AFFAIRS IN SYRIA.
T!io ibrciirn intelligence contains further par
ticulars of the st^jite of affairs in Syria, and the
detjiils are most harrowinsj. Nearly the whole
Christian population, or at least the mak pt>rtion
ot it, have fallen victims to the blood-thirsty vin
dictiveness and animosity ol’the Pruses. Kei>ortfi
Thf Scold Cured.—There were, not long since,
two youths, male and female, who were so aflfec-
tioaately attached, that *it appeared to them
they could not live happy without each other, and
eoHsequcntly they soon became man aud wife. But
it is always the case with both meo and women,
tliat during courtsliip they keep concealed many
are even said to have reached the British Govern- ! traits and qualities which, after marriage,
mem that the city of I>am:Lxcus, the oldest in- soon discover themselves, aud the defects of the
habited city in the world, and one of the most I parties are both mutually made known,
populousof the oriental capitals, which «^as known I The husband soon learns that his wife, with
U) Ih; threatened, has been sacked by them, and | all beauty, possesses aluo an evil, a scorching
that five hundred Christians there had been mas- * tongue, which the slightest cause sets in motion.
j She loved her husband with all her soul, and of this
countcd among ; was sensible; but he was of a choleric disposition,
and iioiAetimes replied to his wife’s upbraidings
in a manner that he was afterwards sorry for.
sacred in cold blood, the Dutch consul being among
them and an American boin
the wounded. To this attack upon Damascus the
Druses wore doubtless prompteil by their horrible
successes iu other places, acliicvcd sometimes by
the direct aid of the Turkish authorities and by
their sympathy and connivance in all cases.
The reported butcheries at Zahleh are abund
antly confirmed. There, and in the surrounding
villages, the survivors of sixteen thousand families
are reduced to hopelessness, nakedness and fam
ine. The carnag^'has been tearful, and the wo
men, who, with the children, were in many
cases spared by the Druses, have too often been
made the victims of the lust of the Turkish sol
diers. At Hasbei}a equal atrocities have been
committed. The place had a Christian population
of about five thousand, beloni^in*; not alone to the '
To free himself from home, and while wandering
hither and thither in company with friends, he
became addicted to the bottle. On his return at
evening, after having dceided upon the quality' of
various wines, with swollen eyes and stammering
tongue, one may well imagine the reception she
gave him. As soon as she heard the key turn in
the door, she wi^uld station herself at the top of
the stairs, and overwhelm him with a torrent of
reproaches.
lie, half stunned with the clamor, and stupefi
ed with the wine in his head, after some effort at
retortin in his own style, would sneak off to bed.
Finally the evil increased to such a degree that
Maronite community, but to the orthodox Greek | they saw each other little, for the drunken hus-
’ ... - band slept by himself, and sometimes did not
come home at all but slept in the tjjvern. The
wife, in despair, went to “a gifted lady,” and asked
advice of her. From this dealer in forbidden
knowledge she obtaind a phial of very limpid wa
ter, which she .said had been brought from beyond
the sea.s by a pilgrim of the greatest virtue and
holiness, with the instruction, that when her
husband came home she must immediately fill
her mouth with it, taking great care neither to
swallow or spit it out, but keep her mouth clased.
The lady thanked her very cordially and hastened
home to await the arrival of her husband and try
the water.
At length the husband, with fear and dread,
entt'rs the house, and is tistonished to find his wife,
whose mouth was full of charmed vater, perfoctlv
quiet. He addressed a few words t«> her, but she
said nothing. The husband becomes pleasant;
Church and to various Protestant denominations.
Of the latter there were abcmt two hundred, hav
ing a native pastor and a church of their own.
A letter from lioyrout has stated that of that two
hundred only two men now live, aud of their four
thous.*ind (Jreek follow-Christians, only thirty-three
men survive, while the fate of the wives and
children is worse than uncertain.
At Rasheiya, at the f(X>t of Mount Hernou,
there were about two thousand Christians, two-
thirds of whom perished by the swords of the
Druses and the bayonets of the Turkish soldiers,
to whose barracks they fled for protection, but
whence they were inhumanly driven by the troops.
Kven Beyrout itself i.s scarcely protected by the
English and European vessels of war lying there,
which, however, hud afforded refuge to the frij,'ht-
ened Christian pojialation In all, or nearly all, ,
the massacres that have taken place, the Turkish
troops have taken more or less part. One ac-I ^‘^hold the effect of the charmed
count states that Ottoman soldiers from i*auias- I water, and is delighted. Her husband asks her
eus enabled the besiegers to take Zahleh; another ! what has happened;and she acts courteously, looks
says that the Turkish governniout, or the local j no reply. l’(*aceis soon made
Turkish (Jovernors, have lent the Druses men j between them. The water lasted many days,
and cannon; and the details we have Irom time to | during which time they lived as harmoniously, as
time laid before our readers abundantly confirm j doves. The husband went not abroad, but found
this view of Turkish perfidy and cruelty. What I happiness at home. But at last the water of the
scenes of horror were enacted at Damaacus, and
what will lollow the sa«.^kiug of that most tanatic
ot cities, it makes one shudder to contemplate.
