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Yankee Silsbee in Londo n
The following is an extract form a letter writ
ten by Y ankee Silsbee, now on a professional
tour in England, to the Detroit Daily Adver
tiser
We roamed with a party of others through the
various apartments of the Tower, and our guide,
•who was a chatty, talkative little man, frisked
about and showed us every object with a deal of
gusto. At last he came to the great cannon and
ordnance captured from the enemiesjot various
natious.
“This piece,” said our little guide, with all the
pomp of a little Englishman, who never feels so
nappy as when boasting of their victories, “this
piece is from Waterloo. Lord, how we did beat
them there. This is from Badajos; this is from
ao and so,” and he ran over the cannon, dilating
on the history of each with evident satistaction
in every muscle of his countenance.
1 saw he was highly diverted with relating
the exploits of his nation, so I thought I would
“bring him to anchor” a little, as the sailors say.
All at once I looked carefully about me, turned
my head every which way, and then looked in
quiringly at the guide.
“What are you looking for, sir, may I inquire l ”
at length said he; we’ve got trophies from all
nations,” and he pointed to a number of inter
esting specimens with their mouths gaping open
like hungry bull-dogs.
“Have you, indeed! said I,carelessly, “I was’nt
looking for French trophies nor Spanish.”
“Perhaps it’s the Chinese!” interrupted he.
“No, nor the Chinese,” said I, “but I see you
have got so much stulf laying about here, where’s
all that was captured from the Americans, eh?”
“Ah!” grunted he, looking amazingly blank,
“the Americans—yes the Americans—from the
Americans you mean!”
“Yes," replied I, still looking, “I don’t see any
from the United Slates—where is it all—l want
to see it?”
“Oh, yes! that taken in America—l see—yes.”
“Exactly,” repeated I, “I heard you took a
good deal at Bunker Hill and Bennington and
Trenton and those places.”
“So we did,” said lie quickly, “but it was such
old stufftliat we died’t care about bringing it
hornet
Just then a sudden thought struck him; his
eyes rolled up, a little blood llew to his cheeks
and he evidently “smoked.” He took the queue
and backed down. When the company were
going out, he leaned over and whispered in my
ear that I was a Yankee.
“I’m nothing else, sir,” said I, “and as for that
obi stulf’you • ook at Yorktown and several other
places l might mention, I'll tell them to send it
over to you when 1 get home.”
To the Public.
Post Office Drpaktment, Aug. 1851.
It is represented to the Department that the
practice of handing letters to the Mail Agents,
or depositing them in the drop pouches or boxes
ol the cars or steamboats, instead of putting them
in tie Post Office, bus increased to such an ex
tent that«t is not |Hjs»ible tor the agents to assort
mid mail them carefully. Letters are often for
ced into the pouches, and many prepayment
stamps, such as are not put on with proper care,
thus rtiboed oil'.
Persons sending oil'letters or papers are there
fore advised to place them in the Post ollice in
order to secure tneir prompt and safe transmis
sion. When tile community is aware that letters
forwarded in the manner alluded to are, liable,
from the causes mentioned, to delay and loss of
stamps placed on them, it is hoped that the prac
tice will be discontinued, except in cases of emer
gency, and that mail matter will be deposited iu
the Post Office liar transmission.
The privilege ol putting late letters in the drop
pouches, or sending them l>y the mail agents,
was intended only lor cases ol exigency, which
are few in number, anil not that any considera
ble portion ol the uiuil should bo thrown iqioii
the travelling agent to assort and arrange for
transmission.
Should this notice l*o disregarded, and the em
barrassment of the mail agents he still continued,
it will become necessary to forbid their reception ,
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twenty-tour hours will necessarily be caused.
N. K. HALL, FwhMMßf General.
Akolition Outrage in Illinois.—The Cape
Girardeau (Mo.) Eagle says :
A negro ol Mr. Sherwood, of New Madrid
county, ran off not long since, and intelligence
was received that he was at Sparta, in Randolph '
county, 111., a little town about twenty mile*
back of Chester. Mr. S. sent his son to bring
the negro home, but when he arrived near the
town, he heard of the rough treatment some other
man had received who had gone over on a simi
lar business, a short time before, and he conclud
ed he would return without making known his
errand, lt seems that the owner of the slave ar
rested him, had started home, and gone but a few
miles, when he was oveitaken by a parcel of
white men, who rescued the negro, and then,
with the aid of the slave, beat him most cruelly,
breaking several of his ribs.
