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than was presented by any speech which I ever before made. Anybody who says we are inea pable of preserving free institutions,. I should be inclined to consider a slanderer on free insti tutions; but I will never agree to live in any Government that has not some operative and enforcible provisions of a constitution to pro -serve my rights. - If the-Government were as it formerly was, South Carolina and Massachu setts having a common interest, do you think the Senator could arise as an adversary to be applauded by his people ? There was a timf, sir, when his.people wou!d have disgraced him -for that very speech. - At this day, I do not say they will' acquit my kinsman; I dare say they will not ;but the time is coming when there will be but ore opinion-that that is the most mis chievous speech which has ever been delivesed in thi.s country,.and has involved more innocent -persons. If the contest goes on upon such is - stres as-it makes, blood must follow. I do not look on any such scenes with pleasure. I have not temper for them, though when a young man I might, perhaps, not have been indisposed to embark in the hazards or contests. But now I come to the resolutiong of Massa chusetts. I ask that they be read. The Secretary read them as follows: COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACnUSETTS IN 1856. Resolves concerning the recent assault upon the Hon. Charles Sumner, at Washington. Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, That we have received with deep concern, informa tion of the recent violent assault committed in the Senate Chamber at Washington, upon the person of the Hon. Charles Sumner, one of our Senators in Congress, by Preston S. Brooks, a member of the Hlofse of Representatives from South Carolina: -an asault which no provocation could justify brutal and cowardly in itself-a gross breach of parilamentary privilege-s ruthless attackU1on the liberty of speech-an outrage of the deenoles of oivilized life, and an indignity to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Resolved, That the Legislature of Massachusetts, in the name or her free and enlightened peop!e. demands for her repr sentatives in the National Legislature entire freedom of speech, and will up hold thema in the proper exercise of that essential right of American citizens. Resolved, That we approve of Mr. Sumner's manliness and courage in his errnest and fearless declaration of free pritciples, and his defence or human rights and free territory. Resolved, That the Legislature or Massachusetts is imperatively called upon by thbplainest dictates of duty, from a decent regartl to the rights of her citizens, and respect for her character as a sover eign State, to demand, and the Legislature of Mas sachusetts hereby does demand, of the national Congress, a prompt and strict investigation into the recent assault upon Senator Sumner, and the.expul sion by ihe louse of Representativesof Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, and any other nenber concern ed with him in said assault. , Resolved, That his excellenev the Governor he requested to transiit a copy of the foregoing re solves to the President of the Senat', and Speaker of the House of Repr entatives, and to each of the Senators and membeff of the House of Represen tatives from this Commonweahh, in the Congress of the United States. 110Us OF RErRESENTATIVEs, May 29, 1856. Passed. CIIARlLES A. PHELPS, Speaker. IN SasATE, May 30, 1856. - Passed. ELIHU C. BAKER, President. May 31, 1856. Approved. HENRY J. GARDINER. SceTAnY'ls OFFICE, BosTO~,4May 31,1656. I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original resolves. Attest:- FRANCIS DEWITT, Secretary of the Commomwoealth. Mfr. Buri.El. These resolutions give rise to more seriods reflection than anything which has occurrea to me in my time. I have been in the Senate for ten years,and this is the first occa sion that I have ever seen one of the sovereign States of the Union taking cognizance of mat ters which occurreod in, Congress, with a view to inluence-the.judgmitsof Cdngress-in-relation to one of thieir members.' This is the first oc-. easion of this kind in the history or the country. It has been done from an ex parte view of the subject; for it is now very apparent that the resolutions of Massachusetts were introduced and passed without regard to the evidence. These resolutions anticipated and asserted what may not be true-what the public tavy not think true-what the Senate may not think true-what the House of Representatives may not think true; and yet the sovereign State of Massachusetts, before there was any evidence, indicted my relative upon rumor-a measure whi ia would have taken Stafford to the gallows. W ~ha1! sir; itndiet a man in the language of these resolutions upon the rumor of newspa pers! These resolutions-I say it more in sor row than in anger-betray a temper and precipi tancy of judgment that do not look like having a regard to that dignity which is associated with justice. I shall speak respectfully. So far as I hatve spoken ,.f Massachusetts hitherto, no ex ception can be taken; but, when I speak of Massaichusetts now, it must be of Massachusetts as she has sent forth these resolutions-under the influence of a feeling which pervades her under the influence of a sentiment which denied Daniel Webster the right to speak in Faneuil Hall, and threw off the cofiin of Lincoln because he haid fallen in performing his professional du ties in the cause of his country. Boston now is not the Boston that she was when Hancock wrote, and Adams spoke, and Otis thought, arid WVarren fell. They wvould not recognize her. She is no more the same. Yet, from that very hot-bed of litter feeling to the South, and es giecially to South Carolina, have I to look for the feelings which dictated these resolutions. I have to ieet an indictment-for what. * It is said that the liberty of speech has been violated. Upon that point I intend to deliver some re marks which, whether they be correct or not, I shall throw out. Our ancestors were a people of hardy morality. Generally, when they spoke. ethey spoke directly from the heart. Such a thing as printing speeches beforehand, or having them printed winhout being uttered in the Sen. ate, was unheard of in their daty. They were men who stood on their legs, arid spoke out. They had hearts and mouths. They did not resort to the appliances of paper and printing before they brought their speeches here, If the Senator from Massachusetts were present, and would answer me, I would pot the question to him, " Was not that speech of yours printed and published before you spoke it in the Senate of the United States ?" What is the meaining of that provision of the Constitution, which says that a Senator, or a member of the House, for any speech or debate in either House, shall not be questioned in any other place! Does it mean to give the Congress of the United States the power of deciding what is privilege without the courts questioning it!i If so, it goes far be yotnd the settled doctrine in Great Britain at this day, which was maintained by Chief Justice Denman, in the case of Stockdale rs. Hansard ; and that ease has much to do with the matter inow under consideration. Haneard had under taken, under the authority of Parliament, to publish a book which contained a libel. With out such license or privilege, all agreed that he was responsible. The English House of Com mons said that having granted him