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BY SAM. P. IVINS.
- ATHENS, TENN., FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1854.
VOL. YI.-N0. 301.
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THE POST.
ATHENS FRIDAY. JCLY SI, 1854.
Washington, July 11.
The Senato on Tuesday passed Mr. Ham
lin'a Pacific Telegraph Bill. This bill gives
to the contractor two millioni of acres of land
for the construction of a lino of telegraph
Irom the Mississippi River to San Francisco,
within ten years. The Government to be al
lowed to transmit, free of cost, eight thou
sand words monthly, stations to be kept up
nt each hundred miles; nnd the rates to be
charged are double those charged on lines
now in operation; but as the cost of construct
ing a subterranean line and keeping it in re
pair is three times that of other lines, this
increase of rates is considered but just.
Latest. The latest ndvices from Europe
etnta that the recent reverses had destroyed
tho confidence of the Russian troops, and
broken the pride of the notion.
It was shrewdly suspected that tho evacu
ation of tho Principalities was designed to
further the formation of n league between
Russia and the German powers.
The English press were clamorous for the
. bombardment of Constradt, in order to hum
ble Russia before peace should be declared
nn event which is now not considered impro
bable tST" After eleven balfots, the New Hamp
oliire Legislature abandoned the attempt to
. elect u United States Senator to fill the short
term. Mr. John S. Wells, the Administra
tion candidate, at no time received more than
149 votes, nnd thus fell 6 short of a majority;
155 votes being necessary to a choice. The
next highest vote was 103 for the Hon. G. W,
- Morrison, n Democratic member of the pres
ent Congress, who voted ngninst the Nebras
ka bill. The remainder of the vote was scat
tered among several persons. A motion to
indefinitely postpone was made on Friday, by
Mr. Nesmith, of Franklin, Whig, which was
adopted by 159 to 147. A motion to recon
sider the vote was negatived, 157 to 144. So
tho Senatorial question is settled for this
session.
More Failures. Messrs. DeLnunny, he
lm &. Clark, one of the most respeclablo
houses in Wall-stroet, New York, who have
confined themselves to their legitimate busi
ness, the sales ol Stocks and Bonds and ne
gotiations of I-onns nnd Foreign Exchange,
have suspended payment.
Messrs. Willis & Co., of Boston, have fail
cd, ns also, have Messrs. Bishop & Co., Rail
Road Contractors, in Connecticut.
The Filibusters in New Orleans.
Judge Campbell, on the 3d inst, ordered the
United Slates Marshal to lodgo Gen. Quit
man, John S. Thrasher and Dr. A. L Saunders
in prison, in consequence of thoir rofusal to
give bonds as required by the Judge The
bonds were thereupon given under protest, by
the gentlemen nnmod, which protests are pub
lished in the Delta of the 4th.
t35T" A friend who has just returned from
Washington City, says that tho Nebraska
bill has killed every public man in the country,
whether for or against it He thinks the next
President will bo a man who may be able to
swear that he never heard of such n country
a Nebraska, novorrend the Nebraska bill, or
heard a Nebraska speech !
A Peremptory Refusal A Turkish
vessel was recently seized by n Russian ship,
and on board was found n cargo of Circas
sian girls, (beautiful of course) intended for
tho slave market in Constantinople. Their
liberty was offered them by tho Russian com
ninnder, hut they indignantly refuse d it.
They look upon a Turkish harem a a sort of
paradise.
fST" Tho Banking Housonf Augusto Bel.
wont, Beavcr-strcet, Now York, has been
Mbed of Si 4,000.
Boston, July H.The panic in the Boston
Stock market is very great, and Brokors nre
failing daily. The recent developments in
New York nro exercising a very unfavorable
loflucnco on nff irs in that city.
l-lfTho Chattanooga Gazette, says that
tho new State Road Depot is so far complet
ed as to admit of its occupancy. It is aaidto
be a splondid affair.
lETAtlanta, Go,, is a specimen of the
beneficial effects of Railroads on towns.
Nine years Ago it was in tho woods, but now,
by four Railroads running into it, it has a
population of eight or nine thousand.
InfiFMr. Query wonders if when night
. fall's ahe doesn't hurt herself. The desire
of Mr. Query for "useful knowledge" nnd
things is only equalled by his humanity.
Chicago, III., July 10.
There were 130 deaths from cholera jn
' Chicago on Sunday.
Latest Intelligence. Liverpool Wed
nesday noon. The Russians had arrested asd
held in custody the correspondents of the
London newspapers on the right bank of the
Danube.
