NEW PUBLICATIO.NS. "History of the Plots and Crimes of ;he Great Conspiracy to Overthrow Liberty in America" is the title of a handsome volume from the pen of John Smith Dye, of No. 100 Broadway, New York, which has lain for N: some time upon our table. Mr. Dye is one :N" of those blunt common sense men who be - hove that a pretence of honor among those who are committing the most infamous Of wrongs is a shame and an imposture, and that it would be as wise to look for roses upon thistles as for fair play and sectional comity among statesman and peo ?le whose whole system of policy is to uphold a giant crime; and he reasons from this belief that the slave power that bred a Calhoun, that inaugurated and carried on the most infa mous of rebellions, and that , put the master piece upon crime in the murder of the great •';.;,.• arid good Lincoln, would not stop at any 11.(5 r 'ther infamy when the last of power and -14; • • the desire to perpetuate the baleful institu- tion were present to instigate to wrong. The author goes very fully into the his tory of the formation of the Federal com pact ; he tells of how the South soon as sumed to be imperious master, of how the North yielded little by little, partly from good humor, partly in a spirit of compro mise, partly from a mean willingness upon the part of one of the great political organi zations of the country to 'secure place by 'binding itself to the car of slavery, and partly from the ready eagerness of trades men, whose.principles lay in their pockets, to prostrate themselves where thrift would follow fawning. He makes out a strong case against the South, and also against the doughfaced and dirt-eating portion of the North, and among the most prominent instances which he cites in support of his position, are the concessions to the slave power by the framers of the Constitution of the United States; the nullification move ment of 1832; the annexation of Texas; the _Mexican War; the Compromise Measures of 1850, with the ever infamous Fugitive Slave Law; the Kansas iniquities; the Great Rebellion, and finally the murder of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Dye does not mince matters intreat ing of these subjects,' and he reasons with sound logic that men wh6 could-contrive such an outrage as the Lecompton iniquity; who could bring about the rebellion; who were capable of the crimes incident to it, and who could find it in their hearts fo mur der Mr. Lincoln, were equal to the wicked ness of the murder of Gen. Harrison, the 1 langh er of General Taylor, and the at css, mpted assassination of James Buchanan. But the author does not confine himself to i But surmise or inference in, treating upon I s last named branch of his subject. I he goes quite fully into evidences to sustain ' u ' his settled convictions, and as this is the Igreat feature of his book, we will make co pious extracts from this portion of the work. After narrating the history of the Nullifica tion movement the author charges the South with an attempt to assassinate General —Jackson. He says: . "About this time, 30th of January, 1835, • 'while the President with a few members of his 'cabinet were in attendance at thefuneral of Mr. Waren R. Davis, a Member of Con gress from South Carolina, who had just • died atWasicngton,and the funeral ceremo nies were being conducted in the House of Representatives, where all had congregated. when the ceremonies were over, and the , processsion had just reached the foot of the steps on the eastern portico, President Jack son, accompahied by Mr. Woodbury, Secre retary of the Treasury, and Mr. Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy, on coming out of the door, at that moment a man stepped from the crowd into the open space in front of the President, and at a distance of about eight paces, drew a pistol from beneath his cloak —aiming at the heart of the President, attempted to fire. The cap exploded with ' • out igniting the powder in the barrel. He immediately drew from beneath his cloak another, which he had held ready co eked in his left hand, and pointing as before, this cap also exploded withoutfiring the powder in the barrel. At this moment the Presi dent rushed at him with uplifted cane; the traitor shrunk back, and Lieutenant Ged ney, of the navy, knocked him down. He ~. ' 1 was secured by the bystanders and taken ;.* before Justice ()ranch, who committed him r in default of bail. His name proved to be . Richard, Lawrence, an Englishman by birth, and a house painter by trade. The pistols were examined and found loaded. Caps were put on them, and both fired without fail, the balls going through inch boards thirty feet distant. "The friends of the President felt it to be a grateful interposition of the Almighty. All looked upon his escape as miraculous, having its origin in the all-wise providence of God. The conduct of the assassin excited and surprised every one. The boldness of the undertaking in broad daylight, and in a public gathering, Was all weighed and -turned over. The great precaution of the Itititiisidn in providing two pistols, fearing one might fail, was argued as evidence of a deep4aid plot, * a * * it it "This man, whether deranged or not, had ' strong prejudices against Jackson, and a high opinion of his bitter enemies; using the word "tyrant," a phrase Calhoun was al -ways applying to Jackson. His admiration for Calhoun was supposed by