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From the N". T. Leader.

THB atVNIOIf OF DEATO.

EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OP

SECOND

SIGHT.

A curious case of second sight or tnesmeric vision, has recently fallen under oar -^/-personal notice, and we shall give the fact i^'u briefly and with as little ornament as /possible. Perhaps some of the Spiritualff ristic Mediums may furnish an explanation but for ourselves, we need none—the phenomenon, in our judgement, being explicable on the grounds of nervous sympathy m*alone. Tho facts of this case arc as fol-

Jows: Some two months since, Dr. E. VP., a

physician enjoying a large practice in the upper part of this city, was suddenly cal..lcd to Syracuse for consultation on a case ,of'rose cancer. On reaching the house of rhis patient—Mrs. A. M. R.—he found the rtcase very far gone indeed and obliged to remain several days while the remedy he -i applied took effect—his greatest fear being that a large artery immediately below the flesh fungus, might be touchcd and break while the lotion was eating away the' .'disease. s\ His patient was the wife of a wealthy *t! citizen, and during his stay in the house of /her husband, the doctor was introduced to I.Jand bccamo greatly interested in the T,daughter of the sick lady and his host.—

The girl, named Helen M. II. 11., was Wyoung, only in her fifteenth summer, beautiful, fair, and of brilliant complexion— rsrHii large blue eyes, liquid and loving •very long delicate fingers rich brown

Uiair, and a shape full fif grace and symmetry—though suggesting to the experi*enood .eye .of die doctor a lack of vital ro-

•j What made Dr. W. take special interest •in the young lady, was a likeness which jehc bore, or which he thought she bore, to liifl own dcccascd wife, as he remembered her previous to marriage, twenty-five ii thirty-years ago I

an^

^l's return to

this citv, the doctor spoke frequently and to many friends, of the wonderful resemblance existing between the two—dwelling curiously on the circumstance tii.it on inquiring the age of the young lady at Syracuse, he had discovered that Bhe was born the 13th day of June—the very same birth day as that of his deceased wife.— This fact formed iu itself an ardent fatherly attachment for one who had brought back to him such pleasant recollections of his courting days.

Previous to returning from his professional visit. I)r. W. had given notice to the father of the young lady, that she required .extreme care, having a tendency, as yet undeveloped, toward pulmonary consumption. 11c added that at such a tender age its inarch would probably be rapid—there being a poverty of quality in the blood, as illuslr.itcd in the rose-cancer,*under which lie

toward recovery, Dr. W., returned to this city and resumed his extensive practicefrequently referring however, as before stated, to the ease at Syracuse—or rather about a mile and a half outside that city —which had established so strong a claim on his sympathies.

Week after week slipped away, and the husband of the cancer patient occasionally reported progress in short notes—the general tenor being that the disease gave no symptoms of showing itself again while the wound which the removal had left, was healing as rapidly as any ordinary flesh wound of like extent and depth could be cxpcctcd. In reply to these the doctor would occasionally send new prescriptions to meet each improvement of general health and in every answer he dwelt— for there lay a forboding at his heart—on the importance of taking great care of Helen's health. He suggested, for the sake of both the mother and her only child that as the gentleman was rich and retired from all activc pursuits, he should visit Italy for a year or two, as soon as his wife bad sufficiently recovered to iucur the risk of a sea voyage.

Thus matters passed on—the father urging that his daughter had never been a day sick in her life, and was one of the healthiest girls in the country—until the 17th of this month, a day memorable to tlie doctor from the fact, that on the very same day, fifteen years before, his first wife died of rapid decline.

On the evening of that day, about nine o'clock, the doctor was sitting in his library smoking a cigar at the open window, and iiad probably been thinking of his first "wife, and her mysterious counterpart recently discovered at Syracuse. Intending to light the gas, he pulled down the sash and closed the window shutters, moving in the dark toward a bronzo matchbox which stood on the chimney piece.

But suddenly the room was flooded with intense light, causing him to start and as he gazed in wonder for some explanation, this general diffusion of light seemed to change into ono intensely white disk of about three feet in diameter, placed in the center of a circle formed of converging rays—these rays being very bright and broad where they joined the disk, but gradually tapering off and growing duskier, until they finally merged as a common part in the remaining darkness of tho room.

Knowing tho various appearances of light—somotimes in mere flashes, at others in rings, or lines or parallelograms—are indications to mcdioal men of nothing more than some disorder of digestion, the appearance did not at first suggest anything supernatural to Dr. W., on the contrary, it merely made him speculate as to what he cotild have possibly eaten for dinner which so fearfully disagreed with him.

