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noun ;ed that Gov. Powell, of Kentucky, would address the citizens of Evansville and vicinity, at 7 o'clock, in Mozart Hall, and that Gen. Lane would be present. At an early hour the roar of the cannon and the soulstirring music of the Band reminded us that a warrior was in our midst. Long before the appointed time tho Hall was packed solid, and the aisles, windows and doors were alive with himan beings, and hundreds were unable to gain admission. A dispatch having been received that Gov. Powell would be unable to be present, Gen. Lane occupied the stand. At the commencement of his remarks, he expressed the hope that he would not be considered as advocating 1 is own claims to the office for which he was a candidate, even -though he did appeaijn public bero at hisji)l(ljmmu and among his former friends. His only purpose was to present the principles advanced by the different parties in this campaign. His speech, from beginning to end, was a manly, high-toned, statesmanlike exposition of the humbuggery of squatter sovereignty; also of the dangerous doctrines of the Republican party, and a triumphant vindication of the constitutional principles of tho National Democratic party. The General having resumed his seat, a few Douglasites raised the cry for Shauklin, that modest Utile man who thinks he can raise the coat toil of the " Little Giant'' to high that it will not trail upon the ground as he marches up to the " White House." (" Jimmy," you need not be alarmed; you will have no such duty to perform.) Denby, however, appeared and explained, by saying that it was an error of the editor of tho Journal, whereby the name of Shanklin appeared in the morning papers as among the speakers who would address them. Mr. Dcnby has heretofore acted with the Douglas wins, though Bkkckinkidce and Lane were his first choice. Being deceived in the doctrine of expediency, nnd having been fully convinced of the unsoundness of the Douglas association, (for they have no party.) and the recklessness of their leader, he publicly announced his determination to support, from this time forward, the nominees of the National Democracy Bueckimmdue and Laxe. "When Denby had closed, the cry for Shanklin again resounded through the Hall, whereupon the President of the meeting, Mr. Rudd, arose and stated that if Mr. Shanklin was in the house he would invite him to come forward and occupy the stand, and speak tor squatterism and Douglasism so long as he desired, and When he had finished, the friends of Bkeckinkidge and Lane would have something to say also. Upon this announcement, up rises the spread-eagle orator, and in bold defiance proudly expands his majestic form, and raises his imposing beak high amid the upper timbers of the hall, then enveloping bimsel1 in that coat tail, and standing so triumphantly upon the necks of those " Yanceyites," " Disunionists," " Fire Eaters," &c, he takes his flight from the changing views of earth, and soars away to purer worldsi where angels dwell, and Douglas eagles never enter. Having thrice sought admission, and finding none, he .returned to earth again. But, finding all was quiet here below, he flutters, spreads his wings, and down down, the broad and easy way to " Hades," he hies himself away, calling all the while, " Dug, Dug, my little dear," and dread silence reigns, while from mouth to mouth tremblingly it flies. " Courageous stripling, Oh, fare thee well I" Once more regaining an upright position, he attempts to arouse Old Hickory from his peaceful slumbers, and compel him to swear that Calhoun was to be hung by him, because he w ould not bow to the modern doctrine of squatterism. The ghost of Jackson refused to appear for any such purpose. But, after ranting, jumping, and scattering himself around over the stand promiscuously, General Lane quietly arose and suggested that "Jimmy" had better sit down awhile and "cool off," as there were some fears that he might " explode" if he continued at that speech. So "Jimmy" subsided, and the General proceeded, calmly and coolly to dissect him so thoroughly that the miniature giant would hardly believe he had ever " spoken in meetin'" The reply of Lane was a complete demolisher, and upset this Douglas humbug so completely that I doubt their ever being able to find the fragments. The audience were delighted that he had Jimmy's head, together with Douglas', and those of his followers in a basket so sudden, ( jHe proved conclusively flMi'lltlrllf Ihis government had ever been to protect and not destroy property. Having the documents with him he quoted Douglas' record to susiain the doctrine advocated by Breckinridge to-day; then he quoted again to show how Douglas now sustains Squatter Sovereignty, but about this time "Jimmy" became restless, and while writhing and groaning beneath the lash, cried out, " Oh, General, it is too bad to quote the record of Douglas against me." The