- - ■I" • (L. ■■ i -■ |- |- [- ! ! _ _ BY DAVID OYER. For the Inquirer. California News. GENOA, CARSON VALLEY, ) OAL., May 27, 1860. J Mr. EDITOR: —I will endeavor to give you some of the r,cws of this country, and ask you to give niy letter au insertion in your paper for the benefit of my Buuierous friends. I have a great many friends to whom I would like to write, but can't take time to do so, and if you will givo toy letter a place in your columns, you will honor and oblige your hum ble servant. No doubt you hear large stories of the dis covery of rich silver and gold mines iu this country, known as the "Washoe Country," the "Eastern Slope," &o. Aud no doubt you have heard by this time of Indian troubles in this country, aud of a bloody battle being fought between the whites and Indians on the 12th of this month, in whioh the whites were badly defeated. Through the Pony Express and tbe telegraph, the above news has no doubt been spread throughout tbe whole Union, and I have no doubt but that said news, aud all other news from this country reaches tbe Atlantic States in an exaggerated form, as a story sel dom lose 9by travelling. I know that a great many people in this country would soon er tell a lie on credit than tell tbe truth for cash. What iittle J tell you shall lo tbe trutb, to tbe bast of my knowledge. I will try to preseut things exactly as they arc. There has been a small bit of an ludiau war stirred up in this country, aud no mistake; and it will retard the progress and development of ti to some extent, no doubt, but I don't think it will amount to uiucb, though some val uable lives have been lost already, and tbe probability is that more will be before the sav uges arc subdued. The first outbreak was the murder of three uieu and the burning of v station on the mail route and emigraut road about (JO miles east of this town, at the great bend ct Carro river. The hcuse was turned, and the bones of the throe man were found in tbe a-he c . The station was kept by three brothers, named Williams. There is a report of a more brutal outrage having been commit ted against the Indiaus by tbe men of said station, for tbe truth of which I caunot vouch, tout there is no doubt the murder was commit ted by tbe Indians, as a largo herd of cattle was driven off by them at tbe tame time from tbe same vicinity. On the strencth of this, a voluuteer force of 105 men were raised in five little towns in these vallies, viz: Genoa, Car sou City, Silver City, Gold Hill, and Virginia City. They wore not mounted on very good horses, and rather poorly equipped, both iu re gaid to arms, auimunitiou and provisions. I don't think tbey calculated to have a fight; they thought it was only necessary to go out and show themselves, frighten the Indians away, and take their horses. They followed the trail of the cattie driven off by the Indi ans about 100 miles north of this, to uear Pyramid Lake, tbo sink of Truckee River, where they met, as they suppose, about 600 lonian warriors, who gave them a very warm reception. Our men stood theru no show at all; tbe most of them were badly scared, and didn't half fight. A friend of mine who was in tbe battle, says that on the retreat be pick ed up a loaded r.fle which had been carried to the war by a Dutchman, and, from the appear ance of the gun he was satisfied that it had not boen fired at all The Dutchman escaped uu hurt, and claimed bis rifle after my friend (Bob Pooler) had carried it all night. Tbe battle was fought in the evening, and night coming on, enabled many to secrete themselves and escape. The Indians followed the whites in hot pursuit for 20 miles, and no doubt slew & good many on the retroat. Our men were coming straggling in like lost sheep for a week after tbe battle. The leader of tbe expedi tion, Maj. Ormsby, one of our best citizens, is still missing, and supposed to be killed, he was known to be wounded, and 'hree horses shot under him. But tbree of tbe returned warriors brought their horses with them.— Nearly all their accoutrements fell into tbe hands of the ludians. 25 or 30 men are yet missing, supposed to be killed. About 800 men, part Unclo Saai's men, and part volun teers, have started out against tbe Indiaus the pest week. In regard to the mines, there are some very rich silver mines in operation, gold mixed with the silver in the Raine rock or ore. The ore has to be crushed in a mill or smelted in a turnsce to extract the metal. The ore takeu out of some of the mines is worth $3,000 per ton. Mines that can be worked on a cheap soale are scarce, and I would say to my friends who have anything of a chance of making a com fortable living in the old States, stay there and persevere. The wages fer laboring men bere are about S4O per month and hoard; me chanics $4, and board themselves. lam get ting $2 a day and boarded, driving an ox-team, hauling sawlogts. Good bye. Your friend, J NO. T. PIPER. The Stillwater (Minnesota) Democrat a Doug iss paper, speaks as follows of Breckinridges's associate: "As to Joe Lane we have a few