Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1858 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE, RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1858.

THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Congress, • 4 SCHUYLER COLFAX, Of St. Joseph. Attorney General, WILLIAM T. OTTO, of Floyd, Treasurer of State, JOHN H. HARPER, of St. Joseph. Auditor of State, ALBERT LANGE, of Vigo. Secretary of State 1 , WILLIAM PEELE, of Randolph. Superintendent of Pul>lic Instruction, j JOHN YOUNG, - of Marion. For Supreme Judges. i : first district, ' HORACE P. BIDDLE, of Cass. SECOND DISTRICT, ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, of Jefferson. • t THIRD DISTRICT. .SIMON YANDES, of Marion. FOURTH D’STRICT, WM. D. GRISWOLD; ’ of Vigo.

SLiVE AND FREE STATES. Modern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to make a Slave State, but it takes NINETY-THREE THOUSAND to make a Free State; ergo, one Pro-slavery man is as good as two FreeState men a id one third! long as God allows the vital current to flow through my veins, I will never , never, NEVER, by word or thought, by mind or will, aid in admitting one rood of free territory to the everlasting curse of human bondage.— Henry Clay.

SENATORIAL CONVENTION.

The Repub icans of the counties of Lake, Porter and Jasper will hold a Convention at Valparaiso, on Thursday , July 15, To nominate a candidate for the State Senate. Every Republican of Jasper county who is able to attend will consider himself a delegate.

BEPBESENTATIVE CONVENTION.

The Republicans of Jasper a i.d Pulaski counties will meet in Mass Convention at Francisville, on Saturday, August 7, 'To nominate a candidate for Representative in the State Legislature. OcJyGeneral Lane has been acquitted of 'the murder of Jenkins by the preliminary court in Lawrence. ' • Ccy”Governor Denver, of Kansas, is now' in Washington "City. He intends to return to the Territory before the August election. Senatorial Convention meets tomorrow at Valparaiso. We hope every Jasper county Republican, who can, will attend. remains of Miss Augusta Henkle were followedto the grave last Thursday by a large concourse of sorrowing friends. We noticed many a tearful eye among her young acquaintances and as-ociates. (Pir'The publishers of Em-rson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly will accept our thanks for back numbers of this excellent monthly. It maintains .its reputation as one of the leading magazines of the country. Price, $3 per annum. We have received the Cosmopolitan Art Journal for March and June, a double number. It is the finest art journal in the country, and the engravings are worth the subscription price. It is published by C. L. Derbyfor the Cosmopolitan Art Association. riotorious Shears, the leader of the Lafayette gang of counterfeiters, who escaped from the Indianapolis jail some weeks since, was arrested a few days ago at Lockport, New York, for passing counterfeit bank bills there. He will probably be taken back to Indianapolis, to stand his trial for making and passing bogus United States coin. i Ctrl t wilf be seen by reference to the proceedings of the Central Committee, rn another column, that they recommend Saturday; August 4, as the time, and FrancisviJle an the place, for holding the R-pre-sentative Convention; and as there is no competent authority to call the Convention, the recommendation will be accepted, unless changed by arrangement of the Republicans of the two counties. Chicago Journal, which has such' a sterling Republican as Clias. L. Wilson and sudh a brilliant e 'ayisl .as B. F. Taylor as it political, arid literary editors, has arrayed i; •!; ftj a new drr s of type, and looks as bright as a. double. < agio fresh fr ini' the mint. It is one of the oldest papers in Chicago, and we trust, may live long, and prosper abundantly.. , ~

ANOTHER INDEPENDENT MAN.

