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Friday Morning, Aiiguwt ■"' 1856.
LARGEST CITY C IRC CITATION.
•We give up much of our space to-day to u
lengthy appeal in favor of Southern interests
in Kansas. There was no news afloat of spe
cial interest, except what we give; and not
knowing when a like opportunity for publish
ing this important document would occur, we ,
huve thought it best to avail ourselves of the
present one.
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Alabama Elections.
Last Monday was general election day in
Alabama. The elections this year, however,
were confined to county officers.
in Pike, a considerable change has taken
place since last August. Then, the K. N. ma
jority was over 100. This year the vote is as
follows:
•lames Nall, democrat, for Sheriff 1233
J. Brooks, K. N 1101
J. Cade, democrat, for Assessor 12G8
Mr. Tyson, K. N HOG
b. M. Smith, democrat, for Treasurer... 1270
Mr. Jones K. N 1024
Eloction of Circuit Court Clerk in doubt.
In Uusscll, the election was for Tax Collec
tor. Robinson, democrat, is reported to be
elected.
in Montgomery county, the only election
was for tax collection. All the precincts heard
from but one, gives Cause, K. N. 234 majori
ty
In Macon couuty, a Tax Collector und Coun
ty Commissioners, were to be elected. The
average K. N. majority is over 200. The vote
for tax collector, two precincts (Enon an So
ciety Hill) to hoar from, stands for Mabson,
K. N. 800, Brewer, Dem. G 52.
James B. Clay, the eldest son of the late
Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, is out for
Buchanan and Brcckenridge. He is said to
have made a speech at the Buchanan Ratifica
tion meeting at Mivysville, Ky.
For the Daily Sun.
University of Georgia—First Day.
The Annual Commencement Exercises of
this institution were opened on yesterday,
Sunday, Aug. 3d, by a sermon from the Rev. ’
Samuel W. Higgins, of Columbus. The prin
cipal point of his discourse was, “That relig
ion was the only true basis of character.” To
illustrate which, he compared tho lives of
Moses and Solomon. To say that it was sound,
chaste and eloquent, would be paying a small
compliment to liis well deserved reputation.
As all had heard of his ability, much was ex
pected ; to him they gave their profound at
tention, and the expectations of all were ful
filled. His remarks to the graduating class
wefe truly touching.
Prom tho throng that tilled to overflowing
the capacious Chapel, we judge that the Com
mencement will bo more largely attended this
year thau for many yeai s past,
On Monday evening at 4 o’clock, the Sopho
more prize exhibition camo off. The following
is the programme of tho orators ;
SOPHOMORE PRIZE DECLAMATION.
ir * ’ Heasl( ty Troup co.—Adams aud
wetterson.—E. Everett.
William Barron, of Clinton—Byron— Pollok.
. , l’’ onta *ne, of Columbus—Address in
behalf of the Greeks—Lacey.
A. I. Hodo, of Pickeus, Ala.—-Rienzi’s last
Address to the Homu. ? is.
William Taylor, of Cuthbert—The Bible—G.
r . Pieroe.
G. G. Ragland, of Columbus—Bernardo del
Carpio—Mrs. Hemans.
J. L. Chandler, of Mobile, Ala.—National
Monument to Washington— Winthrop.
J. lajlor, of Cuthbert—Love of Country—
harden.
J. It. North, ot Nownan—The Hermitage—
Bellew.
J. B. Wolte, of Dublin—Mexican War—ll.
Clay.
R. W. Adams, of Athens—Tribute to Wash
ington—Prest. Hartison.
Wm. Ward, of Brazoria co. Texas.—Sparta
cus to the Roman Envoys.
E. P. Hill, of Marshall, Texas.—Bliss of
Matrimony—Anonymous.
We do not hesitate to say that it was as fine
a display of oratory as was over made by any
Sophomore class. Wm. Beasley, although he
had the disadvantage of being the first on the
list, did great credit to himself.
