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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
S\TI KI) U EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1H53. |
FOR GOVERNOR:
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
FOR CONGRESS:
Ist. DISTRICT FAMES L. SEWARD.
lid. DISTRICT A. H. COLQUITT.
Hid. DISTRICT DAVID J. HAILEY.
IVth. DISTRICT W. B. W. DENT.
Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN.
Mr. Davis and the Pacific Railroad.
We publish to-day an approved copy of Mr. Davis’s
address upon the Pacific Railroad. We do not under
stand the eloquent speaker as having committed him
self to the policy of building the toad out of the funds
in the Treasury. He admits the necessity of the road
for the defence of our Pacific possessions, but pledges
himself and the Administration to oppose the building
of it by the Federal Government, if any other means
can be devised to attain the same end. To this posi
tion we hare no objection, as we are sure private en
terprise is compcti nt to the task, Bnd will achieve it
long before Government ean do so. We arc surprised
that no allusion is made to this view of the subject by
the Secretary of War, and hope that when he reviews
the ground he will concur with us in opinion. The
Savannah Georgian is sound upon this as on every
other ques.ion affecting State Rights, and contains an
able article in opposition to the Government’s building
the Road, The Democratic party is by no means com
mitted to the Pacific Road. Wait till you hear from
Pierce. We confide in his soundness upon this and
every other question which will come before him.
A Short Reply.
We are astonished at the tenacity with which many
of our cotemporaries cling to the charge that we have
apologized or the appointment of Free Soilers to
office, and can only account for it upon the supposition
that, having done so themselves while Fillmore was
President, they are anxious to shield themselves from
public condemnation by implicating us.
In the extract from our columns adduced by them as
% proof of the charge made against us, we do not even ad
mit that Pierce had appointed Free Soilers to office, but
simply set forth a state of facts existing in some com
munities at the north, which might render the appoint
meat ot Free Soilers to local offices unavoidable. Now,
is it not apparent to the dullest comprehension, that
until we admit that the President had appointed Free
Soilers to office, it is preposterous to charge us with
apologising for such appointments? and that what is
unavoidable is not subject matter for apology. An
apology implies error. We have never admitted the
error, and could not, therefore, apologise for it.
We are the more earnest in this matter, as we are
the deadly enemy of these creatures, desire no fellow
ship with them, and will co-operate with no party which
warms them in its bosom. This is indeed one great
cause of our hostility to the Southern Whig or Conser
vative party. It not only supported a party which re
cognised Free Soilers as members in full connection and
fellowship, but actually chose them out of the array of
its great men, and voted for them for President and
Vice-President of the United States, knowing them to |
be such. The editors of the Conservative journals I
ought to be ashamed to bring the charge against Gen. j
Pierce of appointing Free Soilers to office. They i
themselves would have made a Free Soiler President j
of the United States. It is useless to allege that Wee- |
•ter voted for the Compromise, and thereby gave evi
dence of his recantation of I.is Free Soil doctrines. He
avowed in his speeches in defence of the Compromise,
both before and after its passage, that if there ever was
any danger of slavery going into New Mexico and Utah,
that he would exclude it by act of Congress, and only
forbore to do so then because the Wilinot Proviso was
written by the finger of God upon every mountain and
valley in the territories.
It would be no defence to President Pierce to say j
and prove, as there would be no difficulty in doing, that
Fillmore appointed Free Soilers to office. We scorn
such a defence. It is, however, a matter of reproach
to Southern journalists that they gave their support to
such an Administration, and now seek to undermine
President Pierce for following in his footsteps, as they
charge, but fail to prove.
Reply to the Chronicle & Sentinel.
The evidence that the Buffalo Republic has been
repudiated by the President, is found in the columns of
the Washington Union, the organ of the Administra
tion, where it is done without equivocation by the or
gan grinder in his editoria columns. As to the ad
vertising patronage received by the paper, v\e know
nothing about it, but presume no respectable paper
would publish the advertisement tor the pay offered for
it by the last Congress. We have had similar patron
age offered to us by Fillmore’s Administration. Poes
this prove that Fillmore’s Administration was Demo
cratic ?
