…therefore, we only foreshadow what would be our course were the Democracy defeated by the combinations against them in November. The Democracy, in this instance, should imitate the British preceeding at the death of a King, when their heralds announce simultaneously that the King is dead, God save the King; so the people should proclaim, if Lincoln be elected, as the secessionist confidently proclaim he is sure to be, “Douglas is defeated! Hurrah for Douglas and 1864!”
In this way justice will be done to all, and the safety and stability of the Republic guaranteed against all the machinations of its enemies, whatever shade of republicanism they may affect. The great duty, that before which all others sink into utter insignificance, is for every man to think of the Union, and to leave no means untried to preserve and perpetuate it.
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The Sagacity and Public Spirit of our Leading Merchants.-
…We might admit that the North makes a profit, a fair per cent., on moneys expended for immediate consumption by Southerners traveling for recreation or pleasure, but would it benefit the South any to have these moneys disbursed elsewhere? Certainly not. Stay at home, says the Cresent, but we ask who is to enforce this advice? or why should not the law giver be one of the first to obey it?
But true commercial principles do not advocate such blue laws as would construct a Chinese wall on Mason and Dixon’s line.
The very circumstance which is so much deplored in the Cresent- “the commercial and familiar intercourse between the people of the North and South”- is the best indicator of the futility of its fears and the other plans of demagogic men, who would, if they could, ride themselves upon fanatical errors into unlimited power.
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Our Railroads.- The various Southern railroads were never pushed forward with more vigor than at the present time. We see that a vessel arrived at Pensacola on Friday last, form Philadelphia, with a cargo of two hundred and seventy tons of railroad iron, for the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company.
The ship Georgia, for Swanson, England and the schooner Eckford Webb, from Newport, Wales, arrived at Savannah on the 3d the former with 5891, and the latter with 2914 bars of railroad iron, for the Albany and Gulf Railroad Company.
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The flags ordered by the Corporation of Washington City for presentation to the Seventh New York Regiment, in acknowledgement of their visit there to assist in the inauguration of the Equestrian Statue of Washington in February last, have been completed and were to be taken to New York on the 4th….
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A Correspondent Arrested.- “Observer,” the Washington correspondent of the New York Times, was arrested in Washington on the 5th, at the instance of a private citizen, who charges him with libel on the Secretary of War, as contained in several recent letters to that journal in connection with the De Groat claim. The correspondent waived an examination, and gave security for his appearance in court.
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Within a fraction of four million feet of lumber were shipped to foreign ports from Pensacola during the month of August.
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Alabama.- The Negro Stampede.- The thirty-three negroes, who, it was stated yesterday, had left the plantation of Mrs. Chambliss, near Montgomery, Monday evening last, have returned. It is supposed that they went off through fear of a whipping.
Supposed Incendiarism.- The Abbeville United South says:
On Monday night last the dwelling house of Mr. O. J. Ayers was burnt with most of the furniture. Mr. Ayers and his white family were all from home, and there was no one at the house that night but the negroes, and it is supposed they were careless, and some one came in the night and put fire to the house. And on Friday morning about daybreak, the corn crib was discovered to be on fire, but it was too far consumed to arrest the fire. From tracks being found around the dwelling-house next day after it was burnt, and the yard having been but recently swept, and also tracks found close by the crib, leave no doubt but it was the work of an incendiary.
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Slave Abduction Case.- Requisitions upon the Governors of Alabama and Virginia.- The Baltimore Sun of Monday last says: Marshal George P. Kane, of this city, has visited Governor Hicks, at Annapolis, and obtained from him requisitions upon the Governor of Alabama for the persons Milton H. Streeter and Jefferson R Herring, both of whom are charged with abducting from this State certain persons of color entitled to their freedom after a term of years, and carrying them away from the State. His excellency deputized Deputy Marshal Thomas Gifford to visit Alabama, convey the requisitions to the Governor of that State, and bring one the prisoners. The marshal also obtained from Governor Hicks a requisition on the Governor of Virginia for the person of Max Marshall, of this city, who was arrested in Richmond and detained by the Mayor of that city, at the request of the marshal of police of Baltimore, for fraudulently abducting Mary Ann Carter, colored, entitled to her freedom after a time, and attempting to sell her into slavery. There are several other parties against whom steps will be taken as soon as the evidence shall have been analyzed, it being the determination of the board of police to ferret out every case of the kind which comes to their knowledge. It is believed that many valuable family servants, slaves, have been abducted by persons engaged in the nefarious and unlawful business.
