The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1859, Page 2

2 Sr. Eamets es Sa all cs be mesus to protect | cation was kept up. The frontier was quiet, The Indians ‘the parent stock. 1 ‘who composed a majority of that Convention regarded but 1 know it wae avytbing bata democratic Conver tion. They made a platform which declare resistance 10 Blavory pgitation, avd they tdeo wgitated it in ite worst form by disouseing be re opening of tho African slave trade, Though that quostion was laid upon cue taole from motives of policy, the eentimen's of the convention were too plainly developed for wny to be deceived as to its cha- raoter, Resolutions providing for the agitation of the subject were introduced, abd the unoontraaivved deciara tion made that wey contained the sentiments of the Voo vention, and it bat since been declared tast niaeiwon twentiotbs of the delegates were iu favor of them. Wont will be the reeult of thie? Reopen tho African slave trade and the South will be deluged wiih oar~ barians, Your present stock of 03 would fall im value, avd recede in point of iateliigeace. Nota poor man would be able to stay {n tbe country, Do- cause labor would be 80 cboap that ho would not bo wrle to get bread for binself and bis family, Ta bor mar ket would be overooos The vast army of be put to work in your cotton fiaids, and th would glut the market beyond all reasoal Prices wou'd fail to four or five conts por pour then, when the demand was supplied, the greater portion of your orop would liv upon your hands for waat of @ par- chaser. Freizhts would advaoco to an eaormous price, cry sail that tae Yaokers could ratse— r abolitionist gentiomean who love the negro would be cogagec in tue trafils, Basa 5 80 we 801 that could be bougbt or pressud into the ser- It woald-bs more vice would be upyn the coaar of Afri rofitabie than the oarrsing trade, Tevand tot upsa sour whatvea, or in your gia houses, Decause travsportavion will not pay, wad ruia to your mix will be the cousequeucs. If negrocs per, mopey would be dearer. It is easier row to buy a negro at $1,500 than it was twenty yoara ogo at $600. Increase the production of ten fold, ag it woud be, and the demand t portion’ Tbe Yaukees would then get your 092! cepig per pound, and make it into calico aad red handker- cbie's to bay negroes with on the coast of Africa, which they will bring South to seli for your tard Golara. To euch &ruinoun policy I am opposed I dy not goto the reeults that will accruo 10 the African. 1 qiil not cis cuss i morality. fhat is @ questior with which | have nothing to do. practical eff-cte upoa us and ‘our posterity, aro wha we are first to iook at. 1k may be that the african will be benefitted, bu! it will be deata to the whites. These men would bait the South on to hasten A diseojution of the Uaion. Sivee 1832 tho struggle for dissolution has been goivg on. That is wa, this means, moment you ask the North to conceds to your de ith Teference to the reopeuiog of the African ®l de, it will De the signal ‘or bitterness and sirife, We can’t live in fellowship. We must bave a d ssolution, and then foliows ovil war. You may take these man ia their protean edapes, uuilificationiets, secessoniats, Afet Can slave trade med, but they all mecr disunioa, I love my country—my waole country. I would preserve t: for posterity as free and as pure as it came to us, and bhere- fore oppote every taing calculated to des:roy it, ‘THE KANSAS-NESRASKA VOTE Two yearsego you gave me a Itt le the woret skinning that mortal man ever got. It was a regular drub ing. You beat mo after the best sty’e, as you bad w right te ao. T bad voted agai ihe Nebraska bill and had vowed agaiost bir, Buchanan, Weil, that is past. fhe Novras' Dill bsa bad its day and the results are to ba seen. Waat they are Iwill not say, but will say thas ex Goveruor Hammond, one of ths most profound staicemen in tae South, and one whom your Legislatare has fully eatorsed, bas deciared “The Kaneas Nebraska bi! was o lusion and deception from the beginving “Ii was @ snare to those a} the South. Is was rotten with treud, its consequencee,”” Other members of Congress and staiesmen bave declared that the Sou:h was deceived in tha bill. I was the only extreme Southern Senator who voted acninst it, and for that you waipoed me like acor cog. if 1 as wrong, Lown it, and take it all back; and it yoa were wrovg, I forgive you So wo will start even again. [t is past. Tuis is no time for dragging out dead isenes. We have cromdiag upon us enough in the present, aud we should meet them like ara who feel that the destiny of their country is im their }, aed that bstory will hold them reepoasinie, WHY BR SUPPORTS BUCHANAN, After you gave me such a drubbing I west on to Wash ingtov. My porition was a peculiar ase, The peogla cf Tex had rebuked me, and spleen in my nature men would say bere was an oc Casion to call it forth. Many, coubtiess, thoagb:, ¢ Wail Houston, tuey have beat you, after ail Fou nave tried to do for Texas, and now is your time to rotaliste.” Loose Who deemed me capahie of such meanness know not the yearpings I have had for the prosperity of texas, and even though she should cast me off, to hor fortunes Would I cling, upon ber soil I would ead my days. So long es ber people were free and bappy it would be the proudest tribute whichjthey oou'd pay tothe va'or ani Patriotiem Cf hore who had struggled to establieh aod maintain the institutions which they possess, I hid fought to give the peopte the privilege of doing as tvey Plesge im matters of this kmd, avd they did perfectiy Tight to exercise it at my expense if they saw fit. I was perfectly wilirg to go into private life if the people were done with me, for devotion to the pubiic service had kept me poor. It showed that they were ‘an independent and selfreliant people, and that it ‘was a misiaken idea that Texae could not cet along qith. cut Houston, Was I to quarrel with you for acting ont the principles for which I bad so tong contended—that of ‘votug for just whom you please? You bad a better right to vote sgainst me than any body else, You larrupped me upmercitully, but yet I felt that the pledges made to yon during the canvass were none tho lees fuithfuily to be fulfilied. Zeaas had endorsed Mr. Buchanan by the Largest majority, im proportion to her vate, of any State in the Umon. I tla you Iwauld support his atministratim. did to. He bad pot received my vote; bat it was not be. cauee I did not bave contivecoe in his ability or patriotism. I voted againet bis , DeLOviOg it to comtalngd i aer sovereignty, = heresy against which [have ever coatend cd, and which [ cever willendoree. I was gratided witn his nomination, relying upon his anteced:n's, aud know that if he was elected he would not betray the p:ople; bu: the latform contained ideas regarding slave property in the ‘erritories so ambiguous that the two sections of tne Unien cach put their own conetruction upon it, the one claiming that it spproved squatter covereignty, and tho otber that it coudemned it; and it was not until Mr. Buchapan in bis imaugnral declared in fa yor of tne correct principle, that the South knew ‘upon which idea the goverament would be administered, When that declaration was made, io terpreting the platform according to the constitutional idea, there was no bar to my giving him a decided sup port. So long es I held my seat in the Senate I was bovad by your wishes Had the tore of the administration been such that I could not have obeved your ingtructions, as expreese’ by your vote for Mr. Bachspan, without compromising my princip'es, I ehould hays resigned. Mr, Buchanan's election grasfied m2. Tas re sult showed that he untied the sirength that d-feated the black republicans, and that was the grat end which I wished ditained. I am now denounced for supportiog an admini Btration which the democratic party placed ia power, which the people of Texas helped to creavs by a majoriiy of eigbteen thousand. Admit that az a whole, [sustained the administration. Is it not an evidence of mv deaoors cy—of my regard for tae wiil of the psopley What if Me Bochansn did say as is charged:—‘Genera! Houston, you have given my admiaistration as cordial a support as aay democrat in Congress, aad [ ara thankful for it.” Is isa gin for a demozratic Presitent to appreciate the support @ man, even though his name be Sam Houston? WAY H8 DID NOT SUPPORT rience Being a democrat, it was my will to carry out the wisnes of my constituents; but if it had not been, it was my duty, This is pure Jackson democracy. Bat you way I did not vote for Mr. Buchanaa frue, but you re member that sbout that wme Mr Pierce was in power. He had violated, io my estimation, the pledges which ob tained him suoport; he hed insulted the governments of Europe and dis\urbed our foreiga relations, by seniiug men to represent us in foreign courts, of ail others uot calcalated to maintain friendly relatioos; be had throwa Out national men at the North ani given their p'aces to frecaoilere; he had turned the cold shoatder to natioaal men at the South and given his favor to disuuionists, after pledging thatthe country should rescive no shock during bis administration; be hed suffered it to be con ‘Vulsed by agitation, the consequences of waich ware entailed ‘upcn his successor. It