Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1860 — Page 2

THE OLD LINE GUARD.

A. B. CAKLTON, . . . . ) WILLIAM CUI.LEV, . '') editors. TUESDAY, . SEPTEMBER' 25. National Democratic Ticket. FOR PRF.SIDKNT, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KENTUCKY, t FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOSEPH -LANE, OF OREGON. ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE: James Morrison, of Marion.' Delana R. Eckels, of Putnam. DISTRICT ELECTORS. Is District Dr. G. G. Barton, of Daviess county. 2d 3d 4th 5th 6 th 7th 8 th 9th 10 th 11th Dr. William F. Sherrod, of Orange. David Sheeks, of Monroe. Elhelbert C. Hibben, of Rush. . Samuel Orr, of Delaware. Franklin Hardin, of Johnson. James A. Seott, of Putnam. Col. William M. Jenners, nf Tippecanoe. James Bradley, of Laporte. Robert Breckinridge, jr., of Allen. " John R. Coffroth, of Huntington. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 1st District J. B. Gardner, 2d 3d 4th 5t!i 6 th Levi Sparks, Geo. II. Kvle, Dr. B. F.Mullen, Alex. White, John R. Elder. .Tames M. Tomlinson, Julius Nieolai, James Johnson, James M. Oliver, Thomas Wood, Thomns D. Lemon, G. F. R. Wadleigh, ' Dr. E. B. Thomas, W. II. TALBOTT, Chairman. 7th 8th Oth 10th 11th FOR CONGRESS, SEVENTH DISTRICT, JAMES A. SCOTT, of-Putnam. Judge D. R. Eckels, The Breckinridge and Lane Elector for the State at large: and James A, Scott, The Breckinridge and Lane candidate for Congress in the 7lh District, will address their fellow-citizens as follows : At Bowling Green, Clay county, Tuesday, Sept. 25. ''Hartford, Vigo county, -Wednesday, Sept. 2G. . Sullivan, Sullivan county, Thursday, Sept. 27. Gaston's Store, Green county, Friday, Sept. 28. Jonesborough, Green count v, Saturday, Sept. 29. Spencer, Owen county, Monday, Oct. 1. Gosport, Owen county, Monday night, Oct 1. Cj5" Speaking to commence at 2 o'elock P. M., each day. Jeffersonville. Hon. G. N. Fitch and Hon. Robert Ould will speak at Jeffersonville, on Wednesday evening, September 26, at 7 o'clock. 6aT Gen. Lane will be at Grecncastle to-day, and at Vinccnnes to-morrow. The Old Hero was cordially received at the Laporte mass meeting on Saturday last, by a large number of his friends; and he will no doubt be warmly welcomed by his old neighbors, in the vicinity of his old Indiana home, which he is now approaching. Cheering News. We have received the most cheering advices from the mass meetings of the friends of Breckinridge and Lane at Anderson, Wabash, Fort Wayne, Laporte, and Lafayette. Senators Bright and Fitch, Gen. Lane, Judge Eckels, and the Hon. Rob't Ould, of Washington City, have done yeomen service at most of those meetings. Their speeches have told upon the masses there assembled. The scales begin to fall from the eyes of the people., and truth to dawn upon their minds. The delusion of " regular nomination" the hobby upon which the Douglasites flatter themselves they will ride the little Giant successfully in Indiana is fast disappearing. The assurances given the people by these able and honorable speakers, that there was no regular nomination for President or Vice President at Charleston or'. Baltimore,, and that Breckinridge and Douglas stand upon an equal footing in this respect, are believed wherever they go. The word of such well known and trusty leaders of the Democracy can be depended upon. These distinguished speakers keep it before the people that both of the candidates are irregularly presented; and that neither one nor the other received a two-thirds vote of the National Convention, according to usage ; but whilst Douglas received the vote of the Republican States, Breckinridge received the vote of nearly all the Democratic States. This cannot be denied. The choice between them is then nan owed down to the platforms upon which they stand the principles which they support. The Democracy then see which is the genuine article, and which is the counterfeit; and with such knowledge before them as they obtain from such speeches as those delivered at the above meeting, they cannot hesitate to give their preference for Breckinridge and Lane. Keep the ball rolling ! The Mass Meeting at Lebanon, ';' Governor Bright spoke on Saturday to a large and attentive audience of Breckinridge men, at Lebanon, and produced the happiest result. On Friday, Dunham was advertised to speak there, but he ha 1 not a single hearer. Col. Walker, a few days before, could get no person to hear hiin. The current is now changing; and if things go on elsewhere as they did at Lebanon, after Bright was heard, we shall not despair of the State even at the coming election. Effects of Douglas Norfolk Speech. Lyttleton Tyler, one of the assistant Douglas electors in Virginia, has declined to serve. He says he has been a great admirer of Mr. Douglas, but can't swallow his Norfolk speech, and will now support Breckinridge and Lane. Disunion Bellitks. The Pensacola Obrercr states that Col. Wigging, one of the Bell Electors in Florida, Gen. Caleb and Major Wanl, (both leading Bellites.) are in favor of a dissolution of the Union in the event of Lincoln's election. Another Douglas Elector out fob Breckinridge and Lane. John G. Stokes, of Tuskegee, Ala., who was appointed Douglas elector for Tallapoosa county, declines to serve in that capacity, sud says be shall upport Breckinridge and Lanf.

