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TIMES & SE^TTUSTEL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 27. 1858
Jeflerson Davis on the Union.
This distinguished Senator from Mississippi, who is re
garded as the very embodiment ol States Rights and
State sovereignty, and who has won his fair name by a
strict devotion to our Constitutional rights, is beginning
to shout praises for the Union! A Union, which is alrea
dy dissolved so far as fraternal feeling between the fwo
actions is con earned, has just burst forth in all its beauty
upon the bright vsion of this Presidential aspirant! In a
recent speech delivered on the 4th July on board a ship
bound for Boston from Balt imore,.Mr. Davis is reported
to have said:
“And this great country will continue united. Trifling
politicians in the South or ia the North, or in the West,
may continue <o talk otherwise, but it will be of no avail
They are like the musquitoee around the ox—they annoy,
but they cannot wound,rand never kill. There was a
common interest which run through all the diversified oc
cupations and various products of these sovereign States;
there was a common sentiment of na'ionality which beat
in every American.bosom; .there were common memories
swee,to us all, and though clouds had occasionally dark
ened our political sky,the good sense and good feeling
of the people had thus fa [{averted any catastrophe destruc
tive o! our Constitution and the Union. It was in frater
nity, and an elevation of principle which rose superior to
sectional or individual aggradizement, that the foundations
of our Union were laid; aud if we, the present generation
be worthy of our ancestry, we shall not only protect
those foundations from destruction, but build higher and
wider this temple of liberty, and inscribe perpetuity upon
its tablet ”
We have no objection to the above extract, except the
prophesy that the Union “will continue united.” notwith
standing “trifling politicians iu the South, or in the North
or in the West, may continue to talk otherwise.” This
precludes the idea that such a state of things could exist
as would justify all Union, but Southern Constitutional
rights men, from resisting the encroachments of tyranny
and usurpation of unjust authority and power which a pro
per seß-respect might demand. An antagonism exists now
between the two sections as bitter as that of the Saxon
and Gaul and while we would not hasten a separation by
any hasty or imprudent act,yet we eannot bow submissively
to a galling yoke before penetrating the veil beyond which
Uoionism sits enthroned.
The country “will continue united” only; by an observ
ance of those rights on the part of each section, which is
guaranteed by the Constitution, and which it is the sacred
duty of every good citizen to honor and protect. This is
the extent of our homage for the Union of these States.
We regret the speech oj Mr. Davis; a few more like it,
and the prestage of that name at.the South, will be, po
tent only for evil.
Jlr.trittcnilen’i Allies.
While some of our American Journals are lauding Mr
Crittenden as an “incorruptible patriot and statesman,’!
whose hail has grown gray in the .service of his country,
abolition leadersTand renegade,democrats, hail his recent
course in Congress with satisfaction and delight. By what
logical principles his course'receives the commendation
of parties with diametrically opposite views on the leading
measures of Congress, our optics cannot perceive. He is
undoubtedly regarded as a friend to .the Black Republican
party, whose only barrier to uccess is the stubborn wii*
and indomitable energy of their great foe—the slave dem
ocracy. He is too, the ‘patriot and statesman,’ with ma
ny of our American otemporaries, who profess a love for
thj South superior to mere pany obligations, but who are
prepared to crown the Kentuckian’s brow with the laurel
wreath of praise and honor. We commend to their pe
rusal the following extract from the Kentucky Statesman
of the speech of the abolition leader,Cassius M. Clay, de
livered at Big Glad, Ky., ou the 4th inst.:
“He referred at length to the course of the party lead
ers at Washington during the last Wiuter, and commend
ed in the most laudatory terms the action of Messrs. Crit
tenden, Marshall, Underwood aud their confederates. He
welcomed them as worthy allies in the abolition cause;—
said they had come to him, and he f was ready to strike
hands with them in their effort to consolidate all elements
of opposition to Democracy. He has recognized in the
Democratic party the only unrelenting foe Black Repub
licanism has to encounter, and hailed the accession ol such
eoutnern Statesmen as Crittenden, Marshall and Under
wood as the happiest omen of success which had occurred
to encourage him andhis friends- He pledged the votes
of the Kentucky Free soilers in support of the American
ticket this summer.’ ’
Separate State Action —The Charleston Mercury.
The right to secede from the Union lor a violation of
the letter or the obvious meaning and spirit of the con
stitution, is ihe corner stone of the State Rights Democra
tic creed. Underlying this right, and necessary to its ex
istence, is the doctrine of State Sovereignty. Each mem
ber of mis Confederacy, by virtue of the fact that it was
originally sovereign—that it delegated the exercise of spe
cific powers and, by necessary implication, as well as by
express language, retained the balance, has the right to de
termine upon the infringement of such residuary powers.
These propositions, asserted in the Virginia Resolutions of
’99, and illustrated and entorced during his whole public
life by the genius of the great Carolinian, no longer furnish
topics of controversy at the South, and have taken their
place in the rank of axiomatic truth. Nearly every Sou
thern State has recently affirmed this cardinal doctrine and
declared a determination to give it a practical shape under
given contingencies. We have not understood that in these
contingencies was included that of concurrence or co-ope
ration by other States. Such was certainly not an element
of consideration in the action taken by Georgia, Alabama,
and Texas. Each State for herself, conscious of her own
Sovereignty and estimating her rights by the measure of
her individual judgment,placed her own interpretation up
on their infraction, and determined the course her destiny
should take thereafter. We do not see how they could
have done otherwise-The union ol the whole south is an ob
ject the importance of which may not be too highly estima
ted. It would be a magnificent spectacle—that of a whole
poeple knit together by interest and one in destiny, united
also in purpose and action. But this we may not antici
pate, unless we discard eiperience from our calculations. —
Union we should seek to cultivate, but, failing in this,each
State has still a responsibility to meet, a judgment to pro
nounce.What a ridiculous position it would be tor a people
to assume, that they consider certain action on the part of
the federal government an aggression upon their rights, a
violation of their sovereignly, and yet will not maintain
their rights, will not vindicate their sovereignty because an
other people, in like situation and similarly affected, see
proper to submit. This is submission in its worst and
most dangerous form,because it is submission by premedi
tation and in advance.
We have been led to these reflections by reading an arti
cle in a late number of the Charleston Mercury in reply to
the Sumter IVafeAman which charged the Mercury with an
abandonment of its lormer position. In that article occurs
the following sentence ; “The Mercury has long abandon
ed the separate action ol the State and seeks bona fide the
uninn of the South for action on any proper occasion.”
The distinguished editorial ability and the uncompromising
Southern spirit which have characterised the columns of
that paper have given it a breadth of influence equalled
perhaps, by no other Southern journal. It is because it has
this influence and is conducted with such ability that we are
pained at the above announcement. It was the foremost
champion of secession and separate action in 1850. It
was right then ; and it would be right again in advocating
the same policy under circumstances ol aggression. Its
position is greatly weakened by its acknowledged distrust
of the moral force of truth and justice when it says, in effect
that, though degraded by oppressive and unequal legisla
tion, though my constitutional rights are trampled upon*
yet I will not strike for redress unless my neighbor does.—
And why not 1 Can it be that any (ear of consequences
can deter a free people from vindicating their rights 1 Are
consequences worse than plunder and death to be appre
handed, and is life of more value than honor ?
