***************Boston Evening Transcript, Monday, September 10, 1860.**************
Speculating In Men. – We see by the Baltimore papers the Col. George P. Kane, the excellent marshal to whom the city is so much indebted for its present quiet and order, compared to former times, has put into operation a most philanthropic movement, looking to the emancipation of many negroes now illegally held in bondage in States South of Maryland. To those of our readers who are not aware of the facts, we would state that in Maryland, in common with other slave States, for certain crimes committed against the peace of the State, colored people, otherwise free, are sold into slavery for a term of years, instead of being confined within the walls of a penitentiary. It has recently been ascertained that a regular system of fraud has been carried on by the purchasers of these negroes for the term of years, and evidence has come to light of the sale of some of them for life.
Certain parties recently arrested have amassed considerable property by this nefarious business. A negro, for instance, would sell for two years for $150, while for life he would readily bring $1500. The Governor of Maryland has recently, at the instance of the Marshall of Police of Baltimore, who has investigated the facts of the case, issued requisition upon the Governors of Alabama and Tennessee for the bodies of negroes sold from Maryland by authority of the law for but a limited period, but who are now held as slaves for life. Surely this is a move in the right direction, and should receive the approbation of every friend to humanity.
***************See Yesterday's Daily True Delta "Slave Abduction Case" and see a totally different story******************
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The receipts of wheat at Chicago last Tuesday were larger than ever before in a single day amounting to 192,894 bushels. The shipments were 252,393 bushels; also the largest amount ever shipped before in one day. The total receipts of all kinds of grain were 241,799 bushels, and the shipments 314,034. What a country.
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**************New York Times, September 10, 1860.********************
The most fearful catastrophe which it has been our duty recently to record, occurred on Saturday morning on Lake Michigan. The steamer Lady Elgin, which left Chicago on the previous evening, bound for Lake Superior, with from three to four hundred persons on board, including a large party of excursionists, was run into by the schooner Augusta, and sunk in a short time, involving the loss of nearly all on board. The collision ocurred about 2 o'clock in the morning, while dancing and other festivities were in progress. A list of the survivors is given elsewhere, together with some of those supposed to have been lost, among whom are Mr. LUMSDEN, of the New-Orleans Picayune, with his family, and HERBERT INGRAHAM, proprietor of the London Illustrated News, and his son.
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The Orange excitement, it seems, has broken out anew at Toronto. The Duke of Newcastle was made very angry at the display of an Orange flag in the procession, on Friday evening, and a portrait of King WILLIAM III. on the Orange arch. It was thought, in consequence, that the Prince would refuse to receive the Mayor and Councils at the levee, on Saturday, but after an apology from the Mayor, the Prince gave permission for their presentation. It rained in torrents all day; so that all out-door ceremonies had to be postponed until to-day. The Prince attended a barristers' ball at night. Yesterday, the Prince attended Church, and on the way the Duke of Newcastle gave orders to the coachman to drive by an unexpected route, in order to avoid an Orange arch. A great crowd of people were thus disappointed, and the most intense excitement was caused. A mob surrounded the Church, hooting and hissing, and when the Prince and party appeared and entered their carriage, a movement was made to unharness the horses and draw them forcibly under the Orange arch, but the coachman whipped up the horses and they escaped. It is more than probable, that the Prince will leave Toronto immediately.
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The mails by the America, whose arrival at Halifax has been announced, reached this City on Saturday night, and the Prince Albert from Galway on the 28th, arrived last night. The America's advices have been anticipated by the later arrivals at St. Johns and Cape Race, but our files and correspondence furnish us with some details of interest. Particulars are received, and given elsewhere, of GARIBALDI's Calabrian expedition and of the landing of the General himself in the mainland. A detailed account of the attack on the town of Reggio, which almost immediately followed the disembarkation of the troops, has not yet come to hand. Le Nord reasserts the truth of the story, first published in its columns, that at the Toplitz interview between the Emperor of Austria and the Prince of Prussia, it was understood that an attack upon Venetia would be regarded by Prussia as a menace to the integrity of Germany. The London Times improves the opportunity of the cordial reception given to the Prince of Wales in America to read a lecture on the advantages of Royalty. The article will be found among our extracts.
