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TELEGRAPH.
is would oblige by handing in
early as Saturday rooming, if
Telegraph goes to press at 3
irrivul offlic IVisiit.
\ih \ o»K. July —'i’he steamship Per
sia has arrived, with Liverpool dates to the
12th inst.
Liverpool Markets.
The Cotton market had slightly deelined.
principally in tie- lower grader. 'I’he sab;.* of
the v.. ek sun! up 35,01(0 hales.
The Floor market had advanced 6d. to Js.
Wheat advanced Id. to 2d.
Hie market was easier, at previous
MACON ■ O A
TUESDAY MOKMill. Jl LX -
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Consuls had
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dvanced i.
■ litiial intelligent
f special importance.
and were quoted
presents no fen-
Militia riots have occurred in Ireland, in
which several persons were killed.
The lirokers’ Circular quotes an advance of
Id. on Fair -Mobile. Ollier qualities remain
unchanged.
ROTATIONS.
Fair Orleans 7d; Middling Orleans did
Fair Uplands ti$d; Fair Mobile Gfd; Mido’ling
Uplands did; Middling Mobile 6d.
The unfavorable weather for harvest opera
tions lias stiffened the Flour market.
Bullion in the Bank of England lias do
. r. 160,0, m
J 11*. house ol l.o-.\ c \ I.owc. of Munches
ter. has failed. The cotton house of the same
finn in Liwpool lias also gone by the board
lion. Thomas XV. Thomas.
Mr. Thomas declines as an Elector in alet-
tcr written with great vigor. After speaking
of die repeal of the odious .Missouri Restriction,
he goes ou to say ;
This just and righteous concession tons, by
.which we obtained only naked justice, .by
•which our equality in the Union was restored
which the brazen collar of inferiorty was struck
fn.iu our necks, the Convention which nomi
nate i Mr, Fillmore, declared to be a “reckless
and unwise policy;** and he, in his letter of ac
ceptance, consents and agrees to the detain
elation, in speaking of the troubles which
li.iv, grown out of our successful struggle fori
our rights, and throwing the blame upon “the
present Executive and his supporters,” Mr
Fillmore save in his Albany speech, if they
have with go-J intention ami honest hearts made
<i mitake, he holies Got/ may forgive them, as
i e </,,/.<• Forgive us for what? Because we
ii'kcd and obtained justice; because we in
sisted on oar right to go into the teritorics on
equal terms with our Northern fellow-citizens:
bet aiise »v did not yield a jdain right to the
ragctbf the Frcesoilers, and consent to be
robbed in order to keep the peace. Is there
a man in Georgia base enough to thank him
for Ms prayer or his forgiveness ?
A Georgia editor speaking of this and oth
ers Bays, •• these speeches will electrify the
nation." They have clecriiied every fibre
<>f my composition with the profoundcst indig
nation. Let others thank him who feel like
it: for one I will never tlmnk him to forgive
and pardon me for contending for my just
rights. Lot horrors of civil war bo painted to
Unify tho.-. a who are already willing to be’
traitors. Ther e is something worse than civ
il war to a brave and honorable nation : it is
submission to wrong and injustice. Civil war
is the rock out of which has sprung the re
freshing stream of civil liberty in all ages.
1 ‘ur own case was not an exception to the rule.
As in the physical, so in the political world,
Liberty, with her thousand blessings, is nl-
born in travail and sorrow. If Heaven
has decreed that our liberties shall be again
haptmed in blood, let those tremble who would
Withhold onr rights, or who pronounce the
.'■'"Ming "1 them to us. “reckless and un-
"ise.” Go< 1’S unerring justice will never call
upon us to endure wrong while we demand
nothing but the right. * .
I have said nothing of Mr. Fillmore’s anti
slavery record, prior to his accession to the
Pfi si lenity : nothing of his published opinions
iu favor of the reception of Abolition petitions,
jigainst tho annexation of Tcxa- so long as
* laves are held therein, in favor of abolishing
lire slave trade between tho Slates, and in
favor of the abolition of slavery in the district
of ( ohunbia—nothing of his obnoxious votes
■ u Athertons' v-Motions—BO thing of his vote
« u Mr. biddings’ resolutions in the Creole
■ 3»>o. 1 Lose prejudices lie says lie laid aside
when he went into the Presidential Chair, and
■ mm i mu u iilin-- t«, lieli* ve him.
My objections to him are based solely on
hi' plain and j u’dished hostility to that clause
eit!e- Kansas act which relieved the South
ir.an the Mi-souri restriction, which he and
tb“ t oiirci ; ion that Humiliated, him pronounce
t»> be recki.-- ami unwise, and which makes
tiiin, according the unanimous vedict of the
General Amembly of Georgia, hostile to the
rigiit- of tie South and unfit to be recognized
■'e a component part of any parry organization
not h( st.le to the South.
On the Other hand, the National Democra
cy, with a party unanimously in favor of our
rights, and sound principles, offer us a candi
dale pledged to cany them out. He cannot
Iwtray us without violating his pledges. Mr.
1’illiimiee cannot protect us without violating
hi.-. • • .
XX bile I would not utter a word in denial of
the integrity and patriotism of our fellow citi-
tens in Georgia who arc striving to elect Mr.
Fillmore. 1 cannot but believe that a full and
free discussion of the issues In controversy
nni't bring and overwhelming majority of the
people of the South to the National Democra
cy and their nominees. God help us if party
feeling can seriously
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES fil'CII AX AN.
FOlt VICK PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE.
DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL TICKET
/kr ■' i ...... Wll.I.lAM 11 MII.KS.
IVERSON I,. IIAURIS.
f,r,t A.-.'nW... ......'fill(MAS M. FOREMAN.
&cron<i Pistrict....S.\Ml Eli 11A 1.1,.
•/>••:•/ ■ 1 AMES X. RAMSAY.
Fonrit /is/'vW,.....■ ..LUCII S J. (I Ali l'l( 1.1,1.
Fifth Pistri't JOHN X. LEWIS.
Si., th But. J. V- SIMMONS.
