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Letter flroaa Hr. Jenklni.
Augusta, 15th June 1855.
My Dear Sir :—I have received your let-
Feurtk mt July Caaveatleu Psetpened.
We are gratified to learn that the meet
ing in Columbus on Saturday, for the pur-
pose of nominating delegates to the Nation- inquiring whether or not I will beacan-
u°?J entl0n c det * r “ ,Ded ^ P 0 ^ i didate for the Executive office, and what in
K^. h l d,n? Convention till opinion, “we oid Union men ought now
Wednesday the eight day of August next, In order to do myS€ lf justice, I
“ ^ d f er 11 to afford f< ? r P®°P ,a ! must, before answering your first enquiry.
We*SL reP tW n Sl- i briefly review some of the occurrences of
We rejoice that the postponement has I * t j ne;the r expected, nor
been made The people now have ample | ™®;P d “ J didate for t he office in
•»5rt n ” m ° Te V ? mV % 1 question, but, yielding to the wishes, pub-
J. H. Howard, W. H. M “
Dougherty, .James Johnson,
by ‘ affirmatively. I think I do not err in saying
We extract this puzzler from the Chroni- tbat f or a while, the indications were, that
cU & Sentinel of the 19th. What can we | the opDonents of the present Federal and
possibly understand by this “ National State Administrations would unite upon me.
Union Convention.” We had thought that ! Soon, however, it appeared that many of
, „ . . ~ , , . | them who had previously been my farm, un-
of all exclusiveness the Columbus movement ■ deviati ng supporters, had connected thern-
was intended to he most stringent, and of ; selves with a new political organization,
all the sectional parties that ever rose, , and were disinclined to vote for any man
reigned and fell in this day and generation , without its pale. This statement was re-
teeming with isms and issues, this same pro- i peatedly inaide to me, an ** r £* < L y
, 6 . A ’ .... persons who were, and by others who were
posed organization was to be most restricted ; £ ot members, to join this new organization ;
and isolated—now, it is to be a National which, after serious consideration, and with
Union Party! One honored name is given the most thorough conviction of duty, I posi-
as a delegate to this odd Congress of over , lively declined to do. You will remember,
hopefuls that surely has been booked for a j ZridSoTof toe
berth which will be too hot to hold him.— through the newspapers, in connec-
The gallant Major, brim full of pluck and tion with the office of Governor, my name
who has been ready this many a day to ex- j was suddenly dropt. I advert to the fact
punge that word “ Union,” out of all politi- j only to say that this followed immediately
L £***» a a •• Motional Union Con-, ZZJgn^V™ !TX’£3£
vention!” In our mind’s eye, we think we of tbe course pursued towards me by the
see him in his eeat in that body of hopefuls, j new party. Although unable to agree with
whoso faith outsizes any grain of mustard ! them, I believe their motives are patriotic,
seed that ever grew. It may be that he will J and cheerfully concede that they were as
be there, but before Heaven' it is impossible. I C ree - t0 " lth - ho ! d their suffrages from me, as
[From the West Point Beacon, Extra. June 21.]
Jad|c Warmer’s Letter of Acceptance
Newnan, Ga., June 12, 1855.
Hon. Hiram Warner:—Dear Sir,—We
MONDAY, JUNE 25.
The Pledge
t Here is one Democratic Editor pledged—where
take great pleasure in communicating to i ^ other come from? We don’t look for
I i any more. We had no doubt that the Timet A
you, by authority, theaction of the Conven- wouM ^ ve tbe led but we hare no
tion assembled here to-day, which resulted ! idea tbatany otter Democratic print in Georgia
m your unanimous nomination as the cand- ; w qi. The Time» A Sentinel says :
idate of the Democratic party, in 4th Con- ! “There certainly is one Editor in Georgia who
gressional District, for Congress. We earn- ! is now and always has been ready and willing “to
estly and confidently hope that, in view of 1 pledge himself to advocate the disruption of all
the present crisis in our national affairs, j th £‘ bind th ? s * t *. of , ® cor K i » to the Uaio ”
..j which ..c i
round us you will obey the call made upon | aga i n ’ , all< i now repeat without reservation or
you, and afford us the high gratification of ; equivocation. Not only so, but as we understand
being able to present your name to the peo- , the position taken by the Democratic party in con-
pie of the District as our standard bearer ventionat Milledgeville on tte5thinst., the whole
in the approaching contest, i party, Editors and all, are pledged to the same
We herewith enclose to you the platform
course.
j ■ .- , . , . - .1 „ n - .■ Well we think it is our neighbor that is mista-
and resototions adopted by the Convention. ken M to tbe object of «. tbe bui i der8 of the plat
form of the Georgia Democracy ” Governor
Johnson clearly understands it as we do—and as
SATURDAY, JUNE 23.
The Secretary of War on Gov. Reeder,
of Kansan.
The Vicksburg Whig, of the 9th instant,
in noticing a speech delivered by the Hon.
Jefferson Davis, at Apollo Hall, in that
city, on the night of the 9th instant, says:
r *lii reference to the appointment of
Reeaer, Col. Davis stated that it was not
known to the Administration when he was
appointed that he was an Abolitionist; he
was regarded, from his speeches as leaning
on the other side. He admitted, however,
that it was known that Reeder had fallen,
on the side of the Abolitionists in the con
test in Kansas. He (Col. Davis) has cer
tainly been opposed to Reeder’s remaining
in office, is opposed now, and thinks it pro
bable he has been removed. He ought to
have been removed the day after he was ap
pointed.”
When the Secretary of War, Jefferson
Davis, passed through Atlanta, only a few
days previous, to the Georgia Democratic
Convention, he assured the Editor of the
Intelligencer that Reeder would be removed,
which the Intelligencer proclaimed immedi
ately, in order to silence the clamors of the
Democracy against the Administration.—
Some weeks have since elapsed, and instead
of being removed, Reeder is understood to
have returned to his post. Why is this ?
Is the President compelled to retain him to
satisfy his Freesoil friends. Or does he do
it to afford Reeder an opportunity to carry
out his Freesoil designs in Kansas ? Can
not some of the Democratic organs oxplain ?
