Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 October 1860 — Page 2

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THMOURMt

THURSDAY, OCT. 11,

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET

FOR PRESIDENT,

A A A I N O N or ILLINOIS. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,

A N N I A A I N

f\ of ataine.

Presidential Electoral TieUct.

Er.r.CTOns fou /rui statu at lakge.

WTT.T. TMTl.\rT\. Pi/calur: A. JOHN L. M'/VNSFIEIjD, of .TcfW^hv i- a

t'Jf'TRICT SLCCTOKS.'

0 t.- pj?—Cvi!.= M. Alien, of K-no.\ 2tl D:*.—John W. Riv, of Clarke 11."' 3d r:«.—M-rton T!uti?pi\ of

r-ith

Mfntno:

Dis.—JuJm ][. l*iirqunhn\ of l-V.uiklin J.Srh Pi.».—Xolson Tni-lt"-, of Pnvctte: 6th Dis.—Kris hen A. Hi ley, of Hancock 7th T«!».—Toliti Hntimh. of Pnfnnm:

J?*Ii Pis.—fPfliimul A. Tfuff, of T'ipp.\inoc Pth JVs.—Initios M. Tyner, of Mi."Ui Iflih Dis.—T-:i!ic.Tenkin-on, of Allen: ,(pr llthD.ls.-—DavidO. Dailcy, of Huntington.

The i!aj before llac Elcciion. On Monday yve saw (he '•unyvashed" in all their terrible might with music

and banners they paraded mi streets

with about one hundred and thirty wag-'

procession was an old Dagnerrean (Jar. mottoed "Douglas School House"—altogether a new plank in ,the D/nigla^ platform.

After perambulating the streets sufficiently. the "immense concourse" assembled in the Court House yard, to listen to McDonald, Buskirk and Wallace. When thus assembled we could make a tolerably safe estimate of the number, which in our judgment did t.ot oxcctd oiif I'iini

almost impossible to listen attentively to any speech amid the noise and con-

fusion. Every few moments the cry of "light" would be raised in the street and tlie faithful would rush in crowds to ihe field of battle. leaving the speaker with, only a handful of men around the stand, and many of them, as he

Said

al position on the slavery question,

objections, i«:: 1st. -^Longress

upon 1»\ the Court in the ea.-e. proving

drntan-l the decision just as the Brock-

please."i,11 ere the speaker's feelings got the better of his judgment, and ho!

a in is a a id

thetic. and spoke rather disparaging!v of the AW.itio'i-j!s." as lie was pleased to call us by way of variety.-r-Ile then made the astouirling iliselo,sure that "shivery existed

ana territory, and that consequently the ordinance of 17-S7, never was valid and binding." That, indeed? Can that be logic? Is it always true that when a law is bioiun it

slavery in the Indiana territory. andj(juy

bccause the layv yva&inva'id.-. :Bat if the Ordinance of 17S7, yvas null and void as McDonald says it always yvas. yvhy did the people of the Indiana Territory once and again ask Congress to re tea! it? Would they have petitioned Con gross io repeal a law yvhich never yvas a layv? It won't do—tho whole truth is ahvays the best the Ordinance yvas valid and binding and the people fell it to be so or they never would have asked its repeal.

After

!,crayvfishing"

letter.

hcn lie

ons, an'd 5C?»e voters but not quitecnouqh. -™d his parly." we could not The strangest device noticed in tho

!loIP

w»juId

of' tl.o crowd o.i

V'?'"'1

Saturday—but to the ^pcc-tiiea. It was eiorpa-neu of Cujit. Mor-

^eilknew, staunch Rejiublicans bi.t 'fhis prupositiosi cann be denied by in sjiite of all obsiacles McDonald .»a

11.e

conclusively, if he proved anything, lofsnt-li thin-s? Ar that tiie Douglas party believe and ini-

n,r

that slavery shall

{lu'. S(,n of

to res Wrom-vmi r. 4inbors- an cHenjny^fhtF- ELECTro.^ retirement of home in the'future^

Next in order came Buskirk's speech/ This gentleman had jast two beads t"6 his speech, and no body. ISt.

u£Thei~Re-

publictui party is in favor of negro equality.'' Yah Yah 1 Yah ~. 2d. "The Breckinridge party has no existence, it is merely a light betweentlic Post-Masters and the People." It may be true as McDonald said when introducing him to the audience, that Mr. Busldrk ism "able e.fp'6'nent" of the Democratic faith. It strikes us that! we have heard the first point of his speech mentioned before by Democrat ie orators. We would'not accuse him of piagarirrig\ and are inclined to.think. that whether he is of the same breed or not, he at least, has the same old bark.

