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Jorcign^liacfllann.
Strau^t Trial in UrilUh India. (
Ai the commencement of the disturbances, the i
result of which was the annexation uf lite Pun jaub 1
to the territories of the East India Company, Lieut. |
Anderson and Mr. Agnew, of the civil service, |
were murdered. On the restoration of peace a military
commission, composed of two English, two
native, and a Sikh colonel, were convened to try sun- j
dry fiersons, among whom were the Dewan Mool- '
raj himself and a chief named Goojur Singh. The
evidence ugainst the Dewun was elicited on the :
trial of the latter, and is as follows: 1
The English officers arrived at MoulUtn on the
18th of April, 1848, with an escort of six guns and
lihoorkha regiment, and they encamped at a fortified
cantonment called the Eedgah They had an
interview on the same day with the Dewan: and it
was arranged that the .governorship of the province
and fort should be formally made over to them the
next day. On the 19ih, accordingly, they went in
cavalcade, und were shown over the fort; the keys
of which were delivered to the colonel of their regiment.
As the cavalcade was returning to the
Eedgah, Lieutenant Anderson rode first; and he
was immediately followed by Mr. Agnew with
Khan Singh, the new governor from Lahore, whom
they came to instal. As they issued from the Seikhee
gate of the fort, a narrow bridge over the deep
ditch of the glacis had to be passed; on this spot the
first assault was made. One of Moolraj's soldiers,
named Ameer Chund, (who escaped from the fori
just before its capture, and is still at large,) raised
his spear and struck Mr. Agnew under the armpit,
with a blow of which Moolraj afterward remarked
that it brought down the very heavens upon
his head. Mr. Agnew was unarmed, but immediately
returned the blow with a riding-stick,
and leaped from his horse to grapple with the assailant.
Ameer Chund drew his sword, nnd cut
Mr. Agnew down, with two wounds on the shoulder
and neck.
At this moment Moolraj, instead of ordering the
seizure of Ameer Chund, or striking him dead,
slipped away to his garden-house; as he retreated, j
his personal sowars broke from his guard, and re- f
turning upon Lieutenant Anderson, who was till
then unhurt, set on him and cut him off his horse. '
with many wounds; left him apparently dead; and j
galloped off to resume their duty as personal guards
of the Dewan. Sidar Khun was not attacked; he
bound up Mr. Agnew's wounds with 9trips torn
from his own cloak, and, lifting him on an elephant, ;
carried him to the Eedguh, where Lieutenant An- j
derson was soon after brought by his own soldiers (
Their wounds having been dressed. Mr. Agnew (
proceeded to address a letter to the Dewan Moolraj,
expressing a generous disbelief in his participa- (
tion, but calling on him to clear himself beyond a
doubt by seizing the assailants, and also to come 1
himself to see him at the Gedgah. After a considerable
delay Moolraj sent an answer to this letter by ]
the hand of one of his chief men, Raeezadeh Tooi- (
see Dos, to the effect that it was out of his power
to give up the persons who had wounded the British
officers, and that he had been prevented by the
soldiery from coming to see Mr. Agnew. The letter
farther said that there was a great disturbance
*n the fort, and that the officers had better look to
themselves a'nd take measures for their own safety.
Mr. Agnew seems to have behaved with consummate
calmness and heroism at this trying moment.
He pointed out to Toolsee Dos how grave
a matter was in hand, and how absolutely indispensable
it was for Dewan Moolraj to call 011 him, if
he wished to justify himself and disavow the acts
of the soldiers. Toolsee Dos returned to his master,
but Moolraj never came. Preparations for
defence were made. Mr. Agnew personally attended
the mounting in battery of his six guns, and
ordered all his troops and adherents within the
walls of the Kedtrah. At dawn the Moolrni threw
off all disguise, and opened the fire of several of
hia fort-guns on the Eedgah ; but Mr. Agnew's
guns replied with such skill as to dismount one of
the Dewan's guns, and kill some of his artillerymen
The Dewan stayed his fire, and resorted to
other means?the corruption of the Sikh regiment,
by the traditionary brioe of bracelets and golden
chain*. The issue was speedy and fatal. By evening
all I tad deserted except Sidar Khan Singh, eight
01 ten of Kurrum ilahee'a horsemen and the Moonshees
and domestic servants of the British officers
Beneath the lofty dome of that empty hall (so
Strong and formidable that a very few stout hearts
could have defended it) stood this miserable group
around the lied* of the two wounded Englishmen.
The sun went down, and twilight was
closing in, when an indistinct and distant murmur
arose, as of a mass of men advancing.
A company of Moolraj's Murel>ee*, or swet pers
turned Sikhs, led on the frantic mob. It was an
appalling sight, and Sidar Khan Singh hegged of
Mr. Agnew to be allowed to wave a sheet and sue
for mercy. Weak in body from loss of blood, Mr.
Agnrw's heart failed him not. He replied: " The
time far mercy is gone; let none be asked for, they j
can kill us, too, if they like. But we are not the i
last of the English. Thousands of Englishmen
will come down when we are gone. ?nd annihilate j
Moolrajnnd his soldiers and hi* fort." The crowd
tow rushed in with hornble shouts, made Kl.an
Singh prisoner, and. pushing aside the aervanis ,
with the bulla of rnuskets, surrounded the two
wounded officers. Lieutenant Anderson was too
much wounded to move; and Mr. Agnew whs
silting by his liedside, holding hi* hand, and talking !
in English ; doubtless they were bidding each other j
farewell forever.
