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The Russia Comp a ti y— Its History and
Charm er.—A series of papers have been
published relateing to the formations of ?he
••Russia Company” in England. It appears
that letters patent was granted to this
company by Philip and Mary, in the first
and second years of their reign; an act of
Elizabeth incorporated a body, under the
above title; and an Act of William III.
(A. D. 16.49) was passed to extend the
traae of Russia, and enacted that every
subject of the realm seeking admission
in‘o the company should pay <£5, and no
mere. The dues received in London on
Lie importation of goods from Russian
ports are little more than nominal, and are
not levied on trifling articles, nor are per
sons called upon to become free of the
company unless engaged in the Russian
trade. Bv far the greater amount of dues
is paid bv members of the Court of assis
tants. The Russian Company have an
agent at St. Petersburg, and one at Elsi
nore, from whom they receive information
regardiug the trade of the two countries.
Her Majesty’s consul at St, Petersburg is
the commercial agent of the company, and
derives full hall his oificial salary from this
appointment. The company contribute to
the maintainence of chapels in the two cap
itals of Russia, at Constradt, Arch-angel
and Selainbol; and a school is established
in St. Petersburg under the auspices ofthe
company, at which a thorough education is
afforded under the supervision of the Rev.
l)i . Lawythe company’s chaplian. The pe
culiarity of the Russian Company is that
it represents in England a large colony of
Bri.ish subjects established in St. Peters
burg, Moscow, Cronstadt, and. Archangel,
those in the Russian capital alone amount-
ins to thirty thousand, and the number
From the Tampa Peninsular Extra of April 16th.
Latest Indian News.
A Battle with the Indians, in the Big Cy
press on the 1th inst., by Maj. Arnold's
Command of 108 regulars, of six hours'
duration! One soldier killed, and six
wounded 11 Interesting Details.
The following intelligence was received
by Col. Monroe, yesterday afternoon.—
\Ve compile this statement here given from
Maj. Arnold’s report:
Whilst scouting in the Big Cypress, with
the available force of his command, com
posed of ('apt. Dawson, 2d Lieuts. Lang-
don and Garner, Ass’t Surgeon Moore, and
108 enlisted men, Major Arnold was at
tacked on the 7th, by Indians, estimated
from 80 to 100, who were lying in wait, in
a thick Cypress swamp, (water two feet
deep,) about half a mile from “Billy’s
town.” The first indication of their pres
ence was a fire from them on the advanced
guard, which was soon followed by a full vol
ley on the column. Co. C., commanded
by Lieut. Garner, leading off. Which; at
that time, was not far in rear of the ad
vanced guard.
After exchanging some 300 shots, on
both sides, a charge in front was ordered.
At least 54 Indians ran towards “Billy’s
town,” and a number took to a dense
Cypress on the right. The Cypress was
charged, but no Indians were discovered,
Bachiau’aOpinioB eflbXalirc Amer
ican Party.
The Savannah Republican and some other
Know Nothing organs profess great respect for Mr.
Buchanan? we publish for their benefit an extract
*rom one of his Speeches delivered at Greensburg
Pennsylvania in 1852. In that Speech they will
see what Mr. Buchanans opinions are of some of
the leading doctrines of the Know Nothing
party.
“From my soul I abhor the practice of
mingling up religion with politics. The
doctrine of all our constitutions—both fed
eral and State—is that every man has an in
defeasible right to worship his God accord
ing to the dictates of his own conscience.
He is both a bigot and a tyrant who would
interfere with that sacred right. IV hen a
candidate is before the people for office the
inquirry ought never even to be made,
what form of religious faith lie possesses; but
ouly, in the language of Mr. Jcllcrson,
‘Is he honest, is he capable?”
“Democratic Americans!’ What a
name for a native American party! \\ hen
all the records of our past history prove
that American democrats have ever open
ed wide their arms to receive foreigners
flying from oppicssioil m their native land,
and have always bestowed upon themthe
rights of American citizens after a brief
period of residence in this country. The
democratic party have always gloried in
although they were seen to go into it.— ; this policy, and its fruits have been to iu-
Those who had retreated to the Hammock j crease our population and our power with
towards Billy’s town, were then attacked, unexampled rapidity, and to furnish
When within a short distance of the
town, a large number of Indians were seen
running East, towards an abandoned
village, surrounded on all sides by a very
dense hammock, excepting in front,
where was a very large pond or swamp,
cinstantly increasing. 'The Russia Com- j covered with tall grass ana about two feef
pany and the British factory at St. Peters- ! cf water. As this hammock was approach-
burg, have been always clo.-ely connected \ ed, thejlndians fired a volley, which was re-
and have been repeatdly acknowledged by j turned by the avanced, under Lieut.
i’.e Imperial government. To the profita
ble carrying on of the Russian trade it has
always been deemed essential that English
houses should exist in Russia, and the dif
ficulty of the language and of acquiring a
knowledge of the people demand a long
residence there. The above particulars
are extracted from a copy < t the memorial
presented by the Russia Company to the
Board of Trade in August, 1853.—Londun
Times.
Rifleman Berrhrr in anew l'li a racier.
The best explanation, we v ill not say
justification or apology, which has yet been
offered in behalf of Henry Ward Beecher
for his Sharp rifle proclivities, is furnished
in a late number of the Louisville Courier.
That paper says:
••He is engaged in preaching an anti
slavery, free Kansas crusade, delivering
himself of bellicose addresses throughout
New England, and urging the fitting out
of expeditions armed with Sharpe’s rifles.
To test his sincerity in this, let us know
that it has been definitely ascertained that
Mr. Beecher has a pecuniary interest in
the patent and manufacture of Sharpe’s
rifles—apart from a handsome commission
on all rifles sold under the influence of his
preaching.”
What authority the Courier may have
for putting forth the above unqualified
statement we do not know; but we do know
that the reverend rifleman has evinced a
decided penchant for Wolfe’s aromatic
Schiedam Schnapps. Whether a love of
gin is one of the necessary consequences
ofaloveof gunpowder we leave for cas
uists of the church militant to decide. Mr.
