The South-west Georgian. (Oglethorpe, Ga.) 1851-18??, September 17, 1852, Image 1

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Office on Sumter Street, Over the Post Office. VOL. 2. THE SOUTH .WEST GEORGIAN. C. I*. Youngblood, litfitor. UGLETHORPE, SEPTEMBER 17, 1852. Independent Ticket^ FOR PRESIDENT. DAN'L WEBSTER, Os Massachusetts. FOR VICE PRESIDENT. CHARLES J. JENKINS, Os Georgia. ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE : H. H. CUMMJN's of Iticlnn'd. | Eli. V. GILL, of Troup. ELECTORS FOR THE DISTRICTS: Ist—Hamilton AV. Sharfe. Tfth—Warren Atf.in. 2d—Wm. M. Brown. 6tli—Y. L. O. Il.uiiys. 3d—Washington I’of, 71 h—. John J. Floyd. 4th —Blount C. Ferrell, Bth—Philip S. I.k.mle. Our Halt* Sheet. The Editor of this paper is laboring under severe illness, which must be urged ns an apology for the half sheet issued this week. He regrets that circum stances have prevented a full quantity of reading matter in his columns. Just so soon as lie is able td resume his working position in the office, his ra’ ders will have tire paper in its full dimensions. Health of Oglethorpe. Our physicians have a somewhat busy season in the country, but not much to do in the city. The diseases that generally prevail soyn yield to medi cine. The Rev. Mr..Threlki hl will preach at the Aca demy at 11 o’clock next Sabbath, on the subject of conversion. The Colton Crop. From the best information received, cotton bids fair in the fields. The price is cheering; good qualities ruling in Oglethorpe at ten cents and the rise. * The Campaign. As yet, though within forty-five days of the elec tion, Iftlp-e seems to be very little enthusiasm among the p ,q.io in regard to the Presidency, The masses cannot 1- - tired by either candidate. The friends of 0-c! dm nothing for him on account of hi.,, ■ i owilcrdeeds; tli sup porters of Geta. Scott arc wholly unable to infuse the usual recognition bt military eclat , and the admirers of Mr, Webster are only rational, not furious, in their efforts to honor the Presidency with a man on whom jint-i re lias stamped the divinity of ‘n. Gov. Troup for Prf^ftlent. ’’lie committee of th- * : i.-.Ab .'•vava, have reported tin it . 1 • ‘ I’-mp oft. folPresidant, and the Ilea-John ‘. ‘_u.- man of Missitr'ippd for Vico Presi ient ot the l nitch States. Arrivals atilr Empire (Souse. Jesse Cain, Proprietor. C. C. Greene, A. J. Morris, James Holmes, Air. Logic and Lady, Mai. Joel Crawford, John Richard son, E. P. Youugood, E. K. Grown, Henry T. Wijson and Servant, J.T). Loche nmlSofi, John T. Lumpkin, GlL.Green, M. 1)., R. 11. Wrigley, O. B. Blent, Ba sil Lamar 11. If. Lamb, W. A. Bell, John 1. ihweatt, Col. Morris, Thos. Davenport, S. Denson, A. H. Wright G. Si. Taylor, J. 15. Moulding, P. B. Cox, I*. Kelly, E. L. McKee, Mr. McMullen, George,Baker, TANARUS, 11, Allen, 11. W. Baker, M. B. Potts, S. M. Fleish man, and S. Fleishman. “\Vf> recommend that our friends traveling Nortli or elsewhere, by way of Oglethorpe, and stopping the over-night at that place, who wish to have every accommodation, to stop at the Empire House, kept by Jesse Cain, Esq. We have tiied him once, and speak ironi ex perience and observation. Look at his card, llis House is not excelled in this part of the country. East Alabamian. Terrible Freshet. There never was before, since the settle ment of tlie country, such a freshet as we had last week in Greenville District. Ihe water Courses were soveralfeet higher than they were ever known to bo before. All the bridges and and great number of mills have been swept Uway. The corn on |he low grounds is des troyed, or most serious®’ injured. In several places the embankments of our Railroad have been destroyed, and several of the culverts .parried off or demolished. 1 lie cotton facto ry and paper mill of Mr. Me liee, and the pa permill of the Greenville Manufacturing Com pany have been greatly damaged. W efliave not heard from the other factories in our dis trict. All communication has been cut ofl •with the surrounding country by the loss of bridges, and the difficulty in fording the creeks and rivers. The Reedy Tails in the village ,of Greenville, were cpiite an object of attrac tion on Saturday. * ‘They were Niagara in miniature, and our citizens and the visitors, men, women, and children,Ruined out en mas * to witness the grand spectacle presented by be raging and foaming waters dashing over falls and down the prpcipice.