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CASSVILLE, GEO.
THURSDAY MORNING.
OCTOBER 20, 1859.
I ff" Wo are authorized to announce the
name of JOHN* F. MILHOLLIN as a candi
date for re-el action for Clerk of the Inferior
Court, at the election in January new.
Oct. G—tde.
We are authorized to announce the
name of Mr. J. A. I10WARD as a candidate
for Ordinary, at the election in January next.
Sept. 3jffiS39—tde.
jVc arc authoriaed to announce Mr.
RII.KT MILAM as a candidate for the office
of Tax Collector at the ensuing election.
Aug. 2B, 1359—tde.
Ilf' We are authorized to annonnee the
name of Mr. A. H. FRANKLIN as a candidate
f >r .Sheriff, at the eleetion in January next
Sept. 3, 1*39—tde.
We are authoriied to announce Mr.
TIIOS. A. WORD as n candidate for Clerk of
the Superior Court, at the election in January
next. Sept. 1$, 1859.
We are authoriied to announce Mr.
NATHAN LAND as a candidate for Ordinary,
at the election in January next.
Sept. IS, 1359.
Why So We War With Each Other 1 j
The election has passed and excitement;
The California Deal.
Senater Broderick was shot in a duel on
The Disaster is China.
nearly all allayed, and it may be not an the 13th ult, by Judge Terry, of the Su-
improper time to ask -why do we war preme Court of California, and died the
ken? And here we were looking on, while
The London Times has published the the enemy stood on the walls picking u s
with each other? That the South should next day. Judge Terry escaped unhurt
be an unit as to federal politics, all will : The quarrel grew out of politics. Judge
agree; in fact we mav say there is but j Terry, who was the Chief Justice of the
little difference of opinion between the two' State was up for a re-nomination, but fail
parties South, on all the leading questions ed before the Lecomptoo Democratic Con-
of the day. Then let us cease to raise fac- ! vention. He afterwards addressed the
tions among ourselves, fraternize, and fight : Convention, endorsing the nominations,
the right enemy, the fanaticism of the j In his remarks he made the following al-
North in its various phases. You need not lusion to the opposite party:
tell us this cannot be done, it can be, and
that too without the yielding of any im-
1 Who have we, (asked Judge T.) op-
The Tate of Sir John Franklin. | From the National American.
The screw steamer Fox, Captain lie- j Sentence of Gabriel Jones.
CHntock, sent by Lady Franklin to the ! We are indebted to Judge Bull for a following letter from one of the few who off at leisure. In front of us the mud was
Arctic regions in search of traces of Sir copy of his address to Gabriel Jones, on crossed the third ditch in the attack on the covered with spikes, and checaux
John Franklin’s expedition, has returned Tuesday 11th as follows: Peiho forts, and survived to rejoin his ship *' ‘
to England, having been completely sue. Pmsokxr at the Bar : Having been ar- Off the Peiho forts, June 24.—Our bat
cessful. At Point William, on the north, reigned before this Comt for one of the talion, which formed the storming party.
west coast of King William’s Island a re- \ darkest crimes of which human depravity has been cut to pieces, every officer in it ders came for us to retreat. I suppose w e
cord was found, dated April 25, 1848, is capable, you have been pronounced either killed or wounded, and one hundred stayed in front an hour and a half after
signed by Captain Crosier and FiU James. < guilty, and now stand at the bar to receive and seventy men, kon de combat, out of the retreat sounded, so as to convey the
The record says that Erebus and Terror! the sentence which consigns you to the three hundred and seventy strong that lan- wounded to the boats. Now, to mike a
were abandoned three days previously in ! punishment prescribed as the penalty of ded. I give you an account of the storm- 5on g matter short, we had to go thro’ rt,.
the ice, five leagues to the N. N. W., and ! your offence. ing as it happened to me. On Saturday
close under the walls.
We had not been here half an hour be-
fore every officer was hit It was now or-
«. , go thro’ the
me obstacles and fire, and it took much
that the survivors, in allsmounting to one' The eloquent appeal just made by your the 25th, the gun boats, (eleven in num- about the same time. We were up to our
posed to us? A party based on no prin- i hundred and five, were proceeding to j counsel to the mercy of the Court, had ber,) took position off the forts, and at 2.45 breasts in water for two hours, and I
portant principle by'either'party, for, as ciple, except the abusing of one section of Great Fish river. Sir John Franklin had j already been suggested by thepromptings p. M., commenced action, at about six or helping two wounded men, one on each
‘ * ‘ J - ... . .. V x «• v t .« voi> j a« A-A_1 jx a1 awwi. fimltnoc rS mmittssiftn fur t «jkv»n hniulrpH Vftnls Histiinrp X ftor «n UHL I WM afraid At One time I should
have to leave them. I was taken with the
we have said, on these, they now stand on
the same platform. The people of the
South must remember that the next great
struggle for the rights and interests in the
Federal Union, comes off in 1860. In view
of this fact, we should be as one, for any
■light dissension among ourselves, no mat
ter how trivial or light the cause, lends
encouragement to our enemies, and adds
fuel to the fire of Black Republicanism.
