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The El Dorado Outrage and the National
Intelligenoer.
Such, in late years, has been the proneness of
the National Intelligencer in every case of diffi
culty between our Government and a foreign
power, to become the j istifier or apologist of
the latter, that nothing of that kind now takes
us by surprise. We do not think the designa
tion it received from the Washington Union as
“The organ of foreign influences” too harsh or
unjust. The pernicious influence of that paper
in this respect cannot be too heartily deprecated,
for there are numbers of minor papers in the
States, Georgia among the number,; ever ready
to copy the editorials of the fHßNilftnctr and
chime in with its when
it promises a hope of creatrag a prejudice
against or counteracting a measure of a Demo
cratic administration. Some papers act as if the
sole purpose of their existence was to oppose
the Democrats. So strong is this feeling that
even the sympathies of such papers will, mo
mentarily at least, lean towards a foreign power
if a cause of offence arise towards it during a
Democratic administration. Hence the readi
ness of the Intelligencer to apologize for and
even justify the late firing.at the El Dorado by
a Spanish vessel of war. Hence the alacrity
with which the editorial of the Intelligencer is
copied.
The Washington Union thus happily replies:
The El Dorado Outrage.—Facts of the
Ca»k.— The briel allusion made by us on yester
day to the late outrage upon the steamer El Dora
do by a Spanish frigate was based upon unofficial
intelligence, but so well authenticated that we
felt authorized to rely upon its correctness. We
have been favored by the State Department
with a copy of a letter of Captain Cray, the
commande; of the El Dorado, addressed to the
acting American consul at Havana, which we
publish below, and which fully sustains the ac
count on which our comments of yesterday
were made. The insult to our flag was flagrant,
wholly unprovoked, and,without the shadow of
pa'liation. An armed Spanish man-of-war de
liberately Gres two shots at one of our regular
mail steamers, stops her on her voyage by force,
and compels her to submit to a search by a
Spanish official! It is difficult to conceive of a
grosser outrage upon our national flag, or a more
deliberate insult to our national honor, or a bold
er assertion of “ the right of search.” It the
rase takes the usual course, the /acts wih be
forwarded to Madrid, where the Spanish govern
ment will he called upon lor reparation. The
Spanish Government will claim time to send to
Havana to procure evidence, and in the mean
time, whilst this delay takes place, some other
American vessel will be fired into and searched
' i'neorT’Vmt Injury are never of
atoned for. We will not pursue the subject, but
only remark that our flag and oui honor have
been insulted and the right of search practically
asserted. We have full confidence that the
President will do his duty faithfully in the pre
mises. The letter ot Capt. Gray is as follows:
Steamship ElDorado,)
Havana, March 8,1855. J
Sir : 1 have to report to you that on the night
of the 6th inst., while on my passage from As
pinwall (N. G) towards this place, with the
United States mails and California passengers, I
was Gred at, and brought to, by the Spanish fri
gate “Ferolona,” the circumstances of which are
these: The night was beautifully clear, with a
smooth sea and light breezes from the south and
cast. At twenty minutes past midnight I made
Cape Antonio light, bearing north by west, (per
compass.) steering north by west } west, and a
few minutes afterwards a ship was seen on our
port bow, with her head to south and west and
courses hauled up. At about 1,15, when she
was two points forward of the beam, and distant
from half to three-quarters of a mile, without
signal of any description, she Gred a shot at us,
which fell about twenty yards from the ship on
port side, abreast of fore rigging. I immediate
ly ordered the helm put a starboard, and ran
down towards her, intending to pass under her |
stern; but, when within three hundred yards of j
her, she Gred a second shot, which passed but a j
short distance over the port wheel-house from
forward to aft The engines having been pre
viously slowed, I stopped them, and ranging up
under her stern, asked what he wished. He re
plied by asking what ship it was, and where I
Was from. I told him the United States mail
steamship “El Dorado,” from Aspinwall, bound
to Havana. He then told me to back and wait.
After stopping some minutes I again hailed and
asked him what he wanted, and to know if he
was going to keep me there all night. He an
swered by saying be wou'd send a boat along
side, which he did. When the officer came on
board, he requested Co see the papers. I show
ed him the clearance from the United States con
sulate at Aspinwall, and also the bill of health;
after reading which, he told me I could proceed
as soon as the boat got a short distance from the
ship. The detention of stopping being about
forty-five minutes, besides running out of my
course. .
I would further remark that during the whole
night my signal lights were burning bright and
clear, and that I was pursuing my course at a
distance of fully eight or ten miles from any
land, and without the intention of violating the
laws of any country.
I remain, with respect, your ob’t. serv : t.
Alfred G. Gray-
W. H. Robertson, Esq., U. S. Consul.
We, William Brown, second mate, and Joshua
H. Walcott, passenger, of the steamer “El Do
rado,” which arrived yesterday morning at Ha
vana, from Aspinwall, do hereby declare that
the statements contained in the foregoing re
port, signed by Alfred G. Gray, captain of the
said steamer, are true and correct; said Brown
was, when the occurrence took place, the officer
of the deck, and said Walcott was also on deck
part ot the time. William Brown,
J. H. Walcott,
As usual, and as if in duty bounty, the Intel
ligencer is found on the foreign side oi the late
El Dorado outiage. Its sensitive nerves are
shocked at the idea of our calling it an “outrage.”