The evidence that Pix & Cos. have repudiated their
Buffalo he'esies is fouud first in the fact that they ;
voted for Franklin Pierce, the bitterest and most
proscripthe enemy in the Northern States of the Buf
falo politicians. Does the Chronicle cj- ntinel for- j
get that be organised opposition to Atwood, the Demo- ;
eratic nominee for Governor of New Hampshire, upon
the ground that he was a Buffalo politician, and sue*
ceedtd in defeating his election ? The second ground
ot proof that they have repudiated their Buffalo here
sies, is found in the fact that they have been appointed i
to office by Franklin Pierce, the fiercest and bitterest
enemy ot Buffalo heresies iu the North rn States. The
third piece of evideiLe that th*-y have repudiated their j
Buffalo heresies is found in the fact that they are re- •
tamed in office by Franklin Pierce, who is pledged !
before the country ter turn out of office every appointee
who will not repudiate the Buffalo heresies, and w’e ;
believe Franklin Pierce is an honest man and will
stand up to his word. As to Brown ,he uever was a
Freesoiler.
Now will the Chronicle tjr Sentinel honestly an
swer us a few questions ? Did you not vote for a
Freesoiler for President ? ] lid not Mr . Jenkj.ns do
the same ? How then can you honestly Wame Pierce
for appointing Freesoiiers to insigtiifieant offices? Is
not every Foreign Mission of the tirade of Ch arge. but
one, niied by men who are opposed to both Abo litionism
and Freesotiism ? Plain answers to these few ques
tions will, it is believed, show the h ypoorisy of the Con
eirva.ivo party and commend the Ad minis-tration °f
President Pierce to the ooafiden W of the South**. *
rtople,
I
Capt. Abercrombie’s Election-—The use made
of it.
We find in the Chronicle <s• Sentinel , a letter from
Columbus, Geo., which attempts to make a very un
fair use of Capt. Abercrombie’s election in the 2d Con
gressional District of Ala. The writer says :
“Well done. Democrats of the 2d Congressional Dis
trict in Alabama. And is not this election encouraging
to our cause ? Will the Union and Conservative Lena -
crats in Georgia be behind their orethren across the river,
in Alabarna.in thusstanding up to the principles of the South
and of the Union ? Will the Union and Conservative
Democrats in Georgia, who have been ‘kicked and cuff
ed about,’ rode rough-shod over, (see Warner, Murphy.
Tumlin and others,) and who have been made to stand
aside for their ‘ betters ,’ or for their Fire eating or Dis
| union brethren among the ‘reunited,’will they cring
i ingly bow the knee to their would-be masters —those
who think themselves ‘ better ’ than they ? And will
not the great body of them ‘come out from among’
these D sunionists and supporters of Free-soil and Abo
lition appointments, and again stand by the Georgia
Platform aa they and we did in 1851, when we elected
Cot b. who then professed great devotion to it ? I cannot
but believe they will. 1 place a higher estimate upon them
than their Fir- -eating brethren or Mr. Cobb either ; for 1
do not think they belong to Mr. Cobb and can be trans
ferred and sold to Disunionists like sheep and cattle, or
other stock in trade, by any bargain he can make tor his
own individual bemnt. But the first Tuesday in October
Will tell.”
This will be very astonishing news to many of C3pt.
