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AM ENS POST.
t. 1. tVlNS.RDITOR AND riOPMROR.
Tfrmi I tt t year, pjft!l hi advum, or As si
the ejntrattc of tho roar.
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paid, Sleeps M Itio oothn or tht Publisher.
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Advertising rats.
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ssftvtasols, will bo okarfe st odrortloooioBU.
FOR OOVItANOR,
Kn OOlfORMS,
COL WILLIAA IlEISKELLt
ATHEHmrRIDAViJIIflE 19, I NAT.
- Qf Prof. Oiorlow'o Lecture thi (Friday)
Toning, at tbo Academy, will bo : Sudimo
Mta, r th Tru Path to Happiness.
' 8riAKma. The endldatet for Governor
peek at Athena, (lo morrow) Saturday.
Wo preeum everybody will bo oat to hear
thorn.
Candidati rot Conorr. In our paper
todny will bo found Card, from Col. Vm.
HtisiiLL, of Monro tounty, responsive to
tho call to betome a candidate for Con great
1b this Diatriet Col. Heiskell aciepts the
poeillon, And give hi views upon ome of
the mora Important Itaue befor the people.
W hv only apace to remark at pretest, that
he will do hie duty In the contest, and we call
pon our friend to glv him en enrnest, cor
dial nd harmooioua sepport. He I worthy
io all respect, of the place fur which he ie
candidate, and If elected, will be the honest,
faithful nd impartial representative of tha
people of the District.
DimcVLTT Bxtwuii tn Caxdidatia. We
regret to leers that a difficulty occurred be
tween the essdidstet for Governor while
epeakiog At Fayettcville on Saturday. The
assault wa Bade by Gen. Harris, and grew
out of .aom remarks made by hi competitor
on the subject of alien suffrage, which Harris
onatrued personally. Harria pushed Hatton
oft the platform, And followed him, when the
parties closed in for A fight, but wer sepa
rated befor Any injury was inflicted on either.
The Nashville Patriot has an article on the
subject, written by the editor, who was pres
ent, from which we take the closing para
graph, as follow:
Our impression is clear that th purport of
Mr. Uattou's remarks wi as to the doctrine,
and had no personal reference whatever, and
that, to aay the very least, Gen. Harris acted
very precipitately, and wholly without suf
ficient cause. We ere Informed that Mr.
Hatton has used precisely the same ideas.
And frequently the same words in his pre
vious discussions, and bad no dream of giving
personal affront to his competitor. We know
that th attack was entirely unexpected by
11 r. Hatton. There were some circumstances
attending the discussion, not under th con
trol of 11 r. Hatton, however, that probably
contributed to exalte Gen. Harris, to which
we will hereafter refer if it shall be necessa
ry. Whatever may be the result of the dif
ficulty, or whatever other construction may
be given to th occurrence or the facts at
tending it, w fsel confident no blame, what
ever, can Attach to Mr. Hatton.
tar The man of the Cleveland Banner,
who seems to have a full Appreciation of the
fact that the chief business of a locofoco
editor in thie world i to misrepresent and
lie, y in hi laat the Athens Post charges
that the law creating the office of T As
sessor "wo a democratic measure.'' Now
Ignorance end impudence never gave publicity
to A more wilful perversion. The Post never
made any such charge, or uttered any thing
that any man hating a legitimate knowledge
of word or language could ao construe
All we snid on the subject wo in reference
to a paragraph (from a correspondent) in tho
Nashville Union and American, which para
graph was designed to make the impression
that opposition to the Assessor law woe a
principle with the democratic party, and not
of recent dute. Here ie our paragraph:
. As the Tax Assessor act is of demorrntie
origin the offspring of a democrat and was
pretty generally supported by the democrat,
at well at by tht Amtricant, in the last Leg
islature, we would like to know what the
'true democratic gospel' ia on that subject
noio." ,
That' All we uttered on (he abject, and we
pot it to any one possessing common hones
ty whether there ie Any thing in the language
employed or in the construction of the para
graph lo justify the Assertion that we said the
Uw "wo a democratic measure.'' On the
contrary, the fact that we said the law
wa generally supported by American as
wall aa democrats, by nil rules of fair and
legitimate construction forbade any such
conclusion as that at which tha Banner mnn
pretend to have arrived. We do not know
how the term "measure" ia defined in the
locofoco vocabulary, but we are certain it
must necessarily have very different signiS
CAtion from the word "origin? which ie un
derstood to mean "beginning, source from
whence any thing comes," die. Our under
standing is, that th bill wa the offspring
of democrat, and that it wa supported by
th talent and intelligence of both parties in
the Legislature, aa the Banner con easily
learn by extending He Investigations Into the
Houtt journal, or by making enquiry of the
democratic candidate for the State Senate in
the Bradley district. But it is unnecessary
if not useless, to pursue the subject. No
on possessing an ordinary knowledge of
language will put the construction on th
paragraph io question that the'Banner does.
And w have no hope (hat any amount of la
bor wa might bestow upon it would edurate
that paper out of it errore, or our it of it
propensity to pervert, malign and misrepre
sent. In fact, there ie good reason to believe
that A course of fair dealing And honesty
la ny matter of controversy, would ruin th
Banner la the estimation of the leadere of ite
prty. Loeofoeolira live, flouriahe and
grow fat on falaehood and misrepresents-
lion, nod it la the business of the party edi
ton to furnlah food for the Animal. Let us
not eeoeure them too etrongly for a faithful
discharge of the appropriate work assigned
tbem. '
ff We have received two 'lengthy'' po-
etioel contribution la rslstion to "Dr.
