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Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30

A Mdgnetjzer Ertraordjnary-A Liv-
erpool letter of june 21, to the Boston
Advertiser says:
The London swells, ever like the peo-
pie Of Athens, craving for some new ex-
citement, are eagerly anticipating thevisit
OF Signor Raggazoni, a magnetizer of
such extraordinary powers that the Ital-
ians call him ''Man Devil" or the 'Dev-
ii man. L forget exactly which, nor does
1t matter. The Signor, from an extreme
distance, or from another apartment, can,
it is said, strike senseless any one whom
he selects as his patient, or perhaps |
should say, his victim. He is the first
whose power has been strong enough to stop
the pulsation of the heart. At St. Cloud,
in the presence Of the Emperor and a
large circle of visitors, he performed, the
other day, some of his surprising expert
ments. He placed himself at the end of
long gallery in the palace, and upon re-
ceiving a memorandum in writing indica-
ting the person chosen from among the
company to be an example of his power,
stretched out his hand towards the victim,
who instantly fell, struck as by lightning,
stiff and senseless to the floor, and thus
remained, to all appearances dead, so long
as the Signor willed. Another gesture
on the part of the magnetizer, and the
patient rises, staring with ineffable amaze
ment around, and wondering what the
whole thing is about, staggers to his seat.
The most curious experiment at St. Cloud
was made upon young Italian singer (fe-
male) just arrived from Florence, who was
introduced under the auspices of the Prin-
cess Mathilde. and who sang with great
ecLat the andante of Vaccails bravura "Le
Romeo" In the allegro, which follows,
the singer was in the act of executing some
particularly brilliant passage, when the
Emperor, who was seated at the fur
ther end of the room, made sign to Rag
gazoni. The latter stretched forth his
hand towards the lady, when suddenly, as
if some internal power had seized her with
in his grasp, she stopped, with staring
eyes and mouth wide open. The unfnish-
ed note died away and after two or three
gulphing efforts she gazed round in terror,
and then fell forward ON the piano and
burst into tears. Her voice was paralized,
and in answer to the kind solicitations of
those around her not in the secret, and
who thought she was i'll, she could only
point to her throat with piteous express
sion of countenance and shaking her head
in despair At another sign from the
Raggazoni withdrew his magic
spell, and the cantatrice gave way to her
pent up words in torrents Of thanks at be-
ing liberated from SO distressing bondage.
She could not be persuaded, however, to
finish the piece.
Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30
Fillmore Vindicated by one of the Bit.
terest of his Enemies.
The last Aberdeen Conservative contain.

IereSC OF his enemies.
The last Aberdeen Conservative contains
the following:
Read! Read!i Read d!!,-Ga GalIosgay
oI; Fillmore Our Candidate FindicG-
ted Some of the antics are irving to
create the impression that Fillmore is not
fsOund on the slavery question. We shall
prove his orthodoxy from the highest
Democratic testimony known to this com
munlty- If any anti doubts the authen,
ITCHY of the production below, let him 90
down to the Office of the Sunny South and
examine the old files of the Florence Ga
zette- Let him turn to the issue of that
paper of June II, 1852, and he will find
galloway talking in the following truthful
and eloquent language
"MILLARD FILLMORE there is one
trait of character which we possess above
all others, it is political independence
that kind OF political independence which
prompts one to do justice to the acts and
motives of a political adversary, regard
less of that party circumspection which
says thus far shaH thou 90 and no farther.
Prompted by this feeling, we unhesita-
tlngly express the ardent hope that Mil
lard Fillmore may be the nominee of the
Wing Convention Should the nomina-
tiOn fall upon him, we would oppose his
election with all-our zeal, but should he
be elected, we would feel that in him the
SOUTH HAD TRUE AND RELIABLE
FRIEND.
ave notice that several of our Demo
cratic contemporaries call him ''AboIition
Fillmore. THIS Is AN UNJUST IMpUrA-
TIoN. When Mr. Fillmore was first nom
mated as a candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency, we -shuddered at the thought Of his
election. We saw that he had given votes
obnoxious to the South, and therefore be-
lieved him unsound upon the slavery
question. Our heart sickened at the pros
-pect OF his success, and we bitterly and
violently denounced him.
But We are happy to say that we were
agreeably disappointed, and that Hliard
Fillmore as one Of tie SouadeSt men an the
Union orr the so5ject Of siacery, ard that
he IS a PATRIOT and a STATESMAN.
HIS -1dmtaistration has been highly con-
sercGfiee. He advocated the compromise,
and used all his influence to quell the
storm of fanatieisnl-whiie his Adn1inis-
tratioa sho'cs that has sympathy and feel
jagS are 10itb the South. Such conduct Is
deserving Of praise, and we are not afraid
10 bestow it. "
There now, gentlemen, is not that proof
sufficient to show that ''MilIard Fillmore
* ono Of the soundeSt mon in tho ITnior,
on the subject of slavery patriot and
Il statesman ~
Hemphis Eagle d; Enquirer.
Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30
Antecedents Of Buchanan.

