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! gainst it, and Mes*ra John 11. Rice, M.
: A. Cooper, and other*, for it.
There was raised in this Convention
for educational purposes, $3,000.00. for
building a Church .at Ringgold, $100,
for the sup]>ort of an indigent minister,
The following are the Trustees elected ly
the Cherokee Baptist College:
. Crawford, J. J. Howard,
r E. Dyer,
, J. W. J-ewis,
T. U. Wilkes,
J. M. Wood,
A. Webb.
A. W. Buford,
8. G. Hillyer,
C. W. Sparks,
L. Dillard,
T. Goldsmith,
J. II. Rice,
THURSDAY MORNING,!/
MAY 27, 1858.
0tR PAPER.
With this week’s issue we coir,
inetice sending “ trial copies” to such j South. & Adv,
of our citizens as we would like to!
G. W. Selvidge, T. M. Compton,
J. S. Rowland, R. L. Rogers,
M. A. Cooper, T. A. Sullivan,
Lewis Tuiniin, J. H. McClung,
W. T. Wofford, Tbos. J. Wofford,
’ Ira R. Foster, R. M. Young.
\ The next session of the body will he
held at Dalton, Ga.
We copy the above report from tbe
That $8^00 Reward.
From Ike baadhilla plmriM through the
country, and the tempting advertisements of
$2,500 reward ia asvenl of our exchanges,
calling forth editorial puffii, Ac., it would
actually seem tkCtsome fortunate scoundrel
bad, by slight of band performance, illegal
Df 810.000.
It seems that tea thousand dollars ia bank
notes addressed to Hall, Mooes & Co , cf
Columbus, Georgia, traa stolen from the
i Adams Express Company on the 25th day of
‘ April last, while in transit from Atlanta.
1 Georgia, to Montgomery Ala., and that said
J, W. Kinabrew, 1 Company has offered a reward of $2,500 for
W. A. Mercer, \ its recovery, and sufficient evidence to con-
Madison McMurrr, ' vict tbe thief. But better than all. to show
the responsibility and punctual payment by
his Company of its losses or negligence, we'
re advised that the amount stolon was
mptly paid over, together with ah extra
have on our mail books as subscribers.
We would not knowingly intitule
ourselves upon any one, and to those
who receive our paper that think it will
not pay to take it, we respectfully solic
it its return.
The Age we live In.
The nineteenth century, although but
little over half spent, presents au anom
aly in the world’s history, and will fur
nish more material for the pen of the
historian, the philosopher and poet
Wo know The Standard is worth tbe j than a score of its predecessors. Until
■subscription price, $2.00, to any one j the commencement of this century, and
who feels any interest in county matters i j n f au t until about a third of a century
•or Ihe general news of the country, and j back, tbe world seemed disposed to reg-
we have adopted this plan because it mate its advancement by constant cotu-
wa* not possible to see you individually.
The Standard is on rising ground,
and promises a liberal reward for our
parisen with its earlier ages. But since
steam has assumed her sway, and the
lightnings of heaven are made to do our
toils, yet we wish a wide and more gen- handy work, a new vigor—a new iinpe-
era I circulation, and hope our friends; tas—in short a magnetic motive power
will aid us in the effort. We propose j seems to diive us heedlessly, though
to extend the payment of $2.00 to the) whizzingly on through ihe years before
first of January next. We would mudi lls ; and fiom the progress making and
prefer the cash in advance, ns it requires
the cash to carry on our business, but
we will promise not to complain if pay
ment is made by that time. Our deter
mination is to make The Standard in
reading matter what it is mechanically.
high pressure of steam just new on, it
would seem that we must soon reach
the jumping-off place, if we do not fly
tlie track or burst the boiler before we
ariive. Our speed is such that could
our ancestors, the god-fathers of this in-
inferior to none in Cherokee Georgia.— | fantile though overgrown government
We intend to so conduct The Standard
that we shall merit the confidence and
patronage <T the people of tlie county,
and the public generally, and whether
we receive it or not it will be a pleasure
for us to know that we deserve it. A
■newspaper is tbe cheapest thing a man
can buy for two dollars.
B3g- Those who do not return om I
■paper, we will consider as acceptim: I
our proposition, and will enter theii
names as subscribers. jgff Will
■our friends use their influence for ns?
May 20, 1858.
The Removal Question.
On Wednesday next the vote rs of Cass
county will be called upon to decide , tor such developeinent and progress was
step upon the stage of action, they
would involuntarily seize upon some
sturdy oak or rocky fastness, for fear of
being thrown off in a tangent from
this whizzing, crazy planet, upon which
we move with so much assurance. But
such it is, and we must hold on and a
bide the issue.
What field of action now lags in the
distance ; what part of the whole ma
chinery wants more oil; what class or
condition of men that want spurring up?
It cannot be the inventive genius of the
age, for her manifold revelations startles
us weekly by new inventions of every
imaginable benefit, advantage and curse.
