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From the Washington Republic.
CHARLESTON ENTERPRISE.
If Georgia be the Empire State of the
South, Charleston is the Boston of that sec
tion. She has recently completed her ar
rangements for a railroad to Cincinnati
upon a line of survey only G31 miles in
length. She will also connect with Louis
ville by a line of GOO miles. .The shortest
Baltimore line with Cincinnati is, we be
lieve, 630 miles. Charleston will thus at
tract a large proportion of the provisions
and manufactures of the Ohio valley, and
in the next war we shn!] have regiments of
Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana volunteers-com
iag down to defend the outlet of their trade
at Charleston, as their fathers did at Xew
Orleans ; and when abolitionists come to
set free the negroes who wear the goods
cat the bacon, and work tlie mules of the
Northwest, the volunteers will rise up and
aid in their expulsion, upon the plainest
and most inevitable reason—because it will
be their interest to do so.
w e note, moreover, that a plan is on foot
to make a railroad ooastwi.se from Charles
ton -to Savannah, and the latter City will
place herself directly in the line of comma
nication with the Gulfiand the Pacific by a
railroad to Pensacola. Charleston has thus
secured access to the Gulf—the central Mis
sissippi at Memphis and the great meat
house and meat-tub of the Uniom—the
Ohio valley. We have observed, moreover
that a contract has been made for the man
ufaeiure in Charleston of all therollingstock
of the Xew Orleans and Opelousas railroad
There arc other evidences of industrial
prosperity which account in our mind for
the profound quiet of South Carolina, and
convince us that she is organizing a practi
cal power that will rely upon itself for pro
tcction, and that she will no longer he as
thin-skinned and sensitive as those who do
not prosper in the world are in the relations
with those who do.
Every friend of the Union lias been de
lighted with the restoration of calm in the
Southern States, and the abatement of that
bitterness with which some of them regard
ed the exercise of an indispensable author
ity by the Federal Government. We
have always thought that these political
prejudices were engendered by an acute
apprehension of oppression on the part of
those who lead public opinion, operatin
upon a stagnant and unprofitable condition
of popular industry in the older Southern
States. It was from these causes that the
decline in commerce in the Southern cities
was attributed to the tariff, and the reduc
tion in the value of lands, or the relative
diminution of their population, was charged
as the insidious results of a system of gov
ernment which fostered one section and de-
depressed another. The experience, how
ever, of the last few years past has taught
the South that the true cause of the growing
inequality of the sections consisted in thje
a doption by the one of all those institutions
and improvements which attract popula
tion, and the positive opposition of the other
to every system of industrial development.
The statesmen of the South persisted in
the theory of Plato that agriculture was the
only desirable interest. Their arguments
against protection were often carried to
prejudice against the manufacturing inter
est itself. They carried the prejudices so
far as to discourage immigration, especially
of the Yankees. They relied upon reme
dies wholly political. The balance of
the power was to be preserved by the ad
mission of an equal number of new States
upon the fallacious theory that equality in
the Senate constituted an equal participa
tion in the poyer of the Government. Ex
perience has, however, convinced the South
that the constitutional rule of power is'not
territory, nor past services, but people, and
that people can be only attracted or retain
ed by offering them industrial and social
inducements. The conviction of tins great
truth has spread over the South from the
Potomac to the Bio Grande. Everywhere
the rich and cheap lands, the coal beds and
water-power'are thrown open ; every facili
ty is afforded to the ingress of foreign pop
ulation and the investment of capital; har
bors arc deepened, channels opened, and
every preparation made for the commercial
accommodation of the interior products.
The consequence of this change of sys
tem is already apparent In the growth of
Southern cities, the enhanced value of lands
and slaves, and in the success of their man
ufacturing experiments. This universal
prosperity has produced content. The
Government is no longer looked on as the
sole cause of sectional inequality ; its ad
vantages have been proven to belong to
those who acquire the elements of wealth
and population. Schools and canals found
ed the power of Xew York, and she lias
now the collection of seventy-five per cent,
of the national revenue, and an electoral
vote equal perhaps to the joint vote of both
the Carolinas and Virginia.
The growth of positive power in the
Southern States lias not only promoted the
permanence of the Union by rendering sec
tional oppression impossible, but it has en
gendered another influence of the utmost
importance. The system of physical devel
opment has been carried out to a great ex
tent with the aid of northern capital. XYe
would be glad if the author of the money
articles in the Herald, Times, or Tribune
would state approximately the amount of
money invested hv the capitalists, iron
masters, and machinists of the Northern
States in the State and corporate securi
ties of the South—in coal mines, town sites,
and steam lines ; it would show an aggre
gate we arc satisfied that will be found to
constitute an immense debt, and it is but
preparatory to the incalculable investments
which will follow the completed system.—
This result has already given the Southern
States the hostage of human interest for the
permanence of their institutions, and every
day its infiucnce in disabusing notliern and
southern minds of sectional prejudices will
become more apparent. And this has been
done with the object of so uniting the inter
ests of this great national family as that it is
neither to their advantage to qurrrel nor di
vide. It is the triumph of the American
over the Achceau system. r i lie one a league
of temporary convenience, where the whole
confederacy might be taken to pieces in a
moment like a piece of artillery ; the other
so bolted and riveted together that the whole
fabric must be employed together or not at
all.
From the Philadelphia Ledger
Wait till yon lind a Better.
There arc many persons who, observing
how fast their neighbors make fortunes,
grow discontented with their own more
slender profits. Such individuals often
change their business in consequence, san
guine that a new one w ill prove more lu
crative. Generally they arc disappointed.
They do not understand, in truth, the new'
pursuit as well as the old. Moreover, they
find that what looked so promising at a dis
tance shows many a draw back on a nearer
inspection. The wisest plan is to stick to
the business one understands, or at least to
be certain that tire change will be profitable.
