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apoa this ptHinte branch of knowledge
and At almost entire aboenoe of those aux-
Qiarj advantage* eo eratntial to render ths
study something else than a dry and unin
teresting suooesrion of mere dates and
•rente, which necessarily take no Arm hold
upon the mind, and are consequently effaced
with even more rapidity than they are ac
quired. The student of Geography has his
globes and endless variety of maps to as
sist his mind in requiring and retaining
knowledge. The student of Astronomy has
also his maps, orreries, diagrams, do., for
a similar purpose. The same is true of
many other branches. But in History there
has, until recently, been an entire want of
such aids. We'are pleased to see, however,
that Miss E. P. Peabody, of Perth Amboy, a la
dy of great learningand accomplishments and
in every respect eminently qualified for the
task, has turned her attention to this subject,
aud has succeeded in maturing and perfecting
a system admirably calculated to place the
study of History on an equalfooting, in this re
gard, with other departments of education.
We had the pleasure, a few months sinoe,
of examining Miss Peabody’s Historical
Charts at one of the most successful and
flourishing Educational Institutions in New
York, (where her system had then just been
introduced,) and were so well pleased
with the efficacy of the method, as well
as the great improvement involved in it,
that we can heartily endorse everything
said on the subject in the subjoined
paragraph, which we copy from the
Philadelphia Evening Pott. We would take
occasion, also, to recommend the system to
the attention of the various teachers and in
stitutions of learning in Georgia:
“The gist of the plan is this:—The events
which mark the outlines of each nation’s
history, are represented each by a color, ap
propriated to the particular nation, in tne
representations of each year in which they
happened, and those years are so arranged,
that, after five minutes’ explanation, and a
quarter of an hour’s exercise, any year of
the 2500, immediately preceding the Chris
tian Era, or of the 18o0 succeeding it, can
he appreciated by the eye at a glance. For
the years and centuries are not drawn out
in a long line, whioh it is impossible for the
eye to divide, but the years ot every century
are represented in a block, ton rows of ten
years in each; and then twenty-five centu
ries of the time preceding Christ are made
into a blook, (five rows of five centuries.)*
A sheet of description is not worth two
minutes’ sight of this chart to demonstrate
its cleverness. It is a perfect map of time,
where the student oan never lose the place.
It is a greater help for history than the out
line map is for geography, and it will make
history as universally taught, because as
easily learnt, as geography has been made
by the use of the school atlas. The latter
has only been in use about forty years, and
the effect of it has been to make the children
of the whole country better acquainted with
the surfaco of the earth, than were the most
cultivated scholars fifty years ago. Miss
Peabody says it is incalculable how much
the habit of poring over the map has helped
to excite ana to keep alive that unbiqnitous
propensity of the American people, which
nos spread the whole earth over with
Amenonn adventure ; and she anticipates,
from a similar familiarity with the map of
Time, in the next forty years, os compre
hensive views of what pertains to man’s
welfare and developement, fitting young
Americans for their great position and duty,
as elements of a power on earth, unfolding
the powers of humanity to higher ends than
the mere acquisition of material power.—
The difficulty of acquiring and remembering
the details of history, so that general views
may be taken of the composition and charac
ter of the various great national powers
which have worked out important problems,
political and educational, on the old conti
nent, seems to be annihilated by this simple
contrivance. For the student learns these
charts by reproducing them in blanks, pre
pared for tlie purpose, as he studies the
event of each history, a skeleton of which
• is given in the manual. Thia is an amusing
way of inetgprising, and presents a vivid
picture to the eye. Taking up one nation
after another, and going over its whole
course, synchronisms are learned without
effort, and the chronological relations of
events of different countries suggest other
relations, and gradually all the several lines
of events are woven together by the mind—
without the individuality of the nation being
lost—and the visual memory fastens it all.
When the thing is done once, it is done
forever. Subsequent reading does not dis
turb, though it enriches the picture (hang
ing as it were in the memory) with a thou
sand associations. Itself a thing which can
be learned by a child ten years old, it be-
comes the basis of an historical education,
which can be carried up to any height of
developement. This makes it admirable os
a thing of universal UBe in schools. Those
who learn, the least—that is, what is upon
the charts and the accompanying manual—
make an invaluable attainment; and those
who learn the most, by accompanying their
study, or following it up with the most com
plete historical reading, do not outgrow the
advantage of having this outline before their
eyes. All events of history, of course, are
not represented any more than is every
village on the geographical map; but when
any date ocours in reading, it is easy for
the mind to locate it in the year or century
on the map, and then to see how it stands
in relation to the history of all nations, and
to do this throws unexpected light and sig
nificance into events. The difficulty of re
membering chronology is the difficulty of
remembering intervals; now intervals are
as clearly marked as events upon this chart,
and herein consists one of its superiorities
to the charts composed on Priestly’s prin
ciple/
In Luck.—We were not a little surprised'
yesterday, upon entering our sanctum, to
find upon our table—what do you think
kind reader—what kind of on article would
be most acceptable to the stomachs of the
hungry millions in these “tight times”!—
why, evidently, a ham—large, sweet, beau
tifully trimmed and nicely cured,—in short,
just such an one as we found composedly
lying on our sanctum table, for which we
are indebted to the politeness of our gentle
manly friends on Mitchell street, Messrs.
Seago & Abbott. For the benefit of the
“hungry millions,” as aforesaid, we would
state that we are credibly informed there
are a few thousand pounds more of the same
sort where this came from, whioh can be
bad, if not quite as cheap as we got ours,
at least as cheap as anybody not blessed
with the peculiar privileges appertaining to
the editorial craft, could reasonably expect,
especially in these days when the seven lean
kine are in the ascendant.
Infirmary.—By an advertisement in
another column it will be observed that Dm
W. F. & J. G. Westmoreland have opened
an Infirmary in Atlanta. This is an insti
tution which has been much needed in our
city and under the management of the gen
tlemen who have undertaken the enterprise,
it will, of course, he properly and efficiently
conducted. While the medical department
will he in able hands, Dr. W. F. Westmore
land is well qualified to take charge of the
surgical department, having in addition to
bis former studies, eqjoyed the best advant
ages the oily of Buis could affined during
a residence of several years in that city in
perfecting himself in that science.
M«w Toss, April 17,18*5.
la my latter of but wadi I alluded to the mag-
ihriirftb inter—te inroltpd in the liquor traffic
•■•■rity, Ml MW propem to olar'a few atetis-
ties bearing span the snbjoet, from which yon will
sea the tmmm for tee intense excitement which
the new ProUMtory Law bac created here. From
the best sources of Information at my command I
find there are 7,108 groggeriee In operation in this
city. The avenge vidue of each bar-room may be
pissed at $1,300, making an aggregate of proper
ty which the law will render nearly valueless of
$8,537,300. The number of persona diraetly em
ployed a* proprietors, waiters, book-keepers, Ac.,
is from 17,000 to 30,000, and indirectly as manu-
fhetnrerr of decanters and glasses, corks and stop-
pars, the numerous other smell traders depending
on the bnstneee probably amount to 10,000, mak
ing in all nearly 30,000 man, of whom say one-
half have families to support, which will swell the
number to 50,000 who will be deprived of their
present employment by the enforcement of this
law. Seven thousand tenements, heretofore used
ae bar-rooms, will baoome valueless for that pur
pose after the 4tk of July.
