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CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND

Saturday, July 28, I860.

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K. K. 1IUVANT, Affent.

For PreHidcHt,

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STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS,

OF ILLINOIS.

For \*icc M*re»idcnt,

HRUSCHKL Y. JOHNSON,

OF CEORCIA.

Democratic State, Ticket.

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THOMAS A. HENDRICKS,

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FOR LIKCTBSAST GOVERNOR.

J)AVID TUitriE,

of mute.

Foil SWJHBTAHY OF STATK.

WILLIAM 11. SCIILATER, of Wayne.

Fon Arniron OK STATE.

.JOSEPH RIST1NE, of Fountain. Foil TIMA8TRKK.il OK STATK, NATH'^F. CUNNINGHAM, of Vigo.

Fon ATTORNKY UENKRAI.,

OSCAR B. 1I0RD, of Decatur.

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ISTOTIOE.

Vor announcing the names of Candidates, /myment IN AIVAN'K must inrnria!h/ he made. Persons handing in their annnuneemrnts, unaccompanied with the c.vMt, must not. complain if they find their Jinnies out of the list.

•rn« roKVRiVrionr-THK nmocKArv IWH1INIS IIP BV VIIOIISANIM, Tito County Convention and Mass Ratification Meeting on next Saturday, the 4th, promises to be the largest gathering of the Democracy ever witnessed in Crawfordsvi 11c. From many of the townships we hoar of extensive arrangements being ntaile in the way of rigging up big wagons, collecting banners and flags of former campaigns that waved in triumph over glorious victories won in days gone by. Every arrangement will be made to give the affair an interest, and to make it a day long to be remembered in Montgomery County. The eloquent Willard and his gallaut compeers Voorliees and McDonald, will boon hand to preach the great truths of Democracy. Let no Democrat stay at home. Like General Putnam, when he hoard the roar of tho cannon on Bunker Hill, leave the plough in the furrow and the oxen in the field. The fate of our beloved country hangs in the balance, and the aid of every patriot is implored to come up once more to the rescue, and drive back tho scotional bandits of the North and South that seek the dismemberment of the Republic.

CAMPAIGNOPRNRD.

Col. Wilson is now busily engaged in canvassing the District. All efforts of his to induce the man Rice to consent to a joint canvass has proved unavailing. Rice is a poor declaimer, a man of barely ordinary abilities, and his nomination at Delphi has been a continual source of annoyance and mortification to the Republican party. The leaders, Ortb, Gregory and Billy Wilson knew it would never do to exhibit their man in company with the Colonel, it would be like pitting a Iamb ngainst a lion, hcncc they resolved to take a safer oonrsc and keep Rice at home as much ay possible. The Colonel is making a vigorous convass and he will win the raco with comparative ease. •*, ,,

CITY NO. 1.

R. II. Craig A Bro. and T. D. Brown intend starting, in a few days, an Express for the purpose of delivering goods to the i*wtomers of cach of these houses, free of charge.

This an accommodation to our citizens which will undoubtedly be appreciated.

£3rlIon. W. Crump, of Virginia, Minister to Chili under President Tyler, snpjiorts Mr. Douglas.

GRAND RALLY

.OP THE.

MONTGOMERY DEMOCRACY

Oa ialardai Ihe Ilk mf Awg—t.

The Democracy of Montgomery County will assemble in mass Convention on Saturday the 4th of August, for the purpose of nominating a ticket for the several County Offices,

AND RATIPVIKO THK NOMINATION OP DOtWLAM AND JOHNSON

Among the distinguished speakers who will be present on the occasion, will be «OV. nil.l.AHD,

HON. D. W. TOORII KKft, HON. S. K. WcDOWAI.D AND OTHERS.

The Convention will assemble at 1 o' clock. Immediately after nominating the candidates speaking will commence.

At 10 o'clock a MTATKLY H1CHORV, wlli be raised in front of the Court House.

Let every Democrat turn out on this occasion. Bring your banners, flags, music, and all the emblems of old fashioned Democracy, and let us rebuke the factionists, who would break up the nation.

CODIKONK! COMK AM.!

And let us have a glorious Democratic Jubilee. By orderof the, CENTRAL COMMITTEE. .1 .'sx

START EARI.V.