"No Power to Change the Ticket." There have been no " overtures " to change the ticket, and the Democratic State Central Committee have no power to change it.j-Slate Sentinel. We have already shown, that no less than two " overtures" were made by the Breckinridge State Central Committee to the Douglas Central Committee, for the purpose of bringing about an united action upon one Electoral ticket and upon one ' State ticket, and that both "overtures" were treated by the Douglas Committee with contempt. Now, let us Bee whether Central Committees have

" no power" to change tickets, or, at all events, wheth er they do not exercise such powerWe have shown that the Douglas State Central Committee did not scruple to make a change in the case of Dr. Sherrod, in wantonly striking his name from the Electoral ticket, because he refused to give his adhesion to Douglas and Johnson, preferring, as he did, to support Breckinridge and Lane. But there is another memorable instance of a change having been made by the State Central Committee. In 1 850, John C. Walker, formerly editor of the Slate Sintinel, was nominated by the January State Convention for Lieutenant Governor. This nomination did not please certain gentlemen in Indianapolis, who who are now warm friends of Douglas and Johnson, and they brought their influence to bear upon the State Central Committee in order to effect a "change." The Committee met, discussed the matter, and struck his name off the State ticket, and substituted the name of Abraham A. Hammond. The Slate Sentinel says, however, that the Committee "hive no power to change it, unless vacancies should occur by resignation, death, or abandonment of party." Now, it is well known that Mr. Walker did not resign, or die ; but, on the contrary, that he was at the time " alive and kicking" and that he kicked very hard against the change, and gave vent to his indignation very freely against it through the columns of the Sentinel. It is also well known that Mr. Walker had not "abandoned the. party," because he was, at the time of this "change," the editor of the Democratic organ of the State, and that he is now a candidate for State elector on the Douglas ticket, acting hand and glove with the very men who then struck his name from the ticket. How, then, with these facts before the present editor of the Sentinel, can he say that the Douglas Central Committee " have no power " to change the State ticket ? In the case of Mr. Walker, the change was made, and the power exercised, by the Committee, when it was not required by any considerable number of Democrats when the party was united and harmonious. But now, when the Democracy are divided upon tiro Electoral tickets, and when the Breckinridge Committee proposes to the Douglas Committee to unite upon one Electoral ticket and one State ticket, in order to save Indiana from the extended jaws of Black Republicanism, and to prevent Lincoln from becoming the next President, why, forsooth, the Douglas Committee have "no power" to "change" the ticket! And this is said by the Sentinel, whose present editor is one of the members of. that body, when the ink used to record the change in the caso of Dr. Sherrod is scarcely dry upon its minutes! Does the organ of the Douglas Committee imagine that the honest men of its party can be so easily gulled as to swallow such a representation for truth ? Does it imagine thai the intelligent men of cither he Douglas or Breckinridge section of the Democracy will fail to see who is to blame for the failure of the proposed union, or who should take the responsibility, if the present Electoral and State tickets be defeated? No observing and well-informed Democrat can fail to see that the Douglas Committee of Indiana are animated by the reckless spirit of its leader, and favorite candidate for President, who is determined to