They had removed all their heavy artillery
from the Danube.
The brothers Davidson and Gardner Cole,
bankers of London, have failed for a large
amount. The latter was heavily engaged in
the East India trade.
At noon Wednesday, in Liverpool, Cotton
had advanced l-16d. Sales up to that hour
8000 bales.
Manchester trade active.
The private accounts are more favorable to
cotton.
The Continental news is very scanty.
There is no fresh intelligence from the East
The French Three per Cents opened at
73f. and rose to 73f., 456.
On the 23d, Nareisca Escosgra, mother of
the former Minister of that name, was arrest
el at Madrid.
The following paragraph, dated St Peters
burg, 17th June, is from the Moniteur of
yesterdny.
The damage caused by the blockade of the
coasts of the Hultic nnd Black Sens may be
estimated pretty nearly according to the oidi
nary rate of the exports nnd the imports.
Thus, in 1852,3,500 freighted vessels entered
the ports of the Baltic, and about the same
number left those ports. The number of
vessels which entered the Black Sea was 2,
600. Total 1,500,000 tons.
Foreign News, New York, July 12. The
British and North American Royal Mail ship
Asia, Copt. E. G. Lott, has just arrived nt
New York from Liverpool, which port she
loft on the 1st instant
hThe official reply of Russia to tho de
mands of Austria had not been received.
The Austrians, however, will certainly occu
py the Principalities, ns nn Austrian nrmy of
two hundred thousand men were preparing
to enter them, in order to prevent the occur
rence of further hostilities there.
The battle-field seems to be changing to
the Crimea, ns the Anglo-French fleet were
preparing for nn expedition into that penin
sula, under Marshal St. Arnaud, and the
Turkish garrisons were already on the march
thi.her.
Tho whole of the Russian Army is fulling
back on the Pruth.
Admiral Sir Charles Napier, on the 27th
ult , was concentrating his forces preparatory
to making an attack upon Cronstradt
Both armies in Asia were motionless.
Elections Coming. The political camps
all over the country nre beginning to exhibit
the bustle of preparation for the approaching
contests. Elections nre to bo held in twenty
five of the States within a period of about
three months. A majority of the members of
the next House of Representatives nre to bo
chosen, and in Massachusetts, Vermont New
York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Mis
souri, Iowa and California, Legislatures nre
to be eleeted which will choose one Senator
each, except that of North Carolina, which
will elect two. The Administration of Presi
dent Pierce is about to be subjected to its
most trying ordeal nn ordeal which will de
termine whether the latter half of its history
shall be nn experience of power and distinc
tion, or weakness and dishonor.' It is the
severest political ordeal that any earthly
power is ever made to undergo; nnd Franklin
Pierce may well take concern to himself that
he gets a good deliverance. No person ever
went into the Pres'dcntinl chair with a pres
tige of such popular favor; if it proves that
public confidence has beon withdrawn from
him, the reproach will be so much the more
deep nnd humiliating.
fHf Tho Pickens, S. C, Keowee Courier,
of the 8th inst.snys: "Corn is suffering much
in many localities for the wnnt of rain. This
is caused by the unprecedented hot weather,
which seems to have drnnk every particle of
moisture from the earth; nnd although the dry
spell is of only two weeks' duration, it has
done the execution of a month of ordinary
wenther. Many places, however, have been
blest with refreshing showers during the past
week, nnd we have been informed that farm,
ers above this nre not yet suffering to nny
great cxtont A larger crop of oats has never
been harvested within the recollection of, at
lenst the young; nnd a better prospect for
corn rarely equalled could we only be favored
with n good season or two.
The Drunkard's Cloak In the time of
Oliver Cromwell, tho magistrates In tho North
of England punished drunkards by making
them carry what is called the "Drunkard's
Cloak." This was n largo barrel, with one
head out, nnd n hole in tho other, through
which tho offender wns made to put his head,
whilo his hands were drawn through two
small holes on each side. With this ho wns
compelled to march along the public streets.
What a strange night it would be were nil
the drunkards now n-dnys compelled to march
about wearing barrels for clonks.
Dip the Atlantic dry with n ten-spoon,
twist your heel in the toe of your boot; make
postmasters perform their promises nnd sub
scribers pny tho printer; get nstride of n gos
samer nnd chnso a comet when tho rain is
coining down like the cataract of Niagara; re
member where you ielt your umbrella; choke
a mosquitoo with a brick bat; in short, prove
nil things horetoforu considered impossible,
but never attempt to coax n woman to any
she will, when ahe hits made up her mind to
say she won't
J7 A newly erected Romnn Catholic
church at Dorchester, Mass, was blown up
with gunpowder on tho Fourth. The cause
of tho explosion is attributed to various
causes.