It can see nothing unusual and nothing to con
demn in firing cannon shots at and over our
mail steamers when it is only done for the in
rocent purpose of forcing them to “bring to,”
that they may be boarded and searched, and
when the shots do not happen to strike the ves
sels or knock out anybody’s brains. We are
tempted to ask what would have been the judg
ment of the Intelligencer if one of the balls bad
bored a hole in the El Dorado and sent her and
I ail on board to the bottom? Its answer then
would have been that the misfortune was the
result of an unintentional bad shot, and, as it
was purely accidental, the perpetrators < ught to
be excused! But the case, as it occurred, is this:
One of our regular mail steamers is sailing on
her regular track, eight or ten miles from land,
with her signal lights burning bright and clear,
the night being beautifully clear, when a Spanish
man-oi war, at the distance of half to three
quarters of a mile, without signal of any descrip
tion fired a shot at her—that is Capt. Gray’s
language—which fell about twenty yards from
the steamer on port side, abreast of the fore-rig
ging. The captain of the steamer ordered the
helm put a starboard, and ran down towards her,
intending to pass under her stern; but when
witbin three hundred yards of her she fired a
second shot, which passed but a short distance
over the port wheel-house from forward to aft.
The engines of the steamer having been stopped,
she was ranging up under the stern of the frigate,
when the captain of the El Dorado asked what
was wished. Upon being answered by the
Spanish officer that he wanted to know what
ship it was and where she was from, the captain
informed him that it was the United States mail
steamship, El Dorado from Aspinwall bound to
Havana. This was not satisfactory to th
Spanish officer; be went on board the steamer
and called for her papers. These are the facts,
as reported to our consul at Havana by Captain
Gray. The Intelligencer, so far from seeing any
outrage in this bigh-handed proceeding, actually
gives Captain Gray a sharp rebuke for not stop
ping his engines when the first shot was fired
at him, or, as the Intelligencer has it, over him.
It says, “in common courtesy the steamer ought
at first to have stopped.” But more than that,
the Intelligencer says the Spanish frigate was in
“the exercise of a universally-acknowledged
right.” We knew that the British government
set up high claims to the right of search and the
right of visitation on the high seas, and we knew
that the Intelligencer was not lacking in ad
miration for British rights; but that our govern
ment ever has or ever will concede such a right
we are far from admitting. But. that we may
not be charged with misrepresenting the position
taken by the Intelligencer, and takfii with all
the confidence of one speaking by r. ithority for
the Spanish government, we quote its remarks
entire:
“The last ‘outrage’ which the ‘Union’ has
heralded is that of the shots fired by a Spanish
cruiser over El Dorado, going in the night into
Cuba. The armed ships of every independent
government have from time immemorial exercis
ed the right of ‘bringing to,’ as it is termed in
n mtical phrase, any vessel at sea the character
of which they desire to ascertain. This was
the sole object ol the Spanish ship-of-ivar in the
case of the El Dorado. The first shot, fired over
the bows of the steamer, not having had the ex
pected effect of arresting her course, a second
was fired, but neither of them with the inten
tion ot doing her injury. It was the exercise of
a universally-acknowledged right, and in com
mon courtesy the steamer ought at first to have
stopped to satisfy the ship-ot-war that there was
no ground of suspicion as to her real character.
It was nothing more than the accustomed chal
lenge which every sentinel is bound to make, ot
‘who goes there?’to one who is approaching or
passing a military post.”
We respectfully submit that our people ought
not to be much surpused at the repeated ag
gressions and insults ot Spanish officials in Cuha,
when they have a guarantee in the past that
they can commit no outrage so flagrant that it
will not be promptly excused or justified by the
Washington organ of one of our national parties
We venture to predict, that when the organ of
the Spanish government at Madrid comes to
speak of the El Dorado affair, it will manifest
quite as much respect tor American rights ai d
American honor as are contained in these re
marks of the Intelligencer. As that journal at
tributes to us a “keen scent in winding national
indignities,” it will pardon us for informing it
that the sentiments of the extract above seem to
us to smell strongly of a Spanish origin. The
Intelligencer knows what the object of the
Spanish officer was; it know that he had a
sole object—that obj-ct was to “bring to” the
American steamer; :t know* that the first shot
was fired over the bows of the steamer,and net at
her. as asserted by Capt. Gray ; it knows that
neither shot was fired with any intention of doing
any injury; and then.as if speaking so; the Span
ishgovernment.it a -»ertsthat “it was the exercise
high seas may be very acceptable to the Intelli
gencer, but we shall be disappointed if the
American sentiment does not regard it not only
as an outrage, but one which calls for exempla
ry reparation. If the armed vessels ot other
countries have the “right” to fire cannon balls
over and around our merchant ships to" the pur
pose ol forcing them to submit visitation and
search, the high seas are not as free as we had
suppose them to be. But the right of “bringing
to,” and visitation and search—all which aie
in effect the same thing—so confidently claimed
by the Intelligencer for the Spanish vessels on
the coast of Cuba, is too important to be passed
over without a more thorough examination than
w*» are now able to give to the subject. We
shall recur to it in our next, and at present con
clude by warning the Spanish government
against being deceived by the Intelligencer into
the belief that her armed ships can commit
such aggressions as that upon the El Dorado
without disturbing the peaceful relations of the
two countries. The Intelligencer prates much
of its conservatism and its love of peace ; but
its habitual course of apologizing for the ag
gressions and insults of foreign governments is
the most effectual mode that it could adopt for
] encouraging repetitions of outrages which must
ultimately result in a resort for rediess to coer
i cive measures.