At this point stepped forward Goojur Singh, the i
prisoner on whose trial the facts of this tragedy !
were revealed. He was a Muzaliee. deformed, and j
almost a cripple, an object disgusting to nehnid. [
and probably, with refined barbarity, selected for
this reason to add a last indignity to the murder;
he stepped from the crowd with a drawn sword.
nil .Cot inatl If run r Im.af fV,r * f? w
with every abusive epithet which h foul language
can supply to a foul tongue, struck him twice upon (
the neclt, and, with a third blow, cut off hi* head. '
Some other wretch discharged a musket into the
lifeleas body. Then Anderson was hacked to
death with swords; and afterward the two bodie*
were dragged outside, and slashed and insulted by
the crowd Let us follow the bloodstained
crowd, and see?where go they? To the
Am Khas. There sit* Moot raj in his durlwr.
already taunting Sidar Khan Singh, laie hi* rival,
now his prisoner. Room for the monster Ooojur
Singh?tne murderer! He approaches?the crowd
make way for him, as for some good man, and he
advance* to Moofraj with Agnew'a head in hi*
hand. "What reward can Moolraj give for so ,
noble and brave a deed : Will Ooojur Singh accept
an elephant?a horse?a aword?a pistol?money; j
He haa only to name his own reward." But " ne
wanta nothing?he is content with having served
Moolraj!"
At last this generous contention ends by Agnew'a
own horse and pistol and a handful of rupees being
lorced upon the murderer ; and, long afterwards,
poor Agnew'a aervanta, peeping from their hiding \
places in the suburbs, could see their master's assassin
capering through the streets on their master'*
well-rememliered horse. But what became of the
head ? .Moolraj directed the head of Mr. Agnew to ,
be thrown into the lap of Sidar Kahn Singh; it was ;
.1 - A ,k. ... ...1,1 ,h. k.,.,1
of the youth he had brought down to govern Moullari
*" The Sidar. thinking over many kindnesses
and benefit* he had received at the hand* of Mr.
Agn<w. hurat into tear* The head wan immediately
taken from him ; the noatrila and mouth
were filled with gunpowder; the muatachioa, beard,
and hair wetted and plastered with the aame; and
then the whole aet fire to. Moolraj wa* much
nmuaed. and the crowd delighted Other and worae
indignities followed, auch aa I will not repeat; but, ;
doubtir**, the officer who conducted the proceeding*
of the court recorded them aa they appeared
and were aolemnly aworn to on the trial. At laat
Moolr j wa? weary of insulting the murdered Englishmen.
He ordered them to be buried , and they
were laid in a hasty grave among some tuft* of
graa* hy the Kedgah where they were killed. But
they could not be let alone even here Twice they
were torn up by the people of Monltnn, to rob them
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Ol me ClOin IIH1 wr?|ipr.i .linn. n iriiru uil.r mrjr
were buried, and a aentry placed over the spot till
they were forgotten."
The only parallel to the* atrocities n to be found
in the murder of Col Crow, of the army, by the
Mexican*, when the army of occupation wan encamped
near Matamoroa, previoua to the commencement
of hostilities
Tmr. F.x-Rotai Familt or Frawcb.?The Count
and Countess de Neuilly continue at St. Leonard a
On Friday week. Prince Jomville, with others, went
off fishing in the British Lion, and had moat excellent
aport. The whole of the family are in ihe enjoyment
of rood health, and daily drive to some of
the various delightful scene* in the neighborhood?
one day to Winchilaea, another to Battle, and a
third u. Bexhill. They have also viaited Tun|,ndge
Well*. Their stay at St. Leonnrd'a it lik? ly
to be prolonged for two or three weeka.
L
1 . ? -From
Iht London EconomistMilking
(^uahtlri of Cattle.
It is certainly remarkable that so little systematic
mention should generally be paid to breeding cat:le
for the dairy. Some of our beat feeding slock
a very deficient 111 tins respect. The Herafords
ire notoriously bud milkers, and in some herds of
Highly bred short-horns, many of the calves acarcey
produce milk enough to rear their own calves,
this is quite unnecessary-, for it is certain that the
:wo qualities of feeding and milking may be comimied
in one animal Perhaps it is because dairy
husbandry is not a fashionable branch of farming,
either among farmers or landed proprietors, that
we find it apparently neglected at agricultural shows.
But it must also tie recollected that there is no such
ready test of the value of a cow as a milker, as
there is of the shape, character, uud condition of an
inimal. Still there is a point which deserves the
mention of breeders. Many instances have come
inder our observation of how completely hereditary
ire the. milking qualities of cattle. Amongst others,
* ? have a cow, the grand-dam of which was u large
uruernsey cow?a sort famed for the quality as well
is quuntity of milk?which produces milk little
inferior in quality to that of the original Guernsey
stock. A heifer of this cow's will calve next spring,
jikI we fully anticipate that she will give the rich
milk of the Guernsey stock, though in form and
ippearance she is completely the short-horn. This
point is subjtct of a letter in the .Mark Lane Exyress
jf last Monday, from which we take the following
extracts. The writer says:
"Every person who ever wrote on cattle classed
ihe Hereford breed us inferior to the short-horns, as
regards the production of milk. Most writers, on
tin other hand, allow thein to be better for feeding.
Now, the fact of Hereford cows being generally
bad milkers, while there are individual cases in every
kerd of well-bred cows being excellent milkers and
*ood breeders, plainly proves that there is misdirected
management somewhere; and, feeling strongly
that this is the case, 1 am anxious to show where
the fault is."
And he then quoted this passage from Mr.