The latest foreign despatches intimate that now,
when the massacres have been completed, the Sul
tan is making a show of conccrn about his Chris- |
tian subjects, aud that a Commissioner, supported j you b^d the water in it
by an armed force, has been sent to the'scenes of! the same.”
slaughter. After what has transpired no one can ! Ever}'person similarly situated is advised to
place any confidence in either the Sultan or his | ^^y the e.\periment. Every sort of water is be-
Commi.ssioner, and it is not to be expected, or to j i*t*ved to be equally good; and even without wat^-r,
be desired, that this tardy pretense will satisfy j i* is thought the same end may be obtained,
tlie Christian powers of Europe, many of whose
bottle was exliausttd, and soon they were again
in the field of strife. The wife again repaired to
the “gifted lady,” but this time she said;
“AlasI the va.-^‘ in which 1 kept the water is
broken!''” “\V hat is to bo done?” asked the other.
“Hold your mouth,” replied the sybil, “eiactlv
and your succcks
quasi subjects tell victims to the blood-thirstiness
ot the Dru.ses and the Turkish soldiers. If the
tenor of the despatches received by the English
government is correctly stated, our own govern
ment is also immediately interested in punishing . , , ...
the perpetrators of these savage massacres. France ; ^wife, and after
and Russia are especially interested iu th« matter, i '^“'‘.eone to the jury, that l>ody stood six for con-
and we will not believe that England will permit for acquittal. Something must
A MarLfhius 7'-une*s.'t dame—LifV DtfHnd
iH(j on the Turn of a Card.—An exchange con-
t.iins what pur|Kjrt3 to be a narrative of a trial
which occurred in Tipton county, Tenn , twenty
years ago. A resident ot that county was charged
with the murder of his
the
England will permit
any petty jealousies respecting the influence of
those powers in the East to tempt her to shield
Turkey from the punishment so justly merited.
She at least ought not to connive at such atro
cities practised upon Christian people.
It is reported that the Emperor of France has
already, through the Mini.ster for Foreign Affairs,
formally apprized the government of the Sultan,
that, in concert with other powers, he will with
out loss ot time and directly interfere to stop the
carnage If the report be true, Napoleon III
merits high commendation for his promptitude in |
the cause of humanitv. The Emperor of Rus.‘«ia I
be done in order that the jury be relea«w.-d from
service. But we will let the “narrator” use his
own language.
In those days twelve good fellows could not be
got together for a night, and sleep. Cards aj>-
peared mysteriously froni the depths of sun«lry
large pockets, and exercise in si vcn up and poker
were zealously commenced. About midnight one
of their number, Col. P , proposed they should
play a game of seven up, the result to decide the
verdict. The proposition was heartily and unan
imously agreed to in all seriousness, and the
whole crowd collected around Col. P. and his
umanity. ^
i.s also said to have moved in the^^matter. Eng-1 proceeded to play the game on
land appears to be slow to act, although a dis- | stak^ a human life. Col. P. played,
elusion in Parliament indicates that she contem- | accused. His opponent played, and
{uite as zealously,>to secure the conviction. The
plates some movement of the kind. Jealousy of
Russia and France, of the former esf.ec’ially, pro
bably lies at the foundation of her tardiness.* The
press and the popular sentiment, however, are in
favor of .some decisive action, and will probably
compel the government to promptitude. Most
probably the three powers will unite in a demand
that every Druse sheik who ha» taken a leading
part in th^ mas.sacres shall be expelled from
the Sultan s dominions; that the whole country
of Lebanon shall be ^aced urtder a Christian
Go\ernor; that the Pa.shas who have connived at
the carnage shall be punished; that indemnity
•shall be paid to the .survivinL' Christians, and
better guarantees be given for their safety here-
aUer. Such demands would be nnxlerate. The
difficulty would be in the nature of guarantees to
be given with respect to the future.
Acif York Commr.rcial.
The Truity trith Japan.—This interesting
document has been published. It* provisions
were very generally known before the publication.
1 hoy may be briefly re.stated. Five ports of Ja
pan are opened to foreign trade, in which Ameri
cans may reside, lca.se ground and erect buildings. vcusi
In l>-l/vedJo istob«opo„cdul«,,bu.onl>- for ‘ n
/ , . /V • 1 o,*.. I- *1. uu'iaual known in all Southeastei
purpo.se.s jf tra.le, and Osca m for the.se . , ..
purposes houses may be hired in thv>se cities.
Foreigners may take excursions, not exceeding
ten “ri” (a “ri” is somewhat le.ss than two miles
and a half) from three of the free cities. Ameri
cans shall be entitled to the free exercise of their
religion. The President of the I ’nited States is
declared to be tha umpire or mediator in any dif
ferences that may arise between Japan and for
eign powers. 1 he importation of opium is pro-
liibitcd.
After a careful perusal of the treaty we can
not refrain from repeating the admiration pre
viously expressed oi the ability displayed by Mr.
