Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 30, Number 16, 29 March 1860 — Page 2

uirimoMa noM Xarcfc, sat, isso. For Governor, HENRY S. LANE, OP MONTaOMEKY. For Lieutenant Governor, O. P. MORTON, For Secretary of State, WILLIAM A- PEELLE, of Randolph. For Treasurer of State, JONATHAN S. HARVEY, of Clark. For Auditor of State, ALBERT LANGE. of Vigo. For Attorney General, JAMES G.JONES, of Vanderburgh. Fur- Reporter of Supreme Court, BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Marion. For Clerk of Supreme Court, JOHN P. JONES, of Lagrange. For Superintendent if Public Instruction, MILES J. FLETCHER, of Putnam. f LATFORM. Httolntd , 1. That while disunion doctrines are proel a an td id the halls ot Congress by the Uemoeracy, ami diaunion perposes openly trowed, we point with prid to the tact that not a tingle Republican, either in Ctingrest or tha walks ol private life not a aiogie Republican press nut a tingle fiepublican ora tor not single republican convention, nai avowca any design against the integrity of the t'nion. even ahoulj the present Administration and its corrupt pol- t icy be perpetuated by the Tote of the people. 8. That wa are oppoaad to the new and Jangerona ' doctrine advocated by the Ltenocratie party, that the federal Constitution carries slavery into the public Torritories ; that we believe slavery cannot exist anyw here in this government unless by positive local law, ai.d thst we will oppose ita extension into the Territories of the F ederal Geveroment by all the power known to the Constitution of the United States. 3. That we are opposed to any interference with alavury where it exists under the sanction of State law: that the soil of every State should be protected from lawless invasion Irom every quarter, and that the citizens of etery State should be protected from illegal arres'a and searches, as well as from mob violence4- That the Territory of Kansas, now desiring sdluiasit.n under a Constitution republican in form, expressing the will and wish of an overwhelming majority of her people, o-ight to be admitted as a sovereign Biaubor of the Union, speedily and without delay. IS. That ne are in favor of the immediate passage by Congress t.f a Homestead Law, thereby giving out ol the public domain homes to the homeless. (i. lhat the fiscal affairs of the Mats of Indiana have been badly managed. The State officers hare been shown to be defaulters to large amounts, and sulferrd to go unprosecated. That large amounts of the public moneys bate been squandered to enrich officials and partisnu favorites, snd that when the Representatives of the people sonpht to stop those peculations, by the passage ef ati ' toibeialemcnt BUI,'' the Governor of the State vetoed that bill, sad thus kept the doors ol the Treasury opened to be further robbed by dishonest partisans. " 7 . Tht it is the duty of every branch of the Federal (joverniuent to eniurce and practice the most rigid economy in conducting our public affairs, and the sets of ccrtaiu parties in high places, in cheating and de- ' ' fraudiog the Government oat of large and valuable tiactsol' the public money, by which the National ( Treasury has become bankrupt and a borrower in the ' publio markets, by the sale of bond and treasury i notes, meet our earnest condemnation. ; H. That we consider the slave trade as justly held to be nirary by tho law ol nations and our own laws, and . that it is the duty of all civilised nations, and of our ! puhlio authorities to puta stop to it in all parts of the ' world. J !. That we are ia favor of equal rights to all citizens , at home and abroad, without reference to the place of ; their nativity, and that we will oppose any attempt; t.i change the present naturalisation laws. I In. That we reicard the preservation of the American I Union ad the highest oljeet and duty ol patriotism, and tlint it must aad thall be preserved, and that all nho advocate disunion are and deserve the fate Of traitor". 1 1 . That we take this occasion to express our thanks to our Iiepublieaa members of Congress fiora this and i Ihur Mates for their perseverance and triumphant success n the organisation of the House of representatives, in the election of high minded and .National men, over the efforts of a corrupt, sectional and disunion party. I hat a railroad to the Pacific Ocean, by the most practicable route, is imperatively demanded by the intercuts of the whole oountry, and that the Federal ttovirnment onght to render immediate and efficient aid to ita construction. 13. 1 hat the soldiers of the war of 1312. who yet remain among us, deserve the grateiul remembrance of the people, and that Congress should at once recognise their services by placing their names upon the pension rolls of the government. ' 11. That we are opposed to the retrocession of the Wabash and Erie Canal, as well as to the State eoru ing liable tor any of tbe debts, or bonds, for which the same was transferred to satisfy. Noinlnniinsr Election. The Republican voters of this county are : reminded that on Monday next they will have , an opportunity of selecting their candidates j for the October elections. It is the duty of every member of the party to express his preference among the many good men who ! are aspiring to the respective offices to be filled at the October elections. It is a duty they owe themselves and their country to se-j lect the best and most popular men, and if j they fail to express their preference it is their ; equal duty to submit to the selection which may be made, and uncomplainingly give the j ticket their support. A candidate for Congi ess is to be nominated, and while members of the party may novo differ, when the selection is made, all those differences, at whatever sacrifice of personal feeling, mutt end, and the nominee receive the hearty and enthusiastic supiort of every consistent Republican in the district. We regret, aa all free men must regret, the necessity which requires such nominations; but there is an imperative necessity for it now, and will be so long as the opposition party put only one candidate in the field, for each office. We prefer that every candidate should depend upon his own ptisonal merits, and his devotion to political principles, for support, ye policy requires that among the aspirants in our party some one should be selected as our standard bear er. In the case now before the people of this district, and which is to be decided on Monday next, so far as thia couoty is concerned, and subsequently confirmed by a District Convention, honorably constituted and conducted, we shall support the nominee, be he whom he may. To secure harmony, however, it seems to us a convention, aa heretofore, should be held at Cambridge, and we hope no effort will be made to dispense with it. It is important that our best men should be selected for candidates for the Legislature. The Stale has to be re-Districted for Congreasioaal aad Legialaaive purposes a member