^ In other words, wait till you find a better.
The same advice will apply to those who
think that by moving to some other locality
they may have more success. To go to the
West, or even to California, may he an ex
cellent thing for many persons. But the
emigrants must be those who are suited for
new countries, or privation will bring on
disease, if not premature death. The life
of a farmer on a prairie, with no notes to
pay, and abundance of all around, or that
of a miner, digging up solid lumps of ore,
w ithout toil or anxiety, appears delightful
when painted in words. But the reality is
usually a very different affair. Don’t he
in a hurry, therefore, to leave your business
here, small as it may be. At least he sure
what you are doing before you make a
change. In fine, keep your present pur
suit till you find a better.
Govern your intimacies by the same rule.
Old friends are generally the best. True,
they may trespass at times on your pa
tience, either by pushing their claims too
far, by interfering in your affairs, or by ta
king undue liberties, as old friends, even
the best occasionally will. But tlie chances
are, if you make a change, that you will not
improve matters. The ancient ties, like
venerable roots, cling closer than new* ones
and may he relied on in tempests, that
would tear up their younger rivals. If you
ai\e wise, you will never throw off a friend,
unless for the grosses misconduct. Ilcflect
how imperfect, at best, is human nature, and
wait till you find a better.
In social science also the rule will apply.
Every new scheme is not necessarily a re
form. Xoris it always possible, even where
an evil is admitted, to find an immediate
remedy. Visionary theorists there are, in
deed, who will tell you that they have a
panacea for every ill of society. But ex
amine for yourself before you act, and ex
amine thoroughly, not supurficially. It is
easier to injure than to repair, to tear down
than to build up. Progress is best of all
things. But real progress is one thing,
stimulated progress quite another. If,
therefore, you are asked to assist in repeal-
any law, even one partially objectiona
ble, consider well whether, on the whole,
society will he improved. If this is doubt
ful, he not hasty, but leave the law alone—
wait till you find a better.
As there are always men ready to tell
you that society is out of joint, and that
they only possess the secret of its cure, so
there are others who insist that the faith of
your fathers is absurd, if not all religion a
delusion. It is the cant of the day, among
certain shallow thinkers, to say that a man
of sense will believe nothing he cannot un
derstand. Yet most men, and invaribly
those of the greatest intellect, believe in
eternity, though no human mind can really
comprehend what 1ms neither beginning
nor end. But you need no argument for
clinging to your faith. You have never
lost a parent, a child, or a wife, if you have
not found that, in the hour of sorrow, reli-
ion is the only consolation. All other
props give way, that alone sustains you.—
Mere philosophy can do nothing for you
wdien death enters your dwelling. Hold
fast, hold fast to your religion, at least till
you find a better.
In the thousand exigencies of life—in
your relations to your family, to society, to
those you do business with, in everything
you do, never abandon the old familiarway,
until you have thoroughly explored thenew
one, and know it to be superior. We do
not recommend a blind, stationary, stub
born, old-world inactivity. But neither
would we have you rush into error on the
opposite side. In a word, never abandon
your present course in a hurry, hut observe
the golden rule of waiting till you find a
better.
Thrilling Scene at Niagra
The most intense excitement was crea
ted at Xiagra Tuesday morning by the
startling intelligence that a man was in
the midst of the rapids within a few feet of
the Falls, clinging for life to a frail stump
against which, in his perlious descent of the
rapids, he had been thrown. As soon as
the terrible news became known hundreds
of persons hurried to the spot, and the re
port was found to be too true.
Upon inquiry it was ascertained that the
poor fellow was one of three men belong
ing to a scow used for taking sand down
the river who had got into a small boat at
taclied to the scow about nine o’clock on
Monday evening, and having by some
means become separated therefrom, were
hurried down the rapids- The boat was
of course speedly swamped, and the men
cast into the water ; two of them being at
once hurried over the Falls to their dread
ful fate, and the other by chance striking
and clinging to a stump about midway be
tween the falls and Goat Island bridge.
At daylight on Tuesday morning this
poor fellow was discovered in his perilous
situation, and it was speedily found that
his rescue was almost impossible, since no
boat that could be procured would float a
moment in the rapids without being swam
ped and overturned. A despatch was im
mediately sent to Buffalo for a life-boat,
and one was sent by the railroad without
delay. In the mean time a box containin
refreshment was attempted to be floated
to the imperilled man, who had clung
with desperation to his frail support in
the midst of the dizzying, whirling ra
pids, and within hearing of the roar of the
cataract over which in any moment he
might be hurled, for upwards of twenty-
four hours!
The life-boat at length arrived, but prov
ing too light, it immediately swamped. A
raft was then floated out to the sufferer, who
got upon it; and at six o’clock in the eve
ning another life-boat was sent to him, which
struck the raft and swept the man off into
the rapids, tie then attempted to swim to a
small island, but failing to reach it, lie rais
ed himself up to his full height, gave a
shriek, waved his arms wildly, and disap
peared. His name was Joseph Avery.
The name of one of his companions was
Thomas Harmaman.
Mistakes not Bectified.—I heard an
incident connected with the history of the
Xortli Church, in your city, tlie facts of
which are not, I think, generally known,
and it may prove interesting to your read
ers. It appears that towards tlie close of
the Bevolution the good people of the Xorth
Church found it necessary to make some
repairs. They sent on to Boston and pur
chased some nails, which in due course of
time arrived, and, upon opening the kegs,
lo and behold, one of them was found to con
tain Spanish dollars. “This was a go!”—
The Decons assembled, held a consultation,
and the result was they wrote on to Boston
and informed the merchant who made the
sale that there was an error in shipping the
goods. The merchant, acting upon the
principle of our hanks at the presnt day,
wrote back that he could rectify no mis
takes—that the nails were bought and sold
as they were. He bought them of a priva
teersman, and must let it stand as it was.—
The money was melted up and made into a
service of plate for the church, and it is in
existence and use at the present day. The
above was related to me by a gentleman in
whose family a large goblet made from the
same silver, and you may rest assured that
what I have stated is a fact.