powers of the General appeared brighter than ever before when he referred- to the charge of disunion. He was as willing to fight for the Union now as ever. The Constitution is our shield, and it must be preserved inviolate. General Laxe possesses a mind of the first order, and it needs but little opposi. tion to call forth the powers of that mind. "Jimmy" attempted to reply, but was now lost in the "blue expanse," ''stormy heavens," &c, and when he returned, that coat tail scraped around the comer in such double quick time that all feared something serious would happen. But he has not been heard of since. Any information will be gratefully received. The visit of the General to the "Pocket" has been fatal to the interests of Douglasism, and caused many a lover of the "Little Giant" to pause and examine the foundation of their pet theory. We are gaining ground daily.' The voters of Vanderburg county are Breckinridge and Lane at heart, and now since the election, finding that Douglas is completely ousted from this Union, they are letting him slide and will

vote in November from principle. Let us organize and work with a will. This State can, and must be carried for Bit it KiXKlDGE and Lane. TIIETA. P. S. In this county the Douglas '' Court House Clique" ha? "gone up." They talked large before election and could carry everything without the aid of the half dozen Breckinridge men. Perhaps there are more Breckinridge men than they counted on. They arc for fusion now. What does this indicate? Douglasism, where is it ? T. The Effect of Anti-Slavery upon the Union the same as upon the Methodist Church. A LETTER FROM ONE METHODIST TO ANOTHER. Daakxport, Iowa, October 9, 1860. To Reverend Peter C'artttrighf, of Sangamon Co; IU. : Rev. Sir: In your last autobiography (p. 428.) you say that " Mr. Wesley never made slaveholding a tej' of membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, and . hat it never has been a test of member ship from the Apostolic day down to the present," You also state at page 423, thai you knew all the time of the protracted debates in the Conference whi. h met in New York in 1X44. " that if tl- South

ern preachers failed to carry their point, namely the ; tolerance of slaveholding in the Episcopacy, they ; would fly the track and set up for themselves," and that you " felt as if you could not eurvive tho painful fact that the Methodist Episcopal Cliuich must bo di- j vided." j I have come up from Louisiana to see my nnmer- j Otis kindred in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, and to as-; sure them " that unless the Northern Abolitionists dis- . continue their war upon Southern rights, and become ! more tolerant in regard to slavery in the Territories! (while they arc Territories, and belong equally to tho j South and the North,) that the Southern people will j fly the track and set up for themselves." They are determined to have equality in the Union, or they will beTcompelled tol'all backlipon Stale riglitslind "setup! for themselves. They cannot stand 'intolerance in j political, any more than in religious matters. I am i called home, and cannot visit the tenth part of my rel-j atives in the three States above mentioned, and I re-1 sort to this method to assure them, that if tbey do not I

rise up in common with the Democrats of the country and exert themselves to defeat the election of Lincoln I fear that the bones of their ancestors, mouldering on the banks of the Poiomac and James rivers, will soon be in a foreign country. But what is more to be regretted, the bones of Washington, the great father of his country, will also be in a foreign country. I am pained to see organized fanaticism, in military array, throughout the Northern States, under the name of " Wide-Awakes," designed to overawe the people in the exercise of the right of suffrage, if not to crush out the heart's blood of the republican institutions which Washington and our fathers establishedThey went to the polls and voted, each man as he liked, with none to make them afraid, or to lead or to drive them. But here, in the Northern States, vast armies have been formed to lead and to drive the voters to the polls, and to crush the free will of Ameri can citizens into the dust. By the light of the lamps j on the fence rails borne by these vast armies, it is plain , to be seen that they are enemies anil aliens to Ameri- j can liberty, and are walking over its prostrate body, ; to gain the high road to a military despotism, when j bayonets will be substituted for mauls and fence-rails, and mock at tree-will republicanism. Reverend sir, you reside in the same county where Abraham Lincoln resides. You defeated him twice for the Legislature, and know him well. You know that the Abolition or Black Republican parly has split more churches than your neighbor, Abraham Lincoln, ever split rails. It split your church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, which