Gor. Brown a Baptist.
Our worthy cotemporary of the Cassville Standard.while
professing great freedom from Sectarian bias makes an ex
hibition of it in its recent charge against the Chief Magis
trate of our State. It is alleged by our intelligent friend,
that Gov- Brown discriminates in favor of his own Baptist
denomination in the appointment of the offices at his dis
posal. The names of the Rev. Dr. Lewis aDd Rev. Mr
Hanks, who have recently reeived appointments, are cited.
We think this charge might have escaped the notice ol a
democratic journal. Admit, for the sake of argument, that
it is true. What of it? Are tha appointments bestowed
on worthy gentlemen? Has our colemporary read through
mistake the reiigious intolerance feature in the Know No
thing creed as a cardinal doctrine in the Democratic faith?
Let him reflect upon his position, and accord to Governor
Brown that purity of motive which he so justly deserves.
Wire OrassJßeporter.
This well conducted journal, located at Thomasville
and edited by Judge Peter E Love, with marked ability
for the last nine months,changed proprietors and editors in
its last issue- William Cline, the editor of the old Griffin
Jeffersonian, succeeds Judge Love. This gontleman
wields a ready pen and is a democrat of the Jeffersonian
school. The former editor will contioue to furnish arti
cte for tba “Repoitsr” when his tnuinecs will permit.
Mexico—Mr. Forsyth Snstatnedi
We sometime since sustained Mr. John Forsyth in ro
sisting the extraordinury tax imposed upon the property of
American citizens by the Zuloago government in Mexico,
andthought the tax imposed a forced loan, as the tax
payers received for the sums extorted from them, shares in
a national bank. The treaty of 1831, quoted by Mr For
syth, iu which the United States were to enjoy privileges
and immunities equal to those ol the most favored nations,
and the recital of the one existing between Great Britain
and Mexico, in which it is expressly stated that no forced
loan shall be imposed ou British subjects, settled, we
thought, thelegality and correctness ol Mr. Forsyth’s po
sition. The question has been submitted to Attorney Gen
eral Black, who has given the subject that consideration
which its magnitude justly merits, and the result ol his in
vestigations is most flattering to the sound judgment of
our Minister. Mr. Black sustains Mr. Forsyth and ar
gues that a general tax may be imposed according to the
usual tbrrhs for legitimate purposes, yet the collection of
money in the tnanner proposed is a forced contribution
which is forbid by existing treaties between the two Gov
ernments.
Air. Douglas’ Speech.
In another column will be found a synopsis of the speech
delivered by Senator Douglas at the reception given him
in.Cliicago, defiuing his position belore the country. He re
fers to the English bill, and gives his reasons tor opposing
it. Thinks it a “submission of the constitution to the
people with the threat that if they did not accept a slave
Constitution, its 35.0UJ inhabitants should .not come
iu as a free State untill it had 93,000.” That he could
never “countenance such a discrimination between free and
slave Slates.” He defended the Dred Scott decision. Did
not think with his competitor for Senatorial honors, Mr.
Lincoln, that it was a “great wrong to deprive a negro ol
the right ot citizenship—that they were never intended to
be citizens.”
So much for Mr. Douglas's speech. He has been his
greatest enemy. His ambition has overleaped itself. He
bowed the knee before the altar of Black Republicanism,
and is now being sacrificed as a victim. His old enemies
glory in their offering, and shout pseans ot joy as the in
cense rises. His proud spirit will not do .penance, and the
Democratic Party will not embracehim while he seeks to
mar its principles with the thrusts of demagoguism, and
false doctrines of popular sovereignty.
Have stood against the world; now lies he there,
Aud uone so poor to do him reverence !”
Tilt Great southern Mall Route
In reference to the contemplated changes in the Mail
Rome between New York, Charleston, and New Orleans,
the Charleston Courier of the 21st instant, says: The pro
posed route passes through Philadelphia,Baltimore, Wash
ington, Richmond and Wilmington to Charleston, as at
present, but will consume forty four hours instead of for
ty-eight according to lhe existing schedule. From Charles
ton it will be continued by fast and superior iron steamers
to Fernandina.in Florida,thence by the Florida Railroad to
Cedar Keys, on the Gulf, from which point, steamers will
run daily to New Orleans—(the performance of this por
tion of the route being fifty-two hours)—thus reducingthe
entire lime from New York to New Orleans to ninety six
hours, or four days.
5 The Courier endorses the practicability of these schemes.
On this point we entertain some caDital doubts. By refer
ence to the map it will be seen that New Orleans is distant
from Cedar Keys about six and a halt degrees. On an air
line, therefore, they are separated i early four hundred
miles. Making allowance lor necessary variation, and
the tortuous iuland course to be followed in reaching the
Crescent City, wedoubt whether a communication by wa
ter can be made between the last mentioned points under
the distance of five hundred miles. To accomplish this
at the average rate of speed made by the Gull and Atlan
tic steamers, would consume forty hou s. This would
leave only twelve hours to be divided between the trip
across the peninsular and the passage trom Fernandina
to Charleston—an allowance which we should deem
greatly inadequate But whether it be as expeditious as is
here promised, or not, webelieve it will boa popular route
and will eominand a considerable share of the immense
tide of travel which now, by various channels, flows and
ebbs between our eastern cities and the Gull and Pacific
ports. The passage on the Gulf will be safe and pleasant,
as that upon our South-eastern coast has ever been; while
the changes from Car to Steamboat, which are made nec
essary on this route, will be no mean recommendation—
The Courier also learns, that propositions have been sub
mitted to the post office department by the parties interes
ed in this route, to run in connection with it, a weekly
ine of steamers to Havana, and a bi monthly line to some
of the Isthmian Crossings, for the transportation of the
California mails and passengers.
Recommendation to City Council.
There is a city ordinance, we believe, requiring all pro
duce of every description sold in this market to be carried
to the Market House until the hour ot 9 o’clock A. M
This ordnance, which is wise and just in its provisions,
has never been carried into effect. We rospeeifully re
commend to our worthy Mayot aud Council its enforce
ment- We have recently visited the city of Macon, where
the experiment has been tried with great success—both
buyer and seller reaping the benefit of such an arrange
ment.
The purchaser repairs to the market house before the
hour ol nine o’clock in the morning, where all the produce
brought to this market can be found and bought at a regu
lar price. There is no uncertainty of purchasing these ar
ticles for table use which attend the present system of carts
moving over the city, The purchasers now are accomo
dated to-day and disappointed to-morrow. Whereas by
the arrangement we suggest, there is no disappointment
and much expense is saved. The sellers too are benefitted.
The produce they bring to market is usually sold before
the hour of nine. They are not put to the trouble of drum
ming up buyers from every locality in the city. Their ar
ticles of produce such as beef, butter, &.C., are not exposed
to the heat as is the case in.the present system, which acts
badly for seller and purchaser.
We respectluily recommend the enforcement of this or
dinance, whicti has worked so well in cities, where it has
been rigidly enforced- We will have a market furnished
with ail the luxuries and delicacies of the season and the
accommodation it will afford to all parties will at once
strike the mind of every thinking person.
