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The Golden Apricot.
We arc uuder many obligations to Messrs.
Peters, Harden & Co., who, through their nur
seryman, Mr. W. P. Robinson, presented us
Monday last, with a half peck of the “ Du-
Golden Apricot" grown at the “Downing
, t, Nubsbrt,” in this city. We have sel
di ‘ecu finer specimens of this luxurious fruit
any where, and never in this State. The per
feetion to which it has been brought, at the
“Downing Hill Nursery” is but another evi
dence of the enterprize which characterizes its
proprietors and of their preserverance and
success in growing rare and valuable fruits.—
In the South, these is a sad deficiency in this
respect. Why should not Georgia, ahead as
she is in rail road, and other enterprizes, be
ahead also in the cultivation of fruits and the
vine t
Millard Fillmore.
Mr. Fillmore came out in the steamer Atlan
tic, and was received at New York with de
monstrations of respect by his political friends.
The deputation previously appointed waited
upon him, and he was saluted by the firing of
fifty guns. This is all very well. But, from
the accounts we have seen, there does not ap
pear to have been much enthusiasm manifested
on the arrival of the “American,” or “Know
Nothing" candidate for the Presidency, after so
long an absence. Doubtless a change has come
over that party, in New York, since Mr. Fill
more left that State. He cannot, we feel sat
isfied, remain long iguoraut of the undeniable
fact, that he is the candidate, iu the North,
East, and West, of tho once invincible Know
Nothings, and that there has been a fusion of
tho majority of that party into, and with the
Black Republicans. The public journals of
the anti-slavery States sadly misrepresent the
condition of the falsely styled “American Par.
ty,” if such be not the fact. Mr. Fillmore,
apprized as he soon will be of this state
of affairs, will have hia patriotism put to
the test. How he will stand the ordeal ;
whether he will continue the candidate of a
meta faction of a party ; or whether he will
retire from a contest in which he can win no
laurels : remains to be seen. In regard to his
course, we confess that a doubt does not trouble
us. We believe that he will remain a candi
date, and thus, directly, as well as indirectly
v into the hands of the free soilers and ab
o .iionUta. The sacrifice which, ia our opinion.
the good of the country, the preservation of
the Constitution, and perpetuity of the Union,
require him to make, is too great a one, when
. tho White House, at Washington, is seen in
' the distance. But we shall ecase to speculate.
'WJA3NTTESr>, A. WEEH.L'Y
The “Drop of Blood” Calumny.
We promised on yesterday that we would pub
lish to-day “the complete refutation” of the
“drop of blood calumny” which the Know
Nothing and Black Republican organs have
circulated recently against Mr. Buchanan.—
The reader, therefore, will see that we have
done so in this day's issue if he will only turn
his attention to the article headed as above, and
which is taken from the Harrisburg Pennsyl
vania Reporter. After its perusal, fwe doubt
not he will be perfectly satisfied that no such
charge can, with any shadow of truth, be laid
at Mr. Buchanan’s door ; and he will, also, no
doubt, wonder at the recklessness which char
acterizes a party or press that persists in mak
ing it. But, to defeat Mr. Buchanan, is the
object, and to attain this, the party leaden
that oppose him would deceive the people at
any and every hazard. Hence the extent to
which they debase themselves, and will continue
to do so until, at the ballot box, the verdict
of condemnation upon their course is written, as
“with a pen of iron and the point a de
mand.”
Col- Henry G. Lamar.
In a late number of the Georgia Telegraph,
we were much pleased to see a letter from the
distinguished gentleman whose name heads this
article, and which we publish below, repelling
with much force and honest indignation
the charges of federalism, and denunciation of
the democratic party, lately raked up by the
the Know Nothing press of this State, and
elsewhere, against Mr. Buchanan. We have
already published the evidence to which Col.
Lamar refers in his letter, and which originally
appeared in the Pennsylvania Inquirer & Cour
ier, or we would insert it to-day. We rejoice,
however, to see that Col. Lamar has presented
it to the people of Georgia, over his own sig
nature. If we are not mistaken, the Colonel
served a Congressional term, as one of the
representatives from this State, with Mr.
Buchanan, and has a knowledge of the
antecedents of that gentleman, not sur
passed, if it be equalled by any of our public
men. Georgia too, within her limits, cannot
claim a sterner, more inflexible, and unflinching
advocate of State and Southern Rights, than
Hbnrt G- Lamab; nor could she have done
this at any time for the last thirty years, al
though in that period she has had her Troup,
her Gilmer, her McDonald, and others, all of
whom have been recognised as champions of
State Rights and of the democratic cause. It
augurs well for our cause, when we see such
men as Col. Lamar, roused from their retiracy,
to the performance of a duty, such as we now
refer to. The South needs the aid of all her
gallant and patriotic sons. Georgia needs their
services also. We are glad, therefore, to see,
once more, Col. tamar addressing the people
of our State, even though, thus far it has only
been to repel a slander. Wo shall, however,
expect to hear from him again, and again, dur
ing the canvass; and when we say this, we feel
that we speak the wishes of the democratic
party of Georgia.
From the Macon Telegraph.
Mr. Clisby—Dear Sir:—As the refuted
accusations against the Hon. James Buchanan
of his having been a Federalist, and of his
having denounced, the democratic party in the
most opprobious ‘manner are again revived, I
encloS: you his “letteif;” dated February 28th
1838, together with a certificate of a number
of citizens of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for pub
lication, which give an explicit and unqualified
denial of them. The charge you will perceive
is branded with vagrancy on its face—as the
accusers do not agree among themselves as to
the place where the approbrious words were
alleged to have been used.
