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JAMES GARDNER, JR., )
ANn / Editors.
JAMES M. SMYTHE, )
(f >O,ll the Halt'more Sun.)
DOCUMENTS
Aocpaipanrine the President's Message -The Lo
paz Expedition.
Copies of the several documents accompany- ;
mg ‘he President's Message, consisting ot cor-;
on sc* u.ral important topics, are be- 1
fore us. from which we make the following con- :
dense d exhibit of the general facts and results j
pert uningWo each.
In the inafter 01 the Lopez expedition, a letter
date from the Department of State, Washing
ton. August ‘.' id, 18.01. was addressed hy Mr.
Deri ck Acting S-eretery, to Commodore Par
ker, commander ot the Home Squadron, vesting
in Inin authority to confer with the Captain
Gen ual of Cuba on the subject of the execution
of the titty persons ‘ak<ui anil shot as invaders of
the island, and nl i with reference to the firing
upon the U. State., mail steamer Falcon. He
was istructcd to inform the Captain General
that‘it is expected that, if citizens of the United
States were among the persons shot, the offence
with v. hich they was charged wit satisfactorily
prove' ” He was further to “request a copy of
proceedings of the Court which sentenced the pris
oners.' 1 This w.s expected to embrace the
names of the accusal, their native countries; the
jwsition of the boats at the time when they were
captured; the course they were taking, and
whether the persons on board of them were
armed:
•'You will assure the Captain Genera! (flie m
atruetionsproceed) that everything within the
power of this Government has been and will
continue to he done towards discharging the ob
ligations of the 17. States to Spain. You will
also assure him that if hereafter, unhappily, citi
zens of the United States should he so forgetfu'
of their obligations of obedience of the laws of
tlieir own country, and of regard to the rights of
Spam, as to 1m; engaged in hostile expeditions
a"ai' the Island of Cuba, the President earnest
ly desiresthat they will not he punished except
upon the clearest proofs of guilt, and without an
obvious necessity. A contrary course on the
pari of the Spanisi. authorities will he sure to in
crease the difficult,.-s in the performance of the
duties of the U. Scutes as a friendly neutral Pow
er an I might render the discharge of those duties
impracticable."’
On the 6th September, Com. Paiker writes to
the department from Havana; he has had an in
terview with the Captain General, which was
promptly afforded. The annexed extract con
tains the principal item of interest:
“He (the Captain General) regretted the ne
cessity of executing the prisoners captured in the
boats oil the Cayes of the island, hut deemed it
an act of necessary severity, in the eircumatan*
oes, and he felt it to he his duty to make an ex
ample of them, in order to deter others from ma
king a similar attempt. He stated that he con
sidered them as pirates and that they had so been
d uounced in the proclamation ol the President
of‘be U. States; Hurt they were tried in a sum
mery manner, and ‘litll proof made of their guilt,-'
and of their participation in the invasion ol the
island hy Lopez, lie did not consider himself at
liberty to furnish me with the proceedings on
the trial, but would send them to his own Gov
ernment, and to die Spanish Minister at Wash- !
ington, who would do whatever was right in the
matter, on the cab of the Government of the U.
States. The exec ition was delayed from half
past si veil o’clock. A. M.i to eleven, in order to
give the prisoners an opportunity of uniting to their
frinuls. during which period they made the declara
tion that they constituted a part of the forces of Lo
ses.
“These particulars, he stated, were given for
my personal satisfaction, inasmuch as he was not
inves'ed with diplomatic powers, but referred
our Government to the Spanish Minister at
Washington, in whom diplomatic powers were j
vested by her Majesty's Government.
“As to citizenship, he said that a majority of j
them clamed to he citizens of the United States,
but they werejiom various countries; and that it
was of no consequence to what nation they had
belonged, as they were captured in the waters of
Cuba, with arms in their hands, endeavoring to
escape in boats Iroin an expedition in which they
had engaged against the island of Cuba.”
In relation to the affair with the Falcon, the
Captain General maintained.
“That, in the present condition of the island, r
Spanish cruiser has a right to ascertain t'
character of merchant vessels in the waters o
Spain; that one expedition had already landed
from a steamer, and that reinforcements were
daily expected. The Spanish eruir.er had fired
three unshotted gnus to leeward to show the J
friendly character of the vessel of war, of which ]
no notice was taken by the Falcon, atul that the i
firing ot the shotted gun was rendered necessary j
by the course pursued by the Falcon. The gen- j
eral of marine was oil board, and it was to be j
presumed that the shot was fired hy his order.
He declared that he had requested Mr. Rogers,
the commander of the Falcon, to call on him,
and give him a correct statement of this affair,
hut that he had not done so. He expressed some
surprise that Lieut. Rogers did not come t > at
once, as the man of-war was only doing what,
by the laws of nations, she clearly had a right
to do.' 1
The residue of this correspondence contains
nothing that is new of any general interest. It
relates, mainly, to facts and circumstances which
are already familiar to the public. Com. Parker
was not allowed usee the prisoners, captured
with Lopez, it being contrary to the rules order
ed to be observed in the case. One fact of some
interest is contained in the subjoined extract of
a letter ol" Com. Parker's, written on the ‘doth
September:
“On the 22d Mr. Letcher had an interview
with the Captain General. In the eouise of
conversation respecting the release of the prison
ers, (citizens ol the United States,) the Captain
General alluded to the ill treatment the subjects
of Spain had received, and the insults offered to
the Spanish flag at New Orleans. Air. Letcher
remarked that it was the act of a mob, and not
the citizens of New Orleans generally; and that
the Government of the United State, nor any
other Government should be held responsible i
for the acts of an assemblage of that character, j
Mr. Letcheralso remarked that our Government i
regretted the circumstance, &c.
