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Rtisaian Account of the Eastern War.
From the Journal de St. Pctersburgh.
The Journal ties Debals of the 10th August pub
lishes a malicious and erroneous summing up of the
operations of our armies since the commencement
of the war.
It may suit the purpose of the Western press to
endeavor to srek a satisfaction for their self-love
by representing ihe actual position of our troops
as the manifestation of a chock lo the policy of
Russia as well as to the prestige of its military
power. This is one mode of effecting an alteration
in the opinion of the public on the ridiculously
small results obtained by the display of such
gigantic and expensive forces by the two Powers
in allivBCa w ith Turkey, and nbovn all, of lessening
the disgrace which attaches to them of exploits at
present confined to attacks against defenceless
towns and inoffensive merchant vessels. They
forget, however, that the Government of France
and T.nojand pompously announced their intention
to conquer and dismenr.ber Russia, whilst Russh
herself neither wishes fur the unjust war which is
al present being waged against her nor had made
preparations for it.
Furthermore, lhc.se who from the beginning have
devoted themselves to misrepresenting the inten
tions of the Imperial Government, to describing il
as animated with ambitious views and aggressive
tendencies, would naturally seek lo reconcile at the
present moment (he facts with their malicious
fabi ications. But Russia cannot be prevailed upon
to consider as a check the non success of intentions
which are falsely ascribed to her, and which she
has never entertained.
Had they exercised a little more good faith in
their decisions the organs of tho Western press
might have been easily convinced thai if the Im
perial Government occupied the principalities it
was simply for the end of seizing momentarily on
a material pledge for the indemnifications which it
had a right to exact from the Sultan and which it
had in vain sought to obtain by the means of
friendly negotiations. It is quite certain that the
conquest of Turkey could not be effected by the
sixtv thousand men composing our army of occu
pation ; and, if it were possible to hope for any
impartiality from the press, the insufficiency of the
military means displayed by Russia in such a grave
conjticture ought lo have demonstrated better than
any assertion the moderation and the sincerity of
the Imperial Governmen.
The inferiority which it w the fashion lo impute
to us on the Danube is another proof of what we
assert ; for, if our troops have remained for the
period of eight months in a defensive position ; a
real disadvantage to them, inasmuch as they were
scarcely sufficient to cover a line of one hundred
leagues ; the reason is that the Imperial Govern
ment anxiously desired to fulfil faithfully the en
gagements into which it has entered with Europe.
In the respective position of the two beligerents,
the Turks, by reason of their numerical superiority
and the support of their many fortresses must
necessarily have found themselves superior in
numbers on many points over this space; but.
without refusing our enemies tho justice which is
their due, we think that every impartial military
man will acknowledge that they have shown verv
litt'e ability in making use of their advantages and
that, if the results (for the most part negative) of
'heir pretended victories prove anything, it is
precisely jhe intrepidity find heroic constancy
displayed by our soldiers, which have, from time
immemorial, been the glory of the Russian armies.
We shall not discuss here the different plans for
the campaign which hav? been so kindly attribu
ted to us, in order that those who have done so
may have the pleasure of pointing out the Ivant ol
euccess of these plans. One of these is the pro
ject of exciting to insurrection the population of
Servia and the other Ohrisiian provinces of Tur
key; and the Journal des Debats cannot explain
how it is that Russia has not put in operation al!
the means that might have been employed for this
purpose. This naive astonishment on the pnrt of
the Western writer cannot surprise us. Political
revolutions with them are familiar weapons and
they have felt no particle of shame in according
their patronage to the bloody reprisals taken by
Mussulman fanaticism on the Christian subjects
of the Sultan. We cannot think that the Imperial
Government need any justification for not having
let loose upon these wretched countries tne horrors
ol a war of extermination.
With respect to the last operations of our troops,
the Journal des Debals and its Western brethern
are anxious to persuade their on duions readers,
as well as their Mussulman allies, that these opera
tions are the result not only of the energetic atti
tude of the Turks, kill also, find more particularly,
of the presence of the Anglo-French troops upon
the theatre of war. We cannot permit them to in
dulge in this illusion.
