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BY JAMES GARDNER.
Hon. Edward Everett on Slavery.
We clip from an exchange the following extract,
aken from a speech delivered by Mr. Everett in
Congress, in 1826, in reply to resolutions intro
duced by Mr. McDuffie, to change the manner of
electing the Presidential Electors. The extract
embodies, in a small compass, a strong argument
in favor of our institutions, and proves its author
to have been thoroughly imbued with the true
spirit of our Government:
“ Having touched on this point, I ought, per
haps, to add, that if there are any members in this
House of that class of politicians to whom the gen
tleman from North Carolina, (Mr. Saunders,) al
luded, as having the disposition, though not the
power, to disturb the compromise contained in the
Constitution on this point, I am not of the num
ber. Neither am I one of those citizens of the
North, to whom another honorable member lately
referred, in a publication to which his name was
subscribed, who would think it immoral and irre
ligious to join in putting down a servile insurrec
tion at the South. lam no soldier, sir; my habits
and education are very unmilitary; but there is
no cause m which 1 would sooner buckle a knap
sack to my back, and put a musket on my shoul
der, than that. I would cede the whole continent
to any one who would take it—to England, to
France, to Spain; I would see it sunk in the bot
tom of the ocean, before I would see any part of
this fair America converted into a continental
Hayti, by that awful process of bloodshed and
desolation, by which alone such a catastrophe
could be brought on. The great relation of servi
tude, in some form or other, with greater or less
departures from the theoretic equality of man, is
inseparable from our nature. I know of no way by
which the form of this servitude shall be fixed but
by political institution. Domestic slavery, though
I confess not that form of servitude which seems
to be most beneficial to the master—certainly not
that which is most beneficial to the slave—is not,
in my judgment, to be set down as an immoral
and irreligious relation. I cannot admit that re
ligion has but one voice to the slave, and that this
voice is, ‘Rise against your master.’ No, sir, the
New Testament says, ‘Slaves obey your master;’
and though I know full well, that in the benignant
operation of Christianity, which gathered master
and slave around the same communion table, this
unfortunate institution disappeared in Europe, yet
I cannot admit that, while it subsists, and where
it subsists, its duties are not pre-supposed and
sanctioned by religion. And though I certainly
am not called upon to meet the charges brought
against this institution, vet truth obliges me to say
a word more on the subject. 1 know the condi
tion of the working classes in other countries; I
am intimately acquainted with it in some other
countries, and 1 have no hesitation in saying, that
I believe the slaves in this country are better
clothed aud fed, and less hardly worked, than the
peasantry of some of the most prosperous
of the continent of Europe. Consider the rneiks
on population; read Malthas. w*-,,.
Ifttion down ? Po. rty> wftnt>
hnu all the ills of life ; it is these that check pop
ulation all orer the world. Now, the slave popula
tion in the United States increases faster than the
white, masters included. What is the inference
as to the physical condition of the two classes of
society? These are opinions l have long enter
tained, and long since publicly professed on this
subject, and which I he e repeat, in answer to the
intimations to which \ have already alluded.”
The California Fugitive Slave Case.
TLe newspapers brought by the Moses Taylor,
at New York, contain some further points of news
m regard to the negro man Archy, the fugitive
sider Sly euiplcyeif in this matter. The Alta Cali
itian says:
“ It Will be recollected that after protracted legal
proceedings in the State Courts, the ncjjro was
given up to his master by a decree of the Supreme
Court. Stovall attempted then to carry off his
slave by the steamer of March sth, but was pre
vented by a writ of habeas corpus, issued by Judge
Freelon, of the Court of Sessions of San Fran
cisco. The proceedings under the writ were pro
longed sevprul days, and terminated by the negro
being set at liberty. Uefore he could leave the
Court room, however, he was re-arrested bv au
thority of a process from a United States Com
missioner, issued under the fugitive slavo act.
Since this time the Commissioner, George Pen
Johnston, has been busy, nearly every day, hear
ing evidence and argument in the case.
"«C. A. Stovall himself deft for Mississippi on
the steamer of the 20th March. He has a brother
here, howeyer, aßd regular agents, who represent
him. It is now alleged that Archy is a fugitive
from justice, he having stabbed a white man in
Mississippi and fled : and that his master, in cross
ing the plains, on his way to California for bis
health, came up with his runaway slave, and re
took possession of him ; and his bringing him to
California was necessary, in order to get him back
home. It is supposed that Stovall will procure
from the authorities of Mississippi a requisition
for Archy, and that he will be taken back rather
as an escaped criminal than fugitive slave.”
Edwin Forest’s Conversion-Character
istic Fetter.
The report that Edwin- Forrksv, the actor, had
been converted in the religious revival, called out
a letter irom a clerical friend, (the Bev. Dr. E. L.
Magoox, of Albany,) full of fervent sympathy and
expressions of esteem. To that letter, this, from
Mr. Foiirkst, is a reply :
“ Philadelphia, March 27, 1858.
“ I have much pleasure in the receipt of yours
of the 23rd inst.
“ While. I thank you and Mrs. with all my
heart for the kind hope you have expressed, that
the recent rumor with regard to my highest wel
fare mat be true, I am constrained to say, that
rumor is in this, as in most matters which pertain
to me, most pitifully in error—there is not one
word of truth id it.
