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June 20. 1848 2P—if
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VOLUME VIII. J
POETRY.
From the Plaindealer.
•Soliloquy of a Whig Delegate on the night
before the Nomination.
Uill Whiggery explode f That question fearful,
With palpitating heart and peepers tearful,
We wait to see decided. Once, in Gotham,
A ware house owned by Wells & Higginbotham
YVav burnt, and as it burnt it burst asunder,
Overwhelming all the crowd with dust aad wonder;
A fact mysterious—for the owner swore
That it contained tall-petre, nothing more.
Hence, a dispute arose, most fierce and hot,
YVhether tall-petre would explode or not.
But here’s a fact indubitably fix’d—
Salt-petre, brimstone, charcoal, all commix'd,
Will make a quite explosive composition,
And, with a spark, will blow you to perdition,
So Whiggery is commixed on this occasion ;
The salt we trusted to for preservation,
May be by General Taylor sulphurated,
And then, perhaps, by Fillmore carbonated.
Taylor is brimstone to inflame the mass,
Let Fill, for abolition charcoal pass,—
A black commodity, to please the nigs,—
But worse than physic to the Southern Whigs.
Then if gun-powder will explode, I guess
Poor Whiggery, so mixed up, will do no less.
(Waiter, some gin.) By gurn, ’tis growing late,
The night is dark, portentous as our fate.
Here’s to Old. Harry, [drinks] shall we him refuse,
And treat him like the clay which potters use f
Make vile utensils of him first, (poor “ Slashes !”)
And, when we’ve used him, break him all to smash
es.
Our party now but value him, J find,
As broken earthenware ofthe worst kind.
Alas, poor Harry ! Here at night, by stealth,
I hope it is no harm to drink his health. [Drinks.]
A potent liquor ! Good ! My thoughts get fuzzy ;
My eyes are misty and ray head buzzy.
“Will Whiggery explode !”—droll question—
very !
Aha ! methinks I’m growing visionary.
I see a monstrous and gigantic figure,—
B’gas the Belgium giant; rather bigger
Upon its back a placard, I declare,
“ Genius of Whiggery l” is written there.
A most eccentric image, ’ pon my soul; —
Twenty discordant parts to make a whole;
A motley object!—Hark ! —a fiz ! —a whiz!—
It riseth from the ground ; yes, Whiggery’* riz !
I thought that was impossible, by gum !
Hut ah, behold, —it bursteth like a bomb !
Hands, head and feet in all directions fly,
And scattered fragments shoot along the sky ;
And what huzza is that I hear !—Alas I
A killing sound ; —“ three cheers for Gen. Cass.”
The people’s friend and favorite this salutes, —
Aud naught is left of Whiggery but its
Boots.
THE VOICE OF THE POOR.
BT KPKRAXZA.
Was sorrow ever like to our sorrow 1
Oh ! God above I
Will our night never change into a morrow
Os joy and love 1
A deadly gloom is on us waking, sleeping ;
Like the darkness at noontide
That fell upon the pallid mother, weeping
By the Crucified.
Before us die our brothers, of starvation ;
Around are cries of famine ami despair !
Where is Hope for us, or Comfort, or Salvation—
YVhere—oh I where 1
If the angels ever hearken, downward bending,
They are weeping, we are sure,
At the litanies of human groans ascending
From the crushed hearts ofthe poor.
When the human rests in love upon the human
All grief is light;
But who bends one kind glance to illumine
Our life long night?
The air areund is ringing with- their laughter—
GiuThas only made the rich to smile,
But we—in our rags, and want and woe—we follow
. Weeping the while,
And the laughter seems but uttered to deride us,
When, oh 1 when
Will fall the frozen barriers that divide us
From other men ? s
Will ignorance forever thus enslave us
Will misery forever lay us low ?
All are eager with their insults ; but to save us
None, none, wc know.
We never knew a childhood’s mirth and gladness,
Nor the proud heart of youth free and brave;
Oh, a death like dream of wretchedness and sadness
Is life’s weary journey to the grave.
Day by day we lower sink and lower.
Till the God-like soul within
Falls crushed beneath the fearful demon power
Os poverty and sin.
So we toil on, on with fever burning
In heart and brain ;
So we toil on, on through bitter scorning,
Want, woe and pain.
We dare not raise our eyes to the blue heaven,
Or the toil must cease —
We dare not breathe the fresh air God has given
One hour in peace.
We must toil though the light of life is burning,
Oh, how dim!
We must toil, on our sickbed lecbly turning
Our eves to Him
Who alone can hear the pale lip faintly saying,
With scarce moved breath,
While the paler hands uplifted aid the. praying,
“Lord, grant us Death /”
[Dublin Nation.
MISCELLANY.
From Lamartine's History of the Girondists.
TRIAI, AM) EXECUTION OF CHAR
LOTTE CORDAY.
When she was seated on the bench of
the prisoners, she was asked if she had a
defender. She replied that a friend had
undertaken this office, but not seeing him,
she supposed his courage had failed him.
The president then assigned her the young
Chauveau Lagarda, afterward illustrious
by his defence of the Q.ucen, and already
famous for his eloquence and courage in
causes and times when the advocate shar
ed the peril of his client. Chauveau La
garde placed himself at the bar. Charlotte
gazed on him, as though she feared lest, to
save her life, her defender would abandon
some part of her honor.
The widow of Marat wept while giving
her evidence. Charlotte, moved by her
grief, exclaimed—“ Yes. yes—’twasi that
killed him.”
She then related the premeditation of
the act for three months ; her project of
stabbing him in the Convention ; and the
! ruse she had employed to obtain access to
him.