—Chronicle dc Sentinel.
Governor Reeder is not “understood to
have returned to his post.” We don’t, in
the first place, believe that Reeder could be
sent hack. We saw a gentleman yesterday,
just from Kansas, who roundly asserted that
so great was the indignation of the people
in the Territory, against this funotionary’s
abuse of his office, that if Reeder returned
to Kansas, he would be put to death.
We then don’t believe that General Pierce
would so outrage the common sense of jus
tice in the country, or so wilfully cast from
him the confidence and support of the South,
by a step so wanton and silly. So far from
attempting to “ silence the clamors of the
Democracy against the Administration,”
should this step be resolved upon, we will
do our utmost to call public attention to so
reprehensible a course, and will visit it with
the most vehement reprobation. After the
intelligence from YVashington, current in
every direction, it is surprising that any
one will presume to say Reeder “is under
stood to have returned to his post.” Wait,
and we will see if the President is crazy, as
some would have us think.
Singular Piece of Vilalny.
A man by the name of Joseph Lee was ar
rested and lodged in Chatham county jail
yesterday morning for placing a bar of rail
road iron, weighing 300 pounds, on the
track of the Central Road, near the 60 mile
station. It is said that he confesses the
deed. When asked why be did it, he only
answered that “it was his intention to
throw the car off the track.” He will have
an examination at 10 o’clock to-day, before
Justices 'Wilson, O’Connel and Russell.—
Sav. Georgian.
It would tax the horrid ingenuity of Pom-
pey’s wife to give this wretch what he de-
deserves. She compelled the slave who
slew her husband to cut steaks from his
own body and eat them in her pres
ence. This was tart treatment—rather so
for a simple case of murder; but nothing
can be disproportioned, in tho shape of pun
ishment, when visited upon such an awful
wickedness as this. We have heard with
the deepest chagrin as well as pain, that on
the State Road suGh attempts at wholesale
murder have been made in several instan
ces of late. One attempt that we heard of
was enough to freeze the blood with horror.
We have boon told that in less than a week
after the cars began running over the new
bridge at Etowah, a large bar of iron was
laid across the track, just over the middle
of the bridge, and the obstruction was only
Hr. Jenkins’ Letter.
In another column may befoundthis letter
which wo suppose locates for the present the
political stand of its author. We havo read
this letter more than once attentively and,
we hope, charitably. It is a most jejune
production, and unless its unhappy spirit
may be counted among its characteristics,
it is entitled to little consideration. Two-
thirds or more of this paper, which, under
the circumstances, should have been well
considered, arc devoted to tho amiable effort
of proving to the country that be ought not
to act with the Know Nothings, and that he
will not act with the Democrats. Mr. Jenkins
says that “ I have concluded, therefore, that,
being neither a Democrat or a Know Noth
ing, there is no place for me in this con
test.” Yesterday we published the eloquent
letter of Judge Longstreet, in which that
able and good man said, “For my part I
consider a man who has no politics a poor
patriot, however amiable he may be as a
man. The people of this country are sove
reign, and ho is a poor representative of
sovereignty who iB incompetent to cast a
judicious vote.” In such times as these,
when men on side say that a political war
is raging in this country, in tho name of
one religion against tho existence of another,
when this side declares with the most
solemn asseverations, that if this war termi
nates in favor of persecution, it inevitably
brings civil war into our midst—while, on
the other hand, the opponents of this party
as gravely protest that they are in a death’s
struggle for the rights of conscience, and for
the perpetuity of the constitution of the
country, we say in the face of this exigent
state of the Republic, Mr. Jenkins sulks,
retires to the shade and says that the issues
of this deadly feud ho has nothing to do
with and cares nothing for. This may be
very dignified, and probably it is, but it is
a miserable representation of sovereignty,
and though very amiable, we agree, with
Judge Longstreet, it is paltry patriotism.—
If present dangers cannot alarm Mr. Jen
kins, then his soul is too great by far for
the vulgar uses of this state of existence.—
If the reckless and heaven daring conduct
of a powerful party in our very midst, whose
mission seems to be to prove to the world
how rotten our political fabric is, and
how degenerate Republicans have come
to be in 70 years, cannot excite Mr. Jen
kins to activity, cr provoke his adhesion to
some side or other, we then take it that that
gentleman must be placed aside, as too or
namental to be useful. But we spoke in the
outset of these remarks, of the spirit of the
letter. Here is the rub ; that spirit is bad—
very bad, and in our view, is to the last de
gree obnoxious to auy code of ethics—po
litical or what not. The Know Nothings
are wrong and the Democrats are right—
Mr. Jenkins knows this; and besides, there
are, unhappy man, but two parties, alas,
and therefore Mr. Jenkins wraps his tal
ents in a rag and buries them. Heknewthat
Democracy was a hard master, reaping where
it did not sow, and gathering where it did not
strew, and for that reason he will not strike
a lick—he won’t. Very well, he takes
his chance with the prototype of this class
of servants. The logic of Mr. J. is worse
than his ethics. He contends, that the
Columbus movement which he advocates, is
a union of all parties hero for the protection
of our rights. But this in the same breath,
he says, is not to be a sectional party, but it
is an attempt to unite all men North, South,
East and West, to crush sectional encroach
ments. Then why sneer at us when wc en
larged our borders the 5th of this month at
Milledgeville and invited and urged good men
everywhere in the land to come to our help ?
Iu us a National platform was incivisra—a removed a few minutes before the passenger
gross selfishness that ouly proved iu Mr. J’s j train came up. The bridge isabout 80 feet
eyes that we loved the party bettor than we i above water, and tho water in the Hightower _
loved the country. But Mr. Jenkins sneers j at the time did not exceed six inches in depth, in the general sentiment of the oountry.—
I was to decline party association with
them.
