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VOL. XV.
THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN.
IS PURLI9HED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING
BY WILLIAM CLINE,
At Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per ani
nnm, or Two Dollars paid in advance, j
A o vbutI'SEOTSTs’ are msorled at ONI S
DOLLAR per square, for the first insertion, and
FIFTY CEBITS per square, for each insertion
thereafter.
A reasonable deduction will oe made to those
who advertise by the year.
All advertisements not otherwise ordered, will
bn continued till forbid.
fUjt tALES OF LANDS by Administrators,
Kxerotors or Guardians are required b) law to be
held ori the first Tuesday in tne month, between
the hours ot ten in the forenoon and three in the
nftrrnoon, at the Court-House, in the county in
which the land is situated. Notice of these sale,
must be given in a public palette FORTY DAYS
previous to the dav oTsale.
•SdZ.ES OF NEG ROES must be made at pub
lie auc!ion on Ihe first Tuesday of the month, he
twerp the usual hours of sale, at tlir place ol | l
lie sales in the county where the letters Test
nontary, of Administration or Guardianship ma
have been granted; first giving FORTY DAY
notice M.creofin one of the public gazelles of il>
State, an.l al the court house where such salcnrsi
Id be held.
Notice for the sale of Personal Property must
br given in like manner FORTY DAYS previous
* ) irie day of sale.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate
mist be published FORTY DAYS.
Notice that application will be madeto the Court
Ordinary for leave to deli, land must be pub
islu-d for TWO MONTHS,
Notice for leave to sell negroes must he
anblished TWO MONTHS before any order ab
rohite shall he made thereon by the Court.
CITATIONS for Letters of Administration
hurst be published thirty dais; for Dismission
from Administration, monthly six months; lio
Dismission Iron! Guardianship, forty days.
t'nles fertile foreclosure of Mortgage must be
published monthly for four months,lor pub
listing lost papers, lor Ihe full space of three
months; for compelling titles front Executors,
a Jministrntors, wlicie a bond lias been givu.fq :
the deceased, for the space of three months.
A Free Negro Community.
Richard Randolph, eldest brother of
John Randolph, of Roanoake. died in the
year 1796, at ‘‘Bizzarre,” the name of the
large esiate bequeathed him by bis father,
John Randolph, sr., and lying on the
head waters of the Appomattox river,
near the town of Farmville, Va. He is
represented to have been a man of talents
scarcely inferior to those of his celebrated
brother, and of extraordinary goodness
of character. Entertaining the opinion,
then general in the South, and especially
in Virginia, that slavery was a curse alike
to master and to servant, Mr R libera
ted his slaves hy will, and made ample
I revision for their maintenance. Owing
to pecuniary embarrasinenfs, the provi
sions of the will were not carried into ex
ecution, until fifteen years afterwards,
and not until many ot ltie slaves had been
sold to liquidate the heavy mortgr.ges !
which rested upon the estate. About
1811 John Randolph, who had assumed
the management of his brothar’s affairs,
removed to the county of Charlotte, and
the negroes, variously estimated at from
one hundred to one hundred and thirty
in number, entered upon the enjoyment of
their freedom j
A portion of the Bizzarre estate, con
sisting of three hundred and sis y, (some
say five hundred) acres, partially cleared,
well timbered, and well watered, was
divided into sectious of fifty and twenty
five acres, each; and upon these sections
the various families, according to thenuni
ber and age of the individuals composing
them, were settled; those having aged
and infirm parents to support, received
more, and those not having these incum
brances, less land. All were provided
with means to build themselves houses,
and with agricultural implements to till
the soil. Fairly settled in the land of
promise, the Canaan to w'hich they had
looked so longingly for fifteen years, they
gave it the name of “Israel Hill” —an
appellation which explains the sanguine
anticipations and religious tone which
guided them to its choice. No doubt
they looked forward to the time when
Israel Hill should he a thriving and pop
ulous village; “a city set upon an hill;”
fchining gloriously to the eyes of their
brethren in bondage, as did the Delecta
b!e mountains to Bunyan’s Pilgrim.
Here, then, they were left to work out
their destiny, and here, indeed, if at all,
it was expected that thj African
would thrive and prosper, anl fulfill the
expectations which prompted his noble
master to set him free The conditions
a V the experiment were pre-eminently
favorable for the manumitted—and the
elements of success surrounding them
numerous —ar.d such as can never again
be brought to bear upon them in any fu
ture experiment. They were the choice
servants of one of the most aristocratic,
humane, and cultivated families in the
Stat 6, reseived from sale because of the
excellency of their dispositions, their
fidelity and their industry. They had
enjoyed the advantage of association with
intelligent whites; they were taught the
principles of the Christian religion. They
were traiued to habits of labor, and were
settled upon fertile land in a temperate
climate. Fuel and water were abundant.
