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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1856.
Speech of Hon. M- J- Crawford.
We are indebted the Iba M. J. -Crawford,
for a copy of his speech in the House of Repre
sentatives in opposition to the Majority report of
the Committee on Elections recommending the
sending for witnesses in the Kansas contested
election case. Wc regret we’eanuot lay it before
our readers in order that they too might enjoy
the clear and logical conclusions Mr. Crawford
in it draws upon the subject. Wc are compell
ed, however, to forego the pleasure to do so
would afford us,from the limited space we have
at present to appropriate to such matter. The
effort of Mr. Crawford, upon this occasion, is
one that reflected credit, both upon himself and
the constituency he represents, and will do much
to increase (if possible) the confidence of the
latter in the ability of their Representative.
Consistency.
The Augusta Constitutionalist complains of
the know nothing party of that city that they do
not stick to their “ first principles,” and shows
up the consistency of the “ Order ” after this
fashion :
“The Know Nothings make it a cardinal
* point that forigners should not hold office.
The-intensely American’ sort have quite an
abject horror of any but natives ruling Amer
ica. If the principle holds good in national,
why not in city matters? Are there not na
tives enough of Augusta—or at least citizens,
to fill all the offices?
-But our good Know Nothing Council have
overlooked both native and adopted citizens in
tilling the new office of Recorder—an office
which gives the incumbent power to fine and
to imprison, and is therefore the most potent
of all "in its gift. The Know Nothing Coun
cil have bestowed the office on one who has not
been here even long enough to entitle him to
a vote —one, therefore, not a citizen.
“The new Recorder is a worthy gentleman,
and we doubt not, will make a good officer.
We make no objection to him. But is Know
Nothingism in Augusta always consistent with
itself? It objects to sqtattera from abroad vo
ting in Kansas, yet it brings a gentleman not
entitled even to vote in our city, and squats
him down into the Recorder's chair to rule over
the natives."
We thought our cotemporary understood the
matter, and rather wondered at the query why
national principles could not be made to apply
city mat turs? Those national principles have
? a mythical sort of existence, ami like china
toys, were never made for use. W hen you bring
them down to practice, then you find the »n
--siibstautial character of their texture. F .tla
delphiu platforms, at a distance, look well
enough, for our near-sighted American, frfoiwh,
but when brought home to them, they have a
conveaieut practice of ignoring certain sections,
‘or certain local purposes, like the Augusta
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Recorder’s case. And why shouldn’t they, pray ?
Hasn’t it been satisfactorily demonstrated that
they have no national existence? What use
have they for national principles then ? Why
should they not be allowed to “ ignore ” what
they have no use for ? We comend their course
is, so far, entirely consistent— they never acted
any other way.
The Charleston Mercury on the Geor
gia Platform.
The Charleston Mercury thus represents, or
rather mtrnpresente, the position of Georgia, and
the States that have ratified her determination,
uponquestions of national import:
“The South did submit—State after State.
Not one could bo found to ‘-bell the cat.” ■ But
Georgia undertook to “lay down a platform;”
to say under what circumstances she would
resist, “if they did it again.” Strange is it,
that platform of resistance emits the very meas
ure by which the South bad been sacrificed in
the case of California, and which Georgia de
clared she only acquiesced in “for the sake of
peace.” While it is declared that Georgia
“will resist” the refusal of Congress to admit
a State into the Uaion, on account of its
adoption of slavery, not a word is said of the
case of Congress admitting a State which ex
cludes slavery, in a constitution adopted by a
faction or handful of squatters, and under the
presure of the means and appliances us din
the case of California.
“This platform has been lately re-affirmed by
conventions of the Democratic party in Geor
gia and Alabama. Yet, with all the lights
afforded by the late procecings in Kansas, it
does not appear to have occurred to these
Southern men, that the interests of the South
can in any way be compromised except in the
contingencies enumerated by Georgia. Enga
ged in the old game of President-making; in
party contests for power—that bane and curse
of the South—they lose sight of the urgent
question about to press upon them, or foolishly
imagine that a President of the Uuitcd States
can fight their battles. It is into the same
game and delusion that we in Both Carolina arc
now invited to enter.”
We have no complaints to make of the Mer
cury for its views upon the admission of Cali
fornia. The reasons for the action of our
State, in the premises, have been fully set forth,
and if the Mercury views the matter differently,
it is only a difference of opinion which we do
not care now to discuss. But we do complain
of the reflections upon the patriotism of our
people, contained in the above extract. If, in
the eye of the Mercury, Georgia is inexcusable
for not having, before this, hastily, and without
due consideration, dissolved the tics that bind
her to the Union, it is not the province of that
paper to charge her with want of firmness or of
attachment to the honor and the constitution
al rights of the South, or to accuse us of flinch,
ing from the issue, for paity purposes. It is
because there w hope for the Union—a Union
not derogatory to the South—that Georgia has
not determined to desert it. That hope, we
grant, is but a small one, scarcely
able amid the discordant elements which whirl
and seethe around the capitol at Washington,
but Georgians are too honorable to leave it un
nourished while it remains in their
power to quicken it into life. Our noble
Stale, true to tic instincts of our
fathers has, history will abundantly prove, stood
attacks of the enemy of our common country
with a self-sacrificing devotion not less patriot
ic than any of her sister States—shocks which,
proportionally with her capacity for endurance,
were equal with those borne by any other—and
notwithstanding her determined resistance, upen
several occasions, of the misapplied power of
the general government, she has never been
found wanting in respect for the Union to which
she, in common with her sister States, owes to
much for her prosperity. Nor will she ever
desert it at [he dictation of near-sighted politi
cians who cannot discern the least remaining
hope of its honorable perpetuity. But, while
she is so patriotically and wisely tenacious to
the gift of her forefathers, the imputation that
participation in the spoils of office is the cement
which binds her to the Union, is a misrepresen
tation not warranted by her past history, or her
present position. No State—and wo say it
proudly—occupies a nobler attitude towards
the Union, or cne more consistent with the hon
or of her sons, than Georgia. Tis true, she
stands by the Union, and is willing topour out
the blood of her nobly descended sons in its de
fence from attacks, external or internal, but
when the price of her adhesion is dishonor
“hen the tribute it demands is the sur
rounding of her sovereign constitutional
r ghts, she will as remorselessly sunder her con
nection with it, as the blindest secessionist of
South Carolina would now do. But the congre
gated intelligence of our State, not less wise or
chivalrous than the editor of the Mercury, docs
not regard that condition placed upon her
adherence to the general government, and though
she is menaced, she sees yet no justification
for disregarding her obligations to it, and
would scorn to desert it iu this, the hour of its
(Hal, no matter who may meanly beckon her
away from her duty, or, in impotence of wrath
at lier refusal to follow such unwise advisers,
heap upon her such ungenerous and untruthful
charges as. by implication, the extract we clip
from the Mercury contains. When the time
comes, which we have too much cause to fear
it may, the editor shall see that Georgia will
maintain her proud position in the van of re
sistance, and put to shame those who hastily
reflect upon her courage, aid charge her with
interested motives.