Mr. Barron also evinced groat oratorical
powers. 11 is chief fault was not speaking suf
ficiently loud.
Although others may thiuk differently, yet
if we had the distribution of tho medals, our
choice would be, for the first, Mr. Adams ;
for tho second, Mr. Ragland. Mr. A., posses
ses a fine voice, free and easy gesture; he
seemed to understand liis speech, and to enter
into the spirit of it. Mr. R. is undoubtedly
possessed of the power of moving men’s
hearts. He felt what he said, and said it well.
By r proper cultivation, he might become a fine
orator.
Mr. J. Taylor did not seem at all abashed ;
on the contrary, quite oqual to the occasion.
Mr. Hill concluding the exercises of tho day
with his laughable piece ou Matrimony, which
made a good impression on the audience.
“Me.”
The New York Churches.
Noticing the recent completion of the Bap
tist Church in Fifth avenue, at a cost of about
SIOO,OOO, a correspondent of the Boston Jour
nal remarks:
“ Wo have now hardly a church that men of
moderate means can attend ; most of the down
town churches have removed their places, but
substantial houses have given place to tho
costly and showy structures ; pew rents have
risen accordingly. Hundreds of families in
New York, genteel but not wealthy, are with
out churches or society, because they cannot
afford to pay the pew rents. A man can do
as be pleases with his own house ; but those
who erect places of public worship and put the
expenses of public worship* above the reach of
the average of society, do society substantial
and enduring wrong. The Sabbath belougs
to the poor man. The Gospel is his. To the
poor belong the ordinances. Their success and
moral health is the moral health of the peo- j
pie, and the corruption and degeneracy of the j
masses is the ruin of the whole State.”
The Americans of Connecticut, were to have
held a convention in that State on the 6th inst.
to nominate a Fillmore electoral ticket.
THE VOICE OF KANSAS!
LET THE SOUTH RESPOND.
Appeal by the Law and Order Party’ of Kansas
Territory to their Friends in the South, and
to the Law-Abiding People of the Union.
One of the Committee, (Col. Buford,) places
the manuscript in our bauds, and we commend
it to tho serious attention of the readers of the
Review. The cause is one to which, without :
i loss of asiugloday, every Southern man should
contribute. Alabama, South Carolina aud j
Georgia, have been lavish in their aid. The I
loss of Kansas will give to the enemies of
j Southern institutions a victory more signal and
more important than has yet been won over
us. To avert the mischief, prompt aud con
certed action at the Soutu is only needed.—
Those familiar with the state of ass airs iu Kan
sas know that it can only be abolitionized by
the supineness of the people of this section,
whose all is at stake in these contests. — De
Bow's Review for August, 1860.
The undersigned, at a recent meeting of the
party, were constituted a committee, charged,
among other things, with the publication of
this address.
That a state of insurrection aud civil war
exists among us is abundantly evident ; the
“ law and order party” on the one side, op
posed on the other by the abolitionists, sent
out and sustained by the Emigrant Aid Socie
ties of the North. A brief review of the points
at issue, and their controliug circumstances,
may be useful to justify this our appeal for aid.
In territorial politics, the question of free
or slave State has swallowed up every other.
The abolitionists on the one hand, in accord
ance with their early teaching, regard slavery
as the greatest possible evil; they deem it a
monstrous national crime, which their false
theories of government impute equally to eve
ry portion of the confederacy, and thus be
lieving themselves individually responsible for
its existence, they feel bound each to struggle
for its overthrow; to such extremes have
wicked demagogues stimulated their fanati
cism, that their perverted consciences justify
any mode of warfare against slaveholders,
however, much in violation of law, however
destructive of property or human life, aud
however atrociously wicked it may seem to
others ; nay, many of them already go so far
as to oppose all law, religion, property, order,
and subordination among men, as subversive
ot what they are pleased to call man’s natural
aud inherent equality. And with them it is
no more a local question whether slavery shall
, exist anywhere in the Union. Kansas they
justly regard as tho mere outpost in the war
now being waged between the antagonistic civ
ilizations of the North and the South; and
winning this great outpost and stand-point,
they rightly think their march will be open to
an easy conquest of the whole field. Hence
the extraordinary means the abolition party
has adopted to flood Kansas with the most fa
natical and lawless portion of northern socie
ty ; and hence the large sums of money they
have expended to surround their brother Mis
sourians with obnoxious aud dangerous neigh
bors.
