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sworn to support the Constitution, pledged themselves, as the representative men of the Democratic party, to abide the decision of that tribunal. We believe that it is our duty to sustain the great body of Democratic representatives in Congress, both from the North and the South, in the pledge which they made upon thi" question. We believe that the honor of tho Democratic party is closely and indissolubly conneted with tliT acts of its representatives ; and that disgrace would fall upon any party that does not sustain its ;" agents in their adherence to good faith, in carrying out a pledge so solemnly mado to support the decision of the Supreme Court. But justice toyards all our Southern brethren, who have stood shoulder to shoulder with us in so ;nanv contests, arid who have never Infringed upon any of our Constitutional rights, compel us to say, that we cannot perceive any practical difference in the positions taken by Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas on this question, so far as the rights and interests of the slave States are involved. Mr. Lincoln believes that Congress, the creator of the Territorial Government, can abolish slavery in the Territory, and thug destroy the (Southern man's property in the labor of his slaves. Mr. Douglas believes, that the Territorial Legislature the creature of Congress, can virtually do the same thing through " unfriendly legislation." He maintains that the creature can do what the Supreme Court says its creator cannot do. He asserts that the Territorial Legislature can tax slaves, like liquors, so high as to make the property unprofitable tb its owner, and thus dnvo it out of the Territories; that they have the same right to enact a law for tile purpose of taxing slave labor beyond endurance as it has to enact a Maine Liquor law. Mr. Douglas ought to know that the Supreme Court of Indiana, as well as the judicial tribunals of other States has decided that even State Legislatures have uo such power. If a State Legislature has no cons'itutional power to pass a Maine law, does it po.-sess tho power to authorize the Board of Commissioners in any county, (a body created by the Legislature,) to do what it cannot ? Can the creature, in any case, exercise, constitutionally,

more power than its creator ? " We say not. If Mr. Lincoln, who would abolish slavery in the Territories, directly by an act of Congress, is an Abolitionist, what is Mr. Douglas, who would do the same thing, indirectly, by an act of the Territorial Legislature ? Will not such legislation on the part of either Congress or the Legislature destroy the property of the slaveholders in the labor of their slaves? Will not such legislation violate the equal rights of the Southern people, and prevent them from settling in the Territories 1 Would its adoption be "doing unto others as we would have others do unto ' us?" AVe are not the advocates of slavery but we are the advocates and supporters of the great compact between the States which forms the basis of our Union. Judge Perkins, a friend of Mr. Douglas, lately said, in his Richmond speech "that a man or a party that will not support the Constitution is a ' disunionisl.' " If oue party violates a compact, he releases all the other parties from its observance. Can we expect our Southern brethren to adhere to the Union, if we, ourselves, first become "disunionists?" The same obligation rests upon us to adhere to the conditions of our National compact as bind our Southern brethren. They have their rights under it, the same as we have. Their blood and treasure contributed equally with our own in the conquest and purchase of all the Territory under the control of our common government. And truth and history, urge us to say that it has all been added to our country under the administrations of Southern men while those of Northern men bave uniformly opposed the annexation of Territory. Mr. Jefferson, a Southern man, annexed the Territory of Louisiana, which now embraces the States of Louisia na, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska. Mr. Tolk annexed Texas, California, New Mexico, Dacotah, and Utah, which will, in time, embrace at least twenty additional States. Southern men in Congress aided those illustrious Presidents to annex these Territories by voting the means, contributed equally by the people of the South and North, to pay for all those vast domains. A Southern State old Virginia after having contributed 1 cr full share of men and money to carry on the Revolutionary war, made a free gift of all the Northwest Territory, which now embraces Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, to raise means to pay off the debt incurred in that war. Southern policy and ooutnern generosity nave made land plenty and cheap, and put it in the power of every poor and industrious man, whether of the North or South, to provide himself with a farm to " sit under his own vine and fig tree." While Southern statesmen have ever been friendly to the acquisition of territory, Massachusetts and other New England statesmen have ever opposed it. And shall we, who have reaped the largest share of the benefits and advantages of these acquisitions, turn our backs upon our benefactors, and say to them, thou shall not participate with us? Shall we say to the descendants of the noble-hearted Virginians who laid open to us all the land between the Ohio River and the Lakes, you shall not be equal with us in the Territories west of the Mississippi ? Shall we say to the gallant Kentuckians who came to our rescue in the days of our weakness, who fought our battle at Tippecanoe, and shielded us from the tomahawk in our infancy, you shall not be equal with us there ? Shall we prohibit them from going into these Territories with their i proper!;, or make it useless to them, when there, by ' " unfriendly legislation" while we permit those vast ' speculating corporations of the East, under the name of New England Emigrant Aid Societies, to colonize those fertile regions with their subservient squatters ? Shall we permit the rich manufacturers of the East to go there with their labor-saving machines, designed to throw poor laboring men out of employment, and give them all the protection which the Constitution guarantees to property while we deprive, through the various arts of legislation, the people of the South of the same advantages? Shall we give our countenance and aid to a privileged class in this land of equal rights, which would have a tendency to oppress one .portion of our fellow citizens for the benefit of another? We all recollect the rush into Kansas, some six years since, by the tools of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid

