Georgia telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1844-1858, March 16, 1858, Image 2
THE (H-OHflIA TELEGRAPH.
Jfews Summary.
Vrrlrnl oftlic Cnundn.—'The Cannada airivcd
at Halifax, on the 10th, with Liverpool dates to the
STth ult. Her accounts report an advance of an eighth
ca all qualities, and some circulars make a larger
advance. The sales of the week preceding the steam
er's departure were 51,000 bales, ten thousand to
speonlators and 3000 to exporters. The market clos
ed firm at the following quotations:
Fair Orleans. ' 8d
Mid. do > 7 t-lfid.
Fair Mobile 7 i d -
Mid. do 0 tod.
Fair Uplands ~i d -
Mid. do 71 d.
The Stock on hand was 70,000 bales, of which 100,-
000 were American. *
The news from Manchester was favorable. Goods
were advancing. Money abundant. Consols 96| to
97. Breadstuff* were dull and unsaleable. Pro
visions dull with a declining tendenoy, Sugar firm,
with an advance of a sixpence to a shilling for refined.
The general news is important. The Palmerston
Ministry had resigned and a new government organ
ised as follows:
Earl of Derby, Premier; D. Israeli, Chancellorof the
Exchequer; Sir F. Salsbury, Lord Chancellor; Earl cf
Hardwick, Lord of the Privy seal; Spencer Walpole*
Secretary Homo Department; Earl of Molsmbury Sec-
lclary Foreign Relations; Sir Bulwer Lytton, Sec
retary Colonial Department; Peel, Secretary at War
Sir J Partington, Secretary of Admiralty; Lord Col
chester, Secretary Post Office; Mr. Henly, Secretary
Hoard of Trade; Lord Ellenborongh Secretary Board
of Control; Lord John Mnnier, Secretary Public
Works; Sir F. Kelly, Attorney General; Earl of
Eglinton, Viceroy of Ireland; Blackburn, Irish Cbaa*
cellor of Justice.
Canton was captured on the 80th January, and the
renowned Governor Veh and a Tartar general were
among the prisoners. The City was held in posses
sion of the allies until satisfaction should be rendered.
I They lost 130 men, killed and wounded, in the as
sault.
Sir Colin Cambell was preparing to enter Oude for
tho final struggle. Xn immense number of arres's
were made in Pa: is. Tho trial of the conspirators in
France had taken place, and resulted in their con
viction. Orsini, Rudis, and Pierri are sentenced to
suffer death, and Gomez to penal servitude for life
The Danish Ministry had resigned.
»£»pntcfco« from Brigham Young—The
Herald Washington correspondence of tho 17th says
Mr. Bernhuisel. the Mormon delegate, received a
large hatch of ofliolal documents by tholast mail from
Salt Lake. Brigham informs Beruheisel in so many
words that unless the army is withdrawn from their
Tenit: ry rot one of the men will ever return to the
1 United States alive, ne urges the United States
to send a comission to Utah to examine into the state
of affairs at present existing in their Territory. lie
alleges that all the reports circulated in tho States
against them were concocted by tho vagabonds who
were sent out by former administrations to govern
them.
His letters breathe unrelenting war unless tho ad
ministration tako his advice end withdraWthe army
firom their Territory.
The Porlry of Crime.—The police of London
hare detected a new burglar's instrument of the
most extraordinary description. It will cut through
solid iron half an inch thick, a hole six inches in
diameter. It will accomplish this feat with ease in
an hour, and without making the slightest noise or
sound, or without unfitting the tool for an Immediate
repetition of the experiment. This invention of
knavery is admitted in England to be a perfect mas-
terpie;e in mechanics. It is confessedly the produc
tion of a skill and experience that may well excite
the envy of the most celebrated artificers in that
. species of human handiwork.
nmi« Eluuinni generis.—An outrage which
ought to stamp the perp^rator as an enemy of the
human kind, is noticed in the Sav. Republican of the
11th. When the last Wednesday morning train was
about entering upon the trestle work of the Ogee-
chee Swamp, about one o’clock, a. m., yesterday,
gome fiend incarnate discharged a gun into the win
dow of the passenger car. Two slugs entered near
the head of a passenger acd passing immediately in
front of his face, and but a few inches distant, went
out at tho opposite window, quite as near to the head
of another passenger on that aide. The circum
stance, of course; produced great excitement among
the passengers.
This is the third attempt of the kind that has been
made within a few weeks, and it is difficult to ac
count for so wanton an act of depravity, worthy on
ly of tho Thugs or India.
Heath of John George Anderson, Esq.—
The Floridian A Journal of the 6th instant mentions
the -udden death of John George Anderson, Esq.,
a highly valued citizen of Tallahassee, on the even
ing of the 1st instant.
Senator Dougin*.—The Richmond Dispatch of
Mond «y, says:—We have hoard a report that Senator
Douglas, of Illinois, intends to resign bis seat in the
United States Senate, and spend some years on the
continent of Europe.
fiadilru Dentil in Brunswick.—The Herald
of tho 10th instant, says >—“On Friday last, Mr. Hen
ry Dale, a young man of excellent character, and ap
parently in robust health, fell dead while walking’
the street.”
Convicted.—Thoraa* Golden waa tried at the
Superior Court of Marion county, last week, for tho
murder of Nicholas Jordan some time last winter and
convicted.
Jamaica—A laboring population needed.
—Late arrivals br ng the Governor’s Message to the
Legislature of the Bahamas. Like every document
from that paradise of Emgncipati<)P and free negroes,
it tells of the need of labor. The Governor says.
“I feel assured that were the attention of the more
opulent and intelligent classoi directed to the devel
opment of our insular resources, and were their ef-
forts seconded by the regular and continuous industry
of a laboring population, a groat'acceaalon of wealth
would accrue to those islands, which, in addition to
fruit, aalt aud sponges, could also produce cotton
• and those textile makets which axe now so much
sought for. in the markets of Europe. While it has
given we great pleasere to transmit occasionally to
the Board of Trade camples of those native produc
tions which have become objects of eager acquisi
tion to tfiqjnvonHve designers of modern art, that
pleasure has not been unalloyed with regret that the
samples sent to me sffoulii have been so few, the pre
paration of them .so.unfrequent, and the interest ta-
';ken in tlieir extension or Improvement so slight.”
Gil spring*.—A letter from Wirt Court House,
Vn„ di-si-ril.es tho petroleum sources in that neigh-
borhood. They were first discovered by an old
hunter named Stokely, on Hughes' river, Dear its
junction w'th the Little Kanawha. This oil is found
at a very short distanee below the surface of the
ground, 'fit>4 extends in a horizontal bed about one
“ J ‘ miife along the river, Tunning west, and back, north
and south, for about fifteen miles. It lies saturating
a stratum Wf coarse sand, six feet deep, and from ev
ery space of ten feet square about ten barrels of oil
maybe secured. L l Ol
Coiinrrlicut Politic*.—The Democratic State
Convention of Connecticut met at Hartford, on Wed-
aesday last.I Hie following ticket was nominated:
Governor. Gen. James T. Pratt; Lieut, povernor,
John Colton. .Resolutions were,adopted sustaining
Mr. Bucharmnnn the Kansas question. One aocount
nays that Gen. Pratt is a Douglas Democrat.