WHIGS OF THE SOUTH.
FBOM THE BALTIMORE AMERICAN.
We object both to the fact of making the
Nebraska question a test of Whig orthodoxy
and to the authority of those who seem anx
ious to dissolve the party on that issue. The
question of the repeal of the Missouri com
promise has never been made a Whig doc
trine it was not mooted when the Whigs
met in the national council it formed no
issue upon which the Whigs North or South
were elected to Congress, and the simple fact
that it is opposed by the Northern Whigs
does not warrant the hasty conclusion that
the party is to forsake its national organiza
tion, and to become segregated fragments,
powerless by themselves and inevitably des
tined to be made the despised tools of those
with whom they coalesce.
It has, however, been urged, nnd with some
tiuth, that the Northern Whigs hnve not been
content with a mere opposition to the Mis
souri compromise, but thnt they have col
lengued with abolitionists, and the cry for
the repeul of the fugitive slave law has been
mingled with their demand for the repeal of
the Missouri compromise. We have no dis
position to deny any fact in the case, nnd
must ndmit the force of this objection. But
its force is more apparent than rent, and it
will rest very much with the Whigs of the
South whether the threatened compact of
the Northern Whigs with the frecsoil nnd
abolition factions shall become a renl nnd
tangible danger to the South, or spend itself
in the mere ebullitions which anger and dis
appointment have created. In a paroxysm of
unwise anger the Northern Whigs hnve al
most offered themselves ns the willing allies
of abolitionism, but there is still room for
confidence thnt the men who rallied around
Clay and Webster, who stood firmest and
foremost in defence of the Compromise
measures, will not, by nny ordinnry cause, be
driven into the permanent support of meas
ures threatening the perpetuity of tho Union
or dishonorable to the South. Indeed, we
think the revulsion that will bring the North
ern Whig party back to its nntional fealty
has nlready commenced. Their press is rap
idly opening its eyes to tho fact, thnt the
clamor raised for the restoration of the Mis
souri compromise is but the blind under
which abolitionism seeks to advance its
schemes of agitation, nnd to convulse nnd
perhaps ultimately destroy the Union. And
the fruit of this conviction is already becom
ing npparent Tho New York Express has
indignantly rebuked Senator Sumner's recent
traitorous disavowal of his obligations to
obey nnd respect the constitution the Bos.
ton Courier has denounced the disunion spirit
that is corrupting Massachusetts the Now
York Commercial has exposed nnd held up
to common contempt the Massachusetts
Whig address the New York Courier with
torcible sarcasm has shown that tho threat to
dissolve the Union, come from what quaiter
it may, is but an unworthy political subter
fuge and the Detroit Advertiser has repuls
ed the nttempted interference of the New
York Tribune by which it sought to bring
about a coalition between the Whigs nnd
freesoilers of Michigan. These nre nil evi.
dences nnd time and resenrch would doubt
less abundantly multiply them thnt the
storm which threatened to commit the Whigs
of the North to the support of abolitionism,
is already spending itself nnd thntan interval
of reflection such as the anticipated adjourn
ment of Congress will allow and the ab
sence of nil causes of irritation upon the
part ofthe South will be productive of the
best effects in calming the agitation produced
by the Nebraska question.
We place, however, our objections to the
dissolution of tho Whig party at this timo
on higher ground than concerns the mere
perpetuity of the party itself. Its dissolution
will add a most powerful stimulus to tho for
mation of a Northern sectional parly. There
is, we honestly believe, a vast body of na
tional conservatism still represented by the
Whig party in the North. The members of
thnt party have opposed the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, but it does not follow
that they nre opposed to the South on other
issues which far more vitally affect it, nor
thnt they will join in a crusade ngninst its
institutions, if not provoked thereto. The
South will commit a mischievous and a hurt
ful error by classing all the opponents ofthe
Nebraska bill ns nbolitionists, nnd by such n
course must multiply enemies whero it has
tho power to make friends. There is now
no immediate occasion for nny declnrntion of
position on the part of the Southern Whigs.
Dy waiting they will commit themselves to
no course that may hereafter be a cause of
regret, nor in the lenst degree embarrass their
future action. But n precipitate course now,
unjust to the Whigs ofthe South because it
will not meet with their unanimous sanction,
and irritating to the Whigs of tho North be
cause it will seem to be a hasty prejudgment
of their motives and intentions, may involve
in it evils of a magnitude that cannot bo con
sidered without apprehension.
