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Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23
THE CHRISTTANA OTJTR AGE

We are happy TO see the Washington Republic using
the following decided language with reference to this
shameful outrage; With such an Executive as MiIlard
Fillmore, the country will entertain no apprehensons
that the majesty OF the law will not be indicated 1.-The
smiling horror of the Disunonists to the contrary NOT
wihstanding
CnRIsrIANA MURDER AND TREAsoN.-We Law before
our readers some iuher documents in relation to this
highly criminal affair. y '0
L is TO beregretted that there are those who would
endeavor 10 make light of the late hghanded outrage
Whether sucn course proceeds from want of per-
ception and appreciation of the extreme beniouspess
OF the offence committed in Lancaster county or from
morbid sympathy with the negroes and Abolitionjsts
Whch 1t Is not prudent to express more openly it is
highly censurable in The case, and culpable in the
nher, and must lead the most serious results should
1t become general. The re is no disgusting The fact
that the late arocy is the arthest step forward ever
made by the Aboionists and, unless the most sleep
less Justice shall pursue the actual guilty in this case
the worse it will be for the Amesicon people
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23
From the NJ o. Delta.
LETTER FROM CAPT. J. A. KELL

LETTER FROM CAPT. J. A. KELLY.
The following letter from Captain James A. Kelly,
the surviving officer OF Crittenden's command, will be
read with interest by his numerous friends and by all
who take an interest in the late unfortunate Expedition
1t Is addressed TO a fsiendin this city:
HAVANA, Sept. 6, 1851.
= Dedr FT'eRG The newspapers have doubtless in
oheGyoo OF The tate OF Gen. LopeZs party, and Is
hot necessary Tor me 10 recapituate events | was re-
leased rom prison Monday the first of this month
ano nave been on board the ship Norma but will sail
Tor New I ork tomorrow, and from thence home by
he riVef route Previous 10 capture we had some
very hard lighting Think of $50 men against 200 raw
recrus have seen that and hese raw recruits whip
I U and make them ngloriousy fly before them
Porter was badly wound in the RIGHT breast on the
l3h,in The first action near by nv side but he has
stood The march siuce and is among the prisoners
getting well OF his wounds Out of the forty men
Drought IN my company, but seven remain. They
consecrat ted their lives 10 Cuban lberty-they died like
heroes, worthy to be called the descendants Of our reyo
lulohaIy iatheis-brave and generous to a fault AT
all me battle fields we gathered together the wounded
oh pom soes ard our Surgeons dressed the wounds of
men. 0"A'' VI wi
Dr. Fournlquet, who dressed the wounds of The first
Spalsh soIoier, was led out and shot by order ofhe
governor General without trial this place with Crit
tfhden. 30 much tor Spanish eenerosity Al ano,her
pace the Spanish soldiers, wounded begged for The
ives OF our wounded but could not save them fror, The
u@yun9'. Ut; brlgnam was bayoneted after being
cd an 81 - o., uieSaeu' anu our parry march
60 OUT OF sight But when met them on the battle
held, Spanish blood split freely to make amenJe
for their barbarity The report in Havana, from The
Spanish authoritles is, that killed and disabled np
wards OF 1000 soldiers That's what may be called
game ID the way OF lighting, particularly as we only
landed with four hundred soldiers and they all green.
and at every battle we lost or less, because bad
wound was equal to DEATH for we had no transportation
Tor our sick, and were compelled to march soon after
battle. In the hardest fought battle there were bnt
about two hundred Americans. Gen. Emma, of the
Spanish troops, was killed there and the whole com
mand put TO flight in twenty minutes after the engage
day with 200, and they were 400 strong. neon ME
under The wide spread canopy of heaven can fght Ike
the American boys Although our arms were ndiffsr
en mnskete, the Spanrds think yet we had rifles. be-
cause we Killed at every fire Our boys take aim and
draw a bead before pulling trigger. This is the cause
OF their success, and it always will be SO.
J. A. KELLY,
Cuban Lberator "no more
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23
THE ST UMP.

