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CASSVILLE, GEO.
THURS DAY'MORNING,
FEBRUARY 17, 1853.
Notice.
‘•.The. Anniversary Address of the Alpha
Pi Delta Society will be delivered by Mr.
E. S. Candler, Jr., on the 22d inst, at
11 o’clock, A. M., in the College ChapeL
The public are invited to attend.
JAS. H. ANDERSON,
V -Feb. 17. Cor. Sec. A. P. D. S.
Speech of Hml Robert Toombs.
If obr readers expect to keep pace with
the age they live in; they must inform
themselves upon , the questions that are
attracting the attention of the great intel
lects of the country.
In today's paper Will be .food the able
speech of Senator Toombs, on the Mil
brought forward by Senator Slidell, pro
posing to appropriate thirty million dol
lars, to authorise the President to com
mence negotiations with Spain, for the
purchase of Cuba. It will be rebiembered
that the President ini his late message
suggested to Congress the propriety of the
passage of such a bill—that he thought
the offer to buy Cuba would more likely
be accepted, if Spain was offered the cash
in hand for it
It is our “ manifest destiny” to have
Cuba, snd the sooner the trade is closed
the better it will be for all parties con
cerned ; and if England, France and the
balance of the world combined, object to
it, let them help themselves.
It is really disgusting to notice the ob
jections made to this measure, by a few
Northern dough-faces. Spain, they say,
don’t want to sell, |nd even if she does,
France and England won’t let her—hence
if those two powerful governments object
to it, we must quietly fold our arms, and
Rave we a Democratic Party Among
Us?
The opposition press, of every shade and
color, from Maine to California, are con-1 do nothing except by their permission. If
siderably belabored, at this time, to know j our population had been composed of such
if-we have such an anomably among us men in the times that tried men’s souls,
asra living, tangible, Democratic party.— i there would have been no declaration of
Whether the anxiety manifested is the ; independence. It is beneath the dignity
Offspring of a want of confidence in their , of any American to urge such an objec-
own rotten and corrupt organizations, and < tion; and if England and France are op-
a consequent fear of entrusting the ad- I posed to the transfer of Cuba to the Unit-
ministration of this great confederacy of. ed States, that fact alone ought to make
the hands of their ambitious leaders, or us the more keen to get it
Whether it be (as we have every reason to
infer) a gangreene jealousy of a great
Democratic triumph in the Presidential
contest of I860, it matters but little to us.
■ Disturbing and threatening elements
may spring up and promise for a w bile to
alii'nate and destroy the Democratic par
ty; ambitious men—demagogues, may fly
pff in » bo ly, and by base appeals to
the passions of men, distract them for
avtbile—but when the patriotism of the
masses Is aroused, and they called upon
, ' , ropcan Courts, both of which he declined,
to meet jn convention to harmonize and; .... ... „ _ . ..
, ... , I preferring the position of a Representative
unite for a great purpose, rebellious and | 1 r
insubordinate members.must bow to the i r *Y . , , ,, ,
Mr. Stephens has so long and ably, and
faithfully represented Georgia in Congress,
We commend Mr. Toombs’ speech to a
careful reading.
Hon. A. H. Stephens
Declines being a candidate at the next
election. The Macon Telegraph says:
“ The 4th of March next, his present
term expires, having been in Congress a
Representative from Georgia, for sixteen
years without intermission. During this
time he has been offered a place in the
Cabinet, a Mission to one of the first Eu-
putilic good, or be thrown overboard, to |
seek shelter under the banner of some j
opposing organizations, made up of all
manner of opinions, and held together by
love, of the spoils of oflicc and enmity to
Democracy.
The death struggles of Stephen A.
Douglas, as he frantically attacks the ad
ministration, or catches at every floating
straw that promises present success, may
be and doubtless are of sweet savor to the
enemies of Democracy, and gave comfort
ing hopes of a disorganization that cannot
bp harmonized for probable success in the
approaching canvass. Of this it is all ve
ry well, for unless some ray of light should
occasionally break in upon their benight
ed and hidden pathway, the champions of
Democracy would walk over the track
without opposition. Such insubordination
is a characteristic of the age, to be met
with in every household, society and po
litical organization, and may be regarded
as only incentives to greater vigilance and
jealousy of the liberties that we enjoy un
der them.