In the next Presidential contest will be
determined whethertherightsof the South
are any longer to be respected and main
tained in the Union, or whether she must
look to her own inate resources. Of these,
she has an abundance, the stout hearts
and sturdy arms of her citizens, when uni
ted. There is not a more chivalric people
on the face of the globe, than those of
which the “sunny South” is composed.—
We repeat, therefore, let us fraternize and
make a “long pull, a strong pull, and all
pull together” for the rights of the South,
remembering, that with Union and har
mony, we can succeed, and that with dis
sension we may falL
l Vc are authorized to announce Mr.
J AS. R. LOVELESS aa a candidate for Tax
Collector, at the*elcction in January next.
Sept. 13, 1839.
We arc authoriied to announce the
name of W. C. U A INKS ns a candidate for
Clerk of the Inferior Court, at the election in
J uiuary next. Oct. 8—tde.
We are authorized tn annonnee the
name of DEMPSEY F. IIISHOP *• n candi
date for Tax Collector, nt the election in Jan
uary next. Oct. G—tde.
Si? - We nre Authorized to announce the
name of JOHN LOUDERMILK as a candidate
for Tax Collector at the election in January
i*rzt. Oct. 6-tde.
Wc are authorized to announce the
name of N. GTLREATJI as a candidate for
Tux Collector, ut the ensuing elccfioa—first
Monday in January next. Oct. 13,1339.
Judge Black’s Reply to Hr. Douglas’
Article on Popular Sovereignty.
We conclude this week the publication
of this able document, and ask our readers
to give it a careful perusal. It is a com
plete refutation of the fallaoies urged by
Douglas In vindication of his doctrine of
Squatter Sovereignty. It is so complete
an exposure that the Honorable Senator
lias lost bis temper, and has entered into
n regular denunciation of Judge Black in
ooarse vituperation, and endeavored to
shift, and yet maintain his positions ; this
helias done in various speeches, but more
especially in his effort at Wooster, Ohio,
which was a labored and vehement at
tempt to destroy the argument against
him,—in which he most signally failed.
This article, if carefully read, will be
found to subject that demagogue and his
doctrines to a complete dissection.
Judge Black, in this discussion, has so
clearly defined and conclusively maintain
ed the right of the Southern master to
take his negro property to a territory,
and have legal protection of it there—a
view which we have constantly urged—
that it is a matter -of astonishment to us
that any one, much less one wbo pretends
to bo a politician, should have doubts
thereon.
Can any one then say that the claim of
the South upon Congress,'and upon every
branch of the Federal Government to see
that the rights of the slaveholder are le
gally protected, is an abstraction, is an
unnecessary issue, and one which is new
and impolitic ? The doctrine there main
tained is but the announcement of a clear
constitutional right of property, and one
which lias also been affirmed by the Su
preme Judiciary—it is but the South tak
ing care of her own interests, against the
aggressive assaults of Northern fanaticism.
The English Press and the San Juan
Difficulty.
The London Post, a ministerial organ,
sneaking of this matter says :
“ That if the importance ofSan Juan to
the two countries be considered, there can
be no doubt that its possession by Eng
land may be said to be absolutely neces
sary to the security of British Columbia.
It thinks the government of Washington
can have nothing to gain by the adoption
of the violent and unjustifiable proceedings
of Harney.”
