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'r' ' 1 St, ~.,.''',,,,. '' 3 ,:. ' , ' . ~- , • - , ~ 3 .: -.4 ` ~.:., 3 3. , .., ' l4 - - .: ' •tt ''', . 4 _ -, ' ' , ~ , - • , '... '.:•••'.. - -,H - • 3 - - • ..,' - . ' e;" ESSEN! _ ~t~- >rt~ ;:`; ` -.~.~, ...~` ffi . _' r _ .. .: ~ ;'may' _ _ the Pail!) Yost. WEDNESDAY MORNING JUDGE BLACK'S OBSERVATIONS Pursuant to promise, we give the first part of Attorney General Black's observations, in reply to Senator Douglas' Essay. As a part of the politics of the country, it should be care fully perused and calmly considered. We shall give the concluding observations of Judge Black in to-morrow's Pool, and the entire ar gument will be published in our Weekly pa per for the present week. The length of this article, together with the favors of our adver tising friends, have some what curtailed our space to-day. All the important news, how ever, will be found on our first page. THE INSURRECTION AT HARPER'S PERRI 't'he great topic of discussion yesterday was the abolition and negro riot at Harper's Ferry. There has been bloody work there. The mad attempt to take and retain poses sion of the Government property has of course proved abortive. We give the par ticuiars received up to the hour of going to press upon our first page. NEWS BY THE NORTH BRITON All the six plenipotentiaries were present at the Zurich Conference on the id inst. It is as serted that a treaty of peace will be signed in a few day, The London Times has another sharp article on the San Juan difficulty-; it rejoices at Gen. Scott's mission to the Pacific, and trusts in a peaceful Eolution of the question. Kossuth has written a letter expressing the keenest grief at the Villafranex arrangement. He says his convictions are strengthened by the events of the war, that Hungary will yet be free. The Great Eastern was to make her trial trip from Portland on October 8, and if suc cessful, was to leave for America Oct.. 20. There are a great variety of rumors respect log a French expedition to China. The latest intelligence that operations are suspended, and the project likely to break down. The war in Italy seems not likely to be set tled satisfactorily without more fighting. Marshal Neil, on joining the troops at Tou louse, issued an order of the day which was construed into en admission that peace was not likely to he long maintained. The London Herald's Paris correspondent says nothing is heard on every side but prepa rations for war. Active measure of defense are in prOgreas at the ports. Gem Canrobert and the Duke of Magenta have resumed command in their respective military districts. 20,000 French troops'are on the frontiers of Morrocco. The Sardinian government had sent a circu lar to the various governments of Europe, for cibly setting forth the arguments in favor of a strong and independent kingdom in Upper Italy ; sufficiently strong to keep in check the domineering tendencies of Austria. It is asserted that the. Pope, on hearing the answer the King of Sardinia gave to the depu tation from the Romagna, ordered that the Sardirtian Minister at Rome shall be tendered his passports ; and it is further reported that at the news of the cessation of all intercourse between Rome and Piedmont, a cousin be sen Swiss and neutral stations took place tat Cattolica. The Sardinian journals speak of an ip.surr,..c tionary movement having shown itself at Pa lermo The Paris corrupondent of the London Time.: says the Italian atfair3 are appr,,aehing a crisis, and refers to the circular ~f the Sar dinian government, and quotes the order of the day, just issued by General Falai, the C,llll inander in Chief of Central Italy, who prom ises that the tri-color of Italy, preceded by the old cr0.1.: of Savoy, will procode them in the fresh battles, and will forever free Italy from the stranger. Garibaldi has also issued an address, i;urn waning the Italians of the Legations to artne. A collision is shortly expected, and some thinl it will be produced by the Papal troops itwad ing Roniagna. It was rumored in Paris that the Cuiriese anti-European movement had extended itself to Ctahin-China and Japan. DEATH OF HON. JOHN Y. MASON. THE AMERICAN MINISTEII TO FRANCE. We learn, by the arrival or the North Briton at Farther Point, that the Hon. John Y. Ma -son, our 'Minister in Paris, died in that city on the 4th inst., of apoplexy. Without being a remarkably brilliant man, Mr. Mason has filled several important politi cal positions at home andabroad. He was born in Virginia, graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1816, from which institution he received the degree of L. L. D.; adopted the profession of law, and was a Judge, of the District Court of Virginia; he was a representative in Congress from Virginia from 1831 to 183 i; a member of President Tyler's Cabinet, as Secretary of the Navy ; a member of President Polk's Cabinet, first as Attorney General, and secondly aaSecretary of Navy and we! appointed by President Pierce Minister to France, in which position he was continued by President Buchanan till the day of his death. Several years ago, after his arrival in Paris, Mr. Mason had a paralytic stroke, from which it wasrsaid he had fully recovered, but it was, it now appears, the premonition - of the final attack of which he died on the 4th inst.-- National Democratic Committee, WASHINGTON, OctOber 16, 1869. The following call has just been issued for a meeting of the National Democratic Commit tee : . WASHINGTON, October 15, 1859 -- • • At the emocratic Presidential Convention, assembled - In - jute, 1856, at Cincinnati, it was resolVO' - thai the Democratic Convention to nonllitiCtMa, 'candidate for the Presidency be held in the city of Charleston, and that the time of 'holding the Berne be designated by the Democratic National Committee. That the duty. imposed upon that Committee may be discharzed, the undersigned recommend that a meeting of the members of the Committee be held - in the city of Washington, at ten o'clock, A. m., of Wednesday, the 7th of December ext. DAVID A. SMALLEY, Chairman. Gnottor,. C. L. VALLAWDIGHAM, Secretaries. StiLits HassEn, The folloving named gentlemen compose the above committee , 31 ninIcam - 34bson. Georige. Vermont-D, A,smasey I s2 ET.. e ill=otter. Conn.-J. T. Pratt. N. Y.-Augusttle Schell. Penn.-C. L. Ward. Md.-41 Carmichea]. I :irginia-Wm.H. Clark. Carolum-T., .DVDowell. S. Carbffna-B. H. Wilson -a-W. K. DeGmfrenreid. Alabama-Henry T. . Mississippi—W. R. Citnnon. La.—T. E P. Cottntan. Ohio—C. L. Va w.. dwell. Tenn.—R. ArGareck. Irbautt—Jas. R. Elack. Illinots—Jarnetil - Dyer. Arkansas—Albert Rust itlichtgan—James Beeson. Florida--A. E. Maxwell. Texas—W. J. Oldham. lowa — Wm..Thompson. Wisconsin-.-Geo. b. l l .3mlth. Cal.