The Charleston papers announce the death oi
two respectable citiiens of that city. James
Lamb, for many years a leading and successful
merchant, and E. C. Scott, a highly estimable
citizen, who, lor the last nine years, held a re
sponsible trust in the office of the Charleston
Mercury- Mr. Scott was a native of that city,
and died in bis fortieth year.
The Present State of the Usury Laws in
England.
The March number ot Hunt's Merchant's
Magazine is on our table, containing its usual va
riety of interesting mercantile reading.
We extract from its pages the following pro
positions deduced from the report of a recent
action on a Bill of Exchange, in the Court of
Common Pleas, in London, and the deeision of
the Judge. It furnishes a brief summary of the
existing law ol Usury.
1. No person can legally take more than £5
por cent per annum interest on loans under £lO,
except pawnbrokers,and except on bills of exchange
and promissory notes at less than three months’
date, or having less than three months to run.
2. Any rate of interest may be taken on bills of
exchange and promissory notes, although under
£lO, at three months’ date, or not having more
than three months to run; and there may also
be collateral security on land for the payment ot
such bills or notes.
3. Any rate of interest may be taken for sums
above £lO on bills of exchange and promissory
notes of moro than three and less than twelve
months’ datoor time to run, and also on all other
contracts of similar date, provided there bo no
landed security.
4. In all other instances the old usury laws are
all in force.
There is said to be in Illinois at least twenty
per cent, more wheat at the present time
than in any previous year. T'ue winter has
been exceedingly favorable.
Lola Montez is about returning to the stage,
in her double capacity of actress and danseuse.
She has made an engagement with Mrs. Sinclair,
and after a brief tonr of California, will return to
“the States/'
How to Stop the Brayino or a Ijo.neeY.—
M. Hue, in his Travels in China, relates
iowing amusing story :
“ In IS4O, we were once making a jourr.ejf iD
a wagon in the province ot P kin. Oureqf ip
age was under of one of our 'V wh
ists. and old schoolmaster, mounted on ? _nag
nilicent ass, so lull of ardor and agility that the
two mules who comi leted our team had all the
difficulty in the world to keep up with him.
This ass, however, was so filled with the sense
of his own superiority, and so proud of it, that
whenever he became aware ot the presence of
any of nis brethren, let them be at ever so great
a distance, he never failed to begin boasting o! it
in such loud and sonorous tones, tbst bis folly
became quite ’nsupportable. When we got to
an inn instead ot trying to rest himself this in
delatigable beast passed the whole night in prac
tising his music; and there appeared to be some
thing so peculiarly provoking in the tones of his
voice that all the asses within hearing, influ
enced, it would seem, by the power of some
magnetic fluid, were quite sure to respond in a
magnificent bra’ura, so that, altogether, it be
came impossible to cioee our eyes. One evening
when our catechist was vaunting the qualities
of his ass, we could not help interrupting him.
*• Your ass,” said we, •‘is an abominable brute.
During the whole journey he has prevented our
getting a wink ol sleep.” “Why did you not
teil me so before ?” said the catechist: “I would
soon have stopped his sinking.* As the ancient
schoolmaster was somewhat of a wag, and in
dulged occasionally in a small joke, *e took
little notice of his reply, but that night we slept
quite soundly. “Well, did the us make a noise
last night ” said he, when we met in the morn
ing. “Perhaps not; at all events we certainly
did not hear him.” “No, no ; I thiok not.; I saw
to that before I went to bed. You must have
noticed,” be continued, “that when an ass is go
ing to bray he always begins by raising bis tail,
and he keeps it extended horizontally as long as
bis song lasts. To ensure his silence, therefore,
you have only to tie a large stone to the end of
bis tail so that he cannot raise it.” We smiled,
without reply, thinking this anotbe£.jjiece o<
pleasantry; but he cried “Come
you can easily convince yourselves.” And ac
cordingly we followed him to the court-yard,
were we beheld, sure enough, the poor ass with
a large stone attached to his tail, and with the
air of having entirely lost his accustomed spirits.
Uie eyes were fixed on the ground, his ears hang
down, his whole appearace denoted humility
and dejection. We felt quite compassionate
towards him and begged his master to untie the
stone directly ; and as soon as ever he telt his
musical appendage at liberty, the creature raised,
first his head, then his ears, then his tail, at at last
began to bray with all his wonted enthusiasm.
Usury Laws in New York.