The London Mail, another ministerial
organ, has the following:
“The claim advanced by the United
States is a geographical question, and it
is to be settled by the application of geo
graphical science to the terms of the con
vention of 1846, which established the
491 h parallel of North latitude as the
boundary between the Territories of the
two countries from the Rocky mountains
to the channel which separates Vancou
ver’s Island from the continent, and thence
through the middle of the channel and the
the countrv, and the aggrandisement of, died June 11, 1847, and the total deaths of my own feelings of compassion for a seven hundred yards distance. After an
another; a party which has no existence ! to date had been nine officers and fifteen |fellow-being in your hapless and unfortu- hour’s firing, during which several guns
in fifteen States of the Confederacy; a
party whose principles never can prevail
among freemen, who love justice and are
willing to do justice. What other ? A
miserable remnant of a faction sailing un
der false colors, trying to obtain votes un-
I nate condition.
were silenced, a magazine blew up at the “shakes” at this time, from being so long
Manv deeplv interesting relics of the The discretion with which the law has north side. The gun boats made excellent ■* the w,4er All this time the enemy kept
J "j • . • A A!-l A ; .* a J- il • .nz • .
expedition were found on the western invested roe, in cases of circumstantial tea- practice, but notwithstanding this, the “P * tremendous fire. An officer who
shores of King William’s Island, and oth-1 timooy, of commuting the penalty of death Chinese kept up a heavy fire, so much so w “ * t the Redan,—(he had the Victoria
ers were obtained from the Esquimaux, i to that of life-long imprisonment in the that the gun boat had upwards of a hun- Cross in the Crimea,) told me at the tim«
who stated that after their abandonment j Penitentiary, imposes a fearful and awful dred shots in and through her, of which we WCTe un <*er the walls, the Redsn was
der false pretenses. “[Applause.] They one ship was crushed in the ice and sunk, j responsibility.. My mind has been most forty-two were below water-mark. Of gild’s play compared to this. It was »
have no distinction they are entitled to; j and the other forced on shore, where she j pailifolly exercised by the conflict between course, she sank; but they had time to J re , and no mistake. All the men’s uni-
they are the followers' of one man, the remained. The Fox was onable to pene- the clamors of Justice on the one hand, run heron a bank, and her hull just shows cut t0 P'f 65 » 14 »» roally won-
* ■ I Jk • 1 .1 . mi 1 » IV ] riorllll lintr CAinn aF lie 1 a t •.
■UvJ •• w Mlv IVIIlMivIS wl viiv xAswaai^ usv J vlllnllIvvl# a. uv A w* wwn uiiwviv g'* J « » • i a J I
personal chattels of a single individual, trate beyond Bellot Straits, and wintered and the tender pleadings of compassion on above the water. The gun boats suffered derful how some of us escaped I got hit
r ° vi a a i : r i, in four nlsn^ • what hurt mm vn^t
whom they are ashamed of. [Great ap- in Brentford Bay.
plause.] They belong, heart and soul,j Minute and interesting details of the ex
body and breeches, to David C. Broderick, pedition are published. Several skeletons
the other, and by the momentous question very severely ; six of them were sunk, one in I° ur P* aces ; what hurt me most was
whether the demands of the law and the lost, thirty men killed or wounded, out of one °I those infernal machines called ‘bou.
^ interests of society imperatively call for thirty-three, her complement; others lost ft u - ts »’ they are composed of all kind of
[Laughter"*Md**appfau^"i'* They areT oflh^klinV men! Urge q^ntfties of'doth- the shedding of blood; or whether justice twenty, which was the average. The Cor- things ; they fall and then burst; a lot of
shamed to acknowledge their master and in g, etc-, and a duplicate record up to the may not be appeased and the majesty of roundel, w,th the Admiral on board, was burning stuff comes out-water
the law vindicated by a penalty less harsh standing close in the whole afternoon.—
and revolting.
are calling themselves forsooth, Douglas . abandonment of the ships, were discover-
Democrats. [Applause.]
Gentlemen, as far as your nominations
are concerned, it is my duty, and that of -
ed.
The New York Commercial says:
For years no one has doubted that the
all Democrats, to acquiesce in the decis- rranklin expedition was entirely lost-
ion of the majority. I had aspirations Meantime his wife, with a devotion, per-
myself, but the convention have selected ^renaix and self-sacrifice that is world
the men who, in their opinion, were most, know| ^ ^ ^ m foot and cncoureged
fit to be nominated for tae various offices ,
in their decision,” Ac., Ac.
'Mr. Broderick read this extract the
one expedition after another to make search
for her husband. Her fervent appeals and
her determined example have aroused a
next morning while sitting at the break- wide _ Rpread syrnpat hy, and chivalrous
Memoirs of Robert-Hoadin,
Ambassador. Author, Conjurer, Wizard,
Magician, Necromancer, Sorcerer, En
chanter, and Professor of sleight of
hand. Written by himself Edited by
Dr. R. S. McKenzie. With a copious
Index.
This Book is full of interesting and en
tertaining anecdotes, of the interviews of
the Great Wizard with the most distin
guished personages of the present day,
and gives descriptions of the manner of
performing'many of his most carious
tricks and transformations.