ruin, if he cannot rule the Democratic party who would " sooner rule in hell than serve in heaven." He is directing his whole energies to defeat a union, not only in Indiana, but in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and every other State where the friends of Breckinridge and Lane have proposed a single ticket for Electors. And while he is thus engaged in opposing union with the Breckinridge and Lane seclion of the Democracy, he is moving hell and earth to bring about a cordial concert of action be tween his wing of the party and the K. N. friends of John Bell. Look at the course of the Douglas Central Committee of New York and Pennsylvania. It seems that they "have power to change the ticket;" for the Committee in the former State have stricken off the names of ten old Democrats, and put in their places the names of ten Bell men, or Know Nothings and in the latter State the Committee have stricken off all the names of the Breckinridge Democrats, and substituted the names of Douglas men, although the ticket was nominated before the split in the party occurred. Where did the Douglas Committees in New York and Pennsylvania derive their ' power" to make these changes ? If they did not rightfully possess it, they must have usurped it, as the Douglas Committee of Indiana did, wdien they struck oil' the name of Sherrod from the Electoral ticket in this State. By an unanimous vote, the Sentinel says, " the January State Convention pledged itself to sustain the candidates which it had nominated." And yet, in the face of this "pledge," the Douglas Committee struck off, we repeat, the name of this true friend of Breckinridge, who would not fall down on his knees, and cry out, " God save the little Sucker !" " You might as well expect oil and water to mix," said Dougla3 in Pennsylvania, as tor "iny friends and Breckinridge's friends to unite upon one ticket." Well, we suppose it is as hard for " oil and water to mix" in Indiana as it is in the Keystone State. Speeches on our First Page. We invite attention to the speeches on our first page one from that old war-horse of the Misur'. Democracy, Judge Bowlin, and the other from Hon. II. W. IIilliard, of Alabama, which was delivered. at the monster Union meeting in New York la-t week. Mr. IIilliard is a friend of Bell, personally and politically; but agrees with Breckinridge on the Territorial question. His friendship for Bell does not prevent hiin from doing justice to Breckinridge. In a recent letter to Ex-President Fillmore, dated New Y'ork, Aug. 30th, he says: " Mr. Breckinridge is the exponent of mv views on the Territorial question. He stands on a plat-', form which I approve. I admire him personally, and I am very sure that he is not tainted with disloyalty to. the Union with which he is charged." I We ask not only the Democrats to read Mr. Hitliard'j speech, but aleo the rampant Editor of the Fhg, 1 and all the honest and patriotic men of the American party, who do no.', like Mr. Bell, "seek to dissolve thej Union " who do not think with him that "it is, good to sprinkle our strevls with the blood of men on election diys, because they happened to be born on a foreign oil.

Falsehood Reiterated. The Slate Sentinel reiterated yesterday, in the course of a long article, its previous statement, that "No "peace-offering," "olive branch," or proposition has ever been made, by these Breckinridge leaders to the Douglas Democratic Central Committee, which they intended or expected should be accepted." As the "overture" in relation to the State ticket was made verbally by three of the leading friends of Mr. Breckinridge, we cannot, of course, prove it by any written or printed evidence. The gentlemen who made it are residents of other parts of the State, and are not now in Indianapolis, and we have not had time to correspond with them on the subject.