"But in answer to your questions, my good friend
—for 1 know yon are animated only by a sincere
regard for my spiritual as well as for my temporal
welfare—l am happy to assure you that the pain
ful attack of iufl»nnatory rheumatism, with which
for the last three months i have combatted, is now
quite overcome, and I think I may safely say.
that with the return of more genial weather, 1
shall be restored once more to a sound and pristine
health. „ . , - J .1
“ Then, for the state of my mind: Ido not know
the time, since, when a boy, I blew sportive blad
ders in the beamy sun, that it was ever so tranquil
and serene as in the present hour. Having profit
ed by the leisure given me by my lengthened ill
ness seriously to review the past and carefully
consider the future, both for time and for eternity,
I have, with a chastened spirit, beheld with many
regrets, that there was much in the past that
might have been improved; more, perhaps, in the
acts of OBiissiun than in acts of commission, for
I {eel sustained that my whole conduct has been
actuated solely by an honest desire to adhere strict
ly to the rule of right; that the past has been
characterised, as I trust the future will be, to love
my friends, to hate my enemies—for I cannot be
a hypocrite—and to live in accordance with the
Divine precept. ‘As ye would that men should do
to you, do je also to them likewise.’
« And now for that ‘ higher welfare,’ of which
you speak: I can only say that believing, as I sin
cerely do, in the justice, the mercy, the wisdom,
and the love of Him who knoweth the secrets ot
our hearts, I hope I may, with
• An unfaltering trust, approach my grave.
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams/
“ Hoping you are in the enjoyment of good
health, and that you still prosper in the * good
work,’ which to you I know is a labor of love,
“ lam your friend, Edwin Forrest.”
Mr. James Larey, of this county, had his house,
kitchen, and smoke house, entirely consumed bv
fire on Friday last, with all of his furniture, meat,
Ac. It is supposed that a child set fire to a bed
in a room adjoining which a number of women
were engaged in quilting. It seems they did not
have presence of mind enough to save anything.
* Sparta Georgian, April 28.
Speculations as to Results.
j A correspondent of the Savannah Republican
thus refers to one of the probable results which
will follow from the continued suspension of the
banks m South Carolina :
“ Augusta is a point which must exert a very
great influence upon Charleston, as the busi
ness of the former has usually flowed into her lap;
and though I regret, as a Georgian, to say it, there
seems to be more good feeling existing between
those two cities, than between Savannah and Au
gusta. This position must be changed now, at
least until the Charleston banks resume. No one
can fail to comprehend the plan the Augusta banks
will follow. They certainly will not take bills on
Charleston, because they will issue for them their
own notes, redeemable in specie, and receive in
Charleston, at maturity, current funds. Is it not
plain, then, that Charleston will not receive her pro
portion of the cotton remaining in Augusta, and
that she thereby lose more money than she will
make by suspension ? The result seems to us per
fectly clear that Savannah is to reap a harvest by
the continued suspension of the Carolina banks,
and I, for one, will rejoice to see them continue in
their present state till forced out of it by legisla
tion.
We may casually remark to the correspondent
of the Republican, that cotton is not moved for
ward to market by contributions to newspapers.
If the shippers and commission merchants of Sa
vannah expect to “reap a harvest” from Augusta,
they must send up their orders for cotton. While
there is a stock of about twenty thousand bales
it is in the hands of men who know how to sell it*
and we have among us purchasers who are expe
rienced and know where to ship it.
.Sentenced.
J. Dailey and Pat’k. Murphy were sentenced to
hard labor in the Louisiana penitentiary, for life,
by Judge Hunt, of the First District Court, in
New Orleans. The former was convicted of the
murder of Giuskppi Zazzi, an organ grinder, and
the latter of Lorenzo Dow, a free n gro. In deliv
ering his sentence, the Judge made the following
allusion to the practice of carrying concealed
weapons:
“ This is a practice that is condemned by the
law and by every consideration of justice, honor,
and humanity. There is no peace or safety for the
good man in any society in which it prevails. It
emboldens the coward to be unmannerly and in
sulting ; and the difficulties to which it thus gives
rise, subjects the brave and linarmed man to the
knife or pistol of the armed and cowardly assassin.
“ The practice is still mere fatal to the *>eacc and
happiness of society, when it is adopted 'by heed
icss and inconsffierate youth. It leads to wanton
mischief, to frivolous und foolish quarrels, and to
bloodshed and ruin.”
fg" We find the following items in the Mem
phis Appeal , of the 28th instant:
The River. —The river is now a grand object as
it sweeps round the bluffs, its majestic volume is
worthy of the fame of the mighty father of waters.
The rise during the last twenty-four hours was five
inches. The surface is stated to be Rix inches
above the last rise and within two inches of the
rise of 1850. Parties up the river state that the
Arkansas is now pouring out a heavier flood than
it has done before during the present season.
Skiffs are now purchasing in this city for the use
of places below.
Froet. —There waa quite a sprinkling of this ar
ticle to be observed yesterday morning, on such
na^T.;,rrTrtrfi^
much damaged, if not ruined, by the untrurery
visitation ; and the probability is, that the young
cotton, which has just made its appearance above
the earth, is totally destroyed, which will impose
the necessity of a secondplanting. The fruit was
not materially injured. The results will be more
definitely known to-morrow.