Bound In oao volume, lima, doth.
445 pages; price $1, and 21 cents for post-
age.
Says the Westminister Review:
“ Without any sarcastic intention, we
might show teat the Conjurer was really
a man of greater ability than many a suc
cessful author. On Hk whole we can
recommend these Memoirs of Robert-
„ Houdm’s as pleasant reading.”
Published by G. Ck EVANS,
439 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
To whom all orders should be
Strait of San Juan de Fuca to the ocean.
This is a question which turns upon facts,
and -upon the interpretation of a treaty
stipulation read by the light of those
facts.”
Here now two of the acknowledged min
isterial organs express diametrically op
posite opinions. The “ Post" will have
it that tec Island of San Juan “is abso
lutely necessary for the security of British
Columbia,” and that England must retain
it at all hazards. It is therefore a political
question; and is an illustration of the log
ic of force. The “ Mail” on the other hand
calls it a mere “ geographical question,
which is to be settled by geographical sci
ence in connection with the terms of the
convention of 1846, which established the
49th parallel of latitude as the boundary.”
It is here purely a geographical question.
The one paper would have the question
settled by what it regards as “ absolutely
necessary to British security”—the other
would have it adjusted by the light of
facts. The Utter is the more sensible
view, but which will prevail with the En
glish Parliament we do not know.
The Carnet Bud.
Through inadvertence we neglected in
our notice of the Fair, the attendance of
this Band at the grounds. This was their
first public performance, and when we
say they acquitted themselves handsome
ly, it is not enough to convey an idea of
their performance. Having been organized
only a few months, tlieir performance was
so excellent that even coitnoieeurt pro
nounced it a credit tomkter battds. Cass-
ville in a year can boast that she has £
Band unsurpassed. Persevere, gentle
men, and you need have no fears as to the' Shdies will do well to bear this in mind.
final result, and your next appearance in
public will pUce you with others who
may think themselves your superiors.
HfLaa^buyens should not fail In read
tee advertisement of Mr. John Botham^ of
Columbus. The lands he
' ten he bought on good Drew
Attention is called to tbe card of
'Mr. Welty, Photographist and Fret of
• P-amanship. Bo wttfcs.aa wollusjt is
possible to write.
Anothei Fire.
A fire occurred in the pocket of our es
teemed co-editor, Mr. Smith, on Tuesday
last, doing considerable damage to a few
second-hand postage stamps, a good leath
er string, a ball of twine, a few* cigar-ends,
fast table in San Francisco. Becoming men - n g n „i and and America have free-
excited, he made some remarks as follows: jy tjme treasurei health and life it-
“ The damned miserable wretch, after ^ ^ further her p]ans to reward , if po*-
being kicked out of tbe Convention, went ^ fcith constant love,
down there and made a speech abusing w - th ; ntel , igence 0 f a positive import—
me. I have defended him at times when
all others deserted him. I paid and sup
ported three newspapers to defend him
She has now the melancholy satisfaction
of knowing that Sir John Faanklin died a
year before the failure of the expedition.
during the Vigilance Committee days, and and three years before the hours of des-
this is ail the gratitude I get from the ^ ^ Sllfferin „ wh en the horrible si-
the favors I j en ^ 0 f t h e Arctic winter closed in upon
damned miserable wretch for i
have conferred on him. I have hitherto i Uje |&st remnant ofthe hardv and heroic
spoken of him as an honest man-as the j men vhn hare ^ their names to im-
only honest man oil the bench of a mise
table, corrupt Supreme Court—but now
I find I was mistaken. I take it all back.
He is just as bad as the others.
; mortality.
j Sir John Franklin was horn April 16th,
j 1786. and was consequently 61 years old
at the time of his death. In 1801 he serv-
This speech was resented at the time j ^ ^ midshim „, n at the of C „pen-
by Mr. Periey, Terry s friend, but Brode- ^ ^ ^ >nd 1803 he wrTed in
rick said he would fight no one who held ; ^ ^ exp1ore tht coast of Aus-
a situation inferior to his own, and that
he would fight no one until after the elec
tion.
On the morning of the 6th, after the e-
tralia. In 1805 he took part in the battle
of Trafalgar. In the war of 1812 he was
wounded in an engagement with gun-
! boats at New Orleans. Tn 1818 he made
lection, rumors were current that a duel j hjg ^ ; xpcdition to thc Arctic scas ._
was to be fought, but owing to the vigi
lance of the authorities and thc interfer
ence of friends nothing transpired until
the 12th, when both parties were arrested
In 1819 he commanded an overland expe
dition from Hudson’s bay to the Arctic o-
cean. Tn 1835 he commanded a second
, , _ . , , . , , ovei land expedition. In 1829 he was
on the ground. Being taken before the L.^ In mo he rendered import .
