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A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANCASTER, PA., NOVEMBER 30, 1858.
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REPUBLICANS BACKING DOWN
. .
At the late session of Congress, during the
Kansas trouble, the Reptiblioan members of
Congress, in order to acconaplish a party pur
pose, voted for a bill that seemed to recognize
the popular sovereignty principle,—we mean
the " Crittenden Amendpent,"—and their
orators and presses every where were loud in
their professions of attachment to it. But
since the adjournment of Congress their tune
is entirely changed, and their conduct now
shows that their professions then were hollow
and insincere. Several Republican State
Conventions have been held during the fall,
and they one and all, we believe, affirmed
their ancient creed, viz: Congressional sover
eignty ; and denounced the time honored
principle, as old as the Declaration of Inds
pendence itself, which recognizes the right of
the people of the Territories to govern them
selves. The sovereignty which they believe
in is the sovereignty of Congress, and nut the
local sovereignty of the people. Thus it ever
is with the Opposition party, no matter by
What name it may be called: The doctrine of
the modern Republicans is the blue light
Federal doctrine of a former generation, and
is, to all intents and purposes, the same " old
coon" brought to life again under a new
name. Its paternity cannot he disputed.—
The Democracy of the country will again
meet and beat their opponents on that issue
THE VOTE OF 1858
The official returne of the following States,
with their vote in 1856, present the subjoined
Dern. Opp. Dem. Opp.
.126,910 125,402 105.348 133.033
107.409 104,828 118,670 116,761
.162,60 S 182,952 170,874 215.623
.230 2(92 315,15 u 105.876 409.711
.171,006 198,119 250,710 229,035
Illinois
Indians
Ohio
New York
Penney I vauia
798,283
.. 9 9 21 , 1, 2. 5 5 1 3 1 821,480 1,181:44,1s:i0
OppoMtion majority
The vote for State Treasurer is the one
counted at the recent election in Illinois, and
the aggregate vote of both the Democratic
candidates is set down. The same is done
with the Opposition vote (for Fremont and
Fillmore) in 1856, in all of the above•men
tioned States.
From a glance at the figures it will be seen
that the whole vote of 1858 is less by 293,099
than the vote at the Presidential election of
1856. It will also be seen that whilst the
Democratic vote has only been reduced 23.197,
the Opposition vote has fallen off 269,902 ;
and the Opposition majority is but little more
than one-third what it was in 1856.
From these facts and figures it is apparent
that, in the five great free States of the North
and West, the Democracy are steadily gaining
upon the Opposition, and that their united
vote may be safely counted upon as certain for
the Democratic candidate for the Presidency
in 1860, whoever he may be, and whether he
hails from the South or the North.
COMMODORE STEWART
The Philadelphia Argus learns that this
veteran officer has applied to be relieved from
the command of the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
preliminary to resigning his commission in the
11. S. Navy. It says :
" The Commodore has been led to this
course by the action of the ' Board of Fifteen,'
which immortalized itself some time ago by
endeavoring to ' reform' the Navy. This
Board, without notifying the Commodore that
any Lotion was intended in his case, placed
him upon the retired list—an act which roused
the indignation of the entire country."
Commodore STEWART is now, we believe,
about 80 years of age, and has done more
duty and seen more hard service than any
other officer in our Navy ; and it is a burning
disgrace to the country that owes so much to
his bravery, that such a man should, in his
old days, be driven from the service. But it
is not unfrequently the case that in military
and naval, as well as in civil affairs, a man
will be used by others as long as there is
blood in his veins or marrow in his hones ;
the moment, however, his services are no
longer required, he will be thrown overboard,
or, like an old horse, turned out on the com
mons to die.
We admire the pluck of the veteran Com
modore, however, and wish him many years
yet of health and comfort should he retire
from public life; but we sincerely hope that
if the Administration can exercise any control
over the matter, either directly or indirectly,
they will interpose in favor of the brave old
officer.
par Since the above was in type, we are
pleased to learn that the Secretary of the Navy
has granted a furlough to Commodore Stewart,
so as to relieve him from active duty for a few
months, and at the same time retain him in
the Navy, This is right, and we are gratified
that the Administration have been so prompt
in the matter.
Hon. TITOISM L. HAaais, of Illinois, who
was so prominent at the last session of Con
gress as the leader of the anti-Lecompton
Democrats of the House of Representatives,'
died, of consumption, on Wednesday last. He
represented the Sangamon district, and was
re-elected to the nest Congress by a majority
of 4,556 votes over his Republican competitor.
He was a man of decided talents, and hie
demise will be a serious loss to his constituents.
EARLY WINTER
~. Snow fell at Binghamton, N. Y., on Tues.
day and Wednesday last, to the depth of 15
inches ! •
A telegraphic despatch from Stoystown,
Somerset county, Pa., of the 24th inst., states
that 20 inches of snow had fallen on the
mountains west of that place. The stages had
been stopped and sleighs were put in
requisition.
jitir BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, a leading poli
tician of New York, died at Paris on the Bth
inst. He was Attorney General of the United
States during the latter part of General Jack
son's Administration, and subsequently U. S.
District Attorney for the Southern District of
New York. He was about 63 years of age at
the time of his decease.
say- The Senate of Indiana has, by a vote
of 26 to 22, passed a resolution declaring the
election of Messrs. BRIGHT and Fuca to the
U. S. Senate illegal, unconstitutional and
void. As the Senate of the United States has
declared the election of the same. gentlemen
both legal and constitutional, the action of the
Indiana Senate will not be likely to disturb
their equanimity. The House has agreed to
the Senate resolution.
QUEER.—The editor of the Mt. Holly Herald'
says he wants money We congratulate
ourselves that we don't want any : But then
we know a very poor woman that does want
it amazingly bad—we mean the lady that has
been dunning us for money to go to market
kir CONiaIISSEI will assemble on Monday
next.
TEIB ACQUISITION OF CUBA.
It is evident from the discussion arising in
the public prints, and the feeling manifested
in private trading circles, says the New York
News, that the question of making the island
of Cuba, at no distant period, a portion of
these United States, is beginnitg to agitate
the public mind; and we are free to say, that
it is our matured opinion, that 'the authorities
at the seat of Government, would only be con
forming to the desires of nine-tenths of the
entire people, if they would inaugurate meas
sures, by peaceful negotiation of course, to
pave the way for the annexation'of the island.
We do not conform to the recently expressed
views of Senator Hammond, of South Carolina,
in which he stated, in quoting Calhoun, that
" Cuba was forbidden fruit to us, unless
plucked in the exigency of war; and that
there is no reasonable ground to suppose, that
we can acquire - it in any other way." We
may be mistaken, though we apprehend that
if the right kind of a peaceful effort:were now
made, the island could be purchased as easily
as was Louisiana and Florida.