But as lie gazed into the intensely bright oirele, thero grew on his eyes a picture which rivetted his whole soul with horror —Brown curls lay on a white pillow largo blue eyes were becoming fixed in the glas ay stare of death the brilliant complex ion was gone from the cheeks, which had also l«8t their dimpled roundness and the beautiful lips were white, or rather of a

whittish blue, except'where stained'by a bloody froth, which bubbled faintly and more faintly, up as respiration was becom--ing each moment a weaker and yet weaker effort.

It was that yoflng lady of Syracuse— the cxict counterpart of his lost wife born on the same day with her so closely resembling, both in foice and form, the 'woman he had never ccased to regard It was the girl of about fifteen, whose head he saw on the pillow in the center of the white disk and this was the night of all nights in the year" on •which—fifteen years before—his first wife had died in his arms as they were journeying through Ohio. t,

Looking a little longerat the appearance and as the eyes became more able to endure the clear fullness of the light in which this sad picture was set, Dr. W. recognized standing around the couch of the dying girl, her fathor arid two maiden aunts who resided in the neighboring cottage two resident physicians of Syracuse, whose acquaintance he had made while attending the mother two servant women belonging to the house, and, most extraordinary of all, the face of liis own eldest son, whom he thought to be traveling out west, but whom he had not seen or even corresponded with for several years.

These facts and this picturc gradually faded into darkness-—the whole probably not. occupying longer than a dream—but the impression ma^c on the old.doctor was such that he fainte.4 and' fell on the floor, the noise of this bringing in two.of.his children, who had been sitting \fith their step mother in the next room. One of these, now a student at the Medical College on Fourteenth street, applied the restoratives usual in such cases and just at the time the writer of this article' called, Dr. W. had recovered from his swoon, and on recovering related what he had seen— the whole foregoing story—in the presence of his two children (both grown up) and his present wife, by whom he has no children-—Mr. II—, of Thirty-eight street, also being present.

We set the whole affair down as an optical illusion, produced by the fact that the doctor had been sitting moodily for an hour or so in the fading twilight., thinking about his first wife, and recalling the circumstances of her death upon that'day,—• It was not we contended, a vision which he had seen previous to the swoon but a* dream which had come tg hiin while he was swooning, from other and purely physical a

Well, well," he would .reply, ".it may be so. But if so, I can't have long to live. I was awake and in my senses when saw that picturc, or thought I saw it. Or,, if it is really an illusion, my liver niust.be §o badly out of order that I niay as well' prepare for the last scuffle. The thing, however, which puzzles inc. moskto aceounl for' was the presence of M—," mentioning the

tho mother was then suffering. lie ,aalsolimine !?D of his eldest son, with whonj.he wasadvised extreme care that the young lady good terms, at the, girl'S bjedside. should specially avoid wet feet, ami bo he'niust be li viiig undei: an assum•sure never to expose herself to the night

air, except thoroughly wrapped up and

C(1 imc or thu am

klK)WU }lim

could' not-have

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protected. I house. Surely nothing would be more naWith these directions as to the daugh- ^ur f0r them tohav^ mentioned that tcr, and leaving the mother

iu a lair way

as*staying at (heir

they knew a young man of my name and from my city, if such had been, the-casc." Next morning l)r. E. W.,''received a

Mtzrr -t\* %%'*r io*5r i:-*« **f*i

teV

egram| sent thnight before, but too late for delivery at this cud of the line. It read as foliows:

SYRACUSE, May 17, 1S60—10 r. M. Take the first train and eoinc. The sudden death of Helen gave Mrs. R—ii a a shock wfyjch brought on a fainting fit.— Artery under cancer broke, threatening death from loss of blood. She specially wants to see you."

This was signed by one of the two doctors whose faces Dr. W. iiad seen in his vision the evening before. It. told him, then, that the appcnrancc in the library had indeed been a vision, and that Helen had actually died—whether in tho way lie had seen her, or some other.

Taking the first, train, he arrived at tho house near Syracuse without any loss of time that it was possible to avoid. On ringing the door-bell, muffled with crape at about. 10 o'clock, A. M., on the morning of the 19th, the door was opened for him bv his eldest-son, whom he had not seen for several years, and whom he might possibly never have seen again but for this cireumstanee.

We have not time to dwell on the minute particulars of Helen's death, but the following outline must suffice. She had been more than usually careful of herself, for several days, and more than usually tender to her father and mother—a kind of foreboding having seized her that something was very wrong" with her lungs. Having gone into Syracuse on the morning of the 11th to do some shopping, she made several visits, and did not think of returning until twilight began to creep over the land. She then started in evident alarm, and said that she must hurry home at once"—declining to accept the escort of a gentleman whose daughter she had been visiting. ynl

When next heard of she was found by young M. W—, the doctor's son (an entire stranger to her,) and only casually passing that way, lying at the top of a rather steep hill between her father's house and the place she just left a large quantity of blood mixing with the clay of the road beneath her face, and the blood still oozing out of her mouth.

