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£hc i’ilot.
G. A. MILLER, Editor.
TI [< ) M ASTON, GA.
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Saturday Morning, October 8, 1859.
EUrutl from Senator Iverson’s Speech
at <*ril!iii.
“Tin* loss of Kansas to the South was the legitimate
and inevitable fruit of the ‘squatter sovereignty’ ele
ments of the Kansas-Nobrasha bill, os construed and
enforced by its Northern authors and friends.*’
The Election and Returns.
The election is over anil the returns ex
hibit,"that the Opposition have been licked
to immortal smashes, and “catawampous
]y” chawed up by the fierce Democratic.—
Jos. E. Brown (who we suppose is a rela
tion of the late Governor or one of the
family of Brown) is elected by an” increas- j
ed majority, and Hardeman from this Dis
trict and Hon. Jos. Hill, of the 7th District,
are the only Opposition Members elect
ed to Congress. The Legislature is large
ly Democratic. We have only to say as
the fellow said to the maggots in his cheese,
if you, the people can stand Democracy,
we, will try to undergo all its pains and
penalties. We will too, huzza for the
American Eagle, “pitch in” and whip cre
ation, tear a hole in our pants so that our
nether garment can work through, sing
Hail Columbia and
Yankee Doodle come to town,
To buy a quart of ‘lasses,
Yankee Doodle took a swear
lie saw ten million asses.
It will be seen from the Official vote be
low that old Upson has done well. We
are thankful for small favors, then “crow
Chapman, crow !”—coekadoodle-do ! !
I*. S. A\ e will take it as an especial fa
vor if our friends will not say Election
news to us until alter our next issue. In
our present state of feeling, we wish no
temptations thrown in the way of our Ed
itorial veracity, and when sorely tried and
afflicted, even, an Opposition Editor might
aflord an example of that saying of Shakes
peare—“o ! how this world is given to ly
ing !” We wish not to be tempted—that’s
all.’ We have no surplus virtue to boast
about like Gov. Brown and <he Democrat
ic Editors.
Official Vote of Upson County.
>■ E3 30 3 K
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PBBCIKCTS ~ I* .* £
p 2
Town - - 215 350 339 210 411 401
Flint. - - 10 43 45 0 50 50
Jug. - - 81 77 70 28 81 91
Hoofensville. 28 41 41 26 38 38
U. Hill - - 12 47 40 10 48 49
Total. - - 206 558 553 202 628 620
Ulr. Toombs’ True Position—. Hr. Doug
las.
The position of Hon. Robert Toombs
upon squatter sovereignty, lias been mis
understood bv the people and many of his
own friends. We trust that he may be
put right and that justice may be done
him. He has been quoted all over the
State as a Douglas man—that this gentle
man was his choice for the Presidency.—
We have never believed tlie rumor, but
always gave the Senator more credit for
patriotism and devotion to his section.—
Mr. Toombs spoke Thursday, the 21st
inst., at Cuthbert, Ga. The Lumpkin
Palladiitrn thus notices his views upon the
Kansas question, to-wit :
He next examined the Ivansas-Nebraska
bill, which he prized highly for its non-in
tervention principle. Mr. Toombs warmly
advocated the doctrine of non-intervention
on the part ol Congress in the domestic
affairs of the Territories. He differed es
sentially with Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, as
regards theconstruction of the Kansas bill.
H e was emphatic, and wished to be under
stood upon this point. He was with Doug
las, and fought by bis side against the in
tervention of the federal government with
slavery in the Territories, and spoke in
forms of praise of the Illinois Senator’s
course in 1854 ; but did not hesitate to
say that he was radically opposed to Doug
las’s belief that the Territorial legislature
could in any wav abolish or injuriously af
fect the institution ot slavery.
We clip the above from the Columbus
Daily Times of the 3d inst. We think
the position of Mr. Toombs on squatter
sovereignty and Douglas is better under
stood by the people than by either tlie
Times or Palladium. The Times says if
Toombs is a “Douglas man” that lie is not
worthy of credit for patriotism aud devo
tion to the South. The Palladium says
Mr. Toombs differed essentially with Mr.