“The Captain General asked emphatically I
whether Mr. Letcher was officially authorized to |
make such a declaration, who replied he was !
not; but he was sure that such were the feelings i
of the Government of the United States, as well j
as of her citizens generally.
“It is Air. Letcher’s opinion that had he, or j
any one else, been authorized to make such a
- as cuming officially from the Gov
ernment at Washington, the situation, of the
Srisoners would have been ameliorated, and per
aps they might have been released.
“I am authorized by Air. Letcher to make
this statement to the Department of State.”
The Assaults on the Spanish Consul and other
Spaniards at New Orleans
This correspondence is opened by Air. Calde
•Jj a Barca, in a letter to Dr. Derrick, Act
-01 '’ tate an, l is continued hy these
® . ien through all the original statements j
Tu c e “''fortunate affair at New Orleans. !
ial sf-atom *t' Ce r’* accom P a nied by several i
official statement, f roin Mr Bradford! Acting
District Attorney at New Orleans, and Mr j
Crossman, Mayor ol that city, which embrace a
w'ation of facts corresponding to those already !
puMished, and exhibiting an active zeal and a 1
consistent effort, in various quarters, for the sup
pression of the riot. * j
A letter from Mr. Calderon de la Barra, dated i
at Washington, October 14th, after that gentle. |
man had corresponued with his government,and 1
addressed to Mr. Crittenden, contains the offieia)
statement of the grievances of Spain, and the ’
proposition of redress. The subjoined paragraph
embrace* the gist of the letter;
“Apprised of all the facts, her Majesty’s Gov
ernment has ordered the undersigned to persist
in asking, as he again asks, in the name of said
; government, for full satisfaction for the aggra
| vated insults committed upon the Spanish llag.
and upon her Majesty's Consul in New O leans ; :
and also that the Spaniards residing in that city j
shall be indemnified for the losses they have sus- !
tained at the hands of an infuriated and licenti- j
| ous mob.”
The res|ionse to this letter is from Mr. Web
! ster. He affects no justification of the acts com
; plained of, hut holds them to he disgraceful ; he
j submits, however, that no agent or officer of the
| United States government, or of the State of
i Louisiana participated in them. He recognizes
■ the duly of the government to punish the oti'end
! ihg parties upon arrest and conviction. In the
matter «_f indemnification, Air. W. remarks,'that
•• while this government has manifested a will
ingues.. and determination to perform every duty
which one friendly nation has a right to expect
from another in cases of this kind, it supposes
that the rights of the Spanish Consul, a public
officer residing here under the protection of the
I United States Government, are quite different
from those of the Spanish subjects who have
come into the country to mingle with our own
citizens, and here to pursue their private busi
ness and objects. The former may claim special
indemnity ; the latter are entitled to such pro
tection as is afforded to our own citizens.
The letter concludes as follows, and wc a
glad to find that the proposal to salute th
! of the ship originates with our Govern,
i The Spanish Minister says nothing about •
j “Iff says Air. Webster, “Air. Laborde sii
1 return to his post, or any other Consul lor Nt
! Orleans sha‘l he appointed hy her Catholic A!
josty's Government, the officers of this Govern
ment, resident in that city, will be instructed to
receive him and treat him with courtesy,and with
a national salute to the flag of his ship, if he shall
arrive in a Spanish vessel, as a demonstration ol
respect, such as may signily to him, and to his
Government, the sense entertained hy the Gov
ernment ol the Uniter! States of the gross injus
tice done to 1 is predecessor hy a lawless mob,
as well as the indignity and insult offered hy it
to a foreign State with which the United States
are, and wish ever to remain, on terms of the
most respectful and pacific intercourse "
i To this Mr. Calderon do la Barca replies:
“ I'he undersigned will lose no time in bring
i in/ this document to the knowledge of his Gov-
I <inu)"iit: and he entertains the confident hope
J that .Mr. Webster’s note, both a* regards its sub-
I stance and as regards the friendly spirit in which
| conceived, wilt prove satisfactory to the
(, u. s Government, and will not fail to have
! tii - . Ilirct of re-establishing those friendly rela
tions which have so long and so happily subsis
ted between her Majesty's Government and the
Government of the United States that accustom
ed footing of cordtality which it lias ever been
the earnest desire, as well as the duty, of the un
d, signed to see maintained between the two
nations”
Relative to the Americans who were takeu pris
oners and sent to Spain.
On this subject a pleasing interest is mani.
ed hy the U. S. authorities. The correspond'un e
originates with a letter from Mr. Derrick to Mr.