The cause of this disaster, it was not difficult for those who knew her to guess. Hurrying home, and frightened, no doubt, at the appearance of a thunder-storm, which was overhanging the neighborhood, she must have exerted herself unduly hurrying up the hill, and tho excitement of her feclingB, together with the deeper respiration brought on by fatigue, had caused the bursting of some blooa vessels in the lungs, and the profuse hemorrhage which ensued. Terrified and unable to move she had lain on the road for about half an hour in a state of unconsciousness, and when young W. mounted the hill to where she lay, she had only strength to point faintly to die yellow house on the next hill top as the place to which to be conveyed. 'i -,.f 31

He was in a wagon which he used in his business as an agent for Hecker's Farina, and at once lifted her into it—taking her

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as gently as he could' to KCT father's He then drove into the city and brought back with him- two doctors,- "those recognized by Dr. W. in his library and in this way it came to pass that he had been standing at her bedside just as the--father had seen him in that vision, which transpired at the very same moment of time with the actual enaebnent of the Bcene.

On further inquiry Dr. W. discovered that just the same persons and no others had been around the couch of Helen when she died. And we may now sum up the remarkable coincidences as follows Helen M. R., was born on the same day, the 3d of June, as the first wife of the doctor, though about thirty-fivo years later. She bore the most wonderful physical, resemblance to what Mrs. TV. had been at the same age. She died on the same day, the 17th of May, and as closely as possible at the same hour of the evening. The husband of Mrs. W. had a vision of Helen's death, and the exact manner of it at the moment it was transpiring and this death was made the means in the hands of an overruling Providence for reuniting the eldest son of Mrs. VP. to his father. We drop the curtain, but will.furnish full names and proof to any parties' applying with proper motives.

DIAlltinOtU CAVE in niMStOl'BI.

A great natural curiosity has lately been discovered in Missouri, which bids fair to rival the great Kentucky cave. -The following description of it is given in the Jefferson City Examiner'.

The cave is in Phelps county, one and three quarters of a .mile from the Gas-* conade river, on a creek called Cave Spring creek, in township 38, section 21, range 9, west. We w?nt into the cave, guided b}' Mr. 11. II. Prewett, a young man about twenty-five years old, who was born

u'and

raised about a quarter of a mile from this place. In front of thq. entrance was a smalhstone houseswhich\th6 .old settlers thought was built by. the Indians, but now in ruins. TlVe entrance goes straight in the rock on a Jcval with a Surrounding surface rock, is about one hundred fee'tcwide,. and in the centre, about twenty-five feet high, arched.

Messrs Friede and Prewett entered the cave for nearly four hundred fcqt, where it narrojvs to about twenty-five feet wide by fiveCfeet high, and presents the appearance of an an to chamber from there they" passed into a large chamber about one lyindred fe'ct in hight, where the three galleries branch off—they .then passed into tho left gallery, which ascends nearly twenty feet on a bed of saltpetre. This gallery is called'the Dry Chamber, and is about 500 feet in length the hight varies from 200 to. about 30-feet. The ceiling ami sides arc composed of solid rock.— Near the end is a large round chamber, which Mr. Prewett calls the Uall-ro ni.

After' exploring the chamber, tlicy retraced their steps, and passed* in the right branch—or fork—of the cave where they ascended a rise of about twelve feet, and entered another gallery, the end of which is not known. They, however explored it about three quarters of a mile Mr. Prewett states that he has been in the gallery over two miles, and did not then get to the end of it. In this gallery the dropping of water has formed stalactites of the most beautiful conceptions—statutes of men aud animals, and large columns, supporting the most beautiful arches, from the ceiling, which is from fifty to one hundred feet| high, which forms several chambers of various sizes. The ceiling is decorated with different groups of spar, forming a variety of figures, which represent the inside of a cathedral. The size of some of these chambers is about forty feet wide by one hundred feet high, and look like rooms in sonic old feudal castle.

They were afraid their lights would give out, therefore retraced their steps to the main chamber, from which they ascended to the middle gallery, where a large stream of clear water issues from the interior of the cave, and has a fall of about six feet, and falls in several large round basins.— The water has a pleasant taste and flows all the year round, without variation in sufficient volume to drive a mill. They ascended the galleries, and ound themselves in several beautiful chambers leading from one to the other, iu which, however, they did not penetrate to more .than. 600 feet.— There is a strong draft of air settiug in from the entrance inside of the cave tho atmosphere was mild. The chambers arc all of unusual hight and exteut. They went in at one o'clock, aud emerged from the cave at half-past three.

Pnr.sENT.vnoN

Mrs. Allen, as might be expected from a one in whose husbands veins Ethan Allen's blood flowed, sympathizes very warmly with the Democratic party. The State of Vermont tried to purchase it from her, but Republican Vermont has not money enough to get it. We don't kno#H» she would let them have it at any rate, but ?re arc of the opinion that if the good people of the Green Mountain State would lay aside their fanaticism, and espouse the cause of popular sovereignty, for which this true old blade was so effectually wields ed, repent of their political sins, and vote for Douglas, the old lady's heart might soften toward them.

