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Mahed from the English copy, Mise Pardoe’s novel of Reginald Lyle, of which some highly eulogistic notices have appeared in the leading London pa- pers. We confess, however, that on reading the story, we were somewhat disappointed in the anti- eipation formed from these criticisms. We like Miss Pardoe beiter asa biographer than as & No; velist—the reasoning and inductive faculties pre- vailing with her over the imagination. Her present novel is, however, in point of literary merit, far above the average standard of modern works of fic- tion. In comparing Miss Pardoe with herself, we Maust not be understood as depreciating her talents in this particular branch of literature. Flora Lindsay is the title of another of those vi- gorously drawn, graphic, and, in their general tone and treatment, almost masculine sketches of life which have won for Mrs. Moodie such extensive po- pularity. She has the talent of seizing upon, and throwing into bold relief, all those minute shades of ebaracter which go to make up a broad and effec- tive picture. Her tales of emigrant life are, for that reason, the most correct and humorous delineations of squatter manners and customs that have as yet been presented to us. Tkere is so much tragh and actuality about them that we almost feel, in reading them, as if we were ourselves actors in the scenes described. Mrs. Moodie’s present work, although poseessing a different sort of intercet, is fully equal ja conception and execution to her previous efforts. ‘The publichers are DeWitt and Davenport. The Ohurch Book Society have availed them- welves of a tragical incident that lately occurred in Marquette county, Wisconsin, to publish one of those practical homilies which form the staple of their issues. Emanuel Dannan, or the Boy who swould not Tell a Lie, is the title of this useful tract, which we strongly recommend to the notice of heada of families. Prriopicats—The Southern Quarterly Review, for June, contains an ably written parallel between the characters and fortunes of Louis Napoleon and Augustus Cesar. Although there are several points ia which it appears to us the writer fails to establish ‘fe correctness of the comparison, his analysis of She mental idiosyncracy of the extraordinary being whose past career seems to be a sort of paradox, and whose future defies all speculation, presents per- Depe as just and impartial a view of the real merits and defects of his character as can be obtained at ‘this early stage of its developement. Misunderstood and underrated until his constancy of purpose and eenfidence in his own powers elevated him to the @azy summit towards which from his boylicod he had steadily directed his gaze, the prudence and eaution that he has displayed since he has attained the object of his ambition have obtained for him the exaggerated reputation of qualities that we do not believe him to possess, It is only posterity, however, that will be able to pass a correct judg- ment on the exact measure of credit to which he is entitled. In the meanwhile, let us see what the re- viewer says:— Turning from the antique medallion to the showy lay- figzre which now sits with an imperial crown on the throve of France, we cannot fail to recognise at once the Bumerous resemblances, both in the broader character- istics and in the fainter lines of detail, by which the two caste of character and the two. careers are assimilated to each other. The moral physiognomy of the living em: peror appears softened down, when compared with that ‘of his ancient prototype, by the civilized usages and the French polish with which we are all familar. But, in all the essential points of the comparison, the modern @ocupant of the Tuilwries and the Louvre is the legiti- mate counterpart of the ancient possessur of the Capitol and habitant of the Palative. And, indeed, it is rather in this greater consonance with modern notions, than in any intrinsic difference of feeling, that Louis Napoleon appears to be more humane, human and natural than his precursor. In both may be detected the same singular union of elegance, urbanity, insincerity and kindness, the same scenic art and dexterous acting, the same sem- Dlance of unsuspicious ease or even stolid indifference, in the mort acute and deliberate stratagems. Like augus- tus, too, he unites a strenuous and untiring energy with a show of great moderation, and pursues his individual imterests with a cexterous pretension to public policy . There is & similar imperturbability in nis bear- ing, and an equal impassivity in his whole temperament. Be conceals his partialities and resentments with singu- tar self-control, and contrives admirably to subordinite his feelings to hia interests In both characters may be traced the eame just appreciation of the disposition, the tastes, the whims, the necessities and the appetencies of their people. ‘Ine arts pursued by both in maintaining and conérming their power have been strangely anal \- gous. In both has been manifested the same hypocriti at aasumption of lowly deference to the popular will; Dut both had cautiously provided, beforehand, that that will abould be only the expression of their own designs. Never was a bold or treacherous stroke of policy more to be apprehended from ei.ber than when the most sancti movious subservience to the people was ostentatiourly professed: the claws of the tiger were always most daa- m8 when most effectually cloaked and concealed by ¢ soft, velvety touch of his paw. Each devoted him- ef assiduously to the cultivation of popular favor, and te the manufacture of public vopinion—or, at least, of such a pretence of public desire as could not be resisted, refutea or ignored. When this result wa: wy coup d'état could be bazarded with little danger, and with an almost certain assurance of success. To mould, train, educate ana direct the form and expression of the popu- lar sentiment, every art was unhesitatio; employed. ‘The manipulation was acute, dark multifarious and Dengcontinued. It was prepared afar off, it was appliod fm unsuxpected and unrecognized modes, and performed by indirect . The masses yielded to infla- enees which they did not apprehend, and which Were never displayed to them in ‘their naked ‘and natural shapes; and they were pushed for ward blindly, but with a silly conviction of their own intelligent action, by forces which overwhelmed them without ever being fairly revealed. Like Orostes by the furies, they fled from the dark and eha- 'y horrors which filled the air with gloom, but pre no visible figure to the predetermined doom which was red for them. In order to drive them along ‘the destined road to the appointed goal, the people were eoaxed, cajoled, wheedied, flattered, 'slormed, bullied, ‘threatened, bribed, misiuformed, seduced and misled, by all the complicated mancuvres which cunning could 'de- ingenuity conceal, and the possession of the w! ery of yower effect. Ostentation, magnifi- wenee, liberality, and the semblance of generosity—th» remizisornoee ot the past and the rauities of the hour t gratitude