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Tuesday Morning, August lit, ISSG.
IiARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
• Brooks and Burlingame.
We commence to-day, the publication of the
Cards of Messrs. Bocock and Lane, seconds of
Mr. Brooks, in reply to the cards of Messrs.
Burlingame and Campbell. Os course we omit, i
necessarily, editorial and other matter; but j
we do not think any reader will regret our j
having done bo.
The Elections.
Wo arc in receipt of many election returns,
but do not cumber our columns with them, for
the reason, that they are, as yet, very incom
plete, and amount to nothing positive. The
indications arc, that the Democracy have car
ried North Carolina, Kentucky and Alabama ;
the Bluck Republicans havo Iowa; Missouri
doubtful, aud Arkansas reported to have gone
for the Know Nothings. More anon.
The Trustees of the University of Alabama
havo established a Chair of Chemistry, and se
lected John W. Mullet to fill it. ‘a he Chair of
Ancient Languages has been divided, and the
Rev. A. J. Battle chosen for the Greek, and
W. S. Wyman for the Latin.
“ Ion,” the Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun, says that letters from New
Orleans just received in Washington, alford
undoubted assurances that the plank road over
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec will be completed
within the time specified in the grant—that is,
by next February.
The Turkish government lias given orders
in England for the construction of a light ves
sel of the dimensions fixed by the treaty of the
30th of March, for the service of the Black
Sea. This is to serve as a model for five oth
ers which are to be constructed in Constanti
nople.
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It is understood that Mr. Buchanan will
leave Wheatland in a few days for Bedford
Springs, where he will remain some two or
three weekß.
The Alabama Journal says that the Hon.
Luke Pryor, for whom the Know Nothing
members of the last Alabama Legislature voted
for United States Senator, and who was selec
ted as Elector for tho Fifth Congressional Dis
trict, has taken tho field for the election of
Mr. Buchanan. Carpenter, another Locofoco
on tho said Electorial Ticket, has also backed
out of the contest for Fillmore.
The first bale of new Cotton, of the Louis
iana crop, was received in New Orleans on the
6th instant. It was from Carroll Parish.
The Louisville Democrat publishes the
namos of thirty old line whigs of Maryland,
who havo unnouaccd their determination to
support Buchanan. Among them are the
names Hon. J. A. Pearce and Hon. Iteverdy
Johnson.
George Wilkins Kendall, writing to tho Pic
ayune from the interior of Texas, gives the
following account of a recent homicide at San
Antonio:
. Sinco I commenced this letter the stage has
come in from San Antonio, and some of the
passengers report a great state of excitement
in that city when they left last evening. John
S. McDonald, formerly District Surveyor of
Bexar, had been shot by Dr. Devine in the
drug store ot the latter, and ono account has
it that he died instantly. Politics were at the
bottom of the unfortunato difficulty. Tho
story is that Dr. D., who is Mayor of San An
tanio, had summoned a large number of citizens
to protect the person or property cf the editor
o, partizan sheet published in Mexican, called
the Ranchero, who had written an artiolc which
had given groat offence to some of the mem
bers of tho American party. McDonald, in
particular, was irritated at the course of the
Mayor, deeming it an insult to the party, and
proceeded to his store and commenced inttict
tn personal chastisement. While thus attack
ed, Dr. D. shot his adversary as is said from
behind his own counter, and thongave himself
up and was lodged in jail.
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The Bainbridge (Ga.) Argus says a murder
was committed near that place on Monday the
28th ult., by one David W. Griffin on tho body
of Stansell Barberee. Griffin struck Barberee
on the head with a piece of tho heart of aboard
block, producing instant death. Tho murderer
decamped, and has not since been heard of.
A subterranoan rail road is now being laid
down in Paris, in tho middle of the Boulovard
du Sebastopol. It will connect the holies, or
markets, with the extra-mural railways.
Anew Life and Voyages of Christopher Col
umbus, in two octavos, is advertised in Paris.
The author is M. ltosselli de Lorgues, who has
writteu from authentic documents obtained at
Genoa, Romo and Spain.
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The St. Louis Republican informs us that
immediately after the August election a Fre
mont electoral ticket will be nominated in
Missouri.
Victor Hugo is completing his last work at
tho Island of Guerney, having been exiled from
trance. It is entitled “Contemplations,” a
poem of ten thousand verses, embodying his
experience of life.