you were the pioneer in building up. It has been splitting churches ever since, and is at this moment splitting Dr. Cheever's church, the church of the Puritans, the first to introduce into its pulpit the Exeter Hall dogma that " negro slavery (not white slaver ') is sin against God." The party of which your neighbor, Mr. Lincoln, is the ohosen leader, not content with splitting the Methodist church in tho United States into two parts, is at the present time engaged in splitting the Methodist church in Illinois into two parts. A few clays ago a meeting was held, composed of members from Ebenezer, Union, and Liberty circuits in Illinois, to form an independent conferenco to resist tho aggressions of the Black Republican Illinois conference, which met at Springfield ,in good old fashioned Methodism. The 25th of the present month of October has been fixed upon for delegates to meet at Vienna, Illinois, to take steps to rive m sunder the Methodist church in your State on the question of the Black Republican discip" line, which reduces tho male and female portions of the State to a social and political equality with negroes, and gives negro men a right to vote and hold offices in the church, and at the same time denies similar rights to white women. I hope you will be pres ent at the meeting, for the sake of the poor negroes, if not for the whites. Your experience proves to you that old fashioned Methodism, such as that taught by Mr. Wesley, filled the church with hopeful negro converts, and that Black Republican Methodism gets the poor creatures out of the church into the prisons and penitentiaries. Mr. Wesley believed that slavery was an evil, and propounded the question, " Wha1shall be done for the evil t" For nearly one hundred years God has been answering the question through Southern negro converts. Preach the Gospel and let the political question of slavery alone. During the same time the criminal jurisprudence of the Northern States has been proclaiming the bitter fruits of preaching politics instead of Christ. There would not be a free negro in the world if it was not for legislation making him free because God has made him a slave ; and if not a slave to tho white man, the negro almost immediately becomes a slave to the serpent, viz., the devil. All the negroes of Hayti have returned to the worship of the serpent, and have forsaken the worship of the living and true God since they have lost their white masters. Like their African ancestors, they have gone back to polyyainy, vice, ignorance, barbarism? and have become the abject slaves of Satan, in the form of a serpent, siuce they ceased to be slaves of the white man. While the slave of the white man, the negro can only have one wife, is prohibited frorn Seating and abusing his wife and children ; the dram bottle is taken out of his hands, and he is made to observe the precepts of morality, and live in peace with his fellow man ; but as soon as the supervisatory care of the white man, is withdrawn Satan uses the strong animahty of the negro to get him within his grasp, and never lets him go ; but drives him rapidly from everything that is heavenly into polygamy, dramdrinking, vice, idleness, and everything that is sinful. Can't you whip Mr. Lincoln a third lime and make him and his party cease to assist the devil in catching negroes to send to a hotter place than the cane and cotton fields ? Can't you make them cease.to split churches and benevolent societies by striking from their hands their wedge and maid by the Sword of the Spirit ? j At any rate, the short time between this and the 6th j of November could not be better appropriated, than j that of preventing them from gaining political power! for as sure as they do, they will split the Union. You may think the Southern people foolish if they give up the Union rather than their equality in the Union. You may have blamed the Southern preachers for rending the Methodist church rather than submit to remain in it with the Northern preachers wrongfully put the millionth part of an inch above their heads, tor not one in a million could ever hope to be made a bishop. It is not a probability, but a certainty that the Southern States will rend the Union, and like the Southern preachers, set np for themselves, rather than i submit to the disability of an iuequality, bo matter how small, being imposed upon them by the Northern majority. Civil war would surely follow disunion, and it would be the most bitter and bloody tho world has eve'r witnessed. It would not emancipate a single slave, because negroes, like women and children, are more obedient in turbulent than in peaceful times. They would continue to make sugar, cotton, rice, tobacco, and breadstuff's, if every able bodied white man in the South were a thousand miles from home, engaged in bloody strife with the Northern fanatics, Canadians, and their English allies.. Respectfully, your ob't servant, Sam'i. A. Caftwrioht.