and future hopes—grand progresses gh the country, the mummeries of municipal depu- tations and prepared addresses, military reviews and honorary distinctions—the fear of the soldiery and the aateres's of the army—local riots, got up or magnified by gevern ment intervention, and the ‘tread of the lawless ascendency of the turbulent men who thrive by anare ‘fand speculate on plunder—fabricated reports and falai- fed official information—the jealousies, intrigues, am- Bition of factions and designing men—the fear of punish- ment for offences committed against former dynasties, and the prospect of rewarus under a new or revived sys tem—the apprehensions of capital, and the anxieties of fadustry from a prolongation of the existing or probavle @isorder—ali these things were contemplated by the Prench as well as by the Roman Emperor, as means to. ‘wards the production of the desired public feeling, and employed with consummate sagacity for the sttafsment of that end. * * bd * It is apparent from what has been said, if not sufi elently indicated by the comparison instituted, that we ‘are not of the number of those who deny to Louis Napo Jeon the possession of varies and very remarkable talouts ‘They are not brilliant, and are in consequence easily Overlooked or misconstrued. But statesmanship, know ledge of men, and of the French in particular, good sense, tical acuteness and tact, he certainly has manifested Bite emivest degree. The judgment of the ma oid bas been misled by contrasting him with uncle, and his abilities have becn uager Fated because they are neither of the same kind, nor of the same cazzling splendor as those of the elder Napo Teen. It is led also by considering the absence of military eye oa the apparent indifference to the ac military renown, and the entire failure to ‘tion Sottare the plans of conquest prosecuted by his predeces @or, as evidence of etoncy anda deticiency of ge nius. al, eveo when in por sonal ano personally engaged in war. ‘These hasty crities only show that they themselves mis ‘conceive the character and the necessities of the times, that they mistake the problem which Louis Napoleon ‘Waa required to solve, and that they are incompetent to ‘estimate the policy and actions of rulers with a jne re- to the charnexeristics of the periods in which thei Féle is to be performed. Tho first Napoleon would hav* been hustled off the throne in the first year of his power, if he had followed his old line of procedure; the second, Gr third, as be bas chosen to call himself.) has strength @ee4 his dominion with every month that haa passed since his election to the Presidency Julius Qwaar coult mever have retained and organized the Empire by his military genius during the long years in which Augastas: red to occupy toe throne reluctantly aad without A single generation of revolutions makes a greater change in national temperament and in the re. ts of policy, than ceaturies of healthy aud ‘more orderly developement. Philosophers, and the mem ‘dere of Peace Conventions, have conddently asserted that ‘this is ly the age of peace. Cotning eveots por tend a estas boasts; but it is undeniable ‘that peace and almost the necess: f the present populations of Europe. The art» are, therefore, those which must be ed ‘by every potentare, and espec and by those arts alone can perman or secured. We have confidently r Jeon’s professions of « desire for pea Gontinually repeated those pr @esire was in consonance with the influences o! th and the policy of his own position, He may her be engaged in wars, and may seck an augme territory ftom victory, but war must be the accide not the purpose of h # career. ‘The mM whic! Napoleon peot to the history « existing French nation, ; which Augustus bore to Rome and t instances we see & people highly enitiva eally corrapted by succensive at Californians are becoming as fastil the oldest Aabitues of La Scala,or the ( the Rue Lepeiletier. knowledge we have of the geography 8 es the s the Creek and Cherokee pu Since the publication of Gre counties has increased from h compre the 8 engraved by pped by the = ot aaah septrations after ind gain faa become the ruling pesston of all classe, except the most needy, whose were limited to the seq: of bread. In both nat the complete cycle of political forme apt change had been traversed, all a all fan- tasies of political organization had been tried, exhausted tients were sore, feverish and jy impatient of restraint. The only control to which they were capable of yielding, had become the coercion of forcible compulsion. Both people still indulged wild and nympholeptic dresms of liberty, but had lost all apprehension of its true nature, and capacity for its actual enjoyment. To both the only pos- nible relief, still compatible with their situation, was tranquillity; and the only quiet attainable, the repose of a despotism sustained by military power, but preserving the outward show of civie procedure. One of the com: mentators on Herodian, borrowing probably the expres- | sion of a contemporary writer,has very happily designat- ed the Roman apireen ‘a militazy democracy. Such, in truth, it was; avd such must be essentially the imperial rule in France. But, in the inception of shis great change, icy taught Augustus the necessity of jag the swo: Beneath the forms of earlicr republicanism, and a similar expediency bi Napoleon. Still, it must be recognized that the real and ultimate support of the French throne is to be found in the fidelity and concurrence of the army; and, with each new change of dynasty, or even with each uccession, the army will more and more discover its possession of all vital power, and reveal itself ultimately in its true type, asa military democracy, an armed and exclusive constituency, and convert the French constitution into & régime of Mamelukes and Janizzaries. hut the futhre fortunes of France may exhibit the phenomena of the 2 decline of Rome ix exceedingly probable, though, from | the well ascertained operation of regular laws, the | stages of this process of decay will be shorter, more ra- | id, and slightly different trom the analogous course in Bntiquity. Sesnwhile it may be noted that Louis Nap Jeon has played his own part well for his own ix terests. possibly even for the interests of France—and has ¢: bited @ profound appreciation of his own position and the condition of his times and people, and a mastecly tact in bis management of the hidden wires. Through out bis whole action he hus so wxactly repeated the poll- cy of Augustus that it is difficult to repreas the fuppo- siticn that he bad deliberately studied and imitated his arts. Yet the identity of positions and the similarity of natures might have generated spontaneourly a surprising similarity of proceoure. ‘These analogies exist in the great as well as in tl more minute traits of character andiucident. The bility and polish of Augustus are revived in Louis Ni leon} the Beartlcssnest which cunningly watches ures ite advantage beneath the smiling graces of tl exterior, belongs to both. The reserve, which dexterous}; affects the appearance of