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Duncan, ATTORNEY AT LAW.—Ofhce in the North west C-Orner of Centre &asse, Gettyibtarg, [Oct. 3, 1859. tf A. J. Cover, • ATTORNEY AT LAW, will promptly eAtend to Collections and all other business en trusted to him. Office between Fahnestoeks' and Danner At Ziegler's Stores, Baltimore street, Gettysburg, Pa. [Sept. 5, 1859. Edward B. Buehler, ATTOBNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all businessentrusted to win. He speaks the German language.— Office at the Caine place, in South Baltimore street, near Forney's drug store, and nearly opposite Danner k Ziegler's store. Gettysburg, March 20. D. McConaughy, ATTOP.NEY AT LAW, (of fi ce one door west of Bnehler's drug and book store,Cham bersuu-g street.,) Arrottier min Sottetroa von Pirsvrs Aso Plessioxs. Bounty Land War rants, Back-pay suspended Claims, and all other claims against the Government at Wash ington. D. C.; also American in England. Lind Warrants located and solder bought, and highest prices given. Agents engaged in lo cating warrants in lowa, Illinois and other weatern States. t ar Apply to him personally or by letter. Gettysburg, Nov. 21, '53. J. C. Neely, TTORNEY AT LAW, will attend to collec tions and all other business inkrusted to is cars with promptness. Office in the S. E. corner of the Diamond, (formerly occupied by Wm. H. McClellan, Esq.) Gettyshnrg, April 11, 1859. tf Win. B. McClellan, ATTOILNEY AT LAW.-4.lffiee in West Mid die street, one dour west of the sew Court House. Uettyalkurg, Nov. 14. 1859. • Dr. A. W. Dorsey, yoßmr.,„„ of Carroll county, Md., haring • pernianentiy located in Gettysburg. o ff ers liA profes,ioaal services to the citizens of the tower and surrounding country in the practice of the various branches of his profession. Office and r , rsidence, Ilaltinfore street, next dour to The ....'ompiler office, where he tasty be found at all dues when not professiotutlly engaged. BETLUENCES. Prof. :Winn U. Smiths ltaltimore, Md. Bey. Augustus Webster, D. U., Bsltimlllre Yd Dr..l. L. Wa.rfield, Westminster, ILL Dr. W. I. ILithias, " Jacob !West, Esq., IL John K. Longwell.Esq., Geo. E. Wompier, Esq., Li IS Rev. Thorn to Bowen, Gettysburg. Oct. 25, 1858. G J. Lawrence Hill, X. D. AS his office one .ei titirt door west of the' ". ST. utheran church in Chambersburg street. and opposite Picking's store, where those wishing to have any Dental Operation performed are respectfully invited to call. Rerontscest Drs. Horner, Rev. C.-P. Knuth, D. D . Rev. 11. L. Rougher, D. D., Rev. Prof. M. Jacobs. Prof. M. L. Starer. Gettysburg, April 11, '53. The Old County BriunNG, known by every man In the county. cud no doubt many a one wished there never had been such a place, as many were broken up by permitting, or rather oblig ed to hare their names entered upon the coun ty dockets. But look at the change. It is a pleasure now to call there and buy goods of S itISON at such astonishingly reduced pricto— lower than ever before offered In the county,- He has just received from the cities a large lot of new Beady-made CLOTHING, for men and boys' wear: with Hats, Boots and Shoes, Truukr, Valises, Carpet Bags, Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Violins, &gars, Tobacco. Jr.e., kc-, lc. Call soon, and don't miss the great bargains now had at the old County Building, corner of the Diamon'd and York street, Gettysbrrg.- 11Awt's the spot ! • Thankful to his old customers for their pa tronage, be hopes by his change oflocation not only to retain their custom, but secure a large number of new buyers. An entire summer suis---eostt, pasta and test— for. $1,25! X. SAMSON. April Id, 181.10 Just in Season! GWE CS A CALL !—The undersigned bare just received from the cities an immense stock of CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, CASSINETS, VESTING'S in all varieties, kc., suitable for the season. which they offer to the public at unpre cedentedly low rates. '• They ask a call, To convince all -- of the truth of his assertion. No trouble to show goods and give prices. A, large tot o f READY-MADE CLOTHING also selling cheaper khan ever. Garments made up for men and boys, as us ual, in the very best manner, and according to any style desired. The work being done in their own establishment, they are always en ablfd to warrant it. Remember, their place of business is the large and commodious room ad joining Cobean k Culp's on Chambersburg street. JACOB 9b Jr BRO., Sept. 19, 1859. Merant Tailors. Shawls ! Shawls ! AT SCHICK'S. Broche, (long and square.) Printed Cashmere Shawls, Stella, Thibet, and De Leine do April 16. 