But we turn from this too hastily pro.
nounced sentence of dissolution ngninst tho
Whig party to more hopeful anticipations.
Adopting the words of the National Intelli
gencer, we would remind thoao who have
pronounced this sentence, "that it is not giv
en to one, nor yet to two or three malcon
tents, however respectable, to dissolve nn old
nnd patriotic parly, founded on the broad
principles of public, liberty nnd a just ndmin
istration of tho Government, and which has
been cemented by united parties for a com
mon object Wo remcmbur to hnve seen
this thing attempted from the othor end of
the Union, and just ns abortively as we trust
tho present effort will prove. If our editorial
friends of Virginia, who nre now in such hot
hnsto to disband tho Whig party, will turn to
the proceedings of the Whig Nntional Con.
vention of June, 1848, at Philadelphia, they
will find that theHon.Chnrles Allen, a Whig
abolition delegate from Massachusetts, pro
claimed that the Whig party was thenceforth
finally and forever dissolved; yet the Whig
party of the Union answered this proclama
tion by triumphantly electing Zachary Tay.
lor, a Southern man, President by a triumph,
ant vote. And now, although neither proph
ets nor the sons of a prophet we say to our
dissolving friends of Virginia, that the Whigs
will in the year 1856 in like manner respond
to their disbanding proclamation by electing
some sterling old-school National Whig to
the Presidency."
Afraid of the Know-Nothings. An un
fortunate man named Maloney.says the New
Orleans Delta, who was last summer cured of
the yellow fever by that brain-destroying
drug, quinine, nnd who has recently become
wholly insane, wns yesterday sent to the in
sane asylum nt the instance of his wife.
During the time thnt Maloney, was confined
in the Guard house he was continually talk
ing about the Know-Nothings. "There," he
would any, 'there don't you see them, the
bloody Know-Nothings I In the dny time
they nre ns big ns giants, and try to kill me
with their clubs and knives. .In the night
they get small nnd turn to dogs. They
crawled up to my body Inst night and ate my
heart out, but God Almighty put another in
me, and through his mercy I am yet alive.
He dashed water around his room to put out
imaginary fires, nnd kept springing from off
his nnrrow cell to avoid n furions Know.
Nothing, who persued him in a serpent form.
Poor fellow, his dose of quinino was to him
ns it has been to hundreds of others, terrible
indeed!
State Elections. The following States,
representing 165 outof the 296 electoral votes
for President, nre yet to hold elections for
State officers:
Iowa, August 7
California, September 6
Vermont, September 5
Maine, September 11
Pennsylvania, October 10
Ohio, ' October 10
Indiana, October 10
Massachusetts, November 13
New York, November 7
New Jersey, November 7
Illinois, November 7
Michigan, . November 7
Wissonsin, November 7
All but two of these States Vermont nnd
Massachusetts gave majorities for Pierce nt
the last Presidential election.
There is much practical wisdom, if
not truth, in the following suggestion, clip
ped from thecorrespondenco of the Louisville
Times. And yet some of our largest pro
perty holders think too lightly of tho influ
ence of the press; or too much of a dollar, to
patronize it:
"When I think of the influence the judi
ciously conducted press exerts in dr wing
capital to, nnd building up cities, especially in
tho Ohio nnd Mississippi valleys, I cannot
doubt but that printers' types vere the lever
the learned philosopher sighed for, with
which to move the world."
Circumstances Alter Cases. The de.
mocratic papers generally nro felicitating
themselves nnd the nd ministration on the
happy termination of the expedition to Jn.
pan. This is well enough. The results of
the mission are such as must make all Ameri
cans rejoice; but some of the papers now
loudest in chanting their pean, denounced
the project when it was mooted under the
Administration of Fillmore, as visionary nnd
absurd. They owe some little reparation to
thnt administration foi this, as things have
turned out.
CF" The St. Louis News has the follow.
ing:
"On Monday a despatch was received from
Chicago requesting thnt no more flour, or
other produce, be sent from this city. The
reason assigned was, that the railroads to nnd
from Chicago had more business thnn they
could possibly nttend to, and there wns more
grain nnd flour under way than could be well
taken enro of."
This invocation will find an echo in
many a sad heart
"Music for the mourner! Not the wild
measures that lend the dance, or that nrouse
wrath in tho tempest battle. Oh, no! Soft ns
angel whisperings, and plaintive nsthe moan,
ing of the nngnished heart Let them mur.
mur of blighted hope and buried love, till
the crushed feelings nre identified with the
sympathetic strain. But bid not the thought
long ponder in the grave. Let the melody,
embodied ns it were into a thousand varied
hues, gild the portals of the tomb, nnd stream
like to auroral glory toward heaven.