Srre. th Pislri4 .THOMAS P. SAFFOLD.
phtrift Cel. A. ( WALIiER.
I'olitiraE Documents.
Our acknowledgments are due to Messrs.
Toombs. Iverson, Cobb, Trippe, Faulkner,
Maxwell and other members of Congress, for
interesting political documents.
Supreme Court Decision,
For the benefit of those interested in it, wc
would state that a decision was made last week
by the Supreme Chart while in session in this
city, by which the members of Military and
Hr. Itiu liaiinitK Krrord ou the
Slavery Question, contrasted with Mr. Fillmore’s.
“LOOK ON rill- PICTURE—THEN QN TillTt”
Whom ought wc to support at the coming
election. Mr. Buchanan or Mr. Fillmore? This
is a question to which every Southern man
ought to try to obtain* a -ati'factory solution
and make up his mind not merely From party
feelings, Imt bv examining tliereeords of these
two candidates, and determining for himself
which has been the warmest friend of the South,
and which in return for his past acts, now dc-
serves the roost at our hands: and we honest
lv believe, tliat every one who will entirely
divest himself of prejudice, and llien make
thorough investigation of this subject, (pa
inevitably arrive at tlie conclusion, that where
as in all matters pertaining to the interests of
our section. Mr. Fillmore has been “weighed
in the balances and found wanting,” Mr.
Buchanan on the contrary, has passed through
the political ordeal and come out “refined
gold,” having proved himself on every occa
sion a noble champion in upholding the Union,
by defending the Constitution and protecting
the rights of the South.
In exmiiiiiinr th.-ir re-pectii e (’oiigivsrional
careers, wc-shall see, in all the principal votes
on the Slavery question, Mr. Fillmore’s name
recorded side by side with those ultra aboli
Fire Companies are exejnpt from servin
Jurv duty. The question* f cm m prion was | an( j inveterate foes to onr institutions,
raised at the last term of our Superior Court AlW 0;iWi siadw. Winthrop. Hale etid
by F. S. Bloom, Esq., Foreman of Protection | . . .. „
J ^ , omne genus ; but on tho other hand we shall
Fire Company No. 1, and was decided ad- , , „ n .
Companj -
versely by Judge Powers. The case was,
however, carried up to the Supreme Court and
there decided, as above stated, in favor of the
Companies whouniteinpronouncing it a “right
eous decision,” to which, we think, the majori
ty of our citizpns will respond amen.
prqjmiice and )
Mrtisftn
divide 11' in till-
i- crisis.
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(beFullyi your obedient serv’t,
Thomas W. Thomas.
hraiie, Nisbet and others, Commit-
n, Georgia.
jflosis. Brooks ami It ml in game
—PROSPECTS OF A FIGHT.
XX .i iii.toton, duly 21.-—Mr. Burlingame,
<■1 Massaobuaatts, has publicly withdrawn the
roomorandam recently puWished by Mr. Brooks
leaving bis *.*h on the Simmer assault to
explaiu itself, n it liont qiiuliticntiou. Thefricnds
ot botli parties ure much excited, and a fight
is (ipptenendwL
Later—Burii.igame Challenged by Brooks.
XX \*oinoto\. duly g*J.—It is rumored that
Mr. Brooks challciigcd Mr. Burlingame last
evening, and that the challenge was promptly
accepted.-Tin •police have just arrested Brooks,
and an* looking for Burlingame, who left the
District last night, to avoid an arrest.
Congress.
Wwni.xoTOx, July *11.—The House has
passed the Three Million hill to inercuso the
ellich n v of the Army. They have also pass
ed a re-olution providing for the adjournment
<>l Congress on the 11th of August. Tkores-
olutiou i' now pending in the House, and will
doubtless he concurred in to-morrow.
Coagrt ssional—More of tfie Contemplated Duel.
\\ isitixoTo.v, .July —The House agreed
to-day, to adjourn on the Imli of August.
'I’he city is lull of minors about the affair
of honor between Brooks and Burlingame. 1
have reason to believe that Burlingame has
named the Flifloii House, on the Canada side
of Niagara Falls, as the place where lie would
receive Mr. Brooks’ challenge, and that lie
hus gone there, and furthermore that Brooks
declines going on the ground that it would
not he safe for him at the present time.
OoiigreNMonnl.
Wasiiinoton, July “4.—The Senate lias
passed a hill to protect American discoveries
tif Guano Islands.
in the House the Army appropriation hill
was amended so as to provide tliat none of the
money hull he expended until the Kansas
laws are repealed,
l'rout fluvaiiu.
Nriv York. July filst.—The Qnaker City
has arived with lluvaim dates to the 17lhinst.
The only item of interest in her news, is
th« illness of the Captain-General, who is
down with the Yellow Fever.
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School Advcrtiscuient.s.
The Select Schools of Messrs. E. C.
Rowland and B. M. Polhill willbercsumed
on tlie first Monday in September. See their
Cards in our advertising columns.
See also the advertisement of a New School
for Yocno Ladies which will be opened in
this city on the first Friday iu October, under
the superintendence of Miss C. M. Melville
and -Miss E. J. Gray.
Dry Weallicr—Prospects of tlie
CHOI’S.
As a matter of interest to most of our read
ers, we have taken some pains to collect the
most reliable accounts as to the state of the
Weather and the prospect of the crops in the
Southern States. Wo give below extracts
from different papers on this subject, from
which it will be seen that the Corn crop gen
erally has been very much injured, and that
the chances are decidedly poor for anything
like an fair average crop of Cotton ;
The Grass—Caterpillar—the Crops
Wo were informed on yesterday that a
worm has appeared among the crops in Fowl-
town district and elsewhere in this county
that is completely destroying every thing
before it. They first appear on the grass,
which, in a short time is completely consumed.
