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Hon- Alfred Iverson- This gentleman will please accept our thanks for his attention to this office, in forwarding to to it from time to time valuable public docu ments. Hon- Howell Cobb The address of the Hou. Howell Cobb to an audience of thousands at the Maryland In stitute, Baltimore, on Tuesday of last week, is spoken of in the most flattering terms. His reception was enthusiastic, as we are advised by a friend who was present. We hope soon to be favored with a copy of the address. Late Foreign News. The Steamer Persia, with one week's later news from Europe, arrived at New York on the 29th ultimo. By this arrival it appears that the Cotton markets has been quite active, at an advance of 1-8 to l-4d. The sales of the week, up to 19th ultimo, were 126,000 bales ; speculators taking 29,000, and exporters 5000. Middling Uplands are quoted at 6 1-8. This is what, a short time ago, we predicted, would be the re sult of the consummation of peace, so tar as the great Southern product was concerned. (treat Britain must have Cotton ; and when she is at war with such a power as Russia backed though she may be, by all the European powers, she bus less need of it, than when she is at peace. We look therefore for a still fur ther advance in Cotton. The Flour and Wheat Market had declined —the former one shilling and the latter four pence. Money was easy, and at previous rates. THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWSPAPER IN THE SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY S. 1556. Hon S A Douglas and the Lane Chal lenge- We devote a large share of our columns to-day to the correspondence between Senator Douglas and others, occasioned by the alleged challenge of the “ Little Giant” by Col. Lane. From its perusal, it will be seen that the distinguished Senator from Illinois has placed his alleged challenger to mortal combat, in no enviable position. Indeed, far better would it have been for him and his abettors, had lie submitted to the first castigation inflicted upon him by Douglas, than to be compsllel to submit to the second, which we publish to-day, backed as it is by the plain and conclusive statement of facts which appear in it. All the capital that can now be made of this affair by Col. Lane and his abettors, the enemies of Mr. Douglas, they are heartily welcome to. We wish them joy at the realization, such as it is, of their anticipated triumph over the “ Little Giant.” A few more such, and we doubt not that Col. Lane will be content to retire from public,and, for a time at least, seek repose in private life. Fattie Between Walker and the Costa Ricans By the Isabel, news has been received of a glorious victory being gained by Walker, with a force of 500, over 2000 Costa Ricans. After a desperate, and longcontinued struggle, the Costa Ricans were repulsed with a loss of 600. 'The loss of Walker and his party was 30 killed, and as many wounded. Another item of exciting interest is the slaughter on the 7th April, by the Costa Ric ans, of a number of unarmed citizens at Vir gin’s Bay. It appears that these men were in the em ployment of the 'Transit Company. Nine of them were killed and several wounded. The American Minister, Mr. Wheeler, immediately upon being informed of the outrage, addressed a letter to the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, which he concludes as follows : “In the name of the people of the United States and the Government thereof, I protest against such infamous conduct, and be assured Sir, that the government of the United States, aided ns you may be by insiduous and power ful allies, will enquire into such acts of lawless violence, and if unexplained and unutoned for, will take decided measures to protect the lives of our citizens and vindicate the honor of the nation. Rumors have also reached me that some fourteen or eighteen American citizens, four ladies, (one with an infant) were recently mur dered by your troops at Virgin Bay. I am slow to believe so diabolical an outrage. John B. Lawless, Esq., the bearer of this, is instructed to enquire, in the name of the Uni ted States for this Legation, into the facts touching this rumor. I send him with my flag with this dispatch, and I pray that you give him a conduct through your lines, and a prompt reply to.” We like the tone of Mr. Wheeler's letter; and wo feel satisfied that our Government, backed though the Costa Ricans may be “by insiduous and powerful allies,” will adopt sum mary measures for satisfaction. American blood once spilled, and atonement must follow. We shall doubtless soon receive additional in telligence concerning this bloody affair, which we shall lav before our readers. Black Republicans. How this term has become a national one, and significant of a party, is not generally known. The Chicago Times says that the oc cult process by which it was performed, has been divulged by the political necromancer who discovered it. It appears says that paper that “the man from Massachusetts who occu pies a small part of the scat once tilled by Webster was pleased to take Senator Douglas rather sharply to task for using partisan catchwods unworthy of the Senate. This elici ted an explanation from Mr. Douglas, which must have made the matter clear