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C&e ^tairkrl 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