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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1856)
iUIWWff • BY JAMES GAI^DNER. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. For President: JAMES BUCHANAN, OF PEXXBYLVAXIA. For Vice-President: J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, or sßHTrcxr. yg~ Flection to Ire held on the lirst Tuesday in November next* ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE: Hon. Wm. H. Stiles, of Chatham. Hon. Irerson L. Harris, of lialdwin. alternates for the Rtatb at la bos. Hon. IIENRV O. LAMAR, of Hibb. H»n. AUGUSTUS R. WRIGHT, of Floyd. ELECTORS: Ist His.—Hon. T. M. Forman, of Glynn. Id “ Hon. Samuel Hall, of Macon. 3d “ Hon. J. N. Kamsey, of Harris. 4th “ Hon. 1.. J. Gartrcll, of Fnlton. sth “ Dr. John IV. Lewis of Cass. Bth “ Hon. J. P. Simmons, Gwinnett 7th « Hon. T. P. Saflold, of Morgan. Bth “ Hon. Thos. W. Thomas, Elbert A I.TSRS ATB8: Ist Hist.-Col. W. M. NICHOLS, of Clinch. 3d « Col. TUCKER, of Stewart. Sd “ Dr. E. J. McGEHKE. of Houston. 4th “ Col. J. F. JOHNSON, of Fayette. sth “ Col. L. W. CROOK, of Whitfield. 6Ui “ Hon. R. McMILLAN, of Habersham. TUi •* Col. J. 8. HOOK, of Washington. Slh “ COL. A. C. WALKER, of Richmond. WEDNESDAY, OCTOHER I, IHSO. Constitutionalist Extra-Fourth Edition. (•ONTKNTS—FIRST I-AOE. The Democratic Platform, adopted by the Na tomal Democratic Convention, at Cincinnati, in | June, 1850. Mr. Fillmore's Abolition votes. Mr Buchanan's Record on the slavery question. 1 Miliurd Fillmore's Record. I Fillmore ami Van lluren. I Views of a Fillmore and of a Fremont journal ( in regard to Kansas. SRCOND PHI. | Mr. Buchanan'sSandford letter, with comments. ( The Know Nothing Conventions—the repudia ted 12th section—. John Minor Bott’s views upon , it—the Philadelphia Platform which the Chronicle y unlti lit inti sanJ was " not adapted to a Southern j latitude," and which Mr. Fillmore endorses. Letter from Col. A. C. Walker. The " Sanford letter,” which the Know Noth- i in » papers say no Democratic paper has published ! j Mr. Buchanan on Squatter Sovereignty. Stepping stones from one ism to another. Effects of a Northern trip on Southern Fillmore I men. i third pans. ] Speech of lion. John W. Crisficld. Tricks of Know Notliingiam—Secret Circulars 1 from the Culvert -the American League Exposed— 1 Origin of the “ Swerrers.’’ f Speech of James 11. Clay, son of the lion. Henry , Clay. ( Cuba und the Ostcml Circular—triumphant vin dication of Mr. Buchanan. 1 Fillmore's pardon to the men who stole seventy- 1 seven negroes 1 i Who are the “ Swervcrs 1" ( fourth pan*. Fillmore’s Free Soil apjHiintments. Fillmore and Fremont on the repeal of the Mis- 1 sourt restriction. I Chronicle and Sentinel —Mr. Buchanan’s Sanford . Letter, by " Truth." Two articles signed " Ante-Know Nothing,” I written bv a former member of the American party. 1 Three Letters from “ Old Line Whig." Price per hundred—single copies 6 cents. Orders left at or aeut to the office, for any number, will be atteuded to, and mailed to unv part of the country. Letters of the Hon. Chax. J. Jenkins nnd Judge E. A. Nesbtl. The demand for printed copies of these letters, for circulation among the people of Georgia, has been continuous aim increasing ever since they appeared in ourcoluuiß. We lilt all orders— For V k)o copies and over, 75 cents per hundred. For 100 to boo copies, SI,OO per hundred. Grand Staid Mas* Meeting. The friends of Janas Ili’cna-NAN uud John C. UaacxiNKUMiK, will have a Grand jots'* Mutiny. as suggested by the Richmond County Club, and olliers, at Atlanta, on the 17th and 18th October, i 1856, to which the people of Georgia und adjoining ] Slates are cordially invited. The following speak- , ora have been written to afid are expected to be present on the occasion: 1 Hon. Steplicu A. Douglas, of Illinois; I lion. John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky ; t Hon. William Preston, “ | lion. James L. Orr, of South Carolina; lion. John L. Manning. " “ Hon. James C. Jones, of Tennessee; Governor Audrew Johnson, " 1 Kx-Goveruor Aaron V. Brown; “ I Hon. Wm. L. Yancev, of Alabama; Hon. Percy Walker," " Qoveruor llerchel V. Johnson, of Georgia; Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, * •• f Hon. K. Toombs, “ l Hon. Howell Cobh, “ Hon. John E. Ward, “ Hon. Junius llillyer, “ Hon. Linton Stephens, “ 1 Aud also tho Electors for the State at Large, and ■ District Electors, together with other distinguish- . ed speakers, whose names will be hereafter an nounced. Tlie Executive Committee to make the uecessarv arrangements, are Samuel U. Hoyt, K. 11. Reynolds, William Gilbert, T. M. Kraus, William Ilurnes. 1 T. M. Evans, Marshal in Chick , Let every CountT Club send u Delegation, and every town’ and village he represented. Let Un people everywhere conn- up to this great gather ing of Ihe friends of our Constitutional Rights and the Union!! E. N. Calhoun, Prea’t Buch&uan and Breckinridge Club. J. E. Williams, Secretary. Vote in Pennsylvania. Many of our frioada will doubtleas be pleaaed to be reminded of the result of the election in Penn sylvania in the fall of last year. The contest was for Canal Commissioner, and there was a fusion then of the Know Nothings and Black Republi cans. We give the entire result. Nicholson (Fusion) 149,745 Williamson > Republican). 7,226 Cleaner (Native) 4,056 Henderson iWhigi 2.2'.‘S Martin (E. S'. 1, 678 168,#06 Plumer (Democrat) 161,261 Total majority against Democracy ..... 