There has been some discussion of the proprie-
of the gubernatoral candidates taking the
ts,ump. The Enquirer hopes they will not, but the
Examiner protests that they must, and that no
Democrat except some broken down party hack
need fear a collision with George w. Summers.
From this the public may infer that the two Or
gans differ in their preferences as much as in
their tastes; the one probably wishing Col. john
son, the Governor elect to be chosen as the cham
pom, and the other Governor Floyd. There is
much speculation as to the chances of these two
competitors, whilst some are of opinion that Meth
erwill be successful at Stanton in being appoin-
ted for defeat-for that will assuredy be the fate
of the nominee.
The Republican, on the Wing side, like the
Enquirer, deprecates the stump. The Wing thinks
almost the only good institution left US, except
marriage and hanging. We have not yet taken
ground on the question, but our backwardness
has not been due to any reluctance to express an
opinion. We pronounce decidedly for the stump:
for we too regard it as of the best OF our
Southern institutions. Abolish it, and we must
inevitably fall into the Northern practices OF in
trigue. bargaining and favortism. Some man
agement through the machinery of caucuses is
perhaps unavoidable in the business of nominal
tons, but the stump is the best corrective of the
evil. A candidate without merit will expose his
unworthiness when heappears before the people !;
and if he cannot sustain himself on the hustings,
he and his party must lose. But, under the En-
quirer'a plan OF merely making Con venlion nom-
nations, and then rallying the parties to the sup
port of their respective nominees, nothing like
personal qualification will ever be secured. No,
no. let us retain the stump by all means. 1t is
as clearly the emblem of Virginia Republicansm
rs the guillotine of French We approve the
stump in the abstract, and quite much in the
concrete for, ever if we were inclined, like the
Alexandra Gazette, to condemn it theoretically,
we should yet feel the force of that papers sug-
geston, that ''really, the idea o. having such a
man as George w. Summers, son the stump"
telling his felIow-citizens political truths, aud in
dlencIng their Judgments and swaying their feel
ings, is rery tempting. We should like to see
trinl, for once"
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

On the 26h, weak and half starved they were over
laken and arrested by parry of eoun rymen who in
2fned them oil the pardon proclaimed by the Captain
General. They were taken to Bahia Houda placed
on board the steamer Habanero, aud brought 10 Ha-
vana.
Some of the dates in the above statement may he
wrong, as they are given from recollection, but the
main facts correct Captain Kelly states that to
MS knowledge but two Creoles joined them and they
We're both killed He and Col. Haines both scout ut
the idea that Lopez purposey abandoned Crttenden and
his men, and say that he would have given his right
hand 10 have had them with him. Captain K thinks
that alter Col Crttenden left him, he concealed himself
in the woods with the view Of drawing the enemy into an
ambush aud that his return, finding that Capt Kel
ly had left the tenda, and not knowing in which d.
rection he had marched he and his men being without
guides through the country, had concluded to make
Tor the coast and put out to sea, in the hope oil getting
on board OF some American neural vessel That he
must have had some fighting is evident from the tact
that when he left Captain Kelly he mad eighty men
and when arrested there were but fifty with him. Whal
has become oil the thirty others is mystery that will
probably never be solved
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23
Gen. Quitman's Wnhdrn,nai.

The Natchez Courier has the following re-
marks on this subject:
Bv telegraph, and Otherwise various rumors have
the last few DAYS been In circulation, that Gen Quit
man had determined to withdraw form the furiher
canvass OF the State. Though one despatch stated
positively that the General W longer a candidate
yet that may have been rather the construction given
by informant iosuch statement as was published
in extra of last week. than any declaration author
zed by the General himself. 10 short time we shall
no doubt be advised III this matter from Gen Ouit
man himself. Should such be his determination,
some have surmsed that it was intended to take the
ground so frankly admitted by the last Mssissippan,
lhat the Wnole question to the resistance to, or
acquiescence IN the compromise measures, was set
tea oy the people In favour of acquiescence That
IN this view OF the case, Gen. Qutman would with
uraw, and then call be lmmed ately made on him to
become the candidate Of tine Democratic party, and
on that party to sustain him their party candidate,
Tor The ubernaoral chair If any OF the secession
lists have calculated Gen. Quitman yielding him
self TO equvoca plan OF operations, we think we
hazard little In the assertion that they have mistaken
their man.
We believe that if Gen. QuitmaA is satisfied the
popular will has decided agains. the doctrines he has
enumerated, and upon the success of which he cast
himself INTO the canvass tor Governor, and vet was
in addition satisfied, that on some other issue not
made IN the canvass he might possibly succeed, that
ne Wouid sFlfn seeming success for the principles
lie had advocated. But, with father Richie, Nous
Verrons.
We are pleased to see that, notwithstanding the
triumphant success of the Union party through
out Mississippi in the Convention elections, the
Union papers do not relax their zeal, but urge the
Union men to hold themselves ready for the No
vember elections.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23
JOHN A. LANCASTER,
Chairman.