— Greenvtu {S. (j.) Patriot, Hd iust. Certificate. In a recent the Hon. William L. Yancey, of Alabin eulogized Gen. Piebce for entertaining the . t 0 doctrines, and “pronounced him a re a g tate Rights man as is to be found ou ‘•^ ont h t'aroliua.” What do our Northwestern rntg t hi„k of this recommendation * U Genera j Pierce deserves the eulogy. But will it re commend Gen. Pierce very particularly to the friends of Harlvorand River Improvements in Illinois, and Michigan, mid lowa ? Recommendations of lien. Pierce. In the speech of Col. Kidder, before the West lijpuiolph Granite Club, we find the an nexed Statement of the whereabouts of the Freesollers in the present canvass, which we advise our Democratic eotemporaries of .the Southern Press to copy. Col. Kidder thus speaks of Gen. Pierce, with a perfect “gusli of enthusiasm “He is our neighbor— out;friend —our own New England man. The Van Eurcns, Pres ton King, and a. great majority of the leading ‘Frecsoir men of ’4B arfor him. None need fear him. I have not yet met with the first DeThocrat who will not support him. He writes no sill‘d letters.” From the Washington Republic. (communication.) Parties and Partisans. Ireful, with pleasure, your article publish, ed a few days ago, under the above heading. It gugested a train of which \ should he pleased to lay before your readers, if you will so far indulge a distant subscriber and an old Whig. It is true that a party is “a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavors, tional interest, lijipn some particular principle in which they are ail agreed.” The duty im posed upon slich a party in order to insure •success'is constant vigilance. It is in a po sition of pcrpetital hostility to its opposing party or parties. Severe and ardrounS con test is jssential to its success, nay to the con tinuance of its own existence. Now, we nil know that the activfe men of evely political p irty are comparatively few in number. On. these few devolves the duty of managing its affairs; they have’to maintain thdcontestsjn which the party is engaged 4 they have to lidhr the burden and beat of every Wiy. Os them, arduous labor and great personal sacri fices are unceasingly demanded. The vast nurnercial majority of every political party .are engaged in their own personal Blairs, at tendiqg to their private business, worn which except on speri.il occasions—say election days anil occasional public convocations— tin v will i:o .: cohsent to be dl-av. n. Now, what I maintain is, that those men who do the work, and submit to the sacrifices, and give ’ err - *bo bnidbl w? in patty centlicts, h .'cver enio- | mmritls and rumors. it has to bestow. Ido j !i 0 t mean that any party claim can conrpen* so(. for. the want of proper qualifications faithfully and intelligently to discharge the ‘duties of the etlice to which a’ citizen may as pire ; but Vhat 1 mean is, that where there are yuch qualifications, the men who have mingled in this party contests are to be preferred in the .distribution of official stations, f idelity to its own members is an ingredient in party organization indisp'eiisible to its existence. — Let any party, strike out this principle, and dec lard that individual services and sacrifices give no claims upon a party of preferment, and it will soon se that none will perform ser vices and make sacrifice For it. The avowal of such a determination by any party would he an annunciation of its dissolution. Thus far, Mr: Edifer, we do not, I am sure, disagree. But now I psopose to niahe„i per sonal application to those remarks. > The Whig, party disregarded the principle to which I referred'iu nominating Gen. Harrison anjl rejecting Mr. Clay*. We succeeded in elect ing our candidates, but the W hig party was weakened; its power for accomplishing great objects by force of its organization was di, mini shed. Careful observers saw the Jesuit, and deplored it. In 1844 the pristhie vigor of the party was restored by the nomination of Mr. Clay; the exertions to elect him were powerful-—they were healthful —they were in vigorating ; but the party was defeated in.the State af New York owing to causes not nec essary to enumerate.. But after that election the party was united, and never better able to do good service to the country, ‘llien came the nomination of 1848 