It cannot be the literarv and scientific,
whether the public buildings of the coun-j "^rd. earned of in the Chrstian or Pa
, „ r . , , , gau world,
ty shall remain where they are, or be
■removed to a more eligible (?) point.—
They all understand the provisions of
the bill; and we are glad that an op
portunity is presented for a final settle
ment of this vexed question. Tin’s matter
has not only occasioned ill feelings and
dissensions among a large portion of the
citizens of the county, but it has serious
ly injured our town. If a minority of
the voters of the county are in favor of
removal, they will have an opportunity
on Wednesday next to say so at the bal
lot box; and if a majority are opposed
to removal, they have the opportunity
likewise, of voting in accordance with
their wishes. Cassville is as convenient
■a poiut to the people of the whole couti-
ibuildings could be removed.
Voters of Cass County ! which do you
piefer—Shall the public buildings re
main-where they are—or will you re
move them, and saddle a debt upon the
County of near Fokty Thousand Dol
lars ! This is the question for yon to
■decide by your votes on Wednesday
■next—and we trust that every voter in
It cannot be in the gait v>e
are wont to travel, for the winds of heav
en are outstripped in speed, and dis
tance is annihilated in a moment’s time,
as it were. It cannot be in dress and
refinement, for tbe gilded splendor of
the queen of Sheba was less than noth
ingness, and the splendors.of Solomon’s
reign of small pretensions,compared with
the aristocratic and nabob displays of
the age we live in. It cannot be in tbe
press—that mighty engine of good or
evil, which sways such an influence over
the destinies of the world. It cannot
be murder, theft, robbery, degradation,
infamy, coriuption, bribety, perjury and
the long train of wretchedness and mis
ery so rampant thro’out every nation of
the habitable globe. It cannot be pol
itics, political knavery or purchase of
place and power—for the catalogue is
full to overflowing, and pressing for
ty as any point to which the public roo,n - 11 ca . nn ? 1 ^ religious disputa
tions, er.vy, jealousy, hatred and that
ong train of dispisables so common
in the religious world—for here Herod
outstrips Herod himself, and the black
est knaves and most hollow-heaited vam
pires that disgrace tbe grouud that they
j o’lute in treading are made the idols
and pets of their peculiar sect, on ac
count of the partizan covering that hides
their deformity—whose breath is more
fatal than the fumes of beli, and whose
the county will go to the polls, and se‘-j *°uch is worse than * a!,??*!,ere
. - . * . 1 . ‘ cannot be \oukq America: but here
<le tins question for all lime to come, ^ wou)(J det .j iue expressing ourselves :
* 7~~ j die theme is too fruitful, too full of the
Seeund Annual Fair of the Cass Conn- ; suhlijtiely ridiculous for a newspaper
ty Agricultural Society. j paragraph : if we ever conclude to write
We publish this week the Premium] a burlesque upon the age we live in,
•List of the second Annual Fair of ,he «his wdl be °ur sul^ect and we shall ex-
^ « i o i*ct to succeed by giving * true picture
foass County Agricultural Soeie y. ue ^ we ^ j t || p on t |, e grand panarama
Fair will be held at Cass IVpot, on Sep.-J pp e * ver y Jay and everywhere we go.
letnber 30 aud Ootolier l»t next. We! But what is it—must it, can it be relig-
rcioiced to know it is ihe intention 1 ion-that purest lest aud most reliable
.««, bar Fair, as earthly things ? So we think,
payment.
.e notice tbe above revelations simply to
it that this is peculiarly an age of
humbugs, and every ingenuity is resorted to
in the way of advertising, for effect. We
make no charge* here, but simply offer tbe
inquiry, issll we see of this matter relia-
ble ? We know the reward has been offered
and have no doubt if the thief could be
caught the reward would be paid We are
further fully satisfied that said Company
has paid Hall. Moses & Co , the amount of
$10,000 principal, and $35 interest. But
does all this argue anything, does all this
give us any assurance of the fact that the
money was actually stolen, and is now in
tbe hands of an unknown person ? Certainly
not. And we would, in legal phrase, prefer
the “give him the Book.’’ before we can look
upon it as anything but a mere idea ot ad
vertising for effect. Does any one know the
money was stolen ? If so, who ? If replied
the Agent, we have bnt bis simple publica-
tion of the fact under the bead of new ad
vertisements. Admitting it however to be
true—what does it argue? Simply that there
is great carelessness or negligence in the
workings of this Company. There is too
maov Gudgeon baits afloat for our creduli
ty to bite at, and we would caution our
readers not to believe every handbill posted
by the way. side, or sensa'ion paragraph ia
the newspapers until they are better assnred
of what they see. As an example: Every
paper almost in the land is full of Lottery
schemes--promising wealth in abundance to
all who will but come to the gddea shrine
and ante up their stakes How many
wretched homes and impoverished wives and
children have been the consequence ! We
hare as much confidence in the Adaios Ex-.
press Company, as any necessity for, hut
from the stand point we occupy, can but
regard the whole system as wrong, and as
another means ol unnecistary taxation upon
all classes of our country. Tbe different.