At a recent Convention the Lecompton men of Ohio and Switzerland" counties nominated a Mr. Henry for the Senatorship of that district. "Colonel Pepper, an old Democrat, come out as an Independent AntiLecompton candidate, and we presume the race will lie between him and Mr. Henry alone. As the Lecompton strength will be united on Mr. Henry, we hope the whole Anti-Lecompton strength, Democratic, Republican and American, will unite on Colonel Pepper, and “pepper” the supporters of the fraud thoraughly'and finully. The following is the Colonel’s card: TO THE ELECTORS OE SWITZERLAND AND OHIO COUNTIES; Fellow-citizen js: After a careful examination of the Cincinnati Platform of 1856, and a candid recurrence to the arguments of the papers and speakers who supported the candidate fi r the Presidency nominated by the Convention that adopted it, it seems to me that to strip the platform of the spirit of pop-, ular sovereignty, you have instead of principles fit to be supported, a scaffold well suited for the political execution of every Democrat who shall step upon it. I cannot concur with that party or faction that would waive the right to exercisd popular soveseignty, or stifle the will of the people by forcing nn odious Constitution upon an unwilling community—such as the Lecompton Constitution is—after it had been rejected by an overwhelming majority. I would compromise expediency often, for the sake of peace, but principle never. Ido not regard rhyself as a leader in this political strife against public wrong; but I feel that “I have a duty to perform,” and I will perform it. You may therefore regard me as an independent candidate for the Senate in . this district,lup in the Democratic platform of popular sovereignty —the doctrine that the just powers of all governments are derived Irom the people—which, rishtly interpreted, meansithat. the people of all the Territories are vested with an unalienable right to vote for or agafnst a Constitution for their future' government, anJ thcrf any attempt to cheat them out of that right is a manifest violation of political liberty. The policy ofTthe present Administration to force the Lecompton Constitution upon the people of Kansas, against their will, by culling to its aid the power of the National Legislature, involved an act of Executive and Congressional intervention and criminal usurpation, in defiance of the principle of self-government, and at the sacrifice of the plighted faith of tlhe nation. The Crittenden-Montgomery amendment of the Lecompton Constitution was, and deservgd to be, acceptable to all right-thinking men. But the legislative artifice and tr ckery of the Green-English amendment, ought to be, and I think is justly regarded by all high-minded men of every party as an insult, and meritsrthe severe rebuke of the American people. I must, therefore, if elected, be allowed to to oppose Lecomptonism, Bill Englishism, flunkyisrri, and the worship of men fur the United States Senate who are in favor of L“Coinptpn, or the leaders who supported it. I will obey instructions on all subjects, by the majority, or resign—will insist upon an economical administration .of the eminent —will expose the frauds that have been practiced upon the treasury and people of the State to tine utmost of ray humble abilities, and, if possible, drive from their biding places the sedundrels who perpetrated thorn. If my viewssh'ali be approved by the independent electors, I doubt not they will vote for me?if not, I shall have at least accomplished my object in the main, by seeking this opportunity to denounce the practice of the present Administration as antiDemocratic, as exemplified in the Lecompton swindle. ■ ■*- j

NEW WHEAT.

Sir. Thomas W. Harris, of Jackson township, left a sheaf of Alabama wheat with us last Friday, tiie se€d of which he brought from Vigo county. Mr. Harris recommends this wheat as being early, not subject to rust, not liable to be frozen out in winter, and, for these reasons, an unusually sure crop. In Vigo the farmers used to raise of the common wheat some ten or twelve bushels per acre,'hut of this they average twen-ty-five or thirty. Tt grows but three or four feet high, has light straw, and is not liable to fall. Mr. Harris informs us that where this wheat is well known the millers pay for it some five cents a bushel more than for the white.'-.Everybody is invited to call and examine the sample left at this office.

“HOW CAN I KNOW!”

Some days ago twq honest farmers out on Beaver Prairie got into a political discussion concerning the merits and demerits of the Green-English swindle. One (a Republican) opposed the Administration, and the other (a Democrat) sustained it. Soon the Lecomptonite was driven to the wall, when he, tb cover his retreat, triumphantly exclaimed: “Good God! if the leaders of my party don’t know what’s right, horn, can I know?" Man Beheaded. —On Monday the 28th ult., the body of George Staub, a German who had been wandering in the southern portion of the city for several days, in a deranged state of mind, was found completely beheaded at Spring Creek, on the St. Louis railroad near the city limits. His head was found some distance from his body, with the cap which he wore still on it, and was severed from the shoulders as smoothly as if it had been the work off a guillotine. It is supposed he had laid his neck on the rail for the purpose off being run over, and most effectually was the work of seif-execution accom p I ished.— Joliet Signal. Artesian Well. —We learn that the work of repairing the Artesian Well, in Lafayette, lias been' completed, and the wat“r is now running r Veeily as ever it did, and is constantly iuc easjng in volume. This will be good news to those who hai) begun using the water.