After Busk irk had finished his tirade. the "incomparable Lewis" sung the doxology in "short 'particular metre"' set to those household words. •Schooler and White." For this, the last speech in the county canvass, the Republicans of Montgomery county ro: turn Mr. Wallaeotheirsincero thanks— it was a "good thing"—particularly so

'»t'™ated that -:any Democrat

s^r^tt'hcil his ticket was false to

remembering that these same Democratic leaders, time and again, pledged to Judge Xavlor the Democratic vote of this county, and promised to put, his name on their ticket. The result shows what value the party put up' ii their own pledges, ami how easy jitis for them to be false not only to j'•themselves, b'.'.t to others.

speak of the grand display

of the "gallant two hundred" Kangers on Monday night—we might tell the

:UH

slavery

pre me Coe.i has already decided it. in I a owners and slave

»1»»

gan's valedictory, but time and space

DoiigJas'siii STortSs ami Soaili. There is a radical difference of opin ion between the northe: an 1 sou!hern wings of the Doug'a* Democrats

inv

hib say ,H ib first position wus that the southern men will not deny that southIvepublican party is a sectional party. Democrats of every party are tiiorough'•IiejJiiblicans.

he."tatcca section-jj j,r0

intelligent man.-': -frisose wh.) know

s] lvery.and

i!k.so

pies, the Attorney General had three voeatc thesedoctrines. Some, we know

.kis

ihe Dreti- Scott case." lie here went on would place the slave along si.le the at some length to ^fate tlie points ruled

p(-,or,

j))(.iiana9 If

inridgc party do—a point all Douglas |,]oss:ng.)s july-ocated by their southern-l men in oi* county most bitterh deny, j.,] j:.,s -why not extend it? Why not ~d. "It

unngjitious and unjust \o ex- bring it into Indiana? Why not ex-j elude slayer from tlie new 1 errttories it into all the States? Why not t.ie to, i!loi ies aie theeommon propel ro-open the slave trade? Surely" our t\ of the whole pcopic and tney should T'ongress s'.iould not pronounce that all be permitted to cn.oy it as 3- piracy which ..confcrs blessings on the and."

yvent off in a raphsody, ami trdd us all about "the blood of our fathers." both of the North and South, commingling 0:1 the battle-fields of the revolution,! trines have carrier! the basing &c., &C..&C. 3d objection to Bepubli-1

Mr. Douglas claims that his loc

vt.rv

the Indi-

ceases

layv.? AUun murder is comimttt rl

f11!thor north than

0 1

cause ihe dissolution oi tne Lnion. js holiest in his expressions, surely he O.11 this head he y\ as exceedingly pa .,luj |j-s friends are as intensely pro-

slavery as Yancy. Johnson. Toombs, rr

anv of the fire-eaters of South Caroli-

:nsu!t.

Kys

does that tnuntl the Ian against murder, [)0e!aration of In Impendence. They iStrange reasoning that! I here "-s

lre

m:irder, robbery, and theft, but they Constitution or no Constitution: for were here in vt.ota.tton of lay\ and not, Douglas in anv event. Douglas, party

from his Attica

appet iig to old Whigs, de-

tiouncing Republicans as '-unprovoked agitators, and clai

111

ing the "Horn estead

measure" as Democratic doctrine— yvhich bo kneyv to be a deliberate. l''faint so"—his honor perorated in this yvise "yve are going to. win this battle. I hftyc been around over this State considsrably and I speak advisedly yvhen 1 tell you that yve are going to win this battle." Alas!' for human prescience! White to Congress, by a mujor.ty rang You've" "been around" have you Jo- ing from twenty to twenty-live tliou,soph? "Well, the Republicans* have sand. ."Bead and circulate, Sam pays ^concluded to give you an opportunity expenses."

jem of rights emb'xlied in the

for Douglas slavery or no slavery

art,

f(,r Douglas Union or

»iiof.

favor of extending

yvnich. in m\ opinion, will destroy tlie re-opening of the African slave trade "Fnough returns have been re -eived hi'.i moil} and l^ti'ou of these Slates, the northern Democracy sustain irom tne various Congressional i.iilr cis To this sectional party and its princi-

principles? Some, we know, ad-1

|ltl masses willing for and desirous ing. but from au iei b:!i- !i. fn'.v .. an

masses planit" slavery

mes

have extended the b'cw'nox of slavery* I over territory equal in Isi.H-h States as New Ym

extent- to five c: that his docof sla anv other

thegood sense of northern free

men by proclaiming themselves the friends of Popular Sovereignty, j* In heart, in doctrine, in political organization. they are the enemies of freedom ,u the friends of slavery, and 1 I

be f..iL.j)

{{s

110

Un-

spoils are the tics yvhich bind them.— Principle, rights, freedom, enter not into their platform. Freemen of Indiana. can you become the yvilling tools of a tyranical oligarchy yvhich seeks to govern and control all things for their own good at the expense of the masses? Freemen of Indiana, let the voice of your condemnation bo heard at the coming election. Buckle

011

your ar

mor in tho cause of freedom! Sleep not nor tarry* by the way-side until the banner of Republicanism, borne on and up by the steady arm of Honest Old Alio, yvaves in triumph from the turrets of the Capitol!

WiHso:i SsimT-a:!

ii?!er.

Keep it before the people that "Cousin Sally Dillard," after spen l.ng day.and v/ooks in- the distribution of secret circulars, against bis opponent, succeeded—in yvhat? In electing A.bert S.

nirdlv La a tae i:

can

1 uaniiv have. :niich of-a •. iajoi dy.*

WlSNW 1irf

OLD MONTGOMERY REDEEMED! ic

Rump Democracy Routed,Horse, ool and Dragoon*.