5F" Among the novelties advertised to
tike place nt Huntsville, Texas, on the 4th,
was a foot race between "three boys," the
oldest of whom wns born in 1775, the second
in 1786, and tho youngest in 1795. The con
test between these "juveniles" was looked
forward to with much anxiety by the fun
loving nnd sporting fraternity.
Doctors not Infallible.-Lately, A. B.
Austin, of Manchester, N. II., who has been
for a long timo under medical treatment for
the consumption, coughed up a beech nut
which he swallowed two years ago, nnd found
himself nt once relieved of his malady.
J2f" The cholera is raging in the South
west nnd West Tho official report of the
Cincinnati Bonrd of Health for the week
ending July 3d, records forty-five deaths from
Asiatic cholorn.
"Done some Service." A woman in Salis
bury, N. Y., lately gave birth to four chil
dren two boys nnd two girls.
Tho Democratic Wild Cat Convention as
sembled In Maine, lutely. Rats and coons,
look out !
H7A Mystery Who is to be tho next
Presidont of the United Stnt.es ?
A MODEST MAN.
The New Orleans Bulletin, says: The editor
of the Columbus (Ga.) Times and Sentinel is
a modest man. There is no doubt of it The
fact is beyond a peradventure. No one can
or will say nay to the proposition after read
ing the following. After commending a call
for a Convention of the Whigs of the South,
oar Georgia cotemporary, with exquisite con
dor, ingenuousness and diffidence, proceeds
to remark :
"If the object is to remain in the Union and
control the action of the Government then
co-operation with the Democracy is the only
alternative. 11 we allow that the Southern
Whigs can carry the whole South into a
separate sectional organization, of which
however there is no probability, they would
still be in a minority and the Government
would be in northern hands. The South
must have allies ut the North, then, to enable
her to protect herself from the aggressions of
the abolitionists we cannot do without
them if we would. 'But why should we turn
our back upon our friends! There are many
Northern Democrats who havo stood by us
in every issue nnd struck blow for blow nnd
received wound f -Vund with us in every
battle with theiUiionisU. They hnve
richly won our confidence, ' Why should not
the whole South go into the next National
Democratic Convention! We have fought
and won sido by side a great victory on the
Nebraska hill, and with the same forces we
can win a like victory on every field. It is
true there are t reesoil Democrats who will,
in nil probability, assert a claim to a seat in
the Convention. Let them come. We will
make the platform and if they accept it, we
certainly will not refuse their votes in carry
ing out our true policy. We write in nil can
dor nnd earnestness, nnd cordially extend the
right hnnd of fellowship to the Southern
Whigs. Whst sny our Democratic cotempo.
raries? Is there not room enough in the old
wigwam for all true hearted Southern men!
"This is n momentous issue now before the
Southern Whig party. By joining the De
mocracy in a body, they can give the South
the control of the Government, preserve the
rights of the States and perpetuate the Union.
We have divided long enough. Our interests
nnd duties are the same. Let bygones be
bygones."
We have quoted the above in order to
prove that the high praise we have bestowed
was not unmerited. The modesty of the
Georgia "Crackers" is proverbial; but our
Columbus cotemporary out (sracxers the
Crackers, nnd stands prominently before "nil
the world and the rest of mankind," the mod
el modest man of the Empire Stuto of the
South.
Were there not several objections we have
no doubt the Southern Whigs would eagerly
accept the invitation proffered them, nnd rush
forward nnd enrol themselves in the rank of
the unterritied nnd subterranean. But the
objections wo have hinted nt nre very nwk
ward, and difficult to get over by men of
principle, who ure devoted to the interests,
honor and character, first of their section, and
then of their whole country,
First among the objections is the one that
our worthy cotemporary starts out with a
false assumption. He asserts that "en-opera
tion with the Democracy" by the Whigs, is
the only way in which the South can be ena
bled to "control the action of the Govern
ment" . Immediately nfler he nruea that if
the Whigs carried every southern Biaie,"uie
Government would be in northern nanasi
If this latter portion of the proposition be
true, we cannot see nny necessity of the pro
posed fusion of parties. If the South, in the
hands ofthe Whigs, ennnot "control the Gov
ernment," we nre unnble to see how such
"control" can be obtained by the joint action
of the two parties. Here is a distinction with
out a difference. It nmounts, to use a com
mon phrase, to "six of one and half a dozen
of tho other." .