Police Judge of San Francisco, all hands j
were released, as no case could be made j
ant service to the Greeks, then struggling
. . for independence. In 1836 lie was made
out. This was on tbe 12th. On the 13th, j GoTen|or of Van Diem an’s Land where
in the morning, they met, and the Gglit
resulted in Broderick losing his shot by
a too speedy discharge of bis weapon, and
Terry's shot taking effect iu Broderick's
breast
This was not the first duel fought by
Broderick—he and Judge J. C. Smith,
took six “ cracks” at each other in March,
1852, with Colt’s Nary Repeaters, dis
tance ten paces; a watch, in the vest pock
et of Broderick, was shattered and per
haps saved his life on that occasion.
he remained till 1843. In 1845 he start
ed on the expedition from which he never
returned
Mr. J. D. Carpenter,
Of this place, has a splendid stock of
Dry Goods and Ready-Made Clothing on
band which he has just received from
market,—for the fall and winter trade.—
As the chilling winds of winter are begin
ning to be felt, very much to the annoy
ance of the summer clad body, we would
recommend our readers to step into his! by abolitionists,
store and supply themselves with a suit
better adapted to the season. His stock
contains all that will make the outer man
comfortable, neat and tidy. The ladies can
also find all that will adorn and beautify! on Monday evening for Harper’s Ferry ;
From the Chronicle k Sentinel.
Rebellion at Harper’s Ferry—Troop*
called out—Blood Shed.
Rumors reached Washington City on
the 17th that a serious insurrection had
broken out at Harper’s Ferry, Va. The
trains on the Railroads leading there had
been stopped, some of the employees kill
ed, the telegraph wires cut, and the town
and all the public works are in the hands
of the rioters.
The negroes on the plantations on tee
Maryland side of the river have been
seized, carried over, and made to join the
insurgents—who are composed of whites
and blacks, and are supposed to he led on
The insurgents number
from 6 to 800, and are led Ire a man of
the name of Anderson.
One hundred Marines, with two twelve
pounders, from Washington barracks left
! She suffered greatly too.
it out.. I got some on my arm, did it not
The Admiral is n ** ke J el1 ? I P»t a lot of earth on
In the case of yonr unfortunate accom-! very badly wounded ; they say his leg will il and P ut out
plice, Cobh. I had no difficulty and no ; come off. He was wounded by a splinter. The boat I got into took me first
scruples. I regarded him as the arch con- j —You could almost put your fist into the board the Coromandel. The decks wen
triver and instigator of this bloody deed ; wound.
covered with wounded. There was no rows
as its projector and most active executor. J At 5.30 P. M., the signal was given for t ^ lere l° r lne . 80 I g ot them to put meet
it’ii a callous insensibility and bold and ' the marines to land and storm the fort— hoard a gun boat. I had to stay up all
defiant persistency, he struggled to the A Yankee steamer took our boats in tow, n, ^ lt to k< *P the men P u ' u P‘ n g ^ ship;
^ J 1 - • — - ; ■ as it was she went down half an hour »f-
last to defeat the demands of Justice; and i and when close in we cast off, and, with , ,
had you pursued the same course in your | three cheers, gave way for the shore. The j tcr we Ie ^ 1 c * r cy aTe S ot her "P
defense, I should have had no hesitation , water was about four feet deep where the since, and some oft ic ot r gun *>atsis
in consigning you to the same doom which men jumped out I, like a mufi] did not wel1 that h *ve sunk. i ear y every offictr
has terminated his career. But you have, j wait to go forward, jumped over the stern | e,ther k,Ued ’ or wound ^ «
by your own motion through your coun- - of the boat and was nearly drowned, but
sel, given tbe case such a direction as to J fortunately, I got hold of an oar, andscram-
relieve the Court and the country from a I bled in again. I was wet all over ; how-
protracted and harassing trial. You have I ever, it did not matter much, as you will
made no point upon thc testimony against! see. We had to walk 200 yards under a \
missing. I never saw men behave better
than ours did; the engagement began at
a quarter to three on the 25th, and finish
ed at about 2 or 3 A. M. on the following
morning. They are tiring still on thc gun
boats, (June 29th.) I had been nearly *
you, and submitted to your peers the ! heavy fire before the water was knee deep,
question of your guilt without attempting j We lost a good many men, as we got into j hours in the wet and mud. This has open-
» J ° . . , . , law j - Aiir nine « littif* ac tn tvhsr Iho I ntruma
to influence their determination by the j the mud, which was very deep. One round
their person, from a shawl pin to a “come also three companies of artillery from Old
andkiteme” bonnet Messrs. Cartestek. ■ Point, and six or seven companies of mil-
Coxptoh, and Goorasr, are good looking! itary from Baltimore and Frederick City,
and courteous gentlemen. The two latter i It is thought that the disturbance was
are on hand and for sale cheap. Young caused by the failure of the contractors on
Uu: Readers
Would not lose anything by calling on
our esteemed friend and county-man, Mr.