The Rage and Impotency of the State Sentinel,

Messrs. Editors: The Editor of the Sentinel sec-ma to think very hard of the Breckinridge and Lane party for not supporting the " Demociatic State ticket," as ho please? to call it. lie evidently labored unthe Editor of the Sentinel give one ostensible reason why the ticket named should have been supported by the Bueckixridgk partv? If so, I should like to be , , 1 , , .-r informed. It has never yet loomed up to my sat.sfaetion. n hen we look at the irregular manner ot notn Tmminatlons, wo must come'm-eastibly 'to the'couelu - .l-.. . ii - i,. i,i.. wi,niit . . . ... i . -.l ,- t v n,! impinging, m the least, upon either h,s Democ.acy or , his independence. I chooso Bkeckinridge, for his straight-forward, manly course, willing to deal out justice alike to all tho. States and Territories, showing j thereby his strict adherence to the Constitution; keeping it in view as tho polar star of his action. Such is pure Democracy, which will be capable of resisting all and every assault of its enemies, come from whatever source'it may it will be aa enduring as the everlasting hills. . ' The astute Editor of the Sentinel applies the term Democrat exclusively to the Douglas faction, as though they were all the Democrats to be found; it is an egreCious mistake; and if the Douglasites have not already ascertained their error, I pledge they wul in due time become convinced of their delusion. I can convinced of their delusion. 1 can it was possible that a Bbeckixkidge .. c,; . , . , . , f,u tho State tu-ket, when the t.indanot imagine how man could vote mental principles of the two parties differ as wide as tho poles they are antagonistic and irreconcilable. Why ask support of us, after being formally read out of the party in Convention, with a unanimous and cordial response by the auditors? Did your candidate for Governor, who was then present, resist it either by word or action? Not at all. He imagined, I apprehend, he had " better let it be." The pure Democratic party thought they would, although under unfavorable circumstances, rally around their old flag, and teach the followers of the squatter giant, and the Vesuvius autocrat, that Indiana Democrats were not all dupes, to be turned and twisted about to suit the ambition or the caprices of demagogues. And, mark what I say, that this is only the beginning. The Bueokixbidge party are determined to enter tho lists, and bring their candidates into tho field in due time, and show to the independent voters of Indiana what can be done when truth and justice are combating with deception and error. The community will ore long become more enlightened upon the subject of squatter sovereignty and State rights. The Sentinel goes on to say that the Democratic party (it means the Douglas faction) is wounded in the house of its friends, those who have been proclaimed as "disunionists," "secessionists ' and "traitors," and considered not worthy to associate with the Douglas party, denounced in public and private, in Convention, and by every great and small stump orator of their party. Who does it call friends? those whom its Committee refused to unite with, when it treated with contempt their overture for a fusion upon one State and Electoral ticket thereby utterly denying the BreckixridGE and Lane forces the privilege of associating with them for the purpose of defeating Lincoln. Have not the Douglas party, in this act of theirs, gulped down without mastication, Seward, Lincoln and Giddings ? I leave this to the judgment of a candid public to decide. I am satisfied that the masses, after a full and free investigation, will admire and sustain the action of the Bkeckinkidge party for their steadfastness, consistency and independence, and will rally around their standard-bearer with all the ardor that they did under their great leader, the hero of the Hermitage. Joe. Laporte County, Laf-okte, Ind., Oct. 12, 1860. Messrs. Editors : Below you will find the official vote of Laporte county, for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Congressmen, and State Senator. The vote upon the other officers does not vary much from these : ; Total vote. 3,000 2,013 Majorities. 987 . Governor. II. S. Lane.................. T. A. Hendricks. ... . .... ... Lieutenant Governor. O. P. Morton D. Turpie Congress. Schuvler Colfax. C. W". Cathcart. . . .. .... Senate. A. Teegarden ....... . . . . . .... Henry Higgins. Yours respectfully, 2,991 2,008 3.010 983 1,005 1,003 2,005 2.010 2,007 D.J. W. P. S. The Breckinridge men generally voted the State ticket. From Putnam County. Gkeencastle, Oct. 11, i860. Messrs. Editors: The Hon. Delana R. Eckles con. tinues in the political field, striking heavy blows for Breckinridge and Lane, the true standard-bearers of the Constitution and the Union. If j ou should see him, you would not think that be had been in front of the battle for over forty years. To his untiring exertions day and night, since the opening of the campaign, will we be indebted for victory. His- profound knowledge of Constitutional law, and his successful manner of expounding it and maintaining the Equality of all the States will aid much in bringingmany back to their allegiance, and you may rely upon it, we will be so well recruited by November that we shall scatter the Philistines and do much towards electing Breckinridge and Lane. J. G. K. Mississippi O. K. A local election was held in Mississippi, on Monday, the result of which, says the Mississippian, shows a Democratic majority of twenty thousand. All of the old doubtful counties have gone Democratic. Douglas and Bell are scarcely known in the State. Johnson's Speech at Philadelphia. " If Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet were to assure their office-holders, in the different States of the Union, that if they choose to vote for Stephen A. Douglas, tbey mar do so without fear of losing their positions, there would not be moretthan a corporal's guard to support Breckinridge and Lane." This wholesale defamation of the employees of the Government, thousands of whom are Douglas men, is scarcely worthy of notice, further than as it exhibits Got. Johnson's' opinion of his countrymen, in every State of the Union, who happen to hold offices which mast be filled for the welfare of the public. Were Gov. Johnson wade the acting President of the United States by the vote of the Senate, the moment he appointed a citizen to office, he would deem him a mercenary dependant, whoe principles tood upon a

der a small mistakeI suppose it to be a clerical error-. speech re-attirmcd as empiiaueaiiy as it is possiuie io It would have been nearer the truth, if ..had bap-' JZ tized it the Douglas squatter sovereignty ticket. Can , .. , ', ... . y.; tj at iea9t

metalic basis, and not the Constituiion of the country. Gov. Johnson lays himself liable to the retort4 that lor the sake of office ho has abandoned hist former principles. Augusta (Ga.) True Ucm.