shall no: be said that [ stabbed it under the guise of friendabio. [ did whatl deemed to be my duty. You have rebuked me for it and 1 yield to your will HAS RESOUNCKD KNOW NOTHINGISM EVER SINCS 1955. About this time the American order was started. It bid fair to be a separate clement; but it Decame corrapted During my connection with it I’ met some of the most clever men alive—nearly all of whom are the learers of your presect Gouston Conventioa party. If they make ag good democrats as they did Know Nothings a0 loog as it dasted, they will kerve yor well. Give them office aad you need have 50 fear of their deserting you; vut it you doa’t, look out. There clever men found there were not offives enough to go round, aud so they turned, and kicked tho Lover. I wrote tho other day to Mr. Flake, an honest editor at Galveston, who interragared mo, as ne had aright to do, and I was bound to asswer:— Toat since 1855 I had not neen connected with the order. It was eaid to be ‘dess,” and a0 I rega-ded it. I knew of ro attempt to agitate it, and I bad no desire to see It agitated. I will cay here that if an attempt were made torevive Iwnld oppose it, bcaue no good result |, amd there is no neerssity fort 1 bave told you that platforms, woea they are used to blind the People to tbe derigus of meui,are dangerous, (vere part of the staging erected for the audience doen, bring- tog a number of the sovereigas to the grouad.) 'fhere, id I not tell you platforms were dangerous, HIS PRINCIPLRS My ples you all kaow. I nave ever beca opprsed to 8; opposed to internal improvements b? the general government; oppreed to a distribution of the pabilc lauda among the States; opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people; opposed to apecial mo. opolies ; opposed to a protective tariil; oppored to @ latitadinous covstruction of the vonstitution ; opposed to Blavery agitation and disunion. This is ny democracy. Point to @ single act of my pulic caresr not in keeping with theee principles. Wri those who are pt opposing me now come up and compare 0 THE ADMINISTRATION. Well, Mr. Buchenan became President. Je is an honest man. He is apatrict, He took the reins of government pnder trying circumstances. Mr. Pierce bai thrown himself into the hands of free soilers and d'scoloniave. Men of ultra creeds were to be found in the high places of ment, He built them up in hia messages. Ha luced the Utah ditiiculty, by giving such scoundrels as igre Young and others, whom he sont there, con- trol of affairs. Our relations wit Great Britain were un- settied. A system of fraud in the performance of government contracts had grown up, These were all entailed upon Me. Bacnanon’ and “ho “had to meet thom. He has been honest and fuihful, and Tae ae Ye A been from rH 4 id well to make and when ali the cloud: which h ine thered about ‘ gg —s rotere chared up, you weil fivd that by factions ‘which havd crippled difficulties which were nos of wisly and asa patrit. He Kanses and Utab . He bar ob. the right of search by Great the work of ‘'rquatter rove. hasnot Cally met the excectations of the of Congress. Did he and interven. of Mexico to protect our com. end property of our citizens? Did HH dou’t know how good Know Novhings | Your cota would | and thoes who made it fliuched from | if there was any | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1859. he Congrers to give bim th war iaterectain Deniral amscrie! Has Be noveavoceied | the eequisition of Cuba? Ant snouga there are measures | to whion objection may be mace upon principle ame ia crenge of the tariil, for instance, I cangos bat regard thea oy meet & pressing ems ouls show shat Le bas swod ite old Datiies on toe bart have beea 68. He can rapriated. faut Nes at the o uptil 16 ba) 2 a Well as ober depend vpon Congress for support I¢ is nogsse ous to jen Sir. Buchanan for the faalts of olbera. Yet, we flod 1 his OWN Party & powerfal faction arrayal egulast him, spd (hat (hove who produced the troubles entared up dis admintstration were the first wo desert him. WHY DID NOT Ti HOUSTON CONVENTION RNDORSE UCT AN AN? Hr, Buchanan was Domiosted any elected oy the regu larly Orgenized party of the Union, Waalever doudis may have existed a8 10 the platform, must have glean way b. fore hit interpretation of it, Should hus party suatain bia? Ovght not Texas, which gave him soch an woaai us) The postal se-y eguiar departments of governmo!, must money or, as | mous support, wo staad, as stooi Aaron and Mar by the | | side of Moses, aad bold up his Lauds whiie he labors for | the country? Thore who oppoeed bis election might stand | off, Dut of bie party som a better was to be expected Has it been dons? Did the Houston Coaveatioa en iorse | Mr. Buchanan's a¢mioistrationy Thore’s the rub IC [ | bad neglecied to sustain it what a bow! would have been | set up around my path; bat yet, a convention | meets im tha name of democracy, and fails | to give ban iw endorsement? Tf, in too couaiveration of otber matters, tuis nad been forgottea, | nome excuge might be offered; but it wag a deliberate ac | Tee subject was coosicered in the Committee on Piatform, apd it was rcsulved thas it would not do to endoree a de- mocratic President, Was it because he is knowa to be a Union man, aud that [bad sustained him? [es taisa ro fon wby a convention, claiming to represent the natioual demwoorecy should ceeert him? It ts the rst time since the rise of parties ia this country that a conveotia, even ‘though but of @ local character, bss failed to endores the Preaident of its party. Contrast this with other coovea- tions heid istely in the States, and tee how jittle claim it has upon the support of national democrats, Ail of them, in accordance with eetablisbed usage, give Mr Bachavan the band of foliowebip. Shali tt go out to the democracy of tbe Unicn that the democracy of Texas sympatnizes | with the Northern disorganizers who aro trying to bres dowa the administration TI am called a disorgsnizer— bat wnat do you call thi What better evidence do democri want of the faithleesness of taia bod¢ that thie? Ido not coademm the coavention system. I never have done 20, When they ropresegs the people thay will do very well, but whea they mis ent the people, I am opposed to them. Good may reauit, aad has resulted from them. In times of party atrifo, when priacipies are } @t stake, they unite men of the tame views, who come Dearing the wishes of the peop'e Purge the party of Gisupionists and corrupt po.itisians Ust your coaveo boas befree from their shackles, or else fall back upos your rigbta 8 she people, srd jacge of mea by their pein. ciples aed their acts, I want proper cooventioas or noae | atall,ava the people bave already declared that they | agree wilh me CUSINNG (NOT CALBB) UPON BUCHANAN My time bas veev so occupied in the punite Iheve not rad much to do with newsoape: | came to my rctice the oteer day which coatataed an arti | cle that I mst be perm tited to read. It is pablisnet et | the city of Houston, by a gentieman from the region of | olition'sm, aud I would not eay ao if he had pot joined fairs that bat one northern buth, He say; | , It te ssid tost Mr Buchanan endorses General Houston, nad | thet ccasequeativ democrats sbould vote for bim Is thie the ru'e? sre detncezats to tebe the endorsement of any mia menimet the evidence of thel> cwn senses! Who ia @r. Ba chanep or Mr anybody else, that he should com mand wu: to vote for the grest offender? . Offender! Offender! eff nded bin ? Who {8 Mr. Buchanan that he should command us to send Houston baos to ccquette agala wita aboiluoniem ? a may be afraid that I will cut him out and take his | place. Eos it come to this thst Mr. Buchanan is the dictator of the Barty, tbat claced hin in power’ away with the ides But ir. Hucbsran. we believe, bas done no ich thing. ‘This, t2> fea story trumped up by these bolters, who are moving ine world for excuses tor thelr conduct, Now be can’t call mea bolter, for they read me out of | oe oigad and if 1 do apy bolting I sball have to bolt ack. It Buchanan endo-res Houston, then away with both and a’! of them ‘The peuple know what the principles are on whico their ee’ety roa; std n>ira, be he Presideat or what not cae lead hovest men away from thetr prino'ples for the ake of mes. if Buchanan endorses Houston. and it he atill holds to bis protective tar‘tf notions; and if he also endorses Gereral in his mere protection doc'rine, wheredy our naturalized c tizeas canclaim no protection from our flag. she, then. we putit to the ¢emocracy whether it is not tine (> question the prin-tp'es of the tresident himself At any rate we don't want him to dictate to ibe people of Texas who they sbali make Uorernor or send tothe renale ‘The fac: the: reariy every federal office bolder in Texas is aurportiog Houston Pauslbillty to the report. Is ii so or not? “If Mr Bochansn endorses Houston, away with both of tbem.” And this is the editor of the Telegraph, a gentle- men who, afew months since, wrote the most extrara gant eulogy upon me that mortal man ever penoea. I never knew bow gresta man I was until I had read it, and Dow how conveniently he takes it all back. 1 thiok tbe people are entitled to vote for me this time if they Want to, and it is wrong to abuse Mr. Buchaoan because be cannot help it