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I wo dollars if paid within the year;
n Fifty Cents, if notpaid within
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TO AS OLD FRIEND.
/J,I though many-a year bath flown,
'have somewhat wiser grown, ,
30.youandT first met-p , '
Kthat in our bosoms grew
to was rosy, fresh tfnd iiow,
looming brightly yot,
igs a philosophic.mind,,
js moro than bo leaves bohuid4r
is a thief of joys; *, ■
s one's golden looks to groy T
ta a .bill which all must pay—
akos old mon of boys.
la scythe and hour glnaa stands
inrvosts of pur lands— ‘
in prospcrpusfdays;
kceneat stoel to rust,
is monuments to dust—
is us of dur.proiao. .
is fouud witji Father Time,
.djjpoechca, prose and rhyme,
prill riot upbrojd;
IbftMir. heart?'aa young .
(.youth, w.Qf. laughed andsung »
Iglit m-l shade.
;mt. ftge makes friendship cold ?,
tj.oii nt, or.grows old,
1 like mountain pines,
unfading verdure, crowns, -f
. ,jr darkens them withfrowns,
Jttmmor smiles and shines.
mt, round our mutual souls.
~rf;Ul
Ihio i
Jy the Indian I
,-JVobp.for his wool
tho proud White man
wanderer Add j .*
, c rs aro treading.
£* avca our dead,'
.j£]§lms,?. yi* o ? in y° n foros t, ■,
’i,* ,' Hprearoth his homo.
K? <, ■/ ■"■ i\t No more on those waters
! %-A ,t .1 JliaJUjjhtcanoo glides,
—!| Ji, • i i ’Jlid tho, flower-fringed banks,
W N . V rippling tides;
/ ‘' ,’Odtyopneils are ended,
*' *• burn Iow : ’ 1
i’, 1 ' - ’ his woo! 1
f t tempost,.
j M r -W#M#. r^tbe m S hfc > • •
,l F P a 1 0 star-lighfc,
( rom si eW.
!JarlC'W.ftYeß rise Qrouud mo,
o’'--i^nd&j^l,,falls the dew,
:. 5 Now: browsing the stream in
ioij ' r u> oanoe.
5 h \ ' and rulotb,"
v * man hath said;
loir f are treading
I. \ v . ‘ Thaigraves of our dead—
jji ' ** Our-dohnoils aro endod,
$ f> 4 U burn low :
1 ih! hoar mo,
woo.
in 4 ,
Ga -> O, 1860.
f T the
; oLarlyand
Sl en g«6 em onta will permit.
k -iJffliBSiESJr? b v n ° i OSS P o *** and ex
'i. Y. 0U *? 0 no^»in my judff
'<■■ lm P°rtanco'of the
upon tho public mind, I
<>f *ho Charles.
'Y hll ° ‘ w m not greatly sur-
the elements
HSSrt and tJw general distemper
doB P. , y regret it, and with
jjrou look with intense interest to the conse
quences. j js done cannot fee or
- W ' l ' : V, •'
.. by thocAsn/hnd
mo -square,/ will be inserted throe
foliar, and twenty-five cents for each
tion. Those of a greater length In
sm\ml
BV PARK BENJAMIN.
innwHHL
{Oa,,) Constitutionalist.']
>epehns’ Letter.
.'on, Ga., May's, .1860.
|N s— Sir;— Wo arealarm
igs developed in the Be
lt Charleston. The dis
‘g spirit which prevailed
'togrity and overthrow of
Wo are filled with pain
jrospeotof thoDomoora
tered' in the house of its
which will put in equal
States and the safety of
to the fate and fortunes
ir counsels in this, crisis,
racy of Georgia should b e
turned National Conven
r«l. you please give us
id , promptly for publicar
But an overwhelming majority of the
oouth was against that, position. It is said
that wo who maintained'it, yielded the whole
question by yielding the; jurisdiction—and
that, it we conceded the power to protect, we
necessarily conceded with it the power to pro
hibit, This, by no means, followed, in my,
judgment. But such was the prevailing opin
ion. _And it was not until it was well' ascer
tained that a largo majority of the South
would not ask for, or oven-vote tor, Congres
sional protection, that those 1 of us who were
for. it yielded to non-intervention because,
though it came short of our wishes, yet, it con
tained no sacrifice of principle—had nothing
aggressive in it, and secured, for all practical
' ?S°„ a ,i M ’! ''S' 11 ™ 18 wanted, that is, the unro
niiMSA -Ji ‘ expansion over the common
J?„ .? .? ain » 113 inclination, convenience, I
people 88,tym0y re, l uiro 0n the P art of our| :;
Ilow-oitizoris,
A. E. Cochran,
• K. do Graffenreid
S.B.«nntor,
•Jos. Olisby,’ '
.L. Roas, :
A. A. Nisbot,
Wm, Lundj.
