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ATHENS POST.
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ATHENS, I IIIIHV,(W T. ft, 1833.
Circuii Couit 1'nlk county will meet
t Bentoa on the 2d Monday of October, tlie
8th. j
Ltoirti.ATi BK. W are indebted to the Nash
Till Whig of the 2d, for the following infor
mation in relation to the organization of the
two houses of the Legislature :
The Senate met at 1 1 o'clock, and organized
by the election of Col. K. 8. Cheatham, of
Robertson, Speaker, II. K. Walker, of this
city, Firjt Clerk, Win. A. St e (fey, of Fayette,
Second Clerk, and Urien W. G. O'Brien, of
Curter, Door Keeper. The organization being
complete, the fact was announced to the
House, and the Senate adjourned. "
The House of Representatives met at 11
o'clock, and after prayer by Rev. Mr. Knins,
the Oath of Office was administered by I Jim.
Judge Tifrner, Credentials presented, and the
House adjourned tint il 2 1:. M.
In the House, in the evening, eight bnllot
ingi were had for Spenker, without making
an election Hon. Neill S. Brown receiving
36, and Daniel S. Donelson, of Sumner, 85,
with two scattering votes cast by Messrs.
Brown and Donelson.
To Shifters. Attention is directed to
the notice to shippers, Bast Tennessee mid
Georgia Ituilrond,next page.
SntJ DinKr-Tons. The Governor lias ap
pointed the following named gentlemen Di
rectors, on the part of the State, in the East
Tennessee and Georgia Rni! Roud Company:
J. G. M. Ramsey, Knox county.
John Jarnagin, Anderson "
Jna. A. Collin, Henry Stephens, Monroe.
H. M. Edwards, Bradley.
Simeon 1). Reynolds, Rnnne.
Jas. 11. Reagan, G. V. Bridges, Thoinns
Rodgers, Mc.Minn.
Revival. The Methodist Camp Meeting
that convened at Cane, Creek Camp Ground,
McMinn county, on tlie 20tli September, con
tinued until the 1st day of October. We
understand one hundred and forty-six white
persons joined the Church and seven teen
black. Others professed religion who did
not nttach themselves to the Church at the
time.
Attention, Kkgimknt. Wu are request,
cd to state that 11. B. Yearwood, Col. Coin
liinndaut 27th Regiment Tennessee Militia,
nfid the whole Field of Oflioers of the Regi
ment, have resigned their positions respective-
iy
Georgia Election. As yet we have but
littlo intelligence from the Georgia elections.
As far as heard from tho returns show favor
ably to tho American ticket. The vote of
Atlanta is ns follows;
Andrews, American, 679
Johnson, Sap; Nieht, 346
Overby, Prohibitionist, 253
The Atlanta Intelligencer, democratic, talks
rather desponding!)'; our own opinion U, that
Johnson is elected.
The News. The news brought sinmlta.
neously by the European steamers the
Washington and the America is of the high
est Importance nnd interest. After an Iliad
of misfortunes nnd Bufferings tho part of
its assailants, Troy has at length fallen. Of
oeuastopol all that now probably remains is
ii pile of smoking ruins. It will leave, how
ever, the memory of a defence unsurpassed in
heroism and devotedness.
The bombardment, which recommenced on
the 5th, Was continued till the 8lh, when the
final assault was made. Before night the
French were in possession of the Malakoff
tower, mid within n few hours more the whole
of the south side of the town was abandoned
by tho Russians, after sinking their vessels of
war, blowing up their magazines, nnd setting
lire to everywhere. To this result the Eng
lish contributed but little, ns they were re
pulsed In their cffoita to keep possession of
the Redan tower. The slaughter on nil sides
was immense; tho French lost 10,000 men,
the English 2,000, and the Russians probably
ns many more.
The nows was of course received both in
Franco and England with an intensity of joy
ful excitement, which sought immediate means
of expression, l'uhiic demonstrations were
every where organized on thu instant, nnd in
London consols went up to 91 . They de
clined again, however, to 9Ut, on tho receipt
of the intelligence that another attempt had
been made on the life of tlie Emperor of the
French.
We have been Informed aoinn half
dozen times since the late election, tnai there
is a democratic friend of ours in Monroe coun
ty, taking special pains to electioneer against
this p-iper, telling democrats who have been
reading it that they must stop it, nnd sub
scribe for journals of their own party bias.
Now wo are the very last mar. in the world
to complain at a withdrawal of subsciiptions
on tho part of any one, nnd there is nothing
could happen to us to induce us to whine for
sympathy and support. When we have been
trading with one merchant for ft while, and
think wo can be better suited at nnnther es
tablishment, it is our right to quit the first
and purchase from tho last. But we should
think we were engaged in n very Biuall busi
nesa if wo were to go about to others say.
ing: "you must quit buying from that demo
crat, quit trading with him or listening tj
him, or he will impose upon you nnd lend
you astray; but you must trade with whig
merchants nnd nono others, lest you become
contaminated." We would as soon be caught
lifting the lust Shanghai from our neighbor's
hen-roost, ns In such n business. And we
put it to our zealous democratic friend, whe
ther Oi'.'O of ! years and experience might
not bo mucft more creditably employed than
in travelling oil :f ms w".v tH interfere with
tho business of a pnjr unaided and
alone, has been battling, ft-.' "i'' toilsome
years, through adversities nnd uS''cultics, for
interests nnd enterprises that have bil'l'u'it n
degree of prosperity upon the people of tliS
ec lion, never enjoyed before. Such a course
is too low for any 'thing claiming to the dig
idly of manhood.
ff" The lattices from Nashville by
Thursday's mail, tatc that no election for
Sponkcr of the House had yet been made.
