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A Teniorial government is merely provisional
and temporary. It U created by Congress lor tiie |
necessary preservation of order and the purposes of
’ police. The powers router red dpon it are expressed
in tbe organic act fch'tcii is the character of its ex
igence, and which may be elunged or repealed at
the pleasure of Cougress. Io most of those acts
the power has been expressly reserved to Congress I
of revising the Terriiorial laws, and the power to
repeal them exists without such resei ration. This ‘
was assorted in the case of Kansas by the most dis-1
tinguished .Senators in the Congress of 1856. The
President appoints the Governor, Judges, and all ,
other officers whose appointment is not otherwise
provided for, directly or indirectly, by Congress, j
Bren the expenses of the Terriiorial government !
arc paid out of the Federal Treasury. The truth is, ;
they have no attribute of sovereignty about them. \
Tue essence of sovereignty consists in having no 1
superior. But a Territorial government has a su- |
perior in the United States Govermeat, upon whose
plea-urs it is dependent for its very exi-tence—in
whom it lives, and moves, and has its being—who
has made and can unmake it with a breath.
Where does this sovereign authority to deprive
men of their property come from ? This transcend
ent power, which even despots are cautious about
using, and which a constitutional monarch never
exercises—how does it get into a Territorial Leg
islature ? Surely it does not drop from the clouds:
it will not be contended that it accompanies the
settlers or exists in the Territory beiore its organi
zation. Indeed it is not to the people, but to the
government of a Territory that Mr. Douglas says it
belongs. Then Congress must give the power at
the same time that it gives the Territorial govern
ment. But not a word of the kind is to be found
iu any organic act that ever was framed. It is thus
that Mr. Douglas’ argument runs itself out into
nothing.
But if Congress mould pass a statute expressly to
give this sort of power to the Territorial govern
ments, they would not have it; for the Federal
Government itself does not possess any control over
men's property in the Territories. That such power
does not exist iu tbe Federal Government needs no
proof; Mr. Douglas admits it fully and freely. It
is, besides, established by the solemn decision of
Congress, by the assent of the Executive, and ba
the direct ratification of the people acting in their
primary capacity at tbe polls. In addition to all
this, the Supreme Court have deliberately adjudged
it to be an unalterable and undeniable rule of Con
stitutional law.
This acknowledgment that Congress has no pow
er, authority, or jurisdiction over the subject, liter
ally obliges Mr. Douglas to give up his doctrine,
or else maintain it by asserting that a power which
the Federal Government />** not possess may be
•liven by Congress to a Terriiorial government. The
right to abolish African slavery in a Territory is not
granted by the Constitution to Congress; it is with
held, and therefore the same as if expressly pro
hibited. Yet Mr. Douglas declares that Congress
may give it to the Territories. Nay ; he goes fur
ther, aud says that the tram/ of power in Congress
is the very reason why it can delegate it—the gen
eral rule, in his opinion, being that Congress can
not delegate the powers it possesses, but may dele
gate such, “ and only such, as Congress cannot ex
ercise under the Constitution!” By turning to
pages o2u and 521 the reader will see that this as
tounding proposition is actually made, not in jest,
or irony, but solmeuly, seriously, and, no doubt, in
perfect good faith. On this principle, as Congress
cannot exercise the power to make an ex post facto
ia*v, or a law impairing the obligation of contrast,
therefore, it may authorize such laws to be made
by the Town Council of Washington City, or the
Letrj Couit of the District. If Congress passes an
act to hang a man without trial, it is void, and the
Judges will not allow it to be executed; but the
power to do this prohibited thing can be constitu
tionally given by Congress to a Territorial Legis
lature !
We admit that there are certain powers bestowed
upon the General Government which are in their
nature judicial or executive. With them Congress
can do nothing, except to see that they are execu
ted by the proper kiud of officers. It is also true
that Congress has certain legislative powers which
cannot be delegated. But Mr. Douglas should have
known tbit be was not talking about powers which
belonged to either oi these classes, but about a leg
islative jurisdiction totally forbidden to the Federal
t-ovemmenf, and incapable of being delegated for
ti e simple reason that it docs not constitutionally
exiet.
Will any one say that such a power, ought as a
matter of policy, or for reasons of public safety, to
In* held by the provisional governments of the Ter
ritories* Uudoubtediy no true patriot, nor no friend
of justice and order, can deliberately tellect on the
probable consequences without deprecating them.
This power over property is the one which in ail
governments has been most carefully guarded, be
cause the temptation to abuse it is always greater
thau any other. It is there that the subjects of a
limited monarchy watch their King with the great
est jealousy. No Republic hits ever failed to impose
strict limitations upon it. All free people know that,
if they would remain free, they must compel the
government to keep its hands off their private pro
perty ; 4 and this eau be done only by tying them
up with careful restrictions. Accordingly our Fed
eral Constitution declares that 44 no man shall be
deprived of his property except by due process of
law,” and that “ private property shall not be taken
tor public use without just compensation.” It is
universally agreed that this applies only to the ex
ercise of the power by the Government of the Uni
ted States. We are also protected against tbe State
governments by a simiiiar provision in the State
Constitutions. Legislative robbery is therefore a
crime which cannot be committed either by Con
gress or by any State Legislature, unless it be done :
in flat rebellion to the fundamental law of the land.
But if the Terriiorial governments have this power,
tlien they have it without any limitation whatsoever,
and in all tbe fullness of absolute despotism. They
ar# omnipoueut in regard to their internal affairs,
for they are sovereign*, without a Constitution to \
hold the nin check. And this omnipoueut sever- ,
eignty ia to be wielded by a few men suddenly
draw u together from all parts of America and Ku-1
rope, unacquainted with one another, and ignorant 1
of their relative rights. Butif Mr. Douglas is tight,,
those governments have ail tbe absolute power of
the Russian Autootft. They may take every kind
of property in mere caprice, or for any purpose of,
lucre or malice, without process of law, and with
out providing for compensation. The legislature
of Kansas, sitting at Lecompton or Lawrence, may
order the minors to give up every ounce of gold
that has been dug at Dike's Peak. If the authori-|
ties of Utah should license a baud of marauders to
despoil the emigrants crossing the territory, their
sovereign right to do so cannot be questioned. A
new territory may be organized, which Southern
men think should be devoted to the culture of cot- :
ton, while the people of the North are equally ccr- j
tain that graziug aloue is tbe proper business to be
carried on there, if oue party, bv accideut, by
force, or fraud, had a majority in the legislature,
the negroes are takeu from the plauters ; and if the
other set gains a political victory, it is followed by
a statute to pluuder the graziers of their cattle.
Sucn things cannot be done by the Federal Gov
ernment, nor by tbe governments of the States ; ■
hut, if Mr. Douglas is not mistaken, they can be
done by the territorial governments. Is it not
better to wait until the new inhabitants know them
seive* and one another ; until tire policy of the Ter- ■
ritory is settled by some experience, and above all.
until the great powers of a sovereign State are reg
ularly conferredupon them and properly limited, 1
mj as to prevent the gross abuses which always ac
company unrestricted power iu human hands ?