They next attack either corn, cotton, cane, po-
tatoc vines, or any thing green within their
reach ; and serious fears are entertained that
the cotton crop and the late corn, if the worm
does not soon disappear, will be entirely de
stroyed in some portions of the connty. The
late corn seems to be their favorite food, and
older corn is injured by their stripping every
blade on the stalk. The worm is called the
‘grass-caterpillar” from their first appearance
on the grass, but their true name no one ap
pears to know. Unlike "the ■•army worm”
they soon spread over an entire field, but are
no less destructive.—Itainhridg*. Argus,
We have been politely favored with the sub
joined extract from a letter written by a re
liable practical planter of Georgia. It is da
ted: r v
“ Coweta, Co., Ga., July 18.
The prospect at present in this section, is
quite gloomy, and unlc.-.- we get rain in a few
ays, and the latter seasons prove more favora
ble for cotton, wc can’t expect more than a half
crop. We are now in the midst of a drought
of from four to six weeks, and with some few
exceptions, when partial showers have fallen,
Cotton has not grown two inches in three
weeks—is blooming near the top. ami the small
balls and forms beginning to fall off. Crops
in a portion of Cherokee, where I have just
been, arc looking better; by no means prom
ising, however,”
The army worm has appeared iu Newberry
District, S. C. The Newberry Mirror of the
21stinstant, says:
“ Some farms in the upper portion have suf
fered from their depredations. Large fields
look as if a fire had just passed over the ground.
We bear this morning of their appearance iu
gardens in town. We presume it is the same
worm that visited this District during the dry
summer of M5.
The Crocs.—In a large portion of this
county the corn crop lias been almost ruined
and tlie cotton seriously injured by the pro
tracted drought. In some plnccs there lias
been no rain of any consequence since April.
Wc know some instances of planters cutting
down considerable quantities of corn, all hope
of its recovery having been abandoned. The
clouds frequently appear but after a short stay
take their departure for some more favored
region. Tlie Chattahoochee is about as low as
wc remember to have seen it.—Eufanla, Ala. t
Spirit.
The Crops.—There arc loud complaints in
many portions of East Misssissippi of the rav
ages committed by the worm on the growing
crops. Many planters have suffered severely
both in their corn and cotton fields, and unless
this destructive vermin soon cease their opera
tions. the general yield must bo very seriously
effected. Previous to the appearance of the
worms, the planters never had better pros
pects, particularly on the uplands. The rains
during tlie spring were sufficient to make these
produce to their utmost capacity, while there
was not enough to very seriously damage the
lowlands. 'I’he crop of corn, now, as far ns
our observation or information lias extended,
is remarkably promising.—Paulding (Miss.)
Clarion, 12tA.
Foul Play!
Our opponents in their desperation for some
thing to make capital of, are circulating a
“ cock and hull” sfory to tlie effect that Judge
I’liomas declined the post of Elector in the 8th
District from personal objection to Mr. Bu
chanan. We have no idea that there is a par
ticle of truth in this story; and the opposition
papers iu circulating it arc guilty of willful
misrepresentation. But what better can he
expected of a party which, having no argu
ment to rely upon, is forced to resort to these
dirty tricks ? Let Judge Thomas come out
and give the lie to such reports.
Russia is forty times the size of France, and
one hundred and thirty-eight ones that of
England.
(.liter from California.
New Orleans, July 2<>. --The steamship
Granada, from San Juan and Aspinwnll, has
arrived, with late intelliirence from Central
America and California.
The \ igiiancc Committee of Sail Francisco
have captured the government aims and taken
one hundred prisoners. Among the persons
arrested was Judge 'J’erry, who severely stab
bed one of the Vigilants in the arrest.
Mercantile and mining business appear to
be prosperou
find .Mr. Buchanan manfully, patriotically,
uniformly voting with Calhoun, King, Clay
Berrien, Preston, Wise and other.gallant de
fenders of our portion of the confederacy. We
shall find Mr. Fillmore in 1838 and at other
times voting, speaking and writing in favor of
receiving and respectfully considering aboli'
tion petitions in the Halls of Congress, for
suppressing the internal slave trade between
the States, nud for abolishing slavery in the
Territories and iu the District of Columbia;
but Mr. Buchanan we will find voting invari
ably with Southern Senators against the con
■Mtaataon of these anti-slavery petitions, sup
porting in 183tl a bill to prohibit the circula
tion of abolition papers through the mails, iu
1837 denouncing and voting to reject petitions
for the abolition of Slavery in the District of
Columbia, and in the same year voting for a
strong set of Resolutions introduced by Mr.
Calhoun clearly defining the limits of Federal
authority, asserting the equal rights of all the
States, and declaring any encroachment upon
the privileges and institutions of the South
either by the North or by the General Gov
ernment, to be “a manifest breach of faith and
a violation of the most solemn obligations.”
By following up this investigation wc shall
find Mr. Fillmore in 1838 assorting his oppo
sition to the annexation of Texas solely be
cause slavery existed there, and in 1841 vo
ting in favor of a petition presented by Mr.
Adams praying that no new Territory tol
erating slavery may he admitted into the Union.'
As an offset to this, Air. Buchanan in March
1830’, reported a bill for the admission of Ar
kansos with a constitution sanctioning slave
ry, and spoke and voted for it notwiOistand■
ing his own constituents remonstrated with him
against it. In 1844-’5 he was the foremost
man in advocating the annexation of Texas,
thus giving the most practical evidence of his
regard for the interests of the South and his
disapprobation of the Abolition policy of re
stricting the institution of slavery.
Another subject of vital importance to the
South is the Fugitive Slave Law. How stand
they ou this question? Mr. Buchanan has at
aU times exerted himself in maintaining it. In
1830 he maintained tliat it “must he executed
in its letter and. in its spiritand in 1852 in
heartfelt sympathy for the South he declared
that it was all that she had gained by the Com
promise of 1850, that it was.a law founded ujr-
on the Constitution without which provision that
instrument never would have existed, and that
the South ought never to surrender it
to Northern fanatics and Abolitionists.
