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THE BE PUB LIC.
WASHINGTON:
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1853.
The Whig Party and the Pacific Railroad.
The Everting Poti perpetuates a slander
against the Whig party in the following paragraph:
"The Whig journals seem to expect that the
project of a Pacific railway, which has been espoused
by several politicians and journals of the
Democratic party, will restore the Whig ascon.lui.oi.
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wide enough to lot that scheme through, they
lancy that that whole host of plans of internal
improvement which they have been brooding over
for the last thirty years will rush through with it."
The doctrine of internal improvements and
of the protective tariff, as laid down by Mr.
Clay, and adopted by the Whig party, was
this: The two measures were deemed essen
tial to national independence. The want of
experience, of foreign credit, of resources, on
ihe part of the States and people of the United
Slates, rendered it important that Federal aid
should be extended in the infancy of these enterprises.
It was charged upon the Whig party
that their purpose in advocating the protective
system was to legislate for monopolists, and that
the surplus revenue accruing from this source
was to be expended in a splendid system of internal
improvements, for the purpose of subsidizing
the States to the support of class legislation.
These imputations have been indignantly
denied by the Whig party, and they have
proven their sincerity by abandoning these
measures of policy as soon as it became apparent
that the States were competent to the con
struction of works of improvement within their
own limits, and as soon as manufactures by the
protection of the past and present tariff, as
well as by the transfer of European skill and
capital, and by the success of American enterprise,
have become an established institution.
During the whole period of party conflict,
however, there has been scarcely a party division
upon the power of the Federal Government
to construct certain works ol improvement
which were local in their position but national
in their employment, or which were undeniably
necessary to carry out the obligations of the
Federal Government. To this class belong the
river and harbor improvements. We say there
has been scarcely a party distinction, because
politicians have advocated such measures, as
they have also voted for duties on coal, iron,
or sugar, without regard to party association.
While the Whig party has been charged
with the unworthy motives above referred to, it
is. protected from injustice by the doctrines of
honesty, accountability, and economy in the
administration and limitation upon the powers
of the Federal Government, which haveformec
the basis of its published expositions of opinion
If we are correct in affirming that the Whig
party advocated a system of internal improve
ment by the Federal Government for the purpose
of promoting the general welfare, and thai
it had no purpose of adding to the power or increasing
the expenditures of the Federal Gov
ernment, itmustfollow that there isa limit with
in which Federal appropriation and ownershi[
in this respect is judicious, and that the Whig
party is under no obligations to insist upon the
construction of all works of internal improve
merit by the Federal Government. Exercising
this discretion, we have chosen to say that wt
do not deem it necessary or expedient that the
Federal Government should construct and
control a railroad from the Mississippi to the
Pacilic ocean, and if we can demonstrate our
objections to this work to be well-founded, it
will follow that Whigs may, at their discretion,
ad vocate or oppose the execution of a work of
internal improvement by the Federal Government,
and are under no obligation to support all
such works which may be constructed, upon
the ground that the Federal expenditures will
thereby be increased. If however there be
any Whig who is of opinion that the Federal
Government should have constructed all these
works, let him reflect upon their extent.
There are within the United Slates perhaps
20,000 miles of railroad under charter, more
than 100,000 miles of incorporated dirt, plank,
and stone roads, perhaps 3,000 miles of canal.
To this let us add a Pacific railroad, with a
disbursement equal to that of the Mexican war,
an income equal to one-fourth of the national
revenue, an army of operatives numbering
durinir construction more than one hundred
thousand, and requiring for its constant operation
and repair of not less than twenty thousand.
Let us imagine it the proprietor of a
grant of land equal to the area of States. The
common carrier and the controller of the productions
of thousands of citizens, each community
of whom would be as completely dependent
upon the rates of fare and freight
for the value of their property or products
as St. Helena or the rock of Gibraltai
upon the facilities of commercial intercourse.
Let us suppose the administration of this
Toad to enter upon a political contest, or to be
bestowed as a reward o( political services. The
Hon. Mr. Milldollar having brought material
aid to the party at a critical moment, enabling
it to secure the services of the Hon. Mr,
Smasher, who had been on the point of hiring
his invaluable adherents to the opposite party,
is an applicant for the Presidency. It is true
that he cannot tell a T rail from a trombone,
or an "inside connexion" from a dead reckon
ing; but he can give bank checks and champagne
suppers. This devoted patriot maybe
opposed by his protege, Mr. Smasher, who de
mands the situation for himself and comrades
and who, if appointed, might be found "at al
times at his office except when absent," whicl
would be seven eighths of his time. This roai
being conducted by "Sikeseys," with soaj
locks and cigar, craped hats, bright brass but
tons and high heeled boots?always animate
with a cheerful horn?and always "spiling'
for a chance to "lam" an unoffending passer,
gor, or fancying themselves sitting bebiiw
some 2.40 on the "Harlem Road," would is
delighted at the general "muss" of a collision
and triumph in the superior mischief committee
sewesBMSHHmwBmeweBesamHHeM
by hit "muhMn" *pon uy unfortusate com
petltor. Now, inasmuch as men have obtained
office under several admiaiatraUena for wbuh !