2,717 The total vote polled 825,27# In 1654, the result in Pennsylvania was for the Democrats 167.010 Whigs 78,571 Sundry Republicanism 120,506 561.177 We may as well say a little more, and that is, that from the most reliable information we can obtain, the friends of Buchanan and Urxcximuihik feel great confidence in carrying not only the No vember Presidential election in Pennsvlvania, bv a Urge majority, but that the "iron ribbed De mocracy" will achieve a triumph in that Slate in October. The Fkbhoktirs may shriek, aud tlie Fillmobkites may shout, but "Democracy is cue of the institutions" of Pennsylvania. isr At the time of the nomination at Rochester j of EKASvrs Brooks, for Know Nothing Governor of New York, "a scene of excitement and hat fly ing enthusiasm was produced.' The telegraph reports state that “ the Convention then rose as one man, shouting • Erastcs Brocas'' and for ten minutes a scene of the greatest and most mptunru* enthusiasm prevailed. Hat* fete all trier the hall, and the cheering from the inside was re-echoed from tlie streets." Speech of Solomon G. Haven. , The American Oryan, published at Washington . city, in its issne of the22d instant, contains a sy nopsis of a speech of Mr. Haves, at the Club L House, in Buffalo, on the Kansas question. Much weight is due to Mr. Haven’s remarks, when we remember that he is Mr. Filluore’s law partner— ii his confidential friend—lives in Buffalo, where Mr. Fillmore resides—is in daily intercourse with him, and is doing everything in his power to ad vance his election. Mr. H. said: " He would not discuss the admitted fact that all the present excitement grew oat of the Kansas- Nebraska bill. No man had opposed the repeal of ; the Missouri Compromise more strongly than he • h* had always considered it a wicked and wanton disturbance of a time-honored compact.” This decUratien only shows his accordance with Mr. Fillmorr's views npon the same subject, both being opposed to a measure which restores the South to a position of equality in the Union. Again, Mr. H. said : “For himself, he held thst Congress could exer cise severe sovereignty over the Territories, and could legislate slavery into or out of them, while it could not interfere in a State. He recognized the power of Congress, but not the power of a ter ritory to govern itself independently of the appro bation of Congress." In this, he exhibited his accordance with Mr. Fillmorr's known and indisputable claim of pow er in Congress, not only to legislate slavery into, but out oi the territories. We have often shown whaMir. Fillmorr’s opinions are, and need not repeat them now. We ask our readers to mark Mr. Haven's language. lie does not merely say that Congress has the power to exclude slavery from the territories, but to legislate it out of them. This is a significant declaration. Slavery now exists in Kansas. Constituted as the House of Representatives now is, the Black Republicans and Fillmorr men in that body would deny ad mission to Kansas as ti slave State. Who doubts, that hut for the Democratic majority in the Sen ate, Congress would drive slavery from that terri tory by legislation. In two years more the fa natics of tho North may get the ascendency in the Senate. Were Mr. Fillmorr President, could he veto a bill to exclude slavery, admitting as lie does the constitutional power, and pledged as he is not to veto any act which Congress can rightfully pass. Mr. llanrn says further, alluding to the Congressional investigating committee: “That Committee was sent to Kansas because , the Americans in the House forced the Kepubli- | cans to send it there. Their report proves beyond ] controversy that the present legislature is an , usurpation, imposed upon the people of Kansus j by violence and fraud. So far he agreed with the | Republicans." It turns out then, according to Mr. Haven, who ilia member of Congress, that the Americans or Fillmore men in the House forced the Block Re publicans to tend it there. They were more Re publican than the Republicans themselves. The report of the committee proved no such thing as 1 Mr. Haven assert*. But if he believes it—if his | party thinks os he does, they will be bound by , every source of public duty, by their oaths of of- 1 flee, to rectify the usurpation, violence and fraud which hus been committed in Kansas. Mr. Haven showed his hatred of slavery, his poisonous ma- , lignity and utter disregard of right and justice, by i voting to expel General Wurmii.n from his seat 1 as delegate from Kansas, when he received twen ty-two hundred and fifty-eight votes against three , hundred and twenty seven which were cast for all other candidates, and when the investigations of 1 the committee did not show that there S'as any violence at the election, or that one hundred illc- , gul votes were cast in the territory. Alluding to i Gov. Reeder and some others, he said: “ Let those trust them who choose—be would prefer Mr. Pomeroy to take charge of his money, for he was an honest man." Mr. Haven is willing to subscribe money to aid the free State men in their lawless butcheries, but he wants to put it in the hands of honest men who will appropriate it fairly. Mr. Pomerot maybe an honest man, but be has been represented bv pel sons from Kansas as a "free love" man and one of the bitterest enemies of the South and of the institutions of slavery among all the actors in the civil war drama that hus occurred iu that ter ritory. There are some other points in Mr. Ha vin'* speech which we might notice, but other ' matters demand our attention, and we pass them. , We have noticed it at all, only, because of his in- I timate personal and political relationship with Mr. Fillmore. We deem the vote to expel General Whitfield to be an insult to the South, and un 1 outrage in legislation never excelled for its injus- i tice and enormity. There was not a shadow of a i shade of reasou to justify it. It was perpetrated ] by might against right, in accordance with the < form of the Constitution, it is true, but in utter i disregard of it* spirit and intention. What we > have said exhibit* a pretty fair portrait of Mr. ] Havas’* character for political fairness, but, in conclusion, we will give another truthful touch to i the picture, by stating