Speck," "tb peek" Not hiving th pits.
are of penoncl Aoquslotsne with th
"Doctor," we meet deolia publishing th
Aforesaid contribution.
y Several eommuntcAtione in type for
tliU week' pepcr ciowded out.
"CONGRESSIONAL."
W find th following epechnen of loco
foco Argument In the Cleveland Banner of
last wee:
"But to cap the etimsx Ihe know nothing
party of that eoanty Monroe has, en masse,
announced Wm. Heiakell a very clever man,
but whoee age renders him Incompetent to do
the arduous labor of a Congresainnnl race.
But that's no business of ours, we are go.
Ing for Ham. Smith, and if -Uncle Hilly" dues
run for Congress we hope he will have a fine
time of It."
This paragraph ia in perfect keeping with
the policy of the leader of th locofoco par
ty which Is, to assume a superiority for their
eandidatee in all things, and to ridicule every
opponent who offers for office or presumes to
question the soundness Ind Infallibility of
what they are pleased to call "democratic
principles." So much has this been the poli
cy of these tarn leader snd so rigidly hsvs
they punned it that It hns proved destructive
to every thing like independence in their own
ranks, end no member of the democratic party
can now offer for An office unless he first con
suite them without subjecting himself to the
charge of treasoi , disloyalty to psrty and
disposition to pander to the opposition. This
thing i now being practiced in this Stote.
The game of the two or Ihreo eelf-instituted
leader in each county is, to ridicule the pre
tensions of every political opponent who of
fers for a popular office, end to choke down
every one of their own faith who has the in
dependence to become A candidate for the
suffrages of the people without the endorse
ment of A clique. Understand us we are
talking about (he leaders the mighty few,
who believe Ihey are authorized to do all the
thinking for the party, and that th honest
masse have no other duty than to carry out
their behests.
But to the paragraph Above. The Banner
wa never more mistaken in its life. Col.
Ileiskell enjoys a degree of health and a pow.
er of mental and physical endurance that
would wear out and exhaust A half dozen
such effete and dilapidated samples of mas
culine mortality as Sam Smith and the editor
of his organ. lie is s plain, practical farmer
a mnn of strong natural sense, with a mind
well cultivated and improved, and his physical
and moral stamina would ennble him to go
through the "arduout labort" at Washing
ton, which prove fatal to so many gentlemen,
uninjured and unharmed. Every body in
the Third Congressional District knows that
Col. Smith personally is a favorite with u,
And that years ago, ere the B urner made its
advent into this breathing world to startle
nature and astound the natives, we snid more
and prettier things of him than anybody; and
we claim to have some regnrd for him even
now, notwithstanding the enormous political
sins of which he ha sine been guilty. We
know that the four years "arduous labors" at
Washington must be telling upon the health,
physical and mental, of one of his trail or
ganization, and we honestly think it would
be bordering upon cruelty to send Col. Smith
back there to mingle in such exhausting and
enervating scenes as attended the election of
Speaker Bank and the passage of the Com
pensation Bill, We therefore oppose his re
election from Considerations of a personal
as well as of a political character; and we be
lieve a majority of the people will coincide
with us and determine to vote for Col. Ileis
kell. Let the B inner strike some othur chord.
The Comet. We find the following par
agraph in relation to "the Comet" in the
Georgia Citizen of Saturday:
Looking fur Ihe Comet! There were nu
merous groups In the streets, yesterday.
loosing into tne heavens, tor the head and
tail of the enmet which is expected nlium in
s few days, to knock a hole in this Planet of
ours. Of course, the star-gazers saw what
they looked lor ft star-like nppenrnnce in
mid-heavens, with n fleecy npDundai'e which
they took for both head and tail of the mon
ster! I he very hot weather of the fuw days
past, has confirmed many, too, in their appre
hensions, that we are lo have a general
bursting up of earthly affairs, shortly. To
allay such fears, it muy be well to state that
ins flnnets Venus and Jupiter r.ow rise
about two hours ahead of the Sun, mid course
through the heaven in close apparent prox
imity to the Hun. It was Venus, therefore,
that win visible to the naked eye, yesterday,
una which may be seen to-day not nn un
usual circumstance, when this planet I in
apogee.
Appointment Governor of Utah. We
learn, aay the Charleston Courier, of yester
day, from reliable authority, that General D.
Hopkins, of Jacksonville, Florida, has been
offered Ihe appointment of Governor of Utah
territory. General Hopkins is known a A
famous Indian fighter, and if a man of reso
lution and nerve i needed lo deul with the
disciples of Joe Smith, it would, perhaps, be
difficult to fix on A better choice.
3f Ex-Governor Bebb, of Ohio, who re
cently fired upon pnrty of sercnaders, at his
residence in Winnebago county, Illinois, and
killed one of them nnd wounded others, hue
been honorably discharged, alter s full inves
tigation of the mutter. The serennders,
appears, were gang of rowdies, who sur
rounded the house of the Ex Governor, and
insulted hi family, until lis waaoompelled to
fir upon them, alter begging and coaxing
them to leave.
New HAMrsuiac Bknatos. Clarke, Ilepub
lioan, has been eleated, by the Legislature of
New Hampshire, U. 8. Senstor to fill the va
cancy created by the death of Senator Bell.