—Elarnuel R Rosh Rev. Da- C.i.nttr„- a distinguished Irish Roman Catholic divine, is about to visit America and to lecture on Astronomy through the country. ALREADY are persons buiy circulating• the report that the Secretary of War, owing to delicate 'health, will supersede Mr. Mazda, and that Oliarles J„..Zaulkner will takt' Floyd'a . place,as,Secretary of War: OBSERVATIONS SENATOR DOUGLAS' OCT. 19 POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, AS EXPRESSED IX HARPERS' MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER, 1559. Every one knows that Mr. Douglas, the sen ator from Illinois, has written and primed an elaborate essay, comprising thirty-eight col umns of Harper's Magazine, in which he hrs undertaken to point out the o dividing line be tween federal and local authority." Very many persons have glanced over its paragraphs to catch the leading ideas without loss of time, end some few have probably read it with care. Those who dissent from the doctrines of this paper owe to its author, if not to his argu ments, a most respectful answer. .Mr. Douglas is not the man to be treated with a disdainful silence. His ability is a fact unque:dioned ; his public career, in the face of many dd a d vanta ges, has been uncommonly successful . and hr• has been fur many rears a %corking, struggling candidate for the Presidency. lled , ,tnoreovor, the Corvpheus of his political sect--the founder of a ncw zchool—and his disciples naturally be lie% e in the infallible verity of his word, as part of their faith. The style of the article some respects, highly commendable. It is entirely free from the vulgar clap-trap of the stutop, and has no vain adornment of classical scholarship. But it shows no sign of the eloquent Senator : it k even without the logic of t h e great debater Many portions of it are very oh-cure. It ,rein ,, to be an Unsu ceess I ul effort at legal preei.don;like the writing of a judge, who it trying in % ain to give good reasons fur a wrong decidon on a question of lass- which he has not quite mas tered. With the help of Messrs. Seward and Lin coln, he has defined accurately enough the platform of the so-called Republican party and ho does not attempt to conceal hi.: convic tion that their doctrines are. in the last degree, dangerous. They are, most assuredly, full of evil and saturated With iniq•hi , •f: Thu , pressihle conflict which they bp.,k so much pleasure between the '• and enduring forces of the Northern and South ern States, will be fatal, not niereiy to tho peace of the country, but to the e istence. , l the Gov ernment itself. Mr. Douglas know' , this. and Le knows also, that the Democratic party, is the only power which is, or eau , be. organized to resist the Republican fu roc. or opp.,, their hostile march upon the eapitai 11, ,elei di % ides and weakon6 ~ f 04,111utre at such a crisis in her I.,rttine:. msurn, ,ory grace rrsponsibilit D.ugla: - . , sop:Jr:o,, t 1,,,, into thr. , UTI , I Livserib, 1,1 :0 f,.H 1.,w9 - t:llllc.l.,(fat II; I 44 Ow e , olAi It u 1 1 , ,, q I,erft,•th tr,t. ro,t . ulAct 0.• institution. 111,1 z n.. 111 .1. "nsfitutluu of the L'utte.l,nit..- .-4.ab1i...111, .I.ILN en' T1 . 1,11 , 41 , T, I,LI I , (ram. 6,1112:1,54 MILI OLP . I' ,- Tnt u, • . 1 1 . to ekooror It. to,•I o to, At. 1,, • il( , 11 r.mi L.-rlllAture .tlit - T ;..+ prof ec ,: •ILLE...-Nit.,.• -11:T, .I I • t,, YISI,I L. P. F,. Tht , i I tole ; r to the CotlEtliunon ond the po‘‘er of k ongre. , ;;; lb , Ter, I tture O . th At tile ndini Nuo:4,r , the duty • z t:onete,- -r, ,`"ft• motet thilt It IS tlo , laty of the 11.11...nr 1. , 1.1 Jteet nonntaln .l-iver, In Inn fprr- n the t \Ve give Mr. .1),H.,;;1a, ti,. n;. 1 ,1 -f 1,, cwn ,tatoment . I ~1 hich. , IHttirl the harmony, al - .41 thr.ntten tho it.tve,;tty, the American 11:mr,oran The , , therefore. I, Itt,,t crin , fttP, erect. The fir , . th,• ~ne t.• Nem, 1 belongs, and to hotli the other- 10. i• ..inane opposed He 100 ru:1111,, ( ou, tn.!, •. 7. ti, second and t bird la , - If the r, which he speaks -f 7or ot i• opponent tt is their hosine,, tad l t it or tight it out tier.. for. ourselves to the dismit. Mr I and his follower= 'Pa tilt. PP!, t./In. I, ,1"..! rest of the Democratic party i.restuning that he will be to • the principle of non-int , r• • nti. .r a‘: a. ith whi,h Le has n., ••rn \V., will invert the order i a ill( Is 1,.. 1( ta,(nl the subj , -,.t, and enden. ,, • I. • Thut ha:, not , Si, doctrine held ro so ar:d That his uwn 01((s0-1,-,19. , !11'.-11 IP' [pi -elf, arc ultogothor a ns( , ;(nd I. He sap that a certain portion 01 tho Ulo,4!flit4s . party believe. IPT Its !WI, , •-• Oita rP/14,ti1441/4.Pra the Territories, and inset that it is ti,, .liity .f the judiciary to maintain it tit. re • on the subject. oot any intention to 1,,• u nf a ir , tad t, r u„, us , its . has in tact ‘.11.• Wrong to, prottanik tiiin.d.loll , . 4 , r the party, by at te nii ,ti ng . put theut nt. i t :, •((, (As winch t boy for theinselye., The Constitution certainty :301 • •((i(i•../i slavery in the Territorie, nor any Nobody in this couritr% ever thought -r so. But the Constitution 7,•ltnr(l, a_ -a, r ed and inviolable all the right, Wilk], may legally acquire is a - , ,tat. It a n13(1 It. - quires property .1 all "LW , . an-1 goes with it into a Territory, he I, i 0.4. 1 7 'l,ns to Ire -t r ipped ,f it ttar - Ilnln,. 34441 1/121 1 / 1 that the legal ~ w ner ‘ , l sdaye or other with is ;7,10 n roderal Territory a tto.ot , (rfoil out I( • Lai , Who denies the truth (.(f this, what ground can it be eontr,, , ,erted , The rea•-•,m which support it aro very ob. and ~ • r:. conclmive. As a juries a n d ..tatestuali, Douglas ought to be Ills, ith then., and there was a time when h.. NAY -] 1,0 nf.- derstand them very well. We is ill bried y him a few of them, 1. It is an axiomatic principle of !midi,. law,- that a right of giropertv, a private relatiO'n, condition or satusnawfully os onitsigtitto Or country, is not changed by the more remo val of the parties to another country, the law of that other country be in direct conflict with it. For instance: A marriage 1..ga11:, solemnized in France is binding in America. children born in Oen - rainy are legitimate here if they are, legitimate there and a luorn•hala who buys goods in New York according to the laws of that State may carry then. to Illinois and hold them there under hi, contra.-t. It i, precisely so With the :dab, f a Iwgrovarri.,l from one part of the United &ate, to another —the question of his frootiont or , ervitude de. pends on the law of the place wh ere h e „„ u „• from, and depends on that alone, if their be r, conflicting law at the place to which he goes or is taken. The Federal Constitution there fore recognizes slavery as s legal , ndition wherever the local governments have . Loser, to let it stand unabolished, and regards it a.• illegal wherever the laws of the place have for. bidden it. A slave being property in Virginia remains property and tits master has all the rights of a Virginia master wherever he may go, so that be go not to any place where the lo cal law comes in conflict with his right. 'lt will not be pretended that tit! Constitution it self furnishes to the Territories a conflicting law. It contains no provision that can be tor tured into any semblance of a prohibition. 2. The dispute 'On the question is licther slavery or freedom is local or general, is a mere War of . words. -The black race in-this coun try is neither bond nor free by - virtue of. - itny general law. That portion of it which it free, is free by virtue of some local regulation, and the slave owes service for a similar reason. The Constitution and laws of the United States simply declare that everything done in' the premises by the State governments is right, and they shall be protected in carryingit out. Jut free negroes and slaves may both And themselves - o utsi d eofan, yStatejurisdietion,andin aTerrito ry where no regulation has yet been made on the subject. There the Constitution is equally im partial .' It neither frees the slave nor enslaves the freeman. It requires both to remain in statu quo untilthe statusalready impressed upon them Dy.thelaw of their previous domicil shall be changed hr.:some 'tompeten t local authori ty. What is .competent local authority in a Territory will be elsewhere considered. 