Calderon de la Baron, and sets forth the fact that
"during the several hostile attempts which have
' lieen made upon the island of Cuba, the Govern
ment of the United States has never hesitated to
pursue the course which was |M>inted out to it by
ilie stern dictate* of duty, whether in puttin,
forth all its executive energies to prevent any
violation of existing laws, or to punish those of
its officers who ha 1 failed to execute, or exhibit
ed any criminal backwardness in the execution
of such laws. In view of these considerations ’
and other circumstances, the interposition of Air,
Calderon de la Barca is sought in behalf of the
prisoners captured upon the island of Cuba. The
government of the U. States claims no right to
intervene officially ill this mutter, hut indnU'/r
imply in the expression of its wishes on the
, ore of humanity.
Mi Baiiinger, our representative at Madrid, is
i a .’lessor! on this subject hy Air. Crittenden; ami
At. Owen, consul at Havana, is addressed hy the
same gentleman, in behalf of the friends of those
who were executed and who desire to obtain
their remains lor interment. The following
touching extracts will indicate the view in which
the erring victims are, no doubt, justly regarded
hy M r. Crittenden;
“Those who met this lute were mostly inexpe
rienced youths. who have evidently been enticed
and beguilded by false lures and misrepresenta
tions; hut it is not doubted that they were animat
ed at the same time hy impulses which. uiuW
proper circumstances, would have done tli * n
honor, and secured lor them the approbation o r
i the world.
I “They were unquestionably the dupes of Lo-
I pez, a Spanish subject, and of other individuals,
whose motives this is not the time, nor indeed
l have 1t" e disposition, to criticise. The lives of
j these victims have atoned for all the follies they
, committed, and the royal authority of Spain,
j against whom all their acts were aimed, has ex
! erciseda terrible retribution upon the invaders,
j “The most of the victims we know were very
young, and I venture to declare my own convic
tion that they had not the remotest idea of the
j crime they were committing, but were inflnenc-
I ed rather hy a misguided enthusiasm for liberty
i than hy auv criminal motive. Had they indeed
j comprehended the cruet deceptions really practis
; ed upon them, and which many of them discov
ered only when it was too late, they never would
| have embarked in the ill-fated, the criminal en-
I terprise, the catastrophe of which has rendered
i necessary this appeal from their surviving fami
lies."
Mr. Webster addresses Air. Barringer at Ma
drid, with instructons in behalf of the prisoners,
and from this excellent letter we make some ex
tracts. After speaking ol" the correspondence
which has taken place here, and of the active ef
forts ofthis government for the suppression of
the expedition, he adds.
“Her Catholic Majesty's Government is quh r 1
well aware that the principal instigator of
criminal invasion of Cuba, and loader of c <"• *
pedition. was one of her Majesty’s subject ■, •
I came to this country and abused its hospitaht . ■
; inducing American citizens,mostlyjyoungan,’
j informed persons, to embark in his cause and
low his standard. There is good reason to o’-
l lieve that but for his agency,and that of other
Spaniards who had come to the country, no ex- !
pedition against Cuba would ever have been set
on foot. The policy of the United States is the
policy of peace, until there shall arise jrst cause'
ol war. The colonies of Spain arc near to our;
own shores. Our commerce with them is large ■
and important, and the records of tne diplomatic j
intercourse between the two countries will ;
manifest to her Catholic Majesty's Government !
how sincerely and how steadily the United;
Staies has manifested the hope that no political
charges might lead to a transfer of thes* colonies ;
from her Alajesty's Crown.
‘lf there is one among the existing govern- j
ments of the civilized world which lor a long
course of years has diligently sought to maintain ;
amicable relations with Spain, it is the govern
m<.u f of the United States. Not only does the
eon -pondence between the two governments
show this, but the same truth is established by
the history of the legislation of the country and j
the general course of the Executive government. ;
In this recent invasion Lopez and his fellow sub- |
jects in the United States succeeded in deluding ;
a few hundred men, by a long continued and !
systematic misrepresentation of the political con- |
dition of the island, and of the wishes of its in- 1
habitants. And it is not for the purpose of re
viving unpleasant recoHections that her Majes
ty's government is reminded that it is not many
years since the commerce of the United State*
suffered severely from armed boats and vessel*
which found refuge and shelter in th* ports of
th* Spaniih island*.
"These violations of the law, these authors of I
gross violence towards the citizens of this Repub
lic were finally suppressed, not by any effort of
the Spanish authorities,but by the activity anil
vigilance of our navy. This, however, was not
accomplished but by the efforts of several years,
nor until many valuable lives, as well as a vast
amount of property, bad been lost. Among
others, Lieut. Allen, a very valuable and distin
guished officer in the naval service of the United
| States, was killed in an action with these ban
ditti.
'‘All this is not said for the purjioseof making
or renewing complaints, either of the violation of
treaty obligations or of un justifiable remissness
against the government ofSpain or the authori
ties of the islands. Bat it may lie brought to the
notice of the Spanish government as one of the
consequences which may sometimes llovv from
the conduct of men disposed to carry on criminal
enterprises id favoied, in the execution of such
enterprise,' y the contiguity of the possessions of
the two •• rvemments.”