Here I was willing to let the matter rest,
feeling neither chagrin nor regret that the
E ublic eye had been averted from me. Stil',
owever, those of my political friends who,
like myself, were content with the Union
organization, formed upon what is called
the Georgia platform, continued to urge me
forward—some (of whom you art one) sug
gesting my announcement without nomina
tion, and others calling for a convention of
the Union party. This has induced a re
view of the whole ground, that I might
reach a conclusion at once consistent with
my duty as a citizen, and just to myself.—
The result is that I see the people of Georgia
preparing for an active political contest, and
that there are at present, but two organized
parties in the State, viz: the Democratic,
and the Know Nothing or American, unless
the temperance association may be called a
political party. I know not how its adhe
rents may regard it, but sincerely respect
ing their motives and feelings, I shall not
do the cause the injury of placing it in that
category. It is, I believe, pretty generally
conceded that those who are not within
either of these organizations, are too few in
number for effective, independent action.—
I have concluded, therefore, that being nei
ther a Democrat nor a Know Nothing, there
is no place for me in this contest. There
can be no plainer proposition, than that he
who in times of high party excitement, finds
himself without a party, is not only freed
from all obligations of duty to present him
self as a candidate for popular suffrage, but
is forbidden by proper selfrespect to do so.
Independently of these considerations,
there is another difficulty in the way of my
candidacy. I presume the supporters of
each candidate, he they few or many, will
expect him to canvass the State—to speak
wherever the stump is found. This I am
resolved not fco do. I greatly prefer the an
cient usage of the Republic, that of select
ing candidates whose merits are known to
the people, and then leaving the people, on
comparison of those merits, to choose be
tween them. I answer you, therefore, my
dear sir, that, under existing circumstances,
I decline being a candidate, and sincerely
trust I shall hear no more on the sub-
ject.
To your second inquiry, what shall he
done by those situated as you are, I answer,
that in my opinion the proper course is, to
adopt the recommendation of the meeting
recently held in Temperance Hall, Colum
bus. That proposes a convention of the
People of the State, irrespective of party
distinctions. It looks to the united action of
conservative men everywhere, North, South,
East, and West, to put down a crusade
against a particular section of Union—not
a sectional party, but a party co-extensive
with the Union, to crush sectional encroach
ment. It is a proposition full of patriotism.
It. has been treated by one party with silent
contempt. That is to be greatly deplored,
but if all others will coipe up to the call, it
may yet yield many leaves for the heal
ing of the nation. If our Know Nothing
or American friends will unite in the move
ment, the object may bo accomplished; if
not, it must fail, and then you and I, and
others similarly situated, must stand aside
until some party shall arise in the land
whose principles and practices commend it
to our support, If we may rely upon pro
fessions. there never h*s been a time when
we could be so comfortable in a state of iso
lation.
Since December, 1850, our humble efforts
have been devoted to the maintenance of the
position then assumed by Georgia in Con
vention, and Row, it would appear, there is
no party, within her borders, to gainsay it.
It is not to be supposed that they who con
structed the platform, will abandon it. We
have seen that the Democratic Party by
their recent Convention, have given it tardy
approval. May they be as slow to renounce,
as they have been to adopt it. Had they
made it their platform, unique in structure,
and primary in importance, instead of using
its timbers to prop their rickety, decaying
K structure—had they met the overture
;orgians to stand upon it, as one people,
one party, we should have hailed their action,
as an omen of better times. As it is, we should
think it safer, in the keeping of men, who
like its builders, and like the patriots recent
ly assembled in Temperance Hall, Colum
bus, have shown themselves capable of aban
doning ancient party alliances, and devoting
themselves with singleness of purpose, to its
maintenance, until it shall be recognised in
the legislation of Congross, and vindicated
With sentiments of the highest respect
and esteem, we are
Your ob’t serv’ts,
P. O. Harper, )
J. I. Whitaker, [
T. H. Moore, ) mxttee ‘
Greenville, 18th June, 1855.
Gentlemen:—I am in the receipt of your
letter of the 12th inst., advising me of the
does “the distinguished and very influential Dem
ocrat” to whom we referred.—Corner Stone.
at the present attitude of many democrats
in the State, as regards the Georgia plat
form are truly evidence of a sorry pat
riotism, a bad spirit and a worse under
standing of a plain argument. What if
If there had been one thousand men, wo
men and children precipitated from that
bight, not one could have escaped with life
short of a miracle!
Both England and Russia appear to be
thousands in the State iu 1850 thought the j hard pushed to find human food for pow-
smuggling into our Union of California \ <j er in the present sanguinary war they are
would be as good cause for that “disruption” ! waging, for while England is enlisting for-
which makes the pith of the gentleman's j e | gn4 , ra }„ America and Germany, Russia
fume, as would be the rejection of Kansas, , has brought iuto JJurope the barbarous
pray will that prove iu his judgment hordes of Asiatic Tartary, and arp forcibly
■we were fools or traitors m 1850. or turn- • ^ D .,
coats in 1855? It would seem that this is mcor P oratm * ,nto the,r army the Bayaz,d -
the deduction of Mr. Jenkins, who we sup- Armenians and Kurds. With such im
pose after this must be called the “ Lone mense armies in the field, and the contin
ual loss of thousands by disease and battle,
the case cannot be otherwise.
Star.” But he cannot surprise us into the
indiscretion of ripping up old wounds or on
old (juestion that can only be agitated now
by him for purposes of mischief. If, in the
-platform claimed and defended by the De
mocracy of Georgia, Mr. Jenkins finds any
thing unsound, let him denounce it—if any
thing that is his, let him claim it, and if he
wishes us like Uriah Ileep, in David Cop-
-perfield, to say we am very “ UmbU," if it
will please him, and tor the soke of the
eooatiy we will say it.
Crockett’s Family•—The Dallas Herald
eays the widow and family of Co). Davy
Crockett, the hero of the Almo, moved to
Texas from Tennessee, last fall. They re
side in Ellis county, and are in straighten
ed circumstances. The Herald suggests,
that the legislature should make some
provision for the relief of the widow and
children.
My fondest political aspiration is, that in
the hour of trial, (if come it must,)I may
be permitted to see Georgia maintain that
position, with a firmness and bravery, equal
to the “ Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation,”
that induced its assumption.
Very truly, &c,,
CHARLES J. JENKINS.
