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A Real Hero.
A Liverpool correspondent of the New York
Courier, who was a passenger in the packet
ship “ New World," gives a thrilling descrip
tion of the burning of the Ocean Monarch, in
the course of which he thus chronicles the con
duct of a real hero, who is an honor to his
country and to human nature :
“ We then hauled off, leaving about twenty
on the wreck —persons who were so frightened
that, except for wild and almost gibbering ges
tures to us, they might have passed for statues ;
their faces were of a greenish pale color and
their eyes looked large and hollow. They
clung to the wreck and refused (by utter non
compliance ) every endeavor to induce them
to jumo for the boats. At this time—will it be
believed? some passengers and the captain
(probably suggested by the latter,) urged that
we could do no more good and that we had
better proceed on our voyage! I shall ever
feel gratified that human nature redeemed it
self—the proportion was received with hor
ror. I spoke but a few words : ‘ When we
saw this ship first, the captain said, all who
were aboard must either have perished or been
taken off, and, therefore, he did not wish to
bear down—we came, and have saved at least
ten. I say let us stay by her, no matter how
long it may be, so there is a living thing aboard
her. Look at that little child clinging to the
boom —will you leave it?’ A groan and a
‘Never!’ was answered from all save two or
three. The captain appeared vexed. He turn
ed our boat, ran astern, picked up his boats,
and ordered the helmsman to ‘ run us close a
longside.’ He had refused to do this three or
four hours before, when there was little or no
danger —now it was expected that the whole
head of the burning ship would fall, and the ex
periment be really dangerous. Some who had
advocated it before, now demurred; but the
more bold declared they would run the risk, and
the voice of fear was stifled. I give our captain
credit here —it was a trying time—my heart
fluttered, for I was afraid; but still I could not
look at that child which for hours we had seen
hanging with the mute determination of des
pair, without resolving every risk rather than
not rescue.
“ And there, close into the head, was an old
gray-haired man with an infant in his arms !
He sat there with perfect ease, apparently un
conscious of the particulars of the scene about
him. We backed down within about ten yards,
and then was performed an act of heroism the
memory of which should be undying as the re
ward must be eternal. Frederick Jerome, of
343 Water-street. New York, a sailor belong
ing to the ship New World, volunteered to
board the wreck, and declared he would not
leave her until lie had saved them all. He
stripped, passed a hauling line around his
body, and was pulled in a boat close in to the
wreck, and then jumped overboard, swam un
der her bows, caught by the hanging rigging,
and, by climbing and shinning, got up to the
head. The loose slicks—the risk of being struck
by which was imminent—and remember that
we all looked momentarily for the falling away
of the head, bowsprit, passengers, and all—and
you may conceive the noble spirit, the only
one out of the hundreds around, that dared
venture his life for the salvation of his fellow
creatures. I weep at the recollection.
After attaining his position, one by one he
fixed a line around them, took a turn with it
and lowered them away—they were then haul
ed by the other end of the line close to the
boat and picked out of the water into it. The
little child to which I have before alluded, was
not more than five years old. It clung to its
hold, resisting him with desperate and extra
ordinary strength; when in lowering, it had got
well down, the little creature grasped a rope
and clung to it, while the sea, large and strong,
broke over it two or three times at least—Je
rome was compelled by main strength to tear
it away and lower it swiftly to prevent its seiz
ing another hold. It was saved, after having
clung (o its one position for at least three hours.
The old man who had the little infant, was the
last, (the infant had been sent before) he refused
to let go, and it required a great deal of threat
ening and some slight force to clear him At
last he was got off. Jerome, having performed
his promise, that he would not leave the wreck
till he had saved them all, after being in immi
nent peril for half or three quarters of an hour,
lowered himself, sprang off into the sea, and
was picked up and brought on board our ship.
A collection was made onboard and given
to him, which as there were but few cabin pas
sengers, and none of them were very well pro
vided, and as he was compelled to hurry to his
own ship, did not amount to much. He will
be in New York soon, in the New World. New
York should do something for him. I can as
sure you I. as a New Yorker, was proud when
I heard where he hailed from. . Somebody
said that he was born in Portsmouth, England ;
but he called himself from New York. He said
that by some similar feat he had once preserv
ed the lives of near 500 people."
Gen* Taylor on the night before the Bat
tle of Buena Vista.
We take the following highly interesting ar
ticle from the Staunton, Va., Spectator:
The following well authenticated occurrence
manifests the existence, in Gen. Taylor, of the
elements of true greatness in a highly eminent
degree. On the night before the battle of Bue
na Vista he sat down and drew his will, and
enclosed it in a letter to his wife, in which he
stated that he had j list passed the most trying
hour of his existence. That his best disciplined
troops had been withdrawn from him by tfie
Executive (of whose treatment of him ic was
not his purpose then to complain) and that Ijg
was, against the advice of his officers in council,
and with a vast disparity of numbers and dis
cipline, about to engage the finest army Mexi
ico had ever had, headed by her ablest General,
in a battle likely to result in the most momen
tous consequences. That as he might not sur
vive the severe conflict that must ensue, he
deemed it proper to place in her hands the
means of doing justice to his memory by stating
to her the reasons that had influenced his con
duct on this important occasion. These were
that the Mexican army had just crossed a great
desert, their forces both in men and horses
must be in a condition so exhausted as much to
impair their capacity for physical exertion.
