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COLUMBUS:
Tuesday Ncralng, July 1 1800-
Gen Callom, of Tennessee, late Clerk
of the United States House of Represen
tatives, has been acquitted by the Crim
inal Court of Washington City, of the
churge of embezzlement.
♦
Mrs Ellen Finney, wife of Mr. John
Finney, of Savannah, committed suicide
in that city on Friday morning or Thurs
day night, by hanging herself at the
head of the stair case. Her husband was
absent from the city at the time.
Anew institution for the instruction of
youth in all the departments of a thorough
collegiate education, is to be opened in
Mobile by the first of October next. The
principals arc Revs. J. M. Saunders and
Norman Pinney.
Col. John Johnson of Cincinnati, now
in the 86th year of his age, is probably
the oldest Free Mason in America. He
has been a member in good standing for
sixty-five years, and sat in the lodge
presided over by Washington.
The Dalton Times of the 12th, learns
that a difficulty occurred at Tunnell Hill
on the Saturday previous, in which some
twelve or fifteen persons were engaged.
Several were seriously, if not fatally, in
jured by being cut or shot. It is not
known what gave rise to the difficulty.
Ratification Meetings,
Meetings were held in Spalding and
Pike counties on the 3d inst., for the
purpose of ratifying the nominations of
Breckinridge and Lane, which was done
by the passage of resolutions introduced
to that effect.
California Slain,
A dispatch from Washington, the 10th,
states that the President has accepted
Commodore Vanderbilt’s last offer for the
transportation of the California mails
three times a month, and the service will
commence on the 11th inst.
Political.
The Opposition party in Florida have
organized for the campaign, by nomina
ting Gen. Fdward Hopkins, of Jackson
ville, for Govenor ; B. F. Allen, Esq., of
Tallahassee, for Congress; and Messrs.
J. Landrum, Wilks Cait and T. L. Wig
gins, for Bell and Everett Electors.
Rome Rail Road.
The Rome Courier says: The tract of
this road is fast being relaid with heavy
iron, about five miles only are waiting
the iron, which as fast as it arrives will
be put down. It is thought that the en
tire length of the road will be relaid in
next October.
Hon. Allen F. Owen.
We are convinced that in the notice of
this gentleman in our last issue, we con
signed him prematurely to the grave.—
We are happy to learn that our impres
sion was incorrect, and that he “still
lives” though prostrated by paralysis.—
We Bincerely hope the next report from
him will bring the pleasing intelligence
of his speedy restoration to good health
and a long life.
Generous Act.
The Macon Telegraph learns
eral gentlemen in Savannah have sub
scribed S7OO, to be put in trust for the
benefit of “Little Johnny Camp,” one of
the favori'e pupils of the Georgia Acade
my for the Blind, who is to receive the
interest on this sum annually. The
cashier of the Planters Bank lias consen
ted to act as Trustee.
Griftiu aiul North Alabama R. R.
The Griffin Democrat is informed by
Col. Jossey, treasurer of the Griffin and
Jacksonville Road, that the survey of the
above road from Newnan to Carrolton has
been completed. The contracts for grad
ing it beyond Newnan will be ready soon,
and will be let out perhaps by the 25th
of the present month.
A man, named J, M. Davidson, from
Woodville, Ga., says the Dalton Times of
the 12th, was found dead in his bed, at
the Chester House in this place, on Sat
urday morning last. It is not known
what caused his death, as he retired to
bed the night previous as well apparently
as he ever was—it is supposed, however,
that he died of apoplexy, as he was a
very large, fleshy man.
Third Volunteer Regiment.
Wo notice that at a meeting of the Vol
unteer Companies of Barbour and the ad
joining counties, held atGlennville on the
4th inst., anew Volunteer Regiment was
formed under the title of the “Third Vol
unteer Regiment of Alabama.” The
regiment is at present composed of seven
companies. Capt. H. D. Clayton, of the
Clayton Guardß, was elected Colonel,
Prof. Gray, of Glenuville, Lieut. Colonel,
and Capt. Lewis, of Silver Run, Major of
the regiment.
Sun Stroke.
Dr. Merrill, of Memphis, says in case
of sun stroke the first consideration is
perfect rest, as every exertion tends to a
further depression of vital power. Cold
water should be applied freely to the
head, and warmth, friction and mustard
plasters to the feet and legs. The most
active stimulants and anti spasmodics
are prescribed internally. Chloroform is
probably the most active and reliable.—
It may be given in doses of one teaspoon
ful either with or without water. Opium,
laudanum, brandy, whisky, ammonia,
and mustard emetics, are among the oth
er remedies generally approved by physi
cians.
The Louisville Journal of the 3d says
that “Mr. Charles Heidsick—a name that
ought not to be written or spoken of with
out a chorus of pops—he of champagne
notoriety in France—is in our city on a
visit through the States. We met him
last evenin r and took off our bat to him
as the author of the most delicious sen
sational feelings we have enjoyed during
our muturity. May his vintage never
fail, and may we some day meet him at
Rheims to take a goblet of pure, spark
ling, exhilarating, beatifying Heidsick
champagne with him. Vive la Heidsick.”
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Marriage of Edwin Booth.
We learn through a private letter,
dated New York, July 8, says the Mont
gomery Advertiser, that the eminent
young tragedian, Edwin Booth, was mar
ried on the previous afternoon, in that
city, to Miss Mary Devlin, a talented and
lovely young lady, who was formerly
connected with the stage, and regarded
as a brilliant actress. She retired from
the stage about a year ago, and will never
again appear iD public.
Removal by the President.
Judge Stanley, United States District
Attorney for the Southern District of
Ohio, is to be removed for refusing to
follow the Hon. Caleb Cushing out of the
Baltimore Convention. Judge Hill,
United States District Attorney for the
State of North Carolina, for similar rea
sons, shares the same fate.
The Captured Africans.
The Key West (Fla.) correspondent of
the New Orleans Picayune, under date
the 21st ult., writes the following para
graph on the condition of the Africans
recently captured from the slavers. He
says:
“ The three cargoes of negroes are get
ting along very well; the reduced and
attenuated by disease drop off, and up to
this date, 199 have been buried. I learn
to day that the ship South Shore sailed
from New lork for this place, with the
view of departing these people back to
Africa. With the policy or even human
ity of this act, I say nothing ; it is the
policy of the country, and therefore not
to be gaiDsayed ; yet this mooted ques
tion will come up again, doubtless, under
new phases.
The telegraph last night, says the Sa
vannah News, announced the gratifying
fact that one hundred and twenty five of
these Africans have been rescued from
the hands of the government officials, and
were landed on Tuesday at Mobile, from
whence they were sent up the Alabama
river, and will be provided with humane
masters. Is there a philanthropist in the
country who does not wish for the re
mainder of them the same fate ?