Railroad Companies of Georgia are, we
think, fully able to do the business of their
roads, and should be restrained by the pow
er that be from leasing certain privileges to
private eompanies to fleece tbe people of
their money If Adams’ Express Company
can afford to pay enormous charges for their
privileges and then make money—why can
not tbe authorities of the roads do the same
work for a much less sura and with every
facility and make money ? We have no doubt
by the charges of these licensed Companies
that tbe rail reads make more out of the
lease than they would dare charge upon the
freight transported by these Companies.—
Yet, these Companies can pay them tbe li
cense, and nnder a new name-a kind ofMag-
ic Lantern Rail Road keteb-up farce,force
the people ^in consequence of the tardiness
of the regular rail road business') to patron
ise them and grow rich off of tbe extra char
ges. As tbe Western & Atlantic Rail Road
is the property of the people, we do not think
the authorities of the road should patronise
such enterprises; bnt should do the busi
ness themselves and charge reasonable
freight.
\PREMIUM LIST,
OF THE
■ore
mu FAR
ds large reinforcements
' " T " OF THE
ton County BgricMnl Society,
to nn mlb
AtOtes fifti—,owIke Wester** At-
luticltail Road, September 30 wad
October 1st, 1858.
FIELD CROPS.
Cotton—Greatest yield and best variety,
with mode of cultivation, land measured
Fob The Staxbab». and Cotton weighed—Premium, .15.00
The Town Tax. \ Cobs—Greatest yield and be«t variety,
, Mr. Editor:—Some one seems to be much j modeofenltivntb.,landandCore meas- ~
interested to know what has been done with j "red, sample of one half bnshel,........o.OO
Colin Campbell
im,.«iirt^ in India; that symptmaa of a re
volt amour the Sikhs are apparent; that the
Kingdom of Onde isTepreseuted taj.be eery in
surrectionary in ita tendeneies. When it is
remembered that Sir Colin Campbell has af-„
ready under his command sixty thousand
men—the largest army ever seen in India—it
will be seen that be has his hands full ia
crushing out the rebellion in that country.
tbe Town Tax for 1857, and for bis benefit and | Wheat- as per Com sample one bushel,
all others who wish to know. I here make a j ™ to role-th.s to be «astired Iff
statement of the amount collected and paid me «>"* d.s.nterested persons, profitub.e-
as Ac Treasurer, and the amount I have paid I e** 8 of con * Klered
for interest ttrot had seemed before. T ^ loIeamonnt pa!d oatb y me is *878.76
i Hat—Best Hay, and greatest yield—one
The whole amount received is
Which leaves the town indebted to me
in the sum of $14.35
I have receipts showing bow every centra*
paid, but it would take too much space in your
columns to give a detailed statement; but I in
vite all concerned to call at my store and ex
amine the books and vouchers for themselves.
And permit me in conclusion to say that ma
ny persons in town pay no tax or work the
streets, and it is believed that most grumblers
are found in this
jtass.
GEORGE L. UPSHAW.
Caserille, May 22d, 1858.
of the Society to hold another Fair, as
much good will result from it. 1 y
reference to the Premium List it will l>e
seen that notwithstanding this will lie
j*n Agricultural Fair, vet tbe society
kave liberally offered Premiums to sev
eral of the mechanic, trades. This will
grave • good effect- So let every former
though the evidence as heralded forth
by the press of every section, speaks
better of our race. But we fear the
foot-prints of pure and genuine religion
is b.ut made upon tbe sand shores of
time, and when the waves of trial and
temptation shall beat over them, a track
less and almost traceless impress will be
left to maik their progress. God grant
Carriage-maker, ic. in the county pre-j that we may be in error, and speed on
mare tocarrv something to the Fair.- i »l*. w ° rk unli ‘ » nd &Ue
Z~ • .,,, . . , j image at whose unhallowed shrines our
The ladies, also, will have a fair show- J ^ K)W j n humble reverence, may
ing—as many Premiums are offered for j ^ broken down and cast to the winds';
articles in their line of manufacture. j when the follies, the flummery and gew
True, every body can’t expect to get! gaws of white sepulchred images, which
■jj. are “ full of rottenness and dead men s
I bones” shall be exposed, discountenanc
ed and scouted from the abodes of men.
Premiums, but carry something— it
id interest to the occasion
Cherokee Georgia Baptist Conven
tion.
This body met at Rome last week,
ftev. J. M Wood was chosen President,
v. G. «T. Selvidge. Vice President.
, A- Meicer and A. B. Ross, Sec-
Rev. W. It Robert preached
die introductory sermon. The following
resolution was adopted by tbe Conren-
Resdved, That any member of good
standing in n regular Baptist Church,
by payiug annually $25.00, shall be en
titled to a sent in the Convention.
Considerable dimnasioa arose pending
the adoption of (Im reaolnriuu- F. C.
