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O. A. Miller, Editor.
• THOM ASTON, GEORGIA:
Saturday Morning, June 2, IB6o*
Extract from Senator Iverson's Sj>occli
at Ciritrin.
“The loss of Kansas to the Soatli was the legitimate
and inevitable fruit of the'‘squatter sovereignty'ele
ments of the Kansas Nebraska bill, os construed and
enforced by its Northern authors and friends
Constitutional Union Nominations.
FOK PRESIDENT,
JOHN BEH 31s,
GF TENNESSEE.
Vice-president,
IfiDWAI ir> EV biR ETT,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
The Constitution of the Country,
The Union of the States, and
The Enforcement of the Laics.
‘ Le Bon Ton,” for June, is on our ta
ble. It is the best Fashionable monthly
Journal in the world and no lady who pre
tends to be fashionable, can be so reallv.
without the information contained in this
publication.
Price #5 a year—Address S. T. Taylor,
407 Broadway, N. V.
Democratic Convention.
The peragrating whaugdoodlea, the Weeping
Jeremiah’s of Democracy after filling the whole
land with Lamentations for their first boru that
was so unceremoniously strangled at Charleston,
will proceed to meet again at Hepsidam on Mon
day next. Judge Dooly once remarked some
what wittily but profanely, that the foreknowl
edge of God was perfect— except as to the ver
dict of a petit jury. We have no mind to limit
the wisdom of that Being who called light from
darkuess and spoke from the jarring elements of
chaos, order, beauty and grandeur, but certain
are we, that no living or dead Prophet, no, not
even Jo Smith, Parson Miller or Mohammed
can now tell from the political horoscope what
a day at Ilepsidam will bring forth. The Con
vention may turn out a sermon—or perchance a
song—the delegates may make a spoon and most
oertainly will swallow or spoil—many hr,mm. —
Times will be lively The excitement will prob
ably equal the late fight between Sayers and the
Benicia Boy. Asa man, our feelings would re
volt—but as a patriot, we hope when the blows
fall heaviest and thickest, that uo Morrisey will
cut the ropes and make a draw battle. Let Buc
hanan and Cobb or Douglas and Stephens wear
alone the Democratic belt, with a full B under
standing that we stand off with as “serene indif
ference” as the old woman did when her hus
band and bear were affectionately hugging and
kissing each other. We think neither side should
give or accept quarter but the managers aud bot
tle holders should make them toe the peg until
life is extinct in one or both. In such a con
test we arc opposed to all compromises—we
even eschew Tom Cribs advice to Big Ben :
“What! Ben, my old hero, is this your re
nown —
Is this the new go —kick a man when he's
down ?
When the foe has knocked under to tread on
him then !
By the fist of my father! I blush forthee, Beu.”
Yes, we go in for a real ground scuffle where
neither gouging, scratching, biting or kicking
will for a moment, be pretermitted. We wish
none of your Judge Longs tree t heroes to mingle
in the fray who merely beat the air with their
fists or stick their thumbs in the ground. This
will be no place for an exhibition of superfluous
valor—for if the squatters, squat, on their own
dunghill, their crow will resemble a piped chic
ken at Baltimore.
To be serious however as wc can be on such a
grave subject, we predict the June Convention
will be less harmonious than either the Decem
ber or March Conventions. The leaders by their
deluge of letters, have made “confusion uorse
confounded,” Their comments on the texts of
protection and squatter sovereignty are more
obscure and difficult to understand than the
texts themselves. Each letter has a different
stripe and like the rings ou a tigers tail no two
resemble in shape or color. We would if phil
osophically inclined rather attempt to extract
light and heat from cucumbers than draw con
sistency, sense, candor or patriotism from a whole
Post-Office full of such letters.
The truth is, the Democratic leaders arc in a
quandary. Like the Irishman wl*> was about
to be hung on a limb overhanging a deep river,
told the executioner to tie the kuot hard and
safe as he was unable to swim, so the destiny of
these leaders must be cither to hang or be
drowned. Douglas by the squatter elements in
the Kansas bill has his foot on their necks—
they know it and consequently approach their
doom with tear *and trembling. Like :he an
cient test ot witchcraft the}’ will be compelled
to unuergo the ordeal of water or lire—but ‘suf
fer and me- by one or the other, they must, with
out a full confession and recantation of past er
rors. Duty and patriotism are severe, but most
excellent teachers, but we are afraid in this cri
sis that party, will be an overmatch for country,
and Douglas and the prospective spoils, prove
too strong for the constitutional rights, interests
hen#r *f the Sauth. We shall see.
