Richmond Enquirer from Richmond, Virginia • 4

POETICAL. BRASS. UV BEN ULOOMEK. Tis a vain ami foolish creed Argues brains arc what we need, Here below; Greater'is the force of brass, Makes a lion of an Ass, That is so! Where that ancient creed was cast. In the darkness of the past, It might do; But, In this "Cist age" of man, liruv.

is just the tlung that can Put us through. Tho' the head Ik- soft as "pap. and body perfect "sap. "Go to press;" Churl; dame Fortune on ''inn, "Go in lemons." you can win? "Well 1 guess." What your "mentals" fail to do. Let "physics" proudly shou Something nice.

And where'er your "pedals" eiiiuh. "all the time. Sometimes hriec Make .1 flourish. go it stout. Wave your banner proudly out, "Splice your fake Misfortune "on the hip;" "cast the bow-rope, let'er You can shine! LATE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TKItEE DAYS LATE2 TRQM EUPOPETilt i'reclaiming of the A'i in Parma. Sackville, August J.Y-- The steamer from Liverp'vil oil the Kith instant, fnot the arrived at Halifax this forenoon. The screw steamship Indian, from ijuebec, July-V'tli. arrived Liverpool August 10th. made the pas-age in about eleven davs.

Toe steamship threat I'riniiii, from New York July arrived at Liverpool also on the instant. fhe steamship City from New York at Liverpool via Cork on the 1 lilt instant. Veiel fi-om New York Julv 30th. arrived at Southampton on the 12th inst. The Zurich Conference continued in session, but the Sardinian representatives absented themselves some of its sittings.

Tiie proceedings were strictly secret. It was reported hy way of Vienna that the Red Republicans had proclaimed" in l'aiiua that the Picumontcse were driven out. and that the friends of oidcr were everywhere taking flight A threatening collision had taken place between Austrian and Prussian soldiers at salrr nf the wet's toot thMM baler, of wt.lrli I.OI.U bales were taken l-r specula: and hales fn- Ti li.a.-k.i closed duil on Friday at a decline ol on all fri let. Sola? authorities the tlerltue mi the mi 1 bine was ami that I'ae market closed wI'Ji tree offerings or. the "I holder? tl.

trrhout on the market the sales of Friday were evixatru hi T.hv i the market el am! slicht.v firmer. The clu-ltix for Cots-t -is fooowt Fair Orl atir. do 7 fair V': middling 7 I' fair tool, 7 iid.Mliiu6 The stack iu srt was at of which I were American. S. tin Tsaok is ivio-int Manchester market whs hut linn.

demand for Kasterii kcoiu was dall. livkneeu Tl. l.iv.-r; i flreadttjitr we, ut steady. lhovi-i el- ver at.J led I ere were pressing their stocks on the Havre at llaere had If.ak'f., New Orleans res ordaiari. in I and It s- at 1-lOf.

The of the Hi- niurktt cle-lrj sternly at the above u-iotatii Ttn- stock in rt war vl.ooO I. Mvr.er-.--Co:.-)!.< f-r money ee I on Friday at and for The liullion in the Hunk of Knglanil had deerca-r I I i.t weekly The money market war witimut chance. A r.uyrlaii loan of Ci2.tr"V-On -lerlinc, utrl an Indian Joan of bevti Introduced ill market. LATER PROM EUROPE. Boston, August steamship Ktna.

f.ora Liverpool, arrived late lust night. She i .1 hftnej nil mi; ui mv. afler the steamship America. The Zurich Conference h-s resolved pro, lone the armistice until the ratification of peace. It is reported that the foreign Ambassadors ol I'rance would refuse to attend the Paris fetes, if the cnh.rs taken from the enemy were allowed to be carried in the procession.

The Bunk of Franco hits gained sixty-seven and a half million of francs during July. Three per cents on the Paris Bourse have declined to A vague rumor prevails that Prir.cc Napoleon was to be made sovereign of Tuseany. Tho collision between the Austrian and Prussian soldiers, at Frankfort is serious, but it is believed no lives were lost. The King of Prussia is not exported to live much longer. Spain has resolved to increase the fortifications around Cuba.

Parliament has been prorogued to the Pith of August. C. I.ennox Wvke has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary to Centra! America. The Atlantic telegraph shares are noted at A correspondence savs tiiat the Emperor is about to publish a political amnesty, including ChawtnTTuer. Louis Plane and l.etlru Kollin.

Advices from Italy indicate serious trouble in Dukedoms. Secret emissaries of fugitive Princes were fomenting discord. The people generally were bitterly opposed to the return of the Dukes; and Fasiua, Dictator of Modcna, threatens to level Modena to tlie ground sooner than sec the Duke restored by force. Tlso news from Italy, however, is contradictory. The I iiverpool Post the following resume of the news- "The rumors published yesterday that the lied Jtepublicans liad obtained H11 advantage over the friends of order in Parma, is confirmed, partially, by the nea received from Austrian official sources.

The Provisional Government of Tuscany issued a proclamation to the people, before the elections took place, calling on them lo enable, by their conduct, the Emperor Napoleon to do for Italy what he intends, for their good; and it is stated, besides, that they have sent a special envoy to Berlin to obtain the consent of the Prussian Government to the removal of the present .1 1 nu icynu ID mc miV place of that dynasty, the project is already mentioned, namely: a marriage between the Grand Duchess Parma and the nephew of Victor Emanuel In the Ibiehy of Modcna everything seems in favor of Piedmont. The people run in crovv.h to vote for the dethronement of Francis V. It is further stated that the Modenesc and Parmcsians have I wen invited to a tnons'i hamjuet, which is to take place at fir the purpose of coming to an understanding the dethronement of the former dynasty: second, the annexation to Piedmont; third, a confederation with Tuscany and Hotnagno, to secure common political and military There is discontent in Italy and disunion in Germany, and the opinion i- gaining ground that there are serious obstacles to the establishment of the proposed Italian confederation. Livtnroot, Aug. weather is favorable to the crops.

Flour is quiet at "Wheat is dull; holders demand an advance: sales of white at red TjaTjs. Corn offered freely, hut with no effort to press sales: white mixed and yellow 5s. tid.a5s. Kid Rii is heavy and 3d. lower.

Kosin steady a 8s. sj.ar.<. Ji-l. Turpentine is steady at 84s. Loxi-on, Aug.

arc steady Sugar is easier but unchanged. Coffee is firn and higher. DOUGLAS IN MISSISSIPPI. The "Miisis-ippian." a leading journal in State, expresses itself as follows. Col.

Gartrcll. the democratic candidate foi Congress in the Atlanta 'Georgia) District, it answer to the tjiic.stion if be would support Douglas for the Presidency if be should be the nominee of the Charleston Convention, says lit "would not. This is the almost undivided sentiment of the southern democracy. Doug las' doctrine on the territorial tpiestion is much in conflict with the ltrol decision as the doctrine of Seward, and it is perfect fo! ly to talk of supporting one and resisting tlx inauguration of the other. 1 he southern detn ocraey must be just and consistent in their pro fessiotis and practices, if they would coinmam the and deserve the endorsement ot tin whole southern people in the policy they pro pose.

PRUSSIAN IpREPARAnONS. Prussia is continuing her military prepare tions on a very large scale. Site has not onlt aimed her flyingartillery with rifled six-pound err, and her whole artillery on foot with twelve pounders, but is-going now to raise her infan try line to 1 09 regiments, whicl will army to about not including the "Landwchr" of the seconc levy, which is exclusively for garri soning the 28 Prussian fortresses. Prussia, like England, does not seem to have any extraordinary amount of faith in the French Emperor. $idWnir ffryrirtr.

