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F. R., LOOMIS. CORRRSTONDING EDITOR
XORTICOSE. SUSQ.-CO., PA.
Thursday, August 5,
STATE TICKET. -
• FOR JFDOE OF THE svrapy, corm,
JOHN' I{. READ,
~, of Philadelphia.
rox CANAI: covanssioiste,
WILLIAM E. FRAZER,
. of . .Fayette County.
:Notlirev—](r. E. W;Fai.sitn' Is our tfiveliAg
.agent, authorised to receive milwripqonA, advertiAe
mente:lcc. iond to.coket raoutys fur dig 7qtepende.
grit Republican. •
Rientoyal.--411c•oftice nr the Itlependentße•
pub/it:ma hits been reniored to Hawley' & Lathrop's
new builOing, on Turnpike St., near Searle's lintel.
Delente Election and Co. Convention.
• '" The Repnblican C4:flinty Committee of Sustmehan:
na County,.met at Montrose, persuant to 3i'otice, on
. Saturday,July 3lst, atid . fized the time and place for
hoiding the Rerrriticis Cot - NTT' Cosvzsrros; at the
Old Court Bruise in Montrose, on Monday, August
23d, at two rn.; and theY.recominend the
Republican voters of the several election distrie4 to
ineet at the place for hohling-their ..respective
..ship elections, on Saturday, August . 21st, 'and elect
twd relegates in each Township and Borough, to
repr4tnit,them in. said County Convention. •
Tlie following is a list of the-Township Committees
appointed - by-Atte County Committee for the present
Year, whose duiy . it is to attend to holding the dele
gate elections in their respective districts:
Arobscth:.—E, B. Beardsley, Lewis Ra4on,
Acoutts:.:-Ljohn Tewksbury, C.E. Davis, Tredir.ty
Kellogg.
.4,rtittsr.—E. D. -Tyler, - .Samuel . Williams, S. C.
Bush: ell. • . •
Iletnocw.tTca.—.E. W. Rowley, A. B. Kent, Mar-
tin Newman.
, IlttoosaNs.—Edwin McKenzie, S. W.
• mon Sterling. • •
Ct.trronn.--rr. D. Wilson, R. 0. Willis, T. D. Reese.
CancunP.—S.:F. Carmalt, John Stanley, Robert
Adiii.cm, • -- • •
Dtlmer--Lyrnan Blakeslee,: Philandr. Stephens,
F. P. Hollister. i
B. Sloeum, George Roger's., Thomas
Arnold. • t
Foam Lsar.--Oringe Mott, jr., M. S'.'" Totrile,
Milan Birehand.
FRANI LEC—EIi R. Smith, Pzileehe, H. N. Park.
Fatmiscit.t.s..;-=D, W. Glidden, J. Tio.foed, Jameit
Ginsost.—S. S. Ingalls, J. L. Gillet, Horace N., Tif
fanc:„:
°Sittnar lIENn.--Nieholas Dußois, B. It 4 : 4 l'uthill, R.
P. Terhrets, „.
nror.n. - --Dexter *ley, L R. Peek; E. V. Green.
ILtawrsr.---S..IL Barnes; S. A. Lyon., R. A.Wehh,
lirractO. H. Ellis, Letris Bunnell, G..W.
Arrrold.
. JacKsoN.—A D. Corse, Francis M. Hall,
arsarr.—Wesley Faurot, Win. Bisset, Joel Cogs
well. • :
nt".lriT.-1: Southard, Joseph Wegner, R. S
. .
1%h.. -( • .
Ltscom..,- A: t. Snover; Alpheus Baker; Warren
li tiVlll*37 ,- ;--.G. iN:14:01,, , : rusianuee Druithun, 7,.' zit
. ..
• Minnttrows.--John Wilson, James R. Stone, Cor-.
`anat . )" Galatia.
Mos:misc.—William' A. Crossrnon, C. W. Mitt,
]..P. W. Riley. • , • •
NEW Mitioan.—SaMuel- tiung, S. 71. Morse,
_ Martin Van riousan.
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Oaxt..o.sn.,—G.T.Prazier, Sam'l Brush, T. R.Grimes.
Sherwood, Z. L. Cooley, Nichols 's,
—, Shoemaker. = ,
,Srsorziesnica VEPOT.C. S.. Bennett, Wm. Skin.
ner, W. C. •
.Sttven LaN.t.- 7 R. M. turner, Preserrodirs,
Benjamin M. Paige. -
Sratsiorntx.—G. C. Lsmart, Amos Williarni,
H.. Phillipa• -
T11011150N.--Rerb't Galati:l. St#ddard, A. Coon.
„ •. 'D. R. LA.THROP, CA'n. Co. Com.
A. C.,IIAIMICILIIc
lar Several communications that we have on'hand
will appear next week.
&ifWe earthe attention of our reitiers to ,the
acirertisetnentof Swayne in this paper. •
. TA e,Nerthern Pennsylvanian has been sold
by Fau)., to Mr. W.. J, Ilanter„.l prac
tical printer,* whom it will be conducted hereafter.
g Thf. election in Kansas was held on Monday
last 'W shal tirobtbly be enabled to announce the
Tesuttnertreek.._ Thttre can be t , no doubt that, if a
fair election wasilad thelnglish.Lecmptoff swindle
was defeakd.
_tr. Despatches from Gen. Johnston to the War
Department state that the engineers are engaged 'in
the 50eetinn" of a site for permanent fortifications,
tint th of Salt Luke City.
14" The Opposition Convention of Indiana Coun
ty, itiihit State, met - July 26th, and nominated Ron.
-John Covode for Congress, and A. r.„Taylor for As
-.ltembly.- The Rraister says the union is complete,
and the tiekeywill-be elected. .
arras.—Frogs letter received in this
town, by the last English Steamer, ite learn that the
health of this distinguished Prelsie is still in a very
precarious c,ndition. as was sojoundrig Great
Malvern, in the south-westernpartof, Great Britain,
Mid. in a Mountainous region, where the atrnmphere
is highly salubrious, and the lociilitl* a favorite resort
for invalids resident in-that country. ---.
•
Me Atlantic ilanAly fur August 'is full of
original - matter. The tible of contents is as fol-•
/ow: •
Dapituaidcs;.. The Romance of a - Gloie; To
The Singing . Birds and their Songs , Onr talks with
• Uncle John; An Evening Melody;. aiesuncook
chrtAre. ; , .The-KiniqhEsiate, and how it was
rettled ; "Bringing our &wres with VA ;" Twining
- .Life in New England '-•; Les Salons• de. Paris ; The.
