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[Vol. 1. SALISBURY, N. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1853. No. 23.] REPUBLICAN BANNER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ^BA^^ Sa WH^©^, EDITOR. AND PROPRIETOR. Term«-»—$2 a year in advance, or if paid wilin ' 'lx months; $2 50 if not paid within six ninths; and $3 il not naid before the end ol the year. These terms will in no case be departed from. Advertisements inserted at One Dollar per square, (lou men lines or less,) tor the first in sertion, and 25 fents per square tor each subse quent insert ion. If the number of insert ions de sired is not specified, the advertisement will be continued until forbidden, and charged in all cases at the above rates. A liberal deduction to those who advertise by the year. Court orders charged 25 per cent, higher than the above rates. N. B. No unpaid letters attended to. ADVERTISING RATES. 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C.; and forthe Raleigh line by way | of Ashbora’ and Pittsboro’. May 17, 1853. 1—th & Having received a large supply of NEWAND BEAUTIFUL a©® ry.^, We are now prepaid to execute all kinds of SUCI AS O^.®©S, SHAV® MESiffii®, PAMPHLETS, &C.&C., Neatly, Cheaply, end Expeditiously. CALL AT THE “BANNER" OFFICE. Job Work done here From the Fayetteville Carolinian. Diplomatic CorrespomleiBce iai rela tion to the Koszta A flair. The correspondence between the Austrian Minister to this country, Mr. Hulsemann, and the Secretary of State, Mr. Marcy, has been made public. A more masterly exposition of international law, as applied to a question of individual conduct, than Mr. Marcy’s letter, we have never seen. The correspondence is too voluminous for our limited space, but is entire ly too important to be passed over withoutgiv- ing our readers some account of it. We sub join from Mr. Marcy’s letter a statement of the facts out of which this important controversy has grown: “ Martin Koszta, by birth a Hungarian, and of course an Austrian subject at that time, took an open and active part in the political move ment of 1848-’49, designed to detach Hun gary from the dominion of the Emperor of Austria. At the close of that disastrous revo lutionary movement, Koszta, with many others engaged in the same cause, fled from the Aus trian dominions and took refuge in Turkey.— The extradition of these fugitives, Koszta among them, was demanded and pressed with great vigor by Austria, but firmly resisted by the Turkish Government. They were howev er, confined at Kutahia, but at length released, with the understanding or express agreement of Austria that they should leave Turkey and go into foreign parts. Most of them, it is be lieved, before' they obtained their release, indi cated the United States as the country of their exile. It is alleged that Koszta left Turkey in company with Kossuth—this is believed to be a mistake—and that he engaged never to re turn—this is regarded as doubtful. To this sentence, of banishment—for such is the true character of their expulsion from Turkey— Austria gave lio>. «>««- nv . '“ num, It was Mie result of her efforts to procure their extradition, and was accepted by her as a substitute for it. She had agents or commissioners at Kutahia to attend to their embarkation, and to her the legal consequences of this act are the same as if it had been done dir^tly by herself, and not by the agency of th® Ottoman Porte. Koszta came to t^e United States and selected this country for his future home. On the 31st of July, 1852, he madea decla ration, under oath, before a proper tribunal, of his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and renounce all allegiance to any oth er State or sovereign. After remaining here one year and eleven months, he returned on account, as is alleged, of private business, of a temporary character, to Turkey in an American vessel, claimed the rights of a naturalized American citizen, and offered to place himself under the protection of the U. S. Consul at Smyrna. I’he Consul at first hesitated to recognize and receive him as such ; but afterwards, and some time be fore his seizure, he and the American Charge d’Affairs ad interim at Constantinople, did ex tend protection to him, and furnished him with a Tezkerch—a kind of passport or letter of safe conduct, usually given by foreign Con suls in Turkey to persons to whom they extend protection, as by Turkish laws they have a right to do. It is important to observe that there is no exception taken to his conduct af ter his return to Turkey, and that Austria has not alleged that he was there for any political object, or for any other purpose than the trans action of private business. While waiting, as is alleged, for an opportunity to return