= Pip Democratic Watchman. MI .BY P GRAY MEEK TV'MS, $2 per Annum, in Advance 11 E FO E, P riday Morning, April 2, 1869 LETTER FROM LOUISVILLE nelth of 001..1. D. Test, of Council Bluffs—Geo. D. Prentice —Local Politics—Split in the Party—Move ments Among the Radicals —A Nov- Lion. p.,,ldence of tIo 11,11efonto, W vrcom Lorisv ta i.e, I(v., Mlirch 21, r I lIA ?IEEK, Elitor WArriluAs !I:ivinT, a moment's leisure, I fulfil • promii3e to write Heil to give 1•., elleh 11(.11114 or lICWA 1(14 Jo;iy be tit •••••0 totour-,iiitivierous nod high!) -- relt.l .N IIF. %VI OF COL. J. D. Tgir receipt of the Council , rpoti let, RepuLlicnn 10l1111:11 (.I tm-on ri Slope,' AVM n l triert,l, I Rlll deeply griev learn of the dente of one I hlOt gentlemen I linee net in ”nrolering on Ocol's footstool. lad, to the Hidden and itiit.‘iweled nu-e•of tlie lute Col. ,I ‘vEs h 'l'l , ,r comicil Willis. Ile hail, it seeno 3. t•n toil a vu-it 10 filCadri la licag, .1 Iliere t‘asstrickem ttith lam! let er, nog at ei o'clock oil the eN ening, 01 the ISth lost. A cunt nut u,t Ills hicials Walk uucm . •,, oi Chicago, immediately apoii the ottancement of his death, to accom -I'4 1114 ' ll O lllO. 110 lea% pltan daughter, u Luber, un,l I e a, brother, Cud. TE3T was a ~.minettt Democrat ut lona, lie ~,e1 oral pomtions uP hoin.r ' , Ai credit t" himself anti the part. - a Senator the lowa rn.f.".l;•rlit lire, a 4 0 con,tat. end punctual delegate .oh( 111 , A A 'AU, AllO , ll 111 • 4,1111 :I Fart , itniver, and deintrt front hi. pen, ,:1•111 And thtt. t rattle that wht n in %ettn.; the l), :11 , 11:01V tnk,t IMII.1•\ tiir, I did nut ton bunk 111111111 its n Cton,• • thlr,W 4,f a -feather bell it hente Vim nrii 11 hull, FAttt.rittit, if uu are n ltnd ! Th, r S Mnr.htil V.AIII I the earth. I mount the death of ' n fl 04 . 111 441 1 • 1:1 1 4 11 , 1 1 1111011[ 1 . 4 1 1111111\ ~ 1111 . :11141 Nat l. ' raviaber of Natiotinl ext., r S oltiinitive, or law)t.r, man, and 1,1, uJ, lm liner hortorithic, honed, nright. sell inin;; and true gentleman ever bless !dm] friend Tr's? nn I %%onlit mourn i 1 ,44 of tt I,rotht'r, and pray God that lie Lae taken bun to rvm t, real retied. There n+ n perllllllT :1•11M afforded Mt' iii-day in mind the pleaNtiit Inoiri, I iitid pa metl welt hini nix month , beautiful home that lie 10%0,1 eo well in memory of his lost nat., nfinui he ham gone to meet. Col. .I . ,+T %VIM a gentleman who (mimed tin tuentim Prot idence liad bley~ed hint is oh, and vi,ho had a happy manner of ull harpy about I= I have been so often askeßl nt regard to this gentleman alien inn, from house, that with )our permission, I will devote a few words in regard to him. Mr. l'aevyirr is known to all the people at this great natiso Div the ediator of the late Lollis, die .1 . 