Prediction. —lt is predicted that the washing out
of the bottoms by the flood will be productive of a
healthful season.
Lott. —Below the navy yard the line ot the bank
is obliterated, and the flood extends to the bluft’
below the jail. The boundaries of Wolf river are
indistinguishable.
TLere is no paper upon our long list of ex
changes which we read with more pleasure or to
whose opinion upon any question affecting south
ern interests we attach more importance than the
South Side Democrat, of Petersburg, Virginia. The
estruct which we subjoin is taken from an article
in its issue of the 29th ult:
“ Our last article on this subject, in Saturday
morning’s issue, will show the temper with which
we approached the proposition of the committee
on conference. That article is of too recent date
to require any further reference than to say that
our prejudices were earnest, nay, almost violent,
against the proposition of the committee. \\lth
all the past before us, itiwas with unconquerable
repugnance that we regarded the ideas of compro
mise and concession. Under the form of compro
mise we had retreated, in the shape of concession
we had surrendered, until our hearts sickened at
iheir recollection, and we saw but this hope of
safety—to nail ourcolors to the mast, and go down,
if we must, without disgrace.
“With such emotions, predominant, we took up
the compromise report. But for two facts, we
should have thrown it away with scorn and con
tempt, when we found that it was not the Senate
bill, pure and simple. Those facts were these:
Ist, That Senator lluater had signed and urged
the report; and 2d, That the Black Republicans,
horse, foot and dragoons, had wheeled into solid
column against it. These alone appealed to an in
stinct stronger than any prejudice, and to which
even the mature conclusion of our own deliberate
judgment, had we formed it, might well yield a
a revision. And so poised between a prejudice and
the instinct of sell-preservation, which led us to
look somewhere else than among the vindictive
and treacherous enemies of our people for the true
ground of the South, we resolved to weigh the
subject in the balance of our own mature aud de
liberate reflection—carefully to compare the Sen
ate bill with the report, on the one hand, and with
the House amendment on the other, and see
how tar it conflicted with either. It was our firm
resolve, that, come what might, we would oppose
it to the bitter end, if it sacrificed one principle or
retreated one inch from the bold position on which
the Democracy and the South had planted them
selves.
“The conclusion to which we arrived was, that
the biU is better for the South and better for the
country than the Senate bill.”
Wonderful Growth of Kansas Cities. —A Kan
sas correspondent, in allusion to the rapid growth
of Kansas, says:
The growth of western cities has always been
quotedj as something marvelous, and this one of
Leavenworth will not fall behind the mo>t marvel
ous accounts of their progress. Less than four
years ago not a building was to be seen on the spot
where now resides at least eight thousand people.
In the space of three years and a half, it has grown
up to its present proportions, and is still increas
ing rapidly. Two daily papers and three weeklies
are published in this city. The various printing
offices are overrun with job work, and business
generally is prosperous. In addition to the pro
gress in the newspaper line, the citizens are pre
paring for the introduction of water into the city,
and also intend lighting it with gas. A great
deal of activity is apparent, arising from the pre
parations being made here for the Utah expedi
tion.
Where Ignorance was not Bliss. —ln Cincin
nati, a few days since, a man who resides within
twelve miles of that city, walked into the Citizens’
Bank for the purpose of obtaining a sum of money
which he had deposited there several years ago.
Imagine his feelings on learning that the bank had
failed six months ago ! He had not even heard of
the panic which recently swept over the country
with such a leveling influence.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1858
The London Times, of the 81st ult., gives
us the following sensible advice in reference to the
Mormon rebellion; “We know that our friends
across the Atlantic are rather restive of advice,
even when it is tendered in the moAt respectful
and conciliatory spirit; but, with this knowledge,
we still cannot refrain from stating that the pro
tracted existence of the Mormon insurrection is a
scandal and a disgrace to the authorities, executive
as well as legislative, of the United States, and
that if steps be not promptly and vigorously taken
to restore the supremacy of the law, a fatal blow
may be struck at the permanency and integrity of
the Union.”
Among the recent items of news in Texas
papers, we notice the following :
Powhattan Irving recently killed Wm. E. How
ard, in Washington county.
A Dr. Thompson murdered J. D. Carr, in Rusk
county.
The grasshoppers are destroying corn and fruit
throughout Texas.
The number of ship-owners in New Or
leans who refused to load Cotton for Liverpool at
a less rate than nine-sixteenths of a penny, was
over sixty. Their demands were complied with
on the 27th April. The advance of the previous
rates was equal to about one dollar per bale.
53?” We notice statements made by Washing
ton correspondents that the Secretary of the Treas
ury is encouraged to believe that the receipts from
customs will be so much increased during the
coming fiscal year that there will be no necessity
for a call upon Congress for an additional issue of
treasury notes.
l&r In a telegraphic dispatch to the editor of
the Atlanta Intelligencer, from the Hon. Lucius J.
Gartrell, it is stated that two southern Democrats
voted against the Kansas compromise bill, on its
passage in the House of Representatives on Friday,
30th May.
accounts from several portions of
the wheat region of Tennessee, state that the recent
frosts and cold weather have not injured the grow
ing vwheat, ‘ilthough fruit and garden vegetables
have been damaged.
