Decatur Eagle, Volume 2, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1858 — Page 2

I JI E EAG LE »l L PHILLIP-*/ ur.-n ■ ’ vrvo ■•■*.l r G FFENCEIi? DECATUa IKDIA2CA FBIIHV HtfK'tt'm, OCT. it. tai*. BLANKS BLANK.' BLANK* >fo D'-ed*, M«rtg<.g»v, Jwjx'i Butl* •? ad fcWs, C->«t*He** Bleaks. v( til i.- '* Hiaxk N«z.e», ke~, kt, J.dt tor Saw at tz » U&ot. •>— —— Friewdi} ai. V t de>.re to m» * word to ou friesd* p»-« a t atyect w:->efe at so« time x-trtos-aiarty ustert u, aad foal i*. we fast S'X ®»-B are g'-ea-’y is aeed of foe one Laing r.-tsfti. having a large •.ueocst ..atsiattosg, wosuy is seal! a. an. --,e ytyxenlof*: .»_* woakd aeevoeiy be Lit by each ■• i »dal. bat if one nail 'A which wa* paid would entirely reLeve a*. Therefore we riacerely Lope ’.natal: footeufit knew tier;’em oedted to u», tiiuer uro* «tib»— ■ f.“Ad vert.sing, or jab work will immediately comply with tr it retaonabe reqweil, or we » : 1 be ettope.-ed to make lie appeal ytnoadk, a thing we greatly difoke. Those who with to pay their twbaeripte»ia wood, or produce will bring th* runt* ak4f. FTATE KLECnOM*. laUiaaa. .ot re'sra* so tit far reeeved hmv that foe Dtace/a-.z State ticket ,-e.ee.eu oic prfott.y a Dewocnric avpar-ty ra foe Sk* Scute sad H:ua of Rrpmest*treei Tie fol .v xg person* : bee•j« « ; asemam to tut la rty *r.: Caz-j-ret? • -J o vjo. are Drz&otratt az: wet are Bevabfesaaa. ’ :..r. A ? H’."’t. r*.tat y L > I MsXm Z-5.13. * > ‘ EsAbm. 1- >c-'. £ gm-e < A '- ?«*«- « ■# t /anna ”8' Jastn. * *“ * L-uffsZ CsUAT:.> --a.’ uc r'.nrt rtejair

VW JJt.WA Wit M Dt'SeSOWl ■ Jtsnei wi'T fn« da neaten •■? .-m- --!■'•*• tart fc.teo. w « x'-ew T « •* i rat « U xa»4 f-.tr SbeatKn sw ffi Srjsz Fn»<i Ivwua. 'u* Sr-T-e tat g'X.e sot th- '/ft'- .zss *>. •- : r. >J9. ■ - * .- e- -cud ' «o«-mber* !6 CoegteM ktd the D-s,> cr»U w. » — ■ 'ean. :-.ii a -ituh .-.efeaied I«rpnL e*n eand :-'.e is ft:t Coon'.y bare d l*ytd Lt '.r. r x ’.U* Lead »itt’ -•i river” L oooaequenee of the de--se.er.t7 of u.M preservative (Salt) tttc'.'nir to v.art with. N-.w as we always deaire to tbow oar liberal y tocur/rierw’r, we w;k inform Lm that 'he driav tv ua-teo-MUTT, if he wiE cLi npon »*, he t;n be iberaily supplied. We sympathize with tl.uae is distress.

Hob. Stephen A. I>ony!a*. To those who are representing the Herald a* entertainir.g this and that opin- :- t respecting Senator Douglas, and the contest now going on in Illinois, we have not, neither do we intend, to express an opinion upon the subject, for the reason that we believe in the doctrine of Staterigbta and popular sovereignty. Therefore the people of Illinois should be left free to act their own pleasure, and elect *!r. Douglas or any one else that will please '.hern be»t. And we believe these U» be the tentiments of nine-tenths of the people of New England, without divtiac- ' 'it. of party, she Herald is not the organ of Hr. Douglas, nor Mr, Buchanan, .or any other man or set of men, neith- < r will it be; and no amount of talk can drive us from this position. tVe will, however, in this connection ex press the opinion that the aUirke if the Waahinyton Union ami other papert upon Heritor b'mgl'ie meet with no retponte from the Demnrrate ot Afattarhueettt, and ts this insane policy is continued and it has any effect whatever, it will result more disastrously to the Democratic party in •he nation than it will to Mr Dougla#personally, as will be m.rde manifest when the people have an opportunity to express their views through the ballot-box. So say* the Boston Daily Herald. X-dT*We call the attention of our readers U> the prospectus oI “The Southern Monitor,” found in another column it is a f amily newspaper, a* we!! as a good po!"i> <1 journal Th* term* are libe rt!

