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Col Campbell's Letter. Letter o ? the Hon. John Campbell to a torninitio of a Democratic mooting held at Marion C. H. Ma rlborougu August 15, 181 "*. j Gentlemen.?I have the honor to ackm wlodge the receipt of your letter of the 15th Hist, enclosing a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Democratic, party, held at Marion i Court I louse, in the words following, to-wit: >% Reached, That a committee of three be ! - appointed to address a letter to the Hon. John i Cainpbeli, and request hi:n to give his views on the approacbuig Presidential election, and in case the election should come into the House of Representatives, what course he would, pursue." At the organ of the Democratic party for j earryrng the above resolution into effect, you have,'after recommending the resolution itself j ho my'consideration, propounded the following interioga'ories 1st. Are you in favor of the ! re election of Mr. Van Buren as President of | the United States ?'f " 2ndly. In case the el- ! cction fyl'reaider.t should come into the House i of Representatives, which of the two candidates would you vote for ?" Before 1 proceed to answ. r your letter, I hope that I will be indulged in saying that al- : though in common, as I presume, with every ' citizeh of the country, I feeia lively interest in J the subject of your communication, I had hoped 1 after a session unparalled for its duration and, perhaps for its excitemenf, to have passed the short recess principally in the tranquil pursuits of a planter's life, and 1:1 the enjoyment of the fociety of iny neighbors, undisturbed in a great measure by lit" political storin that is sweeping over nhc land. This disposition ( still think may be indulged consistently with my duties to my constituents and to the country. For whatever eause of excitement may exist in most of the States of the Union upon the Presidential election, w hich now in politics44 is | the Aaron's rod that swallow sup ail others," j there is none in South Carolina. The vote 1 of our State is not doubtful, and if a few of our Districts elect gentlemen to the Legislature \vh?? advocate me election of the opposi ion : candidate, the result will riot thereby be affected.,. My opinions, however, upon this subject, ' 1 believe, are well known. During the late canvass foi Congress, there were frequent occasions in which 1 expressed my preference of the present incumbent of the Presidents. Clair over either of the probable n >tn nccs of the j llarrisburg convention, and of the party by which thai gentleman is supported, to the northern and western divisions of the party by which iio is opposed. In a few remarks which I h id , the honor to submit to the House of Represent- , stives previous to its org tit izition, on the agita t rig qaosiioH which for a time involved us ppa. ; really ina siato of almost hopeless confusion (an abstract of which was published both in the Globe . and the National lutePigcncer) I avowed the satno profeiencts. Refuse and since the noniinwfliun of the opposition candidate, without in. j trutfing- my opinions u here 1 thought liiey were uncalled lor, or entering as au clectionecrcr into me l\evidential canvass, oi circulating docu:n- j meuis except to a very limited extent, not in ! ?Qme way connected with' the proceedings of < Congress (an omission which I have been morli- : fiodiolcuin lias been the suljccl of complaint i with some of my constituents 'I have, upon what i considered suitable occasions, invariably expressed tuo same sentiments. But, gentlemen, it is known to yon that I have <1 iff,-red. a? 1 still do, with a l?rg? incjonty of the t-rtnro pri fjr, upon an important ! feature ot a prominent measure winch has now . . I . . ?w Ifn - H UU 'UP I* xrrfT?'v I.? ?. probable that my opposition to this measure may have been interpreted by some as an opposition to tire administration by which it was reroumicndcd, you can readily appreciate the delicacy of my poshtoh in making a public declaration of my i .opinions, if those opinions are to influence the i s access of gentlemen of virtue, intelligence and j patriotism, who arc now before you as candid- j utes for the Stale Legislature, and who at the ; last election supported me with a noble devotion ; to w hat they believed was right against what ap I poured to be very unequal odds. Important, how. cvor, as the Presidential election may be, the. citizens of thedifT renttlisrtcls that compose this congressional district, w ill I trust select their candidates for. the Statu Legislature without , reference to that subject; for all know , that * hot loir we elect gentlemen to the State legislature who prefer Gen. Harrison, or gen- < llemcn who prefer Mr. Van Buren, the result /.(ikni!..., ii.