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Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
How Whisky Tastes.

The editor of the Boston Olive Branch
says, that at a recent session of one of the
western conferences of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, the venerable Bishop
Soule, in making some observations on the
subject of Temperance, is represented as
having Though [ have passed the
seventy-feth yesr of my age, hare not
get lears. ho,S rhisky tastes :" True to
the letter. sSe we're present on the oc-
f4ssion, ali hearo,, as the old people used
10 say, with my own ears" the statement
as it fell from the lips of that eminent min
lister of the cross of Christ.
And here it should be known and well
understood by all concerned, that as the
legitimate result of this rigid adherence to
the total disuse of ardent spirits, the Bish-
op, though now verging towards the eight
ieth year of his age, is possessed of a
much larger share of physical energy and
muscular strength than usually falls to the
lot of men in the prime of life; nor can
his most intimate aid intelligent friends
and acquaintances perceive the slightest
abatement in the herculean force and
vigor of his mental faculties. He stands
as upTightly, walks as briskly, eats as
heartily, sleeps as soundly, talks as fluent
ly, breaches as powerfully, prays as fer
vently, and feels as deeply and intensely
for the interest and prosperity of the
Church as he did forty years ago.
In addition to his incessant and arduous
labors, within the limits of the several
States and territories of this great confed-
eracy, for the last half century, he has
twice crossed the Atlantic, performed the
tour of Europe, and preached the glad tt
dings of salvation to admiring thousands
in nearly all the principal towns and cities
of the British Empire. Besides this,
within the last twenty-four months he has
twice visited California, superintended both
sessions of the Pacific Conference, and trav
eled extensively through many portions
of that far-distant land, proclaiming "Je.
sus and him crucifed," as the only hope
of Il wretched and ruined world, to the
vast crowds that everywhere hocked to
| hear him, in the wide wastes, as in the
cities full But not having yet filled up
the measure of his obligations to the
church and the world, he is even now
holdi himselfin readiness to pay Cali
fornia third visit, should no one of thu
younger members of the Episcopal Col
| lege find it convenient to enter upon the
performance of this important mission.
Such, in brief, is rough outline sketch
of the physical, intellectual, moral powe
and efficiency of the man-and the only
man-who can in truth say at the advanced
age of seventy five years--"I hare no
yet learned ho,c a0hishy tastes!"
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15

Trouble OF THE CHEROKEE INDIANS
WITH THEIR NEGROES.-A letter from
the Catholic Mission, dated the 10th ult-,
gives us the following information
..Our Osages, in returning from the
summer hunt, found in the vicinity of the
Arkansas river, some few dead bodies, say
three colored and one half red
A party of Cherokees were here In pur-
suit of runaway negroes, well provided
with arms, and we suppose they overlook
them in the plains and had battle"
So it goes. Not only the Territories of
the United States, but the Indian Terri
tories, are invaded by Abolitionists, and
mischief and murder follows.
The Cherokee nation of Indians, as 1t
is well known, are owners of large num-
bers of slaves, and are the cultlvators OF
large plantations a year ago, certain
Abolition teachers of the Church located
in that nation, commenced tamperlng with
the slaves and the Indian owners became
Indignant at it, and demonstrated against
their conduct
They were invited to quit the nation il
they could not desist from these mlschlev
Gus practices, and we recollect that theil
conduct was brought before some of the
church assemblages of the North, but o
the result we are not SO well satisfied
whether they left the Cherokee Nation o.
not. But the legitimate teachings OF the
Abolitionists are seen in the brief recort
which he have made above.
81. Louis Repu6.
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad.

We had an interview yesterday, says the
appeal of the 26th inst, with our old
friend WILLIAM S. WILLIAMS Esq, who
has lust returned from Arkansas, where
he has been actively employed for some
time past in locating the lands donated to
the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad
1t is supposed that the donation of alter
nate sections will give to the road from
three to four hundred sections of the very
richest and best located land Gall above
overflow in that State. At three dollars
an acre, which is certainly below fair av-
erage, this donation will yield to the COM
pany between 100000 and 100000. If
the donation is judiciously managed, it will
turn out more than 10000 900. These
lands are to be confirmed to the company
at the rate of one hundred and twenty sec
tions to each section of twenty miles of
road completed and put in running order.
We are gratifed to learn from MIR. VIII
liams, who, by the way, has more expert
ence in his Business than any one whose
services could have been secured by the
company, that all the location will be COM
pleted by the middle of October. A road
of so much vital Importance as this to our
Arkansas neighbors as well as ourselves,
will and must be pushed ahead.
-.. Eagle and Enquirer
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
The Whig Nominations.