The Imperial Government had a right to hope
that the moderation of its acts, as well as the ly
alty of its intentions, would be appreciated bv the
Cabinet of Vienna. On this persuasion it has reg
ulated its conduct since the commencement of the
present crisis. The final attitude chosen by Aus
tria, by rendering untenable a strategeticul position
taken by our armies in fuii confidence, has ren
dered necessary a movement of concentration
which they have just completed ; and, now that
they have returned to our territory, the Austrian
Government, freed from all anxiety, feels itself
without a doubt in a position to make the allies of
the Sultan resp' ct those principles of tho indepen
dence of Turkey and the integrity of the Ottoman
Empire established by the Congress of Vienna.
Nevertheless, w hen performing this movement, the
Commander-in-chief, Prince GortschakcfT, took
care to deprive it of the character with which il is
sought to be invested in the present day, by ac
complishing it under the very eyes of the enemy
with the requisite leisure and dignity. He even re
mained a long time belore Bucharest, in front of j
the lurkish army, wi:h the hope that Omer Pasha
would offer battle, and only after this hope was
disappointed did he decide upon continuing his
march. It is not his fault, therefore, that, in spite
of their warlike impnltenc?, the Turks remained
on the other side of the Danube.
We shalf not enter into any further examination
of the assertions contained in the article alluded to.
Our readers will be able to appreciate thpm. They
have their origin in the sums sentiment of blind
hatred and ill-will to which we have already direc
ted Attention, from the very being of the actual
crisis, in celebrated Bpeeclii delivered at Puris
and London, in ahioh, according to the needs of
discussion and exigencies of the moment, Russia
was represented at one time as threatening both
the North and the South, ever ready to invade
European civilization; at another time as denuded
of all real power, and possessed at the utmost of
no more strength than was necessary to keen
timidly on the defensive. Such assertions refute
themselves. If any conclusion can be drawn
from them, it is '.hat Russia has remained, as it
has always been, faithful to the principles of con
servatism, to that moderation and wisdom which
form the foundation of her policy. She will noi
depart from thf se ; and, trusting in Divine Provi
dence and in the energetic devotion of her children,
will wait with composure the aggressions with
which it ia threatened, and which are perhaps too
noi.-ily enuncttted lb occasion a legitimate suf ject
of alarm.
Marriage of the Queen of Spain.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune
gives an interesting account of an event that has
had an important bearing upon the recent troubles
in Spain :
I happened to be in Spain at the epochs of the
royal marriages, and gathered some facts concern
ing them which will interest you.
" You remember the famous conferences at
Eu,' between Great Britain's queen and the King
r.-f ihe French. In those conferences the Spanish
marriages were thoroughly discussed and the
princesses disposed of according to political exi
gencies. It wus agreed between the two sovereigns,
as you know, that the hand of the Spanish queen
should not be given lo a French prince nor to a
prince allied to the royal family of England ; and
that the alliance of a French prince with the In
fanta should take place in the event only of the
queen having children.
You recollect also that there were three com
petitors to the hand of Isabel I. Don Enrique, the
younger son of Don Francisco de Paula, the
Queen's uncle ; Don Francisco de Asis, (the pros
ent King, and eldest son the same Don Francisco
de Paula, and a Prince of the House of Coburg, for
at that time Count Trapany's suit had been com
pletely discarded, (much to the Queen's regret,
for she had been somewhat smitten by his portrait,
secretly aut injudiciously sent by the King of Na
ples, through the French Embassy,) by the hatred
! of the Spanish nation, aroused by French intrigues,
j The Queen mother, Dona Christina, preferred a
i Coburg, because she hated and feared Don Enri
! que, for whom the young queen is said to have a
! liking, on account of his having unwittingly placed
j himself by a manifesto at the head of the Progres-
lsta party.