to the United States, he was seized by a band of law less men—freely, perhaps harshly, character ized in the despatches as “ ruffians,” “ Greek hirelings,” “ robbers ”—who had not, nor did they pretend to have, any color of authority emanating from Turkey or Austrian, treated with violence and cruelty, and thrown into the sea. Immediately thereafter he was taken u"p by a boat’s crew, lying in wait for him, be longing to the Austrian brig-of war the Huszar, forced on board of that vessel, and there con fined in irons. It is now avowed, as it was then suspected, that these desperadoes were instigated to this outrage by the American Consul-General at Smyrna; but it is not pre tended that he acted under the civil authority of Turkey, but, on the contrary, it is admitted that, on application to the Turkish Governor at Smyrna, that magistrate refused to grant the Austrian Consul any authority to arrest Koszta. The Consul of the United States at Smyrna, as soon as he heard of the seizure of Koszta, and the Charge d’Affairs of the United States ad interim at Constantinople, afterwards inter ceded with the Turkish authorities, with the Austrian Consul-General at Smyrna, and the commander of the Austrian brig-of-war, for his release, on the ground of his American nation ality. To support this claim, Koszta’s original certificate of having made, under oath, in a Court in New York, a declaration of intention to become an American citizen, was produced at Smyrna, and an imperfect copy of it placed in the hands of the imperial Austrian intcr- nuncio at Constantinople. The application to these officers at Smyrna for his liberation, as well as that of Mr. Brown, our Charge d’Af fairs, to Baron de Bruck, the Austrian Minister at Constantinople, was fruitless, and it became notorious at Smyrna that there was a settled design on the part of the Austrian officials to convey him clandestinely to Trieste—a city within the dominion of the Emperor of Aus tria. Opportunely, the U. S. sloop-of-war, the St. Louis, under the command of Captain In graham, arrived in the harbor of Smyrna be fore this design was executed. The comman der of the St. Louis, from the representation of the case made to him, felt it to be his duty, as it unquestionably was, to inquire into the val idity of Koszta’s claim to American protection. He proceeded with deliberation and prudence ; and discovered what he considered just grounds for inquiring into Koszta’s claim to be dis charged on account of his American nationali ty. During the pendency of this inquiry he received notice of the design to take Koszta clandestinely, before the question at issue was settled, into the dominions of the Emperor oj Austria. As there was other evidence of bad faith besides the discovered design of evading the inquiry, Capt. Ingraham demanded his re lease, and intimated that he should resort to force if the demand was not complied with bv a certain hour. Fortunately, however, noforce was used. An arrangement was made by which the prisoner was delivered to the custo dy of the French Consul General, to be kep by him until the United States and Aus^r: ■ should agree as to the manner .r -i;. ^ ^.r । mtn." ' • The demand for reparation, which Austria makes through her representative, is based on an alleged right of jurisdiction “ guarantied by treaties to the consular agents of Austria in the East.” This very vague statement of a very important matter by the Austrian Charge, implies the right of Austria, by virtue of treaty stipulations, to enter upon Turkish soil and capture a political refugee. Mi - . Marcy meets this assumption by showing that as late as 1849, Austria demanded of Turkey the ex tradition of certain political offenders—that the demand was refused, and that the refusal of the Porte met the approbation of the en lightened public opinion of the civilized world, thus settling the question against Austria.— Furthermore, Mr. Marsh, the American Minis ter at Constantinople, wrote to his Govern ment under date of Aug. 4th, 1853, in rela tion to the Koszta affair, as follows: “ I have had several conversations on the subject with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and with Aali Pacha, Governor of Smyrna at the time the affair took place. These distin guished persons are very far from expressing any dissatisfaction with the course pursued by us. They sustain the view the lagation has taken of the legal character of the question, and Aali Pacha informs me that a few years since the Austrian Government refused to sur render to the Porte Turkish rebels who had fled into Austria on the very ground now taken by the Porte, viz: that the treaties did not provide for the extradition of political offen ders.” But if there remained any doubt as to the light in which the Turkish Government views this transaction, it is dispelled by the course which that Government has taken. It has “ protested against the conduct of Austrian agents in the affair as unlawful and a violation of its sovereignty,” whilst it has indicated no dissatisfaction at the course pursued by the functionaries of the American Government.