tbe government dam to pay the employees,
several hundred in number.
About ten days ago* tremendous drove
- . ... „ . of er»T squirrels, numbering hundreds of
E. R PacsLKT, f erti le He lus on j suddenly nmd. their appear-
band a Urge and well selected stock of | jferemac, covering the trees
Staple Mid Fancy Dry Goods, Ready-Made i ^tere WkT'apell. ^Thmisands of
Clothing, Ac. We called in to see him lest | W ‘ ‘ - t||e
„ . ‘ , . . .. _ J them were afterwards found dead m the
Saturday, and took a birds eye view of . , j
, - , ,, , . . ! nverand on the ground They crossed
his neat and tasty establishment, and up- . . . *
on examination found that he had a Na 1
the Mississippi at that point, and worked
their way down the river until on Wed
and such otherarttdes as Editore usiully #toc| . ^ fashionaUe goods. Now, Mr. P.,
carry m there pockets. Mr. Smrthwadmr , ^ , miM andagn! ^g enUc ^ aDd Jn^JtheYroMhedCape Gi«rdeau,cros-
torerrf^hepipe-which will account for ^ Bnd ri ^ ring the river at teat pent m eountiem
fff* We see from the last Mankatt
fimKyJinN, Guntarsville, Ala, that our
yimuig and esteemed lrieoi£ TnoxAa J. P.
Ecbaxks, formerly ofCartersvilk, Ga, has
bought that paper and is now the propri
etor. We wish our friend Eubanks groat
since si in bis undertaking—be is a good
Democrat, and will doubtless do good ser
vice in tee ranks ofthe Democratic party
of our sister State.
in 12*
ygf” Gov. Brown’s majority
counties is about twenty thousand,
counties have not ham heard from, which
wiR prahabfy sweR Us majority to about
far The states at am fclaw towns-
Mr. Q. W. forosrn, with a quantity
of ante, fcfy. lt was fo nrayed by tea an
ings—sells goods as cheap as anybody—
and will do as much to please his custom-
era. He deserves the patronage of our
oountymen, and no doubt receives it to
no inconsiderable extent*ifr. Presky will
pkme accept odr thanks for that bcautilhl
present be gave us. Mzy his shadow nev
er grow less.
Imi’i Improved Tqun.
Some of our readers would doubtlem be
profited fay reading tha-advertiseamnt of
tfass rery ioqMrtaiitnrvention recently dis
covered, which wiU be found is another
column.
myriads. The citizens turned out
masse, and killed them by hundreds. Ev
ery tree and bosh in that vicinity swarm
ed with them until, night, when they all
disappeared, and Met not been heard of;
their route was marked as by a devasta
ting storm. Trees were girdled and fields
destroyed. Old French Settler* predict a
very severe winter, as it was noticed in
1884 and’53 that immense droves ef squir
rels suddenly made their appearance, fol
lowed by intensely 'severe
Loait Exp’em.
PT 4 List of the Premiums awarded
a( the late Cass County Ihir will be pub-
Bsbtd wAt week. . .
It is announced that the French form
for China wfll consist of ’fire thousand
teoepsefthe lme,fifoeen
six large
frigates, and six first-ckaa and six seoood
recent aketions m ter North-
» gain feaafae Black! that the expedition will
• Repuhfieans,
arguments of your able counsel. And af
ter the jury had pronounced you guilty,
you voluntarily abandoned your right of
appeal to a higher tribunal, and have
thrown the chances of your fate upon the
decision of this Court. These circumstan
ces, together with the doubt I entertain
whether you may not have been led to
thc participation of this crime by the con
trolling influence of a bolder spirit,- come
with a powerful appeal to my'feelings in
your behalf, though guilty yet now pros
trate and unresisting. I therefore come
to the conclusion that if I err it shall be
on the side of mercy; hoping that the
signal retribution which has now overta
ken all tbe perpetrators of this foul and
bloody deed, will prove an effectual warn
ing against its repetition, and convince
thc evil-minded that the law will not suf
fer itself to.be violated with impunity.'