\ scathing review of the political ca
reer OF the Hon. james Buchanan, ap.
pears in the Pennsylvania Advocate &
Press, from which we make the following
extracts:
Alr. Buchanan entered political life in
lSl3-as 4 rank Federalist, and by the Fed
eral party was elected to the State legisla-
ture
In 1922 he was the Federal candidate
for Congress, and was elected over the
Democratic candidate by majority of go
votes.
In 1922, 1924, and 1926, he zas again
returned-but his fidelity to the Federal
party being doubted, he had to declare
that .'if he had drop of Democratic blood
in his veins, he would open them and let
it out"
Two years after this, he changed his
coat and became full-blooded Democrat,
and ran for Congress on the Democratic
ticket, and was elected by virtue of Gen'l
Jackson's popularity. He was afraid to
run a second time.
In 1913, in the U. s. Senate, he made
a speech advocating the principle that Ten
Cents was sufficient compensation for a
days labor. Hencehe is called Ten Cent
Jimmy
In 1915, he became Secretary of State
under Polk's administration, and consent
ed to give away about half of the Territory
of Oregon to the British government, after
he had proven that they had not spark
of title to it.
His tergiversation on the slavery ques-
ton is thus set forth:
In 1919, at meeting in Lancaster,
he reported resolutions, favoring resist
ance to the extension Of slavery, and the
admission of the State of Missouri as a
slave State.
In 1917 he wrote to the Democracy of
Berks county, saying that the Missouri
Compromise had given peace to the coun-
try, and that instead of repeating it, he
was in favor of its extension and mainte-
nance.
In 1852 he wrote to Mr.. Leake, of Va,
concerning Mr.. Fillmore's Compromise
measures of 1850, which had been passed
by Congress, and said .'that the volcano
has been extinguished, and the man who
would apply the frebrand to the combus-
tible materials still remaining will produce
an eruption that will overwhelm the Con-
stitution and the Union"
Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30
Fillmore and DoneIsoa.

Electoral tickets for Fillmore and DON
eison, composed of the ablest men of the
respective States, are formed in Missouri,
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland,
and Alabama-and here We have old
Georgia wheeling into the ranks. Let
the friends of our glorious cause take
heart The South is coming round to the
right, and in less than sixty days there
will be such tempest of Fillmore and
DOnelson enthusiasm all over this Union
as viii shake the very breath out of the
remains of Cincinnati Platform Democra-
cy-
Georgia 4Daerican party STATE Conven-
tiOa--We learn from a despatch to the
Mobile Advertiser that the State Conven,
of the American party in Georgia, called
to decide upon the action of the party in
that State, assembled at Macon on We'd
nesday last, and was largely attended,
There were sixty-five counties represented
by 26o delegates. The nomination of
fIhihore ana Donelson was cordially IatIfi-
ed, and strong electoral ticket was chos-
en-. VIM ILL., Crawford and Benjamin IL.
Hill were nominated Electors for the State
at large, and the following gentlemen for
District Electors: First District, Judge
Law, Second District, VIM NJ Brown;
Third District, Washington Poe; Fourth
District, Edmund Gordon; Sixth District.
a. Danratar- ID
Wright The despatch states that great
enthusiasm and harmony prevailed through
out the Convention, and a declaration of
principles was adopted.
~. o. Pic, 10th inst.
Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30
Another Sound National Democrat" "