candor, is equally to be not ip both. Euch is alike impassive and ianperturbable, pre- tending negligence and indifference while most assidu- ously pursuing his secret wiles. Each is equally self- contident, «elf-retiant, and self-sustained, while ap- parently hesitating und anxious to secure extrinsic sup- port. Each habitual sought the counsels of others, and followed, without deviation and without regard to other views, his own predetermined plans. Each pa- tiently waited the favorable crisis brought by the car. rent of events, whose issues his complicated arts had long before coatrived, and pretended to yield to the ne- cessity of the moment, when the necessity itself been anticipated and occasioned by himself. Each care- fully abstained from violence when it could be avoided, and sought by the circuitous process of intrigue the ro- sults which would bave been less effectually achieved by more open natures by direct methods. Each seemed equally undiscouraged by temporary failure, and equal passionless in success, manifesting forbearance and al- most generosity to their antagonists, moderate in the repression of opposition, and tolerant wheo toleration could be hazarded with safety. This conduct should ive each the credit of sagacity, not of benevolence ; it the result of consummate prudence, not of good feel- ing. It indicates the absence of malice, but aifords no assurance of natural gentleness. The first coup @élat of Louts Napoleon—that of 2d of December, 1851—exemplified all these traits, but it most especialty displayed the vigorous decision of his actions, and the impenetrable secrecy with which they were veiled. Alithe multifarious, widely extended, and com- pcs preparations for the great blow were made without ing detected, and were concealed for a fortnight, until the minute for their execution had arrived. A few hours in the early morning were sufficient to place all the powers of the government und nation absolutely in the bands of the Prince President, and three men, by their energetic and unscrupulous movements, were able to secure the result. It wasa remarkable and resolute stroke of policy, and may justly be compared with the ablert and boldcat manceavres of Octavius, In the mea sures adopted for transmuting the decennial presidency, achieved by this licentious proceeding into a despotic sovereignty, Louis Napoleon closely imitated the in- trigues by which his ‘Roman model ascended the long and difficult grades which led him to absolute monar- chy. The very name of Prince President was almost equivalent to that of Princeps. Imperator, first accept- by Octaviu8; the same term of ten years, which ha teen the limits for which the ancient imperium had been received, was that prescribed for the modern presicency. It is true, Louis Napoleon cleared with larger strides the interval between a nomi- nal republic and a real despotism; but then the French had lost the faculty of venera- tion, whilst the Romans had retained « superstitions and sanctimouious uttachment to the effete forms of former freecom. The measures of Louis Napoleon, if somewhat diverse in apjearance, were the same in principle as those adopted by Octavius. ‘The progrocses, reviews displays and festivities of the one, constituted a logittmate counterpart to the provincial tours, spiaaaical ‘expedi tions, spectacles and public buildings of the other. was in absence from Rome, and by indirect influences brought to bear upon the public mind, that Octavius btained the final powers which secured his ascendancy; it was in absence from Paris, and by similar stratagems, that Lonis Napole: n obtained the adhesion of the popu lar sentiment to his assumption of the imperial title Avgustus ‘carefully abstained from claiming his uncle's y virtue of descent.” Nayolecn [UL with equal sured the courts of Europe that in taking bi- designation he did not pretend auy right to the from inheritance, but derived his claim solely from the popular will. The Romans regarded the cha- racter of Augustus as one of the greatest enigmas of his- tory, and he displayed hin consciousness of the unfa thomable mystery which sbrouded his policy, by usin, the emblem of the sphinx as the device for bis official seul Louis Napoleon has abundantly proved himself to be an equally insoluble enigma to his cotemporaries and — occasional ications of a similar consciousness of he general inability to appreciate hie conduct. The Emyeror Julian compared the consolidator of the empire to a chamelion, s0 cowyletely did he imbibe his hu: from the surrounding colors; a future literary Emperor of France may apply the same simile to Napoleon Ill. But, notwithstanding all changes of external aspect, both these memorable sovereigns retained their inner nature unsltered, and pursued the uniform and even tenor of their way through all impediments and varieties of cir- cumsinnces. The Parlor Magazine for June has an article on filibysters, which, however questionable it may be in strict ethics, is justly severe on the inconsistencies of political prudery. The writer isan ardent be- liever in ‘manifest destiny,” and would, we verily believe, annex the whole world if he was in a po- sition to carry out his theories. He reminds us forcibly of the modest Hibernian who limited his desires to the possession of England as an estate, with the Isle of Man as a cabbage garden. The American Law Register for June contains the continuation of the paper entitled “The Con- sideration of a Contract,” together with several able reviews of recent American and English decisions. The New Jersey Medical Reporter for this month has an interesting biographical sketch and portrait of Dr. Alexander Stevens, M. D., L. L. D., second President of the American Medical Association, and President ot the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Although not distinguished as an operator, few men living are more thoroughly acquainted with the nature and treatment of surgical diseases. The digcovery by the German analytical chemist Verdeil that in the parenchyma of the lungs a peculiar crys- talizable acid is present, which forms crystaline compounds with bases, has led to some iateresting speculations in the present number. We recom- mend the article to the attention of the faculty. The Picneer, a Californ'an Moatuly Magazine for May, which has only just reached us, shows a credi table advance in literary merit on t i bers. Although it is evident that mostly written by amateurs, the clever and readabl weeding im the poctical department w this magazine fully equal to tt perio. icals that obtain favor amusing part of this number is ti cal and theatrical matters, which will the head of the dit from the criticisms the: in the artaas | ‘aud Opera in | Mars.—Bonner’s Map of Georgia.