that he voted in his place ! for Mr. Dunn’s amendment to the House bill for , the admission of Kansas with the Missouri re- ! striction ivstored, and which set free the blacks in i the territory, if not removed in twelve months as- i ter the passage of the bill. So much for this law i partner and bosom friend of the Hon. Millard Fillmokk. I Crrat Cry and l.itlle Wool. The Fkkhont Freedom Shriekers and Kili.more Enthusiast*, have been harping upon the great triumph recently in Maine. A shower bath of facts will cool their shrieks and enthusiasm. From Greeley's Almanac we take the result of the elec tions in 1554, and from the recent elections we make the comparison. Republican majoritT in 1956 19,861 “ “ ' in 1954 19.599 Tremendous gain of 26S •• An inlelligeut gentleman, a resident of Georgia, informs us that that Slate is certain for Filimore and Douclson. He thinks there cannot be a shade of doubt as to the correctness of his judgment. Keep the bail moving. Cwt/anoihij Oatetie, Sept. 27. Mr. A. R. Wriobt, Kuow Nothing, declared in u speech at the Planter's Hotel, in this city, on Friday mght lost, that Fillmore would obtain the electoral vote of this State by 6,581 majority. We give it as our opinion that Mr. Wric.ut is very much mistaken in his estimate, and we do not know a single gentleman of the Know Nothing party who has sufficient confidence in Mr. Wright s judgment to haxard any amount of money upon it. They all consider him "an intelligent gentleman, a resident of Georgia,” but they have such an ex tensive '• shade of doubt as to the correctness of his judgment ” in the result of the election in Georgia, that while they laugh at his jokes, they cannot bet on his judgment It is hardly necessary, but still we do assure our friends in distant States that Georgia will cast her ten electoral vot»* for Buchanan and Besce- IS RIDGE. er Since the nomination of John A. King for Governor, by the Fremont party in New York, the Fillmore Club in Jamaica, Mr. King's residence, has broken up. and the members go for the Repub lican ticket. So says the Rochester Democrat. I-gT* At the New York Know-Nothing Conven tion. which assembled at Rochester on the 2Sd Sept., Mr. Wm. G. Clare, the editor of the Mobile Ala Adrertieer, was present, who made a speech, and is reported to have " pledged the electoral vote of Alabama for Mr. Fillmore." If all the new •• pledges of honor ” with the Know Nothings are worth no more thau this re i puted piedge by Mr. Clara they trill not amount to much. Aflairs in KanMM. Below is an interesting letter from an old and well-known citizen of Augusta, more recentlv a resident of Peufield, Greene county, and for manv years editor of the Temperance Banner. This, with other intelligence from Tariona sources, would convince our readers, if they had previously doubt ed, that on the Freesoil anti-Kansas party of the North rests the blame and the guilt of originating all the bloody horrors which have afflicted Kansas. Since this letter was written, more pacific advices have been received, and under the energetic ad ministration of Gov. Q«aet, seconded by Gen. Peacirca F. Smith, we may hope for the peaceful triumph of the law and order party: Vkrnom Cochtt, Mo., Sept. 11, 18 M, ) Twelve miles from Fort Scott, K. T. f Ms. Editob : I address you from this point, hav ing, in common with nearly all the settlers in the territory, fled with most of my family, to escape the clutches of a ruthless enemy. From my arri val in the territory last April' to within a few weeks past, we have sat " under our own vine and fig tree,” and there were “none to make us afraid.” It is true, however, that ever since the arrival of the celebrated “Investigating Committee,” sent here by Congress, and the unprecedented and ex traordinary <*Burse pursued by a majority of that Committee, we have had apprehensions and mis givings. But we hoped for the best, and our peo ple were pursuing their laudable occupations, with the prospect, from the latter rains, that the earth would yield a lair increase, and that we all, through a kind Providence, would be provided for another year. But a gloom has come over us, and our “ moisture has been turned to the drouth of sum mer.” Our fair territory has been invaded by an armed and worse than savage foe: our friends murdered; our property stolen and plundered; our dwellings burned, and our fields laid waste. I bear witness, Mr. Editor, that since mv arrival in the territory the pro-slavery party, almost with out an exception, hare conducted themselves peace ably ; and, with two exceptions only, have I heard of any acts of insubordination to law and good order by persons professing to be pro-slavery men. It was the universal feeling among us to rely on the ballot box to decide the complexion of the ter ritory-all agreeing to remain in, or remove from the territory according to the result. We were anxious that the bill, introduced and passed by the Senate, should find favor in the House, prefer ring, with all the chances against us by the pro visions of that bill, to meet and decide the ques tion at once, rather than to have delay and sus pense. But our opponent* in Congress and out, chose another course, and about the period of rejecting the bill by the House, our territory is invaded by un armed force, provided with all the necessaries for an aggressive campaign, and without anv dec laration or manifesto of grievances, anv statement of injuries to be repaired, or any great principle in government to be established—the work of murder and plunder is commenced—" we are the advance of the northern armv,” and “a pro-slave ry man shall not remain in the territory," were all that our citizens could leam in regard to objects or aims. And, Mr. Editor, this army, too, from perfectly reliable sources, I am justified in saving, is com posed, about one-half, of the refuse of foreign