Naral Entoralisn Bill.—Under the SenRto
joint resolution, which passed the H< use on Wed
nesday, it is understood that the President is pre
pared promptly to nominate for restoration to the
active list of thh Navy many of the officers stricken
down toy the action of the Naval Board.
Dialrraa in Bnflnlo, IV. Y.—There are said to
be < J7t families in Buffalo, - N. V., dependent on tbe
relief fund for their food and fu*l, and 10,000 persons
dependent on charity for support.
I.nrgc Yield of Corn.—The Coles County (Illi
nois) Ledger says Mr. A. N. Graham, of the vicinity'
of Ashmo.e, from five acres of ground, raised six
hur dsed bushels of corn, weighing fifty-six pounds to
tiie bushel—an average of ouo hundred and twenty
bushels to the acre. The land from which the above
fine lot of corn was raised is what is usually called
••brush land.” The corn was planted abont the 10th
of May, three feet apart each way, with from three
to four grains in a hilt, and covered with a plow. It
received no cultivation hut three plowing* with a
om -hi rro Peoria plow. The corn is white and rath
er flinty. The seed came originally from Kentucky.
Court 'il.iiunl— X military court-martial has
b> ■ n ordered to convene at Carlisle Barracks on the
10th Inst, to investigate the difficulties subsisting bo-
tween Gen. Ilnrney and Col. Sumner.
Thomas Con..i;.—Tbe Tlmmasvillo Wire Grass
It' i iter, of the 9tb instant, announces tho deaths of
Jo : M H* r ! «; , mil Hrayton .Singletary, worthy
c -liuis oi Thomas county.
.Jinains Bill in the Senate.—Mr. Green has
given notice that the friends of the Kansas bill in
the Senate would press that measure to a final vote
on Monday (15th instant,) and there is hope, there
fore, that one House of Congress will soon be rid of
t. Tbe countiy is clamorous for a final determina
tion of this question.
New Organ of Northern Methodism.—The.
Methodist Conference in session at Baltimore on the
9th instant resolved to establish a newspaper, which
is intended in part to disabuse the public mind in re
lation to the views of the Conference in regard to
slavery. The paper is to occupy conservative
grounds.
Bogus Coin.—The Philadelphia Ledger says : It
seems as though the Manufacture and sale of Bogus
coin in that city, has at last become a perfectly legi
timate pursuit. In our rambles about town, we
came across a placard conspicuously displayed in a
show case, on Second street, not far from Chesnut,
which read:
“Good imitation of gold coin—always keeps its
color—for sale cheap.”
We took a peep into the case, and there beheld a
tempting array of two-and-a-halves, fives and twen
ties, all well calculated to deceive unsuspecting in
dividuals, especially at night.
The Supreme Conrt will comhnence its ses
sion at Atlanta next Monday. The following is tbe
order in which the dockets of tho circuits composing
the 3d District, will be called:
1st Cherokee, 2d. Blue Ridge, 3d. Tallapoosa, 4th.
Flint, 5th. Coweta.
An Arrival.—Mahomed Pasha, Rear Admiral
in the Turkish Navy, and his suite, nrrived in New
York in the Eurnpa—his mission being to superin
tend the construction of a man-of war to be built in
that city. The gossips describe him thus:
He is a man of about five feet ten inches in height,
rather stoutly made, with broad shoulders and an in
telligent countenance. He has a smooth, pleasing
face, peculiarly Oriental, largo dark eyes and round
visage. HU cheeks have a tendency to redness,
and his face is plump. He is a man of accomplished
manners, and during tho grand attack on Sebastopol,
and through the whole Crimean war, commanded a
division of tho Turkish fleets, although he is now on-
ly thirty-two years of age.
Tbe dress of the Admiral is quite plain. A loose
brown frock .overcoat covers a dark cloth frock coat,
inside of which is a brown velvet vest and colored
shirt. His pants are of a black cloth, and his hoots
rather heavy in material, of the kind common-}’
known as short boots. Around his neck was a muf
fler of gray woolen cloth, aud around his head, in
Turkish fashion, a red aud blue turban.
A Hard Bond to Travel.—Intelligence lias
been received of the progress of Capt. .Marcy's ex-
pedition from the Utah Army to Santa Fe in quest
of mates. The command started for Santa Fu the
127th December, with 66 mules and fifteen or tweniy
horses, and on the 20th January reached Fort Mas
sachusetts. in New Mexico, with twenty-two of the
Mules and none of the horse*. They had travelled
eighty miles through snows four feet deep, had got
out of provisions and been subsisting on mule meat
for a number of days.
Tcxa*.—The lower House of the Texas Legisla
ture lias passed the Senate’s bill for a geological
survey of the State, so amended, however, as to lim
it the present appropriation to $20,000, and givo the
Governor power to appoint the State geologist, who
will have two assistants selected by himself.
Death of Commodore Derry.—We regret to
read the death of Commodore Matthew C. Perry, in
New York, aged 63. He leaves two surviving child
ren. daughters,—one of whom is the wife of Mr. Bel
mont, late, Minister to Holland.
The Iicviashnn.—Capt. Harrison, who is to have
commandof the English steamer,.‘Leviathan,’ writes
that he expects to reach Portland, Maine, in that
vessel about the last of June, and that lie will remain
there seven weeks.
Mole* in Kentucky.—'The Paris Flag quotes
ales in that place the first of the current month, as
follows:
Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather,
several hundred head of Mules, Cattle and Horses
were disposed of on Monday. There was an im
provement in prices and sales more readily effected
than at late Courts. We give the reports of several
auctioneers in another place. Sixty-four head of
Mules, three years old this spring, sold at $125 per
head ; 30 at $105; 34 at $100, &c. Yearlings at $110
to $70; match Mules $341 to 8232. Common Jacks
at $900 to $400. A large number of Horses from In
diana, Ohio, Ac., sold readily at $250 to 3150.
Tired of Free Nearoe*.—Petitions numerous
ly signed have bocn sent to the Pennsylvania Legis
lature praying a statutory prohibition to negroes
from coming into that State. The petitioners com
plain that this population is worthless and n great
public charge. Why, then, should tho North seek to
overrun the South with a population intolerable to
itself, even in a very light proportion ?
New nao of Cotton Seed.—A medical use has
been discovered of Cotton seed. A soap is made,
the basis of which is Cotton Seed Oil, which, says
the advertisement, “is known to have a most happy
effect on the skin, in removing tan, freckles, and
healing all irritations, rendering the complexion soft
and clear.”
Gen. M. B. Lamar.—“A letter from Aspinwall
says, that when the last news arrived there from
Greytown, all was said to be quiet, but all miserably
poor and dull. Gen. Lamar attempted to ascend the
river by one of the Steamboats, hut, when twenty or
thirty miles up, she "gave out,” and obliged liim to
return. After considerable delay in repairing, he
started again, with success. The General was last
heard from at Grenada, whero somo gentlemen from
Costa Rica assert they saw him much perplexed and
troubled on not being able to find a government.”