Jf he endorses me %: is because I have sustained him while these men have deserted him Whether he does it, it is not for me to say. I know not upoa what ground the statement is made, bat it must have come trom some reliable source or this editor would not have become s0 excited on this subject. I cherish no upkindness agtinst the editor at Houston. He may go cn end biacken my character as his maligaity my Sisto bat arg in him to make that the veveo of eepersing the tent. write for the pana, ns ne hash tbem. Aman wi a degra Cation, and that those who devote themselves to it fo life, with occasional exceptions, are beveath the average rcale of humanity, knows nothing of the feelings which throb for their couvtry’s good! in the hearts of tne hard fisted yeomanry of the country. THE UNION. So long as we con®ne ourselves to the constitution and the Union, we need fear no danger to our institutions Abandon thete—let dissolution come, and anarchy awaits us, Look at the condition of Mexico, rea1 tae pronunciamientos of her rival chieftiacs. The plan of Tacubaya was the proclamation of an anarchy. It over threw the constitution of 1824, and since, pro nunciamientos have followed each other in rapid succession, each ber and oppression. If we depart from the constitution we may expect a like reeult. We will have civil war without en? Make a Southern confederacy, and there would be s Northern one, These men who have shown a disregard for the struggle of our fathers will care bat little for union when tueir chief end is attained. Chieftains in every State in tre Union would issue their pronuncismien tos, ‘apd fol:cwers would flock to their etandard. The scenes that would ensue I will not shock you by relating God, when he intends to destroy men, iret makes taem mad. He has maddened Mexico. She hag not the terzibie element ws bave in & servile pooulation, acd yet she sut fers uptold miteries. Ge has maddened theese mon. Mark me, the dey that produces a dissolution of thie cou- feceracy will be written in history in tha blood of ha matity. Ail that is horrible in war will characterise the future of this people Presorve unioa, and you preserve fen ca They are one and tue same, indivisible and per- fect. Now I'd like to know how I've HOUSTON ON SEWARD. There thoughts cal: tg miod tae fact that an individual at the Nort, bigh ip pubic station and stauding at tbe head of a sectional purty, bes deciared resistance to the Jaws of the Iand, and would establish in its stead what be calls “the higher jaw.” Mr. Seward says to the people of bia section—Reform your own code; exiend a cordial welcome to the fugitive when he lays his weary limbs at your door, snd defead him as you would your bousshoid gods.’ That isa violation of law. The fogitive elave law gvarantees your canetituiional rights, and yet this maa adviees resistance to it. Is this right? You answer no Is it tressonable? Yer, you declare. Taen what would you think of the same Kind of sentiments advocated Io your own midstY Yet the great organ of this party at Avgtin announces, in the very face of the law probibitiog the African slave trade, that no southern jory will brend a man aa a felon for irading in foreign instead of domestic siaves. That issay tng that Southern jaries will perjave themaclves for tae sake of cheap negroes, It's asiander upon the souta Gonor and virtue alike demand that it ehould be indig pantly repelled. Ts not a sentiment Ike this as bad as bs Seward’s ? Theee are tbe men who denounce me. j tI have couveciled no violation of the law. I have viosated none myself, F bad rather bea victim of ven. geance than en outlaw and sauctioner of treason. HOUSTON'S Past. I challenge an investigation of the record 5 oak my countrymen to judge me by that. Recall the scenes of olden times, with waich mary of you are familiar, and iet me azk you whenT feil short of your expectations, Troe, Idid not wear gold ringe on ine onside of kid gioves (I wear rings, but they are the gifts of frienda, and it is for their sakes that wear them, but not over kid gloves.) We did well to get buckskin clothes and’ brogen shoes, und I bave mine to show my children, so that ifat any time they should let fashion and tolly gat the beet of them, they can see what their father was, an not judge men by their dress. Then we were surrounded by difficuities. After annexation, who was it for twelve yeurs stood by me, shoulder to shoulder,in the Senate struggling for the good of Texas? General Rusk aesisted in that berculean task, which gave to Toxas millioas of movey and reserved to ber her publis lands Woald that he were here to answer for me! In 1347, Messrs, Wood and Van Zandt were can tidates forjGovernor. They made the issue the saie of the public domain, Gov. Wood advo- cated a sale of the public domaia for ten millions of doilars, The people elected Lim. That wss equivalent toa declara. ton that the people would take ten millioas for it Wheo Go Henderson was sent on to negoth nexation, the whole of our public domain was offered if the United States would pay our national dobt. Taus Btood the mater When the compromise measures cams up, she Texas delega:ion occupied « strong position. Upon their decision hung the compromise. We made ovr ulit Sansa Fe territory at ten miilions of dollars. We stood firm. Resk snd mysoif ootained from Mr. Polk the ad- mission that our claims to the Santa fe territory were Just, aud although there were ramors taat General Scott had been ordered by Presidect Taylor to repsir to Santa Fe, we played the part of valorous men, knowing that the people would sustain a sovereign S:ate in resisting federal oppression. Were stern and uryielding, and when told that the troops were on their march to the scene of tro we told them that we could raise Texans enough to tic them after they got there. Wo obtained the tea mil- Hons of money, and reserved ono hundred and eight mil. sions of your public domain. It was to insure you against taxat‘on, to enable you to recure the navigation of your rivers, and to encourage railroad !mprovemeat. It open. ©1 out before Texas # oareer of greatness if it were pro perly busbanded. Of this money five millions were lof: in ihe United Statcs Treasury to secure the pryment of our national debt. In 1854 we recured two milion five milons, paid the last cent of the debt of the republic, and \o-day there is three handred thousand dollars in the United States Treasury, coming to Texss, which nesds but the form of law to have i$ paid Jato your treasury. I heiped to do this: but when you rebel olen 4 me such hard licks two years ego did you think of that? Go back to the old republic; was I faithfal there? I lef the govern- ment prosperous aad the people hopeful. Mail communi- with men who attsck others became they are of | ing 1:8 train of pillage, marder | | we general suoport of the South, and matum, und fixed the price a} which Texas would sell her | andred thousand doilars more. This added to tho five | down to peace to trade tn the city of Houewn. fa 10 debt was but two milhons. Threv years [ was out ‘the people catied mo wheo I did not wish to be acini inte, andl was olected. What did (foot The couatry pavsrupt, The promees O¢ tbe goverument not worth © Uational debs tweive miloas— }e pu m reed, Quiet was restored, Peacy wae mato with Mex co, A portion of the public ded} was paid. 4 cur. 1 bey Was establiebed, and when I weal out there was proces tn the treasury, Whether it was wisaum, pairiot ick or soci’ ent, it was doge, and I leave the counuy p> as bv DOW 1 was done. ‘hi $1V8 MILONS—-THR PURLIO PRINTER AND JUDGE WATROUS. Wheie ws the five milton Collars which was placed io your treatury? Is taxation coming? [ told you to look out {or these things, aud tt 18 time you should look wt Abem. I do boi pretend 10 Bay the money is not there, tbovgl I'd bave autvority for saylog eo; but these things may be asked. I wil pledge you one thicg, howeear | Unat if itis there it will stay there, or [ wili know what! doce with it, TH promise you thet no man aball get | cent of it without the full sanction of the law, be be a thou: | sand times tbe poblie prioter. It makes vo dilereace whether he praises Or abuses me, it will be thy same. That's all | Dave to promise with reference to that. I do Lot seck favor by making pledges whiob I do not maay to ta), I stand before you @ man with no more 8°! febness thao fails to the reat of bumanity—« man wbo wiil aot avail himeclf of bis position to coua- tecance fraud, or allow the treasury to be robbed to pro mote the ends of bis partisans. {f any bave been at this business I Go not blame them for opposing my elestion, ‘or mt wili end the game If the organ there aow nas been ined by the meavs that respectable ctizeus way it bas, rigbtin thundering ts anetbemas at me. Ti coucema: ed my Watrons speech before it bad geem it, art pro nounced it a siander. Bear the facts. Jadge Watrous oad by cbicanery end frand made his juaiciat portion the ergine of oppression and wrong. He bad coabiaed wih wealthy avd uvecropulous men to deprive Texas wrongtuily Of millions of acres ef ber padtic domain. Vileny bad bdisckepea upom bim untti tt bad formed w crust, throwgh which he deemed justice could cot break, He bed sat upon the trial of caves on which be bed sn foterest de bad token ac vantege