even to the locum tenens of Massachusetts: and we have no doubt that after the explanation was given he had a clearer and fuller conception of the true meaning of Black than he ever bad before.” In vindication of its use Mr. Douglas said, “that he liad used the word -Black’ to desig. ate the Republicans because every clause in their platform relates to the negro question; he had used it also as a substitute for defunct National Republicans. W bat oould be more appropriate? These principles are sectional, and not avowed in the slave States.” But this explanation did not satisfy Senator Wilsou. He forsooth must explain how Black Republicanism became national. According to the Times, therefore, he interrupted Mr. Douglas and said—“he had addressed a large meeting in the City Hall in Delaware, on Sat-1 unlay, -and laid down, the doctrines of the Republican Party freely and plainly, and that! they were generally assented to there.” Then it was iu Delaware, a slave State, ac- i eording to Senator Wilson, that Black Repub lican became national. It was there says the Times,"at a city hall, iu Delaware, a slave State, when her slave population bears the enormous ratio of two and a half per cent, to her white population, " that-Black Republicanism be came national.'' "What their principles were which he laid down freely and plainly, the ; Senator did not say; perhaps he considered i that a matter of little moment. And where the City Hall was located, which reverberated the echoes of those principles, he does not state, but no matter; he made the principles of Black Republicanism national, by holding forth in the ) little State of Delaware. We are glad Sena tor Wilson has at last done something worthy of his statesmanlike fame, and of his antece dents. Massachusetts ought to be proud of him. It is true tliat he has been but little heard from since he understock to do police j business in the Unite.d States Senate. He : brightened a little on the Kanias question, and I enunciated a few startling propositions; but as ] they, in erratic comicality, have been so far I exceeded by the clergymen of bis own State and of Connecticut, he must have lost cast if he had not announced, on the flow of the American Senate, his wonderful nationaliza tion of the principles of Black Republicanism. Like all the world, we suppose we shall have to wait patiently the parurition of the next mag got of Senator Wilson's brain, unless another Kansas petition should unfortunately produce, as heretofore, a premature birth.” [For the Atlanta Examiner.] I Aboard the Steamer “New Lucy,” I Miissourißiver, April 15,1856. j Editor Examiner Dear Sir : After a pleasant railroad ride from Atlanta to Nashville, and, as cquaflu a pleasant from thence, per steamers, V Rwk City” and “Southerner,’' to St. louis; we took the “New Lucy,” for the Missouri, whicl/ we are now aboard, above Jefferson City, which place we passed last night about dark. We will reach Kansas, sometime during the day, to-morrow, if not prevented by snags or sand bars, for both of which th# Missouri river is noted. Its channel is'continually changing, and its banks incessantly caving, which render it impossible to keep the river clear of snags. I have noticed two recent wrecks since enter ing it, aud, no doubt, others have escaped my notice during the night. Our boat to day ran on a snag which came against the boat just behind the wheel and car ried off that portion of the lower deek, on one side, which projects over from the hull. A boy 6 or 7 years old, whose parents, I understand, were sent out by the “ Northern Emigrating Aid Society,” aud w-ho are deck passengers, was drowned. This is what the Missouri is almost at its mouth, and notwithstanding this I am informed, by the Captain, that he can, with the same boat, ascend near 2500 miles, as higher up the channel is confined to one place. Our stay in St. Louis was short, but long enough, however, for us to get a glimpse of the immense business done there. You can form no conception of the amount unless you see it. Every stranger that visits the place is perfect ly astonished. The population now is estima ted at about one hundred and twenty-five or thirty-thousand. I could give you a.long scribble of different places, scenery, Src., but it would be out of place and uninteresting, so I will only say, Our company which now numbers thirty-two, (twenty-live Georgians and seven from other States who have joined us,) are all lively and in good cheer, and as yet we have met with none of the privations and difficulties which are so much heralded and talked of by some of the ■ over-wise Georgians. We expect to meet with ■ privations when we arrive at Kansas, and can t help but think that this talk of difficulties and hardships is working good for the South, as it keeps those that would be likely to turn against us, from going to Kansas, such as “ timid bug gy little clerks,” the height of whose ambition is to get a seat next the ladies at the tables of the hotels, and disgust all present with their self-important air aud foolish chat. Suc h as these are not the men for the South to be rep resented by, but such as voluntarily turn out, expecting hardships and willing to meet them. I now feel more confident than ever that i Kansas will come in as a slaveholding State.