—The first of Gorrzia was obtained from a map of that State, publish between forty and fifty years ago, by E At that time the county west of the Ocmu north-west of the Chatthhoochee river, was in occupancy of the Creek and Cherokee Indians, and | never having been surveyed, was represented on | Eerly’s map as unexplored territory. Aboat the 1833, Orange Green published a small map of e, on Which was ated the districts of asea, a3 they had been laid off into lots by ant ne namber of | Over one thousand miles of railr tructed, and fifty cotton factorie | and fifty post offices have be railroads im operation in Ge and Atlantic (owned by the Georgia Railroad, with i and Warrenton, 2 and Western h Western, rs he ablished. Weste ) are and ¢ of t Assembly procured the #e Bonner to compile 2 vert c has just L ) Lis one of lly exeeut nounder our not + Sherman, 135 B a. j jictated a similar discretion to Louis | | going resoletion: of the Legislatare. ) # , ‘Vermont Politics. WHIG STATE CONVENTION. The Whig Convention forthe nomination of State officers in Vermont, met in Rutlemd on the 7th inst. Hon. Alvah Sabin, member of Congress from the Third district, was present, and delivered himself of a flaming free soil anti-Nebraska speech. Hon. Jas. Meacham, who representa the First, did not leave his ceat to attend, but sent to the convention the following letter: Wasutneron, May 31, 1854. Ihave delayed an answer to your letter in the hope that I should be able to announce that Senator Foot, or Mr. Tracy, or Mr. Sabin, would attend the State Convention. Previous en; ments—I need not name them—will deprive me of that pleasure. T feel anxious that some of those men, abler than myself to describe the scenes of the Nebraska strug- Je, should be in your convention; and yet I know that ic is impossible for even an even an tegen to give an exact impression of the cont! The alternation of hopes and fears of the phalanx that so long resisted the needless, and unauthorized, and infamous violation of plighted faith, can never be iven. S ‘The Missouri compromise is repealed! ask how it was done? I will tell you. 1. Without the request, and against the wish, of every man who petitioned Congress on the subject. 2. By crowding out of placeall the mostimportant business of the session, and crowding in a measure to which an overwhelming majority of the people were opposed. 3. By bringing—I do not say bribing—to its sup- port, through executive influence and patron , men who acted against their own declared judg- ments, and the known wili of their constituents. 4, By trampling under foot the rules of the House of Representatives, made in accordance with the constitution, and thus violently depriving the mi- nority of their legal rights and just privileges. 5. By refusing to allow the people to express their decision on the question, lest—as Senator Petit, of Indiana, declared—the people should refase it now, or for years to come, and perhaps for ever. If the will of the people had been obeyed, the act could not have passed. If it had taken its legal lace in the order of business it could not have passed. Ir the executive power had not, unrighteously, in- terposed its influence, it could not have if the rules of the House and the rights of the mi- nority had not been crushed, it could not have arsed. , The Missouri compromise, therefore, was repeal- ed, not only without authority and without law, bat in known and acknowledged violation of both. The Missouri compromise being repealed, the question of slavery is re-opened inall the Territories of the Union. ‘The Baltimore platform being violated by all par- ties except Northern hale it will not be expected that that body of men any longer be held by the fragments of a broken and abandoned truce. In this ure of affairs, I trust that the whigs of Vermont, holding the firat State Convention since the ape of the Nebraska bill, will take ground wisely ant fe 1. There shall be no more territory acquired by the funds of freemen, unless on the express con- dition that slavery shall forever be excluded from it. 2. That on no condition shall another slave State ever beenoea to Lettre m ' 3. lavery wiped out of every of the republic, except where shielded by oaaie municipal law. I hope the whigs of Vermont will take that po- sition, not only for themselves, but for their children after them; and when they have taken it, that they will nail their colors to the mast. Very truly yours, J. MEAoHAM. After the reading of Mr. Meacham’s letter, aud, also .one from Erastus Fairbanks, the following resolutions were offered and passed :— Resolved, That while we retain our attachment Do you to the general principles and policy which have hitherto distinguis! ug, we recognise the issues resented by the of the eighth section of the jissouri compromise as matters of surpassing im- portance, which demand the instant and carnest attention of every lover of freedom. Resolved, That the virtual repeal of the eighth section of the Missouri com demands and receives our utter condemnation, ma pelpeiie perfidy toa solemn pledge of freedom, desigued to be sa- cred andirrepealable—a pledge made by the govern- ment to the people, and the South to the North, the violation of which forfeits the claim of the South to the faith of the North in their power of fidelity, and impairs the confidence of the people in the sta- bility of all compromises, of all laws, and of the constitution and Union itself. Resolved, That we have regarded the Missouri compromise as perpetually binding in law and con- science, and the violation of it, in the passage of the Nebraska bill, we look upon as impairing the obliga- tions ofa solemn contract, and therefore flagrantly unjust in iteelf; as treacherous to the interests of treedom tor the country at large; as cruel in its bearing upon the Indian tribes; as hostile to tie peace, charity, and unity of the country; as emi- nently ungentiemauly and dishonorable in the spirit in which it was conceived; in the pledges by which ersonal responsibility was mh to be, and was roken down, through sectional prejudices; and in the “hot haste” which would neither calmly listen to the voice of the country through petitions, nor dare to await for an appeal to the people through the elections, and we will, in all ways, testify and struggle as we ay 4 be able aga‘nst a transaction so aCe in its character, and so injurious in its effects. é Resolved, That regarding this act as a violation of the plighted faith of the government, that govera- ment must be reformed, and we pledge ourselves to the work of reform; regarding it as a measure of the national administration, enforced by the power and patronage of the President, in violation alike of his pledges and his duty, the administration must be changed, and executive power be rebuked and restrained; regarding it as a repudiation and annul- ment by the South of the compromises of 1850, and the Baltimore platform of 1852, so far as they relateto slavery—‘ the act for the recovery of fugitive slave Jabor included”’—we pledge ourselves for the repeal of that act, and to resist the admission of Utah and New Mexico as States, without constitutions ex- cluding slavery; and, finally, regarding it as a viola- ticn of the plighted faith of the South, for the pur- pose of extending slavery against our will, our con- science, and our pi we hereby pledge ourselves to the defence of freedom, by the restriction of slavery to