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The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
LDW IN DE LEUN.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 1852.
WASHINGTON, July II. 1852.

DEAR SIR: Enclosed you will find an ar.
ticle, in which, as one of the editors of the
Southern Press, of this city, I took issue
with my colleague in advocacy of your claims
to Southern support for the Presidency
That action was predicated upon my belief
of your soundneSs upon the slavery question.
Within the last week speech, purporting
to have been delivered by you in January
last, has been republshed from two Demo
cratic papers in your State, (Which are said
now to support you.) On the truth or fall
sity of this, much depends. Neither those
with whom | act, nor myself, can consent
that any doubt should rest on a matter of
such Importance; but, placing full reliance
on the fearless frankness Of your character,
on their behalf and my own, respectfully
ask of you whether that report, which your
southern supporters believe to be without
foundation as opposed to your previous course,
is correct?
The peculiar position which occupy must
plead my apology for troubling you with this
letter.
Very respectfully, your obcdient servant,
EDWIN De LEON.
GEN. +. PIERCE, Concord, n II.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26

AMONG the cadetsrecently graduated from
the West Point Military Academy, and APP
pointed to the regiment of mounted dra-
goOus, is cadet jerome Napoleon BOaaparte.
He stood No. II in his class at the time Of
the examination. He is the grandson d
Jerome Bonaparte, brother Of the Emperos
Napoleon, Ez-King Of Westphalia, and nov
President Of the French Senate. Ills grand
mother, Madame Patterson, first wife Of
Prince Jerome, resides IN Baltimore.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
Further from Havana.
New YORK, Aug. 20.

New YORK, Aug. 20.
Passengers arrived by the Crescent City
give a sad account Of the state of affairs In
Hayanna. The yellow fever, the cholera,
and the small pox are raging there with
great violence, and have proved very fatal
among the troops. Out Of a garrison of one
hundred and twenty soldiers, at one of the
stations, one hundred and ten have died of
these diseases. Almost cvery..vessel in the
harbor has some cases on board. The Gov
crnnent is sending detachments of troops
into the country, to prevent eontagion. The
prisons are filing mp rapidly, and the dis
eases are very fatal in them. Many Of the
prisoners are dying, and yet numbers o.
Creoles arc daily consigned to the mos
loathsome dungeons. Almost every Creole
family in tho city is under tho surveillance
"fthe police, and arrests arc made upon tho
slightest grounds Of suspicion.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
General PierCe's Letter.

The following correspondence which we
find in the Washington Republic Of the l4th
instant, will be read with interest by the
public:
To the Editor Of the Republic:
DEAR SIR: On the appearance in your
paper of a charge intended, if not calculated,
seriously to impair and perchance to destroy
the confidence of Gen. Pierce's southern sup
porters in his soundness on the slavery ques-
ton, addressed him a letter, which, to-
gether with his reply, now ask you, as an
act of justice, topublish.
I make this request, presuming your OBJ
ject, like mine, to have been the discovery
of the truth.
Very respectfully,
EDWIN De LEON.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 1852.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
Military School at Drennon Springs, Ky,

We have says the Washington Republic,
received copy of the official register of the
" Western Military Institute" at Drennon's
Lick, in Kentucky, which it appears, con-
-tains one hundred and sixty-six cadets. The
common and civil law are taught in this in
stitution by Judge Monroe, who has recent
ly accepted the professorship, and degrees
of Bachelor of Law are conferred. This
military school, under efficient management
appears to be winning very high reputa-
ton. It's range of instruction, while fitting
its pupils for most of the walks of civil life,
is admirably adapted to the genius of our
institutions, which requires that every citi-
zen shall be a soldier at need, and therefore
should have military education. The in
stitutiOn is Incorporated by the Legislature
of Kentucky, and is annually inspected by
board of visitors appointed for that pur-
pose by the Governor of the State.
See advertisement in our columns.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
See advertisement in our columns.