of the IT. S. Senate is to be lected, and the financial operations of the State officers should be thorosgbly investigated. Important county offices are to be filled at the next election, aod good men should be selected as our candidates. But another feature of the highest importance is the influence our county and Slate election is to have upon the great Presidential canvass. For that contest we want anion and harmony now, and all the time, so that in November old Wayne may roll up her two thousand majority against the present corrupt Administration.

&S"Hon. O. P. Morton will address the Republican County Convention of Franklin county, at Brookville, on Saturday, the 28th of April. He cannot, ho wove r, commence Lis canvass until after the Chicago Conven tion. B&'lt is now thought that Hunter, of Vir ginia, is the most prominent candidate for the nomination at Charleston. JCETbe Judiciary Committee of the Senate is endeavoring to perfect a bill for a bankrupt law. The Democracy was much opposed to such a law but to be consistent with their changing course on other measures, they should be in favor of such a law now. Mutiny of Coolies at Sea. A dispatch from Boston, of March 24th, says: The ship Norway, of New York, when five days out

on the passage from Macao for Havana, with river, was that it would carry into all the one thousand coolies, w as the scene of a ter- country through which it passed a flood of rible mutiny, in which thirty coolies were emigration that wonld make slavery impossikilled, and ninety wounded. The fight lasted Lie in any State along the route the politifrom six p. m. till daylight next morning, cian who does not know these thingrs is not

when the coolies yielded. Capt. Major had his wife and two daughters, also a lady passenger and child on board. The lady passenger died of fright, and her child expired soon after. Fire at Ft. Waisi A fire occured at Fort Wayne on Saturday morning last, which entirely consumed the Times' building. How great has been the loss of our friend Dawson, we are not informed, but we hope he is largely insured. af57A party of burglars entered the drug stoie of W. II. Sringhurst, at Logansport, Friday night last, and carried a safe into an alley blew the lock and doors to atoms with powder, and took one thousand dollars in money. (Southern Senators and Representatives who were in favor of holding a Convention at Atlanta, in June, to make arrangements for dissolving the Union, have wisely concluded to postpone said meeting until after the Presidential election. For such forbearance the world should be grateful 1! Attack upon Mexico American Troops cross Me frontier. On the 16th, a portion of the American army at Brownsville, Texas, crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico in search of Cortiuas. The troops approached the Mexican encampment at night, drove in the pickets, and took thirty prisoners who claimed that they belonged to the Mexican National Guards, also in search of Cor tin as, but which was not believed. The American troops remained encamped on the Mexican ground. The prisoners, 180 in number, taken ati Vera Cruz, have been brought to New Orleans, to be tried, we suppose, for piracy. What a humbug! jT At the prices fixed by the Charleston landlords, it will cost all delegates and outsiders from the Northwest, who attend the Democratic National Convention, the snug little sum of about $300 in all. This prospect is terrifying to the friends of Douglas, who are suspicious, and perhaps not without reason, that these extravagant prices are part of the well-concerted scheme to kill off their favorite. It will be nearly impossible to secure full delegations even on these terms, to say nothing of the strong outside force which we were lately told would be in attendance on that occasion. " A man who has not been treated with proper respect by one of our organs, the Rich mond Palladium." Cambridge Bulletin. Will our neighbor of the Bulletin inform us wherein we have shown Mr. Geo. W. Julian the slightest disrespect either personally or politically. It is true we have not advocated his nomination, but have let him alone. This is a free country and we are free men Our press is free, and it ever be. We are at the same tune parsy men we love the Republican party and its principles we support its Ticminations, and have always done it freely, cheerfully and conscientiously. We shall do so ia the future ; but until nominations are made we shall do what we believe to be right and for the benefit of the country. Personal. We are pleased to learn that our young friend and former fellow citizen, F. M. Meredith, Esq , of St. Louis, Mo., is a candidate for Assistant-Circuit Attorney, in that City, subject to the decision of the Free Democratic Convention. Mr. Meredith, although a young man, did good service in '56, and has been a zealous worker in the Republican cause since the inauguration of the party, and we wish him success in his aspirations for the office for which he is a candidate. The Edinburg Rerietr for January is received. The contents are: Morality in Trades and Professions; Rawlinson's Herdotus, Rogers on the Coal Fields of North America and Great Britain; Lord Elgin'a Mission to China and Japan; Alison's History of Europe; Acclimitaxation of Animals ; Progress of Legal Reform; SouTnier and correspondence of Madame Reconier ; British Taxation, Lnrd Macaulay. The article on Lord Macauley is surrounded by black lines, which was never done beore by this magazine, for any man. Lord Macaulay was a frequent contributor to it columns.