We are free to admit that there is an
irresponsible disposition manifesting itself
in opposition to conventions, party organ
ization, Ac.', that is fed and fostered by
scltish and designing politicians, who see
no prospect in the future for their promo
tion under existing party discipline—de
magogues who have no conceptions of the
great principles of government, but regard
it as a machine concocted for the benefit
and promotion of political wireworkers—
those who would play at a game of chance
for self-aggrandizement at their country’s
peril. But the}- will be found as of un
shorn growth, and readily v’ fid to the on
ward march of that old and long-tried par
ty which bears upon its banner the hopes
of freemen and a terror to corrupt and in
triguing politicians.
Wc have a Democratic party among us;
her honored thousands are scattered up
and down our country, and will be found
ready for effective organization at all pro
per times. Such skirmishes as that re
sorted to by the opposition press only ex
cites their contempt. The hopes of the
Union—the hopes of Republicanism—the
hopes our country’s future greatness are
all concentrated in the great principles of
Democracy, and will last as long as liber
ty is appreciated or freedom enjoyed.
• “Fakir of Siva" turned Preacher!
The ‘‘Fakir of Siva,” alias Jonathan S.
1! askell, has entered the ministry, and
gets a salary of one thousand dollars a
year in Iowa, having bestowed on himself
the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
The Hererencl Doctor is well known in
Cass county, and other portions of Geor
gia. He is known in some localities as
Professor Haskell. The Cartersville Ex
press gives him the following complimen-
Utry notice:
- “ Some of our citizens have a feeling
recollection of Haskell, alias “Fakir of Si
va,” and are not astonished in the least,
wc suppose, to learn that he is at his old
tricks again. Haskell has a wonderful
genius for variety of occupations, and is
almost inimitable in rascality. He has
Upon a down in a circus, theatrical per
former, ethiopian minstrel, slight of hand
performer, merchant, hotel keeper, law
yer, doctor and minister. A more con
summate rascal never went unwhipt of
justice.”
Savannah, Feb. 12.—The grand jury
to day found true bills for piracy against
Capt. Currie, and Messrs. Brown, Bqjes-
ta, and Aquira. The last three an now
kij-iil.
that the State will be most unwilling to
give him up. We were not unaware of
the fact that he has for several years past
desired to return to private life, but has
reluctantly consented for the last two
terms to remain at Washington, by the
pressing importunities of his constitu
ents.”
Passage of the Oregon BilL
The bill for the admission of Oregon in
to the Union as a State passed the House
of Representatives on Saturday last, by a
majority of eleven votes. This bill having
previously passed the Senate, Oregon now
takes her position as one of the sovereign
States of the American confederacy. Thir
ty Representatives from the Southern
States^ and all the Black Republican mem
bers except twelve, voted against the bill.
A telegraphic dispatch to the Augusta
Evening Dispatch says:
The passage of the bill caused great re
joicing. A large body of strangers and
citizens on Saturday night serenaded the
Oregon Senators and the friends of the Or
egon bill.
President Buchanan and Vice President
Brcckenridge were called out and they re
sponded in short speeches, and the Vice
President in his remarks took strong
grounds in favor of the purchase of Cuba.
Monster Cannon.—The construction of
a monstrous piece of ordnance, says the
Pittsburg Dispatch, has been projected by
the Secretary of War, which will probably
be cast at the Fort Pitt Works, in this
city. It combines some of the features of
both the “Dahlgren” and “Columbiad”
guns, and is calculated to do execution at
four miles. It is to be of fifteen-inch cali
bre, with a diameter of twenty-eight and
a half inches at the muzzle, forty-seven
inches at the breech, and an extreme
length of fifteen feet The ball will weigh
between four hundred and four hundred
and fifty pounds, requiring an enormous
charge of powder. The estimated weight
of the gun is between twenty-five and
thirty tons.
It is stated by those who profess
to be well informed, that the bulk of the
claims for the Oregon Avar debt is owned
by a banking house in Washington, and
that an agent was despatched some time
ago to the Pacific to purchase them on
speculation. They sum up 5 or $6,000,-
000 in all, while it is said that the whole
personal property in the territories of Or
egon and Washington, at the time of the
war, would not have reached half a mil
lion. The belief is very decided that these
claims are fabricated through corrupt col
lusions, which will get ventillated at the
next session, when the Auditor of the
Treasury shall report upon them.—Cor.