But the South must hnve Northern "allies"
to "protect herself from the aggressions of
.... . it.. :l .T.:. is l.n-n
1116 AOOIIIIOIIISIS, COOMV IKUlll mis ouuiiiom
supporter of the present Administration! How
refreshing. How candid, straight forward and
manly 1 Our cotemporary must be nearly re
lated to the distinguished Democrat who said,
on n memorable occasion, thnt he always
"curried his heart in his hand." A queer place
to carry the heart but as the statement was
not contradicted we supposu it was true.
Here is nn awkward question: Where will we
find those Northern Democratic "allies" thnt
are to "protect" us! They are not in federal
offices, for President Pierce has filled them
with Freesoilers nnd Abolitionists. A "Hard"
National Democrat stands no more chance at
the hands of the present Administration than
would a thorough-paced Whig. Whenever
one is found, he is at once kicked out We
do not believe the South needs such "allies"
as the Administration and its officials. Here
is another objection.
But our Georgia cotemporary, in the ex
ceeding liberality of his soul, nfter inviting
the Southern Democracy, holds out encour
agement to tho Freesoilers. "Let them come"
into the camp as brethren, says ho. We will
not "refuse their votes." Of course not
Whenever nnd wherever did a Democrat re
fuse a vote! If such an unparalleled moral
phenomena enn be found, he would nt once
make his fortune by calling on Barnum. He
would "draw," on exhibition throughout the
United States, larger crowds than ever hung
entranced on the ravishing notes of the Swed
ish Nightingale. Our Georgia neighbor show
ed good policy in not leaving the Freesoilers
outof his invitation; for exclude them from
the Democratic party, and there will be no
such party North of Mason and Dixon's line.
They nre vastly more important to the "Uni
versal Democracy" than Southern Whigs are
ever likely to be
We might enumerate a great many more
objections, but we believe we will abstain for
the present We think we shall not nccept
the invitation so courteously extended us.
We are willing to grasp the "right hnnd of
fullowship"lratornnlly, but not democratically,
according to Southern modem usago. If we
did, we would not know when we retired at
night in whose company we would nwake in
the morning. We might find ourselves among
Freesoilers nnd Abolitionists. We might be
surrounded by Seclionists nnd disunionists.
We might find Repudiiitors on the right and
Dorrites on the left hand, with the disciples
of the "higher law" nnd contemners of the
Constitution senttered thickly around! No,
we cannot nccept that invitation just now.
We decline it most positively.
3f Mr. Amasa Smith was lightning the
gas in his saloon in Lowell dnring the recent
thunder storm, when tho lightning struck the
building, passed down the gas pipe entered
his right hand, and made its exit out of his
left one, which held a burning match, explod.
ed when it came in contact with the flume,
and knocked him down, but did no serious
injury.
New York, July 9.
There were 08 deaths from cholera in New
York Inst week.
Those People The Tribune, in replying
to a correspondent who asks after the "Know
Nothings," says 5 .
"All we know of those people is, that they
often make themselves felt at elections, and
generally go in forthe side that wins. Wheth
er their goinh in ia what makes it win, he
can judge as well as we."
To which, the New York Mirror, responds
as follows :
"We know nothing of the "Know Noth
ings," ns an organization; but we agree with
the Tribune, that "those people often make
themselves felt at the Elections;" and we
hazard nothing in predicting that American
urn will carry all before it iu the approaching
elections throughout the country. In this
City and State, we are prepared to see an
entire revolution a clean aweep, from the
Governor down. The revival of this old
Revolutionary ism, which is butnnothernnme
for patriotism, is the brightest omen for the
future that has dawned upon the Republic
since the days-of'76. If we understand the
fueling, it Is not nt all proacrip'.ive nothing,
in fact but a simple demand for justice. It
tolerates all sects, and interferes with none.
It receives the oppressed and poverty-stricken
of all lands with open arms? and even invites
the aliens of all climes to parLike of the rich
inheritance of liberty, civil and religious, pur
chased and established by the blood and
sacrifice of our fathers. But it will not sub
mit to be ruled by foreigners in the affairs of
Mate, or to be interfered with In the concern
ments of religion. All the Americans ask is
absolute toleration in the Church, and no
coquetting with Priests and Bishops by po
litical demagogues, either in or out of power.
And as to the distribution of offices, if the
American element is as 23 to 1, let them
share in that proportion.
There was a time when to be "a Roman
citizen was greater than to be a king." And
we trust there is a good time coming, when
to be a true American citizen will be greater
and better thnn to be a truckling President ol
the United States.
