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FOR PRESIDENT,
STEPHEN A DO,.GLAS
DEDIOCRA.TIC STATE NOTIIINATION.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ENRY H FOSTER,
OF WESTMORELAND
The Democratic Party
There can be no question that the true and
honest course of the Democratic delegates to
the Baltimore Convention is to demand the
nomination of STEPILEN A. DOUGLAS. With
the exception of men who have for some few
years, by their bold, daring, and corrupt ap
pliances, directed the State organizations of
our party, the party is honestly disposed and
earnest for the nomination of the only living
man in our ranks whose name and principles
can inspire hope of a triumphant victory. It
is humiliating in the extreme that facts force
us to admit the existence of gross errors in our
leaders, or those who claim such honorable dis
tinction—nevertheless, it is more honorable to
do so than that time should reveal the fact that
" Democratic" organizations can be as great
a curse to the best interests of the country as
the most fanatical and corrupt organizations
that are arrayed against the Democracy. At
this time, while the honest masses in our
ranks are almost unanimous for the nomina
tion of the " Little Giant," we find the men
once having their confidence, and by decep
tion holding honorable positions, intriguing
with the party's worst enemies to defeat its
favorite. The Democratic party has more to
fear from enemies within its own ranks than
it has from the Lincolnites, the Bellites, the
Houstonites, or the Disunionists of the South.
With the patronage of the government, in
their hands they have been able to exercise a
controlling influence to the great injury of
the party and the country, giving to our op
ponents weapons with which to destroy our
existence and usefulness as the great nation
al party of the country. A. candid survey of
the field before us admonishes us to avoid
any connection or compromise with the cor
rupt men and their tools who appear conspic
uous in the damning evidence given before
the investigating committee at Washington.
Our party cannot bear up under such weights,
and the sooner they are cast off from our
ranks the better it will be fur our• party.—
Party organizations can only and should only
be binding upon honest members of a party
so• long as their works promise good to the
country. But so soon as organizations are
used to `crush out' the rights, liberties and
best interests of our people, so soon should
such organizations find no favor with an
American people. DOUGLAS is the first and
only choice of the Democracy for the Presi
dency, Mr. Buchanan, Bigler, Black, the Col
lectors, Postmasters, Marshalls, and a very
few others being the only exceptions. His de
feat cannot be effected by honorable means—
consequently his defeat will be the defeat at
the polls of any other man nominated at Balti
more. Give us the man for the times.—
Give us the man the honest voters will de
light to honor. Defeat his nomination, and
you defeat the Democratic party.
teA- It is gratifying to Democrats to read
the proceedings of meetings all over the State,
instructing delegates to vote for the nomina
tion of STEPIIEI , 7 A. DOUGLA.S. We cannot
see how the Pennsylvania delegation, if they
will open their cars to the demands of the
Democracy, can refuse to give him an unani
mous vote at Baltimore on the 18th inst.—
Whilst there have been meetings held in al
most every county in the State since the
Charleston Convention sustaining the Doug
las delegates and asking for.his nomination,
there has not been the first meeting sustain
ing the opposition to him. To carry Penn
sylvania and elect a Democratic President,
Douglas must be nominated.
The Opposition.
The Lincolnites, the Bellites, and the Haus
tonites, are " firing up" for the campaign.—
At present it is difficult to say which of the
three organizations will be most likely to
come out of the race with the most . ptes. The
Bellites are gaining strength rapidly. Hous
ton coming up third has rather an uphill work
'before him. Lincoln is losing friends, there
is no denying this fact. If Douglas should
receive the Democratic nomination, thous
ands of the Opposition will rush into our
ranks, Making a victory to the Democracy
certain, with- but little effort.
It is rumored that the important post
of commissioner to Paraguay will be offerred
to John Van Buren, of New York.
A "New IYltan" Won't Do.