Abercrombie’s supporters, and make them bite tfuir
lips with rage. Many of his best and most indu* ntiai
friends in the election were Fire-eating Democrats—
disunionists of the first water —rnen who voted for
Troup and Quitman in the last election, and hold the
w hole Union party in utter contempt. The county of
Barbour , which the writer in another place designates
as “the Democratic county of Barbour,” “which
brought up the rear in a handsome manner,” was
origina l)’ a Whig county by from 2 to 300, and gave
the “ Disunionist, l ’ C chran. near 400 majority in his
race with Abercrombie in 1851. It is all gammon
therefore for “A Conservative Observer” to pretend to
believe tl at the Union Democrats gave Abercrombie
his majority. He owes h;s election to the of
the “Disunion” politicians of Eufaula, who went for him
in a body. The great body of the Union Democrats
went for Clopton, and stood by the Administration of
Pierce. Y\ ellborn, a Union Democrat, in “the
Democratic county of Barbour,” was beaten by a
Fire-eating Democrat, and two other Fire-eating
Whigs who ran on the Southtrn Rights ticket, and a
like result happened in other instances in the canvss.
In plaiu English, Capt. Abercrombie owes his election
to a coalition between the Webster Whigs and the
“Disunion” Democracy—and any rnan who striven to
make a different impression, is either grossly ignorant
of the facts he comments upoii or designedly misrepre
sents them. The Scott Whigs went against him in a
body, lie lost about 1000 Whig votes in Macon ooun
ty alone.
The Alabama Legislature.
Senate.
1. Mobile—T. B. Bethea.
2. Baldwin, Monroe and Clarke—J. S. Dickinson.
3. Cofle , Covington and Conecuh—Jones.
4. Dale and Henry—Searcy.
5. Barbour— Peterson.
6. Pike—Harrel Hobdy.
7 Russel— B. H Baker.
8. Macon—A. H. Clanton.
9. Montgomery and Autauga— Thos.H. Watts.
10. Dallas and Wilcox—S R. Blake.
11. Sumter, Choctaw and Washington—Woodward.
12. Greene and Marengo— J.D. Webb.
13 Perry and Bibb— Cocke.
14. Lowndes and Butler— Crenshavr.
15. Coosa—J. R. Powell.
16. Tallapoosa — Kimbal.
17 Chambers— Chas. McLemore.
18. Randolph—Gay.
19. Talladega—Bradford.
20. Benton—Martin.
21. Jefferson and Shelby—Moses Kelly.
22. Robert Jemison, jr.
23. Pickens— Lee.
24. Marion and Fayette—Jones.
25. Franklin—Jones.
26. Lawrence, Hancock and Walker—Hewlet.
27. Blount and St. Clair—BothwelL
28. Cherokee—Hendrix.
29. Marshall and DeKalb—Lamar.
30. Jackson —Frazier.
31. Madison—Acklen.
32 Limestone and Morgan—Malone.
33. Laudetdale— Patton.
Whigs in Italic; Democrats in Roman.
House of Representatives,.
Autauga—Bolling Hall.
Baldwin— Wilkins.
Barbour—Cochran * Comer* McCall. #
Benton—Wills, Davip, Whatley.
Bibb—Davis, Findley
Blount—Aldridge. St. John.
Butler—Burnett, Yeldell.
Chambers — Roberson, Hill, Todd.
Cherokee—Clifton, Lawrence, Sanford.
Choctaw’ — McCall.
Marke—Thornton.
Coflve— Yelverton.
Conecuh — Jay.
Coo^a —Garrett, Weaver.
Covington— Holley.
Dale— Ward.
Dallas— Hatrher, Phillips.
DeKalh—Murphy, Newman.
Fayette—A. Reynolds Kdwards.
Franklin—Lind-ay. Carroll, Watkins.
Greene— Benners, Inge.
Hancock— Lawrence.
Henry— Odum, Hays.
Jackson—H. C Cowan, R. T. Scott, J. M. Greene.
Jefferson—Camp.
Lauderdale—L. P. Walker, Rhodts.
Lawrence—
Limestone—Allen, Hanserd.
Lowndes— Webb, Cook.*
Macon— Rutherford, Abercrombie,Payne,
Madison—Laughinghouse, Humphries.
Ma engo—Foscue, Creagh.
Marion—
Marshall—Giibreth. Fletcher.
Mobile—Meek, Bell, Walker, Owen.
.Monroe —Agee
Montgomery— Reiser, Judge.
Mor an—
Perry—Talbert, Cole.