SENATOR WADE, says the South-Side
Democrat, has written a letter to gentle
man in Norfolk, denying the truth of the
statement that Gen. Scott had declared to
him that che would sooner have his arm cut
off than lend it to the support of slavery"
We publish this correction because we have
no disposition to do the whig candidate the
least injustice, and because we wish above
all things to avoid the mean and infamous
conduct of those wing papers which persist
in urging the New Boston charge against
Gen. Pierce after it has been literally ex.
ploded.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26

as is well known, needed and .,.,-,
der to enable the War Department t - - %. OF
them. Facts like these have ms5s ~ pass
viction generally throughout the ~, oo.e con-
mat 10 the management Of public ~
Gen. Scott, by character and habit ;. aIalrS
to an open-handed, not to say o,,en ,-.;ines
expenditure of the public money ~ ,'1 Illus,
account. 1t was natural that tbo puIile
journals above cited should bear AZ; wing
mind, when they predicted that this v .,o ~ 10
very man for "Galphin taiP' to seIec, t o.
its candidate, to place in power. and tb ~
rule or cajole for the accom- lishnept Of tb le
purposes. '"'R
five have carried along with Us the a..
victions of candid readers to this mimi ~ =
our explanation Of the widespread dissfFa -
ton in the wing ranks at Gen. Scots nom;
nation, it will be still more easy to md.
stand the immense and irresistible unan;n;
ty with which the democracy of the eoun,r,.
in spite of all past dissensions, now rallie. -
the support of the democratic candidates y
Both of them are especially Representative.
of the true democratic policy of economy and
frugality in the public expenditures. Boil
are marked men in this regard. at once
upon Gen. Pierce nomination, the Rennb,
lie opened its batteries upon him by SHOWING
in tabular form, the sums of public moncS
which he lcould not cote to erpead H.
baser part of the wing press followed sBi,
and invented all sorts of falsehoods 70 earl
cature and ridicule his alleged tendency II
retrenchment and economy. In their blind
party zeal they forgot that, in his democratic
principle and policy in this respect, General
Pierce's character and record did but com.
pletely respond not only to the general SEN
timent of the people, but also to the cspit,I
political demand of the present hour With
an annual peace expenditure of over fftv
millions, under the auspices of wing al.
ministration restrained strictly to routine eY.
penditure by the impossibility of CARVING
gigantic wing schemes of Legislation through
Congress; with pOrtentous musterroll Of
official manifestations in part like GalpbiD.
ism and Gardincrism already become public
scandals, and in part now in the course Of
development by the investigating commit
tee of the Senate; with the whole country.
including especially the best men Of all par
ties now in Washington, confessfng alarm at
the prodigiously ramifed and powerful dob
by influence" which now beseigcs both the
executive and Legislative chambers and
which is thought by many to equal the pow
er of the United States Bank when that in
was most powerful; with this state
of things forcing itself more and more upon
the public observation, and yet falling TO re-
veal even hundredth part of its real mag
nitude or danger, the people have come to
consider that stop must be put to this ten
dcncy, or it will change-fatally chang
the whole character of the government.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
Gen. Pierce At Home.

character and reputation which is accorded
to Gen. Pierce by his neighbors, was re-
ceived by citizen of this place from rela-
tive in New Hampshire, who once filed the
Gubernatorial chair Of that State. The let
ter being private, was not intended for pub
LEGATION; the gentleman, however, who re-
ceived it, and who is withal a whig, has
thought proper to give Gen. Pierce the bene-
fit Of the just and truthful tribute it con-
tains, by consenting to its publicity:
/ PETERBOROUGH, n. H,
August 8, 1852.
DEAR SIR Yours Of the oath of June
was duly received, but at time when was
so much out of health that I have delayed
answering until to-day.
You enquire whether 1 am acquainted
with Gen. Pierce, and what are his political
principles, and whether, if he is elected, he
will administer the government in national
spirit, and not suffer himself to be misled by
any of the issues of the day?
I take pleasure in saying that [ am we'll
acquainted with Gen. Pierce, have known
him for years, heard his first Legislative
speech and have either heard or read every
thing of his that has since been published,
and I have yet to see or hear from his
tongue or pen the first illiberal or section
al sentiment. His political sentiments are
of the purest Jefersonian stamp, and his
mind of that firm character that nothing
could induce him to swerve from what he
believed the best interests of his country,
his achole country, and even those interests,
if to be obtained by violation or perver-
sion of the plain meaning or intent of the
Constitution of the Union, would be scorn-
fully rejected In short, l have not doubt
that if elected, he viii prove to be what he
always has been, truly national man, one
who will know no South, no North, no
East, no West, further than to do equal and
exact justice to ALL There is not a spot or
blemish belonging to his character; he is
truly one of ''natures noblernen," an open,
frank and honest man, one who scorns a
mean action, and never yet was known to
court the great or neglect the humble. In
short, | have known him for more than
twenty years, and amongst all the public
men have ever known, | believe him, take
him all in all, to be the one best calculated
to heal or silence the many Earring discords
that have of late shaken our beloved coun-
try from its centre to its cxtrcmitics, not by
pandering with or favoring this or that fac
ton or section, but by an open, straight-for-
ward administration of the general govern
ment according to the written-chart laid
down by our forefathers for our guidance.
My health is not yet so far restored as to
enable me with comfort to myself to write
you more at present, but will be happy to
answer any questions which you or any one
else may see fit to ask.
No.doubt some of the many ISLANDERS which
have been propagated by reckless press,
against Gen. Pierce, have reached your sec
ton; do not believe them, they are false
from beginning to end, not only false but
could be proved to be so even in court of
justice.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
EDWIN DELEoN, Esq,
Washington, d. G.

