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VOL. XV. TANARUS: E (IQR6IA JEFFERS9MAN. IS PURUSHED KVERY THPItSI'AY MORNING BY WILLIAM CLINE, At Two SDollars and Fifty Cents per an mxTO, or Two Dollars paid in advance. A i V'Kli n VIE.Vj'S arc insrrtrd at OX’E iwr •<|iii%44i;.ihe li;td i.ivrtton, and PiFTY CE.XTS per square, stir etulflnserlToh I iierealier. \ re.iso- • will r>e made to those who n,iv< .• hv the year.* . , All a .tis-'raents n.it otherwise ordered, will !• >:or ‘ .od Sill |i>r'ud. A'.* ••■}'.F.< OF VftS hv Adintnislrators, ■o! • .tors or Gna'dian? are required l>% law to be h‘dd on the lir-M Tuesday in the month, between the tionrp o- ton in the l ireti ion and three in the afternoon, at the Coiut-I louse, in the county mi which the ‘ami is slimited. Notice of these sale, ’•:n>t he ..riven m i ptihiie gaz-tle FORTY D.QYS yr—do is •(> th<- <lav of sale. ft •2/..-J.V OF .VI'.GHOES mnsl he made nt |i.i!>- h<- mnetton on the first ‘i’nesdnv ot’lhe month, be tween the hours ul’sale, at the jilace o! puh l.e sales m the county where the letters Tt'slu tuntary, of Aimiiiistr tion nr Guardianship mav have hems e rant eh first oiving FORTY DJIYS ••otice the . o! >n one ot the imhlie Gazettes ot this S'.i* .and at time, itirl house, who e such sal ear so i ‘• held. f'o'.n t..r the sal.-of f*rsoaa! Property must *•• ,t.f— in like m ie.ncr FORTY DA l’S previous iln • dav nt Mile. ;t.c •to O.eiio’i 1 and f’rcdifors of an estate must ho ptiohslic.l FORTY D.IYS. Not’i e . h,.l omiheation will tic made to the Court O i uyrv for *.*: ut to svs.t. land must be puh h>r TFO MO.YPfIS, No'i to* i.kayk to vßti. negroes must he poh's j• I V!>M MOM TilS helorc any order ah- Mi’otc -’ .'I o i made thereon l>v the Court. V! ’\I VS for Letters of Administration, tot:** ; o on l:>h • I THSRTT IU1*; for Dismission font \ Ii; ■’ -],■'-pine mont!iit six months: for I) * u.*v t t .‘o n •'> uard'iusliip. ruu rr pay?. .oh tor'll. I'orc;lomik- of Mortage must he o ’ ft ! iusrii.t p-tr. four months, esiab psh if* ‘ for the fuil space ot three m xt i*; tor • 0it1.5~-.ino 11: irsi from Executor ms hi: i.s : iheic a bond litis been {.iven by h • i-. ■ > He space of THREE MONTHS. Cot’gve’frs of the United States. £m Seitiite, Bcu. Bi!s. U-TV. WM. R. K!\;. MR. IILNTLR rose and said: Since the adjournment of the last Congress an evvut has OC‘ arr :d which it becomes us to hos ii T.te American people have lost a v ice Pivsidmif, an 1 Use Senate a presi l:ug ..=ffi'-2r, by the (leaill of Wis. 11. mis who departed this life o;t the —of A or” Inst, at his home in the State of Alabama. 1 rise to ask that wc may pause for a day at least in our delibera tion., upon ihe affairs of life, to devote it to the memory of one who was bound to us by so many personal and official tics. .Surely, sir, there is none within the limits of this wide-spread confederacy, to whom the life aud services of Win. R. King are known, who would not be ready with some offering, either of public respect or personal affection, to besto.v upon his tomb. There have been few public men, whose lives have been as long and as .ac tive as his, who have made more friends, and none, I am sure, ever left fewer ene '.tiles. ‘Nor was !?Ls one of those’ cold and impassive characters which shed their light without heat, .but its kindly influen ces fell with genial anl friendly warmth within whatever circle he might move. It is a happy thing for a country when the lives of its public men may be thrown freely open to the world, and challenge its closest scrutiny, with a consciousness on the p art of the friendly critic that t’.icre is no blot to be concealed, and no gl .ring fault which a love of t:\ith forbids him to deny, and his own sense of right scarcely allows him to palliate. Here, at least, Ls a public man, in whose life there can be found no instance of a mean or equivoca ting action, none of a departure from the self-imposed restraints of a refined and lofty sense of honor, and none in which either the fear of man or tiie seductions of ambition tempted lit in to a deed which ccruld destroy cither his own self-respect, or the respect of others for him. He trod the difficult and devious paths to political preferment long and successfully, and yet he kept his robes uusoiied by the vile mire which so often pollutes those ways. It is s iid that trie story of every human fife, if rightly told, may convey a useful lesson to tho-m who survive. Os all the public men whom I have known, there ore none ‘Whose lives teach more impressively the great moral of the strength which public virtue gives than that of Colonel King.— His was an instance in which greatness was achieved without the aid of those brilliant qualities whose rare assemblage the world calls genius, but, by what is bet ter far, a sound judgment, a resolute pur pose to pursue the right, aud a capacity to gather wisdom from experience. lie was no orator, and yet from the force of character he could v.ield an influ ence which mere oratory never command ed. lie had none of that presumptuous self eoalid -nee which so often misleads ourselves and others, aud which, though a daturarous, is still acorn minding quality; but i.. k i hv ho w to inspire a people with just confidence in the sound less of his judgment and the integrity of his purpose so us to be look * l to as a safe depository of trust and power. \1 though gentle and kind in his inter coarse with others, ho could be stern c iioug.i when the public interests