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Friday Morning, July £&, IKSO.
L.ARUKST CITY CIKCUI-ATION.
The Meeting at Salem,
We learn from a friend, was very large, ami
remarkably orderly. Messrs. Pugh and Clop
ton represented the Democratic party, and i
Messrs. Hilliard and Chilton, the Americans.
The Barbecue was an excellent one and the Sa
lem people treated their guests in the hand
somest manner. As to the discussion, both
parties claim the victory. After tea Messrs.
Watts and Benjamin Baker made Fillmore
speeches.
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Railroad Run-Offs.
The mail train coming east, on the Mont
gomery and West Point Road, ran off the
track on Wednesday night last, at or near No
tasulga. One passenger car was broken up,
but no one injured, wo are informed, beyond
a few bruises.
The night train for Montgomery, which loft
this city on Wednesday night, had its tender
to run off twice during the trip—onco near
Chchaw, and once when about eighteen miles
from Montgomery. No harm was done, ex
cept the losing of the mail. The accident wo
have heard attributed to a crooked axle tree
of the tender.
Brooks vs. Burlingame.
It will be seen, by reference to our tele
graphic column, that Mr. Burlingame of Mas
sachusetts has come very near a personal en
counter with Mr. Brooks of South Carolina.
The following is tho card which Mr. Burlin
game withdrew, and which was published as
an appendix to Mr. Brooks’ speech, announc
ing his resignation.
Mr. Burlingame, in a fair uud manly way
admitted his responsibility for any language
used in his speech, and disclaimed any inten
tion to reflect upon the personal character of
Mr. Brooks or impute to him in any respect a
want of courage; but, discriminating between
tho man and the act to which he was called
upon to allude, he had characterized the latter
only in such a manner as his representative
duty required him to do.
The above is a statement made by Mr. Bur
lingame in reference to the passage in his late
speech which refered to Mr. Brooks. It is in
the hr.nd writing of Mr. Speaker Banks, and
was acknowledged by Mr. Burlingame in our
presenco, and was satisfactory to us as friends
of Mr. Brooks. W. W. Poyck,
July 15, 1850. T. 8. Bocock.
From the Charleston Standard we take the
following paragraph, having reference to the
above:
This explanation, was not well received by
Mr. Burlingame’s constituents. The Boston
Courier published an articlo on the subject, in
which it is said that, in consideration of what
he had given out beforehand, that ho was re
sponsible for bis words, that he was. a “fight
ing man,’’ that he was practicing with a rifle,
&c., he should have made no explanation, but
accepted the consequences ; that he had “dis
graced his district and adopted State, and is
no representative of the character and cour
age of New England; ’’ and that “if at the
iCd of his Congressional career he should be
remembered at all, it would bo only for the
pusillanimous discrimination which he had
suffered himself to make between the man and
the act.” It was probably in obedience to this
sentiment at home, that he has withdrawn his
explanation.
Gov. Gardner to Gov. Winston.
The Boston Bee of the 19th. contains a
ply from Gov. Gardner of Massachusetts to
the late lotter of Gov. Winston, of Alabama,
returning some Abolition resolutions of the
Massachusetts Legislature. We make some
extracts.
On the charge that the resolutions were in
conflict with the truth of history, Gov. Gard
ner Bays:
Your Excellency may rest assured, not
withstanding your denial, that the exact accu
racy of historical fact here spoken of is known
to and recognized by every reader of those
resolves, whether he lives North or South.
The truth of history is too stern and inexo
rable, to warp itself to suit your excellency’s
wishes. These shameful occurrences are writ
ten, as with a pen of fir;;, on the broad skies,
for tho whole world to read, and they will ex
ist until history itself shall be no moro—a
damning disgrace to our country, our age, our
humanity: to those who dared to do them,
and to those who with equal hardihood dare
deny or defend them.
If you mean that the whole truth of history
is not expressed in those resolves, then, I
agree with you. They do not give tho half,
nor the worst of these inhuman outrages.