The Coming Harvest.—A gentleman who
recently traveled over 8890 miles, through
portions of the States of Ohio, Kentucky,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan,
Pennsylvania and Virginia, performed dar
ing the past weeks, and mostly by daylight,
says “ my heart has been constantly glad
dened by the prospectof the growing orope.”
lie is decidedly of opinion, that, if no acci
dent happens, there must be a very abund
ant harvest in all the States.
(0* Daniel H. Stewart has been appoint
ed, Oy President pierce, Marshal of the
Distrust of Georgia, vice J. R. Jobpsoq re
signed. *-
MB'If yon open not your door to the
devil* he goee away.
“ Where will any other come from ?—
Here he is. What, has our friend the Gen
eral lost all faith in us? Is thy servant a
dog that he should do this thing? For years
action of the Democratic Convention recent- w *th prayers and tears have we called upon
ly held at Newnan, which resulted in my our countrymen to draw the last line be-
unanimous nomination as a candidate for tween us and our foe, and when this prayer
Congress in this District, and requesting ^ answered we jump back and draw another
my acceptance of the same Whatever may j f ourselves? Really, General,
have been my private wishes in regard to
this matter, the Convention had the ac- ^ 1S 18 sour ^ or such milk cf human
knowledge*! right to overrule them. kindness as yours. Have faith this one
The dark and threatening aspect of the ; time more, if no bigger than a mustard seed,
political horizon, so portentous of evil to ^ a t 0 b acc0 se ed will do. Our friend of
the Constitution, admonishes me that even ~ .. , . ...
the humblest citizen owes a paramount duty ! ^ tmes & Sentinel ts right. O, had the
to his country, especially to his State, so , editor of the Comer Stone only been there
deeply interested in maintaining the integ- | tojhave seen how oar spirits mounted on high
rity of that Constitution, as it came from —how “hope elevated*and joy brightened our
the hands of those patriots and statesmen j cre9t8 » ^ we listed to that report of re-
who framed and adopted it. The nomina- : newed Ied that the Democracy were
tion is, therefore, accepted in the same spir-; .. * ° „ , _ , 3
it in which it is understood to have been ; maiin g to South. General, we give
tendered by the Convention. ; you our word of honor that Convention was
The principles of the Democratic party | in earnest, in dead earnest, that time. You
are national rather than sectional, eminent- j -^ould have warmed to Cobb in a most es-
ly adapted to the preservation of the Union, j j , er if had witne8sed the in _
embracing as they do all the sound and con- i ^ J , , , , ,
stitutional men of every section, and not tre P ,d and unreserved manner he backed
merely those of one particular section only. ' up the bloody 4th. We wish recent events
Let us unite with those sound constitutional ; had not made it improper—may be, in bad
men in good faith, stand shoulder to shoul- ; taste—to allude to the rapture that sat upon
der with them in defence of the compromi- ! the facc of a mu(ual friend from Cherokee,
sea made in the Constitution, as wel! for , , T , „ . .
their interests as for our own, and make no . t ^ ie ver y ^ estor and paragon of patriots and
other compromises, with the enemies of the j Southern Rights men, as he witnessed the
fundamental principles of the government, shew of game and alacrity that was as com-
Can it be possible that a majority of the i mon as pig tracks in that convention. O,
people of the non-slaveholding States wiir faave faith A ^iter time’s coming. We
allow themselves to be made the blind in- !. , ., , il . . - **. ..
struments in executing the subtle, yet cher- have laid down th,s hme a P latfon ? in the
ished, policy of the wily, far-seeing states- J right way. Before we used to build them
men of Great Britain in breaking down the like the Turks are said to build their houses
power and strength of the American Re- —the top story first. We went to Balti-
public, by a disruption of the States upon ! more in the 8tart ia other worda .
a great sectional question? This policy- . ... ,
wa! first shadowed forth in Exeter Hall, by | But thl8 t,me we **8“* right-ice have
a declaration of open hostility against j laid down a platform without an unsound
American slave institutions; but more : splinter in it—and we say to the North, if
clearly manifested in the free States, by the ; we stand together at all, we must stand on
interference of Thompson, the British emis- j thege p i ank8 . But as to the bloody 4th and
sary, whose mission it was to excite the «- th# boards, we mean to stand on
tion of the people there upon that subject.
How well he acted his part, and accom
plished the objects of his mission, let the
history of the slave excitement in the free
States answer the question. Let us hope
for the best, but be prepared for the worst.
Devoted as I am, aud ever have been, to the
Union of the States upon the basis of the
Constitution, still, there may be such ag
gressions upon our clear and well defined
constitutional i ights, now openly declared
by 6ome of the non-Blaveholding States, to
which we ought not, upon principle, to sub
mit to if we could, and to which, when con
sidered in a practical point of view, we
could not if we would, even to perpetuate
the existence of the Union.
Georgia, as a tlaveholding State, mast be the
equal or her confederate non-«laveholding States 3tar ted, it seems, four years ago, with fifty
,» rAe Union, both as it respects her pol.t.cal | member8 bot the ri g 0r8 0 f West p oin t
rights, and the rights other people to possess and .. . ,. ’ , .. „ . ,, - ,
enjoy their property upon the common territory discipline, and the dement marks have
of the nation, or she will be their equal out of it. reduced the number down to thirty-four.—
The Georgia Platform received my hearty concur- The Slave States must have had their full
rence and approval at the time of its construction share of representatives in the class, and vte
and adoption, and I shall now and hereafter, are ^ to j a fe r that the greater part of the
them, or die. When the Democratic party
of Ga. surrender them, then the back of our
hand to it for the rest of oar lives. If we
do not to the thousandth part of one poor
scruple, redeem our last pledges to the coun
try, we have parted with our “fame and
sacred honor.”
Sectionalism in our Army.
It is a remarkable circumstance that of
the thirty-four cadets composing the gradu
ating class of the Military Academy at
West Point, this year, there are but five
from the Slave States—a seventh of the
whole number—while Massachusetts alone
has four, and New York seven. This class
J®"Goj. Brown in the course of his <
speech said that the present administration i
seemed to have but little else to do but to j
decapitate the members of the Order, but i
where one head falls off hundreds were
brought into the party.