they were aa little itted at the imaginary rep 1
resentative we hare auppawd, ere have a right
to auppoae that auch men may be appointed to administer
the millions inreated in a Federal rail- i
road of two thouaand miles in length, and the
property and lives of the people of the Republic
may be entrusted to their care, when lamentable
experteuee assures us that even short roads,
owned and managed by private proprietors,
under the eye of the public, are liable to daily
accidents of the most appalling description.
We return from this detailed exposition of
the character of this particular work to the
general evils resulting from enlarged patronage.
The Executive has scarce time to instruct a
minister, dictate a despatch, or comprehend in
its details an important incident in our foreign
relations for the more imperative duty of receiving
deputations, collating and deciding in
council upon the comparative services or
necessities of claimants whose importunate
allegations of merit are sufficient to invalidate
their applications.
Now, is there any Whig who would desire
that the Executive should, in addition to his
present official influence, he required to appoint
the captains of tens over dirt turnpikes?of
twenties over stone and plank roads?of thousands
over railroads and canals?and thus indirectly
control the armies of employes and operatives,
with the collection of tolls, and the penal
systems necessary for the enforcement of such a
system? Is there a Whig who sincerely believes
the patronage of the Federal Government dangerous
to the liberties of the people; who would
desire a more extensive implication of the Federal
Government in the internal communications
of the States than at present exists? Nay, is
there a Democrat, no matter to what conchological
variety of the party he may belong, who
does not see that this increase of patronage is a
destructive influence, which poisons the popularity,
impairs the usefulness, and embitters
the peace of the Executive incumbent?
Is there a Democrat who does not feel that
tkn P.vflAiitiwfl io Qitrrnnnriorl Kv imnlttAokla f*r?_
lion?; amongst whom official appointment is
the price of support, or the motive of opposition;
that these influences neutralize each
other, leaving to the Executive vexation and
care, and to the party distraction and excitement?
Is there, then, any true Democrat who
desires the official patronage of the Federal
Government to be increased? We have endeavored
to show that no patriotic persons
should advocate the increase of Executive
power and patronage if it can be avoidedHaving
shown that the tendencies of Fedi
eral investments in internal improvement tend
, to a dangerous increase of Executive patron|
age; that it is within the general ability of the
. State governments to construct such improvers
ments; that the Whig party is not bound to
. advocate such works indiscriminately for the
. object of increasing public expenditure; we
t shall continue our inquiry^ which the length of
. this article has postponed, by proving that the
Pacific railroad can be constructed under autho.
rity of the State governments, with a grant of
) the right of way through the Federal Territories,
r by the combined means provided by private
? enterprise, corporate credit, Federal lands,
. State appropriations, and an advance of Fedr
eral money, for the performance of corporate
. services.
Relief of the New Orleans SufferersThe
several ward committees yesterday
commenced the business of collecting from our
citizens. Many warm hearts generously responded
to the call.
Distressing Casualty.
Letters were received in the city yesterday from
the Rio Grande, bringing the painful intelligence
of the death of our valued young fellow-townsman,
Thomas Walter Jones, son of General Walter
Jones. He was attached to one of the surveying
parties of the Mexican Boundary Commission,
and was engaged in this duty on the
Lower Rio Grande when the sad accident happened
which suddenly closed his earthly career.
This lamented youth possessed every manly and
amiable quality, and the death of no one of his
age in our city would have been more deeply lamented
by the community or by so large and respected
a family circle. The following letter from
Mr. Radzirninski, chief of the party with which
j Mr. Jones was employed, gives the particulars of
the afflicting accident:
"It is my most painful duty to have to announce
to you that it has pleased the all-wise Providence
to terminate the days of my young friend and
assistant, Mr. Thomas W alter Jones. He was
drowned this evening, on our return from the
survey, by the small boat upsetting in a squall
"After the boat had almost filled, Mr. Jones
handed me the instruments for the purpose of giving
his assistance to bail the water; but the attempt
to bail was followed by the boat filling completely,
and sinking beyond our depth. Not knowing
how to swim, and feeling a firm bottom under
my foot, I sprang up and came to the surface at
the same time with Jones, but lie most unfortu'
nately struck for the shore, distant about twenty
r yards; and I, by a superhuman elfort, succeeded
in reaching my fingers' ends to the Mexican, who
being astride on the capsized boat, pulled me on
top of it. My poor, young friend sunk half-way
between us and the shore to rise no more, while
> a few inches of space, and as many seconds of
time, saved me."?Intelligencer of yesterday.