Au experienced sea captain of Phila
delphia informs the Philadelphia Inquirer, that
he is of opinion that the pieces of a steamer's
cabin seen in lat. 40 deg. and long. 49 deg..
eould not have belonged to the missing Pacific.
He thinks that they were portions of a large i
steamer wrecked some two or three months
1 since, at or near lhe Bahamas, and that, forced
; into the Gulf Stream by the winds, tl ev floated
; to the north-east towards the place of discoverv. I
A young son of U. S. Minister Wbkklsr 1
I was accidentally shot oh the 16th ult, by a gun
■in the bands us an cider brother. Though se
j verely, he was not fatally wounded. El Nica-
■ rugticr.se uetices the first deserter, James
i Bitche, from Walker's army—fifty dollars re
| word was ofiered for hiu.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 27. 1856.
Tlie Douglas Victory in Chicago.
Wc lay before our readers the result of the
t election in Chicago yesterday. It is gratifying
to the lovers of freedom every where. We have
had to encounter the greatest combinations
that a gallant party had yet to oppose. A
gainst us were arrayed the entire K. N, party;
the entire abolition party; tiie entire Anti-Ne
braska party ; the entire Maine law party; and
all the odds and ends of all factions and isms
that find a home in this fair city.
We have not only had to encounter open and
avowed enemies, but we have had to meet the
most unblushing falshoods, villification and shin
der that ever disgraced the lips of men or
stained the columns of public journals. That
distant readers may form a faint idea of the
powers against us, we will state that F. C.
Sherman had, up to first day of February, 1856,
been a member of the Democratic party, with
out suspicion of being tainted with any of the
isms of the day. When the Democratic party
made its nomination, Mr. Sherman was spoken
of as a man calculated to divide our ranks and
weaken our forces. He became the candidate
of all his personal and immediate politcal friends
who desired revenge upon the party for not se
lecting Sherman. Following rapidly upon this
nomination by the disaffected Democrats, was
his unanimous nomination by the Know Noth
ing Convention. Hardly had he been pro
claimed the Know Nothing candidate before
the “Republican” or Abolition party, under
the specious cry of “Anti Nebraska,” selected
him as its candidate. One would think this
array of opposition was formidable enough :
but in the two “Know Something” lodges, com
posed principally of foreigners, lie was also
nominated. The entire Maine law party wheel
ed into his support, and all the strength, power
and corrupting influence of a vast body of po
lice and city officials. John Wentworth, with
his corrupt troop of mercenary foreigners—
gave himself entirely to the enemy.
We had to contend against everything t'mt
was base and villainous. Banks were opened and
money poured like water through the hands of
bribing men into the willing palms of unprinci
pled voters. The Know Nothing organ and
the German newspaper united hands to defeat
the Democracy. The name of Douglas was on
the lips of every ribald ruffian, and men wear
ing the cloth of clergymen joined their voices
with the. men who named Douglas with the
epithets of villain, ruffian, slaveholder and mur
derer.
Every imaginable issue that could be conjured
up was presented. “Rivera and harbors,” the
murder of drowned seamen, the wreck of prop
erty, the chains of slaves in Kansas, the walls
of slaves in South Carolina—all were sung up
on every breeze, and they bad their effect upon
ths result. In spite of all this, the banner of
Democracy this morning floats proudly over
Democratic Chicago. The issue of the right
of the people of Kansas and of each State and
community to regulate and decide their own
domestic concerns, was forced upon us, and we
could not refuse it, even if we were willing.
We met it, and as has been the case every
where else where the issue has been boldly met.
we hare triumphed.
To say that we are individual rejoiced would
be but feebly to express our feelings. The
Chicago Times has borne the brunt of the con
test, and, though if our ticket had been defeated, '
we would have borne our banner just as proud
ly as ever; still the victory, coming as it does,
after a conflict in which we stood alone, is even
more gratifying than it would have been under
other circumstances.
We cannot close the account, written at this
late hour, without expressing the valuable aid
rendered the party by The National Democrat,
under the charge of Dr. Koch.
Our hearts are too full to-night to add one
word to this brief account of an unexpected
result of an election, the first one which has ta
ken place since November, 1854, in winch the
Democracy has met the enemy. Mr. Dyer is
elected Mayor by over four hundred majority.
Chicago Times, March 5.
Another American Triumph.