Mr. Webster, proceeding to urge some reasons
for clemency in behalf of the prisoners sent to
Spain, remarks that they have no legal claim up
on the protection of this government, but that
as ignorant and deluded men, as most of them
are, it cannot he denied they are, as such, objects
of comjiassion. Ilefeiring to the subject in the
light of punishment as an example to deter oth
ers, Mr. W. says:
“That example has been set by the infliction
I of a punishment as prompt as it was awful, by
! the execution of fifty persons. The knowledge
of their miserable late has been carried to every
nan in this country and spread ail over the
.vorld.
“Is not this enough ? Can example be made
lore teriific ? Certainly an act of clemency on
.lie pait of the .Spanish Government could not
now bethought a symptom of weakness. May
not the sword ol justice be now sheathed witli
j out danger, and the voice of Christian humanity
, lie allowed to be beaul? # * # w
“The President thinks that it is wise to suffer
oblivion to cover the jiast. He is anxious for
| the removal of every cause which might tend to
keep alive ill will between the citizens and sub
! jects of the two countries. So long as these pris
i oners shall continue to be suiTeringa seveieand
| lingeiing punishment in a foreign land, so lung
, will efforts be constantly made by their friends
. to procure their release by appeals to the good
offices of their Government. The tendency of
these applications can only he to keep alive a
i very considerable irritation. It is in considera
\ tion ol this, and fiotri a strong wish for the ex
tinguisbment of all feelings ol that kind, that, in
the judgment of the President, nothing would be
more useful than the granting of her .Majesty's
pardon to the residue of these prisoners, and suf
j sering them to return to theirown homes.
| “Those who were pardoned by the Capta'ii
; General of Cuba appear to have been among t^
. most prominent and well-informed members of
i the expedition. The friendless are left to toed'
fate, although less culpable, a* being less inform
ed of their duties and obligations. It seems in
vidious and unjust to make distinctions of this
kind. You say that the existing belief in Spain
i is, that the result of the expedition has strength
ened the hands of the Spanish Government and
i given new security to its possession of the isl
| and. A similar sentiment prevails, to some ex
tent, here.
“In answer to your inquiry as to whether, in
any event, and to wl „t extent, assistance in
clothing, or other necessaries, might be lurnislied
to such as might need and apply for the same on
account of the United States. 1 have to remark
that it is expected that none of the needy among
the prisoners will be allowed to suffer for the
want of the necessaries ol life. You will ar
eordigly take care that their wants are piovided
lor.
An application will he made to Congress lor
an appropriation tow ards defraying any expenses
which may thereby he occasioned.
Kxittino Machine.— There is a knilting ma
chine in o| -ration in Philadelphia, which knits
three hundred ami eight y stitches at each turn of
; a small crank, which crank may he easily tinn
ed by hand from one hundred to one bundled
and fifty revolutions per minute, making Horn
j forty to sixty thousand stitches jier minute, or at
the rate ot about three million per hour.
Tiik Power ok the Press. —The Methodist
Book concern, in New York, employs S presses
and 200 hands; the Tract House 13 pressss and
275 hands; the Bible House 10 presses ami 300
hands, and the Harpers 20 presses and 400
i hands—total in the four establishment’s, 01
presses and 1,175 hands, of whom about 420 aie
females. The Appletons also keep IS presses
running a good fait of the time.
. An American Cemetery has been construc
ed in the city of Mexico, under the direction of
the Rev. G. G. Goss, who, at the last accounts,
was about removing thither the remains of the
American soldiers who died in that part of Mex
iio. The cemetery occupies two aoes, and is
enclosed by a thick wall, fifteen feet in height.
i IxmcvaiENT of a Senator.— The grand jury
in the United States couitof Indiana, in session
at Indianapolis, lias found a true bid against .1.
, S. Hester, senator liotn the counties of Monroe
and Brown, ami editor of the Bloomington Re
porter, for forging pc pc is to obtain land war
rants.
Mux r( km ic.— Pile New 'o. k.Exnress states
that Be potal ion of Trinity Episcopal Church,
New ' t . c tv, is expected soon to open a free
. education toall in that city, and that thisia to he
accomplished not by enlarging the privileges of
i collegiate education, hut by establishing Chris
tian free schools in all parts of the city.
Boston. Dec. 14.
The steamer Niagara reached her u narf at 3
o'clock this morning, and liar mails for New
j York and the South left in the early train.
AUSTRIA—A REVOLT STOPED.
Advices from Hamburg to the 23d Nov., state
j that an armed revolt.had been organised among i
| several regiments of the Austrian army in Hol
stein, which was on the point of breaking out,
in open defiance of the Empire, when it was
discovered and checked.
Many of the regiments were composed most- j
jj’y of Hungarians, who were said to he incited
by agents of Kossuth and the revolutionary pro
pagandists in London. A large number of oili
cers and soldiers had been arrested.
Several Hungarian nobleman are implicated.
Count Potoski.au agent ol Kossuth's,lias been
arrested at Presburg, and proclamations found in
his possession add' essed to the soldiers, exciting
them to revolt, llealso had with him copies of
Kossuth's s; eecbes in England.