A Webster meeting has been held in BOs-
ton, Mass, at which it was resolved to sup
port Webster and Graham for President and
Vice President and a Committee was APP
pointed to convene meeting for the pur-
pose Of forming an electoral ticket.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
Advice racairad q Nau Yorr- frnm ]

AdviCes received at New York, from g.
quadOr, sta.e that after several unsuccessful
assaults upon Guyaquil, Flores had aband-
oned the attack, in consequence Of his troops
and vessels Of war having gono over 70 Or
bana. Elizabaldi had been named IS Pres
ident Of Ecuador, and Is be Is opposed %
Urabana revolution was anticipated.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26

KossUTH CONSPIRACY. NO less than
$50 persons had been arrested in LOmbardy,
previous to the oath Of July, on suspicion Of
being privy to 8 conspiracy against the gov
ernment, 3 clue to which was obtained BY
intercepting letters. 4
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
Interesting Scene.

A correspondent of the Baltimore ArgU,
gives an account of singular scene at a
large meeting in Accomac, Virginia. 1t
seems that Mr.. Wise having concluded an
address to a large meeting of Wings and
Democrats, Mr.. Napp-a "Whig ElectOr
and member of the Legislature" replied
In the course of his reply, he made the New
Boston charge on the authority of the Man
chester and Concord Papers. He had been
in New Hampshire two years ago, and heard
debates between John P. Hale and Gen.
Pierce When he had finished, Mr.. Wise
reioinod, and got Mr.. Mapp to acknowledge
that he himself did not believe Mr.. Pierce
to be what these papers represented. linen
the following dialogue took place:
Mfr. Wise. Were you in New Hampshire
two years ago, and did you not hear Haze
speak and say in his speech, that ''he Wou'I
head an army to march to the South, aDD
put down slavery" +? n
Mr.. Mapp. was there, heard Mr. h''
speak, and say what you state. a.
/ Mr.. WISE. Did you not hear tran5I,.
Pierce reply to this and say, 9 II ha I
should head an army to march on the So 5.5
he had first to march over his Pierce 3 Os-.
body, for he would head an army to Ops
him.?
Mr.. Mapp. I did. -. fact
The correspondent states that W.! In o nj,
was received with great feeling BY the inca a1 NJ
ence and when the shouts had subslaeu The .bs
Wise requested his opponent to s' a...tb.
facts again, which be did to an almost o[ean
less auditory: q General Pierce did s3
f (slapping his hand upon his Dreas, easy lad
Hale tOould hare to pass oUeT h's os"u '
before he marched upon the South
Since the above was put in type "
e baen eoptradicted by Hale.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
CAMPAIGN REPUBLICAN"
We propose to furnish our paper for the
coming campaign upon the following terms ::

1t will be devoted to the exposition of de-
mocratic doctrines and policy, and to the
jealous support of the democratic candidate.
Will all those friendly to the success of this
paper, and especially present subscribers, i'm
prove the occasion to give us helping hand
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26

