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ATLANTA, MAY 1, 1856.
!«.. To the Hon. Howell Cobb, and the I
Hon. J. H. Lumpkin, we are indebted for val
uable public documenta. They will please
accept our thanks for their attention to this
office.
Election of City Court Judge for Atlanta.
At the election for City Court Judge, which
took place on Saturday, the following was the
result:
For Whitaker, (Dem.) 280.
For Underwood, (K. N.) 273.
Monthlies.
We find on our table the following “Month
lies” for May.
“Household Words" a journal conducted by
Charles Dicken’s.
“Putnam’s Monthly,” a popular Magazine of
literature, science, and art.
“The School Fellows Magazine,” quite a mo
dest affair, handsomely illustrated, and intended
for boys and girls.
Call at Burke’s Book Stores, (late Kay’s)
and all who desire them will find most of the
popular Magazines and Monthlies published
in this Country.
Job Printing
It will be seen, by refering to our advertise
iug columns, that, having secured the services
of a first rate Job Printer, as foreman, the
Proprietor of this paper is prepared to execute,
with neatness and despatch, Job Printing of
all kinds. We ask for a share of public pat
ronage, and trust that we can satisfy, in price,
execution and despatch, those who favor the
Examiner with their orders.
“The Irish News. ”
We trust that the people of Georgia will
subscribe liberally for this paper. It is the
property of, and edited by Thomas Francis
Mkaohir, the gentleman, patriot, and scholar,
and were we to stop here, enough is said to com
mend it to the patronage of a generous people.
At our office, and at the saloons of Mr. John
Ennis, at the Atlanta Hotel, specimen num
bers of this valuable Weekly can be found.—
We trust, at Atlanta, a large subscription list
will be procured for it. It will afford us great
pleasure to order it for any of onr friends.
Lane’s Challenge
Os Senator Douglass turns out to be a fa
brication. The report was doubtless spread
for effect. Had it been true, doubtless there
would have been “pistols and coffee for two.’-
The “Little Giant” is not to be frightened “off
the track” from a'fear of consequences, the
duello not excepted. He has already had point,
ed at his breast, the deadly revolver, but his
eagle glance caused the dastardly hands of the
‘would be” assassins to tremble and their knees
to smite each other. Challenge Douglas?— i
Why a rat may as well challenge a lion to
combat!
Arrival of Mr. Buchanan.
Mr. Buchanan was a passenger in the Ara- I
bin, which arrived at Halifax on the 23d inst.
His arrival in New York and Philadelphia |
will be the cause of grand demonstrations on I
the part of his friends, and will, doubtless to
some extent, afford capital for them to work up
on, aside from his acknowledged merits, lietweeu
this and the meeting of the Convention at
Cincinnati. Well, be it so. “ Old Buck ” has
done the country good service both at home
and abroad, and although our predilections are
all for the “ Little Giant,” of Illinois, still we
care not how many honors are paid the former,
or how henrtliy he is welcomed in the Cities •
referred to. Could we be in the crowd at ei-I
ther place. we should shout as heartily at his j
eception a« any “ out and out ” Buchanan i
man ; but for al! that, we prefer him for the 1
candidate •!' our party, who has so gallantly
defended Southern Rights, and who has done
more to teach the doctrine of “ Non-Intcrven
tion " to the people, than any statesman in the
wide bounds of the Union—we mean, of course
Stephen A. Douoi.au!
Iftay-The advertisement of the “Bar and Bil
liard Saloons, at the Atlanta Hotel.” which
will be found in our paper to-day. we take
pleasure in calling the attention of visitors to.
We vouch for all that is stated therein, and
doubt not that the gentlemanly superintendent
of the establishment. Mr. John Ennis, will
prove to his customers, by his works, the faith
wc have in him. and in that which he prepares.
We say this, fearing not the reproach of some
of our temperance friends; for we feel satisfied
were one of the delicious S/ierry Cobblers. or
Claret Punches. or Mint Juleps, prepared at
this bar. placed within their reach, on a hot
summer's day. there would be some danger of a
violation of the temperance pledge. As for
t 'igars. and genuine Cognac, the moat fastidi
ous taste can be satisfied. Gentle reader, or
weary traveller, call at the “Atlanta Billiard
and Bar Saloons" if you desire to refresh the!
-inner mail." We say this in no disparage-'
aient to similar resorts iu our city, but simple -
in justice to the one of which we speak. Its!
energetic Superintendent merits a share, and a !
large one. of public patronage w |
JJkff' Mrs. Thomas Duffie, of Russell county,
Ala., died on the 14th inst from sun stroke,
experienced while fishing.
European News-
By the late arrivals but little news of impor->
tance was received. A slight advance 1-8 to I
1-4 in cotton ; a decline on wheat, corn, and |
flour ; an advance in goods and yarns ; and an I
advance in consuls; are all the items of com- ;
mercial intelligence, which are reperted to us |
by telegraph. And that the Plenipotentiaries j
were about to leave Paris : the arrival of Mr. j
Buchanan ; the raising of the blockade of the
Russian ports ; the admission of merchantmen
therein ; and the proposed reduction, to a large
extent, of the French army ; are all the items
of political interest, that we have yet received.