But what does Mr. Fillmore say and do with
regard to it ? Why, after suffering the . law,
while he was iu office, to be practically nullifi
ed by t he acts of the Abolitionists and after dis-
ch-argnig his duty in this particular in an im
becile manner that contrasts iu a very unfa
vorable light with Gen’l Pierce’s energetic
and patriotic execution of it, be leaves the
Presidential Chair, conics to the South and
insults us by declaring in his speech at Louis
ville, Ky„ in 185-1, that theie were provisions
in that Law to which he had strong objections,
that he thought it unconstitutional in denying
the right of habeas corpus to the slave, and that
HE REGRETTED THE NECESSITY OF ITS BEING
I- \>~»; 1. A l Al.l. I
I imilly to bring th.-ir lii>t<iri.-s down to tlie
present time, let us note their sentiments on
the Kansas-Nebraskaact—a measure that has
restored the South to her true position by vir
tually repealing that shameful concession that
was wrung from us by the aggressive spirit of
the North, towit: the Missouri Compromise.
Mr. Buchnnnu at the time of the passage of this
Bill was absent ou foreign service, but on re
turning he proclaims his hearty concurrence
iu the measures and adopts without restriction
a Platform that endorses them iu terms that
cunnot but be entirely satisfactory to the great
est stickler for Southern Rights, Southern
honor, and Southern equality in the Union.
Mr. Fillmore, however, in his late speeches at
the North does not hesitate to declare that he
was decidedly opposed to the disturbance of that
Compromise, and that its repeal has been a
Pandora's Box out of which has issued all
the evils that now afflict the country, scarcely
leaving ~a hope behind !
We have thus taken a general view of the
position of these two candidates on thc-all-im-
portnnt question of Slavery. Wc have made
no reckless assertions in a partisan spirit: but
stand prepared to substantiate by unimpeach
able testimony every word that wc have al
leged iu favor of Mr. Buchanan and to the
prejudice of Mr. Fillmore. We have “naught
extenuated wherein the one was worthy” nor
set down “aught in malice” against the other.
We want Southern Knowoothings to search
these records for themselves. They will find
that where Mr. Buchanan has always been a
trusty warrior in our cause, Mr. Fillmore
has invariably sided with our foes. Can they
then hesitate hi choosing between them ? In
stead of rewarding their enemy by voting for
M r. Fillmore, will thoy not rather do honor
to their friend by rallying to the support of
Mr. Biiehminn ? To this question may the
ides of November give an affirmative response,
that will echo and re-echo from Maryland to
Texas,
A Quietus
To the Squatter Sovereignty Slander.
The New York Times of tlie 22d adds to
the mass of testimony establishing Mr. Bucli-
auan’s soundness upon the Slavery question,
a republieation of the following letter, which
leaves no chance for a doubt about hi- opinions,
as to the power of the mere inhabitants of a
Territory over the question of Slavery. Its
language is too explicit to admit of miscon
struction. and, in the fact that it was written
eight years ago, presents a noble testimonial
to the statesmanlike soundness of Mr. Brteli-
anan at so early a period in the later contro
versy upon these vexed questions, where much
false doctrine prevailed even among those
who were willing to be right, and who erred
only because tho true Constitutional theory
had not been eliminated by thorough investi
gation and discussion. Even then Mr. Bu
.man was right, and so far from holding,
charged by our Knownothings, to the absurd
theory that a Territorial Legislature, (the
agent of the Federal Government) could, in
prohibiting Slavery, do what the Government
itself could not Constitutionally do, lie dis
tinctly declares that the “ inhabitants” of a
territory have no political rights and no power
over the subject of Slavery, except when as
sembled in Convention to form a State Consti
tution. With what justice, then, did the Tele
graph, when three weeks ago commenting upon
bis use of the term “people of a Territory like
those of a State,” in his letter of acceptance,
claim that he used the word people in a Icgal-
Constitutional'and Statesmanlike sense, not
loosely, signifying a mere influx of emigrants,
abolition agents and squatters, politically un
organized and without permanent interest in
the Territory they assumed to govern.
And now will the Knownotliing press and
orators of Georgia do tlie simplest act of justice
to Mr. Buchanan by recalling their misrepre
sentations of his position upon this point ? If
they refuse to do it, in the face of this letter
and all the testimony, ought they not to be
held as reckless traducers, indifferent to their
own truth, so that they can only awaken an
unfounded prejudice ?
Washington, Aog. 21. 184P.
I Dear Sir : I have just received yours of the 1-th
inst-. io which you submit to mo the following para
graph, and ask whether it contains an accnmte ver
sion of the conversation between us, concerning my
Berks County letter, on tho occasion to which you
refer:
Happening to meet Mr. Buchanan atthol’reai-
drlit's levee, oil Friday evt-nilie, 1 ,-:dh-d Lis 11■ ■:.
tion to this letter, and asked him if he intended to he
understood as claiming that >'■ ■ ../ ■- 7-
ritory in au unorganized capacity had the right to con
trol 'the question of Slasers in surh Territory. He
declared that no such idea had ever teem maintained by
him : that the construction pat upon his language by
Mr. Yancey was a perversion of its plain ann obvious
meaning; that, in his opinion, the inhabitants of a
| TcrHtosy, ms isf>, hmd no political rights, (altboagh
they possessed all tho private rights of American
citizens;) that they had xo rowta' whatever OVER
THE subject or Slaverv, and they con/d neither in
terdict nor establish it, except n-hen assembled in Con
vention to form a Stale Constitution. Ho farther au
thorized and requested me to make any public use of
these declarations that I might think proper, to cor-
rect any impression which Mr. Yancey’s construction
of his langnage in the Berks letter might have made.”
With the addition which I have inserted between
brackets, this statement is substantially and almost
literally correct, according to at recollection.
^ ^ m • * . ■
JAMES BUHCANLYN.
n.4 Base Fraud Exposed.”
Under this caption the Washington Union
of the 25th inst., exposes the fraud of the cir
cular letter (that the Knownothing Joururls
havo been so busy publishing of late) signed
by Perrin U. Brown, Jr., and setting forth
that it had beeu decided after a private con
sultation of the leading Democrats of the
Union,” to assess each Postmaster in the coun
try for the purpose of securing tlie success of
the Democratic ticket, &c., &c.
Wcarc authorized by tlie Postmaster at this
place, Mr. Nisbet, to state that no such circu
lar Las ever been received at this office. Tli e
following letter from Postmaster General
Campbell throws light on the whole affair.