“ I confess,” said she, with humility,
that this means was unworthy of me ; but
it was necessary to appear to esteem this
man, in order to obtain access to him.”
Who inspired you with this hatred of
Marat?” she was asked.
“ I did not need the hatred of any one
else,” she replied. “My own was suffi
cient ; besides, you always execute badly
that which you have not devised yourself.”
“ What did you hate in him ?”
“ His crimes.”
“ What did you hope to effect by killing
him?”
“ Rest. ro peace to my country. *
“ Do you, then, think that you have
assassinated all the Marats ?”
“ Since he is dead, perhaps the others
will tremble.”
The knife was shown her, that she
might recognize it. She pushed it from
her with a gesture of disgust.
o Yet,” replied she ; “ I recognize it.”
“ What persons did you visit at Caen l
“Very few; I saw Larne, a municipal
officer, and the Cure of Saint Jean.”
“Did you confess to a .comfortingor
non-juring priest ?”
“Neither one nor the other.
Since when had you formed this de
sign ?”
“Since the 31st of May, when the dep
uties of the people were arrested. I have
killed one man to save a hundred thou
sand. I was a republican long before the
Revolution.”
Fauchet was confronted with her.
“I taily know Fauchct by sight,” said
she, disdainfully. “ I look on him as a ma n
devoid ol principles ? and I despise him.”
The accuser reproached her with having
dealt the fatal stroke downward, in order
to render it more certain,and observed that
site must doubtless have been well exer
cised in crime. At this suggestion, which
destroyed all her ideas, by assimilating
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her to professed murderers, she uttered a
cry of horror.
“Oh, the monster!” exclaimed she, “he
takes me for an assassin !”
Fouquie Tinville summed up, and de
manded that sentence of death should be
passed.
Her defender rose. “ The accused,”
said he, “confesses her crime; she avows
its long premeditation, and gives the most
overwhelming details. Citizens, this is
her whole defence. This impertubable,calm
and entire forgetfulness of self, tY'hich re
veals no remorse in presence of death—this
calmness and this forgetfulness, sublime in
one point of view, is not natural: they can
only be explained by the excitement of po
litical fanaticism, which placed the poig
nard in her hand.. It is for you to decide
what weight so stern a fanaticism should
have in the balance of justice. I leaY’eail
to your consciences.”
The jury unanimously sentenced her to
die. She heard their verdict unmoved;
and the president having asked her if she
had anything to say relative to the punish
ment inflicted on her, she made no reply ;
but, turning to the defender, “ Monsieur,”
said she, “you have defended me as I
wished to be defended; I thank you; I
owe you a proof of my gratitude and es
teem, and I offer you one worthy of you.
These gentlemen (pointing to the judg
es) have just declared my property con
fiscated ; I OYve something in the prison,
and I bequeath to you the payment of this
debt.”
During her examination, she perceived
a painter engaged in taking her likeness;
without interrupting the examination she
smilingly turned towards the artist, in or
der that he might the better see her fea
tures. She thought of immortality, and
already sat for her portrait, to immortality.
Behind the painter stood a young man,
whose fair hair, blue eyes and pale com
plexion marked him for a native of the
North. His eyes were riveted or. the pris
oner ; and at each reply he shuddered and
changed color. He seemed to drink in
her words, and to associate himself, by
gesture, attitude and enthusiasm, with
the sentiments she expressed. Unable,
frequently, to repulse his emotion, he
drew to himself, by involuntary exclama
tions, the attention of the audience and of
Charlotte Corday. At the moment when
the President passed sentence of death, the
young man rose from his seat, with the
gesture of a man who protests from the
bottom of his heart, and then sunk back,
as though his strength had failed him.—
Charlotte, insensible to her own fate, per
ceived this movement, and comprehended
that, at the moment when all on earth
abandoned her, a kindred spirit attached
itself to hers, and that, amidst this hostile
or indifferent throng, she possessed an un
known friend, and she thanked him with
a look.
This young stranger was Adam Lux, a
German republican, sent to Paris by the
revolutionists of Mayence,to concert the
movements of Germany with those of
France, m the common cause of human
reason and the liberty of the people. His
eyes followed Charlotte until she disap
peared amidst the gens il'armes beneath
the arch of the stairs. Ilis thoughts nqyer
quitted her.
On her return to the Conciergerie,
which was so soon to yield her up to the
scaffold, Charlotte Corday smiled on -her
companions in prison, who had ranged
themselves in the corridors and courts to
see her pass. She said to the concierge :
“ I had hoped that we should breakfast
together once more, but the judges detain
ed me so long that you must forgive me
for having broken my Yvord.”
The executioner arrived ; she requested
him to alloYV her time to finish a letter,
which YY’as neither the outpouring of weak
ness nor regret, but the last act of woun
ded friendship—addressing an eternal re
proach to the cowardly spirit Yvhich had
abandoned her.
It Yvas addressed to Doulcet de Ponte
coulant, whom she had seen at her aunt’s,
and on whom she believed she had called
in \'ain to be her defender. The letter
w r as as follows:
“ Doulcet de Pontecoulant is a coward
to have refused to defend me Yvhen it Y\as
so easy. He yvlio undertook it performed
his task Yvith all possible dignity, and I
shall retain a grateful recollection of him to
my last moments.”
Her indignation was unjust; the young
Pontecoulant, who Yvas absent from Paris,
had not recehed her letter; his generosity
and courage Yvere a sufficient guaranty
that he would have accepted the office ;
and Charlotte bore an error and an injus
tice to the scaffold.
