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THE WIRE-GRASS REPORTER.
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.THOfIAIVILLI, OEOMU.
WEDNESDAY MORNINO, MAT S, 1860.
OTNOTICE S* hereby *tvei to eur silvertUing
friend*, that their ADVERTISEMENTS to be
sure of in*ertlon,mu*t be handed In by twelve o’cloc k
every Tneedey.
Wju-Geaee RKronTr.R la the OfllcUl
Sefrf TwSSr! *seif >^re^iS3b?a^n^
*•;!*•. for publishing the Advertisement* of tb*
Ordlnnrlea of Cnßch, and Ware.
otownf
II is with pain that we hare to snnonnee
{be fact that James M. Vickers, a lad about
ten year* old, was drewned in. the Ocklock
nea River on Saturday evening last. He
leaves a distressed mother, brother and sister.
“ SAT TASTY AT FLETCHER IHiTTTPTI.
We bad’ the pleasure on Friday Evening
es attending the May Party at Fletcher ln
stkatn, and we mast say, without flattery,
that every thing was arranged in the most
exquisite style. The reception room war
beautifully decorated and the topper was fix
ed np jnat right, or, at least, we liked and
anjoyed it. The ladies were dressed in good
taste ) thsy seemed to be m s mood to enjoy
and make others partake of their feelings.—
Messrs. Wilder and Rockwell were ail atten
tion to tfaoir guests and Misses Hi.nscll and
Armstrong exerted themselves in the same
kind way— every thing passed off as merry
as a marriage bell. We cannot fail to men
tion the fact |that “ Young America” was out
in fell feather, and we are inclined to tbs
opinion that their star was decidedly in the
aseendant. May success attend the efforts of
the friends of Fletcher Institute who are
•7ing to snataio its well earned reputation.
neso xobsebus.
Onr merchants have for some twolvo or
eighteen months passed discovered that when
their boxes of goods would arrive from New
Pott several pieces of goods would be miss
ing—such as shoes, pieces of calico, fee.
Not long since the firm of Messrs. Swift,
Deklo & Harrell discovered that in ono trunk
af shoes five pair were missing. They could .
not account for tho manner in which they
had been taken, bnt a favorite and faithful
negro of Judge Swift’s reported to his master
that his tsamster had shoes for sale and was
selling them to other negroes. Judge Swift
took the negro np, and after administering to ,
him some •* hickory oil,” the negro divulged
the secret that he, together with another
teamster belonging to Neill McKiunon, Esq.,
had robbed their wagons whilst en route from
Tallahassee to tkia place. As soon as these
fkets were made known Messrs. Swift, Mc-
Kinnon, McLendon and Sheriff Sanford,
went out to meet the wagons, several of them
being on the road five miles below this place.
After putting the other driver implicated
through a “ course of sprout*” he divulged
the fact that all of the teamsters running
from eur town, and to the country places
near Thomasville, were iu the habit ot rob
bing their wagons, and taking therefi-om
whatever they desired. When they wished
to try the liquors they would replace the vac
uum with water. No accurate estimate can be
formed of the amount es goods stolen, but it
must be considerable.
The gentlemen who have taken the mat
ter in hand hare put aomo six or seven
through, and there are others who will only
tare to come in to receive the punishment
due for their misconduct. Persons employ
ing teamsters in other sections and who have
’ yiissing goods from their packages will do
” well to note the above. s
THX KANSAS QUESTIONSETTLED.
We have but time to announce to our rea
ders that the Kansas question is finally Bet
tied, as will be seen from the following tele
graphic despatches. We have no room for
comment: t
Two. Washington.
Washington, April 30. —The Senate re
ceded from its amendments to the Deficiency
bill and passed it. Mr. Uoaston’s resolution
to extend a protectorate over Mexico was
discussed. The bill of the Conference Com
mittee for the ndmission of Kansas was taken
up and pasaed by a vote of 31 yeas to 22
■, '* . . •
In the House there was an excited discus
sion on the Kansas bill but no collision* The
vote being taken tho bill pnssed by a vote of
112 yeas to 103 nays. There was some ap
plause ami hissing on tho announcement of
the vote but it was promptly checked by the
Bpeaker.