Balt. American.
gf” Mr. Guthrie, of Kentucky, is spo
ken of in connection with the nomination
for President by the Democratic Conven
tion, to assemble in Charleston next year.
He was Secretary of the Treasury in Gen.
Pierce’s Cabinet, and is considered one of
the ablest lawyers in Kentucky. '
fg* The Savannah News is authorised
by a responsible party to say that he mil
pay $450 a piece, for every negro brought
to this couhtry by the Wanderer, the pur
chaser assuming the responsibility of all
prosecution that may be brought against
him. ~
pgr* Arthur’s Heme Magazine, for
March, has hem- received. Term*, two
dollars per annom, in advance. Address
T. 6. Arthur A Cn, Piute.
Tot Always.
Not always will flowers bloom. In
bright and joyous childhood we wander
through green fields and gather wild flow
ers, free from care. Happy childhood!—
not altnys can it last School days must
COine. *Us then the young heart, unfet
tered by care, is left free to follow the
pursuits of literature and science. ’Tis
then it holds sweet communion with those
like itself^ untouched by the selfishness of
the worlds
Swiftly the days glide. In a few years
we step forth from the school-room to en
ter upon the busy duties of life—no lon
ger a school-girl. Our earliest days are
our happiest; often will we give them
retrospective glance, and sigh because
they could not forever last. There are
hours-of bliss—hours, if it ware, not for!
the sad forebodings of not always, the
heart could ask no other heaven.
We may possess wealth ; friends may
lavish their praises upon us ; sympathiz
ing hearts may share alike our joys and
sorrows; bright eyes may sparkle writh
delight at our approach, or fill with tears
at our departure; the good and great may
court our favors—all this may be ours
now, but not always. Fortune, fickle for
tune; may desert us, and with her friends
will take their leave.
Not always! how often the words fall
like a knell on the car. But there is a
bright side to the picture. There is a
time when the words “ not always" foil
cheeringly on the heart of the weary.—
The black clouds of adversity may be
thundering over our heads, and not a ray
of light penetrating the thick gloom that
has wrapt itself around the heart. Then
hope whispers not always will it be thus.
Soon the storm will have spent its fury,
leaving life only the more joyous for past
sorrows.
Poor man of misfortune, once wealth
and friends were yours, but in an evil
hour they deserted you. You have borne
up manfully under the many cares that
have beset your way, and you feel you
have tried to act nobly, but the world, not
knowing your heart, has looked coldly
upon your efforts. Rest assured there is
a God who knows the heart, and not al
ways will you go unrewarded.
See yon poor outcast, sunk within the
lowest depths of human misery and degra
dation, forsaken by friends and shunned
by the good. Once she was young and
beautiful; and if she could not boast of
wealth, she could of purity of heart. He
who won her heart and wrought her ruin,
basks in wealth, aduiired by all, and his
favor courted even by the good. Not al
ways will fortune favor him. Soon the
wrath of a sin-offended God will beat up
on his peijured souL
Again, wc see him who lias robbed the
widow and the fatherless; who has turned
the needy away from his door; who has
trampled under foot every law, both hu
man and divine, living in ease and luxury.
Not always will vengeance tarry—she
sleeps only to awaken the more powerful.
One by one the joys of life may pass
away; the body become old, frail and dis
eased; the things that delighted us once
may delight us no more; after the cold sod
may have been heaped upon the breast of
those we loved, and life possess but few
charms to bind the troubled soul here—it
is then “ not always” fall pleasantly upon
the ear; soon the wear}' soul will be re
leased, and fly away to regions of endless
bliss, there to be united in sweet bonds of
love, with all the children of peace.
MNEMOSYNEAN SOCIETY.
Female College, Cassville, Feb., 1859.
Educating Africans—Exciting De-
gjbsta.
It will be remembered by our readers
that some time since the Slaver Echo was
seized a|Fthe coast of Cuba with a cargo
of capt lifted Africans and was brought to
the port of Charlestons. C. Under the
second section of the act of 1819, it was
made the ditty of the President to return
the Africans and deliver them to some
agent beyod& the limits of the United
States.