or his per sonal ho ior required it. Hft was a man, sir, whoso whole soul won’ 1 have sickened u rler a scuso of perso ul dishonor. ft is not surprising, then, that each fop it> the pol ideal career of such a m.i', -mould have been crowned with public ho ors. At the age of twenty one lie was A- tel to tiie 1 ‘gl-datai'e of North Caroli na, ills ; itive State, where he serve 1 until L was mad; so! citor. In that capacity acted until he was twenty live years of v, hen lie was sent to the House of “iftbpresentadves of the United States, v/her oe served from 1811 to ISIG,’ when he resigned to go abroad as secretary of legation to Mr. Pinckney, our minister to Kujsav Upon his return he emigrated to Alabama, where he was almost immediate by sent to their constitutional convention. At the first session of the first legisla ture which assembled afterwards, he was sent to the Senate of the United States from the State of Alabama, where he may be sai l lo have served continuously, until his election to the Vice Presidency, with the exception of two yours, when ho was Minister to France. Finally lie was e lected Vice President of the United States by a large majority of the American poo- @l)e (feotgi n 3effe mtimsm. — “ - - ■ pie. As he ascended step by step to this elevation, his vision seemed to grow with his horizon, and when the occasion came lid was always found equal to it; for, to the aid of a sound judgment, he brought, as he grew older, the wisdom of a large experience. 11 is political career may be said to have | been one triumphant mhfcli through life— ! a march in which his step neither faltered | nor stumbled in ascending to that place J which was perhaps the chief object of his j aspiration. And yet, as if to show that i even the mo*t successful of uicri must soon er or later feel the emptiness of the earthly objects of our usual pursuits, that much prised honor was to him the Dead Sea fruit which turns to ashes on the lips. It came, but it came too late. The breath of public applause could not revive the flame which flickered in the lamp of life. In vain did the assiduity of relatives and friends surround him with affectionate care. In vain did the aspirations of a whole people ascend to Heaven for his re covery. The balmy influences of neither sen nor sky could revive or restore him.— Ahen the public messenger came to clothe him with the forms of office, his chief earth ly wish was to see his home once more, and, in the midst of familiar scenes, to die amongst, his friends: His desire was gra tified. Life and its busy scenes on this side the grave are now closed on him for ever. But its tale yet remains to be told not by me, sir, or at this time—but it v'lli be told in the chronicles of his State hereafter; when it may become a labor of love to some of her sons to write the story of its founders and sages. It will be told in our own political history by whoever may portray the stirring ami eventful scenes in which he acted a prominent and useful part. It will be told, too, and per haps heard, with most interest in the tra ditions of a family of which lie was the or nament and pride. Mr. President, those to whom our peo ple have been long accustomed te look in times of difficulty and emergency for co’iln sel and opinion, are falling fast around us. H is an anxious tiling to feel their loss at a time like this, pregnant with change, and teeming, perhaps, with great and strange events Ihe men we cannot re call; but let us preserve their memories; let us study their teachings, and it will lie well if, in many respects, we shall follow their example. I offer the following resolution: Il.'s,l’vcil, Taat from respect tot lie lute Wu. ft. King, Vico Piesident of the United States and President ofklic Senate, th elixir of flic President of the S malelie ciirnuded with black; and, a a further testimony ot'reaped to Ihe memory of the deceased, tiis members of the Senate will go into mqiirmno |>y wearing crape on tlt-ir left arm for thirty da vs. Ordered, Tha* the Secretary of the Senate com mil licate this rejo'n'ioti to the II jusq ol'll’presen- I.Hives MR. EVERETT. Mr. President, I have been requested to second the moti -n which has just been made by the Senator from Virginia. I do so with gretOl cheer fulness. In was my good fortune to enjoy the acquaintance of the late Vice Presi dent—l hope, even some portion of his friendly regard—for a longer period pro bably then most of those within the sound of my voice—a period of nearly thirty years. Such being the case, l feel as if I ought not to remain silent at this last mo ment, when our relations to him as mem bers of the Senate are, by the performance of this and iv’s melancholy duty, abo.it to be closed forever There is an ancient maxim, sir, founded at once in justice and right feeling, which bids ii i soy “nothing but what is good of the dead.” I can obey this rale in refer ence to the late Vice President without violating the most scrupulous dictates of sincerity. 1 can say nothing but what is good of him, for I have never seen or heard anything but good of him for thirty years that I have known him personally and by reputation.. It would h ird'y be expected of me to attempt to detail the incidents of the private or the public career of the late Vice President That duty belongs to others, by whom it has been, or will no j doubt be, appropriately performed. 