Keary's prize essay on the management of cattle,
to show that good feeders are not necessarily bad
milkers:
"The difficulty of combining the fattening and
milking qualities in the same animal is generally
Felt and acknowledged; but is it a Inwof nature that
this combination cannot take place? The principles
of physiology forbid us, I think, to affirm that
juch is the case; and the fact of a cow producing a
large quantity of butter is a proof that her food is
readily converted into fat; besides which, it is a matter
of frequent experience for deep milking cows,
when from age or other causes they are dried, to
tow nil,nil v into fine carcasses of beef. Bv study
[ng- more closely the habits of animals, ana paying
iue attention to those qualities in the selection of
:he males, I cannot help thinking that the valuable
:ombination of milking and feeding properties may
be attained." ?
Lord Portman has proved this in his herd of Devon
cows, which having long been carefully managed
with a view to the combination of the two qualities,
has attained it. His lordship's rule is never to rear
calves the offspring of a cow which has proved but
an indifferent milker or bad feeder; nor to buy a
bull of which the pedigree cannot be traced through
a milking mother. This last is often a point of some
difficulty. The writer then gives the following
corroborative case, as regards Herefords:
"Many years ago a neighbor purchased a Hereford
bull out of a superior stock; the heifer produce
of this bull proved to be good milkers, and the
steers very prime. In due time he sold that bull
and bought another, and apparently superior, the
heifer produce of the last bull were abominable
milkers, and the steers not so good as the other
bull's by ^2 or ^3 a head. 1 will give one more
instance. My father had a cow of the Hereford
breed, of excellent frame and beautiful countenance,
and good size, and an extraordinary milker?so
good a milker, that as soon as she had calved she
sunk rapidly in flesh, and would continue so all the
summer, that wc were almost ashamed to see her
with the other cows;' but her produce, when sold,
were invariably equal to any thing we had; and
when she was dried, which we had difficulty in doing,
she laid on fat faster and more evenly than any
cow I ever saw. This was what I call a profitable
animal; and it is such animals as these our agricultural
societies should encourage. Let not the difficulty
of decision deter them. Where there is a
will there is a way. The cows should be brought
to a certain spot the night before, milked clean,
milked at a certain hour the following morning, the
quality and quantity of the milk tested, and, if necessary,
the offspring shown along with them."
The following practical suggestions deserve attention;
though applied by the writer to Herefords,
tney are applicants 10 ouier nreeus:
"In mo? inatances our heifers calve the wrong
time of the year, dropping their calves from the lat
of December to the let of February?the cowe earlier?contequenlly
they art on dry fodder as toon at
they ealre. Now, if these heifere calved in May or
June, on the first spring of graas, a good flow of
milk would be the result. I know one farmer
* hoae cows calve about Christmas; hia heifers are
bulled to calve in May or June, when they are two
years old; these calves are put on cows whose calves
are wesned, and the heifers are milked that summer.
They are not bulled till the following February,
and get a summer's rest to make out the loss
of growth by calving at two years old. By this
plan he secures his rows to be good milkers, arid
at the same time good breeders.
'Another method to secure good milkers is to rear
the heifer and steer calves on s different plan. The
steers cannot be kept too well; the heifers should
be taken by hand Each lot should be fed for a
distinct object. By forcing the heifer calves and
making them up fat, a tendency to early maturity
is given at the expense of the milking qualities."
With reference to ihe last suggestion, we may observe
that it may perhaps be desirable to give
heifers somewhat more range whilst rearing than
is necessary or desirable for steers, but our own ex[ ericnoe
leads us to believe, that for the purpose of
making them good milkers they can scarcely be too
well fed during the first two years. After thsl
time a breeding animal will seldom be too fat.
It is understood that the Peninsula and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company are negotiating with
the government for the conveyance uf the mails from
a iialn I a Th? rnmnnnf Wcltellf'VC.
have mix ahipa now building, and if any contract i*
entered into they can commence in October, owing
to the forward condition of the new ahipa.
The Emperor of Ruaaia haa notified to the King
of Prussia, that he ahall not make any further uae
of the Prussian railway for thetranaport of Ruaaian
troop* U) Hungary. The Emperor doea thia in
order to relieve Pruaaia from the neceaaity of offering
any explanation* to France, and to deprive
France of any pretext for putting in note*.
The drying up of the Haarlem lake ta proceeding
rapidly. For aome time past two new ateam enginea
nave been added to tne one previoualv there,
and the three are now conatantly at work. The
water of the lake i* gone down more than a metre
below the level at Amaterdam.
Aa a number of pauper* and lieggara have been
landed in the lale of Man from Ireland, the governor
haa ia*ued a proclamation ordering, according
to Manx law, that all auch [>#raona ahall beaeir-aa,
and that the veaaela bringing them ehall b# detained,
to be dealt with according to law.
The Pana Expoaition waa opened on the 4th
inatant, and eompnaea 4,500 exhibitor*. The
building ta 900 feet long and 3.50 feet wide, containing
three court*, one of which ta filled with
metal work, chiefly coat iron and zinc. The erection
of the building alone ta aaid to have coat
496,000, but thia aeema scarcely credible.
1 nc nfw snip a<? k hi rortsmoutn, opening into
the lately finished steam l>n*tn, has been completed
by the contractor, Mr. Rolt. Its dimension* are?
length on the coping, 3<J0 feet; width, 90 feet;
length at bottom of dock, 260 feet: width, 35 feet.
It is capable of receiving the largest modem-lniilt
ship afloat.
The workmen employed in taking down part of
the wall on the north side of Scarborough pariah
church, have found a cannon shot weighing 321b*.
eml>edded in the wall, where it is supposed to have
been lodged during the long siege of Scarlsirough
castle in the great civil war.
Sir James Graham, it is stated, ha* withdraws
his name from the Carlton Club, and it is thought
that the recent proceedings in Parliament have banished
all idea of the Protectionists again ro-ojw rating
with the Peebles.
