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She ilpson
A. Miller, Editor*
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fHOMASTON, GEORGIA;
Saturday 3fornm& February 2J, iB6O
- from Soitaior IversonS Speech
at (<riS'in.
“The loss of Kansas to the S uth vas the legitimate
kart inevitable fruit of Ih* Oquatter ( vereignty’ eie
menLs of the Kansa*-\ehra. ka bill, ns construct! and
enforced by its Northern t:i*rs and friends.”
\nf ioiiaL C’oiistiiiitioij.'s! and l nioii
Party— amain and Hr. TooizibN Speech.
• In tlte 7’ilot last week, we made some com
ments on an article of the Washington 11 States
in relation to certain Patriots, anti
ftheir efforts at this time to organise a National,
C**Vfitutioiial and Union Party, upon the ru
ins of tire dangerous and hopcles-ly corrupt Re
publican and professed National, but demoral
ised Democratic Parties. )\ e propose again
and again, to refer to this important subject
important, because (however unwilling we have
been to arrive at the opinion) we now believe it
involves in its determination all that is glorious
in the past, all that is prosperous in the pres
ent and all that is hopeful in the future to the
people of the United States and the civilized and
christianized world.
f - The condition cf public affairs at this period,
must present to every Patriot (capable of the
least reflection) a sad and humiliating spectacle,
and we speak it “more in sorrow than in anger ”
—more as an American citizen, than a political
partazan, when wo say it utters the severest
commentary upon those of our servants who have
exercised power, place and influence for so ma
ny years, in, and over cur united Common
,wealth. We speak not of what we once were,
and w r hat we now are (as a Republic) in thcres
peot, the hearts and sympathies of either the
peoples and rulers of foreign nations. Time was,
when we were feared, as well as loved, —abroad,
: —when the eyes of the oppressed in every land
and on every sea looked wistfully over the wide
Waste of human political desolation and hailed
with rapture the Stars and Stripes as it floated
proudly to the winds. Then our young Eagle’s
flight was upward and sunward —now. he is met
amorphosed into a sort id*carrion crow, whose
most lofty ambition is to hop around the official
cribs and pick up here and there the oft’alof the
President’s kitchen I —Rut let this pass!
A few months ago, the people of Georgia
were told both by Mr. Toombs and Mr. Steph
ens (the Democratic Siamese Twins') that all
was peace and not even a ripple was to he secu
on the bosom of our Southern social tranquillity.
Mr. Toombs has since spoken and listen to his
language as uttered in the Senate of the United
States oil the 24th of January A. D. I860:
“Ver-v soon after the organization of our ex
isting Government, fierce and earnest party
struggles began ; men’s passions were deeply
aroused • but none felt that the State was in
danger. They were then mere party questions;
men then divided on the policy of .Jay’s treaty,
alien and sedition laws, acquisition of new terri
tory, the embargo, war with Great Britain,
French alliance, tariffs, currency, and internal
-improvements by the Federal Government. —
Some of these question - were of deep impor
tance to society ; some of them rose to the dig
nity of constitutional questions; but none of
them inrolre.fi the exist- arc or permanent safety
t'ofsoviet// ; and when submitted to the arbitra
ment of the ballot box, all men acquiesced qui
etly in the result, because the fundamental prin
ciple? of the social fabric were not affected by
the result.