Puugi of tha Kansas Bill.
Washington, Apr.l 30. —The Conference 1
Bill for the admission of Kansas into the Un
ion passed both Houses of Congress to-day ;
it received a majority of nine in each branch.
THJt NOHTHKBN DEMOCRATS.
A Washington correspondent of the Delta
severely chastises the recreant democrats of
the North who have deserted the administr* i
tion on the Kansas question, but justly says
of those whose fidelity has stood the severe
test: .
“ Whatever may be the issne—no matter to
what extremities these thieves aud traitors
■lay drive ns—let ns not forget that choice
of nobis spirited among the Northern
democracy, who have stood and will stand,
firmly by us in the present boor. If the lar
um of disunion ia rung, not theirs the hands
that ring it. They have enough to do in
Struggling against the prejudices of their own
section; let them not meet with distrust in
•sirs. How gallantly they have charged
ftothe upon fannaticisro and rebellion; bow
tauntingly they have chafed the traitors and
mutineers. Foremost among this band, stands
era people. It contains more than oratory;
ft hi a succession of blows, struck with too
Thor’s hammer of a mighty intellect,. pftn*
demos, measured, and telling each one open
the foe;-
: Written far tbs Wire-Oraae Reporter.
inn to on sis umdurarm ram.
PUBLISHED IT SPECIAL BEQUEST.
* Do not think I meant to Warn* you.
When I said yonr love would be,
Like tbo fervid tropic lamßine
m_ - i>A, m t |i_
JTTI mm ICPOO IUU51IIIIJ•
Tit tM rare, iuch ardent piMia,
la tkia working world of ours,
Where utility's iron fooUtfep*
Crush feeling’s delicate flowers.
1 I have bent o’er old romance*,
Reading with a beating heart
- The burning word* of passion, ,
Traoed with Ml a Poet’* art;
And longed for girlhood'* dawning.
With a trembling hope and fear,
For 1 deemed l might swakea
A tenderness so dear.
Alas! for the rain dreaming*
Os bright and hopefei youth,
Never found I such devotion,
Such unchanging love and truth.
But if ey* and brow so earnest,
Ever spoke a language true,
Then my high ideal of paaeion
I* realised iu you.
She is blest, the dark eyed lady,
Who, your heart's deep fount has stirred,
Who has treasured In her memory
Every passion-freighted word.
The graceful spirit of your dreams,
And of your wsking hours,
The absent one who left you
With tbo summer's earliest flowers.
Ryma.
. Written fur the Wire-Grass Reporter.
My first impulse, Mr. Editor, on reading n
communication signed “F. of Clinch ” in
your last issue, reflecting upon tbe resolutions
offered at a meeting called by the Mayor of
Milledgeville, in anticipation of a visit frotp
the Hon. Edward Everett, was to treat it
with silence. But as the writer may belong
to that class who imagine that any effusion
of their brains when unanswered is unan
swerable, and as he awaits a reply, I a*k, for
that purpose, a small portion of your sheet.
As the author of these resolutions the du
•ty of a reply devolves upon me. I shall not
Attempt to defend Mr. Everett, and simply
because he needs no defence. My object is
to say briefly to “F. of Clinch,” that the
hospitalities of our city were not extended to
Mr. Everett because of “his spirited behavior
in signing the memorial raised by the citi-
zens of Botlon, complimenting the Hon.
Charles Sumner for his chivilrous conduct
*a bring beat by the late lamented Brooks of
South Carolina, or for his eloquent objections
to the same, by crying * Oh Lord / I'm al
most dead!’ ” but for bis noble and patriotic
efforts in raising funds sufficient for the pur
chase of Mount Vernon. * Tho blush of
shame ought to mantle the cheek of any per
son for abusing a man, let his political princi
ples be what they may, who is devoting his
life to the noble work in which he is now en
gaged. It is natural to suppose that the gal
lant State of South Carolina, whose lament
ed son whipped Mr. Sumner, is as careful as
any State in the Union of those to whom
she extends her hospitality, and I have no
ticed with pleasure her cordial greeting to
Massachusetts’ distinguished son. If I mis
take not a free passage for twelve months
over the South Carolina Railroad has been
given him; and I also believe that he was,
while in Charleston, the guest of Mr. Petti
grew. These two facts ore more than suffi
cient to provo that he is regarded in South
Carolina as a patriotic citizen, and as worthy
of the highest considerations; and I take the
liberty of saying to “ F. of Clinch,” that, as
South Carolina ia more intimately connected
with the Brooks and Sumner difficulty, he
had better begin a correspondence with eith
er Mr. Pettigrew or the President of the
Railroad.