the license. it was their privilege. Chief Justice Denman took cognizance of the case, on the broad ground that the courts could determine what was privi lego under jhe Constitution of England. He said: " as a common law judge, I will show the Parliament whether I am not capable of deciding on my responsibility as one of the great de partments of this Government. Can it be main tained"-and it is one of the most eloquent decisions I ever read-" that the House of Commons, by claiming a privilege, shall thereby appropriate it to themselves, and screen a villain from the consequence of his libel ?" The judge said that although by the law of Parliament newspapers were passed through the country under the frank of members without paying postage, that privilege did riot gire them the right to make use of ai newspaper as a libel. H. uses the strong expression: " God forbid that -*Parliament should afford such a pretext for do -ing wrong-" I any the same thing now. Will you tell rie that a member rising here and handin~g a speech to the reporter, and telling him to print it, comes within the purview of the -Constitution ? .Has ho uttered words in debate! Wih7M emoe ttel mu the = smeanbe who has made a spcech of five sentences may append to it a newspaper like the Tribune, which has libeled me, and has the right to send through the post offices of this Government, and have !bided by the persons employed in the folding.room at the public expense, into toy daughter's parlor, that which would cost him his life if he told it to me? Has it come to this, that a Scnator upon'this floor can claim such anIextensive privi lege, under the law of Parliament, that he can send off, by the twenty thousand, speeches to England and to the four corners of the globe, where I am not known, and then claim protec tion upon the ground that lie has a privilege which precludes him from being questioned else where for words spoken in debate? Sir, the difference is an obvious one. Per haps not more than five hundred or a thousand people heard the Senator on the occasion when he assailed me; and I venture to say that, of the number who were present and knew me, not one believed a word of what he said. It is a different thing when lie has printed a package of twenty thousand of the documents; franked them, and sent them to England, where, I sup pose, he will be highly praised. He will be fed with the oil which kindles English tires, to en courage him to walk in the light of his path. If I were to go to Ergland, they might point at me and ask, "is -that the man so monomanieal in regard to slavery that he cannot tell the truth 1" I am not accustomed to make comparisons, but I will say that there is not a parent or a husband on this floor who can approve the language of that Senator. Though I may bate bitter ene mies here-no doubt7I have some, br* I do n6t see why I have incurred their enmity-I venture to say that I do not think a single man on this floor would, if he were put on his oath, say that he believed what the Senator said of me. When spread abroad in the form of a libel it becomes of a very different character. I say that this privilege under the Constitu. tion i6 the subject of judicial inquiry. The courls may say where privilego ends, and where libel begins. He has been guilty of a libel. I know, sir, how sacred is the liberty of speech. I know what has been said by Mr. Erskine on this subject-his language has often been prais ed for its beauty-in the celebrated trial against Tom Paine. Mr. Erskine quoted language which lie supposed had been used by Lord Chesterfield. Lord Kenyon said to him: " ord Kenvon. That very speech which did Lord Chesterfield so much honor is supposed to have been written by Dr. Johnson. "t Mr. Erskine. Gentlemen. I believe it was so, and I an much obliged to his lordship for giving me a far higher authority for my doctrine ; for, though Lord Chesterfield was a man of great wit, he was undoubtedly far inferior in learning, and what is more to the purpose, in monarchical opinion, to the ce!ebrated writer to whom my lord has now deliv ered the work by his authority. Dr. Jolhnson then says" Gentlemen may avail themselves of this, if they choose, when I come to another part of this matter. Dr. Johnson says, in the languge put in the mouth of Lord Chesterfield: " One of the greatest blessings we enjoy-one of the greatest blessings a people, my lords, can enjoy, is liberty ; licentious .ees is the alloy of liberty ; it is an ebulliton-an excrescence; it is a speck upon the eye of the po!itienl body, but which I can never touih but with a gentle, with a trembling hand, lest I destroy the body-lest I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. "There is such a connection between licentious ness and liberty, that it is not easy to correct the one without dangerously wounding the other ; it is extremely hard to distinguish the true limit between them ; like a changeable silk, we can easily see there are two different colors, but we cannot easily discover where the one ends, or where the other begins." In a subsequent part of thiis celebrated foren sic speech, delivered by Lord Erskine, he goes on to show what is the liberty of speech, and what is its limit. He says, by way of illustration, what is exactly apposite to this case: " I expect to hear, in answer to what I am nowv saying, much that will offend me. My learned frien" I do not call thie Senator " my learne~ friend ;" I ma'le this periphrasis ori that point " My learned friend, from the difficulties of his situation, which I know from experience how to feel for very sincerely, may be driven to advance pro positions which it may be my duty, with much freedom, to reply to ; and the law will sanction thatI freedom; but will not the ends of justice be com pletely answered by my exereise of that right, in terms that are decent, and calculated to expose its defectsi or will my argument suffer, or will public justice be impeded. because neither private honor and justice nor public decorum, would endure my telling my very learned friend, because I dffer from him in opinion, that lie is a fool, a liar, and a scoundrel, in the face of the Court ?" If the Senator had said, in respectful lan guage, "WVe have been adversaries on this sub ject; I ditfer from you; I think you have been gtlly of great errors which deserve the censure o~ a parliamentary speaker; and f intend to pronounce a censure, beliiving thaut I a right and you are wrong 1 will detect you in the fal lacies of your hi.tory; I will detect you in the errors of your la'.; I will expose those errors" -he wvould have had a rignt to do this, and in as strong language as lie chose; but when lie said almost ini so many words, thiat my proclivI ty to error wais such that I deviated from the truth in all these piarticulars, it is a libel in the very language of SL-. Erskine. If lie were in dicted for- a libel to-morrow, could lhe claimn his privilege under the Constitution, and would the courts be precluded from deciding the question whether it was a libel or not? There is no one, perhape, who has a higher ideal -admiration for the liberty of speech and the liberty of the press than I have. The liberty of speech and of- the press is the great conservative element of a Republic; it is to the political, what fire is to the material world, a subservient and affluent minister, when under the control of prudence and intelligence; but, when unchecked and unregulated, a con suming foe, withering and blasting everything along