Sorietici. We all remember that a few hundred men, ate Messrs. Bright and Fitch, the Democratic Senaarmed with Sharpe's rifles, seized upon not only the j tors of this State, but he. volunteered his service to most fertile tracts of the best soil, but also upon every engineer Messrs. Henry S. Lano and McCarty, the

city and town site iu that Territory. We all remem-! ber their depredations upon the rights of the Southern people, and the reports of strife and bloodshed which followed. We all remember the audacious conduct of the small band of New England Squatters, in setting up a government of their own superior to the Territorial government organized by the act of Congress. We all remember the Shocco Springs Government and the Topeco Constitution, and all the other developments of "Squatter Sovereignty" which were then made. Shall such scenes be played Over again? Shall we give our assent to the overgrown capitalist oi the

East to extend their power over all the other Territo- 1 ries yet unorganized? Shall we allow them, through i tho instrumentality of small bodies of men, devoted to j their interests, to avail themselves of tho facilities of j "Squatter Sovereignty," in acquiring the control of every Territorial Legislature, and 'give it the power , which Congress itself does not possess, to trample upon the Constitutional rights of any section of the Union ? Shall we permit the representatives of such ! small bodies of men in buckram, in the Territorial ! Legislatures, to possess more power than the Constitu- j tion gives to tho National Legislature, representing . the entire confederacy? No no. We cannot ap- j prove Mr. Douglas' policy of "Squatter Sovereignty," j any more than we .can Mr. Lincoln's Congressional