The Committee on Commerce of the New
York Legislature, to whom was referred sundry
memorials, praying for a modification of the
Usury Laws, have made a report favorable to
the views of the memorialists, and concludes
with the following statement of facts to sustain
the argument of the report:
First —That in tho richest and most comrercial
countries, like England, Holland, ani the free city
of Hamburg, for cxamplo the rates of interest rule
at the lowest points. There the rates of interest
have varied in tho -ixty years past from two and a
half t“ six per cent
Secondly The highest r.ites of practical interest
rule in this State, where usury is made punishable
with a tine of $ 1.000, impr sonment for si* months,
and the loss of the whole debt, principal aad inter
est, if more than seven per cent is received lor mo
ney. The rich buyers ol notes at 2 per cent, a
month in New York are the leading advocates of
Usury Laws-
Thirdly— Money is not cheapened to borrowers
by stringent usury laws.nor can any Legislative acts
fix permanent rates of interest for the uie of mo
ney. Whore there is no contract for t'ic use of
money, it is necessary and right for the Stote to es
tablish a rate of interest The bill reported, how
ever, only goes to the extent of modifying the ex
istmg law 30 as to givo the bare principal, without
interost, in cases of suit, to the lender. '
Fourth y— The rates of money will kltrtJS he
according to the stringency of the money market,
and the degree of confidence in business. Home
tones it wiil be under seven per cent., a:, i some
times above, and it is frequently loaned by the
banks at five and six, and seven per cent ; but
,vh.u money is scarce, and the rates of interest
capital, and this, without regsrd to the fF.tl nXed
by law
Fifthly— With an cxoepiion or two, of the two
or three thousand meoiorinlists petitioning for a
repeal of the law of 1837. all aro borrowers of mo
ney, and your oommittee believe that the modifi
cation they propose to the existing law, will result
in benefiting this class of persona
All of wh ch is respectfully submitted.
(Signed) Bbastos Broom, l Commi tee
Jas H. Hutchjns, )
Risk in the Western Rivers.— Subjoined is
an extract from a letter published in the Savan.
nah Republican, dated:
“New Orleans, March 19.— Heavy rains
have fallen throughout the city and country, and
from recent advices received trom abroad a large
and general rise in all the upper rivers and tribu
taries is reported. The Arkansas river is said
to have risen twenty-one feet. I think we
mav, with some degree of certainty, da'e the
opening ot navigation from this period, and the
commencement of an active business season for
the next two months.”
We would add that the foregoing is corrobo
rated by the last papers from the West It was
believed that the rise of twenty-one feet in the
Arkansas would produce a rise of at least six
feet in the Mississippi.
The Mobile Advertiser of Thursday says :
■‘We are at length enabled to announce the
opening of navigation in our rivers with a fair
prospect of its continuing long enough to bring
to us a large amount of the cotton which has so
long been waiting a ‘•rise” f«.r transportation
hither. On Monday night ot last week the
drought was broken in ’he country by a gene
rous rain, and since then various sections bave
been blessed with more or lees copious showers.
On Saturday and Sunday we had some rain here,
and are glad to bear that in the interior a good
deal has fallen. The Alabama is high enough
for any craft: the Bigbee is reported well up,
and this evening despatches were received here
stating that on Monday the Warrior had risen
six teet at Tuscaloosa, and was still rising.—
While we write too, the rain is coming down
in torrents, with every prospect of an abundance
ol the aqueous fluid.”
A Washington despatch mentions a rumor
that orders are about to go out to Havana for the
naval force there to seek reparation for the El
Dorado outrage. The steamer Princeton,
with ten heavy guns, is already there; tne
steamer Fulton, with five guns ; aud the sloop
Falmouth, with twenty guns, are either there
now, or will be very soon.
On Saturday, a freight train vveigbing three
hundred tons, and extending from town to town,
passed over the suspension bridge, at Niagara
Falls, settling it less than three inches.
The Democracy of Rhode Island made their
Sti.te Nominations on Wednesday, Potter, ol
Providence, lor Governor, and Nicholas Brown,
for Lieutenant.
The Legislature of Massachusetts has passed
an act, which has been approved by the Gov
ernor, and is now a law, providing that either
party to any libel for divorce now pending, or to
be herealter commenced, may, at any time be
fore the trial thereof is actually comnr.enced,de
mand in writing a trial by jury. Heretofore di
voice cases in that State bave been tried by the
judges alone.
Know-Nothing Triumph in New Hampshire !
Gov Metcalf s Platform.
That Southern men may torm some idea of
the triumph achieved by the Know-Nothings in
New Hampshire and the principles that have
there triumphed with them, we give an extract
from the N. Y. Evening Pott —the most untiring
assailant of the South to be found among the
Free Soil Press.