PARTV NAMES.
Some of our democratic friends have com
plained to us that they are occasionally de
signated as "ani-Aniericans," and think it is
illiberal, unjust, ami wrong to so style them,
nnd that they are just as good Americans as
those who claim to be the "American party."
We haTe no doubt the term, or name, sounds
a little harsh, unpleasant and disagreeable,
but we cannot see how, under existing cir
cumstances, our sensitive opponents are to be
relieved. There is in the country a great na
tional party, imbued with sentiments purely
and intensely patriotic, who see, or think
they see, danger to our institutions from the
immense waves of immigration continually
breaking upon ns nnd from tho tremendous
growth of "foreign influence," brought to'
bear upon tho civil and political affairs of the
nation through the ballot-box by the loose
ness and inefficiency of the naturalization
laws ns at present existing nnd administered.
This party, actuated by the same identical
principles that inspired the revolutionary fa
thers and enabled them to achieve n heritage
for their children more glorious and fraught
with richer blessings than nny ever wrought
nut through human instrumentalities this
party, warring against and trying to root out
tho foreign weeds which tlio corruptions of
later years have sown in our soil, to pluck up
nnd cast away the dangerous element of for
eign birth which is mingling itself in all our
affairs, not assimilating with the institutions
of tlie country, hut aiming eventually to dis
place them nnd build up others of antagonis
tic character this party, born of patriotism
and nourished and sustained by loveof coun
try, the memories of tho past and the hopes
of the future, and battling against evils -r
suoli fearful import, calls itself nnd t' in sen
timent, motive and doed, "'fho American
Party." Ou tho other hand, there is nnolher
party the country calling Itself "Demo
cratic," which is at war with the "American
Tarty," fighting against the American senti
ment, nnd pandering to foreign or anti-American
influence, that power and thrift may fol
low that takes the immigrant, fresh from
tho rotten nnd recking despotisms of Europe,
with all his prejudices nnd imperfections
about him, by thu arm the moment his foot
touches our soil and extends to him in full
a privilege of which he knows nothing, nnd
which it denies to the native-born short of
n probation of twehty-onc years. This party,
thus acting, is the antagonism 0f the other,
its opposite in action -iid tendencies, if not
in sentiment, and therefore anti. The one
claims U bo '''American," plants itself upon
sound Manciples, and avows its dctermina-
tiort to effect certain patriotic purposes. The
other makes war upon this, nnd nvows its
determination to put down and crush out
the doctrines nnd principles the first ad
v(ca'.cs. They ate antagonistic, and if thu
first is American, that which wars against it
is necessarily ni:d inevitably anti American;
and if those who compose the first are enti.
lied to bo designated ns "Americans," or
members of tho American Party, as they un
doubtedly are so entitled, we can see no
great impropriety or injustice in calling their
opponents iinti-Americnns. This is the result
of their position upon tlie great issue whe
ther Americanism shall prevail in America,
or whether we shall continue to depart more
and more from tlie guides and landmarks
laid down by the fathers of the country, un
til every thing American is lost sight of in
the lust for spoils that characterizes the pres
ent party in power, and which lends it to seek
assistance from a source every day becoming
more potent for evil.
If our democratic friends who complain at
being styled ant-Ainericans, would ponder
the subject a little we are confident they
would soon see the matter in the same light
that we do that the fault is not with
the Americans, but grows out of their own
position of opposition, nnd that there is no
escape from it so long ns they remain in bad
company. We know that the masses of na
tive citizens who oppose the American move
mentnro honest and patriotic, and if a for
eign soldiery were to land upon our shores
that they would bo nmong the first to rallv
to repel them; yet they are members of and
act with a party that welcomes yearly nn in
vasion of fivehundred thousand toourshores
nn clement more dangerous to our institn.
tions than nil' the soldiery of Europe. De
ceived by corrupt leaders nnd presses nnd led
nstray by falso lights, tho ignis-fatiius of
party, the deceiving vapors engendered by
rottenness nnd corruption thoy either can.
not or will not seetlio inconsistency of their
position, but keep right nn, a'ding the evil,
unconsciously it may bo, and fighting off the
corrective sought to be applied. Whilu tiiey
remain in that position they ought not to ob
jV"t to 'heir appropriate classification in the
catalogue pf nu'y names. They uro desig
nated""anti.Amer!cn:'" bcusc they nre giv.
ing support to nn anti-Aineru jn sediment
just ns those who oppose tho ndmissic'n .of
any more slave territory into the Union nre
called Abolitionists because they give aid and
comfort to thu fanatics who aim nt the de
struction of tho institution where it already
exists.
t-tf Wo learn from the Joncsbnrough
Journal that the track laying on the East Ten
nessee nnd Virginia Railroad is nearly com
pleted to Strawberry Plains, 16 miles above
Knoxville, and that a passenger train will
commence running to that point in a few
days. Also, that Nathan Gammon has been
nppointed depot agent nt Knoxville, and our
clever friend, Jo. Sevier, Conductor. We nre
gratified at tho approach of the time when
our upper East Tennessee friends nre to en
joy the immense advantages of rail road com
municntion. ANOTiiEn One. J. McCorkle, Esq., has
been removed from the post office at Decatur,
Meigs county, and Y'm. C. Witt, Esq., np
pointed in his place. The Post Master Gen
oral is striking sonio "big licks." Friend
Boyd, hero at Athens, had best keep nn eye
to windward, as (here is no tilling what the
Administration will do In its dying1 frenzy
To our knowledge il has removed two
Whigs within the last three weeks, nnd up
pointVd Know Nothings In tholr places. As
there are no more) Whigs left In office, to
keep the machine-- "in?. Demoernttu heads
must commence tumlilii.'T next.