countries, picked up in the purlieus of Chicago and other northern cities, and the other half of meu of the " baser sort," from the work-houses and penitentiaries of the northern States—all hire lings, to do the dirty work of fanatics and fools. I beg you, Mr. Editor, and also all the other Editors, not only in the South but in all parts of our injured country, to re publish the address signed by Atchison, Doniphan, Stringfellow, and others, us containing a true history of the events that have occurred in our unfortunate territory. A system of lying has been gotten up by Abolition ists, and lying is relied upon to keep up the excite ment and sustain the lawless acts of our enemies. But I want the truth published from one end of our laud to the other, anil the document referred to above should find a place in everv honest paper. But, sir, the work of retribution has been com menced. Ossawattaune, one of the strongholds of the enemy, has been laid waste; aud unless I am totally at fault, Lawrence, (We stronghold), in less than a week from this date, will be among the things that were. A spirit is aroused among our people, that the enemy will rue. Frcesoilers, or Abolitionists and pro-slavcrv men, cannot both occupy this territory in future. TUo events of this territory have pained me to the heart. You, Mr. Editor, have some knowledge of my love to my country —for the whole United States ami territories. There is one consoling thought concerning the depredadators upon our peace and homes—l da not acknowledge our pre sent invaders, as my countrymen—they are the ( refuse of society from other lands as well as our own. I cannot believe that the people of the i North will countenance, aid or abet the movement, i But I have not time to write more. One of my i sons is now in the tented field—two have been, i aud made a narrow escape. You will hear of im- i portant events bv or before the reception of this i hasty article. Besj. Brantlt. i l : 9f~ Quite a number of the Know Nothings in I the .South have been gladly flattering themselves that the wing of their party in New York has fully J endorsed Fillmore uTid Donelson, and will support Erastus Brooks for Governor. They arc sadly de ceived. The great body of the Know Nothings , were represented at the Syracuse Convention, < which nominated John A. Kino for Governor, and ’ Hknrv K. Seldom for Lieutenant Governor. The Black Republican and Know Nothing Con- , ventions met at Syracuse on the same day, the 17th i September. At night the Know Nothings, through < Ambrose Stevens, asked permission of the Black Republicans “to join with their convention in the J cause of freedom.” They were admitted to seats I and allowed the privileges of a full membership in ' the party. ! Some very few of the Know Notbiug Delegates ] bolted, “ as is their custom," but the great body of i that Order are now fully identified with the Fre- i mont and "freedom shriekers” of the State of New York, as well as other free States. V ( tST The grand rally of the Know-Nothings of Burke county, at Waynesboro', on Friday last, turned out to be a complimentary diuner to about two hundred delegates from Richmond county. We understand that a tine barbecue was served up, but there were not enough delegates from Rich mond to eat it up. All speaK in glowing terms of tho dinner, and the speeches delivered, but express wonder at the small number of Know-Nothings in Burke who were ou hand to receive the Richmond delegation. The Value or one Vote. —One vote in the Uni ted States Senate annexed Texas to the United States. Mr. Hanneoan, of Indiana, cast thejvotc. One vote in the Indiana legislature elected Mr. Hannkoan to his place in the Seaate. That rote was east by Madison Marsh, of Stanton county. Mr. Marsu was chosen to the legislature oflndiana by one vote. The Rochester N. Y. 7 democrat relates a case of poisoning by strychnine cured by emetics and chloroform. Three hundred Germans of the town of South • Bend. Indiana, who hitherto intended to vote for Fremont, have abandoned the fortunes of that as pirant, and hoisted a Buchanan flag.— Post. Our German fellow-citizens do not remain long under the black tiag of the Abolitionists. The X. Y. Pa i,'y Xeies savs: "An entire German Fremont club marched out of their headquarters a few days since aud joined a good old-fashioned democratic Buck aud Breck club, leaving their paid officers and paid speakers to whistle for an audience. No intelligent German ■ votes for Fremont and disunion." Jesse Walkee. of Barnwell district, was killed by a yellow boy, on Thursday last. The murder was committed on Hollow Creek, about nine miles southeast of Aiken. So says the Barn well Sentinel- _ New Orleans, Sept. 28.—The sales of Cotton for the week have been SI AX' bales—Middling 1 llttf to 11cents. Stock 55.000 bales. The de crease on receipts as compared with last year is 47,000 bales. Sales yesterday 3,100 bales. ’ Coffee 10H all cents. Stock 57,000 bags. Tobacco ad vanced t\ on account of the early frost. An ac i tive business is doing in Freights. Sterling Ex change 9 S' Election Tickets. We are prepared to fill orders for the Democra tic Electoral Ticket at 50 cents per hundred ; |2 for 500; or $3 per thousand. Distant counties will do well to provide a supply in time. Send in your orders. Buchanan and Breckinridge Meetings. Thomas W. Thomas, Esq., will address the peo ple of Scriven county, at Sylvania, Thursday, October 2d. Jefferson county, at Louisville, Satur day, October 4th. The public are respectfully invited to attend. Our friends must bear in mind, that at the election in Pennsylvania, on the 14th of October, the Democratic party is engaged in a contest with the united force* of the Black Republicans and Know Nothing Fillmore men. We feel sat isfied that Democracy will defeat the united cohorts, but in the event of our defeat, the people will