Following the Lord. An itinerant
prencher recently traveled among the north
western States. He whs motinted on nn nni
mal whose appearance betokened very bad
keeping the mere frame woak of what had
once been a horse. Riding up to the door
of a inn, he inquired ofthe landlord the dis
tance to the next town. The host coming
out was so forcibly struck with the appear
ance of the animal upon which the Querist
sat that he walked nround him twice before
giving the required information. He then
inquired :
" Who might you be, if it is a fair ques
tion V
"I nm a follower of the Lord," he answer
ed. "Follerin' the Lord, ehl" demanded the
host.
"Well, I'll tell yon what it is, old feller
(eyeing the horse again,) there's ono thing
sartain it you stop often on the road you II
never ketch him with that hossr
jjT We have no doubt whatever, says the
Louisville Journal, thnt the division of the
Democrats upon the Nebraska law in each nnd
every one of the non-slaveholding States of
the Union is such as to render their defent nt
tho next Congressional elections inevitable
and overwhelming. The indications in Ohio
are. that the anil-Nebraska section of the
Democratic party is by fur the stronger of the
two.
i
C7 It appears from the Paris Moniteur
that tho wound of General Luders is more
serious than wns supposed. That paper says
that "according to information received from
Buchnrest General Luders hns hnd his jaw
bone carried off by a cannon ball before Silis
tria. This fact had been concealed from the
Russians troops, who hnve great confidence
in the talents of that general, nnd whose dis
couragement it was feared to augment"
r"On the Istinst, Mr. William Hoover,
of the post office department at Washington,
burned ono hundred and sixty-seven sacks of
dead letters, amounting in all to 1,002 bushels
of correspondence which never met the eye
of the parties for whom intended.
fjThenumberof interments nt St Louis
for the week ending on the 3d wns 470, of
which 207 were cholera. About hnlf were
immigrants recently nrrived.
3The Cobourg (Canada) Star, states
Barnhnrt, who was hanged in Belleville on
Saturday, the 17th ult, for killing a bailiff,
confessed to have murdered seven other
persons. One, an Indian child, he threw
into a potash kettle, where it was consum
ed. 'Sir,' nid a delinquent debtor, as he
met his creditor one day, 'I wns obliged to
let that note lie over to Inst week I am sor
ry for it. I wish I had the moans of paying
it but I hnvn't; so I will do the best I can
for you. If my next child is a boy, I'll name
him nfter you.'
3f Robert Scott who was executed nt
Auburn, Spencer county, California, wrote a
confession, in which he gives accounts of
seventeen murders which he committed or
was engaged in. He and his special partners
obtained $28,000 from their victims. Ho
said his name was not Scott He arrived in
San Francisco in July, 1849.
fj- A private letter received yesterday
from a gentleman in Winchester, Tennessee,
says:
It has not mined here for four weeks, and
vegetation is literally drying up. The wenth
erhns been exceedingly hot here for two or
three weeks; so hot thnt even loafers wore
kept within doora.
27"TheTrue Delta says thnt though there
Is, on an average, a murder committed in
Now Orleans every twehe hours, there has
been but two convictions for crime in eight
yearn I
r The Artesian Well at Frederick (Md.)
hns been completed. Tho shaft hns beer,
carried down 685 feet and now the Examiner
says, the water runs out at the rato of ono
hundred and fifty gallons a minute.
rf The Washington Union predicts,
thnt nt the next election in New York, "the
friends of the Administration will roll up a
majority." We don't bolievo they will roll
up anything but the whites of their eyes.
hoMXtville Journal.
"Ill DOIT Well." Everybody believeain
the old adage, "whatever is worth doing at
all, is worth doing well," yet it ia astonishing
how few practice it The farmer sees a hole
In his fence, but instead of thoroughly mead
ing it he tinkers it up, saying to himself that
"it will last a while anyhow." Or fa farms
his land as his father fanned it or as most
of his neighbors continue to farm it regard
less of the fact that scientific agriculture will
enable him to cultivate it far better. A me-
chanic is called in to do a bit of work, which,
in four cases out of five, he hurries over car-
ing only to make it just good enough to
pass, but having no ambition that it should
be the best he can do. We might extend
our illustrations through every walk of life.