its pathway of ruin. Render freedom of speech tributary to the proprieties, decencies, and restraints of social life, and you mamy crowni it with all the ministries and supremacies of in tellect and liberty, but release it from them, and it becomes a blind and maddened giant of evil, tearing down the bulwarks of social order, and desecrating the very sanctuary of republican liberty. WVhat would you think of a reckless man who should set fire to his owo house, or should go about claiming the privilege of throw ing his fire wherever he could among the most combustible materials, and say he had the right to do so, on the ground that he was a freeman, and could do as he pleased. Away with such liberty ! Liberty that is worth anytinig must be in the harness of' the law. Liberty of speech and liberty of the press most have two restraints. The first is the high est, which will always govern a class of men who cannot violate it-thie obligations of honor, decency, and justice. Another restraint upon licentiousness is that a man may publish and speak what lie pleases with a knowledge that he is amenable to the tribunals of the law for what he has donie. Congress cannot pass any statute to say that men shall not write against religion, or against the Government, or against individ uls. Neitherecan Congress pass a law, nor can any State pass a law depriving the tribunals of the country of the right of saying whether you have gone beyond the limits of liberty, and have usr d your power, under that name. with criminal recklessness, with a licentious indifference to the feelings of individuals and the consequences up on society. I do not wish to live in any commu nity where it is otherwise. The press is losing its power, and it ought to lose it; for it is now beginning to be an engine of private revenge, and individual expression, instead of being a responsible orgn of public opinion. Suppose*I were to go to New York, and indlet one of the editors there whom Icould name, for the most atrocious libel that has ever been atterd upon the South. I will not name the editor, but he has uttered a sentiment akin to one which has been expressed by the Senator from Massachusetts. I saw in a New York pa per-I have alluded to it heretofore-a state ment that the southern Statas are too feeble and weak to take any part in a war-that all they can do is to take charge of their negroes! It said that if a war should take place between England and the United States, the English fleet would only have to go to the capes of the Ches -atekm and the effminata masters wntl ho kept at home. Fifty thousand slaves, inured to I toil, could be mustered into service, and they F would have the power to put their masters to I ihe sword; and when the declaration of peace I should come, the result would be tme freedom of the slaves and the proseriplion of the mas- t ters! Suppose [ should go into the community i where this libel was uttered, and indict a man for I such a sentiment as this, what would be the < consequence in the present state of public opin- < ion? It is idle, worse than idle, to talk about that as a remedy. I Liberty of the press! Sir, that man has franked twenty thousand of his speeches ; and I some of thein, if I am not misinformed, were I printed long before it was delivered. To bring i him within the privileges df parliament is a mockery-a perfeetn ockery. Now, Mr. Presid'ent, I approach another most painful part of this case, and I come to it in no bad temner; for, God knows, if my heart could be read,'there is no one who would sooner than -myself have averted the state of things which now exists, if I could, consistently with my hon or and the honor ol the gcentleman to whom I shall allude. The resolution of Massachusetts undertook, before any evidence was heard, to pronounce sentence on Mr. Brooks. Sir, I will tell you who Mr. Brooks is, and why' he felt so i deeply in reference to these abominable libels. I 1 do not allude to him now as my hereditary < kinsman; I think that is the smallest view to I take of the matter; but. I am his constituent. I live in " Ninetv-six"-a district through which, if you pass, you will read upon the tombstones i epitaphs which wouldieproach him for tame and < ignominious submnissi n to wrong and to insult. He has as proud and intelligent a constituency i as are to be found in any part of the globe. I am his constituent. But more than that, he has worn the epaulet and the sw~d; he has march ed under the Palmetto banner, and his country men have awarded to him a sword for his good conduct in the war with Mexico. That sword i was in some measure committed to him, that he 1 might use it, when occasion required, to maintain J tha honor and the dignity of his State. When I he heard of the speech first, 'and read it after %ards, this young man, in passing down the street, heard but one sentiment, and it was, that his State and his blood had been insulted. He could not go into the drawing-room, or parlor, or into a reading-room, without the street com mentary reproaching him. Wherever he went, the questIon was asked, " Has the chivalry of South Carolina escaped, and is this to be a tame submission V : What advice I would have given I bim I do not now undertake to say. Bul, sir, when this was said to this gentleman wherever lie went, he felt that if something was not done he could not face his constituents with- i out losing his usefulness, and without there being i a taint on his honor and on his courage. He may have been mistaken in some respects. His com ing into the Senate house was no option of his. When he formed his determination, as I am in formed,-and I have kept aloof from conversa tion with him,-] judge from the evidence he had 1 no purpose to profane the Senate house. I say : the Senate house had been profaned before. I i had rather to.morrow take ten blows inflicted on my body, than have the gas of the rhetorician I poured out upon my character and State. I The Senator from Massachusetts chose to make his place here one from which to assail the i history and reputation of South Carolina, and i to assail an absent constituent of the gentleman 1 who has taken redress into his own hands. In such a conditton of things whi could be placed in a situation more diticult? Surely, Mr. Piesi dent; something is to be pardoned to the feelings of a man acting under sensibility, and under the ditates of high hoqor. If any one was here, placed in a situation to feel the touching appeal made by the ghost to Hamlet, "If thou hast nature in thee, bear it. not," he was the man. Now, I ask t he Secretary to read the extract which I have marked in the book which I sctid to him, anid I flo not ititend to say where it comes from till it is read. The Secret~ary read as followvs: " Do not believe that I am inculcating opinions, tending to disturb the peace of society. .On the~ eitry, they are the principles that can preserve it. It is more dangerous for the laws to give security to a man, disposcd to commit outrages on the persons or his fellow-citizens, than to aut'torize those, who must otherwvise meet irreparable injury, to defend themselves at every hazard. Men of eminent tal ents and virtue, on whose exertions, in perilous times, the honor and happiness or their country niust de pend, will always be liable to be degraded by every daring misereant, if they cannot defendl themselves from personal insult and outrage. Men of this de scription must always feel, that to submit to degra dation and dishonor is impossible. Nor is