Professor E. Gkddings, has resigned from
the chair of Surgery in the Medical College of
South Carolina, at Charleston. Dr. G. has been
connected with that institution for more than
twenty years.
A Broken Leg. — Joseph A. Wood, who had his
leg broken in Quebec twenty-seven ago, the
same leg broken in South Carolina ten years ago,
and iu New Hampshire two years ago, was de
scending the stairs of a hotel in Worcester on the
10th ult., when he slipped and broke it for the
fourth time. After this he concluded to have it
cut off.
Another Bisnop from Trinity Church.— The
Rev. Sullivan H. Weston waa, on the 14th ultimo,
on the first ballot, and by the unanimous vote of
the Episcopal Convention, elected Bishop of Texas,
Mr. Weston is Assistant Minister of Trinity
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last six years.
In Minnesota, they have Sibley “declared” Gov
ernor; Ramsey “elected” Governor; Medary “ap
pointed” Governor; and Chase “acting” Gover
nor.
The Kansas Conference Committee. —The
Washington States thus sums up the complexion
of this body:
On the part of the Senate— J. S. Green, Mo., Le
conipton Democrat; R. M. T. Hunter, Va., Leeomp
ton Democrat; W. H. Seward, N. Y., Republican.
On the part of the House— Wm. H. English, Ind.,
anti-Lecomptou Democrat; A. 11. Stephens, Ga.,
Lecompton Democrat; W. A. Howard, Micb.,
Republican.
Chicago as Seen by an Editor.— The Cleveland
Plain Dealer has lately seen 4 Chicago through pecu
liar spectacles:
Chicago is a bustling city. It was formerly in
Illinois, but now Illinois is in it. Lake Michigan
is situated on Chicago. The principal produc
tions of Chicago are corner lots, statistics, wind,
the Democratic press, and long John Wentworth.
The population of Chicago is about sixteen mil
lions, and is “rapidly increasing.” The people are
very unassuming aud moral—almost too much so.
The real estate dealers are honorable men, like
Puntus, and wouldn’t tell a lie for auvthiug.
Chicago is not in the temperate zone, the habits of
the people not being at all in that way.
A New Dodge. — Postage Stamps. —The Boston
Journal says:
“ An advertisement appeared in one of the city
papers, and has been editorially noticed, inviting
all persons who have cancelled postage stamps to
send them in to a poor boy, who is to cover a
chamber wall with them, and thereby secure from
some eccentric old gentleman an ample fortune.
Perhaps a simpler solution to the question as to
the use to be made of the cancelled stamps may be
found in another process, viz.: that of extracting
the canceling mark of the postmaster, which may
be done by the application of the simplest chemi
cals, so as to ’ ave the stamp as good as new. Un
cle Sara will have to try his hand at some preven
tative process, or his stamps will go the rounds un
til worn out.
The Latest “Great Attraction” in New York.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal , writing
from New York city, says :
“We have a new prodigy in this city in the per
son of a boy preacher. He is about fifteen years
of age. His uame is Crammond Kennedy.' He
is a Baptist, aud belongs to the church ot Rev.
Mr. Adams, on Christopher street. He is a con
vert in the late revival, has already been licensed
to preach by that church, and is just now attract
ing large crowds to hear him. His st} le is vehe
ment; nis sermons have in them much method;
he speaks wholly extemporaneously, and his sys
tem of theology seems to be mature, and after the
school of the’ sounder and more conseivative
schools of the day. He preaches and speaks
nearly every night. His houses are crowded to
overflowing, and for a season he will be the great
attraction of our city.”
The Oceanic Telegraph. —The following is a
copy of a letter recently received at the Navy De
partment, from Capt. W. L. Hudson. It bears
date April 9th IBSP, on board the United States
steamer Niagara, at Plymouth, England:
Sir: I have the honor to report that we have
now coiled away four hundred and seven miles of
telegraphic cable, recently manufactured at Green
wich. It has been decided by the Directors, in
this effort, to lay out the wire, that the Agamemnon
and Niagara shall each carry one thousand f ur
hundred and sixty miles of cable—some two hun
dred miles more in each ship than we had on
board last year.
It affords me great pleasure to slate that our
reception here has been a grateful one, and every
disposition evinced on the part of the Admirality
and Her Majesty’s officers on this station to facili
tate our movements, and render such accommo
dations and aid as may be required for carrying
on our work. I avail myself or this occasion to
state that the officers and crew are iu good health,
notwithstanding the continued raiby and unplea
sant weather we have had since our arrival in
Keyham docks.
Some of the South Carolina Banks.
At the conclusion of an editorial in the Charles
ton Evening /tens, of Friday the 30th April, we
find published the following presentments of the
grand jury of Newberry District, in South Carolina.
They seem to handle the managers of the Newberry
Bank rather roughly:
“ The Banket Newberry. —This grand jury would
further present, as a great nuisance and a crying
evil to this community, the operations of the
Bank of Newberry.
“ The petitioners who asked the legislature of
the State for a charter, to constitute a bank to be
located at the town of Newberry, alone did so with
the yiew of its affording banking facilities for the
trade of the town and country in which it was lo
cated ; and from the evidences before them they
are forced to the conclusion that the Bank of New
berry, with its corporated privileges, has subserv
ed almost every other purpose than the one for
which it was intended by those who were the
means of its creation.