Our green friends of the Locomotive.
We have for some time past, beer? do
little amused at the exceeding verdure of
our friends of the Atlanta Locomotive —
late of the city of Penfield ! ! Because wc
were so “ infatuated” as to hint iu our last
number that old Bennett of the Herald
had a hide impervious to their straws and
that Henry Clay preferred to he “right,
rather than he President,” these late very
temperate friends pitch into us to our
amazement (and no doubt to the amaze
ment of their “Patrons and Readers !”) in
more than a mortal column of editorial,
filled 4 with “sesquipedalia verba” of “learn
'cd length and thundering sound,” and in
timate because we said something about
11 grease, Rome and Temperance” that we
were guilty of “personalities,” of losing our
temper and of ridiculing them “for a thrust
at old Bennett !” We plead “not guilty”
to their indictment. First, we never deal
in “personalities” or lose our temper ex
cept when provoked by ignorance and in
solence—second, we care not if old Ben
nett was “ thrust” into a warmer latitude
i than inis world, together with his many
, Democratic Southern “sympathisers .” We
! have however great respect for the services
and fame of Henry Clay and we kick from
our path all human hyenas who desire to
i prey on his illustrious remains. When
; such a character can extort even from the
i head of the Democratic party —(Douglas)
the expression—“/ wish to God that the
whole American people icerejust such Ab
olitionists as Clay and Crittenden,” we
think it is lull time for such “etiormous”
and “puny” sheets as the locomotive to
“apply the brakes” and let off steam.
But it seems the “very head and front
of our offending” is that we are a “sapient
North Carolinian, late of the Columbus
Enquirer” and consequently we are not “a
true exponent of Southern principles ! !”
Now wc are not ashamed of either of these
charges. That we are a North Carolinian
by birth and a Georgian by marriage and
adoption, is too true, —and vve glory in the
facts. It seems however from the follow
ing : “Come friend Miller, quit abusing
such clever men as Stephens and Toombs
and Cobb, they are Georgians, and in our
opinion, are trustworthy” that we are not
“a true exponent of Southern principles.”
Now when Stephens, Toombs and Cobb
can agree ou what are “Southern princi
ples,” then, possibly our “Southern prin
ciples” may induce us to go to South-Car
olina to find such a Governor as— joe brown.
They may even persuade us to seek “Sou
thern principles” in such
grease- y, greeny, puP’
editors as the Homan Ijo,
]0 sibly, we may study the tactic
how he arranged the women and baggage
wagons and tell all about the wooden horse
and how magnificently the rascal Achilles
dragged the body of Hector around the
walls of Troy and at last how— peaceful
slept his mighty shade.”
As the Locomotive is a pocket six-shoot
er, we hope its chivalry will prevent it
from popping at us more than once a week
and then only at one article at a time. We
are however impressed that it will do more
execution at the breech, than muzzle, as it
is generally too heavily loaded. We, too,
will take advantage of its snaps —as its
flint is too high for its frizen. It never
thinks of the reply of a Grecian sage to an
insolent fellow who boasted he was a na
tive of a renowned city—“are you worthy
of that city ?”
Who are Democrats ?—and who Black Repub
licans.
Before the meeting of the Charleston
pitched battle, the Southern Democratic
Leaders were singing peans to a National
Democracy and dealing philippics against
every Southern man who doubted the ex
istence of a hybrid ; half horse, half alliga
tor and slightly touched with a double
hcaded nigger. Since Buchanan’s Kansas
policy (as expounded by Douglas and
Pugh and illustrated by Walker and Stan
ton) has uudeceived the South, these lead
ers are endeavoring to classify the whole
people into Black Republicans aud sound
National Democrats. Many of the mem
bers of the Constitutional Union party,
citizens who never sympathized with eith
er of these corrupt organizations will be as
much puzzled to distinguish between the
two Dromios as an Irish Door Keeper once
was while a certain Legislature was iu ses
sion. The Speaker espied some Cyprians
in the gallery of the House mixing more
freely with virtuous females than the laws
of good society permitted. He gave Pat
the wink and told him secretly to separate
the sheep and goats aud clear the galleries
of the latter. Pat’immediatelv started ou
his mission, but not knowing, or having
the means to know, the true characters of
the women, lie soon appeared at his post
and while his phiz wore a most solemn and
and troubled expression, he announced his
success as follows in a loud voice—“Mr.