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Edward Everett has given to the public
schools in his native town, Dorchester, Mass.,
the sum ot five hundred dollars, to be expend
ed under the direction of the school committee,
towards tho purchase of a library for tho Dor
chester High School.
There is not a single Fillmore paper in Ver- !
mont, and it is understood that there will be
no Fillmore ticket in the field in that State.— I
Os the political newspapers in the Green Mouu- j
tain State, 23support Fremont, and bare for ;
Buchanan.
Turin papers announce the discovery of an
unpublished poem of Petrarch, and of the
original drawing of the “ Holy Family,” by
Raphael.
A post office has been established at No. 2s,
on tho Georgia Central Railroad, called Clifton,’
and Mr. P. R. a. Marlow appointed Postmas
ter.
From tho Wahington|U'uion.
To the Public.
The following statements, which have been
delayed an entire week because of the absence
of Mr. Burlingame, who left the city on the
evening that his publication was made, and
has not yet returned, and made in justice to
ourselves and a gentleman who, at different |
times, has been guided by our counsel. As !
far as relates to the objectionable portions of j
Mr. Burlingame's speech, our connection with
the matter has terminted.
THOS. BOCOCK.
JOSEPH LANE.
August 5, Tuesday evening.
Card.
No man could be more averse than I am to
appearing before the public in relation to mat
ters personal in their character ; and nothing
could induce me to do so in this case but the
conviction that justice requires it.
Mr. Burlingame, of Massachusetts, in the
card which he published in the National In
telligencer of the 28th July, commits several
errors, one of which seems to demand correc
tion from me.
He attempts to produce the impression that
I, in behalf of Col. Brooks, of South Carolina,
and at his instigation, endeavored by means,
sometimes confidential, to persuade him to
make some explanation which would satisfy
Col. Brooks’ friends with his failure to call on
him for satisfaction for the offensive lan
guage used in his speech of the 21st of June
last.
To show that I have not mistaken his pur
pose, 1 make the following quotation from his
card. Speaking of language cut out of a note
of mine to him, he says: “ These few words
disclose the desire of Mr. Brooks, through
persuasion, to get something which might sat
isfy his friends for neglecting me in his liberal
calls on gentlemen for personal satisfaction.”
Now, 1 assert that nothing could be more un
just to Mr. Brooks, and nothing more untrue
than such a construction of what passed be
tween Mr. Burlingame and myself.
The communications which 1 made to Mr.
Burlingame from Mr. Brooks were: Ist. His
desire to know whether Mr. Burlingame would
accept a call for satisfaction from him; 2d,
That he [Mr. Brooks] was satisfied with Mr.
Burlingame’s explanation, made in answer to
the question ; 3d, That Mr. Brooks desired to
havo a written statement, containing the sub
stance of that explanation, to be used in his
own justification; and that, on failure to ob
tain such a one, he would take some decided
step in relation to tho matter.
Now, it never occured to me that these com
munications, though made with all the cour
tesy of which I was capahlc, would be regard
ed as particular persuasive in their character
or in tho circumstances under which they were
made. Let the public judge. When I first
waited on Mr. Burlingame for Mr. Brooks,
my personal acquaintance with him was very
slight, and the accounts which had reached us
of his views and expressions on public ques
tions were not such as to commend him to
Southern men. I certainly had no thought of
offering him persuasions as to his personal af
fairs. I had a simple question to propound,
and all I sought was to do it a courteous and
becoming manner. It seemed to me proper
that it should be done privately and quietly,
rather than with a flourish of trumpets and in
the midst of a crowd. That it was to be entirely
confidential I did not dream, because such an
idea was inconsistent with the object of my
mission. I bad come not only to bear a mes
sage, but to carry back an answer. That an
swer might havo been as plain aud brief as
Mr. Burlingame chose to make it. He might
have said simply that he would accept, or that
he would not accept. But, instead of this,
ho chose to enter at large into an exposition of
his feelings towards Mr. Brooks, and the view
which governed him in making his speech. In
doing this he requested that many things said
by him should be confidential, and these I have
therefore not made public. I will say, how
ever, as he seems to think that their publica
tion would beuefit him, that he can remove
the seal of confidence whenever he chooses. All
that was said by either party, with the times
aud places of our subsequent meetings, may
all come forth at his call. I know no wnr.i
1 sv>oUa -wLioi* uimi, u a gentleman, and as the
friend of Mr. Brooks, I would not be perfect
ly willing should be known to the world.