1860. Removals. jttindersi g ned.bein g the authorized person o Snake removals into Ever Green Ceme tery, hopes that each as contemplate the removal of the remains of deceased relatives or friends, will avail themselves of this season of the year to hare it done. Removals made with promptness —terms lair, and no effort spared to please. PETER THORN, March 12, '6O. Keeper of the Cemetery. Removal THT► subscriber has removed his Plough said ji Mime Sue Shop from the Foundry building to Railroad street, opposite Tote's Blacksmith shop, hack of the Eagle Hotel, where he is bet ter prepared than ever to attend to customers. Ploughs always on hand and made to order at the shortest notice, and Machines, Reapers, he., repaired. Also he will attend to cleaning and repairing Clocks. DAVID WABRKM. May 10. Gas ! Gas ! Gaa ! rilrahecriber has laid ins large clock of e Mendelian, Brackets, Burners, tc., t o i ipudi to ffirfiea sksatiossion of the ctuna nii G i ampars. IBS price! ass at Iowa& they lure la the eigiso. CO la sad see yowls's , es. Ware Roontiii liirk street, irppoetta the Bank. May 7, 1860. • WM. HELMS. By H. k BTAHLB 4T.! YEAR. X 2 4:3MlT'lli co VIE WILL BOW. Time will show what we lure done, What has been ended, and what begun, Time will show. Who has been true to the dreg• of 'deposal, Garnered a harvest of rich, ripe fruit, Time will show. Time will show a good deed has bees wrought, Hewn from the heart of a noble thought,' Time will show. Time will show bow seen hare grown strong, Chanting the burdens of eloquent song, Time will show. We are looking ahead with fearful eyes, Watching the flush of our morning skies, All aglow. We smile as we think on our future years, But our smiles are veiled with half shed teen We never show. But time will show the deeds of as aE, As we tread the last arch of His mighty ball. Time will show. WWII FAMIDIetr urn or JAC ILION. OEN. JACKSON AT NEW ORLEANS JACKSON'S ARRIVAL. Early on the morning of the second of December, 1814, a party of gentle men rode at a brisk trot from the lake towards the city of Now Orleans. The mist, which, during the night, broods over the swamp, bad not cleared off.— The air was chilly, damp and uncom fortable. The travellers, however, were v r 1 evidently_ h y men, accustomed to exposure, d intent upon purposes too absorbing o leave any consciousness of external discomforts. Though devoid of a:1 military display, and even of the ordinary equipments of soldiers, the bearing arid apivasiunee of these men betokened their connection with the profession of arms. Tho chief of the party, which was composed of five or six persons, was a tall, gaunt man, of very erect carriage, with a countenance full of stern decision and fearless energy, but, furrowed with care and anxiety.— Ins complexion was sallow and un healthy; his hair was iron grey, and 1 his body thin and emaciated, like that of One who had just recovered from a lingering and painful sickness. But the fierce glare of his bright and hawk like eye betrayed a soul and spirit v. bleb triumphed over all infirmites of the body. Ills dress was simple and near ly threadbare. A small leather cap protected his head, and a short Spanish blue cloak his body, while his feet and legs were encased in high dragoon hoots, long ignorant of polish or blacking, which reached to the knees. In age he appeared to have passed about forty five winters—the season for which his stern and hardy nature seemed peculiar ly adapted. EFFECT. Oli THE PEOPLE. Jackson has come ! There was magic in the news. Every witness, living and dead, testifies to the electric effect of the General's quiet and sudden ar rival. There was a truce at once to indecision, to indolence, to incredulity, to factious debate, to'paltry contentions, to wild alarm. Ile had come, so worn with disease and the fatigue of his ton days' ride on the that. he was more fit for the hospital than the field. But there was that in his manner and aspect which revealed the master.— That will of his triumphed over the languor and anguish of disease, and every one who approached him felt that the man for the hour was there. AT A MINIX PARTY. The new aid-de-clamp, Mr. Livings ton, as he rode from the parade ground by the General's side, invited him home to dinner. The General promptly ac cepted the invitation. It chanced that the beautiful and gay Mrs. Livingston, the leader of society then at New Or. leans, both Creole and American, had a little dinner party that day, compos ed only of ladies, most of whonk were young and lively Creole belles. Mr. Livingston had sent home word that General Jackson had arrived, and that he should ask him to dinner: a piece of news that threw the hospitable lady into consternation. " What shall we do with this wild General from Tennes see?" whispered the girls to ono another, for they bad all conceived that General Jackson, however becomingly ho might comport himself in an Indian fight, would be most distressingly out of place at a fashionable dinner party in the first drawing-room of the most pulite city in America I Ile was announced. The young ladies were