There is another consideration which Mr. Douglas
ahouhl have been the last man to overlook. The
present Administration of the Federal Government,
and the whole Democratic party throughout the
country, including Mr. Douglas, thought that in the
cus of Kansas the question of retaining or abolish
ing slavery should no ;>e determined by any repre
sentative body without giving to the whole mass of
tb > people an oppori .nity ot voting* on it. M-.
Douglas carried it further, and warmly opposed the
Constitution, denying validity, because
other and undisputed ports of it had not also been
submitted to a popular vote, scow he is willing
that the whole slavery dispute in any Territory, and
all questions that can arise concerning the rights
of the people to that or other property, shall be
decided at once by a territorial legislature, without
any submission at all. Popular sovereignty in the
last Congress meant tbe freedom of the people
from all the restraints of law and order: now- it
means a government which shall rale them with a
rod of irou. It swings like a pendulum front one
side clear over to the other.
Mr. Douglas’ opinions on this subject of sover
eign Territorial Governments are very singular;
but the reasons he has produced to support them
are infinitely more curious still. For instance, he
shows that Jefferson once introduced into the old
Congress of the Confederation a plan for the Gov
ernment of the Territories, calling them by the
name of “ new States,” but not makiug them any
thing like sovereign or independent States; and
though this was a mere experimental project, which
was rejected by Congress, and never afterwards
referred to by Jefferson himself, yet Mr. Douglas
argues upon it as if it had somehow become a part
of our fundamental law.
Again : lie aays that the States gave to the Fed
eral Government the same powers which as Colo
nics they had been willing to concede to the British
Government, and kept those which as colonies they
had claimed for themselves. If he will read a com
mon school history of the Revolution, and then look
at Art. 1, sec. 8, of the Constitution, he will find j
the two following facts fuily established: 1. That •
the Federal Government has 44 power to lay and
collect taxes, dories, imposts, and excises and,
2. That the colonies, before the Revolution, utterly
refused to be taxed by Great Britiiu ; and, so far
from conceding the power, fought agaiust it for
seven long years.
There is another thing in the article which, if it
had not come iroin a distinguished Senator, and a
very upright gentleman, would have been open to
some imputation of unfairness. lie quotes the
President's message, and begins in the middle of a
sentence, lie professes to give the very words,
aud makes Mr. Buchanan pay ; 44 That slavery ex
ists in Kansas by virtue of the Constitution of the
L uited States.’’ What Mr. Buchanan did say was
a very different thing. It was this : “It has been
soleotuly adjudged by the highest judicial tribunal
known to our laws, that slavery exists iu Kansas
by virtue of the Constitution of the United States.”
Everybody knows that by treating the Bible in that
way, you cau prove the non-existence of God.
The argumentum-ad hominem is not fair and we
|do not mean to use it. Mr. Douglas has a right to
change his opinions whenever he pleases. But we
| quote him as we w ould any other authority equally
high in favor of truth. We can prove by himself
j that every proposition he lays dowu in Harper's
j Magazine is founded in error. Never before has
i any public man in America so completely revolu
j lionized his political opinions in the course of cigli
; teen months. We do not deny that the change is
heartfelt and conscientious. We only insist that he
! formerly stated his propositions much more clearly,
j and sustained them with far greater ability and bet
, ter reasons, than he does now.
When he took a tour to the South, at the begin
ning of l&st winter, he made a speech at New Or
leans, in w hich he announced to the people there
that he and his friends in Illinois accepted the Dred
Scott decision, regarded slaves as property and fully
admitted the right of a Southern man to go into any
federal territory with his slave, and to hold him
there a* other property is held.
In 1849 he voted in the Senate for what we call
ed Walker's amendment, by which it was proposed
to put all internal affairs of California and New
Mexico under the domination of the President, giv
ing him almost unlimited power, legislature, judicial
and executive, over the internal affairs of those Ter
ritories. (See 30th Cong., p. .) Undoubtedly
this was a strange wav of treating sovereignties.
If Mr. Douglas is right now, he was guilty then of
most atrocious usurpation.
Utah is as much a sovereign State as any other
Territory, and as perfectly entitled to enjoy the
right of self-government. On the 12 of June, 1857,
Mr. Douglas made a speech about Utah at Spring
j field, Illinois, in which he expressed his opinion
; strongly iti favor of the absolute and unconditional
j rejmal of the organic act, blotting the Territorial
i Government oat of existence, and putting the peo
! pie under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the
i l nited States, like a fort, arsenal, dockyard, or
magazine. He does not seem to have had the least
! idea then that he was proposing to extinguish a
I sovereignty, or to trample upon the sacred rights
! of an iudefiendent people.
The report w hich he made to the Senate in 1850,
* on the Topeka Constitution, enunciates a very dit
i ferent doctrine fro.n that of the magazine article,
j It is true that the language is a little cloudy, but no
one can understand the following sentences to signi
fy that the territorial governments have sovereign
power to take away tbe property of the inhabitants:
44 The sovereignty ol a Terrritory remains in
! abeyance suspended in the United States, in trust
| for the people until they shall be admitted into the
! Union as a State. In the mean time they are ad
-1 milted to enjoy and exercise all the lights and
privileges of self-government in subordination jo
| the Constitution of the United Slates, and in oukhi
! ksck to TtiK organic law, passed by Congress in
pursuance of that instrument. - These rights and
privil ges are all derieved from the Constitution
i through the act of Congress, and must be exercised
and enjoyed in subjection to all the limitations aud
restrictions which that Constitution imposes.”
The letter he addressed to a Philadelphia meet
ing in February, 1858, is more explicit, and, bar
ring sotn<‘ anomaious ideas concerning the abeyance
ot the power and the suspension of it in trust, it is
I clear enough:
44 Under our territorial system, it requires sover
®:gn power to ordian and establish constitutions
j and governments. While a Territory may and
I should enjoy all the rights of sc it government, in
| fd/ediance to its organac lam, it is sot a sovereign
; Pewxa. The sovereignty of a Territory remains in
’ abtymee, suspend- and ill the United Stales, in trust
for the fteople when they become a State, and cannot
l be withdrawn from the hand* of the trustee and
j vested in the people of a Territory without the con
t sent of Congress
< The report which he made in the same innoth
from the Senate Committee on Territories, is equally
distinct, and rather more emphatic against his new
j doctrine:
44 This committee in their reports have always
j held that a ‘Territory is not a sovereign power ; that
the sovereignty of a Territory is in abeyance, sus
pended in the United States, in trust far the peo
ple, when they become a State ; that the United
States, as trustees, cannot be diverted of the sover
j eigoty, nor the Territory be invested with the
right to assume and exercise it, without the consent
l of Congress. If the proposition be true that sover
eign power alone can institute governments, and
that the sovereignty of a Teititory is in abey
ance, suspended in the United Slates, in trust for
the people when they become a State, and that the
. sovereignty cannot be divested from the hands of
the trustees without the asseDt of Congress, it fol
lows as an inevitable consequence, that the Kansas
Legislature did not and could not confer upon the
Lecompton Convention the sovereign power of or
daining a Constitution for the people of Kansas, in
place of the orgauic act passed by Congress.
