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SEPIEN A DIEGLAS,
[Subject to the decision of the Charleston Convention.]
DEMOCRATIC STATE. NOMINATION.
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The Presidency,
With but very few exceptions, the Demo
cratic press of Pennsylvania are now favor
ing the nomination of the Little Giant of Il
linois. Indeed the whole country, North and
South, East and West, raises a shout for
Douglas, that cannot be disregarded by the
representatives of the party. Upon the ac
tion of the Charleston Convention, the Car
lisle Democrat truly remarks, depends the
success of the Democratic party in Novem
ber next. Irthe deifgates who have been
selected from the different States will come
together in a fraternal spirit, determined to
act for the party at large, and not merely for
the purpose of advancing the interests of
particular individuals, we have no fears for
the result, and that this will be the case we
have every reason to believe. Should such a
feeling animate the convention, then, we
think, there can be no difficulty in naming
the man to fill the highest office known to our
laws. The popular expression on this sub
ject has for some time past, and still is, so
decided that no man unless he is wilfully
blind, can misunderstand it. Town after
Town, County after County, and State after
State, have declared so emphatically in favor
of Stephen A. Douglas, that to set aside,
without good and substantial reasons, the will
of the people thus clearly expressed, would
to us, seem like madness.
We are well aware that there arc to be
found in all parties, men who act upon the
"rule or ruin principle," and the Democratic
party is no exception, but we believe this
class is in a hopeless minority, and will be
comparatively harmless. Stephen A. Doug
las can carry inure States and secure more
electoral votes than any other man now before
the people, and we believe too, that this is
the sentiment of a majority of the Delegates
to the Charleston Convention, and if so, why
should they hesitate to place him in nomina
tion. That there are many other excellent
men who could be elected, we do not for a
moment doubt, but with Douglas the victory
would be doubly sure. He has more ele
ments of strength than any other man named,
-4.tnd with him success would be comparatively
asy.
We have been requested by our rep
resentative, Mr. Africa, to state that a gener
al bill relative to unadjusted claims on the
main line of. the public works has been pas
sed and approved by the Governor. All claims
presented will, in pursuance of said bill, be
examined by the Auditor General, Attorney
General and State Treasurer, who are re
quired to report their opinion of the validity
of the same to the next Legislature. The
authority granted these officers by this bill,
will expire by limitation one year hence, so
that all persons interested should act prompt
ly.
HoN. W.ll. MONTGOMERY.—We have re
ceived the great speech of this gentleman,
delivered in the House of Representatives,
March 29th, in reply to Mr. Curry, of Ala
bama, on Popular Sovereignty, as avowed by
Judge Douglas. Mr. M. is Representative
from the 20th Congressional District of this
State. He is a giant in frame and intellect,
and stands in the front ranks of Douglas' warm
est and most influential friends. His speech
is of too great a length for our columns at this
time.
A CLE AR MAJORITY .!--Judge Douglas has
now a clear majority of the Delegates to the
Charleston Convention. lie has,' also, car
ried a majority of the States. Yet we hear
the Office-holders of the Federal Government,
the Southern Disunionists and a few effete,
" played out" Senators say he must not be
nominated. Now they may succeed in de
'eating him, but if they (13, we would not
give the ink we have wasted in penning this
article for the chances of the nominee made
by such influences.--State Sentinel.
—The Connecticut election resulted in the
re-election of Buckingham for Governor, by
571 majority. The Senate and House are
both Republican. Two years ago, the Repub
licans carried the State by over 2000 majori
ty.
—The Rhode Island contest resulted in the
election of Sprague, the Democratic candi
date for Governor, by a handsome majority.
The Republican majority last year was over
five thousand. Sprague was also supported
by the Americans and conservative Republi
cans.
—Col. Thomas A. Scott, lately elected Vice
President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, has also been elected a Director of the
new Board of the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne and
Chicago Railroad, in place of Mr. Edgar J.