^...l/,,a ?.;il nnt hi iiic ?ua- vi mv ciaie iur 1 uniuoun ? ?v. i thereby bo affected, r.or her influence in the slightest degree cither increa id or diminished as a member of;fie Union. Subjects have been discuss* d in the party . prints, an?l in the electioneering pamphlets with which the country lias been inundated on the Presidential election ; which as thev have j m> reference to the genera! politics of the coun- ! try, and whether true or false, do n??t affect the qualifications of either of the candidates for that high station, I will passover without observation. Nor will ] in attempting to sus- j ; taitt my preference for one of the candidates, j intentionally depreciate the personal claims uf j the other?a man, who, let detraction say wnatifmay, has long and faithfully served his country, both in poacennd in war, and whose errors upon [x.htica! subjects, so I r as indicated by his votes and published opinions, have not perhaps, been much greater than these of his opponent. llavihg made th's remark, am disposed in its vindication to compare Mr. Van Huron's and | Gen. Harrison's opinions upon certain leading J questions ol vital importance to southern inter- j os Is. 1st. Upon the suljcct of abolition. After having endeavored with souio care to inform myself in relation to Gen. Harrison's opinions ; upon this subject, I have come to the conclusion that lie has no sympathies in common with , - I I* CI 4 _ A I he abolitionists of the noil siavcnoiuing oraies. The proofs of this, I th.nk are to be found. 1st. in his vo'eon the proposed Missouri restrict- I ions. 2nd in his speech delivered at Cheviot, ] Ohio,on the 4*h July, 1833. 3d, in his speech de. | ercd at Vinrcnus, Indiana, when he was be- I fore a candidate for the Presidency. 4th, from . numerous letters which he has at different! times written to gentlemen in various parts of the slave holding States, particularly in his letter to Mr. Lyons, of Richmond, Virginia, written as late as the first of June last and publish- i ed in opposition to his request ; and5th, in the unmeasured denunciations of the abolition j prints. That Gen. Harrison did in 1533, speak fa- j vorably of appropriating the surplus revenue cf the General Government, not only to the ! eoloirzition of persons of color, who were al- | ready free; but to the purchase of the freedom, i * of others, with the consent of the States hold-1 - ing them there is no doubt?and that at j the age of 18, he became a mc mber of a socio- j ty in Richmond. Virginia, which in 1822, and i since, he.!ias designated by the title of" abol- j ition society but which in his letter to Mr.! Lyons, be disclaims all recollection of having I done. " At any rate," he says " the word abolition was not understoed to mean in 1822, what it now means. There can be no doubt that the society of which Mr. Tarlton Pleasants was a member, and which in his publira- | ticn, in the Richmond Whig, he calls the Humane Society of Richmond,'was the name of lb? one which t wps a member." WliO'.V i C.r. Huns-o:: h..? beer; ru Py of I lite baseness of designating this {Society kby, i different titles to different persons for the pur" pose of gaining "golden opinions from allse's of J inen" is a controversy into which I am not all' disposed to enter. But a Society formed at I Richmond in Virginia, in the very heart of the slave country, in the Capitol of that State, t which has been called the mother of Slates j and of great men, in her palmy days, the days, ! I of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and others ; bv whatever tittle called, i had probably but Ititle affinity to the abolition Societies of the present day. These charges which have been so loudly , rung against General Harrison at the South, to wit, that he advocated a distribution of the ! surplus revenue to purchase our slaves, and thai lie was a member of an Abolition Society, stand upon his own declarations. The voluntary confessions of an individual charged with j offences are always ?steemed good evidence! against him, but it frequently happens that: great injustice may bo done if a mere isolated i deciaraiioti is allowed logo tothejury discon- [ uectod with the circumstances under which it ; was made or W'th other parts of the same, or 1 of different conversations tending to throw light upon it. Hence* the humanity of our Iuvvb, requires even id the case of the greatist criminal, ' that he shall not be convicted upon his con- j fessions, without allowing the circumstances ; tending to explain them to be taken into con- | 6i(]eratior?. I Believing that justice in the present case re. : I quires a similar rule to be extend'd to Gen. > ! Harrison, and that the 44 quo ammo" under i i which the declarations alluded to were made, . | cannot be properly understood without, I will, at the risk of being thought prolix, tnake ehoit . ; extracts from the speech in which he advoca- [ | ted a distribution ot the surplus revenue to the cause of colonization, with the consent of the ' k!:ii-p KtatMis in the cause emancipation : and ! I after I have done so, I will make an extract j from the first published letter in which lie stated tnat at the age ol eighteen he nad become a member of an Abolition Society, and that j the " obligations he had then come under he had faithfully performed." In his speech delivered at Cheviot, Ohio, in : 1933, alter alludiug to the disposition of per- j sons in the non sl.iveh<?ldiug