many to be caused by an affinity of interest, or an acci dental union of feelings of revenge against a common foe. "Whether this man was induced to at tempt to murder the President by listening to his defamers making speeches in the Senate, the greatest of which was Calhoun, or whether he was secretly hired to assas sinate him, God alone can determine. -•;`. "There is no doubt but the death of Jack son would have been received by Calhoun : as the tocsin of victory. Add to this his deep and long seated revenge, and you nave two very strong motives in a bad man's • heart to commit crime. Either Lawrence's intellect was weak, and the storm created by the slave polder drove him to attempt the crime, or he was secretly hired by its friends to do it. Either one would:fasten the guilt direct or remote on the Preiident's defamers, the principal of whom was John C. Calhoun." Mr. Dye very plainly charges that- the death of General Harrison was caused by poison. After sketching the political situa_ 'lion which existed at the time the "Hero of Tippecanoe" became President, he says: ' "Thus the greedy slave.- power, with an appetite not to be appeased, stood watching .:- its chosen victim with the one absorbing thonght—how can it? It was at this interesting moment that General Harrison came to Washington to assume his duties as Chief Magistrate of the nation. Although - . born in a slave State, still, like Jefferson, - be was opposed to slavery. As soon as he ". . got cleverly warm in his seat, he was visited - ' - by J. C. Calhoun of South Carolina, Messrs. -- Gilmore and Upshur of Virginia, and two %ethers, whose -names we have forgotten. - . These five men-had the interest of slavery 3 committed to their care, and the object of '' lbeir visit to the President was to ascertain bin views about annexing Texas. This in terview took place in the .President's recep tion room. After passing the usual com pliments of the day, Calhomt became the '' Apokeaman t Ile said ',. f -v I: -\•\‘`. 20"11', i‘ ;le, " 'General, the subject of annexation, I believe, like a motion to adjourn, is always in order. The object of our visit is to ascer tain your views concerning the annexation of Texas.' To whic,h General Harrison made the following reply: that he had not given the subject that attention it-deserved; therefore he could not speak positively as to what policy he would pursue. Bu 4 he could say this much—if Texas .had her .indepen deuce acknowledged by Mexico, then, un der certain conditions, he would favor an nexation. --- "This was about all that passed on that subject at that interview, and the Southern gentlemen retired. They did not even ask the General what these conditions were. He had said sufficient to satisfy them that he was not the man to carry out their plot, with such men as Webster and Ewing in his Cabinet. Their success was next to im possible. Then for the next best thing. They had staked all their hopes on getting back Texas. The South was perishing for the want of more slave territory, and the defeat of Van Buren by Harrison was now about to prevent their success.. They im mediately went to see John Tyler at his own home in Virginia, and after explaining everything to him, he agreed to the great necessity of securing Texas at once, and at all hazards; but lam powerless, says Tyler. I will leave the management of the matter with you. If I should ever become President I would exert the entire influence of that office to accomplish the object. "This was joyful news. They had found the right man, and only one thing was wanting to get him in; the right place. President Harrison was near seventy years old, and a little would suffice" to put him aside. He had already lived to a good old age, and received many ' honors. 'He can not, in the course of nature, live 12 s ut a short time longer. He is surrounded' -hik a bad set of men who will do all they can to de feat our darling annexation scheme. We can not get rid of them without we first get rid of the old man himself.. They deter mined rather than be defeated to murder the President.' "On the 17th of March the t .Chief Magis trate issued a proclamation convening Congress in extraordinary sessiortjor the 31st of May ensuing. He was enjoying his usual good health. 'Thus,' says Mr. Ben ton, 'President Harrison did not live to meet the Congress which he had thus con voked. Short as the time was that he had fixed for its meeting, his own time on earth was still shorter. In the last days of March he was taken ill. On the 4th day of April he was dead. There was no failure of health or strength to indicate such an event, or to excite apprehensions that he woutc( not go through his term, with the vigor he had t on,* wenced it. His attack was sudden and evil denttg fatal from the comniencentent.'