On tho other hand, the pro slavery element
of the “ law and order party” in Kansas, look
ing to the Bible, find slavery ordained of God;
they find there, as by our law, slavery made
“an inheritance to them and their children
forever.” Looking to our national census,
and to all statistics connected with the African
race, and considering, too, their physical, in
tellectual, and moral natures, we see that
slavery is the African’s normal and proper
slate ; since, iu that state, that race multiplies
faster, has more physical comfort, less vice,
and more moral and intellectual progress than
in any other.
We believe slavery the only school iu which
the debased sou of 11am, by attrition with a
higher race, can be refined aud elevated : we
believe it a trust and guardianship given us of
God for tho good of both races. Without su
gar, cotton, and cheap clothing, can civiliza
tion maintain its progress ? Can these be sup
plied without slavery? Nay, in tho absenco of
slave institutions, must not social distinctions
supervene among the free to tho detriment of
republican equality ? This is no mere property
question, but a great social and political
question of races; it is not a question of wheth
er A. or B. shall be owner, but of whether
the slave, still having a master, shall still be a
working bee, and not an idle drone in the hive:
a question of whether the South shall still be
a land flowing with milk and honey, or a laud
of mendicants and vagabonds ; a great question
of races ; a question of whether we shall sink
to the level of the freed African, and take him
to the embrace of social and political equality
and fraternity; for such is the natural end of
abolition progress. Fanaticism must defend
its beneficiaries—first, by sending the federal
army to protect them, and ultimately by giv
ing them the right to bear arms, vote, testify,
make and administer laws—in short the right
to eat out our substance, to pull us down” to
their level, to taint our blood, and bring us to
a degradation from which no time can redeem
us. Thus radical and marked is the difference
between the two parties, and not less their
difference in practice ; while wo, iu good faith,
sustain and uphold the laws, the abolitionists
on the other hand, in effect, repudiate and set
them at defiance ; with open disloyalty they
assert the invalidity of the territorial laws,
while they render our national insignia only
the mockery of a hollow respect; indeed, more
than once, they have openly resisted the mar
shal iu the sorvico of process, and, in some
places, their organized armed resistance to the
territorial laws is so overwhelming that minis
ters of the iaw there never attempt the dis
charge of their official duties ; they have re
pudiated payment of taxes, and have held and
published the proceedings of large public meet
ings in which they resolved to resist, even to
blood, the territorial laws, and especially the
laws for the collection of tho public revenue.
According to testimony under oath lately given
before the Congressional Committee, they have
secret military organizations for resisting the
laws and for carrying out their abolition de
signs uponKausas—organizations in which the
members are bound by tho most solemn oaths
to obey their leaders', in all cases, not except
ing even murder and treason. It is abundant
ly proved by eye witnesses, of unquestioned
veracity, that at this present time they have
at different points in the territories banded to
gether in actual enenmpment large numbers
of armed men, subsisted and kept together by
their aid societies for no other object than to
make forays upon the country and drive our
frieuds from their homes.