the States in which it exists—by the ex- clusion of slavery at the earliest practical inoment, and by all constitutional means, from all federal territory, Nebraska, Kaneas, and the District of Co- lumbia Anolasive—by opposing the admi: 1 to the Union of any new State tolerating slavery, whether it be formed from territory belonging to Texas or elsewhere—and by resisting the acquirement of any new territory wherein slavery exists, unless its pro- hibition shall firet have been provided for. Resolved, That as a means of removing and ex- cluding slavery from federal territory, we recom- mend the formation of associations, cither voluntary or chartered by the State, to secure emigesation of reliable and intelligent freemen, pledged irrevocably to the cause of freedom. Resolved, That as the earnest of a deliberate, de- termined and irrevocable purpose to carry int» prac- ticul effect the above propositions, we further declare that we will not support for the office of President or Vice-President, or for Senator, or for Representa- tive in Congress, or as a member of a State Legisla- ture, any man, of whatever to be in favor of the purp Resolved, That w of all free men of V principles and pu ie th, offering on our part, mos dinlly to give our confidence to those who confjde in us. Resclved, Tift we do also invite the co-operation of the people of all other States who are disposou te resist the ev ension of slave ticable ond constitutional me i on shall be called to consider the d the appointment of two or n each Congressional district to uont in such convention, every supporter of the Ne- d his character for personal the Northern supporters of Aded the guilt of bia he co-operation e with us in the subject, We re legates ent V at lence or our votes, » the dele in Congress from + pect, our cor Resolved, That Vom tion ° m and hono a tee for making nominations made the ‘The commit following report, which was adopted with aeclama tion that remains to you on earth, must your hearts in characters of living light. That any one of you inflicted the fatal blows which struc! Story to the earth, and so brutally led his life- less corse as almost to deprive it of the semblance of humanity, was not shown by any positive testimony; but that you were present at the affray, encouraging and icipating in it, aiding and abetting the murderers of Story, and therefore guilty of his mur- der, the jury that tried you have solemnly declared to be true, Twice have you been put upon your trial for this crime, and twice has a jury of twelve’ men pronounced the same verdict. Whatever may have been the provocation that stimulated you and those with whom you acted; however grievous may have been the offence of Story in Soe down one of your countrymen, Pes d no right to take vengeance into your own ds, and set at defiance the laws of the land. [f he had done you wrong, the courts of justice would have afforded you redress. To them you should have 7 ar ‘The resort to violence and blood was the fatal mistake of your lives. Obedience to the lawe—submission to the legally constituted authori- tids of the country—are conditions which society has the right to demand of every man who becomes one of its members. Breaches of the peace, tu- mults and bloodshed, cannot be tolerated in a land of law and order. It would be better that there should be no laws, rather than have laws that are suffered to be disobeyed with impunity. The guilty offender must be punished, whatever his standing or condition in life. ‘The President and the humble laborer alike are amenable to the violated laws— alike under obligation to and obey them. You have been found of murder, The punishment affixed to such an offence by our criminal code is death. You have therefore no right to complain that the State demands your lives for the life you have taken. This penalty is demanded not more as a punishment for your crime than as a solemn warning to oth- ‘Aitetgh ‘you are poor, and. comparstively tran are ; com vel gers ithe , you have not been without in this your hour of adversity. Upon both “pegbvieyel pe lange ye assistance of some of e most eminent men of the legal profession in the ‘West. Your defence on the present trial has been conducted t with a de; of ability rare- yy witnessed in judicial trials. stly and faith- ly have your legal advisers labored in your behalf. No effort was spared by them—nothing left undone to ward off the fatal termination of your trial. The jurors ty whom you have been tried and condemned were fairmen—conscientious men—men of youro.n selection out of nearly a hundred of our most respect- able citizens presented for Biel choice. They en- tered the box oppressed with the responsibility that rested upon them—influenced by the single desire to ascertain the truth or falsity of the charge pre- ferred against you. They were anxious to exp! your connection with the crowd of infuriated men who kil Story, upon the hypothesis of your innocence. They were charged by the Court to do 80 if it were in their power, without violating the oath they had taken. Long and patient, they pis | as men into whose hands were committed the most momentous issues. Step by step as they proceeded the proofs of your uilt were forced upon them, until there was no jonger room for doubt, and then with uplifted hands before God they pronounced you guilty of murder, as charged in the indictment. For that offence you -must die. Society must be protected; the laws must be vindicated; upon the justice and propriety of the death peel, e Court may not now pass. It is the law of the land, and the court, as its sworn administrater, must not shrink from its enforce- ment. Let me entreat you, therefore, to prepare for the fearful change that awaits you. With hum- ble penitence and contrition apply to that great and Being whose attributes are mercy and love, and who is ever ready to forgive the most erring of his creatures. And now the painfal duty only re- mains to pass upon you the sentence of the law for the crime of which you have been convicted. The sentence is, that you, Kern Brennan, Michael Tooey, James Tooey, and Martin Ryan, the prisoners at the bar, be taken from hence to the common jail in Kane county, there to be confined until Friday, the 28th day of July next, and that on that day you be, by the sheriff of Kane county, taken to the place of execution, and that there, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, you be by said Sheriff hanged by the neck until you are dead. And may the Lord have mercy upon you. A_New Sectional Movement. [From the Albany Argus, June 7.) The Western papers are clearly becoming tired of the eternal distinctions of North and South, so often produced in political debates at Washington and elsewhere, now-a-days. 4 St. Louis paper asks, in all seriousness, whether it is “ not time that the Western States were admitted into the Union?” It claims that the very existence of the great and powerful West is ignored and lost sight of in the sport of these “ petty contending factions.” True it is, that the West cares little for the ridi- culous utes concerning