Beecher says:
“It makes us sad to remember the un
necessary days and months of unprofitable
chills and fever that we ourselves have
had, and if any think that a regular “or
thodox fever and ague’ is no great shakes,
we heartily wish them a trial of it. But it
is all over. Our home missionaries can
now go to the most unhealthy river bot
toms, with the Bible in one hand and
Schnapps in the other, for the very beard
is plucked cut of this grim monster who
has had so long a despotism in western val
leys and river bottoms. The quarterly
draughts of missionaries will no longer sig
nify mere cash, but something more subtle;
for*it will, of course, be the duty of the
present society to send forth this essence
of Wolfe to al 1 their stations.”
But the Parson goes on stronger and-
stronger yet, and says:
“No temperance man should take, a boat
on tlie Ohio or Mississippi until he lias re
moved his name from the pledge, for those
two rivers are as poison and death from the
first drop of head-waters to the last eddy at
the Gulf of Mexico; and no remedy has
ever been discovered for their effects, ex
cept brandy or whiskey, until our incom
parable Wolf discovered his botanical
variety ofjunipei!
“With a flask of juniper in our pockets
we defy the waters of the world!”
From a rifle propagandist to a gin pro
pagandist the transition is both easy and
natural. If it should turn out that the juni
per-loving, belligeiant Beecher has a pe
cuniary interest in the sale of Udolphus
Wolfe’s famous Schnapps, as he is said to
have in the sale of another life-destroying
instrumentality, a change in the pro
gramme of the. New England Emigrant
Aid Society will be made forthwith. The
collections in the North Ghurcb of New
Haven will have to be doubled. No emi
grant for the new State of Topeka will
hereafter consider himself safe from the
insolence of the “border ruffians” without
a Sharpe’s rifle in one hand and a bottle of
gin in the other. The slanderous insinua
tion in regard to the alleged partiality of
a few of the fairer portion of creation for
the distillation of juniper should not deter
Miss Mary Dutton from subscribing liber
ally for a liquid compound, which will no
doubt add greatly to the breadth, depth,
and volume of the “shrieks of freedom.”
Free Negroes in’a Bad Fix.—Twenty
five slaves passed through this city on Sa
turday week, the property of the heirs of
the late Gen. Bledsoe, of Georgia. M he
history of these negroes is singular. The
late Gen. Bledsoe, after bequeathing all his
other property to his nephews and nieces,
provided in his will for the manumission of
his about one hundred and fifty slaves, in
this wise: the laws of Georgia forbid their
emancipation in that State, from motives
of the s< undest wisdom and prudence,
therefore they could not he set free in the
State where the testator lived. But to
make sure of their emancipation, the tes
tator, in utter ignorance of the existing
laws inmost of the free States, provided
for their removal into the State of Illinois,
and made ample provision for settling
them upon their own lands, and furnishing
them with stock and farming utensils.—
Since the death of Gen. Bledsoe, the execu
tors of his will have found it impracticable
to carry it out on account of the existing
iawsof the State of Illinois, which forbid
free negroes, settling in the State, under
penalty of being sold as vagrants. The
negroes are, in consequence, still slaves.—
A suit was instituted to determine whether
they shall pass with the balance of the
estate to the legatees, or to descend to the
heirs at law, which was finally decided so
as to give them to the latter.
country with vast numbers of industrious,
patriotic, and useful citizens. Surely the
name of ‘Democratic Americans’ was an
unfortunate designation for the liativc-
American party.
“The native-American party, an ,,Amer
ican excellence-’ and the glory of its fouiul-
ership, belongs to George Washington!
No, fellow-citizens, the American pgbple.
will rise up with one accord to vindicate
the memory of that illustrious man from,
such an imputation. As long as the recent
memory of our revolutionary struggle re
mained vividly impressed on the hearts of
our countrymen no such party could have
ever existed. The recollection of Alont-
iire and pursuit I gomery, Lafayette, Do Kalb, Kosciusko^
occupied six hours. I and a long list of foreigners, both otlicess;
'flie loss was Private John Simms, Co. | and soldiers, who freely shed their blood io>
j L. 2d Art’y, mortally wounded, (survived | secure onr liberties, would have render*tll
about 15 minutes,) Oorp'l Joseph Carson, ! such ingratitude impossible. Our revolui-
\ Privates George Muller, John Strobell, 1 tionary army was filled with the bra Tie
! Co. C, 2d Art’y, and Thomas Newton, \ and patriotic natives of their lands; and!
Langdon. The enemy then ran to anoth
er hammock, half a mile to the North; the
troops followed; the Indians there fired
again, which was returned; a charge was
then made, before which the Indians re
treated, and were pursued until all traces
of them were lost. Th
Co. L, 1st Art’y severely wounded, and
Privates Silas M. Watkins and William
Abbot, Co. C, 2d Art’y. slightly wounded.
Several received shots in their clothing and
haversacks.
What ioss or injury the Indians sustain
ed is not known further than that blood
was discovered on the bushes through
which they retreated.
George Washington was their commandtc-
in-chief. Would he have ever closed tke--
door against the admission of foreigners to*
the rights of American citizens? Let bas
nets speak for themselves. §o early ns.
the 26th of March, 1790, General Wash
ington, as President of the United States,,
approved the first law which ever passed
Congress on the subject of naturilization;
T VTFR FROM 41 W ATFF and l ^‘ s only required a residence of two-
. 1 1 T j- years previous to the adoption of a fore-
Anorhe, Outrage committed by Indians!— ; gner a8 an American citizen. On the
One house burnt, and one Plundered. j 29th January, 1795, the term of residence-
Notwitbstandidg the rhastisemeut ad- j was extended by Congress to five years,,
ministered to the Indians, by a portion of 1 and thus it remained throughout Generali
of the Florida Volunteers, on the 6th inst, j Washington’s administration, and until;
for their audacity, it will be seert by the after the accession of John Adams to the-
following authentic information, which presidency. In his administration, which;
we received yesterday afternoon, that! will ever be known in history as th*-.
they have dared to subject the citizens
of Manatee to anotliers predatory incur
sion:
On Saturday night last, the 12th inst., a
squad of Indians, supposed to be six or
seven in number, fired the house of Asa J.
Goddard, located near the head-waters of
Manatee and within two miles of Capt.