[New Ilavcn Register.
Ficm tlie Richmond Times of the 22d ult.
William J, Brotva at his Old Tricks.
It appears from the subjoined article
which we take from the Indiana Madisoni
an, of the 13th instant, that the Hon. Win.
J. Brown, Gen. Bierce’s special Mail
Agent, lias been figuring recently among
bis old friends the Abolitionists. The
Madisonian is a strong democratic yager
and is edited by William Gulley formerly
of this city, and printer of the Virginia
Reform Convention. Major Sawyer of the
Xorfork Argus informed the world a few
days ago, that Brown had repented of his
sins in sackcloth and ashes and had be
come ^shining light in the Presbyterian
Church. We fear however that the Hon.
gentleman’s Presbyterian robes hang quite
as loosely about his shoulders as his polit-
ical principles, for we do not understand
that robbing the slaveholder of his proper
ty is readily reconcilable with the religions
of our Presbyterian friends. The Wash
ington Union has repeatedly declared that
President Pierce would not hesitate to re
move any man from office who should refuse
to abide by tlie Democratic platform, and
the Compromise. Xow here is a case in
point. Brown is openly charged by a
Democratic newspaper in his own State,
with having aided and abetted a hand of [
abolitionists in defeating the operation of
the Fugitive Slave Law :
“The Meditated Negro Rescue.—When
William J. Brown ran for the Speaker-
ship of the House of Representatives—
came within one vote of it, and was then
detected in a frce-soil intrigue and discard
ed by tlie Democratic members of the House,
we imagined that lie had received a lesson
The Democracy of New York.
The “Union” of yesterday contains the
resolutions adopted on Friday last by the
“Democratic Republican” State Committee
of the Xew York, declaring their attach
ment to and approval of the Baltimore De
mocratic Platform and of the President’s
inaugural Address, but does not inform its
readers that these resolutions, like a simi
lar series in tlie State Legislature, were
passed by only one branch of the Demo-
erotic party. The Albany Argus of Mon
day tells this part of the story, as follows :
“We publish to-day the official account of the
proceedings of the Democratic State Committee,
held in New York city, pursuant to notice, on Fri
day last.
“Our telegraphic despatch, published on Satur
day, will have prepared our readers for the leading
incidents of the meeting; the organization of the
committee for the first time since its establishment
by the State Convention ; the adoption of resolu
tions cordially approving of the principles and doc
trines laid down in the Baltimore Platform and re-
promulgated in the President’s Inaugural; the ap
proval of the proposed constitutional amendments;
the calling of a State Convention; and the secess
ion of the only Freesoil or Barnburner members of
the committee in attendance.
“ It will be seen that because the State Commit
the preferred to promulgate as its own the doc
trines and principles of the National Democracy as
proclaimed at Baltimore and reiterated in the In
augural, and to do this in the identical language of
the inaugural, as emboided in the series of
resolutions introduced by Mr. D. B. Taylor in
the Assembly and adopted by that body, the Free
soil members of the committee, lapwing the lead
of the Freesoil members of thlwlbe House, when
brought to the test of a vote mft Rem, shrank from
the ordeal and left the room in which the committee
were assembled! The scene was a repetition,
though on a smaller scale, of the stampede of the
Bulfaloes’ in the Assembly, led off by the Speaker,
a short, time before ; and adds, if possible, signifi
cance and importance to that memorable ‘show of
heels’, instead of hands, on the cardinal points of
English language can make it ?
Union and the Democratic Administration stand
identified before the country.
“The facts, connected or otherwise, are eminent
ly suggestive. They speak for themselves of the
alienage, now as heretofore, of the Freesoil faction
in this State from all affinity with the common bro-
brotherhood of the National Democracy, and form an
instructive lesson for the study of political doctors
and teachers, here and elsewhere.
[Nat. Int. 21st ult.
Machines for Glove-Sewing.—A com
plctc revolution is about to take place m
the manufacture of gloves; Two inhabi
tants of Grenoble, France, invented about
the same time a machine for sewing gloves;
but in place of competing with each other,
they agreed to unite the advantages of each
invention. One found means to sew me
chanically the fingers of gloves ; while the
other, after sewing the remainder of the
glove, was compc-llcd to employ operatives
to sew the fingers. The inventors, by com
bining the two macliines have produced one
which sews gloves perfectly. This discov
ery has produced a great sensation at Gren
oble, where the manufacturers were not
able to supply the demand for want of a
sufficient number of operatives.
A democratic wag proposes to the disap
pointed office-seekers and tliose lecenlly
executed to forma “Department of the Ex-
t prior.”
A Successful Domestic Search.
Air. II. affronted bis wife, who, to pun
ish him, resolved to act dumb whenever
he was present ; and so well did she
maintain her resolution, that nearly a week
passed away, during which not a word did
she utter in his presence. She performed
her household duties as usual ; but speak
she would not. He tried to coax her out
of her whim, but in vain. At last he tried
the following plan to overcome her resolu
tion, by working on her curiosity—the
most ungovernable of female propensities.
Returning, one evening, from his employ
ment, his lady sat there as usual, mute.—
He immediately commenced a vigorous
search throughout the room. The closet
was examined the bed room, the drawers,
boxes, shelves—everything that could pos
sibly he thought of was overhauled.
