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FRIIUY MORNING, Seft’r. 19, 1S51.
News of tlie Day.
*l To show the very age and body of the times. ”
A letter from Jacksonville, Florida, to th*
Savannah News, as condensed in the Balti
more Sun, gives the particulars of the cap
ture of the steamer Pampero, and the bring
ing of her into that port. She was first chased
into St. John’s river by the cutter Jackson the
captain of which stationed guns on the shore
and blockaded the mouth of the river. The
Collector of Jacksonville then sent an officer
with an armed force up the river, who over
hauled the Pampero, and demanded her delive
ry, which was promptly complied with. It was,
however, found that she had landed and con
cealed all her armament and ammunition.—
Some disagreements having occurred between
the parties on the Pampero after she left Jack
sonville for Cuba, and before she left the coast
a number of the men and officers forsook her,
and her numbers were still more thinned by
the receipt of the late intelligence of the death
of Lopez.
An Tuesday evening, a large number oi me
citizens oi Georgetown, held a meeting at For
est Hall, to consider the propriety of petitioning
Congress, through the corporate authorities, for
a reform in their town charter. The preamble
aud resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted on the occasion, ask for thorough re
vision and amendment; and especially that the
following-named powers be granted, viz:—To
lay and collect a school-tax of one dollar per
capita upon every white male citizen of twen
ty-one years of age and upwards: To require
that all officers of the corporation, should be
elected directly by the people: To lay a tax
upon bonds, mortgages, and all money securi
ties.
The health of Mr. Webster has very much
improved within the last few days, and he now
considers himself safe beyond the reach of his
annual catarrh. He has gone to Boston merely
to meet the President on business, and not to
participate in the Railroad celebration. He
has invited Mr. Lanman, artist, to the head of
the copyright Bureau in his department, so that
the latter will have to resign his present posi
tion as Librarian of the War Department.
A new locomotive has lately been put in
motion on the Worcester Railroad, bearing the
name of Nathan Hale. We are gratified to see
this mark of recognition, however slight, of the
‘merit of a gentleman who is justly entitled to
be regarded as the Father of the Railroad Sys
tem in the United States: a gentleman whose
retiring qualities have prevented him from re
ceiving that share of public notice which is of
ten bestowed on far inferior claims.
Abram Hall, arrested near Christiana, claimed
as the property of Mr. Slade of Harford county,
Md., had a hearing before Mr. Commissioner
Ingraham on Tuesday, and was remanded to
his master. Hall was arrested for participation
m the late outrage. He admitted he was a
slave and expressed a desire to return to his
master.
Mr. Forward, American Charge d'Affaires to
Denmark, tendered his resignation of that of
hce some weeks ago, and requested of the gov
ernment permission to return home; and the
President last week accepted the resignation,
and directed letters of recall to be transmitted
to him; so that we presume his friends may
look for his return home at an early day.
It is rumored that the Right Rev. Bishop j
Francis Patrick Kenrick, of Philadelphia, has|
been appointed by the Pope to the vacancy in
the Roman Catholic Archbishopric of Balti
more. The Most Rev. P. Cullum, Primate of
Ireland, it is said, is deputed by the Pope to
bring over the pallium and superintend the or
dination.
About four o’clock on Wednesday a hrej
broke out in the range of stables at the corner j
of Thirty-eighth street and Ninth avenue, New :
York. The flames communicated with a row
of twenty-one wooden dwellings, which, to
gether with Roe’s carpenter shop, tools, &c.,
were all consumed. One hundred families have
been rendered houseless by this fire.
The steamer Marion has arrived from Char
leston, and brings intelligence of a great hur
ricane at Porto Rico on the 16th ultimo. The
tide was twenty-six feet higher than usual.—
Much sugar was destroyed, and the canes in
the fields prostrated. At Arrecibo. houses were
swept oft, and five British vessels wrecked.
The Maryland Whig State Covention assem
bled, on Wednesday. George C. Morgan has
been nominated for Comptroller of the Treasury,
O. R. Hicks for Lottery Commissioner, George
G. Brewer for Commissioner of the Land Office—
all by acclamation. Convention very enthu
siastic.
A few weeks ago, there was some alarm
about the cholera along the line of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad, up Grave Creek, and
many of the hands left. The Wheeling Ga
zette says that it Is now perfectly healthy, and j
that the contractors are all in want of more
laborers at good wages.
Aa extensive silk house in New York has
failed for $700,000. A cargo of coffee, per
barque Greyhound, comprising 3,360 bags green
Rio, was offered, at public sale on Wednesday,
and the greater portion sold at !}/„ a 9 cent9,4
, months.
Mr. Metcalle, of Peoria, Illinois, has recent
ly been appointed acting chief clerk of the Land
Office, it the place of Mr. John Wilson, who
has been detailed to officiate as chief clerk of
the Pension Office.
Barbecues, and public fish and oyster din
ners are tht go in Charles County, Md., a».
which the candidates for Congress, Judge,
&c., are present, aod make electioneering
speeches.
A large meeting was held on Tue<kia\ night
in Independence square, Philadelphia, to take
measures to vindicate the law, and to express
condemnation of the recent outrage at Christi
ana. General Robert Patterson presided, and
speeches were made by Col. Page* Charles
Brown, John Campbell, and others.
The splendid steamship Roanoke, which
beautifully steamed it down James River, Tues
day, reaching City Point in three hours, got
aground on the shoals some ten miles below
Hog Island: no fears, however, were entertained
of her safety—and it is expected that she would
be gotten off, easily, at the next high tide.
Hopes are entertamed that the good offices of
the government will be exerted in favor of the
unfortunate Hungarians, who intended to be
come citizens of this country, and who were
deluded into joining the late Cuba invasion.—
The government, we doubt not, will do all that
it can m their behalf.
The Cincinnati Gazette states that the pork
merchants anticipate an unusually heavy Fall
business, and are greatly increasing their fa
cilities for extensive operations. Three mam
moth pork houses, 50 feet by 150, and four sto
ries high, are being completed.
