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£ From tbe Georgia Jeffersonian 3
Cottar from Hon. JoiL Laris.
Pacific Railroad—His Speeches, dslicered at
Philadelphia and New York.
Fayettvihi, Gi., Oct. 14, 1853.
Major Cline :
Dear Sir— During tbe political canvass
which has just closed, it became my duty, at tho
request of my political friends, to oppose in po
litical debate the Hon. Robert, Toombs. Mr.
Toombs, in his speech, denounced Jefferson
Davis as a disunioniit sitting in the councils of
tbe nation, and also mado a great noise about
Mr. Davis’ late speech in Philadelphia, and
made him and the cabinet of President Pierce
responsible for the idea of building the Paine
Railroad with money taken from the Treas
ury of the United States—thereby abandoning
all their previous notions and public pledges of
opposition to schemes of intern?.! improvement,
organized by the General Government.
Tho above mentioned part of Mr. Toomb’s
speech, in my opinion, did more to set bis hear
ers against the Democratic party, than all the
rest that ho said. 1 defended Mr. Davis and the
cabinet, and roundly denied the charges above
named. But they were made and affirmed in
BO serioas and positive a manner, that I knew
anything I might say would be overbalanced,
in the minds of many, bv the unqualified char
gas of one upon whom Georgia has bestowed
her senatorial robes.
Believing the charges named to be an un
kind and uncalled for attack upon the Execu
tive officers of our country, 1 thought it to be
more than my duty to address Mr. Davis and
inform him, ia substance, of what [ have here
written. Also stating to him that I would glad
ly seizs upon any honorablo means to place him
and the cabinet in their proper position before
the people of Georgia.
I hoped for an answer before the closo of
the canvass, but it came on Thursday before
tbe election, too late to correct the errors that
brought it into existence. I have read tbe fob
lowing letter to several wise and experienced
Democrats, and they advise its publication. —
And now, as the din of political warfare has
subsided—as the batttlo has been fought and
most gloriously won—as the banner of De
moeracy has again proudly and triumphantly
passed through a heated contest without any
trailing# in the dust, bnt with victory inscribed
upon her folds—without any other desire than
to do what is right and to show the people of
Georgia what the enemies of Democracy will
do “to tace themselves.’’ I send you this with
the letter of Mr. Davie, subject to your discre
tion, as to whether it shall be given to the public
•raoh
Yary respectfully, yours,
V. A. GAS KILL
Washington, D. C., )
September 21st, 1853. j
Y. A. Gaskill, Esq,,
B.b Your letter of the 20th ult., arrived
hero during my absence, and ill health has
•ombined with constant occupation thus far, to
delay tny reply.
Beloro procecdiug to notice tho political ques
tions to which yon call my attention, I will dig
pose of tbe personal accusation which you in
form tue, Mr. Toombs has made against me.—
you cay be denounced yon as a Disunionist sit
ting in the councils of the aation.” During the
controversy of 1850, ia relation to the rights of
the South, and the duties of the General Gov
eminent, iu the Territories acquired from .Mex
ico, aiy attention was called, in debate, to the
feet that, in certain newspapers I had been char
ged with a desire to dissolve the Union. Be
lieving it to he the work of base men who coir
cealed themselves behind the instruments they
employed, I then said before tho Senate, if any
gentleman make the charge I will answer him
in monosyllables. It was well understood that
answer would not he less harsh than, ii is false.
Such is my answer now.
In that long and exciting controversy, my
opiuiona were freely expressed. They aro
spread on the volumes of Congressional debates
aud them f refer to disprove all allegations made
•gainst my fealty io our constitutional Union.
Subsequently (1851,) when engaged in a can
vass ill Mississippi, whilst I declared the opinion
*hat a State, as a sovereign and equal member
of the Union, had aright to withdraw from tho
confederation, I also spoke of it as tho last rem
edy—the final resort ; ono to which, under ex
isting circumstances, Mississippi should not ap
peal ami such was tho position of those with
whom I acted : ns is shoe, n by the resolutions
of the convention which nominaled the State
ticket of 1851.
Though l have been made somewhat familiar
with the excesses of partizan conflict, 1 am not
a little surprised at this accusation, because of
the source from which it comes. Asa member
of Congress, nod by personal intercourse, Mr.
Toombt has had full opportunity to know that
the accusation is false, and 1 am sure that a com
parison of the position taken by Mr. Toombs
and myself, will show that my most ardent lan
guage never reached the extreme to which he
went, both before and long after the measures,
oommonly called the Compromise of 1850, had’
been presented, and the principles and const!
tutional rights involved had been fully dis
eassed.
!■ conelnaion of this matter I will oulr say
that, I cannot very highly appreciate the moral
•cntiaaent of a man who is prone to belive—
raady to assume, that one who desires to destroy
th* Union would be willing to hold a plaeu in
ita aouncils, and swear to support its constitu
tion ; and he, who makes such charge against
*>®. does so gratuitously and thereby assures
uie that he is radically false and corrupt.
I send yon printed copies of the speeches 1
made at Philadelphia and Now York which you
can compare with the representations which,
yoa informed me, hare been mis of my re
marks in relation to a Railroad to the Pacific
Ocean. You will not fail to observo that, the
only point on which I claimed to express the
iews of the President was, an assurance of
strict regard for State right*. In relation to the
construction of a Railroad my remarks are di
reefed to the first question, that is the constitu
tional power of the General Government. The
power of the Government, under certain condi
tions, is held to extend to the construction of a
Railroad within the limits of Territories belong
ing to the United States. He, who denies this,
must alto deny tha power to construct wagon
roads, for which appropriations were mado by
the last Congress for the territories of Minesou,
Oregon and Washington,— and with the dis
borsemant of which, ! am now charged. He
mast deny the jurisdiction which has” been so
long exercised over the Territories bv tho Gen
eral Government; and finally find himself on
the tame platform with the sect, which arrayed
tha aovereignty of tha Territorial inhabitants
•e * barrier to federal legislation for the pro-’
teetion of a tlava holder’a property, who should
migrate from a Southern State, one of the joint
owner* of that TVrriforv tr fmwnr.,.. r
a “ IV, WUC Ul uiejomi
owners of that Territory, to become an inhabi
tant ofit. Within tho limita of the States, (ho
attioa of the federal Government is restricted
ao that it eoald not exceed the aid which might
be given to a private company, and that I have
■eld, ao other oeeaaiona, was limited to the
interest it tha work which the Government had
M a laadod proprietor. Th# rule on which Con
gress ha* made grants of contiguous land, and
the right of way in aid of the construction of
foaas. Bej*nd th* question of powor, ire the
questions of practicability and expedienev.—
The practicability will be more intelligibly'dis
oossed, when the surveys, directed to'bo made
by the late Congress, have been completed.