‘1 hey were surrounded by kindly disposed
neighbors, who gave them employment
at harvest, and at many other times du
ring the year; who ministered to their
wants in sickness, and who gave them
advice in business matters. And more
than all, they were not brought into com
petition with white labor —the bane ot the
African who settles in the free States. —
Under these propitious circumstances it
was reasonable to expect that the little
colony would have gone on to prosper—
that this miniature Liberia would have
become rich, populous, fertile —the pa
rent of other colonies to the free States —
that the system of parcel culture would
have made every inch of the soil'produc
tive—that Isuol llill would have become
a handsome village, surrounded with or
chards and gatde> s, and sheltered by
luxuriant shade trees. The philanthro
pist who shared the opinions and the
hopes of Richard Randolph, would have
expected to hear in this village, the sound
of the hammer, the saw, the plane, the
churchgoing bell—the evideuces of thrift,
of industry, and of good morals. But
now that forty years have passed away,
what are the facts of the case?—How
has the experiment succeeded?
‘I he traveller on the Soulhside Rail
road passes through the centre ot Israel
lid 1 , without being aware of its presence.
THEGEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN.
The few miserable huts which constitute
the village, are not attractive enough to
retain his attention for more than a mo
ment, and lie passes on ignorant of the
lesson which a mistaken philanthropy
! might have taught him. The visitor to
the neighborhood, who has the curiosity
or interest to inqtlire into the results of
this unhappy experiment, will be sadden
ed by its details. He will find that a
healthy, happy, moral community of
slaves have, from the day of their libera
tion, degenerated until they have become
a diseased, depraved, miserable people—
a curse to themselves, and a pest to their
neighbors. The men are drunkards, the
women prostitutes, the children scrofu
lous and syphilitic. Almost all steal.—
There are honorable exceptions to this
i rule, hut they consist mainly of the origi
nal settlers—men and women who had
reached years of discretion before they
were liberated, and whose habits were
formed while they were slaves The
men are utterly cortup*. So far from
increasing in point of number, they have
decreased; and il is the opinion of all who
have locked into the matter, that disease
will eventually exterminate them. In
1850, it is said they numbered about as
many as were originally liberated—say
130, and now, in 1854, they’ are generally
supposed to number 100, or less: some
have placed them as low as S5. In con
sequence of their vicious hahits, many of
the women are barren; the children, as
before stated, poisoned from their birth.
Ilencp, it may be readily’ believed, that
the average yearly mortality among them,
is equal to that of Farmville—a place
more than ten limes as populous—and
some years it is much greater. With the
indolence and improvidence characteristic
of their race, they have wantonly destroy
ed their woodlands; have exhausted their
soil by unsystematic and improper culture;
have suffeied their houses and enclosures
to decay; have contented themselves with
the production of the bare necessaries of
existence; and have as yet given r.o evi
dence that the germs of progress or im
provement, ever existed in their unhappy
natures. The money derived from lire
sale of their crops is invested in whiskey;
and the ill gottun gains of booty purloined
from the neighboring gentry, is expended
in the same way. They grow nothing
except Indian Corn and Tobacco with a
few potatoes and peas; these scanty crops
maintain a doubtful contest witu the crab
grass, carrot weed, briers, and other ill
favored products ot an impoverished soil.
These spring luxuriantly around their
cabin doots. Wheat they’ never grow.—
The idea of planting an orchard, a vege
table or flower garden, seems never to
have entered their heads. Nothing like
system, order, prudence, economy or
forecast is perceptible among them. Ii
would he silly to talk of refinement in
connection with such a people- Idle,
dishonest, drunken, profligate, it is not to
be wondered that this community should
be the theatre of scenes of destitution,
disorder, immorality, and crime sufficient
to cause the bones of the good Randolph
to turn in Ids grave, and such as to call
for the frequent interposition of the neigh
boring planters, and not unfrequently that
of the county authorities. Thus we hear
in one case of two sisters, one of whom
makes a midnight foray into the corn
patch of the other, and pulls the entire
crop up by the roots. In another, we are
told of au old woman starving to death;
and in another, of a sickly, poor creature
placed under the charge of a drunken wo
man who goes to town to buy whiskey,
leaving her charge to die of sheer neglect.
Reports of broils and battles are common;
scarcely a day passes without some of
the adjacent farmers being called in to
intefere in behalf of some of the oppress
ed inhabitants of this wretched communi
ty. But yesterday, two of the Israelilish
women came to the house where the
writer of this article is sojourning, to
lodge a complaint against a fugitive slave
who was harbored in the Hill, and who
had suddenly rushed upon them, threat
ening to cut off their htads with a scythe
blade which he held in his uplifted hand.
