15,000 additional, there is low there
a great central fountain of life, whence tbe stream
may freely How to all the perishing thirsty souls for
whom Christ died, and who may ni longer say :
“No man carts for my soul.” Who will lift the tir.-t
earnest voice, whostrike rhe first manly blow, who
lay down ihu first magnificent sum, as a sacifice to
the Loid and His poor ? If Augusta will set this
ball in motion, by God’s most gracious help, I will
roll it from the mountains to the sea, until we shall i
have a noble Depository where every auxiliary so
ciety, and every soul in the State, and every Sab
bath School of every Church may find the ure
word of God. Is not ruob a Depository necessary !
Should it not be an honor to God and His holy
W frd. Joseph e’ortd br ad for all Egypt and the
hungry nations around. Let us have a great cen
tral -l ora of the ‘true bread ihat came down from
heaven,” lor nil the starving pour ot Georgia. 1
have oi tu. very otfen, been greatly hindered in
rvjv work, when a county was nearly completed, he
books gave out, 1 wan on a long absence, would
get home and find every wheel had been stopped
tor weeks . and now’, all must wad uutil 1 made an
order to New York, which may be delayed, produ
cing mttoli ooßiusi"u, hindrance dissatiata non.—
Give me an ample Depoeltoiy at Atlanta, i place
knowntoah.su accessible to all, where any man,
Sunday School. Society or Colporteur, my send
and gef whatever they want, at once, and thus you
wdi answer your ioi*ir unauswered prayer, sj far at
a.- Georgia iso u. eined. “Let thy word have
tre* oyui:r*atid b * go>ti-d ’
ii a ■ ••• work’ i ido&en 1G o mmur faction by
[ .i .i: *Y Ui annive-sary, iu'e than
Ci vh>uim;e the work I” Gci r.lv i ymr geueious
petiple wi i only say, deep down tn liar pockets,
that we Will nave a Stale Deposit* ry, and ilia! one
tvi !:.“-explore the whole State of oi.rv, it will ope
rale uioet provokiagiy on others, and every lami y
in Georgia trill soon have “i<ht in their dwell
ings”
‘rhe Board ot Managers possess the confidence
tha’ our people will do their duty in view of all tbe
demands of this nobte cause—lheir duty to them
selves, to iheir commonwealth, to thiir God.
The following gentlemen have been selected to
secure subscriptions for their respective wards,
and for rhe Sano Hills:
For Ward -Vo I.—J P. Gairdner, H. T. Peay,
W. C. Derrv, H K Knseell.
dor Hard -Vo. 2 Isaiah Puise, E. Campheld,
James K \\ aiker, VV m S. Koval.
For H ard Ao. 3.—J S Bean, J W. Bones. Por
ter Fleming, B il. hlay, C. A. Bowland, J. S.
Wright.
For Hard So. 4.—J. A. Ansley, Chas Dwelle,
John T. il her, J. W. Ho'ton
For :( tsarui Hu s.-D. H. Wilcox. W. ¥ Pem
berton, L. C. Warren.
Lost tv the Swanr.—The poetmaster at
liili, S: Fr nets oouury, in the course of a tetter to
ns, narrate - the follow ng story, to prove a pos tion.
be takes tha: “ woman can eland more cold mac a
man:”
“A irW weeks ago Mr. Kobect B Jones and Mr.
George Armor, went into the bottom os 9 hunting
excursion. One day. after telling a bee tree, they
heard the vc ice of a woman, ana upon proceeding
to the place whence the cries issued, found a woman
eilting on a iog in the cane break, and a few feet
from :-er !> icg in the water several inches deep,
was her husb ad. scarcely able :o m, ve. Mr. Ar
mor returned to the camp, prow-urtd blankets and
tood, while Mr. Roberts kiua.ei. a firs. They noticed
that when loou was given to the female, she care
fuilv fed the man uy putting the bread and meat
io his mouth, as he was scarcely able to move. The
woman stated that their names wa* Aiken, that they
had attempted to take ‘a mgh cut through the Clar
endon iD Monroe county, but had got lost m the
vine-break and had been there three weeks with
:.o mod save persimmons and acorns. Tre singn
lar part ot tue lory is that though ttey had no ere
during the tune, wen jref lor the wuoie three weeks,
and tho ugh Mrs. Aiken *4 taken off all her under
dething with wh'ch to prolee* cut _usbana. yet she
wa-v not froet-bitten while he was, an a As bed.y that
he was with d.fihuity enabled to recover so a* -J
walk The place where t. e> were found
or & teen miles from any house, in T 3 >., K o vt
ijuite a striking illustration of woman s, aeV'Oeo
neisand powers of endurance.— Little Rock I rue
Democrat.
Tbs Git a i kVi.o.— An important experiment
has been tried in France, on the grape vine, by
which the else and quality of the fruit may be in
creased, and the peril dos its maturity hastened
A narrow ring ot bark is taken from"toe bearing
etsm near its juction w.th the mail stock It must
be as deep as tbe itber, Le. penetrating the two
baike The effect is to check the formation of leaf,
and oaccelerate the growth aid ripening of the
g apes uy at least a fortnight. Specimens Srom
vines tre. ed m this manner have been eh wo at
the Exhibition in Paris. Tbe fruit was larger than
that of tbe an-nuged branchee of the same vine.
This is an interesting experiment, and n*: be tried
to an extent sufficient to gain a practical ‘est with
out injuring tbe plant
Sii of Ketorolac Prosperity.
; After the Ing stagnation which hes affected the
trad*- and industry of the country we are glad to
i perceive that the former at least, gives signs of a
revival which, in spite of contrary euguries, we
j hope may prove to be as permanent as it appears
I to be decided. From the official returns cf receipts
from customs the last quarter, as far aa they are
known, it appears that they afford assurance of
| yielding a revenue almost, if cot quite, equal to the
I estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury as sub
| milted to Congre c in h?a last annual report and
which, at the time, w. regenerally supposed to fix the
inc* m* .ikeiy to accrue from tbe present tariff at a
higher rate than wa3 warrantee! by the probable
importation? of the country. The receipts at tbe
New York cU’tLtm-hcuae for tbe three montfce end
ing on the 31st ultimo are stated at about $19,300,-
000. which, with the revenues collected at other
ports, wili furnish, it is be ieved ar: figregi!e
amount not much, if at all, below $15,000,000. i’be
expectations of Mr. Cobb, under tn is bead, being
so nearly realized as to relieve the Treasury from
any unexpected pressure, i’ represented with
the assis ance afforded by the re iseue of the Trea
sury lo ce, and in the absence cf the demands
which the Po-t Office Department would have
made if the regular appropriation bill for this branch
of the public service had not failed, the Secretary
of the treasury ha* no reason to apprehend any
embarraaemen't dating the in erval extending from
the present time to the next annua! meetii g of Con
gress. This intelligence we are sure will be es
gratifying to the country a3 the results themselves,
which pron iseto verify hie calculaiiocs, must doubt
less be welcome to Mr. Secretary Cobb.
We observe, how- ver, tl:at there is one light in
which t Lia relief to the Tre&cury is regard* J t y
some tn being rather temporary and ominous than
permanent or consolatory W'e ailude to the excess
of the foreign imports, from which these receipts
are gathered, over the domts.ic exports by which
“the alai.ee of trade” is to be preserved. Wbi.e
ail calculate ns founded oa what is called the bal
ance oi trade are open to many errors and excep
tions, it win perhaps be denied by none that tbe
relatione be a-*-.* toe exports and imports of a coun
try affords a* lea. t a partial criterion by which to
judge of the financial consequences likely to ensue
fr--rathe prevalence of a revenue system. Under
this conviction our intelligent cotemporary, the
B>& on Daily Advertiser, iodines to tb* opinion
trial the cour-fs of trade which b&e pruciue -d this
temporary relief deserves tote viewed With some
die ru-t, a-i portending resuits which, eo far from
speaking in favor of our present, tariff, will only
more erriktngly demonstrate in the end the need ot
its future revision. To this purport it argues aa
follows;— Nat. Intel
The returns for the port of New Y’ork, for the
firet three quarters of three successive fiscal yeare,
show the following results :
Exports excin-
Yetr. sive o. specie Imports. Excess Imports.
185 L-7 $63,4*i5 :4d $17'*,914 926 Bio7 44‘J 078
Itfo7-S 4C 745 *3O 137,761,169 69 oi7, 39
1858-9 41,7x0 476 150,200,221 108,488,745
Tue returne tor the month of March in each of
th*se years is st 11 more suggestiveof imprudent ar.d
excessive increase of importation:
Exports exclu-
Marcli. sive of specie. Imports Excess Imports.
It? *6 7 89,0 5 891 i£l, 128 496 $12,112 605
Ib.-7 -8 5,180860
1858-9 5,e76,001 20
The absolute excess of imports shown by these
return-;s of course to Lo expected, because New
York is our largest import ing and net our largest
exporting city ; but the relative excess merits much
Consideration. The exports have actually talin •ff
irwmihe returns of the last year by $7,009,009,
while the imports have increased by Dearly $13,-
909,000 If the ratio of imports and exports r-ho wn
by these figures are kept up elsewhere, ar.d fer the
remaining quarter, th-* present year will, with au
export only two thirds as large as that of 1856 ’7,
see an importation falling short of the importation
•v ily one-eighth, and that this con
jecture is likely to be verified is shown by the sur
prising imp or: tion of the last month. The whole
tendency of the returns is to show that, without any
such increase o* domestic exp r s as eb<*u!d srimu
i.tv nur t.ride to a'.y client, we are
iu ivrig f-rvMd u ii iepefti n os the extrava
gil c -of or i;e years. Our purchases abroad are
already rapidly rising to th tr former amount, while
we have neither any such demand or supply of do*
in -tic products as either justifies tbe extent to
which our importation has already been curried, or
gives us the least reason to hope for impunity if we
continue in our present course.
Tue ominous character of these signs ought, we
think, m>t only teach a lesson of caurion to every
individual who is interested in commerce, but a'.so
to satisfy every one cf the urgent necessity lor
some change of our general pol.cy. Can any man
doubt that the present course of our trade is lead
ing U;’ directly on to renewed embarrassments,
and, at last, to a repetition of the disasters of 1857 ?
Plentiful crops and quick sales elsewhere may
avert the crisis for a time, but is it any less certain
that, ftlih ugh distant, it is actually approaching, and
that a year of scarcity, or such a continuance ot the
present current ot business as eball create a sudden
demand lor gold, may precipitate it upon us at short
notice ?
No general conviction of danger, nothing but the
&otual pres U: eof a. oarcity of money can enforce
the lesson a prudence upon importers; but we
think that these facts should strengthen the. deter
mine!ion of :Le community at largo to obtain some
i uch change of tariff a3 shall check the dangerous
tendencies of our trade. Our present tariff is, to
some extent, relieving the Treasury, although in
ad*quiie to supply its wants completely ; but this
partial an temporary relief is purchased at the
risk of caiam: ies before which all questions of
revenue dwindle into insignificance.
Letter from Louis Natoleon to Persident
Va n Buren —The National Intelligencer recently
published the following letter, written by Louis
Napoleon to President Van Buren, on the eve of
the formers embarkation for Europe in 18137. It
abundantly disproves the many course allegation’s
made respecting him, and presents a phase of his
character which we have reason to believe he re
tainc to this day, and which probably is part of the
secret of that strong h<dd he has upon his people.—
Whatever may be our opinion of bia policy, there
is undoubtedly much of a genial nature and true
manhood in Napoleon 111., an illustration ot which
recently came to cur knowledge We may men
tion that the subjoined letter w .s left wit If the Rev.