That on the other hand, he himself held a
strong position, well adapted to enable a small
to repel a superior force, in which alone he
could hope successfully to contend with the im
mense odds against him. That should he quit
his position and fall back upon Monterey, as
he had been advised to do, his own little army
would be discouraged, and the enemy elated
and admitted into acountry in which they could
not only thoroughly refresh themselves, but
moreover double their numbers by the addi
tion of rancheros.
That with such a force Santa Anna might
hem him up in Monterey, while he swept every
post from thence to the mouth of the Rio
Grande, guarded as they were by small forces
of raw troops who would in such a catastrophe,
doubtless, be indiscriminately butchered by the
merciless rancheros, to whose ravages our own
frontier settlements would moreover be there
by exposed. Tbas would be wrested from us
all the advantages we had gained ; our country
injured and her honor tarnished. Such, he be
lieved, would be the disastrous and humiliating
consequences of a retreat. He had the ret ore,
resolved to maintain his position at all hazards,
with a determination to die rather than to suf
fer the flag of his country to be disgraced while
under his care. In order to make a successful
defence with a force such as his, consisting as
it did. (with the exception of a few hundred) of
undisciplined troops, it would be necessary that
he should be exposed throughout the engage
ment ofthe mostimminent peril. The chances
were as ten to one that he should not be a liv
ing man at the setting of the sun on the follow
ing day. Should he fall he exhorts her not to
give way to her grief, but to bear her misfor
tunes with the fortitude becoming a soldier’s
wife.
All can now see the wisdom of Gen. Taylor’s
course; but in that hour of peril, in a council
consisting of the wise and the brave, there was
but one man equal to the occasion—but one
man who, rising above the fearful responsibili
ty of hazarding every thing as it were upon the
cast of a die, could calmly and serenely survey
the whole ground, weigh every circumstance,
and arrive at a just conclusion. That man was
Gen. Taylor—the man who “ asks no favors
and shrinks from no responsibility. " Aye, and
no other living man could have achieved that
victory, saved that little band from destruction,
his country from dishonor, and the Executive
from universal execration, His success was
not so much because of any arrangement or
manoeuvreing ofhis troops, as of their confi
dence in him. Heneverhad been—they thought
he never could be defeated ; and throughout
the day his presence always where the danger
was greatest inspired them with new courage
and induced efforts almost superhuman.
An interesting re-union of some of the oldest
graduates of Harvard University, took place
at the late commencement of that institution.
In pursuance of a circular call, fifteen of the
eighteen surviving members of the class of
1799, held a semi-centennial meeting, and join
ed in interesting exercises together. The oc
casion must have been productive of feeling
“ sweet yet mournful to the soul." What rav
ages had time made in the band of fresh
cheeked, silken haired youths, who fifty years
before had assembled in that institution. Are
these worn and withered relics, tottering un
der the infirmities of age, with their few gray
locks gathered into quieus,and their attenuated
limbs clad in the old fashioned stocking, with
knee buckles, all that remains of that large
number of joyous spirits who leaped upoh the
arena of life with hearts bounding with hope
and promise ? To this class, Channing, and
Story, and Shaw and Tnckerman belonged.
Where are they now ? They have passed up
the steep places of fame, and have disappeared
beyond the valley and shadow ofsilence. The
occasion must have been too sad for social en
joyment. We remember to have read of a
similar assemblage, of the members of a socie
ty in England, who met after a shorter interval,
but still of many years : So painful were the
emotions excited, they are said never again to
have held a meeting. Like Egyptian feasts the
ghosts of the departed seemed to be in their
midst, and to fill their hearts with gloom and
solemnity. Even a few years will thin the ranks
of the thickest. We look back ourselves to
the associates whom we knew, here in Mobile,
not many summers ago. Where are they now ?
Where that company of energetic spirits, the
active man of business, the earnest politician,
the man of genius, of integrily,-~the sincere
friend ? Echo makes the sole, melancholy re
sponse, like the sound of the clod upon the cof
fin. We hear only the answer of ‘‘memory’s
funeral bell.”
These reflections are too sad for every-day
indulgence, but in the fresh sea breeze of this
September morning, they have slipped from
our pen. and we let them pass.— Mobile Regis
ter.
New York and Cincinnati. —The follow
ing from Cist’s Advertiser , (one of the best pa
pers in the country,) will surprise our friends
in Gotham and elsewhere :
“ Few persons, even among onr own citi
zens, entertain adequate notions respecting the
extent and magnitude of western business. Ifi.