Let a few facts be stated, for we are not
now upon any elaborate discussion of the
question, and see what they are in a commercial
Point of view. The United States are visited
so heavily with import duties at the ports on
the island, that many of our articles of
production and transportation are nearly, if
not quite, excluded. Our flour is hardly per
mitted to find a market there, because a duty
of nine dollars and fifty cents is imposed upup
every barrel, being one-third more than the
article is worth in the store houses in the city
of New York. Flour taken there in Spanish
vessels from the home government, is only
subject to two dollars per barrel. All manner
of foreign goods such as our Eastern manufac
tories produce, are charged with a duty of
thirty per cent. in addition to very extortion
ate port regulations. But, nevertheless, our
exports to Cuba amount to something like
$0,5U0,000 per annum, among which $950,000
is in grain ; $1,100,000 of butter, cheese, lard,
vegetables; $1,864,000 of lumber and wooden
manufactures, and about $141,000 in cotton
fabrics and yarn. Our imports amount to
$12,000,000, consisting mostly in sugar,
molasses, tobacco and cigars, upon which our
merchants pay a duty to their own govern
ment of something like $3,500,000, added to
which a large export duty to Spain. Most of
these facts are obtained from the Treasury
Department, and are mainly reliable.
If such is the trade now, under such unrea
sonable restrictions, what an incalculable sum
it would annually amount to if our merchants
enjoyed FREE TRADE WITH CUBA? The open
ing of that market to our .agricultural and
manufacturing productions would be of enor
mous benefit, both to ourselves and the people
of the Island. No less than thirty or forty
millions would be the annual export; and we
here at the North, especially, would greatly
rejoice in the reduction of sugar, molasses,
cigars, &c,, &c., the productions of the island.
Introduce upon that soil the enterprise and
activity of our citizens, throw off all unneces
sary restraint as to tariff affairs, and the
productions of Cuba would increase a hundred
per cent. in less than five years thereafter.
Suppose we pay twenty or thirty millions or
even a much greater sum for the island,
how long would it be before the whole amount
would he recovered 7 Why, from statistics,
it is found that we now pay in the shape of
duties, both to Cuba and our Own 'treasury,
about seven millions annually. If the pur
chase was made, and our Government should
think it policy to keep the present system in
vogue, it would only require three or four
years to pay for Cuba, without costing the
United states Treasury a single dollar, by only
applying the impost proceeds as they now
exist.
GOOD ADVICE
Under the caption of " A Caution to
Democratic Members of Congress," the New
York Daily News has the following well timed
and appropriate article:
We see it mooted in some quarters that at
the next session of Congress, a separate bill
will probably be introduced repealing the
popular clause in the English bill, by which
Kansas is excluded from admission into the
Union until she attains the regular represen
tative basis. We desire to put our protest
against any such separate enactment. It will
only be a ground for reviving the slavery
agitation in Congress, and give the Black
Republicans the very opportunity they seek.
to make more capital out of this stale and
unprofitable question. If Kansas should
apply for admission, and Congress. in its
wisdom, should see fit to grant her prayer,
the act which adds her to the Union as a
State will of, and in itself, nullify the objec
tionable statute. Such a course is the only true
one to pursue under the circumstances, as it
will have all the practical and legal effect of
a separate bill, and prevent that loss of time
which will otherwise ensue. The session is
to be a short one, and no obst .cle should be
thrown in the way of an expeditious transac
tion of business. We have had enough of
this miserable Kansas discussion, and do not
wish to see it revived by following any such
absurd and suicidal policy as has been
suggested. Let every Democratic member of
Congress see to it that this " Republican" trap
is not sprung upon them in the House. That
it will be attempted we cannot doubt. As
long as agitation lasts the "Republican" party
will maintain its foothold ; arid when it ceases,
that party will have ceased to exist. It is
evident, therefore, that efforts will be made to
re animate this dying issue, and one of the
steps best calculated to have such an effect,
would be the introduction of a separate bill to
repeal the English proviso. A Democratic
House can defeat this if they stand united,
and we exhort them to take the safe position of
voting to annul the proviso, only, when by
same measure Kansas shall be admitted as
a State.
THANKSGIVING.—Thursday last was almost
a general Thanksgiving throughout the Union.
The following States, twenty four in number,
together with several cities in Virginia and
the District of Columbia, united in its obser-
New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,
Rhode Island,
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Maryland,
North Carolina,
Georgetown. D. C.,
South Carolina,
Georgia,
Alabama,
Mississippi.
Florida,
A few more States joining in this annual
affair would have made it universal through
out the Union. Why could not such a result
be brought about, and what is to prevent in
future all the States of the Confederacy unit
ing on some one day in the year for observance
as a general day of thanksgiving 1 This is
certainly worthy of consideration.
EXPLANATION DEMANDED
We have a report from Washington, that
the Secretary of State has demanded an
explanation fuom the Spanish Minister, in
regard to the demonstration now being made
by Spain against Mexico. This may prove
the beginning of a serious controversy. If
Spain shall persevere, and attempt to overawe
and reconquer Mexico, it will devolve upon
the Administration to decide and define what
is meant by the Monroe Doctrine. So much has
been said upon the subject, that it is difficult
to understand the real theory involved. The
views of Gen. Cass, we ti.re told, are very
decided, and he may, shotild a collision occur
between Spain and Mexico, determine to
illustrate them in some plausible and practical
form.
TRIG PRESIDENT'S LETTER.
The following truly patriotic and eloquent
letter was sent by President BUCHANAN, to
the Duquesne Celebration at Pittsburg :
Gentleman:—l have had the honor to
receive your invitation to be present, on the
25th instant, at the Centennial' Anniversary
of the capture of Fort Duquesne ; and I regret
that the pressure of public affairs at a period
so near the meeting of Congress, renders it
impossible that I should enjoy this prit'ilege.
Every patriot must rejoice whilst reflecting
upon the unparalleled progress of our country
within the last century. What was, at its
commencement, an obscure Fort, far beyond
the western frontier of civilization, has now
become the centre of a populous commercial
and manufacturing city, sending its produc
tions to large and prosperous sovereign States
still further west, whose territories were then
a vast, unexplored and silent wilderness.
From the stand point at which we have
arrived, the anxious patriot cannot fail, whilst
reviewing the past, to cast a glance into the
future, and to speculate upon what may be the
condition of our country when your posterity
shall assemble to celebrate the second Centen
nial Anniversary of the capture of Fort Du
quesne. Shall our whole country then compose
one united nation more populous, powerful
and free than any other which has ever exist
ed? Or will the confederacy have been rent
asunder and divided into groups of hostile and
jealous States? Or may it not be possible that
'ere the next celebration all the fragments,
exhausted by intermediate conflicts with each
other, may have finally reunited and sought
refuge under the shelter of one great and
overshadowing Despotism?
These questions will, I firmly believe, under
the Providence of God, be virtually decided by
the:present generation. We have reached a crieis
when upon their action depends the preserva
tion of the Union according to the letter and
spirit of the Constitution ; and this once gone,
all is lost.
_ regret to say that the present omens are
far from propitious. In the last age of the
Republic, it was considered almost treasonable
to pronounce the word Disunion. Times have
since sadly changed, and now Disunion is
freely prescribed as the remedy for evanescent
evils, real or imaginary, which, if left to them
selves, would speedily vanish away in the
progress of events.
Our revolutionary fathers have passed away,
and the generation next after them, who were
inspired by their personal counsel and example,
have nearly all disappeared. The present
generation, deprived of these lights, must,
whether they will or not, decide the fate of
their posterity. Let them cherish the Union
in their heart of hearts ; let them resist every
measure which may tend to relax or dissolve
its bonds ; let the citizens of different States
cultivate feelings of kindness and forbearance
towards each other ; and let all resolve to
transmit it to their dependants in the form and
spirit they have inherited it from their fore
fathers ; and all will then be well for our
country in future times.
