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r The health of Mr. Davis is improving,
>i<nM to desire no executive clemency
via fair and impartial trial.
I. jvnau.—There were 5G deaths in
w h list week, 35 blacks and 21 whites.
. were 23 deaths from cholera.
'Private advices received at New Or-
Cf.nm the sugar region state that a fair
[.,: full crop of cane will be gathered;
l u re will be a great demand for seed
. ,hich will make the sugar crop small.
|;f It is said Napoleon intends to solicit
, r l of the daughter of the English
Royal (Crown Princess of Prussia)
;f „n. Their ages are twelve and four
U respectively.
Mina Geary.—The New York papers
L ,i,it this 6wect bird of song, whose
1 n delighted our citizens some months
l *ill tppenr at the New French Theater
i city as “Isabella,” in the American
operetta of “The Doctor of Alcan-
. (inns.—A cargo ot ice was put up
b-tioti in Savannah on Wednesday, but
[, Mil could be obtained. The auction*
1 ired to cry $100 for 349 tons, but no-
Kuuld give it. The owners of the enr-
,n announced that they would distrib-
it gratuitously to all who would call'at
hsel
f At last accounts a French frigate had
placed at the service of the Empress
tote to convey her back to Mexico, in
lot the well authenticated English and
liitm reports that she would never re-
i, hut would be jeined in Europe by Max-
in at an early day. They were about as
^iful a* other reports about Mexico.
nmcrnunc.—The citizens of Clcve-
, Ohio, who insulted the President of the
It-d States and tried to prevent him from
I'iing, have held a large and enthusiastic
liag, with the Mayor at their head, to
- arrangements to welcome those peripa-
tilaokgnaids, Brownlow, Hamilton &
DEMOCRACY RUN MAD—WHAT WE ARE
COMING TO.
In the few remarks we intend to offer on
! this subject, wc wish it distinctly understood
that wc refer to a principle, and not to any
particular political organization thnt has fig
ured its day in American politics. Wc have
certain good friends of the “hardshell” or
der, in a party sense, who seldom fail to go
into a paroxysm of commingled hysterics
and indignation at anything that savors of
an attack upon their idol of the past. We
never ielt the slightest inclination to do liom.
age to their god; yet, as we are all together
now, we would respect oven what we con
sider their errors in other days.
Our reference here is exclusively to the
Democratic theory of government. It
is important to sec clearly to what it
has brought us, and whither we are tending,
under the operation of its influence.
Democracy, within proper bounds, is a very
just and beneficent institution. We all be
lieve in it, and adhere to it as the chief corner
stone of freedom in this Western World. The
right and ability of man to govern himself, is
a great vital doctrine, one that commands
structivc principle. There an: not white
people enough in this country to do the vot
ing, and they would confer the inestimable
boon upon a race of ignorant and unlettered
blacks whose whole lives have been spent in
bondage without so much as an aspiration
for political power, much less the proper
moral and intellectual preparation for its ex
ercise. There is not a man among them that
believes in his heart that the change would
benefit either the negro or the government
which they professedly serve. The perpetua
tion of their own power is what they are
after, and they arc resolved to
secure it even though the Government it-
scll should go by the board in the effort.—
They have no other motive, and have never
been able to assign even a plausible reason
why a race wholly unfit to take care of them
selves should be invested with the rights and
responsibilities of freemen.
respect even with governments that believe j *™“ ne 8 n> * to be enfranchised and ad-
in the divine right of kings. In the instil,,-1 lnt .° " ? of thc ^untry on
m ° wnur neitminln oli nil tt-n nvolmln tl,»
tions of nearly all of them, it is, to
abatement, either in their lust for power, or ! some day return to power—and this supposi- > to vote for such a man, of at one time known
thirst for blood. Nor are they sickened bv I tion is admissible unless Congress should dis- : disloyalty, against another who had served
,, , . , . • • ’ cover a necessitv, as well as implied—war-| four years in the Union army, with credit to
t e results the fatal experiment ot tmner- power _ ]aw f or T ' 0 ting themselves a permanent himself and benefit to his country, was a gross
sal suffrage; to the contrary they madly pro- k 0( j v until everything in every way suits insult. If men desired to support Mr. John-
fess to sec thc future progress and glory of them—do you ' suppose these convenient j son’s policy let them, but, at all events, let
their country onlv in an extension of the dc- precedents will be forgotten ? Supposing ' them vote only for such men as were true to
these abandoned men should desire a new their country in 18(51
arrangement to keep them in power, or a re
peal of some old obnoxious one, what is to
prevent a majority composcd of such licen
tious characters, as our Radical friends rep
resent us to be, from having our committee
of fifteen, and voting Maine, New Hanip-
Terhible Affair—A Snake-Charmer
Bitten—Lockjaw Scpevenes.—On Thurs
day last, Castello, the well-known “snake-
charmer,” gave an exhibition of his singular
_ - power over these dangerous reptiies on the
shire. Vermont, and even this Old tommoi- j 9tage of t ij e American Theatre. He handled
wealth, to be In most outrageous practical | ca rl-lessly, 'nit with the utmost impunity, a
relations with the Union, and blandly requii- large num ber ot frcsldy-caught and veno-
ing her and them to do our will or not be ; ni0U3 rattlesnakes of a very large size, twist-
heard in Congress? It may be said, ‘bit j ng tj lem around his arms and body, placing
fli AI «n nKonwi) <4 n.m<1 ,1 l\n t-AI 11T1 HP »I i e i, «... — .
some extent, introduced as a practical
principle of government. The Commons of , . , ,
England, thc Chambers of France, thc Diet they arc less capable than the blacks-that
what principle shall wc exclude the
women of the country and children above
the age of fifteen ? Will it be pretended that
Radical Southerners in Boston.