It is a common saying that the character of
a public mas is the common property of the
people. The truth admitted, it is regarded,
then as the imperrative duty of evry citizen to
vindicate the good name of their public serv
ants against unmerited reproach to arrest,
if possible, the repetition of misrepresentations
or slander. For one I regard with feelings
bordering on contempt the imputation of unwor
thiness or unfitness for office arising from a
modification or change of political opinion.
The laws of nature are working perpetual
changes in the physical world, and why may
not frail man be allowed to correct his errors
without censure, or change his opnions as his
progressive improvement or experience may
suggest ? A persistence in error under any
circumstances should not be regarded as a vir
tue. If convictions of duty demand or pres
cribe a particular course of conduct, no patriot
will fail to obey its behest. I know it requires
some degree of moral heroism to follow the
dictates of conscience in this particular, as all
who change their relations to party—are in
these days of modern refinement—branded
with the epithet of “turn coat,” “renegade and
‘traitor.”
But those who have not the courage or firm
ney to do what they believe to be right, and
treat with indignant scorn these denunciations
of old politiaal stagers, may take courage: for
such is the revolution of opinion which is now
maturing in the public mind, that but few at
the South will be left to censure who are not
enlisted under thebauner of our leaders, and
standing firmly on the Democratic Platform.
The antecedents of political leaders are not
so important to be known, as how they now
stand. These charges against Mr. Buchanan
had originally no other foundation upon which
to rest than their reiteration or repetition.—
They arc ignored by his own emphatic denial
—by testimony of his fellow-townsmen—by a
long life of public usefulness—a firmness of
purpose, which knew no evasion, supported
and backed by an exhibition of talents and at
tainments, of which every American may be
proud.
Respectfully, your Ob’t Serv’t,
HENRY G. LAMAR.
Col. Fremont, the Black Republican
Candidate forJPresident.
Born in Savannah, and educated, as we see
it stated, in South Carolina, thia man, Col.
Fremont, has not only sought, but has received
the nomination of the "Black Republican
Party” for President. Possessed of scarcely
a single qualification for the office ha aspires to
fill, he has yet succeeded, by reason mainly of
bis defection to the soil that gave him birth*
and to those institutions under which he was
I educated and reared; and by reason also of the
intrigues of his father-in-law, Col. Benton,
steward, of New York, and otbar politicians ft f
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I ike stamp ; he has yet succeeded we repeat, in
becoming the candidate of a party, and there
ore its chief in command, organized to wage
deadly warfare upon the South and upon its
Institutions—upon his “father land,” the home
of his youth. What a traitor ' But it is with
feelings of disgust that we turn from the man,
to consider his qualifications for the station he
aspires to occupy, and the consequences to ensue
from his success, should the mad spirit of fa
naticism triumph over Law, and Order, and the
Constitution.
If the possession of a princely fortune, a life
of adventure and of romance, be pre-requisites
to the Presidential chair; and hostility to
Southern institutions; in other words hostility
to slavery as it exists in the South by one born
and educated under a Southern Suu ; be also
deemed necessary to rally the anti-slavery mob
of the North to the polls; then Mr. Fremont
is the man for the times ; his nomination is the
proper one for his par ty to make; and his
election will doubtless accomplish all that the
destructive spirit of his party requires. But
we are consoled in the reflection that “whom
the Gods wish to destroy, they first make
mad,” and despite these qualifications of Col-
Fremont, we still think there is some hope for
the perpetuity of our institutions, and the pre
servation of the Union.
Fremont’s “ life of romance ” may be sum
med up in few words—it may interest at least
some of the “fair sex,” if it does not satisfy
even the weakest of those, that it qualifies him
to discharge the duties of President of this
great and growing Republic.
While occupying quite a humble position in
the army, he was fortunate enough to secure
the affections of a daughter of Thomas H-
Benton, then a Senator, and in the plentitude
of popularity and power in Washington city.
This daughter, it is said, was Col. Benton's
orite child, and such was the opposition
made by him, to her alliance with Fremont,
that the parties had to resort to an elopement*
in order to consummate a marriage. A recon
ciliation, however, soon took place, and under
♦he patronage of Col. Benton, his son-in.law
was soon promoted in the service, and over the
heads of more deserving men. His life, as an
explorer, then commenced. This was attended
by blanders, and a cruelty, unparallelled in
.the annals of American history, and by some
successes, which any ordinary, resolute man
might also have achieved. To use the language
of the Boston Post, “his friends will lie very
apt to maintain a close silence upon bis feats
at an explorer, when the history of liis blun
ders and heartlessness becomes known. They
will not boast much of the famous Coocha
tope Pass, which eventually proved to be the
highest peak, but one, of the Rocky mountains
—nor of his favori.e route for the Pacific
road which on examination, proved to be so
crooked, that it received the soubriquet of
Ram’s Horn Route—nor of the school for en
gineering which he established, viz that the
movements of the buffaloes were the best guide
to an explorer—nor will they be apt particu
larly to laud the desertion of his corps in the
midst of the perils into which he had led them,
shut up in the snow thirty feet deep, which oc'
curred near Taos, in New Mexico.” No, they
will not particularly admire these exploits of
the Explorer, and who, but for the old Indian
agent, Fitzpatrick, would have perished in the
enow. But it is sufficient for them that Fre
mont was an Explorer, thus far following in
the footsteps of Washington, the great Father
of his country, but, sad to relate,, no farther!