An adjourned General Meeting of the Stock
holders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company, will be held at Barnum’s City Hotel,
in Baltimore, on Wednesday, the 24th day of
September instant, at 12 o’clock M.
Charles H. Ladd, has been appointed by the
President, Navy Agent for the Navy Yard
at Kittery, Maine, and for the Naval Station
at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in place of
Charles W. Cutter, resigned.
The Abolitionists of Pennsylvania have se
cured the services ofThaddeus Steven9 and
others to defend the parties arrested on the
charge of treason, and for the murder of Mr.
Gorsuch at Christiana.
At Williamsport, Pa , on Tuesday, a yellow
man, answering the description of Mr. Gor
such’s slave, was seen among the hills near that
place. Several of the citizens went in pursuit
of him.
Margaret O’Connor, celebrated for her con
nexion with Bristol Bill in the Drury case, &c.,
died on Wednesday at the Hospital of the House
of Correction, Boston. She was under sentence
for passing counterfeit money.
Horace Mann, we see, has improved his op
portunity as President of the Free Soil Aboli
tion Convention in Massachusetts to villify
Webster, Fillmore and others, as recreant to
Freedom, and as sold to Slavery, &c.
Massachusetts has passed a law which ha9
been judicially interpreted by Judge Hoar to
empower towns and cities to pass by-laws and
ordinances which should make it penal to be
an habitual truant from school.
The friends of the Union in Mississippi
have appointed the 9th and 10th days of Octo
ber next, for the purpose of holding a mass
meeting in the city of Jackson, in that State.
We learn from the Washington Telegraph
that the President of the United States and
Secretaries Conrad and Stuart, are expected to
return to that city by Sunday next.
J. C. G. Kennedy, esq., Superintendent of
the Census, and Commissioner to visit Europe
to procure National statistics, has returned to
this country in the steamer Pacific.
A gentleman from Annapolis, Md., says that
snow fell in that region on Sunday morning
last, and the same report is given by others
from other portions of the State.
The “Liberty” Convention met at Buffalo, N.
Y., on Wednesday, and elected Chaplin Presi
dent. Gerritt Smith will speak. A precious
set!
Edwin Forrest was triumphantly welcomed
to the stage at New York, on Monday night,
and ‘played Damon as it never before was
played.
There is great competition in New York for
the first supplies of Phillip’s new annihilator,
with which view money and subscriptions are
pouring into the company for their sale.
The Massachusetts Free Soil convention has
nominated JohnG. Palfrey for Governor and
Amasa J. Walker, for Lieut. Governor.
During the hot weather last week in New
York, several persons were “sun struck,” and
died m consequence.
Hon. Daniel Webster, arrived at Boston, on
Wednesday, at noon.
Yesterday was a great gala day in Boston.—
The President was present.
uDonal«l90u Correspondence.”
The Mystery Unravelled.
Fourteenth Street, August 22—m.
To the editor of the New York Herald:
In looking over your paper of this date 1 find
a number of my private letters.
In justice to myself and the Democratic Na
tional Committee, l shall request you to publish
the following statement:
1 came here at the request of the Hon. C. H.
Donaldson in the early part of June, for the
purpose of attending to certain matters set forth
in the published letters. Atter Mr. Donald
son’s departure for Texas I was induced to
show the correspondence to a member of the
Democratic General Committee of this city.—
Some few days after this, the letters were ab
stracted from my valise, and a package similar
in size and appearance was substituted. I had,
of course, no suspicion that this was done, and
was greatly surpriseu, on opening me neraia
of thiaiboming, to see that the whole of this
correspondence was published.
1 merely make this statement in order to show
my fellow-committee-men that I have had
neithet part nor lot in the matter of the publi
cation of their letters.
Imperative obligations compel me to leave
the city for the West to-morrow morning, but I
shall place full power in the hands of my legal
advisers to prosecute the Herald, and all other
papers giving publicity to this correspondence,
as well as to ferret out the means of its being
placed in your hands.
Iowa is a young and gallant State, Democrat
ic to the core, and will pledge herself to stand
by the position it is well known she now oc
cupies. As one of her citizens, I shall be found
ever true to her interests, and determined to
oppose the extension of slavery, now free from
its blasting effects. We are Jeffersonian Dem
ocrats.
Hoping you will publish these few lines, as a
matter of public and private justice, 1 remain
yours, &c. NATHANIEL GREER.
Bloomer? Gap.
The advocates of the Manassa?s Gap Rail
road, we are told, look forward to its connec
tion with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near
Cumberland through the Bioomery Gap. That
route was suggested in the Virginian, making
Winchester a point, some two years ago.—
Such an improvement, if united with the Rich
mond road near Fredericksburg—would form a
shorter connection between Richmond and the
Ohio, than that by the contemplated central
Rail Road, and bring Alexandria, by some thir
ty or forty miles nearer to Wheeling, than
Baltimore. By making this link, Virginia
might avail herself of the benefit of seven
millions of foreign capital expended within her
limits.— Winchester Virginian._
\\f ANTED—A situation by ayouth, 17 years
Vv of age, of highly respectable parentage
and undoubted character, in a counting-room.
Situation more an object than salary. Apply
at this office. sep IS—3t
TICKLING.—We have lust received,
\.a Prime article of New Ark Cider Vinegar,
which is the best for the above purpose.
sep IS HMBERLAKE& TALIAFERRO.
Absolutism in Austria.
Most High Cabinet Letter to the Minister Presi
dent.
Dear Prince Schwarzenberg: As the re
sponsibility of the cabinet, as it now stands, is
devoid ot legal distinctness and exactitude, my
duties as a monarch induce me to relieve min
isters from the dqubtful political position in
which, as my councillors, and as tne highest
executive organs, they are now placed, by de
claring that they are responsible to no other po
litical authority than the throne.