In copclusion, Mr. Editor, permit me to
remark that 1 have reluctantly given my
consent to notice the communication of “F.
of Clinch,’\a person whom Ido not know,
and that my aversion to newspaper discus
sions will prevent my again requesting your
indulgence. n
Your obedient servant, \
Lewis Kenan.
Milledgeritle, April 23, 1858,
DEMAND ON HATTL
The Washington States says that the
Government ought to send down one of our
frigates to demand satisfaction of Boulogne
for the Amorican merchantmen the Haytian
cruisers have robbed on the Mora passage.—
They have plundered our ships and citizens
to the tune of three hundred thousand dol
lars, for which they have not been brought
toacconnt in any shape; and now they threat
en to invade the Dominican Republic, and
murder or drive out all the whites except
those who are the subjects of the European
powers friendly to Hayti. c f-
This is a subject which commends itself to
the instant action of the Government. A
squadron in the Haytian waters would havo
a happy effect. We have always wondered
that our fillibusterabare never made Hayti,
the garden spot of the world, an object of
their benevolent exertions to extend “ the
area.” The Island needs civilizing and de
veloping, and, at present in the hands of its
black laszarnni, isfisst relapsing into barbs
risen.—Augusta Dispatch.
QUICK WOBK.
Crocket, the murderer of Samuel Lan
drum, in Atlanta, was sentenced on Saturday
last to be bung on the 18th of June. Lan
drum was beaten on the Bth,died on tho 12tb,
and bis murderer was sentenced to death on
the 24th. He certainly has no cause to com
plain of “ the law’s delay.” ,
From tike Washington Union.
THE HETUiLIC AES-WHAT THE RISK. THE
SOUTH AMKEIOAHI—WHAT THEY
HATE LOOT.
The RepnbficaW by voting fer the Crit
tenden substitute which embraces a recog
nition of the Jveqsapton Constitution, of ala
very, and what they have termed a prohibi
tion against amendment till 1864, riskedAhe
ebanee of the ratification of that instrument
by the people of Kansas. If it should be
ratified tbpy would be held responsible for
the adoption of a measure against which the
whole Republican family have entered re
peated protests. Their politics, in fact, are
made up exclusively of anti-slavery stuff.—
They are dirty free-noilers. “flfhey regard
the Federl Constitution, because it is a com
pact extended over slave Stateeas “ a league
with tbe devil.” They become, by aiding
so bring into the Uuipn a State recognising
slavery, the devlf's own tools—that is, accor
ding to tiieii Own estimates of American pol
itics, morality, in voting for the conditional
admission of Kansas, then, under tbe Le
compton instrument, they took the risk of its
ratification by the people. That is aft.—
They believed they eould procure its rejec
tion ; and they got the South American*,and
Democrats who voted with them, to fix the
issue, so that tbeir risk ebould bo reduced, by
the second proposition of tbe substitute, viz ;
that in the event of rejection, the people
might go on and frame and adopt anew con
stitution and be admitted into the Union by
the proclamation of tho President. They
foresaw that there was a strong feeling in
Kansas in favor of admission, and that if the
Lecompton Constitution should be presented
without any alteration of its ratification, or
the total rejection of the State, the people
might vote to be received under that instru
ment. The allies of the Republicans in this
were qver-kind. The second proposition, in
fact, was intended to relieve tbe Republicans
of all respoußibility for voting for the admiss
ion of a slave State, and this gracious boon
was extended by Mr. Crittenden to Mr. Gid
dings, and concurred in by Mr. Marshall, Mr.
Underwood, and Mr. Gilmer, nd by Mr.