The artist who had sketched Charlotte’s
likeness at the tribunal, was M. Hauer, a
painter and officer of tbe national guard, of
the section of the Theatre Francais. On
her return to the prison, she requested the
concierge to allow him to finish his work,
and, on his arrival, Charlotte thanked him
for the interest he appeared to take in her,
and quietly sat to him, as though, Yvhile
she permitted him to transmit her form and
features to posterity, she also charged him
to hand down her mind and her patriotism
to unborn generations. She conversed
with M. Hauer on his profession, the
events of the day, and the peace of mind
she felt after the execution of her design;
she also spoke of her young friends at Ca
en, and requested him to paint a miniature
from the portrait, and send it to her family.
Suddenly, a gentle knock Yvas heard at
the door, and the executioner entered.—
Charlotte, turning round, perceived the
scissors and red chemise he carried over
his arm.
“ What! already,” exclaimed she, turn
ing pale.
Then, recovering her composure, and
glancingat the unfinished portrait, “ Mon
sieur,” said she to the artist, “ I know not
how to thank you for the trouble you haY r e
taken ; I have only this to oiler you. —
Keep it in memory of your kindness and
my gratitude.”
As she spoke, she took the scissors from
the executioner, and, severing a lock ot
her hair, gaY-e it to M. Hauer.
This portrait, interrupted by death, is
still in the possession of the family of M.
Hauer. The head only was painted, and
the bust merely sketched. But the pain
ter, who watched the preparations for the
scaffold, Yvas so struck Yvith the sinister
splendor added by the red chemise to the
tauty of his model, that, after Charlotte’s
ath, he painted her in this costume.
A priest, sent by the public accuser,
presented himself to offer the last consola
tions of religion. “ Thank,” said she to
him, “those who have had the attention to
send you, but I need net your ministry.—
The blood I have spilt, and my otvn, which
I am about to shed, are the only sacrifices
I can offer the Eternal.” The execution
er then cut off'her hair, bound her hands,
and put on the chemise des condemnes. —
“ This,” said she, “ is the toilette of death,
arranged by somewhat rude hands, but it
lent Is to immortality.” .
Sho collected her long tiuir, looked at it
*THK UNION OF TII E STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1848.
for the last time, and gave it to Madame
Richard. As she mounted the fatal cart,
a violent storm broke oY’er Paris, but the
lightning and rain did not disperse the
crowd, who blocked up the square, the
bridges and the streets which she passed.
Hordes of Yvomen, or rather furies, followed
her, Yvith the fiercest imprecations ; but,
insensible to these insults, she gazed on
the populace Yvith eyes beaming with se
renity and compassion.
The sky cleared up, and the rain, which
YY'etted her to the skin, displayed the ex
quisite symmetry of her form, like that of
a woman leaving the bath. Her hands,
bound behind her back, obliged her to hold
up her head, and this forced rigidity of
the muscles gave more fixity to her atti
tude, and set off the outlines of her figure.
The rays of the setting sun fell on her
head ; and her complexion, heightened by
the red chemise, seemed of an unearthly
brilliancy. Robespierre, Danton and Ca
mille Desmoulins had placed themselves
on her passage, to gaze on her; for all
these Yvho anticipated assassination were
curious to study in her features the ex
pression of that fanaticism Yvhich might
threaten them on the morrow. She re
sembled celestial Y’engeance appeased and
transfigured, and from time to time she
seemed to seek a glance of intelligence on
which her eye could rest. Adam Lux
a\Y-aited the cart at the entrance ofthe Rue
St. Honore, and folloYved it to the foot of
the scaffold. “He engraved in his heart,”
to quote his.own words, “ this unutterable
sweetness amid the barbarous cries of the
crowd, that look so gentle, yet penetrating
—those vivid flashes that broke forth like
burning ideas from these bright eyes, in
which spoke a soul as intrepid as tender.—
Charming eyes, Yvhich should have mel
ted a stone.”
Thus an enthusiastic and unearthly at
tachment accompanied her, without her
knoYvledge, to the very scaffold, and pre
pared to follow her, in hope of an eternal
re-union. The cart stopped, and Char
lotte, at the sight of the fatal instrument,
turned pale, but, soon recoY'ering herself,
ascended the scaffold with as light and
rapid a step as the long chemise and her
pinioned arms permitted. When the ex
ecutioner, to bare her neck, removed the
handkerchief that covered her bosom, this
insult to her modesty moved her more
than her impending death ; then, turning
to the guillotine, she placed herself under
the axe. The heavy blade fell, and her
head rolled on the scaffold. One of the
assistants, named Legros, took it in his
hand and struck it on the cheek. It is
said that a deep crimson suffusion over
spread the face, as though dignity and
modesty had for an instant lasted longer
even than life.
Such was the death of Marat; and such
were the life and death of Charlotte Cor
day. In the face of murder, history dares
not praise ; and in the face of heroism,
dares not condemn her. The appreciation
of such an act places us in the terrible
alternative of blaming virtue or applauding
assassination. Like the painter Yvho, des
pairing of rendering the expression of a
mingled sentiment, cast a Yeiiover the face
of the figure, we must leave this mystery
to be debated in the abysses of the human
heart. There are deeds of Yvhich men are
no judges, and which mount, without ap
peal, direct to the tribunal of God. There
are human actions so strange a mixture of
tveakness and strength, pure intent and
culpable means, error and truth, murder
and martyrdom, that Yve knoYV not wheth
er to term them crime or virtue. The
culpable devotion of Charlotte Corday is
among those acts Yvhich admiration and
horror Yvould leave eternally in doubt, did
not morality reprove them. Had \Y’e to
find for this sublime liberatrix of her coun
try, and generous murderess of a tyrant, a
name which should at once convey the en
thusiasm of our feelings toward her and
the severity of our judgment on her ac
tion, yvc would coin a phrase combining
the extreme of admiration and horror, and
term her the Angel of Assassination.