We notice, also, that Ayres, Walker, & Co. ■
East India Merchants, have failed for over a I
million of dollars, and this indicates a derange- ■
ment in monetary affairs in a quar
ter, that, in the present state of the monied
market in great Britain and France, promises
no good for the future. Indeed, the peace
just announced to the w-orld, we fear is to be
followed on this, and the other side of the At
lantic, by hard times. Dealers and specula
tors in provisions, and bread stuffs, particularly,
may look out for squalls. Too confidently did
this class of our people calculate on a continu
ance of the war in Europe, and, as a conse
quence, they must pay the penalty. How se
vere that penalty will be, we are not prepared
to say, but that it_ must embarrass the com
mercial world, there ean be no doubt.
We rejoice, however, at the conclusion of
peace. It must help the South, and prove, in
the end, a benefit to our whole people.
The Hiawassee Rail Road—Gov. John
son’s Veto.
The proceedings of a public meeting held
recently in “ Towns County,” will be found in
our paper to-day. We publish these proceed i
ings by request, and for another important rea
son to which we shall presently refer. Before
we do so, however, we must protest against the
language used iu the proceedings of the citizens
of Towns county, as being intemperate and un
just towards Gov. Johnson, and against the
conclusions arrived at by that meeting, because
of Dr. Young's statement, even admitting, that,
word for word, the conversation that took place
between the Governor and the Doctar, is cor
rectly reported. We will go even further than
this and say, we know Dr. Young too well to
doubt for a moment the truth of all that was
stated by him at the meeting; but for all this,
the conclusions drawn are both uncharitable
and unjust, and can be productive of no good
results to the friends of the Hiawassee Rail
Road. We shall now come to the other “ im
portant reason ” why we publish ter day the
proceedings of the meeting.
During the late session of the Georgia le
gislature, we were at Milledgeville, and watch
ed with some, anxiety and interest the progress
; of the Bill, particularly in the House of Rep
, resentatives. We did so on account mainly of
I the indefatigable exertions of Col. Smith, the
representative from Union county, and because
of his manly and patriotic deportment upon all
questions affecting the interests of his State.—
He was ever at his post, and no member of the
■ House ean show a more creditable record upon
i its Journal, than the representative from Union,
j When, therefore, his favorite measure passed
! the House, wc plead guilty to the impeachment
lof rejoicing ut it. as well as having advoca-'
| ted it through the columns of the “ Examiner," j
I previous to its passage. And it was not uutil'
we bad carefully examined the Governor’s Veto, I
' that we became satisfied we had, before, been too j
t precipitate in our conclusions. We make this I
i statement to set ourself right with the advo-'
cates of the Hiwassee RaiMload. and, in doing 1
so, have also to observe that we disclaim hav-;
J ing, for the columns of this paper, written any j
: article since the Governor vetoed the bill bear- j
ing upon the subject, defending His Excellency, I
or reflecting upon the good people of Union,!
or their energetic und able representative. We
have, uutil very recently, been absent from the j
post we now occupy, and for what, iu refer- j
pence to this matter, has appeared in this pa- j
per, we do not hold ourself responsible.
We are, however, dearly of the opinion that
■ the Governor exercised the veto power, advised- j
i ly. and that the denunciationsheaped upon him
i by the public meeting in "Towns County," are j
| unwarranted, unjust, and discreditable to these
j who participated iu it. And, having occupied
in reference to this matter, pretty much the po
sition which the Editor of the “Constitutional
ist A Republic,” of Augusta, did. we would ;
present for their consideration the following ,
taken from that paper, every line of which we :
’ adopt.
[ “We respectfully suggest to the people of
j Union and Towns counties that intemperate I
i denunciations of Gov. Johnson, and of his mo- ■
| fives, will not streughten their cause, but may
i have the opposite effect. The peeple have an
abiding confidence iu the integrity and con
scientiousness of Gov. Johnson, mid if an issue I
is tendered to them on these points they will
sustain him. even though to vindicate him be
came necessary to defeat an enterprise which i
sought a triumph at the expense of his good
j name and popularity.
•The disclosures of Doet. Young of his eon
i versatiou with Gov. Johnson, accounts for the
‘ severity of the strictures indulged in by the
j Union ami Towns county meetings, and may
extenuate the temper which prompted their
j expression. But that conversation does not
1 fix duplicity on the Governor, nor justify re
i proach. Il required bat a little charity, it re-i '
quired but the exercise of a magnanimous
liberality to concede that the subsequent re- <
flections of the Governor in investigating the ,
subject, brought his mind to the conviction
that his first impression in favor of the charter 1
were wrong—that while his sympathies and *
good wishes were with the people who 1
the road, he could not indulge them at what he j
beeame convinced would lie the sacrifice of j
other interests, he felt bound by his position
to protect. To have him go against his deli- ■
berate convictions of duty, in order to be eon- '
sistent with his first impression-, we are sure t
no conscientious man would demand. Nor
could a conscientious Chief Magistrate do
this.