Though you will be spared a shameful
death upon thc scaffold, the sphere of your
existence will be narrowed into the con
fined cells and workshops of the Peniten
tiary, and you will be as effectually dead
to tbe world around you, its hopes, its
joys and its prospects, as if you were con
signed to thc darkness ofthe grave.
Your unhappy fate and that of your
miserable confederates, so far as your his
tory has been disclosed to me, may, like
tltousands of others, be traced to tbe per
nicious influence of corrupt association ;
to an early introduction into tbose haunts
of idleness and intoxication, where so many
of the youth of this country are trained
up for the prison and the scaffold; where
many a food parent’s hopes have been
blighted, as the hopes of yours have been,
and from whence tbe graduates of vice
are sent out by thousands to curse the
world, and in their turn to corrupt others
as they have been corrupted before.
And now as your prospects are forever
closed in this world, I would kindly ad
vise you to direct your thoughts to a bet
ter: and by penitence and prayer, to seek
and obtain an incorruptible inheritance
above, where you may enter when Death
shall release you from your earthly prison
bouse.
The sentence of the law is: That you
be taken from the bar of the Court to the
common jail of the county, and there kept I °°^
in safe and close custody, to be delivered
to the guard to be sent by the Principal
keeper of the Penitentiary of this State.
shot knocked over ten of our men. It was
impossible to form properly because of the
mud and the heavy fire. Poor llulcatt did
not go a dozen yards before he got a shot
in the thigh. I went up to give him as
sisfance; he asked me for my pocket hand
kerchief to tie up his wound.* I was in the
act of handing it to him when a shot iiit
me on the side of my head, and over 1
went, at Uuleatt’s feet, stunned for the
moment I was soon on my feet again, ami,
throwingHuleatt my pocket handkerchief,
trudged on as well as I could. My good
ness ! did we not get it oow ? W e we re a-
bout 200 yards from the wall, and subjec
ted to all the cross fires. 1 suppose we
lost 100 marines in thc space of as many
yards.
The forts we thought were silenced, o-
pened fire on us. I never saw such slaugh
ter. Poor fellows! they were carried off
half a dozen at a time. Here were we, 350
marines and a few bluejackets, storming
a fort manned by 20,000 men, of whom
many were Europeans in tiie pay of the
Chinese Emperor, and three hundred can
non. There were no supports to back us
up, and we went on to almost certain
death. All tbe ladder party were killed
but two, and several ladders smashed by
round shot. At last, after an hour’s strug
gle, we reached the first ditch. Some of
us jumped down into the ditch, but were
rather sold, for, instead of finding it knee
deep it was out of our depth. Many men
were shot going over the bank, some only
slightly wounded rolled down the bank
and were drowned in the ditch. I was one
of the first to jump down. I never swam
! before in my life. I don’t know how it
was, I got across some how or other.—
When they found it was so deep, they or
dered up the ladders to cross on ; several
were broken in getting the men across.—
After going some short distance, knee deep
in mud, we came to the second ditch ;—
this was a dry one, and was composed of
very soft mud.
i cd our eyes a little as to what thc Chinese
can do, and taught us a good lesson.
Redaction ofthe Legislature.
We hope to see this great measure of
reform pressed upen the attention of thc
Legislature at the coming session. Thc
evils and inconveniences of the overgrowth
of that body have been heretofore exposed
by the press, and we hope that our cotem-
poraries will renew the subject. Aside
from the enormous and unnecessary ei-
pease attending the sessions at present,
tiie impossibility of transacting business
with a crowd of three hundred men, man;
of whom are ignorant and unaccustomed
to Legislative business, must be apparent
to everybody. The truth is, that nine
tenths of the number of members are it
present utterly useless, and only serve to
perplex and e.nliarrHSK by their ignorant
interference, thc twenty or thirty, hr
whom, in reality, all the work of law mak
ing is done.
Perhaps it would be possible to submit
to the unwieldy number of our Legisla
tors, if there were not in the present sys
tem the grossest inequality and injustice.
Many of the counties, especially of the
new ones, which there has such a mania
for making, do not contain as many voters
as may lac found under the roof of the
Capitol at Milledgevillc any day during
the session, yet these have half as much
power in thc House and equally as much
in thc Senate, as any one of thc fifteen or
twenty most populous counties, cacti with
ten times more voting population. As to
the Senate, it is pleaded that the counties
should be equally represented in it as the
States are represented in the U. S. Senate;
but the two are not at all analogous, for
the State Senate differs only from thelloiue
in that it sits in another room. In the Sen
ate (as an instance of the gross inequality
there) the county of McIntosh, with a lit-
tlemore than two hundred voters, is equal
to Fulton or Richmond, with each 2,000.
