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WASHINGTON.
? 'Liberty uid Union, now and forever, one and
inseparable."
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1851.
DEATH OF COMMODORE WARRINGTON
11 is our painful task to announce the decease of
Commodore Lewis Warrington, of the U. S.
Navy. He died at his residence in this city yes
terday morning, between 6 and 6 o'clock, in the
69th year of his age, after an illness of severe suf
fering.
Com. Warrington was a native of Virginia.
He was born in November, 1782, and, after passing
his academic course at William and Mary College,
entered the Navy in January, 1800; so that he
had served nearly fifty-two years. His professional
services and brilliant achievements are interwoven
with the history of his country, and are conspicu
ous in some of its brightest pages. He was almost
the only one left of that noble roll of brave naval
commanders who, in the war of 1812, achieved so
much glory for their country by their brilliant vic
tories against an enemy till then deemed invincible.
To high professional merit Com. W. added an
amiable disposition and a modesty which won
great personal esteem, and will make his loss sin
cerely regretted by the society in which he moved.
VIRGINIA ELECTIONS.
As the day of election approaches, the canvass
in Virginia waxes warm. With the exception,
however, of the wide-spread interest felt in the for
tunes of the Whig candidate for the Governorship, j
whose high and pure reputation i? national, the
public regard beyond the borders of the State is
chiefly directed to the Congressional election in
the metropolitan district of Richmond ; and we
trust that we may, without offence, avow that we
share very largely the general interest felt in the
issue of the contest in that district. The two candi
dates stand deservedly high in the personal regard
of their friends, and are both worthy of the sup
port of their respective parties and of each other ;
but the principles and policy of which they are the
chosen champions are as widely asunder as the
weal and wo of the Republic.
Mr. Botts, the Whig candidate, has heretofore
served his district faithfully, and is a man of com
manding talents, firmness, and independent spirit;
which last-mentioned quality, although it has
sometimes offended thin-skinned friends, who can
brook no difference of opinion, has, we confess, al
ways commanded our particular respect.* His suc
cess is now, moreover, identified with the cause of
The Union, of which he is an unflinching friend
and supporter. His competitor, Mr. Caskie, the
Democratic candidate, besides the insuperable ob
jection to his general party principles, is of that
sect of politicians calling themselves "Southern
Rights," or "Abstract Secessionists," or some
other name implying equivocal loyalty to the
Union, whose tendencies at least, if not their feel
ings, are inimical to it, and who are, at any rate,
friends of the Union with an if. At the same time,
therefore, that Mr. Botts enlists our good wishes
as a thorough Whig and an able supporter of Whig
principles, we are doubly anxious for his success
because of his firm devotion to the Union.
We are happy to think the signs are favorable to
his^success, for We perceive that his adversaries
have sprung upon him a charge that he is friendly
to the Abolitionists ; and we take it for a sign of
desperation that they have started an allegation so
entirely absurd as that.
The President has intimated, it is said, to the
Federal officers of that district, that the perpetra
tors of the outrage against the law at Syracuse
must be arrested and held to the same strict account
as those of Christiana.
Our Governmental Departments have received
official information from San Francisco that letters
frequently reach there - with the envelopes partly
torn off, and the address mutilated, in consequence
of the practice of using sealing-wax to secure the
^ envelopes.
In passing through the tropics the wax is in
variably melted so as to destroy all semblance of a
s4al, and not unfrequently so as to adhere to the
letter beneath it, and cause the injury or destruc
tion of the address in separating the two.
The Postmaster General therefore recommends
to all persons having correspondence with Cali
fornia, and other parts of the coast of the Pacific
Ocean, to discontinue the use of wax in sealing their
letters or other papers.
It was not without real pain that we learnt from
the subjoined annunciation of the death of the
Hon. William Creighton, of Chillicoth?, Ohio,
one of the oldest subscribers to this paper, and one
of our oldest and steadiest personal and political
friends. Our acquaintance with him began as ear
ly as in the winter of 1813, when he first became
a Representative, and was renewed at a later date,
in 1815, when he afterwards came to Congress.
He was one of the mosi excellent of men, and the
most conservative and consistent of patriots, and
we sincerely lament his death.
l.-WM?V.,Wnw died in Chil?colhe on Wednesday night
art.. The liazette says : "He wa. born in Berkeley coun
ty, Virginia, on the 39th of October, 1778, and waa conse
quently at bia death nearly aeveny-three year, of age. He
honor at DickinsonCollege
t'o nr I " "7 e#r,y ,?e- "e 'tUdied ^
U?naed to prince in h.a native State before attaining m.jo
h i ,h I k ^ #eMon Ch?"'co?he WM , id ,v
he passed through this p|tceon hi- ,o Kentnck , k V
? "VSm." V 10 fr Two J"" ?'?? be pitched hia teat
in Chillicothe, and here baa reaided, in the practice of hia
?h! E* rrM impor"nt ?f PuWi< trnat,
ever since. He began the practice of the law at an earlier
period than any other living member of the bar in the State
eierpting only ih? v. turable J .cob b?,?,, c?S?n??'
and, aa the Judge long ranee retired from active life Mr C
waa of cou?e the oldeat member in actual practiced Ohio!
Mr. 0. a firat public service was as 8*Cretar? 0f St.u. nf
the then infant State of Ohio. He was .fterwar.la elected .
member of Congreaa, and nerved in the National Leeislature
during the t me of the late war with Great Britain. JS0 man
in that body w?a more favorably known for hia patriotism or
distinguished for active usefulness. After an interval ol ten
years, he was again choten to Congraaa, where he continurd
two fuither terma. Since the expiration of tbeae he has re
uded at home, practicing his profession, and, though repeat
edly solicited, be could not be induced to accept office."