And here all the romance ceases.
Following this, comes the Mariposa Grant,
upon which his untold wealth is based, and by
means of which he can, as was practised in
olden time at Rome, purchase a commonwealth,
and sell the South. What cares he that to
that South he owes birth, and education ? It
weighs not a feather's weight, against unprin
cipled ambition and lust after power. Judas
betrayed his Master. Freemont does not hes
itate to betray “hie own, his native land.”
When the people of the South calmly look
at the picture presented to them ; when they
see the progress, and kok to the strength of
this Black Republican party of the anti-slavery
States ; ought they not to rally as one man to
the defence of their rights, instead of support
ing , and giving aid to mere factions, whether
those factions are headed by Millard Fillmore,
or by any one else. He must be demented in
deed, or is striving wilfully to deceive the peo
ple of the South, that holds out to them the
idea that Mr. Fillmore, in a contest between
the Black Republicans at the North, and his
faction of the Know Nothing party there,
stands any earthly chance to succeed over them.
To hesitate then, at the South, is idle ; nay, it
is criminal. Day, by day, the evidence of this
accumulates, and day by day the ranks of the
democracy are being recruited from the ranks
of the “American Party” iu this State. The
cry is, we will have no traitor, like Fremont,
to rule over us; no “Black Republican” to I
war upon our Institutions! Invincible as we
feel the democracy are in Georgia, we are yet
gratified at hearing this cry, coming as it does
from those, who, but a few months ago were bat
tling hard against us. Patriots at heart, and
in intent, they can give no aid to the enemies
of the South.
John A- Jones and Beverly A. Thornton,
Esqrs., of Muscogee County.
These gentlemen represented the "American
Party," of Muscogee, in the last Legislature.
It was our intention to refer, as soon as we
could get the Journals of the House, to sever
al leading measures, before the Legislature, in
which they both Ttook leading parts. These
Journals have not yet come into our posses
sion, but when they do so, we shall be certain
to execute our self-imposed task. As we gave
notice of this to our readers some time since
and long in advance of the position recently
assumed by these gentlemen, we shall escape
the charge, we trust, of complimenting them
because of that fact It was only as legislators.
that we designed to speak, and it will be only
as such, that we shall speak, of them. In,
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| readers to the following which we clip fr< m
| the Constitutionalist & Republic of Augusta
; Commenting upon the proceedings of the recent
i meeting in Columbus at which the gentlemen
referred to, with about sixty oilers of the
; “American Party,”declared .their determination
I to support Mr. Buchanan’s election, the Editor
I of that paper says
I “Prominent among these are the names of
I John A. Jones and Beverly A. Thornton,Esq.
gentlemen elected by the 'American party to
seats in the last Legislature. In the position
I thus assigned them they exhibited distinguished
talent, and enthusiastic interest in all that in-
J volved the prosperity, the good name and rep
utation of Georgia. In every question concern
ing her vital interests and honor, they proved
themselves, her true and loyal sons. Born on
her soil, and identified with every interest in
which is wrapped up her destiny as a sovereign
State of this great confederacy, their ingenu
ous impulses ean be freely trusted. With no
ordinary feeling of gratification we welcome
them to the ranks of the great Conservative
Democratic party.
When such men join us, we feel renewed
confidence in our cause, and fresh assurance
that the Constitution of our country and the
rights of the South are safe.”
For the Examiner.
Mr. Hatch’s School.
Mr. Editor : —I had the pleasure of attend
ing the examination of the students of this
school, yesterday and to-day, and in justice to
the preceptor, and his better assistant, cannot
withhold my testimony to their eminent success
in the laudable enterprise in which they are
engaged.
Being exclusively a female seminary, con
ducted as it is, it cannot be too highly com
mended, when it is remembered that it is the
standard of female worth and elevation which
gives tone and direction to the great aims and
objeets of social life.
Let the girls be properly educated, and the
boys will have an impetus to move them to
noble triumphs which nothing but woman’s
smile can insure. The virtu? and intelligence
of the females of a country, is the true criteri
on of that country’s civilization and great
ness. •
Hence the first importance of their thorough
education—not in Music, French, Embroidery,
and senseless conventionalisms, but iu those
branches which concern the realities of life—
physical, moral, and intellectual education.
I notice that praeticai knowledge is taught in
this school. I daresay, some of the students
have a better idea of the laws of health, than
many an old Batchelor of a Doctor, who is ped.
dling pills at 50 cents a box; and I am confident
some of the little girls can tell more about the
general history of our country than many of
the fanatics who are endeavoring to destroy it.
It is evident that they have been taught to un
derstand the principles inculcated. Questions
in Philosophy were answered in a manner to
evince a comprehension of the subject matter
in hand. This is the only way to impart
knowledge. Many Teachers seem to think it
of iij importance to illustrate by example, and
to uake familiar to the mind the truths im
pressed upon it. I was truly highly pleased
with the very sensible and prompt manner in
which the class in Mental Philosophy answered
the many intricate questions propounded to
them. They deserve great credit. My singular
position in society will not allow me to express
myself in regard to their high merit, farther
than to remark, that their parents have cause
for much self gratulation at their beauty, ex
cellence and moral worth.
laleed, out of over sixty students, I tried to
find | real ugly girl, but I looked in vain.