The Marquis of Londonderry gave a grand Iwnquet
on Tuesday to a large r?arty of Protectionists
arid Conservatives, with tne view of once more
uniting them for an attack on Downing street.
Three Egyptian youth* hsve arrived id Glasgow
for the purpose of learning how to build marine
steam engines One of them will lie instructed at
Mr. Napier's works in Glasgow, and the other two
will be sent to a foundry at Greenock.
The Gazette of Tuesday contains a rather odd
announcement: "Notice is hereby given tbat the
oresenistion of Mrs (James) McDouall, at her
Majesty's drawing mom, on Thursday last, the
31st May, took place through inadvertence.
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THE REPUBLIC.
WASHINGTON:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1849OFFICIAL.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES.
A Itrcoiumrmlatioii.
X a una^nn wlipti lhf? PmivinENOC of
I XJkV u. 'JVUUW.. " ?.
God has manifested itself in the visitation
of a fearful pestilence, which is spreading
its ravages throughout the land, it is fitting
that a people, whose reliance has ever
been on His Protection, should humble
themselves before His Throne; and, while
acknowledging past transgressions, ask a
continuance of Divine Mercy.
it is, therefore, earnestly recommended
that the first Friday in August be observed
throughout the United States as a day of
Fa-tint?, Humiliation, and Prayer. AH
business will be suspended in the various
branches of the public service on thatday;
and it is recommended to persons of all
religious denominations to abstain, as far
as practicable, from secular occupations,
and to assemble in their respective places
of Public Worship, to acknowledge the
Infinite Goodness which has watched
over our existence as a nation, and so
long crowned us with manifold blessings;
and to implore the Almighty, in His own
good time, to stay the destroying hand
which is now lifted up against us.
Z. TAYLOR.
Washington, July 3, 1849.
In the foregoing recommendation, by
the President of the United States, we
recognise the sympathy which a brave
and generous heart ever feels in the
afflictions of his fellow-men. Amid the
pressure of public business, and in the security
of a habitation as yet removed from
the presence of the Destroyer, the voice
of 1he mourner is heard, and the wailing
of the sore-afflicted is listened to and respected.
It is ever thus with such as
see in the good things that are spread be
fore us a Providence which leeds the
children of men out of the fulness of his
hand, and in the calamities which come
upon us the visitation of Him who chastiseth
whom he loveth.
It is fit that on this day, when our
hearts are lifted up in rejoicing over the
blessings which our fathers have handed
down to us as an inheritance, we bear in
mind that the cause of freedom was prospered
by the aid of Him who walked by
the side of Washington and supported
him in seasons of peril and despair. The
same Providence that shaped the ends of
battle to the breaking asunder the chains
of bondage then, now permits a grievous
pestilence to scourge the land with woe
and death. Along our thoroughfares, upon
the rivers, by the side of the lakes, and
where the deep sea rolls its mighty waters
on the shore, the strong man has been
struck down in his pride, and the weak
has been taken in his helplessness. The
way of the Destroyer is strewn with the
trophies of its power. On this day of jubilee
it is good to be mindful of the bitterness
which fills the cup of the orphan and
the darkness which has fallen upon the
house of the widow.
The President of the United States has
testified his sense of the public suffering.
Does it not become a country abounding
I in good gifts to follow the example of its
Chief Magistiate, and, whilst returning
I thanks for what we have received, implore
Him who offered up his only Son
for the redemption of mankind, to take
from us a scourge which is weighing down
the people with trouble as with a heavy
burden?
Qf^There will be no paper issued from
this office to-morrow. Our tri-weekly
subscribers will be served with to-day's
paper, as the publication of our regular
I tri-weekly will be interrupted by the customary
festivities of the national birth|
day.
the dimu stiiu coalition.** i
The sole organ has not yet heard the
news from New York. It has heard of the
"composition of differences" in the Locofoco
party in Connecticut, Vermont,
and Wisconsin. It approves the "healing
of differences" in those States. It prot
I WT r.Ua I -a ??/%
irpw illdl llic m lis ul^aun iia?u nu
to denounce the Democratic party, because
the Democrats of those States "have
acted as they have a right to art in their
lorn/ mutters." Hut the sole organ says
nothing about the coalition of the Barnburners
and Locofocos in the State of
New York. It says nothing of the very
important resolutions offered by Mr. Be.njamin
F. Buti.er, in the Democratic
Republican Committee of the city of New
York, pro|K>sing the amalgamation of the
lyocofocos and Free-soilers, nor of the approval
extended to those resolutions by
that " old Federal paper" the Evening
Post, the present organ of Mr. VanBurf.n
i and the Free-soilers. It says not a syllable
of the very active efforts now going on in
1 the State ol New York, to bring about a
THE REPUBLIC.
coalition of the Locofocos proper and the
Fiee-soilers or Abolitionists, on a sectional
platform, for the avowed purpose of thereby
breaking down th? Administration of the
"Southern slaveholder," General Taylok. 1
It has not yet informed its readers that the j
Democratic State Committee of New York 1
has issued a proposition for Union Conventions
of Barnburners, or Free-soilers,
and Locofocos, to agree upon the basis of j
the "indispensable reunion" of the Locofoco
party, and for the nomination of a joint
ticket, to be supported at the fall elections, j
Th* / Intnn Kau hoarrl uimilar itiavo. i
ments in other Northern States, but nothing
of them in New York. Where they
have occurred the Union thinks they are
all right, a mere "healingol'differences"?
patriotic, sensible, and just?because the
object of the combination is to break down
the "Southern slaveholder," President
Taylor.
The Free-soil party of Mr. Van Buren,
whose aid the Union now solicits for the
purpose ol breaking down President Taylor,
we need not undertake to describe.