Mr. Waldo, who has been nominated by the
, Whigs as a candidate for Governor in California,
was born in Western Virginia?afterwards removed
to Missouri?whence, in 1849, ho went by
land to California.
, Wood-sawing.?The march of improvement
and this age of invention have swept away many
of the old oiistomu with ivliioli nnr fnlliora in tlinir
, clay, and even ourselves in youth, were familiar.
We have now to record that perhaps those good
old colored gentlemen who ply so industriously
j with "horse and saw" at our doors, will have to
! abandon their honorable profession and leave the
1 | field to liorRc or steam-power. Just imagine a
A portable engine brought to one's door, and hear
p the engineer ask, "Will missus have her wood
sawedr" To that we arc tending, if the follow\
ing, from the Cincinnati Gazette, be correct:
f "Something ?We yesterday noticed two
men '"gaged in sawing wood on 5th street by
Horae-power. We are informed that the company
1 intend following this matter of cutting wood as a
, fssmiem. They promise to cut wood at one-third
price than that charged by those who saw by
' hand. The company anticipate to do a large
I amount of work during the coming winter."
More a boat Austrian Aggress**.
The following letter from a oorrespondbot in
Smyrna has bMn placed at our disposal. It in
iieatea a general disposition on the part e# the
Austrian authorities to oppress all persons
within the soope of their power. If the letter
gives an authentic picture of the condition of
things in Smyrna, it shows a pitiable state of
weakness on the pari of the Turkish government:
Smyrna, July 16, 1853.
Mr Dear H.: The object of these lines is to
furnish you some further details upon the oonsequences
of the affair of Martin Kossta.
The vexations oftho Austrian Consul hereupon
tlit* Italians. 1I nnirn rlans. and Poles, who havatha
> 1> ? ' ? ' ? ?~
misfortune to be Austrian subjects, as well as upon
tbe refugees generally, are of the most provoking
character. In order to have them under his immediate
grasp, he summoned hero all those who
were employed in the neighboring paper manufacture.
Among them are men having large families,
and who, having been thus deprived of their
offices, are compelled to beg for their subsistence.
They have been repeatedly summoned to attend
at the Austrian Consulate, to be questioned
respecting the murder of the Austrian' officer
who lost his life by throwing himself into the sea
to escape the attack of Kossta's friends in the
skirmish of tho 23d of June. A watchmaker, who
was only supposed to have some knowledge of the
facts in that case, had his shop sealed up and his
property confiscated and sold by the Austrian
Consul, and he was obliged to fly for hie life.
The worst of it is, that most of the watches that
were found in the shop belonged to foreigners,
and yet the Consul, with an arrogance peculiar to
himself, seized them all. All those subject to
Austrian power who had the means of quitting the
country made their way elsewhere, since they
saw the impotence of Turkey to prevent the violation
of her territory; and the poorest classes
keep themselves concealed to escape oppression,
for tho Consul follows them as an enraged
wolf runs after the sheep. Those among the number
who have at the time placed themselves under
the protection of America, England, and
France, are the only ones that are safe and unmolested.
A few days since the Austrian Consul sent
round an address commending his conduct in
I Kossta's affair very highly, and forced all the
Austrian subjects to sign it, under severe threats.
Of course, in presence of a brig and a schooner of
war in the harbor, ready to receive them loaded
with chains, the poor Austrians were obliged to
sign any thing, had it even been their death-warrant.
It is reported that the Austrian Consul tries
by that address to justiy his conduct in the eyes
of his government. Barbarous as the Austrian
government is, it will no doubt approve the Consul,
and use the address for its own justification
before the civilized world.
The Neapolitan authorities at Constantinople
seem to advance in the way of barbarity shown
them by the Austrians. A young Neapolitan,
who for political difficulties sought refuge in Constantinople,
was arrested last week, loaded with
chains, and embarked on board a Neapolitan vessel
to be carried to Naples, there to meet probably
his death. He preferred dying from starvation,
and on their arrival at the Dardanelles he
was dying.
A Hungarian was on board an Austrian vessel
in Bey rout, together with his family. Though
he had an American passport, he was arrested by
the captain and summoned to surrender himsell
to the Austrian Consul in Beyrout. He escaped
by jumping into the sea, whence he was rescued
and brought before the American Consul. The
latter immediately remonstrated and obtained the
rescue of the rest of the family and the baggage of
this victim of Austrian barbarity. This news
came by this morning's steamer from Beyrout.
Five I'Jimerique. C. F.
Washington, D. C., August 15, 1853.
Mr. Editor: In an extract from the Courier
and Enquirer, copied into your paper of the 3d
instant, speaking of the impropriety of Commodore
Stringham's salute to Baron Bruck, the Aus
ii inn mi vuy in vAMisuuiujiopie, mssiaiea: * rrmen
Brack is the same person who was guilty of the
grossest injustice toxcards an American Consul some
time back, tearing doxen his flag, S,-c."