of bis judieial position to rene Ai himeelt enc his coadjutors The henest settler, who by fair pur- cbage bad acquired a title to land, was made the victim o! bes wschinationg § Aereciated wih ekilful eod bad mec, br deemed the guard to hus corruption cure that nove could appro to !ay bare bis in‘quittes. Your Legisla'ure ned for years been Cemanding bis impeacbment. Ciothed ia power, | and surrounced by bis plixat tools, spd relyirg upon bis contederates, be bad laughed the peopie to acorn, aod suc ccesruily resieted all attempts to bring him to tne bar of | juetioe. At Iaet, when enams would p-ranit nim to be silent | po topger; whenan ovtrsged public opinion clamored leu ily | for bir removal, wheu the thunders of the press and the | tong record of bis vailinoier s'artied bim from hie reccrity, he attempted to cetend bimeelf by charging that the peo | ple of Texas had copepired againet bin because he faith fully carried out the saw. Thoee who vindicated bim cherged that Texas wisoed to gct rid of bim because he | woud rot sencticn frevd. Ae, upon wbom cor: uption bad fastened with s tenacity that pot even the band of copecien ce bas Geen able to locae ite boid, was heid up to | the world ag a putern of honesty, moruitty un reiigi im Be may bave calculated upon forbearavcs. Ae may have thought T would excuee myrelf with the refi sction that “Texas bad rebuded me,’ acd here was aca where al! bad been done that wat exp-cted. He ues abused Texas: itis pot my faclt. Shalt [ face this conspiracy? No such paitry excuses controlled my course, There was but oue | way leit to reach bim: tbat method Iadopted. A vill was intrecuceo to abo'ish the diatrict over whicn be premided Hie corruption was laid bare before tne eyes of the community, apd surscqrent faciy bave proved the trata of my assertions. My corstituents were vindicated, and though he atsll shomelessly hAds on to @ position which he disgraces, pubirc cestempt and execraticn haunt nis every fousep Mcn peed not expect that because my constituents avuse je, and I give come of them a rake occasionally, that they are to be made the bult of every ecouudret who wishes to escape public censure by wccus'pg them of wroug I may take privileges with thew myeelf, bat outsiders must ftand cil. We shail se.tie our little difficulties in our own way, acd abuze each other in the most amiable style, bat third parties muat keep quiet. There was another mea. suze which came before she Jast Congress in which my constituents bad adeep interest. The Pacific Railroad had bern urged by my deceased colleague for years. He hea wy aid at all times when it be. came pecesary. I voted for the only mea- eure which promieed succers—one providing for the re- cection of propositions for the road on three different routes, Beaven 80 Cesigned it that if ever a railroad ig built to the Pas , 1% must be upoa extreme Southern soi! to be permszent and practicable The Southern route glove presr Dts LO obstacies to the construction of the the climate, the topography of se country, distance and recurity,are alike in its favor; and, relyiog upoo there advantuges over any other route, I feel assured that if justice was done, we would secure the road. I urged these facts, and, though they voted that the initial point | gbonta not bs below Memphis, [felt sssured that Texas could not in the end be sacriticed. The road cannot be a snocets unless it passes through our territory. Let the | government decide fuirly,and the Southern route must | Succecd. HOUSTON AND THE RESERVE INDIANS. Lam chargea ‘sustaining the reserve Iodians at the expepte of the white settler. My speeches made in the jast Congress prove the fa'sity of this I advocated wito all the earnestness in my power the culling out of a regi- ment of mounted rangers for the defence of the frontier of Texas. The regular troops bave never protected us, and they never will be able to dos0. ‘I repested!y deciared thet the stat‘ons in Texas were of Lo use, and that if the government would give us a thousaod rangers they migh! remove €) ot Th hea lang haan may objo0t to move all the faoina from the border to new reserva ‘Hops at sucd a ence that they weuld not come in con tact with the whites, For this purpose tne Ooachs reserva tion was iniended, god repeated efforta have been made by myre!f and colleagues to bave it estab. tehed and our Incians removed. So lorg as they are in toe immediate vicinity of the whites, it is uselees to at tempt to either civilize them or to keep them ia bounds They sbould be kept out of white territcry, unless accom panied by a white mau, and nove but licensed traders +hould be alowed to mingle with them, When vettle merte are pressing upon them the temptation to commit | depredsticn Is too great. They are kept drunk, and re- wain indolent Remove them from there tnfluences and the Indian policy of the government will result well. LECOMPTON—KANSAB, When the question of the acmiesion of Kantas under the Leccmpton constitution came up,I cbeerfally voted for the bes; messure presentei—tnat which met the appro vai of the President. I bad ’no objection to make to the measure; because T regarded the resolutious of the Legislature a3 my icstructions, and besides, | | ardently cesired that the unprofitable ‘and dangerous | Kanenn agitation sbould be brought to a close. Any mea- | sure which cid jastice to the South and bid fair to attain this end had Cla'ms upoo my supoort. Tae Supreme Court having decided in the Dred Scoit case upon the un- coustitutionailty of the Missouri restrictions, it only re mained to spply to Kanres the doctrine of non interven tion While [ have maintained the compromises of the consiitution, I bave ever coutenced, in the application of a tocrrine to territory scquired since, that ‘the only quos Von which ebould be sekea cf a Siate when she knocks at our doors for udmission, suould be: Does her consti- tution conform to the national requirement? [s it re pudiiesn ip its character?’ Toe eapport I gave to the compromize mesures of ISt0 proves my devotion to this doctrine. Ia the decision of the Scprme Court I acquiesre, because 1 re gard it as a coordicate branch ‘of the govern ment, vpcn whose decision we may rely with sale ty, Witbout an fezsm nation into the details of ita action, Utake it for granted iat itis right, Regarding it as the only euthorized power under the constitution ¢9 adjadi cate such questions, the moment Ite decision { proslaimad Upon the qnection of the can- ty Of the Miseourl compromise I bad never de vorable opizion. Now, that tt is declared to be unconstitutional by tbe supreme legal authority of the tand, I acquicece in it, and have done eo from the first, MEXICAN YROTECTORATR. Previous to my introduction of resolutions pending for 4 protectorate ever Mexico, the prominent par:7 journals of Texas were ioud in their demands for tatervention iv tbe affe'rs Of Mexico, in order io meiatain oar in feretts there. Mr, Buchanan bad given the mea sure bis eenction io bis apoual message, and 60 marvs of disspprobation had been manifest ; but whe [ presented the subject to the Seonte,there was a.com plete revolution in the sentiments of’ those meo. Tae very mesure which they had before deemed advieable ‘was Low a free soil scheme, Was the meagure aay the jese Just becouse I introdvced ft, or must American ia tereats and American expucrion be given the go by be cause I. in my capacity as Senator, and inthe diacbarge of & duty I owe my country, urge their claims upon the ro- tice of the american peop'e? The obdject in view in establishing a protectorate over that unhsppy country needs but ttle explansi‘on to convince alt of ite atility. Mexico hes been for near baif ® century tora by dietract- ingelments, Her situation appeals to us as her near neighbor to interpose in the name of humaaity and good gov. érpment, The crisis {n her affairs has been approaching, it is even now at band, when her people, mad with anarchy ond misrule, will diegrace the character of this ceatury by bloodehed, debauchery and riot. Unable to maintain { a stable goverpment for herself, she in powerless to pro | tect the rights of our citizens In her luis. Oar coma cial relations with her are subject to urjuat restrictions, | and ur citizens engaged in her trade at the mersy of | brigande or rival chieftains. Unable to restrala the fo- dians on her borders, they make incarsiobs npon us, and when they have plundered and murdered our frontier set Hers, return to ber limits, and are beyond the reach of penishment. Our slaves flee from their masters and flad refoge among her people, aud we are anable to reclaim them. The destipy of the American people, too, points in that direction. My object was to creats @ proiectorate which would be self-snpporting. The resources of Mexico avo immenre. Extablish peace within ber limits, protect her people in their homes, rid them of ruivous exac- tichs, and no ccuntry upon God's earth would emile more bounteourly to reward industry. can energy wovid devilope her incalculable stores of wealth. Her mices would pour out untold miilioos, and gradually, under the influence of our institutions, tne courtry would beceme Amerwenized and prepared for incorporation into our Unioa. Arvid the rerult at wo2 may, Ut tsbound to come. Would it met be wirdim to exzrewe