They left him lying on the ground and return
ed. Mr. Sherwood and a number of others went
over some two weeks ago to obtain the negro,
but the Abolitionists at Sparta, having heard of
the object of their visit, armed themselves, and a
large crowd, went out and met the Missiourians
a mile or two from town, and threatened to shoot
them if they attempted to take the negro away.
The Missourians, being too few in numbers to
contend with so large a gang of these negro
thieves, made no farther efforts to get the negro,
but returned home. We understand that Mr.
Sherwood intends to apply to the U. S. Marshal
of the State to enforce the recent law passed by
Congress relative to fugitive slaves. If, in dis
charging his duty, he should be resisted by these
hypocritical outlaws, we promise he shall have •
assistance sufficient to carry out the law to its
fullest extent. We understand that there are
several negroes belonging to persons in this part !
of Missouri harbored in Sparta and the neighbor- 1
hood by these villains, and efforts should be made c
to recover them. t
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We perceive that Messrs. Todd and Russell {of
the Anderson Gazette, have disposed of their in
terest in that Journal to Messrs. J. W. Harri- *
son and F. M. Norris, who will edit it in future, t
The politics of the paper remains unchanged, j
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 17.
THE IN THE STATE.
For Governor.
, charles j. McDonald.
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1 I.—JOS. W. JACKSON, of Chatham.
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3. DAVTD J. BAILEY, of Butts.
A JOHN D. STELL, of Fayette.
S—WILLIAM H. STILES, of Case.
6 THOMAS F. JONES, of Newton.
7.— DAVID W. LEWIS, of Hancock.
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The President's Proclamation and his Consul at
Havana.
The Diario Je la Marina , of August 30th, pub
lished at Havana, gives a circumstantial, yet evi
dently distorted, account of the military events
of July and August, on the Island of Cuba. It
is in the usual boastfiil, inflated and pompous
style of Spanish glorification. The burial of
General Enna is thus noticed:
“The demonstration of general respect, on ac
count of General Enna, who died of his wounds,
was most intense, and his burial was most dig
nified. All the inhabitants of Havana attended
it—both the native and foreign residents. Other
nations were represented by their Consuls, in
cluding that of the American Union.' 1
Here is an officer buried with great pomp and
parade, who fell in action while upholding the
cause of despotism—a despotism the most merci
less, grinding and ferocious which degrades the
i age in which wt live—and the American Con
; sul obsequiously swells the pageant. He is there
“ with baited breath and whispered humble
. ness,” to flatter the arrogant pride of the bloody
Concha, whose name will go down linked in ever
lasting infamy with that of Haynau, the Aus
trian butcher.
1 Under ordinary circumstances, the presence of
i the American Consul, at this funeral pageant,
would have been but a proper compliment to the
, memory of a gallant officer, who fell bravely
, fighting in the line of his sworn duty as a sol
dier. But it is the contrast afforded by the con
| duct of the American Consul, Allen F. Owen,
, which provokes a comment.
■ But five days previous, a gallant band of fifty
one of his captive countrymen—young, brave
t and generous, with hearts beating high tor liber
r ty, and impelled by the same lofty motives of
' sympathy for an oppressed jieople which brought
LaFayette, and DeKulb and Pulaski, and Mont
gomery ami Steuben to these shores in the dark
hour of America’s struggle for freedom—are led
with arms pinioned through the streets of Ha
vana, and brutally butchered, in cold blood, by
the arbitrary decree of the merciless Concha.
What was their funeral ? After they were
butchered, their lifeless bodies, mangled ami mu
tilated, are thrown coffinless, ill undistinguished
heaps, into rude trenches, strewed with quick
lime and hurriedly covered over.
And where was the American Consul? Did
he step forward as a humane ami generous heart
ed man, alive to the sacred appeal contained iu
the word “ fellow-countrymen,” should have
done, and remonstrated, in the name of the Ameri
can jtfojde, and of humanity, against the wanton
and worse than useless shedding of the blood
of the helpless captives? Did he manfully urge
upon the Captain General that merry to these
captives would be polity, which he could truth
fully have done? No, he did none of these
things. He turned coldly away, and left them
to the fate to which a sanguinary tyrant had '
doomed them.