OLD SOLDIERS TOR DOUGLAS.—"We believe that Anglaize can boast of having the oldest men in it of any county in the State. We found in this county three men over one hundred years old, and all warm Douglas men: Onr' old friend Shubert, one hundred and three years old, told *us he would walk to town on the morning of the election to cast his vote for Senator Douglas. He lives two miles from this place. Wo found four men over eighty yearB of age Douglas men. Hurra for the old veterans!—Auqlaizc (O.) Democrat.

CBAWFORDSVILLE, MONTfH)MERI", COUNTY, LYDIAjYA.v AUGUST -4,

J1nh»PM»«teCKKRVDCE.P4BTK AT THB

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tTBTAW^XIFTEB.

Mr. KEIT?) the acknowledged leader jjf the Breckinridge partyjn the South, is out in along latter, which, is-published in the New York Herald, the ,-new organ of the party. After enumerating all the wrongs real and imaginary, which he says has been inflicted upon the South,.he says:

And how can the South be saved from injury if the Republican party succeeds in tho coming Presidential election? I ANSWER, ONLY' Blr/'DISSOLVING THE GD"V\B RJfMENT"

LY. IF THIS PARTY SUCCEEDS LOYALTY TO THE .UNION WILL BE TREASON TO THE SOUTH, \nd will the South be divided upon this issue? Will she not dismiss the party names, and build herself up into one greait unit for her deliverance? Will the mag nificent vis'iiieffS of "the "whig party op pose itself to this great achievement? In its day aud generation the Wbijg party was the orderly against the progressive clc mcnt, and, though it seldom won, it always retreated with a bold, steady front to the foe. It seldom won, because, unfortunate ly for it, present knowledge is present power, and its knowledge was of the past It was a stagnating respectability. Old men, old ruhes, old routine governed it and'made it,-in a stirring 'time, a Louis Quatorze party! Iii "all its

campaigns

was respectable in its conduct but it'nev. er, even by chance, evinced any inventiveness or breech of precedent. It was a fossil system, and its advocates soon be came petrified- into

part of the mass.—

Let its followers catch the spirit of the present arid march abreast with the times And yet the Breckinridge leaders in Kentucky deny that they are a Disunion party. Hear what Mr. Keitt says further on this point.

The South now stands upon the Constitution, and her standard is in the hands of Breckinridge and Lane. Lot her sons rally to it, and under it move on to "Equality iu the Union, or independence OUt-Of it." vi ?i!

Here he openly avows that Breckinridge is his file leader—tho man upon whom the hopes of. the Disunion party rest— and Mr. Keitt knows his man.- In conclu sion he says: "In my judgement, if the Black Rcpub lican party succeeds in the coming election, the Governor should immediately assem ble the Legislature, and that body should provide fur a State Convention, which shouldprotcct the State from the dishonor of submission to Black Republican rule. Before the tribunal of the world, and at the bar of history, we shall stand justified. Freedom lives much more in the spirt of a people than in the forms of a government. We shall receive the plaudits of brave men for preserving 'freedom and not reproaches for shattering a despotism. Senator Hammond, in his unanswerable and consumatc arguments on the admission of Kansas and "squatter sovereignty," has exposed the resources and rights of the South. Upon both we may safely stand.— This Uuion is just as travelers tell us man}Eastern habitations .are—a place to look upon all fair on the outside, and presenting the appearance of a house that should last for generations but the master puts his walking stick or his boot heel through the rafters, and he finds that the white ants have eaten all tho substance out of the timbers, and that all he sees about him is a coating of paint which an intrusive blow may disperse, in a cloud of dust. Tin skirting boards have already perished, the rafters are now ready to tumble iu.

We, of the South have done everything to preserve the Union. We have yielded almost everything but our honors. Let us yield that only as an enemy yields his banner.

LAWRENCE M. KEITT.

OiiA'NGEnuRG, C. II., July 16, I860. Written only ten days ago this is the latest manifesto of the party. When the letter of Yancey is quoted, the Disunioniats

say

OF'.A DOCGLAS FLAG BY

THE WIDOW OF ETHAN ALLEN'SSOX.—The

Democrats of Mill Point, Ottawa County, Michigan, raised a hickory-pole last week, with a beautiful flag on it, bearing tho names of Douglas and Johnson. The flag, which is of the finest- bunting, was made by Mrs. Agness Allen, widow of Ethan Allen's son, and tho possessor of the old hero's sword. The Holland Register says:

it was', written two

years

ago, in a

moment of excitement? and has been long since repented.of. But what will they say to this, a manifesto of to day, from the pen of1 the acknowledged leader of the party in the South. A man who can doubt that the purpose of Breckenridgo and his party is to dissolve the Union, is blind to the events passing around--him. Is Kentucky prepared for revolution—for a severance of all the tics which have bound us together as one people—for standing armies and civil war—for tax gatherers and tax consumers? Is she willing to convert the Ohio river into a hostile frontier and bequeath to her children a civil war that will last till it terminates in a hundred petty despotisms upon this continent?