To speak particularly of our hotels, the profit
upon the sale of Uquonrs at the four principal ones
for the last year,—-vis: the St. Nicholas, Metro
politan, Astor and New York,—is estimated to me,
by one who has the means of knowing, at $170,-
000, or about $45,000. Messrs. Leland of the
Metropolitan, and Messrs. Acker A Treadwell of
the St. Nicholas, have said, to abolish these sales
will destroy the profits of their establishments and
compel them to raise the price of board very much
above the present rate to avoid immediate ruin.
Thus, yon see how deeply the new law strikes at
the pockets of a large class who are making extra
ordinary preparations to provent its enforcement.
Meetings are held every night at the Westchester
House by the Liquor Dealers Association, and
although the initiatory fee is $10 and the yearly
dues $4, applicants are pooling in a rate which
will give them four thousand members.
It is an avowedly political association, the mem
bers pledging themselves to give no support to any
candidate tinctured with Maine Lawism. After
the passage of the law all the efforts of its oppo
nents in this eity were directed to the putting
through of a police bill which would take from
Mayor Wood the eontrol of the Police, and ren
der him powerless in his avowed intention to en
force the law, but the Legislature adjourned with
out passing it and they are now driven to the <les
peratoend of fighting its constitutionality. Depend
d$on it, this is the battle ground where the hottest
contest will be waged. Execute the law here for
one year and it can be enforced in any and every
place in this country. All the resources that wit
and intellect, sharpened by passion and avarice,
can make available will be brought into reqnisi
tion, and daring the coming Summer we shall re
eordone of the most signal triumphs the Temper
ance cause has yet achieved, or mourn over one of
its humiliating defeats. The lists are set, the
combatants await the signal with lances in rest, a
fair field, no favor and God protect the right.
Since they havo sprung the Sunday Liquor Law
upon the groggeries in the neighboring city of
Williamsburg, I learn the receipts of the Ferry to
that heretofore pleasant lager beer resort have fal
len off about $200 each Sunday. We shall be
driven to Croton for a certainty.
Our city has beon for years the'receptacle of the
paupers and criminals of Europe, who, when they
did not go into voluntary emigration fast enough
to suit the exigency of their respective states, have
been exported by ship loads and thrown upon us
forming either the most dangerous or the most
indigent aud helpless portion of our population,
To such a perfection has the practice of sloughing
upon us the worthless population of trans-Atlantic
States grown that we hear of governments actual
ly providing those forced exiles with forged certif
icates of character and furnishing each with
an amount of money which will exempt him
from the charge of actual pauperism when be sets
his foot upon our soil. This monstrous infraction
of international comity has beon encouraged by
the apathy of our city authorities who have al
lowed all such to come among us unquestioned.
Mayor Wood has now decided to stop it and has
addressed circulars to each of our consuls request
ing them to furnish him with the facts in the case
of each emigrant exported by the governments to
which tho7 are accredited, and he will hereafter
positively prohibit their landing in our city,
good move.
The new street sweoping machines are proving
our salvations from a dirt burial, which, at the
rate of its accretion for the last two years, would
inhume us as snugly as old lava whelmed Pompci.
Four words are now swept by them, and during the
first two weeks of April 10,000 loads of dirt were
removed from theso streets, rendering the jm ce
ment visible in many places. The machine works
finely thus far.
The various religious and other societies arc bu
sily preparing for Anniversary week—the first
week in May. The old school abolitionists bavc
offered an extensive programme.
Many changes are occurring in our hotels. The
Irving House is now closod and will be opened
soon on the European plan, i.«., with furnished
rooms to be let by the day or week, the guests in
stead of taking meals in common orderiug what
ever he wishes at any time of day in the reflectory
which is always connected with such an establish
ment. This plan has many advantages, especial
ly for a business man and is increasing favor.
The Brandreth Hoase, newly opened at the corner
of Broadway and Canal Sts., under the supervision
of tho O’Gradys, late of Judson’s Hotel, which
was destroyed by fire last season, is upon tho same
plan and is mentioned as an excellent house.
The delightful residence on 5 Avenue, known as
Murray Hill house, was sold within a few days for
$100,000
We notice that Prof. James Henry, so well
known for his scientific acquirements and staunch
devotion to the cause of education, died recently
at Bloomingdalc.
The amount expended by the city for education
al purposes the past year was $777,000. The
average attendance at the public schools 51,567,
making more than $18 to each child instructed.
The publishers business is dull this Spring. The
auction sales of Bangs A Co. are now going for
ward with many rare works on the catalogue.—
Messrs. Bunce A Bro. have given us Mrs. Goces
new work entitled “ Mammon, or the Hardships
•f an Heiress,” which is fully equal in interest to
her previous efforts.
Mayor Wood this morning published an address
to the people of N. Y., in which, after insisting
upon the duty of a public official to execute a law
so long as it remains upon the Statute Book, he
declares he wili use his utmost ability to enforce
the Prohibitory Liquor Law, and calls upon all
good citizens to aid him. It would be very much
like him to do it too. Hon. Erastus Brooks seems
inclined to “ go in ” for the Public Library prom
ised him by Archbishop Hughes in the event of
Brooks proving him possessed of the real estate
he alles
which he alleged he owned in his speech in
the Senate. Erastus in a card this morning
declares himself ready with the documents,
and says he is anxious to come before arbiters
and make good his assertion. If the ecclesiastic
comes up to the scratch we may expect some rieh
scenes.
Another Richmond is in the Presidential field
in the person of Commodore Vanderbilt. Several
members of the New Jersey Legislature having
requested his permission to “connect his name
with the Presidency," he oomes out with an elab
orate and rather able reply, going dead against our
present Naturalisation Laws, in fisvor of Young
America generally and of course accepting the
nomination which Ids dear friends would thrust
upon him. We shall have a fine scrub race and
the Commodore has made a nice “thug" for the
inside track.
A new daily paper, born out of the ashes of the
National Democrat and christened the N. Y. News,
began breathing yesterday. It hoists the political
flag of'the old liqe Democrats, and promises to
hack and gongo Whiggery, Free Soilism, the new
Maine Law and all such to the utmost ability of
Q. M. Tucker, Editor. So we go.
Yesterday was the finest day of the season, fol
lowed by a soft Summer twilight and a night stuck
frill of stars and all that sort of things.
Business has improved within the last week but
■till continues doll. *,*
IQ. Latour Maabourg lost his lag at the
battle of Leipsie. After he had raffitred
amputation with the greatest courage, he
saw his servant crying, or pretending to
cry, in one oorner of the room. ’Jack, said
he, ‘none of your hypocritical tears, yon
idle dog, you know you are vary glad/for
> clean.’
yon will hare only one boot to <
(con MUX1C ATED.J
In response to a polite invitation from Mr.
J. J. Hesler, the gentlemanly proprietor of
the Atlanta Hotel, we attended the Soiree,
on Thursday evening last.
In all frankness, we most pronounce it
one of the moat agreeable entertainments we
have witnessed for years.' The parlors were
filled with the more sedate and less active
guests, deeply absorbed in the mysteries of
whist, or engaged in intellectual “chat.”
Whilst in the Hall, the gay and juvenile
were responding to the enlivening notes of
music, with a grace and elegance that
evinced them familiar with the “Poetry of
Motion,” and no novices at the Shrine of
Terpsechore.