Addison’s Fort. The house had been pre
viously abandoned by Mr. Goddard and
family, but contained nearly all his
effects, which were consumed in the con
flagration. From the signs discovered, it
would appear that the Indians encircled
the house, which was small, and had a reg
ular “corn-husking frolic,” over their fiend
ish deed After the complete desolation of
Mr.Goddard’s place, the Indians went to
the house of John Craig, within half a
mile of the above mentioned Fort, and
plundered it of everything it contained.—
This house was also untenanted.
A detachment from Capt. Addison’s
Company, under Lieut. H. V. Suell, and
also a detatcliment from Capt. Leslie’s
Company started on the trail of the mar
auders Monday morning. We expect to
have ’a good report from them.
Robbery by Chloroform at Norfolk.—
About 2 o’clock yesterday morning, says
the Norfolk Herald of Saturday, the rooms
occupied by Messrs. S. Cherry and A. M.
McPheeters, at the National Hotel, were
entered by means of false keys, after the
inmates had been sabjcctcd to the influ
ence of chloroform, and their pockets rob
bed. Mr. Cherry had about §100 in his
pocket 1 ook. and Mr. McPheeters a-small
er sum, but several papers of value and a
gold stud—a momenta from a friend—-for
which he is willing to pay a liberal re
ward. The gentlemen robbed were sensi
ble of an uncomfortable feeling, but had
I no suspicion of anything wrong, until they
I discovered their losses in the -morning,
i Two men, against whom suspicion was
! very strong, were arrested yesterday, but
j they were discharged for want of sufficient
' proofs: they were possessed, however, of a
j crncible and a pair of nippers, which fact
: was strong presumptive evidence of their
guilt.
Louisiana.—The Plaqueruine Sentinel,
of the 12th inst., says:
“We were surprised to learn a few days
since of the utter hopelessness of the sugar
crop in this parish the coming year. The
great majority of planters absolutely an
ticipate raising no cane whatever. A great
many are ploughing up' their cane fields
and planting them in corn and some in
cotton. A ruinous year, without doubt,
for sugar, while according to all accounts,
the cotton crop will be greatly augmented.
In West Batan Rouge, we learn they are
going largely in the latter business—also
on Bayou Marrangouim, where not a par
ticle of sugar will be raised.”
Iron Hoops for Cotton Bales —We had
the pleasure cf examining, yesterday, a
new and highly important invention of our
fellow townsman, D. McComb, Esq., of
great value to cotton growers. It is anew
method of fastening iron hoops on cotton
bales, which makes the hoops very greatly
more secure than the rope, and it is of easy
application, so that two hoops can be put
on a bale in the same time it requires to
put on one rope. The hoop is much less
liable to decay than rope, and will not burn,
and the bale can be kept in less bounds
than it is possible to keep it with the rope.
This improved hoop promises to revolution
ize the character of cotton packages, and
will cost less than rope, whilst it will be
one hundred per cent better than rope.—
Memphis Eagle.
—
Charles.—“Clara, did poor little Carlo
have a pink ribbon ronnd his neck when
you lost him?”
Clara.—“Yes, yes, the poor little dear
have you seen him?”
Charles —“No, not exactly; but here’s a
piece of pink'ribbon in the sausage.”
reign of terror, as the era of alien andt
sedition laws, an act was passed on the-
18th of June, 1798, which prohibited any
foreigner from becoming a citizen until
after a residence of fourteen x ears; and
this is the law, or else perpetual exclusion
which General Scott preferred, and which
the native-Ameriean party now desire to
restore.
“The presidential election of 1S00 se
cured the ascendency of the democratic
party, and under the administration of
Thomas Jefferson, itsgreat apostle, on the
14th of April, 1802, the term of residence
previous to naturilization was restored to
five years, what it had been under Gen.
Washington, and where it has ever since
remained. No, fellow-citizens, the Father
of his Country was never a native Ameri
can. This ‘American excellence’ never
belonged to him.
“The fugitive-slave law is all the South
has obtained in the Compromise of 1850.
It is a law founded both upon the letter
and the spirit of the constitution, and a.
similiar law has existed on our statute-
books ever since- tbc administration of
George Washington. History teaches- us
that but for the provision in favor of fugi
tive slaves our present constitution never
would have existed. Think ye that the
South will ever tamely surrender the fugi
tive-slave law to northern fanatics and
abolitionists-?
“And now, fellow-citizens, what a
glorious party tire democratic party lias
ever been! Man is hut the being of sum
mer’s day, whilst principles are eternal.—
The generations of mortals, one after the
other, rise and sink, and are forgotten, but
the principles of democracy, which we
have inherited from onr revolutionary fatla—
ers, will endure to bless mankind througi-
•out all generations. Is there any demo
crat within the sound of my voice—is tlure-
any democrat throughout the broad limits;rtf
good and great old democratic Pennsylvania.
—who will abandon these sacred principfea.
for the sake of folio wing in the train of a mflii-
tary conqueror, and shouting for the hero tiff
Lundy’s Lane, Ccrro Gordo, and Chapinli-
tepec.”
Canada.—It is estii-
The Fugitives in
mated that 30,000 fugitives are already iai
Canada, chiefly of the class of able-bodiecJ-
rnen and women. These at borne would av
erage in value Si000, or at least S00; suuj-
ming up $24,000,000—the absolute loss t-*.
the capitalof four States. But added ti*
this there are still remaining iii tlie Norths
ern States as servants, &c., about sks.
thousand negroes, who not fearing pursuit,
have not crossed in to Canada. These, xt
$1000 each—a low figure for first class,
slaves, as the runaways almost uniformly
are—would add $6,000,000 more—making
the aggregate at this time, at the lowest
calculation, $30,000,000, which the slave
owners have to lose, and form which,
they have no resort. The rate of escape
to Canada is said to average twenty persons,
per day.—Montreal Herald.
Whose Baby Is It—The Boston Post
has a Paris correspondent, who writes
there were those so given to unbelief in the
implicit honesty of Louis Napoleon as to
credit the rumor that the “sound, live boy”
who has been palmed off upon the Empire,
is nothing but an usurper, and that lie
takes the place of a certain girl baby which
was the real heir. The aforesaid rumor
was to the effect that for some time previous
to the Empress’s accouchment, it was well
understood that whatever the event might
be, a fine healthy boy would be ready to
be presented as the legitimate child of the
Empire. This being so, at once accounts
forthe fact of the King of Algiers being as
big at his birth as his nurse’s baby at two
months old!