This is the feast to which your favored and petted son," John C. Breckinridge, invites you, Kcntuckians. He is to be tho President, and Richmond the Capital of the new confederacy, the New York Herald informs us in an article .which we publish elsewhere.

What matters it to Mr. Breckinridge or his friends, that fire and sword desolate your hearth stones, so long as he can wear safely at Richmond the imperial robes of the new Confederacy?

What matters it to the South Carolina planter, with his thousand slaves, that you have a hostile frontier of five hundred miles to guard? It is your place, he thinki, to defend him, for he has enough to do to take care of his negroes.

ied phrase, announces that Mr. Breckin-j

the Southern Confederacy IfMr Breckinridge is not party to tbis infamotfii scheme, he owes it to-himself ancjnis friends-in Kentucky promptly and unmistakably to disclaim all connection *with the' programme laid down for him. We shall see whether he will do this or not. His silence under such circumstances can bear but one construction.—Louisville Democrat, 16iA!

THE GREAT DOl'OLAS JIEETIMG IN ttPBINQVIBLD ILLINOIS.

All

IMMEDIATE

accounts: agree that the

and

Johnson

field,

viewed the crowded streets of the city''

nouneed the assembly the largest he had over seen. The cxcitemcnt and enthusiasm exceeded any thing that has been witnessed since the log-cabin days of 1840.— Large processions came in from more than dozen countica in Central Illiuois, and flags and banners bearing appropriate mottoes were waving on every hand. One wagon containing about thirty men, all barefooted, bore a banner on which was inscribed, the 'Barefooted Democracy are for Douglas and Johnson.'

Lincoln will be very badly beaten in bis own county. It had always been Opposition, but it voted against him for Senator by four hundred majority in 1858. The people, who regard him as unfit for Senator, will think him still more unfit for President. He will probably be beaten more than a thousand votes in Sangamon County.

THE YANCl'-BRKCK VNKIIICi ESTATE CONVENTION IN ILLINOIS.

The telegraph a few days since gave us an account of a Breckinridge State Convention in.lllinois, which nominated an Electoral and State ticket. The Springfield (Illinois) State Register, printed at the place where the Convention was held, thus speaks of it:

There were eleven counties out of the one hundred and two in the State represented in all, by fifty-three self-constitu-ted delegates. Forty-one of the fifty-three delegates are government office-holders, ind the remaining twelve have relatives in office."

Formidable convention that!

ELECTORAL VOTES of THE STATES.

As a matter of convenient reference, we publish below a statement of the Electoral otc of each State in 1SG0, together with the popular vote in 1850:

STATES. Elcct Vote. Been. FIIKM'T. FILL. Mnino

ithoile Island... 4 11,407 1.075 Connecticut 34.M5 42.715 2.015 Now York .3T 270,004 324,001 Now Jersey. 7 4(,P43 28.338 24.115 Pennsylvania

.'Si

JI:!T

late Douglas

ratification

meetingin Spring

Illinois, was tho

largest

the Stater*"The

ever

held in

telcgraphTcport

to the St,

•i .l.s* «IIW| Louis and Chicago papers says: "It is estimated that at least forty thousand people were present. Mr. Liucoln

230.7 117,M3 82.202

Delaware, 3 p.om 308 0.175 Maryland, 8 3!UJ5 47,400 Virginia .14 pn,7ofi '291 00,310 North Carolina.-.11 48,340t 30,880 *Seut.h Carolina 8

48,340

Georgia, .JO 50,581 42,439 Florida 3 C.358 4,833 Alabama 46.739 28.552 Louisiana 0 22 104 20,709 Mississippi 7 3T, 440 24,195 Texas,. 4 31,109 15,039 Arkansas 4 21.910 10,787 Missouri 0 r*.104 48,521 Tennessee

.Yi

Kentucky

73,030-. ..... 00,117

.Y2

74.012 31i 07,410

Ohio, .23 170^74

187.497 28,121

Indiana .13 UH,o:o 94,375 22,3,-LI Illinois, .11 105,348 90 !9 37,444 Michigan 0 .VJJ30 71,702 l,0liU Wisconsin 5 52,843 00,090 580 Iowa 4 30.170 43.951 9,180 Minnesota 4 3G,105 California 4 53*,305V 20*091 3G,105 Ordgon 3

303 1,838.232 1.341 514 874,707

*JJy Legislature.