They are now in progress, and I have not at
tpmpted to foretell their results.
The expediency is to be considered iu con
nection with all the political, physical, and ad
ministrative questions which enter into it. The
mode of execution, the lastte be decided, is tbs
first it seems to be presented for objections ; and
I am held responsible for a [jarticuly:. plan of
proceeding, when I had proposed inffie, when,
from the dependence of tho plan means of exe
cution upon the location of the route, I had not
considered it posible to decide on the best mode
of proceeding, until after the route had been lo
cated. Then, and not till then can any one es
timate the extent of road, how much, if any,
will have to be constructed within the limits of
United States Territory, the cost per mile, and
the means which can be made available for tbe
construction.
Very respectfully,
Your ob’l. servant,
Jeff. Davis.
[From the Mobile Tribuuo.l
A Homily.
We suspect that if a wise man were set to se
lect what he considered the most important vir
tue in society, he would choose that which is
called economy—a very modest virtue, if it be
admitted as a virtue at all by some people—nay,
a great many people—for it is come to be im
agined extensively that economy and meanness
are convertible terms.
Not so, however, to ono who sees any con
siderable number of inches beyond Iris nose.
Submit the matter to this test: Gather up all
the persons who stand well in any community—
take Mobile—and see who are now the most
comfortable, the most respected, the most
influential. Then, in another, parallel, col
umn [rut down all ('rose who are otherwise.
Go a little farther, and find of the former,
who began life orr nothing like visible capital,
had not a sou—got married and bought tbe
bouselrould bed arid the consequent cradle on
credit.
Then take tbe other column arrd see, of those
whose names are within it, how many began
life on better terms with fortune—started, ns it
were, in the life-ireat of fifty miles for thereabouts
—some ten or twenty, nay, forty miles tbe
start—and see where, after the race has been
run, nay, before a fractional part of it has been
run, how many have fallen away far behind.
Examine, then, into the cause and fee if this
may not be written down—that each lagard
lacked thrift and industry—tbe (wo inseparable
—and to this lack, end no other lack percepti
ble, is the cause to be traced.
Go, then, farther—keeping still on this track
—and count how many clever young men, fit for
any pursuit—capable of filling any post in life,
have sunk down—been lost hero for evermore
to themselves, and friends, and the common
wealth, from a total lack of this economy and
thrift.
The resuftfwill be surprising, and if the obser
ver do not forever respect economy and feel in
dignant when some thoughtless person shall
call it meanness, we will abandon ail hope in
, this life of attaining to the character of a
wizard.
We say that economy is the best virtue a
young man carr start in this life with. The lus
eiouß [roach grows from tho soil and the unseen
elements in the atmosphere : Ihe rose blooms on
a dung heap; and thus economy, though but
generally little prized and quite unhandsome, is
the source of all the best virtues which spring
■ up in the source of all the (rest virtues which
spring up in the social field. In itself it may be
homely, ns the soil is, bnt its products are as
beautiful as tire rose- and luscious as the peach.
Let then this principle become a household god
—to be worshipped with as much reverence as
things tercstriul deserve.
We need much now, and shall presently, per
haps, need more, of this sort of admonition—for
the world is prosperous, and in the bright [ires
ent we make pictures of the future which will
allure us from self-denial into those ‘‘primrose
paths,” where self-indulgence is 60 seductive and
so ruinous.
To the young mechanic, or tho young clerk,
or tlie young lawyer, we say this—let this word
economy be written at the bead of thy bed,
where, as thou relirest at night weary, thou
mayst see it; and where, in the morning, when
thou risest refreshed, it may stand out a moni
tion and a text for tho day’s doings. Young
man give heed to this, if among thy dreams of
the future be place, and comfort and respect—
if thou hast a horror of dependence, discomfort,
the shifts which ruin souls, and tile death which
is painful both to men and angels.
With this grave—perhaps, iu some sort, som
nolent—preface, vve copy the following from the
Boston Transcript:
“The most fashionable cravats are sold at five
dollars. The fall style of velvet vests rane from
$lO to 8*22 each. Most of the desirable pat
terns of the best quality have been already taken
at prices above 820.
“In tho matter of vest buttons, there is great
extravagance. We hear of sales of single setts
at “Upwards of a hundred dollars, and the jew
elers on Washington street have elegant styles
at prices ranging from 810 to S2O a button, or
from SOO to $l2O a set of six. At the latter
price a superb set, with diamond centres, can be
obtained.
“The finest shirts in Faueuil Hall cost sl2
each, and a small fortune is required for a ‘fash
ionable suit’ of gentlemen’s clothes.”
sec how these gilded baits are held out
shaken, as Circe shakes her ambrosial curls, in
the young man’s face. Shun this temptation.
Let not the example of Mr. Young Sopht, who
is starting with a few thousand dollars, be to
thee, who hast nothing but thy hard-earned
wages, a snare in this matter of twelve dollar
shirts, or twenty dollar vests. Work in liosey- j
woolsey, if it bo necessary to save thoa from |
pecuniary crampings; or in plain, sound cloth, 1
if thou canst afford it—but shun, as if were aj
pestilence, that youthful Sopht. By this, thou
inayest presently attain to one-horso respecta
bility, nay, even to that consummation of all
worldly good, four-horso respectability, and
when by economy thou readiest that haven, per
haps to Mr. Sopht—then reduced to the class i
loafer and become plain Sosl —thou mayst ho an
aid nnd comfort, when ho,is shiftless and Iron- <
serless, and has not where-withal to purchase
t*i.it daily essential, a loai ol bread. The sneers
o( the tribe Sopht despise, and it will be well
with the. Thy household—thy wife and little
ones may call thee blessed, when the outgoing I
generation of Soplits will not find in any man
respects enough to provoke a kick—a” thin*
that even a dog is sometimes worthy of.
Outrage by the fighting Men.—l' ho gang of
fighting men and rowdies who attended the
prize fight between Sullivan and Morrissey, com
mitted a gross outrage at Boston Corners. It
appears the express train does not stop there,
and because the conductor refused to land them
a number attacked a breakrnan, threw himdown
and held him, while others detached the loco-
motive and train. The train was under great
headway at the time, and tho engineer did not
discover the loss until away from the train. The
greatest excite existed among the traveller pas
sengers, who were fearful that the “fighters”
might do them some personal injury. They all
got off, however, and went to the spot selected
tor the sickening exhibition; but the passengers
going west failed to make the necessary con
nections, and were detained a whole day*.
1 he Now papers state that Sullivan the prize
fighter, was received in town on Thursday morn
ing more in style of a Roman conqueror, than
that of a common “bruiser,’’ a common law
breaker. Morissey is awfully dlisfiguted, and so
is Sullivan, lor that matter. Ihoie is some quar
relling about the result of the fight, but it is said
Suliivari has the money.— Sav„ News.