— These important facts show clearly that this right claimed for Austria to capture political refugees upon Turkish soil, is not recognized by the Turkish Government; that the course of Austria herself has been inconsistent with any such claim, and that the claim itself is al together unfounded. But even if this right does exist by virtue of treaty stipulations, it can only be claimed for “ Austrian subjects,” as appears from the com munication of Mr. Hulsemann himself. Mr. Marcy contends that Koszta was not, at the time of his seizure, an Austrian subject. The Austrian Government had procured his ban ishment by Turkey, and had thus withdrawn from him its protection and dej rived him of citizenship. Having thus made him an exile, it could not claim over him the jurisdiction of sovereifinty. Mr. Marcy lays down the law with regard to domiciliated residents with great force and clearness. He shows that Koszta, when seized, had the national character of an American, and that the Government of the United States had a right to extend its protection over him. The Law of Nations recognizes the rights of e^ry Government to protect its domiciliated r^ucht.?. It is nofnecessary* in order to jus tify such protection, that the subject of it should have been a naturalized or native citi zen. These propositions are sustained by quo tations from writers of approved authority on international law. But even if this were not so, there is another view of the subject which will justify the interference of Capt. Ingraham. Koszta, at the time of this seizure, was furn ished with a Tezkerch, granted by the Ameri- Consul in accordance with the laws of Turkey, which clothod him in the national character of an American, and justified any interference necessary to protect him from un lawful violence. . As to the complaint of Austria, that the neutral soil of Turkey had been violated, the Secretary of State informs Mr. Hulsemann that L't'President of the U. S. does not recognize j^e right of Austria to claim redress for any ~-t injurious to Turkey. If anything has been done in derogation of the rights of the Porte, the President is ready, upon.complaint from me proper source, to make reparation. Mean- fine, the fact that Turkey demands no such reparation, but on the contrary complains against the con^&of the Austrian officials, is quite significant of the view the Sublime Porte takes of the transaction, and clearly marks the real transgressor of neutral soil. In the following closing paragraph our Gov ernment not only refuses to give any satisfac tion whatever, but demands that Austria shall proceed to restore Koszta to the same condi tion in which she found him before the trans ition : ‘ prisonment of Kfoszta were illegal-find unjusti fiable, the President also declines to give his consent to his*delivery to the Consul-General of Austria at Smyrna; but, after a full exami nation of the case, as herein presented, he has instructed the undersigned to communicate to Mr. Hulsemann his confident expectation that the Emperor of Austria will take the proper measures to cause Martin Koszta to be re stored to the same condition he was in before he was seized in the streets of Smyrna on the 21st June last.” SPARKIN’ SALLY SCRAGGS; OR, Sam Stackpole Surprised. BY NED ALBRO. “I speculate you’d like to hear of thaterec- tion,” said Sam, giving his chair a hitch, “ and if Sally herself could relate it, you’d expre- ciate it a heap more ; but you see she is shock in’ modest, and if I should ask her to, she’d blush bluer than an indigo bag! Howsum- ever, I don’t mind enlightenin’ you on the sub ject; but if you go to pokin’ it in the paper, I’ll call you out, by thunder ! u It happened—the circumstance did—in Flyblow Holler, Stait of Arkansaw, the only Stait where it could happen, though sum folks run it down, and say the musketers there are as big as Karliney pertaters I Now, I say-— what of that? ain’t every thing in proportion ? [ Why, I’ve seen bars there such ‘ sizers’ that the ! natives hunted ’em the same as whales—with a harpoon ; and when they walk through a cane-brake, on a hot day, you can jest travel along behind ’em and pick up millions of taller candles already boxed ! “ Then look at the gals—why they’re per fect panters—their eyes sparklin’ like dimun beeds, and their cheeks as red as a turkey! gobbler’s throat! Oh! I knew a prettv one, She livpd in