Franklin Cottage.—Tho Athens Banner says
that the story of dissatisfaction among the Students
of Franklin College, » without foundation. The
“hooks sold’’ belonged to the last graduating class*
and tho “whispers of discontent” have reached no
other's ears. Only two havo disconnected them
selves with the College since January last.
■The patriot of last Thursday
12th, sales 7000bales at 11 to llj for Middlir g. Sales
of tho wt. ek 74,500 bales—receipts 69,500. 1 Decrease
at that port 81,500, and at all the ports 334,500 bales.
Stock an band 439,500 .Mobile, Friday, a decline
of an eighth to a quarter and sales of 1000 bales.
Middling 11* to 11J. Sales of the week 20,500 bales;
receipts 17,250 against 7000 same week last year. De
crease at the port 42,000 bales; Stock 155,000
Savannah, Friday, a fair enquiry and 1,102 bales
changed hands at rates varying from 9 to 12j. Mid
dling quoted at 11J toll*. Saturday, 986 hales sold
at unchanged prices. In Augusta on Saturday there
wero moderate sales, with a good enquiry and prices
firm.
TheMormoni.—Salt Lake dates to the 25th Jan-
nary, announce that the Mormons are manufacturing
cannon, revolvers, powder, and the usual materials
of war. A ski; mish had taken place with a party of
Mormons and the picket guard of the army, in which
two Mormons and four soldiers were killed.
GnUicrins of She Filibnaler*.—On the 6th
inst., in New Orleans Generals,Walker and Henning-
sen, Col. Anderson, the filibuster officers generally,
and the reporters for the press, were received with
great honors on board the yacht Wanderer.
Knaia* Report.—St. Louis, March 9.—The Re
publican of this morning contains information from
Kansas, stating that an attempt had been made to
abduct tbe judges of tho election at Delaware Cross
ing, to prevent their giving evidence. One man was
said to have been killed.
The clerks were at Shawnee, preparing a state
ment under oath, that they gave their testimony be-
foro the investigating committee under threats of
death.
A letter from Fort Scott says that the place had
been taken by Lane’s men, who were robbing the
stores and stealing hors-es; but no lives had been
lost.
Foreign Import* nt Bo»lon.—Boston, March
8.—Tholmports at this port for the week ending tho
5th inst., show a total of $681,572. The correspond
ing week in 1857 showed a total of $1,093,836; de-
crease in 1858, $412,264.
Tlic Knoxville Synod.—The United States
Synod of tho Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America, recommended by the Richmond
Convention, will be held in the city of Knoxville,
Tenn, on the first Thursday (the 1st day) of April
next, nt 7 o'clock, P. M. This is the Southern Seces
sion irom the New School General Assembly.
MACON, GhA.;,
Tuesday Morning, March. 16.
Albany, Cteoigin.
says r
The business of this place is increasing rapidly.
Goods are being sold at small profits for cosh, which
is causing a large new trado to concentrate here.
Improvements in building goes on steadily. There
will be an abundance *of bricks made this season for
building purposes.
The BetterKcgiatcring Systems* Failure.
Our experience, thus far, says the Journal of Com
merce, goes to establish tbe fact that a much larger
proportion of registered letters fail to reach their des
tination, than of letters that are not registered, 'i he
reason doubtless is, that tho register mark is a dis
tinct announcement to every ono who has access to
a letter thus distinguished, that it contains money*
or something else of value. And as there are dishon
est men here and there, it is not strange that such
letters frequently miscarry. The system of post of
fice drafts is already in operation in England; with
the best kind of success. It would bo a great con
venience here.
A Royal Printer.—According to a usage in
Prussia, all tbe Royal family must learn a trade. The
Prince Frederick William, just married to tbe Prin
cess Royal, learned tbe trade oi a compositor in the
printing offioe at Berlin.
For Egypt.—Tbe passenger cars for the Alex
andria and Cairo Rail Road are manufactured in
Springfield, and ten of .them were shipped last week
—tbe rest under contract to go by the 1st of July.
From Jlcxico.—VeraCruz dates to the 5th have
keen received by tbe Tennessee.
Civil war was prevailing throughout Mexico. The
government troops, near Celaya, Were awaiting re
inforcements. Other parties, six thousand strong,
had fortified Celaya.
Alvarez was in tbe field wi(h three thousand caval
ry, opposiug the new government.
The downfall of Zuloaga was considered certain.
An Abolition Convention was held at Albany
on the 8th inst., Rev. Samuel J. May presiding. Re
solutions advocating tho total abolition of slavery
and condemning all other political parties were in
troduced. The convention was about equally divi
ded between males and females, white and black.
Wendell Phillips spoke during tho afternoon and
evening.
Tbe Collin*’ 8tcnm*b:p».—It is reported that
the Adriatic, Atlantic, and Baltic will be bought in
at tho public sale of these vessels by Messrs. Brown,
Brothers A Co., they being tho largest creditors; and
that they will continue the line as heretofore, with
tbe $19,250 mall contract. It is also reported that
tbe trips of the line will be extended to Southampton
and Havre, and that the vessels will commence rai
ning in tho course of a month or six weeks.
Domestic Cotton markets.—IaA'f» York, Fri
day, 12tb, a quiet market, with sales of 2000 hales.
On Saturday, firm, a large export enquiry and holders
offering freely. Eale3 CjOO bak-3 ..• Orleans,
England and France—the Rising
CLOUD.
The London correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser indulges in the sub
joined speculations concerning the political re
lations of England and France :
Probably a majority of the people of Eng
land still believe that the Emperor of France
does not meditate an ultimate war with this
country. There is an ineradicable impres
sion as to his “ sagacity,” such as is always
created by success, which prevents people
from supposing that he could contemplate
such a course. Do what he may. therefore,
lie will still be ‘‘our faithful ally,” until pos
sibly some morning an announcement in the
Moniteur will throw a new light upon the
matter. At present any hostile manifesta
tions are simply viewed as part of his astute
contrivances for diverting the army and pre
venting them from supposing he is too unflinch
ingly devoted’to us. “The last thing he will do
he to break with England,” is the cry, and th^,
will wish is father to the thought. Perhaps it is
to be the !ast thing he will do, but there are
those who believe he will do it nevertheless.