Spaker of this ounerable ouse, I have in
divered to obey yer onors orders to the
best of my skill and ability, and with all
due respect for the swate leddies—but may
the Divil fly away with Pat’s ould jacket,
if he can tell the bad wiminen from the
i dacent Leddies.” Os course Pat was at
once excused from reporting further pro
gress.
Now, as the National Democracy and!
Black Republicans have been so long mix
ed up together and encircled with the same
hoops, we hope our Southern Democratic
Leaders will first separate the black and
white sheep, or excuse the South if it is
slow to distinguish the “bad wiminen,
from the dacent Leddies”—the National
Democrats, from the Black Republicans.
Ratification Meeting-
We hope the call of the County Execu
tive Committee on next Tuesday for a
Ratification Meeting will be heartily res
ponded to by the citizens of the “Banner
County.” We have candidates worthy of
our and our dearest affections
There the world knows : h ir his
tory, tneflfervices, their talents and pa
triotism by heart. As long as rational lib
erty and free government is appreciated—
as long as the English language and Amer
ican laws, and civiliza
tion shall exist, the names of Bell and
Everett will be uttered with love and grat
itude. Let us stand up like men aud bat-,
tie for the truth, the right, the Constitu
tion, the Union and the enforcement of the
Laws. Let us not (as on a recent occa
sion) suffer ourselves (as experience now
testifies) to be duped into error and wrong
by the false issues, bold assumptions and
vile calumnies of ambitious demagogues
and office seekers. Hear both sides and
then act out your honest convictions irres
pective of party prejudice, passion orafiin
ity and all will be well—and whilst our
enemies are engaged in a suicidal war and
falling by each others hands, let us close
ranks and let the flash and gleam of the
bayonet be seen along the whole Constitu-.
tional, Union line. Now, or never, is the
time to strike :
“Strike ! till the last arm’d foe expires,
Strike ! for your altars and your tires,
Strike! for the ashes of your sires—
God and your native land.”
We do hope that those who oppose the
seceders may desist from their purpose, and
let us march iu one undivided phalanx to
Richmond or to Baltimore and construct a
sound platform and place a sound man up
on it. Let that man beYancj, Stephens,
Davis, Cobb or Iverson, or an body else, if
nominated upon a platform which recog
nizes our rights, the South can unite upon
him.— Atlanta Locomotive.
The Locomotive is like +1 ’ 1 naid who
prayed for the “too
1 and imme-
ILordl”
”vvins con
nected tn v . -i Squatter
Sovereignty and {'residential aspirations.-
The one has been denounced as a “traitor”
to Southern rights—the other, (says the
Locomotive) will recognize these rights.—
Douglas, like the Locomotive, says that
Stephens is sound on the goose and incor
porates the whole of the letter written by
the latter to the “Tribulation Committee”
in his Speech in the Senate, May 15 and
16, 1860.
The “sound platform of the Locomotive
with Elick upon it, is very much like a
a young belle sve once knew who boasted
of her aristocracy in the presence of a wag
gish gentleman. The gentleman told the
lady it took four qualities to constitute
aristocracy viz :—Family, Talents, Wealth
and Beauty and asked her to name either
one of the four which she could specially
appropriate. The lady not being overbur
dened with either, after a supercilious toss
of her curls, remarked that she claimed the
whole. “Yes” replied her ungallant tor
menter —“I thought if you were cornered,
you would go it in the lump.” The loco
motive goes for Southern rights “in the
lump” and is willing, “Good Lord,” to
take even little Elick, skillet and all, as an
exponent of these rights ! !
Why John Bell, voted against Lecomp
ton, as stated by himself-—page 137 Con
gressional Globe.
Ist. “That of the 38 counties of the territory,
including Arapahoe, in which there was no pop
ulation, there had been no register made of the
qualified voters in 19 of them, as the Law re
quired, and that no census had been taken in
15 of those 19, and that therefore the people in
those counties could not vote,” and “that there
more votes iu three of the neglected counties
than were given to the 28 delegates w'ho form
ed the Lecompton Constitution,” and “in some
of the neglected counties the people on their
own authority made out a register and elected
delegates to the Convention, but were not al
lowed seats upon the ground that their election
was irregular.”