Thompson, resigned. Gen. Geo. W. Cass has
been elected President of the Company. The
Chicago Times in an article upon the new
prospects of the road, makes the following
remarks :
The accession of Thomas A. Scott is the only one that
could replace the name of Mr. Thompson among the direc
tors. He is a fit associate for George W. Cass, and a wor
thy successor of the late president. His counsels cannot
be otherwise than of great value to the stockholders. The
resignation of Mr. Thompson would be otherwise greatly
regretted. The services of that gentleman have been so
valuable, and have contributed so largely to the present
proud position of the road, notwithstanding her embar
rassments, that the loss of them entirely could not but
operate to the pecuniary disadvantage of the company.—
Represented, however, as he will be, by one of the first
railroad men in the country, in the person of Mr. Scott,
the effects of his withdrawal Nvill not be experienced.
General Cuss is too well known to need any further ref
erence than the announcement of his name. fits compre
hensive business knowledge, and his untiring energy,
coupled with an unbounded popularity, will render bins
all sufficient iu the position he has been called to sustain.
—The Sunbury and Erie bill, which was
so long debated in our State Legislature, pas
sed in the following form :—The bill stays
proceeding, under the mortgage of the State,
for the sale of the road, for non-payment of
interest, until February, 1862, and authorizes
the company to issue scrip to the amount of
$600,000, to pay debts contracted for labor
and materials between -the first of August
last and the first of April. This scrip is to
be a lien upon the road, and to take prece
dence of the State mortgage. The friends
of the road say that the work upon it will
not be suspended during this year, but will
I , e pushed forward to immediate completion.
The Charleston Convention---Prospects
of Judge Douglas.
A Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald says :
It is generally understood that the commit
tee which meets here on the sth will nut take
the responsibility of changing the place of
meeting of the Democratic Convention from
Charleston. They do not, however, doubt
their power to do so, but consider it inexpe
dient, in view of the arrangements already
concluded, and in the absence of any general
expression of opinion in favor of the change
from the Southern delegates. The meeting
on the sth will, therefore, be unimportant.
Whilst the prominent position of Judge
Douglas before the Convention naturally sin
gles him out as the object of attack on the
part of the friends of all the othe't less con
spicuous candidates, his friends claim that
the violence of these assaults simply proves
his strength. The expression of opinion
against Douglas, on the part of the ultra
Southern members of Congress is less impor
tant, when it is remembered that it is the
practice of the Southern Siates not to elect
members of Congress delegates. The dicta
tion of members, therefore, is not calculated
to have any weight with the delegates, who
regard themselves as occupying an indepen=
dent position, and in many 12stances are the
rivals of the sitting members for re-election to
Congress. The delegates who have visited
this city do not partake of the bitter hostility
towards Douglas which the other Southern
members exhi bit. On the contrary, nearly all
of them express the conviction that if Doug
las' friends are true to him the South will
yield. In the meantime, North Carolina
and Georgia will probably go for him from
the first.
The great fight in the Convention will be
upon the platform. Whilst it is conceded
that the Cincinnati platform, pure and sim
ple, should be re-affirmed, Douglas' friends
will insist, that if this is done it must be
viewed as a
. concession to him. They say
that the opposition to Douglas is based upon
the fact that he does not consider that a Con
gressional slave code is constitutional for the
Territories, and that the constitutional power
of Territorial Legislatures over the regula
tion of slavery, as all other property, is a ju
dicial question. If, because he holds these
views, he is to be struck down, they will in
sist that the platform shall contain a clear
and direct exposition of the views of his oppo
nents—slave code and all. If not, then they
hold he stands as well before the South as
any of his rivals.
It is clear that not a single Northern State
could be carried on a platform insisting upon
the all-prevading existence' of slavery as a
natural institution, which requires positive
enactment to forbid it, and which, spreading
Co the North Pole of our Territories, exten
ded so far, must continue, no matter what the
wishes of the people of those Territories, so
long as they are Territories. Add to this,
also, the plank of a Congressional slave code
—the logical and proper conclusion insisted
upon by Southern men.