It is perfectly true that the Amorican Consulate
at Constantinople was, in 1851, violated by Austrian
forces, led on by the subordinates of the
American legation, during the absence of the
American Minister; and there is no doubt but,
while the honor of this Republic has been thus
trampled on, no unnecessary demonstration of
courtesy should have been shown by our naval
officers to the agents of Austria before a suitable
redress had been obtained. At the same time justice
requires tiiat the shame and responsibility of
the act should bear individually upon those who
rendered themselves guilty of the offence, and not
upon Baron Bruck, who at that time was not in
Constantinople.
The unnatural combination of Austrians and
Americans, who organized and carried on this unprecedented
act of vandalic burglary, was composed
of Messrs. de Klezl, JWihanovich, and Baron
Baum, of the Austrian party; and John P. Br oxen
and H. Jl. Homes, of the American. Brown was
the Dragoman of tho absent Minister and officially
used the poxcers of the United States legation to
achieve the above act.
I have the honor to be, &c.,
r_dainf.se.
Extensive Fraud?Successful Swindle of
Merchants, Tailors, and Others.?Some time
in the latter part of April last, John Millikin, an
Englishman, recently from Canada, with two
companions, named R. M. Chatterton and D. P.
Chatterton, came to Cincinnati with quite an extensive
supply of fancy goods, toys, jewelry, &.c.,
and created some sensation in the streets with the
stories of the large establishment they were about
to open in this city.
Subsequently the parties disposed of this stock,
and opened a commission house to supply customers
south and west. They took residences for
their families, had carriages and servants, and apparently
were men of wealth. They bought
largely of groceries and other articles, which they
regularly snipped to customers, t ins went on tor
some time, when the persons from whom they
bought presented their bills, and they were not
paid. Suspicions that all was not right gained
ground, and an agentwas sentto Louisville, where
lie found one of the Cliatterton's, who there recci veil
the goods shipped by his confederates in Cincinnati,
and sold them at any price he could get for
cash. The parties have been arrested.
f Cincinnati Gazette.
James River Raii.road.?We learn from the
able and efficient President of the James River
and Kanawha Company, Judge Mason, that at a
recent, sitting of the board, the canal was put under
contract some twenty miles above the town of
Buchanan. The contractors were all distinguished
for their responsibility and efficiency, and
it may lie expected tlint the work will be prosecuted
with unusual industry.
[Lynchburg Republican.
General Paez has taken up his residence permanently
in New York.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Washington, August 15. ISO. v
The Cabinet wm in session to-day. Owr rela- d
tions with China may Iiave been up fbr consider11ion,
but "outside barbarians," news-mongers, Q
were unable to aecertain any thing deemed reliable.
Captain Gibson, who was deprived of his lib*
erty by the Dutcli authorities of Batavia, is, as I ^
have before announced, in the city, and expresses t
extreme anxiety to be favored with an interview *
with the President. This reasonable wish will, a
doubtless, be granted at a suitable time. I
The Assistant Secretary of State, A. Dudley ,
Mann, esq., 1 regret to state', was attacked with f
cholera morbus last evening, and continued seri* <
ously ill during the night. Upon inquiry this 1
evening I was happy to learn that he was much j
m/\i*a IV.*>t l>ln 41. mi?Vt a,4 *11 A/ivtAnorl In Kia ko/l
IIIUIU WIUIUIMWIC^ IIIUU^II Bllll VVUIIIIVU W ItIB WW.
There is an on dit current that the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, during the last
Congress, the Hon. Linn Boyd, will not be honored
with the suffrages of his party friends in the
coming Congress. A lower seat in that political
synagogue will be assigned to that veteran Democrat.
The gentleman spoken of to preside with
ability, impartiality, and dignity, is the young,
gifted, and eloquent Representative from the
Ashland district, in Kentucky, the Hon. John C.
Breckenridge. Mr. Breckenridge is an esteemed
member, popular with the members of both the
great parties, and, beyond doubt, would make a
most acceptable presiding officer.
It is gratifying to be able to state that the efr
forts making in our city to obtain material aid to
be applied to the relief of the people of the
scourged city of New Orleans, are being crowned
with success. The good work "goes bravely on."
The white-haired voteran of the Union, General
Robert Armstrong, yesterday contributed a cool
hundred.
Professor De Bow, Superintendent of the Census
Bureau, is industriously engaged in preparing
his report to be communicated to the next Congress.
The coming report must necessarily be
very voluminous, and from the high and widelyspread
reputation which the Professor enjoys for
talents and statistical skill, I hazard nothing in expressing
the opinion that the next report upon the
Census will prove an invaluable acquisition to the
statistics, and even to the literature of the country.