the togacity of statermem, ard before the land is destroyed amid Oe flames of civd war, stretch forth our hand lo save it? Tocse who prate about free e0i1, with reference to Mexico, kvow norbing of the character of the jawtitation of slavery. The ‘nstitution, too, has ite destiny. Profitable, there will It go; aad will pretend to say ‘Ubat the great valley of Mexico is not fitted to siave labor? But opart from this, Mexico remajns intact or beoomes consolidated witn us, should We Dot pursue uch a course with rd to her as will | cbsure protection io our citiz:ns, and enable us to main | tain commercial relations with her. If we do wnt interpose | to keep her on hee Let and im the exerci of the gusta | government, her svert acts in violation of our rights and pose Lp our flag will beorme 20 flagrant tra! ve will be comp: tled to seize upon her for indemnity for the pit and security for the fusure.” Or shall we wait antil she be- comes the prey of foreign Powers, who would make ber the means of annoying us and threatening our rocarity? Stateemanebip and bumanity alike dictate our course, The clorate would not only be eclf sustaining, but it Would afford a revenue. Beyond that the benofite of our people at lerge, from an increased commerce, might be great, In ber present condisioa the wealta of Mexico is sunendered, Neitber hurself nor the world without is benefitted Lat ber have = good governnent nal the most Depetlosot remlte would ensue, It wes to pro cote these onde that 1 advocsed Provecwrate. 1; was humanity tbat prompted me, aud ea increased desire for the glory of my country. [¢ waa co give prowniior b> Vexer against the gavage [Indians that lofest the borders of Mexico. It to provide tor the reclamation Of our slaves ho e8cepe IDtO hor tweritery. is was to provide for American expansion 1¢ was to bulla a2 ag, ia prov detianee of the reat of the world, a nationality ia walca freedom exisié and strepg’b to maiataic it. Waat a ie etiny would await Texas! If Mexico ta reclaimei from her state of xemi-barbariam, and completo comareroiat ipteccouras eefabiisbed, hor rerources ful y doveiopod, whet ap tyfleence wil her ueighdoroo9! have upon tac proayority of Yexas! IT tod toom ia the Senaw ibet if good gevernment was given to Mexts, and Texas wus cared for as well by the goas ral goveroment as New York had beou, ahe would vecome the Empire Siate of the Uviow Situated as wa are at present, ber trade is of littls benef to us, Remove the prevent obstacles in its way, aud iomense beaoiss ue to Texan, Accessible now by ocean comma the wants of trade would demand raitroads penetrating from our borders tuto the heart of her territory. Shall this desioy of ours be thwarted by ecliien views? If wo go onward io ths career waica beaven bus marked ort for us, the dalance of the world may be sunk, and there yot remain here in tneie tall fruition the qualities of government aud advanced civilize tion, If iems ere exc'vded,and we walk in narmoay wich the ‘constitution, carrying out faitnfally its precop's, peither tapegrerting ourselves o* countenzaciag trans breeeion on Ube part of others, we wil bo tho Dipping: obhd moet prosperous peopie in the world Loy rot agitators turn us aside from this caraor. ‘hey are, 1 trvet, bat few. The wise, the patriotic oii ‘jecountepapee them Their purposes and ulterior ea +8 they are developed, will be condomped by the mas ol the country. Let us be consoled with this reilestioa, 0 our duty &8 good citizens, maintain the laws, ataod by he constitation and the Union, snd then, though discord no tyranny should reign without, strong in our poritiva, ur government gustured by the affestions of ths people, hd cur people advancivg i pbyatcal greatness aui ac ppreciation of trelr capacities aca their destiny, we nee! tearvoevil, Happy at bomo, we will be respected abroad ‘We ili be # sbining Sight to the nutions of the earth, to guide them enward to the path which we bave chosen’ J om no friend of filbutering, ax the term ts understood Tam opposed to resistamee to the Laws, whether it bt against the African Slave Trade law, the’ Fugitive Slave la or the Dred Scott decision When the laws are no ‘ovger regarded, regulated hherty snend, Wasn- ‘ever tho will or prejudices of individuals becomes the tri- buna! before which constitutional rights are to be adjudi cated, thie fabric of government, whch bas besa roarod torough bicod ani tribuistion, must fall, Mavataia the covstitution and the powers that exist through it. In the Union we may exercise ali the yigb’s which aro necessary to cer proaperity and safety. Lt us resvive thai #15 and ehall be p eserved.” It is our only ark of Though my attention bas beca absorbed by matters corrected with yoor paticoal rel-tioaships, the eduction as to what my policy as Governor would b> osp euaily be drawn, The same priocipler which have Jed me to advocate retrenchment and raform, a etrict comphance with the constitution, a rigid exaciion of duty st the Lecce of cflicers of the government, an equal distribution of the benefits of government to all Clases @nd ail sections, cppzsitioa to monopolies auc special legi#ation, a liberal po isy in regard to the actual fettier on the public domain, will guide me if elected your Governor, EDUCATION. Upon the eubjoxt of edacation { may be allowed to pre sett afew ideas. [ delieve tt to be tae duty of the Le giviature to provide for tbe educatioa of the masses, No Sour cleatical educat.cn, butthe abe,a bab, babak or ker education, and £0 on up to the mathematics. Ia all the clemon s of a common schoo! education necessary to tke orcinary effairs of life, ia a kmowledgo of our lan- guage ard the history of the country, your youth should be educated. Woen acommunity has imbibed these at the fount of leaning, itcannot be sailed igaorant, Li- braries will be found all over the State, Know. Jecge will then be within the reach of tnose who} wieh to obtain it. Private evterprise and philartbropy will rear ingtitutions of au advanced cbarac- ter. Thore who wish to educrte their sons in tae eciencee wi!) have ample Opportuoity to do vo, and they geveral y bave the means to apare to doit with, Atay Tate, they eLould not ¢oit at the expense of the masses. Great men are not made ia these institutions, Not that they are not useful in their way, but they do not pre sent the moce of education to #hich the Siate should do- vote itsenergic#. The men of the nation come from the old field scbocihcuee or your private ucademies. Such you sbould foster, because ali may avail thoms:lves of thm. But a grcat national! or State concern becomes the recep: tacle of the rors of politicians ard the wealthy. As at Weet Point academy, they are drilled and taught—syes Tight—eyce left; but if tbey haven’t got the braing it 13 imporetble to make great men outof thetn. Unless Provi- cence stamps the man of genius, depend upon it, eduea ‘ion wii] not give it to nim. Education muy be usefal to bom, but you cannot give bim brains. Iam for geusrai education; for euch a distribution of the common school fund as willaid the people in keeping up good schools, Toere need be po fear that the bigher departments of krowledge will not be cared for. Young as our State is, it already boasts several institutions which are Ferd graduating young men who will compare {a polat of intei- Ject and capacity for usefuloess with those from other Universities supported by State patronage. We have not yet reached a point wbeo we can afford to pay a tax to support sn institution where « favored few may bs edu- cated. True, my child might perhaps be educated. They might say when | am dead and gone—‘ [i is the old men’s son, let him in!” But I do not want aby privileges for my children which aro den'ed fo tbe children of the pcorest and least knowa of my fellow citizens Iam for opening wide the door of Knowledge to let all in [would build uptheold field schoolhouse system, from whence have gone the proudest tames that have adorned American history. I would epcoursge your home sone goes and if in the future there should be buch a surplus of money that no public im‘ereat sould suffer from the outlay, it wul be time then to talk about a great State institut Tho experiment may be tried if we bave the movey to spare, but proper re- etraints to the power of those who control it should be provided, Messures ebouid be provided against the con- cerp being monopolized by the sons of poriticiaos {a the vieibity of the place where its located. Tae ssholar- thips should be spportioned among the counties upon & fair bagis. Toe people's money will sustain it, and it ebould be fairly distributed. It should be for the education of the children of ths many, vot of the few. Bat start it when you may, yon will atiil find that your common ssbools will furnish mon upom whom to rely in emergencies. Perbape you will sce a gentleman’s gon going down with his parchment diploma \n bis hand to obscurity, while the poor ragged urchin who worked eigdt montbs in the year aod went to school four, wiil become the Washington, who will lead his cona- trymen to victory in the hour of danger; the Jackson, who will stand firm agaiost any encroucument upoa their constitutional liberties; or the Maury who will utiliza pee, and stamp its paxes with achievements as glo- fous as thore of a