GAMBLING Officer Johnson having had his suspi-
cions aroused by the mysterious move ment of seve-
raj cooured fellows in the neghbourhood of the Steel
factory, determined Saturday night see what was
TO be seen in that neighbourhood. Accordingly dur
ing the evening lie reconnoitered building near the
Steel factory-saw light III thu hopse-heard seye-
rdl voices, and determined upon looking in upon the
party. On entering the room winch seemed to be oc-
cuped, he discovered three negro fellows sitting CO.
ziy around a table playing cards. The reader can
readily imagine the dsmay and confusion Produced
by the entrance Of tAe Office. The negro who few
nntes before had Dragged CHEST. now, like Burke'S
Degory, appeared to have lost the use of his limbs
purely from fright The others, seeing all chance of
escape hopeless, quietly submitted their fate. The
trio were marched 10 the cage, where they remained
ill yesterday morning, when they were brought be-
fore the Mayor and ordered to be punished. The
house in which the fellows were gambling, belongs 10
Mr.. r. R Dugal, aad his servant man William, 1t
appears, had made up the party.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23
GEN, 0U{TMAN.

we published yesterday the resignation card
OF this ambitious politician, Northern soldier of
fortune, who has made the bad speculation Of
Trying TO convince a Southern people that he
knew their rights and interests vastly better than
'ney themselves. The singular step he has ia
Ken, has excited much surprise and conjecture.
Fapers of his own way of thinking profess them
selves unable to understand it. The Auousta
Constitutonaiist, for example, 'cannot think it was
wise, and holds that he ought to have stood
fast at the head of the Southern Rights party
His peculiar organ, the Jackson Mississippan,
foreshadows his letter by merely saying:
we can briefly that he regards the a,e act of
he people as decisive against his policy for redressnp
me wrongs the State has suffered the hands of the
Nor'nern majority, and that he does not consider il
proper under the circumstances for HIM to continue in
ne alude OF candidate for the Chief Maoistracv of
tne state lie has conducted the canvass with prest
aoiity, and AL his speeches have been characterized
by dignity and by courtesy towards those with whom
he has differed" ''''
As to Gen. Quitman's being influenced solely
by delicate motives, that is badly Incredible
There is some political scheme at the bottom Of
IT. and from present appearances we Judge that
1t Is suddenly to reorganize the old Democratic
party by fusion of the Sece ssionists with the
Union or the non-resstance platform
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

INST dominated as a candidate for Congress by por-
ton of the people of that county, IN public meeting
"Ihls movement, says the Kanawha Republican, s'is
to be regretted, we are aware that many of the
leading Wings of Mason, jackson, Wood, and of
oher counties have earnestly solicited Col Camden
or Mr.. Golf. of Harrison, TO take the field, and il
seemed to be the understanding but week ago,
that if Col Camden should decline to run, Mr. Wal
do 2. Golf would without delay enter on the canvass
and we entertain but little doubt one of these gen.
tlemen is at this moment in the canvass. We are
aware that Gen. Smith, and the gentlemen concerned
In this meeting acted without the knowledge Of the
fact above sta ted %
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

MURDER AND suIoIDE.-The murder of DR.. Cham.
oerln' President OF Oakland College, Miss, has already
oeen briefly reported by telegraph. The New Orleans
papers OF the 4lh INST give the follow ing particulars
We learn from Mr.. T. c. Charles, clerk of the
steamer Emperor that On the 9Th ms tant foul and
dastafdly murder was committed Port Gibson. Miss
by one George A Briscoe; his victim was the well
President OF Oakland College Il is said hat Bris st
went TO he College, inquired lor the Rev. Mr.. Cham
BERLIN who came out, when he was assaulted by Bris-
coe' WI n the sword from cane, and killed. The
at he robbed the galows OF just duties by cutting
MS ihroai from ear to sar; in this eond lion he was
found on the mofninE ct the 10Th on the public road
agd 1led m lew minutes alter the pursuing party reach
POI uca matters, by when that Stte is at present So
much excited. " f ~
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