®untg autr Smlitut.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIaT
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 25, 1853. ;
The Business o t our City.
By a continuance of the public spirit and enterprise
of our citizens, Columbaß bids fair to realize tbe hopes
of the most sanguine. Since the completion of our
Railroad, anew impetus is given to every department
of trade. More cotton will come to tie this season, than
ever heretofore. Our buyer*, by the rapid facilities for
transportation, are enabled to give the highest prices.
Our merchants receive tho heviest goods per Railroad
via Savannah. We are dependant no longer upon the
high water of the river* but day by day hundreds of
baits of cotton are sent off, and goods received. We
are thus enabled to pay tho highest prices and sell at
the cheapest rates and very reasonably—for goods are
not now forced to remain in the ware house at Apa
lachicola to accumulate storage, and commission, and in
surance bills ; nor cotton and other produce to lay by
the|n.onth in our own ware houses. Our city is full of
life and activity. One day last week, 1000 bales of
cotton were brought to market; our streets are crowd
ed with wagons. It is truly interesting to take a look
towards the end of Randolph street, vast
most of cotton bales, and goods loading and unloading ;
the arrival .and departure of trains ; the Animation and
zeal manifested every where and by every body, gives
a fair prognostic for our future.
It is in our power to extend these advantages. Tbe
completion of the Girard 6nd Mobbile Rood ; the con
nection with Eufflula, and the Opalika branch will pour
into our laps a load of wealth. We were tardy in mak
ing the start—let us profit by our brief experience, and
redeem the past by opening every avenue to power and
progress.
Tbe Strength o i the Administration in Georgia.
It is amusing to witness the contortions of our de
feated opponents under the result of the recent elections
in this State. It has been suddenly discovered by some
w ise heads that the triumph of the friends of the Ad
ministration in Georgia, is after all, a most signal de
feat •, and one of the opposition presses —wc need not
specially designate it—very eapiently calculates that a
few more demonstrations will slaughter the Administra
tion outright. Very well gentlemen, if you are satis
fied with the result wo are, and we promise you in ad
vance, if you never carry off any more of our banners
than you did in your late splendid victory, we shall
never have any very grievous complaints to make. We
have elected our Governor, six out of eight members
to Congress, and carried both branches of tho Legisla
ture. These are our spoils ; where are yours ?
But iti s said that President Pierce carried the State
by 18000 majority Inst November, and that his friends
’ have only gained the day by sis or eight hundred now,
showing a decline in his strength of over 17000 in less
than one year. Indeed ! Will our friends who crow
so loudly, tell us how much Gen. Pierce’s rote exceed
ed that which has just been given for Mr. Johnson the
Administration candidate for Governor. So far from
” there being a falling off from tho Adminstration, there
‘ are not two dozen counties in the State in wnich the
1 Democratic vote i* not larger in the recent election
1 than it was last November. We have not the returns
by us, but it will be seen from the final summing up,
1 that Mr. Johnson’s vote is larger by several thousand
than was Gen. Pleree’6. This is tho “growing unpopu
-1 Inrity” of the Administration in Georgia. To reverse
1 the* calculations of onr sanguine opponents, al the same
ratio of increasing unpopularity, it would not be many
’ years, before there would be but one party in Georgia,
and that the unterrified Democracy.
But is said that the rote which Mr. Jenkins receiv
ed is no test of the strength of the Whig party in
1 Georgia. We nave no doubt this ia true. Mr. Jen
kins is the strongest Whig in the State. His fitness
for the office, so far as his personal qualifications
are concerned, was never questioned. lie ran well•
better indeed than any other man of his party would
have done. He embodied, too, all ot’ strength that
there was in tho Whig party, and superadded to it, all
the charms of Conservatism, and a few of the odd
attractions of Constitutional Unionism. It is doubtful
whether a corporals guard of Whigs could be found in
Georgia, who did not support him, and he was sustained
by thousands who would scorn to call themselves
Whigs.
No, gentlemen ; dont niak© r yonrse]ves ridiculous in
your defeat. Your misfortunes entitle you to the com
miseration of a magnanimous foe ; do not. wo beseech
you turn our pity into ridicule. You are beaten. Ac
knowledge the corn, and thank your stars that the 6 0
ngaiffst you arc not 6000 as would have been the case
had you got no more than you were entiiled to.
Judiciary Reform.
A correspondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist
suggests p reform in the judeiary of our State, reducing
the number of the justices of the Inferior Court to one.
An attempt has been made in the Inst several Legisla
tures to effect this object, which has hitherto been fruit
less. The inefficiency of the tribsnal as at present or
ganized is admitted on all hands, and it has indeed been
singular that in the face of this admission, the move
ment has failed. Wc suggest a modification of the
movement abolishing the Court altogether. Since the
establishment of tho Court of Ordinary, (here has really
been no u*.c for nn Inferior Court. Let tho next Leg
islature add to the Ordinary’s duties, tho office of com
missioner of roads And revenue, and then abolish the
Inferior Court entirely. We shall thus invest one
competent and salaried officer with ail the Ordinary and
County business, and dispense with a common law tri
bunal for which we have no uso. To equalize the du
ties of the Superior Court, in consideration of the accu
mulation of business in that Court in consequence of
the abolition of the inferior tribunal, let us have a Court
of quarter sessions for the trial of all criminal causes.
Wc need a separate Court for criminal canses. We
need it, if for no other reasons, because under the pres
ent arrangement it is almost out of the question to af
ford speedy trials to the accused. The reduction in
the jail fees will almost if not quite par for a separate
tribunal which should meet in each county four times
| during the year, for the trial of all crimnfll causes.
One more suggestion in this connexion. We ought,
- by all means, to increase the salaries of all our judicial
| officers. The mere honor of presiding upon the bench
will not compensate our best lawyers for leaving a lu
crative practice for the judgeship. We should pot tho
very best talent of the country upon the bench, and we
can not command it without paying for it. We do
hope that if all other matters of judiciary reform are
K neglected by our next Legislature, this matter will not
be overlooked.
Nkw Goods.—We call the attention of our lady
renders to the advertisement* of Mrs. Dessau, and
also to Messrs. Brokaw, Clemons. & Cos., and J. M.
! Rsutn. Their shelves will supply the wants of the
niuet fastidious. J. 11. Daniel has opened a large and
handsome assortment of ready made clothing.
Thk Crop*. —Ths Cotton Crops in this ssctisn hava
promised a pretty full yield np to this date. The heavy
rain c-f Thursday and Thursday night, however, must
have proved very destructive. Large quantities of
cotton were open in the fields, and the green bolls must
suffer considerably. The indications are now favorable
for an early frost which win cut off* the crop very
largely.