Fire in West Point.—We learn verbally, that a
very destructive fire occurred iu West Point uu
Saturday morning, consuming one entire square,
including the Hotel kept by Mr. Bedell, on the
west side of the river. We have no further par-
j ticulars.—Col. Sentinel.
The “American Order” in Indiana.
The following manifesto, by the Presi
dent of the “American Order” in Indiana,
we find in the National Intelligencer,
which justly^ays that it “looks toward a
fusion of the Opposition in that State.”
41 r. Sheets is the individual who, in the
Philadelphia Know Nothing Convention,
said that no harm could come from the
platform, as it was such a mass of verbiage
that the Presidential election would be
over before the people could understand
what the platform meant. And yet South
ern K. N’s are acting with Sheets and his
associates of the free States!
Indianopolis, April 2. 1856.
Tj the members of the American Party of Indiana:
At a meeting of the Executive Committee ot
ti e State Council, held at Indianopolis on the 2d
day of April, 1856, after a full expression of the
members upon those questions that have divided
and distracted the American party in other States,
the committee unanimously adopted the following
suggestions, and earnestly request the true friends
of Americanism to co-operate with them iu carry
ing out the views of the committee:
I hat as iu 1854, we stand uncompromisingly op
posed to the present national Administration, and
as a party wo stand ready to co-operate, with any
party which aims to pm an end to its misrule.
* And, further, we regard the repeal ot the Mis
souri compromise an infraction ot the plighted faith
of the nation; the same should be restored; and it ef
forts to that end fail, Congress should refuse under
all circumstances, to admit any Stutc into the Union
tolerating slavery made free by that compromise.
Therefore, we approve of the call for a People’s
Convention held on the 1st day ot May next, and
earnestly call upon the American party through
out the .State to send a full delegation to that Con
vention.
WM. SHEETS, I’rcs’t.
Attest: W. W. Wright.
. The Old-Line Whigs of Kentucky.
The Oid-Line Whigs of "Kentucky held a State
Convention at Lexington on the 12th inst. It we
are correctly informed (says the Memphis Appeal)
the object of this assemblage is to take the sense
of the old-line Clay Whigs upon the present atti
tude and aspect of affairs—to determine whether
they will stand aloof forthe present or unite in the
support of one or the other of the contending par
ties. We learn of a gentleman just arrived from
Louisville there is a strong probability that the
great mass of the Whigs will sustain the Demo
cratic nominations, provided they are such as the
Democrats pledge themselves to give to the coun
try—sound in politics, pure in character, patriotic
in motive, capable ot administering the govern
ment, and “faithful to the constitution.” The
Democratic nominees will have all these qualities
i and qualifications. The Kentucky Whigs may,
j therefore, prepare to join hearts and' hands with
j US.
| The convention spoken of adopted a platform,
j The subjoined planks may be regarded as fairsam-
I pies ot the whole structure.
| “That the constitution vests in Congress no leg-
i islative power over slavery or any other domestic
i institution of the States; that new States formed
! out of the Territories of the United States, having
; adequate population, adopting republican govern-
j incuts, and complying with the just requirements
j of the constitution and the laws, ought to be ad-
t mitted into the Union on an equal footing ofequal-
| ity with the other States, wife or without slavery,
! as the good people thereot-*-heing citizens of the
i United States—in their municipal character may
la; pleased to ordain ; that all agitation of the sla-
i very question, whether in States or Territories,
! should cease in Gungress, and the existing laws
‘ should be acquiesced iu by all lovers of tire peace
] of the Union.
“That every right protected by the constitution
: should be fait'hAilly accorded to every class of men
to whom its provisions extend, without regard to
; section, birth or religion, of parties entitled to such
i rights; and that loyalty to the government, honesty,
and capacity are the true tests of eligibility oj men to
the enjoyment of the franchises of citizens."
| The Louisville Democrat of the loth inst., has
1 a full report of the proceedings of the convention,
j That paper says:
1 “The proceedings were short, and the concur
rence in them unanimous. A motion was made,
we understand, to adjourn immediately upon the
adoption of the address and resolutions, hut it was
too plain the audience wanted something more. A
call was made for the Hon. A. Dixon, and he res
ponded in a broadside against the new revelation
at length" llis speech is highly spoken of as de
termined and withering. He was followed by Mr.
Stevenson, who denounced the Know Nothing par
ty just about as it deserved. It is refreshing to
see these old-line Whigs again in open organiza
tion, as in old times. It is so infinitely above the
recent fungus of sin in the opposition that it looms
up like an oasis in the desert. The resolutions
were general and unexceptionable. There is a
slight squinting at protection, but not more than
will, perhaps, be found iu any tariff hat could be
framed. They embrace only political subjects,
I such as political parties have a right to differ
• about. The position of the men composing this
i convention will extort respect. The mass of their
old associates have gone and left them, a small
I remnant. They would not be tempted by party
i associates, nor the hope of position, to take up a
j new revelation. They refused togo with the mul
titude to do evil. They do their own thinking,
and need no advice Let them proceed; if they
can bring their old associates out of a secret, oath-
bound, Jacobinical association, they will perform
an important service.”
MOO—
' ' Examine the two Platforms.
We ask the reader’s attention to the following
1 comparison of the platforms adopted by the Ohio
Democracy and the Know Nothings of that State
ij iu their respective State Conventions :
f Democratic Resolutions. | Know Nothing Resoln-
Resolved, That the "°" s '
constitution of the Uni- 4. Slavery is local, not
ted States inihodies the I national. Il r c oppose its
noblest and wisest sys-! extension into any of our
tern of free government j territories, and the in-
ever established by pa-1 crease of its political pow-
triotic men. | er, by the admissiou of
Resolved, That as 1 any slarc State, or ollicr-
Demecrats we will stand | wise; and we demand of
by that constitution, i the general government
with all its compromises, an immediate redress of
and maintain the union the great wrongs which
of the States against the have been inflicted upon
opposition of all traitors, the cause of freedom and
from whatever source the American character ?
they may come. by the repeal of the JMissuu-
Resolved, That in the ri Compromise, and the
principles of the Kansas- I introduction of slavery in-
Nebraska bill we recog- j to Kansas in violatiun of
nize, as they do, the I law, by the force of arms,
right of the people of the and the destruction oj the
States and Territories to | elective franchise,
farm their own domestic I
government, in accordance |
with the constitution, anil I
urc just, proper und dan- j
ocratic. \
State Rights, and United States’ Rights
Tis the Star Spangled Banner, oh, long may it wave,
O’er the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave.’
