, 1860-12-04

IRy1SG.s wAsnIyGToN-vo 2, New York:
@. 7. Putnam. Chicago: S. C. Gri.gs i Co.,
80 and IL Lake street.
Here we have an other volume of Putuan's
splendid uniform edition Of lrying's works.
Subscribers will be glad to place tue volume in
their libraries. Perhaps wc may as well re-
mind our readers that Putnam's edition is
printed on beautifully tinted paper, and.is in
all respects fully up to the latest improvement
in the book.making art We presume the
publishers will sell tho five volumes of the
Lie of Washington separately, and MS 1t Il the
work on which Irving exertcd his ripest pow
crs and on which he expected his reputation
mainly to rest, every American should have it.
1t will be wise, however, for every student,
and in fact every household to havc the entire
did not tend to make his countrymcn better.
The Gist OF 1t.
The Message Of Governor Gist of South
Carolina is before us In full The telegraph
failed to give an adequate idea Of the insane
spirit which peryadcs it. The Governor says
their tune and already appeal to the South as
"euppliants" rather than Us conquerors. He
says:
THAT all hope Of concerted action by y
Southern Convention Is lost, aud there is but
one course left for South Carolina to pursue,
consistently with her honor, interest and safe
II, and that is, to look neither to the right nor
to the left, but to 20 straight forward to tho
consummatiou of her purpose. It is too late
now to receive propositions for conference;
and the State would be wanting in se1frespcct
5hAta II ]AnrtI IoH
to entertain any proposition locking to con-
tlnuancc In the present Un1on."
He makes a strong recommendation in f.
vor Of the enforcement Of the law prohibiting
masters from permitting negroes to hire their
own time and make contracts. He says:
1t not unfrequcntly happens that dare n,<-
tion, and for their benefit, md thus instead of
exercising control over that class Of popula-
ton, some arc placed under obligations to
them. This stats cf thinJs should not BE- permit
ted: there nua Be dtstinction bt,ceen the rdets,
as married al their different eotosx, and II must Be
diHiact'y and unipersdQy understood that the
1oAe Is the governing race, uthosa exception,
and rithoxt rrgard to ditparly Of intellect merit
or requirements.
lie is also guilty Of the following extreme
| foolishness:
At the request Of distinguished Virgiuian,
Edmund Ruf11n, Esq, ! hkTeaciM Ipressn{ to ne
Legislature one cf Tie pixies intended b. John
Broarn to Be .tsed by he negroes Of tiryinia
upon the une0esding and fasdceabe inhabifan4
! 4f not STATE He requests "that this weapon
may be placed in some conspicuous position
In the State House Of South Carolina, there
to remain. and be preserved as an abiding
and impressive eridence Of the ,fanatical hdtrea
borne BY the dominant Northern party
to The institutions and people Of the South
| ern States, and Of the unscrupu1ous and afro
cious means resortcd to for the expected at
tainment OF the objects in view; and respect
| fully recommend that the thanks Of the State
Southern wrongs, too long mud too patiently
horne, and that it be placed In the Hall Of the
House of Reprcse sentatives.
In Illinois We put our lunatics In an Asylum !;
In South Carolina they make Governors Of
them
F -Four hundred aud eighty Of the unfor-
tunate Irishmen, who were SO outraged ut the
wrongs which they suffered from the oppres-
sire government Of Great BEtmn, that they
could only find rent for their grievance BY vol
unteering to MD the government Of the pope
and cardinal in the thonsand-fold worse op-
preston Of the Romnn people, passed through
Paris few days since, fresh from their inglo-
rious campaign. Instead Of being covered
with glory and 1aurels, "a they doubtless M
ticlpated, those bold crusaders wcre clothed
iu nithy rags. ~.
|: DoS'r PAr.-Tho Canton {Fulton Coz Rig.
isser complains that many OF the Democrats In
| that locality manifest DISPOSITION not to nav