r« -j» £«>. FKKaOWAL. ii.-T*;*-. of —Dear era Per- ~ 4 ~.e i*roa_-t lie ■-. -a .. •- ' yoar paper w eertsaa fotae tad r eieierwis charges saaie uzv.sk tse dantig >. _e*. eaaTate, ra ntsaura to tut ce-ie-L.ee of TtMoat S Fiaiy, with r»»0t».... ag r-toses good* asi tried oa a wmwfJ&Zewt Cewy-ee ai tie J£ty >rx of C /an of C-WBoe Piear o< Adaat --asty, before tjt Hc«>o<r Jadge Braikewnriz* aa4 by 1« I*’ ito Vai is tfcc sw z' iZA. T.je fai'r reSalioa I® say ec<w ... ti-e cttt are trt«< —That Tocotas A F:a!y waa arrea£®4 tui taset to b.05‘.0& t . * few days before tie last Feb. Tent of the Welfo Cire-ast Czt-. >-. ag gx it of s-st&ervwf ofiexcw. wtea tiers .: wu fassd by tie -o&en of the Aw, lav. to eridsaee c©s.t be prodhoed agvaM t.a» ouar*r.!az tisi ofacy ofieaee It war tbes deters:is»ed oa tie part of th* uSeen of tie law, to sake * w tuvti :at of i.iw (' Fish J, a®d aeeorc.iSF.r ; » »*• pmudwewd tW Jary, t• et a rerstot at a witaes* agiu&stcae ’A’tiitx Head y, who wat nppoted lobe a eosfeaderale, that after be.igtwera by dbe graad jary he (Fmly) refuted to toot :y oa ti* g--«&d of portccA pr.r..ege, that Lit attwen woold tosriet 1 xtesf. Tie grand jary with .io ew&otrrraeo of the Pr aoecnuag Aitoraey, agreed wtti Fitly, list she wis'.d go &e and teotiy tie; he abowld te ir .iw.ei frcsj tie effect of Lit ant wen. Coder tt.» ajreeoeesi ut , Fiuj > UeiL.it- and rare as t -der for tie z»lt. t'-.v. i-t M i y tri art ’. t& tit rx®.»* Tie zt>oii wtre ties test for at.d fossd *s»l art rat’d* etit'.it x-s Z'-tv/y -.<; *z4 teat* . ;sf wkuei -~4_y wu tr.trgec tl —■--.■■tr. Wljli 4* WM jc .. .. i-u . L ar:’ z FreJy** eoßfeoeweest r_t i. i eShx i* eocpfcyed Mt*et .* etkktosa. L-r-r . st. defend Lis, and I tai ti>.i .ag -t it w : t L.t cas* w t_a‘*T*r, i.r txrw tt..-Ltg ibot. x A'ter F.osy . m lescsfied he wat takes to tie rom >f .:«* <--.-.in as; .here exaaj&ed ani j "■ t_ . -er-j A Lcrwsrct x ll* Alter , par: :■■ Maars r s y wat arrenti tx the i~ .i’ -. t*f see Dane a Kega.v . -a. Newr: * and teic to ba .by Ei- .. •* L.t- x osar of BKX), and x

'-t L . . . t ' --L . to L ?. to- ■* * - ’ x :-_t tt’rt pw. of Apr. I west to DeF*.t C rewit Coxrt to aztead tocome bat '‘-nt litre, ax: on et road nail a x g:: at Haatertow*, twelve x”e* aorth ;f : ,-rt «'iyxe, ts tr ..av.ag pat op a >..-ort t,me, J jan W Dawson came and •L'.pped a: the same house. Ia foe course of cot.verA*4&n, n the evening, he (Dawson ) *‘ied me if Tom Finly wat :n Adams toasty jA.». I replied in the affirmative, D*w«-« then related to me, ia substance, what 1 have stated above in reference to *a agreement, and then stated furti *r —, . 1 mat it wa» wrong—rimy ought not to be :n jail—that the agreement ought, and, 1 cer .ainly would be eatried out Dawson ‘ told me then, what he subsequently .wore to oa the trial. The toibwing is 1 hi* affidavit: ’ State of Indiana, / Allen County. j* 5 Be it remembered that or. the t h day of Mar

John Dawson came before me the Judge of the 10th Judicial Circuit, and on oath says, that some time in February last, 185 c, he wa* Prosecuting Atlcrnev for the Feb. Term of the Wells Circuit Court, and atn-> g other things Thoa. Finly was brought before the grand jury of said Court, as a witness against William Headlr, then in jail of said county, on a charge of a felony, that among other things, also, the said Fiufy. refused to testify to some matters, on a claim of personal privilege, it was agreed in good faith between him and the said grand jury, that if he would make a full relation of all the facts, that he should be saved harmlem from danger apprehended then, by biro, from the Regulator., who he apprehended would seize him if he -should be discharged then from jail, where