The mere question of the Presidency, it is
contended, is of little importance compared
to the consideration, that unless some of the
Northern States are carried next November,
the Democratic party will find itself, fur the
first time, in a minority in both houses of
Congress. Open and avowed secessionists
and disunionists would be delighted with
such a position of affairs, which would give
the South a material cause for a secession
movement ; but the cooler and reflecting men,
both of the South and North, are alarmed at
the prospect, and will hesitate ere they per
mit a mere personal hatred to Douglas to
force them into a position where a Northern
and a Southern Confederacy becomes almost
a foregone conclusion.
The Northern States now represented in
the Senate by Democrats, are Oregon, Cali
fornia, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey Minnesota, and Ohio. Of these, Ohio
has already elected a Republican in Pugh's
place ; Pennsylvania elects next winter in
Bigler's place ; Indiana elects in place of the
sitting Senators, whose terms expire in 1861
and 1863 ; New Jersey elects one; Minnesota
one, and Oregon two. Add to these two Re
publicans from Kansas, and we find that un
less the Democrats carry some of the North-
ern States next fall, the only Northern States
which will be represented by Democrats in
the Senate will be, Illinois one, and Califor
nia one—in all, two Democrats from the
Northern States, thus giving the Republi
cans a majority in the Senate as well as the
House- If this is to be the result of the next
election, the success of the Democratic nomi
nee, unless he carry Pennsylvania,lllinois,
and Indiana, would . in fact he o e dfeat—his
victory would turn to dust and.ashes,on ' his
lips, whilst the Republicans would have him
tied down as securely in both houses as ever
Gulliver was by the Lilliputians in. Swift's
authentic narrative.
The statements that in any event, on the
adoption of any platform, however obnoxious,
Douglas will refuse to abide by the de
cision of the Convention, is false. He open
ly avows his determination to support the
nominee, no matter who he may be; reserv
ing to himself the same right exercised last
Presidential election by Southern men of ob
jecting to any portion of the platform he may
not acquiesce in. At the last election many
Southern States protested against the Pacific
Railroad plank of the platform, but suppor
ted the nominee notwithstanding. Precisely
such will be Judge Douglas' course, - and all
speculations to the contrary are mere waste
of time. He would accept of a nomination
from no other party or set of men than the
regularly organized Democratic party to which
he has always belonged, and to aid in build
ing up and sustaining which he has devoted
his whole brilliant public career, from the
time when, as the eloquent champion Of Gen
eral Jackson, be received the thanks of that
illustrious man, down to the present moment,
when he is engaged as eloquently and as
courageously in battling for principles which
will enable the Democracy of the country to
maintain their position as a national party,
instead of, by the introduction of sectional
doctrines and personal animosities, making it
a mere geographical party, defeated, despised
and soon to be obliterated. If, on the con
trary, it is conceded that this Territorial ques
tion is a judicial and not a legislative sub
ject; if the Democracy of 1860 are content
to fight the battle upon the principles of. 1856,
the prospect will be far different. The De
mocracy of the North can successfully,
.resist
Seward and his irrepressible conflict. Abo
litionism in all its phases will be vanquished.
The contest now is to defeat the odious doc
trine of Seward and Helper, and it is; there
fore, no time for the South to trifle' with its
safety and its interests, by striking down the
Democracy of the North, who alone can qtern
the flood. Douglas may be afeated,: but
with him closes the hope of the Demo6racy in
the North. They will continue to struggle,
but they will lose both the Senate and the
House, and the " irrepressible conflict" will
triumph. •
Local Acts
The following Acts were Passed - by both
Houses and approved by the'GOvernor. The
first is of great importance to farmers and
gardeners. The second is of equal impor
tance to tax-payers; and the third, when the
Hotel is finished, will be remembered with
lively satisfaction :
AY ACT to protect fruit, et cetera., and pun
ish, trespass in the counties of Huntingdon,
Washington, Allegheny, Berks, Lancaster,
Lycoming and Delaware :
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, cf , c., That the
wilful taking and carrying away of fruit,
vegetables, plants, fruit or ornamental trees,
vines or shrubs, in the counties of Hunting
don, Washington, Allegheny, Berks,
.Lan
caster, Lycoming and Delaware, whether at
tached to the soil or not, shall be deemed,
and the same is hereby declared a- misde
meanor, and may be prosecuted and punished
as such under the laws of this Common
wealth, and on conviction thereof in the
Courts of Quarter Sessions of said counties,
shall be fined, not exceeding fifty dollars,,and
imprisoned not exceeding sixty days; such
fine or penalty to be appropriated as provi
ded in the second section of this act.