S3?- From some of the "provincial papers" of the State of South Carolina, we arc beginning to get inklings of the spirit in which the natives of that country celebrated "the late 4th of Jul}'." The toasts on such occasions, are the windows that give us an insight into the soul of the party. We give two or three as a specimen

••.v.

By F. G-. Behrc, Esq.: The day we celebrate—We can now only cherish it for for the Past. May we soon be able to greet it as the natal day of a Southern Confederacy."

Still harping on my daughter By Edward Davis, Esq.: Colonel W. Yancey, of Alabama—May he live to be the first President of a Southern Confederacy."

That is rather unkind to the disunion candidate, Breckinridge. By ltev. J. D. W. Crook Suocess to railroads in general, and the people's railroad in particular."

Is he not a wolf in sheep's clothing Is he not an underground railroad man 1 The following is the best one we have seen

By J. E. Lansey, Esq Washington and Jefferson-—Names which will be remembered when that of the oppressor is lost in the vortex of revolution whose virtues and sentiments, unshaken by the beating surge of Time, are only washed to purer whiteness by the tide-wave which sweeps oppression from the world."

There is hope of South Carolina while such a toast as that is allowed at any of her festive boards.

The following i3 one of the regular toasts The Baltimore Seceders and tho Richmond Convention—They did the right thing at the right time, and South Carolina indorses their action.

The curtain is now fairly up. And intended disgolution'of the Union is distinctly announced by tho leaders, of the party in the cotton States, and Breckinridge de« Tho Yancey party in this State 13 clared to§e their leader! ihe organ of represented by two -o- rr ,, both which have les3 than a thousand subthe party, the A ew York Herald, in stud- scribcrs

ridge is to be inaugurated as President ofj by the popular vote

CAMPAIGNJKOWW

Air—"CAMrrowx

'WBo n«»ver i*t

07.i ?t 3.325

New Hampshire. 5 IFJ.TTIO 38.:vi.» HFI 422 Vermont........ l(l.."»liil 39.501 545 Mn?sn husett.s ..

.13 3I.'J40 108,100 10,020

RACES."

In IlliTinU there eari tie found—dudah. dndnh, Twji) iMgg'npon the campaign

"little Do?" I do declare.

And 'spottedAbe' vftth kJntv Thej are bound to 1 -Andl am not afraid

To bet my money on "little Dug, •Who'll bet on "spotted Abo."

Thes&jhorscrroo qne rneo before, dtidahJdndnh. And old 3no£s jriod was very poorvdtidnh. udah da. TT»c*Bi!My*TOr.«b fc!ftne nrif nhoad.'dndah. dudali. Whilst Abraham's frieuds looked very sad. dudah., dudah'da. dPherare bdOndTfo run'lliU fall,'ie. Jv-

Forayuif years old Abo's been- kepUidiidnh. diidnh, Hy GidBinca lie's been rubbed nnd swept, diidfh. Ae. Till all tlie hair JoorinotT his tail, dudnh. dudah. As though 'twere done with Hank*' rail, dinlah, ie.

Thuy aro bound to run thia Tall. ifcc. ..

Some time affo old l'arson Pelf, dtidah. dm I ah'1 This ?elf-snme si'otted horse did beat, dudnh

Ac.

And Christians say it is no uso, dudah. diidiih. For Abe to run so lank and loose, dudah. duiluh da. They are bound to run this fall,.tc.

Vn {hiinlts to Corwin.'AVe'of Clah*ifu'd:il),jiudn"h, Do'sOldieM wrifiPiheti th^yVeVHnhri1. dtllfiih. .(•. Lit "Uiant Dug"' the mighty outf-dudah, dudah.

rare

?.}

from the dome of the capitol, and pro- Thn aro

tin

he rim. dmiah. diHlnlt da.

bound toru,,

Old Abe thi? fall will truly

firiiUdiidnh.

iliiflfth.

Once mure hivwill JjoJu/'t buhiiul. julttb, ilul»li ln K»r all (hp soldiers in (lie land, diidiili. dinlah. WHh 'fiitHc Dtiir -hnrldin hnnd,dud:ili, dudnh da.

They uro bmuitl to riin.thl* fill! Art* i-

A .iiI: VSIICI: OF lai'HM v, '""All must 1 live in torturing despair Aj many years ai atoms in the air?

When these are spent, as many tlioit-nnd more Ay grains of sand that, crowd the ebbinit sliore.' When thij'se are done, as many.yet behind As leave."

forest'shaken h.v the mud .'