Hon. I homa8 C. Hackktt, a member of the
ast ( ongrpss from Georgia, died at Marietta, ir
that State, on the 8th instant.
Letters from on board the ship Vand alia, ai
Acapulco, say that the whole crew suffered im
mensely with fever\ Sixty men were down at a
time, and were so much reduced as to be scarcely
able to walk about.
TRUTH FITLY AND BRAVELY SPOKEN.
We are glad to find that the " Southern Patriot,''
? the fearless and generous supporter of the princi
ples of the Union as it is, or, in other words, the
Constitution of the United States as it has been
for sixty-odil years, disdains to join in the general
cry of accusation against ihe General Government,
as oppressing, or persecuting, or menacing the State
of South Carolina. We copy from that paper,
(published, as our readers know, at Greenville, 8.
C.) under date of the 1st instant, the following
remarks:
It ia high time far the co-operationist<?, whilst fighting
secession, and knowing that it will bring down on the Slate
n thing but disaster, ruin, and diahonor, to close their ex
aggerated misrepresentations of the oppressions of the Fed
eral Government. They cannot, at the *ame time, go with
the secessionist, and beyond the secessionists, in depicting
the pretended misery and degradation of the people of 8outh
Carolina, and then aak them to be quiet and aubmit to it till
other Slates come to their aid, who have already declared, by
overwhelming majoritiee, that they uev?r will come under
existing circumstances.
These pictures of our wrongs are untrue, and every where
out of South Carolina they have been pronounced untrue by
the Southern people. Were they true, the whole South
would set as one man, shivering to pieces the Republic, the
Union, and the Government. In admtticg them to be true,
as the distinguished co-oj eration leaders do, they arm the
secessionists with weapons which they cannot resist. It is
not in human nature to bear such wronga. No honorable
man would take hi* seat in Congress from the Seuth if the
Northern members were all a set of cut-throats, incendiariea,
and robbers, trying to set our negroes free, s eal from us our
property, and set the midnight torch to our houses.
Good men and true, who love their country, and who love
order, peace, and regulated liberty, seeking from their public
men information, are astounded to hear such palpable contra
dictions in the speeches and addresses of their leading states
men. They reply, very naturally, there must be a mistake
somewhere. These pictures of Federal oppression and
Northern aggie*ion are not true, or the pe>ple of the other
Southern States would instantly fly to arms and fight their
death by the side of South Carolina.
It is high time for the co-operationists to quit this suicidal
courte. Let them | reaeut things fairly to the people, and tell
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. There
would be no danger in secession, in separate State action
none at all?if all that has been sai I and is said in South
Carolina were true. There would be no waiting for co
operation ; it would be immediate and simultaneous through
out the whole South.
Wre are happy and prosperous as a people, and feel no
tyranny or oppression. Wrongs may have been attempted,
insults in ay have been offered, and injuries done us by the
Federal Government, tut ihey have not been of such a cha
racter as to justify us in commencing a revolu'ion and a civil
war. This is known and felt every where out of South
Carolina, and ?o admitted by tbe Southern Rights parly
themselves in Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and the other
Southern States. But in South Carolina it has been a race
and a contest with our politicians, and newspaper presses,
and slump orators, to see who could make things the black
est and foulest.
In other Southern States the people have heard both sides,
and have come to correct conclusions. But in South Caro
lina they have heard neither sii'e. I hey lave heard nothing
but misrepresentation and exaggeration on one side, and by
these exaggerations and misrepresentations they have been
driven, by the most honorable impulses, to the brink of an
awful precipice ; and uow they are disposed to jump over in
order to avoid dangers behind.
The man who ran away and hung himself to avoid being
killed in battle was not under a greater delusion than the se
i cessionists are in flying to certain dishonor and destruction to
avoid evils and dangers which never will, never can come.
THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY.
The " Richmond Times" aptly reproduces the
important correspondence which took place between
Mr. Madison and Alexander Hamilton, after the
Virginia Convention of 1788 had ratified the Fede
ral Constitution, and whilst the New York Con
vention was deliberating upon it. The queries of
Hamilton and the answer of Madison make it clear,
beyond all controversy, (says the Times,) that the
Union was formed with no understanding on the
part of the Stales that they might withdraw from it
at their pleasure, and that Virginia and New York
especially ratified the Constitution widi a distinct
understanding to the contrary.
It is a little curious to observe the change of
terms which has come about since the time when
the Federal Constitution was adopted. What was
receding from the Union then is seceding now;
and from Mr. Jefferson's Paris letter lately pub
lished it seems that compulsion was in that day
equivalent to the modern coercion.
The " Republic" publishes, from the manuscript,
the last written Letter (before his execution) of
Col. Crittenden, (of the Cuban Expedition,) ad
dressed to his uncle, the Hon. J. J. Crittenden,
as follows:
"Ship or Wia Esperanza, Acquit 16, 1851.
"Dear Uhcle : In ? few moments some fifty of us will
be shot?we came with Lipez. You will do me the justice
to believe that my motive for coming was a good one. I was
deceived by Lopez. He as well as the public press assured
me that the island was in a state of prosperous revolution.
" I am commanded to finish writing at once.
" Your nephew, W. L. Cbittxhdeh.
" I will die like a man.
"Hon. J. J. Cbittxwde*,
?? Attorney General United States, Washington."