Shr<q*diire and Rev. J. B.’ Grai«* a-
and sent howling to their dens of wick
edness, and bigotry, superstition, self-
righteousness, false godliness, and their
handmaids, deception and hurabnggery,
be no longer known among us ; j g*ward, Shields, Simmons, Slidell,
whan the lamb and the lion ®*Jj Stuart, Toombs, Wright, and Ynlee—
down together and be at peace; when j.
The Hutchinson Family.
This company for a number of years have
been canvassing the South and swindling
tbe people with their humbugs. This wruld,
to some extent, be endurable, if we bad any
assurance that our money tbns lavished up
on them was not converted to advancing the
machinery of Northern fanatics and the
abuse of the South. But from their recent
demonstration in the Convention of the Ab
olition party bold in New York some two
weeks since, to wit: Singing Abolition songs
for the amusement and benefit (in tbe way
of effeet,) of this conclave of miserable,
wretched and hypocritical madmen, who
not only denounce us and threaten our very
existence as a people, but who denounce tbe
Bible aa of no authority when it elasbes
with their fanatieal notions of Abolitionism,
socialism, spiritualism, fresloveism, &e ; aud
who declare if tbe Bible (that good old book,
tbe font d iti * of liberty, hope and eternal
salvation.) was iu favor of slavery, then the
Bible was a lie, and its Author a liar —
Should not those miserable impostors be
taught a lesson on their next southern effort,
and instead of receiving a liberal patronage
and large filled houses, receive tbe benefit
of a ride on some of our feuce rails, or what
maid be more appropriate, a heavy coat of
tar and feathers? Will not oar people scoot
these swindling catch-peonies of every naum
and tongue who cannot show a lair record,
from our midst, and we suffer ourselves no
longer to contribute to the coffers of onr en.
Fob the Standard.
What to Harry a Woman Fur.
Marry.for fortune? No. Better it would
■ for a inan that a mill-stone was hanged m-
round his neck and it cast into the sea than
fur bim with limited means to marry a wo
man of fortune. You would be happier grov-
el ing with poverty than basking in the wealth
of a wife. If I was called upon to recite all the
appurtenances to conjugal felicity, 1 should re
iterate—equality. Marry for beauty? No.—
Beauty is exterior—a stranger to the heart—
incompatible with intelligence—not congenial
to connubial fidelity—a few years efface it, and
it will only be remembered among tbe things
that were. Beauty of a wife, without domestic
qualities, intellectual acquirements and affec
tion, is like the rainbow with all its golden
tinsels—it shows with unequalled resplenden
cy, but it soon passes ; way, leaving nothing
behind it but empty, vast expanse. Marry for
love? No. Love is a latent, vital passion,
not constrained by volition or guided by rea
son, ephemeral in its nature, prone from slight
circumstances to sicken and die—one seeming
neglect may strike a deadly blight to its vital
ity—one misfortune will breathe over it the
poisonous, pestiferous wind of discord. Love,
says the renowued Dr. Dickson, is a danger
ous passion, even if successful, when, other
wise, frequently gives rise to insanity. Marry
then for what? Marry an ugly woman, that
has cultivated the qualities of the head and the
heart. All women are aware that they must
possess either beauty or knowledge, to com
mend them to a favorable notice in the world,
without either they roust expect to be neglect
ed, if not despised. I hare observed that
homely women, nine cases out of ten, are
more guided by reason. The cause is obvious.
By training their minds they .make passions
and emotions subordinate to an intelligent
will. They are cheerful and affable, easy, pru
dent and dignified in their manners, pious
without enthusiasm, fortitude to endure hard
ships, disappointments and privations, patient
and resigned under afflictions, frank and open
hearted. To such a wife as this I could with
all my soul apply the epithet, he!p-m«et. If
she sees a fault she will not sarcastically re
proach yon, but with a soul adequate to tbe
task, set about its eradication, using soft
words of kindness, and songs of an angel’s
minstrelsy, aid you by her advice and counsel,
sooth you under misfortune, encourave jou
nnder difficulties and rejoice with you in con
quest. You may fail in business, the thick
clouds of misfortune may hang thickly orer
yon, and the bleak winds of poverty may howl
around, but yet her fortitude will be uncon
quered. Marry an ugly woman, divest your
self of tbe bias of fortune, the tinsels of beauty
and the trammels of love. Be guided by rea
son.
“ When men hare several faiths, to find the
true
We only can the aid reason use,
’Tis reason shows ns which we should eschew,
When by comparison we learn to choose.’
tele on fair ground;...-.. 5.00
364-41 • Oats—Largest yield and best variety,... .2.50
Sweet Potatoes—Quality and quantity
considered, most raluable product per
, acre, 2 - 50
Irish Potatoes—as tbe Sweet, 2.50
Field Peas—Best yield, variety and mode
cf cultivation, all things considered,... .2.50
Exhibitors of tbe shore crops must state in
writing a fill! description, with certificates of
witnesses, when entered for Exhibition—those
not complying are non competi tors. No Pre
miums will be awarded to unremunerating
crops.
Domestic Animals—Cattle.