“This grand Jury presents, that a bank properly
conducted would be a source of much good to the
country, and, in turn, by its accommodations, the
bank would realise satisfactory profits. But a
bank conducted as that of the Bank of Newberry,
where its president has not only endeavored on
divers times to control the price of cotton, but has
absolutely dictated to parties shipping cotton to
whom they should or snould not ship their cotton;
and a president of a bank who regards not the
decision oßthe board of directors in the discount
ing of accommodation paper, assuming to himself
the supreme control of such matters, as this grand
jury has in evidence before them, and a president,
who, to the exclusion of parties at home, sends the
funds of the bank to New York, Mississippi, Ala
bama and elsewhere; and a president of a bank
who so far lowers the dignity of the usages of
banking ak to have outsiders in the constant prac
tice of picking up the notes of other banks in lieu
of his own, and of turning upon them again, and
demanding them to be redeemed in specie, when
his own bunk had not one dollar in specie for
every twenty in paper, is unfit to be the president
bank constituted by the people.
“They present that other charges may be pre
ferred against the operations of the Bank of New
berry through its president, but they will content
themselves with submiting that the president has
been in the habit of issuing circulars to at least
some of the cotton buyers, that they must not pay
more than a certain price for cotton, and in con
sequence thereof the legitimate trade of Newberry
has been turned away from it, and parties largely
engaged in business here have suffered from such
acts of tyranny on the part of the president of
the Bank of Xewberry.
“They farther present that the complaints of the
people are loud and numerous against the manage
ment of the bank, and the people cry aloud that
it should be pulled down, its charter taken from
it, and wound up by the legislature, or managed in
a proper and legitimate manner.
W. Walker, Foreman.”
Liquor and Law.—The Boston Ledger is respon
sible for the following:
“ The reply of a prominent temperance prohibi
tion law advocate to a question put to him the oth
er day as to ‘how*thc controversy stood between
the rum-sellers and temperance men/ was quite to
the point. He said that ‘ temperance never had
more law nor the rum-sellers more liquor than at
present.’ This is doubtless true, and being true,
is a hard commentary upon the present ‘Dlue laws’
of Massachusetts.”
A New Move in Behalf of Assassination.—
Fromtia Criminal Ztitung, of New York, it ap-
a “ Joint Stock Company ” is about to
“ Three hundred dollars are already subscribed,
a gentleman in Hoboken having subscribed two
thirds of this sum. A revolutionary philosopher
and agitator, named Heiuzen, is said to be con
cerned in the matter, and offers to avenge the en
slaved nations of Europe, by killing the French
Emperor. There seems, however, to exist doubts
as to his sincerity, and whether it is safe to entrust
him with the funds. On the part of Mr. Heinzen,
it is asserted that the money is no consideration
whatever, the sum being necessary to defray the
expense of the means for executing the plan
promised, and which, we are told, i 3 to be accom
plished like a patriot, without any consideration
for himself whatever!”
General Walker.—The general inquiry of
“ What has become of General Walker?” may be
answered by the following extract from a letter,
written by the New Orleans correspondent of the
St. Louis Republican:
“The Ex-President of Nicaragua, General Wm.
Walker, is now in this city, and has been for a
month past. He is coolly and contentedly waiting
his trial before the United States District Court,
on charges of violating the neutrality laws, which
is expected to take place in May. He keeps himself
secluded in his room, and writes, I understand, as
industriously and continuously as if commiting
to paper the" minute particulars of the last few
busy and eventful years of his life. An ardent
fnend and follower of the renowned tillibuster in
forms me that another raid upon Nicaragua is not
only contemplated, but in actual preparation, and
that the confidence in its success is just as great
as it ever was; aud that General Heuuingsen has
been busy securing friends to the cause, arranging
for recruiting, and making other preparations,
and that no formidable obstacle is expected to
interfere.” _
From the Osford (Miss.) Mercury, April 27.
The Rain Last Monday.
At an early hour on Monday morning, black,
thick, aud foreboding clouds entirely covered the
upper firmament, and with a sudden flash of light
ning and a keen loud twang of thunder, the flood
gates of heaven were opened, and from that time
until midnight the rain descended in incessant
torrents —hoarse thunder rolled along the vaulted
sky, and vivid lightning flashed its fiery tresses
through the air! There is no man living here who
ever saw as much water fall in one day. It is sad
to contemplate the wrecks and ruins it has left us
to muse on.
The trains on the Mississippi Central railroad
have not made a trip since Monday morning. Mr.
Sanderson, of Marshall, who came part of tneway
on the train from Holly Springs Yesterday, anti
walked the track the balance of the distance, in
forms us that the rain swelled all the streams above
here to heights never known before. The trestle
work over Cold Water river, near Hudsonville, had
all washed away, and other damages were done to
the road at various places above Holly Springs.
Mr. S. reports the water of Tallahatchee river near
ly up to tue floor of the railroad bridge, and rising
very fast. A vigilant force is stationed there ward
ing" off the acres of drift-wood that is unceasingly
coming down the river. The bridge is a strong
structure, and will undoubtedly be preserved, but
its strength will be tried to its utmost capacity.
At Hurricane creek, about seven miles above bet •,
fifty feet of trestle-work is gone. And all along
the* track above here there is more or less injuries
done.