'Die number of distinguished speakers that will be present on next Saturday ren* ders it ncccssary that the Convention for tho nomination of county offices, should assemble at 11 o'clock A. M., so as to have the speaking cominencc at 1 o'clock. Democrats will sec the necessity of making an early start, so as to be in time for the Convention.

('APT. D. W. SCOTT.

We notice in the Manhattan Express, published in Manhattan City, Kansas, that Capt. Scott, formerly a citizen of our town, and at present holding a commission in the United States Army, was recommended by tho entire corps of his felbw officers for the appointment of Sutler to the new post, on Kansas Fork. Capt. Scott's long experience iu the army service, his high charaetcr as an accomplished gentleman, and the respect and esteem in which lie was held by the army, rendered his appointment to this position as eminently proper in every respect. The Secretary of War, however, disregarding the wishes of the officers and soldiers in the Territory, appointed a man totally incompetent for the place. We can assure Mr Secretary Floyd that his action in thus disregarding the claims of a man who lias served the Government faithfully, and who helped to sustain our flag in the war with Mexico, is not only a source of regret to the gallant army in Kansas, but to troops of friends iu Indiana, and we can but believe that the Hon. Secretary will yet do justice in the matter, when he comes to consider the wishes and interests of the Army in the Territory.

ITNRJLI7SHING AUDACITY.

We notice that the left wing of the Black Republican party of Indiana, led on by the traitor Bright, propose at their Junto at Indianapolis on next Tuesday, to offer to the Indiana Democracy a joint union on the electoral ticket. This proposition of course will be spurned with contempt.— The idea of a handful of mercenary Federal office-holders, that have deserted their party, dictating terms to their masters, is preposterous and ridiculous. We have no terms to offer these traitors, only an unconditional surrender. Like John Brown, they find thimselves entrapped, and assume a dictatorial spirit in the hope that they may have at least the honor of marching in political obscurity with the honors of war.

An enthusiastic Democratic meet

ing was held at the Court House on last Tuesday night. Lew. Wallace spoke for about two hours. In his speech he completely riddled the Hon. James Wilson.— A greater triumph we uever witnessed, and many republicans reluctantly admitted that Lew's speech in many respects was unanswerable. A few more such speeches in the county will effectually silcnce the misrepresentation that have been made by the Hon. Mr. Wilson, and convince the people that the doctrine of non-interven-tion in the territories is a living principle, an established fact, that all parties have yet to admit and recognize in the future.

Wc are indebted to Frank Ileaton for a beautiful flag, the starry banner of the Great Republic.-^: We have thrown it to the battle and the breeze," from the third story of our office. Inscribed npon its ample folds arc the names of Douglas and Johnson, the great statesmen and patriots of America, the men who will manage the affairs of our government for the next four years, and under whose administration tho nation will rejoice in prosperity and peace.

THp •(.» LinrSOARIft .. "Stealing the livctfoT Heaven Mg

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lican party. .It is published under the auspices, of the traitor ^Bright, and is _intended sis! an instrument t) listract_ the Pymiy-rarj /if, Indiana and give the jjState to Lincoln. The better to accomplish their insidious designs they, have hoisted false colors. To entrap Democrats, they fly at their .mast-head the words Old Line Guard.""': V,"

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The Republicans generally here ore subscribing for it. i.'r .*•'

VERMONT FOR DOVGLiS.

Singular as it may seem, there, is

strong prospect that this State will east her electoral vote for Stephen A. Douglas. Within the last month not less than five thousand men who have heretofore acted with the Republican party have declared for the Little Giant. The fact that Vermont is the native State of the great Statesman, and that the descendants of the Green Mountain Boys of the Revolution feel an honest pride in the splendid genius of one of her sons, who, a poor, friendless orphan boy, became the arbiter of his own greatness, unaided by wealth and power, is an incentive of itself to prompt them to stand by tho chieftain, the Young Hickory of the American Democracy.

MASSACHUSETTS FOR BEI.L.

The American party, in the old Bay State arc confident that they will give the electoral vote of that State to Bell and Everett. Lincoln is scarcely spoken of.— The Republicans feci sore over the defeat of Seward, and seeing no hope for Lincoln arc going over by thousands to the support of the Bell and Everett ticket.

•QfEvery day develops the hopelessness of Lincoln's election. The contest is now virtually between Douglas and Bell. In the event of Douglas' defeat, which is almost improbable, Bell will be the next President of the Confederacy. Thousands of Republicans who were warmly attached to Lincoln, seeing the inevitable defeat that awaits him, arc. rallying to the. standard of Bell. The American electoral ticket will be put in the field next month, and they confidently cxpcct to poll at least sixty thousand votes in the State.