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Return of the Key West Africans.- The Colonization Herald alludes to the return of the Key West Africans, and says:
There is already a population of over 500 recaptured Africans on Stockton creek, about four miles from Monrovia. The name of the town is New Georgia.- called so after the State of Georgia- whence the early settlers of the place came, after being recaptured. These Africans are industrious farmers, and od their share towards supplying Monrovia with marketing. One of them was a few years ago elected to the Liberian House of Representatives. By the laws of Liberia, those who are under age are bound out to responsible persons, who are required to instruct them in some useful occupation or trade; teach them to read, write and cipher; and when they become of age, give them twelve dollars each. They are provided with five acres of land each, as other settlers.
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Fight At Holly Springs, Miss.- A Man Shot.- An affray occurred at Holly Springs on last Saturday, in which a man was shot and perhaps fatally injured. The difficulty originated first between Mr. W. Eppes and Mr. House, the proprietor of a livery stable. A son-in-law of Eppes, a Mr. James Robinson, assumed the quarrel on his part. Robinson shot at House three times, and House bursted a cap at Robinson. The first or second shot of Robinson took effect in the mouth of a horse-drover, and passed out at his neck- producing a wound thought to be fatal. The drover was not engaged in the affray at all. House escaped without injury, but he knocked Robinson down with is pistol. The origin of the difficulty is not known.
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Hogs Going North.- The Nashville Union of the 5th says “We noticed a large drove of hogs yesterday on the way to the depot of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, to be shipped to some point where corn in plenty.
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Dreadful Catastrophe- Collision On Lake Michigan!- Immense Loss of Life._ Chicago, of Sept. 8-
The steamer Lady Elgin, of the Lake Superior, in leaving here last night was run into by the schooner Augusta, off Wankegan, at half-past two o’clock this morning.
The Lady Elgin sunk in three hundred foot of water, within the short space of twenty minutes.
She had on board form three hundred and fifty to four hundred persons, among whom were the Black Yagers and Rifles, and several fire companies, from Milwaukee.
Col. F. A. Lumsden, of the New Orleans Picayune, and family, were on board, and are supposed to have been lost.
The steam tug Queen left this morning for the scene of the disaster.
[We are unable to obtain a list of the passengers who were on board the ill-fated steamer Lady Elgin, on account of an interruption in the working of the telegraph lines east of Louisville.-Rep.]
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The Courier. September 9, 1860.
Protection of the Territories.- …In the year 1822, the legislature of Florida passed an act to raise a revenue in the Territory, by which a heavy tax was laid upon cattle, and an additional tax, intended to be prohibitory, upon cattle driven from the adjoining States of Alabama and Georgia, to be grazed in Florida during times of drought. Memorials from Alabama and Florida were sent to Congress complaining of this law as oppressive. The Committee to who these memorials were referred, reported that the revenue law was altogether oppressive and unnecessary, and the act annulling it was passed without question.
In the year 1824, Congress again interposed between the Legislature of Florida and the citizens, of its own will, without memorial or petition. In that year the Legislature passed an act divorcing the late Commodore McIntosh, then a young Lieutenant, form his wife, a miserable lewd woman who had entrapped him into marriage at Havana. This act was so badly drawn, that it appeared , form its preamble, that it had been passed without any proof of the guilt of the adulteress, and the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, for that reason, reported a bill annulling it, which was passed. The Legislature at its next session passed an act, properly drawn, which remains in force.
It seem strange to me that it should be necessary, at this late day, to prove that it is the duty of Congress to interpose for the protection of the citizen against the oppressive acts of its own subordinates of every degree. Let us hope that the result of the coming election will furnish the proof, to the satisfaction of all parties, that the people so will it.
Floridante.
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Room Renting.- The slaves Hannah, of Mr. Martin, and Dunn, of Mr. Sanders, were each fined $10 yesterday morning, by Recorder Emerson, for having rented rooms in contravention to law. John Doherty, who had rented the rooms to the slaves, was fined $25.
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David Upton