So says Gov. Brown of Tennessee in his
speech at the Know Nothing meeting in j
New York, on the 18th, as reported by the
Daily Times. The Governor was exceed
ingly happy in his illustration of the sub
ject. We doubt whether in the whole field
of ancient mythology the speaker could
have done better in his search for a figura
tive prototype of Know Nothingism, than
to have adopted, as he did, the fabulous
animal that old chroniclers tell us was mys
teriously furnished with new heads as often
FOR GOVERNOR,
HERSCHEL Y. JOHNSON,
OK BALDWIN.
For Congress—*tH District,
HIRAM WARNER.
_ _ _ \JI vU| 111ilL 11U 111 11 li 1 |T_*
as any of the old ones was lopped off.— ; rpiritual and intellectual
18. See Third Page.
Religious Indignation Meeting.—On the
11th inst. the members of the MethodistE. Church,
assembled in mass meeting, at Centerville, Mon
roe county, Va. to take into consideration, a letter
recently written to the Richmond Enquirer, char
ging that the members of that and other churches
of the Baltimore Conference, were controlled in
their votes by the Church. The meeting pro
nounced the statement false, asserted their belief,
that the author was aware ot its falsity, and recom
mended him to the various churches of the Con
ference in Virginia, as a tit subject of prayor to
God, that he might “despense him light both
There are numerous points of resemblance
between be old Hydra and the Know Noth
ing party. The old Cuimal was a very
mysterious monster, living mostly under
ground, and was supposed to be terribly
powerful as well as mysterious. He only
left his subterranean retreat to ravage the
country, committing all sorts of villain
ous depredations, and disturbing the peace
and quiet of the community generally. He
was thought by some to be invincible ; for
no sooner would one head get knocked off
in a fray than others would spring forth in
its place. But when the young giant, Her
cules, grappled the monster, his invincibil-
“ They pronounced tho statement false
but will the Baptist, the Presbyterian, the
Episcopalian, the Catholic believe it ? Of
course bigotry, prejudice and fanaticism,
which last is bigotry and prejudice intensi
fied, do not stop in their fell chase after a
victim to reason or believe. As the K. N.
Methodist has said he would not believe the
word or the oath of tho Catholic when
pledged in defence of his religion, nothing
can be more natural than to hear the Cath
olic make the same hitter retort. Here then
we have it. A world of strife and crimina
tion begins to rage between the followers of
the lowly Jesus, and scandal as it is, a war
T3
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAM
SHIP
ity proved to be all gammon: he was sum- j ; n His name! This is the gala day of the
infidel and unbeliever. He knows well
enough that men may bawl till they are
hoarse, their worship of God in mere lip
service, and yet that religion will ho a shame
and a reproach to its professors, if it hear
not the fruits of that charity that believeth
all things and hopeth all things when we
judgo the heart and motives of men. What
could our people be thinking of when they
began a persecution against the Catholics
and thought they could and would end it
there ? Why, do not the Methodists know
that in many sections of the country it is
charged upon them that their ministers are
active politicians and that this influence has
told with triumphant effect in more than in
marily whipped out of the world.
The encounter between the modern Hy
dra and the young giant, Democracy,
has just commenced, and the Ides of Octo
ber will show that the “many headed” mon
ster of the present day will resemblo its an
cient prototype equally as much in the thor
oughness of its death, as in the peculiarity
of its life.
Tlae Mammoth Ocean Steamer.
The new steamer Leviathan, which is now
being constructed in London, promises,
when finished, to be the wonder of the age.
To grasp the idea of a vessel measuring
more than an eighth of a mile in length,
with a capacity of 20,000 tons, and room
enough, besides, for 4,000 passengers with
all their luggage, certainly requires some | one momentous conjuncture?
mental effort; but io conceive such a mon-
honcstly endeavor to maintain and defend every
plank in it to the best of my ability. That plat
form is based on the living principles of the Con-
missing members were from the other side
of Mason & Dixon’s line. If the graduating
stitution as applicable to our circumstances and ; class of 1855 be a fair criterion to judge by,
practical necessities. ! we should say that the army in a short
With a thorough conviction of the political ! time, would be officered almost wholly by
truths embodied in the resolutions adopted by the ! Northern men; but the South could have
Convention, they cannot fail to receive the cordial j n0 e for comp laint if such should prove
j to be .he eue. fo the ohil .emces ibere
Standing erect upon this platform of priuci- i there are no rigors of discipline, nor any
pics, let us buckle qn oqr political armour for the j lists of “demerits” to interfere with ap-
conflict, go before the oountry and discuss them, pointments, they will be sure to have, at
not secretly, but openly, as tho advocates of truth, ! feast, their full share of offices.—New York
who wear no mask, nor shun any just responsi- 1 Times
bility; and may He who controls the destiny of j
men and nations, enable us to maintain the right, I Well may the patriot say repiningly, that
and successfully combat error. I the distractions and heart burnines among
Allow me, through you, to tender to the Con- . . , ,
vention my respectful acknowledgements for tho i our people nave a deeper seat than a quarrel
honor conferrod by tfiat body, and please accept 1 about slaves. This extract from the
far yourselves, the assurance of my personal re
gard and friendship.
Very respectfully,
Tour o’bt serv’t,
Hiram Warner.
Messrs. P. 0. Harper, Jared I. Whitaker nnd T.
H. Moore, Committee.
Col.