The arrangement of the supper was evi
dence that the Presiding Goddess of the
establishment had passed with her wand,
and imparted to each tempting dish a taste
and flavor, which received a practical com
pliment from every guest, far more flattering
than our powers of fancy give.
In the midst of the strains of music, the
smiles of the fair, and the tasting of good
things, we forgot hard times, hot weather,
bank notes and bad crops, bat felt real
‘gloriful.’ ‘
And right here we intend to express a
unanimous sentiment, by tendering Mr.
Hesler the heartfelt thanks of every guest,
for one evening’s pleasure. The whole affair
was brim fall of pleasantry, and good feelr
ings, and psculiarty refreshing to the eye of
one approximating the sear and yellow leaf.
We hope the author of so much pleasure
may realize what he so richly deserves, the
good wishes of every recipient of his kind
ness.
In fact, it was but a glance at the interior
of the “Atlanta Hotel,” to realize all that is
meant by “old things passing away, and all
things becoming new.” True, the brush of
the Painter has obliterated many a familiar
‘spot,’ but then, bright walls, clean floors,
and countless other improvements, will com
pensate their loss. Not a vestige of that
old eye sore (liquor bar) is left—in its stead,
is a neat and handsome office, with an
intelligent and courteous clerk in con
stant attendance, proud to respond to every
call. Under Mr. HESSLER’smanagement, order
and neatness, energy and courtesy, are ob
vious in every department. Dr. Thompson,
the facetious and popular proprietor for
many years, has made a fortune under the
old regime, and now, with a liberal hand,
invests his capital in improving, and plac
ing his old idol. “Atlanta Hotel,” on a par
with the first class hotels of the State. Al
though he has yielded its entire manage
ment to Mr. Hessler, yet his good humor
and pointed wit is tendered gratis to his old
friends with that profusion that rendered his
house so attractive in the days of “ Auld
Lang Syne.” Long life to the Doctor and
success to the new proprietor is the wish of
I, who attended the SOIREE.
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TlM ltnfira Press mm Mmmttimmm AflGatrs.
The London Times has a couple of arti-
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WEDNESDAY April 25.
d^wha^B^h "SSTb PU n H K h Tbt FoKstinr NK^ -By the arrival of
question, and are full of tl^ddrabbish ! the 3teom«r; NalfeviUe, a telegraphic ab-
about fet being a shocking- thing-to covet 1 stract w " OBe n « W8 vre publish in another
your neighbor's wife,his ox. his ass, or any- \ column, we have advices from Liverpool to
thing feat is his. For an answer to all the 7th inst. Our planting friends will be
which oux IrfNidon contemporary may safely ! glad to notice a slight advance in the cotton
£ i j* rfr ft”" ***** ™
as a model of fair Sealing, equity and honor * re not particularly important, though some
—England in short. After being herself* pretty extensive skirmishing seems to have
the prey of three different races of phm- j taken place before Sebastopol since the last
doers, Danes, Saxons and Normans, all of; accounts. The Vienna Conference appears
they™stole!* af?hSrihfhiteSriS wiS ! to ** effectin « nothin S furthcr ^ a 8®“®*
the British girls, begat foe present race i £8* comsumption of time and we see not the
of British gamblms at American dishonesty. 1 slightest probability of its accomplishing
England began her own history by plunder- j anything towards an adjustment of the
ing the Scotch, who in return, plundered j pending difficulties, unless the Allies should
flhe Eng s . forward, she plundered the j conc i u de to accede to humiliating terms in
French, and took from them nearly all of , . . _ .. _. ®.
i order to get out of the unprofitable enter-
the Northern and most of the Western Pro- ! °™ er 10 g efc
▼races. She then plundered the Irish, who j prise they have unwillingly undertaken.-
being a wild sort of people, and wretchedly — - - -
uncivilized, spent their time in plundering
each other, instead of the world. Passing
to foreign countries, England plundered the
Indians of North America, and killed a few
for murmuring; from which act of rapine
ultimately grew the United States. In
Asia the same England plundered a few
score of native potentates, and took their
dominions. To mention small grabs, such
as Malta, Gibraltar, Jamaica, would hardly
repay the trouble. Suffice it to say, that
from first to last, the glorious Anglo Saxon
race has always been a race of plunderers,
and so far from obeying the ninth com
mandment, have never been able to see any
one in possession of anything that was de
sirable without coveting it and taking it on
the spot, if, as the members of the Ostend
Conference said, they were strong enough
to do so.
As to the old parties and the Know
Nothings, the Times appears to be right
enough. The former have had their day.—
It wm comfort the tetter to know that the
Times has taken them under its protection,
and rejoices at their success.—New York
Herald.
Georgia Democracy—Fifth District-
MASS-MEETING IN HABERSHAM.
A large and respectable portion of the
Democrats of Habersham county met in the
Court House in Clarkesville on Wednesday,
11th inst. On motion Mr. Jarvis Van Bu-
ren was called to the Chair, and Phillip
Martin, Esq. requested to act as Secretary.
The Chairman stated that the object of the
meeting was to appoint delegates to the
Gubernatorial Convention in Milledgeville,
and for the dispatch of such other business
as might come before them.
Dr. George D. Phillips then arose, and
after a few prefatory remarks, introduced
tho following preamble and resolutions:
Whereas the time has arrived when the
Democratic party of Habersham county
deem it important to take steps to effect
a through organization of the party, and a
meeting of the people having been called
for that purpose:
Resolved, That we cherish an abiding
confidence in the principles of the National
Democratic party, fought for by Washing-
7 J«
ton, taught by Jefferson, and successfully
carried out by Jackson, and that we are
taught by the experience of the past to look
to the party as the only national organiza.
tion through which the rights and interest
of the South will be maintained and protect
ed; and that we can have no sympathy or
co-operation with any political party, or or
ganization which sacrifice such men as
Dodge, of Iowa, Shields, of Illinois, and
supply their seats in the councils of the
Union, with men pledged to carry out the
most odious abolition doctrines, by the re
peal of the fugitive slave law, and the re
jection of new States recognizing slavery in
their Constitutions.
2. Resolved, That, entertaining these views;
we will adhere to the Democratic party,
maintain its principles and pledge ourselves
to the use of alljhouorablemeans to secure the
election of its candidates.
3. Resolved, That in reference to our
state policy, looking to the benefits result
ing to our state by the construction of the
W. & Atlantic R. Road; We commend the
wisdom of its conception, the energy that
secured its construction and its present able
and efficient management, and without in
tending to commit ourselves to any general
system of state aid to all R. Roads that
may be protected, we believe that the North
Eastern, South Western, and South Eastern
S ortions of the State are justly entitled to
beral aid in the construction of these great
works of internal improvement.
4. Resolved, That we atmrove of the ad
ministration of Governor Johnson, and re
commend his renomination at the approach
ing Democratic convention. And tnat Geo.
D. Phillips, Robert McMillan, A. K. Patton,
Young Davis, and Joseph B. Whitehead, be
and are hereby appointed delegates to the
Gubernatorial convention, and in the event
of their not being able to attend, they have
the power of appointing their own alter
nates.