The following article, translated from the
Paris Moniteur of February 21st, is tlie record
of another victory gained by American inven
tive talent in Europe:
“The Emperor accompanied by the Minister
of War, an aid-de-camp, end an officer of or '-
nance, went on the 2d ofFeb.uary to the
Seine, near the Military School, to witness some
experiments made to exhibit the qualities of a
military carriage, ofcorrugated meta’, that Mr.
Francis, of New York, had constructed to
present to his Majesty.
Mr. Francis commenced by giving some in
formatioßon the mode of construction, and on
the processes employed in giving great strength
to a very thin and very light metal, and furn
ished a proof of it by.striking the wagoa body
with all bis strength,re lows redoubled, and at
the same point, with a large, long handled
hammer. He afterwards caused the wagon,
with all its equipments, to be launched in the
water, where it floated like a boat. The men
who were iu it, to the number ofsixteeu, placed
themselves in a mass on the sides, without being
able, in spite of all their efforts to make the
sides sink to the level of the water. The wag
on afterwards taken into the current of the
river, to show that a load could by this means
be transported from one bank to the other.with
out being necessary to take off the wheels, so
that a train of these wagons could continue to
follow their route without delay.
“Afterwards, tne running gear having been
detached, the body was manoeuvred separately,
like a boat, with oars.
“These experiments obtained the approba
tion of his Majesty, who had the goodness
twice to ca*l Mr. Francis and congratulate him
on his success.
“The Emperor caused Mr. Francis to give
him detailed information about his metallic
boats, which have obtained great celebrity, aud
of which the models were on the spot. After
a minute examination, which lasted more thau
an hour, his majesty showed the interest which
he took in these inventions as being as impor- !
tant improvement for the army and mariue!
set vice.
“At the same time Mr. Francis informed his!
Majesty of official news received from the Uni- ■
ted States army, giving acccuut of an exp di- '
tion 1.510 miles over very bail routes—an ex
pediation during which his wagons had crossed
rivers, floating with ther cargoes from one shore
to the other, without any watercourse having
been able to arrest their’ march.”
tfe?* A dispatch from Washington, dated
the 15th inst.. says:
“ Information from official sources confirm
the statement that an alliance has been formed .
between San Salvador, Cpsta Rica, Gautamala
and Honduras.
“ It is said that the alliance is complete, and
that those States are now prepared to defend
their own territory, as well as to assist their
brethren iu Nicaragua against Walker's gov
i ernment. It is supposed that hostilities have
■ already commenced.
' “It is also true that instructions Lave been
issued by several of the European governments
to their squadrons in the Atlantic and Pacific,
with reference to events in Central America.
J - B : Kertland, and others, have been
convicted of illegal banking at Memphis, Tens.
The fine is SI,OOO. and one month's imprison
■cal.
Spunky.
Washington, March 14.
Senate.—Petitions were presented from the
merchants and importers of Boston, New
York, and Philadelphia, asking a revision of the
tariff.
Mr. Johnson reported in favor of printing
thirty-one thousand copies of the majority and
minority report of the Committee on Territories
on the Kansas case, it being five hundred to
to each member.
Mr. Trumbull opposed the motion. He
thought the minority report presented the sla
very question in a masterly manner. Its posi
tions are unanswerable, but it did not enter in
to details as the majority report; henra he was
unwilling to send out. with the Senate’s indorse
ment, a document containing so many unwar
ranted assumptions, erroneous deductions, and
inconsistencies.
Mr. Wade asked Mr. Trumbull to yield the
floor for adjournment.
Mr. Douglas—l hope not. The courtesies
of the Senate have been taken advantage of on
account of my absence to make au assault on
me.
Mr Trumbull—No, sir; 1 knew not whether
you were present or absent. I was comment
ing on the report. I did not introduce the
subject, nor did I know it would come up to
day.
Mr. Douglas—My colleague dares io say in
the face of-the fact, that he did not know I
was absent. lie acted with unfairness in at
tacking the report when I was detained from
the Senate by ill health. I would ask him
witbin what reasonable time will his speech be
printed ?
Mr. Trumbull—l think it will be published
by Monday.
Mr. Douglas—ls I can ask the postponement
of the question till Monday, I will reply to Mr.
Trumbull’s speech on Tuesday.
Mr. Seward—Take your own time.
Mr. Douglas (quickly)—l understand that
game, “take your own time.” The Senator
from Massachusetts took his own time to write
and circulate a libel on me about the time the
Nebraska bill was reported.’ I understand my
colleague to say that he came here as a Dem
ocrat. That will be news to the Democracy
of Illinois, ami is libel on the Democracy of
that State.
Mr. Crittenden interposed, saying that the
debate was transcending the rules of decorum.
The Senator bad charged a libel on Mr. Trum
bull. [Sensation.]
Mr. Douglas—l should have been better
satisfied if the Senator from Kentucky had,
when the Black Republicans denounced us
in coarse terms, rebuked them for want of cour
tesy.
Air. Crittenden—To what do you allude ?
Mr. Douglas—When they made vulgar coarse
partisan assaults on the Democratic side of the
Senate.
Mr. Crittenden—’Twas no more my busi
ness than that of others, to call Senators to
order for personalities. This is not the place
for vituperation. It should be settled else
where.
Mr. Douglas—l do not regard the Senator a
good authority in I lliuois polities. 1 was speak
ing of events of which I was better capable of
judging than he.
[There was a further colloquy, when the
Chair decided that Douglas’ remarks were not
personal.]
Mr. Douglas—So far as I am advised, I be
lieve my colleague was the candidate of a mis
erable set of Abolitionists and Know-Nothings,
who are one aud the same thing.