A few days afterward, Adam Lux pub
lished the “ Apology of Charlotte Corday,”
and associated himself with her deed, in
order to share her martyrdom. Arrested
and sent to the abaye, he exclaimed, as he
entered the prison, “I shall die, then, for
her.” He perished soon after, saluting, as
the altar of liberty and love, the scaffold
which the blood of his model had hallowed.
The heroism of Charlotte yy'qs sung by the
poet Andre Chenier, Yvho Yvas himself so
soon to die for that common fatherland of
all great souls—pure liberty.
“ Whose is this tomb ?” sings the Ger
man pcet, Clopstock. “It is the tomb of
Charlotte. Let us gather flowers and
scatter them over her ashes, for she is dead
for her country. No, no, gather nothing;
let us seek a weeping willow, and plant it
o’er her tomb, for she i£ dead, for she is
dead for her country. No, no; plant noth
ing; but YY-eep, and let our tears be blood,
for she is dead in vain for her country !”
Vergniaud, on learning, in his dungeon, of
the crime, trial, and death of Charlotte, ex
claimed—“ She destroys as, but she teach
es us ho)Y’ to die.”
From the John Donkey.
DISTRESSING CASE OF SUICIDE.
Beyond all doubt, the present is the age
of suicide, and this vulgar vice is e\ r ery-
Yvhere on the increase. The latest case is
that of the great Whig party, YY’ho took its
own life on Friday morning last, under the
most aggravated circumstances and suffer
ings. Whether it made its quietus Yvith a
“bare bodkin,” Yve cannot say; but we
knoYV that it Y\as done Yvith the help of a
Taylor. It died amid horrible convul
sions; and so prolonged and frightful \Y T ere
its struggles, that not a friend had courage
to compose the limbs of the dead monster
decently in death, lest it should haYe an
other spasm, and kick its officious friend
into the middle of next week.
Sad as is the catastrophe, our conscience
acquits us of all participation in it, either
before or after the fact. Our Y-oice of
friendly YY'arning has been raised, again
and often, beseeching infatuat ’d Whigs to
nominate rs, the head of the great Yvhig
family, and thus save at the same time the
country and themselves. In Y*ain Y\e rep
resented to them that we Yvere just the
man they wanted —in vain we pointed to
the honorable scars Yve had received in our
victorious encounters Yvith Spoons and
Eppie Sargent, which have stamped us
as the first military chieftain of the age—
in vain we proved by impregnable cipher
ing that the great States of Tinicum,
Smith’s Island, Coney Island, and Black
well’s Island —to say nothing of Rhode
Island—were sure to go for us. It is true
that the Convention seemed to have some
faint idea of what was due our long and
faithful services in the whig cause. They
gave us three cheers at the close of the se
cond day’s proceedings, and the whole Ma
ryland delegation came dotvn to ns, and
after asking us to Dandurand’s, where we
Yvere compelled to drink'a julep with.each
member of the delegation, subscribed to the
Donkey in a body, Mr. Jenifer po
litely requesting us to send the bill to him.
The temptation was great, hut we were
true to our terms which were invariably in
advance. This independence on our part
lost us the nomination, but our con
science remained clear, and we slept se
renely. Can the Maryland Delegation say
much l
As to the nomination, we didn’t YY'ant it,
and should have peremptorily declined, had
it been tendered us. But that YY-e Yvere
eminently entitled to it, Yve shall proceed
to prove. We have Yvritten letters of ac
ceptance to the Whigs, Natives, Catholics,
Democrats, (Old Hunkers and Barn
burners,) Abolitionists, National Refor
mers, and several other parties, aY r owing
our concurrence in their vieY\ r s (respecting
our nomination,) And as Gen. Taylor ev
idently oYves his nomination to the number
of letters he has Yvritten, Yve were tYvice as
much entitled to it as he.
Then as to stupidity we go immeasura
bly ahead of Gen. Taylor. He is mere
ly profoundly ignorant on all political ques
tions, and a little defecti\ r e in his spelling.
Now Yve knoYV infinitely less than this.
We are so infernally stupid as not to have
been able to discover, to this moment,
whether there are a greater set of asses
in existence than the Yvhig party. Neith
er do YY-e know who gave Kipp and BroYvn
a benefit, nor who inflicted that blow’ upon
Mr. William Patterson. In fact, as has
been well observed of us, Yve don’t knoYV
when it rains, unless there is a quaker
meeting in town, and then Yve immedi
ately put up our umbrella Yvhere nobody
can find it.
Noyv since ignorance and stupidity ap
pear manifestly to haY’e been the test with
the Convention, YY’e hold that our claims
to the nomination, even over so eminent
ly qualified an individual as Gen. Taylor,
are “clear and unquestionable.” It may
therefore be regarded as a fifty-four fortu
nate circumstance that Mr. Polk and our
self are the most amiable persons in the
YY’orld ; otherYvise, there YY’ould have been
the d—l and John Donkey to pay among
the politicians.