Squatter Sovereignty. j . . . , . As Mr. Douglas has recently -in his Clifton Springs we yesterday quoted largely from Mr. Crittenden's speech upon the Davis resolutions, adopted by the U. S. Senate at the last session of ''gress There is one argument, however, that we nave not eis(whel.cra(lvanCl.di tiat we would now preseut u tie Kl,i)jet.t. It is the fact that the whole cost ot governing the Territories is paid out of the treasury of the United States. The salaries of the Governor, Secretary, Judges, Jurors, the per diem, of rf LepSfaturein a VQr a)j th(J expenses 0f ti,e Territorial Government are paid with money belonging equally to, and contributed equally by, the people of the slaveholding and non-siavenoiuing otaies. .anu uow, wim una law staring him in tho face, Mr. Douglas can tell the people of New York that they may emigrate to the Territories, or any one of them, for tho express purposo of keeping the people of the South from taking their property to the same Territory, and would be justified by the Constitution and laws of the United States in doing so we fere unable to imagine. The proposition seems to us to be so self-cvidently absurd and impudent, that it is really without a parallel among all the monstrosities wo are accustomed to see in the various new-fangled systems of political omimmv. tW have of late become as "thick as blackj berries.":-.. The people of the several States have precisely the I , ... 1.1- . .1- 1- i.U TT:trtJ tit-itou The people ot the several states nave precisely me same right to the public domain of the United States, ! in the Territories, that children, minor heirs, have to . th(j ,eft thcm . th(;i. fother The Terri,ories are the "infants" of tho Union incapable of selfsupport dependina upon the Union for their main tenance protected by its power, and subject to its . laws. ... . - As a further illustration : Three boys, A., B. and C, have left to them an undivided tract ot land, to be held by them jointly. Tho time has come when they may go upon the land, and improve and cultivate it. A. has horses, B. has oxen, and C. has mules, with which each proposes to do his particular share of " breaking up," &c. Now, by what law, or with what show ot reason, can A. and B. say to C, "you shall not work your part of the land with mules; we do not like mules ; we prefer horses and oxen ; and if you see proper to sell or give away your mules, well and good; you mav then go with us and share iu the profits of the land' left to us; but, if you insist upon keeping your mules, why we insist that you keep off the premises you shall have no part nor lot with us." Certainly, under the supposed circumstances, A. and B. would arrogate to themselves a mot unwarranted authority, and manifest a most ruffianly disregard of every fraternal obligation they were under to their brother. But, the dogma of squatter sovereignty supposes and presents us, with precisely such a state of things, as existing between the Northern, Western and Southern States. All three are equally the owners of the Territories. All three are equally entitled to share in the profits arising from settling and improving the Territories. The Southern States propose to do a portion of this work of improvement with slave labor. But tho Northern and Western States are made to say by Mr. Douglas' doctrine of squatter sovereignty, this very thing. Slaves are, in law, simply a species of property. They represent only so much of the physical force and the money's-worth of the 'country. And, so far as they are thus the property of their master, the United States law can know no difference between them and steam engines, water-mills or any other agencies employed by the people in the prosecution of their legitimate' and proper calling or trade. Illinois State Democrat. Watering Place Experience. Going to watering places is n good means of teaching tin- uninitiated that there is no place like home for some tliim;s. A friend who has been. off seeing sights, country air, and a good time generally, recently returned quite unexpectedly to the hot city, and gave as a reason that he "couldn't