Look Out. Counterfeit $8 bills on the
Farmer Bank of North Carolina, art in cir
culation in South-wettern Virginia.
tSPTlie account! from the lection
where th candidate have been speaking,
are of the most cheering character for th
euece of Mr. Hatton.
Wttheville, Jun 13. G. W. Iiopkint
(dem.) hoe been elected on the I Jin (Alnng
don) district over Klnurt B. oiarttn (ill, dem.
by 61 majority. Thii it the official account.
Harrisburo, Jun 10. The Pennsylvania
Democrat Slate Convention met here j ester-
nay, when William Strong, of Berk co and
Jame Thompson, of Erie, were selected as
th party noniineee Tor the vaoanclee on the
bench of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvn
nl caused by th expiration of the term of
Judge Lewie, and the resignation of Judire
Bisck. A letter was read from Judge Lewis,
declining th nomination which hnd been
conferred upon him by previoue Democrat
ie bum convention.
y Th Southern Commercial Conven
lion will aeeembl thl year on Monday th
10th of Augutt, la KnoxvilU Teonecse.
DISTRIBUTION.
Week before last we published A paragraph
expressing gratification that our eotemporary
of the Cleveland Clarion was About to break
gronnd upon the question of Distribution.
We took it for granted, of course, that a gen
tleman of the enlarged intelligence, liberal
view, and laborioue invostlgstloa of the
editor of the Clarion one whom we knew to
be free from parly bias would take the equi
table tide of the question. But it seemt we
were mistaken, for In the last number of his
paper friend Collins comes out against DIs.
tribution. According to others the seme
honesty of motive thst we clsim for our
self, we have no right to object to th course
of the Clarion on this subject, although we
are willing to confess to A little disappoint
ment. Still, w csn say w are gratified,
because, however much we might have de
tired to have the Clarion with ut in support
of Distribution, we now know we thsll hsve
at least one newspaper opponent in the Dis
trict who it capable of occasionally rising to
the dignity of an argument, and of appre
ciating facts when they are spread before
him, and who, In the discussion of all ques
tions, whether of A political, social, moral,
or educational character, will pursue a course
of candor, honesty, fair dealing, and decency.
We give tht Clarion't views on Distribu
tion the benefit of our circulation, unaccom
panied by comment, knowing our readers
will readily discover whether they are falla
cious or otherwise. Here ia itt article:
Th 1'iBiic Lands. There it tcarcely sny
tubjeot on which mort disputation has arisen
than on a distribution of the public doinsin.
Politicsl parties for a series of years have
made of it a hubby horse.
We shall not retrograde to the period when
A proposition was made for distribution, or
attempt entering into A detailed argument of
all the pros and cons in which disputants in
dulged; but merely remark, that when the
proposal first originated, it eould hsve been
assented to more equitably than at present
A division of the public lands now would
give but a trifle to each of the federal mem.
bert; would not realize, thus subdivided, any
thing of importance lo either.
Should the government eeate to be an
agent for the States, the lands would fall into
the hands of monitd monopolists, who, in
atend of offering the territory at 11.28 per
acre, would establish a price far beyond the
reach of Ihe slim purses, not only of the im.
nieiiee influx of emigrants who are annually
wending their way to our country, but from
thousands of native citizens, who with their
increasing families are leaving the densely
crowded eastern portions for the far and fer
tile west.
Let the public lends pass from the hands
of the general government into those of spec
ulators; the flood of emigration to them would
he stagnated and our Atlantic eectiout be
filled with A burdensome population.
Until tome new light be thrown on the
subject we shall renin, n opposed to the gov
ernment yielding its control: not only be
cause we believe it would be an act of injus
tice to the old Southern States, but conscious
that, its general tendencies would be perni-
GlUUS.
pff The editor of tha Chattanooga Ad-
vertiser, after a gestation of three weeks du
ration, brings forth a column of "tedious fee
bleness and paltry malignity," in which he in
sists that a Criminal Court at his place is
essential to the well-being of the communi
ty and to the preservation of the public mo
rals; and to prove that he is right, he quotes
what we snid two yeais ago about Mose
White' transfer bill. Not only so, but tak
ing his cue from the organ of the democratic
party in the District the Cleveland Bunner
the Chattanooga mnn adds, by way of
clinching up his position, that there is a sym
pathetic chord belwean the Post nnd the
Railroad, and whenever the latter is assailed
the former invariably pitches into the assail
ant. While we are willing to make all due
nllownnce for the unhappy condition into
which the Advertiser mini has been thrown
by his laborious researches among the volu
minous folds of the Legislative Journals, nnd
the effect which the result of that investiga
tion would be likely to have upon one
of his hysterical temperament, we cannot fur
the life of us see what our advocacy of the
interests of the East Tennessee and Georgia
Railroad has to do with the subject of a
Criminal Court at Chattanooga, or why the
railroad should be dragged into the contest
whenever A locofoco editor grows bilious
towards the " Athens Post," It is true,
we have ever been tha friend of the enter
prise alluded to, in adversity and prosperity,
and we shall continue to defend it interests
whenever unjustly assailed, whether the as
sault has its origin io a contemptible popular
prejudice, or comes from the more contemp
tible boutlicks, who, for the purpose of add
ing a fu'V names to their subscription lists,
are ever ready to pander to and take advan
tage of that prejudice. It is also true that
we opposed the passage of the transfer bill
wrote as we thought and felt on Ihe subject
at the time, and as we will do again if any
man ventures to introduce such a proposition
into the next Legislature. Aud it may he
true, aa the Advertiser alleges, that Mr, Hut
ton voted fur the measure. If o, we are
lire he was actuated by no such niotivs as
influenced the originators of the movement,
and we therefore have do quarrel with him
on the subject.
