Daily national Democrat., 1859-10-02
Justly Scores Mr.. Buchanan.

Pierce from Europe in very contemptuou
and insulting terms; whereupOn the New
York Times observes as follows:
Mr.. Buchanan is certainly master in tn,
"art Of sinking" In every lowest depth o.
political discredit he still contrives TO find {
deeper deep. His pathetic exploits will as
suredly secure for him the posthamous re-
nown of which he might else hsve failed
but though this contingency may Justify them
in his own eyes, it cannot make them more
agreeable to the people of the United States
We are very sure, for instance, chat no single
act Of Mr.. Buchanan's Administration will
do him more damage with all right.thinkine
and right-feeling persons than the vulgar in :
suits which he has just leveled, through his
favorits organ in the Press, at his predeces.
sor. Mr. Pierce.
Mr.. Pierce has just returned to his native
country after a prolonged absence. during
which he has visited many European coun9
tries, and seen rs much as trying circum-
stances of domestic anxiety would permit of
the social life of the Old World. Wherever
he has turned his steps the exPresident has
made most favorable Impressions by his frank
and clear intelligence, and the unaffected dis
tnction of his manners and his bearing.
He has asserted the natural PRESTIGE Of his
position with singular felicity. AS Mr. Bu-
chanan himself is in a fair way soon to learn.
1t is by no means an easy thing to wear the
burden of the ex,Presidental dignity with
propriety and decorum. In the Society of
Europe an American President occupies. in
point OF fact, the rank of sovereign: and
the part of "a monarch retired from business
is proverbially trying. Mr.. Pierce has borne
the test admirably.
1t IS not necessary for us to say here that
the Presidential career of Franklin Pierce.
however comparatively illuminated its place
In our records may be by its contrast with
the actual administration, commands neither
our sympathy nor our respect. We believe
Mr.. Pierce to have been both an unwise and
an unsuccessful Chief Magistrate of the Union
But high'toned, generous, intelligent, and
dlgnlhed gentleman, not even his viles; per-
sonal enemies, or his most fanatical political
antagonists, can deny that he was aud is.
VI him it may be truly said that no hing in
his political career so well became him as
the leaving it, and that since he retired to
private life he has earned new title to the
respect OF his countrymen, by the unobtru-
sive good sense of his conduct.
MIR. Pierce was received in Boston, on his
landing from the steamship America, with a
cordial greeting by numerous company of
the most respectable citizens, and replied to
their kindly salutations in a speech which, as
speeches go, deserves to be described as brief
sensible, and unpretendingly patriotic. No
thing could have been more becoming. no.
thing less pretentious, than the whole of the
informal meeting. Not a discordant note
would have Jared upon the tasteful propriety
OF the ex Presidents welcome, had not the
present Incumbent of the seat which he once
filled seized upon the occasion as a hapDv
opportunity for fresh display of his own
peculiar attributes Mr. Buchanan has not
much love to waste upon men of other creeds
than himself in politics; but there is nothing
so hateful to him as the leading men of his
own faith.
lie therefore at once ordered his decrepid
mouth-piece in this city to revive the small,
silly. and spiteful impertnences with which
Mr.. Pierce had been honored by that abiect
sheet during his term of office. That the
President should be constantly in the habit
OF insulting high functionaries of his own
government, through the same channel. may
be explained, perhaps. by the instincts Of
active jealousy. Men like Mr.. Dallas and
Mr.. Mason inspire the President with fear for
the future. But Mr. Pierce has abiured the
career of politics. In his case nothing can
be advanced to extenuate the indecency of
such attacks from snch quarter Envy of
Mr.. Pierce's superior personal qualities, W weak.
ly betrayed in the impatience and irrtability
OF advancing years, is at the bottom of the
pitiful exhibition. Unluckily for himself,
Mr. Buchanan possesses an organ equally di-
lapidated and doting with himself and lends
the Importance of his high station to what
would pass else unnoticed as the foolish ma
levolence of an Insignificant and disappointed
speculator in the spoils of politics.
DIED INA WELL-A young man named
George Kohler, lost his life in a well in Be
nicia, on Thursday. The Contra Costa Ga
zette, says:-
He went into the we'll with tinsmith, 70
the purpose of repairing the pump takinS
with them furnace filled with lighted char
coal. In very short time the air became
exhausted, and the lower part of the well
filled with carbonic acid gas when, begin
ming to feel its effects, they attempted to es-
cape. The tinsmith succeeded in getting to
the top of the well, but Kohler became ex-
hausted, and after holding on to the ladder
for a short time, he fell into the water. The
body was recovered in about half an hour,
and every effort made to resuscitate him, but
life was entirely extinct