Pickens— Johnson, Henry.
Pike—Mcßryde, Fanior, Horne.
Randolph —Newell, Goodin.
Rus-ell— Nelson, Calhoun.
Shelby—Sterntt, Lawrence.
St. Claii— Foreman.
Sumter—Whitsitt, Portis.
Talladega—Curry, Bishop. Shelley.
Tallapoosa— Gibson. Gillam, Holley.
Tuscaloosa —Martin, Brown.
Walker —Irwin.
Washington—E. H. Gordy.
Wilcox—Fox, Ervin.
Whigs in Italic; Democrats in Roman. ‘Southern
Rights.
It will be seen that our table of the names of the State
| Senators is complete, and that according to that table,
which we believe to bo correct, there are twentv-one
| Democratic Senators, and twelve Whigs.
Our table of the members of the House is not yet
complete. The counties of Lawrence, Hancock, and
Marion, are yet to hear from, the first being entitled to
two members, the other two to one each. Os these
four, the Democrats have no doubt eh cted three.—
This calculation gives fourteen Democratic majority
over all others in the House—-they have a majority of
nine in the Senate—twenty-three on joint ballot.
Some of the members put down in our lists 3S Whigs,
we understand repudiate the name, and say they are
Union men, and ran and were elected as such. This
is the case in the Ruseell representation, and in the
one member from Talladega. They are all old Whig*,
however, and will probably act with that party in
Legislature.— Advertiser dj Gazette.
News from the Mountains*
Col. John Collier has been nominated as the can
didate of the Conservative party of Decatur for the
Legislature. Col. Collier was a JJnion Democrat,
ar.d the Conservatives thought by this trick to cheat
unsophisticated Democrats into the support of Jenkins
for Governor. But Col. Collier trumped their trick.
He declined the nomination, and comes out in a very
clever letter in defence of Piercf. and the Democratic
party.
Messrs. R. F. Daniel, Wm. P. Hammond, James
McConnell, L. M Coox, Wm. Ward, John 11. YAood
and John H. Gregory, of Cherokee County, have
come out in a very able letter in favor of Pierce and
the National Democracy. They were all Union Whigs
James M. Calhoun, the Conservative candidate for
Congress against Dent, has been denouncing th.
President of the United States as “that monster!
Pierce.”
Herbchel V. Johnson and Walter T. Colquitt
were to address the citizens of Atlanta on the 11th
inst. Toombs and Stephens were there on the 10th.
[From the Washington Union.]
Speech ot Col. Davis on the Pacific Hoad.
YVe are now enabled to lay before our readers an
aoprnved revisal of the remarks made by Secietary
Davi- a Ph 1 idfclphi ■, to which so much of th >j puli
lie attention has been directed. It wa- obvious that
the speech as heietofore published was imprfeetly
r< ported, and t was equally obviou- that, on a ques
t nos so much magnitude, it wa- neither just to the
speaker nor to the subject that there sh* u ! d jc si
any ground for misconception or misunderstanding
as to the .-entiinents actually avowed and the prin
ciples on which they were maintained. It was un
der thi> conviction that we requested Col. Davis to
supply t’ e omissions and remove the obscurities aii
sing from the imj erfectioiis of the report, he has
kn dly complied with our request, aid we now pre
sent it with a lull confidence shut the positions an
nounced in regard to the Pacific railroad will with
-tmd every assault that ingenuity or talent can
m: k J upon them. YVe present it as an impregnable
document; and, as it involves great quesions of
constitu'iona! power and of national interest, we
invite to it the most scrutu iz ng attention.
It may not be improper for us to remark that Col.
Davis drawsclearly and emphatically the distinction
between works wi hiu a State and those in the
United States territory, and that he di-claims with
earnestness all idea of infringing upon the rights or
jurisdiction ofthe States. I. will be seen, 100, that
Col. Davis has made no allusion to the question of
the selection of routes, and in that particular show
ing that lie is for the road, and noi fir any particu
lar mute, ns the controlling consideration.