I shall assume the privilege of advancing
years in referring to another growing and
dangerous evil. In the last age, although our
fathers, like ourselves, were divided into
political parties which often had severe con
flicts with each other, yet we never heard,
until within a recent period, of the employment
of money to carry elections. Should this
practice increase until the voters and their
Representatives in the State and National
Legislatures shall become infected, the fountain
of frbe Government will then be poisoned at
its source and we must end, as history proves,
in a military despotism. A Democratic
Republic, all agree, cannot long survive unless
sustained by public virtue. When this is
corrupted and the people become veual,there is
a canker at the root of the tree of Liberty
which must cause it to wither and to die.
Praying Almighty God, that your remote
posterity may continue, century after century
' for ages yet to come, to celebrate the anniver
sary of the capture of Fort Duquesne in peace
and prosperity, under the banner of the
Constitution and the Union, I remain,
Very respectfully, your friend,
JAII.ES BUCHANAN.
To Russell Errett, J. Heron Foster, James P.
Barr, Charles M'Knight, J. G. Backofen,
William M. Darlington and T. J. Bigham,
Esquires, Committee of Invitation.
The present Administration has been
blamed, and most unjustly too, for not re
dressing the insults which have been offered
to this country by the petty , nationalities of
Central America and elsewhere. The re
sponsibility in this case does not lay with the
Executive, but with Congress. The necessary
power to enable the President to compel the
offenders to make reparation and atonement,
Congress refused to confer; consequently, the
hands of the President are tied ,and national
insults are unavenged.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, some little time
ago, in speaking of the energy of the British
Government in similar cases, as evinced in
its action in relation to the massacre of Eng
lish subjects by the Mahomedans, at Jeddah,
says:
"We shall soon hear of the most exemplary
punishment being inflicted upon the assassins,
and of a blow being struck which will give
England prestige throughout all the East.—
It is such acts of vigor and promptness that
cause England to be feared and respected by
all nations. It is to be regretted that our
Executive is not clothed with more power in
such emergencies, and that he should have to
wait the slow action of Congress. Four years
ego some citizens of New Granada murdered
a party of Americans, who were returning by
the Isthmus from California, in the most un
provoked manner. No redress has yet been
obtained. England would have treated the
affair in the same way she is now disposing
of the town of Jeddah. Six or seven years
ago an outrage was inflicted upun the Amer
icans in Paraguay ; an American steamer was
fired into, and yet the expedition for punish
ment and to obtain satisfaction has just left
our shores. If we would have. promptness in
such matters we should give the Executive
of our country more power. We deeply
regret that Mr. Douglas' bill, at the late
session of Congress, on this subject, did not
become a law."
THE KANSAS GAME PLAYED OUT
So universal is the determination of the in
habitants of Kansas to discountenance further
agitation, that the recent attempt to get up a
Constitutional Convention has entirely failed.
A correspondent of the New York Times tells
the whole story :
"The proceedings of the Kansas Constitu
tional Convention have been received here.—
The call was for a Delegate Convention on the
10th, and for a Mass Convention of the people
on the 11th instant, to ratify the proceedings
of the first. The Convention met on the 10th
—present, one delegate from Breckenridge,
three from Franklin, one from Johnson, and
eight from Douglas—Total thirteen.
" Conway, who succeeded Jim Lane after
the latter ran out, moved to adjourn on account
of bad roads to some day certain. This propo
sition was voted down. Committees were
then appointed on credentials And on business.
The latter Committee made a majority and a
minority report, and both reports were received,
but neither adopted, and thereupon the Conven
tion adjourned sine die Conway and Vaughn
declare their purpose to organize a party at
once on the Seward platform—but it is appre
hended that we shall hear nothing more of
Constitutions in Kansas until the people feel
the need of a State organization. Political
gamblers have played out their hands."
g.t ucky,
Tennessee,
Washington, D. C.,
Portsmouth, Va.,
Wisconsin,
Illinois,
Michigan,
lowa,
Ohio,
Minnesota,
Indiana,
Missouri,
Texas.
Alexandria, Va.
A Hots.—A most inhuman hoax was per
petrated on Thanksgiving Day in New York.
An advertisement appeared in the New York
Sun and Herald the day before, announcing
that 5000 pounds of bread and 1200 pounds of
beef would be distributed to the poor on
Thanksgiving Day, at Union Square, between
the hours of ten and eleven in the forenoon.
The names of well known bakers and butchers
were affixed to the notice. At the appointed
time at least 3000 poor, poverty pinched,
thinly-clad creatures, almost every one of
them having a basket, appeared in the square,
many of them having walked a great distance
to share in the anticipated bounty. The dis
appointment was great when they discovered
that they had been deluded by a cruel hoax.
FATAL SHOOTING.—On Wednesday night, an
altercation arose between J. Miller and Peter
Chcenher, brothers-in law, at a house jointly
occupied by their families, in Detroit, Michi
gan, in the course of which Miller shot Chcen
her in the breast with a.guri, from the effects
of whioh he died in a few minutes. Miller
was taken into custody;
WASRINOTON, 22d November, 1858
THE REASON WHY
CITY .AND . COUNTY A.IFFA.I as.
MR. lIALE'S are not amongst
those who are disposed to carp at what a public lecturer .
may say, or quibble If he does not square his remarks
exactly according to our notions of propriety. Still, we
think, when a gentleman. especially one of so much prom
inence before the country as Mr. Hsu, consents to accept
the invitation of a literary. and scientific society. to deliver
a lecture before a mixed audience of ladies and gentlemen,
bin own sense of right should prevent him from Intruding
his political opinions under the garb of a purely historical
subject. We intend these remarks for Hr. HALIeS benefit.
His subject, "The Last Gladiatorial Exhibition et Rome,”
wan sufficiently copious and fall of Incidents to engage the
attention of his audience, for the hour he occupied, without
Intermixing with It. by inuendo, those occasional flings at
an institution which we In Pennsylvania and the Northern
States have no interest in whatever. If the ancient Romans
indulged in the barbarous custom of compelling their
captives, taken in battle, to murder each other In the
Ampitheatre at Rome, that certainly does not prove the
slave-holders of our Southern States guilty of the name or
similar acts of barbarity, nor does it convince any that
slave-holding is either morally or politically wrong, or
Abolitionists right in their senseless tirades against the
"peculiar institution."
As a historical synopsis of Gladiatorial Exhibitions at
Home, the main points of the lecture were interesting and
instructive, and doubtless correct, for moat of it was drawn
from Gibbons' celebrated work, the "Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire." Bet having said this much, it is all
that can be said in its praise. There was nothing in the
production Itself, that would indicate superior thought or
intellect in the writer, or give it a higher place In the
estimation of an unprejudiced and intelligent auditory,
than that of a mere sophomorical declamation, such as we
not unfrequently listen to during the exercises of a College
Commencement.