Glory Enough for One Day.

glorifying that yve must confess, that we are almost "too full for utterance." All passed off quietly and peaceably during the day though: both -parties worked latj? and* earnestly/ for the'

For Sup't Public Instruction—Miles J. Fletcher 102 For (71" Sup. Court—J. P.Jones... DO

Wo clip the following news in reference to the Congressional Flection in tie several Districts of our State, from

i,500

as Hon.

no would gladly see our State and every prospect in tlie Fourth and Soc-mi

power to goy oi the lerntories that j'l-i^e State in the Union, converted into! represented by Hoimau and Kngiish. id no longer an open question—the Su-1 slJlvc States I hoy would gladiv become|

dealers

an 1! "lv

free laborer of the north. But ]st No return

A. S. White's

many of them desire the it is at least 2.000. 'The Journal says

to ,nako

2d." No reliai'lo ne^s, .ji-.t a rej.nr Jart'ng ir-.-m i* I\ I comity ycstcnh-y fives Dav is a fair chance of election. 3d. Dunn is elected, und mbtedlv

but we have no means of giving probable majority. So far as reported

yesterday, he had in Jefferson 1.200. in

i)emor-ratic county. Monroe and Layvreiiee will probably give Dunn a small majority, and Bartholoinoyv yvill give

If Switzerland gives Dunn loo or more lie wiil have over tiUO in the District1.— But this guess work may be exceeded bv (in.: act result. 4th. The reports that Valor had ar-

na. Then let them sicver yv!tisj,or a tnr. 220 in Rush. 300 in Ripley, and yvill jswill range from 20,Ot.-O to 25.000.

word Mfi 'favor of'frood'om lot hem not probably get 100 in Ohio. This yvill pressmen will jirobably stand, 13 Rc-

change

M5th.'

of shivery, and opposed to

JiMurnslV.)in

ry. indicate Julian's election by about

in Marion. ()50 111 Hendricks, ami about 1

in Johnson.

about

The resultof the election in thiscoun- Dnnn has 2000 majority in the 3d ty on Tuesday last is so cheering and District—a most glorious victory over

Bop. Bonj. Harrison.105 Congress—Albert S. White 134 Judge Court Com. Pleas Isaac Is ay lor 2!i3 Circuit Pros—R. W. Harrison...108 Sheriffs—Geo. W.Hall 1)0 Treasurer—W. IT. Schooler 05 Ivocordor—II. J. Webster !(J Coroner—Sam'l McClure 120

well

SurveyorState Senator—M. I. White 1"7 Slate Legislature—R. Kppci

F. Boots....

County Com.—John Gaines 102 ai*e in the majority by at least 15.000. Assessor. Union township-Samuel A few thousand, however, may yet be ):D. Smith fi Vt'e give the majorities simply, this week. In our next issue we will give

{Jicin! vote oftlie taijuhu

brm that

prevent, suffice it to say that brilliant retorence. To be read ami -circulatoo pale a word to describe the de- (,,j moils!ration. I the

it may bo kept for future

majority.—

evriain tint the Repuhiieans

m.lv l,0(| ni:ijl„.itk.s. 1I1 ii:1ve

a -oil

I have carried all their old d.s!rie!s by .•?.)) ..

impossible to give dolads. where

1 1

is accepted

I cations i'sueh a?

rather from indi b.it w^- will g'

I ban returns, we have.

be curtainly elected.'•-But we cannot

believe theV^ without further proofs

the most contemptible creature ever nominated for any office by any party.

Xhc State Ticket.

crown.,.. ictory is ouval Ihe wljole.j Repitljli(*aii .icKot elated l,v maj,,,-.|^v«llf Zl X™. give the 1^

•'or Trjai. of State J. S. Harvey... 105

'or All Gen.—Jas. G. Jones 112

c.]L..,rir!lin 0vevt!ib

majorities only: -.st*. 15.27-t. ,} For Governor—II. R. Lane 126 j, .Willard's majority'in'lFoV*was 5372. Lt. Go\ ei nor O. P. Morton....10 Inducting this from the gains already I'or Secy of State W. A. Peelle...l25 reported, we have the Democratic maFor And. of State—Albert Lange... 04 jj0 .ity

8 181

in the portions of the State not }*et reported. .JIf any thing like the same gains are made in the other counties, we shall have at least 8.000 to add to this majority, which will give Lane in the State over 10.000 majority. do not claim that this will be his majority, but there is no sort of doubt that it will exceed 10,000.

Indiana Ricclion—Tlic Lalpst.