Now. all this has changed. Ihe feeling of
nationality, of loyalty to the Mate, the feeling
of a common interest and a common destiny,
upon which foundations alone society can se
curely and permanently rest, is gradually but
rapidly passing away. Hostility to the compact
of U nion, to the tie which binds us together,
animates the bosoms, and finds utterance in the
tongues of millions of our countrymen, and
leads to the habitual disregard ot its plainest
duties and obligations Large bodies r nan
note feel and knoir that j art // success in coli cs
public danger; that the result may bring us fart
t a fare with revolution. Senators, we all teel
it in this chamber; we hear it proclaimed here
every day; we hear it proclaimed daily in the
other branch of Congress; we hear it from State
Legislatures, from the pulpit and the press, and
from popular assemblies throughout the length
and breadth of this broad land. Impotent threats,
duch as were made yesterday by the Senator
from Maine, will not arrest its onward march,
ldte gasconade, such as was used by the Senator
from lowa, and, 1 think, by the Senator from
•HltuoivS, (Mr. Trumbull,) and their associates in
this ami the other House of Congress, to put it
down by the strong arms of their constituents,
wiil not arrest its steady advance. 1 would ouly
suggest to them that it may he wise to reserve
theft boastings until they are returning from the
battle —divine wisdom cautions even the brave
against using them in going into battle. Ihe
public danger can only he averted by the remo
val of its real causes. -
These causes are plain. : ilpablc, apparent to
the lowest comprehension. ihe fundamental
principles of the system ot our social Union aie
assailed, invaded, and threatened with distinc
tion; our ancient rights and liberties are in dan
ger: the peace and tranquility of our homes
have been invaded by lawless violence, and their
farther invasion is imminent; till 1 instinct ot
self-preservation arouses society totlieiv letbr.c
These are the causes which are undermining,
and which, if not soon arrested, will overthrow
the Republic.’’
In September, the great Georgia Warwick,
the “setter up amfpuller down” of Governments,
told the people that “peace reigned fit Warsfiu”
—that the President had poured so bountifully
the oil of his “wisdom and patriotism ” upon the
ingi r political ocean, that tl* sun looko 1 bright
ly from its smooth reflected surface. Now, the
Senator tells us that Jove thunders in the skies
—the clouds are hung in funereal blackness—
lightnings flash along the horizon and carve out
a horrid pathway—while the whole social and
national ocean is moved from it? lowest founda
tions and tesses ifs wild billows to the Heavens.
Who is to be believed-“ALu Toombs in .Septem
ber —or Mr. Toombs in January? Who raised
this mighty storm which nothing but civil war
and “revolution’’ can subdue ? Mho sent out
the “live thunder * on its errand of wrath? Who
caught the mane of old ocean and impiously told
Him — “thus far and no farther , shall you go'?
The answer to these questions will he fT>uud in
the records of Congress in the year 1854. Mr.
Toombs and his squatt* r sovereignty friend,
Stephen A. Douglas were the chief instruments.
They', after having sown the imprisoned wind, are
now,only reaping the whirlwind. The thornsof
thetreeihey planted,arc now,only beginning to
enter the vitals of the country. They pierce it
—and it bleeds from every pore. They stoned
the Prophets , Play, Webster, and Calhoun uhen
(lay Heed, and now claim salvation through
them — when dead!! The man who asks that
our common Government shall protect us equal
ly until the Territories shall be ready to be ad
mitted as .States into the Union, then to leave
the fi/ir.ens free to adopt any domestic policy in
reference to this subject which in their judg
ment may best promote their interest and their
happiness, is now i:i heart the advocate of the
rankest free soiler that ever cut a Southern
throat or scuttled Southern prosperity. It wont
do—Mr. Toombs! You will have to follow the
example of your respected colleague, Mr. Iver
son, and renounce Douglas, before you can ask
a Southern constituency to seek protection in
“revolution .”
Mr. Toombs says: —
“Never permit this Federal Government to
pass into the traitorous hands of the Black Re
publican party.
Defend yourselves; the enemy is at your door:
wait not to meet him at the hearth-stone, meet
him at the door-sill, and drive him from the
temple of liberty, or pull down its pillars and in
volve him iu a common ruin.”
Well may we reply in the language of John
Randolph, of Roanoke “yes the Heathens are at
your door—see how ragged and dirty they look!”
They are now knocking at our Southern doors
with all the force of foreign influence, and Mr.
Toombs and his friend, Mr. Douglas, stand at
the door and invite them in—Free negroes,
Jews, Greeks and Turks, to sit down equally at
our national table and as citizens, enjoy our
rights in the common Territories.
Is there no remedv for this continual doscing
of the well man in order to publish the science
of quacks, whose only prescription is—blood
letting? We think there is. We think the
Constitutional, Union Party will open its doors
wide enough to admit all conservative citizens.