REPUBLICAN NOMINATING CONVENTION.

At a meeting of the Republican Central Committee of Jasper county, held on the 9th inst., for the purpose of arranging a general programme of proceedings for the Township Conventions, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the various county offices to be filled next October, in accordance with the plan adopted in 1856, as ordered by the County Convention of June 19, the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That all who are willing to unite in opposing the present Administration are requested to meet at the place of holding elections, in their-respective townships, on Thursday, 12th of August next, and select, from among their number, three persons, to constitute a Board of Elect'on, whose duty it shall be to receive the votes, count the same and seal the reiurns; and said officers shall meet at the Court House in Rensselaer on Saturday, August 14, at one o’clock P. M-, and shall then form a Board of Canvassers, open said returns -and count the votes, and the candidates having the highest number of votes shall be declared nominated: should any two candidates for any one office be found to have the highest, and a tie number of votes, said canvassers shall, by ballot among themselves, determine which of the two shall be the candidate for said office. Resolved, That the following persons be appointed Committees of Vigilance in their respective townships, to-wit: Marion —F. M. Grant, \Vm. Shortridge, Jesse Boys, Alf. Thompson, It L. Stanly, Geo. W. Burk, N. V. Snodgrass, Nathan Babcock, Alf. Guthridge, jr., Job English. Ha'ging Grove —John L. Robinson,Henry Banta, VVm. E. Moore, Harvy Phillips, VVm. Bussell, J. B. Chambers, John M. Gwin. Gillam —Thos. Autrim, Wm. Robinson, John Querry, Win. Fresham, Isaiah Mitchell, Win. Faria, Geoge Mason. Barkley —John Casad, G. W. Nichols, Geo. H. Brown, Henry Henkle, F. B. Jenkins, sJohn English. Newton —lsaac Saylor, Rob’t Mallutt, Geo. R. Thornton, Jared Benjamin, Henry ' O. Harris, Ephram Sayers. Jorden— Geo. VV. Snodgrass, Thos. Lamborn, John Alter, Sarn’l Babb, Wesley 1 Downing. Iroquois —John Andrews, M. S. Mead, C. R. Hough, J. H. McCullough, Morris ! Lyons, Walter Hawkins. , Jackson —Chas. Frankenburger, Thus. VV. Harris, Win. Brandon, Wm. Buchanan, Joshua Ponsler. Beaver —John Ade, John Brennisholtz,; Silas Johnson, John Murphy, John Smart, Mark Barrington. Washington —E. C. West, Wm. Harriett, J. VV. Dodson, John Whitaker, Ephram Bridgjeman, Aaron Mercer. Keener— R. P. Sheldon, VVm. Comer, Bronson VV. H arringt.on. Resolved, .That we recommend Saturday, the 7th of August, as the day, and Francis- I ville as the place, for holding the convention j for nominating a candidate lor Representa- : tive. By order of the Committee.

I. M. STACKHOUSE,

JACK HEN DERSON.