— I The emigrants sent out by the North are most ly floaters and are almost as likely to vote with [ us as against us. if we can only get them with- j ' in a Southern influence upon their arrival there, j Not so with the Southerners that go there, they are mostly men of a will, not likely to change. I form this opinion from what I on the boat we are now aboard, as there is a company on the lower deck sent from the North, the most abject and pitiful objects I have ever seen. I learn from some gentleman who live in Kansas that they are selling the Sharpe's rifles, furnished them by the abolition ists, to the Southerners at 12 and 15 dollars a a piece, which is less than half cost. I am glad to find that the idea which exists I among the Southerners, that travellers meet I with nothing good to eat upon the Western ■ boats is wrong. No fears need be apprehended i in that respect, for us far as 1 have seen, the , ,' meals furnished passengers are such as would ! | give credit to any of our best Hotels. I send you a I bill of fare of our dinner to day that you may see ■ I that we get that which is good. But owing to the crowded state of the boat, there being a good deal of travelling going on. caused I sup pose, by the opening of the river, our arrange- ’ ments for sleeping are not so good, as a great . number of the passengers besides ourselves . have to put up with a matrass upon the floor. But I must close with the promise that, if time and opportunity will admit. I will let von know something reliable of the state of affairs, ? climate, soil, Ac., of Kansas. i Truly yours. DANIEL PITTMAN , The Douda* and Eaue Corres pondence. The false rumors which have been put afloat in regard to an allege*] correspondence between Col. Lane and Judge Douglas in relation to the debate on the spurious Kansas memorial 1 have induced several of Judge Douglas’s friends to ask his consent to give the correspondence publicity. The letters will be found in our paper this morning; and we risk nothing in say ing that Judge Douglass letter places Col. Lane in a worse predicament even than he was in before. We observe by the New York Times which reached us last night that Col. Lane has published a card in that paper of yes terday, in which he introduces his own letters to Judge Douglas, with the exception of the concluding sentence, but fails to accompany it with Judge Douglas's reply. He undertakes to give the points of Judge Douglas's reply bit he does it so imperfectly that it is grossly unjust. Without dwelling on the card of Col onel Lane, we deem it due to Judge Douglass to say, upon authority, that the statements that when Colonel Laue’s letter was handed to Judge Douglas he “asked until one o’clock to re ply, which was granted,” and tliat “he then asked until four o’clock, and afterwards until until Monday,” which were “cheerfully grant ed,” are a total preversion and misrepresenta tion of the facts. Judge Douglas asked no time to reply, and none was granted. When Mr. IVatson called on Saturday and delivered- Col. Lane's letter Judge Douglas had company and he informed Mr. Watson that he would be ready to reply in an hour or two, which would ,be one o’clock. Mr. Watson said he would be engaged for several hours, and probably until four o’clock Judge Douglas then fixed four o’clock for his reply. After his company left he read the letter, and found that it would take Btime8 time than until four o’clock to make such y as bis judgement dictated as proper.— mediately requested Colonel Orr to see V r atson, and notify him that his reply be made, on Monday morning. Col. Orrt(not finding Mr. Watson, left a note for the notice. These are substantially the facts, and they show how grossly Col. Lane has perverted and militated themWWi. Union. CORRESPONDENCE. House of Representatives, April 25, 1856. Sir: You will please publish the enclosed correspondence. The letter of Judge Douglas to Hon. C. K. Watson was delivered to him on Monday last. After reading it, Mr. Wat son said to me, verbally, that he was not aware when he delivered Col. Lane’s note that it could be construed as hostile in its character, and that it was his determination not to pros ecute further the correspondence. It is due to Mr. Watson to say that his man ner and conversation in relation to t his matter have been courteous and friendly, holding that no rule or technicality should induce him to do anything that his judgement could not approve. This met the approval of my own judgement. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOSEPH LANE. Union Washington city. April 25.1856. Dear sir : It has been announced in the newspapers that a hostile message had been sent to you by Col. James H. Lune, of Kan sas Territory, and your course in regard to that matter has been most grossly misrepresented. We, as friends whom you consulted, and advis ed the course which you pursued on that occa sion, request your permission to publish the correspondence now in our hands, in order that the facts may be understood. Verv truly, vour obedient servants, R. TOOMBS, JOHN B. WELLER. J. D BRIGHT, JAMES L. ORR, JOSEPH LANE. Hon. S. A. Douglas. Washington. April 25, 1856. Gentlemen : In reply to your note of this date, I take pleasure in saying that you have my permission to make such disposition of the correspondence referred to as you may think the circumstances require. Verv truly vour friend. S. A. DOUGLAS. Messrs. R. Toombs. J. B. Weller. J. D. Bright, J L. Orr. Joseph Lane. Washington, D. C., April 18, 1856. Sir : One day last week I placed in the hands of Gen. Cass, with a request to lay it before the Senate, the memorial of the general assem bly of Kansas praying for her admission into the Union as a sovereign State. I gave that driection to the memorial from the fact that the convention which framed the constitution of Kansas, with great unanimity, had before selected Gen. Cass is the medium by which to present the constitution to the Senate, deeming him on account of seniority, the more proper person to introduce into the new applicant. On Thursday of that week that memorial was the subject of severe criticisms, and in con nection with it charges of the most grave char acter were preferred against me. On Monday lust, in a paper read iu your hearing and by yours, I frankly avowed myself the reviser of that memorial: stated distiuctly that it was prepared under my direction, in conformity with the authority vested in me; that no human being was consulted in the pre paration of it. the instructions of my principals faithfully earned out; the explanation was as full as the avowal was frank, nothing being withheld. After this, in connection with the memorial, you repeat the charge in a form much more objectionable than before. Believ ing, as I do. that neither the constitution of the i United States nor the rules of the Senate were i int< tided to justify or sanction so gross an attack upon the character of an American citizen, I respectfully ask for such an explanation of your language upon that occasion as will remove all imputation upon the integrity of my action or motives in connection with that memorial. When you are reminded that although I - have a certificate of election to a seat in the body of which you are a member, and so far t j your peer, vet I am not permitted to speak in n ' my own defence : when you arc reminded of the friendship, personal as well as political, j ; which has heretofore existed between us ; that s i 1 cam<- here your friend, confidently expecting „ to find you on the Kansas application where r I you stood in '44 on the Texas question, in ">0 1 on the California question, in favor ofrecogni i sing the people's government and extending over j American citizens the protecting arm of the . i general government, I feel confident that you ' : will, without hesitation, tender the explanation i requested, and thereby render a simple act of toward one who has faithfully discharged ! his duty to his constituents in all the relations ' j which have given rise to tbeexistingcontrover I sy ;.I My friend, Hon. 0. H. Watson, will deliver , this to you and receive your auswer. Respectfully, J. IT. LANE. j Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, f Washington City. c Saturday, April 19, 1856. >1 Stu: 1 have examined the letter signed by 1! your friend, James 11. Lane, which you placed i in my hands to-day, and will now give yen my . I reasons for responding to you as its bearer, in- : , | stead of him as its author. i! The letter is so equivocal in terms, and por-' .; lions of it so irreconciliable with other portions, I , i that it is impossible to determine, with any cer -3 j tainty, whether it is intended as a hostile mes -1 sage or a friendly note. It is true that the city > is full of rumors that your friend. Col. Lane, I intended to challenge me, and the letter-writers P for those newspapers in the eastern cities most t friendly to the revolutionary movements in , Kansas and most hostile to myself not only an ! nounced the fact some three or four days . ago, but actually fixed the time when your , friend intended to send the hostile message.— , The object of your friend in causing his inten tions to be made known to the world and pub- . lished in the newspapers is not for me to explain, I r when he and every one must have known that I , the effect would inevitably be to have both j parties arrested the moment he succeeded in I ‘ making the public believe that he intended to j invite a hostile meeting. In the National Intelligencer of this morn I ing I find a “ card,” published by your friend, ■ in which he attempts to assail me personally,; I and to raise a question of veracity between us i | j upon a point in reference to which he admits.' i' and affirmatively asserts, the truth of my state II meat, but denies that he gave me or any other . person a “ shadow of authority for making any . such statement.” Having selected his tribunal t and removed "tris complaint from the jurisdic tion to which public letter-writers in his confi dence had declared he would bring it, and ap pealed to the public through the columns of the . i newspaper press, he is at liberty to prosecute .lit in that forum as long as he pleases. Since 11 the publication of this •• Card ” in the news i papers, your friend, in a letter of which yon arc t i the bearer, and in which you are designated as 11 his friend to receive my answer, referring to the debate on Monday last in the United States Senate on the fraudulent memorial of the spn— ’ rious legislature of Kansas, makes the following 