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[From the Gcotqisl Jefiersonisn 1
Letter from Hon. Jeff. Davis.
Pacific Railroad— Hit Speeches, delivered at
Philadelphia and New York.
Fayettvi llk, Ga., Oct. 14, 1853.
Major Cline :
Dear Sih— During the political canvass
which has just closed, it became my duty, at the
request of my political friends, to oppose in po
litical debate the Hon. Robert, Toombs. Mr.
Toombs, in his speech, denounced Jefferson
Davis as a disunionist sitting in the councils of
the nation, and also made a great noise about
Mr. Davis’ late speech in Philadelphia, and
made him and the cabinet of President Pierce
responsible for the idea of building the Paific
Railroad with money taken from the Treas
ury of the United States —thereby abandoning
all their previous notions and public pledges ol
opposition to schemes of internal improvement,
organized by the General Government.
The above mentioned part of Mr. Toomb’s
speech, in my opinion, did more to set his hear
ers against the Democratic party, than all the
rest that he said. 1 defended Mr. Davis and the
cabinet, and roundly denied the charges above
named. Put they were made and affirmed in
so serious and positive a manner, that l know
anything 1 might say would be overbalanced,
in the minds of many, by the unqualified char
ges of ono upon whom Georgia has bestowed
her senatorial robes.
Relieving the charges named to be an un
kind and uncalled for attack upon the Execu
tive officers of our country, 1 thought it to bo
more than my duty to address Mr. Davis and
inform him, in substance, of what I have here
written. Also stating to him that I would glad
ly seize upon any honorable means to place him
and the cabinet in their proper position before
the people of Georgia.
I hoped for an answer before the close of
the canvass, but it came on Thursday before
the election, too late to correct the errors that
brought it into existence. I have read the fol
lowing letter to several wise and experienced
Democrats, and they advise its publication.—
And now, as the din of political warfare has
subsided—as the batttlo has been fought and
most gloriously won—as the banner of De
mocracy has again proudly and triumphantly
passed through a heated contest without any
tradings in the dust, but with victory inscribed
upon her lolds—without any other desire than
to do what is right and to show the people of
Georgia what the enemies of Democracy will
• do “to save themselves l send you this with
the lettor of Mr. Davis, subject to your discre
tion, as to whether it shall be given to the public
or mot.
Yery respectfully, yours,
V. A. GASKILL.
Before proceeding to notice the political ques
tions to which von call my attention, I will dis
pose of the personal accusation which you in
form me, Mr. Toombs has made against me.—
you say he denounced you as a Disunionist sit
ting in the councils of the nation.” During the
controversy ot 1850, in relation to the rights of
the South, and the duties of the General Gov
ernment, in the Territories acquired from Mex
ico, my attention was called, in debate, to the
tact that, in certain newspapers I had been char
ged with a desire to dissolve the Union. Be
lieving it to be the work of base men who coir
cealed themselves behind the instruments they
employed, I then said before the Senate, if any
gentleman make the charge I will answer him
in monosyllables. It was well understood that
answer would not be less harsh than, it is false.
Such is my answer now.
In that long and exciting controversy, my
ons were freely expressed. They are
bbiDi on the volumes of Congressional debates
spread ‘ l efer to disprove all allegations made
and them ‘ fealty io our constitutional Union,
ao-ainst my v ( 18 p!>) when engaged in a can-
Subsequente, TPb whilst I declared the opinion
vass in Missies a sovereign and equal member
nt a State, a?> ’ a right to withdraw from tho
o, \Jnion, hav o spoke of it as thelast rem
-ation, I ah ; one to which, under ex
- ‘i.al resort , “ssissippi should not ap
taffcesy.V sition of those with
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V. A. Gaskill , Esq,,
Sir :—\ our letter ot the 20th ull., arrived
here during my absence, and ill health has
combined with constant occupation thus far, to
delay my reply.
