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Restored Affection.
Y MRS. M. A. DUSSON.
‘Yoir don't lore my mother,’ said little Ellen Cros
by, slowly, re treating from her father with her hands
behind her, and her lips quivering as she spoke.
•What Jo you mean, pet?’ he exclaimed, springing
after her, and drawing her resisting form towards
him ; —'that is a very strange thing for a little girl to
say ; what put it into your head that father don't love
mother?’ he continued, smoothing baek the soft hair
from her white forehead, and looking earnestly into her
downcast eyes.
* Because when mama went away from the table
you spoke cross, and and she was always sick, and
she lias got a head ache,’ added the child earnestly,
while the tears trickled down her clucks; ‘I have
been sitting beside her all the afternoon, and rubbing
her forehead, and she is sick and tired very often, and
you never tell her you are sorry, nor kiss her as you
do me.’
Charles Crosby drew his little girl closer to his bo
som. Her nit less words had fallen like fire upon his
heatt. lie felt instantly that he had
more than once t> the gentle being who
given him an unkind word. Seven years of his wed
ded life! has passed calmly and fleet’} - : being a young
. and most impulsive creature when he married, he could
hardly appreciate the deep, holy lovs which his sweet
bride treasured for him and him only. After the romance
of the affair, as it seemed to him, had settled int > a qui
rt, perhaps monotonous reality, his restless spirit yearn
ed for some fresh novelty. To work through the’ day,
to come home at night and spend the evening hours,
by the side of his wife and infant child, whose beauti
ful face gleamed like a rosebud upon the white pil
low in her little wicket basket cradle became tiresome
to him. lie wished his Ellen had more vivacity, more
brilliancy, forgetting that these might accompany a
variableness of temperament that would truly have
w ide his home happy.
Os late, Charles Crosby had often become an alien
to his home, unt' 1 the midniclit hour; he had found
ns he thought choice and congenial spirits, and with
them, ‘tbe spirit of wo,’ that is the spirit of wine.’—,
But alas! hi* fine manners were disappearing; his
home was not an earthly paradise to him now—he had
grown very cold and worldly ; indeed lie knew not the
extent of the change himself.
ILc worshipped his lovely child; and called her by
the su et names of ‘fairy,’and ‘pet,’and ‘darling;’
she was in troth such an one as few, very few parent*
are blest with; a child of neither ordinary beauty nor
intellect; and but for hep mother’s judicious care and
leaching her powerful mind might have too swiftly ex
panded, and ripened quicker than the growth of this
world will allow unless the rare exotic is to be trans
planted into heaven.
Charles Crosby sat with his cheek resting upon lit
tle Ellen’s head ; the dear child once or twice uncon
sciously sighed, and these sighs were arrows to the
wounded spirit of the father.
‘ Darling, you speak strangely,’ he said after a long
pause, during which conscience had been busy ; ‘fath
er has a great deal of hard work to do, and comes homo
tired and perhaps a little fretful sometimes, but th*n—
the—lie does —love your mother,’ he said slowly, and
wondering what had become of the glowing delight
he had once felt at the mere mention of her name.
‘Do you, do you really love her then?’ naked the
■child, sitting upright on his knee, and fixing her full
beautiful eyes upon him, ‘how strange; I thought by
what mamma said, that you hated her almost.’
‘By what mamma said !’ exclaimed her father hasti
ly, while a feeling of anger slu t through his heait at
the sudden surmise that his wife had been striving to
alienate the child’s affections from him. ‘What did
mamma say, Ellen V he demanded tternly.
“Don't look so hard at me, father,’ she replied, press
ing her snowy hands over his eyes, ‘mamma didn't tell
mo, but she told God.’
More and mere astonished, Charles gazed upon the
hild without speaking, and after a moment’s pause,
she continued, ‘J went into mamma’s room this after
noon, before 1 knew she was sick, bnt 1 heard her talk
ing, so I went on tiptoe. She was kneeling down by
the bed, and praying to our father in Heaven ; and she
cried and sobbed as 1 do sometimes when I am naugh
ty. but 1 knew she was never naughty, papa ?’ she ask
ed artlessly, and waiting for a reply.
‘She never was—to yon or me ;’ answered the fut'.-
.er, choking down his emotion.
‘Well, then I heard her pray; I knew she wouldn't
care if I did, because she takes me wi.h her some
tines ; and she asked the dear God if lie would make
her husband love her; and said that lie went away
from his home and liked other people better; and she
sivkl her heart was breaking too; and oh I she cried so
bin!,’ continued the child, giving such a mournful em
phasis to ihe last two words, that the father’s lip trem
bled and the tears tame to his eves.
‘And then she turned round and saw me; and she
called me to her and hugged me tight, and said I was
child, and kept asking me if was sure I loved
her —very, very sure, till the wild light in her eyes al
most frightened me. I kept telling her she was mv bles
sed mother, and I loved her better than any body else in
the whole world, except my father : and then she told
me that I must love you dearly, for you were a kind
father to me, and perhaps she woukl’nt lire long ; and
J they did put her in the cold ground, I must make
you forgit it by my goodness and affection ; but I nev
could forget it, could you father, if they put my own
sweet mother into tlie cold ground V
This was too mnch ; Charles Crosby started from
his chair, and placing Ellen on a low scat strode rap
idly through the room. The tears were down his
woe, “but he kept them hidden from the little one, who
sat timidly still on her cricket, almost afraid to move
for fear she had angered her father. Not so. A
■flood of ths old tenderness had rushed baek upon his
heart; instead of the demure and gentle Ellen, his
memory pictured an angel of whom he had been all
•unworthy ; a pure radiant spirit, who had sat by her
household hearth, in loneliness and sadness; with a
slowly, surely breaking heart —a heart yearning and
dying for love; unappreciated, lightly esteemed, sel
dom addressed in the language of affection, and yet
returning smiles for cold looks.
Suddenly he paused before her portrait; the young
wite in the robes of the bridal seemed so joyous, yet
subdued, just as perfectly happy as she had appeared
on the day he could first call her his own. Now only
one thought echoed and re-echoed through his brain ;
“sbould site die—oh ! should she did’’
lor some time he stood transfixed, striving to
ehcok the bursting sob that was almost stifling bin),
wh. t he felt a slight pull at his coat and her pretty
lips haif parted; “Papa,’’she half whispered, mayn’t
I.go up stairs and tell mamma vou do love her dear
ly?’
lie •caught her to his breast and clasped her with
the warmth of his new love close on his arm. lie
kissed her again and again, blessing his maker that
“out of tire mouths of babes and sucklings He has or
dained praise.” Then releasing the delighted child,
hb said, “yes, darling you may if you wish to.’’