9lr. Kellofzg's Speascta. , From tbe Cfcieagn Press aad Tribune . We print to day a telegraphic abstract of the remarks of Hon. William Kellogg, of ill., on the question at issue between himself and Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune. It will be remembered that Mr. Greeley in a letter to his paper, assailed Mr. K. severely for a motion to adjourn made by the latter, duriag one of the early das of the contest for Speaker, that Mr. K. retorted, and in Lis defence charged that Mr. G. was, during the Lecompton struggle, engaged in a secret attempt to secure Mr. Douglas' return to the Senate by means of liepublican votes, and that hfe had an interview with Mr. D., in which a treaty for that purpose was concladf1- that Wt (irfi-fv Hnw-rl this aVM;stinn:

lhathUdiMii.il wa cnnnnrteil hv a letter! from Mr. Douglas, and lhat Mr. Kellogg i pleuVed himself to make his charges good. jThe speech which we print herewith, is the last move in the came. In relation to the matter in controversy, we have tl.is to say: The politican who does not know that during the Lecompton s'ruggle, Mr. Douglas repeatedly declared to leading Republicans that he had broken with tbe Democratic party; that he had "checked his baggage through," lhat "he had crossed the Rubicon and burned his boats;" that "hereafter be Ehould be found in opposition to the South" who does not know the plausible j justification which he put forward to satisfy Republicans that the Kansas-Nebraska Rill was really a free-soil measure who is unaware of the fact that it was the Senator's habit in those days, to illustrate by the map the effect of his future measures for circumscribing the institution of Slavery who does not know that the excuse for running the Pa cific Railroad south-west from the Missouri acquainted with the secret history of that!; struggle, nor with the real reasons which im-; pelled certain leading Republicans to espouse Mr. .Douglas cause in opposition to the wellknown wishes and settled policy of themecebers of their party in Illinois. We violate no confidences when we say that these things are true, and it is believed by many that nothing but the premature action of the Senator's Illinois friends, in their April Convention, in 1858, in reaffirming the Cincinnati Platform and violently attacking the Republicans, prevented the consummation of tbe bad bargain and the dissolution of our party in this State. We mention no names, because we have always believed that the payie? in the trade, save Mr. Douglas, were honest in their endeavors to promote Republican) success, and that, though unwise and easilycheated, they labored with patriotic intent. Jur complaint is not that they were wheed led by Mr. Douglas, but that when the coarse of the Illinois Republicans had been determined upon with great unanimity, they were not suffered to make their fight lor Mr. Lincoln without the impertinent interference from without, by which they were distracted and finally beateu. Seward aud Bates. The Atlanta (Ga.) Southern Confedera .y, an ultra pro-slavery Democratic organ, says;. We would a thousand times rather see W; II. Seward the next President of the UnitedStates, than Edward Bates. So far as the; question of slavery is concerned, they are; identical in principle; while Seward is a bold, . eloquent and able statesman, with a world-r. wide reputation, the Missouri reprobate is a political fossil, with not the first element of ' statesmanship in his composition. Yet hehas all the elements of strength claimed for him by the New York Tribune. He is a ' Southern man by birth, living in a slave State, and holding to the principle of the Wilmot Proviso with recard to slavery in the Territories. This is the cardinal principle of 1 Black Republicanism "opposition to ihe ex- j tensiou of slavery in the Territories." We come then to the conclusion that the Blacky Republican nomination for the Presidency, ' lies between Wm. H. Seward and Edward i Bates; the latter has the inside track. But give us the able and distinguished Black Re- f publican Senator, ten times over, before tha-t skulking Missouri apostate, who would selLt his native South for a mess of Abolition pot- j "ge. The Louisville Journal says of Mr. Bales' avowal, in regard to the extension of slavery, ia his letter to the Chicago Delega tion from Missouri : This covers the whole Republican groundIt settles the position of Mr. Bates decisively. He is a Republican and nothing else. He is just as good or bad a Republican as Seward, Chase, or Lincohn is. lie is a Republican, pure and simple. As such, of course the Constitutional Union men of the South will scorn to touch him. He has. by a single blow, severed every tie of confidence, or of sympathy which connected Lint with the Southern conservatives. MiLTOir, March 20th, 1860. Editors Palladium: However much we i i.,.. .i. : r i.:-t. .ni tv, .... ' Brown was convicted, and which cost kirn his life, there were, nevertheless, traiis in lits character which all must admire which w might even study, at this particular time, with profit to ourselves and country, to wit: his untiring energy and unwavering firmness to what he conceived to le the truth. An instance of the extraordinary energy which seemingly never forsook the deluded old man ia the most unpropitious hour of his life, was exhibited during the second night of the Harper's Ferry siege. One of the witnesses, on his trial, who had been a prisoner in the Engine House, stated that some of the men, from loss of sleep, had become drowsy and inactive; "and," said he, "that whole, live-long night, the voice of the old man was heard exclaiming, 'Men! are wu avrakt?' " I repeat, that, at such a time as this, when political wickedness runs riot in high places when a powerful government mocks at the innocent and shields the guilty throttling with one hand the spirit of freedom and with the other dallying the spirit of oppression robbing its people of the right and dignity of labor, and wasting their substance in corruption and misrule; and (to cap the vast pyramid of its reeking abominations) threatening to throw the dark pall of human bondage over all ibis fair land, there is great need tor such firmness and energy as was exhibited by tbe wayward chief of the Harper's Ferry insurgents. Republican watch-fires ought to be lighted ia every nock and corner of the broad North;