5. Resolved, That looking to the magni
tude of the questions that are likely to be
raised in the next Congress we have seen
with much pride and pleasure, the manifes
tation of a general desire among Democrats
to return to his seat, our able and distin
guished representative, Hon. Howell Cobb,
who for many years, represented our Dis
trict with honor to himself and his consti
tuency, and we hereby declare he is our first
choice for that position, and believe a dis
trict Convention, to nominate a candidate
wholly unnecessary; but if one is held we
appoint G. D. Phillips and Phillip Martin to
said Convention.
6. Resolved, That in parting with our
late able and faithful representative, Judge
Hillyer, who declines a re-election, we take
this occasion to express our high apprecia
tion of his public services, and the fidelity,
with winch he has discharged his pubuc
duties.
7. Resolved, That the foregoing resolu
tions be signed by the Chairman and Secre
tary and be published in the Southern Ban
ner at Athens.
Thoughts from Chmnnlug.
When I place side by side the mighty
works of Jesus and the prodigies of heath
enism, I see that they can no more be com
pared with one another than the machinery
and mock thunder of the theatre can be lik
ened to the awful and beneficial powers of
the universe.
The Roman church is illustrated by great
names. Her gloomy convents have often
been brightened by fervent love to God and
man. Her St. Louis, and Fenelon, and
Massillon, and Cheveros; her missionaries,
who have carried Christianity to the ends of
the earth; her Sisters of Charity, who have
carried relief and solace to the most hope
less want and pain ; do not these teach us
that in the Romish church the Spirit of
God has found a home ? How much, too,
have other churches to beast! In the Eng
lish church we meet the names of Latimer,
Hooker, Bairow, Lexington, Berkely, and
Heber; in the dissenting Calvanistic church,
Baxter, Howe, Watts, Dodridge, and Rob
ert Hall; among the Quakers, George- Fox,
Wm. Penn, Robert Barclay, and our own
Anthony Benezet, and John Woolman; in
the Anti-Trinitarian church, John Wilton,
John Locke, S. Clarke, Price, and Priestly.
To repeat these names does the heart good.
They breathe a fragrance through the com
mon air. They lift up the whole race to
which they belong. With the churches of
which they were pillars of chief ornaments,
I have many sympathies; nor do I condemn
the union of ourselves to these or any other
churches whose doctrines we approve, pro
vided that we do it without severing our
selves in the least from the universal
Church. On this point we cannot be too
earnest. We must shun the spirit of sec
tarianism as from hell. We must shudder
at the thought of shutting up God in any
denomination. We must think no man the
better for belonging to our communion; no
man the worse for belonging to another.—
We must look with undiminished joy on
goodness, though it shine forth from the
most adverse sect. Christ’s Spirit must be
equally dear and honored, no matter where
manifested. To confine God’s love or his
good spirit to any party, sect, or name, is
to sin against the fundamental law of the
kingdom of God, to break that living bond
with Christ’s universal Church which is one
of onr chief helps to perfection.
Russia having gained all the genuine, prac
tical advantages thus far in the war, there
is no reason to suppose she will concede an
inch from her former positions. As both
sides have, within the last few months, been
very largely reinforced, we may reasonably
look for the great battle of the campaign
very shortly. There will be stirring times
in the Crimea before another month elapses.
A Good Speech.—We make no apology
for the large amount of space devoted this
morning to the extract from the speech of
Robert Tyler, of Pennsylvania, which we
publish to the exclusion of our usual varie
ty of editorial and selected matter. In these
days when the proscriptive and anti-repub
lican dogmas of Know-Nothingism are at
tempted to be forced upon the country, too
much correct information, respecting the
character and tendencies of the movement,
cannot be laid before the people, and we
are certain that no one whose eyes are not
blinded by prejudice and bigotry, can arise
from a perusal of Mr. Tyler’s remarks
upon the subject, without being benefitted
by the broad comprehenseve and statesman
like manner in which he handles this inter
resting matter.
Hat Store.—The attention of readers is
invited to the advertisement of Mr. J. Tay
lor who has recently opened a new and ex
tensive Hat and Cap Store on Whitehall
street. He has a fine and varied assortment.
Give him a call.
ONE WEEK.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
16L,The correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun speaks of rumors of a definite and pos
itive character in Washington, relative to
the supposition that England and France
have combined for the protection of Cuba.
It in said that the French Minister has noti
fied our Government, that in case of inter
ference on the part of the United States, for
the purpose of disturbing the condition of
things on the ever faithful island, the gov
ernment of France will take the part of
Spain, and this statement is substantiated
by the hints thrown out by Messrs. Cass
and Mason, near the close of the last ses“
sion of Congress, and by the fact that the
acts of tho Administration shows that it en
tertains no doubt of the existence of the
combination mentioned.
[From the Day Book.]
Charge of the Cash Brigade.
BY ALFIRKD TOUCH ’EM 80MB.
Dr. Phillips supported the resolutions by
a few forcible remarks, and then moved that
the. resolutions be voted upon, one by one,
which was done and resulted in the unani
mous adoption, by the meeting, of thepream-
ble and resolutions.
The meeting was then addressed by Dr.
Phillips and Hon. Junius Hillyer, both
gentlemen being listened to with great at
tention.
Matt Ward the Murderer.—It appears
that Matt. J. Ward, who shot the school
master, Butler, is the great lion of the
streets of New Orleans. He sports a beau
tiful span of bay horses, beautifully capar
isoned, and a carriage that is brilliant with
splendor, and upon the box sit two colored
gentlemen, with blue suite, white gloves,
black hats, a green band around, and a
small feather upon the upper edge.
The American Theatre in New Or
leans was burned on Thursday and
out man Irillad
“Note to pay, note to pay,
Note to pay,” thundered
Jenkins, the Dry Goods man,
“And short just six hundred !”
How shall I raise that sum V ’
Jenkins then pondered—
“My prospects for discount
At Bank, are all sundered ;—
Must be had, Jenkins said,
“Else on the shelf I’m laid,
The very Old Nick to pay—
Cursed six hundred!”
STEAM
SHIP
NASHVILLE.
“Cant borrow from tho trade.
Neighbors are all afraid,
Yet that note most be paid,”
“Jenka” on apian blundered—
Jenkins did not delay—
Jenkins quick dashed sway—
Twas his last hope that day
light-grip, the broker would
Loan him six hundred I
Bank bills to right of him,
Bank bills to left of him,
Bank bills in front of him,
From the mass plundered.
Jenkins he gave a yell,
As he rushed in pell-mell,
“Tight-grip I’m short sb —
Loan me six hundred 1”
Calm sat old Tight-grip there—
Calm in his easy chair—
Showing no sign of care,
Yet inwardly chuckling,
While Jenkins wondered;
“Tight-grip,” poor Jenkins spoke—
Tight grip I’m nearly broke,
What is your shortest stroke,
Say for six hundred?”
“Sir, six per cent per mo—
Will that do—yesorno?”
Poor Jenkins ! here’s a go I
Jenkins worked hard and well,
To check the rising sweB,
But could’nt, so with a yell,
Wished Tight-grip safe in —,
Then left the old rascal
Without the six hundred 1
New York, April 22.
The U, S. Mail steamship Nashville, Capt.
M. Berry, arrived at her wharf in this city
at noon to day, from Liverpool;’which port
she left on Saturday the 7th inst.
Commercial Intelligence.