When these are gone, as many yet en.-iie As stems of erass on hills and dales that grew? When these run out, IUS MANY on the mareh As starry lamps thateild the spangled ureli? When tlieso expire, its mmiy millions more Aj moments in the'million*'past before'.' When all these doletul years aro spent in pain, And multiplied by myriads attain. Till numbers drown tho thought, could I suppose That then my wretched years were at. a close. This would afford some ease but. nh! I shiver To think upon the dreadful sound forever! The burning ptilf where I blaspheming lie,, 1* time no more but vast KTEHNITY

REfRPTION OF mit. IMMrOI.AM AT ALBAXV— IMPOSING A1VO DMIHXIANTIC It^IOSTK\TI«.\.

Mr. Douglas arrived at Albany, X. Y., on Friday last, from Boston, but owing to the inexcusable neglect of the agent of the Associated Press, no account of his reception was received by the Western journals. In the New York papers of Saturday morning, however, we find the following telegraphic account of his enthusiastic reception in that city.

ALBANT, Friday, July 20.

Judge Douglas arrived in this city at half-past tor: o'clock last night. The demonstration made by his friends was of the most imposing and spirited description.— At Boston depot he was met b}7 a dctatchment of "Little Glints," in drab and blue uniforms, and by the Committee on Reception, numbering fifty citizens, among whom appears the name of John II. Reynolds, M. C. from this district..

On crossing the river the sides of the pier and landing were brilliantly lighted with Roman caudles, and guns were fired in rapid succession. The military were formed un this side and escorted the carriage containing Judge Douglas, Mayor Thatcher, Peter Cuggcr, Stephen Clark and others, which was flanked and conducted iu a square by the Club of Little Giants bearing torches. At the Dclcvan House the crowd numbered many thousands.

Judge Douglas, in a brief speech of wclcomc by Mayor Thatcher, responded, attributing the magnificent demonstration here, as well as those throughout the line

The enthusiasm during the address, and throughout the line of march, wasunea-l qualcd, and even more than the numbers

HI:.\T »OI'(.

Canal-street from Chartres to Bourbon, two blocks, was literally packed with aliv-

ing mass, and the balconies of the beauti- I

ful stores on each side of the great cen-.

tral thoroughfare were festooned' with la-

thorougl:

dies, all seemingly anxious to drink in every word of the eloquent speakers, and exhibiting their applause by the waving of handkerchiefs, &c

General Augustin was President of the

vention."-

nc of' these journals tells its

»ders that Breckinridge will be clectcd

ACCESSION TO OUR RANKS.—The Dotr.it,

Free Press chronicles the fact that at Port,

ed the Douglas Club who voted for Fre-

1 a .^VJIQLJi TOEBER 547.

ITOKFUTT (LOW FOB HOIT.-' AM—HIM KMNR.

rA ^correspondent of -the -l'hiladelphia

hilndelphia, and

givC^ the following bts liis' viefcs upon political matte rs-J

yo 0

In politics (every body talks politics now) Mr. Forest volunteered his opinions, and with great candor and clearness announeed himself a 3)ouglaaJD.einocrat, ex-

iiibiting

a .thorough kuo.wl.cdgo of the dif-

ere'nee between the various political organizafions as many of those who profess* to know more.

I heard of of him in the South as an arlent friend of Southern institutions, and I was not. therefore disappointed when ho ,'isscrtcd that one of his reasons for supporting Judge Douglas was—diccaiise ho believed him to be a warm and devoted friend of the constitutional rights of the South.- I perceived too 'that much of his attachment to Douglas grew out of the fact that both wero-1N" children of the people," and that lie gloried in the brilliant career of the Senator from Illinois—probably because he resembles his own—Forest having readied the highest posit ion in his profession, and Douglas the highest in his, against every conceivable and inconceivable obstacle. lie laughingly said, during this part of our interview, I have alwuys boon a Democrat, was burn in old Soitthifttrk, find now live in Spring Garden, where I have many old friends, numbers of whom wero schpoluiatcs and companions iu early life. They arc very kind and and partial to 111c, and are now tusking me to become a candidate for Congress, but I have no ambition in that direction indeed, I doubt, whether, even if clectcd, I could take the place, and I more than doubt if tho party inanaagers would allow me to be nominated, because 1 happen to be attached to the fortunes of tho man of the people, Stephen A. Douglas."

DESCRIPTION O* A IIIM CTII'I'I/ IIOKHEI The following eloquent description of a beautiful horse appears in an ancient work on farriery, and is quoted by Bracken, who flourished as a veterinary writer in in the year 1740. It isn superb piece of literary coin,- bearing the Htamp of ancient veterinary autocrflcy

The eye of a beautiful horse is piercing, fixed, and as-it were, immovable from the object it lixes upon it is also full and well-formed he has a majestic awfulnces in his whole countenance, which is never' theless tempered with scrcnit}' and gentleness, and all the other marks of true courage his whole action agrees with his temper he is fierce or gentle according as this or that affection moves him, or as lie is provoked or'applauded his von muscles {appear at every motion, not soft, and flabby." but. firm and distinct his veins, like so I many rivulets, rim in an infinite number of 'meanders his limbs are clean, nervous,:: .durable, and ready 011 every call and, of all creatures, ho seems to approach neafestto man, both fur beauty, majesty and sairacify and his services are likewise tho most lMible and excellent."

