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JOjjN H. STEELE, Editor. VOLUME 11. THE WEEKLY EXAMINEK Publhed every Thursday morning in the City of Atlanta, at ONE DOLLAR PE« ANNUM, To be paid strictly in adv t ce. No subscription tak en for less than six months. RATES OF ADV 11RTISING. Advertisements are insert lin /W eekly ExAmuza at the following ratesu beventy-hve cents per square (of 10 linos brevier) tor the tost insertions, and 37 J cents per square.to.; each sub ■ TJSSSS'-— month, . more are charged at the follow mgrates. 1 Square 3 mnths $4 00 1 .4 (I ** 6 1 » 12 “ 10 00 2 ■ “ 3 “ 6 00 2 « f, “ 10 00 ~ » 12 “ 15 n 0 o .. 3 “ »00 . .. 6 *' 12 00 ~ ~ 12 ** 20 00 t .. 3 “ WOO . u 6 “ 15 00 . „ 12 “ 25 00 J Col’n 3 “ 15 00 i » p “ 20 00 I « 12 “ 30 00 I « 3 20 00 ? « 6 “ 30 00 | .. l 2 40 00 One Square, changeable, one ycnr, sls 00 Two “ “ „ 25 oo fhree u (i 30 00 * F ? 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Publications will. always be continued accord lag to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following ■ Bate* Citation, on letter, of Adn.wirtAtion fcc. *'■» 75 do do <li.inw.ory om Ailminw- Citation on di.mi.wry from *lu.rdwn.hip. 3 DO Leave to .ell Land or Nepcea, • Notice to debtor, and cred. ora. ■ ‘ Hale, ofneraonal property,t m day., 1 RU.rr > ; Rale, of land ornegroe. by r.xocutar., dec. •> 00 Ent riiv*. two wook Mt .... For a man advertising his wife,(in advance,) 6 Letter, on business must he (jai.t paid) to en title them to attention. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1 Democratic Electoral Ticket. We place thin ticket ut our ma.t head to day, and challenge nil the “world in arum.” todefeat it, at the polls, in November next. AU the combined wnw of the day ; and all the oppo sition now directed nt it, will only increase its strength in Georgia; and the warmer the op position, the stronger will it become. There is no use to be “ mealy mouthed at a time like this. The enemy have been offered ’“lair terms," and patriotism counselled them “to capitulate and surrender ” on those terms. — But, as they will not, they must be beat into subjection, and the people intend to do this . with the ticket which we this day put at the ' head of our paper. So now. let the “ longest pole knock down the persimmon." We are ready for the contest. The Atlanta Histrionic! Society. The first appearance of this e ,rps of 1 hei pians, on Wednesday night last, was highly creditable to all concerned, and promised w; 11 for the future. Os Mr. and Mrs. Akin, who assisted tnem on the occasion, we cannot speak took highly. It required no ’experienced eye and ear to discover that both this gentleman and lady were familiar with the “boards, and had trod the stage in characters requiring talent of a high order to represent, with any thing like success. We wore pleased to see them in a position,where they doubtless will prove scrvicieble. and where.they will contribute much to the entertainments which the “ liistri- ! onics" of our city, have got up for the amuse ment of our citizens, ami their own improve- 1 jment. Among the young gentlemen of the corps- ’ we do not like to make iuividious distinctions. We shall therefore let them pass for the pres, ent at least, with the encouraging words, o persevere. and success will be sure to follow. But we must speak in other terms of the ■'Lady Amateur" who made her first appear ance last night. In the character assumed by her, she attained complete success. One would have supposed from her ease, confidence, and enunciation, that she was at least in a third or fourth engagement, had not her youth, and the knowledge on the part of the audience to the contrary, prevented it. We set her down m the “Star” of the “Histrionics," and doubt not that she will shine brightly ere the season is „.“Gen. died in Haywood county, Tenn., otv alt. lie was dis tinguished as a General in the Texas revolution and was the first Minister sent from the He puWi? w tha United 8t»t» ATLANT! WEEKLY EXAMINER. TXT A TXT r T»Ti~:~O- A. ’VVKSEnEC.XjTy CIRCTriaATION OF 30,000 COPIES! I Trial of the Hon. P. S. Brooks. The trial of Mr. Brooks, for his assault upon the abolitionist, Summer, took place be fore the Criminal Court, of the District of Columbia, on Tuesday lifst. Mr. Brook’s jus tified himself in a speech, in which he took the ground that he felt it to be h’s duty to resent the insults which Sumner had heaped upon South Carolina, his native State. The Court, without comment, fined him three hundred dol lars. At.d this is the finale, of the trial. Mr. and Mrs- W. H. Crisp in New York. We are gratified to see that MR. and MRS. W. H. CRISP have been playing at Burton’s, Chambers Street, Theatre, New York, and that they’frerc received there with decided de monstrations of popular favor, by n crowded audience —Mr. Crisp appeariu as Dazzle,” ami Mrs. Crisp as “Lady Gay Spanker,” in ‘■London Assurance.” We learn, also, that the discriminating man ager of the first theatre, in the first, city in the United States, Mr. Burton, has made a fiv e week’s “ Star Engagement,” with Mr. arid Mrs. Crisp, to commence on tho 28th Instant, when they will appear as ‘-Stars,” playing the leading, or first characters, in both comedy and tragedy. In this “Star Engagement,” we doubt not the success of Mr. and Mrs. Cr.sp, Atlanta® popular favorites. Although for many years absent from New York, the scene of their early triumphs on this side the Atlantic, they are yet