re. member the unholy combination—the cordial union of the friends of the “model President” and the Abolition candidate John C. F rkmoxt —that co-op erated to effect our defeat. If Fkhmont and Fili.merm men so readily frater nize nou>, what may we not expect, in case the elec tion for President is thrown into the House of Representatives V Nothing less than the election of John C. Frbmont. The election for Mayor and members of Council in Baltimore, Maryland, takes place on Wednesday the Bth October. At tbc State elections in Maryland last Novem ber, the Know Nothing majority in Baltimore was about six hundred. We shall look with some confidence, for a Democratic triumph at the municipal election in Baltimore, although our Know Nothing friends will be sadly disappointed to hear it. Stock or Cotton at Liverpool. —The New Orleans Crescent says, from all the information before us we gather that the stock of cotton in Liverpool is not so large by one hundred thou sand to one hundredand twenty-five thousand bales as the circulars make it appear. This discrepcncy arises from cotton which is purchased on this side for spinner’s account being taken from the ship’s side by carriers direct to the factories, aud being reported on arrival and added to thestockon hand, but not deducted from the stock on going into cor, sumption—spinners forbidding their carriers from reporting cotton so taken. A Candid Admission. — The New York Cummer cial Advertieer (opposition) makes the following candid admission: “If Mr. Fillmore cannot be elected, it is equally certain that Mr. Fremont can not. Not a southern State will give him an elec toral vote; and no one will seriously maintain that he is sure of California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, among the free States.” Frost on the Tobacco. —We learn from the Danville papers that the Tobacco crop was very severely injured by the frost of Tuesday night. The liepiMican has not heard so much of the damage produced Wednesnay night, but presumes that the amount of good and ripe tobacco, saved in that fine manufacturing section, will be com paratively small. A charter election was held in Washington, Da- i vies county, Indiana, lately, which resulted in the j success of the entire Democratic ticket. In 1854 t it gave the Black Republicans over two hundred ) majority. Judge Wm. Gs- Perkins, a prominent old line Whig, in South-western Georgia, has written a letter to Mr. S. P. Allison, and others, in which , he pledges himself unequivocally to the support of j Buchanan and Brkckinkidiie, ■ Affair ol Honor in Charleston. 1 The Charleston Standard, of Tuesday, 30th 1 ult., says: 1 “An Av kaiii of Honor. —An affair of honor oc- * curved last evening in the vicinity of this city, be tween Wm. R. Taber, Jr., Esq., one of the editors of the Mercury, aud Edward Magrath, Esq., in ] which the former was mortally wounded, and died , an hour after. The difficulty originated from the publication of articles in the Mercury, in reference 1 to the Hon. A. G. Magrath. Satisfaction was de manded by the brother, and a meeting took place as we have mentioned. Difficulties continued in , the wav of an adjustment, and Mr. Tabor fell at . the third tire, the ball taking effect in his head. The weapons were pistols, and the distance ten ‘ paces.” ’ The Charleston Mercury comes to us in mourn- i ing, on the occasion of the death of Mr. Taber. 1 That paper says: < Death of William R. Taber, Jr.— lt is our duty i to announce the death of William R. Taber, Jr!, , one of the Editors of this paper, who fell yester- . day afternoon, at the third fire, in a duel with Ed ward Magrath, Esq., in consequence of the per- 1 emptory challenge of the latter for the publica- ' tion of alleged offensive matter m this paper, the , author of which was not called for. The commu- j ideation complained of, had reference to the can didacy for Congress of Hon. A. G. Magrath. 1 It is not now that we are called upon to j pursue the merits of the question involved. In the presence of death —the death of one who has been intimately associated with us for years, and who breathed as true a heart as ever beat on the soil of Carolina—we bow our heads in sorrow and in suffering, and pass by all considerations of par ty conflict, in the sense that we have lost a friend, true and tried, and a brother in the hard duties that make up our connection with the public life. It will not be easy to find a braver and more self saoriticing spirit—it will not be often that the community will be called upon to mourn over the extinction'of a more brilliant and generous in tellect. _ Giving np the Race in Time. The New Y'ork Tribune, a Fremont paper, o •27th Sept., thus paves the way to receive the glo rious thrashing that the Democracy will inflict up on the isms in November. “We do not wish our readers to believe the elec tion of Fremout a fixed fact. We do not ourselves believe it, and should not desire to diffuse the im pression if we did. We wish it generally under stood that the struggle is arduous, and that the re sult depends on work vet to be done. In spite of manv cheering assurances, we consider the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and California still doubtful. An Eloovent Tribcte. —The following tribute from a neutral paper, the New Y'ork Sun, is well deserved aud truthful. We commend it specially to the attention of young men : " The present position of the Democratic party is truly a proud one. Whatever of moral power has marked its past history and brilliant triumphs, it has been reserved for the present period to in vest its sublime principles with everv combination of beautv and excellence. Hitherto opposed by a powerful and natural antagonism imbody ing an ele vated and dignified hostility, well organized and led bv exalted talent and patriotism, it is now vir tually, even by this old enemy, recognised as the partv of the country, against which they can no longer wage conscientious warfare. There is no longer a Whig party ! This is, indeed, a tribute to the Democratic party, which the most enthusi astic of its disciples could uever have anticipated. It is. in truth, a wonderful admission of the purity of its creed aud the pressings of its tendencies by that powerful party that long combatted both its men and measures." Let the South Look at It.