They make no reference to the rifling of mails;
to the organized irruption of the citizens of
another State to control the elections ; to ar
rest; without judicial authority ; to tho mock
ery of the legislation and inhuman law ; to the
destruction of printing presses ; to theft; to
arson; and last, that great and final crime,
beyond which hurnun depravity has no power
to go—cold-blooded and deliberate murder.
Should your Excellency invoke the whole
of history it must bring to your view the vis
ion of murdered men, of wives driven to mad
ness, and to your ear the organized cry of the
orphan, and all for the crime that their hus
bands and fathers opposed by vote or voice,
the introduction of human servitude into a re
gion that your fathor and my father dedicated
a third of a century ago, by a solemn national
compact, to freedom forever.
Your Excellency next asserts: “ the obliga
tions of the constitution, and the laws of the
United States, passed in conformity thereto,
being disregarded and nullified by Massachu
setts, we desire no further intercourse with
your State.
May I be permitted to remind your Excel
lency that ‘‘nullified” is not a word of Massa
chusetts growth, but that it is indigenous to
the South, and if you have any opprobrium
to bestow upon it you can freely do so much
more appropriately nearer home than here.
The lovalty of Maesachusetts to the consti
tution of th U. S. has been too often and too
signally evinced in critical periods of the
country s historj to require a further answer
from me to this ungracious suggestion; but
were it otherwise your excellency is not the
tribunal to decide for her a question involving
her fidelity to that instrument.
I am not aware that the Executive of Ala
bema has yet been made the co-ordinate in ju
k with the Supreme Court of the
iwm u. and un,il lt is ’ not tin then
” prewed with 00 UpOD ah * **< be ox
the slialTl.l P ro P net y or bo entitled to
ue slightest consideration.
Mr. Jacob L. of Piokens District
. C., committed suicide recently, by drown
,flS- He leaves a young family.
The Great Glass House.
In their last celebrated speeches in Con
gress, Messrs. Burlingame and Sumner of
Massachusetts, travelled out of the record to
slander the South, and especially S. Carolina,
for alleged lukewarmness, want of patriot
ism, inefficiency, etc., during the trying times
:of tho Revolution. To make such a statement
1 plausible, these talented vituperators must
have dabbled somewhat in the history of those
days; to ascertain where to distort the truth,
where to insinuate, and where boldly to pro
claim a falsehood, they must have consulted
the record. Wo marvel that while hatching
i up libels on the South, they did not stumble
: upon the truth about Massachusetts. We sup
pose they did not so, or they would never have
dared to challenge the comparison which has
been made, and which shows that while South
Carolina and the South, acted a noble and
self-sacrificing part, Massachusetts, worship
per, then as now, of the almighty dollar, was
ever looking after “the main chance.” In a
word this lofty Massachusetts citadel, from
which Sumner and Burlingame fire their broad
side, is nothing but a grand glasshouse, from
corner-stone to gable-end, and easily shivered
into a thousand pitiful fragments. Massachu
setts, that wears Bunker Hill upon her breast,
is a glasshouse; and scores of her revolution
ary sons can be proven from testimony unim
peacbuble, to be almost as non-combative as
Sumner and Burlingame. From extracts quo
ted by Mr. Keitt, in hiß late great speech,
whose length alone prevents us from publish
ing it, and from extracts in the Charleston
Mercury, taken from works quoted by Mr.
Keitt, we compile the following unanswerable,
overwhelming and damning record against the
“Gallant Bay State.” Tho chief witness is
George Washington, whose letters, Jared
Sparks, a Massachusetts historian, falsified,
and distorted, and whom Edward Everett so
delights to eulogise.
During tho War, General Washington wrote
many letters from Cambridge, Mass., to Gov.
Reed of Pennsylvania. We cull the following
extracts (from the above named sources) each
from letters dated at Cambridge, till other
wise mentioned:
In a letter dated Cambridge, 20th Nov.,
1775, Washington speaking of the Boston pri
vateers, says:
“Our rascally privateersmen (the word ras
cally is omitted by Sparks) go on at the old
rute, mutinying, if they cannot do as they
please. Those at Plymouth, Beverly, and
Portsmouth, have done nothing worth men
tioning in the prize way.”