3. Thee Federal Constitution carefully guards the rights of privateproperty against the Fed eral Government itself, 1•, - declaring that it shall not be taken for public use without com pensation, nor without due process of law. .daces are private property, and every man who has taken an oath of fidelity to the Con stitution is religiously, morally, and politically bound to regard them as such. Does anybody suppose that a Constitution which acknowledg es the sacredness of private property. so fully, would wantonly destroy that right, not by. any ,words that are found -in it, but by mere im plication from its general, principles ? It might as well be asserted thatthe'general prin ciples of the Constitution gave Lane and Mont zomery a license to steal horses in the valley of the - Osage: - , . 4. The Supreme Court of the United States .7" has decided the question. After solemn argu ment and careful consideration, that august tribunal has announced its opinion to be that a elavehulder, by going into a Federal Territory, does not lose the title he had to his negro in the state front which he came. In former times, a question of constitutional law once de cided by the Supreme Court was regarded as settled by all, except that little band of ribald infidels who meet periodically at Boston to blaspheme the religion, and plot rebellion against the law, of the country. The leaders of the so-called Republican party have lately been treading close on the heels of their aboli tion brethren; but it is devoutly to be hoped that Mr. Douglas has no intention to follow t led r f to ease he is eleeted President le must see the' laws faithfully executed. Does he think he can keep that oath by fight ing the judiciary ? The legislative history of the country , howi that all the great statesmen of former times entertained the same opinion, and held it firmly that they did not even think of any “ther. It was universally taken for granted that a slave remained a slave, and a freeman a freeman, in the new Territories, until a change as made in their condition by sonic positive enactment. Nobody believed that a slave might act have been taken to and kept in the Northwest Territory if the ordinance of 1787 or some other regulation had not been made to prohibit it. The Missouri restriction of 1820 wan imposed solely because it was understoood (probably by every member of that Congress) that, in the absence of n restriction, slave prop rte would ho a, lawfil I in the eye of the Con •ti tution ah,e3ll , :-;11', a, below; and all agreed that the mero ata.ativa of a restriction did, in laot, make it lawful below the compromise It i• right to learn wi•eloin from our one , l'ho.ltepublioans do not point to any provision of the l'oristituticai, nor to nuc general principle embraced in it, nor to any established rule of law, which sustains their views. The ablest men among them sro driven by Strl'S, of necessity to hunt for ar goalenti: in a code utiri-vealetb unwritten, and undefined, which they put above the Constitu tion or the Bible, anti call it "higher law." The ultra atmlitioni•ts of New England do not deny that the l'onstitution is rightly interpre ted 'by the I)emocrats, as net interfering against shivery in the Territories; but, they disdain to obey what the.' pronoun.'' to be • an agree ment with death anti a covenant with hell." \V hat dal \I r. mean when he proposed and voted for the l(ansas-Nebraska repealing Missouri restriction 7 hid ht. intend lo Southern !nen that notwith -tmoding the repeal 4.f the prohibition, they , •rt. 1.A.L.11.1ed torrritt•ries as touch as eyi•r t.tr did Ile• hot regard the right of a 1/11 meter to hIS slave perfectly good whenever he rid ~f ti, I:rot:Hid:ion ' Did he, or any e 01 that trine, dream that it wa s o,wes• -.ar- to rank:- a positive law ir, favor of the i s bef,we Ire could go there with safe. to 'F. , a.. 1. these rincrtb.his is to answer thew' I,amas-N.lwa-lot Lill tvti , not meant r share It tVa.., well under-food that the :Teal 11/1114L . ~r vet, tv„old thr,,,, the mamtry open to I v. r, tr:hg, , l all the ti Lotion ri•Co;Vii/..`.1 ‘Vi. •• 1111, !J! Vl,l I, hat %,".• Leheye to be the 111fii. , ( , - 11.• id Lv the great body of the I , . • llll.ertlt, .M 1 i::ou,.:v, that. the Federal arstitotior: .1 , -.: not establish slavery any. w hetl amar that it permit.s a 1,1a,k I,•• • 111..• r In 1111,1.• or 11111. h• I f , ••• t It, nl IIK • linil and that irl I,r:c-) a i tI,. 141,j14:t .•1,1, It both tie slat, had h• .I 1 • hi retid i••P It. ,11. i.uui It situ: I•t• rLunre,l Lc eourpe. i... arrthorit 11 ., ha VA• seen, that thin I 11) •.1 tio thing. by a r,,t prim Tie of puldit law, by the w••rd th: onstitotron. hy a sol•• 11,11 - -..pro 0a• ('ourt • by the m hole , ours', of nor by the r : , noes.d..o of sir •ppetreats. and, filially, h.. the most important ri Inn 't•-• taild II.Ill."r I).,ugln, 111111.,i1 Mr U.alganother absurdity to hecharg, them with hst duly - of the judiciary to prt3tiol rn , lu.lcnta , n•l: ,, err , ntheterritorl••- • •: t Th..,1101!1. at•t. 11 , n11.•tamt •••ilti • .. .1 -.• .•./• it , ii• r, Ir, p..rti. r. t!•.• 1113,-Ir - 114c party Th.. ,•i:t ,t t• it, • ••: - 3 lII+ • /1 1I..• 3 Vt• 3 / th.• .•111.cr.,1 L. 1 , 1.:111 nv4t t.. t 1 .4 lII' IF in I nil,. 1. 11111 , • , r,..1 II MI,: ez,..Hl t ui tl, 1/ rrii/ it it -, / hire I, st h a:.I ItL L,dgv that h.• t- iz , vt lt•.1- :..• I, :tr,y I•si, iii I I NN 1,1.1 ,t ri41.1 z• t train 11 r I trt /I t:1 cl.•ftr 3trrl 1.1- rut , r• rii•airptrA ..o , r pu- , lbtt• axis thing LI It 11//.1,1•161, \I,. 1 ., trarr, c rwrr.!i 9t , tl lihl it I. an- lIIMEI I"' and i,. 1!]. Iltut ossesiitletto• sissy tho ...sobt,ss ot , lavory, rot hoi,o-o it or, but louvo: -st..s. os or} hlssoh nosh . . ;ts rt- In ti,. State., (.o Iry last, tholl ao ti.lllllt, it., for It'll ire hare ;1, (RI the I , litener, 1 , ) hut the or,titution doos ;tot porthit. n itsts,tor L, Siosep laro, or is fro , slogro 1., !luso his liberty. 4 strl_ ~r th, vviiero ;1 , 1. ;nte.i - 1 , 1" 1,. ;,r ,, vent it, then the error 4, •. i 4 -..rst =ME rhe con ,flEl4e, eAtithlLylle, ti .1,1,-77, I,a the Stfit, .1 (.1. lerrit"rtr, the p0we1...) the le ! ially to 471.,111,1 it, Thi is •ittling to Point- \o-Point again. ( course hich i. Ir,vall 1/ controllottl, cannot hi heyniet the power that inintrek it. But the Nrhat leffal control. ant wilt n the people el' a State territory etre it It it T 47 C,,,,tirttow t of lie Undrd States " leaves the eople • perfectly free * and subjeel ..0 5 I.J Ile_ Conshhiti4o 4 Ihe r,,,ted mat,. This tfirrie.: us I - 0111111 ft full circle, and drops 11.1 precisely- at the plaeo of beginning That the conqitution leaves every body subject to th e Con btitution, i.s most true. We are far from denying it We never heard it doubted, and i.,•t we never will. But the fdatement of it prose; nothing. defines nothing and ex plain, nothing it merely darkens the sub ject. a words without meaning always do Put notwithstanding all this circuity of ex.- pre , eion and consequent opaqueness of mean ing in the magazine article of Mr Douglas, we think we can guess what his opinions are or will lie when he comes to reconsider the subject He will admit (at least he will riot undertake to deny) that the status of a negro, whether of , ervitude or freedom, accompanies him wherever he goes, and adheres to him in every part of the Union until he meets s o me local use which change- it. It will al:, I a,greed that the people of a State, through their Legklature,and the people ot . a territory, in the Constitution which they to frame preparatory to their admisssion as a State, can regulate and control tho condition of the subject black race within their respect ive jurisdictions, so as to make them bond or free. But here NVO otne to a point at which opinions diverge Some insist that no citizen can be deprived of his property in slaves or anything else, creep by the provision of a State Consti tution or by the act of a State Legislature ; while others contend that an unlimited control over private rights may be exercised by a Ter ritorial Legislature as soon as the earliest set tlements are made. So strong are the sentiments of Mr. Douglas In favor of the latter doctrine, that if it be n..t established he threatens us with Mr. Sew ard '• irrepressible conflict," which shall end only with the universal abolition or the uni versal dominion of slavery. On the other hand, the President, the Judges of the Sn preine Court. nearly all the Democratic mem ber, nf Cnngre=-, the whole of the party Routh, and a very large majority North, are penetrated with a covietinn that no such pow er is vested in Territorial Legislature, and that those who desire to confiscate private property of nny kind must wait until they got a constitutional convention or the machinery of State- government into their hands. We venture to give the following reasons for be lieving.that Dougias is in error. The Supreme Court has decided that a. Terri. torial Legislature has not the power which he ihrit- That alone ought to be sufficient: r:st — ...