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TJUGuENOT EXIl.ES, or The Times Of Loais the
/ l. Fourteenth--a historical novel. for salc by
juneiTd CAVE son.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
WHAT DO THE PEOPLE WISH TO
KNOWS

| The people wish to know that the candidates
for whom they vote will guard the public honor,
| public and private rights and interests abroad,
and that they will diligently seek to extend
our commerce into new quarters and to get old
restrictions and obstacles removed
They wish to know, above all things, that the
party they seek to put into power will not en-
gender crusade of one half of the Union
against the other half, thereby destroying the
| national harmony, endangering all interests
and periing the Union.
The people see very clearly that the election
| of the Democratic nominees, is a sure guaran-
tee, and is the only guarantee, against these for
midable evils.
The people see as plainly as the sun at noon
day, that the election Of the revolutionary
party opposed to the Democratic nomination,
is certainly to inaugurate a series Of aggres-
sive measures upon the rights of portion Of
the States and upon the interests of all of
them, which must inevitably result in the
direst discord, in collisions of authority. in dis
regard Of law and the Constitution and an en-.
tire alienation of feeling.
The course Of the Government under the adj
ministration Of James Buchanan, will intro.
duce no new and irritating issues, but steady
hand at the helm viii keep the ship of State
strictly on the parallel Of the Constitution.
Every man feels that his private interests
will be secure under such an Administration.
then every man should give his aid to secure it.
Except spoils hunters and politicians, no
man feels secure against public perturbations
if the opposition should succeed
What is every mans interest, is the interest
Of the nation.
The tactics Of warfare against the Demo.
cratic nomination, can find no weapons except
upon issues not involved in the contest. Mis-
representation and falsehood will TEEN in every
shape in which falsehood and malgnity can
give them form.
No one apprehends evil under an admins.
tration of the Democratic nominations. All
that it has to do is to keep matters steady and
discountenance every attempt at agitation from
whatever quarter, and to allow the people one
term OF quiet.
Let us unite as one people and have our un.
divided energies front 10 foreign powers.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
VISIT TO MIR. BUCHANAN.

The Keystone Club of Philadelphia paid a
visit to Mr. BUCHANAN at his residence, Wheat
land,) June 9th.
The President Of the Club was introduced to
Mr. BUCHANAN, and congratulated him as the
nations choice
Mr.. BUCHANAN made the following reply:
GENTLEMEN OF THE KEYSTONE CLUB: give
you most hearty and warm welcome to my
abode. ! congratulate you, not upon my nomi.
nation, but upon the glorious privilege of being
a citizen Of our great republic. Your supe-
riority over the people Of other countries has
been fully demonstrated by the conduct of the
vast concourse assembled during the past week
at Cincinnati. Upon any similar occasion in
Europe the voluntary expression of the people
would have been drowned in martial music,
and their actions controlled by an army with
banners. How unlike the spectacle at Cincin-
natl, where delegates from the people Of the
different States met in convention, and under
the protection Of the Constitution and the laws
harmoniously deliberated upon subject OF
vital importance to the country.
Gentlemen, two weeks since, should have
made you a longer speech, but now that have
been placed upon a platform, Of which / most
heartily approve, and being the representative
OF the great Democratic party, and not simply
James Buchanan, must square ny conduct
according to that platform, and insert no new
plank, nor take one from it, That platform is
sufficiently broad and national for the whole
Democratic party. This glorious party, now
more than ever, has demonstrated that it is the
true conservative party Of the Constitution and
Of the Union.
After a personal introduction to the mem
bers Of the Club, and partaking OF refresh
ments, the visiters were escorted TO some dis
lance from Wheatland by Mr.. Buchanan, when
a friendly parting took place.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12