1t will be seen by the despatch in ano-
ther column that the Whig National Con-
vention has nominated Millard Fillmore
for President, and A. j. Donelson for
Vice President. The action of the con
vention has met the expectations of the
country No other result was looked for.
The convention met with a view to take
measures to reinstate the WhiG party in
its ancient and honored position as the
great conservative organization of the I'm
ion. To this end it has chosen, as the
Wing leader in the present campaign, the
man whom the party has long delighted to
honor.
Mr.. Fillmore has been "tried and not
found wanting" He has occupied with
credit to himself, and advantage to the
country, the proud position to which it is
sought to again elevate him, the highest
position in the gift of free people. Du-
ring his term of office he commanded the
respect of those who were opposed to his
views of public policy, and he enjoyed the
admiration of the party with wi ich he was
identified. He now receives the well-earn-
ed reward of his patriotic services in this
renewed proof that he enjoys the urbOun-
ded confidence of the Whig party.
The convention, in nominating Mr.. Fill
more for the Presidency, have shown that
in their estimation, he has well founded
claims on his fellow-citizens- claims rest
ing on faithful public services and unfail-
ing devotion to the interests of the coun-
try; that they believe a majority of his
fellow-citizens have faith in him, in his
devotion to the Union and the Constitu
tion, in his impartiality, and in his ability
to perform, with satisfaction to all sections
Of the Confederacy, the duties of the high
position to which they seek to elevate him
The action of the Whig Convention will
have a very powerful influence on the
Presidential contest, and we may reasona
bly, expect that henceforth the politlca
campaign will be conducted with great
spirit and energy, by all parties, and thai
many distinguished Wings, whose voices
have not yet been heard, will presently
appear before the people in support of thei
candidate for the Presidency.
Without saying any thing derogatory Il
Others we may express our opinion tha
Mr.. Fillmore has claims and qualification
which give him strong hold on the affec
tions and the support of the people
GN. 0. Picayune 1871 uh-
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
American Slaves in Italy

The Intelligent correspondent of the
Newark Daily AdUertiser in his letter of
the 2Sd of August, has the following par
agraph:
Advise American ',olders who come
abroad to leave tkeir 81 at home
| rass they are disposed to- lem. All
na,.s and classes in Europ~ 5wever
much they may differ on questions .eh-
| ing their oN ! rights and condition, appe =
2 concur in being thorough Abolitionist
as regards African slavery in the United
States, which is every where denounced
with unsparing bitterness. Mrs. Stoves s
book, and the present political discussions
of the subject are read in every quarter
of the continent; and they have every
where inspired special sympathy for the
slave An excellent Virginia lady, who
has been sojourning here some years with
her family, having recently made arrange
ments to return home, found on the eve of
departure that negro girl of some twenty
ty-two years, who has been brought up and
most kindly treated as a confidential do
mestic, had been advised to leave her and
remain in the country, which she resolved
to do, notwithstanding her own manifest
attachment to her benefactress and her
children. The girl, besides having been
well instructed in the more common bran
ches of an English education, had been
taught both French and Italian, under this
benificent care. She had moreover, been
repeatedly assured that she might consider
herself as free, whenever she conld advan-
tageously change Ler circumstances. Yet
the influence of numerous advisers here
has prevailed and she remains in land
of strangers, under the alarming conf ura-
tions of Italian imaginations. A New Or
| leans lady lost favorite domestic in the
same way few months since, and the poor
creature, having thus deprived herself of
earlier associations, and sure support,
lost her wits in the trial, and is now in "a
lunatic asylum. 1t should be added to
the honor OF the l4dy first named, that she
has made ample provisions through Il friend
/ here to secu her lost tavorite from such
a contingency.
| Our Southern Disunionists are constant
/ lv telling us what excellent bargains we
could drive with European governments,
in case we should cut loose from the North
/ We differ entirely from them in this res
pect, and we tell them distinctly what the
| Hon. W. c. RIvEs, of Virginia, told So.
Carolina, some years since, that if those
European governments should once get us
into their grasp, it would be the coil of the
anaconda, the cold, loathsome saliva of the
huge reptile would be poured out upon us.
They sometimes point to EagIand and
alliance with her! England the head and
front of Abolition movements in this coun-
try, that years ago sent GEORGE THoMP-
son, since an NJ. P, to stir up the fires OF
fanaticism among us and set the ball in
motion. Are Southern Disunionists era
zy?-N o. Bulletin.
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
T From, the Memphis Eagle DC Enquirer.