The Liverpool Cotton Market.—During
the week ending the 6th inst. prices were
a trifle higher. Middling qualities having
advanced l-16d. and Fair £d. per lb. There
was also an active speculative demand, and
the sales during the week comprised 80,000
bales*of which speculators took 19,000 and
exporters 10,500, leaving 49,500 of all de
scriptions to the trade. The market closed
firm, with an upward tendency at 5fd for
Fair Orleans, 5Jd. for Middung Orleans,
6|d. for fair Upland and 5-15d. for Middling
Uplands.
The Liverpool Breadstuff’s Market was
generally unchanged, but firm. The Cir
cular of Messrs. Brown & Shippley quotes
old Western Canal Flour at 42s., new at 38
and Ohio at 45s., per barrel of 1096 lbs.—
White and Yellow Corn were worth 43s.
and mixed 42s., 6d. per 480 lbs. White
Wheat commanded 12s. 6d. and Red 11s
6d. per 70 lbs.
The Liverpool Provision Market was gen
erally unchanged. Prices, however, were
staffer, although not quotably higher, Lard
had advanced Is. per cwt.
Sta te of trade.—The advices from Man
chester are more favorable.
The London Money Market was easier.
The Bank of England had reduced the rate
of interest to 41 per cent, per annum. Con
sols for money closed at 92$. U. S. Stock
had advanced.
General Intelligence.
There is nothing of any importance from
the seat of war.
The political position of affairs remains
unaltered, although, if any thing, the im
pression of the public mind in England
leans to the opinion the war must continue.
The Russian ultimatum not having arriv
ed, the Vienna Conference had adjourned
to the 9th inst. Omar Pacha, the statesman,
not the Turkish General, arrived at Vienna
on the 6th inst. to take part in the future
discussion on behalf of the “Sublime Porte.”
The “third point” will be the first subject
brought up for consideration.
A dispatch from Berlin dated the 6th inst.,
says that the Russian party is predominant
there, and that Prussia is likely to throw
herself into the arms of the Czar in case
of the peace deliberations failing.
A series of sanguinary conflicts had oc
curred between the French and Russians
before Sebastopol, attended with varions
success and much loss. A skirmish on the
night of the 23d ult. put 3000 poor fellows
hors du combat.
Hangjn Effigy.
‘; of the South we
From the last Spirit
learn that a Minister of the Gospel remark-
ble for his upright deportment and blame
less character was hung in effigy a short
time since because it was his fortune to
have been born in a foreign land, lie ed
itor of that paper expresses his condemna
tion of the diabolical act in appropriate
terms, or rather in strongest terms, for no
language is appropriate—words are too fee
ble. The base miscreants who committed
the deed would pollute the devil by contact.
How utterly ana hopelessly lost they must
be not to fear that the God of Heaven would
have stricken them down in the act. Let
no one hereafter say there is no hell, or if
they believe so, let all good men join in the
prayer that there be one speedily created.
It is supposed that this nefarious act is
some o{ the fruits of know-nothingism: if
so this organization is obnoxious to the
charge that it was conceived in filthy rot
tenness, and dragged forth from the bowels
of fanaticism.—Clayton, Ala., Banner.
Tkal Charge could not be borne t
Jenkins w-»s sad that morn,
.Vohudy wondered;
Great was the havoc made,
With Jenkins’ stock in trade,
To raise that six hundred !
Shipments of Specie from New Yosk.—
The amount taken out by the Baltic, and
what will be taken out by the steamers of
Saturday, will make the aggregate ship
ments of specie from New York the present
week exceed $2,000,000.
New York, April 20.—Mayor Wood has
received a letter from Mr. Fay, our Minister
at Switzerland, enclosing a circular issued
by the federal Council of Switzerland, con
demning the sending of paupers here from
that country, and prohibiting the practice
for the future.
Cincinnati, April 21.—The river has
risen twelve inches. Flour remains stag
nant Whiskey declined to 82}. Provi
sions quiet. Nothing new in groceries.
Poor whitewash is a serious injury to a
wall or ceiling, and when once on it is diffi
cult to get it off or properly cover it and pro
duce a clear white appearance. This is the
season for cleaning up, and we will give the
receipt for a first rate wash. Quick lime,
slacked by boiling water, stirring it until so
slacked. Then dissolve in water white vit-
rol (sulphate of zirc,) which you get at the
druggists, at the rate of two pounds of g!n<»
to a half barrel of whitewash, making ft 0 f
the consistency of rich milk. This sulphate
of zinc will cause the wash to harden^ and
to prevent the lime from rubbing off, a
pound of Balt should be thrown into it.
Thr PROHiniTf'RT Liquor Law in New
York.—A N„-- Y .r 1 letter writer says:
“ The pn,; \ quor law continues to
excite great i...erect. Its friends are to
make a jubilant demonstration at the Acad
emy of Music on Thursday evening. Thia
will have a tendency to further arouse the
opposition to the law. Many persons en
gaged in the traffic, however, have token
the alarm, especially the importers. Some
have determined to leave the State; others
have concluded to change their business; a
number of large foreign orders have been
cancelled, ana arrangements on all hands
are making for a general arrest of this
branch of commerce. A wholesale grocer
at the corner of Broadway and Chambers
street has advertised to sell off, at public
auction, his entire stock of wines ana liqu
ors on Saturday next. Other persons in tne
same trade will follow suit.”
Mayor Wood has issued a proclamation
in which he announces his firm detennina- J ry is vioioua and false in every particular.
Dtascrser ui Ka*w-I«thla|lsai.
Extract of a Speech of Bober* Tyler, tf
Pennsylvania, before a Democratic Asso
ciation in Philadelphia.
I know that many attempt to account for
the preeent condition of db
to what they pronounoe ws
of the administration. But, In in
ment, a few unpopular appointments it
home and abroad, and the passage of the
Nebraska bill, though naturally productive
of dissatisfaction in certain quarters, do not
sufficiently aocount for that fierce insurrec
tion of bigotry and ignorance which has
lately agitated the popular mfisses with a
fever approaching to madness, and whioh,
for the time, in almost every State in .the
Union, has swept down the disorganized
legions of the hitherto invincible Democracy.
Neither is there a^ proper explanation af
forded by the circumstance that, in some of
the States, local feuds connected with the
leadership of individuals, have been permit
ted to intervene in disturbance of the effi
ciency and unity of the national organiza
tion. More or less, these local jealousies
and disorders have always existed. These
causes do not adequately account for the
effects. The whole land appears to be sud
denly afflicted with a virulent moral pesti
lence. Contemplating the present condition
of public feeling and opinion, the people do
not seem to have exercised a rational sense
of discrimination. It is quite impossible to
suppose the public mind to be in a healthy
state, and that recent demonstrations have
been intended merely as an ordinary popu
lar expression of condemnation of an un
popular administration. It is much more
than this, otherwise ft would not be forgot
ten that although there may have been some
administrative acts the people might ration
ally disapprove, there are many others they
must cordially commend, while the state of
the country itself shows that the general
conduct of the administration has been un-
S [uestionably promotive of the general wel-
are of the Republic. I can speak, and do
speak, with perfect disinterestedness, for I
have not received the least consideration
from the President or his Cabinet. The few
favors I have requested,' have been refused
without apology or explanation, or even ap
parent regret. But let this pass. I think
it is only reasonable to maintain that the
acquisition of the Mesilla Valley Territory
—the Reciprocity Treaty by which the
Fisheries question has been settled to our
satisfaction and other important advantages
secured—the Presidentiiu vetoes, right as
all admit, in principle, yet requiring for
their exercise great courage and firmness
under the circumstances; the Kozsta case—
the destruction of the Grevtown En
glish Negro pirates; the valuable scientific
explorations effected through the War De-
E artment, the efficiency and incorruptible
onesty that have distinguished the opera
tions of the 'I reasury; it is my opinion that
all these together, should be regarded with
considerable commendation, and as affording
a weighty, if not conclusive set off against
mistakes in appointments to office either at
home or abroad, or any real or fanoied
errors in policy in other respects. To
ascribe the late revulsion in public opinion
to a fixed and defined resolution to the peo
ple to condemn a mal-administration of the
Government, is, in my view, a mere pue
rility. The seat of the disease is deeper,
and in the end it will be plainly proved
to be so. What we have witnessed is
not simply a rebuke to the administration.