The days are past and gone when Mr. Douglas
led the fiery assaults of the Opposition in the Le
coinpton controversy. Then it was his object to
prove that a territorial legislature, so far from be
ing omnipotent, was poweness even to authorize
an election of delegates to consider about their
.own affairs. It was asseited that a convention
chosen under a territorial law could make and or
dain no constitution which would be legally bind
ing. Then a territorial government was to be des
pised and spit upon, even when it invited the peo
ple to come forward and vote on a question of the
most vital importance to their own interests. But
now all things have become new. The Lecompton
dispute has “gone glimmering down the dream of
things that were,” aud Mr. Douglas produces anew
issue, brand-new from the mint. The old opinions
are not worth a rush to his present position ; it
must be sustained by opposite principles aud rea
soning totally different. The Legislature of Kan
sas was not sovereign when it authorized a Con
vention of the people to assemble and decide what
sort of a Constitution they would have, hut when
it strikes at their rights of property, it becomes not
onlv a sovereign, but a -overeign without limitation
of power. We have no idea that Mr. Douglas is
not perfectly sincere, as he was also when he took
the other side. Tbe impulses engendered by the
heat of codtroversy have driven him at different
times in opposite directions. We do not charge it
against him as a crime, but it is true that these
view’s of his, inconsistent as they are with oue ano
ther, always happen to accord with the interests of
the <ipposition, always give to the enemies of the
Constitution a certain amount of “aid and com
fort,” and always add a little to the rancorous and
maiiguant hatred with which the Abolitionists re
gard the Government of their own country.
Yea: the Lecompton issue which Mr. Douglas
made upon the Administration two years ago is
done, and the principles on which we were then
j opposed are abandoned. We are no longer re
quited to fight for the lawfulness of a Territorial
, election held under territorial authority. But ano
ther issue is thrust upon us to “disturb the harmo
ny and threaten the integrity” of the party.
A few words more (perhaps of tedious repetition,)
by way of showing what this new issue is, or pro
bably will lie, and we are done. We insist that an
emigrant going into a federal territory retains bis
’ title to the property which he took with him until
j there is some prohibition enacted by law lul authori
ty. Mr. Douglas cannot deny this in the face of his
New Orleans speech, and the overwhelming reasons
which support it.
It is au agreed point among all Democrats that
Congress cannot inteifere with the rights of pro
perty in the Territories.
It is also acknowledged that the people of anew
State, either in their Constitution or in an act of
their Legislature, may make the negroes within it
free, or hold them in a state of servitude.
But wo believe more. We believe—in submit
ting to the law as decided by the-Supreme Court,
which declares that a Territorial Legislature can
not, any more than Congress, interfere with the
: rights of property in a Territory—that the settlers
of a Territory are bound to wait until the sover*
; ‘-•onfevred upon them, with proper
| limitations, before they attempt to exercise tile
most dangerous of all its functions. Mr. Douglas
denies this, and there is the new issue.
Why should such au issue be made at such a
time ? What is there now to excuse any friend of
peace for attempting to stir up the bitter waters of
strife ? There is no actual difficulty about this sub
ject in any Territory. There is no question upon
it pending before Congress or the Couutry. We
are called upon to make a contest, at once unnec
essary aud hopeless, with the judicial authority of
the nation. We object to it. We will not obey
Mr. Douglas when he commands us to assault the
Supreme Court of the United States. We ! elieve
the Court to right, and Mr. Douglas wrong.
From the New York Herald.
Our Brussela Correspondence.
Brussels, Sept. 1, 1859.
JheAt w Cotton Hank on the Continent of Kur opt
The hirst Token—Mother Hank to be at FYank
fork or Brussels-— Kew Orleans Hanks and the
Late Crisis—Central Committee of Cotton Plan
ters in Alabama or Georgia — Hussion, French ,
aud German Commercial Policy—League with
the Cotton States of America — Belgium—lts Ge
ographical Position—Baltimore aud Antwerp —
Movements of Americans, <L‘C.
The financial affair to which I have allpdedhere
tofore, lias since iny last assumed a regular form.
The basis of the new cotton bunk is laid, and as its
operations wiil no noubt become very important,
your Southern traders may take an interest in the
matter. The capital stock of the new banking
company is not yet fixed, nor the name by which it
will be known. The principle of its formation is
substantially what I said it would be. The shares
w ill be fixed at a moderate sum each, and the char
acter of its investments and discounts be regulated
entirely iu accordance with the wants of the cotton
groweis of the Southern States of America. It is
taken for granted that an interest which produces
annually to the value of $185,(>00,000 in the form
of so convertible an article as cotton, may, by good
management be made the foundation of an exten
sive banking operation. The mother bank will be
at Brussels or at Frankfort, under the direc
tion of an eminent name in the financial worlJ.
The first operation in America will take place, as I
said, in Georgia or Alabama. A given district iu
the cotton growing portion of the State will be se
lected as the place ot “trial” of the first bank.—
Loans will be made to the planters upon their
growing crops, and bused on the value of their
plantation securities, at the European rate of inte
rest. The crops thus controlled at the point of
production will be seut forward directly to Europe
lor sale in Europe. On ttie arrival of the cargoes
the same facility ot credit will be extended to the
buyers, and thus the American planter, instead of
receiriug us now the first wholesale price of his
staple in America (w hich price is always the lowest)
w ill get the last retail price in Europe, which price
is always the highest. Those persons who have
lor so many yeais done this vast export trade for
nothing, or at a dead loss to themselves, will be
thus honorably relieved from the necessity of con
tinuing their sacrifices to the public interest.
The unsettled condition ot Europe, combined
with the advancing power and prosperity of the
l nited States, is giving additional interest to Amer
ican securities. It was to be expected that the
Southern States, having once funned an alliance
with an influential and active committee of brokers
on the Continent, should have the claims of cotton
securities and plantation securities brought for
ward. 1 fie whole allair turns upon a few simple
questions:—Are the securities good? Are they
convertible ? Are they prolitabh ? We do not,
ol’ course, expect to diveit to the cotton plantations
ol'the South tbe entire sum destined for America;
but money, like water, seeks its own level, and if
one million ol francs can be invested at the South
in cotton securities to an equal advantage, as com
pared with the Northern railways, you may depend
on it the trial will be made. There is now at this
moment some want of confidence in securities which
once stood high iu Europe, and this will incline
many to seek the South, ftie manner in which
the New Orleans banks went through the late crisis
lias had a wonderful influence in Europe wherever
that fact is know n ; and I know positively that an
elaborate statement, to be printed in German and
Kngli.-h under the name of a high financial author
ity, will make this fact still more known. I learn,
also, that a special delegate from Europe goes out
soon to the l nited States for the purpose of mak
ing the necessary preliminary arrangements, and
to consult peisouaiiy with some of the leading
men of the South. It is possible that a central
committee of correspondence or organization, em
bracing the more important growers of cotton, will
be formed in Alabama and Georgia.
The Continental and Southern Direct Trade As
sociation of Belgium continues to receive gratifying
assurances from ihe Zoliverein, Austria and Swit
zerland in regard to the object of the association.