Yes, (remarks the 14 Republic" on this Letter,)
doubly was he deceived by the public press : in
the first instance by the misrepresentation of the
nature and character of the expedition in which he
was about to engage, as it was understood by the
laws of the civilised world. Herein was the first
and most cruel deception. He was told that a ca
reer of glory was before him, and that his name
would live in h>Blory on the same page with that of
Kosciusko and Lafayette?among the "liberators"
of mankind. He was told that in the indulgence
of a "generous sympathy" he might look for a
" higher law" than the statutes of his country, which
in the conflict might be meritoriously disobeyed.
This was the first deception.
The second was hardly more criminal?the ma
nufacture and circulation of false intelligence. It
is true, as Crittenden alleges, that the " public
press" told him that Cuba was in a state of "pros
perous revolution." We now know, from other
information than that of Crittenden, not only that
this statement was " deceptive," but that there was
no possible foundation for it. In all its length and
breadth it was a lie. Who were the guilty authors
of this fabrication it may now be difficult to trace;
but does not responsibility rest upon those who cir
culated it knowing it to be false, or most improba
blei, or who, at all events, did not know or care a
rush whether it was true or false ?
i We hope that the " public press" will be taught
( by the fate of Crittenden and his command to be
more guarded in the doctrines it inculcates and the
intelligence to which it gives circulation.
, ?
( The Bennington (Vt.) Banner records the death on tbe
11th Septtmbcr of Mr. Hahdu Haffowp, of Bennington,
aged 90 years. After speaking of hie holy religious life, tbe
Banner rrmsrks : "He bad just en'ered hi* 17th year when
? he volunteered to meet tbe veteran invaders under Colonel
? Back, in tbe memorable Battle of Bennington ; was one
' of lb9 first to mount tbe Hessian breastwork, and ia proba
I ? bly the last of thai brave band of worthies."
THE REVOLT IN MEXICO.
There is, as appears to us, a world of sense and
sobriety in the following remarks on this subject,
from a paper of neutral politics, (we believe,! and,
as we have lately had occasion to observe, of high
independence:
mux THE rCBUC L( DSEB OF OCTOB1B 9.
The Revolctioh iw Mexico?We publish this morniDg
the particular* of the revolution now in progress in the north
ern part of Mexico. The Stales of Chihuahua, Coabuila,
New Leon, and Tamaulipas seem to be in open rebellion
against the Federal Government of Mexico. We know not
what are their grievances, or where the "movement" will
end, but need no ghost to tell us that nothing lets than a ra
dical, sweeping change can save the Mexican nation from
dissolution. Oppressed with debt, foreign and domestic,
without a revenue, with an overgrown church, a rich, selfish,
factious landed aristocracy, and an ignorant, imbecile popu
lace, the Mexican nation seems to be in the last atage of de
cay, and on the point of dissolution. And if it should fall
into fragments, each of them will become an independent
State, in continual war with all its neighbors. 8uch has been
tbe fate of all the rest of Spanish America, excepting Chili,
ever since its separation from Spain.
Paraguay, Peru, Terra Firma, Central America, divided
into petty 8tatea, alternately ruled by diflerent factions, are
types of what Mexico is destined to be, at least for a time, up
on the extinction of its Federal Government. It cannot be
united again ; the Northern States will be Texanixtd, or ab
so. bed by our Confederacy ; and, this once effected, the re
mainder will follow their example, till ?? manifest destiny "
covers tbe whole. We have always predicted this ; and during
the Mexican war distinctly and frequently expressed a wish
for its accomplishment, if it could be done gradually and by
justifiable means. But we have no wish to accelerate it by
lawless, piratical invasions, involving violation of treaties.
We could not now, without a griw violation of our treaty {
with Mexico, admit or annex any portion of its territoiy
Yet this "movement " may well be regarded as origioatinf
in that sane desire of annexation for an ultimata purpose
which prompted the invasion of Texas, and encouraged, if it
did not devise, the piracy against Cuba. We perceive that a
military company from Texas are foremost in the "liberating
army " of this insurrection, and doubt not that hundreds of
the reckless, disorderly adventurers so numerous in our large
! cities and at the West and Southwest will flock to this "li
J berating standard." If their presence in Mexico renders no
real service to humanity, their absence from the United States
will be no loss to their country. Such, then, being the pro
minent actors in this affair, we are constrained to regard it as
the first step in an intended violation of our treaty with Mexi
co. We desire no annexation through suchWans. Nor do
we regard the Mexican population as quite prepared for incor
poration, with the United States. A longer apprenticeship to
a settled government upon free principles, and more infusion
of Northern races, will be necessary to qualify them for such
compsnionship. When tbe Mexican Government, soon after
the separation from Spain, expelled all the European Spa
niards, they banished the vital spirit of the country, wbich has
ever since declined. Spanish Creoles, Indians, Negroes, and
their crosses, as now found in Mexico, are scarcely fit for an
immediate incorporation with the United States. *
The following very judicious remarks on the
same subject are copied from the Montgomery
(Ala.) Journal of October 6:
The Phoscsciaxientos is Mexico ?As will be seen ir.
another column, a new revolution has been commenced in
Mexico, and the Government troops have been driven out of
a portion of the country bordering on the Rio Grands. It is
stated lhat tho disaffection extends through a portion of the
States of Tamaulipas, New Leon, and Coahuila, aid that a
determination exists there among the people to separate from
the Central Mexican Government, and annex themselves to
the United States. It is also stated that prominent citizens
of Texas are. engaged in forwarding this revolution. The
Sooth has had one lesson on thia subject; it is not her poli
cy to encourage the annexation of any more free a>il territo
ry, or territory which will not, from its natural advantages of
soil, climate, and capacity for staple productions, invite slave
labjr. It was well understood, from all reliable authority,
and commonly admitted previous to the purchase of the
Mexican territory acquired by the l.t* war. that it and
must continue to be from its nature free soil. Yet the cry of
a large portion of the South unfortunately was, " never mind,
extend the area of freedom and the result was, that itself
by its own act (contrary to the advice of Calhoun, anfl con
trary to any political necessity of the case, for the Govern
ment bad better means to secure indemnity) surrounded it
self by " a cordon of free States." Shall this suicidal curse
be continued > It is stated that a narrow s'rip of the valley
of the Rio Grande, extending from Monterey to Tampico,
will in portions produce sugar; beyond that limit there is
little hope that slave labor can be made profitable.