Nov. 28, 1776.—Such a dirty, mercenary
spirit, (the word dirty also erased by Sparks)
pervades the whole, that I should not be at all
surprised at any disaster that may happen.”
Nov. 30, 1775.—N0t an officer in the army
but looks for an attack. This has no effect on
the Cambridge regiment; they are resolved to
go off.
Dec. 15, 1775.—0ur enlistment goes on
slowly. By the returns last Monday, only
6,917 men are engaged for the ensuing cam
paign; and yet we are told that we shall get
tho number wanted, as they are only playing
off to see what advantages are to be made, and
whether a bounty cannot be extorted, either
from the public at large, or individuals, in
case of a draft; time only can discover this.
Jan. 4, 1776.—1 wish this month were well
over our heads. The same desire of retiring into
a chimney corner seized the troops of New
Haupwliir,, ill,laland and Massachusetts,
(so soon as their time had expired,), as had
worked upon those of Connecticut, notwith
standing many of them made a tender of their
services, to continue till the lines could be suf
ficiently strengthened. We arc now left with
a good deal less than half raised regiments
and about five thousand militia, who only
stand engaged to the middle of this month ;
when according to custom, they will depart,
let the necessity of their stay be ever so ur
gent.”
Jan. 14, In6.—Could I have known that
such a backwardness would have been discov
ered in the old soldiers to service, all the gen
erals upon the earth would not have convinc
ed me of the propriety of delaying an attack
on Boston till this time.”
Feb. 10, 1776.—Notwithstanding all the
public virtue which is ascribed to these peo
ple, there is no nation under the sun (that I
ever came across) who pay a greater adora
tion to money than they do * * *
The party to Bunker’s Hill had some good
men in it. One or two courts have been held
on the conduct of part of it; to be plain, these
people among friends (“among friends” is
omitted by Sparks) are not to bo depended
upon if exposed; and any man will fight well
if he thinks there is no danger. Ido not ap
ply this to these people. I suppose it to be
the case with all raw and undesciplined troops.
Mauch -.6, 17b.—Monday next, ten regi
ments of militia, which were brought in to
servo till the Ist of April, stand disengaged.
From former experience, we have found it
equally practicable to stop a torrent as these
people, when their time is up. We have a
kind of people to deal with who will not fear
danger till the bayonet is at their breast, and
then they are susceptible enough of it.
Tho above extracts are compiled from the
Charleston Mercury, and it comments, (in
conclusion) as follows :
Such is the testimony of George Washing
ton against Massachusstts, With their State
invaded—their capital in possession of the
enemy—and troops from other States, with
a brave and devoted general, coming to their
relief, such was the spirit of her people!
Well may Mr. Everett appease, with eloquent
eulogy, the shade of Washington, sickened
and indignant at the conduct of his country
men ; and well may South Carolina claim his
testimony to rebuke the insolence and slan
ders of their descendants. Tho State that
acted thus in the Revolution— that hung out
“blue lights to ttaefoo” in 1812—that entrust
ed its honor in the war with Mexico to a regi
ment reernited from the rabble of the streets
of Boston, is not tho State to taunt Bonth
Carolina with “ shameful imbecility.”
But to Mr. Keitt’s speech. We quote :
Now, sir, let us see something of the gallan
try of Massachusetts in the war of the revolu
tion which has been so noisily vaunted here.
The following correspondence occurred while
the British were in possesion of Boston, and
the American forces under General Washing
ton were beleaguering it. Gen. Washington
in a letter to his brother, John Augustine
Washington, dated “Camp at Cambridge, July
“I found a mixed multitude of people here
under very little discipline, order, or govern
ment.”
In a letter to the President of the Council of
Massachusetts Bay, dated August 7, 1776—a
month after he arrived there—Gen. Washing
ton says:
“ By the general return made to me for last
week, I find there are great numbers of sol- !
diers and non-commissioned officers who absent
themselves from duty, the greater part of whom,
I Lave reason to believe, are at their respective
homes, in different parts of the country : some
employed by their officers on their farms, and j
others drawing pay from the public, while they J
are working on their own plantations or for
hire. My utmost exertions have not been able
to prevent this base and pernicious conduct.’
