The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-14 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

The Hon. Henry A. Wise, Governor of Virginia,
had delivered a speech of the most violent character
in a public meeting at Richmond. Adverting to the
possibility of Colonel Fremont's election, he said :
I hops and trust in God that we shall be saved from such
a calamity. (Cheers.) He is a deadly enemy to hie coun-
try • he Is a dastard ; he is a demon; be is guilty of the Bin
of Cain; he is the wont of murderers—s fratricide, who
would, without sufficient cause, light the flames of
idyll war. Bat,
Rather
vnn weer dishonouredmel Giulia
*Atm seeder at the ded ear,
se epee lee widow dear weeds,
And the (mw freed= of oar pest forefathers.
(Tremendous cheering.) I would preach peace. I would
vote for peace—peace and honour. (Chem.) Look up to
heathy or, turning, look down upon the earth of our =live
lead, and ask yourselves, tell yourselves the answer to the
question, which is everlastiogly ineuring to me—what will
you do if thie_pweelantation of war is mode ? Do you ask
use whit I wfil do ? I my to you that I
answer for the present. Considering the question delibe-
rately, calmly, and being well fortified in the thought, I
deliberately say: to you that I will do whatever you will
bank me in, to save as or die. (Tremendous applause.)
I am making no threats. I will remember the onto I
have taken to preserve the constitution and defend
the right of the people—l will fight for them, if I must
fight, to save, not to destroy. (Enthusiastic applause.)
War is • terrible thing, and we all have to remember that
if It begins, it will not only be the North against the South,
it will be a civil war of neighboothons fur liberty against
despothim—for right against power. (Cheers.) Oar enemies
will remember that if they have a minority in Vusinia
we have • ninerity in New England, New York, and Ohio,
tad everywhere North. If they have their fifty or slaty
thousand left them in the state of Virginia, in every Northern
state we have hundreds of thousands of erns that are with
as. (Tremendous cheers.) You have more than your
own power at home. The saddest tri Motion to me ts,
that Is sash • crisis there will be found assay traitors
among us. Bat if we may have enough to do with
then few at home, the black republicans have enough
to do with the thousands that are still left in the
Northern states, to battle for the Union and the rights
of all. (Tremendous cheers) Virginia has not depopulated
herself without some return of the bread she has cast on the
waters. There Is many a heart is every State in the Union
that has gone from the hone of • Virginia family ; many
an um that was conceived in the womb of a Virginia mother
that will, when the doge of war are let silo, ha rend I.
vindication of her rights. (Loud cheers.) We have friends
urea the water, too, as well se foes, who will cry havoc in
such a war. (Cheers.) What they consider our very weak-
ness we will prove to be our strength. With a proper know-
ledge of military discipline, I will prove that oar faithful
slaves can end will repel the black republicans, end their
traitorous allies, who any invade us.
These remarks were hailed with vociferous cheers.
By the steam-ship Illinois at New York, we have
received advice, from California to the 6th ultimo
inclusive. This steamer brought 1,867,148 dollars in
specie. Baguets at San Francisoo was recovering
from recent depression. Mining, the great leading
interest of the State, was, as a role, in a
prosperous condition. This was especially the case
upon the e, which, owing to the unusual
drought, were lower than ever before. This, while it
cut short the supply of those dependent upon ditches,
facilitated operations in the beds of the streams,
which were being conducted on a more extensive scale
than during any preceding year. The yield from this
source will be immense before the close of the season,
especially should the rains hold off late. The working
of quartz, although not always attended with succese,
was, as a whole, satisfactory, and the prospect entree.
ratltact (says the Alto California) a general survey
of our condition and effaire leads us to the belief that,
as a people, we are prosperous and progressive. None
of our great industrial interests can be said to len.
guish. Commerce is gradually spreading up and
down our widely extended Gout, as well as to the
islands of the sea; while trade, as a general thing,
continues paying and active. The cities and towns
of the interior, lately destroyed by fire, are already,
in a great measure, rebuilt. Education having been
provided for with a liberality that brings it within
the reach of all, all classes seem disposed to avail
themselves of its advantages; so we have at present
as large a number of scholars in oar public schools,
compared with our population, as any other city in
the Union; while, in addition to this, high schools
have been established both in this place and in
'Sacramento. And last, yet more important than all,
crime has been checked; vice and immorality have
been sensib diminished, whilo virtue and religion
have been advanced in our midst.