Such is a faintly drawn picture of Is
rael Hili in 1854, after more than forty
years of freedom; am! such are some of
the disastrous consequences of au impoli
tic and Unwise philanthropy. Had these
people remained slaves, who can doubt
but that their destiny in this life, and
perhaps in the life to come, would have
been far different, far happier? The
humiliating results of the well intended
benevolence of Richard Randolph, are
fraught with no salutary lesson for the
negrophilist; but they may serve to con
firm the intelligent slaveholder; to warn
the iuexperienced advocates of emanci
pation; and to rebuke the many who
shake with laughter at the idea of a Re
public in France, yet believe in the ca
pacity of the negro for the enjoyment of
Republican freedom.
Religious Intolerance-.
The Pennsylvanian truly says, in a land
of liberty and intelligence, as we justly
boast our own to be, fanaticism, intoler
ance, and tyranny can never long enchain
popular sentiment in their thraldom. The
wisdom of the founders of this govern
ment in resolving to forever separate
Church and State, has been illustrated by
every new cycle in our National history
—and however much bigots may prate or
rave of imaginary danger, wc"trust nud
believe that such a Union will never be
consummated here, either practically, by
the action of the people at the polls, or by
positive legal enactment. The attempt of
Know Nothingism to establish religions
tests for all official stations is at deadly
variance with the fundamental principles
of republican freedom. We believe that
there are men connected with all of
the prominent sects whom it would be un
safe to trust with important political trusts,
and we just as fully believe that there ate
men connected with each- and all of the
promineut Christian sects who are good
patriots and possess every desirable quali
fication for the faithful discharge of the
duties of any political station to- which
they would aspire.
Every man can readily perceive how
wrong, and how unjustifiable it would be
to introduce tests in our Churches.
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1854.
The Democrat, and the Native, and the
Abolitionist, harmoniously mingle under
the spiritual guidance of the minister in
whose religious teaching they have confi
dence, without ever stopping to inquire
what his political views may be. Who
thitiks of making ‘political opinions a test
for any station connected with the govern
ment of a Church, from the post of minis
ter down to sexton? No one. And
what bitter feelings, what mischievous
strifes, what calamitous feuds and divi
sions would necessarily result from any
attempt to introduce such tests into our
Churches. Those who really have the
cause of religion at heart, would indig
nantly oppose such a movement. And it
is jnst as wrong, just as unwise, just as illibe
ral to introduce religious tests into the po
litical arena, as it would be to introduce
political tests into religious affairs.
The pretence of the Know Nothings
that the liberties of the nation would be
endangered by entrusting any member of
a political sect, no matter how high may
be their characters, how eminent their
public services, how exalted their abilities,
how well tried their patriotism, how sound
their political doctrines, in any public sta
tion, is a doctrine at once foolish, tyranni
cal, unconstitutional, and calculated to
lead to results of the most alarming char
acter. To lay it down as an axiom that a
Catholic is, on sccount of his adoption of
that creed, necessarily unfitted to dis
charge political duties faithfully and hon
estly, is as monstrous, absurd, and ungen
erous a course of proceeding as could pos
sibly be adopted. Did the Catholicism of
Gen. LaFayette prevent his acting with a
fidelity to the cause of American Inde
pendence which placed him almost second
to Washington in the affections of the peo
ple of this country ? Does not his history
of itself at once uproot from its founda
tion, and utterly demolish and destroy the
ignorant and arrogant assumption of Know
Nothingism that no Catholic and no for
eigner can safely be entrusted with a pub
lic station in this country ? Or are we
mistaken in this matter, and were the ho
nors, the homage and the grateful admi
ration which the American heart poured
out in gushing streams of thankfulness and
gtatitude upon this foreigner and Catho
lic, when he re-visited us in 1824, totally
undeserved ? Did the Catholicism of
that signer of the Declaration of Indepen
dence, who was the last survivor of the im
mortal band of fifty six, CLarles Carroll,
of Carrollton, prevent his doing his duty
in the Continental Congress with a braver
heart, a more nuquailing spirit, a more
earnest and unfaltering devotion to the
welfare of the country than any narrow
minded, narrow-hearted, contemptible
Know Kothing ranter would have dared
to have shown ? Has the Catholicism of
Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United. States,
who, as Secretary of the Treasury, was
Gen. Jackson’s good right arm of strength
in his righteous stand against the illiquid
tons United States Bank, ever interfered
in any way with the proper discharge of
his official duties? *
FOREIGN ITEMS
The Crimea Expedition.
