The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-22


My DEAR Sra Your kind letter OF the 4th ult |
informed me Of the action Of the Convention at
Oculs, and my appointment, as your alternate, 20
am sra,ied for ,h;s Evidence Of The confidence Of
my fellow citizens OF East and South Florida, IN
my attachment TO the South-an attachment TO
which all others, the most holy and cherished, are
The selection of yourself and General Herman
dez 10 universally approved here, and il to me, per-
sonally. highly gratifying, confident as am, that
if your united counsels could guide or govern
coming events, neither the honor nor the interests
of the South could ever be compromised. But I
must frankly tell you that do not look, hopefully,
to the efficacy cf the Convention however, its
action shall harmonze to any considerable extent,
the discordaIt opinions at the South if 1t oh all
duce union Of sentiment upon one or more promi-
nent measures-the admission OF California with
her present boundaries, our rights in the territories,
the recovery OF fugitive slaves if 1t shall induce
the Southern States, as a body, to define the
bounds of their political forbearance upon these
vital Importance Upon all these questions, esupon
others equally important to US, the North is deter
mined and united. Her local elections, her public
prints, her legislative Instructions, do not permit
doubt of it. prominent politician here and there
stands forth IN bold relief 10 the universal feeling Of
his people but his feeble light, like the towers
upon own fearful coast, serves but to disclose
the extent and character Of the peril and gloom
which threaten US. One by one these generous
advocates will disappear, and, in less than ten
years. there will not be found, north OF Virginia,
leading politician bold enough to break lance in
the Southern cause. Free soilism is now a fixed
fact wi her people and their numerical maj gritty,
and thorough union Of sentiment, teach them to
disregard or cOntemn our warnings, feebly uttered
through divided counsels In union is our safety.
ance, and in union let us preserve them. If the
South can be brought to act firmly and unitedy for
but six months, our Northern friends, who count
which we contend. And to this united action
look as the sheet anchor of our safety. To attain
it, we have every incentive which protecting Pro-
whence ever placed in the hearts Of free people.
By the soil we tread, by the air we breathe, by a
thousand ties with which they bind the heartily
the glorious past, the critical present, and by our
ability TO carve out brilliant future, we are called
our political rights. To effect the united action Of
the South, doubt not, the action Of the Conven-
. ton will be directed. Its members have not as
sembed to discuss our rights, nor to ASCERTAIN to
what exten: they have been invaded. Upon these
points, public epinion at the South is settled Men
begin seriously TO regard The moment for action
near at hand, aud to look the probable conse-
which we COMPLAIN, steadily in the face. They
are communicating earnestly with each other in
all quarters, and betrayng that solicitude for our
political welfare which evinces preparation for a
political CONFUSION. The means which we may
adopt, or which the Convention may possibly sug
gest, to preserve our constitutional rights, are sc.
condary in importance to the question of our united
action. With union, we can make many different
means available without it, none can prove ef-
fectHal. The North does not believe US to be In
earnest and the warnings and appeals of our lead
ers in the national councils fall upon ears skeptical
10 every whisper of successful opposition. This
skep!cism is somewhat justified, not only by the
writings and conversations of the many Northern
abolitioniss and free soilers domiced amongst us,
but by the extraordinary spectacle occasions ally ex.
hibited of some leading Southern mans advocacy
of the doctrine which ELECTS and entities him to the
commentators of our Northern friends | am
most anxious to hear from you. You have my
A. 4.
and for the unmerited terms in which i. was con-
veyed, and which pothlng but important pre-en-
gsgements could have prevented me from accept
ing With my earne st hope that your iabors may
tend to avert the perils which threaten US, and
with the conviction that, should the evil hour come
upon us, the people Of our State will, at whatever
sacrifice stand squarely up to the great interest of
lam, dear sir, respectfully and truly, your friend
and servant, ). X. MALLORY.
BARSJM AND TuK ONE EYED HORSE, AT NEW
ORIEASs.-About an hour before Barnum took
his leave OF our goodly city, on Monday last, a
mysterious placard, in English and French, was
posted up on the street corners and public places of
the First municipality, announcing that strange
animal OF The horse kind, with a face like child,
and large revolving eye in the centre of his fore
head, after the most approved Cyclops fash was
on exhibition in a room at the corner Of Exchange
alley ard -. Louis street. The announcement
struck The eye Of the emresar'o into extreme opt-
cal astonlshment; and, thereupon, he determined
made manifest, not only to his visual, but his
mental ken. In fulhlment OF this determine.
ton, the great curiosity caterer started with hasty
strides towards ~ Louis street During his peri
erination, strange visions OF Rocky Mountain po-
Mes clad in wool, TO suit the exigencies of climate,
Of Tom Thumbs ponies, miracles of small
messy and Of all other ponies, that he had ever
seen or heard OF, danced through the Barnum
brain. After revolving and re.revolvng, resolving
and re-resolvine, the conclusion was at length
adopted that the horse with the face of child,
and with the wild, rolling eye in the centre Of his
forehead, was the horse Of horses, the curiosity Of
cunostes, and the greatest Of yet discovered won
ders in the animal republic. There could be no
humbug in the animal in question, for even the
that humbug in the premises was impossible; and
that not only in the Anglo Saxon, but the Franco
tongue. Another proof of the genuine pretension
of"Cyclops'' was, that he first saw the light of
the Mississippi. There could be no mistake about
his beng horse, a living, moving, aud wonder
fully keensighted horse, when the two tongued
air Of truth in the sbowbil, and the Misslssppian
birth OF the wonder were considered and more
over-'truih is stranger than fiction" The en-
trance fee to the exhibition room being twenty-five
cents, Barnum threw down half dollar piece,
and passed on without waiting for the change.
lie was too eager to zee the wonder to think Of
cents, for dollars and Cyclops were ia his thought.
Judge OF the surprise OF the worlds orpresario
when Cy clcps turned out 10 be the stuffed hide Of
an exceedingly juvenile colt, the skin Of whose
heed was distorted into n horrible semblance OF a
human face, and the forehead disigured with
large and glazing eye Of glass, most villianossly
greer. The ep,Iresa'io was sold, humbugged, ex.
cited, maddensd, and forgetting for the nome nj his
religious tendencies, he swore a good round oath,
that whoever bumbugged him the next time,
should be rewarded with no measured vengea nce.
he had gone 10 see living wonder, and
found nothing bit stuffed outlines Of palry cheat.
1t was too much to be endured by mortal patience;
and so the emgrssarto thought, when he rushed to
the door and demanded the money he had paid.
The door-keeper, who spoke nothing but French,
could not understand the demand; bat the ire OF
Barnum, who was determined not TO be cheated,
brought him to his senses. He then offered him
twenty-five cents; but no, Barnum must have
bistify. The FIencaman dtmuued. He had no
ri2kt, he thought, to give back the twenty five
c. nts, viii h had been rendered Ia muni6cence
But he had 10 do il though-esd Barnum depsrted
begging us to make no note Of the event; but to