well remembered there, as their reception on the occasion referred to proves ; and that they will doubtless add new laurels to those already won and worn by them we feel satisfied. Suc cess attend them while absent from the South. Highly Complimentary—A Reward to Merit- We were invited by a friend on 1 uesday night last, to attend a meeting of, to use bis own language, “ Rail Road Men,” for a purpose of which, at the time, we were not advised. We were therefore most agreeably surprised, when we were enlightened as to the object of the meeting. Most of our readers, in Atlanta, and along "the line of the Western & Atlantic Rail Road, have long since been informed ol the resignation, by W. T. Wilson, Esq., of the office of local agent, at this place, of said Road—an office of great responsibility and trust; one requiring of its incumbent, business qualifications of the highest order, such as few men possess in a degree equal to Mr. M ilson. During the two years which this gentleman discharged the duties of his office on the Road, !« had made many warm friends among the “ Rail RoAd Men,” of the State Road, as well as those of the Georgia, Macon, and LaGrange Roads. A number of these, therefore, upon hearing of Mr. Wilson’s resignation, determin ed to express to him, in a tangible form, their high appreciation of his worth as an officer, and their regard for him as a man. Accord ingly they caua <1 to be made at Boston, a service of silver, consisting of a magnificent pitcher, and two goblets, with this inscription on each: Preutifed to W. T. Wilson, Eq., by his friends of the Western A Atlantic Rail Ruud, July 4t , 1856.” And, in due form, these tokens of respect, were, through one of the “ friends,” presented to Mr. Wilson at the meeting referred to. We witnemtd tlitse proceedings with great satisfaction,for we kuow the recipient of the compliment well, but no better than we do the noble hearted “Rail Rond Men," who ilcmon strated by their act, of which we speak, that they k 'ow how to appreciate worth in a public officer. The address to Mr. sVi!son on the presentation was happily conceived, and his reply proved his high appreciation of the com pliment paid to him. After the ceremonies, the company assemb led partook of tire “good things” which had been provided for the occasion, uud at a late hour, we left them still enjoying a “feast of reason, and u flew of soul." lite “American” State Convention at Macon. ‘ This Convention assembled ut Macon, on the Bth inst. Dr. 11. V. M. Miller presided as its President, assisted by eight Vice Presidents, one from each Congressional Dist ; and Messrs- Jones, Andrews, and Barr acted as Secretaries. It is said that the number of delegates was 268. A declaration of principles were adopted which we have not yet seen. The Electoral Ticket nominated to support Fillmore and Doik-Isou is as follows : For the State at large, Wm. G. Crawford,and BenJ. H. Hill. Ist Dist, Judge Law; 2d Dist., Wm. M. Brown ; 3d Dist.. Washington Foe ; 4th Dist. Edward Y. Hill; sth Dist, Geo. W. Gordon 6th Dist., C. Peeples; 7th Dist.. Eli Baxter; Bth Dist.. A 11. White. The Macon Journal end Messenger says that great enthuisasm and harmony-prevailed, but it went to press before it could give “the final action of this very intelligent body’.” With so much intelligence, we regret, from what we have heard, that there was not a little more -of patnoliem displayed by that large and respee. ■ table body of Southern men, whose “/bin/ ac ‘ lion” in an huiqlde judgment, is only persrw ' unre in our most dangerous error. The Histriou’cs. : In our advertising columns, the reader will i see that the “Histrionics" of Atlanta, aided, ' by the “Akin Family," will perform again to j night at “Crisps Athena-um." The bill is a I first rate one, and we hope they will have a crowded bouse. < I Catharine Alberti?, a beggar and for tune teller, died in Raleigh, N. C., last week. On examining her effects $2660, in gold, silve. and notes, war- found, together with evidences I of her owning a plantation in Kentucky, and twenty shares of rail road stock. Around her j body was found a belt full of gold coin. L. M. Ayer, of Barnwell, is rais ing a company of young men for Kansas, who will shortly leave for the disputed territo i 7* THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWS PAPER IN TH SJUTH—A WEEKLY FOR ONLY ONE COLLAR A TEAR. IH ADVANCE. ATLANTA, GEORG fA. THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 17. 1856. I Oh I The Artful Dodge'. From the Platform of the “American Par ty ”of Georgia, recently held in Macon, we extract the following, to which we call the at - tention, the special attention, ol our readers, and of every independent voter in the State, who may chance to see this number of our pa per. “And having been represented in none of the Conventions which have presented e,'idi dates for the Presidency and V ice Presidency, and being left free to select the men, who in | our opinion are best calculated to meet the present crisis in our national affairs, arid be lieving it no time for experiment with men, or untried men, and one ot those presented tor the suffrages of the American people having been well tried, and giving us daily assurance that the patriotism and nationality which so emi nently characterized bis former administration will be continued in the future, and restore peace and tranquility to a distracted country, we do hereby nominate Millard Fillmore, ot New York, as our