PdHow’b Rrvikw, Hunt’s Merchant's Magazine.—
Both these monthlies are on our table, filled as usual
■with inter, sting and valuable matter. Tike former is
1 published in New Orleans, and tho latter in New York,
at $5. To the merchants and manufacturer, these
magazine* are invaluable.
A new Democratic taper at Washington.—Bev
erly Tucker, Kq., fonnly of V*has commenced the
publication at Washington City, of anew Democratic
paper called the Sentinel. Mr. Tucker is an able wri
ter, a Southern man, and a sound Democrat. The
Sentinel claims not to be an srgan of the Administra
tion, but will oor&ally support it. W# have so? seen
the paper, but arc pleased with extraots which w® have
seen from its columns.
Frost. —We were visited on Sanday Morning with
n slight frost, which in some localities, nipped very ten
der vegetation. The atmosphere waa, howover, too
dry soy it to do any damage.— Augusta Chronicle , 19/^.
The Southern CJuarterly Rev low.
Wa obsci v* that a ■ tabor of tbs friend* of tbit tab
tab U periodical, Hava b*u iadauad t* meet together
sos lha pappose af <liaiug moim means to re
vive it* falling fort tut*. Tbie able Review, which has
existed eo long—which has !'#*• w> ruaay years rh
honor to the ewsstry, sue tio***** to the South, is
dying ©at for w*o< al patronage! 1* a#Hhi* • sail and
shamoftl COtuoebteiy the people ? The
ability with which it he* be#® eondootad. bo one has
ever qot ontd. It has hailed its dubbed arrows
again*ttb maligners of tbe South —inculcated a whole
some, patriotic peblie sentiment—and given through
ita pages to Southern pen* a nobis and brilliant field of
effort and usefulness. Win. Gilmore Sirames, it* able
conductor, has fer years past, labored long and bravely
against the most adverse eireumtam*e* Thi* moat
gifted popular writer of the South, ha* wrought* barren
Boil. He has received little or no remonernation, but
a patriotic purpose and noble pride has kept him toiling
on, hoping and believing that the Southern people
would appreciate the importance of his aim, and re
munerate the labor of his brain.
For several years past, the annual defio't caused by
its meager support has been supplied, by a few zealous
literary gentlemen who hove thus expended hundreds
of dollars from their own privato means, that the pub
lic might be benefited j out upon this earning noisy cry
of building up Southern enterprise, and encouraging
Southern talent, while the first pens that we boast, are
left to beg Tor employment : we say this canting noisy
cry, because facts speak too plainly to be misunder
stood. Show your faith by your works. These boast
ing professions are to be mistrusted when ve daily wit
ness them ending in “articulate breath of wind.’’ Har
per’s and Putnam’s monthlies, and the foreign Quarter
ns, are to be seen upon every shelf. Northern publish
ers and writers grow fat on Southern patronage, while
our enterprising public men and literati are left to
starve. We wonld Dot be understood as depreciating
Northern or foreign publications, but we do condemn
that short sighted, unpatriotic, suicidal course which
tends to drive off our talented and cultivated minds to
seek employment elsewhere. We can afford to have
the best Northern and foreign publications, and yet
sustain our own. But when in addition to tbe better,
we see mueh worthless trash filling the tables of our
Boook sellers at the expense of our own valuable litera
ture, we cannot forbear to speak plainly what wo feel.
Now ia the time to aid in builing up the Southern
Quaterly Review. Send on the subscription price, (five
dollars) and show by your aots that you are a friend to
this great enterprise.
English Design npon Cuba,
We find the following letter in a late number of the
Richmond Enquirer, and give it to our renders for
what It is worth. While we doubt the correctness of
the report, the importance of the interest involved will
demand the vigilance of onr Government, to prevent
any possible design which England may have upon the
Island of Cuba. It is true that the English cruiser*
have been withdrawn from the coast of Cuba, and sla
vers aro now landed upon the Island is crowds with im
punity, but it may he that England has been satisfied of
the folly of attempting to prevent the slave trade upon
the coasts of Cuba by the means of a few cruisers. At
all events it is a manor of congratulation that the for
eign relations of the Government are in the hands of
nn Administration that durce to take care of our inte
rests.
Washington, Oet. 13th, 1853.
To the Editors of the Enquirer :
Infos (nation has been received here that Lord Howden,
the English Minister in Spain, had succeeded in making a
treaty with the Spanish Government, giving to British cruis
ers on the coast of Cuba tho right to land troops aud to
search the plantations, to which it might be suspected that
slaves were carried. Tho tact, that England has thus gain
ed a foothold in Cuba, Is of vast importance to us. The
right of search will be eoou followed by occupation, to a
lees or greater extent, a* circumstances and her purpose
may require.
It is also stated that Lord Howden was pressing another
treaty upon the Spanish Government, tie had offered to
withdraw the English cruisers altogether from the coast of
Cuba, and to permit as many slaves as might be, to be land
ed, provided that tho Government would make them eman
cipad'js, and set them free after the period of ten years ser
vice, (the present term is five years,) and at the end of silty
years abolish slavery and put tho island under British pro
tection.
The effect of this would be to fill Cuba with a negro pop
ulation, which would, by the end of tho time Bj>ocified, en
tirely control the island.
Confirmatory of the above facts, a letter has just been
received here from Havana, dated Oct. Ist, from a source en
titled to tho most undoubted confidence, which states that
Mr. Crawford, the English Consul, was procuring letters
from persons of prominence there approbatory and recom
mending the above mentioned project—no doubt, for the
purpose of sending teem to England to fortify her in her
demand upon Spain. It also states that tho steamer had
just arrived from Spain, bringing the nomination of anew
Captain General, and that the report that such a treaty was
in contemplation, had gotten out and was producing much
excitement.
There can bo no doubt, that, in the present state of feel
ing in Spain. England, backed probably by other Europeau
Governments who are hostile to our institutions, will be
likely to succeed in her desire to get the assent of the Span
ish Government to her propositions. In view of these facta,
you may expect speedy and very decided action on the part
of our Government to defeat a bchme no dangerous to us
and so attrocious, that it caunot fail to arouse a condemna
tory public opinion everywhere.
These designs of England have been for some time sus
pected. The proposed rripartife Treaty to guarantee Cuba
war the first evidence of them, and more has since been
had ; but not till now have thee© suspicions bean confirmed
beyond doubt. I know full well, that everything relating
to this subject is of an inflammatory character; and nothing
would induce me, writing to you, as I do, solely from my
own interest in public matters, to give yoa the above facts
without knowing, from the very best sources of information,
that they are reliable. E. B. B.
The Lost aro Found.