this feel ing confined to men of that eniinent grade. We have thousands in our country who possess this spirit ; and without them we should soon deservedly cease to exist as an indepenident nation. I respect the laws of my country, and revere the prcepts of our holy religion ; I shvould shudder at shedding ha mane blood ; I would practice moderation and fur bearancc, to avoid so terrible a calamnity ; yet, should I ever he driven to that impassable point,' where degradation aiid disgrace begin.:nay this arm shrink palsied from i'i socket if I fail to defend my own onor." Mr. BUTLERt. Who uttered that sentiment? It isthe sentiment otragentleman whose speeches have always commentded him to me. It is a sentimeant worthy of~ the ancient days of Boston when Dexter .spoke. This is a northern man speaking ; and I adopt his languamge. [ say with him that, when things " tend to tha~t imnpassable point where degratutioni and digrace begin, may my arm shrink pahkied from its socket if I fail to defend my own honor!" Sir, that sentiment wias tittered at a time when clergymen confined themselves to the pulpit, and preched against crime and vice; when they did not use the pulpit as a recruiting station to issue Sharpe's rifles, and to mingle in all the bitter strife of the forum and the Agora. It was ut tered whien Boston knew how to respect the feelings of others. I concur in all thaut is sauid by Mr. Dexter. I deprecate blood and violence. I will not utter alt that my heart prompts me to say, for fear of encouragitng young men ; but this I w~ill say, that no scon of mine should ever submit to insult without satisfaction. * * * * * * * * * * * * * FaIDAr, June 13, 1856. I said yesterday that my friend, my represent ative, my relative, one who is associated with me by more ties than either of these-had ta ken redress in his own hands-had resorted to his own mode of redress. I said that there were considerations connected with the occasion which, though they could not justify him before a legal tribunal, would excuse any man of his cbaracter anid position, representing such constit uents as he ~represented, and bound in some measure to sympathize with the opinions of the section with which lie is associated. It wtas im possible that tie could separate himself from those conclusions which others might not appre eite, and some could not understand. But I say that gentlenman dare not-I do not say 1 would have advised himu-bttt in his estimation he could not go home and face such a constito ey without incuiring what is the worst of all judgments-the judgment of the country against a man wvho is placed ams a sentinel to represent it. * * * * * * **s * * S * * What was my friend to do? Sue him ? Indict him ? If that was the mode in which he inten ded to take redress, he hand better never go to Southi Carolina again. Was ho to challenge him? That would have been an exhibition of chivalry having no meaning. Although lie has been upon the field, both in open war and in a private aflair, I should bb verry sorry to see any crisis requiring it again. A challenge would have been an advertisement to the world of his courage, when there was not a probability of its being tried. He would have made- hiniself contemptible, and perhaps might have been com mitted to the penitentiary for sending a challenge. Then, what course was left to him to pursue ? Mr. Sumner had opportunities enough to make an apology. God knows I could not have resist d the admonitory criticism of the distinguished Senator from Michigan, perhaps the most impo sing authority in the Senate. He paid no regard to him, and fora very good reason: his speech was written, and had gone out, and he could not contradict what he had sent forth to the public with malice aforethought. Well, sir, what did Mr. Brooks do ? It is said he sought Mr. Stumner in the' Semite Chamber. It is the last place in which lie wished -to seek him. He would ha- met him in an open com ime. And when the egilature- of Massae etts choose to say that hisconduct is coward y, let her try hm in any wy sie choos'{Ep >lause.] Mr. STUAnT. I hope the'Cblir will enforce he rules. I think,sir, whai we have just wit tessed has been repeated this- sessino too ofien. f the amenities and .proprieties of thie Senate -annot be kept by gentlemeir,. they should not mter its Chamber. - T he PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Sona or desire the galleries'to be cleared? Mr. STUART. I shall nof-'make any motion iow : but I hope it will -be understood by every ody who visits this Chambir, that the: proprie ies of the place shall beobderved.' Mr. PRESIDENT pro- tempxh-e Persons in the alleries will distinetly understand, that if there >e any further demonstration, the 'galleries will )e cleared of all except ludies. - l r. FESSENDEN. In justice to the galleries. will suggest that the impression on this side of he House is, that the disturbance came from the loor of the Senate Chamber anid not from the ralleries. I hope the galleries will not be pun shed for the act of person.on the floor. Mr. BUTLER. Well, sir, Iwill go on in such a vay that nobody shall be disturbed-not that I ntend to snppress any single sentiment of mine ; )ut I shall express it in the4everity of truth. I :an tell the Senator from Blaine, with whom I iave always been on good~terms, that I shall any nothing out of the-wiy. Sir, a man who occupies a.place in the Senate, -epresenting a great Commonwealth like Massa shusetts, or representing any State, as one of her enators, occupies a very htigh position, from hich he can send.forth to the public what may ffect the character of almost any man, except 3eneral Washington, or some one upon whose haracter the verdict of history has been ien. lered. There is scarcely any man who can with. itand the slander which may be pronounced from he Senate Chamber of the United States. For his reason I would never look, and I never have ooked, beyond the public liosition of a member iere,to go into his privateiand-per onal charac .er.' I would not do it, because by so doing I should do a wrong 'which I could not redress. Even a word escaping myptongue in this Cham. yer, as a Senator, might.go: far to injure a man lierel he could not correct it. We are in a po ition which requires. high-onsiderations for the -egulation of our conduct. I agree thoroughly ith General Jackson, - that the slanderer who nvolves third persons in., difficulty and danger, s en incendiary, agai~at whom we should guard nore than any one else, in a parliamentary point >f view. I will quote Gegeral Jackson's lan unage. ie said: ",Over the doors of each House f Congress, in letters or old, should be in icribed the words, ' The Slaiderer is worse than :he Murierer."' A single inrder is horrible. It may take a single individual from society. But when I look at the mischievous influence of dander, I find that it pervades a whole commu iity; makes war in society;sets family against ramily; individual againsatindividual; section gainst section. It is the inost cowardly mode n which a war can be conducted. With the state of. opinign to which I have hl. uded prevailing, what did Mr. Brooks do ? Of ourse he did not undertako to challenge Mr. umner to a fist fight, orjystick fight, or any Ather kind of fight. He thought Mr. Sumner de ierved a castigation; and lie undertook to give it to him accoiding to the old-fashioned nolion, by !aning him. I have not heard Mr. Brooks detail Lhe circumstances. I havsiiot conversed w ith Aim in regard to the matt. I