It has been delineated by the Union itself,
in colors too vivid to admit of any height- j
ening of their effect. That journal has a !
thousand times denounced it as a factious
and mischievous combination, set on foot
with associations, and for purposes dangerous
and fatal to the country. Has the
Union forgotten .hat it said, in August last, !
of Mr. Van Buren and his followers, that
"never did a more desperate man attempt i
to lead, on more anomalous and monstrous
faction." And yet, with this
"anomalous and monstrous faction," the
Locofocos "have a right to act"?as long
as the object of action is to break down
President Taylor.
The Union used to say, a year ago, that
the Barnburners were worse than the
Whigs. It said, on one occasion, that
they "stand on immeasurably worse ground
than the Whigs, "because of their placing ]
themselves upon a sectional party, so j
threatening to the Union of our country."
And yet the sole organ thinks it safe for
the South, and right for the whole country,
for the Locofocos to strike hands with
this sectional party, threatening the union
of the country, provided that by this co- j
alition they can break down the Adminis- i
tration of the " Southern slaveholder," ,
President Tavlor.
In this connexion we would copy another
article from the Union of August, |
1848, which refers to a paragraph it had j
quoted from the Jilbany .irgus, deprecat- |
ing the establishment of a sectional party: ;
"This protest against a sectional organization of j
parties in our country as one of the worst evils
winch could Ijefell us, is wise and )ust. No possible
resxUt could be more disastrous. The greatness of
this evil forms, indeed, in the present circumstances
of the country, the strongest argument against the i
election of General Taylor, and in favor of the union
of the South in support of the NaUonal Democratic
nominations; because the defeal of General Cass,
at this time, by the lukewnrmness or defection of
the Democracy of the South, would, above all other
things, gice rigor and strength to the efforts stoic on
foot to organise such a sectional party in the North 1
Happily, no such result is to be apprehended."
To show that the Barnburners or Free- I
soilers, with whom the New York Loco- ]
focos are now coalescing, with the sane- |
tion of the Union, for the purpose of over- i
throwing the " Southern slaveholder," j
President Tavlor?to show that the Barn
burners arc the real Abolitionists, we copy
again:
From the Union of September, 1848.
Tilt Utica Barnbckkth?' Convention.?It it
ridiculous l? discriminate between the "Free-toilers"
and the "Liberty men" or Abolitionists, after
the scene which was enacted at Utica on the 13th
instant. Both the Barnburners' convention and
the Liberty convention assembled at the same place,
and on the same day, it is presumed, by full con- I
cert, and with an eye to ultimate and decided cooperation.
Such, at least, has been the result. No
sooner had "the Free-soil convention" been organized
than the following scene was enacted:
S. B. Jewctt, of Monroe, announced that the Lib- I
erty State convention had been called to meet here
to-day; that they had assembled in their usual numbers;
that, after debate, tbey had accented the Buffalo
platform and its candidates, VAN BUREN
and ADAMS, [cheers,] and that they had adopted
a resolution dissolving their organization. [Cheers ]
He moved that the chairman of that convention be
permuted to read it.
The motion was adopted by acclamation.
The Liberty delegates entered the convention,
and their chairman, Chas. O.Shepard, of Wyoming,
read the following resolutions amid repeated and ^
ronunuous cheers.
(laving read the resolutions, Mr. Shepard said:
Mr. President, these are the resolutions. In presenting
them I have so far discharged the auty
which devolves on me. We are here. (Applause.)
Mr Cochrane, of New York, moved that the
memtiers of the Liberty party convention be admitted
as honorary members ol this convention, and
(for it was necessary to make the motion yet
i broader) thai all persons present who are with us ,
in this cause l? admitted to seats in the name
( mariner.
1 hia wna adopted.
"Jitrt ( hey) are," then,a perfect amalgamation
between Van Buren and the Abolitioniata. To
atate the propoaition la startling enough. Ten years
ago it would have l?een the moat extravagant pre- |
diction which had ever been formed by the wildeat
imagination. Buttheconaommation laaccomnliahed,
to the utter proatration of Martin Van Buren's con1
aiatenry and of all hia hiatoric fame .
Thia same convention then proceeded to nonn- 1
nate John A. Dix na governor, and Seth M. (Jntea,
| Abolitioniat, an lieutenant governor; and Robert
I Kmmet, of New York, and James S. Wadsworth, ,
| of Liringnton, an State electora.
Can any man read those extracts from
the Union of 1848, and not wonder at the t
complacency with which it regards the
union of Lacofocos with Barnburners and 1
Free-soilers on sectional grounds, to over- I
throw the Administration of the "Southern
slaveholder," President Tayi.or?
Aw immense meeting to sympathize with the
Italian ihiinot*, was hold in New Orleans on the
evening of June -23. Ft wa? nddrraaed l?y Governor
Johnaon, Mr. F^a Rue, and other*, and atepa were
taken to rniae a aubacription in aid of Republican
principle* in Italy.
A report wh* current in NewOrleana on the 24th
ultimo, that a compnny of emigrant* from Rapid< a,
Lrfiuiaiaria, had been cut off and but aix left alive, '
in a rencontre with Indian* near the Rocky mountains.
IIY POC1ION DHIAIAL.
I "Its title it* ominous of ail interloping organs, and
hem e we look for the early exit of another journal.
' Sic trwuil, Sfc."
Such are the closing words of a paragraph
in the Union announcing, in the <
| usual vein of the 44 sole organ," the discontinuance
of the National Whig. We
shall not pause to criticise the phraseology
in which our contemporary chronicles the
demise of a neighbor. The more important
matter of the paragraph is the prediction
of its own early death. Any amount
of lugubrious self-conceit may be pardoned
to the melancholy which a sense of approaching
dissolution inspires, and hence
we should not be surprised that its own
:~J r *1 La it il
iavc uLtupcu mure ui us muugnis uian me
subject of its irreverent obituary notice.