I*
A Vain Appeal.
I The appeals made to the old line whigs who
united with the Kansas and Nebraska Demo
cracy to battle against Know Nothingism, and
for the Constitutional Rights of the South, to
support Mr. Fillmore, are made in vain.—j
Not one in a thousand of them, who might j
have supported Millard Fillmore as the Whig j
nominee for President, ere the Know Nothing,
or Kansas, issue was presented to the countrv,
will do so now that he is committed in favor of
the one and against the other. He is a deluded
man who thinks otherwise : and all we wonder
at, is, that so much ink is wasted by the falsely
styled “ American Party ” in the vain effort
to induce men to suppose that anti-Know Noth-
I ing whigs will give aid or comfort to the late
I nomination of Fillmore and Donelson, under
existing circumstances.
But apart from the determination of the old
line whigs who acted with the democracy in
the last campaign in Georgia, to stand firm in
the maintenance of principles vital to the inter
i ests of the whole South ; and to stand by the
old line democrats in their defence of civil and
religions liberty, and of the doctrine of “ non
intervention ” on the part of Congress with
States, or Territories, in the regulation of their
domestic institutions ; a more serious objection
to M r. Fillmore presents itself than Southern men
j who once admired, and had confidence in him,
! could, two years ago, have anticipated. The
i first act, that, in a great degree destroyed their
j confidence in Mr. Fillaaore, was his connecting
I himself with the “ Secret Order," and ns one
of its sworn members, standing pledged to vio
late certain provisions of the Constitution of
the United States—a Constitution every pro
vision of tvhich he had so recently sworn to
maintain. By this act, he demonstrated to the
I world that ambition, with all his apparent dis
inclination for office, was doing its work, and
that once more, the Presidential Chair was his
aim ; the attainment of which it seems he has
stooped to effect, through the influence of the
Secret Order of Know Nothings. Upon this
issue, the old line whigs of Georgia, to whom
we have referred, will do battle against him,
with as much of zeal and ofenergy, as ever they
did in his behalf' for, and of this, the falsely
styled “ American Party ” may be assured,
they are not blind to the issues before them, nor
to the result calculated upon by their antago
nists, by there being “ three Richmonds in the
field 1”
This last is a consideration the whole people
■ of the South should look at with a suspicious
eye, and, iu time, be warned of the consequen
ces that may flow from it. In one of the lead
ing Fillmore, or Know Nothing organs, wc al
ready see signs ofa combination,'between Black
I Republicanism and Know' Nothingism. to de-
■ feat the nnti-Know Nothing and democratic
I candidate for the Presidency. We allude to
the (Kentucky) Louisville Journal; a paper
having as wide an influence and as extended a
circulation, as any paper in the South. Wc
have not by us, at present, the article to which
we refer, but recently w have seen it clearly
intimated by that Journal, that last of all the
three parties in the contest for the Presidency,
the democratic candidate should be supported
—that “ Black Republicanism " should be per
mitted to triumph, ere Pierce, or Buchanan, or
Douglas, or any other democrat should be.
This is the substance, if not the words used bv
that paper. And it is “to this complexion,"
*t appears, from the “ signs of the times," many
more of the Know Nothing organs “ will come
at last." It may not be the ease within the
limits of good Gid Georgia. God forbid that
it should ; but with such lights held before the
old line, anti-Know Nothing, whigs of Georgia,
appeals to draw them to the support of Mil
lard Fillmore and Andrew J. Donelson. are all
made in vain.
Independence Hall Closed Against Mr.
Buchanan.
In the Common Council of Phila lelphia (k.
1 x.) on Thursday afternoon, a resolution tender
' ing the use of Independence Hall to Mr. Buc
hanan, on the occasion of his reception by the
citizens, gave rise to a political debate of the
most rabid character, and was finally defeated
jby a vote of 33 to 20. In the Select Council
a resolution of a similar character was presen
ted and rejected. This act of disrespect to Mr.
Buchanan caused much excitement among the
citizens of Philadelphia.
We clip the foregoing front the Savannah
Daily News. This action of the Know Noth
ing Common Council of Philadelphia, in refu
sing the use of •• Independence Hall " to Mr.
Buchanan, forcibly reminds us of the refusal,
by a set of blackguard fanatics, of the use of Fan
uel Hall to Daniel Webster, some three or four
years ago. In the latter ease the refusal was
the act of abolition influence, and intolerance.