In his last card, Mr. Burlingame said:
“ I owe it to truth to Bay that, from wkat I
had heard and seen of him prior to his assault
on Mr. Sumner, I had formed a high opinion
of him; and that act, which I have properly
stigmatised, I did think must have been abhor
rent to his better nature. In remembrance of
my opinion of him, nnd feeling that through
his conduct I could still detect traces of a gal
lantry which some day might cause him to
condemn, as heartily as others do, his assault
on Mr. Sumner, I had a larger charity for him
than did most of my friends. Indeed, I have
been blamed for intimating the opinion that,
in spito of that act, he was yet a brave man.
Even as late as my conversation with General
Lane, when he stated that Mr. Brooks desired
a speedy meeting, I felt a glow of admiration
for him as a gallant fooman; but T was wrong.
The expressions of kindness for him, in which,
following a proclivity of my heart, I had in
dulged, wore entirely misplaced.”
It was theso “expressions of kindness” for
Mr. Brooks now publicly avowed by Mr. Bur
lingame, which iu our first interview tended
so much to satisfy me that there ought not to
be a hostile meeting between them. Then it
was that 1 suggested to Mr. Burlingame the
propriety of saying nothing on the subject,
because rumors in relation to settlements of
ten re-opon difficulties.
Mr. Burlingamo admits that, on our first
interview, I propounded a question from Mr.
Brooks which was categorical in its character;
it clearly follows that the door was opened for
a categorical answer on his part, lie, how
ever, voluntarily chose a different course.
What his answer, in substance, was, appears
to me to be conceded in the cards both of Mr.
Burlingame and Mr. Brooks. He said “that
he [Burlingame] had no unkind feeling what
ever for Mr. Brooks, but, on the contrary, re
garded him a man of courage and a man of
honor; that while he disapproved of the assault
on Mr. Sumner, and felt bound as a Massa
chusetts mail to condemn it, he had designed
to discriminate between the man and tho act,
and had said no more on tho subject than his
sense of representative duty required. Under
these circumstances, ho was surprised to find
that Mr. Brooks had taken exception to any
thing which he said. In relation to the boasts
that had been throwu out in liis name, he
stated they had not been authorised by him ;
but, on the contrary, be very strongly con
demned both them and their authors.”
This is the substance of his answer, aud in
strength of expression is certainly not over
stated. It omits ninny more expressions of
good fooling to which he gave utterance. The
mere intention to be parliamentary was not
then insisted on. The phrase was not men
tioned.
Believing Mr. Burlingame to be sincere, I
advised Mr. Brooks, without hesitation, that
he could pursue the matter no further. He
agreed to accept the answer as satisfactory. )
Mr. Burlingame expressed himself gratified
at that result. And I rejoiced to believe that
the affair was honorably ended. To meet any
contingencey which might arise, however, 1 j
made a memorandum of tho interview the
next day after it happened.
Some days after this Mr. Brooks informed
me that, in consequence of remarks which he
heard were common in certain circles about
Washington, he considered it proper that he
should have a written statement of the settle
ment as it had occurred. Regretting that the I
necessity for it had ari.en, 1 prepared a state- j
ment at length, and on the day named in the j
cards of these gentlemen I submitted it to j
Mr. Burlingame, with the request that he
would look over it, and say whether he would
approve it.
When he had kept it at least a half-hour, I
applied to him to know the result of his exam
ination. With a strong compliment to my fair
ness, he said it was correct. In his recent card
he says : “When I read the first part I thought
it did me justice.” I can but presume that
“the first part,” as designated by Mr. Burlin
game, included his answer to Mr. Brooks’
question. He would have hardly’ stopped
short of examining that before answering as
to the correctness of the statement.
When he informed me that it was correct, he
expressed a desire to retain it longer in order
to show it to a friend.
That evening he sought au interview with
me to say that he had looked at my statement
more carefully, and while he could deny tho
corrrectness of no expression attributed to
him in it, yet, by the grouping of them which
had been made, it placed him in an improper
position, aud, if published, it would probably
do him great injury at home.