1. The cabinet has to swear in my hands un
conditional fidelity, as also the engagement to
fulfil all imperial resolutions and ordinances.
2. The cabinet will, in this new position,
have punctually to carry out my resolutions
concerning all laws, ordinances, maxims of
administration, &c, whether they have been
considered necessary or judicious by ministers,
or whether the latter have been directed by me
to consult and propose them.
3. The cabinet and each minister in his de
partment is responsible to me for the exact ob
servances of the existing laws and imperial or
dinances in their administration. To each
minister is entrusted the direction of that branch
of the administration with which he is charged.
I, however, reserve to myself the right of
issuing more exact regulations on this point.
4. The ministerial contrasignature is in future
confined to the publication of laws and impe
rial ordinances, and will be that of the Minister
President, or that of those ministers with whose
branch the matter in question is connected.—
The Director of the Chancery of the Cabinet
will sign under the closing formula of “by
most high command,” which will stand towards
the side.
These contra-signatures are as a warranty
that the appointed forms have been observed,
and that the imperial ordinances have been
punctually and exactly carried out.
5. By ihe publication of laws and imperial
ordinances, the words “after having heard my
cabinet,1’ will be substituted for “on the propo
sition of my cabinet ” ... p ,
Franz Joseph, (M. r.)
Schonbrunn, 20th August, 1851.
Most High Cabinet Letter to the President of
the Reichsrath, (Council of the Empire.)
Dear Baron Kubeck: You will learn by the
subjoined copy of my ordinance to the cabinet,
the resolutions which I have taken relative to
the responsibility and to the future position of
my cabinet. These resolutions induce me to in
troduce some changes in the statutes of my
Reichsrath.
1. The Reichsrath is from this time forward
to be considered as my council, and the council
of my throne.
2. In consequence of this declaration, drafts
of laws, ordinances, or other such matters, have
not to be presented by the cabinet to the Reichs
rath for its opinion, but ahvaysto me. Agreea
bly to part 7 of its statutes, I reserve to myself
the right of demanding the opinion ot the Reichs
rath, and of directing the discussion of matters
under my own immediate direction, or that of i
its president.
3. I reserve to myself the right ot command-1
ing the attendance of ministers or their deputies
at the councils of the Keichsrath, according to
circumstances and necessity.
The alternations in the order of business, and
in other matters arising from the ordinances,
you have to lay before me without loss of
time. If drafts of laws which have been for- j
warded by the cabinet to the Keichsrath are
still under discussion, due notice is to be given
to me, and under all circumstances the results
of the deliberations of the council are to> be laid
before me. Franz Joseph, (M. P.)
ScHONBRUNN, Atlg. 20, 1S51.
Most High Cabinet Letter to the Minister Pre
sident.
Dear Prince Schwarzenberg: By the ac
companying copy, you and the cabinet will see
the alterations which 1 have thought proper to
make in the position and statutes of the Keichs
rath; and the cabinet, in as far as it is concern
ed, has to act accordingly. *
Franz Joseph, (M. P.)
Sciionbrunn, Aug 20, 1S51.
Most High Cabinet Letter to the Minister Pre
sident.
Dear Prince Schwarzenberg: A9 an im
mediate consequence of the resolutions which
l have taken relative to the political position of
my cabinet, I find it absolutely necessary that
the question of the maintenance and of the pos
sibility of carrying out the constitution of the
4th of’ March, *1S49, should be taken into ripe
and serious consideration.
You have to consult with the President of my
Keichsrath, and to give me as soon as possible
your mutual opinions and propositions relative
to the manner and extent of the question, as
also as to the proceedings and forms to be ob
served during the examination.
During the examination of this question, and
in all future discussions concerning it, you have
to consider as principle and object, and as the
irrefragable foundation of all your operations,
the maintenance of all the conditions of monar
chical government, and the unity of the States
of the empire. Franz Jos'eph, (M. P.)
ScHONBRUNN, August 20, 1S31.
Absolutism in Prussia.
At Cologne, tMb King of Prussia went to see
the cathedral, where he was received by the
clergy m pontificalibus1 and conversed with
them for a considerable time. After the parade,
the burgo-master and the municipal authorities,
waited upon the king, and made a speech of
welcome, whereupon his Majesty answered in
the following terms:
“1 did not come in order to make compli
ments, to reward or to punish, but to speak the
truth, and the full truth. I know that you are
very ticklish and particular about your press;
but this hallucination must needs end, for it
hinders confidence and attachment, and excites
discord in town and land. You must try to
banish this fiend-like spirit, that things may go
better. I fully agree with what my brother
William has told you, and say seventy times,
and again seventy times, ‘amen’ to it. It is
high time that you do away with these things,
otherwise 1 will; for I have the mind and the
power to do it. See to it, in order to improve,
and the sooner the better, else we shall not re
main good friends, for I assure you the severest
measures will be taken!"
That’s a royal speech for you!—N. Y. Eve
ning Post.
Valuable farm for sale—i am
desirous of selling my FARM on which
l reside, situated in the County of Culpeper, on
the Rapidan River, containing between 5
and 600 ACRES, and adjoining the lands of
Robert Stnngfellow. Rev. Thornton Stringfel
low, and others. It is distant ten miles from
the Court Housl, 30 from Fredericksburg, and
66 miles from Alexandria, and within three
miles of the proposed route of the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad, which will shortly be
under contract. This farm has a beautiful
southern exposure, and is well adapted to the
growth of wheat, corn, oats, &c., and in point
of fertility is not inferior to any in the county.
It is remarkable for its healthiness and is near
several churches of various denominations.—
MThe buildings consist of a comforta
ble DWELLING HOUSE, Servants’
Houses and the necessary out-houses,
all in good order. This farm surounds the
flourishing village of Raccoon Ford. J here
are upon the premises two other Dwelling
Houses, a Store House and Shoe Shop, all of
which bring a handsome rent. A new Mer
chant Mill is now in process of erection on the
Orange side of the river, distant but a few
hundred yards from the residence. The main
road leading from Culpeper Court House to i
Fredericksburg divides the farm and buildings
about equally, so as to make two farms if de
sired. Persons wishing to purchase land, are
respectfully invited to examine for themselves.
