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From the Montgomery Journal.
Second District OF Alabama

BY the proceedings at Clayton on Monday
we have the high qualification to place at the
head of our columns officially the name Of the
gallant veteran of Russell as the candidate for
Congress of the Southern Rights Union party
Of the district No other result was OF course an
ticipated. He was nearly the unanimous choice of
the district, and the Convention mere matter
of FORM The people looked to him, and to him
only after Mr. billiard declined the canvass.
We remarked that it is with the highest gratif-
cation that we announce that the standard of the
Union is to be borne in the coming stormy con-
test by the long tried and faithful patriot, ABER
caoMBIE, tho veteran of the district, and more
true, genuine, sterling specimen of a man has
never walked its soil. During his whole life
and he one of the earliest settlers of the
district-he has been marked for his unwavering
devotion to his friends and his enlarged and
open handed hospitality and hberality to all,
and most especially to the needy and suffering
who met his view. Hence he has such multi
tudes of devoted friends among the masses,
who by thousands of acts Of benevolence are
attached to him "by hooks Of steel.'' His strong
sense and unfailing judgment have always made
him among the most valuable of our public
wants. Though not orator in the common
acceptation of the term, yet his quick observa-
man nature, energy of operation, and ability to
"gct up' and "get through his bills for the inter
est of his constituents, rendered him unsurpassed
practical legislator, and gave him power for
usefulness such as the mere speech maker could
not compass. Ofthis remarkable skill and energy
our city had fair example during the desperate
struggle for the Capitol appropriation during the
last session. Such services as he rendered on that
occasion should not be forgotten, but should be
gratefully remembered, believe they will
be, by our citizens. Always an ardent friend of
his section, he saw early that the ultra and un-
reasonable course pursued by large body of
those engaged in the Nashville Convention
would, by disuniting the South and separating it
into two hostile factions, prove eminenty disas-
trous to its interests He hence, on the passage of
the Compromise, took ground on the principles Of
the Georgia platform, as the only position which
the South could occupy unitedly and with effect
The preservation of the rights Of the South in the
Union is his motto, and which cannot fail to be
triumphant, if united on and carried out by the
South. Strenuous opposition will be made, doubt
less to the old chief and fierce efforts to carry the
district by desperate factionsts, but it will all be
vain If the Southern Rights Union men are true to
themselves and their cause. We have no doubts Of
the result. 1t will be triumphant, whoever may
lead the opposing host. The great masses of the
people not ready to dissolve the Union on &C
count of the Compromise acts, but will be found in
immense majoritics of the counties on the Georgia
platform.
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Addition to the CapitoI-Thc Laying or the
COrner-stOne.

We understand that the corner stone of the
addition TO the Capitol, authorized by the late
act of Congress, will be laid by the PRESIDENT
of the United States on the 4th of July next, in
the presence Of such officers Of the Government
as may then be in the city, and of all citizens
who may see fit to assemble to witness the GER
emony /; and that an address on that occasion
will be delivered by the SECRETARY OF STATE.
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ELEcTIos OF JuDcxs NY THE PEoPLE.--Tho Rich
mond Dispatch states that the Virginia Convention
on Thursday decided, by vote Of 49 TO ~, that
the judges Of tho court of appeals should be elected
by the people.
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NAVAL. = The soop-of war Plymouth, Com.
Kelly, went into commission Tuesday, and
was towcd down to the naval anchorage yester-
day She is now lying of the hospital, bound 10
the East Indics.-Port'mouth (Va) Whig.
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THE EPU BLIC.
WASHINGTON:
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 81. 1851.