After the revolting tragedy was over, did he'
step forward to protect their lifeless bodies from
indignity, and secure for them Christian burial,
so that their bereaved relatives could afterwards
identify them, and bestow upon them those last
sad tributes of affection in which the overburthen
ed heart finds some alleviation ? No. Mr. Owen
was snugly ensconced in his office, reading
President Fillmore's Proclamation, behind which
he takes shelter for his selfish and heartless con
duct.
What are the terms of that Proclamation ?
They are worthy a cold blooded Free Soiler, "
whose anti-southern prejudices are so strong that
he would willingly see Cuba doomed to an eter
nity of oppression, rather than see her free at
the slightest hazard of her ultimate annexation,
as an independent republic, to the American
confederacy. They are worthy a supple and zeal
ous ally of the bloody Sjiauish tyrant.
The Proclamation opens as follow:
“ Whereas, there is reason to believe that a ‘
military expedition is about to be fitted out in the 1
United States, with intention to invade the
Island of Cuba, a colony of Spain, with which
this country is at peace: and whereas it is be
lieved that this expedition is instigated and set t
on foot chiefly by FOREIGNERS, who dare to J
make our shores the scene ot their GUILTY and
hostile preparations against a friendly power, and f
seek by FALSEHOOD and MISREPRESEN- 1
TATION to seduce our own citizens, especially a
the young and inconsiderate, in their WICKED J
SCHEMES—an UNGRATEFUL return for 1
the benefits conferred upon them by this people, 1
in permitting them to make our country an asy- J
lum from oppression, and in FLAGRANT ‘
ABUSE of the hospitality thus extended to
them.
“And whereas such expeditions can only be f
regarded as adventures for PLUNDER and ROB- .
BERY, and must meet the condemnation of the
civilized world, whilst they are derogatory to
the character of our own statutes, which de
clare,” &c. t
This Proclamation set forth what was not true 1
as to the motives of the Cuban liberators, and i
the character of the erp.xlition. It was an ex- i
pedition, ill-timed perhaps, and injudiciously con- 1
ducted, but still honorable in purpose, and sane- !
tified by examples illustrious in the history of
freedom’s battles throughout the world.
This Proclamation bore date April Sf)th, 1851.
This calumniated expedition did not proceed to
Cuba until after the ball of revolution had been
set in motion at Puerto Principe, July 4th, 185!,
and a Declaration of Independence published to
the world.
After this, the President, instead of pleasuring
it at fashionable watering places, should have re
called that Proclamation, so untrue in fact and
in its ascription of motives, and put forth one
in conformity with the true state of the case. i
But the sympathy with the tyrannical govern
ment was too intimate—the desire to have the
expedition overwhelmed by the deepest odium,
voo intense. The Proclamation, as it stood, suit
: ed the feelings of the President and his advisers,
1 and was acceptable to the Spanish Minister and
' to Concha. It was, therefore, allowed to remain
1 unqualified, and under its bloody sanction, the
massacre of our countrymen took place.
We find in the New York Herald of the 9th
r inst., a letter from its Washington correspondent
• of the Bth, in which occurs the following pas
. sage:
“ I understand there is no intention of remov
ing Mr. Owen, the American Consul at Ha
vana, unless, after a full investigation, it should
- be demanded, he having acted consistently with
- the President’s Proclamation.”
i, The probabilities are altogether in favor of Mr.
i Owen having acted too much in conformity with
s the President’s views and feelings to lose his
1 office, or endanger his position as a favorite at
: the White House.
How different would have been the conduct
, of a British Consul as the following anecdote il
lustrates.
A Canadian paper commenting upon the late
summary massacre of Americans in Havana says
! that the impression is prevalent that had a British
or French man-of-war been lying in the harbor,
as was the United States sloop of war Albany,
and had a British or French consul been in the
• city, such a wholesale massacre of British or
French subjects would not have taken place.
It then relates the following anecdote:
“In 18804,1 wo English sailors, who had com
i mitted a crime in Havana, were about to he shot.