Railroad within the limits of Territories belong
ing to the United States. He, who denies this,
must also deny the power to construct wagon
roads, for which appropriations were made by
the last Congress for the territories ofMinesota,
Oregon and Washington, —and with the dis
bursement of which, l am now charged. He
must deny the jurisdiction which has been so
long exercised over the Territories by the Gen
eral Government; and finally find himself on
the same platform with the sect, which arrayed
the so/ereignty of the Territorial inhabitants,
as a barrier to federal legislation for the pro
tection of a slave holder’s property, who should
migrate from a Southern State, one of the joint
owners of that Territory, to become an inhabi
tant ofit. Within the limits of the States, the
action of the federal Government is restricted
so that it could not exceed the aid which might
be given to a private company, and that I have
held, on other occasions, was limited to the
interest in the work which the Government had
as a landed proprietor. The rule on which Con
gress has made grants of contiguous land, and
the right of way in aid of the construction of
roads. Beyond the question of power, are the
questions of practicability and expediency.—
The practicability will be more intelligibly dis
cussed, when the surveys, directed to be made
by the late Congress, have been completed.—
They are now in progress, and I have not at~
tempted to foretell their results.
The expediency is to be considered in con
nection with all the- political, physical, and ad -
ministrative questions which enter into it. The
mode of execution, the last to be decided, is the
first it seems to be presented for objections; and
I am held responsible for a particular plan of
proceeding, when I had proposed none, when,
from the dependence of the plan means of exe
cution upon the location of the route, I had not
considered it posible to decide on the best mode
of proceeding, until after the route had been lo
cated. Then, and not till then can any one es
timate the extent of road, how much, if any,
will have to be constructed within the limits of
United States Territory, the cost per mile, and
the means which can be made available for the
construction.
Very respectfully,
Your ob’t, servant,
Jeff. Davis.
Whites anb %mimd.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 22, 1853.
J udiciary Reform.
A correspondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist
KD£g<fcls v lcfoi n in the judeiary of our State, reducing
the number of the justices of the Inferior Court to one.
An attempt has been made in the last several Legisla
tures to effect this object, which has hitherto been fruit
less. The inefficiency of the tribunal as at present or
ganized is admitted on all hands, and it has indeed been
singular that in the face of Ibis admission, the move
ment has failed. We suggest a modification of the
movement abolishing the Court altogether. Since tho
establishment of the Court of Ordinary, there has really
been no use for an Inferior Court. Let the next Leg
islature add to the Ordinary’s duties, the office of com
missioner of roads and revenue, and then abolish the
Inferior Court entirely. We shall thus invest one
competent and salaried officer with all the Ordinary and
County business, and dispense with a common law tri
bunal for which we have no use. To equalize the du
ties of the Superior Court, in consideration of the accu
mulation of business in that Court in consequence of
the abolition of the inferior tribunal, let us have a Court
of quarter sessions for the trial of all criminal causes.
Wc need a separate Court for criminal causes. We
need it, if for no other reasons, because under the pres
ent arrangement it is almost out of the question to af
ford speedy trials to the accused. The reduction in
the jail fees will almost if not quite pay for a separate
tribunal which should meet in each county four times
during the year, for the trial of all crimnal causes.
One more suggestion in this connexion. We ought,
by all means, to increase the salaries of all our judicial
officers. The mere honor of presiding upon ihc bench
will not compensate our best lawyers for leaving a lu
crative practice for the judgeship. We should put the
very best talent of the country upon the bench, and we
can not command it without pa) ing for it. We do not
hope that if all other matters of judiciary reform are
neglected by our next Legislature, this matter will not
be overlooked.
New Goons. —We call the attention of our lady
readers to the advertisements of Mrs. Dessau, and
1 1 also to Messrs. Brokavv, Clemons, & Cos., and J. M.
1 j Raum. Their shelves will supply the wants of the
! most fastidious. J. 11. Daniel has opened a large and
! handsome assortment of ready made clothing.
. j ;
The Cttors. —The Cotton Crops in this section have
promised a pretty full yield up to this date. The heavy
-ain of Thursday and Thursday night, however, must
i. proved very destructive. Large quantities of
liavt. ’ere open in the fields, and the green bolls must
cotton v> ‘ ’erably. Tiie indications are now favorable
suffer consn. ‘-ost which wifi cut off the crop very
for an early
largely.