P°ttlement was made—thus the
Btun< *!’ by it l am willing to stand,
«? ii^ n 8 *y U P to tlio demands oPjthi
south, through her representatives at the'time,
uSt Wt up to m*f own; and os hy it the
amoridedythat must remain irrevocable. . It
would, therefore, be ns useless ,ns : ungracious
to indulge in any reflections ns to whose fault
the rupture was owing to. Perhaps, and most
probably!: under excitement and heat of pas
sion, in .iUU'rsuU of . particular ends connected
'.with the.elevation or, overthrow of 'particular
rivals for preferment, luore than any strong
desire, guided by cool judgment, so necessary
on such occasions to advance the public good
was the real cause of the rupture. Bethntas
!t majr, however, what is now to be done, and
what is the proper course to bo taken? To
my mind the course seemato be clear. ,
i S ‘ ato Convention should be called at an
early day, and that Convention should consid
er the whole object calmly and’dispassionate
ly; with the sober 6eopn_tf thought,” and de
termine whether te send a, representative to
Richmond or to Baltimore. .The correct de
termination of. this question, as I view it, will
I d 9P°"d upon another; and that is, whether,
the doctrine ot non-intervention by
with slavery m the Territories Ought to be ad
hered to, or abandoned by the South. This is
a very grave and serious question,-, and ought
not tq.be decided rashly or intemperatelyT—
No such small matters as the promotion of
this or that individual, however, worthy or un
worthy, ought to enter into its consideration.
It.is a great subject of public polity, affecting
the vast interests of the present,and future.—
It may be unnecessary and cntiroly useless for
me to obtrude my views upon this question, in
advance of the meeting of such convention,
upon whom its decision may primarily devolve.
I cannot, howeyer, comply with your request,
1 without doing so to a limited extent, at -least.
Ihis I shall do. In the first place, then, I as
sume, as an unquestioned and unquestionable
fact, that non-intervention, its stated, has been
, for many yoars-received, recognized, and acted
upon as the settled doctrine of the South.
By non-intervention I mean the principle,
! that Congress shall pass no law upon the sub
ject, of slavery in the Territories, either for or
, against it, in any way—that they shall not
; interfere or not upon it at all--or, in. the ex
press words of Mr.'Calhoun, the great south
ern loader, that Congress shall “ leave the Whole
subject where the Constitution and the great
principles of self-government place it,” T’his
has peon eminently.a southern doctrine. It
was announced by Mr. Calhoun, in his speech,'
in the Senate, on the27th of June, 1848; and,
after two years of discussion, was adopted as
thq; basis of the adj'ustment finally made in
1850. It was.the demand of the South, puti
forth by the South, and since its establishment
has been again and again affirmed and re-af
firmed as the settled policy of the South, by
party Conventions and State legislatures, in
every form that a people can give authofita
tive expressions to.their will and wishes.—
This dispute. ,It is
-«P<m the record as
. was settled
“ ndo or that the
war of was fought
unjust:claim of power on
Of' I
in :re-
question. Ithas
WiSP-- e abd;^whether rightly or wrong
-yjW- Jios boon and settled
the South rtsked that it should be—
not, however, without great effort'and a pro
longed struggle. The question now is, shall
j,.. ou th. abandon her own position-in that
decision and settlement ? This is the question
virtually presented by the action of the sece
ders from, the Charleston Convention, and the
grounds upon which they, based their action;
,°„n B in' ted n! n 2 thG r wor<ls .it amounts to this:
whether the Southern States, after all that has
taken place on the subject, should now reverse
them previous course, and demand Congres
sional intervention for the protection of sla
very in the Territories, as a condition of their
remaining longer in the Union ? For I take
it for granted that it would be considered by
all as the most misehovious folly to make the
demand, unless wo intend to push the issue
to its ultimate and legitimate results. Shall
the South, then, make this demand of Con
gress, and when made, in case of failure toob
tain it, shall she secede from the Union, as a
portion of her delegates (some under instruc
tions and some from their own free will) sece
ded from the Convention, on their failure to
got it granted there ?
Thus stands the naked question, as I under
stand it f presented by the action of the sece
dors, in its full dimensions—its length, breadth
and depth, in all its magnitude.
■ * 8 presented not to the Democratic party
alone ; it is true .a Convention of that party
may first act on it, but it is' presented to the :
counter, to the whole people of the South, of
ail parties. And men of all parties should du
ly and timely consider it, for they may all have
to take, sides on it, sooner or later. ■
It rises ip importance high above any party
organization of the present day, and it may,
and ought to, if need bo, sweep them all from
the hoard. _My judgment is against the de
mand. If .it were a now question, presented
in its present light for the hrst time, my views
open it might be different from what they are.
It is known to you and the country that the
policy of non-intervention, as, establislied at the
instance of the South, was no favorite one of
mine. As to my position upon it, and the doc
trine now revived, when they ftore original
and open questions, as well as my present
views, X will cite to you an extract of a speech
made by me in Augusta, in July last, on ta
king final, leave of my constituents. -1 could
not restate thorn more clear# or more briefly.