Letters from America are equally encouraging, and
as tlie idea of the European cotton bank originated
Iroin the publication and labors of his committee,
the two influences may combine. If so it will form
a strong company, and become a serious rival to
the Dutch trading company. Indeed, one of the
members of the Belgian committee considers that
next to the late East India Company of England,
this banking and commercial league with the cotton
planters of America, will be the most influential
combination Europe has ever seen. It is believed
that the cotton crop of the United States of Amer
ica w ill eventually control the exchanges of Europe.
Os one thing no one can he mistaken, and that is,
that under the combined influence of Russian poli
cy, of France and of the Zoliverein, a direct trade
between the Southern States of America and the
Continent of Europe has long been assuming iin
|msing proportions. The movement was first ini
tiated by Holland, the Netherlands Trading Com
pany taking the lead. But that body only gave
impulse to a hall which, once in motion, gathers
strength of itself.
Belgium has now come forward, and seeks to
become the place of transit of the trade between
the South and Central Europe. The great Luxem
burg Railroad wiil soon be finished to a point com
manding the Swiss roads. When this line is iu full
working order, you w ill see the magnificent posi
tion of Antwerp. By her railroad to Cologne she
w ill have an open and cheap access to Central and
Northern Germany. By the great Luxemburg she
will command Switzerland; then Belgium cau
through her unlimited manufacturing pow ers, furn
ish the basis of a regular exportation to the South.
In other words, she will the be England of the Con
tinent, and Antwerp w ill be to the Southern States
what Liverpool is to the North. The manufactur
ers of Belgium are now engaged taking the neces
sary steps to supply the tastes and wants of the
Southern market, and 1 learn that our Baltimore
friends are going to be asked to co-operate by be
ing the importers for ahe Southern trade. The
position of Baltimore and Antwerp is very similar.
Botli occupy a central position on each continent.
Both have an extensive and expensive railway sys
tem which only needs a regular and direct steam
communication to make these great works complete.
Antwerp is becoming a fine tobacco market, and
through her arrangement with Cologne and Swit
zerland will offer strong inducements for the tobac
co and naval stores exported from Baltimore. It
is hoped that the necessary preliminary arrange
ments will have been completed by the end of the
year, so (hat the trade may commence iu a large
way.
The American party at Spa has broken up. The
Minister (General Fair) lias returned with his fami
ly to Brussels, as also the honorable Mr. Spence,
late United States Minister at Constantinople. The
new American Consul at Answerp has also returned
to his post from Spa. Tiiis gentleman has made a
very favorable impression at Antwerp.
There are several American ships in that port,
living in a cheerful maimer the banner of stars.
The captains and crews ure all well.
Poor Pierre in tlie Field.
According to two curious letters which w e pub
lish to-day, one from Philadelphia anil one from
Concord, Poor Pierce, head and tail up, is begin
ning to prance around lor the Charleston nomina
tion. The Chevalier Forney, it seems, having got
tired of Douglas, has made a pilgrimage to Con
cord to talk over the subject with the ex-President,
under whom poor Korney had such glorious pick
ings in the kitchen. What the result of this con
ference will be we cannot undertake to tell. In
any event, the chances of ex-President Pierce for
the Charleston nomination, without being anv bet
ter than those of ex-President Fillmore, cx-Presi
dent Tyler, or ex-President Van Iluren, are quite
a* good as the chances of Horatio Seymour, the
present pet of the Albany Regency, or Daniel S.
Dickinson. Indeed, Mr. Dickinson at Syracuse
was as effectually disposed of as Captain Scott’s
coon; and his friend Seymour, on the way to
Charleston, will he put iu the same bag. Thus, it
will be seen that Poor Pierce, though somewbrt iu
the background as a Presidential aspire nt, lias
plenty of company; and by tbe month of June
next the Great Eastern will not hold tlie disap
pointed expectants and their disciples w ho are plot
ting and counterplotting lor the Charleston nomi
nation. — A. Y. Herald, Sept. 24.
Thk Law’s Protection to Slacks, —An Item
for the Abolitionists. —Wikes Superior Court was
in session last w’eek, Judge Thomas presiding.—
We take from the Wilkes Republican the follow
ing notice of a criminal trial which engaged much
of the attention of the court :
“ The only characteristic worthy of remark iu
tlie proceedings of the week was the decisive vigor
thrown into the administration of the criminal law.
In one case the decision aud sentence of the pre
siding judge upon the relative rights of the whites
and black population (thereby endorsed by public
sentiment in the county) was a just vindication of
tlie right of the latter helpless portion of tlie pop
ulation to be humanely treated at the hazard of
condign legal punishment. The prisoner who was
convicted of cruelty and indecently beating a slave
in tbe town of Washington, was sentenced to six
mouths imprisonment in the common jail.”
MACON, GEORGIA :
Y/ednesday, October 5, 1859.
COTTON MABKET.
But little doing. We quote extremes 9(a) 11 f.
Savannah Oct. 3. j
The market was buoyant to-day, with a good de
mand, sales reaching 830 bales, at stiller prices.—
The inquiry continues to be for grades above Mid
dling, and iliose below it aie very much neglected.
Sales of Good Middling were made to day at ll|c.
Daily State Pres> Suspended.
The Election being over, tlie issue of *ho Daily
State Press will be discontinued for a while. The
Weekly will be published as heretofore, every Sat
urday morning.
EJS?” Attention is directed to the article in our
paper to-day, under tlie head of “Brussels Corres
pondence.” This is an important movement and
will be looked to with interest by Southern planter
and factors. It should be borne in mind, however,
that large moneyed power may be used against
as well as for us.
WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE.
We are happy to learn that this Institution
opens its fall session with unusually encouraging
prospects.
AN ABLE REPLY
To the political dogmas of Judge Douglas, oc
cupies a large portion of our space to-day. It is
from the pen of Judge Black, and will be read
with interest.
THE STATE FAIR
To be held at Atlanta from the 24th to 28th
inst., we trust will be well attended by the people
of Middle and Southern Georgia. We learn that
the people of Atlanta are making every arrange
ment to render the occasion pleasant and attrac
tive. Tiie Crusader announces that the Hon. Ed
ward Everett has accepted an invitation to deliver
an address.
Tllli< ll!4-l9i |)iv. Xo. 1.
A public Installation of the Officers of Tomichi
chi Division No. ], Sons of Temperance, will take
place on Friday night next, Oct. 7th, commencing
7k o'clock. The public are invited to attend, and
the Ladies especially.
Macon, October 4th, 1859.
TIIE RESULT IN 8188.
Ihe result of the election for members of the
General Assembly in this county, on Monday last,
is somewhat different from what was generally an
ticipated. How that result was reached, may
hereafter furnish a topic for serious reflection and
comment. That Myj. Holmes owes his defeat to
an over-estimate of his strength by his friends, we
presume no one can doubt. If we have been cor
rectly informed in regard to the importation of vo
ters from other counties, frauds of too glaring a
character have been perpetrated in this election to
escape judicial investigation.
1 racy is elected to the Senate, and Locket to
the House. The contest between Anderson and
Andrews is so close, that the friends of the latter
are recounting the ballots. A strange procedure.