NO ENTIITIALASLTL.

The nomination of Lincoln has fallen flat upon the,North. In no section of the West is there tho least feeling or cnthusi asm manifested. Intelligent Republicans admit that it is useless to attempt to elect Lincoln. They say that in fifteen South orn States lie will, receive comparatively no support, while in the Northern States he cannot possibly obtain enough elector al votes to sccurc an election.

®5yOur neighbor of the Journal is still laboring vigorously fir the election of the Yancey ticket. Seeing no hope for Lin coin, he is straining every nerve to induce the Republicans to vote for Breckinridge and Lane.

•SyEx-Gov. Seymour, of New York, is not, like some other men whose names have been mentioned for the Presidency, so jealous and envious of Douglas that he would rather see Lincoln than the Little Giant elected. On the contrary, he is earnestly for Douglas, and will speak for him at Utica on next Monday evening.,

#Sf"Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ham ilton, Ohio, has refused to be a candidate for Congress on the Black Republican tickct, saying, "According to the new tests of Republicanism adopted by the Chicago Convention, I regard myself as resolved out of that party."

AN OLD TEA PARTY.—Recently five old ladies met at the house of Edmund Wordcll, Westport, Mass., about one mile from the Narrows, aged respectively 88, 82, 78, 74 and 74, making unitedly 396 years, or an average of 79 1-5 years. There was ancient gossip there, and no mistake.

8S?*Gen. Bcthune, of Georgia, editor of the Corner Stone, and a strong advocatc of Southern rights, thinks that the strength of Mr. Douglas in the South is decidedly underrated. He would not be surprised if he should be elected by the electoral college.

93T Republican colporteurs are busily engaged at present in peddling "Helper's Impending Crisis," and the Old Line Guard." Helper and Bright are well mated. They are both traveling the same road. Let them walk blind-fold on, behind them stalks the headsman.

®Sy*Mothers have no longer any excuse for permitting the health of their children to be gradually destroyed by worms in the intestines. Dr. Bull's Vegetable Worm Destroyer is a sure and prompt remedy.— It cannot possibly injure the child, and is so pleasant to the taste, and tempting to the sight, that children prefer it to candy. —Lafayette Courier.

A VENERABLE SETTLER.—The Baton Rouge Comet says Mr. Alexander Hunstock-places on our table the rattle of a rattlesnake killed recently on Bayou Rouge, which numbers thirty-seven rattles. Allowing three years before the first button on the tail of this reptile is formed, it would give it the age af forty years, lie measured fifteen feet clear, without the rattle.

t&" A Bell and Everett editor in Georgia, reqpntly received a basket and the following message from a lady

Mr. EDITOR I send you some Bell pears, tho best you Ever ct."

Judge Douglas Visile^ thefbattlii'field of Lexington yesterday afternoon, and on his -returnj. after retiring for A.time tp„ Jiif quarters at{&4Rev?e]Hraste, he pfxijseeded to Charlestown, arriving at Monument square ahout'sevenTo'cIocV. He came'up in a barouche, iceoiflpahied by'Majror Dafta, of Charlestown, Hon. Charles Thompson, and Mr. Richard S. Spafford jr. Notice of his coming had been duly given, and a large erowd—numbering perhaps two or three thousand—waited to welcome him, and when he resetted the grounds he was warmly cheered. The original intention was that the speeches should be delivered at the. monument, hut the crowd was so great

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tinguished Senator, that it was thought ad visable to give up this plan,-and Mayor Dana accordingly requested the multitude to give way and allow Judge Douglas to walk round the Monument, stating that welcoming ceremonies would afterward be performed at the steps fronting Highstreet. After a few moments JudgeDouglas and his friends made their appearance at this place. Mayor Dana was addressed by Hon. Charles Thompson as follows:

REMARKS OF HON. CHARLES THOMPSON. MB. MAYOR :—On this sacred ground, consecrated to freedom and by the blood and treasure of our forefathers, and since trodden by the feet of a Webster, a Jackson, and other worthies, we have now before us an illustrious stranger—a stranger to us personally, but known to the whole rountry through his deeds and acts. It is fitting and proper that a gentleman of his standing, and of his character and eminence, should visit Bunker Hill, and should be shown to the citizens who reside on the summits of Bunker Hill and around it.— Sir, it is my honored privilege to introduce to you my friend,, the champion of the rights of man [applause] whose labors in the Senate of our country have done so much, to say the least, as those of any other living man, to sustain the great fundamental principles of non-intervention and popular-sovereignty—the corner stones upon which the citadcl of our liberty stands, and must stand. When these fall the superstructure must fall.