The President’s Cabinet was toasted, and three
cheers for it were propose I by Han. James Bucha
nan, and heartily responded to.
Hon. Jefferson Davis re-ponded, and sad that he
begged leave, on the part of those members of the
Cabinet who were present, to return their cordial
thanks for the compliment tendered thtin. They
s oodin ihe a titude| .f those who ei j *y the advantage
of reflected light; yet they did noi think they were
indebted for the consideration of those present mere
ly because they were members of the Cabim t. It
was rather because they were American citizens,
and brought within the circle of Pennsylvania
hospitality, that that compliment was bestowed on
them. [Applause.] Thanks to the increased
facilities of intercour-e, Pennsylvania hospitality
was not to be limited hereafter, as it had been
heretofore, by the slow progress of the old wagon
and Conestoga horse, nor by the yet more rapid
march of the coach, nor by the yet more rapid means
of the railroad. No! Socially, Pennsylvania was
tied by lightning to every portion of the older setlie
; merits of the Uni’ed States, and with her coal and
1 iron she was at.out to establish commercial relations
with the slope of the Pacific, and to look over into
that unknown regi< nos Asia w’hich includes China,
and Persia. [Tremendous < heeling, which prevailed
for many minutes ] These were results to be an
ticipated from the foresight and enegy of the people,
not to he effected by stretching the jowets o the
Federal Government beyond their legitimate sphere.
They knew that he belonged to the -tnct construc
tion school, wh ch never turned to the right nor to
the left to serve any purpose of expediency.
The President ( nterposi.ig) observed that he
was certain of that.
Mr. Davis resumed. YVitnin the limits of the
States they would touch nothing in disregard of
State Sovereignty aid righ sos jurisdiction; and
in this he spoke not for himself alone but also for
his honored chief. [Applause.] But when they
looked to theirreeern j ossessiuns on the slope of
the Pacific, t‘ ere were two tiling-: wh ch aires’ed
attention —the conflicting interests of ad ffei
eiit commerce, result ng from the want
of easy and rapid communication, and the
and tficuiiy of fulfilling one of the g ? eat ends of our
Union, that of giving adequate protection by mutu
al defence. Upon the pages of history, running
back to the remotest ant quity, noth ng is remarked
more generally th n that mountains have divided
nations, and therefore it had been perhaps some
what fai cifully argued as the lighi and shadow feh
upon the one side or the other, so would the char
acter of men be inodifi* and and government changed.
But had it not been, in the prog ess of mind *n its
coi flici with matter, that the useful -deuces in the
United States had adva< ced, had g. ined additional
force; and had they not reached the period when
they could triumph over this natural obs acle, when
they could skip the mountains, tunnei them, orpa-s
them by means known to civil engineering, thus
c- mbining opposite mb re-ts, tin ting rem< te iocali- ‘
ties, and socially, commercially and poli it ally
binding men together, so i hat the flue nations of I
light should become to them as n. thing? [Great
applause.] He had said that he was a strict con
structionist; but be had always m< eked the idea I
that the constitution had one construe!ion w ithin
the limits of ihe United States and another outside
of them. [Applaus .] He had already repelled
the supposition tfiai ins Government could * build
a road outside of the L’nited Slates, and could not
build one within it. Our constitution was formed
to bind the States together, top ovi< e for the com
mon defence, to concentrate the power of all for
the protection of e;eh,to throw their united shields
over every State, over every locality, over every ;
ship and individual if ihe Union. [Great ap ;
plaus .] r l he other question, which involved the !
i ttegrity of ihe Pacific po.-sessions, was sii i elo- i
ser to fraternal feeling and to sense of du'v ; it
was one to which he knew ihe heart of Penn
sylvania wo dd respond ; it was the question of pro I
iection, which in her strength she has always !