Hrf-Tho Ilncon market Is m.'yancing nt the
South. See Commercial letter nf .' PnCe.
THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.
from tlie N'ew York Ueraid.j
At last, it seems, French valor and British
courago have prevailed over Russian endu
rance, nnd Sebasinpol, after a siege of eleven
mouths, has fallen into the hands of the en
emy. There can be no Tartar id the case
this time. On the 9th and IOlli September
the telegraph wires were constantly charged
w ith messages of victory, nnd multiplied des
patches from the military and naval leaders
on both sides leave not the smallest room for
incredulity. It appears that on the 6th tho
expected bombardment commenced on a scale
of unprecedented magnitude. After three
days' incessant fire, the assault was made on
the 8th the French directing their efforts us
before against tho Malakoff, the English aim
ing at the Redan. From the brief dispatches
which have been received, we gather that the
French were repulsed six times, and suffered
a loss which" has been estimated nt 15,000
men: they succeeded in the end, however, in
establishing themsehes in tho Malakoff on
the night of the 8th. Meanwhile the Eng.
lish had fared differently on their left. The
Redan was carried n ith comparative ease.
But, after planting their flag on its walls, the
British were attacked by n force of Russians
with such impetuosity that they were forced
to vacate the work. When tho French took
the Malakoff, nnd maintained themselves
there, tho other fortifications of the Karabel-.
naia suburb became untenable. Accrdiii'dy,
during the nights of V.,e 8--3th, and on "the
morning of tl-e 10th Prince Gortsehnkoff
blew u? all Co public buildings and the
ships, set i",re to every house that w ould burn,
and '.roused over, as he savn, with a very
small loss to the north side. The allied
troops though occupying the line of defences
fiom Careening bay to the Redan had not
ventured, it seems, to enter the suburb when
the last accounts left; ns the wholo city was
ruined, nnd every building was cither in
Humes or in ashes.
It is too soon yet to say, ris some of the
allied journals have dor.e, that tho Sebasto
pol drama is played out. Wo have yet to
learn how the Russians will avail themselves
of their posuion on the north siJe. It will
be remembered that for somo time we have
he' rd of preparations being made for a retreat
of tho Russian army to the Star fort, showing
that Gortsehnkoff wns not blind to the possi
bility of the capture of Knrabelnnia, nnd in
dicating that in tho opinion of the Russian
chiefs its fall would not involve tlie ruin ot
the nrmy. It is possible that the north fort
may yet for some time defy the victorious
Allies.
But the the warmest friend of tlie Russian
cause cannot deny to the Allies, nnd espcci
ally to the French to such men ns Bosquet
and their comrades a tribute of applause for
tho achievement we this day record. Eleven
months have they been encamped on those
heights suffering every ill that can afflict
humanity, disease, cold, privation and dis
couragement, besides tho ordinary contingen
cies of tlie battlefield; the whole world has
derided their efforts, and cheered on the gal
lant Todleben nnd the men who fought for
their homes and their native soil; natives ns
well ns foreigners have urged tho abandon
ment of the enterprise, nnd attributed its
commencement to overweening vanity nnd
ignorance on the part of the nllied chiefs;
general after general has given it up in ties
pair, and gono away to die or been recalled;
over a hundred thousand good men, English
and French, have laid their heads under tho
Crimean sod; yet, in spite of nil, Napoleon
nnd his Allies hnve persevered, and the eon
sequence is that Sebnstopol exists no more.
In a historical point of view tlie event has no
parallel. There have been sieges where the
valor of the besieged has availed to defend
tho place for a longer period of time but
there never was one at which so human ob
stinacy, or so much scientific skill were dis
played; nor, on the other hand, wns there ev
er nn insianco of so many human lives being
sacrificed in war within so small n compass
of ground. As long as this world lasts, Se
bnstopol or the site w here it stood will bo
classic ground.
So far as tho war is concerned it mnst not
be supposed that tho fall of Sebastopol im
plies the submission of Russia and the estab
lishment of pence. So long ns Cronstadtdefies
tho strongest fleet the nllies can equip, Rus
sin", it may confidently be asserted, will hold
out, Tlie fall of Sebastopol does not even
decide tho fate of tlie Crimen. It has dealt a
fatal blow at Russian prestige; it has destroy
ed Russian supremacy in the Black Sea; it
has cost the Czar more money than ten
years of peace can make up; but it dues not
reduce the Empire to that humiliating posi
tion in w hich, as Gortsehnkoff said at Vienna,
it would be bound to accept the terms dicta
ted by tho Allies.
Murder. A man by the name of Finley
Schick, lately from Pennsylvania, was killed
by ono Thomas Johnson, nt Sylco, Polk
Cuunty, "0 Saturday last, tho 29th tilt. Wo
understand dff''ulty had occurred between
two other persons, K?d that .Mr. Schick Inter
fered for the purpose of separating them,
when Johnson struck him on tho head with
a brick-bat, breaking tho skull and causing
death in threo or four hours. Johnson made
his escape, nnd is still at large. A notice,
describing the murderer, and offering a reward
of one hundred nnd fifty dollars for bis ap
prehension, will be found in our advertising
columns.
New Goods. Our merchants nre receiv
ing nnd opening their supplies of Fall and
Winter Goods. So far ns we have noticed,
the stocks appear to be large nnd well as
sorted. Wheat One dollar per bushel; Bacon,
largo sides, and hams 12 cents por lb. But
little offering.