Few men say to themselves, "I'll do it well "
Haste is preferred to thoroughness, the rep.
utation of a quick workman to that of a good
one. Lawyers, ministers and other publie
speakers even make a pride of extemporane
ous oratory, as if any truly sensible man
could be ambitious of an impromptu speech,
when, with careful thought he might make
his address incalculably better. The few,
however, who adopt for their motto, "I'll dt
it well," always Bucceed in life. . The lad at
school who follows this rule, rises to the
head of his class. The lawyer who makes
thorough work gets the best and most lucra.
five practice, for people know thnt hi opinion
can be depended on nnd that heseldom mistaki
The hard student in medicine has the most
patients, as soon as his proficiency is discov
ered.which inevitably hnppena sooner or later.
The mechanic who turns out first rate work,
obtains first rate prices nnd a first rate run
of business. Whoever would go through
this world well, let him ndopt ns his motto
nt the outset, "Whatever 1 do, I'll do it
well."
Keep tour Sons Emploved. Let play
be but thoir occasional privilege, nnd they
will enjoy it far more highly. Employ them
in the garden, if you hnve one, as regular
duties about the house. It will do them no
harm to perform humble services. It will
help you nnd help them still more, to have
thorn bring wood or coal, to scour the knives,
to make their own beds, to keep their own
room in order. You may thus render them
highly useful, nnd grently contribute to
their happiness, nnd their future welfare
Louis Phillippi, King of Franco, was in child
hood and enrly youth, required to wait upon
himsolf in the humblest office. It was through
this culture that he wns trained up to be one
of the most remarknblo men of the present
age.
Carrying Bundles. Mnny people hnve a
contemptible fear of being seen- to carry a
bundle, however small, having the absurd idea
that there is n social degradation in the net
The most trifling ns well ns weighty package
must be sent to them.no matter how much
to the inconvenience of others. This arises
from a low kind of pride. Thore is -a prida
that is higher; thnt arises from consciousness
of there being something in tho individual not
to be efTectcd by such accidents worth nnd
weight of chnrncter. This latter pride was
exhibited by the American son of Jerome
Napoleon Honannrte. While he wns in Col
lege nt Cambridge, he was carrying home a
broom which he had just purchased, when he
met a friend, who noticing it, with surprise
exclaimed,
"Why did yon not have it sent homer
"I am not ashamed to carry anything which
bolongs to me," wns the very sensible reply
of young Bonnparto.
Very different pride was this from that of
a young lady whom we knew, who nlwnys
gave her mother nil the bundles to carry
when they went out together, because ahe
thought it vulgar to be seen with one herself.
Murder, Foul Murcer. Yes, reader,
murder is committed every day in your midst
The assassin plies his trade, nnd grows fat
upon the blood money of his occupation.
You see his victims lured into the place of
assassination decoyed tinder the garb of
friendship nnd good fellowship he is drug
gedhe dies another victim to tho arch
murderer Alcohol.
The daily press notes the violent departure
of a humnn soul under the uninviting title of
"nn inquest wns held upon tho body of a mnn
unknown found dend in some obseuro corner"
or "brutal murder," where violence brand,
ishes his red hnnd under the impulse of
drunkenness, nnd lets out the life blood of a
human heart. Arrest the foul murderer.
Drive him from his castles in this city. Down
with his reign of terror and blood.
Cuda and its Wealth. Cuba nt this
time, comprises a population of nbout 1,400,
000. Of this nggregato 800,000 nre black,
600,000 of them being slaves, the balance free
nnd comparatively a nuisance. The whole
island contain nn nren of 82,000 square miles
equal to more than 20,000,000 acres, every
threo of which nre capable, with proper cul
tivation, of producing one hogshead of su
gar annually. In 1848 the exports of Cuba
amounted to $26,000,000, nnd her imports to
$25,000,000; she yielded a revenue of $13,
000,000, nnd the property of the island was
estimated at tho value of $800,000,000. And
yet but nbout one-tilth of the island wns sup
posed to be under cultivation. Albany Eve.
ning Atlas.
New Hampshire Senator. The Senate
of New Hampshire have elected Hon. Jno. S.
Wells to tho United States Scnnte for the
short term, and notified the IIouso to that
effect
lffA writer in the Mississippinn, a news,
paper published nt Jackson, Mississippi, re
commends thnt the planters of tho South
pack their cotton in hogshead, instead of
bagging.
(r-l4J,h(j penitentiary of Indiana there
nre now two hundred nnd sixty-four convicts.
In the Ohio penitentiary there is nn nrmy of
nearly ono thousand.
jf- A short prayer reaches henren a
hint to thoso who want favors not to molest
others with long letters and loud com.
plaints.
ff"Anibition n mental dropsy, which
keeps continually awclling and Increasing
nut'l it M" " victim.