BY RITCHIE DtJNNAVANT, TYLER 4- WISE. I TcisDAl MORNING, AICIST SO, 1850. THE DONNELLY LETTER. This letter, now of no smttll amount of cc- ii iclu-ity. is thought by some to have killed (Jov.

jj 1 pro-poets. This wish fto which their was father) is indulged hv Black Repub- licans, non-intervention Democrats, anil a few Thayerite politicians in Virginia. There is not i a one of these who have been most exultant and -jubilant over the disgraceful treachery of Con- tidence Cassidy, that is not struggling for the defeat of the Democracy, and hence their joy ai what they vainly hope will give a quietus to him shev wiselv It Ls very natural that iJl.uk Republicans should rejoice orer litis letter. hoping it prevent the nomination 1 of the onlv man who can unite to the com-j a I vote of the South, the vote of the consti- tution.il Democrats at the North, ami a very 1 number of the Herman, Irish ami other I foreign citizens, and whose election, from his peculiar availahihty, these Ulaek Republicans 11 very wisely regard, if not certain, at least as 1 extremely probahlc. Hence, we say, they re- joice over the Donnelly letter, believing that if it prevents its author's nomination, the election lj is in their own hands.

And they are not alone I in this opinion. The next class of those delighted with the exploit of Confidence Cassidy, is also an enemy of the enemy equally as dc-1 termineil but not so open and bold as the Ulaek non-interventionists. Xon- j1 intervention politicians are interested in all i that tends to weaken the iniiuciice of the an- thor of the Satuford letter, and hence they 1 swell the cry so pleasant to their cousins- i Hlaek ltepublicans. The ancient order of Know-Nothings are also i among the admiters of Confidence Cassidv, and they, having "nursed their are I now expending their accumulated hatred upon I the author ot their ruin ami destruction. a These three classes, to whom slioald be ad- led a few personal and political enemies in I irginia, compose the squad that have ex- hihiled so tnucli indignation against the author of the letter, and so little dissatisfaction with the treachery of Confidence Cassidy.

We do not imagine that either the political principles 1 or private morality of indignant squad 1 I can have any rccommcmuiunn em or Northern people. Tin. South can have I hut little sympathy with any of these. Their 1 principles, ami their private character alike, f'irl'ill the South to n.tcrtain for tliom I and their treachery any other than disgust. Theiv can bo little doubt that the Southern people will itevi permit an acknow- ledged leader to fail hv the scheming treachery I of an Albany The success of this treachery nil! aecoin-' pli-h for the South the defeat a ureal politi- eel principle, and hand over to the embrace of Northern I'reesoilistn not only the Ihinocratic party, but also the rights, interests and institu-; tion.s of the Southern more; this I success, possible, idlers a premium to per- I sona! dishonesty, ami places 1'inl above principle, morality and oflicial integrity.

If Confidence Cussidv, by I the invasion and deception of personal confi- dcnce, can elfect the defeat of him, whom nei i 1 ilier vi plenitude of its power, the Federal Adini' nistiation i.i the amplitude of its corruption? nor the lilack tiie malcontents in Virginia, could overcome, trickery and treachery will have won a victory, the importance of which, public and private integrity, cannot he over-estimated. The Donnelly letter contains no advice which i has not high sanction and authority to sustain it. There is no recommendation contained in I the letter that cannot he sustained bv tiie action of the party or its prominent The only advice given to Mr. Donnelly is to hy districts, and either whip the enej my or send two delegations." Is the advice, "organise hy districts," complained of? Let us see ho was the first great statesman that gave this advice, not to iii'lici'liml, but to his numerous friends throughout the I'nited States. John C.

Calhoun, in an address to his "friends and supj in 14, refused to go before the Haiti; more Convention because it was not constituted or delegates appointed ov 1 dress is to be found iri the 'Uh volume uf His works. When Mr. Calhoun gave to the Democratic party the advice now given by Wise to an individual, was tin- voice defamation and denunciation raised against the great Carolinian? 1 I (id the men in Virginia who now assail flow i Wise, measure the same treatment to Mr. Calhoun? These find an answer in the "Republican" Extra, published at Petersburg. and dated February Otli, 1841.

in that paper, now before us, we find "As JirteteJ to In a of tin Friauh of John CnlltoOH, 1" (he Met ft Iicitiorrolic fen(ion, I iri'h the ni'Junto it 4 of (he olnioiltie, if ho JirtjmrtJ if, iinj x't'h of the mefnbern on ofI ttr jinn! jiffjoirutioh coo III be tn to," signed by Lewis K. liar vie, of Amelia; It. M. T. Hunter, of Kssc.x; Jiis.

A. Seddon, of Richmond; Washington Grecnhow, of Richmond; Robert G. Scott, of Richmond Win. F. Gordon, of Albemarle, Committee; andSam'l C.

Anderson, of Prince Edward; David McCoinas, of Wythe; John R. Taylor, of Middlesex; J. L. Gordon, of Louisa; R. Herbert Tatum, of Chesterfield; J.

S. Harbour, of Culpcper; N. M. Taliaferro, of Franklin; Tlios. T.

Giles, of Richmond; John 11. Tod, of Cat-dine; Thos. S. Ilocoek, of lltickiiigham; John 11. Ailworth, of John Washington, of Caroline; Richard 11.

Coleman, of Caroline; Austin M. Trildc, of Essex; M. R. 11. (iar.iett, of Essex; John It.

Young, of Henrico; 11. Sous of Halifax; Win. S. Fountain, of King William; Eustace Conway, of Fredericksburg; P. Carr, of Albemarle; Francis W.

Scott, of Caroline; John P. Young, of Norfolk county; Clias. F. Osborne, of Rich; iiiond; John S. Caskie, of Richmond; Anthony Thornton, of Caroline; James Alfred Jones, 1 i 'bas.

11. Edwards, of Mathews; Thomas M. of Cumberland; John II. Walker. i.f Sussex Win.

Kvbertson, of! of the Convention. gentlemen not only sustained Mr. Cal. houn in his recommendation to "organize districts," hut actually assailed the etc" of Virginia. Thw gentlemen, at taut, are 1 from in I of.

the let i ttr. Tltc advice to "organize by districts" lias authority too high to be assailed. I "Whip lite enemy." i. the Free Soilcrs of: New York. Can any friend of Mr.

Calhoun complain of that advice "Or send two dele-1 gations." The Cincinnati Convention cneour- aged this, and set the example by admitting "two delegations." The above alluded to, we shall, "in the course of human events," duly ventilate -1 and appropriately apply through the columns of the wc hope it has not returned to plague its inventors. i Thus we have authority and example for every recommendation of the Donnelly letter. Hut complaint is mado of injustice to Judge Douglas. The letter was written for the peru1 sal out'j of him to whom it was directed, and with hiin could do no injury to Judge Douglas, 1 i as Mr. Donnelly had avowed his preference for another.

It was never designed for public pe rusal, and of course was not written to- do any i I wrong or injustice to Judge Douglas. The huraclcr of its author for Justice, integrity I nd fair dealing, is too well established for such impression to obtain, except among person- 1 and political enemies. But it has been hat the letter tond.s to i there were any truth in the charge, does not lie in the opponents of Gov. Wise 1 Virginia to complain of it. Preferment and Jacc he lias never won over me ui a lis party hy coalescing with its enemies.

But there was no effort at disorganization in fie letter; it was honest effort to forestall attempted circumvention of the popular will, the selection of delegates "fresh from the coplo," as General Jackson termed the district vstem. It was a recoiumcmlation intended to reveiit fraud, by defeating the sellish schemes an "irresponsible oligarchy," as Mr. Cal- I oun designated the convention system of ap- 1 ointing delegates. The recommendation suggested by Calhoun, od sanctioned by Jackson, was reiterated by 1 Vise for the same honest purpose which com- tended it to the statesman and to the sage. Xo 'allioun nor Jackson man can object to it with- lit those great prototypes of l)c- locracy.