Sir, it is my pleasure to introduce to you the Hon Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois. [Three cheers']

SPEECH OF MAYOR DAN

JUDGE DOUGLAS :—As the chicf executive officer of this city, and as the organ of my fellow citizens, it gives me pleasure in their behalf to extend to you a cordial welcome to this city. Wc desired that you, before you left this section of the country, should stand upon this sacred ground that"you should tread upon the soil oncc pressed by the feet of Putnam, of Warren, of Prcscott, of Stork, and of those other heroes whose deeds on this spot have made the name of Bunker Hill immortal. Wc are glad sir to have you stand under the shadow of that majestic shaft, and sec what a tribute grateful sons have paid to heroic sires. But, sir, wc have also invited you to visit its, because wo wished to see one who fills a high place in the high councils of the nation because wc desired to see one who has filled and docs fill so large a space in the minds of the people of this country. ["Amen"— "Good," Good," and "Three cheers."] Sir, you see around you a large number of vour political friends. Wc can not all agree with all your views on the policy of the countrj, but, sir, wc can all respect and admire the man who, not propped by ancestry or the power of his friends, by his own genius and indomitable energy and industry has risen from the humble walks of life to fill some of the highest places in the nation. [Applause.]

Sir, this audience are waiting to hear from you, and I will not longer detain them bnt again, in behalf of the citizens of the Monumental City, bid you welcome to the city. [Applause, and three cheers for Douglas.]

SPEECH OF JUDGE DOUGLASS.

MK. MAYOR AND FELLOW CITIZFNS :—I have just returned from a pilgrimage to Lexington, preparatory to visiting thi3 sacred 8pot where we are now assembled. Of all the battle fields and all the places consecrated to patriotism by the blood of our Revolutionary fathers, none is so dear to the American heart as Bunker Hill.—

Hear," "hear," and applause.] There is not an American citizen upon the face of this broad continent, no matter whether he may come from the South or from the North, or whether he may come from the plains of the Northwest or the shores of the Pacific, who does not claim for himself and his posterity a share in the glories which that monument was erected to commemorate. [Applause.] You may imagine .that the monument is peculiar^ to Charlestown, and that you have a deeper interest in that work than the American citizen, who may be in the remotest parts of the Republic, or sailing upon the broad ocean but I will assure you that there is not one. of .you who. claims greater pride, either in the work itself, or in the glorious deeds which it was made to commcmorato than the citizens of my own Illinois.—

Hear, hear," and applause.] This has been to me a day which I shall long cherish and remember. I have seen the spot where the first American blood was shed, which gave rise to the American Revolution, and now I have the honor of addressing you from the place of all others which gave the,impetus to the Revolution which resulted in the establishment of our independence and our liberties. Let the sons of these brave sires prove true to the principles which gave rise to the Revolution which resulted in the establishment of our independence and.our liberties. Let the sons of these brave sires prove true to the principles which gave rise to the Revolution which formed the foundations of our own political system, and upon which alone this Republic can be maintained in its unity and purity forever.

The American Revolution originated in the assertion by the people of Colonies, of the right of self government by each Colony in everything that related to their domestic and internal polity. Our fathers were.willing to recognize the paramount authority of the British Parliament and the British Crown over all matters and things which were Imperial.and. not Colonial—over.ali, that affected the general welfare of the Empire, without interfering with the local and domestic affairs of the people of the Colony but our fathers said to the British Government: You must not interfere with our firesides and our hearthstones. Wo have a right to our

institntijjj fairs ioH

law sand establjfc our and aianage our own infcrnlEaffair! own way. ipthoatihe interference oftthc British PafliamSnt." [Applaose and (fries of "Good!" "Good!" "Hear!" "Hear!"] The Revolution was fought in defense of the great brintijde ,otlojA}

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meht/ May we, their sons, te faraifdl to that principle and »e?«r"^pernait'i4r to be violated, either in