The Harrisburg Slate Sentinel, speaking of
this question, says the cry of a " New Man,"
raised by the adherents of the National Ad
ministration, North and South, is -a sugges
tion that has no reason to back it, and is,
therefore, without force. No "NEW MAN"
can restore to the party the unity, strength,
and prestige which it has lost by the hypoc
risy, apostacy, treachery, and proscription of
the President and his supporters. We are
-now waging a contest for principles--princi
ples discarded by Mr. Buchanan, his office
holders, and the Southern disunionists with
whom he and they are in league; and the
bold soldier and eminent statesman who has,
for more than two years, battled the combined
host of traitors'in and out of the Senate, is
the only General who can rally the scattered
fragments, marshal them into solid column,
and lead the army to victory. Let those who
cry so loudly and unceasingly for a " NEW
MAN," designate one, if they can, who pos
sesses at the same time the qualifications for
the Presidential office and party strength that
Senator Douglas does ! They can not do it;
there is no such "NEW MAN" in the ranks ;
they know it as well as we do—and yet, such
is their inveterate hostility to the Man of the
People, that they would willingly sacrifice
the party, and risk .a dissolution of the Union
to prevent his nomination. A pretty set of
Democrats, truly, are they, who, after having
led the party to the very brink of the preci
pice which overhangs the gulf of ruin, coolly
endeavor to persuade them that it is sound
policy to jump off, to take the fatal leap, and
be engulphed forever! With more impu
dence than truth, they assign as a reason for
their courso that Judge Douglas WIIs pushed
to his utmost strength at Charleston, and, al
though he did receive 1521 votes, a majority
of a full Convention—yet, because he re
ceived the vote of New York as a unit, when
thirty-three of the seventy delegates repre
senting that State were opposed to him, and
as part of the Pennsylvania, and 'Virginia,
and North Carolina delegations voted for
him, while a majority of the delegates from
each of those States were against him, he is.
in fact, only entitled to a count of 137? ; - votes,
Such is the view taken of it by a correspon
dent of the Patriot and Union, who but re
iterates the one-sided calculation and argu
ments of the Buchanan organ at Washing
ton and Xudge Douglas' bitter and personal
enemies in the United States Senate. This
correspondent, who signs himself " National
Democrat," forgets, or purposely omits, the
fact, that the friends of Judge Douglas in
the Georgia delegation, who remained true to
the National organization, were debarred
from voting by an iniquitous decision of the
chair, and that his friends in the delegations
from Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Ken
tucky, and some other States, were controlled
by majorities, and could not vote for him.—
He forgets, too, that a portion of the New
England delegation, elected as friends of
Douglas, and notoriously representing a con
stituency, nine-tenths of whom desire his
nomination, were non= by the Administra
tion and its shameless abettors by appoint
, meats to office, by promises of preferment in
some cases, and in other instances by MONEY.
These facts are not mentioned in the Admin
istration account. lion. Senators, Buchan
an's Central Organ, and the pensioned presses
in his service everywhere, though fully aware
of the desperate, disgraceful, corrupt game
played by the enemies of Judge Douglas to
defeat his -nomination and crush him out, are
as silent as the grave on the subject. They
are impelled in their opposition, some by
jealousy, and all by the most intense hatred
of the man o o„nd they would willingly peril
not only their good names, their honor, their
reputation for honesty and veracity, but their
very souls to strike him down. Thank heav
en, he stands upon a foundation which no
i lever iu their bands can move, and from which
no effort of his enemies can hurl him—a foun
dation of principles. Come what may, no
" new man," can displace him. He has, so
far, fought well the battle against apostacy,
corruption, tyranny, and meditated treason—
he possesses the affection and confidence of
the masses of the party, and they demand
him for their standard-bearer in the coming
strife. No " new-man" will answer now—it
is too late in the day. We want, and 'must
have, a leader true and tried—a Douglas—if
we desire to beat the Republicans and stay
the tide of fanaticism.
GEN. FOSTER'S ELECTION.—Every friend of
our excellent and popular nominee for Gov
ernor should labor zealously for the nomina
tion of Douglas!