Before we can have quiet, the National Democ
racy like “A rxes tin Great” must die, and sure
are we, that no lover of his country will plant a
flower or shed a tear upon its grave. It lias un
der a more nano-, hectored long enough over the
South and the Constitution. All that is now
necessary is to let such leaders as Toombs and
Douglas know, that others have as much mus
cle and nerve and bone and brain as they, and
the miserable organization will like a whipped
dog sneak away with its tail between its legs.—
Let the honest, the wise’ and patriotic of all par
ties come up and act out their convictions at the
ballot box, and the clouds and thunder that are
now seen and heard overhead by Mr. Toombs,
will give place to the sun and the rainbow.
John Rogers, the Martyr.—Chancel
lor Walworth, of Saratoga, has written an
article in the Sarotogiun , of that village,
in which the long mooted question of how
many children John Rogers had when he
was burned at the stake, is clearly and de
finitely settled. The number is two. Many
of the Chancellor’s relatives are descend
ants from the martyr.— Exchange.
Then that New England Primer tells a
lie for it says John or Mrs. John Rogers,
had nine small children —and one at the
breast. We are glad however, the ques
tion is settled, for we never could tell ei
ther from the language or picture in that
old Primer, how many children the Mar
tyr could swear to. The picture represents
quite a number, like short steps, reaching
above each other even to the top of the
stake —and then too, the soldiers with their
habergeons, standing around, how awfully
they look ! !
A Wet Blanket ! ! —Virginia and
South Carolina.— TheJoint Committee
on the South Carolina Mission, reported
the followingresolutions to the Legislature:
Resolved, That ihe General Assembly
of Virginia, recognizing in our present re
lations with non slaveholding States an
imperative necessity for decisive measures,
does not yet mistrust the capacity of the
Southern States, by a wise and firm exer
cise of tln ir reserved powers, to protect the
lights and liberties of the people, and to
preserve the Federal Union. For this pur
pose we earnestly desire the concerted ac
tion of the Southern States, but the Gene
ral Assembly respectfully submit to the
consideration of South Carolina, and all
sister States of the South, that efficient
co-operation will be more safely obtained
by such direct legislative action of the sev
eral States as may be necessary and prop
er, than through the agency of an assem
blage which can exercise no legislative pow
ers except to debate and advise.
Resolved, therefore, That in the opinion
of the Gencial Assembly, it is inexpedient
to appoint deputies to the conference pro
posed by South Carolina.
Resolved, That the Governor of this
Commonwealth be requested to communi
cate the'foregoing resolutions to the Gov
ernor of the State of South Carolina, and
to the Governor of each ol the slaveholding
Executions and old debts have
come against the Lumpkin Palladium, and
Bright and JVright have dissolved copart
nership. It seems that Wright could not
keep Bright, and the latter comes out in a
valedictory and upbraids bis fate and Dr.
Blackburn, and retires in disgust. He main
tains that each subscriber is due him thir
ty cents for the seven numbers. Brother
Miller of the Upson Pilot will please set
us all right on tlie subject.— Atlanta Dai
ly Locomotive not Loco-fotive.
According to Mr. Bi ight, Dr. Blackburn
has not acted right, in the premises. The
“strong concern’’ turns out neither right
nor bright. We hope the subscribers will,
(“wind and weather permitting”) admin
ister the “ thirty cent” plasters .and all again
will be bright and right and the patient—
right and bright side up ! We go in for
Doctors. They are the Palladiums of the
world.
South Carolinians in Texas. —The
Houston (Texas) Telegraj It, says : Since
Texas has been in the Union, it has hid
six Senators in the United States Congress,
and of these six, five have bee n natives of
South Carolina. South Carolina is not on
ly a proud oid Slate to hail from, bur those
who hail from her, in Texas, are sons for
any State to be proud of. Rusk, Hender
son, Ward, Hemphill, Wigfall, in the Sen
ate are a glorious galaxy, and let us add
our own glorious Frank Lubbock, to say
nothing of a host of others, and the list
will absorb a large proportion ot the best
talent and brightest spirits in the Lone
Star State.