A Secret in Charles Lamb’s Life.—
The last Living Age contains an article
from the British Quarterly Review, on the
genius and Yvritings of Charles Lamb, in
Yvhich a fact in his history, hitherto unrea-
Y’ealed to the public, is made known. The
graY’e having closed over those whom the
story may affect, it is noYV gi\-en as a noble
example of unobtrusive heroism :
Yes, in that queer-looking clerk—in the
gentle hearted Charles—in the delicate
Elia, underneath the lightsome YY’it and
playful fancy, there YY’as shrouded a dark
tragedy, such as would have broken many
a robust spirit. Lamb’s parents Yvere Y’e
ry poor. Lamb himself at the time we
speak of, being a mere clerk, and unable
to afford them much assistance, the Yveight
of their maintenance fell upon his sister,
the well known Mary Lamb. By her nee
dle she contrived to support them. She
had a young girl in the house as an ap
prentice, and things Yvent on smoothly
enough until the increasing infirmities of
the dd lady, and the incessant YY’atching
thereby rernkr and necessary, made great in
roads upon Mary Lamb’s health. HaYr
ing, in the early part of her life, suffered
temporary insanity from harassment, Ma
ry’s present state YY as alarming, and her
brother Yvent to Dr. Pitcairn, in the morn
ing, to consult about her, but unhappily
did not find him at home. On that very
afternoon—it was 22d September, 1790
while the family Y\'ere preparing for din
ner, Mary seized a knife, which lay on
the table, and stabbed her mother to the
heart ! An inquest was held next day, at
which the jury, Yvithout hesitation, brought
in the verdict of lunacj’. This ghastly in
cident gaY’e anew shape to all Lamb’s sub
sequent career. At that time he was in
love; but like a brave, suffering, unselfish
man, he, at twenty one, renounced the
dream of love for the stern austerity of du
ty. To his sister he deY’oted himself in
the most absolute sense of the term; and
though she Yvas subject to recurring fits of
insanity, and though he never left home
Y\ith her Yvithout taking a strait waistcoat
Yvith him, Hazlitt used to say, “Mary Lamb
is the only truly sensible woman I ever met
with.”
Awful Calamity.—We learn from are
liable source that twenty of Gov. Johnson’s
young negroes, between the ages of two
and twelve years, were burned to death on
the night of Monday, the 25th of June.
They had, with a vieYV to their health, been
removed but a day or tYvo before from the
plantation settlement to a summer resi
dence about a mile distant. They YY’ere
lodged intYvo spacious cabins, united by a
covered passage, about ten feet in width,
into Yvhich the doors opened—one building
only having an outside door. Two elder
ly YY’omen had been assigned as nurses, and
the overseer (Mr. John H. Sartor) and his
family occupied a building net more than
tYY’enty steps from them. About 12 o’clock
at night Mr. Sartor’s attention was called
by his wife to an unusual light Yvithin the
building. Rushing immediately to the
passage betYveen the cabins, he found that
on fire, the flames obstructing both the doors
that opened into it. Then forcing the
outside door, he found the floor and walls
on fire, and every lKing being Yvithin pro
foundly asleep. His shouts and cries awoke
the nurses and seme half dozen ofthe older
children, who escaped; and mainly by his
exertions fifteen young children were res
cued from the devouring element.
It is not known precisely lioyv the fire
originated; there had been no fire in the
house during the day, and it is supposed
that it Yvas the consequence of an unobser
ved spark, dropped from a torch used by
one of the nurses in putting the children
to bed. One or both of the parents of all
the children were in the habit of going
and staying with them at night, hut they
had been induced to remain at the planta
tion that night to keep watch over the re
mains of an elderly Yvoman who had died
the preceding evening.
[Columbia Carolinian.
Something Singular.— Overflovcing
Wells. —A correspondent of a Wisconsin
paper, writing from Wouka, in that State,
makes the following statement:
There are three wells near this place,
discharging fine little rivulets from their
surface. They measure 28, 30 and 54
feet in depth—soil, red marl. You will
hardly believe me when I tell you these
Yvells discharge double the amount when
the wind is South, than they do when the
Yvind is North; still the whole neighborhood
will testify to the fact. The Yvater in other
wells in the vicinity will rise a foot on the
wind blowing a good breeze from the South.
I have not sufficiently examined the sub
ject to solve the mystery, but as Rush
Lake is Yvithin three miles and on high
ground, it is probably the source from
Yvhich the wells are supplied, and a South
Yvind driving upon the coarse sand's of the
beach increases the discharge of water
through the sands into channels which find
vent in these wells. o.
POLITICAL.
WHIG CONVENTION, WORCESTER,
MASSACHUSETTS.
This convention, composed of a large
and influential portion of the Whigs of the
“Old Bay State,” came off on Wednesday
the 28th ult. The accounts vary of the
numbers present, but supposed to be from
fire to eight thousand. The Massachu
setts correspondence of the New York
Evening Post says:
“The better part of the Whigs in this
State, the most honest and conscientious of
them, generally speaking, are against
nomination of General Taylor. They Yvill
not support it. I think that you may set
doYYm the majority of that party as hostile
to his election, and ready to adopt another
candidate. Os the Democratic party, about
tYVO-thirds will Y’ote for Cass; the rest will
giY’e their suffrages to some other candidate.
It is not possible that General Taylor
should obtain the popular vote. There
must be a majority of all the votes, you
knoYV, to secure an election by the people.
If only a plurality be obtained for the Tay
lor electoral ticket, the choice of Presiden
tial electors dev’olves upon the Legislature.
The Legislature will not dare to give the
vote of the State to Taylor. Besides, you
should remember, the members of the Leg
islature are yet to be elected.
The “Hon.” E. R. Hear, of Dedham,
was chosen President of the Com’ention,
who returned his thanks for the honor, and
said, in substance, “the two great political
parties purport to have acted. This as
sembly is disappointed. Men who deser
ved the nomination of the Whig party
haY-e been overlooked, to give place to Gen
eral Taylor. The old Commonwealth has
principles which she has frequently pro
claimed before the people and in her Leg
islature. She has repeatedly said that she
can never support any candidate for the
Presidency Yvho favors the extension of sla-
Y’ery into free territory. The question,
then, for Massachusetts, is plain—will she
abandon her principles to stand by Gen.