Mr Stewart, chaplain in the United States navy,
by whom it was transmitted to the President The
friendship that then subsisted between Louis Napo
leon and Mr Stewart has continue 1 to the present
time, and we recently saw an autograph letter, ad
dress included, from the Emperor to the gentleman,
(written on the 12th of March,) when fie was bear
ing so important a share of the burdens of Euro
pean politics and evuets, full of sentiments and
iee iug that would do honor t* any man. The man
cannot be witiiou'a heait formed for friendship,
who remember* its claims under such circumstances:
— N. Y. Com . Adv.
New York, June 6,1837.
Mu. President.—lam unwilling to leave the
United States, without expressing to your Excel
lency the regret I feei iu departing without having
gone to Washington lo make your acquaintance.
Though an ill fated destiny brought me to America,
I had counted upon reaping great benefit in my
new place of exi.e from the society of her distin
guisl.ed men. I wished to study the maimers and
institutions of a people who have achieved more
lasting triumphs by their commerce and their enter
prise ihtm we in Europe have gained by our arms.
X had hoped, uuder the guardiauship of your free
laws, lo have travelled over a country which ex
cites aii my sympathy, from the fact that its his
tory and prosperity are intimately blended with the
remembrance of that which is a glory to French
men But imperative duty recalls me to the Old
World. My mother being dangerously ill, and no
political coi s deraiione detaining me here, Igo to
England, and shail from thence endeavor to return
to Switzerland.
It is wirh pleasure, Sir, ihat I enter upon these
details with your excellency, since you may have
given credence to the calumnious surmises respeet
li g me which Lave appeared in some of the public
journals. Holding you Sir, as X do, iu high estima
tion as the rulsr of a free people, I am happy that
you should know that, with the name 1 bear, it is
not pi sub.e for me to depart for an instant from
the pa;h pointed out to me by my conscience, my
honor aud my duly.
I pray your Excellency to receive this letter as a
proof of my respiect for him who occupies the chair
of Was! ington, aud accept the expression of my
regard ana distinguished consideration.
Napoleon Ijouxs Bonaparte.
Bloodv Fight with the Indians—Ford s ifan
fer* Cut Off.— the Ueutreviile Herald, published
at Cenirevine. Leon county, Texas, in its issue of
the ‘l’b inst., received yesterday, publishes the fol
lowing account of a disparate conflict with the In
dians, ou the Northern frontier ot the State, in
wuiclt Capt. Ford’s company of Ringers was eur
romded by eigh hundred Indians, and all killed
except live :
I give you below a brief statement of the loss of
forty-three of our brat e Rangers in an unfortunate
engagement with the Indians.
Gap'. Ford, with forty seven of bis men, left
camp in pursuit ot the Indians, who had carried off
f inr hu ored horses. He was joined by two bun
nvtd frieudiy Indians, and alterwatds b\ Major Van
1) in, with two hundred ana eighty regi Urs At
he until r ti.ro 3d passea toe heaawaters <>f
K dßiv-r J 1 j u r Vaub'uni mit deeming i’ pru
eut to pres, the pur uit turner w tliout aaditional
supplies f r men and horses, turned back Capt.
Ford and men, with tbe frieudi) Indians, continued
two cays ‘.ravel in the direction of Kansas. Be
twe u midnight and daybreak of the second mgiif,
the friendly Indians lelt the camp of Capt. F rd.
About cay light Capt. Ford found himself surround
ed by eight hundred warriors who demanded his
surrender. He refused, and ordered his men to pre
pare lor tighi .each being armed with two revolvers
and a rifle They fought bravely and desperately,
bat were overpowered by numbers, and ali butch
ered except Capt. Ford and four of his meu, who
cut their way through and escaped.
Among the names of those who fell fighting brave
ly, are the two nephews ol Gen. Fd. Burleson. Aa
ron and his brother, whose father was killed in a
a former engagement With the Indiat s, and whose
untimely fate will be regretted by friends
and relations in our county.
Toe above information was brought me direct
from Austin upon the arrival of the express from
Capt. Ford, and is reliable
Great excitement prevails in Travis and adjoin
ing counties, and it is supposed that a large com
pany wid s.art in pursuit of the Indiana so soon as
preparations can be made.
Respectfully, Thos. \V. Blake.
Explosion in the Virginia Mines. —A terrible
expla n oeonrrro at ihe Bright Hope Coal Pits,
Cuesterfieid county, on Wednesday morning. The
’ Bright Hope” pus have been but recently opened,
and form a part of the Clover Hill section, about IS
m. es t:om tbe junction with the Richmond Railroad,
and are ownea by the Clover HUi Railroad Com
pany. ’Jiiere were nine men in the ehait at the
lime, four vtiL. spd five negroes, ali of whom
must have been instantly killed It was impossible
to render them any relief whatever, owmg to tae
impenetrable condition o’ tbe mine from the toul
and intoleraole dissemination of tatal gas which pre
vailed. Among the nine persons in the mine ai the
time, were known to be two white men, named
Isaac Farmer and George Smith. A man and a
muie employed m drawing the coal np the inclined
plane ot the* shaft were found at the mouth of the
shaft, prostrate, and nearly dead. The accident
produced great excitement about the miners, and
the manager were using every exertion to pene
trate the si.au of the “Bright Hope.” Up to the
arrival of the Northern train, last evening, no suc
cess was reported, and it was given up beyond a
doubt tha: not a single soul of the employees within
the shaft can ever be recovered alive —Petertburg
Express.
Tns Dental Profession.— Few persons have
any adequate ideao, the growth of the dental pro
fession in tbe Duitea States From be ng an ad
junct to the practice of medicine —represented by a
pair of villanons tarn-keys tor removing teem in
sections, or pulverii ng the jaw, as the ease might
be —it hie r.sen within comparatively a few years
to a distinct calling, numbering huncreds of skiUtni)
practitioners hi ad parte of tee country, and repre
sented by colleges and societies ana periodicals, in
which tbe ills ot the month are tbe soie topic of in
vsstigation and discussion. Hardly any fact teila
more the refinement and civilisation of the age.
than the consumption of gold leaf and plate in the
United States for the preservation and renovation
ot teetu—amounting to about two and a quarter
mil ions ot dollars per annum. Latterly the use of
gi id for the planting of artificial teeth has been su
pereeoed in some quart-, rs by vulcanized rubber,
which is found o combine ligttnees and a pleasant
oi eiaetkvy with cleanliness and durability,—C/u-
Cago TnFune
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1859.
Letter from a Patriot and Htatesnian.
The following letter from Edward Bates, of
Mifleouii one of the ablest men the country has
ever produced, should be read by every man who
feels an interest in bis country’s welfare:
St. Louis, Thursday. Feb. 24, 1859.
To Messrs J. Philip Pha-nur, Willis Blocks!one, H.
E. Bhunger , David J. Liley, and H. R. Smith,
Committee , New York.
Sirs : A short time ago I was favored with your
note of the 7th iost., covering a resolution of the
Committee, to the effect that it is inexpedient at
this t me farther to discuss or agitate the Negro
quee’bn, but rather to taro the attention of the
people to o‘her topics—“topics of general im
portance, such as our Foreign Reis’ims, including
the Extern-ion of Territory; the building of Rail
roads for National purposes; the improvement of
our Harbors, the navi^aibnof our Rivers to facili
tate Internal Commerce; the subject of Currency,
and a Ta’iff of Duties, and other means of develop
ing oar own internal resources, our home wealth
and binding together by ties of national and frater
nal ‘ee.ings tbe various parts and sections of our
widely extended Repub ic.”
Your letter, gentlemen, opens a very wito field
in asking for my “opini >n upon the subject, and
my views as to tne signs of the times.” Books have
been written upon these matters and speeches de
livered by the thousand, and yet the argument !
“eeais as far from bting exhausted as it was at the
beginning; and I take it for certain that you do
not expect or desire me tc discuss at large all or
any of these interminable quarrels. That I have
opi i>ns upon ali or most of them is true —not the
opinions of this or that party, ready lo be abandon
ed or modified to suit this or that platform, but my
own opinions—perhaps the more fixed and harder
to be changed because deliberately formed in the
retirement of private life, free from tbe exigencies
of official responsibility and from the perturbations
of party policy. They are my own opinions, right
or wrong.
As to tbe Negro question—l hare always thought
end often declared in speed* aud in print that it is
a pestilent question, the agitation of which has
never done good to any party, section or class, and
never can do good, unless k be accounted gcod to
e ir up tLe angry passions of men and exasperate
the unreasonable jealousy of sections, and by thoje
bad means foist some unfit men intocffice and keep
some fi: men out; it is a sen c itive question, iut/>
whose dangerous vortex it is quite pos&iTie for good
men to be drawn unawa es. But wheal see a
man, at the South or the North, of mature age and
some experience, perei&t iu urging the question, af
ter the sorrowful experience of the last lew years,
1 can attribute his conduct to no higher motive
than personal ambi ion or sectional prejudice.
As to the power ot the General Government to
protect the persons and oroperties, and advance the
interest- of the people, by laying taxes, raising ar
mies and navies, building forts and ersenaio, light
houses, moles, and breakwaters, surveying the
coat and adjacent stas, improving rivers, akes,
and harbors, and making roads—l should be very
sorry to doubt the existence of the power, <>r tb
duty to exercise it, whenever the coustitut- and au
thorities have the means in their hands, aud are
convinced that its exiexcise is necessary to protect
the country and advance the prosperity of the peo-
pe /
In my own opinion, a government that has no
power to protect the harbors of its country t gainst
winds and waves and human enemies, nor its rivers
against tnag*, sands and rocks, nor to build roads
foi n-6 tra* spun-itiou of its armies and its mails
and the commerce ot its people, is a poor, impotent
government, and not at all such a government aa
our fathsrs thought they had made when they pro
duced the Cons nation which was greeted by intel*
1 gent men every where with admiration and grati
tude as a government free enough for all the ends
of legal liberty, and strong enough for all pur
poses of national and individual projection, A
free people, if it be wise, will make a good Consti
tution ; but a Constitution, however good in itself,
did never make a free people. The people do not
derive their rights from the Government, but the
Government derives it& powers from the people;
and tht se powers are granted for the maiu, if not
he only, purpt se ot protecting the rights of the
people Prelection, then, if not th£ sole, is the chief
end of government.
And it s for the governing power to judge, in
every instance, what kind ul<l what degree ot pro
tection is needful—whether a navy to guard cur
commerce all around the world, or an army to de
feud the country against armed invasion from with
out, or domestic invasion from within; or a tariff
to protect our home industry against the dangerous
obtrusion of foreign labor and capital.
Oi the existence of the power and duty of the
Government to protect the people in their persons,
their property, their industry, and their locomotion,
I have no doubt, but the tune, the mode, andmea
sura of protection, being always questions of policy
and prudence, must ot necessity oe lelt to the wis
dom and patriotism of these whose duty it i3 to
make laws for the good government of the country.
And with them I freely leave it as tbe the safest,
and, indeed, the only, constitutional depository of
tho power.