The child flew up stairs, while her father followed
more slowly ; “mamma,’’ she screamed, bounding in
to the rc m, “you won't cry any more, nor have the
headache now, father oats he loves you dearly, my own
dear mamma.’’
The jioor woman sprang to her feet; she could no)
comprehend the scone; she was bewildered! her
cheeks flushed and grew pallid by turns; she looked
first at her husband and then at little Ellen, who had
expected her mother to laugh outright, and appear as
gleeful as she; little innocent being.
“Ellen,” said her husband in faltering tones, “our
child is our peacemaker; she lias made me a better
man ; I do love you, Ellen ; will you forgive me for
my coldness and neglect ?’’
With a low, thrilling ery of delight, the wife ran
within her husband's arms; he was forgiven—lie was
happy; in that moment old barriers were thrown
down, old associations forgotten ; and he solemnly re
solved, with the help of God, to be no more an alien
from home ; to remember the vows lie had taken, and.
become worthy of the confidence reposed in hint.
Little Ellen danced around the room, tossing her
yellow curls, and dapping tar hands as she shouted,
oh, l am so happy. I’m so happy, mother won’t cry
any more—then under a ebildish yet holy impulse, she
hhelt reverently, and I,'sped the little prayer she had
K tv< r - v ~; e ht > was about two years
God bless my darling mother,
My darling father too ;
And may we love each other,
As Christ’s dear flock should do.
Think you there were no blissful tears shed at the
little chamber, as they listened to the petition of the
artless babe?
The parlor was a right cheery place that evening ;
little Ellen sat up later than usual, because she was
too happy to sleep ; the astral shed a flood of red light
over the neat, well ordered room, the table was filled
With books, the piano forte opened and giving forth
sweet sounds as of old, under the touch of the now
light hearted wife; and a note was sent to the old ren
devous, in which Charles Crosby declined the honor
of being made President of the L Club.
Little Ellen is now large Ellen, and beautiful as ev
er. She will soon give her hand to one worthy of
her ; and she remembers, as if it were but yesterday,
the dark hour when she found courage to tell her fath
er that ‘he did not love her mother.’
From the Southern (S. C.) Patriot.
The Result and C onsequence of the
Election in South Carolina.
In another column will be seen the election re
turns throughout the State. In every Con
gressional District, except one, a large majori
ty of votes has been cast against secession.—
The same result has taken place in almost every
judicial district in the State. The aggregate
majority against separate State action, in South
Carolina, will be some seven or eight thousand
votes ! The secessionists have elected only - two
members out of fourteen. Never was there a
victory more complete. In the mountains, in
the middle country, and on the seaboard, at the
capital of the State, and in our great commer
cial metropolis, with the poor and with the rich,
every where and with all classes, the secession
ists have been defeated, horse, foot and dra
goons. Their generals have all been slain, with
two exceptions, and their forces have been so
effectually destroyed, or routed and dispersed,
crippled and disabled, that they never can do
battle again in South Carolina.
We now predict that anew era has commenc
ed in this State, and that the energies of her
people will no longer be exhausted in a fruitless
excitement and war with the Federal Govern
ment. Instead of boasting of our chivalry and
spirit, and spending our time in idleness and
profligacy, we will go to work and improve, en
rich and beautify our Palmetto State. We will
build railroads, cut canals, make plank roads,
erect machinery, put up manufactories, improve
our lands, construct magnificent public edifices,
fine houses and comfortable dwellings. We will
endow schools and colleges, and look to the
moral and social condition of our people, and
make not an independent nation , but an inde
pendent people.
We will show our love for South Carolina, not
by running oft to some new country, but by liv
ing and dying here, and teaching our children
to remain here after we are dwad and gone. In
stead of going to the North to spend our mon
ey and summers, we will visit the mountains of
our own beloved State, and build cottages there,
and live there during the hot and sickly seas
on. Y\ a will learn to manufacture and import
our own goods, and raise our own horses and
hogs, so that we may be neither dependent on
the North or the West.
i lie effort to destroy the Union, and form a
Southern Confederacy, by appealing to the fears
ot the slaveholders, and telling them that their
property is in danger, has signally failed, and
they never can be excited to the same madness
again. The people have discovered, and will
discover, that the great object of secession was
disunion, not the defence and security of slave
ry. The institution of slavery was made, or at
tempted to be made, the means of accomplish
ing this great and cherished object of the seces
sionists. It was well known that nothing could
divide the republic but this great interest, and
that nothing less would unite the South in op
position to the Federal Government, lienee it
was seized hold of, with such avidity, by the
dis unionists, pfr se. They sounded the alarm,
and continued to agitate and agitate, after all
danger was over.
The effect of the storm, through which we
have just passed, not only in South Carolina,
but in Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Mississippi
and North Carolina, will tend to strengthen the
Federal Union. The people throughout the
Southern States will, hereafter, be more on their
guard against all insidious attacks on the exist
ence of the republic. A great Union party has
sprung up, iu all the States, composed of an ov
erwhelming majority of tke people of each
State, who will not hereafter permit a march to
be stolen on them bv an appeal to their fears.
ibis storm, too, has had a most salutary in-
Ihience at the North, and has taught the north
ern people the danger of interfering, in the
slightest degree, with the institution of slavery.
They now see how sensitive the Southern peo
ple are on this subject, and how easily they are
stirred up to madness bv the least interference
with the ir constitutional rights. Already the
Northern people have commenced fighting our
battles, and an overwhelming majority of them
are disposed to stand by the Federal Constitu
tion, and the Union of the States. They have
a deep interest in the preservation of the Union.
Ihis they know and feel, and will observe and
remember.
1 his storm, too, will have a most salutary in
fluence on the legislation of our country. We
shall never see Congress again spending a large
portion of the session without organizing, and
being ready to transact the business of the
country. Hereafter it will be the great object
ot all the patriotic members of both houses of
Congress, from the North and the South, the
Last and the \\ est,to abstain from all questions
touching the subject of slavery. It is true these
questions cannot be excluded from either hous<\
The abolitionists of the North, and the disun
ionists of the South, will, no doubt, continue to
thrust these subjects before Congress, but they
will meet no countenance from the wise, and
virtuous, and patriotic.