remarks to uake. An inebriate by habit; a low, vulgar man by instinct and association: has become intoxicated by position, aud will naturally be 'ickied with the straw of candidacy for Vice •'resident, even though there is less than a ghost of a chance for election. It is flattery Su ch men as he to be thought of, even for 'he second office in the gift of the nation; aud " is calculating too much upon debased human nature to expect that he will decline the chance 'Or notoriety which his nomination furnishes him." A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. BEDFORD INQUIRER. Elegant Extracts. From John Cessna's Gazette, Dec. 28, 1858. H(W. J. 8. BLACK. The distinguished gentleman whose name stands at the head of this article, is favorably spoken of by a number of Democratic newspa pers in this state and elsewhere, as a suitable person to receive the nomination of the Charles ton Convention for Presidont of the U Stales. Wo were among the first to express our pre ference for the nomination of Judge Black ; indeed hud we been slower to recognize bis claims, we would have been false to our cou- j victions of duty and utterly recreant to that j pride of section which nurtures and rears the ; great men of the land. It is said and truthfully, too, that Pennsyl vania holds the casting vote in the Electoral t-ollegos of the Uuion. No President, we believe, has bccu chosen by the people, without the vote of Pennsylvania. The reason of this is obvious. Pennsylvania, as a state, is the representative of that feeling which binds togother tbe national confederation. She is the heart and soul, the very vital spark of the Luion. Her people have no sympathy with ope section as against anotber. Tbey are neither for the North, nor for tte South, but tor the equal Constitutional rights of each.— With this spirit of justioe pervading tbe hearts and the conscience of her people, Pennsylva nia always oasts her vote for the candidate chosen by a majority of the electors of the Union, which majority has thus far held with her in common her national aud conservative sentiments. It is this that makes Pennsylva nia the Keystoue of our politcal arch ; not the number of her population—for sectional and factional New York exceeds her on that score —not her wealth of mines, and forges and manufactories—not her cities and commercial marts—not her railroads and publio through fares ; it is her position as the great break water between fanatical extremes, her office as the conservator of the peace between sections embittered agaiust each other by the schemes of crazy theorists, political demagogues and of fice-bunting knaves (like Stephen A. Douglas.) Such being unquestionably the political status of Pennsylvania, where is the man that is a truer representative of our glorious old com-, mouwealtb, thau Jeremiah S. Black ? Search I the record of our statesmen and where will jou fiud bim ? New York has her Dickinson, I Virginia her Hunter, Georgia her Uobb, Illi nois her Douglas, but where is the representa tive man of the great State of Pennsylvania ? Ihe public lite of Judge Black warrants us fully iu regarding him as that man. He has always shown himself tbe equal fiiend of all classes—the advoca£ of religious as well as civii freedom, the guardian of the rights of naturalized as well as of native citizens, and above all the fearless promulger of the Penn sylvania idea— union and harmony btvoeen the states and an end to Utopian theories and ab. stractions on the question of slavery. Let us, therefore, have the Representative man of Pennsylvania , as the nomineo of the Charless tun Convention, and no fears need be enter tained of tbe future. Yet, notwithstanding all that is said by John Cessna's Gazette, in the above article, in favor of Judge Black, a serious effort was never made to make him the candidate. Ho did not get a vote, we believe, in the Convention, and the editor and owner of the Gazette, John Cessna, was there and never voted once for Black, but all the time for that "crazy theorist, political demagogue,and office hunting knave," Stephen A. Douglas, as Cessna's Gazette styles him in the above artiole. The Gazette, was a great Buchanan and Black paper then, and very bitter against Douglas, but John Cessna, VVm. P. Scbell and Samuel H. Tate came out for Douglas flat-footed, and the conduetor, not having any soul or body of his OWD, did the bidding of John Cessna & Co. The persons referred to by Cessna's Gazette , Dickinson, of N. Y., Hunter of Y r a., Cobb of Ga., as well as Buchanan and that paper's favorite presi dential candiate, Black, all support Breckin ridge and Lane, IU opposition to Douglas aud Johnson. From John Ctna'a Gazette, Jan. 27, 1860. TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY. The doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, a* enunciated in th 9 Cincinnati Platform, means the power of the people of the Territories to control their own affairs, and mould their own institutions, "in their owu way," subject only to the Constitution of the