1 request of me: *• I respectfully ask for such an I explanation of your language upon that occa- ; : sion as will remove all imputation upon the in ; tegrity of my action or motives in connexion l with that memorial.” The reasons assigned for calling upon me to i vindicate “ the integrity of his action and mo- ■ fives in connexion with that memorial ” are, ■ that “on Thursday of that week (theweekpre- ■ vious to the debate of u-ltich he now complains) ' that memorial was the subject of severe criti— I cisrn. and in connexion with it charges or the ‘ i MOST GRAVE CHARACTER WERE PREFERRED I againt me,” [your friend, Col. Lane.] It is not pretended that I made those charges against him in that debate. The published debate j shows that “on Thursday of that week ” no I less than three or four senators did denounce i that memorial as “an impudent forgery, at- j ■ tempted to be palmed off on the Senate of the I ' United States, through the hands of the vene , rable senator from Michigan;” as "a paper ! which has reached the Senate through fraud, ' which has stamped upon it every mark of forgc ;l ry as “ a forgery which has been palmed off > on the Senate;” and various other denuncia . i tions of a like character, all tending to stamp i the memorial with fraud and forgery. I <1 d I not endorse these grave charges on the one hand, nor repel them on the other, for the rea ! son that while all the facts then known to the i Senate seemed io justify a strong suspicion, ' and, indeed, raise the presumption, that they were true, yet the circumstances were not such I as to render it my duty to do more than to re . i ject the memorial upon the lacts disclosed in , i the debate. In fact I followed the lead of the illustrious senator from Michigan, who pre , sented the memorial under the impression that it was a genuine paper by expressing a willing ness to vote for his motion to print, as a matter j ! of courtesy to him, so long as it involved no i i other consideration than the amount of money ' , which the printing would cost But when its i J reception and printing become the test of a; ■ I principle which was to recognize and sanction i the revolutionary proceedings in Kansas. I an- [ nounccd my purpose to vote against it for that . | reason. Subsequently such disclosures were I made as to create doubts in the mind of Gen. j Cass in respect to the authenticity of the pa i per, and be, after an interview with Col. Lane, j ; from whom he had received it, made the fol lowing announcement to the Senate, and voted ! for the resolution rescinding the action of the i Senate whereby the memorial was received and .. referred, end therefore withdrew it Gen. Cass ; ■ said : I , -Within a few minutes I have had an inter-i , view with the gentleman who presented me ! > with the petition, and lam bound to say to | i the Senate that I am not satisfied that this is : . all that it is necessary for me say. I shall vote j ; for the resolution of the Senator from Virgin- j [ Arter the ■memorial had been denounced , [ by several senators as a fraud and a forgery. r and after General Cass had thus announced [ his purpose to vote for its rejection for the rea- - sons stated. Mr. Seward rose and said that he had just conversed with Col Lane upon the I subject, and ha added: “lie tells me, and authorizes me to say, and requests me to say to the Senate, as I do in bis behalf, that before he left the State of Kansas he saw this paper, the same paper—he does not say that it is the identical paper in chirogra phy—but he saw the memorial of which this is the substance and text signed by all the mem bers of the provisional legislature of Kansas, and that this is a true copy of that paper, as Ihe had before stated to the honorable senator from Michigan, and I suppose the original is within his reach and available. This is in no ' substantial respect different.” i Mr. Seward also further said that “this state ment is due to him; and this statement is all I that I need say injustice to myself.” Tn reply to Mr. Seward a senator arose and said: ‘ “I think, Mr. President, this debate will not ibe without its advantage to the country. We j are beginning now to get at the truth of this I matter slowly, but it would seem securely. ‘ “ Where do we stand ? A paper has been ' presented here, palmed upon the senator frtnn i Michigan, purporting to be a memorial from certain persons in Kansas who claim to be the senators and representatives of the State of Kansas. It is questioned ; its authenticity is doubted ; it is denounced as a forgery and a fraud. We learn now that it reached the hon orable senator from Michigan at the hand of one who is sent here as a senator from Kansas. We learn from the senator from New York that that paper, thus denounced on this floor as a forgery, and fraudulently done, came to the hands of the senator from Michigan by one of thos» men who is sent here as a senator for the pseudo State of Kansas; and yet there is no man whom J have heard who undertakes to vindicate him. There is no gentleman who stands on this floor and says that the man who brought the paper here is what he claims to be —an honorable man—and that ho brought a fair and honest paper. I do not understand the senator from New York to do that. Where arc the gentlemen who claim