All the questions likely to come before Con
gress, connected with slavery, have already
been settled. The question of slavery, in the
territories, is settled forever. The territorial
Governments are expressly prohibited by the
compromise from legislating on the subject.
The admission of new States into the Union is
likewise st-tlled by the compromise, and they
come in with or without slavery, as they please.
The capturing of fugitive slaves is likewise set
tled, and the President is clothed with the
whole military power of the country, to main
tain the constitutional rights of the South.
Slavery in the District of Columbia is the only
chance that the abolitionists or disunionists can
have for agitating this question,
The Federal G overnment must necessarily con
fine its legislation ta foreign affairs, and leave to
the States the entire control of their domestic
concerns. \\ hat a beautiful system of Gov
ernment we live under. A national legislature
to watc.i over the common interests of the whole
eounti y, thirty-one State governments to regu
late tiie internal affairs of their respective
States. A house of Lepresentativesin which the
people, the sovereign people, of the U. States,
are all, whether rich or poor, equally represen
ted. And a Senate in which the States, the
sovereign States of the Confederacy, whether
great or small, are all equally represented. The
Executive combines the two basis of representa
tion. and is elected by a mixed power represent
ing both the States and the people of the United
States.
Never Wore was there so wise a government
organized on earth, and never before have a
people, in ancient, or modern times, been so
prosperous and happy as the American people
have been under this government. Let us pre
serve it, and jn the language of our great polit-1
i- :d father and savior, t!; immortal Washing
ton, “properly estimate its value, and frown in
dignantly upon the dawning of any attempt to
alienate one portion of it from another.” In the
language of another noble patriot of the revo
lution, let our motto be, “Liberty, union and
independence, now and forever; one and insep
arable.”
The Prospects of the South.
The Census returns have all been received and
published. They present a picture highly favohible
to the South. It has become quite common iu these
days of abolition philanthropy, for politicians to specu
late upon the evils of the institution of slavery, and the
weight it throws upon the elevation of society, the in
crease of population, and the development of the re
sources of the country. The blind teachers lecture
upon assumed facts—put forth, with all the pomp of
men asserting unquestionable truth, doctrines founded
upon false philosophy, and would hare the world re.
eeive, and confide in tlu-m as if they were unimpeach
able as holy writ. But the census returns shed a ray
of light upon the gloomy pictures which have been
painted for the edification of Northern Philanthropy.
The South since the year 1840 has naturally increased
in population more than the free States. Let us look
at the facts, as grouped by a Southern contemporary.
Leaving out the District and Territories, which do not
affect the result materially, it appears that the North
ern or free States had a total population, in 1850, of
13,574,797. In IS4O, their population was 9,728,022
Now, from 1840 to 1850, the foreign immigration to
the United States, with its natural increase, cannot be
less than two million—(for the last four years only, it
has averaged 230,000 per annum. And this lias
gone almost exclusively to the North. Deduct this
from her present population, and there remains 11,-
574,797 —showing a natural increase of only 1 ,535,675,
or less than 19 per cent, in ten years. The total pop
ulation of the South in 1840 was 7,334,731. Now,
m 1850, it was 9,362,172 —showing a natural increase
(since there has been little or no foreign immigration)
of nearly ‘2S per cent! nearly 50 per cent more than
the natural increase of the North!
Hon. James Buchanan.
We publish below an admirable letter from this dis
tinguished statesman, which in the present juncture of
affairs will be read with great pleasure and satisfaction.
The position of Mr. Buchanan throughout the whole
agitation which has shaken and convulsed the coun
try, has been uniformly conservative and patriotic, and
as such, we believe, has won, not only the approbation,
but the applause of liberal and high-toned men in eve
ry portion of the Union. He is opposed to further ag
itation upon the slavery question, and to the modifica
tion of the fugitive slave law, and condemns without
reserve the factious and corrupt demagogues of His
own State, who, unmindful of good faith and their ob
ligations to the constitution, still persist in keeping o
pen a question full of misc! iefaud danger to the South.
The course of Governor .Johnston is expressly referred
to by Air. Buchanon in terms of clear and decided
condemnation. The efforts of Johnston to conciliate
the free-soilers and abolitionists of Pennsylvania, and
his avowed determination to evade if not destroy that
feature of the “compromise” which makes it even tol
erable at the South, have drawn upon him very justly
the indignation and censure of patriotic men like Mr.
Buchanan. With leading statesmen in the North,
standing in such attitude before the country, pro
claiming such sentiments as Mr. Buchanan does and
has done, since the beginning of the slavery agitation in
1835—with the glorious results which havejust taken
place in Pennsylvania, worthy to be known as the
“Keystone Stat ■”—the South may still hope that
“the fatal question of slavery will soon be finally set
tled and placed at rest.”
Wheatland, near Lancaster, 1
September 3. 1851. \
My Dear Sir: I have received your very kind in
vitation on behalf of the Committee, to be present at
the Democratic Mass Meeting to be held at Bristol, on
Saturday next, to promote the election of “Bigler, Clo
ver and the entire Democratic Ticket.” W hilst I re
gret that circumstances render my presence imyossible
my heart shall be with you on that occasion.
In one of its aspects, a more important State elec
tion has nuver been held in Pennsylvania since the pe
riod of the Revolution, than that which is approaching.
The friends of the Union throughout our whole con
federacy,are awaiting the result with intense anxiety.
Should our democracy triumph, which [ do not doubt,
we shall then have good reason to hope, that the fatal
question of Slavery will soon be finally settled and
placed at rest. On the coutrary, the re-election of
Gov. Joliuston, with his avowed hostility to the Fugi
tive Slave Law, and his approval withheld from the
repeal of the provision denying to our sister States the
use of our jails fertile detention of fugitives from la
bor, will keep alive and exasperate the present danger
ous agitation on the subject of slavery. Tariffs may
be raised or reduced—appropriations for internal Im
provements by the General Government may be made
or rejected—in short, all the great and important ques
tions which have heretofore divided the two political
parties of the country, may be decided in favor of the
one or the other; and the Union of the States will com
paratively be in no danger. Not so in regard to the
question of Slavery—for this plain reason, that its agi
tation by the fanatics and Abolitionists of the North
endangers the domestic security', the fireside peace and
happiness of every man, woman, and child in tiie slave
holding States. This agitation necessarily renders the
slaves of the South discontented and unhappy, and
predisposes them to acts which humanity could not
contemplate witnout horror. Self-preservation is the
first instinct of nature; and for this reason the Union
will be in serious danger v\ lienever the Southern peo
ple are convinced that it is inconsistent with their per
sonal safety.
