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TIMES & SENTINEL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1898.
Reconstruction ot parties Who propose If 1
Many of our American cotemporaries, actuated by the
purest and most patriotic motives, advocate the reconstruct
tion of parties out of the present political organizations be
fore the country. They are honest and no doubt ieel the
great necessity for a change. The American party, which
came as the harbinger of correct principles, announcing the
opsning dawn of a bright and glorious future in our politi
es! history, has fallen far short of the anticipations of the
patriot and its rising sun has set in utter darkness and des
pair. No wonder then, that its followers should be mov
ing to and fro and are now seeking another ark to shelter
them from the storms of political adversity. Unwilling
from pride and prejudice to acknowledge the superior
workmanship of the Democratic vessel, they are ready to
build a temporary structure composed of material rotten
and old, and of every shade in tbe forest. The passage of
the conference bill by Congress greatly interfered with the
coalition going on to accomplish this great work and the
organization of a party embracing the conservative Black
Republicans, anti-Lecomptonites, and South Americans as
constituent elements. The brilliant imagination of Prentice
had already pictured the democratic party defeated and
upon its ruins erected a conservative (?) party, a mere con
glomeration of incoherent local passions and partial inter
ests —incongruous elements incapable of remaining togeth
er as oil and water—and this was to be the great party for
the people! The coalition however has failed and we are
spared the humiliation of hearing Southern men talk about
“conservative republicans” and vindicating tbe purity of
tbeir motives. From present indications the democratic
party will still rule the country, notwithstanding the im
patience and restlessness of our cotemporaries of the Louis*
villa Journal, Richmond Whig the Courier Sr- Enquirer ol
New York and other opposition Journals. We do not
mean to say that the democratic party is faultless and that
we should blindly adore it like worshippers of the Sun, but
we do say that of all the political parties of the country it
is the most reliable and patriotic anti if the Union is pre
served, it is to be tbe Mount Ararat upon which the ark of
the covenant will rest with safety—Other parties may form
and like tbe American party, the novelty may charm and
seduce the ambitions and unsuspecting into its folds, but they
will not bear the test of time. The democratic party on the
contrary having a solid foundation is not swept away by
the rains and tempests of adversity or political revolutions.
It is vain then for our American cotempoiaries to advocate
the necessity of anew party. It has been their cry at the
•od of nearly every campaign in which the democratic
party has proved victorious and their own hosts inglorious*
ly defeated. It argues a lamentable want of principle in
tbe platform of their organization that it cannot survive a
defeat without the necessity of a reconstruction and the
prompt advocacy of a different policy. It is then that the
democratic party—the great barrier to their success, rises
before them, like the ghost of Banquo, in its awful propor
tions and the country demands the inauguration oi anew
party.
As the necessity for anew dispensation depends upon the
success or defeat of the combined opposition to the democ
racy, we prefer that our old ship should glide the waters,
with the same masts and hull, which for years have stood
against ihe waves of abolitionism, fanaticism, whigism,
Know-nothingiam and every other ism. Let the Ameri
can party shake off its leprous 6kin, we are content with
our present prosperous, healthy condition.
Sew Party-Bavannab Republican,
The Richmond Whig in an article upon tbe re-con
struction of parties, urges ite necessity upon the ground that a
union can be formed of all the “opposition elements against
the democracy in the next Presidential campaign.” The
Savannah Republican justly demurs to the suggestion of
the Whig and contends that a “new party organization
should set upon the intrinsic merits of its own principles
and not avowedly as the antagonist of any pre existing or
atnivatinn ” Tn tkia AnnnaAii.<) W 0 COtTimCOd its views to
the presses ol its own party, who cannot look beyond the
horizon of present passion and prejudice anu behold the Ad
ministration in the beauty which an exalted love ol country
invests it.
The Republican says.