In a letter to the President of Congress, da
ted September 21, 1775, he says:
“The necessities of the troops having re
quired pay, 1 directed that those of Massacbu- ‘
setts should receive for one mouth, upon their
being mustered and returning a proper roll; j
but a claim was immediately made for pay by
lunar months, and several regiments have de
clined taking up their warrants on this ac
count.”
1 a letter to the President of Congress, da
ted November 11, 1775, Gen. Washington says:
“ The trouble I have in the arrangement of
the army is really inconceivable. Many of the
officers sent in their names to serve, in expecta
tion of promotion; others stood aloof, to see
what advantage they could make for them
selves ; whilst a number, who had declied,
have again sent in their names to serve. So
great has been the confusion, arising from
these and many other perplexing circumstances
that I found it absolutely impossible to fix this
very interesting business exactly on the plan
resolved on in the conference, though I have
kept up to the spirit of it as near as the na
ture nnd necessity of the case would admit.—
The difficulty with the soldiers is as great, in
deed, more so, if possible, than with the offi
cers. They will not enlist until they know
their colonel, lieutenant colonel, major and cap
tain, so that it was necessary to fix the officers
the first thing, which is, at last, in some man
ner done; and I have given out enlisting or
ders. ”
In a letter to the President of Congress, da
ted November 28, 1775—when the year for
which the men had enlisted was near its close,
he says,
“The number enlisted since my last is two
thousand five hundred and forty men; and I
am sorry to be necessitated to mention to you
the egregious want of public spirit which reigns
here. Instead of pressing to be engaged in
the cause of their country, which I vainly flat
tered myself would be the case, I find that we
are likely to be deserted in a most critical time.
Those that have enlisted must have a furlough,
which I have been obliged to grant to fifty at a
time, from each regiment.”
In a letter to Joseph Reed, of date Novem
ber 28, 1775, he says:
“ Such a dearth of public spirit, and such
want of virtue, such stock jobbing, and fertili
ty in all the low arts to obtain advantages of
one kind or another, in tnis great change of
military arrangement, I never saw before, and
I pray God’s mercy that I may never be wit
ness to again. What will be the end of these
manoeuvres is beyond my scan. I tremble at
the prospect. We havfe been till this time en
listing about three thousand five hundred men.
To engage those I have been obliged to allow
furloughs as far as fifty men to a regiment; and
the officers, I am persuaded, indulge as many
more. Such a mercenary spirit pervades the
whole, that I should not at all be surprised at
any disaster which may happen. In short, af
ter the last of this month, our lines will be so
weakened, that the minute-men and militia
must be called in for their defence ; and these,
being under no kind of government themselves,
will dentroy the little BUbordiiiaUuu I have
been laboring to establish, and run me into one
evil whilst I am endeavoring to avoid another;
but the less must be chosen. Could I have
foreseen what I have experienced, and am like
ly to experience, no consideration upon earth
should have induced me to accept this com
mand. A regiment or any subordinate depart
ment would have been accompanied by ten
times the satisfaction, and perhaps the honor.”
This was whilst the enemy had possession of
their capital, and a large number encamped in
full view of the American army.
In a letter to Gen. Schuyler, dated Decem
ber 5, 1775, Gen. Washington says:
“ I know that your complaints are too well
founded; but I would willingly hope that noth
ing will induce you to quit the service; and
that, in time, order and subordination will take
the place of confusion, and command be ren
dered more agreeable.”
Gen. Schuyler, in the letter to which this
was a reply, said:
“Nothing can surpass the impatience of the
troops from the New England colonies to get to
their firesides. Near three hundred of them
arrived a few days ago unable to do any duty;
but, as soon as I administered that grand spe
cific—a discharge—they instantly acquired
health ; and, rather than be detained a few
days to cross Lake George, they'undertook a
march irom here of two hundred miles with
the greates alacrity.”
General Washington says, in a letter to Gov.