AUiealthier. and more beautiful cluster of
pronusing girls, cannot be found any where.
Three cheers for Atlanta in this respect! I
niighf. mention some of them that are in their
teens—about 5 that ought to feel proud in the
best amse of that term —but I will forebear,
IcstJUmight be thought flat tery; but I positively :
do u<A flatter.
I will close this hasty sketch. May Mr.
Hatch and his assistant, Mrs. Baker, live long,
and fail not to win the laurels due to their
merit; —and may the girls all grow wiser and
happier, and add new charms to their beauty
as life advances. B
Atlanta, June 25,1856.
[communicated.]
Operations for Ovarian Tumor.
BY P. STOTESBURY, M. U.
Mr. Editor : As everything extraordinary I
that occurs, whether relating to law, religion, I
or medicine, should be known to the people, 11
wish for their benefit, to notice through your i
excellent paper, an operation for Ovarian Tu- !
morelperformed by P. Stotesbury, M. D.. of
Georgia.
Operations for ovarian tumor, in a majority
of cases, whether by ordinary tapping, by ex
tirpation, or by tapping after Gastrotomy, as
in the instance alluded to above, have proved
unsuccessful.
In a number of cases, reported by different j
writers, the diagnosis had been decidedly erro
neous, as was subsequently ascertained, either
in the operation by Gastrotomy, or in post
mobtem examinations. In one case alluded to
by Dr. Maefarlane, the abdomen was opened
for the purpose of operation by extirpation, and
no tumor of any kind was fond.
Considering, therefore, the danger of the op
eration at best with the small amount of blood
spilled, together with the many fatal mistakes
made by eminent Surgeons, both in diagnosis,
and operating, no unprejudiced mind can but
admit but that Dr. Stotesbury is an eminent
Physician and Surgeon and that in point of
scientific attainment be has no superior in the
ranks of the profession.
The patient, Mrs. F , aged 25. living!
in Effingham county, became aware of a tiimwr
occupying the right iliac region, about two ■
monts after the birth of her first child. This I
tumor gradually increased for ten months; du- •
ring this period she was examined by Dr. I
Wildman, of Savannah, who pronounced it an
ovarian tumor. Being satisfied on this point
the gradual increase of the size demanded some
early attention. After free and candid expla-
the patient was not only willing but rather so
licitous for the operation of ovariotomy.
Accordingly on the J 7th of February the
Dr. accompanied by another eminent Reform
Physician and Surgeon. proceeded to the house
of tlie patient, and after making all the neces
sary arrangements administered the Chloroform
and Ether combined, and in 10 minutes had
her I idly under its influence and perfectly insen
sible. He commenced the incision at the um
bilicus and continued it to the pubis : this lo
cation for the opening was selected rather than
that immediately over the tumor in order to
prevent hemorrage, which would have been
ii.evitable if it had been in the linea semilunari
or near that part of the abdomen. This cut,
which was six inches in length, along the linea
alba, was not followed by the discharge of a
table spoonful of blood. The loss of this pre
cious fluid was not one-fourth of an ounce in
the whole operation, which fact shows conclu
sively the wisdom of his choice in the point for
the cut.
After carefully cutting through the skin and
adipois tissue and separating the recti muscles*
he divided the peritoneume and exposed at
once the epiploon, which he also cut, and then
pushing aside the smaller intestines exposed the
tumor which had extended up into the hypo
chondriac region. On grasping this, the Dr.
pronounced it to contain a fluid, and lobe very
extensive in its adhesions ; by farther examina
tion the tumor was found to involve the right
ovarium and the surrounding ligaments, espe
cially the broad ligaments of the womb. The
adhesiens were so extensive that it was thought
imprudent to attempt dissecting out the sack,
death must have been the consequnce. The tu
mor was accordingly tapped by introducing the
trocar. After exposing the tumor to the in
cision, about one quart of fluid, quite transpa
rent was drawn off, the opening into the ab
domen closed up by sutures and adhesive strips
and compress and bandage appbed, and in half
an hour after the operation, the patient gra du
ally aroused herself to consciousness, and seem
ed in good condition. The sponge well satur
ated with the chloroform and ether was often
applied during the three quarters of an hour
while the operation was in progress, the hus
band of the patient holding the sponge os di
rected by him.
The patient was discharged in 11 days, and
in 5 weeks perfectly well; and as has since been
proven, that at the time of the operation, the
patient was one month gone in pregnancy.
It will thus be seen that this operation, so
delimte and dangerous, and which has so sel
dom been performed, was not only successful*
but did not produce-abortion. If the circum
stances iu the case do not prove that the op
eration was skillfully performed we do not
know how to show it.
If this operation had been performed by an
Allopathic Physician, it would have been trum
peted to th j four corners of the earth, and the
perator extolled to the skies, but as a Medi
cal Reformer happened to be the actor in this
surgical exploit, his name has not a single
notice from an Allopathic Journal, and nev
er will: on the other hand, if the operation had
been unsuccessful, and the patient had died as
such cases have in Allopathic hands, we have
no doubt but half the Old School Journals in
the land, would have decried the fool hardy
operator, and pronounced him a quack and
ignoramus.