Newton. Make education univarsal, but do not attempt on extravagant system, Texas is aol prepared for a syetem of weultby pauperism like tuat of the Weat Point Acacemy, It is aoldom that geniug can obtain an entrance there, unless tt is backed by wealth and ivfluencd. You uced not look there for it; but among the sharp, keea eyed boys of the country, who are knocked about by ad- versity, you will Ona it Look at Maury. I found him a boy without patrovage or fueds, I got him a commission tn the Levy. He bas gone onward and done justice to my friendstip| No man in this age bas contrivated more to practical rcience—nooe has received more honor for his snienuitlo schievements, notoniy inour own, bat in fo reign countries. Yo ar theese institulons—you my tax the people to support them for the benefit ef tae few—but the matees of the people will send oat the men tke Fravkiip and Maury, Make primitive education as free as possiole. Then build up your hom ecoliegea like those we bave now. Let them be accessible to the young men of the country. Many who nov gttend them work or teach school six months ip the year in order to ba able to pay the tuition and board of the other six. That's the way to get education— work for it. A man then koowa the valao of it. These colleges wil! not be fu'l of pampered simple- torr; but men of mind wilt go from thom. It ie usvless to atiempt to make a man of mind. You canaot mako mind, You can improve it. You cannot convert padate duck into anesgle, You can mske an edccated fool, but you cannot ecucate a fool intoa man of gectas. Chosa who web to make such experiments should make them at their own expense, not that of the people, As [ look srovnd npoo this ‘audience, many of whose faces bi deen familiar to me, 1p connection with the scones I hi bere witnessed, I caono; keep down the thought that among those whom I hava beca wont to see, but woo are now amoug the dead, I soon eaall be noum- bered. Here I firat located myself in Texas, Around my deurt etill lingers the recoliectioa of «® thousand kindneeres T have experienced at the hands of the people, Their generosity, their friendship, I have charishod, and shall vever ceate to look back upon Nacogdgches without those feelings which are akin tohoms. Chis may be tne tart time I ehaii ecdrees you. Life’s sand is runalog fast and isaimost ont. Ere long {t will cease to flow, aad [ moet take wy last look upon earth. If I caa behold my country still bappy, and the liberties of the people seaare —!fI can eee the end of sectional strife, and hurmovy ra- stored, Tehall be content. [am to leave a numerous pro. geny tosbare with yours the good and evil that is to come. Fir myself, 1 have no aspirations bey md the present My path through life has been stormy. I woud nave sonebine’ and peace at ite close. or posterity T bave meny anxious thoughts. As men who miy wither entail blessing or misery upon their children, let us be faitoful to ‘the trust im- pored upon ns. The feclings of « father actnate me when Timpiore you to preserve the Hbertios entrnsied to your keeping. If the country prospera they wt'l be bousfited, if al-aster comes they must euffer Toe same reanlis will nocrve to yours. Let me exhort you, then, to stand by the constitution and the Union. Confids in one another in the hour of danger, Rely upoa yourseives woen dema rogues wonld mislead you. Maintain thoro reserved pow ers which are esecn ial to preserve your liberiies aguinst centralization, and they will eiihstand the shock of cea- uries. THR LADIGS—GOD BUES8'RM, Lasies, I know tha’ politica are always uninteresting to you, yot I believe you have in tae general resalt an abid pg loterest. It 18 always a gratification to me to bo- hold my fair countrywomen in assemblages like those. & guarantes that thoir hogbands and ‘a.ners and bro. re are men of intelligence and reflaomeat, who ap)re- Clute their mental capacities, and derirc their couateninne : one eee coe \ siren = rcises @ oxlm ing influence upon nee mn8, which ars too often engendered in the beat of political contest4, Ail parties desire your approving smile. and therefore a!l aro en couraged by your presence. I know that in the direct admivistratcn of political affairs you have no share: but yet, retgoing as you do, supreme in the realm ot love, your influence Controls the desiiay of nations’ Woman’s love ts tho great lever which rouses man to action, The general, ag bo plans the atruicgettc oombina- tiovs which are to ensure victory, looks forward to @ recompense dearer than the laurela upeu bis brow; the soldier, a8 he trudges stoog on the weary march, or mingles in the scenes of the battle fleid, evea with death sronpd bim, forgets awhile the carnage, and tarne bis Uboughts to the fond girl he left behind hitn; tem pest driven by the rude waves, sings mi Aloft ex be thinks of the little cottage by the shore, his wife and dear ones await him; the statesman, es ho devises amid deep and painful thought, plaus of g vera mect, which ere to toll upon bie own and his cou .try's fame, over loses eight of the jogs which await tim #1 Cabinet covacila are over and be enters the ports of home; the sentinel, a8 De paces bis weary watob, loves the moonlight tramp, that be may look beneath its raye at the dear memento of a mother’s or a sister's love. Over man, ip all bis relationships, the influence of wonas Dapgs like acharm. Deprive us of your tofluence, w rich digviftes and stunulates us to noble deeds, aud we boo) ne worse than barbariae. Let it be ours, and we oun bravo the cannou’s mouth or face danger in ton thousand f>-u You stimulate all shat is good. You carvolk in us igvodlo purposes. You have also aa im or tact influence upon posterity. The early im. pressions which the child recuives from you outlive #1 ‘he wisdom of iater deys Sages mey reason, and ott. lorophers may teach, but the yotse which we heard ia in fancy will over come to our ears, bearing @ mo:ne’s words and @ mother’s counsels, Continue to instil Lito your children virtue aad patrio'ism imoue thom wih Proper veneration for the tathers of liborty. Learn th«m to love their country, and to labor for its good, as the great ent of toeirambition, Bid them proudiy matotars Our ina\itations. Point them to the deods of their ances. tore. Muke thee their eecutcheou, and bit them hand it downto their children as free from einin as it came to them. Do this, ladies, and your iofluence will not be lost in the future, ‘Ta the jangusge of the poot it wiil stil bo Baldi Woman Is lovely to tre sight, Ae gentle a8 the dows of oven, As bright as morning’s carltet light, ‘And spotlees ws tho enows of Heaven. SAM HOUSTON, 10 THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD, ‘The campaign of 1860 is near at hand. As the mariner approaches the coast the headland aud the lead determine bis course: 80 i political atzifes, a history of tho country and men for the country are the oaly gnarsaties for the future. The liberal and independent press of Amorica havo a greast duty to porform. Already tho Hesarp has presented numerous names to the poople for the office of Preeident—Scott, Cameroa, Dougias,S:ward, Wise, Binks, Everett, Chace and Critunden, Howover eminent, how- ever qualified, these geut'emen have called forth no response other than with a few personal admirers. The people are enthusizstic, and ws hays neon a9 on tbusixem except at the mentioned pame of Sam Houston. ‘Tt was only last winter the Senator from Texas gave us his valedictory, After forty years spent in the pablic ser- vice, he cisimed bis right to depart. te was to return to hisowm family, booing to spend the remainder of bis daya porauing the humblor duties of life. Bsfore he be came reeted, ie people of Texas have again elocted him their Goverbor. Gep. Houston has always been popular, Asa border map, bis life is fo!) of romance; as a eolster, the hisiory of hia State bas given fu'l many a page of his gallantry; ag a politiciaa, be has ever beca calm snd oonsisven', wad during the adminis‘ratioe .” Mr, Bacnanan no statesman har given bim more loya! aid than tho hoaorable Senator from Texss. Ho was opposed to the repgal of the Missvur! compro. ralee, because be saw the angry clouds of sectional strife. He advocated tho ican doctrine to proteci}sho ia tust-y and rights of America He had the bolduess and fore sight to propose an American protectorate over Mexico, for he knew that peop's end gaw the horrors of their insta: bility, and the dcisseters that would naturally befall bis countrymen residing there. Upoa all eunjects of great import the Senator from Texas took a decided #taud, and te history of Dis coaa try, inthe brief period eiace elapsed, fuily eutiaias his course. In the zenith of his fame, ripe inexperience aad sati ated with bonora, he sovght repose; but Texas, that great and growing Stato, knew his worth and forced him into mc duty. Will itend here? We think not. We predict that Sim Houston stands a good chance for tho Presidency; aad if uotaivated at Charleston will be clected by an cverwhelm- ing vote Tn care the democracy split up over the plunder, ho will be nominated by the covservative men of the coua- . try, to triumph over demooratic agitators, the spoilsman Seward, and all the lems that cling like the mistlojoo to the epreading branches of our great republic. a. THE WATERING PLACES. Epjoyments at Seven Fountains and White Sulphur Springs, Va.