Douglas, as regards his construction of the
UPSOIff PILOT, THQBIASTOHF, GA,
Kansas bill. We propose to show from
Mr. Toombs’ own mouth that, he is a
“Douglas man” and that there is no dif
ference essential, or otherwise, between
Douglas and Toombs as regards their con
struction of the Kansas bill.
As an abstract question, Mr. Toombs
and Mr. Douglas differ as to whether the
sovereignty of the Territories exists in Con
gress, or the squatters of a Territory. Mr.
Toombs contends that the jurisdiction of
Congress over Territories is exclusive and
O
paramount —but says he in speaking of the
Kansas bill :
“ I consider it wise, prudent, and politic to settle tlie
question against our known enemy, (Congress) even if
1 left it unsettled as to our known friends (the people
of the Territories). We could not settle the question
of the power of the people over slavery, while in a
Territorial condition, because the Democracy differed
on that point and whenever the Democracy differ, we
have hut small hope from the Opposition even of the
South.”
Mr. Douglas contends that the people of
a Territory, like those of a State, (to use
the language of Mr. Buchanan in his letter
of acceptance,) have the right to decide for
themselves whether slavery shall or shall
not exist within their limits. It will be
seen that Mr. Douglas believes the power
to exclude slavery from the Territories be
longs to the people of the Territories, while
Mr. Toombs to accommodate his friend
Douglas is willing to give up his little con
stitutional scruples about all such small
principles as Congressional protection be
cause the “ Democracy differ on that point”
and permit free negroes, Fegees, Turks,
Chinese and the rest of mankind (under
the comprehensive words “free inhabi
tants”) to fix the status of slavery in op
position to bis convictions and our known
rights. Wilmot believed his proviso was
constitutional —Douglas believes squatter
sovereignty constitutional—but we have a
Georgia United States Senator ready to
yield his constitutional convictions of duty
to benefit every body rather than bis own
native South, simply as be says because the
“Democracy differ on that point /” We
are really at a loss to know which most to
condemn, the corruption of such a princi
ple, the effrontery of their utterance or the
weakness of the reasons and excuse.
The Palladium says “Mr. Toombs dif
fered essentially with Mr. Douglas as re
gards his construction of the Kansas bill.”
Mr. Toombs in his Augusta speech deliver
ed on theßth of September last, says:
:: This act is still assailed by the Opposition on two
grounds, Ist.: They alledge that it acknowledges the
constitutional right of the people of the Territories,
through the territorial legislature, to establish or pro
hibit slavery at their own pleasure. 2d. : Because it
abdicates the power of Congress to protect slave pro
perty in the territories, until such Territories are ad
mitted into the Union. But not only the Opposition
make the first charge, hut a few Democrats have united
with them in it. among whom I regret to see my collea
gue lias enrolled himself, and 1 am thus compelled to
defend the action of the Deinociatic party and my own,
not only against the assaults of the Opposition, hut
against those of one of its own chosen leaders. The
hill vindicates itself from the charge; upon the subject
of slavery it contains no doubtful word, phrase or sen
tence. So careful were its framers on this point, that
in order to prevent the perversion of its meaning, a
clause was inserted in it construing it for friends and
foes, which led to the charge by Col. Benton, that we
had “injected a stump speech into his belly.” And I
aver that the charge that it never had two constructions,
or that any two persons who voted for it ever placed
different constructions upon any single sentence in it,
is wholly untrue, as far as my own knowledge or infor
mation extends.’”
So it seems that Mr. Toombs according
to Toombs could not have differed with Mr.
Douglas as to the construction of the Kan
sas bill—for lie says, the bill never had
two constructions. It was intended first
and last to enable aliens and squatters by
unfriendly legislation to kill off slavery in
the Territories in direct antagonism to the
decision of the United States Supreme
Court.
Is Mr. Toombs a “Douglas man ?” The
Times is not disposed to believe the “ru
mor” even clown to the clay of the late elec
tion, although Mr. Toombs defined bis po
sition on the Bth of September. The “ru
mor” was certainly slow in reaching Colum
bus ! —or the Times is far behind the times.
Probably your clock has run down, for Mr.