and sentinels placed all along the lines fromi one to the other, whose cry should continually go out. Men! Are you a trait? Men! Are you au-ake? And the cry should cot cease until the time of the great in-gathering of the harvest in November. And as sure as there is truth under the heavens there will Le occasion for such a carnival of rejoicing as the world has never witnessed. Re

publicans Into line! There should be great peace within our bori ders. TLw is no ume to punish enemies, or reward friends no time to be wrangling about the claims of this or that man; but with eyes and hearts fixed in one direction, let' the Reuublieans troen to the sDrine nominations severally voting for the men thought to , carry the greatest of inf uence and efficiency '

into the gTeat approacLicg national contest. ?servmgof patronage. Men here who have Never was better material offered to the' not a "red," and are cut of employment, people of this coucty from which to select' dis,ss the question with as great a degree i i ii z--.t l - .t ' of "buncom and leal as the most interested such as shall fill their county ofeces they w nlator of Calihm ia. and little six .it i j it i : . J T . 1 .. .....

are ait wortny, anu vteii quauueu. ii us, therefore, studiously cultivate the best of feeli n itc m fit- nnr K1pr!inri8 nuitlv find rparr ably, with this determination that, let who ' , , . t , , will be chosen, we wnl rote the ticket. In Washington Township the fires of 60 ' are lighted, The chie's are on the war path, Tha l.raro. a. wl,lirf Into line. Thv meet around their council fires at their wigwam on the first and third Saturday of every moon. Through the chiefs of the Palladium thev send a pipe to all the tribes. Re publicans! Into line! More ANON. For the Palladium. Heuovatiug: Old Orchards. One who travels over this region of country can but observe the great number of old orchards which are fast going to decay. Some of the trees are entirely dead, others dying, and all showing unmistakable signs of soon being beyond the reach of reinvigoration. Particularly is this true of pear orchards. If we examine into the cause of all this, we will find that prominently among the influences which brought about this state of things stands the fact that the trees, whether they be apple or pear, have exhausted the supply of nourishment that nature had stored up for them in the soil on which they grow. In these old orchards, the limbs of the trees interlap from one side of the orchard to the other. Of course the roots do the same, and have done so for years past, insomuch that the once rich soil has been robbed of all the peculiar elements of nourishment that support apple and pear trees. It must be borne in mind by the Horticulturist, that year after year large crops of fruit have been taken from his orchard; limbs have been pruned and taken outside of the orchard, and no adequate return has been made in any shape. There are many orchards in the Western States which have withstood this exhausting process for Irom forty to siaty years; hence ro great marvel that their energies should begin to wane. Who would think of cultivating corn or wheat for even twenty successive years on the same grcund? Yet most men who own an orchard, seem to think that fruit trees ought to flourish and be productive through an indefinite succession of years. Their actions indicate this conclusion, at least. Many men are concluding that fruit cannot be succes?l'ully cultivated any longer in this region, because the trees which their grand fathers planted are going to decay. But what mu-t be done for these old orchards? This question was recently propounded to me by a friend who had comple'ed one of the best barns in the county. Said barn is built in the side of a fine gravelly bank, walled up on the back side with stone. The building is capacious, having all the possible conveniences, both for storing grain and for housing stock in winter. The frame work is done in the most substantial manner: the weather-boarding is well planed and painted white with greep. windows; two lightning rods adorn each end of the barn, and in short everytbinz appears admirably combined for comfort and convenience. The most noticable essential of the whole establishment remains yet to be told, and that is that the barn is so situated as to completely drain all the manure into a creek that runs close by, and thus save all the trouble by which modern farmers are annoyed in removing manure to their fields. But this is escaping the question. What did I tell Georjre to do to renovate his old pear orchard? I told him to cut down all the trees which were nearly or quite dead; then prune out all dead or decayed limbs of the standing trees. Then if he had no stable manure of his own, to buy some of his neighbors, spread this copiously ever the ground, say enough to cover the whole 6urfee two inches deep, add as much chip manure, or rotten wood, from ihe woods, and at least one wagon load of unleacheJ ashes. Alter this is done, spade wuoi the whole under as deeply as can be done without lrnury to the roots of the trees, and. my word for it, there will be such improve meot in the appearance of the trees in two years, as to astonish their owner. This will apply equally well to apple trees as to pears. If any one ever saw a very old apple or pear tree that was tbnhy or productive, he saw it standing at a goodlv distance from other trees of the same species, or else it was sustained by some accidental drain from a manure pile, or by manure being applied directly by one who understood that trees can no more live and prosper indefinitely from a

