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CQLUMHUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING* MAY 12, 1855.
The .viTHniiiiii Republican and the Prtsiden*
tial Question.
We nrc glad to see that a portion of the “Union
Republican’’ party are opening th. ir eyes to the evils
that threaten the South from tho continued encroach
tnents of the b. htioniats. Tho Savannah Repnbli
can, of a late date givs very free expression to its
apprehension of the dang-rrs that environ the Kansas
question. “In ti e course of the mxt Ir si lent al
term,’’ says th** Republican , ‘ the Kansas question will
have tube inet and decided. * * * Ail the
South r< quires is that the people of Kansas, when they
apply for admi-sion into the Union as a State, may be
received, whether their constitution shall tolerate or
prohibit t’.e institution of slavery * * * It ia evi
dent, heavier, that ihu anti slavery party at the North
is not dispored to ie rgan ze it. and th.it it is tra shahng
its fore* • from Maine to the Rocky Mountains to put
it aown, so far at least as it applies to K mass and Ne
braska.
‘ It is equally evident, that :he South will nut stand i
id’y by and -e this grektand vital principle repudiated.
She will claim, and if need be be, insist to the lat ex
tremity, that Kansas or any other territory shall be
left tree to determine the character of her institutions
so long as she conforms to the Federal Constitution.
Upon this point there can b.* no doubt.’’
In there views we m<>st heartily concur. The dan
ger to be apprehended from this collision between the
Norih and the S >u:h upon the Ktnsas question is g vat
and imminent, though we may shut our eves to it, and
waste our energies iu pettv squabbles among outs Ives ;
and demands the undtvid and a<t ntmii and j nut action
of the people of the South. We have, heretofore, time
and again, < ailed public attention to it and suggested
! the polcy of calling a Southern Convention to prepare
for the conflict. Such a convention, however, would
be harmful rather than b u< ficial unless theie is “a
union oful! hearts to promote thecoun'ry’s prosperity.’’
The scorn with which the Whig press of the Slate re
cetv. and our proposition, convinced us that the time had
not yet come to urge the policy of a Sou.hern Convene
ti*n.
Since this conviction was forced upon us, we have
kept silence on the subject, but have watched the signs
of the times with the greatest anxiety.
The first gleam of sunshine that lias fallen across
our path is this article from the Savannah Republican
We hail it as a happy omen though we cannot approve
the policy recommended. What, th-n. is the duty of
the South ? asks the Republican, aud answers—“why,
1 * nn rge all minor and fferences, and to unite upon some
Northern tmn who can carry the Stat*s of New York.
Pennsjlvania and New .Jersey, at least.” So far, good,
though vre cannot A*.*e why California, Illinois, New
Hampshire and other Northern Slates, which have, in
the main, supported the South, are not included in the
(■•‘alogue.
The next step of the Republican is a false one. It
■ays ;
“But who is the man for the emergency ? This
question is more easily asked than answered. We are
willing, however, to take either Mr. Fillmore, or Mr.
Dickinson, or any other equal y rel able man, who can
carry the Statis mentioned above, Mr. Fillmore, i6
stronger in those States probably than Mr. Dik>nson,
though we believe with an open field and the question
fairly sated, either could carry them against Mr.
Seward
In looking for “the man for the emergency/’ wo would
not confine our search to men who are it flucnti.d in the
three States mentioned. There are good and true men
in all the Northern States, w!-.o?e claims ought to be
considered, and whose merits ought to be recogniz and by
the South. More especially is it bad p licy to rely up
on politicians 1 ke Fillmore and Dickinson who are id* n*
tifi and with small cl'ques and have been proven to be
powerless ven in their own States. Indeed we are
opposed to designating any particular man, as “the man
for the emergency’’ at the present time. Time enough
for that when the South lias m-rged ad minor differen
ces and agreed to co op tate together in the defense of
Southern lighis. Hoc opus; hic labor est. If this
work is not done, all vise that we may do w ll come to
nought. Will the Republican address itself to th ; s
view of the case, and tell us how it p r oposcs to unite
the South.
A political friend suggests that this may be ac
complished by running a Southern man fur the Presi
dency. But what Southern man has the confidence of
all parties 1 That's the rub.
In our view the man is the las’ th'ng to look for. The
union of the South is the one thing needful now.
No a* ore SilTc Mu es.
“The Legislatures of several North rn States - Mas
•achusetts, New Y>rk, Connecticut and others—have
passed resolutions,” says the N. Y. Herald, “d.daring,
among other tilings, that there shill be “no mure slave
States.” If th.s doctrine prevails in the North, they
will have the power to enforce it in C aigl et*. |>ut it
is easy to see that the attempt to enforce it will put us
upon the high road to disunion. The only gua.antee
which jan now insure the perpetuity of the Union, is
something like a balauce of power to the South, as a
breakwater in the geiier.i g v.rnuieot against the ag
gressions of the North. This baLnce, before the ad
mission ot California, tho South possessed in the Senate ;
f)l t the United States; but the add tiou of Cal t'ornia to !
the free States has destroyed th.s equilibrium. The j
South desires, therefore—and they have tte right to
admission of another slaveholding State, to re*
store this lost tqui ibriurn of forces in the Senate.