P^t, speaking of the late visit of the
lilotr-Uamilton party to Boston, says
fr>S the days in which they have run
j rough our streets, there has been scarce-
uttcrance worthy of the magnanimity
I ive. or breathing the charity of a Chris-
p ple, and hardly a single patriotic sen
from first to last there has been one
| 't appeal to thc lowest instincts of onr
mure."
| Tkiriy Lines of Common Sense.
'•iTiag glanced over the editorin'* and the
h tU. journal, you turn to the adTcrti«ementi,
: ."urnaif, -Thrae are published by the writers
'Arirown interests.”
S f *o.bnt It is no less true thst rr coxcmassTora
| xuoTDuinnnuin. Ifyousreheslthy
* >1 ton wish to continue so. If sick, of
i » desire to be relieved. In either case ii Is
I* 110 jou to know that HOSTETTER’S BIT-
|> 0* what, mi rest and best tonic and alterative
- tsi is any country. This is a period of the
' l Ik* strongest need an invlgorant, lor the op-
^idratr* the system of strength fsster than
‘•N'rit and vigorous organization can recruU
a preservative of health, asaprotee-
tks devitalising action of heat and the ms-
r ' iu< v». you should sustain the good eonati-
1 ' ;»d stamina with which Xatnre hasblest-
• 'kb peerless Vegetable Tonic.
P* be nscessnry to urge noon the weak
J importance of acquiring by safe means
*kich unassisted Nature denies them. All
At’rirmmstanced are invited to give the Bit
• Before they have taken the elixir three
^iormity with the directions, they will so
• * 1, k gratitude its genial operation. They
_ Ii imparts mental as well as nervous eeer-
f a]| internal Amotions admirably.
' 'jprraneo of the debilitated and depressed,
t“»tlhf«« statements the proprietors only
ca *** of innumerable testimonials.
: B EN. WADE SAW AT PHILA
DELPHIA.
[*«t tpecch, Benj. Wade, U. S. Sen-
a Ohio, tells what he flaw at the Pie-
3 *ontion. He soys:
■ j ,'****‘1 what I never expected to wit-
l.' 1 ' 1 ' )C(, n a member of a great many
which met to settle political
' “J* I never had seen a convention
Men, writhing under the heel of
F' r *w,lrom thc time ot tlie old Con-
a people who had been
. fho liool of oppression of
li it ,! n ”> U P *° that time; no con-
I ' white men ever met when one of
GL*jWM say: My person is insecure,
>n danger or confiscation, my
■itj, “R* Of being trampled under
• .jj'wny, while I go forth to delib-
question* relating to this state of
pasting nonsense! Wherein are
.. °Ppressed?” Brownlow, for in-
| v crnor of Tennessee, and carrying
n y* 01 ® Hamilton, of Texas,
Gubernatorial Chair, and gone
I own free will. Very uiuch
■ndeed ! Who in thc South
violence to any of these
insult to their
of Germany, all attest a recognition of popu
lar opinion and authority. In the American
government we have carried the great princi
pic still further, and hold that it is thc only
element that can enter into the constitution
of legitimate free government. So wedded
have we became to the dogma, that
we believe the American people
are willing to adhere to it even though expe
rience should prove it to be utterly destruc
tive of all government in its practical opera
tion. They would prefer to have no govern
ment at all, or anarchy, rather than yield it
or any portion of it. It has brought untold
evils upon us, and yet, instead of learning
wisdom from the past, and curtailing thc
hurtful system and bringing it within safe
bounds—bounds that while they ace just to
the people may be relied on to give security
and permanency to their rights—the only
measure of reform now proposed is an exten-
tion, almost without limit, of the source of
evil. We propose to cure the patient by giv
ing him still larger doses of the medicine
that lias already brought him well nigh to
death’s door. Sueh is thc statesmanship of
the present day.
Radicalism, or ultraism, is the bane of all
political or moral government. However
sound or admirable a principal may be, it is
only valuable to mankind when allowed to
operate within reasonable bounds, or such as
experience may demonstrate to be safe. The
man is a maniac who would wish to extend
it further. He takes principle for lib master,
and discards reason. Democracy is like the
steam of a locomotive: it requires a safety
valve and proper machinery to confine it to
useful purposes, without which it becomes an
instrument of destruction and hurries every
thing connected with it to wreck and ruin,
It is not the use of steam that docs the harm
but the abuse of it.