- DisCovererof thi - No . rtit Cape; The Autocrat of the
Breakfast-Table.i . The Tniatee's Lament; The Pout:
at a s i)ebraiorte the Fourth. • • •
Phillips, Sid:Tann dt-C1i.„ . 13 Winter Street, lios
ton ; >d3 per annuny'postage paid,--$lO, will' secure
-. trot the nemcrous Hank Note ftepoters now
published, Imlay published weekly, et Philadelphia,
fur the low mice ottwo dollais a year,.appcars to us
to be of tte best .The getting up of the work is
eery good ;it appears - 6 be full said aeciirate ;
ind Welshes . to - be entirely unbiased and - strictly im
partial in its statements With regard to the condition
ief different institutions. . : • '
VeM4 heti received from the *gent, 'who pn> ,
'poses to visit Montrose monthly, the first four Aunt.
heis ot"-The Mstory of the United States flow
Est•liest Period to the Present Tame; By J. A.:Spin
per, D." The work, which "is printed on fine pa.
Periand bantigotoekr illustrated, is sold to subscribers
only, at twenty.fire cents a number. It ie published
by 4ohnson. Pry, & Co., 27 - sedum? • street, New
York,who also publish " The Life and Times of Wash
ington," ittiodiir finely ilhtstrated work.
ow- In 1848, when Gen. Cass wrote his celebrated
Nicholson letter,"sthe doctrine of popular or squatter
sovereignty was first broached. The General claimed
that tho first Settlers who go to reside in • Territory
have the right to enact all laws for their own tannic
' ipal regulation. That letter was written as. a- back
fire to due IViftoof ,Proviso, which had been intro.
duced into Congress the year precious, and was thefi
agitating the whole conOtry. Squatter sovereignty.
advocated by Gen. Casa in. his Nicholson letter,
Sias at the time repudiated both at the North and at
the South, and was in conflict with the whole action
and course of the general government since the Rev.
olution.. Mr. Buchanan, in his letter to Yancy, in
1847, hold thatthe people of a Territory as a Terri
tory do; ot possess the tight or the power to enact
their own municipal laws and regulations, but that
the power is ittrorigress ; and before the campaign
of 1843 'was half through, such was the ridicule with
which the old General's, squatter sovereignty was
greeted, that he found himself wholly unable to de
fend his position, on account of the great " nobsapd
confusion." -t
CAM was defeated, and popular sovereignty
flied with Lim, blik(o be revived iu another form and
under different. c reumstances.
In J 854, when Douglas introduced the hill fol. the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise; he claimed 'lts
passage on the ground of popular sovereignty, that
the people of a Territory should not he proltibite•,
as they were by the Missouri restriction, from mak
ing their:6;m laws and regulating their affairi in their
atin'sray. At , the time, every - man of sane nand
knew that the whole thing-was a fraud and a cheat,
that instead of permitting the people to regUlate their
own affairs, Rivas withdrawit, the shield Congress
tad proirn agmnd them while a Territory, and per
tuitting the Bortler.Ruflians or the Slave Stitc-i to
rush in and get control of the local .affairs of the
-Territory, and then, by aid of a venal t 'and corrupt
Court,to fasten Slavery upon the necks of an out
raged and indignant people. But to test the honesty
and-sincerity of those who were crying 'popular sov
ereignty hi so loud s key, a-proviso 'WU introduced
into the bill, that the people of Kansas Ishould he
permitted (o choose their own Governer, Judges.and
other officers, but that prop'sition was voted down'
by a party rote—those claiming to be its favor of
popular sovereignty voting against letting the people
choose theit'own‘rulers, or manage each rata - int in
their Owe way. But still all the changes continued
to be rung on the party7ery . of " pnpular sovereign-.
ty ;" and so loud and continual *AA the cry kept up,
that many who were satisfied in,the start that it was
nothing but a deceptive lie, really began to believe
in it, and to join in the cry of those who first set it
•
a-going.
Pierce, who gave Countenance to the .suindle for
the purpose of propitiating the Slave Power, and
bidding as high as flosSible for the nnmination at
Cincinnati. in 1856, appointed' men officers of the
Territory who he supposed understood _popular soy.
lreignfy as he did. In the main he sneJeeded ad•
!nimbly. His Judges,-Indian Agents, Marshals, and
so forth, understood exactly what he meant by pop
ular sovereignty ; and the Austrian Biitcher it Hon
gary :ever fulfilled more to the letter -the views of
his imperial mater than hare Hp. :ledges Leeoropte
and Cato those of the slave-driving Democrticy. But
in Governor I:Ceder poOr Pierce made a blunder—
which in some eases is worse than a crime. Althe
a National Democrat of the straiteit sect, he could
not go so far as to sink his manhood and give the lie
to every c:eclarationarade by his party in the pass
age of-lhe Kansas-Nebraska Act. He had hardly
reached tne Territory before the horde of cutthroats
sent there by tho influence of the partycalling.itsOlf
Democratic, discovered that he would hot anwer
their pm:pose : and in attempting honestly to dis
charge his duties as Governor, be came near being
assassinated, and was speedily mitred by the Tr
ident, as not understanding popular sovereignty se
carding to the Democratic theory and interpretation.
The• President then made an attempt to avoid the
difficulty he bad fallen into Trith Roeder...by the, Sc.
long been drowned, out by strong drink ; but even
Shannon, when' drunk enough to be free . from the
fear ondintinence of the "White House,' , would oc
casionally let his latent feelings of humanitY — and
tice so far control his actions as to restrain the Bor
der Ruffians in come of their most brutal outrages
upon, the Fret , State FettreTS. 11 , 11 t. his ceasionai acts
of justice to the Free-State men, soon brought him
into disfavor with the Democratic party ; it hecame
evident at Washington that be, too, did not fully
comprehend popular forfreisinty; that Beauford,
Titus,Stringfelleir, Jones, 3 Co.; with their nigger
driving allies,,were not permitted, unobstructed, to
plant hetncerary in every part of the Territory of
Kansan. About the time that Shannon fell into dis-
grace, there-was introduced into Congress what was
called the" Toombs bill:" which repealed all thelaws
enacted by the Bogus Kansas I.ttslature„ and sub
mitted the whole matter hick to the people. That
bill, In appearance, seemed to-offer to the people of
the Territory a fair opportunity to throw off the Bor
der Ruffian code, and to 'enact such laws as they
Should choose for their own government.