' They were clearly guilty, but the British Con-
I sul insisted that they should be tried. This the
' Government refused. The Consul remonstrated,
' and the Captain General became insolent. The
hour of execution cair \ and the Consul was on
the spot; he brought with him the consular flag,
the British “Union Jack,” and again earnestly
remonstrated, but in vain. The officer on the
plaza was about to proceed in the execution of
his duty. The consul finding all further re
monstrance useless, placed iiimself in front of the
men, unfolded the ITnion Jack, which he threw
! over the kneeling prisoners, and said, “A»u> ihoot
■ at t/uil flag if you dare/” They were remanded
r to prison, and that night ejraped.”
it is very natural that the most intense indig
nation should lie felt by the American people
■ against the present American Consul at Havana,
but it it should turn out that he only acted ac
f cording to the instructions of His Givernment,
much ot the opprobrium will be removed from
’ him. No doubt when Congress assembles an in
! quiry will be made as to whether Consul Owens
r had special instructions from the Government to
. act as he is reported to have done.
Tho Pennsylvania Tragedy.
, Fora long term of years the North lias heap
ed upon the South insults and wrongs, execra
, tions and curses, because of her institution of
slavery. Now, we have information, that seve
ral citizens from the South, have been brutally
I murdered, in endeavoring to recover fugitive
slaves in accordance with the laws of the land.
They were practicing no violence, but were with
the United States Marshal in the legal prosecu
tion of his duty.
Mr. Gorsueh, a respectable and highly esteem
ed citizen, an old and good man, was shot through
the heart, and his son was also shot and killed.
Their bodies were afterwards beaten with clubs
and mutilated. The others, a nephew of Mr.
Gorsueh, and a Dr. Pearce, were so badly injured
as to make their recovery doubtful.
Our opponents are constantly pointing us to
the fugitive slave law. We point you, people of
Georgia, to the mangled corpses of your fellow
citizens of the South. What a scene for Penn
sylvania, for our country, for the nineteenth ceu
ttlry, in the open day, presented itself to thebe
holder on Thursday last, in the town of Chris
tiana, Pennsylvania. Hell itself could scarcely
turn loose such a set of fiends, as those blacks and
whites are, who committed the.danming outrage
of Which we are treating.
We have been fearing just such a result as this.
We have repeatedly told our readers, that the fa
naticism of the North was blind with rage and
ferocity. It is a monster whose ilower can no
longer be despised.
Several attempts were formerly made, in other
cases to kill the agents who sought to recover fu
gitive slaves for their owners, but fortunately
they escaped. How many owners of fugitive
slaves will go after them, or how many agents
will undertake to go after them, in view of this
horrible tragedy. Between the enormous cost of
recovering them, and the personal danger attend
ing it, the law will be, hereafter, a perfectly dead
letter. Such is the compromise which some of
our opponents tell the people is fair, liberal and
just. We have lost all the territory and got a
fugitive slave law, the recovery, under which of
our slaves, costs us more than they are worth,
and the blood of our people besides.
Unfortunate, murdered, mangled sitizens of
Maryland ! Their blood rises from the ground
and calls for vengeance. It does more, it tells 1
you, people of Georgia and the South, what your !
fate will be, should you be dependent upon the 1
justice or the mercy of the North on this slavery 1
question.
“He” (Mr Toombs) “said in his speeches all t
over the country, in 1848, that if those laws” 1
(the Mexican) “were not repealed we must
fight.” — Constitutionalist, 20/A inst. *
We take issue with the Constittitionalist on the 1
point of fact. We challenge it to the produc
tion ot the speech of Mr. Toombs in which such i
a declaration was made, or of a man, woman or j
child, who will depose, upon honor, that they
heard such a sentiment from Mr. Toombs in 1
1848, or at any other time. We need none of <
vour arguments: you have made the statement,
bring forward your authority to prove it.—
Washington Gazelle.
My attention was called to the above para
graph some time after its publication, and even <
at this late period, I shall take a brief notice of it. '
On their return from Congress, in 1848, Messrs. \
Toombs and Stephens were invited to address )
the people of Richmond county at the City Hall. 1
They did so the night they reached Augusta. I» 1
was a short time before, that Mr. Stephens, J
and a few other Whigs, had defeated the Clay- -
ton Compromise Bill. 1
Mr. Toombs, in his speech at the City Hall, i
•n the occasion referred to, justified Mr. Ste
phens’s vote against the aforesaid Bill upon the
grounds, that it left the Mexican anti-slavery
laws in full force in the newly acquired territo
ries, and subjected the rights of slave holders of the
South, to hold their slaves as property there, to a
test in the courts of the territories, and the Su- !
preme Court of the United States.