This rather notorious individual, whose efforts in the ballot-stuffing and directorycopying way have made him one of the most prominent Democratic leaders in Kansas, was arrested 60irie time ago charged with falsifying election returns, and other like conduct. His participation in the frauds perpetrated under the Lecompton State election, and his “candle-box” connection, gave abundant material for the charge. Judge Lecompte, a full participant in all these villainies, released him. This decision produced some excitement in Leavenworth, as u i II appear from the following letter to the St. Louis Democrat : “The news of tlus decision spread rapidly, and long und loud euises instantly arose. A meeting was called at the City Hull. It met at half past seven. Mr. McCracken, one of our solid men was called to the chair. Captain Dixon, also a merchant—he who led tho boys on Kickapoo and captured the cannon there—was addressing the meeting as I entered the hall. He was advocating the expulsion, instant and unceremonious, of both Henderson and Judge Lecompte. The boys loudly applauded him as he spoke and concluded. The chairman and others offered their policy, protesting against the expulsion of a Federal officer, but making up for their timidity in that respect by earnestly urging the ejection of Jack. “Alter a good deal of talking, the meeting unanimously resolved to visit Jacket! masse, and set out with that patriotic purpose. The steamer Minnehaha was lying at the wharf. news reached the boys that Jack was aboard, and down to the wharf they went and boarded her. There was to be a dance in the cabin—the ladies and the invited guests from the city were preparing for it. Jack, it is said, was one of them, but saved himself by hiding in the colored chambermaid’s berth. The boys did not like to intrude on the lady or her paramour, and thus he escaped for the night. “This (Saturday) morning I am told he is walking the streets. If there is spirit enough left in the people here, he will be dangling in the air by night. Ido not think that it will be right to do so, but it will prove, after their threats, if he is not hanged, that the citizens of Leavenworth are a lace ot braggadocios.” - 5 Accidents. —Quite u serious accident occurred at Michigan City, at the celebration on the Fourth. A Mrs. Sherman, wife of Dr. Sherman, while attending the fireworks in the evening, w.as struck in the neck by a portion of a sky-rocket, inflicting so severe a wound that she is not expected to recover. On the same day, at Lapcrte, a Mrs. Meeker received a severe wound in the head in the same manner. In celebrating the 4th a man had his hand blown off at Ligonier; another, suffered the same way at Mishawaka, besides receiving other bodily injuries. fever is prevailing as an epidemic in New Orleans.