It is in effect a popular revolt against the
Constitution—against the whole experience
of the government—against the settled
truths of democracy—against the Union—
against moral principle—against the che
rished precepts and lessons bequeathed to us
by the authors of our liberties—against the
peace and order of society itself. It is in
effect, if consummated, a reversal of the al
most traditionary policy of the nation in
many particulars ; in respect of immigra
tion; in respect of religious toleration; in
respect of the principle in Civil and Reli
gious equality among Citizens; and it
amounts to no less than the inauguration of
communistical ideas and general skepticism
as the leading characteristics of American
Society.
But fellow-Democrats, I can at best only
glance at the subject. We all know and
feel that a crying evil is in our midst—that
social order and rational liberty are in great
danger. We all know and feel that unless
some healthy corrective can be applied in
time, our boasted American institutions are
in extreme peril of being seriously impaired,
if not completely overwhelmed by the most
disreputable influences. It has become the
duty of the Democracy of the land to engage
in another contest more difficult and more
laborious than any it has everyet been dele
gated to meet; and I do confess that it is
with a feeling of irrepressible pride, and in
a spirit of intense thankfulness to God, that
I have already perceived, notwithstanding
our temporary reverses, a courageous reso
lution on the part of the undismayed De
mocracy throughout the Union, to vindicate
and to defend to the last, the inestimable
E rinciples of civil equality and religious
reedom.
The political controversies between the
Democratic party and its opponents have
heretofore involved mere questions of expe
diency, or at the worst, some doubtful act of
constitutional invasion. But the present
opposition is of a totally different descrip
tion. So far as the free States are concern
ed, the opposition now consists of two im
mense fanatical factions—Abolitionism and
Know-Nothings,—each not only conspiring
openly against the Constitution and Laws,
—not only intent upon the acquisition of
power for illegal objects,—not only anarchi
cal, immoral and infidel in their moral and
mental proclivities, but the one insanely re
solved on the prosocution of designs neces
sarily subversive of the Union if persisted
in, the other anxious to promote a wide
spread social Revolution at the expense of
law, order and reason. In using this strong
language I do not think I exaggerate the
facts, if all the cote and preparation sound
ed in our ears, be not after all, a piece of
harmless and contemptible quackery for
mere office-seeking' purposes, I cannot be far
wrong. I certainly do not intentionally err
in supposeing that the essential purposes
and ultimate aim of abolitionism is to ob
tain possession of the Executive and Legis
lative authority of government, in order to
rob, in the name of Law and Humanity,
the Southern people of their slave property;
while Know-Nothingism is striving by
means of secret political societies to discard
the principle, ana to disavow the practice of
Religious toleration in America. It is im
possible to imagine a more unholy combina
tion for more unchristian objects. Aboli
tionism with the torch of the incendiary in
its hands threatens to destroy our noble po
litical structures. Know Nothingism to
undermine the whole social foundation.—
Know Nothingism not only sets up, for all
practical purposes, Religious tests and pen
alties among our free people in violation of
chartered rights, but proposes the hellish
scheme of seperating into two distinct bod
ies, as by a line of fire, the native born and
the naturalized citizens, and to constitute
the former indespite of existing laws and
existing institutions, a master class over the
latter. Ancient Federalism, at a time of
vast excitement, sought to do this in some
degree, but the Democracy of the days of
Jefferson and Madison, to stamp the effort
with its pointed reprobation, appointed two
adopted citizenb, consequently, Messrs. Dal
las and Gallatin, to the responsible poet of
Secretary of the Treasury. The badges of
Know Nothingism then are, 1st. Secret
oath-bound political societies. 2d. The es
tablishment of religious tests and penalties
to be applied to all Catholics, whether na
tive horn or naturalized. 3d. The proscrip
tive exclusion of all adopted citizens from
office, or official employments, and their sep
aration as regards the enjoyment of the po
litical franchise, into a class distinct, from
and inferior to the native-born inhabitants.
When we come to consider Know Nothing
ism as a practical question in its practical
issues, no amount of ingenuity or eloquence
can make it anything else than what I have
described it—a verr hydra of deformity,
with its every head filled with the head-heat
poisons—a thing Anti-American in the mode
it has consented to give itself expression-
bigoted and tyranical beyondcomparison in
the results it would accomplish. Its theo-
tion to enforce the law, regardless of all Bnt» when it asserts (to use its own dema-
pU|Q|]|| ffMlIITqWPnOW mma tJiun\ ihai ImmImm iIa *ia$
gogio phraseology,) that American, do not I fi^tsrt tf J&OW.N
now and have not always ruled America.—
m supposing, js^aflbctiug to sup-
the word should only
1H its fflNinirtfliprelfte-born citizens
. our Fathers—tho
liberal spi irit of our institutions—and in the
meaning of the law, It ae properly refers to
titepaturalized citizens as to others. 3d.
Innalling the adopts d citizens foreigners,
aud argumentatively treating them as such,
when subsequently to naturalization they
are no more foreigners in any sense what
ever than those born on the soil. In pre
suming to question the equal right of a
Catholic or a naturalized citizen to hold any
office under the government except the Pres
idency or Vice Presidency of the United
States, with any native born man whatever.
5tb. In doubting, or affecting to doubt, the
political alegiance and loyalty of either the
Catholic population, or naturalized citizens
generally. 6th. In proceeding, as it clean
ly does, on the idea that this is a Protestant
government and country, absolutely belong
ing to the native-born class, who'have the
right to substitute their prejudices, passions
and individual wills in the place of the Con
stitution and laws, and to govern not in the
name of justice or in the forms of law, but
by and through the irresponsible Councils
and lodges of a secret society. And while
Know Nothingism is so grossly mistaken in
its theory, the remedy it proposes for the
ills it imagines to exist is much more intol
erable than those ills even if they did in re
ality prevail.
Fellow Democrats—The religious clement
of Know-Nothingism is that in which it
finds its chief political capital. With the
exception of the local effort here, and at one
or two other places, by the politico-Native
Americans in ’44, is the first time in the his
tory of the country that any party or fac
tion has brought religion into the political
arena, in direct aid of the selfish aspiration
of office-seeking politicians. To accomplish
its demagogic designs, it ventures to assume
that the Catholics m the United States en
tertain sentiments of hostility to our repub
lican liberty, and to the principles of our
government. There is not a particle of ev
idence to sustain this charge of insinuation.