—— “t’s Merchant’s Magazine,—
Ddßow’s Review, IlUi. uur table, filled as usual
Both these monthlies are on qter. The former is
with interesting and valuable rifc- latter in New York,
published in New Orleans, and tu® nufacturer, these
at $5. To the merchants and
magazines are in'aluable.
V NEW Democratic tarer at Washiuutom.—Dcv
erly Tucker, Esq., formly of Va has commenced the
publication at Washington City, of anew Democrats
“L called the Sentinel. Mr. Tucker ,s an able , •
era Southern man, and a sound Democr.. The
Sentinel claims not to he an organ of the Ad.mrustra-
Z but will cordially support it. We have not seen
e paper, hut are pleased with extracts winch wo have
n from its columns.
jA n from its columns.
>V . -Tristam Burgess, formerly, anJ, for many
;fc, V* distinguished politician of Ultsdu Island, died In
to-\ fc. „c on lb. mowing of the 13th. Heasa
>vC\C \ ,f Congress from that State from lb~o to
t\' c \ t ______
’ e*o Member Elect— lion. Johii L. Bird
in \ ‘ 1. no Taliaferro, we regret to learn died
tVt- \ prntH Governor baa issued a writ ul election
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English Design upon Cuba.
Wo find the following letter in a late number of the
Richmond Enquirer , and give it to our readers for
what it is worth. While we doubt the correctness of
the report, the importance of the interest involved will
demand the vigilenee of our Government, to prevent
any possible design which England may have upon the
Island of Cuba. It is true that the English cruisers
have been withdrawn from the coast of Cuba, and sla
vers are now lauded upon the Island in crowds with im
punity, but it may be that England has been satisfied of
the folly of attempting to prevent the slave trade upon
the coasts of Cuba by the means of a few cruisers. At
all events it is a matter of congratulation that the for
eign relations of the Government are in the hands of
an Administration that dares to take care of our inte
rests.
Washington, Oct. 13th, 1853.
To the Editors of the Enquirer:
Information has been received here that Lord Howden,
the English Minister in Spain, had succeeded in making a
treaty with the Spanish Government, giving to British cruis
ers on the coast of Cuba the right to land troops and to
search the plantations, to which it might be suspected that
slaves were carried. Tho fact, that England has thus gain
ed a foothold in Cuba, is of vast importance to us. The
light of search will be soon followed by occupation, to a
less or greater extent, as circumstance 3 and her purpose
may require.
It is also stated that Lord Howden was pressing another
treaty upon the Spanish Government, ilehad offered to
withdraw the English cruisers altogether from the coast of
Cuba, and to permit as many slaves as might be, to be land
ed, provided that the Government would make them cman
cipados, and set them free after the period of ten years scr
viee, (the present term ifive yeau,) and at the end offitty
years abo'ish slavery and put the island under British pro
tection.
The effect of this would be to fill Cuba with a negro pop
ulation, which would, by the end of the time specified, en
tirely control the island.
Confirmatory of the above facts, a letter has just been
received here from Havana, dated Oct. Ist, from a source en
titled to the most undoubted confidence, which states that
Mr. Crawford, the English Consul, was procuring letters
from persons of prominence there approbatory ancl recom
mending the above mentioned project—no doubt, for the
purpose of sending teem to England to fortify her in her
demand upon Spain. It also states that the steamer had
just arrived tom Spain, bringing the nomination of anew
Captain General, and that the report that such a treaty was
in contemplation, had gotten out and w r as producing much
excitement.
There can be no doubt, that, in the present state of feel
ing in Spain. England, backed probably by other European
Governments who are hostilo to our institutions, will be
likely to succeed in her desire to get the assent of the Span
ish Government to her propositions. In view ofthese facts,
you may expect speedy and very decided action on the part
of our Government to defeat a scheme so dangerous to us
and so attrocious, that it cannot fail to arouse a condemna
tory public opinion everywhere.
These designs of England have be en for some time sus
pected . The proposed Tripai fife Treaty to guarantee Cuba
was the first evidence of them, and more has since been
iiad ; but not till now have these suspicions been confirmed
beyond doubt. I know full well, that everything relating
to this subject is of an inflammatory character; and nothing
would induce me, witting t& you, as I do, solely from my
own interest in public matters, to give you the above facts
without knowing, front the very best sources of information,
that they are reliable. E. B. B.