" England countenanced the hopes of Don En
rique, lor the same motive of his liberal tenden
cies which rendered him so tedious to the Queen
Mother. And France furthered, by every means
iu her power, ffk' pretensions of Don Francisco
de Asis, because she intended, as events have prov
J, to hurry on the marriage between the Infanta
and a French Prince, who, by her calculations,
would thus ultimately ascend the Spanish throne.
She had ascertained that the young Queen could
have no children, at least such was the report of
an eminent physician who was sent to Spain by
the French Court tc investigate tho probabilities
of the Queen having any issue and moreover,
should Isabel become the wife of Don Francisco
de Asis, it would, thought she, be adding certainty
to assurance, for great was the belief, not only in
the pubhc, but also in the Royal Family of Spain,
concerning certain incapacities said to be the mis
fortune of the Prince proposed as the Queen's hus
band. " Meanwhile the Queen Mother addressed a de
mand to the head of the Coburg family for a Prince
proposed as the Queon. A whole month elapsed
during which the Coburgs consulted the wishes of
England, but England, faithful to the engagements
entered into at Eu, refused. There remained,
therefore, no other alternative but for the Queen
Mother to renounce her resentment against Don
Enrique, whom she looked upon in the light of" a
personal enemy or for the Queen to forego her
dislike, which amounted to loathing, lo Don Fran
cisco de Asis. The Queen Mother, stern, vindic
tive, a tyrant at heart, informed the Queen, in
conjunction with Narvaez, who was Prime Minis
ter, that she would have to choose between no
marriage and a marriage with her hated cousm.
It was midnight when this was communicated to
the Queen, and only two hours were given her to
make her choice. Those hours the poor young
Queen, passed in tears, and it was with a breaking
heart that she made up her mind to accept Don
Francisco. Immediately a message was despatch
ed to the French embassy where Count Bresson,
Louise Philippe's ambassador, was waiting the
result. lie hastened to the palace and demanded
unofficially (the official demand was made in state
a few days later) the hand of the Infanta for the
Duke of Montpensier, and received the royal pro
mise. M When the sun rose on the following morn
ing, Madrid heard with surprise, and the British
Legation with mdignation, the events of the
night.
' The royal marriage took place on the 10th of
October, 1846. The first time the Queen appear
ed in public with her royal husband every eye
scrutinised her features; she smiled and bowed,
and a hope entered the hearts of her royal subjects
that still the union might prove a happy one, for
the Prince never appeared, either before or after,
to such disadvan'age, as he bent low on his char
ger's neck, with hat in hand, to the enthusiastic
crowd. B'll it soon became apparent that the flush
of the moment had deceived every one. Dissatis
faction and hatred sat already at the royal board.
Daily the Queen's heart grew more rebellious,
until soon she threw off all restraint willing even
to abdicate her crown sooner than abdicate her
happiness.
But she was not fallowed to abdicate.
The Queen Mother, the Ministers, the Foreign
ambassadors, interfered, rt monsttated, and Isabel
I remained a Quen, but a woman in open rebel
lion agnnst her unnatural marriage.
"Years have passed and the statesmen who
ruled the monarchy of Spain, in conjunction with
ihe able and unprincipled Christina, have fallen.
Smaller men, and latterly wicked and corrupt
men took his place and crowded round the Queen,
until the hurricane of popular wrath has swept them
from the scene; and the whole nation has been
thrown into convulsions by migovernment engen-
dered by nitscor.duct
M Had the desires
and Irappines of the young
Isabel a warm hearted, generous, thoughtless,
uneducated girl been consulted, who can say
that the events we have witnessed would neverthe
less be those recorded in Spain's history for the
last few years 1
Surrender of lloinersund.
The following picture of the surrender of Bo
mersund we clip from the Paris correspondence ol
the New York Herald. It will be read with in
terest. The conduct of the French soldiers is
highly applauded. "The French," says an eye
witness of the battle, "are certainly soldiers in
heart and soul. They have not only a genius for
war, but delight in it. They not only accept it as
a necessity, but a natural vocation ; all the details
t of it seem a habit, the hardships and dangers a
pleasure. Their movements, too, are essentially
military and Picturesque as well. It was really a
splendid sight to see the manner in which, with a
seeming hardihood, yet real precaution, they made
their advances, facing the fire opened on them, yet
exposing themselves little to it, dashing at all the
dangerous points, and aptly availing themselves of
all shelter.