Tn ; relationrhowever," t6tlic'" overture" made by the Breckinridge Committee to the Douglas Committee, for an union of both sections of the Democratic partyi upon one Electoral ticket, we have in our possession both written and printed evidenceThis evidence We have before published; but as the Sentinel sticks to its assertion, that "no peace-offering has ever been made by these Breckinridge leaders" to the Douglas Committee, we lay it again before our readers. It is as follows: CORRESPONDENCE. Indianatolis, July 31, 1860. Hon. N. B. Palmer, Chairman, S,-c. At a Mass State Convention of the friends of Breckinridge and Lane, held in this city, this day, among other resolutions, the following were adopted: Resolved, That whilst we disapprove of the platform of principles on which Mr. Douglas is now a candidate, we still regard it as less objectionable than that on which Mr. Lincoln is placed; therefore, . Resolved. That the Democratic Central Committee this day appointed, be authorized and requested to confer with the Central Committee appointed on the 11th day of January last, with the view to the organizing and running of one and a joint electoral ticket, on the following basis, to-wit: If the persons that may be jointly agreed upon for electors shall be elected, they shall east the vote of this State for that one of the two candidates for President and Vice President Breckinridge and Lane, or Douglas and Johnson who it shall be found, after the election, is certain to receive the highest number of electoral votes from other States. That said committee be authorized, in their discretion, to agree upon the adoption of an entirely new electoral ticket, or the running of either of the present electoral tickets, or of a ticket composed of parts of the present electoral tickets, as may be thought most expedient. The electors who may be then agreed upon, pledging themselves, in writing, to cast the vote of the State (if elected) in accordance with this resolution. In discharge of the duty devolved upon us, we lose no time in submitting this resolution to you, in order that such action may be taken by you, and those associated with you on the committee appointed at the Convention held in this city on the 11th of January, as you deem proper. A reply at your earliest convenience is very desirable. . ; .Respectfully, W. II. Talbott, Chairman, &c. 1st District, Jno. B. Gardiner, 2d L. Sparks, 3d 4th 5th 6th Geo. J I. Kyle, B. F. Mullen, Alex. White, John R. Elder, Jl'LlEN NlCOLAI, James M. Tomlinson, James Johnson, James M. Oliver, Thomas Wood, Thomas D. Lemon, G. F. R. Wadleigh, E, B. Thomas. 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th Indianapolis, Aug. 2, 1860. To W. II. Talbott, Esq., (Chairman.') and others Gents: Your communication of the 31st ult., accompanied by resolutions of the late Breckinridge meeting in this city, and asking the action of the Democratic" Central Committee upon the propositions therein contained, came to hand in proper time. I shall take the earliest opportunity to lay your communication before the Committee, of w hich I have the honor of being Chairman. Very respectf ully, your obedient servant, N. B. Palmer, Chairman Ind. Dem. Cen. Com, Indianapolis, August 17, I860. Hon. N. B. Palmer, Chairman, frc: Sir Some fifteen days have elapsed since you acknowledged the receipt of my letter enclosing a resolution passed by the Mass State Convention of the friends of Breckinridge and Lane, held in this city July 31st, having for its object the running of one and a joint electoral ticket, thereby enabling us to secure harmony and success in our party in this State. No response having been made, I feel constrained to respectfully call your attention again to this subject, and request an answer without further delay. , Very respectfully yours, &c, W. II. Talbott, Chairman Ind. National Democratic Cen. Cora. Indianapolis, August 20, 1860. Wm. II. Talbott, Esq.: Sir Your letter of the 1 7th instant, calling my attention to your letter of the 31st July, coverinj; certain resolutions of a Breckinridge meeting held in this city on the 31st ult., is before me. A meeting of the Indiana Democratic Central Committee was called for the 17th inst, but for some cau-c a fall attendance was not accorded, and no formal action taken on the subject presented in said resolutions. I may remark, however, that from correspondence and interchange of views, it is ascertained that the members of the Central Committee appointed at the Indiana Democratic State Convention, held on the 11th January last, are unanimously of the opinion that they have no authority to act in the premises contemplated in your proposals. Very respectfully, N; B". Palmer, Chairman Ind. Dem. Central Committee. It will be seen that Mr. Palmer, Chairman of the Douglas Committee, acknowledges the reception of the proposition made by the Breckinridge Committee for an union on one Electoral ticket. And yet the Sentinel has the hardihood