In the former, it is the act of Know Nothug
influence, and is marked by all that intolerance
which has made the Boston fanatics notorious
and contemptible. We are not prepared to
stop even here. The spirit which could influ
ence the Know Nothing Common Council of
Philadelphia, to refuse the use of Independence
Hall to Mr. Buchanan, on account of his poli
tics, must be influenced by abolition proclivi
ties. It is useless to mince words in speaking
of this act of intolerance. Were Mr. Buchan ;
an a Black Republican—were he Win. H. Sew
uni—or Horace Greely—lndependence Hall
would have l>een thrown open to him at
once. But Mr. Buchanan was a democrat a
favorite of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, and j
of the Union—was spoken of in every State of
the Union, as a candidate for the Presidency—
and, in every particular, an avowed antagonist
of Know Nothingism. It wasa triumph to re
fuse him the use of Independence Hall I Yes.
just such a triumph as was achieved over Dan-1
iel Webster by a Boston mob. Shout over it I
Northern Know Nothings, but we doubt much
whether one of your brethren South will dare
to echo your shout !
Business is said to be unusually active
it Pittsburg in every branch of trade.
Mount Vernon.
We find in the Washington National Intel- J
ligcncer of Friday, the subjoined letter, which
will be perused with interest:
Mount Vernon, April 14.
Messrs. Gales <Y Seaton :
Gentlemen—My attention has been called
to the misapprehensions that appear to exist in
different parts of the country respecting the
sale of Mount Vernon.
Will you permit me, through the columns
of the National Intelligencer, to make the fol
lowing statement, which I think will conduce
to a proper understanding of the matter!
Mount Vernon has never, in the true sense
of the term, been for sale. Since it has been
in my possession I have, at various times, in
reply to the inquiries of persons connected with
the Governments of the United States and of
Virginia, informed them that only the United
States or Virginia, if either desired it, could
obtain possession of Mount Vernon.
The proposition to purchase Mount Vernon
by the United States has, as I understand,'
been brought before Congress upon more than
one occasion without any definite action in re
lation to the subject having taken place. It
seemed reasonable, then, to conclude that the*
United States did not wish to acquire the prop
erty.
The late Governor of Virginia twice recom
mended to the General Assembly of the State
the purchase of Mount Vernon by Virginia.—
In the first instance the committee appointed
in the House of Delegates to inquire into the
subject made no report. Upon the second oc
casion the committee reported, and the Legis
lature passed a bill respecting the purchase of
Mount Vernon, and both were informed before
hand I would not accept, because it was not in
accordance with the terms on which I had in
formed the Governor, in reply to his applica
tion, that the State could obtain the property.
It now became evident that the State of Vir
ginia did not wish to purchase Mount Vernon.
Thus the only parties to whom I would sell
the property having in effect declined to pur
chase. but one answer could be returned to the
almost endless inquiries addressed to me upon
the subject, namely, that Mount Vernon was
not for sale.
I am, gentlemen, most respectfully,your obe
dient servant.
JOHN A. WASHINGTON.
A Theatrical Imposter
Everybody in New Orleans knows Mr.
George Jamison, the actor, who took a leading
part in the Forrest tragedy, and in many other
and less melancholly affairs. Mr. J. is some
what of an author as well as an actor, and
dabbles occassioually iu print.
I We have received the programme of a piece
entitled “The Fugitive Slave” from his pen
which is being performed in Cleveland at pres
ent, “a thrilling drama,” according to the bills,
which is enjoying a very considerable share of
success. From a private source wc learn that
tbt play is an anti-slavery production, intended
to illustrate the horrors of the “peculiar insti
tution of the South, and founded on Mrs.
' Stowe's celebrated Black Republican novel,
j The public of New Orleans may have some
j recollection of a drama, melodrama or theatri-
I cal nondescript, called Uncle Tom’s Cabin, i
| from the pen of the same accommodating
George, whieh was produced ut the St. Charles
during the past season—a fssue of blarney
and flattery for the Southern market, in which
slavery was represented as a blessing and a
boon for which the community could never be
sufficiently grateful. It was an absurd ixag
geration, without literary merit or stage eff et.
I and drew nothing better than "gallery audien
I ces" during its run.
1 But the piece, if not good, is convenient ut
least. It has two sides to it, one white, the
j other black, and it is all the same to Mr. Jam
j ison, which l.c presents to the public. Such an
i imposter as this should not lie permitted to go
“unwhipt of justice." Xeu- Orleans Della.
Elopement at M e*t Jliliord.
A Strange Case.—Much excitement has
I been created at West Milford by the elope
j ment of Mrs. Sarah Courson, 'with David
| White, of th ■ same place. This is the third
i time this lady has figured as one of the parties
lof an elopement. I ler first elopement oeeuned
j at the age of 31) or thereabouts, when she left
i her mother’s residence with her first lover and
went to New York, staid a -pell, came back 1
home with a child in embryo, never having
been married—or at least ft is so said. She I
' became a mother and resided at home about
six months or a year, then went off on a tour
with a man named Armstrong, a New Yoiker.
; She was afterwards married to a Courson, with
whom she resided til! the 25th of March last,
when she again left West Milford to meet the
said David White, before spoken of. at Sloats
burg, where the two took the cars and went
West, since whieh time nothing more is known
of them. She left her child by her companion
at West Milford.