Death of Gen. John A. Quitman.
This distinguished gentleman died at his residence near
Natchez, Mississippi, on the 17th inst. Seldom has it been
our fortune to chronicle an event that filled us with a
keener sorrow. Neverdid a heavier calamity fall upon a
people than this dispensation inflicts upon the South. At
a per.ui when,more than ever, sneneeded the firm coun
sel aud sustaining arms of her true children, lias (this chief
amoug her champions fallen. Gen. Quitman was the
personification ot Southern chivalry and honor. “Original
and unaccommodating, the features of his character had
the hardihood of antiquity.” The dreams of federal pro
motion, the blandishments of official station could no
blunt his sensibility to the slightest wound inflicted upon
his loved and injured section. The stern, persistent de
mand for her rights, the passionate devotion to her interests
and her honor, which illustrated the years of his political
life, will forever enshrine his memory in Ihe hearts of her
people. To-day, this stricken mother which adopted and
cherished him, and whom he loved so well, mourns the
loss of her favorite son. We would not dry her tears. —
It is meet she should bend at bis grave and weep.
LaGrange Female College.
This popular Institution closed its exercises a few weeks
since. We understand from those who were present, that
the examination was alike creditable to the pupil and teach’
er. There was some thirteen graduates, who read fine es
says on the Commencement day. The speeches of Messrs.
Seals of Penlield and Wilson of Savannah were happily
conceived and well delivered.
Rev. W. G. Conner, the worthy President, resigned his
office, which he has held with so much distinction for the
past year. It is a matter of congratulation with the friends
of the Institution, that his mantle lias fallen on one so wor
thy the position as the Rev. J. M- Bonnell. This latter
gentleman was a Professor in the Wesleyan Female Col
lege a few years since, where he won his reputation as a
teacher and disciplinarian. Success to this flourishing In
stitute.
Independent South.
We have heretofore neglected to notice the publication
of a paper bearing the above title. It is edited by A. P.
Burr, Esq., and published at Griffin in this State. Its prin
ciples are not those of any party, but such as will animate
the bosoin of men whose love of the South is subordinate
only to that of the Constitution. The Salutatory of Mr.
Burr shows that in 1850, he was of the Union party, but is
now satisfied that even theu, he should have been of the
glorious band of Southern Rights men. We welcome this
Journal to our sanctum, and hope its zeal in behalf of the
just rights ot the South will be characterized by wisdom
and prudence. This we have every reason to expect of
so worthy a public journalist as Mr. Burr.
Death or Cog Thomas H. Dunn.— Our Mobile ex
changes bring the intelligence of the death of Col. Dunn,
the recently appointed Consul General to Havana. He
was attacked with a congestive chill on the 10th and died
in Macon, Miss ,on the 13th inst.—the day on which he
was to have itarted lor Havana to assume the duties of hie
post-
Douglas vs, Orltteixden.
The distinguished names above are not worthy that ftt
teu'iou which is bestowed upon them. Both gentlemen
have been recreant to those principles which guide our po
litical course. Douglas is a democrat; Crittenden an Amer
ican. The lormer is the representative ot a free State;
the latter ol a slate Stale. Douglas voted against the Le
complon Constitution ; Crittenden did the same, Douglas
denounces the Black Republicans ; Crittenden courts their
favor; the one is a bitter enemy of the Abolitionists; the
other is welcomed by them as a friend and ally. The Ad
ministration repudiates Mr. Douglas; the American parly
glorify Mr. Crittenden. The democrats call Douglas a
renegade; the Americans pronounce Crittenden “incorrup
tible.” This being a correct picture, which is the greater
traitor; the Southern Crittenden or the Northern Douglas?
Which party is actuated by the purest motives, the Demo
cratic or American party ?
Endorsement,
We received a letter from a subscriber iu Claiborne Par
ish, La., a few days since—entirely unknown to us—who
says; “You will stop sending my paper for the present. I
do not know where I will live the next year. When I
settle, I will take your paper for life /” This is an en
dorsementfor our past and a confidence in our future coarse
that we cannot too highly appreciate in our readers.
Dinner to Senator Hammond.
The complimentary dinner to this gentleman by the citi
zens of Beach Island came off on the 22nd inst. The
Speeches on the occasion were made by Senator Ilant
mond, Mayor Treadwell of Columbia and Messrs. John
Cunningham and Richard Yeadon of Charleston. The
speech ofMayor Treadwell is characterised by the Augusta
Dispatch as ultra tire-eating, that of Mr. Cuuningham as
Bble,but more moderate and hopeful, while the speech of
Mr. Yeadon, as might have been expected, was Union. In
response to the sentiment to Georgia our eloquent young
friend—Jno. B. Weems, of Augusta, made some happy re
marks.
Tile Sea Turtle,
Our friends (political, not spiritual) of the Bella Union
have on exhibition at their bar room, a large sea turtle,
weighing five hundred pounds ! Wo expect to see in a few
days many lovers of fine turtle soup smacking their lips,as
they come out of the earing room.
The Revival.
The revival of religion which .has been progressing in
our city for more tlisn two months past, has at last ceased
t3 labors. Fiorn the best information we could receive, it
appears that more than five hundred persons have been
brought within the pale of the different churches during
this period. The Methodist Church has received into its
membership two hundred and fifty one persons on proba
tion and twenty by letter. The Baptist Church, one hun
dred by experience, baptism and letter. The Pre byteriau
Church oue hundred,and the Episcopal Church about
forty five. This number does not include the Blacks,
who have connected themselves with the different churches.
A majoriiy of those converted, we belive, have unilited
with the Baptist Church.
Thus it will bo seeu that a great work has been going
on in this city, which will be felt in coming years.
Jli. Toombs.
This gentleman is now in Macon, interested as counsa
In the Bank cases pending the Supreme Court for decis
ion.
Bank Case —Supreme Court.
It will be seen in another column, that Mr. Dougherty,
counsel for the bill-hoider in the Bank cases now pending
in the Superior Court in this city,objected to Judges Mc-
Donald and Benning presiding in tho# cases on the
preme Bench. Judge McDonald declines silting, and
Judge Benning continues to preside, for reasons which are
stated in the article we have transferred to our columns.—
A few angry words.it seems, passed between Mr. Dougher
ty and Judge Benning, iri which the latter characterized
the statement made by the former as false. We forbear
comment on the proceedings.
Conference fill * in Alabamn,
While the people of Alabama acquiesce in the settlement
of the Karisascontroversy.tbeydo not wish to be understood
as endorsing it. They accord to the Representatives ol
the South, who advocated the measure, the purest motives ■
and will make no issue with them on the question; yet i
they honestly believe, Ihatlhe Southern Congressmen com j
mitted a great error of judgment and mistook the semi—
ment of the people. In Benton, Lowndes county, where
reside an intelligent and wealthy people; we understand i
there was a public meeting, a few days since, and the
question was asked, by Mr. Moore, il there were one
present in the large assembly, in favor of the Conference
bill, when not a single affirmative was heard. This would
indicate an almost unanimous opinion against thismeaeutp.