0111 nal, anti as one oldie most surcast ii a titers. as well am one of the purest and sweet est. poets of America, the poet—Lame ate of Kentucky. lie has, however, engaged but little in literary pursuits for some years past, -Being now al most entirely alone, in the world, wife has and altiost childless, and all old matt, who feels that lie is tottering on die brink of the river over which he must cross to the Next Life, it is not to be expected that he could engage in such pursuits with the vigor, life, and heart of those jlounger and more am bilious. Still he occupies a position on the editorial staff of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a very pleasant, and, I believe, agreeable position, hut not altogether a sinecure. Mr. Psesvies occasionally graces that journal with the double-edged paraialf (tb coin a word) With which 'he made the old Louisville Journal famous quarter of a century ago. A Montgomery, Ala., writer, who called to see him some time ago; returned to his borne and Published that Mr. PRINTICC was helpless mental and physical wreck, and that he prepared his own food in a room in the Courier...kernsl build ing. Tkis ie nqirtrue. Mr. tiIIINTICIt is not a miser, nor a pauper. Ile is an old man, 'Mt still the mental superior of hundreds of thousands of those who havl won names known far and near, and litany years yet to wield a heavy pm, and to sling ink, if not with so Liteatly akhand, at. least as ef fectually, lib in the "Mild lang Byre." , Things are ntixed. here. Another split has occurred in the Democratic partg.of the city,' , lsiiich is **cite awn& of Ikhe 4011 r, .''''o.',otilcurrOiX, tpiite "nMer.Hy." h epring up from the people, and will leirn. a. ; les son, and give them nigher ter reflection in the future. It enemas that , one J4eo. G. BAXTVIC, whom the working men .deg ti to the rooneil nine years ego, lirvt votu ho Una hody,esue ma.thl in manipulating Alit. (Iplegai,.. to "e 4.11 Pntion" and thoryby got (Jll. n a u mmion. Thi, man had Imen a re j„ .m 1 I, n IVlnDeral - only for - 1 ,4,11-, Inc. pi., , pllr , he 11,41 ANI Itg'- i,J-1 botkrill , 4 uii eurt,, , f moltoc3' ailmng which wa, A. the-0 "\\ - e non't von• for the t. .;. C.tc • trtr ' "Don n \‘llll cm) "1141"t-1"‘ 't"M", won ' t; n at the Court Howie," (do., ete., 1111(1 con taining anther cornet, linnd, wan turned looio, and tondo to trill the during a whole dai ts;,ll4pril.fleP, at night about too dr.atreeled lleinotrnts rallied, And aniiikt wild on thieda,,in put in nomination n gont lonian nanipd Capt .10:ilt1•11 T. Th...ca, tool heifer we base two candidates for May - or, and two bitterly ho•itiln IDoinoorntio regular uomineei, and ono independent etindnlato [Contour (; !Lon inst. The prio.priebi art. that 1311:4elf. will he Ode ny overt,.ra Thr. .r. hare ;; , r1!”111 ,, ,1 ;t) ;ht\ (hp -,ort; ntli,lnttt , ;',r n t• I hod Attowlod thr II ' ‘,XT FAL print.; liwetlll4 , , owl or the— II that 11111 S t rr it ' 11%Nir 1, ith Am///,/s I. 01; :t from n tik rr In. trirtid. van Coln ft I,•tt wit %% it Ii ballitt- th. 11,111411111 wl II 11111,111111) %X I F.ll IA It 'I hlt r. In- 113,1t , r , I k no‘k TheLrli , nnrrur• ..n Ih.• Gth (,1 MM I=l TilerP 1- .01110 1111 , \1.1111.11l in rnat , 111 eireles hew The I.w. °MEI., it ii 11C -111.•\ ed, %‘ ill fall ut of the lap of 11 51 . V.1.n. 1111 , 1 111 , 1 , ii. am( of 111.1.1 r. r 1.11;11, ;1,1 too v0111111:111 itrtt‘tt , t tttar•htil, ttt ,of tI I. II 101:4 - 1. 