We perceive that some of our exchanges, both
north and south, are basing their advocacy of a
new party on a ground which can never receive
our endorsement or support. The idea that the
slavery question is to be regarded as settled in the
new movement, is entirely set aside by them, anc
they talk ol organising a party whose watchword
.. be opposition to the recent course of the Ad
ministration. We do not share in that opposition,
nor shall we consent to make war on any such is-
sue. it is known to those who have read the Re
publican diligently, that we have approved the
positions ol Mr. Buchanan on nearly all the ques
tions that have arisen during his administration; it
is not to be expected, and it need not be, that we
should prove false to our own convictions of what
is best for the country, and declare war against the
same policy. The course of the Administration
has, tor tho most part, been conservative and just,
and directly in opposition to the radicalism and de
structive tendency of the majority of its own party.
It has been, in many respects, after the Fillmore
model, and its fiercest opponents have been found
in the Democratic ranks. With, we presume, as
little love for Democracy as any man living, we
have given the course of the President a cordial
approval, and we shall never oppose him so long
as he shall continue true to the constitution and to
the whole country. If it shall become necessary,
in order to get up anew party, to denounce what
is just, patriotic right, the work will have to be ac
complished without our aid.
Local Items.
Business is being quickly dispatched in the Superior
Court now in session, with a view to adjourning at a much
sooner period than heretofore. The Court generally sits
from six weeks to two months, and is a great tax, not only
upon the jurors, but the Judge and the bar. All cases
called are quickly disposed of* by postponement or contin
uance, if the parties are not immediately ready.
Dust.— The rain we had a few nights since has allayed
the dust of our city, and we will for a few days at least
have a little respite from so boon a companion.
Business.— There not that stir jmd bustle about our
■treets which indicate a brisk trade in the different depart
meats of the city as heretofore. Summer is fast approach
ing, and the denizens of the city are thinking about the
fresh air and pure water of our pleasant summer reports.
The Revival.— lt still continues, without abatement in
interest or numbers.
Sw Advertisements.
By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen
that Mr. Wm. Rankin has been succeeded by Messrs. Git
tinger & Springer in the grocery and provision busings.—
Persons wanting anything in their line of trade had better
give them a cal).
See also advertisement of Liver Invigorator prepared by
Dr. Sanford and sold by Dantorth & Nagel.
Rev. J, R. Graves.
We give place in our columns to a communication from
an in ligent and worthy citizen of an adjoining County
in relation to the Rev. J. R. Graves.
We do not desire to be understood as taking part in the
aish tbl°nam Ul P f **** 4rticle b * w quest and will fur
, “* of our correspondent, it Pessary Our
columns ate always open to our friends, when tZ com
munications are dignified and respectful.
Billy Bowie**.
This old veteran chief, with fifty warriors, passed New
Orleans some days since with Major Rector for his home
beyond Arkansas. The Florida war, which has cost the
government so much money for many years is now ended,
and only Sam Jones and a few followers remain in the
everglade State. It is well that tbe Indians are removed
from Florida, but in contemplating it, the heart is moved
with sympathy for the gallant race that fought so long for
the graves of their ancestors. To struggle for a redrew
of wrongs may be praiseworthy, but it is noble to die for
home— the land of our fathers. Billy Bowlegs is gone,
and the history of his race will soon be forgotten.
Rust in Oats.
Avery general complaint is made by our planting friends
in this vicinity of a disease that has recently appeared in
the oats, and which promises seriously to affect the yield
of the growing crop. In appearance and effect it resem
bles the same disease in wheat, and has made itself known
this season for the first time within the recollection of ou r
oldest and most intelligent planters. The extent of the
malady we have not ascertained, but that it is quite gen
eral must be inferred from the fact of its existence in Ba
ker and Calhoun counties, and in our vicinity, in this State,
and in Russell and Macon counties, Alabama. Our infor
mation does not embrace other localities, but we doubt
not its prevalence elsewhere. The cause it is not easy to
comprehend, for it is seen in all descriptions of soil, and
alike in places which have been visited with abundant
rains or have been afflicted with drought.
Mobile Tribune—Slave Trade.
The Mobile Tribune, alluding to the question of re-open
ing the African slave trade, discussed in the recent Com
mercial Convention, says, that Mr. Yancey’s argument in
favor of it is answerable, and that “Mr. Pryor made a
lame argument against it.”