Flyblow Holler, She were so tut she couldn’t run— S‘> fat she couldn’t woller! “But her old daddy was stupendous! He was jest about the Grossest and uglk st old var mint that ever wore spectacles; and it was wonderful to think that he should be the father of such a charmin’ scrouger as Sally were. I must say that feminine was awful hansum—- and of all the magnum bonum gals that ever I seed, sho was the magnum honest. Natur’ had gin her plenty of ‘rotundity,’ and the way it stuck out was perfectly provokin’ to camel leopards. What she wore the thing for I never could ascertain, except it was that when she sot down on a hornet’s nest the gnatty insects couldn’t sting her. But we’ll let that part of the story went for the present, and resoom : “ Now, it was one day, thinks I to myself— Sam Stackpole, bein’ as how Sally Scraggs art the prettiest female that ever jumped, and have got a power of calico fixuns, fur-belows and a watch, its high time you and her were one.— So I declared my passion as a feller in Im most generally duty and were accepted. Yen, sir-ee !—she wilted rite down, like a pokeberry stalk in the sun, and sed she’d be mine, if I could get her daddy’s consent. Sal, H ex- claimed, for you I’ll try, but I consider it jest as useless a movp as chasin’ a steamboat up hill. At any rate, I was determined to make the attempt, if I got killed in consequence. “ Jest afore I commenced operations, I went to town, and bought my intended about a bushel of fancy things, consistin’ of ribbins, a string of beeds, sum French goose grease for her hair, besides a mess of small caps for the young Stackpoles that might accidentally ex ist after she and I agreed on hitching teams. When I got through makin’ my purchases, I packed ‘cm all away in a bundle, and then lo- comoted for the Holler, true as a rifle. “[It was rather late when I arriv, and old Scraggs was bilin’ sum merlasses candy for Sally to peddle next day—there bein’ a show in town—Sally and her mammy havin’ re tired. “ The fust thing I done, however, arter en terin’ and old Scraggs had stared at me a few, was to sit rite down in a hot pan of merlasses, he’d put on a chair to cool, which made me jump up and howl amazin’! Gosh all ginger bread ! how it burnt! but as he didn’t see the accident, I squatted on Sally’s band-box what contained her Sunday bonnet—and went to rubbin’ my extremity like sixty-six! Well, arter I’d sot there a spell, groanin’ to myself and wonderin’ how much damage I’d done, the old man give me another terrific look, and sed: “Sam Stackpole, what the d—1 hev you come arter—say ?” “Mr. Scraggs, sez I, not darin’ to stir,for fear he’d diskiver my predicament, I’ve come here on mighty important bizness, (Oh, lordy ! how that, merlasses smarts’) and if you’ll jest keep your ebenezer down for about live min utes, I’ll endeavor to inform you with that de gree of accuracy that I am so pre-eminently and conspicuously developed. “The old fellow didn’t understand that ar powerful language, and in course didn’t say nothing, so I kept as easy as I possibly could, and went on : “ Perhaps, says I, you’ve noticed that I ar been payin’ numerous aitenshuns to your daughter, and I am gratified to state with in finite popularity. Now, if you’ll give Sally to me I’ll vote for you for Governor, and scud my country if you ain’t elected. “ Well, arter I’d delivered myself in that ar benevolent style, what do you think the old codger’s reply was ? Why, instead of sayin’— ‘take Sally and be derned,’ he actually pinted to the door, and told me to scatter! I vow, I got out of patience then sure, and didn’t care what occurred—if Sally’s bonnet wasn’t smashed. “ Mr. Scraggs, sez I, I should be happy to oblige you, but the fact is, I sot down here and can’t leave nohow, unless you cut a hole in ray trowsers. “ When the old man seen how I was stuck fast as I sed,. he jest catched up the whole pot full of hot candy off of the fire and emptied it all over my head and shoulders, true as I’m a live boy! Je-hu ! how the stuff made me cavort and holler! but I was so mad that I grabbed a great gob and let him have it— biff!—rite between the eyes. “ There, take that, sez I, you derned old, nasty flappered piece of deformity ! and then I started for the door—direct. “ I jest got it open ready to dart, when old Mrs. Scraggs burst out in a loud laugh and Sally spoke for the fust time. “Sam Stackpole, sez she, hold ! My band- box and your pantaloons are annexed /” “Jerusalem !” sez I, and leaped. I must a been awful skared, for I landed about twenty- six foot outside the house, and run like a prai rie-fire. I never looked behind me till next mornin’, and when I did, the kiver of tne band- box was a stickin! to my treowsers /” Kissing.