ol Gen. ‘Baylor. In mating this’ nomination, the principle of fidelity was sacrificed ; Gen. Taylor had no claims whatever on the Whig party. With wjeep reluctance the nomination was accepted by 1 the p.afty; and again, owing to divisions in the Democratic ranks in the State of New York, the Whig nominee was elected. This nomination relaxed and weakened party ties, and produced heart-burnings and distrust. Now we come to the nomination ot June, 1852, by which Gen. Scott’s name was put before the country. Three names we.ie before tho convention. Gen. Scott was always nominally a Whig, but excluded by position from taking any part in party conflicts. Mr. FillinOre was the ac tual president. Mr. Webster and Mr. Clay, for the last twenty years, have confessedly the leaders cf the Whig party—doing the most service—giving and receiving the hard est blows in that service. Mr. Clay was not in a condition to be a candidate; and Mr. Webster, therefore, was the man entitled upon party principles to receive the nomination. — He had earned the claim; more than thirty OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1852, years of public service had rendered Kim the greatest American statesman, and the oldest and most conspicuous Whig then ott tho stage, of action. Neitheir of his competitors could, compare with him in the amount and value o* services he had rendered his country and /ri party. It was not doubted that Mr. Websten deserve the nomination; he had worked long, assidiously and faithfully to deserve the hon ors of his party, and to qualify himself for the liighest'distiuction that party could confer up on him. lie has gone with unsurpassed abili ty through the various preliminary official grades. In the natural course olthings it was the last time the country could re ward him. Under these circumstaees his claim was rejected; he was thrown out and laid on the shelf. Now what 1 affirm, with great respect, is that this act, proving that infidelity to party obligations is not temporary, hut the settled rule, virtually dissolves the whig party, No man (it to counsel, to guide, and lead that party, will ever more connect his fortunes with tlftit party. It is ended, if Gen. Seoit is elected, its existence -may he prolonged in a dying state, hut it is nevertheless sure to die. If Gen. Scott is not elected, the party is not only elided but disgraced; it can never more hold up its head under the name which it has longjjorne with honor and with pride. What will follow? l’lcci >ly what was in tended by those who have deliberately placed the party in this position. ‘1 here will be a r recsoil or Abolition party cstnblished'as the great party of the free Stales, and . another party in favor of Soutlie 511 Eights. ‘1 Iris i a certain consequence of the present state of things. I leave it toothers to suggest the remedy, if indeed there he any remedy. To me it see ft is that the case is irremediable. The whig party decides that no party ser vices and sacrifices, how ever great and dis tinguished, can he rewarded by the highest honor in the gift of the people; the serviee entitled to {hat honor must be performed in the camp, ’ihe Clays and Websters pf our party, if any such there shall be, must he Con tent to have the highest aspirations of their ambition gratified by an appointment under a military chieftain. But there will be no A lays and Websters in future time ‘; there is nothing’ to excite and gratify high ambition in the path of the statesman. Wlmt prompts the soldier on the field of battle to the. highest deeds of daring for his country ? Primarily, of course, the love of that country; but the desire of official promo tion is, we all know, not without a.powerful iiitluenpe in producing the results, ‘i he army is an organized body for the protection and defence of the country ; hut let it be under stood that deeds valorous and high emprioe are not to he rewarded by official promotion, ‘and how efficient will your army lie? Wjiat conquests will it win 1 We must deal with men as they are. Gen. Scott has.done great military services for his country; he deserves, richly deserves, the position, as the, head of tliat-grmy, which he holds ; • 1 was in favor of creating a higher position—the “office of Lieut. General —that he might be promoted to it. Suppose a pro vision had been madq by law for that, olliciy once