Sale of the Metropolitan Hotel. —The N. Y. Herald
of Saturday, says it was stated on good authority, on
’Change, that Messrs. A, T. Stewart <fc Cos., the cele
brated dry goods firm, had purchased the Metropolitan
Hotel for the round sum of $600,000, and that they
were to pay down in cash $400,000, leaving $200,000
on time.
Another Failure. —lt is now publicly announced
that Robert Spear, a well known Stock Broker of Wall
street, New York, lias railed und or tlio roociit dopre
elation of stock, and the tightness of the money mar
ket. There are various other rumors afloat regarding
the solvency of cert in parlies, but they have not yet
come to a focus.
Beware of Counterfeits. —Wo understand, says the
Augusta Constitutionalist of Saturday, that one dollar
bills of the Mechanics’ Bank, and of the Bank of Au
gusta, raised to five, are in circulation in the interior of
this State. They are pearly executed and easily de
tected by any one in the habit of handling bank bills,
and we pubfisli this notice to put those who are not, on
their guard. Keep a look out for the circulators of these
bills.
A German Colony has been, for a couple of years,
settled iu Pickens district, South Carolina, on a tract of
20,000 acres of land, which it has purchased in com
mon, to be divided among the several families of the
community. Houses have been erected and a village
laid out, named “Walhalla,” and schools and churches
have been instituted. The colony is said to be now in a
very flourishing condition.
Closing of the Crystal Palace. —lt is advertised that
tho Crystal Palace will be closed in December, and as
that may mean the first of December, it is possible
that little more than six weeks remain for visiting the
exhibition, and the New York journals are therefore
calling upon the resident citizens to visit it, as thus far,
nearly all the visitors have been strangers. The stock
is selling at 55, or 45 below par. Before the opening
it was as high as 170.
An Improved Steam boiler. —Judge W. E. Bird, of
Cahaba, Alabama, has invented an improved steam
boiler, for which he has taken measure to secure a
patent. The boiler is composed of cylinders or tubes
arranged in layers or tiers, having return flues passing
through them and connected with tire-chambers. Hie
flues of the lower tubes or cylinders terminate in a trunk
or chest with hollow bars, through which the smoke
passes to the smoke-chamber. The flues of the upper
cylinder communicate directly with the smoke-chamber.
Snow in Maine. —On Wednesday before last, snow
fe’l in tho town of Rangely, (Me.,) to the depth of one
foot. Between that place and Phillips, travel was in
terrupted for several days in consequence. The trees
bordering the road were so loaded with snow that they
bent down and obstructed the way.
A Jury Burnt in Effigy. —lndignation meetings
have been held in Washington County, Md., at which
the jury who recently rendered a verdict of acquittal in
the Swan case have been fiercely denounced. In
Brousboro the people formed in procession, headed by
the effigies representing the twelve jurors, and proceed
ed iL rou &k several streets, after which they halted in
the square', an<J there consigned to the devouring ele
ment the tweu® representatives of the jury in the Swan
ease.
It is reported that Simeon Draper has arranged with
the Mechanics’ Bank of New York to pay ofifhis lia
bilities, and will resume business. The New York
Post learns that the liabilities ofM-. Draper amount to
between two and three million of dollars.
Prof. Paul F. Eve reports a case of the removal of a
iisiil from the lungs of a child five years old, by trach
eotomy. The nail was an inch and a half long, and
situated in the left bronchus.
Good Dividend —The Bank of the State of Georgia,
has declared a dividend of five dollars per sha e from
the profits of the ’ast six mouths—equal to ten per cent,
per annum.
Major General Winfield Seott, General in Chief of
the United State*} Army, has been summoned under
the name of “W. Scott’’ to parade at the nfiliffa train
ing in New York.
[correspondence of the times and sentinel.]
Mobile, Oct. 15, 1853.
I have received but one copy ol the “Times” in three
weeks—the hiatus occurring at a time of all others, most
provoking, as I was on the look-out for the Georgia returns.