His wile was struck with astonishment
at his unaccountable behavior; and he
proceeds in his search. She became very
nervously anxious to find out what he
was looking for. What could it be ? She
looked in his face, to glean, if possible,
from bis expression, the object of his search;
hut no go; he was as sober as a judge. He
lifted up the edge of the carpet, looked un
der the table cover, and finally, approach
ing her chair, looked under it, and even
going so far as to brush her dress partially
aside, as if what he sought might be hid
there. She burst out. “ Bob, what are
you looking for V’ He smiled, and answer
ed, “ Your tongue, and I’ve found it.”
Xever Despair.—Fifty-three years ago,
on the 3d of July, 1800, Daniel Webster,
then in his senior year at college, deliver
ed an oration at Hanover, X. II., which is
still preserved, and has been republished
within the past year. Mr. Mattoon, of
Summerville, Ohio, who was in College
with Air. AYebster, gives the following an
ecdote, described in the Congregational
Journal.
“ I was in his room, said Air AI., when a
deputation called upon Air. AY. to ask him
to accept the invitation; but there seemed
to he an insurmountable object in tlie way.
He had no clothes suitable to the dignity of
the occasion. Here was a dilemma, but
this was removed by a proposition made by
one of the deputation present, a merchant
of the village. ‘You deliver the oration,
Air. AYebster,’ said lie, ‘and I will trust you
for a suit of clothes frojn the best cloth in
my store. Afterwards, we will have the
oration printed, and I will depend upon
the proceeds of the sales for my pay.’ Air.
AY. turned to me, ‘What shall we do/’ ‘Pre
pare the oration,’ I said. The oration was
prepared and delivered; and so much were
the citizens gratified, that a copy was ur
gently requested for publication. From
the sales the debt due the liberal merchant
was paid, and considerable surplus left for
Air. Webster’s own use.”
AIr. Fillmore.—Of ex-President Fill
more, a correspondent of the Boston Couri
er, dating from Buffalo, says: “AYhile at
the Falls I visited Buffalo, and did myself
the honor of calling upon the great states
man of Buffalo, Alillard Fillmore. It was
pleasant to look upon the plain, white two
story house, with green blinds, and a little
yard in front, in which Alillard Fillmore re
sides. It spoke proudly of the man, and of
tlie institutions which formed the man.-
Calara, dignified and gentlemanly, Air.
Fillmore, as the citizen of Buffalo, is no
less respected than was Air. Fillmore as the
President of the United States. Wliatev-
er views may he entertained in regard to
the policy of his administration, the integ
rity of liis private character has ever been
beyond even the suspicions of his bitterest
political enemies. The loss of the compan
ion of his early struggles and subsequent
prosperity, has thrown a shadow upon his
countenance. Alay it soon pass from his
horizon, and the unclouded sunshine as
bright as before.
Extraordinary Sqneamishness.
Some of tlie “re-united” organs affect
profound surprise and astonishment that
any respectable journal should bring the
charge of spiritual rapping against Judge
Johnson. AYe have never made the charge
ourself, and indeed do not pretend to know
whether it is true or not-we have only said,
and a gain repeat, that it has been alleged
that it is a notorious fact that he is a rap
per. But with tlie truth of the story we
have nothing to do at present. The point
we are driving at is the fact that the organ
above referred to, (the name of whose edi
tor is Legion) in a late issue, after rais
ing a lamentable wail about tlie indecency
of any referrence whatever to Judge John
son’s “ spiritual” manifestations, charges
Air. Jenkins (by inuendo, at least) with be
ing opposed to free suffrage—with a desire
to limit and restrict the right of voting.—
This charge by inuendo is of course based
upon bis support of tlie Algerine Law.”
Now the gentleman whom we believe to be
tlie author of the prefatory paragraph allu
ded to, knew just as well as anybody does,
that voting for the restriction in the election
of Aldermen in Augusta was no sort of evi
dence that Air. Jenkins wished a general
abridgement of the right of voters. He
knew perfectly well that Air. J. only vo
ted for the Algerine law in obedience to the
instructions of his constituents, and that
many of those who signed the memorial
where Democrats. Knowing these facts,
and in the face of them insinuating that
Air. J. is opposed to the general right of
suffrage, may be, in the eyes of the “ Re
united,” a praiseworthy action ; hut the
people are noting these things, and must
see that these organs lecture with a bad
grace, and are but attempting to cast motes
out of the eyes of their brethren while
there is a beam in their own,
[Athens Herald.
Last Proposition.—A gentleman in
Iowa proposes to keep cities free from thun
der storms “for so much per year.” To
most people, this offer will he looked upon
as preposterous, and yet it is not. AVehaveno
doubt whatever that an outlay of 810,000
would keep New York as insulated as a glass
table with sealing-wax legs. AVhat a gen
tleman in Iowa proposes to do for us, has
already been done for the vine growers of
the South of France. By means of a well
arranged system of lightning rods, a Avliole
distict has hesn rendered inaccessible to
those destructive hail storms which so fre
quently follow in the train of thunder show
ers. What has been done in France, can be
done elsewhere. If we can teach lightning
to write, we can teach it to behave itself.
severe enough to last him all the days of" frith and practicewith which the^Democracy of the
his life. But the Bourbons are not the only
race of men, whose misfortunes seem to
make no impression upon them. Scarcely
is that notorious act of double-dealing and
hypocrisy forgotten by one out of a thou
sand, before we find this “defunct,” or rath
er this would-be Speaker, guilty of con
duct far more flagitious than the intrigue.