The heavy artillery, the siege equipa
ges, gild the entire material of the army,
were already on board. The commissariat
as well as theambuleuce corps, had, to en
sure the success of the great enterprise,
been adopted. The. fleets and trans
ports collected for the expedition, formed
an armada of the most imposing charac
ter. 100 steamers of all kinds, 300 trans
ports, and 36 ships of the line composed
the fleet. It has been found that in less
than one hour the fleets could put ashore
12,000 men, and that in two hours after
the number might be increased to 20,000
men. The landing, supported by the fire
of from 24 to 30 guns, can be effected in
this time upon any of the points supposed
to be chosen for the purpose. The opera
tion will, in the first instance, be underta
ken under the protection of the guns of
the whole fleet, which will scour the entire
shore, then the steam gun boats, each arm
ed with a 24 pounder, forming powerful
floating batteries, will advance towards
the shore with troops, and they will pro
tect their landing until the land batteries
shall have secured positions for their artil
lery. The fleet has from 30,000 to 40,0U0
gabions and earth sacks on board, so that
for 24 hours after Handing,The army will
be stationed behind defences. The troops
are victualled for two months.
The first division of the fleets will con
vey 14,000 men belonging to the French
army, and between 400 and 500 horses,
with 1 batteries, mounting 36 guns The
other will’convey the Ottoman army, of
about 10,000 men and 800 horses The
British army, a part of which is already
on board the steamers which have come
direct from England, will also_be thrown
upon the coasts of the Crimea to the num
ber of 21,000 men and 1,000 horse, with
36 guns. Tims the first expeditionary
army will land about 50,000 troops, who,
six or eight days afterwards, will be re
inforced by an additional force of from
25,000 to 30,000 French troops, and from
4,000 to s,ooojEnglish troops.
-The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Na
poleon liad proceeded .to join the expedi
tion, against.the advice of their physicians,
as they were still suffering from fever.
The greatest enthusiasm prevails in the
army. The marines of the allied fleets,
have asked and obtained the honor of
forming part of the storming party of Se
bastopol.
It is stated that the
attack on the Crimea, Omar Pacha will
make an important demonstration some
where on the Danube.
The Russians are making preparations
to burn the cities of Odessa, Reni, Bra
dow, Galatz, and Ismail, should they be
forced to abaudon them. They have pre
pared combustibles, and have cut off the
supply of water, and burnt the frro en
gines. Orders have been issued that
wherever the enemy appears in superior
strength, towns and villages arc to be re
duced to ashes. Unceasing preparations
are being made in Sebastopol for defence.
All criminal prisoners are liberated and
enrolled in companies to work the port
batteries. A gang of two hundred of the
worst convicts are still in irons, to be em
ployed in carrying ammunition.
The Bashi-BazoukSf including those in
the pay of the allies, have been disbanded
by a general order from Omar Pasha—the
rascals being quite incorrigible.
Russia. — Polatid. —Active secret ne
gotiations have been going on for some
’ time between Nicholas and the Pope. It
now transpires that the Czar holds out a
prospect of a chance towards the Roman
Catholics in Poland.. * ifd of concessions
to the Latins in Jerusalem. He is thus
intriguing against the French. Accord
ing to the Corriere Italiano, the Czar has
the intention to declare his third son,
Nicholas, King of Poland, and as lie is a
member of the Greek Church, it is con
sidered necessary to give the Pope some
tranquilising assurance respecting the Po
lish Catholics.
Asia. —Georgia has been surprised by
Sclnimyl, with 20,000 Circassians. The
Russians were defeated, and have retired
into the fortresses Important hostages
were secured at Tiflis. Another dispatch
says : “Schamyl had made a descent into
Georgia, where lie destroyed 200 villages.
Forty Russian ladies were carried off.”
Geu. Bcbutoff lias blown up the fortifi
cations of Bayazid, abandoning the town,
and the troops have fallen back to the po
sition which they occupied at Erivan when
attacked by Selim Pacha. Russian agents,
disguised as Bedouins, have been arrested
at Damascus.
Austria ami 1 lie Allies.
The greatest problem in the political
world for the last twelve months has been
whether Austria is on the side of the
western Powers, or of the Czar, and
about it opinion has been much divided.
We aie of opinion that-she—her Govern
ment at Vienna, rather —intends to be on
the strong side, and to declare for which
ever is most certain to win. Her interest
is with the Allies, for she has no cause to
fear ihem, and has much to fear Nicholas,
or to fear the Russian policy, which is
always, a little more teiritorv. Il is a
little curious, that whilst the English
statesmen and the English journals are
claiming Austria for their own—the Lon
don Times does this—and speaking of
her as their powerful friend and ally, the
Russian Autocrat and the Russian j >ur
nals are doing precisely the same tiling
for themselves. On the 13th of August,
a proclamation was published in the
name of the Czar, in which he says: “In
order to protect the Danubian Principal
ities against an invasion hy the Turks,
the ancient ally (Austria) of his Majesty,
the Emperor, undertakes the duty of
temporarily occupying those Provinces.”
This Russia says, whilst the Allies be
lieve that the “ancient ally” is taking
possession for their own benefit.
Important from Mexico.
By the arrival of the steamship United
States from AspinwaJl, wo have received
the following important letter from our
Acapulco correspondent, as also the offi
cial Bulletin of General Alvarez, to the
6th inst. The following is the letter:
Acapulco, Mexico, Sept. 7.