candidate for the Pres.deucy. Entertaining confidence in the integrity and patriotism and ability of Andrew J- Donelson, of Tennessee, we du hereby n minate as our candidate for the Vice Presidency. Now, mark well the words of the forego ing “And having been represented in none of the Conventions which have presented, candi dates for the Presidency and being left free to .select the men, who, in cur opinion are- best calculated to meet the present crisis in our na. tional affairs” &c., &c. Here are two important things to be consid’ ered*, first, the declaration that this “American Par y” of Georgia, was not represented in anyof the Conventions that had nominated candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pres idency ; and second, the crisis in our national affairs, that prompted them to nominate Fill more and Donelson. Not represented in any of the Conventions do you say, gentlemen ? And why not? Was it that you could not affiliate with the “Amer ican Party” of the North, that you dodged it? —or is the declaration that you now make in tended to be a dodge from that transcendently great National American Party a portion of which has dodged into the ranks of Black Republicanism, whilst the other portion, is supporting Fillmore and Donelson, animated by the rallying cry 'of “down with the Kansas, Nebraska Bill, and immediate restor ation of the Missouri Compromise line I” Why, we again ask, were you not represent ed in the councils of the great “ National American Party?” No one expected that you would be in any other—certainly not in the Democratic Party at Cincinnati; nor would we impute to you a desire to be represented in either the Abolition or Black Republican Par ty. But. why not in tho first named conven tion of Know Nothings, alias, “ Americans ?" We can tell you. It was because you were either distrustful of, and wen afraid “ to min gle, mingle, mingle,” with them; or it was with the deliberate design of doing what you have just done; and that is, to support their nominees, as men, and to dodge all the respon sibility before the people of Georgia, for tlieir acts, and their war u]»n principles dear to ev ery Southern man. No wonder, then, that ! you were not represented in any of the con-1 vent ions to nominate candidates for the Presi dency and Vice Presidency! But, in the second place, it is the crisis in | our national affairs, that makes you nominate Fillmore and Donelson ? Is this so? Well! whut is that crisis I The war on the part ol j the anti-slavery States upon Southern Institu- i tions! The war of the Black Republicans up. j on Slavery ! The war of the Fillmore and | Donelson party—the •• American Party” there,! upon the doctrine of Nomlnterventiou, cm- , braced in the Kansas-Nebraska Bill; and the I war upon the Rights of the States, and the| South, to restore the Missouri Compromise! Is not this the “ crisis in our national affairs.” at which patriotic, law abiding, constitutional men of all parties North or South, look with so much interest ? If so, where we ask, are : Fillmore and Donelson found in the contest ? j On the side of the South ? No! But main taining, and sustaining, this unholy crusade against the South ; this u' ir upon Southern Rights and Southern Institutions ! “ Oh ! that mine enemy would write a book," is a phrase familiar to every one, and should not have been forgotten, when the “ Amerie ns " at Macon ord ired the publication of this part of their platform! Miss Westmoreland’s ‘ Readings.” We were highly gratified, on Wednesday evening last, at hearing the first “reading” which this accomplished lady treated an At lanta audience to. Our misgivings, trifling though they were, arising as they did from the fact that it was to be her first attempt in a line, to use a professional term, of ■ business'' in which few Ifdies have acquired celebrity were entirely dissipated ere she had pronoun ced twenty lines of that beautiful poem, “O'- Conner's child.” Indeed, her conception of the author, her intonation, manner, ail, were triumphs in an art, in which not one of athous and pretenders attains any thing like excel- , fence, and which is also one of the rarest, as well as most valuable, accomplishments in man or ‘ womau. In “the Bells,” “The Raven,” and he’ other admirable selections, as well as in the poem referred to. our confidence increased in her ability to attain eminence in a profession to which she is devoted, and in the pursuit of which, prompted by a laudable ambition, she knows “no such word as Fin..” The respecta ble audience, who enjoyed with delight the en tertainment, manifested their high appreciation of Miss W s. “readings," by repeated applaus aud there was scarcely one that did not retire regretting that the entertainment of the even ing was so soon brought to a close. We heart ily congratulate Miss Westmoreland on her success, and trust, that, ere l<Jng. she will give us one more of her delightful entertainments. — Before we take leave however, of Miss W., it is proper that we should correct an error into which we were led. and which caused us . n a former issue, to state that ill health was the cause of her retiring from the profession of i This, we have been advised, is not so. Her i motiv « •■.