Toombs is reported in the Constitutionalist
to have said of Mr. Douglas on the Bth of
September —
’ He is at full liberty to take either side he chooses,
and if he maintains his ancient ground of neither mak
ing or accepting new tests of political soundness, I
shall still consider him a political friend, and will ac
cept him as the representative of the party whenever it
may tender him; and in the meantime if he should
even wander alter strange gods. Ido not hesitate to
tell you that with his errors 1 prefer him, and would
support him to-morrow against any Opposition man in
America.”
So it appears that Mr. Toombs is willing
to accept Mr. Douglas with all bis present
errors and bug him to his bosom though he
“even hereafter should wander after strange
gods/ Right or wrong, let Douglas take eith
er side he may choose, Toombs and Douglas
like the Siamese Twins are one and insep
erable—now aud forever. Democracy is
great and these political Chang-Eng’s are
its Prophets !
We annex the following remarks of the
Charleston Mercury a Democratic Paper
upon Toombs late Position. The Mercu
ry says :
Thu b\ M”. Tfoinh - statement of the ■■'orgnuiza- 1
tion ol the Democratic party,” there is no harrier what
ever to its indentificalton with the Black Republican
party. This party is built upon the policy of exclud
ing the South from our territories. If this is to be an
open question with the organization of the Demoe%tic
party, it may he converted into the Black Republican
party any inornii gos the year. And so insignificant
are the rights of the South in our territories, that they
are not only unworthy of any regard in the organiza
tion of parties, hut Mr. Toombs will support Mr. Doug
las —the man who, in the Senate, voted tor the Wilmot
Proviso—the opponent, then the supporter of squatter
sovereignty—one of the chief agents in swindling the
South out of California'—and who occasioned, in the
last Congress, the rejection of Kansas as a slave State
from the Union—the falsifier andgarbler of history to
maintain his anti-slavery policy!—lie will support this
man against any Opposition man in America !! Who are
these Opposition men in Georgia, whom he deems so
untrustworthy, when compared with Stephen A. Doug
las 1 Why, they are the men who first cherished him
and placed him in political jarsition—who sent hint to
Washington as their representative, and supported him
for years in this place of influence and honor.”
ELECTION RETURNS.
Chatham. —Brown’s maj., 98 —Love’s
47. No opposition for the Legislature.
Richmond. —Akin, 1110 ; Brown, 898 ;
Wright, 1803 : Jones, 919. Opposition,
elected to the Legislature.
Bulloch. —Brown gains 100.
Effingham. —Akin gains G 7.
DeKalb. —Akin, 284 ; Brown, 723 ;
Gartrell, elected. Opposition, elected to
the Legislature.
Walton. —Akin, 522 ; Brown, 594.
Newton. —Brown, 7GO : Akin, 714 ;
Harper, elected. Jones, Henderson and
Stewart, elected to the Legislature.
Reported Majorities for Brown.— ln
Coweta, 377 ; Campbell, 300 ; Whitfield,
270.
Reported gains for Akin —ln Cobb,
200 ; Cass, 200 ; Floyd, 250.
Fulton. —Akin, 1115 ; Brown, 1191 ;
Gartrell, 899 ; Wright, 1225.
Spalding.— Brown, 515 ; Akin, 445 ;
Speer, 474 ; Hardeman, 445. Democrats,
elected to the Legislature.
TALBOT—OFFICIAL.
FOR governor.
Brown, ----- 494.
Akin, ----- 579.
for congress.
Speer, ----- 492.
Hardeman, - 554.
tor the senate.
Smith, (dem.) - 548.
Mathews, (opp.) - 477.
FOR the house.
Brown, (dem.) - 487.
Smith, do. - 485.
McCrary, (opp.) - 544.
Lumsden, do. - - - 518.
Muscogee. —Akin, 853 ; Brown, 747 ;
Crawford, 749 ; Douglass, GB2 ; Bethune,
139 ; Senator—Holt, 7G9 ; Dawson, 753 •
Representatives.—Mott, 72G ; Howard,
753 ; Dixon, 754 ; Williams, 792.