The New York Daily Times can find in the
Constitution abundant authority for the pun.
ishment Of Mr. Brooks, whose offence was com
mitted out Of the halls OF Congress, and who
inflicted chastisement on Mr. Sumner for a
uiolation of that freedom Of debate allowed by
the Constitution. But It appears wholly at a
loss to find any authority for the premeditated
" disorderly' conduct Of Mr.. Sumner in open
Senate to the faces Of al, repeated over and
over nearly two hundred times in one morning
and it is in these violations Of decorum as well
as the freedom Of debate that the Republicans
Of the North seek to sustain and to Justify Mr..
Sumner.
This Gaming Of Sumner appears to be trump
card; and with the Black Republicans the
Gained Sumner appears TO be far more irresis-
tible than Orator Sumner They secretly re-
joice over j., Boosting that il will add one hun
dred thousand votes to their strength
If such be the fact, then the Black Republi-
cans should show their gratitude to Mr.. Brooks.
AS the mists Of passion blow away, reason
will perceive the truth Of the whole matter. and
the reaction prove wholesome.
The mere act Of Gaming man NAV be
justified by the provocation; but nothing could
justify the disgrace which Mr.. Summers disor-
DERBY conduct visits upon the Senate and the
country; while the offence receives tenfold ag.
gravation from the fact that there was no Just
proyocation for his outrages upon the Senate
and upon decorum; nor was the offensive Ian
guage pertinent to the subject matter OF dis
cussion.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF THEM AT
HOME.

People living at distance from New York,
and reading the Post, Tribune, Courier and
Enquirer, and Daily Times, might suppose
from the pompous and dictatorial air Of these
papers, their editors were men Of standing and
consideration in the community in which they
live.
Figures, it is said, cannot lie; and judging
these parties by an unerring mathematical rule,
we find them reduced to the lowest standard.
The Black Republican party, to whose sup.
port these papers yield their utmost aid, re-
ceived at the last election about 1000 votes
against some $4,000.
What comment upon their pitiabls insig-
nifcance and cock-sparrow strutting is this
simple fact.
Why, the number OF persons directly and in.
directly concerned with these papers, as en-
ployees of theirs, and parties to whom they are
customers, would of themselves reach that mum.
Der.
If they relied upon any consideration for
them by the city of New York, they would
starve. Their editorials are treated with in
difference or contempt. They are used as an
advertising medium to the country, but are
utterly without influence with those in whose
midst they are.
The pitiful figure they make where the full
value of all they say is well known, should
teach persons elsewhere to hold their editorials
as apochryphal in truth, and the mere snares
of spoil's hunters.
editorials, which are an encumbrance to those
papers. They use their papers for the promo
ton of all sorts of swindles in the stock market
in which they themselves habtually dabble.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12

rA- The republican journals have been quite
lavish in their praise Of Senator Sumner
speech. They have pronounced it Demosthenic,
&c, and the Buffalo Republic takes occasion to
show that in this respect they are not far out oil
the way. Il quotes from Demosthenes's great
Grafton on the crown:
at cannot be that you have acted wrong in
encountering danger for the liberty and safety
of all Greece. Mol By the generous souls
who were exposed at Marathonl By those who
stood arrayed at Platea! BY those who en-
countered the Persian feet at Salamis, who
fought at Artemisium! BY all those illustrious
sons Of Athens whose remains lie deposited in
the public monuments! What
belongs to gallant men they all performed
their success was such as Providence dispensed
10 each"
The following is from Senator Summers
speech:
"But it cannot be that she acts wrong for
herself and children, when in this cause she
thus encounters reproach. No! By the gene
rous souls who were exposed at Lexington
by those who stood arrayed at Bunker Hill
BY the many from her bosom who, on all the
fields of the first great struggle, lent their
vigorous arms to the great cause of abby the
children she has borne, whose names alone are
national trophies, is Massachusetts, now vowed
irrevocably TO this work. What belongs TO the
faithful servant she viii do in all things, and
Providence shall determine the result"
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
From The Virginia Sentinel.