I were to assert that the exports of Cincinnati
surpassed those of New York, I should startle
even intelligent persons here, and incur ridi
cule elsewhere, if the assertion were left with
out its proper evidence. The proof is as easi
ly made, however, as the statement. The ex
ports of New York in 1847 amounted to $52,-
879,274. This exceeded the exports of 1846
by sixteen millons, and the exports of 1846 ex
ceeded those of any previous year.
“ The exports of Cincinnati for 1847, which
was the first year during which any register of
exports was kept, were in value $55,735,252,
being an excess over those of New York a
rnounting. to nearly three millions of dollars
I might insist on a still greater disparity being
exhibited, in the fact, that over five millions of
dollars of the New York exports consisted of
specie, an article in no degree an industrial
product, and whose export, in fact, ought to be
deducted from the business operations of New
York, rather than be permitted to swell their a
mount.
“ The statistics serve distinctly to show the
vast superiority of interior to foreign com
merce, as a means of adding to the wealth of
any community. The probability is that five
times the amount of productive industry was
sustained in our shipments over theirs—the
great body of their exports being merely for
warding of the products of the West.”
Remarkable Aqueduct. —Boston is about
to be supplied with water from Long Pond,
which being on the main land the pipes have to
cross Charles river, to accomplish which a solid
stone bridge has'been built. The water is
brought to the edge of the hill, says the Trav
eller, (the river running through very low
ground,) and descends in iron pipes, and then
ascends in the same manner up the other side,
Upon each side is a pipe chamber. To con
nect these pipe chambers, it has required 230
long pipes weighing 3,000 pounds each —in all
about3so tons. The pipes will probably all
belaid by Wednesday next.
Hydrophobia in Philadelphia. —There is
a case of hydrophobia in the hospital at Phila
delphia, the sufferer having voluntarily gone
there when convinced it was coming upon
him. The Ledger says : “ The patient, daring
Saturday, suffered from violent paroxysms,
but yesterday was more quiet, and during the
morning swallowed some liquid without any
serious effects following. He is receiving the
attentions of our most skilful physicians, and
it is hoped that their combined efforts will be
successful. He is sensible ofhis situation, but
evidently entertains no hope of surviving."
Remedy for the Peach Worm. —At a lute
meeting of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society,
Mr. Heffner stated that during a recent visit
to Lexington, Ky., he was informed by some
of the Horticulturists of that city that they had
found an effectual preventive ofthe ravages of
the peach worm. It consists in the simple ap
plication of horse stable manure, in progress
of decomposition, to the roots of the tree, in
the spring and fall seasons—the earth to be
dug away to the depth of about three inches,
and the manure to be about six inches, above
the surface. This has been tested by J. O. Har
rison, M. E. Johnston, Esqrs., and others, suffi
ciently to remove all doubts of its efficacy.
A Wolf Driven Out of the Fold.— At the
late Annual Episcopal Convention for the Dio
cese of Western New York held in Geneva,
Bishop Delancey announced that the Rev.
Washington Van Zandt had been displaced
from the ministry. No cause is assigned. This
-|iis, we suppose, the same clergyman against
[Whom damages were recovered in an action of
• seduction.
€l)toniric cmi> Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GA;
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 1848.
WHIG NOMINATIONS.
For President ot the United States *
ZACHARY TAYLOR,
OF LOUISIANA.
For Vice-President:
MILLARD FILLMORE,
OF NEW-YORK.
For Representative from tbe Bth District:
HON. ROBERT TOOMBS.
PRESIDENTIAL MjECTOHS.
Electors for the Swr% Large.
Dr. Wm. Terrell. | Seaton Grantland.
Electors for the Districts.
Ist. Hamilt’n Sharpe sth Warren Akin,
2d. W.H. Crawford, 6th Asbury Hull,
3d. A. W. Redding, 7th Y. P. King,
4th Wm. Moseley, Bth G. Stapleton,
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
Ist. Thos. B. King, sth. Jas. M. Calhoun,
2d. Jas. S. Calhoun, 6th. Jas. W. Harris,
3d. Allen F. Owen, 7th. A. H. Stephens.
4th. J.N. Williamson, Btb. Robert Toombs.
Bets for Southern Cass Men.
The Ohio Plaindealer, the editor of which
has received his impressions of Gen. Cass’ po
litical principles from “ private conversations ”
with the General, offers the following bets,
which may interest some of the General’s South
ern friends, and for their benefit we publish
them:
Bets Offered.—One hundred dollars that Cass,
if elected, will recommend appropriations for Harbor
Improvements, in his first annual message.
One hundred dollars that if Congress should pass
a law to prevent the introduction of slavery into
new territories , it will receive the avprobatien and
hearty concurrence of Gen. Cess, snould he be Pre
sident.”