AVc see him acting spokesman—no Speak
er—for a small body of abolitionists in the
capital of Indiana, if not aiding and abet-
tiug in their designs to rescue an alleged I
fugitive from justice, unless his alleged i
master would consent to sell him for such i
a price as they might dictate ! “I tell you,” j
said this spokesman to the counsel for the J
plaintiff, “that your client must sell the ne
gro, if proven to be his slave, for a fair
ju ice, or there will be a rescue !” Here
there is not only a connivance with the
abolitionists in tlieir plans to rob the mas
ter of his propety, and to throw a firebrand
into the midst of a peaceable community,
manifested, but there is a blow menaced j
against both the fugitive law of Congress |
and the law of Indiana against the atlmis- j
sion and succor of blacks in this State, j
Let hut one successful rescue take place •
within the borders of our State—let it go
abroad into Kentucky and Alissonri, that
runaway negroes will here find a shelter
and protection—let it be understood that
they will here find men high in public
station, under both the State and Nation
al Governments, who stand ready to force
their masters to sell them for any price •
which they may dictate, and how long
ill it be before Indiana is turned into -
a rendezvous for thousands of indolent,
good-for-nothing blacks ? How long will
il; be before they will prowl around
the stores in our towns at night, and
commit depredations upon the property of
our unsuspecting citizens ?—How long will
it be before the barn-yards and hen-coops
of our farmers will suffer in common with
the stores of our merchants ? Have not all
places, which have been the resort of runa
way negroes, been exposed to such evils 1
And yet the editor of the State Sentinel,
with a full knowledge of the law of Indi
ana, as well as the fugitive laws of Congress
before him, would hasten such a condition
of things in this State, by conniving at the
rescue of the negro Freeman by the aboli
tionists of Indianapolis ! AVhat right bad
he to say that the master “must” sell the
negro at any price ? Suppose the master
did not wish to sell him, and should ask a
high price to get clear of the importunities
of Air. AYm. J. Brown oi his abolition as
sociates on that occasion, why should he
be compelled to sell him, any more than a
good horse which he did not wish to part
with ? The laws protected his rights in
one case as much as in the other; and if
Air. Brown had been a law abiding citizen,
lie would have proceeded to Court, or to
the Police Office, and made known all the
circumstances with which he was acquaint
ed, in regard to this meditated negro res
cue. If there were men in Indianapolis
disposed to commit treason, Air. Brown, if
not implicated, should have exposed them.
It was due to the majesty of the law. It
was due to the honor of the State.
Civility is a Fortune.—Civility is a
fortune in itself, for a courteous man always •
succeeds in life, and that even when persons ;
of ability sometimes fail. The famous Duke !
of Ararlborough is a case in point. It was j
said of him, by one contemporary, that his j
agreeable manners often converted an one-1
my into a friend ; and, by another, that it
was more pleasing to be denied a favor by j
his Grace, than to receive one from other j
men. The gracious manners of Chas. James
Fox preserved him from personal dislike, | North Carolina, and Tennessee. Air. Dix
even at a time when lie was politically the , will certainly be the man, unless the Ad-
“It is unqualifiedly false that ‘General Fierce
appoints men to office because they are known to
be freesoilers.’ We repeat what we have said be
fore—that Gen. Pierce has appointed no man to
office knowing or believing him to be a freesoiler;
and he stands pledged to correct any such appoint
ment into which he may have inadvertently fall
en, when the fact of present freesoilism is fixed on
any of the appointees.’ —Washington Union.
The above is a reply of the AA r ashington
Union to the charge of the Boston Atlas,
that men were appointed to important of
fices by Gen. Pierce, “because they were
known to he Freesoilers.” If that is not
the reason for the appointment of Dix, of
Ncw-York, as Sub-Treasurer; of Campf.ell,
of Illinois, as Commissioner to settle Land
titles in California ; of AIaloney, as Regis
ter of the Land Office, at Chicago; of Gray,
the editor of the Plaindcaler, as Postmas
ter at Cleveland, Ohio; of \ 7 room, as
Charge to Berlin ; and the notorious and
imfanous AV. J. Brown, as Special Agent
of the Post Office Department, we should
to like to know the reason that secur
ed the appointment for them. Every man
knows, that there are thousands of eonser
vative Democrats, men who stood by the
Compromise in the hour of peril, who are
equally capable for the discharge of the
respective duties, as these men—that there
are thousands of men of as much capacity
equal integrity, and much more sound in
politics on this great question, than either
of the appointees. Then, why were they
not appointed, if it was not because they
were not Freesoilers ? And why were the
others appointed, if it was not because they
are, and have been for years, open and avow
ed Freesoilers. AY hat other reason can be
assigned for such appointments, but their
Freesoil principles. There were numer
ous applicants for these offices, the equals
of the appointees in every requisite for the
office, but they were not Freesoilers—the
appointees are.
The Union stultifies itself and the Ad
ministration by the declaration, that Gen
Pierce appoints no man to office “knowing or
believing him to be a Freesoiler.” AYe
doubt, seriously if the annals of American
journalism can furnish such another bold,
unscupulous assertion as the above. The
President’s cheeks must have been suffused
with blushes, when lie read that sentence.
For it presupposes a degree of ignorance
on his part, which does not attach to any
intelligent fifteen year old boy in the Un
ion, whose father takes a newspaper.—
AVhat! the President, not know that John
A. Dix, Peter D. Vroom, AY. J. Brown,
Gray, of the Plain dealer, and AIaloney and
Campbell were notorious Freesoilers ! The
thing is preposterous,absurb in the extreme.
And the President will remove them if
“presentfreesoilism” is attached to them.
Indeed ! AVell where is the recantation of
any one of these 1 AYhere uttered, and on
what occasion ? If they'have made any,
let it be proclaimed to the world. And
until such recantation is proclaimed, the
American people will hold the Administra
tion responsable for appointing them “ be
cause they are Freesoilers."—Citron. § Sen
Appointments.
Special Dispatch to the Nac-York Daily Times.
AVashington, July' 24, 10 P. AI.—The
Minister to France is undoubtedly appoint
ed, but will not, it is expected, be announc
ed until alter the elections in Kentucky,
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHARLES J. JESEINS, of Richmond.