Heed, of Pennsylvania;
“ In the two last weeks we have enlisted but
about two thousand men, whereas I was confi
dently led to believe by all the officers I con
versed with that we should by this time have
had tho regiments nearly completed. Our to
tal number amounts to ten thousand five
hundred; but as a large portion of them are
returned not joined, I never expect to see them;
as an order has onco been issued, another is
now going forth peremptorily requiring all offi
cers, upon pain of being cashiered, and re
cruits of being treated as deserters, to join
their regiment by the first day of next month,
that 1 may know my real strength,” &e., &c.
A month later, when the danger had increas
ed, and with it the solicitude af Washington,
when every appliance he was master of had
beon exhausted to augment the army he says:
“So far from my having an army of 20,000
men, well armed, &c., I have been here with
less than one half of it, including sick, fur
loughed, and on command; nnd these neither
armed nor clothed as they should be. In short,
my situation has been such that I have been
obliged to use arts to conceal it from mv own
officers.”
He charges them with even carrying off the
arms of the country. He says:
“ So many have been carried off, partly by
stealth, but chiefly as condemned, that we have
not at this time one hundred guus in the stores,
of all that have been taken in the prize-ship
and from the soldiery, notwithstanding the reg
iments are not half completed.”
I might multiply similar extracts, but 1 do
not care to press this subject further. lam
content that history shall adjudge the claims of
South Carolina and Massachusetts. Os blood
and of treasure my State furnished her share.
After 177 1, at no time were there more than
6,000 British troops in New England. Why
were they not swept away ? Why did not the
88,000 valiant heroes of Massachusetts alone
scatter them with their during courage! Sir,
where were these valiant men ? If you can
find out where they were, Mr. Speaker, you
can do more than the British ever did.
Analysis of the Vote on the Resolution to
Expel Prestan S. Brooks from the House
of Representatives.
FOR EXPULSION.
DEMOCRATS.
Hickman, of Pa, Vail, of N. J.
Packer, of Pa. Wells, of Wis.
Spinner, of X. Y. Williams, of N. Y.
FOR EXPULSION.
OPPOSITION.
Albright, of Ohio. Knowlton, of Me.
Allison, of Pa. Knox, of 111.
Ball, of Mass. Kunkel, of Pa.
Harbour, of Inti. Leiter, of 0.
j Bennett, of N. Y. Matteson, of N. Y.
Benson, of Me. McCarty, of N. Y.
J Billinghurst: of Wis. Meacham, of Vt.
| Bingham, of 0. Miller, of N. Y.
j Bishop, of N. J. Milliard, of Pa.
Bliss, of 0. Moore, of 0.
Bradshaw, of Pa. Morgan, of N. Y.
Brenton, of Ind. Morrill, of Vt.
Broom, of Pa. Mott, of 0.
Buffington, of Mass. Murray, ofN. Y.
Burlingame, of Mass. Nichols, of 0.
Campbell, of Pa. Norton, of 111.
Campbell, of 0. Oliver, of N. Y.
Chaffee, of Mass. Parker, of N. Y.
Clark, of N. Y. Pearce, of Pa.
Clark, of Conu. Peck, of Mich.
Clawson, of N. J. Palton, of N, Y'.
Colfax, of Ind. Pennington, of N. Y.
Corahs, of Mass. Perry, of Me.
Covode, of Pa. Pettit, of Ind.
Cragin, of N. H. Pike, of N. H.
Cumback, of Ind. Pringle, of N. Y.
Cullen, of Del. Purviance, of Pa.
Damrell, of Mass. Ritchie, of Pa.
Davis, of Mass. Robbins, of N. J.
Day, of Ohio. Roberts, of Pa.
Dean, of Conn. Robinson, of Pa.
DeWitt, of Conu. Sabin, of Vt.
Dick, of Pa. Sage, of N. Y.
Dickson, of N. Y. Sapp, of 0.
Dodd, of N. Y. Scott, of Ind.
Dunn, of Ind. Sherman, ofO.
Durfee, of R. I. Simmons, of N. V.
Edie, of Pa. Stanton, of 0.
Edwards, of N. Y. Stranaban. of N. Y.
Emrie, of O. Tappan, ofN. H.
Gulloway, of 0. Thorington, of lowa.