• ~:,_~- There can be no law, order-or security for any man's rights, unless the judicial authority of the country be upheld. Mr. Douglas may do what he pleases with political conventions and party platforms, but we trust he will give to the Supremo Court at least that decent respect, which none but the most ultra ttepublicans have yet withheld. Tho right of property is sacred, and the first object of all human government is to make it secure. Life is always unsafe where property is not fully protected. Thii is the experience of every people on earth, ancient and modern. To secure private property was a principal ob ject of %fagna Cliarta. Charles I. afterwards attempted to violate it, but the people ruse upon him, dragged him to the block, and sev ered his head from his body. At a still later period another monarch fur a kindred offence was driven out of the country, and died a fugi tive arid an outcast. Our own Revolution was provoked by that slight invasion upon the right of property which consisted in the exaction of a trifling tax. There is no goveri.ment in the world, however absolute, which would not be disgraced and endangered by wantonly sacri ficing, private property even to a small extent. For centuries past such outrages hr.v'• ei,a,4l`d be committed in Gilles of peace among civilized nations. Slaves are regarded us property in the South ern States. Th.., people of that section buy and sell, arid carry on all their business, provide for their families, and make their wills and divide their inheritances on that assumption. It is manifest to all who know them, that no doubts ever cross their minds about the right fulness of holding such property. They believe they have a direct warrant f.ir it, not only in the examples of the best 111(•n that ever lived, but in the precepts of Divine Revelation itself and they aro thoroughly satisfied that the rela tion of roaster mid slave is the onlv one which ran possibly exist there between the white and the black race without ruining both. Thr people of the North may differ from their fel low-citizens of the South on the whole but knowing, us we . all do, that these senti ments are sincerely and honestly imtertainesl, we cannot wonder that they feel • the most un speakable indignation when any attempt is 'wide to interfere with their rights. 'Phis sen timent results naturally and necessarily from their education and habits of thinking. l'hey cannot help it, any more than ND 'HMI' S( roan in the North can avoid abhorring a thief or housebreaker. The jurists, legislators, and people of the Northern States, have always sacredly respected the right of property in slaves held by their own citizens within their own jurisdiction It is it remarkable fact, very well worth noticing. that DO Northern Butte f•Vf•r :illy law to take a negro from hi, unit-ter. All laws for the abolition of ritvery have operated only on the unborn ile , cendants of the negro race, and the vested right: of roasters have not. been dis• turbed in the North more than in the South. In every nation tinder heaven, civilized, Ferill-barharmi,, or sit vag,e. where slavery has existed in any form at all analogous to ours, the rights ol the masters to the control of their slaves its property 1110 , been respected and on 15,1 4,,,,,j0r, h a s any government k at lho,e rights, eXCUpt as it would ,triki• lit isfl,fr prop er: . Even the British Parliament, when it emancipated the Weot India slaves, though it was legislating for a people three thousand nu o•a nWay, arid not r , •prrneflted, Dever either the legal or the natural right of the:lave • oar. Slaves were admitted bi he property. aod the tiol,r11D11•111. :10 , [1. ,, V10 , 144.• , 1 it by their master-.one hundred t'dollnrs for the prl, Ih'go of setting them free Ilere, then. is a , f,cios tst property will, hi is of transcendent importance to it. material in teritst, of the —which the people -if that '' , 'inn mentor-loz- in the el Cosi and L' . 1,011 111,11 to !odd VAX', 1, sanctioned by tbe general s-ntse of all mankind ha , el; I , ted—Whldi 1,-,.al oDIV n -hoot time r 14.1 in ad the states of the t Mon, and v. it - , then treated a, sa..rust by every -me of t gleam/us - al to the owner ns 1110 eh Other property i. ifUnraritt...ll the I ..itstittititin -and Mr. Douala , : thinks that a Territorial Legislature is competent t o take it awet. 11 c 'at ' , No ; the supreme iegolatiVe pOW, „fit •••ivt-reign state alone con • dejiriVe n Wan of hi= prOp«rt{ . t ill' pnot~nition i.. 50 1 ,1.1 n, .0 sv, t a t, , and WU, no, :isit:44l that nil,' argument in it, favor would be it trier , waste of words Mr Dotlght , J 0.. ., hot deny it, and 11111 , 1 Dot require the dnitisandth part of he *agnri[t to s 51,11 ,m,i.•mod„ I !Sir)), ill' the 'l , •rritP.rinf f :•st e•rifti,••l,l , ri g ht of c•.r.ii tjr:±f NiVnt•• ; , ropert, have !Lli tine. PlNsi „ Ow tiair I,ttfriis.l stEtir-. That , the 151:11•11 lie 111111 k, i,. to . , `rlit t.. 1 e llemo;rn -11151,111• th.'llsll/..:,. 1411 It is 30 entird '.nlikh into thin air so a. ono-. tiP be etatio fled Witllt , l/t II ll:. prop.•rty blevt A Tvrnt,,ritii go% cridiezat 6 ier , *, pros lona; ttle.l total. eretry. It ie created by Con. i;rir..s fur the nevensary pri•serviita, ol ord e r a nd th e purpo,e, of police. The - re, r0.,1 ,i.,r, It are e pre , -ed di the or , ani, net, which i, the charter of it, e‘i,ter“.,.. and wineri !idly lir -haturinl or repealed at the !ha :sore of Coni:re,. ; I n u. tof tlio•r tte•le• the power ha, Lena er, el t o „r the Territorial [au's, and the poiver to repeal thew exist, malnart 'ire!) rerervation This can. ti,serteil in tiee cri-e of Karkuni by (h. , mo,L dr.tinglii,l),l Senator. in the l'erirrre., of The l're-lbent appoint, ti r e Gove r n or , judgyr 11,1 rill ~ 12 00 ',sent is !ILA. For.,vilt.,l for, directly indirectly. ht x'or%res• the the tiirfittiriul are pithd uul of the Federal treasury. The truth 1•, they bit, r, uttribute of ,11, I•rt'i ,:11t tt h ew The , e•ee— htellt:e ott e I:, perior. lint a Territorial h''' Cl • Ft ,aperior in the United Staten tiovernurent, upon whose 1 1 1011l , illrti it to dependent Cur very existence-- in whom It Ii: to, and 111 ,, , and who has made, and tan truti.e it Wito t:L:eut. Where does Oils ft.: en.igll auttroritx to de prive men of their property ("rule frorn This • "O' rt“hOia , 111 transcerelant power, which even despots are caot... about iising, and whieh a constitution al moutirci: I. it g et • mto lee gi.dature'l Surely it does aot front t , not he con tended, that it aceompanie.