1 am anxious to sell and will give a bargain.
Refer to Hackett, Owens & Co., Baltimore;
Fishback & Bro., Alexandria. Communica
tions addressed to the undersigned, Raccoon
Ford, Culpeper County, Va., will meet with
prompt attention. BENJ. L. HUME.
Culpeper co., Va., sep 19— eo2w_
NOTICE.— Dennis Johnston, Gent, returned
to the Clerk’s Office of Fairfax County
Court, on the 15th dav of Sept., 1851, a war
rant and certificate of appraisement, from which
it appears that Cassius F. Lee, hath taken up,
upon hisown land, in this County, five Estray
Hogs, described in said certificate, as follows,
viz: “Three females and two males, spotted,
w hite and black, four are slit in right ear, the
other no mark, they are about one year old,
and assessed at $2 50 each—say $12 50.”
Teste: S. M. BALL, C. C.
sep 19—eo3t
Gambling at Baden-Baden.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune,
writing from this German watering place, thus
describes the arrangements publicly made for;
gaming:
In the great hall are Roulette and Rouge et
Roir tables. These tables are each presided !
over by four plainly dressed, excessively re
spectable, and clean-shaved gentlemen. 1 ob
served one of them who carried the joke so far
as to wear grey hair and a white neck-cloth.
They look like our men of the counting-room
or even of Wall street, only more placid. I he
tables are covered with green cloth, and there
is no ostentatious rattling of coin. 1 retty i
pieces of silver and gold lie in front of these
gentlemen; from which sometimes they take a ;
littie portion and cast it over, piece by piece, to j
where the winner sits, in easy graceful para- ,
boles. When they draw in lost money, they !
rake it in softly and gently with their taper-i
handled rakes. They never laugh, never scowl. ;
1 should say that in their vocation they had j
brought “a subdued elegance of manner” to its j
ultimatum. I saw men—among them one of
your “above Bleeckers”—women, one very
pretty woman—gray-haired men and young
fellows, and, in two instances at Wisebaden,
children gambling at the tables. I have not seen j
much deep play: at the four different times, how- j
ever, when 1 have stood by the tables here and j
at VVisebaden, there has been one or more who j
played only with gold. As the night wears, the
play is said to deepen. 1 saw one man take
nearly a hundred gold pieces at “Rouge et
Noir;” he was very calm, rarely lost, and ap
peared to play by system. “Infallible rules for;
winning” at these games are published and for ;
sale in the book shops, here and elsewhere, j
said to be written by old gamesters who, like
old witches and gold diviners, do not get rich
by their knowledge. This idea of getting
blind luck into harness is, however, a very j
common one with gamblers.
The tables here are said to be managed by
Mr. Beriazet, a Frenchman who was formerly
largely interested in the gaming-houses of Par
is. For the exclusive privilege in this business,
he pays to the Government (said to be paternal
of Baden about $16,000 yearly, 35,000 florins,)
besides, he agrees to spend a much larger sum
in adding to the attractions of the place—as in
stance his costly embellishment of the Hall.—
Still further, he must pay the large expenses of
croupiers, bankers and attendants. Yet M.
Benazet’s lease is supposed to be very profita
ble to him. At Homburg, a watering-place nine
miles from Frankfort-on-the-Maine, and Weis
baden, French lessees pay a large rent to Gov
ernment, and make money. When the Revolu
tionists were in power, three years ago, among
other acts destructive of good order, religion,
&c., they broke up gaming at Homburg. The
paternal and pious Prince, however, on the full
recovery of his divine right of rule, restored the
conservative institution. It is supposed by ma
ny that these gaming establishments and others
at other German springs are owned by one com
pany, of which Messrs. Chabert, Benazet &
CoWare the directors. The rules and regula
tions, printed in French and German, are posted
in the rooms here, and signed by Grand Ducal
authority. I translate a portion of them.
“The tables are to be opened yearly on the
1st of May, and close on the 1st of October.—
Between these dates, playing commences itailv
at 11 o’clock, A. M., and continues till 1 o’
clock, P. M. But on the Sabbath and religious
holidays it shall not begin till after divine ser
vice. On days when balls are given (three
times a week) it may continue till mid-night.
“Countrymen, (Lamilente,) domestics, la
borers, and' all such persons, are not admitted
to play.
“At Roulette, the minimum stake on num
bers is two francs; on single chances, a half
crown; maximum stake on numbers, six louis
d’or; on single chances, four thousand francs.
“At Rouge ct i^ioir) the prescribed minimum
stake is a half-crown; the maximum, six thous
and francs.”
A general law exists in the very States that
draw up these rules, forbidding their own sub
jects to gamble, under severe penalties! If,
however, one of these subjects wishes to play,
and does not care to passover the boundary to
some neighboring State, which he can do in an
hour’s ride on the railroad, he has only to en
gage the services of certain Professeurs de jeu,
who are always in attendance and understand
the game, who claim to have reduced it to
a science, and to assure their employers of suc
cess.
Mr. Forrest, the Tragedian.
Mr. Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, after an
absence of two years from the stage, made his
reappearance at New York, on Monday. At the
conclusion of the play he was loudly called
for, when he came forward and made a char
acteristic address, of which the following re
port is furnished.