Ab to our foreign policy generally, I have but
little to say. lam not much of a progressive, and
am content to leave it where Washington placed it,
upon that wise, virtuous, safe maxim—“ Peace with
a:l rations; entangling alliance with none.” The
greedy and indiscriminate appetite for foreign ac
quisition, which makes us covet our neighbors’
lands, and devise cunning schemes to get them, has
little of my sympathy. 1 view it as a sort of politi
cal gluttony, as dangerous to our body politic as
gluttony is to the natural man—producing disease
certainly, hastening death, probably. These of our
politicians who are afflicted with this morbid appe
tite are wont to cite the purchase of Louisiana and
Florida, a? giving countenance to their inordinate
desires. But the cases are wholly unlike in almost
every particular. Louisiana was indispensable to
our full and safe enjoyment cf aa immense region
which was already owned, and its acquisition gave
us the unquestioned control of that noble system of
Miasisoippi waters, which nature seepas to have
made to be one aud indivisible, and rounded eff the
map of the nation into one uniform and compacted
whole. Nothing remained to mar and disfigure our
national plat but Florida, and that waß desirable,
less for its intrinsic value than because it would
form a dangerous means of annoyanee, in case of
war with a maritime power, surrounded, aa it is, on
three Bides by the ocean, and touching three of our
present Slates, with no barrier between. The pop
ulation of Louisiana and Florida, when acquired,
was very small compared with the largeness of the
territory ; and, lying in contact with tho States,
was easily and quickly absorbed into aud assimila
ted with tbe mass of our people. Tho3o countries
were acquired, moreover, in the moat peaceful and
friendly manner, and for a satisfactory considera
tion.
Now, without any right or necessity, it is bard to
tell what we do nut claim in ail the continent south
ct us, and tho adjacent islands. Cuba is to be the
first fruit of our grasping enterprise, and that is to
be gotton at ali hazards, by peaceful purchase if
we can, by war aud conquest if we must. But
Cuba is only an out-polt to tee Empire of Islands
and continental countries that are to follow. A
leading Senator has lately declared (in debate on
the thirty-million bill) that we must not only have
Cuba, but ail the Islands from Cape Florida to the
Spanish Main, eo as to surround the Gulf of Mexico
and Carribean Sea, and make them our “mare clau
sum,'’ like the Mediterranean, iu old times, when
the lion an Emperor ruled both its shores, from the
piilar3 of Hercules to the Hellespont. Thi& claim of
mare nostrum implies, of course, that we must own
the continent that bounds our sea on the West, aa
well a* the string of Islands that inclose it on the
Eat—that is, Mexico, Central Amerie a and all
South America, so far Sjuth atleastaa tbe Orinoco.
In that wide'compass of sea aud land there are a
good many native Governments, and Provinces
belonging to the strongest maritime powers, and a
narrow continental isthmus which we ourselves, as
well as England aud France, are wont to call the
highway of nations. To fulfil the grand conception
and perfect our tropical empire, we must buy or
conquer al! theso torrid countries, and their mon
grel popula'ions. As to buying them, it strikes me
we had better wai: awhile, at least until the Gov
ernment has ceased to borrow money to pay its
current expenses. And as to conquering them,
perhaps it would be prudent to pause and make
some estimate of costs and contingencies, before
we rush into war with all maritime Europe and half
America.
I am uot one of those who believe that the United
States is not an independent and safe nation, be
cause Cuba is not a part of it. Ou the contrary, I
believe we are quite capable of self-detence, even
if the Queen of trie Antilles were a province of Eng
land, France or Russia; and surely, while it re
mains an appendage of a comparatively feeble na
tion, Cuba has much more cause to fear us than we
have *o fear Cuba. In fact, gentlemen, I cannot
heipduuiting the honesty of the cowardly argument,
by which we are urged to rob poor old Spain of
this In'’ remnant of her Western ernp’re, for fear
that she might use it to rob us.
Bat suppose we could get honestly and peacea
bly, the whole of the country—continental and in
sular—from the Rio Grande to tne Orinoco, and
from Trinidad to Cuba, and thus establish our
mare clausum, and shut the gate of the world
across the Isthmus, can we govern the n wisely and
well! For the last few years in the attempt to go
vern our home Territories of Kansas and Utah, we
have not. very well maintained the dignity and
j istice of the na- ; oii. nor secured the peace and
prosperity of the subject people. Can we b->pe to
do belter wi ll the various mixed races of Mexico.
Central and South America, and the West Icaia
lul .nits 1 Some of those countries have been try
ing for fifty years to establish republican govern
ments on our model, but. in every instance have
miserably failed; and yet there was no obstacle to
complete success but their own inaptitude.
For my part, 1 should grieve to see my country
become, like Rome, a conquering and dominant
nation—for I think there are few or no examples in
history of governments whoso chief objects were
glory and power, which did ever secure the happi
ness and prosperity of their own people. Such go
vernments may grow great and famous, and ad
vance a few of their citizf ns to wealth and nobility;
but the price of their grandeur is the personal inde
pendence and individual freedom of their people.—
Still less am I inclined to see absorbed into our
system, “on an equal footing with the original
States,’’ the various and mixed races (amounting to
I know not how many millions) which inhabit the
c nlinent and islands south of our present border.
I am cot willing to inoculate our body politic with
the virus of their diseases, political and social—
diseases which with them are chronic and heredi
tary, and with ns could hardly faii to produce cor
ruption in the head and weakness in the u embers.
Our own country, as it is. in position, orm and
size, is a wonder which proclaims a wisdom above
the wit of man. Large enough for our posterity for
centuries to come. Ail in the temperate zone, and
therefore capable of a homogeneous population,
yet so diversified in climates and soils as to pro
duce everything that is necessary to the comiort and
wealth of a great people. Bounded east and west
by great oceaDs. and bisected in the middle by a
mighty river which drains and iructifies the conti
nent. and binds together the most southern and
northern portions of our land by a bond stronger
than iron. Beeides all this, it ia new and growing
tbe strongest on the continent, with no. neighbor
whose power it fears, or of whose ambition it has
cause to be jealous. Surely such a country is great
enough and good enough for all the ends of honest
ambition and viituoue power.
It seems to me that an efficient, home-loving Gov
ernment, moderate and economical in its adminis
tration, peaceful in its objects and just to ali na
tions, need hs ve no fear of invasion at home, or se
rious aggression abroad. Tbe nations of Europe
have to stand continually in defence of their exis
tence, but the conquest of our country by a foreign
Power iaeimDly impossible, and no nation is so
abearb as to ec.ertain the thought. We may con
quer ourselves by local strife and sectional animosi
ties : and when, by our folly and wickedness, we
have accomplished that great calamity, there will
be none to pity ua for the consequences of so great
a crime.
If our Government would devote ail its energies
to the promotion of peace and friendship with ail
foreign countries, the advancement cf commerce,
the iiicrewse of agriculture, the growth aod stability
oi manufactures, and the cheapening, quickening
and securing the internal trade and travel of our
country in short, if it would devote itself in ear
nest to the establishment of a wise and ete&dy poli
cy of internal government, I tnink we should wit
ness a growth and consolidation of wealth and com
fort and power for good, which cannot be reasona
bly hoped tor from a fluctuating policy, always
watching for the turns of good fortune, or from a
grasping ambitioc to seize new territories, which
are hard to get and harder to govern.
The present position of the Administration is a
sorrowful commentary upon the broad democracy
of its professions. In theory, the people nave tbe
right and ability to do anything; in practice, we
are verging rapidly to the One-Man power.
| The Pre - dent, the ostensible be&d of the Nation
j a’ Democrats, is eagerly striving to concentrate
j power in his own canes, and thus to set aside both
tee People and their Representatives in the acual
affaus of government. Having emptied the Trea
sury, which be found fail, and living precariously
upon borrowed money, he now demands cf Con
giess tointrus’ to b’s unchecked discretion the War
power, the Pu se and the Sword. First, he asks
Congress to author zs him, by statute, to use the
Aimyto take military- possession of the Northern
Mexico, and ho'd ii under iiis protectorate, and as a
security for debts due to our citizen- —cnl poeses
eion would not answer, for that might exnose him.
as in the case of Kansas, to be annoyed by a fac
tious Congress ana a rebellions Territorial Legiala
ture.
Secondly—Not content with tr is, he demands the
power to use the army and navy ,n
the South ; also iu blocks'! r e tue coast and ma-ch
ing hie troops into the interior ol .Mexico and New
Granada to protect our citize. against ali evil
doors a’ong the transit routes oi Tehuantepec and
Pauama. And he and his supporters iu Congress
e.aim this enormous power upon the ground that,
in this particular at least, be ougb* to be the equal
of the greatest monarch of Europe. They forget that
our lathers limited the power of the. President by
design, and for the r>-a - :i th. t they had found out
by sad experience that the monarch* of Europe
were too strong for freedom.
Third—lu etrict pursuaneegof this doctrine, firet
pubi.ciy announced from Os end, he demands of
Congress to hand over to him $b0,0(i0,000 to be need
at h s discretion to facilitate the acquisition of Cuba.
Facilitate how f Perhaps it might be imprudent to
teU.
Add to all this the fact (as yet unexplained) that one
of the largtst navai armaments that aver sailed
from our coast is now operating in South America
ostensibly agairs! a po r tittle republic far up tho
Platte river to eettie some little quarrel between
the two Prts-dents. If Congress had been polite
enough to grant the President’s demand of the
sword and the pur e against Mexico, Central Ame
rica aud Cuba, this navy, its duty done at the
South, might be mode, on its way borne, to atrive
iu the Guii very opportunely to aid the “Comman
der-in-Chief” m the acquieui nos some very valu
able territory.
I ailude to these facts ith no malice against Mr.
Buchauan, bates evidence of t he dangerous change
which is now obviously srught to be made in the
practic .1 working of tne G o'er: meio—theconeea
tration of power iu ’he hands of the Pre. den - , aud
the dangerous policy, new almost established, of
looking abroad f. r temporary glory and aggrauiize
ment instead of lookuig at home, for ali the pur
poses of good government—peaceable, moderate,
economical, protecting ail iu'erests alike, and by
fixed policy, calling into safe exercise all the talents
and industry of our people, and thus steadily ad
vancing our country in everything which can make
a nation great, happy and permanent.
The rapid increase of the public expenditure, and
that, too, uadtr the ms.nageineut of statesmen pro
f-ssibg to be peculiarly economical, is an elararing
sign of corruption r.i and decay.
That increase bears n.r tair pr. portion to tire
growth aud expansion of the country, but looks
rather like wanton waste cr criminal neg ig.-ncc.
The ordinary objects of great expense are not ma
terially augmented— he army and navy remain on
a low peace establishment —the military defences
are little, if at all enlarged—the improvement of
harbors, lakes and rivers is abandoned, and the
Pacific railroad is not only not begun, but the very
location is scrambled tor by angry sections, which
succeed in noth ng but mutual defeat. In short,
the money to an error: onus •>; uut (l am told at the
rate ot $80,000,000 to $100,000,U ; )0 a year) is gone,
and we have in ie ornotbirg to show forit. In pro
found peace with foreign nations, and surrounded
with the proofs of national g owtii and individual
prosp-rity, the treasury, hr lee than two years cf
management, is made barer rep:, and tire Govern
ment i self is living from hand to moutu, on biils of
credit aud borrowed money
This humiliating state of things could hardly Ttap
pen if men iu power were both honest and whe.
The Democratic economists in G .ingress Confess
that they have recklessly wasted the public rev- nue;
they confess it by refusing to raise the tariff to
meet the presen: exgeuoy. oy insisting that
ttroy c .:: replenish the exhous'ed Treasury and
support rfae Government, in o-edit aud efficiency,
by simply striking off 'be.r form -r extr. vsg.moss.