We are pleased to learn from the Sydney Empire
of the 25th May last, that the intelligence of th* loss of
the Monutnontal City with several of onr Georgia bovs
on board was unfounded. The steamship, Monumental
City left San Francisco on tho 17th February last, bound
for Australia, having on board a large number of pas
sengers, among whom w*re O. S. Kimbroogh, J. Wise
P. G. Wicke and J. P. Brown, of Georgia. It was re
ported that the vessel had been lost and a large num
ber of the passengers; this report proves to be un
founded, as appears by the Sydney Empire which an
nounces tho arrival of the steamship at that port on
the 23d of April, with the above named gentlemen
among the passengers. Mr. Kimbrough was from this
city.
Madam Jenny Lind Goldschmidt. —Dr. Cox, of
Brooklyn, as the friend, and by the authority of Jenny,
publishes a card to the public, vindicating her husbands’
character from the calumnies of the Northern preesl
that Otto has been cruel and unkind to Jenny. Dr.
Cox says :
‘'Her feelings have been deeply wounded by tho story
that her husband is unkind to her, inconsiderate, reckless
and even cruel. Not to examine such freports, it is enough
for me to say, that, herself being witness and judge, they
are totally false ; that envy and made©, or foolish loquacity
coupled with ignorance, invented them all; that nothing
but the diametrical reverse ia true of her “dear Otto that
no woman in tho w orld has more reason to be graietul to
God for her husband ; and that no man in the world could
be a more delicate and complete pattern of conjugal tender
ness, consideration and aneetion. This is but a brief epi
tome of what, with tall heart, she writes lo her friend afore
said. She writes indeeJ plainly ; without reserve and with
out affectation ; but not without sensibility, at once stung
and virtuously indignant.”
Mrs. Webster, wife of Professor Webster, who kill
ed Dr. Parkmau, died recently. Mr*. Webster was •
lady mueh esteemed aid respected among a large cir-
elo of acquaintances. The terrible crime and fate of
her husband had cast a gloom over her life ever tinea
that event, which, beyond the power of tho kindest
sympathies to dispel, has at length followed her to tho
A Mistake in Identity. —The man arrested in New
York, a few days ago, as Don Carlos Valencia with several
aliases, charged with attempting the life of a Mr. Mc-
Carty, turns out to bo Comalli Von Alten, a respecta
ble young German, who resembled the alleged offen
der so elosely as to deceive a number of persons.
Munificent Gift . —It will bo perceived by the pro
ceedings of Council, that Dr. Frampton, with an en
larged and wisely directed liberality, has presented his
valuable Library to the College sf Chariest#*, and that
Counoil has marked their seaso of his generosity ia a
manner that will prove an enduring and grateful me
morial •( the munifioeaos sf the publio spirited donor.
Charleston Mercury ,
The King of Hslland lately delivered his nsnal
speech to ths States General, *>nolnding by 25 minutes
past one e’olock, P. M. It was immediately translated,
transmitted by telegraph to Loudon, and composed and
published by threa o’elook tha same afternoon* The
line traverse* uoarly one hundred miles on the bed of
the German ocean. The speech contained 1,750 words |
(CORKE&POND&NtK OF TBS TlAlta AND 6SKTINKL.J
Mobile, Oct. 1, 1953.
I hav received but ou# copy of the “Times” in three
weeks—the hiatus •ecurriug at a time of all others, most
provoking, as I was ou th* look-out for the Georgia returns.
Tbe result proves tho truth of th* old adage, that bad news
travels last, aud vice versa. I am greatly rejoiced at the
handsome aud suUt&ulial victory you have just so gallant
ly won. The uncertainty ot Georgia politics has become
proverbial—but certainly th* State baa seldom rendered a
political verdict, so righteous in itself, and bo demanded by
good faith, consistency and honor, as the one just pro
nouueed in favor of the administration of Gen Pierce, and
against the insidious and factious attempt to rebuke it, made
by the debris of th* old Whig party. Could any thing
be more euriously instructive of the mutability of political
men and parties, than to see the men who lured the people
of Georgia into submission in 1850, when there was at
least some cam*© for indignant resistance in 1853, raising
the standard ofpectional revolt, when, every thing has been
adjusted nnd settled on principles which they then declared
were “fair, honorable and jnFt.” There are, doubtless, all
over the South, men who aro ready to join any sectional
party,at any time and on any pretext or occasion. These
are tha disuniomsts per se. But even these men had to
hesitate at the bold impudence of the ’proffered leadership
ofsuchmenas Toombs, Jenkins and Sanford. And 1
never cou.d see how Col. Toombs could hope, with hi*
antecedents to rally a sectional party even (or sectional de
fence. Who can ever, hereafter, trust him, with leadership
in a great eauee ( He fooled us with his Hamilcarand “dio
in the ditch** speeches once ; but it will he difficult to re
peat ih# humbug. Ido not think I ever heard a more ab- j
eurd, inconclusive and inconsistent speech than that deliver
ed by Mr. Toombs, in your Temperance Hall, on the
opening of the late campaign. It wn* an iusult to tbe un-
derstanding, and most recent memories of every man who
heard it; and my reflection at the conclusion of it was, that
if this man can build up a party and carry the people of
Georgia on this bundle of crotchets which ho calls a plat
form, men of principle might as well hang up thoir fiddles
and cease to struggle for the truth.
But I am happy to bo able to write to-day that the effort
has failed, and that neither Col. Toombs’ talents and ef
frontery, nor Mr Jenkins’ deservedly popular character have
suffered to bear up the crushing weight of their bad cause.
The result is most happy ou muny accounts, It sustains
the administration that has most nobly deserved the sup
port of Georgia—and it consolidates tho strength of the
Democratic party in the State. Tho old Districts of
Toombs and Stephens are the last strongholds left to the
enemies of Stato Rights in Georgia. All tho rest is re
deemed. Even tho Second District, which it began to be
believed, in somo quarters had become tho personal domain
of the late invincible representative, has declared its prefer
ence for sound practical Democratic politics, to mon who
have neither handles to their habitual names, nor fixed
principles in their creed. Talking of names, what has be
come of your neighbor’s “Legion V* It has turned out like
Sir Jack’s men in buckram, not so numerous in the tally as
they were out of the big end of his blowing hom.
The yellow fever still lingers iu this atmosphere. In the
city the deaths are reduced to aboat half a dozen a dny and
most of them are absentees too *oon returned. But in the
suburbs for miles around, wherever there is population the
fever Is busy. lam sorry to say that it made its appear
ance at the Catholic College on Spring Hill, which had so
far escaped. One ofHhe Priests has been carried off*. I
hear that the College will be disbanded immediately—the
only prudent course, for in the crowded state of College
dormitories the disease would at once become a plague.
We arcanxiously hoping for an early frost to purify tho air
wo breathe.