So much fur contents the tonnelly letter. 1 As for its having killctl Wise, we can nlv say, that since 1S.V3 his death lias ieen so often heralded by those who so ardently I esire it, that it strikes us like a "thrice told ale, upon the dull ear of a drowsy man." Vhen in 1 So4 he was solicited to hecomu the andidate of the Know-Nothing party, he re- i Killed the approaches and dealt the ion a blow which, it was then said, would kill nm. The seipiel proved that it killed his r.ppo- lents ami made him (iovernorof Virginia. When lis l.eromptoii Letters appeared, his death again rent the rounds of the press; but lie has out- ived the clamor, and sees his views continued i i) events and approved by thousands who then 1 lisagreed with him. Mis "Satnfurd better" I' urnished the occasion for his third immolation ipun altars prepared by hands who heartily I ltd earnestly desired his already 1 vents indicate that his views are to become he platform of the Southern people, and, ventually, to prove tl.e life or death of the National Democracy, according as wisdom or blly shall prevail at Charleston.

F.et his j1 riitiithle if) laj- not the Mattering mctioii to their souls, that it lies in the power itber of Cassidy or thctn to vllcct the death of I 1 A tnr.f I ICO. cnrv.Y. im-. 'It for hosic.sty, ability, integrity. iuliuiiiistKilivt- ali-iit ami domestic virtues, is too exulted for i licit an eagle to he hawked and killed by mousing owK i The following parts of Mr.

Seddon's state-', nont were not received from the "Mxaniiner" j( dfice until too late for insertion in our voterlay's issue: ork wijiik's alt.csh'n mrt.iv or mk ttixg. The of Mr. OM, ultli their jcinclp.il, left George wit at o'clock, and arrived at Kock Creek Church, tue rt'litleiiVdUS UV iitf)' lUl'lvNo'iil, o'clut k. 'ley waited there till 'v1-. o'clock.

A. when the other not arriving they left guide them, and, the chance their having gone on, proceeded along the oad till they uiet the sentinels of the other party. The ntigeinefii lite time ami place w.is made late the pre ebitig night, and in writing stated mi follows: 11KK I'ftorOsAL CO COL. UHK'H Was h. "I propane 4 o'clock time, and a neir and con'enient point within the Maryland line the place of Meeting.

A point will he selected about one mile and a i 1 beyond Kock Creek Church, where the party first ar- I ivlhg will await the approach of the other." L. the public decide who erred as to the point of meet- 1 tig. i I. -TAt I.MKN HHsTLCllNG TICK CONCESSION Archer's expreiwi ti of regret that the hour of meet- 1 ng had been delayed, that the sun having risen, the glare if light would he very painful to Mr. Old's eyes, then much liscased, is believed have been correctly slated; but it I Imuld he ad'led that, in the that ensued with Wise's friend, Col.

Davis, as to the concession of posh ion, with Mr. Old's hack to the sun, It was repeatedly slated aid understood that Mr. claimed it, not the pain to liitn, but because they feared his III it? diseased state, would be affected that he ouldnot.se- Ins adversary ami fire on terms. It ras contended tbls position ought to he the more readily 1 onceded because the early hour contemplated for tin- tig hid been at ranged with special reference to thi? state his sight, and that the delay in meeting ti.id originated rom uo remissness of Mr. Old's party.

i OI ON Mil. wilt's UJi.CItoNS MK. I. Al'Jt These were not communicated to me, and as aui in 'oruicd by Mr. Taliaferro, it is Hot intended to be implied hat they were known to me.

1 merely understood, on the (round, that Mr. Wise had some objection to the insertion the phrase, 'Swept away by the exchange of two uid preferred they should he left out. ucsiriDg tain them, showing distinctly that influence tllowcd to the interchange of tires. In removing obstructions an adjustment, I did, on one or more occasions, 1 Col. Taliaferro wlllinLUMi to onait that phrase, and lius leave only, which was the bnii in which iny suggestion was made.

Timt I never Intended or understood wap to be 'or I attached importance to such mutual dhcanlal rariard constructions. tora ox wi.sk's i.M'Lan a imx jtbsPLCTIXO Ills or CONDCVTIvn lllfc Coxn.liKM K. Ileie it may be proper for me to state that, while I could lot but nee and know that the friends of rough: reqnent consultation with him at almost every point suggested, and were evlileiitly averse to deciding acting rithout Ills previous knowledge and approval, I us not iware, nor did I Imagine, as nuwr declared in lis statement that he had determined to advise Hid control the action of his friends. I certainy thought, and, as 1 couceived, ail a ted under the ilea that in this conference of the friends present, each was -Xerting his sagacity and judgment in the discovery of th? most feasible plan of honor ible adjustment. My onviction on this subject was plainly shown by my earnest nstunccs in the conference, that, without further ion with principals, all the friends should unite in recomncmling my plan, and so honorably adjust the matter on responsibility.

Taliaferro's assurance of Mr. Wise's declaration to dm two days before, was not actually at once as a espouse to Mr. suggistiou, tbougli ufterwardn it rus introduced in lia-ty notes of the most essential nutters, entered in pencil on the few Id.uik leaves of a small iccount book of Mr. Taliaferro's, it he only paper on the crouud,) on his (Mr. Taliaferro'si suggestion that it might so appropriately placed.

In fact, it was, after some private consultation between Mr. Wise and Mr. Taliaferro, irst brought in writing, follows: "Col. Taliaferro, two lays ago, was informed by Mr. NVise tliHt Ids explanation, already given in writing, was intended for disclaimer taliamount to that which Mr.

Sneddon now suggests," and was omuiunicated, as statement of Ids, to the conference ah In conversation apart, between Mr. Taliaferro myself, I inquired if Mr. Wise could not communicate ihis, as coining directly from himself. Uti beiiig'unswered ihat this couid not possibly he obtained, 1 then asked, Mould not he (Mr. Taliaferro) otlicially, as Mr.

Wise's friend on the Held, make it." It was re-called between us ihut, as yet, it was formally but the spouse one of the ftietids constituting the conference, not strictly acting only as the friend of one party. ICecognMng this, Mr. Taliafer- ro said lie could not undertake ofliclaliy, as ilie friend of Mr. Wi-c, to commuiiicate it. In the same spirit of eonfi- on Mr.

Taliaferro's consideration that, Mr. DM being the ciialh-iiging, and, he conceived, the agirri? vetl party, 1 coulil not officially, aa one of hi- the field, recommend him to 4akc the initiative upon mere statement made unofficially In conference. After iodc further ronvernation, not material, Mr. Tall a- ferro again had private consultation with Mr. Wise, (wlm, all the time, apart and out of hearing of the convema- lion either in the conference or between the parties thereto.

lie (Mr. then brought again writing Aisuggestion, to the effect that Mr. Old should personally in- lerrogatc Mr. Wise as to his intention to dtvclului all offensive on Ids (Mr. veracity and Apart with Mr.

Taliaferro, I recalled to him, and again urged the views already expressed, that Mr. Old, ao the challenging, and. as he conceived, the aggrieved party, could not properly take the Initiative, uud that I could not I recommend it as Ids friend. I also in the conference urged that such direct interrogation by a principal on the ground would he against recognized usage, which kept the pais strictly only through their I respective would be injudicious, and possibly mischievous. That the exact renjKMise of Mr.

Wise could 1 not be known, and that altercation might possibly arise which would increase present complications, and embitter still more relations alr-ady too much disturbed. 1 also added in the conference that it would not he equitable or proper to recommend to Mr. Old. the challenger, to take the initiative; and that it ought to lie recollected that his friends had cone as far as they possibly could, officially, by suspending the challenge, with the ex prosed hope that on conference of the friends present some plan of satisfactory adjustment might be devised. A riN'SL NOTK.

On question whether Mr. Wbe'splan was a substitute having been Incorporated in Mr. Scddon's statement alrea dy published, is not here repta'ed. i The copy of Col. Davis' letter, retained by i him.

is, we fiml. somewhat inaccurate As the previous publication in the "Enquirer" was taken from the copy, we now publish from the original letter. The ditfereuces, however, be- tween the copy and the original are few and altogether immaterial. Himwx's August 1 10 o'clock, P. M.