These propositions do not seem to accord
very well with the principles proclaimed for
Gen. Cabs by his Southern supporters. Here
the people are assured that he is opposed to
river and harbor improvements, and that he
will veto the Wilraot proviso, while his North
western friends who have learned his views
from ** private conversations ,” propose to bet
that he is in favor of both measures ! The re
sult is certain, therefore, that somebody must
be deceived. Who is it most likely will be de
frauded, the North or the South ? This is an
important inquiry, and its solution cannot but
prove interesting. Gen. Cass has voted for
every bill submitted to the Senate since he
was a member, for the improvement of riv
ers and harbors—true, Mr. Polk vetoed both
bills, and he has since endorsed the vetoes in
his letter of acceptance of the nomination. In
the one case he was acting in his place as Sena
tor, under the obligations of his oath of office,
and in the other, he was merely huzzaing for
the democracy—in other words, “ blowing for
the boys.” Which act, then, we ask, should be
regarded as more likely to elicit his true opin
ions, that performed under the sanction of an
oath, or that ia which no such obligation was
or could be imposed on him ?
To our mind, but one response can be give n
to this question, which is that his votes in the
Senate reflect his true opinions, and that he is
consequently in favor of that “ wholesale sys
tem of plunder,” river and harbor improve
ments. If so, he is antagonist to a cardinal
principle, one of the main stays of the South
ern Democratic platform; for the Southern
Democrats have long been bitter in their de
nunciations of the system. They cannot, there
fore, without a violation of their professed prin
ciples, give him their support.
On the proviso question he is supported at
the South upon grounds diametrically opposed
to the platform laid down for him at the North.
Here, too, there must be fraud ; upon whom,
then, will it more probably be practiced ? Gen.
Cass was reared at the North, has early learned
to oppose the peculiar institution of the South,
and so earnest had his opposition become in
middle life, that he declared that he prayed
for its abolition everywhere.” Again, at a
very recent period, in his history he acknow
ledged in his place in the Senate that “ he would
have voted for the proviso His Nicholson
letter, in which he affects to reject the proviso,
and proposes a scheme which he endeavors to
show would be as effectual in the exclusion of
slavery from Mexican territories as the proviso
itself, does not disavow his hostility to the in
stitution, but, on the contrary, in some sort re
proclaims it by his scheme in opposition to its
extension.
What has the South, then, to hope for from
such a man if he should be elected President?
Has she not had her satisfaction of “ Northern
men wilh Southern principles ?” Or does she
again desire to bring into active exercise her
credulity, to be again deceived and betrayed as
she has been by Van Buren and Polk ? South
ern Democrats! your own members of Con
gress have voted for the Wilmot proviso,
thereby acknowledging its constitutionality.,
and Mr. Polk has assented to the billj
Does any sane man, therefore, after such ex
amples and precedents, set by Southern men
and slaveholders, suppose that Gen. Cass, who
has always been opposed to the institution,
would veto the Wilmot Proviso? If there be
such a man, he certainly must be demented.
So monstrous have the opinions of General
Cass, as put forth in his Nicholson letter, been
considered, that only one of his organs at the
South has had the temerity to advocate or de
fend them, and yet we find men who affect to
be the exclusive friends of the South and her
institutions, urging his claims for the Presiden
cy. To what are we coming ?
“ Out for Taylor.”— The article under this
head, with the letter of James Blair Gilmer,
published in our paper of yesterday, was copied
from the Alabama Journal , to which paper it
should have been credited.
Mr. McDuffie.— The Milledgeville Union
of the 19th says : “ Hon. George McDuffie ar
rived in this city last week in feeble health.
The object of his visit is, to try the virtues of
the “ Cold Water Institute.’ His numerous
friends will be gratified to learn that his health
is considerably improved.”
The Hon. John Van Dyke has been nomina
ted for re-election to Congress by the Whigs
of the fourth district of New Jersey.
Whigs of New York.
The following gratifying news of the state
of feeling among the Whigs of the empire
State, is from the editorial correspondence of
the N. Y. Express, one of the editors of which
was a delegate to the Whig Convention ;
Utica, Sept. 14.
The Whig Convention here have, by a unanimous
voice, not one dissenting nor wishing to dissent,
and every county in the State being represented, con
firmed, ratified, and adopted the nomination of Zach
ary Taylor and Millard Fillmore.
Not a whisper of disunion or dissent was heard !
Every Whig delegate from every Whig Assembly
district in the State, responded to the Philadelphia
nominees. Thus pass over the idle rumors of dis
content and disorder among the Whigs of New York.