It is the duty of the South to look into this malter, and
see what is indeed the nature of the country, and not en
gage again in a free-soil conquest, which will tend to strength
en the hands of abolition fanaticism?"forewarned foiearm
ed." It should be recollected that Congress cannot make
slave States, or change the order of na'ure. Yoo cannot
make a silk purse of a sow's ear, or a slave State of a terri
tory which will not from its nature invite ila settlement by
slaveholders. A portion of this territory may be adapted to
slave labor, but a large portion of it cannot be, at least at
present.
The following are the sentiments of Senator
Soule with regard to the position of South Caro
lina. They were promulgated in a late speech de
livered by the Senator, and published in the New
Orleans papers:
" In regard to the position of South Carolina, ahe being a
sovereign State, he had nothing to do with her or her acta ;
he had no more right to aay what 8outh Carolina ahould do
than South Carolina had to say what Louisiana ahould do ?
though in his heart he might, under the circumatances, con
sider her course rash, still, he maintain*, her honor and prin
c.ples he admired and vindicated. To the questions as to
whether he would recommend the Southern 8tates to aecede
for past grievances, be replied that, under all the circum
stances of the case, he would not recommend secession. In
consideration of what tbe Union had done for us, of its past
glories and triumphs, be would say, wait and see tbe final de
cision of tbe North towards us; for, peradventure, ahe may
yet make amend, for the past by giving ua a gaaranty of jus
tice for the future. Under the Union we have grown a great
and mighty people. Our flag was known and respected in
every sea. Our name was known throughout the earth.
Consequently, we should ponder much and long before de
termining to exercise tbe right of secesiion."
A correspondent of the Cleveland Herald, no
thing the advertisement of the four girls of Troy
for husbands, is out upon the practice, and gives
ina hurry mSlance 38 a warn?ng to young girls
"Some twenty year, aince ?a lady,' who, as it afterward.
iszi rr ? bo,rdin* ^ ?n ad
vertisement for a husband. She found no difficulty in ob
.nZL??Vh "h?rt riod ?" on
smoothly with tbe newly.m.rr.ed pair, who were, on an event
ful morning, partaking of a comfortable breakfast, when a
^"n^rt ? 'elf " lhe h0U#e' P'ofc^'y to make
the needful .nqu.nes preparatory to placing a dnughter at the
-hl h. ' ,CTM '",roJuced into the breakfast-room,
where be announced himself,, ? po,ice offi ? tbe (a(M
moment P^ucog a warrant for .he apprehension of the lady'.
newly -goiten husband on a charge of murder> To the foul
crme of seduction he had added that of t.kmg tbe life of hi.
vie im, whom be decoyed into a barn for the purpose which
having accomplished, be buried ber under the fl0?!"'
The Legislature of Ver???t mcl al Monlpelier
<ra Thowday last. There i. a Whig majority in
both branches. 1Ihoma, K. Powk*. elected
Speaker of the House of Representatives; the
Lieutenant Governor presides over the Senate A
canvass of the votes cast at the late election shows
the majority for Charles K. Williams, (Whig,)
the present incumbent, to be 989 votes over all
other candidates. His plurality over the next can
didate waa 7,720.
THE UNION VICTORY IN GEORGIA.
Our latest intelligence from Georgia runs the
majority of the Hon. Howell Cobb, for Governor,
up to a mark exceeding sixteen thousand votes!
The return* are yet to come in from eleven coun
ties, which will increase the present majority.
This, says the Augusta Chronicle, ia one of the
most overwhelming defeats ever witnessed in
Georgia. It is not confined to any particular sec
tion or locality, but extends from the seaboard to
the mountains, and from the Savannah to the Chat
tahoochie. Every where the glorious cause of the
Union and Constitution are triumphantly sustained
by a patriotic people. Indeed we cannot convey
the idea of the universal condemnation of the agi
tators more strongly than by the mention of the
single fact that in ninety-five counties McDonald
has not carried twenty-five, and those by very
small majorities.
The majorities given to the Union candidates for
Congress are equally decisive. The Macon Mes
senger informs us that the united majorities of
Jackson and Bailey, the Southern-Rights' mem
bers elected in the first and third districts, is less
than 600 ; whilst Johnson succeeds in the second
district by 1,000 or 1,500; Murphy, in the fourth,
by over 2,000 ; Chastain, in the fifthr by nearly
6,000; Hyllier, in the sixth, by about 4,000 ;
Toombs, by 2,000 ; and Stephens by 2,400 votes.
The Legislature will be three-fourths Union, and
the Congressional delegation six Union men to two
agitators.
The following circular was extensively dissemi
nated throughout Georgia, on the eve of the late
election in that State, by the friends of the unsuc
cessful candidate for Governor:
Marietta, 8sftembs? 20, 1851.