This Sarah .lane Courson is one of a family
of six sisters named Byerson, five of whom
have left their husbands and eloped with other
men. All six have been married, and not one
of the six live with a lawful husband at the
present day: five having eloped and the only
remaining one deserting her husband, or refus
ing to live with him. We doubt if a case of
equal singularity can be found anywhere in the
Union.— Pa terson Gua rd inn.
Paris, April 3, 18.’>'l.
Our Emperor Napoleon culminates magniti
'' eently. The birth of a bouncing heir, and the
1 eonsumnation of his aims and hopes in the
' I war. have lighted up his countenance, which 1
: i had never seen radiant before. The weather
, ’ has corresponded to the splendor of the milita
ry reviews and spontaneous illuminations. In
his march to the Camp de Mar' on Tuesday
I last, the popular acclamations to an I fro, and
on the ground, exceeded whatever 1 had wit
nessed in 1807-1808 in the public appearances
"f Napoleon 1. Next to the Emperor. Count
Orloff, the Russian, with his martial port and
, glittering helmet, was of the numerous and
; pompous escort, the “observed ofall observers."
Paris is hung with the flags of the signing
! powers: the double-headed Eagle of the Czar
lieittg the most conspicuous. In general, peo
ple can. little about the terms of the defiinite!
treat): peace was the main wish: throughout 1
France, the working classes in th" cities and
the peasantry, take the had in th- nr.Hi'fi-sta
tions of content.
Savannah Georgian. Mr. J. i. Wright,
the proprietor of the Georgian, publishes a card
in whieh he states that daring hi- temporary
aksence from Savannah, his office was closed by
the Sheriff, not for any fault of his own. but
. owing to circumstances over which his control
did not extend. Subscribers are requested to
remain quiescent until further alviees from
head-quarters. We hope soon to learn tha tth
difficulty has been overcome.
I
[ COMMUNICATED.]
1 Public Meeting in Towns County.
Union County Preamble mid Resolutions
adopted.
A large proportion of the citizens of Towns
county assembled on Tuesday, the Sth inst., for
the purpose of expressing their unqualified dis
approbation of that act of executive tyranny
and despotism, which deprived them of the
Hiwassee railroad charter, and doomed them
to commercial isolation and seclusion.
The meeting was organized by calling Rev.
John Carr to t! Chair, and requesting M. L.
Birch to aet a-- Secretary.
Dr. A. V mng then moved that a committee
; of thirle. -u be appointed to report matter for
the consideration of the meeting. In pursu
ance of which consideration, the Chair announ
. eed the following gentlemen, viz:
Messrs. A. Young. James Cathey, L. 11.
Kerby, E. Kinsey, J. Carter, R. A. Brown,
J- Bryson, J. \V. Holmes, W. Wilson, A.
Carr. M. G. Morgan, J. Russell, and John
I Loyd; who retired and after an absence of
, thirty minutes, retured, recommending to the
consideration of the meeting the preamble and
resolutions adopted by the citizens of Union
I county, on the 17th ultimo. Pending the mo
tion for their adoption, Dr. Young addressed
the Chair, stating that it was due the meeting
that he should say the preamble and resolu
tions had been denounced by certain Georgia
i papers as reflecting too hotly on the motives
- and statesmanship of the Executive—ascon
taming an implied charge of demagogueism as
being .- string of billinsgate and vituperation.
He then went into an elaborate end eloquent
■ vindication ol the preamble and resolutions—
stated that, if they did contain an implied
i charge of demagogue! m. he would state the
substance of a conversat ion that occurred be
tween himself and his Excellency, at the ses
i sion of the Legislature immediately preceding the
last and, leave it to the discretion of bis audience
■ aud the public, to determine whether or not he is
I > obnoxious to the charge. The conversation
i and the circumstances under which it occurred
,! are as follows:
, I In the evening of the day that the tax bill
. i was defeated, he (the Doctor) and his Exccllen
: cy met in the street, and after the usual formal
ities. his Excellency expressed much regret at
the defeat of the tax bill, particularly as it was
the hist of a series of bills reported and lost,
and the final defeat ot that bill would stop the
mac! jury of Government, and force him to
call th General Assembly together every sixty
, days, until j I ill should be passed, which would
, raise a sufficient revenue for the political years
| contemplated by the bill, and expressed a de
_ I sire that he would make an effort the next
. j morning lor its reconsideration aud passage.—
! He (the Doctor) replied that neither himself
I nor his constituents were solicitous as to the
': fate ot the tax bill : that he, and those that he
1 represented, were opposed to the nd valorem
j system of taxation ; that that system had
•j been and was then being attempted to be forced
I upon the State by city concentrated capital,
I aud corporation influence, that these same in
i fluences were arrayed in formidable opposition
l to a. measure as great commercial importance
:to his constituents, his excellency asked to
■ what measure he alluded." lie replied, to the
Hiawassee Rail Ro.. 1 Bill. His Excellency
. then wished to know where the contemplated
;i road would begin, and where il would termi
j nate. I o which the Doctor replied, that it
j would commence at or near Clayton, pass!