This same Georgia Physician heroically ex
posed himself to the Yellow Fever in Savan
nah last year, and his success in the treatment
of this epidemic was superior to all others, but
this superiority was not noticed by the Allo
pathic reports, although the public papers gave
him due credit for his noble sacrifices. When
will bigotted, monopolizing Allopathy learn to
render due credit to true merit ?
Both of these scientific physicians and sur
geons are graduates of the Reform College
of Macon. Does not this prove that science
is taught in that institution to its fullest ex -
tent, and in all its perfection ; and that the
graduates of that liberally endowed institu
tion are not only scientific physicians but sci
entific Surgeons. W. J. S.
I A Mosquito Story.—The following mos-
I quito story goes ahead of anything we have
I lately seen in that line, and we think the man
i who told it may safely challenge any one to
• surpass it:
A veracious sea-fairing man avers himself
to be an eye-witness of the following occurrence,
J which happened on board a brig lying at an
j chor at Para, situated on one of the mouths
!of the Amazon river. The mosquitoes at that
I place, it is well known, are unusually large and
voracious, and congregate about the ships in
port, in incredible numbers, for the purpose of
presenting their bills to the unseasoned stran
gers. One of the crew of the brig, drawn
from his berth below by the tormenting insects,
took a fancy to smoke a pipe upon the fore top
gallant yard, where be knew that he should be
1 above their reach. Unfortunately he after
■ wards fell asleep in the cross-trees, and fail—
i ing from his high elevation, would have been
inevitably crushed to death hed it not been
for a thick swarm or phalanx of mosquitoes
which chanced that moment to be hovering
about ten feet above the deck. The sailor
upon falling, struck upon the elastic body, re
bounded, and the mosquitoes parting, was low
ered gently to the firm planks below. He was
uninjured, save a slight sprain of the shoulder,
caused by extending bis arm while falling upon
the swarm.”
Secret of Success at the Bar— l asked
Sir James Scarlett what was the secret of his
pre-eminent success as advocate. He replied
that he took care to press home the one prin
. ciple point of the ease, without paying much
regard to the others. He also said that he
j knew the secret of being short. 'I find.’ said
I he, 'that when I exceed half an hour, 1 am
' always doing mischief to my client, if I drive
I into the heads of the jury important matter, I
I drive out matter more important that T had
i previously lodged there.,—/? turion.
Mr- Buchanan.—The Wrighteville Stat
says it is the intention of the Hon. James Buch
axan to take up his quaters and spend the sum
mer at Wabank, a place of some celebrity as a
I fashionable resort for gentlemen cf leisure on
the banks of the Conestoga river, a short dis-
The 44 Drop of Blood ” Calumny.
From the. Harrisburg (Pa.) Reporter.
We observe by the report of congressional
proceedings, in the National Intelligencer of
March 30th that on the previous Friday eve
ning our Senator Buchannu was assailed by Mr.
Morgan, of New York, and Mr. Cooper, of
Pennsylvania, upon the floor of the House of
Representatives, with the charge of once hav
ing said, in a 4th-of-July oration, “ that if he
thought he had one drop of democratic blood
in his veins he would let it out.” This charge
was promptly contradicted by Mr. Ramsey
and General Kem, of the Pennsylvania delega
tion.
It is not our intention at the present to make
any comments upon this ridiculous story, which
first originated in 1828, immediately preceding
Mr. Buchanan s fifth election to Congress, but
merely to republish the letter of that gentle
man to the editor of the “Pennsylvania Inqui
rer and Courier,” dated February 27, 1838,
contradicting the charge so explicitly and une
quivocally as to silence the slander, it was
supposed forever. This letter was elicited by
a similar charge, made in debate by Mr. Cox,
a member of the convention for amending the
constitution of Pennsylvania, in May, 1837.
It was then promptly repelled, before the con
vention, by the present Judge Porter and
Emanuel C. Reigart, both members of that
body—the first a prominent democrat, and the
latter one of the anti-Masonic party in Penn
sylvania. Had this sentiment or anything like
it, ever been uttered by Mr. Buchanan at a
“political meeting in the court-house in Lan
caster,” these two gentlemen, from their posi
tion and character, must either have heard it
themselves, or immediately heard it from others ;
both of them being residents of that city when
it was alleged to have been uttered, and Mr.
Reigart having resided there ever since. The
charge would have specially attracted public
attention at that time, as Mr. Buchanan was a
successful candidate for the State legislature
both in October, 1814, and October 1815.
Mr. Cox, not satisfied with the contradiction
of Mr. Porter and Mr. Reigart, endeavored to
obtain proof ’of the charge, and renewed in a
letter to the editor of the “ Pennsylvania In
quirer and Courier,” dated February 24, and
published in that paper of February 2C, 1838,
the testimony which he then adduced in support
of it, and all which could be collected after a
laborious search consists of the certificate of a
certain Anthony McGlinn, and an extract of a
letter from George Ford, jr., both of which, it
will be perceived, are referred to in the follow
ing letter of Mr. Buchanan :
To the Editor of the Pennsylvania Inquirer and
Courier :
Washington city, Feb. 27, 1838.