But the Toombs bill it once - raised a difficulty in
thr party: if Congress bad the power to. repeal the
Bogus laws, then the right to legisiate for the Terri
tory was In amgres . S, and not in the :territorial Leg
islature, and the Bogus code was Nobly Bogus, first,
by being enacted by non-resident Missourians, and
second, `by, legislating upon a subject over which Con
gress had the exclusive control: The Toombs bill,
as all well know, failed, because many Southern men
BSI that it would place the of popular Foy.
ereignty in u position which would be extremely em-
barrassing in the future., and beciarse Republicans
saw in it a design of the 'Administration to e2nnplete.
Iy crush out the Free-State party iu the Territory.
-Sow, there is no doubt that the very foundation of
our Republican government ties in the right of the
people to regulate their institutions in their own way,
Mid to enact such laws as their location and circum
stances shall demand. The doctrine of popular SOT..
na held by the Republicans, we believe, to
be this: that while a l territory rt:Mains as such. Co
ngress his the sole and exclusive right -of legislation
`over it, th4President having the appointment 'of all
officers in the Territory, and all legislation by the
territorial government - being in subordination to Con
! greys; tlkit when the inhabitants of a Territorylortn
a StrO' Constitution, they have the exclusive control
of their o)n affairs, and can form such Constitu
tion ast.they choose, not in conflict with the Constitu
tion or - the United States; that when the Coostitn
non is formed, it should be suinnitted to a free apd
full rote of tl* Oole people of the Territory, 'and
when adopted by then; to be the flutisteentai law
for their govertuneet t that it matters little how the
Convention to form the Constitution is cbosen,Wheth
er under the form of law, as in Minnesota, or by the
spontaneous action of the people, as in California—
this consernt of a majority of thrpeople to accept it
as Asir Cowslitution being in all cases necessary to
give it any binding - force or power.
_win the Demortatte so good as4o let- us know
just what they understand by populat sovereignty as
tiel~'to by the lational. Democracy? what rights
the citizens of a Territory have while such, and how
those rights are changed 1:111 its becoming a 84 /
Words, without clear and well-defined ideas attached
to tlfehr, arc of little importance. " Popular sorer
'
eighty" has been talkeritabtitit a great deal but poor
ly understood. At the present time there appear -to
be threeparties, all claiming to hold to the principle
of the reid simon - pure popular sovereignty—tbe Re
publican, the Douglas, 'and the Buchanan Democra
cy. - Every man should know, just. where the lines
are that divide the three parties on stmt important
question.
Through the testimony educed in
,1
GOugh's, late libel ease in London, it appears`
that he gets ten thousand dollarsa year - from
the Natipnal .S&Atish League Societi-s ; for
lecturing on tetnßeranet.
rff-' The Paris Moniteur ridieutta the idea
of a Fryneh invasion of Englqlt
For, the Independent Republican.
Alt -Appeal in Behalf of the Nornial School,
][assail. EDlTolv—wm , you allow me, through
your columns, to {Hake an appi - al to the citizens of
Montrose in .behalf of the Normal School which is to
commence here on the 30th of the present month ?
Only a limited nuttier of rooms where students can
hoard ttemselvesjarve been provided, and the sep
{ply is now nearly exhausted; So that tho present
prospect is that many who Wish to attend will be
z kept away from the school for - want of.places where
they can be aceonnuodated. It .seems to me that
this should not be the case. Our prominent citizens
have all expreOred ari anxious desire that a school,
healthy in its m o ral tone and influence and thoroirigh
-lly practical in hi character,-like that taught by Prof.
Stoddard - last I a i l, ahonld hold Another session here.
The interests of education in our village,aud through
out the county, ilernand - it, an 4, we arc satisfied that
wo shall all he 4ene fi tted it in more ways than
one. Should We not, then, subject ourselvas to
trouble and inconvenience, if need be, in order 'that
all who wish to come may have the privilege. And
! in justice to PrtSf. S. every effort shciuld be made .to
secure a large attendance. Before he decided to hold
a Normal term here this fall, several advantageous
offers were mule him front other (matters, by which
he could have donn much better than he will here,
'even should th 4 school Ile full. Ile has bolded to
the wishes andisolicitstions of his mans friends in
this section, tolhis own pecuniary los s s ; and a lack
of effort on thd part of any who have it in their pow
er to advance the - interests of the school, will betray
a kind ofingraiitude that will be quite . likely to de
prive us of lth4valuable sarvices to future.
A sufficient idinber,of good toortliosi places haye
been provided in private families ; but in these hard
times the maj rity z of students wish to economize,
and they think, they can best do . ;,:o by boarding them
selves. Isatu 1
Isatis . fizil. however, that taking into arc
mycnience of moving furniture here,
home sitar], the trouble of cooking
}tread and dinner," anti the loss of
i lt hereby oetasioniid, the wise. choice he
tboarding at $.2,00 per week, fills very
favor of the Litter. But we cannot
s as judges in this hl matter. Every
itock of provisions on hand, which he
his children, and, in these times, when'
all, it seems quite a different thing - fom
i for board. In other places where
e located, coniganient, Plaees are fur
all students -rail board themselves if
'f f rooms are not provided here, the ten
to drive scholals away to other schools,
ii gii i :
e, h
g tthe‘iiili, vote here
}tinsel toso:siii a our ol
icoiwin..t—
-c one,
et,
matter, hunt out cvers place 'Alert , one
tints can be accommothitedAttl retiort
iatelY. Let all open their houses who
do so ; and I- am sure that you will he
satisfaction of having — donn what you
port, for one term, that which on 3 ht lo
here as a ptimanent institution.
ich is respectfully snbinitted.
'lr Truly
yours, . yv. B. DEANS. .
coma the incti)
and moving it;
1 -hue's own
time which is
trNen ihis an
materially- in
place onrßelv
fanner has a
can furnis,6 t
sales are so,
1,21 . 01 f
Acadentiesa
tiisheti
they wiatt
dopey wilt tii
instead of In
Will not evtj
to see tb th
=1
to me imme
can I,i,rxiid .
remMl in th,!
could to :mill
be sin , tnine,
All of wh'
P. S.-St
tderits,muitt make tlirir arrangententA for
lard right array; not only to avoid be
frtUn the school, hut that our plans Nay
r d so as to prevent too much confusion
tpening week.
rootns and I 1
ine, shut on I'
i )
he complet 1
during the 1
rb'e•lce hvlreeneknt lerpublican
Harm Work for August—
l!aying4i now pretty much done. The crop has
been a fair lone, and generally gotten in in first rate
order: WO. are glad to SCf there Is a general disposi
tion to useimaehmery to lesson labor and forward
work. Th'ere is fair pro:peVthat thy' imiwer and
reaper w ilTj in a few years be generally in 'use. There
may be some question that reapers cheapen }inn est.
ins, but tqat nlOwerlischeapell haying there is little
room for oioubt. -There are but few meadows that
cannot with a little labor be Made po smooth that
mowing Machines and horse-rakes can be used to ad
j" soon ! ,,,1 the haNing and ..re
ended erery farmer should look about to see if, hi s
meadows jmd fields cannot be put in such state as to
produce t ext year even greater •erops than those
which are„now making the hearts of the farmers glad.