—Lake George— The White @ountains—Sarato- ga and Rockaway. Bulletins from Long Branch, Islip and Fire Island. ACALIF ORNIA WATERING PLACE &., &o., &o. THE SEVEN FOUNTAINS. Suxxanpoan County, Va , Augutt 10, 1859. Country Life in Virginia—Strange Effect of the White Sut phur Water upom Silver and Galvanized Trinkts—A Mountain on Fire—Bears and Hybrid Wolves in the Mountains—Iron Ore, dc , dc. Those engaged in the perpetual bustle and turmoii of city life can form no true estimate of the happiness en- Joyed in the wild mountain regions of Virginia, Improbs- ble as it would seem, the diversities of social enjoymect n these regions embrace, with the exception of the Opera and the theatre, every chiracter of amusement pecaliar to city goclety. True, they are wanting in the gaudy char acteriatios which constitute a peculiar featura of tue latter, Dut in their essential social qualities as sources of enjoy- ment they are far preferable to any in the category of city amusements. The plain and simple features of sdcial country life, which.are urged by some as ho maia points cfunfavorable contrast with the social system of cities, constitute, in my opinion, their chief merit. Social enjoy. ment it more or less marred by hollow formulas nad eti- quette. They operate aa restraiats upon the soul aad check the natural flow of those buoyant spirits which it {3 the aim of all systems of evjoyment to generate. Nor are thoee points of ‘syciat distinc:ion which detarmiae pecu Color action; but within that there exists, of course, consitorations of a moral character, a8 essentiai to tho well being of socicty as the alienation of the white from tae colored. Worldly teaps are not recoguiaud as constituting any claim to eu- periority. Toe poor enj xy the same social privileges with the rich, all things elso being eqml. Danciog in the country is a very general fource of en- joyment. There is scarcely a planter who has not one or more of his slaves trained to music of some kind, and thus are afforded the advantages of amusement for bis family at ro expense. The fiddio andthe banjo are the instruments best suited to ths tasio of the negro, and in many inetauces toere are to be found among the rough farm bands of tbo country performers equal to mavy of the superior rase having far better advantages The negro has a natural passion for music, woich, under the influence of proper tratutog, developes’ itself to markable degree of perfection. So strong is this passion that tbe negro believes the rummum bonum of wealth to consist ia the promotion of musical enjoyment ana davcing. He wouid give cho inst dollar, no mattor how jaboriously earve?, for an oid fiddie or a banjo; and if he failed to procure it by lawfal meaus, he would steal it ata risk of bemg severely pantahed, and esteem the least enjoyment to be derived from ite application in this form a more thun compousating for the punishment which he may have endured. To sec his master’s fanily dancing to tho masic of his fiddle or his bagjo Is to him the very acme of happiness. Ifthe noighboring farmers bevenot the good fortune of having a musician among ibeir slaves, the master who has will loan him out oa i @, and of course Sambo receives pay, ropriates a6 he may thivk proper. Svarcely a night passes duriug the leisure sezson of the year that a bail or party is not given hy some o/ the farmors in the neighborhood; and thea, in the hot season, they usually geek’ some watering placo in aa adjoining county, whither they usaaily repair in companies, carrying with them the same happy social syeten abd observances wbich characteriz? their home in- tercouree and epjoyments, Such, to a considerable extent, I find to be the case hero; and it is well for those visiting from a distance that It is #0, for thay reatily be- come incorporated with the happygroap, and enjoy with them the passing amusements, un'ramme'led by eti quette and free from nervous apprehensions of criticiem or ridicule, The inducnce of this happy [reedom and un- reatenined intercourse upon the gentlemen of the com. pany {find to be very marked. I. made all single; aud to lees then One week there ssemed to be more gentiemen here with sisters than could be foand in an assembly five ‘Vmes ae lary A married man is @ rara avis here at pro- sent, but we bave widowers by the score among the sages woose appearanee would be apt t> belie auy assurances Uat thoy may offer of a more favorable state of things, I would sey to any man wanting a good wife, try the Vir. ginia springs. If he should fail to satisfy himself here, he hed better resign himself to a state of single bleascdaces, On arriving bere I was informed by a gentioman who bas been a constant visitor to this piece for some years past, that a piece of silver pat nic the paatsloons pocket, and even encased in a thiek leather purse, would becomo perfectly black withia a week by drinking the white sul- pbur water regularly. I tested the matter by: pati ny qvarter collar into « gutta percha pocketbook and placiag sho same in my pantaloons pocket. I left it there a20u , Meantime drinking freoly of the water, and on exa- miping it found it almovt biack, much more so than it could have become by contact with lead for double that period. This change is no doubt wronght by evaporation of the water through the skin; but that it ehoaid produce such an effvct within 80 short a period is vonderfal It speaks volnmes for the power and eflicacy of the water; and in its {ofluenve upon the sye- tem t reveals ap effect, aa [nave seon from experience, folly commensurate with this characteristic indication. Wish such an advantage es this, and the grand scenery and charm!ng air peculiar wo the lovality, it only noeds tra the “Seven Fountains” tnould be gen»ral!y known to ronder it the frat watering plane in the couatry. A galvauized watch or other trinke} will have ita trae character re- vealed in @fow days under the influence of the water, end even gold undergoes a chauge after a protrasied stay here und & constant avo of te white eulphar water. There {s in full view of the holela burning mountr.sa, set on firo itis sappowed by e spark from a charoval pie which was beicg burned somewbere in the neighbor aod, In the night time tt presenis the grandest spectac.e upon whioh the eye could rest. Tho glare is visible at a dis- tence of twenty mies from a sultadie elevation, but from the hotel 1t is not more than six or eight miles, and there- fore distinctly visible in all ite grand and i:aposing out: Ves, The fire bes been raging for sever:.| weeks, and bas gooe on Incresuing under the taflueee of the late pro- tracted drought and high winds uot ‘¢ now covers an aron, Of several miles, All cfforta tq arrest it Lave proved utterly unerailing, nor in thore a probability of its boing oxtingutehed bet is reaches # distant peak iu the mountaiu aod js intercepted by ideo gorge whica cue off the connoction between th: @ noigabortng moue- tain range, thue oxbausting all the comoustiblo material upon whieh i; could feed. wefore its progrose 18 cuckod, bowever, tt wil have dove immenas damage to (hat valua- pply of ouarcoal was procured limber in that iooality, bub ‘this fire will nearly exhaust the source of supply. tng the spectacle apart from the consideration of whe Joss #bivh it must entail, 1t must be said to afford the vision a feast maore grand and sublime than apy shat Could be tookea upon, It the fiery emissions of Vesuvius sarpres tho raging Volume of flame which ia now tewerlog ta full viow of Me, tae descriptions of them whicu [ have soon Boy wr- siderably short of their sublime ctaractor. Tae inturemt and stiractivenoss of the latter over tne former must COasist baits peculiar Phenomena of their origin and #.00tn ‘asion, which, however, impart no stroager characteristic to the visible flame {n volums and deasicy ib cannot eurpaes the fury spactacie of Fort Moantain, waich 1s tho Iooal designation of the scene of (his ravaging fire. Bears abound ta this mountain region, aud wo vos of & ‘hy brid charactor—a crone between tne dog aud woli—exist herein thousands, A farmer in this neighborhood in- formed me that be found twenty of his sheep dead upom He could form no ides how this iguter Was committed, and in order to flad out if Feeble, ‘ho removed ail but oa of the dead shosp from the fold, aud saturated taat one with strychnine, The following morning be visited tae field, when he dis- covered tho #bcep literally mutilated and partially devour. ed, and twelve or fourteen of wus; he suppo: w be a epecies of wolf lying dewd around. He sent for an old hunter in the neighborhood, to ascertain what the character of these animals was, and the old msn instantly recogeised: them as a sos of hybrid, got between the woif and dog, which he frequently caught with traps on the pusrounding mouossios. They are, it appoars, very de- structive tv the sueep and poultry of this region, while the bear desis no lees sparingiy with the hog tribe along the valley. During the heavy winter snows, the farmers succeed in tracivny soma of tae latter to their dens and killing them, but iu summer they enjoy perfect immualy Decause of the difficulty of overtaking thom iu the thick undergrowth aud