‘‘7Vi??es” is as full of bitterness an<) illibo-
rality as anything that oould emanate from
a foreign press. If we knew how many
abolitionists and haters of the South and of
Southern people, there were in the board of
instruction at West Point, we might proba-
Isaac Croom has handed to the
Greensborough Beacon the following letter bly have an easy solution of the social or
from Dr. Davis, of Columbia, on the Cash- moral riddle which seems to porplex the
mere Goat, for publication. To our plant- limes. Perhaps, who knows, but the same
ing friends, who are duly impressed with proportions of reward for Northern youths,
the importance of improving their stock, obtain at West Point, as their fortunate
the letter will, no doubt, prove interesting: papas have secured for so many years for
“ Columbia, S. C., May 25, 1855. themselves in other branches of the public
*‘lb Col. /. Croom:—Dear Sir: I am an 5- service, while the proportion of punishments
ions to know your success and progress in have> „ u8ua i for twbee n reversed. One
making a herd of Goats. It takes patience . . ... . . ,
and time to make a herd with cur Goat, , thin 8* however this may be, we will stake
though the fourth cross of the Cashmere our existence upon. If finesse and sectional
upon our native Goat is fully as good as the malevolence at West Point manage to keep
pure Cashmere. ou t of the army a just proportion of South-
, , . , . - ern talent and pluck, all the Yankees on
from the facility in multiplying them, its ,
In^mnorohio nu. F™. foKit. earth can’t prevent our seventh, when it
incomparable use for the table and for fab- \
rics, is now speedily to make a greqt revo
lution in the agriculture of the whole South.
Most beautiful cloth is now made by our negro
weavers with our ordinary plantation looms from
the second cross, which you ought to hare.
“I do not believe there is a native Goat in
South Carolina but what is appropriated to the
breeding to Cashmeres, and all imported that
could be. Georgia is, however, going ahead of os,
and Virginia coming pp.
“I hope to see somo of your Goats at the Geor
gia Fair. Let me hear from you.
“In haste, yours most respectfully,
“J. B. DAVIS.”
Breaking Down of a Bridge—The Nash
ville Burner of the 20th inst., says:
does get in, from doing more for the glory
of the oountry than their other six-sevenths.
No doubt our Northern brethren (?) when it
comes to making up their beds, keeping the
broomstick in the same corner, and march
ing to mess without swinging their arms,
are vastly our superiors; but wfcen it comes
fo the rest of the work that soldiers are made
for, we are ready to “ try oonolusions” with
the Times now, as we always have been.
Death ot Jessy Lewars.
Jessy Lewars, who closed the eyes of
ster grappling with wind and tide, and tri-
umphatly forcing its way through the migh
ty billows of the Atlautic, becomes a task
quite sufficient to stagger any ordinary in
tellect, and more than sufficient to exhaust
the faith of the most credulous. If the Le
viathan shall be able to show a full list of
passengers for her first visit to our shores,
it will certainly appear that the people of
this day have more confidence in art and
science than their ancestors whom Fulton
attempted to ‘ humbug” with his “foolish
invention.” But science has achieved so
much since the time of Fulton, that any
want of faith in the success of this great
enterprise would smatter of “ old fogyism
nevertheless, in view of the fact that the
sea has a way of knocking to pieces, some
times, vessels of all sizes, and leaving no
possible way of escape for humanity, a lit
tle hesitation in matters of this kind is par
donable.
The engines of the Leviathan, although
said to be of 2,600 horse power, will in re
ality be capable of being worked up to 10,-
000 horse power. The united strength of
10,000 horses would seem to be power enough
to move a small size globe; and if not such
an one as ours, at least an asteroid. It is
confidently predicted, that, notwithstanding
the great length of this steamer, she will be
enabled to pass through the water at an av
erage speed, in all weathers, of fifteen knots
an hour, and with a smaller power in pro
portion to tonnage than ordinary vessels
now require to make ton knots. The con- \
tract speed of most ocean mail-carrying
steamers is eight knots. A ship of this
huge capacity can carry 12,000 tons of coal I
—quite sufficient, it is stated, for her con-;
sumption on her outward and homeward
voyages. She will be launched unlike any
other ship—broadside on the water, by
means of hydraulic power, and early in the j
next spring is expected to make a trip to the :
United States and back in a fortnight.— !
Baltimore American,
While we regard this denomination of
religionists as a glory to Christendom, we
yet warn them that they will find that in a
religious crusade they must not expect im
punity. The only righteous, the only safe
course is, let every Christian Church set its
face like a flint against the party that sets
itself up as a judge of what is right, and
what is wrong in matters of faith. With
men’s lives and conduct the State may in
terfere, but with their faith never. And in
the language of another, we had as well
take the leap of Niagara, and say we will
stop half way as to begin a war against one
sect, one religious belief, and hope to end at
that. When we put the plummet into the
bitter waters of jealousy and hate, and find
their true gage, we may then determine
the limit of a persecuting spirit, but not till
then.
Something.—On coining into our den last
Saturday afternoon we came suddenly upon
a curious looking thing covered up among
our exchanges, a sort of cross between a
terrapin and a “big bug.” It was a very
young looking Irish potato, however weigh
ing perhaps three quarters of a pound and
with it we found tho subjoined history of
the “esculent tuber” in a fine feminine hand
Eyvo put this tater on your table
Eye Jug hit from behind the stable
Eye hope yule condysend to puff hit
And down yonr tarnal ***** stuff hit.
Workmen have been employed for some Robert Burns in death, died at Dumfries,
weeks in putting new timbers under the 1 Scotland, on the 26th of May last, aged
Wire Suspension Bridge across the Cumber-; eigty years.
land at this city. Yesterday, between 6 j Miss Lewars attended the deqth bed of
and 7 o’ clock, P. M., a six-norse wagon, Mrs. Burns, and the death-bed of the po$t
known as the Gallatin packet, loaded with
groceries, was going across on the bridge,
and when near the centre some of the new
timbers broke, precipitating the wagon and
team, together with a bugy in which a gen
tleman named Hall was riding, and several
hoys, into the river below. About one
hundred feet of the bottom of the bridge
went down with them. The cables arp all
safe and sound. Mr. Hall escaped with a
drenching and but little damage. The boys
and the dnver of the wagon also got out of
the water safe—the driver being the only
one hurt, one of whose legs were broken.—
The wagon, bugy and horses are all a total
loss. There may have been other persons
on the bridge, but if they were apd wept
down, nothing has been heard of them.—
The bridge is a melanoholly looking wreck,
but aan be easily and rapidly repand.
at the same time. She was unremitting in
her attentions to the afflicted family, and
after the death of the poet, two children
remained in the family of Miss Lewars’
brother, under her care, for font teen months.