1 learn from Mr. Old's note, just received, that you arc authorized to act for him in completing the arrangements contemplated in the past correspondence between himself and Mr. J. Wise. I propose 4 o'clock as the time, and a I near and convenient point within the Maryland line as the jdiire of meeting.

A point will he selected about 1J miles beyond ltock Creek Church, where the party lirst arriving will await the approach of the other. I further propose the following terms, viz: pis-! tols. paces. cipals to be so stationed that the line of fire shall he perpendicular or at right angles to the line of light. Distance to he measured and pistols to be loaded in presence of all parties.

The seconds shall toss up for choice of word or position. The winner shall give the word or choose position at his option, and the other second shall have the alternative. The word shall be given with the customary delilieration. ns follows: Gentlemen, are you ready a distinct pause, without and no fire shall take place before the word Jire, nor after the word ntop. Princirmls to hold jilttols and each at nu-ri iiniinii extent that, before the word ire, cncli weapon shall pointed at right to the line of tire.

The second entitled to the word shall rctearse, distinctly, to the principals, before he-1 ng armed and posted, the uiodc in which he rill give the words above named. Each prin- ripal, after being posted, will remain until re- noved by his second. The numbers 011 each shall" he four, viz: Principal, two friends ind one surgeon. 1 am. sir, very respectfully, your ob't serv't, i J.

r.ivus I)k. JrxiLs Aiu 1 -O IIENBY A. WISE. To the the Enquirer: Tazkwki.l Aug. Messrs.

Chinese have a pro- rerb that "mountains are measured by their liiadows, and great men by their So public man, since the sage of the Hermitage lcscendcd to the tomb or the expounder of the Constitution was gathered to his fathers, has icon the subject of such vituperation and abuse, is is now heaped upon the head of the lion. Ienrv A. Wise, of Virginia. Modern Opposi. ion journals have been taught, made to hate lim with a 1 in iff i more urcau aim intense man he most abject, ignorant and servile minion of opish idolatry ever entertained towards good Martin Luther.

Front the day when the rallant Dcmocracv of Virginia, with Wise ls their standard-hearer, stayed the desolating read of Know-Xothingism, and caused the "detraded miscreants to sneak to their coverts at voice of Virginia's chivalrous children," and ic boldly asserted and triumphantly maintained lis position and his rights, tne Opposition tress lias plotted his destruction, and fajored with Mahommedan zeal to work his lowufall. lie boldly, and independently, and lefiantly announced his purpose, and most gloriously and triumphantly did he eed. lie raised the banner of Itoinocrncy. tnd, hv his might and power, it proudly and waved over the head of all his inclines. It was the good fortune of the writer if th is to hear the (lovernor in Abingdon, (as lirty a little hole of Know-Xothingism as there is in the State, i where he was grossly inmlted by tlie boys, urged on by the leading nen of the town, with dr.

lie told them "they could not embarrass him; lie had come there to speak, and lie intended to lo so; that lie was engaged in a war of extermination he intended to kill Know-Xothing ism, or it should kill him; he would not only break Sam's hack, until he would drag his hind gs, hut he would put his heel tap upon his bead, and screw the venom out of him." And bow nohlv did lie succeed! it was the greatest and the grandest achievement ever won in me political conflicts of this country. He had hut to stretch fortli his hand to crush any opposition that dared to present itself. IStit fetv had been found who had the courage and resolution to oppose hint, and such had been swept by the liat of his will into utter annihilation, lie had but to frown upon a political adversary and he was done. Gov. Tammany letter, for which he was so ahii-cd and slandered, now -limes like a star llirougli the mists at' the evasions and sophistries which have hecn gathered around the Kansas complication.

and iiuhlv with his fearless support of reform in Virginia; his progressive career iovernor of the State, which is pushing the Old Dominion in the front rank of Commonwealths; and his marvellous campaign against intolerance in 1S15 is sullicieut evidence of his knightly courage, and his indomitable will. And now that the intelligent and moral sentiment of the South again-t fraud lias found a voice and a champion; and now that lie i- a prominent candidate for the Charleston Convention, we say to him, as thou-ands will say, honor to the nolo irho hns not Jul rut to iio.i/: tr'ith to his "ifn joiijile. Governor Wise has served his country long and faith fully in the council halls of the nation, lie lias proven himself a agaeious, patriotic, conservative, far-seeing statesman. History will rank him second only to our Hamilton-, and Madisons, anil Jays, and Wehsters, and Clays, and Calhouns. The iirii-s.

cf. j.otriotic tIjijiosition /i.irt// may villify aiul traduce him; Imt he will survive all their puny attempts, and stand forth in the eyes of all coming time, when parties and Jm'l Iimvo led been forgotten, as a prn 1-nt, sagtcious and patriotic statesman, ever governed by the wish ami rlcsire to serve bis country, regardless private or party ends. Take his political every submit it to the scrutinizing examination of reason and justice and patriotism, and it will come out clear and bright and triumphant. It will survive all the miserable attempts of his assailants to bring odium and reproach up liiiu, and, min (ding itself with the great achievements of the lb-public, will shine forth with a lustre and brilliancy that will increase with succeeding ages as long as our nation stands and is honored and respected. When the future historian records the passing events it will place him in his true light, and give hint what now so justly belongs to him, and is only withheld through the meanest and lowest and basest of party purposes.

The future will do him justice, if the present will not: and every true and patri die statesman should look to the future alone, regardless of what seems popular or unpopular at the present time. 11 is enemies may tiiumph for the moment, but all coming time will emblazon bis fame and sound forth praises to his name. them exult in the brief hour of their triumph. It must soon and pass away. Let those who still falter and palter take a lesson from the gallant Virginian.

Henry Wise. Let them read his clear, cogent and thrillyig letter of the great Kansas cheat; and if they do not tear the padlocks from their mouths, and the fetters from their wrists, they are fit to live under a despot who rules with the miuoiity one, and tramples millions under foot, only became they will not strike for themselves. As for obi Tazewell, the stronghold of Democracy in the Little Tennessee, we say for Henry A. Wise, the David of Democracy. Yours, abruptly, S.

X. the Washington fV.rr--|>on.l.-!i-r of lh Yi.rk Tribune MR- DOUGLAS1 POSITION. On any evening may he found, at the residence of Senator Douglas. Democrats of all shades, as well as every class of fence Mi, Pri.l-it- ei-eiiimr Inst was nuitc a large ga thering there of politicians of all stripes, by special invitation. Prominent the gilt-sis were Senator Iverson of Georgia, Mr.

llrowne, editor of ''The Constitution," tthc Government organ, i Mr. Coombs, editor of "The Ilepnblie," ami many other leading Southern and Northern party men. There was much private and confidential conversation between Sir. Douglas and the representatives of the different factions there assembled. Mr.

Douglas appeared to take all by surprise by the strong and decided opinions lie expressed in the conversation, lie said that the whole slavery question was a momentous one, and must be fought and fought now to the end? and the question whether himself or any other man was to be nominated for or elected to the Presidency, sank into insignificance in comparison with the great issue. He was very vehement in Ids denunciations, and ridiculed the idea entertained by many of his Democratic friends, thai hv the decision in the Drcd Scott case slavery existed in or went into that no such decision had been made; or. if made, could have no binding force; that such an idea was ridiculous in the extreme; lie wondered that any were found so foolish as to harbor such a thought, lie contended that slavery could not go into the Territories except by special local enactment after a Territorial Government bad been duly formed, and that slave ry did not and could not exist in the Territories until then; that all persons who go into a Territory be-fore an act lias been passed for the establishment of a Territorial Government, are interlopers and trespassers, and have none of the rights of "citizens of the several Slates," and can claim no protection nor obtain redress for gi icvnnces of the genera! government; and hence thev can have no legal protection or claim for thev may take with them. Witil SUCH Views uiov, I'Mugiaa might he considered a proper candidate for the Republican nomination. But is he sincere, ami can he be trusted? 1 think not.

and Wfore I close this letter I will show that this the game of a shrewd and unprincipled politician. In regard to the slave trade, Mr. Douglas stated that there was not the shadow of doubt but that it had Wen carried on quite extensively for a long time hack, and that there bad Won more slaves imported into the Southern States during the last year than had ever been imported before in any one year, even when the slave trade was legal. It was his confident belief that over 1 o.CKKi slaves had been brought into this country during the past year, lie had seen, with his own eves, three hundred of these recently-imported, miserable beings, in a slave-pen in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and also large numbers at Memphis, Tennessee. This is no imaginary sketch, hut the expressions of Mr.