—ln Pennsylvania, the Fillmore party are urged to support a Fre mont State ticket in Octobev, a portion will do so i —another will uot. In Ne w Jersey the two par i ties profess the greatest hostility to each other, . vet they fraternally unite upon a candidate for "Governor, members of Congress, Legislature, Ac. What ought the South to do in view of all these important facts 5 Support Mr. Fillmore, and thereby indirectly sujr.por: Fremont? The ques ’ tion is for them to deride.— P^nnsylraniar.. - A Datn-ri LAi k air.— lYle publishers of Mrs. » Stowe's new Abolition novel, “ Dred," expect- t > ed to sell twenty-five thousand copies at the - recent trade sal*.-. ' They made out to dispose of - three hundred, all told. ’ The Abolition novel bu - siness has evidently collapsed, and "Dred" is a dred-ful failure.—-V" F. Pay Book. A Card. The public, I feel assured, will excuse a brief trespass upon their attention, which I am alone induced to make, to substantiate the entire truth of my previous card, every word of which I rc-affirm. The following correspondence is, therefore, sub mitted for consideration. J. W. Jones. Acgcsta, Sept. 26, 1856. Mb. Walter Hopkins— ,Sir: As you were pre sent, (seated within less than six feet of both of us), during the two entire interviews, between J. H. Reilly and myself, in the office of the Chronicle cfc Sentinel, on Saturday the 13th inst.; will you do me the favor to state, whether or not my “Card,” published in the Cmstitutionaliet, of the 24th inst., contains a fair , truthful and impartial report of the substance of those interviews ? Very respectfully, J. W. Jones. Acgcsta, Sept. 26th, 1856. J. W. Jones, Esq.— Sir: In reply to your enqui ry, whether your "card” published in the Consti tutionalist, of the 24th inst., contains a fair, truth ful and impartial report of the substance of the two entire interviews, between yourself and Mr. J. H. Reilly, in my presence, on the morning of the 13th inst., I beg distinctly to aver, that in •very raped the card is fair, truthful and impartial I make this statement with the more confidence and deliberation, because I was the writer of the paragraph to which Mr. Reilly’s friend had taken exception, as I instantly avowed during the inter views in question, and consequently I listened to the conversation with a personal interest. Very respccfully, Walter Hopkjns. A Card. The public will, I feel confident, excuse a further trespass, as my position requires me to rc-afirm my statement of the 26th instant. The card of J. W. Jones contained an error, which I felt it my duty to correct, and did so in a respectful manner. Hold ing that it is common for men to err, and honestly err, in statements, but when that error is persisted in, after the fact is known, it then becomes a wilful falsehood, and in no other light can I regard the re-alirmation of Mr. Jones’ statement. I feel too much confidence in a discriminating public to sup pose for one moment that Mr. Jones’ falsehood can get any support from the corroboration of an un known hireling, who, according to his own show ing, was the original cause of aggrievance, (which did not excuse Mr. Jones from an explanation,) therefore had that inducement to sustain the pre varication. He had nothing to lose in this com munity, as he left it a few hours after he signed his letter. I wish the public to review the letter. The one from Mr. Jones to Hopkins is a direct and leading question, by which the desired answer is put into his mouth—in other words, a pill prepared by Mr. Jones and swullowed by JlorKixs, without any knowledge of the ingredients. What Mr. Jones’ object in raising an issue of veracity between us, or in denying the truth of my statement, I cannot foresee, unless his dormant courage has been strung into a pseudo existence ' by the merited severity of Col. Snead’s note, and lie wishesto hide his “feather” behind a falsehood, ' as his brother’s membership to a church can no 1 longer cloak linn. With this communication I 1 will, for my part, dismiss the attention of the j public from a further investigation; at the same time pronouncing the re-affirmation of Mr. Jones a i known, wilful, unmitigated falsehood. John D. Hkh.lv. Augusta, Sept. 27th, 1836. telegraph dispatch to the New York lkrald from Trenton, New Jersey, of 23rd inst., states that “ the Convention of Republicans and Americans * in the Second Congressional district of New Jersey ' have nominated George R. Robbins for Congress, by acclamation. The Convention was held at Bordentown, and was very harmonious and en thusiastic.” The Hon. Robt. Toombs, in a letter to Hon B. F. Hali.lt, in Boston, denies that he ever said 1 “the time would come when he would call the ' roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill.” The Southern min who spoke at the Pennsyl vania Meeting. —While the gallant Bigler, says 1 the I’ennsylcanian, is absent lighting the battles , of the Constitution in Middle Pennsylvania, and j w.aie J. Glancy Jones was speaking in Union county in the same great cause, it was glorious to know that in the great city of Philadelphia, the cause of true liberty has been defended by the southern , men. We are glad to greet them! The foul mouthed traitors of the opposite press taunt us that to too many of our meetings the southern Democra cy are represented. Where else, in God’s name, would they go! They are driven out from all other meetings. Where else would they go ? Shall it be said that the sons of the soil of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun and Clay, have no place in the North in which they may speak their honest thoughts? No, never ! Welcome, thrice welcome to our hearths and our hearts, Preston, Os Kentucky, Lowe and Stuart, of Maryland, Flotd, of Virginia, Cobb and Johnson, of Georgia, Chcrchwell, *of Tennessee, Meade, of Virginia, Riddle, of Delaware, welcome one and all; we are glad and grateful that you are of us and among us! * The Evansville, Indiana, Express says: “ The fusion or‘People’s’ State ticket is composed en tirely of Fremont or Abolition men, and the whole Congressional ticket opposed to the Democracy, is made up of Fremont men—not a Fillmore man on either ticket. Another Lie Nailed.