The Hungarian residence of General Haynau
has been destroyed by fire—the work of an in
cendiary. Haynau came near being burned to
death in the house.
Hon. R. Frothingham, democrat, has been
elected Mayor of Chailestoa, Mass.
Jenny Lind's Concert at Boston, on Saturday
evening, was well attended.
The Hudson River is still navigable, the ice
being loose trom New York to Albany.
Mrs. Mowatt, the distinguished authoress and
actress, arrived at St. Louis on the Ist inst.
Yucatan. —Advices to October 10th state that
the Indians have again taken up arms, and had
massacred many of the inhabitants of Chichancha.
Miss Catharine Hayes gave her first concert
in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, to a crowd
ed and fashionable house.
Col. Bigler, the Governor elect of Pennsylva
nia, has been elected a member of the Harris
burg Typographical Society.
Mr. Edward Willis, who has been generally
announced as the man-of-busiiiess of Lola Mon
tes, we now see it stated, is not in any wise
associated with her.
AUGUSTA, GA. j;
THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18.
Who are the Agitators now?
During the late tremendous excitements which
disturbed the popular rnind of this country, on
account of the territorial and slave questions,
and which, since the passage of the Compromise
measures, have so wonderfully subsided, many 1
litPe men, for whom Fame has not leserved a
niche in her temple, rose upon the high tide of
Union sentiment to a factitious importance. ;
Now, that the waters are rapidly settling down
to their accustomed level, these little great men :
are seen struggling desperately, to keep them
selves up conspicuously to view, as great patri
ots and saviours of their country. They have
gained so much by the agitation that they have
a deep interest in keeping it up. They cannot
bear the idea of sinking back to their pioper po
sitions. and being lost sight of by the industrious,
busy, onward moving millions of our country
men who, tired of agitation, desire to devote
themselves to their peaceful pursuits, and to the i
development of the great principles of repub- ,
lican government under which our country has
advanced to her present imposingattitude among
nations. Others, again, of not less restless am
bition, but of greater abilities, are aiming to j
keep up the agitation with a view to escape
from uncomfortable pjolitic.il alliances which, if ,
preserved, would doom them to struggle in hope
less minorities, and to form new combinations !
which shall cany them into power and place.
Others, again, finding their po'itical principles ;
have been repudiated by the Amciican people
on every occasion oil u liicli a lair vote lias been
obtained, seek to keep up agitation in the hope
of restoring their principles, under false colors,
and by new names, to the ascendent in the ex
ecutive and legislative departments of the Fed
eral Government.
Conspicuous, among the first class, is that lo
quacious and effervescent little man, Foote, of
Mississippi, whose course in the Senate is thus
graphically presented by the New York Keening
Post:
The fussy behavior of Senator Foote, in regard
to the Compromise, reminds us of a juvenile ex
peiimenter in horticulture, who, having planted
a young tree, went every morning and dug it up,
to see whether the roots were growing. Mr.
Foote isa firm believe^in the finality of the
Compromise, hut hois for agitating the question
as olten as once a fortnight, to make the finality
mote final. There was no more to he said about
the slavery question after tlu- passage of the
measures w hieh go by that name: the quarrel
was to he buried in |erpetual oblivion and
silence: that was understood.and on that con
dition many, wlio should have known better,
siipjiorfed it.
But how are you to know, says Mi. Foote,
whether the quarrel is at an end unless you giro
people an opportunity to dispute. How are you
to know whether people are disposed to be silent
unless you try tu get them to talk. On this
sound principle Air. Foote proceeds. He calls
upon the Senators to make speeches on the ques
tion of theCompromi.se. Several of the Sena
tors have just been elected; what,asks Mr. Foote,
have they to say.' Some did not vote for these
measmes, who are yet in Congress: what, asks
Mr. Foote, is their opinion concerning them'
I let them make their speeches,“let them vindicate
themselves from unjust insinuations.” In short
let us make—for this is Mr. Foote’s proposition
in plain English—as much noise about the mat
ter as we are able, in order to show how much
we aie disposed to keep silence; let us agitate
and agitate, that we may go home ami tell our
constituents how completely we have put down
agitation.
He is but a type of a class at the South, who
owe all their ephemeral greatness to the capital
they' have made out of the strong Union feeling
in their several States. If the political elements
remain perfectly calm then “ farewell, a long
farewell, to all their greatness," and better men
whom they have overtopped, will take their
places.
The second class, who also favor agitation, are
suchUivon Whigs as wear their principles as
loosely as they do their old slippers, and finding
them worn out and valueless, desire to kick them
oil ami assume democratic principles, which they
inward'y detest, and have vilified for a life
time.
The third aie the genuine ol 1 Federal Whigs,
who are dyed in the wool, and will struggle un
der one plan and another, no matter what party
disguises they assume, to restore tiem to power.
Democratsshould watch this Union cry and dis
counteearce this agitation. It bodes no good to
toeir principles, if allowed to make head. It
is a cat in the meal tub. The Democratic parly
has proved itse'f a good enough Union paity.