We have no objection to the Tribune passing its opin
ions upon the merits of Mr. Pryor’s able speech, but say
that every point it suggested should have been considered
by the speakers, was dwelt upon by Mr- Pryor, and more
ideas advanced besides.
We say this in great respect to the Tribune, who does
Mr. Pryor, according to our judgment, great injustice, as
well as suojects itself to an unfavorable criticism, in call
ing Mr. Pryor’s effort a “lame” one. Remember the beam
in thine own eye, Mr. Tribune.
Pubblic Documents.—Hon. Vlfred Iverson Hon. C.
C. Clay and Hon. W. li. English will accept our thanks
for public favors.
General Percifer Smith died at Fort Leavenworth on
Sunday, the 16th inst.
For the Times & Sentinel.
Rev. J. R Graves, Editor of the Tennessee
Baptist* an Abolitionist.
Read the following extract from a letter from Dr. John
L- Waller, of Kentucky, to Dr. M. W. Phillips, of Mis
sissippi :
Some eight or ten years ago, just before Brother
Graves left Kentucky, he drove me in a buggy to
meet some appointments I had to fill. He had just
closed his school, was out of employment, and had
failed to get in as a teacher of the preparatory de
partment at Georgetown. He spoke to me freely
and unreservedly of his future course. He said
he could not conscientiously remain in a slave
State. That the state of morals was such, he
thought he could not stay and be silent.
Also, read the following letter from Dr- Waller to Rev.
Mr. Tichenor, ol Montgomery, Ala.:
Louisville, Kentucky, )
September 3, 1858. 5
Kev. I. T. Tichenor, Mongomery, Ala.:
My Dear Brother :—During the hot weather, I
have been almost all the time wandering to and fro
in the earth, and hence until now did not see yours
of the Ist ult.
The article of Giaves, alluded to by you, does
not contain the whole truth. Fisher and Ford will
testify that 1 told Graves that in conversation with
me, he avowed his intention to leave Kentucky on
account of slavery—that he mentioned its many
evils, and severely animadverted upon them—that
T advised him to leave if such were his feelings—
and that he did leave. That he afterwards wrote
me a iel'icT expressing a wish to return, and which
I did not ansb\** r on accour rt of the conversation
mentioned. He defied none of these things, and
ought to have mentioneu them in his article.
It was in con/ersation, and not in the letter, I
told you that he expressed his intention to leave
Kentucky on account of slavery.
Suffice it to say, y ou understood me correctly,
except on the pou?* letter-—a small matter
especially since Gra^ es has admitted the conver
sation, as I can prove b/ r h,s own witnesses, lord
and Fisher. I can readily conceive how you mis
took the matter about the” lertw^ r V , ,
Yours at> qct,onate| y>
JoM > W
The foregoing letters of Dr. Waller, who, du ” n * Ilfe *
was one of the most pious and influential Baptist
in Kentucky, would seem to fasten the charge of °
tionism upon the reverend gentleman whose name he*,
this article. Those letters can be found in an able edito
rial of the South Western Baptist of the Jsth inst.
This man, J. R. Graves, has lately been playing fantas
tic tricks before the Southern people. He is f?®Qer
ally known as the author of the Great Iron Whef^
the Little Iron Wheel. He is the same man whom o. ne
of the Ewings, of Nashville, some years since assaultet ’
with a cane for publishing an article defamatory of his
wife. He is the same man who was lately sued in one of
the Tennessee courts for libel by a Methodist minister, and
a judgment had against him for $7,500 * He has lately
gained an unenviable reputation as the pretended author of
a work published by him, entitled bufferings for Rehg.
ious Liberty. The work turns out to have been the pro
duction of Dr. Banvard, and was purloined by Graves.—
His excuse is, that he found the production, without an au
thor, in an old English magazine—a literary waif or es
tray, which he at once appropriated, without the due
forms of law.