A Sumner association has been formed in
New York, and has resolved to present Mr.
Sumner "a civic crown and service of plate
as "a tribute TO his championship of free
speech" 1t is also said that Edward Everett
and Jared Sparks have contributed to similar
testimonial. This we think doubtful.
When men condemn Mr., Brooks assault as
wrong in itself, and not justified by the pro-
vocation, We understand them. When they
even sympathise with Sumner as having been
treated with undue severity, we understand
that. But when they undertake TO vindicate
foul words, and TO compliment them with civic
wreaths and to dignity deliberate rivalry OF
fsh-market impromptus with the term cham
pionship of free speech-they go beyond the
bounds where charity of opinion cannot follow.
Is language which Seward condemned and be.
sought him not to use, to be henored as a
model of senatorial debate? Is a man 10 be-
rewarded aud honored for g switching from his
tongue" abusive phillippics," and indecent
invectives y If so, it is absurd to exclaim
against the violence that will inevitably follow,
until the millennium comes. And so long as
Northern citizens encourage Sumner by gifts
OF plate, to future violences of speech-it may
be expected that Brooks will be presented
with canes, by the opposite sentimement of the
South.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
R H - II ON - II -
TO IT H H
: M q M Il M "a TT O NJ -

JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION.
This association met at their room on TuesI
day evening last, and adopted the following
resolutions, thereby endorsing the nomination
of Mr.. BUCHANAN, and Mr.. BREcKINRIDGE:
RESOLVED, That cordially congratulate the
country upon the harmonious nomination of the
Hon. James Buchanan The Democratic candi.
date for The next Presidency. AS citizens of the
metropolis o. the Union, we take plea sure in The
remembrance of his liberal and enlightened course
in the Senate Of the United States, and in every
other Official station heretofore occupied by him,
whenever measures touching its interests have
been presented for considerations and we enter
into the coming canvass with a zeal, with which
those remembrances well calculated 10 in
spire all good citizens of this District where his
purity, wisdom, and patriotism well known.
Rssotved, That we hail with the liveliest salts
faction, The selection of the Hon. JOHN G. BRICK
INslDGE as the Democratic Candidate to r the Vice
Presidency-a gentleman whose brilliant talents,
private virtues refined chivalry, and popular man
ners, exhibited during Congressional career of
four years, has secured for him here at the eat of
Government the confidence and respec. ofthe en-
tierity of our people, which will command for him,
and for the I cket of which he forms part, our
most enthusiastic support.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12

has reached q point from which it promises
soon TO advance to open rebellion. We have
an abiding confidence In the conservatism OF
the Anglo-Saxon mind, and we believe that
reaction from this extreme Of fanaticism is des
tined TO take place, which will place this
whole question of slavery on its proper footing,
there, We trust permanently 10 rest With
this belief we SHALL and we hope every true
patriot who writes or speaks, will lay out his
last efforts TO allay excitement and to recall
the public mind TO calm and dispassionate
consideration of the questions involved.
One feature in Mr.. Summers case, these
northern indignatonists seem wholly to have
overlooked. Sumner made a great persona
attack upon Judge Butler, an old man who was
absent from his seat in the Senate, and upon
South Carolina. They see in this no excuse
for Mr.. Brooks calling him to account, while
they charge that through Brooks The whole
South was attacking the free States generally,
and Massachusetts in particular They forget
or profess to forget, that the South,might, with
equal reason, charge that the whole North was
through Sumner, attacking the whole South
and South Carolina in particular.
They can see nothing wrong IN Summers
gross attack upon Mr. Butler, his personal Will
tication of brother Senator, who was ole
enough TO be his father, and absent at the tim,
from Washington. This wholesale condemna
ton on the one hand, and justification on thu
other, can be of no benefit to our northern
brethren. They bluster good deal and tall
about arming themselves, as though the
thought the South could be bulied by vulga
threat. Let them learn to talk less violent
at distance and act more boldly in the pres
ence of danger.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12

No one will seriously ask, "Wbo is James
Buchanan" He is no unknown or obscure
man-no third or fourth rate politician sudden
ly elevated to prominence by the intrigues Of
spoilsseeking politicians. He is a ripe states.
man, and man of unblemished character,
known and respected by all his countrymen.
Such is his position that his nomination is gen.
orally regarded as equivalent to an election,
though this conviction will only stimulate the
zeal Of his supporters, and give vigor to their
efforts TO swell his vote in all the States. His
nomination will abate the dangerous sectional
feeling which has sprung up under the rule Of
the present Administration, and renew the
confidence Of the people, in all sections Of the
Union, in the stability and permanency Of our
republican institutions.--New York Sun.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12

The Mayor Of Washington has made the fol
lowing annointments and removals.