I through the counties ot I nion, and terminate
at or near Duck I’uwn, Tennessee. His Ex-j
cellencv then expressed himself as being]
dec.dedty in favor of the m -asure, and as not I
being able to comprehend why any section of
' the State should place itself in opposition to !
I the enterprise.
Now. .Mr. Chairman, continued the Doctoi, j
his Excellency thus unequivocally expressed
himself when informed that the contemplated
mad would commence at Clayton and termin
ate at 1 tuck town. The bill introduced by
C 01. Smith did not specify cither of these point;
as a beginning or terminus,•'yet his Excellency
vetoes the bill from the mere apprehension that'
the load would make the same connection dis- •
tiuetiy specified in the original bill, of which he I
: so emphatically declared himself in favor: thus i
| violating the implied pledged of Executive!
| sanction in the event the bill passed. If, eon-i
,i tinued he, Exeeutve sanction to the original bill 1
would have been compatible with public duty,
then Executive sanction to this bill, introduced
; by his esteemed friend. Col. Smith, would not
j have been incompatible with the same.
He would leave it to those more skilled in
! Executive diplomacy, whether or not his Ex-
t i eelhncy has redeemed his implied pledges; and '
. to his audience, to manife-t by their adoption
or rejection of the preamble and resolutions, |
, whether or not the alleged implied reflections I
on his Excellency were well founded or other-
, wise. He then proceeded to a review of the i
first part ot the veto message, which he did I
I with his usual eloquence and abilitv.
, ■ Whilst we have not the ability to transmit
, to paper the logical arguments, the soul-stirring i
I appeals, nor foil. >w him in his lofty flights of!
. eloquence, we may be permitted to say that his I
ii position, his arguments, his eloquence, have I
left a lasting impression upon the aroused hearts
, and convinced judgments of our citizens.
, Col. Smith then arose and stated that the ,
. great principles, free trade and equal rights, I
contained in the preamble and resolutions had i
>■ been so ably and triumphantly vindicated bv !
. | the able Chairman of the Committee (Dr. i
1 A oung), that he deemed it superflouous to say i
more in relation to them. They met with his i
hearty concurrence and warm appropriation. |
I He then took up the veto message, and many
. a mortal blow did his descending battle axe j
. deal upon that boasted State paper. One ar I
> gument after another was attacked and over- !
[ thrown—-weighed in the balances aud found;
. wanting, - until his Excellency's magnificent'
. system of internal improvement,’ tottering, fell!
i beneath the argumentative zeal and convincing;
■ el< quenee of Col. Smith, burying itself in its
I own ruins, amid the thunders’of applause which l
greeted the Colonel as he took his seat.
Ibe motion for the adoption <-f the resolutions ■
was then submitted to and unanimously adop- !
ted by the meeting. Muca enthusiasm pre
vailed.
On motion of Col. J. W. Holmes, the same 1
papers enumerated in the Union couutv reso
lutions were requested to publish the proceed - >
ings of this m eting. The meeting then nd-1,
i journed.
Jons t 'vKu Chairman.
M. 1,. Braun, Secretary. t,
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Antidote for Pui-i>n.—A eorn-epondeut of
the London Literary Gain th . alluding to the!
numerous ca-es of death from accidental poi- :
soning. add# : - I venture to affirm then is
scarce even a cottage in this country that does
notconta'm an invaluable, certain, immediate <
remedy fur sueh events, nothing more than a '
de —rtsp a nful of mustard, mixed in a tumbler •
of warm wa.tr and drank immediately. It ’
acts as an emetic, is always ready, and may .
used with safety in any case where one is j 1
required- i,
[From the Washington Union.]
Mr. Buchanan’s Reception at
New York.
The arrival of Mr. Buchanan in advance of
the time he was expected rendered it impossible
to carry out the extensive arrangements made
in New York for his reception. The commit
tee of the common council met him on board
the Arago, and tendered to him the hospi
talities of the city. Mr. Buchanan replied as
follows :
“ Allow- me, sir, to express through you my
thanks to the authorities of this great city for
the honor which they have conferred upon me
in inviting me to partake of their hospitalities.
It is with feelings of justifiable pride that, in
common with every American, I look upon the
present greatness and the growing prosperity
of our commercial metropolis. It already oc
cupies a distinguished place among the great
cities of the world, not only on account of the
extent ot its vast commercial resources, but the
numerous charitable and educational institu
tions maintained by the public and private be
nevolences of its citizens. Like all who, after
a long absence, return at last to their native
land. I rejoice, at again seeing my own country
and at beholding the numerous evidences which
surround me of the happiness and the prosperity
ol its people. In conclusion, sir, I beg leave
again to thank you for the generous hospitality
which has been tendered to me, and express the
pleasure I feel in complying with your friendly
invitation.”