Every candidate for Congress in the State
should do the same thing! While it is a
case as clear as that two and two make four,
that every candidate for a State or county of
fice should do likewise.
The nomination of Douglas would insure
the election of General Foster; it would se
cure the election of a majority of Congress
men, enable us to secure a majority on joint
ballot in the Legislature, and above all, re
deem our good old Commonwealth from the
sway of Abolitionism, and, in all probability,
thereby save our glorious Union from being
broken into fragments I
Hon. Edward Everett.ihas accepted
the nomination for the Vice Presidency of
the Constitutional Union Party.
The Democratic State Convention of
Maine is called to meet in Portland, on Thurs
day, the 28th of Jupe.
Douglas and Lino°lu
A great deal of stress is laid, by the Re
publican press, upon the alleged fact that
Abram Lincoln, in the great contest for the
_United States Senatorship in 1858, carried
the popular majority, although Douglas suc
ceeded in carrying the Legislature. There
is a slight mistake in this. The alleged fact
is not a fact. The vote of Illinois in 1858 on
the State ticket was, for Miller, Republican
candidate for State Treasurer, 125,462 ; for
Fondey, Douglas Democrat, 121,889 ; for
Dougherty, Buchanan Disorganizer,
making the result ;
For Miller, Republican 125,462
" Fon(ley, Douglas Democrat 121,889.
4 ' Dougherty, Buchanan Dis 5,021. 126,910
Actual Democratic maj
In 1856 Miller's majority, as a candidate
for the same office was 21,032 ; so that the
actual Democratic gain in 1858, when Doug
las stumped the State against Lincoln, was
22,480. A Democratic contemporary well
observes ;—" Now, it being a fact that Mr.
Douglas pitted against Mr. Lincoln did wipe
out a Republican majority of over 21,000 in
two years in a single State, when the contest
was only for the Senatorship, what do our
Republican friends suppose would become of
Mr. Lincoln and his party at the end of anoth
er two years, when the contest is for the Pres
idency of the United States ? Surely, their
fate will be like that of Pharoah's host in the
Red Sea."
The Japanese.
The 'Washington Constitution of a recent
date, publishes an official copy of the treaty,
and of the regulations under which Ameri
can trade is to be conducted in Japan, which
were finally ratified in Washington on the
24th of May. The treaty provides that the
ports of Simoda, Ilako-dadi, Kanagawa, Na
gasaki, and Nee-e-gata were to be opened to
Americans previous to January 1, 1860; and
that lliogo should also be opened on tile first
day of January, 1863. At all these ports a
a' certain limited region of the surrounding
country is thrown open for the free migra
tion of Americans, and a fair opportunity ap
pears to be thus offered to them to cultivate
the acquaintance of the. Japanese, and to es
tablish a traffic in all articles upon which a
mutually profitable and advantageous trade
can be conducted.
After 1862, Americans are to be allowed
to reside in the city of Yedo, and after the
first day of January, 1863, in the city of Ose
co. Free exercise of religion and the right
_to erect suitable places of worship is to be se
cured to Americans in Japan, with the un
derstanding that the citizens of neither coun
try are to offer any insult or injury to the
temples or religious worship of the other.
The regulations under which the American
trade is to be conducted provide for the regu
lar entry and clearance of vessels, and for
the punishment of smuggling, &c., as well
as for the strict prohibition of the importa
tion of opium—the fees to be paid to Japan.
ese custom-house officers, &c. The Japan
ese tariff is singularly brief and comprehen
sive, and is embraced in the regulations as
follows :
REGULATION SEVENTIT. Duties shr t ll be paid
to the Japanese Government on all goods
landed in the country according to the fol
lowing tariff:
CLASS ONE. All articles in this class shall
be free of duty.
Gold and silver, coined or uncoined.
Nearing apparel in actual use.
Household furniture and printed books not
intended for sale, but the property of per
sons who come to reside in Japan.