In speaking of, and reviewing this matter. I
then said ; • °.. ■ 7
,A nc \’ as y9 a a 'l may know, it (nori-intor
vontion,) came short of what I wished. It
was, m my view, not the full measure of our
re Puired, in my judgment, the
S ''f l t ™ ent Congress, of all needful laws
tor the protection of slave property in the Ter-
Fasted 8 ’ 80 * on S as the'territorial condition
righj: Of expansion to the extent of population
una capacity is amply secured.”
. In this you clearly perceive what I think of
toe proper course now to ho taken on the
same, subject. While in the beginning of this
controversy I was not favorable to the policy
adopted, yet I finally yieldedhiy assent.' It
was . yielded to the South-—to the prevailing
sentiment of my own section, -But it never
would have been yielded if I had seen that any
or our important rights, or any principle essen-i
tml to our safety or security, could, by posai-:
unity, result from its operation. Norwould I
now be willing to abide by it, if I saw, in its
practical workings, any serious injury to the
South Ijkqly to arise from it. All parties in' |
tho South, after the settlement was mode, gave
it the sanction of their acquiescencefif not cor-1
dial approval. What, then, has occurred since
to cause us to change pur position in relation
. Is it that those of the North who Stood by ns!
m the struggle from 1848 to :1850, did after
wardsi stand nobly by us in 1854, in taking off
the_ old congressional restriction of 1820, so as
to have complete non-intervention throughout
jhe length and breadth of the common public
domain-? Was this heroism on their part, in
r !if r - ln ® P r ‘1 c at the hazard and peril
or their political lives and fortunes, the cause,
ot present complaint? This cannot bo; for
net or: was an act of Congress so generally and
so unanimously hailed with delight at the
south as this one was—-I mean the Kansas-
Nebraska act of 1854 ?•’ It Was, not onl/'Sif?
dorsod.byp.il parties, in Georgia, but every
one who did not agree to its just provisions,
upon the subject of slavery, was declared to be
, Un :‘, 4o , ~o I“ P art y associations with any party
wu r°S l e tlle interests of , the South.—
'’.J* then, is the cause of .complaint now ?—■
Wherein has this policy worked any injury to
the South.or wherein is it likely to work any?.
. -to® on, y cause of complaint I have heard
“■‘ hat as established in
ISOO, and, carried Out in 1854, is not under
stood at tho North.as it : is at the South; that,
while, wo hold that, in\leaving “the whole
subject where the Constitution and the great
principles of pelf-government, place it,” the
common Territories are to remain open-for
settlement by southern people, 'with their
slaves, until otherwise provided by ; a State’
Constitution. The friends and supporters of
( the same doctrine at the North, maintain that
under it, tho people of an organized Territory
ft”, P ro 4.9 c £ or exclude slave property before
.the formation,, of,a State' constitution.' o This,
ppmon, or construction of theirs, is what is
commonly duljbed “ squatter sovereignty.”—
Upon this point of difference In construction
ot what are ‘ ..the great principles of. self-gov
"“derthoConstitutionof the Uni
ted States, a great deal has .her "aid and
written.. . ,
w •
jsldl
edw.'
been
sidcf
hav
defh
to. if
the i
high
ed—
, -• V .■ - ,
will, and fate;
Fixes fatt, frco will, fqrknqwlcdgo, absolute,
And found no end in wandering mazes lest."
It is not ing purpose now'Winter the list of
these disputants, My own opinions upon the
sqbject are■Jfenown ; and it is ’ equally known
that tliig-diS'crenco of opinion, or construction
« no hew. thing in the history of this subject.
Those who hold the doctrine that the poo pie of
the Territories, according to the great princi
ples of self-government, under the Constitution
of the United States, can exclude slavery by
Territorial law, and regulate slave property i
as all other property, held the same views they
now do, when we agreed with them to stand
on those terms. This fact is also historical. I
The South held, that under the Constitution |
the Territorial legislatures could not exclude
slavery—that this required act of sovereignty
to do. Some gentlemen of the North held, as
they now do; that the Territorial legislatures
could control slave property as absolutely as 1
they could any other kind of property, and by I
a system of laws could virtually exclude slo- J
very from amongst them. Or prevent its intro- i
duction if they choose. I
That point of difference, it was agreed by j
both sides, to leave to the courts to settle.—
There Wasyno cheat, or swindle, or fraud, or
double dealing in it. It was a fair, honorable,
• and constitutional adjustment of the diffor
enoe. No assertion or declaration by Con
gress, one, way or the other, could have affec
ted the question in the least degree; for if the
people, according to “ the great principles of
self-government’’ under the Constitution, have
the right contended for by those who espouse
that side of the argument, then Congress
could_ hot and cannot deprive them of it.—
And if Congress did not have or does not have
the power to exclude slavery from a Terrrito
ry, as those on our side contended and still
contend they have not, then they could not and
did not confer it upon the Territorial Legisla
ture. We of the South hold that Congress had
not the power to exclude, and could not dele
gate a power they did not possess; also, that
the people had not the power to exclude un
der the Constitution, and therefore the mutual
agreement was to take the subject out of Con
gress, and leave the question, of the power of
the people where the Constitution had placed
it, with the courts. This is the whole of it.