he was. confined temporarily; and that his confession would not implicate himself. That he, the said Dawson, after the said Finly had reived a portion of said story, went in person, to the room of the Regulators and stated the facts u alxive, ar.d exacted a parole that tbev, the Regulators, would not do the least violence to him. On re making said statements and relaUoua before said Regulators, that he, said Finly, was so taken before said Regulators and I the affiant b< lierr-s that ail the confessions and statement* made by said Finly were made under apprehension that they would not oe used i against him at all, and as the affiant believes it was the intention then and there, not to so use then, against -aid Finly; but so far as they could br -(■ used, make them'a railable againat'otfo r» should they implicate such. This affiant, however, states that he did not ! know what took place in said committee room of -aid Regulators at Bluffton; butthinks that if ' the law does not protect the defendant, Finly, ■ from the effectof admissions made so as above; that, at least, good faith require of the person 1 prosecuting the interests of the Slate to heed . them. This he states according to thebestof his belief, as the facts in the case, and is al) he 1 could state if he were personally present, before [ the Judge of the Adams Court of Common Pleas. J. W. DAWSON. ' Subscribed and sworn to before me, at Fort Warne, May I, IS>B. R. J. DAWSON. Judge 10 J udicial Circuit. This was ibe first I had heard these facts, and it occured to my mind, that if true, the agreement ought to be and would be carried out; and Finlv would be dt--barged sooner or later Afterwards,

abaci lit l-.t of May, and a day or two te-fsew -it May Ters of oar etwr, F-t-y re:- tel a ASser froaiM. Jeu ik<3, Hatxg ii*t he rcm.-i »« attend a Aeaat wex-.t —L-st eo«t »s A •«* Co. r uEit ok the tine tiaoe, a&d ie aa-t aiietd then; ut>i ’..• it se FlFy) obocid eaystqy u ocher arwrsry. F.z;y n-n seat for ®e. I wex; to ttt t-s. He dewed it espcoy ~e to s*»e r e easse of b-t deieotfon reritwed before i..» Honor Jadge Bntkenndge, » lie manats he had iestgs«ed Mr. Je*a.xw» to do I tbpagh: of what Mr. Dawaon sad i>. - B>e and kia cjeeJ*s»ua a reitre&ae it wist ongit tobe and wocld be done, mi a.«s, ay owx new t&u lie agrt-f-mext entered atia by lie c£t«n of tbe .aw <m me ot band, sxd a «»e » tbeir rttwir :« lie other m good mb, eos'd not be diwregorded wttboat i Sxgrac: r;-.lat.. :x i: eocSdeoee and fair deaixg. I ties eacseated to be expLoyed with a ■• .ew of bringfog ibese rattier* fairly 'oeftae lie euwrt; aid of presesuxg t» eanae spoo t...t oot any iateatfoa whatever, to ».id® him o®t A lie rastz»dy of lie law o® aey tee--Kaity, or - x bfe taereef. It oerared to taj ami mat if be was tt be reAased friz ccjucy there »m no seteuiSy fir keep.sg L m eoefiaed .xji i, *L taza 1 - x: me txpetse of me eaaaty, aed with is.* new, wbes &jari taxtt, I tel to work to preteirt i.-s tout fvrly ike let. - zicy I west to Mr Jobs Frexri azd .si i.-z _• ->t me -_ize-s if foe w?Aenea • fx lie S lie. ir, ;-..er u.xi the um ba. - ■ .sz.zl. «etre the eiiiis-i*. utit-.u; . sdi tit ie-sdsttrey aright be oe hand — . Wbea _? r w t xesuet caaae, the eoart »p- > p. tied E. E. *A" ado. El’ , to proaeeaie j for the Stale. W e west iMo the triv of , the eaa»e wpoa the teniakaay. Tie trial j w»i * fur :r.e boirj for tie State ttd tie ; defe&ce Mr A-n prelected the tea- . my cc tie pan of lie Stale, ab.y , efexe*"'.} and I presexted the defect* . foe bett I eoa-L That I resorted to aay ] & -.