The records of Gongress show that the Compro
mise received such a support from the Noithern
poi lion of it as is security against its disturbance
from that wing, while the Southern Rights wing
have generally indorsed the declaration made
by Gov. McDopalJ the candidate of that party
in Georgia, last summer: “ The Compromise ought
not to hediUUibcde'
Kosnuii at the Municipal Banquet in New York,
This was oue of the most showy and elegant
ovations to the cause of human liberty of which
the emporium of American commerce has ever
been the scene. It was a tribute at one and the
same time to a great principle dear to every Ame
rican heai t and to the patriotism and genius of an
illustrious stranger who has devoted his life to
its establishment in his native land.
Under the fire of his eloquence, sympathy for
the fate of down-trodden Hungary was kimfied
to an irrepressible enthusiasm ir: the large and
imposing assembly which listened to his great
speech. It occupied two hours and a half in the
delivery, and was listened to throughout with in
tense interest.
The following appropriate comments are made
upon it by the Washington Union :
“Th-'s oration will be universally read, ard
cannot fail to’produce a profound and permanent
impression on the public rnind. Without un
dertaking. aiter the very cursory perusal which
we have been able as yet to give it, to concur in
all its conclusions and suggestions, we cannot re
train Irom expressing strongly our admiration,
and even our astonishment, at the vast and va
rious ability which it exhibits. Besides argu
mentation and rhetorical power of a very rare
and high order, the speech displays a familiarity
with the history and policy of our government
which, under the circumstance, is little less than
marvellous. It is characterized thoughout by a
spirit thoroughly practical; and it sets forth, in
an attitude and light at once most original and
imposing, all the great ideas and priciples to
which the life of its author lias hitherto been.:
and is hereafter to be consecrated.
" The effect of the speech upon the numerous j
and highly respectable company which listened j
to it. appears to have been quite as remarkable
as is its character. The orator was throughout |
cheered and applauded to the echo; and when. , a
at the conclusion ol'the address, a member of the ; p
city council proposed that the three practical
suggestions which it contained as to the action '
of the government of the United States, should 1
stand as the resolutions of that meeting, the vote °
was < arried with unanimous acclamation. j
"This was more than an oratical triumph; f
though, considering the character of Kossuth s
piopositions, it was in that sense alone almost
I unprecedented in this country liefore such an
! auditory. Such a vote was the declaration of
: that intelligent assemblage that the coming oi '
Kossuth to our shores was a political event, and i
; that both his invitation and his reception have a
political significance. I
“It is now. as we conceive, altogether too late (
to deny either of these propositions. The action
which has been taken in one branch o! Congress '
upon the subject will likewise, beyond question, ;
both here and elsewhere, receive a similar inter- i
pretation. The action which we may antici
pate in the House of Representatives will also be
regarded as of the same character. Nor can any
doubt be entertained at this time that such ac
tion will, in its whole significance, be loudly and
generally approved by the people and by the
public press. Here and elsewhere oar govern
ment will be regarded as joining in the mani
festation of their cordial appioval of the Hun
garian cause, and of their stern and unhesitating
condemnation of that absolutist policy by which,
for the tune, that cause has been broken down.
Beyond this point, nothing which our govern
| ment at this time will do or demonstrate is, as
we conclude, to proceed; and up to this point.
| we hold it to be clear that onr jieople and our
government, both in respect of principle and po
licy, are assuredly in the right. It is proper in
itself, and lit upon this occasion, that our country
i should go thus iar. As a nation, we oppose cur
national opinion, in high and solemn forms ofex
piession, to the bayonets ol Russian intervention.
It is a moral and not a material power—yet, as
we believe, pot the less mighty in its ultimate J
consequences because it is not material.”
Legislative Proceedings.
Miu.eiiGevili.e, Dec. 15, 1851.
The Executive uud Legislative departments of
| the State of Georgia have returned to their rcs
i pectivclv legitimate functions. It is presumable that
: they were “wined and dined" in a style worthy of
the reputation of our sea-hoard brethren, for hos
pitnlityand high breeding. I have been informed
i by some who were participants in that magnificent
gala, that, in view of the small population of
j Savannah, compared with that of our large North-
I : ern cities, and the short time allowed for making
! neecssnry arrangements, it will compare favorably
1 with any display of the kind ever undeitaken any
where in this country. It would have becngratily
■ ing to me to have the opporl unity of speaking
‘ more at length, and fiom personal observation of
, an event that will long he remembered in Georgia,
l for the benefit that may accrue from it, both to
. 1 visitors and visitne. But owing to some flaw in
I the catalogue of iir.-iteet, tho representatives of
1 some of our presses were eheriei/, whilst others
were forgotten. Among the latter class was tho
’ ! representative of the Augusta press. If all of the
class cited had been ; led witli tho same spoon," I
. would not have deemed the transaction of sufficient
i moment for the slightest notice. lam charitable
t enough to presume that they, to whom tho citizens
’ of Savannah delegated the authority to carry out
their w ishes and iutontions, ill the multitude of their
. duties, inadvertently and unintentionally commit*
~ ted the error charged against them.