We have no doubt but Messrs. Holmes aud Ander
sen are both legally elected in this county.
Hardeman’s majority is said to be 33 in the
county. Brown’s 05.
Since writing the above we learn Mr. Anderson
is elected by 8 majority on the new count.
ELECTION RETURNS-
We have received but few full and authentic r el
turns of the election up to the time of going to press.
The Democracy, we learn, has carried Baldwin,,
and Spalding counties. Whitehurst, (Am.) is elec
ted from Wilkinson; Wells, (Am.) in Washington.
In Fulton county, Brow n’s maj. is 30. Collier, (I).)
elected to the Senate—Thrasher, (A.) to the House.
Brown’s majority in Chatham, 98. Loves, 47.
In Effingham there is an American gain. In Co
lumbus, licit, (A.) is elected to the Senate, and
Williams, (D.) to the House. One doubtful. In
Richmond the American ticket elected. So also
in Monroe. There is little doubt of Hardeman's
election in the Third, and as little that Wright is
defeated in the Bth. s
As far as hoard irom, Col. Akin, in the aggre
gate, lias made some gains over Gov. Brown.
POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS.
J he Savannah Republican prefers the following
complaint agaiust tlie present arrangement, or those
charged with the distribution of papers to the sev
eral routes. They are not the only ones that have
reason to complain. It may be asked, why is the
necessity of delaying a mail twenty-four hours at
any otic point. The Republican says :
“\\ orkjnu to a Charm. —Under tlie present
mail arrangement, we receive the daily Macon
Citizen and Augusta Dispatch, almost invariably,
every other day and two at n time. Our own pa
pers reach Columbus just twelve hours later llwtn
they did under tbe old schedule. The route agen
cy on the Macon and Western Itoad having been i
discontinued, we suppose.for want ot time to dis
tribute, our papers for subscribers on that line are 1
delayed just twenty-four hours at Macon. At At
lanta, again, those destined for points on the State
Road, have another resting spell of twelve hours.
Will any body say we have no cause of complaint?
The reason for this state of things may be partly
explained by tlie Washington despatch published
elsewhere in our columns, showing the condition
in which the public service was left by the last
Democratic Congress.”
A CANDID MINISTER.
A minister in the north, returning thanks in liis
prayers one Sabbath for the excellent harvest, be
gan as usual : “<>, Lord, we thank thee” Ac.,
and went on to mention its abundance and its safe
in-gathering but feeling anxious to he quite candid
and scrupulously truthful, added, “ ull except a
few fields between this and Stone-haven, not worth
mentioning. —Glasgow Commonwealth.
There was once an equally candid minister in
this vicinity, known as “Parson Duffy,” who is
well remembered by several of our old citizens.—
He used some peculiarities of the language of his
native country, which he always adhered to, in
preaching, as well as conversation. In praying for
a good crop of corn, lie said, “ Lord give us none
of the wee bits of nubbins, but ears of corn thus
long”—measuring out the length of the ears that
lie wanted on his arm.
LeaHan* in Vocal IQinlc,
1 rof. Hinnian, of New York, proposes to estab
lish a School in Sacred Music, next Thursday night.
See advertisement. It is a subject which should
receive the attention of’ our citizens.
It is stated that a New York company have
built a factory iu Chatham county, North Carolina,
for the manufacture of oil from iron ore. The
ore yields about s<> gallon of oil to tiie ton.
Senator Cliesnut’s Speech.
The Hon. James Ohesnut, United Stales Senator
from South Carolina, delivered a speech on gener
al politics, at Camden on Wednesday, the 2Stli
inst.
The speech is printed entire in the Camden
Journal ol the same day, and in tlie Charleston
Courier of Thursday.
\\ e have had tjinc only to glance over the
speech. He discusses at length, the position of
the South in the Union ; considers her condition
not favorable ; advices southern unity, and the
development of all the resources of the South.
He regrets tlie introduction of discussions about
re opening the African slave trnde, and regards: it
“ as another Pandora’s box without even Hope at
the bottom.”
Tiie Senator also takes strong ground against
the position of Senator Douglas about “ unfriend
ly legislation ’ in the Territory against slave pro
pcity.
Tin: Cosmopolitan Akt Journal. —The Sep
tember number of this periodical contains a beau
tiful steel engraving and several fine engravings on
wood. Tiie general appearance of this periodical
has of late been greatly improved.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, “SOME PUMPKINS- ’’ j
Who would have believed it, unless they had j
“ seen it in the pliers,” that Bennett has taken
the first Premium at the New York Fair for On- ‘
ions, Beet--, Musk-Melons and Pumpkins ? The
Herald of the 27th savs :
“ Soil*; Pi \ii*ti.\s.’’ —The other day,"as we have
been infornie>l from tiio published reports of the
eJthibition of the New York ilorii- tiitural Society
(in the lapacinus rooms of the l lard Avenue Rail
road depot,) James Gordon Bennett, editor and
proprietor of this journal, was awarded no less
than live premiums bv said society. He received
a premium, e.ieh variety, (or his red onions, white
onions, luood beets and rnilskiinloliS. But his
most glotious triit in |rli among the “vegetarians”
was achieved by those enormous California pump
kins, ranging from one hundred and fifty to one
hundred and seventy-live pounds per pumpkin.—
For these monsters, one of which has been pro
nounced by tin* Tribune “ the king of the exhibi
tion,” J. G. Bennett-received a special premium,
which shows that, by the be.-1 judges, he is consid
ered “ some pumpkins. ’
Thus eiidoitu and bv the New York Horticultural
Society, vve arc disposed to deal liberally with our
quadrilateral professors of the Times. They are
somewhat prolific iu that class of stale jokes which
may be styled Plum Gut wit; but if they can say
something handsome about those pumpkins, and of
“ poor old broken down Bennett,” as the man who
raises the premium melons, beets, onions and
pumpkins, we will do something handsome in re
turn. We will galvanize “ the king of the exlii
tion,” or one ot his hig brothers, and let the Times
take him as its special editor to report the next
Italian war, including all thu fighting thereof, all
the running away, all “elbows of the Mincio,” all
the “ elbows of the regular army,” and all the
“sympathies of youth,” not forgetting the “ for
eign fleet suddenly coming up on our question of
citizenship,” as laid down in Master Caleb Melchi
zedek Beelzebub Ilurribut’a description of the fa
mous quadrilateral. The good fairy, in behalf ol
poor little Cinderella, changed a pumpkin into a
coach; and if this was done by witchcraft, we
think that galvanism may supply the necessary
brains to a pumpkin —especially a Colifornia Ben
nett premium pumpkin—to edit the New York
Times fully up to the mark of Jetferson Brick and
his quadrilateral eolleagues. At all events, from
Pike’s Peak to the “ elbows of the Mincio,” it
must now be conceded that Bennett is “ some
pumpkins.”
Dcutli o'i Judge Power*.
We deeply regret to announce the decease of
Hon. A. P. Powers, at his residence in Vincville,
on Sunday morning last at 4 o’clock. The sad
event has taken the whole community by surprise,
for although Judge Powers bad been very ill for
for more than a week, he was generally under
stood to be past the crisis of his disorder and in a
fair way to recovery. His body* was interred at
Rose Ilill Cemetery Monday morning, attended by
a large concourse of sorrowing relative and friends.