..Thc series of measures to which have alluded
are regarded by me as settlement, in principle
and substance--a final settlement-oft the danger
Gus and exciting subjects which they embraced"
s.By that adjustment we have been rescued from
the wide and boundess agitation thatsurrounded
US, and have firm, distinct, and legal ground
to rest upon. And che occasion, trust, will JUS
tify me IN ExHoRTIHG MY coUNTRymRs TO RALLY
UPON AND MAINTAIN THAT oRoUSD as the best, II
not the only means, of restoring peace and quiet
TO the country. and maintaining inyiolate the in
'tegrity OF the Union.''
IPREsrpENr FILLMoRE's MESSAGE.
The Presidents message, at the opening ofthe
present session of Congress, expresses fully and
olainly his own and the unanimous opinion of all
those associated with him in the Executive admin
istration Of the Government, in regard to what
are called the Adjustment or Compromise mea
surea of last session That opinion is, that those
measures should be regarded in principle as
a final settlement of the dangerous and exciting
subjects which they embrace; that though they
not free from imperiections, yet, in their
mutual dependence and connection, they formed
"a system of compromise the most conciatory
and best for the entire country that could be OBJ
tanned from ConhicthB seolohai ihte'es' anu
opinions, and that therefore they should be ad
'hcfed to, until time and experience should de-
Inonsrate the necessity of further Legislation to
guard against evasion orabuse. That opinion, so
sfas as know, remains entirely unchanged, and
will be acted upon steadily and decisively. The
peace of the country requires this the security OF
the Constitution requree this; and every conside-
ration Of the public good demands this. If the
Administration cannot stand upon the principles
ofthc message il does not expect to stand at all"
tDANrEL WEBsTEn's Letter to the Union Meeting
ar IYestchesfer.
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The PRESIDENT will leave the seat of Gov
eminent this morning, on an excursion OF a
few days to Old Point Comfort.
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Miss FRgDERIHA BaxMEn, the authorizes, is in
Richmond, aud visited the convention on Wcdnes-
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The report Of the appointment of M. Con
zALEs Bravo as Minister of Spain to the Uni
ted States, is contradicted in papers received
by the Niagara.
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From The Nstc York Courier aud Enquirer.
The August Elections
The following table sets forth the dates of the
elections which TO be held during the month of
N. Carolina, Thursday, :
-

In the four frat States exciting canvass is al
ready in progress. Kentucky is to choose COVER
nor, lieutenant governor. legislature, and ten
members of Congress. The Wing candidates for
governor and lieutenant governor Archibald
Dixon and John b. Thompson and the Demo
cratic, Lazarus w. Powell and Robert A. Wick
been made nseven Of the ten districts, as follows,
(Whigs in italic:)
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ton; know Mr. Walker. have heard him say
that the Fugitive Slave law unconstitutional
that 1t could not be enforced. and jury could not
be procured to convict under it. In the street, in
tho stores, on board the ferry boat, have heard
him denouncc the law. it's authors, and those en-
gagged in its execution.
Cross. Examined. -Was last evening first inquired
Of in relation to this matter,
Daniel ID. Kslly.-l reside at East Boston. am
ship-builder; have had no less than one hundred
conversations in relation TO the Fugitive Slave law
with MIR. Walker, and have heard him say that he
would "spill his blood in resisting it," have heard
him repeat this statement often, with an oath.
have heard him say that the law was unconstitu
t:onal; but constitutional or Unconstitutional, he
would put tho slave-huntcr down. He has ex-
pressed to me that he believed in higher law than
the Constitution. In other respects Mr.. Walker is
very clever man. but he Is certainly the str0ngest
unconstitutional man that knos0 Of. [Great
laughter
would put sIave-hu down; and that, Consttu-
ton or no Constitution, law or no law, he would
himself help to resist them and aid in the Of
4 slave.
Mr.. LuNr thought il was not worth while TO po
farther in this hearing, inasmuch Us enough had
been shown TO prove that Mr.. Walker WAS an unfit
person to try the He had no argument to
offer, and he preferred to rely upon the testimony
Of the witnesses already examined
Mr.. Halls urged that these proceedings against
Mr.. Walker should have been had before or iInme-
diately after he was sworn in; and commended
that Mr. Walkers oath had purged him of all bias;
that, having sworn in the prcsent tense that he now
entertains no doubt OF the consitutionaity Of the
Fugitive Slave law. he 10, of all others, the to
serve as juror.
Mr.. LuNr replied that no reference to books was
necessary in order to settle this question. Upon
such an exhibition OF testimony, argument was
hardly pertinent. He should not have argued the
question upon this testimony 10 the court except
az a matter Of form. Jurors, Of all men, should be
"Omni srsppfione majores," free from all bias and
man stood Indifferent between the Government and
the defendant.
Judge SPRAoUE said it had been we'll remarked
and properly urged that the fountains of justice
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-09-25