Sovereignty, Both are hostile to the genius of our institutions and the equal rights of tho People of all sections. Both are hostile to the equality of the States which eonipose our Union. Both are hostile to the decision of tho Supreme Court of the United States, which places all the States and all white men upon precisely the same footing. The next proposition advanced in the report of the Committee representing the majority of States is, "that it is the duty of the Federal Government in all the departments, when necessary, to protect the rights of persons and property in the Territories, and wherever else its constitutional authority extends." Is not this proposition a truism, requiring no argument to sustain it? What is government organized for, unless it is to protect the persons and property of the governed f For what purpose do we send our squadrons and fleets to the Mediterranean and Pacific oceans, as well as to the Gulf of Mexico, but to protect the property of our merchants upon the high seas, as well as the lives of such of our people as are engaged in commerce? Will any one can any one seriously argue, that the agricultural classes of the South and North have not the same claims upon the Government for the protection of their persons and property recognized by the Constitution, as the commercial class possess? Do not the agriculturists of the South contribute at least as much towards the support of the Government as any other class? Do they not produce all the cotton, sugar and rice, much of the wheat and corn, and three-quarters of the tobacco that arc exchanged for foreign goods, the duties on which pay three-fourths of its expenses? Ought they to meet their share of the burthens of the Government without participating in its benefits? No one can sincerely deny the force of such a self-evident proposition. But there are many who cannot meet the argument, in its favor, who will content themselves by denouncing an act, granting the protection sought for by our Southern brethren, as a ''slave code;" and yet they will not. positively deny that the Constitution guarantees to them such an act, call it by whatever name they piease. It now remains for us to look at the last proposition of the Committee representing the. majority of the States. The question arises, whether any Territory should be admitted into the Union, upon an equal footing with the original States, without an " adequate population ? " Should any Territory, like Kansas was, (when a handful of emigrants from Massachusetts, under the patronage of the Aid Societies of New England, took possession of the soil and adopted the Topeca Constitution,) be allowed to set up squatter sovereignty, call it a State Government, and be admitted into the Union upon an equal footing with New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia or Indiana, with their several millions of inhabitants? Every Territory should have a sufficient number of inhabitants to entitle it to at least one Representative in the lower House of Congress before it should be recognized as a State. Then her popular sovereignty, in contradistinction from squatter sovereignty, should commencenot before. Any number less than that for a ratio would soon fill the Senate with the representatives of squatter sovereignties create a rotten borough system, (like that of England,) and remove the political power from the many to the few. We have thus given our views and reasons in support of the Platform upon which John C. Brec kinridge and Joseph Lane are presented to the Democracy of the Union-the whole Union as candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. They are true and tried friends of their country true and tried Democrats tried in peace and in war and have proved themselvesablein council and gallant in the field. While one was found among the heroes in the front ranks, and in the hottest of the fight, bleeding in his country's cause on the battle-ground of Buena Vista, the other was among the victorious legions that entered the halls of the' Montezumas uuder Scott. Not a single sentiment of theirs can be brought against them to excite suspicion as to their loyalty to the Union not an act to prove disaffection to the Democracy. We wish we could say as much in favor of either Mr. Douglas or Mr. Lincoln. While the latter is an open and bold advocate of Abolitionism, and avows himself a supporter of the " irrepressible conflict" between the free and slave States shadowed forth byMr. Seward, which he says will end in the subjugation of the South the Territorial policy of the former cannot fail to keep up sectional agitation, contention and strife. Suffice it to say, that both of these candidates are so obnoxious to. the .South, that neither of them can receive the support of a single slave State ; while it is certain that Mr. Douglas cannot obtain the electoral vote of any State in the Union. Wherever lie has addressed the people in the free States, they have given increased majorities against the Democratic party. hercver his tnends have been presented for State offices, they have been defeated The People, as well as nearly all the Democratic Representatives in both houses of Congress, appear to have no confidence in him. They have assembled to gether in large masses to look at him and hear him; 1 but they have not, as yet, given him a single State, North or South. ' What can be tho cause of such a manifest want of confidence in Mr. Douglas? We say nothing of his personal traits of character; but truth and candor compel us to admit that his political course in the Senate has not been such as to entitle him to any further support from the Democratic party. He hag acted, and voted, for the last two years, more with the Republicans in that body than with the Democrat. He not only voted in favor of turning out of the Senbogus Republican candidates, into their seats. He thus struck a blow over the shoulders of Messrs. Bright and Fitch, at the Democracy of Indiana, who appointed them as their representatives, and in so doing sacrificed all claims upon them for support. But not satisfied with the indulgence of his private animosity towards these gentlemen, he has also been identified in intrigues and coalitions with the Republicans to turn out of the Senate General Lane, of Oregon, and Mr. Green, of Missouri, and to put into their seats two of the most notorious Republicans of those States, arid thus contribute to the overthrow of the Demo

cratic ascendancy in that body. While thus engaged!

in these intrigues and coalitions, his house in Washington was turned into a caucus room for the Republican Sena'ors and Republican editors, where overtures were made and given for mutual aid and comfort. The limits of this address will not admit, of an

exposure of all the political tergiversations of Mr. j stream. Douglas; but suffice it to say that he has lost the con-1 The Indianapolis Journal, however, denies the asfidence of all his old Democratic associates, with oue j sertion of the Sentinel, that it " attested the truth of exception, in the Senate; and of nearly all the Demo the charge that the Breckinridge men voted the Recratic members of the House, who have had an oppor-1 publican ticket. Hear it: tunity to witness his recreant course, and form a prop-: " The Sentinel inferred its statement from the cap- ... .;,, rfjlnnnpiiowi I tion, "Very True," which we put over its article as-