The act reads as follows :
“ And be it further enacted. That the
President of the United States be, and he
is hereby authorized to make such regula
tions and arrangements as he may deem
expedient for the safe-keeping, support
and removal beyond the limits of the Uni
ted States, of all such negroes, mulattocs.
or persons of color, as may be so deliver
ed and brought within their jurisdiction,
and to appoint a proper person or persons
upon the coast of Africa as agent or agents
for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or
persons of color, delivered from on board
vessels, seized in the prosecution of the
Buncombe Legislation and Demagogs justice or public policy to sustain the bill, [ Fp™ tf,e London Tunes of jan. id,
uism. If which occurs to us. ! V “ w of the American Army
“The world moves! On the mo^n of We trust it will meet from theSenatc and Havy.
Mr. Grow of Penn., the homestead Bill «4 a P uttin S do ™, as wiU kc *P * I^ndmay certainty learn something
,. ... „ „ « t> effectually, till the Government shall un- from the administration of the United
lives yesterday, by a vote of 120 to 76- t0 ***** ad wants of th * i tbou S h ^happens to be forth«,m<
This bill gives to every head of a family, from an treaSU1 * ! ,D S °**“* wb,ch
who is a citizen of has declared his inte'n- ™ su PP ose wo j uId ** thc sun, ™ uM j WouId * ° nwl,1,ng to “}«*•
. . , , r.™, „„, r bonum of the “ Good time conun, so . Americans have an excellent judgement
(ion to become such, 160 acres from ally .... , . ,.
T - ■ much talked and sung about by Greely : in military and naval matters, which they
unappropriated land belonging to the L. ....... ™ , . . ,, . .... ... , , J
States on the simple condition that he and h ' s P ohtIcal Ab, f Thcy have m handle m as P ,r,t alway8 hb ? n ‘ 1 “ d gen '
shall make his home upon it and cultivate ‘heir heads an altogethernew arrangement, eralty sagacious. It was so from the very
| of divine and hiunan economy, by which j beginning of their history. 1 hey never
1 ‘ .... ’free agency shail be abolished and men le-'passed through a period of infancy or rou-
Had this bill beCotne a mV fifteen years 5 J , , , . ! *. ^ ,
,, , , . , - eislated into temperance, good behaviour, ; tine, but took the field, when they did
ago, it would have saved a vast deal of = , , |. . .. . ... , . ,
public corruption ; and would have added ' *>sness, comfortable homesteads- take it mafoduonat once superior to
immensely to the power and happiness of phalanxtcries-protective un.ons-social (that of old fashioned belligerents. -They
! affinities—and if these are not enough,
the country, ,
Now let 11s see the vote on it in the ' kite out thc rest in 1° } jo mg. e
Tribune thinks the passage of such a bill
as this, fifteen years ago, would have sat
isfied his followers, and saved a vast deal
of “publiccorruption,” he is only still more
mistaken. They would have spent their
160 acres in a day, and come back the
next for 160 more. The idea of bribing
Destruction by Fire of William and
Mary College, Virginia.
Intelligence has reached this city that
that venerable institution of learning—
William and Mary College, at Williams
burg, Va., was entirety destroyed by fire
on the 8th instant Everything, includ
ing the valuable library, it is reported, is
destroyed, involving a loss of $100,000.—
The students all escaped safety. The prop
erty was insured for $22,000.
The College of William and Mary, the
oldest, except Harvard University, in the
United States, was chartered in 1693 by
King William III and Queen Mary, who
gave out of their private means nearly
£2,000 towards erecting the necessary
buildings. This, with twenty thsusand
acres of land, the office of surveyor-gene
ral (in virtue of which one-sixth of the
fees received by public surveyors in the
colony, and the sole power of appointing
them, were given) and one penny a pound
on all tobacco exported from Virginia and
Maryland, granted in the charter, £2,500
raised by subscription in the colony, and
a gift of £290 from the House of Burgess
es, constituted the endowment of the col
lege.
Within the last few years large addi
tions have been made to the philosophical
and chemical apparatus, both of which
were amply sufficient for all the purposes
of instruction in these sciences. The li
brary has also been enlarged, and contain
ed nearly five thousand volumes, among
which are many curious and rare books.
Senate.”