We then attempted to agree upon such al
terations as would preserve the substance of
the statement in a similar shape, but were un
able. Thus the matter stood, when on the
next day, the 15th of July, I addressed him a
note from my seat in the House of Represen
tatives.
The use that Mr. Burlingame has made of
this note is the most extraordinary feature in
his very extraordinary card. It strikes me as
very strange that he considers this note, to
gether with the fact of his unwillingness to in
sert the word “honor.” in the last statement,
as in no way private, while he seems to con
sider his answer to Mr. Brooks’ first question
as being confidential. I forbear here to sug
gest reasons or to make comments. Strange,
however, as is this position, there is yet a
stranger feature connected with his use of that
note. He cuts from the context single phrases
to produce the impression that Mr. Brooks,
through me, was persuading him to make ad
missions, when the note itself, upon its face,
places Mr. Brooks in an entirely different po
sition. In the very beginning of it I announc
ed to him that I had that morning heard from
a friend of Mr. Brooks that he had resolved to
take some step in relation to the difference
between them, and that I could no longer con
trol the matter. I thus put Mr. Brooks in the
position of resolve and determination, not of
persuasion. This, I say, would be evident
from the whole note. When I said that Mr.
Burlingame ought not to object to saying, in
answer to that note, that he did not intend to
reflect on Mr. Brooks personally, I merely
meant to say that he ought not to object to
put in writing what he had so often declared
to me verbally. He says truly that he did not
answer in writing. I confess I was struck
with the apparent ease with which he avoided
writing. Had he written, as he in frankness
might well have done, all question about his
position then would now be put to rest. It
would be comfortably or uncomfortably clear.
He came to my seat and said, not what he
states in his card, but simply that he would
like to confer with a friend, and he asked if I
would have any objection to unite in the con
ference.
I made no objection, but suggested that I
might have a friend along, also. The meeting
took place very speedily thereafter in one of
the rooms of the Capitol; but my friend hav
ing previously left, I was alone with Mr. Bur
lingame aud his friend.
In some conversation which occurred be
tween Mr. Brooks and myself that day, Uo Lad
said that, ho -wao willing to accept any paper
from Mr. Burlingame which disavowed the
purpose to reflect on his courage or honor,
and in the interview in the Capitol the only
question of difference was that I contended for
the disclaimer in that very language, because
Mr. Burlingame’s disclaimer in our former in
terview had gone fully to that extent. He
contended that in disclaiming, as he was will
ing to do, any intention to reflect on the “per
sonal character” of Mr. Brooks, he included
everything that makes up character, and that
therefore it was unnecessary to insert the
word honor expressly; and he stated that, in
consequence of the probable effect of it else
where, he preferred not to use that word.
After some discussion, being unable to agree
with him upon the phraseology to be employed,
I rose to leave the room, remarking that it ap
peared clear that the matter could not bo ar
ranged satisfactorily between us, and that I
regretted to believe that nothing was left but
for Mr. Brooks to send him a note, which he
would probably do in the course of that eve
ning. Mr. Burlingame asked me to pause,
nnd said that he preferred that the matter
should not go out of my hands, and himself
suggested a further conference at hisownroom
that evening. This expose of fact has been
made necessary by the partial and delusive
givings-out of Mr. Burlingame about his refu
sal to allow the word honor to be inserted in
his last disclaimer.
The conference called at Mr. Burlingame’s
room was attended by himself, Mr. Speaker
Banks, Mr. Boyce, and myself. In opening up
the matter on that occasion, I gave the history
of my whole connexion with it, and especially
the first message of Mr. Brooks and Mr. Bur
lingame’s answer, the drawing up of the orig
inal statement, its being placed in Burlingame’s
hand, his declaration, after keeping it some time
that it was correct, and his subsequent objec
tion to it on the ground that the grouping of
his expressions in regard to Mr. Brooks was
such as if published would do him an injury.
1 then stated tho history of our subsequeut ef
forts to agree upon something which would be
equivalent substantially to the first statement,
aud which might be free from the objection
made to the •‘grouping” of that one. All
which was admitted by Mr. Burlingame. This
brought up the question whether the word
honor should be inserted, as I contended that
it ought to be. Mr. Burlingame again urged
that to disclaim any purpose to reflect on the
“personal character” of Mr. Brooks covered
everything. Mr. Banks thought it sufficient,
and Mr. Boyce promptly agreed with them. I
stated that it appeared to me enough, but I ap
prehended that Mr. Brooks would take a differ
ent view of it.