Mr. Toombs insisted at much length, and with
great earnestness, that slave holders would be
excluded till those laws were repealed. At the
conclusion of the speech, I understood him to
' say in substance, “Do you ask me what we
shall do if those laws are not repealed ? I say
I we must fight.”
I have had an opportunity of seeing but few
j who were at that meeting. It is difficult to as
; certain who were present. The assembly con
-1 sifted almost entirely of Mr. Toombs's political
friends, and I have, I think very properly, felt a
delicacy in calling upon those who are in politi
cal fellowship with him, to certify to their recol
lection of what he said. I have not been able
to ascertain the names of but two or three op
posed to him in politics who were present. I
append the certificate of John C. Snead, Esq.,
which sustains my recollection of what Mr.
Toombs said. JAMES M. SMTTHE.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 16tb, 1851.
James M. Smytiie, Esq.:
Hear Sir. —You ask me to state my recollection,
of what the Hon. Robt. Toombs said the South
should do, if not admitted to an equal partici
pation in the Mexican territory, in a speech made
by him at the City Hall, in this place, in the fall
of 1818, on the return of himself and Mr. Ste
phens, from Washington City, shortly after the
defeat of the Clayton Compromise.
I was present and heard both of the gentle
men ; and Mr. Toombs, about the close of his ad
dress, having justified Mr. Stephens in the course
pursued by him in relation to the Clayton Com
promise, said : “You ask me, what we shall do,
if those anti-slavery laws are not repealed, and
the South admitted to an equal participation in
that territory ? I say we must fight.”
These may not have been the precise words
used by Mr. Toombs, but they were to that pur
port.
I am, yours, &c.,
JOHN C. SNEAD.
Georgia Home Gazette.
It will be seen, by a card in another column,
that the publication of this new Literary and
Family Journal has been unexpectedly delayed
f by the non-reception of type and other material!.
I We understand, however, that the first number
of the paper will appear at the earliest possible
■ moment.
We are pleased fo learn that the enterprise i 3
; meeting with gratifying success. The Southern
, people need papers of this character. The “ Ga
-1 zrtte,” we doubt not, will be worthy of the
’ most generous patronage. It will lie a Journal
, of the larger class, printed upon paper of the
finest quality, and containing more reading mat
ter than the Home Journal of New York. It
should receive the fostering support of every one,
who desires to see the intellectual resources of the
r South developed and who feels a just pride in
every token of her progress.
We have heretofore, on several occasions, ex
pressed our confidence in the ability and compe
tency of Major Whyte for the conduct of the
Gazette. As an advertising medium, the ‘•Ga
zette- ’ presents considerable inducements. The
first issue of the paper, it is confidently believed,
will be from 2000 to 2500 copies. Received and
read also in families , its contents will come un
der the eyes of many who seldom scan closely a
political sheet. The advantages presented to ad
vertisers by a paper of this description should
not be overlooked.
The regular publication day, we understand,
will be Monday. This, to city subscribers, will
be a decided gain. No daily papers are issued in
the city oh that morning, and there is conse
quently a blank which the Gazette will most
pleasantly fill. Those of our citizens, who de
sire to sustain the enterprise, will find lists of
subscribers at each of out Book Stores.
The Sacrifice of Judge Berrien.
Judge Berrien is among the victims offered up
to that intolerant spirit which rides the Consti
tutional Union party, and demands that every
memberofthat political church shall bow down
at the feet of its high Priests, Cobb, Toombs and
Stephens, and with their hands on their mouths
and their mouths in the dust exclaim, verily the
Compromise measures were a great triumph for
the South! They were wise, liueral and just!
It has not been sufllcitr.it that men should de
clare a willingness to conform to the action of
the Georgia Convention. If they dare to differ
in opinion as to the wisdom, justice and liberali
ty of those measures with their anointed leaders—
if they hesitate to sustain the nomination of a can.
didate for Governor, made by wire-pulling, fede
ral politicians at Washington City, and carried
through the forms of ratification in a Convention
at Milledgeville, they are compelled to walk the
plank.