Douglas as enunciated in con ruination on Fridaj' evening at his residence, and cannot he controverted by himself or I the Kanawha Valley JOSEPH SEGAB. ESQ. We publish below a letter from Joseph of Elizabeth City county, to I)r. Williams, of Putnam county, upon internal improvements atnl the Covington anil Ohio Jiail 1'nad. This able ami patriotic letter merits the attentive reading and careful consideration of every citizen of the Commonwealth.

In every sentence it breathes an ardor and patriotism and an unselfish and courageous devotion to principle which merits the admiration of every true Virginian. Mr. Segar lias risen above the low and grovelling position of the mere politician and time-server, and the local and seilish prejudices of his section, to the elevated and dignified position of a true Virginia Statesman. He has evinced a Iwld an 1 manly statesmanship, worthy of the highest commendation. We hope Mr.

Segar will liml it convenient 1 to not only Putnam, hut ixanawua anu otluT counties on the line of the Covington and Ohio Kail Ko.nl, before the meeting of the next Legislature; and we trust the people of our section will extend to him that enlarged hospitality and attention which lie so richly merits at their The hold, manly and unselfish course of Segar should endear him, not only to the people of the Central West, hut to every man everywhere, who desires the elevation and advancement of our good old Commonwealth, lie has shown himself to he a most aide, worthy and ellieient ally of our distinguished and patriotic Coventor, in the cause of internal improvement and progression. Let the West unite with Mr. Segar in one more elfort for the speedy construction the Covington and Ohio Kail Road. Let the people of each county hold meetings. Let u- have conventions, and agree upon some plan by which the friends of this great improvement can act in unity and concert: JJosKI.

Kiizubelli City i 12, 1 My Dear our valued favor of the "nth written, you premise, at the solicitation of numerous friends in Putnam county, who have thought lit to "admire' my representative course on the subject of the internal improvement of the Stale, was duly received. "We desire (you say i to make some exhibition of our gratitude to you for your past services ui our behalf in the Legislature, and we want to bear and see the man who has so ably am! elo.pieiitiy advocated the Covington and Railroad;" and you do me the honor to invite me "to make a visit to your county before the next meeting of thelieneral Assein l.ly." He pleased uiy dear sir, to present to my fellow-citizens Put nam my cordial acknowledgements for this their kind appreciation of iny huuihlc 'Services in their Of this dciiionstralioti of their kindly remembrance and regard. I am most proud; audit conns the more grateful to tuc at this time when 1 am just out of a hard fought hattle fir the internal improvement cause of our State, all covered with the dttst and sweat of the battle-field, and victor only by a neck's length, having heen ret it rued by the meagre majority of three. Hut that majority. thank tiod! is a "fixed fact," and mine will again the It mor of standing along side t'ne Statesmen of the (lid lloininioti, who recognise, iti the Covington and tlhio Railroad, the great hack-bone of our internal improvement system, and a public work itnlissolubly connected witli the future prosperity, and grandeur and power of their State.

I return to the Legislature, 1 am liappv and proud to say, without a shackle upon me, so far as the subject of internal improvement is concerned. I distinctly raised the internal improvement issue, rcpudiatiiignnd disdaining ail compromise whatsoever, and solemnly avowing to the voters of the district, that no human consideration could induce me to reverse a course demanded of me by every consideration of patriotism, duty, honor and pride, and which with the deepest convictions of right, I had been for near a quarter of a century pursuing. And the generous and nlightened coiistituen cy who have so long left me free to do, in this regard, whatever I thought best for the com inon weal, have left me free still. With the blessing of iod. I shall most certainly avail my self of the glorious freedom wherewith I am endowed.

I shall support railroad, canal, plankroad and turnpike, and every class ami form of improvement, in just such degree as I shall 1 consider the public interests to require. (In no otlu-r condition would I hold a seat in the la gislative balls. I cannot, of course, foresee what is to be the fate of the Covington and Ohio Railroad at the next session of the Legislature, hilt it will he the most misguided and unfortunate of counsels, it the representatives of Virginia shall 1 Iiot, III WIIIUT, litis greill nun i-w yonil contingency. Its absolutely certain coinplvtioii should be an absolutely "fixed fart," in the policy of the State, fur the moment this is settled, public credit, under the inspiring assurance of the sure consummation of this grand scheme of material development, will revive, and the great work will progress not only more rapidly, hut far more cconomi rally than it can under any system of contingent and stinted appropriation. Millions, in: deed, will be saved in the cost of the work, and years of time lie gained in its construe1 tion, by placing it on a permanent and secure basis, tine thing is it is cheering intelligence lor every patriotic finances of the State are in the most auspicious condition for the prosecution of this great line of improvement.

I'tider the operation of the present tax law. helped on as it is by the creative agency of our internal improvements, there is, and will continue to he a sufficient surplus in the treasury to complete nil our public works without the impositionof a solitary dollar ol increased taxation upon the people. That surplus, after paying all the floating deht of. the i Commonwealth, and meeting every demand on I account of the public debt and the civil list, is more than half a million. And, what is a sweet' er solace still, this existing surplus is destined i an annual progressive increase until we shall not only have the most abundant means for finishing all our improvements, hut eventually get back every dollar of their cost, and have our taxes gradually re lured from tluir present high rate to almost a nominal amount.

The proposition is as ohviotts as the 1 As our improvements shall be ramified through 1 1 mI.i? nod l.irwdv I increased value, will lie imparted to our lauds. For example, in tlie space of six years, I between the assessment of ami that of iS'iit, the augmented value of lands in eleven counties of South-western Virginia penetrated by the Virginia and Tennessee Hail Road, rose from six to twenty six millions of dollars; so that by constructing the Virginia and Tennessee Rail Ifoad. costing but a few millions, the Commonwealth collects a revenue on twentysix millions, instead of six. And hat should cheer, and even make proud every one who hits stood lirtnly by the improvement policy, tlie people are far abler to bear the twenty million than they were before the six million tax. And so of the general assessment.

In the same six years, the total increase in the value I of the lands of the Commonwealth reaches hundred millions! that the Stale, in the i brief period of half a dozen years, and owing almost exclusively to the operation of our Rail Roads. Canals, and Turnpikes, gathers into her I fiscal a land tax on a hundred millions of aug mcnted values. (as intimated before.) when this mcnting instrumentality shall have pervaded i every section Virginia's fertile and mineral I filled domain, and the stimulating effect shall 1 have been felt in nil me 01 a vivi lied enterprise, anil when again our railroads, bv being completed, shall have beeotnc profitn hie, furnishing direct as well as collateral con tribntion to the revenues, fas they are every giving promise, 1 then 1 say. the present treasury surplus will augment and augment and still augment, until the accumulations i shall have provided for its the amplest I fur completing our whole system of public im I provemeiits, and materially lessening thf I taxes. That this exhibition of our finances is not toe flattering, I refer you to the late letter of Gov crnor Wise to Mr.

Shands, and to the statements of the auditor and treasurer, addressed tc myself, and published during my late canvas' i in the Norfolk papers. I send a copy Governor Wise's patriotic letter, ami the cleat I statement of our excellent and enlightened officers, Messrs. Calvert and Rennett. which, I doubt not, will gladden the heart every render ho looks with hopeful eye to the I completion of what must be, and will be the no blest of all American Railway thoroughfares, I the Covington and Ohio Rail Road, in whicl you. the pood people of Putnam, have so and abiding an interest.