But to the extract :
"It must have been, in truth, an interesting
sight the surrender. The fortifications, com
pletely bestrewed with eighty-four pound shot,
broken shells, grape and can plater, intermixed with
enormous sheets of iron, that had been dislodged
from the roof, and the granite walls broken in a
thousand places. In the interior which was a
large square and parade ground, the fatal missiles,
and heap of broken granite and brickwork, be
spoke the terrible vigor of the siege.
The commanders-in-chief, d'Hiliiers, Napier,
with Admiral Chads, tbo senior captains, the j
colonels of the French regiments, &c, with a bril
liant staff on horseback, were drawn up outside.
The army lined the way for 800 yards, and stood
with loaded guns and fixed bayonets, between
which the prisoners passed two by two, the drums
and fifes of the marines striking up national airs,
which were taken up by each regiment in the rear.
The Russians looked dispirited and careworn.
At intervals a few drunken shouts escaped from
the fort, from some wretches who, seeing the sur
render, had rushed to the " spirit casks. These
poor devils were the last that could be got out,
and on hearing the music th y commenced their
national pastime, and ludicrously danced a polka
through the whole line. General Bodisco, the
Russian Governor, eighty years of age, stated
that his chance of holding out longer had become
quite horfeless, a ten-inch gun, turned from their
own mud battery against them, being well handled ;
he observed also that thfi battery from the heights
was brought to play upon him, and that the
French were gradually advancing and securing
their position.
To the second tower their was no road-way;
it was approached only by climbing over the
rocks. It mounted 26 guns. The breach made
in it by Capt. Ramsay's battery at 800 yards
across an inlet was terrific. The whole west
side had literally fallen away, and eight men
could have entered abreast. This breach was
effected in nine hours. The Royal marines, in
the dead of the night, after the truce, marched
through a ravine and brought away 118 prisoners,
under a heavy fire of cannister and rockets."
Particulars of the Terrible massacre
Hear Fort Laramie.
The St. Louis papers contain the particulars of
the terrible massacre of Lieut. Gratlan and twen
ty United States soldiers, by the Indians, near
Fort Laramie. As already stated, a Mormon em
igrant had complained to Lieut. Fleming, the ofli
cer in command of the fort, that a Sioux Indian
had killed one of his cows. Lieut. F. at once
sent for the head chief of the Sioux Matte-i-owan
(the Bear) and demanded that the Indian should
be given up. Matte-i-owan informed him that if
he would send a file of soldiers he would endea
vor to have the Indian surrendered. Lieut. Flem
ing then ordered out Lieut. G rattan with twentv
two men and the United States interpreter, Au
guste Lucien, to accompany the Sioux chief to the
Minnecongou village, which was situated some
nine miles below the fort. The chiefs, however,
refused to surrender him, saying they would
rather be killed, when Lieut. Grattan immediately
ranged his pieces of artillery and commenced
firing upon the village. The St. Louis Demo
crat says :
Three or four muskets were also fired at the
same time, but the only result was to knock the
top off of one of the lodges, and to wound Matte-i-owan
and his brother, who were standing in
front the former with three balls, the latter with
one. So soon as the troops fired, the Indians re
turned it, and poured upon them a shower of ar
rows. The first discharge killed Lieut. Grattan,
who was standing by the side of the cannon. As
soon as he fell his command at once lost heart
and attempted to fly leaving their cannon, arms,
and everything else. The Sioux then charged
upon the flying soldiers, and shot and tomahawked
every man of them save one, who made his es
cape by taking down a ravine, and thus getting
out of sight. The interpreter who was with the
party, Auguste Lucien, who had married a Sioux
squaw, jumped upon his horse and attempted to
make his escape. He succeeded in getting rid of
his immediate pursuers and in making a circle
around the camp, but instead of striking for the
prairie, he very foolishly attempted to run through
the Brulie camp, which was directly between him
and the fort, and tvhich was already iilarmed by
ihe firing. The result was that an Indian ran out
and shot his horse with his rifle, and then came
upon him with his tomahawk. Lucien cied out
to him not to kill him, as he was a Sioux by mar
riage, but the only reply the Indian made was to
bury his hatchet in his head. The soldie r who
escaped down the ravine was found by a Sioux
named Bhick Heart," and owed his life to his
assistance in 'getting him back to the fort during
the night.