It is probable that the triumvirate, Cobb,
Toombs and Stephens, were not content that
Judge Berrien should swallow the Compromise,
but they insisted that he should do it without
making any wry faces. Though his Southern
stomach should revolt at the dose, they require of
him to pronounce it sweet and excellent. Re
fusing to do this, he is to be pitched headlong off
the Georgia Platform, and Mr. Stephens clothed
with his Senatorial robes. Even Mr. Jenkins,
the boss carpenter among those who constructed
that platform, is pushed off likewise, from his
high seat upon it, as he might interfere with the
division of the spoils planned at Washington city.
The following letter from Mr. Jenkins, which
appears in the Chronicle of yesterday, gives some
indication of his views of the justice of the pro
ceeding. To his own fate he submits with the
composure of a philosopher, and the forgiving
piritofa Christian.
( From the Chronicle Sentinel of yesterday.) '
Dr. Jones:— Will you permit me, through the 1
columns of your paper, to correct an erroneous
impression concerning myself, which I have rea
son to fear obtains to a greater or less extent.
Rumors have reached me, inducing the appre
hension, that I may be understood to concur in •
the resolutions adopted by the Union Nominat
ing Convention of Richmond County, which I ,
first saw in a neighboring State, on my home
ward journey, after an absence of several weeks.
That, l know, neither is, nor will be understood !
here. But, where I had been previously report- j ;
ed. opposed the re-election of Senator Berrien, !
to whom those resolutions refer, and where it
is unknown that my name was before that Con
vention, with my consent, accompanied by the
distinct declaration that if nominated, and elect
ed, I should most certainly vote for that Gentle
man. such a concurrence may, and probably will
be inferred. Without any expectation of in
fluencing the opinion of any human being, but
to avoid the appearance of vacillation, I desire to
repeat what 1 have recently expressed to a
lriend. on that subject, substantially coinciding
with remarks repeatedly made by me during the
summer. After alluding to Mr. Berrien's dec
laration in the Senate of the United States, on
the occasion of calling the attention of that
Body to the proceedings of the Georgia Conven
tion, in erifect,that they indicated the settled pur
pose of her people, to which he would conform
his action as their Representative. I added: “l
know well his attachment to the Union. I know
the cincerity with which that declaration was made,
and l temsider him as good a Union man , and at
safe a representative, of that party, as any in its
ranks.'’ Such is still my abiding conviction,
without which, mere personal attachment could
not have induced the declaration made to the
Convention, through a friend.
I have only to ask, that you will indulge me
further in the remark, (unnecessary I hope) that
I have no personal grief connected with this
nomination—no sense of unkidness done me, or
of distrust manifested towards me, by political
friends, with whom, in all else, I have been, and
am thoroughly identified. There was fair deal
ing on both sides,developing a conflict of opinion,
and theirs was entitled to prevail in the nomi
nation.
Respectfully, &c.
Charles J. Jenkins.
Cobb, Toombs and Stephens.
It is singular to see how these gentlemen have
got together after abusing one another for so
’ long a time. But it is a clear case that they car
ry their parts very well, in the tunc of Yankee
Doorile, considering the discord of their notes be
fore they got together behind the masked battery
Cobb did his best to sink Toombs and Stephens
down, and Toombs and Stephens did their best
to sink Cobb down. Cobb charged them with
doing the South immense harm upon the slave
ry question, and they made a similar charge
against Cobb, and out of sixty-three chances, they
had to vote for him for speaker, they refused to
give him a single vote.
Stephens and Toombs found that they were
going down with the Whigs, for sustaining the
Mexican anti-slavery laws, and other misdeeds,
and Cobb found that he was going down with
the Democrats for playing into the hands of
Northern abolitionists. Hence, they concluded,
that if they could unite a majority of the Whigs
, and a minority of the Democrats under the “ cry
1 of Union,” they might sustain themselves and get
! the loaves and Ashes.
They immediately set to work, and by the
' help of Fillmore, Webster, and perhaps one or two
1 others, soon learned the tune of Yankee Doodle
which they are singing every where with a
! mock pathos, that a great many people take for
> genuine feeling and sentiment. There is a note
called mi in Italian which these gentlemen pro
nounce me. W T ith them it is the leading note. —
I And if singing it can lead Mr. Cobb into the
' Vice Presidency, Mr. Toombs into an Embassy to
France and Mr. Stephens into the Senatorial seat
now occupied by Judge Berrien, it will be of
some advantage to them to sing it. They are
not scrupulous about metre. There are long,
short and particular metre. The last is their
favorite, as they are fond of a personal applica
tion. The coalition of Cobb, Stephens and
Toombs is a complete Yankee Doodle rase, and
the song which they sing has much more of me
iu it than any thing else. Me comes first, and
country last. The latter is held up only as a
guise to sustain the former.