—Ben-s ton's thirty Years, Vol, IL 210. "Mr. Benton evidently intended the above remarks to convey'to posterity that General Harrison did not die of natural disease—no failure of - health or strength existed—but something sudden and fatal. He did not die of apoplexy; that is a disease. But arsenic would produce a sudden effect, and it would also be fatal from the commence ment. This is the chief Weapon of the medical assassin. Oxalic acid, prussic acid, or salts of strychnine, would be almost in stant death, and would give but little advantage for escape to the murderer. Therefore his was not a case of acute poison ing, when death takes place almost instan taneously, but of chronic, where the patient dies slowly. He lived about six days after he received the drug." • • "Supposing the fatal agent used to have been arsenic, the use of mercury.and anti mony in his case certainly would come under the last considerations, "irritants," and cause an increase of the difficulty, and transfer the disease to stomach and bowels. The whole class of symptoms of active dis eases of the stomach and bowels,are closely allied to diseases produced by poisons of this class; and in almost every instance may be mistaken, as quoted above, for natural dis eases. Such was the fact in the -case of General Harrison; and under circumstances that would entirely exempt his physicians from blame or censure for any failure in diagnosis, or the administration \ of irritants in the treatment; such remedies being ac cording to standard authority in his sup posed disease; while they are never recom mended when poisons of the same kind are already in the system. As this case changed so much from the beginning, it is almost certain that the irritants used in the case fully developed the effect of the arsenic which he had taken, and resulted as above stated." "With these facts, and the quoted autho rity, can any one doubt that General Har rison was poisoned, and also that his physi cians overlooked the true nature of the malady. The attending physicians, Drs. May and Miller supposed he died of bilious pleurisy. His death occurred at half-past 12 o'clock at night, Saturday, April 3d, 1841. About noon it w a s supposed he was getting better, but at 3 o'clock the symptoms be came more violent, and at sundown his en tire Cabinet Officers were informed that the symptoms were such that it was evident that he must die," * * * • *. * * "Thus ends the account of the campaign and election; also of the m sterious and - sudden death of Presidentrison. We now propose to show more fully the mo tives that induced his murder, by follow ing up the assassins in the future develop- Ment of their plot. "We nientiOned in the preceding pages that five Southern men had visited the Pre sident shortly after he took his seat. We gave the names of three—Calhoun,Gilmcrre and Upshur—the latter two from Virginia. There were two others in company, but their names have slipped our memory. These gentlemen, after having the conver sation with President Harrison, went di rectly to Richmond, Va., and from there to the Vice President John Tyler's house. They there addressed him, as a Southern man, and wanted to get his views on the annexation of Texas. We do not pretend to give the precise words of their two dart' entertainment; only to demonstrate tb the world that political intrigues, and secret as sassination were unanimously agreed upon. and afterwards successfully carried out. "Harrison was to be secretly put out of the way, so that John Tyler would become the Constitutional President. To reward those who dyed their bands in his innocent blood, Tyler solemnly agreed to betray the party that elected him, and forever turn his back on its men and its measures; and call, as his Cabinet advisers, the identical men who, by foul murder, had placed him in the Presidential Chair. It was not the Demo cratic party that Tyler had made analliance with,but it was withthe nullifiers and seces sionists; men who, in the interests of slave ry, had secretly sworn to devote their whole lives to accomplish the destruction of the Federal Union. "The Whig party very soon discovered that Tyler had turned his back on its policy, and on the 11th day of September, 1841, Senator Dixon, of Rhode Island, and Jere miah Morrow, both venerable with age, were appointed Presidents of a meeting held by the Whig members of Congress.. They issued what they termed a manifesto, re nouncing the said John Tyler. We, copy the following: "'That he might be able to divert the policy of his administration into a channel which should lead to new political combina tions, and accomplish results which must overthrow the present divisions of parties in the country, and finally produce a state of things which those who elected him, at least, never contemplated.' Again: 'He has violently separated himself from those Py Whime OZELlthall and maitritgem he yugi elected to that office, through which he reached his present exalted vosition. The existence of this unnatural relation is as ex traordinary as the announcement of It is painful and mortifying.' "On the same day of the manifesto, his Cabinet officers, all except Webster, re signed. He waited a short time to endeavor to effect a union'of the Whig Party, by which he said he meant the Whig Presi dent, Whig Congress, and Whig People. But Mr. Webster's stay was short. "This was what Tyler had been wishing for weeks—we mean the breaking up of the Cabinet. It gave him a chance to form a new one. He feels his way carefully, and only at the first selection brings in two of the secret cabal, as Henry Clay termed it— Alexander P. Upshur and Thomas W. Gil more, Virginians. Both of these men had visited him at his house in Virginia, before General Harrison was poisoned. Thus Tyler was fulfilling his part of the contract with fidelity. Webster having remained longer than be was wanted as Secretary of State, bad to be removed. Abrupt ness would have carried suspicion. Therefore, says Mr. Benton, a middle course was adopted, the