“ To this ecd we may expect to see Kansas, within a
year or two, kuocking foi admission iuto the Union.
Should the North refuse to admit her, in the event ot
a constitution recognizing the existence of slavery, we
are hurried to the ul-imate question of union or disun
ion. Ihe moment the Sou h d.scovers that the power
of the North in Congnss j a u, [,, devoted to the
“crushing out’’ the institution of slavery, the alternative
of secession comes up in a palpable shape And this is
the drift ot this Kansas imbroglio.
“All this mock philanthropy about human freedom,
liberty, and the horio:s of Southern slavery is m< is
stuff auo nonsense. ‘I he rtal questinu is union or dis
union. The Afnoan race, whether an slaves in the
Sooth or “free coloied Americans'’ in the Noith, occu
py the pos lion, socially and politically, of an inferior
sace, and properly so, and simply because the gr.at
Creator has made them an inferior ifcce. ‘ In the same
commodity with the white man, the black, eushvtd or
emancipated, must forever occupy a degraded position.
In a commodity purely African, even the civilu and
black relapse again to African ind >lence at| j barbarism.
B§e U*)ii, e Jamaica. the supplies of obris*
recruit* frufp front our Soulheru s;aw \g Li
berio, and that republic, in tha spac* of two or three
generations, Wobld probably degen-rute into a pett)
kingdom of cannibals, with a saagc beast ub their ruler,
horrible aid blHdy as the King of Dahomey. Th*
three m llior sos the Afrit an race, the most enlightened
and the happiest in tho wOrltl, are the three million
slaves of bur Southern Stat* ?.
‘•This cry of slavery, the horrors of slave, s‘op the ex
tension of slavery, is therefore a mockery and
R duced to its final const quinces, it means disruption,
disunion, a war of sections, a war of rae-s, fire and
sword, anarchy and indisciiminate slaughter. And
these ultimate consequences are interwoven into tin
treacherous web of this Kansas controversy. The sec
tional agitations, jealousies, and revenges ofhalfaem
tury, are concentrated in this Kansas question. The
I beginning is ominous—the end will be disastrous if
right or wrong, just or unjust, there arc to be “no
more slave Statts.”
Irishmen and Catholics at the Polls.
We learn from the Mobile Register that at tho re
cent election of Judge of Probate in that city, some
hundreds of Irish voters flinched, while of oik* hnn ired
who did vote, it is said that fully seventy Toted the
Know Nothing t eket-.
To these the Adveriiser, a Know Nothing organ,
makes its acknowledgments in the following paragraph :
“It is al-to due to justice to say that despite efto ts rn ide
to com dtietWforeign’ vote a ;ai it the American ca ididute,
•many of our adopted cmze is went deliberately to the pulls
and cast their vote- tor Mr Hitehco k Under all the
eireum tanees.-ueh independence aid n a iliness on Uv-ir
puit is de-erving of all praise. We are ee.taiu that they
w.ll not regiet tlie.r action in this re.aid ”
“We have here u new reading of the maxim that
‘Americans must rule America,’ —the ‘d—d Irish’ are
wry clever,‘ind pend*nt and manly’ fellows, when
they vote on the right side, and ‘they will not r gtvt it,’
quoth Mr. Slic'ks organ. We do not know wh ‘liter
they will or not. Certain it is they have vot. and against
their own religion, and tho rights of their own blood ;
and certain it is, that they have i eluted one of M .
Sink's humbugs, that they stand in so great awe of the
Pope that they cannot vote a* tiny pi ase. It seems
they dread the loss of vvoik. a perverted public stnti
ment running against th ui, the influence of a K N.
press, and certain undt-fl led ideas of hous<s pud and down
m the dead of night, over the heads of their inhabi
tants, and the latter flying in the midst of showtrs of
bullets—much more than th*y do tha bulls and anath.-
mas of tho Pope of Rome. Well we do not blame them.
It is not • y to find fault with a huudful of poor men.
dependent for their bread upon employment, to he had
at the lianda of a whole community banded together to
ostracise, persecute and trample upon them. It is in
poor human nature always to quail before power, and
we cannot expect a Roman virtue in uneducated men
so circumstanced.
“T e Germans and Jews, says the Register , voted
manfully on the side of the party that stood forth to de
fend them. The most surprising part of the business
is that a number of native Catholics did not vote.—
How these gentleman can expect others to make sacri
flees to defend their relgious privileg-s when they will
defend themselves, is a proposition we leave for not re
flection and solution.”— Mobile Register.
Hunt's Magazine.— Hunt’s Merchants’ Magnz'ne
and Commeicial Review. Conducted by Freeman Hunt.
Publication office, 142 Fulton street, New York.
The May number of this steiling Magazine is filled
with the usual variety, and displays the admitted ahihs
ties and energies of the founder and rditors. The
heading article is a translation fnm the French of an
essay “On the Commerce of the Black S.a/’ treated
historically aud geographically, in relation to the all en
grossing war in the Erst. The “Commerce of the
(Jniud States” is continued by Enoch Hale, Jr., and
the liteiary department proper contains s.-veial other
articles of inter st. The various departments *of natu
ral, legal, financial, and statistical intelligence, in refer
ence to the industrial, commercial and agricultural in
terests of the country, are filled, as usual, with careful
conden at ion and judicious selection.