By such banditti the murders near Ossa- ,
wattamie, on Pottawattamie creek, were com
mitted; declarations by the perpetrators eo
temporaneous with their foul deeds indubita
bly show (the parentage of these crimes; six
victims, whose bodies have been fouud, fell in
that massacre, besides four others missing
from tho neighborhood, and not yet heard
from. Os the six, one was Allen Wilkinson,
Esq., a member of the territorial legislatare
und postmaster at Shermanville; sick with
the measles; for no other offence save that of
being a law and order man, he was dragged
at midnight from his bed, and from the side of
a sick and imploring wife, by a band of aboli-
tion assassins, acting as they said in the name j
of the great northern army; within hearing
of the terror stricken wife, with fiendish bar
barity, he was flayed alive, his nose and ears
were cutoff, his scalp torn from his heal, aud
then lie was stabbed through the heart. Such ;
is the sworu evidence of his widow, lately ten
dered in Westport, before the Congressional
Investigating Committee. It revealed on the
1 part of their friends sucli a picture of sav- 1
age ferocity that the Committee for ouee ,
blushed, and even stultified themselves, rather |
, than receive the testimony as competent. —
1 They had already received nnd recorded the (
! evidence of Pardee Butler, testifying that [
since their appointment as Commissioners lie ;
bad been tarred and feathered for negro steal
ing ; but this decision they unblushingly re
versed, aud erased the evidence rather than
be forced to put up against their friends this
horrible tale of the Ossawattamie murder
upon the record. Besides Wilkinson, William
Sherman and brother, and Mr. Doyle and two
sons, were proved to have been murdered at
their respective homes on the same night aud
by the same band; one of the Doyle’s also had
bis fingers and arms cut off before he was fi
nally dispatched. Incredible ns these things
may seem, they unquestionably happened in
Kansas Territory in the latter part of last
month: yet what is more incredible, but not
less true, is tho undeniable fact that these out
rages are not, as some pretend, the mere ex
travagances of a few irresponsible individuals,
but ou the contrary are justly chargeable to
the abolition party, as tho legitimate fruit of
their party measures and party discipline, ana
as naturally resulting from the public teach
ings, advice and course of their chief men
and distinguished leaders.
The outrages above specified were preceded,
and up to’the present time, have been follow
ed by others of a like character and dictated
by a like settled policy on the part of our ene
mies to harrass and frighten, by their deeds
of horror, our friends from their homes in the
territory. Undoubtedly this policy—a well
settled party system —lias dictated the notices
lately given in all the disturbed districts by
armed marauding bauds of abolitionists to the
law and order men of their respective neigh
borhoods immediately to leave the country on
peril of death. Under such notices our friends
about Hickory Point, and the Pottawattamie
and Rock creeks have all been driven out of
the territory, their stores have been robbed,
their cattle driven off, their houses burned,
their horses stolen, and in some cases they have
been assassinated for daring to return ; some,
too, of these outrages have been perpetrated
under the Very nose of the United States
troops, who all the while assert that all is
peace aud quietness, and that they will afford
ample protection, without the necessity of our
banding together in armed bodies for mutual
defence. Among many others of our friends
thus driven away, we might specify the cases of
Messrs. Hargons, Jones and Owens, of Hicko
ry Point, whom two hundred United States
troops stationed within two miles of their
homes have been unable to inspire with a
sense of security. Morton Bourn, a most ex
emplary, quiet aud unoffending man of our
party, living within eight miles of Lecompton,
the capital of the territory, where quite a
number of troops are stationed, was lately
driven from his home by a band of twenty
five men, who robbed him of all his guns, five
saddles, three horses, the blankets from ■ is
beds and over fifty dollars in money. The
thieves gave him twenty-four hours to leave
with his family, and theatened to kill him if he
ever returned, saying, they intended to serve
all ihe pro-slavery men in the neighoorhood in
the same way. Mr. Bourn is still out of the
territory, and though anxious about his prop
erty and desirous to return, yet lie dares not
do so ; although as often as ho applies, the
troops and Governor assure him that all is
quiet, and that he shall have ample protection;
but he knows that unless they remain constant
ly about his house taey cannot keep marau
ders and murderers away. This case is spe
cified not for its peculiar enormity or hard
ships, but because it is a fair (type of a large
class of such cases, and because the under
signed have all the details from Mr. Bourn
himself; aud know them to be strictly true;
indeed one of us assisted his family in their
flight the day after the robbery.