Foiit Gainkb Lottery. Attention is di
rected to the brilliant scheme of this Lottery,
to be drawn on tho 24th October. Prize to
every tenth ticket. In regard to the lust draw
ing, we find the following item in the Atlan
ta Republican:
"Mr. M. A. Cooke, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
ttiO successful competitor in stock at the lute
Fair in this city, was the holder of tho w hole
ticket which ilrew the pretty little sum of
$15,000 in the above Lottery 'on Monday
last."
New Orleans, Sept. 2(3. There were
40 deaths in Vicksburg last week, and 20
deaths in Canton.
A FALSE l'KKDICTIOX.
Tlie New Orleans Crescent has the follow
ing beautiful apostrophe to the American
party and its banner:
A Kai.se I'r.KnicTios. "The time is nt hand
when the to caltd American banner shnll be
trampled deep in the mire of ignominious de
feut und disgrace when there shall be none
so poor as to do it reverence."
We came across the foregoing sentence in
the columns of an exchange paper, some days
ago, ond cut it out with a view to its publica
tion. We now cany out that view, and call
the attention of the puolio to tlie atrocious
sentiment it contains. We have never known
nny thing of the kirn to excel it, in bold, rankt
unmitigated depravity.
But, to adopt the only construction the best
friend of t!.e writer could desire for him, and
there is no loophole for escape. Ho has ef
fectually imprisoned himself. The "banner"'
alluded to, can be none other than that used
by the present American party, and they use
but one, and one onlv the Star Sjiaurled
I) nn tier of their native land. Jo other flag
floats from their innMhead. Xo other symbol
wooes the breezes of heaven over their plnecs
of meeting. No other e.nblem and none
other is needed graces their council hnll.
Tlie star-gemmed signal of fiecdbio's r-"ut
and sovereignty is nil nm'. nil -,'ltn then"
And well may it. be, for eUcl standard ever
glittcrc! i.ithe.en.ilight since the morning
Mars f lSt 8!U,g together for joy over a new
oorn world.
But this writer nnd we arc sorry to say
there nre ninny like him for Wretched, parti
san purposes, when not a single principle is
involved, so far as their side is concerned
bonslingly nnd nrrngaiitty predicts that i7i
a banner "shall be trampled deep in the mire
of ignominious disgrace nnd defeat 1" Un
thiuking, rash and unpatriotic men ! Tram
ple that ting in the inire deep in the mire
of disgrace! May the spirit of patriotism
forgive them, for they know not what thev
say or do. Before that banner is torn from
its lofty heiglit nnd trailed iu the mire of dis
grace "Full nuny a pennson uliall lie torn.
And nut;)' h kuiplit to turlli be burue,
And many u baiiuer rent."
II u ml reds of thousands of gallant hearts
throb und bound nt the thought of it .It in
spires proud and glowing recollections. Hun
dreds of Ihousnuds of strong nrms nre ready
to protect it to the death; and hundreds of
thousands o eyes are watching it with nn ni
teneity and eagerness not surpassed by that
of the poet Key, when, from his foreign prison
ship, with (training eyeballs he sought to
penetrate tbe gloom of the morning to dis
cover if the flag of his country still waved
majestically from the ramparts of a beleaguer
ed fortress, or whether it had gone down be
fore the fearful bombardment of the night
previous. To the young patriot, seconds
seemed minutes, and minutes days, nnd hours
weeks as with beating heart nnd almost
maddened hruin lie w atched the dappling of
the gray tints of the Kasteru sky iuto day,
and awaited thu beams of the morning sun to
clear away the mists of the waters that ob
structed his vision in the direction of the ob
ject ii. on which his whole soul was centered.
At last, last but, oh, how loug it seemed to
him ! his wish was gratified. His own glow
ing lines best describe his feelings:
"On the shore dimly seen through tlie luiHts on tlie deep,
Wliere tlie foe's Imtiirlity lioat In dread silence repois,
What is that which the bretre o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, linlf dicclouc f
Now, Iteatcbwn the gleam of the morning's llrst beam
In full frlory reflected now ihinr s on the stream,
Tia the s tar-spanpled banner! oh,lonil niay It wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
That is the self enme, identical flng the
American party is now fiiihtine for and under;
and as Great Britain, aided by many thou
sands of foreign mercenaries, failed in the
first and second at tempt to trail it in the mire
of disgrace, we imagine little need be appre
hended from the auti-Anicricnns of the pres
ent era. .
Hogs. Contracts have been made, says
the Louisville Journal; for November and
December delivery nt $4.25 gross, but holders
nre now nskiity 4 50. The Cincinnati Ga.
zelte thinks that the opening rates will reach
$7.00 per 100 net. Packers nre not willing
to make contracts at this figure, and there
are no sellers nt very much lower rates, con
sequently very littluis being done for future
delivery.
The Sound Dues. The controversy noiv
pending between the United States nnd Den
mark relative to the Sound Dues, gives inter
est to the following paragraphs, cut from
the columns of a contemporary journal:
"The 'Sound' is n narrow strait lying be
tween the Island of Zethland, hcloiigiiiu to
the Danes, and the Swedish const, and gives
entrance to the Baltic sen. The fortress of
Cronluirg Castle commands the passage, nnd
extracts n payment from nil vessels enter
ing the Baltic; tho ships of Denmark herself
having to pay as well ns foreign tonnago.
The origin of this exaction is that in certain
litrht-houses along tho const, for which tlie
Hansetowns agreed to pay toll.