Gov. Reeder at Home.
Washsngton, May 10.
The Pennsylvania Legislature have unanimously
passed resolutions thanking Governor Reeder for h e
conduct in Kansas.
Runaway Negroes —lt would seem by a paragraph
in the New York Tribune, that many of the runaway
slaves aic lazy negroes l.ving on charity, playing tie
part of the fugitives. Impositions of this sort lias jus!
b**eu found out in Patterson, N. J. Hence, perhaps-,
often the long reports we hear of the doings of the
underground railway.— N. Y. Express.
Purchase of a Stea?ner by the Mexican Govern
ment —A letlei from Vera Cruz sa\* that Santa An
ua has bought the steamer Ben Frankl n, and the baik
Catharine Augusta, for S4BU,OUO —to receive them on
the Mexican Pacific Coast. S.mta Anna wants them
to blockade Acapulco.
Large Premium —The Joint Worm. —The exeeu
tive committee of the Virginia S ate Agricuitu al S<>ei
etv has offered a premium of one thousand dollars, f<>
the discover yand success'll! us* of an eS i jut practicable
and gent rally ava table plan for preventing the depre
dations of the joint worm.
Judge Lnring of Massachusetts —lt is hardly pos
siblc, says the Washington Star, that the Pn sclent ca;
| tender to this distinguish and gentleman the positi -n on
I the n w Cla ms Court made vacant by the decl nsion o !
Judge Lumpkin, of Georgia. To do so, would be t<
take the whole of this Court from the non slave holding
States—a stroke of poli y which would be likely to in*
jure its standing witn Congre.-s, and in the South, ir
retrievably.
YelLw Fever at Havana.
Charleston, May 9.
The schooner Ileyward, arrived at this port, in four
♦lavs from Havana. The city r* m iius quiet. The yel
low fever had eommencd in the city, and several ships
of war, among them the U. S. Steamship, San J n-in
to, had left tho port to preserve tho health of their
crews.
Census of Kansas.—— The Hers Id <f Freedom, of
April 21, couia ns ihj complete cen-u* of
Kinnss Territory. The aggregite | opu’al on is stated
at 8,461, of whom 5.083 are mobs rnd 3, 73 femahs
The number of legal voters was 2 877 : the nombet
of “natives” (of the United Stall*} 7,161 ; of for
eigners 403, and of isl-J.
The Kent all Irjcl. —'lhe tiiai of W. G. Kendal
late Fist Master at New Orleans, lommerctd May 7lh.
before commissi mer Lusher, on a charge •( having
stoh n a letter oat of the .*fEo cont doing S6OO. At •
torney General Moras for the U. S. t and Mrcst*. B
Hast apd J. TANARUS, Iknjamg for ib* defense.
lle&ln at, Jerusalefti;
“Beg n at Jerusalem,” suggests the Enquirer. —
That’s just what we have done, and are doing. L’kc
the Jews, the Southern whig party are a stiff-necked
and rebellious people. We bars piped unto them and
ihey have not danced; we have mouf*ned Utlto them
an 1 they have not lamented. They kill the prophets and
stone them that are sent unto t'min; and of us they siv
“he hath a devil.” They build the tombs of the proph
ets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, but
are witnesses that they are the children of them
which killed the prophets. They quote the words tr
Washington, but Would re-ehac* the alien law of the
elder Adams. Lka whited sepulchres, they appear
• utwardly righteoftSj but within tlnir eouncil rooms are
full of hypocrisy and iniquity, “Ye serpent?! ye gen
eration of vipers! how can ye escape the damnation of
hel 1” What g >od and great man have they not despi*
sco? What good and great measure have they not op
d sed? What iniquity have they not sanctioned? Banks
and tariffs and internal improvements were the gods t
their idolatry, until tlie.r al ars were burned down and
their false gods were shown to be no gods by the de
mocracy. Now desire to pass through the fire
unto Moioek. find propose to disfranchise foreigners and
p&rseeate Cathohcs, to svi.tte the rage of his b i.io in
tolerance. These are strange gods, O Jerusalem!
Alfred Iverson, Jr.—This gallant gentleman win*
is by r* cent appointment Ist Lieutenant, Company C.
in tne Ist R ghne.it of Cavalry, 1. f. this city on the 11th
inst., for Lexington Ky., ace unpanied by 30 recruits
whom he eii isted during a fjvv weeks past. We pr •
diet tor him a brilliant future in the hnz minus career
he his just enttfel upon. He oarri* s with him tln
bt-st wishes of this community for his happiness and
success.
Hope for I'oiuad ana ilungtvy.