same which had been practised with others in 1841—that of compelling .a resignation. Mr. Tyler became reserved and indifferent to him. Mr. Gilmore and _ Mr., Upshur, with whom he had few affinities, took but little pains to conceal their distaste for him. It was evident to him, when the Cabinet met, that he was one too many. Reserve and distrust were visible both in the Presi dent and the Virginia part of his Cabinet. Mr. Webster felt it, and mentioned it to some of his friends. They advised him to resign. He did so, and the resignation was accepted with alacrity, which showed it was waited flir. Mr. Upshur took his place, and quickly the Texas negotiation became offi cial, though still private; and in the ap pointment and immediate opening of Texas negotiation stood confessed the true reason for getting rid of Mr. Webster.-2d vol. Benton, 30 yrs. pp. 562. "As we before stated, the object of the conspiracy, which terminated in the mur der of President Harrison, was to secure the annexation of Texas as an outlet for slavery." z "Tyler's Cabinet was now gathered en tirely from the slave States, except William Wilkins, of Pennsylvania. He had what the South called a reliable Cabinet: one that would go all lengths, and stop at nothing, to execute swiftly the will of the slave power. "The ultimate object of the plot, of which the poisoning of General Harrison only served as a means to carry'out, remained yet to be accomplished. The scheme was batched in South Carolina,.during Van Bu ren's term of office; and was the idea of get ting more slave territory, through the an nexation bf Texas. These bad men now pursued that ()Wed with a step as sure as time." "The reader can see by the foregoing ex tracts the disposition of the slaveholders of South Carolina. 'Texas, or disunion,' was the cry. The slave power had, by the foul deed of murder, got control of the National. Government; a elaveholding President; a slaveholding Cabinet, except one. It only remained for South Carolina, by threats of disunion, to control Congress. Thus the bill to annex Texas to the Union, while she was still at war with naxico, was forced upon Congress by the slave power. The bill passed the House by T 3 majority, but would have beets defeated in the Senate if it bad not been for the treachery of Calhoun and John , Tyler. Five votes were secured by fraud.' * a a " What could be expected of an Adminis tration that secured its power by foul trea chery and secret murder. Tyler betrays the party who elected him. Having dyed his bands in innocent blood, he could not bear the company of the dead man's friends; even the principles that his victim had la bored so many long years to carry out, he threw aside and trampled with disdain un der his unholy and blood-stained feet. The annals of the world might be searched in vain for such a villain. The man on whose popularity he had been exalted to high po sition, he reached up to, and stabbed. Well might Henry Clay say, speaking of Tyler: "That he contemplated the death of General Harrison with mingled emotions of grief, of patriotism, and gratitude—above all, of gratitude."' "He betrayed his party andcountry, and at last human nature—by practising a cheat on a mighty nation, bringing on a useless and bloody war, for the sole and only pur pose of extending human slavery." The author then goes fully into the dents attending the administration of Mr. Polk, with the Mexican war and the elec tion of General Taylor to the Presidency. After dwelling at length upon the posture of affairs as President Taylor found them, Mr. Dye says: "President Taylor surveyed the situa tion, and suggested proper remedies to defeat theblood-thirsty foe of the Federal Union. About his first official act was to suppress the Cuban invasion, a darling ecneme of the slave holders to secure that Island at the hazard or a war with Spain. Alter President Tay lor had written his first and only annual Message, Calhoun, mortified at the defeat of the Cuban expedition ; made a visit to the Department of State, and kegneated the President to say nothing in his forthcoming message about the Union. But this bad man had little influence over old 'Rough and Ready,' for after his visit the following remarkable passage was added : 'But at tachment to the Union of the States should be habitually fostered in every American heart. For more than half a century, dur ing which kingdoms and empires have fall en, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since de scended to the grave, yet still it remains, the proudest monument of their memory, ancrthe object of affection and admiration of every one worthy to bear the American name. In my judgment its dissolution would be the greatest of calamities; and to avert that should be the steady aim of every American. Upon its preserva tion must depend our own happiness, and that of countless generations to come. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it, and maintain it in its integrity to the lull extent of the obligations imposed, and power conferred, upon me by the Con stitution." "The slave power bad now determined to prevent the admission of California into the Union as a State. It had the requisite population, and had formed a Constitution forbidding slavery; and President Taylor, in his message, recommended that it be admitted. Utah and New Mexico he re commended, without mixing the slavery question with their territorial governments, to be left to ripen into States, and then settle that question for themselves in their State Constitutions. "The slave power had put a scheme on foot in Texas. by which that. State claimed half of New Mexico, a province , settled two hundred years before Texan independence. It wanted to settle this boundary by force of arms from Texas. But here the Presi dent was , determined that the political and judicial authority of the United States should settle the boundary. "The wrath of the .slavoholders now in creased against him. Having before de feated their filibustering scheme against Cuba, recommending the admission of Cal ifornia with a Constitution prohibiting slavery, and advising the dropping of the slavery question concerning New Mexico and ;Utah, and refusing to recognize the forged claims of the Texan slaveholdera to half of New Mexico; and to the foregoing Idg 'dubs kinagelf against Mimi, in 114 , 1- .. ing to his message the above extract, after the arch-traitor bad requested that all men tion of the Union should be excluded from it, the slave power had now sufficient rea son to count him as an enemy, and his his tory gave them to understand that he never surrendered. Those having slavery politi cally committed to their care, had long be fore sworn that no person should ever oc onpy the Presidential Chair that opposed their schemes in the interest of slavery. They resolved to take his life. "To show the bitterness of the slave power, we make an extract from Calhoun's speech, delivered after his visit to Presi dent Taylor, and after the annual message of the latter appeared:,`lt (the Union) can not then be saved by eulogies on it. How ever splendid or numerous the cry of Union, Union, the glorious Union, it can no more prevent disunion than the cry of health, health, glorious health, on the part of the physician, can save a patient from dying, who is lying dangerously ill.' "It was generally understood at Washing ton that the free soil wing of the Whig party had the ear of President Taylor, and that Millard Fillmore had but little voice or influence.—See Ormsby' s History of the Whig Party, p. 312. "This the slave power understood, and they determined to serve him as they had previously served General Harrison; and only awaited a favorable opportunity to carry out their hellish intent. The celebra tion of the 4th of July was near at hand; and it was resolved to take advantage of that day, and give him the fatal drug. Be ing well planned, he received it at the right time, and with the same medical accuracy as did General Harrison. "The political magazine was purposely charged with the restless element of slavery. This was done to prepare a way for the Pre aident's death, that it might pass unnoticed in the midst of the general explosion. Not withstanding the threatening of the slave power, the correspondent of the New York Evening Post telegraphed from Washington, July 3d, 1850, that 'the President remains firmly determined to defend the possession of the United States Government to that ter ritory at all,hazards.' But the last charge was placed in the magazine when Ex-Gov ernor Quitman, of Mississippi, telegraphed to Washington, on the same day (3d), that he was ready, at the head of 10,000 men, to march on Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was all done to force President Taylor to sub mit to demands:of the slave power. It failed: but it placed the torch to the fuse, and amid the excitement of the 4th of July, the explo sion took place. It accomplished the object —victory and revenge through the death of the President." "In the enjoyment of the most perfect health, the 4th (July), being on Friday, he was taken sick in the afternoon about 5 o'clock, and on Monday evening at 35 minutes past ten o'clock, be was dead. He died from the effects of the same kind of drug as was given to President Harrison. The symptoms in both cases were the same —an inward heat and thirst, accompanied by fever. They were both well and hearty at the time the drug was given, and both died within a few days after taking it. Mr. Benton, speaking of the occurrence, says that 'he sat out all the speeches, and omit ted no attention which he believed the decorum of his station re quired. The ceremony took place on Friday, and on Tuesday following he was a corpse. The violent attack commenced soon after his return to the Pres.idential Mansion." —Page 763, Vol. 11. "Gen. Taylor's case being considered by !his physicians (a portion of them having likewise attended General Harrison), called it 'bilious cholera,' in other words, gastro enteritis. No doubt :produced, as Dr. Tay lor on poisons, page 123, says, by 'instant poisons.' The whole of the circumstances in this case prove conclusively that he bad been polsonell. He lived, as before stated. anout the same length of time from the date of receiving the fatal drug which caused his death, as did General Harrison. The au thority I have quoted in Gen. Harrison's case is applicable in that of Gen. Taylor's. Well may it be supposed that the assassin who had so managed the poison in General Harrison's case, knew Well how to apply it to Gen. Taylor with equal success. See Grant's Letter. "As President Harrison had been assas sinated in about one month after taking his seat, it was not considered prudent to im mediately despatch President Taylor. There fore, for the sake