Will the opposition press act a just and manly
part by copying the letter, and retracting the
aspersions that they have cast upon the Admin
istration and the Democratic party in conncc
tion with the fraud ?
Post Office Demm-ment,
July 19 1856.
I Dear sir : Your letter of the 10th inst. has just been
received, for which I am mncli indebted. The circu
lar signed “ Perrin M. Brown,” addressed to the
postmaster of Lansingburgb, and forwarded by yon,
u an infamous fraud. There is no person of that name
in the city; but soma individual assuming it, engaged
a box in the post office here, with a view to niu him
in carrying out his dishonest purpose, and would
no donht have succeeded, to some extent at least.—
At soon as tho matter was brought to my knowledge,
I gave instructions for his arrest; but he has not
since ventured to call for his letters.
If any are received, they will go to tho dead-let
ter office, and any money they may contain will be
returned to the writers.
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES CAMPBELL.
Another Efe!
The Knownothing fabrication about the want
of harmony, &c., in the late Democratic Cau
cus at Washington, is too absurd to require
coutradiction. The Fillmore editors who pub
lish it, must tliiuk the people arc as stupid as
themselves, if they expect it to receive tlie least
credence. The following letter speaks for it
self:
Correspondence of tbo Daily Pennsylvanian.
From Washington.
Washington, July 18.—A caucus of Dem
ocratic Senators and members of Congress,
was held in the Senate Chamber, on Wednes
day evening, aud was largely attended. The
object and purpose of the meeting was to com
pare notes, and a general consultation ns to
what was necessary in various States to ensure
success, and how matters stood in certain lo
calitics. Tlie most glowing accounts were
given by the Northern and North-western
members, of the position of things in their im
mediate localities. They all predict that vic
tory would crown their efforts, and that the
bright star of Democracy never shone with
more brilliancy aud eftulgency than at pres
ent. Senator James, of Rhode Island, in n
very eloquent and happy spirit pledged “Lit
tie Rhoda” to the Democracy. This an
nouncemcnt was received with proud satisfac
tion, as you may well suppose. Indeed, to
carry that little Abolition Know Nothing State
would be a triumph worthy the Jacksonian
era. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Maine, New
Hampshire, and Connecticut, were pledged
to Bnehanan and Breckinridge by tremendous
and overwhelming majorities,
American Convention of IVIassa-
CHUSKTTS.
Boston, July 23.—The American Conven
tion of Massachusetts is still unorganized, ow
ing to the desperate eflbits of the friends of
Fillmore to get the control of it. The session
is expected to hold all night—Great excite
ment prevails.
Vermont Democratic Convention.
Montfelier, N’t., July 28.—The Demo
cratic State Convention met here yesterday.
Henry Keys lias beeu nominated for the office
of Governor. The Oonvenlion thoroughly en-
linmcnse gold placers have been discovered dorsed the administration of President Pierce,
in Guerro, one of the recently organized States and the principles of tlie Kanaas-Nebraska
of Mexico, bordering on the Pacific. j bill.
Nomination Tor Governor.
New York, July 25.—The American Con
vention 1ms fo-nominated Governor Gardiner
for Governor of Massachusetts.
The Convention was iu session all night,
and great excitement prevailed.
STILL LATER.
Tho Americans of .M^<%achusctts, lmve re
nominated all the present State officers. One
hundred and fifty Fillmoreites withdrew from
the Convention which sat all night. The
Coroner’s Jury which lmd under considera
tion the deaths by the accident on tlie North
Pennsylvania Railroad, denounce lioppcl the
Conductor, and censure the Company. An
Important Commercial Treaty lias been con
cluded with Venezuela. The New York Whig
State Convention have endorsed Fillmore.
“Squatter Sovereignly” again!
The wiseacres <jf the Knownothing press
havo found a “Mare’s nest,” whereat they
are making a great “flourish of trumpets’
Because in our last issue, wc published an ar
ticle on Etpiatter Sovereignty by “Pubhu-."
the Journal N' Messenger, the Savafcnai l'e-
publican and others,
’•The little dogiy. Tray, Illsitclienn.l Sweet heart,"
all seize upon it with aridity and ‘‘tear it
to very atoms.” A faint light bursts tlirou
the mists in which our neighbor of the Journal
Messenger has lately been enveloped, the
report of a Squib is heard, and straight way our
neighbor falls back exhausted aud resume's the
dull “tenor of his ways.” The Republican,
on the other hand, grows logical aud argues
after this fashion; “Publius” lias queer notions
on Squatter Sovereignty, the Telegraph prints
for “Publius,” the Democratic party supports
the Telegraph, Mr. Buchanan is the candidate
of the Democratic party ; Ergo, Mr. Buchan
an, the Democratic party, thcTelegrnph, “Pub
lius” and all arc In favor ofSquatter Sovereign
ty. First' bus in Logic, let the Republican
man go up bead!
Query—Whoever heard of au editor being
bound by the opinions of his correspondents ?
Wc published the article by “Publius” on
Squatter Sovereignty without endorsing it, but
for our own views on the subject referred to
previous numbers of our paper. If onr Know-
nothing friends are still anxious about the mat
ter, let them hunt up our old files.
A House Divided Against Itself.
Mr. Fillmore might well exclaim, “Godsavo
me from my friends!” Some of the strongest
evidence that has been brought up against
him and his Administration, has been obtain
ed from his associate on the Knownothing tic
ket, Andrew Jackson Donelson. The Geor
gian & Journal of the 21th inst., summons
Mr. D. to give his testimony as to Mr. Fill
more’s opinions and acts in connection with
the Fugitive Slave Law.