I hardly need repeat here what I have often
said, and what is well known in this com
munity, that I am not a Catholic. But it
would be a piece of moral cowardice if I
did not declare my belief that, so far from
there being sufficient evidence to sustain
such an averment, all the facts tend to es
tablish the reverse of the proposition. In
the first place, the Catholic religion is em
braced freely, and on terms of perfect
equality with every Protestant or other
form of worship in our political system, and
it would seem well nigh absurd to suppose
Catholicism in America hostile to a system
where it has existed under the organic pro
tection of the laws, and in greater real free
dom than in many countries denominated
Catholic. In the second place, the whole
history of Catholicism in this country—-if
the people reflect the spirit of their religion
—shows that the imputation is entirely un
founded. The active participation of Cath
olics in all the trying scenes of our own
War of Independence—their important par
ticipation in the very councils in which our
government itself was adopted-—the enthu
siastic support accorded by the Catholics to
the administration of Mr. Jefferson—the
cordial manner in which they sustained Gen.
Jackson at another memorable era—and the
striking fact that the class believed to be
more devoted to their religion and more un
der its control than any other, have actual
ly aroused the bitterest animosities in cer
tain quarters, on account of their unvary
ing support of Democratic principles, would
appear to present a moral demonstration of
the falsity of this Know-Nothing allegation.
A little reflection will convince any one that
this anti-Catholic cry is a matter of unmiti
gated humbug. If Know-Nothingism be
inimical to the appointment of Catholics to
office, because in its arbitrary and anti-
American temper it does not like Catholics
that is one thing. If Know-Nothingism, in
pursuance of its prejudices and passions,
organize a conspiracy to exclude citizens of
the Catholic religion from office, it must set
tle the matter with its conscience, (if it have
any,) and violated majesty of the Constitu
tion. But if in justification of its illiberal
and unwise conduct, it appeals to its fear of
Catholic influence, as being unfriendly to
liberty and dangerous in this country, I am
convinced it will fail both in its facts and
arguments. Just consider for a single mo
ment. There are 14 Protestants—besides
those of other religions—to one Catholic in
the United States. There is not a single
city, town, or insignificant village even,
where the Catholics have a majority of the
Council. At least, if there be such a place,
I have never heard of it. No State of the
31 has a Catholic Executive. In the seve
ral State Legislatures, a Catholic Represen
tative. is rarely found. In the Congress of
the United States, composed of several hun
dred members, there are not a dozen Catho
lics, all told. In the Judiciary departments,
Federal and State, a Catholic is hardly to
be seen. In the Executive branch of the
Federal Government—I refer more particu
larly to the President and his Cabinet, and
all the more leading departments and bu
reaus—there is, as far as I know, but one
Catholic. Among all the prominent Fede
ral appointments, foreign and domestic,
there are an hundred Protestants to five
Catholics. It is true, that R. B. Taney, ap
pointed by Andrew Jackson, Chief Justice
of the United. States, is a Catholic; but ma
lice itself has never questioned his abilities,
his patriotism, or his republicanism. And
yet with Protestanism so largely preponde
rant among the people, Know-Nothingism
would craftily persuade us that our institu
tions are at the mercy of Catholics—these,
too, arrogantly assumed to be disloyal; and
this, be it remembered, while in a condition
of stultification, or inexpressible impudence,
it is unblushingly doing the same thing of
which it accuses the Catholics—seeking to
appropriate the powers of government to
itself, not on any solid plan of well-digest
ed statesmanship, but in the name of Prot
estant sectarianism.
For one, I cannot admit an oxisting necessity
for changing the naturalization lairs. We have
only to execute properly those we already have,
and they will be found sufficiently stringent. Let
us, also, exercise some proper remedy against the
influx of mere paupers and criminals. Wo have
territory enough to support, in plenty and abun
dance, six hundred milions, and we now have
twenty-foui millions, and among them two and a
half millions of adopted citizens. These consti
tute, for the most part, the laboring population of
the free States. The wonderful development of
the Mississippi Valley, and the rapid construction
of onr vast works of national improvements, ore
principally owing to their untiring capacity for the
severest labor. In fine, I cannot comprehend the
wisdom of the policy that suggests a modification
or repeal of the naturalization laws, or the princi
ple of enslaving any portion of the free people of
this country.
Fellow Democrats—A word or two more and
shall conclude. While I am opposed to these se
cret, oath-bound societies, as a pestilential heresy,
on political grounds, they become, if anything,
still more abhorred on grounds of morality. True,
in its fusion with Abolitionism, (and this must af
ford exquisite gratification to those Democrats
who have preferred its polluting embraces to the
honest principles of Jefferson,) Know-Nothingism
has assisted to elect eight or nine Abolition Gov
ernors of States, and aided to elect three Aboli
tionists to the Senate of the United States, and
helped to send a Bedlamite set of Abolition repre
sentatives to the next Congress from New Eng
land, New York, and the Northwestern States.—
Its political*action has been highly dangerous, but
in its moral anatomy it is still more unendurable
than in its political character. As a moral being,
Know-Nothingism has been conceived in a dog
matic and tyrannous temper. It is conducted in
darkness and secresy, by agents unknown to the
people. The end it seeks is power, for tho soke of
plunder; and the means by which it works are not
only ofiensive to a delicate sense of private honor
but to the commonest ideas of decency and hon
esty. I have never seen but one man who would
not deny, point blank, if questioned, that he be
longed to the order. I have known hundreds of
men who wore members, deliberately deny the
fact, with the intention to deceive. It is well
known to yon, fellow Democrats, that during osr
last elections here, there wero creatures who pro
fessed the utmost aversion to Know-Nothingism—
who iterated and reiterated their sense of Demo
cratic fidelity—who received money from the trea
sury of the party to expend for the party’s uses,
who not only eonsenteid to serve on important
committees, but who procured themselves to be
appointed; and who, nevertheless, in violation of
good faith and all admitted rules of moral duty,
intentionally deceived us and betrayed us to our
opponents, being all the time the agents of the
secret office-seekers. In plain language, their con
duct, occasioned, ho doubt, by the wieked influ
ences to whioh they were subjected, was an abject
is impossible to
ing profligacy than
Men, heretofore
presented
for office—the
ttslh’iierf'
to tha^effect^»iia'
by oafts sworn on
them ini the news;
their actual membi ____
ed by their own admissions and acts, and'
s-Sr
ip have been
'on*.
quently all their Ulegations and oaths
tended in exeeution of a scheme of decepti*^ **'
they might propitiate the favor of the dhrk t* !
of Know-Nothingism. * ^ Vit
Your attention hat no doubt been attiscas
the circumstances that recently in a n/TT* 11 ?
caucus of Know-Nothing members of \
oers of th 0
tore at Harrisburg, there were but two iwiiSr”*'
1 in confn»,-,._ .. **■
ken, when the caucus broke up i
pearing in. the most conclusive manner
had managed to cheat and deceive each otk
both ballotings. It has been well ascertained 011
during the late Gnbernational contest there 8 ^
persons who were once Democrats and thc* <t0
honorable, who attended the Democratic
with the most assiduous politeness and c«». 1 f*
voluntarily expressed to him and to others J J? 0
— —uiuerg fun.,
edly the deepest interest in his success; ^r 11 '
companied him from county to county, aa t ’ *°'
their seats with him on the Tostrum at
meetings—who denounced the anti-Americjjw^'
tion in unsparing and vehement terms—**'
all men could do to deceive, that they nut>h t r*
tray, and who thus acted the part of traitors ^
spies as the delegated emissaries of the
Nothing Society. But the other day, a factb?
eating the most startling degree of mental!,'j
moral demoralization, transpired in this Stau
The Speaker of tho House of Representor
Mr. Strong, a member elected by the enliX/5
constituency of the city of Philadelphia, yiY
stand the most cherished monuments of our
olutionary glory—with a number of his collejY
in the Legislature, addressed a letter to the noo
rious speculator, George Law, a New York adve
turer—who has never seen a day’s political lerri"
in his life, except, perhaps, to lobby a bill thro-!?