stales to interfere : with the slave population in other s'ates, and ' declaring his conviction, that, under the con- ; stiution ot the United States, the slaves were under the exclusive control of the states that pessessed thetn, lie proceeds. " Shall 1 be ac- j cuscd of a want of feeling to the slaves by j these remarks ? A further examination will i e'ueidate tlie mat'e. 1 take it f ?r grantee j that no one will say that either the Govern-j mont of he United S ates, or those of the non sla^e holding, States, can interfere in any way with the right of propeiiy in the slaves. Upon whom then, are the misguided and pretended friends of the slaves to operate? It must be I either on tlie goveruir cut of the slave holding | states, the individual who hold them, oi the I slaves themselves. What aie to be the argir j tuei ts, what the means, by which they a.e to ; influence the two first of these 1 Is there a man hold enough to go the |rtnd of Madison, j and of Craw ford, and tell thcin that they eh her j do not understaud the principles ot the moral ! and political rights ot man, or that understand- i nig they disregard them! Can they adJre&s an argument to the interests of the eulighcn. I ed population of the slave states, that has not j * - i - i _ .i occurred to themselves a mousanu ai.u a inuuand times ! To whom, then arc they to ad dress themselves but to the slaves, ar.d what j """1 Kn oaul lit llium.tlt't' -? II mil Uati 1it 'JlP , muiscriintuate slaughter ot every ago and sex, j and ultimately to their own destruction! Should there be an incarnate devil, who has I imagined, with appiobation, such a catastrophe to his fellow-citizens as 1 have described, let him look to them fur whose benefit he would produce it. Particular sections of the i country may be laid waste, all the crimes that j infatuated man under the influence of ail the bhek passions of his nature can commit, may be perpetrated lor a season, the tides of the ocean, however, will no more certainly change than that the flood of horrors will he arrested and turn upon those who may get tl in motion. | " I will not stop to inquire into the motives I of those who are engaged in this latal and un- 1 constitutional project. Tnern may be some I" who have embarked in it without properly con. i sideriiig the consequences, and who are uclu" j aled by benevolent and virtuous principles ; i5Ul II sucn UKTC arc, i nm vcrj cwiiaui uiui, should tlioy continue their present course, their i Jcllow-citizens will t re long curse the vutues winch have undone their country. {Should I be asked, is there no way by which the General Go* eminent can aid tlie cause of emancipation ; i answer that it has ! long been an object near my heart to see the i surplus revenue appropriated to that object, : With the sanction of the {States holding the | slaves, there appears to me to be no constitutional objection to us being thus applied em- j bracing not only the colonization ol those that J may be otherwise treed, but the purchase ol 1 the freedom ol others, liy a zealous support i ol a plan formed upon this basis, we might look ; forward to a day when a North American sun j would not look down upon a slave. To those ; who have rejected the plan of colon.zation, 1 , would a?k if they have well weighed the consequences of emancipation without it! How long would the emancipated negroes remain satis 1 fiod with that! Should any one of the SouthI t-rn States, their negroes armed and. organ-j ized; be able to resist their claims to a par- j ticipatton in all their political rights.1 Would it even stop there? WoulJ they not claim admission to ail the social rights and privileges of j a community, in which in some instances, they , would compose the majority ? Let these who j take pleasure in the contemplation of such scenes, as must inevitably follow, finish out the picture." j I will now lay bofore yon an rxtract from a published letter, addressed by Gen. Harrison, in i ito the public, when he was a candidate lor | Congress, in d* f.nce or his vote against the 1 Misouri Restriction. Extract?"I am accused of being friendly to 1 j slavery. From my earliest youth to the present i | moment, I have been the ardent friend of hn- , | man liberty. At the age of eighteen, 1 became a member of an abolition society, established in i 1 \r:?,.r ...i,:,.u M.1CIU1JOIIU, VII gill III, UK UUJi/kV Ul rt J1IV.II IV CIO 1U I tu ameliorate the condition of slaves, and to pro. i cure their freedom by every legal means. My i vcuerublc friend Judge Gatch, ol Clermont conn ty, was also a member ot that society, and has ' recently given mc a certificate that I was <>ne.? i tlic obligations which I then caine under I have j faithfully performed. I have been the means of j liberating many slaves, but never placed ono in j bondage. 