But as there is no good to result from the discussion ofit.
we hope it will remain in the “tomb ol the Capulets.”—
We cannot see the policy of arguing a question which is
settled and that too by a united South. After the expres- j
sion of oar regrets at the necessity of such a settlement, j
the argument is exhausted
Closing; ot tile Mails.
The principal mails from this city, for the future, wiil be
closed as follows :
Eastern Mail closes at 2 p. in., and 7 p. m.
Western ■■ “ “ 2 “ “7 “
Eutaula and Chunnenuggee 12 m.
Springs —lt I ttarj-.
We learn from the LaGrange Reporter ol this date, that
the “Light Guards” of that place, contemplate a visit to
the White Sulphur Springs next Monday, the 26th. If this
spirited corps would wait a few days, ihey might have the
company of their brothers in-arms from this city—the
“Light Guards.” We understand they have been invited
and will decide this week, whether they will undertake
the trip. They would enjoy the society of their fellow soi
dieis, while radiating beneath the sunshine of lovely smiles
The Great Beet.
The large beet in the shape of a pig irom the plantation
of Maj. P. Maitin of Meriwether county i-ou oar table.—
It originally weighed Hi pounds. It is eighteen inches
in circumferance and the same in length.
Mounted on four wooden legs, wilh a row of bristles on
the back, with twosmail pieces of sulphate of copper ans
wering for eys—two projections of the beet resembling the
ears, it only lacks the curly tail to be the complete hog.
We think a young pig would bristle up at the sight of it,
if he did not make fight.
Our Streets”
We would respectfully call attention of our worthy
Marshal to the condition of Broad Street in front of Messrs
Harrison & Pitts’ nuctiom room. The rubbish is accumu
lating rather fast and is attracting notice. The city carts
should be brought into requisition.
Sew Sclietlule.
By the present arrangement of the ma Is, we receive our
Augusta aud Savannah Exchanges the evening of the same
day they are published. This is a great accommodation to
us. We do not know bow the new schedule affects other
localities but we must say the arrangement is wonderfully
popular in this city.
Sews Advertisement.
The attention ol the Pr.ncpaU of schools is invited to
the advertisment of H D. Park, of Greenville, Ga., in an
other column. He offers for sale valuable Scientific Ap
paratus.’
Those who are troubled with chills and fever are refer
red to advertisement of Grenada Elixir,over the signatured’
J. S Pemberton & Cos.
Messrs. Hatcher and McGehea have on hand a No.
one lot of negroes Irom Virginia and North Carolina and
will make constant additions to their supply during the
season. Those who are in want of house servants or field
hands will find no difficulty in being suited.
We call the attention ofourreade'sto the advertisement
of S M Wellborn and E H Martin in another column.
They offer for sale 6,000 acres of improved land at public
outcry ou the Ist Tuesday in September at Greenville,
Meriwether County. The lands are contiguous to the -Mer
iwether Springs and have all the necessary houses for farm
places. We have heard enquiries made of the lands and
refer all to the advertisement.
The New Presbyterian Church.— We understand
says the Enquirer, that the Trustees have held a meeting to
determine the locality ot this contemplated new house o*
worship, and have selected the vacant lot known as
Clayton's Corner, near the Columbus Female Academy,
Oglethorpe University.—The Milledgeville Federal
Union says: We understand that Judge Nisbet has consen
ted to address the successful declaimers in the Sophomore
prize contest, at the approaching commencement. Few
men could be found to discharge this office with more hon
or to the class, the occasion and the institution.
Appointment. —Harry Laurens fograham, of South
Carolina, has been appointed a Second Lieutenant in the
Marine Corps, vice Rufus A. Whittier, dismissed.
Appointments by the Governor.— We learn that Col.
JAR Hanks, ct this city has been appointed Solicitor
Oeneral for the Cherokee Circuit, to fill the vacancy
cauied by the death of Col. James C Longstreet. W#
think this a good appointment,- Dalton Times.
Emory College,
At ihe recent commencement exercises at this College,
we understand twenty six young men received diploma’s.
Henry R. Dawson from this city was a graduate. Rev.
Dr Alex. Means had conferred upon him the degree of
L. L D. and Rev. Mr. McTyere, ol the Nashville Christian
Advocate, the degree of D. D. Mr. Palmer supercedes
Messrs. Sasnett and Williams in the Professor’s depart
mem.
Messrs Hill and Trippc,
Our intelligent neighbor ol the Enquirer thinks the Con
ference bill should be discussed and that Messrs. Hill and
Trippe, American Representatives to Congress, are less re
sponsible for its passage man the democratic members
When the question is brought up, we will undertake the
explanation of the bill, without defending it in all its fea
tures and endeavor to show whatever odium attaches to it,
Messrs Hill and Trippe are far from being exempt. We
may also apply the epithet “traitor” to Mr. Trippe, when
ho is renominated and a candidate, not as coming from
ourselves, but some of his own party organs. Let this
suffice.
Prosperity of the Augusta Constitutionalist
The last issue of the Augusta Constitutionalist modestly
alludes to its present prosperous condition. Its subscrip
tion list is larger than at any former period and there are
few post offices in the State where the Constitutionalists is
not sent. The cash system, which it inaugurated, has in
creased the revenues of the establishment as well as the
number of subscribers.
We are not surprised at the prosperity of a paper which
deserves so much favor as the Constitutionalist. After all,
we are an appreciative people of true worth and it is gen
erally rewarded. We hope this faithful exponent of Dem
ocratic principles will continue prosperous and to enjoy
that feme which it now so eminently deserves.
The Army. —The following named officers are ordered
to proceed to Washington Territory and report to General
Clarke: Major Carleton and Lieut. R. Johnson of the
dragoons; Captains Wallen, English and Underwood;
Lieutenants Bysell, Woods, Quatilebum, and Bonnycastle
of the Infantry; and Lieut- Ayers of the artillery. They
will leave wilh the reinforcements from New Y ork.
Rain! Rain!— The dust of our city has been laid by re
freshing showers the last few days. Crops in the neigh
borhood flourishing. Farmers in good spirits.
(Communicated )
Wssleyan Female College.
Milleoeville, July 19th, 1853.
Messrs Editors —Through your columns, and in a
brief manner,we desire to give expression to a few thoughts
in regard to the Wesleyan Female College.
Every Georgian should be proud of this institution of
learning. Founded by the liberality of our citizens—hal
lowed by the benign influence of the religion of our Lord—
strengthened by the sympathy of a host ot friends, and an
abundantly successful Georgia enterprise, she has gone on
in her mission of good, until many hearts turn to her as a
public benefactress, whose prosperity very nearly concerns
their own interest. We should be. and are grateful, to
those who conceived and founded this female college—
the first established. perhaps, in the world. We have been
reaping the fruits of their good works, for twenty years—
and the State shall be benefited to her remotest limits.
There was but one opinion expressed concernin ‘ the ie
cent Commencement Exercises—they were creditable alike
to teacher and pupil. And this is not saying enough, for
they surpassed any we have every before witnessed. The
correct deportment of the young ladies, gave evidence
that the faculiy had well discharged tfieir duty as to dis
cipline. and the examination fully attested their faithful
, ness in ihe recitation room. 1 may add, that everything
impressed me with the beiiel, that this was a “happy fam
ily”—knit together by the cords of love and the ties of
affection.