DUTV OF ANTI-LECOMPTON MEN.

The following sensible article, from the Indianapolis Journal, expresses our views exactly, and we recommend its careful perusal by Douglas Democrats in districts where they can have no reasonable expectations of electing their own candidates. We hope the Republicans of the First Congressional District will make no nomination, but vote for Judge Hovey, the Anti-Lecompton Democrat. A correspondent writes us quite a lengthy argument against Republicans supporting Judge Hovey, the independent Anti-Admin-istration candidate for-Congruss in the First District. He sap Judge Hovey stands not only openly, but ostentatiously, on the Cincinnati platform, bases his claims to support on his adherence to that creed, and in no respect adopts, or promises to adopt, the views of Republicans. The whole Douglas party, he contends, are separated by an impassable gulf from honest Republicans, and while they continue their adherence to their platform a Republican cannot support them or unite with * hem, without proving false to his own convictions. For these reasons he insists that Judge Hovey shall have no support from the Republicans of the First District, and that no union of the Anti-Admin-istration forces can be made, or should be made if it could. We do not concur. We believe that an honest Republican may cordially support Judge Hovey, and we feel very sure that the Republicans of this First District can do no wiser thing than to support him to a man. It is true that he takes his position on the Cincinnati platform, and that the abstract principles of that creed no Republican accepts;, but there are two practical suggestions counterbalancing this, which we compnend to our correspondent, as he seeinsHo have overlooked them entirely. In the first place,; no Republican can be elected in that District. Even if the Democrats split into two equal divisions, either will be much larver than the Republican vote lor Fremont. " Without the help of the American vote, therefore, ihe Republican strength wouid be utterly inadequate to a contest with either wing of the Democratic party; and such rigid political exclusiveness as our correspondent advocates would drive off an American coalition as promptly and offensively as a Deinocratic^coa lition. The question in that District, therefore, is reduced to this—“ls a thorough Lecompton man, and a blind follower of the pro-slavery policy of the President, preteruble to an Anti-Lecompton Dejrriocratl” Our correspondent would say “yes,” judging from his letter, for he would refuse to support Hovey, and that would be just exactly equivalent to giving a vote for Niblack. A vote thrown away on an impassible candidate is a vote given to the stronge t opposition candidate. Now we should like to know how much better a Republican would feel who had helped send the facile, purchasable'Nlblack back, than one wllio had given his whole strength to send Hovey! In such-a contest we hold it to be the part of true wisdom and patriotism to elect the best man that can be elected, and not waste Strength that might do service, if properly used, in impracticable purity. Our correspondent says “that defeat in pursuing the right is far preferable to victory in the wrong,” and he says very truly, but did it never occur to him that it was wrong to waste effort in doing what cannot be done, when a less good lies within reach that the sairle effort might accomplish? Those men who insist that if they can’t do all that they think right they won’t do anything, are about as mischievous evildoers as live. We hold no such notions. We believe is the duty of an honest man, utul a lover of his coun ry or his race, to do all the good he can, and that is accomplished by undertaking what, can, and not whatcannot, bo done. The martyr cry of “suffering a glorious defeat in the right in preference to winning victory ior wrong,” has done full as much evil is good. It elected Polk, made the Mexican' war, and established the slavery policy in which we are hurrying to the very abysm of mean, perfidious tyranny. A few inen in New York who hated slavery so intensely that they cou.dn’t think of voting for a slaveholder, though he was the only man who would or could curb the slavery tendency of the country, fastened upon us the pernicious and infamous policy that has been followed with longer strides in each succeeding Administration for ten years. The supporters of James B. Birney did more, in their blind zeal against slavery, to perpetuate and propigate it, than Calhoun cou;d have done in fiity years. They, "like our correspondent, would not consent to do a little good that was practicable, (the defeat of the Texas arinnexutiun project.) because they wanted to do a great good that was hopelessly impracticable, (eradicate the slavery influence from our Government.) In such a policy we do not concur. » The second consideration is, that while the adherents of Mr. Douglas insist that they stand upon the Cincinnati platform, the course of events in Kansas has so changed that the support of the declarations of that platform i*> an actual support of freedom. “Free Kansas” is the aim of the Douglas men, as well as of the Republicans. They take their “aim” from the other side of the case from us, it is true, but while we can both aim together, we see no reason in aiming at each other. In this contest they and we demand ihe same thing. They demand freedom lor Kansas, because the people want' it. We demand reedoni for Kansas, because it is right, in accordance with a solemn covenant unjustly broken, in accordance with the true spirit of our Government, and, because the people want it. We have their reason, and our own, too; and as the case now stands, that as the actual problem of freedom in Kansas, and the way to solve it, our additional reason is the only difference between us. On abstract questions the differences are numerous and wide as our correspondent says, hut we can’t see the good reason for parading the differences that must muke defeat, ralher than the agreements that will make Viitory. It is true it would (be a victory far less gratifying to us than would be that of a man agreeing with us in our reasons for demanding freedom for Kansas, as we I left's agreeing in the demand; but it is far mope gratifying than would be that of a man who neither agreed with us in our reason, nor in our demand; and besides, be gained. One that would suit us be gained.