That is the New York Tribune’s shout,
as fugleman of the “ vote yourself a farm
party,” over the passage by the House on
the 1st inst, of a measure so cl^rly de
fenceless on any sound principle of public
policy, economy, or justice, that one is
at a loss to imagine what could be said in
slave trade, by commanders of the United favor of it. It is the offspring of dema-
States armed vessels.” goguisin, brought forth of moral cowar-
In compliance with this authority Mr. dice and distrust of the people. The few
Buchanan sent the negroes to Liberia, j plan it to catch votes,-and the many sup-
making a contract with the Colonization j port it in fear of losing them; and thus sa -'
Society to receive them and also to in- j the passage of such a bill by the represen-
struct them in the arts of civilized life.— j tatives of the people gives an ugly exhibi-
We quote from the President’s Message j tion of one evil tendency of our political
that portion which explains this contract, j system, which, though the best in the
It reads as follows: i world, has, like every human invention,
“Under these circumstances an agree- j its peculiar faults and dangers. Since the
ment was entered into with the Coloniza- origin of these bounty land measures, they
tion Society on the 7th of September last, j have steadily been running from bad to
a copy of which is herewith transmitted,! worse, till they have at last comedown to
under which the society engaged, for thc j this absurd point of giving away the pub-
consideration of $45,000, to receive these j lie property unasked—for nothing at all—
Africans in Liberia from the agent of the except the blessed condescension of taking
it
It Is a queer piece of business, look at
it any shape yon may. Upon what prin
ciple shall the government of the United
States hold itself bound to furnish the peo
ple with farms, and then hold herself clear
of the collateral duty of stocking them ?—
Surely the./arw will be useless to “ each
or legislating such a set into propriety is
altogether fallacious.—Georgia Telegraph.
United States, and furnish them during
the period of one year thereafter, with
comfortable shelter, clothing, provisions,
and medical attendance, and cause their
children, to receive schooling, and all,
whether children or adults, to be instruct
ed in the arts of civilized life, suitable to
their conditions.”
In the Consular and Diplomatic bill, a head of a family” without stock and uten-
provision was engrafted authorizing the
President to use the sum of $75,000 for
the suppression of the slave trade ; $30,-
000 of which was. to pay the contract of
the President with the Colonization Soci
ety to educate the returned Africans for
sils to work it, and this ought to be the
next proposition in order. There must
be seed, too, and a little stock of provis
ions, household furniture, and a house to
put it in.
And why should Congress come down
the period of one year. Southern men j 0 n land altogether as the only thing worth-
and especially thc strict constructionists I jcs S enough to give away ? Wc think this
were led to inquire, if the appropriation ! idea insulting to the land-holders and
of $30,000 did not contemplate thcexecu- J agriculturists of the country. The land
tion of a power for which there was no! fias cost the government a great deal of
sanction in law. Hon. Mr. DOW DELL; money and blood, and if price is an ele-
of Alabama, led off in a speech of much • ment or a measure of value, the public
force, and was followed by our immediate ! j an d i s certainly not valueless. Look at
Representative Mr. CRAWFORD, deny- j what we have won by arms. The wars of
ing the authority of the President to edu-| the revolution and of 1812, were very cost-
cate thc Africans and pronouncing it a | } y affairs in both life and money. The
usurpation of power. AYe agree with ' war with Mexico the same, and then end-
them fully in their construction of the j jn an expensive purchase of land. The
above act By reference to it, it will be j Florida war, and many other of the Indi-
seen that it empowers the President to j ;in wars, by which public land was wrest-
make provision for the “safe-keeping and j e q f rdm tj le savages, were all prosecuted
Harder and Bobbery.
The Memphis Bulletin, of the 5th inst,
support” of the captured negroes within
the limits of the United Stales and for
their “removal”, beyond such limits.—
There is no authority or shadow of author
ity for him to do anything more than to
appoint an agent or agents to “ receive”
the negroes and after such appointment
and delivery, the authority of the Presi
dent ceases. Any other construction of
the act is forced and contrary to its spirit
and thc very genius of our Government.
What! must the United States be con
verted into a provision Store to “ support”
at a great sacrifice of money and life, and
sometimes after an expensive money pur
chase of the land ; and not a foot of pub
lic territory remains which does not rep
resent a positive money price to the coun-
i try. But no complaint has ever yet been
made about the price paid, as if the pub
lic held the land to l>c valueless. On the
contrary, it is in serious contemplation to
buy more, and the talk is now that if we
can buy thc Island of Cuba at 160 mil
lions, it will be a good purchase. AATiy,
therefore, Congress should conceive that
“ Information was received in this city
last evening, by telegraph, of a horrible
murder committed at Jackson, Tennessee,
on Thursday night, connected with which
was the robbery of the branch Union Bank
at that place. The facts, so far as ascer
tained, are that the room of thc clerk of
the Bank, Mi 1 . George E. Miller, adjoining
the Bank building, was entered during
the night and Mr. Miller murdered by
means of a hammer, with which his head
was mutilated in a most horrid manner,
and the brains of the unfortunate man
scattered over the floor. The keys to the
vaults were under Mr. Miller’s pillow,—
from whence they were taken, the Bank
vaults robbed ar.d then returned to their
proper place. The party or parties to
whom this double crime is chargeable re
main in entire mystery, and as yet not
even suspicion has fallen upon any one.—
The mnrder was not discovered until noon
yesterday, when thc unusual circumstance
of the Bank remaining closed to so late an
hour aroused suspicion that all was not
right within, and led to the discovery of
the horrible tragedy.