Mr. Crittenden—l want the Senate to un
derstand that I operate with the American
party, standing as a gentleman and Senator
in absolute independence; and claiming all
the respect due to honesty as a freeman, 1 re
pel with scorn every imputation of that kind, as
intended to embrace me and my political asso
ciates.
Mr. Douglas (explaining)—l spoke of what
I know Know-Nothingisai is in Illinois, and
said it might be otherwise in the South. Every
Know Nothing Lodge in Illinois adopted the
Abolition creed, aud that is the miserable fac
tion which sent my collegue here. The Sena
tor from Kentucky misunderstood me, else he
would not have conceived that my remarks were
personal tower Is him.
Mr. Crittenden—The gentleman did not make
the qualification he now does.
Mr. Douglas—Every gentleman must have
understood me as making a distinction. I
said nothing about Southern Know-Noth-|
lags.
Mr. Trumbull—l shall not permit such re
marks as these from my colleague to pass un
answered. I shall suffer no man here or else
where to state of me things which arc absolute
ly and totally unfounded. If he means to say
that I am or ever have been a Know-Nothing,
or connected with any secret political organiza
tion, the charge is base. 1 wiil not violate the
rules of the Senate, but will say that such a
charge is untrue. He proceeded tospeak of the
politics of Illinois, claiming that she is and al
ways has been Democratic.
Secret History of tlie Death of
Gen. Taylor.
A correspondent of the Cleveland Herald
was riding in the cars a few days since, and re
ports a conversation which passed between the
Hou. Thomas Ewing and some one else. Rath
er a trespass on private property, we think, but
what Ewing said of the death of Gen. Tay'er
is very interesting, and ns it has already been in
type here it is:
I was at the President's house on the third
of July,” he said—“ Gen. Taylor had just re
ceived au invitation to attend tne celebration
on the following day. ind hear a speech by Sen-;
ator Foote. Though Mr. Foote was a member'
of the opposition party, he was a gentleman, i
and the President felt disposed to show him ail ’
the respect possible. He did not. however, i
immediately conclude to accept the invitation. I
“Having taken my leave. 1 had not yet'
reached the street on my return, when a nies-;
senger overtook me to say that the President
would attend the celebration, and desired that I
I should accompany him.
Seats were assigned us in the shade of the:
Washington Monument. Foote made a good!
speech, of reasonable length, and sat down. It 1
was then announced that the c remony of the *
presentation of a block by the District of Co-1
lumbia, would take place immediately, at the
opposite side of the Monument. The presenta-,
tion speech would be made by Walter Jones,:
on the part of the District, and the reply would
be given by Mr. Seaton, in behalf of tlie Mon
! ument Association. The President asked me
!if the speeches would probably be short. As I
1 knew both the speakers to ba men of lew words
: and many thoughts, I replied that the exercises
’ would certainly be brief. Accordingly, the
President concluded to remain, and we repaired
I to the other side of the Monument.
I •• Mr. Jones made a speech, which was brief
! and to the point, and sat down. Mr. Seaton
1 then arose aud said that he was gratified to be
! able to announce that Mr. C. had consented to
i make the speech in reply to Mr. Jones. I at
' once concluded that we were dead men. I
j knew the proposed speaker, and was certain that
'we were doomed to hear a long speech. I en
' deavared to persuade the President to retire.
I but he was unwilling to do so. We endured
j the intense heat for an hoar and a half before
his speech was done. The President went
home wearied by the length of the exercises,
and suffering from long exposure to the heat.—
In the i veuiug I heard that he was violently ill
I repaired to the Mansion, and urged the fami
ly to call a physician immediately. But the
President wa-* unwilling that this should be
<L:>e. J then induced the family physician to
i eali, as a friend, and request to see Gen. Taylor.
I But tlie sick man refused to sec him. On’ the
follov/iug afternoon I called again, and as the
President desired to see me. I was admitted to
his room. He was lying on a sufa apparently
destitute of pain, and very cheerful. He desired
to hear the n -ws. and I told him of as many
agreeable circumstances as I could. When 1
lelt his room, alter ::n hour’s conversation, I was
qtvte confident that he would soon be well. I
very soon heard, however, that his disease had
returned with renewed violence, and that he
wits suffering with intense agony. 1 hastened
to the telegraph office, to send for his son-in-law,
Dr Wood, a skillful physician of Baltimore.—
The dispatch could not be sent that night, so
that the doctor did not arrive until the next
evening—too late to be of any avail. The
President failed rapidly, and expired in a short
time. I shall ever believe that his death may
be traced to the last long speech, which was
made on the Fourth of July. Such an effect
was, of course, not intended by the speaker.—
This is an instance of murder without malice
“I immediately handed in my resignation to
Mr. Fillmore, to take effect in a few davs!”
[From the Sew York Journal of Commerce.']
Increase of the Navy.
The history of our national legislation shows
that the progress of the country constantly
keeps in advance of the estimate of statesmen
in all the departments of public affairs. The
buildings required for the accommodation of the
government officers at Washington, projected
seemin Jy at the time on an extravagant scale,
is no sooner finished than they are found too
contracted for the public wants; aud ev.en the
brief interval required for enlargement or sup
plementary construction lias to be provided for
by hiring private edifices, or the adoption of
other inconvenient resorts. The same is true
of government buildings elsewhere. The New
York Custom House, undertaken with reference
to all future time, is too small to afford suitable
facilities for the immense business of which it
is the theatre. The post office is so cramped
for room that it is forced to the expedient of
unsightly projections ; and the once venerable
church, deformed by successive compilations,
now resembles those old hulks of condemned
water crafts which one sees in new settlements
moored to bay or river shore, built upon, and
around, and rooted in, to protect a thriftless
tenantry from the elements. So it is with the
provision made on the western plains for the
protection of emigrant travel. .Parties are
compelled to combine iu large caravans, rely
ing on their own unaided strength for mutual
defence against reckless and desperate savages.