Editors Della— Gen. Alvarez, in per
son, at the head of 2,500 men, entered
the city of Ayutta on the 4th inst—the
Government troops having evacuated it on
the 3d-
Alvarez is pushing forwardjfor Chilpan
cingo, where he will arrive in a few days
without opposition, all the Government
troops having been withdrawn from the’
State ol Guerrero, for the capitol, except
a force of 1,500 men left at Ayutta, to
retard, if possible, his onward movements,
which cannot be the case, inasmuch as
Alvarez is in fine health, and leading a j
body of men who, to a man, would die for !
their Chieftain. His intentions arc to 1
march into the city of Mexico.
By a courier which arrived this evening,
official information has been received that
Vera Cruz has pronounced From all in
dications, it is firmly believed that Santa
Anna will very soon abdicate.
Yours, xx.
From the official bulletin of the 6th inst.
we learn that various engagements have
taken place between the insurgents and
the troops of the Government, at differ-1
ent points at Guerrero, in all of which the
former have been victorious. A force of
1,800 Government troops were defeated
with great slaughter near Zacapo, about
the middle of August, by the insurgents
under Don Ephigmeuio Huerta, who, it
appears, met the enemy on the open plain,
charged and routed at the point ot the
lance. The charge is represented to have
been so furious and well followed up, that
more than half the enemy were left killed
or wounded on the field.
About the same date, Capt. Don Pas
caul Rodriguez, with 150 insurgents un
der his command, took the fortified town
of Aquililla by storm. In this action the
insurgents had Capt. Don Yicente Barron,
one sergeant, and seven privates wounded,
of whom three have since died. General
Alvarez, in a communication, states that
he has not yet received official accounts of
these victories from the commanding offi
cers.
Aside from the above, we find nothing
in the bulletin worthy of notice, except
that there appears to be a determination
on the part of the insurgents to force San
ta Anna to abdicate, or drive him from
his throne. — N. O. licit a.
Singular Occurrence. —A singular oc
currence, resulting in a melancholy man
ner, took place a few days since in the
town of Hamburg, in this county. An
Irishman was engaged in digging well,
and after getting down to the depth of
some eighteen feet, found signs of water
very perceptible. At last he struck his
pick through a thin layer of slate, when
all at once, and with a noise like thunder,
sufficiently loud to be distinctly heard all
over tke neighborhood, a stream mingled
with gas and water hurst through the
orifice, instantly killed the unfortunate
man, and filling the well to the depth of
ten or twelve feet with water. Gas still
escapes profusely, and the water is in
constant and violent motion, resembling a
large cauldron of boiling fluid. —Ihtffalo
Democracy , Aug. 24 1 h.
Excitement In Memphis
A public meeting was held, recently, at
Memphis, Tennessee, for the purpose of
giving expression to the sentiments cf the
city in relation to the frequent outrages
perpetrated upon the citizens of the South,
while travelling through the Northern
States, and particularly in reference to
that recently perpetrated upon their fellow
citizen, Mr. J. J. Robinson, who v.’as bru
tally assaulted robbed of his property
in the city of Gineinna,ti, by a mob headed
by one Mr. Blaririvell, a merchant of Cin
cinnati. Among the resolutions adopted
are the following:
Resolved , That unless the city of Cin
cinnati by some public demonstration re
pudiate the action of the mob and the law
less conduct of Blackwell, that we for our
selves, as citizens of Memphis, will exer
cise every legitimate means to break up
the commercial intercourse between our
own city and the city of Cincinnati, and
divert Southern travel from said city and
State to that direction in which their
rights and property will be respected; and
be it further
Resolved , That we ask and expect the
sympathy and co-operation of our sister
.slaveholding; States to come to our relief,
and aid us in defending ourselves against
aggressors from Ohio, by cutting off from
the State, and particularly the city of Cin
cinnati, all the trade in their power.
Resolved , That the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen of this city be requested to
appoint a special River Police, whose du
ty it shall be vigilantly to watch all steam
boats coming from Cincinnati, and strictly
to enforce our State and municipal laws
in regard to free negroes
Mr. Carr then offered a motion that a
committee of ten be appointed to corre
spond with every Southern city in reference
to the matter suggested in the report of
the committee on Resolutions.
Mr. Trezevaut then offered a resolution
directing the Mayor of the city of .Mem
phis, to forward a copy of these resolutions
to the corporate authorities of the city of
Cincinnati; both of which resolutions were
adopted.
The meeting was characterized by the
utmost harmony—and presented the ap
pearance of an assemblage of injured and
aggrieved men, deliberating upon the
means of, and the spirit to enforce re
dress. ®
On motion the meeting adjourned, sub
ject to the call of the President, with are
quest that all papers friendly to Southern
interests publish the proceedings and co
operate with us in awaking public senti
ment. S. P. BANKHEAD, Pres’t.