•■inq ri-hing (he one, and embra- ; cing the other profession, are twofold— first, responsibilities rest upon her which she cannot fulfil, at the rate of compensation bestowed upon teachers in the South, however competent, un less they can boast a diploma from some North ern Female College; aud, second, the Stage is her choice ts the>|vvo proles ions, as well to ad vance her peetiniary interests, as to gratify an ambition that will know no abatement, until she has attained fnne enduring as the Stage. A Georgian at the Philadelphia Meeting. We find the following among the speeches reported a l , the Philadelphia mass meeting of the Know Nothing party on the 21, where they a opte.i u resolution deprecating the repeal of lite Missouri Compromise law, and. where many sps eches were delivered to the same ef fect -.—Const. & 11 p. Iti.MARKS of Don. Mr. Reneau, of Geor gia.— The Hum Mr. Reneau, of Georgia, was the next and last speaker. His remarks were much interrupted by the letting off of rockets, tiring of crackers ami pistols, music from the hands, &c. His remarks were of a very discur sive'character. He was understood to stay, after an allusion to the immense numbers wi><> were congregated in the square, that Mr. .Fill more was the only mao who had any chance in Georgia. [Applause.] Georgia goes tor the Union, and Mr. Fill more is a U uiou man —so Georgia goes for him. [Here ‘the speaker was interrupted by a tremendous surging of the crowd about the stand. After order was restored, he proceed ed.] The great body of the American people are consei votive. In a national struggle they know no North, ai.d no South. When the great heart of our people is touched, the Union is safe—l have great hopes in the success of Mr. Fillmore, for the reason that the Union is in danger now, and he can save it. Against Mr. Buchanan the speaker bad noth ing to say. He was a national man, aid if he did nut intend to support Mr. Fillmore, he would vote tor Mr. Buchanan. [The crowd appt ared to receive the above as a joke, front the laiighter which followed ] Mr. Reneau then touched on the subject of foreigners in our country. He had no objec tion to their holding office, but he did ob j rot to their building up a foreign nation in foreign ideas in America. [Applause.] He then returned to Mr. Buchanan, whom he was eulogizing, when he was interrupted by a voice—“ But once said if he had a drop of Democriatc blood in him he’d let it out.” Mr. Reaneau said—‘,oh, he Bas had time to recov er fruiu that,” and proceeded with his eulogy.— he then touched on the Kansas troubles, which he declared to be a disgrace to the nation, and for which the Democratic party was respon sible. However, he prophesied that the com mon sense of the country would soon quiet the Kansas agitation, and justice will be done Against Geo. Pierce as an individual, the speaker cherished no malice; he was simply a very incompetent President, and bis weak aud vacitiiating course was in glaring contrast to the noble, wise and patriotic course, of Mr. Fillmore. [Applause]. The people of Geor gia bad watched the course of Mr. F., and Miowttcl their u|>prec:atiou of its noble national ity by the way tiiey hbtiored him when be pass ed tlirough the alate. It was not to In- rnpp'wd that l>ecautie th»- the Know Nothings were beaten in Georgia I | Inst rear, Mr. Ftllmi-re cannot lurry the State. I The Georgians had iwunl some queer talcs about Nothing*, aml fc c-aildYiot I trust them However, they eould treat .Mr. F i ! lieeau.ro they knew him. [Applause]. Yea terdav the sptaker had »<eu a stntetuitit in the 1 newspujters that stxty-four Antericaus in Co lumbus. Ga.. bad w iiiidrawnfrom Mr. Ft imortv support. This might be true of Columbus, for | it was a bad place aud unworthy of the rest of the State. Mr. Rene in then ro-eulogized the State of Georgia f« r her <!• votfon to the Union, an-1 for her characteristic quiet neon aud energy wlun il. He tlwn closed with a propinwy of the success of I'iltnore and Donelson in the fall. The meeting was th' n. on motion, adjourned with three cbcTs for Fillmore and D ujelson. and the concourse began to move out of the square to join the processhm which was formed bn Chesnut. Fifth and Sixth streets. esy* a i* aris letter says :—The astonishment 1 in ti’rance on the baek-ont of E gland was very general. Tiro tone of the Morning Post tip to the very last Jay had bo n so firm, and even warlike, tluitm body in France was pre pared for the speech which Lord Palmerston made iir the House on M >ndav night. The two legitimist journals of France taunt the English Ministry, and say that there was some thing more than the cotton interest behind their decision; they were afraid of the Americans. The Pays. Government j urnal. which has been so severe against the United States in this con test, mid which has called upon the English Ministry almost daily to stand firm, must be thunder struett, for it has not uttered a word on American affiirs since the Government gave way. All the rest of the French journals have confined themselves to the publication of the facts without comment. _ An Indvi-cent Mother. —Mr. G. W. Ken dall of the New Orleans .Picayune, is answera ble for the following : -The most indulgent mother I have heard of lately, lives some two and a half hour’s drive froni San Antonio, on the left. It was a long time before she w aid submit that her eldest and best beloved boy. a refractory and turlvu len little fel'ow. richly merited a flagellation ; and when she finally gave in that he was enti tled to ‘a course ot sprouts,' she contended that he should be put under the influence of chloro form before the sat pling v.. • applif d. Solo mon with all his wisdom, was