Douglas, Mr. Montgomery, and others of the
Northern Democracy. So that, in fact, the
Republicans with the exhaust pipe or waste
gate of the second proposition of-the substi
tute,constructed at the sole expense of the
South Americans, took tbe smallest amount
of risk iti voting for the measure.
On the other hand, what were they to gain
by the Crittenden amendment I We shall
be able to answer this question all the better
if we regard for a moment tbe fact that their
first object was to get rid of the Lecompton
Constitution. They would do this by a di
rect vote in Congress; failing in that, then
by sustaining the measure of its submission
to the people and securing its rejection at
the ballot-boxes. That they saw this latter
process to be effective, we entertain no doubt.
Thus rejected, then the field would be open
for tbe rcadoption of the Topeka Constitu
tion, with a full infusion of negroism, and an
infusion so stenchy and offensive as to sicken
every man whose mind is not filled with vis
ions of amalgamation and the blessings which
such a system would confer upon tbe white
race.
Well, then, would gain :
I. The rejection of the Lecompton Con
stitution.
11. The adoption of the Topeka Consti
tution with all the Leavenworth improve
ments.
111. They would gain these ends by the
rise of stool pigeons from Kentucky, South
Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, and New York.
It is something worthy of notice to ho en
dorsed, in the most ultra anti-slavery meas
ure ever introduced into the Congress of the
United States, by representatives from three
or four slave States, and by Democrats from
as many Northern States. We regret that
they have been able to secure such endorse
ments ; but they have, and so wc proclaim
their triumph to the people of the North and
to the people of the South.
Now, what have the Americana gained 1 —
Wc fear the advantages, like the handle of a
jug, are all on one side. What have the
Americans gained 7 They have pained the
alliance of the Republicans. They liaveen
abled the latter to reject the Lecompton Con
stitution, and rto create an ultra Abolition
Constitution, and to secure the admission of
the State nuder it. All this is predicated
upon the idoa that the amendment shall pre
vail over the Senate bill. You, gentlemen
Americans, have beeu making a great noise
about foreigners voting at elections. In Ken
tucky you have undertaken to drive them
away from the polls. You have done the
same thing at Baltimore. It was your pride
that “ Americans should rale America and,
to secure this end, you would change the nat
uralization laws so as to require twenty-one
years’ residence to enable the comer to vote.
These are your ideas, not ours. We thought
them bigoted; and, to tell you the honest
truth, we never believed much in your sin
cerity when you urged them upon tha coun
try. By the Crittenden amendment you
have endorsed the proceedings of tho Leav
enworth Convention. Which declares that
a declaration of an intention to become a
citizen shall entitle the purty making it to
vote. That convention also declared that
negroes shall have a right to vote. You en
dorsed that principle too. These substan
tial ends can hardly be appreciated by you,
gentlemen Americans, unless you remember,
as perhaps you may, that the Lecompton
Constitution,whose rejection yon have sought
by your votes to secure, is a conservative
law, unobjectionable even to the’ most ultra
—certainly to every South American and
Democrat.. ... “
Then, it does not appear .that ’ yon have
made a very honorable and profitable opera
tion, in point of fact, by joining the Repub
licans.
, And what have you, Democrats, gained
in this work of voting witb the Republicans ?
Have you strengthened the. Democratic par
ty 1 Wo tbjuk you hare, but we do not cred
it you with tho least inteution or doing it.—
You have effected an alliance with men and
opinions which cauuot survive a ball year’s
trial. You have endorsed negroism, so bald
and offensive that not a State out of New
England will justify you. You have possi
bly postponed tbe settlement of a controver
sy which has been used for four years agaiust
you and your former party. X°u ought to
know that tbe conutry sickens with Kansas
agitations, and that the people cannot fail to
loath the men who would prolong them.
The time hap been w hen anii-sravery was
the curse and plajpie of tbe Democracy of
the North ; (be time has ccme when soti
slavery is tbe curse and plague of thoee who
eeek to live upon tbe poisonous political at
mosphere it creates. Tbe judgment of tbe
country is ageioet anti-slavery agitations, as
oetentatious parades, intended to foist into
power no body but demagogues.