Below here, greater injury is supposed to have
been sustained. We saw a gentleman who came
up from below Water Valley on Tuesday; he swam
his horse some four times before reaching here; he
reports Water Valley as presenting a very Venitian
appearance—water all through the town—the tres
tlework of the railroad washed away—and whole
plantations in that neighborhood completely under
water.
At Taylor’s depot, six or eight miles below here,
the track is reported broken, and at nearly every
cut through hills sediment is washed upon the
track seveial feet deep. There is no telling when
the cars will be put io motion again. It will not
take long to repair the injuries above Plantations
lving immediately along the Tallahatchee and
Otocbalopha rivers have received incalculable in
juries. Scores of fences have been carried away,
and the newly planted crops washed up. There is
no getting at the exact amount ot damage which
has been sustained. Some planters say that they
fear their prospects for making a crop this year
has been seriousiy blighted.
.. Pla, -i*Ribu.— Hia Excellency, save
tb V? ob . lle Register, the present restless Governor
or V lrgmia, is, perhaps, of all men alive, the one
most tormented by an insatiable desire of notority—
that being his idea of fame. Impelled by this
passion, he never lets slip the occasion of making
a noise, and lives in an incessant splutter of pub
lic letters, and speeches, and toasts. His last ex
ploit was a toast, magnified to the skies, as fol
r^^ h ‘ 8 .P oliticaI y Mr. Forney, of
the Philadelphia Press:
Governor Wise. —Of the representative men of
the present time, the distinguished Executive of
the “Old Dominion” stands among the foremost.
Fearlessly independent on all subjects, he takes
his position upon the general issue of the day with
the firery fervor of a Melancthon, and the iron will
of a Luther. With stirring eloquence he gives
characteristic expression to sentiments which come
glowing from a mine of purest and rarest genius.
He revels in a curious felicity of expression, which
gives a corruscating, gem-like radiance to his
thoughts.
We have been peculiarly struck with the follow
ing terse and exquisitely conceived toast, which
we find floating among our exchanges, and which
Governor Wise sent to the St. Patrick’s Day dinner
at Washington. We do not believe that as much
fire and patriotic feeling were ever expressed in
as few words. The language fairly rings with the
sound of steel and sparkles with the glitter of
bayonets:
“John Philpot Curran, the advocate in 1798.
He was upright when honor was rebellion; he
was true when integrity was treason; he stood by
the accused and doomed when to pity was to par
ticipate ; and he was loyal to liberty when to name
her was to die.”
It stirs an instinctive echo in the heart of all
who sympathise with the sacred cause of liberty
and free institutions.— Phila. Press.
The Pennsylvanian very remorselessly strips
this peacock’s plume from the chattering jackdaw
that has decked himself with it; it shows that the
toast is a simple theft, almost literal, from a speech
of the Rev. Henry Giles, made only a year ago:
A regard for truth induces us to say, that the
toast in question is a fragment of the peroration to
a most eloquent speech made by the Rev. Henry
Giles, in the Musical Fund Hall of this city, in the
year 1857, and which was characterised by the
United States Gazette as one of the most powerful
and impressiye discourses ever delivered in this
community.
Mr. Giles said, in speaking of Curran, whom he
denominated “the glory of the Irish Bar :” “He
was true when integrity was treason ; he was brave
when honor was rebellion ; he stood by the accused
and tht doomed, when to pity was to participate;
and he was loyal to liberty when even to name her
was to die.”
A Destructive War Engine. —We mentioned
some time since that two of our ingenious citizens,
Messrs. Wright and Gould, had completed the
model of a rotary cannon which could be fired at
the rate of sixty rounds per minute. Since that
announcement the inventors have been engaged
in having constructed a working model for the
gun, which is now finished, and was tested yester
day afternoon in a vacant building on Washington
street. The piece is a beautiful little brass gun of
the usual shape, mounted on wheels, and so con
structed that a rotary cylinder constitutes the
breech, which contains four charges, replenished
by means es a hoppe**, and firea ns rapidly as a
man can work an ordinary lever backward and for
ward. The piece is discharged by electricity, and
from this results an important and valuable dis
covery, which was developed after the completion
of the piece. By means of the battery ana wires
connecting with the cylinder by which ignition is
caused the cylinder becomes perfectly electrised,
which keeps it as cool as if continually bathed
with ice. Some two hundred rounds were tired
v* tthoni swab once," tSeljrc• cn ]
much colder than when firing bonoi&fettcce! Trie 1
rapidity of the firing was much retarded by ?
bad quality of the cartridge in use, but such
was it was sufficient to demonstrate the r
success of the invention. We understand ag
soon as all arrangements are completed, the inven
tors will proceed to Washington and. lay their
plans before the government.
Suffaln Kcprf Jt> AprU'iZ.
Interesting from Utah.— \ fetter from Fort
Learenworth to the -New V, rk Tinles giTe9 tbe
statements of a gentleman ■ j( education and abili
ty, Mr. F. Loba, who has j ust made his e9cape
from Salt Lake City, an'j who furnishes very dif
ferent accounts of the edition of the “ Saints”
from those which ha’/e hitherto been current. He
does not believe tn 6 y will fight the United States
troops, if the latt er g 3 i a force sufficient to be at
all formidable. He says they have no powder no,
cannon, no military stores of any kind, and that
all the stories of their having a large force perfect
ly drilled ar,d ready for service, are all nonsense.