An ilius:riouß predecessor oi thp Pr- sidnt is re
ported to have declared “that those who live on
borrowed money out to break'’ i do not concur in
that harsh saying; yet lam clearly cf opinion that
the Government, in common prudence, (to say
nothing of priu&and dignity,) ought to reserve it’s
credit for groat transactions and unforaeen emer
gencies. ill common times of peace, it ought al
ways to have an established revenue, equal at least,
to its current expense. And that reveuue ought to
be so levied as to h ster and protect the industry of
the counfry employed in oar most necessary and
important manufactures.
Gentlemen, I cannot touch upon all the topics
alluded to in your letter and resolution. I ought
rathsr to beg your pardon for the prolixity cf this
answer I speak tor no party, because ibe only
party I ever belonged to has ceased to exist a3 an
organized aud militant body.
And I speak for no man but myself.
1 am iu ly aware that my opinions and views of
public policy are of no importance to anybody but
me, and there is good reason to fear that some of
them are eo antiquated and out of fashion as to
make it very improbable that they will ever again
be put to the test of actual practice. Most res
pectfully, Eiivvakd Bateß.
A Melancholy Conclusion. —A young, beauti
ful aud talented, woman, named Louisa Reeder,
died in this city on the Gih of this month, from in
juries received by the explosion of a campbene
lamp. There is something in the history and fate
of this young woman, which is full of warning and
instruction to the young, giddy aud disripated of
her sex, especially of that cla.o of stage struck
damsels, who. without regard to (heir capacity and
talent, and relying upon the effeetsofpersonal beau
ty and a vivid imagination, force themselves into a
profession for which they are not adapted, and
where distinction can only be won by great devo
tion, labir and constant etth. . L, uu a few cases
their itrt.usions are due to a certs ll pruriency if
mind, an ungovernable desire for applause, a love
of intrigue and an impati -:r::e • , those healthy,
eccial restraints, in subjection to which women finds
her chief happiness aud her proper sphere o: use
fulness. These unguided and ill-uiscipliued females
bring discredit and shame upon au honorable pro
fession, aud usually terminate their careers by too
frequently illustrating on the world’s stage that vice
whose “ deformity’’ it ie one of the great aims of
Drama to bold up to scorn and detestation. The
unfortunate young woman, whose untimely decease
we have now to chronicle, was early drawn from
the sphere of life which she was admirably fitted to
adorn by this insane passion and these corrupting
influences, iuto one where even her high talents,
great endowments of mind and person, only served
to render more conspicuous her unfortunate choice
and her great fauite.
She was remarkably beautiful, graceful, witty apd
talented—wrote with a certain wild vigor and
earnestners, conversed wi'h aa inexhaustabie flow
of felicitous ideas and reckless wit; could demean
herself with dignity and modest propriety, end yet
put no bounds to her capricicusnees; her passion for
dress, display and admiration—her love of excite
ment. and the reckless disregard o f the wholesome
exactions which our society impos-s t-pon women,
were her undoing. Twice married, she soon wea
ried ot what, to her imagination seemed a common
place made of life, and contributed largoly to pre
cipitate the ruin of her husbands. One of them—
wiio, three yeais ago, entered upon the possession
and enjoyment of a handsome property, bequeath
ed to him by hie father, (an eminent physician) who
devoted a long fife to ‘ be accumulation of an estate,
which within a few months after his death was
squanderedin dissipation and vice—isnow an inmate
of the Penitentiary for a heinous crime.
But we need go no fur-.her with the details of a
career which has just cioied in so distressing and
yet impressive a manner. It is consoling to knew
that the poor woman’s last hours were soothed, the
bitter memories of an ill spent life, of misapplied
talents were assuaged by n nice repenitence ar.d the
consolations of religion. May her life, her fate, her
sorrowful end be a terror and a warning to all
young women who are induce- to abandon the walks
of domestic life aud yield to tbe allurements of dis
sipation and vice, to the appetite for display and
parade, the love of excitement, and the ambition
to command the homage of gross anu sensuous
minds—-V. O. Delta.
Important Arrest—An Extensive Forger
Caught —We glean from the Detroit Daily Ad
vertiser, of April 13th, some particulars as to the
arrest of a forger :
On tbe 30th of November last a man named R. S.
Monroe eold a draft to W. L. P. kittle, of Saginaw,
for s£oo. The draft wa- drawn by tbe Bunk of
Galena, Illinois, on the Market Bank of New York.
The draft was forwarded to New York, and credited
to Mr. Little. In due course of time it returned to
Galena and was then passed to tbe credit of the
New York correipondent by the Bank of Galena.
On the 16th of December Monroe negotiated anoth
er draft for the same bank on .the Market Bank, to
the Exchange Bank, of Auburn, New York, where
he formerly resided, and immediately Q.c-appeared,
no one knew whither. Th a draft, like the previous
one, went through the usual routine, was credited
to the Exchange Bink by the New Y fk 3aak,
and by the Bank of Galena to the Market Bank,
without any suspicion on the par s os any one
through whose Lancs it had pa~ced that ali was not
right.
r But in making their accounts or striking their
balances in January, the Galena Bank discovered
deficiency or discrepancy in their cash account,
amounting to nearly $1,600. Ot course they set
themselves about the agreeable duty to discover
where the trouble was, and upon comparing their
drafts the secret burst upon them. It turned out
that some weeks previously they had sold at differ
ent times two drafts of some ten dollars each. A
further scrutiny s’lowed that the ink in which the
original amount of the drafts was written had been
extracted by an iDgeaeous chemical process, and
eight huudred dollars substituted in its Mead. So
admirably had this been done that toe fraud had not
been suspected even by the Galena Bank them
selves, by whom they were originally drawn.
Immediately on this discovery the matter was
placed in the hands of private detective Champ,
and after long researches Monroe was taken at
Waupeca, Wisconsin, where be was residing, un
der the name of Hoyt. He was taken to Milwau
kie and recognized. By comparing notes it was
ascertained that Monroe had been carrying on bis
operations on an extensive scale throughout the
whole western country, and by the same process
we nave described above, tfiat is, by buying dratts
for ten coil ire or so, extricating the original amount
and filling in such gums as he thought sute, or ao his
plans required, and in every inst&m e with tne most
perfect success, and without exciting the least sus
picion. Amongst others, it was ascertained that he
had purchased a draft on the Bank o. Commerce,
New York, for $lO of I. H. Burr, of Chicago, on the
sth of April, lfcoS, then altered it to SSOO andl wild
it to the Prairie du Chien Bank ; and on the 2d of
August he sold one altered in the same w-ay to the
Bank of Milwaukie, on the Ocean Bank of New
York. From the information obtained there ia no
doubt Monroe’s forgeries amount >n. eec ttou
sau i dollars at least; and as b . Aers do not like to
confess to having been defrauded no su x:ess*aliy,
as it ii an impeachment to tl ~ r shrewdness and
vigilance, the amount may muon exceea tnat gum.
He had married a respectable y.ung woman, who
was wholly ignorant of his character, and wuese
misery was completed on discovering that besides
being a forger he was al*° a bigamist, having •
wife and family in Indiana.
Later from Vesezuela—-Private advices
from Puerto Cgbelio, March 25t0, state that gov
ernment troops stationed at Panto, a snort distance
from that place, were surprised and attacked by the
revolutionary forces from Coro, uncer the command
of Gens. Zamora and 2i-o. The government
troops numbered about 400, and after a few hours’
fighting, during which about a dozen on each side
were either killed or wounded. They were dispersed
and took the road to Valencia in order to obtain re
inforcements. . ,
The revolutionary party, numbering about 400
men, retired upon Morow, a small village three
leagues the ther side cfPalito.
The government forces at Puerto Cabeuo num
ber about 300 men. and they expect reinforcement*
from Salguana and Coro deny The latter place is
in possession of the goverLment forces, and it is ex
pected they will eenu out troops to attack the revo
lutionists in the rear, while the troops from Puerto
Cabeilo, with reinforcements from Valencia and
the other places, wiii march against them. It
is expected that tne revolutionists will thus scon be
put down.
Business ia entirely paralyzed, and will remain so
until the affair is terminatea or removed to another
neighborhood.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BY THE EUROPA.
The Bfeamship Europe, from Liverpool on Satur
day, April 2i, arrived at New York on Monday
morning:
Grfat Britain—Dekeat of the Ministry
T:e proceedings in Parliament on the 30ih ultimo
was unimportant.
Oa the 31st the debate on the reform bill was re
sumed, aud the House of Commons presented a
scene of (Treat excitement, as it was generally be
.ieved that a vote would be taken on Lord John
Bussell's resolutions, Bill members were present
and the galleries were crowded. Sir Robert Peel,
Mr. Roebuck and others spske in opposition to the
bill, in favor of Lord John Russell's amendment,
and Mr. Disraeli wound up the debate with an
elaborate and impressive speech in defence of the
government scheme, and in denunciation of Lord
John Bussell's unprecedented course, which, he
claimed, prevented the discussion of the measure
on its merits, and jumped at once to the details. Mr.
1 (Israeli's remarks were listened to with great at
tention, and when he concluded the House divided
with the following resu't:
For the amendment 380
For the second reading of the bill S9l
Minority against the government 39
The announcement cf the vote was received with
vociferous cheers.
Tne resolution was then put as a substantive mo
tion, when Mr. Wyld moved an amendment to it
in favor of the ballot.
Alter tumultuous discus-ion, this proposition was
negatived by a vote ot 398 to 98, and the original
resolution of Lord John Russel was carried without
a division.
The House then, on motion of Mi - eraeii, ad
journed till Monday, the 4th.
Yaiiins speculations were tfleat in re , fi to the
course Ministers would adopt, out it wus - osed
that nothing dtfi iite would transpire until flia
inent re-assembled on the 4th.
The Morning Herald (Ministerial) remarksi
on taking office last year, Ministers were awai
that whenever their opponents thought tit to com
bine, they must be outnumbered. Under these
circumstances, the defeat can scarcely be coroider
eu important. Ministers possess the confidence
both ol Parliament and the country. Many of those
who supported this factious motion declared in ex
plicit terms that anything was preferable to tbe re
turn to powtr either of Lord John Russell cr Lord
Paimereton
Tue Daily News says that the pertinacity with
which tbe Ghanoelior cf the Exchequer defended
the bill would countenance the expectation that the
dissolution of Parliament or a resignation of Minis
ters was more likely than the intruduotion of anew
bid by the present government.
Latest.—ln tbe House o Lords on tbe Ist in
etant, Lord Stanley of Alderly asked whether any
j measures bad beeu taken to procure the admission
of .-alt from India iuto ihe CLiu se empire ?
Lsru Malmesbury Baui that no ioaituctions had
beeu given to iund Elgin ou the subject. Fmdiug,
however, that salt, still coatinued a contraband arti
cle in China, r cent instructions bad been sent out
for the puipoee of obtaining some remission of the
existing restrictions.
Lord Derby said that he trusted the House would
not consirue his silence as to the important division
Which had taken place in the House of Commons
into ludiiL-reuoe; on the contrary, he regarded that
division as a most ser,ous oeourreiioe. It had ren
dered il necessary for him to meet his colleagues at
ail early hour that morning, aud he had aiterward
had au audience ot Her Majesty. He had not re
ceived the sauction of Her Majesty to any coarse he
might advise. The present state of ass firs was so
eri.ical that he sliou'a beet consult the convenience
oi tiu ir i> rdsfiips aud the giavity of the occasion if
he postponed till Monday all further statements on
Ihe subject. On that day he hoped to lay before the
House what advice, in a crisis of such importance,
he and his colleagues had lelt it their duty to lay
before her Majesty, aud the course which, with her
Majesty's sanctum, they proposed to adopt.