CLASS Two. A duty of (5) five per cent.
shall be paid on the following articles : All
articles used for the purpose of building, rig
ging, repairing, or fitting out of ships ; whal
ing gear of all kinds ; salted provisions of all
kinds • bread and bread stuffs; living ani
mals of all kinds ; coals ; timber for build
ing houses ; rice; paddy ; steam machinery ;
zinc ; lead ; tin ; raw silk.
CLASS TEIREE. A duty of (35) thirty-five
per cent. shall be paid on all intoxicating
liquors, whether prepared by distillation, fer
mentation, or in any other manner.
CLASS Form. All goods not included in any
of the preceding classes shall pay a duty of
(20) twenty per cent.
All articles of Japanese production which
are exported as cargo shall pay a duty of (5)
five per cent., with the exception of gold and
silver coin anti copper, in bars. (5) Five
years after the opening of Kanagawa the im
port and export duties shall be subject to re
vision, if the Japanese Government desires
it.
Douglas the Choice of the People
The St. Louis Republican, the leading or
gan of the Democracy of the great State of
Missouri, says : " There is no man in the
whole Union who can command a greater
Democratic strength in any single State than
Mr.' Douglas. He will be made 'nfinitely
stronger by the efforts of the minority in the
Charleston Convention to destroy him. He
stands before the country in an attitude when
every true Democrat should come to his sup
port, at the same time that a proper rebuke
may, by this means, be administered to the
.Disunionists of the South. This faction 8o
not want his election, for the simple reason
that it will preserve the Union, by putting
down Black Republicans in the North and
Secession at the South. The nomination of
Douglas, if debated at Charleston, ought to
be consummated at Baltimore; and to this
end the watch-fires of patriotism should be
lighted all over the land. The public will and
should not be cheated in this way, but Meet
ings should be held in cities, and towns, and
counties, all over every State, and such a
voice should go up as will strike terror into
the hearts of those .who have been guilty of
these gross outrages upon the party, and Who
yet threaten the severance of the Union.—
There is no time to be lost, and every good
citizen should join in the work. At this hour
Mr. Douglas is the representative man of the
people, - and they ought to see that he is put
into the Presidency regardless of all opposi
tion."
kW - Hurrah' for Douglas and . Victory !
Still-Born vs. Wide Awake.
[From the Cleveland Plahidealer.]
The " Imperial Manifesto" of Iverson, Da
vis, Slidell, Hunter, & Co., is the most deci
dedly still-born issue of the age. In two of
our exchanges only has it been copied, and
there only to bring the authors into ridicule,
and show up the fratricide. Our exchanges
are filled with quite a another style of mat
ter.
The number of public meetings which are
now being held by the Democracy in all parts
of the country, sustaining the action of the
friends of Senator Douglas at Charleston; is
most astonishing. Resolutions, speeches,
and letters to that effect are pouring in upon
us like an avalanche. Public sentiment is
overwhelming the opposition to Douglas, and
the delegates to Baltimore favorable to him
will be animated by a spirit that is irresistible.
We every day hear of men among our best
citizens who are not and never were politi
cians, now warmly aroused and bound to be
at Baltimore to balance the Buchaniers at
least.
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The South, too, are in motion, and in the
right direction. We see by our Southern pa
pers that in Alabama Governer Winston ad
dressed a large meeting at Montgomery, de
nouncing the action of the bolters at Charles
ton. Hon. John E. Moore addressed the De
mocracy of Jackson, on last Monday, on the
same. Hon. F. K. Shepard addressed a meet
of the people at Uniontown on the same.—
Col. W. 0. Winston, we learn, is to address
the people of Dekalb, Lebanon county, to-day,
on the same. Colonel Cooper addresses the
people of Cherokee, at Centre, to-day, we
learn. So the ball is in motion ; the blaze
has commeced to burn, and we say, heap on
the fuel until there will not be cne of the rev
olutionary spirits left to tell the mournfilt
story of the Charleston bolters.