The question in dispute is a judicial one, and
no act of Congres, nor any resolution of any
party convention, can in any way effect it,
unless wo first abandon the position of non
intervention by Congress,
t But it seems exceedingly strange to mo that
the people of the South should, at this late day,
begin to find fault with , this Northern con
struction, as it is termed—especially since the
decision of the Supreme Court in the case of
Scott. In this connection, I may be
permitted to say, that I have with deep inte
rest the debates of the Charleston. Convention,
and particularly the able, logical,.and elo
quent speech' of the Hon. Wm. L. Yaney, of
Alabama. It was, decidedly, the strongest,
argument I.have seen on his side of the ques
tion. But its greatest power was shown in its j
complete answer to itself. Never did a man, '
with greater clearness, demonstrate that'
“ squatter sovereignty," the great bug-bear of
the day, is not in the Kansas bill, all that has
been said to the contrary, notwithstanding.—
This ho put beyond the power of refutation. I
But he stopped not there—he went on, and by
reference to the decision of the Supreme Court
alluded to, he showed conclusively, in a most
pointed and thrilling climax, that this most
frightful doctrine could not, by any possibili
ty, bo in it, or,in any other Territorial bill—
;that it is a constitutional impossibility. With
the same master hand he showed that the
doctrine of squatter sovereignty" is not in
the Cincinnati platform; should™
of the South now complain of non-inienention,
or ask a change of platform ? '■
else have wo to do but to insist upon
Would
jt npt.hai: )boon much more natural to look for
3 “,.« i l ßU L' fl,de than on oofc? Why
desire ffr want any other platform
at Cincinnati?
|if so?|Jtr 8 -n! MI ™‘ thua on it - in the contest
■ wllll “S *? stand on it, why should
rail equally willing? For my life I
we are determined to have
n .-®. 0 JJorth anyhow on general
0 . «> behalf of .common sense,
tok upon more.tenfable ground.—
For our character’s
upon the aggressive acts
:^°%a^f^;»ftwtt<rtraiiTenpposedBhorfr.
c o»“@ r ?%ur friends, who have stood by us
so steiiidfttsity; in so many constitutional strug-
CB ‘ liu Patriotism and honor,
it upon, a point which may so
wi 1 i h ° char S° of breach of
Y h f t ? ma y befall us, let
us .°T, er ;bwuudi by friend or foe, as good as
c^ip se ' are “ y vicws - - d
The Question then, is, shall we stand
by ouy MiHciples, or shall we, cutting loose
trpm our hirings where we have been safely
anohoredjfdmahy years, launch out again in
to «ukifO«seaB ; upon new:and perifous ad-
the guide and pilotage of those
who prove Bcmselves to have no more fixed-
S*P?II 0S0 T. stability as to objects or
8 o Bh ’ ft i n f. Wlnt l9 by which we
•® flPlf 1 .? bet this question be decided
ny the conybation, and decided with that wis
dora, coojn g|, and forecast which become
statesmeftdid patriots. As for myself, I can
say, whawrar -niay bo the course of future
events,.my,fedgmont in the crisis is, that we
should. stajaj ; i)y ,our principles “through
woe .as wf|ds “ through weal,” and main
tain them good faith, now and always, if
need be.upfcf they, we, and tho republic, per
ish common ruin. Isee no in
jury, arise to us from them
constitutional impossibility
Ot thoir.chaining “squatter sovereignty"
ex.sHfja Jhaa been conclusively demon
strated, F4|,f it did exist in them, and
were alb thafhts: most ardent advocates : claim
result *B praotioal danger to us could
.Even acco ifing to their doctrine, we have
the unrestrie ;<p fight of expansion to the ex
tont of poj)u'|tion. They hold H>"‘ ■’
- popu
oan,'nHd,Trill)|
the people wr
Tennessee, K
Mississippi, ni
protect itjand'
tingit.andtj
where olimatej
will allow’. Thi
■ as_,ypu intimate, do indeed por
tend evil. Buy have no fears for the institu
slave T. tjither in the Union or out of
it, if our people are but true to themselves-—i
* r “®> stable, and loyal to fixed principles and
settled-, policy aid if they are not thus true,!
hare little hopedf anything good, whether thel
present Union lasts or a new one be formed.
1 here is, in my judgment, nothing to fear from
the “ irreprossißlo conflict" ,of which we hear
80 m hph. Slaforv rests upon great truths, !