Miss Lewars became the wife of Alexan
der Thompson, Esq., writer, Dumfries, who
died in 1849. She had five sons and two
daughters, most of whom survive her. She
was a woman of high religious principles,
extreme gentleness of soul and considerable
mental cultivation. She declared always,
that Bums had been grossly maligned in
relation to his habits. He was by no means
the intemperate man that hie enemies said
he was. Jessy Lewars was tall and pos
sessed of graoh personal beauty. She lived
respected and beloved, and leaves behind
bar a name that will always be dear to flko
admirers of Scotland’s poet
[From the New York Mirror.]
More About the Duel.
IVe noticed yesterday the arrest and bail
ment of Mr. Leavenworth, one of the prin
cipals of the late Shakspeare Club duel.—
The arrest was effected, near Niagara Falls,
on a warrant issued by Justice Pcarey, of
this city, on the affidavit of John G. Elder,
praying that Messrs. Breckeuridge and
Leavenworth, ar.d their aids might be dealt
with according to law. Warrants wore is
sued for the arrest of Leavenworth, Dr.
Grimes and Hamilton, and Mr. Pendleton
the second—but not for Breckenridge and
Middleton, as they were known to have fled
to Kentucky. The officers proceeded to
Buffalo, got track of Leavenworth, and fi
nally found him secluded in the woods some
two miles from Niagara Falls. His moth
er, brother and several relatives with him.
Leavenworth and his friends interceded
with the officers that he might be let
alone for the present, as it would he dan-;
gerous to convey him to the city just now. ‘
The officers agreed that one of them should |
remain with Leavenworth, and the othor
return to the city and consult with the Jus
tice. Officer Ross accordingly arrived in
this city on Thursday, with a letter to a
friend of Leavenworth, requesting him to
go bail for any amount the Justice might
require. Justice Pearcy accepted bail to
the amount of §5,000. Ross returned to
Buffalo yesterday with additional informa
tion, and it is expected thqt by this time
Drs. Hamilton and Grimes, who have gone
under assumed names, are now- in the cus
tody of officers.
ThsRew Spanish Secretary of Legation.
It is with pleasure that we are enabled to
announce a foreign diplomatic appointment
that will give satisfaction to the country.—
Buckingham Smith, Esq, it is stated, has
receiveq the appointment of Secretary of
Legation to Spain. This gentleman, who
is well known to us, is every way fitted for
his important post, by his thorough knowl
edge of the Spanish language, his familar-
ity with the Spanish character, his expe
rience and tact as a diplomatist, and for
his extensive and critical knowledge of
Spanish American history.
Mr. Smith is a native of Florida, and
learned the Spanish language in his child
hood. was Secretary of Legation in
Mexico under Mr. Letcher, and for a year
performed the duties of the minister to the
entire satisfaction of his government. The
departure of no foreign diplomatist who ever
lived in Mexico was so much regretted as
that of Mr. Smith, so universal was the re
spect entertained for him,
Among the treasures of the Escurial Mr.
Smith will find enough to gratify his lite
rary tastes, and we have no doubt that in
the field of literary research he will do as
much for the cause of letters as in diplo
matic matters for the great interests of our
country.—Pi ovidence Journal.
The “diamond snuff box” which was sold
at auction in New York qt fifty per cent.
a >ve its appraised value, because it was
d to be a present from Louis Napoleon to
some one this side of the water, must have
been imported by Bamu m.
Rem ar k able Balloon Ascension.—Tu ree
Hundred and Fifty Miles Travelled in
Four Hours.—Wm. D. Banmistle, of Adrian
city, Michigan, ascended, on Friday after
noon, in a ballon from that place, at 10P. in
the morning, and descended, in Clarion
county, Pennsylvania, at 2j in the after- , inforceme nt of 8,000.
hundred and fifty miles, in the extraordina- ' Letters from Berlin of the first state that
ry short time of four hours. This is his j the successes of the allies had made quite
second trip and an experimental one with a j an impression there.
balloon of unusually large size. It is thirty [ A letter received from the French camp
ST. LOUIS.
COTTON ADVANCED ONE QUARTER PENNY
New York, June 20.—The Steamer St.
Louis has arrived at New York, with three
days lator advices from Europe.
Commercial Intelligence.
Liverpool Market.—Cotton has advanced
one-quarter penny. The sales for three
days reach 70,000 bales, including 4,000
bales to speculators. The market closed
steady. Broadstuffs were unchanged but
less firm.
General Intelligence.
The allied squadron in the sea of Azoff
drove the Russians from the town of Gretchi
and destroyed several vessels loaded with
supplies for Sebastopol.
Since entering the sea of Azoff the allies
have destroyed four war steamers and 240
transports.
The French have sprung two mines in
front of Sebastopol, doing considerable dam
age. They also discovered in the ravine a
Russian mine which exploded.
The Vienna Conference has been formal
ly closed.
Gortschakoff says that the allies cannot
cut off Russian communications.
Large Russian reinforcements had ar
rived at Perekoff.
Still Later—Arrival of the Asia.
New York, June 20.
The Asia arrived this morning with Lon
don dates to the 6tli inst.
Cotton was active with a further advance
of id.
Consols 91J.
From a dispatch received from Kersch,
May 1st, it appears that the squadron in the
Sea of Azof had appeared before Giritchel
and landed a body of seamen who drove the
Russians from the place and destroyed all
the depots and vessels loaded with corn and
supplies for the Russian army.
Only one man wounded since the entrance
of the fleet into the Sea of Azof.
Four steamers and 240 vessels, employed
in carrying supplies to the Russian army in
the Crimea, have been destroyed by the Al
lies.
The Conference at Vienna formally closed
at a late sitting.
Gen. Pellissier telegraphs from Crimea,
June 1st: “We are springing two mines in
front of Flagstaff Bastions. Second explo
sion did considerable damage to the enemy
in the ravine in advance of our works. Our
engineers discovered a transverse line of 24
centimeters, thickly placed at equal dis
tances apart, and buried just beneath the
sod, each case containing one-fourteentb kil-
logramme of powder, which would explode
by a simple pressure of the foot. These
have been taken by our engineers.”