We clip the above from the Columbus
Sun and say it conveys one historical un
truth, which lias again, and again been re
peated. We are willing to accord to
South-Carolina all due credit for the pro
duction of great men, but it happens if a
great man like Gen. Hendeison and prob
ably Gen. Jackson is born in the limits of
her more modest Northern sister, ho is
dubbed a— Carolinian, which vulgarly
means—South-Carolinian.
Gen. James Pinkney Henderson the
late Senator from Texas was a native of
Lincoln County, Norlh-Car<dirm. His
paternal grandfather was a soldier under
John Brandon, our maternal grand uncle
who commanded the Whigs at the bloody
battle of Ilamsour’s Mill in our struggle
for Independence. Col. Moore who com
manded the Tolies was—a South Caroli
nian. He fled and the command ihen fell
on Capt. Carpenter, who was badly Woun
ded. See the account of the battle by Gen.
Joseph Graham (the father of ex-Governor
W. A. Graham) in Wheeler’s History of
North-Carol ina.
Gen. Henderson was the third son of
Major Lawson Henderson, a very intelli
gent gentle Ulan of th fk oolllrttlj ft lltV liv
ed and died in Lincoln County North-Car
olina. Gen. Henderson, in early man
hood emigrated to Texas where after the
battle of San-Jacinto he became the friend
and received the favor and aid of Governor
Houston in bis ascent of the bidder of
fame. He through his own talents and
the influence of the first President of the
Republic was appointed Attorney-General.
He was then sent as quasi Minister to
England and France to obtain a recogni
tion of the independence of the Republic.
He was Secretary of State, then Governor
and Commander in Chief of the Texas Vol
unteers at Monteray and In appointment of
Gen. Taylor he was associated with Worth
and Davis to arrange articles of capitula
tion with the Mexican commissioners for
the surrender of the city. He never was
blessed with sound health bodily, but na
ture, more than education, bad bestowed
upon him fine oratorical gifts, polished
manners, a lofty but chastened ambition
and a very vigorous intellect. He died (as
all know, a Senator from Texas at Wash
ington. Ed. Pilot.
Democratic Proscription of a Lady
During the last canvass Miss Mollic Cot
trell, a teacher of a Female School at Fall
Branch, prepared a handsome bouquet to
present to Col. Nelson on the occasion of
his discussion at that place with Mr.
Haynes, his opponent, and now State De
mocratic Elector. One of her patrons, a
Haynes Democrat, who had two children
boat ding at the young lady’s father’s house,
and attending her school, told her tlwt if
she presented Mr. Nelson a bouquet he
would remove bis children from the school.
Miss C., was not to be thus intimidated,
however, and adhered to her purpose She
presented the bouquet, and theu'ber Dem
ocratic patron withdrew his children. This
fact came to the public knowledge, and
immediately a purse was made up, and a
splendid gold watch purchased and pre
sented to the young lady, who had in the
meantime changed her name to Mrs. Mol
lie Montgomery, and is now residing at
Albermarle, N. C. The Correspondence on
the part of Chas. R. Vance and L. W.
Keen, ofKinsport, Teiin.. Ihe organ of the
donors, and Mrs. Montgomery, is publish
ed in the Jonesbonmgh Express.
A more pitiful instance of Democratic
proscription for opinion’s sake, never has
come under our observation, and we rejoice
that the gallant gentlemen of East Ten
nessee, have administered such a cutting
rebuke. — Nashville (Ttnn) Banner.
We clip the above from the Wadesboro
N. C., Argus. Will the Argus please in
form us if Miss Mollie is the daughter of
Benjamin Cottrell. Esq., of Holly Springs,
Miss. If so, we are happy to record her
spirit as a token of gratitude to her father
and for some few strikin'/ evidences of af
fection beet owed on us when a school-boy.
Cotton is and Pro-Slavery Argu
ments,
EDITED BY E. N. ELLIOTT, L. L. D.,
[President of Planter's College , Miss.]