It were not best to mention individual cases of excel
lence, when all did so well. Some of the essays were
characterized by ability and a scope of thought beyond
that which is usual to young writers. We do not mean
this as an equivocal compliment. Other compositions
were written in a graceful stylo, and were read in a clear
and pleasant manner. All were good.
On Monday,the members of the Senior Class were
graduated. After delivering the diplomas, the Rev. O. L. i
Smith, D. D., delivered an address replete wilh practical j
advice, and pointing out the manner in which to secure
the grealest usefulness and happiness. His clear voice, his
dignified aud pleasing delivery, and ihe soundness of his
views in regard to the objects of woman’s existence, and
the sphere of her labors, won for him the admiration of all
hearts. May this good man long live a blessing to his
fellow men, and an ornament to the service ol his Master.
At the close of Dr. Smith’s address, Mr. Stanley, one of
the Professors, made some highly appropriate remarks,
aud presented, on behalf of the class, a gold-headed cane
fothe President. The reply ol'Dr. Smith to this unexpec
ted presentation, was highly pleasing to the audience.
Professor Guttenberger’s “Grand Concert” took place
at Rawlston’s Hall. It was pronounced a musical tri
umph. The house was full,and was evidently delighted
with the entertainment.
The address of Washington Poe, Esq , was spoken of
in the highest terms. It was chaste and beautiful. He did
himseii justice, which is saying much.
We have left Macon now, and can look wilh a justap
preciation of all we saw and felt. It is agreeable to re
trospect the past week, so lull was it of pleasant scenesand
incidents. We have no regrets. With another paragraph
we shall close this brief and imperfect account of the Com
mencement.
We venture (timidly it is true) to touch on a subject now
which may be disagreeable to Mamas, who have hand
some daughters to exhibit to the public gaze, and perhaps
to some young ladies who delight to figure “in public on
the stage;” but honesty and an eye single to the good o*
our daughters and sisters, who enjoy the blessings-of a col
legiate course urge for utterance. We do not intend to
discuss the question in which are involved interests of so
great importance, but simply to allude to it, and then leave
it to one, who is a Samson in his way, and will call public
attention to it. We suggest (timidly again) that it would
i>e better every way, that the compositions of the young
ladies should be read not by themselves, but by some gen
tleman selected for the purpose* Keep woman away
from the gaze of the multitude. Let her stand within the
bulwarks ol modesty. Let her charming person and soft
voice be kept pure and uncontaminated from the eyes and
ears ot the great congregation Then shall not we, her
fathers and brothers, have our cheeks.covered by the thick
blushes of shame for those we love in the pride of our
manhood. S. O. A.
Oar Government and Mexico.
Washington, July 17.—A special messenger was de
spatched to Mexico,bearing despatches to our Minister
Mr. Forsyth, approving his course, and ordering the lega
tion to return home-
Rumored Railroad Accident.
New York, July 16.—1 tis rumored that an accident
has occurred on the Erie railroad, fifty miles from Jersey
City, by which seven persons were killed and forty in
jured.
Mexican Mission,
Washingnton, July 20.—The mission to Mexico has
been offered to Mr. Benjamin, but he has declined it.
Col. Steptoe Censured.
The Government censures Col. Steptoe for having en
tered the enemy’seountry without sufficient force.
A. B. Seals, Esq.— Degree of A. M.—The Alabama
University has conferred the degree of Master of Arts on
our friend A. B. Seals, ol Hamilton. Ashe is no gradu
ate,this is a high compliment. His knowledge of the
Classics, and his reputation as a thorough teacher, gained
him the distinction. He has taught school ten years.
Fire in Hew Orleans.
New Orleans, July 23 —A fire occuredthis morning on
the corner of Jackson and Rosseau streets, and destroyed
the wholesale Grocery Store ot A. J. May & Cos., andtwo
dwellings adjoining. The los3 is about $20,000.
For Arizona. —A company of some twelve persons
left Cincinnati a few days ago for the Territory of Arizo
na, together with tools, machinery, &c. and a printing of
fice with which it is designed to start a paper at Tubac, to
be called the Arizona Messenger. The party proceed to
New Orleans; from thence to Ei Paso and thence to their
destination. The value of the goods and materials shipped
by them to Arizona amounts to over S2O 003.
The Sons of Malta.— One hundred and fifty delegates
to the National Convention ot the Sons of Malta arrived
at Philadelphia on Saturday, including fifteen delegates
from San Franciso, and ‘representatives from Cuba and
Mexico. Delegales Irom France and England are expec
ted by the Canada. The Convention met on Monday.
From Mexico— We have additional news from Mexi
co by way of Havana, dated in the city of Mexico on the
third, and at Vera Cruz the 4th instant. The clergy had
aided Zuloaga with another loan ol two millions dollars,
but it was thought that this would postpone his tail only
for a little while. A revolutionary movement was brew
ing in the capital, and several eminent men had been ar- i
rested. It was said that General Yanes would take the
place of General-in-Ghief of the rmy, left vaoant by the I
death of General Oiollo. 1
Army Intelligence.
Col. Steptoe to ee Reinforced —soo Army
Recruits Ordered to Oregon.—The Quartermaster
of this department yesterday received despatches
from the War Department at Washington, con
veying the particulars of the retreat of Col. Steps
toe before an overpowering force of various tribes
of Indians in Oregon, and directing arrangements
to be made forthwith for despatching six compa
nies of recruits to the Pacific. In obedience to ih :
order, the officer waited upon the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company to consult with them as to
the safest and most expeditious inode of sending
out this large body of soldiers. It was found im
practicable, in vifw of the probable large increase
in the California emigration, growing ot the
new gold discoveries on Frazer river, to take ihem
by the regular steamer ol the 20th inst. It wasac
cordiugly determined to charter a special steamer,
and the steamer St. Louis was selected for the pur
pose, under Capt. Hudson. She will accordingly
lie put in order and provisioned immediately, and
will sail on the same day with the Slar of the
West, viz: on the 20th inst., and they wiil proceed
up from Panama on the fine large steamer Sonora.
_Y. Y. Herald , 17M.
Naval Intelligence.
The Panama Star and Herald furnishes the
tollowingitemsofnaval news:
Lieut. Win. Gwin has been detached from the
Saranac, and ordered to the Vandalia temporarily.
Lieut. G. A. Nicholson, First Lieutenant Marines,
and three assistant, engineers for the Saranac, ar
rived from New York by the last steamer. —
Purser Miles H. Morris also anived, and joined
the Vandalia, in place of Purser Calv.ti Jackson,
invalided.
The United States sloop of war Vandalia, Com
mander Sinclair, which has now been anchored in
our harbor for two months, sails to-day for a
cruise among the South Sea Islands, in which she
will probably be occupied a year.
The Key of the Gulf, of the 3d inst., says :
The United Slates steam frigate Colorado, bear
ing the broad pennant of Commodore Jus. M.