If these views of our financial condition correct, there is no reason why we should de lay another hour the vigorous prosecution -o thus magnificent enterprise, and there will no excuso for the next Legislature if it fail to do its full duty in the premises. Why, indeed, should we falter about this the chief work of Virginia? Why out a plan for a magnificent system of public works, and then permit the chief one of tliern all to be one of them that will link i us with the mighty West, and fulfill the grand end of our improvement acquisi- tion of our share of the Western trade? And ti why, for a system of internal improvements, create a large public debt, heavily taxing the people by its creation, and then leave to linger and linger still that "bright particular" one of a them all, that will, when consummated, make all the rest productive, pour into the treasury a rushing stream of revenue, and knock olf from our people the shackles of a heavy i hy, oh! why should the lawgivers of Vir- gin in persist in so absurd and impolitic a course? I i I here is but one danger, and that is the new I move originating in this quarter of the State, to let alone the railroad, and suosuiuic we canal as the present mode of transit between 1 the Kast and the West. If this idea should obtain to any extent, if it should take oil' even half a dozen from the Covington and Ohio railroad, it might he fatally mischievous; for the internal improvement party in the Le- 1 gislaturc Tuts not an advocate to spare, and can only succeed in any measure by compact array ami united counsels. Hut I trust, and do not I suppose, there is much reason for apprehension here, for I cannot think that there are a dozen I practical men in all the State who would atlvo- cate now the substitution of the dames river I canal for the Covington and Ohio railroad, as the avenue of Eastern and 11 estern connection, 1 knew no one in the last Legislature holding such an opinion, and it is to he hoped there will he lew such in the next; for division in sentiment ami action, as to the of reach- 1 ing the "hio. might put every thing at hazard.

I trust that those who have started this mis- 1 chicvous idea will at once abandon it in favor the only feasible plan nf connecting the great West with the seaboard of the I t'orington and Ohio railroad, which, connect- 1 ing with both the canal and Central railroad at Covington, will give a double line of i compounded of water line and I railroad, which will give us a large amount of heavy trade; and the other a continuous rail- i way, which will take to us the lighter trade I and the travel. God knows I am no enemy of the Canal. I was among its earliest friends. I stood bv it until it had not a corporal's guard" left in i the Legislature. But the idea of extending it i now to the Ohio river, is the veriest Ctopian dream.

Its neck is under the heel of an inex- orahle public opinion, ami it would be just as i practicable to roll the down-sweeping current of the Mississippi hack from the Golf to the i Calls of St. Anthony, as so to reverse public I sentiment as to command a dozen voles for the 1 immediate extension of the Canal to the Wes, tern waters. The true policy of the true friends of the Internal Improvement policy, is to take to defe. a Well- I funnel ami earnest public opinion, and to fix steu-1 (lily on that form of commercial transit between our seaboard and the tliat commands the public judgment and choice in the State, aid the spirit of theage we lire in. In tlmt judg- merit ami choice, the Railroad has the upper i hand, and we must lirst reach the West by the railroad, or not at all.

I With your invitation to make a visit to your country, I shall endeavor to comply. I have i never seen, in person, the rich western region of which it has fallen to my lot so often to speak and to write, hut I design, if mv private i affairs will possibly allow, to make, before the I next session, a personal reconnoisance of the I entire line of the Covington and Ohio Railroad, and if so. I shall not fail to call on my generous friends in I'utnam. Then tlicy shall "see and hear the man," who lias ever done his best for that noble improvement, and who will assuredly bring to its support, at the next inei ting of the Legislature, whatever liule ability lie and a zeal far beyond his ability. With great respect, Your friend and fellow citizen, -MIS SRC VP.

Dr. S.t?i'ei. MTi.i.iams, Putnam county, IFr.im the c.1 Aiioiif, Miutlnlaii.l i Tilt O.VNiiKKiil SliiNIKH Till! VIEW. In 1S41I, when a Republican Assembly, mem- orable for its importance ami the high laws of morality which shmilil govern political affairs, permitted the expedition against Rome, I wrote, answering the calumnies of Count Mom- talemhert: Yon shall hare. Frenchmen, an c.rj'ulition a'jaiust Home In midst.

The 2nd of December voiilied my prediction. France is now expiating in her shame and op- pression the crime then committed. Europe, if she persists in the cowardly and culpable inditfernce with which she regards now the progress and acts of Ronapartism, will herself sutler an inevitable and severe expi- at ion. As the expedition against Home was the prelude of the French so the Crimean and Italian wars are but two steps! cowan is urj stop will he tiic dismemberment of Turkey and .1 war against Kuropo, then isolated in Kurope. 11 the lloman expedition had been arrested? if Lord Palnierston, instead of declaring through Lord Norinanby that the I Government of 1 lor Majesty approved the restoration ol Catholicism in Koine, had then said to Louis Napoleon, irilt hot null in'i rriiitioii hi Iht tiilfnutl other.

Imperialism would have been checked in the opening of its career, and thy wars of the Crimea and Lorn hardy would probably not have occurred; only this weakness ol Knglatid has kept Louis Napoleon audacious and powerfill. The expedition to Rome had the triple ob- jeet of pleasing the French clergy, discrediting the Republican As-einbly, and preparing the i French soldiers to combat against the Ucpuhli- can standard at home. Rut it was, besides, for Lotus Napoleon, a means of learning the ten- i deneies and existing power of the European (ioverimicnt.s. It was for him that which feeling the pulse is to the physician. The pulse of Kurope, a tolerant and indifferent spectator of, the noble defence or Kome, snowc-i mm mai In; had no need to Tear of encountering in the ovcrnments either political firmness or faith in a ruling principle, or the pride of moral iiule-; pemlenee.

I he people commenced to feel it ti-m, or the blind adorn tion of Force, roinmcnced to sprout vigorously among the ruins of ltoman liberty. i Then came the tfiUit of the id Deceiuhcr. A shuddering of rage and execration ran through all gulf surrounded the usurper. It was enough to maintain this isolation about him, so that, without a footing in France, without other arms besides terror, he should quickly fall. The English tiovernmcnt, in an unhappy moment of weakness and political short-sightedness, extended its hand to the guilty one.

The Anglo-French alliance I saved Louis Napoleon, and gave liiin a power and prestige in Europe. Other people, seeing the proud, free aud powerful England embracing him, began to eoneedetohim an ability i that he really did not possess. Was ir a political conceit thai expected the alliance to limit the action of the allied? Was it believed that it was necessary at every step to the old tradition of antagonism between the two great nations? Alliance limits the actions of a power only when oth of those allied represent the same principle. Free England, in allying itself with impcrialMii, gave the binding it, the moral force which was hitherto wanting: and as to the I natural antagonism, facts have shown, and will ever show, that the only remedy for this an- tagonism is the triumph of lihi rty in France, France requires cither liberty or the glory of I I war. England, moreover, in making a treaty witli the Emperor, allied herself with a man, and not with country.

No one can believe 1 in the Napoleonic dynasty; and on the exile or i death of Louis Napoleon, and when France is 1 a free nation, the alliance of- England with the 1 I despot will add another link to the chain of traditional antagonism. "You always distrusted 1 France," they will say to England, "and only 1 1 allied yourself with her when your alliance enforced tyranny upon her people." No; the conduct of the English Oovcrn- iJ 1 mont was inspired by a policy of fear, and 1 nothing is worse than such a policy towards a 1 Power which equals you in material and does 1 not like you. Louis Napnlcon divined the "inning of this policy, and prosecuted with greater audacity his own plans. The war of the Crimea was for him only the i means of obtaining that which should follow? a treaty of peace iti Paris, and open for him a way of becoming friendly with Russia. As r.

soon as he saw a prospect of the success of his i scheme, he hastened, as he did at the present i time, to conclude a peace insecure for his ally and declared premature by the public opinion of England, lie more than ever fomented trouble between ami England, and soon after, the secret treaties with the Czar were commenced. I As the war in the Crimea, so the war in Italy was for Louis Xapoleon, the means of bringing I about an alliance with Austria. The ancient of the Austrian monarchy could only be i tibducd on the battle-field "Our war," he said Count Cavons at the Conference of Plombiees. "will only last six a defeat, Vustria will revive the proposals of 18-fS, and ve will accept other Powers flare not nterfero. ine consented, ana nadc ol the idea, 01 Italian a mere ootstonl of the Austrian-Russian-French aliitnce.