What say yon Mr. Donelson ? Mr. D. answers ns
follows:
“It istrue.be (Mr. F.) signcdthe fugitivelaw; but
it would havo been stark madness—utter lunacy in
him or any other President, to have refused that sig
nature. _ It was an act of the most indisputable and
imperative necessity, and nothing more. And with
tin-single exception of that act.HIS ADMINISTRA
TION HAS BEEN ONE LONG, SAD, TEDIOUS
FAILURE AND BLUNDER. Who believes that,
with tho proper spirit, capacity, and etTort in the
White Ilnuse, we should have had this disgraceful
aonter roll of triumphant .insulting, and yet unpun
ished negro and abolitionists, mobs, insurrections and
■murders f The Executive inefficiency in the execu
tion of the fugitive law, and the wretched blunder
iu the whole Cuban business—from its commence
ment to its close in so far as it is yet closed—have
doomed the administration at the South.”
That will do. You can stand aside Major Done!
«. -
Do the Knownothings object to this wit
ness ? Dare they impeach him; or had they
not better admit bis testimony, and keep si
lent in future about the “Godlike” Adminis
tration of the “second Washington ?”
Political Somerset.
We are indebted to the Advertiser Sy Ga
zette, for the following specimen of the con
sistency of the opposition press. It is an ex
tract from that remarkable sheet, the Mont
gomery Mail, of 21st February, 1856 :
Ifr. FiUmore is not the man for the times—HE will
never stand on oub Platform ok Slavery.”
The same paper in its issue for March 20th,
just one month after the above, uses the fol
lowing language: I ' '
“The mnn that says that Millard Fillmore is not a
safe man for the South, on the slavery question, says
what Ac Joes not believe himself mid that which no man,
woman or child south of Masou and Dixon’s line be
lieves.” .>■■■■
Is it possible that there could be a greater
discrepancy than iu these two extract* ? Ou,
Consistency !
Knownotliing Gymnastics.
What has become of the statesmanlike
abilities which the most prominent opposition
papers conceded to Mr. Buchanan, at a time
when they imagined that there was great
doubt of bis nomination ? Before tlie result
of the Cincinnati Convention was known, al
though they disparaged Pierce and Douglass,
they yet unhesitatingly acknowledged that
Buchanan was one of the greatest men in the
country; bnt now that lie has become tho
Democratic Candidate they have made the
wonderful discovery that he is not so great
after all! They certainly have an extraordi
nary facility for changing their opinions—for
turniug somerset*, “skinning the cat,” and
performing other gymnastic exercises—
to -To turn about, and wheel about,
Andjnmp Jim Crow.”
Great Discovery!
Burlingame’s plan for avoiding personal ro •
sponsibilities is one of the greatest discoveries
of the age. Hereafter should a man insult
you, “discriminate,” a la Burlingame,” be
tween the man and the act,” and save yourself
the disagreeable necessity of knocking him
down. Rob, murder, commit arson and as
many other crimes as you please—don’t run
off to tho “ Canada side”—all that you have
to do, is to get the Law to “ discriminate” in
your favor “ between the man and the act,”
and thus save yourself from the gallows or tho
penitentiary. Truly tlie nineteenth century
is a progressive age, and the;** Universal Yan
kee Nation” is great on discoveries!
Tennessee and Kentucky.
One of the most reliable observers of the
political parties at Nashville- Tennessee, writes
to the Washington Union on tiic 18th instant,
as follows:
I am still of the confident opinion that we
will carry Tennessee with case. If the De
mocracy do their duty I have no fears of at
least 5,000 majority for Buck and Brcck. I
have not seen or heard of a single man who
voted for Johnson but is for Buchanan, and 1
hear of many in every county who voted for
Gentry who will vote for us in the coming
election. You may set down Tennessee as
certain for Buchanan. From all the informa
tion 1 have received from Kentucky I consid
er it more certain for Buchanan than Tennes
see.”
Knownotliing Ai’itliniutic.
The Fillmore papers have been very busy
of late taking the vote on Railroad Cars,
Steamboats, Stc., giving all tlie majorities, of
course, to their own candidate. Luckily for
our side, the “day of true reckoning” draweth
nigh; and if An/ies will only wait till the 4th
>f November we will save-the trouble of any
further calculation. “Buck ami Brcck” will
then come out winning, ami the rest nowhere l
.Yortliein Fanaticism.
Abolitionism lias now reached its crisis. Tt
has come to point where it must either consume
itself from its own intensity, or it must involve
In flames the “proud fabric of the Union.”
But a few years ago it was a “ small cloud not
targes than a man’s hand:” now it has spread,
black and threatening, over the whole of the
Northern horizon. So far and wide lias it
readied, that were it not for tlie great mass
of conservative Northern Democrats who hate
breasted the storm of fanaticism andsliH'stnml
true to the Constitution arid the Union, the
people of the South would feel it to he their
duty and their interest to sever at once their
alliance with the people of the North. The
only hope for the perpetuation of the confed
eracy depends upon the Abolitionists receiv
ing in the next contest a “ "Waterloo defeat”
that will disband their forces as completely at
the North,' as the Knownothings have been
disbanded by their repeated failures at the
South. With the fanatical Abolitionists and
tlie deluded Knownothings both “shorn of
their strength,” the country will then be safe
iu the hands of the Democracy—the only par
ty adapted to our republican institutions, the
only one founded upon the spirit of tho Con
stitution, the only one that has heretofore,
preserved the Union, the only one that can
save it in time to come.
That the Southern people may see the ex
tent to which this Abolition spirit has been
pushed, we copy from the Washington Union
aud other papers, the following extracts from
Speeches delivered, most of them, on the floor
of the Convention which nominated Fremont
for the Presidency.
Wm. II. Seward, an arch Abolitionist, a
prominent candidate before the Convention,
now a zealous supporter of Fremont and with
al a man that disgraces a seat in the United
States Senate, gives utterance to these senti
ments : “ There is a higher law than the Con
stitution, which regulates our authority over
the dominion. Slavery can be and must be
abolished, and you and / must do it.
N. P. Banks, Jr., Abolition Speaker of
the House of Representatives, says : “If the
chief object of the people of this country be to
maintain and propagate chattel property in
man—in other words, human slavery—this
Union eaimot and ought not to stand.
Gen, James Watson Webb, a leader in the
Convention and Editor of one of the principal
Fremont organs, says: “ On the action of this
Convention depends the fate of the country;
if the ‘ Republicans,’ fail at the ballot-box, we
will be forced to drive back the Slaveocracy
with lire and the sword,” [Cheers.]