For ninety years we have conducted our
government on the principle of universal
suffrage—at least, the right to vote in the
election of rulers has been enjoyed by every
free white citizen over twenty-one years
cf age. The system worked admirably
so long as the lessons of the Rev
olution were fresh in our minds, and the great
ambition of the people was to place tlicir
blood-bought country on a sound and endu
ring basis. Demagogues had not then grown
up and struck their roots deep into thc public
vitals. So long as our fathers were spared up
on the stage—the men who fought for liberty
and knew its value—and even till a later day
whilst those who grew up under their inspir
ations continued to control public affairs,
universal suffrage showed its good qualities
and suppressed thc bad. Wc had patriots
then, men who loved their country better
than themselves. The close of Jackson 1
second term in the Presidency dates the
era of revolution. The doctrine, “To the
victors belong the tpoil*," took its origin
about that period, parties became ferocious
and selfish, and the government was looked
upon as a great stake, to be won and
divided out among the victors. With
this spirit in our political struggles,
we can readily conceive what a feeble resis
tance was ofiered by public patriotism and
virtue when pitted in the field with thc lust
of power and the love of money. Year after
year patriotism and the sanctity of the elec
tive franchise became gradually undermined,
until, finally, our election returns, no longer
the expressions of the public voice and intelli
gence upon National policy, became the score
books of political gamblers and adventurers,
Every species ot fraud and trickery, appeals
to passion snd prejudice, were all perfectly le
gitimate, us means for winning the game.—
Even the honor that rules among profession
al gamble.?! was discarded.
Such -fas our history up to 1800,
•when this great national iniquity
culminated, and the storm that had been
gathering i’or a quarter of a century burst,
shattering the government of our fathers into
fragments, and overwhelming thirty-two mil
lions of p'ople with a deluge of blood.
But to the next stage in our progress
downward The storm finally ceased from
sheer exhaustion of the natural elements
his bosom and
giving undoubted
that is absurd, it would be revolution. . i a "number of them
can only say that in my. judgment ran ttr0 nml his neck, and
action of Congress is revolution no less, j evidence that they were, under ordin-
save the constitution. j arv circumstances, perfectly at his
“ Gentlemen, my solicitude in this matter: command. The performance being over,
is not so much for the South. But I love and j Castello was descending the stairs leading
admire the people of the North, and revere from the theatre to the saloon, with a
the frame of government handed down to us number of snakes inside kis shirt and around
they are entitled to enjoy less of the rights of
man—that they own less property, and are
less interested in the government ? Will any
man assert thc affirmative of either of these
propositions ? It cannot be done truthfully.
Why, then, should the negro be advanced
and the white women and minors of the
country be kept in perpetual disfranchise
ment? There is but one reason with the
Radicals, and that is, they believe they can
control thc negro’s vote to their own advan
tage.
But extend the right of suffrage beyond its
present limit, we shall soon see the same pow
er enlisted in behalf of the women and chil
dren, and, finally, this great Government will
become one vast mobocracy, an object of scorn ! Gen. Grant,
and pity to the nations, and an instrument Poaition of Gen. Grant in Relation to Political
by thc fathers of the Republic, and when I
see that great charter of our constitutional
liberties assailed by the same passioas which
have proved fatal to so many similar plans of
regulated liberty—when I see a victorious ma
jority inflamed with all thc enmities, and de
moralized by the license of a long war, forget
ting its veneration for our last safeguard, I
cannot refrain from urging in such feeble
words as I can command, patience and constane
recurrence to thc Constitution. Let us never
forget ourselves, nor weary in reminding
our fellow-citizens that even if this Congres
sional scheme were best for ten or even twen
ty years to come, yet the vision of the philos
ophic statesman ttrefehing forward for cen
turies, when almost the memory of this epi
sode in the magnificent • annals of the Great
Republic shall have passed away, will dis
cern how to secure a trifling temporary good
which in a little time must have come un
forced; the politicians of the day yielded to
temptation and first infringed the organic
law. Then the people lost somewhat ot their
reverence for it. At the next emergency the
majority bold, tears away a larger mass of
rampart, and the apathy of the people is
heavier, until at last, the ruling faction knorvs
no guide but its own passing whim, and the
nation stands ready to fall a prey to any man
who will rescue it from the intolerable tyran-
ny of an unrestrained majority.”
of the wildest confusion and demoralization
to ourselves. We shall no longer deserve the
name of nation, bat will stand, till some kind
hand of military power shall give us the
comparative boon of serfdom,a pitiable monu
ment of Democracy run mad.
John Quincy Adnms, Jr,
Thc great feature of the late F&nueil TIall
Ratification Meeting, in Boston, was the
speech of young John Quincy Adams, son of
lion. Charles Francis Adams, present Minis
ter to-England, and grandson of President
John Quincy Adams. It was characterized
by considerable ability and much conserva
tism. We append a few extracts, which will
be read with interest:
THE TEST OATH.
“We insisted that the war was fought to
compel the rebellious in the insurgent States,
to perform their duties to the Union, and that
aa soon aa the insurrection was subdued, and
Contests—His Opinion of Northern Sympa
thisers with the Rebel*.