2nd. “As expressed by both Walker and
Stanton, a large majority of the people of Kan
sas, were opposed to the Lecompton Constitu
tion and determined to resist the formation of a
State government under it.”
3rd. “That of the 20 pro-slavery Journals
published in Kansas, they agreed it was idle to
attempt to make Kansas a slave State,” and
“more than 15 months ago (the time of applica
tion,) the leading pro-slavery men in that terri
tory had abandoned the idea of making it a
slave State,” aud that it was “not the slavehold
ers in Kansas who were most active and forward
in keeping up this controversy but political ad
venturers, chiefly office holders or office seekers,
who have not the slightest interest in the ques
tion beyond the expectation of some personal
benefits.”
The easiest and best way to expand the
chest is to have a good large heart in it; it
raves the cost of gymnastics.
For the Upson Pilot.
A LEGEND OF TOWALIGA.
BY LEOLA.
The young Spirit ot Summer had just
donned her bridal robes, and overjoyed at
her dazzling beauty, a host of nature’s
bright-plumed songsters were worshipping
at her shrine.
Wearied with the unromantic, yet mu
sical clicking ot my sewing machine, and
glad of any release from one of Trovatore’s
difficult airs over which my tired lingers
had faithfully glided for an unusually long
hour, I picked up a book and resolved to
enjoy one quiet summer day in reading, on
Tobler’s shaded banks.
I was successful in finding a charming
little bower, surrounded by fragrant wreaths
of Convoloulus, twined in graceful testoons
over a hedge of my favorite wild shrub, the
rosy tipped Kalinia, or water Laurel. It
was a beautiful spot, a real Upsonian spec
imen of rusticity, seeming all the lovelier
since my return trom the dusty city, and
it is not singular at all that one should
there have Elysian dreams of enchanted
Grottoes, and Sylvan forms, that flit through
the dim woods singing ceaseless songs of
melody and love.
I there appreciated all the exquisite
charms of solitude, holding converse with
the bright fanciful creatures of my irnagi
_ nation, while the embodied shades of Dry
ads and Goddesses ot Inspiration were hov
ering above me.
My gayer companions finding “the an
gler’s sport” move agreeable, left me alone
with my idle dreams, and soon turning
over the leaves of Chelley, my eyes fell list
lessly on “Queen Mab.” No, no, my hal
lowed retreat must not be profaned by a
perusal of its dark mysterious and infidel
pages, “Prometheus Unbound” was too
lengthy, “Beatrice Cenci” too tragical,
“Rosalind and Helen” only fin old story
I oft told, but “Epipsychidion, bright beau
tiful Epipsychidion,” should enchant my
heart until the gentle Emilia rose before
me in all her loveliness, an apparition of
dazzling beauty and “a reflection of the
I eternal Moon ot Love.”
Body, soul and spirit seemed wrapt in
some strange spell of enthusiasm, as I read
I page after page, of those chaste, glowing
lines, but gradually the book fell from my
hands, the sunlit waves grew dim, earth
was forgotten, and a pale, shadowy form
‘‘Sate beside me, with her downward face,
Illuming my slumbers, like the Moon
Waxing and waning o’er Endymiou,
And I was laid asleep, spirit and limb,
And all my being became bright or dim,
As the moon's image in a summer sea
According as she smiled or frowned on me.”
The simple Upsonian bower was conver
ted into an Isle far more beautiful than
Calypso’s and a thousand zephyrs fanned
me with their fragrant wings, as minstrel
harps echoed far and wide over the silvery
waves.
The 1 ’u Spirit still sat beside me,
and * ” 1 n,, t of the far off
grovt ’ mountains
of I s ’ *
ter
43St *■>
of * mid the
wrei a tv.
Wi\ l ..;at it in her own en
rapturing uuius. which fell like pearls on
a bed of roses, a shower of eloquence,
“Sweet as steps
Os planetary music heard in trance !”
Years and years ago the clear waters of
a Haunted Spring, murmured near the hut
| of an aged Indian Chief, whose shriveled
hands had beat the grain of three score
summers. It was said by wise medicine
men who had traveled from the distant
west to examine its properties, that by
bathing within its crystal waters daily for
twelve moons in succession the good at
heart might regain the vigor and strength
| of youth.