As a specimen of the sound, national
Democrats of the North who represented
the Northern Democracy at Cincinnati,
and readily assented to the platform there
adopted, as one altogether broad enough
to mold them with perfect ease and COM
fort to themselves, may be instanced one
OF the delegates from Maine, the Hon.
VIM. K Kimball, who, in response to a
letter addressed to him, after the passage
of the Nebraska Kansas act, BIZ the Hon.
W. f. Vinton and others, replied as fol
lows:
"Upon the general subject of American
slavery my opinions, perhaps, are not diff
ferent from your own, or from those usu
ally entertained by Northern men. l re
gard it as social, moral and political evil
and its successful abolition, in my iudg
ment, would be worth almost any price
short of the Union itself The idea of it:
extension into new territories must be alb
horrent to every right-minded and SOUND
headed man. Nothing could induce mt
to give my vote or influence to establish
it on single foot of free soil"
Mr.. Kimball winds up his letter by say
ing that he regarded the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, ''in its practica
consequences" as s'likely to prove no dis
advantage to freedom"
Mem Eagle d Enq'r.
Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30
The American Constitution and the
American Party.

The fourth section of the second article
of our Constitution reads thus:
''No person except natural born citl-
zen, OF a citizen of the United States at
the time of the adoption Of this Constitu-
ton, shall be eligible to the Office of Pres
ident"
VIII the Appeal give us OF its readers
one good reason for this prescription
clause in our Constitution ? Will it tell
us why Washington, Madison, Franklin,
and the other Patriotic sages who framed
that Constitution, thought it best to put
such section in it? Was there any
necessity then for such feature in our
great textbook Was it wise, or pru-
dent, or kind, at that early day, thus to
exclude from the highest Office within the
gift of a generous and grateful people, such
a man as Lafayette
Will the Appeai frankly answer us =
We are earnest in wishing frank answer;
for many of oar readers read the Appeot
also, and they sometimes complain to us
that the Appeal has singular propensity
to ecade answering questions whose evil
dent fairness and Importance require hon
est, straightforward answers
OF course we are not responsible for
this queer lodging, so characteristic OF
our neighbors; but if the Democratic sub
scribers of the appeal, (in all things but
politics it is worthy of the support of oH
parties, viii still complain to us that 1t
does not answer our fair, open questions,
(for Democrats read our paper too, they
will see we are doing our best to bring
about a wholesome reform. VIII the Ap-
peal answer our questions
Memphis Eagle d Enquirer.
Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30

HoE's Press IN LONDoN--The fol-
lowing is from the London weekly news
paper, edited by Douglas Jerrold:
"Next week we trust these pages will be
printed on an engine planned by an Amer
lean brain, forged by American arms, and
set up here on English soil by American
hands-most noble specimens withal of our
American brethren on the other side of the
wave Now, what need we care for the
red tape when we may bind both sides of
the Atlantic together with the tapes of the
steam press %
Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30

RS- After the public reception of Mr.
Fillmore In, Buffalo, he started in a private
conveyance, to visit his aged father, now
eighty-six years of age, who resides on his
farm in Aurora, sixteeR miles from that
eitv
Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30

GREELEY's OPINION OF MR. FILL
MoRE's STRENGTH.-Almost every day
we hear some of the opposition papers say
that Mr. Fillmore cannot obtain the elec-
toral vote of single State in the Union.
To all such we commend the following,
from Greeley, written Soon after the Phil
adelphia Convention:
s.Mr Fillmore's administration was en-
tirely satisfactory to the Conservatives of
Slavery in that section, and he will pref
ty surely receive the electoral votes of
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Ten
nessee. North Carolina and Louisiana
are doubtful; Florida not impossible; even
Georgia may be fairly contested
1t is also a significant fact that the
States here set down for Mr. Fillmore are
those which have been the most liberal
and patriotic on all questions arising be-
tween the two sections-States that al
ways sustained the gallant Clay. Think
of this, reader.-Aobile Adrertiser.
Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30

re- The increase of the cotton trade of
Memphis during the present commercial
year, since 1st Sept. last is s5,000,0O0
Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30
Texts for the Times.