It is but too evident the troops cannot enable
our friends ts maintain their ground in any part
of the territory where the abolition element is
in the ascendant; notwithstanding, we assure
our friends that, after the mostdilligent inqui
ry aud attention to that point, we firmly be
lieve that our party has a well established, de
cided, and increasing majority of actual set
tlers in the territory. This majority, however,
we do not believe can be maintained unless
something bo done to give confidence to our
friends, where they are few and weak in num
ber. This can only be clone by colonizing large
settlements together, under one common head
with absolute control; let, say from one to
three hundred agriculturists, mechanics and la
borers to settle together iu some suitable point,
to be indicated by the undersigned, or some
other committee charged with the general inter
ests of the party. This can be lawfully, safe
ly and efficiently done, and by this means law
and order can be maintained in the territory;
and we say this, too, notwithstanding we are in
possession of very convincing evidence to the
fact, that the abolitionists of the North intend
during the coming month to introduce large num
bers of their hired bands to put their treason
able pretended government into operation by
force. These measures of mutual defeuce and
future progress, however, require means, and
demand aid from our friends abroad. The col
onists should be subsisted a reasonable time, and
each individual furnished with adequate agri
cultural or mechanical outfit, so there can be
no want of settlers coming and remaining at
the points where they are most needed. Funds !
ave required, nnd for these we call upon our
Southern friends—upon all having a common
interest—nay, we call on all loving justice and
wishing equal rights to each State nnd section
of the Union—we call on the honest free State
mnn, who,sick of the agitation and strife
brewed by the abolitionists, desires the resto- i
ration of peace and quiet to the country.—
These can be restored only by restoring to the
weaker and attacked section the means of fu- ‘
ture defence, in restoring its equilibrium with J
.lie mnjority section. Fanatical aggression
cannot be quieted by giving, but it may be by
taking away the power to etfect its ends. All
fair minds who have looked this question full iu !
the face, know and admit that it is not merely a
question of whether Kansas shall be a slave j
State or not, but a question of whether the en
tire South shall not become the victim of mis-
I guided philanthrophy. That man or State is
’ deceived that fondly trusts these fanatics may
stop at Kansas. To use that territory as the
mere “key to the future”—the mere means of
ulterior operations against the whole South—-is
unquestionably the settled policy of the ultra
abolitionists, the hend and soul of the aggres
sion, and whose opinions in the end must leav
en and control the whole body—the whole mass
that acts with them.
The most convincing proof (if proofs were
needed) of this was recently given before tlio
Congressional Investigating Commmittee.—
Judge Mathew Walker, a Wyandott, an un
impeachable witness, nnd most reliable man,
testified before the committee, that before the
abolitiunists selected Lawrence as their centre
of operations, their leader, Gov. Robinson, at
tempted to get a foothold for them in the Wy
andott reserve, near the junction of the Kansas
and Missouri rivers; that in his negotiations
for that purpose, Robinson finding it necessary j
to communicate their plans and objects, divulg- ;
’ ed to Waiker (whom he then supposed a sym- j
1 puthieer) that the abolitionists were determined
j on winning Kansas at any cost; that then liav- j
ing Missouri surrounded on three sides, they ;
j would begin their assaults on her; and as fast
1 as one State gave way, attack another, till the
| whole South was abolitionised. That this rev
j elation was actually made the undersigned have j
not the slightest doubt; and we are equally
confident that in that matter the abolition par
ty was truly represented by Robinsou, who Las
always been their chief man and acknowledged
leader in Kansas.