given amount of nourishment, than that a""e contract ot us owners . to deliver: horse can keep in working order eternally on! 1W tous of copper ore on the Gulf 160a single ton of day. s. s. b. ' miles distant each n onth for one year. t - - . I am personally acquainted with the purBirrxji- bt a Rat. In September last, : chaser, and knowing him tube a man of ver-; Mr. John Wood of Little York, Montgome-; acitr. have not the least hesitation in pro-; it county, was bitten by a large Norway rat, j nouncing the wagon just the thing it purports from the effects of which be suffered for several weeks, intense pain. He came home,' I receive the Palladium occasionally, and ;' late at night, and while reaching into the crib although it bears the appearance of having' for corn to feed his horse, he was seiz d on heen shipped twice around the horn on a ( the hand by the entrapped rat. In about' rari Jet 11 seems fresher to me than it did at two weeks he was taken sick. His hand i home, where I could peruse it rght from the i and arm were much swollen; and high pre. evn the advertisements I gormandize J fever, seveie vomiting and purging, and j "ith an appetite unequalled in a French res-, great pain attended the cae. The poison of taurant on frog day. X. Y. Z. f the Lite diffused i'self throughout his sys- . ; : . 1 tern, and came near rmvtr. H 1 ... ' Store d enttre Stoek of Arw Goods, f

entirely lost the use cf his right arm. Day-! ton Empire.

r.STkeSEer1cemoDi 'J5 ;buil.iicg. and is offering for sale at cash pti-; Gipsy King. Owen Stanley, are to take plaeei . , , a

at i a v uni 3orrt-rimA xrii vm-ir r I I ton papers sav that Ur?e numbers of GlDsiea? Lava already gathered li.ere from al! parts ol .v . . f ... , ' isw va--a. J asar e(i.uA KMC Is UI 1 aaU JL 13 UISJ queen, wife of Stanley, was buried there: some two jean ago.'

" " " For the FaUladiaat. Letter from Arizonia. Arizim Ooppsa Misxs, A. T.,) February 1 1th, 1S60. J Mess. HoiltHcay If Darts; I have just returned from a jaunt to Fort Yuma, on the Colorado river, where the cle subject of couversation 6emed to be the acquisition of the Mf xk-an State of Sonor. It would surprise you to witness the interest mniiilested in this country by all classes, rich and poor,

old and voursr in relation to tnis long a to this loni aud piously expected addition to our already w ancA sr? .- rw as. n I r or lAAiircranor I nut K , x wJt jy sought for, and scanned from its title to the hst Hce on the inside page, in quest of some stray paragraph containing some one of the snowing worn; sonon.acquiiaiion. anne ation, U. S. troops, cr Mexicans, and if some one or more ot u.ese tn:eresrina aws" are t found te t.,rer is aside as undeand eight year olds are continually teazmg pa and ma as to the dny when they are to move to " lhonora and live amongst "them freathers". W the dav soon when Lava he opportnrji, May our great uncle send : these anxious people may )rnortnnitT of setthnsr ud that farfamed, rich and beautiful land, and civilizing its native population. As things exist at Present, our citizens. however well fortihed J :.u i i : . . rtm Liaas-iTuns auu truuu ucuai iur, hamuli i even travel through and view that delightful I i. :.i . l. : l . l l v. . j i cuuuirv wiuioui utriu iusuiit-u. riiuucLi, auu I confidently believe that one-third are murdered by those canibals which inhabit it. Not more than two months ago, Mr. Downy, a well known citizen of Colorado river together with his family, consisting of a wife and infant, passed through this placeen-route for Guaymas, where he expected to settle and await the action of our government preparatory to going into business. Yesterday the. news reached here that near Hermosille, the largest city in the province, Mr. Downy was robbed, most brutally murdered, and bis wife violated by twelve Mexicans. This is not an insolated case by scores, many a noble-hearted countryman of ours has gone into that State upon