Should Col. Bigler he elected Governor upon the
issues now fairly joined between the two parties—the
maintenance of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the resto
ration to the South the use of our jails for the deten
tion of their fugitive slaves, the great moral influence
of such a decision by the Keystone State will then be
felt and regarded throughout the Union. Such a vic
tory will come “with healing on its wings.’’ We may
then predict with confidence the return of that peace
and tranquility which have been banished from our
country ever since 1835, when the unfortunate agita
tion commenced. Each State will then manage its own
domestic concerns in its own manner, without any im
pertinent interference from its neighbors. The eonsti
tututional rights of the Southern States will then be Ac
knowledged and vindicated by their Northern sisters,
and we shall continue to be great, prosperous and united
confederacy—the envy, the example and the admira
tion of the whole world.
Yours very respectfully,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Dr. 1 . D. Mendenhall.
The Reward of Yankee Genius. —The Chicago
Tribune thus notices the return of Mr. McCormick,
patentee and manufacturer of the “Virginia Reaper,”
from the scene of his triumph at the World's Fair to
his Western home:
Returned. —We had the pleasure yesterday of ex
tending a welcome greeting to our fellow-citizen, C. 11.
McCormick, Esq., w ho has just arrived home front the
scene of hi* splendid triumph in Englnnd. Mr. Mc-
Cormick’s visit to Europe, in connection with the ex
hibition of his reaper at the World’s Fair, has been an
event which, besidns rendering hint famous as an in
ventor and benefactor, and as the medium through
whose genius the honor of his country lias been most
nobly sustained abroad, will result unquestionably in
securing him a fortune little short of princely.
w c learn from Mr. McCormick that lie lias made
arrangements for the manufacture of from five hundred
to one thousand of his reapers in London iu time for
the harvest of next year. He lias also taken out pat
ents for his reapers in Scotland, France, Belgium,
Austria and Prussia, and will probably introduce his
machine into each one of those countries during tin
next year. Indeed, as soon as it was learned by the
visiters at the fair that lie had made arrangements to
commence the manufacture of them iu England forth
with, there were quite a tnumber ordered by citizens
of the above named countries. We doubt not that in
the eourse of another year Mr. McCormick will find it
necessary to establish manufactories in every wheat
growing State of Europe, and that all along the shores
of the Mediterranean, the Baltic and the Blaek Sea, his
siodrea will very soon come into general use.
The Captain General of Cuba.
The N. Y. Courier and Enquirer lias a letter from
Havana, giving a long and Interesting history of the
high dignitary w ho now holds the reins of power in Cu
ba. From this account we learn that Don Jose de la
Concha, Captain-Genera! of Cuba, is the son of a Bra
zilian General who was killed in the struggle for free
dom in that country, and who is indebted for his pres
ent elevation, partly to the influence w hich his brother
has acquired at the Court of Spain, and partly to his
own talents, which have been displayed to greater ad
vantage since his attainment to the position which he
at present occupies. his long since Cuba has had so
efficient and popular a Viceroy. Shortly after his as
sumption of the reins of Government in Cuba, hit at
tention was directed by an official to the licenses which
had been granted by the last government, and which
should be exchanged for those bearing his signature:
“And how much,” said the Captain-General, “will
this produce me?” “About one hundred thousand
dollars, may it please your excellency.” “And how
much will it produce to you ?’’ “About ten thousand,
if it please your Excellency.” “But it does not
please my Excellency. I shall give up my hundred
thousand dollars, and you, of course, cannot complain
of giving up your ten. Let the licenses stand good.
Though laws have been enacted in Spain for the
suppression of the slave trade, yet it is well known that
it is at present carried on in Cuba extensively, but at
the same lime secretly. It would not do for any
Captain General to attempt putting a stop to it alto
gether, and former Viceroys were in the habit of re
ceiving large douceurs in consideration of their wink
ing at the illegal traffic. The following story is rela
ted of Gen. Concha:
Shortly after his arrival, the owners of two slaves
which had just put into port, presented themselves at’
the Palace, and having succeeded in obtaining an in
terview with llis each offered a bag of
golden ounces. “\\ iVt dobs this mean, gentlemen?’’
“May it please your Excellency, we have two cargoes
of slaves just arrived, and this is the usual compliment
we have paid to your predecessor on such occasions.”
“Impossible, gentlemen ! No Spanish General could
have received money in sueh a manner. Impossible!
Take away your gold immediately, and never let me
hear sueh slander again. And, hark ye. gentlemen,
I am content that w hat I have heard should remain
private with Don Jose do la Concha; but take care
that no official information reaches the Captain Gen
eral upon sueh matters, or you will lose your slaves,
every black of them.’’
Don Jose is about forty-five years of age—slightly
bald, with a severe and rigid expression of countenance,
occasionally relieved by a sweet but fleeting smile
around the corners of his mouth. lie is about the
middle height, well made, and his appearance digni
fied and graceful. lie speaks French fluently hut with
a strong Spanish accent, and -his conversation in pri
vate has an earnestness approaching to excitement. —
The self-possessed graciousness of liis manner is in
stanced by the following anecdote :
It is the custom when he appeas in public for all
within liis sight to uncover. An American, with
whom I have a slight acquaintance, was near the pal
ace one morning, when lie descended, accompanied by
several officers. All hats were off in an instant, save
that of the American, who, with Yankee thoughtless
ness and indifference, but with no pointed intent, kept
his hat on as he went on liis way. It so happened
that his way and that of the Viceroyal party con
verged, and when they were nearly opposite, the Cap
tain General looking round met his eye and saw his
covered head. Halting slightly, Don Jose raised his
chapeau and made him a pointed and courteous bow. —
Human nature, Yankee nature, could not resist this ;
he hared a blushing brow on the instant, and ever af
ter, on the appearance of liis Excellency, he bowed
without blushing.
Tiie New York Dav Book. —The honest folks are
not all dead yet. ‘The Day Book sets a most worthy
example for the Northern Press. If sueh honest doc
trines were advocated by the press generally, both
North aud South, litis sectional war would soon be at
an end. The following we take from the Day Book :
Niggf.k. will re Nloger. —lf any one doubts the
“higher law’’ prnpisyty of the New York Times, li t
him read the article oljrthe examination and commit
ment of the Cliristiaiiafmurdeiera. Thero is a great
effort made fiy the abolitionists to prove that the par
ties arrested are not the guilty ones, yet none whatever
to find out who arc guilty. They know perfectly well
that a murder has been committed, and they know,
too, who committed it. They say that it was not
done by the men in custody, but they w ill not say who
it was done by. \\ c believe in hanging some half
dozen of the citizens of Christiana, for they arc* all guil
ty ; and as these culprits will not tell who the actual
murderers are, it is just as well to hang them as to
look further.