The people of Lancaster are an Intelligent, thinking
community; and, as a general thing, they prefer to listen
to something more solid and substantial, from a stranger,
than a mere compilation of historical facts, all of which
many of them have read over and over again few them
selves, and they are contained in a hundred or more of the
private libraries of our city. Mr. HAUL, we suppose, thought
to play a very pretty Yankee trick upon the "ignorant
Dutch" of Lancaster, but he has egregiously mistaken the
intellectual character of our people.
CHANGE IN RAILEtnAD TIME.—The Winter
Arrangement for the different Passenger Trains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad commenced yesterday. They leave
this city as follows:
Leave Westward.
Through Express, 2.00 a. m.
)Sad Train 10.45 a. m
Faat Line 647 p. m
Llarrisb'g Assam. 4.35 p. m
Leave Exseward.
Fast Line 5 03 a. m.
Lancaster Accom., 835 a- n?
Through Expreas, 1.53 p. ui
flarrisb'g A.c.com., 3 28 p. m.
Mail Train, 7.30 p. m
Lancaster Accom. 8.00 p. m
A LARGE SALE, AND GREAT SACRIFICE —The
stocks, coal land, and other lands In Missouri, New Jersey,
and elsewhere, belonging to the Lancaster Savings' Insti
tution, having been transferred to it by Mr. Boughter,
were sold at auction on Friday last, and aggregated
$10,659.57. This property doubtless cost originally five or
six times that amount, if not mbre.
The furniture in the Banking House was also sold at the
same time for $671.45.
PROF. S. S. HALDEMAN, Of Delaware College,
has been awarded $:250 by Sir Wm. 9. Treveiyae, of New
castle-on-Tyne, England, for an Essay on a Reform of
English Orthography, for which ho offered prizes about a
year ago, open to British and American competition. There
were eighteen contestants, four of whom were awarded $5O
each. Professor H. is to receive an additional $250 in case
he extends and publishes his essay.
This is another "feather in the cap" of Lancaster county.
Professor HALDEMAN is, we believe, a native of our county,
and resided nearly all his life at Chiques, above Columbia.
His fine scholarship and brilliant attainments, it appears,
are acknowledged even in England.
THE HOWARD EvENINGS—REY• MR. HAR•
novae's LECTGAE.—The lecture of Rev. H. HARBACOIT, on
Friday evening last, drew a tolerably fair house, but not
near so large an audience as so able a discourse merited.
and the benevolent object of the meeting should have
commanded ; inasmuch as the proceeds of these evenings,
after paying the expenses of the Hall, go to the relief of
the poor in our midst. For such an object, as well as the
pleasant entertainment for the evening which these lectures
and discussions afford, we hone to see a greater interest
taken by the public in future.
The discussion of Friday evening was participated in by
Mayor Burrowes, Rev. Mr. Hopkins, Maj. Ditruars, Gen.
Steinman, Capt. Sanderson, Professor Porter and Rev. Mr.
Krotel.
The next lecture, which is to take place on Tuesday
evening next, will be delivered by Ito, Dr. Ilonoson, and
a rich Intellectual treat may be expected.
MORE SNOW.—We hate again had a taste
of Winter, in the shape of three or four inches of snow
which fell on Saturday night and Sunday morning. The
walking on Sunday was miserable, and although there was
plenty of light on Sunday night, the rain and slush pre
vented any but Christians venturing out to church. We
ithe Junior] were there!
BARBERS' BALL—The Barbers of this city
gave a ball, In one of the upper saloons of Fulton Hall, on
Thursday evening last. We were not present, but under
stand all the grace, beauty and brunettes (of blondes our
informant sayeth not!) in the city were in attendance. A
large delegation of —Columby and Philadelfy rostocrals''
gave tone, effect and odor to the occasion. In the language
of one of the most gallant Sambas who attended the
scene of mirth, beauty and festivity, there was "nothin'
el rnng to drink, but ham?" The Grand Promenade com
menced at 9 o'clock, and when
'Music arose with its voluptuous swell,
Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spoke again
And all went merry an r marriage bell.
Joking aside, however, we are informed that the utmost
order and decorum prevailed, and the arrangements were
admirable. Several of another class .of parties lately held
to the main saloon of Fulton Hall might take pattern from
this colored people's soiree.
POSTMASTER APPOINTED.—Joseph Gachman
has been appointed postmaster at Willow street, this
county, vice Henry %rider.
SUTER'S CASE. —Lewis Suter had a hearing
before U. S. Commissioner Hozlitt, in Philadelphia, on the
22d inst , for passing counterfeit coin. and was held in
$2500 bail to appear at the next term of the 11. S. District
Court.
LOCAL MAIL ARRANGEMENTS—CLOSING OF
THE MAILS AT THE LANCASTER POST OFFICE.—The following
carefully prepared table of the hours for closing the various
mails at the post office In this city, will be found very use
ful for reference. by business men and others. A correct
vbedule of this kind has often been enquired for:
BY RAILROAD
Eastern Through Mall—For Philadelphia,New York and
• Eastern States, at 6..45 p. m.
Way Mail East—For Philadelphia and intermediate offices,
at 8 a. m.
Western Through Mail—For Columbia, Harrisburg, PD ts
burg and Western States, at 6. 45 p. m.
Way Mail West—For Landisville, Elizabethtown, Mount
Joy, Middletown. Harrisburg. Lewistown, Huntingdon,
Tyrone. Altoona, Hollidaysburg (and Way Mail between
Altoona and Pittsburg.) at 9 a. m.
Scuth,rn Mail—For Columbia, York, Baltimore, Washing
ton, D. C., and Southern States, at a. m.
Pittsburg Through Mail. at 10 a. m.
Fur Strasburg, via: Camargo, Quarryville. Martimwille,
and New Providence, at S a. m.
BY STAGE.
For Reading, via: Neffsvillo, Litiz. Rothsville, Ephrata,
Reamstown, Adamstown and Oouglersville, daily, at 8
n.
For Lebanon, via: East Ilempileld, Manilaim, White Oak,
Mount Hope and Cornwall, daily. at 9% n. m.
For Millersville and Slackwater, daily, at I. p. m.
For Safe Harbor, daily, at 1 p. m.
For Elinkletown. via Landis Talley, Oregon, West Earl,
and Farmereville, daily, at 2 p. ni.
For Paradise, via: Greenland and Soudersburg, daily, at
3p.m.
For Litiz.. via : Neffsville, daily, 3 p. m.
For Marietta, via liempfield and Silver Spring, daily, at
3 p. m.
For Strasburg, via Fertility and Wheatland Mills, daily at
3 p. m.
For Lampeter, daily, at 3 p. m.
For New Holland, via: Rinkley's Bridge, Leacock, Barevil le,
Beartown, Bowmaneville and Muddy Creek, daily, at 1
p. m.
For Phcenixville, via: New Holland, Blue Ball. Goodville,
Churchtown, Morgantown, Honey brook, Chester Springs,
and Kimberton, Trl.weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat
urday, at 12 m.
For Port Deposit, Md., via Willow Street, Smithville, Buck,
Chesnut Level, Green, Pleasant Grove, Rock Springs, Md.;
and Rowlandsville, Md., Tri-weekly, Monday, Wednes
day and Friday, at 6 a. m.
For Colebrook, via: Swarr's Mill, Old Line, Sporting Hill
and Mastersonville, Tri-weekly, Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. et 12 m.