1 deny that my votes in Congress in j relation to Missouri and Arkansas, ore in this j least incompatable with these principles. Con j gress had no more legal and constitutional j right to emancipate the negroes in those see- j lions of Louisiana, without the consent of | i the owners, than they have to free those of Ken- ! J lucky." Gen. Harrison's opinions, as expressed in j : the above extracts, have keen frequently reiterated, ! ! and, I think, we may from them fairly come to the j conclusion, 4-liiut although opposed to slavery j in the abstract, he regards it as strietiy a domes, j tic question, exclusively under the control of the j , Stales within whose limits it exists, and thai he i would not sanction an interference with this in' elitutiou. iu any manner whatever, by Congress, without the con sent ot the States and Teuito. j wmmmmammagmmmm?wm?????????? ries within whose limits it existi. In h s iats letter to Mr. Lyons,^ be endorses what ho has said in his Vinconnes, and olh^r speeches, and states his friends have truly asserted that he has done and suffered more to support Southern rights, than any other person North of Mas an and Dixon's line." If himself and fiiends are L correct in this opinion, it surely should give him a claim upon our confidence, but whether the crown of martyrdom which they have placed upon his head, has been justly earned, is a question that every man must decide for nimself. I would not strip a laurel from his brow that he I. _ * a I l*4l ..1 * ^ . 1 .. I 11 may oe jusiiy cm new ?u, merely occause no lias j himself asserted his claim to wear it. As a set off to this claim made for Gen. Hanson by certain of his Southern friends, nnd endorsed by himself, there is conclusive evidence to show that a couitship has been carried on between some of his Northern friends anJ the abolitionists, with a view of convinceing the latter that they have mistaken his views, and that they ought to sup. port him. I have not time to enter into minute detail upon this subject, but for ev. idenceof the fact will refer you to a sketch of | a deba;e in an abolition convention,publ'shed in the extra Globe of the 1st of July, and 10 letters of Messrs. Mallet & Brown published in the Extra Globe 22 1 of same mon h, bo'.h of which I herewith enclose to ycu together with Mr. VV. B.Calhoun's explanations of his alleged participation inthis billing and cooing transaction, in which he tenders a copy of his letter to the examination, of any gentleman or any party j who h>?s doubts as to the correctness of his ! statements. The explanation to which 1 j allude will be found in the National Intelligencer of the 12. and in the Extra Globe j of the 24ih of Juno Having endeavored to lay before you j. what I consider the best eviaenc in my pos- I session as to the opinions of one of tne can- j dates for the pressidency upon this vitally ' important subject, I will now proceed briefly ; to consider those of the othor, so fur as j within my knowledge they have been dovi'lopi-d upon the same subject. Without recurring to Mr. Van Boron's i support of llufus King, after his opinions j were well known upon the subject of ihe j pro pos d restrictions of slavery iti Missouri,! or to : is own vote in Congress to restrict ; ihe introduction of slaves into Florida, j when n 1822 her people applied to be or- ! ganixed, it mus' be .acknowledged that lie lias no! placed Ins objection to an interference with'jiliB subject of slavery in the District olColnmbia uponihe only impregnable barri? r of on rrights, to wit, the Constitution, but on grounds of expediency and good faith. Notwithstanding all this, however, Mr. V:.I1 I'urcn's course upon this subject, since he bus been President of the United S ates, has b- en firm, dignified, and uncompromi 1 sing, and such as in my opinion to entitle , him to the confidence of die South. No one, not even his bi'terest enemy, will now j , accuse hiin of being in the slightest degree ( tinctured with the fell spirit of political abolitionism. The next subject in importance is that of , a 44 protective Tariff/' Mr. Van Buren j I.... ?rPn,mn>?? ?? r>. i " '" I k)f itie Tariffof 1824. lie also under, insfrttc. t lions from the Nexv.York Legislator'*, as a i senator in Congress voted for the Tariff of j 1823?ilius recognizing in bo'h instances ' ' | the constitutionality of measures which were intended to restrict our markets for purch use, which interfered with the principalis of < quality and free trade, which made certain branches of industry tributary to | others, wnieh plundered the planting States, j and lor a time, spread dismay through the Sou:li It must be admitted, liowcvcr, that j . much light bus been thrown upon this sub- i I .1 _ J' __ | .,,1. ... ! ' JCCt UV nil* (IISCUSSIOUS which nave suusu* i (p-mlv taken place, unci that the Irue princi- . phs of!liti Constitution in reference to u ^ protective Turdf, are much better and more j generally understood at tins time than they were at the enactment of these laws. So lar as the principles of n protective Tariff i have be? ii ohjceied to in Congress upon i. constitutional grounds by the members j iroin non-slaveholding States, those objeC' i tiohs come almost exclusively from the j , Democratic party, and from the spirit of i Mr. Van Buren's rn ssages to Congress, it } can scarcely be doubted that lie has repa- j dialed (if he ever entertained in sincerity) i tiie ami