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According to Mexican advices in the New-Orleans papers, the defeat of MIRAMON on the 10th of August at Lagos appears to have been complete. The forces engaged, however, were much disproportioned, he having but 2,000 men, while DOBLADO, the Liberal General, had from 10,000 to 18,000. MIRAMON, with his cavalry, fled in the direction of the City of Mexico, and all his artillery fell into the hands of the Liberals, who were much elated at their success. The threatened war between Spain and Mexico is represented to be very unpopular at Matamoras.
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A telegram from Washington states that Minister MCLANE has received definite instructions from Government relative to his course in Mexico, and will therefore return to Vera Cruz with a full knowledge of what is expected of him -- whatever that may be. It is understood that Spain has been informed by the Juarez Government that the subject of the capture of the steamer Maria Concepcion is under judicial advisement; but this, of course, does not prevent Spain from urging the demand for her immediate restoration
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The United States revenue cutter McClelland left this port on Saturday for the Gulf of Mexico. The officers attached to her are as follows: Commander, R.K. HUDGKINS; Lieutenants, J. Wall Wilson, Thos. M. Dungan, J.J. Hunt; Boatswain, Hugh Donnelly; Gunner, Geo. Chiverton.
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By the arrival of bark Clara R. Sutil, Capt. SCANDELLA, we have advices from Maracaibo, Venezuela, to 15th August, which confirms the previous news received respecting the revolution in the interior, the seizure of Merida by the Federals, and the rout of a portion of them at Los Piedras.
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The steamship Vanderbilt sailed from this port, on Saturday, for Southampton and Havre, with 210 passengers and $814,216 in specie. The City of Baltimore also sailed for Liverpool, with 203 passengers and $384,677 in specie -- making a total shipment of $1,198,893, against $1,200,000 shipped at the corresponding period last year.
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The Committees representing the Breckinridge and Douglas Parties in this State, which met in this City on Friday and Saturday to negotiate a union of the two forces on one electoral ticket, finally came to an agreement on Saturday afternoon, by which the Douglas men are to give the Breckinridge men ten names on the electoral ticket, one of whom is to be an Elector at Large. The Breckinridge men are to withdraw JAMES T. BRADY, their candidate for Governor, and adopt Mr. KELLY, the candidate of the Douglas Party, in consideration of which they are to be allowed to name candidates for Lieutenant-Governor and Canal Commissioner in place of those now on the Douglas ticket. These are the terms offered by the Breckinridge Party, and agreed to by the Sub-Committee appointed by the Douglas State Committee to negotiate a union. All that is required to consummate the bargain is an indorsement by the Douglas General Committee.
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Senator DOUGLAS made a speech to the Democracy at Reading, Pa., on Saturday, in which he sharply reviewed the positions of Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, and discussed the questions of disunion and fusion. We publish a sketch of his remarks.
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Senator SEWARD arrived at Kalamazoo, Mich. at 2 o'clock on Saturday morning, when, not with standing the time, he found a crowd of people and Wide-Awakes with lighted torches waiting to receive him. The day proved a stormy one, but a great multitude of people collected to hear Mr. SEWARD speak at noon. Delegations were present from towns forty miles distant, and a fine display was made. Mr. SEWARD spoke but twenty-five minutes, it being necessary for him to leave for Milwaukee. He was greeted with the greatest enthusiasm. He reiterated the doctrine of the "irrepressible conflict," and expressed the opinion that Mr. DOUGLAS did not stand the slightest chance for an election.
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The application of Mr. E. HOWE, Jr., for an extension of his patent for the needle used on the best sewing machines, which had been pending some time before the Commissioner of Patents, was granted on Saturday last, by an extension of it for seven years. The application was granted on the ground that the profits thus far acquired by the inventor were not a sufficient consideration for the actual advantage derived from its use.
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****************The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, September 10, 1860.********************
The New York Tribune indulges in characteristic and fiendish sneers at an over the disturbances in Texas- disturbances provoked and encouraged by the teachings and influence of the Tribune- and comments on them as evidences of Southern peace, security and stability.
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For the New Orleans Trade.- We learn from the Philadelphia American, of the 5th, that “as beautiful a bark as ever traced her nativity to the waters of the Delaware,” was launched at Kensington on the previous day. She is 700 tons register, and will trade between New Orleans and Europe.