Shipwreck ik New Hampshire. —Our dis
patches from New Hampshire proclaim the trium
phant succoss of the combined forces of the Whigs,
Free-Soilers, Know-Nothir.gs, and Anti-Nebraska
Democrats, over the Pierce Nebraska party of that
State. It will bo seen that the Whig and Frec-
Soii parties made no attempt to sustain their can
d dates, who, although regularly in nomination,
received only the support of a small bandful of
voters. The fusion against the Ncbraskaitcs was
complete, and the route is as complete as was the
combination. The last stronghold of the Sham
Democracy has thus been utterly overthrown. The
elements of opposition which the traitorous con
duct and policy of the National Administration
called into being, haTe been merged in New Hamp
shire, as in Maine, and the result is the total dis
comfiture of the hitherto invincible Democratic
party of that State. Now Hampshire has, for the
firsc time, gone over to the opposition. It is a
memorable event in history of the New Eng
land politics. Whatever may be pretended, this
overwhelming victory is mainly owing to the aver
sion of the masses to tbecourseof the Administration
on the Nebraska bill. The popular disgust was
everywhere excited; and, under cover of a new or
ganization, much of it has manifested itself, that
would never otherwise have been fully felt in the
election. Yet, without any other issue than simple
Anti-Nebraska, the route of the Administration in
its stronghold in the N orth would hardly have been
less complete. The great and damning sin which
has prostrated it was the iniquity hatched by
Atchison, Douglas, Pieroe and their agents and
abettors. This is the weight that has pulled it
down. Its little merits, like the veto of the Col
lins, line, tor example, have been as nothing in
the scale against the crowning infamy which it at
tempted to establish and canonize in the Demo
cratic ranks.
As the Governor elect may be fairly consid
ered the exponent of the opinions held by the
Know-Nothings who elected him, and opposed
by the Democracy, we append an extract from
his letter of acceptance to the Know-Nothing
Committee which notified him of his nomination.
It bears date, Newport, Feb. 8, 1855.
After expressing his views, advocating the ex
clusion of foreigners and Catholics from office,
he says:
11 X am docidedly opposed to tho lurther extension
of slavery. I deem tho Missouri compromise, so
called to have been a solemn compact between the
free and the slaveholding Statos, and as solemnly
and morally binding upon both, as treaties are
binding upon foreign nations; and that the pas
sage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, so for as it re
peals that compromise, was a violation of the com
paot, and a great wrong upon tho free States, and
that they will be fully justified in not yielding an
aoquicseneo therein, and insisting upon its uncon
ditional restoration.”
The following letter from a friend and inti
mate of his, is even more explicit. It is from
Anthony Colby, formerly Whig Governor of
Vermont.
Nbw London, Feb., 14th, 1855.
Doar Sir : Yours of the sth is received, and be
fore this will reach you, you will have read Met
calf’s letter of acceptance, and I have no doubt it
will bo acceptable to you. He is stronger on the
slavery and temperance questions than he has
written, that is he is as strong against slavery as
any of us, aad has found bad work to keep along
with his party for several years ; he says he has
never been in favor of the Nobraska rascality, and
he should not be disappointed if the same old par
ty should go for or ening the slave trade. It seem
ed best to put up a democrat for the office of gov
ernor, having all tho candidates for Congress of
the right stamp.
I think, on the whole, the nomination is a good
one, and that he will be elected. You and I agree
in all these matters,we could have carriod the state
on the old issues without the new order of things,
but with the tide rolling in upon us, there was no
other way to save the state but tho same which
has been taken, and now thoro is no way that I
, can see for the old Loco party to save themselves
1 from destruction. . • ,
Should the election go, as we believe it will,
there will be matters to follow after, which must
be seen to with care.
As you justly remark, we must have good and
trap men for our public servers.
- Very icso*— -
A’.T'tONY Ooi.ttV.
Thus it appears, Gov. Metcalf ha«- been a
Democrat, but has found it hard work to keep
along with bis party for several years, on ac
count of its Southern leanings and advocacy of
a pro-slavery policy. Therefore, he becomes a
renegade—is pfltlod up by his former opponents,
and is run in opposition to the Democratic party.
Can Southern men rejoice in the election of
such a man f Can Southern men join in the
shout that goes up from the whole Free-soil host,
in triumph over the defeat of the Administration
in President Pierce’s native State ?
Cotton Burned. —We learn from the Geor
gia Herald, that Mr. L. M. Lamar, of Macon,
whose plantation is situated about six miles
from Hawkinsville, had 104 bales of cotton
burned last week, which constituted his entire
crop of that article. The cotton had been sent
to a landing near by for the purpose of shipping
on board the H. L. Cook, for Savannah,—
Through the carelessness of the negro watch
man, who had built a fire some 40 feet distant,
it is supposed that it ignited from a spark j and
before discovered burned up.
(communicated.)
Mr. Editor: —ln your remarks upon the ex
position ol Know-Nothing doctrines, as original
ly published in New York and reproduced in
your issue of last Saturday, it seems to me that
you have overlooked one of the most striking
features of the document; I mean its decided
hostility to the Democratic party, and conse
quently to “the powers that be.”