republican opinion, that any one 1 branch of industry, .s enti led to protection ; from the Government at ihe expense of; 0 hers. General Harrison has been a thorough advocate ol the protective system, but in his letter to the citizens of Zanesville, da'ed 21 November, 133G, and wrten in explanation 01 remarks lie had made the day before, After expressing bis conviction of the bene, fits lint the TardFhad conferred upon the . country, he says, "I certainly never had , and never coulJ have any idea of reviving , it. VVtiat I said was that I would dot agree lo repeal it as it now stands. In other words I am for supporting the compromise uct, ' und never will agree to i s being altered or repealed." Dnnn ilie stibieef of tlie currrncv tlcre *" I " " J ? J - II is an important difference between tlie I. candidates for the Presidency. Air. Van Buren's views upon this subject constitute tlv principal grounds both of his streng h | ai.d his weakness in this State. Tliey ure embodied in the existing low, and form j one of its most prominent features it is , well known to you, that I dessenl, to wit: ( the exclusive requirement (when the law < shall ha\e gone iir.o full efleci) of gold an t i silver in payment of ihe public du< s. But j | ibis is not all, Air. Van Buren in 18,37, re- j. commended a uniform law concerning, f Bankruptcies of Corporations and other j? Bankers "through whose instrumentality," ' ( he says "a salutary check might he imposed 11 upon the issues of paper money, and mi effectual remedy given to the citizeus in a ! ^ way at once c-<|Uoi in all parts of the'Union, 1 i and fully authorized by ihe Constitution."? ! i Suielv the President must have forgotten * C* m his favorite scheme of divorcing the Government (torn the Banks when he rccorn- J mended tlmt the S ate Banks shoud he subjected to Federal control under the form of j t a Bankrupt law. In the forcible language j ( of speaker Ilnn'er in a late letter addressed j to Iws Constituents, "bun Ireds of S;a!e! J t 6.mks woulJ t>e tnus placed under the favor of the General Government, and in certain contingencies hundreds of millior.8 of money would be administered by Federal Agents. What sort of divorce is that which makes the State Banks dependent upon this Government for their very existence, w hich subjects ihcni to its regulation. A more Federal or consolidating measure can scarcely in my opinion be imagined, than to subject Banks createdand fostered by the States as the useful ban Imaids of industry, to the control of Federal Agents, and in re lation to which, let our abstract opinions be what they may, have through a long process of commercial prosperity become so enter, luined with every interest in our common country, that they cannot be suddenly abolisbed even upon the arising of those contingencies that have occurred more thun once within the last few years without producing a s' ock that must be felt throughout the Union. For a glowing description ol the wide spread ruin that would be occasioned by the officers of the Frderal Gov. eminent closing the doors of State Banks upon the occurrences of a legal act of Bankruptcy, and immediately winding up its concerns, I refer you, from recollection to a speech of Senator Calhoun upon the Bankrupt bill, discussed during the lateses aton m ui? ocnaie. (To be Continued.) ATTEMPTED REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. Landing of Louis Bonaparte at Boulogne. We annex full particulars of a mad and foolish attempt o.i the part of Louis Bonaparte to seize the throne of France. The folly of the atte mpt will be seen by the issue, than which nothing couid be more silly or ill-arranged. Enough, however, remains to show that his citizen kingship, Louis Philippe, has quite enough at home to keep himself busily employed, without set king additional sources of embarrassment by quareling with England* ? * A s.camer has just arrived oir the town, and lauded about 100 men, dressed in the uniforms of Generals and Colonels of the nr.. my. Some of tlieni went immediately to the barracks,crytng Vive Louis Napoleon," and distributed money among the crowd.? "This morning one of them, attired as a Gen? r.d officer, and another as a Co'onel, were arrested arid conducted to prison. A number of horses are on board of the steamer. All is quiet at present, and the mi itary are ail under arms. "The drums are beating to coll out the National Guards. No more of the insuigents have been arrested. "It is said that Louis Napoleon has also landed." The City of Edinburgh steamer, belonging to the Commercial S eam Navigation Company, was hired by Prince Louis Napoleon, ostensibly for an excursion of pleasare along the British coast, for 14 days.? j In this lie embarked with 56 followers, eight liorses, and two carriages in the Thames ?*? i...,,?,i,;? mnrniinr.