For Vogansville and Terre Hill, Tri•weokly, Monday, Thurs
day and Saturday, at 2 p. m.
For Liberty Square, via: Conestoga, Marticville, Coleman
e and Mount Nebo, Semi-weekly, Wednesday and Sat
urday, at 1 p. m.
For Bethesda. via: Willow. Street and Rawlineville, Wed
nesday and Saturday, at 6 a. m.
For New Danville, weekly, Wednesday, at 9 a. m.
Office hours, from 7a.m. to 8 p. m. On Sunday, from 9
to 10 a. m.
. .
Postage to California, Oregon and Washington Territo.
ries,lo cents.
Letters, alleged to be valuable, will be registered, and a
receipt given therefor, on application and payment of the
registration fee of flee cents, In addition to the regular
postage.
All letters are required to be pre-paid with stamps before
they can be mailed. H. B. gWARR, Postmaster.
A MILITARY PARADE.--The seventy-fifth
anniversary of the evacuation of New York
by the British troops at the close of the Revo
lutionary war, was celebrated by the military.
At sunrise the Veteran Corps fired a salute on
the Battery. At a later period of the day the
First Division of Militia paraded in full force,
and attracted deserved commendation for their
fine appearance. In the evening the Society
of the Cincinnati celebrated the anniversary
by a dinner at the Astor House. While the
military were going through their evolutions,
General Paez, the Venezuela patriot, who had
accepted an invitation to review the troops,
received a severe injury in consequence of his
horse slipping upon the pavement and falling
upon the General's right foot, breaking the
great toe and dreadfully lacerating the heel,
and rendering a painful surgical operation ne
cessary.
A SINGULAR FACT.-A reliable man informs
us that there is not an unmarried man in Yar•
mouth. The girls on the Cape, the Vineyard
and down to Nantucket are not so particular
about their. satins, and silks, eto., and conse
quently go off like hot cakes. A smart,
modest woman, in a neat calico, is more
attractive to a sensible man than those splen
did advertisements of the milliner shops.—
New Bedford Mercury.
ELECTRICITY--ITS RESULTS
A writer in the Delaware Gazette thus
speaks of this tremendous agent for the trans
mission of thought and intelligence:
The present Atlantic Cable, with many, no
doubt, is put down as a total failure, and truly
it indicates that way strongly; yet the princi
ple is good and must he accomplished before
two years passes by. As to the present Cable,
no doubt it will have to be abandoned, if
impossible to take it up—and other Lines
constructed on different plans, particularly nn
the shore ends, where, in my opinion, the
difficulty lies, will take its place. That elec
tricity has 'been transmitted through the
Atlantic Cable while lying on the bottom of
the ocean, and with more power than when it
laid coiled up on the decks of the Niagara and
Agamemnon friga• es, is a fact positively
settled. And it is conjectured that the great
pressure of the water by closing up the pores
of the gutty percha increases its capacity for
isolating the wire, and that the temperature of
that depth of the sea is favorable to the genera
tion and transmitting of electricity. What
ever may be the fate of this great cable, which
has been deposited, it has conveyed signals
from the old to the new world ; though it
breaks tomorrow another can and will be laid
in its place. What has been done can be
done again.
More than thirty centuries ago, as if in
mockery of man's want of power over physical
forces, God taunted Job with the challenge:
Cans't thou send lightning that they may go
and say unto thee "here we go." During many
revolving.circles of this earth that challenge
stood on God's book unanswered ; there
appeared not in all the world a solitary man
so given with reverent boldness to venture a
reply. What, to control the Lightning, that
vivid artillery of Heaven, which among all
tribes and tongues, and even the brute creation,
has ever served as one of Earth's most start
ling terrors. Job never took up the gauntlet,
and the vivid lightning of Heaven had its
undisturbed play until Franklin, who I may
call the lightning tamer, (to him belongs the
laurels,) was the first to snatch the lightning
from Heaven and hold it in his bottle in
harmless subjection.
Electricity—what is it? We have tamed
it. Why does the magnet attract iron and
point to the Poles. Amber when rubbed will
draw feathers to it; it is the spirit of the
storm ; we see it in the lightning and hear it
in the thunder ; we cause it to rend rocks
under the water asunder ; it is the slave of
the metalologist. We make it reduce teh
work of an age into instant ruin. It has
crumbled Russia's greatest engineering tri
umph at Sebastapol into dust, with the resist
less power of a thunderbolt. It. will soon be
our mercury to carry our winged messsages
from the new to the old world and around
the globe with the velocity of thought. All
this is Electricity, and yet we do not know
what Electricity is.
The laying of the Magnetic Cable is of itself
a most wonderful thing, even as it is, it fills
one with wonder and I hail it as a proof of
the great advance in human progress.—
Philosophy and science assures me in this
belief, commerce will occupy this cable to its
utmost thoughts—for that is the leader of
business The day is not far distant when
our globe with the electric wire will he girded
like our modern belles in their hoops,—then
the more our thinking and speaking goes to
Europe, and throughout the world, the more
sure are the principles of our free Institutions
likely to spread over many ill governed lands
throughout the globe.
CELEBRATION AT PITTSBURG
PITTNBURGII, Nov. 25.—The most interest
ing celebration in the history of Pittsburgh is
now in progress. On this day—the one hun
dredth anniversary of the Evacuation of Du
quesne—the whole city is iu motion to do
honor to that event. The throng of strangers
from the adjacent country is very great, and
there are also a good many from a distance .
The streets are hung with flags, and everything
wears a holiday aspect, business being almost
wholly suspended.
An immense procession formed, including
the military, firemen, city authorities of Pitts
burgh, Alieghany, and the various adjacent
boroughs, the musical, literary, and other .so-
eieties the various trades, charitable and 'be
nevolent associations, &c.
After marching through a number of
streets, it came to a final halt at the Duquesne
Depot of the Penna. Railroad Company, erect
ed on the site of old Fort Duquesne, wnich
was evacuated by the French on that day one
hundred years ago. In this large building,
which was immensely crowded, the order of
exercises consists of prayer, the singing by the
German societies of an ode written by F. B.
Plympton, and set to music by 11. Kleber, and
an oration by Run. Andrew W. Loomis.
The procession was about three miles long,
and it is estimated that there were fifteen
thousand persons in the line. All the trades
and processions were represented with appro
priate banners and emblems.
Various feathers, Indian and pioneer relics,
were borne in the procession. There were
large bodies of glass and iron workers. Fif
teen literary societies appeared in the line;
also, about one thousand members of the
American Protestant Association, and about
the same number of members of the Roman
Catholic societies.
Six hundred coal miners, mounted on mules
and with wagons, were a novel and peculiar
looking feature in the procession.
The military in the line numbered about
five hundred, and made a fine appearance.
During the progress of the procession, the
bells were rung throughout the city, and much
enthusiasm was displayed everywhere. There
were various presentations of wreaths and
flags at different points.
The weather is quite cold, and a little snow
has fallen, but not enough to interfere with
the proceedings.
THE VICTIMS OF THE GOULDY TRAGEDY.-
The New York Herald says :—" We are
pleased to .record the rapid recovery of the'
surviving members of the late Gouldy tragedy.