to say that "no peace-offering" has ever been made ! Mr. Palmer says that a meeting of the Douglas Committee was called for the 1 7th of August, but for "tome cause," a full attendance was not "accorded;" and "no foimal action taken on the subject" (of the Breckinridge proposition.) And yet the Sentinel asst rls, that the Breckinridge Committee have not been treated with "contempt." Mr. Palmer says there was "some cause" which prevented a full attendance and foimal action on the 1 7thWhat was that cause? What was it that prevented the Douglas members of the Committee from meeting to take this proposition for union into consideration ? Had they received instructions from Douglas himself, similar to tliose received by his friends in Pennsylvania, to enter into no concert with Breckinridge men, and to strike the name of every Breckinridge man off the Electoral ticket ? Had they received intsU uctlom from him, similar to tbow; received by his friends in New York, to form a coalition with the Bell men or Know Nothings? Was it in pursuance of such instructions from him, that the name of Dr. Sherrod was strieken from the Electoral tkkct, although that ticket was nominated at the January State Convention, before the split in the party ? Give us thC'rou," whatever it was, that prevented a "full attendance" of the Douglas Committee that prevented any "formal action" on their part upon this "overture" for union. The Di-mo-racv of iW S'ale cannot lie hoodwinked

by the Sentinel's impudent and unblushing charges of disunion against the friends of Breckinridge and

1ane, so long as that proposition is not formally answered or accepted by the Douglas Committee. They want that Committee to show ils hand in this matter they want "some cause" to be given, a little better, and more reliable, than the "lengthy statement" of the Sentinel, why it is that they studiously avoid, to this day, accepting of that proposition. As it has not been accepted, the Democracy caunot fail to come to the conclusion that the Douglas members prefer a coalition with the Bell Know Nothings to a union with the Breckinridge men. ' The editor of the Sentinel, however, admits that several of the leading friends of Breckinridge called upon him, on the 17th instant, (the day on which their Committee was in session here,) and asked him if a sub-committee be appointed by the Breckinridge Committee, to make some overtures on the matter under discussion, whether they would be entertained by the Douglas Committee. He replied that he would not take the responsibility to act for the Committee, but in case a Committee on their part was appointed, he would call the Douglas Committee together at an early day as possible, and that their proposals would receive respectful consideration. What miserable shuflling is here manifested ! He says he would " not lake the responsibility" of receiving the "overtures" for union, made by these friends of Breckinridge on the 1 7th ; but would call the Douglas Committee together at an early day as possible to consider them. Ho knew that the Breckinridge Committee-was composed of gentlemen, some of whom resided in distant parts of the State, and that it was inconvenient, if not impossible, for them to attend on another day, " early " or late. He knew that the State election was near at hand, and that there was no time to be lost. He knew that the Breckinridge Committee was in session, awaiting some action on the part of his friends; and yet ho sat in his office, he says, until "midnight," without making any effort to get his Committee together to take these "overtures" into consideration afraid to " take the responsibility " of even looking after or hunting up its members, or even its Chairman. Why, if he had had a particle of the spirit of old Hickory in him, and had been honestly in favor of union, he would not have hesitated a moment in "taking the responsibility" and giving a decided answer in the affirmative to the question propounded. But there he sat with the utmost indifference until the patience of the Breckinridge Committee became exhausted, and they adjourned with the strong conviction that for "some cause" no "formal action" would be "accorded" by the Douglas Committee to their "overtures" either in relation to the State ticket or the Electoral ticket. And yet the edtion of the Sentinel again has the assurance to say, "if the State ticket is defeated, it will be by the treachery of the Breckinridge men!" Well, if they have the name, they might as well have the game. The BeU Flag. The editor of the above coucern takes in high dudgeon what we said the other day in relation to the little craft which he commands. He does not like the word "piratical" which we applied to his colors, and complains of a want of "courtesy" on our part. All we can say is, that we treated his gun-boat in the same way that Uncle Sam's vessels treat "little low black schooners" in the Gulf of Mexico, when they discover them without any