Black* ooi/s Magazine —Th** April number of the
r* print of this Magazine by Leonard Scott & Cos., 54
Gold street. New Yoi k, is a most acceptable one. The
S ory of the 0 unpaign. w.it en in a tent in the Ciimea
is continued. The article upon the dsith of Nicholas
is concieved in a manly spirit and docs tardy justice t<>
this wonderful man. Ti.e ind*c.mt j-y manifested by
the Bii ish p >pu!a< e on the occasion of b a death is pro
pei!y tebuked. The review of Chut lea Dickens and
his works is a capital one. The II viewer attributes
his popularity to the fact that he is the novilist f th*-
middle class of English people which is, of course, much
ih* largest in England a elsewhere. There is an ex
e Ih-ut article upon the l)r*ss of the Soldier, ami though
the wr.ter does not acknowledge the fact, his improve
ments in uniform were nearly ail suggest*d by th*-
diess for the e Idiers of the United States ; at least our
uniform would supply the defects pointed out in th-
B itish system. Will it be believed that the Biitish
troops in the Crimea wear shakos for a cap and cany
a wood n bot le for a canteen ? No wonder British
troops die in the Crimea. There are other articles of
some interest.
In the article upon the death of Nicholas, there is a
very dear intimation that the advice of Louis Kossuth
as to the mode of carrying on the war has made a pro
found impression even upon the ultra tory intellects ot
Gnat Britain. The passage referred to is in these
words :
“If Germany joins against Russia, ns we hope and
eventually believe she will, Poland will be restored to
some kmd of nationality —so far, no dout, as is really
practicable. Hungary will also bo restored, and more
easily, for the young Emperor of Avstria, who has not
personally offended the Hungarians, has nothing to do
but to restore to them their ancient rights, and become
King of Hungary to them instead of Emperor of Aus
tria, to secure their ass ctione, and give its pristine
strength to that right arm which, as against Russia, is
now paralysed ”
If the Allies are driven from the Ci imea, of which
there is now every probability, there will be no other
point of attack upon Russia except on the Polish fron
tier, and to maintain themselves they will be driven to
the necessity of reconstructing the ancient kingdom of
Poland. If they can succeed in detaching Russian
Poland from Russia and P.useian Poland from Prussia,
the Emperor of Austria wotfid doubtless very readily
<onßent to be Kng of Poland over that part of the
kingdom it holds, if the balance of the kingdom is given
as a bribe.
Court of Claims.
We learn, says the Washington Union of the 9th inat.,
wiih much pleasure that the vacancy in tnis couit, caused
by the non acceptance of the Hon. J. H. Limp *in, of Geor
gia has been tilled by the appointrnet of tne Hon. George P.
Scarburgh, the present able professor of municipal and con
stitu ional law in the college of VVilJiam & Mary, at Wil
liamsburg, Virginia.
e think we have great reason to congratulate the
try on tne wise and judicious selection by the President, for
this important station, ot a gentleman so emnun ly fitted
to disetiaige its outies with ciedtt to himself, and with honor,
we confidently piedict, to tne bench on which he has been
placed.
Judge Scarburgh is a native of the ea tern sh re of Vir
gmia and a ter having wuii tor himself a high reputation as
a lawyi rin that ancient Common wea th, by long practice
in hei co. rts, in 1 ‘44 he w’as elected by the general assem
oly of die rotate to tiii the vacancy made by the resignation
<>t tne Hon Thomas H. rtayly as judge of the then third
judicial circuit, ‘i h : same post had previously been field
by ttis Hon Abel P. Up hur. it will not be regardt tl a
an unde erved compliment w hen we say that Judge Scar
burgh’s decisions are held by the profession in as hi-h esteem
a> titose oi the very oi in guished gentleman we have last
named. In 1851 Judge S. was elected to the law prole—
sort-hip ot William it Mary College by the visitors oi that
time-ho.n red institution—a station he has held up lo this
p* r.od, and one which had pn viou.-ly been adorned by the
name- of Lhanaellor Wyihe, JSI.Ge ngeand Beverly 1 usk-
er. He has been highly succe.-sful as a teacher m thegicat
science to winch his n e has been devoted, as ail can testify
who have had a : .y acq laintaoce with the ueid of his labors
Judge Scarb rph has never mingled actively in party
H politics, i.oi so Id any merely political office, State or letiu
Ml. His me tal training has been entirely legal and judi
cial. VV hen we ad ito ihis his blameless lire, tree iroin
eve i he suspicion of taint, we are waranted in saying that
tile P.esideut has been pcculiaily loitunate in the selection
he has made for this high’pO't ; and we belive that the conn
try ut large, wiihout distinction of party, will give him
credit lor patiiotism arid purity of motive in all nis appoint
ments to this nnporiant eou t.
‘Trie number ot judges is now compi te, and as all the
gentlemen appointed are now in the city, there will be no
further delay, which up this tune his been nn avoidable, in
the organization ot thi- court. ’1 heir first labor w ill tie u>
e-iablish the rules of procedure, and other necessary pre
liminary business, preparatory to their meeting for the hear
ing ot cases.
Death of Mr. Bee istt.
We regret to state that this unfortunate man, who was
stab! ed in a personal re..eo<m:er with Mr. Jno. Westbrook,
after lingering several weeks, ded ot the eriects of hs
wojnd, on ia-t Sabbath, and was buried o i Vlondv att r
noon lie leaves a vvi*e and an infant, in rather destitute
chcumztances. — Sumter Rep , \)tti.