of policy, he was borne with for one year and four months. He was in favor of the good old Union, and was in a position to protect it if assailed. They knew he was a soldier that never surren dered. Patriotic, almost to devotion, and too much of a statesman to see his country divided by intrigue, although himself own ing slaves, still like Washington be was op posed to slavery extension, and would have rejoiced to have seen some plan devised by which it could be abolished. They slew him on Independence day, while pouring out his soul in devotion to his country." We pass over the intervening pages, which tell of the mild and accommodating administration of Mr. Fillmore - and the miserable record of Franklin Pierce, on to the election of James Buchanan, and to the wholesale poisoning at the National. Hotel at Washington. Our author says; "Presidents Harrison and Taylor had been singly assassinated. The first had beeh dispatched with such perfect success, and a period of ten years having nearly elapsed, and no arrests having been made, it .was thought safe to apply the means to destroy President Taylor. Although the first had twice succeeded without detection, still a repetition for a third time of poisoning a President during the early part of his term of office, and amid high political excite ment, it was thought would be surrounded with evidence of foul play, and thus lead to detection. "Therefore, to prevent suspicion and in vestigation, a change of tactics was deter mined upon. Instead of the President (as heretofore) being the only victim, it was so arranged that from twenty to fifty persons were to ]o•e their lives, and among them President Buchanan. It would thus appear as an accidental occurrence. "Every effort had in each case been made to use the Chief Magisirate exclusively for the slave interest, and only when these efforts had failed was murder used to secure victory. The slave interest was led to be lieve by Buchanan's political life, and by intimations from the old public functiona ry himself, that his administration would be rigidly pro-slavery. The Kansas troubles were at their height. Through the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, slavery had a chance in that territory, and Jeffer son Davis, and Hunter, of Virginia, and Toombs, of Georgia, with other disciples of Calhoun, were .determined to rule and direct the incoming administration. Every effort was resorted to for the purpose of compelling Buchanan to make up his Cabinet from the pro-slavery, disunion Southern element. The old gen tleman became very stiff in the back after his election, and began to think he was his own master; the country appeared to him to have a islorthern as well as a Southern in terest, and he refused to be controlled. "He visited Washington in the latter part of. February,. put tip, as usual, at the Na tional Hotel On Sunday, the 22d day of February; it became generally known that he had set his face strongly against the Jeff. Davis pro-slainry rtdoor- ruin party. It was given out that LewiVass, of Michigan, and Howell Cobb, of Georgia, were to have the leading positions in his Cabinet. ."'He had also promised to settle the ques tion of the freedom of. the territories to the satisfaction of the people of the free States.' —New York Eve. Post. ''The prpoi,utruent of Cams and Cobb to the two commanding . positions in the Cabi net strikes the secessionists between wind and water, and is equivalent toa practical and absolute repudiation of the border ruf fian, Kansas, negro-agitation, disunion pol icy of Pierce.'—New York Herald, Feb. 22, 1857. "The Herald of the 26th says: 'The ap pointgients, by the Jefferson Davis faction, will doubtless be accented and treated as a declaration of war, and as a war of exter mination on one side or the other.' On the 22d, Buchananan's determination became known;and on the 23d of February, 1857 (next day), he was poisoned. The plot was deep, and planned with skill. Mr. Buchanan, as is customary with men in his station, had a table, or chairs, reserved for him and his friends. The President was known to be an inveterate tea-drinker ; in fact, Northern people rarely drink anything else in the evening. Southern men mostly prefer coffee. Thus, to make sure of Bu chanan, and cause as many deaths in the North as possible, arsenic was sprinkled in the sugar bowls con taining the tea or lump sugar, and set on the table where he was to sit. The pul verized sugar used for coffee setting on the table *as kept free from the poisonous drug by deep;laid strategy; thus. not a single _Southern man was affected. Fifty or sixty persons dined at different intervals at that table that evening; and as near as we can ascertain about thirty-eight died from the effects of the poison. "Mr. Buchanan was poisoned, and with great difficulty saved his life. His physician treated him understandingly. from instruc tions given by himself as to the cause of his disease, for he understood well what was the matter. We make the above statement from the highest authority, and as to the material facts we feel confident that the ez-President, although not our author, will not contradict them. "These having a band in the foul crime, in order to delude investigation said the disease resulted from the water in the cis tern, into which a number of rats that had been poisoned with arsenic had plunged. The Board of Health met on the