The House then adjourned.
The British revenue retuius fer the quarter end
ing ’ au- 31, show a decrease ol jfißgo,ooo upon
Ui:. u irrespoudiug quarter of lasi, year, which is
moro lhau accounted tor by the reduction iu the in
come tax: The result ou the whole financial year
13 a nett dacveaie of £3,400,000. But tor the fall
ing (ff of nearly live millions in the income tax,
there wouU have been a positive increase in the
revenue of £2,500,000. The Customs returns show
an increase ou the year of fully £1,000,000.
The trial of fifteen persons cuarged with being
members of the Phoenix CJiub—au illegal society
commenced at Belfast on the 31st, and in Kerry tbe
second trial • f Daniel SuUivan (the jury being un
able to agree ou tiie first occasion) was again in
progress.
Serious riots had occurred in Galway on the oc
casion of a lecture by Signer Gavazzi. The lec
turer had to flee botore a mob of excited Roman
Catholics. A number of protestant clergymen and
others received severe treatment at the hands of
the mob.
Belfast, Friday night.—The jury in the sedition
trials are unable to agree upon a verdict, aud are
now locked up.
Tralee, Friday.—Daniel Sullivan has been
found guilty and sentenced to ten yeais’ penal ser
vitude.
A fearful explosion had taken place at Curtis &
Harvey's gunpowder works at Honslow, near Lon
don. Seven men were killed, and many more
were wounded.
The City of Baltimore brought out a late tele
gram b.nlly announcing that the Marquis of Wa
terford had been killed while hunting. The catas
trophy occurred near Carrick-on-Suir, Kilkenny.
The Marquis’ horse fell at a small fence, and he was
thrown with no great apparent violence upon his
head. He was found, howe rtr, to be unconscious,
and died iu about ten minutes. He left no issue,
aud is succeeded in his vast estates by his brother,
the XXev. Lord Jehu Bereeford.
The Congress on Italian Affairs.—A des
patch from Paris states that, according to reliable
intelligence, the Austrian government had refused
tbe piopooition that Baden should be the place of
meeting fur the proposed Congress. The French
government is said to have, consequently left the
choice of the town to Austria, reserving only the
condition that it must be in communication with
Paris by railway and telegraph.
Tho Dresden journals state that the five powers
may be regarded as having agreed to the prelimi
naries ot the Congrese; that the day of meeting
will pr ibably bo April 3'.)tb, but that the place of
meeting remains unsettled.
A dee patch from Paris, dated Friday the Ist
says'The followingis the present position of politi
cal affairs: Piedmont is not to be admitted into the
Congress as one of the great powers, Austria and
Russia having formally protested against her ad
mission on any otqer terms than those allowed to
the Italian states. The same two powers have also
demanded that Piedmont should not be suffered to
enter the Congress immediately on its commence
ment, and as a matter of course should only be per
mitted to take partin the deliberations when called
upon to do bo The preliminary conditions on
which Austria insists render it even doubtful wheth
er the Congress will be feasible, one of the conditions
being that Piedmont should disarm, which she pos
tiveiy refuses to do.
France. —The Paris letter writers were mainly
engrossed with speculations aa to Count Cavour’s
visit and its corsequanoee. He is reported to have
reached Paris full of doubt and misgivings, but af
ter his interview with the Emperor he became quite
buoyant, and according to rumor had declared that
he had then no apprehension of tbe future, and in
fact that he was “master of the situation.” Cavour
was believed to be bent ou war, and it was repor
ted that he would not leave Paris till the admission
of Piedmont to the Congress was settled one way
or the other.
The review of the army of Paris had been defi
nitely fixed for Sunday, the 3i April. All the regi
ments would be complete, every recruit having
been called in.
It is said that all officers in Paris on leave
of absence bad received orders to join their regi
ments.
The Paris Siecle suggests that the question of
war or peace should be submitted to the vote of
the nations. The following is its language:
“It would be very easy to ascertain whether the
real public opinion does not imperiously demand the
triumph of French interests over Austia interests.
Let an appeal be made to the nation; let, for in
stance, the Legislative Corps be dissolved and it
would be seen, provided the electoral field were left
free, that not a deputy would be elected without
having made a clear and candid profession of faith
in favor ol Italy against Austria. Or let a plebisci
tum be submitted to the French people—who, after
all, is sovereign—to ascertain whether it desires that
Italy should he abaudoued; its reply would be unani
mous. It is our duty to prevent error from being
spread without contradiction. In the name of our
country we protest against those who seek to falsify
public opinion. The country is entirely in favor
of the emancipation of Italy and of the humiliation
of Austria. At the proper moment it would prove
this by its energy and sacrifices ; it would not con
tradict its entire history for the pleasure of a few
Bourse speculators, of a few religious fanatics, and
cl the tws or three survivors of the various systems
of policy to whioh France has successively been
subjected.”
‘The Italian refugees in Paris, by deputation,
comphrue tea 11. (Jhv. ur. end assured him of their
sympathy for his cats-. M. Cavour received the
deputation very graciously and assured them that
he was perfectly satisfied with the result of his visit
to Paris.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News
says that no twithstanding the accelerated and no
torious preparations for war, the French journals
have greatly moderated their tone, and that this has
been done on an invitation from the Minister of the
Interior.
The official monthly return of the price of wheat
throughout France shows the average to have bean
15£17 Jc. per hectolitre—being a decline of 6jC. on
the average of the previous month.
A second division of the army of Algeria was
shortly expected to arrive at Marseilles.
The Paris Bourse on the 30th and 31st was dull
and rather lower, but on the Ist it became excited
and firm at an advance of j per cent. The 3 per
cents closed at 68 50 for money and 68.45 for ac
count.
Count Cavour left Paris for Turin on the 30th,
March.
Prussia. —Advices from Berlin state that the
Prussian Government intends demanding from the
Chambers a credit of twelve millions of thalers for
increasing the navy and improving the defences of
the coasts of the Baltic and of the North sea.
Bcssia. —The Butsian soldierß on leave of ab
sence are all reported to have been recalled.
Turkey. —Constantinople journals confirm the
statement that 30 battalions of troops and 8G guns
had been dispatched to Shumla, and that another
division would follow. The Grand Vizier was very
ill and his reti-eiuent was expected.
India ash China. —The details of the news re
ceived by the mails from Calcutta of the 34th
February, and from Hong Kong to the 15th of
February, add little of interest to the telegraphic
accounts already published.
The D. S. frigate Germantown, and the steamers
Powhattan and Mississippi, were at Hong Kong.
In the exports of tea from China to the United
States there was an increase of 500,000 lbs. over
the tame date last year.
The financial embarrassment of the government
is the principal topio of news from India.
Hong Kong, February 15.—Lord Elgin arrived at
Hong Kong from Shangbae in his steam-yacht, the
Furious, on the 2d February, but departed next
day for Canton. His Excellency was to start trom
that place last night or this morning to make an ex
ploration, similar to that he has made of the Yang
tsse, of the Great West Biver, which, according
to the Chinese, can be ascended for a Song distance
in vessels of light draught. A number of troops
wi ! l go on this expedition—provisions will be taken
for three weeks. Six or seven gun boats will go up
towing flat-bottomed jocks,but it is doubtful wheth
er any attempt will be made to advance beyond
the point where gunboats become unserviceable,
ard the ascent might be continued in junks. Two
missionaries once ascended the Canton rivet near.y
to the borders of Kwang-si but otherwise it is un
known to Europeans except in the immediate neigh
borhood of the city and from Chinese accounts. It
is supposed that Lord Elgin intends to return to
Ssangh&e: and that he will accompany his brother
the Hon. Mr. Bruce, to Peking, but nothing cer
tain i3 known of his intentions. Until the British
embassy is established at Peking, it would be in
expedient either for his lcrdship, or any part of the
force now here, to depart.
S ,me shorter expeditions than that now contem
plated have continued to be made trom Canton.—
Ia: leak, Tai-fan, and others of the more important
ot the famous ninety-six villages, have been visited,
and proclamations have been distributed in them,
calling on the natives to lay aside ail animosity
against foreigners, and on the elders and gentry to
| see to the proper treatmen! of foreign visitors and
travellers. These proclamations were well receiv
ed ; and two gentlemen have already paid a private
visit to Fat-shan, and to Sue- hieing, where the
braves were routed, without any other protection
than that which travellers usually have.
Nothing has yet been published about the settle
ment of the site for the factories at Canton ; bu’
from the fact that the principal American bouse
has bugun to build cu the old rite, it is supposed
that that will bo, or has been, selected by l ord
Elgin, with aa extension probably to the West
ward:
In Hong Kcng and at Canton trade has hardly
yet recovered from the lull consequent on the
China new year; especially there has been l ltle
demand for imports. The expedition iu o thr
neighborhood of Canton have had the effect of as
soring the Chinese of tbe pacific intentions if the
Abies, aud of showing toe power of foreigners to
advance into the interior.
After a more than usually animated debate in
the Legislative Council, the Box-ring Praya ordi
nance was rejected by a majority of six to three
The steamer Five Brothers was wrecked in the
Cupchi passage cn the 28th ultimo, the Acmiraity
Chart and the China Pilot not having giveu sufii
ciei.t i. formation of the danger of the passage.
The export oi tea and silk for the season shows
the total quantity gone to date, 38,191,100 tbs.
tea, against 41,107,300 lbs. tee iast season, or a de
crease es 2,986,800 tbs. Os silk, the export amoant i
to 52,717 bales, against 48,428, or an Increase of
4,289. To Marseilles the export of silk amounts to
5.998 bates. The total exp, rt of tea to the Cubed
States amounts to 24 533,300 lbs.
Cochin China.—The accounts are to January
30th. The French Admiral had proceeded with the
flotilla to commence operations in the South, and it
was said that he intended to attack Saigau, a town
which is regarded as the granary of the country, on
account es the large trade in rice carried on from
it to China. Hene was to be btsieged as soon as
the expected reinforcements arrived.
Latest by Telegraph from London to Liverpool.
London, April 2,1859.
The Political Crisis —The Timc’t says that it
was stated last night, that in a very high quarter
re existed a very strong teeling that a general
■on was tne proper solution ct the ;. di-’u ty.
X i nlea may be, it continues, that th Parlia
ment wn'ch refoims itself should be e.ecl-i lor the
express purpose, and that so great a response iity
should be thrown on the constituent body ;In ma
far the present House has shown itself quite t, com
petent to discuss and settle the question i..; my
other House that might be returned.
A general election is always an evil. It wil la
great evil now, without a necessity, without a .. a
sou, with hardly a pretence. It is stated, inde i,
that giving way apparently to resentment. Minis
ters are resolved to stand their ground til pi a.- u m
a minority on a direct question of confidence, and
iu that case lo appeal to the people. Iu other v ords
that they will not resign without a dissolution.
The Daily News say s that a meeting ot Lord Der
by’s supporters has been summoned lor one o’clock
to-day, (April 2) It conjectures that her Maj s y
must have assigned some speoial ground for hesita
ting to accept the resignation ol Min s’ers, as there
are probably tew things which the Court is less dis
posed to view with tavor than a dissolution of Par
iiament ou any real party que. iion.