Sir : I have this moment perused the letter
of J. F. Cox, published in yesterday’s Inqui
rer. His late official station as a member of
the convention, induces me to notice the stale
slander which he again repeats, and which I
NOW PRONOUNCE TO BE UTTERLY AND ABSOLUTE
LY FALSE, NO MATTER FROM WHAT SOURCE IT MAY
HAVE PROCEEDED, OR SHALL PROCEED. 1 never
did, upon any occasion, public or private,
whether at the court-house in Lancaster, or
elsewhere, declare that “if I knew I had a drop
of democratic blood iu iny veics I would let it
out,” or any words to that effect. This ridi
culous STORY IS WITHOUT A SHADOW OF FOUN
DATION.
The first version of the story was, that I had
had used the expression in an oration which I
had delivered at’ the court-house in Lancaster,
on the 4th of July, 1815. The oration itself
disproved this assertion, and then, after Mr.
Cox had made it a subject of debate before the
reform convention, in May last, one of the pa
pers at Harrisburg solemnly announced that
the expression had been used by me on the floor
of the House of Representatives, in this city, in
reply to Gov. Floyd, of Virginia, and that it
could be proved by a gentleman who had for
merly been a democratic representative in Con
gress from Pennsylvania. The scene is now
again shifted to the court-house in Lancaster,
and a detain Anthony McGlinn is the witness.
He states that “ a number of years ago, one
evening,” whilst I was addressing a political
meeting there assembled, he had heard me use
the expression alr?ady stated, “in an emphatic
manner, with my right hand elevated above
my head.” He does rot state the year when
this expression was used, nor the 'name of any
other person who was present at this public
meeting.
It does not seem to have occurred to Mr.
Cox that if I had uttered such a sentiment as
that attributed to me in the court house at
Lancaster, it would have been heard by hun
dreds of people ; that it would immediately
have become the subject of universal remark
and universal condemnation, and that it would
have been severely and justly commented upon
in the newspapers of the dey. Had it been
true there would have been no occasion for him
to resort to Anthony McGlinn to prove the
charge, nor to a conversation alleged by Mr.
Ford to have been held with Mr. Peter Shindel
who, although a respectable, is an aged man ;
and from a defect of memory, incident to that
period of life, must have confounded what may
have been stated to him by ethers with what
he had heard himself. But, I again repeat, no
matter who has been or shall be the witness,
the tale is utterly and absolutely false.
Shortly after the slander was made a subject
of debate by Mr. Cox in the reformed conven
tion, a number of the oldest and most respecta
ble citizens of Lancaster, without distinction
of party, signed a certificate disproving the
charge, so far as it was possible for a negative
to be proved, which was placed and still re
mains in the hands of one of my friends. Af
ter what had been said in reply to Mr. Cox by
Mr. Porter and Mr. Reigart, who must either
have heard the expression, had it been used, or
heard of it immediately after, I deemed it
wholly unnecessary then to publish this certifi
cate.
Yours. verv respectfully,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
We have said, in the commencement of this
article, that we would at this time publish
nothing in refutation of this charge but Mr.
Buchanan’s own letter. We have, however,
procured a copy of the certificate to which Afr.
B. refrrs, and give it publicity below for the
first time. In doing so, we will boldly assert
that the thirty subscribers to it are gentlemen
of as much moral worth and respectability as
can be found among the same number of indi
viduals in any other community in the Union ;
and we venture to say that so respectable
MAN IS PENNSYLVANIA, OF ANY POLITICAL PAR
TY, after reading Mr. B’s contradiction, en
dorsed by the cool and deliberate declaration
of these gentlemen, will reiterate the charge
believing himself in its truth :
Certificate.
Several of the undersigned have known Mr.
Bucnanan ever since he first came to Lancaster
to study law with the late James Hopkins, and
the others for many years past. We are all
convinced that if at a public meeting at the
court house, or anywhere else in this city, he
had ever used such an expression, or anything
like it, as that which has been attribeted to
him by Mr. Cox in the sonvention—to wit,
• that be had thanked his God he had not a
drop of Democratib blood in his veins, and if
he had he would let it out” —some of us would
have heard it, and all of us would have heard
it, and it must have become a subject of gene-
tioned by any person until the year 1828, im
mediately before Mr. Buchanan’s last election
to Congress on the democratic Jackson ticket.
As this election immediately proceeded Gen’l.
Jackson’s first election to the presidency, (in
November, 1828.) and as Mr. Buchannn had
been for several years previously his ardent
ifnd active supporter, he was then op
posed with much zeal and bitterness.
Ever since we first heard this story, referring
back as it did to 1815, we have alwas believed
and still believe, that it was got up without
any foundation in fact, for the purpose of ope
rating against Mr. Buchanan’s election to
Congress in 1828. Indeed, wc had never sup
posed that any person acquainted with his
character could believe that at any period of
life he would have made such a declaration as
now seems to be seriously imputed to him.
William Jenkins, James Humes,
William B. Fordney, George H. Krug,
Rhea Frazer, William Cooper,
F. A. Muhlenberg John N. Lane,
John Mathiot, John Reynolds,
William Norris, J. R. Montgomery,
John Christ, Henry Rogers,
George Musser. Jacob Demuth,
William Frick, Christian Bachman,
Samuel Dale, John Bomberger,
Joseph Ogilby, John Ross,
John F. Steinman, James Evans,
Em. Reigart, John Aliller,
Adam Reigart, Henry Keffer,
Benj. Champneys, George Messenkop.
A GLORIOUS AMBITION.