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The Tobacco Crop.- The tobacco crop of the present year will be a small one. In the Green river district in Kentucky, where the largest amount of shipping tobacco is raised, the crop will not be more than half an average, owing to the scarcity of plants in the spring, and a two months drouth in the summer….
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The verdict of the Court Martial in the case of Commander Benj. J. Totten, late of the United States sloop of war Vincennes, was yesterday read to all the officers of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The court was organized recently in Boston, the following charge having been preferred against him, on all of which he was found guilty; First, drunkenness; second, oppression, in suspending Lieut. Geo. P. Turner, of the United States Marine Corps, from duty, placing him in strict confinement for more than forty days, having no just reason to inflict such punishment; third, disobedience of an order of the Secretary of the Navy. The sentence of the Court was, that he be suspended from duty for eighteen months, the first six without pay, and to be reprimanded to be read to the officers on board all ships in the United States naval stations, the sentence to take effect from and after August 20, 1860.
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Mr. Yancey and the Wilmot Provico.- The Memphis Bulletin says, “old documents,” Mr. Polk once wisely remarked, “are dangerous things.” Congressional records tell some strange and fearful tales, which have unfortunately blasted the prospects of many a promising “young man.” They tell us, for instance, that the Hon. Wm. L. Yancey voted in Congress for the Wilmont Proviso! –thus acknowledging, under oath, that Congress has power to abolish slavery in the Territories. Mr. Bell voted against this same bill that Mr. Yancey voted for; and yet Mr. Yancey has the impudence to face a Southern audience and hold up Mr. Bell as being unsound on the slavery question!
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Breckinridge no Slaveholder.- The question as to whether Breckinridge is a slaveholder or not, is fully decided in the following letter. We submit it to the consideration of those journals who are fond of making him a truer friend to the South than Mr. Bell, who owns largely of this kind of property:
Sheriff’s Office, Lexington, Ky.,
Messr. Williams & Co., Jacksonville, Florida:
Gentlemen, - I have been requested to answer you inquiries in relation to Hon. J. C. Breckinridge’s ownership of slaves. I will state that, of the past three years he has listed no property, either personal or real estate, for taxation- as appears form our tax books. Mr. Breckinridge and his family reside here, and board at the Phoenix Hotel, in this city.
Respectfully,
I.R. Gross, Sheriff.
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The Struggle In The North- The Value of the Great Southern Union Movement for the Overthrow of Abolitionism.- …Union against Sectionalism.- “The great object which has been secured by the Democratic Convention has been to gather into practical co-operation all here who are in favor of the Union against sectionalism. The vote of New York is thus secured against Lincoln….We are united on the broad ground of devotion to the Union, and in opposition of the dangerous heresy of hostility, lasting and irreconcilable, with Southern institutions. This pernicious and pestilent doctrine is obnoxious to a majority of the people of the State, and to allow a minority, aided by disagreements on less important issues, to carry its vote, would argue little for the intelligence and patriotism of the great body of electors….”
We say amen to the above sentiments. A union of all national, Constitutional men for the sake of Union and the Constitution, for the defeat of sectionalism, abolitionism, disunionism and every other ism, North or South, that raises its serpentine head and emits its snaky hiss against the integrity, the peace, the unity, the prosperity and the honor, dignity and common glory of this Republic….
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Texas Items.- The Indians.- Mr. J. Adams, writing from Brown county to the Waco Democrat, says the Indians continue their depredations on the frontier; the country has not been clear of them for the last four months and they have stolen nearly every horse in it. The cattle are almost wild for want of protection; some of the citizens talk of leaving, but all they have in stock is scattered to the winds; to go-back is ruinous, to remain seems almost death.
The vigilance committee at Henderson, have hung Green Herndon and his negro woman, found guilty of burning the town.
[Late Rains flood rivers..the Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, Guadalupe, San Antonio, Rio Grande..the Trinity navigable for steamboats all the way to Dallas]
The Crops.- …The late rains only have kept a large portion of the State from want…. Smith County, says Corns is turning out poorly, and the little we have made would not be used for bread or for feeding horses if we could do any better. It has the smut so bad that it is hardly fit for use; and from all I can see and learn the cotton crop is almost an entire failure, making one to three hundred pounds per acre. [The Western Texas areas are now delighted in looking at the country, for anything finer could not be seen, the rains will allow them to replant want they lost.]
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David Upton