Com. Pleas Prosecutor—H. H. Stil- Y\ clip the following telegram from

added—there is no telling. Th is not yet. '"Head and circulate:"',, I.N1)1

live bran--

1...

have-eariMed an- terroi

!11aj

1 is(•. «is

I It 4 I' IV I I W Hii.-v,. 1 I wo expected. ilearborn gives Hoimau 1 about 450. i'ranklin it i« thought will ive him -100. Yater gets .30 in Deca-j

elect Yater by about loi) majority, but publicans, to 8 Democfats Tremble. the contest is so close that a very little j,

will carry the result Irom one 1v

case, ilis majority was re-j

jtoricd by lelegraph yesterday at 1500 in the District, but it maybe more, and

might

in"*." Ilis majoriiy will to as iikeiy to exceed 300. as fad short of it. The gains both for him and the State ticket, in his1 District, have been very great 10th. A dispatch from Fort Wayne

vestordav evening reports M.tc iell majority in the District to be 2o00, a 1 gain of 13 K»—exactly doubling Case majority in 1858.

ltli- Returns from Wabash, Ham-| dlrm. iioyvard. and lhptoii. .n itcate shanks election be about IjOJ liiiroriv. :i heavy gain on 1358.

ed a new chance for him. Wo doubt' The Republicans in the last Con

the report, but if it should prove true,' o-roRS passed a Homestead Bill ,which later is probably elected.

f*6

Davis, in the 2d District, is said, bv "v, gentleman t'rgm I«rra*.*o«o*. to !'nor

The .Indianapolis Journal of this. the^erritory^ consecrated tojfreedom bv morning pubfisht's the reported -ina- the Revofu'Vionary patriots'

election of 185(3, of

1S5G entirely overcome, and

]o.'itof loOu entirely overcome, anu

c..nts t() rolaiii

„laj„,.!ly left, allowing tl.o Demo- P"»'a '•.""P1"*

their usual majorities [r'

end

ANA POMS.

Oct. 11.r

Returns from over (i0 counties are re

ceiveil, indicating that the Republican can. over CoflVoih. Democrat. 71 iv on the State ticket will reach Democrat'c maioritv in the Sfat

nh,I^,s!at,n'„,-d,sta,„] n,-arly a,,

!!m\v' SfiLMtoi's uo'ilin"' pr IS Dom I

ioiiows: Senators holding over. Dem ocrat-: 11 Republicanr-: new members. 7 I Democrats. 1H Fei.uMicans Ropubli- I can majority of 4. House—JiCpubli-

cans. 58: Democrats: -13. giving ihe Roiifins a in a or!! of over 20 on

the Indiana Daily Journal of to-dav.) P'iblieans a majoriiy of over 20 on joint oi ballot. si cM- iig the cleciM.n of a Re- phia Press, nay s. 1 hursday.) wlueh we suppose to be as ,!!!5(,in (j. Senator. The grave nuesti lull a report us we will be able to give in this issue of the Journal. This article. however., is incorrect in giving

Holman, (Dom.) in -lib district, is elected by 400 maj. The delegation in Congress slandsas. before Democrats -!, Republican 7.

Van lerburgcounty gives the Republican State ticket 2: majority: again of

now 3&,Od9 i'nv

at the lime of writ-

«3i5

.Ssosi

Jie.i-

Pilll, uii:i,r'.\lOetober .—This i'. M."s B'dletin. R.-pui)i ca:i claims a majority for Curlin in t'u^ Sialeoi" 2d.(»ilt» tii 25.1 '0.i ei ''!11eel• out of the 1 weiii

ri: boil) fol

lurl

tnal Districts: an

•s of the Legislature. The are tin- members of Congress Lehman. Dciu Morris. Ye roe.

1 o' 1 1

e|c(:tcd in tl,c

Wayne at.d Hon ProscrJiiiJon fr.v Opinion's Nislts

roscr^Uon

com:

150 in Morgan. Walp.de has P-O in served with a written not.ee from

Shelby. 200 iii Hiincrjck. and about 3i0 Ian Ilord, James .•icLyei, to leaye his I

1400 majority. March imeursi 111: vorKD Tin-: Ria-un- South than

1 1 1 LI' AN I tCKKi On MM

Since the above report was yvritten Because lie

.ve have later news. icul friends'

White has l.tOO majority in the fctli District—a large and glorious gain.:' Yater: in tiie-ltli District, was rcjiort-' •d last night to have been beaten 2G0,

but a subsequent rumor that Holman jority 17.000.

•"'.v. Babbitt—Re}*.ib!ic i: 1 s. Wo cannot say

Cooper. *Acona.

Foster—Democrats.|Ca'sar

The Ohio election, says the Indiana Journal,

shoyys

that the Bepublicans

1 Democratic majority of 300 or there- invincible in that State, but hayc |-11alV0 jn (],0 Stales, one so utterly ibouts. Brown will give Daily 500.— been caught napping in some localities, debased, publicly and private!v. as th Carey is defeated for Congress in tliejeditoi

Marion District by loses' us one Congressman. And we ose another.^- 'J* 11

bruit 50"

7th. No definite novvsat the time of j' Tn,.c,|.,v Tbe'iho rights of the NoiMli: and wo havoa

I '••popular sovereignty. ,So mote it be. .Republican jtajters oass this around, I an j-let James Melver see his name iiif

int to his heart s-content.