Best Bull 3 years old or upwards, $5.00
Best Bull 2 years old, 5.00
Best Boll 1 year old,. 5.00
Best Bull Calf, '.5.00
Best Cow 3 years old, 5.00
Best Heifer 2 years old, 5.00
Best Heifer 1 year old 5.00
Best Heifer Crlf, .5.00
Hardihood and adaptation to the country
paramount considerations. Quality of
milk and consequent yield of Butter ap
preciated above the quantity of milk.
Second best of each of the above, 2.30
Third best of each of the above, 2.50,
Best yoke of Oxen, 5.00
Horses.
Best Stattion 4 years old or upwards,... .$5.00
Best Stallion 3 years old, 5.00
best Stallion 2 years old, 5.00
Best Stallion 1 year old, 5.00
Best Brood Mare, 5.00
Best Filly 3 years old 5.00
Best Filly 2 years old 5.00
Best Filly 1 year old,. 5.00
Best Colt,, 5.00
Second best Brood Mare or Filly, each... .5.00
Best Harness Horse, Premium, 10.00
Best Saddle Horse, .........10.00
Best Draft Horse 5.00
Jacks and Jeanettes.
Best aad largest Jack, Premium, $5.00
Best and largest Jennette 5.00
Best ana largest Mule two years old,....5.00
Best a id largest Mule 1 year old 5.00
Best aad largest Mule Colt, 5.00
In addition to the foregoing Premiums there
will be awarded a Premium of a $5 Cup for
the best Stallion, best pair of harness horses,
Xannlactnre m Wood and Ira*
Best sett Cottage Chairs, Honor.
Best Tin or Wire Safe, Honor.
Best Kitchen Table, with Shelves,
Drawers, Ac. Honor.
Best half-dozen wooden Buckets,. .Honor.
Best half-dozen wooden Tubs, Honor.
Best nest willow Baskets, Honor.
Best half-dox. broom-corn Brooms, Honor.
Best close Carriage Honor.
Best Buggy, Honor.
Best Iron Castings Honor.
Best ter and round Iron Honor.
Best Saw-Mill Irons, Honor.
Best Grist-Mill Irons, Honor.
Regulations of the Fair:
All competitors for premiums npon entering
their articles or stock, will be required to pay
to the Secretary the sum of One Dollar.
Admittance to Fair Ground, first day, $1.00;
second day, 50 cents—children and servants,
half price.
There will be Omnibusses and Hacks to ear
ly passengers to and from the Fair Gronnd to
Cassville.
Rules for Exhibitors.
Alt exhibitors mast have their animals or
articles entered by the Secretary before takiug
them into tbe enclosure. All persons who in -
tend to compete for the Premiums must hare
their urticlcs on the Ground and entered by tbe
Secretary the day before the Fair. Animals
can be entered until 9 o’clock of tbe morning
of the Fair.
The above regulations must be strictly ob
served, else the Society will not be responsible
for the omission of any article or animal not
property entered under its regulations.
No article or animal entered for Premiums
can be removed before the close of the Exhibi
tion.
Full written statements of field Crops, Hor
ses, Hogs, Cattle, Sheep, Bacon, Dairy, House
hold Department, Ac., will be specially re
quired—as their importance is obrious before
decision is had.
The Executive Committee will exert them
selves for the preservation of articles and ani
mals on exhibition, but in do way responsible
for loss or damage. Exhibitors are requested
to give attention to their articles, aud at the
close to attend to their removal.
Articles, Fabrics, Products, Stock and Man
ufactures of Cass and contiguous counties will
be allowed to compete for Premiums.
THOS. G. BARRON,
, f GEO. H. GILREATH,
1 JAS. C. YOUNG,
May, ^53. Executive Committee.
Passage of the Oregon Sill in the
Senate.
The bill to admit Oregon into the
Union as a State passed the Senate on
the l$ib. The vote stood:
Teas—Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Ben
jamin, Bigler, Bright, Btqderick, Brown,
Cameron, Chandler, Clingman, Cuila-
mer, Dixon, Doolittle, Douglas, Foot,
Footer, Green, G*rin, Harlan, Houston,
Johnson of Tennessee, Johnson of Ark
ansas, Jones, King, Polk, Pugh, Sebas-
the world wil look folly, wickedness,
and the innumerable boat of Satan’s
angels in the face, and scout them from
amoig the habitations of earth; when
•ante shall be the watchword upon
wety house and hill top, and peace and
security reign triumphantly among Thy
people.
Jo. Kisahrnugfc wmdwwnsd in the Oosta-
aella riv«r, near Calhoun, Ga., on 16th.
Nays—Messrs. Bell, Clay, Chittenden,
Davis, Durkee, Fessenden, Fitzpatrick,
Hale, Hamlin, Hammond, Henderson,
Hunter, Iverson, Kennedy, Mason, Trum
bull, and Wade—17.
Absent or not voting —Mew*. Bates,
Rice, Bummer, Thompson of Kentucky,
Thompson of New Jersey, and Wilson
—11.
British Outrages.