It is e remarkhble fact, under our system,
that anti-slavery fs an actnal stimulant of sla
very.* While it professes, and no doubt hon
estly desires, to cripple slavery, it is in point
of fact, so far renfeved from it, end, withal,
to utterly powerless to effect it, that It mere
ly serves as a reminder. We know of no
class in the free States who are not injured
by anti slavery, excepting possibly the pro
fessional politicians, like Hale, Sumner,
Seward, Feaaenden. Tbeae men trade on
it ; and upon precisely tbe same principle
that their New England ancestors conducted
tbe African clave trade—'for gain.
THE BXFOST or THE COMMITTEE Os COHFER
KMOE.
We publish, in another eolumn, the bill
for the admission of Kansas into the Union,
reported to the House of Congress on Fri
day last, as the result of the deliberations of
the Committees of Conference upon this
measure appointed by them. It will be ob
served that ft differs materially from that
communicated in the New York Tribune a
few days ago, and published in our issue of
Sunday morning.
We have examined this bill carefully, as
it comes to ns under the suspicious guise of
n compromise, and with the determination to
oppose and denouifre it, if it involved any
concession of principle on the part ot the
South and of tho Administration, bnt we are
unable to find any such concession Tn It, and
are free to confess that, as an original propo
sition, disconnected and distinct from every
thing which has been done in Congress, up
on the application of Kansas for admission, it
is quite as acceptable to us, as the bill pass
ed by the Senate. This is the opinion wo
have formed of it, from tho examination we
have been able to give of it. It is not ob
jectionable, except as a modification of the
plan for the admission of Kansas, sanctioned
by the Senate bill, upon which a distinct is
sue had b*en made.
The bill proposes to admit Kansas into the
Union, under the Lecompton Constitution,
provided the people of Kansas by popular
vote, aceept certain amendments which it
makes in the ordinance adopted with that
Constitution and submitted with it, to Con
gress. Under this ordinance, as it was adop
ted by the Kansas Convention, if accepted
by Congress, Kansas would receive twenty
three millions five hundred and ninety-two
thousand one hundred and sixty acres of pub
lic lands, worth at the minimum government
price, twenty-nine millions four hundred and
nftiety thousand two hundred dollars. The
bill reported by the Committee of Confer
ence, proposes to donate to her the quantity
usually given to the new States—which
would be twenty millions of acres less than
that she would receive under her ordinance,
and make a difference in favor of the Uni
ted States of twenty-five millinns of dollars
—and makes her admission into the Union
conditional upon the acceptance of this prop
osition. There is nothing unusual in this
feature of the hill. Congress has frequent
ly prescribed terms and imposed conditions
upon uew States applying for admission. —
Thus in the case of Mi*ouri, of Michigan,
and of lowa, admission was deferred until
they had complied with conditions prescribed
by the acts of Congress, assenting to their
admission, or any step towards it, is postpon
ed until they have a population equal to that
represented by a member of Congress. The
ratio of Congressional representation, under
the apportionment to be made af.er the next
docerinlhl census, will be as much as one hun
dred and twenty-five thousand—-several years
must elapse before Kansas can have that
amount of population, and it is believed that
her people, rather than submit to the evils
which will result from so long a postpone
ment of her admission into the Union, will
gladly accept the terms prescribed by the
bill.
In the meantime, opinions differ widely in
reference to tho ultimate fate of this last
propositisn for the admission of Kaunas, in
the House of Representatives. The Black
Republicans denouuce it as ‘‘a threat and a
bribe,” oppose it in solid column, and assert
that it will be rejected. On the other hand,
it is sustained by some of the Northern Dem
ocrats who have heretofore acted in opposi
tion to the Administration upon the Kansas
questiou, and its friends are confident of its
success. A few days will determine its fate,
as it is now under consideration in the Sen
ate, and the special order in the House for
to-morrow. —Augusta Constitutionalist.
Correspondeoce of the Baltimore Sun.
Washington, April 25th.
The Struggle in the House on the Kansas
Ileport—Opposition from Southern Mem
bers—The Qntstion of Postponement —
Passage qf the Deficiency Bill ,
The Kansas current was not destined to
run smooth. It has encountered another
sn#ig where least expected. Resistance ap
pears on tbe part of some of the Southern
members, who have hitherto supported the
Senate Kansas bill, and the substitute bill
does not find favor with many of the auti-
Lecompton Democrats or South Americans.