Hois sending a fleet to the Red Sea,- osten
sibly to be ready to convey a body of French
troops to China, where it is certain they will
not be needed. These troops are to go through
Egypt and to embark at Suez. At all events,
the sbips-of-war will be at Suez, whether the
troops are sent or not: and in case of neces
sity these thips will be ready to stop the over
land transit. They might also take in hand
the Australian mail steamers, and even visit
some of the Australian ports. At the same time
France is to be separated into five great mili
tary divisions, hut all, according to the repre-
sentationsuiade, merely with a view to home
protection. Every office of the State is like
wise being thrown into military hands, even
that of Minister of Ihe Interior having just
been filled in this manner. Of course, again,
it will be said that the soldiery thus predom
inant will fully approve the maintenance of
the motto, “the empire is peace,” and will find
every satisfaction for their ambition in remain
ing at home to act the part of spies and police
men. With every tongue silenced, every pen
destroyed that would dare to put forth a word
in snpport of commerce, morality and good
faith, in contradistinction to the fiercer impul
ses of these sons cf glory, it will still be con
tended, until the plot is matured and the mo
ment arives for throwing off the mask, that
the days of revenge or aggression have passed,
and that the exchange of international bene
fits, the promotion of friendly intercourse, and
the cultivation of the beneficent arts, constitute
the supreme aim of France. To any one who
credits such professions tbe question should he,
“ Have you ever seen or conversed with a
French soldier 1” If so, he would merely re
quire to be reminded that it is the French
soldier that now represents the country.
It was mentioned some time back that im
mediately after the visit of the Emperor Na
poleon to Osborne, the English project for a
railway aud telegraph to India by the Eu
phrates was suddenly discountenanced by the
government. Some persons fancied there
might he a connection between the two events.
The stoppage of our communications is the
primary mode by which we can he embarras
sed. The Egyptian transit, as has already
been observed, could be cared for in that re
spect. The Euphrates route might offer more
impediments to interference. Hence observers
who find it impossible to dispel the suspicion
that one cf the conditions at Osborne, in re
turn for certain concessions on the part of
France, was that the Euphrates scheme should
no longer he supported by our authorities.—
At all eventfl, it is admitted that French influ
ence at Constantinople has prevented the con
cession for the telegraph being granted. It
was promised to an English company, and had
already passed the Council of State, when at
the eleventh hour an intrigue succeeded in
preventings signature by the Grand Vizier.
But for that fact we should by this time al
most have been in instantaneous connexion
with India. The loss by the depreciation
must be counted by millions. Under auy cir
cumstances, therefore, we find it expensive
to meet the consequence of having a faithful
ally. But the Emperor Napoleon gave a thou
sand pounds to tbe relief fund for the sufferers
of the mutiny, end our public, perfectly
blinded with the touching act, had no wish to
sec further.
Finally, if there were no other realbn for
watchfulness, it is to be remembered that there
is not a single step in the career of his uncle
which Louis Napoleon has not tried to imitate,
except that of making war upon England.
Under these circumstances—remembering
the meeting last autumn at Stutgardt with the
Emperor of Russia—remembering, also, that
the professions and solemn oaths of our ally in
all other respects have invariably proved de
ceptions to cover some patiently-concocted
scheme of an opposite character warily pur
sued for years, and never communicated to
any one till the last moment—it will be seen
that it wou'd at least be unwise to cast away
all idea that the political horizon of Europe will
ever again show a cloud. Indeed, the exist
ence of a cloud has just been made apparent,
and although it may be said to have been no
bigger than a man’s hand, it is an important
thing to consider that tlio man to whom the
hand belonged was Louis Napoleon.
Senator Iverson.
We met to-day a gentleman recently from
the City of Washington, who saw this distin
guished Senator and conversed with him upon
onr Kansas relations, and the duty of the South
in connection therewith. We are gratified
with the intelligence derived from this source,
that he is determined to uphold and defend
the rights and honor of the South against all
odds and at every hazard. His position thus
reported did not strike us, nor will it aifect
our readers with surprise. We have not for
gotten how nobly he bore himself in the mem
orable contest of 1850, and with what zeal and
energy ho lent the vigor of his arm in defence
of Southern honor. We shall doubtless hear
fr* :i! him at an early day more directly and
explicitly.—[Times A Sentinel.
Tiie Keller Ti'Oiipo
Commence their exhibitions in Ralston’s Hall to
night, and we have no doubt they will present one
of the most splendid and entertaining -spectacles
ever witnessed in Macon. The Montgomery and
Mobile papers, where they have lately exhibited,
speak in the highest terms of the Troupe. The
Mobile Register says that no pageant at all compar
able with it was ever seen there, and its exhibi
tions were nightly attended by vast assemblies.—
The Montgomery Mail says that it was the greatest
exhibition ever witnessed there, and took the tow:
by storm.
Visit of IXou. Edward Everett.
In reference to the visit of this distinguished
gentleman to Macon, wo learn upon enquiry that
nothing further has been received from him since
his letter in reply to an invitation from the Mayor
and several of our eminent citizens. .Chat letter
we did not copy at the time. It is as follows:
Boston, 29th January, 1S58
Gentlemen :—I have had the honor to receive
your letter of tho 10th inst., enclosing a certified
copy of the Resolution of the Mayor and Aider-
men of Macon, inviting me to repeat my oration
on ‘‘the Character of Washington,” during my
contemplated Southern tour. It wjll efford me
great pleasure'if engagements previously formed
permit me to comply with this request, by which
I feel much honored.
EDWARD EYERETT.
Hon. O. G. Sparks, Mayor.
Messrs. E. A. Nisbet, T. G. Holt, J. T. Boifeuillctt,
Washington Poe, Clifford Anderson.
We understand it is the purpose of the Mayor, so
soon as Mr. Eervett shall arrive in Savannah, to
address him again on tlic subject, and if possible,
prevail on liim to tarry here on liis way Westward,
and repeat that beautiful discourse on the charac
ter of Washington, which, wherever it has been
heard, has been pronounced a master piece of or
atory, and elicited the most enthusiastic admira
tion. In endeavoring to secure to Macon the
pleasure of this visit and this intellectual treat, we
are sure the Mayor will but respond to the almost
universal desire of the citizens of Macon, and that
it will afford them pleasure to extend to this illus
trious and accomplished man, the same generous
hospitality with which he lias been invariably re
ceived in other Southern cities.
All Exciting: Day.
To-day, (Monday) is, we suppose, a day of con
siderable excitement in the National Capitol. It is
the day assigned by Senator Green, who is Engi
neer of the Kansas Bill in the Senate, to put it fi
nally through. The Topeka party will probably
die hard, and tlic struggle may be protracted per
haps till midnight; but we trust the Democratic
Senators will adhere inflexibly to their purpose
and pass the bill to-day.
Crawford Superior Court
Was in session last week, having adjourned on
Saturday.
- The Court was opened on Monday morning—the
Grand Jury organized and selected Judge Brice
Foreman, and after a lucid and impressive charge
from Judge Lamar, proceeded to the despatch of
business.
On Monday afternoon v. bill was returned for
murder against James Revel, and on Tuesday bis
trial commenced. The Solicitor General, Theod-
rick W, Montfort, Esq. assisted by Samuel Hall, Esq.
appeared for the -State. The prisoner was repre
sented by George R. Hunter, Esq., Win. S. Wal
lace, Esq., of Taylor county, and O. A. Loclirane,
Esq., of Bibb. The testimony closed on Wednes
day, and Samuel Hall, Esq., addressed the Jury in
an ablo speech for the prosecution ; George R.
Hunter, E3q., concluded for the prisoner in a very
learned, eloquent and ingenious argument.