FOH CONGRESS,
2d Dist.—J\MES JOHNSON, of Muscosce.
-3d Dist.—ROBERT P. TRIPPE, of Monroe.
7th Dist—DIVIO A. REESE, of Jasper.
Sth Dist.—ALEX. H. STEPHENS, of Taliaferro.
most unpopular man in the kingdom. The
history of our own country' is full of exam-
ministration is again frightened off by
Southern demonstrations. Air. Dix’s res-
plcs of success obtained by civility'. The 1 ignation as Sub-Treasurer, I understand
experience of every man furnishes, if he ; has been before the President for three
will but recall the past, frequent instances weeks, but has not yet been accepted. It
wherereconciliatorymannershavemade the is believed that it has been the President’s
fortunes of physicians, lawyers, and divines, determination to recognize Air. Dix’s dis-
politicians, merchants, and, indeed, indi-
uals of all pursuits. In being introduced
to a stranger, his affability, or the reverse,
creates instantaneously a prepossession in
his behalf, or awakens unconsciously*a pre
judice against him. To man, civility is in
fact, what beauty is to woman ; it is gen
erally a passport to favor ; a letter of re
commendation written in a language that
every stranger understands. The best of
men have often injured themselves by irri
tability and consequent rudeness, as the
greatest scoundrels have frequently suc
ceeded by their plausible manners. Of
two men, equal in all other respects, the
courteous one has twice the chances for for
tune.
Let him Come.—The Constitutionalist
urges Judge Johnson to take the stump and
address the people every where. Let him
go it. This is a game, like cutting with a
cross-cut saw, at which two can play ? Air.
Jenkins will no doubt be ready to “ meet
him at Philippi” and every' where else.
[Athens Herald.
How they are Known.—The following
fragments of conversation was oveheard,
the other day, on board a steamboat: “I
met Lord Ellesmere and his party at Ni
agra, the other day'. 1 knew the ladies were f
persons of destinction the moment I saw j
them, because they wore no jewelry', nor j
any other ornament whatever !”
Very Sensible.—It was remarked by
an intelligent old farmer :—“1 would rath
er be taxed for tlie education of the boy,
than the ignorance of the man, for the i
one «v the other I am compelled tobe.” ’
tinguished ability', by conferring a mission
upon him, hut he has withheld it hitherto
out of regard to the wishes of prominent
Southern men.
The Algerine Law.—It seems that we
were rather premature in the announce
ment some weeks ago that the organs of
the “ Re-united” had dropped the “Alge
rine law” like a hot potato. There was a
temporary cessation of hostilities, and we
really thought they had withdrawn their
forces, as they' no doubt did at one time de
termine to do ; but finding the “ Algerine
law” was the only battery they could bring
to hear on Mr. Jenkins, they have been
compelled to resume operations with it, and
are now tempting by indefatigable indus
try and redoubled zeal to “ redeem the
time” already lost. It is amusing to see
the poor fellows laboring at their hopeless
task. They ply their pop-gun battery
with an energy whioii would tell powerfully
on the result, if they have heavier artille
ry or a more vulnerable foe to operate upon.
But tlie attempt to break down such a man
as Charles J. Jenkins by such a contemp
tible humbug is just simply rediculous.
The best of tlie joke is, that their own
witnesses turn against them—Air. Gardner,
editor of tlieConstitutionalist & Republic, a
gentleman who happens to have a soul lar
ger than a grain of mustard-seed, shows the
“ Algerine law” to be a humbug, and Dem
ocrat as he is, acknowledges that he voted
for Air. Jenkins’ re-electionf notwithstond-
ing he was one of the parties disfranchised,
so far as the election of Aldermen was
concerned, under its operation !
[Athens Herald
We are compelled to omit many original articles
this week for want of room. We will attend to the
favors of our correspondents next week.
Answer.
In reply to the query of our neighbor, Mr.
Knowles would say. that he, like some thirty thou
sand others in Georgia, voted for nobody in the last
Presidential election. Whether the bnion did bet
ter than that, is yet to be seen.
Yew Cotton.
Tlie Albany Patriot of the *29th nit. says, “ a bale
of new Cotton from the plantation of Capt. U. M.
Kobert, was sold in this city on the 27th inst., to
Messrs. Collier & Beers, at 11 cents per lb.”
Foreign.
The steamer Asiaarrived at New York on the 23th
ult. She brings intelligence of an improvement in
the Liverpool cotton market. The Eastern ques
tion was unchanged.
Hon. A. H. Stephens.
This gentleman was in Washington, Wilkes, last
week. Although not entirely recovered from the
effects of his late accident, he was, by request, to
have addressed the citizens on Saturday last, cn
the political topics of the day.
Hon. Y. P. King.
This worthy gentleman was under the late ad
ministration, it will be recollected, Consul from the
United States to Bogota. After several years ab
sence, he has lately returned home. In manifesta
tion of the high gratification it afforded his fellow-
citizens in Greene of again personally greeting him,
not only as an able and faithful public officer, but as
an esteemed neighbor and friend, they lately ten
dered him, through a committee, a public dinner,
which we regret to learn Col. K. was necessitated
to decline in consequence of impaired health. We
cordially join with his neighbors in expressing the
hope that the breathing of his native air will spee
dily restore his health and prolong his usefulness.
Harmony.
We see that tlie last Dalton Times has come out
for Dr. Lewis, independent, against Col. Chastaix
the regular nominee of the “Ke-united Democracy.
Gives as its reason, that Dr. Lewis was their firs
choice. It will be remembered that Dr. Lewis was
a Southern Eights man in 1850, so was the Dalton
Times. Col. Chastain’s Union views still live in
the memory of the re-united. Pleasant news for us :
gentlemen.