The name of Charles B. Calvert, of Prince
George's county, Maryland, is mentioned by
many gentlemen of the Whig party in connexion
with the Gubernatorial chair of "Mary's Land."
I have not tho pleasure of an intimate personal acquaintance
with Mr. Calvert, but his friends speak
of his virtues in glowing terms, and it was my
privilege to hear from the lips of the lamented
"Sage of Ashland" a cordial and eloquent tribute
to the estimable and shining qualities of Charles
B. Calvert.
The President is casting about for a suitable
man to be associated with Governor Gorman, of
Minnesota, in the investigation of tho alleged
frauds upon the Indians in that Territory. Doubtless
there are patriots willing to serve their country
in an emergency, and not much time will
lapse before a gentleman will bo selected.
It has become fashionable recently, in certain
Democratic'circles, to disparage the talents and
patriotism of Colonel Thomas Hart Benton. This
grates harshly upon some ears. In bygone days
those who are now denouncing him were in the
habit of speaking of him in adulatory terms. The
"Great Statesman"?"Old Bullion"?"Crock of
Gold"?"The Hard Senator"?were some of th?
narnos given to him by his friends expressive of
their admiration of the powers of his mind, and
his value as a public servant. A gentleman recently
appointed to office, with great temerity,
but with apparent sincority, was heard to say,
"Hart," in the Colonel's name, should bo render?.l
<1 U k.,~. >> .nJ 4k.* 4k. (i.'..If..4...I ..Uk..
cu iiuiliuu^i uuu uiai uio inc??ri?u>ut uuim/i ?
of tht veteran statesman teas small." I lore & good
joke, and being unselfish in such things, I cannot
withhold this one from the public. Thomas Hart
Benton's intellectual calibre small! Rich, isn't it'
Jndge Campbell, Postmaster General, is still
sojourning at Bedford Springs.
Branson G. Graham has been appointed Postmaster
at Greensboro', North Carolina.
George Saunders, late of the Democratic Review,
the "George" who is unapproachably politically
fast, reached the city in the cars to-night.
"George" is destined to grace the London consulate.
I learn that Mr. Zantzinger to-day deposited
with Corcoran & Riggs the sum which these gentlemen
deemed necessary to the proper adjustment
of his various accounts. Messrs. C. k. R.
are now prepared to meet that dishonored check,
and I suppose this last great case of defaulting is
at an end ZEKE.
The Montreal Pilot of the 12th instant, in copying
the notices of the claim sot up by Lord
Stirling to the North American fisheries, makes
the following comment:
"The character of the claims of Lord Selkirk
is well known, they having beon discussed in and
out of Parliament on various occasions. It is
just possible, however, that the American Government
may lend themselves?with a view to
obtain a favorable adjustment of a question in ;
which the United States is deeply interested?to
what on the surface bears tlio aspect of a more ,
Wall street speculation."
Thrilling Scene?Two Drowning Bots
Rescued.?Alxnit eight o'clock, on Sunday morning,
Michael Fitzpatrick, a dyer, employed at one
of the factories at Manayunk, was bathing in the
_1 1 _ u 4l 4 :.l 4 i
uauai ura.mii, auuvc tilt? lUWll, Willi IWO Orplian
nephews, aged about seven and ton jeara, when
he was suddenly attacked with cramp, and sunk.
Being a most excellent swimmer, he had taken his
nephews out into deep water for the purpose of
learning them to swim. The oldest boy could
swim a little, but upon seeing his uncle sink he
was paralyzed with terror, and, as well as his
brother, were at tho point of perishing. At this
moment Joseph Foster, a young man who was in
bathing, dashed out to the rescue of the boys, having
the presence of mind to push before him a
plank that providentially happened to bo in the
water. The daring young man, on reaching the
drowning boys, was seized by both of them, and it (
was with the greatest difficulty that he prevented ,
himself from sinking. He finally succeeded in
getting the boys upon the plank, when the rest of
his task was an easy one. The rescue was a most ,
gallant deed, and reflects honor upon the actor in (
it. The body of the unfortunate uncle was re- |
covered about an hour afterwards.
[Philadelphia Ledger, 15fk.
In Phii.adei.piiia, on Saturday, the thermome- ]
ter stood at 96?, and there were five deaths from \
heat?among whom was General Bennett, (cap- ,
tain in the Pennsylvania volunteers in the Mexi- ,
can war,) who was taken sick at the assayer's office
of the mint, where he had just received an
appointment. He was employed in a room where
tho thermometer stood at 160 degrees. ^
Tho Tribune has one of its own peculiar articles, |
in which it attempts to bring in tho New Orleans
fever as the basis of an arguniont against slavery.