The telegraph bears to us the etartl ng report to-day, that
the Ottoman Porte has declared war against Russia. If
true, this is the first note to stirring times nd scene*. I
must say I admire the Turk’s pluck—a quality hehaa ex
hibited on several occasions, and coupled with a magna
nimity that puts some ofhis Christian brother sovereigns to
the blush. His protection of Kossuth and his Hungarians,
under the laws of hospitality was an act of rare daring,
courage and generosity. It cost him money, trouble and
risk. lam inclined to think too, that the Sultan haa ex
hibited wisdom in striking the blow and bringing his quar- *
rel with tho Czar to the issue of tho sword. The steady ‘
and fixed policy of Russian encroachment on Turkish soil |
existed—tho fight, for hia throne, hie subjects and kis terri- j
tory, sooner or later, had to be made—he never would have ;
a juster cause, bettor allies, or find his people more ’
!in ardor, courage and fanaticism. And now/Turk as he 1
is he has iny beat wishes and hop<33 for his triumph over j
that colloeeal tyranny of the North which bids fair to make !
Europe “Cossack,” if the people do not make it “Republi- i
can.” If the Sultan’s allies, England aud France will t
stand np to him in the fight, he can at least drive tho Czar's
troupe—-the Russian bears—out of the Provineeeof the Da
nube, and back to their snows. I havo some fears about ■
his allies—they have evidently been weak in tho knees ever <
Hincc they patted the Turk on the hack. But then they
must check the ambitious move of Russia in the direction
of tho Dardanelles and the Black Sea, The safety of ail
the rest of Europe ia involved in the question. F.
Sale af the Metrepolitan Haiti. —Th N. Y. Herald
of Saturday, aya it waa stated on good authority, eu !
’Change, that Messrs. A. T. Stewart & Cos., the oels- i
bruted dry goods firm, had purchased the Metropolitan
Hotel for the round sum of $600,000, and that they j
were to pay down in oaah SIOO,OOO, leaving $200,000
on time.
Another Failure. —lt is now publicly announced
that Robert Spear, a well known Stock Broker of Wnll
etrect, New York, has failed under the recent depre
ciation of stock, and tho tightness of the money mar
ket. There are various other ramora afloat regarding
the solvency of certain parties, bat they have not yet
come to a focus.
Beware of Counterfoils. —We understand, says the
Augusta Constitutionalist of Saturday, that one dollar
bills of the Mechanics’ Bank, and of the Bank of Au
gusta, raised to five, are in oiroulation in the interior of
this State. They aro poorly executed and easily de
tected by any one in tho habit of handling bank bills,
and wo pnblish this notice to put those who are not, on
| their gnard. Keep a look ont for the oiroulators of these
bills.
A Gorman Colony has been, for a couple of years,
settled is PiokoHS distriot, Sooth Carolina, on a tract of
20,000 acres of land, which it has purchased in com
mon, to be divided among the asveral families of the
community. Houses have been ereeted and a village
laid ont, nntned “Walhalla,” and schools and ohnrches
have been instituted. The colony is said to bo now in a
very flourishing condition.
Closing of the Crystal Palace. —lt is advertised that
tho Crystal Palace will be closed in December, and as
that may mean the first of Decembor, it is possible
that little more than six weeks remain for visiting the
exhibition, and the New York journals aro therefore
calling npon the resident citizens lo visit it, as thns far,
nearly aii the visitors havo been strangers. The slook
is selling st 55, or 45 below par. Before the opening
it was as high as I TO.
An Improved Steam boiler. —Judge W. E. Bird, of
Cahaba, Alabama, has invented an improved steam
boiler, for which he has taken measure ts sooure o
patent. The boiler is composed of ovlindors or tubes
arranged in layers or tiers, having return flues passing
throngh them and cenuected with fire-ohambera. The
flues of the lower tubes or cylinders terminate in a trunk
or chest with hollow bars, through which the smoke
pusses to the smoke-chamber. The flues of the upper
cylinder communicate directly with the smoke-chamber.
Snoto in Maine. —On Wednesday before last, snow
fell in tho town of Rangily, (Me.,) to the depth of one
foot. Between that place and Phillips, travel was in
terrupted for several day* in consequence. The trees
bordering the road were so loaded with snow that they
best down and obstructed the way.
A Jury Burnt in Effigy. —lndignation meetings
have beou held it Washington County, Md., at which
the jury who recently reudered a verdict of aoquittal in
the Swan oase have been fieroely denounced. In
BrUusbore the people formed in procession, headed by
the effigies representing the twelve jurors, and proceed
ed through several streets, after which they halted in
tho square, and there consigned to the devouring ele
ment the twelve representatives of the jury in the Swan
ease.
cr W® regret to learn from th* following paragraph in
a Mobil* paper of th# 18th in*t., that th* extensive
lumber mill* iu which our townsman, John Forsyth was
interested, have been entirely consumed by Sre. The
U* w* understand to be $20,000, Instead of i115,000,
as stated iu the paragraph below, of which SII,OOO only
were insured :
Fire —Between 2 and 3 o’clock yesterday mortiiug, a
fire broke out in th# newly erected Saw Mills of .Messrs.
Ogden 6c Forsyth, on Blakely Island, opposite Congress
street, and speedily consumed the entire buildings—for their
combustibilities and isolation from all help, rendered them
a mere bonfire. How the fir# originated, we have heard no
tangible conjecture. The time gives rise to thoughts of mal
ice ; although in such a situation, with the river dividing it
from the city, it would have proved as easy a prey to the in
cendiary at mid-day.
The premises were estimated at a valuation of 815,000
eleven of which were eovered by insurance, there being
five separate officers having each $2200.
It is reported that Simeon Draper ha* arranged with
the Mechanic*’ Bank of New York to pay off his lia
bilities, and will resume business. The New York
Post lesrns that the liabilities of Mr. Draper amount to
between two nnd three million of dollars.
Prof. Paul F. Eve reports a ease of the removal of a
nail from the lunge of a child five years old, by trach
eotomy. Tho nail was an inch and a half long, and
situated in the left bronchus.
Good Dividend —The Bank of the State of Georgia,
has declared a dividend of five dollars per share from
the profits cf the last six months—equal to ten per cent,
per annum.
Hon, Miller Grieve, late Charge to Denmark,
passed through thi* city on Sunday, ou his way home.
Augusta Chronicle , 19th inst.
Homicidr—At a late hour on Saturday night, says
the Augusta Chronicle Sentinel, an altercation ou
corred in the street, between Peter P'eagan, ono of tho
City Watchmen, and Augustus Carlledgc, during which
Cartledge shot him with a pistol, of which he died in a
few minute#. A Coroner’* Jury found a verdict ac
cordingly.