£,»>r, to.k any sdmtage, I p»lure- j .y tti; . it. >- lie o.ber Land, I doae i xotoieg. c«*y sacu as foe law and my pro- i ,3‘y required, and ta tbit state- ] nest Jadge Bratkenridge, E. R. Wiiaon i tt-e-erp ot.er liwyer pretest wi. bear ; witoest Tberesolt wat contrary to my i expettauon. Tneeowrt preferhog to let i * jary -■**< spoe ’foe enase thas to do »o . L. ; m*eif, held the defendant to bail, in the < sam of B/'.C. A tier a week or two Finly : pr’ieand bait, and soon after left for parts : no knows Mr ith tie bai'. I had nothing to i do. Fsw being thn« engaged, profession- - *..y, I hare beer, ilmdered and abased i. xaiser if form. By uxe, L bii.ere wLu were ignorant of the facts. Some • that were ied by a blind fanaticism that ; wtrtjid deny a p-ereon, accused of crime, . eonnsel; aid by ofoers, wickedly and ma- ; .iciocely, for the purpose of making po'it- : ieal capital. The two first classes I can pardon, but the last will not escape the , punishment that awaits them. lam charged by E-.qaire Diehl and . o.:.er>, with making the application for the purpose of getting the bail reduced , and giving t inly an opportunity to run : off. This is false, every word of it. I ■ had no such itslealion at all I supposed, > as Daw»on said, that he would be releas- , ed entirely. If such bad been the design I would not have tried him upon the eri- . deuce, or have gone to any trouble to procure testimony; but would have moved to discharge Fiuly for want of a charge against him. The following is what purports to be an affidavit, on which Finly was tried before Esquire Diehl, to-wit: Stare or Isuiawaj Adams County, j s ' Isaac Wilson affirio* that on, or about the 25 day of January, A D. 1658, in t-apl county Thomas S Finly as affiant verily believes of concealing st/,Her: goods. ISAAC WILSOX Snl>scrit>e<l and sworn to before me this the twenty-seventh of March 1658. WM DIEHL, J P, Now Messrs. Editors, you know, and every man that ba« the least shadow of capacity to serve as a Justice of the Peace ought to know, that the above contains no charge of a enme against Tom Einiy, or any other man, and that an examination upon it must be illegal; added to this, the Esq , in his official wisdom, neither signed nor certified to, what he calls, atranscript of the proceedings before him; and hence, its ofno utility whatever. This affidavit and transcript, or what purport to be such, ■ are both in the Clerk’s office and can be seen by any person that will go to the I trouble of calling on Mr. Simcoke. Now Messrs. Editors, I had the charity not to exp<ot.e the ignorance and stupidity of that man to the public, that has pursued me for the last five months with a f heart of malice, and the tongue of slander, I and now only do so in self defence, to • show my object wu not to get Finly out , on trcnic-.iities or quiblcs of the ]#•», S 3

» p w - ci.vgts. be. t**: tt was » pr»- ■ sect tut • base cm* <« *t» mg rj.. jjne s r Dcvneaa Ts«e ixs: vs gt r *-x , 1® i *’» ,ri " • ’■* a* ki - . tofo tbe« tk*i I Faiy’s Ek. at BSLO exv«uMy s. be sotM m t£. Every word .t foiwe. *»d ’be rars k«ew ,d wheat L-.tr ic»c .. Jsdge Br*rkf*rKg» ixw the ha-., vnd 4x*d it as kigb u persaEi as Frt-y s tritor.a eapaefoy for dfcmeea 'of thai rrwde kava Lera wsaaly b*4i ta ike os*z:y —•* th* neetris os foe »o«rt v.foe&--'W Agatx laz i«fo**y represextod as ??citi>:zg before the csren, that Lie ba_ ‘-'.i.: be End , ~ft ot wkat F *- t wws w-trtk. Tkss s mc trs* . a the d. of kt rrfoess--.XA' d«ly. I stored w is* et*xrt wxat the law is tn rtlaiiua to b*£. T-st foe ot;-wrt of bat. ts, »o'. to tn s’i the arrxM-d, for foa: ztst sot be d -joo ueu. after tri*., &u: th*; it a* to eora-pe-T tie aueadxaee of foe areused *i tz-urt. •£. j eoaapeil x.a to sta&d hi= tri*.. Aad the I*w re-quires the least posable ’ *»o<r.: that wl. secure foat object, aad aecttrfugiy wh*t a mas is worth, is one hem to be takes nto eoaaderaliou by the eosut iu fixfog bmi, ard aceordiugty the court heard teauatonv as to what Finh was w-.