BOUGH TON, MSBF.TJo BUUVES, State 1‘histf.r>
Tuesday Morning, Aprii 29. 11I5G.
Celebration in the Crimea.—Marshal Pellissier, in
his despatch to his government from the Crimea,
March 23d, gives an account of the rejoicings at
the birth of the French Prince:
“At noon salutes of 10] guns, fired simultane
ously by the French, English and Sardinian ar
mies, and by the fleets, welcomed this gratifying
news. At the same moment, a Te Drum, at which
the troops ware present, was sung in each of our
crils d'armcc. Duriug the day, the commanders-in-
chief of the English and Sardinian armies came
officially to offer me their congratulations. Our
soldiers have finished the day in the midst of
cheers, and collected around a number of bonfires
which give to our camps the appearance of a splen
did illumination. The Scotch and Sardinians,
who are encamped on the heights of Kamara, were,
able to make their bonfires so large that the light
from them was thrown to an enormous distance.
At length the Russians, joining, at least we sup
pose so, in our manifestations, suddenly lighted
up the whole of their line from Inkerman to Cor
ales, and thus completed this spectacle, which had
a most striking effect.”
Good news for poor folk.—The Journal of Com
merce says:
•‘For the first time in many months we see that
common to good New York State Hour is quoted
by wholesale at a fraction under six dollars a bar
rel. When the channels of communication with
tin- interior are fully open, an avalanche of bread-
stuffs and provisions will be down upon us; and
as the demand from abroad is diminished, except
fcir reduced prices, there is a fair chance that con
sumers will yet reap some benefit from the im
mense crops of last year. The farmers, miilers
and dealers have had their chance; "the consumers
will now have'theirs. Much, however, will depend
upon the prospects of the growing crops, which
thus far, so far as we have learned, are generally
favorable.”
Great sale of Negroes.—A sale of 183 negroes, be
longing to Col. T. B. Goidsby, of Dallas county,
Ala., tool: place at Cah-.ba on Monday of last week.
The negroes brought in the aggregate $129,535,
being an average of $707.84. They were sold for
cash or its equivalent. As the negroes were of all
ages and capacities, the average is a very high one,
and demonstrates the improvement in value of
this species ef property.
UiTTlie Baldwin County Bible Society will
celebrate their anniversary by a public meeting in
the Methodist Church in this city on. Sunday
evening next, the 4th of May, at early candle-light.
Several addresses may be expected. The citizens
of the #ounty are respectfully invited to attend.
ITt The'Wilkinscn Court, says the Macon Mes
senger, has been adjourned over to the 1st, instead
of the 2d Monday in July.
Slone yioitnfaiit Iloaw.
AVe thank Messrs. Alexander & Clark, the Pro
prietors, for an invitation to be present at the open
ing of their new House at Stone Mountain. It
would afford us much pleasure to be present, but
duties of a public nature, require us to be at our
post. AVe will take that cup of “tea” at a more
convenient season.
Our Boston Correspondent.
Our Georgia friend on a temporary visit to New
England, writes us this week rather a causti.; let
ter on the Yankees. We think some of his cen
sures are most too general and do injustice to many
very excellent men. His remarks are too trne,
applied to a large portion of the people of that
section. We think “Cosmopolite” is in error when
lie pronounces the sOil of New England generally
barren and dreary. At least we should not so de
cide, on looking at the statistics, as presented by
the census.
Got bis banslis full.
Gen’l Bothune, of the Corner Stone, seems to
be pretty busy, if we take him at his word. Last
week, he says Ire had the “head of the State” upon
his hands, meaning Gov. Johnson. “Next week,”
he promises to “attend to the head of the Church,”
meaning Geo, F. Pierce, D. D. AVe hope the Gen
eral will feel easier after relieving himself of such
heavy responsibilities.
Who nrc they?
The most hitter anik irreconcilable enemies of
President Pierce are men who appjied to him for
office and failed to get it.
First aad foremost is ANDREW JACKSON
donelson—the man whose name is so important,
it takes two fonts of type to print it understand
ing^, Yes, donelson begged for office, and was
willing to take “any old clothes,” but the Presi
dent had none to give him; so lie went away
breathing out threatening and slaughter against
the “powers that be.” He could not find in his
own party friends enough to get up a tolerable
sympathy, so he went over to the enemy.
Edmund Burke another whilom editor of the
Washington Union, and one of the bitterest ene
mies of President Pierce, did just like donelson.
The editor of the AA'ashington Sentinel, from
whose paper the Know Nothings all over the
Union get all their slangwhangery to throw at the
President, is another disappointed spoils seeker.
His paper, failing to get any of the Administra
tion pap, is now loudest among the pack—and so
very orthodox is he, that the Know Nothings
swear by his dicta. *
Then there is Jas. Gordon Bennett, an old poli
tical sinner. He, too, put his nose into the crilq
and with a most sycophantic “by your leave,”
suggested that a residence in Paris would make
him a better Democrat, and pay him for his past
support. But Mr. Pierce shut the crib door in his
face and spoiled his countenance.
These are the prominent Democrats', who will not
support Mr. Pierce. These arc the men who tell
the Southern people Frank Pierce’won’t do to
trust! Everyone of them, together with all the
“lesser lights” in the same constellation, were
good enough Democrats until they failed to get
office. The failure made Know Nothings of two,
and would have made the other two ditto,but they
are both editors, and they stick |to the Democratic
party because it is strongest, and will triumph
despite their opposition.
yir. Danrlaon't V.cller of Acceptance.
We have not published this document, as there
is nothing in it of a political or public interest.