seated about the room. Mrs. Livingston sat upon a sofa at the head of the ttpartment, anxious ly-awaiting the inroad of the wild fighter into the regions sacred hitherto to ele rw.ce and grace. Ile entered. Erect, composed, bronzed with long exposure to the sun, his hair just beginning to turn grey, clad in his uniform of coarse blue cloth and yellow buckskin, his high boots flapping loosely about his slender legs, he looked, as he stood near the door of the drawing-room, the very picture of a war-worn noble war rior and COMMANDBIL Ile bowed to the ladies magnificently, who all rose at his entrance, as much from amaze ment as from politeness. Mrs. Liv ingston advanced toward him. With a dignity and grace seldom equalled, never surpassed, he went forward to meet her, he conducted her back to her sofa, and sat by her side. The fair Creoles were dumb with astonishment. In a few minutes dinner was served, and the General continued, during the progress of the meal, to converse in an easy, agreeable manner, in the tone of society, of the sole topic of the time, the soaking invasion. He assured the Wing that be felt perfectly confident of defending the city, and bogged that they would give thamelves no unoma- THE ness with regard to that matter. He rose soon from the table and left the bone, with Lir. Livingston. In one chorus, the young ladies exclaimed to their hostess, "Is Uti's your backwoods man ? Why, madam, he is a prince 1" Two thousand Kentuckians, under General Thomas and General Adair, were also on their way down the Missis sippi ; the wont provided body of men, perhaps, that ever went fifteen hundred miles from home to help to defend a sister State. A few rifles they bad among them, but no clothing suitable for the season, no blankets, no tents, no equipage. Besides food, they were furnished with just one article of ne cessity, namely, a cooking kettle for every eight nieri / In a flotilla of boats, hasti ly patched together on the banks of the Ohio, they started on their voyage, carrying provisions enough for exactly half the distance. They were agreeably disappointed, however, in their expec tation of living a month on half rations, by overtaking a boat loaded with flour; and, thus supplied, they went on their way, ragged, but rejoicing. Such was General Jackson's situation—such the posture of affairs in New Orleans—such the means and prospects of defence—on the fourteenth of December : two or three thousand troops in the city ; four thousand more within ten or fifteen days' march ; six gun-boats on Lake forgiri`ki 'two armed vessels on the river • ( s. Imall garrison of regulars at Portk Philip ; another at the tort be tween le two lakes; the obstruction it., of the bayous still in progress ; the citizens hopeful and resolute, most of them at work, every man where he ' could do most for the cause, the General returning to his quarters from his tour of inspection. r:3:za Major Latour gives us a lively French picture of New Orleans, as it appeared during the last few days of waiting fur the enemy" Such was the universal confidence inspired by the activity and decision of the Commander-in-oml, added to the detestation in which the enemy was held, and the desire to pun ish his audacity„ should he presume to land, that not a single warehouse or; shop was shut, nor were any goods or valuable effects removed from the city. At that period, New Orleans presented a very affecting picture to the eyes of the patriot, and of all those who se bosoms glow with the feelings of na tional honor, which raise the mind far above the vulgar apprehension of per sonal danger. The citizens were pre paring for battle as cheerfully as if it had ken a party of pleasure, each in his vernacular tongue singing songs of victory. The streets resounded with Yankee Doodle, the Marseilles hymn, the Chant du Depart, and other martial airs. while those who had been long un accustomed to military duty were fur bishing their arms and accoutreinents. Beauty applauded valor, and promised with her smiles to reward the toils of the brave. Though inhabiting un open town, not above ten leagues from the enemy, and never till now exposed to war's alarms, the fair sex of New Or leans were animated with the ardor of the defenders, and with cheerful sereni ty at the sound of the drum presented themselves at the windows and balconies to applaud the troops going through their evolutions, and to encourage their husbands, sons, fathers and brothers, to protect them from the insults of oar' ferocious enemies, and prevent a repe tition of the horrors of Hampton." Wben, soon after dark, the noise of preparation in the British camp grew louder and came nearer, there could not have been much doubt, in the lines that another most unquiet Sunday was in reserve for them: There was much silent and rather grim preparation in Jackson's camp; a cleaning