These orators bring the record of these se
ceders to the stump arid exhibit them, as
Judge Tilden exhibited the autograph of John
Brown on the rostrum of the mourning Me
lodeon, but for a very different purpose, draw
ing hisses instead of cheers. A few of these
pictures are as follows :
" No one can be deceived as to what are
the objects of the Charleston Convention bolt
ers. Listen to what their men say :
" I want the cotton States precipitated
into a revolution:— Wm. L. Yancey.
"' If I had the power, I would dissolve this
Government in two minutes.'—.T. T. Horgan.
" Let us break up this rotton, sinking,
and oppressive Government.'—George Gayle.
"'Resistance! resistance to death against
the Government, is what we want now.'—
David Hubbard.
" So we could go on throughout the whole
catalogue, including Tray, Blanche, and
Sweetheart,' but these are enough to convict
this crowd of revolutionary intentions."
These men are just as obnoxious to the na
tional and Union sentiment of the country as
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, or Theodore Par
ker. Their hatred of the Union and Consti
tution is even greater and more dangerous
than that of the latter. They have no busi
ness whatever in a Democratic Convention.—
Yet, under the banner of these men, these
these traitors to their country were found—
the Northern enemies of Douglas—who, in
order to gratify their personal malignity,
would destroy the Government; and the Gov
ernment-pap paper of Cleveland publishes
only the speech of this Yancey at Charleston,
and that approvingly, and ridicules every
Northern man who dared to utter a sentiment
in accordance with the Northern feeling. In
beautiful contrast with this, hear a gallant
South Carolinian speak.
B. T. Perry, one of the delegates to the
Charleston Convention from South Carolina,
who remained in that body after the rest of
his delegation had seceded—he being satisfied
with the platform adopted—in a communica
tion to the Columbia South Carolinian, thus
speaks of the local feeling which was brought
to bear upon national delegates in that dis
union city. He says :
" In the galleries of the Convention mem
bers who dared do their duty conscientiously
on the floor were hissed every time they rose
to address the Convention or vote in it. This
was altogether pretty strong outside pressure,
producing a pretty strong excitement. We
all know how contagious political excitements
are. It is hard to resist such a contagion,
and the boldest and most conscientious fall
victims to it, before they, are aware of its in
fluence, and sometimes they never are con
scious of it."
That kind of feeling will not prevail at
Baltimore. The fact that it was so nobly re
sisted by the Northern and Western men
shows their excellent pluck and endurance.—
Having stood up in Charleston, they are not
likely to falter in Baltimore.
Goy. CHASE ON THE OHIO DELEGATION.-At
a ratification meeting held in Columbus, 0.,
Gov. Chase said :
MY FELLOW-CITIZENS—In this mighty gath
ering, and in this all-pervading enthusiasm,
I see the issue of the campaign. The man
ner in which you and your fellow-citizens
throughout the country respond to the nomi
nations made at Chicago is a sure presage of
success, and I congratulate you upon the
cheering prospect before us. The connection
of my own name in the National Convention
with the nomination for the Presidency, ren 7
ders it proper that I should say that I was
placed in that attitude by the action of the
Republicans of Ohio, a very large majority of
whom in their State Convention presented
my name to the Republicans of the Union as
their choice for the Presidency. I regard
the expression of the State Conventon as the
law for the State delegation ; and so regard
ing it, had expected of it the same unity of
action that characterized the course of the
New York delegation in the support of Mr.
Seward, of the Illinois delegation in the sup
port of Mr. Lincoln, and of the Pennsylva
nia delegation in the support of Mr. Camer
on, under similar instructions. But, with
the final choice of the Chicago Convention, I
am entirely satisfied ; with its declaration of
principles I am satisfied. Every principle
in that platform I have publicly avowed and
advocated for many years; and its declara
tions still meet with my cordial concur
rence.
It has been said that the nomination of cer
tain candidates might have engendered the
success of the cause we have all so much at
heart. God forbid that my nomination,
or that of any other man should imperil
the triumph of Republican principles.—
Those principles are dearer to me than all
merely personal considerations, and I rejoice
that, although I was not nominatecl, my prin
ciples were, and that they have so true and
so fathful a representative in the coming con
test as Alartim Lincoln, of Illinois.