'England, France Holland, nnd Sweden
pay a duty of one) per cent, on every cargo
entering the Baltic. Olhe countries, inclu
ding the United States, pay one and a quar
ter por cent, even Danish ships nre taxed to
this rate. In the year 1826 n treaty, recog
nising this duly was concluded between the
United States and Denmark. This treaty,
however, according to ono of its stipulations,
may bo dissolved by either of the parties,
provided it gives one year's notice of its in
tention; ami, the requisite notice h iving been
given by the United States Government in
April last, tho treaty will terminate next
spring."
KKunr) Hcnu. We find the following ac
count of the banging of the negro who mur
dered Mrs. Loyal a few weeks since, in the
Sparta Times, of the 20th ult.:
The slave t lint bad been in jail in Sparta
some weeks for having outraged nnd murder
ed Mrs. Loynl wns taken from jail by a large
crowd of persons on Tuesday niirht Insl mid
hung. It is estininted thnt about three hun
dred persons weie in the crowd. It seems
that the populace became excited upon learn
ing that the triul wis continued, and determ
ined upon a suininnry execution, which they
carried ot.t in the most cool and deliberate
manner. There seems to have grown up some
excitement against Judge Goodall for grant
ing a continuance of the case; but we lire of
opinion that reasonable men will admit that
the Judge had the Judicial duty to perform,
without consulting his own feelings or thnt
of the populace. There is no excitement
about the matter, and we feel no disposition
to create any.
Ladies' Dresses. Tho editor of 'the
Franklin (Ky.) Yeoman thus mines to the
defence of the ladies, whose dresses nre ac
cused of being too low in the neck. The
scamp says:
We nre bosom friends for tho ladies; we
have enlisted under their banner, nnd nre
ready to die iu defence of their breastworks.
Nobody but a milk sop or n sucker would
be ahvnvs making disparaging remarks about
the ladies' dresses. That it tho naked
truth.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDA TES.
The well informed Washington correspond
ent of the New York Express, indulges in
the following -Prcsi.letial Speculations" in a
late letter to his paper:
It really would be curious if the
world could be made acquainted, with all
those who really aspire for the next nomina
tion, and their views, ideas, intentions and
intrigues, in order to oht on it. Still more
curious and amusing would it be to know all
those who me looking forward with hope
and expectation to the coveted prize, in In
ture ye: rs. I could name eertaii'U one-hall"
of the Senate, who lire known to be aspirants,
nnd probably there arc not two members of
th it body w ho are not openly or secretly nn
ticipalinu' with strong hopes' their ow n suc
cess, and studying the proper course nnd
means to attain it. That a large majority of
the Lower House have similar aspirations,
there is no doubt some hoping for it nt
shorter, and the younger portion at longer
periods in the future.
As regards those whose names have long
been before the peop'e, there is scarcely one
of them that is not lull of hope. Gov. Mar.-y
is fully determined to be in the field, if possi
ble in 1856, so is Gen. Ces, and so is Mr.
Buclianan.eacl; .nH f n,,.,,,, t:iu. jt r
TUnlcd, ;.ro convinced it is their last chance,
tl.ough there is n strange iulatiialioo w ilh
many, nnd indeed w ith almost every man, as
regards himself. Yuiing s;iys:
"All men think all men mortal but thinclves."
Dean Swift tells of an Irish nobleman who
left London nt the age of eighty lour intend
ing to live in retirement for a lew years on
his estates in Ireland, fii order to nurse bis
fortune, with n view to return mid enjoy
again the expensive gallics and dissipation of
the Capital!! The "thiee score years and ten"
which have frosted tlie heads of all tlie above
three statesmen, do not seem to be received
by either as an intimation that it is time to
think of the calm and private lil'ivim! no long
er to struggle for n position, which if either
were now to obtain, would bring the success
ful one nearer to eighty than seventy years
before his term in a laborious und anxious
office would expire.
Buchanan is writint; deprecatorv letters to
bis friends on the subject of the Presidential
canvass, apparently to dissuade them from
attempting to "buckle honor on bis back,"
but they very resolutely refuse to bo govern
ed by bis earnest entreaties on the subject,
nnd persist in their intentions to push him
forward.
Dallas, of Pennsylvania, is also to be in the
field, with J' ff. Davis ns Vice. A prominent
politician of Louisiana has taken charge of his
interests in that section, and has already
bought vj, or bought nut, several presses
there to support the cause, nnd of w hich you
will ere long see the indications.
Hunter's friends in Virginia nre determined
to push hit pretensions to the utmost, nnd
for my ow n part, among nil the Democratic
candidates, I like Hunter quite as wellasany
of lliem, and should like linn still betterwere
he from any other State than Virginia. But
it is a serious objection to all Virginia politi
cians, that they nroso clannish so Virginia
ish. With in it of them, ns President, it
would be "the United Slates of Virginia."
Mr. Hunter is also rather tainted with too
much of the "State's Rights" heresy; but in
the White House I think he would mend of
that.
But nmong the richest of the rich jokes of
the season, is, that Henry A. Wise is pultine;
forward his pretensions for the noiiiinatioii!!!
Oh Lordy! Oh Lordy! that is certainly hard to
heat. Georgo Law and Sam Houston, after
that, may venture boldly to avow their inten
tions and pretensions.
You will probably be surprised to learn
thnt President Pierce bus great confidence
of being ro-noniinaled. Now the preten
tions of Wise are supremely presumptuous',
but Mr. Pierce's expectations are a perfect
infatuation.