United States. This potnt is undisputed. There can be no rjnestion about it. But there seems to be some differ ence of opinion between leading Democrats as to whether the Constitution prohibits the peo ple of the Territories from deciding the ques tion whether or not, negro slavery shall exist within the Territory. It is not disputed by either side that the people of the Territory have the right to determine this question for themselves when tbey come to form thoir con stitution, preparatory to their admission into the Union t a State. Neither is it contended by either party that slaves cannot lawfully be takeo into the Territories and held there as property. The difference, however, consists in this, that Senator Douglas and those who co incide with him, maintain that though the slaveholder may take bis slaves into the Terri tories, he can hold them there only at the will of the Territorial Legislature, which by indi rect, unfriendly enactments, or by positive prohibition, can exclude slavery from the Ter- BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST ?, 1860. ritory; whilst, on the other hand, President BUCHANAN, and, wa may safely say, the great mass of the Democrats, hold that the Territo ries, being the common property of all the States, purchased equally by the blood and treasure of the South and of the North, are open alike to emigrants fioui ail the States, . who have the right to take with theai into the j territories, and own and enjoy there, whatever is recognized as property io any of the States, and that the question of slavery can be deci ded only wheu the people form tbeir constitu tion with the view to ask admission into the Union. Henoe, it will bo perceived, that the only practical difference between the disagree j ing parties, is as to Me time when the people : of the. Territories have the power to decide the i slavery question. Senator Douglas takes the position that the people of the Territories, through their representatives in the Legisla ture, cau at any time abolish slavery. Presi dent Buchanan declares that this can only be done when the people of the Territories oome to form thoir State Government, inasmuch as the Supreme Court has decided that negro slavery exists in the Territories so long as they remain such, by virtue of the Constitution.— Wo Luve thus particularly and carefully stated the difference between Douglas aud the Presi dent, not that we intend to argue tho point at issue, but because it may be made a bone of I contention before the coming State Convention, , and because we desire our readers clearly and fully to understand it. The whole slavery question is an abstraction, aud cannot be made of any practical benefit to the country, though it may do infinite damage, and whilst we agree entirely with the views of the President on the subject of Territorial Sovereignty, and shall look to the State Convention for a hearty endorsement of tho National Administration, we believe, at the same time, that there need be no controversy in that body on the preseni ■ disagreement between Senator Douglas aud President Buchanan. Our opinion is that the j Couveution should dispose of tho subject of I slavery in the Territories, by simply saying that they are tho common domain ot ail the States, and that whatever is property by law in any of j the States, may be taken, held aud enjoyed there by the owuer, and if a uy 0 f the rights 0 Property shall, according to the judgment oj le proper tribunal , be in any way'lnfract e , or annulled, it is ih e Jf tho lareueral , Loveromeot to sec that suoii rights be restorer*! ani protected. This would make the whole su jest of slavery ia tho Territories a question tor toe Courts, aud would take it altogether out of the arena of politics. Under our con- j struotion of the decision in the Dred Scott cast, it would not be necessary to bring this subject again before the Judiciary. We be leve that that decision is conclusive in favor o. : r. Buchanan, aud that under it slave holders are guarantied the right to hold their : property in the Territories until a State Con- 1 solution prohibits them from so doing. But tdcre are those who differ front us, allegiug that the question of Territorial Sovereignty was not before the Court in the Drcd Scott esse. For this oause, and for the further rea son that we believe it will thoroughly harmon ize the party, we say let the settlement of this ' question be left to the Courts. Douglas holds the same views of "Popular Sovereignty, as euunciated in the Cincinnati Plat.oim, now, as he did then. Buchanan's views and position are the same. Cessna's Ga zette was then opposed to Douglas, and in favor of Buohanan and Judge Black.' Now it op poses Buchanan and Judge Black, and sup ports the person it oalled the "traitor Douglas.'' Democrats of Bedford County, how do you like to bo forced to support Douglas by John Cessna, William P. Scbeli and Samuel H. Tate ? IMPORTANT TO DRUGGISTS.