DES.- The Republican treasurer of Floyd
county, lowa has - defaulted and fled with
$2,200 of the county l s money.
A Houston IVrovement.
A meeting was held at New York on Tues
day evening of the friends of the election
of General Sam Houston, of Texas, as Presi
dent of the United States. The following
address, expressive of their views, was read
ADDRESS
. FELLOW-CITIZENS—There never was a pe
riod in the history of our American Republic,
since its constitutional existence, when the I
need of a resolute man at the helm of state
was more manifest than it is now. The ele
ments-of mere party refuse to furnish such
a man. The entire system of Presidential
caucusing is known to be corrupt. The ma
chinery of political nomination, through
Conventions, is unreliable for any good selec
tion of candidates. Trammels of party, plat
forms are degrading to the high minded
statesman. Bargain-making for prospective
appointments—conflict concerning anticipa
ted patronage—settlement of partisan and
sectional jealousies precede all other business
in every Convention for the nomination of a
Presidential ticket. The people know this,
and are weary of it. Why should not Sam
Houston be, at this day, the chosen nominee
of every Independent National Union Asso
ciation—every State Convention of the peo
ple—every assembly of the conservative, State
sovereignty, Constitution-guarding,and Union
loving men in all the States of our Republic?
Is there any valid reason why this man—in
whom there is felt such universal confidence
—should not be nominated by the people over
all party hacks and ambitious demagogues?
There is but one reason, and no other. The
people have long abandoned their Govern
ment to the manufacturing process of a Na
tional Convention that they forget to exercise
their own omnipotent political supremacy.—
Sam Houston, of Texas, is, at this day, the
choice of a majority of all the voters in all
the States of this Republic, could that choice
be made manifest at the polls without party
dictation. There is no need of aNational Con
vention to demonstrate this fact. There is
need only of a movement of the masses in
towns, in cities, and in States. Such a
movement could and ought to proceed at
once. In every State a Houston electoral
ticket—strong, national, Union, conservative
men ! In every town a Houston club ! In
every county a Houston fund, subscribed by
the people, for such expenses only as are ne
cessary to insure the proper circulation of a
Houston electoral ticket ! The ballot box
will do the rest. Even against ultra-partisan
and sectional nominations by party National
Conventions, Sam Houston can be elected !
Should he fail to carry a majority of the
States, he can carry enough to cast the ulti
mate choice of President upon the House of
Representatives. There he must stand as
the inevitable compromise candidate. The
present House is nearly balanced politically
that no ultra-Northern or Southern candi
date, representing party Conventions, can
hope for success. Sani Houston, represent
ing the Union, must harmonize the Union,
must harmonize the contest of sections.—
Fellow-citizens, delay not a single day ! Or
ganize at once a Houston Club in your town !
Organize at once a reliable Houston commit
tee for your county, to collect funds for the
printing of the electoral ticket, and for ne
cessary expenses at the polls. Elect from
your Houston Club two or more delegates to
meet with delegates from other clubs at a
State mass meeting of the people, to be here
after called by the Houston Executive Com
mittee, to assemble on the .18th of July next.
At that State mass meeting an electoral ticket
composed of honest national Houston men,
will be selected, and a candidate named to
he supported as Vice President. Be sure
and recommend a reliable, popular citizen, to
be the Houston elector from your Congres
sional district. In this manner the masses
can select their own People's Houston elec
toral ticket without resorting to conventional
machinery. Organize your town club first ;
elect your delegates next ; vote the electoral
ticket at the polls.