After ranting about “the hundreds and thous
ands of Irish and Dutch who move about like
hordes of Gipsies, from canal to canal and from
railroad to railroa 1” and “have been the helots of
the North, as the Africans have been ot the
South,” the writer charges “unprincipled politi
cal demagogues, who want nothing but votes,”
w ith bargaining with “Catholic Priests and jesu
its who stand ready to offer those votes and
adds, “through these agencies several Presiden
tial elections have been decided.” To which
Presidential elections does he refer 1 We find
the answer a little further on ; thus : “the fruits
of this alarming state of things became apparent
to the whole country, and when these evil cau
ses had reached the hight of their influence, and
brought the present Administration into power, the
whole nation began to inquire bow this state of
things had been brought about, and what should
be the remedy.
But the writer, as if afraid that his whiggish
predilections might become too apparent strives
to throw dust into the eyes of the reader by in
troducing the name of the immortal Jackson in
the following sentence : “And those hundreds
of thousands of meu who sympathise with
Henry Clay in his American policy, with Gen
eral Jackson in the spirit of patriotism which
always inspired him,” (not with his politica
principles) “and with Daniel Webster, who was
the octt exponent of the tpi it of the Federal Union,
all combine together, either to give countenance
or persona! aid to this vast organisation.”
Is it not apparent that the sole object of this
“vast organisation’’ is to overthrow the present
Administration and to replace the defeated party
in power? Every observing and reflecting man
knows that in a canvass based upon legitimate
party principles and honestly conducted, the
Democratic party of this country will invariably
be victorious. It has therefore become necessary
to the success of their adversaries, that new is
sues be sprung up from time to time, with a
view to the distraction of party ties. The
Whigs have thus succeeded under the banners of
the “Hero of Tippecanoe and farmer of North
bend.” With “Coon skins and Log Cabins” the
floating vote was carried, anrd General Harrison
elected. The “Hero of Monterey and of Buena
Vista” entered the White House in the same
way. And now that “Heroism” is at a discount
we find the same party invoking the aid of bigo
try and intolerance ; regardless of the danger of
kindling a flame which has for centuries keen
the bane ol European society ; regardless of the
sacredness of our fundamental Law, and willing
to sacrifice even domestic harmony and liberty
of conscience, rather than be deleated in anoth
er Presidential canvass.
But, fully bent upon “the spoils,” which they
envy the democrats, and apprehensive that even
the combined influence of sectarian animosities
and prejudices against foreigners, might prove
insufficient, collateral issues are brought to bear
in different sections of the country where Abo
litionism and Free-soilism are rampant, thus
partixans are invited to join the Know-Nothings,
as the best way to get rid of an Administration
confessedly hostile to them. At the South, where
religious intolerance has hitherto been very
generally opposed by men of sense, and is there
fore unpopular, very little stress is laid upon this
feature of Know-Nothingism. Their batteries
are here directed mainly against the existing
system of naturalization and the importation of
foreign paupers—both of which subjects are well
calculated to enlist the influence of men of all
parties.
If Democrats allow themselves to be thrown
off their guard by such trickery, the triumph of
their political opponents must necessarily be the
result. Wherever the Know-Nothings have
succeeded they have turned out of office all Dem
ocrats and placed in their steed Whigs or rene
gade Democrats who have deserted their party
for the hope of “spoils.” Arshjs.
From the Manta Intelligencer.
The Augusta Constitutionalist on Know-
Nothingism.
We very much desired to give in full an edi
torial of great merit that appeared in our cotem
porary’s issue of the 21st. It is an excellent
paper upon the great question to which it refers
in its matter, and in a most especial manner is
it to be commended for its spirit. We have fre
quently been callpd upon to defend the course
that the Constitutionalist has adopted in regard
to the so styled American party when it has
been assailed as too tender-footed in its attacks
upon the new order. For the past we have ap
proved the reasons of this forbearing and respect
ful conduct and have incurred, in a great mea
sure, ourselves the same censure that has been
visited not only upon our friend of the Constitu
tionalist. but also upon the Journal <sr Courier ,
and tor the same reasons. We could not believe
it to be good policy to denounce any, and espe
cially Democrats, with whom we once cordially
affiliated, for their adhesion to a party of whose
aims and organism we know absolutely noth
ing. Much may be excused in men who blun
der in their conclusions upon any question of
first impression. And we submit, if it is not a
hard thing, the hardest of all trials, to part from
old political allies and confidents. These con
siderations, added to the specious promise of
some ot the first Know-Nothing victories, were
well calculated to restrain the expression ot
harsh and denunciatory language. But there is
a limit to such forbearance, and we for one are
sure that we have reached it. It W'll be seen
by the extract we make th s morniiu from the
Constitutionalist Republic that, one of the New
York Lodges has given, by authority, the arti
cles of the Know-Nothing faith, accompanied
by an Exposition. It is thought ali the Lodges
of the State will adopt the same platform.