A hundred moons had risen and waned
since the old chief Tobesofkee had first
tried its power, but his sins were too deep,
his wicked heart felt no change, and the
wrinkles continued to multiply on his stern,
unrelenting brow.
Year after year rolled away and he still
grew older and more ugly, while the radi
ant charms of his young daughter the gen
tle Wahliga, expanded and increased with
the wild flowers that blossomed wherever
her light footsteps pressed. During the
time Tobesol kee was studying means for
recovering health and youthful spirits,
strange events were taking place in the life
of Wahliga.
A pert little messenger had wandered
slyly among her native hills, had lurked
, amid her favorite flowers and captured the
unsuspecting heart found resting there !
The snowy Wawa was never so palata
ble as when touched by the swift arrows of
Tohatchee, the honey bee’s nectar was
sweeter when gathered by his baud than
worlds of others, and no flowers were twin
ed so gently and tenderly as his own over
her raven tresses.
Together they hunted the wild fawn, or
sat at twilight on the sloping banks of some
placid stream, counting the stars, and won
dering if the great Spirit scattered them
with liis hands over the broad blue sky, or
it he used a golden wand like the wise ma
gi of the mountaiu !
Ah ! those were “the violet days of love,”
hours glided on as minutes, and it was cru
el in Fate to wither their blooming petals,
but Tohatchee’s tribe beyond the broad
Chattahoochee was even then sounding the
wild war whoop, and his summer rambles
were at an end.
The timid Wahliga promised to he his
bride when flowers came again, and part
ing with her bold, young warrior was the
severest grief her youth had ever known.
For weeks and months she joined not in
the torch light dance nor beaded the light
moccasin as was her wont, for the young
chief Teliskee, but silently sat alone, re
peating over and over again the fond words
Tohatchee had breathed in her ear.
The snows of Winter had long whitened
the plaiu and melted, yet he came not.
Had he forgotten that the beautiful gir
dle she had wrought for him of the finest
! hark and softest down waa a talisman
against inconstancy ? No ! Tohatchee could
not be ftilse, and when the sparkling fire fly
again lighted up the lonely forest, his flow
ers would once more he twined about her
brow, and his merry laugh* echo over the
hills as he bowed playfully to her image in
the Haunted Spring.
One day Tobesol kee called her to his
side and said, “Daughter of Light! A great
many moons have passed since the Great
Spirit gave you to me. I was a strong
chieftain then, and deep joy was in my
heart when I first looked on your soft eyes,
and we called you Wahliga. Twenty sum
mers have I fed and clothed you, but now
my eyes are growing dim, and no more can
I return at nightfall with a fresh robe for
your conch, and a young fawn for your
pet. Teliskee, son of my departed brother
has asked you to share his wigwam and
y<>u refuse. Consent to become his bride
to-morrow eve, or leave these shadowed
hunting grounds forever.”
“Oh ! Father” she replied “I cannot, in
deed 1 cannot go with Teliskee beyond the
“deep father of waters,” he is ill and ever
wears a frown on his blow, I’ll stay with
you , and chase the pains from your heart
by a lullaby like you rippling water’s flow.”
In vain she entreated him to let her stay,
‘ she would help Ucheecook the wild deer,
and embroider his winter robe,” the wick
ed old chief was deaf to all those gentle
pleadings and bade her close her lips he
would hear no more.
Sorrowfully approaching him she touch
ed his shoulder, thinking an affectionate
caress would conquer, but lifting his hand
in a violent rage he dealt a heavy blow,
and caused the crimson blood to flow pro
fusely over her delicate cheek.
Silently gathering around her the gifts
of Tohatchee, which were passionately pres
sed to her lips, she turned sadly away and
left forever the hoipe of her childhood.
Not many leagues from the Haunted
Spring was a quiet vale of loveliness and
beauty, where Wahliga often wandered to
gather red berries from the Hawthorne.—
Thither she bent her footsteps, weary and
faint at heart, and seating herself on a mos
sy rock, thoughts flew back to the happy
moments there spent with him, who was
far away wooing perhaps with the fatal
glance of his dark eye some other trembling
heart. Friendless and forsaken, she knew
not where to go, but the Great Spirit was
good, and would not wish her to wed the
wicked Teliskee.
No longer able to restrain her feelings,
the pent up agony gave way and a shower
of bitter tears fell on a Daisy at her feet.