There is no paper published in this city,
to our knowledge, which falls within the
category of 44 interloping organs," except
the Union. It alone has claimed for itself
the soubriquet and dignities of an organ?
44the sole organ," at the capital, of the
Locofoco party. It has elected itself to
that office. It is not the recognised representative
of any fragment of the party,
north, south, east, or west. It has been
repudiated by sundry martyrs who felt no
relief from tears shed by proxy in their
behalf, and hence refused to acknowledge it
as the lachrymal organ of the party. Yet
it has set itself up as the 44 sole organ " of
all Locofocoism, embraced in the disgusting
coalition between the Old Hunkers
and Free Soilers?to the party of "Frederick
Douglass the colored Abolitionist,"
and the deserters from Tammany Hall to
the sectional platform, 44 of all others the
most fatal," as the Union has it, "to
the union of these States." If the Union
cannot show title to organship, other than
its own say-so, it comes under the definition
of an " interloper." It is, therefore,
an " interloping organ," and the only one
in Washington. Hence it is manifest that
the " other journal " which is to make an
" early exit " is the Union?the " sole organ
"?the " interloping organ."
We hope, however, the Union's time is
not yet come. Its presentiment of death
arises out of a hypochondriacal state of
mind superinduced by dangerous reminiscences.
It can scarcely recall its wanton,
scandalous, and malicious assaults
upon the pure and good men it has labored
to defame, without some qualms of conscience.
Nor can it reflect upon the obsequious
and fulsome flattery it ever
Doured into the ear of power, without be
I * '
ing oppressed with a sense of servility. It
is the " perilous stuff" which lies upon
its heart, that has filled its mind with
megrims.
Moreover, but a few months ago, when
it cast its eyes toward the White House,
its breast was full of the milk of human
kindness; now it is all bonnyclabber.
Sudden changes from the extremes of heat
and cold are feeble types of the effect
wrought upon the Union's sensations by
the last elections. These terrible shocks
have deranged its nervous system. What
with unwholesome memories, severe neuralgic
visitations, and an acid condition of
the pancreatic juices, the Union has become
melancholy, hypochondriacal, and
foreboding. It sees its own doom in the
sepulchral forms with which a guilty conscience
and a disordered fancy people the
prospect before it. If it would make a
clean breast of it, and enter upon new
courses, it would have calmer dreams.
We hope it will make shift to do better,
though a career of vice long followed is
too apt to resist amendment. Should we,
however, be mistaken in supposing the
Union1* forebodings to be merely fantastic
?if, indeed, it must and will die?the
friends of the " sole organ " might find an
appropriate epitaph in what was said of
the blythesomest of the daughters of the
house of Pecksnith. For, in its devotion
to power, in its adulation of people who
could serve it, and in its Mattery of its supporters,
the " sole organ " was, indeed,
"A jpMAtng lMni(."
history vindicated.
We have already contradicted a portion
of the statement of the "sole organ" of
the Democracy in relation to the ex-Secretary,
who sometimes figures in its editorial
columns, and who is to be made up into a
"military hero," for the purpose, perhaps,
of the next Presidential campaign We
now propose to examine the residue of
that statement.
The "sole organ" alleges that, in the ,
year 1812, Mr. Buchanan "shouldered
his musket," and volunteered to defend ,
his country against her British invaders. 1
The truth of history must be vindicated, i
It was not in 1812, but in 1815, that Mr. J
Buchanan volunteered in defence of his 1
country. Previously to that time, he had
been engaged in the lucrative practice of
the law in the then Federal county of Lancaster,
where he realized much more than
the ten centa a day which constitute the
wages of labor in countries where matters
are reduced to the "metallic standard" of
which Mr. Buchanan is so deeply enamored.
The "sole organ." then, is three
years out in its dates.
Then, as to the musket. If the ex
Secretary shouldered a musket, he must
have cut an extraordinary figure; and it
could have been only from entertaining
Bob Acres' view of the advantage of taking
1 down your enemy at "a long shot." The
Federal lawyer was a private in a troop of
cavalry, was a bold dragoon. If his
company were armed with muskets, they
must have formed the most awkward squad
ever set in the field. We imagine that
they carried long swords; and we have no
doubt that our gallant defender of his
country made a very pretty show of it on
horseback, with his helmet and waving
plume, and his ugly and dangerous weapon.
How unlike that Hector, who blazed
away on 54? 40', and then let us down
OQUU nil dU in Olllf f\i dami??A
vuiy wu xv ?? ?? OU1V VI UOII1UIC Ulftl/R) AIIU
stainless neckcloth, the very beau-ideal of
a Penn!
But now for his achievements. When
news reached the young Federal lawyer of
the British operations in the neighborhood
of Baltimore, filled with martial ardor, he
joined a corps of "most gallant cavalry,"
which, by a novel application of what is
known, we believe, as a movement pu
echelon, took up their line of march for
Frederick. Though this post was somewhat
remote from the scene of action, certain
it is that, subsequently to the arrival
of the Lancaster cavalry at this place, the
British forces evacuated the country, and
the bold dragoons entered Baltimore in
triumph, without the loss of a single man.
Foremost in the ranks of these gallant
men, on this interesting entry, was the
young Federal lawyer, in youth as in age,
formidable to the enemies of his country.
Who can deny to such eminent service
the military laurel? It is obvious enough
that the Whig enemies of their country
must always look with distrust and suspi
cion on a man who has thus bled and suffered
in its cause.