In the first place there is, and always will
he, too many influential aspirants near tlie
succession (at least iu I heir own opinion) ev
er to allow any man to be elected to two suc
cessive terms, an event which none of us nre
ever again destined to see. But besides this,
Mr. Pierce has no party, nnd he is, so coin
pletely out w ith his own party nnd friends,
or at least w hat were his friends nnd party,
that in, a Democratic Convention he probably
could not obtain tho vote of a single State,
and though, if such an improbable event ns
his nomination could be obtained, he would
probablv, by a party vote, obtain some few
States, ) do not believe that if tho election
caino off to-morrow, he could obtain the
unbiassed voteof a single Slate in the Union.
Seward nnd Dickinson, from vnur State.of
course, intend to be in the field, if they can
possibly do so by any moans or influence nt
tiieir corjimand.
Sam Houston, of course, has, or haj the
strongest kind of hopes, but he has recentlv,
in consequence of some public speech of his,
in Texas, had a dreadful onslaught made up
on him over the signatures of several of the
leading men of Texas, accusing him in the
broadest terms of rank cowardice nt the bat
tie of San Jacinto. Such a charge, so sus
tained, would tell w ith terrible effect ill a
Presidential canvass, nnd would make any
party very clinrry how they took up it man
ngitinst w hom it could be brought.
Hale, I suppose, has his hopes also, bill
the ultra abolitionist of tho Union, with all
their noise and raving, are fortunately pow
erless, ns a distinct party.
Bell, of Tennessee nnd Crittenden, of
Kentucky, on the Whig side of tlie contest,
nre both prominent aspirants. Mr. Fillmore,
now in Europe, out of tho vortex of politics,
I believe is himself sincerely desirous of re
maining in private life. His truly severe do
mestic afflictions have been hard to bear, nnd
indisposes him lor the bustle of such n po
sition. But there is n very general and
strong desire to bring him forward, and if ho
w ill consent, the effort to nominate and elect
him will, in all probability, be made, and with
a very high probability of success,
Let us look calmly around and scan the
strength nnd the prospects of till the candi
dates named above, and others of the small
er fry that may occur to our minds, nnd the
conclusion I think is inevitable thnt Mr. Fill
more's chanct s nre better than that of nny
other man North of Mason nnd Dixon's line,
that can be named; and he is piohably the
only man North of that lino that can bo elec
ted. He is strong, very struug.at the South,
which cannot be said of any other probable
candidate, from the North, and ho could get
ns strong a vote as anv other Northern man
in tho Free States. Under present circum
stances, nnd the state of sectional feeling
North and South, I doubt if any other North
ern man can be elected by the Electoral Col
leges. I do not say be can be, but I think if
he is not the man, it will be a Southern niiti
Nebraska man. If the American party should
tako up Mr. Fillmore, I should consider his
election ns Very sure, for he would have an
immense support outside of that party, par
ticularly at the South w here the greatest con
fidence is felt in him that he would do what
was right and just, and firmly maintain thu
rights of tho South an well as of tho North.
My own opinion, however, is that tho next
election will more probably go into the
House, ns there certainly will bo not less
than three, and probably more, candidates
run, each of whom w ill get one or more ultra
Stales North, or South, and sufficient to pre
vent a choice by the Colleges.
Rittf.nhov.se Academy. Tho Winter
Session will commence on Monday, tho Oti
day of November. Under the management
ol Mr. Aldehoff the institution has attained
a high character nnd a degree of popularity
enjoyed by but few iu the country.
KIUHT IX SEBUAHCA TKKKITuBY.
'Ve find a long account of a fight at Fort
Calhoun, Nebraska territory, in the throno
tpye, published nt tLe city of Council Bluffs,
a portion of which we give below. Mr. (ioss,
who Is mentioned as I'cMig killed, was formerly
a citizen of this (McMinn) county, nn l has
many friends and relatives living here who
will le pained to lenru of his untimely and
bloody end:
It seems, from the account, that company
had laid out h town plot, nnd erected a log
house on the eite of the old fort, some twenty
miles nliove I innihii, in the Territory, and had
been nt considerable expense to secure the
claim and render it vnlunble. Mr. John
(oss, one of ihe company, and the son of the
one w ho had first made selection of the claim,
bad occupied the house for some time, making
improvements, and expending both labor and
means to secure a comfortable brmie. During
his absence, on a visit to his parents, or ou
business to this side be having left his furni
ture and other property nt the claim a mnu
named I'has. I). Dnvia moved into the house,
and took unjustifiable possession of it and
goods belonging to floss and the company.
Davis was oideicd to leave the premises, but
he refused to do so, nnd informed the Cimpn
n v that when they proved their legal right
to the claim, he would quit it, but not until
then. Previous to bis jumping the claim, Mr.
'.. II. Clnrk had been engaged in erecting a
hotel on the town plot, nnd thereafter Davis
entered a suit of lie-pass against him, mid ac
tually got judgment of one hundred dollars
damages by partial proceedings before t'ie
pettv court" at DcSoto. This ttfi'uir enraged
the fjilhoun company, and trusting no furlhcr
to tlio law, l'.ivis was warned to quit, the
premises before n set lime or he would be
thrust out of the house. Davis was undoubt
edly an nggrersor, but he fell confident, his
party wns the strongest, and that the judg
ment rendered him was a feasible plea, nnd
be wns determined nut to give up possession.
On Wednesday lust, (iyth ult.,) a party ot
mcH. numbering some twenty, and nearly nil
holding interest nt Calhoun, left this place
and Omaha, for the avowed purpose of re
moving Davis, ns others have liefore been re
moved from claims illegally "jumped." A
portion of thciii were armed, and a few who
had apprehended no very serious difficulty
were entirely without weapons. Davis, up
prised of their coining, had prepared fur them,
and upon their arrival they found a party of
about their own number ready to meet lliem
armed and prepared for hostilities. The sup
potters of Davis were mostly from Desoto, u
town some ten miles above Calhoun, and of
well-known jealousy. It bus been stated that
the Deiioto company urged him ju the first
place to seize upon the Ciilhoiin claim, and
assured him of their assistance iu holding it.