The Postmaster General has ordered the mail be-
tween New ofk a0d Philadelphia to be conveyed by
the Amboy route duriog the interruption on the regular
line, occasloaed by the burning OF the tlackensacI
bridge THIS change Of route, requiring the Departure
o. the MAJ from New Y otk an hour earlier tban
usual viii probably break the connection OF The after
noon ,'oslon mall bat the Inconvenience viii he o.
snort Jutalon, as tte communication across the Hack.
ensaek will soon be laslofed.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

Mr.. J. X Pauldng, of New York, has written dis
union letter to the Southern Rights Association of S.
Carolina If he loves the Palmetto State 90 we'll It
might be asked, why does lie wish her to separate
from his own? The W ashington Union criticizes Mr.
rs enuson very tarty, and tells story of his gaining
reputation III tennessee as eccentric and ill-hu-
incurred Secretary" when he travelled as the "Sama-
gundi companion of Mr. Van Buren,"
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

PRESIDENT Fn.MoRE.-Ths Bos on transcript savs
Probably since the da's of Washington no Chief
Magistrate OF the United States has visited Boston.
whose reception by the great majority OF the population
has been generally free from all bias ofparty ami.
mostly and personal opposition, that Of Mard Fill
more.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

Mf. Lawrence, the American Minister, had not left
LondPn on ms proposed visit TO Ireland He enter
fish Minister 10 the United States ard IaJv Knw.r
Mf Rives American Minister Frame, Mrs Rives'
and The Misses kves, The Neapolitau and Turk sh
lenea. 'N "''e son-
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

New York STATE FAIR 1t is reported that more
haa 900 family tickets were sold at Rochester ioJ
this fair on Wednesday. Several acres OF gfouud arr
deyott to the exhibition Of horses, large runbe Of
Ter, Gen. Wool, and many others. Barnum was pres
emf with his elephants, and also JENNY lind
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

Mai John P. Heiss, late the Washington Union,
has published letter. lying that he owned any in
erest in the steamer Pamp 70, or that he was con
eerned in getting up the Cuban expedition,
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

The ST. Louis Republican says, that one thousand 70
,iteeh hundred men are now employed on The differ
ent sec IONS otiEe Pacific Railroad 1hs Gork is pro-
crossing rapidly. 8 P'o'
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

ngton Monument, will cost 50 500 Ii will be- taken
rom the t'lea Falls or Easchester quarres II is 10
be feet By feet inches and not less than IS ncbr.
IN thlcAness, with the city arms in has relief, anc
ABOVE The words, From the City oil New York. :"
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

" APBR5sTEp-A rthur Edwards, who murdered George
n i.4pn . IN MasoG county, in an afray about The
u1' was arrested few days snc- at the Sweet
ana Is now in 'durance vile" awaiting his
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-23

Ine President of the United States returned to
Washington early Sunday morning
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-14

GrRpL1NG THE GLoBE.-A writer in the
London Mechanics Magazine talks of a
magnetic telegraph around the world as a.
mong the probabilities. He says that an e.
lectric telegraph to Calais is not thing
which will stop there. 1t is a telegraph to
Vienna, to Moscow, to Constantinople, to
Ispahan, to Delhi, to Calcutta--in the re.
motest bounds, in short, of Europe and A
sia. A few years ago people laughed when
Lord Palmerston predicted, at the South
ampton meeting of the British Association
that a time might come when the Minister
of the day, being asked in Parliament wheth-
er it was true that war had broken out in
India, would reply, "Wait an instant till |
telegraph the Governor General, and | will
tell YOU" What was thought but good joke
in i843, is now in 1850 in the course Of be-
ing actually accomplished, and ere few
wears more is likely to take its place amongst
the sober realities of the age. Nor to the
Old World alone need our views of the ul-
innate progress of electro telegraphy be con-
fined; for, since the English channel has
been crossed, the crossing ofthe Irish must
follow as matter of course and Ireland
once reached, there lies but couple of thou
sand miles of water or so between the Old
World and the New.-SaItm Gazctte.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-14
ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK.