We desire- to notice, in connection with it, the
fact, tliat on tlie committee of Correspondence,
who made known to Mr. Donelson the action of
the Convention, prominently appears the name of
William J. Lames of Massachusetts. Now,
who is this Mr. Earnest Let us see. After his
return from the Philadelphia Convention, he made
a speech at a ratification meeting in Massachusetts,
from which we take the following extract. Verily,
donelson may exclaim, “save us from our friends.”
Mr. Lames said:
That “he could do more for the cause of free
dom and for the.millions of slaves, by standing by
Millard Fillmore.and Andrew J. Donelson, than
by bolting; and, believing that, he was willing to
spend his strength, and as much means as his
purse would allow, in carrying forward these
nominations to a triumphant success. [Loud ap
plause.] The only thing for the American party
in Massachusetts to do was, to com. - out nobly,
honorably and frankly, and sustain the nominees.
He believe 1 that if the council ratified the nom
inations, and went into the Presidential campaign
on the .Springfield platform, (for he believed that
Millard Filiuiore was as good an anti-slavery man
as any Republican who could he presented,) they,
would carry the State by twenty thousand majori
ty”
The 12th Section was repudiated at Philadel
phia, and the bait caught such fellows at this
Mr. Eames. Can southern men be so verdant as
to take up Fillmore, without any pledges, sup
ported as he is by Black Republicans at the North,
who consider him “as good an anti-slavery man
as any Republican?” We will not do them the
injustice to admit the possibility that any great
number of Southern men would be so regardless
of their true interest.
Fanny, Very.
The New York daily News, quotes the Mont
gomery, Ala. Mail to support the News in some of
its slanders against President J’icrce. But a few
weeks ago the News had a similar lift from the
Macon Journal and Messenger, and it appears to
have the hearty sympathy and cooperation of all
the Know Nothing papers at the South. Tho
News quotes the Montgomery Mail, one of the
most hitter and unrelenting enemies of Democra
cy in Ala. as reflecting “the Southern view of tho
Pierce policy.” Does the News know that the
Mail reflects only the sentiments of a part of the
Know Nothings of Alabama. A paper professing
to be Democratic, must be hard run for argument
and sympathy when it goes to the Montgomery
Mail for help. If a newspaper is known by its
friends, the New A’ork News would never pass for
a Democratic Journal; all of its friends at tho
South arc among the Know Nothings AVe would
suggest to the enemies of President Pierce m New
York who expect togo to the Cincinnati Conven
tion, that they carry the Montgomery Mail with
them, and show the article referred to by the News
as a passport to a seat in the Convention. It is
perhaps as good a certificate of their claims upon
the Democracy as many of them will ho able to
obtain. If that should not be sufficient, we think
our brother of the News could get his certificate
endorsed by the Macon Journal &• Messenger and
pprhaps by Win. Hone, grand Ignoramus of the
grand Council of Georgia Know Nothings.
It Speaks Well.
It speaks well for the great-National Democrat
ic Party of the Union, and betokens the certain
success of its nominees in the approaching contest
with fanaticism, that, with scarcely an exception,
the leading statesmen of the country are warmly
enlisted in behalf of its principles, or silently ac
quiescing in their steady progress to victory. In
vain do the Know Nothings of the South “call up
spirits from the vasty deep”—in vain does the eye
search among the leaders of our opponents at the
South, for one man of grfs.ut intellect, enlarged
statesmanship, and exalted patriotism. The lead
ing minds of the old Whig party, the bright par
ticular stars of that once glorious constellation,
have di teared from their accustomed places,
and now shine with a renewed splendorin another
portion of the political firmament; and while there
ate a few, a very few of the greater lights of the
AVhig galaxy still opposing their radiance to the
sun of Democracy, they utterly disdain to lend
their brilliant corruscations to illuminate the dark
ness of Know Nothingism. In one glorious con
stellation are to be found many stars of the first
magnitude—Buchanan, Douglas, Pierce, Cass,
Hunter, Dickinson, Toombs, Benjamin, Clayton,
Toncey, ct cetera, ad infinitum. In another, I-iii-
uiore, donelson, Botts. Jerc Clemens, rd nauseam.
In another, Seward, Hale, Sumner, F. P. Blair,
J. C. Fremont, Hi. P. Banks, &,c. &c. Can any
Southern man hesitate a moment to which group
lie will lend his influence? Can any man, who
is sincerely attached to the union ot our fathers, and
a friend to public tranquility, doubt, one moment,
the course duty and the promptings of a patriotic
heart, urge him to pursue? Wtien a'mighty bat
tle is to be fought, old feuds and personal rivalries
between leaders and privates are forgotten, and
shoulder to shoulder they inarch upon the com
mon enemy. When Russia poured into l urkey
her thousands and tens of thousands of armed sol
diery, threatening to overrun the dominions of the
Sublime Porte, and plant her eagle standard on the
shores of the Mediterranean, England and France
did not hesitate long to form a common league
against a common enemy. The disaster at AYater-
loo, or the prison bars of St. Helena, did not rise
up like mighty ghosts, to plead trumpet-tongued
against the “deep damnation” of the unnatural un
ion. The past was forgotten in view of a common
danger; and with a united effort they stopped, tor
a time, the strides of their giant enemy. So should
it be with the people of the South. The question
is not now, whether AVhig principles are right and
Whig measures best, or vfhetlier the Naturaliza
tion Laws should be repealed or modified—not at
all. But the question, the momentous question
with us of the South is, shall this great government
and this prosperous and happy union of confeder
ated States become the heritage of traitors, and the
foot hall of unbridled fanaticism. To be or not to
be, that's the question for the South. To have and
to enjoy our rights and property under the Con
stitution, or to yield both, to appease the unhal
lowed lusts of Northern vandalism; that’s the
question. Is it nobler in Southern men, tho' long
and bitterly opposed on questions of policy in the
government at times of peace and repose, to for
get past dissensions and sign a common bond of
self protection, or to foment petty discords among
ourselves, and divide and weaken our moral as
well as political strength ? AVe fear our Southern
Know Nothing friends will not take a patriotic
stand in the face of approaching danger. Thcy
will stand aloof from the main fight, living on the
hope that, in tho desperate struggle to ensue, the
main contestants will he totally destroyed, and
they can take peaceable possession of the effects
of both. We fear so. May we not say* we know
the result already.