The Daily News asks’it Loid Derby is prepared
to tell his followers, that on the morrow ot li:o defeat
he placed his resignation iu tbe hands of her Majes
ty ; that lor reasons he will iu due time disolose, he
has consented to resume the reigns of power; but
that to do so with dignity he must have the assur
ance from them, that Ihey would support him in a
second attempt to legislate on the suojectof reform,
with a view to whic • certain modifications of ihe
existiug cabinet will be indispensable ; aud finally,
should he be again intercepted, he is prepared at
once to appeal to the country.
The morning Post thinks it probable that Lord
Derby has not yet resigned office, arid equally
probable that if he has suggested a dissolution to
the Queen, his proposition has been deemed unde
sirable iu the present state cf affairs.
The l\>st says it will not be surprised if tho noble
lord makes an appeal to biß par y to cot tinue th ir
support to him, and it he dee us the critical - .-e ot
Europe a euffi lent justification tor not hastily re
linquishing office.
Ihe Morning Star thinks it is scarcely possible,
alter Disraeli’s speech, that the present govern
ment would undertake another reform bill, framed
so as to satisfy the conditions of Lord John Rus
sell’s resolution. Unless the House be contented
to take the course of supporting a government with
out any reform at all, it cannot see that retention
of office is possible for the present ministers. The
members of the Charlton Club are said to bava
already declared against a dissolution, and it may
be perhaps upon this point that the views ol the
conservative members are to be consulted.
The Herald dwells with gratification oa the fact,
that against the various factions ranged for a tew
hours under one banner, the conservatives ou Thurs
day night mustered in the division 301, including
tellers aud pairs, while half a dozen leaders, includ
ing politicians of every hue, by dint of extraordina
ry efforts, only managed to bring into the field a
majority of 39 over a single party.
More than one journal states that her Majesty has
sent lor the Marquis of L nsdowut to advise her s
to what course she ought to adopt.
From the City Article of the Daily News.
Friday Evening, April I.—The market opened
this morning at a fractional reduction, but purchas
es quickly followed, leading to a rise of i per cent.
Toward the close of business the market was less
buoyant, but theclo.-ing quotations ot Consols
were still about 116 per cent better than those of
yesterday.
Iu other departments of the stock exchange con
siderable steadiness continues to prevail, but there
arc many complaints of the inactivity of business.
The demand for money to-day was active at the
bank minimum rate aud the applications at the es
tablishment were large.
To morrow is the last day for the payment of one
million pounds on the East Indian railway deben
tures.
The amount of the mercantile engagements ma
turiug on the 4th is likewise large, a sustained do
mand is consequently looked for during the next
two or three days. Owing to the recent arrivals
there were no further withdrawals of gold from the
Bank to-day.
Anti-Slavery Excitement in Texas.
We perceive by the Bonham (Fanninei county,
Texas.) Independent, that a public meeting was re
cently held there to take into consideration certain
developments that have lately come to light in that
section, with reference to Abolitionism. It appears
that there is a society of the “Methodist Episcopal
Church North” in that section, and that the uphol
dera and members of it are inimical to slavery, and
avow their design of extirpating it. It appears
further that there are several ministers, and a Con
ference of them, which at the time of the indigna
tion meeting was in session at Timber Creek. A
committee of fifty was appointed to wait on the
Conference and warn the members not to prosecute
further tbe business of the Conference. It is stated
that Bishop Jayne presided. The Committee
waited on the Conference, and S. A. Roberts read
the proceedings of the meeting to the Bishop and
ministers. The Committee and those who wont,
with them, some two hundred, were altogether cour
teous to the Conference. Two annual t’ -nferences,
it seems, have been held, and at the late
lutions in opposition to slavery w< re oil’e i ueo reso-
Tbe Committee reported to asubsequer meeting
at Bonham, and resolutions were adopted i .ue
effect that the upholders of the Society’,,iv. cento
to propagate anti-slavery, doctrines either publicly
or privately, that all Bishops and ministers of rit
or any eitmlar Society must immediately lea v nd
never return; and that if any of the members can
not act up to the spirit of the resolutions t! y
must leave the country, or make preparation t< o
eo within sixty days. A Vigilance Committee is
appointed to see that the resolutions were complied
with, and in case of non-compliance, to snforue
them by Lynch law. What course was adopted
by the Conference is not stated.
The meetings of the citizens of Bonham opposed
to the Conference appear to have been conducted
with moderation, while a firm determination was
evinced to protect themselves from the influences
refered to. Tho first resolution deplored the
necessity which impelled them to adopt this course
of action.
We are greatly surprised to learn that an anti
slavery annual Conference exists in Texas. A Con
ference embraces several churches and a number of
ministers.— N. O. Bullatin.
A Colored Servant of Gen. Washington
Living in Champaign Cos., Ohio, at the Age
of 112 Years. —vv e are indebted to T 8. McFar
land, EBq., of Urbana, Ohio, for the fol owing highly
interesting facts, which are also substantiated by
another gentleman from the same place.— Cin. Gaz.
Editors Gazette : There is living in Concord
township, Champaign co , Ohio, a remarkable colo
red man named Richard Stanhope, now in his one
hundred and twelfth year. He is very active, both
in mind and body, for a man of bis years. His head
is as white as wool, and with the exception of a
slight defect in his hearing, he retains to a surprising
degree the use of all his mental and physical facul
ties. He was born the first day of March, 1748, in
Fredericksburg, Va, and is beyond doub‘, one of
Gm. Washington's servants, as he has in his pcs
Bsß>ioo a c-i lfica'e m Wa-hington’s own h-c .
writing. He w s w.th hie mast r in several of the
battles of the Revolu ion, and shows honorable soars
received in the bloody conflicts of that day He
was also in the army at the last war with Great
Britain, at the time of Hull's surrender. He was
at the time of the surrender driving a team, and
when ordered to drive to a certain point, positive
lysaid he would not, bu unhitched bis caddie horse
and made his way back to this country. He is now
living with hip third wife who is eighty years old.—
He is the father of twenty eight children, most of
whom are cow living. Stanhope has been a citizen
of Champaign county for forty-eight years, and has
always sustained the character of an honest man
and a good citizen. He has been a member of ttie
Baptist church eighty-eight years.
T. S. McFarland.
Urbana, 0., March 14,1859.
Story of a Dog. —We have a good dog story
for the commencement of the season. Tewee, who
keeps a restaurant on William street, has a large
Newfoundland dog, a finer specimen of his kind
than is ordinarily met with. Among tie other
wondeiful marks of intelligence, we witnessed ti
a day or two ago. A gentleman entered the restau
rant holding by a cord a deg which served as watch
on board a ship. While in the place, the gentle
man supposed the dog wss sate, and released bis
hold upon the string. The door was opened while
the parties were in conversation, and the dog made
his escape. Mr Tewe? said to his Newfoundland,
“Go bring him back, sir.” The dog obeyed the
mandate, and within a block or two overtook the
fugitive. He first proceeded to give the object of
his charge a slight reprimand for delinquency, by
means of a smart shake or two, and then took the
rope in his mouth to lead the dog back to his mas
ter. Some bolding back was manifested, the string
was dropped and another shaking was administer
ed. Finally, by alternate chastisements and pull
ings at the cerd, the runaway dog was brought into
the restaurant, and Newfoundland, wub a e!y wink
to his master, seemed to say, “ there he is.” The
scene was witnessed by many, and created co little
excitement. Taken an in aii, we think it is abi at
as good a dog story an usually finds its way into the
papers, and has the advantage of being true, too.
— N. y. News.
Burning to Death— How to Prevent It. —
Scarcely a week passes in which we do not see an
account of some female burnt to death by the catch
ing on fir scf her clothing. Much of the Ganger and
fatality of this might be prevented by the exercise
of a littie presence ot mind and courage If they
would immediately lie down, the clothing would
burn much less rapidly, and the flames would not
ascend to the body and face. If pareots will im
press upon their children the importance cf this,
and females will accustom themselves to talk and
to think of it as the best remedy, they would, in
stead of missing, adopt it at once, because it would
occur to them as the best plan, and it would save
many a life.
Tuerefore, let parents talk to their children about
it; let women generally tala am; think about it,
and become accustomea to think of it as the only
plan of safety upon such occasion-:, and they will
instinctively adopt it.— Corner Stone.
“Publication of Crime. ’—Under this bead
the Newberry Conservatist has a paragraph ap
proving the course of the Due We, Telescope it
excluding from its columns the o tmled record ol
crimes. We join with these excellent journals >u
doubting the rigateousness of ucu publications,
and commend to the profession th a senrim -< x
preesedby the Conservatist.— Edgefield .. .-its r.
VOL. LXXIII.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXIII NO. 17.
\ , Sninll Pox on the limit.ihoochec.
We have heard soino verbal reports of the
spread ot the Small-Box on the Chattahoochee ri
ver below ua, and one of them represented the dis
ease to have extended furthei up the river than
any newspaper report we have yet seen. But as
such statements are often exaggerations, we shall
not at present make any more paificular report of
them.
The Abli-vil'e (Ala.) Advertiser, of the 14th in
stant, speaks of the disease as confinedto the neigh
borhood of Columbia, Uenry county, Ala., on the
Chattahoochee rivvr, but says that the excitement
in relation tn it “prevails in the counties of Hen
ry and Dale” It has the written statements of
physicians of Columbia, who pronounce it not small
pox, buc van loid; an i one of thorn adds that it
has not proved fatal, and he does not consider it
dangerous. The Advertiser adds that it is ou both
sides ot tho river, and it estima’es the number ot
cases, from first to last, to be between forty and six
ty. bu’ says tlut of the la r ge number not one ha 1
terminated fatally. Dr. Flake, in the same paper,
says ot thecharac.er of the disease : “ It is too se
vere to be varicelta or chicken pox, and not fatal
or severe enough to be dignified with the name ot
variola or small pox in its malignant form; I name
it varioloid.”
On the other hand, the Cuthbert Reporter, cf •
15th, had learned that “several deaths had occurred
among whom was the boy who first contracted the
disease.’ ’ It reports several cases on plantations
iu Clay and Early oountms, Ga Abbeville is near
e>- Columbus than Cuthberth. —Columbus Fnquircr
18 th inst.
From the Abbeville (Ala.) Advertiser , Evtra.
Small Pox in Columbia, Alabama-
J. B. Taylor, Eq.—Dear Sir: E ieb sed you
will find a statement of the cases of whites in Cos
lumbia, with Small Pox, fixed up in a hurry. There
are also several negroes down with it—none of
them are dead. All the families of Columbia and
other persons havo left town, and are in camps, ex
cept nurses, doctors and druggists.
AU communication have been cut off from Co
lumbia. Yours,
B. L. McCarter.
Below is the statement of the oases of Small Pox
in Columbia, Henry comity, Alabama, bvB.L.
McCarter:
No. Names. How Long.
CL iid of J. B. Irwin 40 days.
3. S. L Solomon 15 “
4. VS. Solomon 12 “
5. ( illio Solomon 15 “
6 Fraukiia Solomon 8 “
7 Marv Solomon 4 “
8 Sal'ie Solomon 3 “
9 Imogens Price 16 “
It). Mrs. E. Price 5 “
IL luiantof Mrs Price 4 “
12. Mri. Hughes 20 ‘
13 Chi dos Dr Hays 8 “
14. A A Tumips m 15 “
15 Reuben Allrion 12 “
Persons well—Children of J.B Irwin. No better:
S. L. Solomon, Imogene Price. Little better: Lude
S. Solomon, Callie Solomon, Franklin Solomon. Not
muoh sick : Mrs Price, infant of Mre. Price Get
ting well: Mrs Haght s Better : child of Dr. Hays.