He is the same man who lately, in conjunction with
other Northern men, has sought to provide the Southern
Baptists with a Sunday School organization and provide
the books. The Southern Baptists having by this time
begun to open their eyes, did not swallow the project as
readily as he willed, and hence be makes a bold appeal to
them—to “ Southern Baptists to be true to those who
have been true to them.’ ’
Now, when it is certified that this conversation alluded
to by Dr. Waller took place about the time of the divi
sion of the Northern and Southern Baptist churches on
the slavery question, it will be seen at once how true iUr
Graves has been to Southern Baptists! Iu the hour of
our need, when every true hearted Baptist owed it to his
God, his country and his church, to stand firmly on South
ern ground, and battle in defence of his section, this * true ’
man, J. L. Graves, was wending his way to the State of
Ohio, because he coaid not conscientiously live in a slave
State.
Mr. Graves was a Vermont schoolmaster at the time
above mentioned, located in the State of Kentcky. His
school was up,and he had failed to get employment in an
other place, therefore he bad no pecuniary interest in lon
ger concealing bis real opinions. They were of a charac-
hostile to our institutions that Dr- Waller advised
k d ?t to ** y tbat tb ®, waß n °t written by Mr.
Graves, out by a correspondent of his paper. This would
excuse him, were it not that he allows hie paper to be used
lor such purposes nearly every week, and uses it himself
in this way oftener than any one else. It has in this regard
no better character than the New York Herald. *
him to leave the State. He accordingly left and went
to Ohio.
I* this the first time the South has been betrayed by
Yankee schoolmasters? Seward and Trumbull,United
States Senators from the North, were once schoolmasters
in Georgia, and now tbe South has no more determined en
emies- Would that Mr. Graves had remained in Ohio.—
But he did not. An opening offers in Nashville, and he
comes back, with all his antagonism to slavery, to fatten
on the produce of slave labor, and to gull a generous and
confiding people.
Baptists of the South, beware! You have a traitor m
your camp. A BAPTIST LAYMAN,
The Nicaragua Matters at the Commercial Convention.
From the fact that so much of the time of the
Convention at Montgomery was taken up m the
slave trade discussion, the Nicaragua affair had to
be dispatched quickly as follows :
On motion of Mr. Percy Walker, of Alabama,
the Convention proceeded to the consideration ci
the following resolutions, reported from the Com
mittee on Business, with the recommendation that
they be adopted by the Convention, viz :
Resolved , That we regard the establishment ot
the Americans in Nicaragua as a work ot duty, no
less than of honor and of interest, on the part ot
the Southern people and that this enterprise, tend
ing as it does to the increase of southern commerce
and southern power, is of paramount importance
to many other questions now betore the American
people. ,
Resolved , That, as the southern States have,
under the Constitution, equality of commercial
rights and privileges with those of the north, the
federal government is faithless to its engagements
and oppressive in its operation, when it attempts
to suppress emigration to Central America from
the south, while it permits it from the north ; and
that we deem it just and lawful to condemn such
an assumption oi’ federal power, and perversion
of constitutional authority.
Resolved, That we consider the Americans of
Nicaragua as having been twice most grievously
wronged by the federal government, first by the
act of Commander Davis at San Juan del Sur and
Rivas, and recently by the utterly illegal and dis
graceful conduct of Commodore Paulding at Pun
ta Arenas; and that we believe that the people of
the southern States entirely repudiate these wrongs
to their former countrymen, but also regard them
as indirect insults to themselves; and we accord
ingly warn the federal government that a further
persistence in such acts will render the government
odious to the people of the Slates and contempti
ble to foreign nations.
These resolutions were adopted, as follows:
Yeas —Virginia 15, South Carolina 8, Alabama
9, Georgia 10, Mississippi 7, Louisiana 6, Tennes
see 12, Texas 4, and Florida 6—77.
Nays—o.
THE ARMY.
General Orders, ) War Department,
> Adjutant General’s Office,
No. 4. ) Washington, May 11,1858.
1. At the General Court Martial which con
vened at Newport Barracks, Kentucky, pursuant
to “ Special Orders ,” No. 42, of March 19, 1858,
from the War Department, and of which Brevet
Major General Thomas S. Jesup, Quartermaster
General, is was arraigned and tried
Brevet Major General David E. Twiggs , U. S.