Those Abolition Appointments.
We have looked in vain for the Democratic press
to give us their candid views in regard to President
Pierce’s abolition appointments. There is some
thing “rotten in Denmark” about them—they do
not cease for a moment to call upon Democrats to
support the administration, but yet they are afraid
to endorse his appointments, and still more so to
disapprove them. That Southern Rights Presi
dent of theirs has placed them in rather an awk
ward position at present. The Times Sf Sentinel
endeavored to apologize for him, but made the
matter worse, by saying that he could not appoint
any other than Free Soiiers, as there was none others
to receive the honors, admitting then that tlie nor
thern democratic party was a free soil party—quite
an admission. Would that all the rest of the Demo
cratic press were as honest. Now we do not believe
that all the democracy north are free soiiers, yet
there are thousands who are. Where are the
friends of Dickenson, Cass and Buchanan—all dead
or have they turned free soiiers ? The appoint
ments of the administration but too clearly give us
the index of his heart. He is bent upon two things,
the consolidation in the democratic party of all incon
gruous elements that compose it, regardless of prin
ciple, or has an innate love for abolitionists and free
soiiers and their political advancement. This Pre
sident of the people is fast becoming the President
of a party, if we look at him in his true light.—
Judge Johnson, we see, has taken the stump, and
calls upon the Democracy to support the adminis
tration. Upon what ground does he m ike the ap
peal? What has the President yet done that has en
deared him to Southern Democrats—Union Demo
crats in particular ? Is the mere name of Demo
crat nowadays sufficient to get Democratic votes ?
Times have changed, and parties with them. The
Southern Eights party of 1850, or at least Judge
Johnson, did call for a severance of the accursed al
lianccs. Was he honest then ? While the Judge is
upon tlie stump let him dare defend the abolition
appointments of Gen. Pierce—tell the people of
Georgia that they are good, conservative, sound
men, and that his party should not say a word to
the contrary. Is Dix, Vroom, Brown, Gray, Camp
bell and many others we could mention, who were
enemies of the South in 1850, are they any better
in 1853, if they are, when did they become so ?—
We would recommend to the Judge in his politi
cal tour through Georgia, to take with him Win. J.
Brmctis letter to Dacitl Wilmot, when he was run
uing for Speaker of the Ilonse, and at every speech
he makes read that letter, for the edification of his
hearers, and close by saying that said Brown has
been appointed to an important office out West,
and that he approves of said appointment as a
good one. Will he do it, or will he denounce it, or
will he keep mum—perhaps he will do the latter.—
Nous verrons.
We call for Eridcnce.
Our Democratic friends have not left a stone un
turned that could be turned as they think, that
would in any degree, no matter hdtv trivia], injure
Mr. Jenkins. They have searched the Journals of
the House of Representatives ever since he took a
seat in that body. His legislative career has been
no short one, for he has been a prominent actor in all
important questions that came before the House.
In vain do they look for political sins committed,
but none can be found. Stung to madness by fail
ure, as a last resort they greedily seize upon the
Algerine law. They first accuse him of being the
author of the law ; they are refered to the journals,
his name cannot he found among them—that charge
is nailed to the counter as false. What next ? They
say he voted for it. Mr. Jenkins never did deny
it, but on the contrary says that he did vote for it
and thought it a very good municipal regulation.—
His opponents will never catch him misrepresent
ing, prevaricating or dodging—it is not in keeping
with the character of the man. But they go even
further, not satisfied with giving the true facts in
the case, they have we must say, wilfully and
knowingly misrepresented him. They have gone so
far in strong insinuations, if not in so many words,
to say that Mr. Jenkins wishes to apply the princi
ple of the Algerine law to the State suffrage.—
What are the facts in the case ? We
words: “/ have xever contemplated ."
ment, and icithout a change of opinion '
propose ,tt vote for such a measure ” V *
i
f , Fjial
nents show that liis mind has undergone ai -
since he penned the above ? If they can . • I
i the proof. He distinctly and openlv ,]y .^’-l
! such intention. But so lost are some Jy 5 '
f mocratie pre sses for material to use again-
• didate that they will condescend to stoc:
their attacks, low as it is mean, and u;*
as it is untruthful. When we tell the-
[ mocratie legislature, a democratic 8;,.-
' President signed the bill, and to crown *'
* matter that Charles J. McDoxald •'
; law by Lis signature, they all exclaim tV .
local, local bill, and local in its tendenei
that Gov. McDonald had no right to ri fr . L "
a local law, that the precedent was estabih' -
other Governors. Such logic looks to us as ►
the question, but we are inclined to think -
voters of Georgia if they pay any attention,
local law, will hold the democratic fertslar-
Gov. McDonald to a strict account, and fin- 1
equally guilty with Mr. Jenkins. Such v
pretexts, and weak arguments will not
Jenkins’ influence. But we now come to '
and a startling development, perhaps a >
lever that they expect to wield with gre a! .'
against our part” We find it in the last F
Union. It is that the petition signed by ;L- g.
nine citizens of Augusta was gotten upclans',
ly. Well, this is news to ns, and will be to the -
ers themselves we think. It is upon this pm at .'
we call for evidence. What! that some of the.
citizens of Augusta is guilty of such an
upon the rights of others, and that without *i,
knowledge ? It is strange that the Constuutu*.
did not let this cat out of the bag, for truly.
big cat. But no, the Federal Union must;',
story—make the discovery. All that vr> ;,-. T .
upon this subject is simply this, that we mnsi
the evidence—the evidence. More witnesses —.
be called into court, one is not enough upon -
point. But admitting that it was gotten nr
destinely, for argument sake, one more .