-nown herself willing to throw over ‘he weak. in !
he event if a war wi h any of the powerful nn
lioi.s ot the earth, California and O f eg. n are expo
sed to attack. Fraternity, chivalry, and eonstituiion
al obligation would combine to claim for them ade
quate p otection. Could i>, with our presen 1
means, be given 1 Could we rely upon an extra
territorial lire of communication ? If the Pacific
possessions should be threatened by a hostile fleet”
the Government w u! a have no sufficient navy
there to interpose for their protection, it that host ,e
fleet belonged to and fairly represented such a pow
er as England or France. It would take ali the
navy of the Unied States to keep a road open
which wouid cross either of the isthmuses oi this
continent. And while the navy oi the United
States was thus employed, what would be mote
easy than for such a imritiine power as et’her of
these to strike at those possessions and rend them
from these States, even in the extent nt the gold
regions which lay behind the coast ? It, then, as
a purely military question, it is necessaiy to have
an inter-commumcatii n, so that the Government
munitions of war and men could be thrown upon
the Pac’fic for its defence, the application oi the
war power of that Government to this case would
be within the strict limits of the constitution [En
thusiastic appause ]
But if it could be shown, and be always held
his opinion open to correctio i from any quart* r,
that these means were not r quired, were nut neces
sary—and by necessary he meant absolutely requi
i*. d—or and any one would snow the other me. ns
which would answer as a sub-titute, low the du
ties of the Government could be performed vvi>fl
out this auxiliary* m re eff ctively, more ecoi.om
rally, win iess exetcise of tlie general powers
of ihe Go’ eminent, ihen, as a strict construc
tion Democrat, lie w uld accept the proposi
tion. (Applause) Under every inge ions eon
struction which had been placed uj on the
various powers of ti e G 1 veinment to bend them
to temporary convenience or i div and. al advan
tage ; iituer every ramification whith ingenuity
had suggested to supply >y isthmus railroads and
c.nais the wants of commerce resultii g from teat
deficiency of intercommunicate!), he had insisted
that the end should he the d.sch. rge *4 u del< gated
trust, and that lie u eai s sh uld t e nece.-sa'V to
ihe peifoimanee *f the duty. To defend and
maint. in the inhahitants arid territory of our Pacific
possessions was ui deniab y a dihg .ted trust ; and
the question was, Wh it m *ans were necessary to
the discharge of the duty 1 In vain had it been
attempted to he shown him how- the military pow
er of this Government, which consist* and in the sin
ews and s.t ong hearts * f its citizens, c. uld be used
on the slope of the Pacific, unless there was a rail
road to transmit it. (Applause.) It, then, it could
he done by such means only, aid if that hazard
existed on the shores of that ocean, he would say
that the rest followed as a consequence. Within the
territories belonging to he United States die Gen
eral Government e* uld certainly construct roads
tor milita.y purposes. r l hi- p>>w pr, so long acted
on, would not change its nature with the change of
the material to be used in the construction ; and it
surely constituted no ohjeeti n : f the means em
ployed for a legitimate object sh uld contribute to
the increase aid developn ent of interests which
they were specially designed t” promote. Witeth
er iy these or other means effer ted, he would re
joice in the fulfi.ment of the anticipation that the
smoke of Pennsylvania coal might he seen on the
de-ert waste, beneath the c loud-clapped mountains,
and Pennsylvania iron, with the very stamp of her
own foundries uj on it, might be seen creeping in a
long serpentine track to the slopes of tfie Pacific.
(Applau-e.)
It was not Pennsylvania’s mineral resources
alone which were to be benefit ‘d in connexion
with these great w. rks. She is the g.eat agricul
tural Sate of the Union. Her mines and ntanu
fac'ures, w ith their cometuraed power, wielding
political influence, have attracted attention greate
| than that which belonged to her agriculture ; yet
her agricultural in crest was many times more im
portant. Nay, rr.oie : she had a commercial inter
est which exceeded her mineral and manufactur ng
in'erests combined. And why should not com
rneree, the handmaiden of agriculture, bear from
her huge and well filled bams the accumulated
store fi r which the millions of Aia were suffering?
