The Placer herald., 1863-08-22
Vallandigham at Niagara Falls.

Correspondence of the Chicago Times, Ga Cop
perhead iournal) dated from Clifton House, Mia
CARA Falls, q. w., 18th July, says:
Mr.. Vallandigham arrived here yesterday morn
ing. The appearance of his name upon the regis
ter caused the most intense excitement among the
guests The news of his arrival spread rapidly
in the vicinity. and during yesterday and to-day
hundreds of visitors called to pay their respects
to him. Several parties of ladies and gentlemen
have come over from the American shore. The
mighty cataract and grand mountain cenery are
forgotten the deli ghttu drives are abandoned.
The eXiled statesman is the absorbing object of
interest and consideration Eager groups, anxious
to learn every particular of his eventiul career
collect around the favored few who have been
honorcd with personal interviews with the fore
most man OF the age. Crowds press upon him
whenever his presence is accessible, to congratu-
late him upon his sublime moral achievements
and political prospects. III His manners are mo-
dest and unassuming. He has Il kind word and
genial greeting Tor all his friends. Yet his man.
ners are not wanting in dignity beitting his po-
sitiOn but the dignity is blended with cordial
suaviy, SO that while he commands respect from
every one, he also excites a feeling akin TO love,
in all.
Mr.. Vallandigham was treated in all respects
as a prisoner of war in the South, and permitted
to depart on giving his parole. He succeeded in
running the blockade from Wilmington, N. G..
about the middle of June, in q small steamer
place he proceeded in small steamer to Halifax
where he arrived safely few days ago, and took
passage up the River St. Lawrence to Quebec,
whence he came by rail to Clifton. Hon. ID. w.
voorhees,, of Indiana, and Hon. Richard T. Mer-
rick, of Chicago, were among the first to welcome
him on his arrival. The Hon. Messrs. Pendleton
and Mclean are shortly expected to arrive
From Niagara Falls, Vallandigham dated q long
manifesto which he addressed to "T The People OF
Ohio" in which he accepted the nomination for
Governor Of the State, and defined his position.
He says:
ask no personal sympathy for the personal
wrong. No. it is the cause of Constitutional liber
ty and private right cruelty outraged beyond ex-
ample in 4 free country, by the President and his
servants. which gives public signifcancy to the
action of your convention. Yours was indeed an
act OF justice to citizen who for his devotion to
the rights of the States and the liberties of he
people, had been marked for destruction by the
hand Of arbitrary power. But it was much more.
roic ages of the world; and it was q spectacle
and rebuke to the usurping tyrants who having
broken up the Union would now strike down the
Constitution, subvert your present government
and establish a formal, and proclaimed despotism
in its stead. You are the restOrers and defend
ers of Constitutional! liberty, and by that proud
title history uiH salute you.
SUCCEssFUL.--A gentleman recently from Dutch
Flat who heard ex Governor Bigler's speech in
that place, on last Wednesday night, informs US
that " Honest John" addressed a large and order
ly meeting, and that his speech, which contained
neither slang, blackguardism nor falsehoods, was