of arms, a ooanting out of cartridges and adjust nient of dints, and a careful loading of muskets and rides. Beside the thirty. two pounder was heaped up a bushel or two of musket balls and fragments of iron, enough to fill the piece up to the muzzle, and which will fill it up to the muzzle if the enemy come to close quar ters, and deal such wholesale death among them as no thirty-two pounder has ever dealt before. Yes, grimness certainly prevails to a considerable ex tent. We are in earnest. Jackson walks slowly along the lines just before dark. lie, too, is grim, but confident. Ho wears the look of a man whose mind is wholly made up, and who clearly knows what he will do in any and every eabst. He stops occasionally, to see that the stacked muskets are all loaded, and says to Blanche's men, as he goes along their part of the line, "Don't fire till you can see the whites of their eyes, and if you want to sleep, sleep upon your arms." a Altmorratir, :,1 tiro and tamiig (faunal: GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1860. HIS PROBPIMTS Punta OP NEW WILE:ANS YIN AL PIZPLINTION S. LIGHTE Or JANUARY At one o'clock on the morning of this memorable day, on a.couch in a room of the McCarty mansion-house, General Jackson lay asleep, in his worn uni form. Several of his aids slept upon the floor in the same apartment, all equipped for the field, except that their sword-belts were unbuckled, and their swords and pistols laid aside. A senti nel paced the adjacent passage. Senti nels moved noiselessly about the buil ding, which loomed up large, dim, and silent in the foggy night, among the darkening trees. Most of those who slept at all that night were still asleep, and there was at yet little stir in either camp to disturb their slumbers. Dreaming of their Scottish hills and boaies, their English fields and friends, may bays been many brave Britons itt tbeiT ClOild sad w$ Oiveacte. CO VIPIL ER. "TRUTH 18 MIGHTY, AND WILL PIZNATL." THII RATTLE Steadily and fast the column of Gene ral Gibbs marched toward batteries numbered six, seven, and eight., which played upon it, at first with but occa sional effect, often missing, sometimes throwing a ball right into its midst., and causing it to reel and pause for a mo ment. Promptly were the gaps lilt u¢; bravely the column came on. they neared the lines the well-aimed slwt made more dreadful havoc, ti cut ting great lanes in the column from rear to front," and tossing men and parts of men aloft, or hurling them far on one side. At length, 'still steady and unbroken, they came within range of the small-arms, the rifles of Carroll's Tennesseans, the muskets of Adair's Kentuckians, four lines of sharp-shoot ers, one behind the other.. General Carroll coolly waiting for the right moment, held his fire till the enemy were within two hundred yards, and then gave the word—fire. At first with a certain deliberation, afterward in hottest haste, always with' deadly effect, the riflemen plied their terrible weapons. The summit of the embankment was a line of spur ting fire, except whore the great guns showed their liquid, belching flash.— The noise was peculiar, and altogether i inleseribable ; a railing, bursting, echo ing noise, never to be forgotten by a man that beard it. Along the whole lino it blazed and rolled; the British batteries showering rockets over the scone ; Patterson's batteries on the other aide of the river joining in the hellish concert. imagine it. Ask. no one to describe it.. Oar words wore mostly made before such a aceno had become possible. Thu column of General Gibbs, mowed by the 6re of the riflemen, still advan ced, Gibbs at its head. As they caught sight of the ditch; some of the offiv4rs cried out: Whero arc the Forty-fourth! If we get to the ditch, we have no means of crossing and seahng the lines r "Here tome the Forty-fourth! Here come the Forty-fourth !" shouted the General ; adding, in an under tone, for his own private solace, " that Wile lived till to-morrow he would hang Mullens on the highest, tree in the cyprebs wood." Rengsired, these heroic men 'versed on, in the face of that murderous, slaughtering fire. But this could not last. With half its number fallen, and all its commanding utticers disabled, except the general, its pathway strew. ed wiih dead and wounded, and the men falling over faster and faster, the column wavered and reeled (so the American riflemen thought) like a red ship oil a tempestuous Sena. At about a 'Mildred yards from the lines the front ranks halted, and so threw the column into disorder, Gibbs shouting iu the madness of vexation for them to re form and advance. There was no re forming under such a tire. Once chock ed, the column could tot bat break, and retreat in contusion. IliseraUe People.