Hurrah for Messrs. Stephens, Toombs and
Cobb the glorious Union at all hazards and
to the last extremity—and the masked battery
that universal white-washer of every political
sinner.
The Alberti Case Again.
We shall dismiss the Chronicle's article of the
14th inst., upon this subject, with a few words.
We do not believe that the report sent to Mr. Mil
ler, which it published, is a fair report, notwith
standing that (taper vouches for the good char
acter of the Messrs. Johnsons, Book-sellers of
Philadelphia.
The Chronicle intimates that as the report we.
published was “ for the benefit of Alberti's fami
ly, it must necessarily be a one sided affair. Not so.
It was published to show the wrongs which had
been done that old man, to secure his family
from the disgrace which would attatch to them,
hut for the injustice which had been done their
head, to excite a helping sympathy for him in his
unjust and cruel fate. Dili the report sent to Mr.
Miller and published iu the Chronicle tell the fact
that Alberti had, in the presence of the counsej
and Alderman, requested Betsey, the mother of
Joel, whom Alberti was charged with and con
victed for kind napping, to leave Joel behitul, and
that the Alderman gave her the same advice, but
that she refused to follow it.
Does that report tell that a free ncgroc and a !
convict of the Penitentiary were the witnesses I
against Alberti and Price ? Does it inform us j
that the said convict was pardoned by the free .
soil Governor of Pennsylvania the day before the]
trial, that he might a (.pear as a witness against
them ? Does it inform us of the rejection of tes
timony in favor ol these men by Judge Parsons,
in the most cruel and arbitrary manner? Does
it tell us of the unfairness and arbitrary cruelty
an.ltryanny of Judge Parsons, throughout the
whole trial? No, not a word of all this.
One would suppose from the report in the
Chronicle that the witnesses against Alberti and
Price were respectable men, instead of bein g as
they were a lying free negroe, and a thief, a con- j
vict of ti e Penitentiary, who had been severe l
times found guilty of larceny.
Respectable citizens s were that they would
not believe him upon his oath.
Why has no one in Pennsylvania denied the
report, as originally published in defence of Al
berti ? Why has not Judgo Parsons who was
so deeply implicated in Judicial villainy by that
report, contradict it before this ?
We do not doubt that the reports of cases
which came under the jurisdiction and decision
of that corrupt and bloody minded Judge, the
celebrated Lord Jeffrys, were apparently so fair,
as would have satisfied every one who was !
unacquainted with the facts, and did not know
Judge Jeffrys, that he was a pure and honest
Judge, whose ermine was unstained and sacred. ,
Judge Parsons will take his place among ty- I
rants and bloody minded abolitionists in. all fu- 1
ture time. And his apologists in Georgia will, ,
sooner or later, be overtaken by the vengeance of j
a wronged and injured people. j i
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Election In Arkansas.
An election took place, last month, in Arkan
sas, for a member of Congress, which resulted in
the election of Col. R. W. Johnson, by a majori
ty of 3064 votes. Arkansas being entitled to but
one representative, this was a general election
throughout the state, and may therefore be con
sidered thejvoice of Arkansas in condemnation of
the compromise measures. We copy the follow
ing fiomthe little Rock Gazette and Democrat.
The Result of the Election. —The election
of Col. Johnson we regard as a triumph of South
ern Rights over pseudo Unionism, by a majority
decided enough to indicate unmistakcably the
voice of Arkansas as to her own rights, and the
rights of her sister Southern States. Such a de
cision, in the light of sober reason, and without
any of the extrinsic clap-traps of highsounding
catch-words, cannot but be regarded as more fa
vorable to the maintenance of the constitution
and of the Union, to which it gives vitality and
vigor, than the election of a candidate who holds
to the doctrine that the South has got all by the
late compromise that she ought to ask or desire.