Even the armed forces of the government
are too weak to maintain their self security.—
The small bodies in which they are sometimes
compelled to move are not unfrequently encoun
tered and overcome by the Indian foe; and
even the fortrerses which they garrison cannot
he relied on to provide a safe retreat from
massacre and c ,:.flagration. Our land force
is altogether too small to defer the turbulent
from outrage by the terror of its aspect, and,
inadequate to prevent crime, it is compelled to
wage battle for the infliction of punishment.—
Every session of Congress presents us witii a
deficiency bill, the necessary expenses of the
government having considerably exceeded the
appropriations estimated to be necessary to de
fray them. Not less true is it that the expan
sion of our foreign commerce requires a much
larger force of national vessels in commission
to extend to it that protection which, not alone
its magnitude and importance, but the honor
and interest of a great people, in resourc. s co-1
ordinate with the most powerful in the family |
of nations, importunately demand. Not only
are our ships of war too few to traverse the
diverging tracks of American commerce, but
for the most part they are not a class to satis
fy the exigencies of a modern naval service.—
We want steamers instead of sailing vessels.—
In time of peace, rapid movement is more
necessary than heavy armament It is as a
measure of peace, and not in contemplation of
war arising out of any existing complications,
that the construction of ten steam sloops of war
is asked by the government. Occasion for their
employment is presented iu every day's expe
rience. We want them to counteract the plans
and intercept the ventures of fillibusters. We
wan to send them to the relief of vessels strug
gling with the storms of winter to reach our
coast. Those of our fellow-citizens whose ocea
siots take them to foreign lands ask their pres
ence. if need be to invoke their interposition
should tyranny or caprice seek to subvert the
right and establish the wrong. Our comm- rec
seeks anew extension in the Pacific. The world
is looking w ith eager expectancy for the open
ing of trade with Japan. The position of our
young communities bordering the Western
< cean gives us peculiar advantages iu the com
petition soon to arise for the benefits of that
traffic. The Japanese are a peculiar people.
Their government is only to be deterred from
repressing the disposition certain to be excited
among them for intercourse with foreigners by
a show of force that must be always present aud
active in its demonstrations of capacity for ex
ecuting the resolves of policy or resentment.—
We have our part, too. to perform in the de
velopment of human know,edge, the promotion
of science, and the diil’usii n of Christianity.—
All these objects may be vastly encouraged and
aided, aud have heretofore, to some extent, been
more or less directly performed by the instru
mentality of the naval service. There is little
danger that tbs navy will be increased out of
proportion to the interests which it is needed to
subserve. Wc are glad, therefore, that the Sen
ate have passed the bill providing for the con
struction of ten new screw - e_mcra, and trust
there will be no effectual opposition offered to'
its passage iu the House.
The Secretary of Stats upon the Wail J
—A Washington Correspondent of the New I
; York Herald, says :
The Secretary of State, so far as tiie question ,
I of peace or war is concerned, seems as mild as '
’ a May morning. “Let John Bull swagger and ■
j bluster," he exclaimed yesterday, “oar policy is ]
to be firm, dignified anil positive.” These lew :
' words, spoken in great earnestness, give the
: key to the whole of our foreign policy towards
I Great Britain. We have England in the wrong
1 i adde 1 Marcy, “and we'll keep her there." Yet
I know it to be the impression of an adminis
' tration, that, with ail the swaggering and blus
! tering of tiie British ministerv, the British
■ people will never permit themselves to be forc
-: ed into an unnecessary and ruinous war with
; tiie United States: aud the tone lately of the Lon
‘ dou Times would warrant us in believing that
I: Lord Palmerston himself would not be willing
H to press matters to an extreme.
I aS- A man n.m?d George Eagan has been
re arrested in Boston for the murder of his twin
>; sister, a y ung aud beautiful girl, whom it is
II said he beat so severely as to crease her death.
I. .
t Marcy vs. Clarendon.—
■ I Ti e Yankees say “Lord Clarendon
Is talking rather scarcy ;
11 But don't let's fight 1 it’s much the best
el Ts lat Um Lord have Marcy
Foreign Ministers in Washing
ton.
A very cleyer correspo. dint of the Louisville
Courier, writing from Washington, says of the
foreign ministers :
Yonder, with four dapple, bob-tailed greys, is
the turnout of Mr. Almonte, the Mexican Min
ister. He drives at a faster gait, and lives at
a higher rate than any of the foreign ministers.
Soog we see a dashing brace of bays, with a
light uncovered wagon. In front, holding the
reins, is evidently the proprietor, while behind
him sits the footmen. That is Mr. Crampton,
the British Minister, about whose recall we have
heard so much through the newspapers. He
lives in the adjoining city of Georgtown, in no
particular style, drives his own team, and sub
serves the interests of Her Majesty, Victoria
Regina, in a manner worthy of the crowning
diplomat, which he is, and nothing more. To
continue about foreign ministers, I find that
they are below par, very considerably- not
that they have no grace, and manners, and
reputation, and talents, and all that sort'of things
but they lack-the cash and that is indispensable
to currency iu Washington society.
M/ De Sartiges. the French Minister, has
actually been banished from this city by the
force of fashionable will. And why? It
chanced that in his odd, fanciful way, ho re
cently called at a party given at Senator Bay
ard’s (of Delewar*) residence, and entered the
parlor smoking a cigar. He was remonstrated
with concerning the impropriety, and rcsporu
del that it was but an American prejudice
against his conduct. The Senator gave hitn I
notice to quit, and public sentiment tfcjjujL
agair-t him. he has sh.ee lhen alis*
self from the city, save when he has hawlcsi
ness with the State department. Baron Stce.
kle, the Russian Minister, likewise lives in New
York. Tlie members of the other foreign
p:\vers are but inferior personages—chiefly
distinguishable by their long coats, long hair,
long beards and long faces. They hurry about
with ungainly strides, and unchristain gestures,
speaking in foreign tongues, and evidently,
though among us, not of us.