'lownsend Harris in the negociations which led to
and in the training ot the treaty itself. The mat
ter was necessarily beset with great difficulties;
such difficulties, in fact, as probably no other man
than Mr. Harri.' could have overcome, he havin*'
not only a ]>ecu’iur!y correct knowledge of the
people with whom he was treating, but experience
in treaty making under very similar and e(jually
novel circumstances. The provision that consti
tutes the Pre.sid. nt of the United States the re
feree on the part of Japan in any difficulty she
may have with foreign powers we regard as one
ot the m(|.st signal triumphs yet achieved in diplo
macy. J he moral weight which it gives to this
country in the )rient can scarcely be over-estima-
—A. Y. Journal of Commerce,
On a railroad in England ha« been"^placed a
locomotive which has projecting over the frame
of the engine large adjustable mirrors, set in a
proper angle. By means of the reflectors the en
gineer has a view of the whole train behind him
80 that, in ease of a casualty to anv of tlio
casualty to any of tlie cars',
_ _ ^in the inirror on lus cni^'
Some trial trips have been made with this
paratus, and they are stated to have been*°ve?v
satisfactory. These mirrors can be applied at no
great expense to every locomotive.
backcrs, five and five, stood behind them, encour
aging the champions, and watching the game,
dimly seen by the light of two tallow candles,
with the utmost interest. It was Col. P’s deal;
he dealt, and turned Jack. The prisoner was ac
quitted, and every member in the jury joined in
the shout, which startled the whole village, even
the reveler? in “the grocery.” Next morning the
jury went into court, and gave, to the astonish
ment of many, the verdict of “not guilty.” The
juryman who played an unsuccessful game for
human life, still lives, a uiuch respected citizen
of the district. One of the counsel is a very
distinguished member of the Memphis bar, and
the accused has, as we believe, gone to a higher
court, but neither of them, nor any of the assem
blage, nor the court, who marveled at the ver
dict, eighteen years ago, have ever known that a
human life was saved by turniny Jack. There
are some curious episodes in the history of our
early settlement; but who would think of ventu
ring life upon turning Jack?
One of the Assistant Marshals for W'ashington
county, Ohio, in taking the census of Watertown
of a famous in
tern Ohio as “the
oldest inhabitant.” He is a black man, 115 years
old, named Micajah Philips. He served in Vir
ginia as preacher, and even now, at such an ad
vanced age, occasionally preaches to the colored
citizens of his neighborhood. Both physically
and mentally he is quite active. Uis home was
near Yorktown, \ a., when Cornwallis surrender
ed, and he remembers well that event. He says
he “had been going to sec the gals a long time
when the Revolution broke out.” He invariably
calls that famous war the “resolutionary” war.
Another interesting fact connected with his his
tory Is, that he was bought in llichmond, Va.,
near the close of the last century, and brought
to the island just below Parkersburg by the cele-
lebrated Blennerhasset. He is without doubt the
oldest person in the Southern district of Ohio, and
probablyjn any W'^estern State.
.Che X^emocrats of Auburn, says the New York
Times, have lately been indulging in a celebration,
wliereof a barbacue was the distinguishing fea--
ture. The day was fine, the assemblage was quite
respectable, the ox proved tender, and was done
not only to death but to a turn. Only one thing
occurred to mar the festivities of the occasion!
flic exact nature of this nfipleaaant interruption
of Democratic joys is not definitely given. It is
darkly thrown up to us in the following signifi-
ca„t and suggestive query, propounded by the
Auburn Advertiser:
“ mo Was the We mean the man who
put the tartar emetic on that ‘roa.st ox whole.’
ihstrict Attorney, do your duty.’’*
Remarkable Display of anniver
sary of the Bull Swamp Rifle company, at Orange
burg, S. C., on Saturday, the 7th inst., the follow
ing toast, among others, was drunk-
“By F. Witt—The three D’s; Disunion, De
mocracy, and Douglas. May the first be soon, the
second last forever, aod the third be d d!”
THE CHANCES.
George T. Curtis, who, tor a season, was one of
the Judges of the Supreuie Court of the IJiiited
States, but who resigned his place that he might
devote more time to his profession, on Wednesday
evening made a solid, able and brilliant speech in
Itoxbury, Mass. We have read nothing' more
seasonable, statesmanlike and masterly for a long
time. Discussing the chances of tho Presidential
contest he said:
Well, gentlemen, they tell you that you will
not carry a single State; and as to the vote of
Massachusetts, they have whittled that down to
less than 20,000. Now, gentlemen, it is not my
habit on thes(? occasions to make prediction.s, but
I am iu the habit of forming opinions upon
grounds which I believe to be reliable, and of de-
tt*rmining for my.scll what appear to be the moral
probabilities of the c:we; and let me state that case
to you. I take it lor granted that no man of
correct information, and who has not an object to
subserve by making some assertions about it, ex
pects that -Mr. Lincoln will be elected by the vot^i
of the people. Tt may be so. Ym hear great
confidence expressed on the part of the Republi-
Ciins. Gentlemen, believe me, that confidence is
neither very strongly felt, nor is it well founded.
The view which 1 am going to present to you on
this subject assumes that there will be no election
by the people. I’nder these circumstances, I de
sire you to consider, and if my voice or words
could reach ewery man in Mass^ichusetts, I should
desire every voter in tho State to consider what is
his duty in reference to that peculiar contingency
which is in the highest degree likely to happen.
There is, gentlemen, a very strong probability
that the Union party will obtain the States ot
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina,
Florida and Texas. [Voice—“and Louisiana.”]
I think it fair also to add Louisiana, and I was
about to say that if you add Louisiana it gives
you, without the vote of .Massachusetts, ninety
electoral votes. Now, nobody can entertain so
irrational a suppo.sition as to imagine that Mr.