Mr. Burlingame suggested that Mr. Boyce
and myself, as friends of Mr. Brooks, should 1
advise him that it was sufficient, and that lie j
would probaly acquiesce in our opinion.
The paper drawn up, as before stated, was
taken by Mr. Boyce and myself to Mr. Brooks; j
aud we advised him that he ought to accept it
as satisfactory, . Several other friends being
called in, all united in that opinion, and Mr.
Brooks accepted it accordingly.
It waspublished as an appendix to his speech,
and remained before the public several days,
when Mr. Burlingame’s card appeared with
drawing it,
This reopened a difficulty which I had been
glad to believe was closed. Its subsequent his
tory is before the public. With that 1 have lit
tle to do. It is difficult, however, to resist the
reflection that if Mr. Burlingame’s explanation,
as published by Mr. Brooks, was not true, it
was unmanly in him to consent to give it; if it
was true, it was weak and uncandid to with
draw it. As to its proper construction, I saw
no room for doubt.
Mr. Burlingame had expressed himself to me,
as appears from his card he might have expres
sed himself to others, so kindly towards Mr.
Brooks, and so free from any purpose to reflect
on his personal character, as, in my judgment,
to have rendered it inhuman in Mr. Brooks,
under that explanation, to have pursued him
further.
Mr. Burlingame’s card is erroneous, then, in
saying that in his verbal answer to my note of
the loth July he suggested “that, as the mat
ter seemed complicated, it might be better for
us both to hold our future conversations in the
presence of others.” Instead of this, he mere
ly remarked that he wished to advise with his
friends, and asked if I would have any objec
tion to meeting in conference with them. It is
erroneous, further, in saying that I thought
Mr. Brooks would deem his position unsatisfac
tory, “as it yielded nothing.” I used no such
expression. It would have been inappropriate.
I never asked him to retract or yie.d anything
which he had said. I had merely asked if he
would accept Mr. Brooks’s call. To this ques
tion he interposed an explanation; and the on
ly question was as to the sufficiency of that ex
planation, and whether, as made at one time, it
was the same which had been made at a former
time.
But the most important and grossest error
of his card is his attempt to represent Mr.
Brooks as seeking, through me, to persuade him
to an explanation. As already stated, this is
utterly unsustained by the facts, and nobody
could know anything better than Mr. Burlin
game knew these facts at the time he penned
his card.
It appeared to me that justice to Mr. Brooks
required this explanation at my hands. Hav
ing made it, I leave the matter in its other as
pects in his hands, well knowing, as I do, that
he understands full well how to take care of
his own honor.
TH. S. BOCOCK-
Washington, August 4, 1856.
I have examined the foregoing card of Mr.
Bocock, and, so far as it states facts purport
ing to fall within my knowledge, I find it fair,
candid, and strictly true.
W. W. BOYCE.
Angust 5, 1856.
Negro Killed.
Night before last, between midnight and day
light, a picked body of police sui’rounded an
outbuilding in the rear of the residence of Sid
ney Smith, on Government street, having been
informed that a gang of negroes were there
and then gambling. We learn that the negroes
were evidently well prepared to make a desper
rate resistance, and two of them actually seized
one of the officers and attempted to throw him
over the balustrade of the porch, and would
have done so but for the prompt interference
of another officer. Among the negroes was an
outlaw belonging to Mr. John Mann of a very
desperate character, and it is said that he had
sent word to the officers that if they should
ever undertake to arrest him he was “fixed”
and would kill them; and in the scuffle which
ensued a pistol was fired by which a negro be
longing to Judge Dargan was instantly killed.
Whether the pistol was fired by the negro of
Mann at an officer, or by an officer at him, we
have not been able to learn positively.
Five negroes were brought in and lodged in
the guard-house and their cases continued, with
the exception of one, who it is shown did not
offer any resistance, for which reason lie was
let off with thirty lashes.
There were in all, six negroes, all of whom
were taken and brought to the guard house.
They had lying on the table, besides the im
plements of trade, such as cards, dice, &c., al
so knives, razors, and other weapons.— Mobile
Tribune.
Gross Superstition in the North.