The Mayor Of Washington has made the fol-
lowing appointments and removals:
James M. Carlisle, Attorney, vs. Jos. III.
Bradley, removed. Joshua l.. Henshaw, tax
clerk, removed. A. j. Larner, book-keeper
removed.
Police Consta6les-First Ward, r. III. Deg
ges, J, [. May, vice Washington Hurley and
}. d. Pierce; Second Ward, Thomas William
son and VIM. II. Fanning Third Ward, John
w. Reynolds, in place of j. r. Cuttings, re-
moved; Fifth Ward, Hugh Dougherty, Joseph
Mitchell. and Reuben Collins; Sixth Ward, E.
Stenislaus and VIM. Harper.
j. II. Rawlings, commissioner of improve
ments, vice G. w. Hardness, removed. VIM.
Barr, scavenger First Ward, vice George T..
McGlue. John Waters, market master Centre
market, vice Leonard Storm, removed. John
r. Queen, Intendant Washington Asylum,
(alms house,) vice William Dixon, removed
A. w. Miller, M. D., physician do, in place of
DR.. Geo. Mpove. Washington Bruner, Geo.
ii. Fulmer, and Il. +. Queen, commissioners
in place Of Theodore Wheeler, j p. White, and
b. w. Reed.
AUXILIARY Guard-John Mills, Captain, vice
James Ii. Birch, removed; Frederick A. Neitz,
vice S. Hubbard, removed; William Lloyd, vice
}. W. Birch, removed Charles T. Griffin, vice
w M .. urlHln, removed Edward Snort, vice
| D. II. Lukron, removed Francis Ward, vice
j. W. Ross, removed Lewis r. Denham, vice
Joshua Lloyd, removed John III. Sessford, vice
| +. z. Cross, removed George III. Langley,
vice A. Duvall, removed; Richard Stops, vice
J. B. Stanley, removed; David Davis. vice P,
B. Bell, removed John Ricketts,, vice j. f.
Little, removed; Lewis E. Burkhart, vice G.
ii. Atchison, removed; William Daw, vice G
IL. Grant, removed; VIM. Horner, vice j. w
D. Gray, removed; Henry S. Ward, vice I. A.
Clements, removed; Joseph Carrico, vice Ed
ward Thomas, removed; George Evans, vice
R. r. Hazard, removed John b. Frere, vice
VIM. B. Dyer, removed; James Suit, vice NJ
Piggott, removed John Hazle vice J. w
King, removed Franklin Birkhead, vice j. w
Elliott, removed; John Z. S. Hilton, vice John
Hodgkins, removed B. Donnelly, vice j. AL
len, removed Joseph Goodyear, vice George
Hutton, removed; Joseph E. Birch, vice Geo
W. Aron, removed; VIM. Bird, vice G. A.
Breast removed Joseph S. Norwood, vice G.
G. Ecklofi, removed Jas. Mcfarland, vice
| VIM. Mockabee, removed; Joseph P. Hough
vice g. J.. Arnold, removed; Nicholas Drum,
| vice Charles Colling, removed.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
From the Charleston Evening News.
The Nomin alton.