The Enquirer says about this election :
“Among the most active and influen
tial opponents of our ticket were a Demo
cratic United States Senator, Judge of the
Supreme Court, and Ex-Representative in
Congress, besides Gen. Bethune running as
an independent candidate for Congress.—
We wish it understood throughout the
State, that the election of the Democratic
candidates for the Legislature wasstrongly
urged on the ground that it was necessary,
in the interest of Senator Iverson, to elect
men who would be qualified to go into a
Democratic caucus, and that Mr. Iverson
actively exerted himself in the support of a
ticket thus running. He has thus com
mitted his fortunes to a party caucus, and
by the act excluded t hose Opposition mem
bers who may be inclined to support him.
It remains to be seen whether the Iverson
Democrats will have a clear majority in
the Legislature, tor on that contingency
alone, we opine, depends the re-election of
a Senator who has committed his political
fortunes to their exclusive guardianship ”
May they all be Suspended.— We
perceive that among the many very fanci
ful novelties recently introduced in ladies*
apparel, is anew article of suspenders. —
They bear resemblance to those worn by
gentlemen, except that they are made of a
delicate white elastic fabric, with trilled
edge about one inch wide, and arc attach
ed to the skirts by buttons in like manner.
It is certainly better for a lady to have
the weight of her attire bearing upon her
shoulders than upon her hips. Vive les
Suspenders !—Richmond Enquirer.
We have anew fashion here. A few
days ago we accidently beard of anew use
for newspapers. The idea is a novel one,
and we give it for what it is worth. One
of the fair sex remarked, in our hearing,
that many young ladies now used newspa
pers in place of the “Tunic Corset.” by
placing four or five together, in an oblique
position, tying a string to each end, and
adjusting the papers around the waist. It
is said they answer the purpose for which
they were intended first rate, that is, ma
king a good bustle, at a small expense.—
The inventor, we understand, designs tak
ing out “letters patent” for the benefit es
those who feel any interest m the latest
styles and fashions of the day. No doubt,
if she will let the art of making he known,
she may be able to drive a good business.
Griffin Empire State.
We object to the new Griffin fashion. —
Firstly, because newspapers are such tell
tales—Secondly, because the waists of
beautiful young ladies should be encircled
by something lietter than perhaps a roll of
old dirty Democratic newspapers. Pah.’
C A n ounce of civet good apothecary to sweeten
mij imagination/ Ed. Pilot.
For the Upron Pilot.
EUGENIA.
FOr the Little Girls who read the Pilot.
“Oh! what a world of beauty fades away .
With the wing’d hours of youth.”
• Yet why should death l>e link'd with fear!
A single breath—a low drawn sigh—
Can break the ties that bind us here,
And waft the spirit to the sky.”.
Eugenia, was the name of a little girl of
three years old, when I formed the acquain
tance of her mother, a charming and love
ly woman. Eugenia was her youngest
child, and only daughter, and the object
on which were centered the highest hopes
of her parents. And seldom do we find
one so intelligent, attractive and interest
ing as she, at the age of three.
Her eyes were large and of a soft azure
hue; around her well developed head,
hung in rich profusion, ringlets of a gold
en tint. Her skin was of a pearly white,
excepting her cheeks, which rivaled the
blushing roses, she so much delighted to
collect and form into sweet bouquets for
her mother or some other female friend.—
Such gifts were the offering of a heart as
free from the taints of this sinned-stained
earth, as the delicious odors they imparted
to the atmosphere in which they grew.
Many persons were attracted towards
her by her affability, gentleness and ideas
ing appearance ; she was courteous alike,
to the rich and poor, by which means she
attained universal favor. And often, at
the solicitations of the neighbors, she
would go and spend several days with
them, always making herself tit home
wherever site chanced to be thrown.
Years passed away, and the little infant
feet had reached the end of the “rosy lawn
of childhood,” from the cradle to the grave ;
here friendship wove for her many gar
lauds off the flowers of affection growing in
the bower of love ; near and dear to her
were her little schoolmates, and many lit
tle acts of kindness, prompted by love were
readily performed by her. Her parents
conscious of the importance of due atten
tion to the culture of the finer feelings of
their child, encouraged her in the forma
tion of permanent friendship, and for the
accomplishment of this object they prom
ised her a party, to be attended by all the
school girls. The time appointed was to
be her birthday ; the early flowers of Spring
had just began to yield to the influence of
the warmer rays ol the sun ; here and there
a modest head was slightly raised, with its
half expanded petals looking as though
they feared that old Winter, reluctant’ to
depart still lingered, angry at the appear
ance of lovely Spring might manifest his
displeasure by destroying her earliest her
alds. The day was delightful for the sea
son, and due preparation had been made
for the occasion. And when Eugenia re
turned from school she was accompanied
by many smiling faces, all anticipating a
great deal of pleasure. Supper was soon
announced, Eugenia presided at the luxu
rious table, which was very tastefully ar
ranged, and around which were assembled
a happy group of the fairest poition of
creation, —innocent children. She was ar
rayed in a light pink muslin robe, with
her arms bare, and neck with the excep
tion of that portion concealed by her curls.