What, a godsend for an editor who has genius |
enough, with the thermometer between ninety <
and one hundred, to find a nut in such a shell. 1
|.V. v. EjtpMii <
The CktrlcrtM TWol
hi the Charleston AW* of FrifW evsnbrt bet
re find the following article h| Delation to the
uel which took place in the# e^p OtpOk*
inee*and as to the oonee ofwhich* end the sfljibce
f the Charleston papers an the Subject, so ngny
onunents have been made by the more northern
topers:
"Tat Latk Dr?l.?The Philadelphia Buil0m '
fives utterance to severe eensure on the Charnson
press for having published the late duel here
vithout details, and without censure. It must
itrike every observer that the very default, with
vhich we are charged, in not publishing ths par*
ictilars of a fatal quarrsl that originated in a prirate
transaction, is an instance of that very reinement
for which the Bulletin gives the people
>f Charleston crsdit. It is the inquisition and
publicity that attach to all private matters in the
lorthern press, in gratification of a prurient curiosity,
that give a superiority to southern papers.
"The quarrels in detail or individuals in their
private relations, even when accompanied by
;rimeand a violation of law, is no part of legitimate
newspaper record. Such acts of violence,
f attended bj legal transgression, is the proper
mbject of inquiry by courts. The press invariaily
does mischief, by producing false impressions,
when it attempts a relation or events which are
:he subject of judicial investigation. But, more
specially, opinion marks publication as indsli:ate?as
an intrusion on the sacredness of private
feeling?when such a result of private quarrel as
duel terminates fatally, and lacerates family
flections. No relation of the circumstances that
rould have been published, however impartial,
would have satisfied the friends of both parties.
Denials and controversy would have resulted.
Silence as to details in such circumstances is not
snly delicate but proper and politic, looking even
to the ends of justice.
"The Bulletin has, in common with the northern
papers, blundered in mixing up this quarrel
with one of a differont character, whieh was political,
and which necessarily found its way into
the newspapers. The mistake has been corrected,
ind it takes off somewhat from the keen edge of
the Bulletin's trenchant satire when it is known
that a citizen of Charleston has not been 'murdered
for a quarrel in which he had no concern,'
and the authorities of Charleston will be vindicated
from the incisive stroke of the Bulletin, when it
learns that the city authorities have nothing to
do with the transaction, duelling being an offence
punishable under our State laws; and that the
offender, so soon as the duel was over, was beyond
the jurisdiction even of the State."
We omit the article from the Bulletin quoted by
the News. The latter then proceeds to say:
I'We publish the following as another instance
of gross misrepresentation. It appears in the
Washington Republic, and is extensively oopied
by the press, and commented upon:
" 'We learn from a source in which we place
confidence that the very recent duel between
Messrs. Dunovant and Davidson Legare, occurring
in the vicinity of Charleston, grew out of
some difficulty about a lady to whom the former
is said to be engaged. Legare challenged, and
Dunovant accepted the challenge, choosing pistols,
distance three paces; the first fire to be determined
by tossing up. Dunovant won it, and
of course shot his antagonist through the heart,
his pistol being within fire or six feet of Legare's
breast. It was a cold-blooded murder; the murdered
man, however, deserving as little sympathy
as his executioner, for assenting to terms whicn
placed him, practically disarmed, in such a position.
The only reason for regret connected with
the affair is, that Dunovant will go scot free of
punishment for such a murder under the pretence
of fighting a duel.'
"That a lady was concerned, and that Legare
challedged Dunovant, is strictly correct, but that
the distance was three paces, and Dunovant's pisiol
five or six feet from Legare's breast, is erroneously
stated. The duel was fought at ten
paces, and although not present, we are satisfied
from the statements made bv those on the ground,
and from the characters of the gentlemen engaged
in the affair, that the duel was honorably conducted."
We suggest to the Aeics that his crediting the
"instance of gross misrepresentation" to the Republic,
is not correct. The paragraph did not
opirvino(a in thia na nnr nnr Iinn it atrar a nnnar?r(
in our columns.
The Fisheries.?The Boston Advertiser of yesterday
says:
"Our Kennebunk correspondent writes as follows:
" 'Kennrbunkfort, August 8.?Arrived, schr.
Signal, Hutchins, from Bay Chaleur, with 43,000
fish; also, Oth, schooner Arunnah, Manuel, from
same place, with 94,500 fish. The skipper and
crew of this schooner report the intentional collision
of her Britannic majesty's steamer Devastation
on the 98th July. It was clear sunlight, and
the Arunnah was twelve miles from land, near St.
John Island. The captain of the Devastation had
spoken her the evening previous, and ordered
them to keep a light ail niglit, which was not
done. On the morning of the S8th the steamer
Was seen coming for them, and those on board
heart) the order given to 'starboard,' which made
her course directly for the schooner; the subsequent
order of 'steady, steady,' was given, and
the steamer struck the stem of the schooner, taking
off the main boom and gaft, and doing other
lamage. Not a word was spoken on board the
iteauier, which kept on her course. The captain
if the schooner has noted a protest, and will make
i statement of his case."'