behind the pres ent fast atre in administering to juvenile de linquents.” Mr. Stephens’ Speech —The Washington correspondent of the Pennsylvanian says : “The speech of Alexander H. Stephens, of Geor ■ <ria, delivered on Saturday, the 28th June, was 1 one of great po.ver. He held the attention of ' the House during the hour, so that you could i have beard a pin drop, which cannot be said of 1 any other geutlen an who has a seat on the floor iof 'tbe House. He is. the most remarkable man i |o! the age, in the United States; andtb< -■ which I ur.d rstand is to be largely circulated i •in the N rth, will have a powerful in—j i fluence in affecting a change in the minds of these gentlemen who have been in the habit of I reading those A ■ : :ion phillipics that have? i been scattered broad cast throughout the entire i North.” story that the Methodist confer ence of Missouri bad been broken up by pro i ieavery men. the presiding officer tarred and slathered. &c., Ac., turns out to be another ab [olrt: n fabriction. The Missouri conference , do«s not maet faU I -w •; » [Forthe Examiner. 1 Atlanta, Georgia, i July 7lb, 1856. f Mr. Editor : In your weekly issue of the 3d inst., I find the report of “au operation, for Ovarion Tumor, by one Dr. Stotesberry oj Ga,” in which “W. J. 5.,” the repot ter, makes a fling at Allopathy, and it is for this that 1 notice the article. He has a perfect right to advertise in any manner that he chooses, but in doing so he has no right to libel an.l slander other people. This wonderful operation is paraded before the public in a style, the pom posity of which is only exceeded by the vanity and arrogance ol the writer. Hecha.aetertzes it as “extraordinary ” and luaguitied it into one of the most wonderful feats in modern Surgery, and “ the eminent Physician and Surgeon ” who “ happened to be the actor in this Surgical exploit, ” one of the greatest. Surgeons that the world has ever produced.— This “ scientific Physician and Surgeon” has won, for himself, a never dying fame; his suc cess in this case bus elevated him to the very topmost round ol the ladder, whence he cuu look down proudly upon such inferior uien as Mott, Muller, Warren, Eve, and a host ol other lesser lights, which have, in days past, shone brightly in the surgical world. His name will be handed uown to posterity as the greatest benefactor of his lace that lived in his day I I shall not attempt to follow the reporter through his long report, but will notice a few points which I think is most deserving of at tention. It appears that Mrs. F., of Effingham coun ty, in in this Union, or in some oth er country, but of whose [geographical position we are not precisely informed, “had a tumor in the right eliac region ” which the late Dr. Wildman, a very distinguished Surgeon of Savannah, Ga.,” pronounced to be ovarian. Now it must not be forgotten that Dr. Wildman, and not Dr. Stotesberry, made the diagnosis, therefore “W. J. 5.,” can claim no credit for Dr. S., on this account. On the 17th day of February, in some year, but of what particular year we are left in the dark, “the Dr., accompanied by another eminent Reform Physician and Surgeon, proceeded to the house of the patient,” &e., armed with Chloroform and Ether, &c. and after 10 minutes labor they got the poor woman under its influence, and opened the abdomen in the mesial line.from the umbilicus to the pubis. “This cut which was six inches in length along the linea alba, was not followed by the discharge of a tablespoon full of blood.” “The loss of this precious fluid was not one fourth of an ounce in the whole operation, which fact shows conclusively the wisdom of his choice in the point for the cut.” This certainly was very wise on the part of the Surgeon, but I wonder if it never occurred I to the reporter that other Surgeous had upend ' the abdomen along the lines alba. The inervat, tyro iu Surgery knows that, on thia line, where ' the two oymmctrical lialves of the alxiumen; unite, there is very little vascularity, ami that incisions in this part are followid by bttle or no hemorrliage; and that almost all . arg. on.->' open the abdomen st this point for this very . reason, aud especially when the tumour has grown t<Tsuch an enormous size that it “baJ extended up into the hypochondriac rvgio. j 1 have shown that in neither the diagnosis, nor > iu the -choice of the point to m ke the cut ’ has Dr. 8.. any claims to originality, and tlx only thing else, in the case, that the Dr,, can claim is that the woman was one month gone | iu pregnancy, mid did uot abort. Now this’ was a wonderful re ult. and attributable mor , to uccidcut thou to any skill o I the Surgeon, i This womau, duut ties’, {xissesaed a good con I stitution. and would iu all probability, have re * covered with proper attention —even under the car* of an Allopath—if this wound had been the result of some casualty, instead of a “de i cate and dangerous Surgical operation.” For the sake of coming general! us the reporter ought to have recorded the time when this op eration was performed, also the town a. d city, ia which this distinguished surgeon resides; this ought to have been done for the bentfi t of the ]w, pie— the present generation—for, poor souls, if! they should become affl eted up here, like Mrs. F., I fear it would be a gone case. If Old Al lopath is all their hope, I confess I do feel alarmed for them, and especially tl c fairer portion of them, for I am not too modest or