Getting well. A. A. Thompson.
Names of persons remaining m Columbia: N.F.
Oak! y, G. B. Stringer and S J. Lewis, Commit
tee; B. L. McCarter, M. A Rutherford aud ,1 A.
Coe, Guards; B. C. Flake. E. J. Hays and W. J.
Cock, Physicians. Tki*is a null town.
Columuia, Ala , April 16 1859
Dr. Gillespie: The diae-sa here is constantly
growing mure violent and showing itself to be, be
youd all doubt, Small Pox. I ca'.ied it Varioloid at
the start, when in its inoipiancy, and then clothed it
iu as mild as my belief of the disease would allow
me. The reason that none have died, is that the
stage in which they die ie just i ow coming ou with
the first cases. Yours, in haste,
B. C. Flake.
The town of Abbeville is under Q larantine, and
s Cautionary Committee has been appointed to
take ali necessary 8 eps to prevent the dis as* from
being commuir.caleil here There is no ease o’
Smail Pox iu Abbeville uptohs -im*. B tor
the <ruth ol tho aoove statem. m, we pledge Our
honors and ohm -o er ior vera i v.
A d we further pledge our word and bonoi as
gentlemen, that if there should b 9 a cause here, we
will immediately give notice to the surrounding
country by runners, and also by an extra from tho
Advertiser office.
Win. A Clarke,
John B Taylor,
James A. Ci-endinen,
Wm 0 Oa-is,
H. E. Oivens,
A C Gordon,
E. Kennedy.
I’. S.—The Committee of Safety request all per
ons from the infected region not to come to Abbe
ville, as they have placed out Guards, and imone
will be allowed to enter the town from that direc
tion.
Latest.
Columbia, Henry co., Ala., April 18.—Our friend
M . Allison, is better. We have some twenty ca
ms of small pox in the village. R. L. Butt.
Correspondence of the Columbus Enquirer,
Tlic Small Pox in Columbia, Ain.
Fort Gaines, April 19,185f1,
At the request of several citizens of this place, I
write yon, to give all the information in our power
relative to the Small Pox said to be prevalent ai
Columbia, Ala , aud its vicinity. We have no
doubt, from ihe best evidence we can get, that Ihe
disease is Small Pux, but so far it has been entire
ly confined to Columbia and its immediate vicini
ty. The authorities of Henry County and Cay are
using every means in their power to prevent it
spreading, and we learn that in Early they are do
ing theßaine. The have placed out vigilant guards
in every direction to stop all passing from neigh
borhood to neighborhood. We see it copied in the
Ei quirer, from the Cuthbert Reporter, that there
are several cises on plantations in Clay and Early
counties. The Reporter’s authority is mccreoi;
there is no ca e iu C ay, nor but at one place in
Early, that we can hear of (and even the report ot
that .s doubtful). It .s rumored Hi t a ease lias
broken out in Early, a little below umbia, on a
plantation, but of this we have no r ositivo evi
dence; there ceitainly is no caße in Clay; yet we
think the Reporter should not have p Wished such
a statement without being better posted. Reports,
no douut, are spreading in every direction, that
are groundless, about ihe disease; but up to Batnr
day last no death had occurred, as you will per
oeive from the enclosed report ot the Abbeville Ad
vertiser. Since that time report says that one of
the afflicted parties has died, but of th t there iB no
certainty
Our Inferior Court in Clay is the onlv power
that can lawfully do anything towards preventing
the disease in the county, and they are doing their
duty, aud will, should tho disease n-aoh this coun
ty, give duo notice of the same through s -me pu i
lia journal, as well as by other mtans It is twenty
five miles from this place to Columbia.
Will you do us the favor to give the above pub
-1 city, that no unnecceesay alarm may prevail in
the oomnrunity 1 If any case should occur in Clay,
you shall be no: died of it, but we hope to be able
to prevent it.
Yours truly, Jno. H. Jones.
Fort Gaines, Ga., April 19, 1859.
Mr. Editor We have had some o,<ol weather
lately, and a frost last Sunday night, which, I am
happe to say, affected cotton or corn but very
little, ”ot enough to kill it or seriously injure it.
“heis is some excitement in our community on
ac. cunt of the prevalence of Small Pox in Ala
bam? about twenty-five miles from here. I see
from uur paper this morning, that the Cuthbert
Rsoorter reports several cases in this (Clay) county
and ir E irly county. I have made diligent inqui
ry auo can learn of no caee in either of said coun
ties Our county is now under quarantine, and
every me :3nre that tbe law allows is being taken
to prevent its introduction amongst us. The citi
zens oi Henry county, Ala., are using every effort
to prevent its spread. On *he 16th iust no deaths
had resulted from it in Alabama, but tbe disease
had assumed a very malignant foim. This is from
the report of an attending physician, Dr. Fiake.
Yours respectfully, Flemino Law.
Don’t Touch My Di.o—A lady of this city, the
wife of a gentleman not unknown in the literary
world, a few days since was passing along one of
our most publie s reets, leaning by a ribbon a little
lap-dog of the terrier breed The little animal is a
perfect soecimen of in- kind, black and tan, and
shone as if he were polished with the best gutta
percha blacking. Now it so happened that an un
lortunate individual came in contact with this ii .tie
pet and his mis rees, and in a moment of thought
less excitement, he gave littie black and tan a kick
The moment this happened, with the entire eucour
agement of the lady, the dog “sailed in,” or rather
jumped in, for, with the spirit of a little fiend be
sprang at the gentleman s throat, and then at biß
legs, the unfortunate fellow meanwhile baoaing out
and retreating, the very picture of terror, crying
the while, “Madam, for Heaven’s sake call off thai
dog!” The lady Lad no idea of interfering, and
told the suppliant so; stating, very calmly, that as
he had gone out of the way to assault her pet,
he might take the consequences Pile with fear,
and v.-rc-me woh n-i r< “csti.>n, the gendemai
backed down litre- whole si/uares iiculg hi c in >-
aorta of gyraUuLS !o .v- rt being bin. n by th- n
iuriatcii terrier, who barked away at rhe human a
if he Were a gigantic rat. At last the gentieuiao
absolutely alarmed for hie safely, retrea ed iu’o >
house and shut the front door. The game having
escaped, the lady found that the ribbon which origi
naliy held her dog had been lost, eo she seized the
collar around his neck and led him from the scene
of battle, drawing the hero aloi g on his hind legs
In this way she progressed two rquares, when per
broke away and dashed of down the street, and
Bprung full tilt at the door which awhile before had
shat from view his enemy. With great difficulty
the lady got her guardian tolerable peaceful, and
took him home—well assured that the transgressor
will remember as long as he lives the imprudence
of hitting a lady’s dog.— N. Y. Spirit of the Times.
Rev. C. H Spurgeon again Invited to Visit
America. —We elated a !ew weeks ago that Mr
Spurgeon had decline to visit America, lest in the
public mind he should be connected with the perso
nal, financial and secta ian schemes of indivi luals
who had sought to use him for their own puiposee
The number of sermons proposed to be preached
was to be very limited, and the sum to be charged
for admission was to be two guineas each person,
so ha* the scarcity of the preacher wonld eaua
the money to be paid willingly to hear him Mr.
Spurgeon having discovered that it wes purely a
speculation to make money out if his popularity,
declined to accept the terms offered. We have
now heard, from reliable sources, that a document
signed by respoD- ible gentlemen of various denomi
nations n New York, has been forwarded to Mr
Spurgeon, urging him to make bis de igion, and
guaranteeing him against the petty annoyan es to
which be refers B-liaole arrangement* have beeu
made by the American Congregational Union to
give him a cordial welcome at the meeting which
they hold on the 12th if May Should Mr. Spur
geon decide on a transactions trip it will probably
take piaoe during ti e ensuing summer, Biuee he is
to ! y the f unda ion stone of his new tabernacle
in May One year will be required to complete it.
If is therefore, probable he will not be able to leave
in time to attend the Amari-an Congregational
Union.— London Star , March 28.
Pike’s Peak.— The ev.de, ce that the wonderfu
stories told of the Pike Peak gold diggings are fic
ticious grows stronger every day, and ibere is little
doubt but the glowing and eeductive account of the
gii'tering treasure to be found tbere, are gotten up
and circulated by parties who have a direct inter
est in inducing emigration thither. Fortunately we
sometimes get a true statement of facts respecting
the condition ot affairs. In the last Kansas City
Journal of Commerce, there is publisned a letter
from the late May of Nebraska City, in which
P ke’s Peak gold mines are empuatically de
aounced a- a humbug, and the friends cf the writer
are earnestly advised to Btay away from them. He
says that hie company “have found the best quali
ty yet discovered, and cannot make one dollar per
day ” The letter, which is a private one, concludes
E3 follows : . , ,
“We were quite surprised a few days spice when
we read the gold accounts in the Missouri river pa
peis, of what the miners are doing out here. I
pronounce them a pack of lies, written and repor
ted by a set of petty one horse speculators, and are
calculated to ruin many a poor devil besides your
humble servant. That there may be gold disoov
ed to pay, I will not deny—hope it will. lam
here and may as well stay tilt satisfied. Should any
th sg turn up, I will inform you.”
I.etrrr from Gov. Wise.
Hichmond, Va., J-u. 3J, 18W
To Hon David Hubbard :
My Deer e!ir V a ray, in jour last address U>
mo -my ■ n.-o • Uni.” Way not fri. nd nmr as ever
it-iie ‘ 1- is a s-jii solace 01 mine ilia 1 never lo3t h.
friend wot-, and never woa an enem by any
fault of mine tor which 1 can reproach myself 1
hope that you don’t reproach mo with having for
tailed your esteem in the least degree. 1 vegr.o
that the lapse of time and distance have removed
us so far apart that we have not bad the oppor m .
ty of m re requmt interebaujp ot personal n.tcu
tion. but I hope that rhe reg tfd or respect of ne;th3\
for the other bag diminißbed. 0 . n,
I Hn sorry .o oft informed “that the South, is no„
a Widow P A Widow 16 a forlorn n;I a,
maud* *1! my sympathy. It w true that 1 tm a
married man already and can’t tender the a y
weeds ’my ‘true a-td gallant” devotion as a vs
hand ” And were lin a state of single bleaseau ■■
it would still be a a-nst nature for me to tender m..
hand to the South m holy wedlock, tor I claim to ‘
born of her womb and to be as loyal a son es
sucked the milk of his mother, and to be ready to
protect her in weal or wot* against every enemy anu
every evil according to the best ability with which
God and her nursing have endowed me. protect be. .