‘‘This proposed compilation from well
known atid valuable works, it is believed
will be useful, and is recommended to pub
lic patronage,” by
Jas. 11. Hammond, of Smith Carolina ;
Jefferson Davis, of Miss. ; Robert Toombs,
of Georgia ; R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia;
C. C. Clay, Jr., of Alabama ; Henry C.
Burnett, of Ky. ; Thomas S.Bocock, of
Ya. ; Edward Bouligny, of La. ;George S.
Hawkins, of Florida ; Thomas Ruffin, of
X. Carolina ; Thomas G. Davidson, of La. ;
Elbert S. Martin, of Virginia; William
Porcher Miles, of S. Carolina; and others
of the leading Senators and Representatives
from the South.
The Augusta Chronicle A Sentinel thus
speaks of the work :
“Cotton is King, and Pro*Slayery
Arguments."-—We invite attention to the
announcement, in our advertising columns,
of a furthcoming work with the above ti
tle, which promises to be a highly valua
ble publication. It is to be edited bv E.
N. Elliott, L. L. D., President of Planter’s
College of Mississippi, and published by
Messrs. Pritchard, Abbott A Loomis, in
tiiis city. It proposes to be a compilation
of well known and valuable works, embra
cing a mass of facts of high importance,
and bringing the whole subject of Slavery,
past and present, within the compass of a
volume, and within the reach of all who
desire to he enlightened. The subjoined
synopsis of the contents of the volume may
not be uninteresting to those who may be
induced to give it their attention :
“Cotton is King : Or, Slavery in the
Light of Political Economy."—Many of
our readers are doubtless familiar with this
work, which has already passed through
throe editions. It is devoted to an inves
tigation of the relations sustained by Amer
ican Slavery to the industrial interests of
the world ; demonstrates the utter failure
of abolitionism in the accomplishment of
its purposes; and shows how all efforts for
the subversion of slavery have tended di
rectly to strengthen the institution in the
United States. A great variety of topics
and events are narrated and discussed,
among which we mention the following :
The brst Cotton Mill, Cotton Gin, and
Cotton Factory in the U. S. ; the relation
to Cotton Slavery ; free negroes and their
condition in various parts of the world ;
table, showing the annual exports of Cot
ton, Tobacco, &c., compared with exports
lrotn the Northern States, Ac., Ac.
“Liberty and Slavery ; Or Slavery in the
Light of Moral and Political Philosophy.”
—This work embraces a variety of criti
cisms and arguments, among which we
note the following:— J.n examination of
the nature and the commonly received de
finition of Social Liberty ; inherent and in
alienable rights ; the argument and posi
tion of Abolitionists ; arguments from the
Old and New Testament ;
Abolition totKo y.••*{! • ine 1’ ugitne Sla\e
Tw ; review’ of Seward and Sumner’s at
tack on the Constitution, Ac.
“The Bible Argument ; Or Slavery in
the Light of Divine Revelation."—A full,
clear and logical argument in favor of Sla
very, writteu in a candid and friendly
spirit.
“Slavery in the Light of Social Ethics”
—By Chancellor Harper, of South Caroli
na. “Slavery in the Light of Political
Science" —By Hon. J. H. Hammond, of
South Carolina.
“Slavery in the Light of Ethnology.”—
An able and scientific examination of the
relation of the Negro to the white race,
and the position they must necessarily oc
cupy.
“Slavery in the Light of International
Law.—By the Editor.
“The Died Scott Decision.”
0. S. Goldrick, Esq., of Augusta, is the
agent for Upson county. We commend
him to our citizens in his efforts to pro
mote the circulation of a Southern work.
Only One. —The Home Courier is the
only opposition journal in this State that
lias condemned (so far as we have noticed)
the vote* of 11. Winter Davis, a South
Ann rican in Congress, for Sherman, a Re
publican /or Speaker. As it cannot be
justified, the opposition press might con
sent to speak out. Ignoring his desertion
from the Smith and joining the Republi
cans, Mr. Davis has only pursued the bent
of his abolition proclivities, long since ob
served in his political life. —Columbus
Times.
Winter Davis never voted for Sherman,
but suppose he did, has the Times no con
demnation for the Northern Democrats
who did what Davis did not do ? The
Charleston Mercury a real honest States
Rights Journal, says:
McClernand, Siier.man, Pennington.