11 regret, particularly on this occasion, the unavoidable absence of our colleagues from Alabama. It is the province of those of us not connected with him by political associations, especially of those inhabiting remote parts of our common country, to express their cordial concurrence in the affectionate praises which have been or may be pronounced by his fellow-citizens an l neighbors. Few of the public mcirof the day had been so intimately associated with the Sen ate as the late Vice President. I think be had been a member of the body for more years than any person now belonging to it. Besides this a relation of a different kind had grown up between him and the Senate. The federal constitution dc volves upon the people, through the medi um of the electoral colleges, the choice of the presiding officer of this holy. But whenever the Senate was called to supply the place temporarily, for a long course of years, and till lie cease I to belong to it, it turned spoatauiously to him. . He uni ruble lly owed t-hi* honor to ills-’ tiiiguishod qualifications for tiio chair. He possessed, in a:i eminent degree, that quickness of pereqpti >n, that promptness of decision, that familiarity with the now somewhat complicated rules of Congres sional, proceeding*, and tint urbanity of manner, which are required in a presiding officer. Not claiming, although ail acute, forcible debater, to rank with his illustri ous contemporaries, whom uow, alas! we can mention only to deplore —with Cal houn, with Olay, with- Webster, (I name them alphabetically, and who will presume to arrange them any other way?) whose unmatched eloquence so often shook the walls of this Senate—the late Vice Presi dent possessed the rare and the highly important talent of controlling with impar tiality the storm of debate, and modera ting between mighty spirits whose ardent conflicts at times seemed to threaten the stability of the republic. In fact sir, he was ehdowol with what Cicero beautifully commends as the boni senaloris prudciilia, the “wisdom of a good senator;’’ and in his accurate study and’ ready application of tho rules of parlia mentary law, he rendered a service to the country, not perhaps qf the. most brilliant GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY 31DRNING, JANUARY 5, 1854. kind, but assuredly of no secondary im portance. There is nothing which more distinguishes the great national race to which we belong than its aptitude for government by deliberative assemblies; its willingness, while it asserts the largest liberty of parliamentary right, to respect what the Senator from Virginia in another connexion has called the self-imposed re strictions of parliamentary order, and I do not think it an exaggeration to say, that there is no trait in their character which has proved more conducive to the des patch of the public business—to the free dom of debate—to the honor of the coun try—l will say, even which has done more to establish and perpetuate constitutional liberty. The long and faithful Senato’Vial career of the late Vico President received at last its appropriate reward. The people of the United States, having witnessed the dis position of the Senate to place him at their head, and the dignified and accepta ble manner in which lie bore himself in that capacity, confered upon him, a twelve month since, that office, which is shown by recent experience to be above and second, if not actually the first, in their gift—-the office which placed him constitutionally and permanently, during its continuance, in the chair of the Senate. A mysterious dispensation of Providence has nipped these crowning honors in the bud. A disease, for which the perpetual summer and perfumed breezes of the tro pics afforded no balm, overtook him at an age when he might, it) the course of na tare, have reasonably looked forward to still many years of active service. Clothed by a special and remarkable act of Con gress, even while under a foreign jurisdic tion, with the constitutional qualifications to enter upon the high office to which lie had been elected, lie returned, not to ex ercise his functions, but to seek his much roved home, aui there to die. Thus, sir, he lias left us to chase for a little while longer the shadows which he has exchanged for unutterable realities.— He has left us, sir, prematurely for every thing but his spotless name, and Ills en trance on the well-earned honors of Ills unambitious career. And we, senators, for all the interchange of kindness for all tiie intercourse of private life - for all the acts of co operation in the public service —to which, for at least four years, the Senate was looking forward in its connex ion with him—have nothing left to offer to his friends and his memory but the un availing tribute of this last mournful fare well. I second the resolutions* of the senator from Virginia. Mr. CASS. Mr. President, again has death invaded the high places of our land, and has taken from us a citizen distin guished by his talents, his worth, and his services, and enjoying the confidence and affection of his countrymen. In the Pro valence of Cod, these visitations come to warn ns that nane arc exempt from the decree, that in life we are in the midst of death, and that be ye also ready is a sol emn admonition, announced tins from the cradle to the grave, by the mighty and the lowly, as they successively fall before the great destroyer. The lesson is the more impressive the higher the position, and the more eminent the character, of him whose departure we may be called upon to mourn. And when one who oc cupied