Dougly.8 and Mr. Johnson, or Mr. iireckinridge
and Mr. Lane will obtain any thing like ninety
Electoral votes apiece. The consequence will be
that the election, if thrown into the Hou.se. will
go there in this position—that Mr. Lincoln will
be the candidate on the part of the Republicans,
that Mr. Beil will bo there on the part of the
Union Party, and that one of the other gentle
men will of course be there, becau.se the three
highest go in. Now, the same vote which places
Mr. Bell in the House ot Representatives as one
of the constitutional candidates, will, in all huuian
probability, ami u(K»n every rca.sonablc calcula
tion, j'lace Mr. Everett in the Senate a.s one of
the two constitutional candidates for the \'ice
Presidency. Well, sir, who will be the other can
didate that will tro into the Senate- tor the office
of Vice President? Why, Mr. Haiitiibal Hamlin,
down East there in .Maine. Now do you suppose '
that the Senatt^ of the Unitel
hesitate long in the choice bet
men? [Voice—“No.” “Guess
Why, sir, it is not within the
Political Items.—At the Bell and Everett Con
vention at Trenton on Wednesday, Col. Peyton said:
“On Thursday i spent an hour with our candidate
for the Vice Presidency, Mr. Everett. Mr. Eve
rett told me that he had desired to spend the
‘remnant of his life in privacy; that bo had been
called upon by the delegation from his own State
to lialtimorc to allow the use of his name for tlie
first ofiice within the gift of the nation. He de
clined to do so; but when the nomination came to
him for Vic« President, l>eing conncett'd with
John Bell, the statesman of Tennessee, he said
that no patriot living could have declined. I
have said this to settle the statement that he will
decline. Mr. Everett does not intend to decline,
and Mr. Everett believes, 1 think, that we are
going to elect him and Mr. Bell both.”
There wjis a great deal of trouble between the
Breckinridge men and the Douglas men at a Dem
ocratic meeting at Mayfield (Tenn.) on the Dith
instant. I’he Breckinridge men crowded the
Douglas men out of the court-hou.se, and there
upon the latter adjourned to the market-liouse.
The Hon. II. K. Williams and Lucian Anderson
addres.scl the Douglas meeting, a1id two or thrive
gentlemen addressed the Iireckinridge meeting.
Speeches at both points were very bitter.
Col. Cntom.—We have a great repugnance to
obtruding the affairs »tf [irivat^* gentlemen upon
the public notice, but in these times when a set
ol men take u[>on themselves the peculiar guardian
ship of the South, and when some of them do not
hesitate to brand all who differ from them .ls dis
loyal t*i their section, such obtrusion is, to a cer
tain extent, jiardonable.
(’ol. ('r(H)iii is a native of North Carolina, and
IS a graduate of the I ‘iiiversity of that State He
has been a citizen of the State of.Alabama for
upwards i>t years. He resides in Green.'>bon»,’
and his planting int«re.st ia in (Jreene and Maren-
11 is average erop is about twelve hundred
bales of cotton annually. He must be, therefore,
about xs deeply interested in the institution of
slavery, as .some ot those who wish to road every
body out ot the southern church, who do not go
with them in their insane pro.scription of all who
differ from them.
Col. (’room was Pn^sident of the late Constitu
tional I nion State Convention which mot in Sel
ma, and is an ardent sujiporU‘r of Bell and Everett.
He has, also, been the President of the State Ag
ricultural SiKjiety from its commencement.
Such is a sample of the men who are support
ing Bell and Everett. He is a Southerner in
ever}’ fibre of his beinir, and for ourself we ft**l
proud of belonging to the same party that he does.
.Mmit. Ala. l\utt.
Mt»»fturi l*ijlitirs.—A St. Louis correspondent
writes the N Y. Express:—
“All parties are up and doing, notwithstandiut; j
th u real contest is between the friends of Bell ^
Evcrptt. :ind Doii('l>i>i .Fohnuiiii ( tnr
WeU^aid.—lion. Garrett Davis, of Ky., who
served in Congress with Henry Clay, and was his
devoted friend to the day of his death, gives his
reasons for supporting Bell and Everett in a very
able letter, from which we make the following
extract:—
The very spirit of the Union and the Constitu
tion f>resided over the convention that nominated
our candidates, and inspired it to select men tit
and equal t» the present nt^eds of the country.
“The Union, the (Jonstitution, and the Enforce
ment of the Laws,” was the short political creed
of the statesman of Ashland, uttered when the
dark clouds of s‘ctionaiisin began to rise above
the horizon
enough for ev
ocean to ocean. It forms the ark (»t .American
liberty, and who will not rally to it? Of all liv
ing, none than IJell and Everett are more worthy
to be its representatives. They are statesmen of
the W'ashington .school, of great natural ability,
of profound reading in the science of govern
ment, of thorough practical knowledge of our
own. Their enlarged policy, principles and pa
triotism embrace and pervade the whole of our
great country and all its diversity of soil, climate.
LATER FROM EURup^
(JUKBKC, July ;^0 1x(v
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rived.
fro:. OBt?
I*
Roebuck atUcked 4
■tTdlr,,
In the House of Ijords on the l»;th ,
ville expressed his belief that the trouhi'^*^
New Zealand had been exaggerated. '
A participation in the proposed C’ouf;
and the annexation of Savoy were den
the debate.