J. T. Strattan,
N. B. Sanders, Secretaries.
Tlie N. Y. Wiiig Convention.
The deed is done The bargain is
complete. Th© anti-Seward Whigs are
sold. The Saratoga “fusion’’ has tri
umphed.
By rtferenre io another column, in
which is published the final proceedings
of the New York Whig Convention, it
will he found that Sewardisru has over
whelmed New York Wliiggery, hy the
nomination of Myron 11. Cla. k for Gov
ernor. and Henry J. Raymond for Lieu
tenant Governor, both unmistakeahle ab
olition, disunion, Seward Wiiigs, and by
the passage of resolutions almost identical
with those passed at the Saratoga, anti
slavery, anti-Nebraska, “fusion” eonveu
tion. This result we predicted, when
Messrs. Raymond and Greeley flourished
as the par nubile frutnun of the Saratoga
fanatical demonstration. We then told
the National, Clay, Silver Grey Whigs
that they were “sold,” and that the ad
journment to meet al Aubu.n was an evi
dence that the Whig parly was to he
completely abolished, “io this com
plexion” they have “come at last.”
The great question of slavery, upon the
proper settlement of which hang the desti
nies of our Union, now comes fairly before
the country. The whigs and abolitionists
have banded together in a state of perfect
“fusion,” determined upon sectional agita
tion by keeping it in the halls of Congress,
while the democracy plant themselves up
on the Constitution and “popular sove
reignty,” leaving the people ot each iitate
and Territory to decide the question for
themselves, without an unwarranted inter
ference on the part of the General Govern
ment. This is the Nebraska issue to be
met at the coming election. Can any pa
triotic, National, Union man, whether De
mocrat or whig, hesitate to join the Na
tional Democracy in tiiis their struggle to
maintain the Constitution and perpetuate
the Union? Previous predilections enter
not into the consideration. Bank, tariff,
and Temperance notions have nothing to
do with the issue now presented. The on
ly question is, will you stand by the Cou
stitution and the Union, or sacrifice both
to please a fanatical “fusion,” the only ob
ject of which is to “rule or ruin!”
The convention which meets at Auburn
in a few days, will perfect the “fusion” by
adoping the whig candidates as the whigs
adopted their Saratogu resolutions. But,
however much the leaders may propose,
the people must untimately dispose.—Na
tional Democrat.
lieu 1 til of N;w Oi leaijs.
The New Orleans Courier of the 23d
ult. gives the following account of the pre
valence of the yellow fever in New Or
leans. It will be seen that the Courier
laments the recent influx of strangers into
that city, whom it supposes in great dan
ger of the epidemic. Its caution may not
be out of place:
“Still docs yellow fever reign in our
midst as fatally, as unsparingly, as at any
period during the summer. We cannot,
unhappily, communicate to our readers the
agreeable intelligence that there is the
slightest appearance of diminution. In
the Charity Hospital, by last report, which
we. published iu our editiou of yesterday,
it appears that the number of deaths from
five o’elock on Saturday evening until the
same hour on Thursday evening, amounted
to one hundred and ten —making an ave
rage of twenty-two deaths for each twenty
four-hours, in that establishment alone
This shows'that the mortality is far from
being on the decrease, and should be suffi
cient warning for those who may not be
as yet acclimated, to be on their guard.—,
We understand, also, that in private prac
tice the disease is still as prevalent and
malignant as ever. It exists, for the most
part, in the third, fourth, and upper
tion of the first districts. For this we can
assign no other reason than that these are
the quarters most thickly populated by the
unacclimated citizens. Considering the
small number of the latter who have,
whether from necessity or of inclination,
remained in our city this Summer, we can
not refrain from remarking that the bill of
mortality is proportionately high. Under
this state of things, it is with regret that
we learn that the deck of the steamer S.
F. J. Trabue, which arrived in our port
on Thursday, from St. Louis, was crowd
ed with passengers, chiefly composed cf
laborers who liave come to this city for
the purpose of seeking employment at the
commencement of the business season.
“Without wishing them any harm, we
would have much preferred that they had
remained away for some time. Poor peo
ple! they have rushed, probably, without
knowing it, into the lion’s mouth, or per
haps have been lulled into a sense of secu
rity by the false representations of persons
who, through interested motives, have
wilfully deceived them. However the evil
is now irremediable, and they have only to
do the best they can by indulging as little
as possible in excesses of any kind, and
avoiding all unnecessary exposure to those
atmospheric changes incidental to our
climate. Many, particularly the.less en
lightened portions of our immigrant popu
lation, entertain the opinion that by keep
ing “the spirits up,” as they say, there is
i o danger of their receiving a visit from
Yellow Jack. Accordingly they indulge
freely in the use of intoxicating liquors and
keep themselves in a constant state of semi
inebriation.’ This is the most dangerous
error under which they can labor. The
most experienced physicians advise the
contrary. Sobriety of life and temperate
habits are the best preparatives against
the disease, and experience has shown that
where few men of temperate habits become
victims, few, on the contrary, of the in
temperate escape.”