‘ The first thing iu older this tnorn<ng was tho cull
, of tho counties. In answer to that call the follow
, ing hills and other documents wore introduced:
t | By Mr. ltuscell —To provide for the election o*
1 all the Judges of tho Superior Courts of this State
j by the people
, By Mr. Ilr.rtow—To protect the citizens of this
, Stato from danger, by tho running at large, ofluna
i tie or insane slaves.
i By Mr. Seward—To authorise the State of tleor
j gii to lend money to aid in tho construction of tho
I Georgia A Florida Railroad, Ac.
! Also, to prescribe the manner in which actions of
’ ejectment and writs of forcible entry and detainer
5 l shall be laid out.
’ By Mr. Bird, from a Special Committee—To com
! pensate certain physicians for services rendered sun
r dry persons wounded by accidents on the State
Road.
By Mr. Wynn, of Gwinnett—To appropriate m.o
--s noy to pay a firm in Tennessee for damages sustain
; cd from the same Road. These two bills, it is sup
[ posed, will lie over uniil the Road is re-organised
. [ and placed under a different and n better manage
, ment—when all such matters will be referred to the
proper officers of the Road for their investigation
and adjudication.
By Mr. Stephens—A resolution that the Lcgisla*
, lure will adjourn from the 23d inst. to the Ist Mon
day in November next. This resolution has to lie
on tho table, under the rule of tho House, at least
one day.
>
j By Mr. Tift—To provide for the protection and
, defenco of the lights of the citizens of Georgia
against unjustifiable attacks, encroachments, and
usurpations by other States, whether acting under
their individual sovereign capacity, within the limit
1 of powers not delegated by the Constitution, or
through their Representatives in the Senate of the
I United Stales.
This bill provides, that if Congress shall abolish
slavery in the District of Columbia, or any other
place under its jurisdiction—or suppress the slave
trade betweeu the slaveholding States—or refuse to
admit any new Sia'c on account of the existence of .
slavery therein—or prohibit the introduction of!
slaves into the territories of Utah or New Mexico— ■
or repeal, or materially modify the Fugitive-Slave j
Law—every State whbso Senators shall have voted j
for any such act oracts, on its or their final passage,
shall be deemed as having violated its faith plighted j
to Georgia in the Constitution of the United States. '
That if any State, by her constituted authorities,
obstruct the laws of Congress now in forco for the j
recovery of fugitive slaves, or shall, after the Ist of
- 1553, or thereafter, have any law in force, |
i intended to obstruct the recovery of fugitive slaves, j
our Senators and Representatives in Congress and
every other public officer of this State, shall inform
the Governor of the fact, who, upon investigation,
and finding the same to be true, shall issue his pro
clamation, warning all persons of the provisions
and penalties of this act. That if any citizen shall
buy, sell, or consume articles produced or manufac
tured in such offending State, or imported through
such State, or brought from it, ho shall pay a tax
of 100 per cent, on tho original eost of such ar- :
tiele3. That ail persons holding office in this State, ■
shall take a prescribed oath to carry out the provi
sions of this act. That Tax Receivers shall admin
ister an oath to all taxable persons bearing special
ly upon the contraband articles stated above. That
this act shall remain in fall force against every of- j
fending State, until the faithless acts complained of
shall have been repealed by Congress, or until such !
State or States shall pay the full value of negroes
whose recovery has been obstructed, or until such
State or States shall have repealed her faithless \
statutes. That all officers refusing to take tho oath !
prescribed, shall bo fined SSOO, and persons refusing (
to take tho oath to bo administered by the Tax Re- |
| ceivcr, aro subject to a fino of SIO,OOO, which fine j :
may bo discharged by taking ih» oath, Ac. Ac. , i
By Mr. Tift—A petition from Messrs. Barnes
and Williams, the lately ejected members from Ja*.
per county, including the affidavit-«f eighty. t h ree
citizens who voted at Slaughter's precinct within
tho legal hours. Mr. Tift requested it to he entered
on the Journal of the House. Some members oh
jected, but at length it was ordered to lie on the table
for the present.
The bill for 4 the formation of a now county from
Paulding and Floyd was next taken up and passed
You will notice a singular coincidence connected
with the action on this bill—its name, “ Polk." and
its passage by 54 to 40.
In the Senate, very little business of general in
terest was transacted. It has rt-eonsidend the bill
to incorporate a Bank in Atlanta, and has postponed
indefinitely, by a vote of 19 to 16. tho bill to alter
the Constitution, so as to restore the annual ses
sions.
Three o'clock, P. M.
The bill to form a new county from Mcrriwethor
Coweta and Fayette, was advocated by Messrs.
Hill and Thurmond, and opposed by Messrs. Harris,
of Clark, Clark, of Stewart. Robinson, of Macon,
and Harper. On its final passage, the yeas were
10, and nays 80.
The bill providing for the establishment of elec
lion precincts at every Magistrate's Court ground in
the State, was lost. I suspect it will pass in a local
form, as to Gwinnett county.
The bill to release certain persons in Chattooga
county from the payment of a bond for SSOO, on
which they are sureties for one who has committed
an assault and battery, and who has absconded,
was also lost by a vote of 3“ to 54.
Cold Weather.