Who is the oldest man in the Sth ConI grossional District Col. Sam 1 Wdlson! N, I Whv mi?

has

111

Voorhces is undoubtedly elected r, 11 7111 District, JLs majority is re-1 .jorted at 1000 to 1200.

h'ild •'SliKr^Tj^rfy"'lir W6ti«3^catflilf!^^ Distiiigruislicd Accession

wasx-alculated to secure homes for the

to be found in another column. She *ii'ns just' opt-ncH np ih" flic'Abo^e busi:ness in this^place. in the rooms immediate,ly over/the Store of -jtf (?ssrs.- Wasson Binfxird. Her stock of Millinery

tlic latest sty

Ill [the Lafayette Daily Journal of this over Dovelin. Democrat. -j.i'!2

'.son.lll that the Republican party of Indiana

Congressional M.uohitiks in If 5 For comparison wilh returns that will .be received from dav to dav we

Fighth District-—V. i!*on. Republican. over Blake. Democrat. 011. Ninth District—Colfax. .Republican, 'over Walker. Democrat. 1.WJ1.

Tenth District—Case. .Republican, over Dawson. Democrat. 1 hleventh Distriet-

Vel!,,

amos A. Cravens. Dom.") in 2d Con-! decided whellior a citizen of the I. nit-1 grossional dislricl. is elected by 200 ma oritv over Davis. Independ 1 big

a 9 ir3,

own energy. Oiler an

jye.iy. Davis. Hickman. Stevens ICiiI iiger Campbell. Scranton. Grow. Hale, convinced that if Air. Lincoln shotia Juiikin. Mt Piiv'i'stin. Blair. Covo.do. be oiceterl President ho will be rnineii.i what institutions suit Mooreiiead. MeKnight Stewart. Polton I We are not for Lincoln in this tight who l.a'.e never been

1111t Lt

th res

suit

ried Dearborn county, which v/civ cir-jof over-yveching confidence, and may threater, in a orrtain event, to destroy •sterrlav. prove to lie

10th District.

l»r

m:n ?Mced su Old

5,00-. I. Cth. In this District Porter has 11 10 I I 1 SOU I 11 -011s I Plirt III in. ihi.i i-'i'vii

^0xal| oMior3

|,I

,.-

ib..

u,n

8th. White is undoubtedly elected put in to execution the day after. Air. this District, but yve have only pur-J \\rVatt is roadv at any time to file his tial returns. The result in I qipecanoe .jfljd^vit lo the truth of this statement, in this fight, they themselves would hi ttles his case, iLis majority was re- *ready to" consent lo be-sacrificed to tht •it is umiLCcss.jy -a ti.t^l...- )f

outlived all his polit-

--Read an I c'-iC-t'ul th* tacts.

BY TELESRAPH.

LafAYfcir.it... O.-i 1 -uLafayette oliico reports -Lanes

h,b' #l1n.B

Ii 11

#a nVfc he as t|jr i)s

fr,the

•sj.ve$f. Biijt Old Lino. Democracy Loathe Senate crushed it and thus deprived hundreds and thousands of comfortable homes, and checked the development of our country: and this they did for the sake of slavery—this they did that slavery might be planted on

1,1

,!1

««yw«|«t.-|j

ta'.hcs.^and examine Lancets of „•As

First District^—Niblack. Democrat.

o\'f*v 11 vo I nli* hlmi don 1 1 5S12

Second Distr'c'.— Fnglish."Democrat, over Wilson Third Di plurality ov

on Recession.

Foritej

Under the head of-May not

Wo cannot sav that we are either for: for them- —p. 0.

MeKinlev (Demi is elecled for the Douglas, and for him squarely and sin- the great fu.11 lamental principle that

term'in the ISth District. coroiv lut- is not all ibis sort, of inti- every people ought to

Jennings 7')0. I Li opponent lias only 1 jmai'on yvorlbv of American citizens of forming and regulating their o\\ ii inabout -100 in Jackson, the heaviest F.lcrtia:! 1 (Miio.

:!i Olsio.

over American citizens? Ther.e are tlie eonjoint influences that

()j-()lI1.soiVes.

C011-

public yvhen any citizen:" constitution ally elected to the .Presidency, cannot be inaugurated and permitted to make a trial of that high olliee. Our oyvn

belief is. that no American can be cho-1

fhe very liosition ltsoll yvill make him j-

:llld

SJC

premises and give possession next 1 more shut his eyes to the rights ol tho

writing \)\\t oorhoorf is olociotl, we iisuflicKMit.lv irood ojMmon oven (nohave no doubt. threat was made before the election, and

could

u.(),.st

position ot Denncratic 'pi maples p^Hoyv-countryinen. there yvill be in-

be a little l-jss. would be hard to find. reed.m_ of d|sul,j()n.. Merchants and manufacturith. Colfax goes in again -a boom-! opinion is no longer tolerated. 11 is ers of Philadelphia, there will be no n-nv -Dj.nojraHc serf lorn." instead 01

secession. What the enemies of this Republic in tlie Souili fear is, that tin. Northern ])eq»le may put them to the test Vote vour own sentiments, rely upon the love le.at all the. p.oopie ot tin. I ''1

United States, North and South, feei

for the union of these States, an I th sequel yvill vindicate the experiment

ip nii'l toweis. We asUed him how he kept clean. "Oh." said he with a. high! incentive smirk, -1 sand paper myseif once a year.

to Lincoln.