TIE AMERICAN REARING MACHINE
This implement, which won the gold
medal at the Exhibition, is on success
full fourthrough England. The London
Times regularly records its progress
among the farmers and experimentalists.
It commenced operations at Tiptree
farm, and was next heard of Farming
ham; then its capabilities were display.
ed at Mr.. Mangle's, and en- the 9ad Of
August it was shown at work on the
large farm attached TO the agricultural
college at Cirencester. The Times Of
the 23d says:
On its first successful trial at Tiptree.
the agriculturisfs present raised a cheer.
At birmingham the enthusiasm manifes-
ted was sill greater, and Yesterday al
Cirencester there was no lack either Of
curiosity or approval among the crowds
assembled 1t was tried on barley
wheat. and oats, and under circumstan.
ces fairly calculated to test its merits
To say that where corn is badly lodged
or thin, or where the land is rough witt
stones, its success is only partial, is tc
state what everybody of sense would
expect. for machines must have fair play
shown them, and it is the duty of the
farmer so TO cultivate his soil tha
mechanical facilities can be brought t.
bear upon it with every reasonable ad
vantage. Yet if is wonderful how well
coming upon a system of agriculture
totally unprepared for it, the American
reaper does IFS work. A stuble Longer
and more irregular by cut will OCCASION
ally mark a spot where the crop was SC
trampled or borne down that it could no
be well got at, but, wherever it stand:
at all well, it is removed with perfect
precision and evenness, both on level
land and on the most rapid declivities
and curves. This was fully shown yes
terday, the fields where the experiment.
were made presenting very undulatinG
surface.
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SANNS' DRUG STORE.

THE subscribers keep constantly on hand all
| the popular Family Medicines Of the day.
Trusses Of great variety, and Fitch's Abdom-
inal Supporters and Shoulder Braces.
The public may rely on fresh and genuine
preparations. direct from the proprietors, and
nothing shall be offered for sale except what
possesses real merit.
They have now for sale DR.. Bulls genuine
and latest improved Sarsaparilla, combining
the highly concentrated extinct Of Yellow
Dock, Burdock and several other valuable ex.
tracts combined with the pure and genuine
Honduras SarsaParilla.
Also,
Townsend's Sarsaparilla;
Wistar's Balsam Of Wild Cherry;
Pepsin. or the true Digestive Fluid;
Petroleum or Rock Oil;
Perry Davis Pain Killer;
Dally's Pain Extractor;
Trask's Magnetic Ointment;
Swain's Panacea;
Sellers Imperial Cough Syrup;
Liver Pills;
Vermifuge;
DR.. Rogers Liyerwort and Tar;
Vaughn's Lithontriptic;
Mexican Mustang Liniment;
Barrels Indian do;
Aliens Nerve and Bone do;
Loree's Ohio do;
Thompson's Eye Water;
Brandreih's and Mofat's Pills;
Blake's, Lees, Bragg's, Jaynes', Hoo
per's and Jackson's Pills.
Besides the above list a great variety
of other Patent Medicines, including
nr. Fitch's and Louden's celebrated
preparations, will be kept constantly on
hand by ]. & P. A. SANNS.
May Is, 1951.-6m.
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INTERESTING FROM NORTHERN
Mexico AND TExAs.-By the arrival
Of the steamship yacht, we are Just
in possession Of Brownsville dates as
late as August 81.
Rumored Disturbance in Merico.
"A friend has shown US letter, da-
ted Zacatecas, July 81, from a highly
respectable source, stating that at
Durango serious riot and outbreak
had occurred, resulting in the death
of a number of persons. The diff
Guilty seems to.bave originated in the
general scarcity of provisions, and
raising Of the price Of corn to 81, 80
per bushel.
We also learn from another re-
spectacle quarter that in the State OF
Guanajuato pronunciamento has
been issued in favor of Santa Anna,
and in open hostility 10 the present
Executive.
The long and severe drought that has
destroyed the crops for a year or so
past, in the northern States of Mexico,
has opened a market for vast quantities
of breadstuffs and other necessaries of
life. Nearly every day the ferry at
this city is busy in transporting them 10
Matamoros, besides what is carried
above on the steamboats,.
The Rio Bravo says that the Mexican
Government has adopted proceedings
against several Senators, including Gen.
Almonte and other officers. under an
old Spanish law of 1918. These gen.
tlemen have been fined, some of them
sent to prison at Perote, others dismis-
sed, and the house of Gen. Almonte
entered, and property removed to pay a
fine, by party of armed men,. He
complains loudly of abuse and outrage,
and a good deal of public feeling seems
TO pervade all parts eff Mexico.-N. O..
Crescent.
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CHAILENor or the AMEnIcAN