business, expecting 6oon to return to his family; but alas! many is tbe sad face you meet here, caused by the news of some bosom friend falling by the hands of the treacherous Sonoranean. These people are of too rank a growth, they are too wild, they need cultivated natures and as we are in the closest proximity, it is not only our privilege, but our duty to organize one grand missionary society, and let that be made up of all who wish to go, and teach these brutes respect, particularly to tbe pale face. The society, of course, to be sanctioned by our own government. While at the Colorado, the overland mail from the east was behind two trips, and the general opinion seemed to be that the Indians had intercepted it, but this was corrected by the mail arriving at Arizona city on mule back, the coaches being unable to travel down the Gila, as the whole of that portion of the Territory was inundated by high water in that stream, caused by heavy rains east of Tucson. Considerable damage was done from Sutton's overland mail station down to the mouth at Fort Yuma, by the caving in cf banks. At Stanwix station, 80 miles above the Fcit, Mr. Taylor's house was completely underminded and washed away. White's house, 27 miles below, was also sent adrift, and half-a-mile distant, at Mohawk station, the attendant barely saved the stase team by swimming the horses to high ground. ! The overland mail Company, about two J months since, established a company of Rangers for the chastisement of the Apacha Indians, who have beeu committing innumerable depredations upon the property beloiiirinir to the route west of Tucson. The Rangers numbering about 20 good Indian j fighters, accompanied by Maricopa guides, i made a descent upon cne ranchcrie, a few ' days ago, about l0 miles north of the Gila, and during the engagement, which lasted but ' a few minutes, thirteen Indians were killed ; and five taken prisoners, while about thirty escaped. The company then returned to their headquarters at the Maricopa wells, recruited their number to fifty men. and kit , on another scout yesterday. I had a limited conversation a few days after the first expe-' dition with one of the officers of the coin p&ny, Lieutenant Wilson, who told me that the mail company furnished them with anirrals to ride, provisions, arms aud amunition. The Rangers it-maceration will be what property they succeed in capturing, with the exception, probably, of that belonging to the mail lii.-e. It is well known that these Indians have in their possession thousands of fine horses, mules and cattle, and no doubt the hunters will realize handsome wages for their time. Nothing of local interest has transpired at this place since my last letter. I am in hopes, however, that in my next, I will be able to give you'an account cf the performance of a steam wagon, built expressly for transporting ore from this mine to some point on the Gulf of California. About a year ago, Mr. Wilson, formerly Superintendent here, went to Engand and contracted for one of Baron's Fraction Engines, the bnilder of which asserted that it would lay its own track , and on a common road, carry 35 tons of freight at the rate of 2i miles per bour, and tith less load would make better time in proportion. It was completed at the end of 68 days, and to the satisfaction of Mr. Wilson and a thousand othet spectators who witnessed its trial trip, it came up to the letter of the contract, and was immediately shipped for San Francisco, where it is to arrive du-; ring this month. It will be put together -there, and after an exhibition of its capabil- : itit s will be sent to this place to fill an extenThaddeus Wright has just returnud from ' the Eastei n cities with an entire stock of new j the Hadiev - . ' . TZTt Haa Brssrv is thta a r. p-riadkai , ' r ctrij'- " nkanral aa peHtiae aad as .rs epeuailT aaa aaaraaaa aaaira- aaies allaiij I is aaatls aneaetf. ea an! ' ftper, and will aoaaUaas be. aa . i