Mrs. Gouldy, the step mother of the unfortu
nate young man, is convalescent. The
dangerous wounds upon the head and the
bruises upon her arm have been skilfully
healed. Her health has greatly improved, so
that she is able to walk ab tut her chamber.
Mr. Gouldy is also rapidly recovering ; one of
the wounds upon his head has been entirely
healed; the other, and most dangerous, is in a
fair way for healing. The brain protrudes
very slightly, but is daily going down. Dr.
Van Buren, one of the attending physicians,
expresses his conviction that he will recover,
although many weeks must pass before he can
possibly regain his former strength. Mr.
Gouldy's side is still paralyzed, but as soon as
his wounds are well the galvanic battery is to
be applied. Mr. Gouldy retains his faculties
in a wonderful degree. He is able to freely
converse on all topics. Ile has not yet been
made acquainted with the suicide of his son,
which melancholy information will not be
broken to him until there is every reason to
believe that he will fully recover. The girl
Murphy still remains in the New York
Hospital, and her wounds indicate speedy
recovery. Her physicians are very confident
of saving her life. Young' Nathaniel Gouldy
is also convalescent, so much so as to be able
to sit up in his bed. His brother Charles is
getting along slowly, -,but by constant care
and attention the physicians hope to restore
him to health."
A GIRL. FRIGHTENED TO DEATH-A SINGU
LAR CASE.-TWO young men have been
indicted for manslaughter at Lancaster, Eng.,
under peculiar circumstances. It sppears
that on a certain evening six small girls left
a factory to go home. While proceeding along
a turnpike, near dark, they discovered a coffin
lying across the foot-path, and when they
came within a few feet of it, it moved, and a
hollow sound came from it. The girls all
screamed and fled. Shortly after they saw
the two young men wilh the coffin on their
shoulders, and from their subsequent admis
sions it appeared that in order to frighten the
girls they had placed it in the road, tied a
string to one of the handles, and concealing
themselves in the bushes, uttered mournful
sounds and pulled the string as they ap
proached. One of the girls became so
frightened that on the following morning she
was taken ill while at work, and fell dead in a
few minutes. A physician gave it as hie
opinion that death ensued from the rupture
of tFie gall-bladder, superinduced by the fright.
The two young men were immediately arres
ted; indicted fur manslaughter, and committed
for trial.
To BE fluNo.—Henry Gambrill, convicted
in Baltimore, Md., of the murder of officer
Benjamin Benton, was sentenced, last Tuesday,
to be hung, at such time as the Governor shall
appoint. William Sanders, convicted of the
murder of Peter Shork, in Goshen, New York,
has been sentenced to be hung, at that place,
on Friday, the 3d of December.
THE MORMONS.
From the Washington correspondence of
the New York Daily News, of the 21st
inst., we clip the following notice of matters
and things in the Utah Territory :
In a private conversation yesterday with a
gentleman who had just arrived here from
Utah, he gave me to understand that the
" Saints" have foregone but little of their
ancient bitterness toward the Federal authori
ties, although they did accept the proffered
clemency of Mr. Buchanan, and deliver up the
Government into the hands of the appointees
of the Administration. He says they have
planted themselves on the broadest kind of
a'• squatter sovereignty" platform, and main
tain that it was not democratic for the Presi
dent to interfere in the management of their
domestic affairs. They not only throw every
obstacle they can in the way of the Federal
authorities in the Territory, but they are
unsparing in their efforts to injure the Gentiles
generally, who 'have gone thither. The
merchants are especially objects of bitter
animosity, inasmuch as they have carried there
large stocks of goods, and are disposing of
them at prices greatly below those previously
obtained by the Mormon shopkeepers. Most
of the latter, he states, are either the leaders
of the Saints themselves, or agents employed
by them. This gentleman did not, however,
hesitate to declare that the policy pursued by
I the Administration is apparently the very
best, under the circumstances, that could have
been adopted. Had the war against the
Mormons been prosecuted, they would have
been dispersed, their homes destroyed, and
hundreds of them must have perished from
fatigue and hunger in endeavoring to reach
the borders of civilization. Those who did
get back, would have undergone such severe
suffering as to be reduced to the most pitiable
condition. These facts would have excited
the sympathies of our people in their behalf.
and ~from being sympathizers with them,
multitudes would, no doubt, have become
converts to their faith. Thus the very means
adopted for the eradication of this singular
and debasing delusion, would probably have
accelerated its dissemination, and increased
its permanency. At present, the deluded and
ignorant among the Mormons are forced to
perceive the gross tyranny of their leaders,
and their w.irse than gros, , immorality ; cud,
also, to perceive that the Gentiles who have
come among them, are more obliging toward
them, and careful of their individual interests
than are their own leaders. The fact that
they were compelled to pay their own merchants
from Si to $1,25 for a yard of calico, which
they can buy of a Gentile at 37iii50c.. is of
itself a significant tact to them. Then, again,
those who are dissatisfied among them can
now express their disapproval of the tyranny
of their rulers, and influence their friends not
to yield submission any longer. In short,
says my informant, every time the common
people of the Mormons come in contact with a
Gentile, the thraldom by which the Mormon
leaders have held them grows weaker. Finally,
he doubts not it will wear itself out and the
sect will die from its own impurities.
FATHER AND Two DAUGHTERS ARRESTED FOR
ROBBING THE MAlL—During the past two or
three months several letters and packages
containing money have been missed from the
mail on the route between Washington, the
county seat of Fayette county, and Columbus,
Ohio. Complaint was made to the Post Office
Department, and Wm. S. V. Prentiss, special
Mail Agent, was commissioned to investigate
the matter. Going to Washington, he des
patched a decoy package, containing between
forty and fifty dollars in hills, and half a
dollar in silver, and then followed it up along
the route. After the mail passed the Post
Office at Duff's :Forks, Fayette county, the
package was found to he missing.
Mr. Prentice immediately returned to Duff's
Forks, and calling upon the Postmaster, W.
A. Phelps, demanded the package. He indig
nantly denied all knowledge of it, but the
agent insisted that the money had been taken
at that office. Finally, a daughter of the Post
Master, aged abut fifteen years, acknowledged
that the package had been taken by her and
her sister Sarah, and restored a portion of the
money not already spent. The latter was
then called in and accused of the robbery, but
she repelled the insinuation with an air of
confidence quite beyond her years. The
younger sister, Jennie, finally said, "You
know Sarah, you aro just as guilty as I am."
This induced a full confession of all the
robberies committed by these young girls, but
the father denied any connection with them.
The total amount taken is supposed to be
about $3OO, and the money has been spent in
buying furniture for the house, and articles of
dress.
A writ was issued by a U. S. Commis
sioner of this city, and placed in the hands of
Deputy Marshal Bel,, who arrested the father
and daughters upon the charge of robbing the
mail. They arrived in this city last evening,
and were handed over to Marshal Sifford, who
kept them under charge of an officer at the
Dennison House last night. They will be
examined before a Commissioner this morning.
Mr. Phelps, the father, is a man . nearly
sixty years of age, and owns a farm of 140
acres where he resides. He has always stood
very well in the community previous to this
charge. We perceive by the blue book, that
his office last year, yielded him a revenue of
! The daughters are quite pretty and
intelligent, and in their mourning habiliments,
(their mother having died about a year ago)
they appear very interesting.—Cin. Enq.