It is widely reporterted, and generally be
lieved, that the northern abolitionists are now
raising large bodies of armed men, under mili
tary organization and discipline, to be surrep
titiously introduced into the territory for the
objects of driving out the peaceable inhabitants,
setting the laws at defiance, and overwhelming
the law and order party at the decisive election
for a Territorial Legislature to come off on the
first Monday in October next. It is not impos
sible they may partially succeed in their aims ;
their labors to inflame the northern mind are so
incessant, their faculty of misrepresentation is
so extraordinary—so fatally bent on mischief.
Their papers, for instance, show up the Ossa
wattamie massacre as an outrage of our own ;
according to their account, “five pro-slavery
men were hanging an abolitionist, when his five
friends providentially came up and shot them
in the act.”
All have heard, through the papers, of the
killing of Stewart by Cosgrove. The facts
were these: Stewart being in Lawrence, when
news reached there of an abolitionist having
been just killed at Blanton’s bridge, in the
vicinity, started off with four others towards
the California road, all swearing they would
kill the first pro-slavery man they met. Lieut.
Cosgrove and Dr. Bratton, two quiet and wor
thy men of our party, happened to be passing
just as Stewart and his men reached the road.
The five halted the two at the distance of only
five or six paces, and to the astonishment and
horror of the weaker party, immediately after
halting them, began snapping and firing at
them. Cosgrove seeing Bratton shot through
the arm, fired and killed Stewart, and then,
with his wounded companion, escaped under a
shower of bullets. The next day a Lawrence
man being taken as a spy and searched, a let
ter was found on his person to a friend in the
North, detailing Stewart’s death, in which he
says, Stewart was met alone, unarmed, and
without cause or excuse; shot down by five
border ruffians.
Indeed, it was proved before the Investiga
ting Committee, that the abolition party had
traveling agents in the territory, whose duty
it was to gather up, exaggerate and report for
publication rumors to the prejudice of the law
and order party, and with the view to excite
abolitionists to come to the territory ; and the
witness, Parrot, admitted in his examination
that he, as agent, had prepared such a report,
and placed it in the hands of Sherman, one of
the committee, since his arrival in Kansas.
Sherman was then on the committee, .and did
not deny it.
How can there be other than the most exas
perated state of feeling between the two sec
tions ? How can civil war be avoided, when
honorable committee-men countenance such
reckless mischief ? Look the future in the face
like men: if standing up to our rights, to our
responsibilities, and to our trust, brings peace
and security, so much the better; no other
course can effect it. Send us men and means.
We must have your help. Appoint agents,
responsible, trusty, reliable men, for every
State, district and neighborhood, whose sole
business shall be to canvass for aid. Did we
know suitable persons who would act, we
would not hesitate to appoint them all over
the country, Let our friends send their names,
with details as to character aud qualification,
and we will duly accredit them. One gentle
man, an Alabamian, Alpheus Baker, jr., Esq.,
of Eufaula, Alabama, whom we all know, who
has been here, and has distinguished himself
by the zeal, success, and signal ability with
which for a while he canvassed the border
counties in Missouri for aid, we take the liberty
of nominating, without assurance that he will
accept. We trust that he may. Friends of the
cause must contribute according to their seve
ral gitts—we must not meanly abandon our
birthright, and, without a struggle, yield to
grasping monopoly this fairest Eden of our
common domain—this laud of flowing brooks
and fertile plain. Kansas is indeed the garden
spot of America, and in every way adapted to
Southern Institutions ; in no other part of the
Union is slave labor more productive; and, in
the present imperilled state of our civilization,
if we do not maintain this outpost, we cannot
long dofend the citadel. Then rally to the
rescue.
Any communications our friends in the South
may be pleased to favor the undersigned with,
will reach us most safely and certainly, if di
rected to us at Westport, Missouri. Funds
contributed may be sent to our Treasurer, A.
G. Boone, Esq., directed to him at the same
place. DAVID R. ATCHISON,
WM. 11. RUSSELL,
JOS. C. ANDERSON,
A. G. BOONE,
B. F. STRINGFELLOW,
J. BUFORD.
Westport, June 24, 1856.