Only, that since the idea of Italian naionality emancipating itself, nml pointing tovan I a regardless of the dvnastlcal uiuWiions of Louis Napoleon, he hastened the peace, ind proposed that which, according to his earlier dans, he only meant to accept. The peace of Villafranea is the inauguration if a new Holy Alliance between the three Powers that represent despotism in ial France, Russia and Austria. The object of lie alliance is according to phrases spoken at Moinbieres and Stutgard, to overpowering, by moans of deception, thenaional ideas, and suhniilling the of ter itorv for the question of liberty. The means, idlowiug the war in Lomltardy, are the dividing letweon the throe meiultcrs of the Alliance of he Mohammedan itossessiotis in lairope and and. the war against Kugland.

H' Austria had not accepted the proposals of I'illafratiea. the plans would have been carried in, though in a modified manner, by the Kmieror and the Hungary, emancipated Austria, would have shared the late of Vmstnntinople; the Mediterranean, liecome a 'tench lake, would have been directly or indi ectly the mistress of the north ami east of Kurope, while Imperial France would rule the IVest and South. At present, the designs of 1 limited, as I said, to the lie nil 11' v. lismcuibermeiit of Oriental Kurope am! tin- vv.ir igaiust England and Prussia. I atlinn, not from mere conjecture, by tnuvvledge of the fact, tin? existence of those lesigns.

I assert that the bases of the treaty between tiic Kmperor ami the Czar, relating to lie Orient, were conveyed front Paris by (' neiere dining his last misssinn to St. Peters nn a little before the war in l.ombartly broke tut. 1 assert that the preparations of war, tarticnlarly tlie maritime arrangements, eonti- me in Prance more actively than ever. Tliete ives in Kurope one who knows the truth of ivhich I speak, and could confirm my stateuciits, leu will not do it; nor shall I betray lim who tints prefers to be silent. I he genius of-bonis Napoleon is the genius 1 the spirit ol evil.

Condemned to ignore or psc'l the germs of good, the sublime instincts dial tremble in llie hearts of every man and lalion. he is a master in the knowledge of very egotism, of every interest, ot every i wrong tendency, and ol every base passion, ivhich drowns those instincts. the emptor, In- causes the blow or the weakness hat draws the victim to ruin, lie cannot establish. but he knows how to dissolve. Ill mains tlie secret of his maintained A lie and logically moral policy would eon-1 leiiin him to speedy ruin.

The persistence of tlisiiieuibeivil Italy, in her desire Ibr uni- would snlliee to upset all the dynastic plans i 'f bouts Napoleon. War is for the Kmpirc an absolute necessity. I'lie Kmpirc does not represent a principle, such is liberty, nor a tradition, such as legitimacy, ior a futli. such as th racy. The Umpire presents a force created usurpation and tlifact is necessarily inv? ilvcti, llii.s Arce cannot maintain itself except by actions hat it.

and territorial aggrnn are the only tiling the Umpire can i to I'ranee in exchange for liberty. Where i power consists of a chief and an army, war lc.it the normal condition of its life. It is an iih'Moii to believe that the Kmpire a- would give the lie to history. And the nllianecs with the Kmpire can only alltanecs v. ith despotism.

Alliances are oiinded upon an identity of principles mid The life of the Kmpire in France re- piires the triumph of imperialism in Kuropc. i flie natural allies of Louis Napoleon are Kits- it and Austria. It would he with Prussia if lie provinees, destined, according to mpcrial tradition, to belong to France, did not in vent. The statesmen who allied Knglnnd wth the Kmpire coinmitted a crime ami at-' inpted an impossibility. I After didining the moral and political mean- i ngs of neutrality, and declaring that atremen- Ions expiation wiil be of those tin- ions who seek 111 neutrality to evade the duties rhich iod charges up a nations as well as in- lividiials, and warning the Kngli-h against the iicrcasiiig power of France and ltussia, proceeds with his diatribe against the French Kmpire.

Imperialism is the imminent danger in Kit- should combat it, and compter or lie. Imperialism cannot he controlled by ca- eSsing it, diplomatizing with it, and seeking limit its sphere with hypocritical alliances or oiiditional concessions. It is necessary to rout it boldly. If France persuades herself! hat the Kmpire is a fact with which no one lares contend, if the people convince tlicuielves that there is hope of support and Kurope is lost. Louis Napoleon the I'zar intend to ni'li oilier to the of their rule iti It i- necessary to take a stand now, lest lie illusions easily created among oppressed leoplc, and the despair of obtaining any exteior aid, throw the nations at the foot of Iniicrialism.

l.oui> Napoleon and the t'zar intend to aid arh other, sustaining, a- I said, the question territory against the question liherly o'jwt In xi i'ih fiii fii'lrircjfor 1 lie people and lihertv. A league, headed Kngland, and cninpri-' ing Kngland, Prussia, (icrtuany, Belgium, lolland, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and the nher minor States of should declare tsclf -eciirity for the independence and liberty if eaeli State, for all that concerns its internal iH'airs, and prntei't, even to the risk of war, hat liberty and that independence against any 1 nvader whatever; cut olfat the root the lesigns imperialism; should wean the popuaee forever from should make lew wars impo-sildc hy the overpowering miliary force that the league could semi to the ield, and thus isolate the empire. Such a league it is not only hut easy ronihine. The whole of Kurupe to-day is in ireadof the invading tendencies of Imperialism. In the question of question on which low tin ns the peace of League, votild say to the Kniperor: "You have conclu- 1 led a peace with Austria; the of your lay in Italy iio longer You descended he Alps to insure the independence of n.is independence now quires the ahsenee of very foreign army Irom the Peninsula.

Leave then. "You promised a little while before tbe war hat von would abandon the tinman States when had done the same. The condition is to-day fulfilled. then, from Koine; cave the people of Italy free to decide with thi- trouble-, licit have existed lor three cnturics between tlicm and their rulers, he- i ween the new nation and the Austrian mistress Venice. We shall provide that this nation imt jr.a-s )n-voiid the Miteji'i, the eonllnes I.art, of Calumet county, for Governor, anrt A.

Palmer. of for Lieutenant-Governor. The Revolution in VenexucU Xkw York, Aug. from Laguayra state that the Liberals took that city without opposition on the morning of the 1st of August CITY AMI STATE P.ikdosed.?A jouug man, only son support ut art old widow, a French Avornan, three years iiicunx-ratiui) in the penitentiary, ba, been pardoned there from by Gov. llis name is Augusta Huval.

lie trie I convicted. in Kanawha county, being con.vr:.,; in a burglary with two others, who escaped. a Strang' 'hat r.tid n. -id- in His mot In i', some time id i and to bcomr her only i doll. Two trench citizens Messrs.