Sun Stroke.
The Mobile Mercury of the 11th says :
Evening before last there was a sudden
death occurred, supposed to have result
ed from the effect of sun stroke. The
case was that of a young man by the
name of Sumuierbell, a native of Scot
land, who was clerking in the house of
Slade & Parker. Between 8 and 9 o’clock,
complaining of a severe pain in the head,
he retired for sleep, and was soon dis
covered to be in the agonies of death.—
Coroner Roulston held an inquest over
the corpse yesterday morniDg, when the
above facts were elicited.
On the same evening Dr. Kelley lost u
negro boy from the same cause, and up
to Monday evening there had been from
six to eight cases of sun at Whis
tler. Four horses fell on Monday and
seven perished on the day before, from
the intense heat.
The watchman on duty on the city
tower, elevated away abovethe tops of all
houses in the city, came down at 10
o’clock p. m., with his clothing saturated
with perspiration, and himself exhausted,
so deadly was the calm that prevailed at
that height.
There were twelve deaths from sun
stroke in Charleston during the last week.
A waiter on board the steamship Hunts
ville, died from the same cause at Savan
nah, Thursday afternoon.
New Cotton,
The Galveston News of the 3d instant,
says : The first new cotton brought to
this or any other market in the South, so
far as we have heard, was a bale receiv
ed here this morning by the house of
Nelson Clements, Esq., from Whitney &
Brama, of Lavaca, to be shipped to New
York. This cotton was raised on the
plantation of Judge R. B. Waff'ord, near
Cuero, on the Guadulupe. This is said
to be the third or fourth time Mr. Wafford
has succeeded in sending the first bale of
the season. This, we understand, is ear
lier by five days than any new cotton has
ever before been received in this market.
It is classed as strict middling.
Mr. Collins Paid.
It is stated that Mr. E. K. Collins, the
propritorof the line of steamships which
ran to Liverpool a few years ago, has re
ceived his pay in full, and bis account
with Government is closed. On the last
day of the session of Congress the Post
Office deficiency bill passed, and in it
was a section directing the Secretary of
the Navy to pay to Mr. Collins the sum
of $80,282 72, being the balance, with
interest, due to him on account of money
withheld. A draft for this sum has been
sent to Mr. Collins.
Tlie Executions.
The Montgomery Advertiser of the 14th
says : At about the hour of 12, m., yes
terday, the slaves, Adam and June, con
victed for murdering their master, Alfred
Jones, a few months since, suffered the
extreme penalty of the law, by hanging.
We understand that about six hundred
persons witnessed the horrible spectacle.
Neither one of the unfortunate creatures
made any confession.
Rati Road Accident.
A dispatch from Trenton, New Jersey,
says : The return Owl train, a short dis
tance this side of Bristol, run into a cow
this afternoon, which threw the engine
into the field, and two of the passenger
cars off the track. A fireman named Cox
was killed, and the leg of the engineer
broken. Great excitement existed among
the passengers, but none of them were
hurt. The track is considerably torn up.
♦
Damage to Crops.
The Waynesboro News learns from a
private letter, that the crops on several
plantations in the lower part of Burke
oounty, were much damaged by hail
which fell on the 6th inst. Among the
sufferers, we see the names of Hods. 11.
J. Schley and E. B. Burnett, each of
whom had about one hundred acres of
cotton badly wrecked.
From a letter received by a gentleman
of this place a few days ago, says the
Elyton, Alabamian, from an old citizen
of this county, who now resides in Chero
kee county, Texas, we learn that they
have not had a good season there since
planting time, and that the corn crop is
literally parched up.
The West Florida Enterprise, of the
10th, says : On Thursday evening and
night last, we were visited with a light
but refreshing shower of rain. Crops
are, however, suffering very much in
portions of Jackson county for rain, and
must evidently fall quite short if our far
mers do not get it soon.
The Nashville Union says a man named
Nathan Dempsey was shot with a pistol
in an affray at Carter Depot, on the 29th
ult., by Henry Johnston, a section mas
ter on the East Tennessee aDd Virginia
Rail Road. The wound, which was in
the abdomen, was at first thought to be
mortal, but we learn that Dempsey is now
in a fair way to recover.
The Mobile Mercury learns, through a
note from a friend, that on Friday Mr.
Elijah Padgett, a citizen of the upper part
of Baldwin, while on his way to Gaines
town, was overtaken by a thunder storm
at Mr. W. A. Matthews'plantation, when
he took shelter in a corn crib, and was
soon after struck by lightning, which in
stantly killed him and his horse.
The Selma Issue announces the death
of Mrs. Mary Saffold, which occurred at
her residence in Dallas county, Ala., on
the evening of the sth inst. She was the
widow of the late Hon. Reuben Saffold.
Dr. Thomas Butts, of Sontb&mpton
county, Ya., says the Richmond Dispatch
of the 10th, died the previous week, and
has directed in his will that all his ser
vants, 105 in number, shall be freed, and
appointed L. R. Edwards his Executor.
The Weather and Crops*
The Griffin Democrat of the 12th, says:
For ten or fifteon days past the weatbe/
has been oppressively warm and dry. — i
Several times the thermometer stood from |
98 to 101—evidently the hottest weather
experienced in this latitude for years.—
The prospect for a beautiful corn an i
cotton crop in the earlier part of the
Spring was never better. Since the late
drought set in, and particularly within
the last eight or ten days, the corn cron
has suffered immensely. In many fields
the blades are completely dried up to the
ear, and with but little signs of life at all,
especially in the middle of the day. So
sudden a change in the prospects of farm,
ers for a drop, will certainly tend to
make the people economise and prepare
for the worst. Unless the rains should
descend in a very few days, the corn crop
will undoubtedly but cut short, and in
many instances, prove a total failure.
The Covington Times says : “We have
not even had a shower to cool the atmos
phere for three weeks past, the corn crop
is suffering excessively, the tassels are
nearly all dead, and in many instances
the stalk is dried up for four or five blades
down. The prospect, at the present is
indeed a gloomy one, and unless we have
rain in a few days, there will be an al
most entire failure of. the corn crop in
this section. We understand the cotton
crop is looking well, and gives promise of
an abundant yield.
The Albany Patriot says that in some
of the border counties both in Georgia
and Florida, that the corn crop is com
paratively a failure. So destructive has
been the hail in certain localities that,
we**re informed by Mr. Charles E. Mal
lary, an intelligent planter of this coun
ty, that in one of his fields he will not be
able to gather a bushel to the acre. .
Frightful Tornado.