The result proves the truth of the old adage, that bad news
travels fast, and vice versa. I am greatly rejoiced at the
handsome and substantial victory you have just so gallant
ly won. The uncertainty of Georgia politics has become
proverbial—but certainly the State has Leldom rendered a
political verdict, so iighteous in itself, and so demanded by
good faith, consistency and honor, as the one just pro
nounced in favor of the administration of Gen Pierce, and
against tho insidious and factious attempt to rebuke it, made
by the debris of the old Whig party. Could any thing
be more curiously instructive of the mutability of political
men and parties, than to see the men who lured the people
of Georgia into submission in 1850, when there was at
least some cause for indignant resistance in 1553, raising
the standard of sectional revolt, when, every thing has been
adjusted and settled on principles which they then declared
were “fair, honorable and just.” There are, doubtless, all
over the South, men who are ready to join any sectional
party, at any time and on any pretext or occasion. The e
are the disunionists per se. But even these men had to i
hesitate at the bold impudence of the proffered leadership 1
of such men as Toombs, Jenkins and Sanford. And 1
never could see how Col. Toombs could hope, with his
antecedents to rally a sectional party even lor sectional de
fence. Who can ever, hereafter, trust him, with leadership
in a great cause ? He fooled us with his Hamilcar and “die
in the ditch” speeches once ; but it will be difficult to re
peat the humbug. Ido not think I ever heard a more ab
surd, inconclusive and inconsistent speech than that deliver
ed by Mr. Toombs, in your Temperance Hall, on the
opening of the late campaign. It was an insult to the un
derstanding, and most recent memories of every man who
heard it; and my reflection at the conclusion ofit was, that
if this man can build up a party and carry the people of
Georgia on thisbundle of crotchets which he calls a plat
form, men of principle might as well hang up their fiddles
and cease to struggle for the truth.
But I am happy to be able to write to-day that the effort
has failed, and that neither Col. Toombs’ talents and ef
frontery, nor Mr Jenk ms’ deservedly popular character have
suffered to bear up the crushing weight of their bad cause.
The result is most happy on many accounts, It sustains
the administration that has most nobly ’deserved the sup
port of Georgia—and it consolidates the strength of the
Democratic parly in tho State. The old Districts of
Toombs and Stephens are the last strongholds left to the
enemies of State Rights in Georgia. All the rest is re
deemed. Even the Second District, which it began to be
believed, in some quarters had become the personal domain
of the late invincible representative, has declared its prefer
ence for sound practical Democratic politics, to men who
have neither handles to their habitual names, nor fixed
principles in their creed. Talking of names, what has be
come of your neighbor’s “Legion ?” It has turned out like
Sir Jack’s men in buckram, not so numerous in the tally as
they were out of the big end of his blowing horn.
Tho yellow ievor still lingers in this atmosphore. In the
city the deaths are reduced to about half a dozen a day and
most of them are absentees too soon returned. But in the
suburbs for miles around, wherever there is population the
fever is busy. lam sorry to say that it made its appear
ance at the Catholic College on Spring Hill, which had so
far escaped. One of'the Priests has been carried off 1
hear that the College will be disbanded immediately—the
only prudent course, for in the crowded state of College
dormitories the disease would at once become a plague.
We are anxiously hoping for an early lrost to purify the air
we breathe.