Sec’y Ceil. Com.

j In separating himself from the great body of his party and resisting the pro-slavery policy of the President at the expense of removal from office and of excommunication from the party, Judge Hovey has shown that i firmness of mind and correctness of princi--1 pie that entitle him to confidence; and, i though there are wide differences on abstrac; questions between him and the Republicans, lie is so far preferable to a Lecompton man, and the practical bearing of the slavery question so nearly obliterates abstract differences, or renders them inapplicable, ttiat we believe his election would be a defeat of the Pro-slavery party hardly i l«#s significant than the election of a | Republican. We hope he will be : elected.

[From the Crawfordsville Review.

Lynching at Crawfordsville—Great Excitement.

Our readers will recollect that in the winter of 1856, we gave an account of the elopement of Robert L. Coons with the wife of Montgomery Hudson. ' After an absence of some three months, the shame-stricken woman returned, having been deserted arid lel’U penniless at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Shortly altar, her seducer also returned, and they both went back to their respective families. For a while Coons conducted himself properly, and it was generally believed that he had reformed, through the influence of his family and connections, who are among the riiost respectable of our citizens, But the smothered fires of his amorous nature soon burst forth into nn eruption, and he planned the ruin of others. For a time his beastly passions were satiated, when, like a famished tiger, he again lurked for a fresh victim, when his eyes fell upon a beautiful damsel, fairer than the spouse of Potiphar, who, in a moment of dreamy dalliance, grasped the skirt of the blushing Joseph. She shone upon his entranced vision like a star of love, and he resolved to woo her to the bowers of Hymen’s Paradise of bliss. He addressed her a note, elegantly written and perfumed, stating his desire for an interview. They met—“lhey loved, not wisely, but too well,” us the sequel of this story will show. The heroine was a noble specimen of the daughters of Eve. Tall and lithe in figure,with a queenly air she stood the counterfeit presehtiiment of one of the three graces. Her eyes shone with a luster more refulgent than the glittering beams of Venus, ller golden hair hung in rich prolusion around a neck “whiter than snow und smoother than monumental ul.trios; " H<>,- ,-oice was as sweet as the “ciiar if . ’' and ‘^sounded an alarni to love.’' Numerous were . . interviews. In the classic shades of ;>■ utiful grove they often met and told their tales of love, ami sighed for some fairy isle in undiscovered seas where they might hide themselves from the rude and vulgar gaze of passing students and lynx-eyed vigilance committees. The plan was soon arranged. On last Monday evening, the fair enchantress, blushing with beauty, took the |ihin for Ladoga. The next morning, Lothario rose from his sleepless couch, and, with a small carpet-sack, wended his way to the depot, where he took the six o’clock train for the south. On arriving ait the Ladoga station, he dispatched a note by a messenger to his Dulcinea, who had taken up quarters with a respectable lady in the place, \v ho, discovering the character of her guest, dismissed her from her house, with the advice to return immediately to Crawfprdsville. Acting upon this advice, she‘came back upon the noon train. In the meantime Coons waited for the evening train to proceed to Greencastle, and from thence to Fiihnore, where he designed making some collections to ' defray the expenses of his third projected elopement. But alas f«ir human designs! A number of our most respectable citizens, who for some time had been apprised of this affair, determined to proceed that evening to Ladoga, seize the heartless villain and bring him back to Crawfordsville A and there make a public example of his deeds of infamy. This determination was speedily executed. They took the five o’clock tra n for Ladoga, where they caught the deserter of his wife and children, and arrived here on the ten o’clock train the same' night, (Tuesday.) At the depot they were met by hundreds of our citizens. The crowd proceeded to the Court House, where Dr. Fry read numerons letters addressed to the fallen victim of the prisoner’s lust. After several speeches by Fry, Wallace, Houston and others, in which they strongly urged the excited crowd to use no violence, a movement was made to adjourn. In an instant the hghts were extinguished, and all was darkness and cor.fusion. Coons was seized by several strong arms and quickly conveyed through a back door to the yard, where he was stripped and a coat of tar and feathers applied to his naked body. The next d iv he was escorted to the no in train, and left for Lafayette. At last accounts he was at Attica, where, it is presumed, hi* Dulcinea will join him.

Brutal Murder and Lynch Law.

Joseph Beard, City Marshal of Lexington, Kentucky, was brutally murdered on the morning of July 10, about tour o’clock, while endeavoring to arrest a man named Barker, who was engaged in a fight in the market house. Barker stabbed Beard with a knife, cutting the right side and severing the lung and entering the heart, killing him immediately. The citizens were much excited. Barker was taken to the watch house, and thence to jail. He was taken from the jail by the citizens and marched to the court house yard, where a temporary scaffold was erected from the court house window, second story, and at eight A. M. Barker swung off. The first rope broke and he fell to the ground, a distance of about thirty teet, bruising his face considerably, but he recovered in a lew moments, and was again taken up to the window and another rope attached—he was then made to jump Irom the window, fie hung till twelve o’clock. Gratz Brown, Esq., the able editor of the St. Lours Democrat , was nominated for Representative in the Legislature by the Republican Convention at St, Louis, on Monday, but he declined to accept. Mr. Brown was the leading Opposition member of the last Missouri Legislature—did good service, and occupied an enviable position as a member of that bodr.

Reception of Senator Douglas at Chicago.