She' healthy people. Such a people hold to their great traditions. As- I believed !rhe opponents of the Missouri C.omm!se'to be the truly conservativeparly then, so believe the Republican party to be the truly conservative

n-irl now mp I I ccmii'illii^ lu»-wti

u:it|l t],:

km \. iiuupuuiuii. j, o-. ^n^lemcnts oi purposed am iniquity, or

Indenendont, l.• oT. |.- .i

istrict-Dunn. Republican,

I^ourth District—Dolman. Democrat, over Hackleman. Republican. 1 Fifrh District

Kilgoie. liepublican.,

(Friday) morning. It is the latest .Nxih District —I ortor. .Republican, 0ML 'f hey are. first, that he says what news we have, and shows conclusively

1-1

Democi at, 1 l.GO.

i- I Seventh District Davis, Indepeti-!

oVi,p

^t!.ost_ Democrat. 3.H00

ll,u iK S

Pettitf. I?epnbli-j

Amer-

on is prM.santly to be

I Stales, constit ufi')nally olccted lo

or the Presidency, shall be. permitted perform ihe functions of that, high of-j

fc-? We notice daily signs in lite' Southern papers, and read frequent ict ters from Southern poiititdans.ail tend-j, I'ng to nil" point, viz: That if Mr. Lin-i Hie jcoln- should be elected it wsd beeonic from a tlie duly of Southern people to makcj |,^ ,j10 Senate r{' the iinstant preparations for a sect

••1 a.m. gentleman, with great esteem 'our obedien servant. \V. M. MKP.EDITII. rhiladclj'hia. Sejit. 20, 1^00.

&CWo are glad to see that Geii. ,. Combs has appointed Col. II. J{. Boll-

in^

,lis

m"|',ni.v on uie m» »«... reaeo Demnevatie_ma.lor.ty ,,, tl.e Stain ,, IJ, j!o|(111 '•MI'S ^"-™t«r.v- of tilatu-Ml-tlnre over ,.

H1 ti,e

__ ,,n!-/in^,

scan Citizen be President .of the tied Gc-neral Combs is setting the e^amStales." Col. Forney, of the Phiiadel-! pie which he recommended to the la

Tsac

1 r- 1 -'iay l-i and it.. Jct.n:

I from the emen. poll tne basis ot I ii is threat many in!'rests in Northern! so

eonimuirtios have been terrified, and manv inlluences controlled. So 1! 1 :us

1 talent, to'j decide tlie qnesMon, because they have

pnort hini-od'an Ids f. 1 1 i!. has been a m«iob deeper interest in these matter.-' have, .and know much better man we what

are not lor i^ncoiu 111 mis ti^ni who i.a.e ne\ei occii,.1 iiere.^ciin decide

or fu- Antony, for wean for] "Those measures arc predicated on

and sensible men? Is it disgrace- tenia! and domeslie initiluI'ul that mere traders in politics in thoj terns in their o'-vn way. p. 11. Southern States, ami so vile a wretch. "I told the people of (,'nicag0. in so unscrupulous and remorseless a! 1'iiO. that the emnpmnvso measures

of fnc Neyv York Herald, and sess tlie right to manage tiieir own dotl.e

ter-

those afliliated with him, should be to exorcise a sort of terrorism people of the States possessed the powor. and the people of the Territories a 1 1

ou'i ecu 1 ng toumiuiit. ioi-i nun Liireaiei', :n .omiiiiii event, w. su v. a vor som ti iii tieirs, me prelerreu jieril the Rejmblican ascendency in the nioii. on the one. hand, and on lie or shall^ not lorni a part ol their domes- pa).tjCS ])V eoiisenf ing to have that yvill next C-)ii"Tess other tr break up the foundation ol tic institutions is for them alone to do-

"p ,7. tfo.cvV/o I credit, Ought we not to be ashamcdj tcrniinc fitMhemselvos."—p. 15. to all the heirs according to their nat1 he Le.pubiu.an niajr.'i it in tlie ._i.i

a is a it a in is

John Wyatt, a renter, living in tlie tering the duties of that riinco iii stnet Constitution and if they passed any uth-easi part of I his county, has boon justice to all sections of the I, nioiK

close his

'iM,,

toweis. We asked him how

yvirlow said I

dav "When your are of my age vou

1- mamma.

WHITNEY. 1 hussy, "for tho second time.

The Philadelphia North American of ?this morning .publishes a long Jetter from Hon. William I\r. Meredith,£in \yhieh he declares his adhesion to Lincoln. Mr. Meredith has hitherto been known as an old line Whig, and" was Walker's Expedition Qescribed Secretary of the Treasury under Pres- described by an Kye-Witnes.s. ident Taylor.. The following is the -1 he...fM.-co.unts of Walker's fate bereconciusion of his letter: tofore jDiiblishod mere!}''mention that "I sec no reason why we should not his follow era heard, from the cells in all stand whercall the peo]ile ofPenn- which they were confined, the cxplo-

Icania stood together in 16^0. I was sion of his executioners' muskets. 'J'hw a outn at that. time. It 111:13 be mom- fo-lhjwing description is bv a maiuiamon lb« mato. ray. I fi|!!ba»t,rheart tnron now as I recall tlie tilings] that then happened. Vital principles .soon after the:r arrival in nondo. not decay with time among a ilriras. lie was -present at the oxeeu-i