The telegraph bears to us the startl ng report to-day, that
the Ottoman Porte has declared war against Russia. If
true, this is the first note to stirring times and scenes. I
must say I admire the Turk’s pluck—a quality he has ex
hibited on several occasions, and coupled with a magna
nimity that puts some ofhis Christian brother sovereigns to
the blush. His protection of Kossuth and his Hungarians,
under the laws of hospitality was an act of rare daring,
courage and generosity. It cost him money, trouble and
risk. lam inclined to think too, that the Sultan has ex
hibited wisdom in striking the blow and bringing his quar
rel with the Czar to the issue of the sword. The steady
and fixed policy of Russian encroachment on Turkish soil
existed—the fight, for his throne, his subjects and iis terri
tory, sooner or later, had to be made —he never would have
a juster cause, better allies, or find his people more warlik
in ardor, courage and fanaticism. And now, Turk as he
is he has my best wishes and hopes for his triumph over
that collossal tyranny of the North which bids fair to make
Europe “Cossack,” if the people do not make it “Republi
can.” If the Sultan’s allies, England and Fiance will
stand up to him in the fight, he can at least drive the Czar’s
troops —the Russian beaiv=—out of the Provinces of the Da
nube, and back to their snows. I have some fears about
his allies—they have evidently been weak in the knees ever
since they patted the Turk on the back. But then they
must check the ambitious move of Russia in the direction
of the Dardanelles and the Black Sea, The safety of all
the rest of Europe is involved in the question. j\
Fanny Fern’s Opinion of Sunday. —Sunday
should be the best day of all the seven—not
ushered in with ascetic form, or lengthened face,
or stiff and rigid manners. Sweetly upon the
still Sabbath air should float the matin hymn of
happy childhood; blending with early song of
birds and wafted upward, with flowers’ incense,
to him whose very name is love. Jt should be
no day for puzzling the half developed brain of
childhood with gloomy creed to shake the sim
ple faith that prompts the innocent lips to say,
“Our Father.” It should be no day to sit up
right on stiff-backed chairs, till the golden sun
should set. No ; the birds should not be more
welcome to warble, the flowers to drink in the
air and sun light, or the trees to toss their lithe
limbs, free and feterless. “I’m so sorry that to
morry is Sunday ! From whence does this sad
lament issue? From under your roof, oh mis
taken but well-meaning Christian parents; from
the Bps of your child, whom you compel to lis
ten to two or three unintelligible sermons, sand
wiched between. Sunday-schools, and finished
off at nightfall by tedoius repetitions of creeds
and catechisms, till sleep releases your weary
victim ! No wonder your child shudders when
the minister tells him that “Heaven is one eter
nal Sabbath.’’ Oh, mistaken parent! relax the
overstrained bow —prevent the fearful rebound
and make the Sabbath what God desighed it
not a weariness, but the “best” and happiest
day of all the seven,—Musical Times.
Health of Montgomery.
Alabama Journal, 21st inst., says, we f el it om- dutv to
state that the lever of a mafignat t’ ne, pronor iced by ,) h ,
ol the physicians yellow fever, stiff Ungers rnong n$ -,1
there have been . weral new fatal cas p. T 1 : s
wb ; ch has b min portions of the city for the last tV’
months, and con Bering the increa.i of popu!a* ; on anil
strangers from below, has not added, to any alarm”)** ex
tent, to the usual bills of morality for the \i*on, and
to tf’s date, has not in tho body of the city develop 1 th ’
appearances of epidemic. What may occur, as wc We
often said, we know not; we can only speak for u, ,
pro ent.
II the physicians are not nvstaken in tho many ca s1 >
poited by some of them for the last sv weeks as 0 f tiff
type, it is a mild fbi.ll of tiffs disea. —yielding reafflv t >
prompt treatment; perhaps not more than one in ten firm’ i
ing fatal. One physician with 22 fully mark; 1 ca-’e 3 i n j
only one.
Some fortnight since we visited, in company with th,>
physicians, a house in the infect'd district, near the wlnrl
containing five cat-—Mish laborers—all down will
same tyne of fever in its most aggravated form, with the
vomit, reflow skn, hemorrhage of the gums and
t eth, Ac, ol these five,all u mvered except one win
refund to take medicine. Tiffs does not show a diseam
won 3 than the yelllow fever.”
There were no interments yesterday, and we trust tint
owing to the latent of the reason, we shall be spared ■>’
epidemic, or any further progre sos the and i a >. h, na ‘ v
however, be the part ol prudence for gentlemen at then,
seats in the country to defer v nil lrost remo\ ng m to tll 4
town residences.
The Design of England ta Africanize Cuba is cortai
The Facts.
Washington, Oct. 11.
Information has been received here, that i
the month of June last, Lord Howden, the Brit
ish Minister in Spain, succeeded in negotiating
a treaty with the Spanish Government, giviii”
the right to England to land men from hercruiz
ers on the coast of Cuba, and to search the plan
tations to which it might be suspected that slaves
might be carried. This is important to us.
England has thus acquired a foothold in Cuba
The right to land troops, and the right to search
will soon be followed by occupation, to a less
or greater extent, as circumstances may niako
necessary for her purpose.