—We respect the Americans from the
South who disdained to vote for any such
men. Between Mr. McClernand, Mr. Sher
man, and Mr. Pennington, so far as the
rights of the South are concerned in our
Territories, which are now larger than the
whole of Ihe United States together, there
is not the difference of the turning of a
straw.
C* A Mr. Whaley has recently mar
ried a Miss Ivy. Ivy will not cling to a
poisonous tree or other substance ; but in
this instance ivv clings.to a whale(y).—
LuGrange Reporter.
Brother Willingham, did you intend the
above as a pun ? If you did (but we dis
like to flatter) it is the worst pun we ever
saw in print.
“Out West,’’ in Dixon, 111., Peter Brandt,
aetat 18 years, is husband to Mary ditto,
act at 16 years, and the twain are joint pro
prietors of twenty two pounds of “hoy-uia
terial” aetat 6 months—so that if Peter is
not one ot the apostles, he caD at least
claim to be one of the “Early Fathers/’ —
liar/crd Tima.
A Firf-Eatf.u “taken down*.”—The
ladies of Washington, and especially the
w ives and daughters of members of long
standing, are very respectable politicians,
and some of them can “hold their hands”
manfully in a political skirmish with the
members, themselves. A casein point may
not be uninteresting to the reader.
Hapening in at the supper room at Brown’s
Hotel, about 11 o’clock one evening, a few
weeks ago, we found a number of ladies
and two or three gentlemen seated at the
table. They were in high converse on pol
itics in general and tire “encroachments of
the North” and “wrongs of the South” in
particular. One of the gentlemen, a young
tire-eating member of Congress from Mis
sissippi, was discussing the question of Dis
union with a bright-eyed jovial Miss from
Ohio, who sat immediately opposite and
was apparently much inclined to ridicule
the blood and thunder not ions of her anta
gonist. Finally, she remarked, “Mr ;
you men who are eternally talking about
going out of the Union, remind me of an
incident that occurred at a camp-meeting
out west. A good old Methodist brother
was going round promiscuously among the
congregation, singing and exhorting every
body to quit this wicked world and go a
long with him to heaven, Finally he came
up with a hardened old sinner, who had
an unfortunate impediment in his speech,
ami goniowliat of a wng withal, to whom
he repeated, with a special emphasis, the
invitation to join him in the inarch to the
better land. Looking quietly up, and with
apparent earnestness, our stuttering friend
coolly responded: “I V-w-lien d-d - you
pro-pro-pose, to start P ”
It is hardly necessary to add that the
Mississippi “wilted,” and the whole table
enjoyed a hearty laugh at his expense.
We clip the above story from a late num
ber of the Savannah Republican. The ap
plication may be new, and probably origi
nal, with the “ bright-eyed , jovial Miss
from Ohio,” but the story is old, for we
have laughed over it a thousand times.—
The first time we ever saw it in print it
was communicated to us by a young Ne
phew, L. S. Bingham M. I), of Concord, (N.
C.) and published in the “Rowan Whig ;
and Western Advocate” (we being then,
tlie Editor and Proprietor) on the 7th, of
December 15.32. The Dr. tells the story
in this way :—Ed. Pilot.
For the Whig nn<l Advocate.
“You (iwissc Sow!”
This cant phrase is very common, at
this present speaking, in some parts of the
country, especially among the hoys and
wags ot certain villages of rnv acquaint- j
ance; but there are many, perhaps, not a- 1
ware of its origin’
J n the chivalric State of South Carolina
“there once did dwell” a worthy, pious,
and withal, a very enthusiastic Methodist
Preacher whose efforts in stirring up a j
drowsy congregation were singularly effec-
tn'“
But the sphere for which his genius was
peculiarly adapted was the Camp-ground.