CHALLENGE or THE AMERICAN
CLIPpER AccEPrED.-The long unac-
cepted challenge, given by Mr.. J. G.
Stevens, the commodore Of the
American yacht America, to sail any
vessel o. England, for any amount,
appears now not to have been given
in vain, for one gentleman, rather
than England should be thus public
ly defied, has come forward TO accept
the same, in the person Of Mr.. Rob
ert Stevenson, the eminent engineer.
That gentleman has taken the pre-
Iiminary steps, and notified his inten-
ton to the Commodore Of the Royal
Yacht Squadron. the Earl Of Wilton,
TO contest the honor with the great
American wonder, and not tamely to
allow Brother Jonathan 10 walk over
the course, with no one TO enter the
list to maintain English yachting
fame.
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To oar Friends and CastO.
fperS.

"E thus beg leave 10 inform yOu and
w through your kindness our and your
friends Of your neighboEhood and elsewhere
not forgetting our enemies If any there be-
that We are now receiving direct from New
Orleans and the Eastern cities Fresh sap.
ply of Groceries which we are now ofer-
ing for sale at room No. 6, Front street, Ports
mouth, and have made arrangements to be
supplied during the season nom same places.
Our stock viii at oil times consist Of every
thing IN the Grocery line.
Although in the matter Of purchasing and in
now Offering our Goods for sale. we frankly
confess that we have been and sti1 are direc-
ted mainly by desire to promote our own IN
terests--yet 1T viii nevertheless afford Us
great pleasure to accommodate our friends to
the fullest extent that due regard for their
and our interests may seem to dictate.
The hackneyed and stale terms, "cHEAP,o
''cHEAPER THAN EvER,n and ~clIEAPEsr,' we
abstain from using. leaving to others (less mo-
dest men than ourselves) to derive all the adj
vantages that an intelligent community may
eoneede to this kind of boasting.
Putting we also beg leave to inform you Is
not our fort, and simply avail ourselves Of thIs
means Of informing you and 81 others, whose
patronage we thus respectfully solicit, and foR
which We viii ever be grateful, and will take
great pleasure IN showing our Goods and Civ
ing prices to all who may honor Us wi n call.
Thankful for past favOrs, hoping to merit a
continuance Of the same. and Of shortly hav-
ing the pleasure Of exchanging with you such
friendly saIutations at No. 6, as viii evince a
mutual disposition TO renew the intercourse
heretofore existing between yon and US,
We remain, very respectfully, yours,
OAKES & BUSKIRK.
Portsmouth, Feb. 4. ls5l.-feb l3. 81 ly
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OvERHAULED BY TEEBoRArH.-..on

OvERHAULED BY TEBEGRAPH.---On
Friday the police OF this city re-
ceived information by telegraph that
a man by the name Of Davenport
had absconded from Cincinnati with
rather more ready cash than right
fully belonged 10 him, and as the
case was not precisely swindling or
stealing, they were instructed that
if he would fork over the amount
about $l000--it would be satisfac-
tory TO the loser; and as it was a
case in which the Law was presumed
TO be powerless, they were also in
structed TO let him go, provided the
money was forthcoming. True to
her hour the Lady Franklin arrived,
and the, gentleman was found on
board, but had not registered his name
as Davenport. For while the off,
GERS were at fault. but soon the OBJ
ject of their search was ascertained,
and the money handed over, in pre-
ference to exposure and a pair of
handcufs.-&. LOUIS Intel. 2
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J For the G.uipoli. journal.