A dospatcli from Prince Gortschakoff
dated 29th May, states that the Allies had
occupied Kertsch; but had not pushed as
far as Alland. He reported, inconsequence,
that measures had been takea so that the
Allies would not be able to cut off all com.
munications with the Russian army.
The Port Gazctto, of Frankfort, publishes
a despatch from Odessa to the effect that the
Russians were raising batteries to command
the channel near Gcritehe, which connects
Petro Lake with the Sea of Azof.
Another despatch says Onchokoff arrived,
at Perekop with his division, consisting of
four regiments 3,600 strong.
Gen. Grossenheim also arrived at Pere
kop with four regiments consisting of 960
men each. These give Gortschacoff a re
feet in diameter, contains over one hundred
yards of silk, and is capable of holding nine
teen thousand cubic feet of gas. After his
ascent to the distance of three miles and a
half, the aeronaut struck the eastern current
of air, which, he says, is continually blow
ing in one direction. It carried him south
of the lakes, through Central Ohio. His
intention was not to descend until dark, as
he was above the rain clouds in a clear up
per sky, but the excessive cold to which he
was exposed, brought on the accustomed
drowsy sensation, which prevented him from
properly managing the balloon. He was in
that sleepy state when his “craft” anchor
ed in a tree in Red Bank, having descended
in consequence of the evaporation of the gas.
The cold was so severe that his feet were
completely frozen.
Pigeon Shooting.
Tho match between Mr. King aud Mr.
Jenings came off yesterday afternoon, op
posite Mr. Savage’s farm, in presence of a
largo number of amateurs ana other spec
tators. The weather was well suited for
tho sport, the air being still, and the sky
overcast with clouds, affording a steady, uni
form light.
The parties first shot at double birds, ten
pair for each, and resulted as follows:
Jennings killed 14, King 13.
They then took ten single shots each, with
the following result:
Jennings killed 4, King 5.
The final result was therefore a tie. each
having killed 18 pigeons.
Besides the birds killed above, several
were wounded, but fell outside of the ring
—beyond one hundred yards from the trap.
This makes the third match between
these gentlemen, and the victory is yet un
decided. At the first meeting Mr. King
was the victor, at the second Mr. Jennings
was triumphant. The result of the third
is given above.
This is certainly provocative of a fourth
meeting between these crack shots. This
contest has excited a great deal of interest
among lovers of field sports.
They -ay Gavazzi is coming over here
next fall to lecture in the principal cities
and towns of the Uniou in aid of the Know
Nothings. The State Register says that in
his journey through the Union Gavazzi will
be accompanied by an old and distinguishsd
member of the Aiqerioan Party, whose name
has already occupied an honorablo place in
the literary world.’ This probably means
Mr. C. Edwards Leicester, otherwise known
as Helen Dhu.
at Sebastopol, dated May 22, states that the
allies were upon the eve of great events.—
Arrangements had been made for a council
of war, at which Gen’ls Canrobert and Pel
lissier, Lord Raglan, Bosquet, Omar Pacha
and Brown, aud Admirals Burat, and Ly
ons, will be present. All the reinforce
ments had come up, making the French ar
my 200,000 strong.
The crops in Great Britain arc very prom
ising.
On the 23d May there were 190 cases of
cholera in St. Petersburg.
Brown, Shiploy & Co., say that the Asia’s ad
vices increased tho excitement in tho cotton mar
ket Prices advanced id—Middling Orleans 6 15
16.
Uichurdsou, Spoucc & Co. roport fair business
sinco Monday. Spanishand Baltic wheat advanced
2a3d. Americah only 5,000 bushels Bold—held at
13. without buyers. Flour inactive. Corn in
light demand—stock limited, yellow and mixed
highor. White Is 5d. Baltimore and Philadel
phia tlous 42a45s. Yellow coin 51s 6da52s, White
52a54. Provisions unchanged, and prices are firm.
Bacon firmor. Holders ask 51a52s. Lard firmer.
Funds showed an unchanging buoyancy, and on
the 1th a further advance of i-
The Millennium of Steam.—A corres
pondent of tho Philadelphia Inquirer de
scribes the Sibbald boiler, a new invention,
in terms which would indicate the millen
nium of steam. He says:
It can be put into one-sixth of the cylin
drical boiler, and being so much condensed,
will cost about one-half the price. Every
part is accessible to be cleansed, so that it
may be braced and stayed to bear any pres
sure desired, or if any repairs are necessa
ry, they can be made very readily. Its ex
traordinary heating surface and the arrange
ment of the fire chamber to produce the re
quired effect, as well as the reverberating
draught, could be only brought about by
intense thought and research, with a deter
mination of will not to be driven from its
purpose. The saving of coal in a few weeks
will pay for new boilers. A new era is
here presented to the world. Steamboats
may now go to India direct^ and traverse
the ocean with one third of the coal now
consumed.
Fall of the Suspension Bridge at Nash
ville.—We learn from a passenger on the
Railroad that the Suspension Bridge over
the Cumberland river, at Nashville, gave
wqy an the 16th instant, causing the death
of one negro man and the serious injury of
a white man, who happened to be upon the
structure at the time of the aeeident. One
or more wagons and teams were also de
stroyed by the fall.—Columbus Enquirer.
The Great Thrsugh Mall.
We find the following paragraph in the
Savannah Republican of Saturday eve
ning:
“We learn with pleasure that the contract
for transporting the great Northern Mail
through Georgia has been awarded to the
Waynesboro, Central, Southwestern and
Muscogee Railroads. That is, on the arri
val of the mail at Augusta, it will he sent
over the Waynesboro’ and Central Roads to
Maoon and thence to Columbus by the
Southwestern and Muscogee Roads, and on
to Montgomery. The route heretofore has
been from Augusta to Atlanta, and thence
to We6t Point, Montgomery, &c. The great
mail from the Southwest will enter the
State at Columbus and leave U at Augusta,’