Asa citizen, lawyer, scholar and jurist, Judge
Powers enjoyed a position iu Middle Georgia which
will enlist her ablest pons in honor to his memory.
To them we leave a duty vve could not adequately
perform.— Telegraph.
’iflie Southern University.
This institution, located at Greensboro’, Alaba
ma, will be opened on the first of October next,
under the Presidency of Rev. Williaxi'M. Wight
mas, D. D., L. L. D., a-sisted by a full and able
faculty. The buildings are completed, all the fa
cilities have been provided, a goodly number of
students is expected, and the endowment fund is
already above $300,000. They intend to raise it
to half a million, says the National Intelligencer.
We understand that they are to open with impos
ing ceremonies. The friends and patrous are ex
pected in large numbers ; many ministers will be
present, and Ur. Wightman will pieach an inaugu
ral sermon.
Yellow Fever at Key West.
From the Pensacola Observer we learn that a
communication has appeared in the Key of the
iGult', a paper published at Key West, acknowledg
ing the existence of yellow fever in the hospital at
j that place. Os nine cases received into the hospi
j Ut), five were yellow fever which were from lia
’ vaua. The writer says :
The disease in every instance where seen early,
has yielded readily to treatment, and only where
the call has been delayed beyond forty-eight hours
have we found it persistent or obstinate in its
character ; and even under the most unfavorable
circumstances all except one have convalesced.
Major Nabors Killed. —The editor of the Foit
Smith (Arkansas) Times learns that on Tuesday,
the 13th, at Fort Belknap, Major Nabors and a
mail by the name of Murphy, had some words rel
ative to some horses belonging to the reserve In
dians, and w hile engaged in the dispute a man by
the name of MeKuett shot Maj. Nabors in the back
with a double barrel shot gun, killing him instant
ly. Major N. is extensively known as an Indian
agent on the frontier of Texas.
t<ieii. Jotisi 1. Ward.
The New York Journal of Commerce speaking
of the late out-break in China, says :
“ihe American people have reason to bo proud
of the conduct of their Commissioner, Mr. Ward,
who probably effected his peaceful entrance into
Pekin soon alter the date of these letters, without
giving any just ground of offence to the allied
forces.
Pacific ISuil Itoud Suit Decided.
Marshall, Texas, Sept. 30.—The great State
suit versus the Pacific Rail Road, has been decided
iu favor of the Southern Pacific Company. Mr.
Fowlkes is now in possession of the road, and the
property and the rights of the franchise of the new
Company. Both sides are now actively co-opera
ting. ‘
Cotton Planter** Convention.
At the Tegular sessisn iu June last, of tho Cot
ton Planters’ Convention of the State of Georgia,
a Resolution passed, authorizing the presiding offi
cer, (after consultation with the Vice Presidents) to
call the Convention together, should business re
quire it ; deeming it important that the Conven
tion should assemble, and having the concurrence
of those whom 1 was to consult, I hereby require
the Members of the Convention to meet in the Citg
of Macon, on. WEDNESDAY, TIIE SIXTEENTH
DAY OF’ NOVEMBER NEXT, as business of the
most urgent necessity, requires the action of the
Convention. Each member of the Convention is
earnestly requested to be present.
It is very desirable that each Cotton-growing
County in the Slate should be represented ; there
fore, each County is requested to send Delegates
to the Convention.
Individual Planters, (not County Delegates)
mav attend and become members of the Conven
tion.
Newspapers friendly to Direct Trade, and to the
Convention and its objects, are very respectfully
requested to publish this notice.
HOWELL COBB,
Perrg, Oct. 3, 1859. President.
Uiliitiry Institute.
The Marietta Advocate says :
“ It affords us pleasure to state that the Institu
tioji, under its present efficient management and
salutary discipline, piomises the accomplishment
of ail that its best friends could desire.”
This School, as our readers know, has been re
organized by the election of Major F. W. Capers,
(lately of the Charleston Citadel Academy) as Su
perintendant, and Capt. W. J. Magill as Command
ant.
Suicide of Major Chapman at Old Point Com
fort. —By intelligence from Old Point Comfort
we learn that Major W. W. Chapman, of the Uni
ted States Army, and connected with the artillery
stationed at Fortress Monroe, committed suicide
on Tuesday, at the fort, by cutting his throat with
a razpr. it appears lie was subject to attacks of
mental depression, and during the forenoon he
sent for Dr. Cuyler, the surgeon, and consulted
with iiim, concerning his health. Subsequently he
appeared on parade and review, on the occasion of
the visit of Gov. F’loyd, Secretary of War. Noth
ing unusual or indicative of the contemplation of
the act that was so soon to startle the community
was detected in this manner. —Baltimore Patriot.
GOV. BROWN AND XU'S BAPTIST COLLEGE
Although the Election is over, we wish to sus
tain every position we have taken, where any
shadow of doubt has been thrown on,“or now rcss
upon it. With regard to Gov. Brow n’s subscription
to the “Cherokee Baptist College,” the following
letter from Gen. Rice, published in the “ Atlanta
Intelligencer,” sustains fully all we have published 1
o:i the subject. V'. of the Intelligencer, has writ
ten over a column of editorial with regard to this
letter, and leaves his side of the case “j'.st as
4 . |
ciear as inud, and the Governor iu an unenviable
predicament. It was, no doubt, the best he could
do under the unfortunate state of facts which it
presented to his vision :
Rome, Ga., Sept. 20th, 1859.
Editors of “ Intelligencer” :
Gentlemen. —ln your paper of tho 11th inst.,
under the caption—“ Gov. Brown and the Chcio
kee Baptist College,” you were pleased to use my
name in a manner that calls for a correction, on
my part of the statement therein made relative to 1
Gov. Brown’s promised donation to said College,
in order to “ vindicate the truth of history.”
It is true I am lor Col. Akin for Governor,
though a Democrat ; yet 1 think I am no partisan,
and trust that I can always do Governor Brown,
or any other man, full handed justice. 1 regret,
however, that you thought it necessary to use my
name in connection with this matter, for the rea
son that I am no public man, in the common mean
ing of that expression; no politician, and never
intend to be one, and hence dislike being brought
before the public.
I propose to give you an unvarnished statement
of facts, as 1 understand them after mature reflec
tion, and alter consulting with several others who
were present on the occasion, and know what 1
know; and leave you and the world to judge
whether they do Governor Brown honor, or mili
tate against him. “I shall nothing extenuate, nor
set down ausjht in malice.”
Uu the 22d February, 1854, I believe it was,
Gov. Brown attended a meeting of the friends oi
the Cherokee Baptist College, at Cussville. That
meeting convened for the purpose of considering,
and condemning or approving the action already
taken by the Board of Trustees. The College
budding had been located on a six acre lot, w here
on the Baptist Church, at Cassville, now stands.—
Gov. Brown made a speech before said meeting,
in which —and in Convention before and after—he
pledged himself to donate, or procure his friends
to donate to said College, a large amount, (I think
the amount was SIO,bUO) provided the Trustees
would obligate themselves to change the location
of the building, and purchase not less than 200
acres of land, mostly to the woodland, as a site lot
said College building, and then bind themselves by
inserting a clause in the chatter, to perforin and
carry out the following conditions or programme,
>n connection with said School, to-wit :
Ist, That a Steward’s Hail should be erected,
and all Students be required to board at it.