The tragedy occurred on the afternoon of the
19th of August, and it was not until the next
morning that new of it reached the fort. The
Sioux then sent word to the commandant to send
out some more of his men to bury his dead, and
they would serve them in the same wny. They
also went to the depot of the American Fur Com
pany, which was near their camp, and where the
annuity goods (860,000 worth) were in store, and
turned them upon the plain, and divided them out.
Lieut. Fleming, upon consultation, sent some five
or six of the traders down to see the Sioux and to
bury the dead, but they told the traders very ex
plicitly that the quarrell was, not one in which
they were concerned, and they had better keep
out of it, and then drove them back to the fort.
The consequence was that when the messenger
left, the dead bodies were still lying exposed on
the plains, only two, these of Lucien and another
having been buried by two returning Californians,
who ventured to execute the hazardous task lor
$2.Va piece.
Nothing further' has been heard from the fort
at the present time, and it would seem that the
report that the Sioux has surrounded Laramie is
not confirmed. At the last accounts Matte-i-owan
w ho was shot in three places at the first discharge
from the soldiers, was at the point of death. He
is a brave warrior and a great friend of the
whites.
The St. Louis Republican says that Lieutenant
G. received 24 arrows in his body, one of which
passed through his head. Two of his men were
killed by the same discharge. Mr. J. Bordeau,
in a letter to the Republican, says he had succeed
ed in burying the bodies of the unfortunate men.
The Indians subsequently came to bis store, and
to save his life he had to give them everything in
it some two thousand dollars worth of goods.
Mr. B. odds :
As far as I know anything about Indians, I
think that our government ought to send five hun
dred mounted men, veteran troops, to keep the In
dians in subjection ; and one company of infantry
to guard the'fort. The Indians, in the recent bat
tle, after killing all the soldiers, broke their cannon
to pieces, and carried off their muskete and am
mais. As for placing the infantry on a prairie to
fight with Indians, it is just the same as pu'ting
them up as targets to be shot at. There were
about one thousand Indians in the battle.
Reminiscences of Stephen Girurd.
I cannot let this opportunity slip by without
saying something of another mercantile celebrity
of the United States, viz : Stephen Girard. This
man was born in a village near the banks of the
Garonne. He was the son of a peasant, and had
left his own country as a common sailor. Hav
ing gradually risen to the post of second mate,
he came as such to Philadelphia, where he re.
mained and opened a tavern on the banks of the
Delaware for such of his countrymen as were
engaged in the West India trade, particularly that
with St. Domingo. The revolution in St. Domingo
caused an emigration which continually brought
him fresh customers, and having built some small
vessels to bring his fugitive countrymen away in
safety from the island, he bartered flour and meal
for coffee, until his capital, which had scarcely
been worth mentioning at first, gradually increased
and enabled him to build larger vessels, and ex
tend his spirit of enterprise in all directions. His
frugality bordered on avarice. Sailor's fare was
to him the best, and the freighting of vessels his
favorite pursuit. The success which attended his
exertions at length became unexampled ; for he
never had his ships insured, but always chose
skilful and experienced captains, thus saving him
self the heavy expense of taking out insurance
policies, and continued acting on this principle,
gradually increasing his capital more, until it had
swelled to an enormous amount.