One Ki ndred and Eighty Thousand Dol
lars worth of Cotton Destroyed. —Quite
a brisk fire started into existence about seven
o'clock on Friday morning, among a lot of cot
ton piled in the third yard of the lower cotton
press, Third District. The fire was observed
a few minutes before by the yard cleak, who
tried to quench it, but the flames spread with
too great a velocity to be stopped by the menus
and appliances at his command. Not more
than ten minutes elapsed from the time the fire
was first discovered until the entire cotton shed
and all was in flames. Not only the cotton in
this shed, but that stored in two adjoining sheds
was destroyed. The three sheds in question
are now a mass of ruins. A brick wall, front
ing on Greatmen street, fell, and falling on an
employee of the yard, broke his leg. He was
removed to his home for surgical attendance.—
There was a rumor afloat at one time that five
or six other persons were under the wall, crush
ed in by rubbish. This, we are glad to say.
was not the case. A number of fire engines,
together with the “Y< ung America” steam en
gine, were on the ground, but owing to the
scarcity of water little good was tha remit.—
M hen our “Young America” was
playing away right rapidly, with six branch
hose, bearing heavily on the smanldcriag rem
nant of the conflagration. A strong opinion is
aboard that t e whole thing is the work of an
incendiary. If it had occurred iu the night
time, there is no knowing or calculating on the
loss of property which would have taken place.
Another very fortunate circumstance is, besides
that of the fire haying taken place in the day
light, that Ferdinand street intersected the
cotton yard at a point where the wall fell, and
hence the progress of the fire was cut off from
the cotton in the yard between that street and
the river.
We learn the property was ins: red in three
different insurance offices—in the Cresent, tbu
Merchants’ and in another office, the name of
which our reporter cnuld not ascertain. Strong
censure fails on the Water Works Company
in this, as in other cases similar, where prop
erty could have been saved if there was only a
proper supply of water.—A'. O.
Sam and Sambo.—The editor of the Hart
ford Couraut, an abolition Know Nothing or
gan, insists with great pertinacity, that Sam
aud Sambo are one and the same person, or, it
separate beings, that they are the children of
the same parents, and twin brothers so far as
size, looks and complexion arc concerned. After
defining his own position at considerable length,
the editor comes to the following conclusions :
“ Wc have, then, the two ideas—Republi
canism and Americanism. Is there any clash
ing between them? Not the slightest. They
are brothers ; there is no earthly uece.sity for
the slightest collision. They are a smart pair
of Yankee twins ; such boys as it would glad
den any father's heart to see ; such boys ou
only a bad man would wish to set a fighting.
Let Sam aud Sambo keep good friends. There
is no necessity for jealousy or collision.”
Old Dennis kept a grocery store, re
tailed petrified hams, bar soap, eggs, cheese, etc
in fact he kept evrything in the provision line,
from a salt codfish to dried apples. Old Den
nis stuttered awfully; and the letter T would
stick to his mouth like a gloss on water in an
alderman’s throut. The old man once went in
to a store to get a skein of silk, the clerk knew
him. and when he commenced asking for a sk
-sk the young man dodged down behind tlie
counter, rushed out of the back door, arid went
to dinner, getting back just as the old man had
managed to finish the word “silk,” You may
infer from this that he stuttered very bad. 1 was
in his grocery one day, when a well-known
withered old maid came in. Like most old
maids, she was os particular os she was homely.
When she made her appearance I dodged be
hind a barrel of mackerel, to hear old Dennis
talk to her ladyship. Miss Totten (that was
her name,) asked the old man •• if he had any
fowls ?" He replied that he had, and proceeded
to show them up. She lifted a fine fat chicken
of five Summers, and after handling it long
enough to make a two year old rooster tender,
sue raised oae of its wing’, and taking a good
smell underneath, she threw it down with the
exclamation, Mr. Dennis, that chicken smells
trowsy ! ’ Old Dennis was considerably “ riled."
•• Ma-Miss To-To-Totten,” said he, " I gu-gu
gess, t-t take you aud rise up your arms, and
st-st-ick one’s n-n-nose under, you'd smell frowy
t-t too ’ Miass Totten slid, and so did I.
Arrest of a Georgia Convict.—The
Charleston Evening Seres, of Suturoay, says :
•• About 10 o’clock lost night officers McDow
ell aud Twohill arrested Calvin Lewis, an
escaped convict from the Penitentiary at J/ill
edgeviUe, Ga. He was found in bed’with his
brother, at the house of Mr. Veroxrt, on L : ne
street. He was put in the Penitentiary for
robbi: the Georgia; . Iroad. He was remand
ed to j .reson, where he will be kept till the au
thorities at Milledgeville can be heard from.
Washington, March 9.—la the ladies’ parlor
of the National Hotel this afternoon, a man
named Stuart, of Louisville, Ky., knocked down
another named Mays, of Washington. The
latter shot at him with a pistol, the bullet gra
zing Stuart's clothes. The affray originated in
a ; rQcitd •
La Marseillaise, tlie celebrated
French National Hymn.
The following brief history of this world
renowned national anthem, from the columns
of one of our exchanges, wiil be interesting.
history of this song, now heard in
France no more, now crushed down in the
hearts of the French people and made to give
way to Partant pour/a S’y/ue, is not without
interest as a matter of history. It was co i -
posed, both words and music, by a young royal
ist officsr of artillery, Rouget de Lisle by mime.