♦Ladies and Gentlemen—You have filled
my heart so full with gratitude it lias no vent
for words. I have no language to express my
obligations for the enthusiastic greeting of to
night. This manifestation is peculiarly grat
ifying, when I remember that, for the last
two years, 1 have been the best abused man
m the United States, (Immense cheers.) I
have been abused, villified, and purposely
misrepresented by certain penny-a-liners—
I (Voices—“So you have,” “you have.”)—the
little dogs—“the Tray, Blanch and Sweet
heart” of the press—who still continue bark
ing. I have been assaulted in the public thea
tre by a person whom I never saw before,
and who did himself provoke the outbreak—
an outbreak which I learned from good author
ity was preconcerted and set on by others
who dare not do the act themselves, and who
hired that dastard, to whom drunkenness had ,
given a momentary courage. That person, I
am sorry to say, boasts of being an English
man—(Cries of “He he d—d,” cheers and
laughter)—and the bystanders alone saved
him from sudden death. J have been abused,
villified, and misrepresented by a mendacious
dungeon lawyer, who, under the color oi his
trade, without the slightest shadow of justice,
has prosecuted me; one who has admitted to
me, in the presence of others, that his client
was a prostitute, and that he had the right to
purchase perjuries from houses of ill-fame to
blacken and falsify my character. (Shame,
Shame.) I have been abused, villified and mis- ;
represented by a certain fashionable clique,
who, in order to cover uieir own auame, nave
endeavored to throw every odium upon me,
thinking thereby to escape un.vhipped ot jus
tice. And now, 1 ask, why is all this? I will
tell you why. It is because I would not tamely
submit, which perhaps, it is their wont to do in
that very refined circle—because 1 would not
tamely submit to the most infamous oi all
wrongs—the dishonor of my house. (Cheers,
and cries of “You were right. ) But pardon
me, 1 will not speak upon this subject. Phis
is not the time, nor is it the place, to do so. 1
will not take advantage of the high position
you have given me, either to vindicate myself
or farther denounce my enemies. The wrongs ;
which they have done me, they must answer !
before a tribunal of justice, and to that tribunal
of iiistice 1 am ready and willing to submit my
cause. (Loud and* long continued theenng.)
1 thank you for this expression of your kind
ness. It is some recompense to me for the ma- >
ny, many hours of anguish 1 have suffered i
—hours which seemed all tortured into ages —
I know I never have, and f feel 1 never can i
perform an act at which manliness or honor
should have cause to blush. (Vociferous
cheering, which lasted for several minutes.'!
The good opinion of my fellow citizens, f have j
endeavored by every honorable means, to mam- j
tain. I will maintain it. I will not be robbed j
of their good opinion—for, in the language of
my master—
“Who steals my purse steals tra«h;
’Tis somethin?, nothing—1 was mine—
’Tis his—and has been slave to thousands;
But lie who filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.” . I
Mr. Forest then retired, amid the most vocif-,
erous cheers.___
ENGINEER’S OFFICE, }
Orange & Alexandria Rail Road, >
September 13, 1651. l
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Another Project.
We derive from the St. Louis Republican of
September 9th., tike following information of
another meditated invasion of the territory of a
friendly power, and that power one of our sis
ter Republics, which was briefly referred to in
the news from Texas published in yesterday’s
Gazette:
We are no sooner out of one difficulty, caus
ed by the disposition of our citizens to interfere
with the Government and property of a foreign
country, than we are likely to run into another.
The Cuba expedition, for the last month, has
absorbed every thing else, and even diverted
the attention of an invading party of Filibus
tering Americans from what seemed to be a
less attractive adventure; but, now that the en
terprise has failed, they will probably return to
their original project. We understand, from a
source which leads us to give it implicit cre
dence, that for some time past a number of
Americans have been concentrating upon the
Rio Grande, near Fort Brown, to assist in an at
tempt to revolutionize the State of Tamaulipas,
Mexico. At the last account they numbered
some three hundred men, ready for the expedi
tion, and were waiting the signal from Carrava
jal a noted freebooter in that State for years
past, and w’ell remembered for his depredations
upon small parties of American troops in that
part of Mexico during the last war. He was to
have taken the lead in a pronunciamento and
the revolution of Tamaulipas, and the Fillibus
teros from Texas were to invade the territory
and to aid in the establishment of the new'gov
ernment. As we have said, the prospect of a
revolution in Cuba, under the flag of Lopez, di
verted the attention of our Tamaulipas patriots,
and we recollect that one of the accounts for
the New Orleans papers stated that about three
hundred men had congregated about Mustang
Island, waiting the arrival of a vessel to take
them to Cuba. They did not go, however, and
now the old expedition will be, no doubt, re
vived. There are many meh in this country
\v1jo are disposed to engage in any enterprise
rather than to do hard work, and hence it is.
that expeditions of this kind are so popular.—
Other men prom t>y them in various wa>6 in
furnishing supplies, steamers. &c., in fitting out
expeditions at enormous profits, and in picking
up all the spare change which is to he found
among such a number of men collected togeth
er. One would think the very name of the
freebooter who is to take the lead in the Ta
maulipas expedition would be sufficiently re
pulsive to deter any American from engaging in
such an enterprise; but it is quite certain it is
not. We hope that the Government already
probably advised of this foray, will take the
most decided measures to disperse those engag
ed in it.
The Fillibusters Disbanded.
On Friday evening the executive committee,
who had in charge the affairs of the expedition
destined for the invasion and conquest of Cuba,
resolved that the force which has rendezvoused
in New Orleans, comprising some fifteen hun
dred men, should be disbanded. This determi
nation of those who were supposed to hold
“the sinews of war,” was communicated early
the next morning, at the several quarters of the
men, and the effect was soon visible m differ
ent parts of the city. The young men who
had been lured here from their distant homes
by the extravagant and fallacious statements
of the extent of the disaffection among the in
habitants of Cuba, and the flattering prospects
of a triumphant success which was certain to
accompany them as the liberators of the island,
were very indignant when they were officially
apprised of the abandonment of the enter
prise. We do not know the precise number of
Cuba volunteers at this time in the city—seve
ral detachments left on Saturday, and we sup
pose there must be some five or six hundred
remaining, and who are destitute of the means
of subsistence or transportation.