Army, on the following charge andjj specifications
exhibited against him by command of the Secretary
of War:
CHARGE.
“Insurbordinate conduct to the prejudice of good
order and military discipline .”
Specification Ist. “la tbat|he, the saidT wiggs,
commanding the Department of Texas, having re
ceived War Department Special Orders, No. 123,
of 1857, did at San Antonio, on the 29th October,
1857, in contempt of said order appoint a Court
of Inquiry to examine matters adjudged and de
cided in said orders.”
Specification 2d. “In that he, the said Twiggs,
did at San Antonio, on the I4th December, 1857,
in contempt of the President’s orders aforesaid,
publish orders to the troops under his command,
confirming a report of said Cdurt of Inquiry, con
tradicting a decision prononneed in the President’s
orders aforesaid.”
Specification 3d. “In that he, the said Twiggs,
having received from the War Department, in a
letter dated January 19, 1858, instructions in re
gaid to the breaches of discipline set out in the
specifications aforesaid, with orders to publish said
instructions to the Department of Texas, he, the
said Twiggs,jjdid, at San Antonio, Texas on the
Bth
and ue to the said decision of the Presi
dent, accompany the publication to the troops un
der his command, with a commentary on the in
structions designed to contradict and refute them,
and denouncing them as a ‘poison,’ and appealing
from the order of the President to the troops under
his command.”
To which charge and specifications the accused
pleaded “Not Guilty.”
FINDINGS OF THE COURT.
The Court after mature deliberation finds the
ccused, Brevet Major General David E. Twiggs ,
r ollo\vs:
Ist Specification. “Guilty, except the word
“ C °2cT^Specification. “Guilty, except the word
‘ Co ?i e Spstartt. “Guiltyand “Guilty of the
Charge.”
l SENTENCE.
nd the Court does sentence him. Brevet Major
A, z \Dand *E. Twiggs, U. S. Army, Wo be
Genet ruled by the President of the United
reprima.
States proceedings of the General Court Mar
-11. The. ,g 0 have been duly submitted
tial in the lore %of VVar, and the following are the
to the Secretary
orders thereon: Department, May 10,1858.
War Court Martial in the trial of
The verdict of the ’8 approved. But in con-
Major General Twiggs . bed services, and of the
sideration ofhis distmguis the Court, the sentence
unanimous recomedation oi
is remitted. ‘bits errors in the
The record of the Court exha notice : Ist, ad
proceedings which it is proper to incompe
mitting for the defence evidence ck ‘ n ß an insuffi
teni and irrelevant ; and 2d,|sustain. ~rl. ar . t * a ’
cient challenge to a member. A Cos. discretion
ought not to consider that it has any c e#
when the rule of the law is plain and positi\ ‘ r -
JOHN, B. FLO\ D, Secretary of Wu
111. The General Court Martial of which Br.
yet Major General Thomas S. Jesup is President
dissolved. ’ j
IV. BrevetgMajor General David E. Twiggs
will resume his sword and command of the De
partment of Texas.
By order of the Secretary of War :
S. COOPER, Adjutant'General.
The Palmetto FLAG.-Under the caption, “Who
was the Hero ? ’ the Savannah News, construing
Gen. Quitman’s assertion that Col. Gladden had
handed him the flag that was planted upon the
wail of Mexico, into injustice to Lieutenant Sel
leck, makes some remarks in vindication of the
claims of the latter. The News is right in suppos
ing that the “gallanteldMississippian” did notin
tentionally do injustice to the memory of Lt. Sel
leck. The statement ir reference to Colonel Glad
den is true, so is that of the News as to Lieut. Sel
leck’s conduct.
The facts are briefly thus, says the Carolinian :
When they reached the walls, General Quitman
called for a flag, whereupon Col. Gladden rode to
the centre ofthe regiment, caught up the colors,
and carried them to Gen. Quitman, who gave them
to Lieut. Selleck, and he displayed them up on the
walls, and was wounded while in the act. Gen. Quit
man, in his statement, did full honor to both. The
News is mistaken in supposing that any collision
exists as to the credit due these two soldiers.—Char
leston Courier:
[Correspondence of the Pennsylvania Enquirer.]