-so. and fixed the bail in such an at&oaal as ie supposed would secure his atteodaace at eoun. Again. I ana charged w.’h being a Regulator, susd baring taken st e-atL i, a to engage in the defence of a erHsinal. Tais is false, aad when uttere. by a Regulator, is wickedly false. It • true taat I joined foe Regulators, at E iff.:-, tie tight they first organised .here. La; that I took any such oath is as uißiugated falsehood. The facts in reia’.ioa to my joining are simply these: 1 was at Bluffton attending court, at the ume the Regufotors organ:ze>d there. Io foe c.-urse of foe evening, Mr. Stoughton came to my rxm and told me they were about organizing a eempany of Regulators, aad that he desired me to go with him to foe room, and gire them what information I might have in relation to the wLereabcuts of certain persons whose name* it is not now necessary to mention. I went with Mr. Stoughton to foe room, and when I got there, they were in the act of organ ring. Mr. Stougion then said it would not be proper for me to be present while organiz’ng unless a member, and suggested that I join. I accordingly signed the eeastitatioa and took the pledge eon-isting of a formula of considerable many words, of which I do not now remember—the purport being to keep secret such as were the secrets of the orgaration, the object of that, as I unlerttood it, was that such evidence of crime and of those suspected, should be kept among the order, so that those suspected migbl not cover up their tracks or escape. I then left the room in company with Mr. Stoughton, without any farther iniation, if any such is required. I joined without much reflection or thought on the subject —understanding the law to authorize the organization ol companies of that kind for the detection of horsethieves, and those guilty of crime, and such I understood to be foe object of the organization at the time, and so understand it yet, legitimately; so far the organization had my concurrence at the time, and shall continue to Lave it. But when ever the Regulators, as Regulators, enter the courts of justice aad undertake to interfere with the administration of justice therein, or to prevent a man accused of erime from having counsel, or a fair and and impartial trial, they go beyond what the law, and propriety a* good citizens justify. The constitution provides that every person accused of crime, shall be heard by himself and counsel; and the constitution governing foe Regulators, says, that when a person is arrested be shall be banded over to the civil authorities, to be dek with according to law, according to law is, that he shall have counsel. Every citizen, no matter whethet he be high or low, should desire to see the law impartially and fairly administered so as not to convict the innocent or aquit the guilty, and in order to arrive at that impartial justice the constitution and law provide that the accused shall have counsel. A Regulator is a much worse being than I am yet willing to acknowledge if he can not, as s.n adjunct of the court, perform the office of an attorney or juror, and assist the court in meeting out that impartial justice the law requires. 1 have •tated what 1 understood the intention of the organization to be, at the time of organizing, and so far it had then, and still has, my concurrence; but any attempt to l connect the organization with politics, should not be countenanced by anv man, >as I think Thn* much I have said hi t defence of irysejf againu the charge that , I had no right to engage IB the delete.