The Herald proceeds as follows :
Mr. Buchanan then, accompanied by Al
derman Ely and the other members of common
council, left the steamer, after taking a farewell
of tne many friends he had made during the
voyage. An open barouche was in readiness
on the pier, in which, in company with some of
the committee, he was conveyed to the hotel,
the rest of the company following in carriages.
On the arrival at the Everett House, the guest
of the city again underwent the ceremony of
introduction to a number of private and politi
cal Iricnds, who, hearing of his arrival, had
called at the earliest moment to pay him their
respects. Among these were the Hon. Daniel
S. Sickles, who was secretary of the legation
under Mr. Buchanan, aud Mayor AVood.
"AV hen this interesting’ ceremony was
brought to a close, Aiderman Ely again ad
dressed Mr. Buchanan, tendering him on behalf
of the city a public dinner, and expressing his
desire to show him any attention which might
be in his power to make his stay in the citv
agreeable and pleasant .
“ Mr. Buchanan regretted that he was obli
ged to decline the honor intended him, as he
desired to leave the city, for Philadelphia, on
Friday morning. But for this he would be glad
he said, to comply with the wishes of the com
mittee. To-morrow (to-day) he would be
pleased to place himself at their disposal.
■Alderman Ely then said that, if agreeable
to him, the citizens would like to have the
opportunity of paying their respects to him at
the fit j- Hall, and for that purpose the gover
nor s room would be thrown open at any- time
that he might select. After some little con
versation, it was settled that Mr. Buchanan
should receive his friends to day, the 24th inst.,
in the place designated.between the hours of
twelve and two.
Having made these arrangements the com
mittee took their leave. Before leaving, how
ever. they partook ofa collation provided for
them by the proprietor of the hotel.
*• To-day Mr. Buchanan is to visit the Astor
Library at 10 o’clock, a. m., the City Hall be
tween the hours of 12 and 2, take dinner with
the mayor at 6, p. m., and will be serenaded at
the time already specified."
Ditlereut Destinies of tw o Broth
ers, J. and Frank Fremont.
The Montgomery Mail traces the history of
the two brothers Fremont—one of whom
stands a good chance of gaining the empty
honor of the Black Republican nomination for
the I’resdency. In the course of its sketch
that paper says:
’ If Col. Fremont was not born in Charleston
he was carried there at a very early age by
his mother, and he certainly received there the
education which fitted him for subsequent sue
cess and distinction. He was the protege of
the Radies' Benevolent Society of Charleston,
some meml ers of which found the family in
great, need and aided them. Young j. C.
Fremont was discovered to have talent, and by
the interest of these same ladies, became the
beneficiary of a charity scholarship in Charles
ton College. lie was graduated there, with
distinction, having shown (as we always heard)
decided mathematical talent. Subsequently
through the influence already mentioned, Mr.
Poinsett was induced to get’ him an appoint
ment us a teacher of mathematics, on board a
national vessel, thence he was transferred to I
the corps of Topographical Engineers— not!
very king afterwards married a daughter of
Hon. Thos. H. Benton, and besran his brilliant!
and rapid rise. Every- one knows his subse
quent history.
Col. Fremont had a brother, Frank, a year ;
or two younger, who went on the stage very
early. He was a bluff looking, hearty tello w,
seeming very much more like a man destined'
to military leadership, than his brother. For
some little time, Frank made a sensation and
got to he called the ‘-Charleston Roscius” -
but gradually came to be considered merely a
tolerable stock actor. After he had been on
thestage some years he married—in New York
as well as we recollect. Somewhere about
1838‘39 while playing an engagement in Buff
alo, N. Y. begot into an abolition riot of
some kind and, while fighting gallantly for I
Southern principles, received a heavy blow on !
his head which affected his brain. From this i
he never recovered—the injury finally settled I
upon his lungs and he died of consumption. I
• He continued to play, we believe, up to a
few days before his death, which we think oc
curred in Columbus, Ga ,in 1839. At any'
rate, the writer of this found him there (with I
some little trouble, as he was playing under an
assumed name, (having been charged with a ■
message to him. by his mother—who. it may be !
remarked, was a quiet, melancholy woman,
greatly devoted to her sous.
It is u little striking, that these two broth
ers, born and reared on -lave -oil. should, by
the merest accidents, both have been so noar
lyafll cted by abolitionism, personally The
.one is knocked on the head and “done for" by
fanaticism, while the other makes a name in
famous which had else been truly famous, by
giving his influence to the miscreants who wage
an unholy war upon the institutions ol his own
section and of a people who raised him from
..his lowliness and placed him on the high road
to fame'and boundless wealth. If he ever
thinks of his origin, he must see the depth <4
’an ingratitude almost sublime.
• EG;.= ’H:e Bentonites in Missouri have nomi
nated Hon. Thos. AA". Benton, for Governor,
and the Atchisonites, have nominated Hon.
•Trusten Polk. So states telegraph reports.—
The Convention recently met at Jefferson city,
and we presume were not harmonious.
A Business Sketch of a Business Man.