Let 1t azoays be remembered, that Mr..
Fillmore has declared himself utterly hos
tile to the odious, abolition doctrine of
Squatter Sovereignty, Gas advocated by
Buchanan, Douglas, Van Buren, and 9TH
er great leaders of the Democracy North"
Don't forget, too, that Mr.. Calhoun de-
nonnced this doctrine as ''the most mon
strous ever advanced by an American
statesman-worse than Wilmot Proviso-
ISM" And then look at the fact that the
leaders of the Southern Democracy, tho
heretofore as bitterly opposed to it as Mr..
Calhoun, are willing now to betray the
best interests of the South by going for
the very man whom VIM. l.. Yancey, of
Alabama, denounced as ''the father of
Squatter Sovereignty''-JAMEs BUCHAN-
AN!
Will the South suffer itself to be bound
hand and foot in this day? Never! Never! !!
Never
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
TURNING INTO A PLATFORM

TURNING INTO A PLATFORM.-"Ethan
Spikes" the humorous correspondent of
the Portland Me- Transcript, in the
following citation from his last letter
shows how feller feels when he becom-
ing a platform:
FelloO Citieens-I not only mount the
platform but I'd ride it to Joppa eff the
salty of CONSTRUCTION and the Union shall
seem to ak it. shall so kinder mix my
self with this platform that twill be hard
to tell t'other from which Yes-feller
citizens, you're lookin' yer last on the late
Onspeakabl Libby. 1 fell the planks 60
ing into my ribs, my inerds are hardening,
my leg are Telling awfully timblish, an my
nose is turning inty twenty pennys and
spikes. l shall soon be a platform, and
my wife widder-anless it are constitoo-
tional for such kind of furniture as Pm be-
comm to keep wives.
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
DEMOCRATIC PRosCRIPTIoN.--We lear

DEMOCRATIC PRosCRIPTIoN.--We learn
(says then. 0. Crescent) that the parties
who are in authority at the Navy Yard
near Pensacola, Fa., have been detected
in an attempt to use the authority which
they have under the Government of the
United States, for the purpose of inf1uen-
cling the elections.
The following card which we copy from
the Pensacola Gazette, of the I'd instant,
speaks for itself We will merely remark
that Woolsey is little village in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of the Navy Yard,
being only separated from it by a wall:
WooLsEY, Aug. 1856.
This is to certify that o. B. Faulkner
did say, that if would sign my name to
paper that he had, and let him publish it
in the paper, that would support the
Democratic candidates, that should have
work before night; and that the Demo-
Gratis intended to keep the Americans out
of employment as long as they could in
the Navy Yard, and not employ any Of
them. HENRY billiard.
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
NO. AZ.
Great Whig Ratification Meeting in
Baltimore.

OF this meeting, the Baltimore Ameri-
can of the 18th, says:
The meeting of the Wings of Baltimore
and of the whole Union at Monument
Square last evening was an incident in
life time, nothing of the kind been wit
messed in this city since the year 1910,
when it was proclaimed.
"Every mountain has sent forth its
rill-every valley its stream-and 10! an
avalanche of the people is here
Equally was the aclammation applicable
to this great congregation of the friends
of the Union, the constitution, and the
laws. To endeavor to estimate the thou
sands present during the evening would
be futile. Suffice it to assert, without
fear of contradiction, that the great polit
in this locality added together would
scarcely have equalled in numbers this
immense outpouring of the people, and the
enthusiastic shouts of the assemblage'
went up in solid volume of sound
that reverberated through half the CITY,
There was no firing of cannon and pistols
no glare of fireworks or rallying of the peo-
pie with professions, drums, or trumpets.
They came fourth from their houses, thou
sands of them, with their wives and
daughters, all glorying in this impulsive
revival of the organization of the old hon
ored Wing party, and all confident there
would be no infractions of law, no turbu-
lence or violence of word or deed, but that
all would be as in the good old days of
Clay and Webster, when a Whig Mass
Meeting was distinguished as an occasion
for the exposition of reason and argument,
rather than the burning of powder, and
the provocation of violence.
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15