tbe second station in our country is summoned from the duties of this life to the responsibility of that which is to come, as the loss is a national one, the manifesta tion of public sympathy, and the acknowl edgement of the public grief, should be national also. Oar lamented friend, the late Vice President, lias been taken from us, full of years indeed and of honors, but in the midst of his usefulness,; an 1 when hp was just prepared to enter upon the high career to which he had been called by the American people. Upon this occasion I desire to do little more than to express those sentiments of affectionate regard with which an acquaintance of many years had inspired me, leaving to others, who have this day well fulfilled the task, to prescut those features of his character and services which endeared him to his coun trymen in life, and will e idear to the n his memory, now that the scenes of life are forever closed upon him. His career was eminently useful and” fortunate; and in the whole range of A tneric.in statesmen there are few, indeed, to whom our youth can better look when seeking models of imitation and encour agement, than to VVm. R: Ki.vg Firm but courteous, frank and fearless, of high honor and irreproachable morals, he brought a vigorous intellect and"varied and extensive information to the public counsels; and the ripe fruit of his experi ence, joined to these endowments, gave conviction to his opinion and authority to his example. Wc always heard him with attention; for he elucidated every subject he investigated, and brought to our dis cussions the stores of his Knowledge and experience, with a manner as unassuming as it was captivating v'hilc loving the State in which he so long resided, and which had given him so many proofs of i confidence and affection, he loyql alsp our eo.n no.i country, and at home and abroad proved himself the true patriot, the able and faithful citizen. In tall the relations of private life lie was loved an 1 honored, as well from the amenity of his manners as from the kindness of his heart, and in the social circle he was the very model of the accomplished gentleman. For almost half a century he was in the public service, and was intimately connected with many of the great events which marked that long and stirring period, and he proved himself equal to all the circumstances in which lie was placed, sustaining himself with signal ability among men whose re nown is written in imperishable characters upon the history of our country. But better than all this, and above all, lie was a sincere Christian ;-adding another to the long list of eminent men who have searched the (J-ospol of Jesus and have found it the will and word of God. In his last illness, when the world and the tilings of the world’ wero fast fa ding* before him, he found consolation in the promises of the Savior; and, calmly surveying the approaoh of death, he look ed beyond its power ta'tlie glorious immor tality promis'd to the belierev, The p!a ces that knew him will know hi ano m ; but, though dead, his me i . ■ i< mbalm-A in the hearts of his c mut'vm <, a l Liu re it will live, honored and c'ori th 1, lo t after all those who are iu;,v t ikin ? p :rt in this tribute to his worth shall In vs fol’ownii him in the journey, where, for a brief up- tee, lie has preceded us through Jjic’ (1 rk v:i ! - • ley of the shadow of loath. .<* Mr. DOUGL T'n> h- j-v ,ll *jhv¥ iS ; to add anything of vaVe o i so well said by others. For the lust eight ■ months the mournful event which is no.v • officially announced t> the Senate his Arm . known, felt, aud lamented di In ! the meantime, we have passed th"ough scenes well calculate to engross our thoughts an’tl divert our attention, if not .to obscure the Ires;in ss of the iir*t im pression, or assuage t te keenness -of tha* sorrow which fiiied every heart. But p matter what the iap-e of time ffor its re sults, the meeting of the Senate, and the absence of one whom all admired an l lor ed, and delighted to greet and honor, e ills Up associations and remhib ,*ene''s which impart to the occasion aif the effects of a sudden and unexpected bereavement. - T hose whose happiness !l was to be asso ciated with Colonel King, in public duty and private intercourse, are alone capable of realizing the extent of our loss. II: < example in all the relations of life, pubhc and private, may be safely commended to our children as worthy of imitation Few men in this country have ever served the j public for so long a period of time, and none with a more fervent patriotism or! unblemished reputation For forty-live! years he devoted his energies and talents ; to the performance of arduous public tin- 1 ties—-always performing his trust .will} fi delity and ability, and failing to command the confidence, admiration, and gratitude of an enlightened constituency. Willie lie held in succession numerous offi cial stations, in each of which he'maintain ed and enhanced his previous reputation,! yet the Satiate was the plaice of his choice 1 and the theatre of his gre itest usefulness { Here he sustained a i o iviable reputation 1 during a pario 1 of thirty years’ senatorial service, always manifesting his respect for | the body by his courtesy and oropr ety of! deportment. Here, where his character was best understood, and his uses lines* and virtues mod highly appreciated, his loss, as a public mm and a private friend, is most painfully felt and deeply lamented Mr CLAYTON I shah- only pay