There are question of largo and important
interest before the public the candidates
for Governor are discussing those question
in A fair and manly manner, and the more re
spectable journals of both purties are giving
them the attention which a decent regard for
publio opinion demands; yet this loom,
foco editor at Chattanooga is dodging about,
trying to work up some little local matter
with the forlorn hope of making a vote or two
for hie candidate. He first tried to raise the
liquor question that failed, and he went In
on the Criminul Court. Next came the trans
fer bill; and last we have the "Athena Posl'i
and "the Railroad" a Ihe prominent issue
of the canvas. Verily, young man, you are
fur below the itandard of th Banner that
paper ha a vein of vulgar humor running
through -its editorial column adapted lo the
geniu and taste of louofocism, while you can
not claim to be even a respectable humbug,
Take down your elgn.
Daily Mzsss.iois.-W acknowledge the
receipt of a ntatly printed and well filled
daily with the above title, from Montgomery,
the nourishing and handsome capital of Ala-
bams. P. B. H. Unttaiu, editor. Terms, $S
per year, in advanot.
Hf" Th grand jury of Louisville have
indicted for murder fifleeo poisons, end All
they eould discover a participants in tb re
cent lynching of four aIatc.
TO THE VOTERS OF THE THIRD
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Felloie-citixeni;ln a late number of Ihe
Athens Post tome friend announced tu as
candidate to represent you In the Congress
of the United States. Thl announcement,
I have smpl reason for believing, I in ac
cordance with the wlshe of the parly gen.
erally with which I act and have long acted.
Flattered with this belief, I do not feel at
liberty to disregard the call, snd I therefore
announce myself candidate. The short lime
Allowed m until th day of election, pre
clude th possibility of A thorough canvass
of so large a District I have been among
yna, and one of you for ninny years; and
though personally acquainted with eome,
much Ihe largest portion of you are strangere
to me. In a more humble capacity, 1 had, on
A former occasion, the honor to serve A por
tion of the people whom I now seek to rep
resent. With my labor on that occasion, I
feel proud to believe, my constituent were
satisfied. Will you, then, receive thl brief
Card in th place of my personal presence,
where the luck of time will not allow me to
go! In an address of this kind, I can barely
allude to only one or two tubjects which the
next Congress will be required to act upon,
nnd which I conceive lo be of vital impor
tance to the people, both as measure of relief
and of future prosperity. In my humble opin
ion, the people have now no source to which
they can look for relief nn other means to
relieve them from the burthen of taxes under
which they groan no means to continue
their Improvements, unless Congress passes
a law to divide the proceeda of the public
lands among 'nil the Slates. The Slate of
Tennessee, at this time, ia bound in a debt of
nut lea than twelve millions of dollars fur
she may have to pay every railroad bond she
has ever issued. The railroad companies, all
of them at least, cannot pay them, nnd I
think I am not assuming loo much in saying
that nil of them do not expect to pay. At
any rate, the State is responsible, and for the
responsibility thus Incurred, the property of
of every man whom I address is liable. The
Slnte indebtedness etin only be paid by a tax,
nnd a heavy tax on the people. The publio
lands ure owned by the States in their aggre
gate capacity. The general government, act
ing in the capacity of A trustee, holds these
lands a A common fund for the benefit of the
whole. When they are needed when the
people are borne down with debt nnd taxa
tion when their publie improvements are
crippled for the want of means when edu
cation is languishing fur the want of schools
in nil soberness have not the people the
right to their own lands, their own property,
tu be applied to their relief and for the public
good? This seeme so reasonable, and so
right, that it appears strange there should bo
nn individual to oppose it, or that any should
object to its constitutionality. In 1833, Gen.
Jackson declared thai it was in the discretion
of Congress to dispose of the public lands
in such s way as best to conduce tu the quiet,
harmony and general interest of the Ameri
can people. Democratic Virginia, with all her
stickling for strict construction, in her legis
lature in 18-29, passed resolutions on this sub
ject, in which they say: the most just and
equitable plan for disposing of the nett pro
ceed of the public lands is by distributing
the same, in just proportions, amongst the
Slates. Mr. Buchanan, in the Senate of the
United Stales on the 28th of February, 1837,
snid: Now, sir, the distribution of the pro
ceeds of the publie lands among all the
States, would remedy nl) these evils nnd cor
rect all these enormities of our system. It
would secure to ut a settled policy oa which
the cuuntry might rely. It would draw off
from the general government this abused
source of revenue and distribute it among the
States. We would then be left where the
Constitution intended to place ut. The gov
ernment would then be administered on its
original principles. All the deeds of cession
confer on Congress this right. The Constitu
tion give Congress the right to dispose of
nnd make all needful law and regulations
respecting the territories. And, first of all,
Congress passed a law, immediately after
Virginia made her cession of land to th
general government, distributing the lands
not the proceeds among the Slates. Thi
law was repealed in two or tiiree years after
it passage, because it was inconvenient to
divide the binds themselves among the States,
and not because there was any doubt of its
constitutionality.