colors at mast-head. A shot is usually fired over such schooners, to make them show their colors ; and if they do not then exhibit them, it is taken for granted that they are freebooters. Now, when the little Bell craft first hove in sight, we tried hard to make out what she was; but for our life we couldn't find out to our satisfaction. There was, to be sure, a dark lantern at its mast-head, but we couldn't seethe captain's pennant flying therefrom. Had thai appeared in full view ; had we discovered it to be one well-known, entitling the commander to credit for honorable service on the high seas engaged in honest traffic it would have afforded us much pleasure to have gone on board of his craft, and extended to him the right hand of fellowship. But before such " courtesy " is extended by one old salt to another, the questions are usually demanded, " what craft is that who is her commander, and where is she bound ?" Give us your captain's name ; and then, we will bo able to tell what are your antecedents: If from these, we find you are an honest voyager, engaged faithfully in the Union service, but not looking one way while you are rowing another, we shall give you a cordial welcome. But if you hoist the squatter flag, or the red fag, and undertake to " sprinkle" the waves with " a little blood of foreigners," we shall be apt to give you, occasionally, our long Tom. Progress of the Campaign. NEW YORK. The following papers in the State of New York have taken decided ground in favor of Breckinridge and Lane, and the principles which they support. We wonder if all the Editors of these papers are Democrats, and whether they design to divide the Empire State as well as the Union? Can the Indianapolis Flag inform us? . Albany Daily Standard; Wellsville (Alleghany Co.) News; ' Binghamton (Broome Co.) Democrat; Dunkirk (Chautauque Co.) Press and Argus; Greene (CI enango Co.) American; Buffalo (Erie Co.) Evening Post; Batavia (Green Co.) Democrat; Waterlown (Jefferson Co.) Press; Brooklyn Daily Eagle; Rochester Daily Democratic Press; V Fonda (Montgomery Co.) Democrat; Lock port (Niagara Co.) Democrat Syracuse Daily Courier; Port Jervis (Orange Co.) Union; Cannel (Putnam Co.) Free Press; Schenectady Daily News; Ovid (Seneca Co.) Bee; Greeniiort (Suffolk Co.) Republican Watchman; Waterloo (Sullivan Co.) Watchman; Peekskill (Westchester Co.) Democrat; New York Evening Day-Book; I. Yonkers (Westchester Co.) Herald; Long Island Farmer; x Jcurnalof Commerce; Dunkirk (Chautauque Co.) Press; Hudson Gazette. VIRGINIA. Witadrawal of a Douglas Elector. The' accompanying letter from Lyttlcton Tyler, Est., of, Trince William County, shows the ring of the true, metal. We are happy to be infonned that this is only one j of n, any instances in which Southern men have been j driven off from Mr. Douglas' support by the tone of( overbearing insolence which he bas assumed, and the j blue light federalist doctrines to which he feems tO( hive become a sudden convert : To the Editors of the Enquirer. j Wooi.lawn, Prince William to.. September 13th, 1860. J , , I . IX.. . .1... . - . . ,a a'a.A . i. .'m,. ijtnutwen: tuc un- wmm ... , , v.. per that I re-pcctful!y decline the -itiou of Av-intant

Elector for the county of Prince William, assigned mc by the Staunton Convention. I was a "political friend of Mr. Douglas until his recent speech at Norfolk removed the "scales from my eyes," and I beheld him whom I considered the friend of the South, re-acting the part of Van Buren in 1848, assisting the Whigs and Know-Nothings to defeat the Democrats in Virginia, holding that the South may rightfully be excluded from the public lands, and that she shall bo compelled by force to submit, and denounce Southern men whose only crime is their zeal in behalf of Southern rights and honor. Such sentiments merit the severest rebuke from every being who loves the South. L. Tyler. The Anzeigcr, an influential, and the only German paper published in Richmond, has declared for the Democratic nominees, Breckinridge and Lane. The indications in this State, says the Martinsburg (Va.) Republican, augur the certain triumph of Breckinridge and Lane. Tho true Democracy see the purpose of the Douglas leaders to aid the opposition by their factious course. A vote for Douglas is a vote thrown away. No loyal Democrat will be made a dupe to such folly. The Bell-ringers may boast, but they are doomed to an ignominious defat. AVc are oncouraged by the information which reaches us from all parts of the State. Our ranks are filling up, and the masses of the party are prepared for the conflict. Inspired by their wonted enthusiasm, they are marching forward to a glorious victory, over tho combined forces of the Bell-ringers and their Douglas allies." : MISSISSIPPI. Another Screw Loose! "We learn from good