a debt of honor to the spirit of the dead, by offering my humble testimonial in addition to what lias been so appropriately and eloquently expressed by others. A quar- 1 ter of a century has since I be- j came acquainted with Am. R. Kixo as a ; brother, senator on this floor. During the ! greater part of that long penod I was an ‘ attentive observer of his course as a pub j lie man, and I c-ian-K i t justice remain l silent when an opportunity is off ?red of i paying a tribute to the memory of one who j so honorably de-o't:.v<‘ ; : t. -i- * That mau who dying cm lie said to have passed Ids days without a stain upon his reputation has justly earned the honors due to a well spent life. The Roman po et has immortalized the sentiment “Ni;c ma c visit, qui a itu*Tnurtc )<q in folcilit,” and Wm. R. Ki.vg may be truly said to have passed from the cradle to the grave without a blot upon his name. The chief part of his history is written upon the records of tin’s Senate, in which his high character as a legislator and states man was firmly established. I would avoid the common’ places e mployed on occa sions similar to the present, when speaking of such a inan. It is not enough to sav of him that lie performed his duties well as a member of the Senate He was dis tinguished by the scrupulous correctness of of his conduct. He, was remarkable for his quiet and unobtrusive, but,active, prac tical usefulness as a legislator. He was e nph itica!!y a business me nber of the Sen*- site, anl without ostentation, originated and perfected m >r-3 useful measure j than m my who filled the public eye by greater display and daily cOinmatvdfiiftlt-j applause of the listening Acute. He never sought with some of his co temporaries t ) earn a brilliant reputation by.. of splendid oratory; an i. to his honor’ be it spoken, he never vexed tue ear of the Senate with ill timed, teJi&as, oi>u:>:wees sar'y debate lie prefere.i to be -.‘hacked for silence rather then o bj tasked for spec .‘h. Vet o i till occasions .when a great issue was before the country, c diiug for tiie exercise of manly firmness, courage, an;l patriotism, Mr. King was always with those who stood foremost for the safety and tire glc'fy of the republic. He graced the chair of the Senat e long er than any other man that ever occupied it —not continuously, or y virtue merely of repeated elections as our temporary President, but often also at the request of the Presiding officer. 1 think lie was thus engaged in the performance of the duties of the President of the Senate du ring the greater put of the terms of five Vice Presidents; and at last he reached the second office in the gift of th.* people —an office excelled in honor only by one other in the world. To preside over such VI adorn'd; rys fie Senate of the l/aited States, and to do that as lie did it, was enough to satisfy the highest aspirations of an honorable and patriotic amuition. In this elevated position lie wat distin guished fan l I may add was never ex celled) for the dignity of his deport neat, i the impartiality off his trie promptness aud fidelity with wlflch lie maintained the order and enforced the rules of this body. 1 can re member no in stance in which he lost sight of what was line to his own self-respee. or the rights of his political opponents, by tiie indulgence of party feelings in the chair. Presiding as he did, when party spirit raged in tor rents of fire, all just men will admit tiiat he could have been no common man who maintained his high character for justice and impartiality at such a period A lit tle man, at tlrat time, would have shown his littleness by yielding, himself up as an ■instrument of oppression to -tiie minority. But lie sought an honest and enduring faiiiG, and he obtained it With .it ‘V em ployment of any unworthy means, or the slightest sacrifice of principle. He en gaged no hireling press, no mercenary li ioeler, to traduce others, or to trumpet his awn fame. Jle paid respect to the feelings of other t, and rigidly exacted the Obsor vttnci of the same lvsp'ct for himself.— Generous as ho wos brave, his conduct to ; his opponent* suffering under defeat was l al ways li’end and kind; and, by his in fla-ib!: fru’di, he won the entire confidence ot men of all parlies in ills own unblem • i.kic.d honor I Others have spoken of his service in I■> ic” pi'-eet, but T a:mi! sneak of nothing *to vfhich J was not ft witness. “W hile Mr. Kivu remained in the Senate there was stili one member of th t body who had ser ved with me m fids floor during the ses :.ou of— 3). it is melancholy to . .'lee’. Fiat ue.trlr all the rest of the sena tors of that p.-riod have closed their career on earth., and that not ore of those who survive remain here vwth me to day. The master sprits of the time were a mong the senators of that day. I speak not of the living. But hero, then, were Clay, Calhoun, Forsyth, Webster, and Livingston, the learned and laborious Woodbury, the astute Grundy, the witty, sarcastic an 1 over-ready Holmes, the chiss- I ic Robbins, end, among many other justly di uingnished, the graceful and accom ’ pl’shc 1 on tor of South Carolina, Robert j Y. Hayne,— *•.’ !i i e wi>r<l* ’ini stum -,i m-dtine fl >**', An! ?,|ki!;i? of~o rwcdly \v<T, Tin v lik> tli • set - ’ nest snow, And nil ws bri a hart <?