Her mother with great diguity stood in
one corner of the apartment, fjndly gaz
ing on, and noticing the queenly bearing
ot her child, little thinking that ere the
anniversary of that day rolled around, that
those nimble little leet would have com
pleted their life journey—that her sweet
musical laughter would cease ere that day
came. Happily indent is it for us, that
we can only know our past and present
fate. One morning, less than a year after
the evening of the party, Eugenia was ta
ken seriously ill, the sudden and severe at
tack alarmed her parents who procured
medical aid as early as possible. But all
in vain, nothing could arrest the progress I
of disease; the fearful presentiment that
life was drawing to a close, seized on her
parents —the hurried breathing, sunken
and glaring eyes, and the anxious look of
the physician spoke it but too truly, long
before his lips could utter words, convey- i
ing such distress to the troubled parents.
While her darling child lay struggling
with the glim monster, tin* despairing
mother walked the flour wringing her hands
hut no murmur escaped, no words distrus
ting God’s mercy and forbearance, were
uttered by her. Silently she bore the dis
pensation of Him whose commandments
she endeavored to keep as the rule of her
life.
Now my little friends, to-day perhaps
you arc as promising as Eugenia was on
the eve of her birthday’s party, like her
you are the light of home, the pride ofyour
parents, (as ail children are or should be)
hut before another year, you may be placed
by the angel whom God has commissioned
to gather choice flowers to adorn the court
where He eternally reigns, in the same
heavenly vase with Eugenia. Then be
kind and obliging to those around you
that like her you may he loved on earth,
and have your memory warmly cherished
when you have gone to the spirit land.
ALMA. !
Dying Decently.— Our young spriglit- .
ly friend of the LuGrange Reporter, closed ;
the canvass with a “few words in sober
ness.” We were glad to see one of the
Opposition journals coining down to that (
point before the day of election. —Macon
Telegraph , 4 th, inst.
W e would have been glad to see one of
the Democratic journals going up to the
point of speaking a few words both of
tr soberness* and truth. Ed. Pilot.
For the Upson Pilot.
Montpelier 3lu;siiiss.
KY LBOLA.
. memory ! How dark, how dreary,
and desolate would earth he without thy
unfading light !• Friends long cherished,
soul thrilling glances, and fond words
would pass away from the heart like wave
washed letters from the sand, leaving there
no moments of the past, no heart-worship
ped image on which to muse in the dark
hours of sadness. Montpelier 1 lam wan*
tiering backward to the dreamy days of
yore, when childish footsteps softly brush
ed the morning dew from these lowly
shrubs and flowers, and oh ! I would not
if I could, keep back these holy tears that
are resting on my cheek. No, let me weep
while all is silent around me, for it is sweet
to be alone iu this hallowed spot, where no
rude voice dare break the solemn stillness,
and to dream while gazing on the old fa
miliar haunts, of those who once roamed
with me there.
The tall trees as they are swayed to and
fro by the lirst winds of October seem to
cry “change ! change ! change !” and the
little birds above me echo in the same sad
strain.
“Ah ! I dream again of those who then,
Replied to friendship’s call,
Rut oh ! how strange, to see the change,
That time brings over all!”