In the House of Representatives, the ine-
You may not credit it, ; quality is nearly as great, thirty-five hun-
but we were an hour or more crossing this ; dred voters in the twelve smallest countid
ditch, a distance of about twenty yards. I! being equal to twelve thousand in thc six
was nearly left to be smothered in the largest Three hundred voters in Glass-
mud ; the men thought I was wounded cock are equal in representation in tbe
and was leaving me to go on ; at last two House to eleven hundred in Fulton, and
or three men of my company dragged me . one voter in Wayne has the same power
in tbe Government, and thc same voice in
The sights we saw at the second ditch measures »nd elections, as ten in Rich-
are beyond all description. It was here
For such shameful inequalities, som
our officers were picked off so. He were
That you be taken by the said guard to ei^ty yards from the wall, and being rero edy ought to be found and applied--
the said Penitentiary, and there or at such drrese.1 m red, while the men were .n b, U e, ^ are ^ the members elect so
other place as tbe Governor may direct, j ““f® u ^ cons P , ~““ s “ arks {oT the ene_ unusual number of men of talent; we hope
he keptst hard labor formal during tbe”^"^^' 1 7" thrt aU will unite, regardless of party »
rm of your natural life. I Cr0SS * d the 8econd d,tch ’ the ren “ mder terest, and devise some plan, not only for
; were hort * eomhat «n tee mud and ditch, j reducinft but for equalizing represente
Akehcax Cocktest.—Recent advices Now came tbe tug of war. We had crossed What the details of that plan shall
from Genoa state that while the United two ditches, and the third lay before us, ^ we ^ leave t0 thenli but *«
State? frigate Wabesh was lying at that not 50 yards from the wall. We had only trust that they will exert all their influence
port, a large fire occurred in the city, three ladders left, and if we broke any of agminBt out any more new conn-
■ . , J ’ * '- those it was all up with us, as none of our ties? especially out of Territory, whose
when her commender, desiring to aaaist
in subduing it, dispatched to tbe aid of rifles would go off; the amunhion was w hole voting population could beacco®-
the city a portion of her officers and crew, wet, and the rifles also, besides being cho- modated without crowding in any ofthe h®
with tee fire engines ei that ship. Short- up with mud. Unkaa we could put trains which leave our city daily -
ly after the occurrence, a letter was re- three men at a time on the wall (about 30 Jtagutta Dispatch.
eetved by the Commamhntof the Wabash fret high) we should stand no chance, as
from tea Tics President of the Royal we had nothing but cold steel to fight with.
Chamber of Commerce, attesting their Well, we laid the ladders across, and one
Not Posted.—The London
Times is evidently not “up,” « th **^
^0— *»*• "*”^r *L w “^t s
*—~ *— —* on to the middle of the ladder, when two , „ . ^ . . , , nf \mti-
We leant that Maj. J. F. Cooper, who down I tumbled into tbe middle of the ^fltioiis for®
_ now engaged in a survey for tbe Men- ditch. I held on to tbe broken put ofthe Prewdentwln ^
etta, EUijey and Duektown Railroad, has fodder, and managed to get to the bank ^riwef topwofeonv^
found the route, thus for, most lavorabla^aad-scramble upTHThen Igot on to tbe
The greatest depth of excavatiou that will bank then was a nice spectacle before me,
be required, as for as the Engineers have the walls covered with men not more than
gpoe will not exceed fifteen feet; and the 85 yards distance. When they
highest embankment, twelve feet. If no they pree a volley. I don’t know how it at Cedar Town, in Folk county
There are three candidates in I
Wire, Douglas and Bolts. At l** 4 *
counts Bolts was a little ahead.”
Mr. Morrison, wh^ killed Mr! Cbi«J®
unty oo
the 8tb in* 4 *
gnat obstacle should be encountered in was I escaped. My clothes were out to tioo day, was examined on
tea aatghhnthond of Canton, this will pieces, mud yet, with the exception of a sod committed to jail at Rome, Floy ^
psora to be one of the cheapest routes as few aenpee here and there, I was all right to await bis trial at tbe next term
fee State.—JforMtto Ada. WmH not a pity all the ladders ware bro Superior Coart ef Polk ooviwty