But my limits do not allow me to adduce
but very lew of the many authorities in sup
port of the constitutionality of the principle,
Distribution is destined to succeed. The
people are aware of the sophistry of those
who oppose it. Nothing can much longer
arrest it, 1 Hall, therefore, II elected, give
my cordial support to any bill having for its
object a division among Hi Stales of the
money arising from the sales of the publie
lands.
Whilst I repndiute the Idea or any with to
create any prejudice, or arouse any unkind
fueling betweeu men of different professions,
I must be allowed to insist Ihut the farming
community are entirely too much overlook
ed, if they are not altogether neglected, in
having office conferred upon them from the
hands of the people or appointments from
those high in power. Where do you find a
farmer holding an appointment from the
Governor of a State t Can you point to one
acting under a commission from the Preai
dent of the United Stales I Look through
your halls of Congress and you will b as
tonished to sue how few of them belong to
the agricultural class. Whilst th farming
community fur outnumbers all the other
combined, not more than one io a hundred
ever receive office. Although they are aa
honest, patriotic, and capable aa any other
class, they are invariably excluded to make
way fur professional men men who are Al
ways hungry for puwer, pressing for every
thing that presents itself whilst the modest
farmer stand aloof, ready to vote (or men
who have but little sympathy or interest in
common with himself, and in this way elect
men who care but little about them except
to get their vote men who generally know
little end Cure less for the farmer' want
and Interest. Thl opinion 1 hnv long en
tertained, and Am satisfied there would be
much less waste end extravagance through
bd legislation, and Dot half the prodigality
In aselest end Improper Appropriation of th
public money, If more farmer end fewer pro
fessional spendthrift occupied lent In our
halls of legislation. 1 set np no superior
claim from being myself fnimer, which hat
been my vocation nearly All my life but if
you think me cnpahle, faithful And honest, 1
hope you will not reject me In consequence
of my profession. Nor will you expect me,
not having been actively engaged In political
discussion, to meet all the questlone that
muy be agitated during Ihe eanvass with thst
fluency and tnct lhat would be expected of A
practiced politician who hnd been long in
the eervice, with every mean of Informing
himself having nothing to do but to pre
pare himself for a speech.
At the last session of Congress law was
passed increasing the pay of members of
Congress from eight dollars a dny, and eight
dollars for every twenty miles travel, to three
thousand dollars a year and eight dollar for
every twenty milea travel from their hnmea
to Washington City and back again, and Ihe
very members who passed it drew the pny
for Ihe year in which the law wa passed A
thing perhaps unprecedented in th annnl
of legislation. Not only o, but th term of
the members from some of the Stnte, those
from Tennessee among the number, expired
on the fourth of March last. But before
they lofl Washington thi-y actually drew the
increased pny, not only for the whole session
up to the fourth of March, but up to the first
Monday in next December, when the new
Congress meets ; and many who drew the
money for Ihe nine months in advance, dur
ing which time they are at home attending
to Iheir own business, will never go back,
for some of them will not be candidates and
other will be beaten, a I think all ought to
be who voted for this law and drew the pay.
The Constitution of the Slate of Tennessee
would not allow the Legislature to puss a
law increasing the pny of its members and
then draw Ihe increased compensation for
that session. The section in our Constitution
which fixes the pny of members, closes with
these words: "But no law increasing the
compensation of members shall take effect
until the commencement of the next regulur
session after such law shall have bei n en
acted." (See 23d Section, 2d Article.) It
will be recollected that in the year 18,
Congress passed a law fixing the pay of
members at fifteen hundred dollars a session,,
but so odious to the people was this luw that
scarcely a mnn who voted for it was able to
be re-elected, and nt the very next session
the law was repealed, and one fixing a daily
compensation of eight dollars A day was
passed in its place.
Yours,
WILLIAM HEISKELL.
Prentice a a Lecturer. We preceive
that Geo. D. Prentice, Esq., has been lec
turing at Hartford, Ct. (lis subject was,
'The Political Aspect of the Country.' The
Hartford Free Press gives the following as a
passage of the discourse:
Th nation is bristling all over with re
pognancies. Who shall arrest these evils?
The race of etntesmen, of giants, has depart
ed, and no successor appears. We have pnh.
ie men in nuiiiiiiiinee, out no statesmen.
Three fourths of them are reckless dema
gogues, who regard first themselves, and
men nniuing. Across tne polished brass
of their souls not the most distint thought
oi ine good ol tne country ever nits. There
is not enough moral courage in a hundred
politicians tu stiffen one upper lip. They
dare not stand up and sny their souls are
their own, or if thev do, they append a 'sub
ject to me lonstiiutioir snd the majority.
Baekboneless, they stand up like empty bais.
or basely prostrate themselves at the feet of
faction, instead of being lenders of Ihe multi
tude. They represent only the pot-house
and the club-room. Itiseasvlo flutter our
national vanity, but the truth must be told.
I he North and the South are pllinc uo com.
bustibles which the lightning may fire.
Mons About the Kansas ConsFiKAcr.
The Chicago Times, orgnnof the Democratic
party of the Northwest, linn the following in
reference tn Gov. Walker's inaugural, and the
prospect of Kansas being a Free Stnte. It
will be observed that, for so glorious a con
summation, the Times claims especial credit to
what it calls the "National Democracy."