J.,,,

t.i

Presidential candidate,

Loyour am cMuuuiiai Maiii.tKiuic, ir

will be received irom day to i-ch and comprehensive views, and y. ,,'iis. „fl„' ,ri vp 11 fV! low in 11 vMori for

C/On-jjof*(lec-Kivtli

lilt 'n.ijui ioi vuii but wise and ninckM-ate omn*

grc«sional candidates in l..,o8: ions. He does not descend to the in- i* «.• ions. He does not descend to the in-i „„..V-1'/- /». ,.

t^t]^i'JhamctJr'of*a

s( inij ulR 0 sa )s lnce

nK. uls

clerk of

the ('oiii't of A ppoals in K.ontuckv.—

I regular nominees, Doug'as and Jolin

Su„

jisville Journal )Ug!:i^.'nt.ieme ). and spi-inlc! of Louisville with a little more to check the emigration to this try.—(Jin. Com.

a-.r.-o vo,-. I,

/. ij?n')erat, \vh: su])ri')rU tiie

-that of treating tlie brethiMn. Proceed, nnnk!e tne j^ave.'nents

rcople uiid Uiv Snpreswe ty ,,y

C.oi:rJ.

following

Ss.on

I .,

rioiislv has it been persisted in. 1 hat firms relating to tiie a I I his'da hii 1 id red-* of citizens of Phil 1 domestic policy oft !i adelphia'have a'low.d themselves lojtobe left to the decision of ihe prop'believe in it. .Mid n-ore ha one man I heiusel vos and that we ought to ie who has bore tofore rleivended u:iriii his, content wilh whatever way they may

1 i.j..

I.,

a lj| j, ii-i i,-s

v-r.'.••:•

1 1

ok-

'•The position that I have ever talc- receiver! a conveyance, made by the on h.'.s b1 taat thisau 1 ad v)tIi-..-r juo- heirs at- law to in treasurer, of lands bit-.tur to tin-fi..tn«st!c, alia.rsand valued at ninety thousand dollars.— errit.o 'i-.-s ought Tne heirs t.e.i with Wabash College 1,nt, i!n' twv, in hinds valued at twenty thousand dollars, and with Mrs. Beard by paying

possess

IW liring.

,d jf he yvould. Ilecoul1 ...

n,,itor\-

heart to

LillCo!n's

enemies. (To,

thev too are American citizens.) lo be liev'e thai, if he should be triumphal!

,, Administration.

the right

rested on the great fundamental prin- what

ipie that every people ought to pos- 1 ,]lc. j'w ,]

concerns their yva

The question wheiher siavcrv shail

as human beings, to alloyv ."The people- of a Territory, like

any such arguments as these to all'ect those, of a Stat e.. should decide lbr them us? It yvill" he a dark hour for this.Re- solves who! her slavery should 01.should

not exist within their limits."—p. 22. SOVi:UF.Ir .NTY OF Till". S i: I'll 11: CO ill'.

Here non-intervention yvas esiabishorl as an invariable rule of action:

h(j

,,,

itrrios Wl,ro lo

S a

or injurious to therig'nts

nn)jK...{V

j.^t. He could not critrt of the TerH-^

slaves suit should be1 1

with a right of. appeal to the Su-

were rcfVived to the local courts, to the territorial courts, yvith a right of appeal lo the Supreme -ourt of the. nited States. When Chat.case shall arise, and the court shall pronounce its judgment1. it. yvill be binding on me. on you, sir, and on every good citizen It must oe carrie out in good lailh and all

there is an end of the controvcr

•••••J5^j'"Biii Wigg 11s is a very neat fe! p. 20. low. He savs he can't spare time to! -Who ever dreamed that either Contake a b'ith: besi les it costs money gross or a Territorial

pare time to

es it costs money foi

,in)j other Legislative bo'ly on earth,

30.

her daughter one| Douglas can read extracts from his

States his supporters can find passages in the same speech, to prdye that he is in favor of tii(^sovereignty, of the Supi^eine Court over the internal concerns'' and '-dornestic institutions" of the people of tho'Territurics.

tion. and thus portrays the scene: (fell. Walker was !e 1, on the morning of the 12th, from the fort in Truxillo to some oi Spanish barrack ruins about 30(1 yards from the fort, and there shot. The procession, from the fort consisted of t\v.Q.priests bearing churcli emblems appropriate to the occasion, and Gen.

,ii.- a. -»i

I a a a

I know him only from report and from ,,il -wi ii *i tt /.i and lighted candle, tlie Ilondurean oa perusal of some of nis printed speech- ,i ,- ,i 1 1 C:al

es. Judging from them. I take linn to ... »i were to perform the deed of murder. General Walker was calm and collectin

^. anities of ariincial rhetoric, the en- ,i r^....iVn ..

kiv'c' —FnHish "Democrat I, p.- .V i' in tne agonies ot death, when a 1 1,lL-!

he extravagances of political declama- i,. 7 t, ...

jm.ctk-al "fjlU?

or Hu'dies Democrat f. (rciierai leit ear. drew the trigger a rl fHUtesman as seems to have been somc-l ,, ,, limes supposjd. to me to ii

Hut Mr. L,nolM ap-j

a a it

.which re

,, than make up any deficiency, if it be

and, secondly, lie means

mn Ui

1-0.11.(„| TmU

.,v

Uutlionties and the soldiers who

1 liKc/, slo.» iiiiu uiijnihed

After tlie first volley of six muskets

111 cu, Crc li a I tel 1 or in iron

in the agonies ofdeath, when a dastard-tastai md, the md ..battered the head of him whom they

wictch ii,it_d toward him ai

of a musket to

„. ,s

f„

sl,|K.ratioi,-s

groun-ls. since they all-b-.dieved a bluo eyed ii was d.s iued to be tiieir rul^ or, an 1 they iI boon told by foreigners that G-.*n. Walker was that man, and therefore wanted to be sure of his dent !i.