^abou', I o'clock, tin y reached thecoasi of France, dr Wimiroux, about three miles from Bouogne. The supprise of the Captain ntid new may beeasdy imagined to see the ivholo of h.s passengers come on deck, not II the peaceful garb of citizens hut in Mil'tary% some us lancers, some as General of ficrrs, some as private soldiers, with an oil. skin covering on their hats, with the num. Iter of 40 painted in front, lhat being the regiment vhich at S:rasburg had formerly indentified itself so seriously in the cause of Louis Napoleon. Their object was soon made evident.? The ships boat was lowered, and the whole company landt d in three trips. Before the Prince left the vessel he order< d the captain lo cruise offthe coas', but to keep close in :o Boulogne, nnd have a boat ready manned lo come off*lor th-'tn shoulJ they signalize to that effect. When landed, they marched into the town shouting "Vive 1 Knipereur," the Prince carrying his hat on I lie point of his ; sword and wavering it in the air. 'I he soldiers, awakened, and se?ing themselves sur. rounded bj, General officers, knew not what to m k" of the scene. They were, however, soon made to comprehend that a revr>lu ion was on foot, that Louis Philippe was dethroned, that all France was roused in favor of their emperor, Louis Napol< on, .i .u .. .i .... i. tiuu Mini uit'y in um ui in iu iiiciicu luim-wiui upon Paris. As some were preparing to obey, liieir captain, who had been awakened by the noise, rushed in among them, and restored their wavering loyalty by shou'ing. 4*Vive Ic Hoi." High words and a scuffle ensued between him and Prince Louis, when the latter draw a pistol and fired?unfortunately the ball shattered the uuderjniv of a poor ; soldi* r wiio was endeavoring to separate ihcrn, and the whole party, finding that the soldiers were lukewarm, and that the officers were faithful, that nothing was ro be done there, precipitately quitted the Caserne, and retired to the port. By this time the town was roused, the auturittes were on foot, the drums were beating to arms, and the National Guards muring out in all directions. Within two lours the greater part were ei her prisoners n the citadel, shot, or dispersed. They tiaile no stand after leavin^j Caserne.? Some made their way witli tlio eagle to the Mupoleon column, sotno with the Prmce fastened to the sea side, and signalized for i boat from the steamer. Unfortunately or "them, too many got into it, and it upset. , Fhe Prince with three or four others swain | or the steamer, and had a narrow escape )f being drowned. During their absence, however, affairs tad changed on boar J the steamer. M. i'ollet, the harbor-master, by order of the Vlayor, had proceeded with a dozen Custom house officers in a boat, and taken posses, lion of it; it was fortunate for the Prince hey did so, for in returning into the harbor, hey found liitn almost exhausted, clinging o the buoy, about the eighth of a mile from he shore. Ho was taken on board, and vidi him Col. Vaudrey. In escaping from he shore they had narrowly avoid d being \ I shot, several balls pass< d close 10 the Prince, and several of h s followers were wounded, ! and sank to rise no more. The report is, that six have been found; one poor doctor, who surrendered, was shot by a National Guard. The French embassy to Persia, the Portafoglio of Malta asserts, that there has been a complete failure; the Persian Gov. ernment bavins refused to form a treaty ol commerce wiih France, or io admit tht French officers engaged at Paris into it.service. The latter, this journal adds huve returned to Teheran. The Sud of Marseilles states, that notwithstanding the favorable nature of tin harvest, the coru-m irket of that city hac risen in consequence of the anticipations o war. Boulogne, Auir. 6, half-past 8 o'clock a in. " The Sub-Prefect to the Minister of tht Interior. "Louis Bonaparte has just made un at> tack upon Boulogne. He is pursued, anc several of his followers are arrested." t-f.iir unci nino /iVlnrlr. 14UII*|F>IO| IlllfV V "Louis Bonaparte is aroested. Ho bus just been transferred to the Cast!*, whort he will I c guarded. The conduct of the people, of the National Guard, and of tht troops of the line, was admirable." A Telegraphic despatch reached Paris on Saturday a lernoon, dated Toulon tht 7lh insr. It announces the arrival of tht French government steamer Oocyte, direc from Constantinople, bringing importan despatches from Count Pontots, the Frcncl Ambassador in the Tuikish capital. The rumor o' M. Thiers, resignation it pronounced by a letter dated Sa urday e vening to have no foundation. M. Tli en ( was at En. with M. Guizot, consulting wri:l Louis Pliilipp0. Boulogne Sitr-Mcr, August 8, 7 P. M. J Ttiis morning this wild adventurer wa i quietly removed from the Castle in the up per town. It is supposed his desin.vion i: j Ham. Montholon and the other captive are to ho tried, it is said, by a military tri liunal. The insurgents have undergori' examination, but secrecy appears to hi- ih order of the day, as notnnig h s vet beei revealed to the public Office of the Daily Georgian, ) Savanna, Sept. 12-12 M. $ From Florida.?By the steam park* [ Forester, Capt. VVray, we h ive receive I from our Jacksonville correspondent iln Advoca c of Tuesday last, and the St. Au gust inn Ncas of the 4 h. \Vc extract from these papers the p irtiu Inrs of Indian intelligence heretofore noticed, and