Bracken contends that the person wh wrote the above paragraph must have had a good notion of a horse, otherwise he could not have expressed himself so properly.— American Stock Journal.

of his journey, not so much to any desire to do honor to an individual as to a popular sentiment in favor of the great, doctrines of non-intervention with the free will of the people. lie alluded to the sectional position ofj those parties who desire intervention, the one TiT~prohibit and"the other to protect slavery against the wishes of people of a Territory. lie declared that tho only doctrine upon which the Union could stain was the recognition of the right of tin people to free government according to their own wishes, subject only to the ('onstitution of the United States.

present indicate the intense fnemlsnip •. 1 ,, ,•

THE HOT !SI tl:ili:It.

litis summer of 1SIJ0 will long be re membered as par excellencc, the hot summer. Wo need not recapitulate our daily record of the last two' months, by way of showing how hot if. lias been. Our cotem-

poraries of flic press, in the North, South,' Hast and West, are making similar reports, (hie day hist week the Mobiio Advertiser could not work oIt' its edition, as the rollers melted iu the press-room. In Charles--, {ton, the ('anria- says the time passed in the hi.sf'irv that city recorded on the memory of the most aged inhabitants, af-. lords tiie. record of no spell of hot weather-- ,. 1 worthy to be compared to the present,

... 1 1 11 1 1 -t 1 1 1 cither lor intensity or length of duration, with which Judpe Uoumas is hailed hy his .. .,

friends. The proceedings after midnight.

did not terminate till I

On his way to Albany Judge Douglas was cnthusiast'cally received at the depot by at least five thousand persons, amid the firing of cannon, music of bands, &c. lie dined at the Massasoifc House, wiierc he spoke for three-quarters of an hour, and left the same evening for Albany.

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i:i:ri.\r

w! irI is

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ral,ks

Huron, in that State, sixteen persons join-'"hatitH

of tl,c

Ijreckinr,%e

aCl-or"I'''s'je^

In the town of .Newport, 111

mont 1856.

I I bis unparalleled heat, began there on tho I'isth of .June, and since then has been' sustained with scarcely any abatement.—•

The quicksilver has been kept at point.'! it. is not common for it to rise to, even during?

the hours the stiu has the greatest power,, in the morning and evening twilight, and nnin was, very day, and ono heitrht of 100 dc-

all the time the stars ar at 1*4 for several hours day reached the fearful grecs.

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O IS 1.1: A.vs.

The New Orleans True Delta, of the 18th, brings us the particulars of the great Douglas and Johnson ratification meeting held in that city the evening before. It calculates the crowd at seven thousand, and remarks

The Smith Carolinian says the present heat can find a precedence, within a rango of many years, only in that of 18-VI.—• y. (). I'iraijunr.

A BAD SHOWING.—The Atlanta, (Ga.) Confederacy nayp there were only about f.,rtv three men at the Breckinridge and. Lane supplementary ratification in Atlanta the other night, ami that too, when C"l. B. C. Yancey, one of their ablest men was to address them. The Hon. L.

J. Gartrell

made a flaming spccch during the day,

published in the Intelligencer,

evidently making a strong,

daHl for tlic in tho

Congressional can-

vass next year. It won't do, will it, Bro, Ilainblcton The Confederacy also informs us that at thgrand Breckinridge ratification meeting in Dclsalb county, the

-r. only persons present were the President

nnt he

meeting, assisted by one hundred and to go through the motions," the meeting twenty Vice Presidents and eleven Secre- 'adjourned sim• dir. The fact is, that tho taries. The speakers were the f£

Secretary, and there being no ono

thing is fast dying out, on account of the

tv 1 vi ,n 1 ir !drouth and no latter rain can ever bringPierre Soulc, Miles Taylor, Hon. John 1 1 a* jitto—it is too much exhausted, and tho Forsyth, Major Ilerron and Colonel Stew-I,,^,],.

arB

art. The resolutions were Mronglv for the 'from it as from a pestilence. Union and.for Congressional Non-inter-j .... i,LISTEN TO Tirt'iri Music.— 1 he etumke (Ala.) Spectator, a new recruit to the

beginning to sec it, and to flee

s»M'"rW

aHl1

anP- fra»kIJ' av"ws

ufUr-

0:5,1

h"i*cs

hvin°

».«-

„p We have advocaVd the disruption of

the Democratic par.'y, and have rejoiced (as we have before

stated)

who never voted a Democratic ticket in'and wishes have bean accomplished in retheir lives before all going for Douglas ifcrence

when our hopes

thereto.