Tie Price of Limber. —Aimos. the only article which
has talleu i>i price recently is luin er, esjiec ally timber.—
cogs are now selling at tide water at six cents which
brought from ten to to irte *rc cei t- at Lock Haven la-t year
*!n.-h sutf. ring and distress is anticpat* and. in ebusequ nee,
i r - t e lumber manufacturing regions — Phi.alelphia Le
g r
i Tie Hiss Committee -Tha committee of the Mas-s
ch'ieetts Legist for, aapohiteu t> i ivcste the conduct of
Mr. Hiss, made a report yesterday. Ha is exonerated
Jrom blame in the lumcry affair, but for hi* Patterson
peauadiliooA tro th# House is lueorawoded.
Tts Now York Kaow Nothing Stato ConYenlioa*
Syracuse, May 7,1855.
A great number of delegates have aimed. Among thr m
we find tegi t red at the hotels the names ofGeu. Scrogg-,
of Erie ; Lovell, Farrington and Hamilton, of New York;
ihiatei) and Page, ot Albany; Brust, of Renselea*: Peck,
Magrad and Payne, of Columbia; and Saunder ’, of West-
Chester. The delegate?seem tube mostly new men
Every corn ty in the* S;a!e is tally or partially represented.
Entue harmony seems to prevail.
The Peninsular B -nk of Detroit Robbed—SevdS Thou
sand Dollars Stolen —Large Rsward Offered.
Detroit, May 7, 1555.
On Saturday reven thousand dollars, in five and ten dollar
bills on the Peninsular Bank of this city, were s-tolen from
the hank. The notes weie new and never had been issued,
and were all counter igned by S. M. Holmes, State Tieas
urer, and numbered one thousand and one to thirteen hun
dred, arid dated April 1, 1855 No notes of the-edeaomi
nations, countersigned by S L Holmes, will now be issued
t>y the bank. NoefiD to the perpetrators ot the robbery
has yet been di-covered. A reward of five hundred dollar?
is offered for tho art est of the thieves and recovery of the
money.
Municipal Election at Harper’s Ferry.
Harter’s Ferry, May 7, 1855.
At the municipal election which came ofl here to day,
the democrats elected their whole ticket. The majority
tor the.r candidate for Mayor is 3 ; and tor Recorder, 23.
Mill Burned.
We regret to learn that the Steam Mill of our worthy
tiiend, Vlr Sarnu ; *l Keys, located about thrve miles t orn
our town, wa- t-ntiraly de-troyed by fire or. Tnursday mom
iug la.-t. We believe that there was no insura ice, and the
establi-hment is a * entire loss to the enterprising and e.ier
ge ie proprietor. — Sumter Rep.,^ih.
Deetiuetive Fire in New Orleana.
New Orleans, May 7.
A fire ha* destroyed to day, the corner* ot St. Charle
and Gravier .-tieets, including the Exchange News Room,
Vaunuohi’s Museum, and tile stores of Sheiman, V\ ad and
Jones. The loss is estimated at 5?5,0C0, only half ot which
amount is insured.
Tho SLvßry Ixcitement in Missouri—Mass Meeting of
the People.
Chi “'ago, May 8.
Tiie Platte Missouri Argus gives the first day’s proceed
ing->of a Mass Meeting of the citizens held at Weten. in
th it State. The ievolutions passed call on die people to
ptepare tor ?elf defence, and require the expulsion Irom the
State of every person oppo.-ed to slavery
Ail such per ons are denounced as robbers and traitors,
having no rg!it to the proteefion ot the laws of the State, j
The pro codings in the ca?e ot the abolition ed tor in Park
ville, Kansas, who-o press Was thrown into the liver by the
people, were laiitad by the meeting
Ii was lesolved that no arguments f-hould be held with
the ab iition papers but the Missouri River, the bonfi e
and the rope. The meeting pledged themselves to go io
Kansas and help to * xpel from the Territory all perton
who were corrupting the slaves. A grand mass meeting
wasealle qto be hetd at Pa kvilleon Oiesth mst.
Massachusetts atate Temperance Convention.
Boston, May 8.
The State Temperance Convention assembled at the
Tremont Temp e to day, and less than five hundred per
sons were pre.-eut at the opening. Governor Gardner was
ctios ‘ii President, aud iu accepting the office made a bnei
speech.
L>u. ing the afternoon and evening, reports from the Cen
tral Committee and Treasurer were read, exhibiting a high
ly encouraging aspect of affairs. Resoluii >ua were adopt
ed embodying the principles and objects of the meeting and
urging the thorougn enforcement ot the Maine Law. JJ -
tween two and time thousand persons were pre.-ent in the
evening. Among the speakers were Gov. Clark, the Rev.
E. H. Chapin, and the Rev. Mr. Whiting. Gov. Clark
evidently labored under a severe cold, and spoke briefly,
endorsing the Maine law, and expressing his hope that its
provisions would be sustained and enforced.
Kinney & Fabens Discharged.