authority," says the Pontotoc (Miss.) Exuminerot August 31st, "that Col. Flournoy, Douglas Elector for the First Congressional District has withdrawn from the canvass." No reason is assigned for his withdi awal in the Examiner. Col. Flournoy was, says the Jackson Mississippian, the head and front of the attempted Douglas movement in this State, His abandonment of it is significant. We attribute it to Douglas' recent pledge to fight on Lincoln's side, if any Southern Stale should resist his authority. Now is a good time for all our erring friends to come out and take their stand for Breckinridge and Lane. take down that name. The little Douglas Convention placed the name of Daniel B. Wright, of Tippah, on their electoral ticket. This cunning ruse of the Douglasites, who took advantage of the absence of Mr. Wright and placed him upon their ticket, will recoil upon themselves. Daniel B. Wright is for Breckinridge and Lane so say his friends. Take down that name from the Douglas fliig it belongs not there. Mississippi Democrat. From this there seems to be but little left of the Douglas electoral ticket that required two Conventions to make up. We have already noticed the refusal of at least two of the nominees to serve ; the above is the third, and another on their ticket lives in Ten nessee ! The correspondence of the Constitution, dated Vicksburg, Miss., September 12, says: Mississippi will give fifteen thousand majority for Breckinridge and Lane. Hon. John M. Landrum, of La., addresses us to-night. LOUISIANA. The New Orleans Picayune says that General Edward Sparrow, a distinguished politician of Louisiana, at one time the favorite of the Whig party as its candidate for high State honors, has written a letter to a friend, in which he avows his partiality for the Breckinridge and Lane ticket in the present canvass. ARKANSAS. Col. J. II. Patterson, of Augusta, Ark., who was appointed an assistant elector on the Bell ticket, has written a letter to the Augusta Standard, declining to serve, in-'that capacity, and saying he shall support Breckinridge and Lane, as, he says, "they are planted upon a platform that will admit of no double construction, as to what the rights of the South arc, under the Constitution." The correspondence of the Constitution, dated Hampton, Ark., September 13, says: Vain and futile are the efforts of Rust and Flournoy to get followers of the traitor Douglas. For instance, in the county of Union, where Col. Rust has always lived, and where he has more influence at this time than anywhere else in the State, there are only six men who are willing to vote with him for Stephen A. Douglas. There are but two men in our county who say at this time they prefer Douglas. Arkansas is perfectly safe for the constitutional ticket. MAINE. ' A grand Breckinridge and Lane mass meeting is to be held at Bangor, October 2d. Hon. Caleb dishing, "the most able and distinguished statesman of tho North," and the Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, " the most noble and eloquent son of the South," are announced as the speakers. The correspondence of the Constitution, under date of Palestine, Sept. 10, says: In Texas all is safe. Gen. Houston is out of the race, but we should have carried the State overwhelmingly if he had not withdrawn. . TENNESSEE. , More of the Stampede. Mr. J. N. McCutcheon, Douglas Elector for the Seventh Congressional District of Tennessee, in a letter to the editor of the Nashville Union, withdraws his name from the Douglas ticket. O. A. Nixon, the Douglas Elector for the Seventh Congressional District of Tennessee, has declined the position. ALABAMA. Another Alabama Elector Declines. Mr. John Clitby, of Coosa, one of the Bell and Everett Electors for Alabama, has declined" the honor. John G. Stokes, of Tuskegee, Ala., who was appointed Douglas Elector for Tallapoosa county, declines to serve in that capacity, and says he shall sup port Breckinridge and Lank. NEW JERSEY. The Union men at Princeton have organized for the campaign; Breckinridge men, Douglas men and Bell men joining together for the defeat of Republicanism. The following resolutions were passed at a recent meeting : Resolved, That in the present crisis of political affairs, differences of opinion, in regard to candidates which have been presented in opposition to the Republican Abolition candidate, should be made to yield to the high and solemn duly of preserving the Union from thebauds of those whose principles would dissever it; therefore, Resolved, That this meeting, without yielding their private ami individual preferences, deem it lo be a duty to unite, as one man, in support ot a ticket wnicn by a cordial union of all opposed to Republican higher law principles, can alone secure its rucccss, and preserve our glorious Union from the danger with which it is threa'ened by the ascendancy of a party pledged as it is to its destruction, by the nature and inevitable effect of the principles they entertain ; and, therefore, for this purjxxe, be it Rcso'ved, Thit the Douglas, Breckinridge, and( Bell jiarties pledge themselves to the support of the Union electoral ticket.