Happy in the unfailing abundance of their home,
their only want was new markets to consume their
| surplus store. Not only free from want, hut from
j the fear of it, their attention could safely be turn
i ed to the sufferings of other lands.
And there was something which it seemed to him
| ought to swell the heart ofP< nnsylvania with pecu
| liar pride, when she looked back* to the land iron.
I which her sturdy farmers sprung, and s aw upon
i her ow n broad bosom those emps which could hush
! the Wail of hunger when the years of t. mine came
upon her fatherland. The political temple she bad
reared in the woods of Penn stood with open poi-
I tals, from which went forth an invita?ion and a wel
i come, not •• erely to a land of refuge, but of support.
[Applause.]
j He felt that the occasion was not one to wander
I into broad themes of discussion; he had trespassed
too much alret dy, [Cites of -Goon! go on !*’]
?dr. Davis, resum ng. He Would close bv refer
ring, w*S h their permis* on, to one who sat near him,
his friend, so long the representativeof* Pennsylvania,
and wh* se name came unb riden when her name
was mentioned. [lmmetse applause.]
He g*ve the health of Hon. James Buchanan.
The Mayor, who pres ded at the banquet, proposed
the he; !th fihe Hon. Jame© Buchanan, which was
; received with six cheers.
[From the National Intelligencer.]
The Trouble at Smyrna.
We have beer* favored with a private letter from
an officer of the sloop-of-vi ar Jft. Loui*, fto.n which
we make the annexed extracts, faihtu.lv.
we presume, the circumstances ai Smyrna connected
with the arres-t of -fie Hungarian. Koa-tr, and tne
considerations wit’ch -decided the roll.manner of the
St. Louis to demand his release. Jt appears tha
Captain Ingraham felt very sensibly the delicacy of
the position in which he was placed, and was much
embarrassed how to act; hut toe opinions and ad
vice 01 our Charge d’Affaires at C nstant nopb>,
confirmed by the * iaim of ih • prisoner t. American
protection, cecided the ca| lain, not unnatural!,, that
the course of peril <-r of battle, if need be, was the
cot rse of duly. Truly tinnkiul are we that so
awful an is:-iie was averted by the eonsideiate ai
tentative proposed by the two Consuls:
“United States ?hip St. Louis,
SYk.na, July 7, IBc3.
“I wrote you That one Martin Kossta, a Hungarian
refugee, had been forcibly taken 0,1 > or<i of an
Austrian brig-of war, and confined if) doube irons.
Although he was not a citizen oj the UniUdS'ates
slid lie had made his declaration ol m ention 10 ; p
ply to become such. Cap ain Ingranam, knowing
that certain d< ain would await the m n if he stioulu
be carried to Austria, determined, it possible, to
pave h m, if he could do it without comp orainng
our fli2. Ordeis had been issued by the Aust ian
Consul the mao away on the 29 h 01 Jure.
Captain Ingraham. hearing itiis on the night of the
28th, sent his pn test that the man must not t.e car
iled awav ui til it was fully settled whether or no
Martin Kossta was an American. On ti e morning
of the 29th our shin made sail and bore down to
wards the Austrian biig, and anchored nea , so we
couid watch and see that the nan was not carried
orf'. The Austrians, thinking that we were yoino
to lake ihe man, made every preparation to receive
u-\ During the m< rning the Austrian capta-n 3ent
word that the man would not be sent awav. Lit
ters came he same day fiom Mr. Brown, the Charoe
d’Affaires ad interim at Constantino} ie, stating
that Ko-sta was a citizen ol ihe Unittd States, and
euch was entitled to protection from our country.