Gesacral Scott and <?sc English ami
French Generals.
Speaking of the inactivity of the allies
on the Danube, the X. Y Courier says :
“The sluggishness of the movements of
the allies does not compare favorably with
the activity displayed by Gen. Scott on
the expedition against the Mexican Capi
tol—an expedition which was directed at
about as great a distance from home,
and in a hotter and sicklier climate. On
the Tth of March, Gen. Scott embarked
with his troops on board the transporting
squadron; on the 27 th of the same month,
Vera Cruz with the strong Castle of San
Juan d’Ulloa, was ours, besides 5,000 pri
soners and 500 pieces of artillery. With
in three weeks after, the victory of Cerro
Gordo was won; within four days after,
Pcrote, the second fortress in Mexico,
was taken; and within three weeks Pue
bla, the second city of Mexico, lying half
way between Yera Cruz, and the capitol,
was in our possession. Negotiations wore
now opened and peace offered. Active
I hostilities were suspended for three months
and a half. Again Scott moved on. In
| less than two weeks the bloody battles of
Contreras and Churubusco was fought,
within three days an armistice was con
cluded, and within as many more it was
broken by the Mexicans, and within a
week after Molino del Itey was stormed
and carried; within a week after the bat
tle of Chepultepec, and the battles of Mex
ico were fought, and Gen. Scott made his
’ entrance into the conquered city of the
Azotecs; and that expedition which the
London Times had previously ridiculed as
an enterprise of stark madness, had readi
ed its glorious consummation. Such be
ing the celerity of our own warlike opera
tions, it is natural that the slowness of
the movements of the allies in the East,
should not excite much admiration this
side of the waters.
How an Indian cast die.
A touching instance of this characteris
tic trait occurred at the late engagement
between a small war party of the Chippe
was, and a greatly superior party of the
Sioux, near Cedar Islands Lake. The
Chippewas, who were on route for a scalp
ing foray upon the Sioux villages on the
Minnesota, here fell into an ambuscade,
and the first notice of danger that sainted
their cars, was a discharge of fire arms
from a thicket. Four of their number
fell dead in their tracks. Another, nam
ed the War Cloud, a leading brave, had a
leg broken by a bullet. His comrades
were loath to leave him, and while his as
sailants were reloading their guns, at
tempted to carry him along with them to
where they could set the shelter of a
thicket, a short distance in the rear. , But
lie commanded them to leave him, telling
them that lie would show his enemies how
a Chippewa could die. At his request,
they seated him on a log, with his back
leaning against a tree. lie then com
menced painting his face and singing his
death song. As his enemies approached
him, lie only sang a louder and livelier
strain, and when sevewd had gathered
around him, flourishing their scalping
knives, and screeching forth their demoni
acal yells of exultation, not a look or a
gesture manifested that he was even aware
of their presence. At length they seized
him and tore the scalp from his head. —
Still seated with his back against a large
tree, they commenced shooting their ar
rows into the trunk around his head, gra
zing his eyes, neck, &c. until they literally
pinned him fast, without having once
touched a vital part. Yet our hero re
mained the same imperturbable stoic, con
tinuing to chant his defiant strain, and al
though one of the number flourished his
reeking scalp before his eyes, still not a
single expression of his countenance could
be observed to change. At last one of
the number approached him with a toma
hawk, which after a few unheeded flourish
es, he buried in the captive’s skull, who
sank in death with the song still upon his
lips. He had indeed succeeded well in
teaching his enemies “how a Chippewa
could die.” A few days afterwards they
were taught how a Chippawa could lie
avenged. St. Paul [Min.) Democrat.
What a beautiful reply that was of Mr.
Whitfield, and how well suited to the pre
sent times, when half the world are read
ing the “signs of the times” with fear and
trembling, crying “lo here and lo there,”
as if the end of the world was so near that
we conld see it with the naked eye. Tho
crazy Millerites, it appears, actually ap
pointed a day recently, a second time, for
the winding up of this terrestrial ball, but
it rolled o:i a3 usual and would not “fire
np” no way they could arrange matters.—
We think if some of these geutlemeu, in
stead of “asceution,” were fitted with sus
pension robes, it might be of service to
them and “the rest of mankind.” Then
there is ail the Spiritual Knockings aud
demonstrations from Mountain Cove, and
the Lord only knows what all besides.—
Every one is looking out for something ex
traordinary. We believe that about one
half of mankind have become subjects for
straight jackets. But to Mr. Whitfield.