,,, , , . . , , c ...; 6...v to this manifest duplicity, and, treachery of Mr Douglas himself, towards the Democratic party of the nagion. But as if his intrigues with Republican leaders were not enough to damn him as the most unprincipled politician known to the country since the days of Martin Van Buren, he has followed them up by open and bitter denunciations'of Mr. Breckinridge, and of other leading Democrats wherever he has made speeches. And while he has thus emptied the vials of his wrath upon men whose political records arc without blemish, his leading friends in every State have been busily engaged in forming coalitions with the Know-Nothing party. These coalitions are now open, undisguised, avowed, and approved in nearly all the papers in Indiana favorable to his advancement. And while they are thus engaged in theirlaborsof love with the Know-Nothings, they have treated with silent contempt all overtures from the Democratic State Central Committee of Indiana representing the friends of Breckinridge and Lane, for aunion with them upon one Electoral ticket, made in order that the Democrats might present a united front to the Republicans, and thus save the State from the grasp of Lincoln. Is it not, then, apparent that Mr. Douglas' treachery, as well as his policy, aims, directly, at the 'dismemberment of the Democratic party ? Is it not evident, to use the words he made use of in one of his intrigues with a Republican editor at Washington, that lie has " checked his baggage," and " taken a through ticket'' for the Opposition camp, and designs " cutting down the bridges " which now connect him with the Democracy, as soon as he can get the " crowd over " on the other side ? We apprehend, however, that if he should succeed in accomplishing this end, his success will be of short duration ; and that the " crowd " will all prove to bo good swimmers, aud speedily return to tho Democratic shore. The signs of the times give note that the contest for the Presidency is now between Breckinridge and Lincoln. While Mr. Douglas'friends have not carried a single State in the Union, Mr. Breckinridge's friends have carried all the local elections in Delaware, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and lastly, where it was notexpected, in Maryland. There can be no doubt that the whole South is rallying in his favor; and if New York elects the Union ticket) as is confidently hoped by its friends, he will certainly be elected Will not, then, the gallant Democrats of Indiana and unite, as of old, with the only National organiza tion of the Democracy of the country, in favor of Breckinridge and Lane ? Let the true Democrats organize in every school district, and prepare for a vigorous onset against the Republicans in November. Let them, after the Presidential contest is over, still keep up their organizations for future elections for State, County and Town officers. If overthrown in the coming contest, let their watchwords be, " up and at it again." The true Democracy may be defeated, but they can never be conquered. By order of the National Democratic State Central Committee of Indiana. W. II. TALBOTT, Chairman. John R. Elder, Secretary. V A Loud Voice in Favor of the Breckinridge Proposition for Union. We insert, in another column, the proceedings of a large meeting of the Democrats of Vanderburgh county, which assembled at Evansville on Saturday last. We call the attention of Democrats in all parts of Indiana to the resolutions adopted by this meeting. It was composed both of Breckinridge men and Douglas men, who acted together in adopting nearly the same proposition in favor of union upon one Electoral ticket as that mado in July last by the Breckinridge State Committee to the Douglas Committee. We have no doubt that this meeting reflected the sentiments and wishes of the great mass of Democrats throughout the State. That, proposition ought to have been accepted, if the Douglas Committee has not taken a "through ticket" to the Opposition camp. There is, however, in the Evansville projiosition, a little addition to the one mado by the Breckinridge j State Committee, which we don't understand. What is meant by the proviso in the last resolution, giving the electors the privilege, in case the vote of Indiana should not be enough, with those of other States, to elect cither Breckinridge or Douglas, to vote according to their individual preferences? AVe say let them vote only for the man (whether Breckinridge or Douglas) who receives the largest vote in the other States, without any proviso. Capping the Climax, The Stale Sentinel, after quoting from the Cincinnati Gazette, the Louisville Jqurnal, the Indianapolis Journs", and other Republican and Knoic Nothing papers,. to prove that Mr. Bright voted the Lincoln State j ticket, caps the climax of this Roorback by ofl'ering the following evidence from the Editor of the JefTer-1 sonville Republican. Ho is certainly a very fit person j to become one of the Sentinel tools and allies, and to j play t'..e part of a spy and informer. There is not a; more rabid and unscrupulous enemy of the Democ-j racy and iu leading men to be found within the wholo j lengtli ana breadtn ot tne otate: Republican Office, Jeffersonville, Oct. 12, 1860. To J. B. Nowland, Wm. Lee and others Gentlemen: Your letter, propounding a question relative to a speech made by lion. Jesse D. Bright, on the evening preceding the State election, is before me. I heard tho speech to which you refer. I was one of the Hon. Senalor'a attentive hearers, and am very j clear on the point to which you have directed your inquiry. In speaking ot. tne Uouglas party, he said lid be defeated, and added: "When shall we that it would benn the work? To-morrow, if vou please. You can