! A curious astronomical clock is on exhi-
bition at the Worlds Fair, s'It is calculat.
ed SO finely" says the Liverpool Albion,
"that, in many of the motions by the wheel
work, it will not err one minute in 1000
years. These calculations, we understand,
have received the unqualified appreciation OF
the leading scientific men and astronomers
of the day, both in Britain and foreign coun-
tries. The clock will show the minutes and
hours of the day; the suns place in the e.
elliptic; the day of the month, perpetually,
and take leap-year into account the moons
age, place, and phases the apparent dur
nal revolutions of the moon the ebb and
flow Of the sea at any port in the world; the
golden number, epact, solar cycle, Roman
indiction, Sunday letter, and Julian Period;
the mean time of rising and setting of the
sun on every day of the year, with its terms
and fixed and moveable feasts. The day of
the week will be indicated, and the year
will be registered for 10000 years past or
to come. The quickest moving wheel will
revolve in one minute, the slowest in 10000
years from the date. To show the very great
accuracy of the motions in this complicated
clock, few of the periods may be noted
namely, the apparent diurnal revolution of
the moon is accomplished in "a hours, 80
minutes, % seconds. and 379, 1892, ,26S deci-
mails of a second, which makes an error of
one minute too fast at the end of !, ,470 years.
The stars will make arevolution in % hours
Sc minute, 4 seconds, 69,087, ,284 decimals
of a second, which gives an error of one
minute too slow at the termination of 589t
years. The synodical revolution of the
moon is done by the wheels in % days, 10
hours, A minutes, 2 seconds, and 873 ,544,-
2S8 decimals of second, and this will give
an error of one minute too fast in 1,167
years. The siderial year is done in 965
days, 5 hours, 8 minutes, II seconds, and
81, 1922, 496 decimals of second, which make
an error of one minute slow in 1906 years.
The clock will go 100 years withoutrequiring
to be wound up, which is unequalled in horo-
logical science. The clock will contain a.
bout ITO wheels and pinions, and upwards
of 300 distinct pieces"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-14

EXTENT OF THE OYSTER TRADE.-Mr.
Wise stated in the course of his speech on
Monday last, that single firm in Baltimore
had amassed during the last ten years a
fortune of $3.50, 900, by simply transporting
oysters to the Western States-all of which
were obtained at the oyster banks of the
Eastern shore of Virginia, & transported over
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Cumber-
land, and thence to the Ohio river in stages.
This firm paid to the Railroad Company in
one wear for transporting oysters alone $780,
600. This single illustration should speak
trumpet tongued in favor of East and West
lines of Railroads, instead of North and
apeake Bay be connected with continuous
railway improvement, and renewed energy
and vigor would be infused at once into all
the industrial pursuits of the State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-14

WHAT BECOMES OF ALE THE PINs.-The
question is by no means an idle one. five
could get at the the statistics of pins we
should have some tremendous revelations.
The loss in pins, strayed. stolen and mislaid,
Is past all calculation. Millions of billions
of pins must vanish--no woman alive can
tell how or wherein the course of a year.
Of the actual number fabricated, pointed,
headed and prepared for sale from one years
end to another, remember they are to be
found in every house, large or small, with
in the pale of civilization we should be a.
fraid to venture conjecture; but judging
from what we know of their invincible ten
dency to lose themselves, and our own in
veterate carelessness in losing them, we ap-
prehend that, could such return be obtain
ed, it would present an alarming result
Think of millions of billions of pins being
in course of perpetual disappearance And
this has been going on for centuries and GEN.
turies, and will continue to 60 on probably
to the worlds end. A grave matter to con-
template, my masters. Assume any given
quantity of loss in any given time, and cal
culate what it will come to in cycle Of
centuries. Most people are afraid oflooking
into the future, and would not, if they could,
acquire knowledge of the destiny that lies
before them. Pause, therefore, before you en-
bark in this fearful calculation; for the chan
ces are largely in favor of your arriving at
this narrowing conclusion, that, by the mere
force of accumulation, and the inevitable
pressure of quantity, the great globe itself
must at no far distant period, become vast
shapeless mass of pins,