Illiterate as a French common sailor need be,
and scarcely able to write bis own name, he called
all his ships after the great authors of his own
country, and thus enjoyed the sensation of be
holding the American flag waving above a Mon
tesquie, a Voltaire, a Helvetius, and a Jean Jacques
Rousseau. His ships, which he was in the habit
of sending successively to the island of Mauritius,
at that time the isle de France, to Calcutta and
Canton, and each of which cost from forty to
sixty thousand dollars, brought back cargoes
worth from one to two hundred thousand dollars
to Philadelphia, and thence to Europe, particularly
to Messrs. Hope & Co., at Amsterdam, and were
never insured. Remarkably good fortune attend
ing all these enterprises. Until the year J815,
not one of his ships was ever lost or capturcd.
It will be easy to form an idea of the amount of
capital accumulated by the saving of insurance
premiums, when one reflects that the latter went
as high as from ten to fifteen, and even twenty
per cent.
Girard's right hand man was a countryman of
his, named Roberjeot, who, however, had received
his mercantile education entirely at Hamburg,
under the tutelage of Professor Busch. This
Roberjeot was the only man whom be now and
then, and only now and then, took into his espe
cial confidence, and he had worked in the house
of Girard Tot a respectable, yet very moderate
salury, during the lapse of twenty years; fre
quently something was said about increasing it,
but nothing of the sort was ever done. Rober
jeot, who hod some desire to be taken care of in
his old age, resolved to let his p-itron know that
if he desired to keep him any longer, he must
take that matter into serious consideration, and
give him a handsomo sum, that he might put
aside and turn lo good account. Girard, a little
nettled by this, replied that he would give him
ten thousand dollars, but Roberjeot demanded
sixty. He was told to wait until tho next day,
when, without hearing another word in relation to
the matter, he received what he asked for sixty
thousand dollars.
Magnanimous as Girard cou'd be in many
things, he was, on the other band, equally petty
in many others. Of his numerous relatives in
France, who were all poor peasant folks, he would
never hear a syllable mentioned. When some of
them on one occasion ventured to cross the ocean
and visit him In Philadelphia, he immediately sent
them away again with a trifling present. In one
particular instance he exhibited unusual hard
heartedness. His captains bad received trie
strictest orders not to bring either strange goods,
passengers or letters back with them. One of
his ships was returning from .Bordeaux, and
through another, which had hurrinl on before it,
he learned that it was conveying him some rela
tions of his as passengers ; ho instantly sent fo
Newcastle, on ihe Delaware, where the ships
coming in from sea usually touch, an order to the
captain, forbidding him to land any passengers,
but to remain at that point until another had been
procured to lake them back lo Bordeaux, when
he might come up to Philadelphia wiib his cargo
The captain was then replaced by anum. i person.
He, however, made an exception in favor of two
nieces, the orphaned daughters of a brother wh
had died ia poverty. He allowed these girls tc
come to him, and gave one of them permission
along with some twenty thousand dollars, to mar
ry the brother of General Lallemant, who bad
emigrated to America upon the restoration of th
Bourbons, after the batile of Waterloo. In trh
will he bequeathed to ihe other an rqual sum.
Vincent Nolle.
Prom the Washington Sentinel.
The Victories of the Adversary.
The present distempered condidion of the pub
lic mind is enough to awaken the painful solicitude
of every patriot. Old systems and old parties that
have, commanded the respect and approt mnoo of
large masses of people can not be peacefully and
quietly dissolved. Nor, when dissolved, can sat
isfactory and fitting substitutes be inaugurated In
their places without a struggle. There will be
anarchy, convulsion and ugitation. These, are
the necessary and melancholy accompaniments of
all such chances. w
All the multifarious isms of the day, afrr com
bating, single handed, against the troth v. ithout
success, have, at length, formed an unholy l ague,
and united their heterogeneous forces. Thus
concentrated, they are assailing the iniegri'y ol
the old party organizations ol the country. One
wing of the Whig party, the non hem wir.g, ow
ing to its inherent corruption has fallen an easy
prey to the enemy. Whole battalions headed
by their officers have yielded themselves up as
wiiling tools to the Fusionists, to the Freosoilera,
to the Know nothings. Others have remained in
the Whig organization, but only to become more
demoralized than the seducer who now wbos with
the blandishments, and now frightens with dread
ful menaces. These Whigs thus refusing to be
won by wily arts or cruel ihreata, have commen
ced taunting iheir rivals whh the declaration that
theyare their superiors in ull the pernicious here
sies that they both proff s.