take my informa ion from the published't. .mony. Mr. Brooks, not finding him anywhere else, came to him while lie was sitting in his' seat here, after the Senate had adjourned. He came to him in front -ditferent fromn the statement mode to the Mas sachusetts Legislature. Hie wvas-half a minute in his proem or explanalion. He said: " Mr. Sumner, I hnve read your .speech. I have read it carefully, with as much'ionsiderationt, and fair ness as I could ; but, sir, Lhave come to punish you now for the cobtents of that speech, which is a libel on my State, and on a gray-haired rel stive." Instinct would have p.imphasmnost - gen to rise immediately. Mr. SunAiner did.riee. In the, net of rising, Mr. Brooks struck him across the face-ntot, as has been repre'sented, over his henad, for that is not thu truth, nor is it borne out by the testimony. On the second stroke [lie cane broke. It is the misfortune of Mr. Brooks to have ineurred all thme epithets which have been used in regard to an assassin-like and bludgeon ttack, by the mere aeeint of having a r'oolish stick, which bruke. It broke again; and it was not, as I understand, until it came very near the handle, that he inficied blows whicb lie would not haive inflicted if he had an ordinary weapon of a kind which would have been a security against breaking., His design was to whip him ; but the stiekrbroke, and that hams brought upon him these imputations. It has gone though the country that. Mr. Brooks struck him after lie was prostrate on the loor. None who know this young main couild entertain such an idea. I ha~ve known himt from ehildhoo~d. I used to have some ceontrol over him; but the scholar has become the mastcr, and I suppose lhe would not care mchl about my ad vice'nowv. By an hereditary tie our families are more closely uinited than any two with whom I have been acquainted. Bitt that is far apart rom the question. Independent of his filial reelings for me, and his regard for me as his sonstituent and Senator, I have no doubt that a personal feeling of regard for myself individu lly influenced him. 'Hec approached that man with no other pur pose than to disgrace him as far as he could ; but thu sick broke. After it broke lie wias re lced to a kind of necessity-a continigency not apprehended at all in the original minceton if he purIpose of making the assault. Notwithi standing all that has been said of his brutality, e is one of the best tompered fellows I ever knew-impetuous, no doubt, and quick in re metment, but he did not intend what has been ssigned to hini. After all that has been said and done, on a ost bellum examination, wha t is it ? A'fight in the Senate Chamber, resinig in two flesh wunds, which ought tnt to have detained him rro the Senate. Being rather a handsome man, perhaps lie woul.i not like to'expose htimself by raking his appearance'for seome time; but if~ he iad been in the Armay, there wans no reaso~n why te should not go to the field the next day ; andi le would deserve to be cashiered;itf hie did not ;o. WVhat does his physician say? Hie says hat there were but two flesh wounds; thlat lhe ever had a fever wvhile under his care and at tendance, and that lie was ready to come into sne Senate the next day, but for his advice ; and as advice was, that he should not come into the Senate, because it would aggravate the excite rent already too high. He did not recommend liiin not to go into the committee room to be xamined on the ground that his wvounds had Lnfeeled him, but for other considerations, be sse it might nggravate the excitement already prevailing to an extent which might lend to nii. hievous consequences. This, thcn, is the mode of redress to which ir. Brooks resorted. I doenot say whatlIshould ive advisend him to do, but perhaps it was for unate that 1 was absent in one respect, for I ertainly should not have submitted to that in. iult. IPossibly it might not have bseen offered if [ were present, thouglad do not know the fact, because I cannot say exactly what would be the ourse of one of those persons who have a way f fabricating speeches. Perhaps, being in his peechi, he would have had to read it; bitt I think it possible that on the appeal which I would have made on my discretion, hisa friends might save induced him to reform it in sente way so as to onform at least to the requirements of comn mon decency in public opii -i. If -be had not done so, I do not know wi,- would havo- been my course. For this transaction, as I have detailed it, and vitout the intelligence which I have detailed being before them, the Legislature of Massachu setts have sent their resolutions here. T'hese resolutions are without a precedent In the htistory of tis country. I hope other Senators will peak to them, for they are not only an insult to South Carolina and her representatives in Con ress, but I think they assail the Constitution of the country. * * * * * Mr. President, I have detained the Senate much longer than I wished. When I gave no. ie that I should speak to the resolutions of Massd~aisets it was with nerfect onfidence that the Senator would be in his seat. Findina tlat these resolutions Tverc not here. on Mon. day last I gave notie tlint I should speak 01 ThursdAny. still confllient that ie would he here Yesterday, having heard that perhaps he woul not be present, I inquired in as delicate a man ner as I could when he would be hore ? Althougl our relations are not friendly, 1 did not wish tW assume a position which would be even nppa rently inconsistent with fair chivalry and bearing I inqnired whether he..wrauld be in the Setnate within a fortnight, and, if so, I said I woul postpone my remarks. Finding that it wat his purpose to go, in a few days, to Massnehu sett, and that he woul*d not be likely to returr for three or four weeks. I could not allow tih opportunity to pass. I have stated these frat to show that I do not stand here taking advan tage of his absence. I was willing to wait any reasonable time. but I could not allow error t< prevail longer in relation to my State, my .friend, or myself. This is my position. Sir, if there is any one individual who mor than another regrets the occasion on which have spoken, iL is myself. I have no temper fo strife. I am pasinsg througlh the last chapter o my public life, and I have onof wish to identify my name with anything like a personal contro versy. I have never sought it. When the question comes to be examined and solved, Wh<l was the agressor? It will be found that it was not I on any occasion. I admit that I havi three peculiarities of manner-i mpatience, ex citability, and perhaps:,bsent-mindedness. They are peculiarities which have followed me fron the cradle. But, sir, I hope I have never knowi the time when reason and repentance would no suppress even a temporary injustice. If injus ties is done to me, or a wrong or insult offered I never stop to parley in words. I ask justice and if it is not given, I never would be in the wrong if I could help myself; but when I an in the right I do not think any man can blami me for vindicating my pineiples. Now, sir, I appeal to the good sense of this country. I appeal to the lessons.which its grav' history inculcates. I appeal to the positiot which it occupies in relition to the history o the world, and to the high responaibilities whiel now rest on this Conf-derncy, not to allow i to be dissolved in blood. If we are to separate let as have common sense enough to do it in , way becoming intelligent men, who have learn ed their lessons from the'highest sources of in telligence and wisdom. If we are to live to ether, let it not be upon the terms prescribe or intimated by the tone and temper of th licentious and aggressive language of the speecd delivered by the'Senator fronm Massachusetts It is impossible for self respect to allow me ti sit here and listen quietly to such a speech. I there were separate confederacies to-morrow he dare not utter it without subjecting hinisel to a peril which lie will not encounter now. II would. then put his section in a position t.o mak war and he would be responsible to a higher tri buna! thari that of those who have erected them selves into it under an influence which I thinl must perish; and I hope the day is fast comin; when the fires of that limited sectionalism wil burn out. or will be reduced to the ashes o disappointment and diagrnee. Oy pcdir. ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR, EDGEFIELD, S. C. WiuNESDAY, JULY 2, 1856. KANSAS MEETING. The Centrat Committee of' the Edgefleld Kansc Association, deem it expedient to calt a meeting of it District for the purpose of taking further steps in al of the pro-slavery party in thte Territory, and have o ~ered a call for Monday next. A Kansas meetin wil, therefore, be held in the Court Hlouse on Monds next at 12 o'clock. glg Members of the various Committees arp earl estly requested to attend. -.*C. W. STY LES, Chr..irman-C. C. g9 Particular attention is directed to the at nouncement of a Hot Supper to be given by our Met odit friends in the Masonic Hlall on Monday evenin next. WVe hope our citizens witllattend this entertair ment en masse, and thereby encourage the getters u of this Supper in the carrying out of a henevolet object. Th'Ie affair we understanid is to be conducte on a magnificent scale. JUDGE BSUTLER'S SPEECH. According to promilie wc give this week very larg extracts from the tate able effurt of our Senator. wil be seen how effectually he has decapitated Mt CInLr's SvUMNP a, by turning upon him this attemapte sa're.cuts at the honor and charact& of South Carn na. Strong though as is this rehuTai on paper, ho much more powerful must it have been as renihered the Judge's peculiarly impressive style of delivery. A te newspaper accountts agree, that a more crushim speech has seldom b.een delivered ini te Unuiled Stat, Senate. Its efTet upon the ctowded gdleries aii lobbies is said to have been so electric at times as I call forth unicotrolltable demonstrations of applause IAid such too was the guarded idignity anid forbearane of the speaker throughout, that his words have reacti ed the cars of Americans every where and have c' n manded thme commendation even of prejudiced part zans. I t is thoutght that Cit As. SUimxza him'etf hr felt the arrow of conviction and is disposedt to at knowlege hsis unfortu'nate aberrationi from the pat of honor and truth. THlE CONCERLTS. Tus two coincerts, of which we notified the publi last week, will conme off as ihent stated ; one to night the other to-morrow night. The new MIasonic IHall is in sufficient readiness be ttie'comforiable; and, I cinig one of the very coo est places in town, it ought to draw, fromi thtatcircuir satance atone, this miserably hot weather. In add: ion too, we'believe arrangements are being made, b IA aGAEr, to furnish the audience with ices betwee the parts. Of the music wve nsill say nothing in advance, prr erring that it shall stand uposn its on n merits. Tb programne, it ns ill be seen, is a rich omne; and wse hay onfidence that it will be'rendered in the true style< the Ars Ditina. To-morrowv night's programme nil be publihed in the morning. Ve have taken a personal interest in this ma-ttem not only from the high esteem we have for the had who leads in chief, bitt becau'e it ts, we trust, inistit tng amongst us a description of public amtusement.im pure in itself, innocent int Its accompaniments an' e ecvated in its standard. For the saine reason,i does appear to us that every citizen in our mids should eagerly encour'age thte present occasions, no have we a doubt of their doing so. THlE "1PEE DEE HERALD." Is another r.cw paper, the third number of- whic] has reached us. It is owned andt edited by WV. L. 'I PIc and J. R. EIALLoY. We gladly ntumberi among our exchanges, and wish its proprietors gres success. Thes-Herald is pulisheted at Cheraw. CROPS I3N GEORGIA. A FREND writing to us from Rome, Ga., on th 2th ult., in speaking of tthe fine crcps in that sectiol of ihue State, says:-" I htave just been through seve rat of the adjoining Counties, and also a part of Ala bama, and find the crops to be generally good. Tht Wheat crop especially looks finte, and all hands ar very tsy harvesting. Corn and Cotton looks well but is backward, owing to the late Spring. When though is the principal crop raised in' thtis part of th courntry. One gentlemen near here has 1,800 bushel of last year's wheat on hand for which he was at on time offered $1,85 per bushel. IHe could not get $l,0 MISSED THE POINT. Aiss MURRaY presents an old sample of 'nigge logic' in a most pointless way, thus: "1 belong ! massa-all massa haes belongs to me." A writer in tht Southern Literary Messenger repudiates, for Cuffy any such non segnitur, and places the gentleman fror1 AAfica recus in curia. "Site meant perhaps," say thsmiscritic, " to report the Ethiopean syllogism afte this fashion: "I belong to master,-ev'ry thiing I take still be longs to him; (orgo) hand down de big rooster !" gg Tt Bank or Hamburg has declared a divi dd of $3 per share, (of $50 each,) being at the rat or2 12, per cn pe annnmp. C 0*U C A N For the Advertiser. nlOEKANSASi. WETs PUINT, Mo., June 14th,186 Ma. EDITta: I have just returned from a trip a t weeks duration. A body of 300 mounted men proceeded to Prairie. 6ify, to rescue Capt Pate and his comp'ny,'bo had seen taken prisoners'bf the Law Breakers. Capt P.' iad had a fight of-several hours with a superior forwe, tnd at last wi taken prisoner-amongst lirimen was - mo of mine, named Lambert!-a Printer by trade; F1e was shot through the fight shoulder by a-Sharpe 's Rifle hall, and wounded very severely. However, he oaded and fired 6 times after being wounded ; then inding they were about to become prisoners, he nounted a ho and made his escape, while thewhis le of bullets around, told him he had drawn the whole ire upon him. His horse threw him several tines ind at last left him on the prairie, weak from ldesof blood. A wagon passing near piclied him up and carried him to a place of safety; he is now here and Ioing as well as can be expected. - On our arrival at Prairie City, we found the U. S. - rroops were ahead of us. and had liberated the priso. j ners ; we were disappoInted, as we had expected a riht, the abolitionists being strong. I had comniitnd if a company of sharp shooters, every man with a Sharpe's rifle. We were to open the fight, but 'twas no go." Col. Sumner- (no relative to Guttalercha1 Sumner) ordered us to disband, and we took theback rack.for home; but the next morning branched off to the right, and that afternoon we visited the 1 ead uarters of the abolitionists on the Pottawasimie. But the scamps who had recently killed 8 pro-slavery ntn in this neighborhood, in the dead of night, could lot face the music, and at the first sight of the "re vengers" they ingloriously fled. We secured their. ifies and destroyed their press, and then returned. Capt. Shelby, with a company of 50 men left here ast week to locate a town in the neighborhood of Prairie city. That place being