Dkah. Si* : Oa my return home lo day I found several
letters informing me that it is extensively reported ia several
counties that I am in favor of our State seceding from the
Union for the past aggressions t>( Congress on oih rights,
and ihat if I am elected I will encourage 8outh Carolina to
tecede, and endeavor to carry Georgia with her. The whole
of this statement is a gnma fabrication, and false in every
part of it. It is put in circulation on the eve of the election
to affect the vote, and is the woik of designing and unprin
cipled men, who know that I am more sincere'y devoted to
the Constitution and the Union than theimelvei. i adopt
this method to beg of you the favor to give the statement the
most unqualified contradiction upon my authority.
Yours, veiy respectfully,
CHAB. J. McDONALD.
The Louisville Courier of last Saturday states,
on what it deems reliable information, that Mr.
Clay's health is gradually improving, and that
there is no reason for supposing that he will not be
at Washington at the opening of the next session of
Congress. His own opinion is that he will con
tinue to enjoy as good health at Washington as he
has at home. This will be gratifying news to the
riends of the great Statesman.
The Disunionists in South Carolina receive the
news of the recent election in Georgia with ill-con
cealed chagrin. They profess, however, a deter
mination to persevere. They say now that if they
secede and resist, the other Southern States will
"sympathize," and not until then. We are then
to be forced into disunion by South Carolina, al
though the cotton lords there admit that the South
is opposed to them and their designs ! We shall
see.?Alexandria Gazette.
Something must be done for the Filibusters.
The northern provinces of Mexico are hardly worth
robbing, and, though our treaty obligations sit upon
a great many of our people as lightly as lovers'
vows, it is not worth the cost of breaking them for
the barren territory, the miserable population, and
altogether wretched country which lies on the other
side of the Rio Grande. Cuba is a very tempting
prize ; but that flower is tnn thickly surrounded hy
thorns. The Sandwich Islands are so anxious for
annexation that there would be no opposition, and
hence no excitement in an invasion. The popula
tion of St. Domingo does not suit the Filibustering
enterprise, and the British lion growls from Jamaica
and Canada. What then shall the Filibusters* do?
and how shall they keep alive the spirit of liberty
and reserve the tendencies of progress ? Are the
free and enlightened citizens of the Southwest to be
cut off from all chance ot a fight ? Is the whole
world to settle down into a state of ignominious
peace, and shall every man meanly set himself to
attending to his own business? Assuredly not;
some outlet must be found for the irrepressible spi
rit of " manifest destiny."
In this emergency, we think that the kingdom of
Naples affords a fine opportunity. The Govern
ment is the worst, with the possible exception of
Rome, on the face of the civilized globe. There
are more wrong and injustice, more oppression and
wickedness, in that Government than in any other
of which we have any account. There can be no
doubt of the sympathy of the people of that coun
try with any plan for the overthrow of the detesta
ble and horrible rule under which they suffer. Now,
we think the Fillibusters might, with the very gen
eral approbation of the civilized world, and greatly
to the relief of this country, turn their atteution to
Naples. If the leaders who have urged on the Cu
ban expedition, the editors, and orators, and specu
lators in Cuban bonds, will go with them, we think
the Government would find it impossible to with
stand the public sympathy in favor of their depar
ture. They might land on the island of Sicily,
where a few thousand Yankee muskets and West
ern rifles, aided by the popular feeling, would make
a stand which all the Bourbons in Naples could not
resist. Be the issue as it might, the result could
hardly fail to be a fortunate one?fortunate for Na
ples if it succeeded, and fortunate for this country
so long as the Fillibusters did not return.
[Providence Journal.
W. W. W. Bowie, Esq., of Prince George's county,
(Md.) has been invited to deliver the first annual address be
fore the 44 Valley Agricultural Society of Virginia" on the
16th instant. This association is composed of the rich coun
ties of Jefferson, Clarke, Berkeley, and Frederick.
Sewtewck or Iwcewdiabies.?Horace R. Conklin has
been convicted at Utica, as the ringleader of a band of incen
diaries, of arson in February last, and sentenced to be hung
on the 21st of November. A person named Orcutt was
convicted of the same offence some time ago, and sentenced
to the aame punishment. Other parties, some of them said
to be men of property, are yet to be tried for similaT offences.
It is almost time to doubt the declaration of " the preacher"
that there is "nothing new under the sun." Everyday
something new "turns up," as Micawber would say. Yes
terday we chronicled the invention of a Cold Water Steam
Engine, and now we see it stated that a gentleman in New
port (Ky.) is perfecting an application of electricity for pro
pelling a box containing letteraover wires from place to place,
on the telegraphic principle. The experiment over wires of
six hundred yards in length has worked to a charm. What
next '?New York Courier.
It is slated on good authority that the cost of the three
days'jubilee in Boston will not exceed $40,000. The coat
of the dinner on the Common (exclusive of the tent and de
corations) wat about ?4,000.
A cobbler ba? j>jst located himself at Spalding, and at
tract* attention with the following address rutstde hie shop ;
" Surgery pei formed upon old b^ota and shoes, by adding
of feet, making good the lega, binding the broken, healing
the wounded, altering the constitution, and supporting the
body with new soles. No cure, no pay. Advice gratis on
the most desperate cases."?London Weekly Newt.
Ma. WEBSTER FN HI8 NATIVE STATE.