Yes, time has brought many a change
over this Paradise of Beauty, and the
friends who were wont to assemble at twi
light around this moss grown tree are
where ? One rosy cheeked girl in particu
lar comes before me in all the sunlight of
her dazzling beauty, one whose every word
and look was to me a dream of joy, and it
seems we are together again on the old
bridge, where I am listening as she reads
aloud “thoughts that breathe and words
that 1)1101’’ from our favorite author. Oh,
Susie ! Our school days are over, the wild,
free and careless ways of childhood have
departed, and we are ushered into the
world’s gay circle, with the hollow wreath
of fashion around ns, yet my youthftdheart
can know no change , hut
“Childlike still, o’er earth ! wander,
Led by Hope’s enchanting strata,
Sometimes smiling, sometimes weeping,
As I follow in her train.”
The proud and gallant have knelt be
fore thee in other lamls 4 and the syren Song
of pleasure has led thee onward to the gay
est, brightest scenes of festivity since last
we met under the shades of Montpelier,
and yet there comes to me now and then a
fairy white-winged visitor that says the
dark haired friend of other days is still
fo nd 1 y remembe r e and.
To day 1 have stood by the stream where
tiny hands playfully threw white pebbles
far below, breaking the calm ripples like
some sudden joy or sorrow on the tranquil
sea of life, rufHing it one moment and the
next leaving it quiet and still as if noth
ing had disturbed it. I have sat in tin
old rock-built summer house now “mossy
and gray,’ where youthful forms once as
sembled around the rustic table and con
ned o’er obstruse problems, have promen
aded in the long gallery, where when teach
ers were out of sight, our nimble feet
stealthily kept time to music’s inspiring
tones, and peeped into the closed doors of
the Studio where the “tender thought was
reared and the young idea taught to shoot.”
The old wild freedom returns, the eyes of
the world are not on me now, and I may
lightly romp with unbound tresses, fear
less of the sun’s burning ray in these shad
owy retreats, anti may merrily tramp up
and down the stream with all the inno
cent glee of childhood, but hark ! A voice
from the ruins of our most beautiful build
ing, seeming in its desolation as the rem
nant of some magnificent castle says “gone,
gone, gone!” My childhood hours are
gone, the friends of other years are far
away, and I can only return to the same
place to weep in silence over the wreck of
departed days.
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure
of attending a party given by the students
in a room where we formerly knelt in dai
ly worship, and though cheerful voices and
gayest laughter were around me, my mind
ever and anon wandered Lack to other
scenes, and the merry crowd was unheeded.
I thought of her whose cheek had there
caught its first hectic Hush, of the hacking
cough so often heard in theadjoining room, 1
and lastly of the evening when they carried I
the talented and accomplished Miss Lizzie
C. IS , from that lovely spot never to !
return again. A few months afterwards !
she passed from earth forever, and our pi
ous, loving teacher is now sleeping in the
betters of Heaven. Bellwood Farm once
echoed long to the silvery tones of her gen
tle voice, and our childish feet scrambled
bare, over rocks and wild briar, that we
might he first to secure the rarest flowers
of Spring for the beautiful Governess we
so dearly loved.
Ah ! well I remember her kindly teach
ings and gentle eludings, when I was so
naughty as to pore over “Scottish Chiefs,”
“Thadueus of Warsaw, Ac:.,” in school
hours, killing conscience with the reflec
tion that mind needs relaxation after long
difficult lessons in Lnglish Grammar and
Dodd's Arithmetic % they being considered
then as the greatest cares that earth could
contain. When years had passed I learn
ed to love and hallow my school books as !
companions, and prized them far more
than any wild tale of fiction, or silly ro
mance of “Love, Treachery and Revenge,”
ala yellow covered literature, so often fil
led with wrong ideas of real life, and its
true mission.
She it was who first encouraged my fer
vid and wayward imagination as I idly
sketched the whispers of my own wi]<|f iln
cy instead of the stiff drawings placed h
fore me, and when some simple childly
story emanated from the unruly pen of } li r
little favorite, whispered sweet words ( ,j
hope and kindness that acted as a magnet
to lead me onward, still onward to a W
er goal. Her little school room is still at
Bellwood, and I never glance
windows without thinking of her who
there only a few years ago, a picture of
perfect health and happiness.
Montpelier is still lovely and dear to me
though its brightest flowers are withered
and gone. There is something inspiring
vet melancholy in its green mantled hills
its waving cedars that have stood the storms
of almost half a century, its murmuring
rivulets, the old time worn chapel around
which Poesy’s hand has woven •munv a
garland of beauty, and its many winding
paths, bordered by wild flowers of richest
dye that bloom unseen beneath the dark
rocks.
