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London, England, 1861-10-12 00:00:00

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Lincoln, Abraham, an American lawyer and statesman,
born in apart of Hardin county, Kentucky, which is now
included in Larue county, Feb. 12, 1809. His ancestors,
who were Quakers, went from Berks, county Pennsylvania,
to Rockingham, county Virginia, and from there his grand-
father Abraham removed with his family to Kentucky
about 1782, and was killed by Indians in 1784. Thomas
Lincoln, the father of Abraham, was born in Virginia, and
in 1806 married Nancy Hanks, also a Virginian. In 1816
he removed with his family to what is now Spencer county,
Indiana, where Abraham, being large for his age, was put
to work with an axe to assist in clearing away the forest,
and for the next ten a ears was mostly occupied in hard
labour on his father's farm. He went to school at inter-
vals, amounting in the aggregate to about a year, which
was all the school education he ever received. At the age
of 19 he made a trip to New Orleans as a hired hand upon a
flat boat. In March, 1830, he removed with his father from
Indiana, and settled in Macon, county Illinois, where
he helped to build a log cabin for the family home,
and to make enough rails to fence ten acres of
land. In the following year he hired himself at
12 dollars a month to assist in building a flat boat, and
afterward in taking the boat to New Orleans. On his
return from the voyage his employer put him in
charge as clerk of a store and mill at new Salem, then in
Sangamon, now in Menard County, Illinois. On the break-
ing out of the Black Hawk war in 1832 he joined a volun-
teer company, and to his surprise was elected captain of it,
a promotion which, he says, gave him more pleasure than
any subsequent success in life. He served for three months
in the campaign, and on his return was in the same year
nominated a Whig candidate for the legislature ; but the
county being democratic, he was beaten, though his own
election precinct gave him 277 votes and only 7 against
him. He next opened a country store, which was not pros-
perous, was appointed postmaster of New Salem, and now
began to study law by borrowing from a neighbouring
lawyer books which he took in the evening and returned in
the morning. The surveyor of Sangamon county offering
to depute to him that portion of his work which was in his
part of the county, Mr. Lincoln procured a compass and
chain, and a treatise on surveying, and did the work. In
1834 he was elected to the legislature by the highest vote
cast for any candidate, and was re-elected in 1836, 1838,
and 1840. In 1836 he obtained a licence to practise law,
and in April, 1837, removed to Springfield, and opened
an office in partnership with Major John F. Stuart. He
rose rapidly to distinction in his profession, and was espe-
cially eminent as an advocate in jury trials. He did not,
however, withdraw from politics, but continued for many
years a prominent leader of the Whig party in Illinois. He
was several times a candidate for presidential elector, and
as such in 11844 he canvassed the entire state, together
with part of Indiana, in behalf of Henry Clay, making
almost daily speeches to large audiences. In 1846 he was
elected a representative in congress from the central dis-
trict of Illinois, and took his seat on the first Monday of
Dec., 1847. In congress he voted for the reception of anti-
slavery memorials and petitions ; for motions by Mr. Gid •
dings for committees to inquire into the constitutionality of
slavery in the district of Columbia, and the expediency of
abolishing the slave trade in the district ; for various reso-
lutions prohibiting slavery in the territory to be acquired
from Mexico. He voted 42 times in favour of the Wilmot
proviso. On January, 16, 1849, he offered to the :house a
scheme for abolishing slavery in the district by compensat-
ing the slaveowners from the treasury of the United States,
provided a majority of citizens of the district should vote
for the acceptance of the proposed act. He opposed the an-
nexation of Texas, but voted for the Loan Bill to enable
the Government to defray the expenses of the Mexican war.
He voted also in favour of river and harbour improvements,
in favour of 'a protective tariff, and of selling the public
lands at the lowest cost price. He was a member of the
Whig National Convention of 1848, and advocated the
nomination of General Taylor. In 1848 he was a
candidate for the United States Senate, but the legislature
was democratic, and elected Gen. Shields. After the expi-
ration of his congressional term, Mr. Lincoln applied him-
self to his profession till the repeal of the Missouri com-
promise called him again into the political arena. He
entered with energy into the canvass which was to decide
the choice of a United States senator in place of General
Shields, and it was mainly to his exertions that the triumphs
of the republicans and the election of Judge Turnbull to
the senate was attributed. At the republican national con.
vention in 1850, by which Col. Fremont was nominated for
president, the Illinois delegation ineffectually urged Mr.
Lincoln's nomination for the vice-presidency. On June 2,
1858, the republican state convention met at Springfield,
and unanimously nominated him as candidate for United.
States senator in opposition to Mr. Douglas. The two can-
didates canvassed the state together, speaking on the same
day at the same place. The debate was conducted with emi-
nent ability on both sides, and excited universal interest.
In the course of this debate Mr. Lincoln said, in reply to
questions from his antagonist, Ido not now, nor ever did,
stand in favour of unconditional repeal of the fugitive slave
law. Ide not now, nor ever did, stand pledged against the
admission of any more slave states into the Union, Ido
not stand pledged against the admission of a new state into
the Union with such a constitution as the people of the
state may see fit to make. I do not stand to-day pledged
to the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia. I
do not stand pledged to the prohibition of the slave trade
between the different states. lam impliedly, if not ex-
pressly, pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Con-
gress to prehibit slavery in all the United States territories.'
He said further, in explanation of these answers. In regard
to the fugitive slave law, I have never hesitated to say, and
I do not now hesitate to say, that I think, under the con-
stitution of the United States, the people of the Southern
States are entitled to a Congressional fugitive slave law.
Having said that, I have had nothing to say in regard to
the existing fugitive slave law, farther than that I think
it should have been framed so as to be free from some of the
objections that pertain to it, without lessening its efficiency.
And, inasmuch as we are not now in an agitation in regard
to an alteration or modification of that law, I would not
be the man to introduce it as a new subject of agitation
upon the general question of slavery. In regard to the
other question, of whether I am pledged to the admission of
any more slave states into the Unica. I state to you very
frankly that I would be exceedingly sorry ever to be put in
a position of having to pass upon that question. I should
be
eoethxcer slaveeedingly glad to know that there would never be
stated admitted into the Union ; but I must
add that, if slavery shall be kept out of the territories
during the territorial existence of any one given territory,
and then the people shall, having a fair chance and a clear
field, when they come to adopt their constitution, do such
an extraordinary thing as to adopt a slave constitution, un-
infigeneid by the Actual.preseAce of the institution gam