find no better time." W. M. French. ocratic friends not to be driven from the old land Mr. Bright, during this campaign, has addressed . marks by such epithets as "bolter," " disunionist," meetings of Democrats in every section of the State, i etc., as this was the means UM'd by the Douglas fao He has freely conversed with both Breckinridge and j tion to drive good, old, honest Democrats to the supDouglas Democrats, in reference to the State ticket (port of one man, at the sacrifice of principle. He wherever he has been. He has not withheld from ' gaid that another argument used by the Dougla' anybody his views, but has proclaimed them from the! party in Indiana was to support Mr. Douglas as a mat-house-top to all. And yet the Sentinel has not been j ter of policy. He said that whenever principle was able, in the gratification of it malignant rage against involved he never permitted policy to govern him.

Mr. Bright, to bring forward a single Democratic witness, worthy of confidence, to sustain it- charge. The j editor of the Douglas organ must, indeed, be in a for-j lorn condition, if he can find none but Republican and Know Nothing editors to back him up. His ef-j fort on thi ocrion only how the rhrart r of hi

own political associates. He, like Douglas himself, it

found hand and glove with Republican and Know Nothing editors. He u hard at work, " cutting away the bridgeg " which connect him with the Democratic party. It is difficult to conjecture whether he or his idol will be first over on tho other side of the sailing the Breckinridge men, which we copied, and to4 some extent it was justified in the inference. But wo didn't intend at all to convey the impression that wo attested the truth of the churqe that the Breckinridge men had voted for our State ticket. Our endorsement was meant solely for the revengeful spirit manifested in the Sentinel's article, and not lor any special statement in it. Whether the Breckinridge men voted our State ticket or not, we don't know. We believe two or three of them in this city did. But the great body of them either voted no State ticket at all, or voted the Douglas State ticket. In tho South part of the State the returns prove most conclusively that the Democratic vote went solid for the Douglas State ticket. This is our opinion only. We arc not confidants of either faction of the Democracy, and don't want to be, and consequently can give no testimony, except as a matter of opinion, on the pointof dispute." Thk Governor ok Oregon for Breckinridge. The Governor of Oregon, in his annual message, takes strong grounds for Breckinridge and Lane. Union Meeting at Evansville. At a meeting held in the Court House, in Evansville, Vanderburg County, Indiana, composed of the friends of Stephen A. Douglas and Joiin C. Breck inridge, candidates of the two wings of tho Demoj cratic party, for the Presidency of the United States John A. Hauey was called to the chair, and W'il. liam II. Walker, jr., and George W. Shanklin were appointed Secretaries. On motion of John S. Gavitt, a joint committee, composed of the friends of the two Democratic candidates for the Presidency, were appointed to draft resolutions, expressive of the sense of the meeting, in the proposed re-union of the Democratic party. " The following gentleman composed said committee1 James M. Shanklin, Ben. Ahlering, Morris S. Johnson, John A. Haney, A. T. Whitney, Jas. K. Mi nor T 1 1 1 1 TITiil I Hen it Re.hne.fiV.r. C. Tomhernett j and R;chard of thj friend8 of Mr Dougas, and Chas. Denby, C. R. Rudd, John Garisk, G. W . McBride and M. J. Rav, of the friends of Mr. BreckINRIDGE. The Committee, after consultation, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the Democracy of the county of Vanderburgh stand as a unit in favor of the formation of a joint electoral ticket, composed of the friends of Stephen A. Douglas, and John lireekinrulge, lor . i n , . . 1 1.