Mr. Buchanan, then, never shouldered
a musket. Mr. Buchanan did not volunteer
in 1812, but in 1*15?the very year
in which he delivered the flaming 4th of
July oration in Lancaster, filled with all
sorts of the worst possible Federalism, were
Federalism twice as bad as the Union represents
it. We take pleasure in recording
these minute facts as materials for history.
Cotemporary annals are silent in regard to
Mr. Buchanan's military services during
the war with Great Britain, and the world
might have forgotten them if they had not
been revived five-and-thirty years after
their date by the Union. We hope the
sole organ will give the particulars to the
world with the same fulness of detail at
which we have aimed.
HON. TRUMAN 8MITH.
The publication in the Union of Sunday
last of the following letter of the Hon.
Truman Smith, furnishes a fit occasion
for us to tender to that distinguished and
working Whig our sincere thanks for the
interest he has taken in our behalf. Mr.
Smith is known through the length and
breadth of this confederacy as a supporter
of the cause, of whom it may be truly said,
no labor can weary, and no adversity
appal him. In the noontide heat, his
hand is uj>on the handle of the plough;
and in the coolness of the evening he rec
i l:.. I i A 1
ncniico inn /.cai uv contemplating mi* morrow's
business.
We fear he has placed too high an estimate
upon our ability to uphold the great
principles of our party, and to repel the
slanderous, insidious, and unscrupulous
attacks which are daily made upon the
President of our choice. But it is achieving
much to merit the support of such a
champion; and his voluntary support may
well inspire us with more confidence in
ourselves. We shall endeavor to appreciate
his kindness, by the only requital he
would regard as such?by emulating his
devotion to the cause.
Prom the .Yew Haven Register.
[ Privale.)
Wamiinoton Citt, June IS, 1849
Sra: 1 lake the liberty to transmit to you the pro |>ectus
of "Th?: Rkpubi.ic," a newspaper established
in this city fuvoritble to the administration of
President Taylor It is, in my judgment, important
that this paper should ai an early day obtain a
large circulation in every quarter of the Union.
Nothing is intended by this as derogatory to the
National Intkli.igevcbb?an invaluable journal,
worthy of all (Kxisihle encouragement. But in consequence
of the vast and rapid augmentation of the
population and wealth of the country, it is believed
that there is ample scope for two papers, which, by
a diversity of talent and energies, can contribute
powerfully to the ascendency of sound conservative
principles in our Government. It is olrviou* that
,L_ t i_ e J -. nrv ? ? ? ?
mr iririiiiH w iTfKKirni i nyior mum nc on the
alert; for he had scarcely ascended to the exalted
position to which he has I ecu called by the people,
before faction commenced a ruthless opposition to
him and his administration in advance. The Union
(newsfiaper) is thr organ of this movement. In the
columns of that print, President Taylor is incessantly
misrepresented and maligned, his capacity to
administer the Government derided, and his Cabinet
and friends made the objects of every species of obloquy.
All this can and will be promptly and energetically
met in the columns of the Republic
Ttie high claims of President Taylor to the confidence
and affections of the American people will lie
set forth and sustained. Faction will be chastised
and rebuked. Am pis justice will lie done all classes
of our public men; to all sections of the Union and
nil the pi-rut interest* of thr country. Bemdea, you
rjinnot fail to have noticed the unprincipled coali- )
tinn now being rapidly formed in all the free State*
between the power* of Locofocoiam and Abolition- I
i*m, to render the Adminiatration of President Taylor
abortive Thi* i* exactly what 1 have expected
for year* Political aholitioninm is only another
form of radicaliem. Nothing can be more danger-'
on* to thr peace of the country, or the aafety of the
Union, than the organization of a great party on
?e< iinnnl ground* I regard aectionnlinm, whether
it the North or South, Ea*t or Went, with aliher- '
rem > and deteatalion, and we mint not auflfer our I
noble-hi arted Piemdenl to !> crushad by *uch unhallowed
mean*. Already we have lieen deprived
jf three rtiemliere of Congrc** from Connecticut by I i
heme machination*, and the Unitm rejoice* over the
-.oimummation. I'remdcnt Taylor and hi* admini*ration
ahould have a fair trial, and it will lie time 1
mough to dim ard him when he fnil* to realize the i
X|ieetation* of the people To elevntc hmi to the
Presidency, and then to hunt him down without
mine, would be a reproach to fnjc institution*, and 1
io the American n.ime and charac.ter. j
The Republic will prove a powerful auxiliary in (
very regard. It m eatnlilmhed under the heat poe ible
auspice* ( with ample rapitul, and a happy ar- '
ray and combination of enterprine and talent. You |
will observe thai the terms are very moderate, es.
peciully where a considerable number of copies are
ordered al one and the same time. Permit me to
solicit your beat endeavors to give a circulation to
the paper within the sphere of your influence.
Respectfully, yours,
TRUMAN SMITH.
OFFICIAL.
Dki*artmcnt or Statk,
Washington, July 3, 1S49.
Information has been received, from Stanhope
Prevost, esq , consul of the United States at Lima,
of the death, in that city, of Mr. Emeel Moncini,
dentist, who arrived at Callao in the April steamer
from Panama, with upwards of one hundred emigrants
from the United States, seeking passage for
California. The effects left by the deceased were
taken possession of by Mr. Prevost and sold at
auction. The balance due his estate, alter paying
sundry bills incurred in his sickness and burial.
will be transmitted to the treasury of the United
States, to be holden in trust for the legal cluimants.
From Mr. Moncini's private papers, received from
Mr. Prevost, it appears that lie was a resident of
Boydtown, Virginia, about eighteen months previous
to September, 1648.
NEW YORK.