foliage of the forest. ‘There is @ rich iron mine within four miles of the 5] which, if properiy worked, would yield en immonee revenue in the year. A furoace is establisned in the neigh- borhood, and with the limited means emnpioyed, very fe vorable results have been attained go far. At the next llroad depot to the mine I noticed a large Beet pe iron awalting transportation to Alexindria or Baltimore, apd, so far asl could jadge, the quality of the iron was equal to any I bave ever seca produced. The hsp of iron ore in these mountains is said to be inexhaustible; with anything like fair capital the returns would prot very profiable. With the rufe means of production new employed, the wonder ia thet the enterprise pays ut all, especially in view of the heavy coet of transportation, This latter ditadvav'ags could, to a considerable extent, be counterbalanced by proper factlities of production sack. a8 capital could bring into requiition; and if the ea'er- priee asaamed? a proportion to encoara hope of large yioids, and foflaence a redoction of fr by holding oat 8 proepe:t of large trade to the railrozd, it wou'd prove @ source of wes'th to all who may be intocested ia tt, Since my arrival here, 1 must confers I have expari- enced more real pleasure and seea more of the di dod granceur of nature’s mighty works than I have enjoyed or witaested Curirg a tour of nearly haif the State. This beautiful valloy and its surroundings embrace a larger variety of ecenery than oxn bo witnessed in five times the extent in any other part of Virgivia. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, VA. * Winra Scueuve Sprinas, Grewsnemen County, Va., Aaguet 6, 1859. A New Move—Nice Perions—Quisine—Tea—Lions Scarce, After a pretty coogiderabic sojourn at this far famed spa we are now preparing for ® move, and I necure you without a sigh or a rogret, except at the prospect of a journey of thirty miles in the stage coach to Jackson's river. ‘There are many nice peraons here, but tho ‘-sovereigua’’ preponderate greatly, aud this will be the case toa far greater extent es the Virgtais and Ohin Railroad progrees- es; we presume it will reach this plas in about two years: from this time; then the company will bo immense; bat the Gite will go eleewbere unless things are much im- proved in many particulars and @ decidea caange made in the culinary department. Tt oa truty astonishing that there sbould have been such an outisy of capital and yet go little i cuisi Wo bave some thin, avd I'll jost tell you what they are: Sulphur water, bornets, ye'low jackets, honey bere, tough mation, small potatoes, bad bread, and occasionally ® stray moe- quito to remind Sou‘herners of the comforts of home. It would be urjuet to omit mentiontog tne on'y arcicle that really is good, and that is tex; [ hear not @ disssoting voice—all pronounce it excelent. The weather hes boea, acd continues to be, intensely warm during the day; a heavy sbcwer on yesterday has not procuced a chaoge tor the better; but the nights are very comtortab'e, almost as much #1 they are in Louisiana; and this you will pro- bably consider a cool assertion. ‘*Liona” are scarce in the mountains this seavon. Where can they have secreted themselves? Of all the notables that we have met, Mr. J.P. Kennedy, of Baltt- more, and Governor Maontng, of South Oarolina, are de- cidedly the most accomplished. Tt would be sacrilegious for au old fellow like your hum- ble servant to allude to the ladies (God bless them). We only wish they would take a reef in their hoops. SARATOGA, SaRaToGA, August 17, 1859. Advantages of Saratega—How Different People are Affect- ed-~ Political Gorsip—A Puff for Harmony Among the State Dimecracy, de , de Ot all watering places on this continent, or perhaps in the world, Saratoga presents the greatest number of ad- Fanteges. Here we have a variety of medicinal waters, the alterative effects of which upon the human system eradicate the incipient elements of future disease, and rarely fail to cure the thougand ills that flesh is heir to. No other minera) waters known are at all comparable to thore of the various spring waters of Saratoga, for their preventive as weil as for their curative merits, ‘Tt has become a general remark that the habitual visit- ere of Saratoga, for the most part, die of old age only. A resident through the season at this place meets witha greater tumbor of distinguished persons from all parts of the Union, and from otber countries, than are to be met with in any other place on this continent. A new wave of faebion, of worth, inielligence and wealth every year vets in upon Saratoga. Here the interchi of thought between minds metured onder various latitudes and in- fluences improve aod embeilh each other. Here the Jorlorn maiden’s and disconeoiate widow's bi are re- vived, and the sere and yellow leaf of bachelorhood takes the green hoes of early summer. Here ago itseif assumes dut the Carker abades of the prismatic rays of the light of life, which, miogiing wuh tho milder tints along the scao of Sears, runs in the mellow barmony of ti jal sociability, joy ous 87 mpathetic convivislity, nowhere cise to be found, Here more valuable frieadehipa nro formed than elsewhere, because here eocial life is concentrated. Amieést whe gay throngs of Saratoga, the errows of Cupid are rarely sbot in vain. Sarat he Solferiao of many étricken hearts, without hope of relief excep: before the altar The promevades, the salon and tae bailroom of xbe United States Hotel have witoessad the commence- mentof more mappy joves than can be found in all the pees of romance. As in the oiden times, the interchange of opinions asmorg the stateemen and politicians of the coun- iy, of all parties, who coogregate at Saratoga, ind|- cates the most prominent chiefs of each party on the approach of a Presidential election. It is sottied that Seward is to be the cendidate of the black republicans, pagename and the reat must wander on by the light of bis star. The democrats are more embarrassed to make a choice, having ® greater number of ambitious aspirants; but the claims and chances of all seam to have besa pretty tho- Tougbly exem‘ped, and an anxious desire has boen maal- fested to fiod the right man, independent of purely per- sonal considerations. Tne South presents no less than ten democratic candidates, aud this state of things has so far divided the popular opinion and ent{ated personal poli- in the slave states, as to render it almost hopsiess to antl- cipate a cordial aod successfai union upon either of them. Many Of the Southern politicians openly avow ‘heir ference for a Northern candidate, and indicate Mr. 1 son, of New York, as the individual on whom the friends of all the Southern candidates can most readily unite. They say he will derive great advantage before the psopie ia congequence of his having been 80 long withdrawn from ‘uy active participation in thore questions which have, of jate yoars, disturbed and broken down the demopri party. Fortunately for him, he bad nothing to do wil the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Kansas quar- rel arcee and was carried on Independentiy of him. He has given a cordial support to President Buchanen and his administration, 91.8 party man,as well as from a gonera, epproval of their measures. These considerations, added to the high reputation Mr. Dickinson acquired years a in Washington by his able support of the Comprom: measures, and on other occasions involving tho interests of the whole coustry, it is urged, bave given bim a muot greater hold upon the confisence of the Southern States than any other men North of Mason aod Dickson’s line, Gthers have tbovght that as Mr. Douglas has pape the Missouri and Kansas batsos, he is rightly onti to the honors and ppous of the conquert; to which itis answered, tbat in carrying on theee contests Mr. Dougias has made thousands of political enemies, whose support cannot be had to ald his election, and therefore it is wise to substitute a leas obnoxious candidate, more likely to concentrate the energies of tho whole party, from Call. fornia to Maine. In general a very harmonious feeling prevalle among the democratic leaders, and @ willingness ‘surrender persons’ partialities for the common good ia apparent on all sides, to secure victory at tho ear. | Miracles are being wrought in tho sonse of harmony in. this State, Tho democracy are tired of being out of power and patronage, and tocm fully determined to regain their snoieat an aver public aittrs by DeamEaDTY boating all those Ly aud personal divisions ich bave so long bien eee A the Leni aa . mour’s friends svow their willingaoss to rally upon Dicktoson, and Dickinson’s partisans aro just 8 co Sepport Seymour should his chances of earry prove superior to those of Mir. Dickinson. ‘two distinguished leaders of the democracy of are now understood to boon the best terms other, and alike determined to establish harmony ins divided party! ard to obtain success in the groat dential struggie. Wo are uow at the beight of the season—balis Gnd concerts at the pring) every night. LAKE GEORGE. Lake Gaonox, August 9, 1859. The Annual Gola on Lake Gorge—An Aquatio Festival—- Judge Edmonds as an Admiral=Curious Evolutiontes Jolly Sport, de. do. On this splendid Jake i} baa been customary for the f