We were informed by a gentleman this
morning, says the Montgomery Mail, of
12th, that a frightful and dangerous tor
nado passed over the neighborhood of Mr.
Barton Stone, (about 9 miles below the
city) yesterday evening, killing a negro
and blowing down timber, fences, &c.,
and damaging the growing crops to a
great extent. We also learn that there
was another terrible blow a day or two
since between this city and Mount Meigs,
doing great damage to crops, &c.
The Democratic Newspapers.
The Herald of the 9th classifies the
Democratic press of the United States as
follows :
Breckinridge. Douglas.
North 31 141
South 145 21
Total 176 162
The Augusta Constitutionalist says it
has prepared a list of Douglas papers in
the United States, from its exebangt-s,
and claims the names of two hundred
and thirty journals.
Hon. Allen F. Owen.
The Hon. Allen F. Owen resides here,
and weregretted to learn that he has been
stricken down with a powerful paralytic
stroke. Judge Worrell also resides here,
and he is considered one of the ablest cir
cuit Judges we have in our State.
The above we clip from the Editorial
correspondence of the Atlanta Locomo
tive. Unfortunately the gentleman first
named does not reside inTalbotton; but
we sincerely regret to say died several
months ago from paralysis, or our memo
ry is very treacherous.
Oregon Election.
Late advices from Oregon state that
Mr. Logan, Democrat, lies been elected
to Congress from Oregon by 150 majority.
The Legislature stands thus: Democrats
favoring Senator Lane and fusion Demo
crats 21; fusion Republicans 13. This
is according to a Democratic source. It
is believed that it will result in the elec
tion of Mr. Baker, the Republican, and
an anti Lecompton man, to the Senate.
The Dalton Times of the 12th says :
Spring Place and its vicinity was visited,
on Friday last, by a very severe storm
of wind and hail, which did great damage
to fences, crops and fruit. We learn that
in many places the corn was literally rid
dled and beaten to the ground, and ap
ples, peaches and other fruit thrashed
from the trees. The hail stones, wo are
told, were as large as hen’s eggs.
Opelika and Oxford Rati Road.
The Chambers Tribune of Friday says:
The Engineers on our road commenced
last week the survey above town, and
will continue until they reach Oxford;
so our friends above need have no fears
that the road will stop at La Fayette.
It is the intention of the Company to
push the road through as soon as their
means will allow.
The young ladies of Cassville Female
College on the night of the 4th inst., pre
sented their President a beautiful gold
headed cane, suitably engraved, as a
token of their regard for him. On ad
ministering the cane, Miss Julia F. Bev
ill, made a beautiful and affectionate ad
dress to the President, who, on receiving
it, responded in a brief but affecting
style.
*
Roger A. Pryor.
A dispatch from Norfolk, Ya., the Bth,
says: Hon. Mr. Pryor spoke for two
hours at Phoenix Hall last night, defining
his position in regard to the Presidency.
He declared his preference for Breckin
ridge and Lane over all other candidates.
The building was crowded, and there
was great applause for Breckinridge and
Lane.
From the Gallows to a Fortune.
The Prusian, Henry Jumpertz, who so
narrowly escaped the gallows in Chicago,
where he was tried for murdering his
wife and barreling up the body for Now
York, has fallen heir to a vast estate in
Prussia. The Prussiau Consulate at
New York is advertising to ascertain his
whereabouts.
♦
Weather and the Crops.
The Canebrake (Ala.) Gazette of the
6th says : The light showers cf rain that
fell week before last, seemed to have
made not the slightest impression, and
we are sighing for rain, rain, rain. The
corn is, we fear, injured beyond recovery.
♦
Fire.
We were aroused from our bed last
night, about 11 o’clock, by an alarm of
fire, which originated in the cellar under
J. J. Richards & Co’s book-store, which
utterly eonsumed the goods of the same,
and that of Cutting & Stone’s Dry Goods
store, on Decatur street, near the Athen
eum building. The fire was then arres
ted by our energetic and gallant FiremeD,
who deserve great praise. We think these
unfortunate and respected firms should
have the sympathy of our citizens, as they
were among the number who were burned
out on Whitehall street last winter. Loss
estimated at $15,000, upwards. —Atlanta
Locomotive, 13/A.
New Axbast, July 7.—The westward
bound train on the Ohio and Mississippi
Rail Road, this mornipg, ran into a slide,
throwing tfre tender cdjy the track and
delaying the train hours. After
the tender jumped the rail. U>e train ran
about one hundred Mtd&r yards and
across a bridge. The tender was smash
ed to pieces. No os# injured.
The Enquirer and the Sun.
The difference between ourselves and
the Enquirer as to the extent of the news
paper support of Douglas in the South
| being settled, we will turn over theques
| tion whether Breckinridge is strong and
Douglas weak, to be determined by our
cotemporary and the Times, whose pro
per function it is as the recognized organ
of the Democracy of the county and Dis
trict, to discuss that matter. We inter
pret our duty to the public as does the
Enquirer, and we intend as heretofore,
not to doff our neutrality, but to furnish
the reader, if possible, with the move-
all information in our power,
which will indicate the relative strength
of parties in the District and State.—
True, we have our sympathies, and'eon
fess to a deep interest in the triangular
contest in the South, but that will not in
terfere with our faithful reporting of the
progress of the fight. As to questions
affecting any one of the parties we will
leave them to be settled by their respec
tive organs, particularly as the Enquir
er has shouldered Bell and the “ Little
Giant,” the nominees of two of them.
Storm in Soutlx Carolina.
A correspondent of the Charleston Mer
cury gives an account of a storm which
passed through Orangeburg District, iD
that State. It was about five miles in
width and thirty in length, and laid the
cotton fields bare in its course and cut
the corn to fragments. In the upper
part of Charleston District, Mr. Conner’s
crop of corn aud cotton was ruined—the
loss estimated at $3,000. Trees are seen
in every direction strewn upon the earth,
cross and pile, and pile upon pile. Sev
eral houses have been broken down by
the violence of the wind, others unroofed,
flooring boards broken loose, and shingles
thrown from two to three hundred yards
The whole loss by the storm is roughly
estimated to be $50,000.
Heavy Gale.
The Covington Times of the 12th says :
We were visited this evening, at four
o’clock, by a very strong north-westerly
wind, which lasted some fifteen minutes,
damaging fences, shade trees, &c., to a
considerable extent. The wind carried
before it clouds of dust, rendering ob
jects aeross the street invisible. The
roof of W. P. Anderson & Co.’s building
was considerably damaged, and would
have been blown oft - , if means had not
| been applied to prevent it. We learn
that several buildings were unroofed in
Atlanta, among the number, the Western
and Atlantic Depot. North of this city
some ten miles, the wind was accompa
nied by rain and hail in abundance.