BY A MASTER -MIND 1
Said the Seythian ambassadors co Alexan
der, “If your person were as vast as your am
bition the world would not contain you.” We
have now in our midst a conqueror whose am
bition is as boundless as Alexanders. The
old world was too narrow a sphere for its ex
ercise, and he has sought the new. We refer
to Professor Holloway, whose desire is to ben
efit mankind ; unsated by the countless cures
his medicines have accomplished, he is now
actively engaged in revolutionizing the treat
ment of disease in this country. Conquest and
subjugation are his objects—the conquest and
subjugation of the various maladies that afflict
the human race. The trophies of his skill arc
both fouKd in every region of the earth, for
his remedies are omnipotent, and wherever
they have penetrated, disease has given way to
their hygeian influence. Probably there are
not half a dozen newspapers in existence that
have not borne voluntary testimony to the won
der-working efficacy of Holloway’s Pills and
Ointment. It has heretofore been the univer
sal complaint against even the most popular
medicines, that they were mere pallativcs, re
lieving pain temporarily, perhaps, but never
reaching the “materies morbi,” or element of
disease in the blood. Holloway's Pills, on the
contrary, act specifically upon the primary
cause ot the malady in the fluids of the body,
and from which they spring. In external dis
ease the Ointment is used as an auxiliary to
the Pills, and its sanitive effects are scarcely
less wonderful.
Wc make these assertions—bold as they
may seem,—on solid grounds. We have war
rant for them in the admissions of the faculty—
in the statements of standard medical periodi
cals ou both sides of the Atlantic—in the pub ■
lishments of thousands of grateful convalescent
—and last, but not least, so far as our private
convictions are concerned, in our own personal
experience and observations.
To the man whose profound research and
and practical skill in medical science have re
sulted in the production of such uneqnalcd cu
ratives and whose business energy and enter
prise have diffused them through every inhabi
ted region between tho Eqnator and the Poles,
the homage of the world is due. He has re
ceived it. Wherever he has traveled his jour
neys have resembled a triumphal progress, and
the most haughty of Europe’s aristocracy have
been proud to assist at his levees. He is now
a resident —and we hope he will become a citi
zen of a land where the only titles recognized
are the titles to respect and gratitude earned by
public benefactors. Among that class he has
long stood pre-eminent, and it is perhaps not
too much to say that his European and Amer
ican central manufactories, 244 Strand, Lon
don, and 80 Maiden Lane, New York, are do
ing more practical good than all the medical
colleges of Europe and American combined.—
N. Y. Daily News.
Give us your Authority.
On the Bth inst., the “ Chronicle & Sentinel ”
puts forth the following assertions :
“ Having served in the State Legislature of
Pennsylvania, he was sent to Congress in 1820
as a Federalist. In those days Democracy was
not very popular, and, therefore, we find the
Hon. Mr. Bnchauan vowing that ‘if he thought
he had a drop of Democrcratic blood in his
veins he would pour it out.’ He was subse
quently so much the friend of cheap labor that
he declared ten cents a day was sufficient pay
for a working man.”
Now, as to the drop of blood story, we ask
for the authority of that paper for this asser
tion. If it can substantiate it, then it is enti
tled to al] the benefit it can derive from it for
the Know Nothing cause. If it cannot, it is
due to public decency to retract it; lor Mr.
Buchanan over his own signature, branded it
long ago as a falsehood. That is a desperate
cause which has to resort for aid to contempt
ible little stories like this exhumed from the
garbage of parlizan warfare where, for more
than a quarter of century, it had been left to
rot and fester. It was a fitting task for the
“ Chronicle & Sentitel ” to grabble it up from
its resting place. But we will do the party,
in whose behalf this dirty service is performed,
the justice of believing that it will despise the
nse of such Lilliputian weapons. We have
the same comments to make with regard to the
ten cents a day story. Produce the proof that
Mr. Buchanan ever made any such declaration,
or acknowledge it a calumny.— Aug. Const. If
Republic.
Wreck of the Ship Pallas—Sev
enty-two Lives Lost.
Halifax, June 14, 1856.
The ship Pallas, Capt. Spillane, from Cork
to Quebec, with one hundred and twenty pas
sengers, sighted the coast of Cape Breton on
the morning of the 30th of May. In the after
noon it was discovered that the compasses vari
ed from one another, and the course of the ves
sel was then shaped between Cape North and
St. Paul's. At 10 P. M., she struck on the
breakers at St. Paul’s and bilged, the sea wash
ing over her. The passengers became panio
stricken, and rushed into the boats, which sunk
almost immediately. .Seventy-two persons
were thus drowned. In the morning ’the Sup
erintendant of the Island sent off boats and rear
cued the remaining passengers. A vessel Dad
left Sydney to convey them to Quebec. The
ship is a total loss.— N. Y. Citizen.
3W* The sales of lands by the Illinois Cen
tral Road continues large, and it is stated to
an unusually good class of buyers— not specu
lators, but settlers. The average price this
month is over sl6 per acre. The average in
T. BURKE, PROPRIETOR
NUMBER 47-
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ATLANTIC.
Four Days Later from Europe,
New York, June 23.
d . 6 ’ taleß - M ? i! Rtca ™ hi p A,iantic *
toXSth a w,th Liverp ° ol dateß
ni wkcHn f>v P ' ey <M Co ’’ rejlorts tlle cotton
Ti n uni f ? ? f , bu * era * and the trade dull.
1 lie sales of past three days, 14,000 bales.--
F^<» a J° rS an<l Ex P° rterß took 1500 bales.