Beautifully Said.-- -We make the following
beautiful extract on the Homestead Exemption
Law, from a letter recently written by Judge
Dilliahunty, of Tennessee :
“ Secure to each family whose labor may ac
quire it, a little spot of free earth, that it can call
its own—that will be an asvlttm in times of ad
versities from which the mother and the chil
dren. old age and infancy, can still draw suste
nance and obtain protection, though misfortune
may rob them of till else, and they feel they are
still free, still entitled to walk the green earth,
and breathe the free air of heaven, in defiance of
the potency and power of accumulated wealth,
and the domineering of the pretending and am
bitious. The sacredness of that consecrated spot
will make them warriors in time of eternal strife.
Counterfeit Money. —The following extract tve
copy from a letter forwarded to a friend and a request
to us by a gentleman for publication, and to be placed
before our readers so as to caution them against the
counterfeit money which is in circulation through our
county :
“There are in circulation bills on the hank ot South
Carolina, signed John Brown, Cashier, and George
Martin, President. All such are couunterfeit, because
in fact, there are no such officers of the Bank of JSuutli
Carolina. ’’
The same gentlemen lias seen one’s, three’s, and
twenties,and we learn that there are in circulation from
one to fifty dollar bills on tho same bank. —Abbeville
(Henry County) Banner.
Sending Letters by Telegraph. —lt is stated that
a gentleman in Newport (Ky.,) i6 perfecting an appli
cation of electricity for propelling a box containing let
ters over wires from place to place, on the telegraphic
principle. The experiment over wires of GOO yards in
length, has, it is said, worked to a charm. In noticing
this statement, the Boston Transcript says :
We learn that parties in this city have been for
some time past experimenting for the same end with
a good prospect of success-, and that the project has
been thought plausible by some of the most practical
men, who have contributed liberally towards its accom
plishment.
From the N. Y. Day Booh.
All Right. —Ry the following from the Courier and
Enquirer, it will be seen that the “baptized slave,” spo
ken of yesterday, is to remain with her master and
mistress. We could not understand how a good
Christian master could turn off a young girl of seven
teen, and leave her exposed to all the vices and evils
of this large city unprotected and uncared for:
To the Editors of the Courier if- Enquirer:
Your relation this day of an “interesting incident,”
as having not long since occurred “at the church of the
Rev. Gardner Spring, D. D.” conveys an erroneous
impression.
The interesting and very worthy mulatto girl was
not brought to this city for the purposo of being man
umitted. Freedom was tendered to her several years
since, but not, as yet, accepted. For her gratification
and the benefit incident to a six months’ journey
through a large part of our country, her mistress in
vited her to accompany us on our western and north
ern tour. She will, ere long, return to the South with
us, as (legally) a slave.
Your insertion of this correction will oblige her
Master avd Mistress.
Democracy of nichigan.
At the recent democratic State Convention
in Michigan, the following, among other na
tional sentiments, were adopted: —
Resolved , That the recent measures of com’
promise, embracing a settlement of the distrac
tin g questions which have disturbed and almost
interrupted the business of Congress, seriously
threatening the integrity of the Union itself,
were demanded by a fair consideration of the
constitutional rights of the various members of
the confederacy. That the democracy of Michi
gan, pandering to no isms , rejecting all alliances
with sectional factions, having in view the
irrepealable claims of each state in the Union,
and yielding only to the demands of the consti
tution, declare emphatically that the compro
mise measures stand justified in the eyes of
every well wisher of his country, and should be
sustained and executed in all their parts, faith
fully, fully aud impartially.
Resolved , That the democratic party of
Michigan, on the basis of the principles pro
mulgated by the national conventions of 1844
and ’4B, and in union with their brethren else
where in the republic, present to the peojde
of the Union, the name of Gen. Lewis Cass, as
the choice of the democracy of the State as a
candidate for President. That while they have
great confidence in other eminent men of the
country, and will cheerfully support the nominee
ofthe convention—they still insist that no other
citizen unites so many recommendations for
the office, in this period of national excitement
and peril.
Another Triumph. —The London Morning
Chronicle praises some Brussels carpets exhib
ited at the Fair, and which were woven upon
power-looms, at the manufactory of Mr. Bige
low, the inventor, in Massachusetts. The
Chronicle says:
“Although various attempts have been made
to adapt the power-loom to carpet weaving in
England, there is notr, we believe, at this mo
ment, any machinery perfected for that object.
Our American brethren have, therefore, gained
another step ahead of us, and have won another
laurel on this well contested field of the indus
trial arts.”
Another Letter from a Cuban Prison,
er. —The Hayneville Watchman publishes the
following letter from one of the Cuban prisoners,
sent to Spain—J. T. Pruitt, of Lowndes
county, Ala:
Havana Prison, Sept. 1, 1851.
Dear Barry :—I fear ere this the melancholy
intelligence of my being a prisoner in Havana
has reached you through the press. If it has
not, I hope you will not permit my situation
to become known to my mother under any cir
cumstances. Try to keep her under the im
pression that I am in western Texas.
I was in New Orleans about the time the
expedition was being gotten up. Great excite
ment prevailed. Mr. Sigur, editor of the Delta,
published numerous letters from the Island,
giving an account of the progress of a revolu
tion going on in Cuba. These letters led me
to believe that almost the entire population
were under arms struggling for liberty. It is
useless for me to tell you how false these letters
were. Through the persuasion of Col. Down
man I was induced to join the expedition.
REPRESENTATIVES ELECTED.
Appling. John Tillman.
Baker. Nelson Tift.
Baldwin. M. I). McCombs.
Bibb. R. A. L. Atkinson, A. C. Morehouse.
Bryan. Wm. 11, Edwards.
Burke. YV. Nasvvorthy, Joseph Shewmake.
Butts. John L. Barnett.
Bulloch. Wm. H. McLean
Columbia. E.S, Harrison, I) Ramsey.
Camden. N. J. Patterson.
Campbell. L. B. Watts.
Carroll Henry F. Men ell.