| Mr.. Buchanan was not our choice for the
Presidency. We had other preferences. We
had, we think, safe predictions If these had
been grati6ed, they would have better realized
our standard for this high Office. Bot let this
| pass into oblivion with other cherished and I'M
grati6ed aspirations. We will acquiesce in
the nomination as a member Of the Democratic
States Rights party, of which Mr.. Buchanan is
certainly an ornament. We shall be willing
to Judge him on his own merits and not by his
antecedents or our personal preferences We
will endeavor to give his measures the benefit
OF impartial consideration, and his motives that
OF charitable construction. Although chosen
by mode which we never have given and
never can lend our sancton-that of a political
caucus-this shall not disturb the rectitude of
our Judgment
Mr.. Buchanan in his career as a legislator
and adminstratorhas been temperate and eau
tious. He has had large experience. His
mind has been sharpened by the conflicts Of
debate. He has been trained in diplomacy.
He has given proofs of administrative ability.
He therefore enters on his functions with every
favorable prediction on the score of modera-
ton, sagacity, experience, all the endowments
IN short that can confer practical craftsmanship.
But he assumes his lofty position in troublous
dangers, internal and external. Domestic con-
vulsion impends on one side. Foreign com.
plications appear to menace our peace on the
other. The Union seems TO hang by the slep-
derest of threads. Political passions threaten
an extended border war. Sectional strife is
daily heaping fuel on the already too combus.
tible materials. We have unadjusted contro-
versies with two European powers, England
and Denmark. These require more than com.
mon care and skill for satisfactory settlement.
Surprising all the pending unresolved questions
arranged, the web of public affairs is NOT less
tangled by the questions Of land appropriations
for internal improvements, the tariff, the natur.
aIlzation laws, so that the Chief Magistracy of
the United States seems surrounded with more
peril to political reputation and the cause of
Republicanism generally than has characterized
that position since the establishment Of the
government For not only are skill and deli
cacy, wisdom and moderation required in
arranging our international controversies, but
the rarest combination of 6rmness with pru-
dence within our domestic sphere. May we
not add that a comprehensive patriotism which
rejects alike sectional preferences and party
aims is demanded to arrest the downward for. |
tunes Of the Republic
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
Rar We copy the following from an

Hy We copy the following from an ex-
change paper. The reader is under no obliga-
tons to believe it unless he is disposed to dc
so gratuitously:
PRoGREss.-There is at present in operation
near Boston, a jumping locomotive which only
touches the ground once in mile. 1t is
perfectly round, the machinery in the centre,
and is coated externally with India rubber. So
soon as the patent has been secured, its pro-
prietor supposes that thousands of them will be
seen "bobbn' around the world, so that to the
man in the moon, the earth will look like a
big cheese covered with shippers" Who denies
that this is really "fast age?"
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
KAN SAS.

We have heard, from what we deem good
authority, that the Black Republicans are send
ing to Kansas $4,000 to stimulate rebellion
and murder; their calculation being that this
amount spent there, is more available than
three times the amount spent in the free States,
and that by the excitement they will get up in
Kansas, they will carry SO many ofthe Northern
States that from State patronage they can
literally reimburse themselves.
Will not some good citizens at the North
afford authentic information of the doings OF
these Black Republicans?
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
From the Journal OF Commerce.
The Presidential Nomination

Ii confirmation were wanted Of the state
mentthat Mr.. Buchanan's nomination is likely
to be acceptable to the commercial and bust
ness interests Of the country, we have it in the
testimony of bis strongest political enemies.
The Tribune of Saturday says:
The announcement Of the nomination Of
Mr.. Buchanan over Pierce and Douglas. was
well received in the street, ms likely to inspire
confidence in the financial community. Ii was
considered conservative nomination, and that
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
LATE FROM HAYTI

Dates from Aux Cages to the oath instant,
received at New York, announce that the in
surection, previously reported there, had not
yet been put down.
The rebels, six thousand strong, were in pos
session Of part Of the city, and martial law had
been declared. The citizens generally had
been called on to take arms against the rebels.
Two or three skirmishes had occurred, in
which thirty insurgents were made prisoners.
All business was suspended and the stores
closed. Coffee was very scarce.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-12
thinker Hill AyynLer

The news Of the nomination Of Buchanan
and Breckenridge was received with acclama-
ton by the Democrats Of Bunker Hill, and,
thanks to the activity and promptness of the
Charlestown Artillery, Captain Swan, was i'm
mediately responded to by salute Of one hun.
bred guns, with cheers which made the welkin
ring for Buchanan and Breckenridge and Union.
Boston Post