(KT Tristnm Burgess, formerly, and, for many
years a distinguished politieian of Rh#de Island, died in
Providence on the morning of the 13th. He was a
member of Congress from that State from ISJS to
1535.
Death of a Member Elect. —lion. Johu L. Bird,
SenAtor elect from Taliaferro, we regret to learn, died
last wwek. The Governor has issued a writ of election
to fill the vacancy.
Major General Winfield Seott, General in Chief of
the United State* Army, ha* been summoned under
the name of “W. Scott’’ to parade at the militia train
ing m New York.
A Letter from Col. Davia.
The following letter from the Secretary of War
though written only for the satisfaction of a correspon
donti has been furnished for publication by him in conse
quence of his being involved in that malignant misrepre
sentation, which has been the lot of every one who hns
refused to acknowledge the incomparable purity and pre
eminent patriotism of a faction of the New York De
mocracy. We copy it from the Washington Sentinel :
Washington, D. C. Oet. 6.
My Dear Sir ; I have not seen the publication iu the
Herald , to which you refer, >.nd which, if seen would
not have received any notice from me, bad it not been
dignified by the attention of aomo one whose good opin
ion I regard.
Thanking you for your kind interest and confidence iu
me, 1 reply that you have not, iu this instance, mistaken
my position. Whatever may have been the language
employed, tho statement that I had endorsed Preston
Kiug and Johu Van Bureo is false, and, 1 will add, would
have been absurd if 1 had presumed to do so.
I served with the first named gentleman in Congress,
and on the slavery question, we were the antipodes of
each other. Os his subsequent course aud present posi
tion lam not iu formed. The second named gentleman
is known to me personally yniv by private intercourse ;
his position as shown by the publications of the day, has
been very objectionable to me, but now is iu accordance
with the general amnesty declared iu tho Baltimore con
vention, and ratified by the presidential canvas# of 1552.
t I received the proposition to unite ou tho platform deola
red by th# democratic party in general convention as a
j settlement of past feuds, and havo been ready to operate !
| with nil who, adhering faithfully to the principles and pol- j
j icy then declared, are willing to go with me in the on- j
j ward march of democracy.
It would have been hollow and dishonorable to have al*
! lied with men upon that basis, aud when tho campaign
was over have summoned them to answer for their “by.
: gone” opinions. So tar was this from any purpose or pol
| icy of mine, that I had forgotten, if indeed I ever knew,
i the contents of speeches and letters which have recently
J been brought to light, nnd present men in whom I had
I entire confidence as liaviug been, a very few years ago,
| the advocates of freeeoilism.
Notwithstanding the significant mark of confidence
j given to Mr. Dickinson, when he was offered the best fi- j
; nancial and political appointment in the State of New !
York, I havo not, and will not, approve tho anti-slavery
speeches he made in 1847 and 1849. And although
Judge Bronson hold# the high post which Governor
Dickinson declined, I trust I shall not be numbered
among those who subscribe to his letter of July 15, 1848,
to the meeting to ratify tho nomination of Martin Van Bu
ren, nnd contribute to th* extension of freesoil. lam
willing in these as in other cases, to drop the inquiry into
by-gone opinions and .associations, to adhere to the com
! I*® o * 1852, to oppose disorganization, to resist agitation
and to promote the harmony of the democratic party ns
, mean* of seeing peace among tha StaLs and
I pros|>erity and perpetuity to the Union. Now, this is not
to approve objections bis antecedents, not to endors# the
opinions at war with my creed, but to act as becomes
those who believe the union of the democracy to have
been sincerely, honestly, and substantially made for pub
lie and not personal ends. Holding, as I do, that party or
ganization is a necessary moans to ensure success to prin
oipleson which parties are formed, I cannot hut lament
the division which has, without recent oause, opened the
old wounds in our party of New York.
Ido not aasumo to ininglo, still less to judge, in this
family quarrel, but will abide the course of rapidly trans*
piring events, and hope that the true democracy may
crush any disintegrating faction which goes into coalition
with tho whiffs.
Very truly, your friend,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Health of Montgomery.
Alabama Journal, 21st inst., pays, we feel it ourfduty to
Ftato that the fever of a rnalignat typo, pronounced by most
of tho physicians yellow fever, still lingers among us, and
there have been several new fatal cases. This disease,
which has been in portions of tho city for the last two
months, and considering tho increase of population and
strangers from below, has not added, to any alarming ex
tent, to tho usual bills of mortality for tho season, and up
to this date, has not in the body of the city developed the
appearances of epidemic. What may occur, as we have
often said, we know not; we can only speak for the
present.
It the physicians are not mistaken in the many cases re
ported by some of them for the last six weeks as of this
type, it is a mild form of this disease—yielding readily to
prompt treatment; perhaps not more than one in ten prov
ing fatal. One physician with 22 fully marked cases, lost
only one.
Some fortnight since we visited, in company wjth the
physicians, a house in the infected district, near the wharf,
containing five cases—lrish laborers—all down with this
Fame type of fever in its most aggravated form, with the
vomit, deep yellow skin, hemorrhage of tho gums and
teeth, Ac. Os these five, all recovered except one, who
refused to take medicine. This does not show a disease
“worse than tho yell low fever.”
There wero no interments yesterday, and we trust that,
owing to the lateness of the season, we shall bo spared an
epidemic, or any further progress of the disease. It may,
however, be tho part of prudence for gentlemen at their
seats in tho country to defer until frost removing in to their
town residences.
Health of New Orleans.
The Bulletin, of tho 15th, says :—The weather has
been pleasant fora long time, dry nnd warm, until yester
day, when the sky became overcast, snd a sort of a driz
zly rain descended nearly tha whole of the day. From
this *change of tho weather we are led to infer
that anothor will soon take place—and that Jack Frost
will speedily make his welcome appearance.
eThe health of he tcity has continued to improve unin
terruptedly, until it may now be said to be one of the
healthiest in the Union. Outside tho walls of the Chari
ty Hospital there is scarcely any fever, and very little
there.
In a conversation with one of our best physicians
and largest practitioners, the other day, ho remarked that
the city was fr e from fever, and that many of tho cases
in the hospital* had come down from tho coast, w hero the
fever was prevailing, with the seeds of the disease iu
them.
Ths Board of Health has passed a resolution that the
fever no longer c*its in the city as an epidemic.
We think that we may safely say tosur absent friends
return. There is no danger now to bo apprehended —-
The absolute strangers, those wholly onaeclimated, we
wonld say, stay away until frost.
Death of Tristram Burgess. —The Hon. Tristram
Burgess, for many years U. S. Senator from Rhode Is
land, and a man of great ability as an orator, died in Prov-*
idenee on Thursday morning, in thejleighty-fonrth year of
his age.