Giddings, of 0. Thurston, of R. I.
Gilbert, of N. Y. Todd, of Pa,
Granger, ofN. Y. Trafton, of Mass.
Gow, of Pa. Tyson, of Pa.
Hall, of Mass. Wade, of 0.
Harlan, of 0. Wakeman, of N. Y.
Haven, of N. Y. Walbridge,of Mich.
Hoffman, of Md. Waldron, of Mich.
Holloway, of Ind. Washburne, of Wis.
Horton, of N. Y. Washburne, of 111.
Horton, of 0. Washburn, of Me.
Howard, of Mich. Watson, of O.
Houghton. ofN. Y. Welch, of Conn.
Kelsey, of N. Y. Whitney, of N. Y.
King, of N. Y. Wood, of Me.
Knapp, of Mass. Woodruff, of Conn.
Knight, of Pa. Woodworth, of 111.
AGAINST EXPULSION.
DEMOCRATS.
Aiken, of S. C. Keitt, of S. C.
Allen, of 111. Kelly, of N. Y.
Barksdale, of Mies. Kidwell, of 0.
Bennett, of Miss. Letcher, of Va.
Bocock, of Va. Lumpkin, of Ga.
Boyce, of S. C. Marshall, of 111.
Branch, ofN. C. Maxwell, of Fla.
Burnett, of Ky. McMullen, of Va.
Cadwallader, of Pa. McQueen, of S. C.
Caskie, ofVa- Miller, of Ind.
Clingman, ofN. C. Millson, of Va.
Cobb, of Ala. Orr, of S. C.
Cobb, of Ga. Phelps, of Mo.
Craige, N. C. Powell, ofVa
Crawford, of Ga. Quitman, of Miss.
Davidson, of La. Hump, of N. C.
Denver, of Cal. Rust, of Ark.
Dowdell, of Ala. Sandidge, of La.
Edmundson, of Va. Savage, Tenn.
Elliott, of Ky. Seward, of Ga.
English, of lud. Shorter, of Ala.
Faulkner, of Va, Smith, of Tenn.
Florence, of Pa. Smith, of Va.
Goode, of Va. Stephens, of Ga.
Greenwood, of Ark. Stewart of Md.
Hall, of lowa. Taylor, of La.
Harris, of 111. Warner, of Ga.
Harris, of Ala. Wheeler, of N. Y.
Houston, of Ala. Winslow, of N. C.
Jewett, of Ky. Wright, of Miss.
Jones, of Tenn. Wright, of Tenn.
Jones, of Penn.
AGAINST EXPULSION.
OPPOSITION.
Bell, of Texas. Oliver, of Mo.
Bowie, of Md. Porter, of Mo.
Carlile, of Va. Puryear, of N. C.
Cox, of Ky. Reade, of N. C.
Davis, of Md. Ready, of Tenn.
Etheridge, of Tenn. Ricaud, of Md.
Eustis. of La. Rivers, of Tenn.
Evans, of Texas. Smith, of Ala.
Foster, of Ga. Snead, of Tenn.
Harris, of Md. Sowpe, of Ky.
Harrison, of 0. Talbott, of Ky.
Kenneth, of Mo. Trippe, of Ga.
Lake, of Miss. Underwood, of Ky.
Lindley, of Mo. Walker, of Ala.
H. Marshall, of Ky. Watkins, of Tenn.
A. K. Marshall of Ky. Zollicoffer, of Tenn.
RECAPITULATION.
For Expulsion, Democrats ; 6
“ -‘ Opposition .116
122
“ “ Free State men 120
“ “ Slave State men 2
122
Against Expulsion, Democrats 00
“ “ Opposition 32
90
“ “ Free State men 13
“ “ Slave State men 82
90
ABSENT OR NOT VOTING.
Barclay, of Pa. Herbert, of Cal.
Campbell, of Ky. Mace, of Ind.
Caruthers, of Mo. Paine, of N. C.
Childes, of Del. Richardson, of 111.
Flagler, ofN. Y. Talbott, of Ky.
Fuller, of Pa. Trumbull, of 111.