Col. Jefferson Buford:
Dear Sir—Your colleagues of the committee j
appointed by the “law and order” party in I
Kansas, to direct and control their action,
have unanimously resolved to require you to
proceed at once to the South, for the purpose
of presenting to tho people of the South the
vital importance of their earnest, early, and
efficient action to defeat the lawless purposes
i of the abolitionists.
You can be of infinite service to our cause
by laying belore the people a correct exposi- \
j tion of the condition of tho Territory. With j
sentiments of sincere regard, we are vour !
friends.
D. R. ATCHISON,
A. G. BOONE,
WM. H. RUSSELL,
JOS. C. ANDERSON,
B. F. STRINGFELLOW.
Mr. Buford is now on a tour through tho
Southern States, engaged in the duties assign
ed him in the foregoing letter.
The statue of Benjamin Franklin is to be
inaugurated in the city of Boston on the 17th
of September, with appropiate ceremonies,
and an oration by Hon. R. C. Winthrop. Tho
day is the anniversary of the settlement of Bos
ton. The papers are discussing the propriety
of keeping this day every year as a general
holiday, with a release of the public schools,
a military review, fire works and other fea
tures.
•
Hon. E. J. Morris, democrat, of Pa., is said
to be warmly advocating the election of Fill. \
more.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Later from Europe.
New York, August 4.—The British steam
ship Emeu, Capt. Small, has arrived with ad
: vices from Havre to the afternoon ol the 22d
i ult. Nothing later had been received in rela
-1 tion to the Spanish insurrection. Narvaes
j had left Paris for Bayonne. It was supposed
i that Espartero had been placed under arrest
by O’Donnell. Advices from Florence mention
that negotiations were under progress between
the Governments of Rome, Naples, Florence
and Modena for the purpose of forming a fed
eration under the patronage ot Austria.
Another dispatch gives the following items:
The Havre Cotton market was dull. Sales
for one day 500 bales. Consols were firm.
There have been serious disturbances in the
Papal States, owing to the dearness of food.
It is rumored that the King of Naples con
templates abdicating in favor of the Duke of
Colabrin.
Spanish advices says that all was quiet at
Madrid, but that Barcelona, Saragossa, Bil
boa and Lagrove are in a state of excitement,
The London Times states that Mr. Dallas j f
empowered to propose to the British Coven,
ment tho establishment of San Juan as a free
Port under Nicaragua Sovereignty, reserving
to Costa Rica the right of traffic through it
and through such portions of the river San
Juan as may be necessary. The Musquito
Indians to bo concentrated in a defined terri
tory, which shall leave clear the mouth of the
River San Juan and tho town, but their rights
are to be guaranteed to them and an annuity,
for a term of years, to their Chiefs. The Bay
Islands to be restored to Honduras, but the
Belize to remain as a British possession, with
the same territorial limits as in 1850.
Still Later from Europe.
New York, August 4.—The Atlantic has
arrived with Liverpool dates to the 23rd ult.
Commercial.
The Liverpool Cotton Market had been un
affected by the Asia’s advices and was firm.
The sales during the three days comprised
21,000 bales, including 2,000 to speculators
and 4,500 to exporters, leaving 14,500 bales
all descriptions to the trade. The quotations
were unchanged.
Consols closed at 95f,
General Intelligence.
Parliament in all probability was to have
been closed on the 26th ult. The statements
by this arrival in relation to the progress of
the insurrection in Spain are conflicting. O’
Donnell had taken such effectual measures for
crushing any outbreak, that after thirty hours
hard fighting in Madrid, the citizens and Na
tional Guards surrendered a nd were immediate
ly disarmed. Madrid was tranquil. At Bar
celona and elsewhere, the outbreaks were tri
fling anil speedily suppressed. It was report
ed that at Saragossa, now the head quarters
of the insurgents, a more than legal quorum
of the members of the Cortes had assembled
and proclaimed Liberty and the Constitution.