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Robbery In Augusta.
We learn from the Augusta Chronicle
that the grocery establishment of Messrs.
Josiah Sibley & Sons, on Warren Block,
was entered on Thursday night last, by
breaking through the window on the sec
ond floor, and about three thousand fine
segars, several boxes of candles, &c.,
carried off. This is the third attempt at
breaking into this store within the last
four weeks, two of which have been suc
cessful. One hundred dollars reward is
offered for the detection of the parties,
with proof to convict.
Five Persons Drowned.
A dispatch from Chicago, the 10th,
states that on the sth inst., Rev. H. M.
Nichols, Pastor of the Congregational
Church atMiuneapolis, his wife and child,
Mr. Clevelaud, his brother in law, And
two daughters, went into Calhoun Lake
for the purpose of bathing, but getting
beyond their depth all were drowned, ex
cepting two, an infant of Mrs. Cleveland
and Rev. Mr. Nichols. The sad occur
rence has thrown a gloom over the com
munity, where the deceased were highly
respected.
Stampede of Mormons.
It is with a feeling of unmitigated sat
isfaction, that we record the proposed
exodus of the Mormons from Utah. The
apostle of deliverance is a martial but
benevolent person of the name of Capt.
Walter M. Gibson. It seems that this
individual, some time ago, matured and
suggested a plan for the immediate emi
gration of the Mormons to Oceanica,
which plan was solemnly approved by
that “only man of God,” Mr. Brigham
Young, and subsequently laid before the
President for his approval. Asa matter
of course the President stated, gently
but firmly, that Mr. Brigham Young
might, for all the Executive cared, take
his Mormons and go to grass with them.
This being somewhat unsatisfactory, the
warlike Gibson came at once to the res
cue, “identified himself with the Mormon
fraternity,” “ made their interests his
own,” and wisely suggested that, as an
alternative, they emigrate to one of the
East India Islands. This proposal was
accepted, and as the report says, “relia
ble information has been received here,
to the effect that the views of Captain
Gibson will be carried out.” We earn
estly hope so. The only difficulty seems
to be, that the “ sweet and commenda
ble” Saints have got some property in
Utah which they want the Government
to buy, and which the Government won’t
buy on any terms. But even this diffi
culty does not seem to be very serious,
for it is said that, if they cannot dispose
of their property, they will abandon it
when arrangements for emigration are
completed. Let them be commended to
this lovely act of fortitude and self
sacrifice May the wind sit in the hol
low of their sails, and the Republic be
relieved of a pestilent nuisance.— New
York Day Book.
Attempted Robbery.
We learn that a very daring robbery
was attempted about five or six miles from
here, at the house of Henry Starling, on
the sth inst. It appears that the scoun
drel was a white man disguised as a ne
gro. The circumstances are these. A
man rode up neatly dressed but disguised
as a negro, having black gloves on, and
called for Mr. Starling. His unsuspect
ing wife told him that he was not at home,
whereupon he walked in the house. She
first handed him an old pocket book, he
searched diligently, and being unable to
find any thing, still insisted on her giving
up the money. She then handed him a
small tin box, and while he was search
ing in it for the money, she stepped back
and snatched a gun, but before she could
get ready to shoot, he was there ready to
turn the muzzle of the gun one side just
at the time Mrs. Starling fired. It how
ever, gave the robber such a fright, that
he immediately fled. It was nothing more
then the self possession of Mrs. Starling
that prevented the robbery.— lroy (Ala.)
Advertiser, 13/A.
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Violent Storm In Alabama.
On Friday evening last a most terrific
gale passed through this section, tearing
up trees by the roots, blowing down fen
ces, prostrating corn, and doing consid
erable damage generally. We have heard
of but one death from the effects of the
wind in this country, though several per
sons very narrowly escaped with their
lives. It is stated that a negro man be
longing to Mr. Thomas Spiers, who lives
near Mount Willing, was killed by the
falling of a tree.
We have heard it said, (though we have
seen no paper, nor do we vouch for its
authority,) that several persons were
killed in Butler county.
The wind threw timber upon the tele
graph wires everywhere, and has broken
them in so many places that it will re
quire considerable time to get them in
working qrder again.— Haynevlile (Ala.)
Chronicle, 12/A.
Merchants’ Shipping Receipts.
▲ new supply, just from the binder’* hand,
neatly ruled and well bound,for sale at the
SUN OVIIGI.
Air. Breckinridge's Letter of Accep
tance.
Washington City, July 6, 1860.
Dear Sit : I have your letter of the 23d
ult., by which lam officially informed of
my nomination for the office of President
of the United States by the Democratic
National Convention lately assembled at
Baltimore.
The circumstances of this nomination
will justify me in referring to its personal
aspect.
I have not sought nor desired to be
placed before the country for the office of
President. When my name was present
ed to the Convention at Charleston, it
was withdrawn by a friend in obedience
to my expressed wishes. My views did
not change when the convention reassem
bled at Baltimore, and when I heard of
the differences which occurred there, my
indisposition to be connected prominent
ly wiih the canvass was confirmed, and
expressed to many’ friends.
Without discussing the occurrences
wh : ch preceded the nominations, and
which are or soon will be well understood
by the country. I have only to say that
I approved, as just and necessary to the
preservation of the national organization
and the sacred right of representation,
the action of the Convention over which
you continued to preside ; and, thus ap
proving it, and having resolved to sustain
it, I feel that it does not become me to
select the position I shall occupy, nor to
shrink from the responsibilities of the
post to which I have been assigned. Ac
cordingly, I accept the nomination from a
sense of public duty, and, as I think, un
influenced-in any degree by the allure
ments of ambition.
I avail myself of this occasion to say
that the confidence in my personal and
public character, implied by the action
of the Convention, will always be grate
fully remembered; and it is but just also
to my own feelings to express my grati
ficetion at the association of my name
with that of my friend General Lane, a
patriot and a soldier, whose great services
in the field and in coutcil entitle him to
the gratitude and confidence of his coun
trymen.
The resolutions adopted by the conven
tion have my cordial approval. They
arejusttoall parts of the Union—to all
our citizens, native and naturalized —and
they form a noble policy for any admin
istration.
The questions touching the rights of
persons and property, which have of late
been much discussed, find in these reso
lutions a Constitutional solution. Our
Union is a confederacy of equal sover
eign States, for the purposes enumerated
iu the Federal Constitution. Whatever
the common government holds in trust for
all the States, must be employed equally
by each. It controls the Territories in
trust for all the States. Nothing less
than sovereignty can destroy or impair
the rights of persons or property. The
Territorial governments are subordinate
and temporary, and not sovereign ; hence
they cannot destroy or impair the rights
of persons or property. While they con
tinue to be Territories, they are under
the control of Congress, but the Consti
tution nowhere confers on any branch of
the Federal Government the power to
discriminate against the rights of the
States or the property of their citizens in
the Territories. It follows that the citi
zens of all the States may enter the Ter
ritories of the Union with their property
of whatever kind, and enjoy it during the
Territorial condition without let or hin
drance, either by Congress or by the sub
ordinate Territorial governments.