the political morality of slaveholding, which are used as levers to move the masses of t) People of the more Eastern States. Towa, Illinois and Indiana, occupying the heavt of the West, langh at the factious violence of Massa- chusetts or South Carolina. They havea higher destiny to work out, and have no time to lose, and no inclination to lose it, in ey cm childish jea- Jousies such as creep into the political issues of old- er communities-—older, but scarcely stronger. Inthe great proviso hubbub of 1847-50, it was the voice of the great West which first commanded peace, and it was the example of the central West- ern States which enforced it. But the paper we allude to, not content with claiming for its section of the Union a recogni- tion to respect and attention, seeks, in ignoble imi- tation of very disputes it condemns, to mark out a strictly Western policy in behalf of which to labor. It exaggerates “the millions lavished on the sea- board” to contrast them with the “ paltry Congres- sional appropriations to the West.” It complains of the disconfinuance of Western post offices latest schedule from the Postal Department. It charges the Secretary of the Interior with suffering the act of Congress providing for the immediate purchase of Indian titles, to sleep an entire year, withoutofficial action. Itremarks that the Secretary of State “having made the land with his demand for the release of. Koszta, has quietly replied to the complaints of western citizens in like troubles abroad, that he could do nothing for them.” And, rising higher in the scale of denunciation, it alle; that the President has threatened a veto of the Homestead bill—the only measure of intrinsic im- portance to the West which had a prospect of a pas- through Congress. This im med rehear- of kk he is concluded with a ho; the West shall ra y to the bsg of a Western champion, under whose invincible leadership “the present pirate watchwords” of a North and a South shall become obsolete in the land. The paper from which we quote is the St. Louis Democrat, and the “ champion” whom. it indicates. is of course the redoubtable Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri. Let us see how this new sectional move- ment will progress, Temperance and Liquor Law Items. THE WORKING OF THE LIQUOR LAW IN VERMONT. So odious has the liquor traffic become in this place, saya the Woodstock Spirit of the Age of the sth inst., that the business is not permitted to be carried on quietly, even under the protection of an agent appointed ,by law for that purpose. A few mornings since the door of our ‘ medicinal” agent, who, (the agent, not the door,) like one of Miss McPride’s suitors is an “ exceedingly vulgar frac- tion,” being a tailor, was decorated with the addi- tional sign of “rum” in large block letters, placed just above a huge pair of shears. “ Rum and scia- sors,” was the involantary exclamation of the pass- ers by, as they caught the first glimpse of this new business combination. “ Rum and wolmeore,” sure enough, and die ae laughed but the old clothes renovator, who thought it might be an innovation upon his right of restoring old colors to their origi- nai brightness. But seriously, this new mark of dis- respect for the traffic arises principally from the established conviction that these medicinal rem shops are it humbugs, established for the exclusive benefit of those who preach temperance the loudest, and yet do not wish be deprived of their own grog altogether. They understand that all that is necessary to make the tailor discount, is to go in for Dr. Tom and the liquor law, and “ none others need apply,” under the penalty of being re- fared and baving their names bandied about by the liquor shop hangers on and temperance loafers. But go ahead with your humbugs, “ Ram and acis- sors’ is the word. ‘the citizens of Camden, Wilcox connty, Ala., recently decided by vote, that no spirituous ors shall be sold in the place, or wi a dis- tance from it of two miles, ‘Thirty women of Woburn, Mass, have addressed a letter to Commissioner Loring, in which they charge him with having imitated the example of Judas Iscariot, and “sold Christ in the person of Anthony erDs, eces of silver as an expression of their abhorrence e deed, ond in conclusion they add:—"Sympa- vith the inhabitants of your district, we cel that the rights of the widow and orphan bee nul Le 008 le youg Lands, the | T which they enclosed in the letter thirty | k you toresign your office as Judge of Probate. | Eighth and Ninth avenues, to-day. A.M. and 34 P.M. Rey, Samuel Osgood, of the Church of the Mea- | the o of the fancies there was considerable activity, and more siah, (Unitarian,) will preach on the Divinity of Christ this evening, at the Williamsburg Odeon, corner of South Fourth and Fifth streets. Zion Church, corner of Madison avenue and Thir- ty-eighth street—Rev. Richard Cox, rector—will be open for the first time for Divine service, this morn- ing, at 104 o’clock. Service also at 4 o'clock P. M. INVITATIONS. Rev. W. A. P. Dillingham has accepted a recall from the Universalist Society at Augusta, Me. He has been at Norridgewock for a year or two past. The Rev. Dr. Van Ingen, of Rochester, has re- ceived ap urgent invitation to remove to Saint Paul, Minnesota, to take charge of the Episcopal Church in that city. NEW CHURCHES. St. Laurence’s (Carmi) Chareh in Yorkville will be dedicated to Divine service this morning at half- ast ten o'clock, by the Most Rev. Archbishop lughes. The Archbishop is expected to preach on | the occasion. A new German Baptist church is shortly to be erected in Albuny, with the Rev. Mr. Beckhammer for its paster. The new Methodist church in Bridgeport, Conn., will be dedicated to-day. The interesting ceremony of layi man Methodist Episcopg) Church in place on the 5th instant. The ceremonies incident to Pare the corner stone of the Baptist Church in Fredericksburg, Va., took place on Tuesday, the 6th instant. St. James’ Chureh, a new Roman Catholic edifice lately finiched in Temperanceville, Pa., was dedicat- ed to divine service on the 4th instant. The new Protestant pyecoont Church at Ellicott’s Mills, Ind., called St. Peter’s, was consecrated to the worship of God on the 6th instant, by the Right Rev. W. R. Whittingham, Biehop of the diocess. The First Presbyterian Church of New Albany, nee was dedicated to the service of God on the 4th stant. Dr. Spring’ eres dade’ b f ‘8 Con; ion we una- nimous vote, have resolved to increase the & of their pastor to five thousand dollars per annum. Rev. H. W. Lee, Rector of ‘St. Luke’s Charch in Rochester, has been elected Bishop of Iowa. The Rev. David Caldwell, formerly Rector of St. Paul’s Church, in Norfolk, Va., will preach his last sermon to-day in Georgetown. Rev. Charles Chamberlain, late of Auburn, Mass., was installed Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Ashford on Thursday, the ath fastant. Rev. H. R. Knapp, Pastor of the Baptist Societ; in Willimantic, has resigned the pastoral charge ot that church, and has accepted a call from rl port, L. L. The New Haven Journal sa; seen