‘ the settlers, ists in the Territory before its organi;ation, Indeed it is not to the people, but to the gov. eminent of a Territory, that Mr. Douglas say It belongs. Then Congress must gi. e the p o w. er at the same time that it gives the Territorial government. But not a word of the kind is to he found in any organic het that ever was franid. It is thus that Mr. Douglas's arma ment runs itself out into nothing. But if Congress .mold pass a statute i‘spres, ly to give this sort of power to the Territorial governments, they still would not have it ; for the Federal Government itself does not pores any control over moos property in the Terri tories. That :ad/ power does not esist in the Federal Government needs no proof Mr. Douglas admits it fully and - freely It is, be sides, established by the solemn decision of Congress, by the assent of the Executive, and by the direct ratification of the people acting in their primary capacity at the polls. In addi tion to all this, the Supreme Court have delib erately adjudged it to be an unalterable and undeniable rule or constitutional law. This: .9. , llll ,, wlocigernetit that Congress has no power, authority, or jurisdiction over the ,üb ject, literally obiipe, Mr. Douglas to give up his doctrine, or eke to maintain it by atserting, that a power which the Federal Government does not peosSe.a may be given by COltyreSS to the Territorial Clarrra meld. The right to abolish African slavery in a Territory is not granted by the Constitution to Congress it is with held, and therefore the same tic if expressly prohibited. Yet Mr. Douglas declares that Congress may give it to the Territories. Nay: be goes further, and says that thr.ont of the power in Congress is the eery reason why it can delegate it—the general rule, in his opinion, being that Congress cannot delegate the powers it possesses, but may delegate such. " and only such, as Congress cannot exercise under the Constitution I" By turning to pages 520 and 521, the reader will . see that this. astounding proposition is actually made, not in jest or irony, but solemnly, seriously, and, no doubt, in perfect good faith. On this principle, as Congress cannot exercise the power to make an ex post facto law, or a law impairing the obli gation of contracts, therefore it may authorize such laws to be made by the town councils of Washington city, or the levy court of the District. If Congress passes an act to hang a man without trial, it is void, and the judges will not allow it to executed : but the power In do this prohibited thing can be constitutionally given by Congress to a Territorial Legislature. We admit that there are certain powers bestowed upon the General Government which are in their nature judicial or excoutive. With them Congress can do nothing, except to see that they are executed by the proper kind of officers. It is also true that Congress has certain legislative powers which cannot be delegated.. But 34r. Douglas should have known that he was not talking about powers which belonged to either of these classes. beitabout a legislative y - -,~.r . ~.y iFL r.~b-t}i- i~`,y7 4 i~;~~ti iii jurisdiction totally forbidden to the Federal Government, and incapable of being delegated, for the simple reason that it does not constitu tionally exist. Will any body say that such a power ought, .1.9 a mutter of policy, or for reasons of public safety. to be held by the provisional govern ments of the Territories Undoubtedly no true patriot, nor no friend of justice and order, can deli! -rately reflect on the probable conse quences without deprecating them. This power over property is the ono which in all governments has been most carefully guarded, because the temptation to abuse it is always greater than any other. It is there that the subjects of a limited monarchy watch their king with the greatest jealousy. No re public has ever failed to impose strict limita tions upon it. All free people know, that if they would remain free, they roust compel the government to keep its hands off their private property: and this can be done only by vine. them up with careful restrictions. Accord ingly,. our Federal Constitution declares that no person shall be deprived of his property except by duo process of law," and that "pri vate property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation." It is universally agreed that this applies only to the exercise of the power by the Government of the United states. We are also protected against the state governments by a similar provision in the State Constitutions. Legislative robbery therefore a crime which cannot be committed either by Congress or by any State Legisla ture, unless it he done hi flat rebellion to the fundamental law of the land. But if the ter ritorial g ,, vernments have this power, then they have it without any limitation whatso evr•r. and in all the fulness of absolute despo tism. They are omnipotent in regard to all their internal affairs, for they are sorereign.s, 1., hold flan i,r check. Amt this omnipotent sovereignty is to be wielded by a few men suddenly drawn together from all parts of America and Europe, unac quainted with one anoth&r, and ignorant of their relative rights. But if Mr. Douglas is right, those governments have all the absolute power of the Russian Autocrat. They may take every kind of property in mere caprice, or for any purpose of lucre or malice, without process of Inw, and without providing for com pensation. The Legislature of Kansas, sitting Lecomptrin or Lawrence, nosy order the miners to give up every ounce of gold that has been dug rd. Pike's Peak. If the authorities of [tali should license a band of marauders to despoil the emigrants crossing the Territory, their sovereign right to do so cannot be ques tioned. A new Territory may be organized, which Southern men third: should be devoted to the culture of cotton, while the people of the North are equally certain that grazing alone is the proper business to be carried on there. If one party, by accident, by force, or by fraud, ha+ a majority in the Legislature, the negroes are taker, from the planters : and if the other set gains a political victory, it is followed by a ,datute to plunder the grazers of their cattle. Such things cannot be done by the Federal Government, nor by the governments of the States but, if Mr. Douglas is not mistaken, they run la , done by the Territorial govern ments. 1, it not every way better to wait un til the new in:mbitants know themselves and her until the policy of the territory is settled Ly some expr•riernre, and. above all, un til the great powers of a <evereign State are regularly emit:erred upon them and properly mited, eir a: to prevent the gr,s abuses which accompany unrestricted power in hu man hands .. There i' another consideration, which !Mr. Douglie should have been the last man to over cook. The present Administration a the baler-al government, and the whole Democratic voty throng,hout the country, including Mr. Douglas thought that, in the case of Kansas, the retaining or abolishing slavery should not be determined by any represents tit.- body without giving to the whole mass or the people an oppartunit y ,if voting on it. Mr Douglas carried it further, and warmly opp,,sed mho Constitution, denying even its va lidity. I,eram,e other and undisputed parts of had not also been submitted to a popular vote Now he is willing that the whole slav erydi-lute in any territory, and all questions that can arise concerimig the rights of the to that the other propertv.shall be de cided at once by a Territorial Legislature,with out any ~J at ell. Popular sovereigut:: in the last Congress meant the freedom of the lop from all restraints of law and order : it means a government whi,di shall rule i LI,: ru a ill, it ri•ti of iron it swings like a pen ,l,ll.m from ,• , site dear tit,r to the other . Mr I haiglas on this subject of terrilorial go , ernnwnt, are very n t :ui an tot tilt* reason' he has produced to aupport them are oirinitely more curious still. For instance. lie chows that Jefferson once uarodoced into the old Congress of the Cmi federnt,,,ri ? oor, for 11, government of the tiorritorii, calling them by the name of -New Stab- but not leaking View anythine. like .overei ! tir or initeipt , litliitit StatitA and though this us. n mere experimental pr , WCl,Whiell Was by Congres,, and never afterwards re ferred to by Jetkrson himself, vet Mr. Doug las argii,, upon it as if it had somehow become a part our fundamental law. lie -ay, that the. Sthlas gat.s to the thri powers which oloui -u they had been w Wing to concede to :lie ltritish Government, and kept those which iiitirlittt they had .