So live that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan. that moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall
take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou 60 not hike the quarry slave at night,
Scourged TO his dungeon. but sustained and
soothed-
Bv unfsltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one that draws the drapery of his couch
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15

Posr THE Books What an econom-
ical administration is this How stand
the figures? Here they are from official
sources. The expenses are
s75,6S4,400, year!
S6,407 200, month :!
S1,452 ,92O, week y.
S2O7, 600, day y!
ss 900, an hour ! II!
Sl44, minute y!
81, 40 second i!Iis
What is the guarantee that James Bu--
chanan, if elected, will be any more care
full of the peoples money than Franklin
Pierce has been ?-Helena Shield.
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15

The Nashville Patriot truly says that
Gen. VIM L. Haskell, the eloquent Fill
more orator, "is attracting larger audien-
ces and creating stronger feeling among
them than any man now speaking in the
Union" Gen. Haskell is probably one of
the greatest of living popular orators.
Asensphis Eagle
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15

A Universalist preacher at Dayton, O.,
lately starved himself to death by direction
of the "Spirits."
Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15

Hon. Mr. Belser, an old-line Democrat
and an ex-member of Congress himself in
favor of Fillmore.
Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-12-17
NUMBER l45.
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH .
CONGRESSIONAI.

wAmseroS, Dec. le.-SESArE-On motion of Mr.
Dodge, the Secretary OF War was requested t - E IN
instructions from his department, or from Gov Sh.nnop
TO Col Sumner, relative Kansas Affairs not
communicated The joint resolution extending the Jim.
Tor e creditors OF Texas to present their claims vas a..
bated ill the hour Of adjourumcnt = y =
horsE;-Mr Whitfield introduced bills 70 compensate
the people OF Kansas for losses during the recru, .,
land Offices in Kansas '''''"'' '''''
Mr. Campbell OF Ohio, reported the Indian. Civil md
Army appropriation bills, which referred 70 ,he com
.ee o' the whole on the state Of the Union Mr. Camp
oen aso reported bill to amend the tariff OF s4a s -
70 prohibit the importation Of indecent and obscene op,
uansparencies, statues. &c The bill was passed
on motion OF Mr. Campbell the bill reducing the Buties
frsi Tuesday ia January. ' ~"
Inc RESIDENTS message then debated till the hour
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sUPERsTTTTOUs REIITF IN nTSrrcv

lHE MISSION oF TnE PHiLANTHRoPisr.-Napocon the
Nephew Ike Napoleon the Uncle, believes that he has A
great mission 70 fulfil and that bis lie h In no peril until
u IS accomplished. But OF how little Importance 10 the
world - the mission Of Emperor when compared with
that OF phanthropis, Ike Holloway He indeed With
out impropely perhaps might be supposed 10 be under
the protection OF special providence for bis mission s to
revive the SICK TO sooth bodily anguish 70 save human
ME these the deeds Of ben6cence and love and er
cy Prom all quarters We hear OF the most astounding
cures accomplished by bis nestmablc Pills and Ointment
10 the ormer Of these remedies al diseases Of the skin
the muscles, aud the glands, to yield like morning
sts before The sun The Pills put the route indigcs
uon' liver complaint and disorders Of the bowels With
equs certainty Our national disease, dyspepsia is in
peril Of annhiatoD, aud have seen enough 70 feel a.
sufcd that whenever HooWay's Pills are universally adj
ministered for this distressing complaint IL win inevitably
oe expelled from society Every day confirms the opin.
ion we have heretofore expressed, that Hooways ned
cnes are the only preparation IN existence that operate
directly upon the sources Of disease and We should be
ung 70 case OF sickness to throw away the phsrmsco-
p0a forbid the doctor our presence and trust 10 them
and them alone.-BOsioa Journal
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VNFANTs HOBES.-A lsrgs s-ornen, of Tnfsuss I'm.
~ broiierei Muslin Rohes and WAISTS
Honitou facc Bcrthss Collars Sleeves
Engilsh fisce sets and Collars
White acunc-a silk Robes, for parties
White and coiorcd brocha nssue Tor parties
Plain rsrieton and shne srd cofd smb'd Muslin
lads Dimy and vhfs nriiiants
CRIB and Cradle Blankets ard Quits
kch Paris Mousees SIH aud 50 cents are usually
sold Al T5 cents
Plaid Mcriuos, heautifui assirtunent
Colorcd Slts, from e1H to richest imported
o. sles W o. .ed AZ gs. e.rgains e prepare for
deis CHRISTIAN 4 LATHRoP
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LARUS & SHINE,
AUCTI0SEERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS
u Main street, Richmond, Va
AlL give their undivided Of Raj
Personal Estate sale OF Household Furniture Stock Goods
&C. h Also special attention to sales Saturdays Horses
Cows, Carriages Wagons, Ac- sc. - '
Also keep constantly hand the largest stock Of
FURNITURE 10 be found In this market, consisting Of
Mahogany and Rosewood wardrobes
Do Marbiea and Mnhoy.,x ton C.h..,.
Sideboards and wAsnstAnds - ~ N-"'
Splendid Spring Seat Sofas, Te Tees Diyans and Lounges
spring Ssai PArlor, Cane and Windsor Chairs
Spring curid Rockers, soeiabss whatnots
Also beautiful Chamber setts ov..b., viii
general assortment Of Housekeeping Goods. ~
The city and country trade invited our collection
p. O. LARUS. JaMFs ~ strrsv
orQS
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ARREST OF A COLoRED PREACHER