An antl-American orator, down at New
Haven, the other day, stated that every
Irish, or other pauper, that came to the
United States from Europe, was sub
stantial gain to the country, morally, ma
terially and physically We have stri
king corroboratiOn of this novel truth at
hand, in the following statistics, taken
from the books of the Recorders Court at
St Louis, vouched for as true and reliable
in every particular:
Total number of arrests made by the
Day Police from July IL, 1855, to March
lst, 1856 1865
OF which there were
Irish, sol
Germans, 239
Americans, 102
Negroes, 73
al other nations, Isl
Total number of arrests made by the
night police FROM April 10, 1885, TO March
l, 1856, 2,113
OF which there we're
Irish, -a 1872
Germans, Alb
Americans, I43
Negroes, 151
All other nations, I54
Total number of arrests. 3,479
Total number of Foreigners arrest
ed, 1924
Total number of Americans arrest
cd, 245
We sincerely commend these suggestive
statistics to the Hibernian orator above
alluded to-. lie should study them out.
and lay them to heart. They will help
him to wonderfully Illustrate his next lee
ture, on the Blessings of Pauperism, and
impress the American heart, with renew
ed gratitude to the European governments
for sending over to us so much intelli-
gence, morality, patriotism and the like !.
n. 7. Express
1t viii be seen from the above that the
number OF foreigners arrested in St. Louis
in less than year, was greater than the
Sag-Nicht majority in the recent election
an election that has been heralded over
the South as a Democratic triumph over
Americanism, and over the North as a
BLGcA; Republican triumph over Ameri-
canism
TMenlphjs Eag1e &; Enquirer.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-05-06
without Distinction OF Party

Edwin ID. Morgan, Simeon Draper, Joseph
Blunt and list Of other gentlemen, taking in
G. P. Williams, of this city, and ending with
Charles Q. Shepherd, the Abolitionist of Wyo-
ming, address themselves ito the People of the
State Of New York Withom regard to past po-
Hicdl differences or-SirisionS," and invite them.
to choose two delegates to State Convention
to be held in Syracuse, on Wednesday, the 2sth
prox.
How many just such appeals as this have
not these gentlemen made, ever since Simeon
Draper and the Pipe-ayers attempted to put
down popular sovereignty" in this State by
the importation Of train bands Of voters from
Philadelphia and elsewhere?
So before then, the Wing party was orga-
nized without regard to past differences"
SO the Ant-Masonic partyl So the Ambient
party So the Abolition partyl So the Re
publican party! But they we're all one and the
same thing; and their diverse names were but
changed DISCUSSES Of the opposition to the De-
mocratic party.
The most remarkable thing about the Call
we have quoted from is, that it is signed by the
Republican State Central Committee, appoint.
ed last year, and that they hare dropped the
name Of Republican.
SO that an alias has already become disre-
putable. What good name will they next faint
with their bad cause.-the alias and Argus.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-05-06
From the New Orleans (La.) True Democrat
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.