Hare you seen Siam t
Last year about this time, Sam was a very im
portant fellow,‘in liis own estimation. He put on
pompous airs; with his fore finger stuck between
the buttons of his vest, he swaggered about, with a
knowing look and very consequential shake of
the head. But oh, what a change one short year has
produced in Sam’s prospects! Poor fellow; he
lias come out at the little end of the horn. He un
dertook to do a large business upon his own wits,
and failed for the want of stock. He thought he
was fooling the world, but has just discovered that
he was only making a great fool of himself. But
where is Sam7 No one knows; like his ancestor
Cain, he is now a fugitive and a vagabond in the
Earth, and if every one that findeth him does not
slay him, it is because no one considers him worth
killing. If a man meets him in the street, he
turns his head, hold his nose, and passes by on the
other side. It is said that Sam may be found in
Congress, sitting and voting with the Black Re
publicans. In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, he is so much like the Abolitionists
that one cannot be distinguished from the other.
In many of the Southern States, Sam is no where.
Sheriffs, with a jposse and track dog, have not
been able to find him, and it is reporfrd that he has
gone to Canada, on the underground Rail Road.
The fate of poor Sam should be a warning to all
fast young men, who imagine they can manage the
world by falsehood, tomfoolery and humbug.
Time generally discloses the fact that they are the
green horns, and whilst they think they are fool
ing the world, they are only acting the part of a
clown for the world's amusement.
Help um or wc sink.
The Journal and Messenger illiterates the ad
vice of the Richmond Whig to the Democratic
Convention about to assemble at Cincinnati.
And what brother Democrats do you think these
two sage Know Nothing editors in the plenitude
of their love for the Democracy advise us to do?
They advise us to nominate Millard Fillmore for
President. They adviso us to nominate the
author of the Erie letter. They advise us to nom
inate the man that pardoned and set at liberty two
notorious Negro thieves that had been convicted
of stealing between sixty and seventy negroes,
and were confined in prison for their theft until re
leased by Mr. Filiuiore. The idea that Southern
men could be induced to vote for such a man
might be considered a joke, if liis name had not
been seriously brought before the people by a
Know Nothing Convention. But it seems that
the Know Nothings have given up all hope of
electing him by tln-ir own strength, and hence
they are now begging the Democrats to take him
up. We do not wouder that the friends of Mr.
Fillmore are alarmed. We believe his case is per
fectly desperate if he depends upon Know Noth
ings alone to elect 'him; and we arc sure he has
nothing to hope from the Democracy, llis only
chance now is to throw himself into the arms of
the Black Republican*. There is an opening for
him, in that direction, and if wegmistake not tho
signs of the Times, and the Tribune too,an invitation
has already been giveu to Mr. Fillmore and his
friends to join them. The New York Times admits
that Mr. Seward is their first choice, but they fea r
tln-y cannot elect him and must look out for another.
Horace Grcely, iu a late number of the Tribuno
comes out plainly and says the Black Republicans
and the Know Nothings must unite or he defeated.
Will the friends of Mr. Fillmore accept the invi
tation? AVe give Air. Greely’s .advice to the Know
Nothings, below.
• “It is now abundantly demonstrated that the
American people will not make nativism the car
dinal principle of their politics. It was proved
during the long contest fur Speaker that this was
not the ruling purpose, even of the natires them
selves. They could not and would not unite on a
candidate for Speaker, because nearly all of them
made the slavery issue paramount. Even Lewis
D. Campbell, who thinks he and two southern
men could settle the slavery question in fifteen
minutes, received no southern vote, while Humph
rey Marshall, who is a capable, and, aside from
slavery, a liberal national man, received scarcely
one from the North. Slavery, then, and not na-
tivcism, is the real issue that devidcs the Ameri
can people. History will give no indication that
the l’resident we are about to choose was native
or anti-native, blit it cannot fail to say much of
his attitude with regard to .slavery extension.
“Why, then, shall we ^not agree to act with
single reference to them;? matter in dispute? We
speak to men who concur with us in earnestly de
siring that Kansas shall be a free State, and l'roiu
those only can we expect co-operation. AVe be
lieve that there is a maioritv -.1.. •
State—or will be when the fiicts sh a in eVei \ frM
duly presented—who will labor -m3 ‘i"’ 6 bc< n
Kansas to the number off ree Stated w* -° ,- add
that the border ruffians "an . tS ( «Jrelieve
their confederates beaten bv a ^ j b< j ba .ffl e( i and
free-State men on a coimnVpffi "'T ° faU
mon candidates for President v n 11 com -
We are ready to postpone .floffier ^ Vte ^ n "
is settled tliat Kansas shall be free Ta Cm 'l U
end shall he admitted into the 1’nim, . fhat
liest practicable momenl We " re ear '
unite upon, and heartily support inv fii n ?! to
who devotedly maintain haTprop£taon
are justly obnoxious to no ohiVction on rt Wh °
ot any free-State mop. Is noV this fair? Vhft
more could be required! What else is F 4ic'bV
Men and brethren! a terrible responsibility S
rest somewhere it Kansas be last t , fr„, i ‘
that responsibility our skirts w ill be clear >n I n^lf
you that it rests not on yours.” ’ '
Know >othin« Viclorir,.
The organs of the Know Nothing party at the
South are claiming the elections in New Hamp
shire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut as Know
Nothing victories, and from the result of these
elections, they draw the conclusion that Fillmore
and Donelson are sure to carry these States i n
November. If these victories are Kuow Nothin-
victories, and are to be regarded as indications o”f
Mr. Fillmore’s strength, then is Mr. Fillmore ful
ly identified with the Black Republicans, f or in
each of those States the issue was Nebraska and
anti-Nebraska. The Democrats went into the
contest upon the principles of the Kansas Nebras
ka bill as their Platform, and their opponents
whether they are ea led Americans, Black Repub
licans, or Ft ecsoilers, all went into the fi-ht un
der the anti-Nebraska banner, and every" Aboli
tionist in the United States claims these same"
victories as Abolition victories. That the Know
Nothings of Georgia may see who are their allies
and who those men are that sympathize with them,’
we copy the following announcement from the
National Intelligencer of the 17th inst.