Midfou’’ r. r ’ d 'l Pair Uplands, C{d
Til fl ’ ft 6id ' Mid Uplands 61-Cd
v« S? U ( ! H marke 1 t at an ad
gj ' ' <0 8 - Indian Corn advanced
dull. rade ’ generall J’> throughout England is
Consols declined Jd. and quoted at 94.
Ihe Steamer Asia had arrived out. •
in the At“anUc LL He'waSS bv
and waited on by a dcJSation pre& n Va£
Kdlnt o^^'!1 ™ { f
noTSl'ft b^ ieV r? d He said ‘ ha ‘ ™
would be dismiss-
QuSof aD attCmpt t 0 as3 assinatcthe
The I rench funds fell three per cent in con
sequence of the inundations. P
bank of’tUr T oars > ( B >tuated between the left .
CherH a dn!f Lol^ an< L the right bnnk ofthe
experienS 7 Much has l>cen
Whig Meeting in Washington.
Washington, June 21.
At a meeting of the Old Line Whigs, held
this evening, resolutions were adopted recom
mending the postponement of the Convention
proposed by the Whigs of Kentucky until the
last M ednesday in July, hud Sth. t all sections
should send delegates. The majority present
were evidently members of the American Z
ty. Considerable confusion existed.
More Bolters.
™ New York, Juno 21.
Iho 1-illmork National American Club
have gone over unanimouslv to the Renubli
cans. r
Kansas Affairs-
B «™ n fi eX » r *r f M b ° Weßt P 0 Stines ot the sth
says, that reliable news has been received of the
the burning of the town of Bernud by the
I* ree-SUte forces, on the night of the 3d inst.,
and the destruction of from $12,000 to $15,000
worth of property.
A company of six men had arrived at West
nf r thp ‘ah n u th ’ l A > 3 °’ clock on the morning
rL t H,rn 4 i t r tha Li Abo !n l tioni3t -' 1 ““acked and
captured Irankhn. They numbered 300, and
were oppose, b y °u ly J 2 J 5 Pro . Kl
7 ,sh m aker and two others arc re
ported k >llcd. Ihe men who made this report
bctonßcd to Oapt. Fleming's company of Em
igrants, which they say, fought against the .
Abolitionists for an hour, but being outnum
bered, fled, when the town was taken.
h Independence, Mo., correspondent of
the bt. Louis Republican, writing under date,
du n e5 * says: “Marshal Donalson and four
men who had been discharged from official
'Ti' 0 m! lcdn^ ar Hickory Point on the
inst. The Mirshal wss in the act of arresting
some of the men who hud attacked Capt
I ate s Company. After the surrender of
I ate s Company, the Free Soilcrs commenced
the work of destroying houses, and driving men,
women and chddren from their houses near
null Creek.
Washington, June 23.
Gen. Percifcr Smith has been ordered to take
command of the troops in Kansas. His
orders are imperative to end the troubles
there.
Fillmore Club joined the llepuUlicans.
New York, June 26.
The National Fillmore Club of N. Y„ has
joined the Republicans.
New York, June 21.
7he U. S. Mail steamship Quaker City has
arrived at this port with Havana dates to the
17th inst. Sugars were firm and Molasses was
advancing.
, ,s “ 3( l uella niiah was off Ravanna on the
16th, and proceeded to Kew West. She re
ports everything quiet at Sau Juan.
Mr. Peabody was to give an entertain
ment on the 13th inst., at tho Crystal Palace
in London, to Mr. and Mrs. Dallas, the Lord
Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Sir Joseph and
Eady Paxton, and a large number of American
families now in London.
GeobgiaGold—Two lumps of gold, weigh
ing 4,100 dwt., have been received by T. R.
Callender, of Philadelphia, from the Columbia,
.dinning Company of Georgia. They were of
the value of 4,300 and were the result of ten
day’s labor.
teas’*John R. Church, of Georgia, is one of
the recent graduates at the Military Academy
at West Point. He is entitled to the commis
sion of Brevet Lieutenant in the army.
Vtg" There Las been another considerable
decline in laud warrants at New York, and the
market is too unsettled for quotations. The
supply is considerably in advance of the de
mand. At Washington land warrants are quo
ted as follows; 160’s 90a95; 80’s 91a96:
120’s 86a90 ; 60’s 85a90 ; 40’a 100 to slos’
A Fight Between a Snake and a Wea
sel.—One of the porters of the jFurness rail
way, on passing up the line, had his attention
drawn to a rustling noise amongst some dead
leaves and long grass in a bush, on the edge of
the line. Curiosity led him to the spot to
make examination, when he observed a small
weasel engaged in a deadly contest with a largo
snake. 1 hey fought for several minutes, and
at last the weasel J killed his antagonist and
bore him away in triumph. The snake was
not less than two feet long.
Thaddeus Stephens, the well known and saga
cious politician of Pennsylvania, pronounced
the fate of the Republican cause, upon the nom
inatiou of Febmont. He declared that it would
ensure the success ofßucn anan in Penusylvan
ia by a majority of forty thousand.
W In the city of N ew York, the “Times"
“Post” “Tribune” “Herald” and “Courier’’&
‘Enquirer" all support nomination of Col Feb
»okt. Mr Buchanan issupported by the “Jnnr
nal” of “Commerce” “Day Book” and “Now»’'*