The Convention which is to assemble in
Cincinnati in June, to fix upon the Democratic
nominees for President and Vice President of
these United States, will have solemn and re-
sponsible duty to perform. Never, in the his
tory of our Government, has great National
party been placed in more responsible position,
nor called upon to perform more important
duty. Indeed, it maybe said that almost the sal
walton of our institutions depends upon the wis
dom of the choice then and there to be made
Not that the name of either of the patriotic
and prominent statesmen of our party, men
toned in this connection, would fail to elicit
cordial response from every true" Democrat !;
but, although all may be alike honest and pa
triotic, all are not expected to be- and in the
nature of things cannot be, alike in frmness,
prudence, wisdom and discrimination. "The
times are out of joint" Error, with its hydra
head, is abroad IN the land; and, like him
whom fable named the conqueror of old, we
want leader IN the next campaign who wields
a club which needs no second stroke We
want-and the innumerable factions and isms
which have recently sprung up, imperatigely
demand-a man whose antecedents are IN
questionable, whose talents and qualifications
are undoubted, and whose principles have with
stood alike the shock of partisan conflict and
the ~ still small voice" of popular demagogism
an delusion. These qualifications combined
with acknowledged parliamentary talents, great
suavity Of manners, and finished personal ad-
dress, point unerringly to the man Of our
choice for the next Presidency the man who,
had we the power, should be, the Man OF
Destiny" in this country for the next four years
to come That man is JAMES BUCHANAN,
Of Pennsylvania, and our late Minister to the
Court of Great Britain He it is whom we
are willing to pledge ourselves to sustain, to
the utmost of our ability, in bearing aloft the
banner of our country, against all outward
foes, as well as willy and insidious domestic
traitors; against the open foe to our demo
cratic form of Government, as well as against
that man or that party who is the pro
fessed friend Of Repubicanism, but whose con
duct is alike libel upon liberty Of conscience
as his creed is base subversion Of the very
Constitution itself
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-05-06
mas..ohuss,,s qualification.

At the opening of the present session of the
Massachusetts Legislature, Governor Gardner
recommended the repeal of such parts Of the
Personal Liberty" bill Of last year as were
unconstitutional. This is the act in which
Massachusetts nullifed the fugitive slave law,
and legislated the courts of the United States
out OF the State, on matters concerning slavery.
/ The Governor did not state what portions of
the act are unconstitutional, or what amend
ments it needed. The Legislature referred
tins part of his message to joint special com
mittee OF sixteen, and they have just made a
report or rather three reports, for majority
! of the committee could not be united on any
recommendation, and as there were three sets
OF opinions, there are three reports.
| The plurality report was made by seven
members of the dominant parties, the Ameri-
cans and Republicans. 1t sustains the princi-
pie OF the law, but proposes some modification
IN the details. 1t strikes out all the sections
OF the law which prohibit officers of the State
from becoming agents or attorneys for the re.
clamation OF slaves, but prohibits voluntary
service in the militia in aid of the law. The
disabling clauses against the jurisdiction of the
United States are retained.
The second report, signed by four members
of the same parties, advises the reference of
the subject to the Judges of the Supreme Court
OF the State, for their opinion on the constitu
tionality of the law
The third report is signed by four members
old line Wings and old Democrats-and it
recommends, for reasons given at great length,
the total repeal of the law 1t reviews the
whole legislation of Congress and Of the State
OF Massachusetts on the subject of fugitive
slaves, and the judicial decisions in the courts
of both, and makes out strong case against
Massachusetts, Of having deliberately violated
acts Of Congress and judicial DECISIONS, and
the plain provisions of the Constitution and
therefore that the act is of evil principle and
ought to be Internationally and Immediately
repealed.
1t appears, therefore, that of sixteen mem
bers OF the two Houses, Of whom the commit.
tee was composed, not one was to be found to
defend the law as it stands, and that majority
could not be found to express opinions in favor
of the principle of the law. It is an encour-
aging sign that a majority of the committee
were either decidedly hostile to the whole prin-
ciple and all the objects of the law, or were so
undecided as to determine their own.
1t is not likely, with such divided commit
tee, and such an homogeneous Legislature, any
thing can be done at present to abolish this
law, or to amend it in any part essentially. But
these reports are very encouraging indication
of an improved state of public opinion in Mas
sachusetts, since this abominable law was pass
ed last year, and favorable omen of better
success at another Legislature in an effort to
sweep it out of the statute book.-Neao Orleans
Picayane.