From the position in which he was found,
it is supposed he was making out a cheek
for the murderer, when he was struck two
blows upon the head with thc check ham
mer belonging to the Bank, weighing five
or six pounds, which scattered his brains
in every direction, killing him instantly.
He then tore the leaf from the check book
and burned it, after which be took what
specie and paper he could carry, and made
good his escape.
No person in particular is suspected,—
but from the character of the deceased it
is thought it must be sonic one in high
standing, and in whom he placed implicit
confidence, as he has refused to do busi
ness for some of the most influential eiti-
izens after hanking hours.
It is definitely ascertained that the a-
mount of money taken from thc Branch
Union Bank at Jackson on Thursday night,
was $211,8(50 m bills, and $4,545 in gold,
making a total of $25,405. No further
particulars have been received as to the
assassin, the latter still being concealed in
the deepest mystery. AYe learn that a
reward of $2,000 has been offered by the
Bank for the arrest of the murderer and
recovery of the money.
captured Africans after their return to ; nn( i ^ t j le on i y thing which may be giv-
their native soil ? Must it resolve itself | en away—-or that it is right to give away j
Another British Outrage.
AYe learn from the New York Times,
too when the Government has no power j dairo to a gratuity of §200 out of the pub- ( Vj Qn the cnast 01 - Africa. The British
i- . J i- 1 4l... ... si, 1 _/* : “ ’
lie treasury, as he has to 160 acres of | commander attempted to justify the act,
land, and we could never vote for a mea-. by that thc “Rufus Soule” was
sure of this character without giving him j a ' !j j avcr Well, supposing that his suspi-
thc selection, in order to deal out even j dong were weli founded, what right had
handed justice and sen e all alike. AVhy j he un j er t h e law of nations, to take ven-
should the squatter on the frontier fare j gencu j nto his own hands, and execute the
better than the more necessitous laboring j without a resort to the proper judi-
man of the city or village, who can’t avail ; ^’tribunals of the world. Things have
himself of this land bounty—can’t remove j cert a.i n ly come to a pretty pass, that a
to. and oceupy the Land ? ! ygsge^ sailing under the American flag, is
Furthermore, on what principle of jus- to be captured and burnt at the will and
to educate her own poor children or the
negroes within her limits at the public ex
pense? Must the Government continue
to keep up the Colonization Society,
which, after thirty years experiment,
demonstrates exclusively, that thc negro
is incapable of self-government ? Must a
sentimental abstraction or a pseudo-phil
anthropy be a sufficient justification of a
usurpation of authority ? But it' is con
tended that the President only supports
have the merit of anticipating even-tb*
French of the republic in discarding ever
rything like precedent, and going straight
by the shortest cut to the mark before
them. They were thc first to make the
rifle tell in war, and in the straggles for
independence picked off our officers like
birds from a tree. They were the first to
see what we have only lately discovered
—that a musket ought to be fired with as
much pains as a fowling-piece, and at Bun
ker’s Hill they caused us frightful losses
by this simple observance. They were
the first to mount infantry on horsebaek,
as we are now doing in India; and at New
Orleans their mounted riflemen left our
advancing force without a moment’s re
pose. In every campaign in which-we en
countered them they resorted to some ex
pedient or other, generally of great sim
plicity, which told against us with a
severity quite unexpected. It was exactly
the same at sea. They had got no great
fleets, but they bethought themselves that
they could turn out single ships, and that
by adopting models of their own they
could make those ships stronger than any
others afloat. Accordingly, they built fri
gates and corvettes of a size and arma
ment without parallel, took pains, with
their gunnery, and turned the tide of na
val victory against us, until Broke put the
Shannon’s crew into training and beat
them at their own weapons. Their mod
em policy lias been precisely similar. They
have got the new Dahlgrcen gun and the
new steam-frigate of the Merrimac class.