The famous Kinney expedition case came up yesterday
in the United States Distiict Court, before Judge lngersoll.
it had been legularly set down for tiial for the 7th ot May
Colonel Kinney, his associate in th** enterprize, Mr. Consul
Fabens, a large number ot the fillibust* ros, argiicuiiurists,
cr colonist-, interested in the matter, aud several eminent
fcounsel in their behalf, were all present in court, and the
intensest interest w a-* manifested in the proceedings. Mr
McKeon.lhe United States District Attorney, moved,h nv
tver, that the ca e be po tponed tor this term, so as to * nai le
him to procure the attendance ot two witnesses, resident or
usually to be ound in Philadelphia, whom he had endeav
ored to subpoena, but who were, when the Deputy Marshal
proceeded theie tor the purj o-e, absent from ihe city. The
counsel tor the accused oppo-ed that motion; represented
to the Court that this day had been formally set down i>r
the trial of the case, that they were ready aud anxious to
proceed with it, that the charteied steamer was to have
left this po t on that day, that sot each subsequent day of
her dete tiou the accused pm ties wou .dhaveto pay some
$1,500 for her demurrage, that some tour or tive hundred of
ihe expeditionists were lesiding here at an expense of sl,-
000 a day.jthat tuither delay would have the effect of break
ing up an expedition which was in it-elf peaceful and legal,
and lhat, moreover, the testimony of those abov t witnesses
cou and not be interred to be v.-ry important, as the Grand
Jury had found a bill of indictment without it. Mr. Cut
ting. who was associated with the District Attorney, on be
halt ot the republic of Nicaragua, or of its reputed Minister,
replied to the*e objections and supported the motion to
postpone. Judge lngersoll took the same view ot the mat
ter as that taken by the consel for the defence, and decided
that the rea-ons alleged by the District Attorney for the
postpoi ement were not sufficient to induce him to reverse
the order hitherto made as to the day of tiial; that it would
be a great hardship to the accused parties to do so, aud that
the prosecuti >n must proceed The District Attorney then
moved that the case be sent to the next United States Dis
trict Cou i, bat that was also refused ; aid a sui.-equent
motion to it to another day in this term met with th e
same result. The Di-tnct Attorney then declined to pro
ceed with the prosecution, unprepared as he deemed he was;
and the Judg--, in that state of the ca e, ordered the recog
nizances ot me p irt.e-*, (SIO.oOO each.) to be discharged,
and Me-sis. Iviniu y and Fabens to enter into their own re
cogniza ices iu SI,OOO each to appear and answer the
t harge against them next term. That being done, the par
ties left the court rejoi ing, and will probably before noon
t >day be steam.ng down the bay m the steamer U States,
o . tn ir way to the shores of Central Ame.iea — N. Y.
Herald, Bth.
Cholera at Jefferson Barracks.
W'e have know.i for some time that cholera existed
among the new re ruits at Jefferson Barracks, but it did not
strike us of so alarming a character as to requite special
notice. The disease now yields readdy to prompt treat
imnt, and ot the total num er of persons atiacked—about
seventy —only tburt on cases have terminated tataily
Tneie have been some deaths from other causes—the scur
vey. pneumonia, &c —tut there i- nothing in the condition
of the men there to exc te apprehension - In the la t month
or two, as many a- twelve or fifteen hundred persons have
been as embled at the Barracks, and col ected from so ma
ny q /arters of ih 5 country, it was natural to expect that
di-ea e should prevail aino-ig them to some extei t. We
understand that the police regulation-, looking to the sani
tary condition ol the Barracks, are ot a most rigid charac
ter.— Af. Louis Rep. May <d.
The (K. N.) Legislature.
Endorsement of Govern ir Reed'r's con duct in Kansas.
Harrisburg, May 8, 1355.
The Legislature of this State adjourned sine die thi*
morning.
The House pissed unanimously a resolution thanking
Governor Keedi r of Kan-a-, tor his faithful adherence to
the old land ma k- of Republican liberty in defending the
purity of the ballot box again-t lawless mobs of Mi-so s
riau-, and bidding him a mo t h*-aity welcome hnne to tii
amiiy and mends
“Washington Affairs.
Judge of the Court of Claims —Resisnation cj Dud’.ey
Mann —Runs is Affairs, l ?c.
Washington, May §
Geo'ge P. Sca r boroug’o, Esq., p ine pal P.ofessor of
Wilium and Ma y College, Virginia, has f.'ten appointed
fudge of the Unmt of Claims, vice Lumpkin, declnud
The appointee ha<&-chewed politics.
A Dirjey Maun has tesig ied the Assistant Secretary
ship of State, and Win. Hunter, chief Clerk, will piovis
lonaiiy offic'ate in hi- p ace.
Si.J ‘.r-y WebeU-r, tne President's private Secretary, left
thi< afternoon on a tonr to the * e-t.
Secretary Dobbin has bean absent two week*. His health
ie improving, and he wjiJ return about iSto go;h.
There are no owaenaioa* in tha CXint. Neithar Reed
or 9 nor tbi affitirs have ULxi that bedy.
Additional Particulars by the Asia
Boston, May 9.
The Asia h*s arrived here via Halifax. The to k>wii 7
ad lilional news is gleaned from tho latest Lr.gilih p Ui e;3
received.
The latest dispateh from the Crimea is dated the 17 h
and reports that Cholera was raging fearfully in the French
camp.