Napoleon had ordered troops to the frontiers
of France and Spain. The difficulty between
Mexico and Spain had been amicably adjusted.
The failures in England reported by previous
steamers were John Nunn, cotton broker, Liv
erpool, Joseph Wright & Cos., commission mer
chants, Manchester; Baxter & Cos., and four
others. Their liabilities are large and their
assets small.
Congressional.
Auo. 4.—The U. S. Senate, to-day, passed
several River and Harbor Bills. In the House
no business of importance was transacted.
Aug. s.— The Senate passed to-day four Ki
ver and Harbor Bills. The House was in
Committee of the Whole on the Appropriation
Bill for Legislative, Judicial and Executive
expenses. An amendment was rejected to the
effect that no money should be drawn until the
Bill for the pacification of Kansas had been
passed and approved by the President, and
until the charges against persons under arrest
for political oliences in Kansas was dismissed,
and compensation and mileage awarded to the
members of the Legislative Assembly.
Another dispatch, dated the sth, says:
lhe House has adopted several amendment
to the appropriation bill, restoring the Mis
souri Compromise, suspending the Kansas
laws, Ac., and striking out all appropriation:
for the Kansas government.
In the Senate, a Message was received from
the President, denying any orders to Lieut
Col. Sumner to disperse assemblages of citi
zens in Kansas.
Kentucky Elections.
Louisville, Aug. 4.— The election is quiet
here. The Americans have 2,100 majority.
They have, also, majorities in Lexington,
Frankfort, Covington and Newport. A Demo
cratic success is indicated in the North East
ern counties of the State. The vote of the
State, however, will probably be close.
Aug. s.—The impression prevails in this
city, that the Democrats generally have beer,
successful.
Missouri Elections.
St. Louis, August s. —Private dispatches
state that Blair, the Democratic Candidate fc:
Congress for the St. Louis District, has re
ceived COO majority. Benton for Governor
has 1000 majority over Erving the America!
and COO over Polk, the Anti-Benton Candi
date.
Later from Kansas.
Chicago, Aug. 4.— Advices from Leaver
worth to the 30th ult., state that Gen. Lai:
A Cos. had not entered the territory, and tha:
Gen. Smith threatens to enforce martial la*
if they do. The Territorial authorities ha'*
commenced to levy taxes, which both partic
retuse to pay, and troubles are apprehended
Interesting from Montvale.
‘Viator’ writing to the Charleston Standard
lrom Montvale Springs, under date, July 81st
says, among other things :
The grand bull of the season came off la- t!
evening, but was not as brilliant an affair m
might have been anticipated. The place wn
as full as it could be before, and there was n
room therefore for an increase of company
Some parties, however, from the adjneen’
towns, who were willing to submit to any b
amount of stowage that might be necessary
came in about dark. Many country peop
came stalking in to sec the show and go a” . |
again. The ladies turned out in their jewelry
and ball-dresses. The fancy dances were fair
ly initiated, and the affair went off to the tol
erable satisfaction of all parties. The country
folks at least, were abundantly gratified ; they ,
formed early in the evening along one eu<P
the hall room, many of them in homespun J
and two of the men with their coats off': no
later in the night, when crowded to the piazza,
they formed in circles round the window
some leaning on their rifles, and wateby ~
away unwearied until the ball was over. S’
fancy costume was attempted, and I have no
excuse, therefore, for iuvidual allusion:,
but I can say generally with great confidence. „
that the assemblage was unusually attractive’ t
It is very seldom indeed, that in a company “ ]
only two hundred and fifty persons so ninny
lovely and accomplished ladies can bo founl t
As may be inferred from the above, the pre s ’ *
sure of the crowd is unabated, and truly some j
hard cases have been presented.