There i 9 a meadow that wants a Jew stones remor
ed. Tro t / it may not be very. rough, but one good
clip at a tone will cost you more time to sharpen
your scythe than to remove a boat load,
• Anothr meadow has two or three patches of wild
grass groWing in it. . Now, it is certain that there is
too much water ,there it•wants under draining:—
Then doO't fail to dig at leasi a few rod.s this very
month.
This month is also a good time to log up and burn
ofr the 00 logs tht hare disfigured tho Gelds and
robbed ybu of crops for so many years.
, When4ou see a farmer clearing up'thc old patch.
es you fiel quite sure he is making a little money,
ifow out all the weeds and briars around the
stumps fence corners. .„They are a shame to any
farmer, But don't stop to consult the map ;- consult
your paper and your interest, and go into them with
a will until they all lie low.. The cows will now be
gin to be pinched for:food:if they rely on the pas
tures solely. It is to be hoped yon hare provided
for this:intc, and that greet' corn Se. will supply any
deficien
.. Do !Mt, if you catuyold it, pasture your !flowing
fields; it injures them much, and probably in the
end You lose by it. •
It is . 41 good practice td spread barn yard manure
on the rasi"ftuidde soon +ifter mowing. By so do
ing you!frequently get a gOod crop of aftermath an)l
prepare the fields to yield large crops ner,t year.
Sow turnips the first of the month. If your ground °
is in good order hnd the season Etvorahie you may
look for very reunineratini crops,
If yon want clean gardens, notr u iS the time to re
move the weeds and so prevent their seeding. 1
NotOs the time to bud tipple!, penis, ke.
Arinteot.A.
"WharAbe Lincoln said."
In bis Chicago sPeeeh, Mt. Douglas . <7;Fra rg-
I ed an alliance between Republican; ard
,
Cliftriap LiertMerflti to defeat him for Senator
an d..4id th a t i n spe a kin g of this alliance. he
should do as the RUssians did at Sebastopol
when fighting the fire his shot, regard-
Jess, Whether the party•hit was kogli,littiati,
Turk," Or Frenehrnan. -In referring to this,
Mr:- Lincoln sti'd that it appeared .that
Douglas 't is not a - dead lion, or even- 'vine
one--- T hut that he• is the rugged R ssia
bear." however, he Continued, if Mr. I u -
las intended to insist upon the alliance—of
which he knew nothing—'lf he will have it
.that the Administration men and we are al
lied, end we - stand in the attitude of English,
Frelh, and Turks, and he occupies the posi.
Lion fof the Russian,' in that case, I 1 - ,te i g he
will indulge us while -t,ve suggest to him that
these!eillies took - Sebaitopol
In `replying to-Mr. Douglas' remarks upon
what he is pleased to !style negro equality,
Mr: Lincoln was peculiarly happy. He said:
'I protest now and forever against that Coun
terfeit-logic which presumes that because I
don't want a - negro woman for g slave, I do
necessarily i teen' her for a wife. My un
derstanding is, that I need not have her for
.
either, hu n t as God made us separate, we can
leave one another alone, and do one another ,
much good thereby, 'There are white 'men
enough to rhatr y all the white women, and
.enough of black men to marry all the black
Women and in God's name let them be sot
mariled. The Judge regales us-with the ter-1
tittle enormities that take place by the mix
lure:of races; that the inferior bears the su- I
peeler down.. Why, Judge, if we will not i i
let tfem get together in the Territories 114
won't mix there."—.Detroit Tribune.
' Nebraska is s our largest Territory,
It will make about eight States iw large as
i!iew Hatup.thire, mid 15 about one.sixth the
.§ize'cf Europe.
Casing X Clay on Fusion.
The Richmond (Ky ) Democrat publishes.
the following letter from Cosi:181E. Clay
WITE BALL, ;July 11, 1858:
ED. Turtmc Esq., Dear Sir your
paper of the Bth inst., I am represented . by
y our " several friends -'who were in atten
dance""at my speech on the 3rd inst., as say
ing that Ciittenden, Marsall and
Underwood had come to my party and that I
welcomed them. I . do not suppose that my
opinions are of much consequence, yet when
reported, I have a right to ask that they be
rightly.stated. I made no such statement as
alleged, nor could 1 with truth. The position
of the Republieun Party was, that Congress
had the power, as was repeatedly dune in all
I our history, from the beginning of the Go
vernment, to prohibit Slavery in all pitteeabf
her exclusive Jurisdiction, by htw, and, that we
ought to do it in obedience to Ate language
and spirit of the Federal _Constitution, be
pose Slavery was a despotism and an anom
aly in a Republic. The *Denseratic Party,',
on the other hand, - toOk the ground as enun- ,
elated in the Cincinnati Platform : " Non-in-;1
terference. With Slavery in State or Territory
or in the District of Columbia.". =
Now so Gtr from Messrs. Crittenden and I
others: representing. the American Party com
ing over to the Republican Party, by; the
Montgomery-Crittenden resolution," they
simply maintained the Cincinnati platform by
referring the whole question t f Slavery in
Kansas to a fair vote of the people of the
Territory, according to the Nebraska act,pas
sed by the Democratic Party, and which they'
were attempting, under Mr. Buchanan's lead .
to overthrow, by forcing a Pro-Slavery,
ille
gal, fraudulent, minority Constitution upon
an unwilling and resisting majority of the
people, by ,the use of the bayonets of the
-Federal Army ! Now mail . what I did say,
that Messrs. Crittenden and others of the
American Party's voting for " Popular Sov
ereignty" Wlts right, and that' the Repot/li
e:las, l e aving th e ir position in abeyance for
the - present, had come down to them, and by
such obion had sustalited the very principles
vt inch DeLerats had avowed in the plat
form upon which the prseift tN•rant, James
Ilitehiman, was elected'. 1 - stud that so far,
br sustaining the liberties of the people, -and
preventing civil war, Clittendoi and Douglas
were right and noble, and all honest men
Ought to sustain hem—and further, ell honest
men will sus(ain them, that is, all men who
t call; :led honestly prefer a popular Gov ern
inent to a ,/eipoti-on!