There had been a great overflow in tho riv. r Neva, and
much property destroyed. (The Neva issues in m Lake
Ladoga, and flows to St. Peter?burg, where it divides into
several brsflehos anil enters the Gulf of Finland at tho
fa nous Russian fortress of Cronstadt)
There was anot'uer earthquake at Brous-a, in Asiatic
Turkey, at the foot of Moimt O'ympuß, on the 9th. One
hundred and fifty shocks were fell in 24 hours, ’j he loss 0 f
lifi was unknown ; nearly all the buildings weie thiowa
*1 >wn. Zenguia, a tow.i about three leagues fior.i Brois a,
and Is’iale \v*re destroyed.
Liverpool letters of ihe 28 h, s.-.y, the rales of cotton the
last week had been the largest in two. The consumption
is heavy, and it is believed prices will further advance.
Money is abundant. It was lumored that the Pat.k of
E igland must rec'u ‘e the r. to of inUrest to 4 p< r cunt.
Peace is deemed farther ofTthan ever.
LATER FRO M II AVAN A.
ARRIVAL OF THE A. PEVFREFX.
The fast sailing schooner A.D v< r ux. Capt. Ich it,
ar- ved at Savannah, May 10 h, in tline ihjs in m
II >v na, havii g lell that port <-n Monday pr. v *.us.
The political news Jr* m Havana is*i lilt c imp* rr; ncc.
The city remains quiet, and bu- nos contiuu. s i ull. Ihe
rejvirt that yellow fever had made its rppeatanct* in I ii
van tis not confirmed by this aniv-d— at hast < ur : nfor
m nit stat* s lliar the city continued heal.liy, aid n / css
of fever ex ited .**in*nc tlie* sb.ipping.
Shipping h in t abundant, but the demand tor vessels
is ! rnitd, at former rates.
Molasses is scarce in Havana, nt 3 r? : rs. hns ever,
been paid for small iotsto.Jl up vess* !. 0.l the Ccast
ttie article night be J>taind at to ( 2 i . rs.
Tae stock of Ri*** is* over casks in first hards,
ands 1* s slow at 13*§ to 15 rs ac •< rd ng n> qraiily.
Ex hunge du !. N* vv irk t>G days L a3.
The Press in Russia. — A iSt Petersiierg letter in the
Putt ie, ot Paris, not ce-, as s r* m likable circumstance,
that since the commencement ol tho w; r. all the Frem h
and English journals which ixed t<* I c s verely oveil auYd
by ihe censor, have been allowed frec'y to enter the capi
tal ax! to lie about o' l ihe tables in all the cases Ts e Lon
don Punch and the Pans Charivari , ivrth their 1 road <ar
icatures ol every Ru sian,ar* n*>w tie tavoiite reading in
St. Pehr-barg Nicholas l , suddenly doing vi. lei ce to
the habit- of his whole life, and re vers it g the e?taUi lx and
policy of the um he. ordered. Im tly before iff* death, tho
free ad mission of a!! foreign j tiiiiial- 1 , wiilnxit efi tine!ion,
and Alexander II has hitherto sanctioned the coftiiuuouce
of the innovation.
Napoleon and Eugonie visit Victoria.
The English pani-r- are eiowded with accounts of the
visit of Napoleon 111 and his wife to the Qutou of Eng
land
O.i Monday, the I6ih of Apr'd, Napoleon 111. and :b
Empress Eugenie ar. ived at Dover; joiirt eyed theta c to
Windsor, remained the guests ol the Biiti?h sov* reign five
days; met with a distinguished lecept.on In m the Couit
ana exiraordinaiy enthuJa?) c greet ii g from the crowd ;
w*ere almost overwhelmed by congratulatory add es-es
Irom corporations and institution•, and letuiued to France
amid a temp st of hu.rah?!
On Wednesday the 18th, the Queen confirrrd on tho
Emperor the investiture of the garter. A giand chanter
of the order was held at Windsor, and tie formalities
which accompany the presentation of the piece ol ril ad
weie goi e through.
The Queen buck! and tho garter aroi nd the Emperor’s leg,
and placed the ri:>as and across bis shoulders A grand din
ner party and concert concluded die evening.
On Thursday th** Emperor and Empiess. escorted by a
detachment of the Queen’s Lfe Guaids went t- Lonuo.c
.to receive the audre s oi the Municipality.
’l'he eoit'ge, of close carriages, proceeded at rather a.
rapid rate along the principal streets, iu wh ch it was esti
mated that not fewer than one million of .-pectators ware,
assembled. Hundreds of flags were “hung on the outer
walls,” and a noticeable proportion bore tbe woids,“i'eir
pire, e’est la paix!” Guildhall had been newly decora! J
for tbe occasion.
At the east* rn end of the hall two thrones w ere plar. and
on a raised dais, and overs! adowed I y a canoj y of purple
velvet and gold One ol the thrones bore the eyj her Jl,
the other E. Napoleon, Eugei ie. Scats were ie?eivd
for the Cab net Ministers, high officers, ai.d the c. rj s tn
plomatique.