stand it to go into the country." After much questioning we gleaiud some of the facts of his case. A diary was produced ; it reads: .. . First Day. Got up early; shaved; haircropped; donned a traveling suit, expressly ordered; coat too big; pants too small; cap just fits, only it has no rim; boots rather heavy; waited for nine o'clock; started in 'bus for boat; forgot fishing tackle; returned; rather late for train; got into a carriage and paid a dollar and a half for extra driving; just in time for train; broke fishing tackle getting on the cars; rode four hours; got out at a depot hungry, but no refreshments; took carriage without springs, and rode ten miles; arrived at lake house and found it full; went to a farmer's near by, and got kept for a dollar a day; no smoking allowed, and tea! for breakfast; no dinner; supper on ulackDernes and bread; went to bed early; rather growlly; straw "tick" and bedcord; slept. Second Dav, Called up at live for breakfast; didn't hurry, and found all done when I entered; cold cakes, cold tea, cold looks from the old lady, who couldn't see the use of voting foiks beinir so slow; went out for a smoke, and got chased by i a dog; concluded to go fishing on lake; paid boy j a dollar to be pulled over lake; trolled for pike, ; but didn't get a nibble boy pulled too slow;! sun very hot; water very still; burnt nose and! face to a blister; took bold of oars to pull boat! up lake where boy said there might be good j fishing; blistered hands badly; run boat aground j in soft mud; had to climb out into water to "liftj tier off;" got home at 2 P. M.; no dinner; sup-j per on toast, tea, and salt mackerel; had invitation to hotel to dance; old lady said she closed, doors exactly at ten o'clock; told licr to close! them when she pleased, when she told me to j take my clothes, as she didn't like city chnp, nohow; danced all night, and had to pay'five dol-; lars next morning for "sundries" which I didn't! have; s;ot room at bote! along with five others;! size of room five by twenty feet; size of bed j three by six feet; no musquito bars, and "skeeters" dreadful; no sleep, and swn "cussin;" six beds in a row, and clothes got mixed; another man got on my boots; I got on another man's socks and cravat; quarreled about it; poor breakfast, and saucy chambermaid; clerk called attention to placard, which said: "Gentlemen without trunks, will pay for meals and rooms in advance;" said I would pay for a room when I had one; was told to clear; which I did; time to city made in five hours; cost of enjoying the country two days eleven dollars and fifty cents; a traveling suit for sale cheap. Tiik Ellsworth Cask. The celebrated Ellsworth will case was finally disposed of at the last term of the Circuit Court held in White county, by the entry of a decree, to which all parties having any interest in Mr. Ellsworth's estate, as heirs at law, or legatees named in the wills of 1851 and 1857 were parties, and consented. i B? the compromise, Yale College settled with; all the legatees except Wabash College and Mrs. : Beard, and received a conveyance, made by the) heirs at law to her treasurer, of lands valued atj ninety thousand dollars, and with Mrs. Beard by paying her the amount given her by the terms of: the will of 1851. The decree set asid- both wilU, and tholea!'

title to all the real estate becomes, therefore, vested in the heirs at law, The value of the real estate remaining to lliern by the settlement ia said to exceed three hundred thousand dollars, besides a large contingent interest iu lands held by other parties ; and aa tho amount of personal property (inventoried at 8178,000) is much greater than all the debts and liabilities of the estate, the nett amount received by the heirs is nearly, if not quite, equal to what they would have taken under the will of 1851. This case furnishes one of those rare instnncea, sometimes met with, of heirs reforming the disposition of properly made by their ancestor. The will of 1 851 having mado a discrimination in favor of some of the heirs, the preferred pari'taa Hi? o.mcontinir to ' hnvfl .that will set aside.