filled by Washington ; and then suppose that the President and Senate had, upon con sultation, come to the conclusion that Daniel W.ebster, as'a reward tor his civil services, bo made Lieut. Generic. How would the Conqueror of Mexico have relished that nomi nation ? Very, much, I imagine, as the great est statesman of the country would relish his nomination to the Presidency. I am very much afraid that my friend Gen. Scott, in the event supposed, would ask— “ Where shall Igo ?” And if he could an swer this quistibn satisfactorily to himself, would decide that lie bad served the country as long as patrotism required, and was at lib erty to resign. A8 to Mr. Webster himself, nothing be comes him, in my judgment, but profound si lence. What oan he say flt is poor conso lation to tell him that he is too elevated for the office ; t(wit the people cannot appreciate him. It is an Insult to say —you are too un popular; for the answer is ready—how can you know that? You never gave me a trial; and as to indications of unpopularity short of an actual popular canvass, you can hardly ex. pect nte to see them, whenjthousands crowd around me wherever I go. There are considerations which I should be most happy to discuss, If this communica tion had not already been unreasonably ex tended, which prove conclusively to my mind that the real intention of the ruling spirits irt that convention was, by the nomination of Gen. .Scott and rejection of Mr. Webster and Mr. Fillmore, to destroy the National Whig party. AN OLD WHIG.’ Tkc Dlsuniouists’ Candidate. Our readers have not forgotten the letter of Mr. John Forsyth, of Georgia, which claim ed Gen. Pierce tts the “creator and choice’’ of the Secessionists and Mr. Pierce Soule.— They have not forgotten prominence which was given to Mr. Boulo by the convention, by sending him at the head of the committee to wait upon Gen. Fierce in New Hampshire; nor Mr. Soule’s private letter to his partner Olli COUNTRY’S ROOD IS Oil US. eulogistic of the Democratic candidate; nor his letter to the Hillsboro’ meeting, in w hich he reaffirmed the statement of Mr. Soule with regard to t fen. l'icree’s “creation.” They have not forgotten that the first gentleman to eulo gize pen. Bierce on the floor of the House of Representative 5 was Mr. Orr, of South Caro lina, who claimed him as a statesman after South Carolina’s own heart. We w ish them to keep these facts in view, and we intend (o show up from time to time the principles and opinions el the gentlemen who were princi pally concerned in tun. l'ierce’s “creation mid choice.” And first for a touch of Mr. L orsvth’s qualify. 011 the frith of September, 1-851, he wrote a letter to a melting of the citizens of South Carolina who wore opposed to “submission to the past wrongs ami ag gressions of the General Government,'’ and in favor of secession or rebellion or forcible resistance. In this letter Mr. lorsylh says: “Gentlemen, il is not we who have lost our ‘loyalty to the In ion of our fathers; RUT ••THAT UNION IS NO MORE. “Your loyalty was feiimpcaelied and unix ‘peachnblc, untiILOYALTY TO THE U.\l •ON BECAME TREASON TO THE IN ‘Di I’ENDENCE, B'REEDOM, AND SO V ‘EIIEIGNTY Ob’ THE STATES.” At this meeting a letter was read-from the Hon. .1. S. Painter to Major Manegault, in which-hc sys, •• For more than lire illy years I hare Lira a pisunionisl.” The same gentle man winds up his letter with the follow ing declaration.: “if elected n ilelegafe to the ‘Southern Congress,! shall feel my self bound • ‘to vote foe no measure proposed before that •brill',- that does not /,ml dir.rlii; to the diseo 'ltHion 0/ the liiionand. the formation of a ‘Southern ('on ft and racy.” Our.cotenipories’of lae Democratic press make a shocking to do every day “because Gen. Scott is's upported ly Gov. Seward.— ’Some of our U 1 ion friend’s are partieulaiL scandalised by,this f.;*-t, ami apprehend that Gen. Scott, w ith all his patriotic and nation. 