AVliethcr these inventions arc to be con
sidered successful we cannot yet say; but
inventions they are, nor are they the last
or the most astounding of their kind.—
They have been quietly at work upon *
monster steam ram, and now wc are in
troduced to submarine boats,- which are
to be navigated at the bottom of thc se*.
This last discovery, however, seems to
have been too much even for thc American
government, and it has found its Way to
England.
It is when we ascend, however, from
particulars to principles that we see how
much we may learn from the management
of the United States. Iq the rceent report
of their Secretary of the Navy—a docu
ment which corresponds to our navy esti
mates, taken in conjunction with the speech
of the First Lord in introducing them—
the Americans are made acquainted at
once with the system on which their na
val administration is based. Nothing can
exceed the wisdom and precision of tho
views expressed, which read like the open-
of some good practical lecture at a na-
val'college. “In the construction of a war
vessel,” says the American Secretary,—
everything connected with it has ultimate
reference to a single point—the use of the
un, by winch alone, as the means or in
strument of power, important results are
to be accomplished. To place it* in the
presence of thc enemy or beyond his reach
in thc shortest possible time, and to u,so
it with the greatest possible effect, is the
great object to be sought for in thc con
struction of a navy for the maintenance of
its auxiliary establishments.” These sim
ple principles arc susceptible of a much
wider application than has been given here.
They lie at the bottom of the whole science
and theory of war, whether by land or sea.
—Every battle and every campaign must
depend mainly upon “the use of thc gun.”
Thc gun is the instrument by which the
soldier acts, and all the professional train
ing of a soldier tends to the one point of
placing this instrument in position with
the greatest rapidity and employing it
with the greatest effect. This is the iden-
he Africans fo- one year AYe have no * urttiermore, on wnaz principle oi jus- ; to be captured and ourm h roe win anu ^ jnto which the latest incidents
the Africans fo, 0 ™JW. AYeha e tice to posterity is it upon which Congress pleasure of every pretty tyrant that may j ofour latest war are passing at the present
objection to the pitiful sum taken from , detenn ; ncs that the landless of this gener- happen to strut in a British uniform, on . w h armed our infantry
•» mm w ““: lliononl} . sh , n t, providrf for „ a., J‘ d „ kcr „h ip , h»m S for «.
right to educate negroes for one year mi- cxp . [l , t ., The public domain will! the British Lion. We hare been annoyed j camel’s backs
plies the right to educate them for a thou- ^ ; n time, but thc landless never.— hy British arrogance long enough. The I , . , ,
sand. The latitudinous construction of, Qn the contrary> they w iU increase vastly 1 government of Great Britain has always I B “ t h °7 havc We ®°J *° J
the law by the President is what is obnox-: fn numbcrs and in ratio to the population, assumed to keep this country in leading rule of threc ’ b *f by "J* ■
ions to objection. The support of thc Af- j and why Dot luave a chance for cheap strings . T he chagrin and mortification of; ^ ,Iors ’ one aB ® r anothel . and Sur Charl
ricans within tHe United States and the, to post erity ? One might conclude fo s j n g this most valuable part of her em-! - apicramong e oremos assure us
expenses incurred in sending them back j ^ pub , ic knds a ^ curse , or afflicted ^ seems to be hereditary with the peo- j our Admlra ' tles either no- ystem
no one objects to, when the statute re- with gmall poXj f rom the terrible anxiety p fo 0 f that country. No occasion is per-1 a " ™ ng SJ S ’ “
quires it But the right once yielded by o{CoDSress in the last ten years, to be fitted to pass unimproved, wherein they I has any Sy ® tem P f T nu2t
the minority section, that the P-ident;, of — may anno}^ our people, and commit ag . ■c-ive adimn,stations weishoufo
nr a mnritv in Con° r rcs ran exercise an-» _ , . mL - _ _i; t zled to say whit it is. »» © sc© wliftt tnejr
or a majority in Longres can e e c, , ^ So!diers * Bounty Land Bills were J gressions upon our commerce The poll- ^ ^ pay noattcn tkmto
defended as pensions for public service; j cy of the United States has always been , but rincip i ej and are always on
but wherein they justly held that position, pacific. AYe never resort to arms, irntfl ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ prindple better
it would have been much better to have forbearance ceases to be a virtue AVitb . ^ ^ ^ do ^ throw away
substituted the money at the rate of a dol- courage unsurpassed by any people in the j m though their estimates are
lar and a quarter for every acre granted, world, the genius of our institutions is ^ ^ feut they g0 straight to
work to get the greatest possible service
thority not expressly granted in the Con
stitution or written in the statute books,
then that minority has no guarantee a-
gainst a despotism as dangerous and in
tolerable as can be pointed out in the re
alities of history or the wildest fiction., of j t wou i d have saved an immensity of fraud, antagonistic^! to a state of war.