He was diniug with some religious friends
one day, when the discourse turned upon
the trials and troubles of life (a topic too
common among religious people) and the
happy enjoyments of a blessed immortali
ty. The general voice was, that they
were all weary with this world and want
ed to go to a better. Mr. Whitfield said
nothing. At length he was appealed to,
whether he did not desire lo “bo With the
Lord?” “No brethren,” said he, “I have
no desire about it. If l had a servant in
ray field at work, and he was to come to
me at midday, and say, the heat is very
oppressive and the labor hard, I wish you
to let me lay in the shade the balance of
the season, I should call that servant very
undutiful; and if I were to desire the same
thing of my Heavenly Master, 1 should
.consider myself equally undutiful. As
long as he has work for me to do, I feel
honored by his service, and pray him to
beget a willingness in me to attend to it
faithfully, until it is his Divine will to bill
me cease; of which time he alone is
Judge ” — Geo. Jeff.
Ei.opemf.xt Extraordinary.—A color
ed barber who resides some where down
town, had been paying his addresses, for
some time, to a colored lady, and had con
trived to win her affections. She had no
father, but her mother was alive, and mar
ried to a colored man, (also a barber)
who is a person of great intelligence and
respectability for his class. “1 he course
of true love never did run smooth.” The
“old folks” by no means entertained the
same high opinion of the swain that was
entertained by the lady, and so they put
their veto upon the proposed match. The
last resource of disappointed love, a Gret
na Green marriage, was determined on,
and the time fixed for the escapede was
Friday night, on the evening train of tho
Richmond, Fredericsburg & Potomac
Railroad. At the appointed hour the
couple, soon as they hoped to be made
one, made their appearance. The future
bridegroom handed in the future bride,
and was in the act of ascending the steps
to take his seat by her side, when he felt
a strong grasp upon his collar, and in
another moment was stretched upon his
back at the distance of at least twenty
feet from the cars Ilis head struck the
ground with the violence of a bomb shell
falling on the earth, and had it uot been
uncommonly thick, would unquestionably
have “caved iu.” It was the step-father
who had treated him so unceremoniously.
The lovers of romance will be grieved to
hear the unromautic termination of tho
affair. Instead of assorting his claims
through blood and fire, the ardent swain
picked himself up, looked wildly around,
as though he had been struck down by a
Hash of lightning, made an unintelligible
exclamation, and proved how uuworthy ho
was of the fair, by taking to his heels
with tho speed of a greyhound. Her pro
per guardian took possession of the lady,
and carried her home to her family.—
Richmond Post.
A Gai.i.ant Combatant —-The Con
stantinople correspondent of the London
Times, gives the following account of the
last struggle of Lieut. Burke, who fell at
Giurgcvo :
[VIr. Burke’s body was found after the
action in which he lost his life, with no less
than 38 wounds upon it. The Russians
had taken iiis sword belt, but his sword
was found hidden in so.nc long grass close
to the corpse. The ring linger of both
hands were cut off. He was seen by tho
sapper who went with him, fighting des
perately to the last, though surrounded by
a horde of Russians When he first leap
ed on shore from tho boat, six soldiers
charged. Two he shot with his revolver,
one lie cut down with his sword—the rest
turned and fled. While he was encoura
ging the Turks, who were iu the stream,
to row quietly to tho land, and forming
them in line as they landed, conspicuous as
he was, in full uniform, and by his white
cap cover, a number of riflemen advanced
from behind a ditch, and took deliberate
aim at him. Poor Burke charged them
with headlong gallantry. As ho got near
lie was struck by a ball, which broke his
jaw-bone, but he rushed on, shot three
men dead at close quarters with his revol
ver, and cleft two meu through the helmet
and all into the brain. He was surround
ed, and while engaged iu cutting his way
with heroic courage through the ranks of
the enemy, a sabre cat from bohind, given
by a dragoon as he went by, nearly sever
ed his head from his body, and he foil
dead, covered with bayonet wounds, sabre
gashes, and marked with lance thrusts
and bullet holes. The sapper who was
with him stood by Mr. Burke to the last,
but could not save him. Ho is now only
recovering from his wounds and the effects
of his exertions.”
As an affecting evidence of the undying
confidence of lovely woman, we copy the
following from a Knoxville paper:
Married, on the 10th of July, in Knox
ville, Tenn. by Zack Boothe, Esq. Mr.
Patrick Welch to Miss Sarah E. Davis.
Died, in Knoxville, on tiic 24th of Ju
ly, Mr. Patrick Welch.
Married, on the 12th of August, in
Knoxville, Tenn. by W. F. Seay, Esq.
Tlios. Collins to Mrs. Sarah E. Welch,
relict of the late Patrick’ Welch.
Verily this is a progressive age, and
this a funny world ! Wonder what grief
will drive tLie “dear creature.,” to next?
No. 40.