These principles flow directly from the
absence of sovereignty in the Territorial
governments and from the equality of the
States. Indeed, they are essential to that
equality which is, and ever has been, the
vital principle of our Constitutional Un
ion. They have been settled legislative
ly—settled judicially—and are sustained
by the right reason. They rest on the
rock of the Constitution. They will pre
serve the Constitution —they will preserve
the Union.
It is idle to attempt to smother these
great issues, or to misrepresent them by
the use of partisan phrases, which are
misleading and delusive. The people will
look beneath such expressions as “In
tervention,” “Congressional slave code,”
and the like, and will penetrate to the
real questions involved. The friends of
Constitutional equality do not and never
did demand a “Congressional slave code,”
nor any other code in regard to property
in the Territories. They hold the doc
trine of non intervention by Congress or
by a Territorial Legislature either to es
tablish or prohibit slavery ; but they as
sert (fortified by the highest judicial tri
bunal to the Union) the plain duty of the
Federal government in all its depart
ments, to secui’e, when necessary, to the
citizens of all the States, the enjoyment
of their property’ in the common Territo
ries. The only logical answer to this
would seem to be to claim sovereign pow
er for the TerrPories, or to deny that the
Constitution recognizes property in tne
services of negro slaves, or to deny that
such property can exist.
Inexorable logic, which works its
steady way through clouds and passion,
compels the country to meet the issue
There is no evasive middle ground. A1
ready the signs multiply of a fanatical
and growing party which denies that un
der the Constitution, or by any other law,
slave property can exist ; and ultimate
ly the struggle roust come between thi*
party and the National Democracy, sus
tained by all the other conservative ele
ments of the Union.
I think it will be impossible for a can
did mind to discover hostility to the Un
ion or a taint of sectionalism in the reso
lutions adopted by the Convention. The
Constitution and the Union repose on the
equality of the States, which lies like a
broad foundation underneath our whole
political structure. As I construe them,
the resolutions simply assert this equali
ty. They demand nothing for any State
or section that is not cheerfully conceded
to all the rest. It is well to remember
that the chief disorders which have af
flicted our country have grown out of the
violation of State equality, and that as
long as this great principle has been res
pected we have been blessed with har
mony and peace. Nor will it be easy to
persuade the country that resolutions are
sectional which command the support of
a majority of the States, and are approv
ed by the bone and body of the old De
mocracy, and by a vast mass of conser
vative opinion everywhere without regard
to party.
It has been necessary more than once
in our history to pause, and solemnly
assert the true character of this Govern
ment. A memorable instance occurred
in the struggle which ended the civil
revolution of 1800. The Republicans of
that day, like the Democracy of this,
were stigmatized as disunionists, but
they nobly conducted the contest under
the Constitution, and saved our political
system. By a like Constitutional strug
gle, it is intended now to assert and es
tablish the equality of the States as the
only basis of Union and peace. When
this object, so national, so constitutional,
so just, shall be accomplished, the last
cloud will disappear from the American
sky, and with common hands and hearts
the States and the people will unite to
develop the resources of the whole coun
try, to bind it together with the bonds of
intercourse and brotherhood, and to impel
it onward in its great career. The Con
stitution and the equality of the States!
These are symbols of everlasting Union.
Let these be the rallying cries of the
people.
I trust that the canvass will be con
ducted without rancor, and that temper
ate arguments will take the place of hot
words and passionate accusations. Above
all, I venture humbly to hope that Divine
Providence, to whom we owe our origin,
, our growth, and all our prosperity, will
continue to protect our beloved country
against all danger, foreigD and domestic.
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE.
Hon. C. Cushing, Pres’t. Dem. Nat. Convention.
We regret to learn that, the continued
illness of our well-known townsman Dr.
Levert makes it necessary that he should
seek relief in traveling. His accomplished
wife, and the family will accompany him.
Their route will be through St. Louis,
Chicago and Detroit, to Niagara Fallp,
and thence to St. Catherine’s Wells, a
famous place in Canada.-— Mobile Tribune.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
New Orleans, July 10.— The Reven
ue Cutter has gone to overhaul the schoon
er J. B. Taylor, from New Orleans to
Central America, with emigrants.
St. Louis, July 9. —Hon. Frank P.
Blair was to day nominated by acclama
tion by the Republicans of the First Dis
trict for Representative in Congress.
Boston, July 7. —Privato letters from
! official sources in England, stale that the |
Prince of Wales will go as far east as
Portland, and as far west as Cincinnati,
in the United States.
Lexington, July 6.— After the adjourn
ment of the Convention of the First Ap
pellate District in Estili, yesterday, com
prising thirty-one counties, Breckinridge
and Lane’s nomination was unanimously
ratified, and Douglas repudiated by the
delegates.
New York, July 9.—this morning ear
ly Mr. Scboonmaker, a German, who
keeps a market garden in Seventh street,
look a load ofvegetables to one of thedown
town markets, leaving his wife and chil
dren in bed. On his return he found the
woman and child lying on the floor of the
room with their throats cut. The child
was quite dead, but the mother still
breathed. The murderer is a workman
of Mr. S.’s named Frank Hoffman, and is
now in custody. He also stole $175.
Albany, New York, Saturday, July 7.
—The rumor of the removal of Col. North,
Special, Agent of the Post-Office Depart
ment, is well founded. Col. North’s re
moval is dated 29th June, immediately
after the Baltimore Convention, but was
not received until yesterday, in couse
quence of his absence in Vermont, where
he was engaged in prosecuting John
Whitcomb, au ingenious mail robber of
Canada, and Boston, and New York
mails. Col. North has been one of the
most efficient officers in the Department
since 1853.
Philadelphia, Penn., Monday, Ju'y9.
—The Pennsylvania member of the Na
tional Douglas Committee has addressed
letters to the State Electors, demanding
their position. It is intended by the
Douglas men to call a State Convention,
either delegate or mass, to fill vacancies
in the Electoral ticket. Mr. Forney an
nounces that Mr. Douglas cordially sus
tains the policy of non-coalition with the
Breckinridgers.
Baltimore, July 13. — Vice President
Breckinridge arrived here to-night from
Washington. He will leave for Old Point
Comfort to morrow, where he will sojourn
for a few days. A number of his politi
cal friends called to see him at Barnum's,
and exchanged congratulations. He ap
peared to be in good spirits.