The Hon. Daniel Webster was present on
Thursday last, as a specially invited guest, at the
annual Agricultural Fair in Manchester, New
Hampshire. He was met at the State line by a com
mittee deputed for that purpose, and, on his araival
at Manchester, was welcomed with the greatest
enthusiasm by immense crowds of people, who
had congregated in the vicinity of the railroad
depot. Hon. S. H. Aver there addressed him in a
felicitous speech, to which Mr. Webster replied
in a few appropriate remarks, complimentary of
the people of New Hampshire, &c. A large pro
cession was then formed, composed of the military
companies, the schools, and the various civic asso
ciations, which escorted Mr. Webster to the
ground selected for the special ceremonies of the
day, consisting among ^ther things of an oration by
the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder. When this was
concluded1, Mr. Webster being loudly called for,
he came forward amidst the deafening cheers of
the assembiuge, and delivered a speech of which
we find the following report in the Northern papers:
Laiuk? Gkhtlkmbu : I hardly know how to occupy
the very few momenta in wbieh it ia proper for me to addreae
you. I came here to-day a.1 a visiter and a sweat, to see and
to hear, and to exchange congratulations with ay countrymen
and countrywomen of New Hbotpahiref but it ia too late i?
the day, if the occasion waa proper, for the discussion of any
subjects except thoae which belong to that particular object
in regard to which your eloquent friend haa so fully and ably j
diesotirsed.
Ladies and gentlemen, on these- occaaiona I know very well
that there ia aome limit to patience and to atrength. You !
may deaire to aee me aa one of your original fellow-eitizena ;
you naay deaire to hear my voice ; bat I am sure you do not j
denim to hear me discourse on f'pica auch I have dlacuaaed,
and osmmonly discussed, elsewhere, on an ocaaaion ao cloae- '
ly confined in ita appropriateneaa to one object. I will aay to :
you, ladiea and gentlemen, that, if there be any one thing in
my heart atronger than any other wiab, it ia that all the va- j
rious-jHireuits of life protected by lawr prosecuted by scientific !
discovery, and guarantied by free government, may continue j
to prosper in tbia our land.
Ladies and gentlemen, your fathers and my father*, gene
rations that have gone before ua, united the character of aol
dier and farmer. They fought the enemy and they fought
the inclemency of the weather, and they struggled with the
soil. The mechanic art they pursued and enjoyed no further
than was necessary to carry on those great elementary opera
tions ofa farming country. They lived in a cold region?a
region of s'X months of winter, and a short summer, during
which they were to provide for thi? great length of inclement
weather?they went, therefore, zealously to work and culti
vated the fields for their own subsistence and I am old enough
to have seen, and Been since I waa a member and practised
at the bar, those who have been shot and wounded in their
own cornfields by Indian muskets on thin river just above us.
Now, gentlemen, all is changed. Wars of that kind have
ceased, snd some have come tq. an end. He who was once
half aoldier and half firmer has now become altogether
farmer,, or else he has gone to the mechanic arts, to those
various improvements which enrioh and adorn society 5 and
our Slate of New Hampshire is as great a participator in these
improvements as any part of the country ; and I need not say
to you, gentlemen, I need not say to you, that this new face
of thing#,, this great change that has come over us, while it is
partly owing to peace on the frontiers, which has released in
former times so many of the people of New Hampshire from
border wars, thit peace itself has been promoted, and all the
arts that we see flourishing around uc, and the increase of
wealth which we b hold, are the fruits, first of all, of the
enterprising character, and next the good Government under
which it has pleased Almighty Providence to permit us
tol ive.
Friends and fellow-citizens, we are at the head of the West
ern world. No man car) appreciate what is due to himself as
an Americaa citizen, or what are the duties incumbent on him
as such, who does not feel that he h one of the twenty-five
millions of people who are setting a great example of freedom
and republicanism to the rest of (he world ; and if he be nan
row, or local, or prejudiced; if he be as blind as a mole; if
he cannot see an inch before him, he cannot comprehend his
destiny. He does not know the place he fill* amidst the hu
man race. Therefore, I think that it is incumbent on us all,
on all these occasional public meetings, that we see, and know,
and feel the progress of our own prosperity, and remember
that it is the result of those institutions which our fathers
founded for us, and which it is our duty always and at every
sacrifice to maintain. .
Gentlemen, the hour of the day, if nothing else, would pre
vent me from discussing any of those subjects which more ap
propriately belong to another sphere.
The eloquent gentleman who welcomed me at the cars this
morning was kind enough to say that in this vast assembly
there was no political party?there was a general attachment
to the Union, f believe it. I do not believe that the soil pf
New Hampshire can produce any of the opposite poisonous
plant. It is as free from all noxious weeds of that description
as any part of the country. I am glad of it?for mere u?r
rennesa on the naked tops of the Goffstown Hills or White
Mountains, is far to be preferred to the richest aoila which
produce nothing but plants of mischievous poisonous growth.
Gentlemen, I delight to dwell upon the consideration that
I am a New Hampshire man, and am now among New
Hampshire men. I delight to feel that I aland on my native
sod, in the neighborhood of ihose whom I have regarded from I
my infancy. I am able to recollect that the tomb of the great
hero of Bennington is near us. I am proud to remember thct
many of my friends, and especially my own father, was with
him on that occasion, and to know that on these hills in early
life I have seen his comrades.
And now, gentlemen, if we turn back to our New Hamp
shire people ; if we re member the men who shed their blood,
and employed their counsels for the liberty of this country ;
if we think of Bartlett and Whipple and Thornton, of the
Gilmans, the Langdons, and all those patriots of two or three
generations ago, who founded our New Hampshire govern
ment, who connected us with the great Government of the
Union, who sought with all tbeir hearts, and recommended
with all tbeir powers, as far as was proper, to lead the people
into its adoption?and if we could to-day see them all here,
Josiah Bartlett, Wm. Whipple, John Taylor Gilman, and
the test, and ask them how we should deport ourselves in the
present crisis of our country?what would tbey say } If any
should say, we were for breaking off from this Union, were
for cutting loose the ties that are binding us together, would
they not say we were stark mad?departing from every thing
they bad taught us ?