Democratic Frtenelslsis fer Fw era. The Homestead bill which passed tbe Houe, was referred to the Committee on Fablic Lands in the Senate. The Commit

tee has remmmeuded as a substitute the bill f Senator Johnson, of Tennessee, which ex

eludes from tbebtnetits of the bill, single ' t"i ta hn uewt invcr, bj pB-iiabr4 article men over twenty-one years of ae, widowers h Saioai inteiiisraHw, at theuaw. ia fame pfibeasaavwithout fhil.lren. and foreigners wbo mV ' tf "liJ 4 otil cti.aa, abrJ aa mal

declare their intentions after the passage of the bill. This is a serious curtailment of the benefits of the measure, aed one which ought not to be carried into erTctt. There are multitudes of our foreign population who have uot ret declared their intention to become citizens, owing to their residence not beipg fixed, cr to the dimcult V ot brio? identified, but hose intention is to'become cicijcs at the earliest , , . , . . j . practicable period. To make an odious discriminauon against these, would le manifestly injurious and unjust. They should be put upon the same footing as others who have; her n more fortunate as to the declaration of j their intentions. Ihe Vital pi.ir.t H, to Secure tbe public lands from becoming the PreV Of nuiuopohsls'" and speculators, and invite their free settlement by the people. To exercise discriminating powers against certain classes of citizens is an odious feature which should not be suffered to be engrafted on so truly liberal and popular a measure. The public lnds are the property of the whole people, not a class. The Government is simply their trustee, and is bound so to exercise its administrative powers as to enforce no disabilities against any. The House bill provides that the benefits of the Homestead law shall extend to all citizens, whether native or foreign born, and to all who shall have declared their intentions of becoming citizens at the time ol making application for a certificate No patent is to be issued for the land until the lapse of five years alter the settler has entered upon it. Tr.is cruards against its 6peedy aliena tion, as well as insures that all whose title to land is perfected, shall first have become bona fide citizens. Let us have this just and wise provision carried out in spite of the bogus Democracy of the Senate, which seeks to discriminate against citizens of foreign birth Cin. Com. Forner on Buchanan's "Treason. We extract the following from a pungent article in the Philadelphia Press, on what it terms "the great treason" of the present Administration: If, in the midst of this canvass, any one had dared to prophesy that before the close of Mr. Buchanan's Administration the two Governors of the two Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, appointed by himself, would interpose their veto in order to defeat the law of the Legislatures of those respective Territories abolishing Slavery, he would have been denounced as an enemy and ridiculed as an impostor. And yet what have we 6een? Within the last few weeks Samuel Medary, Governor of Kansas, and Samuel W. Black, Governor of Nebraska, no doubt instructed by James Buchanan and his Cabinet, have given a practical evidence that the ten thousand pledges made in the name of Mr. Buchanan iu 1 856, and based upon his own voluntary committals, have all been falsified .himself leading the way, to show that he did not mean what he said, and that his whole object was to deceive and to betray the popular sentiment. The excuse for this treason to principle is as bad as the act itself. The President and his myrmidons, not content with flying in the face of his record, and the record of the whole Democratic party in 1856, now set up the moi.stmus allegation that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Slavery exists iu the Territories, and that because it does so exist there, it must be protected by the Executive or by Congress. In the very face of the most authoritative declarations to the contrary, this idea id sought to be interpolated into that Democratic creed: and the very men who do so are conscious putting a gross insult upon the Supreme Court of the United States, and demoralizing that tribunal in the affections and cofidence of the people. From Washington. It was reported there was a fight in the Senate a few days since whilst that body was in Executive Session, between two Democratic Senators. The Washingtoa Star of Tuesday evening say: The wonder-mongers of the country are just now terribly exercised over a rumored regular set-to, as it were, in a recent Democratic Senatorial caucus in the Capitol. Seeing frequent dark allusions to it in the newspapers, many of them implicating parties as the belligerents who were not the men, and hearing all sorts of improbable verbal stories concerning the affair, we may as well say now as at some futnre time for such a cat must, sooner or later, get clean out of the bag that we believe Messrs. Clay and Clingman to have been the parties in collision, and that until separated, the latter was very roughly handled. 1 The Charleston hotel-keepers have bitten their own noses off. Delegations are chartering steamboats all along the coast, and laying in lots of provisions. Tb Western men will go to Charleston with their bread and cheese in their pockets. The Convention will do its work in double quick time and adjourn. The Covode Committee has summoned the following witnesses from Missouri: Henry Wh ttington, John T. Hughes, and Ed ward M. Samuel, all former Receivers of Publio Money, and Charles Ingles and M. Jeff. Thompson, attorneys and land agents. They are expected to prove the corruption charged by J udge Birch upon the Land Office Commissioner and Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Preston, Minister to Spain, has obtained a few months' leave of absence. The President and Cabinet are holding daily sessions in regard to Mexican affairs, and are at their wits ends to know what to do. They feel that they are in a very unpleasant dilemma, and in great danger of having a difficulty with France and England, and perhaps with both. I a reeard to the prisoners brought to New Orleans in the "Preble," skc., they experience those delightfal sensations attributed to the man who drew the elephant as a prize in tbe lottery. r3Irs. Francis D. Gage of if issonri, for merly of Ohio, might claim the nomination of President, under the authority of Mr. Beecher, having brought np six narnly boys." whose aggregate bight wonld form a eolaron thirty-six feet high in honor of their mother, w ho will aH vote the Republican ticket in 1 869, with but one exception, and be h not jet attained his majority. Not one of them smokes or chews tobacco, or stimalatsx the inner man with intoxicating beverages. Mrs. Gags is also the motiasr of two uaaghters.