bashful to own that beauty has charms for me Iu the closing paragraph of this report, the object of the writer, is seen “sticking out” too plainly. His idea was to get it into oue of the must popular Fublic Journals of the country, as a sort of advertisement, to attract pubii - attention, not to much to this brilliant opera tion, or its distinguished author, but for anoth er purpose which any one, with half an eye, may se-e-to acquire a little brief notoriety him self. He too, perhaps, sports "the sheepskin," and may shine a little brighter by reflected light from the immortal Stotesberry. There are some people who have an extraordinary amoun t of presumption without any mixture of mod esty, and who are ever trying to humbug the “dear people” into the belief that they posses all the decency : such a presumption deserves a rebuke. A MEDICAL STUDENT. Great Inner Sea in Equatorial Africa. I A communication hag been addressed to the i London Atneuteum, by Mr. Augustus Peter- I man, reporting the discovery of a large sea in ! Africa seven hundred miles long and four hun i dred and fifty broad : > ' This immense body of water, with an area I about twice as large as the Black Sea, (with ! the Sea of Azoff.) is inscribed with ths name I Ukerewe, or inner sea of Unlamezi. its narrow, ' elongated southeastern end bearing that of ; Lake Nyassa ; and the discovery is said to ’ have been arrived at by the concurrent testi mony of the various natives dwelling on or i close to the lake, both on its eastern as well as 1 ou its western shore, with whom the nrissiona i rise came ia contact. From the Nashvi.de Union A American.’ Hermitage, July 4, 1856. Editors Union and American .- Gkntue.'ien :—The scurrilous billingsgate and personal abuse heaped upon me through the columns of a newspaper published at Nash ville, called the Patriot, to which my attention has been directed, merits a reply ; not that I regard any thing from such a source as wor thy of notice, only so fur as it scandalously re fers, and tends to abuse the public mind, as to my private aud personal affairs. Instead of answering or criticising my ti tter as a gentle men -hould have done, in courtesy, and con fining himself to facts and to the letter, his at tempts are direct' d mainly to crush out my statement by a pitiful tissue of sang, misre pres tation and abuse. Though having al ways sought the retiraey of private life, I 'rust that I atn too well knowh to tin- public generally, here and elsewhere, for such viti trash to injur my character, or effect the force of the statements I thought prop r Io make to the public- through my published card-of the 25th ult. It relieves the sting of personal de tection as to myself, when 1 reflect that Gen. •I .ckson was vtllificd from one end of the Un ion to the other, as have been all of his friends who dared to open their lips to repeal slander and injustice, and doubtless by ju,t such writers as the one in the Patriot. I am charged with having sold the Iwcesof my father fur state bonds ; that 1 have sur rendered to others the home bequeathed tome ; that my father left me his estate simply to g i me out of liabilities incurred by myself; mid that 1 had consumed and wade’d ins patrimony, in reply to which, (not to the vile scrib'er. but I to the public, whose generous sense of right 4 I appeal to, and will excuse the open exhibition ■ that lam about to make in justice to mys'-lt and family.) i have to say : That wii n G a. Jackson returned at the end of his Presidency he had not so much as a hundred debars left of his salary. His generous entertainment-at Washington, to friends and to the public, left him but little. The profits of his estates were also consumed. Tnere was scarcely a day af ter his return that his house was not thronged with visitors from different portions of the country. The proceed? ol his estate here could not, and did not meet his expenses. Under the circumstances, and by the udvftro qf friends he deemed it advisable to make a purchase in the South to raise Dotton. Under his direc tion I went South and made the purchase of a place that had been recommended to him at §23,000, and afterwards a small tract addition al at the cost of §2,500. To meet these and other smaller liabilities, he secured loans from the Bank and individuals to the am unt u, nearly §30,000. He left me his estate suU<! ed I with this heavy liability, all drawing interest. 1 have been thus particular in order to disa buse the public mind of the charge made by the Patriot, aud communicated no doubt by private sources, that 1 had iueurnil the heavy debt that had rested upon the Hermi tage property. The almost dying injunction of my father was to get out of debt. 'To do so, I inimedia j tely sold the Mississippi place, and fromcircum I stances, necessarily below its value, uud ten • they refused to revivi. Tin-s. iue v?ar I l;«! the misfortune to lose twenty six ti" hands, the flower ts my Uock, by ciioiera and oUu r | sickness. I sustained übmil the s. me tint - a* heavy loss through ilie failure of a d liter In I ord’r to uxiricaie niytkll from UiU S3Q.OUOI hability, I < uilnirkiM in th» iron bus» t 1 I ■ built a furnace, which, us soon as thusM. was j accakntllv burued.d iwn.and I rebuilt it a !