By order of the Executive Committee.
zEir The Boston,. Courier sass of Mr. Lin
coln :
Such is the condition in which the nomina
tion at Chicago has left the Republican organ
ization. It has alienated the feelings and
outraged the principles of the main body of
the party, who were undoubtedly solicitous
for the nomination of Mr. Seward. It is un
wise, impolitic, and cowardly, in the eyes of
Mr. Seward's foes, who defeated his nomina
tion, yet who did not desire Lincoln. To the
two chief sections of the party, therefore, it is
unsatisfactory; as to the nation at large, it is
degrading, insulting, worthless, and "unfit
to be made." The purpose of a great and
powerful party is turned aside by the unsleep
ing malignity of a man who has thus betray
ed his party, as he has always been a traitor
to the dictates of sense and reason and just
sentiment among them. And now, with a
brazen face and the composed air of a man
who has just done some honorable thine, he
comes forward with an impudent relation of his
conduct at Chicago, as if he and those who
acted with him were not responsible for a
"dishonest victory," for the disgrace of his
party, and, its present and ultimate defeat!
It is no cause of sorrow to us, to be sure,
that the Republicans are' to be vanquished, but
of sincere congratulation, rather, over the bet
ter fortunes of the country. But we could re
spect them equally in defeat as in victory, if
they honorably maintained their principles,
and steadfastly stood by their steadfastfriends.
But with what face can they ask for the suf
frages of the people, when the vast majority
of their party look upon their nominations with
bitter disappointment, if not with undisguised
dislike and contempt? And what hope can
they have of holding their party together, and
of securing future triumphs—in the base
abandonment of all honorable principle, and
the sacrifice of their cause to the lowest pas
sions which can influence the meanest human
heart ?
A terrible tragedy was enacted in the
California Assembly a few days before its ad
journment. A member of tie House, named
John C. Bell, was shot and stabbed to death,
almost, in his seat, by , one Dr. Stone. Stone
was a lobby member, attempting to procure
the passage of a bill for the division of the
country represented by Mr. Bell and to which
the latter was opposed. Mr. Bell was in the
act of consultation with another member be
yond the bar of the assembly, while it was
in session, when Stone came up, denounced
Bell as a liar, and immediately began shoot
ing and stabbing him. The unfortunate man
:was carried away, and died two days after.
Stone was released on bail. As he is a rich
man, the crime will go unpunished. The As
sembly took no notice of the murder. Bell
was from Ohio, and was unarmed. Stone is
from Kentucky. Several circumstances show
the act to have been premeditated.
A Strange Romance.
A young lady, beautiful in person and at
tractive in manner, who resided in the imme
diate vicinity of Boston, was sought in mar
riage some years ago by two men. One of
these was poor, and a mechanic ; the other
was rich, and not a mechanic. The woman
loved the former ; the family of the woman
liked the latter. As is the case in such af
fairs, the woman married to please her friends.
Having thus " sold herself," she ought to have
been miserable, but she was not. Her hus
band's unaffected love subdued her heart, and
his gold smoothed the rough places in the
human path. Fortune, feeling that this couple
were too happy, frowned, and the man's rich
es took wings and used them in flight.—
Thereupon the husband wound up his busi
ness, put his wife and children, of whom
there were two, at a comfortable boarding
house, and then departed for California in
search of money. Some letters and some re
mittances arrived from him at first, then noth
ing came, and there was a blank of several
years. The wife thought herself deserted.—
The family, whose good opinion of the bus-.
band had not lately been so often published
as formerly, told her that it was clearly a
case for a divorce. When she had become
well accustomed to the sounct , of this unpleas
ant word, the disconsolate wife was thrown
into the society of the mechanic lover, now
prosperous, and still unmarried. The mem
ory of her early, real love came upon her, and
she believed with a secret joy that he had
remained single for her sake. This thought
nourished her affection, and at last she ob
tained a divorce from her husband who had
deserted her, and remained absent beyond
the time allowed by the statute. This accom
plished, there was no barrier between her
and the mechanic of her youth. She inform
ed him that she was his forever, when he
should choose to claim her,band. Her feel
ings cannot have been pleasant to learn that,
since his rejection by her and her marriage
to another, the unromantic hewer of wood
had drowned his passion for her in the waves
of time, and that at the time of her handsome
offer he no longer palpitated for her. In fact,
Barkis was not willin'. As if all this were
not embarrassing enough, who should turn
up but the husband, who made his appear
ance in the form of a letter, announcing that
he had accumulated a dazzling pile of wealth,
and that she was to meet him in New York.