One of the party from this place, A. Coch
ran, who was unarmed, wns appoint ed to in
form Davis to tlie effect- I lint thev wished no
violence, but hud come to remove him petce
alily, if they could, forcibly, if they must
that lie was u trespner ou their property,
and must leave I he claim. He, of course, re
fused to do so, find thereupon firing iiiimcdi
ntely commenced. We deplore the result of
tins procedure, ami presume Hint such rash
ness might nave heen avoided, nitd tliere oceii
less of dogmatic pride and st iibborn w ill to
sacrifice. 11 is difficult to learn with any
kind of certninty which party wns the first
to lire; luit to Unit imitv, even nt this June
ture, belongs the greater guilt. We have
heard mauv partial statements, from one
teres t only, but we are confident that the tir l
shot proceeded from the party inside, two or
three of whom, with Davis, stood near the
open door at the tune. The fire was return
ed, and a second volley from the house, now
closed upon the party, resulted in tbe death
of Mr. Sherman lioss, the father of John S.,
a highly esteemed nnd worthy citizen of this
county, and in wounding Mr. II. C. Purple
very seriously. Mr. (Joss was penetrated by
two bullets, very near the centre ol the breast,
and died almost instantly One or two oth
ers were wounded, but not seriously or fatally.
It is slated that the sou of Mr. Ooss and one
or t w o others were fired upon from the house
while cnrryi.ig away tlie dead body of the
father, in violation of the truce that hnil
been granted for that purpose; tmt we do not.
vouch for this, notwithstanding the utter
recklessness displayed by that party. Mr.
(ioss was brought to this place fo- liurial, and
it was n sad sight to see the rii.it. ,y form that
hud left our city but a few hours before, full
of life, and energy, nnd vigor, n mulilnted,
cold mid rigid corpse lie had many friends
in this community, und his loss is deeply la
mented. The follow ing valuable table, com
liiitnicated by a correspondent of the New
Yolk Times, shows Ihe uiimml product of
wheat in tho United Stales since 1831), to
gether with our exports of the article from
the same d.itc :
United States Crap and Exports of Wheat
for a scries nf Years.
t-rop. ft ports,
llushels.' Bushels.
81.833.2fi3 11,1'JS,('!IS
98,980,727 8 44".li"ll
102,317,240 7,235.!)!)8
1(10.310,356 6.025,546
95.607,1100 7,751,787
106,548,000 6.365,866
94,455,412 13,268,175
118,330.155 12.309,972
114,213.000 26,312.431
126,364,000 10,366.417
104,799,250 8,656,982
1 10,032,394 13,948,499
117.511,501 18,680,686
121,136,048 18,968,993
132,023.690 27,000,0 0
110,170,000 2,000,000
Year.
1S-I0.
1811'.
184-J.
1843.
1844.
1845.
18IG.
1847.
1848.
1849.
1 850.
1851.
1852.
1853.
1854.
1855.
IS.jG. 185,000,000 (?)
The yc.-.rs given above are taken of the ex
port not the gi o wth, being of course one year
later the fiscal year of the United States
ending June 30 thus for example: the crop
of 1 10,170,000 bushels, set dow n ngitinst 1855,
refers to that harvested in 1854: and the
2,000,0(10 bushels exported iu 1855, or up to
June, 1855, is from the crop harvested in
1854. '
I-ifThu London Herald noticing the fall
of the Southern defence of Sebnstopol,
sums up '
The Czar and his advisers may have look
cd for this catastrophe, but tho actual
event will for the time confound them. It
w ill he seized at Vienna, no doubt, as nn op
porttinily for pressing negotiations for pence,
and we have a government but too willing
listen fo overtures, however insincere nnd
worthless. But let no man imagine that the
fall nf the Southern defences of Sebnstopol
will change the fixed policy of Russia, or nf
ford as yet the opportunity for nn honorable
and secure Peace. It is too nrobnblv but llo.
eoiiimenecinct of tho war the first great
event ol a struggle l lint tlio next ten years
may not sec concluded. It is a good earnest
of future conquest n well directed blow at
the vulnerable heel of Russia.
liff" "Major Jack Downing" has written
mother letter to the President, dated from
,'on bo.ird the Two Pollics, round Cuba nnd
up the Gulf," iu w hich ho discourses on Cu
lm nnd acquisition, nnd concludes ns fob
lows:
"I't mo hoar from you soon, for I don't
think I hall hold on hero much longer, ns
things now is, unless I get new eider. I
see things is thickening up all round von,
and with the troubles in Mexico, and Deli
mark, and Kansas, and the melting down
and mixing up of aliout fifteen poli ical par
ties all over tho country, nnd running them
into thirty now moulds, you must have your
blinds full, nnd will neeil all your friends to
stick by you; and I nssuro you I inn not the
man to desert nn Administration so long as I
hold un office uuder it,"'
St. I outs, Sept. 28
The Salt Like Mail h., united. Thev n t
Gen. Harney's command twenty miuV p,,js
side of Foil L-iraiiiie. The troops are in fi; t
spirits.
PillLADr Lrm A, Sept. 28. Thomas Ni,llu.
son, whig, was nominated Canal (;u
sinner by the Fusion committee. M.irtiu, tho
know nothing candidate, dropped. He fuvcrs
Nicholson.