SEC. 2. That any person or persons who
shall wilfully enter, or break down, itirough,
or over any orchard, garden or yaid-fenee,
hot-bed, or green house,-Or who sharr`wrolig
fully club, stone, cut, break, bark, or other
wise .mutilate or damage any nut, favit, or
ornamental tree, shrub, bush, plant or vine,
trellis, arbor, hot-bed, hot or green house,
or who shall wilfully trespass upon, walk
over, beat down, trample, or in anywise in
jure any grain, grass, vines, vegetables, or
•other growing crop, shall, and may, on con
viction thereof, before any Alderman or Jus
tice of the Peace, or in any Court of law in
said county, have judgment against him, her,
or them, in a sum not less than five, nor more
than one hundred dollars, with costs of suit,
one half the damage or penalty to go to the
use of the informer, the other half of the
damage or penalty to the occupant or owner
of the premises on which the•said trespass
shall or may be committed; and, in default
of payment of said fine or judgment, with
costs of suit, the party' convicted may and
shall be committed to the jail of said county,
for not less than twenty, nor more than sixty
days ; said complaint or action to be:in' the
name of the Commonwealth, and
.the,-testi
mony of the owner or occupant Of the,yrem
ises shall be admitted as evidence to prove
the trespass and damage sustained : Provided,
That when the owner of the premises shall
become the informant, then one-half of the
penalty shall be appropriated to the school
fund of the district in which the trespass was
committed.
AY ACT to correct a clerical mistake in the
amount of certain property assessed for
State taxes in, the county of Huntingdon.
WHEREAS, The board of revenue commis
sioners in their certified report fur the year
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven,
have, through mistake, charged the county of
Huntingdon with an amount of property, sub
ject to a tax of three mills on the dollar of
five millions nine hundred and five thousand
and six dollars,
AND WHEREAS, The true amount of the
above described property, according to the as
sessment thereof, was only five milliori,:one
hundred and eight thousand, four hundred
and ninety-six dollars.
•
Therefore
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
Rouse o f Representatives, of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly
met and it is hereby enacted by the authority
of the same, That in the adjustment and pay
ment of the said taxes, the sum of five mil
lions, one hundred and eight thousand, four
hundred and ninety-six dollars shall be taken
and considered as the true amount of property,
subject to a tax of three mills on the dollar,
for the year one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-seven, and two and a-half mills ort the
dollar, in the year one thousand eight hun
dred and fifty-eight, and one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine, assessed in and paya
ble by the said county of Huntingdon.
AN ACT to incorporate the Oneida Hotel
Company of the borough of Huntingdon.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly
met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority
of the same, That Graffus Miller, Hays Ham
ilton, Benjamin F. Patton, Jacob Cresswell,
John S. Miller, Benjamin E. McMurtrie,
William Dorris, junior, John Scott, John J.
LaWrence, H. G. Fisher, William B. Zeigler,
Levi Evans, John A. Doyle, Alexander Port,
John R. Hunter, and David Caldwell, and
their associates and all persons who may be
come the holders of the stock hereinafter men
tioned, shall be, and they are hereby declared
to be constituted a body politic or corporate,
by the style of the Oneida hotel company, to
have perpetual succession, to be capable in
law of suing and being sued, to have a com
mon seal the same to alter and renew at pleas
ure and to have, hold, receive, enjoy and take,
either by absolute conveyance in fee simple,
or upon ground rent and in case of a convey
ance upon ground rent, with power to exe
cute the necessary covenant for the securing
the payment thereof, such real estate as may
be necessary and proper for the construction
of a hotel in the borough of Huntingdon, with
such supplementary buildings as may be
adapted to, and form part of the general plan.