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ince or Colony. [Applause and -.cfnes. of Good If we only remain faithful to the fundamental principles, leaving the people of each State and each Territory free to maintain thhir own domestic affairs and internal concerns in their own way, without interfering with those of their neighbors, there can be peace forever between the North and the.South, the East and the West. [Applause.] You have institutions in Massachusetts peculiar to yourselves—institutions differing from those of us in Illinois, differing from those in the Southern States, differing from those upon the Pacific Coast. When I come to visit you, you receive me with open arms, welcome me among you, and show me everything that is glorious or sacred in the history of your country and, sir, I trust when I come among you, that I shall pay all due respect to the constitutional authorities, and render obedience to your laws. ["Good," and applause.]. But, sir, if you find me complaining that I do not like your laws, your institutions, your domestic affairs, I expect you will tell ine that while you regret my displeasure, these laws were made for you and not for me, and if I do not like them I can go back to Illinois. And now, Mr. Mayor, permit me to say to you, iu return for the kind sentiments with which you have welcomed me to Bunker Hill, in the name of your fellow citizens of Charlestown, if you will do me and the State that I have the honor to represent, the honor of making us a visit, I will take pleasure and pride in welcoming you to Illinois, but I wish you to understand that it is on the express coudition that you will obey our laws—respect our institutions, and not interfere with our domestic concerns—[laughter and applause and if you complain to me that you do not like our laws, I shall say that, while I regret it, you must remember that they are our laws and not yours—[laughter and cheers]—we made them for ourselves and not for you—[renewed cheering]—wc adapted them to our condition—to our interests, to our wants—and if you do not like them, you must go back to Massachusetts where you will find better ones.— [Applause.] So it is in the Southern States. If you of Massachusetts, or wc of Illinois, go to Charleston or New Orleans, it does not become us to tell those people that they have bad laws and bad institutions, which we do not like. They arc their institutions: If they be good, ones, let them enjoy the blessings of them —if they arc evil institutions, let them bear the burthen and the evils they entail, until they become wise enough to change them aud make better ones. [Applause.] And especially, when you go to Kansas, or to New Mexico, you will find a body of men there possessing more of the elements of energy, of courago, of enterprise, and of intellect, than you will find in any State of the Union for I suppose that I may utter one great, truth, without fear of offense being a Yankee like the balance of you, [laughter] by saying that New England is an emigrating country, and whenever a New England farmer has two sons, the one a little wild, daring, rccklcss, but intellectual, lie thinks the valley where he was born is a little too small a theatre for his operations, and starts off West—goes into the wilderness or upon the prairies, and carves out his own fortune, and makes a man of himself by his own energies. The other brother being, perhaps a little more obedient to parental authority, a little less ambitious, a little less encrgctic, and a lit tie more lazy, [laughter,] had rather stay at home and be supported by his daddy and mammy, than go west and support himself. [Great merriment.) Hence, if you go to the frontier, you will find men of the highest capacity of any in the known world. These men go from Massachusetts, from Vermont, from South Carolina, from Virginia, from Germany, from Ireland, from England, from all parts of the world and when they get there, they carve out their own homes, erect their own houses, lay out their own towns, erect their own churches, establish their own schools and colleges, and lay there the foundations of society, and establish just such institu tions as they believe will be be best for themselves and their posterity forever.—

Good," Good and applause.] I believe that they are entitled to that great privilege of self-government. It won't do for you to tell them that a particular system of laws is good and another bad, aud therefore they must not have it. They have an inalienable right to determine for themselves what is good and what is bad. That is their privilege and not yours. You judge for yourselves let them determine for themselves. They are responsible to the same Divine Providence as you are. They have got consciences of their own as well as you. They leave children behind them to be blessed or to be cursed by the act of their fathers as well as you. Let them work out their own salvation make their own laws establish their own institutions manage their own affairs iu their own way and be responsible to posterity and to the Almighty, but to no other power on earth?' '[Applause and cries of "Good."]