Cobb. Reuben Latimer. Garrett Gray.
Clinch. James \V. Staten.
Cass. W. T. Wofford, W. 11. Felton.
Chatham. F. S. Bartow, Clias. S. Henry.
Chattooga. Robert Cameron.
Cherokee. L. J. Allred, S. C. Dyer.
Clarke. Y. L. G. Harris, Rich. Richardson.
Coweta. R. M. Hackney, J. \Y. Powell.
Crawford. Nathan Fowler.
Dade. John G. Jacoway.
Dooly. Wiley Cobb.
Decatur. 15. F. Powell.
DeKalb. J, N. Bellinger, Jno. M. Born.
Early. B. Roberts
Effingham. John G. Morel.
Elbert. L>. Thornton, 11. It. Deadwyler.
Emanuel. J. C. Sumner.
Forsyth. Arthur Erwin.
Franklin. Knox, Anderson.
Fayette. Win. B. Fuller.
Floyd. Wm. T. Price.
Glynn. F. M. Scarlett.
Gilmer. Joseph Pickett.
Greene. D. O. Dawson, John Armstrong.
Gwinnett. Levi Loveless, R. 1). \\ inn.
Gordon. Thos. Byrd.
Habersham. Sidney Barr, Wm. Grant.
Hall. J. J. Baugh.
Heard. J. F. Moteland.
Hancock. John T. Smith.
Harris. James M. Mobley, Geo. W . Cobb.
Henry. Dr. Calvin J. Fall, Thos. G. Harnett.
Houston. P. D. Cullers, Nathan G. Lewis.
Irwin. John Domony.
Jefferson. Moses Brinson.
Jones. Dr. J. L. Holland.
Jackson. S. P. Thurmond.
Jasper. J. M. Williams, E. W. Baynes.
Laurens. Robert Robinson.
Lee. W. W. Gilmore.
Lowndes. Isaac F. Waldliour.
Lumpkin. A, M. Russell, 11. 11. Pierce.
Liberty. Enoch Daniel.
Lincoln. Mieajah Henley.
Monroe. It, P. Trippe, Jno. L. Woodward.
Morgan. Stewart Floyd.
Muscogee. Alx. McDougalu, T. F. M oodridge.
Maron. W. 11. Robinson.
Madison. 11. 11. Bulloch.
Marion. Shadrach Bivins.
Merriioether. J. IT. Phillips , J. J. Hussey.
Montgomery. J. >V. Morris,
Mclntosh. Janies M. Harris.
Murray. S. S. Bailey.
Newton. It. G. Harper. Dr. Kendrick.
Oglethorpe. Z. 11. Clark, John Winn.
Pike. T. S. M. Bloodworth , John Gardner.
Pulaski. Willis B. Reeves.
Paulding. William F. Jones.
Putnam. # J. A. Merri wether, P. 11. Dawson.
Rabun. 11. W. Cannon.
Randolph. B. 11. Perkins, Geo. W. Christie.
Richmond. John Milledge, A. C. Walker.
Scriven. Win. M. Carr.
Stewart. James M. Clarke, John W illiford.
Sumter. Dr. W. W. Barlow.
Talbot. John 11. Wallace, Jas. W. Castens.
Tatnall. James Tillman.
Talliaferro. Linton Stephens.
Thomas. James L. Seward.
Troup. B. 11. Hill, W. F. Fannin.
Twiggs. Joseph Wall.
Telfair. Duncan Cameron.
Union. John B. Chastain.
Upson. A. J. McAffee, Duke Williams.
Walker. X. G. McFarland.
Walton. Levi S. Moon, James Z. Locklin.
Ware. Daniel Lott.
Wayne. Russell Raulerson.
Washington. E. S. Langmade, W r m. Hall.
Wilkes. J. T. Irwin, Edwin R. Anderson.
Wilkinson. E. J. Gilbert.
Warren. Thomas L. Latimer, C. G. Lowe.
The rumored recall of Consul Owen is
confirmed by a letter from the President,
informing him that his defence is wholly un
satisfactory.
From ihe Baltimore American.
Arrival of the Hermann#
rn . N * w York, Oct. 23.
Ihe steamer Hermann arrived at her wharf
et halt past 2 P. M. to-day. She brings London
dates to October Bth, and Liverpool to the 7th
Ihe steamer Pacific arrived out on the 7th.
The rush to obtain admission to the great
V’orld’s Exhibition continues, if any thing,
greater than ever. The average of visitors Is
about one hundred thousand per day.
1 aris, Oct. 7.— Fives were selling in Bourse
at 92. flirees go oft at 56f. 25 centimes.
Si’Aix. The Gazette of Spain publishes sev
eral royal ordinances, containing improvements
and reforms to be introduced into the adminis
tration of Cuba.
The Niagara arrived at Liverpool on the Gth,
3 m, n run ot 1 * days and 14 hours mean time.
Ihe West India Mail Steamer Clvde, with
specie to the value, of §02,529,900, arrived at
Southampton on the 7th inst.
Ihe great event and topic of conversation
when the Hermann sailed, was the expected ar
rival of Kossuth at Southampton, width was
expected to take place about the 12th of Octo
ber, having sailed from Marseilles on the Ist
mst. Business matters in England were im
proving. I lie influx of bullion into the bank
was beginning to be favorably felt in the money
maiket. Railway shares had advanced consid
erably. The Hermann brings over 150 pas
sengers and a small freight.
Prance —Kossuth, before leaving, published
an address to the Democrats of France, in which
lie mentions the refusal of tlie French Govern
ment to allow him to pass through France. The
’ Peojde.” at Marseilles, was seized for some
remarks made on the subject. The liberal por
tfjn ot the Paris press compare the action ofthe
city of London with that of the French Govern
ment, and waving the persecutions to which the
press was subjected, speak in just terms of the
conduct of the Government. Private letters
state that Lord Dudley Stewart had received
intelligence that an attempt would be made to
murder Kossuth on his arrival at Southampton.
Iwo Austrian females had left Vienna for that
purpose, and the authorities had resolved to take
every precaution to protect him from these fa
natics.
The iUacou Couvontion.
The followiug judicious remarks *re from the Mo
bile Tribune :
At the convention at Macon, we see, a “plan will be
submitted for forming a mammoth combination of cot
ton Planters, under charters from the different States
to guarantee to the planter not less than a fair price—
say ten cents for his cotton —under any and all circum
stances, and without any regard to the ruling rates in
Europe.’’