They have shown, too, by statistical consultation,
that if the Whigs work on as they are working now,
and poll their full vote as they are now promising to
poll it, the Whig majority here in November will be
thousands piled on thousands. No disturbance ofany
amount exists among the Whigs of this State except
in the minds ofdreamersin two or three of its cities or
large towns. The agricultural population is as im
movable in its devotion to the Whig parly as the Cats
kill mountain rocks. There is no (what is called)
Clay party distind from the Taylor party. There
are no Clay men of any amount that are not Taylor
men. The ticket, and the whole ticket, and nothing
but the ticket is the cry. They who use other lan
guage than this in the great interior of this State are
dupers or the duped. The Barnburners detach some
of our old companions in seme parts of the State, but
every Whig thus lost is made up by two new voters
(or more) from the Locofoco ranks. We shall speak
belter, clearer, louder, and more emphatically than
have even the gallant Whigs of Vermont, whose turn
it was first to breast this new Van Buren thunder
gust. All we have to do is to plant, sow, plough, hoe
and reap.
The Convention met and separated in a spirit of
kindness and harmony, the like of which has not
been known for some years in this State.
“Millard Fillmore is an abolitionist —one who goes
the entire length of the Giddingses, the Slades, and
the Palfreys.” — Montgomery Advertiser.
The Advertiser is certainly a great econo
mist of truth, if the above sentence is a fair
specimen of its labors in the cause of Cass.
Mr. Stephens--Tbe Seventh District.
We regret to learn, says the Journal and
Messenger , that after coining as far as Griffin,
on his way to attend his appointments in Wil
kinson county, Mr. Stephens was compelled
to desist and return home. His hand had
grown extremely painful, and the gener
al debility of his system increased to such an
extent, that it was thought advisable by his
Physicians that he should abandon all idea of
engaging in the excitement and fatigues of the
campaign. His appointment at Gordon yes
terday, was filled by Mr. Nisbet, and we under
stand that Mr. Toombs has kindly consented to
meet the people of Wilkinson in his behalf at
Irwinton, and at least at one other place.
To the Taylor men of the Seventh District,
we need scarcely say one word under the cir
cumstances. Their immediate leader has been
ruthlessly cut down, but“ Old Zack” is in the
field. Need we ask if they will abandon the
glorious standard that has so often waved over
them in triumph? We know they will not.
Every Taylor man in the district should make
it a personal matter not only to vote himself,
but secure the vote of every generous hearted
Democrat in the District, for their faithful bu*
unfortunate Representative, whose services
demand respect, and whose wounds “speak
trumpet-tongued” in his behalf.
Almanac for 184:9.
Mr. C. E. Grenville of this city has laid on
our table his “ Georgia and Carolina Almanac ”
for 1848, just issued from the press, which is
one of the most valuable compilations of the
kind, of interesting statistical information, we
have ever seen offered to the public in a local
Southern Almanac. In addition to all the or
dinary almanac matter it contains
A Complete Interest Table, at 7 per cent., from $1
to SIOOO.
Taritf of Freights on Railroads in Georgia and So,
Carolina, carefully revised.
List of Postoffices of South Carolina, and of Georgia.
Population Tables of each District and county of
South Carolina and Georgia, and of the United States.
Members of South Carolina Legislature.
“ “ Georgia “
Complete Court Calendars for each State.
Electoral Vote of Georgia in 1844.
Gubernatorial vote of Georgia, in 1347, &c. &c, &c.
Price S 3 per gross.
Gen. Cass and Abolition Petitions.—lt
has been argued, says the Alabama Journal , by
some of the southern Cass papers, that the
presenting a petition to Congress on the sub
ject of slavery in the District or territories is
clear evidence that the member doing so is an
Abolitionist. By this their own standard, Mr.
Cassis an Abolitionist of the deepest dye, for
he has presented several. Witness the follow
ing extract from Senate Journal, 1845—6, page
98:—
“ Mr. Cass presented the petition of citizens of
Michigan, remonstrating against the admission of
Texas into the Union , with a constitution
tolerating slavery.”
By reference to page 134, of the same Jour
nal, it will be seen that Mr. Cass presented
another petition of the same purport.
The first was presented on the 13th Janua
ry, 1846, and the second on the 4th of Februa
ry, 1846.
Texas was admitted into the Union with a
Constitution tolerating slavery, on the 29th De
cember, 1845—about 15 days before the first
petition was presented, and a little over a month
before the second was.
The insult to the South was deeper in these
cases than in any other, from the fact that there
was no necessity for presenting them after the
matter was settled. They were firebrands,
gratuitous and unprovoked, designed to re
kindle the fierce and dangerous excitement
which had been justly happily assuaged.
A Whig Lie.—A good Democrat accosted
us the other day, says the Journal Sf Messenger.
to know if we could prove that Mr. Polk had
actually signed a bill containing the Wilmot
proviso. He said he had heard of it, but as he
couldn’t find anything about it in his own pa
pers he had concluded it must be a '* Whig lie /”
We referred him to the documents and he
left “ gritting his teeth” and exclaiming “ sold
to the Abolitionists by ! I’ll have no
thing to do with this bargain so long as old Zack
lives.”