Anson Burlingame, (the same Massachus
etts member of Congress, who by his insulting
aud braggadocio manner, lately induced Col.
Brooks to challenge him to a duel and then
sneaked out of it by an unfair advantage and
cowardly subterfuge) thus expresses himself:
“ The times demand, and we must have, an
anti-slavery Constitution, an anti-slavery Bi
ble, and anti-slavery God
Cnarles Sumner, the Martyr, in speaking
of that safe-guard of tho South, the Fugitive
Slave Law, 6ays: “The good citizen as he
reads the requirements of this act is filled with
horror. Here the path of duty is clear. I am
bound to disobey this act.
These are the sentiments of their most re
spectable men (if any of them be respectable)
—men occupying prominent positions before
the country—the “ arch leaders” of the in
fernal legions of the Abolitionists. Their
lesser lights” far surpass them in treasona
ble, diabolical language. For instance, Hor
ace Mann says, better a servile war than
an extension of Slavery; Erastus Ilopkins
cries out, in the midst of “tremendous ap
plause,” if ballots are useless, then ice'll make
bullets effective; Lloyd Garrison calls the
Union, a covenant with death and an agree
ment with hell; Addison, of tho American Ad
vertiser, shouts, up with the flag of disunion,
we'll send the Union itself to the devil! And
as a grand summing up of the whole,'Joshua
Giddings makes this fiendish declaration.—
Here him:
I look forward to tlie day when there shall be
a servile insurrection in tlie South; when the bluck
man. armed with British bayonets, and led on by
British officers, shall assert Ids freedom, and wage a
war of extermination against his master; when the
torch of the incendiary shall light up the towns and
Editorial Correspondence cf the Georg;-
New Rochelle, N. Y„ Julyi!^ I
'Mr. Telegraph: Your humble s<-n s !■ 1
the last of a few day’s sojourn .itaL. ’-
little place “ named iu tlie date,” aboutt ^
ty miles from the great metropolis, an( j
line of tlie New York and j f J “ ! ;'
road, in the County of Westchester, j, 7"
fertile, picturesque, grassy, green, an,j
ling country all around, with that *bn i**
of stony substratum and surface *1*/
strongly marks this side as an uaintern '
sand-bed docs the Long Islaiid shoreaff
ul. The county of Westchester, l “
in historic recollections which wtu*'*
rLZi. ,, • , "tttn
(hingrcssioiiiil.
Washinqion, July 22.—Senate.—Mr.
Butler, of South Carolina, introduced a hill to
egulatc the compensation of Senators and
Representatives, giving them salaries of 83,-
000 each for the regular session, and tlie prea
nt per diem, and 25 cents per mile for travel
acli way. •aRful
Hie Bcnutc discussed the constitutionality 1 that of Brook
t making improvements in the harbors of ' apprehended.
Wiscoii'in, and passed two bills for that pur- i
pose. j
The House amendment to the resolution to |
ljourn, making it the 18th of August, was :
concurred in. |
House—The House amended the Senate I
^solution for adjourmeut, fixing the day on I
the lstli of August.
The Nebraska Election ease was taken up,
and a resolution declaring Chapman not elect
ed was rejected.
cities of the South, and blot out tho last vestige of
slavery. Aud though I may not mock at their ca
lamity, nor laugh when their fear cometh, yet I will
hail it as the dawn of a political millennium.”
Words like these arc enough
“ To madden into snakes
Tho fiery clod.”
Between us and the Abolitionists there can be
nothing further in common. We have no
compromises to offer—no concessions to make.
They are the aggressors—they have thrown
us upon the defensive—and unless their in-
ults and aggressions cease there must be be
tween us and them war to the knife, aye, and
the knife to the hill!
From ITIcxico.
New Orleans, July 26.—The steamship
Texas, lias arrived from Ycra Cruz. The dif
ficulty between Spain and Mexico has been ar
ranged. Charivari, the French Minister caus
ed serious trouble, during the negotiotions in
the Mexican Cabinet, and these differences
gave currency to reported changes in the Cab
inet.
From Central America*
General Walker has been officially proclaim
ed President of Nicaragua.
A party of Americans (a detachment of the
Nicaraguan army) was recently fired on by the
Rivas party at l.coii.
Pardoning ot a recruiting: Officer.
Washington, July 25.—The President of
the United States has pardoned Wagner, con
victed of enlisting recruits for the Crimean
war.
Brooks an il Burlingame.
Washington, July 23.—Brooks published
a card tins morning, in which he denounced
Burlingame for naming the Canada side of the
Niagara Falls as a place where he would meet
him, saying that lie (Brooks) could not go
there without running tlie gauntlet of mobs,
arrest and prosecution.
Burlingame has gone to Canada with his
second.
July 23.—Tho Senate to day passed the
House bill, authorizing tlie expenditure of the
balance of the $161,000, appropriated by tho
Inst Congress, in removing the obstructions
in the Savannah river, caused by the wrecks.
The House of Representatives ousted Galle
gos and ndmittied Otero as delegate from New
Mexico. Chaplain was sustained as delegate
from Nebraska.
801111
rich
to you. " While Plains” is her count* • ’ |
and almost every acre of it could prob^-' .' •
a stirring tale of Patriot, Cowboy, Skin ‘
Tory. “ Tom Paine’s” last resting^ * g
monument are upon the road-side m ^
than a mile from the village. It j| a T!'.
shaft bearing a medallion likeness and tV
scription: "Thomas Paine, Author of Com 2
Sense.” A rank growth of weeds overt *
the iron railing which environs the moneZT
and affords no unfair illustration of tl* i ’
scurity in which Paine’s patriotic serviT
have been veiled, by his vicious moriH^
tice aud principles.