This extraordinary rivalry in degradation ia
growing warmer and warmer, and for the first
time in American politics it is contented that there
is more merit in baseness than in virtue. We
leave these unscrupu o is combatants to fight out
their unnatural quarrel unnatural, because it is
like a quarrel between thieves and corne to the
consideration of the condition and prospects of the
Democracy of the country.
The Democratic party has no sympathy "ilh
such bands of reckless men as those of which w
have spoken. They are all alike its Mtural mi'
implacable enemies. The hatred they hear
another, is as nothing compared with ha
both feel for our party. They have won frutn
ranks, it is true, some recruits the timid, tl
ce nary, tho corrupt but as an orgauiz-
Democratic party remains firm and wr.fl
ed. It has despised bribes and d fied (hre
adheres to its timehonored principles, and m ij
now, where it stood al first, upon the Constitu
tion; There is a period of trial for every party us Lhei
is for every individual, and by thai trial is its char
acter for good or evil, virtue or vice, honesty or
dishonesty, tested and made known.
Were we certain this moment that the Demo
cratic party would lose all of the State election,
and that the ik x' Congress and all the State legis
latures would fall into the hands of the Fuaionis'.s,
the Freesoilers, the Know-nothings, or tbe Whiga,
we would still say to them make no concessions,
give up no principle, relax no test, lorm no com
binations Our admonition would still be, adhere
to your old fashioned principles. Keep yourselves
pure and undefiied. Let no reverses drive, and no
blandishments seduce you, from ihe path of prin
ciple. If by one of those slrango chances, or rather
mischances, that sometimes occur, the enemies of
the Constitution and the Democracy, should tri
umph at the approaching elections, all that they
could gain by possibilit) , would be a majority in
the House of Representatives. The Senate and
the administration would still be against them.
Their, victories would be barren and unproduc
tive. But so loose is Iheir organization, so variant
the materials of which they are composed, that a
victory would be as fatal to them as defeat. They
cannot consistently hold together, no matter what
their triumphs now, long enough to make a decent
show in tho next Presidential contest. The ex
cesses into which victory would plunge them,
would disgust the whole nation, and all eyes
would be turned from them to the firm, honest,
unseduced Democracy. Then would that faithful
party reap the fruits of a virtuous adherence to
principle.
While we would, of course, greatly prefer the
present success of the Democratic party and would
spare no effort to bring about that result, yet we
do not attach to it so much importance as some are
deposed to do. Present succei is not indispensa
ble lo future success. Indeed, ws cannot imagine
any surer guarartce of the triumph of Democracy
at the next Presidential election, than would ac
crue from the success of iti enemies at this time,
on the issues they make and with the disgusting
excesses into which they would be betrayed. AH
these things would, in our opinion, but pave the
way for Democratic triumph at the next Presiden
tial election.. ' , -
A it Affhav. An affray occurred at Grays
burg, N. C, last Saturday evening, which resul
ted in the receipt of a Severe cut by Dr. Cnfalrey
of that place. Two men by thefame of Daniel,
got into a difficulty with Dr. C, high words follow
ed, and one of them, G. Daniel, drew a knife and
slabbed the doctor, inflicting a wound about six
inches long from his left shoulder across his breast.
His condition was considered critical. The Dan
iels were immediately arrested.
Tun Crops. As far as we can learn the crops
promise a larger yield to the planter than was an
ttcipated a week or two sine.
We hare heard nothing of the worm.
,$hreverj)ort -Democrat, Afg..
A fellow op town, tfireateBtag to blow hi
brains out. He can't do it. It's a -tftfaaar. ik
fools are incapable of. Where there t trU
ing to Wow what's th use mi .bh'Winf f 'An
swer to be returned to a owe-horee whH. aor -.
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