■=•? wh ro they fell.” Oh! I could enumerate, and delight to t dwell o.i, the virtues of them all; ami then revert to him whose fame we now com memorate, as to one not inferior in integ rity and honor to the proudest among them. Bat those reminiscences are at tended by the mournful reflection that our connexions with them in this world are oAiled forever ‘ Ar aiitd ii.j, r>;ie!i disarveriri! chain i <i £;> irkimg ran: And enrtlily hands cni qe’er Unite t iosi: brt/kc.n m-s.” Tie resolutions were unanimously a (looted. Mr. IIUNTER. Asa further mark of respect, to the memory of the deceased, I move th it the Senate do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to, a id the Sen ate adjourned. Slucc!i of .Tic. fflitclicl!* Til3 IRISH rATRIOT, Ddivertd at U moldy n, on the. Bih hut , in reply to the Mayor, Aldorman, and Com mon Councillors of the city of Bioo/dy t. M ii. M IT J HELL, sail: It is almost needless for mb to say how deeply gratifying and overpowering, the kindness ofthat eloquent address is to me today. I only fee! that it overvalues my poor and ineffectual services in the cause of that liberty which we all love so well It certainly does not exaggerate my zeal, and li dots not exaggerate the wrongs I have endured in consequence of that zeal. Tne reference the address makes to the i-0 : >n of the rforporatio/i ot tpis city,, an 1 many other cities of the Union, in order to induce the President of the Uni te:.! States to interfere in a friendly manner with the British Government for the liber ation of me and my associates—that reference leads me to observe that, on the wnoie, we all felt glad that tiiat movement of iiivcrferance was permitted to drop i a ive no scruple m saying, that we disnUe any appeal being made to the magnanimity ot the English Govcrnmant in oar bcnail. Wc have seemio instance, no example in all history, of that lnagnanitni , ty. vVhe.il we Siting ourselves between the starving, perishing Irish, and the potent jcmp.ro of Great Britain, w.e never con i tempiated thiv-.vm j ourselves afterwards upon tiie mercy .of ih it Government.— [Applause.] rio that with all gratitude for the go a-'To .is goal will manifested 1 towards us in America,-and I believe by the President himself on that occasion, wo felt glad that the matter was allowed to drop. Ia n much more delighted that] my friend, Mr. Meagher, ami myself, owe oar liberation, not l£>k- eleui mey of the: Q loan of England —ack a me/ wgleh we ; have never seen exercised -but to our own exertion and the gallant daring of our j friends. Ore utE-r . obeervatitm I will • i ntake, with allAoiiiig of my own imwor-! thy ness of such a triumphant proscssioa as ! you have given me to day—America owes 1 as so nothing, if it be a crine to love j liberty—to worship liberty—to adore re-j public inis. n, America seduced my vouch-’ nil mi ld into’ crime, [Loud Applause,] j for from my earliest days, 1 have followed j in kinematic:! the truck of that glorious j flag. i know every mountain pass that, it took from f'e redcoats; yes I have pant ed after it at Trenton, on the Delaware;’ I have seen it waving at Brandy wine and | Saratoga, and at Yorktown my heart has j triumphed in tiic triumph of liberty. Sir,’ many a year since, i have avowed myself a disciple of riiomas Jefferson. Yes, of ail the residences of noble and eminent philo sophers that this world boasts of, I kno w none to compare with the shades of Mouticeiio. The Tusc.ilum villa of Cicero is famous, and Pliny’s retreat at Cquio is no less renowned; but one object of my pilgrim ige to America is to visit ime shades of Mouticeiio. As my voice is weak, and as 1 wish to address the citizens outside, perhaps you will allow me to proceed lucre now, and accept my sincere thanks for the honor you have done are.— [ id ith lsiastic applause.] Mr. Mitchell, accompanied by his num erous friends, was then e inducted by his Honor the Mayor, and the members of the com non Council, to the portico of the Gity Hall, No sooner wss the patriot seen by the thousands of his friends and admir ers, densely congregated in the City Hall Park, and all around the portico of the building, then the air was rent by stentorian cheering, which lastcd for some minutes. As soon as the enthusiastic plaudits of the dense assjublage hid sub side 1, Mr Al.tchellsaid: UiriZE.vsi’ The honor of being publicly welcomed to America by the civic author ities of these two noble and more than iui p rial cities, is indeed a high and proud personal distinction; but if that were all, I should, as my friend Mr. Meagher did on a former oeca.uon, Log to be excused from accepting it. With him, I feel that we Irish r diels have as yet earned no such tribute. We are nit conquerors, but fu gitives. A’ it only have we not conquered —wo had not even the good fortune to light, it is year generous appreciation of mere good intentions, of well-meant but baffled efforts—it is, above all, your right eous republican disdain and horror of no torious public injustice, that prompts yon to hail the arrival amongst you of one who, in a monarchical country of Europe, was found guilty of the felony of republi canism. [Cheers] Surely Americans must lore liberty dearly well, for they Honor not only the high priests and tri umphant champions of that faith, but the oh ure martyrs, the baffled, beaten, ridi "uled, execrated confessors. America not only shrines in her heart, and crowi s the brows of a LaFayette a:ul a Washington, whose swords victoriously hewed a way to Freedom’s temple—not only does hom age to tuc horoisin of a Koskiusco and a Kossuth, who lost, indeed, liberty’s battle, but whoso Titan struggles made Europe s hake