The Daughter of Aaron Burr.
An item of news just now going the rounds re
lates that a sailor who died recently in Texas con
fessed on his death bed that he was one ot a crew
of mutineers who, some forty years ago, took pos
session of a brig on its passage from Charleston to
New York, and caused all the officers and passen
gers to walk the plank. For about forty years the
wretched man had carried about with him the
dreadful secret, and died at last in an agony ot
despair.
What gives this story additional interest is the
fact that the vessel referred to is the one on which
Mrs. Theodocia Allston, the beloved daughter of
Aaron Burr, took passage for New York, for the
purpose of meeting her parent in the darkest days
of his existence, and which, never having been
heard of, was supposed to have foundered at sea.
The dying sailor professed to remember her
well; said that she was the last who perished, and
that he never forgot her look of despair as she
took the last step from the fatal plank. On read
ing this account, I regarded it as a fiction ; but, on
conversing to-day with an officer of the navy, he
assures me of its probable truth, and states that on
one of his passages home some years ago his ves
sel brought two pirates in irons, who were subse
quently executed at Norfolk for recent offences,
and who, before their execution, confessed that
they had been members of the same crew, and
participated in the murder of Mrs. Allston and her
companions.
What chiefly caused my scepticism on the sub
ject was the fact that Mr. Parton, the recent biog
rapher of Burr, leaves the fate of the daughter en
veloped in mystery, and closes the record of her
noble and beautiful life with her embarkation on
board the brig, which he declares has never since
been heard from.
I am at a loss now to understand, if the confes
sion alluded to by my naval friend was made pub
lic, as it undoubtedly was, how Mr. Parton could
have failed, among his extensive and industrious
researches, to discover the fact. Whatever opin
ion may be entertained of the father, the memory
of the daughter must ever be revered as one of
the loveliest and most excellent of American wo
men, and the revelation of her untimely fate can
only serve to invest that memory with a more ten
der and melancholy interest.
From the Charleston Evening News, May 15.
Ann Pamela Cunningham.
Delicacy has forbidden hitherto any personal
allusions on our part to the Southern Mairon and
the Mount Vernon cause.
Mrs. Robert Cunningham, the mother of Miss
Cunningham, was a Virginian, born at Alexandria,
and her earliest associations and warmest memo
ries, together with a connexion, attached her to
the Washington family. Seeing with grief that
neither Congress nor Virginia would buy and pie
serve Mount Vernon, and hearing with great emo
tion that a northern manufacturing company had
tendered to its owner, Mr. John A. Washington,
three hundred thousand dollars for it, she indig
cantly exclaimed to her daughter, then resident as
an invalid at Philadelphia, that as men would do
nothing, the daughters of the South should rescue
it from profane northern hands, and consecrate it
as a revered shrine for the world. The exclama
tion suggested to the daughter a conception of the
feasibility and propriety of the idea, and she deter
mined it should be executed. The two at once ar
ranged for the movement to commence in South
Carolina— their State. An article was prepared,
and Mrs. Robert Cunningham, on her return to
South Carolina, had it published in the Charleston
Mercnry (and at the instance of ourself) under
the signature of “A Southern Matron,” appropri
ate to her. Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham forth
with proceeded to active measures, erranged the
plans, organized the Associations, was made Presi
dent of the general national association of the La
dies of the United States, and conducted the cor
respondence and animated the efforts under the
non de plume of her mother. Delicacy and pro
priety made this fit. Two circumstances of late
rendered it proper that she should appear in her
own character and name. The incorporation of
the Association by Virginia, of which she was no
minated Regent, an official public position, and
the necessity of transacting leg.°l business under
real name was the most prominent. The indeli
cacy ol Mr. Fuller, whose nom de plume is “ Belle
Briltan ,” and who was favored by being admitted
to an interview in connection with a call by the
English ballardist, Mr. Mackay, in exposing her
name with a facetious comment, precipitated the
step, which, under the advice o£Mr. Everett, was
promptly taken.