2nd, That the Steward should be hired for a
salary, and furnish board to the students at ptiine
cost, and thus reduce the price—leaving no chance
to speculate by high prices for board.
3d, That every student be compelled to wear
the same kind of clothing, and the rich and poor
be put upon terms of perleet equality.
These were the conditions imposed by Gov.
Brown, and all that I remember. A committee
was appointed to draft and lay these propositions
before the Board of Trustees—all of which was
done. A few days thereafter the Board conven
ed, and resolved to accept and adopt the conditions
proposed—regarding it an experiment, but were
willing, for the consideration proposed, to give it
a fair trial; and I, as the Secretary of the Board,
so notified Gov. Brown.
The Board at once proceeded to perform the
first and rno-t condition of changing
the location, and purchased 207 acres of land ol
Dr. Patton, for $4,500, and located the buildings
thereon. They did not have the other conditions
imposed upon them by obtaining an amendment to
the charter, as they resolved to do, for the reason
that as they were to undertake to carry out the
conditions for a consideration, to-wit: the SIO,OOO
or other large sum, they desired that Governor
Brown would give his mutual obligation to per
form on his part, and this the Board of Trustees
always understood he declined to do; at least, the
Rev. Mr. Dyer, the Agent of the Board, visited
Gov. Brown—had a conference with him, and on
his reuff-n so reported his refusal to the Board.—
The Board shouldered the large debt for the land
as best they could, and there the matter dropped.
I know that many, if not all the Board of Trus
tees, felt that they had been badly “ sold.”
In justice to truth, and upon the statement by
you, that you would admit any correction of your
statement, I request that you will insert this com
munication in your next issue.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN H. RICE.
Special Dispatches to the Charleston Courier.
Mexican Movements.
Nrw Orleans, Sept. SO. —We are informed from
the city of Mexico, via San Luis Potosi, that the
Bishop of Mexico is willing to guarantee a loan of
ss,< >OO,OOO to Miramou on a pledge of the Church
property.
The Archbishop and other clergy are bitterly
opposed to this measure.
General Mirunion lias revived a decree promul
gated in 1843 by Santa Anna, declaring instant
death against foreigners landing in Mexico.
It is reported that Gen. Yidaurri, Governor of
New Leon, has gone over to the Church party in
Mexico.
Atlanta Mineral Springs,
We transfer to our columns from the “ Medical
& Literary Weekly,” says the American the follow
ing analysis of the waters of the Mineral Spring.—
It will be perceived that its Medicinal properties
have not been over estimated. Indeed, Dr. Means
affirms that they exceeded his expectations. This
is battering, and cannot but add to the attractions
of Atlanta as a summer resort. We are gratified
to learn that Dr. Means contemplates making know n
to the public the diseases to which the waters of
the Spring are applicable. This will be a valuable
contribution, and when published w ill be transferred
to our columns. The following is the analysis:
Atlanta Mineral Si*rixus.—We are much grati
fied in being allowed to present to our readers the
analysis of the waters of Atlanta Mineral Spring,
completed September 16tb, 1859, by the celebrated
Chemist, I)r. A. Means. Next week we will give
an account of the medical properties of these wuters
and the diseases to which they are applicable. We
return our thanks to Dr. Means, who has so kindly
furnished the Analysis:
Estimates made upon One Gallon, Imperial Mea-
Specific Gravity, (distilled water being 1) 1,0005
-Meniperature, 00 Far.
(Juautity per hour 32 gallons and one pint.
Gaseous Contents.
Carbonic Acid, 7.90 cub. inch
Hydro-Sulphuric Acid, 2.33 “
Atmospheric Air, about per cent.
Solid C ‘ontenis.
Iron, as proto-cardouate, suspended in
Garb. Acid Gas 14.34 grs.
Sulphate of Magnesia, 11 74 “
Carbonate of Magnesia 4.15 “
Magnesia as base in both, 6.01
Sulphate of Soda, 8.82 “
Chloride of Sodium 10.00 “
Lime— a trace.
Silica—not estimated.
Entire solid contents, 55.11 grs.
The above combinations, it will be seen, consist
mainly of Sulphuric and Carbonic Acids, and
chlorine, with Iron, Magnesia and Sodium, and are
estimated upon r. Muiray’s plan—the several
electro-negative portions of the compound being
regarded as dividing these electro-positive bases,
in accordance with the strength of their several
aHinites and the respective solubility of the salts
formed. A. MEAN'S.
Fillmore on Disunion.
The Democratic journals of the South are quot
ing Mr. Fillmore’s Bulfalo Speech, delivered in
1856, in which lie said - , in substance, that the elec
tion of Fremont on a Black Republican and sec
tional platform, would allord the South just ground
for withdrawing from the Union. Mr. Fillmore
didstiikc Black Republicanism with a bold hand,
and advocate the South with a hearty good will.—
But that did not save him from the of Abo
litionism, by the same hypocrites and scoundrels,
who now invoke his thunders against the Republi
can Party! The vile hypocrites, imps of sin, and
ungrateful devils, ought not to be allowed to use
the name of as pure a patriot as Fillmore. They
ought to be kicked out of company for quoting him
on any subject. —Knoxville Whig.
lied River Nvaigatlon.
New Orleans, Sept. SO.
Recent examinations show that the mouth of
the Red River in this State is fast filling up.
The Marietta Advocate says : On Tuesday
A. J. Lingo, to whom anew trial has been refused
by the Superior Court, was brought out from jail
and received sentence. He is to be executed on
the 21st of October.
ARRIVAL OF TII K
I-IUNGAiq A.N.
Farther Point, Oct. I.—The steamship Hunga
rian, from Liverpool, bound to Quebec, passed ti g
morning. She brings Liverpool dates to the 21st
ult.
Liverpool Cotton Market.— The sales of cotton
for the iin ee past bn-inc.-is days foot up li-',m>' 1 hales
All qualities have .-lightly declined—ehicilv inilioi
qu.ili-ii s. Sales to speculators during the w *-ek
1/><'*>, and to exporters 8,500 hales. There ws.s [
decline of chiefly on inferior qualities. Mid
dling Uplands are quoted at 7 13-16 J.
State of Trade. Manchester advices were favor
able. Goods and yarns were firm.
Douglas on Attorney Den. Itluck.
The Little Giant’s ire seen.s to have been aroused
to its highest pitch by Mr. Black’s scathing review
of bis Harper’s Magazine article. The Cincinnati
; Enquirer gives the following synopsis ot his n-.
niii'ks at a late meeting iu that .State:
Wooster, Sept. 16. After discussing at coii.-j;].