Mclntosh, commander—in-chief of the House
Squadron, arrived hereon Wednesday last, from
St. Domingo, touching off Havana. We understand
that she has broken her crank, and will- await
here for further orders.
The store-ship Relief arrived yesterday, sixteen
days from Aspinwali, with provisions lor the squad
ion. L'st ot officers:
Lieutenant Commanding, James II Strong:
Lieutenants, W. W. Low, J. H. March, J. S.
Thornton; Passed Assistant Surgeon, il. Rush
Mitchell.
Tile sloop-of-war Macedonian, Capt. Uriah P.
Levy, arrived this morning from Boston.
if. S. Steam Frigate Wabash. —Many of our
citizens have visited this noble vessel lying along
side the government wharf, during the past week,
and were received by Captain Barron and his offi
cers with that charming trankness and touching
courtesy peculiar to American seamen, and which
the stranger never fails to receive at the hands of
our naval men. All seemed well pleased with
their visit, and express but one opinion—that she
is indeed a noble ship, in admirable order and
discipline; everything about her foiling well for the
ability of her officers, and the crew aie probably
the best aad smartest in the navy.
Accident oil tile Erie Railroad.
Nine Killed and Forty-seven Wounded—Two
Cars Thrown Down an Embankment of 30 feet.
New York, July 16.—This morning an accident
occ-ured to the Express train on the New York aud
Erie Railroad at Shin Hollow, 75 miles from this
city. The two hind cars of the train were thrown
from the track by the breaking of a rail, and with
their contents were precipitated down an embank
ment of thirity feel.
As far as known, the following is'a list of the
killed :
Mr. and Mrs. Brown and son, of Tioga Valley.
Lewis Lary, wife and child, of New Orleans.
Mrs. Adam Ray, William Chillies, a boy; 11.
Wood.
Forty seven are wounded, some fatal.
Distressing Oasuality.
Fvie Young Women from the House of Mercy
Drowned in the North Hirer—The Bodies not
Recovered.
Friday evening about 7 o’clock five young wo
men, named Asjaval Van Gider, aged 14 years,
Hannah 11. Began, 15 years of age, Ellen Smith,
15, Margret Flynn, 16, and Louisa Ever, aged 19,
years, all inmates of he House of Mercy, under
the care of Miss. Richmond, in Eighty-sixth street,
j near the railroad, proceeded to the river for the
purpose of bathing. After making the necessary
preparations all the girls joined hands and went
some distance into the water, but being unacquain
ted with the presence ofa few deep holes near Ihe
Eighty-sixth street dock, they got beyond their
depth, and being unable to swim back went to the
bottom. Their situation was witnessed by several
persons on shore, who immediately used every
possible effort to rescue the girls, but without
effect they all drowned. Not one of the bod
ies was seen after first disappearing under the
water.
The probability is, therefore, that the unfortu
nate girls continued locked in each others embrace
and will be found in that condition.
[Herald, Saturday 17
Man Shot. —We regret to learn that Mr. Benja
min R. Ralston was killed yesterday on Little Ty
bee Island, where had gone from this city on a ma
rooning excursion. His body was brought to this
city yesterday afternoon, and an inquest was held
by Conorer Eden last night. The jury by their
verdict declare that the deceased came to his death
from the discharge ofa gun in the hands of Bar
nard Flannigan , the contents’of which entered his
forehead. The jury are further of the opinion that
it was not the intent ion of Flannigan to shoot the
deceased, but to shcot either James Quiniey or
GarriefeCLaborite, and that Flannigan is guilty of
murder. Flannigan'was, after the reading of the
verdict, committed to jail.— Savannah News Ju
ly 20 111.
Tiie Indian Battle in Oregon. —The Killed
and Wounded.—The following is an official list of
Col. Steptoe’s killed and wounded, comprising
two commissioned officers killed, eighteen non
commissioned officers killed, and six privates kill
ed and wounded :
Killed—Brevet Capt. Oliver; H. P. Taylor, First
Lieut. Ist dragoons; 2nd Lieut. Wrn. Gaston, Ist
dragoons; private Alfred Barnes, company C. Ist
dragoons: private Charles H. Harnish aud James
Crosset, company H, Ist dragoons.
Died of their wounds—lst Sergeant Wrn. C-
Williams, company E, Ist dragoons.
Wounded—Farrier Elijah R. Birch, company C
| first dragoons, slightly ; privates Henry Montre
viile and Janm s Lynch, company C, Ist dragoons,
severely; YVm. Micon aud Herria Smikste , com
pany E. Ist dragoons, severely ; Maurice Hurley,
James Ht-aly, Charles Hughes, James Kelly and
John Mitchell.company E, Ist dragoons, slightly ;
Osmond W. Hammond, Company E, ninth infan
try, severely ; Gottleib Bcnger and John Klay, com
pany, E, ninth infantry, slightly.
Fusion in New York.—A dispatch from Albany,
N. Y. says—
The Republican General Committee of this city
and county have adopted a preamble and resolu
tion, defining the positions of the Administration
and the opposition On the Kansas question and
other issues, concluding as follows:
Whereas, The American voters of this county are
almost unanimously opposed to the general policy
of the Administration, aud its attempts to force sla
very on Kansas by fraud and violence;and where
as, the Republicans and Americans united iu Con
gress in support of compromise measures on the
Kansas Constitution, as suggested by the Hon J. J.
Crittenden, ofKentnckv, therefore.
Resolved, That the Republican patty of this
country invite the co-operation of the American
party to defeat the iniquitous policy'of the Adminis
tration, and to sustain the interests of freedom at
Washington.
A committee of §seven has been appointed to
confer wilh the American Committee.
The Skeleton of Another Mastadon Dis
covered. —The workmen employed in excavating
Nostrand’s Pond (beingone of the sources for sup
plying Brooklyn with water) discovered the skele
ton of a huge animal on F’riday last imbedded in
quicksand. From soundie.gs made it is supposed
tbot the entire skeleton is there, and Messrs. Be
voort and Lefferets, being desirous of having eve
ry part excavated and preserved, have set a guard
to watch it. A portion of the remains ofa masta
don was found in Baisely’s Pond, about eighteen
miles from Brooklyn, several months ago. The
remains of the one recently found will be exhumed
this week— N, Y. Journal of Commerce.
I From Utah.
St. Louis, July 13,1858.
The Utah correspondent of The Republican, un
der date of June 18, says that the conditions agreed
upon at the Conference between Governor Cum
ining, the Peace Commissioners, and the heads of
the Mormon Church are that the troops shall en
ter the city without opposition; that the civil offi
cers shall be permitted to perform their duties
without interruption, and that unconditional obedi
ence shall be paid to the laws of the land, whilg on
the other hand’past offenses are to be forgiven, as
was stated in the President’s proclamation.
All the houses in the city had been closed against
both e vil officers and strangers, except one, which
was occupied by the Governor'snd his family.—
Everybody else were obliged to sleep in their
wagons or on the ground. The persons in the city
were Governor Gumming, Secretary Hartnett,
Messrs. Powell and McCulloch, the Peace Cotn
mfosiones, Dr. Forney, Superintendent of Indian
Affairs, Mr. Crag, Indian Agent, Mr. Dodson,
Marshal of the Territory, and Messrs. Sirnonton,
Fillmore and Biown, correspondents of Tiie New
Y’o.-k Times, Herald and Tribune.