Is not this suggestive of every thing that is
absurd, odious and dongerous 1 A common name
is to give nationality to a party, as weli as na
tional command and dictation, while every pri
mary meeting and council as to the vital ques
tion of duty and principle, each squad and clique
has unbridled license to do just as they list.—
Heretofore great parties have possessed some
unity, some universal element common to every
member, and which gave to party an unmis
takeable individuality. Republican, Federalist,
Whig, Democrat, Native American, Abolitionist,
Free Soiler, and Morman all acknowledged the
force or obligation of certain cardinal doctrines
which constituted aline of partition between
themselves and others. But here we have a party
that seeks to bind together a tremendous cordon
ot political agencies by a mere name. We will ask
(and we do it most urgently,) lor information
as to the excepted point, or points of difference
between the creed of Northern and Southern
Know-Nothings. Is notone of those excepted
points as to which Know-Nothings North and
South have agreed to differ the only one in
which the Southern patriot can feel the least
solicitude ? We were promised upon the advent
of this new order of patriots, a general peace
for the public mind or a tremendous agitation for
peace. But, so far as overt demonstrations teach
us any thing, Know-Nothings are only in favor
of the repose of the dead. The bauk and tariff]
questions and such faded, tattered para-phernalia
of parties, the Subterraneans quietly reject, for
the present, but when we come to ask their
friendly offices in staying the approaches that
the incendiary and conspirator are making to
wards our ruin, their protestations, their vaunted
power and deadly concert all go for nothing.
And while we were taught to look to this
American party par excellence, for the inaugura
tion of a nsw reign of peace, fraternity and
equality, we, so far from having the guarantee
maintained as to one portentous danger, have
another just as perilous added to it. We must
now provide for the deadliest feud between
members of our oum community, upon our soil,
| as well as the united enmity of the Northern
■ States, that of itself was more than a match for
us, and in every hour digging a pit for the liber
ty and honor of the South. If the South—if
this favored and proud commonwealth of ours
can count among her sons men of heart and
head that qualify them for command, let them
prepare to take their places. We feel,that at
this stage of its organization,it is worse than fool
| ishness to address arguments of remonstrance to
i Democrats who have attached themselves to the
| Know-Nothing party. But it roust be seen be
| fore it can be credited, that true Democrats will
1 commit themselves to a policy the spirit of
] which is grossly violative ot every principle to
j which they ever adhered before. We car-nut
! believe that men, who for years stereotyped
their maledictions against the spirit and tenden
cy of the a! cn and sedition laws, can now sub
mit to the open shame of transcending the
bounds of injustice contemplated once by this
spawn of Federalism and then going beyond
the cruelty of this old outrage on the republican
sentiment of our people in avenging the out
bursts of passion on the part of the victims
Look to the retorts of the press sympathizing
with Know-Nothingism upon John Mitchell’s
letter to the volunteer ccmpanies disbanded by
that apostate son of Massachusetts,’Gov. Gard
ner. We may search in vain in the records of
Catholic oppression in the British Isles for any
thing more acrimonious or more high-handed.
Are Democrats, the professed defenders of equal
rignts—the men who glory in the faith that
merit makes the man, to be called upon to aid
in placing burthens of ignominy on the heals of
men too intolerable to be borne and then to au:
in persecuting them with worse if they resist ?
Are you ready for concealment—for sotial inqui.
sition and espionage who used the glory at everv
corner of the street, that Democracy had no
concealments from the public eye—no use for
mum candidates or a muzzled press? Where
now is our and your once proud boast that “no
error is dangerous when reason is left free hi
combat it.” This whole thing, so far as we
have been permitted to seek it, looks so mon
strous in a moral point of view that sometimes
we flatter ourselves that Southern Know Noth
ings, particularly the Democrats among them
conceal a profound stroke of policy for Me in
terest of the South in the course they seem to
have adopted.
It is as sure as the day ot doom, that the dis
franchisement of a foreign born citizens or dis
qualifications imposed upon them on account of
religion,must bring the Legislatures ot the States
in violent collision with the Supreme Court;
and after that will come the horrors of a bloody
civil war. No man who knows the South, for a
moment distrusts her conservative, magnani
mous mind, so lar as to fear any probability that
the bitter spirit of persecution for conscience
sake, or for the sake of any thing else, can obtain
a footing here. The fury of this new icligious
and social war must break upon the North—
There the mass of those mar. now devoted to
the taboo are to be found, and the devisers of this
scheme of degradation and outrage will be the
first to eat the bitter fruits of it. Then will
there be a truce to anti-slavery rage and aggies
sion. The neck veins of others besides mer.
South of the Potomac, will suddenly appear to
be rather exposed for comfort; and even the
Yankee capacity and versatility be a little over
taxed in caring for two social wars. We sa
we sometimes think that Southern Know Noth
ings might have intended by their encoufige
ment of their party something like this. Wheth
er they did or not, however, it is none the lest
inevitable in our judgment that so far as the
Northern States are interested, that this is to be
the grand finale of new light Americanism. But
will the party respond to the enquiries that the
Constitutionalist and every otder democrat!: L
press are addressing to the “Secret Order fV*
Will we be allowed to canvass the claims of tb
new party to our respect, (and support i
you will,) by having submitted to cur reason,
patriotism and sense of public duty the claim!
of the Know Nothing party after an authorita
tive exgiose of them. This must rome sooner
or later, and the success of those whose only s*.
curity is in their concealment will only
this consumation.