The Court having charged the Jury on the law
of the case, tjicy retired, and after a short consul
tation returned a verdict of Guilty. As the case
goes to the Supreme Court on a motion for a new
trial, we forbear to comment on the facts.
During'the week Wiley Cleaveland, Esq., was ad
mitted to the Bar, having passed a highly credita
ble examination.
The following legal Gentlemen, besides the local
Bar, were in attendance on the Court: Allen G.
Fambro, James-M. Smith and P. W. Alexander, of
Upson, Wm. S. Wallace, James May, and B. F.
Reese, of Taylor, JolinM. Giles, of Houston, S. T.
Bailey, W. K. DeGraffenreid, O. A. Lochrane and
Washington Poe, of Bibb, Samuel Hall, and James
Hall, of Macon.
We arc happy to learn that the return of suits to
March Term wa3 very light, indicating that our
Crawford friends are not suffering much from the
scarcity of money or pressure of tho times.
Storming of Cantou.
We have in another place a very spirited narra
tive of the capture of Canton by the British and
French allies. The Times boasts that this storming
of a city containing a million inhabitant :, was an
exploit of some four to fivo thousand British and
French soldiers, seamen and marines; and no
great exploit at that, taking fpto account the men
tal and physical imbecility of the Chinese. It was
very much like an assault upon a sheep pen. But
what if Gov. Yey still continues stuffy, what will
the allies do with Canton, now tlioy have got it ?
It will be very much like the elephant won in the
raffle. As a trading port, it will be useless in the
hands of a foe, and all intercourse with the inte
rior cut off by Vermillion edicts, Chinese patrols or
perhaps even by circumvullation; and it may be
held there, it sce’ms to us, to tlic end of time, with
out compulsary effect upon the Chinese in the way
of bringing them to terms. To invade the Empire
will be a heavy addition to British hostile adven
tures in the East just now, but unless in pursuance
of such an enterprize, Canton will bo of no use as
a military station. The capture of Canton, there
fore, it seems to us, will amount to nothing in the
way of conquering a peace, if the Celestials are
really disposed to be obstinate.
The general result of these hostilities upon East
ern character—the progress of commerce and lib
eral ideas, civilization and religious truth in that
quarter, will no doubt be bcncffcial. The first
step' towards improvement in these particulars is a
knowledge of deficiencies, which the Chinese will
never acquire except experimentally.
Tbe Florida War.
The Tampa Teninsular of the 6th inBtant, is
sanguine, that the war in Florida is about to be
terminated by a voluntary emigration of the In
dians. Two of the hostile Indians came in without
solicitation, to the ..station occupied by the Indian
Delegation from Arkansas, on the 10th ult., and
had a talk. Four more came in on the 27th, a-
mong them Bowlegs himself, who demanded to see
the money before he made the bargain. They
are soon to have a Council and determine finally
upon tho matter. It is stated, as an additional
evidence of the disposition of the Indians to treat
upon the subject of removal, that neither of theso
parties had seen the deputations of friendly Indians
which had been sent out to solicit a talk.
f5g~Tlie Steamship “Alabama” arrived at Sa
vannah at 8 o’clock this (Monday) morning.
New Hampshire Election.
Concord, N. H. March 11.—Returns from 180
towns give a Republican majority of 600. This is
believed to be about tho majority in the State.
Washington, March 14.—Senator Douglas has
been severely ill for several days, but is now slight
ly improving.
Senator Davis, of Mississippi, is no better; it is
feared that he will lose his eye.
A Conjugal Incident.—Lola Montez tells
the following anecdote of Dumas:
He married a broker’s daughter, without wit,
good sense, beauty, or even without a spotless
character, merely to pay a large debt he owed
her father. Entering his room suddenly one
day, lie caught a man in the very act of kiss
ing his wife. “Good heavens,” was his only
remark, “aud without being obliged to.”
The Democratic Party.
The privilege of fault finding belongs to the mi
nority and let them use it, if they will. The respon
sibility for results hangs in all its weight upon those
who plan and strive to execute, while the idle by
stander may fold his arms—criticise the plan of
operations, and point out obstacles or assist in mul
tiplying them. His labor or amusement is a cheap
one, but it accomplishes nothing of any value.—
The world's affairs must still be controlled by those
who plan and those who strive to execute. When we
find the newspaper organs of “Americanism” in
Georgia all with ono consent pronouncing the ad.
ministration “a failure”—the democratic partyfalse
ledges to “restore peace to the country”—
holding up with very evident delight the “feuds
defections and schisms” in the ranks of the de
mocracy and the “desperate” condition of the coun
try, wc might well ask them for a remedy and the
evidence of some power to apply it. What would
they propose, or what could they do ? Some of
them denounce the administration plan of adjust
ment in Kansas and yet bring forward, so far as we
sec, no substitute at all. The remainder merely keep
off and “enjoy the trouble”—seeming to forget like
the Irish passenger on shipboard in a storm that
they have some common interest in the result. Wc
would like to know if affairs indeed are in so terri-
rible condition, what our Americanism could pro
pose as a remedy with any hope, even to them
selves, of carrying it into successful execution.
Something, indeed, the very blindest may sec
and ought to learn from tiie past. We saw the
Whig party, in 1818, going into power with a tre
mendous popular majority, and wc saw the inaU'
guration of this controversy and the principle of
adjustment still contended for by the democracy
costing that party its political existence, although
but very partially responsible for it. The majority
could not abide a fair national settlement of this
sectional controversy and ii is historically true that
the Compromise of 1850, and the divisions grow
ing out of it, were fatal to the Whig party as a na
tional organization. So long as it remained an op
position party, responsible lor nothing, all went
well enough; but when culled upon to affirm some
thing positive and practical in the arbitrament of
sectional rights—it divided hopelessly, leaving on
ly a national moiety, while the mass at the North
was soon absorbed in black republican sectional
ism.
The whole weight of responsibility then fell upon
the Democratic party—through years of struggle
and toil against all the combined elements of sec
tionalism—frcc-soil wings—recusant democrats and
abolitionists to establish sound national doctrine.
They affirmed it in the Kansas bill and free-soilism
stormed. They declared it at Cincinnati in no
doubtful or guarded words and all sectionalism put
on harness and went forth to battle. They carried
it before the people in the hardest political fight on
record and there was a howl and a shriek across the
continent. They affirmed it in the Supreme Court,
and then came anathema maranatha. Every de
vice of a dogged, unyielding and inveterate sec
tionalism has been set up to defeat it—emigration
aidsocieties—Sharpe's rifles—levies of men and mo
ne y—hired bullies—paid agents to invent slanders,
pervert judgment and inflame the public mind
through the press—threats of civil war—actual re
bellion—fa short, every scheme which reckless in
genuity could devise lias been industriously resort
ed to—and all in vain. The democracy will car
ry out its purpose auu inaugurate this principle.—
It has remained throughout true and steadfast to
its purpose in spite of foes without and foes within.
Let our American friends take courage, therefore.