Tbe bUl alMlataiog slavery in Kan-

aa. wale was) retaraoat by the Umw f the Tarrttory. sasail ewar aaavatoayavessetlOeaT. The wife of Sasal Jadeh Eaq... at Vincraam. e eitaiaa4 a dtvoree Aa rffert H being SftaJe ta art ap a r.iral ZtaesviUe. la eoBXMltleei to the State l air to ae a!J at Devtn. Ed. Bates wae aever a a abse ef the Kaav X jfhias or Aaiartnaa party, bat was) vna af tKm MTtiaat AeBDaajan ef tS 4.w-nu - - a aa at feoaae. The Lr!tii ef MissiHtri rernaaj tae aaeef tbetr Re arsaaatatrn Uail to Bishop B. R. Aaaea, a r raltt. eaa aarvioe, na tb-rnus4 Uum be ia aa Aaliieait. Taa Legislative pokes were eliatMly ai-'takea. Bawp Aawa ta sum aa AbotitieaM- LaSa Umlla, aae of the ratlesrates to tae Cha rlestta Ceevattea, saya be will a4 abry the tastnae. tiuas of la Slate Coaveatloa. j T The World iee Lite in" is the title ef a targeaaJ aaaJsjaaa arseA.y paper reeaatty aasanasasaa ' Ctaciaaati. by B. r. Sli. Ita e-aWta are preparaa bt. .n,-". j tt t. .v-, pt a. br tb(real Weat, aa 4 s!kbU N- Itberajlv enataiaed. by aa4 ;K.rttJrp.per, ,,b,,w.aNauUuuii.uibMta. WMt. Taa. it,aii wh wataUtrrry raiy pMMr. Peterson's Mijatin for April, is on our ttbW,a ever h g'Uv roa xlUahad wita. Mas eagraviac aa4 U filled ith Interesting sassier. It ia the cheapest aUaaiae ia the eooutrv. It cealaiaa bearly eae thoaaaaa pa e or nalia( malwptH;, from tS to dOaleel plates, aa SpeciaMae easy be esea at thta office. M4RE! KD. la HaaaiHea. O . ea WeJnea-tav the tla taau, by the Rev. Was. Uavteaaa. CHAS H BURCHBNAk se, at thisetty.te alias BLLUi JACKSON. of the fursee place. H A aa -at sensible act. ea the part of ear yoang frieaaa. We arts thesa a Has ef aaallayed hapiltwe. DIED, at Ogilen, 3 J iast , Mary Altoe, daughter ef G IK. L. Leonard, aei 7 moatns aa 1 1 day. Sweet little bud, for earth too fair, lias (aae to lieavea. to blossom there. For the Palled ieaa . Death of J ohm A. Johnson. Tbe death of John A. Johosoa of llagsrstoara, oa Thursday morning, SSth last., has throw a a gtooia over oooiiuuaity which will not soon be dissipated. Dj the large circle of friends woo by hie urbane and Christian oonjuct he Is deeply lamented. The word of God has given as thia test of life: By their fruits shall ye know them. Who that remembers his fervent Christina devotion, his living and abiding trait In the merits of the Savioar, hia generally blameless life, hit chsrity, tea doubt that he la now happy ia lieavea, washed ia the blood of Him who died and liveth again T A word or two with regard to the onuses of his death would not he amis. For years be had' been subject to occasional fit of melancholy induced by physical indUpoeition, and it was evident to his family, that, for two or three weeks previous, hia mind had been greatly disturbed. His Heath, sodden ia its oe enrrenoe. produced intense grief among those who knew him; and oo the day of hie death, ae also oa that of hia burial, business was suspended. His funeral was largely attended, aad Old and young alike met as mourners, weeping for one whom they had learned to lore as a friend and a brother. Be ye alee ready, for, in such aa hoar at ye know not, the Son of Man eometh." f Death of .Tils ltl. V. BlcUleGLEN DALE FEMALE COLLEGE, March 8 1st, I860. ( At a meeting ol the pupils of this utitUatloa bald this dsy in the College Chapel, the Senior Claat, previously appointed for that purpose, submitted the following resolutions whioh were unanimously adopted. Resolved, That we have received with tho deepest sorrow, iotellisieuee of the death of our tat eouoolmate, Jennie bickia, of Ksohmond, led. - Resolved, That while ww bow ia submission to the decrees of an all-wise Providence, in the removal from our midst of one in the bloom of youth and with bright prospect for the future, we feel in common with oar leaobert, that we have lost a dear friend and companion, with whom we bad yet hoped to spend many happy daya, and lhat we are called upon to heed earnestly this solemn admonition . Hesolved. That we tender the ettleken parent oar heart-felt sympathy in thia severe afflict. on. Kesolved.That a eopy of these reeolntiona be mmk to the bereaved family, and published in tbe Richmond papers, tho Cincinnati Osteite and the Presbyterian. Death of Geo. C. Mendenhall. We regret to announce that George C. Mendenhall, Esq., an eminent lawyer aod distinguished philanthropist, of Greensboro', North Carolina, of Quaker origin, and a devoted friend of freedom, was drowned in the Uwhairie river on the 9th insL lie attempted to ford it with a horse and buggy, and the stream being high, swept him down. His body was found the next day. This is sad news to his manyfriends in Indians. VTB. Sc. J. Coffin, at Ham's Corner, has ju6t received a new stock of Spring Goodscheaper than ever for Cash. Go and see. THE ATLANTIC ZX017THLY. HARPER'S MAGAZINE, GODErS LADY'S BOOK. &c, &c. ' together with all the latest Literary nstet Pictorial Paper. - SAZX ELDER, Nwi A goat at tho p. O. Tin Hoofing ! Tin Roofing ! PRICES .GREATLY REDUCED. And more if necessary." War ran ted 20 Vears, OR. LONGER, AND OF THE BEST TIN PLATE, Soldered att ever WATER TICHT, About 50 Roofs pat oa ia Two Years. All ef which w will lve aa retsronee. at is aewoSsasr tact sBattsrlos; "ttsl. Hails A Boilden's Hardware. X T greatly Bedaeed prices, i ia a. w. ritDKawoorrs. THY GUTTERS. YalLLETS. tt PIPES. a T (reatly SsSaraJ rricee. at a. M. CSDBEWOOD'S. COOK STOVES ADD Tin WARE. AT BeSacec Prices, at 14 K. AT. rXIKBWOODS. THE BEST WARIXina FURNACE IH Town, at B. U. CXDESWOOO't. O. THOMAO M., D., DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY, Mortal Stale) alatt.,lhrte Beerttatt f starr Hall. ' " Kichmond, Ia4. fUTitCIAS FsvacriaUaae carafnlla- eeaaaaaaSeS as all boars, ay Say or eifat. I Vorthe aalaal RrUef k PerlO 1 U.llil tsaarM Care of this dUiressisf twsaataint aae FendU' BROnCSIAL CIGARETTES, made r C. S. SBTaf OTB C. IS? Baaeaa St . ST. T. Fnce ft per Sea ; a f xae a , set. - . -far ante ail Beatstete. IS