—Young ladies with new boiiiicts on rainy Sundays, dresses playing dip, dip, dip, at every step. A witiiess in a bribery case. A city stiortsman at the finish of one day's shooting. A printer who publishes a paper for notlimg, and finds himself. A smoking nephew . on a visit to an antiemoking aunt. A young doctor who has cured his first patient and has no prospect of ano- A star actress with her name In small letters on the bills. The Black Republicans since tte nomination of Lincoln. Apple Bread.--A French officer has inventod, and practiced with groat sife cess, a method of Mkking bread :with common apples, very fkr superior to potato bread. 'After having boiled one third of peeks, apples, be bruised them while quite warm into two-thirds of dour, including the proper quantity of yeast, and kneaded the whole without water, the juice of the fruit being quite sufficient. When the mixture had ac quired the consistency of paste, lie put it into a vessel, in which he allowed it to rise for about twelve hours. By this process he obtair.ed a very excellent bread, full of eyes, and extremely pala table and light. We have an idea that apple bread wouldn't be hard to take. Why _Heenan Didn't Beat Sayers Out ht.—Goorge Wilkes, in a letter to his per, the Spint of the Times, gives it as his decided opinion, that Heenan can whip two such men as Sayers in one day, and that the fact would have been unequivocally demonstrated, but that Jack Macdonald bad bet two or three hundred dollars that the fight would last over an boar, and constant ly checked the impetuosity of Heenan, and that when finally, at the remon strance of Mr. Wilkes himself, Heenan did "let loose" upon him, his superiori ty was at once but beyond all reasona ble doubt. sorA Yankee from Maine, being at, Buena Vista the night before the bat tle, and somewhat doubtful of the re sult, wont out of hearing, as he suppo sed, and made the following prayer : " 0 Lord, hero we are, about four thou sand of us, and twenty thousand Masi cane--enough to swallow as without greasing. Now if you oan help us, do it--and if you cant, for heaven's sake don't help the Mexicans- - -and just hold on until to-morrow, and you'll see the gaol darndest fight you ever saw in your life. Yours, respectfully, amen." - M-All the Know Nothing in New Jewery, we belioni, ba es to support, lAnea Si* l'resident. 7j4Ti) The following letter from Gov. Big ler in explanation of his course at Charleston was written in reply to a hotter from 1). W. Moore, of Xhiladel phia : WASITINOTCM, D. C., May 26,1860. Dear Sir: My attention has been so frequently called to flagrant misrepre sentationa of my actions and intentions as a delegate in the Charleston Conven tion, similar to those enclosed by you, that I have reluctantly concluded, in order to relieve myself of constant im-, portunities, to meet all these charges in reply to you, which yea may give to the newspaper press, if you think it , necessary and proper. It is right to' premise that, whilst I shall speak some what freely of the majority of the Penn sylvania delegation in that Convention, I speak only for myself, not having bad an opportunity of consulting with any one, and must be alone responsible for what I say. The strictures which you inclose to me on the course and purposes of the majority of the Pennsylvania delega tion, at Charleston, would be severe in deed, if they werg founded in truth ; but they are eith& totally unfounde d or find their existence in a forced per version of the filets. It is not true that the majority of the Pennsylvania dele gatioii sought to drive Mr. Douglas from the field, by adopting a platform of principles on which be could not lionornbly stand. So far from this , we voted to make the nominations ilefore the platform, while'. the minority of of our doltegation and all other friends of 11r. Douglas voted to make the plat form first. This was the fatal error of the Convention, as all parties frankly confessed at the subsequent stages of its proceedings. Then, again, on this same point, the wajority voted for a motion i submitted by myself, to re-commit the platform, hoping in that way to reach the balloting fur candidates with a full Convention ; but the effort. failed. Equally untrue is the allegation that we favored a platform of principles committing the party to the policy of a slave code in the Territories. It is true that we sustained the series of resolu tions last reported by the majority of theccommitiee, or rather by the seven teen Democratic States; but no fair minded man will pretend to discover the principles of a slave code or any ti.ing like them in those resolutions.— They vim ply forbade the conclusion that the Territories are sovereignties; and* declared it the duty of the Govern ment to protect constitutional rights by constitutional recalls, well in the Territories as elsewhere. Surely no government should do less than this.