The “distractions” of the country will abate with
the defeat of the distractors and peace can only be
obtained by putting down its foes. The democra
cy arc sorry they have such a troublesome, obstrep
erous and shrieking sett to deal with, but the fault
of the noise rests not with the democracy though
all Americanism should swear it.
The “‘failurei” of the Administration aud the par
ty which placed it in power will shortly once more
amount to a signal triumph over the factious ene
mies of the publie tranquility. It will be a glorious
triumph, but it willnot terminate the conflict. Free-
soilism will still batter at the gates of the citadel,
and still will there be a demand for the same reso
lute and unconquerable defence of right and jus
tice. Let our Southern opponents, instead of
standing by and looking on and complaining of the
dust and mire, take a baud in the struggle for
the maintenance of rights and principles of common
value to us all. Suppose they do it ?
Wc will, in conclusion, venture a prophecy, to
wit: that notwithstanding all this clamor, the next
Georgia Legislature will affirm with almost entire
unanimity, that Mr. Buchanan has maintained with
fidelity the principles which carried him into office.
Tlic Kansas Bill.
A synopsis of Mr. Stephen’s report as Chairman
of the House Special Committee of fifteen, is re
published in another place in to-day’s Telegraph.—
We have 'no space for the entire document. The
Union says of it:
“We invite attention to the exceedingly able re
port of the majority of the special committee of the
Houso of Representatives, through Hon. A. H.
Stephens, upon the President's message on the sub
ject of tho admission of Kansas. The report is ad
mirable in tone, temper, and statement. It presents,
a lucid view of the facts of the case with a clear and
overwhelming argument against tho positions as
sumed by Messrs. Walker, Douglas, Stanton, and
Wise. At this point it is well to observe that Mr.
Stephens and bis associates of tho committee found
it necessary only to rebut and overthrow the argu
ments against admission produced by persons here
tofore connected with the Democratic party. The
Republican theory proper, is ail embraced in acts of
rebellion and revolution. Hence, ns was said on
another memorablo occasion, tho Democracy has the
best arguments on our sido of the question, aud we
have loaned our opponents half a dozen men to make
tho best arguments on their side.”
It is said tho Bill in tho Senate will be passed to
a final vote early this week. There is no doubt
about its passage by ten or twelve majority ; and
as little about its success in the other House. Le-
compton is now daily gaining ground everywhere,
and bolting Democrats will be left in a corporal’s
guard minority of the party in Congress and among
the people. The “ sober second thought” is com
ing up powerfully to the aid of the Administration.
A Comfortable Establishment.
A correspondent of the NewYork Independent thus
describes the domain of the Duke of Devonshire : t
The domain of the Duke Devonshire would cover
one of our largest counties. Tho park immediately
surrounding the palace is eleven miles in circumfer
ence, and contains three thousand acres. The
principal garden for vegetables, fruits, green houses,
etc., is twenty-five acres. There are thirty green
houses, each from fifty to seventy-five feet long.
Wc went into .three or four containing nothing
but pine-apples, ripe ; others contain nothing but
melons and cucumbers. One peach tree on the
glass wall measures fifty-one feet in width and fif
teen feet high, and bears one thousand peaches.—
It is the largest in the world. The grape houses,
five or six in all, are six hundred feet long, and
such grapes! We saw pine apples weighing ten or
fifteen pounds each. One green house had only
figs, another only mushroons. But what shall be
said of the groat conservatory, filled with every va
riety of tropical plants?”—It'is one of the wonders
of the world. It covers an acre of ground, is one
hundred feet high, of oval shape, and cost $500,-
000. It is heated by steam and hot water pipes,
whichjin all are six miles in length. The apparatus
consumes six hundred tons of coal in a year. Wc
saw banana trees twenty feet bigb, with clusters of
fruit, sugar-cane, coffee trees, bamboo, and in
short, every tropical plant tlint can bo named.
Several of the palm trees arc from fifty to sixty
feet high. The smoke of the immense fire under
neath is carrie,d in pipes under ground to an ouliet
in the woods. The coal is brought in a tunnel six
hundred yards under ground. One fountain throws
a jet of water to the height of two hundred and
seventy-five feet.
The Old Police Restored.—At the Gen
eral Term of the Supreme Conrt, this morn-
BIOGPvAPHICAT. FO^OE
OF
HON. JAMES II. STARKE.
Died, after a painful illness of five days, at his re
sidence in Griffin, Ga., on tho evening of tho 23d
February, 1858, Judge JAMES H. STARK.
Judge Stark was born in Abbeville District, S. C.,
February 17th, 1806, and was, at tho timet of his de
mise, aged 52 years and 6 days. At 15 years old he
began teaching a School in the neighborhood where
he was born, and continued iu that vocation during
the five succeeding years. Then he engaged in the
study of Law with Governor Noble, in Abbeville
District, and continued under hi3 instruction until,
in 1807, when 21 years old, ho was admitted to the
practice. In the same year he moved to Jackson,
Batts county, Ga., where, as was required by the
laws, he was admitted to practice in the different
Courts of his adopted State. In 1832 ho represented
Butts county, in tho Legislature, and Was, a mtmber
of times a member of that body. He married Miss
Mary Anne CargUe, on tho 27th December, 1832.—
He became a member of the Baptist Church and
was baptized by Rev. James Carter iu the year 1833-
In December, 1849, he moved to Griffin. Ho was
elected Judge of the Courts of the Flint Circuit in
November, 1849, and in this capacity he presided un
til January, 1856, when he resigned aud returned to
tho practice of law in which he continued to the time
of his dffatli.
The sudden departure of one so gifted, so highly
esteemed and so much beloved by all who knew
him, brings painfully to mind the (ruth that “Death
loves a shining mark.” Possessed of a penetrating,
powerful and well disciplined mind; a judgment un
erring in its decisions; a fancy capable of appreci
ating and conceiving the most refined and elevated
thoughts; a heart alive to tbe most tender arid gen
erous emotions and loftiest sentiments; a will that
bade defiance to opposing circumstances; energy
that never flagged, and perseverance that never
grew tired, he was eminently qualified to hold a high
position among his fellowmen. Added to his great
mental ability w ere those graces that render man
lovely, and in him the Christian virtues were so beau
tifully blended that it was Sifficult to tell where one
left off or another began. Ours is no common los3.
The nation, in this hour of ominous doubt, lias lost a
citizen on the altar of whose heart the vestal fire of
patriotism burned brightly and unceasingly; the
distressed and needy are bereft of a friend who was
ever ready to assist them, and whose heart bled at
the misfortunes of his fellow-creatures whom he
could not relieve; and the Church is caused to weep
in humility over the tomb where is deposited one of
its brilliant and beautiful ornament*. During his
life he frequently held posts of preferment, but no
success was sufficicnt to make liim forget that pro
priety and gentleness so becoming in a man and a
Christian. As an Attorney ho was ever solicitous for
the interests of those whom he represented, using id
honorable means to have their rights secured; cour
teous (o liis opponents and prompt in the discharge
of his duties. As a Legislator, he leaves on our
Statute .Books tho impress of his mind, aud of his
love of truth and justice for their own intrinsic mer-
As a Judge he was diligent in his search after
truth, and did, without fear, favor or affection, what
ever he believed the law directed - and when ho left
the Bench the Ermine fell untarnished upon his sue
cessor. But he appeared most lovely in tho private
walks oflife. It waa delightful to commune with
him as a friend, when he had laid aside his profes
sion and appeared, as he really was, a warm hearted
and affectionate man. The example which he, in the
relations of master, husband gad father, placed be
fore those who came within his mfluence, was worthy
of all imitation. The best testimony of the manner
in which he discharged the dnties arising from these
relations may be gathered from the fact that his ser
vants cherished towards him the most tender and re
spectful affection; his children fondly idolized him;
but no tongue can tell his bereaved wife’s devotion.