The wife and daughters Of the late Prof.
Webster (hung at Boston for the murder Of
DR.. Pafkman) have returned from Fayal to
reside in the United States.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26

The New York Journal Of Commerce
states that that city is flooded with small
pieces Of metal closely resembling United
States gold coin, and that it is high time
for the authorities ioadopt some measures
to remedy the eYil
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26

Awestern editor made an attemP'. i n.
tonish bis readers with the Wonoel l;at,pcs
noupcement that a lady Of his ac9al1T1 sl
has Just married her fifth hnsoana l.Tssre IS
what Of It? asks Boston man; 81 IS
a goOdly dame here, who is living W. .O.iety,
b5sbanSs She moves in the best son. ;,S 4
altbougb il Is known that she sleeps WIZ 4,
least Two husbands every night; anu a5 fOr
whole six husbands entertain TOT Pc. trend
each other the Warmest feelings o. Ind,
s5in The name of this lady IS hS Illus Hus
and she is the mother Of five HUE
bands.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26

us Are yaoab Gl, the extensive ship
builder Of New York, who died recently,
I'm a.fortuns Of 100000. for .tha.aisPosi-
ii7n vi ahich he made pe1xiH.
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26

The people Of Carroll county have w. w.
BY majority Of sss, IN favor q '.' s,o.s'
themselves 100000 for Railroad
The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26

both were placed Both were men taken
into politics, out of their own chosen walk
in life, by scheming and INSCRIPTIONS poll
ticians. Both were without suitable expe-
rience, training, and qualification for the
Presidency. Both were to rel mainly up
on other men in their administration. Both
we're accustomed to that military manage
ment of affairs which makes but too often
the statute and the established regulation
yield at the discretion of the commander to
the exigencies or the policy of the hour. In
Gen. Scots case, too, there was what did
not appear in Gen. Taylor's-a positive and
gratuitous commitment to all the worst acts
Of wing financial abuse. Scott was on re
cord as bank mana bankrupt-bill man
and in favor of wholesale distribution o
the proceeds Of the public lands. He has
moreover, recently declared, in substance
that he cannot use the veto power to checl
any such legislative abuses, nor, in fact, us
it at all without the grayest scruples. i
fact he is on record in favor Of its Virtua
abolition. In addition to this, there was
contrast in the characters Of Gen. Taylor ant
Gen. Scott as public men which the countr.
did not fail to note. Gen. Taylor, IN To
management Of public money, was though
to incline to economical, perhaps to pars
monious habits. With Gen. Scott the yer
reverse was the case. His enormous requ
: sitions for the Mexican service, as his f
] mous correspondence with Mr.. SecEetar
I AIarov shows, astonished the comprehensiv
! indictment and the wary foresight of th'
great master il theaTt 81 civil administer
ton. Those regulations, 0s tie sgsat pro
; ed, Ear ontran the exergencies Of the cas-
And when the accounts Of Gen. Scott
Mexico came to besettlsd, special law va
The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1852-02-07
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASH1NGTON, Jan. ~.
Advices have been received at the De-
partment of State, from London, to the
End inst, to the effect that Mr.. Lawrence
had obtained from Lord Granville re-
ply to his letter to Lord Palmerston in
regard to the attack on the Prometueus,
by which it was declared, that in the
present state Of information, the conduct
of the captain Of the Express brig of war
was disapproved, but further intelligence
must be received, before a formal decision
could be given. Mr.. Lawrence required
and obtained from the British Secretary
a positive assurance that if the full Brit
ish report should in all essentials, CORES
pond with the American representation
the act of of the captain of the Express
should fully and promptly be disavowed
A copy of that report has been received
in, Washington, and it confirms, substan.
TALLY, the American statement, conse.
quently, the affair may be now regarded
as settled. A message will be sent tt
Congress this morning, covering all th'
correspondence which has passed on thu
subject.
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were allowed, after having touched at En-
glsh ports, to enter any port of France,
free Of additional duty. Scarcity of raw
material renders this necessary.
The Emperor of Austria, by Imperial
decree, had formerly destroyed the Con-
stitution of March lS49, as being un-
suitable and impracticable. A code of
fundamental laws were about being pro-
mulgated. A correspondent of the Lon
don Morning Chronicle, under date of
Vienna Dec. 81, says : 1t is supposed
that tears were shed in Hungary when
Lord Palmerston's resignation became
known
1t is said that the Sovcreigns of Eu-
rope, struck with dismay at the success
of Louis Napoleon, have notified him that
they are prepared to enforce the treaty of
Vienna, which forbids any legitimate de-
scendant of the Emperor Napoleon Bona
parte from succeeding TO the Imperial IT,
tie. This is tantamount to declaration of
war, Louis Napoleon having attempted
to grasp the Imperial crown.
AS the President was coming out Of
the Elysee, he was shot at by soldier be-
onging to the Grenadier Company of
regiment Of the line. The man was i'm
mediately arrested, tried by court mar
tial and shot in corner of the Elysee.
A decree announces that the coins OF
France are to bear in front the efligy Of
the President.
The correspondent of the daily News
says that he is informed that the first arti-
Gle Of the Constitution is as follows =
The President of the Repulic takes the
title of Emperor. He also says that
coins have been stuck with the inscrip-
tion-Louis Napoleon, Emperor.
In the Departments the Projects are
ordering the trees of liberty to be cut
down, and all Republican signs des-
troyed.
The withdrawal Of Lord Palmerston
from the English Ministry was received
with lively satisfaction. 1t was rumorcd
that Lord Howden would resign in con-
sequence of the retirement of Lord p
The leading topic of public interest in
Great Britain had continued to be the
resignation of Lord p. Numerous eau
ses had been assigned, but the one most
generally acceptable, was self assumed
and unwarrantable interference of the
Prime Minister with the duties of the
Foreign Office. 1t is confidently stated
that the correspondence which had taken
place between the noble Lords would be
submitted to the House of Commons at an
early day. ..
The Royal Mail Steamer Amazon
from Southampton for the West Indies
took fire at ! P. NJ, on Sunday the 4th
inst, 60 miles west of Scilly, and was
entirely consumed, with mails, officers.
crew and passengers, except 2l persons:
including Mr.. Vincent, third Midship-
man. The number ofpersons aboard, $50.
The fire probably originated from spon-
taneous combustion.
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INrrRrsr1NG HEBREW RELIC