otlivr transactions not heretolon transpired. Jacks-i.Nvtf.le, Sept. 9.?Indians.?O. Sunday, ihe 30th, the Express Rider he tween Pilutka and Fort K ng, was sh? i n fliH wrist, when about 8 miies from the f trine ' place. Tl? re were five Indians. A sroti was sent in pursuit, but the trail lending in wards the Oclawuha, became indistinct an' the sr*ont returned. On MijiiJ >jr ut>i*, n oi-U ?tLlii>r. under a escott of ten nrn, was being conveyc from Fort Tarver to AJ canopy, and wer fired upon by Indians. Tnree of the escoi WW) killed upon the spot?the rest, ivil tlie invalio-'l, esenped unhurt. The siol man, during the conflict, discharged hi musket at an Indian, who come to the bacl part of the wagon, which wounded hiin se verely. They burned the wagon and oni niu|e, The Indians were in consid- robh foree. On t' e aficrnoon of Wednesday, the 2 I Hillary Parsons, a young man of about 19 was shot by a (>?rry of Indians, about \ miles from Mark Creek, on the Newmans ville Road. Upon the first fire of the i;:di tins, he was perforated by five hails iJ ha<.' been liuntmg, in company with btss'ej father, n Mr. Tucker, and r-turning, whet their dogs ian towarls a branch, and com ilienccd a lurious barking. Parsons weni to ascertain the cause, when the Indians numbering about 15. rose from their core cealrne.tt, and fin d upon hun. Aft' r shpotitiir him, they mangled his holy iu a horrii O _ * m manner. Tucker esrap d. St. Augustine, Sept. 4.?A private o 2d Dragoons, who was taken by the Indian: some time since, when the corn fields were destroyed, escaped, and lias returned to th< post at Fort Reed. lie was one of tin guard left with llw horses?his companioi being killed, and himself tied io a tree, nftei being n prisoner seven days, to be shot.? Their guns missed fire rpvtuI times, wher tin* party was alarmed hy the near approael of Lueit. Lawton, 2d Dragoon, on a scout The Indians fleeing, left him bound, and af.er some dilfi'-uhy, he succeeded in getting free from his cords. For fourteen day; he had been wandering abou*, mid his man is said to be destroyed, as well as the suf lerings ho endured have reduced him to u mere skeleton. We learn that he states that there was a mulatto arid a whi'e man with the Indians. Absolom's Pillar.?Tne last number ol the Missionary Herald contains some interesting extracts from the journal of the R'-v. Mr. Riggs, a missionary in Sonriia, during a journey m Syria, for the benefit of his health, in iho course of which he visited Beyroot, Jerusalem, and other celebrated "I"' nj Mn ilvu flur/l /l:io jiflor lnu :i r rl v;i I V II l?IV-? IMMU \M'*J I'livi ?? " ? ! at Jerusalem, in company with some friends, tie rode around the riiy, and visited .spots oj peculiar interest in the environs. He says that continuing his way along the bed of the Kedron, he came to some ancient tombd or monuments situated on its left bank, the most interesting of which, as it was doubt, less the most ancient, was the pillar of Abs iloin, the construction of which is mention, ed 2 Samuel. 18: 18. No doubt is enter, tained that this is the monument there de? scribed. Its architecture is difF rent from any tiling which he had before seen. The bottom iscut from the solid rock. This pan is perhaps fifteen feet in height, and is .surrounded by an antique cornice. The second story, as it may bo called, is somewhat less in heigh:, bu It, of heavy blocks of hard , limestone, and surmounted by another cof* , nices. Above this is siiii another storjf , consisting of a single black of limestone, in , the shapcof an incurvoted, cone, the upper I part of which is quite slender. The whole i< altogether unique, and even without the - aid of tradition gives one impressions of a i very remote antiquity. This is just opposite Mount Moriah, on whose level summit F the temple anciently stood. i FROM THE ST. LOOIS BULLETIN. , Tiie Happy Man.?fn walking down Second street on Frida) afternoon, on my * way to the ursenal, 1 found a crack in my . boot?and, recollecting the old adage, that I " u sticth in time saves nine," I popped into f the first cobbler's shop 1 met to get it men* ded. Unlooked, for pleasures are generally , most relished, nnd I had no expectation of ; meeting with a philosophical cobbler. PuU ling.off my boot, I looked at the man. What . an expensive forehead ! What an intellu | gent countenance! Wliut an expressive eye ! There is truth in physiognomy, exclaimed I to myself?that fellow's brains are t not made of green peas !J > As he was fixing the boot, I then thought ? of a man born with capacities for intellect. ual pleasure and improvement?lofty, lordly man !?wasting his whole existence pentup ? in a small room, knocking away with hi* . hammer, and bending from morning till i night over a lapstone and a piece of feather. I 1 took another look of the man?and, while t the glorious sun was rolling on in his golden , course, and all ISature smiling in her most gorgeous and superb scenery, woo ng the gaze, and filling the gazer with sublime feelings, * here, said I to myself, aits a man perpetually * straining his eyes to poke a hog's bristle through * u little hole. What an employment for a man i capahL, ifpnperly instructed, of measuring tho distance from this to Mercury ! It is im. possible he can be happy; he is cut of his a , sphere. Just as he had got the thread through ^ the third hoie I spoke to him frankly, and said : 'Your room is very small; are you happy * | here?" He answered, with some energy, s | " Happv? yes ; as happy as the day is long, and ' ' 1 4 uiricitinna U'itK f?onOMI m | VVOUIU Il'H UMIId on uouujio w tin vvhvi w? h Harrison, though I am certain he will be our I President. I don't interfere with politics, but 1 ! 