-Inimed for themselves. If he „ill rend a common 'chord history of the it.' .slag then look at Art. I, Sec. C, of tae , tutiori. he will dud the two following , is. ts . 1. that tb' Federal eminent has purser to lay and collect r te- , . duties, impost ,, , and ced=es : and, - Chat the colottieii, before the Re% olution, utter ly '•f used to he taxed by Great Britain. and so r tar f rom c,,rtroaiwz the power, fought against it for le::;: There is another thing to the acticie which, it it had not come trout a distinguished Sena tor, and a ory upright gentleman, would have been open to BOWS imputation of unfairness. lie the President'. iniissage and begins in the middle of a so. 14t , professes to giro the very words, and nietht , z , Mr. Buchanan say "That slavery exists in KRIIEII.as by virtue the Ciiiiiititution of the United States." What Mr. Buchanan did r.y was a very dif ferent thi.ig. tt \,, - to this. •• It has been vol. ~innly adjudged by the highest judicial trihu -., 1ay.i...,11a . t slavery exists in (I .. KLIIISM by virtue of the ("0n.r.;, * .77 6 °. of the United States.' Everybody knows that by treating the Bible in that way, you can prove the lien existence of (led. The urguordeNtimi eld 11(.1,1;,,011 is not fair, and we do not mean to use it. Mr. Douglas has a right to change his opinions whenever . be pleases But we quote him as we would any other authority equally high in fits or of tr u th. We can prove by himself that every proposi tion lie lays down in Harpers' Magazine is founded in error. Never before has any public man in ....marks so completely revolutionized his political opinions in the course of eighteen months. We do not deny that the c h ange is heartfelt and conscientious. We only Insist that he formerly stated his propositions much more clearly, and sustained them with fur greater ability and better retisoll3 than h a does now \Then ha took a tour to the South. at the beitining of last. winter, he made a speech at New Orleans, in which be announced to the people there that he and his friends in Illinois 1) , -ed Seidl decision, regarded as property, and fully admitted the right of a Southern man to go into any Federal ter y with his star e, and to hold him there a: other property is Add. In 1849 he voted in the oenai what, was called Walker's amendment, b 1 which it was proposed to put all the internal allairs of Cali fornia and Now Mexico under the domination of the President, giving him almost unlimited power, legislative, and executive, over the :..aternatuffairs of those Territories. (See 20th Cong.. p. —.) Undoubtedly this was a strange way of treating sovereignties If Mr. Douglas is right now, ho was guilty then of most atrocious usurpation. Utah is as much n sovereign State as any othor Territory, and as perfectly entitled to en joy the right of self-government. On the 12th of June, 1857, Mr. Douglas made a speech about Utah, at Springfield, Illinois, in which ho expressed his opinion strongly lu favor of ab3olzite and uncon ditional repeal of the or ganic act. blotting the Territorial government crieenee, and putting the people under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the Unit- ed States, like a fare, arsenal., dock-yard, c— ,.ag.ez/r.c. He does not seem to have had the least idea then that he was proposing to extin guish a sovereignty, or to trample upon the sacred rights of an independent people. The report which lie made to the Senate, in 1836, on the Topeka constitution, enunciates a very different doctrine from that° the maga zine article. It is true that the language is a little cloudy, but . no one can understand the • following sentences to signify that the Territo rial governments have sovereign power to take away the property ofthe - inhabitants -The sovereignty of e-Terntory r.ennutnsninterrnce , .7.l4 , :nded to the United States, ,n mist fsr the peeps, vn_ t tsythoil adwitted into ttie. Via= az a State. In 94 meantime they are admitted to enjoiand exercised' the rights and privileges of nelf:govetnment, in subOi'dina. Goa to the f mstitution of the United Staten, and LN ENOS To TWO ORGANIC LAW passed by Congress in pursu ance of that instrument. These rights and privileges are all derived from the Constitution, through the .det of amgress, and must be exercised and enjoyed in subjec tion to all the limitations and restrictions which that Constitution imposes!' The letter he addressed to a Philadelphia meeting in February, 1868, is more explicit, and, barring some anomalous ideas concerning the abeyance of the power and the suspension of it in trust, it is clear enough : "Under our Territorial system, it requires sovereign power to ordain and establish constitutions and govern ments. While a Territory may and should enjoy all the righte of self-government, in obedience to its organic taw; it is vol A say - omen PCMT.R. The sarereignty of a Territo ry remains In aberianee.huspeautod in the United States, in r,u.st for the people when Ulm become a State, and cannot be wandraten from the hands of the trustee and rested in the Pawl , f a Territory without the consent of Congress." 'Tbe report which he made in the seine month, from the Senate Committee on Territories, is equally distinct, and rather more emphatic against his new doctrine: This committee in their reports have always held that n Territory is not a ,orcrcigit tower; that the sover eignty of a Territory is in abeyance, suspended in the United States, in trust for the people when they become a State, that the United States, as trustees, cannot be divested of the sovereignty,nor the Territory be invest ed with the right to assume and exercise it, without The consent of Congress. If the proposition beim° that sovereign power alone can institute gorernmentsJuid that the sovereignty of a Territory is in abeyance, sue ',ended in the United States, in trust for the people when they become a State, and that the sovereignty cannot be divested from the hands of the trnstee with out the assent of Congress, it follows, as an inevitable consequence, that the Kansas Legislature did not and ibuld not confer upon the Lecompton convention the sovereign power of ordaining a constitution for the peo ple if Kansas, in place of the organic act passed by Congress." The days are past and gone when Mr. Douglas led the fiery assaults of the oppo isition in the Lecompton controversy. Then it was his object to prove that a Territorial Leg islature, so far from being ornnipotent,was pow erless even to authorize an ;election of dele gates to consider about their own affairs. It was asserted that a convention chosen under a Territorial law could make and ordain no con stitution which would be legally binding.