the head-quarters of he abolitionists-they went armed for the purpose of lefending themselves. They arrived within 2 miles if the place, when they were ordered out of the Ter itory, by Col. Sumner, with the threat that if they -eturned their arms 'would be taken away. The roops (U. S.) are now encamped within a mile of this lace to stop all Southern compar.ies from entering he Territory, if armed. They can go in small squads mnarmed, if they are fool hardy enough to risk their ives. Gen. Jones, of Laurens, with a company of 40 or 50 tre encamped about a mile from here on 'a stand; hey know not what to do-abolitionists can go in as here is not a guard stationed along the line by whieh hey enter. If Sumner and Shannon are not removed, t will be a tight squeeze if we do succeed in making t a slave State; although the pro-slavery men of the order countries have spent immense sums of money in the cause, and are still doing so. They are about to appeal to the South for aid, and I trustit will not e in vain. At present every thing is quiet, but it is only the alm before the storm; and it will break when and where cannot be conjectured. Two thurds of my company are in the Territory. - Mostly-it Fort Scott; they are doing well. The Telegraph is so mqch ahead of letters, that it is hardly necessary for any one to undertake to give " newe." Respectfully, &c. E. B. B. POLITICAL. The following extracts from the letter of a distin guished Carolinian, lately received, will-be found in teresting: S IjEw Yoar, June 22, 1856., ** * You see apparently great excite ment in the Northern presses, but it is more so'on paper than any where else. The truth is, there is no great excitement Nolhhl, except what politiciansitet up for effect. I have travelled all th rough Ohio and New York, and although disappointed faotions. are vfy bitter and wilit oppose BliCiANAN with' Intense malignity, yet .heM11l he elected by an overwhelm ingnajority.. Tihe iomination of. Fasaoox 'has a greatdeilof hiniligryjot If suely.entitlea soil. 'i'hevey ioenice ii~1tu of these malignatn parties will- flenefit us,-for by dis closing their obj-ects in advance they will be over whelnied and the country everywhere will be~dingust ed gith their meanness and fanaticism. . . AtCincinnati the part foir our delegation was pl~ain and simple. It 'was no part of our isision to mingle in the intrifies and party contests' there. We had but to discharge our duties firmly and faithfully, but not to he absorbed in mere party conflicts for men. As it was the first time our State had joined in gene ral convention, it was our place to take no very active part, but to show kindness and cordiality with our siter Southern States. We voted for PizacE as long as his peculiar-frier.ds kept his name up, and then for DoULESs, and then decided for BUCIA!4AN. Hie will he elected easily, although there may t-e itter opposit ion. erertBROOKS TESTIMONIAL. W rertmisplacing the manuscript, forwarded to us for publicition, by a member of the meeting below ' described. it has just been recovered, and, although the same thing has been published in the Carolinian, we regard it but right to give it in the Advertisealso, late as it may seem.-ED. Any. I F..r the A dvertiser. A premature and unatuthorized notice of a meeting of the Students of the University of Virginia,,appeared in the Petersburg aind Richmond papers a few days since. In order ftully to correct this notice we will give an account of the whole proceedings. A meeting4 uf the Students wats held for the purpose of adopting resolutions in approbation of the late conduct of the ion. Par.s-rox S. Baooas, of South Carolina, and also to prcsent him with a cane or some other testi monial of their'respect and esteem. Although the Student. approved of Mr. Baoozs' course, a majority of them deemed it improper, as Stdenz'e, to give any expression to their approbation ; consently the whole matter was laid on the'table, the meeting taking no further action on it. At a meeting since held, some of the Students, in their capacity of citizens, the following letter was unanimously adopted as a true expression of their feel ings in regard to the conrse pursued by M~r. Baoos, and adequeate contributIons were also made for pre ienting him with a Goblet. UN~vEasrTY OF VA., May 31st, 1856. To Hont. P. S. Bacoos.-Dear Sir: As Southern men and sons of our country, we would harewith ex press our approva.l of your late conduct, ini avenging as you did, an insult cast upon an aged relative and State which you represent. Our hopes and belief alike assure us that the standI which you have taken, In this matter, will do much towards arousing Northern fanaticism to a sense of its langerous and untenable position, and that thisrecoa tre upon the flbor of the Senate will go far towards - preventing the conflict which seemed hkely soon to lake place upon the stage of the Union. And while we regret the existence of such a state f circumstances as rendered your action necessary, jet we regard the course puesue'd by you as that prop rly to be followed towards these men, who, shielding - .hemelves behind parliamentary usage and privilege, ave long been engaged in villifying the Southern iart of the Union ; employing language which South rn gentlemen can neither consent to answer .in a mimilar strain nor submit to in silence. And therefore as a testimonial of oursrespect and esteem for you, we beg leave to present .you with a - - oblet, in the name of a body of you-ig men of the South, collected at the University of Virginia. COMMITTEE. PAUL F. HAMMOND, Chairman. ARtatT RtTctur, Rossav'WtmioN - A. J. WooD, C. RosEavs, J. MI. MAaRIN, G. ArNreors, -- J. 0. Fgaur.r., DAvrD MAasH,* E..S. Bursv, jJ- E. SfomuroN, C. 0. Snar.Ton, A. IV- BAwLUwIt, W. A. Mo NvT.E o, - E:S. MA artw. Mr. JAMES W. MonaRAN, of Virgininl,W. J. JoDANa >f North Carolina, sind B. N. Mut.tea-,of South Care ia, were appointed on a committee to visit Walk ngton and present the goblet to Col..Baooiu They tart in a day or two. ..4 ga" Hon. Thomas -Bayley, membet. of'Con~gress- - r the Accomic district of Virginia, died -at hissesi lence on Sunday mornirig the 22d ult. Both Houises~h.e of Congress adjourned on-Thursday, out of respect for his memory. a a -. A NOBLE LADY. The wife of Gen. A. Q. JONES, who accompanied her husband and his Lawrens men to Kansas, is thus spoken of by InzAN J. RicE in a letter tothe Andierson Ga:ette, written from St. Lonis; On yesterday whilst we were at dinner, an attempt was made by some cowardly nasassin to force neoe the do, r of the room occupied by Gen. Jones. Mrs. Jones however. always prompt and vlilant, returned from the table heinre the senundrel had accompUshed his fonl purpose ! To use her own laneuage. had she beei present she would have1 "shot the robber dead with her pistol."-and thi- is not- the languace of a brn.ogadocio-She would have acted promptly and efiriently! Gen. Jones having occasion to he absent in the city, nn business for several hours, yesterday, Mfr... Jones. like.a brave Roman Intron, sat in her room. with her hand on her pistol, ready for the ap proach of the robber or robbers. * * All of us are very much attached to the General and hie lady, and will follow them anywhere. I see it stated that the ladies of Lawrence in Kansas. are arming themselves for the conflict. The Southern portion of them could never find a more gallant nnd intrepid leader than Mrs. Jones. I have never known a laitv in whnse conrace and pntrintism I have so muh cornfidence na I do in that of Mirs. A. C. Jones. She is a prudent, brave mid callant help-mate and nd viser of a brave nnd gallant General. With such leaders we have nothmig to fear. A very Joan of Are! Doubtless, the sacred lillies of France vere not held clearer to the heart of the maid of Orleans, than is the Palmetto banner to that of our noble lady-emigrant. No wonder that she re ceives the homage and 'devqion of the brave partners of her husband's toils. Who would not bend the knee where such a woman stood forth to merit it I - .4 .