Political.—At the meeting of the anti-Nebraska
Members of both Houses of Congress on the 14t!
instant, at the Capital, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the anti-Nebraska Members of
Congress tender to their fellow-citizens of the
United States their sincere and hearty con-ratnla-
tions on the recent success of the friends of order
justice, and freedom in the elections which have
been held in the States ofN'ew Hampshire, Rhode
Island, and Connecticut, and take pleasure in
acknowledging these triumphs, not less on the
ground of the encouragement they afford in our
determined effort to secure the immediate admis
sion of Kansas into the Union than as checriiK-
auspices of the speedy restoration of the true prin
ciples of the Constitution in the administration of
the Government of the United States.
BENJ. STANTON, President.
Av ILL Cl'.MBACK, Secretary.
Let the people of the South reflect who these
men are that from the Capitol send out these con
gratulations to the country over the defeat of the
Democratic party in New Hampshire, Rhode L<-
larid, and Connecticut. They are the anti-Nebras
ka members of both Houses of Congress. They
are in other words the Abolitionists of both Hous
es of Congress. Among them are Win. II. Seward,
Henry AVilson, John P. Hale, Joshua R. Gildings,
N. Banks and a host of others; in short every man
in Congress, opposed to the Kansas Nebraska bill,
and in favor of admitting Kansas immediately into
the Union with the Constitution formed by a bogus
Convention of Frecsoilers assembled at Topeka
contrary to law, and in defiance of the authorities
of the Territory and of Congress. These are the
men that are rejoicing over the elections in New
Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and
the Know Nothings of Georgia are called upon to
rejoice with them, and to rejoice because the friends
of the Kansas Nebraska act in those States have been
defeated. This is now the true and the only issue,
and it cannot be disguised any longer. The next
Presidential Campaign will be fought upon that
single question, Nebraska or anti-Nebraska. No
man can claim to be a Democrat or can act with
the Democratic party unless he supports the Kan
sas Nebraska bill. Every Democratic Convention
that has met within the last year so far as we re
collect, has passed resolutions in favor of that
measure, and every Democratic victory, North or
South, East or West is a Nebraska victory, and
every Democratic defeat is a Kansas Nebraska
defeat, and he that rejoices over a Democratic de
feat, rejoices over a Kansas Nebraska defeat, and
an Abolition victory. This fact is now so well
established that no man of intelligence can doubt
it. Patriotic National AYhigs in every part of the
country, now sec there is no middle ground for
them to occupy; they must either take sides with
tlie great national Democratic party, or with the
Great National Freesoil Party. In such a dilem
ma they cannot hesitate, and they are fast joining
the ranks of the National Democratic party. The
Hon. James C. Jones, Whig Senator from Ten
nessee, in an able and patriotic letter to his con
stituents, tells them that the issue now is Nebras
ka or anti-Nebraska, and that the South must ac
cept that issue. He savs “the Democrats claim
the paternity of the Kansas Nebraska act, and
must, and will defend it to the last.”
Tkf man that naiuiuntrd Andrew Jarksoa
Donrlran—Rend, jarlnwn Democrats.
It is conceded on all hands that Parsou Brown-
low, of the Knoxville (Term.) Whig, is entitled to
the credit of having nominated Andrew Jackson
Donelson, for the Vice Presidency—to him also,
be ascribed all praise, for tlie ingenious sugges
tion of printing his friend’s name after this fashion,
ANDREW JACKSON donelson.
To Show the veneratiqn that this Brownlow has
for the memory of Andrew Jackson, and the res
pect and attachment lie bears the principles and
acts of that great man, we refer to the following
extracts, copied from the files of Browulow’s pa
per. After reading these sentiments, Know Noth
ing friends, who once were proud to be called
Jackson Democrats, go straightway to the “Coun
cil’ Book, and erase your names from the record,
where you are written down a sworn brother of
the slanderers and viilifiers of the ashes ofthe great
and good Jackson.
Here is Browulow’s opinion of Andrew Jackson,
while his body was yet warm; arid whose livery lie
would now steal, to “serve the devil iu ’’
“ Death of General Jackson.—After a life of eighty
long years, spent in the indulgence of the most
bitter and vindictive passions which disgrace hu
man nature and distract the human niir.il, the ex
istence of Andrew Jackson terminated, at his resi
dence near Nashville, on Sabbath, the 8th insL,
at 6 o'clock, P. M.
“But still he lived on, wrote on, abused the liv
ing and the dead. And iu all those letters in
which he spoke so freely of his approaching d'S‘
solution, we never could meet with any ot that
forgiveness and charity which belongs tothekutli
lie professed—no reparation offered to the injured
and traduced—no asking of pardon from those he
had slandered'. .
“Wonever have in, all ourups anddownsm ltfe>
witnessed a spectacle so edifying as the last tew
years of Gen. Jaekson’s ill-spent life'.
“And if the naked truth could be come at, even
in his last moments, a portion of those vile dema
gogues were about him, stirring tlie embers oi ms
dving resentment into aflame, and awakening to
action the smouldering ashes of that hitter rise a -
incut and depraved vindictiveness, which marie las
heart, through a long career in life, a volcano ojjires
and ungovernable passions, lhe election o as
singular man, vulgur Hero to the Presidency, * - s
the greatest curse that ever yet betel this na.i •
» * * -‘But he is gone to a laud oj
deepest shade, and we are willing to tak* our f
of him. He has passed out of our hands into in
hands of a just God, who will deal with him, a
cording to bis works. VVe would not, ® 1 ®' , j
turn aside th-. veil of the future, to show bis delude
followers and blind admirers what awaits n
[Browuloic s II Wg.
The Wheat Crop of Virginia.—The
American savs that the prospects for an abuu •
Wheat crop in that region is not very can r p
and that tlie chinch bug has already given lute
tions that it will again infest the fields. D «
tor ofthe Lewisburgh Chronicle, ca a tnp to ^
South-western part of the State, never saw P ^
prospect for a good crop, and in many p
was difficult to see wheat above g r0 ««'“- ff d
graziers of that section are getting s i J
P cor.sJquci.ee of the dryness ot the
the other hand, the Staunton V ."' dl P* t t { a
the wheat crop of Albermarle with that o
»«uev road from Staunton to Hatpei -s *’
decidedly better than it ever saw it before.
On
that
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