The struggle in the House t present is
for and against the proposition to postpone
the report and bill of the conference com
mittee till the second Monday in May. Some
disposition for fillibustering upon this ques
tion was manifested in the House yesterday,
bnt the two parties gave up tbe contest aud
adjourned at an hour. On Monday
the question will be upon the adoption of the
motion for postponement as amended by Mr.
Hill’s motion to postpone the subject till the
second Monday in May. Tbe postponement
will be aliriost equivalent to a rejection of
the substitute bill. It will afford time for
gathering and consolidating all the elements,
old and new, of opposition to the substitute-
It will depend upon the action of the
House, on Monday whether any bill for the
admission of Kansas shall pass at this sess
ion. If nothing be done at this session to
settle this perplexing dispute, it will return
upon Congress the next session in a more
complicated and angry form than ever. Tbe
admonitions of the committee of Conference
on this subject ought not to be disregarded
by the country, even if unheeded by Com
gress.. The Senate will take up the report
and bill of the Conferehce on Monday.
The deficiency bill baa passed tbe Senate
without aay important amendment, except
striking out tbe third section which contain
ed items for the pay of reporter* for (be [
Congressional Globe, and Extra allowance lor
the clerks ot tbe two Houees. These items,
it was contended, did not properly belong to
this bill, and they mgy be put in the ordina
ry bill. . loN ’
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES HILL. ,
On Thursday last, by a vote of one hun
dred and five for, to one hundred against it,
The house of Representatives passed tbe bill
introduced by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont do
nating public lands to the States and I erri-1
tones which may provide colleges for the
benefit of agriculture ard the mechanic arts,
after amending it so as to exclude tbe Terri
tories from its benefits.
The bill grants six millions three hundred
and forty thousand acres of land, which are
to be apportioned among the several States
aceordnig to their Congressional representa
tion, Georgia, upon this basis of distribution,
would receive two hundred thousand acres,
worth, at the minimum government price,
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
These lands are to be sold, the proceeds are
to bo invested in safe stocks, and the interest
of the investment is to be appropriated to
the support of one or more colleges in each
State, devoted to the advancement of agri
cultural and mechanical science, the
direction and control of its legislature.
The Committee on Public Lands,to whom
this bill was referred, reported against its
passage, upon the grounds that Congress has
no power to make grants of public lands,
without a prospect of compensation by the
enhancement of tbe value of the public do-:
main which remains ; and if it had, ought
not as a matter of policy to donate public j
lands for the support of local institutions
within the States. The House disregarded
these objections and passed the bill, but tile j
Senate will respect them, and if it does not
the Executive will. \
We observe that ill tbe members of the
House from this State, except two, voted j
against the bill. —Augusta Constitutionalist.
SENATOR CLAT, OF ALABAMA, OH SOUTHERN
SUBMISSION.
I do not doubt you think she will yield all
you demand. Ido not doubt you believe you
can extort from her fears of your power all
that you can seduce from her love of the
Union. I believe you expect to excite dis
cord among her own sons, and to array against
the slaveholders all who are not slaveholders,
by persuading these that they are oppressed
and wronged. But the example of Kansas,
where there cannot be more than two hun
dred slave holders out of six thousand pro
slavery voters shnnld have taught you that
the sons of the South know and feel that 1
they havfe a common interest in preserving
the institution of slavery; that they must
keep the negro in his normal condition of
slavery or destroy him, or render to him
their country. Ido not fear that you can
delude and beguile them to their own self
destruction, or the desolation of their coun
try. 1 know yon count largely npon the de
fections and desertion of Southern leaders;
and I confess, with shame and ’Tegrct, that
you have but too good reasons for your cal
culations in the mortifying examples we have
furnished of those who have betrayed their
trust and broken tliier allcgiauce to the South,
not, perhaps, because they loved her less,
but the Union more, and themselves most.—
I know it is idle to try to disenchant your
minds impressions which you aie fond to re
tain and wish to be true, but which I think
dishonor tho South,, wrong the North, and
may dissolve the Union. Yet, at the hazard
of your ridicule, I must tell you that Ala
bama, i common with all her Southern sis
ters but two, has, by the universal voice of her
people, as expressed by party conventions,
by popular assemblies, and by her late and
former Legislature resolved—
" That she will and ought to resist, even
(as a last resort) to a disruption of every tie
which binds her to the Union, any action of
Congress upon the subject of slavery in the
District of Columbia, or in places subject to
the jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible
with the safety, the domestic tranquility, the
rights and honor of the slaveholdiug States;
or any refusal to admit as a State any Ter
rkory hereafter applying, because of the ex
istence therein*; or any act prohibiting the
introduction of slavery into the Territories.;”
* * • any act repealing or materially modi
fying the law now in force for the lecovery
of fugitive slaves.”