There was a decided manifestation of bad
feeling on Saturday morning, on the part of the
disbanded Cubans, which at one time threaten
ed an irruption. It was. however, immediately
suppressed by the effective efforts of the au
thorities. The cause of the excitement was
the erroneous impression that the committee
had a large amount of money in their Jiands,
and which they would not fork over to those
who so much needed it. We believe that it is
now generally credited that the collections were
small, and that the funds are exhausted.—iV.
O. Bulletin
Revolting Inhumanity.
We find the following in the Booneville (Mo.)
Observer of the QGth ultimo:
The following details of one of the most
shocking barbarities committed in a community
of civilized people, has seldom been equalled in
the annals of crime. So revolting to human
nature is the statement made to us, we scarcely
can give it credence. We give the particulars,
however, as they have been nariated to us :
In Morgan county, not long ago, a citizen
died, leaving a widow and two small children,
the oldest a girl, about seven years of age. Not
long after the death of her husband, the woman
married again. Soon the girl died, and very re
cently the hoy was reported missing.
The sudden and mysterious disappearance of
the child, together with the fact that upon the
death of the woman’s first husband the property
he possessed was left to the two children,
aroused suspicion in the neighborhood, when a
search was made for the boy. He was found
m the woods adjacent, with both legs broken
and his mouth sewed up; being still alive, how
ever, he was properly cared for, when he repor
ted that his mother and step-father had been
the perpetrators of the deed, and, in addition,
that his sister’s skull bad been broken by them,
which caused her death. J lie boy’s statement
further tended to develop the fact that the girl
was known before her death to have had a ban
dage around her head; and, upon the body
being exhumed, it was found, as the hoy had
stated, that the skull was fractured. The par
ents were arrested and imprisoned at Versailles.
“Showing Fp.”
One of those proceedings known only, in its
more peculiar forms, to our police, took place
yesterday at the Marshal's office. Seventy-si*
persons, male and female, were, “shown up,"
is the slang of our criminal courts terms it,
which means that the persons in the custody
if the officers have the gaze of the police force,
and ot hundreds ot spectators specially directed
on them, while they are marked and labelled as
villians, pickpockets, burglars, and almost ena
mies to society. While we are very ready to
admit that some good may be effected by this, to
say nothing of the curiosity which is gratified,
and the eclat which is gained, we must be al
lowed to doubt the authority and the general
propriety of this “unwritten law.” Out of this
seventy-six thus officially exposed a« a mark for
public opprobrium, and branded with infamy,
we are informed of some, whose guilt is, to use
the most guarded term, extremely doubtful.—
But allowing their guilt, it would seem, just
even, though a little tainted with mercy, to ob
serve the rule of chess, and “let bygones be be
gones.”—Boston Daily Advertiser.
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manners, and amiable disposition, is pleas
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on the 10th of this month, and wishes more in
formation, in regard to his residence. A gentle
riding horse, is indispensable. She hopes he is
of a generous disposition, and will be happy
to hear from him immediately. Address SO
PHIA WILTON._sep is—3t» _
QP1CES, &c.
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5 cases “ Cinnamon
2 do “ Cloves
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Death of Jaa. Fenimore Cooper.
Tbe decease of this distinguished man, who
for over a quarter of a century has held such
an eminent position in American literature,
took place at 1 o'clock on Sunday afternoon,
the 14th inst., at his residence in Cooperstown.
For several months past, his health has been
in a condition which awakened the anxiety of
his friends, although with a vigorous constitu
tion and temperate habits, they could not but
anticipate his attainment of a ripe old age. He
left the City about the first of June for his coun
try residence: his strength was greatly impair
ed: he hoped much from a change of air and
scene: but as it has proved, be returned home
only to breathe his last in the bosom of his
family. His death will call forth an emotion
of sadness, throughout the whole extent of our
country, for there are few who do not deem
themselves his debtors, for many hours of the
purest intellectual gratification, while the most
remarkable features of American scenery have
been invested with a new charm by the magic
touches of his pen. Nor in his native land
alone will the announcement of his decease
strike a tender chord in the memory, and re
i call the delight with which the imagination has
I revelled in his fresh and glowing pictures of na
| mre and passion. His fame is not only co-ex
tensive with the English language, but his
works have become permanently incorporated
with the best literature of every civilized coun
try. Without ceasing to be American, he was
eminently cosmopolitan, gaining a congenial
home for the productions of his genius in every
orderof society,and holdinghiswizard spellover
the backwoodsman, who read the adventures
of Leather-Stocking by the light of a pine knot
jin the logcabin; as well as over the votaries
l of science and of fashion in the brilliant saloons
of Pans and Vienna.
Mr. Coooper was born at Burlington, N. J.,
on the 15th of September, 17S9, and had he
lived one day longer he would have been sixty
two years of age. His father, the late Judge
Cooper, was a large landholder in Otsego coun
ty, in this State, residing alternately at Burling
ton and Cooperstown, and giving his name to
the latter township, which has since been dis
tinguished as the residence of the world-re
nowned author. He received the rudiments of
a classical education under a private instructor
at Burlington- continued his studies with an ac
complished Episcopal clergyman in Albany,
and was prepared by him for Yale College,
which he entered in *1802. At this early age,
scarcely turned of thirteen, he was ill-qualified
for the attainment of academic distinction;
still he held a respectable place in his class;
and in the department of ancient languages is
said to have outstripped every competitor. It is
certain, however, that he had not yet manifes
ted a vocation for a literary life. No one who
then saw the blooming and somewhat reckless
youth, who it is understood had already be
gun to develop the spirit of sturdy indepen
dence, which afterwards took the shape of way
ward obstinacv, would have predicted or sus
pected the position which he was destined to
win among the literary men of his country.—
A native passion for the sea, and an unconquer
able love of adventure, led him, among other
causes, to solicit admission into the American
Navy, at that time in its most imperfect infan
cy, and in 1^05 he entered the service as a
Midshipman. He remained in the Navy for
six years. Thu influence of this period of his
life is indelibly stamped upon his subsequent
productions. It enabled him to describe the
minutiaj oi nauticul affairs with that breadth
and boldness of touch, which could be com
manded by no writer who had not himself been
rocked on the giddy mas!, and to whom the
taste of salt water was not more familiar than
the fountains of Helicon. Wiih the vivid im
pressions of experience, obtained \n the fresh
and wondering age of boyhood, with a creative
imagination singularly alive to the impulses of
external Nature, and with a freedom and energy
of deliniation which is imparted only by the
possession of actual knowledge, he had a store
of materials for the production of “tales of the
sea," which, had he written in no other depart
ment of fiction, would have decided his reputa
tion as a consummate master.