Massachusets.—The following is the ticke t
nominated by the Whig State Convention at
Worcester on Wednesday last :
For Governor—Hon. George N. Briggs*
For Lieut. Governor —Hon. John Reed. Elec
tors at large—Levi Lincoln, Worcester; Ed
mond Dwig'ht, Boston. District Electors —
Benj. F. Thomas. Worcester; Albert Fearing,
Boston; David Pingree, Salem ; Isaac Liver
more, Cambridge; Win Baylies, W. Bridge’r.;
Myron Lawrence, Belcher’n.; Asa Howland,
Conway; Wm. R. Eaton, Nantucket.
Mr. Cone’s Letter.
The friends of Mr. Stephens, says the
Journal 8? Messenger, could certainly desire no
greater punishment to be inflicted upon Judge
Cose than simply the publication of his own
letter, which we copy from the Augusta Con
stitutionalist. That publication having been
made, we trust the whole matter may be left to
the good sense and discrimination of an intel
ligent and rightly judging public. It needs no
condemnation of Courts and Juries, no power
of bars and bolts to punish the perpetrator of
such an act. He confesses that his own con
science condemns him, and that is surely pun
ishment enough for any man to undergo.
It appears however, from this letter, that
Judge Cone is anxious to shift the responsibili
ty of the deed. He shows that after writing
Stephens the note he became apprehen
sive that he might have to meet that gentleman
upon an open field where they would both be
placed upon an equal footing. It appears that
he followed him to Macon and Forsyth for the
purpose of a personal meeting, and that he
was deterred at the latter place, because of the
crowd, from seeking the interview. It appears
that he then repaired to Atlanta, where he
knew Mr. Stephens would be on Sunday,
and that he there laid in wait for his victim for
twenty-four hours. It further appears that un
der the advice of his friends, Mr. Cone accost
ed Mr. Stephens in the manner described in
his letter. It must be plain to any man of
common sense, that the sole object of Mr.
Cone was most grossly to insult Mr. Steph
ens, and if he resented it to take advantage of
his personal weakness. To do this. Cose, a
man weighing nearly if not qii'te, 200 pounds,
arms himself with a weapon of death, and yet
gravely tells the public that he had no design of
using it, except in self defence ! Although he
says, that certain indescribable feelings came
over Jhim, so that he knew not what he
was doing; yet he is particular to state that af
ter the blow was given him by Stephens, he
drew the knife from hispocket, Bfc. Mr. Cone's
recollection seems to be remarkable for a man
who declares himself frenzied with madness. —
The truth of this whole matter may perhaps
be learned from others, who were decidedly
cooler on the occasion than Mr. Cone. It is
said, that the knife was not in his pocket but
(iconcealed ) in bis umbrella (which he held in
his left hand,) that it was not shut but open in
his hand, ready to return the blow which he
intended to provoke. Such we have no doubt
would be the testimony if it was thought worth
while to pursue Mr. Cone to conviction. That
gentleman however has shifted the responsibil
ity of his conduct upon his friends. He has
resolved to make it a political issue, and we
see that his allies of the press, with few excep
tions, throughout the State, are opening the
way for his advocacy. Be it so. They have
assumed a fearful responsibility—one which
the better part of their own friends will refuse
to sustain them in, and one which good men of
all parties will regard as alike dishonorable to
them, and fatal to their cause.
TO THE PUBLIC.
As there has been much excitement in relation to
the recent difficulty between Mr. Stephens and my
self, I think that justice to myself requires a full,
fair and correct statement of the facts connected with
this most unfortunate affair. I would remark in the
first place, that previous to the commencement of this
difficulty, the private and social relations between
Mr. Stephens and my self had been of the most friend
ly character. On the 23d of August I went to the
barbacue at the Glades in Putnam county, where I
met Mr. Stephens, whom I had not seen since his
return from Washington, I met him with kindness,
which I thought was reciprocated on his part. After
speaking, he said to me, as near as I can recollect,
“ I heard that you had charged me with being a trai
tor to the South.” I replied that I had not. He re
plied, “If you had said so, I have said I would slap
your jaws.”
Prom the manner in which it was said, and the re
lations which existed between us, I did not under
stand it as a threat seriously and earnestly made, but
spoken in a jocular manner, and it excited no feelings
on my part. He afterwards went with me to my
buggy and took some refreshments, and we parted
perfectly friendly. After my return, and on the
morning of the 25th, 1 heard that it was reported that
Mr, Stephens had threatened to slap my jaws, and
that I had submitted to it and not resented it. I im
mediately addressed him the,following letter:
“August 25th, 1849.
“ Dear Sir ; You will recollect what parsed at the
time I met you at the barbacue in Putnam. In the
remarks that you made it never struck me at the
time that you were in earnest.
“ The previous relations that had existed between
us, the manner in which you met me, and the utter
improbability of the act, left no doubt in my mind
that you made the remark in a jocular way.
“I have since been informed that you were in
earnest, and really intended to slap my jaws. Let
me know the truth in relation to the matter.
“Very respectfully, F. H. Cone.”