— As I understood it, the friends of Mr. Douglas took exception o t t art of the resolutions that ex luded t idea, of sovereign power in t re Territorial government, or rather the right of the Territorial Legislature to exclude slave ry or slave property from a Territory; but I do not think it was seriously pre tended by any that the resolutions com- ' mated the party to a slave code; nor did I meet any delegate who was seri ously in favor of any inch speculative legislation. No sensible man pretends that Congress can ciente rigtits for slavery, or slave property in the Terri tories, Gr anywhere Vac. The only question Is as to whether that, species of property is to be maintained and protected in the rights the Constitution gives it. Nothing more is asked, and nothing less will be acceptable to the South. ' It is alen untrue that wo favored the course of the seceding States, or at any time manifeeted a determination to go out withthem. Nobody of men in the Coneenthin weld have witneered their withdrawal with feelings of deeper ro grot thaiilditi the majority of the Penn sylvania relegation, for the direct ten dency of that set waste favor the nom ination offs candidate we were against; and I do' not believe there were nny men in Charleston who exerted them selves more ardently than did a portWn of the Pennsylvania delegation to in duce the tieeeders to return to the Con- vention, myself amongst the number. It is true, that when it was generally understood and believed that the re mainder of the Southern States, failing to have their ultimatum accepted by i the Convention, would also secede, to gether with the two Pacific States, many of ns had determined, and had I not hesitated to say, that on the hap. pening of that contingency, we should refuse to participate any longer in the proceedings of the Convention. This we should have done, because a nomi nation made under such circumstance* would have been an idle ceremony and Would have foreclosed all chance of re conciliation in the Convention or suc cess for the party; bat no one, so far as my knowledge goes, thought serious ly of going out with the eight States that had retired, or for the reasons which they assigned. The inquiry—pot in nogracions terms —" whether the Cincinnati -platform was good enough for the majority of the Pennsylvania Delegation," is readi ly answered. It was good enough for us and we voted for it ; but we wen vt tiling, in addition, in order to save the party from disruption, and because we believed it right in principle, to acknow ledge that modification or definition of the meaning of the Cincinnati platform which the decision or opinion of the Supreme Court, in tho case of Dred Scott, had necessarily engrafted upon it, to the effect, that the Territories are not sovereignties; that a Territorial Legislature cannot exclude slave prop erty from the limits of its jurisdiction, "and that within its• jurisdietkin it is irtomi id to take as good WO Of that, spo oks of property as it doss of say othsr. TWO DOLTJAPS A-YEAR. This concession would have preserved the harmony of the Convention, and then Mr. Douglas, if nominated, would ' have had a fair chance for an election. I am willing to leave the public to de cide between me and my assailants on this point. But the great complaint of all is, that the majority of the delegation did not vote for Mr. Douglas. This complaint is as unreasonable as anything else that has been said, and onlyi goes to prove that in the ardor of their admiration for Mr. 1). certain of his friends are utterly incapable of looking at both sides of ' this question and judgiag impartially. We certainly never pretended to be for Mr: Doggies, and, therefore, no ono has been deceived. It was perfectly well known when we were elected delegates that we preferred other candicates to Mr. Douglas. But it is attempted to find in the large vote received by him a reason—to some a conclusive reason— why wo should have abandoned our fa vorites and gone for Mr. D. Under ordinary circumstances there would be great, if not conclusive, force in this view of the case, and I,do not hebitate to say to you, that with auspicious surroundings, and where the al ternatives involved only a choice of men, with about equal chances of suc cess at the polls, it would have influenc ed my action to no considerable degree; but to my mind the surroundings utter ly forbade that we should go for Mr. Douglas. As the case then stood, hie nomination could haveiresulted only in utter defeat to himseltand the party. Yon - must keep in mind the fact that we did not ballot for a candidate at all i until the delegates from eight States and the half of the delegation from Delaware had retiret‘from the Conven tion 'on the ground ar at they , could not steed by the platform of principles as then-adopted. Had the Pennsylvania I and 'other delegations yielded at this juncture and nominated Mr. Douglas, everybody knows that the seceding States would forthwith have nominated a Southern candidate, and probably called a Convention of all the Southern States to have ratified that nomination; and thus, sir, the Democratic party, that glorious old organisation which has done so much to advance the pros perity of our great country, and vindi cate the principles of our Republican system of government, would have been shattered into fragments and prostrat ed probably forever. Whatever I migh t ' have done under other circumstances, I thought it a duty, an imperative duty, to the Democratic party and the coun try, to stand out against the nomination of Mr. Douglas as things then stood.