The Chicago Republican, in a letter from
its reporter traveling with the Presidential
party, makes the following interesting state
ments in connection with Gen. Grant’s refu
sal to present himself to the soldiers who at
tempted to call him out in advance of the
President’s arrival at Cincinnati:
The fact is, that Gen. Grant knows, as has
been pntent to every one during the whole of
this trip, that continued efforts have been
made to embitter, if possible, his relations
with the President by exciting the jealousy
of the latter, or by making invidious dis
tinctions between them, and he is determined
that no act of his shall lend any encourage
ment to any such contemptible proceeding on
the one hand, or those that have been made
with like persistency to identify him with the
political views of the President on the other.
Gen. Grant feels that, next to the President,
he is the head of the army of the United
States, not the leader of a political party.—
He does not consider the ‘army a place for a
his person, being pressed upon and jostled by
thc crowd, some of whom, it is to be hoped,
thoughtlessly struck the snakes which were
areund him. This excited their ire; he sud
denly cried out that he was bitten, and en
tering the saloon, took off his shirt, when it
was discovered that the venom of the snake
had taken effect in his right shoulder, which
in a few moments swelled to a frighiful size,
and he commenced frothing at the mouth.
A physician was immediately sent for, and
was at once in attendance; the flesh around
the wound was cut out, and prompt remedial
measures employed, and the immediate effects
of the poison overcome. About two hours
afterward the virulence of the venom mani
fested itself in a very strange manner. The
man’s mind became disordered; he threw his
arms wildly about, and was continually sing
ing wild snatches of songs, all of which had
reference to thc snakes. This continued un
til he was completely exhausted, when he
sank into an uneasy slumber.
Last night lockjaw supervened, but we
learn that he is reported better this morning.
—Buffalo Express, Friday.
|7\ -—««• h> mcir families ? No-
L inle tiling is a fancy -ketch, or that gave it impulse and fury, and the dawn
^iL.lieofthefirstw
elect these
iter. No- of peace found the same spirits that raised it
'full,
men to office;
1 extent of the 44 oppression.”
1 property are ns safe in the
'Aril W ° a '^ *** ’ n New England,and would hate suppos
tin' i ^ P°liticnl rights arc secure.
Stkem j n office, wc think they
convinced every decent
, _ tkey are totally unfit
Portion. “ Oj
heel of tyranny f”
man at
for uny
men, wri-
Kiddlc
still in power. What was the next step?—
Even inan mate nature loves rest and quiet
after a setHUO of violent commotion, undone
fd that even these bold,
bad men would have sympathised with
the rest of creation when they paused
and looku j upon the distress and ruin that
lav thick iround them. Men with human
instinct-: tajo’.d have at least desired a change
in the programme of horror. But not so
with thesi sons ot Belial. There has been no
peace and order restored, it was the Consti- ' politician, and therefore will not permit him-
tutional duty no less than the right of these self to be committed to the support of either
States to send representatives to Congress, i °f the present political parties, nor that the
and that in case ‘the election returns, and j army shall be made a party machine,
qualifications’ of such members are] regular j gen. grant’s, indorsement.
and correct, Congress lias no right to exclude | j liave submitted the above to the General,
them from their seats. We further protest, xvho entirely approves of what I have writ-
One Horse Thief Killed, and Anoth
er Wounded and Captured.—Mr. Harris
of Silver Run, Alabama, (son to our old
friend Walton B. Harris, ot Girard,) arrived
yesterday morning in our city, in search of
two horses which had been stolen the night
before from his residence. He soon got on
their track, and overtook them at Mr. Nance’s
some six miles out of town, on the Hamilton
road. They were in the hands of two men,
who, on being charged with stealing them,
made an assault on Mr. Harris and his friend,
Mr. Dan. Williams, of this city, who was
with him. After a desperate struggle be
tween Harris and one of the men, who was
physically greatly his superior, Mr. H. man
aged to draw his pistol and fire on his an
tagonist. This settled their strife, for the
shot produced almost instant death. In the
meantime, the other thief had been engaged
with Mr. Williams, between whom and him
self several shots had been fired, and both
were wounded—but 3Ir. Williams only slight
ly. The man was then captured. The neigh
bors being called in, they held an inquest
over the body of the dead man, and after
hearing the facts, declared that he came to
his death at the hands of Mr. Harris, who
committed the deed in-self-defense. Every
one acquainted with the facts fully justify
Mr. Harris. We understand the-two thieves
are unknown hereabouts.— Col. Enq. 20fA.
BABY TALK
Rome mothers, especially young ones, make a
“poor out” of communicating intelligibly with
their little ones. Some poet has come to their re
lief and produced in verse a most perfect system
of baby talk, on a variety of subjects, every
portion ol which the puling youngster is presumed
(by a stretch of fancy) to comprehend to the dot
ting of an i and the crossing of a t. We give his
labors below:
The Philadelphia Nationa 1 Union Conven
tion.
VIEWS OF THE BRITISH PRESS.
[From the London Timet, Aug. 2:!.]
Where’s ee baity, besg it’s ’art
Muzzer’s little darley boy,
’Turnand time into its tart,
Suck its ittle sugar toy.
Now we’U take it ridy widy,
Dearest, preshus, birdy, honey,
Ma won’t let it slidy idy,
Can3« ’twould hurt ller ittle sonny.