We arc injhe midst of an abundant hane,.
and a heavy hay crop has just been gather.,;
The Weather is remarkably fine, for h,w •
ing, and the growing crops, at the mine ti*.
are not yet suffering drought. Corn is ^
and luxuriant to the last degree. Thepr.V
of fruit is fair and in short, there never
better prospect for this whole Xorthern v.
tion in things material, than Provident „
holding out just now—plenty of bread jq
plenty of money. I hear of the latter artitit
being loaned in the city at five per cart, n
call. There is not a cloud in the material
horizon; which may be the reason why4
people seem so anxious to arouse a tempi# *
things political. “ Jeshuran waxed fat
kicked.”
Upon further talk and observation, I cam*
at all modify wliat I wrote to yon some din
ago on this last topic. I have, since that tii<
seen and talked with men from all seefe.
and feel no doubt that a Freesoil fever per
vades all the non-SIavcbolding States ma.
intense and universal than iu this regio».-
The Fillmore party is that frazzling of thedi
Whig organization which is too patriotic u
relish a pure sectional fight. The Buchan#
men are the old guard Democracy who ait
stand to their guns so long as a shot caule
fired—but divided thns, as the anti-sectioni
men of the North are, it is too plain thatthej
lack the moral and physical strength for asoc-
cessful stand against Freesoilism, gatherin'
fresh recruits from all quarters, upon a ram
pant fanaticism and sectional hostility forth
common, but somewhat vague indefinite pur
pose of “ putting down the South.” That is th
alpha aud omega of the Fremont Freesoil party
and comprehends all they seem to care abac.
The mode and manner are unessential—buth
some way or other “ to put down the South’
is the great end of the canvass.
How unfortunate that the South at suck 1
moment should by her example and inHacac?
cripple her friends in the North, and encoonpt
division with the vain hope, of a successful 4-
version in her own borders for Mr. Fillmore,
which may place him as a contestant befon
the House, and per clmnce secure the penowi H
and party cud of his election.
Youv.s J- <.'•
The President of the United States has *■
cognized Barthold Schlessinger as Vice Cm-
sul of Sweden and Norway at Boston; andC.
Meyer as Vice Consul of Sweden and Xorra?
for Minnesota.
Blew Hampshire all Right.
We assure our friend in other States hst
the democrats of New Hampshire,though jfi-
bapa not making so milch noise as their oppo
nents arc as wide awake, active, and deto-
mined as at any previous presidential deetia
c the last thirty years, and further that the
n’t be beaten.—Portsmouth (N. H.) Geutle
Reward Ottered.
The Bedford Democratic Connty Coaimittrt
offer a reward of 81000 to any person or per
sons who will show that James Buchanan ever
advocated the reduction of the wages of Amer
ican laborers to ten cents per day.—Pensg<-
vanian.
Judge Ormond, of Alabama
After the conclusion of a speech by jfr.
l r aney, at Tuscaloosa, last week, JodS*
moud arose and declared himself for 1-aouu-
an. The Judge was formerly on theSqttD'
Court Bench of Alabama. The Tnscaloou
Moult":' K. .Y.. says :
He has been a veteran Whig, and it was
matter of astonishment to many thatne t
desert Fillmore wbomheonoftuo cordial v
ported. Wc ourself had been snrpnswa
but we no longer felt so when wc ‘ ieal r
Judge broadly announce that he belie-tu
Fillmore himself would soon decline tnc
and come out in favor of Buchanan. 1
of tlie Judge’s argument was “section
sues,” “South in danger,” “Buchanan ■
ly safety,” “ FiUmore not available, **-
&c.
Case ofIIon. P. T. HKRRERT.-XVashmf-
ton, July 22.—The evidence, m
lion. I’. T. Herbert, for theJkdnng of H>o.
ns Keating, lias closed. The en” ,
the prisoner made a proposition ® _
the case without argument, which w • j
cd to by the prosecution.
The late Democratic meeting
Iud., was addressed by W- A.
an Old-Line XYhig, who took f roa “'
of the Cincinnati platform and nominee^^
Scott Brown, an Old-Line Whig, 0 ,
county, Kentucky, and a candi a „
iff, avows his intention to support f
and Breckinridge. Thomas I •
Whig member of the Legislature o ^
from Woodford county, »J8->4,isal*>
the Democracy.
Return of Uurlingamc.
Washington, July 24.—Burlingame lias
returned to night. It is understood that his
seconds will soon publish a card in reply to
Xo further difficulties are
Fire iu Augusta.
Augusta, Tuesday Night.—A fire broke
out this evening, and before it could be arrest
ed, the upper wooden row of the Factory
buildings was entirely destroyed.
Herbert Acquitted.
WashIngton, July 24.—The Jury in the
ease of Herbert have just returned with a ver
dict of acquittal.
Of the former leadin
journals in
LIHJ lUIBtU *> 1 -,,.,.1 rili-*
auks, who are supportwg BudiM«,
Jreckiuridgc, we notice the M. vYkrcbtt
ottce me «»• , uWii”
ille Courier, ami - |
The Louisville Courier ££I
He Haven and George 1). ®;_ :k i” M , u kd |
liean, the Loui
Intelligencer.
fore statute
the stump for
eh Whigs in Kentucky.
for Buchanan and Breckmnas«-
V. 1 hlHil A UI *‘ • — . */rrm
entlcmanin this territory ssvs— , —J
Into this
ty. It is believed there will be little. ; ; i'
arc pouring --- —
healthful Territory with unprccec
ty. It is believed there will be tit
less than 75JI0U addition to onr 1*1
this year.”
In Alempliis, Tennessee, the
fication meeting was addressed \vi'liani-=- “
Avery, Mr. Temple, and H. B. Win
formerly Old-Line XX big 3 -
• • -mioiiC ,
The Cincinnati Enquire r mum > ^
accessions to tlie ilemoeiatic p Jl -
lowing Old-Line XX higs : (JeHu
Hon. Rufus Choate, Massaclu-• • ^ ; p-
Ashman. Mass; George Evans. °‘
Senator Dixon, Kentucky; • ■cm ' fjorjU
Louisiana; James
Jones, Tennessee
Stevenson, Kentucky; Gear go
Je- :
oreveusou, ivc".'"--; • - - , King-
Charles Anderson, Ohio; T. Bt ^ Mi ,
Wm. Preston. Kv.t and Xlr.