It is also true, that Lord Howden had been ‘4
urging upon the Spanish Government another
project. He had offered that the English cruize
ers should be entirely withdrawn, and that anv
number of slaves might be brought to Cuba
provided that tho Government would make them
emancipadors and set them free at the end of
ten years, (the present term is but five years,) ?
and then agree to abolish slavery in the island,
at the end of fifty years, and put it under Brit
ish protection. At the last accounts Spain had
not yet assented to these propositions. But there
can be no doubt that tln-y will be urged upon
her in such a manner, assisted probably by otL
er powers who are inimical to us and our inslti i
lutions, that she will be obliged to yield.
The effect of this plan would be, to fill Cli |
ba with a negro population, which, at the e|
of fifty years would be free, and would get <■
tire possession of the Island without hardl'l i
struggle with the largely outnumbered whiwk
Although this information is undoubted, let
by the very last arrival from Cuba, on Oetoijer
Ist., but a few days ago, a letter was written
from Havana by a gentleman of high charaatcv
to a friend in this country, which has just lice/. ’
received, and entirely confirms the above state
ments.
This letter of October Ist., states that, the M
British Consul at Havana, Mr. Crawford, was
procuring from prominent persons there, letters
recommending and approbatory of the plan of
Lord Howden, no doubt, for the purpose of
sending them to England, to fortify her in her
propositions to the Spanish Government. It al
so states that the English cruizers had all left
the Island, and that many slaves were landing.
The steamer from Spain had just arrived bring
ing the news of the appointment of anew Cap
tain General ol Cuba, and the report was out,
that a treaty ol the above mentioned nature lnu
already been made, and it was creating mucl
excitement.
The above facts show conclusively what has
long been suspected, an European determina
tion to prevent us from getting Cuba, if Spain
could not, as is certain she cannot, retain it for
any length of time. The first evidence of this
hostility of the Governments of Europe, heath
ed by England, was seen in the proposed Trip,* J
artite treaty to guarantee Cuba to Spam, ancf |
its consummation is found, in the facts as now
known. Nothing oi foreign action cun bo so
important and touch us so deeply as this, and
we may soon expect most decided action on the
part of our Government. The interests of the
South particularly are in jeopardy, and the pub
lic opinion of the whole country, and indeed ol
all Christendom, cannot fail to help to defeat so
atrocious a scheme. j> E.
A Remarkable Man.—Reward of Probity.~
, Andrew Johnson, who has jusfbeen elected
Governor of Tennessee, (over the most popular
whig in the State, Major Henry, whose oratori
cal gifts are hardly second to those of any other
gentleman in the Union,) is an extraordinary
man. Indeed, theie is more it] his history to
encurage probity, industry, energy and ambition
in the youth ot America of all degrees, (says
the Washington Star,) than in that of any other
public man we know of. At two years of a<v
Mr. Johnson was (we learn from those in whoW
knowledge of bis early history we place every
confidence) an inmate of the alms house of
Wake County, North Carolina, where be re
mained until Ins eighth year, when he was
prent.ced to a tailor in Raleigh. His master if
l.e failed to have taught him even the rudiments
ot an English education, at least trained him
up 10 love the truth, work hard, and he straight
foi ward in his dealings with every one. When
h,s apprenticeship was up, Mr. Johnson married
a woman after his own heart, who knew enough
nom hooks to be able to aid him in mastering
the aitg ot reading and writing.
On marrying just after lie became of age, ho
emigrated to Eastern Tennessee, trudging bare
oo ei , it is said, witn his faithful helpmate by
his side, and his pack at his back. Assiduous
labor at the tailoring, at the end of ten years,
placed him in comfortable circumstances for
his position in that region ; and by that time, by j.
dint ot hard stuuy during his leisure moments, I
he had come to be actuallya man of considers- i
ble general information. Being a good talker j
on the stump, he was sent consecutivelv for a .:
term or two to both branches of the Legislature- j
From thence he was transferred t 0 the House j
of Representatives of the United States, where j
he sei \ed six yea rs. Asa member of Congress I
he has been distinguished for the integrity of all -
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