" i - o t allowed the estate to descend to all the heirs according to their natural rights. We also learn that the heirs have already made an amicable and satisfactory partition, of the real estate among themselves, without the intervention of courts or arbitrators. Lafayette Journal. The Idiot Son of a Millionaire. Burleigh, the New York correspondent of the Boston Jdurnal, describes John Jacob Astor, one of the great pecuniaere of that name : " One who frequents Broadway or any of our fashionable promenades, will notice the daily walk of a gentleman who saunters leisurely along, followed quite closely by a man, apparently bent under seventy years, and stooping so constantly ' as to seem almost to crouch as he walks, lie follows his leader like a shadow, and goes into nil possible places with his atw-ndant. The feeble old man is John Jacob Astor. son of the famed Astor whose namu is identified with the Astor Library. " He was a bright and promising boy, and till seventeen years .of age', gave promise of' much genius. Reports vary as to the cause of his mental decline; but the best accounts attribute it to the mental forcing system, and to the intense study that occupied his early years. But true it is that he has been for years a hopeless imbecile, and has been as much more care than an infant as a strong and athletic person can be. Ample provision has always been made for all the comfort he is able to enjoy. An elegant, mansion in Twenty-fourth street is his abode. U is lilted tip with elegance and taste. A yard comprising an entire square secures all the privacy that is needed. Room for walking, riding on horseback, and for recreation is afforded. Horses, carriages and servants wait on his call. " Tho gentleman who has the care of Mr. Astor has long devoted himself solely to him. Tithas such command over him that he can guide and control him at will, which no.one else can do. Ample compensation is given to the attendant. Ho has the house and all the servants the equipage and everything at his command. Besides a liberal provision made for him in Mr. Astor's will, he receives above the house and living the sum of $6,000 pur annum. But he is not alone an hour. Sleeping, waking, walking, at. home, abroad, or riding, Mr. Astor is with him, makes one nt his table, is one of the invited guests at all places, and in all his movements follows him. The family ot Mr. Astor are kind and tender to their relation, visiting him daily, seeing that all his wants are attended to and in the most Bcrupulo'us manner carrying out all the wishes of the father in. regard, to one whom he called in his will 'unfortunate son.' " Commercial. Tuesday, Oct. 96 P. M. The following is a comparative stament of the exports (exclusive of specie) from New. York to foreign ports for the past week, and since January. 1 : : 1859. 1860. For the week. 61,095,090 2,061,717 Previously reported . . .49,953,721 69,757,793 Since January 1. . . $51,049,41 1 71,819,510 Thus the excess of exports of produce over last year foots up over $20,750,000 over 40 per cent. Our leading produce houses continue to ship produce freely to England, and from present appearances, these shipments will continue to go on. The harvest in France, we gather from private letters, is better than was expected, but the failure of the potato crop in England and Ireland will necessitate increased shipments of corn from this side. A New York policeman, a few evenings since discovered a well dressed woman promenading the streets, and sporting quite an extensive train, of which she seemed entirely unaware. The officer apprised the lady of her misfortune, and assisted her in the adjustment of her dress. When this delicate operation had been completed, it was found that the train consisted of an entire piece of silk, valued at 890, which had been stolen from a dry goods store, but a few moments before. ' The loss by the late gale to the shipping and on land, on the coast from New Orleans to Mo? bile, a distance of over 200 miles, is said to amount to over two millions of dollars. KANSAS. Lauds la the late New Tork Indian Reserve. Sj-uopsU of the President's Proclamation, o. (i(i7, dated Anfuit 21, 1SCO. IT orders publie sales of the vacant tracts of public lands in the late Reserve for the New York Indians, in the Territory of Kansas, as follows : At the Lanif Office at Fort Scott, on the 3d day of December next, of tho tracts or parcels of public lands, not covered by individual Indian locations, in thirty-six townsliipi and" parts of townships falling within the late reserve above mentioned for New York Indians, and witliin the counties of Bourbon, Allen, .and Woodson. At the J.and Office at Fort Scott, on tha 17th day of December next, of the tracts or parcels of public lands, not covered bv individual Indian locations, in thirty-six townships and parts of townships fallinp within the late reserve above mentioned for New York Indians, and within the counties of Woodson, Greenwood, and Butler. The lands will be offered with the usual exceptions of school sections, &c, &c. The sales will be kept open until the lands are all offered, which is to be accomplished withiu two weeks, and no longer; and no private entry of any of the lands will, be admitted until after the expiration of the two weeks. Vre-emption claimants are required to establish their claims to the satisfaction of the proper Kegister and Receiver, and make payment for the same on or before the dav apKinted for the commencement of the public sales, otherwise their claims will be forfeited. JOS. S. WILSON, Commissioner of the General l and Offlce. General Land Office, September 10. 160. Oct. 6 9w Wood For Sale! 200 CORDS. Price Go Cents a Cord Six wtlM north-won ol tho cily, abut half a nil fromthe CravferaivHI flank road, will bo sold on tho frooad. Iu. Hmr aUVi nil. aU-tf