AVe copy- the following sketch of the life of
a very extraordinary mam from an editorial in
the N. Y. Sun:—
*• As an illustration of business tact and tai
ent, we may point to the career of Professor
Holi.owav, the proprietor of the most popular
medicines of the age. The rise and progress
of this extraordinary man have bad no parallel
during the present century. He has visited
nearly every Court, in Europe, and obtained
permission for the sale of his preparations from
most of the crowned heads of the Old AVorld.
The Queens of Spain and Portugal, the Kings
ol Naples and Sardinia, granted him audiences :
and in St. Petersburg, which city he visited a
short time before the commencement of the war.
he was treated with marked consideration by
the late Czar and the nobility.
“ I ravelling in an elegant private carriage,
attended by a courier, his equipage attracted
attention in the towns and villages through
which he passed. The hotels where he lodged
were besieged by persons of the first distinction,
and the best society on the continent courted
his acquaintance.
“ The subject of these remarks is unques
tionably an ambitious man, and his skill and
enterprise have placed him far in advance of
all his predecessors and cotemporaries in the
same profession, lie stands alone ; and the
fact that he can maintain his high position, de
spite the interested assaults of envy and pre
sumption, proves that his medicines have an
intrinsic value, which the world understands
and appreciates.
“ The sums expended in advertising by Pro
lessor Holloway would be incredible if they
were not authenticated by his books. His
payments to the press range from §150,000 to
§200.000 per annum. There is no printed lan
guage in which his advertisements do not ap
pear.
Ihe ramifications of his business extend
from a local point—his vast establishment in
the Strand London over the whole face of the
earth.
“This extraordinary man is now in this
country— in this city. The 'Tribune, in a just
tribute to his matchless enterprise, says, that
having, like Alexander, subdued the Old World,
he is now prepared to conquer the New.
■■ Professor Holloway has not been tempted
hither by a thirst for gain—for his wealth is
sufficient to satisfy the must cxigeant worship
per of mammon—but by a philanthropic desire
to extend the benefit of his medicines among a
people whose character he admires. Everybody
is, of course, anxious to see the greatest adver
tiser in the world. In a very short period, the
American reputation of Holloway's Pills and
Holloway s Ointment will rival their Europe
an sane.”
nea..Tbe prosecuting Attorney ut Cincinnat
has issued an execution upon the United States
Marshal, H. H. Robinson, for three hundred
dollars and costs, which he was sentenced to
pay by Jndge Burgoyno for contempt of court
j in taking away the children of the slave Mar-
I ffaret. contrary to the injunctions of the Pro
bate Court. The Marshall has appealed to
the United States District Court.
BgSL-Mrs. Mason, wife of the American Min.
j ister in Paris, recently gave the first of a series
of receptions,at the saloons of the embassy.
The number of guests present was about 200.
Air. Buchanan and Lord Clarendon were a
mong the number, and both of whom, a corres
pondent of the New A’oik Times says, subse
quently had a private unofficial interview in
relation to the dispute between the United
States and England.
B®»lt has been rumored for several days
that Roger A. Pryor, of the Richmond Enquir
er, and R. AV. Hughes, of the Richmond Ex
aminer, were about to engage in a duel, in conse
quence of the comments of the latter (a Buch r
anan man) upon a pamphlet published by the
former, in favor of Gen. Pierce’s renomination.
The affair, however, has been amicably adjust
cd by the interposition of their friends.
K-fG-Another United States Bank is about
to show itsellf in New York. The Director.;
of the Bank of Commerce in that city have re
solved on doubling their present capital to
make it 810,000,000. Succeeding their an
nouncement, the Times says there is a rumo
of a new twenty million bank, to be got up by
the foreign bank interest.
Senator Jones of Tennessee.—This gen
tleman made a speech at the festival at the
Slash Cottage in Virginia, in honor of the
birth day of Henry Clay, lie embraced the
occasion to define his political position thus.-
I am no aspirant for high favors or for po
litical place or honor. Thank God, lamina
position to expect nothing. I hope for noth
mg, I look for nothing. lam in common par
lance an outsider. 1 do not belong to the
democratic party, thank God! [ Laughter. | I
do not belong to the so-called American party,
and I thank God for that. [Continued Laugh
ter.] 1 belong to the Henry Clay party. I
have never waered to the right hand or to the
left. I love the memory of Henry Clay; but
I never worshipped any false Gods. 1 stand!
now, Mr. President, where I have ever stood,
aud where I mean to stand as long as I shall
stand at. all. lam an old fashioned; old school
Henry Clay, Heaven descended and consecra
ted whig. [Great Laughter.|
pcq. l/r. Joseph I’rotor, of Boston, will give
SI .000 Im the best five act tragedy, and 8500
for the best drama furnished to him before the
1-t of (tetober. The judges arc to be selected
—one from Philadelphia, one from New York
and one from Boston.
late legislature of Pennsylvania
passed a uew libel law. The old niaxim was
“the greater the truth the greater the libel.’’
This act reverses it. The greater the truth the
less the libel. Under it malice is not to be
inferred.