Though his"departure was a sad stroke to all who
knew him, his last moments were a triumph over
Death, as were all the hours of his distressing con
finement ; nnd here we gather strength and consola
tion. After being informed that bis dissolution was
near, ho called his family into his room and made a
most touching prayer in their behalf to the Father of
the fatherless and tho widow’s God. Ho repeatedly
expressed his perfect confidence that, after death, he
would pass from earth to heaven, aud exported those
around him to meet him in that happy sphore whero
there is no sorrow, parting, or death. Ha was ra
tional to the last moment, and gavo the most satis
factory evidence that “Though he walked through
the valley of the shadow of death, he feared no evil.”
ard Gambling, Michael Gorman, and five hnn
dred others, that the proceedings taken before
the Commissioners for the removal of the re
lators of the policemen were void for want
of jurisdiction, and mnst be set aside. The
effect of this decision will be to restore all the
old policemen—unle ; the Court of Appeals
should reverse tho decision A’. Y. l^xjirens.
Northern and Southern Exports.
The speech of Gov. Hammond, of South Caro
lina, seems to be as yet the only feature of the
Senate discussion on the Kansas Bill, which has ar
rested public attention. That is a pithy, terse af
fair with a point to it, which the Hon. Senator pur
posely, it seems to us, has punched into the ribs of
that swaggering egotistic Northern freesoilLsm, and
let out a good deal of wind. It was mainly a re
ply to Mr. Seward. We copy so much of it as ef
fectually contrasts the productive resources of the
two sections of the Union:
But the strength of a nation depends in a great
measure upon its wealth, and the wealth of a natipn,
like that of a man, is to be estimated by its surplus
production. You may go to your trashy census
books, full of falsehood and nonsense—they tell you,
for example, that in the State of Tennessee, the whole
number of house-servants is not equal to one-half of
those in my own house, aud such things as that. You
may estimate what is made throughout the country
from these census books, but it is no matter how
much is made if it is all consumed. If a man is worth
millions of dollars and consumes his income, i3 ho
competent to embark in any new enterprise ? Can
ho build ships or railroads ? And could a people in
that condition build ships aud roads, or go to war ?
All the enterprises of peace acd war depend upon
the surplus productions of a people. They may be
happy, they may bo comfortable, they mav enjoy
themselves in consuming what they make ; but they
are not rich, they are not strong. It appears, bv go
ing to the reports of tbe Secretary of tho Treasury,
which are authentic, that last year tho United States
exported in round numbers $279,000,000 worth of
domestic produce, excluding gold and foreign mer
chandize re-exported. Of this amount 8l5s,coo,ooo
worth is the clear produce ofthc South; articles that
are not and cannot be made at the North. There
are then $80,000,000 worth of exports of products of
the forest, provisions aijd breadstuff's. It we assume
that the South made but one-third of these, and I
think that this is a low calculation, our exhorts were
8185,000,000, leaving to tho North less than $95,-
000,009.
Id addition to this, wo sent to tho North $30,000,000
worth of cotton, which is not counted in the exports
We sent to her S7,000,000 or 88,000,000, worth of to
bacco, which is not counted in the exports. We
sent naval stores, lumber, rice, and many other mi
nor articles. There is no doubt that we seat to the
North $40,000,000 in addition; but suppose tho
amount to be $35,000,000, it will give us a surplus
^reduction of $220,000,000. But tbe recorded exports
of the South now are greater than the whole exports
of the United States iu any year before 1856. They
are greater than the whole average exports of tbe
United States for the last twelve years, including tho
two extraordinary years ofl836 ami 1857. They are
nearly double the amount of the average exports of
the twelve preceding years. If I am right in my
calculations as to $220,000,000 of surplus produce,
there is not a nation on the face of tho earth, witii
any numerous population, that can compete with us
m produce per capita. It amounts to sixteen dollars
and sixty-six cents per head, supposing that we have
twelve million people. England, with all her accum
ulated wealth, with her concentrated nud educated
energy, makes but sixteen and a half dollars of sur
plus production per head. I have not made a cal
culation as to tho North, with her $95,000,000 sur-
Pl.us; admitting that she exports as much as we do,
with her eighteen millions of population, it would be
but little over twelve dollars a head. But slio can
not export to us and abroad exceeding ten dollars a
head against our sixteen dollars. I know well
enough that the North sends to tho South a vast
amount of the productions of her industry. I take
it for granted that she, at least, pavs us in that way
for the thirty or forty million dollars worth of cotton
and other articles wo send her. I am willing to ad
mit that she sends us considerably more; but to
bring her up to our amount ofsurplus production, to
bring her up to 6220,000,000 a vfcar, tbe freuth must
tako from her 8125,000,000; and this, in addition to
our share of the consumption of the $333,out),ooo
worth introduced into the country from abroad, aud
paid for chiefly by our own exports. Tho thing is
absurd ; it is impossible ; it can never appear any
where but in a book of statiities.
With an export of $220,000,000 under the present
tariff, the South organized separately would havo
840,000,000 of revenue. AVith one-fourth the present
tariff she would have a revenue adequate to all her
wants, for the South would nover goto war; she
would never need an army or a navy, beyond a few
f arrisons on tho frontiers and a fewrovenue cutters.
I is commerco that breeds war. It is manufactures
that require to be hawked about trf 1 world that gives
rise to navies and oommerce. But wo havo nothing
to do but to tako off restrictions on foreign merchan
dise and open our ports, and tho wholo world will
come to us to trade. They will bo too glad to bring
and carry from us, and wo shall never dream of a
YVflf W hw flm fiAllfVl Vans n„i*e* kiwi « inol rtnu.n
ing. a decision wns rendered in tbe casc of Rich- #SSgSS
been on the point of honor, and that point of honor
has been mainly loyalty to her sister colonies and
sitter States, who have ever siaco plundered and cal
umniated her.
Fire in Clitirlestois.
Charleston, March 1-1.—A tiro occurred in this
city this morning, by which seven hundred bales of I £Uid mxe suppe
cotton were destroyed. j or.”
• aA - .tSuaitwa til — nb j gwci 'Noiatao ®»fl ta
An Able Letter.
The following is the letter of Se c - P t
to tho greet Lccompton demonstrating ^
York on the 4th.
mon merit.