COUNTERFEIT ON THE BANK OF CHAMBERS
BURG.—ParticuIar care should be taken to
avoid counterfeit $lO notes on the Bank of
Chambersburg. The plate of the counterfeit
cannot be distinguished from the genuine,
especially by persons who are not very expert
in such matters. The paper of the counterfeit
is white and impression pale. The bills of
the genuine are not of the same size, but
as it may be inconvenient to institute such a
comparison, a better way to detect the spurious
is to observe the spelling of (he President's
name—on the genuine the President's name
is spelled Jos. Culbertson, in the spurious it is
spelled Culburtson. Across the X and 10 on
the corners there is one dark line in the coun
terfeit, while on the genuine there are two
lines at equal distances from the centre:—
This is a good way of detecting them, but we
advise that an eye he kept to the spelling of
the President's name.
A GREAT STORM.—The Paulding (Miss.)
Clarion says that a very violent and destruc
tive hurricane passed over a portion of that
county, on the 10th inst. It struck, in its
course, the residence of Josiah Moody, where
its effects exceeded in horror anything that the
imagination can conceive or the pen portray.
The place was swept as with a besom of
destruction, every house on the premises taken
up and scattered in pieces to the four winds,
and, what is far more distressing to relate,
Mr. Moody himself, and eight other members
of his family, were killed and several' more
severely wounded. Out of the fourteen per
sons on the place, but one—Mr. Jackson, the
son-in law of Moody—escaped entirely unin
jured. Mr. Moody was a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and a school
teacher. The dwelling destroyed was newly
built, of heavy green logs.
A HEINOUS ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—Mr. H.
F. West, the superintendent of Washington
Company's cotton mill, a resident of Gloucester
city, and a most estimable citizen, has been
subjected to a series of most cowardly attempts
on his life within the last few weeks. The
latest took place on Wednesday evening, and
came within a hair's breadth of effecting its
infamous purpose. The assassin had fastened
a loaded pistol in a frame work, and hung it
upon a gate-post in front of Mr. West's resi
dence, and so arranged it that the opening of
the gate would fire off the pistol, with an aim
at the person who might spring the trap. It
happened, however, that two female members
of Mr. West's family passed in, instead of Mr.
West, A daughter stooped to push the gate
open, and as it opened the pistol went off, the
ball passing just across the back of her head,
and lodging in the opposite gate post. The
ball also passed immediately in front of the
other lady, and the powder flashing in her face
scorched it. Efforts are making to identify
the villain who perpetrated this crime, and it
is to be hoped they will be successful.—For
ney's Press.
A NEGRO RUNNING FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN
MAINE.—An election for Representative, to
fill the place of Wm. Chase, resigned, took
place in Portland, Me., on the 18th instant.
Neal Dow, the groat temperance and negro
equality champion, and a colored man, named
Peter Francis, were the principal competitors.
There being but an indifferent selection of
candidates, comparatively few votes were cast,
but the people generally preferred the white
man to the Republican of a darker shade, and
so " temperance and freedom" triumphed by
a majorityof 772 votes.
ST. LOUIS CORRESPONDENCE.
Stimo—nold Mather—Mare Steamboat Disasters—Loss of
Life—Three rhibiren Born! to Dealh—Breach of Promise
—Later from the Mountain.—Sales of Improved Lands—
" Hilted and Personal—Official Mte of Illinois—Douglas
(NATI - Worts—The "Banner" District of the Union—The
C !tartest= Convention, tOo . .
ST. Lou Ts. Nov. 22,1858
Quito a change has taken place in the weather—lt turned
very cold in the early pert of the week, and froze hard,
and on Friday night a snow storm set In. and the flakes
fell thick and fast, and the ground is now covered with a
depth of four inch.. The recent freezing snap has caused
all the upper rivers to recede. Freights are scarce. Busi
ness extremely dull. Prospects retber gloomy for the
winter. There will he come tight "pinching" before the
prin.; trade commences. Health of the city good. Balea
on 'Change are slow, and no material change In prices of
Produce is noted. Pork mils at $l7 per bbl. Our packers
have commenced operations, and buy all the hogs they can
got at $6 and $6 2.5 par 100 lb.. Hemp is worth from $B5
to $llO per ton.
Very little local news to communicate. The 12th arrival
of the overland California mill reached hero on Saturday
I.st with three days later Intelligence.
Senator Douglas is expected in our city on Wednesday
next, en roofs for New Orleans. and from thence to Wash
ington city.
We have again to report more steamboat disasters and
loss of life. The steamer Fire Canoe struck a snag in the
Missouri river in the early part of last week, and instantly
sunk. So lives were lost. Her cargo consisted mainly of
coal. The boat is a-total loss; she was valued at $6,000,
and Insured for $5.000, but only against tire, so that she is
in ,eality a total lure.
The simmer Fulton City sunk iu the Ohio river. The
passengers were all asleep, and awakened by the terrific
c•asking of the host as she was wrenched and twisted in
settling down The cabin passengers were all saved, but
live deck passengers, a man and his wife and three chit
dreg were swept away and lost, as w.s also ,tilt - m Thomp
son, from Allegheny county, P. Shy had aboard 300 tons
of freight, destined for this city-100 tons of which were
iron and nails the remainder glass, dry goods, fib Ate.—
The boil vva- valued at $20,000. and insured for ,SlO,OOO,
and owned in Pittsburgh, Pa.
An appahing accident occurred on Tuesday last, at the
tn., of Ati'mro. Ills. Aiv innin left her house for a pail
of water, ine'sni., h r three children In. and on her return
she din.eve.tl the linusa In flames. and , a.V.re she could
reach the burnin, house, her three child ion hid perished
In the d anis. Their names were
Mr. Michael Abrahams, of this city, and Mr. A.
m.nr,Chicago, it has been ascertained, am. .st by the
burnt,: of the lll.fated Austria.
.101 tn Morriasey, the celebrated -bruisei" is to visit Chit:
go and ;31 Louis at an early day. World., if the City
C. 0. ril will appropriate the usual :moon' i 1.1 4 . r-tying the.
a pu'dit• p 11'
Min.. 'l,llll )1. 1;:ty. Ki.,
Bonj. 11 Covinton, of theSEM, tor • IL ~r prom
ho.. with d® ages of s2L.unO tttt
1 !low cruo. wls to di,ltp
point Su.. n. Should u'et tho $20,000 IMVOLIO
ditliculty wha'.n..or in tindin4 a suitor'
It I, SA id that Cot. Kinney is now on n visit. to Austin,
Tosaa and that h. , has salt his Nicaragua bawls r r several
hutuir,al thhosgtal
The MehilLliq ithtl Little IL eh Railrad hiw berm 0 110 ti
for freight and passenger. This road Is of vast impor
tantie to that section of the c tuntry, and will reap a good
hentdit tail the immense trade that tuned come out of It.
We have late 05150 from the Mountains. Col. F. W.