111 1111.- lot 111._:. rt ul lli kt VAR I Lltill . I tilit Intl. lot , d it. Itint 1.0 a Li If , 1, , milt t, 'Ow iiti,f, An nth 1712./.12)1ul app.:a , in our ,)t the i it) pupr• a.hiii4 for a partner in the pilblif ation of a Radical paper herr. The cilLfirpri.e, it IN it prii+e ruted, nq the plan 1, laid down. will be a financial init ci.% It w t .t.oni-hing hou the Rad, uuik togethi.r. If Dom al+ would %tick tr4rdlwr half ai Lbey would sloe their oountrt 1311310 A into nit ploo,(1 hy tho I( ontook:. Legodlituro, wits ono to prt,tect th nor 4 nml swr,..r. of blooded .441 am lo: giver - ,m nor of thoni liens upon Mo .o I W hat do pout Peru•% l 11E1111 k-risvi-N thinl, nl that I \Ion• al.,' --There in. e been no eliato4, , in ebinet for a nevi. On ilia ne congratulate etir-el yes, 11 , we kid become reallv 1 rful niat n t able to record the ire te•fer. bot n• do took place. _Things pelt illt'llt ul lb.' Ili, ill I per 1,4 - Mit., with 1;0(411711113 Ili tlo• Whit • [louse, and nincompoops in all the other departments As far as isecemplrhing anything important is rinicerned,G KA NT is moving aldng ttl.a Jill old cow", but, in the matter of providing Office, for bin relations, he is locomming like a streak of lightning Hitch is the state of affairs at the pres ent writing They ran get into a worse condition, but if they do, we will try and give some account of them in our next issues —State politics just. now arc some what dull. But always before n storm at sea there conies a calm, and so we suppose it hi in the political world. The friends of the different candidates will Loon be disitiching the elirnents in be half of thei; favorites, and the clash and roar of the conteit will again be heard. We trust the Democracy will allow nothing . to jeopardize our harmo ny, but making mutual conceettions to each other, strive to enter upon the great struggle before us, armed cap-st pie, and invulnerable at any point. State News. —lNtlddlatown hat totsbacribed $ll,OOO toward* establ COX and maautacturlag company at that plum —Two stables were burned in the borough of York on last Friday night, evidontly the work of the incendiary. —Es-Sheriff Funk, of Blair county, lost two hone* the other alight, valued at s7oo—aup posed to have been roitosed. —Dr. Dublin matitertedge'e the reeetPt of VISS,OUCu contributed by souse gentleman whose name is not given, as a donation to Dickinson College at Carlisle. —The Lehigh Valley IlAlroad coihpauy Nave completed their double 41111 Cir repo Barka I to %Rich Chunk And truths are now running Ov er both. =—On Me Mt lost., Mt. E. liolletyiiraa bitten throush the head by blp dbir,. 'kWh showed every 111,110.'00t of hydrophoblik. After die. Welting the dos, the tolnlad flesh wag cut Gum the wound while thn rod.lent. WIWI tinder —A ithormakt•l named Pali irk Whalen, ht ,c tteg in Plmon alley, Pittrttnirg, has been Wea l; to sinre Friday morn,mc laud, and or t,,al play are entertained mlllllllll., Iho hal het ‘t hn shotpilled the 11101. 