The Devastation is an incendiary craft. A shot,
not across nor over, but through, her bows is a
node of correcting the brutal violence and insolence
of her commander towards defenceless veslels
which would be effectual, and which, we fear,
will yet have to be adopted by Commander Shubrick.?vY>w
York Courier and Enquirer, 13th.
Naval.?The United States ship Cyane, Commander
Hollins, twenty-one days from Pensocola,
with eighty-five rocruits for the United States
ihip Pennsylvania, arrived in Hampton Roads
yestorday morning. Spoke August 3, 1853, off
Havana, ship Star Republic, from Galveston to
New York, twelve days out. The following is a
list of her officers:
Commander?George N. Hollins; Lieutenants?
T. P. Green, R. Forrest, J. D. Read, C. M.
Fauntleroy; Purser?C. C. Uphain; Surgeon?
W. A. W. Spotswood; Assistant Surgeon?Geo.
H. Peck; Master?William H. Parker; Passed
Midshipmen?N. H. Vanzandt, Joseph A. Seawill;
Midshipmen?Cary Carter, William E.
Fitzhueh; Captain's Clerk?J. 8. Hollins; Purser's
Clerk?C. M. Gilberson; Boatswain?F.
Hewlett; Gunner?J. A. Lilliston; Carpenter?
E. Williams; Sailmaker?D. C. Brayton.
We understand that orders are here directing
the Cyane to proceed at once to Portsmouth, N. PL
[Norfolk Beacon, 13th.
Great Peril?Remarkable Escape.?Early
thin morning Mr. Ainory Amsden thought he
would take a walk, and struck off in the direction
t>i Goodman street, to the railroad crossing. Just
ui he got there, a woman, with a small child upon
the seat with her, drove up, and as the buggy
srossed the first rail of the track, both the shafts
became detached from the vehicle, leaving it,
with the woman and child, standing on the track.
At this point of time the lightning train was not
more than sixty rods from the vehicle; nevertheless,
Mr. Amsden grappled it, and threw it from
the track just in time to clear the train. A moment
later, and the destruction of the parties
would have been inevitable.?Rochester Advertiser.
Captain George W. Floyd, formerly commander
of the ocean steamer Washington, and
>reviously known from his long connexion with
he commerce of the western lakes, died at Stockon,
California, on the 20th of June.
Hon. Wm. II. Seward has boon tendered a
jublic dinner as a testimonial of respect by the
citizens of Cherry Valley. Governor Seward acknowledges
the corn gracefully, but declines accepting
the fodder.
Incident* ?f tha Wwoester B*ilro*d
1|u4M.
Mr. William Bate*, '?# Horthbridge Centre,
Massachusetts, who wu on board the train, in a
Idler to the Boeton Traveller, firm the following
ddipription of the ecene ae it paaeeed under hie obfDltetion:
? waa aeated, with my wife, in about the midIde
of the second car. 1 wae firet alarmed for an
inetant by a terrible whittle; then came crash upon
crash, with a violent collision; all before me in the
car seemed to be thrown in a confused mass together;
broker! seats flying, and the forward part of
our car crushing in like an egg-shell. 1 had time
merely to say to my wife keep quiet, don't rise, as
the bottom of the ear behind us shot directly over
no tiomsl telrmrr oflT mo lisf
"Than filliiri<1liiiw>hiirt uniliiii nias.ai
companied by.* terrible struggle for life by tire
mass of men and women buried beneath the whattered
timbers of the car bottom. My wife and
myself were for a few moments confined between
the floor above us and the broken seats, although
wholly uninjured. During those few moments a
terrible sense of suffocation oppressed me. By the
tearing away of the seat before us, I was enabled
to extricate "Mrs. Bates, although a dying man
near me was clutehing my hair, crying, 'Mr.
Bates, safe me, oh, save me!'
"Soon as Mrs* Bates was liberated and passed
forward, I lost sight of her amid the ruins, but she
called to me that she was sale, and requested me
to turn my attention to the wounded around me,
and soon after suffered herself to be removed from
the window. I immediately broke out the two
windows near me, then caught hold of a man
whose shoulders were crushed beneath the large
limber of the car bottom. lie told me his feet
were not fast.
"With a desperate effort 1 extricated him, when
the floor settled in such a way as would have
crushed him had he remained a naif minute more.
1 then broke down with my feet the seat on which
I had been sitting, to liberate the poor man, Mr.