In the Commons Mr
government for prosecuting an unjust war |
China, and encouraging the opium trade
Mr. Gladstone defended the government
It is comprehenbi ve and complete j serting that the treaty of Tien-Sien was binj'
.’ery good and patriotic citizen from 1 and that its ratification was most important l
the ark (»t .American ! also exposed the financial position of the
ment, and proposed a duty of Is. I Id. per
upon ardent spirits, which was agreed to
cording to hia statements and estimates, the
of the (Jhinese war will be £54,000,(j00, t,i ’
jK21,000,000 are already provided
The number of Christians massacre-i in s..
reached from to 8,0(H). The iiui„|^
villages destroyed was l.'il. The details ,,|
barbarities inflicted on all ages and sexes art i,
FAY]
production, and interests. They are not extreiii- j ening.
ists, but they are mt>ored in the moderation of 1 The Sultan has written a letter urion
enlightened, matured, rational, and philo.sopl.ic 1 ma.s.sacres in Syria, announcin«r his dettniiin«
.stat(»iuen. Everett has the more genius, learn- j to employ alf his powers for establishi
ing and olojuenco. Bell the more practical
statesmanship, and the niore nerve to meet and
quell the storms of disunion. But devotion tf) the
L nion, fidelity to the Constitution, and indomita
ble purpose to enforce the laws have become in-
*orporated with the intellectual and moral struc
tures of both. They are the men that ('lay and
V\ ashington, and the founders of our govern
ment, if now upon earth, would support for the
offices to which they have been named; and I ,
trust that the present generation of our country- i Spirits of Tur|>entine heavy and uo.:
men will have the wi.sdom, hrniness, and patriot- j yj 3|g
ism to forget all el.se but the imperilled condition ' ,
of the ITnion and the country and summtm Bell fh(phn County.—We had the plea.sure of .
and Everett to the rescuc. j tending three of the tax gatherings in |im
/.I i>~ii 1 • . ^ I (’ounty last week, and found large crowd-at
(.ol. Bell having been recently attacked by I and all of them. The candidates for the U -|.
^me extremists in the South, because of his course ture and for Sheriff were in attendance.
util
tt
^ ^ r —
there and punishing the guilty.
It was reported that Russia had coimnunir-,
to Napoleon a desire to act in accord with !>'
and England in Eastern affairs
Comvit ri ial.—Cotton—Salej for the livt jj-
43,000 bales, closing steady and general'
changed. Orleans midlling 5Jd., ditto ujj
7id. Holders offer freely but show no >ljspf.>-
to press sales. Flour quiet. Wheat steady r •
ery dull. Beef heavy. Rosin dull amUiii^
in (.undress relating to the reception ol‘ abolition ! will certainly j^in handsonielv in l)ui»lin,bu
petitions, we propose to let him vindicate it in ; half as much as he would have >^ained it
his own language. We copy from a letter ot his ; County had been thorouyhlv canva.ved
®opy
in the Nashville I’ataiot of the 21st inst., to the
Hon (1. R. (iilmer, under date Sth of Au'ust
1>40.
ounty had been thoroughly canvassed,
c confess to having been very agreeably
prised at the agricultural character of the Coui.-
especially in the lower part which we I'isited b
man probability that any Domocrat win vote lor i rom an 1 e»n learn, 1 nave stron-.^ nopes
.^Ir. Hamlin, and I greatly doubt whether any , the I nion candidate for (lovcrnor, Ju'fge Orr,
Republican Senator, when the persot;ai responsi- j "ill Ik* triumphantly elected; ».• well as a majori-
bility tor his vote, in the eyes ot the American ^ *y ot the Legislature and Cungre.vi>nal delei;a-
peop.c, ami of the world, shall re'^t u{>on him, will | tion. 1 think there is little doubt ot the defeat of
cast his vote fur .^lr, Hamlin against Edward I I'lair tor ('ongress in this district, at least for the
Everett; for, sir, the responsibility of that vote will I short term I will ,mvo you an incident
be, under the circumstances, nothing lc.«4s than i si ‘
the re.»p«*nsibility ol a vote east determine who
is tn be President of the United States; b« cause ; Charles Railroad a few d.iys since, 1
if the House tail to choose a President lH‘fore the wasovertaki n by a drover from Northern .Mis.souri,
4th day of .^Iareh, the office, ot nec» sjity. under ! “"d |K)litics was som the subject of conversation
the Constitution, devolves upt>n the Vice Presi- j I iisked him how they were going in his .section
human
monstrous dose. It was enough to kill or en*
one.—Salinbury Watchman.
dent; and I .say, in all human probability, or
speaking in moderation, there is a very high
deirree of probability that that \'ice Pn.'sident
will be Edward Everett. The Senate are not re
stricted as to the time when they shall make their
choice. They may choose the \ ice President out
of the two candidates before them before the
fourth of March or after the fourth day of .March.
Either way. the State.- voting in the House—tor
the Hou>e must vote by States, and the Republi
cans not having a majority there, of course cannot
elect Mr. Lincoln; the House, 1 say, voting by
States, the Senate will stand, in relation to them
in this position—you uiubt either make John Bell
President of the Ignited States, or you must take
Edward Everett for the office. There it is gentle
men. That is the contingency, and I say that it
is a contingency very likely to happen. I go
further, and say that it is more likely to happen
than any other result of this complication ot things
that can be foreseen.