which .can noylrbe successfully assailed by
reason or argument. It has grown stronger
in tho'ininda of ihen the more it has been dis-1
cussed, and it wfil still grow stronger as the I
discussion proceeds and time rolls on. Truth |
is omnipotent and must prevail. We have on
• , B ? ain^ a i i h ,tKe truth, with, firmness, and
wield it aright,; pur system rests upon an
impregnable hasty that can'and will defy all
assaults from, without,!; My greatest appre
hension is, from causes within; there lies the
greatest danger. l We have grown luxuriant
[ in the exuberanc i ’of our. well-being and un
paralelled prospe ity,. ■;
i 11 5r ienoy everywhere, not only
at the North, bu at the South, to strife, dis
senaion, disorder ifid anarchy. It is against
tine tendency tha; the sober-minded and re
flecting men ever, where shoiild how be called
upon to guard. ' 1 ~ , ■
, My opinion, thi p/ is, that delegates ought
to ne sent to the I djourned convention at Bal
timore. The don and made at Charleston by
too seccdersougb i hdt to be insisted upon. — ; |
Harmony being r« itored on this point, a nom
ination can doubtless be made of some man
whom the party everywhere can support with
the same zeal and the same ardor with which
they entered and Waged the contest in 1856,
when, the same principles were involved. ,
In this there be a failure, let the respon
sibility not rest updn us. let there be no
cause for censure at our door. If in the end
the great national Democratic party—the
iwfnTfi, foment that has do long bound and
°*r „ . together—shaped its policy,
tmi COll a 0( * itaSestinies, and to which we
f ™ so oft en looked with h, hope that seldom
roiv in +i. the on, y l? art y North on which to
finnnl •’? bioet trying hours when oonstitu
uonal rjghts wore in-peril, let it not bo said
I* lo ®jdst of the disasters that may
lot nnt In every and any event
■ the reproach;of Punic faith rest upon
lot on! 1 ? o, t If . e^ e y thing else has to go down,
_ ? r nntarmshod Jionor at least survive the
wreck. Alexander H. Stephens.
.Spare the Little Birds.— The birds have
many friends, who'intercede for their lives,
out yet. there are many which are killed by
raen and boys without ‘ ono thought of ,thoir
aong, and their usefulness to tho farmer;
HU tho birds, tho little birds, -
, That sing about your door
Soon as tho joyous Spring has como, • •
And chilling storms aro o'er. '
Tho little birds, hotr sweofc they, sing I
0, lot them joyous live,
And never seek to take tho lifo
•Which you can never give.” ;
„ Jp”A little boy fell into therivor at Green
neld, Maine, h, few days since, barely escap
ing drowning; When asked by his mother
what ho was thinking about when in the wa
ter, he,said ho thought “he should furnish an
item tor the newspapers.”
. Wmship, the strongman, lectured
in Harrisburg, last week, on the science of
lifting. If the Doctor could teach a hard up
man .how to lift a mortgago or a note in bank
what a blessing ho woula be to tho world in
general and editors in particular.
O” A young man advertises his desire for
1 a wifo-r-pretty and “ entirely ignorant of , the
.fact.” Evidently ho wants a fool. Any
: smart, pretty woman knows she’s pretty —she
wpuldirt bp smapt if she didn’t^
. -/ey hold ‘that slavery
under its operation wherever
ft* Squatters carried'it‘.to,
mtucky, Missouri, Alabariia,
(Arkansas, -without any law to
/Texas against a lawprohibi
will carry it to all countries
joil, production and population
sq are the natural laws that will
A good story is told of an Irish hostler
who was sent, to the stable to bring forth a
traveller’s horse. ' Not knowing whioh’of the,
’two strange horses in the stalls belonged, to I
,tho traveller, and wishing to avoid the appear- j
ancoof ignorance in his business,,ho saddled 1
I both animals and brought them to the door. I
iThe traveler pointed out his own horse, say-|
ing, “that’s my nag-” "Certainly, yer honor,
'I know that, but,l didn't knotv which one of,
them was the other gintloman’s..
, JtfontE Sentiment.— Daniel Webster penn
ed (bo following sentiment:
' .“If wo work upon marble,'it will perish;
if wo work upon brass, time will efface it- if
wo roar temples, they will crumble into dust:
but if we work on mortal minds—if we imbue
them with principles, with the just fear of God
and our fellow-men, wo engrave on those'ta
li ternit°™° tlmS thatw W br ‘g l «t°n through all
i s'
M4CIION4LD, THE SUICIDE.
Macdonald, the murderer of Virginia Stew
oit, died on Monday evening, from the effects
o* poison solf-administered.
The history _and incidents of the murder
with which Macdonald was charged, and
which, indeed,lie confessed, and the excite
ment it created at the time, are still fresh in
the recollection of many of our readers, but
a brief sketch of the parties and the
Virginia Stewart was the eldest daughter
ot poor, But respectable parents, living-in
Napier street, Boston. At the age of sixteen I
she was adopted by an elderly and well-to-do
J e ’fi n fi ned l P L orry ’ who took her first to
opnngfield and then to New York. In 1856
she came to see her mother, who had again
a man named Upton, Mr. Stewart
having deceased, and informed her that she
had married a gentleman named Macdonald.
Of her daughter’s real character and habits,
Mrs. Upton knew nothing until the murder,
ana she gave her evidence, upon the inquest,
weepingbittorly, and appearingweighed down;!
wth grief. The bullet from Macdcmald’s piS
tol thus inflicted, a double'w.ound, bringing
mo^er hot loss than to hia mis
’Virginia,-instead of being
With the Perry’s at New York, was ata house
of prostitution in Mobile, and there she be
came acquainted with Macdonald, who was
dome a lucrative business as a cotton broker
in that city. The particulars of her lapse
trom virtue have not been revealed. Miss
btewart was a very beautiful, showy, and at
tractive woman, and Macdonald became des
perately enamored of her, making her costly
presents, and finally taking her as a mistress.