— ' Surely the friends of Mr. D. do not seek to nominate him for the glory of the nomination alone. I take it they de sire to see him made President; and in my judgment no act could have more completely foreclosed all his chances at this time than to have nominated him in a divided Convention. For myself preferred to look rather to the harmony and success of the party than to the nomination of any favorite candidate. Now, sir, it is no more than jest to say that the aggregate vote as recorded in the (knivention in faver of Mr. Doug las did not truly reflect the individual preferences of its members; nor did it reflect the choice of the States, hid all the delegations voted as a unit. Un der neither rule could Mr. D. have re oeived half the votes of the Convention. His large vote was, therefore, in some measure, fictitious. On the rule of vot ing per capita, he would have received from 125 to 128 votes, and by delega tions from 180 to 140. This is the most liberal count that can be truthfully made for him. In the New York dele gation 'alone, there were fifteen or six teen delegates who preferred other can didates, and so voted in' their caucus meetings, and there were a number in Ohio and Indiana whose individual preferences were not for Mr. D. Yet all of these votes were Arced to him by the new gee adopted by the Conven tion. Now, sir, 1 will be frank enough to confess to you that had the larg e vote for Mr. Boogies resii.lted to hiiti under the old rule that prevailed at Baltimore and Cincinnati, '1 should not think it generous to make this point; but I mak. it because the rule was changed; and it was the 'change of the rule, and not the individual denre of the delegates that gave Mr. D. a majority of vows in the Convention. The Cin cinnati rule allowed the majority of each 'delegation to determine how the vote of the State should be cast—whether as a unit or as the individual delegates pre ferred. The Charleston rule so far changed this law as to take the power from the majority of the several dele gations, if not instructed, and gives the minority equal right with the majority. fence where, as in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, there was a large minori ty for Mr. Douglas, they were permitted to vote as they Individually preferred ; but where required to vote us a unit, I he received the entire number by the force of a majority. Everybody who was at Charlelliton knows that the friends of Mr. 1). greatly rejoiced at the adoptwu of this rule, and regarded it as a strong point in his favor, as I am sure I did. Lam not mistaken about the two rules, for I have read them both within an hour so that I might state the difference correctly. Nor will it do in presenting this case fairly -and impartially to overlook the fact that the fifteen Southern States and the two Pacific States-all tat are count ed certain for the Democratic nominee— except a minority in Missouri and Mary land, and two or three scattering dele gates elsewhere in the South, were against the nomination of Mr. Douglaii, and differed with his friends as to the , platform of principles as did a majori ty of the delegations in Pennsylvania and New 'story, two of the hopeful Northern States,leaving Mr.D.'m entire vote in States admittedly Republioar, with the exception of Indiana and Illi nois. It is thus seen how necessary was to keep the States intact that were against Mr. 11., for without them, and all of them, ear chances of *Wotan are almost hopeless. Under all the el reu met/wens we united with the majority of the Convention in favor of the adjournment to Baltimore, hoping that better weasels saipee viul ; that the party might become united, and a nominee be selected with whom we could defeat the Black Re publican party. I do not care to notice what hail been said about misunderstandings in out delegation. Those things are very common on such occasions. Nor dol. think we had more than the usual mani festation of feeling. I must say, how ever, that the allegation that the at tfimpt of the majority to instruct Mr. Wright as a member of the committee on the platform was a" trick,' is utter ly unwarranted. /tr. Wright had very frankly and repeatedly