— Tho follow ing section of the new Penal Code, passed by the Legislature last winter, is of great import ance to those who deal in drugs of any kind which are used as poisons : "No apothecary, druggist, or other person, shall sell or dispose of by retail any morphia, stiychuia, arsenic, piussio acid or corrosive sublimate, except upon the prescription of a physician, or on the personal application of some respectable inhabitant, of lull ago, of the town or placo in which such sale shall be made. In all cases of such sale, the word poison shall be carefully and legibly marked or plaoed up on the label, package, bottle or other vessel or tiling in which poisou is contained: and when sold or disposed of otherwiso than under the prescription of a physician, the apothecary, druggist or other person soiling or disposing of the same, shall put in a register, kept for that purpose, the name and reuidenoc of the person to whom such sale was uaade, the quantity sold, and the date of such sale. Any person of feudiug herein shall be guilty of a misdemean or, and, on conviction, he sentenced to pay a flue not exceeding fifty dollars." 1 ho Charleston Mercury in very greatiy dis gusted at the attempt made io various quarters to represent the Democratic party as a JVa tional organization. It says : The affectation of the disrupted Convention clingiog to the name ot the National Demo cratic party, was equally übsurd. A9 a Na tional party it had ceased to exist with the secession of the Southern States. Doth Con ventions beetttue Sectional. The one repre sen ted the North, the other the south. The one aimed at a sectional domination over the South ; the other organized to save the South from this sectional domination looking dearly to the alternative of independence. There was not a particle of nationality in either Con vention. A RAIL-SPLITTER ON LINCOLN. •John Flanks, Mr. Lincoln's partner in split ting rails, flat boating, &0., has announced bis intention to vote for his old friend, though he IMS always heretofore voted the Democratic ticket. In the course of a long letter to The. Decatur Chronicle , Mr. Hanks says: "When we have for years been opposed in politics, to a man who has again and again seen his party defeated, and has himself sometimes tailed, and still seen that man truo to his colors, re-arcuing and re-entering the field to try to uphold and successfully plant his colors upon the side of victory, wbea all the time he knew , he bad but to change once to win, and yet has j never changed, I thiuk 1 may say never falter ed, how are we to respect him ? Such a man I i have known Mr. Lincoln for thirty years to be. ! In boyhood days we toiled together ; many are t lie days we have lugged the heavy oar on the Ohio, the Illinois, aod the Misswsppi rivers I together ; many are the long, cold days we \ have journeyed ovef the wild prairies aud i ihrcnttk tho forest, with guc aud ax, and j though it is not pleasant to refer back to it,' well do I remember when we set out together in tbe cold winter to cut aud maul rails on the Sangamon river, in Macon county, thirty years ago, to iuclose his lather's little home, and from day to day kept at worts until the whole was tiuisbcct and the homestead fenced in ; we olteu swapped work io this way, and yet dunng the many years we were cocuected together as laborers, sometimes flat-boating, sometimes tail-making, und, too, when it was nearly iui possrt/lc to get books, he was a constant lead er ; 1 was a listener : he settled all disputes of ali young men in the neighborhood, and his decisions were always abided by. I never I knew a utau so honest under all circumstances ! for his whole life. Thus associated with Mr. Lincoln, I learned to him ; and wheu iu 1858 he was a can didate for tho first time within my reach, against my feelings, and 1 may say against my convictions, my old party ties induced me to vote for Mr. Douglas. My Democratic frieuds all declared Lincoiu was an Abolitionist; I heard htm make a speech iu Decatur just be fore the election, and 1 could see nothiug bad iu it; but I was told by the party be was no: ee~fcow he could I>e, but they said so, aud 1 was a Democrat aud went it. My wife used to say to mc tbat some day Abe would come out and bo something ; 1 thought so too, but I could not exactly see bow a man in the lower waiks of life, a day laborer, and hopelessly poor, would ever stand much cbauco to get up very high the world; at last, one day a: home, we heard that tbe Republican State Convention was to be held at Decatur, and that they were going for Abe for President. "As son as I found this out, I weut in'o towu and told a frieud of ADe's that as great and honest merit was at last to be rewarded iu the person of my frieud Mr. Liucolo, by the Republican party, 1 thought of the bard and trymg struggles of his early dys, and recol lecting the rails we had undo together thirty years ago, made up my mind to present some of them to that Convention as a testimonial of the beginning of ouo of the greatest living uieu of the age, believing they would speak more iu Lis praise tbau any orator could, and honor true labor more than the praise of men or the resolutions of Conventions. On our way to get the rails, I told this friend of Old Abe that if Abo should be uomiuated for President 1 would vote for bim ; everybody kuows what he has been, and 1 rejoice that I live to give this testimony to his goodness and honesty, and 1 hope I shall live to vote for him for Presi dent of the United States next November.