evening of March 16th. The sewerage of the establish ment was pointed to and observed. All the drains, it appears, were south, and southern winds were supposed to have an effect. But how, it may be asked, did a cause which existed for so long a time only begin to produce a fatal effect immediately on the arrival of President Buchanan in Washing ton ? The South Side Democrat, Petersburg, Va., says—`ls boasted modern science so completely in the dark that it cannot detect the difference of effect between mephitic air and arsenic?' * "Intimidated by tbe attempted assassina tion, Buchanan became more than ever the tool of the slave power. He now, in conver sation with Southern ultras, boastingly re marked, that 'in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise the South for the first time in the history of our Government, had obtained its rights.' So wrote the correspondent of the Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat.' The various plots to murder President Lincoln, from the intended butchery in Baltimore, in February 1861, down to the successful crime of John Wilkes Booth, four years later, are fully treated upon in the volume before us; but the facts are so notorious that we will make no extracts from this portion of the work. Mr. Dye has furnished a record of the political crimes of Slavery that will be read with interest and profit by the present generation, and that will creates shudder among thensands of readers yet unborn. BETALL DRY ibitIIODIS pripz;arinziTzgumwir: 111 E. M. NEEDLES, OICEST2iIJT Street, OFFERS AT LOW PRICES, '2,000 PIECES WHITE GOODS , Including all 'varieties Shirred, Paired. Tucked, Plaid, Striped. Plain and Figured MUSLIMS, suitable for White Bodies and Dresses, 100 pieces printed LINEN LAWNS, desirable styles fa' Dreamt. Valenelenne and other Lams; Itstert ings,l.dgings. Elonnaings and Bands, Hand kerchiefs. V ells, Collars, Sleeves,etc. The above are offered for sale CHEAP and in great VARIETY. 11 , 1 A LES WOULD DO WELL TO EXAM. It. tek:fifizifikelZfigzics.l42l,2„l•ll EYRE s LANDELL. FOURTH AND ARCH, ARE NOW OFFERING A FULL. LINE OF SUMMER SHAWLS, PURE WHITE SHETLANDS, PURE WHITE BAREGE, PURE WHATA, MANIA, BLACK LACE POINTS. GRENADINE SHAWLS. SUILXER SILKS AND DRESS GOODS, PLAIN AND STRIPE SILKS, SUPERIOR PLAIN SILKS, BLACK IRON BARE/GIN. SUMMER POPLINS, PONGEES FOR SUITS CORDED SILKS FOR duns. EYRE & LAB-DELL. .EIRE & LaNDELL HAVIS. THE FINEST QUALITY BLACK DRAP D'ETE, CANVAS DRILLINGS, LINEN DUCKS, 'BASKET DUCKS FANCY DBuLIr.TNGS. CLOTHS CASSIMKRES AND COATINGS,-James & Lee invite the attention of their friends and others to their large and well assorted Spring Stock coral rising, in Dart, - °OATE' G GOODS, Suer Black French Cloth, Colored Clo th s, of all kinds, Black TricotOoatings. Fancy French Coatings, Super Silk Mixed Coatings, Tweeds, of ever* shade and quality, PANTALOON STUFFS. Black French Doeskins, the finest texture, Black French Casaimeres, the finest texture. New styles of Fancy Cassimeres. Praia and neat styles Oesstmerea, Mixed Doeskins and Cassimeres. bilk Mixed and Plaid Cassirneres. Cords, Beaverteens and Velveteens. Cassimeres for Suits, all styles, . Also, a large assortment or Goods expressly ads to Boys' wear, for sale cheap. Awsa rI T No. a orth Second et, sign of the Golden lamb. EDWIN HALL & CO., 28 South Second street, UV* now open their Spring Stock of Shawls. Open Centre Broche Shawls. Open Centre Square Shawls. Filled Centre Square t• hawls. New Styles of Shawls. Spun Silk Shawls. Llama Wool Shawls. Cashmere Wool Shawls.. Berlin Wool Shawls. Long and Square Black Thlbet Shawls, In great Va. rlety, wholesale and Yetail. BABO.AINS FROM AUCTION. 500 yards Linen Drill, at 50c. 700 yards White do. at 873 p and $l. 450 yards White Duck, 87Ri and P. 1,000 yards Crash, at 1234. 650 yards Bleached Crash, 20. 350 yards Linen Coating, wide, 50 and 623‘. 1,700 yards Pure Mohair Alpacas, at 250. 675 yards Linen Lustre, striped, only 25c. STORES dr, WOOD, 702 Arch, EDWIN HALL do CO., 2s Soutb23econd streei, are opening daily new goods. Check Bilks, Colored Grounds. Check Bilks, White Grounds. Rich Moire Antiques. . Bich Shades Plain Bilks. Foulard Bilks rich styles. Bilk and Linen Poplins. Black Silks ,of all kinds,for Cloaks, SEEMS AT REDUCE.' PRIME. IV* ro. Witat CARRIAGE WM: 8406 MARKET Street, West Philadelphia', 3 minarets west of Market street bridge. An assortment of Car. lieges constantly on hand niy23-Im* tettGA_RDNER dc FLEMING, COACH. 3WKERe, gm South Fifth street, below alnut, iladelydda. >E3' An assortment of NEW and SECOND-HAND Ca FM rAGEd always on hand, at .11..BABONA_BLEI inaClEls# • +44tl ANLIMENEWIS. RISLEY'S OONTINENTA.L NEW COlOlOlO SEA.TB To all places of amusement may be had up to 8* o'clock any evening. rsbea-tf rIHOIOH, BEATS AND ADMISSION TICKETS 1-./ can be had at TELE CR PROEM A lwarla OFFX , 481 CIEESTNETT street, 0 . .. site the Past Ofice_,_ the ARCH, CHESTNDT. " ALNUT and AOADMMY Or MUSIC, up to 6 o'clock every evening. tiela.tt Cy MD as ium Corner of NINTH and ARCH streets. OPEN ALL SIMinER. Bodily exercise is the best preventive against sick ness of the coming season. ajelf,o,tu th-66 Profs. HILLEBRAND 313-37' S. JOHN - DREW'S ARCH STREET' TECEATRE. SATURDAY EVENING, Jane n. 1 1 166, EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION. GRAND DRAMATIC OVATION TO J. H McDONOUGH, - By Ens Many Friends of Philadelphia, PRE.VIOUS TO HIS DEPARTURE FOR CALI FORNIA, when his Brother, T. B. McDONOIIGH. of the Mobile Theatre. will have the honor of making his find appearance in tbia city. DOUBLE BILL OF ENT.ERTAMMMT. Two acts of E. H. House and .ialon Boucicanlt's Irish Drama of ABRAH-NA-POGITE; oa. THE WICKLOW WEDDING. Shaun, the Post, (as per formed by him for two bun-. dred Arrah Mnigh etish .