Gentlemen, I did not come here to make a speech to you, but in the presence of that monument, and inspired by the place and by the noble deeds of those immortal men to whose virtues and patriotism that work was erected, my attention was unavoidably directed to the principles involved in that memorable struggle. ["Bravo." That principle, was, I repeat, the right, the inherent inalienable right, of the people—the people of colonics, of Territories, of Provinces, as well as of States, to make their own laws, establish their own government, and manage their own affairs.— Let us be true to that principle, and this Union will last forever. Let it never be said, let not the historian ever record, that the children of those sires who erected this temple of liberty were not competent to maintain it. Remember that when the Revolution began, Virginia sent her Washington to Boston to take command of the army. [Applause.] Remember that Northern and Southern men stood side by side in all of those great struggles. Northern and Southern men from the free States and the slave States poured out their blood in a. common cause, in order that they might transmit to their posterity

rjnpmion coantry in all-ti ufteultivatetilat paternal Jjiry port|j|§Qf this tttti xirthe tiijfcif ok the BdvoKRionl Let as Wnerish tfral forbaarail^ toiHid. the.p^plc of other States that they cherished toward each other. Let us mind our own business, manage our own affairs, andl^t0ur neighbors alone, and then we*will live'and die in peaces [Applause.]

My fellowrcitiiena, I owe. you an. apology for having detuned yon so long. [Cries of Go on."J I am deeply indebted toyon for the loudness you have manifested' toward me. I came to Boston a stranger and you have: treated me as a, brother.— When I return to my own dear prairies of Illinois, I shall carry with me, fresh in my heart, the grateful recollection of the kindness and civility with which you literally overwhelmed me. I thank you kindly again.

Six cheers were then given for Stephen A. Douglas, and the recipient of these honors again entered his barouche, and was driven to the house of .Mayor Dana, where he received the greetings of hundreds of citizens of Charlestown, who crowded .the spacious parlors of the Mayor's residence.

It is understood that Judge 'Douglas leaves our city this morning and proceeds to Albany, where preparations have been made to give him a suitable reception.

THE KARLY LIFE OF ARE E.INCOI.N —WHAT ONE OF HIS COUSINS HAS TO SAY OP HIM—MOW ARB WENT

A COURTING WHO SPLIT THE KAILS, AND ALI. AROUT IT.

EDITOR OP THE MACJJBT:—Dear Sir: In the last week's issue of the. Chronicle I noticed a letter signed "John Hanks," which is so extraordinary in many of its features that I feel called upon to give it a brief notice.

John Hanks is my youngest brother, and Abe Lincoln is my cousin. I have known both John and Abe from their earliest childhood. Since brother John has committed himself to the Decatur politician, who is nsing him as a tool to speculate in certain old rails (that I know that cousin Abe never made,) I have great fears that brother John like eotfsin Abe, has failed into bad hand!» and that a man by nature made for a good man, btft who always needed protecting councellore may be by bis bad associations entirely ruined. I have known the entire history of both brother John and cousin Abe, and all that stuff in the letter published in the Chronicle is stuff, miserable stuff, and although poor brother John's name is signed to it, I know that he even yet does not know what is in it much less did he ever write it. It is the work of men unscrupulous in the means that they may use in gulling honest people.

In John's letter I find along and pathetic allusion to cousin Abe's early and hard life. That may be poetical, but there is but little of it true. In Abe's young lays he was simply a wild harum scarum boy, and jumping and wrestling were his ownly accomplishments. His laziness was the cause of many mortifications to nie for as I was an older boy than either Abe or John, I often had to do Abe's work at uncle's, when the family were all sick with the ague from eating watermelons, and Abe would be frollicking around the country neglecting them. In these early days wc all saw hard times yet a young man who was energetic and industrious could dress himself comfortably, and plenty of good plain, food to eat. I have often felt ashamed of cousin Abe in seeing him a full grown man, gadding around the country barefoot, with his toes outrageously spraddled out by the mud and instead of reading his books, as brother John, thro' the Decatur politician so poetically tells us, he would be rowdying around with a pack of wild young inen. I well remember when lie went courting one of 3Iajor Warnick's daughters, in this county, his boots were so miserable bad that his feet wcro frosted, and he had to lay tip at Major Warnick's for two weeks, and have the old lady nurse and doctor his feet.

I am fully persuaded that brother John is taking the strange course that he is nowpursuing for the purpose of making a little money out of a rail speculation, and if I could for one moment think that the Decatur sharpers, in whose hands he lias placed himself, would not cheat him out of every cent of the money, I would not spoil the speculation by telling the facts.

The facts in regadc to those rails arc these: The little farm that John and Abe made the rails to fencc contained ten acres. About five years after this little farm was fenced, the entire fence was burned up, to my certain knowledge, for I hauled the rails to fcnce it the second time. Lewis H. Ward, who now resides in this county, witnessed the fire that burned the rails, and he is willing to make affidavit of this fact.