Know his Income
We hear it frequently asserted that extrava
gauce is the great evil of the age. Husbands
particuhuly are fond of expatiating on this sub.
ject before their wires, or before female visitor.,
whom they talk to, in order to talk at their
spouses. But, iu justice to the ladies, it should
be said that men are quite as extravagant as wo
men. If the latter Lave a weakness for laces,
silks aud fine furniture, the former are just as
fond of cigars, champagne and horses. Many
a husband, who grumbles at what he thinks are
extravagant sums paid by his wife, for gloves,
shoes and bankerchiefs, spends twice as much
annually on oysters, or at ten pins The thing*
the wife fancies are, moreover, the more refined
of the two ; and, on the whole, aro perhaps,
quite as useful as the others. Whatever the “rest
of mankind” may say, the Ledger will he honest
in this matter. Fair play has riot been given to
the sex. The men, who do most of the editing,
writing and paying, have raised the cry of ex
travagance against the ladies,until a popular idea
has arisen that females are constitutionally great
er spendthrifts than the males. It is the old sto,.
ry of the lion painting his own virtues.
Having thus exonerated tho ladies, from *
charge we think unjust they will, we trust listen
dispassionately to what further we have to sav.
For, though we consider the men quite as ex
travagant as the women, we are far from exone
rating either from this folly entirely. At some
other time we may have a word of advice fdf
the “lords of creation ;” but to-day, we wish to
have the ear, for awhile, of those same “lords.”
We presume, at the outset, we are talking to
sensible women. By a sensible woman, in this
instance, wo mean one, who, if a wife, makes
her husband’s interest her own, anti who is,
therefore anxious to spare him unnecessary anx
iety, and to labor with him to the extent of her
ability, to lay by someting for their old age, if
not for the future establishment of tlifdr chil
dren. The wife who has not this sympathy
with her husband, but who regards him merely
j as a means of enabling her to dress expensively,
is unworthy of the name, the position, the hon
ors of a companion for life. She is, in no sense,
the help-mate, which she was called in tho old
Saxon. She is a drag on her husband, not an
assistant to him. To aid him, she should be
cheerful, should order her house well, and above
all, should strictly *void extravagance ; and to
achieve the latter, there is no better way, provi
ded she is a woman of sense, than to know his
income exactly.
For extravagance is a relative term. A bro
cade silk may be a folly for one wife, but only
what is proper for another better off. We do
not advocato parsimony on the part of the rich.
If elegant fabrics, and sumptuous furniture, and
fine houses were abolished, many thriving trades
would perish for want of sustenance ; and those
who ply them would either h reduced to per
manent beggary, or forced into other persnits
which are already, perhaps, sutficiently stocked.
But if sensible wife knows her hnshand’s in
come, she can tell, for herself, what is extrava
gant, and what not. Is he a merchant ? She is
aware, then, that he has his fortune to make;
that his pursuit is a precarious one ; nnd that
consequently the household expenses must bear
a very small proportion to the apparent profits.
Is he a professional man ? She knows, that in
this case, the road to wealth is alow, and that,
therefore, she must deny herself marry things
Ids position would seem to warrant. Ts he a
mechanic ? In such an event, her husband can
never hope to be rich, until he saves capital
enough to become a master workman, and hs
cannot hope to succeed in this effort, unless
sustained by the strictest economy on the part
of his wife. Is he a man of fortune? A wise
wife is aware that property fluctuates, and that
children will want a start in life ; and conse
quently even the wife of the landed proprietor
will take caro not to spend their whole in*
i come.
| It is not always the wife who is to blame,
: however, for not regulating the expenses of the
husband’s income. Many men foolishly think
that it is not a wife’s business to know th# stat#
of their affairs. Others, when in difficulties, de
ceive their wives. It frequently happens, there
fore, that a wife either believes her busbsnd to
be prospering when he is not, or greatly over*
rates the oxtent of his prosperity. In such •*-
ses the husband is quite as censurable for the
wife’s extravagance as she is herself. To sum
| up all in a sentence, if husbands would be more
just to wives, wives would oftenor act like wo
men of sense, and would be less extravagant.—
Phila. Ledger.
A Daughter t of Patrick W. Henry Defending,
her father. —Mrs. D S. \ inaton, au aged widow
lady, formerly the wife of Mr. G. D. VVioaton,
deceased, of Virgiaia, and who reside# in an
humble cottage near Athens, Alabama, i* a
daughter of the celebrated Patrick Henry, of
Virginia, of revolutionary memory ; and we
notice that a late number of tho Athens Herald
contains a communication from her, correcting
a statement in Wirt’s Life of Patrick Henry,
wherin it is stated that “in one of his
purchases of land he ii blamed for having
availed himself of tho existing laws of tho State
in paying for it in depreciated currency of the
country; nor was he free from the censure on
account of some participation which he is said
to have had in the profits of the Yazoo trade.”
Mrs. Winston says that Mr. Wirt was not ac
quainted with her father, and never saw him,
and therefore had” to depend upon others for his
information. The charge was brought against
him when he was spoken of as successor to
Gen. Washington, and, being conscious of bis
innocence, he never took the trouble to contra
dict it. Mrs. Wirt, his wife, and the mother of
Mrs. Winston, however, wrote to the treasurer
of V irginia on the subject, and that officer re
plied that the money was paid in gold and silver.
Mrs. Winston admits that her father was con
cerned in the Yazoo purchase ; but she adds that
the “well informed need not be told that many
persons of unquestionable integrity became
purchasers of the Yazoo stock, and that all the
criminality of tho affair is attached to the orig
inators of the scheme.”
The Abolition Whig Party aliee again.—
Under this caption the Now York Herald de
votes a column to the Hon. VV. H. Seward and
his party. In refernneo to Win. Seward and
the party which lie represents, the Herald re
marks:
“A great political miracle has recoutly been
wrought in this country. Nothing less is it
than the revivification of the whig party, with
nil its destructive tendencies. Let it he every
where proclaimed abroad, so that all men may
know and ask in surprise how this change thu*
came to pass.’’
Tho Herald thus assumes the task to explain
the “wonder’’ and point oilt the consequences
and finally introduces the annexed compli
mentary remarks for especial benefit of Mr.
Seward.
In this series of successful manoeuvres Wil
liam H. Seward has given ample evidence, if
such were needed, of his great skill and talents
as a politician. VV e admit his high qualifications
in this regard. VV e would not deprive him of
an iota of the credit due to such excellont man
agement. But we denounce the political sonti
ments of which he is the impersonation ; we
abhor the principles which would scatter dis
union throughout tliie prosperous land by
arraying the abolitionists of the North against
the slaveholders of the South, and we would
mourn the day when the Presidential chair
should he filled by such a man as William H.
Seward.”