and ring—she piously searches out the humble soldiers and preachers of that sacred cause, the men whom tyrants have hanged, or shot, or transported for their felony, and whom slaves have laughed at tor their folly, and she honors their memo ries, and makes their names household words, and bids the survivors be of good cheer. America waits, and longs, and listens, to hear that Emmett's epitaph has been “'r tten. Oh, that it were written with an iron pen! No matter where in all the world there is but a throb of pulsation of freedom's heart, America’s blood tingles mid her eye Humes. America clasps one Irish rebel to her bosom like a mother; America holds out her arms to O’Brien over the sea, entreating him to take shel ter under her wing; America receives me with thanksgiving, plaudits, and blessings. [Great cheering.] I delight in yovr cordial greeting, but not ou my own account. It is impossible for me to regard it in the light of a per scmal concern at all. I forget myself; I efface myself. lam but as a seaweed, thrown up by the heavLugs of.the dark and stormy sea of our Irish life; and i know well that the things you take an in tcrest in is not the floating weed, but the strength and direction of the tides and currents that whirl it along. I will meet your republican welcome with a republi can frank.,ess, and will tell you the pre cise meaning and value which I attach to this day’s events. The English Government regards us Irish rebels, and justly regards us, as its irreconcilable enemies; therefore, it nick names us felons, traitors, convicts, and buries us in felon dungeons. That end it attains by denying us a trial before our county. men, (who would have been sure to acquit us,) and by performing a mock trial before its own creatures, in utter dis regard of even its own laws and coustitu lion—which you know are the envy of surrounding nations. Thus, then, stands the issue. 1 charge the British Govern ment;, with devastating and ruining my country. The British Government tells me lam a felon for my saying so. I ex hort my countrymen to throw off the Bri tish yoke and to govern themselves. The British Government thereupon, without trial, binds me in chains, and sends me across the seas to reconsider and repent of my republicanism at leisure; and in the mean time, millions of our countrymen lie down and die of hunger, and other millions turn paupers and robbers, while England sends us over, by way of alms, about a twentieth part of what Ireland yearly sends her by way of tribute, and bids us be thankful, and submit to the dispensa tions of the Almighty. I tell them that we curse their charity, and abhor their blasphemy. I say to them that they are not a government, but a gang of murder ers and robbers; that their people are not only living and thriving while ours are pining and dying, but that they are feast ing upon that very Irish food for want of which our people die. I say to them, God indeed sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine. [Hear, Hear, and continued cheers.] Then they cry out treason! felony! flat burglary! They run to i.im'r London Parliament, and get any act iff - v ask for passed, of course; so that we awake one morning and iind that the mail from London lias brought us word that we are felons. Thus the question comes before yon to day. 1 stand here one of the representa tives of Irish nationality, of Irish revolt against foreign oppression, of Irish lle publieanism —but, by London law, a con vict. And in doing me an honor to-day, I understand you to pronounce a flat con tradiction to that government cud that London law. [Hear, heir,] I under st md you to intimate that, in the opinion of Americans, it is no ignominious crime, even in Europe, to love liberty and jus tice. beers] I understand you con demn indignantly the denial and violation of all law in the sham trials of Irish pa triots. [L md cheers.] I understand you to affirm that British rapacity and tyranny fully justify all Irish in seeking to regain a separate national existence, and in denying the authority of those pre tended laws. [Cheers.] Am flight in my interpretation? [Yes, yes ] Then I confess, unworthy as I feel myself of high public honors, I could not find it in my heart to decline any occasion of col lecting the snlfrages ol these cities for the cause of liberty arid Ireland/ Citizens, it is not for me to shield the canting, cruel, Government of England from the hitter insults which freemen this day pour on it. Ido not lake their part —they deserve your execration. [Hear, hear] A.word of explanation, an \ l have done. You have iieard me speak bitterly and vindictively of the Biitisli govern me it. No man here, I trust, will ima gine I mean the British people. Here in America, the government is the people —in England, the government is the ene my of the people. [Hear, hear.} In 1843 We were well aware that the vast body of the industrious people of England were favorable to justice and to Ireland— but they have no power—the laws are made for them also by their oppressors; and we know weil that it would have been regaidcd as a boon hardly less to the English than to the Irish, if we had fortunately succeeded in abolishing that fuel government, the enemy of mankind [Hear, Lear.] Yes, many people talk Mlf.at liberal, that .