The whole number of their men capable of being
good soldiers does not exceed three thousand five
hundred. He thinks that Young will have a
“ special revelation,” and run away as soon as be
finds that the United States is in earnest.
Large Cargo.—The ship John Patten, Capt. J.
Patten, was cleared at the Custom House yester
day, for St. Petersburg, by Messrs. A. Low & Co.,
with a cargo consistiug of three thousand seven
hundred and fifty bales Upland cotton, (all of which
is under deck,) weighing one million seven
hu idred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and
twenty eight pounds, and valued here at two !
hundred and twenty thousand dollars. This
is one of the largest cargoes ever taken from '
his port, by a vessel of her size, being only
nine hundred and sixty tons burthen. It is '
also larger by four hundred and seventy-seven
bales, or two hundred and ninety thousand four
hundred and five pounds than the cargo she car
ried from New Orleans. She was stowed by Sam- 1
uel Boles, a colored stevedore. (
Savannah Republican , May 1. '
From Havana.—Don Ventura Mira, and Senor
don Santrago Valdes, prominent’ citizens of Ha
vana, died in that city, the former on the 18th, and
the latter on the 23rd inst.
The Prenza says: The scarcity of silver noticea
ble in our market, we perceive will soon briDg
about an inundation of dimes, or American rials,
such as was the case not long since, and which we
believe will be gladly welcomed as an accommo
dation to our public/because of the greater facility
in procuring small change. The Black Warrior
brought on her last trip one thousand dollars of
said money. Let the dimes come; instead of oc
casioning difficulty, we may retain in our purses,
dow and then, the little rials which at present we
gather in change for gold.
Savannah Republican, April 29.
Drugged too Much.—Dr. O. W. Holmes, better
known as tbe funny man, in his valedictory address
to the medical graduates of Harvard University,
delivered recently, gives the following advice to ]
medical students who were about to graduate:
“ iVith regard to the exhibition of drugs, as a !
part of your medical treatment, the golden rule is, 1
oe sparing . Many remedies you give would make 1
a well person so ill that he would send for you at «
once, it he had taken one of your doses accident- 1
ly. It is not quite fair to give such things to a \
sick man, unless it is clear that they will do more 1
good than the very considerable barm you know *
they will cause. Be very gracious with children *
especially. I have seen old men shiver at the re
collection of the rhubarb and jalap of infancy. 1
You may depend upon it that the success of Ho- £
mcepathy is due to the sweet peace it has brought \
into the nursery. Between the gurgling down of t
loathsome mixtures and the saccharine deliques- t
cence of a minute globule, what tender mother r
could hesitate?” 1
No Doubt of it. —Tho Boston Post declares that <
the editor who threatened to write two columns a '
week about Kansas unless his delinquent subscri
bers paid up, says that every one has squared up
his account, and three hundred and seventy paid
for one year in advance.
Charles Lamb is reported to have perpetrated
the following: “ The water-cure is neither new nor
wonderful; for it is as old as the deluge, which,
in my opinion, killed more than it cured.”
V OL. 37-IsrO. 19
Rejoicings at the Result.
The announcement that a victory had been gain
ed in each branch of Congress by the true sop
porters of the administration, over all factions and
combinations, was spread over the metropolis in a
very short time, and crowds came out to enjoy the
triumph, and to exchange congratulations. Those
Senators and Representatives who had aided in
achieving the passage of the bill received the cor
dial thanks of their fellow-citizens, and every one
appeared to be in the best of humor, except an oc
casional Black Republican, his “occupation gone.”
The result had been so decisive, that even the most
sanguine of these agitating gentlemen did not ap
pear to have the leasthope that anything can “turn
up to comfort them.
Meanwhile the cannoniers (under the direction
°‘ J* T. Hollohan) made their preparations,
and soon advised our expectant friends at Alexan
dria “and the rest of mankind ” that the Kansas
question is banished from the halls of Congress.
The “loud music of the cannon’s thunder” pealed
forth a national salute of thirty-fio# guns, (one
being added for the new State,) on Capitol Hill, in
honor of the Senate, and as many more in honor
of the House of Representatives. Another nation
al salute was fired at the Central market, and the
balance of one hundred guns in front of the Exe
cutive Mansion. The President of the United
States was then honored with the salute of twenty
one guns, to which the Chief Magistrate of the
Union is entitled by usoge.
The salutes, of course, attracted crowds, an d
warm were the congratulations exchanged, the
more especially as the victory in Congress over
Know Nothingism and its Republican allies is a
cheering omen to the Democratic and anti-Know
Nothing voters of this metropolis. The movements
of Humphrey Marshall, Campbell, and other dis
tinguished friends of Giddings and Howard, have
been exactly the same as those of the guerrilla
band which hovers around the conservative party
of this metropolis, impeding its advancement, and
by stealthy surprises making an occasional foray
into the camp, when a wandering Democrat can be
found to act as pilot. But as those who expected
to defeat the Democratic party in Congress are now
disappointed, so those who suppose that secret
machinations and deceitful neutrality can mislead
the voters of Washington, will find that they have
miscalculated the patriotism and the public spirit
of our citizens.