the appointments for the ference of the Methodist Church, but learn that the Rev. E. E. Griswold, for the last two years with ae Church, goes to the Third Church, New laven. the First Ger- itimore, took :—We have not Rev. Mr. Norris, presiding elder on the New Haven circuit, goes to one of the New York city churches, and Rev. Mr. Janes, last year with the First Church, Lape obeaatig has the appointment of presiding elder. The Universalist Convention for Maine holds its annual session this year, at Norway, on the 27th, 28th and 29th of June. Rev. Edward R. Fuller, late of Medford, was re- cognized as pastor of the Baptist’ church in Read- ing, Mass., on the 6th instant, by appropriate reli- gious services. The Holy See has ‘in sent the bulls to Rev. Father O'Regan, and he has consented, in obedience to the aj ic mandate, to become Bishop of Chi- cago. of July, in the cathedral of St. Theatres and Exhibitions. Broapway THEaTRE—The very amusing piece of ‘Shocking Events” will be the commencing fea- ture of cd cee for to-morrow evening. The successful dramatic spectacle entitled ““Faus- tua” will be pone Messrs. Conway, Pope, and Whiting, and . Ponisi will sustain the principal characters. The scenery of “‘Faustus,” as also the dresses, are beautifnl and appropriate. Bowsry TaeaTre—The manager of this estab- lisnment announces three onto for to-morrow evening, which can hardly fail to draw a large audience—the grand romantic spectacle of ‘Faus- tus,” which has been put on the stage in fine style, scenes from Sheridan Knowles’ comedy of ‘the consecration will take place on the 16th | Louis. “School for Scandal,” and the comic sketch of the, “Know Nothings.” Nisio’s GarpEN.—The great success of the grand ballet of ‘Bella la Paquerette” induces the manager of this beautiful, cool and comfortable theatre to an- nounce it a for to-morrow evening. All the Ravels, Mile. Yrca Mathias, Paul Brillant, and Leon Javelli will appear. The “Red Gnome and White the evening a Pav de Quatre by Mile Yree Mathias he evening a le re le. Yrea Mat Mile. Franck, Mme. Marzetti aud M. Brillant.” Narienat THEATRE.—The manager of this pros- erous theatre has selected an entertainment for jonday evening which cannot fail to draw a lar; audience. The new mele-dramatic Eastern spectacle, interspersed with appropriate music, entitled “The Magic Well, or the Fairy ofthe Desert,” will be pro- duced. Mons. Devani will execute his surprisii feats of posturing, and the musical burlesque “‘Mazeppa the Second” concludes all. Wattacr’s TreaTae.—The receipts of to-morrow evening are for the benefit of a favorite # Mr. Lester. Cowley’s comedy of the “Belle’s Stra- tagem” will commence the entertainments. Mr. Wallack will appear as Doricourt, Mr. ras Flutter, Mr. Blake as Mr. Hardy, Mr. Pyott as Sir George Toughwood, and Mrs. Conway as Letitia Hardy. Lover's farce of “The Happy Man,” will conclude the entertainments. _AMERICAN MusevM—tThe selection of dramatic ieces for to-morrow afternoon consists of the amus- ing farce of “ Bamboozling,” “The Lottery Ticket,” &c., and in the evening, the celebrated drama en- titled “ Raffaelle”’—C. W. Clarke, Hadaway, and Miss Mestayer in the principal parts. Curisty’s MinstreLs.—We perceive that, not- withstanding the ch: in other establishments of this description, the proprietor of Mechanics’ Hall seems determined to keep up the simple negro delineations, by which he has made a large fortune. A fine bill for to: morrow night. Woon’s Mixstrevs.—The operatic burletta of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is announeed by the r of this establishment to be represented only for the next week. It will be su a new burlesque opera, entitled “Black Douglas, or the Noble Found- ling,” which will be produced on Monday, June 19. Buoxiey’s Serenapgrs.—The teeta‘ opera of “‘Sonnam! .”’ which is drawing houses every night, will be repeated to-morrow evening. A very good selection of vocal and instrumental pieces is also announced. Those who may visit this | establishment may calculate upon a pleasant even- ing’s amusement. CastLe Garpen.—The first grand Sunday concert of the season will be given at this popular resort this evening. Adkins’ brass band, consisting of forty performers, will play a variety of overtures, waltzes, polkas, &c. Great Pepestrian Frat.—Mr. James Searles is to perform wonderful pedestrian feats and other amusing matters, at the Military Garden, City Ho- tel, Brooklyn, near the City Hall, on Monday even- i une 12, and they will be continued during the Rr orEeNixo OF THE HreranROME—Franconi aud his celebrated troupe will re-commence the chariot races and other splendors of the per at Ma- dison ayer, in the course of a da; The troupe has been strengthened by several fresh ri- ders—male and female—from Paris, and the enter- tainments enhanced by the introduction of military pageants, battles, &c., got up on agrand scale. Tiio interior has been newly decorated during the ab- sence of the troupe, and « water-poof covering placed over the entire track. Pnivceron (N. J.) Corisem—At the ensuing commencement ot Princeton College, on the last Wednesday of the present month, efforts will be made to re-assemble the various clasees which have graduated within the last few years, in order that they may contribute to the fand of $100,- 000 for the endowment of lege. endowment is to be distributed into scholarships of one thousand dollars, which may be competed for by students, or contributing a scholarshij may have the of nominating incumbents. It is pi that the various classes that have graduated should subscribe among themselves, each class contributing one thousand dollars to form a scholarship. Tae Latest Anovr tir E.ernant—tThe ele- a. that belonged to the menagerie which exhib- ited in this city on Tuesday, still continues in an uneasy “state of mind.” He was confined with several chains in order to keep him secure; but soon after the exhibition was closed he succeeded in severing two of the chains; a third, however, which was fastened to one of his legs and around # rock, he was unable to break. Considerable excite- ment was caused among those who chanced to be upon the ground. hot haste. He mol. The com undoubtedly, a dangerous ani- ny paid $700 for damages done by » Liage Monday — Mur Ledford Spendard, Jans jy ew York East Con- ; The Rev. Mr. Pease comes from the Wil- | let street church, New York, to the Essex Church. | Part of this | nd many fled from the place in | . Sea euemen to 17. comts fos to-day, was down’ cash transactions than we have had lately. The market is not strong, and would not stand much hammering. Nicaragua and Cumberland serve materially in sustain- ing prices. We understand that within the past two or three weeks, large sales of Erie, New York Central, New Haven, snd other railroad stocks have been made, and the proceeds invested in Cumberland and Nicaragua. There is much good sense exhibited in that movement, Railroad stocks generally, and those we have named par- ticularly, have no margin of any importance for improve- ment, even in market value, while both Nicaragua and