St. John’s, N. 8., July 13. —The steam
ship City of Baltimore, Capt. Petrie, from
Liverpool for New York, passed off Cape
Race this morning No intelligence was
received from her. The Associated Press’
yacht did not succeed in boarding her,
owing to the heavy fog prevailing.
Washington, July 10 —A rumor pre
vails that Marshal Rynders, of New
York, has been removed on various out
side pretexts, but the real reason being
that he has refused to take ground against
Stephen A. l}ouglas, the regular Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency.
New Orleans, July 10.—A revenue
cutter has gone to overhaul the schooner
J. B. Taylor, which sailed hence to-day
for Central America, with “emigrants.”
She is suspected with being connected
with some filibuster movement.
New York, July q. —The brig General
Bailey, arrived at this port this evening
from St, Mary’s, reports having spoken
on the 7th insfc., the brig W. S. Dresser,
from Savannah for St. John’s, with all
hands sick of fever. The cook was dead,
and two of the crew were not expected to
live.
Philadelphia, July 10. — The trot be
tween Flora Temple and Putchen to-day
was won by the former, Putchen having
been withdrawn after the second heat
Time: Ist heat won by Patchen,
2d heat, won by Flora, 5.015. The spec
tators were very disorderly, clubs, hats,
&c., being thrown at Patchen on the
home stretch in the second heat.
New Orlens, July 11. — the mercury in
i the shade to-day stood at 99 and grees.
Homicide.
On the Bth inst., Edward P>ird, some
fifty years of age and a citizen of thi3
county, charged with having murdered
Dr. B. D Joiner, of Miller county, Ga.,
(which occurred at the residence of Bird,
on the 7th inst.) was incarcerated in the
prison of this county. It is rumored that
the difficulty occurred in the following
manner: Bird’s wife was the mother of
Dr. Joiner by a former husband. He had
come on a visit to her, and had been at
B rd’s house several days prior to the
difficulty, and was the greater portion of
the time intoxicated. On Saturday eve
ning about night, a difficulty occurred
between Dr. Joiner and his brother in
law, who is known as Kennedy alias
Cook, and who lives at the house of Bird.
Dr. Joiner got a gftn and said he would
kill Kennedy; while Kennedy stepped
out of the house and fired a pistol, and
said that if Joiner followed him, he would
kill him. Bird then interfered to quiet
Dr. Joiner, and Kennedy left the premi
ses. Joiner, still anxious to follow him
up, proceeded down the road, accompa
nied by Bird, with a gun between them,
and after going about sixty yards from
the house, the gun fired, and Joiner was
killed dead on the spot —Abbeville [Ala.)
Banner.
♦
Supreme Court Decisions.
Wright Brady, plaintiff in error, vs.
McKee & Roberts—from Sumter county.
Judgment reversed upon the ground that
the Court erred in refusing to charge as
requested, and in giving the first charge
which be did.
John P. Gaulden, plaintiff in error, vs.
Henry D. Shebee—from Decatur county.
Judgment reversed, upon the ground that
the Court erred. Ist. In allowing the
question to which Gaulden objected in
the examination of O’Neal and Crawford.
2d. In charging the jury that Gaulden
was entitled to no reduction of the recov
ery if the land was worth as much as he
agreed to give for it, notwithstanding the
falsehood of the representation, it being
the opinion of this court that he is enti
tied to have the agreed price reduced by
one-half, one-quarter, one tenth, or such
aliquot part of it as the proof snows.—
Macon Telegraph, 13 th.
Under wlilcU King.
An occurrence in one of the interior
counties of New York ludicrously illus
trates the bewilderment into which a
double headed Presidential nomination
throws the office-holders. When the
news of the nomination of Douglas flash
ed the wires a village postmaster sum
moned “the unterrified” to bring out tbo
gun and fire a salute- They had got
about half through the allotted number
of discharges, when a messenger from
the telegraph office informed,, them that
the Seceders had nominated Breckin
ridge. “The and 1 they have,” said
the postmaster. Standing a moment in
a brown study, he shouted, “Boys ! there
is no knowing into whose hands we may
fall. Load for Breckinridge /”
Calamity at St. Joseph, Mo.—Nine
Persons Killed.
A sad calamity occurred on Saturday
at St. Joseph, Mo. Anew four-story .
building in that city, owned and occupied
by Nole, McCord & Cos., wholesalegrocers,
fell at 2 o’clock jSaturday afternoon,
crushing a frame building adjoining, oc
cupied by three families. Nine out of
ten of the occupants were instantly killed
viz : Mrs. Boyce and three children ; Mr!
and Mrs. Cogswell, and four others, whose
names are unknown. The building caught
fire immediately afterwards, and stock of
Nove, McCord & Cos., was consumed. .
The store of Tootles & Fainligh was also
burnt, together with their entire stock of
boots and shoes. The total loss is esti
mated at $20,000.
The Cherokees, we learn, are in arms.
It is said Evan Jones, the abolitionist, and
his son, have fhlisted 2500 full bloods
for a raid. We hear that a requisition
will be made upon the State of Arkansas
to aid in quelling the insurrection. If a
requisition is made upon the Choctaws :
and Cbickasaws it will be responded to |
very promptly by the young men of two ;
nations. —Memphis paper.
From the Cleveland Plaindealer.
Bladensburg Dueling Grounds.
Bladensrleg, June IS
Dear Dealer: —Pistils ami coffee for
two. As lam alone in (his classic ground
I can take care that the pistols do no
harm, and the coffee is harmless anyhow.
The place, so noted fur its polite aiul re
find murders, is about five mijes from the
city, fresh and handsome, iu full livery
of green, adorned with flowers, and
| should blush iu its beauty for the scenes
lit has witnessed. Here, in a beautiful 1
little grass plat, surrounded by trees,
forms, made after the image of God, come
to insult Nature and defy Heaven. In
1814 Edward Hopkins was killed here in !
a del. This seemed to have been the
first of thsse fashionable murders on this
dueling-ground.
In 1819, A T. Mason, a United States j
Senator from Virginia, fought with his
sister’s husband, John McCarty, bore. —
McCarty was averse to fighting, and
thought there was no necessity tor it; but
Mason would fight. McCarty named
muskets loaded with grape-shot, and so
near together that they would hit heads
if they fell on their faces. This was
changed by the seconds to loading with
bullets, and taking twelve feet as the dis
tance. Mason was killed instantly, and
McCarty, who had his collar bone bro
ken, still lives with Mason’s sister in
Georgetown. His hair turned white so
soon after the fight as to cause much
comment. ( He has since been solicited
1 to act as second in duel, but refused in
accordance with a pledge he made to his
wife soon after killing her brother.