—Got. Floyd, of Virginia, publishes a card in the Washington Star, denying that he had offered to Mr. Fremont the nomina tion of the Cincinnati Convention. A Novel in a few Lines.— Miss Margaret L. Cooper, of Covington, La., had a lover whom her friends threatened to shoot; so she dressed her self in boy’s clothes and travelled all the way alone to Monticello, Mississippi, where she met and mar ried him, and his name is John Rogers. Justly Punished.— ln a recent trial of the Che nango (N. Y.) Circuit, Miss H. D. Dunham re covered a verdict of SSOO against Samuel K. Wiley, for libel, contained inaTaleutinewhich he sent her through the post office. A Novel Ball Room. —A Hamburg correspon dent of a Loudon paper writes that although the rent paid by the British Ambassador for his hotel during the coronation at Moscow is thirty thou sand dollars a month, the house did not contain an apartment large enough for a ball room; and that for another hotel, which did contain one of sufficient dimensions, the monthly rent demanded was so exorbitant that a saloon of iron covered i with glass was to be sent to Moscow from Eng land, about two thousand miles distant. If we needed additional stimulus to exer ] tion in the good cause of which Buchanan and . Breckinridge are the exponents, it is supplied bv . an incident which is expressed in the following ‘ brief note sent us by a lady of this city: j “ Mr. Gardner : I send vou two feathers taken . from the wing of the “ Washington Eagle ” to | write Democratic and anti-Know Nothingarticles “ Respectfullr vour friend. * “ Augusta, Sept. 25th.‘"' The feathers accompanying this note are large * and fine, and will make pens well adapted for the j noble purpose to which they shall be consecrated. . May inspirations descend upon them worthy the i sublime and patriotic associations thus brought to miad. From tlce Atlanta Ecaminer, Sept. 27. “Rome, Thou Hast Lost the Breed ot Noble Blood.” ■ Every honorable man, no matter to which party in the South he may belong, must feel deeply mor tified at the necessity which has forced the' aged lady, whose letter we publish below, to appear be fore the American public in defense of her son. It is already known to our readers that James B. Clay, the son of Henry Clay, in the exercise of a freeman’s right, has not only declared his deter - mination to vote for Buchanan and Breckinridge, but, urgently solicited to do so, has addressed his fellow citizens, on several occasions, in Kentucky, ' giving to them his reasons “ for the faith that is in him.” For this he has been pursued by the Louisville Journal, and other reckless Know Noth ing papers, with a malignity unparalleled in the annals of political warfare or of personal detrac tion. His respected and aged mother, the widow of him whose bones now lie mouldering at Ash land ; and whose trumpet tones so recently rallied the old Whig party to save the Union; mortified and distressed at the base slanders heaped upon her son, in the discharge of a mother’s duty, has felt herself called upon to address the executors of her late husband on the subject, and has fully vin dicated her son. But, to what degradation" have they descended, who have forced this task upon the widow of Henry Clay ? The “ breed of noble blood” among the leaders of Know Nothingism in Kentucky, must indeed be spoken of as having existed only in the past, when from her retiramenf, the widow of Henry Clay is dragged, to defend her son. But were we to fill our columns with comments on the atrocious conduct of a press that has called forth the letter referred to, we are satisfied that we could not add to the indignation which every hon orable man will feel on reading Mrs. Clay’s letter. We shall therefore give it to the reader, observing only that we have taken it from the Nashville Union and American, in which paper we first saw it. LETTER OF THE WIFE OF HENRY CLAY. September 18,1855. To Judge Thomas A. Marshall and Jos. O. Uarri ton, Esg. Gentlemen: Having seen from time to time the most abusive and unjust attacks made upon my son, James B. Clay, in the Louisville Journal, I had hoped that among the many who had profess ed to be the friends or the father, might be found some willing and anxions to vindicate the son, knowing as many of them must know, the injus tice and untruth'contained in those attacks. But as such hopes appear to be fruitless, repugnant as it is to me to appear in any way before the public, I feel that it is a duty that I o’we to the memory of my husband to say to you, his executors, and through you to the public, that the charges made against my son James are utterly and unqualifiedly false ; that he possessed the love, respect and con fidence of his father, and was ever to both his father aud myself a most affectionate and dutiful son, always endeavoring to alleviate our sorrows and add to our happiness. His father took his advice in the making of his last will, and at all times advised and consulted freely and affectionately with him, having confi dence in his love, integrity and judgment. He was