At a meeting of the ship-masters at Del
monico’s. in New York, the following reso :
iutiens were passed :
Resolved, That the late measures of in so.
lent search of American merchantmen in.
stituted by British naval officers in tbe
West Indies, is an outrage upon ear rights,
injurious to oar commerce, and insulting ic
tbe extreme to onr national honor.
Resolved, That tbe navigators of this meet
ing assert that their experience in foreign
waters has proved that (be American navy
has ever afforded to American sailors bnt
little or no protection.
Resolved, That Congrea sLould assist the
administration to.enfore* retribution for ev
cry high-banded wrong, so as to render the
American name n terror throughout tbe
world.
Resolved, that ..our flag covers tbe cargo.”
whether that cargo consists of niggers or
nothing—and that ..freedom from search ’
is an American a inalienable right at sea.
as much so as freedom from the intrusion of
foreign policemen in onr domieils on shore.
A general meeting of ship-masters wai
called for the 18th
Suicide of William Henry Herbert
This gentleman, belter known to the
literary and sporting world as “Frank
Forrester,” committed suicide in New
York on tbe 27th, by shooting himself
with a pistol. Domestic troubles were
tba cause. He had been married bnt
three months, when his wife, by outside
interference, was persuaded to leave bim.
He was aa Englishman bv birtl.
A «*Sescii(EW ’ of British Courtesy.—
We obterve, by tha New York
that aa American vessel had arrivnd, or
wm expected in port, with a cannon ball
imbedded in her mainmast, fired by a Brit
ish erniaer, nnder pretence of bringing tbe
Americas veeml te. Under these eiream-
stances, we suggest that the said cannon
ball be brought to this eity. aad he placed
Clark, Fitch, Mallory, Pearce; Reid, on exhibitiea ia th« rotaado of the Capitol
m a specimen of British oomph
as art sow presented to .
their awa a atm*.— ifed. States.
I
best pair of mules, best jack, best jennette, best
bull, best cow and best buck—wherever bred,
provided the same is considered meritorious.
Sheep.
Best Buck 2 years old or upwards, $2.50
Best Buck 1 year old, 2.50
Best pen ot Ewes not less than 3, 2.50
Best 3 fleeces—Honor.
Swine.
Best Boar, ,...,..$2.50
Best Sow and Pijrs 2.50
Poultry.
Best pair of Chickens, Honor.
Best pair of Turkeys, Honor.
Best pair of Geese, Honor.
Best pair of Ducks, Honor.
Best bacon, mutton, beef, flonr,—Honor.
Best bacon joint and side on exhibi
tion Honor.
Best mutton hams cured, 3 to be on
the ground, Honor.
Best beef corned or dried, a sample
to be on exhibition, Honor.
Best barrel ot flour, Honor.
Exhibitors must state in full to the Secreta
ry the mode of curing Ac. bacon, mutton, beef,
and grinding the flour, and kind of wheat.
Dairy.
Best jar of butter, 10 pounds fresh $9.30
Best jar of butter, 10 pounds, old, and
mode of preserving, 5.00
Cheese on exhibition Honor.
Household Department.
Best loaf of Bread, $2.50
Best jar of lard, 10 pounds, 2.50
Best 10 pounds hard soap, 2.50
Best 5 pounds toilet soap, Honor.
Samples of jellies, preserves, pickles, sau
ces, catsups, syrups, oordiali, Ac., with
description of the process of manufac
turing the same—each sample,.. Honor.
Best specimen ot wiue, 1 'bottle each kind,
nnder the above requisition. Premium, 5.00
Best half bushel dried apples, peaches,
quinces, pears, or plnms. Premium 2.50
Domestic Manufactures.
Best woolen blankets $2.50
Best 10 yards woolen negro cloth 2.50
Best coverlet of wool or mixed, 2.50
Best comfort 250.
Best woolen socks or stockings,. .Honor.
Best piece woolen jeans, not less tbmn 3
yards, 2-50
Best piece cotton jeans not less than 3
yards 2.50
Best cotton socks or stockings, 2-50
Best counterpane, 2.50
Best cradle qnilt, Honor.
Best child’* hat, 2.50
Best Fringe. Honor.
Best Bonnet, Honor.
Best Cape, Honor.
Best pach-work Quilt, cost and ralne con
sidered, 2.o0
Best raised-work Qnilt, cost and value con
sidered, 2.50
Best Cloak and Mantle, 2.50
Beat Heaith-Rug, Honor.
Best fire Screens.......... Honor.
Best lamp or vase Mat, Honor.
Best Reticule; .-. Honor.
Best Purse, Honor.
Best Gloves,. Honor.
Orchard aad Nursery
Best variety cf Apples, Honor.
Best variety of Pesis, Honor.
Best variety of Peaches, Honor.
Best collection of Quinces, Honor.
Best collection of Grapes, Honor.
Hoftiealtaie.
Greatest aad best veriety of Garden Veg
etables, $3.00
Best and largest collection of Garden
Seeds, 2.50
Mechanical Dspartmeat.