■ lx r-2*tL- I v . sty. that I .3tond to ■ so wx' pc.daosfoo as the -*w and t: e r*.«s txerwsf req mre; ways p*• uaz forth exv beK etfarta tte fo-;»s* that esp-soy me. a&d *o< ’« ze rrturx ay azeere foaxks to t*sse f-rfxis that :«»e geaeross y stood br ts-’ *i‘d ■> rerara it w:.. be ay k fiaesz asa-<<4J4e. wx.je ;x oSce, by a foskfoi terfjrzßsac* of Madcßca, to xertl tAAt ©o®£iex>c* ao gt-serc'zfoy gtrm. — Ytxrs, fee DAVID STUDABAKER. Tbr «e»i wf War «» Wasbiwstww Territory We have recesved firasa oar specta; «r---sbt «»rr-s?»isde«A says foe Six Fraxeisco Jtoj Car -.-jctts, tows down to Auras'. it. at which f»e foe last express left CaL Wrig'-.t'a eoaeaand oo Snake river: One feld wark (Fort Taylor) is finished and to-toorrow aornag, at daylight, we ct xtxt-nce crossing Soake nver. Then the eaaaoa gs begin*, for the Indians declare if we cross foe river we snail none of us crus* bars. This remains to be seen. Two days ago (August 2u) three Indian* aprenred on the opposite bank waving a bloody shirt as they rude up and down. After going through this per formar.ee for ab.'ut half as hour, they fired a gun at our camp and rode off This, we suppose, was intended to be ac Indian ieclarauoo of War. « The troth is foe hostile tribes are in foe highest stale of confidence from Col. Steptoe’s defeat, and it will take a severe thrashing to redeem them to order. The hostile* who went down to Walia-Walla, to tee Col. Wright, said they had no wish to makepeace; that the whites were always talking of war, but always wanting to make peace, and the first to sue for it. This is too true, and shows the necessity of teaching them a new lesson Ti.-.-tr confidence, however, may induce them to meet us, when we shall have an opportunity of wiping out the disgrace of the past. The tune for temporizing with these tribes is orer. For some nights past we hare seen the sigh’, of fires ahead, which show that the Indians are busy in burning the grass on our line of march, to impede our column, by cutting off forage for our animals.— T /rtunately »e had rain last evening, and it is raining again to-day. This may save somu of grass for us. We know nothing definite, but it is said our campaign is to las’, about forty days. We take out supplies for that lenght of time, and it would be very difficult to send back for more. It is of course impossible for our commander to form any detinato plan, but we shall have to b« goverened entirely by circumstances. Ifoe rrport in camp is thit Col. Wright is going to remain out all winter, and es- ■ lab.ts’.i a poston the Pelouse river where ’ he ean bivouac. No wagons can cross Snake river. Our transportation, therefore, consists of six mules to a company and a mule to each fofficer. The Quartermaster has about 326 mules in his train so that the entire subsistence train will consist of about 400 mules. Now as to our fighting force. We have about twenty men at Fort WallaWalla with Col. Steptoe, and Major Wyse’s company at Fort Tejon, so that we have left about 630 men to take the field. The attaches, mule packers, drc., number about 200 men. Besides these we have three Nez Percex chiefs and thirty warriors, our allies. As soon as we cross Snake river these will be sent out as spies and to make a reconnoissance. It is said in camp that Col. Wright is going to push forward with all possible rapidity. I am afraid we shall receive no more letters until some decisive blow is struck, as they may not consider it safe to send an express out to us. In that case we, of course, can send no letters in and your next news of us will proba- ' bly come from the Indian runners across the country. The New* From the Pacific. We copy the following items from the Alta California of the 14th ult:— THE CONTINENTAL TELEGRAPH. Our Placerville correspondent announces the pleasing intelligence that the work of constructing the telegraph from that place to Salt Lake City has been commenced in earnest. The day of ite initiation is destined to fotm an epoch lor California. The work will go on, and will be mighty for good. The summit of the Sierra Nevada and the shore of the Pacific, will, in a few weeks, throb with the same pulse; the same emotions will thrill through them at the same moment. Soon Sait Lake City will be united to 1 us by the same bond, annihilating time ■ and distance. And then we cannot long . rema.n without telegraphic communicaF tion between Salt Lake Citv and St. Louis. FRASER RIVER NEWS. ; The Sea Bird and Wilson G. Hunt ar- • rived on Saturday in Victoria from Fras- . ser river, but brought no news of special tnierest. The river still continued high, ’ and the minors were still waiting for the water lo fall. Nothing had been heard i of Governor Douglas' proceedings, f THE TEDLING IN VICTORIA. The depression still continues in Victoria. , Merchandise is selling at very low prices. Merchants can be seen in all the streets, J in front of their stores, wearing very gloo- , my faces, and watching in vain for cusi Comers. There is, nevertheless, a cousidi erable degree of confidence that the mines i will prove uiumately rich, though many donht whether they will he able to sustain thetE.clvcs until the day of property