Cumberland have everything in their favor. They are unwarrantably reduced in value, and purchasers at pre- sent prices cannot but realize large profits, merely by the appreciation in market value. If one-balf that is antici- pated in relation to these two is realized, purchasers at present prices will have no cause for complaint. At the | first board to day Cumberland declined 34 per cent; New York Central Railroad, 14; Michigan Central, 4; New Haven Railroad, 3; Erie Railroad, 34; Reading Railroad, 3. Harlem advanced 3 per cent. ‘At the second board the market was thought better, and closed firm at our quotations. The steamship Baltic, from this port for Liverpool to- day, carried out $626,125 in specie. The Park Fire Insurance Company have declared @ semi-annual dividend of six per cent. The earnings of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad Comapny in May, 1864, amounted to $28,419 64, against. $25,156 67 for the same month last year. Increase, $3,- 262 97. The warrants entered on the books of the Treasury Department, Washington, on Thursday, the 8th inst., ‘were :— For the redemption of stocks, For the payment of other treasury debts. ‘45,984 00 For the customs............++.0005 1,725 51 Covered into the Treasury from Land 1160 00> Covered into the treasury from sources, 52. For the 93. For repsYing tor the War The anthracite coal trade is still prosecuted with much. energy in all ite departments, without at all abating the demand, and, of course, with little hope of a reduction. of prices. The Reading Railroad Company brought down. for the week ending on Thursday of this week 34,171 tons, making for the year 818,394 tons, against 626,258 tons to the same time last year. The Schuylkill Navigation. Company shipped for the week ending on Thursday last 26,530 tons, making for the season 282,199 tons, against 289,66) tons to the same time last year. The Lehigh Navi-- | gation Company shipped for the week ending on Saturdey. of last week 35,847 tons, making for the season 220,558 tons. The week’s shipments by the three lines were» about 96,500 tons—a very good week’s work; bat it will: have to be improved on if the estimates of tonnage by the several companies at the beginning of the season are redeemed. ‘The Boston Zranscript of the 9th inst. says:— The market was very heavy this for nearly all descriptions of stocks, Vermont Central being the only active one on the list. The ‘bears’ broke down the price to 53g, the lowest yet, but sales were made at 5 and x, There has been a general f some days past that the stock would eventually fall per share, or lower, and this has in a great méasure pre- vented purchasers from coming in, even. at the present. eompsratively low figures. The sales to-day were smaller then the averagy late, the whole number of shares sold since June 1 being 46, in round numbers. densburg declined 3, but held firm at'73, with limited: transactions. Vermont ana Massachusetts fell = clused heavy at 15. Wilming:on sold at 87, a . Dividend stocks were heavy, and 79, Western 6, Concord 62, and Maine 104%. - dence, Worcester and Fi are in fair demand. Cheshire preferred is very dull of sale at 34 asked, as also Northern at 44. Michigan Central sold at 100%, and the: same price asked for more. Vermont and 9 asked. Portland and Saco, 95 asked. Bonds are very heavy and dull of sale, the whole of the transactions since June 1 amounting to but 500. Hand and copper stocks also partake of the pression, ang sell at reduced figures. Stock $7000 Ky 5’s,pyinNY 9334 8000 Ind 23, pr ct.sB 60 2000 "Tl. 83 for g Fels q Sarurpay, June 10, 1854. 60 she Mil 50 she Del & Hud. 100 do. + 10034 15 Bk of Commerce. 10635 10 Hanover Bank... 200 Canton Company. 100 do... 800 100 Mich Cen RR.... 100: 100 N ¥ Cer RR. 530 102: 100 do... +060 10236 CITY TRADE REPORT. Sarorpay, Jane 10—6 P.M. Asnrs.—There have been sold 200 bbis., at $6 75 a $6 814 for pots, and $5 50 for pearls, per 100 Ibe. The Inspec- tion, Warehouse contained to-day 1,711 barrel of all 8. Breapervrrs.—Flour baryon less and lower nee. The day’s transacti included 6,700 bbls.— inferior State at $8 a $8 25; common to State at ¢ &$8 75; mixed to fancy Western at $8 75089 25; and other kin4s at proportionate rates. the sales were 2,000 bbls. common State, to arrive by int of July, at $8 25. Canadian was inactive. There were 1,006 bbis. Soutbern disposed of at $3 75 9 $0 26 for mixed to straight, per bbl. About 200 bbls. Jersey corm mes] were taken at $8 8734. Rye flour, wheat, rye and oats were unchanged. Corn continued {n Mvely request, with sales of 38,000 bushels at 77c. a 8lo. for unsound; 88c. a 85c. for mixed Western, and 870. for prime South- ern white and yellow, per bu Coal.—Two cargoes of about 00 tons cannel were sold to arrive (one cargo having since come to hand,) at $12 —four months. Corrxe—lhe market was quiet; about 800 bags St. Domingo, for export, sold on private terms. CorTox—The sales were estimated at about 1,000 bales, without change in prices since y ; Ted were in better demand, at $3 26 a $3.59 erel were moderately inguired for at $16 50 for No. 1, an | 99 25 8 $0 60 for No. 3, per bbl. Her- , but firm. ring were qi TrmonreRates for Liverpool continued dull, with limited engrgements, Abou 5,000 = 4.000 saa of corn were en; ¢ Liverpool, in bulk, on private forma, Flous'wes nouizal atts. bd., and deed weight 1s. 64. — 208. 600 bales compressed cotton were: d.; to Havre cotton was taken at So. Sed Win anda M0., sod bene was ot fete venwel was taken up to load at Mobile for Havre at Lic. Ib. A vesrel was chartered to load with deals at St, johns to London at £6108. A vessel was en; t, load with coal at Philadelphia for Salinas, Paci at $16 per ton. To California rates ranged from 460, 0 5be. Hay.—River was in fair demand at 75c. for shipment, and $1 for local use, per 100 Ibs. Hear —The sales during the week embraced about 300 ales undromed, at $200 a $220, and 50 bales dressed at Honry.—We have to notice sales of thirty-five tierces and forty barrels, for domestic use, at 54 conte—four months. —Eastern were less abundant and held at $1 8734 per thousand. an og mer See 873¢9. for common, and for Jom, . Laid. The vnarket was quiet, and holders asked prices above the views of buyers. Motasss.—About 200 bbls. New Orleans were sold at Ons.—Whale, sperm, and olive were inactive, though without alteration in ealue, There have been 6,000 gal- Ions Linseed disposed of, at 810. a 880. per gallon. Provistons.—Pork was in steady request. The day’s transactions embraced 1,700 bbia , at $13 25 for mess, and $12 for im Wee bbl. The sales of cutments amounted to 8. at yesterday's quot . Abou £30 bbls: lard changed hainda, at 06. a Die. per ib. , Beet was quiet. The high prices asked retarded sles. There were 220 bbls. purchased, at $10 50 a $13 for count mess, and $15 75 for repacked Chlengo do. per bbl Prime was last sold at $9 per bbi. Butter cheese were doll and heavy. Rick —The market hax been active during the wool, and prices have improved from 1-16 to 1-8 over last week's quotations. The sales are 1,350 casks at 334 atly prise, M4 conts