Congress for his own advantage—inviting him
be a candidate for tho Presidency of the United
States—proposing to place him in the
Presidential chair, once occupied by George
ington, and always by statesmen. Every hod,
within the limits of tbo corporation is cognim,
of the manner in which the Know-Nothing ^
ministration of the city has been conducted. P to j
beginning to end, it has beon contemptible, sham*.
less in its brazen ignorance, and venal. It j s 8l jj
there is no argument like that which touches the
pocket, and I trust the' increased city debt of t
million and a half, and the heavy burdens cf tu a
tion, will induce many of our deluded citizens to
open their eyes to the true character of our p™
tended reformers. But I ask in all seriousa,,.
how can society long continue to exist in any
groo of happiness and freedom, with such info!
ences prevailing in it, or controlling it in its ami
important affairs? If truth, sincerity, candor
and fair dealing between man and man, are virtue!
without which no society can long hope to najj
tain itself in those happy bonds of fraternizati 0 j
by which the collective rights and happiness of
the community aro preserved—then duplicity
guile, treachery and lying, if they be tolerated-if
in truth they are not extinguished by an over!
whelming expression of popular abhorrence, muss
speedily reduce society to the condition of
demoninm. Beyond a question, Know-Nothin,!
ism is but one of the types or forms of the dises*,
that now nfflicts the moral system of the countn.
Abolitionism, Spiritualism, Maine-Lawism, Fo!
men’s Rights, Anti-Rentism, Mormonism, Biolo-
gy, Electro-Psychology, and Fourierism, uj
many other such things, are other kindred former
the same general malady. An extreme popnlar li.
cense and scepticism have illegitimately appropri
ated the right of privato judgment, until, at it
the Constitution and laws are in imminent peril of
being overwhelmed by a deluge of ianaticiiu,
while public peace and public liberty are cryin!
out for protection from the traitorous assaulti of
midnight conspirators.
^Fellow Democrats—The last hope of the conn,
try rests with the Democracy. It is not tha Snt
time that the clouds of temporary reverses h»v*
been dissipated by tho triumphs of our ultimo
success, the more valuable because obtained as the
reward of courage, resolution and patient endn.
ranee. Rest assured so will it be again. This car
nival of vico and folly must soon have an end. In
a few months, or years at most, the sober, second
thought of a majority of the people will consign it
actors into obscurity, amidst tho execrations nnd
contempt of a nation restored to its healthfhl
senses. We now know our opponents, their ob
jects, aud their numbers. Their difficulties begin
when ours end. We fight under our old flag, in
scribed with its old principles. That flag has
been already thrown to the breeze in every State,
and millions of brave and devoted hearts are nub.
ing beneath it. The opposition changed innothiag
but in name, and in the abandonment of all pn.
tcnco to either statesmanship or principle, recruit,
ed by the outcasts from the Democratic ranks, hire
fallen on our unsuspecting columns in an hoar of
over confidence and repose, and are rejoicing onr
successes as unexpected as unmerited by them.
The different factions have all readily united
against the Democracy, but these mercenaries ctu-
not long agree among themselves. Tho recent
election in Now York is typical of what will occnt
when they attempt to make on affirmative move,
ment for the Presidency. The respective friends
of tho Fusion tripartite Holy Alliance, will then
dissolve partnership, and the different clement;
composing the “Fusion,” will be as much oppojed
to each other, as they all now aro to the sound De.
mocracy. I think I can see the events of theneil
two years as though they had already transpired,
and I believe if alive, notwithstanding the clemor
of Abolition and Know Nothing expectation, ocee-
sioned by onr late defeats in some of the States,
and their anticipated and probable victories in
others, I shall yet attend the Inauguration of i
pure Democrat as President of tho United Statu
in 1857.
r
Wheat Crop in the West. . ,
to have the best accounts of th«
wheat crop. From Iowa, Illinois, n*
.. . . . - ,, ■>—, sin, Indiana and Michigan, all rep 0 " 3 /j
[From the Richmond Enquirer.]
Facts tor tbe South.
It is “kicking against the pricks” foranj
Southern Know-Nothing journal to attempt
to deny that Northern Know-Nothingism u
essentially identical with abolitionism.-
Startling facts arise mountain high, to over
whelm all such hypocritical pretences. The
records of the elections fully demonstrate it,
and the dark vista of the future action of
the House of Representatives, crowded with
Know Nothing Abolitionists, causes every
patriot in the land to shudder for the conse
quences. The Washington Union utterly
refutes the weak and discreditable pretexts
of Southern Know Nothing papers on this
subject. It shows by an array of facts:
First. Thatin nearly every case the Know
Nothings in the free States have elected
violent freesoil Whigs to the 34th Congress
Second. That in every case with but three
or four exceptions, every candidate for Con
gress elected by the Know-Nothings was
compelled to pledge himself in advance to
all the extreme measures of the abolition
wing, beginning with the restoration of the
Missouri Compromise line, and ending with
the repeal of the fugitive slave law.
Third, That every Governor, elected by the
Know Nothings in the free States was com
pelled to avow his abolition proclivities in
advance, and we give the list for the benefit
of the Know Nothing papers: Grimes, of
Iowa, Gardiner of Massachusetts, Metcalf
of New Hampshire, Bingam of Michigan
Dutton of Connecticut, Hoppin of Rhode
Island, Pollock of Pennsylvania, Morril of
Maine.
Fourth. That every Senator of the United
States elected by the Know Nothings is»
rank, fanatical, and avowed abolitionist-
The following list is submitted to the in
spection and criticism of the Know Noth
ing papers:—Harlan of Iowa, Wilson of
Massachusetts, Durkee of Wisconsin, Seward
New York, (however his present position i
may be at war with this undeniable fact) 1
and there can be but little doubt that men
of the same opinions will be chosen from
New Hampshire as a result of the last elec
tion in that State. Nothing but the finnne*
of the democratic party in Pennsylvania ano
Indiana has thus far prevented the return
from those States to the United StaW
Senate of rank and uncompromising abon»
tionists.
Not less undoubted is the fact that neier
before has abolitionism been so strong ®
the Northern and Western States as since
the triumph of the Know Nothings.
Ultra abolition resolutions are nowbelow
the Know Nothing Legislature of Pennsylv*
nia, and are expected to pass. ,
The most revolutionary abolition ins ““°!
tions and resolutions have already been
passed by the Know Nothing Legislature
Michigan.
The same have been passed by the Kno
Nothing Legislature of Maine. .,
The same by the Know Nothing Leg®®'
ture of Illinois.
Such are the trophies of Know Nothing"
ism in the free States. We ask, wm “
people of the South be deceived T
not invite their attention to arguments to
i ■
contested, but to facts palpable and pr® 6 ®!
to members of Congress alrosoj
We point a
elected and known: to Governors now
office; to legislatures now in session;
scenes passing before all eyes.
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