From foe HdiadelpLia Press, Oct. 1J Forwe?** Tiesr •( foe Revolt in Pe*a tf j. HSIA. Governor Packer received one Tei . ago at a t. ; me when If.e orignal policy of Mr Bachaaaa wx» being fejfo, fa .y carried out by Governor W*lke r mayurily of aboat forty foous*3l M^e Democratic caadidate for the Peansvlrania. Now, John M Reed, fpoa. :® ca® to d *Le for ?u p; emt J u jg, has received a majority, which frotx presect iadieatioß*. will not be less thjg 60,000. One short yew has tfleeted* change of at-.st 100,000 rotos in therelauve position of foe two leading pvlies of foe Stake. In 1856, fifteen Dtmi<rAU were ejected to Congress, now only or three Admin.sttauon candiJ*i*s a*» e escaped defeat To what agencies eja we auribste this astonishing and anpreeedentod revulsion in puhticai sen imem* “Local cause*,” a* has been mgen:o ai | r suggested by some of the organs of Administration? The idea is stasipej with absurdity on its face The Tariff? The question of protection has deephinterested our people, and there is aa ew ', nestle- ng on ’.he subject, bat h?w dyj that, of itself, defeat foe A Jminisiration candidates? They were vocuerou* throughout the whole canvass in theirezpressions of devotion to the doctrine of protection, and .Uy claimed that they were the best tariff c»n•; lates before the ’people—that they could and would obtain more desirable legislation fur Pennsylvtma interests than their opponents.— Nay, more: a leading argument urged against ihe People s Parly was ba-ed on the false assertion foal their nominee, Mr. Read, had signed a letter commendin’ George M D« .as for his vote ia farjrof the tariff of 1846. So far as professions could go, there never were a set of more thoroughly commuted to the doctrine of protection than the Administration candidates. How, fora, did the tariff question defeat them? Whatever influence it may have Lad resulted from a deeply settled cocsiclion of the people, foal inasmuch as they had betrayed their constituents on the Kansas question, they could not be trusted on foe tariff issue. What, then has produced this remark able political revolution? Why hare tens of thousands of men who have grown grav in foe ranks of the Democratic party—who have brought toils service the warmest affections of their heart*, the best energies of their natures, and who hareev'er been hitherto ils most devoted partisans—either sadlv abstained from votin’, - * or for the first time in their lives cast their ballots against the regular nominees of their organization? It i* because they have loved the principles of ihatparii better than the men who have betrayed them. Because they believed the saying of Mr. Buchanan in his great Greensburg speech, in 1852, that while men are but the ciealures of a day, principles are eternal Because they adhere to the Cincinnati platform and the pledges of 1 156 — Because they believed m Popular Sovereignty as a great fundamental doctrine, which no treachery of Administrations or Congressmen could make a “dead issue,” and which, faithfully carried ou>, might furnish an ever living and beneficial system of territorial government, under which all the vast area of the public domain would bear the impress of the footsteps of freemen, and not be polluted by ■ goverments conceived in fraud and infamy. and fastened upon outraged communities by Executive tyranny Because knowing in their hearts that the Leeomton policy’ of Mr. Buchanan was unjust, and that it had no real defenders among our people, except the paid hirelings of power, they were unwilling to endorse by their votes a confessed and unmitigated wrong. Because they spurned the •finality’ of the English bill with the contempt it merited, and loved the equality and rights of the States too wrdl to endorse a law which prescribed one rule for the free and another for the slave States of the Luion. Because the 'Lecompton test’ madeciery Democrat who wonld not sacrifice his manhood, and violate hts plighted faith, and betray a principle as dear to him as any he had ever cherished, a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water in the ranks of his party, while heartless and corrupt demagogues were loaded with rewards and honors. ~~ Because, while the Democracy of Pennsylvania were invoked io sustain the men who had betrayed, vilified, and persecuted them, merely because official agencies had secured their nomination, the gallant Senator of Illinois and his band of devoted friends, who were clothed with aL the sanctity that regular nominations could give, were, for their honest adherence to a great principle, being hunted down with fiendish ferocity by the Danite agents of the Administration, paid with the money of the federal Treasury. Because such interference by the agents of the central power a: Washington in the elections of a sovereign State is one of the grossest outrages that could be perpetrated upon a free people threatening as it does, if applauded and endorsed, to undermine the whole basis upon which our liberties are founded, and because it therefore detnandeo a stern rebuke. Because we had in our very midst, as the reprepretativas of the Administration Bigler and Jones, two of the men who have been most active in instituting the unholy war upon the greot Champion of Popular Sovereigty. Because, it the surmise of Governor Walker foat the first year of American monarchy and despotism had been inuagurated was correct. was resolved that Pennsylvania, at least the home of the min who had established