Oh, yon pltty sugar plummy,
Does it want its story talky,
So it sail; yon duckr tummy,
Let its muzzy see it walky.
Mv. what ails itstweetest raouty,
Mama faid its going to ky,
Only suo its lippeys pouter,
Hushey darley rocky bye.
Does the cahbaire mama eaty
Makes its little tnznmy ache?
Is its ittle eyes so seepy,
Hickup keep it wide awake ?
Docs it want to see its daddy?
So it sail in ittle while;
See i
What (
o it sail in ittle while;
! it traw it* tunDy paddy,
Vhat does aiize blessed chile?
Ugh! you naughty pin, go way!
Hushey, deary, go to 6cep,
Mama by her baby stay,
Uggy lies from baby teep.
that the assumption by Congress, of a power
no where granted by the Constitution, to es
tablish an inquisitional and revolutionary tri-
ten, and says that it fully and exactly ex
presses his views.
The above conversation with General Grant
bnnal to examine, not the ‘election, returns j took'place in thc baggage and refreshment
and qualifications’ of any of its members, but car attached to the train, in the presence of
to pry into the private feelings, talk and con- Mnj G en. Rawlins, Chief of Staff to General
dition of the people of the once insurgent. Grant; also ot another Major-General, who, I
communities, with a visw to exclude Stajes ; think, was Gen. Stoneman, but of this I am
from Congress is no better than an usurpa - j no t certain, for I did not take any particular
t> on -” j notice who it was.
EXCLUSION OF THE SOUTO FROM CONGRESS.
“Now, look at Congress to-day, insisting
as it does, that its rights are in danger if
these ten States arc readmitted to Congress.
It claims and exercises a right to hold out of
the Union almost as many States as ever
strove to go out, and it imposes the same con
dition of further constitutional guarantees as
the pride of renewed, much ns the secession
ists did of a continued Union. I confess, as
a matter of constitutional law and common
sense, apart from the intent of individuals
I see very little to choose between the man,
who takes a State out of thc Union, because
he can’t get constitutional guarantees to suit
him, and one who keeps a State out of thc
Union until be can get constitutional guaran
tees to suit him
In about a minute afterwards, Gen. Grant,
who had been in the President’s car to pre
sent himself to the people assembled at West
Junction, he re-entered the car, and, having
seated himself, beckoned to me to come and
speak with him. I did so, and, on seating
myself by his side, he went on to say that he
thought that if I published the account al
ready submitted to him, he would like it to
be understood that he had refused to receive
the proposed demonstration, entirely because
he felt it his duty to refuse any reception or
demonstration tendered separately to himself
while traveling with the President, or to do
anything which might be construed as favor
ing any political party. He then went on t«
In both cases wc must look ! reiterate his determination not to be used by
for the evil principle precisely where the po- j those who sought to commit him either for or
litical theorist would have indicated before-1 against thc President’s policy, or to attach
band, in the inherent weakness of written any political significance to his presence on
constitutions, when the fears or ambition of: the President’s excursion. He had also been
a dwindling majority tempt them to overstep , much nnnoyed at thc use which had been made
the limits of organic law to avert their own | of this name by John Hogan, who has pre-
humiliation, nnd thc advent to power of a j sunied to state that Gen. Grant was political-
rival party, which, of course, appears to llie ' ly with the President, and on one similar oc-
still dominant faction an insufferable calnmi- J casion by Mr. Seward. He felt that it was,
ty.” | above ail things, desirable for officers ot the
***** I array to avoid participation in ordinary po-
“If weare to abandon the plan of trusting ; litical conflicts, except it was tlieir duty as
thc people to their own government, we sur- j citizens to support only men who could show-
render the very citadel of our system. If i a record of consistent loyalty. Whether a
once we submit to allow majorities to assume j man’s sentiments were Johnsonian or Repub-
not onlv they are right, nnd their opponents , lican, he said he Ifcli that it wasnn insult to
wrong,"but that tdc opposite party is so wiked | any loyal man to ask him to vote for any can-
that the ruling faction must alter thc funda-1 didate who was not a loyal man in 1801. In
mental law to ensure their permanent dis- this connection he said that, without express-
grace, we may as well abandon our central ing any views ot his own for or against the
idea of self-government; and in its place Johnson policy, he yet felt it to bo a misfor-
bring in the other theory on which rests the tune for Mr. Johnson thnt the advocates of
throne ofourfriend the Emperor of the Erench lib policy in the States through which he had
that the people must be taken care of as just passed, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana,
incompetent or wicked.