Bank Robbery—Unparalleled Audacity
The Branch of the Bank of the State of Ge>. •
gia in this place, was entered through the front
door, opening on the Public Square, between c .
ven and eight o’clock Wednesday morning last, ,i
and robbed of fifteen thousand two hundred and
twenty-five dollars , in bills, all of which are pay.
able in this place. The Teller had justa.byen :r;
the room and removed the till from the vault to
its usual place in the counter preparatory to tne
day’s business, and retired to breakfast, lockin'
the side door leading into the passage after h?m,
and supposing the front door secure, as it bail
been locked the evening previous. A negro hoy
whose business it is to sweep out the "bankin'
room every morning while the Teller is present
has been airested ami confesses, that by ago;,
ment with a white man, the night before, he
secretly turned the key in the front door while
sweeping. The robber, all this while, was
creted in the privy at the coiner of the boil '• ig
and but a few steps from the door. As soo : as
the bell rane for breakfast he emerged Iron: t.ie
hiding place, entered the building, secured his
booty, and effected his escape unseen. The
robbery was discovered a little over an hour a;-
ter it occurred, yet ail attempts to track ttV vil.
lain failed. We doubt if the annals o'.. c.ur.i
furnish a more daring adventure.— Hj'/Ai lu
publican.
Glass Globus Unsuitable for Fi-h.—ir.
the first place the fish require abundance of " ; r
Now,sca;cely any other shap. than a gl.yia'
one contains sc much water with c-o little .
sure to the air. Fish, too, require shale, ot
when we choose to give it them. hW when ,<y
feel the want of it; and it need sctiirely be ob
served that ali day long a glass globe irf ir a b’ai?
ot light. Still pnnre, the wafer in a tjlo l e
he daily chat.geo. the K-h if ’>-t C ir
lifted out either by the hand ot a small mt • attc
it is utterly impossible, however careful v e may
be, to handle or net these delicate Hlth. strug
gling creatures without injuring them, at ocr
time or another. —Family Friend.
Influence or Marriage.—Habit aud lon
life together are more necessary to bsfK-ine*.
and even to love, than is generally imugire
No one is happy with the ob ect ol bis atfac..-
ment, until he has passed many days, aifdr.aboi.;
all, many days of misfortune with her.
The mariied pair must know each other to the
centre of their souls—the mysterious veil wtiich
covered the two spouses in the prinsitiv*-s.b’.rch,
must be raised in its inmost folds, how closely
soever it may be kept drawn to the rest o! the
world.
What! on account of a fit of caprice, or hurst
of passion, am I to be exposed to the fear of los
ing my wife and my children, and to renonce tie
hope ot passing my declining days with them ’
Let r,o one imagine that fear will make me be
come a better husband.
No; we do not attach ourselves to a •mtifi
sion of which we are not secure; we do not lova
property which w« are in danger of losing
The soul o! a titan, as well as his body, sa not
complete without his wile; he has strength, she
has beauty; he combats the enemy and labors in
the field, but he understands nothing of domestic
file; his companion is waiting to prepare his re
past and sweeten his He has crosses.
and the partner of his life is tjHh*ioft<!'r ) them , ,
his days, may be sad and in the
chaste arms of his wife he finds eUWTort ar.d rs-
Poa«2.
Without woman, man would be rude? gross. I
solitary. Woman spreads around him the flow
ers of existence, as the creepers of the forest,
which decorate the trunks of sturdy oak- with
ther perfumed garlands.
Finally, the Christian p»jr live and die uritec,
together they rear the iruiWbf their union ; in
the dust they lay side by side, and they are uni
ted beyond the tomb.
Mobile Cotton i race. —Some idea ray be
formed of the genera! stagnation in b m«a
here, by examining our cotton statistics .or the
present season. The receipts of the staple from j ’
the first of September ISG4 up to last evening. i
amount to only 200.142 bales, while for the same
period last year they reached 420 607 hales,
showing a falling off of 220,525 bales. This
large deficiency operates heavily and injuriously
upon ail branches of business", viz: weighing,
draying, storing, compressing, wharfage, light
erage, &c., &c. Persot s engaged in these pur
suits made arrangements months ago lor the ne
cessary labor for handling the usual quantity o: J
cotton, and as it has not arrived, their losse. have ‘ kj
necessarily been serious, i heir expenses must
| whether they do anything or not. Besides U
these drawbacks, the absence from circslation of
the large amount of money that the-e >OO 52 )
bales would throw out. is felt in every ramifica
tion of trade. —Mobile Tribune 17 th, inst.
Serious Predicament. —A tew evening l
since, a theatrical company were performing a
play, the last scene of which was t‘ e hanging of
a traitor, at Hornellsville, N. Y. The v>pe tva- J|
adjusted, the drop fell, but the strap-work which
was to prevent the rope pressing on the neck
unfortunately gave way, and the poor actor was I jM
actually hanging. After the curtain was lower
ed, some person observed the blood gust ing from
the mouth and nose of the suspended figure (Mr. 1§
Wm. H. Davis), and instantly cut him down,
but many hours elapsed before ho was fully ras- fH
tored to life arid consciousness. It is to be tt '.ted 7*
public decency will not again be outraged by an
exhibition ol this nature.