The sanction of this latter doctrine we have ever
regarded as the most dangerous and destructive
policy for undermining aud finally destroying our
institutions, by encouraging that sectional policy
in the North, whose whole history and tendency
is to consolidate the Federal government against
the peculiar institution of the South. Such a
consolidation must eventually destroy this gov
ernment. It is the evil principle in the Federal
system against which every Republican and pa
triot ought ever and continually to war. Nor
are wc wanting in Confidence that the success
ful candidate will carry out in good faith the poli
cy indicated by him in his speeches throughout
the canvass. But it is noteworthy just here
that the issues in the canvass before the people
were confined to a discussion of these measures,
and if the result of the election is the index of
that canvass, (as cannot be denied.) we are sor
jry to see a disposition manifested to claim per
; tonal triumph for Col. Johnson over Senator Bor-
I land, with whom there have heretofore existed,
! unfortunately for harmony, differences of a per
-1 sonal nature, and in regard to local legislation in
Congress. These differences Senator Borland
proposed to discuss before the people during the
late canvass, in such a spirit as was due to their
! common constituents and their position, and to
I his action in the premises. He, however, quick
ly postponed this discussion, in consequence of a
mutual agreement between himself and Col.
Johnson, until after the election, when, if then
I deemed necessary, it could be resumed.
Sickness and Death at Sea.— A brig was
discovered on the Bth inst, off the Passes, drift
ing about. One ol the towboats went to her as
sistance, and found her to be the brig Orizaba,
Capjt. Hines,ot Bath, Me., from Navy Bay, bound
to Belize. Honduras, for a load of logwood. On
bearding herthey found the captain, (Hines.)
; the chief mate and two of the crew dead, and
the remainder of the crew sick with Chagrcs
fever. The brig had been drifting about for
eleven days previous to her being discovered.
Capt. Bruchwopd, ol the revenue cutter, placed
Lieut. Sands anti three men on board, who
I brought her up to the Point, where she is at
anchor. The sick crew have been taken to the
Marine Hospital.— N. O. Picayune, 1 Uh inst.
Mr. T. C. Charles, clerk of the steamer Em
; peror, informs as that on the sth inst, a mur
der was perpetrated at Oakland College, Port
Gibson, Miss., by one Geo. A. Briscoe, on the
person of the reverend and venerable Jeremiah
Chamberlin, President of the College. It ap
pears that Briscoe went to the college, called for
Mr. C., who came out, when Briscoe inflicted
upon him a mortal stab with a sword cane. The
murderer was hotly pursued and was found the
next morning on the public road, having cut his
! own throat from ear to ear. The difficulty arose
! in political excitement now existing in that
: State.— lb.
j Sleam Propeller John Hancock.— The
: United States Steam John Hancock,
! from New York, reached Savannah yesterday.
The following is the list of her officers.
Lieut. Commanding, J. W. Livingston; Lieut..
J. R. M. Mullany; Acting Master, L. Pattison;
Past Assistant Surgeon L. J. Williams; Past Mid
shipmen W. C. West, Geo. H. Hare; 2d Assis
tant Engineer E. He Lace; 3d do. do. C. Loring.
We learn that the steamer put into our port
for orders from Washington. —Savannah Geor
gian, 16th inst.
[Telegraphedfor the Charleston Courier.)
New-Orleans, Sept. 15 — 8.21 p. m.
Twelve hundred bales of Cotton have been
i disposed of to-Jay, but the market has been
, heavy in consequence of the tenor of the advices
brought by the Pacific. Middling is worth B|c.
j Flour is down; St. Louis is quoted at from $3
! G2i to S 3 75. Corn is firm, and Yellow com
mands 48, and White 55 cents.
The ship Mount Vernon {has cleared for N.
York.
Comtmbta, Sept. 15, 7.25 P. M.
The demand for Cotton to-day was active,
' and prices in favor of sellers. Fifty bales were
sold at from 7J to 9i cents.
[Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.]
Key West, Sept. 7.
On the evening of the 31st nit. about thirty
persons, principally seamen, attacked the stores
of Messrs. Ramon Preeno, Padro Aberti, Jos.
Vehill, Bartolo Sintes, and Albert Arnow, Span
ish residents of Key West, and destroyed the
whole contents of the stores. One of the party,
Ramon Presno, who was charged with holding
correspondence with the Officials of Cuba, fled
from Key West in a Spanish smack for Havana
previous to the riot; the others were charged with
being opposed to the Cuban Expedition. The
Sloop-of-war Albany, Commander Platt, arrived
here yesterday from Havana. Nothing new —
all quiet since the execution of General Popez.