1 attachments and conservative temper, will he so (-fleeted by this support that his election will ho dangerous to the country. But if the support of (lov. Seward is to he detrimental to Gen. Scott, and iv to work sttoli a change to his chare -1 ,<r, what vilhlnry say to’tiie bu. - soundings of Gon. I ien-e? The man who boasts of having created him isn professed Ei .Unionist, lie has solemnly avowed Liuis-cl;'within a year under 1. is own hand, in a published letter, that Mouth Caro lina was right in Iter doctrines of resistance to the Fedora! Government, and that, in the case of her citizens, “loyalty to. the I'niou” \m; s •‘treason to the State!” The man who will he about Gen. Pierce, if he should be elected, will he of the Forsyth, Soule and l’ahrft'r fash ion—politi'-uuis who, like the- hitter gentle man, were in tr.vof of a Southern Congress, and who pledged themselves to propose no measure before that body not tending “direct ly to the di: solution of the Union anti the for mation of a Southern Confederacy.” Wo wish our Southern friends to reflect up on the character of the rnejp they are bring ing into pow er with Gen. Pierce, it’ Ly inac tion or indiflirence tjay contribute to his elec tion. A pretty set, to he sure, for a Conser vative to aid in elevating! One wing pledg ed to work for the bi solution of the,Union; and another, under the lend of Judge Douglas and the Democratic llericic, hound to the t> uexation of all the Hands to thy mid-channel of the Atlantia and Pacific oceans,-to make the Gulf of Mexico and the CatibLean sea closed waters to all the rest of the world! From tliu'-intciligwmi-r. Messrs. Gales and Beato:v. — Qcti'lcmcn: I observe that in a debate in the Senate, as re ported in the Bali inlore Kitin, One day last week, the following paragraph appears ii a speech of Mr. Mpi’gum, of North Carolina: “Mr. Mungum alluded to the groat impor tance to the country arid to the Whig party that the consistency of the head of the Central Committee of that powerful and.to-be victori ous party should beinaiiitaineii. He opposed the whole bill. He saw no reason for taking away the printing of the Departments to give it to the political.press. No complaints had ever been heard egai ist the contract system as regarded the printing for the Departments. “Mr. Douglas said that there were com plaints; he could shew that the system aH practiced there was perfect mockery. “Mr. Mangum said perhaps there were oc casional petty paltry tricks committed, and that, too, by the groat man of the Whig par. ty ; he meant the Secretary of State; a tiek unworthy of him, unworthy of his position, and disgraceful to his party, so far as he could affect it, which was but to a slight extent, ami which shortly would not be to any ex tent.” Upon inquiring, through a friend, I l. arn from Mr. Mangum the t his observations were intended to apply to the appointment of the Wilmington Commercial, conducted by Mr. Loring, as a paper to publish the laws in North Carolina; and to the appointment for the same purport 1 of the Knoxville Whig in Tennessee. The Wilmington Commercial was appoint ed as a puper to publish the laws upon w hat was esteemed good Whig authority; and if Mr. Mangum hail bee a litNo usnlt the mem hers of Congress from his V 1 State, includ ing eminent Whigs, ho v, yl have learned that there is not a more iv: peVable journal in North Carolina - tin.nr the Wilnaugfon Com mercial; that the editor, Mr. LcAing, “is a highly respectable fnnn, of i.Tepteeciuible characfer; - ’ and th: I Lis paper has l!u\; rget 1 eircuiation of anv whig paper puhlislNid in Wilmington, the most populous and far The most eonunerci.;! city or town in North Caros lina. 1 refer Mr. Mangum on this subject to N his spiechos in l on;p 1 -s. As to the appointment of the Knoxville 11 iiig as one of Ihe papers to publish flip law s in Tennessee, it is sufficient to say that that appointment was by a majority of the whig members of Congress from that. Statp. So far as 1 remember, 1 never road a sin gle number of either of these newspapers. I hope I may be pardoned, under the cir cumstances, for ti H obtrusion on the tho pub lic, so unusual with me, to defend mv official conduct against mere random vituperation. DAN’L WEBSTER The Order es Ihe Lcnc Star, ITS ORIGIN AND ULTIMATF OBJECTS. / o the Editor of the Arie- l'orh Sachem : Dear Kir: i’ercedving it the Courier A- Enquirer, the Hi raid, and other journals most garbled and pm verted veoiensof the interests j and purpose oi the Order of the Lone Mar, which i.i-li.iili m 1 have theltonor to repre s ill, ;-s President ot ihe tit neral Assembly of Louisiana, 1 conceive it a duty i .owe to my si b and my bri-lNren, to hiv before the New \ oik pul lie a lull v iew of the origin and ob j its of the Order, with wLii li