Drla; and Bargainm took matter in ban i. uei.t ttct iik" i i Mgned n.at:y rV it. the wi.i-.w. 'I I. y.i..n_? 1 had -crviii ahoti: ha'f l' ritj and had alwayx maintained two others" wh? 1 The CTihi.kka is CiiESTtKriEi.n.

lit a to "Kuriacis' Journal," Mr. 'I'. field, mii tho vatN in Several el had th the "AIh.iH I had tin--ami' and, without lay, I r. to till" eXtiriiiicnt a- follow Wo and it firmly hy the e.u>, it end' my with thv iiw I tied ete to III i.ltii lln i. 'ok ai on y'dl of a amount "I and aoout ot will mixed together in int" th- iui-Mith.

ii lv ant! (idly awailowed it all. In the half an -he dniiik a a-t tin' of ho ir he unite I every him: I reMinio. the in i t. "ii i an vv.il imagine. lie' if r- ma.

i tive' durii the day and the eat iiothiiitf. The next morniiis: h. and ntti Mi.fi.: i want to into the we i. him 1-r. tlier? mad i Wo -an him until tliu hut oner.

day and 1 alt" aft' we lie tlo Ii With oa.ai,-e in- a-md. nte well nnj tl. delltll ellled of hojr el.oiorni i yp at a Tin: A letter to the New Vntk h-rt a i. un, kiiuwii i l.ao 'm r.t... i.

tit lit imrc-mm i. ii rk wln-ii riuiovi'ii ar; I tin- .1. tut. i.vrr I'. I.

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S.u.i: ViKtiiM.i W'iiKitivi. Tin-watering known at tl.i ll in li.vUl.ri.'./o county. 'in- the t.i Win. A. Mi.iiii, 1 ill tin- w.rc I.iit in l'? j-ri-i rat Sai.k or tin; Fai'vi ihi iiiti- i i-ittK libit i vrii huii.lr.-' I liiii-l utfa-I tin- j-r wvro I.

Will. -J. lirivii. fur iii-r aiTr. I'ho ti r.

iii.li*1. wrto Mr. i I i ri -ay -11 lilt ail Tf i i I ina.li 'In. till' ti mi tin- -i i in Ktisscil iiniiity, on in-v. Win.

Tyl wl. in kvn -a with fricriib, in a John in an.l. tin- ti. -r. i-rt l.i- heii.l lii- laity with a II- tiiei.

lili.l lia- bi-i II I. it? A Vi'ICK PKIM (iKOKlii: thick st will pay gnalio at per with a jichl 17 husln-1-. to th. m-iv, mill the i r. I lit at i the lluntnllh- Uni.ioaal Non Intervention not the Democratic The "Advoi-ato." in its la-t week's issue, fosses to he "satisfied with the approval of the 'Advocate's' course hv the people." II.

w. when, where, have the people indicated their approval of its cause The Democratic people of Alahatna, so far as we arc advised, leu. expressed their opinions ou the subject in an thontativc loiiu 111 Convention only, and then favorably to the "Dctnoerat's" cause. The Mates Rights Democracy of Alabama were opposed to the so-called coinprouiise hum snres iif I Sou, hut. notwithstanding their re monstrances, they were passed.

for the pence, however, and under the that tiny were to he a finality oil the slavery ipiestion. the Democratic State t'oovi ntion, held at Montgomery, llUli January, lsoi, adopted the following resolution: "Resolved, That the of the citizens of this State in those acts of Congress known as the evinced liv the cent elections rests upon the consideration that this is a linal settlement of Slave ry agitation and 'Urfiui, ji-r The Democratic and Anti-Know-Nothin; State Convention, held at Montgomery, in nary, 1 in the enumeration of "prinriph-v" hicli "eonslitufes the true hnsis of the nation ul Democratic organization" mentions? "Second, The ipialilied right of the people the slave-holding States to the thr-irrhj in ti in tin tml in the icihlt i in which Territorial a ernmcnts are as yet unorganized." The t'onvention, also, declared their "deltl. crate conviction." that "the people of the States should unite for the their threatened rights, and lor the pp-m lion of further aggressions upon their donn institutions; and that they should positiich refuse longer to attiliute with any iiatintml pat ty which will not distinctly and une.pii\< rally recognise and maintain thtfull uinTtr th? Here the Alabama Democracy claim the right of the people of the siavehi-lding Stati to the protection of their property in theSian-. in flu and in the wilderness" that the people ot those Stales "dioit'd positively to alliliatc with any National I'ariv. re issigned in it by your peace." And this i.s the only policy worthy of Kngand.

With this only can she make the people raise herself to the dignity of a openn niissinn, liil wstliotit great peril Iter duty, indatrestin its march of usurpation the Kintire. I.t-t her haste to the rescue lirst in Turkey, mid then mi her own soil. MAZZ INI. fi Jrr.rr tie- llalUtnore Mtr.1 Douglas' En ay oil Popular Sovereignty, Washington', August llouglas' riews upon the suhject of popular sovereignty the Territories have been fully stated in an ssav which appears in the September number if Harper's Monthly. This is the manifesto ivhich has been expected froin him.

The cmidusion to which it arrives is. that the tirinoinlc. indcr our political system, is that every distinct political community, loyal to the Con.iti'iitiou ami the nion. is entitled to all the rights, privileges and immunities of self-guv rnracnt, in re-pect to their local concerns and internal policy, to the Comtit'ttion a the I'aitol So, if Kansas should, as i Territory, enact laws prohibiting slavery, or conferring the right of property in slaves, recourse must be had to the Supreme Court for redress, and the Federal iovernment must maintain the decree of the court with its entire power. Advices just received from Kansas render it extremely probable that the Constitution proposed will lie rejected by the popular vote, on several distinct grounds.

Ion. N3atffATI0ff Iff WISCOffSIff Aug. liemo- ratic State Convention to-dav nominate--! II. C. Ho villi' II III ll'H llll.llll.lm cognise and maintain thm ri'jh' If tills is lint a distinct ami unripd vocal recognition and approval, the Democratic people, through their delegates in Con vention, of the Democrat's" doctrine of ngressional protection, we do not know what would he.

And, it we are not mistaken, tlw editor of the "Advocate" was in Montgomery at the time, approving the action of the Con vention, ami when he got home, endorsed its action through Ids editorial columns The Advocate" says: "The Advocate hut said, as the ''Dciim crat" charged, that it 'is the Democratic trim 'that Congress cannot to slavery in Jhit it li sa that non-intervention is the doctrine of tie Cincinnati platform, of the Democratic patty, and of the Kansas hill." True, the "Advocate" admits Congrehas the to protect the Tin; cuh do it under the Constitution: hut it contends Congress ounn-t do it tin tier "the doctrine of the Cincinnati platform, the Democratic party, anil of the Senator 1 'ouglas -avs the same thing, lie M'lmits the constitutional power of t'oo I to protect slavery, but In- contends the exercise of such power by Coturres- iM be anti-democratic, and inconsistent with tin Cincinnati I'lntformand Kansas hill. "The voeate," and Senator Itoitglas do then mi'' stantially agree. With the i mission, therefore, we will amend onr lar lion so as to read thus: "The 'Advocate'declares Dougla-s doetrii that Congress cannot (consistently with doctrirje of the Cincinnati platform, of Democratic party, ami of the Kansas Dill; tervene to protect -lavery in the Tcrritoiie-. t1 he Democratic doctrine i Wc have shown above that such is not thdoctrine of Alabama Dcino'rarv, and have, heretofore, shown it is not the doctrine of the Cincinnati J'ialform or of the Kan-ahill. We have never understood either elude Southern slave property from tht protection of the Federal Government.

tVngn-s in eluded, or thev would not have received onr endorsement. The (act. that different con inconsistent with each other, hai been put upon ihctti bv member- of I'c mocratic party, proves tlie of an a iJitional plank in the plain "I 11IV ii.il Convention, defining the meaning ni the Cincinnati Platform on this subject. Hy the way, the Advocate, to sustain its dwtiino, Ins uv. hope inadver tentlyj in the Cincinnati Platform, "non-intervention" for "non-int.

hi Congress with slavery in State anil Territory "Xon-interference" is the in tint platform Ls, no-interineddling v.it!? si wiry. are opposed to Congress ititerlering or inter meddling with slavery, but we intervention for its protection. "Xon intervention rtt). slavery" is nonsense. 'ongres- cannot intei vt ne teith slavery, but it can intervene for itprotection, and this is tru? itcuiocratic do.

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