INTERESTING HEBREW REL1c.-By
the pcliteness of Col Lea, Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, we have been shown a
curiosity of great rarity and interest, left
for few days only at the Bureau. 1t
was brought from the Potawatamie Res
ervation, on the Kansas river, by DR..
Lykins, who has been residing there
nearly twenty years, of the thirty he has
spent on the frontier. 1t consists of four
small rolls or strips of parchment closely
packed in the small compartments of a
little box or locket of about an inch GU
bical contents. On these parchments
are written, in style of unsurpassed ex-
cellence, and far more beautiful than
print, portions of the Pentateuch, to be
worn as frontlets, and intended as stimu-
lants to the memory and moral sense,
DIR. Lykins obtained it from Pategwe
Potawatamie, who got it from his grand
mother, very old woman. 1t has been
in this particular family about fifty years
They had originally two Of them, but or
one occasion, as the party in possession
were crossing rapid in some river ir
the lake country of the North, the othel
was irrecoverably lost. The one lost wa.
believed by the Indians to contain an ac
count ef the creation Of the world. Tha
brought by DR., Lykins has been kept fo
very long period in the medicine bag
of the tribe, used as charm, and neve
allowed to suffer an exposure, until b,
strong entreaty and the great influence h
had with Topinepee, the principal Potta
watamie chief, he was permitted to brin
it on to Washington, but under a frr
pledge to restore it on his return. 1t ha
hitherto been kept from the rapaciou
The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1852-02-07
F. s. NEWELL,

TIN, sHEET.1RoN AND COPPER WORKER,
II EEPS always on hand, at his manu-
~ factory on Third near Roberts street,
st. Paul, general assortment of Iinware,
Sheet.Iron and Copper Camp Kettles; al
so, does work to order. such as Roofing,
Eve-troughs, Conductor, and the various
other kinds Of work in his line, besides
Zinc, Jappaned Lamps, Candle Sticks,
Spittoons, &C., as well as an assorted lot
of Stoves of various patterns.