The Peace Commissioners to the Secretary of
War.
Great Salt Lake City, )
. Utah Territory, June 12, 1858. {
Dear Sir: We have the honor to report that we
reached this city on the 7th instant. We lost no
time in placing ourselves in communication with
the chief men of the Mormon people. After the
fullest and freest conference with them, we are
1 pleased to state that we have settled the unfortu
nate difficulties existing between the government
of the United States and the people of Utah. We
are informed by the people and chief men of the
Territory, that they will cheerfully yield obedience
to the Constitution and laws of the United Slates.
They cheerfully consent that the civil officers ot
the Territory shall enter upon the. discharge of
their respective duties. They will make no resis
tance to the army of the United States in its march
to the valley of Salt Lake or elsewhere. We have
their assurance that no resistance will be made to
the officers, civil or military, of the United States,
in the exercise of their various functions in the
Territory of Utah.
The people have abandoned all the settlements
North of this, and all the families have left the city,
only about fifteen hundred persons remaining here
to take charge of the property, and to burn it if the
difficulties had not been settled The people fiom
this city and Norsh ofit have gone to Provo, fifty
miles South of this, and to points beyond.
We will visit Provo and ihe settlements South
in a day or two, and see and confer with the peo
ple, and inform them that the difficulties have been
settled, and thus induce them to return to their
1 homes. We have written to Gen. Johnson by the
messenger that will bear this, informing him of
what had been done, and that he could march his
. army to the valley whenever be desired to do so.
We intend to remain and visit the people and con
| verse with them until Gen Johnson’s army arrives.
: We think it important that we remain until tiie ar
my is located in the valley. We have but a mo
ment to write, as the express will start in a few
moments.
We will in a few days forward a detailed re
port.
We have the honor to be, very respectluily, your
obedient servants,
L. W. Powell,
Ben. McCulloch,
Commissioners to Utah.
Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War,
Washington, D. C.
THE PEACE COMMISSIONERS TO GEN. JOHNSON.
Great Salt Lake City. I
Utah Territory, June 12, 1858. y
Dear Sir : We have the pleasure of informing
you that, alter a full and free conference with the
chief men of the Territory, we are informed by
them tiiat they will yield obedience to the Consti
tution and laws of the United States; that they will
not resist the execution otthe laws iu the Territory
of Utah, that the civil offices of the Territory shall
enter upon the discharge of their respective duties;
and that they wiil make no resistance to the army
of the United States, in its march to the vaiiey of
Sal Lake or elsewhere. We have their assurance
that no resistance will be made to the officers, civil
or military, of the United States in the exer
cise of their various (unctions in the Territory of
Uta ii.
The houses, fields, and gardens of the people of
this Territory, particularly in and about Salt Lake
City, are very insecure. The animals of your ar
my would cause great destruction of property if the
greatest care should not be observed in the march
and in the selecting of camps. Tiie people of the
Territory are somewhat uneasy for fear tiie army 7,
when it shall reach the valley, would not properly
respect their persons and property. We have as
sured them that neither their persons nor property
wouid be injured or molested by the army under
your command. We would respecfully suggest,
inconsequence of this’feeling of uneasiness, that
you issue a proclamation to the people of Utah,
stating that the army under your command would
not trespass upon the rights of property of peace
able citizens during the sojourn in, or the march
of your army through the Territory. Such a proc
lamation would greatly allay the existing anxiety
and fear of the people, and cause those that have
abandoned their homes to return to their houses
arid farms.
We have mada inquiry about grass, wood, &c.,
necessary for the subsistence and convenience of
your army. We have conversed with Mr. Ficklin
fully on this subject, and given him all the infor
mation we have, which he will impart to you.—
We respectfully suggest that you march to the
valley as soon as it is convenient for you to do
so.
We have the honor to be, very respectfully, our
obedient servants,
L. W. Powell,
Ben McCulloch,
Commissioners to Utah.
Gen. A. S. Johnson, Commanding Army of Utah,
Camp Scott, Utah Territory.
REPLY OF GEN. JOHNSON.
Headquarters Department of Utah, J
Camp on Bear River, June 14th, 1858. j
Gentlemen : Your communication from Salt Lake
city w.-s received to day. The accomplishment of
the object of your mission entirely in accordance
with the instructions of the President, the wisdom
and forbearance of which you have so ably dis
played to the people ol the Territory, will, I hope,
lead to a more just appreciation of their relations to
the general government, and the establishment o
the supremacy of the laws.
I learn with great surprise that uneasiness is felt
by the people as to the treatment they may receive
from the army. Acting under the two-fold obliga
ti,ns of citizens and soldiers, we may be supposed
to comprehend the rights ol’tlie people, aDd to be
sufficiently mindful of the obligations cf our oaths
not lo disregard the laws which govern us a mili
tary body. A reference to them will show with
what jealous care the general government has
guarded the rights of citizens against any en
croachment.
The army has duties to perform here in execu
tion of the orders of the Department of War,
which, from the nature of them, cannot lead to in
terference with the peopie of tfieir various pursuits,
and if no obstruction is presented to the discharge
of those duties, there need not be tHe slighest ap
prehension that any person whatever will have
cause of complaint against it. The army will con
tinue its march from this position on Thursday,
17th inst., and reach the valley in five days. 1 de
sire to encamp beyond the Jordon on the day of ar
rival in the valley.
A S. Johnson,
Col. 2d Cavalry, and Brevet Brig. Gen.
U. S A., Commanding.
To the Hon. L. W. Powell and Maj. B. McCul
loch,
U. S. Commissioners to Utah.
TO THE PEOPLE OF UTAH.
The commissioners of the United States, depu
ted by the Piesident to urge upon the people of
this Territory the necessity of obedience to the con
stitution and laws, as enjoyed by his proclamation,
have this day informed me that there will be no ob
struction to the administration and execution of
the Jaws of the Federal government, nor any oppo
sition on the pait of the people of this Territory to
the military force of the government in the execu
tion ot their order, I therelore feel it incumbent on
me and have great satisfaction in doing so.toassure
those citizens of the Territory who, 1 learn appre
hend fr <m the army ill treatment, that no person
whatever will be in any wise interfered with or mo
lested in his person or rights, or in the peaceful pur
suit of his avocation ; and should protection be
Deeded, that they will find the army (always faith
ful to the obligation* of duty)—as ready now to as
sist and protect them as it was to oppose them
while it was believed they were resisting the laws
of their government.
A. S. Johnson,
Col. 2nd Cavalry and Brevet Brigadier General
Commanding.
Headquarters, Department of Utah,
Campon Bear River, June 14th, 1858.
tFrom the Plains.
St. Louis, July, IG.
Letters from Fort Kearney, June 30th, say that
Gen. Harney’s head-quarters bad been encamped
there six days, in expectation of the arrival of new
instructions from the War Department.
A teamster hud been tried and acquitted ou the
charge of inciting his companions to rob Capt.
Hancock 0f550,000 under Ills charge,for meeting
incidental expenses.