In the year 1S10 Cooper resigned his post in
the Navy, was married to the lady who survi
ves to mourn his loss, and took up his residence
in Westchester in the vicinity of New York.—
He remained in this place but a short time, when
he removed to his patrimonial estate in Coop
erstownand pursued in earnest his career as a
writer of fiction. He had previously published
his maiden novel entitled Precaution, a work
which give little promise of the notde creations
with which his name has since been so honor
ably associated. Within fifteen years he suc
cessively issued The Spy. The Pioneers, 7he
Pilot, Lionel Lincoln, and The Last of the Mo
hicans. triumphantly legitimating his claim to
the character of an original and powerful nov
elist.
Soon after the appearanc of The List of the
Mohicans, in 18*26, Mr. Cooper sailed for Eu
rope, where he remained for several years.—
During this time he wrote several of his most
successful works^including The Bravo, the Red
Rover, and The Prairie, and soon established a
reputation, which with the robust qualities of |
his personal character and the dignified frank
ness of his manner, made him a welcome visit
ant in the most distinguished European circles.
His most valuable productions after his re
turn to the United States, are 7he Path finder,
1 he Destroyer, I he l wo Admirals, ana n trig
and Wing, ail of which display his admirable
power of invention, his bold conceptions of
character, and his rare mastery of graphic
and impressive portraiture. Ilis more recent
performances, in which he endeavors lo use
the novel as a vehicle for political declama
tion, are wholly unworthy of his fame, and
will onlv leave a blot on the memory of Ins ge
nius. Their general st\ie is forced, artificial,
and often repulsive; with little grace of expres
sion and no dramatic vigor of plot; showing
the exaggerations of a morbid fancy rather
than the healthy action of a fertile imagina
tion; and steeped deep in the bitter prejudi
ces of a parti/an, with whom passion gave
the law to reason, in this sphere of compo
sition, it is most charitable to believe that
Mr. Cooper was out of his element. We
certainly find his better self, and we hope,
his truer self, in his earlier productions
which are redolent of the bracing atmos
phere of the forest and the ocean, ami which
breathe a spirit of trust in humanity and
reverence for the instincts of the univer
sal heart. Destitute of the wisdom suggested
by calm and unimpassioned contemplation, re
marKabiy deficient in me power oi consecutive
reasoning, with no sense of the fine and subtle
discriminations which are usually essential to
the detection of truth, Mr. Cooper should never
have forsaken his peculiar province of fictitious
creation, to assume the office of a didactic wri
ter on questions of ethics and politics, anc. his
failure in this attempt was made more conspi
cuous by the brilliancy of his achievements in <
a more congenial sphere. It is painful to ob
serve such utter worthlessness of endeavor in
a man whose ability had raised him to an em
inence. which the most aspiring might envy.
But now that Ins fame is entrusted to the
impartial keeping of time, and submitted to the
stern ordeal of collective opinion, we may easi
ly foresee that the dros* which had mixed it
self with the happier elements of his genius,
will pass into oblivion, and his record will re
main in brightness add purity among the rich
and gifted minds, of which humanitv grateful
ly cherishes the memorial.— S. Y. Tribune.
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[COMMl’NICATID.
Whig Meeting in Culpeper.
Io pursuance of notice, the Whigs of Cal.
peper assembled on their Court day, September
the 15th, for the purpose of appointing dele
gates to represent them in the Whig State Con
vention, to be holden at Charlottesville, on the
25th instant. *
On motion of Daniel F. Slaughter, Jones
Green, esq., was called to the Chair, and
Francis J. Thompson appointed Secretary.
The Chairman having stated the object of
the meeting, Daniel F. Slaughter moved that a
committee be appointed to report upon such
subjects as it was proper to consider in such
meeting : Whereupon, the committee, having
retired a while for the purpose, reported for the
adoption of the meeting, the following resolu
tions, which were unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That we approve of the Whig
State Convention, to be holden at Charlottes
ville, for the reasons assigned by the Central
Committee.
Resolved, That Daniel F. Slaughter, Wm.
Green, John C. Green, Charles W. Ashby,
Wm. Robertson, Jr., Thomas A. Foushee,
Charles P. Moncure, Thomas T. Hill, David
P. Stallard, Win. 0. Hudson, John H. Rixey,
F. M. Latham, Rev. B. L. Hume, P. C. Slaugh
ter, Eaton Stanard, S. A. Slorrow, P. P. Nalle,
J. J. Halsey, J. C. Hansbrough, B. J. Nalle, A.
L. Ashby, George T. Fitzbugh, 0. N. Pember
ton, Wm. D. Field, Callen Macrae, F. A. Bran
nin, Benjamin Miller, Robert D. Ware, George
M. Bowen, Dr. Wm. Settle, A. G. Stallard,
Charles H. Wager, George M. Wood, P. J.
Eggbom, Dr. J. C. Perry, Wm H. Browning,
Walter O’Bannon, J. H. Egirborn, Joseph Bur
ton, James Hume. Col. P. Withers, and C. E.
Hume, be appointed by the Chair to represent
the Whigs of Culpeper in said Convention.