to bo here speak ing for the oppressed people of Kansas ? Sir, noscitur sociis is a safe maxim—the man is known by the company he keeps. If it be true that the man is known by the company he koeps, the company is known by the man who helps them.” After further discussion of a similar charac ter, the resolution of Mr. Mason was adopted by a vote of thirty-two in the affirmative to three in the negative, by which the orders to refer the fraudulent paper to the Committees on Territories and Printing were rescinded, and the paper was then withdrawn by General Cass and returned to Colonel Lane. I have been thus minute in tracing the out line of the debate which occurred on tlie first presentation of this fraudulent memorial in or der to show that [ took no part iu the discus sion which questioned the authenticity of the paper or the conduct of Colonel Lane in con nexion with it. Yet it will be observed that, in the letter which you bore from Colonel Lane to me, it is stated, as the first cause of griev ance, that, “on Thursday of that week that memorial was the subject of severe criticism, and in connexion with it charges of a most grave character are preferred against me,” [Col onel Lane.] We have seen what those were : They were no less than that of fraud and forgery!— these charges were, made and repeated by sev eral senators in the course of that debate, and received the sanction of the Senate by a vote of 33 to 3 in the adoption of Mr. Mason’.: res olution. Your friend. Colonel Lane, rested un der these charges until the next week, when he attempted to exculpate himself, not by calling on the senators who made the charges ’for ex planation, but by presenting a petition signed by himself, with the original memorial made a part of it, praying that the pretended copy, which had been rejected on the previous Thurs day. might also be received, and inviting a com parison between the two, with a view of enabling the Senate to determine whether the one which the Senate rejected was a copy of a forgery.— As the I'hairman of the committee bavin**- charge of territorial affairs, it became my ap propriate duty to institute the comparison which had been invited by Colonel Lane iu his petition, and to give the Senate the result of my investigation. I found that while the re jected copy purported to be authenticated by the signatures (all in one handwtiting) of the members of both houses of that spurious legis lafnre, the original, from which it was pretend ed to have been copied, had no signatures at all attached to it, and no authentication whatever, except an evasive affidavit taken that day be fore Judge M cLean. I also found that the first three pages of the original were entirely sup pressed in the pretended copy. I also found many other material omissions and suppress ions, many interpolations and alterations run ning all through the paper, and changing its whole character, not only in form, but in sub stance and principle. I exposed these things to the Senate in plain and unmeasured terms, as it was my right and duty to do. I did not go out of ray way to criminate or exculpate any one. I dealt with the fraudulent paper as it came before me in the line of my duty, and left the authors of the iniquity free to pursue their own course. I showed that the original memorial which it is alleged was adopted by the spurious legislature of Kansas was based on the funda mental idea or principle that Congress had no power to establish governments for the Terri tories ; that the Kansas-Nebraska act was un consitutional and void for that reason; that the people of the Territories owed no allegiance to the governments which had been or should be established by Congress iu the Territories; and hence tney had an inherent right to take the steps which they had taken to overthrow the territorial government without the consent aud in def anc .* of the authority of Congress. I also showed that in the pretended copy all this had been suppressed since the is ne was made np between the two parties by the reports of the majority and minority of the Committee on Territories, and iu lieu of it had been inserted ar* humble petition to Congress recognising its authority and praying for its interposition. Tn ' short, I showed and proved by a' comparison of the two papers that the pretended copy was not a copy in any sense of the word—that it j was a spurious, fraudulent paper; in other I words, that it was a base aud impudent forge— I ry. No senator did, no man in or out of the T. BURKE, PROPRIETOR NUMBER 39. Senate can, vindicate the paper from this just condemnation The severest judgment which I pronounced on this transaction is contained in the following extracts from my speech, which I now repeat as the only explanation I have to make of the matters to which they refer: “ I submit whether this does not make it a totally different document, affirming entirely different principles, in order to place their ac tion in a totally different light. The Kansas legislature, in the original document, said they justified their acts because Congress had no power over them. The memorial came in the other day recognising the power of Congress. I ask, then, if it is not a forgery thus to change the document in the most vitally important point upon which the whole proceeding rests? 