The letter also chid her for her neglect in
not writing to him for years, and it was clear
that he had sent assurances of love and also
material aid at intervals during his absence ;
where these had gone, no one knows. Here,
then, was trouble. No husband, no lover.
The one she had divorced ; the other had re
fused her. Taking counsel with herself, she
packed her trunk, seeing that her wardrobe
was unexceptionable, and came to the me
tropolis. She met the coming man on his
arrival, and told him the whole story as cork
rectly as she, naturally prejudiced in favor of
the defendant, could tell it. The husband
scowled, growled, looked at the charming
face and the becoming toilette, remembered
California and its loneliness, and took her to
his heart. A clergymen was summoned, a
marriage was performed, and a new volume
in their life's history was opened.—Tribune.
How Women Live in New York
The article below, which is from the New
York Tribune, gives a somewhat uninviting
view of the condition and comforts of a largo
portion of the women of that city. New York
presents many meretricious attractions to per
sons who have more money than brains; but
it is the wrong place for decent people who
expect to make an honest living by useful la
bor. The further virtuous females keep from
it the better it will be for them :
CITY WORK AND WAGES FOR WOMEN.—A
young woman, now engaged in school teach
ing in Vermont, " at wages that only barely
afford a living," has been attracted by our
late article upon city work and wages for wo
men, and writes us for " further information."
She says : " I suppose the rate of wages stated
for book binders and folders, etc., does not
include board. What would be the expense
of that ?" We answer, quite as much as the
wages of such a board and lodging as every
respectable Vermont girl has been used to.—
No girl can get wages enough at any such
employment to clothe herself decently, and
pay for good board and lodging in a comfort
able, fit place for the home of a " Green Moun
tain girl." The writer asks us to point out
to her a way for herself and sister to get sit
uations in the city.
Instead of doing this, we point out to her
the almost certainty of financial and perhaps
moral ruin to her or any other country girl
who should come here to seek a boarding
house home, and employment in any of the
manufacturing establishments that give em
ployment to females. The wages, upon an
average, are not over $3 a week, and no
boarding-house that we would put a young
girl in would take a boarder at less than that
price. Our advice to this and all other coun
try girls is to keep away from the city. It
is no place for them. It is overrun with Irish,
German, Dutch, Swiss, Italian, French, En
glish, and Scotch girls, who are willing to
work for the wages given, while many of them
live in holes and hovels that would disgust a
Vermont farmer's pigs. Vermont farmers'
girls cannot compete with this host of Euro
peans.
NOTES AND MEMORANDA.—The Mobile Reg
ister speaks decidedly in reply to the propo
sition that Judge Douglas shall be withdrawn
as a Presidential candidate. It says: "Is it
supposed that the majority in this Convention
are dolts and dough-faces, to be whipped and
commanded by a handful of desperate politi
cians, who have already been foiled and beat
en in their brag game ? 'We tell them they
are mistaken in their estimate of these men.
We have seen and talked with these men.
They are made of stern and unyielding stuff
which God uses to make men of. They told
the bolters at Charleston, calmly, but finally,
"Gentlemen, if you.have made up yourminds,
so have we. Do you think you can scare
these men, when they see you strangling in
the clutches of an indignant people ? They
will stand firm While this Richmond Conven
tion, born in an ecstasy of enthusiasm, and
amidst showers of fiery bravados, is melting
away into nonentity under' the . timidity of
those who dare not follow the lead indicated
by the seceders in the Charleston Theatre.—
From present indications, the Richmond Con
vention will never meet. If it does, Mississip
pi will be the solitary occupant of it: Even
the Alabama Riebmondites, who inaugurated
the bolt,' are in imminent peril_ of being over
slaughed in their own Convention at home,
and of receiving orders to go back to the Na
tional body front which they sloped. Our
fear is that they will be mean-spirited enough
to obey .tlio'conamand.,"