At a camp-meeting he was a perfect ‘‘•'ou
ser.” At one of these meetings, which*our
preacher attended, somewheredown among
the sand lulls and pine trees, there chanc
ed to he as curious a specimen of the “ge
nus homo” as we usually see, who had sta
tioned himself just without the extensive
arbor. Ho was a tall, bony slack twisted
youth with long sandy hair, large, inex
pressive, blue eyes, hooked nose, and mouth
like an overseer’s wages —“from ear to ear;”
he had on a short, swallow-tailed, blue
checked coat, striped homespun jacket, a
pair of copperas breeches that reached just
below his knees, kept down by straps a
bout eighteen inches long, and his knowl
edge box was surmounted by a lofty, nar
row-brimmed, white, sugar-loafed hat,
made about the year one. He stood lean
ing against a post, his legs at an angle of
about forty-five degrees, with his mouth
open and his eyes gazing upon vacancy.—
Our worthy divine had raised a perfect
tempest, and was now down among the
congregation and asking those with whom
he came in contact, “to go to glorv with
him.”
At last he approached our hero who was
still standing silent and unmoved amidst
the storm, and reaching out his hand,
“come, my friend,” said he, “wont you go
to glory with me ?” On being thus ad
dressed our hero waked up, rolled up his
huge eyeballs, licked out Lis tongue, and
innocently asked “You, gwinc now V’
The preacher dropped his hand like a
hot potato and sjojied, whilst the cachin
natory apparatus of all in the vicinity was
put in tumultuous operation.
I came away—just at that particular
juncture.
STUBBS.
A Smart Wan.
Richard Reals is a cunning fellow ! Al
ter being discovered in Texas he writes a
letter to the President saying he is willing
to come on to Washington to testify as to
his part in the Harper’s Ferry affair, and
if it is required, to lay down his life for
his error in connecting himself with John
Brown, and professes to have changed his
opinions as to slavery. So he gets himself
conveyed to Washington at the public ex
pense—is paid six hundred dollars for his
attendance as a witness, has a nice time
taking hot whisky punches and oysters
with Congressmen of the intensest fire-eat
ing stripe, and then Dick is off to New
York, then he and Greely foregather —and
Dick writes for the Tribune a defence of
the Republican party against the charge
of having instigated John Brown’s conspi
racy, and a vindication of the principles of
that eminent rascal—all which goes toshow
that if Reals has returned “like a dog to
his vomit, and a sow to her wallowing in
the mire,” he means at least to “do in
Rome as Romans do.” Cunning Dicky
Reals !
Reals says in the close of his letter that
he expects to live and die in the South—
we are afraid he won’t—he is two shrewed
to live here, that’s certain ; if he did, he
would die here, that’s just as <ert?>ire-Av
gvzto Db
The Stiilxgle Over.
Tl.e struggle for Spenktf, i; Bt l Mt 0 .„
and though the Contest has hot fcsnltJ •
we fondly hoped and trusted, yet it j, ‘
lief to know that the matter is decided sy
decided in such way ns will, fur the j,
ent, roll back the waves of disunion \
appears from Mr. Pennington’s speech ts *
is his first session in Congress— y e t j ‘!*
not unknown to the political worij'ti?
seven years, he was elected Governor ,’j’v
Jersey. He had the confidence of u ‘
Taylor, a Southern President, a La
slaveholder, and a Union man— and
holds his seat in Congress, not as tbi* 0 *
resentativc of any particular party-]
was elected by a combination of
against the present extravagant andccrl
rupt modern democracy. Mr. Pennine,
has always been considered ns a very
servative man ; he voted frequently f or
Mr. Gilmer for Speaker, and no man Uj
is willing to elect Mr. Gilmer Speaker can
bean enemy to the Union, or have’ any
very evil designs against the South. \y' t ,
believe no body has as yet, contended that
Pennington’s election is any good cause for
a dissolution of the Union. But if it j 8
the responsibility rests, and rests only, with
the democracy. For nearly two months
although they had it in their power to elec*
Mr. G ilmer, yet they refused to do it. when
they knew, and were satisfied that their
refusal would result in lime lection vU
Republican. The New Y o,k JoZalo\
Commerce, a strong democratic pupa, \h us
speaks of Pennington :
“The defeat of the Helper eaiulidatt
(Mr. Sherman of Ohio) is also u manor of
just congratulation. The Republicans wen
determined to stand by him, as one of them
expressed it, “until the crack of doom.”-.