— ' Then a Territorial government was to be de spised and spit upon, even when it invited the ' people to come forward and vote on a ques tion of the most vital importance to their own interests. But now all things have become new. The Lecompton dispute has "gone glim mering down the dream of things that were," and Mr. Douglas produces another issue, brand new from the mint. The old opinions are not worth a rush to his present position : it must be sustained by opposite principles and rea soning totally different. The Legislature of Kansas was not sovereign when it authorized a convention of the people to assemble and de cide what sort of a constitution they would have, but when it strikes at their rights of property, it becomes not only a sovereign, but a sovereign without limitation of power. We have no idea that Mr. Douglas is not perfectly sincere, as he was also when he took the other side. The impulses engendered by the heat of controversy have driven him at different times in opposite directions. We do not charge it against him as a crime, but it is true that these views of his, inconsistent as they are with one another, always happen to accord with the in terests of the opposition, always give to the en emies of the Constitution a certain amount of "aid and comfort," and always add a little to the rancorous and malignant hatred with which the Abolitionists regard the Govern ment of their own country. Yes ; the Lecompton issue which Mr. Doug las made upon the Administration two years ago is done, and the principles on which we were then opposed are abandoned. We are no longer required to fight for the lawfulness of a Territorial election held under Territorial au thority. But another issue is thrust upon us, to "disturb the harmony and threaten the in tegrity" of the party. A few words more, 4erhaps of tedious repetition,) by way of showing what that new issue is, or probably will be, and we are done. We insist that an emigrant going into a Fed eral Territory, retains his title to the property hich he took with him, until there is some prohibition enacted by lawful authority. Mr. Douglas cannot deny this in-the face of his exv Orleans speech, and the overwhelming reasons which support it. It is en agreed pointamongall Democrats that Congress cannot interfere with the rights of property in the Territories. it is also acknowledged that the people of a new state, either in their constitution or in an art of their Legislature, may make the negroes within it free, or hold them in a state of servi tude. But we believe more. We believe in sub nutting to the law, as decided by the Supreme Court, which declares that a Territorial Legis lature cannot, any more than Congress,-inter fere with rights of property in a Territory— that the settlers of a Territory are bound to wait until the sovereign power is conferred upon them, with proper limitations, before they attempt to exercise the most dangerous of all its functions. Mr. pougla3 denies this, and t Imre is the now issue. Why should such an issue be made at such a time What is there now to excuse any friend of peace for attem_pting to stir up the bitter waters of strife " There is no actual difficulty about this subject in any Territory. There is no question upon it pending before Congress or the country. We are called upon to make a contest, at once unnecessary and hopeless, with the judicial authority of the nation. We ob ject to it. We will not obey Mr. Douglas when he commands us to assault the Supreme Court of the United States. We believe the court to he right, and Mr. Douglas wrong. D 1 E D: uu Sunhat', October loth, Mrs. REBECCA Aft oRROW, ou the 40th ear of her age. Tb.. funeral mill take place to-day, at to o'clock, A. 3J., from The reoncleneoe of her husband, Richard P. :Ver. raw, ou South Pittsburgh. The friendsof the faintly are nttend without further notioe. A Great sled!clue fur Females. Hundreds of stimulants hare been invented and sold, purporting to be specific in the various diseases and de rangements to which the delicate form of woman ren tier subject. The result of all these stmulants has oven to import momentary activity to the nervosa sis ter, and (Al, vigor to the ii,svcks; but this relief has - been succeeded by a depression and prostration greater than before; and the repeated attempts of invalids to build ihein.selves up by these false remedies, have finally end ed in destroying what liitle vitidorganization was left Hot in using "Ban-hares Holland Bitters" yott will find Le such disastrous results. It is a purely vegetable compound. prepared on strictly scientific principles, al , ter the manner of the celebrated Holland Professor, bwrlinve. Under its influence errry nerve and muscle receives Lew strength and vigor, appetite and sleep re turnoind finally, perfect health. See advertisement in another column. Read amendly.— The Genuine highly Concentrated thernave's I:l‘.,llnnd Bitters is nut up in hair ptm bottles on 1), and retailed at one dollar per Dottie. 'fne great demand for this truly celebrated Medicine has Induced many imitations, which the'peblic should guard against purchasing. Beware of imposition I See that our name is on the label of every bottle you buy. SCINJ4I,IfN P4GE,-.la. t Ca. Sale Proprietors, No. 27 Wood, between First'andEacolid its., Pittsburgh. New Adverisenens. FOR ALDERMAN— THIRD WARD. —E. J. BURKE offers himself to the citizens as Candi }date ;O:4lderman, Third ward, Pittsburgh, subject to ;tire nomination of the ;:.er.^,,ociitie. Primary Meeting. octlihtlrn BANK OF PITTSBURGH, 't Pittsburgh, October 18,'69. Us. AN ELECTION FOR THIRTEEN DIREC TORS of this Bank, will be held at the Banking House, on MONDAY„November 4.2 t, between the hours 0(10, A. M. and 2, P.: :W. • The Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held ma ESDAY, November Ist, at 11, A. M. - octlgSidallw JOHN HARPER, CaAner. ENGINEER'S OFFICE, P. it'. C. IL R. Near Four Mile Run, October Id, 'SO. ) U. PROPOSALS will be received till November 8. 1859. for building the Trestle Work and Bridge Superstructure for the road between Pittsburgh and Port Perry, as follows, viz 40,000 feet Timber, B. M, for trestle work; 1;9 " " for bridge supentnicture 40,IXVpounds Iron, ;or bolts. &0- The bids may be for material alone, fT. alone. or mac include both. • About 150,000 feet timber, B. M., of the abora for. Ores. tie work will be needed this falL Also, about 28,000 feet for bridglng,and the balance early in spring next. Far further information apply to the Engineer Mr. S. Low. octl9td ‘3isned ' i :II ORMDN . & CO., Annual Plowing - Match. /THE ANNUAL PLOWING - MATCH of the Alle eh eny county Agricultural Society, will take place on THURSDAY, November 3d, 1859. The field selected by the committee is on that part of the "Roes Farm occupied y Wilum Henri, one mile and a half above Ftharpshurg. ThisqllowNlSiii inarted at 10 o'clock, IND. YOUIN-G, 3a;,• Chairman. 5_ Scaornt. Jr., Sec'y. ASSIGNEE'S SALE OF REAL •ESTATE, T WILL OFFER. Al' PUBLIC SALE, at the COURT HOUSE, in tho City of Pittsimrgh.Alle gheny county. Penn', on TUDIDAT, the I6th day of November, rsL9, et o'clock, P.ll . - all the right, title, interest and claim of JAMES BLAKELY, Est, of, in and to, about five thousand acres of , farm Wade, situate :n the Slate of Minnesota, near St. Paul and Stillwater; in the State of lowa, near Muscatine, Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Fort Desmoines, Fort Dodge, Osage, Clear Lake and 3fason City State of Wisconsin ; State of Ohio, near Toledo and Van Wert. Also, • about 100 town. lota .10 St Paul, St. Anthony, St. Cloud, Mankato. Le Crescent, Anoka and Stillwater, Minnesota; Superior City, Wisconsin: Cleveland and East Liverpool, Ohio; Lecompton, Kansas; and Omaha, Nebraska. Maps, plata, descriptions of property and plane, may be teen at my office, No. 9 Grant street, Pittsburgh. Terms cash; purchasers paying cost of Collrevancing. • ' oetl.9:td.ith3tw: Aedi • we ofJan:Rlakely,E CONCENTRATED'' LYE.-300 cases for k.l vale E. L. 