Best Road Wagon, Premium, $5.00
Best two hone Wagon, 5.00
Best Thresher, 5.00
BestFan, 2.50
Best Seed Planter. 2.50
Best Cotton Gin,.. ........Honor.
Best Plow Stock, Honor.
Best Club Axe. Honor.
Best Manure Fork, Honor.
A Free Flag or a Privateer War.
The United States steamer Colorado has
been despatched to Ibe coast of Cuba, with
instructions that will cure British eraisers
for nil time to come of tbeir mania for exer
cising the despotism of search on our mer
chantmen on the high seas. The present is
a most convenient season for coming defini
tively and forever to an understandirg with
England on this vexed question. We have
the right men for eraergecey in Secretary
Cass and President Buchanan They have
nlrecdy written out their names in letters
of light in defence of tbe freedom of onr flag,
and there will be no surrender now.
An American ship on the higb sen is that
much of our Republic afloat, and must be
protected from invasion. From his youth
upward, James Buchanan hss been the
dauntless, unvarying opponent of British
pretentions to the «, right of search ’’ The
name of Lewis Cass is also indissoloblv con
nTcted with our national res : s «i c* to this
arrogant assumption.
If England means eYil, she could not have
selected a worse time for herself, nor a bet-
ter for us, than this very year of IS58. It
is suicidal to renew her former assaults on j
our flag and commence now. when onr peo
ple are on the alert and ire bare the cool
head and bold band of a well tried pilot at
the helm Mr. Buchanan can now settle at
once and forever the question of search. It
caused the war of 18121 hut it was not set
tled then, and England has always hoped
and watched for a time in which she could
resume her old practice of searching our
ships without bringing upon herself danger
ous reprisal The day of absolute reckon
ing has now arrived, and the balance must
be struck in one o' two ways.
England must distinctly concede to us
#hat we do to all the world, that the flag
covers the cargo—whether in the language
of the New York resolutions, •* that cargo
consists of niggers or nothing; that freedom
from search is an American’s inalienable
right at sea, as much as freedom from the
intrusion of a foreign police is the right of
bis d-imicil on shore.”
If England is honest and sincere in her
professions of good-will, there can be no hes
itation in putting her treaty seal to this ac
knowiedgement of American rights. But
in the event of her evading, in her old fash-
The Foreign Slave Trade
THE SOURCE OT POLITICAL POWER TO TR(
SOUTH—UT L- W. (PRATT.
There is n common fetling at tbe So«th
that in the present aspect of onr fortune)
there is the necessity for some settled conr*
of notion There is the tendency to poijtj.
col aggression, which it ia important to re.
.* mat. and tbe tendency to disturb oar soei»l
Constitution, which it is extremely inpor.
tent to arrest. The institution of doneati-
slavery bus been arraigned before the p u ^.
lie opinion of the world; it is tried by other
forms of soeiety upon foreign laws, ami
while we have acknowledged jurisdiction
and have entered our defence, there baa oe t !
er been the room for hope that aentetee
shall not pass npon ns.
But while this is so, there has come to he
n feeling of repugnance to such humiliation -
a conviction that it is possible and proper
for slavery to erect itself, to withdraw from
foreign jurisdiction—to become to ifoelfgtht
source of law and centre of op : nion—to u.
some the moral strength of an aggressive
attitude—to take judgement of others u
they take judgement of ns, and grasping rhe
sovereign rights end powers of an equal
constituent of the social World, to mareh op.
on tbe plan and meet the issue.
This feeling is daily growing stronger,
and as it casts about for means to meet tbo
crisis, and ns the sonree of slavery was the
slave trade, there is a natural tendency of
opinion in favor of that measure, and to
some of the most obvious considerations it
presents I will now address attention.
The first consideration in favor of the for
eiga slave trade is ia the fact that it will
give political power to the South. It were
a fatal blindness to ignore ths troth that
the two great sections of this country art
distinct, oad a fatal error to suppose that
there can ever be an equality of rights with
out an equality of political power to sustain
them. If tbe North 9ball have an excess of
population, and an excess of States, the
North will govern. If the South shall have
an excess of population, and an excess of
States, the South will govern. It is utterly
impossible that all the paper instruments
upon earth can give political equilibria*
without an equilibrium of social and poiil 1 .
cal conditions. At present the North has a
majority of two votes in the Federal, and ot
more than fifty ! n the Representative branch
of the National Legislature: the North has
a population of sixteen million, white the
Sontb has a population of bnt ten million.—
Tbe North has the natural increase of six-
teen million, while the South hns the uatn.