Gentlemen, let me assure you that, in my conviction, the
thunderbolt that rives the hardy oak and splits it from its
stock to the ground in ten thousand piece*, and scatters those
pieces over the earth?it may be a more sudden mode of de
struction, but it is not a surer?than a spirit of disunion will
show. If it is let forth in its angry zeal upon this united
Government under which we now live, its fragments will
cover the earth, and we will feel the smoke of its sulphur aa
long as we live.
Now, gentlemen, let us stand where our fathers stood.
Let us say we are Americana, one and all; that we go for
the general liberty, the general freedom, the general security
of the whole American Republic; that we know where we
are, and who we are; that we know who is looking at us
from every part of the earth, anxious to s?e whether we shall
falter and fail, and come to nothing, and anxious to see whe
ther we will go on and adhere to our fathers' principles and
our own principles, and build up, to the end of time, the most
glorious Government the world has ever seen. My choice is
made, and it is your choice. Yon do not mean that any
stigma of departing from the good principles of your fathers
ahall rest on you?not one.
Gentlemen, again I tay that it would be pleasing for me to
pass days with you ; but the hours of the day are rapidly
passing away, and I must take my leave of you. Carry my
affectionate regard, every one of you, to your own families
and your own firesides, and say that to-day you have seen
one of the aons of New Hampshire, whom circumstance haa
led away from his native State for years, come back full of
New Hampshire sentiments, full of the aentimenta of his fa
thers and grandfathers, and that he has left them in your
charge, and prayed you to give them in charge to your chil
dren forever and ever. [Cheers ]
After Mr. Webster sat down, and the cheers had
subsided, Hon. John P. Hale was called for, who
made a brief speech, and was followed by Mr.
Peaslee.
Mr. Webster returned to Boston on Friday. His
health is said to be improving.
Failure or thx Maktla!?i> Mmiifo Compaht.?This
company has been compelled to make an asaignment of all ita
extensive property in Alleghany county (Md.) for the bene
fit of its creditors, in consequence of the failure of Frbxmak
Rawdow, of New York, its financial agent, and one of its
largest stockholders. All the handa employed at the Eckhart
mines immediately suspended work, and considerable excite
ment ensued, which was aoon allayed by a despatch from
New York announcing that the aaslgnee waa authorized to
pay the miners what was due them, and that operationaat the
mines would be continued aa uaual. The Alleghanian ssya
that the indebtedness of the company is repreaen ed to be
very large, principally in New York, and that early measures
will be taken to wind up its affaire, and change the ownership
of the valuable minea and other property.
FROM BUEN08 AYRE3.
i We have Advices from Buenos Ay res to the 18 th
i of August. The principal feature of interest is the
treaty Negotiated between France and the Argen
tine Republic, only now published, although it
was signed by the plenipotentiaries of each coun
try in August, 1850. It contains the following
provisions :
1st. That (be Argentine Republic will adhere loan immedi
ate suspension of hostilities between the Oriental forces and
Montevideo, and thrse of the country districts. 2d. That
the agent of the French Governmtni will reclaim from Mon
tevideo the immediate disarmament of the foreign legion,
either in Montevideo or any other part of the Oriental Re
public. 3d. That tbe army of (he Argentine Confederation
shall retire upon the Urugsay. 4ih. That France shall raise
the blockade of the Oriental port?, evacuate the Island of
Martin Garcia^ make restitution of vesaels which may have
been taken, and salute the flag of the Confederation with
twenty-one gum. 6th. That the two contracting parties
shall restore vessels taken during the blockade to their respec
tive owners. 6th. That the French Republic recognises the
navigation of the rner Parana a?an interior navigation of tbe
Argentine Confederation, and subject only to its laws ant)
regulations, the ssne as that of the Uraguay, in common
with the Oriental State*. 7th, 8th, and 9th articles contain
no provisions of interest. Article 11th settles the matter of
various titles, France recognising Oribe ae a brigadier only,
and not as President of Uruguay. 12th end 13th sections
I refer to tbe exchange of ratifications.
The Buenos Ay re? Packet aaye that a similar treaty ha?
| been negotiated with Qtibe.
On the 3d of August tbe Buenos Ayres Government offi
cially informed the French resident Minister that the armis
tice negotiated in May, 1849, would cease to be of effect so
soon as the parties to it had been duly notified.
A Brazilian vessel had been captured1 by a British steamer.
Ninety-four slaves were found on board'.
There are no clear intelligible accounts-of belligerent move
ments. It ia asserted generally in the advicea that Brazil is
making: active preparations to invade the Argentine territory
and take pert with Urquizs, but there are oontradictary ru
mors respecting tbe positions of all parties to what seems to
be a generally unsettled state of afiairs. llrquiza was at Cerro
Pel id o on tbe 4th of August, according to what seem to be
the most recent accounts.
The Ron. Mr. PzMiu.ZTOzri American Chargu d'Affaires
from thia Government near the Government of Bdenoe Ayres,
was'daily expected at the latter city from Rio de Janeiro.
[iV. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
COAL IN- IOWA.
Thi? youthful sister of the Confederacy is im
mensely rich in natural resources. Dr. Owen,
the geologist, who surveyed the State by order of
the United States Government, stated before the
American Scientific Association, in reference to the
coal deposites of Iowa, that-?