Immediately the woods were filled with
fragrance, music the softest, sweetest and
clearest pealed on the air, foaming waters
gushed over tHe tail whit# rocks, and all
was beauty where solitude and dreariness
before reigned. The Daisy was transform
ed into a dazzling Princess of Fate, who
lightly touching the wounded brow of
Wahliga, murmured,
“Tohatchee fell, a warrior bra ve
And willows weep above his grave,
m Yet in you sky liis spirit gleams
Wahliga! to that sky,
No tear shall there bedew thine eye,
Away ! away ! above the sea
A beauteous star I’ll make of thee!”
liike a flash of lightning the gentle spii
it of Wahliga left the flowery vale, and
took its place among the stars near Tohat
chee. The tears, the fast flowing tears of
youthful sorrow and despair were connect
ed into a beautiful waterfall, which fell
not in mournful echoes, but tenderly over
the rocks like the soft cadence of a mid
night lyre.
Then the Fairy christened those falls
aud the streamlet from which they flowed.
To Wahliga for them both, as t lie spir
its of Tohatchee and Wahliga were now uni- [
ted never more to be separated. In a se- j
eluded vale of Georgia these waters fall,
oft “wasting their sweetest echoes on the i
desert air” yet day and night they are |
guarded by the Daisy Princess, and attwi
light’s holy hour, a light beams from above, j
a twinkling, radiant star, the spirit of the 1
peerless Wahliga.
When the repentant chief learned that
his daughter would never again return to
earth, he too laid down in the quiet woods
to die. The Haunted Spring sung a requi
em over his lonely grave, and the waters
of that Indian Spring are still to day re
sorted to every summer as a rejuvenator
of health and spirits, by the aged and af
flicted as well as the fashionables of youth.
Suddenly the voice of my vigilant Dream
Spirit ceased, my fairy isle vanished, the
dark-eyed Wahliga disappeared, and 1 was
again in sight of Upson’s venerable hills
almost ashamed to acknowledge (notwith
standing such pleasant visions) that I had
been naughtily napping over the “bright
and beautiful pages of “Epipsychidion !”
Bell wood Farm.
Post Office Defalcation.
* Isaac Y. Fowler, Post-master of the city
of New York, has proven to be a defaulter
to the tune of $155,000 ! He was appoint
ed bv Mr. Pierce, and was retained in of
fice by Mr. Buchanan. This man Fowler
was a Buffalo platform man in 1848, and
supported Martin Van Buren, the free-soil
Wilmot proviso candidate of that year.—
Finding afterwards that “squatter sover
eignty was a nigh cut to all the ends of
Black Republicanism,” he embraced that
heresy.
There is one other significant fact in the
history of this man Fowler, worthy the at
tention of the Georgia Democracy. He
was a member of the infamous New York
Cagger delegation to the late Charleston
Convention, and in the language of the
Chronicle & Sentinel, “from that delega
tion every one of whom was originally a
Free-soiler, an Abolitionist or a Liberty
party man, including John Cochrane, a
nephew of the notorious Gerrit Smith,
came that olive branch of harmony, called
the Tennessee resolution, which the mild
est Georgia Squatters, such as Gov. Brown,
urge the Democracy of the State to accept
Jas the best they can do. Truly the reso
lution has most excellent paternity, and
such as doubtless recommends it to all who
| love plunder better than principle.”
NEW-tORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE PILOT.
President al Confercncc-Jay,,.
est — Barnum — ll a nan — il lcDonahf
Unfortunate Baloonist-Absconding J\
Master—ll is Successor.
The Baltimore nomination of 801 lar j
Everett is one of merit and character • jt
success is problematical; but certainly Yu
American people will have abundant c aj Y
of gratitude if they never have worse
than either to represent them at the head
of the nation. The ticket is a p 0
and meritorious one in all points. Tl
Chicago nominees have nothing special
recommend them but a comparative obscu.
rity, which, ot late, has become, unfortu
nately, a passport to distinction. Seward
was to the Republican party what Calhoun
was to the South, and Clay to the \Vhb
party ; to sacrifice him for availability, was
a cruelty that none hut corrupt politicians
could be guilty of. The fight in the cairn
was between Greely and Thurlow Weed
and Greely whipped or defeated the most
accomplished public plunderer ever educa
ted on American soil. Quite an enthusi
astic Douglas meeting was held last eve
ning at the Cooper Institute. The Chica
go nomination will help his prospects in
the Western free states, but I think his
nomination for the South will be a bad one
wdiether successful or nut. He is an un
scrupulous demagogue, who paves bis way
to power with money. If the Baltimore
Democratic Convention would nominate
Houston and Everett, the triumph would
be certain and complete.