Senator Douglas reached Chicago on Friday evening. There was a great di play. At one o’clock a committee of four hundred, from Chicago and the adjoining country proceeded to Michigan City, and ther- met Judge Douglas and escorted him to Chicago. The arrival of the train was greeted with firing of cannon and great cheering tiy tho crowds of people. A procession was formed and escorted Mr. Douglas to the Tremont House, where he was welcomed in a brief speech on behalf of the citizens by Charles Walker, President of tiie Board of Trade. Mr. Douglas, after returning thanks for the magnificent reception, reviewed the action of the last Congress on the Kansas bill. He extolled the Crittenden bill aa fair and honest, and the very best proposition for a practical illustration of popular sovereignty. He claimed that the struggle with Lecomptonism was for the integrity of ! the principle, and in that struggle principle was triumphant. Lecomptonism was virtu- ! ally abandoned by its friend , un>l had been . defeated forever. He had opposed the English bill, although it practically sent back I the Constitution to be'accepted or rejected by the people, because the manner as well ! as the form of that submission was at variance with any just principle of popular gov- \ eminent. It was a submission to the people with a threat that if they did not accept a slave Constitution with thirty-five thousand inhabitants, they shouldn’t come in as a free Stale until they had ninety-three |thousand. He could never countenance I such discrimination between the free and slave States. Tiie best energies oi his mind had for years been devoted to the great prinj ciple ot the right of the people of a Terri- | lory to lrame their own fundamental laws, and he intended to devote.all his future life to tiie same doctrine. He contended that the compromise measures of ’SO were : founded on that principle, and carried ou_t in i the Kansas-Nebraska bill. He affirmed the • Cincimi i : olatfonn, and re-affirmeaLPresi- ; dent Due.;:... . ,’s Inaugural Address, and regretted t -e ri .v a powerful party in this j country had determined not to acquiesce in j this line of policy. Tiie Republican Convention recently assembled at Springfield hud nominated Mr. Lincoln as his successor in the Senate, repudiated the doctrine of ■ popular sovereignty, and proclaimed that Congress, not the people, should establish the domestic institutions of Territories. : Mr. Lincoln not only indorsed this doctrine, but proclaimed a line of policy which is in- : compatible with the existence of the Union. He declared that the Unjon, divided into : equal numbers of free and slave States, canj not endure. i Mr. Douglas'showed the dungernus tenj dency of this doctrine, that it invited and proclaimed war and extermination in one section of the country against the other. He regarded it as subversive to the fundamental principles upon which our complex system of Government rested, and denied i that, uniformity in local policy and domestic | iii.- ions in the different States is either i dot,; , .ie or possible. On the contrary, the I political system is vested upon the theory of | practice, hence the dissiuiujarities in local ! policy and domestic institutions in the different States. Our forefathers clearly perI ceivetl that the domestic institutions which j suit New Hampshire are totally unfit for * plantation in Carolina. Hence the adopted Constitution provides that each State shall | be sovereign and supreme over its own limj its on the supposition they would be diversified- Repeated uniformity is neither deur- | able nor possible; if possible, how i p t to be obtained. There is bet one T- If' ,t t i through which it might be : .} ! that would be to abolish State _ ores, and convert the Government into on.; consolidated Empire, investing Congress with nil power to adopt police regulations, regu-f late internal policy, and adopt domestic in- | solutions r,,r all the States. Let this bo doniL and there will be uniformity. Then the States will ue all free or all slave; negroes will vote everywhere or then our glorious Confederacy (thirty-two sovereign States) will be merged into one consolidated Empire, and the uniformity of despotism will reign throughout the land. Mr. Douglas proceeded to answer Lincoln s crusade against the Supreme Courts on account of the Dred Scott decision. He could sanction no crusade against the high--1 est judiciary tribunal in the iand. He was prepared to yield obedience to the law as expounded by the courts. He didn’t agree with Mr. Lincoln that it W'us a great wron ff to deprive negroes of the rights” of ship. He didn t believe they were ever intended to be citizens of the United States. Mr. Lincoln was present and heard Judce Douglas. Fireworks were discharged in several parts of the town. The number in attendance was variously estimated at from 15,0U0 to 20,000.

New Fork Cuttle Market.

S There was a little more animation in the beet-cattle market on \Y T ednesdav, and a i very slight advance of price, equal’ to about a quarter of a cent** pound for the beef, i scarcely any selling, however, at prices more than equivalent to nine cents a pound for the meat, while much ol the largest portion ot the cattle sold for eight and eight and a hal cents net for the weight of the meat in the lour quarters; the rate here being different Irom that which prevails at Boston, where the estimate includes hide and fat. T lie supply on Wednesday of two thousand seven hundred bullocks was ample for the demand at this season, when such large numbers of the customers of first-class butchers are in the country. The owners of cattle bought at the West at three and , i a half and four cents a pound, live weight, . complain of present selling prices, but acknowledge that prospects of the future are not encoroughihg enough to tempt them to hold their stock out of market.— New York Tribune, Bth inst. Big Wages tor Farm Hani's. —The Cole* County (III.) Ledger says $2,50 to $3 per day are the wages offered by the farmers in i that county for good men to help them through their farm work. At these figures, the ledger says, labor is in demand. New York Times says the small pox is now “a permanent institution" in that I metropolis.