The Rattlesnake, 21, screw corvette, 400-horse
power, having shipped her screw, which was put
on board by means of the floating shears at Chat-
ham, was yesterday hauled up to her former berth
alongside the Glocester, 50, in harbour.
The screw steam gunboat Handy, which is going
to Sierra Leone under escort of the Orestes, arrived
in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning.
The repairs of the screw steamship Donegal, 99,
Captain Sherard Osborn, C. 8., at Plymouth, have
been completed. She will, it is said, accompany the
Warrior, 40, Capt. the lion. Arthur A. Cochrane,
on her °raise. The flagship Revenge, 89, Capt. C.
Fellowes, is named as likely to be engaged on the
same duty.
The Revenge is appointed to come out of dock at
Keyham steamyard to-day. She will be ready for
sea about the 24th inst.
The Greek frigate Amalia, Capt. Palascas, from
Sheerness for Athens, put into Plymouth Sound on
Thursday afternoon:
The iron paddlewheel steamvessel Recruit, Com-
mander D. Spain, from the Mediterranean station,
having been dismantled in basin at Woolwich, was
yesterday paid off and put out of commission for
repairs.
The Punjab and Assaye paddlewheel steamvessels,
lately in the service of the East India Company,
having been moored off the dockyard at Woolwich
for some considerable time pending the decision of
the Board of Admiralty for their transfer and re-
gister in the British navy, were yesterday ordered
to be paid off and placed in the Victoria docks for
sale.
The transport vessel Kate and Jane, in the ser-
vice of the War Department, yesterday shipped at
Woolwich the armament complete intended for
Seaham, and will sail to-day for her destination.
It is understood to be the intention of the Govern-
ment to erect a breakwater on the coast of York-
shire, at Scarborough, similar to that at Portland,
the work to be performed by convicts sent from
Chatham, Portland, and the other convict prisons
for that purpose ; and it was, it is believed, in con-
nection with this intention of Government that
Lord Palmerston paid a visit of inspection to the
breakwater at Portland.