Population in the —The cen.«?us, if it
should have no other effect, will show in what
manner the reputed increase in jKipulation in the
cities of the I’nion, and especially in the West,
has been over-estimated during the past three or
four years, ('hicago, for instance, has been es
timated by many whose opportunities for ascer
Wheth
er right or wrong, and without pretending to cen
sure those friends who differed with me, I have
uniformly held these opinions; yet 1 will add that | Wfiat we Look For.—\ Democrat aJuiiti
few genUemen in the South would be more pre-1 to us the other day, that two years from now l
pared lor prompt and lecisive measures ot resis- j party would be crying lustily for efiual taxat
.ow how Mron^ tJu- A.r »i,ll | ff" t i P'"’
and Everett in this Sute. Riding leisurely along | " \ j” f this subject 1 ,0 a.s to say that you Whigs did not have it ri-
^ r ! e^er Ik- in aded through (’ongress or otherwise, | A candid admission that our Democratic fria.
Kin “‘y^^ I prefer party to principle.—Axhevi/le Adm/‘ nU.
1 he last speech of Senator Thomp.son, of Ken- j Another Homicide.—We learn that anoic
tricky, in the I . S. Senate, will long be remem-, homicide was perpetrated, in this county, last S
bered by the hundreds who crowded the galleries urday evening. Bryan Minshew and JouatL
to bear it. I »k» weak to remain standing, the , Gifford were in or near a drinkingshop, at Sac
facetious gentleman sat down in his chair, after '
the manner of the French Acadcmicians, and de
livered his farewell to that Inxly of which he had
been in time past one of the most brilliant orna
ments, and to the political world into which he
had thrown himself with so much ardor when
Henry (^lay w;us at the zenith of his fame.
Clutching the front of his desk with both hands.
by,” .sjiid the Dniver, “1 shall go for Doug
las, but my f>emocnitic neighl>ors all around me
are going for Bell and Everett, and 1 can’t rea-
.■Mjii them out of it.” From all 1 see and hear,
I am inclined think, that this is the ca.se to a
greater or less extent all over the State. 'I’here
is another cncouniging feature of this campaign
the ohl line Whigs, who for many years back
haveeither acted with other political organizations,
or staid away from the polls altogether, are now
cold long enough, and feel as though they had : did intellect threw out its last scintillations of wit,
Cross Roads, in the northeastern part of
county, when, some altercation springing up ;
tween them, Gifford slapped Minshew’s face
jaws, and the latter drew a knife and literally r
Gifford’s throat, causing death in less than
minutes.
The sheriff has been in pursuit of Minshew f
the last two d^ys, who is yet at larsje.
This is a melancholy occurrence, g’rea'sVj
once more got home. Be fully prepared to hear
u good account of Mi.ssouri next month.”
Judje J)oui/li.i in Kenturky.—Extnwit of a
letter from Hon. John Y. lirown, member of
Cimgress from the 0th di.strict of Kentucky, to a
friend in Washington city: “I am for Douglas. I
regard him as the nominee of the party, and,
having been myself supported in my race for Con
gress by the Democratic party, I cannot consis-
t**ntly turn niy back on the candidate put forth at
Baltimore. There are not twenty voters in this
county for Breckinridge. Douglas will carry this
(the 5th) district by a very large majority.”
Hambleton’s beat.
DUh instant, which has for years voted Demo
cratic. Several Douglas men who were present
did not vote; Bell, 00; Douglas 47; Breckinridge,
L).
MUtttxsippi Pulitii's.—The Mempliis Appeal
taining such matters wore ample, to contain 110,- ! publishes the following vote, which was taken at
000 people. This conclusion h:is been arrived I If ambleton’s beat, Tippah county, Miss., (m the
at from several facts. In March last the vot^; ’
erst in the Mayor’s election was nearly P.*,OUO,
which allowing one vote to every seven inlialii-
tants. would give a population of nearly 1:^8,000,
which exceed.s the true returns by nearly 20,0(Hi.
So it is with the cities of St. Louis, Cincinnati,
and in tact all of the large towns of the West.
The Chicago papers predict that the West will
fall short at least one million in the estimated
population. In accounting for this decline the
Chicago l*ress .says:—
“The truth is, there has been, comparatively
speaking, but little increase of population in any
of the W'estern States since August, 1«57. The
commercial crash of that year, arrested the emi-
^ation that, was pouring into the West from
Europe and the Eastern and Southeastern States,
in a prodigious fltx)d. Tens of thousands of new
comers, finding themselves out of employment or
bankrupt, and all kinds of business prostrated,
hastily beat a retreat, and returned whence they
came. The hard times has checked European
emigration to the West. Most of that which ar
rives on our shores find employment in the Eiist-
ern States, where the demand for labor is good,
in consequence of returning prosperity. Very
little of the foreign emigration of this season has
found its way to this section, but has been ab
sorbed in the cities and towns of the seab')ardand
nianfacturing disticts.
“The vast railroad system of the W^est was
built between the year 1850 and 1857. Within
that brief period more than 9,000 miles were con
structed west of the Ohio river, giving employ
ment to regiments of laborers, and causin*' hun
dreds of towns and villages to spring forth as if
by magic. Chicago was the local' point of one-
fourth of tho whole Western system, and conse
quently was enormously stimulated in business
and population. People rushed hither from all
quarters of the Union and Europe. Hence we
find the population of this city mounting up from
29,000 in 1850 to 80,000 in 1855, and it was
probably 100,000 when the crash came in 1857
which arrested railroad building, shut up machine
shops, closed manufactories, discharged laborers
and mechanics, and exploded speculators. Be
tween 1850 and 1H57, not less than eight millions
of dollars per year were sent from the East and
expended in this State in the building of railroads
and their equipments, Is it then a marvel that
emigration should fall off when railroad building
terminated."