—When a Baltimore girl is kissed, she says she is taking chloroform, and remains insensible as long as the operation lasts.— When a Buckeye girl is kissed, she throws up her hands and ejaculates, “Blissful moments, how they fly.” When a Louisiana girl is kissed, she gets miffed and says, “ I’d like to see you do that again—I would.” When a Chester girl is kissed, she says: “Now if vou do that again I’ll retaliate—I will.”— When a Philadelphia girl is kissed, she says in the most innocent manner imaginable, “ Yes, you may go and ask my father.” What Io the Canadian girls say ? Prenez garde, to be sure ; what do the Caro lina girls say ? Don’t know—never kissed one. To cure poverty—sit down and growl about it. , PRETTY THOUGHTS. What is crime? A wretched vagabond, travelling from place to place in fruitless en deavor to escape from justice, who is constant ly engaged in hot pursuit: a foe to virtue and happiness, though at times the companion of poor innocence, which is too often made to suf fer for the guilty. What is thought? A fountain from which flows all good and evil intentions—a mental fluid, electrical in the force and rapidity of movements, silently flowing unseen within its own secret avenue; yet it is the controlling power of all animated matter, and the chief main-spring of all our actions. What is happiness ? A butterfly that roves . from flower to flower in the vast garden of ex istence, and which is eagerly pursued by the multitude in vain hope of obtaining the prize, yet it continually eludes their grasp. What is fashion ? A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no cer tain indication of the real value of what is contained therein. What is wit? A sparkling beverage that is highly exhilarating and agreeable, when par- taken at the expense of others; but when used at our own cost, it becomes bitter and un pleasant. What is knowledge? A key that unravels all mysteries, which unlocks the entrance, and discovers new, unseen, and untrodden paths in the hitherto unexplored field of science and literature. What is fear? A frightful substance to the really guilty, but a vain and harmless shadow to the conscientious, honest, and upright. What is joy ? The honey of existence, real ly beneficial and agreeable when partaken of In mnderafinn. but highly injurious when used to excess. CAPITAL FOR YOUNG MEN. It is a consolation for all right-minded young men in this country, that though they may not be able to command as much pecun iary capital as they would wish to commence business with for themselves, yet there is a moral capital which they can have that will weigh as much as money with people whose opinions are worth having. And it does not take a great while to accumulate a respecta ble amount of this capital. It consists of truth and integrity, to which may be added decision, firmness, courage and perseverance. With these qualities there are few obstacles which may not be overcome. Friends spring up and surround such a young man almost as if by magic. Confidence flows out to him and business accumulates on his hands faster than he can ask it. And in a few short years such a man is far in advance of many who started with him having equal talents and large pe cuniary means, and ere long our young friend stands foremost among the honored, trusted, loved. Would that we could induce every youthful reader to commence life on the prin ciple that moral capital is the main thing after all. IMPEACHING A MAN’S NAME. At a literary dinner in London, where Thack- ery and Angus B. Reach were vis-a-vis at the table of Mr. Thackery—who had never before met Mr. Reach—addressed him as Mr. Peachy pronouncing the name as its orthography would naturally indicate. “Re-ack, sir, if you please, \ said Mr. Reach, who is punctilious upon hav ing his name pronounced in two syllables, as if spelled Re-ack. Thackery of course apol ogised, and corrected his pronunciation; but in the course of the dessert, he took occasion to hand a plate of fine peaches across the table, saying in a tone which only he possesses, “Mr. Re-ack, will you take a pe-ack ? ” As Mr. Jeames would say, phansy Mr. Re-ack’s phelinx !—Sunday Courier. Laughter.—A hearty laugh occasionally is an act of wisdom; it shakes the cobwebs out of a man’s brains and the hypochondria from his ribs, far more effectually than either cham pagne or blue pills. A clergyman lecturing one afternoon to his female parishioners, said : “ Be not proud that our Lord paid your sex the distinguished hon or of appearing first to a female after the res urrection, for it was only done that the glad news might spread the sooner.” Good mailers is the art of making peo ple easy with whom we converse. Dickens has cleared 850,000 from the Bleak House. Idleness never can secure tranquillity.