Taylor, or abandon Gen. Taylor to stand
by her principles? One or the other must
noYV be determined upon. It is no reply
to say, that, if YY’e don’t elect Gen. Taylor,
a Yvorse man will be chosen. Because
others will do wrong, it is no reason for us
to anticipate their crime.”
A letter was then read from John G.
Palfrey, member of Congress from Mas
sachusetts, excusing himself from attend
ing the convention. He said among other
things, “My judgment and feelings emphati
cally respond to your call.” The reading
of the letter YY’as followed by three cheers
for Palfrey.
The Hon. S. C. Phillips, from the Com
mittee on Resolutions, reported in part a
resolution approving the conduct of Mes
srs. Allen, of Worcester, and Wilson, of
Natick, for their manly and honorable
bearing as delegates from the State of Mas
sachusets, in the late Philadelphia Whig
Com-ention.
Messrs. Allen and Wilson then followed
in brief speeches, in Yvhich they referred
to the late Whigparty as a past and extinct
institution, and recommended anew party
of the North.
Mr. Wilson was eloquent and as accep
table to the audience. He is knoYvn here
as the learned shoe-maker. He now works
at his trade at Natick, Yvere he resides.
He has been a member both of the House
and of the Senate of Massachusetts, and
has just accounted-for the discharge of his
duty as a State Delegate to Philadelphia.
His speech was cheered enthusiastically.
The Worcester correspondent of the
New York Evening Post says :
“Among the resolutions read to the Mass
Convention by Mr. Stephen Phillips, from
the committee appointed for the purpose,
was one speaking in high terms of the tal
ents of Daniel Webster, and expressing
the hope that they vvould yet be exercised
in behalf of the great cause of freedom.
It YY’as the last resolution, and the reading
of it YY’as interrupted and droYvned in strong
and loud expessions ofdissent and disgust.
Criesof “no! no!” “he is sold,” “he is sold,”
“Y\-e ha\ r e nothing to do Yvith Webster,”
burst from the assembled throng. It was
proposed, hoYY’ever, that the resolution
should be read again; it Yvas read and was
explained by Mr. Phillips, merely to ex
press a hope that Mr. Webster, if now
Yvrong, vvould be on the right side at last.
With this salvo, the question yvus taken on
all the resolutions at once. They Yvere
adopted, but the resolution concerning
Webster still seemed to stick in the throats
ofthe people.”
Joshua R. Giddings, Whig member of
Congress from the State of Ohio, whose
district gav*e Mr. Clay, at the last election,
the overwhelming majority of 5,293 votes
over Mr. Polk, (Yvhich YY’as about Mr.
Clay’s majority in the Yvhole State,) then
came forward, and was received, as the
correspondent of the Nevv York Evening
Post says, “ with nine cheers, which
made the oaks fairly bend before the
breath of the multitude.”
Mr. Giddings, for whom the multitude
had been impatient ail day, came forward
after the shouts and clapping had subsided,
and spoke for nearly an hour—from 4 to 5
o’clock. He said he bad never before
been received Yvith such enthusiasm by
any assemblage. He spoke of the Whig
party as dissolved ; the Whig ship, proud
and noble as she once wras, has been stran
ded, and the members of the party are left
to carry out their principles in the style
YY’hich accords best with their consciences.
He spoke of the Ohio Whigs ay feeling
thus, and said they had made up their
minds to folkm- principles, not party —
measures, not men. Mr. Giddings said
that he had been a political opponent of
Mr. Van Buren, but he must do him jus
tice. He honored him for his opposition
to the annexation of Texas, which had
draYvn upon him the vengeance of the
slave-holders. He honored him for the
had lately taken against the ex
tensron qf slavery. In taking these steps
he had shown courage, patriotism and con
sistency.
We may talk, said Mr. Giddings, of the
poYver of party ; there is a stronger influ
ence in our midst. The Whig party and
the Democratic party are neither of their,
strong enough to contend against it. It is
the slav’e power; it overrides all other in
fluences. It struck down Mr. Van Buren;
it has set up Cass as tbe Democratic can
didate for the Presidency. We must meet
it now’, w*e must act novv ; we must take
the most effectual and certain means of re
sisting it at once, before it obtains further
accessions of strength and domain. Mr.
Giddings’ speeeh was begun and closed
amidst a tempest of applauses.
The. Convention then adjourned sine die
on Thursday evening last. It made no
nomination for President, but appointed del
egates to attend the Buffalo (N. Y.) Con
\-ention, which meets on the 9th of Au
gust. Each Congressional District was
requested to send delegates.
| NUMBER 30.
A correspondent oi the N. Y. Evening
Post, writing from Worcester, says:
“ There was a great inclination among
the leading men here to nominate Mr. Van
Buren at once, but they seem to think it
more judicious and courteous to the other
States who shall see fit to participate in
the Buffalo Convention, to leave the ques
tion of a candidate open until that time.—
No doubt however seems to be entertained
that Mr. Van Buren will receive the nomi
nation.”
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OP A PATRIOT:
LEWIS CASS.
Born Oct. 9, 1782, at Exeter, New Hamp
shire, Son of Major Jona
than Cass, a
brave
SOLDIER OP THE AMERICAN REVO
LUTION. -
Emigrated to the West at the age of 17,
with barely one dollar in his pocket,
and settled at Marietta, county of
Washington, in the North
western Territory.