not with his father at the time of his death, it being the expressed desired of his father, know ing the condition of his family—in a distant State, upon a new place, among strangers, and his wife in feeble health, herself but lately bereaved of a father—that he should not leave them and go to him. He was present at his father’s funeral, directing the mournful preparation, and offering words of consolation and of comfort to his widowed mother. It was my husband’s desire and hope that his son, James, should be the possessor of Ashland, and al though it had been my intention to reside at Ash land during my life-time, yet partly owing to the tumbling, ruinous condition of the house, through one of you, Mr. James O. Harrison, I begged my son to come on at once and purchase the place. I have only to add, gentlemen, that I make this statement to you without the knowledge of my son, James, and to regret once more that I should have been drawn forth from the privacy and seclu sion in whieh I had hoped to pass the brief rem nant of my life. Yours, very truly, Ldceetia Clay. The following letter from a well informed and intelligent gentleman now in Washington city, will be read with interest: National Democratic Exec. Com. Rooms, 1 Washington, D. C., Sept. 22, 1858. 1 To the Editors of The Xew York Daily Xesrs: I notice in yesterday’s issue of the New York Herald a “leader” on the probable result of the Presidential election. Having all the information which the National Committee possess: having had access to all their correspondence, I desire to say that there is not a shadow of foundation for the conclusion of the Herald's leader. I am satisfied that Fremont is a “ dead cock in the pit,” beyond the hope of resuscitation; and I make this assertion upon better, more reliable and truthful data than such a paper, edited by such a man, could possibly obtain. I have seen letters from every county and nearly every township, and I tell you, and through you the country, that if there is truth in man, Pennsylvania will cast her vote tor the Democratic ticket in October next by ten to twenty thousand majority. The majority at the Presidential election will more than double this. We have advices from Illinois which settle the question in our favor. One of our friends I saw here to-day, who says that he will het on Illinois giving a larger proportionate majority for the Democratic ticket than any State in the tJnion. Bets are freely offered here on Pennsylvania, New Jersey, on Illinois and Indiana, and no takers. The Fremonters are badly frightened; as an evidence of this, we hear that a letter was read at Woodstock, Vermont, from Tbadeus Stephens, of Pennsylvania, in which he sorrows over the cer tain defeat of the Fusionists in that State. And yet Speaker Banks says, that Pennsylvania is as sure for Fremont as Massachusetts." Bah ! What a transparent braggart! I dare Mr. 8., or any of his friends, to bet on it. The truth is, in their desperation over the cer tainty of defeat, the Fremonters are making “ninnies” of themselves, and the Herald by fol lowing the lead of Wood, Banks, Webb A Co., is likely to be named in the same grani vermis class of animals in which he has so truthfully placed your fighting preacher, Beecher. Our count here is that the Democrats are dead sure to carry the following States: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, In diana, Illinois and Michigan, of the free Stales, and the vote of every southern State; this elects. But we go further, and confidently believe, from the present favorahle turn of events, that we shall carry Connecticut, New Hampshire, Ohio and Wisconsin ? What says the Herald to this ? Will he bet on Pennsylvania, or Illinois, or Indiana, or New Jersey, and how much? Yours truly, » One Who Knows. Another Abolition Lie Nailed. Hon. B. F. Hallet, of Boston, recently wrote to Senator Toombs to inquire the truth of an Aboli tion story that has been repeated ten thousand times in northern disunion sectional journals. The reply is as follows: Washington, 6a., Sept. 7, 1556. Hear Sir: I received vour letter of the 29th ult., yesterday. There is not one word of truth in the charge of the Abolitionists, that in some speech I made somewhere, I said that “ the time would come when I would call the roll of my slaves on Bunker Hill.” I have seen it done up in various forms by the Abolition press and speakers for the last twelve months, and I suppose I have answered, within that time, a score of letters from friends on the subject. I have two or three others, besides yours, before me at this time. I saw the same charge in the report of a speech said to have been made by Dr. Wayland, in Providence, Rhode Isl i and, and my first impression was to write him a 1 letter correcting it, but on reflection I concluded. [. that a person of his standing and attainments,. who would appropriate fatherless newspaper false - 1 hoods to the vile use of misleading his countzy l men, was not entitled to that courtesy from me. I am, very respectfully, yours, R. Tooiass. Hon. B. F. Hallet, Boston. The above letter proves how ignorant the north ern people are, who read nothing but Abolition papers. Now, the Rev. I)r. Wayland would not r have made the assertion he did, had he nathonest , lv believed it true. The fact is, the abewe lie has been repeated by the New York Tribune and other vile journals so often, that half of the northern 1 people really believe it, and now, though it is era -3 phaticallv contradicted, not one of them will allow their readers to see the denial. If justice do not eventually get the villains who thus delude the i people, then has she fled from earth. The Fillmore Know Nothings of Pbila e delphia consider it an evidence of insanity to op pose the union in that State of the Bla k Repub licans and Know Nothings. Hence, i have de clared Mr. Lewis C. Levin insane.