The Trenton, N. J., Gazette, of the sth inst.,
relates the following :
A young man residing in Bordentown, who
was under an engagement of marriage with a
young lady, died on Friday last. Both the
gentleman and lady, as well as their families,
were firm believers in the doctrines of the spir
itualists, and notwithstanding the death of the
former, it was determined that the marriage
should take place between tho disembodied
spirit of the young man, and theliving, breath
ing body of his affianced bride. Accordingly
on Sunday, the marriage ceremony was per
formed between the clay cold corpse, and the
warm, blooming bride. It is understood this
was in compliance with the directions of the
spirit of the bride groom. The devotion of tho
lady to the spirit or the memory of her lover,
carried her through this ceremony without
faltering, but it must lead to unhappine . •, ‘or
she no doubt considers herself as the wife of
ono whom she shall meet in the body never
more. Her heart lies buried in the grave with
him who should have been her guide and pro
tector. Among all the singular things record
ed of the spiritualists we have met with noth
ing parallel to this.
The Spanish police has seized in various
towns in the provinces, and at Madrid also,
various imitations of what are called the “ro
mances of Ciego”—that is, pieces of popular
poety, ornamented with images of saints, and
recording miracles—and these imitations re
late to pretended socialist miracles, and set
forth the most perverse socialist doctrines.
Salt Spring Discovered.
A letter from St. Joseph (M 0.,) to the St.
Louis Republican, says that Major Baldwin,
tho agent of the Kickapoo Indians, has discov
ered on the Grasshopper river, within the
Kickapoo Reservation, “the finest salt spring
in the United States, if not in the world.”
Major Baldwin says the stream is very copious,
and so strongly impregnated that the taste
sickened him in a moment, and that it crystal
izes on the slightest exposuro and repose.
Life-Size Bronze Statue of Webster.
Tho friends of Webster will be gratified to
learn that Powers has completed the model of
his statue for the people of Boston, and that a
bronze foundry in Florence is making arrange
ments to cast it without delay; so that the
work will probably be achieved before the re
currence of his 75th birth day. As it is to
stand in the open air, the figure is somewhat
exaggerated, being eight feet in height; but
the action, air, and proportions are all those
of the Senator in his finest mood and in ins
own proper costume. The colossal man here
stands up to the height of his great argument
on the Constitution, firmly holding you to the
symbol of the L T nion with one hand, as he rea
sons from the vital scroll which nerves the
other. The identity is complete.
We find the following advertisement in the
last Mobile Tribune:
TO YOUNG LADIES OF FORTUNE.
A Bachelor, Young, Amiable, Handsonif
and accustomed to move in the highest spheiv
of society, is embarrassed in his circumstai
cos. Marriage is his ouly hope of cxtrieatioii
Ingratitude was never one of his faults, and he
will study for the remainder of his life to p
his estimation of the confidence placed in hi n .
Address (post paid) A. BIGLY,
aug. 8. Mobile, Ala.
A book of great local interest and value La
just been issued by J. W. Randolph, of Rice,
mond, in which the early history of the Uni
versity of Virginia is recorded as found in tl lc
voluminous correspondence of Mr. Jefferson
with the late Joseph C. Cabell.
John Griswold, Esq., one of the oldest and
most distinguished New York merchants, died
in that city on the sth inst.
Lewis A. Pratt, editor of the Jersey City
Sentinel and Advertiser, died in Jersey City
of bilious fever, ou the sth inst.
The lion. Edward Curtis, who was collector
of the port of New York, under Gen. Harrison
died on Saturday night.
At a recent sale in Paris, a letter of the poet
Corneille was sold for §2OO. At the same salt
a letter of Fenelon was sold for §42.50; one
of Rochefoucauld for §7O; and a signature of
Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, for §4O
An Industrous Burglar.
Jackson, the property of Dr. Harris, of Lib
erty, was arrested last night by foot policeman
Pitman, while in the act of enteriug Colonel
Knapp’s store in Gibbon’s range. He had pr e .
viously during the night entered the house of
Mr. John Staley, aud stolen a gold watch and
some keys—when taken he had about §3OO in
cash, and had the impudence to offer Mr. Pitt
man S2O to release him. He also had one or
two hundred keys about him to facilitate hi
operations.
His Honor the Mayor turned him over to
the Magistrates for trial.— Sav. Republican.