Injustice has been done Mr. John A. Washing
ton. Mount Vernon was his property, a portion of
a limited competency, and a man has the
right, and it is his duty to well ‘‘provide for his
own household. At a sacrifice of one hundred
thousand dollars, he reserved Mount Vernon for
Virginia or the Federal Government at two hun
dred thousand dollars; and when they finally did
not act, he sold to the Ladies of America for a
hallowed purpose at that price, rejecting at such
sacrifice all other offers. Yes, and trusting their
efforts, too for more than half the money.
The numerous mistakes of the press on these
particulars have elicited this article.
Balloon Ascension. —Mr. Leonard, yesterday
afternoon, could not quite fill his balloon, and five
thousand spectators were disappointed, for the bal
loon only rose above the twenty foot wall, and bare
ly clearing the intervening buildings, came down
one hundred and fifty yards off, in Commerce
street.
This morning, however, the balloon was fully
inflated, and brought to Court Square, and at half
past nine o’clock, Mr. L. bade a vast collection of
people adieu, and started on his upward flight.—
The air was at nearly a dead calm, and the sun
shining brightly—not a speck of cloud to be seen.
The Aeronaut and his balloon were wafted for a
%v/ minutes in a westerly direction, and then veer
to the South—still going up! up! up! In
k ‘ twenty minutes, from the apparently dimin-
e r_ ’ze of the balloon, it was supposed to be
aboin > miles high. It had assumed the appa
lsKJeJ 61 an inflated bladder, and of course not
a ut twc eould be seen of the car in which
ent size ot standing. At eleven o’clock, A.
enl a speck „ <ar to the South-east indicated
- r. .Leonard ws ‘srial voyager, and fifteen min
. a mere speck . \e of the balloon was to be
the presence of the c. 7 xi au 13.
utee later, not a vestj,
seen. Montgomery Mch. Consul to Rio, has
_ ‘ m ’ *• ’tow fever.
R. G,. Scoot, jr., U* l
recovered from an attack of ye*
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMSHIP NIAGARA
COTTON ADVANCED 1-4 and.
[consols improved.]
Haifax, May 19,—The British and North American
Royal Mail steamship Niagara, Capt. J. G. Wickman, has
arrived with Liverpool dates to Saturday May, Bth
Commercial.
Liverpool Cotton Market. —The Broker’s circular re
ports the sales of cotton for the week 81,200 bales, at a Q
advance of l-4d. on the busines of the week.
Liverpool Breadstuffs Market. —Flour and wheat are
declining, and Corn exhibits a declining tendency.
Liverpool Provision Market. —The trade in provisions is
firm*
From Washington.
Washington, May 18.—There is a strong latent
feeling against the British outrages in the Gulf.—
In the Senate a resolution has been passed enquir
ing of the President whether further legislation is
necessary to enable him to protect the commerce of
the country. The Oregon State bill has passed the
Senate. A reselutionßadopted to promote the set
tlement of our difficulties with New Granada, Mexi
co and Central America.
In the House, Mr. Wright, of New Jersey was
elected Door Keeper.
The Civil Approbation bill, which the Committee
of Ways and Means have reduced $1,406,000, was
discused.
Loss of a Mobile Vessel.
New York, May 18th—The fship Speed, from
Mobile for Quebeck, was wrecked forty miles east
of Halifax, on the 16th. Her cargo, which was of
salt, was saved.
The Kansas Bill. —The New Orleans Bee,
(Opposition.) in the course of an article on the
Conference Bill, thbs presents it in its sectional as
pect :
“What the South gains is positive and substan
tial. The Constitution of Lecompton is not to be
submitted. This is an important concession. If
Kansas enter the Union during the present Con
gress, she must come in as a slave State, under the
Lecompton Constitution. This is a still greater
triumph. The principle of non-intervention is not
violated, for Congress does not presume to compel
the people of Kansas to vote for the acceptance or
rejection of s Constiiution already ratified by them,
but simply submits to them a law regu ating the
donation of the public lands within the State as a
substitute for certain unjust and sweeping preten
sions to proprietorship put forth by her Constitu
tional Convention.”