“/ Know hr i.s Honest."—The Nashville Ban
ner, of 1 hursday, s*tates that a friend informed it
the day before that he heard a veteran Democrat
say to a Bell and Everett man substantially: “Sir
my party is broken up and its prestige destroyed.
I see no hope for good in the factious. I am for
the Union and my country, I shall vote for John
Bell—I know he is honest.” Thousands of patriots
all over the country, who have heretofore voted
the Democratic ticket, will follow the example of
this gentleman, who has voted the Democratic
ticket for thirty years.
Fossils.—,\s some of our Democratic friends
are in the habit of terming Bell and Everett “fos
sils,” we advise them to read the following:
“Locofoco and Republican editors are fond of
calling Bell and Evorett ‘fossils.’ We accept
the name. A fossil is a plant or an animal which,
instead of rotting away, like its inglorious com
panions, hardens into imperishable marble or crys
tal and endures forever. So when the names of
our opponents fdiall rot in the dull waters of ob
livion, the nanu>s of Bell and Everett, like the
beautiful marble of Tennessee, and the eternal
granite of Massachusetts, shall remain throughout
all time as the symbols and watchwords of patrio
tism, virtue and eloquence.”
7Vtr National Intelhyencer—An Incident.—The
death of Mr. Gales revives a reminiscencc of the
only time his paper, the National Intelligencer,
ever suspended publication. It was a warm and
able advocate of the Madison war policy second
ing the efforts of (^lay and his compeers, and so
powerful was its influence that when General
Ross, in command of the British troops, entered
the capital after the unfortunate affair of Bladens-
burg, his first inquiry was not for the Capitol, the
President’s House, or the departments but for the
National Intelligencer office, and it was the first
establishment demolished, causing a short cessa
tion in its regular publication. With this excep
tion the Intelligencer has been publishfd re
gularly for sixty years.—Albany Even. Jo\ rnal.
The First Sheriff.—Jonas Cline, Esq., Sheriff
of Catawba county, settled hia taxes with the
Comptroller oa Friday last.
humor, sarcasm, and hard common sense. Fond
of personalities, he addressed himself to all the
members of the Senate whose tiames had been
mentioned prominently in connection with the
Presidency. Crittenden, Seward, Douglas—all
received his back-handed compliments. He did
not spare the Chief Magistrate himself, but dealt
him as rough a blow a^ any. Alluding to the
Scotch blood in his veins, and to his repeated
protestations against a second nomination, he
said he had never known a Scotchman to loose his
hold when once his grasp was fastened upon any
thing. Regarding Mr. Breckinridge as the pro-
teye of Mr. Buchanan, he called him the Presi
dent s political son—the only son of any sort he
ever had or would have—declared that the Vice
President had always been lucky, that his friends
expected his luck to carry him into the W'hite
House, “but sir,” said he, “the white of your
eye is too white—you will never be President of
these United States.”—Baltimore American.
'il.'wT' '"1"" u"""- '’'"“i I pulling I'is ctiair forward and pushing ^ ,ueu,„cnoiv occurrence, gre»
>>» - ti.e dccea.cj a„d
survivor la, a respectable man. I he familv
both is entitled to the sympathies ot the pub
Goldsboro’ Houyh \oltt
Death of a Boy from Standing on his II
—On Friday last several boys were playing;:
freight car trying which could stand longet
his head. A little son of Thomas Lindsey st-
thus near five minutes, when he was prevei
from standing longer by one of the other bo
After fining his feet he immediately ran h:
complaining that his head hurt him, and in 1'
hours afterwards expired, the blood rushin.
his brain causing apoplexy. Let the little t
be careful how they play.—Lincoln {111.) Btr
-4 Volcano in Polk Connty ( Wisconsin.)—
of the strangest phenomena in nature has rece'
developed itself near the Horse Lake, Polk coo;
Wisconsin. Flames of fire came up throuch"
earth in several localities, and one man’s bare
been burnt down by it. Strange to say, the:
can only be seen in the day time, the earth is
evening bearing a close resemblance to phosphor
The air eniells as if impregnated with sulpi
The most remarkable feature in the case
fact that all woollen articles in houses located a
by take fire, although there is Qothicg visibi;
ignite them. Our readers will Tcry likely ti-*
this a hoax, but we have the words of severai-
zens of Polk county for authority.— Chicago J
Mr. \ ictor Ihompson, a wealthy drugi-’i;'
Hagerstown, (Md.) died on the 17th, and dV
(in addition to a large sum to his sisters) the
of 820,000 to four boards of the Old School I
byterian Church, S5,000 to the Board ofi-
tion; $5,000 to the Board of Publication; i
to the Board of Foreign and $5,000 to the P-
of Domestic Mi.ssions. He also devise.'
to the Presbyterian congregation of llait!'^''
for the enlargement and improvement ■
church edifice; $1,000 to the Charity J'oh'
the town; $2,000 to the Mayor and Confl'-’^
Hagerstown for the purchase of fuel for ►
poor; $1,000 to his colored servant woman.
at her death is to revert to the town,
appropriated as the preceditfg legacy, ami 5^’-*'
the purchase of a spring (known as
Spring) for the use of the public.
Martin Ian Buren.—We find the following in
th« Memphis Avalanche:
“That arcli traitor, Martin Van Buren. who iu 1848
abaiidoued his party aud Joined the Freesoilers declares
hiiuaelf in favor of the election of Douglas. It was tit
that he should do so.”