Colonels May arid Morrison had passed Fort
Kearney. The latter gave Gen. Harney his first
salute as Brigadier-General.
A postscript to the letter says that an express has
arrived, but brings no advices from Washington.
We shall resume the march to-morrow.
The Independence mail, with dates of 15:h ult.,
from Santa Fe, has arrived. A difficulty hari oc
curred growing out of the persistance of the Inrii
ans in driving cattle and horses upon the pay
ground known as Ewell Camp near Fort Defi
ance.
Major Brooks had been obliged to send a com
pany of soldiers to drive the herds off, and protect
the grounds trom encroachments.
Several cattle and ponies were killed by the sol
dier.-, and a skirmish occurred between the troops
and Indians, but none of either party were killed
or wounded.
Southern Leagues.
We see from the Montgomery papers that Hon.
Win. L. Yancey has recently delivered several abie
and eloquent Speeches in which he urges the im
mediate formation of Southern Leagues. The
members ’of these Societies shall be known as
“Leaguers of the South,” and their motto shall be,
A Southern Republic is our only safety- their ob
ject being to prepare for the material revolution
which must immediately follow on the consumma
tion ot the moral one now far advanced at the
South. Our past experience in the Union and
our present political position ought to convince
us that there is nothing lo hope for from the fu
ture as long as we remain in the Confederacy.—
It behooves us therefore to prepare for the emer
gency which awaits us, and Mr. Yancey’s plan of
organization ought to be duly considered by
Southern men.
Ot couse, in view of this movement, Union-glo
rjliers and Southern-Subniissionists will burl up
on Mr. Yancy such epithets as Fire-Eater and
Revolutionist, just as the Tories denounced Patrick
Henry and George Washington as Rebels in, the
days of ’76. But armed in the cause of Southern
Rights—vindicating the honor and asserting the
Equality of the South—Mr. Yancy is invulnerable
to such assaults. The Federal Union newspaper
(whose veneration for the “Spread Eagle” is oniy
equalled by its devotion to the “Star Spangle Ban
ner,”) while conceding to Mr. Y, “irreproachable
character and the highest order of talents,” takes
occasion to give him a Joab thrust by accusing
him of “playing second fiddle”—to use its own
elegant language—to Nicaragau Walker, in order
to court popularity. This is a misrepresentation.
Mr. Yancy iias done nothing of the sort, and wo
can inform our cotemperary tiiat lie is made of
“sterner stuff” than to “play second fiddle” to any
body. But enough on this subject. We have no
words to express our indignation when a South
ern journal casts slurs upon a southern man
sirnslv because he loves his native South too
well. —Macon State Press.
Kr. Yancey’s Remarks.
In Explanation of the Constitution of the Mont
gomery “League of United Southerners ,” in Es
telle Hall, oil the Night of the 20 th inst.
Mr. Yancey said that as the movement was some
what novel in the political world, he would under
take to explain it. In the first pace he would re
ply to two views which bad been urged against it
by those not friendly to tho League.
It has been said to be a disunion move. The
Constitution report puts an emphatic denial upon
that charge. It expresses its aim to be to uphold
and enforce the Federal Constitution in lieu of ihe
fundamental law of national parties—“compro
mise.” It expresses its aim to be to maintain a
Constitutional Union. Its great design is to create a
public opinion tiiat shall force all parties to a strict
observance of all our Constitutional guaranties, by
holding the Constitutional Rights of the South to
be paramount to the political necessities of Nation
al Administrations or National Parties. These
constitute a sure basis of a Constitutional Union.
The attainment of these ends will perpetuate a
Constitutional U: ion, and thereforea league which
devotes itself to their attainment can never be truly
branded as a disunion movement.
It has been denounced as anew party, and there
fore as designed to subvert the Democratic and
American parlies. The charge is entirely without
foundation. A party means an organization of
individuals, upon agreed principles, whose de
sign i3 to control tho Government by electing
its members to its offices. A party therefore
nominates some ol its members for office, and
all its members are pledged to support trie
nominations. Now this Constitution expressly ig
nores this leading and necessary element of party
—it declares that the League shall never nominate
s candidate for any office. This League is based
upon the same system of organization as that of
American Bible Society, and American Tract So
ciety. Each of those Soeieries are composed of
of members of different religious sects—not for the
purpose of forming anew sect and opposing all
others, but for the purpose of distributing widely
amongst their follow men a knowledge of thatgreat
fundamental rule, the Word of God—upon which
all the evangelical sects base their faith. Each
member preserves his regular standing in his own
church; yet is a member ol the American Bible
Society—and it is well deemed that by his efforts as
a member of the American Bible Society, so far
from being a less valuable member—we will say
of the Methodist Church—he is in truth promoting
Methodism in its purity and rigor.
So ot this League, It is formed to create a strong
er and healthier tone of public sentiment in favor
of the Constitution. The Constitution should stand
to all parties, precisely as the Bible does to all re
ligious sects As the B ble is the common bond of
Union between those sects —so the Constitution
should be, aud is professed to be, the common fun
damental law’ of all parties. Aud yet, as parties
have departed largely from a constitutional stan
dard, in their course upon the rights of the South,
and always have avoided its application to those
rights from a selfish fear as to the effect on their
organizations, and as it is desirable that hereafter
our rights should be no more compromised, this
League propose an organization of all the earnest
and true men, of all parties, for the purpose of in
fluencing parties to the adoption of the Constitu
tion as their only guide. If the idea can be carried
out, in a short time there will exist thro’ its means
a strong, healthy public opinion, among men of ail
parties, as to our rights and our duties. Good and
able men will be selected to office, who will abide
by no other rule than that of the Constitution in
settling our rights—and the day will soon arrive
in which it will be tested whether there i Justice
ami Honor and Equality for us in the Union. If
the Leagues produce these results, they are worthy
of trial.
Explosion of the Steam Propeller May Flower,
Troy, N. Y. July 13.—The new steam propeller
May Flower of West Troy, while on her trial
tiip to-day, when nearing the dock in this city ex
ploded, blowing off the dome of the boiler and de
molishing the woodwork, ice. Four men were
scalded, but none dangerously.
Arrest of a Bobber and Kecovery of $4,700.
Hartford, July 13.—The package of four thou
sand seven hundred dollars, robbed from a Direc
tor of the East Haddam Bank at the American
Hotel, in this city, on the 14th ult., has been re
covered. It was found by Officer Chamberlin on
Moses M. Fuller, a waiter in the hotel, who was
leaving in the Greenport boat this morning. The
money belonged to the East Haddam Bank, who
had ottered one thousand dollars reward for its
recovery.
Resignation. —The Murfreesboro, (N. C.) Citi
zen learns that the Hon. Samuel J. Person, ot
Wilmington, has sent in his resignation to Gov.
Bragg as a Judge of the Superior Courts of Law
and Equity.
Gov. Bragg has summoned the Council of State
to meet in Raleigh on the 28th of next month, to
fill the vacancies occasioned by the resignations of
Judges Person and Ellis.
It is thought that the appointment to one of the
vacancies on the Superior Court Bench will be
tnded toth# Hon. R. R. Heath ofEdenton.