Could a band have been obtained, there would
have been a serenade given to the President, but
the Mav ball and the concert had monopolised the
musicians, and it was postponed until to-night,
when a brilliant ovation may be expected. Three
cheers for the votes of yesterday!
Washington Union, May Ist.
“ Begot by Butchers.”—Senator Hammond, of
South Carolina, who recently characterised all
working people as “ the mudsills of society,” is
himself the son of a butcher, the blood of a ‘‘mud
sill ”is in his veins. As Saxe says :
Depend upon it, my snobbish friend.
Your family thread you can’t aacend,
Without good reason to apprehend
You may find It waxed at the other end
By some pleblan vocation.’’
We extract the above from the New York Eve
ning Post , and present it to our readers as a speci
men of Freesoil slander. It so happens that the
April number of Deßow’s Review contains a me
moir of Col. Marcellus Hammond, the brother of
Senator Hammond, from which it will be seen
the article of the Post is a vile false* 1 “ His
father.” savs the memoir, “ " olonel £ Hammond,
was a graduate of Dartmouth College, N. H., was
distinguished in his class, and delivered a poem on
fulfilling his appointment. Ho was a college mate,
an intimate associate an <| friend of Daniel Web*
ster. Chosen to the office of principal of an acade-\
my at a f ew miles from Newberry <
Court t, e goon secured for this institution a
|at Columbia*. There be niame’ Mi*-
.Spann, of the large family of that name spread A
over the two States of North and South Carolina, i
He did not long continue to hold the Professor-▼
ship. Resigning this, he again retired to New-
berry, some years before the birth of the oue of
whom we write.” This younger one is the author
of the articles, published in the Southern Quarterly
Recictc, on the minor battles of the Mexican war.
Mobile Register .
G. P. R. James.—“ Belle Britain,” writing from
Richmond, says of G. P. R. James, the novelist:
‘‘He has realised a fortune from his copy-rights,
and is enjoying the combined luxuries or city and
country life—the latter at the ‘Slash Cottage’—the
birth-place of Henry Clay—some sixteen miles
from Richmond, cn the railroad to Washington.
He has several sons, one an engineer in the West;
and ‘one fair daughter, whom he loveth passing
well.’ He has written all his works through the
medium of an amanuensis. His habit has been to
rise at five o’clock in the morning, read six,
and then walk the room and dictate until nine
o’clock. He reads his composition for the first
*oac in printer’s proof.”
Laws and Journals.—The Columbus Times <jk
Sentinel , of Tuesday, 27th inst., says : “ We have
heretofore neglected to state that the Journals—
four thousand in number—of the last legislature,
were delivered to the proper authorities in MiL
ledgeville some weeks since. We trust that they
are printed in a neat and handsome style. The
Laws are not quite completed. They will how
ever, be finished as soon as the Index is despatched
from MilledgeviJle. We have spared no pains nor
expense to make both the Laws and Journals a
specimen of elegant printing, and hope that our
duty as public printers has been discharged with
fidelity to the State and people.
A Bit op Lamb.—A retired cheesemonger, who
hated any allusion to the business that had enrich
ed him, said to Charles Lamb in the course of a
discussion on the English poor laws:
“ You must bear in mind, sir, that I have got
rid of that stuff which you poets call the ‘milk of
human kindness.’ ”
Lamb looked at him steadily, and gave his ac
quiescence in these pithy words:
*• Yes, I am aware of that—you turned it all into
cheese, several years ago.”
Exit, cheesemonger, complaining of a sudden
ouch of the toothache.
A gentleman having a horse that started
and broke his wife’s neck, a neighboring squire
told him he wished to purchase it for his wife to
ride upon. “No, no,” says the other, “I will not
sell the little fellow, because I intend to get mar
ried again myself.”
New York, April 28. — Win. Fuller has been ar
rested here charged with forging a government
draft for five thousand dollars, purporting to be
drawn by James Reeside and accepted by O. P.
Brown, treasurer of the Post Office Department.
Four drafts of a similar nature have been already
paid at various periods. The draft is dated Nov.
1, 1834, and both Reeside and Brown have since
died, as has also Mr. Sibley, President of a bank
in Georgia, who, Fuller alleges, advanced the mo
ney on it at the time. With the exception of a few
years it has been in the hands of Fuller, who gives
no reason for not sooner presenting it for payment.
A few days ago a New York broker sent it to
Messrs. Riggs & Co., of Washington, for collec
tion, and upon being presented at the Department
for payment was pronounced a forgery.
Boston, April 24.—Capt. Brown, of the ship
Black Prince, of this port, (previously announced
as having put into Rio, on the 27th or February,)
writes to the owners here that when the vessel was
thirteen days out, in consequence otsome difficul
ty, he ordered one of the men to be put in irons.
The man, on hearing this, drew his knife from his
belt and stabbed Capt. Brown in two places. The
would-be-assassin, with others, however, was
eventually put in irons, but it being soon after
discovered that a concerted plan to make farther
trouble was on foot, Capt. Brown made for Rio,
with all possible dispatch, and landed seven of the
mutineers at that port. The ship then left for
home on the 3d of March. Capt. Brown, though
wounded severely, is not considered in a danger
ous condition. ,
St. Louis, April 29.—The river is unchanged.
The upper Mississippi is rising. The Missouri and
Illinois are falling.