V\ ell as hinge stood, the captain was in doult how
to act, outa>hedthat iunher time might be allowed
80 as to hear fr< nt Mr, Marsh, who was and ily e
pecteu at Con.tani nopje. The Austrians gave
unt 1 last Saturday, the 2d of July. Other let er*
came from Constantinople, but still Captain Ingram
ham was in doubt; and after a little convert •
with the Consul, the captain and consul ! ° n
board the Austrian brig-of-uar to s e Martin K “ n
sta. After some ronversath n, Mai tin Roast.’ ,
manded protection from the American flair U ( ’
tain Ingraham then told min he should Lave :ip *
The captain and Consul rationed on boaid
shi’\ and the captain sent wind to the A
that he demanded Martin Russia by four o’d.Vk °
the evening. After this was known tr(nu IIC , n
excitement spread throughout the ship; all [,’”l 8
were called to quarters to m ke preparation , .
action ; the big guns w ere loaded, cull, s >. s , m . 7’
arms, boarding-pikes, and every thing re dy
engagement. The surgeons brought out tli'f
instr*.meats, ready to cut off legs, patch up wom'u
&c. The shore was crowded w.th people to \\
the engagemetr, as th*'V though’ bloody vv,, r g v?j
going tu t.- ke place. The news spread like w.fo
fire throughout Smyrna, and the people were
much excited as we were. Delegati ns . ante ( ft
to the ship to see if something could not le done i 0
prevent an action. Alter four, r hv* horns (b
for ail parties) the American and Ausuian Cm ,u
came to a compromise; that is, the Austrian c. , wu ‘j A
who had full control of ihe man, constnu<| i,.,’
Martin Kossa should he delivered up inn, tl, c
hands of the F ench Consul, who cot sente.! to t;,k e
charge of him uuti 1 every thing was fully settled } )V ,
the two g< vernmeots ns to who I ad chain t..ti e
man. Well, afier this was settled, of c ui>evve:i||
breathed much l<*er than we did before. ft,
doubt hut many lives would have hem lost on loti,
.-ides. Although our guns are mud) larger i| lf ,
the Austrians*, still at the near qi arter we i tneed
fighting their puns w ttfo have be* n ju-t as destruc.
live as ours. The Austrian ferce consisted nf,j )e
brig . f sixteen guns, ones h> oner ol ten gtins, aid
three maib steamers, whith wou.d no and nbt | t;ne
assisteo in the engagement. S<> you see tlujr t<r*e
was touch large; than ours. The e was a pen r; ,|
rejoicing after the matter w as settled, and th* Ame
rican citizens in Smyrna gave a dinner t<> ( aj> !t j D
Ingraham and his officers on the 4th of I
r l here was a gi rural jod fieaUon, and theie vta> a
popt i. g of hoi tie-cot ks instead o the big gi,nv._
La t night we gave a ball on board to some *.f ih e
residents *>t Smyrna, who have bten very kind t u
us s nee our a<i a< in port”
lost IS.onU'Z in Laljcmia. — A correspnrd.r.t
of th* l Clev land (Ghi* ) Man taler, in a| ttcjd
front Sin Franc'Sco, thus speaks of Lola Montez,
and her doings and savings:
“The notorious Lola Montez is now ir this city
fascinating us w ith the ‘Spanish dance,* and d< light
ing’ us with a dramatic history of her intrigues with
the weak headed old King ol Bavaria r J ruly, bers has
been a checkered life. She has been a politician,
and ruled principalities and powe-s by the beauty
of her legs. sShe has snubt ed editois, threatened
senators with a stiletto, *-verawed theatre managers,
kicked ‘boots,’ dances for ‘benevolent objects,’ aul
bets a I horse-races. Sh attended the Pioneer races
l.st Sunday, armed with a revolver on one hip, and
a raki-h looking knife on the other. St.e b* t js6()o
on a mare n*tiled Lola Montez, and won. Throw,
i g into her face a ‘if-y er-a-cotning, why-don’i-yer
c oie along* kit.d of expression, she saul in tiue
Muse style, *l*.l bet five hundred on L la, that I can
rule her, and beat anything in the State; if I don’t
d—n me !*”
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fearfully, that in four years he had ten ulcers on his body,
besides a tumor between the eyes. Ihe best medical
t eatment afforded him no relief, the biood being so corrupt
that it was considered impossible to subdue the disea.-e.
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