Rev. P. B. Martin is now Principal of
the Male Institute,’ and being well known
throughout'the State as a thorough and
skillful teacher, we wish him all success
and hope that under his superintendence
its former beauty and splendor may ho re
stored.
From tiio VYashiu&fon Stati-s (Democratic.)
Tlie Engagement ou the Pciho—Com
modore Tatuull’s Despatch***..
Flag-Ofliccr Tat nail has sent volumin
ous despatches to the government relating
to the recent events in China. He says the
British officer in charge of the gun-bouts
having visited him, said nothing about
aid, but his silent appeal was powerful in
deed. During the few moments he was on
hoard the Powhatan he would look anx
iously at his Admiral and at the boats.—
“After he left,” coniiuuosCommodoreTat
nall, “I held a conversation with our com
missioner, Mr. Ward, and he agreed with
me perfectly that, under the circumstan
ces of our position with the English, and
the aid the Admiral had tendered me the
day before, I could do no less than tow
the boats to his relief. 1 made an offer,
which was thankfully and promptly ac
cepted.
“While the boats were making fast to
the hawsers, which 1 received astern, I iiw
sisted on Mr. Ward and his suite leaving
the Toey-wan, and going on board one of
the junks, tor reasons which will be obvi
ous. He at first reluctantly yielded and
left us, but soon returned in one of the
English boats, declaring that as the Tocv
wan was liis home, and going under fire
with his approbation and concurrence, he
w. u’d remain in her, 1 reluctantly yielded
to his gallant impulse. The boats were
towed through the British line to within a
short distance of the Admiral, whose Ikg
was flying, when casting them est, he re
tired to the rear of the line and anchored
for the night. The commander took iq>
this position, as it might enable him to aid
the wounded, and, should boats be sunk,
to rescue their crows ; in other words to
alibrd all aid consistent with neutrality.—
Having been informed by a British otficer
that the Admiral was dangerously woun
ded* Commander Tatuall went in a barge
to visit him. When within a few feet ot
the Cormorant, a round shot struck the
boat and killed Coxswain Hart, of Brook
lyn, N. V., and slightly wounded Flag
Lieut. Trenehard. They reached the Cor”
morant before the boat entirely sunk.”
Commodore Tat nail says the Chinese’
commissioners had previously notified
Commissioner Ward of their arrangements,
and requested him to accompany the Brit
ish and French ministers to the Pei ho.—’
To this he consented, thereby, to a certain
extent, assuming the same plats-rm with
the latter. The sincerity of the commis
sioners was much doubted at the time.
The American officers in this particular
service were Captain Pearson, Limits.
Trenehard and Sernmes, Midshipman Mer
chant, Engineers City and Archer, and
Capt. Taylor, of the marines.
The drift of Tatnall’s despatch iv that
the Chinese acted in bad faith. It very
evidently shows that the gallant American
Commodore modelled in matters with which
he had no business. If Commodore T.
had only shown ns much energy in the pro
tection of American citizens abroad, (a
thing seldom heard of, now-n-days.) id*
stead of playing “second fiddle” to the
British in China, h 1 woytd have been en
titled to all <ine prai.se. Our navy for some
years has been doing good service for the
British government. To please it weh& ve
kept a squadron on the African coast ;and
only a few months since, a lecture w® 3
read to our government, through the BrtP
iOi minister, for not keeping np the
her of guns on that coast we promised. *-*
Since the commencement of the present
Administration, our navy has also l** ll
serving in the cause of England, in doing
police duty on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts of Central America ; and now, won#
than all, it has been acting as a “tender
in the cause of British aggression 10
China.
Expedition against Nicara? ua *
Philadelphia, Oct. 3.—A special dis
patch from Washington states that tlq-rv
is in preparation a formidable filibustering
expedition for the invasion of Nicarag l1 ®-
A portion us the party have already k
Charleston ami New York, hut there “ u
he no demonstration until all the plans a n
fully matured.
General “Wheat has been assigned an m 1
portant position in the expedition.
A Correspondent of the Louisville J
nal reiterates the statement, and adds t
Costa Rica ip embraced iu the design-