I handed this letter to Gol. King, with the request
that he would hand it to Mr. Stephens at Madison,
which I am informed he did on the same day.
I left here on that day to be absent several days,
and directed the Postmaster at Greensborough to for
ward any letters with Mr. Stephens’ frank to Mil
ledgeville. 1 left Milledgeville on Thursday the 31st
day of August, up to which time I had received no
answer, 1 heard at Milledgeville, and also at Ma
con and Forsyth, that Mr. Stephens had threatened
to slap my jaws, and that I had not resented it, and
which was repeated to me by my friends, as degrad
ing and seriously injuring my character.
I consulted with some of my friends in relation to
the course that I ought to pursue.
It was thought best and agreed, that I should call
upon Mr. Stephens and ask of him whether he in
tended, by the remarks he had made, seriously to
have threatened to slap my jaws, and if he did not
disavow it, then to charge him with being a traitor to
the South, in order that he might be relieved from the
position and imputation in which his previous threat
1 to slap my jaws had placed him.
, I saw Mr. Stephens at the public meeting at For
syth, but we did not speak; and as the meeting was
a large and exciting one, it was not deemed a proper
, place for a personal explanation.
1 went on to Atlanta, and remained there one day.
Mr. Stephens came on the cars the next day, and as
he came into the hotel I asked him if he had receiv
ed my letter ? He said that he had. I asked him if
in the answer, he had disclaimed having seriously and
in earnest threatened to slap my jaws? He said the
letter would speak lor itself. I said to him that un
less he disclaimed it I should presume that he had
I not done so in his letter. He raid that I could pre
sume what I pleased. I was about then to say, “You
are a traitor to the South,” in order to relieve myself
from the position in which his previous threat had
placed me, and the imputation it had cast upon me.
Before I had fully pronounced the words, even if I
had commenced the pronunciation, of which I am
i not certain, he struck me across the face with a small
' whale-bone walking-stick. It caused an excitement
to come over me which I am incapable of describing,
and I immediately drew the knife from my pocket
. an( j inflicted on him the injuries which he received,
and which I most truly and deeply regret. Ido not
pretend to say, that in doing this I did right; far from
it. And though all may condemn the act as impro
t per yet how few are there, who under the same cir
t curnstances, would not have been liable to have acted
in the same manner.
The fact that he had threatened to slap my jaws,
. the contemptuous blow across my face with the wa
ing stick caused a feeling to come over me which de
prived me of the power of rearon and reflection, an
' caused me u> do an act which I ah.ll rag*. ■* long as
" Hire. When I had the interviewwilhMr .Steph-
V ens, I had no wish to hurt a hair of his head. M y only
- object was to save my own character and feehngs from
i de | ra^ tl “" kno<rraebesti k now that Urn. man
peace—that the whole praet.ee of my hfe haa boon
f*' h ' r ‘° l,uffer injury than to do injury. F., r .C
sive law'whirVTf**r in Mtcn
stantly in contact with* the intcrests.Telings 8 ““d
passions of mankind; vet in nil thatV i . and
P«»nal difficulty wilh
man. The feelings of my nature are kind and gem
tie, as all my acquaintances will testify, and no mVn
has a greiter abhorrence of a transaction of this
kind. It is not my dispooition to harbor malice acmtnst
any one. * “*•
I had no intention whatever of using a knife un
less it became necessary to defend myself against
some deadly weapon Mr. Stephens might use against
me. I had no wiA to injure or harm him ; and al
though the act is done, and cannot be recalled, I trust
that my friends and the public, when they’look at
tee circumstances, will judge of the transaction with
candor and impartiality. P. H. CONE
Greensborough, Sept. 9th. 1843.
Letter from Mr* Fillmore*
The Buena Vista, published at Jackson,
Mississippi, says -.-Through the politeness of
of the Raymond Gazette, we are en
abled to lay before our readers the following
letter from Mr. Fillmore, which, it will be seen!
bears date the day on which the reported flare
up among the Whigs of Albany took place, in
consequence of old Zack’s accepting the
Charleston Democratic nomination. This let
ter does not look much like his countenancing
that ill-advised movement, as has been reckless
ly asserted by the locofoco press. In order to
enable the reader to see at a glance both the
letter and the resolutions which he approves,
we append the latter :
Albany, August 26, 1848.
Dear Sii — I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your note of the 9th inst., enclosing a print
ed copy of the resolutions adopted by the Hough and
Ready club of Raymond on the sth inst., and desir
ing to know whether the political sentiments con
tained in those resolutions are in accordance with my
views.
The 10th and 11th, only, speak of my position and
views ; and though I cannot feel justified in appro
priating to myself all the flattering compliments con
tained in those resolutions, yet I am happy to say that
they truly define my position and express mv views
on the subject to which they allude.
I am happy to inform you that unless something
occurs which cannot be foreseen, I think this State is
certain for the Whig ticket by a large majority.