'PAHNIWICICIC L CO, ect3.9 - 00, cora,* FoorilLatid Wood streets. Mew advertisements. ALL AND EXAMINE WILCOX Si. GIBBS' New Pat eat SEWING MACHINES; lIICII RECEIVED AT THE LAST state Fair. in Plailadel phis. the Highest Premium. Thette Machine, are acliincmledged by all srho have examined them, the belt in wie, yet they are sold for THE LOW PRICE OF THIRTY DOLLARS For Sale at No. 51 Fifth St. A IRBANK'S SCALES! FAIRBANR'S RAY, COAL, PLATFORM, and Of every description, for sale nt FAIRBANKS SCALE WAREHOUSE. No. VI Fifth street. WOODEN BOWLS AND LIVERPOOL WARE AT AUCTION. --This, WEDNESDAY, Morning, October 19th, at 10 o'clock, at the Commercial Sales R 00171,3, No. 64 Fifth street, will be sold : 1300 feet Wooden Bowls. assorted size: 3 casks No.l assorted Liverpool Ware. octl9 J. (4. DAVIS, Auctioneer. MEDICI.NAL LIQUORS.—I keep con stantly on hand a complete assortment of LI quors, either bottled or otherwise, consi3tins of Port Wine, Modena Wine, Sherry Wine, Catawba Wine, Holland Gm, Jamaiea •sßuni, Bterhave's,Hostetter's and Hoothind's German Bitters. JOSEPH FLEMENIG, Corner Diamond and Market street. DYE WOODS--Ground and Chipped.— :WO barrels for sale by B. L. FABNESTOCK & CO., No. GO, corner Fourth and Wookstreets. - • INSEED OIL.-125 bbls. for sale by B. L. FAHNESTOCK & Cu.. corner Fourth and Wood to. S.HA IV LS, SHAWLS, SETA —An inexhaustible stock of round and square cornered Shawls now on hand. net.l9 c, HANSON LOVE, 74 Marktst sc. [O. I OFFER MYSELF as a Candidate for the AL. DERM,I...NSHIP of the Third Ward, subject to the usages of the Democratic party. 0ct17:2m,1 M. K. tOLAN. Ors PROPOSALS for the furnishing of all material, and building of the PITTSBUROBIALLEGHENI AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY, will be received at the undersigned until SATURDAY AFTERNOON, at o'clock, where plans and specifications may be seen. A. S. BELL :3ebov and Treas., 103 -Fourth street. CLOSING OUT SALE DRY GOODS. W. /tic, D. No. 69 Market St., Car. Fourth, ENTIRE STOCK of DRY GOODS At Greatly Reduced Prices, A they intend remna ing about the last of the month to tl.eii _.'ENV 110t.TEE, reeent!!: binit at THE OLD STAND, PITTSBURGH STEEL WORKS. ISAAC JONES JNO. J. BOYD ....W3l: M'C'ULLOITGEI JONES, BOYD & CO., CAST STEEL SPRING, PLOW, AND A. B. STEEL SPRINGS AND AXT,P.S, Corner Ross and First Streets, oct PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. J. S. ROSE., OF FHILIDELPH[A, To the People of Pittsburgh. EVERY INTELLIGENT AND THINK INGjui PERSON must know that remedies branded out for general use should hare their efficiency estab. I tailed by well tented experience in the hands or a regu larly educated Physician, whose preparatory, study.flta him for all the ditties he must fulfill; yet the coon. try is flooded with poor Nostrums and Cure-alls, pur porting to be the best in the world. which are net only useless, but frequently injurious. • Dr.J.S. Ro Expectorant or Cough Syrup, Per thnsumpticm. Cold; Cbuiht, Anima, Sp iffiir.g of Blct , i,.Bronchitis, and DMOSEI of thelunys. 'I hi, Syrup, haying stood the test of many years ex perience' as a remedy for irritation or inflammation of the Lungs. Throat or Bronchia, is acknoa 'erect by all to be a remedy eminently superior to other known corn-_ pounds used for the relief and radical cure of Cough-i. and Consumption. In compounding a Cough Syrup for general use, the physician—for none but a physician should attempt a prescription—i, compelled, from his knowledge of - the constitution and constituted parts of man, to avoid en tirely the addition of drugs that can in any way tend to do injury. His object is not only to cause a symptom, ouch es cough, to stop, but it is also expected that a regularly educated doctor, that he should cure his pa tient radically—while the pretender may allay a cough by opium and squills, molasses and laudanum, ant mony, morphia, and wild-cherry bark, and not be ac. Countable for the after health of his patient. Many of the nostrums of tho day there power to stop a cough, and the deluded victim is lulled. Into an incurable form of disease, or perhaps death. Although a cough may arise from a variety of causes - which still continue to operate_ such' as Tubercles, Ab. pies,, Chronic Inflammation of the Lungs, Liver, Bron chia, etc., &e., still the lungs ere c tile organs compelled. to do the coughing, and consequently produce Cott- - rumprion. This Cough Syrup will not only cure Cough, but In all cases prevent that Dos of Diseases, CONSUMPTION. *4 — Price 50 Cents and pi. DR. 3.8. ROSE'S PAIN CURER.—That popular and never-failing remedy has alone stood the test of thirty. five years. Price 25 and 50 cents. The Pain Curer cures Rhematism. The Pain Curer cures pains in the limbs, joints, back, and spine. The Pain Curer cures cholic, pains in the stomach or bowels. The Pain Curer cures scalds, buns, sprains and bruises. . . The Pain Curer etires any pain internally or external,. ly, and shouldbe kept in every family. We Shall only ray to the ¬ed, try the Pain Curer If it gtves you relief, recommend it to others: Kit fella, condemn it. Remember it has come from s regular Physician. DR. J. S. ROSE'S DYSPEPTIC COMPOUND, the only • sure cure for Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. Price flO cent Dyspepsia may be known by costiveness, belching . dp . ot wind, sour stomach, and sometimes .diarrhoea. pr looseness of the 'bowels, headache, nervous feelings, cold feet, wakeitlness and variable appetite. If.theSe symptoms are allowed to go on long, without this medi cine, (which will always cure,,, then follpy. debility-of the lungs, and a predisposition to Consumption.. rae-The written signature Must be SYRUPcsitt DR. J. S: ROSE'S ALTERATIVE or'..Blceil, Purifier, for the cure of Scrofula, Old Eruptions,Chronid Diaesies, Ulcers.. S ores., Swelled Neck, and all diseases - arising frorn an impure MT, of the blood. Price pl. 'DR, S..ROSE'STeUCHU. COMPOUND, for all eases of the Kidneys and Bladder. Price 50 cents. The. great demand for this article has induced °there to but. -- tie up something they call Buchu. Ask for Rose's, and take no other. Written signature must he over the cork of each bottle; take none without it. oct3:l JUST RECEIVED. LADIES' PINE mo.tocco HEELED BOOTS LAMES' FINE FRENCH CALF MOROCCO BOOTS; " LASTE!:.'G MOROCCO OAT- EM=l TER BOOTS. Gents' tn.-sole D. W. French Calf EcrAs , Gents' French Calf Congren tiatterax . . .... , _ - -- Gents' Coarss and Fine Brogans; 'slays' t770-ICig, D. W. French CsJCWatar Proof Boots; Bcjs ConeressGettwitt Boys' Thick Boots and Brogens; louths' Ttdck Boots and Brogrars; " • . MISSES' HEELED MOROCCO BOOTS ,• Child RS; " ' LIFERS, 'tad' rroaa' - Shoes cC all kinds; ladies", , Gents`, Boys ', - Ottildrens' GUMS, of all the styles. - MITCHELS' METALIC TIP. HOES, for Boys Youths dad Misses, all of which - 311: be sold at very low rates. Give the a call, at the Cheap Cash Store at : JOS. H. BORL.eirt i .. .2d doot frorn_lifth. .p.. turm-pri No. 93 Market sires' araiLllV3...:-. fOTIRTII STitEET. UPHOLSTERY, vo. S 5 Fourth Street, near Wood. THE SUBSCRIBERS M.A.,),7UFACTURE and keep constantly on hand eTary artfale in their line, Tin: Connces.-Ornaments,Curtain Goods,Comforta, Feather Beds, Mattrnaeea of.a/llunda; also, the celebra ted Patent Spring Eed3. All kinds of ahades,_Blinds.. and Fixtures. alimme-Prompt attention given toall orders for fitting and. laying down Carpets; Oil Cloth • • ... octnayd _ ROBERTS ROENICE. - 2 ILEROTYPE. —.These heautful :sad durable Pictures on glass; in alltheir.perteintou and torolinetl, *ugly Or in groups .uonj be ObtalZ, lo 4 WALIIBI Jones' Suldiag , Fourth street. FAIRBANKS s EWING, General A • ems COUNTER SCALER, OFFER THEIR COR. 'FIFTH AND MARKET 918. I:=1