The Mobile Tribune, (State Rights,) in refer
ring to the question, says :
“We think that that “ordinance” was really a
very grave objection to the Lecompton Constitu
tion. Consider it!—23,592,160 acres—worth, at
tne minimum Government price, $29,490,200 —
given away at one stroke. There seems to be no
doubt that this new bill of the Conference Com
mittee, will become a law. So that we in the South
must contemplate the finale of it from that stand
point. Wc are satisfied that it will be generally
acceptable to the South. One good thing will be
the result of it; it will take the subject from Con
gress. Every rational man will be pleased with
that.”
The Brunswick Naval Depot —The Wash
ington Union says of the communication of the
Secretary of the Navy, in reference to the estab
lishment of a naval depot at Brunswick, Ga., and
which, as has been reported by telegraph, was laid
before the Senate on Friday last:
“The Secretary relates in detail the steps which
have been taken by the department in relation the
matter, and says there is no money in the treasury
which can be applied to that work without divert
ing it from other indispensable objects ; and that
falling within that class of public works authorized
by Congress which have not been commenced, it
is not deemed expedient or proper to commence
it during the present condilion of the treasury.”
estimates for the three regiments of
volunteers, two thousand six hundred men, with
five hundred and twenty-two others, are : for quar
termaster’s supplies, $2,477,000 ; for subsistence,
$344,000; pay of officers and volunteers, $1,077,-
000; arms and appropriate equipments, exclusive
of horse equipments, $166,785; total, $4,489,547.
Our Terms for “Puffa”.
We go in strong for the principle that every
benefit which we may confer upon our fellow man
through thefeolumns of thelPunch, should bring us
suitable remuneration. Therefore, all persons, no
matter what may be their business, who may de
sire us to‘’puff” them, will govern themselves ac
cordingly. Wine merchanrs are notified that their
address and a basket of champagne will always
ensure them a first-rate notice; no matter how in
ferior may be the articles which they usu
ally sell, so long as what they send us is good, it
is all right. Fashionable tailors, boot-makers and
hatters will be accommodated with our measure for
goods in their various departments, it being un
derstood that we are to “blow” for them to the full
extent offour atmosphereric capacity. g To|cigar‘dea!
ers we would intimate that we prefer the mild
Havanas ; and not only the cigars, but the sen
ders of them, w’illjbe duly puffed. Miscellaneous
articles of every kind—such as salt pork, opera
glassess, pickled onions, piano fortes wheelbarrows
nanny and billy goats, bouqueis and boot-jacks—
will be thankfully received in exchange'for favora
ble notices. Patent medicines and bed-bug exter
minators will not be noticed unless accompanied
by the soap.” All public exhibitions will be 4 puf
fed sky high, provided that we are allowed free
admission at all times, for ourselves, our aunts, un
cles, cousins, and, in short, our whole tribe, inclu
ding a vast circle of acquaintances, r and our bull
dog ; therefore, gentlemen, send in your favors—
New York Punch.
Mr. Brandytody’s three reasons for not drinking
are very characteristic of that gentleman.
“Take something to drink ?” said his friend to
him one day.
“No, thank you,” replied Mr. B.
“No! why not'” inquired his friend in great
amazement.
“In the first place,” retu r ned Mr. Brandytody,
“I am secretary of a temperance society that meets
to-day, and I must preserve my temperance char
acter. In the second place, this is the anniversary
of my father’s death, and out of respect to him I
have promised never to drink on this day. And
in the third place, I have just taken something.
A Costly Tongue. —A. D. Young, of Flalbush,
Ky., sued Laban Letton for SIO,OOO damages on
account of the wife of the latter charging Young’s
wife with infidelity to her husband. The jury
gave him $4,000.
Can’t Write their own Wills. —Lord St.
Leonard, in his “Handy Book,” says—-“I could,
without difficulty, run over the names of many
judges and lawyers of note whose wills made by
themselves have been set aside, or construed sc as
to defeat every intention they ever had.”