He was stationed at Strasburg at the time
when France was heaving with the throes of the
revohitiop. He was famed throughout the
country as a favorite ol the muses of poetry
and song. The winter of 1792 was one of
scarcity in Strasburg, and at the table of a
poor acquaintance, Deitrick, who could set but
little food before his guest, DeLisle 'always
found at least a bottle of generous wine. It
was on an evening of this gloomy season of
want and turmoil, when Deitrick and DeLisle
were warming themselves with the old ‘Faler
nian,’ that the former proposed to the latter
that he should produce ‘one of those hymns i
which convey to the souls of the people the !
enthusiasm which suggested it.’ De Lisle repair-;
cd at midnight to his lodgings, and there, on j
his clavicord, now composing the air, iu a sort:
of frenzy struck off’a hymn, ‘which,’ says a dis
tinguished French writer ‘seems a recovered echo
of Thermopylae—it was heroism sung.’ Over
come at length and exhausted lie fell asleep, and
it was not until the next day that he wrote out
the hymn and presented it to his friend Deitrick.
The hymn of the country was found. Alas!
it proved the requ’em to poor Deitrick. He
went to the scaffold to its notes, within a year.
“It flew from city to city. At the opening
and closing of tho clubs in Marseilles, it was
sung, and hence its name. De Lisle himself,
proscribed as a royalist, heard that song when
fleeing for safety from his country, and what
he had created iu-a moment of enthusiasm and
as an incentive to freedom, became the death
cry-of the revolutionists, and stirred the blood
of desperate men to the most fearful deeds of
tyranny and terror.”
The Great Fillibuster.—“Tho kingdom
of Oude has been annexed,” is the brief and
cool announcement by telegraph, from Trieste,
of the latest news from India. It is thus the
rapacious subjects of Victoria piece her opulent
empire with kingdoms. Onde contains twenty
four thousand square miles, and three millions
of inhabitants. The soil is fu lof that warlike
ingredient, saltpetre—and nourishes all agricul
tural products to fruitful growth. WitL Oude
perishes the last representative of Hindoo na
tionality, although her independence had been
guaranteed by regular treaties with Great Bri
tain, rendered the more solemn and obligatory
because a valuable consideration, in the form of
a cession of territory and sacrifice of indepen
dence, was paid as the price demanded for the
protection of England. Tims tho provinces ol
India are violently wrested from their sovereign
owners by English brute force, upon the hypo
critical pretext that the cause of humanity and
civilization demand it. What is the history of
British rule in India but a tale of oppression
and horror? Even Englishmen, familiar with
India affairs, have acknowledged that the Bri
tish yoke is the most cruel to which the Hin
doos have ever been subjected. Lord Metcalf,
so long employed in India, describes the tyran
ny of England as almost unbearable in many
things. A/aeaulay, partisan as he is, docs noi
venture to assert otherwise. No Hindoo can
hold any office but a subordinate one. No
Hindoo is trusted with a command in the army.
It is a tyranny of race as well as of power.—
Boston Post.
Compartments in the Collins Steamers.
—The bulkheads—eight in number t which the
Messrs. Steers are putting into tlie Baltic,
now in the dry dock, at tho foot of Market
street, are built in the most substantial maime -.
and may be considered thoroughly waterpn of
The kelson is Covered with oaken plank, water
tight ; a stanchion is run up to the deck above,
and a section of kiln-dried yellow pine pitink
two inches thick, tongued and grooved tegetii
cr, and firmly fastened to the sides of the' ves
sel, is constructed. Upon this is iastone:! :>
coat of white turpntine, audit is afterwards
covered with a very thick blanket. Another
section of yellow pine plank is built over this
—the planks ruuning transversely to those of
the first section—and the whole is riveted to
gether with an immense number of bolts. The
Messrs. Steers have already fitted up the At.
lantic (while in the water) with the same num
ber of bulkheads, similarly constructed. The
Adriatic wii be furnished with bulkheads aftci
launching. The statement already made that
the Pacific was provided with bulkheads, lias
been widely discredited. We are infornu<
however, upon good authority, that one bulk
head (in her bew) was placed in her two voy
age’ ago. It was the intention of the owners
to fit her up, on her return from this trip, us
thoroughly as her consorts have been.— Journal
The Case of Mr. Crampton.—A Wash
ington correspondent says that the British
Minister has delayed the contemplated answer
to the despatch of
recall of Mr. Crampton and the consuls, until
time shall have been afforded for collecting cer
tain information on matters of fact introduced
into that recapitulation of the whole case.—
The statement of fact understood to be in
dispute between the two governments, refers to
the enlistments alleged to have been made after
Lord Clarendon’s disclaimer of an intention to
violate the laws of the United States, and
after the issue of the order which he states had
been given to discontinue the recruiting. Mr.
Marcy will have no difficulty in proving to the.
satisfaction of the British Ministry, the allega
tions made by him on this head, and it is be
lieved that Mr. Crampton will admit them.—
1 his state of the cass gives countenance to the
conjecture- that Mr. Crampton may be promo
ted in the diplomatic service, and transferred
to another station.— Balt. Amer.
E®- The last invention is a plan for cooking
without fire, described in the Scientific Ameri
can. The invention is a combination of tin
cooking dishes, placed one above another, the
bottom of one vessel fitting on the top part of
th* dish below. In the lower dish ot all, a
small quantity of quick lime is placed, and then,
by means of a tube, cold water is introduced
upon the lime. Chemical action generates in
tense heat, whereby the articles on the dishes
are quickly cooked, ready for the table.