■«-■ • ot Sl.’i Otut. inexperienced in th ' bus »«• " nil I enterprise proved uiwucasJul. aud I •■• d <ut | as resMi us pussil I- at a -Acntivc. And, liimliy, • by vud’ D* iib ulh i*>r irsLinb io u very iargt*| umount, us condu>k ! a mirk* uT ».MurtmN>. tbe niajoriiy ol w .roll are likely to utiei d th ! most pnaksit, and whicu Iroui tue only apuo- ■ gy I care to <>fl rto a gem-ratei pubiu-. Hi .. I p-rsonal uud private matters. wiUsuit uu.V tacts I «>r » xplana'ions upon th.' sul'j* et, l*uvu bvvti I • the party writer us the Pa’aiot. I um UFsailed for having sold to 'he Fbatol of Teaiiwscc out-hail ot th ’ ii<-rm’>tag.- : .r».i I embracing the iuijiiovi’i’s-.ils. 1 'ja» :■ itte-rrel' myself that 1 was performing u filial d ,y iu ' placing this prop Tty under its" '.;.ntt«i| t'roi •State. 1 know that It is so g rr-h ’b* the : public. Gs-n. Jacks 'll, long before a ai-cea - J time ami again sii'l to me, that the llcre itage would not be a su table reddeucu tor a private family to live at, on account of the numerous visitors and th< ta ce-mry ii.couvenieuciesgrow ing out <if it. He, therefore, advised me to sell t tie Hermitage; but i i the ev.-nt 1 sold to private it d.v.duais. to ti t his tomb go to bis own fovid State of Tet>n< ssee ; which request 1 have literally complied with. G'ti. Jack.-:uti. m one of his wills and testa ment.. had k ft bi.- pupen at.d d icuoseuvs to 1 ts friend Maj -John H. E.toti. but sulwiqielitly j it to Mr. Blair. In speaking of he often a.-k< d me if I would take charge .1 them. My reply was, that I was young ami inespt riertv- <t, and wou d greatly prefer, if it met ms judgiaetit to have them h-lt to un able and wefl tried friend. Very soon lltereaitei Mr. ? m « i'. tidal! cami on to the Gen. tal, and solicited tin: lo.i t ol sufficient of his letters and papers to cotiipili his history and life. 'I he request was acceded to with pleasure, and the most important ol'hi papers and documents were handt <i over to Mr. Kendall, and the balance would havro been sent on to him aftet wards but for tiro arrival of M”. Bair. Mr. B. Questioned the G neral about bis papers and the writing of his tile and histo ■ ry stating that if he would leave them with im he would carefully at range th-m tor Mr Bancroft. That he (Biair) bad retired front politics to the shades of .Silver Springs, and would guaid scrupulously the Saeredness of hi.- memory and fame. My lather with pk-iirore consented aud directed me after his d' cense to follow all the important d.>cum<rots retained ; to Mr. Blair, except some private awl cmfi dential correspondence, which I was instrncle 1 to reserve. Mr. Kendall still retains all the pa pers .which he received, and Mr. Btair some ol hss importance. Gen. Jackson !■ quested Mr. Kendall to retain the pup- rs I e had itt hi- pos session until he completed his life and history. It was no refl-ction upon any o! ben. Jackson's immediate laml'y that such a diqrosiiiou of his papers was made, it would have seem'd in delicate in tlqin to have nude the nse of them that others might, wry pi q. rly hav< d me. In conclusion, I resjrectfu y ask the public to observe why this vindictive persona! ulnise of me. aud for what purpose, rf’inply tiecause I deemed it proper, in jo-lice to th leputa ion. memory at.d fame of uuy father, when 1 saw the ■ abuse that Mr. Blair had made of privatejocu- the scandalous ffi suse of the follow ! ing extract from one of my father s private and j confidential letters to a supposed friend, pub i lished in the IlepMiuin Banner, written l eb. I 28,1845, some few months before his death, 1 I saw proper to rem -nsirate in a public manuei I against it. Here is the extract furnished by j the Banner: i “Your observations with regard to Mr. : Buchanan are correct. He showed a want ol ■ moral courage m the a:, ir of the intrigue o ' of Adam, and Ciay*-diu aot do me justice ii. I trie expos- he then made, and 1 am sure ab' ui i that time 1 did believe there was a perfect un- I derstanding between AtUnv aud Clay about I ike rreataiwy wii ISwreuay ol siute. Thfe T BURSE. PROMIETO NUMBER 49 lam sure of. But whether be viewed that there was any corruption in the case or not, I know not, but one tiring I do know, that he wished me to combat them with their own weapons—that was, to let my friends say if I was elected 1 would make Mr. Clay Secretary of State. This to me appeared gross corrup tion, and I repelled it with that honest indig nation as [which] I thought it deserved.” Whether or not this isolated extract, torn from its context, would convey a different im pression from what those now using it intend if to convey, I cannot say with certainty. But it w -util certainly have looked much more honest if the gentleman who f'urrrisWed the Banner with the above extract, had igiven the entire letter. There would at T-ast have been no ground for suspicion. As it is, I know that t ey are seeking to form a public opinion out of a d taclied portion of Gen. Jackson’s letter, that he never intended. I say, furthermore i hat the ab >ve paragraph called forth by irritation produced upon the General by a let ter written to him by a most inveterate enemy of both Mr. Clay’ and Mr. Buchanan, which lett< r the Banner should also have given to tlie public, and as it has failed. I will make good the omission. It is as follows : Washington, Feb. 17.1845. My Dear General : Your two confidential and very interesting letters of the 4th and sili inst., have been rece ved and dispos d v 1 us requested. lam happy to say I am entirely itisfied •and so is Mr. B'n'r. wit i the geutle m m who if is supposed will constitute the new Cabinet. Mr. Blair and myself both think it doubtful, however, whether