The notion that the prices of cot'on may be kept
“fair by such a process as this, we consider a very
great error.
Tile only way to accomplish this object will be to
cultivate less or open new markets.
If such a plan were adopted, the result, wc have no
doubt, would be injurious to every person who wears,
makes or manufactures cotton. Tile Convention, in
pursuit of such an object, will have not only to control
dealers in the article, but they will have to regulate
the seasons. They will have to bring rain and sun
shine at the proper time—have to keep off the frosts
until a proper period, manage the worms and rust, and
do a great many other things wloeh men in our historv
of them have been entirely unable to do. They will
have, also, not only to do this, but will have to control
the fluctuations ofthe money markets—will be obliged
to manage the business of Europe—take into conside
ration and fix the wars and storms and uncertainties of
the seasons in all other climates, whereby derangements
are introduced into the business arrangements of the
civilized world.
There has never yet been a plan introduced for sim
ilar purposes which has not been a failure, and disastrous
to every one concerned in it.
The good sense of a majority of the members of the
convention will see the folly of such action, and no
doubt show it to those who do not seem now to see it.
J he highest service which this convention can per
form for the people, will be to urge a diversification of
agricultural pursuits— to render the farmer as indepen
dent as possible—to stimulate improvements in the
uselul arts, and, as an essential part of this, to open
new markets in Europe, aud promote a direct trade
with them.
It is said that certain cotton markets now control
the prices of cotton. Mike the markets more nunier
ous—stimulate a competition with tlmse of England,
and then cotton will letch as much as it is worth, and
it will be subject only to the fluctuations which follow
from the necessities of trade and the seasons.
The principal object of the convention is to establish
direct intercourse with European ports. If it suc
ceeds in this, it will achieve a great work, which will
not only benefit the individual planter but the whole
bouth. This trade is necessary to the progress of our
other improvements It is quite impossible to make
our railroads or manufaet tries successful w ithout it.—
The two are parts of one w hole, and the one cannot
be neglected without impairing the other.
A Home Truth. —The London Literary Gazette
tells a truth which will meet with affirmative groat:s
from many a breast. “Surround a Bachelor,” says our
cotemporary, with a heartless attention to detail, with
every possible comfort; give him the roomiest of bed
chambers, the most refreshing of couches, the largest of
sponging baths; cover his breakfast table with the
whitest of table cloths, make his tea with the hottest of
boiling water; envelop his body in the most comforta
ble of dressing gowns, and bis feet in the easiest of slip
pers ; feed him amid luxuries and comforts of the snug
gest of clubs ; do ail these things and more fo'* him, and
he will, nevertheless, be unhappy, l[ e mopes and
ponders, and dreams about love and marriage.'’
An English paper says that R. O’Gor
man, Esq,, one ol the oldest merchants of Dub
lin, has lett Ireland for the United Slates, car
rying out with him a capital of over 20,000/.
The exile ot his only son for his participation
in the practising as a barrister at the Ameri
can bar, has been the cause of Mr. Gunman's
emigration.
Madame Celeste.—A correspondent, writ
ing from London under date ol 2lst August,
says, “Madame Celeste is preparing to pay
a farewell visit to the United States ; she will
remain there positively just nine months, du
ring which time she will visit Charleston,
Savannah, and Augusta, where she has never
yet been.
Kossutii. A letter from Malta, dated Sep.
tember 12, in noticing the departure ot Kossuth
for the United States on board the steamer
M ssissippi, on the 7th September, says that
nothing could exceed the kindness and alien
tion ol the Turkish Government. The Pacha
of llroussa, in accordance with orders forward
ed to him from Constantinople, sent no less
than fifty carriages so convey the exiles to the
point of their embarkation.
The Knoxville Register says, the railroad
between Tuscumbia and Decatur, Alabama, is
to be reconstructed. The chief engineer for the
Memphis and Charleston railroad advertises
in the Huntsville papers that proposals will be
received until tho Ist of November, for the
graduation and masonry of that portion of the
road. The iron has been ordered, so that we
may expect this piece of road, so important to
the bnsiness men of East Tenessee, will be
put in first rate order as- speedly as possible.
The Missisippi announces that Cos! Jeffek
son Davis has resigned his position as U. S.
Senator. He had also declined the nomination
of the Southern Rights party for Governor of
M ississippi. His letter of acceptance is dated
on the 17lh ulf, and the Horiiesvillc (Miss.)
Banner of the 25lhult. says that, upon reconsid
ering the matter, he had withdrawn) his accep
tance. On the 26th he had lain, for several
days, at his residence, near Vicksburg, danger
ously ill and this will probably be assigned as
the reason of his declension.
The Prisoners at II ay an*.— We imkmli T
nutted to make the following extract of a l cUer l**’
gentleman of this city, now in Havana, to hk fZ!
here, dated “Havana, Oct. 17” : f
5 esterday I visited the prisoners. There ar
here fifteen, of whieh eleven are in the Hospital * w*
were permitted to give them money and Sl . n j . e
books. Those in the Hospital are all getting alone
and speak in the highest terms of the authorities ‘!
particularly of the Chief Snrgu.n of the Mj|j, arv .
t ‘l- l. fact they assured me they lacked nothi.JZ'”
their freedom. One of them went so f ar a * to *
whalr ,Ik* EM.', th, S■ „„
mud. of them as the people did here. The In- *
General of Infantry made a visit to them and
cd with them in their own language. H e . ‘*
Col. Blumcnthal in Prussia and with him L c vT*
long conversation.— Mobile Advertiser. *
Dan. Russell, the Union candidate f,,r
of Public Accounts, is an original genius, B s,d,- S
gifted with a ready and happy w it. On F. 1
IT * • MAY Jj|,vjj
last at Jackson, ho was suddenly called u,„ m
speech by enthusiastic shoots from the audience, p *
ing upon the speakers’ stand, Dan thus commenced •
“ Fellow-citizens, you have called on me f ( , r a fl .
renu rks. 11 a e none to make. 1 have not prepared”
Indeed lam no speaker. I d Q not *
boa speaker ; I only want to be an Auditor."’
We need not say that the well timed pun
down the House.— Notches Courier. 8
The South Carolina Institute.