and design thereof, for the accommodation
and use of any parties who may be desirous
of renting and occupying the same, and the
said real estate or any part thereof, when, in
the opinion of the said corporation, it may be
proper so to do, to sell and .convey, to any
person or persons, who may he desirous of
purchasing the same. Provided, however, That
if the said company, or their lessees, with
their knowledge shall knowingly permit any
intoxication or gambling, in their said house,
the privileges hereby granted shall cease, and
that the said company shall not themselves
engage in the business of hotel keeping.
SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said
corporation, shall not exceed twenty-five thou
sand dollars, divided into one thousand shares
of twenty-five dollars each, and that it shall
be held as personal property, and as such be
transferred, under such regulations as the
corporation shall deem convenient.
SECTION 3. That a general meeting of the
corporators shall be annually held on the first
„Monday of January, for the election of five
managers, and the transaction of other busi
ness ; but if such meeting or election shall
not then take place, the corporation shall nut for
that reason be dissolved, but.such meeting or
election shall take place as soon, thereafter as
may be one week's public notice thereof, be
ing first given in at least two newspapers in
the borough of Huntingdon.
SECTION 4. That the election of managers
shall be by ballot from among the corpora
tors and that in the enactment of by-laws for
the government of the corporation and its
officers, and in the decision of all questions
whether of election of officers or disfranchise
ment of corporators, either because of their
delinquency in paying for the amount of
stock by them purchased of the corporation,
or for other causes, and on all questions at
the meetings of the corporation the corpora
tors present either in person or by proxy, shall
severally vote once for each share of stock
held by them.
SECTION 5. That the managers shall
_con
tinue-in office until their successars be elec
ted ; shall elect a president from among them
selves; shall supply vacancies in their num
ber, whether occasioned by death, resignation
or refusal to act, and shall have entire control
of the affairs and interests of the company,
except so far as may be otherwise provided
by the corporators three ; members shall con
stitute a quorum at these meetings._
SECTION 6. That until other officers shall
be duly elected, the persons named in the
first section of this act shall be held by the
managers of the said corporation, and shall
have power and authority as such.
SECTION 7. That if at any time hereafter it
shall appear to the said corporators, to be
'necessary in order to carry out the true intent
and meaning of this act, to increase the cap
ital stock of the said corporation, they shall
have power so to do. Provided, That the
capital stock of the said corporation shall not
be increased, so as, to exceed the sum of fifty
thousand dollars.
SECTION 8. That the said corporation shall
have authority to let, or lease any portion of
the building erected in pursuance of the au
thority granted by this act, for stores or other
places of business.
SECTION 9. That if the said corporation
shall at any time hereafter, misuse, or abuse
any of the chartered privileges hereby grant
ed, the Legislature may at any time resume
all and singular the rights, liberties, privile
ges, and franchises hereby granted to the
said company.
SECTION 10. That the stockholders of said
company shall be severally liable in their in
dividual capacities and estates, for all the
debts due to the mechanics, workmen and la
borers employed by said company, and for ma
terials furnished to said company to be sued
for and collected as is provided in the twelfth
thirteenth and fourteenth sections of an act
incorporating the Lockawanna iron and coal
company, approved April fifth, Anno Domini
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
How They Hate and Fear Him.
So says the Nashville Patriot, (American,) .
speaking of the Republicans and Judge Doug
las. The Patriot is fur Bell, of Tennessee,
for President; but it cannot be blind to the
fact that Douglas is the lion in the way of
the Republicans, who want to secure the Na
tional Spoils. They fear no other candidate.