declared that he would obey the will of the majority of the delegation on that subject; and certainly no more formal or imposing way of expressing that desire could be devised than that of each delegate tiv , r his proper signikture expressing th:.t desire. That wan all that was done -- That mode was adopted because of t! -i necessity for prompt action, and tip, difficulty of getting the entire dele.l..i. Ilion together: I certainly knew of co other reason for that course or any in , tended indignity to Mr. Wright. Bat I this is of small moment. NO. 34. I am not for a slave code, and never have been ; and nothing I have recent ly said or done could warrant any such conclusion. I have no patience with, men who will not distinguish between an attempt by Congress to establish and maintain the institution of slavery in a Territory, and the duty of saiatsiaing • the constitutional rights of citizens and roteoting property. The vote in ths ' , nate on Friday last ought to be oon lusive on this point. The fifth resolu tion in the series proposed by Mr. Davis, in which some affect to find the princi ples of a slave code, was adopted by a vote of thirty-five yeas to two nap; even the Republicans being unwilling to vote against a declaration that it is the duty of the government to maintain the rights of property is the Tern tories, whilst Mr. Brown's resolution, which avowed the doctrine of a slave code, received but three votes. As for the - tariff, I know the wishes of my constituents on that subject; I shall labor diligently, in season and, out of season, with every proper means in my power to carry out their will; and failing to get all they desire, I shall endeavor to secure the best measure pos sible. Very truly, your obed't serv't, Wit. D. W. Mooaz, Esq., Philit. Captain Evans was an old naval vete ran of sixty-sefen ; he had lost an arm and an eye, years and years before, at liavarino, which last action settled hie understanding, both legs being carried away by a chain shot. Cork legs were cominginto fashion. Captain Evans bad a pair of the first quality made for himself; he bad also a false arm and hand ; in the latter he could screw a fork, as occasion required, and being gloved, the deficiency was not easily perceived. As increasing- years render ed him in firm, his valeta took advan taC so he wrote to his brother, a mersetahire Squire, to send him up some tenant's son for a body servant— "No matter bow stupid, if honest and faithful," be wrote. lie brother was absent, and sent ta, his steward to select a lad. This the steward did, but merely mentioned that Captain Evans was infirm, not appri slog the lumpkin of his new master's deficiencies, and sent him to London at once, where the Captain lived. At ten at night he arrived, and was immediately shown to Captain Evans' sitting room. " Well, John, my rascally valet is absent again, without leave ; help me to bed, as it is late, and then you can.go down - to your sapper." Adjourning to the bed room, the old gentleman said : "John, unscrew my , log." Zur Tv' said John." " Unscrew my leg, this way, see." John did so, tremblingly. "John, unscrew my other LiNg." Zar ?" said John." "Unscrew the other leg, sir." John did so, now in a state of bewil derment. " John, unscrew this arm." • Trembling still more, to the Captain's great amusement, ho obeyed. " John, put 4/is eye on the table." John took it. as if it would have bitten " No, John—no, I won't take the other eye ont—lift me into bed." This done, the waggish Captain con tinued, "John, beat, up the pita° not comfortable." • This was done. " Beat it up again, air; it is Vt. hard." my my No, by thunder, I'll noaerew no more," and John fled from the room to the kitchen, swearing his master Inta the devil, taking himself to pieces Mke a clock. Puritanical Political Piety.-0 Lord's Day week, the pastor of U. Unitarian Church in Clbcord, Mass announced from the pulpit, the nomin— tion of Lincoln. In the evening, a Mac Republican ratification meeting, wt... held in the vestry of the church. San born, the martyr of oneord, made an Abolition . soh, and sundry other brethren, prayers and made speeches,—Phi/a. Argus. TAe"Tail of Know NotAingism Alive.—The American party in BlM more, which is made up prineipsily of "Plug trglir," " Blood Tuba" and " Rosebuds,' has determined, as we learn from an edict issued by the " Superior Council," to maintain: is political organization in the manidl election next fall. • The Ifidea o Age.--The univillhomma .2r W el of persons above- -to to tt ood o i r facto. and podifill , l; width- iiist whom A le ram AIM boos bit 4 ~.: stypW,Va. darkswas at' lll4lollls Mitik . . ~ -v:svfri: Taking a Ilia to Plasm gain Jobn shook up the piligw.,• That won't do, John • I olta't get head comfortable. Jot% swore"' head." 3 "' Ea '
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