LouisvILLE, KY. Dee ia eoIored Metbodi,, nr.,.h
was arrested on Saturday last TIE steamer telegraph
WIN vaise iuI Of incendiary publications He Nj
oeeA IN running of slaves from Carrlton Iu
slana where reward OF 5000 had been offered 70, him
was taken there yesterday The documents found In
nis possession implicaie prominent Northerners =
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procsedng London an.
ouer route, Tor the economy sf t1a- spa money.
-. rusios vnon ssv rsExtx
second do aco.- -' '' 0"'''"'t t''"'
Al e:ier and newspapers pass through Post Once
sailing " f e'ea o" 'he u-y
~ ,,,, an srrEsOn attached To each ship
fo' HeAeh' OF passage, apply 10 Q. II. SAND,
III South William lev York.
A. HETNEKEN 4 CO, bremen.
Ia1I-iylwl WH fsTifS U,x ovu'"AnP'oh'
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LATER FROM MEXICO

=, Nrw ORLEANS, Dec l3.-The steamer Calhoun. from
vera Cruz brings dates to the 9th inst Pueba vas ,n
rendered on the 9th TO the Government forces yd,u.
treaty had been confirmed Alvarez has tai ,ha s,s
in defence Of the Government ~e'' '"e Ne'u
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fosk Dec l6-Four Is upward, State brands at
49, 70 ~ scuthern u hrm Wheat Corn Ia
uneiAnsed- STOCKS are generally lever; yirE4nias 9s
BAioEr Dec l6The rather ths
& hG.srd '.,Ss aad Sy M brought $3.50 whsa whis
63 cts. Oats s0dl cts. ' ~ '" ''@ " W
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NOrICE-To ALL WHOM IT NAY CONCERN .-whsrea,
- he Richmond and Dsnvc Railroad Company hsve haf ne
70 lS,, nsr i,si house IN Mchmond a. ven por
.n " e roung stock. they conaind Tor present
deliver AT down hee he siding road on me depot
ot IN h city a. uc trains shall freht 70 be
netatey removed By hosc 70 whom Be consigned
nE - NE Company s not BE responsible for ne safe Keeping
NC and the parties concrnsi wI
uore take noice that Al down freight before stated yin e
A. their rsk ~ soon a. uuloadcd from Ne cars.
Jsai-a supsr,ns.naen, Of fsssspsr.,sp.
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SEVERE srORN AT nt-pg.To

pee lIe storm Of yesterday very severe IN ~.
vicinity, aud accompanied with sn.w td.....
property and several warehouses unroofed uum
r In the lover verr sooaa 81
many Sadinss entirely destroyed. sesps OF the fars-,s
was Injured. 'Ne'' f0''ohA'ey no
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RISON OFFICER ASSAssINATrn

Boston, Dec. l5:-Wm. Baker, the deputy warden Of
the Massachusetts, State Prison. was stabbed his morn
while leaving the chapel by prisoner named Niece e
He died almost immediately
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Tn MINERAL POINT RIUPo,n

CHICAGO, Dec. l5.-The Common Counc;I "A c.I.n.
nave voted to subscribe for 100000 Of the stock of tho
mineral Point Railroad and have also appropriated ss
VVo 70 construct lock in The Gaena river.