1 did say that A mericatis and Republicans
ought to unite, and more, 1 said every honest
Democrat ought to tinie in the defeat of a
-tarty who were attetepting to. Overthrow, in
inania•r- no re ty ratinteal dean that of Geo,
111, the liberties ofpill. !shall t ote, and I
recommend the It publicans to vote, for the
A merieans, so long as we hid no candidates in
the livid; not because they agreed ‘i'ith . ust on
h 1 SW ery and emancipation issue, but upon
the liberty is-ne—the saw issue which led
our littherS to the ficid of battle iiiS77o, and
which. if pressed upon us, will lead iheir sons
again to arms and to victory ! Allow me to
say, in conehision, that I attribute the mis.
st at etuent" of your friends, with regard to my
speech, not so much to any desire to misrep
resent Int/ fur politica/ ends, as a chronic in
ability on their 'part to disctiminate between
truth rind falsehcl id, and con habitual disre
gard of right and 'justice, wench is a constitu
tional disease in the Democratic creed.- •
Begging you will give this a timely 'inner=
tilm in your pa;.,er, -that innocent men miry
not suffer in the com:fig August elections,
because " Cash Clay" does not happen to be
very popular. just now, (men who talk plain
ly rarely are.)
Ilespectfully yours,
C. M. CLAY
Nuts for lodge Douglas to Crack. -
A writer in the 'Woomingttin • Pan logreph
propounds the folowiug pertinent queries to
Judge Douglas:
yt,u ntlieve that the people of a
Territory, and before the formation of a Stat
constitution, have the. right to exclude slave-
ry •
2. Do you believe or. pretend to affirm
that the Republican party do or e‘er hale.
dented the con •titutional right of the people
of :t Territory, in the formation of State
cot:salt:0ot), to form a free or slave constim:
tion,'as they chose ?
3. Do you believe thil tho slaicholder
tau lawfully take his•slaves and hold them
in any and every Territly of the United
States. '
4. Do you emibrse and Approve the doe.
trine of the Supreme Court in the DNA Scott
case; that he constitution of the Uttitcd
State protects slavery in the 'Territories ?
I ilyes ; in w hst - manner or how, except chang
ing the constitution, can slaves be lawfully
excluded from the i'erritories ?
5. If the constitution orthe United Sittes
protects slave property: in a Territory, so
that the people cannot, while a Territory, 'ex
elude it, how can they ex rude it in the form
ation of a State conati - tuti*? Is the cons i
tution of the United States tees potent in a
State than in a Terrioxv t
6...1, the kultibitiot of Aavery in the con-
itution of Illinois valid ?
7. lout once said in the United States Sen
, ate that the question whether the people of
a Territory had a rigit to exclude slavery
therefrom, wits a questidn for the Supreme
Court. Now, sir, ha; i the Supreme Court
decided that.question in the Dred §cotlease?
If p.s., how tune they decided it, and do you'
indore and approve that decision ?
B. If the: dictum of the Supreme Conn in
the Dred Scott case he true, that. the consti
tution . f the 'United States directly recogniz
es and protect.; slave property the same" as
any other property possessed by the citizens
of the United States, and if the people of a
State or Territory have the right to exclude
slate property, have they not an (Val right
!-to exclude all other kinds of property ?
A Filatiltt negative_or affirmative 'espouse
from Mr. Douglas, to the above 'questions
corre-ponding with Jiis oft-repeated declara
tions,' and unaccompanied with the specious
sophistry by which he disguises his atrocious
political theories, would not leave him a doz
en -en honest supporters "ri the State. Such an
answer, however, rl.: Douglas will never
give. He would.sn ner lose his head.—Chi.
Nye Preis and Tribune.
The Howling Letter.
The Stales, ofJuly 20, says
The President believed iu the policy. of
Goyernor Walker ; and there is a letter ex
,tant, in which the President, wrote to the
Governor of Kansas, telling him °that he
would rise or fall with, him, notwithstanding
the Georgia and Alabama resolutions. This
letter is extant, &id its publication might aid
the Uilion,to understand the history of the
period in question.'
./
The States gives the maih fact of the Pres.
idenia letter correctly, but not the exact lan
guage. "Let A labama and Missouri hosol,'.!
was the language of Mr.
.Buchican to Gov
ernor Walker. The word "hoier was in it,
most distinety,sand should always be preserv
ed, as a mutter of identification, when the
letter is referred to. The language was apt,
and we ire determined that the President
shall hare the credit of it.— Washington Re- .
public. •
Strong efforts arc making in behalf of ex-
Mayor Vaux of Phila. for a foreign mission.
Gems from Prentice•: Lotionll. JonrnsL
" James G. Jameson, nephew of • ex- Presi
dent Pierce, cut hit'throat with a razor and
died, in Boston, on Thursday."—Ezchongs.
Wo really do not think there was sufficient
reason for the young man to cut his throat.
lie might have removed to a foreign country,
where his relationship to ex. President Pierce
would never have been known.
The editor of the Portland Democrat
'cently proposed to pay some of his debts-by
sending his paper to his creditors. A neigh
bor of his thinks that it would be outrageous
to pay's debt to the devil himself in such
depreciated currency. But we don't see why
the devil shouldn't be paid in his own coin.
"Be careful, nithbor - Prentice, for the
eighteens shall scarcely be saved,: what the
deuce will become pf you in such an eventr
Enquirer.
Why, of course, in that event, we shall
"scarcely be Lived."
I\he Cairo papers say that Cairo will be
entirely restored in a few months. It will
be the most wonderful instance on record of
the restoration of a drowned subject.
Several of the Cairo houses that recently
embarked for the Gulf-are said to have ar
rived there in pretty .giiod condition. We
'have not beard of their being captured by the
British cruiser's.
_
We hope the merchants of Cairo are doing
a.fine business. We know that, a short time
ago, they were entirely out of dry goods.
Colonel Drinkhard is acting Secretary of
War in the absence of Secretary Floyd:—
Too many of that family are it, office these .
days.,
The Washington Union boasts that the af
fairs of Government are going•on like dock.
work. 0, YeA, they are going on—tick, tick,
tick.