- .1 j the Presidency, in such proportion as may be agreed ipon, tecs. Resolved, That in our opinion, the electoral vote of the State of Indiana, should be cast for that Democratic candidate who shall receive the largest electoral vote in the Union, provided, that should the vote of Indiana, if so cast, be insufficient to elect either Mr. Douglas or Mr. Breckinridge, then the State Electors shall have a right to vote their individual preferences, so as to defeat the candidate of the Republican party. Resolved, That this eonimitleo take the necessary steps to carry out the spirit of the foregoing resolutions. On motion of Morris S, Johnson, it was Resolved, That these proceedings be published in the State Sentinel and Otd Line Guard. JOHN. A. HANEY, Pres't. W, II. Walker, ) G. W. ShankCin. f ' Secretaries. Garver in Howard County, Rcssiaville, Howard Co., Oct. 12, 18(30. Messrs. Editors: The ball is still rolling. On last Saturday, according to appointment, Hon. Wm, Garver addressed a large crowd of people, of all parties, who had assembled to hear him, in this place. As the State elections were past, and the general result was known to have been in favor of the Republicans, and just now the people seemed to care but little about hearing political speeches, yet, as I stated, there was a large crowd in attendance; and never before have I seen a crowd, of all shades of politics, so deeply interested, and pay so good attention, to a speech of more than two hours length; of course, you would not have room to print, if I had time to write an account of his speech ; suffice it to say, that it had a good effect. If such speeches could reach tho ears of the honest yeomanry of the conn try, the Douglas j faction would be left without a corporal's guard in ! November. Respectfully yours, &c. H. From Greene County, Jonesborough, Ind., Oct 6. 1860. Editors Old Line Guard: To-day has been another proud day for the Democracy of Greene County. Col. Andrew Humphreys addressed a large and respectable audience at this j place. He has very recently arrived from the Terri tory of Utah, where he has been for the last two yearsOf course, so distinguished a member of the Democratic partV) Bnd an individual who has done morefor tbe Democracy of Greene County than, any other in tue Statei wouid diw a crowd to learn where this old veteran 0f Democracy stood. They found him as true as 8teef standing precisely where he stood two yeara agQj wnen he niacle n;8 8peecn here ; oppo g;tion to john G Dav;St wll0) ite Dougi n0W( was cia;m;ng to be a Democrat Hig Bpeech wag an abIe vindication of Democratic principies. He showed up the utter absurdity of Squatter Sovereignty in such a manner that it sent consternation to the very hearts of the Douglas faction. He showed, beyond all cavil that there was not a particle of Squatter Sovereignty in the Cincinnati platform, and that this new dogma of the powers of the Territorial Legislature over the question of slavery was Mr. Douglas doctrine, and was not now and never had been the doctrine of the Democratic party. He closed with a very eloquent aj-jieal to ins old ln He convinced many present that the Douglas Repub- j licans were not governed by principle, for they had j formed coalitions with the B'll or Know-Nothing par- j ty in many pbv.-es, and had refused to nnite with the Breckinridge men, the only Democratic party in the i jjovernmen'.

There is quite a number ot Breckinridge men in this county, and we are gaining every day; the Douglas Republicans see and know it When it was an nounccd Unit Col. Humphreys would address the citizens of this place, they immediately tout to a neighboring county, (Lawrence,) for a DouglaBitej he came and made the most novel speech I ever heard. He was for and against Douglas; the same with Breckinridge, lie had the audacity to advise and exhort for a union of the two parties, asked tho Breckinridge party to help them, after the proposition of the Breckinridge committee in this State had been peremptorily refused by his own party on two several occasions. He said he had been an administration man, had made