Wa publish this morning numerous ex
tracts from Gov. Walker's inaugural address
to the people of Kansas. It is replete with
sound arguuient,excellentadvice,und evinces
strong determination to brmir Kansas
ttirnugn ner troubles. 1 he new State is
about tit be formed. Land grunts will follow
fur schools and railroads, all of which are fur
more beneficial to the country and the people,
in.in senseless wrangling iiimot slnvery. We
have no doulit but Kansas will have a Consti
tution prohibiting the introduction of Slacerv;
Liu -. ,H.i wuiiBiiiuiitiii win io nuiiiiiieu.
l u.iti. i...t i-.. ...:. .. :u i. I...:., -j
She will not owe her "freedom to tlie Aboli-
tumiits, but to the National Democracy
iormern ana anuinern. ,
Wasuinoton Hiot Vxsdiot. The Intelligen
cer gives the following as the verdict of the
inquest on the body of one of the ptrsoni
killed on Monday week last:
The Jury summoned, tworn. and chareed
w inquire mio tne cnuse 01 me ueain or L.or-
nanus 11. Alston, "(lo an v. upon their oaths,
that the laid Cornelius II. Alston came to hit
death by a gun shot wound, reoeived while
standing peaceably end quietly at the corner
of Seventh street, opposite the Northern Lib
erties market, (recently his place of business,)
irora a detacluiieut ot United states Marines,
acting under the eoutrol of the Mayor of
Washington; and tne Jury do further nnd,
from the concurrent testimony of all the wit
nesses, that tht firing by the marines was all
tubsequeut to the obtaining possession of the
twivti. i i iiiNsiiAW, roreinan.
An Iowa paper of A recttit date tayt
Judue DouElast, County Judire of Benton
county,, attempted to thrash the Editor of
the Vinton Kaele, a few dsvt ago, snd si
though the Judge is A tix fooler, six feet of
mortal neeh laid upon the earth. The editor
rifled not hit pookett but hit head he knock
ed the Judge down witn a rine.
ty To thow what Pill can do, the New
York Evening Pott ssyt that Dr. Brandreth,
the greet Pill manufacturer, hat not only
eonoeived the project of completing, at bit
own exptnte, the Washington Monument, but
hat deliberately resolved to devote the pro
ceeds of his business, amounting to $40,000
yearly, to me eootummation of tht work.
tar The extent of the corn scarcity In
North Carolina, may bt inferred from tht ftot
that th Wilmington sod Weldon Railroad
Company will, until the lit of October next,
transport over the Road ell corn end provis
ions intended for delivery on the line of the
Borth (Jaronn nsiiroad, wett or tht county
oi Johnston, ti on nan in rate etlAulltn
ed by the present tariff of charges.
On. Waixia at Wasuixotox. Wtlktr'
Advent At Washington City wa unattended
with ny display whsttvoc
DEMOCRACY AND THE DISTRIBU-
- TION...
, from tht Memphis Newt.
W believe that it Is s universally recog
nized dogma of the "democracy!' that, "Con
gress cannot do indirectly, what It cannot do
directly." A legitimate deduction from this
principle is that if the National Legislature
possesses the power under th Constitution
to dispose of A portion of the publie land for
any other purpose thsn tn raise revenue, it
hns the same power to dispose of th whole;
in other words if Congress may constitu
tionally distribute the publie lands, or the
proceeds of the same, indirectly, by grant to
particular States, It can surely dispose of the
whole of this "common fund? by direct legis
lation for just and equal distribution among
all the State. It I therefore A (elf-evident
preposition, that every Democrntie member
of Congress, who votes for an Appropriation
of public lands for Internal Improvement in
any Stnte or Territory of the Union, con
cedes the unlimited constitutional power of
Congress to pass law for a general and
equitable distribution.
For the purpose of showing that the right
of Congress to distribute the public lands
among the States indirectly, wa recognized
by A majority of the Democratic Senator in
Congress on Ihe 20th of Mny, 1850, we quote
the ayes and noes, on the passage of the bill
to grant tome thirty milliimt ut dollars worth
of land to the State of Illinois to enable her
to construct her "Central Railroad," (See
Congressional Globe for 1850, page 903.)
Ayet Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Bell, Bcn
ton, liorland. Bright, Cass, Corwin, DAVIS,
of Mississippi, Dodge, of Wisconsin, Dodge,
of lowo, Douglas, Townes, "Foote, Ilauston,
Jones, King, Mangum, Morton, Sebastian,
Seward, Shields, Smith, Sturgeon, Under
wood nnd Walker 26.
Noes Messrs. Bradbury, Butler, Chase,
Clark, Dawson, Dayton, Hunter, Miller, A'or.
ris, Phelps, Pratt, Turney, Wales and Yulee
14.
Eighteen Democrats ia favor of the Bill
nnd six against i:l And yet our Democratic
contemporaries who profess to adhere to the
doctrine that "Congress r.annol do indirectly
what it can do directly." would persuade
people that distribution is an tinconKifufumal
anil anti-democratic measure.
It strikes us forcibly that our anti-distribution
fiiends must take either one or the
other horn of the dilemma, and admit that
democratic platforms are mere gull traps to
catch votes for n parly whose leaders do not
recognize the binding force or the principles
they proclaim or confess that the vote on
the Bill making appropriations of land tn the
Illinois Central Kiiilroad,affords good ground
for Ihu assumption, that distributer,, is good,
sound, democratic doctrine.
While on this subject, we may ns well, re
call Ihe attention of our renders to the fact
that among the votes recorded in favor of M r.
Clay's Land Bill, in the Senate in 1836, is
that of James Buchanan.