711 t: ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC.—The discov
ery of gold on Frozer'4 River has settled it
beyond dispute that the feasible route for a
railroad to the Pacific is to be from Lake Su
perior and - St. Paul, by the valley of the Up
per 'Missouri to,Puget l S Sound. In relation
to the Asiatic trade, it is worth mentioning
that4lic Straits of De Fuca are four hundred
and sixty-nine miles nearer-Shanghai in Chi
na than San Francisco is. A round trip,
taking in Shanghai and Jeddo, in Japan,
would be one thousand miles lOnger if the
point of departure was 'San Francisco,• than
if it was De Fuca. Still another cause which
night divert the course of population is a
low temperature. But the average tempera
ture at the mouth of the Frazer River, which
is a few mites north of Bellingham's Bay, is
50', about the same as New York, Snow is
rarer thcrc than here, periods of extreme se
verity are unknown, and so far as climate, is
concerned, the winter is tittle more than It
wet Season, with little or no frost.
THE NEW GOLD Rectos.—Frazer's River,
where they are said to have recently found
more gold than there ever was known in Cal
iforna, empties‘into Puget's Sound just be
low latitude 49. It consequently beltings to
the Hudson's Bay Company, which has the
exclusive right to trade there.
It must, of course, be remembered that the
\Permit:racy accepted latitude 48 as cur boun
dary,' after loading the attnosphete with oaths
that they would accept nothing short of 54
10. If they had.got what they swore they
would have, the gold would have been in the'
ITni,ted States instead of being, as it now is, in
the Briti,h Dominions. However, our peo
ple eau, of course, go there to dig gold.--:
They: have a modified right of search even
upon.foreign territory.
THE QUEEN OF THE RIVER PIRATES AR
RESTEM—The notorious Mara' Keys alias
Faulkner, was arrested, Saturday, by Mar.
shal Gallagher and his aids, on a charge of
stealing some *l . OO worth of extra gin from
thewar % liouse of Mix & Morris. River St., a
few months since. She was ordered to give
bail in the sum of $1,500, which she prompt
ly -did. Thi.i Maria Keys is the Queen' of a
gang of about' twenty dock pirates. Her
hovel on the West Side, near the Old_ Ex
,
change, is their rendezvous. There the dock
pirates s.,screte their "swag," the% Muria
gives (tellers, plans thieving expeditions, and
is Queen. Frequently, the police tell us, she
heads the banditti in person, dressing - herself
up in men's clothes. Sho has an extensive
wardrobe, and can appear in any character
that she deems necessary for the successful
consummation of her plans. She, has been
known to-rig herself up in the chtiracter ola
sailor, a canal-boatman, a verdant young man
from 4he country, an old gray-haired and de:.
crepid man, &c. AU alone, she has ." crack
/
cd" ma y a warehouse along the docks in the
night. She: is, in short. a regular. female
Jack . heppard, and would make a splendid
heroine- for one of Ainsworth's •novels.—
Cleve/gad Pluindealer,-July 19.
MORPHS AT Sr: GEORGE ' S CHESS CLUB—A
'0m13.41' WITH STA VA TON.—MT. Murphy, who
arrived out by the Africa, quietly walked in
to the St. George's Chess Club, ohe night last
week, and after beating Mr. Lewes, who is
a recognised champion, with the greatst ease,
offered a challenge.to Mr. Staunton, the Brit.
ish Cceur de Lion of the Roble game. Mr.
Staunton accepted' the proposition, sat down,
went to work, almost cleared the board in
some twenty moves, and was about with
drawing, in contempt, when he was arrested
by a "'deck," which, in three Moves more,
grew into a " mate." You may imagine the
consternation of the hero and of the lookers
on. " May I ask your name, sir ?" said Mr.
S. "Certainly, sir," replied his young an
tagonist. "My -name, is Morphy.". "'Oh !
of America!" "Yes, sir!" "Ah ! then I
am sorry . ; but I am not guile in ploy just
now, I should rather not risk •another game
just at present !" and so Mr. Staunton 'with
drew. The event has excited quite' a great
sensation in the world of chess, is_ was bred
in the world of yatchtmen by the victory of
-the America; and Mr. Morphy has made up
a match with Andersen,the Hungarian,.upon
which all England that playoth chess will, of
course, be vehemently betting in the mime
of a fortnight. You may regard this as a set
off, perhaps, against the defeat of Mr. Ten
Brueck's hOrses—though, it should he e re
membered, that the battle even there is not
yet giverrup.—London ,Times..
DESTRUCTION Of YOUNG CORN DT WILD
Piot°Nii.—The wild pigeons in Marion coun
ty, Ohio, are,becoming terribly destructive,
literally sweeping the late planted coin fields
clean, pulling up the stocks, and devOuring
every grain. One man lost sixteen acres,
another-eighteen, another ten, veld 'so on.—
They =not be driven away, for when fired
at they only rise to alight again within a few
rods:, Hundred? -and thousands of them
have been slqughtereif within a few days by
the citizens, but the numbers do not seem to
diminish in the least. -
DAp..EB of 0138.00 N.—" The balks" is a
name given to a narrow passage on the Co
lumbia River, some fifty mites above the•
Cascades, where the stream passes between
immense" walls of basaltic rock, only three
hundred feet asunder. The name, which is
written as if pronounced dolls, means "alabin er
and was given, doubtless, [Ty the early
French trappers, as descriptive of the te..
markable masses of basalt, which are not dis t ,
similar to flag.stones set upon, end, and ce.
mented together.
The Telegraph'eable.
In speculating upon the chances of the At:
'antic Telegraph Cable, "Sentinel," the prase
poet of the New. York Courier , aid Enguirei;,
thus writes :
,Not•enany months since a vessel was lost
La' water whose depth* the 'place of the
foundering was about 175 feet. There was
a portion of the cargo so valuable that-it be.
came advisable to use every effort possible_
to recover, it. It was scarcely - possible. to do
anything. It was far,' beyond all ordinary
means of human action : it might be reached,
though it would be,a bold attempt .by the
diver. Ile was Nought and found, and a
recompense, which on the land . would be e
princely one, was guaranteed to. him. Men
will do more than "dues become a man" for
rich reward. To feed him with air a power•
ful pump, worked by six men, was -brought,
and a hose doubly strengthened was made.