Burning of the St. Johns.
An examination was held iu Jacksonville,
Monday and Tuesday last, by a board of Ma
gistrates, relative to the recent burning of the
steamer St. Johns, which resulted in the com
mitment of two negroes. Dorsey, the proper
ty of Mr. Pappy, of Jacksonville, and Tom,
the property of Mr. Bennett, of St. Augustine
The evidence for the prosecution made oat a
strong case of probable guilt, and disclosed a
well arranged scheme for the destruction of
the boat. The counsel for the prosecution
were Messrs. Couper of Savannah, and Flem
ing of Jacksonville, for the defence, Mr. Liv
ington of the latter place.— Sav. Georgian.
Cotton in Savannah.
The scarcity of Cotton on sale in our mar
ket, is almost without a precedent. The trans
actions yesterday, and not reported, amounted
to 79 bales at life. This lot has been on the
market several weeks, but was held at so high
a figure that purchasers were kept at bay
The owner dropt a fraction yesterday, and the
result is known. Mr. F. R. Shackleford was
the purchaser, leaving the market entirely
bare, except 4 bales, — Sav. News.
Heroism of a Young Lady.
The Boston Courier, speaking of the burn
ing of the steamer John Jay, on Lake George,
says:
The nobility of Miss Kate Cole’s conduct
during the excitement and the struggle for life
on board the John Jay, rises to the dignity
and sublimity of poetry. She was travelin;
under the protection of her friend and neigh
bor, Mr. Pritchard, and when danger was im
minent, she turned to him, “Sir, take care of
Mrs. Pritchard; I can swim.” Thus saying,she
tripped forward, w th a mind composed ands
determination fixed, and passed over the side oi
the burning vessel. The distance from the
shore was over a mile ; but she, relying upoL
her own strength and courage, and being un
willing to embarrass others who might haw
dearer charges, undertook to save herself
She swam a mile, and became exhausted. A
good boatman, observed that she failed, push
ed to her relief and succeeded in reaching her
iu time. He took her into his skiff and landed
her safely. She, in a transport of joy, and
true to that nature, which is always grand, re
warded him with a gift more precious to his
manly heart than gold.
Politicians in Petticoats.
The Ladies of Fall River, who have formed
an association under the name of the “Jessie
Circle,” have resolved as follows: “That the
question now before the American public i
one of right and wrong, truth and humanity
and not one of party politics and therefore
we will disregard the cry so often raised l;
those interested in the suppression of truth
that a woman is overstepping the bounds ci
her sphere, and while we have heads i
think, tongues to speak, or hearts to feel and
pray, we will use them all for tho cause oi
freedom and humanity, till our beloved coun
ty shall become iu reality, what is only in
name, a “Free Republic.”
The American Bonapartes.
Tho special commission, to which Louis Na
poleon referred seueral delicate family matters,
has reported, we learn from the Paris corres
pondent of Le Nord, of Brussels, upon the ini- -
portant question of the Prince Jerome’s first
marriage with Miss Paterson in America. The
commission confirms the validity of his mar
riage, which was always maintained by the
Pope, to the great annoyance of Napoleon I.
In consequence of this decision the grand son
of Prince Jerome and Miss Paterson, who is
a young sub lieutenant in the French army
becomes a legitimate member of the Napoleon
family, while Prince Napoleon, the issue of Je
rome’s seeond marriage, is excluded.
Nobody should venture into a sick room wheu
iu a perspiration, for the moment the body
becomes cold it is in a state l.kely to absorb
the infection ; nor visit a sick person, if the
complaint be of a contag : ous nature, with an
empty stomach nor swallow your saliva. 1°
attending a sick person, place yourself where
the air passes from the door or window to the
bed of tho invalid, not between the invalid and
the fire, as the heat of tho fire will draw the
infectious vapor in that direction, and there i*
danger in breathing it,
The Russian public have been surprised te
see that the most severe criticisms are allowed
to be published on Prince Menschikoff's gt‘ D ’
eralship in tho Crimea. He is the only Gen
eral who has not been replaced in high com
mand.
Among tho speakers at the recent Fremont
demonstration at Dayton, Ohio, and in very
happy association, were the Hon. Mr. Burlin
game, of Massachusetts, nnd Mrs. Brown, of
Kansas, the wife of the editor of the Herald of
Freedom.