Mr. Buchannan will accept, upon the terms proposed, (he should net b appointed unless he does.) as he is full of the ■ ideas as stated to you in my previous letters of being ; t candidate for the succession. If h shouM not accept, 1 suppose the State Depart lire r.i will then lie offered to Mr. Stevenson- — With or without Mr. Buchanan, however, I think the Cabinet will bean able one, and fully entitled to, and doubtless will,receive the con fidence of (lie nation. The truth is, Genera.!, 1 have never had any very great respect for Buchanan, and of late I have even less than formerly. He did not come out upon the subject of that “ bargain, itririgue and corruption ” eliiiQeupon Messrs. Clay and Adams in 1825, as he ought to have d die, and as was expected of him. Besides, I have heard him say, not more th in a month ago, that be did not and never had believed I here was any truth in the charge. This oc curred at Mr. ’s dinner table, and the reni iiks were addressed Jo Judge Mangum, ;he President of the Senate. But having ta ken place nt the time and place, when it did 1 hilve said nothing about it to any one.” Ihe writer of the above extract, now an cm my of Democracy, well knew at the time that General Jackson and Mr. Buchanan were, Ine ids. as will be seen from the above. And now, u-am 1 a k. why publish the extract from Gen. Jackson's fetter without giving also the letter that called it out ? Every oue in-st see that it was <1 ne to injure Mr. Buc hanan, ev<n if it might injure the consistency m.d harmony of Gen. Jackson’s whole course <>f conduct through life. Whnt eared they so tlieir i mis were unswersd? Tho public-has s ' n, long since that the “ bargain, corruption, ami ititriguo ” matter between Gen. Jackson and Mr. Bucliaiiuii had been amicably settled —u*.coi)lirim-<i by Gen. Jni k-on's appointment < l>liim as Minister vs Ru sia—4iis reilisiqucnt ii-comm'-ndMioi: of him to other >. ami bis up pr->yaf i>f him m a member of Pre idenl Polk's In c inchreiun, j* rmi tou to »ay to a gener »<u< public, jusinc to tin memory and fiuno of iny v.-ihtu'i al father only inducJ me to ap|xw I -rorc tli- m —wh< I naw what unre were io- H'lMied injv m:i&’ of hri private end confiden tial ktUis written t«» C'litidcnuul frfetufetiming lii< lile t;ni.- j.mely for political pur|iotax ami to answer their cwt vveu at the vxpcn«c of uvu. JitclisoD a fmiro uud rrpnlutiun ANDREW JACKSON. Tin: oi.n l ist: v. him of M amachi micttii.— We etipy the following from the Bunton Post < of tlim>luy In <1: ■•A ti' j'tiijg of the M i- aohoaotti whig State central cmnri'tro was Lild nt tho American :i- - . v.-.terday forcnocn.at which about uno 1 ".'ln-' <1 ,l aguiikfd uud ii.Uuuulial whig* • 'liff 'ivin parts of tliv State were present. : sec vo. mudeby ll>tu. It '!. Wmtlirop, Hon G, tge .Sliillard, Jr.ifge Warren, Hou. •■lctl. - f .-gne ot Duxbury, Hon George Lunt, and others, uil of whom urg 'd the uecereity of pic 'i. ing li; ■ urvan'ziitiuu of the whig party and the duty incumb nt upon them to repel and crash the sectional and proscriptive due trimtt exercised in our State government. The sentiment of the meeting was of a character to eonimenil it.s»-li' to u]| Uniou-1 ving whigs. I' w.-i.-. vot d that the committee b authorized t > . ;d' a State convention of the wlrigsof tins -.inis. Its, to beheld in Boston on Wednesday, the 3d day of September next, ut 11, a. m., .’id also to send by telegraph the proceedings if the in'i-ting to the National Conve tion of whigs at L luisville on the 4th of July. ’ ‘Tm-ii iini tn of the he m< eting was distinctly conservative and entirely averse "to any amal g.ima iou with the black republican free-soil louvements of the day.” Hard Pressed fob Arguments.—The Crt sis, an eff rotive campaign paper, published a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, says: “ The papers which oppose Mr. Buchanan are at a loss for reasons to justify them in do«- ing so; and, consequently, resort to all kinds of “i :uine s. sue as accusing him of i-elfisbne-is, ru''l ti. .-tedii- ss, Ac., to make out a case against liiui. Now all these petty flags arj-simply i ibri-'i'.i ion-. Mr. B ich.unii i . kno vn to lie a h: ■ i-,iii,-I< *—il. geuer '.is. and self sni-rifiu ng g' n •iron,—one wh , is mnv rsally steeined in the coiiirnuuily where he Il is graifying ti in.; party to know that Iris enemjes are com i;i-!!«l to resort to such miserable fallacies to keep up an opposition." A Problem. The Bardstown Gazette puts forth the follow ing : A horse in the midst ol a meadow suppose, .''/.id - fast to a stake by a line from his nose; low long must the line be that, feeding all round, Will permit him to graze just an acre of ground? Tn whieb the editor of the Maysville Ex press replies : It’s a very plain case, if you’ll only “sup pose.” Th:!' it's just seven feet from his tail to hie I-for the line will be then (the rule cannot fail) About -.even feat less than if tied to his Patriotic Sentiment. We C el the following beautiful and patriotic s-'..tim nt, in a spe«:h of Mr. Buchanan,<l--’iv— en d u the House of Representatives in 1822. I few perfectly has it been iilus rated by ins siibsi-qaent mihlic career! ‘lf I know myself, lam a politician neither of the East nor of the lies', of 'he North nor the .Sm.th—l. lhe.re;ore. shall forntt avoid any expressions, the direel tendencyyf uhieh must he to create sectional jealousies, section'd aicisione, and at lenfth disunune-lheiKrsl of all poiUieat caCtmitiem"