— is there anything wrong in this ? VVlio ought to refuse to vote for as good and as great a man as be is ? 1 know that in voting for him 1 vote with the Republican party, and will be considered as adopting its principles ; as 1 now understand them i 6ee no goon reason why I may not do so ; our own party is divided, and we have no Solomon to tell wbo shall tike the child." BETS ON THE ELECTION. —The New York Herald's Washington correspondent gives a lively account of the way the nominations were received at '.he Federal Capitol. There, as elsewhere, both parties commenced their game of brag, which is the only game tbey under stand. Tho following is the way they "drap. ped "Mr. VV., a distinguished Pennsylvanian, asserted that Douglas would carry that State by fifty thousand majority. Mr. 8., an equal ly distinguished Breckinridge man from Mas 'suchusetts, offered to bet ODO dollar ou each vote tbat be would not. The Douglasite caved. An Oregoniau boasted that Douglas would carry Oregon. A Breckinridge mao offered to bet that Breckinridge and Lane would carry more of tbeir States than Douglas and Fitz patriok would of theirs. Douglasite refused. An lllinoisan offered to bet §IO,OOO that Douglas would carry Illinois. An Ohio lie publican accepted the bat, and proposed to put a forfeiture of 1,000 until to-morrow, when the remainder would be deposited, but Illi noisao thought he saw a rail, and declined.— A M. C. of New-York, offered to bet an in definite sum that Douglas would carry his State, whereupon a Maryland Breckinridge man said ho would bet §IO,OOO that Lincoln would earry Illinois uud New York. New Worker backed down. These are only speci mens of the kiud of betting that has been go iug ou here to-day, but it is singularly true that it is a true reflex of the confidence mani fested by the different men for their favorite candidates." A ME IN CANDIDATE. To show what kind of a man Joe Lane, the Administration candidate for Vice President, is, wc tako the following extract from a speech delivered by bim at the Breckinridge Ratifies* tion Meeting, in Philadelphia. Here is tbe passage reported verbatim: A voice—How did Lincoln vote at tho time of the Mexican war? Geti. Lane—l'll tell you. While your bum ble sorvant was having his arm almost shatter ed to pieces, und while other good soldiers of this State were battling in defence of your country's honor, Lincoln was over io Washing ton voting against supplies for tbe army.— [Laughter.] I didn't say 'friend,' did I? I'll take that back; for it was yon I alluded to, when I said friends—for you aro not only friends, but you are patriots, and you are law abiding, good citizens, that I am proud to meet —that I am delighted to have this opportunity to see and to speak to; aud if it was any other ocoasion than this—if it wasn't on the ticket with that gallant, noble, and generous, gifted man, Breckinridge—l would say much more in his favor, To show up this deliberate he, uttered by this would-be Vice President, we Deed only copy tbe following extract from a speech de livered by Senator Douglas, in tbe Illinois Sen atorial canvass of 185.8, wherein ho makes this candid admission: "1 never charged him with voting against the supplies in my life, because 1 knew that he was not in Congress when they were voted.— The war was commenced on the 13th day of May, 1846, and OD that day we appropriated in Congress ten millions of dollars and fifty thousand men to prosecute it. During the same session we voted more men and more mon ey, so that, by the time Mr. Lincoln entered Congress, we had eoough men and money to carry on the war, and had no occasion to vote for auy ntoro." This clears Lincoln of the false charge Lane has trumped up against him, and unless Lane does not read the current literature of the day, and especially that relative to national polities' be could not be ignorant that what he was say ing was unfounded. Tbe nian that would stoop to utter so deliberate a falsehood is unworthy of tbe support of any honest man of any party the uigger-driving Democracy not excepted. This seems to be the opinion of the people of Oregon, for it is admitted on all hands that the recent eleotion in that State has closed up his career in the United States Senate. He is a "dead dog," and has met a well-deserved fate. RECIPE FOR BUAKJBERRY WINE. —As this is the blackberry season, we publish this recipe for tbe manufacture of the wine: There is no wine equal to blackberry wine, when properly made, either in flavor or medical purposes, and all persons who can conveniently do eo should manufacture enough for their own use every year, as it is invaluable in s