How does it happen that Portsmouth,
Athens and other towns in the vicinity
of GalIipolis, have each Bank, while
we have none. Is II because there is no
increase Of capital needed, are the PeO-
ple unable to embark in such an enter
prise, or are the business men OF the
place afraid to engage in bank, ieartuI
of another explosion.
We will en1eavor TO show, that II any
of these objections are urged that they
are based on false premises. The rea-
son why there is not a bank in Gal!ipo-
lis, doing profitable business, is be-
cause no one would go ahead in the pre-
iiminarY business, From the fact that
there are in GalIipolis and vicinity some
ffv thousand dollars borrowed from
banks, and now employed in agricultu.
raj operations, including the purchases
of agricultural products and tranship-
menfs TO market, is proof that capital is
wanted. To say that the necessary cap
itaI wanted cannot be raised is an un-
true reflection on the wealth of the far
mers and business men of the surround
ing country. To say that the disasters
of the late GaIlipolis Bank should for
ever deter US from another attempt al
banking, is saying that an honest set ol
directors cannot be found.
The increasing demand of capital,
necessary to extend agricultural, COM
mercial and manufacturing operations,
is now called for, and while such de.
mand is unheeded by the people of the
whole county other banks will do the
business. Within the range of country
that bank would benefit, there is suffi.
cient capital, surplus capital, to carry
on bank. How are banks createdl
They are raised by the capital, owned
by old gentlemen, accumulated by years
Of industry, and lying perhaps in the
tills of some old walnut chests, or loan
ed out on mortgage, which. when a
bank is started, is brought forth and s1b.
scribed as stock, which, in well regula-
ted banks, will yield from eight &c
twelve per cent per annum. While the
business men. wanting capital, instead
of borrowing private funds go at once
into bank, and borrow capital to extend
industrial enterprises.
Let but such project be started here
by men having established regulations
for financial abilities, and the capital
necessary would be raised in one month.
Some OF the best banks of Pennsylva-
MIA, Maryland and New York were star
ted by shares, being put at twenty-five
dollars each, thus enabling all persons
TO take as many shares as suited them.
Suppose such a project was started
and shares were put at S25, the whole
amount of capital required to start a
bank of $500, 900 capital, would be sub
scribed on the first day. Let the busi-
ness men of the country think of this,
and they will at once come to the con-
clusion that we need bank, and are able
to have one, and that an investment of
the necessary capital, will be both safe
and profitable.
In future number we shall give
another article on the details of the law,
now passed, by which bank can 90
into operation without further legisla-
ton.
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Buried Alive.

A most distressing case OF prema.
ture burial lately occurred in this
city. A young lady of some sixteen
summers was taken with the cholera
in the evening and early next NOR.
ming was pronounced dead. The
following day she was inferred in
one of the vaults OF the city burial
grounds. Her mother was absent,
and returned home few weeks af.
ter the burial Of her child. She
greatly desired once more to look
upon the face of her LOST one, and
though earnestly dissuaded from II
by her friends, could not repress the
desire. Her child had been incIosed
in one Of the new style iron coffins
with a glass over the face-the wish
OF the mother, could therefore be
readily gratified, for in these recepia-
cles the dead for long while retain
their natural looks. The mother
repaired to o-the cemetry. One
glance at the features of her child,
and reason deserted'its throne. The
hands of the deceased were raised 10
the face. the eve balls were torn from
their sockets, and the features were
horribly distorted, The daughter
had been sacrificed another victim
TO hasty burial-the mother lives, a
hopeless maniac.-Gredt West.
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ENTERPRISE

A Paris .letter-writer having never
seen Bloomer, makes the following
important inquiries:
Does not the Bloomer do away
with feminine popularity known as
the Iap7 Are laps and bloomers CO.
EXISTENT You remember that the
heroine in "One and Thousand
was detected when disguised as a
page, by very simple process
somebody tossed her jack knife, as
she was sitting upon a door step.
See, doing as any lady would do in a
similar circumstance, spread out her
knees in order to form large surface
for the reception of the missile
But the missile fell through in compa-
ny with heriattempts to travel incog.
Now what / want TO know is this:
Can Bloomer catch a jack-knifel
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A SAILoR's EPrrAPH.-We copied
the following from the tombstone Of
Captain Joseph Tillinghast, Providence
R. l.:
'Though Boreas' blast and Neptune's
Es.s waves es
Have tossed me to and fro,
In spite Of both by Gods decree
| harbor here below;
And though at anchor now ride
With many of our feet,
Yet once again ! shall set sail
Our Admiral, Christ, to meet.