1 do not say by whom the forgery was commit ted—l care not. The taint runs through this whole proceeding, and the affidavit does not cure or remedy it.” Again: “ I can take up this memorial and show that, as I have exposed one heresy after another of their pretensions, they took the pen and ran through this memorial to get rid of the objec tion. “It has been changed from time to time in material points, striking out and inserting, un til it has hardly a vestige of its original form. The very comparison which is here challenged between the pretended copy, presented the oth er day, and the original now, proves conclu sively that such is the case. I then submit whether here was not evidence of the most glaring frand, ever attempted to be perpetrated upon us by taking the same spurious document and attaching it to a memorial, and thus drag ging it into the Senate ?” It should be borne in mind, that the first time this fraudulent paper was presented to the Sen ate 1 pronounced no judgment upon the ques tion of its authenticity, or the means by which it found its way to the Secretary.s table.— Other i enators did denounce it ns “ a fraud ana impudent forgery’." I remained silent on these points, not from any sympathy with the perpe trators of the fraud, but from my profound respect for the feelings of the illustrious senator from Michigan, whose confidence has been abused so far as to induce him to present it under the impression that it was an authentic memorial. When he discovered his mistake, I joined him in that vote of condemnation which the Senate pronounced by 32 tq 3 in the adop tion of Mr. Mason's resolution. The next week Col, Lane comes to the Sen ate, through Mr. Harlan, of lowa, and presents a memorial, in which he asks and challenges a comparison of the two papers, with the view of inducing the Senate to reverse the judgment which had been so emphatically pronounced upon the conduct of the authors of that fraud, at the same time avowing himself to be the person who perpetrated the act. I did make the comparison in pursuance of the request contained in bis memorial, and stated the facts to the Senate as I found them to ex ist, together with my opinions upon them. The Senate ratified those opinions in the rejection of the memorial by a vote of 30 to 11. In the face of these facts, your friend, Col. Lane, calls upon me “ for such an explanation of my language upon that occasioujas will re move all imputation upon the integrity of his action or motives in connection with that me morial.” My reply is, that there arc no facts within my knowledge which can K remove all imputation upon the integrity of his action or motives in connexion with that memorial.” For the reasons which I have stated, I can have no correspondence with Col. Lane, and therefore address this note to you. Your obedient servant, S. A. DOUGLAS. Hon. C. 11. Watson. A Young Advocate.—ln the Municipal Court, Boston, on Saturday, John Spaine,con victed of an aggravated assault, was called upon for sentence, and his little son, nine years of age, appeared and was permitted to plead in behalf of his father. The brave boy spoke with all the eloquence of love and simplicity, pleading for mercy; and he promised die Judge that if he would let his father off that time, his mother and he would take care that he did not “ do naughty ” any more. The pleading of the af fectionate son effected a mitigation of sentence from the House of Correction to fourteen days imprisonment in the common jail. De tructive Fire in Columbus, Ga.—From the Columbus Sun we learn that a most de structive fire occurred in that city on Thursday night last. We are sorry to see that the resi dence of Thomas De Wolf, Esq., proprietor of the Sun, was Hmong other buildings, totally consumed. Seven buildings—five of them con structed of wood—were entirely burned. Tem perance Hall was injured, but by the indomi table energies of the firemen and citizens, was saved from destruction. The loss is estimated at $7,000, on which there was but little insu rance. A suspicion exists that the conflagrn tion was the work of an incendiary. Melo-Dkama Behind the Scenes.—On Tuesdap night last, while Owens, the comedian, was playing at the theatre in St. Louis, a more serious piece was going on behind the scenes. It appears that Mr. Andercon, the ‘‘old man” of the company, had made improper advances to Mrs. Ann Behler, one of the company, which were received by the actress, by pushing the “old man' down a flight of steps. On Tuesday night Anderson concealed himself in a dark corner behind the scene, and just as Mrs. B. was stepping on the stage, stabbed her in the no-k and breast. The lady swooned off. An dewon is in jail awaiting trail. Shocking C'kci.i.tv.—A inan named Thomp son, was convicted at the Columbus [N. C.l Superior C nu t last week of manslaughter, and branded. He was convicted of having, by cruel neglect, siarvedtwo small children who had been entrusted to his keeping by the war dens of the poor of Columbus county. They died of hunger and want of attention. fftyThcre is an apple tree in Sacramento (Cal.) that has blossomed once this season without producing fruit, and again a second time, producing fruit of the size of an inch in diameter and is now a third time in blos som