1111 V on 111 ,4 fall of Vortmt : y Wal, 111 Pittrhurg I. under ti it ,fin 1 he/miller Newilon4 of Alloqhett V emlnlY —Ott I': Iola) , the 111 h 1114 t Sffitatol Ste%larl, of Itrookc Ole, rlrownocl at Ilrokeartal, !..•1 011 11, liniP 0 :111k 11:1\ mg been .. .11 , 011 , 41 /Aft larn.l4,ll,llving the old,-,1 'mat eimplo In the Stitte.-Pnt plir nud n ifc, ag. •t r r 110 anti NO —Un Ist , .n.lny of I t«t n I M Landon. of Monlti, ~111011.( III • ro. 4 n I - Ircular Finw in naher «nw-milli Rio, it v•ro futnilv --11,111 , R1:elly and Mils Welsh hail a Int of a !hoot nn,tihanty 11111, Sarmiton, last Hling evening, hi whieh Tait irk ,reeeiv, ,, ,l ac Sere ' , tab In the nw•h —The populAt ion of Relt.litit4 in .Vl,Bll , 14,1111 lon, 29,601, 45,115, 11.11ntoteq, 21, G5l, \ViItI In pnn, 19792; \lh•ntonn, 16,r015 —II 1 . of Ow li nn of I lirirt A ...ovum ..41111,L11.: Inging- 4,1.1 hod) li.n lug lweil rmp! (lit 110 . 1 k 11111111 r Wllllloll%l' 011 tunrittng of thA 2ltl. —11 nm 11 (113111, l'art,33 count•. 11111`. .h C. minotito rno•t a 3,34 'Ail Pr0p0 , 431, aro. now Itug 11:4 I t 4 l "Ise .Pf 1114.1.1 , 11111 l 1.1.1.1. ,1% rt 11. IL' II I. in II? It ha, limit -- lati Lawot III( 1,11, 11,1tivl n•lo/ihr, I v .I.lltgi I A 11 , 1 11l 61(MI 1 ar 111.'u ni• mill 1.1 I'3lllll r A -I 11111% .1, 101 I 11%. I 11.111.1 It. nut u,. Irll ttitt, bunt gat 'l'lnu •date Lot nu , 11111 V 5,4 15. 1111101 ?IV •'l,lll . 1., nj.! \ , d n . r pngn•r in 1•,•I111'\1 I • • S , I.L 11,111 , ..11 till 111r4111..11• pr. grronm. (ring NI•groi•Iliir111(1. 1,1.11 the 1•••••),It ~1 • 1,, ,1,,t0• 1r m 1 of till 1.0.):1•1•1114,1. o t , Fr 101 l I trle, 1:M1111 of I ,lovr,:111 1 4 .%% NOrt ha/MO.lli a • Ml*. hod Mil, •.1" ht. I, I.•” Ion In thr., pt. I nll.l aho me ni I,lling npnu h.. 9h" I= f , t hi- dnUMIII Ng. II 16,1 R•.un 1.. isherl ith - 1114. tt.uo•- At, 1.1 Ike 11311 g 111,1 .1, • re t% - I gr, Vt. ‘11, , ,- 114 .1,-% th . n. rl left ti .. egg %%1111 trlifolt Melt r.. 111...• fight tneho -to nh nrnforl u. e the long .end W r 'oh Intl. wort rem, the slinri 1i..) Ithol %to nth. t , 4 .0111. I otIVZ to. Is —Bar.,e). thr _The jury if, llt ,+rnf Knoiltrlttn. Ow liar. lir 011 irunl m 1 . t1,1,11ry murder ..1 lw,, Felw•krki Milli r nn tip. Gth of I".l , llmr‘ . lifter ,1 Id, I Itlng o er nevoitet.ll hour. retiirnrl n ,r rat. t ~I,nunlor in Ow.. r• and decry r. nn 11..,1nr•flav hwl -Atn',ho.dlnlr m.t. h Itt Pilisfh.l.l, Warr., efannv, 011 _the 19111 in , l Iwu vtaing 1111. n 1111111,1 1t,.. null' 101 , 1 tin nllwr Buell, had w•liflirollt a gun. In villieh VP/111 . 011,,/14 I , lenlally hall 10,-ml; ihrninch Smith . heart I.llling him - IP , nn•}h.mtn Kul tl ink do , whet nt , •nt- or flirt oultuir d rrif u•hr•. nr • the corn Mellimit • om. 11.11.11:4 11 , ..111 their L., •1 not, At the 1,1•111.111,14 •/1), • fl,i fn4te•,t trotting Lome fc.o I , ol' ill , . next Eotem, $2., for the be.t learn of 111.1 k for t I e Inct hall of hie fad veld% li r• , , Mar el, •2 - _•- 4 , n Sutnrday nu 1t a Sunday lIIIItIIIHA an 2 - 0106* . r) NO,. “01,111111 • 41 ut Ihla h.ven p•vrelry PLOW Has 101.6 TI O.IOW. (0.