Leander. Superintend...la ttf the South Padltie Wagon
Road, hart arrived, and reports the road Ilnilted to City
Nehrtska, and will rettommend Government to send
u Irvin ever ithi the spring t. Sil.)10: emigrants the mute
The expedition I , ft I iidepinilitnett April boa, 11111.1 lilt,' been
on the survey ever ninre, renehinir Nitliruslut city mull their
return. on the Sill i•int., nmt would have been in inioner if
Hwy hod not boon tiolaytol by tttornm haring to go
into [bit timber on the NMI.. to N. IN, tho stook. The
Cboyennothaeo bona nil the groom :limit; the Matto, how,
Inc; touch solierinc among the cattle. The Colonel saya
that the tiovernment appropriated dad *woo hum
eighteea 1120110 IN 4t huild the Mill, hut that ho had cum
plvted it in eight inorilha and Ipoly etpend,•d 10,000.
The price Of Weitern labia has hot hoproead In value,
no will b 0 vaun by the fellowiac recently made:
lll=tl
Fulton, containing 275 to Nr Jo:4.111111 , 1)1111110YMa,
of Bedford county, for 541 , 0 , —V ti I n r acre.
Ono day lest we.i . ll.''. Dr. John II Itroon Spring,
field. lllinola. lutuvit of Mr. 11. 11. Glue,- v Imo in tho
vicinity of Waverly. o.lltaillin4 botwevn four cud lire hun
dred acres, at $.25 per acre.
The well improved farm belonging to the estate of Wm.
Vawter, deceased, and lying near Middle Grove, in Monroe
county, was sold at public sale on Tuesday last, and pur -
reused by Mr. Powol S. I )wnby, at $l9 60 per acre
Mr. John C. Kipper has sold his fine farm to a Kentucky
gentleman for $13,000. The farm lies derail miles north
west 01 Paris, Mo., and contains soma 930 acres—Sill acres
110.1, fence, duo acres iu gra-, sod 000 e Sin) noes Iu nulti
sauna
Those ennui lands a year ng., w"uld !cite readily brought
30 per cent lucre, but since the pauic of 1057, all Western
lauds have depreeiated in value; but a reaction will take
place at no very distant day. We mention these sales for
the benefit of your Carolers who read tho /ntolligencer, and
in future will make a par igraph fur their benefit whenever
we hear of anything worthy of notice. There will be con
siderable land speculations early in iho Spring, and those
who buy first will buy the cheapest—mark what we say.
We have returns from nearly every county of Michigan,
and they foot up an opposition majority of 9,s6l—the ro
maluing counties will not materially change these figures:
Cooper's (Derr.) majority iu the first Congressional Dis
trict of Michigan in seventy-Jive! Him opponent, Howard,
was one of the "Smelling Committee," which was sent to
Kansas by the Black Republican House of Representatives
in 1856, to make political capital for Fremont. He has got
his reward.
Larabee, Dem.,. has a majority in the Third district of
Wisconsin of 1000! In the Second, Washburne, Rep., has
about 1500. The Black Republican majority in the Stale IS
less than 3000. Fremont carried the State by '20.000 In
1850. The Democracy of WillColltlila have done well in
the recent election.
The Arkansas Legislature met at Little Rock on the Ist
inst., and Mr. Wm. K. Sebastian was unanimously nomi
nated in caucus, U. S. Senator, and is without doubt elect
ed ere this for the term of six years.
Senator Broderick, of California, arrived in this city a
few days since. Ile left San Francisco on the Ist of Octo
ber and came overland by Salt Lake. lie stopped over at
Salt Lake. In making the trip ho froze one of his foot.—
He is now in Washington City.
Col. Harris, the Representative elect from the Sangamon
District, of Illinois, is now lying dangerously ill at his
residence in Petersburg. It in said that he will hardly be
able to attend Congress at the opening of the session.
Official returns from the State of Illinois show the plu
rality of Miller, Black Republican, for State Treasurer, to,
be 3,573. The Democratic vote against Douglas was only
5,021. Had the Democratic party been united in that
State, the Democracy would have carried Illinois by 1,148.
This, however, will serve as a good lesson to the party in
future.
The friends of Judge Douglas had a grand celebration at
Chicago on the night of the 18th. The torch light proces
sion was a mile and a half In length, and a number of
buildings along the line, including the Tremont House,
were brilliantly illuminated. Senator Douglas made a
speech, congratulating the Democracy on their victory.—
The number of persons in attendance was estimated at
10.000.
A grand demonstration also came off on Saturday night
last at Leavenworth city, K. T., in honor of the victory of
Judge Douglas In Illiooie. Resolutions were offered urging
harmony and unity of the Democratic party, and pledging
the influence of the Democracy of Kansas to the nominee
ut the Charleston Convention. The Democracy of Kansas,
as we stated in a previous letter, are ripe for the conflict of
1860,aud should she be entitled to a vote, that vote will be
given for the nominee 01 the Charleston Convention. The
people of the territory are heartily sick of the use the
Black Republicans have made of them, and only await the
time to rebuke the political tricksters, and chow their con.
tempt and abhorrence for their unsolicited aid in bringing
Kansas into the Union as a State. Ilad it not been for
these Black Republican orators and editors, Kansas would
this day be one of the Slat', of this great confederacy, and
this winter the people would have made such laws for
themselves as they deemed proper and just; but through
their interference that unfortunate territory has been kept
nut, and, mark the prediction, that when she is admitted,
she will only be so through Dunocrutic voles in Congress.
The Democratic party have always voted for the Admission
of n•• . w States, whilst it is an undeniable fact that the Op
position have always opposed them.
We stated in a previous letter that lion. E. R. Wash
burne, Rep., of Illinois, had majority. and which was
probably the largest vote given to any niemb, of Congress
at any time in any State, but In this it seems we were rills -
taken. " Egypt" had not report... 4 herself. The past week
has brought the returns from -Egypt" or Southern Illi
nois, and the Ninth District of that State. foots up a ma
jority for Mr. Logan, Dem., of 12,652! You have heard of
"banner" townships, towns, round., and dis
tricts, but "Egypt" beats them all—in every respect—ln
no one particular has she failed, and to show your readers
how they vote In that sertion, we cannot do better than
annex the official returns of the Ninth Distrirt, which are
as follows: -
Alexander
Edwards,
Franklin,.
Gallatin,...
Hamilton,
Hardin,
Jackson,...
Johnson,
Man., ...
Perry,
Wabash, .....
Wayne,
White,
Williamson,
Democratic majority
This to, and no mistake, the " Banner" district of the
United States, and Saline county stands without a parallel.
Have they any Black Republicans among them ?
There seems to be no end to rumors In regard to Senator
Douglas—they are flying high and low—thick and fast, and
and if rumors amount to any thing, Judge Douglas
must feel the force of them. The Black Republicans are
striving to create a breach in the Democratic patty, and to
accomplish that desirable end, aro un-authoritatively using
the name and the friends of Mr. Douglas. But It seems
that the halt won't go down. They say Douglas has bolted
the Democratic party—that he will run "Independent" of
the party in 1060—that he has a party of his own, to., &.c.
None of these different position' in which they place the
R.publican. Democrat.
300
230
3 974
. 225 841
. 11 1,133
.
86 326
. 46 1,096
1,135
• 6 630
. 453 727
. 25 857
. 56 536
none ! 1,095
, 61 584
. 409 600
. 181 1,237
. 346 1,220
. 49 1,497
2,374 ' 15,026
2,374