I lived within two miles and a half of this Lincoln farm from the time it was first settled, up to 1857, and during those earlytimes our farmers were subject to being visited by devastating fires, and I know that the fence around the Lincoln farm was conpumcd at least three times. And I know that after the Lincoln family had left the farm, that the fenco was again burned, and that Shclt. Whitcly and Daniel McDaniels made the rails and refcnccd it.

I think, and I am almost ccrtain, that the rails thai are now being worshiped all over the North as Lincoln rails, were made by poor Bill Strickland, who is now poor, blind, helpless, and in the Macon countypoor house. And if these philanthropic Republicans would allow me to make them one suggestion, it would be to help poor Bill Strickland, who did really make the rails, and who is as honest as Abe or anybody else that ever mauled a rail, instead of spending their money over his rails.

As to cousin Abe being the "Honest Abe politician," that is anew title for him. When he first came to Illinois/I know that he was a strong Democrat. I always thought that he had turned Whig afterwards because he had settled in

I know that

about cutting the throat

Whig

district. And when I heard him in 1856, in the court house at Dcatur, make a speech in which he asserted that he would continue to "agitate the subject of negro slavery so long as was heard the

the lash upon the yellow

crack

girl's back," I did

not feel like lie was very honest or very patriotic, for. I suppose that he said that for the purpose

of catching Abolition

votes.

cousin Abe

cared nothing

party the very

tho old Whig

moment

that he supposed he

could make anything by building up a new party.

And

I never supposed that ho

cared one cent as to what the principles of the

new

party should be, only so it was

fixed that he could get office,

town, a lid Xbe|lpr th^fbn $rthe thing, went al&gJaMd qfMkimgu home and attending to his own work, that was needing him very much. This is the extent of hit fatboating. 1

cousin1 Abe can' herfestly get a good office, I want to see him do ao hot abomniable lies, that are being told on him by politicians who' pretena lo be his friends, I repel as a family insnlt.

In my own homely way, I hate 'told the above as it occurred, for the. benefit of my-1 honest neighbors and acquaintances, and I* wish you to publish it just as it is. I may^. trouble you again. CHARLES HANKB.

DR. HAYKS AND MIS ARCTIC XXHI~RITION.

Twenty gentlemen of Albany .have furnished to Dr. Hayes* Arctio'Expedition the sum of $200, and have besides agreed to pay one sailor $500. The officers of the expedition accept no pay but for eaeh of the men $500 is deposited in one of the banks of Boston, to be paid on the retnrn of the expedition, which sails next week.

Dr. Hayes was bid farewell by his friends in New York on Friday evening last. Mr. Hall, of Kane Lodge, No. 454, of Free and Accepted Masons, presented a large flag, bearing Masonic emblems.—A Mr. Henry Grinnell gave the Doctor an". American Boat Ensign of great historio interest. Said Mr. Grinnell, "Lieutenant Wilkes' expedition carried it to a high: or Routhern lattitude than any other nag ever floated—it was rescued from the U. S. sloop-of-war Peacock, when she was totally wrecked off the Columbia River.— Lieut. D. Hayes took it to a higher northern lattitude than had ever before been reached by the stars and stripes. Dr. Kane took it to a still higher point and now sir I trust it to you—unfurl it to tho breezes of the North Pole, and having dono so, you will take special care of it and return it to me. May God in his wise Providence protect you and it."

The schooner named Spring Hall, is of one hundred and thirty-three tons burden, and has been strengthened internally by^ massive timbers, and gives abundant evi-' dcnce of strength, comfort and fitness for the service. In response to the call mado for donations for the expedition, New York has given about $10,000. Boston about" $7,000, and Philadelphia about $5,000J

-The

TIIE PROSPECT IN NEW YORK.Buffalo (N. Y.) Republic says "Mark tho prediction. Stephen A. Douglas will carry this State in spite of the combined opposition of tlio-daily newspapers, the Government patronage and thor political arrangements of the Breckinridgo factions, by a larger majority than any Presidential candidate since Jackson's

time. It is not. in the power of numbersto defeat Mr. Douglas, and tho State of New York will bo his right bower iu tho victory."

TIIKV .ni!RSTAn IT.