A young woman, who gave the name
of Ann Linden, was arrested at New York last j
week as a vagrant She was dressed in male
attire, and stated that she had assumed the
dress to save herself from insult and to gain
better compensation for her labor. According
to the narrative she gave, she had, for three or
four years, dressed as a boy, and worked as
bar-keeper, cabin boy and waiter.
I and may have taken possession of one or two
i sleamors for that purpose, a proceeding for
which Walker would have little difficulty in
finding a precedent, and which in itself is of no
great importance. It has probably by repeti
tion attained the magnitute of the report now
rewived.
WM. KA if PROPRIETOR
L- L
NUMBER 33.
I From the Murfreesboro Telegraph, \bth inst.
Awful Fire—-Fourteen Houses in
Ruins!
ns morning our citv was visited by one of
the most calamitous fires that hus ever been
by our , , ' i k tiz '’" 9 - ‘ v '’ar three o’clock
■ -m.reo I n"" 1 that ,lir ' , ' i, ' ncr ’« S| '°P of Mr.
: rnrnT 0!1 'he north-w.at
corner of the square was on fire. The large
fl r o^' r y store of Messrs. Crocket Ransom
ahi,' w Masonic Hall,
Ihlen was m the third story of this building,
nsdeJroyjd, with all the furniture, jewels A-c
of Mount Monan Lodge No. 28, of Muifrecs-
No°23.’ , g 0 2O5 ’" ud Chapter
’‘’“‘o Rrocery store of Messrs. J. A. Collier &
occupied byMr"w *T y j iia,ro - vt,L 'l'hchouse
biy injured, CroS £
u -rgoanmunt of wllolt> Corn
mil various other articles, supposed altogether
; near eleven thousand dohars,“three five
>' eBWS - J- A. Collier & Co'
Itheh™eri,s' m rr”’ , I ’ he !rrpatcr P° rli, >n of
i it".,.
completely destroyed them, n ,X‘the n’/'
ing buildings of Tho. w r; / • n "!°.' n '
irere two groceries and ‘one 'LiS-
SB 'i‘
from reaching his dwelling ImJ °
The loss of Messrs. J. a. Collier Co
1” “a, Xk'?',
Great Earthquake in CALTrom.-u._One
of the severest earthquakes ew experienced iu
California, took place on the 15th of February.
city, says the Ban Francisco
O'cry buddmg shook to its foundation, and in
some quarts the bougeg were pwayf )
cd as vessels in a heavy sea. Tho inmates of
every dwelling were awakened, and some were
even thrown from their be<ls, so violent was tho
shock.
Many persons rushed into, tho streets, and
but that the circumstance of their sudden np.
pearunco was of a character to produce sensa.
lions ol terror rather than merriment, the scene
would have been most ludicrous. The largo
hotels were depopulated instanfor, and in the
general rush articles of furniture were thrown
down, occasioning noises which added consider
ably to the clutter and confusion caused by tho
earthquake,
i he Alta Californian says ;
“ Instances of persons being thrown out o
( b rne! O ina Ar <SSt n , ’ piu !g'’ '.’ r<i[ ’ir of windows
racing of Malls and d.eiirrunging of house-
Hold Ihiygs generally, nro entirely too numerous
to mention. Ihe whole city was in uproar, mid
■be cm.re population a good deni alarmed, while
many wore nearly frantic. P< oplerushed wild
ly into the streets m their night cloths, and
Stood amazed and astounded at what had han
penea. 1
Ihe earthquake wiis felt very seriously all
over the State. At San Joaquin three heavy,
waves, following each other in rapid succession,
were noticed the evening previous to the shock.
, I’otatoe Rot.—The Sparta editor of the
Central Georgian, notices the fact that potatoes
in that section have nearly all rotted in the
heap. ITacays: Out of about fifteen bushels
saved for seed, wc had only two bushels of
sound ones, and this is better luck than most
of our neighbors. We suppose it is owing to
the unpredented cold of January, for prior to
that time there wus no complaint of rotten
potatoes.
Tne Washington Star says the Black
Republican caucus at Washington was a fail
ure. They were unable to seduce politicians
into their ranks, and have come to the conclu
s on that it will be impossible for them to win
in November, unless they concentrate and form
a junction with the National Am.-rieans,which
the Star thinks is impracticable.
Ai’freiiended Overflow.—The citizens of
New Orleans ure painfully apprehensive of an
unusal overflow of its banks by the Mississippi
diving the Spring. The extraordinary full of
snow in the northwest during the past winter,
and the unusal coincidence of u rise ut the pres
ent time in all the rivers tributary to the Great
Father of Waters, arc alleged as grounds for
serious uneasiness. '1 Be Picayune earnestly ad
vises the planters and all others interested, to
be prompt and diligent in the work of prepara
tion for higher water than they huvekuowu for
many a year.
The Texas route for a Railroad to the
Pacific.—Major Heintzelman, of U. S. Army
after many years spent in the West, publishes
a letter in the Cincinnati Railroad Record, ad
vocating the Texas route for a railroad to the
Pacific. The Records udds a tabic of distance
showing that even Cincinnati is four hundred
and seventy-one miles nearer to the Pacific by
way of Texas than by its most formidable rival
line—tha^ through th* southwest pass, on the
parallel of forty-one degrees. The Record
thinks that it would, moreover, be impossible
to run through the Rocky Mountains in win
ter.
EDi- At Parodi’s farewell concert in Augus
ta, on Friday night, while Parodi and Mud.
Strakosch were singing “ The Star Spangled
Banner,” the gas went out, leaving the compa
ny in darkness. Enchanted with the music;
the audience remained attentive to the end,
when the song was rapturously encored, w**
the ladies repeated the last two stanzas by th ß
light of a candle held from the side sceacs-