Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-07-12
WORCESTER CONVENTION

Is a very great eXaggeraon. The correspopdep,
OF the New York Express, as well as other CORES
pondenis of whig papers, speak of the Convention
as very tame affair and numbering not more Than
i5OO persons. The Baltimore Sun /neu,raD re.
marks, cit is said there were not moro than two
thousand persons present i'm all"
We have no desire to keep back the rnll exten,
of any political movement. We fully ARE. y;,h
the n. I. Commercial Advertiser when ii remarks.
we 90 not at any time believe in the polcy-not
10 "enuoh the ialrness-of misrepresenting or un
uefvaiuing such movements, political or otherwise
SS 10 not happen to square with our own views of
GUY or interest" If, therefore, there is Rormd
aoie movement In progress the North for the pur
pose OF crushing Uc South through Gen T,,,,lor
it is evidently the duty of the Southern press ~ an
prise MS readers of that fact that the friends of
zen. Taylor may Increase their energy in propor
oh ID this increased opposition and that the Suu,b
may DO iouid rs one man, IN support of the man A.
ganst whom the batteries of fanaticism are leveoJ
SIMPLY because he is Southern man and trro ~
the Constitution 'N' "
Inc worcester correspondent of the SPRINGFIELD
hepnoilcan. a paper quoted by the N Y. CONNER
cial Advertiser, as giving an account reasonably
free from eXaggeralon ON either side saws tina, Tho
convention was respectable in numbers. shirt and
character, but did not come up to the mark pre
dicted by some OF its eXtravagant friends. II oh
serves: w
"A good deal of pains were taken to induce neo
pie 10 attend; extra trains were run in different di
iec''ohs; some OF them at reduced price and
members of the committee of arrangements visited
different places to help forward the movement. As
near as can Judge, the highest number at any time
on the ground was three thousand
VI these from one thousand to fifteen hundred
at the outside, were Wings. and most of the rest
were liberty party men. There were many Tav.
ior and Uass men in attendance during the whole
Time. Inc oXtra train from the West broupbt
very small load; 1t started from Northampton with
about dozen, which was increased to ffiv bv Tho
time 1t left Springfield | discovered nome from
Springfield or t'am3den county. who actively sym
pathsed with the meeting except abolitopisfs and
there were but two or three Wings from that coun
ty among the ''ouisiders'' The extra train fr,n,
Boston, bringing delegates from Lynn and the towns
around about, besides, had four hundred and forty
one passengers"
IN Ill candor then, we cannot consider this Con.
vehtlon as OF much Importance. In LOOKING over
the list of speakers, wo see such paucs ,s ia
dings, Summer, Mr.. Chas. Adams, Icayitt. Phil
Fps, &c, who have long been engaged in the s,re
cause OF agitation. The whole movement 10 en-,
posed to be connected with that of the Barnbu1ners
In New York. One of the Secretaries was a dem
ocrat' and one OF the speakers, Mr. Amasa Walker
Oh North BIookiled, was formerly prominent
member Of the democratic party This rentle,oan
said, she for an honest. STRAIGHT f,r,vorJ .,r
tire union of the wings, democrats and liberty men
LOT ,he sake OF putting down slavery and slave pow
or. Inc Convention appointed TWO whips two
democrats and two liberty men, delegates 10 the
Buffalo Convention '
AFTER all the notes Of preparation that had been
sounded In State 'grdironed over with rarosds
ahu "here inc price OF travelling, always CHEAP.
was reduced for the occasion in Stata whioh =,
the last Presidential election, poed over 10 Ono =.
BOLTON votes, we don't think this Worcester Con.
Vehlion, putting itup even At three thousand is
any thing to brag ok-Rich. Rep.
ELECTROMAGNETIC FRAUD.-The y. Y Fvr-osa
has letter from Washington, in which. spea k;ro
OF MI Mangum's recent speech in the Senate III
writer says
Inc most exciting part of Mr.. Manpum's speech
however had reference 10 the truly outrapeons far,
'nat me democratic party publishing the lives
vi Cenefai lass, the concluding portions of which
Posi'iVely contradict each other. He read 4 Iona
eAIac. rom eacn OF these printed documents. and
proved conclusvely that one Of them exb;hitoJ
Gen Cass as opposed to the Wilmot Proyiso, and
that the other exhibited him as in its favor Roth
OF these lives he said had been issued from the ne
nee OF the Congressional Globe He denounced
,his movement as an outrageous fraud and last
ing disgrace to the Democratic party. Mr.. Foole
OF Miss, interrupted the speaker by the ouestion
Does 'he gentleman mean TO assert tina. these
documents are conflicting % .s'rhev are mot Woo
the reply, for one of them travels directly
the South and the other towards the North y ,Tbo
revelation made by Mr.. Mangum caused urea, OK.
citement, and number of efforts were made nv
Messrs. flanagan and Foote to prevent him from
going on, and Mr. II. took i, upon himself ~ do.
clare that the Congressional Committee having
zen. Cass, S reputation in keeping. had not coun
tenanced the fraud which had been divulued
q nov mint nPAT
upon Mr. Cass, as a friend of the system of inter
nal improvements He made out concIusivelv that
MI lass had not proven himself friend to this
system In TINS connection he took occasion TO TO-
mark that If Mr.. Polk had not vetoed the River and
tarbor bill. he would have been the nominee oftbe
baltimore Convention; and ne also thouoht that if
MI CasS should be elected, he would be sure 10
PeIo the same W esern bill which had been vetoed
by Mr.. Polk. He considered Gen. Cass worthy
representative Of the most dangerous party ,ba, ey
er existed in the country.
HE MONSTER SNAKE.-E Excitement aruono the
Sho,cHen.-Ihe good ship Allen, CAPTAIN VII
iIams, recently arrived at Salem, Mass. from The
coast OF Africa, having On board living monster
serpent Oh thS constructor species, which veriies all
the stories which we have read OF their crushior
and swallowing a horse Cor single meal-it 10
much larger than any ever before taken lis LENGTH
being NUtytcc Of course the arrival ON our
shores OF such monster set all of our showmcn in
to wonderful fever. Van Amburgb, and june
and Titus, despatched an agent for Salem via New
Haven-one of the firm ofReynold s Waring pro
ceeded by way OF Worcester, and Barnum sent his
major como, Hitchcock, by the steamer Rav state
The Yankee proprietor of the snake, seeino such an
excitement, and feeling that it will be difficult to
run him an opposition, has taken hgh oround--
and Geographic despatch to Van Arnbur6b &, Go
announces that he viii take no less than II ( 600
for 1t, and in case Of not finding customer. he will
turn Snowman and exhibit it himself Their a.