Hf Harris defends his ndvoency of alien
suffrage, by charging that Mr. Fillmore en
dorsed the same by signing the Washington
Territorial bill. This is an indirect way of
telling a falsehood. Alien suffrage wa en
grafted upon the Oregon bill, and signed by
President Polk. Afterwards, Washington
Territory was cut off from Oregon and erec
ted into a separate teirilorial government,
nnd the bill received the signature of Mr.
Fillmore. But ulien suffrage, had been ap
plied, by n democratic, administration, to the
whole of Oregon, of which Washington was
then a part. Mr. Fillmore simply signed a
bill for the division of the original Territory
into two. This is nil; and the attempt to
hold up Mr. Fillmore aa tha endorser of
alien suffrage, is a species ot demuiroL'uism
to winch we hnd hoped Harris was superior.
but he is a democrat, and the Lord only
knows what mny be expected from members
ot in at party. Ularksville Chronicle.
iTlfThe Chnltunoogn Advertiser d
nniinces Hntton for having supported the
Assessor law, and is supporting Burch, for
the Sennte, who also voted for it. The same
paper denounces Hatton for having taken the
tvnow sowing oiiins, nnd is supporting for
the Legislature, one Key, who look the sumo
onm; but alterwards won his way Into do
mocrr.tic favor, by an out of V euson. Such
nn editor ought to be "bored for the aim
pies," or cashiered for moral delinquency.
liurvMiwie isnromcie.
More Desertions. We notice the abnn
donment of Black Republican politic by th
New York Time. The New York Herald
ha followed it example in cutting loose
from the black party, of which it says:
One praise I certainly due to the Renub
Meant of thi Stnte. They are without
question the most corrupt set of politicians
we ever had. We have tiad A good many
corrupt parlies and parly leaders in this
State; but a pnrty o ready to sacrifice every
consideration of publie welfure and abstract
justice to private gain ns these Republicans,
we never nnd Deiore, nnd we do most earn
eelly hope we shall never have again.
PorULaa DagAD or tub Coukt. In Ensland
the fear of harm from the approaoh of the
expeciea comet nas prevailed to an inoreut-
Die extent, not only among tne masses, but
among the cultivated and aristocratic Many
have believed that the world would come to
an end on the 18th of June; the scriptures
have boon auxiously seaeehod for predictions
of the event, and the priestt and clergy have
been tormented with questions. Some have
made preparations for the catastrophe by a
course of fasting and prayer; others have
foolishly squandered their property, believ
ing in good tooth that they would have no
further need of it. The belief bat prevailed,
that on the day named the fiery mettenger of
doom would be teen drawing nearer and
nearer to our earth; that Hi massive bulk
would spread and till the whole visible hori
zon, enveloping this globe in utter darkness,
drawing the water out of our seat and rivert,
and finally converting the world iuto a heap
of oiudtrt.
Man Huno bt a Vioilanc Couuitts in Rook
inoiiam oovntt, Va. Jefferson Randall, who
had been sent from Rockingham eounty, Va.,
by A VigiUnoe Committee, for numerous law
less Acts, such as burning barns, robberies,
and planning the etsassiuation of certain
prominent citizens in thst eounty, returned
there on Friday last, lie wat immediately
arretted by the Vigilance Committee and
held in eustody to see if be could not be sur
rendered into the hsndt of the law on leasl
proof. Nut being Able to Aecomplish that
object, tne committee, on iuemny, took mm
out and hung nun ot) tree until he wai
detd. Randall wa a man of extraordioarv
physioal strength, and when captured was
armed with a gun and pistol, but did net of
fer any letittance to his captor. Jonet,
ton in-lsw of Randall's, wtt Also in th cut
tody of tht committee, snd wtt to btv been
nung yesterday.
tW Gen. Walker tij! it wtt the nreai end
not the CottA Ulomt who defeated him in
NieeraguA.
fVTh wheat crop in that part of South
ern Illinois called "Lgypl" promise to be
noer than ever before,
PRICES TEND DOWNWARD."
Th Augusta despatch of th ISth say:
In iplte of the efforts to the contrary, the
prlcra of A number of the leading article of
domestic use arc tending downward.
Corn, which hns been at a price distressing
and almost fabulous, is pouring in from th
West by th 10,000 bushels. A despatch
from Illinois says: .
"Receipt yesterday by team at Henry,
Chilicothe and Loeon, fifteen thousand bush
els, and much larger to-day." )
This despatch was dated Tuesday, Monday
being Ihe first day the deliveries had been
very large, farmers having been very busy up
to the Saturday previous. The Galena dt (J.
N. R. R., a road that it was stated woeld
bring no grain tn market, is bringing about
15,(100 to 18,100 bushels of whest nnd 10.000
lo 15,000 bushels of corn per day. Since
planting has been completed farmers are com
ing in who Ihey supposed had nn corn what
ever lo dispose of, and Are offering two years'
cropa for sale. The receiptt of grain in Chi
cngo for the next aixtv days, both of wheat
and enrn, will astonish the world, and in our
humble opinion give Ihe "bulla" more Active
exercise than they will want to perform, if it
does not bring Ihem down upon their kneee.
The Cincinnati Gazette of the 4th instant,
lays, "Flour Is rapidly tending downward,
and Ihe decline in the last three daye ie 60
cente per barrel, which does not yet bring
forward purchasers. Provisions arc also de
clining." At Sf. Louis the receipts of wheat and
flour have already been more than double
what Ihey were Inst year Ihe first of June,
nnd the quantity of corn received it tix time
greater than last yrsr.