Ourmg their intercourse she bore him two
children, both of whom died ht an early a-c.
Macdonald was dissipated and extravagant,
While Virginia, like moat women ofher class,
was cold, calculating, and seems to have in
herited a great deal of Yankee shrewdness in
financial matters. The sums of money which
her.lover lavished upon her, were carefully
hoarded; her rich presents were converted
into ready cash, and. she soon accumulated
sufficient means, to opou a bagnio* upon her
own account. This step was taken in defi-
i nc ®; of the expressed wishes of her lover, and
tor the purpose of making money, and it led
to; many quarrels between herself and her
paramour. Macdonald’s intemperate habits
grewfupon him, and. incensed by Virginia’s
non-compliance with his wishes, he often
drew knives and pistols upon her, and at her
instance was more than once looked up in the
guard house; When sober, he was as loving
vndfaffeotionate aa ever, but when in liquor
v recollection of these disgraces seeniAd fn
st madden him: and so- diß"""*- ’
-- .ouiairainghim. . ...
: Another account states that both parties
came,to this city, unknown to each other, and
that Macdonald accidentally heard of her
presence here, and had his jealous passions!
inflamed by the information that she was liv
ing here with another paramour. In this
eity Virgmia lived for a while, .at the Smith
sonian: House, and then moved to a house of
prostitution in Marion street, whore she resi
ded at the time of her death. Macdonald re
sided at the Metropolitan,' where he became
the object of especial remark, on account of
his repeated dissipations. To the remon
strances ojf the proprietor and his friends he
paid no ,attention, but continued his ruinous
course, seeking his mistress in all the houses
of prostitution, and threatening to bo reveng
ed upon her.for her infidelity. Unable to find
her in this city, he wont to Boston, and there
Visited Virginia’s mother, telling her that he
was he? daughter’s husband, that ho had been
drinking, and that his jntemperanfco had
caused all the trouble between them; that he
was to blame for her leaving him, and if her
mother would only come on to New York, the
matter ,would bo settled, offering to pay her if
she would go, and bursting into tears during
-the interview. 1 He inquired particularly of
y irginia’a whereabouts, and not receiving any
information of her, he returned to New York
by the next evening’s train.
Soon after his return to Now York, Mac
donald saw Virginia entering Taylor’s saloon,
in company with Mary Brooks and Alice
Morgan, two of her frail friends, and he fol
lowed her to the table at which she seated
herself. The meeting between them appears
to have been friendly, for Macdonald sat
down near the ladies, called for a .bottle of
Wine, and partook’ of some refreshments with
them. Upon leaving, the saloon Macdonald
drew his mistress aside and entreated her to
return with him to Mobile; but she positively
refused, and exhibited an evident inclination
to cut his acquaintance. Irritated at this re
buff from a common courtezan,. Macdonald
threatened to kill her on the spot, but Miss
Stewart, unmoved by these threats, continued
her walk, Macdonald'following her, endoavor
wg, by promises and threats, to induce her to
change her resolution. As they reached the
corner of Canal street and Broadway, Virgin-1
la became alarmed at the violent domonstra
tions of her companion, and at the instigation
of her ; friends.sho ran towards the Brdndroth
xlquso, designing to enter it, and thus escape
ms distasteful persecutions. Before she had
proceeded many yards, however, just ns she
had reached the stops of the hotel, Macdonald
drew his revolver,, and with unerring aim,
sent the Yatql bullet crashing through her
skull. The streets were as crowded as is us
ual upon a July afternoon, and high above
tho.din and bustle of tho busy throng rose the
shriek of the murdered woman, summoning
-thousands to tho spot.
The following excellent take-off on the ques
tions proposed to be asked by the takers of
the census of 1860, has been variously credit-,
t>> • Express and the Cleveland
Pla.ndealer. Without attempting to settle
findlt^ 8tl ° n of P atern 'ty. wo present it ns we
What is your age ?
Where were you born ? — —: —
likeit ? y ° U “ arri ° d ’ and if B0 > how do you
I How many children have you, and do they
| sufficiently resemble you as to preclude the
? of their bo ‘ ongins 10 a °y of y° ur
Did you ever have the measles, and if so
how many? .
Have you a twin .brothor several years old-1
or than yourself ? , ' ,
them ?° y ° U P aron^B ’ ttnd so > how many of
Do you read the Now Testament regularly?
What is your fighting weight ?
. „ ow J“ a uy times, has your wife “wished
showas dead, and did you reciprocate the
Do you use boughten tobacco ? '■
Were you and your wife worth any thine
when married, and if not, what proportion oT
hem^?® 8 WWe yonr ’“’ nnd your th ' n es were
Wore you over in the-pouitentiary ?