my name has been go. thorough.ly identified throughout the inion. It must he apparent to : II candid observers, that the ge.nUeineij on!bide the pale of our as sociation pretend to a superior knowledge of the genius of the irisTituimi than those wiiters admitted to our eomfialernity; at all events, members of the press initiated w itlijy our rites have in nowise compromsied our honor and dignity by presuming a connection between our Order and the invasion of Culm. To dis j e’ any illusion obscuring the popular vision, v.i.h icspecl to the iiiovenieuts of the Lone Star, permit mu frankly to onq lay your col umns for an explanation bf-tlic charaeter and objects of that secret society. ’] lie Order of the Lone Star was instituted in the city ol Lafayette, by a few gentlemcrt, none of whom wore personally acquainted with Gen. Lopez, nlthoftgh sympathetically !.ivorafch> to his expedition; .onsequeiitly, the foundation ot the association was in no man ner to aid in the succes% of ids liberating ar my. The object of the original foundation was the conservation of unadulterated pat.i otisin at home and abroad, and li e society was purely Amcrierpi in its conception, as its aim was to guard the j all .ilium of our nation ality against the intiuious aggressions or in terior .toes, and the assaults of open enemies. Believing republicanism to be the sole form of government calculated to secure happiness an 1 prosperity to our native land, and the on ly state ot pohti.\:l eriience conducive to the universal benefit of humanity, we naturally yearned towards.its perpetuation among our people, and its introduction among other ra tions ot the globe; consequently, as wo our selves are lo h to w ear the rh ins of monarchi cal and hipe:i.:l bondage, we are willing to extend all lawful and legitimate aid and suc cor to the oppressed of other crimes, strug gling to strike off the shackles of despotism; but in no way would our endeavors to carry out so deserving and phil.mtlippie a duty com promise our relations between ourselves, our families, and our country. Our object was never limited to n specific sphere; it was gen eral and cosmopolitan. We cast no eye u; - on Cuba, nor Mexico, but iq on humanity ;.t large. Wherein r the children of liberty could l>e discovered i;r arms against their ty ranical masters, the sous of the Lone Star would be found rallying beneath the banner of freedom to extend the area of liberty. No member is bound by any obligation to per form any action contrary lo the allegiance due 1 is country, nor against the ties of con sanguity; neither arc we to be participants in any foray, conceived and executed in vari ance to t:.i ting t (‘alias of amity with foreign nations; neither are we to invade peaceful counties to carryout the objects of our in stitution. l’o; alar journals have branded us as filibusters and conspirators : were we wor thy of such up; ellatijns, all must admit that, we are filibueteis and i eusj ia; tors upon such an extended scale oft lent arid influence that •the entire continent must be shaken to its cen tre, forour ramifications extend horn the East to the M eat, from the North to the-South.— In a word, the spi.it of the Lena Mar is the protective genius of republicanism, on this side of the Atlantic. Sympathizing with stag glitig nations beyond the ocean, wo limit our personal i; t rvcntio i (> the count ‘ies of this divi inn of the globe; and, graded by the wise policy of a Washington and a Madison, we v\ ill conti me our primitive dibits to the main tenance of pure republicanism at home, and its extension among people adjacent to our own republic, ami present a formidable bar- Terms—s 2 dO£in advance, SJI < < 11 I<< 1 ( 1 • }1: i. tier to the aggressions and insinuations offor eign despots. Our main object is to the emancipation of these count lieg,})}’ all le gal and legitimate means, such as arO eorisisC tent with Christianity and the duty we owe our country ; and, viewed in this light, we hum bly trust that no sensible American can he found to denounce us by the opprobrious epi thets of conspirators and filbusters. W e owe to 110 bad feeling against the journals who have confounded us w ith previous expedition, ■rists; they have erred from the inisreprcsenta iVuis of men unacquainted w ith our organiza ii<m, and ignorant of the true merits of our cause ; and wo forgive