• of Jewett, Ar If iwniol SI oi , K) Withi NAN noIIII.I . • 0111 4,1.'4 "I It I,arn The .Wen properts la hmit.tl In Mr 4.014.1e1n an r.urn.thir Kentl'enian IMES %,eillebt At The MI 'lll . ...INV, II 11, mt .I..hn r , •I. 11,41 hi. Ivtr.h 14,beb by 'I, hlhhg 14. i• w4,1%,11,111 MIII O II he .11e4 Zut), :µc,, vektr. tlir finh per-on xhr nn•t wuh •ntnr nrr•ld.•nt fit (hut pl.too I . 111 rt xu. •ivtrd In ItlP.j.rlll‘ of Ir --% 11.11. , 11 •. rn .•..nrity, Indiana. oil 11.4 Sunday all., !poen Parder 1; ( rail,, of W losl.m, a 1.4.1 e)taia.df r, ahnt a young MOM namo , l Alfred in the hrenat, killing him The only o planar 111101 . 11) , t hr murderer was, that Age ,4 I.rother had quarrelled with hun. Crane fled. hot tan. (Meru ar.l4 arreated at the Imilae of it Mother In-law, near %Villein.. 1 ititrage-1 rn Thoraday of lent week the Had 'al House of Itepresentatty.l, by a Ntttet par ty totc arinil.ted I ovotle'to a seat In that hod) not% ithatanding the fact that Foster was elec. blob and so returned by a majority of the re judger ( oriole 111411/1111111 t hat prints fa fin Foot, rue 1 tented, not oord hint of lira In. tention to 4•111111,1 t Its P 1.11,1 Hut 1 ongress has taken the matter in hand stud gives the seat to Co.lle and makes Foster tho oonhestant. A gentleman in Lipper Merton, ►lnotg ry county, fonnd n plc., of Ifrneatone, and no- tiring some rurionn m,.rkn upon it, had It placed in the hands of nun 01 •mr stone-totters to Is• polished, and now appears On troth sides representations of a landscape, Including hills, ,allevs and trees It does not look like the fern fosaile we sometimes nee In cabinets of science, being wore prominent And dlntinet, Awns really beau/ if& • --Atoongthe rums of the old llf °refloat Inuit, lately destroyed by lire at Nettilettem, were found some specimens of coins that might prove of rare luterext to the numlamatogiat and the curiosity-meeker One of them is • one-cent piece of the State of New Jeraef, in the early days of the republic On one aide it hears the Inscription "Nora Caesarea," In cir cular form, and below art the lignres of • horse-head an; a plough, and the date "MIL" On the obverse lea shield sitrritiinaed with the . words, Plurittue Unum." Two other are half-penny pieces, one Irish, the other En gllsh, bearing the petered Image of hie mitafex cellent majesty. ••Ocorge the Third, King ' Another one lea United Staten one-cent piece, hearing date "'Min," ind which have become "Ilito ana►,la' yledia, few and,far lestwee." The remaining coin 11A4 beeerne en spoiled by old age that it la Impossible to ntatinghtelt Pa date or nationality, Bow the coins found a lodine' place hl the eid Mill la ,a question. —llolmeaburg claims inhere within her Ilm. Its the oldest milli in thelltate, It Is nearly a century elder than the ltientelan mill lately destroyed by fin, at Itetftleliem. The Holmes• bung mill wee brillt In lir% wd the hot tilehern mill in Ilfol. making the lin hha years older than the Th. it..l• tnth moop4 purl i-nn, %idle they held preittei.,tion of titht city inee the etinetintion of the ettyily the ftrlll4ll it 1114 ettnytithitly 1,, 0 05,.,11t3.111111ing purposes Its iint4sne .3114 .t the 4111.