Elected to the Legislature of Ohio, in 1806,
drafted the law which crush
ed the memorable
BURR CONSPIRACY,
And also an address to Thomas Jeffer
son, expressing the attachment of the
people of Ohio to the Constitu
tion of the United States,
and their confidence in
that
ILLUSTRIOUS MAN.
In March, 1807, appointed by Mr. Jeffer
son
MARSHAL OP OHIO.
At the breaking out of the War of 1812,
elected a Colonel of the Ohio Regi
ment, in which he greatly distin
guishes himself, being
THE FIRST MAN TO LAND IN ARMS
ON THE CANADA SHORE !
July 15, 1812,
has a severe con
flict with the British at
Aux Canada, 15 miles from
Detroit, the Enemy’s head quar
ters, causing them to seek safety in
flight. Drafts an eloquent and high-spirit
ed proclamation to the inhabitants *
of Canada, and on hearing
of Hull’s disgraceful
surrender at De
troit, indig
■ nantly
BREAKS HIS SWORD UPON HIS
KNEE AND DASHES IT TO THE
EARTH!
In 1813, appointed a Brigadier General,
and joins the ajrmy under Gen. Har
rison, to whom he renders gal
lant and efficient services
at the
BATTLE OF THE THAMES,
Pursuing the British General Proctor for
many miles, in his retreat from
the field of battle.
October 9, 1813, appointed by President
Madison,
GOVERNOR OP MICHIGAN,
at that time one of the most important civil
offieMyn the gift of the Executive.—
JHPuperintendent, ex-officio, of
Indian Affairs, he formed 21
treaties with the Indians,
extinguishing their title to
nearly one hundred mil
lions of acres of land
on terms perfectly
just and satis
factory to
” them
selves.
In 1831, appointed by Andrew Jackson
SECRETARY OP WAR,
and became the associate in the cabinet
such men as Edward Livingston, Ijouiili
McLane, Levi Woodbury, and Roger
B. Taney. The affairs of the
War Department were nev
er more ably conduct
ed. Held this ap
pointment until
1836, when
he was com
missioned
by ‘Old
Hick
ory’ as
MINISTER OF PRANCE,
where he immortalized his name by his
celebrated pamphlet on the “Right of
Search.”
September 17, 1842, resigns his French
mission on account of the Ashburton
Treaty, and returns to the U. States,
greeted by the plaudits of millions
of his grateful coun
trymen.
A prominent candidate for the nomina
tion of the Democratic party for
the Presidency in 1844.
In the winter of 1844, elected by the Leg
islature of Michigan,
UNITED STATES SENATOR,
In which body he defends our title to Ore
gon, assists in the passage of the Inde
pendent Treasury and Tariff of 1846,
supports with zeal and eloquence
the Mexican War, and is a
very ‘pillar of strength’
to the administra
tion of James
K., Polk.
May 28, 1848, is nominated by the Nation
al Convention, held in the city of Bal
timore, as the Demccrat
ic Candidate for
PRESIDENT OF TDE UNITED STATES’,
to which, the highest and most ’aonorable
civil office in the world, he is, sure to
be elevated by the free suffrages
of the American popple,
the Inauguration tak
ing place Mr_irch
4, 1840.
In every station, and under every respon
sibility, Lewis has manifested hon
esty, capacity a'id fidelity to the Con
stitution, a. firm attachment to
Republican principles, a pa
triotic devotion to coun
try, and has shown
himself through
. out his whore
life, to be
A PATRIOTIC STATESMAN AND TRUE
DEMOCRAT.
Ohio. —The most cheering accounts are
constantly reaching us from this State. In
fact, the justice of our cause; the repub
lican priniiples which are boldly inscribed
upon our banner ; the high character of our
candidates; the speeches of Corwin, and
the traitorous conduct of the Mexican
whigs in the glorious war which we have
waged and just honorably concluded; the
dissatisfaction of the friends of Clay ; the
eloquence of Weller; the energy of'the
State; and the desertion of the abolition
whigs to Van Buren and the barnburners,
have cut deep into the ranks of General
Taylor, and will secure us the State by
from 10,000 to 20,000 majority. No man
who pretends to know anything of the
public sentiment of her people, entertains
the slightest doubt of Ohio. Give us Ohio,
and we shall succeed beyond doubt.
The barnburners cannot defeat General
Cass . —\JVaih ington Union.
From the N. Y. Hersld.
Movement in Polities In Massachusetts, tend
ing to the Presidential Election.
Boston, June 10,1848.
The papers will give you a fuH account
; of the Taylor whig meeting at Faneui! Hall
on the evening of the fifth. It was folly
attended by men of all parties-—old whigs,
new whigs, democrats, abolitionists, Ac.—
I The weather, too, was superb, which waa
in its favor. I have never had much doubt
of this city going “straight out” for Taylor;
but a Tisit to the country has convinced me
that the integrity of the whig party in the
rural districts, and in the small towns, is
sadly dsmaged. The address published
by Henry Wilson, who represented the
late Mr. Adams’s district in the late Phila
delphia Convention, expresses the present
opinions of at least one-half the country
whigs, perhaps, if not more. To oflset
this disaffection in the whig ranks, I know
of nothing in the democratic party, unless
it be true, as is freely said here, that the
officials in our post office and custom house
are for Taylor. Several of them, it is true,
did sign the call for the Taylor meeting;
but this is a mere drop from tho ocean, and
cannot be held to indicate much.