their error in judg ment as not coining from the heart, but from a strange misconception of the patriotic mo tives of this confederation, the main-spring of republicanism, and the conservator of Ameri can democracy. I have noticed in the Herald, a list of dis tinguished names, purpmting to enumerate some of the members of the farternity, many of whom we cannot claim as brethren of the Order, hut are thoroughly convinced that were they conversant with our principles and mo tives, they would give in their strongest ad herence and co-operation towards the com pletion of the great enterprise we have under taken, and 1 may as well add that the identi ty of persons with cur association must remain in obscurity, for one of our chief max ims decrees the suppression of the names cl our brethren, unless announced front tlieir own free will and volition. Still, I will free ly admit that among our ow 11 ranks can he found lending spirits from tic. Senate l ham her and legislative halls, the judb i.iry and the bar. Although the published names may ap pear to carry weight with thorn, yet 1 must as sure the llorald that both in numbers and standing, the Lone Star has been underrated, its influence is powerful because secret that the deeds of the great minds of our country can lie shrouded in a darkness impervious to the malignant criticisms of unappiei biting op ponents. The Lone Star can be unfolded to the vi sion of any inquiring citizens, and happy w ill w e he to enroll them beneath its banner, pro vided they he men of reputation, integrity, morality and standing. Nme ot es eo vve admit within the precinctsofour mystic circle. Yours, fratomallv, John Y. Wren, I*. G. A. O. L. 8. Asm House, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 18L2. From the BwUoa Jonn a'. Commentary onus In defend ext Demo crat on General Pierce.— The Indrjien. deni Democrat, the paper which originally published Gen- I’ierce’s New Bos ton speech, in its comments upon the corres pondence of that gentleman w ith Edwin Do Leon, one of the editors of the Southern Press, deems the position taken by the Democratic nominee an evidence of mental aberration, and says among other tilings equally pointed: “He (Gen. Pierce) certainly would not, un less laboring under some fatal hallucination, venture to make as issue of veracity against as many unimpeachable i itizens as have al ready sworn to the accuracy of the reports of his New Boston speech, lie must be insane. “Before God and the hundreds who beard that speech he Knows that lie uttered the senti ments attributed to him, in all their length and breadth. lie Knows that he uttered simi lar sentiments at Bradford and in this town. And yet lie dishonestly or insanely denies them, and el aims the Presidency on the ground t’uit he never uttered a word in disapproba tion of slavery, nor performed any act incon sistent with the office ofaLlooiihour.il! Nay, he utters a downright untruth in relation to the Independent Democrat, whi n he says it has been ‘unsparing in its attack upon him personally I .’” ‘1 here is one great satisfaction to the party having the truth upon its tide in this issue, that the witnesses in the cause are their own neighbors and fellow-citizens. The witnesses to disprove the charges are like those on which the Dutch justice acquitted a thief, to wit: “Here come three men who swear they saw the prisoner steal the hoe; and here come six who swear they did not see the prisoner steal the hoe; therefore the balance \ f terti nionv in the prisoner’s favor ia six to three, and he must be discharged.” Setting Glass without Putty—— I 'J h j method of setting glass without putty, recent ly invented, is the following: ‘Phe window sash is made entrely of wood the outrides permanent. The inside is trained in iu -h a manner that the parts can be readi ly removed for the purpose of inserting the glass which is placed la-tween slips of Irdian rubber, which, when the parts of the sash r.re replaced, causes the glass to be ; eifcctly thru. ‘1 he moveable parts of the sash me secured to tin ir place by a knob seriw, which made a pretty finish. The advantage of this method of setting glass must be obvious upon a mo uicnt’a reflection. The Empire gays Geu. Fierce is “u finish ed gentleman.” .* Fle’s finished now, and in November ho will be “laid on the shelf. ”■— Dayton (fMa>) Gat tic'*. NO* 21,