Fuller, of Me. Valk, of N. Y.
[Note. —Upon the authority of Mr. Brooks’card, pub
lished iu our yesterday’s issue, we havo classed Mr. Cul
len, of Delaware, among the Slave State “Opposition”
voters for expulsion. In most of the lists he Is put down
uuder the head of “absent or not voting.”—Eds. Sun.]
At a Democratic pole raising last week, in
Lebanon, Indiana, A. G. Nelson was instantly
killed by the falling of a beam used in eleva
ting the pole. He was one of the best citizens
of tho town.
Jean Paul is quoted against Mr. Buchanan,
as follows: “No man can livo piously, nor die
righteously, without a wife.” But an old
“ Bach” replies—“ True! Sufferings and se
vere trials chasten the heart.”
The Empress Eugenie has nearly or quite
recovered the use of her lower limbs, which it
was feared some time since she would lose the
use of entirely.
Subscription lists for tho benefit of sufferers
by the late frightful railroad accident in Penn
sylvania, are in circulation at Philadelphia.—
Over SI,OOO has been received at the Inquirer
office alone.
The Augusta Chronicle “presumes” that
the reason why Mr. Thos. W. Thomas, Demo
cratic State Elector, declined serving, was,
unwillingness to encounter a declaration of
his, made before the Cinciunati nomination,
viz: “If Buchanan is nominated, I will not
i vote for him.”
A letter in the Richmond Dispatch states
j that Mr. Wm. M. Kelley, of Caroline county,
: on the 14th instant, roused from his Bleep,
! seized his gun and fired nt someone entering
! his house to rob him, as he thought. Instead
of this it proved that ho had shot his own wife,
who was engaged in fastening up the house.
Mrs. K. died the next day. Mr. K. is almost
distracted in consequence of the terrible mis-
I take, and has to be watched to prevent him
from committing suicide. He is said to be an
exceedingly timid man, and always slept with
his gun by his side.
TELEGRAPHIC items
From Washington.
July 19. —The reports of tlm •
minority of the Kansas , UU<
printed. They make nearly
octavo pages. It is designed to call up
Kansas contested election case next J ‘f
July 21. —The United States Senate f< 1
amended the Fortifications Bill bv 1
the appropriation to SIIB,OOO and ; t Ueiu f
then passed. A resolution to adjourn I!!
11th of August was passed. I u J t he House i
Representatives a bil} to establish a 2? *
rule for naturalization was reported tS ‘
resolution to adjourn on the 11th of A J
was discussed. Mr. Dunn declared thTJ
appropriations should be made until the u *
sas bill had passed, and said that he w
vote for Mr. Fillmore for President as ti ij
only man who can restore peace to the cm *1
try No action was taken on the
Mr. Burlingame has published a card
which he says that his explanation to’th,
triends of Col. Brooks having been pervert. 3
and misunderstood, he now withdraws it v and
holds himself responsible for his speech with! !
out qualification or amendment. The card
here considered as re-opening the controvert! i
Much excitement exists, and many rumors ari
afloat as to a hostile meeting being in contemfl
plation. Nothing, however, has as yet occur!
red to justify the reports.
July 22,— 1n the Senate to-day, Mr. Butler
introduced a bill to regulate the compensation
of members of Congress. The Senate concur!
red in the amendment of the House of Reprel
sontatives to adjourn on the 18th of August!
The Senate also passed two Northwestern Harl
bor Appropriation bills. The House amendt i
the Senate’s resolution for the adjournment!
and fixed the 18th of August. The House ref
jected the resolution declaring Mr. Chapmut
not elected delegate from Nebraska.
Col. Brooks was arrested and held to bai
to-day to keep the peace in the sum of §5,000
on the affidavit of Francis C. Treadwell, of X
York. Bell, of Texas, was his surety. Mr
Burlingame is absent, but the police are oi
his track. It was reported that a duel hat
been fought at an early hour this morning, an.