Hon. John Wcntworth, the Republican Mayor of Chicago, gives his adrice »s the surest way of electing Lincoln and: Hamlin. He says

All that the Republicans have to do ii» to sec that Breckinridge tickets are put in nomination and supported in every Northern State. We observe that this is already being done to a very considerable extent. Even up in Vermont wc perceive that a Breckinridge tickct is to be rutt."^'

That advice is being followed in nearly every Northern State. The Republicans are hand-in-glovc with the secedcrs and Federal office holders in getting np Breckinridge tickts. They know that every vote cast for Breckinridge and Lane ij» half a vote for Lincoln and Hamlin.

A HARM THROW.—The London Time* in an articlc gloryfying England for wjint she has done iu the last two hundred years says

During the last two hundred yearf, among the wonderful things we have done, we have founded and threw off the United States.

SS,f Our education has been such, that wc have rather been in favor of the equal-: ity of the blacks that they should enjoy all the privileges of the whites where they: reside.—Chicago Journal.

The Chicago Journal is one of Lincoln's' home organs, and wc have no doubt speaka his sentiments.

Qr"Dr. Bull has certainly achieved an enviable success, producing from his laboratory a medicine that is at once pleasant to the taste, and at the same time a prompt and sure remedy for worms. His Vegetable Worm Destroyer combines these properties in perfection. Bowling Green Standard.

OCTOBER ELECTION.

MR. 15O_WKV:—Ilcn-'E nnnminep THN N.-IMN

Wrr.r.-

IAM 1*. WVrHON i.- ii ciimliiliit': for County ('oiniiii*pioncr, ciibjirct to tlio dunixion of tin? Iii-inrwnlii* Convention. MANY DKMOCKATS.

MR. BOWES:—Hca.»? announce Ihenruno of AI.KAA.vtiKfL IIARI'KR a-i.il eanilitliite for tlio IA'^i.Jl:iLurI-. iil'ji-ct to the (Ivci.sioit

i/t

tion.

the Iteinocratie Oonvcn-"

MR. JKIWBN:—I'lenfe nnnonnco the name of JKSSKK W (. I'MliEiti.AMT US II I: for COUNTY Treaaiir-: er.unbject to the lifi«ion of the flcmoerntio F'onvrn-' t'"n. MO.NT'iOMKKY lJK.MUU.VCV.

Mi:. Howe*:— Von are niithorizeiL to iinnotince tho mime of W 11,1.1AM (it)TT iw a eamliiiitie for tii" oflier.nf Sheriff of Monlcotnery eounly. ."iihjeet totlio dvci^iun ol the OeinocruLic Convention.

Mit. HowKN:—You will plenae iiunounee the N.IIIIM of WM.MAM K. M'AIJ.Af'K .-aii.li.latu for reelection to the office of Sheriff of Muntt'omery eounty. sulijectto the decision of the l»eJU'.*:rali C'uimly Convention.

Mr. UOVBV:—Hi'n-e announce tlio name of STK-:i 1'UKN KIKJJIS.of V'jmilflville. Kipley township, uj II candidate for .-'heriii "I' Montgomery County, (iihjeet to the iI.--L'ion of the Democratic Convention.

Mit filiwKV:— I'lenfe announce the name of Kf)l!KKT C. I 'KAN i. of J-'raiikiih Town.ihin, for the oflii.-o ,,f County Trca-i'ir'-r, .-uhjcct to tho (feeinion of tlio Democratie Convcnllon. .M ANV DKMOOKATS.

Mit. ItinvK.s:—l'len^e announce the nauie of \VM. C. Vol N( .a eumlidato for the oflire of County Treasurer, .'uhjeet to the dceMon of the Democratic County Convention.

Mr. BOWES:—Please announce my nanio as a candi date for County Recorder, subject to the dcci.'iori of the Democratic Convention. npr-l* I1K.YKY NICHOLSON.

Mr. BOWKS.:—I'lca^o announce tho name of ANDRKW

FCM.KN as a candidate for tho office of

County Recorder, subject to the decision of the Democratic Convention. MANY VOTKJW.

MB. BOWES:—TLCAM announce jny name A* a candidate for County Kccorders subject to the decision of" tho Democratic County Convention,'

JKSSB WILLIAMS.

MR. EDITOR:—PIcitse announco the name of ROBERT F. BECK a* a candidate for the office of Count Treasurer, eubjoct to tho decision of & Democratic County Convention.