They know that Douglas can command more
votes, and has a stronger hold on the hearts
of the people than any Democrat who has
been named for the Presidency. They, there
fore, want him out of the` way. The .Patriot
thus speaks of the fears betrayed by the Re
publicans :
"Whatever may be said of the merits of
Judge Douglas, it is manifest that the Repub
licans regard him as the most dangerous can
didate the Democracy can place in the field
for the Presidency. There is not a Republi
can journal or speaker in the country that
does not betray the fears of the party by con
stantly deprecating his ability and professing
a belief that he has not the least chance for
Charleston nomination, and could not be elec
ted, if he could get the indorsement of his
party. If his chances for the nomination
were as contemptible as they allege, and his
strength as a candidate so inconsiderable, they
would scarcely deign to notice him. But they
feel that he is the most formidable of all the
Democratic aspirants to the Presidency, and
hence their constant and unflagging efforts
to kill him off by underrating him. Ills can
vass in Illinois against the combined opposi
tion of the Administration, with all its pat
ronage and power, and the Republicans,
proved him to bo a man of vast intellectual
resources, wonderful energy and most pow
erful among the masses. That canvass,
we are constrained to admit, however much
we may dislike and condemn the princi
ples of Mr. Douglas, stands without a rival
—nothing equal to it has ever occurred
in the political history of this• country, and
we doubt if the like will ever be seen again.
It has so impressed the minds of the Repub
licans that they hate the " Little Giant " as
they hate no other public man, and deem it
their duty to omit no opportunity to under
mine his power. Recently, in the Senate,
he responded to the speech of Mr. Seward,
and with the skill of a practiced surgeon, dis
sected it and exposed the imposture by which
the arch agitator had given a form of beauty
and grace to the brutal and bloody doctrines
of the Rochester Manifesto. It was an un
studied effort, but it was none the less effec
tive for that. It was the work of a master
mind. The Republicans withered under it.
They saw in it the revived power and pres
tige of the " Little Giant" when he was in
the full tide of favor with his party, and they
shrunk aghast. But, having recovered from
the shock of the moment, they opened upon
him the floodgates of detraction and calumny.
All over the North the great and the little
organs are striving by such means to counter
act the effects of that speech. flow they hate
and fear him,"
From Washington
PRESIDENTIAL ITEIIS.
[Special Despatches to " The Press," April B.]
lion. Wm. ,A.. Richardson, of Illinois, ar
rived in this city last night, en route for Charles
ton. He was accompanied by several of the
Illinois delegation. Col. Richardson is the
leading Douglas delegate of the North-west,
and is full of hope. _
The contest between the friends of Breck
inridge and Guthrie, at Charleston will be ex
tremely animated.
Leading Democrats from Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, 'Wisconsin, and other of the North
western States, declare that Douglas is the
only Democrat who can carry that section in
November. If he is not nominated at Charles
ton, they say that the whole North-west,
and probably Missouri will be lost.
The opponents of Gov. Seward in the Re
publican party insist that the result of the
election in Connecticut and Rhode Island
may be regarded as evidence that he is not an
available candidate for President, while his
friends are equally confident that should the
nomination of Douglas be defeated, Mr. Sew
ard can easily be elected.
Gen. Thomas Ford, lately elected printer
of the [louse by the Republicans, has an
nounced himself in favor of Douglas.
The letter of lion. Wm. IL Dimmick, of
Pennsylvania, in favor of the nomination of
Douglas, has made a great impression. Mr.
Dimmick is one of the only two Lecompton
men re-elected from Pennsylvania, and rep
resenting, as he does, the Tenth Legion, his
declaration will have great weight, showing
that notwithstanding he agreed with the
Administration upon Lecompton, he feels
with the masses of the people of his district.
The "Young America" of the Republican
party, Governor Banks, of Massachusetts, is
rapidly looming up, and has more attached
personal friends in his own organization than
any other man, after Governor Seward and
General Cameron.
I repeat my former dispatch, that Mr. Bu
chanan is unquestionably for General Joe
Lane, of Oregon.
Another Important Reason Why Judge
Douglas Should be Nominated.
Under the apportionment fur representa
tives in Congress to be made nest winter, on
the basis of the census of 1860, the north
eastern States will lose largely from their
present representation, while the north-west
ern States will gain vastly. -Indeed, it must
be evident to every well informed mind that,
under the new apportionment, the great
north-west will hold the controlling power in
the House of Representatives. This fall's
election will, beyond question, fix the politi
cal character of this whole region, either for
or against the Democracy, for years to come.