ral increase of only ten million, ami the
North has. in addition, an exclusive increase
of three hundred and fifty thousand per an
num from n'lrof.d. Under such citenmstan-
ces it were simplicity to suppose that politi
cal power between them eau he equal. The
North most expand to vacant territory ; she
must exclude and circumscribe the Sowtb ;
she must increase her relative strength in
Congress; she must control the government,
and through tbe government, the South, and
though an army o-f martyrs from the Notth
should spring upon the breach, to slay the
progress of aggression, it would still roll en
aud crush them from its path. Such mar
tyrdom is Dot lo be expecte-l, but- should it
happen it would be of little value. In great
social movements. Ihe mew upon (be surface
are bnt its exponents; they are powerful
with it, but powerless w-tliout. and though
thousands of them might be swept away, the
popular purpose would never be without an
j organ. The purpose to control tbe govern
ment has been already indicated ; it was in
dicated in the last Presidential electron: it
is indicated in the efforts to ej elude Kansas ;
it is indicated in the proscription of men.
who have respected more the obligations of
the Constitntion than the dictate of the Dem
ocratic power, and if the stranger spectacle
of a people having power and forebar ing lha
use of it, is ever to be exhibited npon this
earth, we have already the assurance lh»t
it is not to be exhibited within this Union.
Under these circumstances, tbe only road
to security is ihe road to political power.—
A dissolution of this Unisn is not to be con
sidered. The causes for a dissolution have
existed, hot they have not been acted on.—
Tbe proposition to dissolve the Union has
been tendered, but it has not been adopted.
That end may come, and will come doubt-
less, without tbe road to social and political
security shall be sooner opened. The colli
sions necessary to subjection wil! break the
bonds and set ns free, bat it is not to be re
solved on. No State ever has, or ever will,
perhaps, be able to resolve upon nn act of
political dissolution. In States, as in men,
the instincts of life sre stronger than tbe
motives to destroy it, and without tbe de-
ion, by • prolonged course of diplomatic
shuffling, this formal admission, we have I pendence on tbe chances of collision, there-
still onr remedy in the suspension of the | fore, tbe battle between the great antsgo-
neutrality laws. This will give her crui
sers plenty of work in guarding her beloved
colored relations from the visitations of our
investigating countrymen. If that ia not
satisfactory, she can declare war -and
while she is looking after Ireland and Lonis
Napoleon. India and the Czar, Australia
and the Chinese, enr privateers will settle
her commercial interests for tbe current cen
tury.
If by chance this coast guard of British
gnn-boats should portend the Africanixation
of Cuba, which the Spanish Cortes seems to
be tinkering at, under the supervision of tbe
British Minister of Madrid, the Wabash may
be detained for home service, instead of pur
suing her cruise in pursuit cf pleasure up
the Mediterranean — Wash. States.
Washington New*.
Washington, May 19.—In the Senate
to day tbe fishing bounty repeal bill was
passed by a vote of thirty to twenty five.
Mr Boyce made an important report in
favor of the modilicaticc of tbe tariff, in
which be ignores all protection.
The Government asks Congreaa to author
ise a new loan of $13,000,000.
Judge Loring to-day took bis seat as one
of tbe Judges of the Court of Claims.
Tbe Presideot has communicated to the
Senate n messege, in which he states that be
has instraeteJ Mr. Dallas at tbe Court of - value to tbe fortui
St. James, to demand the dismissal of tbe
British officers who recently outraged onr
flag on the Gulf; and also pecuniary satis,
faction, in ease of loss. He also stated that
he intends to hold Spain responsible for tbe
outrage* permitted in her waters—mad in
sists that prompt measures shall betaken
to prevent n recurrence of such iaterferen.
Several ships have been ordered to cruise
on tbe const of Cubs.
oistic sections of this country is to be fongbt
within this Union.
The slave trade will give na political pow
er. Every fifty tbouennd slaves that come
will give'us the right to thirty thousand
votes in tbe National Legislature, and thus,
therefore, will contribute directly to tbe po
litical power of the Sooth. But more than
this. Tbe labor basis at tbe South is too
small to sustain even our present superstruc
ture of direction. Slave labor is too efficient
and too cheap to permit of hireling labor in
•ompetition with it. It ia tco vrtuable te l *
used at cotton prices, in manufactures find
tbe mechanic arts There is no room, there
for*. in the present condition of onr labor
system for tbe emigrant fiom other coun
tries. By bis onn labor, be cannot live ia
competioo with the slave bare, and mnploy-
ing slave labor at cotton priccfi. be eaonct
live in com;etttion with mechanical enter
prises elsewhere. Bnt by an increase of
slaves tbe basis of onr system would bo wi
dened. With morn abundant operatives,
there would bo occasion for mure abeadast
intelligence to diroet them. Tbe fear mil
lion slaves we have, give empfoyaseat and
support to six million white people; one mil
lion more would bnt add te their espacity-
In this regard, therefore, each tlnve might
be raid to bring kin master with him, and
thus to add more than twice bie political
of tbo Sontb.
Nor ia this all. We have wanted Kansas,
and men have periled their lives end have
perished to preserve it; but its preservation
would have been easy with the Slavs ‘Rrada.
Ten thousand masters have fail id to e(foet
the social condition of.that Territory. They
have, pel baps, determined its political Con
stitution. bnt it ie to be doabtad whether
they have firmly fixed iu fertene* te .the
South Bnt if, instead of ten thewafiad
masters, we bad seat ten thousand staves,