THE ARM}.

A meeting of the Royal Commission on the Sani
tary State of the Army in India was held at the
War-office on Saturday last, the Right Hon. Lord
Stanley, M.P., in the chair. The other commis-
sioners present were Sir Proby Cantley, K.C.8.,
Col. Greathed, C.B. ; Dr. Gibson, C. 8., Director-
General Army Medical Department ; and Dr. Farr.
Mr. T. Baker, the secretary, was in attendance.
In order to guard as much as possible against
accidents from carrying on practice with cast-iron
ordnance, and also with the view of ascertaining
correctly the present condition of the armaments
mounted on the forts and batteries of the United
Kingdom, a scientific examination of the whole of
the guns connected with the defences is now pro-
ceeding, under the direction of the Ordnance Select
Committee. The great number of guns, mounted
and dismounted, which are distributed over the
land and sea defences of the kingdom, and the
large amount of practice, regular and experimental,
carried on annually from guns in position, render
it desirable that the closest inspection should be
made to guard against the dangerous contingen-
cies which accrue from the use of cast-iron ord-
nance. By direction of the Secretary of State for
War, a correct register is now minutely kept of
each gun's service, in order to guard as much as
possible against guns bursting from being over-
vented, or from fissures in the diameter of the bore.
The battalions in Colchester camp have this week
had a field-day in the presence of Col. Guy, the
Commandant, and the 9th Battalion has been offi-
cially inspected, the general appearance of the men
having elicited approval of the gallant officer. The
customary time marches of the troops into the
country during the winter months will shortly
commence. The last detachment from the batta-
lions in Colchester camp will this day be with-
drawn from Landguard Fort, and the station for
rifle practice closed till the spring.
On Thursday a garrison court-martial assembled
to try Private Allen, of the 38th Regiment, upon
the serious charge of loading his weapon with the
intention of murdering Sergeant Robinson, of the
same company. The matter assumed a very serious
aspect, and there is little doubt that but for the
prompt conduct of a corporal who seized the delin-
quent in the act of putting the cap upon his rifle
the sergeant would have been murdered. The sen-
tence upon the prisoner awaits the confirmation of
the Commander-in-Chief. He has been 20 years in
the service, and is decorated with four medals, but
his general conduct has been very bad indeed.
Other acts of insubordination have taken place in
this regiment which call for a more severe punish-
ment than a garrison court-martial can award, and
an application for power to hold a general court-
martial on a desperate fellow named Grosser, of
the 38th, has been made to the War-office.
The motion will be shortly commenced of a fort
and casemated barracks at Shotley Point, on the
Suffolk coast, at a cost of about £25,000. A meet-
ing of building firms has been held this week for
the purpose of electing a surveyor to take out the
quantities on which the contracts will be based.
There were nine building firms present, and Messrs.
Lansdowne, of 34, Bedford-place, were appointed
surveyors.
The Artesian well in connection with the new
cavalry barracks at Colchester has been commenced
this week. The barrack buildings are expected to
be ready for occupation by the end of next year.
Two of Mr. Lancaster's cast-iron guns:strength-

cued upon his improved system, have been severely
tested during the last few days in the bombproof
cave in Woolwich Arsenal, with a view of ascer-
taining their utmost amount of durability. The
improvement consists in the gun being clad through-
out with longitudinal layers or bars of wrought
iron, hooped over with rings of the same metal,
The test is stated to have been exceedingly satis-
factory. One of the guns has so far resisted every
effort to burst it. The second only gave way at the
breech after having been fired several rounds loaded
to the muzzle.
After much delay and expectation the bronze