All the appliances that the mostliberal Man
agement could suggest were ready for, his
aid: . He was Nut rounded- by intelligence and
courage and humanity. He flared_ the deep
water once, twice, 'seven times. They fed
the vital current to the. bold diver, and he
had the courage to trust them. Their work.
was his breath. When he came up .ho told
the gentleman Who superintended 'the trial,
that the air at that depth, as the machinery
forced it to him, crackled clad hissed like the
frying of hot Jai. and that every movement
of thq pump tell on his breast like the blow
of escrow-bar! You go down no more for
me, said the' kindhearted gentleman who
stood by' him as he came on 'deck. In the
intensity of all, this experience, this too dal.-
ing man, besought for the, opportunity- to
another trial. The gentleman.r4used,
but the diver insisted on going for himself.'
He went, and returned a paralyzed man,
and, just holding lifts, now crawls along. The
t
claret 'bottle at his_girdle, corked ti g htly and
empty, was fi lled when he camebac , thouo . l
the cork was not disturbed . 'The w ater had
forced itrelf beyond power' of cork or glass.
The water, the soft flowing, rippling water,
that yields to the touch of a child's finger, is
thus a crushing dress when its might in its
depths accumulates. It overturned a world.
It is by the painting of Heaven on the sky
that we know the blessed truth that its pow
er shall never thus spin make desolate..
And can it be a safe road for the inter
change of 'human messages within the terri•
We depths of the sea ? We await with dread
thR lesson Time shall teach in this boldest ef
fort of alt man has ventured:
rgq" We have six days' later ad viers from
EurLipe by the Vanderbilt, which, arrived at
this port yesterday morning, and an unknown
steamer, probably the Persia, which passed
eve Race ,on Saturday. Vrom India we
'learn that Sir Hugh Rose had taken - Gwali•
or, after a severe .fight of four honk We
publish a private letter from an intelligent
Englishman in India, stating that jhe Se
poy rebellion," so called, is really 'a rising of
the people of India—all of them who can
and dare—against intolerable corruption and
oppression. The writer says that this re
bellion, so far from being nearly •suppressed,
as is supposed in England, is more formida
ble and embarrassing than
,it was when both
Delhi and Lucknow were in the hands Atte
rebels, and that there is no immediate pros
pect of its extinguishment. We believe this
ia the sober truth. The late utter defeat of
Sindia, and the capture of Gwalior by the
rebels. are among the severest blows yet giv
en to British ascendency. It proves that the
native troops are • utterly untrustworthy as
against the rebel cause, efen , when led ;by
theirnative chieftains. The great Indian re
bellion is not near its ea—N. Y. Tribune.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ADD GREAT FRIGIIT.-
A man of dissipated habits, residing_ on
Hampstead street, near Caroline, determined
on. Wednesday morning last to commit sui
cide by poisoning himself. It seems that he
had-just recovered from a week's carousal;
and proceeded with the last half dime he had
in the world to a neighboring drug store, and
requested - thecierk to prepare Mtn a small
quantity of poison. Suspectirrg the object of
the man, the clerk hastily prepared an emet
ic, and his ,customer soon left, hurried home,
and took Ale , dose. Shortly afterward he
was seized with griping pains, and supposing
that the poison had commenced its fatal Ope .
rations, a sudden change came over hip
dreams, and he not only repented his action,
but informed his wife and_ earnestly implor
ed her assistance. He also-requested that a
clergymta would be:sent for, and seemed to
be in a horrible state •of • mind. The We
first,ran to the druggist to-informiiiin of the
condition of her-husband and -to 'solicit
assistance, and was rejoiced to find that, in
sicad;of poison, he merely administered an
emetic. Hurrying home she informed him of
the fact, and he received the information will'
protestations of an intention L to reforinhis
character.—Baltimore Avzerican,
•
CALIFORNIA LETTER WitITINCL-A return
ed Californian recently told us an amusing
story of letter writing, lle said many of the
miners are illiterate, and to write a letter is
quite a formidable task. Oir one occasion a
young man in rcrossing-i - mountain had he.
conic lost and perished in the 'snow. The
cayota, an animal of that vicinity, attacked
tho body, and when found - thc•head , had 'en
tirely been eaten otr. A friend of - the young
man, who knew his family, was told by the
other miners that it was his duty'to write'to
the father of the deceased.an account of his
death. After some objectinns , , for want of
practice in suchsundertakings, ;fie concluded
to devote the next afternoon to it. At night
he produced his. letter, saying he had done the
best he could, and thought it told the story.
Hisletter was as folloWs: .
Dear Majors—The Kiotas have eat your
son's h'end off. Yours, "-„,
Henry Booehera
WIIAT Maier ns Dows.—Speaking of the
photograph copy of the Declaration of lode
pendsnce taken upon a .SurfaCe no largertban
a pin's head, which may. now be seen in Sa
lem, Mass:, and can be read with a pow-Wu'
microscope, the Salem Gazette says : s ,
" WhenTsuch success in reducing the -Size
of doCuments and likeness has been attained
by the photographic art, it is easy to;imagine
what might be accomplished in .the time of
war by the use of the microscope. The
most important official doeitment fould be
obtained in an ordinary vest buttda',llA worn
with impunity by a spy in an enemy's camp
or by a.traitor eager to- inTure an active ar
my of hisiown country."
REAPPEARANCE • orc 711 E PLACRTE.—The
plaguei after an intermission of twenty years,
has reappeared in a district of the• Pasholik
Of Tripoli, named Bengaji, and at last ac
counts was continuing to make ravages as an
epidemic. There was a remor rhat it had
already reached Constantiniaple, bni for this
there was no foundation. The most strin
gent quarantine regulations had been resort;
ed to. . „
LOOIKTO rnx SEN ' ATC—The Albany Eve
ning Journal argues that there is reason for
well.groutuled hope of an anti.administration
majority in the United States Senate by 1860.
The Republicans - have now 'twenty out of the
sixty.four members, with one elected rtler .
Rhisie-Islancl end one for lows, in place -of
the present Democratic incumbents whose
terms will shortly
.expire.
A COXPENDITTM:OF NEWS.
Billy Bowlegs and party are said to
be well plea,ed with their borne in the West.
.... Nearly twelve hundred thousand cop
ies of Webster 's Spelling Book were sold by
one, firm in Boston last year, z
.. Two men of West Haven, Conneeti
cut, have raised this season 7,000 quarts of
strawberries upon an acre and a quarter of
ground. . •
.... Senator Might bf Indiana - h'as, it is
said, become a member k; , l - the Roman Cath , .
olie Church: llis brut er Latvia is already
of that persuasion.
.... The Minnesota Assembly have , pas
sed a law fixing the-rate.f interest'at .ftf,teen
m
per cent. per amain in money. It is thought
the Senate will-st:ck• for eighteen percent.