- - - CHAP3IAN'S THRESHER. We caused a trial to be made of this thresher, left at our office, last week, to the entire satisfection of many of our neighbors who witnessed its operation. It is certainly a good machine for the thorough thresh ing of wheat straw; it takes all the grain out, and ih quick time. As wedid not have it well manned and full feed given, we did not time and measure its speed and work, but we cati recommend it to all who want a good thresher. Patronise home mechanics and home produce, always before you look abroad and do worse, or get a wooden nutmeg in one corner of your eye. This trial sold the ma--hine and we might have sold more if we had them. COLTER & SCooTER. THE TWO CANES. Mr. BURLINGITAXE, of Massachusetts, latelysaid in debate, that Col. BaooKs "stole into the Senate and smote Mr. SUMNER as Cain smote his brother." Mr. KNIT was perfectly correct in exclaiming at once " That's false." And yet BUR LINGJAME might pos sibly be excused on the plea of a confusion of ideas. A cane (Cain) certainly figured in both transactions, but with this difference: In the antedeluvian affair it was the agent, while in this more recent business it was only the instrument. There is another point of difference: In that first affray the cane (Cain) came off uninjured, while in this one it is said to have been much worse hurt than even SUtNER's scalp. " The dog it was that died."-While that Cain certainly killed Abel, this cane was not able to kill-anybody; although it was quite adequate to the task of properly f chastising such a fellow as SUNER. Mat (to quit, the subject, for we are getting entangled very fast) . Mr. KEITT was perfectly right at all events, to say "That's false"'-don't you think sol GOV. MANNING. The New York Tribune, ever abounding in menda cious slang towards the South and Southerners, perpetrates the following account of a speech by Gov. J.ixNtso, lately made in Lancaster, Penn. at a BUcHANAN meeting. After Cov. Brown, came G__. Manning of South Carolina, vastly pregnar t with a great speech. He said he was from the South; that noiv, for the first stime, South Carolina had been called from her re e tiraey to elect atnd send, delegates -'to the National y Convention to nominate a candidate for the Presiden cy who would lbe true to the South and tho Unioa; that blacker clonds never darkened the political. hori g zoo than now [I suppose lie meatthle Black Rtepobli ycans,] and that if the-fanaical followers of the doc trines The New York Tribune-should be triumphant, there was no knowing what South Carolina wnuld do; " that Pennsylvanie: was the only;8State that sent soldiers to repela foreign eaemy from South Carolna during the wars of tha-Revoluion, fur which Soth CaroaU was grateful, imd now -she comies frward mranfully to assist Pennsylvania to pay thisgreat debt -.of h'onor, by helping to elect Pennsylvania a favorite son to the Presidency." g There was not a person Ihen present,'familiar with .history but knew that this 'allegation was untrue and tnnjust to other Stales as well discreditable to Soiuth 9 Carolina ; for if it did require Northern troops to re t pulse a commion enemy from a Southern sister State du d ring the Revolutionary War, do- not falsify history. It would be itmpossible to say whtether to laugh most ait the fallacy of his speech, the dilation of his nostrils, or the rolling of his eyes. eN o one who knows Governor Masrtsto will credit for tan instant the historical error laid to h'Is charge; while the coarse allusion to his appearance anti man tier of speaking comuing from the source it does, reminds one of an unseemly satyr daring to speak mm vpudently to Apollo-so immeasurably above the Trilane, and all its appendiges, is our distitnguished f lelow-citizen. F iOWL ENOUGII. s seems that they htave a way, over ini Georgetown, d of "slintging dead chickens itnto the streets." The o Pee Dee Times, commnenting upon the abomination, ;thus delivers himself: e " There are several other modesof disposing of such - aruictes quite as easy tof accoumnpishmnent, atid much more consistent with the rights atnd comforts of thte citizens generaily. Tihe smell of a defunct fowel is the Sfoulest o' smells." s W italicize the gem-tmy part. Miscellaneous Items. We regret to announce the death, on yesterday af terntoon, of Mr James 31eCafferty, (says the Augusta Constitutionalist, of the 27th tilt.) otne of our very worthy and deservedly popular fellow citizens. Ile was the pubbelher of the Syouthern.Vedical and Surgi o cal Journul, and served for several years ini our Bourd .of .Aldermen. - g' It is reported that Costa Rica has acknowledg -ed the government of Nicaragua, and would become respo'nsile for the expenses of the war. 1 [' A member of the Lazy Society was complained -of last week, by another, for runtning. His defence was that lie was going down hill, and that it wasmore labor to walk thtan run. gg~ Tutc Grand Jury have 'presented Mr. Brooks for his assault uponi 3r. Sumner. The latter testified before the Jury. E|7 A Toronto writer says that large quantities of wheat are still in te hands of the Upper Canada far mers, probably not less thtan 5,000,000 btishels. They have nout had the goodl sense to sell whten prices were die highest. 'The estent of land under crop is greater tha~n at any previous time. rlt |jfTe wheat crop of Ohio is said to be in a very rfine condition. There are more acres covered with wheat in Ohio than were ever before planted In that State. gg verdict of " not guilty" has been rendered in all the cases against T. 3. Eccles, lately pending in the District Coturt of the United States, for robbing the mail. The first of these cases was tried before the late Judge Gilchrist, in February last, when the like verdicts were rendered. gg The white population of the slaveholding States amounts to 6,2:22,218, and the slaveholders to 347,525. Virginia has the largest number of slaveholders as well as the largest white poputlation, the former being 55,062 and the latter 894,800. ggTwo lumps of gold weighing 4,100 dwt., have been received by T. R. Callender, of Phmi!adelphia, from thme Columbia Mining Comyany of Georgia. They were of the value of $4,300. gg'Mr. Robinson, of Robinson & Eldred's circuts, has sold outihis interest in the establishment, it is said to Mr. Eldred, for 825,000 flgAll mankind are happier for having been hap py; so that if you make them happy now, you make them hiappy many years hence oy the memory of it. gW'That man only is truly brave whlo fears noth ing so much as committing a mean action, and un dauntedly fulfils lits duty, whatever be the dangers which impede his way. Martha and Atnelia Rollison, free negroes, of Co lumbia, S. C., have been sentenced to three months imprisonment, and a fine of fifty dollars each, for giv og written passes to slaves. 3g The'news by the Atlantic reports tha!. the in -undatioas in France have thrown one hundred tboa sand persons out of employment, and rendered forty thousany houseles. ;