We have Mexican dates fo the 19th. a
government and anarchy is feared. Carrer.i
abdicated to the councils. S.it.ta Anna's K,,,t
has been arrested, and will be severely dalt
with.
Svr.ACUsE, Sept. 27. The State C.nvui
tioii has adopted the fusion platform bv nc
clamatiou; also in favor of sustaining the .;.
quor I-iw; afterwards the whig convention
came in and hud it joint session, and r..tild
the platfoim and ticket.
Me.mi'Uis, Sept. 28. Notw ithstanding thu
weather lus been cool nnd pleasant for H e
last few days, sickness h:.s increased. Siviral
deal lis and new cases have b-en reported as
tellow fever. Weather cold.
PllIOF.s OF Gr.AIN.-The New York Express
of the 24th ult., siiys: '-The discussions ns
to the amount and value of our crops of grain,
have lost about ult their interest from the
general conviction now that pi ices here aru
to be regulated by the demand nbroad. The
licightcrs nre so convinced of that, that they
put np freights and increased igor is gin u
to shipbuilding. Maine is putting cp r.cw
ships in nil directions. Wu tire likely to bo
iu the old difficulty, however, of good ic-
numerative prices abroad w ith too costly
freights to pay for the expense of sending tlio
produce tliere.
Ji?" Tlie Maine Liquor Ijiw U now no
longer enforced in the city of Portland. Since
thu result of the last election, in which there
was a decided popular majority against the
law, Major Dow , the author of the prohibito
ry policy, ami present Chief Magistrate, is
reported by the Portland Argus fo have de
termined to make no fiutlur special tffort to
enforce it there, ns he says that "tlie people
voted for rum, nnd now they may have it."
The same p iper tells us that the Mayor has
withdrawn Irom tlie wharf Ihe policemen
stationed there to search for liquor on the
arrival of thu Boston steamers.
The Russian Soldier. A letter from
Sebastopol gives the following characteristic
of the Russian Soldier:
But Russia has the best soldiery in the'
world. They have no fear about them in this
particular. They are different from the sol
diery of all countries; it is impossible to get
up a panic in tlio lliihsiau army; Ihcy will
stand with the stubbornness of a mule, and'
bo shot down by thousands, nnd never think
of running without they are ordered to do an.
They know nothing but to obey; you might
order out a thousand of them against a mil
lion, ami tell them to stand and light; if they
had nn officer with ti.ciri that would stand, I
believe the last one might be shot dow n, and
you would never see the least movement to
wards running."
llf We like mischievous children and for
this reason; they are apt to make old men.
Good boys generally die in their fiflli yeiir;
not because theij are good, but because their
quiet habits make them strangers to mud
puddles nnd oxygen, dirt pics and nut door'
exercise. When a friend tells us he has n
little baby Who never "wants to leave his
books," the knob of his front door immedi
ately becomes an object of intense interest to'
us; wc knov, as if we were blest w ith fore
knowledge, flint iu less than a year n strip of
black crapo w ill be throwing a shade across
his path, that time will never eradicate.
t-ff" A New York paper says :
The lawyers in the rural districts are pur.-'
.led how to iniike out the charges under tha
Maine law. We heard of one arrest in which
the offeticu was called committinc "all assault '
ami battery on a certain black betllo with
intent to take a drink."
A Dark SimiECT. Tho Darkies of New
York, in Convention, have nominated Fred'
Douglass (negro) for Secretary of State,
Lew is Tappan (white negro) for Comptrol.
Icr; and J. B. l'aslion (motley) for Attorney
General. The negroes are to have a muss
meeting in the Park, to ratify these nomi-'
nations.
Slightly Astonished. The Washington
organ of the administration is astonished that'
ex. Governor Recder, of Kansas, should con
sent to stand ns the free soil candidate there
for Congress. Innocent soul, that Cabinet
editor; but il won't do. Mr. Recder is the
same ns when nppointed Governor of Kansas,
a free soiler that's nil.
Committed. Mrs. Bolton, of Williamson
county, w hose nrrest for killing a female slnve
we noticed the other day, had her prelimina
ry trial before Esquires Wren nnd Clouston,
on Thursday and Friday. They admitted her
to bail in the sum of $1,000.
Fall of a Bridge. The Stnte street
bridge iu Albany, spanning tho Erie canal
basin, fell Inst week, precipitating one hun
dred people about twenty feet into tho water
below. By a miracle, not a single life was lost.
t-iT The Montevnllo (Ala.) Herald snya
that the farmers of ils county hnvo commenc
ed picking cotton, und are sanguine of a larg
er yield than they anticipated, under the ap
prehension that tho heavy rains would seri
ously injure the crop.
J-f?" A South Carolina paper has settled
it that Mr. Pierce is to be again nominated
fur the Presidency. Il mny turn out that way,
but wu can't conceive of tiny thing in the fu
turo more improbable.
The Louisville Courier is pulling
some cignrs thai were consigned to an Italian
in Hint pluco at the enormous cost of $600
per 1000. They will do to " puff," but not
to buy.
-It is said that two hundred children
hnve been made orphans by tho pestilence in
Norfolk mid Portsmouth.
"Thr Devil Quoting Sciiiiturk." Tho
Washington Union of the 14lh reproduces a
chapter from Isiuh.
l-ff'Vha Spanish correspondent of the N.
Y. 'l imes, writes that the project for bring
ing Spain into the alliance against Russia is
nt an end. Ho snvs that the people ol Spain
uro against it, and Hint General li.ipartcro ban
decided to with tho people.
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