An Arkansas editor complains that
his town, for some time past, has been fill
ed, with fishermen and loafers," and wonders
" what they are after." Ater loaves and
fishes no doubt. • •
.... There are forty:one thousand:men in
Massachusetts who wort: on leather, either
in manufacturing. the article or moulding it
into various forms. Every eighth man in
the State is a shoemaker. • .
.
• . , In Kansas, ki'ss Irene Baker a girl Of
seventeen, married a man of seventy-five
from admiration of One of his political speech.
es.. Thus is a common saying venified- 7
" politics make strange bed fellows.' •
The creed of th© political '‘.‘ whang.
doodle" party, according to the New Orleans.
Bulletin, is eitremely s sinaple, to wit:—Of:
five and Whisky. Occasionally it is revers ,
ed, and it_is whisky and office. The whang.
(fondles" can be .foUndevery where. '
.... The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Pros says that a caravan
of camels is being,organized;to facilitate the
transit of emigrants to the Territory of.;-Ari
zona.' ~The camels are to cross be interven
ing desert towards the Gialf of California.
... The amount annually 'expended it,
the, construction of railroads in • this country,
since 1850, has lariely exceeded the whOl e
expenditures of Government, and the railroad
receipts\ fur the same years have surpassed
the Government receipts.-
.., .. The recent religious. revival has once
more broughtpublic attention the Ties-.
tion of running the mails on the Sabbath.—
The Postmaster General is now receiving pe. •
titiobs . from various quarters, reyiesting the
cfk, outinuance of the mad upon that day. ,
Many ideas have been-suggested .fur
leveeing the Mississippi Hiver:.; . 'among them
is the sublitution of a cast-iron wall in lien
of•the dire dykes which now line the borders
of the riv.:ogr. It, is mentioned with apparent
seriousness by the Lake Providence Herald,
• .. It is said that the choice of the Prince
of !Vales, the future monarch of England, if
he outlives his mother, is limited to seven ,
royal princesses. Princess Alexandra of
Denmark is considered the most suitable
match of the seven. - When. the - Prince of
%Vales comes of age, in IS6q,‘she will be 18:
The IVashi:tigtons and - BonaparteS are
united in the person of Madame Murat ;
vine
regent of the *tint Vernon AssOciation . for
Florida: She is the grand-niece of Washing.
ton' through the, Lewises: By her '.marrige
with Achille Warm shOiceatne the niece-in.
law of Napoleon the First. '
.. By recent decrees - of the King of
Portugal, Slavery is abolished 'entirely at
Macao, and in the African Province of An..
gels, and is respectively.abolished in. all' the
remainder of.the Portuguese colOnies, the
children of female slaves h , reafter born, be.
mg' declared,to be entitled to air' freedom
•on reaching the ago of twenty, years.
airing the old-fits'hioned thiander •
-term on N'oednesday night two children, a
boy and girt, :tied eight and terryears; were
at ;day.. The little•girl became very much
frightened, and clasped hold,of the boy, who,
:seeing her timidity, exclaimed,, " Don't be
athtid, sis ; I would.net be groid if I was up
fore wiie-Tethey.touch it off."
There is great danger that-the West=
'ern country, where the late floodS have occur•
red may become pestilential and unsafe to
health and life. We see; it noticed aYendy
that the region recently submerged by the
overflow : of the rivers is now. afflicted by -mi.
asma,
the
by the decayina matter left
Lin the 'sub'sidence of thefloods. Droves of
_hogs turned out upon the reclaimed lands
alohg the Illinois Shore, aredying-ofr rapidly •
from an epidemin which has suddenly broken
out ; ,the health of the inhabitants . is begrn•
ning to suffer.
.... A southern editor thus discourseth
to y " delinquents :7—" Wagons cannot run
without wheels, boats-without steatn,,
frogS jump with - mit legs, or newspapers be
carried. on everlastingly without money, op
more than-a dog can wag his tail when, he
ain't got none. Our sunscOers are Allgood,
hut what good does a man's goodness do
when it don't do any. good. We,-,liave uu
doubt every one thinks that all have paid
cept hitn,:and as' we are-a clever_ fellow itti'd .
his is a little matter, it.will make no ditryr
ence."
A Commission has .been. desighated
by two Secretary of The Navy to examine-,
thoroughly the coal and timber lands : Of:the
Deep River country •in•Nortli Carolina,' and
to reporCupon the expetlienclof establWaiblli
at some point in that State, work•shops for
the couhtruct ion of engines,. boilers, and oth-,
cr machinery, for naval vessels.' The"Cwsi
mission, which is appoitite.d in pursuance if
an act of Congress, consists of Capt. Wakes.
Chief Engineer; Martin 1 4 .41unt, and Naval .
Contractor PA.
.... The highest peak of
,the Black Mount
ain in North Carolina, which is the hiilbist
>latul cast of the'llock , - Mountains, has' been
treasured "Ihree•times by scientific pjrsons,
and the results are quite remarkable. -Prot •
Mitchell measured it" in 1555. and Prof Glv
ot in 1856 ; the first reported the bight to he.
6.708 feet, - the latter's figure's were 6,709 fat.
Masr J. C. Tnrner . measured it last gear,
and reported the, elevation' to be 0,711 • feet.
The first 2 were barometrical measurements; .
the third was made with the spirit lit'.
A curious coincidence in Penniylva•
nia politics is ncted . by the Harrisburg Tele
graph The Democratic State Convention
of the 4th of Murch,:sefected a candidate for .
Supreme Judge, from. Philadelphia, and 'a
candidate for Canal Coninlissioner from Fay-
cite county. The Republican Convention of •
July 14th' selectral a candidate for Cinil
Commissioner from Fayette county. Per-,
ter and 11eiid,"the ,respeettve candidates for
Supreine Judge , are near neighbors, ti,ving
in the same city.. Frost and Fritzer, the up•
posing aspirants for Canal Commissioner,
are residents of the slime county, living with
in eight miles of eneh other." . ..
.• •• • • The Administration&Mtn-tees the
war upon Senator Douglaii with great vigor ,
and unscrupulousness. The' " Demneratin\
opponents of the Senator are not very nuttier-. •
ous in Illinois. The result. of the struggle
will be to throw , Donglas out .of the ..Senate
and give him a Seat the -Thaw. The
State will fall under the. Cent:rut of fhe lie '
Heriry Clay and DaniCl Web
stcr won some, of their brightest , honors" in: .
the,House Cif Represent at I'Ves. Doio as hirsi
sufficient energy and ability *to acltio'c a _
gretit success in that body,' •
Jul