Are you troubled with biles ?.
houTO? many em hottfes have you in the
How does your meerschaum color ?
Have you all of Thayer’s speeches on the
horse railroad ? ■
Are beans an article of regular diet in your
tamily, and if so, how does it go?
State whether you are blind, deaf idiotic or
nave the heaves,?
How many chickens have you, and are they
Is there a strawberry mark on your left
arm r v w ■
drinks ? h f °° d d ° you P rofer . rum or mixed
tv t ? to ,k° w much pork, impending crisis,
imtoh cheese, popular sovereignly, standard
poetry, Gayety paper, slave code, catnip, red
flannel, Constitution and Union, old junk
perfumery, coal oil, liberty, hoop skirt,': &o.’,
| you have on hand ? ':■■■■ ’ ,’
I Persons liable to he "eensussed’'- wiltdo
well to cut the abovo out and put it-un-'ii : :ii
conspicuous place. • *
. J’ I - uc f ; --Noah Webster tella us
is this “inelegant” for courage; but it is deri
ved trom a word in the torse and vigbrous old
bf " tor if - .w-v?*--* -
c ii i them. In contests
, a “. tmasr—intellectual, moral, political,
polemical anilphysical,-pluck generally car
nes the day. It is essential alike to the con
trqversionahst and the warrior, the moral rei
former and tbe : pugilist, the .'fetatosin® iufiiii
the discoverer. Without it, - Csesarwould
have failed at Pharsalip, and Columbus in his
search for a New World. It is the best* life l
strument wherewith “out,of the nettle/da£
ger,” to "pluck the flower, Safety.” "- 1
•With some people ‘‘pluck 1 ' fa a constitu
tional quality. Children sometimes display
it in their pradlehood. For the consolationCf
those who have, it not by nature, let us say
that it'may be acquired, dr, to speak more
correctly, that the policy natural pluck would
suggest, may be pursued as result of sound
reasoning. Abernathy, the great English
surgeon, .according to the testimony of one of
his mtmiate friends, was actually a timid and
diffident man. He confessed indeed that his
bold and brusque stylo of treating his patients,
was adopted from a conviction that, in the
medical profession, bashfulness and hesitancy
would not pay. -It must be admitted that he
sometimes wont into the other extreme, but
even that was better than faltering.
. Pugilistic encounters are brutal affairs; but
in the moral and intellectual prize-fights which
we sometimes have with Fortune, it would be
well if every man could take her hard buffets
as a fellow named Cooper, the blows of his
antagonist Painter in a prize ring, some forty
years ago. The former was knocked down
nineteen times, but won the victory after all.
Give us the man who can rise—as did old'
Enceladus, the Titan, when kicked from the
sky to Earth by Jupiter —refreshed by his
contact with “our common. mother.” •
, Depend upon it, there is nothing worth do
ing to be done, in this world, without “pluck.”.
If asked to define the expression, wo should
say that no other word in the English lan
guage is, strictly speaking, convertible with
it. It is not courage pure and simple, but
courage and backbone —-energetic, progressive,
undoubting, ‘nover-say-die’' courage. There
can be no inental supereminenco without the
manifestation of this quality, or, at any rate,
without such a course of action as native pluck
would prompt. Wo say, therefore, to the
naturally timid and vasmllating, cultivate the
virtue if you have it not, fasafius a species of
capital absolutely necessary to success in the
battle of life.
Saqacitv of the Arctic Fox.— ln a reconi
lecture upon his experience in Arctic life. Dr.
Kaesaid: .
'On the journey I saw a very curious In
stance of the sagagity of the Arctic Fox. Con
scions that I Was aimingst him, he tacked
his tail between his Jogs, cocked up his cars,
and endeavored to look ,os like -a haro as pos
sible; (which is. an animal comparatively,
worthless.) Another foot of this kind occur
red to me, whilst being detained, at a particu
lar place,' whore qur favorite amusement was
trapping wild animals. Our mode of doing
I this was frith a spring gun connected with a
bait, which, when touched, produced the ex
plosion. One instance showed us that a fox,
f either from observation of a companion’s fate’
or from hard earned experience, had gone up
to the gun, bit off the. cord connected with the
bait, and the danger being averted, went and
ate the meat in undisturbed comfort. And it
is a common Occurrence for the fox to make a
trench up to the bait, seize it and permit' the
charge to pass over his head,” ■
-.Opr°» r exchanges all contain brief edito
rials headed “ Prepare for the Census.” A
■woman m Herkemor county, N. Y., has done
so. She has prsented her husband with three
fine hoys and a girl.
IC?* If you wish to collect together all the
pretty,, girlsdn town,.advertise m ‘lecture to
jyoung men.l'
The Census of IB6o',
ET* A man lately made implication for in
surance on a building situated in a village
where there was no fire engine, and was asked:
What are the facilities in your village for
extinguishing; fires?" ‘'Well, it rains some
times, he replied, with great simplicity.