If this be mere bravado, she shares, the
folly and the shame in common with twelve
of her Southern sisters. While I have in
dulged, and shall ever indulge, in no menace
or promise of prophecy of her course, yet I
can and wiU- say for myself, that in the day
of her self degradation, by disregarding her
pledges and submitting to your government,
I will not sit here to endure the contumely
and reproach which justly may, and certain
ly will, heap upon the heads of her Sena
tors.
Mr. President, I have -not been addicted
to singing pa?us or uttering eulogies about
the Union, or accustomed to regarding it
“ns the paramount political good,” or “ the
primary object of patriotic desire.’’ I have
ever felt that I owed my first and highest al
legiance to iny State, and that her sovereign
ty, her independence, and her honor, even
without the Union, should be dearer to her
sons, than the Union and subordination, de
pendence and dishonor within it. Yet sir,
the Union of the .Constitution, which our
forefathers made, I love and reverence and
would preserve; but this Union without the
constitution, or with it as construed by the
Norlitern Republicans, 1 abhor and scorn,
and would dissolve if my power were equal
to my will. IJo this Union the South is
commended ns a choice of evils, and com
manded with menaces of
Whether she will choose the Union as a less
evil, or subnit to it by compulsion and aban
don her self government and surrender her
destinies to your control, you will surely test
if you ever get the power, and time will’
-surely prove, if she yield to your advice -on
to your commands, she will deserve si! the
wrong and all the shame you can and will
accumulate upon her head. But as honor,
iutereat, self preservation—ali that is dear
to freemen—all urge her to maintain her in
dividuality and equally as sovereign Stater,
either within or without tbe Union, I trust
she will give you full demonstration of her
courage and self reliance, by refusing any,
the least concession to your demands, and re
sisting your menaces and repelling yonr at
tempts at coercion in such manner as will
?rove that tbe spirit of tbe fathers, who, at
orktown end at New Orleans, consummated
in triumph our two wars of independence, yet
lives in her sous.
THE MATOS OF HEW YOBS AMD TEX GAW
BLCNO FRATERNITY.
The New York correspondent of the
tional Intelligencer, say■ :
Mayor Tlemann seems determined to
break up tlte “ Gift Enterprise” swindle* and
lottery policy concerns. lie bis bad sever,
al of tbe managers arrested, and the investi
gation has shown that immerse sums have
been extracted from the gullible public at *
distance. The Mayor declares that he is d e _
tei mined to break up the gambling places of
the city, and has no idea of leaving the work
half done. He had commenced an extermi
nating warfare upon every species of g am .
bliug, and was determined to break up gift
enterprises with the rest. .
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THE VALIANT BUBLINQAMX.
The Washington correspondent of the
Carolinian say#t
A few dayasince, Mr. Burlingame made*
very fierce •’speech, especially pitching i n t*>
the Northern “ dough-faces,”’as he calls the
Lecompton Democrats. To this,Mr. Hughes,
(Democrat,) of Indiana replied. “I copy ,
few sentences, that you may see liow he han
dled the gen tleman from Massachusetts, 0 f
“ Clifton House” notoriety : * “ Dough frees!”
says the gentleman from Massachusetts. Sir
I said in the presence of many of my con
stituents, upon a temporary visit to my. na .
tive State, that if every stump in Kansas
was a negro—every tree upon her soil a slave
driver —I would vote for tiro admission of
Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution.”’