• th3t uur father, plumed tire,: 'hen ;MIMI, 101 yhu 1ib1..1.11'114e1l by 111m111 ti. ..lortlim 'l4 34 hard 11.4 1111 , 910110 of .Ith it 14 built !Fliotigli it 1134 , tttott the of rwll ulio4, it h 113.3 very little righ. r - deens To•litilmenbmg Itel3tirt Flit. lintior of hat mg tlth tthie , t grkt mill In 1.1.11114)11,1. 11111 —See(lffy SOVllllll' not to look tutu, pnlr nod hoodo —.1,017) ,A Lowto oil prohation lit the I%lOl[lOlllM ClltkrChprCtirbunattle, 111.. and ought to I -401111.01 M Wild.l. 41flpiii% "111`t011111 t. ill ,r fIA, of 'Olll4 ll 1, nus* gel% but their St ibex aro m aid to oppeAr it IlYnt y Ward 1t,e,11.. 55,000 a year “pill looney," by editing a M111(117,1111. ---Itnihnle Inv. 111 up on epnill.liqliment On Lnkr(nnvinln• , •, un , i rnll , IL "\,•w Mew,' --Thr Engli•lt t'h is.tutitl to pot $3 ono for rehtttrig ttff. ttort.o'nppoeoll to PArlia• own( - 4 i mrig ut(• to ,lart nnper in 1V 0kv.n..1 to snflrage 'and -11.11,0 r. r in WA.ltinglott 11,u.01111. pit 1,1.1 111, /111 vl d U)1 4, . • /1,111 nltilill wit f 40,1 k„ 1,1 I 111 ttttt uulJnh hnn He Iv t.ui fut the of rhe I),,kedr m.e,tim.l4 r ,Itys ho floor not ok ih. , :,ul+ll throne. 1.111 411011111 hn he , ee ‘1.111,4 he MAI Iteeept the ( tptt 11 - Ihit fold teoo of I Ito of I rw of the ir•l Nitpolel,rt . 4 "trtAnd n itt /110 loft at tho Poi it 111.• or 4;,. lim,linfin Intent the (' s A A kml 4 t-. dIVCUsrI CO Thev llng :leg', mr J I. fiernl4ll. City a.lltrr of LIOTIPII, ay.. havi rtnlmsrlyd Sin, ,ll . 01 More of et.y hook -- t. 'Ninth l~ In g.o.lltenittt nnllllllliting LI. .1 pt..io‘t 0,11. (4.1 111 eelebrftlion of the hftu•th uuu It, tutu (• of It, ntrnarn Into tlio pin.t II hi. 11 1.41 I. 11p. , 11 1i.r,1 II ii him a tri, P.) n /)rol 4.44411 I, ale , Is , f s of . the Territory OS Nre it ir 1,1 h.ti i. ilf•t•iri• this 1 • 01111 1 / 1 , 1 4,f New liviiwo =I • oo Ow orrempon.leratv conflne,l to It, ..7.711,1 for adrol.stort of ht. Ion: roph ~llll, ` from the keeper that he hm r od m , ot,lor. to treat doge ay 11 , 110.141, 111 Or h{;¢ . l.l 14 the InrgePt ni t mil., in 11,•• ‘sorill 1 . 11,re ern 10,0'.11, three nn.l fifly m sr•imper, th , I rtn.llll , l rlTertkoment• Ap p.., in Iwo thoot..ool five Itundrod of them. 1:4 • n $ 1,1 .1 , 1141. kQel4l the rurt• in,tit. 111.• Int.. oi Albin; In etnellv the .Ptolitnnt Om: that *Taro at Isl 4 and iiiis44dow-gown all ipadv, n 4 if Id• noqt,t tint ha, kto therm nn any day I k io I.:t held ,of (hr. iniinincir Menlo, when .iti urn., on hw Wit trip, .1 rollita for two LI I it hull throtigli n trangleil Tritt.. nr ,k, of f,lf •Izo, and colors Miura Imnel. o! ...nuke" ennui from, A tie4tinr, for the itrien..fic to am CI, (WPC , pilper iiay tt a t roll in-,h t pi in f trinor of ftir:y nap or Mt, winter, and hi. wife, n comely.look !rig (Ulna, hare Made applteat lon fora dleoreo radar • The obi gentleman don't like pnneakr, with pnlrrnt• th,n, wltlin the old Indy don. %1 Ilia ()rent •Inlto.lllm rr