1 know all about it." 14 Put are you happy in | your employment, confined all day in this small room 1" 44 Yes, ceriainly ; the fact is, the half of the world don't know the way to be happy. I was for a while myself humbugged about happiness ; but, sitting on my stool and reflec* 1 ting seriously one day, I got the ??N i cr? t. I thought to be h ippy you must be rich ii j and groat, have an inconveniently large house, . ! more furdiiure by far than necessary, a table 1 groaning with every thing; but I soon found | nut all that was stuff. 1 am happier here with my lost and hammer than thousands with their " ! tine houses and splendid equipage; and have a ' I great deal of enjoyment in looking out of my iule cabin and laughing at the follies of the i I world. They don't s;e, and it does them no - h inn; anJ, between you and me, the world are j busy pursuing more shadows. One wants to be rich, another to get into office?never sat-* isfied; but here am I, mending old shoes, con1 toyt.ed with my lot and situation, and happier by far than a King. Indeed, I am thankful that Heaven in its wrath never made tne a King, for it's poor business." n By tins time my boot was ready, and wish" J fng to .rolling ihe courcr-Tntion with a man (, who displayed so much real practical philoeo" phy, I said,44 Have you no distressing cares to vex you, no anxieties, no sleeples - nights, no ! bills to meet, nnprings for yesterday, no fears * : for to'inorrow ?" He sfarod at ine a moment, s | and said, 44 No none. The only rares which I k j have are comforts; I have a wife, the best in . the v\ orld, and two < luidrcu, and that is enough , of comfort for any one man to enjoy. As to bills, 1 have never buy on credit, and never buy what I do not really wants. As for the fears of to-inorrow, I havo no fear, bnt trust in j a kind and ever watchful Providence, boliev. . I ing that4 sufficient unto the day is the evil ^ J there if." and resignation to Providence to be ^ the truest philosophy." What a noble fellow, said I. to mend a crack in a boot! Himself a t' piece of noble workmanship! 1 felt inwardly J the truth of the saying, "contentment is a J | kingdom and afier I left my philosophical 1 | cobbler, 1 thought much about him, and am satisfied that his philosophy was sound, ant) i that mankind in general have yet to learn the secret to be happy. 41II nor and shamu fro n no condition rise / 44 Act w ill your p *rt, there all llio honor lies." , Southrrnismi.? Hie follow ing is extracted from a l?-tier written from the South in 1835, r by the lute B. B. Thatclu-r of Boston, who , wus at that time a correspondent of the New . York Comercial Advertiser. FT ? ? iv* f On? | neap 15 a muai piumiv hi iijv v?i? | olin-'is mid Georgia, among the common 1 people, mid with children, at least,*4 in the ! best regular families," who will catch audi | things, of course, ns they will catch the . 'How do you like Mr. Smith?"? I I asked. "Oh ! I like him a heap"? was the answer, affirmative, in five cases out of?ix. It is synonymous also with very 141 heard him preach a heap often." i "Oh! I'm lazy a heap" and perhaps, I "my tooth aches,a heap.,1 It often corres? J ponds with the Downingvillo sight?i *# I terrible si^ht," or "like all nature.? Mighty siiart, and poweiful, are the mo?t , common words corresponding to the Y?nk<!? proper, terrible, and dreadful. The Yankees speak of "a smart man," and of r a "chance"1 (opportunity) to do a thing ; Soulhernism speak of having had a "smart , chance of ruin.''They say, "a spell of rain," ; in pars of New England?meaning the i same thing. "A right smart chance," is still I better. Eight answer to our proper, too, as "u proper smart man"?a Yankeeism, I though not universal. Or perhaps it will , be a powerful chance. "What's the news : up your way ?" said 1 to a Cracker (a coun- ^ i tryrnan,) in the woods one day, "Oh noth[ ing right good," ho replied, "nor nothing i powrful had," "These are bad roads," said I, "middle hud?tolerable ba.l"?-be resumed.| These are Southern; we say mid. dling gooJ, and tolerable good-?not bod. Very 1 frequently hear synonymous with I - - 1- " uiliirli I nili/or ho'irrt kafn.0 , J "V'tTV (UliUII, nuiNH Iiu>?a "-"IVa wvivna . ?'Micro is u handsome looking house*" i 4*Vcry so." It answers lo our quilet which I n< ver heard once injho interior of these Suites. Truck is a great word in somo parts* and is used Cor every thing, like copper coin. A physician goes to town to buy his i ruck?an J u p'anter lias got in his truck