poetry. That demon, a Republican ma- ]
• ,, .. , , , , ... ! penury and shaving, by which, in the we are disposed to forbear, “ as long as j ° T u“ c~, re tarv tells the Preaf-
—37^ I J°ntyf then wsdk abroad clothed w,th I the bulk of the^rants passed into the evils are sufferable,” rather than resort to j out of a Tbc j selected th .
a~r> « ta EKOL^.-I.; a , emnU ..„ dm »drth tbe arbitrament of the ewori, to tofato j-»■* ** <■» (^"1^
is stated that at least four thousand per- j power, and the South will have no refuge j b ^ ^ }x)unt But ^ inflicte d upon us. AYe trust our j ^^.ch . th ; ta LJL of s Kl
sons were out on the ice, on the nver, at oppression, no hope for security, but | me ^ a , 1 . . b .... ,, ! accuracy, and pon er, that a corps 01 swu-
New Haven, Connecticut, on Tuesday, 8th. | ^ h J£ y JlsuppUcating mer-! u P on what consideration shafi we sustain government will take aB . ed gunners has been trained by constant
The skaters enjoyed a perfect carnivaL-1 Andcan Expect moderation, jus-1 the by thlS . bl “ ’ K lt .' S * to * Ven f 01 “ c !ZSce instraction and imhrereal P ractice at SW '
- — • - • - reward for being born in the country nation has inflicted upon our commerce tba ^ a ft e r that, the greatest pains
There was a skating race for $10 a side,! aod humanity from the very spirit of
diving the day, and the winner made his; abolitionism ?
mile in less than three minutes. In the j Then, let the South oppose every exer-
aftemoon, a military company put on ■ c f undelegated authority—hug close-
their and paraded on the ice; head
ed by a band of musk: On Wednesday,
a special tram was chartered to convey
ly the Constitution and the law, and be
prepared for the day—should it come—
when the usurpation of power may be a
skaters to Lake Saltonstall—a few miles : b ( ow ^ her liberties—when submission
from the city—and fourteen cars wait out, | to wrong wiD
that could not well be avoided; for being in the flagrant act, which is thc subject of j fceen get guch a mode , fo,
naturalized—that surety ought to have this article.—Atlanta Intelligencer. ^ yegsel CMfryiBg these guns , n d gun-
been its own reward ; for being married “ ners as would combine the greatest rate of
-that is a libel on the charming sex ; if Hattien News.-New Y okk, Feb 12.- ^ ^ rf fucL
the bill is meant to encourage emigration The correspondent of the N. York Heraia .
—nobody c^Ls of a lacl of l and publShesTe details of the revolution in j We do no forget that «rfi cost noth-
the wannest supporters of this bill came Hayb. It is stated that ^eflardjn ered ^ ^ ^
trTdt™T into Confess as Northern Americans in the capital on the 14th of January. The quite compatio.e w.ui an J
filled to their utmost capmity. Tbe re- j ty, when shemayexctaimto^her chil- opposition to foreign j „ as cLpeE to believe that we arc behind the rest of the
. . , , . .. , . j dren in the language of the Ghost of mur-
turatnm brought backeightoai carloads, dered urging his son to a-
of passengers. One firm mNew Uaven; venge fljes^ed-honwrfhis house:
hwsold (4,675 worth of ladies’ and gen-; “if you have'nature in yon—bear it
tiemea’a skates, since the river freae up. i noL”—Columbus Times..
encourage settlement—that is going on too The Emperor Solouque was i . w ,
fast foi^the benefit of the older States and take refuge, from the excited mob, on world when it comes to results, but,I ran
the substantial progress of the new ones; ; board of a steamer under the charge of the not be demed that our sowte"
hi^ho^thereis mfconsideration of either! French Consul. ments would save a great deal of money.