LETTER FROM SECRETARY non
Washington Citv, Mareh
Your proposed meeting on the 1858 *
one of peculiar interest, and I 7 W, ' J bt
that it will not be Himj power W
and participate m its proceedings t ? , re8e »t
terizing your meeting as “one of' \. ^t*
terest,” I mean the full import of n,i lat >o-
The question you meet to consider j? 8 f>
importance, and of itself would h«VJj . fall o?
enlist the liveliest interest. Kan« i 0,1 to
?o fully and freely diseased that it ^
that nothing remained to be add on a ^
yect, and yet m view of the peculia, . n! >-
things now existing in reference loV*?^
sesses all the novelty of a new n^’
all the importance of a vital issue ii’ 1103
tracted the public mind of the countrvf Uas dij '
alienating its different sections and e*.!''^
the Union with the violence and hW ^K’
the party contests which have grown A?*-
The democratic party of the whole r- tofit -
tempted its solution by the annlie,*; D1()aat -
great principle of selfioverng^Jfc
at the foundation of our free institm; “ ll{ *
country, responded to the proposition^-' ^
triumphant election of Mr. BuchaZ
Presidency. In the regular and |1« *
course of things, we encountered thoT - te
hostility of our opponents, who, frlT?’
ginning, denied our principles andXfi^J*-
strength. At each step, however 0 U„
gress, the principle so happily mang^Lf
applicable to Kansas in 1850 has »,■ Y-“
creased support. The hour of finfi ,
finds our old foes prostrate at our fLl a.'L
strength exhausted, their power endM v?
race run, prepared to yield anobedienrA.f
popular will which has been wrong
by the cordial and patriotic co-oneratirAf?
united democracy. It was in this hour f ^
triumph that the democratic party
its past success and hopeful of its f utu “ ; 7
ries, was destined to receive a cruel bW;„T
house of its friends. What our
failed to accomplish, ajportu»ofouranl£
hold seek to effect. It gives peculiar intZ
to your meeting, to know that the deiaeZ
of New York present an unbroken f roat J
support of Mr. Ruehauan’s administration.^
carrying out* in good faith theprinaWk
was chosen to vindicate. The low muArrf
disaffection in your midst is scarcely enoad,
indicate the unanimity with which it wAl
crushed if it had reached a point of soffit
importance to attract attention. The deal,
craey of New York, speaking through their re.
presentatives in Congress, their press, their
representatives in the legislature, publicmeet-
mgs of the people, and in all the othcrmodei of
giving expression to the popular opinion have
exhibited a unanimity of sentiment in favor
of the Kansas policy of the administration un
precedented in the political history of your
State. This is true to-day of the New York
democracy, and in a short time, I venture to
predict, v.-fU bo true of the democracy of the
whole Union. Why should it not be so! ij
looking at the Kansas question as it now stud,
what is there left to disturb the public pew
and distract the public mind ? It is no longer
the question of slavery in Kansas. Evert
friend of the constitution who respects the rights
of the States, concurs that the people of Ra
sas, and Kansas alone, should be permitted to
decide for themselves, and in their own wij
whether Kansas shall be a free ora slave Slat;.
This being granted, it is equally true that tla
admission of Kansas under the Lecompta
constitution affords to the people of the State
the most ready and certain mode of regulator
their own affairs in their own way, free fai
all outside interference. If they desire to bin
slavery it will be in their power ta retail it
and on .the other hdnd if they prefer to ml;
it a free State no earthty power has a tight ti
prevent. It is not then a question of slavery
or no slavery in Kans*. The issue preset:*!
by our opponents in the last canvass rats
limited to this point. They assumed i hi
more important ground, and declared that ss
more slave States should be admitted ia 4*
'Union. It is in support of that issuethittlty
oppose the admission of Kansas with apn-
slavery constitution, declaring, asthey do.tci;
a large majority of the people of Kansas as
opposed to slavery, and admitting, as theya
that that majority will be fully authorised ci
der the provisions of the Lecompton constifr
tion to make Kansas a free State, so soon is
the voice of her people can be heard in a Con
vention to be called for that purpose. He
question of slavery or no slavery in Kansu
sinks; into insignificance by the sideof then®
important issue made by our opponents, that
no more slave States are to be admitted hits
the Union. The rejection of Kansas epot
such an issue is the announcement ofasacc®-
fal war upon the constitution of the conatq
and the equality of the States. I am no i'xi
ist; my brief political record will protect *
from the imputation; but I address to zy
countrymen the words of soberness and tutt
when I say to them that our noble Uni*
cannot survive the success of such an issns
This doctrine of no more slave States orignr
ted in the spirit of deadly hostility to the re
cognized institutions of fifteen of thesove*?
States of the Union. It tramples npos *
most solemn pledges of the constitution. *■
substitutes for its sacred guarantees, thebce
ful teachings of false philanthropy *ado»»
ed fanaticism. It stifles the votes oflo T *>,*j
friendship, and brotherly affections.
in the hearts of the people—passion, projit"
and hatred. It stigmatizes the memoryno-
revolutionary fathers, aitd would writem-*-.
and infidelity upon the tomb of yyj
Tha picture is not overdrawn; andlwr*
call upon patriots of every section, and n
of the constitution everywhere, to ““ .
common effort to stay the hand ofto J
fanaticism from its work of ruin, rne
cracy of New York recognizes the danz ,
nobly plants itself in the breach,
in v heart I bid them God speed in the is ;
oft he patriotic duty in which they axe en, v
If in this hour of peril and danger tbe
is to be rescued and saved, it w®" be '
the national democratic party. ,‘ ie l.Ty
bility is upon us. Are wc equal to .
The t President of our choice, the r j 1 a
head of our organization, has S ive “.
country the evidence of his fidelity top**£
and of his firmness in the discharge .■•
The policy he has indicated for tbe uj
the Kansas issue is before the coun y. ^
commanding each day more genet . .
will stand firmly by it, and the d= ?, •-po-
ty will not falter in its support. _ J
licanism has cowered and will c°
foro our triumphant banners, .-jjfc*
our own ranks may eo3t an oc ^
but the old democratic
thrown from the track nor seno J
in its onward progress. hqWELL c0B?v
Peter B. Sweeney, Esq., chairman, et>
York City. -
Perfectly Cool* Uort
A waggish friend of cur’s te s ^£1
which wc do not remcmbAr to have
P A certain man, whom we
was noted for posscssinggreatcou^
sence of mind, and tho Grossest
borhood.
More than one. attempt had cex
frighten M without
dark, stormy evening, one of ^jn 't>\
resolved to see if there was a y ^ \
fixed himself up in the most g ***>- pi?-7
sible, and stationed himself in^ . ( j t op 1S: ^
wood through which M * i
^The^ctandedghosthadscarcely^jj^fj
self in the position,when ji ^ os»*^
and came whistling unconcern ,
Suddenly the ghostly ?S ure
and in a sepulchral voice com f . ^^*1
stop.—M—-— did so,
his companion for a moment, sai * j
most coolness :
■I can’t stop, friend; l£ Y ftba
request you to get.outo ^iljl
io suoper with me u <■- I