speeches defending it," and had made some for the '' Little Giant." He said that Mr. Breckinridge was as good a Democrat as Mr. Douglas, and he did not yet know icho he would vote for. At the close of this extraordinary effort for a union on the State ticket, Col. Humphreys mado some humorous remarks, convincing, no doubt, all present, that such a union was impossible, under present circumstances. The Doug, las leaders and " whippcrsin " in this section are in great trouble about this time. They see that the honest masses begin to see their treachery, and the manner in which they are attempting to cheat them out of their votes; they begin to learn that tho Democratic masses are unlike the Douglas leaders, willing to fob low one man or be transferred over to that worst of al parties, the " K. N." With a proper effort, Greene county will stand by the true Democratic colors as in former days. She never has faltered heretofore. Yours, in the true Democratic faith. Pioneer. Vote of Starke County. Knox, Starke Co., lud., Oct. 12, I860. Messrs. Editors: Our Board of Canvassers met yesterday, and the following gentlemen had majorities as follows, to-wit: For Governor, Thomas A. Hendricks, 78 majority. For Lieut. Governor, David Turpie, 78 majority. For Secretary of State, William H. Schlater, 78 majority. For Auditor of State, Joseph Ristine, 77 majority. For Treasurer of Slate, N. F. Cunningham, 77 majority. For Attorney General, Oscar B. Hoi d, 78 majority. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, Samuel L. Rugg, 78 majority. For Clerk of Supreme Court, Cornelius O'Brien, 78 majority. For Reporter of Supreme Court, M. C. Kerr, 78 majority: For Congress, Ninth District, Charles W. Cathcart, Democrat, 76 majority. Marcus A. O. Packard, Democrat, is elected Rep resentative from this District, composed of Marshall and Starke counties, by 45 majority. The Democratic County ticket of Starke is elected. We elected one National Democrat County Commissioner Eli Brown by 99 majority. Marshall county went Republican, by 22 majority. Fulton county is reported to have gone Democratic, by 76 majority. Laporte county, reported to have gone Republican, by 800 to 1,000 majority. I think we can poll about. 100 votes for Breckinridge and Lane. We will want about 500 Breckinridge and Lane tickets, and we wish that you would have them printed for us. We would like to have them in time to have them distributed over our county before the election. Yours, with due respects. W. M. McC. How to Vote, Every man that loves his country. Every man that loves the Union, . Every man opposed to Sectionalism, Every man opposed to Abolitionism, Every man who loves the white man best, Every man who loves domestic peace, Every man opposed to an "irrepressible conflict," Every man in favor of equal rights, Every man opposed to stealing negroes, jcvory man in lavor oi me iaws Deing eniorcea, Every man that believes decisions of the highest Court binding, Every man that believes slavery agitation terong, Every man who prefers domestic peace to war Every man of truly Christian principles, Evory man who would do as he would bo done by, Every man who would not meddle with others business, Every man who believes in the Christian law of love,- ''. Every man who prefers the Union one to its being split, Every inau who thinks rail-splitters better keep at it, Every man who believes other qualifications better Should vote for Breckinridge and Lane, And put down rampant fanaticism, North or South. Mass Meeting at Centreville. Cambridge Cirv, Oct. 15, 1860. Messrs. Editors: The true friends of Breckinridge and Lane of the Fifth Congressional District, are invited to meet in Centreville, W'ayne county, Ind., on Thursday, Oct. 25th, 1860, for the purpose of selecting a Central Committee, and transacting such other business as may be necessary. We hope there will be a full attendance from each County in the District John C. Lctz, J. N. Beard, R. Griffin, E. CNcdd, Mr. Wassox. KANSAS. Lands in the late New York Indian Reserve. Sraopnf f the President' Proclamation, i7, dated Atait lf 1SGO. 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 Land Office at Fort Scott, on the 3d day of December next, of the tracts or parcels of public lands, not covered by individual Indian locations, in thirty-six townships aud parts of townships falling wi. uin the late reservo above mentioned for New York Indians, and within the counties of Bourbon, Allen, and Vf oodson. At the Land Office at Fort Scott, on tin 17th day of December uext, of the tracts or parcels of publie lands, not covered by individual Imlian locations, in thirty-fix township and parts of townships fulling within the late reserve ahovc mentioned for Xcw York Indians, and within tiie counties of Woodson. Greenwood, and Bntler. The lands will lie offered with the usual exceptions of school sections, tc, 4c. The sales will be kept open until the lands are alt offered, which i to be accomplished within two weeks, and no longer; and no private entry of any of the land will be al mi i ted until alter the expiration of the two eks. Tre-ei tmptKn claimant are reqturea to es-iaon?n inetr claim to the satisfaction of the proper Register and Eeceirer, and make payment for the same on or before the dav appointed for the commencement of the public sale, otherwise their claim' will be forfeited. jos. s. waws, Commissioner of the General Land Office." General Lnd Office, (September 10. 1S60. . fet. Sw