If Judge Douglas should be made the nomi
nee at Charleston, the Democratic party will
sweep every State north-west of the river
Ohio, just as certainly as that November's
sun shall rise ; and that, too, with such a
rush of enthusiasm and with such a gush of
glory as never before marked the history of
the Republic. Thenceforth the great north
west will be as true to Democracy as the nee
dle is to the pole. But without the nomination
of Judge Douglas, we have no encourage
ments to hold out. The Democratic party in
this section of the confederacy will fight to
the last, whether our favorite be the standard
bearer or not, even if it be with the certainty
of defeat ; but if the National Convention
shall over-look this most important field, at
the present crisis, and turn a deaf ear to the
prospects of the party and the hopes of the
Union, the blame of whatever result may fol
low, if blame there shall be, must be laid to
those to whom it will belong—not at the
doors of the north-western Democracy. Our
duty will be performed both at Charleston
and at the polls.
The South can have no hope of her consti
tutional rights, nor can the Union have any
dependence, save in the ascendency of the
Democratic party. How suicidal, how unpa
triotic, then, must be the policy that will
overlook the future of the party and of the
Union, merely for the temporary triumph of
an abstraction, if not of a faction I Secure
the north-west, and you fix the permanent
ascendency of the Democratic part in both
houses of Congress. Nominate Judge Doug
las and you secure the north-west.
This is a point that has been greatly neg
lected by the Democratic press. We hope
they will lose no time in bringing it to the no
tice of the party.—Fulton Democrat.
Singular Affair.
The town of York has been the scene of
considerable excitement lately, on account of
a remarkable occurrence which transpired
there, and which, we believe, is without a
precedent in the annals of that o any other
community. The facts, us we get them from
the York papers, are as follows :
It seems that during the week before last,
a young man named Frederick Schiding was
taken dangerously ill from the effects, we un
derstand, of too much liquor. The physician
in attendance prescribed nine pills, each of
which contained two grains of opium, and
one of which was to be administered every
half hour. The mother of the young man,
however, ignorantly gave him all the pills at
one time, the consequence of which was that
the-patient, on Sunday evening, fell into a
deep stupor, from which ho could not be
aroused, and which proved to be " the sleep
that knows no waking." Although no sign of
breathing, nor any pulsation of the heart
could be discovered, yet the body possessed a
life-like warmth, and any friction upon it
caused a redness similar to that in 11, living
person.
The body remained in this condition until
Tuesday evening, when, the time for burial
having arrived, the coffin having been provi
ded, and the spectators being assembled, the
relatives thought a funeral must needs ensue.
So, accordingly, the procession was formed
and moving towards the Lutheran burying
ground in Duke street, where the funeral cer
emonies were gone through with, the 'coffin
was lowered into the grave, and the proces
sion returned. The undertaker, howe'Ver;
fearing lest the body might come to life, would
not permit the coffin lid to be fastened down,
and the sexton, for the same reason, placed a
stick between the coffin and lid, to allow the
entrance of fresh air, and did not throw any
ground into the grave, but loft the coffin un
covered. After the body had lain in the
grave- several hours, the relatives came to the
conclusion to take the body home again, and:
accordingly it was removed that evening to
the residence of the parents in the neighbor
hood of the fair grounds, where it lay for
nearly a week in the condition above de
scribed. During the latter part of the week,
however, the parents, from certain signs, be
came convinced that their son was really
dead, and on Sunday the body was again con
veyed to the grave-yard and properly buried.
Arrival Extraordinafj of Thinaway
Slaves.
(From the New Orleans Delta, March 26th.)
Yesterday at about noon a gang of thirty
four plantation slaves, all men, marched into
the city, by way of Jackson Railroad, and
came down to Commercial Place, to look for
a lawyer, as they said, to put them in the
way of finding out who their master was!—
Whilst standing in a gang on the alley, the
police came along, and finding they were not
under anybody's control, arrested them and
lodged them in the First District lock-up.