A resolution to fraternise and counsel
with the Southern Methodist Church, by
the General Conference North, (of that
Church,) now sitting in Buffalo, was; on
motion of Dr. Fley, of New-York, laid on
the table. The debate on Slavery is now
at its zenith, and disastrous consequences
are anticipated, as a large majority of the
delegates are ultra and rabid —distempered
and mad. The passage of a rule expelling
slave-holders, though only prospective, will
create a certain general division of all the
border, and many other churches in the
large cities.
Barnum has offered two thousand dol
lars to the Ileenan Testimonial, if Heeuan
will exhibit himself a few days, in his Mu
seum, and one hundred for one visit. A
fit place for wild animals. By the by. Hec
nau and Sayers are to fight over again—
the time is set.
The Japenese are being extensively en
tertained and made fools of generally’ hr
our people ; they are all the go now, till
some other ghost appears.
The Great Eastern is advertised to sail
for New-York in June.
McDonald, from Mobile, who shot his
mistress in Broadway some months since,
committed suicide in prison, hy taking poi
son. “The way of the transgressor is hard”
—his end dreadful.
A young pupil, and aspirant for the
clouds, recently ascended from lkdaeoGav
\tv in t ttttr V! tij ft till HUM 11 Dll HU I '.l. j
was split out, by an explosion, and iost hi*
life. !5o much fur airy visitors.
Fowler, the polite, fashionable o< Imumu
and Post Master of New-York, it isgiu
posed, left in the last steamer in disguise,
ruined in pocket and character. llis defi
ciencies to this date, amount, to $170,000;
the search not completed John A. fix
takes his place this week. It is hoped he
will not walk in the steps of his “illustri
ous predecessor.”
Ycuvs, E.
J a pen cse Cost run o.
Their slight stature, loose t<owsci>, and
flowing robe or gown reaching to U: p ;:
bare head, aud elaborately drcr:c : bin,
with the absence ol beards, gve then) al
most a feminine appearance ; their
complexions —that ol the brightest n ‘ *
west Indiaus —is to one accustomed toiatc
brown men always below the white, unpre
possessing ; but travelers in Japan state
that the females there ot high rank, who
keep out of the sun, have fair complexions
and rosy cheecks, and it has been proved
that men ever so white have, hy going un
covered in the full glare of thesuu, berffis
brown like the Japanese; hence it is assum
ed that the Japenese are white men, :
would be if they wore something on d^ r
heads. The prince at the head of the Em
bassy is evidently, from his perfect self
possession and great diguity, a maD 0
might and power at home, and accustome
to be honored by great multitudes; an >
judging from the intelligence he ex . J ‘! 6 ’
as well as liis earnest and quiet bearing,
has placed himself in his present p os ‘ !i ''’
with a • full consciousness of its 0; in ?;‘
and importance, leaving wifeantf £)
wealth and position, to be perhaps sac
ed upon a chance and uncertain > I
upon representations of opponents to
mission. ntl or
At first sight there seemed to be l *
no difference iu the dress of the P riDCIS
their retainers; but we soon discount ‘
their towers were very different-—! _ ie ‘ a
brocade, with beautiful figures of—
winged reptiles in illumined colois,
worn by the head prince. Others ore
cade trowsers less handsome; and t - -
vants : trowsers were of common co .
ticking. The two long-handled or -
so Indicated rank ; and every one o .
whatever his rank, had dyed U P OU
black gowns a small white figine o •
bol about the size of a dollar, whit* ll
resembled a leaf, in others three h eal “
their points to the center; and * n j.
principal officials, who seemed to “
most equal rank, the symbol was 11 6
and was worn on the shoulder a,u tc jah
of the gown. One of the iinportan o
informed me when I pointed to i a j-of
ed its meaning, that it was _ t “ L ’
their family or house. So it is A sVS te®
crest—a coat of arms —as the tout
of retainers prevails to its fill L o fth*
Japan. This mark on some pai eT #
dress is found on every peison, .0
humble he may be. So it . g ar
principal personages are ah o fs and
family, or, as one of them tout i~->
I eaqpc house.”