The thermometer, on Tuesday morning, at
I o'clock, was only 18 degrees above zero, and at
same time yesterday, 10 degrees. The ice was
thick enough to bear a man's weight. This is
unusually cold for so early in the season. It i*
. the coldest weather experienced here for several
years.
Office of Ordinary,
f
As there is a general desire to know the pro
( visions of the law creating the new office of
t Ordinary, we subjoin a copy. The officer is to
P lie elected on the first Monday in January.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of tlie State of Georgia
* in General Assembly met. and it is hereby ch
i’ acted by the authority ol'the same. That so soon
v as this act shall have passed agreeably to the re
- quirements of the Constitution, the following
' snail be adopted in lien ol the section above re
f cited, to wit: The powers of a Court of Ordinary
or register of probates shall be vested in an Onli
’ nary for each county, trorn whose decisions there
0 may he an appeal to the Superior Court under
* such restrictions and regulations as may be or
f may have been prescribed by law. The said
s Ordinary shall be ex-officio Clerk of said Court
0 and may appoint a deputy clerk. The Ordinary.
j as Clerk, or his deputy, may issue citations and
. giant temporary .letters oi administration to hold,
until permanent letters are granted, and said
1 Ordinary, as Clerk, or his deputy, may grant
c marriage licences. The Ordinaries in and fur
s the respective counties, shall be elected as otliei
t county officers are, ou the fust Monday in Jan
r nary, eighteen hundrenl and fiftv-two, and every
loiirth year thereafter and shall be commissioned
by the Governor for the teim of four years. In
case of a vacancy iu said office of Ordinary, from
I any cause, the same shall be filled hy election as
is provided in lelation to other county officer*,
amt until the same is tilled, the Clerk of the Su
perior Court, for the time being, shall act as Clerk
* I of said Court of Ordinary.
o : Approved, February 93, 1 SAD.
s ; Virginia Election. —We have retrrns front
. | sixty-eight counties and cities, leaving seventy
two yet to be heard from. Johnson, the dem .
- ' cratic candidate for Governor, has a plurality so
a farof 5,138. Gen. Cass' maj. in the same coun
ties was 154. The dem icrats have elecldd twen
-1 ty-five Senators and the whigs twelve; to hear
1 from thiiteeu.
Some Cotton, equal, it is said, to Sea Island
- has been raised on Long Island, by Mr. A. 1’
e Ricker, of Newton, and it is believed tl.at it can
be made a profitable crop by a little attention.
* Tobacco lias also been raised on the Island with
satisfactory results.
j Miss Camilla Scott, daughter of General Seol I,
- was married at Washington, on the 9th, to
L > Goold Hoyt, Esq., of New York.
1 There were 52 deaths in Providence, R. I,
during November: died of consumption, 13.
Hon. Caleb Cushing has been re-elected May
or of New bury port, Mass.
' At Turk’s Island, on the 25th u!t.. there was
no salt to be had.
The Butchers, numbering 3,000 men, all ap-
I i propriately dressed and on horseback, will march
r in the procession to receive Kossuth in Phi lade! -
t phi*-
r The markets of the first and second Munich
: parities of New-Orleans were recently leased foi
one year, for 5-193,550. The gross amount col
i lected by the city for all its markets exceeds
f $200,000. /
The Washington correspondent of the Charles
f ton Courier, under date of the 1-lth instant, says :
f j “ Mr. Clay was well enough to attend the
| Supreme Court on Friday; and on Monday he
| will, if his health permit, close the argument in
* ! an important Kentucky case, in which he is
j concerned.”
' The Washington correspondent of the Bahi
’ j more Sun, es the same date, says:
’ i “Mr. Clay is not dangerously, but seriously ill
' I Dr. Jackson, from Philadelphia, has been sent
' j for, and is now attending him. The disease is
f; bronchitis, of some years’ standing. The doctor
, j insists on Mr. Clay leaving Washington, and on
j taking him to Philadeiphia, to his own house, to
['betaken care of. I think Mr. Clay will con
sent.”
We learn from our exchanges that the great Tele
graph case between the Bain end Morse jarties
lias been finally end amicably adjusted by compro
mise, which will prevent its being carried to the $u
premc Court. The Bain party have agreed to
amalgamate interests with the Morse or Magnetic
Line, extending from Washington to New York.
They have consented to allow a certain per centage
on their profits or receipts !'or the use ol the Morso
, patent, thus substantially giving up further contc-n
! tion, and acknowledging their invention to be an
infringement. The interest of both lines will hence
forward be as one. though they will bo kept sepa
rate and distinct linc3, as heretofore. — Ch. Cow ,
17 t!t inst.
U. S. Frigate St. Lawrence vvll sail from
i Brooklyn, in a few days, to join the Pacific Squad
( ron.
| Mr. Calvin D. Gay. of Jamaica. L. 1., but do
| ing business in New York, fell dead on Tuesday,
j while running to catch up with a train of cars.
I We received no telegraphic intellince from the
1 North last evening, inconsequence, as we unm-t-
I stand, of the destruction of the Raleigh office by
fire on Monday evening, and the consequent de
ragementofthe wires thereby.— Charlestoti Cou
i t ier, lltk imt.