Whatever may have been the character
of the recent anti-Taylor whig meeting in
yout city, I can truly assure you that ir nas
had no small effect in this State already—
or rather, I should say, in this region.—
The way it works is this. Many of our
whigs, who are dissatisfied with Taylor’s
nomination, are, at the same time, not sat
isfied to throw their votes with a mere fac
tion, as the bolting whigs of Now England
would be, if unsupported by any portion of
their party in the other free States; but if
they could become convinced that they
would be supported by some thousands of
undoubted whigs in New York, Ohio, and
elsewhere, they would bolt forthwith.—
They wish to preserve their consistency,
and, at the same time, avoid ridicule. They
see, by the movement in your city, and by
accounts from Ohio, that there is a chance,
at least, of General Taylor being vigorously
opposed by some men of undoubted whig
gery in influential States, and they hope to
make their united opposition tell. I have
heard this substantially said by a score of
men who voted for Clay in 1844, within
the last twenty four hours; and it is a note
worthy fact, that it comes from men who
are either members of the “rotten” orcon
servative branch of the party, or who have,
at any rate, never been indentified with the
“conscience,” or radical branch of their po
litical organization. You can draw your
own conclusions, as can your hundred thou
sand readers. I only state facts.
The split in the whig organization, if it
come to any thing serious, will extend far
beyond the Presidential question. It may
not affect the governorship, as Governor
Briggs is so generally, and I must add, de
servedly popular, both as a man and as an
officer, that neither faction will venture to
throw him over. But it will affect the Con
gressional elections; and a very intelligent
whig, who supports Taylor, told me that
he was prepared for the defeat of six of tho
ten whigs now in Congress from this State.
There are thousands of “conscience” whigs,
abolitionists, and liberty-men, in the 2d, 3d,
4th, sth, Bth, 9th and 10th districts, and
they are by no means scarce in all the oth
ers. My own opinion is, that if the whig
disaffection should come to a head, andii
the democracy should come out in their fall
strength—the first a very probable event,
and the latter as much of a certainty as any
human thing of the future can be—there
will be a choicd of member of Congress in
only one district, and that the Ist, which
is Mr. Winthrop’s (Suffolk.) It reauires
a majority to choose all officers in this State,
a condition of things which throws prodi
gious power into the hands of voters, and
which enables them at any time that they
can get hold of a good solid grievance—or
what is supposed to be such—to break up
the strongest political organization. How
these probable vacancies will ultimately be
filled up, will depend upon the result of
the Presidential contest. Should General
Cass be elected, they will gradually be re
covered by the whigs, with one exception,
or perhaps two; hut should General Tay
lor be chosen, they will, in all human prob
ability, be carried by the democracy, with
two exceptions, or perhaps three. The
success of Tavlor would be held as virtu
ally extinguishing the whig party in New
England, in the eyes of a sufficient portion
(o( its members, to render their opinion a
certain fact. In that event, the bulk of
the democratic party in these States will
engraft’ on their original principles those
now held on the subject of slavery, by the
“conscience” whigs; while the latter will
adopt—most of them have already adopted
—those of the democracy on the tariff, cur
rency, Ac. It is a fact that I ought to par
ticularly mention, that, as a body, the “con
science” whigs are not opposed to an ex
tension of territory, but only to the admis
sion of slavery into such acquisitions as the
nation may make. There is nothing lo
prevent a cordial union of at least four-fifths
of the democracy, one-third of the whigs,
and one-half of the liberty-men, at the first
important election held after Taylor’s tri
umph.
The position of the democracy is just
this:—they say, that, if Gen. Cass should
be beaten, it will happen from the “coming
in of the South,” which voted for his nom
ination at Baltimore, against a |New Eng
land man, of undoubted talent and availa
bility ; and ttiat, therefore, they shall hold
themselves absolved from all obligation to
stand between the South and the full effects
of the spread and final ascendency of the
abolition, sentiment. They arc determined
not to permit the South to play over the
game of 1840 with impunity, when so ma
ny oC its States went against Mr. Van Bu
ren, whose popularity at the North had
V eil seriously damaged by his supposed
unduo regard for southern principles. This
stale of opinion ought to afford matter for
the gravest reflection on the part of south
ern men: and 1 mention its existence in the
Herald as being likely thereby to draw
their attention to it. My remarks hold good
of all the New England States, and I take
the Yankee privilege of guessing that they
might be not inaptly applied to N.Y. & Ohio.
Louis Napoleon and Mr Gallaidkt.
—The Ex-Editor of the Courier des Etats
Unis writes thus to his successor:
“You know that I live in the ancient
house of Bossuet, at Autenil. Some jour
nals of Paris having circulated a report
that Prince Louis was staying at Autenil,
and in this same house, I was taken for his
Highness; a journal even went so far as to
say,—“We have seen him; he is pale,
wears the ribbon of a chevalier,” Ac. Ac.
In short, l was described exactly. During
the day 1 was beset with visits from work
men, from old soldiers, Poles bringing pe
titions, and spies were continually hover
ing around me. Some wanted to carry mo
in triumph through Paris, while others talk
ed of conducting me from the Capitol to
the Tarpeian Rock—that is, to the prison
of Vincennes. Happily, I was at length
enabled to establish my own proper identi
ty,” Ac.
Bulwer and ins Lady. —A correspon
dent of the Boston Transcript writes from
London on the 2d inst. as follows:
Anew romance by Bulwer is announ
ced. It is entitled “Harold, the last of the
Saxon Kings.” Bulwer has recently lost
his only daughter. She was in the flower
of youth, amiable and accomplished. Pub
lic reports say that Lady Bulwer attemp
ted to see her daughter as she waa dying,
but Sir Edward forbade the unhappy moth*
er ad ission to the chamber of death.
The feud between the husband and wife
seems to be bitter indeed. But after rfcxt
odious novel, which the lady wrote, except
ing her domestic grievances, it can hard
ly be expected that the door to a reconcili
ation should ever be opened.