Ay, it 1 do not, may my right hand forget its cunning •
From what ? From AboUtionsts and Protectionism,
ami Lund Jobbers and Treasury Robbers i Y e8 >
I always tried to do, much to my own coat. And
trom the Treachery of Sons of her own, ai:d trom
the folly of her sincere friends, too, I mean to try to
protect her, as I have tried ot late in vatu. I would
protect her from the authors oj Kansas-Nehrasfca
hills—irom the Freeeoilwm of liaoger amendments
—from the effects of repealing laws, establishing
and promoting S.avery in Territories from Inc
false protection of non intervention , withdrawing
ail pretenti-n to protect all peisons and property
equally and alike on the common.* err itory otjoin*
settlement—trom Ltcompton policy that baa not
the wisdom even ot Esop s Cock in the table trom
the Compromise of E glish bills which stripped us
of every particle ot prestage we lmd left trom
wickedntSi of force and fraud, and the wily ot n
minority attempting to establish a ruio ot * fas an
nfas''in the tacecf au unscrupulous majority—*
We were strong on the ground ot equality. “ c
relinquished that in att mptiog to assume more
than . quality and we lust all character tor justice.
We were wise once in demanding no more than
our due, and we have been foolish since and ot lato
ia trying lo deprive others of their due. Esop
taught, the cock in the fable to say to the horse
when he entered his stall, “if you wont tread upon
on my lues, I won’t upon yours.” But our cock,
lias crowed like chanticleer the deiiaut note : ‘ Hai •
dest fend off.” He has said to iron-shod hoofs :
“I’ll stamp your toes off!’’ We have tried to play
the same game of “snatch as snatch can, ’ with the
most snatching snatchers in the world. V\ e have
challenged a competition of settlement, with a thin
si&vehoiuiug, agiiculiural population on our pari
against a majority host of commercial, trading, tree
white, free noil people, who have not all homes and
•vlio are keeping a look out tor them and who
can Uao Sharpe's nfitS put into f heir bauds by Fa
natic!-m to acquire them. All they ask is tor tho
rule to be once lifted that you cau lake all
auu hu.d all you lake, and that no power of Con
gress or other power is to interfere to hinder the
L-trougest in taking aud holding all. Now 1 have
raised my warning ol late against this weakness on
our part. 1 have Tied t*. protect my widowed
mother, the Mouth, by giving honest fill .1 counsel,
against the whole household. The Kuocns havo
triea to sell me into Egpy t for my “dreaming.” But
l am nevertheless loyal to the house ot my father
aud loving to my misguided brethren, and I mean
to redouule my t Hurts me more to save the house
o; Israel. If I must be driven out as a dreamer, 1
will at least preserve 4 ‘miue integrity,” and time
and the day ol famiue WM snow whose counsel an <
whose course will have saved the household and ted
it nnd all tho laud of the stranger too. %
Aye—and ia Democracy as well as the South to
have no out spoken honest counseller 1 Arc we to
be (riven over to the Federal Clods of Pacific Rai*
road ? To out-Adama Adams in putting internal
improvements by the General Govermntui on the
most Oi(mipotent and indefinitely stretcumg p* wer
f- 1 ** rt* t the FVd a Govern*i*f ht—i’ o war
power? Ar *e to abolish ad valorem Huu adopt
t ,r>. ; U UUllrß t*. rtUyp*> U ts t T leVcUUe, tue
ctauu rd of wu;oh is already BI,UOU,UOO oi expendi
tures ou *vt rage rate importations ? Arc eto
•nciease BI,tOb,UUU of expenditure to the unknown
and lunitle s amount required tor Railroads across
ibis continent; tor Post offices that dou t pay
expenses; tor Pensions unheard of in character and
amount; lor a Laud Office which gives away three
acres lor every one soid and brings ua in debt; tor
increase ot standing army such as our frontiers and
ludian wars and Protectorates ot foreign teirilory
propose; and for such a Navy as Istnmean wars
wiln no less than eight Powers ot the earth, Eng
land, Spain, France, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa
Rica, New Granada and Paraguay demand it
threatened only ? Is Protection to be turned into
Prohibition? If so, what is a “direct tax 7” Is
laud tax the only one which cau be “apportioned •
Are the laud owners to pay all tho cost of the cru
sade of Congress and manifest destiny ? Is strict
const ruction and are State Rights to be abandoned,
and are we to give up Sune corporations to the
bankruptcies of a Federal Commission? Where
would nave been our People and their effects last
year if a Federal Power could have pntour State
Bauks into a course of uqudation uuuer a commis
sion of bankruptcy ?
is the South -is any portion of our country m a
eituati n to rush into war—wars invited by tho
President with three Europ an and five American
PowtTo ? And we are to be a Grand Consolidated,
elective Nouh aud Soutn American Imperialism t
The question is not, “will not the Union be dissjlv
ed ?” That is a Scttleo question. But the question
is, Is the old Virginia Democratic laith to be aban
doned and are we to rush on with the President in
to a fu 1 scheme ot Federal Policy whicu in its whole
outline ana ti.lii gup exceeds any Federal.am in all
its points wuch a Hamilton or Addins or any other
Laiitudinartau ever dared to prijeci or propose !
For my par l ,l take ground now firmly and at once
against the War Power. I am lor the Washington
policy oi Peace aud against ail entangling alliances
and protectorates, aud the Jackson rule oi “demand
ing nothing but what is right and submitting to
not hing that is wrong,* and for preserving and pro;
t ctingthe Smthand whole country trom ambi
tious and buccaneering wars of which the landed
and planting interests would have to bear the
buitbei s at a great sacrifice of present prosperity.
I am against luternal Improvements by the Gene
ral Government, more than ever since their con
atruction ie put ou the war power. It we could
beard England up to 54° l'l", ten years ago, without
a road or known route to Oregon—-wt y can’t wo
wait lor emigrants to beat a path on heir way to
gold nines and hold California without cutting a
military road in time of peace ? lam for retrench
ment and reform of all expenditures, and for re
venue oi.ly for an economical administration on a
scale of pure, old fashioned republican simplicity,
disorientating no more than necessary to prevent
prohibition on uon-dutiable articles ; I am tor Free
Trade and the protection it ass .rds is demonstrably
ample for a people of enterpi ize and arts like ours.
I am against State B ink Bankruptcy a.d all sorts
of bankruptcy whatever. The Federal Govern
ment shall never declare again that honest debts
shall be paid by gulping and oaths, wilh my con
sent. But my paper is runout.
The President bids hih. To Filibusters he offers
Cuba and Isthmus and North Mexico-—to the West,
a Pacific Railroad—to the North protection to lion
and course woolens—and to the great commercial
Countries the power of centralization by obvious
u-ei and abuses ot a Bankrupt act to apply to Stale
Bank. Yedterday Biddle was a monster, acd to
day a few Wall Street can expand and
contract upon ua nr re like a vice than he did—
and what would they do if they Could force tho poor
provinces when tho please into bankruptcy I f.
have writren this right on, and you may do what
you please with it. Yours, truly,
Hknky A. Wise.
I‘robnMllueo of me Peace Congress.
The Pa is curiespondent of the London Times
writes Match kflth:
I cannot say that much is hoped from the Con
gress. The reason is simply this: the annexation of
Lombardy is the real and only object Piedmont ban
at h art. Austria, it may be presumed, will refuse
to listen to ai y such proposition, and Napoleon 111.,
whose Imp-rial crown is a permanent protest against
these treaties, will hardly consent to ratify them it
hey are once ended in qnestion. Be this as i L may.
M. Cavour returns to Turin more contented than
when he left.it; but if he is satisfied with the Em
perur he is quite the contrary with the Miniß’erß.
M. Walewsai save that he will be one of the Pleni
potentianee at the Congress. M. Trouveuel or M.
do Bou queney, or M Drouyn de Lbuys, is spoken
of for tbc second. Toe manful stand made by M.
Walewski against the adventurous policy which
France eendeinns might lead one to conclude that
the views of the Plenipotentiary will be thu-e of
ihe Ministers. Tnis, however, does not necessarily
.oUow in the present case. M. Deiaugie, for in
stance, is the most pacific of ail pus.bie Ministers,
and yet his oiroular to the Prefects (a second circu
lar, the existence of which I doubted, was not, I am
assured, ever issued,) he spoke as if the war trump
et was no stranger t hia lips. M. Walewski’s con
tinuance in office notwithstanding the divergence
of opinion from his master, is not ex’riordinary
cd-r the mrcuu sauces ; but. it would be stiango
f be were too a -odo at Baden, oi wile.-ver -he
C ongress is to De neld, what be bos ppo.-eu in Pa
s
In the meant me there is a movement l the do
partment of the army Troops are expected from
Algeria, though that territory cannot be left totally
witbJUt. protection. 1 am told that the regimeni*
at home have orders for a fourth battalion, that id
to say, in place of two war battalion, they are t,>
have their last, the fourth, remaining in depot.”
The w- il informed and accttraie correspondent oi
the Globe, says in bis lette’ of March 27 :
“Whatever may be the amount of delusion in
London as to the hope of peace Irom the Baden-Ba
den Congress, such hallucination does not exist in
Vienna, nor at Turin, nor at Pans. The whole
object of Russia, in perfect understanding with
France, is here believed to put Austria in the
wrong, by eliciting a formal exhibition of the obsti
nacy which hitherto was only felt iu the subdued
intercourse of bidden diplomacy. So littie dot t
the Emperor here c -unt on obtaining the slight. -
concession from Count Buol, that the French Am
bassador accredited to the Court of Vienna, M do
Bourquenney, does not think it worth while resurn
iug his post, and is gone to enjoy perfect leisure at
his chateau near Blois, the business of the embassy
being left to an attacue. M. de Bsnnevilie. XI •
arrogant tone of the Court organs (Gazet'e d.V
triche and Ost Deutsche Post j is such a flagrant ob
stacle to auj chance of agreement, that toe Memo
rial D'p oma'ique, tue Paris organ of Austria, i.-r
instructed to r- ouke it; Mienna collahoratois and
to denounce the insulting language used against
France as well as Piedmont ”
Tue correspondent of the News wntes on the
29th: . .
“The general fee ing to-day is one of great un
easine-H. It is openiy said in the ante chambers cf
the Tuileriee that war is inevitable The hangers
on of the Government ooast in an insolent tone t
the al iance between France and Russia, p.iyi
threaten all Europe. A few Russian regiments a
echelon the Prussian frontier, would, they say tie
sufficient tokeepal. Germany in awe, while Frs.ne
was pursuing her victorious career in Italy.”
Young America —While little George Mai 5
was playing ms pa t in the Bottle Imp, on Saturday
night, and in the scene where he is trying to di.-p<
of the bottle, by the command of his master; et.dk
wh n running around the stage crying out like
y nog auctioneer, “Who’ll buy a bottle 7— Who'll
buy a bottle ?”—a littie three-year old in ihe drs -s
----circle, near the prosceuiuno, who was tanoing up .n
his chair, watc).ing George very intently, exclaim
ed, at the top of bis voiee, “I’ll give y u a dime Jjr
it, George 1” The effect up iu the audience can bo
imagined, and for s veral minutes afterwards, the
walls of the Amphitheatre fairly shook with in- ti
ter and applause. The little fellow, seeing then
citemeih he had created, slid down into his sent,
and laughed with the rest. Officer Hays, who
thought something ontoftheway was going cm
ru-bed to the spot; but seeing that the little ji r
star waß the cause ot the excessive merriment ru
the pert of the audience, smiled and retired.—A CA
Delta.
The town of Cairo has been overflowed, and
they are at a loss to know how to pump out ■ lie
water that the subsidence of the flood has left. The
Times and Delta suggests that the city council emp
ty several barrels oi whiskey into the water ami
then invite ibe Paduoah and Mound Cityites to
come down, and they would drink it all up in a !tvr
days. “We think as soon as the new engines e-U
pumps come, and the water is pumped out, the bet
tom of the town should be well caulked and pitc cti
to keep it out,”