In 1820, Commodore Decatur was kill
ed in a duel here’by Commodore Barron.
At the first fire both fell forward with
their heads within ten feet of eacli other,
and as each supposed himself mortally
wounded, each fully and freely forgave
the other, still laying on the ground. —
Decatur expired immediately, but Bar
ron eventually recovered
In 1821, two strangers named Lega and
Sega appeared here, fought, and Sega was
instantly killed. The neighbors only
learned this much of their names from
the marks on their gloves left on the
ground. Lega was not hurt.
In 1822, Midshipman Locke was killed
here by a clerk of the Treasury Depart
ment, named Gibson. The latter was not
hurt.
In 1826, Henry Clay fought (his second
duel) with John Randolph, just across the
Potomac, as Randolph preferred to die, if
at all, on Virginia soil, received Clay’s
shot and then fired into the air. This
was in accordance with a declaration
made to Mr. Benton, who spoke to Ran
dolph of a call the evening before on Mrs
Clay, and alluded to the quiet sleep of her
child and the repose of the mother. Ran
dolph quickly replied :
“ I shall do nothing to disturb the
sleep of the child or the repose of the
mother.”
General Jessup, whose funeral I at
tended last week, was Clay’s second.—
When Randolph fired he remarked :
“ I do not shoot at you Mr. Clay,” and
extending his hand, advanced toward
Clay, who rushed to meet him. Ran
dolph showed Clay where his ball struck
his coat, and said, facetiously, “Mr. Clay
you owe me a coat.”
Clay replied :
“ Thank God the debt is no greater.”
They were friends ever after.
In 1832, Martin was killed by Carr. —
Their first names are not remembered. —
They were from the South.
In 1833, Mr. Key, son of Frank Key,
and brother of Barton Key, of Sickles no
! toriety, met Mr. Sherborn and exchanged
! a shot, when Sherborn said :
1 “ Mr. Key, I have no desire to kill
you.”
“No matter,” said Key, “I came to
kill you.”
“ Very well, then,” said Sherborn, “I
will now kill you,” and he did.
In 1838, W. J. Graves, of Kentucky,
assuming the quarrel of James Watson
Webb with Jonathan Cilley, of Maine,
selected this place for Cilley’s murder,
but the parties learning that Webb, with
two friends, Jackson and Merrell, were
armed and in pursuit, for the purpose of
assassinating Cilley, moved toward the
river and nearer the city. Their pursu
ers moved toward the river but missed
the parties, and then returned to the city,
to which they were soon followed by
Graves and the corpse of Cilley.
In 1845, a lawyer named Jones fought
with and killed a Dr. Johnson. In 1851,
R. A. Hoole and A. J Dallas had a hos
tile meeting here. Dallas was shot in
;he shoulder, but recovered. In 1852,
Daniel and Johnson, two Richmond edi
tors, held a harmless set to here, which
terminated in coffee. In 1853. Davis and
Ridgeway fought here ; Ridgeway al
lowed his antagonist to fire without re
turning the shot.
Acceptance of Mr. Breckinridge,
New York, July 9.— Mr. Breckinridge’s
acceptance of the nomination for the
Presidency will be published to morrow.
It is quite lengthy. He says he has not
sought nor desired to be placed before
the country for the office of President.
He then expresses approval of the action
of the Convention which nominated him,
and says it does not become him to shrink
from the responsibility of the post to
which he has been assigned. He holds
to the doctrine of non intervention by
Congress or a Territorial Legislature,
either to establish or prohibit slavery in
the Territories, and the plain duty of the
Federal Government, when necessary, to
secure to the citizens of all the Slates the
enjoyment of their property within the
common Territories, as everything else,
within their jurisdiction. He concludes
by expressing the hope that the canvass
may be conducted without rancor, and
that Divine Providence will continue to
protect our beloved country from all dan
ger, both foreign and domestic.
Heroism Possible to All.
All human souls have wrapped up in
them, wonderful energies ; but these en
ergies are all needed, and can all be nobly
exercised in any sphere of operation
where God’s all-wise providence places
their possessors. No truly intelligent
man despises his own sphere or the sphere
of any fellow-man. The immortal facul
ties of human nature find scope every
’ where, and reward an honor every where,
j when the grand plan of God is appre
i bended and entered into with cordial
faith. In the army of Cromwell every
j Ironside felt himself to be performing an
indispensable part, and never felt de
pressed by the conceit that he was nobody.
Much more ought this to be the case iu
j the great army of the world and the
: church, for interlinked with one another
as we are, each of us in ordinary life has
a sphere full of infinite interests to be
promoted by endeavors which have far
more independence than the operations
of any literal army. There is not one of
us that may not in the world warfare
form a character and perform exploits
which, in the public opinion of heaven,
will be deemed heroic and even god-like.
Death of B. F. Perry, Jr.
It is with painful feelings that we make
the melancholy announcement of the
death of Midshipman B. F. Perry, Jr., a
son of Hon. B. F. Perry, of this place
But a few years since he left our commu
nity for the purposo of entering the U.
S. Naval School at Annapolis, Md. There
i he had attained the position of Midship
man, when he was compelled, by severe
indisposition, to return to his home,
where he expired this morning We join
our regrets with tnose of the community
| generally. Greenville Patriot.
Arrested.
Thomas Wright, charged with the kill
; >ng of Lane, on the night of the fourth of
j July, was arrested at 12 o’clock, on Mon
i day night. We learn that he was con
cealed under a house at the corner of Ann
and Harrison streets, and after making a
fruitless attempt to escape, gave himself
up to the police. He was brought yes- j
terday before justice Felt, who commit
ted him to jail to await further investi
gation.—Sav. Republican, Vlth.
The Elyton Alabamian says that an
1 affray took place at a barbecue near Mr.
; Scott’s grocery, on the 4th instant, in
which Mr Wm. Lacy was seriously stab
bed. The cause of the affray, as usual,
was the too free use of bad whisky.
Mr. Willis in the Home Journal thus
describes M. Bloodin'? passage over the
Niagara river in the character of an In
dian chief.