No piling of amendment upon amendment
will prevent revolution and anarchy, as long
os the policy of the majority compels the mi
nority to hate the organic law, and teaches
by example the whole people to disregard or
evade it. Will evil disposed persons stand
more in awe of your newly tinkered constitu
tion, after you have yourselves impaired its
anctity by trampling it under your feet, as
they at least believe at the South, to serve a out * on a plntioFm
temporary purpose; than they did when it n friendship with
was enshrined ns a thing apart in every think-
mind ? The foundation of the Constitu
tion nnd thc Union is in thc love of the peo-
hnd in some instances put on theirtickct men
who in 1861 and 1883 had been guilty of
known disloyalty to the Government; be
cause (and this was said in a very emphatic
manner) he felt that to ask men whose son3
had shed their blood for the Union to vote
lor men who had been disloyal to it, was the
greatest insult that could be offered. South
ern men he could make allowances for, and he
could ride through the South and get
and shake hands
such men ns Lee,
Johnson or Forrest, because, though they hail
been almost educated into secession, they
were now truly honest and loyal in their ad-
pic—nothing else. If you loosen this foun- ! lierencc to the Union, and were seeking to
dation, you prepare its sure overthrow. What strengthen it. But lie did not feel in that
can we think then of men who sa.y we are : way towards Northern men who had once
iroviding barriers to future disaffection by ’ been disloyal, and neither desired to associate
constitutional amendments, which all the with them nor have them for his friends.—
people know to be in violation of the very No such men should have his support, nor
sirument itself, and a large section feel ought they to be supported by Mr. Johnson’s
be invidious, insulting and liumilia- friends throughout the Northern States. lie
to them;? For let us suppose t hat these
Americans in Mexico—Illness of Gen.
Price.—The following paragraph, taken
from the New Orleans Crescent, of the 8th
instant, not only brings us unwelcome newi
concerning the condition of General Sterling
Price, but reports the death of a citizen ot
Columbus, Ga. We are not sure that a mis
take has not been made in the statement that
Mr. Warren was from this city. If he was,
our publication of the article may convey
distressing news to his relatives and friends.
[Co?. Enquirer.
Cur informant reyorts that when he passed
through Cordova, on the 23d uit., Gen. Price
was lying dangerously ill with typhoid fever,
and not expected to live. Gov. Harris, Gen,
Shelby, Judge Perkins and others were in at
tendance on hint.
Frank Cowan, of Danville, Kentucky,
died in Uatusca, of typhoid fever, in July
last. *
“Col. W. F. Cooper died in Vera Cruz, Au
gust 19th.
W. Warren, of Columbus, Go., died in Vera
Cruz, August 20th, and was buried with mil
itary honors.
A Belligerent Radical.—A certain
Judge Pitking, of New Orleans, addressed a
Radical meeting in Philadelphia on Wednes
day night. We take the following from the
report of his speech in the Philadelphia
Press:
“The speaker alluded in severe terms to
the electioneering tour of the President, de
scribing him at St. Louis as “reeling from
banquet to a balcony, and desecrating the
Saviour’s name by a speech unfit for his orig
inal grog-shop in Tennessee.” (Tremendous
applause.) He would here to-night arraign
Andrew Johnson for the butchery of one hun
dred and fifty Union men in Louisiana.—
(Cheers.)
A Voice— “How about Indianapolis V
The speaker replied that he was treated
just right there, and if he (the speaker) had
been there he would not have objected to
using a shillalch himself. (Tumultuous
cheering.)
■ ■
Boys Using Tobacco.—A strong and sen
sible writer says a good, sharp tiling, and a
true one, too, for boys who use tobacco.' It
lias utterly ruined thousands of boys. It
tends to softening and weakening of the
bones, and it greatly injures the brain, the
spinal mariw and the whole nevous fluid.
A boy jvljo smokes early and frequently, or
in any way uses large quantities of tobacco,
is never known to make a man of much en
ergy, and generally lacks muscular and phy
sical os well as mental power. Their child
ren, would they marry and have any, will
partake of physical and mental weakness and
be not worth raising. We would particular
ly warn boys who want to be anything in the
world to shun tobacco as a most baneful poi
son. It injures the teeth. It produces an
unhealthy state of the throat and lungs, hurts
the stomach and blasts the bruin and
nerves.
Have to Carry Guns to Church !—Bev.
Mr. Alexander, a Methodist preacher nt Fen-
top, in this county, received last Saturday an
anonymous letter, informing him that he
should not preach longer without taking the
oath; and if he attempted to do so he would
be taken from the pulpit. In spite of this
threat Mr. Alexander entered his pulpit yes
terday, and preached as usual, a large con
grcga’tion of his friends filling the church
with arms in their hands, and a resolute de
termination to use them if any indignity
The New Style of Bonnets.
(From the Philadelphia North American.)
By an importer, whose trade is among the
most extravagant and radically fashionable
milliners, we were yesterday shown a sample
of Paris-made bonnets, and the materials for
their make and embellishment, for the pres
ent fall season. The fashion of this bead-gear
is piquant and becoming as a general rule.
It is a perfect god-send to the coiffeurers.
So small is the new style of bonnet that
every lady dressing en riguer, no matter
what may be the abundance of her own hair,
must reinforce it with from ten to thirty dol
lars’ worth of some one else’s. So great, in
deed, already is the demand for artificial hair,
that a large portion of the waterfalls, rolls,
frizees, and other appendages with which an
unnatural crop of hair is imitated, are made
of silk; or worsted—commonly termed
mohair.
The fashion of the bonnets tor the present
year is strikingly peculiar. They arc smaller,
by a good many degrees, than those in vogue
during the past. From specimens shown us
we reach the conclusion that an elderly lady,
disposed to adhere to old fashions, and to
desire a bonnet in order to cover her head,
must look tor something not to be found
among fashionable millinery.