The third Annual Exhibition of this important In.
dust rial Institute, is appointed to be held during th’
third week in next month, and we desire to call tb”
attention of our readers to the circular issued by thl
Chairman ofthe Committee on Correspondence, wldd,
will be found in another column. It invites *pecj mf J
in every branch of Mechanism, Art and Industry,
of all the products of the soil. It propose* s]*cia|
miums of gold medals for the best specimens
ern Steel, Cocoons and Spun Silks, also for the b,J
Sea Island Cotton Gin on a now principle, for an
ciont machine for pulverizing red pepper, for t| K .
Steam Engine, aud for ihe best model of a Fire Engine
We have frequently urged, in this journal the •
portanee of this Industrial Exhibition, and it u ."n
seem as il further argument was unnecessary ly
are afraid, however, that the mechanics, inaimf;, oth
ers and producers of the South are not all fully awal _ e
to the beneficial effect* of such an Exhibition; ~<)
we would once more call upon them to consider rlh-ni
seriously, not only as abstract and possible emtin-r,.,,.
eies, but as immediate, tangible and permanent re
sults.
The collision of mind and matter incident to tatb’ m
convention of tliiiiiters and worker*, cannot fail ,
evolve the glowing sparks of Genius and Ceutifwnsr
which, sooner or later, may kindle into the %uwrJ}
euurprizc and its noble fruits. Every onwvaiU.ftfa,
a part in ihe festival of labour, may derive -emt-tliing
valuable in exchange for that w hi-file himself con
tributes ; and it is this interchange of ideas and
though:* which gives to wind those impulses by which
it subdues, animates and varieties matter, jo*t as tfc,
interchange of commoiWes creates wealth among tfe
people. We can, then fire, once more upon lbe nrti
zansof t]ic South, to prepare for the approaching Ex.
hibuion. Let each and every one resolve to be “hero,
with something to swell the common stock— with iomo
token of his sympathy for his fellow workers, ami w*
hesitate not to say that the happiest results will follow
such a convocation. Come up, sons of toil, whatever
he your occupation—come up from your benches mi
your anvils, from your work shops and your fields—
come up with your badges and xour arms, t
this, our annual festival. Come from the sc board
and from the mountains, and place your offerings with
in the temple of Industry, whieh wifi be here
to receive them !— Sju Car. Gat
mmmdum <naß|n
LETTER FRu.lI fOLOUH'S.
Com mdi-s, Get. 2‘Jth, ISM.
Dear Doctor .--It has ever been my practice to eon
verse in equal freedom with the good men of both par
ties, and I have often felt hurt towards gentlemen for
dnmg otherwise. But for tn or twelve day. past,
I have been compelled to vary somewhat, and to MW
the course* J have so much condemned in others. A
number of my old acquaintances, of the defeated tire
eatmg party, have become so fretful and splenetic, pro
iess so much apprehensions for the safety of the
Commonwealth, and represented ear party in such a
perfect state of submission to Northern aggression., that
I feel myself half way inclined to soothe their affliction*
b\ telling l hern, they are only imaginary ; believing a*
I do, that their feelings are purely affected, that some of
them Would be less melancholy if there were more oo
casion.
5 on are aware of the [dan set on foot, by the leading
disunionists, to bring back the people to old parly -
Mies ; a plan, in itself so foolish, that the projector*
wii., in Milledgeville, appear as ridiculous, as hi* Sa
tanic Majesty after offering the Kingdoms of the earth
for homage to his |>ersou ; and it would be proper t
answer them in language, equal only to their impu
dence. I bey assume the distributing of all the office*
in the gilt of the Legislature ; the removals necessary to
he made, say who shall be cur next Senator, and by
the way, room must be made on the Supreme Bench,
for certain aspirants who are standing ready, cocked and
primed, in management and legal decision.. They dic
tate the course onr members of Congress elect, must
pursue; The gallant Colonel, as staff officer com
mands the left wing of hisCofiln Regiment, which i* to
t aek our right; the left under the command of the
blustering Major, i. to assist i as w *,th an overwhelming
force of wind insfrurcut*, calculated to give off-tic*,
wlmst our Cfg.tre is to be stormed by a distinguished
‘ jlymer artillerist’ who now bolds an appointment un
.cr the present executive, and lias been for some time
in Washington, drilling and improving his tactics ; hr.
it is said, aided by the subalterns before mentiemd, by,,
a skillful rnaiiueuvre.il to bear triumphantly from hi* kf
tv position, our popular and patriotic chief. Soprano*
as adjutant, in full regimentals “ buckram .and whale
bone’ will be industriously engaged, using the Dfmosf
of his skill to keep the canine from bespuwring the new
aud fashionable unmentionables of his superior officers t
In fact, it is so understood lu re that each officer and.
private sliall perform that part best suited to his abili
ty, and to have nothing undone, that can be done, w>
create dissension in the ranks of the Union party. I
am inclined to believe that when this great bombastic ;
Coffin army arrives at the seat of Government, they
will find themselves very much like a poor man at a
frolic, and their influence whit ted down to the little
etiJ of nothing.
Gt ntlcmcn, r.t a distance, may not know how to ac
count f r the great change in the vote of Randolph
county, but to us in this neighborhood it is easily solved.
There are men in every county of the State whose
wheel about propensities have made them personally
unpopular, and are apt to injure the party to which they
profess to belong,by taking, or appearing to do so,a £ rl '**
deal of interest in its welfare. This interest the peo
ple think, is more from personal than patriotic motive*;
and therefore will either withhold their suffrage or v#:e
with the opposition. I tape, ihat I will not be tntder
stood as casting reflections upon the candidates forth*
Legislature in that county ; this being understood, that
their influence to be used in forwarding the views of oth
ers, caused the change.
On Saturday last, the Union party of each Dis'rk 1
in the county, elected two delegates to a convent;®
which was held here to-day, f>r the purpose of
nating county officers. The following named gent.f
men were chosen. Mr. M'Grady for Sheriff, IlnrJeß
for Clerk of the Suprerior Court, A. P. Jones for& e
of the Inferior Court, W. Edwards for Tax
R. T. Simons Receiver ofTsx Returns and J. Joue*
Coroner. The ticket is certainly a very strong
and from the good feeling expressed towards it, b)
citizens generally, there is no doubt of success.
Business is very dull, unusually so at this season,
ton comes in slowly, a nd commands httle, the
sa d, very large and if the river keeps low and
continues scarce, it can be purchased at the rate o
bales to the dollar. I mutt close, assuring ) ° U^. ea s
have formerly done, that should any new ,ecre * o jjgbt,
enable plots against our good old State, come
you shall hear from me next week. Lnti
all patriots and the Common wealth. CATO-
Yours, Ac.