Resolved, That the Whigs of Culpeper cor
dially approve, and will heartily sustain the
administration of Millard Fillmore, distin
guished as it has been, in all its leading mea
sures, by a moderation, firmness and disinter
ested patriotism which merit the gratitude and
support of every lover of bis country.
Resolved, In addition to the above nomina
tions of delegates, that any Whig of the Coun
ty of Culpeper, who may find it convenient to
attend the said Convention, is hereby appointed
a delegate to the same.
Resolved, That these proceedings be publish
ed in the Alexandria Gazette, and that the
Richmond Whig be requested to copy.
JONES GREEN, Chairman.
F. J. Thompson, Secretary.
j8*ar~ To the Voters of the ninth Congressional
District of Virginia, composed of the counties
of Loudoun, tauyuicr, Raypahannoek, Culpep
er, Stafford, Prince William, Fairfax, and
county and city of Alexandria:—
Fellow-Citizexs:—Solicited, a# I have been,
by many of you, to become a candidate to repre
sent this district in the next Congress of the Uni
ted States, 1 take this method of communicating
my views to you, upon the questions now agitat
ing the public mind. The late day at which i
come before you, will necessarily prevent me
from mingling so freely with you as l would
desire. I, therefore, ask that you will give to
my opinions a carelul and serious considera
lion, and should they commend me to your
support, I am sure it will be as freely given as
it will be gratefully received.
I have learned my political principles in the
old Virginia school. The doctrines by which
1 stand, are the doctrines expounded by Vir
ginia statesmen and ^ maintained by the people
of Virginia in the first great collision between
federal power and the rights of the States in
17fJS. Those principles are as valuable and a«
dear to the patriot, at the present moment, as at
any epoch in our history. It is to state sov
ereignty and fo state power that the slavehoid
inj minority in the confederacy can alone look
for safety in the last resort, should intolerable
aggressions and usurpations ever be attempted
by the non-slaveholding majority. When hut
a ?hort time ago, the anti-slavery storm raged
highest, and when the patriotic passions and
energies of the southern heart were gathering
for the conflict, both my competitors pointed
you to the arm of the State as your only pro
tection. They both approved the Virginia ret-o
lutions. I lose resolutions did not express the
mere opinions of a certain collection of citizens
of the United States, as to what would be in
tolerable oppressions, hut announced in author
itative terms the sentiments of Virginia, and
foretold what would be the course of the State
of Virginia, in an event then regarded as not
improbable. The storm no longer lowers so
fiercely over us. Shail we therefore pull down
the roof beneath which we then sought she!- 1
ter ? We are not now assailed by an open
array. Shall we therefore throw down our
fortifications and destroy our armour ? No,
fellow-citizens, let us religiously preserve tho*e
safe-guards for our liberties, established by our
wise forefathers, and the benefits of which we \
have so recently experienced. Demolish state I
sovereign^’ and establish a consolidated (Jov
ernment in this confederacy, and the rights and
the liberties of the South would be dissipated
like mist before the morning sun. I feel, there
fore. that in endeavoring to maintain before the
people of this district the principles of the old
States Rights party, 1 am seiving the best inter
ests'of my country.
The Constitution of the United States is a
compact between sovereign States. It is bind
ing upon all, so long as observed by all. 1 he
government of the United States can only ex
ercise the powers delegated to it. If it exerci
ses others, the compact is violated, and the
people of the States subjected to unauthoii/ed
power. A violated compact is not binding up
on the injured party, and a State is not obliged
to submit to the exercise of powers which it
never delegated. It the compact is violated, its
validity is gone—if the injured party choose to
avail himself of the right to declare it void —
It is one of the attributes of a sovereign S'ate
to decide for itself whether the compacts into
which it has entered have been observed r,f
violated. This power having been nowhere
delegated, is reserved to each State.
In case, therefore, of a deliberate, palpable
and dangerous exercise of powers not granted
by the federal compact, each State has the
right, and is in duty bound to. interpose for the
purpose of arresting the evil, and maintaining
inviolate the rights and liberties of her own
people.
I do not regard it as expedient in view of
past grievances for any Southern Slate sepa
lately, or for all together (could concert he ob
tained) to secede from the Union. While I
will point to no special grievance as rendering
>uch a step expedient, yet in my opinion, we
ought firmly to maintain that every State has
the unquestionable right to resort to any mea
sure, by secession or otherwise, to preserve arul
defend this constitutional right. Should any
State in view of her past grievances separately
secede from the Union, I could not consent to
the coercion of such State, by the arm of the
federal government.
As a friend of the Union, and the peace of
the country, l would oppose every attempt on
the part of the federal government to restrain
an unwilling State by force. I will not at
tempt to depict the consequences to the South,
upon the happening of such an event. If such
consequences are to be brought upon us, f de
sire to throw the responsibility from my shoul
ders. . |
My object shall be the happiness of the peo
ple; rnv means, economy, liberty and peace; my
•-’Uide, the Constitution.
__ _ EDWARD A. FREEMAN.
Whig nomination to the Senate of Vir
ginia.—Wt beg leave to bring forward the
name of Jas. Wm. F'oster as a fit person to
represent this District in the State Senate. We
have no doubt that this nomination meets with
the unanimous consent and desire of the Whigs
of Upper Fauquier. His past services, to say
nothing of his known qualifications,^ entitle
him to this nomination. SALEM WK1GS.
Salem, Fauquier co., sep 19—lawtOct.
We are authorised to announce Ed
ward A. Freeman of Culpeper, as a candi
date to represent the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict of Virginia, in the next Congress of the
United States._sepjO—eo2w
J&»Tbe Whigs of Prince William County
are requested to meet at Hay market, on Satur
day, tht 20th instant, for the purpose of af"
pointing delegates to the Convention, to be
held at Charlottesville, on the 25th lost.
Prince Wm. Co., sep 17—eo3t__
We are authorized to announce A*
H. SANDERS, as a candidate to represent tne
county of Prince William, in the next House ot
Delegates. sep 5—
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