There were in the variety we examined
nine different sorts of soup-plate, or May
Queen hats, every one of which was made in
velvet. The smallest was a mere square of
green velvet, with broad velvet strings cov
ering thc ears. A trimming of lace, about
an inch wide, depended from the edges—
There were three fac similes of ears of wheat,
and a like number of counterfeit bops in
front. The price, that we should have guess
ed to be at most five dollars, was thirty dol
lars. The bonnet measured six inches and
three-quarters by five inches and a half. A
slight convexity was all that distinguished it
in shape from a small pane of glass.
The next was much like the first, except
that the pane of glass ran to a point at the
back end; the others were in the shape of
small desert plates, exceedingly small gyp
sies, and May quecn3 looking like objects ex
amined through the little end of an opera
glass. Every one of them points the buyer
directly to the dealer in artificial hair. If
all the peasant girls of France and Germany
were at once to give up their tresses, they
could not supply a tithe of the demand
made upon them by the people who would
rather be out of tbe'world than out of fash
ion.
Purchase a silk cord at the upholsterer’s,
and it will be seen that the silk is only twis
ted round the surface—the cord is cotton.—
Just so, because Eugenie’s once magnificent
tresses are growing thin, everybody is wearing
somebody else’s bair, and a big roll or pad of
goat's wool or horse bair is artfully covered
on the outside with the hair of some Nor
mandy peasant bride, who through the instru
mentality of an, inexorable pair of scissors,
has brought to her husband a wedding por
tion. Save waterfall curls, that cannot be
made except of human hair, a very large
share of the other embellishments rendered
imperative to those who wear fashionable
bonnets, are thc veriest sham.
The trimmings are as ultra and “radical”
as thc bonnets themselves. Thc artificial
flower business 1ms received a paralyzing
blow. Just ns the new fangled style has
given impetus to the hair business, it has put
a quietus upon that of making artificial flow
ers. For young people turbans will be very
much in vogue, and the trimmings upon
these will denote thc opulence or the extrav
agance of the wearer. Of thc eight that
were shown to us, five were adorned with
stuffed humming birds. The gorgeous Lil
liputians of the feathered tribe that gem
;i Brazilian landscape are thus murdered and
mounted, to do sentinel duty over the brows
of Anglo-Saxon belles.
In Paris, from which our obliging inform
ant lias just returned, jewelers are mounting
these winged opals upon sets of jewelry.—
They bring prices so extravagant, for the part
they l ave been pressed into as articles of cos
tume. that the modest collector of taxidermal
varieties cannot now hope to possess the rarer
specimens. One of them, shown to us yester
day, was little larger than a hickory nut, and
the brilliancy of his plumage put to the blush
th e gleam of'tiie Hungarian opal.
The feathers of gay-robed birds this season
arc in great demand. No more peacock feath-
dnst brushes, we take it, will for a time he
used. From these feathers the “eyes” are cut,
and, intermingled with the short feathers
om the body of the haughty bird, are glued
upon bands of cloth, to margin the turbans
nut arc the fashion in Paris—and, of course,
eveiywlicre else—for girls budding into wo
manhood. A large box of them was shown
to us, of which no two were alike, derived
from the plumage of the peacock, pheasant,
guinea hen and domestic pigeon, down even
to the jet black, untinted crow.
particularly instanced, as a specimen of this ! should be offered to their minister. No dis
and the services were con
flict. So says the St. Louis
nefarious outlaws of the South, aiul their objectionable class of men, Heister Clymer. ■ turbancc occurred,
hardly less atrocious accomplices of :he Dem- the Democratic candidate for Governor of | ducted in perfect qi
ocracy, as our kind friends call you.) should Pennsylvania, saying that to ask any soldier Despatch, 3d.
It was a great and very ram irkabic meeting.
Delegates from every State in the Uni an were
present, an 1 they included—as the list of
names incontestibly proves—most of the
ablest men whom America now posses. If
there was no Henry Clay there, it is >ecauso
there is no such man at'this moment in all
the land. Many of the most trusted of the
Federal generals sat side by side with well-
known supporters of the doctrine of scces-
ion. Custer. Couch, Hosssean, Steedman, Mc
Dowell, McCook—these arc men who fought
for the Union from the first to the last as faith
fully, if not so prominently, as Grant and
Sherman themselves. The'representative of
Massachusetts walked arm-in-arm into tlie
assembly with tlie representative of South
Carolina—the ringleader in secession. The
Government had nothing whatever to do with
the memorable gathering. President John
son expressly declared that he wished to
leave it free to follow its own course. Two
delegates from each State formed themselves
into a committee, audpresen:ed a report and
certain resolutions to the Convention. We
do not see how it can be denied that the
Convention represented, so far as it had pow
er, the opinions of thc people. Thc elections
will reflect thnt opinion mare completely,
but let us take the Convention for what it is
worth. Politics would L»e much more con
tradictory and variable in America than
they really are if this opinion did not show
in which way the public mind in America is
moving.