K7* There are symptoms of a whisky insur
rection in Minnesota. . The liquor dealers
burned down a church in St, Anthony, and
the members thereof warned them to leave the
t ?j Vni the .y decided not to do, and both
sides were heavily, arming at last accounts. . ;
KT” A woman named lately arrived
at the Julion House, in Dubuque, lowa, and
being out of health, neglected.by.her husband,
in a fit of despondency, leaped but of the .sec
ond story window into the: back yard, She
died soon after she was fonnd. ' ■’,
0“ The evening clouds we see were made
to-day and of such as the'breaths of <
singing birds, the.melted jewelry of theraor
ning dews, tho silver night dress of the rivers
and the voice of prayer. It is tho heapad-up
utterance of yesterday. Dim, bine and bean- ■
tiful, it is an enchanted mountain, though' >.
men have named it a cloud. ...
1 Uooont dovelopomonts show that tho-
I superintendent of a wealthy iron company'll!-.
England, has boon carrying on a system of " 1
defalcation for forty-three years, during which
time he had appropriated to his:own uae tho
enormous sum of ono million six hundred
thousand dollars, without exciting,the slight--
est suspicion as to his dishonesty. “
lE/” Serious fears are entertained lest thO"
venerable head of the Supreme Court of the
United States, Justice Taney, may never again
take his seat on the Bench, .lie fell fiom
sheer exhaustion a few days ago,.and had-to
bo borne to his chamber. Another oft the
aged: members of this high tribunal is-also in.
a very enfeebled condition.
. C7* Yancey, the leader of, the Secession
ists, is a,native of Troy, N. Y. His-wether
subsequently, married toe. Bev, Dr, Bitnan;.of
Troy, and the queer freak as told of that lady
would fill a volupie. Yancey was sent to
Williams College, but no college oould hold
him, and the faculty wore,glad to,get rid of
him. Yancey, in South Carolina, shot his un
cle dead, and was imprisoned for'the act fif
teen months, and then was sent to Congress;
whore Ko fought a bloodlbss dhol with. Mr*
. -----
(ftfe rmb (Bnk
tru*®" To abridge conversation, speak but the
*®“ high rent—a hole in the crown'of
your bad hat. ,
BSF" Great minds hare purposes: others
have only wishes. ... "...
£@“ The greatest gluttons are those who
feed upon slander.
T™ st not the world, for it never pay
otn that it promiseth. - ; •
If you would succeed in life, attend
well to your own business.
. ®Sf- nEENAN, the Champion of the "World.
>s giving sparring exhibitions in England.
Tranquil pleasures lost the longest.
Wo ore not fitted to bear long the burden of
great joy. . ■ ° . :
.. A crusty old bachelor says he thinks
re-dressed!* ° n( * wron 8«. .'that ou E llt •» bo
JS@- To he deprived of the person wo lovfl
wohate D(?SSm com P ariSoll of living with pno
thou desirest to be held wise/* says
tongue - F ’ be WlB ° ° n?ugU to bridle % otm
Men and women are never more fro
r:ar thm when they are
. T hf sun is every man's servant, work- ■
;ng every day m the year for him, and exact
ing no wages. •
There Is many a man whose, tongne
might govern multitudes, if he could only*
govern his tongue.
B©* Elderly unmarried ladies are consid
ered by some persons the least enviable of.all •
Kinds of waiting .maids* ' % *
Ten poor, men can sleep tranquilly
j npon a mat; but two kings can’t live, at easd
in a quarter of a world., .-■...
Km arena ip, which ■ vanity' •
j ■! Buoh ® variet J of-forms
of ambition is “a
oomet by putting
it was an excellent
und mind some*
■'wa hjSih an old and Worn-out body*-
)toe -upon a dead tree. '
,ni poX ®aitl he once worked for d
dges -B 0 hi gh; that he : ,
in to have died.
md well is only to begin well. :
.:man who had been married twice
‘both; named Catharine, advised his
gainst taking dupli-Kates.
~,.,r nothing, because it seems
weak. . .The flies and locusts have .done mors
lijltt than ever the bears and lions did,
I • Itvvill afford sweeter happiness in the
j hoprof; death to have wiped, one tear from
:tho cheek of sorrow than to have ruled an em
pire, - - ■
do men who are about to fight a
generally choose ajfyld for the .place of
'* the purpose of allowing the ball
f -A short time ago a man became so
completely ‘wrapped in thought' that he was
•a Cd Ü B' labeUed >.»ndsent off on the "train of
ICLwcLSt > }
C 7“ “Good morning, Mr. Grumtn, what la
the news to-day V "Oh, there'is no news: my
wife was sick yesterday, and didn’t go out :
no news—•no.newsT’ ■ . ,
O’ Never shave your whiskers with a
hatchet. The best method of trimming is to
pass a red hot iron gently over them. The
operation smooths them regularly, 1 giving to
each hair a smooth, crispy appearance. 1
p 3l An Irishman who was lately reprieved
as ho stated, the night before his execution,
and who wished to get rid of his wife, wrote
to her as follows: “I was yesterday hanged,
and died like a hero; do ns I did, and bear it
like a man.”
NO. 51.