Mr. Burlingame wounded, and at first then
seemed to have been some foundation for tin
report; but it is now asserted that no duel ha<
occurred, and that the matter has been arnica’
bly arranged, and that the correspondence will
be published to-morrow. The affair, however,
is enveloped in mystery. The meeting was to
have takeD place near the Clifton House, Niag
ara. Col. Brooks, when held to bail, said to
the magistrate “you are too late”— thus leav
ing the inference that the affair had been set
tied.
Another dispatch gives tho following ver.
sion:
The city is full of rumors about the affair ol
honor between Brooks and Burlingame. I
have reason to believe that Burlingame has
named the Clifton House, on the Canada side
of Niagara Falls, as the place where he would
receive Mr. Brooks’ challenge, and that he has
gone there, and furthermore that Brooks de
clines going on the ground that it would not
be safe for him at the present time.
July 22. —The testimony in the Herbert
trial has been concluded. The counsel for the
defence offered to submit the case to the jury
without argument, but the prosecution objec
ted thereto.
Later from Havana—Fire.
New Yoke, July 21 —The ship Quaker City
has arrived from Mobile. She brings advices
from Havana to the 18th inst. In Havana the
Yellow Fever was on the decline. The Cap
tain General Concha, was sick with it. The
clipper ship War Hawk had landed a cargo of
568 Coolies. There was no political news of
importance.
New Yoke, July 22. —A large fire occurred
at Amsterdam, in this State, to-day.
Fire in Augusta-
Augusta, Tuesday Night— A fire broke out
this evening, and before it could be arrested,
the upper wooden row of the Factory buildings
was entirely destroyed.
Sound Sense.
The Church Journal, an organ of the Epis
copalian denomination, warmly condemns all
preaching against Slavery. The following is
its argument;
“ In our own day, we hear loudly on every
side of us, here at the North, that the ‘Spirit
of the Gospel’ is ‘opposed to slavery.’ Now
this is either true, or it is not true. If it is
not true, then there is not even a decent pre
tence for the cry that it is ‘the duty’ of minis
ters of the Gospel to preach against slavery.
If, on the other hand, it is true that ‘the Spir
it of the Gospel is opposed to slavery,’ then
let the clergy devote themselves wholly to pro
moting ‘the Spirit of tho Gospel;’ for that
‘Spirit of the Gospel,’ if thus opposed, will do
away Slavery itself, as it is strong enough.-
This indirect influence will operate more rap
idly than direct agitation.”
Deplorable Ignorance.
The London Illustrated News, of June 21st,
pretends to give a series of views in the nevt
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. One ol
these is particularly refreshing, on account ot
the sublime ignorance it manifests with regard
to our American geography. This is a picture
of “Baton Rouge, Nebraska!” A large steam
er is ploughing the stream, and on the ban
of the river is the Gothic and turreted Stan
house of Louisiana. This, however, is about
as near as our John Bull cousins ever arrive
at facts regarding the United States.
The London Times-
The erratic course of the London Times,
says an exchange paper, respecting this coun
try and in relation to all public questions,
explained by the fact that three-fifths of 6
paper are owned by the Rothschilds, and henci
it is made a mere stockjobbing instrument.
The Times seized upon the little flurry a ou
Mr. Dallas, and gave it a ridiculous exaggeia
tion, to enable its banking owners to
stocks at a reduced price, under am ° m ®i 1 n a s’
panic, which they did, and made £lO, w
the operation.
A California Coroner.
The vigilance committee, in the course ot
their investigation into the case of a corom-i
whom they had arrested, elicited satisfactory
evidence that he was in the habit of disintei
ring the bodies of persons who had been
buried, for the purpose of dropping them m
the docks, and thus receiving the fees atten
ing the inquest. In this way, it is said, one
body has been made to do service three or lou
times—or as long as it would hold together.
This accounts in part for the great num e>
of bodies, that a little while ago, were toun
constantly under the wharves of San ram
isco.
There is to be a gathering of deal mutes
at Concord, New Hampshire, on the 3d ot P
tember next, when an “oration is to e
livered, in the sign language of course, by •
Lacerent Clerc, who has been chosen the °
tor of the day.” The services of Rev. la
as Gallaudet, of New York, have been secur
as interpreter for the benefit of the be
portion of the assembly.