“After being dressed in his flesh-colored
tights, wampum apron, bead necklace
and moccasins, he came out (wiih j,jy
particularly uncoined sandy hair uncov
ered as yet by its crown of feathers), to
look a little into the arrangements i or
his performance. For fifteen or twenty
i minutes the little Tecumseh was hopping
about, trying the cords wh.cii held the
ropes to the stanchiors, cocking the pi s .
tol which was to be fired to announce his
return, giving directions for the iriusi c
binding the ligatures of his balance pole
and answering very merrily all the jokes
and questions of the looker-on. In his
motions, back and forward, lie took no
regular step :he simply bounded. Like
a child’s soap-bubble, the difficulty seemed
to be to get toJ.be ground— to keep from
floating away. During all this time, 0 f
course, I had the desired opportunity f 0 *
the study of his face. It was one which
nineteen people out of twenty, on seeini;
it iu a crowd, would pass over as wholly
uninteresting—the twentieth and more
observant man civing him a good look, as
one of the most coolly determined and
honestly spunky little fellows he had ever
seen. The top of his skull, of course, is
very high with his bump of firmness. His
cheek-bones are prominent, his nose
straight and with thin expanded nostrils,
his lips thin and firm, his cheeks hollow
and pale, and he wears a sandy mustache
and imperial— a la Louis Napoleon.
Though anything but a beauty, he is a
man it is impossible not to take a fancy
to. Retiring to his shanty for a minute
or two, after all was arranged, his reap
pearance was announced by a grand
utmost-iana from the band, and forward
came Tecumseh, with a high crown of
many colored feathers on his head not
with a slow pace, as would be expected
from an Indian Chief, but dancing a jicr
all the way to the precipice. It was cm
rious, however, to see that the smile on
his lips, and his other signs of merriment
for the many, were altogether mechanical
and artificial, while the closely-pressed
eyelid through which his keen blue eye
was hardly visible, showed the inner
mind’s utter absorption and concentra
tion in the work he had to do. The rope
was drawn from shore to shore, eight
hundred feet across, and two hundred and
fifty feet high over the Niagara rapids
a perilous bridge for human feet to walk!
I took hold of his arms as he stood trying
the rope for a moment with the ball of
his foot. It was like a bunch of iron
wire, wholly unimpressible. And away
he went—his moccasined feet hugging
the two sides of the swaying cable, his
balance poll playing up and down, and
his little figure gradually diminishing as
he walked steadily on and reached the
middle of the chasm, where he proceeded
to stand upon one leg and hold the other
out at right angles. The spectators, of
course, were all breathlessly silent;
though I found it much more breathless
to think of afterward than to see done.
He did it with such apparent ease and
certainty, that it was like seeing a bird
fly or a spider walk the ceiling—not to be
wondered at for that kind of creature.
I am inclined to think it would be more
startling (better enabling one to imagine
himself in the performer’s place) if he
were to do it in common clothes. Looking
scarcely larger than a butterfly as he
reached the opposite shore, Blondin re
mained fifteen or twenty minutes out of
sight, and then the pislol was fired to an
nounce his return. He came quietly on
to the centre, where he stopped to lie
down at full length on the rope, and ex
ecute various postures and gymnastics;
and, between this and his reaching our
shore again, he made several pretended
trips, as if losing his balance—the screams
of the affrighted ladies, at this, very com
ically varying the tune which was being
endeavored by the band. As he came up
the slant of the rope again, I saw that his
lips were tightly drawn together and his
features were rigidly set with the mental
exertion, and it was an expression of face
that would be worth painting as a type of
determined will. Though all the anxiety
of a spectator’s suspense, I could not help
admiring the little man exceedingly, and
I was the first to give him a hand as he
stepped on the cliff. It was a coldclam
my grip that he gave me in return, and
his fingers felt icy and wet. Everybody
who could reach him gave him a shake of
the hand on his way to the shanty, and
the enthusiasm for him seemed universal.
And so ended ‘the show’ of a human life
put fearfully in peril! Mr. Blondin, I
was afterward told, has a wife and several
children, and resides at Niagara, having
adopted it as his theater of performance.
His professional profits amount to ten
thousand dollars a yen - .”
From the Columbia Guardian.
Correspondence.
Edmund Ruffin, Esq., the staunch sup
porter of the constitutional rights of tbe
South, has sent to each of the Southern
States one of John Brown’s pikes, as n
memento of the feelings which his raid
indicated in a large portion of the free
soil States. We take pleasure in laying
before our readers the correspondence
hetween Gov. Gist and Mr. Ruffin, upon
the occasion of the latter transmitting to
South Carolina her quota of these nefari
ous implements of death. We trust that
our people will yet, out of this letter dan
ger, pluck the flower safety.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 10, 1859.
To His Excellency W. 11. Gist, Governor of
South Carolina :
Sir—Permit me to present to the State
of South Carolina, through you, its Chief
Magistrate, one of the pikes which were
sent from the North to arm negro slaves,
and to be imbrued in the blood of the
whites of tbe South, in the designed and
expected general insurrection which the
Northern Abolitionists bad planned, and
recently and fruitlessly attempted to ex
cite and commence the practical execu
tion of at Harper’s Ferry.
It is requested that this weapon may
be placed in some conspicuous position
in the State House of South Carolina,
there to remain and be preserved, as
abiding and impressive evidences of the
fanatical hatred borne by tbe dominant
Northern party to tbe institutions and
people of the Southern States, and of the
unscrupulous and atrocious meansresort
ed to for the expected attainments of the
objects in view.
Very respectfully,
EDMUND RUFFIN, of Virginia.
Washington, June 17.—P. S —The
long delay since the foregoing was writ
ten, was unavoidable. The pike has
now been* placed in the care of A. P*
Calhoun, Esq., who will deliver it soon.
Executive Department, 1
Unionville, S. C., July 5,1860. \
Edmund Ruffin, Esq. —Dear Sir : Your
letter of the 16th December, 1859, has
been handed me by Col. A. P. Calhoun,
and tbe pike, presented through me to the
State of South Carolina, shall be put at
the disposal of our Legislature next win
ter, and 1 have no doubt but your wishes
to have it placed in “some conspicuous
place in the State House of South Caro
lina,” will be respected and carried out
Permit me to say, however, that South
Carolina will hardly forget the “ fanati*
cal hatred borne by the dominant North
ern party to the institutions and peop e
of the Southern States, of the unscrupu
lous and atrocious means resorted to for
the expected attainment of the objects * n
view,” although no pikes were actuary
used within her borders.
Accept my thanks, And the thanks °‘
the State, for this mmiento of Souther 11
wrongs, too long and too patiently borne.
With great respect,
I am yours, &c.,
WM. H. GIbT.
Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia.
Sad and Fatal Accident.
Wft learn that a son of Mr. Grace, lt vlD °
near Bell’s Landing, in Monroe coun'D
met with a shocking death on Tburs -y
last in the following manner: he a'- 1
younger brother were out squirrel bun
ing, and while getting over a fence 1 ’
gun became entangled in some way a
went off, discharging the whole loa 1
one of bis eyes, passing out at the t°P
his head, killing him, of coarse, inct iu
ly. —Camden {Ala.) Register.