" Between Johnson and Iowa counties an uplift of carbo
niferous sandstone is encountered, whioh is probably near the
eastern limits of the Des Moines coal field. The Iowe river
meanders near the eastern margin of this coal field, but the
seams presented en tberiver are of inferior quality. Itis upward*
of two hundred miles in the direction of tbe valley of the Dee
Moines across tbe great coal fields. Westwardly it extends
from the Dee Moine; river nearly across the State of Iowa.
The entire area of this coal field in Iowa alone cannot be less
than twenty thousand square miles, in all embracing % coun
try nearly equal in extent to the State of Indiana."
He estimates the beds of coal to be one hundred feet in
thickness, and, lying near the surface,. they must be capable of
being worked easily and at small expense.
THE 8TORM IN NOVA SCOTIA
We gather from the Eastern papers tbe following additional
particulars relative to the fearful storm and marine disastere
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and along, the coast of Prince
Edward Island :
The gale commenced on tbe 3d, and continued' until the
night of the 5th instant. A few vessels that were in Bay
Chaleur when the gale commenced put to tea, and have
mostly arrived at various ports, but many which remained
suffered severely.
Prince Edward Island, the scene of most of tbe disasters,
is about one hundred miles long and thirty broad. It is sepa
rated from the main land by a channel some thirty or thirty
five miles wide. The northeastern coast curves inward, with
a bend of eighteen or twenty miles. Along this coast are se
veral harbors, which generally afford a good anchorage, but
are difficult of accuse, on account of the bars which obstruct
their entrance. The shore is mostly of sand, which iu mmy
places is piled up in large hills, and tbe northeastern shore
above described was the scene of the disasters. ,
The whole shore is strewed with wrecks of vessels and the
bodies of their crews. The exact number of vessels and livee
lost has not been ascertained, but it was believed that not lesa
than one nunaiea and nrty vessels were ashore on the island,
(including of course many British, )~and from their holds fifty
dead bodies had been recovered at the latest date.
The greatest excitement prevails at Gloucester and New
burypoit, as well as at other of tbe seaports of Massachusetts.
There were in and around the Bay Cbaleur sixty five fishing
vessels belonging to Newburyport, manned by about seven
hundred and twenty-five men, and about one hundred
and forty frpm Gloucester, besides probably twice that num
ber from other towns in Massachusetts. It is to be expected,
therefore, that the uncertainty attending this calamity should
cause intense anxiety in hundreds of families resident at those
places.
THE NEW PRIMER.
The Spirit of the Times, in a second article (which we give
below) upon Maynard's system of Priming, announces its
clear conviction of the merits of the invention, coinciding fully
not only with our own opinion, but with that of every sport
ing or military man we have heard, speak upon the aubject.
For a governing opinion upon this matter, or any other with
in its province, no higher authority can be found, and none
more entitled to respect, than that of the editor of the Times, ,
who, with the keen eye of the practised and skillful sports
man, and a never-sleeping vigilance for the interests of the
public, deserves tbe credit of being the first to bring before
the sporting and military world the full importance of thia
marvelously simple and effective invention.
FROM THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.
Tbe Maykard System or Primirs.?Since the May
nard system of priming first attracted our attention, and so
favorably as t > induce us to bring it to tbe notice of our read
ers, we have examined it more thoroughly and studied it more
closely, and are more and more convinced of its great supe
riority and advantages, and its consequent demands upon
public attention.
We profess to know something of tbe history and practical
use of firearm*, and we have never seen an invention for their
improvement so important in its object, so simple in its con
struction, so exact and unfailing in its operation, ao easy in
its use ; indeed, possessing in every respect such admirable
and perfect "fitness for the end in view," as thit beautiful
production of Dr. Maynard. It ought to yield him a prince
ly fortune, and, if he escapes the usual fate of inventors,
it will.
To the sportsman it combines more advantages, with artis
tic skill and neatness, than we ever expected to see accom
plished ; and to the military it must be of incalculable import
ance, since it is officially reported that ordinarily it so sim
plifies and reduces the motions of tbe soldier a* to increasa
his efficiency thirty per cent. What, then, must be this in
crease in the dark, or on horseback, or in the excitement of
battle, with fresh troops, or when the soldier is so benumbed
wi?h cold (as we have been) tha' he can scarcely feel a cap
in his fingers, and requires more time to get one from his
pocket and put it upon the nipple than to load 1
Its success we consider as certain as tbe triumphs of rail
roads and steam navigation.
It will be seen by the following paragraph from the " Euro
pean Times" that this invention is attracting some notice
across the pond :
" More American COrtribctioits.?Two additions have
recently been made to the United States department which are
well worthy of notiee. The first is the Maynard primer, a
substitute for the percussion cap, which is simply a coil of
paper, at intervals in which spots of detonating powder are
placed. The action of the doghead carries oat Irom the sham
ber in which it is contained this cheap and self-acting substi
tute for the ordinary gun apparatus, which ia a vast economy
in expense aa well aa in time. In its charaeter the invention
is one which admits of being easily adapted to every descrip
tion of firearms at present commonly in use, and that at a
trifling cost."
Amongst the items extracted by some of our contempora
ries from late Buenos Ayrean papers is the following :
ii X dreadful conflagration had taken place among tbe Chi
nese shipping in the river Kieog on the 1st January. Tbe
number of craft destroyed is estimated by aome at 30,000;
and more than 70.000 dead bodiea have been taken Irom the
river. The details are horrible beyond description."
It may be that the above alludes to tbe same calamity of
which we had full accounta some months ago, and which,
having travelled to Buenos Ayras, has now returned to us.