( . first -. m — . M-M J S. EL M IZ ON PR U I GH M Col. O'Grady (who has kindly volunteered),l.H.JACK. The performance to conclude with John BrOagbuto's capital Burlesque in two actP, PO - CA. - HON-TAS; YE GENTLE SAVAGE. Capt. Jchn Smith T. B. McDONOUGH. Xing Pow-ha-tan .. ............J. E. Mc DONOUGH Po ca-hon tea.. ks C. JEFFERSON Introducing all the original music. Seats secured at T. B. Peterson's until Friday, them at the Arch 6theet Theatre. jab= WWALNUT STREET THEATRE, N. E. Corner NINTH and WALNUT. Begins at if to THIS (Thursday) EVENING, June 21, 1866, IsoNEPIT OF MB. J. EL TAYLOR. Morton's New Comedy. in 2 acts. entitled SHE WOULD AND HE WOULDN'T. Rafael Di Val lint ..Mr. J H. Taylor - To conclude with the popular Scotch Drama of 808 ROY. Rob Boy- -Mr. J. H. TaylOg - FBIDA D S SEFFIE - GBM.MGDPS COMPLIMENTARY 1 ESTIMONIAL. JP ESIE LitOWN AND THE SENTINEL, The grand legendary spectacle of the will be produced onN AIAD QUEEN EAT CBDAY EVENING, June 73 after long end expensive preparation. aisamancent- Ecenery by WIT ham. /NS. Jul i 1 JJ.ttaiw'lS AtW A.R TRENT TRFATRE". Begins at 8 O'clock. Last night , of the successful engagement of .111.eS RIME IiENDERSON. 'TILTS (Thursday) EVENING. June D., Last perfor.• ance of th- great Drama. THE TICKET-OE-LEAVE-MAN'S WIFE; OR, SIX EARS AFTER. Sam Willoughby, with a n_edley 8 ng. _ Ettle Henderson, For particulate of incidents, &c.. see bills. FRlDAY—Farewell Benefit all d last appearance of ETTIE BENDERS,' ../N. TB HEE PIEORS. //AUGHT rE LE THE REGIMENT, LOLA MONTEZ, , And MAIM WITH THE MILKING P SATURDAY—J. E. EicDO.NOLBIPS OVATION. NEW AMERI WALNUTATRF, street, above EIGHTH. Engagement of the celebrated A ctress, - MADAME PONISI, who will appear in her great character of VALSBA, THE SLAVE QUEEN. Grafr..—..------ . ' Ba li On,, from Niblo's. N. Y.. 13 is first appearance here. M'LLE ANNETTA GALLETTA, also, In a grand Baia every evening. AEWOLI3LY BUILDINGS. SIGNOR BLITZ'S DOUBLE 13.r.tur.NE SIGNOR BLITZ'S DOUBLE SPHYNX Is still the great attraction at his TEMPLE OP WON.. DEBS. AB the best feats, including the HOPS I DANCER, GRAND TURK, CANARY BIRDS and. VANTRELOQUIS.M. are also given EVERY . EVEN APTEEI ING at 73i. and WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY'ock. Admisakm. cOON 25 S a 3 o cents— cl abildren, lb MEd& Beßerile Seats, 60 CMS. mhl9 pirmcsri., • • A- I 14.1 -a - A: Ts, CHESTNUT, above TENTS. Open from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Benjamin West's great Picture of CHRIST BE.-.- J ±l7l ED still on exhibition. jetti" IiC7.IrIiIWK -4 1w7n THE OLDEST AND LARGEST SADDLE & HARNESS Manufacturing Eatablichmert in the Country. LACEY,MEEKER & CO No. 1216 CHESTNUT STREET OFFER OF THEM OWN MANVEACTUBB: BUGGY HABNESS, frorn.—....----$22 50 to SIM LIGHT BABOUCHE from...—. SO 00 to SG HEAVY do do ..—.---........75 00 to 500 EMPBESS,RR a.F.4 hiOLINTED ILusarksa.g7 50 to 90 WAGON and SKEY.ADIUSTING... 15 00 to la STAGE and TEAM do ......—.30 90 to 50 LADLES' SADDLE do ......—.12 00 to INS GENTS' do do—. .... - it 00 to 75 Bridles, Mountings, Bits, Rosettes, ....Worse Covers, Brushes, Combs, Soaps, Blacking ia llies' and Gents' Traveling and Tourist Bass and Lunch Baskets Dressing and Shirt .ates,Tninka and aLisest, mhl(tS No. 1216 Chestnut Street. Dif ramarql t-4.3 ii):4)1 ENGLISH BRUSSELS CARPETS, NEW PATTERNS, Beautiful Design. Just arrived by Steamer. REEVE L. KNIGHT & SON, 807 CHESTNUT ST. insat FURNITURE. the w The orld, i large s et to , cheapest o and best stock of Parattureto: be fund at GOULD & CO.'S 'UNION PURNiTITRE DEPOT, • Corner NINTH and IWO:CET Streets, and Nos. 87 and 89 North SECOND Street. Parr Boom air, Brocade, Plush, Damask or Rep; Dining Chatnber, Library, Kitchen antl °Bice Furniture. a fabulously low prices, and the , newest styles and patterns; public buildings, schools, colleges and shop Furniture in endless variety, All kinds of Furniture wanted by housekeepers, ak exceedingly low prices, at either of their immense , establishments. If you want to save money and get well served, go to 00lTLD & 00.13 before purchasing elsewhere, Corner NINTH and MARBDT, and Nos. 87 and 89 N. SECOND street. mh94fl J' .[1 u'. . 'i'l :~7 MARTEN TMA NS, NO. 902 0111.,WPNIIT /X STRF ET. - - tlik4 First Premium awarded by Franklin Instl ,%% tote to MARTEN' LEANS, Dianufactnrer of. MASONIC MARKS, PINS. EMBLEMS. &c. New and original designs of Masonic Marts, Tem plars' Medals Array Medals and Corps Bads. ft oP every description. myle-w.th,f,a,3ina itrapar, v, Pio e Nuironwricil asi4 ..t.) I a liggl 11 * B.& M. ii k rf" ClieStilia Street, BROWN & MAG.EE Manufacturers of SOLID LEATHER TRUNKS AND VALISES, Gems' and Ladies' SOLE LEATHER TRUNKS:, Ladies French, Press and Bonnet Thinks. Leather Traveling Bags:Excursion Bags,Tourist Saga, evince Reticules and Traveling Bags sir Ladles, Trunk Straps. Shawl btraps, Rat oases, Dressing Cases, Flasks. Pocket Books, &c. "Trunks minable for European Travel. 70S Chestnut Streets, OPPOSITE MASONIC) HALL,
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