W’hen Van Buren supported Buchanan in 1S56
(which we thought very “fit” for him to do,) not
a Democratic paper in the South called him an
“arch traitor” or Freesoilerl
Columbus Georgia Enquirer.
The Avalanche is mistaken. John A'an Buren
announced in his speech the other day that the
whole Van Buren family of “arch traitors” are for
Breckinridge.
The office-Seekers after Lincoln.—Lincoln is
at home attending to the reading of letters which
lie has neither the time nor inclination to ansv^er.
Iheir number is a jteck a day; and though none
of them contain downright applications for office,
he is astonished to read of the great number of
men to whom he is indebted for the position that
he occupies. The “original Lincoln man” is
ubiquitous; he lives in every Northern State, and
hxs near relatives over the border.
American travelers in Europe are likely to
experience difficulty in getting home next fall,
unless some provision is made for their accommo
dation quito beyond the present means of con
veyance. A gentleman who left this city early
in July, writes homethat, notwithstanding his first
endeavor, on reaching Liverpool, was to secure a
homeward pa.ssage in September, every steamer
was found to be already filled, the first opportunity
which offered being by the Adriatic, early in Oc
tober. Probably there is, this year, a larger
number of Americans traveling in Europe than
ever before, and from the circumstance of all
desiring to return about the same time, ti e trans-
Atlantic steamers are engaged many weeks in ad
vance. A grand chance now offers for the Great
Eastern.
The Great Eastern. The Steamship Great
Eastern is to be at Old Point (’omfort on Satur
day next, and at Annapolis on the sixth, where
she will remain until the 10th inst. She sails
for £Qglaad on the aiztecQth,
Enormoiui^apital Invested.—The capiw
vested in the coal lands of Pennsylvania is
be nearly $824,000,000. The canals and
water contained within the anthracite ci»al
measure 815 miles in length, and cost
000.
It was once remarked by a wit that if
were found dead in the road and no one kntw‘ i
thing about him, yet if a copy of the '
Intelligencer were found in his pocket, it * ,
be prima facie evidence that he was a srentl^^
Any Gentleiiian
Desiring his Clothes made to measu'^'
{S invited to leave hi.o orders with us anv lin'^ ‘'
VIOUS TO 15th AUGUST. Our facilities
us to manufacture any kind, style or price of
and gatisfactioD guarantied.
0. S. BALDWIN * C'O ■
Clothiers, &c., -1
Fayettevill^i ■
July 21,1890.
THURSDAY
The Elictic
points at issue to
to the time of gc
work quietly; but
wheie there may
Last night bot
the contest. The
marched thro«^
Fayett«vilie, and
At variou* point
ing speeches fro:
lina, Raodal Me
Roae, James R
Huake, Calvin ?
probably others i
dwtriao exerois
had taken ourse
was enthusiastic
which will be tt
lieve
We passed th(
twice, but didn’1
ther think there
“My opinion w:is, says (^ol. Bell, that, whether ^ crops of corn and cotton would do'credit
the j>ctiti«mcrs had strict ri«^ht on their side or 1 ^**y County in the State, and we observed
not, sound jxdicy dictated the reeejition and re-1and energy, and an acti
ference of their petitions. 1 believed that any I iu^ere.'^t in their pursuit amohg the fanner
««#/*««/course in regard t4) them would give un- augurs well for the future•agricultuft
due importance to the movements of the abolition- ^ 1 rospects of the County.— Wilmitujton Htral.
isU, furnish new ground tor aritation, and rather ^
increase the existing excitement than allay it. In ‘ "" —Democrat in Davi. tol,
my opinion, a re,x.rt from a committee at each ! f
the eiual taxation contended for by Mr. I’uol
SuPK&ioa C'
mences next w
presiding. Tht
Harnett, •
Moore,
Montgomery,
Stanly,
Anson,
Richmond,
Robeson,*
Bladen,
Columbus,
Brunswick,
New Hanover,
Samp>son,
Cumberland,
Delicious (
has presented i
—the “Royal ]
led, and well n
deserve to be r
we ever saw.
ned, and of del
Mr. Evans, '
tors to our Coi
cessfal com pel
honor to say tli
grapes of the s
and uniform ac
in North Carol
North Carol in!
as peculiarly
ments made h(
gentlemen as
Scott, Mr. Evi
a wide extensi
have native w
grapes in thei
will quit poise
whiskey.
Tm* Char
—We think t
the Democrat
with advocati
po8«d in the
into the matt
sary in reply
last Democrat
“The Obsei
th« words *‘ad
where Mr. B1
unfair, for it
the reader,
words (wbicl
principle was
tions" mentio
not misreprea
but truthfulb
The DemO'
lortm” did r
Pool, beoauc>e
phrase ‘‘ad
negro propei
that “Bledsc
negro.” So
to see that it
But if the
going resok
themselves, :
Ktj to inter]
any ««ces.iti
they would 1
entire consis
Good N
says,—
“Advioes
las, from af
greater stren
anticipated,
twenty to tl
From preser
two wings 0
the Souther
Everett. S
filing beco
avow their ]
their favoril
Every th
will carry n
this bitter 1
ridge, and 1
gres.s, as it
Everett wil
the remark
er column,
Hon. D.
paragraph,
^ Patriot, in(
favorite wi
delighted
New Engl
than Doug
A Sliyh
meeting in
S. Dickins
aud Nortb
mised thei
made “sub
one Mrah