* * * Alter years of adversity the Rad
icals have gained the supremacy, and they are
reluctant to part with it—and very naturally,
if their own interests alone arc considered.—
But the nation at large has a tremendous in
terest in thc question, it is anxious to settle
down to peace and order again, and it cannot
do so while eleven States are practically out
ot the Union. If the Constitution is still in
adequate to protect the nation, it must bo
amended, and that can only be done* by an
appeal to all the States. When the Southern
States are disloyal, coerce the ii again—oblige
them to respect the laws, and to yield to the
General Government If local disturbances
occur, suppress them; and wc have seen that
they are suppressed with the greatest ease;
all that is asked is, that loyal representatives
from the Southern States shall bo admitted
to Congress. Only the wildest bigotry can
see anything objectionable in such a demand.
Without a single dissentient, so far as we
can ascertain from the reports, resolutions
were passed in accordance with these plain
facts and principles. Slavery is abolished
forever; the National debt must be paid, and
the right of secession is finally disproved. In
all this thc representatives of New England,
of thc West, and ot the South, alike cordially
concurred at tlie Convention. The resolu
tions were carried by a “ unanimous vote,
followed by long and long continued cheers.”
There was no disorder and no confusion.—
The result is ODe on which the President and
the country may be fairly congratulated.
Mr, Johnson has fought a courageous bat
tle. It seemed uncertain a few months ago,
but wc can scarcely doubt its success now
that the voice of the people has been beard,
and their common sense opposed itself to tlie
selfish and narrow interests of a faction which
would involve the nation in another civil
war rather than relinquish its brief and un
profitable reign.
£x-Senator Richardson and Gen. Prentisss
final card from tiie latter.
TothePuUic :
On thc 2oth of August I published thc fol
lowing card.
“I see from the Jacksonville Sentinel that
Gen. B. M. Prentiss, in a speech made at
Jacksonville, a few days since, insinuated
that President Johnson was accessory to the
assassination of President Lincoln; he also,
as reported, said he was backed in this suspi
cion by “the opinion of Hon. Win. A Richard
son,” as expressed to himself. ’
“If he made the statement in reference to
me I declare him to be a* base and infamous
liar.
W. A. Richardson.”
“Quincy, Ill., Aug. 24, 1866.
Alter the expiration of some days Prentiss
published.a card in which bo says, among
other things the following:
“I did, at Jacksonville, give it as my opin
ion that President Johnson had been a trai
tor from the commencement of the war, and
that we who elected him vice-president had
been deceived in the man. I did allude to
the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, but I did
not say that Richardson had expressed to me
the opinion that Mr. Johnson was accessory
to thc assassination.”
I submit the certificate of six as respectable
and intelligent gentlemen as there are in Illi
nois, establishing the fact that lie did say sub
stantially what he was charged with saying
by the Jacksonville Sentinel:
“We, the undersigned, were present and
heard the speech made in Jacksonville by
Gen. B. M. Prentiss, on Saturday, Aug. 18,
1866, and pur attention was particularly at
tracted to the remarks of the speaker in re
ference to Col. W. A. Richardson, as correct
ly reported in tlie Jacksonville Sentinel.
“After charging President Johnson with
being a traitor, he said there were strong
reasons for believing that Johnson wasa trait
or from the firs:, and the speaker referred to
the testimony of several rebel colonels, ten
dered to himself and others, going, as lie be
lieved, far to sustain the charge. He also
stated that there were even grounds for sus
picion that President Johnson was implicat
ed in the assassination of Mr. Lincoln; in sup
port of which lie had the opinion, expressed
himself, of & prominent politician of this
state, whose name he would give if pressed to
doso. Voices called, ‘The name, the name.’
He then stated that Col. Win. A Richardson,
of Quincy, was the man.
“Cvnus Epj.er.
“Geo. W. Clarke,
“Aquila Becraft,
“Rout. Henry,
“D. B. C. Bayless,
“Adel Brown:”
The object of this filty dog is apparent—
He intended to make charges that lie knew
were false, at remote points, so that I could
know nothing about them for months oryears
after they were made, and then, when it was
too late to correct the falsehoods, to boast
that he bad denounced me thus nnd so.
He lied in the first place, and, when detec
ted and exposed, lie lied again to avoid per
sonal responsibility, thus adding to^ liar the
f which I know
... . character of coward, 1»
Old Cotton—Yesterday one of onr cotton I him to he. I dismiss this vagabond as un-
ctors, James T. Gardiner. Esq., received worthy of any forther notice.
id sold several bales of cotton, which were * W. A. Richardson.
packed and ginned in 1851. This is proha-
ly the oldest cotton in the country. It was 1 n ,„ nrrK . ™ a nn
sold at. thirty-three cents per pound. When ' " , ‘ ' ‘ '
c take into consideration thc tax of three cial dispatch to tlie t haricston Conner says
nts a pound, the depreciated currency, and , that the special committee appointed to ;>ro-
remember that fifteen years ago this cotton | v ; ( i 0 a suitable place for the regular meeting
might have been sold at ten cents a pound, it t j le Legislature in November, unanimous-
11 readily appear that not much has been °
_ide by holding it, even if no insurance had ! recommend Charleston as being, under the
peenpa'id on it.—Aug. Con. 20th. ' circumstances, the most convenient point.