At Chicago, th telegraph reports rapidly
Increasing supplies. On the 3d, it says, "Com
has declined, receipts more liberal, and 68 to
69 cents (re the highest offers in store. On
the 4th, we have receipts of 25,000 bushel
wheat and 45.000 bushels corn. On the 6th,
the reports is, "receipts yesterday 11,000
bushels corn and 25,000 bushel wheat, and
the receipts will foot up larger than that to
day." Wo understand some of our enterprising
produce dealers are turning their attention lo
St. 1 juuis as a bacon ond grain market, and
we have no doubt they can get supplies
through, via Nashville, cheaper than by Balti
more and Charleston or Savannah, f nights
from St. Louis to Augusta, including drnyage,
nre only 85 cents per hundred pounds, which
is materially lower than the produce of that
section can be sent to Baltimore by railroad,
and thence shipped to the Southern ports.
sugars are easier is the language ol th
Commercial Circulars. The crop of can
never looked more promising, nnd is likely to
be three or four times grenter than last year.
Add lo thi Ihe uuusuul amount of mnpl
sugar made during the late cold spring, snd
tho fact that many consumers have "out
themselves on short allowance," and we have
a cheering prospect of a speedy and material
decline in sugar and molasses. A continuation
of the present growing weather, will secure
an abundant harvest, nnd relieve the country
i rum in present nign prices, wincn result
more from the combination of speculators,
than from any distressing scarcity.
In bacon alone we hear of no prospect of a
material decline. The Nashville papers re
port more received last week than fur Ihe two-
weeks previous. Hams from waenns wn
offered at 13c; sides at I4jc, but thrr i
evidently a muterinl scarcity at the West, end
the high price of grain will decrease the
amount of home-made meat very materially,
so that it eems probable that bacon will rule
nign tur some lime to come.
HfTh convention of southern railroad
men recently assembled in Bristol (on the
line of Virginia and Tennesssee) appointed
Ihe Hon. William Ballard Preston a commis
sioner to Eurnpe, with a view of bringing
about, if practicable, n direct trade between
r.urnpcan ports nnd Ihe southern Slates, snd
Mr. Preston has accepted Ihe appointment.
ZW An exchange tayt an old lady ia Mid
dle Tennessee it collecting all the Locofoco
papers the can lay hands on to make soap of.
She tayt "they Are A deeput tight fetter then
ashes they Are most as good at clear List"
tST The Castville Standard of the 11th
inttaot has the following announcement :
Latest Nxwst The Eniroa Massisd 1 1
Hurrah for Our Sidi 1 1 Tha Standard or
Rising Ground 1 1 We stop the press to make
an important announcement, which may be
found in the usual place, to wit : the marriage
of the editor of tbit paper. Hurrah for our
folks.
" P. 9. Two hundred essh subtcribert to
the Standard wanted immediately.
Publisher."
Couldn't yeu wait for those two hundred
cash subtcribert until the baby arrivee.
t-& Old Roger was visiting a friend who
had n remarkably fine little girl, about three
year old, fnmou for smart saying. As,
usual, she wa showed off befor our (teem
ed friend. "What i pnpuT" said the"psrlent,'
in order to drnw out the precociou reply.
"Pupa' a humbug," laid the juvenile. "I
declare" said Old Roger,"! never in my life
aw so young a child with so mtlur a judg
ment.' Washington, Jun 1 1. The meeting of
citizen to night, to endorse the Action of th
Mayor and President in the latt riot, wa
slinily attended, in consequence of Ihe im
pression lhat the call for it wa issued by
few politician for selfish purpose. A se
ries of moderate resolutions were adopted
uui none unanimously.
Nkw York June 12 It was lumnred that
the Cliinchn Islands (the three tmull guano
islands in the Pacific, off the const of Pern. .
and belonging to it,) would be placed under
ine joiiii protectorate oi England and r rune.
Col. Ciubbe when massacred in Sonora
wn led out ulone, nnd his hunds wer tied
to a post above hi head. Hi body wa
pierced by a hundred bullets. It wa Appre
hended thnt Ihe Californium to avenge hi
death, would adopt some general plun of re
venge against the Mexican settler of that
State.
Cincinnati, June 13. This forenoon while
four of the U. S. Deputy Marshal were ar
resting a fugitive slave end his wife, the for
mer stabbed J. C. Elliot, one of the Deputy
Marshals, with a long aword, whereupon an
other Marshal shot the slave in the abdomen
four time. The negroes wer then taken
into custody. The Marshal's wound is
dungerous one, and the negro's is thought to
be mortal.
St. Louis, June 13. Sir George Gor snd
Suit returned yesterday, having been ubeeot
8 year on hunting expedition to the head
watera of the Missouri. They report that lb .
country was never in A worse condition re
pectiug the Indians. The Sanlees. snd
Sioux were committing ttiocilies agnintt
Ilia white. Sinee the removal of Ihe troop
from Forte Cendale nnd Lookout th In
dian in th neighborhood hnve assumed
hostile attitude. A pnrty of troops have
inarched on the Santeva.
Washington, June 13 In th event of
Mr. Thomas declining the Governorship of
Utah, Gnl. Cumming will be appointed.
The officer of th Territory, including th
Surveyor General, will probably be entirely
new men. A corps of officer will travel to
Utah with military forces,
OXyTh tobacco chewer I id to be like
A goose In a Dutoh oven eJwiyion.th (pit,