The negroes came from the Oak Grove
plantation, in St. James parish, fifty miles
above the city. Their story is a singular one.
The plantation belongs-to the estate of James
11. Shepherd, deceased, and is held by a
number of heirs. The negroes say that for
five years they have not known whether they
had a master or not ; that lately a new over-.
seer was put over them, and treated them
cruelly without proper cause, knocking them
down with clubs, and flaying them till their
backs were all raw. They say they went to
a young man on the plantation (one of the
heirs) and asked his protection, but obtained
no satisfaction ; and that on this account they
deserted the plantation to come to the city
for legal redress. They say they left the
plantation between nine and ten o'clock on
Sunday, walked all day and part of the night
through the woods, to avoid being intercep
ted, and part of the night walked on the
railroad; coming down from Kenner on the
track yesterday morning. They say there is
another gang who left the plantation with
them, and took to the woods, and that this
gang will come along soon if not stopped on
the way.
They deny positively that any white man
ever had anything to do with them in their
taking this course ; that all they want is to
find out who is their right master, that they
can complain to him when treated as they
have been by their new overseer.
They had not eaten a mouthful since leav
ing the plantation, and were dreadfully fa
tigued and hungry. When put into the lock
up they fell down in heaps and commenced
snoring, whilst some, who were not so sleepy,
commenced begging for a mouthful to eat.
It is said that ever since the death of their
old master they have been a very unruly and
insubordinate gang of ne . groes, requiring a
hard hand to veep them in subjection. Be
this as it may, their action in coming boldly
to the city, instead of skulking off for good,
entitles their story to some credit. The plan
tation is to be sold before long, and then may
be they will have the gratification of knowing
who their master is.
EXECUTING A. WOMAN.—Mrs. Mary Ann
Bilansky was executed on Friday, the 23d
ult., at St. Paul, Minnesota. 11er case is
strongly analogous to that of Mrs. Hartung, in
several particulars. It is an unusual thing to
hang a woman in this country. This is one
of only two or three cases where a white wo
man has ever been hanged in the United
States. The murder of which Mrs. Bilansky
was convicted occured on the 13th of March,
1859. Mr. Bilansky, a Polender of some
wealth, removed from Illinois to St. Paul in
1857, and there bought real estate, and open
ed a saloon. The woman who was executed
last Friday arrived at St. Paul two or three
years ago, from North Carolina, where it is
supposed she has relatives living, but she has
persistently refused to give any account of
her past life, more than to say that she has
friends living, who know not where she is,
and from whom she evidently wished to con
ceal her ignominious fate. She married Bil
ansky in 1857, and in their family resided a
man named John Walker, between whom and
Mrs. Bilansky there existed an illicit intima
cy, as was proved, both before and after her
marriage. Mr. Bilansky died suddenly, and
suspicion of foul play arose, which led to an
investigation, resulting in the conviction of
his wife, it being proved that she purchased
arsenic, and arsenic was found in the deceas
ed's stomach. In May last she succeeded, by
means of outside aid, in escaping from jail,
but was arrested some days afterward, and
in December last, after repeated efforts on
the part of her counsel to secure for tier a
new trial, the day of execution was fixed for
the 23d of March. Her counsel and sympai
thizers then made a, last desperate effort to
induce the Minnesota Legislature to commute
her sentence, and succeeded so far as to have r
resolution passed to, that effect. This was.
quashed by the veto of the Governor. She
died protesting her innocence, but the people
of St. Paul seem to be of the opinion that she
was guilty of the horrid deed of which she
was convicted, her motive being to get her
husband out of the way, get possession of his
property, and enjoy it - with her paramour,
Walker, whom she claimed as her nephew.
—Knickerbocker.
KILL TIIEM OFF !—The best way that we
have yet seen or read of, to manufacture
Douglas men by scores, is thus given in a tel
egraph despatch from Baltimore :
All the officers and employees in the Balti
more Custom House, who voted for Douglas
delegates to, the Charleston, Convention at the
recent election in that city,, have been sum,
warily dismissed,
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