Thomas Brown, of Whitinsville, who had caught
me by the hair, and a lady, (Mrs. Richmond, of
Soutlibridge,) whose heads were bent over the
beck of the seat, and held by the large timber of
the car bottom over them. But although I broke
down the seat, the timber was so confined bv connexion
with other timbers and by the oil-cloth
carpeting of the car, that they could not be removed
until a man near me and I had cut the
carpet with our knives.
"Before we could extricate them they had both
ce&Bed to speak. One seemed alive as we put
him through the window to those without, but he
soon died. Mrs. Richmond was entirely dead. Mr.
Brown is also now dead. I continued to strive to
relieve the wounded. One man, to whom 1 could
not .get, called on me by name, beseeching me to
remove a timber that was crushing his leg. He
was soon freed by others, his leg horribly crushed.
"Our cars hardly stopped at tne depot we passed
before the accident, and as we passed, a man, apparently
connected with the road, at the depot,
remonstrated with the conductor against his proceeding,
and, as the cars passed on at a rapid
rate, remarked, 'There will be a smash up in two
minutes.' The collision did take place in less
than that time." ,
jr ascin ating.? ido louowing, vjucq we nna
in the New York Day Book, shows that the use
of "tidies," so fashionable in this city last season,
may, as well as other fashionable habits, be made
extremely ridiculous:
"Black and White Wool.?We saw a fat negro
wench at the theatre the other night with her
own black wool surmounted by one of the gaudiest
and most elaborately be-bobbed white woollen
tidies we have ever seen. We think this must
put a stop to this most absurd and ridiculous
fashion."
Exports of Spbcir.?The exports of specie
from New York last week were?
Steamer Merlin, Bermuda, specie.. #50,000 00
Steamer Asia, Liverpool, specie... 498,128 48
Steamer Asia, Liverpool, *420 2,032 80
Barque May Flower, Montevideo,
doubloons (190) 1,950 00
Barque May Flower, Montevideo,
specie - 1,325 00
I Steamer Washington, Bremen,
gold bars 237,469 21
Steamsr Washington, Bremen,
American gold 44,500 00
Steamer Washington, Bremen,
German gold..... 7,310 00
Total to August 13 #833,709 49
Previously reported....,.., 12,561,311 00
Total for 1853. #13,395,020 49
We learn from a gentleman who recently visited
the Smithsonian Institution at Washington,
which has a statement showing the temperature
since 1798, that this is the warmest summer since
that day, and perhaps the warmest ever known
in this country. We learn, also, what is somewhat
strange, that the average heat, this summer,
of Richmond and Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
exceeds that of any other localities in the Union.
[Richmond Whig.
united states revenue u utters. i h#
steam-tug Achillea has towed into the harbor this
morning the cuttera Caleb Cushing, Robert McClelland,
and J. C. Dobbin, from Somerset, Massachusetts.
The above cutters have been placed
at the navy yard, and complete the fleet of six
now being ntted out by Arthur Leary, esq., for
the Treasury Department.??\?ic York Courur.
Texas Salt.-?The New Orleans Picayune has
received from Corpus Christi a sample of salt
taken from a salt lake about seven miles from that
place. It is clear colored, well crystalized, and
of good taste. The editors of the Nueces Valley
say that they are informed that the supply of
it at the lake is inexhaustible. Small boats can
run up to the beds, and ono hundred bushels is
the average product to be had per diem.
One Hundred and piftt Tons of Pure Coffer
in one Mass.?A letter to the New York Tribune
from Eagle River, Lake Superior, states that
there is a mass of pure copper in the North American
mine, which was thrown down on the 8th
instant, forty-two feet long, twenty feet high, and
two feet thick?the largest mass of copper ever
before discovered.
A Tiiird Fare.?It will be seen by the ship
news that the schooner Ada 1ms completed lier
third trip in eleven days, with 300 barrels?making
a total of 850 barrels in less than two months.
We do not recollect that any vessel from this
place has ever done so well before; and, at the
present prices of mackerel, she will pay a handsome
profit to her owners.?-Nctoburyport Union.
Fatal Result.?Charles Linthicum, the engineer
who was severely scalded by the running off
the traek of the passenger train of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad on Thursday last, died from
the effects of his injuries on Saturday last. His
remains wore taken to his residence near Monrovia
for interment. The deceased was about 27
years old, and leaves a wife and one child.
[Bait. Patriot.
Miss J. M. Davenport, the favorite actress,
leaves in the Canada, at Liverpool, for Boston on
the 20th instant. She plays an engagement in tho
latter city in October.
One hundred and forty-two railway trains leavo
Boston daily?the same number also daily returning.?Exchange.
Bishop, with his floating derric, is about to
make another effort to raise from the depths of
Lake Erio the ill-fated steamer Atlantic.
A book has been published in which the author
has traced the ancestry of Nelson and Wellington
to a common stock?King Edward I.
Since the new divorce bill went into oporation
in Ohio, marriages are placed under tho head of
"limited partnerships.''