There has been some controversy as to tbu
origin of this word “ dough face.” The cor
rect etymology is “doe,” a female deer; and
I think that it derives significance from the
fact that that animal is exceedingly timid,and
when it comes to the water and see* its own
image, it starts back with afright. It well
becomes the gentleman from Massachusetts
to talk about dough faces. This is the defen
der of the,Cnstitiition from Massachusetts t
He is going to exterminate dough faces. I
tell him that when this race of dough faces
is exterminated, the union of these States is
at an end. Then the gentleman from Mas
sachusetts will have an opportunity of beiug
confronted with these Southern men, and I
hope that he will behave himself better than
he did on a certain memorable occasion that
has passed.”
FronTtho liiiwsville Journal.
A LUBUS NATURE.
Hkxdekton, April 5,1858.
.Gentlemen : —1 have just returned from
a visit to one of the most extraordinary cu
riosities ever kpown in the history of the hu
man race. A negro woman, belonging to
Mr. Samuel Stltcs, of this place gave birth,
eight days ago, to four living children joined
together by pairs in a still more peculiar
manner than the Siamese Twins. ‘ The two
boys are oonnect ed at t he shoulder and from the
hip to the knee joint, leaving the lower joint
of the legs and the feet of each perfectly
free. The girla are joined at the shoulder
with this difference from the boys ; that they
have but one. arm issuing from the injunction
of “their shoulders. They are joined from
the hip down to the foot—the two legs end
ing in one foot.
In regard to the color of the children, na
ture seems to have been quite as eccentric as
in their formation, one of the boys .being
black and the other as white as the child of
a white woman ; ami so with the girls. They
all seem to be perfectly licallliy, aud tho
mother is doing uncommonly well.
Mr. Stites, who is a man of wealth, takes
great pleasure in showing the twins to his
friends and their “levees” have been great
ly crowded for the last day or two.
Respectfully, N. D. Tarry.
HOW THE BOY KNEW HIS FATHEB.
At a Justice Court in tho “Green Moun- -
tain .State,” some years ago, the followiig
amusing incident occurred. Avery ill-na
tured, quarrelsome person was concerned in
a street brawl one night,and got a blow from
somebody, which resulted in a “ black eye”
and a suit for assault ami battery. In the
course of the trial, a son of the plaintiff was
called to the witness stand—a regular “chip
of the old block,” about fifteen years of age.
The boy testified to some knowledge of the
affray, but couldn’t give many particulars, as
the night was an exceedingly dark one.
“Now, sir,” said tho Cross-examining at
torney, “will you venture to swear that your
father was there at all TANARUS”
*“But you say you did not see him, nor
hear him speak : how, then, did you know
he was present ?” --*5
“ Why—l’ll tell you. Just as I camo out
of the gate, I heard Joe Smith [the defend
ant J fiolleront ‘ There goes the old devil 1’
—and I knew ho meant dad.”
WHAT SOBT OF AN ANIMAL A “ SNOB” IS.
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Thackcry thus daguerreotypes this ani
mal. Thackery is speaking ol English socie
ty ‘ , . ,
A snob is that man or woman who is al
ways pretending before the world to be some
thing better^—especially richer and more
foshionable—than they are. it is one who
thinks his position in life contemptible and is
always yearning and striving to force him
self iuto one above, without the education or
characteristics which belong to it; one who
looks down upon, dcSpises and over-rides his
inferiors, or even equals of his own standing,
and is ever ready to worship, fawn upon and
flatter a rich or titled man, not because he is
a good man, a wise man, -or a Christian man,
but because he has the luck to be rich or con
sequential.
ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.
The London Morning Herald, of the 2Gth
ult., has the following paragraph :
We aro sorry to learu that the youthful
and only daughter of a wealthy commoner,
-Ittid niece of a noble earl, has, within the
last four and twenty hours, eloped* with a
nobleman holding a prominent position in so
ciety. The nobleman is a married man, but
for some years he lias been estranged from
his wife. It is presumed the guilty couple
have fled to the continent, as they were trac
ed to Dover on Thursday afternoon.
There are reproaches which give praise ,and
praise which reproaches.
Never carry a sword in your tongue
wound the reputation of any man.
There are many men who delight in play
ing the fool, but who get angry the moment
they sure told so. —■*—=—