After tliis.an Amorie.in.an unwilling spectator, proceeded to act in the burial of the General. His remains,however, were viowe I personally by every Ilondurean present, in order to satisfy their superstitious impressions and barbarous taste. A coilin suitable'to the ex-i igeneies of the occasion was obtained". General Walker's dead and bullet riddled body.placed within it. and burried with all tiie rites of the Catholic Church, and two priests attending, in a lone

au I untiinjly gr.iw 1 jjin

blood eoun-

in the land he so from benighted

dedrel to tliiaieom. Previous to his death. Gen. Walker addressed the natives and llomlv.rcr.it I authorities, and said "he felt no ill-feel-I ing toward them."

The celebrated Kilsvsrorth will chto was tinallv disposed of at the l^st term

of the Circuit Court held in Whitecoun-

t)ie oulry

oxtiacts r.re cojned FUsworth's estate, as heirs at hnv, or speech delivered by Mr.

Doug-

„ra decree, to which,

having any interest in Mrs

leg.'.lees nan.ed in the wills of 1351 and

United States icf7, were partit s. and eonsentoil. By the com pro a.se. nle College

sjtti.-d wilh ail the legatees except

prop.,?.. w'jtlCollege and Mrs. Beard, and

I her )ho amount given her by tlie ternei

them tna:i we.

ihe will of 1 1.

The decree sets aside both yvilis. s'r Nhe legal title to all the real estate becomes, therefore, vesto.d in the heirs at law-. Thet vahu of the real estate re-mai-'ing to th-m In* the setfloinent said to exceed t!irc« hundred thousand dollars, besiiles a iarge, contingent in interest in hands held by other parties: ami as the amount of personal property (inventoried at £178.1.00) is much greater than all d«bts and liabilities of the estate, tiie nett. amount received by the heirs is nearly, if not quite, equal

they

:iside.

[Ir.,j

legislate as they

not-

violate the

,,Ct"aS'"i,0(l

nreine Court of the United S:ates: au 1 loaders, says: that yve s'.iould abide the results, ofsuch I As Scroggs, Dodgo and thousands of decisions."—p. 13. other Americans yvill y^otc for Lincoln, "Bear in m:nd that the report intro- not liocause ho is an "American," but ducing the bill was that these questions

order to

tlie prnvor of this govern men t— the ar- it blind for the confusion ticket, my thenavy—the md.tin—a! 1 that yve I 111 ight mention other similar cases.— have—must bo exerted to carry tliede- Scarcely a single German Republican eision into eft'oet in good faith, if there be resistance. '—p.,20. ,«.t, ••We are told that the Court has already decided the question. If so.

selves enrolled

Legislature,

could

destroy or impairany right gueranteod 'thousand—yvill cast suffrages

or secured bv the Constitution.'—p. Lincoln. Fremont's entire yote in

In the free States the'friends of Mr. Lincoln's will not bo less than

speech to prove that he is in favor of

wii! be utiie right of the people of the Territo-^butsel^unmade ra-en agreat dfiaVoftftU-

ries to exclude slavery aud in tlie slave or

yvuuid have taken under

Thisca.-e furnishcR one of those rare instances, sometimes met yvith, of heirs reforming the disposition of property made by their ancestor. The yvill of l:s51 having made a discrimination in favor of some of 1110 heirs, the preferred

allowed the estate to descend

„.|lts

We also learn that the heirs have al1 ready made an amicable and satisfactory partition of the real estate among themselves, without theintorvention of

courts or arbiters.—Luf. Journal.

One of tlic llcMults of tlic Fusion Mania. 1

The New York Abend. Zeitungufhlon--day evening, speaking of the disgust

™ong German Domo-

or:Us lhc

fllsio»

suhi5mca of

thc»F-

express their

touching the right of property slaves of the unscrujtulous ."-ale of their party

disapprobation

bv its loaders, so thousands of German Democrats yvill

vote

fir him, and for

si ilar reasons. The other day a ''Democratic Lincoln Club" yvas formed in one of the upper yvards of this cit}T, consisting of forty German citizens, yy-ho formally declared their intention of voting for Old Abe, instead of going

Ward meeting is held at yvhich a numat a

in the list of Republican

voters. In 1850 barely one-half or two fifths of the naturalized Germans cast their votes for Fremont but in

1860,

from lyvo-thirds to three-fourths of tho German voters of the citv of Now

York—in number from eight to nino

for

the

city yvas less than eighteen thousand

fiv°

thirty-

thousand. ...

We find self-made men very often,