■ liable leugtfi the question of popular sovereignty
! mil the rights of a people of a teriitoiv, Judge
| Douglas took up the reply to his recent articltrH
liar e.’s Magazine, which has been attributed to
.Judge Black, and asserted that it he was the author
•filial ieply it c.itne lrom a mail who wrote to the
; democrats of Illinois to support abolitionists lor
j Congress in preference to the regularly democratic
i candidate.
Whether Judge Black was the author or not
the copy which he (Judge Douglas) held in his
band came to the gentleman who handed it to him
in the cars under the trank of that gentleman
It is asserted tliat the article in Harper eontain
id .in as.-aiilt on the federal courts, but the author
ot this reply, no matter who he was, knew that he
nt.ered a Ul-el ood.
During the last year’s canvass in Illinois lie
(Judge Douglas) made one hundred and thirty
speeches, and i:i every one of them he defended
that court. What, then, could be thought of a
in.in who would prostitute a high cilice to deceive
ihe American people ?
\\ hoever the author of that reply was, he was a
base cnluiiualor. lie knew it was a tissue of false
hoods from beginning to end. It was a falsehood,
and the writer knew it to be such, that he (Judge
Douglas) had ever advocated the doctiince that
private property could be confiscated by any pow
er one. rth, except by due process of law. The
author of that pamphlet asserts a double falsehood.
It was a deliberate attempt to misrepresent his j o
sit.on, unworthy of any man who claimed any ins
pect lor himself. It was a misrepresentation made
ior the purpose of attacking him and weakening
the force of the democratic party.
He would not have noticed this attack, but that
it was aimed ut the 1 Mends of popular soveieigntv.
j It was intended to reach Judge Rahncy, the noble
standard-bearer of the democratic party ol Ohio;
it was intended for the galliot Becker, the candi
date lor governor in Minnesota; it was intended
to stiike at the eloquent Dodge, who was leading
the democratic hosts in lowa ; it was a strike at
the candidates of the democracy throughout the
country, who eland on the same platform of popu
lar sovereignty. When the author of that pamph
let attempted to strike at that doctrine, lie made a
blow at the entire democratic party ol’ the north
west.
Judge Douglas quoted some further statements
in the article of Judge Black, and pronounced
them insidious falsehoods, put forth wilfully and
with bad intent.
Correspondence ot the italtimore Sun.
Washington, Sept. 28.
The current of democratic politics in New York
does not run smoothly. lam satisfied that Messrs.
Dean, Richmond and Cassidy, and the majority of
the delegates appointed to represent New York in
the Charleston Convention, aie out and out Doug
las men, and they took care that the delegation
should be instructed to act as a unit, under the di
rection ot the majority. The Dickinson men have
bat just discovered that they were sold, as appears
lrom the letters of Gov. Divide Clark and other
’leaders of the hards. A double delegation from
New } ork is now certain, and it is equally certain
that there w ill be no concert of action and no har
mony between the two sets of delegates. What
the convention will do in this case is a matter of
interesting inquiry. They may admit both delega
tions, and in that case their votes may neutralize
each other.
It is more certain than ever that the northern
delegations will defer to the wishes of the south
ern delegates, both in regard to a platform and to
the nomination of candidates for the Presidency
and ice-Presidency. The South must furnish
nearly all the electoral votes, and of course have
a right to choose the candidates. If a southern
man be nominated as President, it is very proba
ble that Governor Iloratio Seymour will be selec
ted as ice president, in deference to the wishes
of the vast majority of the democrats ot the Em
pire State. It is thought that his name on the
ticket would go far to secure the electoral vote of
New ork ; but I must say that no oue can “count
upon New York” in any event. But the result of
the fall election for State officers may indicate a
change favorable to the democracy.
Absenting- Themselves.
The Opposition papers complain that Secretaries
Floyd, Cobb, Thompson, ai.d Attorney General
Black, have been a great portion ot the summer
absent from Washington, taking their ease and cn
joying holiday. They complain that thirty years
ago, John Q. Adams was earricatured as a runaway
negro, because he went on a visit to his family in
Boston, while Buchanan goes to Pennsylvania and
North Carolina unquestioned, and his Cabinet of
ficers divide out among the fashionable Watering
Places ! The papers ought not to complain. We
think the people are willing to see them all go to
the Devil if they will promise not to drag the
country after them, nor return themselves. We
hope Congress will grant them a dispensation to
this effect ! — Knoxville Whig.
State Ain to Railroads.—The State of Mis
souri has been trying to build the Pacific Railroad,
a road running from St. Louis to Kansas City, a
distance of 282 miles. One hundred and six tv
eight miles have been built, and the road so far
has cost *70,000 per mile, or about £ 12,000,000 in
the aggregate. The State has contributed bonds
to the amount of seven millions and a quarter, and
the Company has made a further iudebtness of one
sort aud another to the amount of J 1,500,000. To
complete the road the rest of the distauco will cost
£7,000,000 more, and the question now is, should
the State lend any more aid ? It seems to be con
ceded that what the State has already advanced
will be lost, as there is no probability that the bus
iness the road will transact can pay the interest of
such an investment. This road, we believe, is the
pioneer of the great Pacific road which is talked
of to connect the Pacific cities with those of the
Atlantic, and which, it is expected, the Federal
Government will furnish the means to build.
Wm. A. Green, of Fulton county, was accident
ally killed, on Tuesday last, by the premature dis
charge of his gun while on a hunting excursion iu
the neighborhood of his plantation.
The Government has left a wide margin for Gen.
Scott’s action when he arrives in Oregon, and relics
upon his good judgment* and w ise counsel in ad
justiDgand settling the existiug difficulties between
the two Governments. Gen Scott’s willingness in
accepting this difficult and arduous task has greatly
relieved the Administration, and they look for a
favorable and happy termination of this at present
embarrassing, and troublesome question. Coming
from a democratic Administration, this is a gnat
compliment to the old w hig General. We are gLd
to perceive that no fears are eulertaioed that he
w ill, in the discharge of his very’ responsible duties,
be governed by Seward. — Mem. Bulletin.
Scorbutic diseases are the parent stack from
which arises a large proportion of the latal mala
dies that atHict mankind. They are as it were a
species of potato rot in the human constitution,
which undermines and eomipts all the sources of
its vitality and hastens its decay, lltey are the
germ from which springs Consumption, Rheuma
tism, Heart Disease, Liver Complaints, and Erup
tive Diseases which w ill be recognized as among
those most fatal and destructive to the races ot
men. So dreadful are its consequences to human
life, that it is hardly possible to over estimate the
importance of an actual, reliable remedy, that can
sweep out this Scrofulous contamination. Wc
know then we shall proclaim welcome news to our
readers, of one from such a quarter as will leave
little doubt of its efficacy—and still more welcome,
when we tell them that it surely docs accomplish
the end desired. We meali Ayers Sarsaparilla ,
and it is certainly worthy the attention ol those
who are attlieted with Scrofula or Scrofulous com
plaints.—Register, Albany , X. Y.
Change in the Ticket. —The unexpected death
of Judge Powers involved the necessity of still
another change in the Democratic Ticket, and the
vacancy was filled, Monday morning, with the
name of Col, J. 11. Andrews. — Telegraph,