Clu-tered around the walls were devices draped with the
flagsof ihe Allied Nations, and Gearing the hg. nds “8..!-
aklava,” “Alma,” “Inkermaim.” Midallotia ly Qtic**a
Victoria and Napoleon 111. plentifully hestud c! the wai!-..
Lords f’ahnerston, Claieiidon, Landniowne and I’an
mure, with numerous lessor lights of ihe adn iio.-traGor,
werq present, as was also tbe United .Stales Mil i t> r.
Ine Emperor wore, as us-al, the unifoim of a GerersJ
of Division. Eugenie’s costume was of übi'e ami gneu
brocade silk. When the Recorder pioeeed.-d to it ad the
address to the Emperor, the Emprcst 10-e and ?tood I y ft r
hu-band. Napoleon’s reply to the addicss w r as in the loN
low ing terms:
“My Mayor—After the cordial reception T have expe
rienced f.otn th* Queen, nothing c uid affect me moie
deepiy than the sentiments toward the I tnpre?s am! n y elf,
to which you, my Lord Mayor, have given expression on
the past of the city of London; for London lepresen s ihe
available resources which a world-wide commerce a fib ids
both lor eivization and lor w*ar
Flatteringas are your praises l accept them, because they
sre address-, and much tm-re to Fiance than to niyscif ‘1 in v
are addressed to an siio i wlm-e interest- arc to-day every
where identical with your own {Appiuu.-eJ ’J hey me
addressed to an army arid navy united to yours by heroic
companion-hip in danger and m glory, fiicneued Ap
plause.! They are address* dto the policy of the two Go
vernments which is bared on truth,on moderation and on
jo tice.
For myself I h ive reta’ne i on the tliro e the same senti
ments ot sympathy and esteem for he hnghsi* people
which 1 | roles ed a.-an exile— Jloud and pr< longi and h t-r
----ingj 1 enjoyed here the ho p talny ol y-*ur Qut-eu;
and it.l have acted m accoidam e wi t my convict ioi.>,.t is
that the mtcre.-t of the i at.on which has chosen ti e, no
loss than that of inuv r al Civilization, has made it a duly.
Indeed, Utigland and France are lu lurally united on all
the gieai q icstions •>! politics a.id of h ma i progress tliat
agitate tile world. F om the .-h .res o! the Atlantic to hose
< f the V.editerratteati — from the Baltic to the Black Sea—
j from the desire 1o abolish SMrc.y. lo our hopes for lie
! ameliorate n oi all tie countries of Unrope— 1 see in the
morulas in ihe political w< rid for our two nations hut one
conr e and one end [ \ppdanse.J
It isth*n only by u ivcotihy co siderat'tonsand painful ri
valries that our union could ne diss. vered. it we follow
the dictates of comm n >mse alone, we shall be sure of
the future. I Lend ap piaisse J
You are tight ii turprcting my presence among you as
a fresh ad convi c ugpn.or of in* energetic co-opcr-dion
in the prosecul o i of tne war, it we tail in obta mug an
honoiatde peat e. [AppJau.-e]
Shou and wv sofa.l although our difficulties may he erra*,
me may sure y count on a su-cersmil le.-uli, toi not on y
a e our Pol it r-and sniior . oi Pied valo—not only do o o’
two countries possess within them-elves ur valle i te ones
but above all—and here lies their supjeito ity—it is be-i
cause th< y a e in ihe van of ait generous and enlightened
idea:?
Ti;e eyes ol all who ufier, instinctively tarn to the west.
Thu* our two i a ions are even mo.e powe I.} *r■ nr li■ *
o.uiiioi s they represent, ih in bv the am e- and 11 els. they
have at their command. [Great Applau-e |
1 am di-eply giateful to yo i* Queen for aTn-ding ire
thi- solemn opportunity of ex.ire* mg to w.u my ow-i7s. a
tunents and thore of Trance, of wuen I am t.i mteipr* •
ter 1 k you in inv own name acd tfiat ol the Ln>-
p e-s tor she trank and heart/ cordiality’ vvuli v\:iicb tt-u
have receivi and us.
We suali take back with us to France the lastirg im*
pre-sion made on minds lhorougli y able to app:ei i.iie i*. (.-f
tne imposing spect.icle wh eb Liml.mu present-, where Vir
tue on the li roue di:eets!iie de * riit-s <>i a c< u;*rry u:,tst
he, empire of a lil e.ty without danger to its giandeur.
1 lie new elettion ordc t<! in tho Ter itr y bv the Uov
(rm r takes place on the 2-M iu t. We.hall. tlii-nfme.
soon learn in what cstima’ion hi* cord ct ij fold ty tho e
best eiilidcd to pa .-judgeri en’ **• ii >.
Jhe United States es. > Jjutiei ICiag end fwo of h s
Sureties in Ksio York —The Government has due hd a
v- v ’ lo .k o com nerced in New’ York aga iiet ‘T. B tier
K'lig, ]g?c Udljeotor of the Customs at 3an Frnei co Ca ! ,
htr a balfonne of about 540,000 daijnsd by tl.e at*ccu< to g
oh-coM o ibe Treasury to be duo iJj* UfliUii iuu
♦'** Kfog ‘Vuihingion Star.