! This city just now rejoices in two very pretty
quarrels, which, together with the cholera, supply
the press with fertile themes. One of these is the reception
of Father Mathew and the propriety of assigning
him lodgings at the Irving House. The Tribune
sees no objection to this arrangement, assuming
that tlmse of his visitres who happen to require
any "refreshments" at the bar will pay for them out
of their own pockets. The other papers of the city
take views ssmewhat different; yet all concur in
the propriety of paying him the highest honors.
The procession was (urge and orderly, and in all
respects worthy of Mew York. The other subject
is the controversy between Mr. Greeley and Bishop
Hughes. The latter has written a rejoinder to the
article in the Tribune strongly characteristic of the
peculiar)suariter in modo, for titer in re, and assuming
the very tenable position, that it was almost the
duty of France to interfere to rescue the Pope from
the Neapolitan and Austrian monarchs, who certainly
would have interfered, and thereby made the
greut head of the Roman Catholic church, who at
this time especially should be free from all despotic
influences, a vassal and a dependent. This is but
the purport of one of the passages of the Bishop's
letter. The statement of the Tribune, that order
reigns in Rome, is expressly denied, and reference
is made to the murder of Rossi, the destruction of
the carriages of the Cardinals, and the fine imposed
uii me priests oi a cnurcn on uie Aventine tor refusing
to chaunt a Tt Deum, after the first successes
of the revolutionists. To a comparison of the
Italian patriots with those of the American revolution,
Dr. Hughes thus pointedly objects:
" I am often surprised to see even educated men
in this country allowing the brightest page of its
history to be tarnished oy admitting into comparison
with the American revolution the principles and
the men of petty and abortive revolutions in Europe.
The men of the revolution in this country took up
arms, not to overthrow an old government, but to
resist a nets tyranny. They resisted that tyranny
with success; and wnen the battle was over were
an independent nation. Their cause was just in the
sight of Heaven and of man. Heaven blessed them
in sustaining it. They were wise in council; they
were brave in the field ; they were honorable, highminded
men every where; they did no act to tarnish
the justice of their cause?no act of which their
proudest posterity need be ashamed. There was
no assa-sin among them. They hated whatever
was dishonorable; they despised a lie and its utterer?in
short, they were gentlemen as well as patriots.
The troops walked sometimes barefoot on the snow;
but they committed no sacrilege, they plundered no
churches?they respected the rights of property,
both public and private. And I ask, in the name
of insulted freedom, whether the murderers of Rossi,
and of the other victims of the Roman revolution,
are to be admitted or rather elevated by Americans
to any species of comparative eauality with the untarnished
names of Franklin, Washington, Hancock,
and their noble associates : Though not an
American born, yet I for one feel pride enough in
the history of the country to enter my humble protest
against it."
Circumstances give a color of strong probability
to this, as in the latest accounts we find 110 item referring
to the enlightened and scholar-like L. Bonaparte,
the best of all Ins family; while to Garnbsidi,
the career of whom in South America is so well
known, the companion of Harro Herring, professedly
not a believer in any revealed religion, and
who has l>een all hie life opposed to all governments,
consiant reference is made.
On this subject the Albany Evening Journal thus
speaks:
" Are the Roman revolutionists willing to recognise
the spiritual authority of the successor of St.
Peter? We have been under the linpiession that
the revolutionists were alike hostile to the Pope as
a civil arid a spiritual ruler
" With all our sympathies in favor of Free Government,
we have not been able to share in the enthusiasm
of those who hail the Roman revolution
as a joyful event. Pius the Ninth stood forth, in
the eyes of the whole world, as a reformer. The
stainless purity of his life, the liberality of his sentiments,
the goodness and benevolence of Ins heart,
were proverbial He signalized his accession to
power by acta of wisdom and philanthropy which
elicited the admiration of the wise and the virtuous
of all other Natioi s, and which ought to have secured
the affection and gratitude of the Romaa people.
Elsewhere, or in other times, the magnanimity
and virtues of such a ruler would have made
deep impressions upon the hearts of his people.
But in Italy, a ruler is dethroned and driven away
into exile by those on whom he had conferred benefits
and showered blessings."
Signor Srrekt di G'sssJt has also published u second
letter, in which he states that he has proofs to show
that Rossi "ftll under thr ponimrd of Jnnilxcal intrigues."
These are the chief points of discussion
as it stands, which is conducted with so much bitterness
that the two parties seem, like those classical
cats of Kilkenny, likely to annihilate each other;
and prevent either the Pope, if he be in need, from
receiving substantial aid, or the party of Young
Italy, if meritorioua, from being greeted by cis-Atlantic
sympathy.
MEXICO.
The New Orleans Patria haa seen a letter dated
June IS, Tampion, to a merchant of New Orleans,
containing the following passage "Things in this
city are assuming a serious aspect, and there ia no
doubt but that we approximate to a serious revolution.
The discontent of those who suffer from the
frequent alterations of policy of the government
continually increases." The Patria says, the wri-.
ter of the above paragraph is one of the best informed
in Mexico, and that his ideas of coming
events have almost always been realized This
seems, just now, most probable, as it is currently
reported that D. To mas Marin, commander of
Mexican brig of wnr Vera Cruz, hail been sent to
Tampico to arrest, and it is said to execute summarily,
two agents of Santa Anna, named Kscolmr
md Arrillaga, long connected with the ax-president.
The first of these persons, it mny Ire remembered,
acquired much notoriety some years I
tfro, a* the author of the various Articles signed
Cnhn? y Sar^entr*. for whi< h he was driven into rile.
All account* concur in stating that if the plan
to restore Santa Annn d< rs not succeed in Tampico,
it will beak oji in some nthei section of the r.otiniry
Some such idea may have been the moving
ibjecl of the plot nt OriMva, accounts of the ?np- ^
preasion of which were received yesterday
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