•nlig!it ( , l!t . ( i and popu nr. J.derail ent l’lv.oy one will? peak mitas he finds if, and I take the t.t’erty ■u cal ing it—what many Americana, too, have known it, a gang of handed conspi : ator> against the human race, [( fleets ] ‘Before quill ng the subject of die En g'isfl people, too, permit me to say it would Be an ill grace indeed that { sh:u!d t * ei a p’ J rd lit disp md rfin.ent agiinst • ‘ Many dear friends ul mine are Li.glish, Vt hen j was making my at tempt fit escape from penal exflp, sumo ° mv surest guides and must zealouff and efficient auxiliaries, were loyal Bri tons. [vJicer.J W fleo Ifail to acknowl- e '*ge the generous and cflivaliic friend sflip of some British friends, then may my tongue cleave to tfl e fmf of mv One other word ! cavet , Si‘ V to prevent mistakes. The able editor of the most influential New * ou jounai, speaking of the probability ° r,l - v l' Ul) li -fling a newspaper in Atneri -Ca’ SCe,, '; s to ‘-ongine that here is anew gamecock corning, dressed nij S() drre> !,t< ; Je aie.nijjof American faction, , n I U .„T , . , " iade ' 8 for me already. I ® W,,|t P“” he says, against certain “ones, or priest,, or flEhops, whom ha names, and on the, whole, so,ms to ex p< Ct good sport. [Laughter.] !J w -i!l jit mt-r But I ill m.t come to the ‘ii'iji cl. [‘ic.ar, hear] Positively, I VV “; 1 c-specifuliy decline the cumii.il; II u 1 n.ivi.se ail prftd. nt speculators not to Let Upon that flattie. { an, n )t a * t ‘ vtl ‘S'""’ 1 am a rebel. [Continued c-.cmiug J j have no quarrel with any l, if l,, P s i ir B ie " ls dm world-least ,ff Mi w.ln the Catholic clergy, among whom n..*e many personal friend/, and amongst a uoni ( a hat is fur more imnoriuni'i 1 recognize <> profound and exhuusiies* • end of disaffection against the IJr tid’i (to y error tent, b G enough —the enemies o that Government are mv brothers [imul cheers] I have imw ; U ’ 1)e ' 1 A'.uiuicrvention, 1 know, is the seti.ei! principle of American policy. B * u so. But that does not prevent the in eivenlion of honest opinions. [Hear, near J J uo not ask you fora fleet of war steamers and transpons, aj,d armies, and military coests. I ask for countenanco and friendship, and moral support from the citizens nf ibis, the Great Ucpublic of earto. lor the present that suffices. r h . a * tl,ne and chauce may bring to us m the coming year, no man can foresee; out if good days are ever to dawn for Ire,and—if isl e survivor* of that ruined, scourged, disarmed nation of able-bodied paupers, be indeed destined to rise out of thetr ashes and a. keioth, clothe their country at last with the beauty aud glory of Umt freedom we all have so panted al ter, the., 1 know that the voice of America, Which chiC:S and consoles us in this, the uay ot our humiliation, \s iil not be slow to welcome us into the .society of Lee and proud nations. A Word to the Ladies.—We confess, says the* \\ urrenton News, we felt a little —no not a little but deeply mortified ou reading the following advertisement in a V trgima newspaper: “ricocTH Sxuff. Avery largo stock of tne above, put up expressly for the North Carolina trade, and for safe at very >o\v rates.” We fdt mortified, because the intima tion is here made, and wc fear too truth fully, that the practice of begriming the soxt pouting, reu lips of the ladies, which nature seems to have designed exnressly .or the purpose of _ kissing, and emitting soot.iiiig and musical sounds, with naii ccous tobacco dust, is peculiarly prevalent m North Carolina. This is a subject of reproach to the lovely fair ones of our btate-a practice in itself indecent, and unhealthy, and one which they should be asnamed to indulge in. The Irish will hardly ever get clear of the opprobrium cast upon them for their blunders—the Dutch forbuudiing, ortho ladies of North Carolina for the nasty practice of dipping suufl But we hone the latter will make an cliort, and in the course of years they may succeed. * J A I’ravATE Companv, with a capital of ten millions, has been formed at. San Fran cisco, for steam com unification with Chi na. The steamer Fremont is to be the pioneer of the new line to Guyamas. A new line is also to commence on the Ist ot December, to run between San Fran cisco, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua Cost a Luca, and Panama. Shaghai has been captured by the celes tial insurgents. There must hav been some bLb ‘ crowing” on the occasion. Hon. 11. A. Wise has recently married. 1 o our dear bachelor friends still “hail ing between two opinions,” vvesav, “G > and do ii/cs Wise.” A Kougii Kentuckian hearing > child squall very loud and furiously, rt merkeo:“How wickedly that sind!'sim ple of mankind is s wearing in die infantile vernacular! What wilt'it come to w hen it is educated?” A Boy, who was sent to inquire how an old lady named Wilkins was in health, said to her servant “Missus’ wants to now how old Missus Wilkins is to day;” to winch the iaiter replied, “She is just 74 to-day.” The man w!io“couldnu eon:alia him self,” was found, upon inquiry, to Con tain about ft quart of the fluid extract of corn! An itinerant * minister was one day preaching tu * ‘pack of hardened siunars]’ when he made one of the following orurj. nal ami rather striking similes; “My heli !ers,Vaid h=*, ‘1 cau compare yon to nu . thing out a parcel of knotty hickory ‘butts;’ the gospel ij trie wedge, and’J thro'wing himself in die attitude of a woodsman —‘by the grace of Guu I’m i| )Q heetie to and r-i-vcil into you'd drunken fellowjwbo lately died of ‘delirium trenuns has’ hosa* seen Ov a clairvoyant spirit-rapper, who says”tbat he was egging Dives onto ask Lazarus for ft drink. No. 1.