But they became at last convinced, W.
peated experiments, that his election'w
impossible. They woe obliged to “rot*
lower,” as Mr. Clark of Missouri express
it, and, to avoid a greater calamity, united
their strength upon an Old Line Whig;
for such is Governor Pennington, althoodi
he was elected to Congress in part by L
publican votes. But New Jersey Rejmb
licanisrn is not Black Republicanism. Cer
tainly Gov. Pennington lms no sympathy
with that heresy. Although he has Lad r.q
experience as a presiding officer over a de
liberate body, he will no doubt, bring to
the situation a good degree of patience, and I
a disposition to act impartially. We would
ourselves, have preferred Smith, of North ’
Carolina, another Old Line Whig, on ac
count of his better political associations,
but are quite satisfied with the result asi:
stands. Better satisfied, we presume, than
the majority of the Republicans are. Tie
effect upon the country at so favorable a
termination of the long-pending cento:
will he good. On the whole, he (Gov. P.)
is a fair compromise between opposing in
terests, and we wish him success, so lung
as he stands t>y the Union on the basis
the Constitution, as interpreted l>y the Su
preme Court of the United b;aUs/'-
Greensboro (N. C.) Patriot.
A Great and Glorious Country -
Read the following description of .Mims
sippi and her people, given bysoinecmi
tyrant viho lias moved to mat Mate, am
writes to Lis friends. Here it is :
“This is a glorious country ! It ha
longer rivers, and more of them, and the’
are muddier, and deeper, and run tasttf
and make more noise, rise higher, fall 1 >w
er, and do more damage than any hod
else’s rivers. It has more lakes, and tie;
are bigger, and deeper, and clearer, thai
those of any other country. Our railcar
are bigger, and run faster, and pitch <>!
the track oftener, and kill more people
than ail other rail cars, in this and ever]
other country. Our steamboats carry big
ger loads, are longer and broader, am
burst their boilers oftener, and the cni>taint
swear harder, than steamboat captain®' l
any other country. Our men are bigA”
and longer, and thicker, can fight Lurn
and faster, and drink more mean whisky
and chew more had tobacco, and spit uiof
and spit further, and not be killed, th#
in any other country. * Our ladies are rich
er, prettier, dress finer, spend more nim
break more hearts, wear bigger h f
shorter dresses, and kick up the devil gee
erally, to a greater extent, than all cM-:
ladies in all other countries. Oarnggw
are blacker, work harder, have tIA
skulls, smell louder, and need tbra-u'--<
oftener, than any niggers in any (,tl -
State. Our children squall louder. £ ‘
faster, get too extensive for their panty I
quicker, than any other children i n ‘C
other country.
Well, this is a great country. Hang*
man that won’t praise his own country ■
have written you all the news tb l lf ’
tiiis country. „
Yours, till death, -
Life’s Happiest PERIOD.-Kingd)
his evidence on this disputed p' inf . ,
thus declares: “There is no
I have ever experienced like a child s
summer holiday. The time I nienn,
two or three of us used to go away “I .
brook and take our dinners
come home at night, tired,
scratched beyond recognition, I
nosegay, three little, trout, and- - ‘CI
the other having been used tor a ; ;j
it had gone down with all h ali ‘ as
soundings. How poor our Derby a;1 -g. ,
Greenwich din ners, our evening 1 u ;
where there are plenty of nice g illN a |
ter that ! Depend upon it, a n k u |.
experiences such pleasure or gw * rJ .
fourteen as he does before, unless o’
cases in his first love-making, v,!l “
sensation is new to him.”
A fashionable young
weut into a store in Norfolk. ‘A
into an extended examination o 1 -
tents, and then bought a dimes “
thread, which she requested to ‘ ‘q^ep 1 ’
ered at her house, a mile distant. 1
lite proprietor assented, procun ‘ .
press, which, on arriving at the
backed up to the door, the tail o e j j
cred, and all the motions inyi’
press business gone through wit n, I
the collection of fifteen cents. ! >’
pr's:: charge.