Do the citizens of Augusta—do the people of i,.
gia believe that Air. Jenkins would lend him< -
a tool for such work ? No. never: He said wi -
voted forthe bill that he thought he was d im-
w ill of his constituents. He knew nothin? of •
petition, for he was not at home, the first h ■
it was at Alilledgeville, but yet he is now der.o -.r,
as taking part in a clandestine affair. Be -
sane man, (we do not put the question to biimi
and prejudiced partizans,) think fora moreen ; ;
Mr. Jenkins would be so reckless of his moral si
political character ? He is too well known to
voters of Georgia for them to gulp down sucL
surdities. That clandestine humbug will ;
“marines.”
“Old Hickory Johnson,”
Such is the title given to our candidate by way ■
derision, by the friends of Air. Jenkins in ceitc
quarters of the State. We accept the appc-ikii,-
A better name, we ask not; a more suit:. .,
could not have been found. “Old Hickory J, i
son” a worthy representative of the Democa;.:
principles of the Lion hearted old soldier, tk-v, 7
man Georgia needs to place the old ship of &
right side up, with care.
The above is clipped from the last Federal Cm.
That paper is certainly entitled to great civ];; f
its ingenuity' in finding out and portraying Jul;
Johnson’s peculiarities so strikingly. The s
quet “Old Hickory Johnson” is certainly a
one to as. We flattered ourselves as “frier;
Air. Jenkins” we knew something of the • v_ j
and doings of our party. We take one or y i
pers in exchange and occasionally have a 1 - j
through the Post Office, but we had to learn fr A
our neighbors of the Federal Uttion, this re
briquet. The science of contrariety, they hr.
studied, and perhaps for that reason, the title -L
on hearted Old Hickory” suits them on the jr-
sent occasion.
To show the appropriateness of the soobriqm
we refer to our correspondent “Wire Grass." v
tells us that the Judge cannot “risk his life in ah;
Hut.” “Lion hearted,” we would have sup:
he would have thought less of personal '
than the “Wire Grass” boys know that he u«.
Mountain Boys who live in “Log Huts’’ as
as “Wire Grass” be not too severe in passing ■
tence on the delicacy of the “poor man’s earn-
date.” You see how he disregards the refbenes
of aristocratic life and how perfectly he i? me
you. He is no “thousand dollar” candi.l its ay
will perceive.
“ Wire Grass” gives facts. If “manufa '"
in the Recorder office, like our “other fixeu is
prove it neighbor. We challenge an invest:?
of this as well as your other round asserti 1 -
not judge if you please the doings of theE
office by your own.
Charge to Sardinia.
John AI. Daniels, Esq., editor of tlie Ki
Examiner, has been appointed Charge d A"
to Sardinia, vice Richard Kidder Meade ot
ginia, declined.
So says the Washington Republic of the
Now who is this Air Daniels, and whal hsa
done that he should be singled out over a.. **
persons by President Pierce andfcisCV, -
this marked distinction ? He is, Union Deffijcra
what is termed with ns a ferocious “Fire Nat
alias “Southern Democrat.”
In a late editorial on “Georgia Polities u
same Air. Daniels, after speaking of Gov. C
“the crashed Cobb,” and denouncing tl, ' -■
Democrats who united with the Whigs to ;uS*
the Compromise measures, proceeds as foil
“The father of this unnatural abortion—'
phonious Cobb—now repudiates and stri -
throttte his own child—hut it lives to entai- g
ual misery upon its father. Jenkins has
the guardian of the hybrid; and in the c
of the State Rights party, Cobb reads the c
quences of his damning defection and sen---■'
coalition with the Whigs in 1850 and 1851.
“We can pardon anything in a Democrat out
alliance with the Whig party, for the put? *
defeating a State Rights candidate of t;. - ’
party. This is a sin for which there is - -
giveness. After such a crime a politician ®*.’ ;
joy the paltry honors of a single State, l> ! g w .
ceased to be a national Democrat, and has lost 1
the confidence of his party. National e r -.
fives never touch such men, and the peoj '
the name of a deserter. A man may honesty _
from his party, decline to receive its honors n -
wards; and if he retires from public life so>
sacrifice his peculiar opinions, he takes wits ® ^
retirement the respect of all honest men.
case is different when, as was the case wits -
and Cobh, they consented to become the .
dates and orators of a Union party, aided U
fected Democrats. Such men may think u
alive, but in the opinion of competent jue?
are politically as dead as any mummy that
dustry of Giiddon or Layard brings to lrt 2t,3 p_-
is a pity that they do not lie quietly in their g
Geergia Politics*
The New-York Herald, always watching
events, thus depicts parties in Georgia. ^
elusion arrived at, is that “by the elcetivu 1 ■
Jenkins, the Union party may become the
an independent Union party throughout 1 - ; ^
try.” And this is what the friends of t*'-'-
desire to effect. f .
“In Georgia the “re-organized democracy ;
a secession candidate for governor,h*ve p<rf‘
Cobb in an embarrassing situation. It k
years ago that he was deeted Governor Y ^y
ion party, and by some eighteen thor.sa”--'v
ty, against all that Mr. Johnson and pki*
friends could do to defeat him. Now Mr-
expected, if necessary, to stump it for Jon-' g
withstanding that, in the disbursemen ,y,
goodies,” the Union party have been leu y
short rows.” What will Gov. Cobb do- ^
other hand, the whig party in Georria n> ..yi
its effects have been turned over to Air. Jen . ^
tlie Union party, and they expect to e.e- ^.j,
Should not be surprised if they did; but it ‘yy
the result will not stop in Georgia. It may-- y 5 .
the basis of an independent L nion part,-
Who knows ?”
out the countrv.
,.-K
Yellow Fever at New Orleans-
low fever has prevailed at New Orleans to- ;
two weeks, and at latest accounts v <•> r, t ,
the increase, the deaths being from tkirtj t
day.