Please to make my acknowledgments to the mem
bers of your Club, and believe me,
Respectfully yours,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
John B. Peyton, Esq., Pres’t.
The following are the resolutions referred
to:
10. Resolved, That we recognize in Millard Fill
more, the Whig candidate for the Vice-?residency, a
genuine republican, a pure patriot, a man of exalted
intellect and high acquirements—one who has served
the republic long and faithfully in the civil depart
ment of government, whose every act manifests that
he is a. true devotee of liberty, whose name is promi
nently identified with the Whig party, and whose
talents and patriotism justly entitle him to the love and
admiration of his countrymen.
11. Resolved , Thatthecl; irgeofabolitionism, reck
lessly adduced against Millard Fillmore, by unscru
pulous partizan opponents, for the purpose of exciting
sectional prejudices against him, has no foundation
whatever in truth ; but on the contrary, is triumphant
ly disproved by the solemn declaration of our candi
date for the Vice-Presidency, uttered long since ia
the councils of the nation, that Congress has no power,
under the constitution, to interfere with the institu
tion of domestic slavery as it exists in the States of
this Union; and therefore we feel well assured that
Southern institutions will never be assailed or molest
ed by any act of Millard Fillmore.
The inauguration of the Hon. John J. Grit
tenden, as Governor of Kentucky, took place
at Frankfort on Wednesday, the 6th instant.
A large concourse of persons was present
from all parts of the State.
Governor Crittenden has appointed Orlande
Brown, Esq., of Frankfort, Secretary of State,
and Henry C. Harlan Assistant Secretary,
L#" Gen. Pillow will probably be a member
of the next Congress, from the district in Ten
nessee now represented by J. M. Chomas—
the latter gentlemen declining in his favor.
The Majority for Mr. Manly.—The offi
cial returns of the Governor’s election in N.
Carolina makes Mr. Manly’s majority to be
874.
From the Baltimore Sun. —By Telegraph.
Mr. Clay and the Presidency—Another
Declination, &c.— Louisville, Ky., Sept. 18—
5 P. M. —A paragraph appears in the Louis
ville Journal to-day, from a letter written by
Mr. Clay, the publication of which was author
ized by him, in which he says, that while he
feels deeply and gratefully affected by the de
sire to which many of his friends cling of elect
ing him to the Presidency, he cannot accept
the nomination tendered by them for that office.
Feeling bound by the decision of the Philadel
phia Convention, he does not wish and cannot
consent that any further use of his name in con
nection with the Presidency be made.
Fatal Railroad Accident.— Philadelphia,
Sept. 18, 1848.—A collision took place this
morning between the Baltimore and Philadel
phia trains, on the railroad, between Wilming
ton and Brandy wine Bridge. Mr. Chickering,
a machinist, of Wilmington, was killed, as
also Michael McDermott, a brakeman, in the
employ of the company. Another brakeman
had his leg broken, and Dowling, the conduc
tor, his foot severely crushed.
New York, Sept. 18.—6 P. M. —An inmate
of the Tombs, named Sprightly, yesterday
committed suicide by starving himself in his
cell. He was arrested for murdering his wife
under painfully brutal circumstances, and bad
frequently since his confinement declared bis
intention of not living to stand his trial. The
keepers had accordingly moved all means of
self-destruction within their power, but with
out avail.
Indiana. —A letter from Lafayette, Indiana,
to the Louisville Journal, says :
“ It has been industriously circulated, until
the lie lias gained credence even with the
Whigs, that Gen. Taylor cannot touch bottom
in this State. The same thing wpi said of
1 Crittenden in Kentucky, until the Whigs
abroad despaired of his election. There is no
more truth in the report about Taylor in In
diana than there was in this report of the m
* evitable defeat of Crittenden. To show you
f how the current sets, I will inform you that a
• dav or two ago a friend informed me that m
i coming from Crawfordsville to this place he
met from four to five hundred vvagon>. am
I that but one of the drivers was for Van Buren,
- ten or twenty for Cass, and the rest for Tay
-1 lor. You may rest assured that Indiana wi 11
stand up for old Rough and Ready,
j Launch of a Ship of War.— The Unite J
I States ship of the line was i launch*
II on Thursday from the stocks >" th «f *T for
it town Navy Yard, on which she has r »
twenty-nine years. As a matter of cot ’ an d
1 immense concourse of people irom B *■
> all the neighboring cities and towns were I
1 lv interested spectators of the ceremony,
a J
: Another Cass Flag Struck.-THo Alton
i (III.) Monitor, a few weeks since emer f e i uler
its state of neutrality into a an
organ. The change was heralded as an
- dence of the increasing popularity of Cass.
- has hauled down that flag, and
d of Van Buren and Adams. The Momto w
s a 4k 0 pHifnrial management of John VV
- I * olt% loco<bco and a prominent
ir “’f Illinois. We should not be at
“ Locofoco paper* m
B both Illinois and Missouri e*a
I pie of the Alton Monitor. N. O. see.