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NEW YORK.

The Empire State has covered herself with
glory. The Rochester Advocate in giving the
subnined returns, says: at will be seen that we
have used up lIanson's majority of l3 $50 in
only 50 counties @7 counties yet to be heard from
which will probably increase Folks majority To
from 6 to 5000, Sias Wigh,s maj, will be some
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The following are oil the returns we have from
he Indiana election Up 10 the time of gong to
press. We give the inojorlies in each county
At this election, and also the majorijics on Cover
nor in 1913. when The Dem. candidate was cltc-
ted by 2,0l3 mai. 1hele are 81 counties in the
SInle Ill III. NJ. u
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VIRGINIA.

But few returns have been received from this
state. In four counties heard from in the eastern
part Of the state, the democratic gain is @23 over
1910. The river counties, il is said, have given
a large increase for the wings. We consider the
state safe for Polk
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Quick Tip.-The Albany Journal says--"Thc
steamer Knickerbocker left New York las, even
ing at five minutes past six o'clock, aud although
she had on her usual moderate head of steam,
arrived at the dock in Albany at fifteen minutes
before three. making he passage at eight hours
and forty minutes"
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ONO.

Returns from 81 counties in Ohio, show nett
Wing gain for Mr., Clay, compared with the vote
cast for Mr.. BARLEY in October Of 5,l17. The
state has gone for Clay.
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I,ENNESSEE-

The ST. Louis Republican states that 1t is re.
ported in that city that this state has gone fol
Clay by 1000. Nothing reliable however.
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,uEslpENrIAL-OUn TICKET CoaPLErE!!!
There is no question now before the American
Nc that so deeply concerns their welfare as the
png presidential election; therefore, we call
IN every one to read and ponder well upon
bt we have to say. We advocate neither the
ms of Ciay, PoAf, B,ney nor Smith, (now
I'D but one who We solcmly believe is far more
bthy than either of the above gentlemen, for
( reason: our candidate has done more than
y all for the real benefit Of the great mass of
people.
For long time we have beer perfectly salts
! that "He peopie,' if left to the decision OF
~ own unbiased Judgment, would unanimous
toclalm in favor of our candidate for presi-
!, but the claims for the Office of rice president
/ been so numerous that we have at times been
seeded who Of them all would suit the peo-
hes! mar, however, those doubts are dispel-
pnd with great satisfaction aud sure hopes Of
sss, we place before the American people, but
ialy the citizens of NythtJu Illinois, an en-.
Net. We are aware that the leaders Of the
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MARYLAND.

The Globe received this morning states tina,
Mary land is true TO herself, aud has gone io'
Clay.
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KENTUCKY.

Kentucky has gone for Clay. The majority
not known, as the returns are limited
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MICHIGAN.

Folks majority in this state is estimated by the
returns received nj 3,000.
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Folk ma. IN the above counties, IfoI'
IN addition to the above, a passenger from
Buffalo informs the editor OF the Chicago Advo-
that he saw returns from all the counties in
Inc state but eight, aud Folks maj. was G,i3 ;,
and that the counties 10 hear from would increase
that majority 1000.
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ILLINOIS.

The returns from this state come in very slow
Iy. 1t is conceded on all hands that Polk and
thousand, and nobody appears 10 care mach about
knowing the exact volc. We gi,e below all the
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PENNSYLVANIA.

The old keystone comes up nohy with ma
jorty oil from 5000 TO 5000. The table below
embraces all the counties in tic state lut 10,
and we believe all the wing counties but two.
There is 50 far democratic gain of over 1000
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CONNECTICUT.

This state has gone for Clay NY large major
iiy.
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RCNiIfhGOie NOCH. ZINC ui Tue UlOSl TeIUNIhu-
bic rocks of which we have any knowledge, has
been lately discovered in tho middle of that great
inland sea, Lake Superior. BY gentleman who
has recently returned to this city from Copper
Harbor we learn that a shaft of Trappe rock has
very lately been discovered, rising in the lake from
10 to 20 miles from land, and ascending above the
feet. What renders it more extraordinary, is, that
it stands alone and all around, SO far as cxamin-
atioEs have been made, no bottom has been reach
ed by any of the lead lines used on the lake, and
the point of the rock itself does not exceed
of more than six or seven feet square, and so far
as observations of it have extended it does not APP
pear to enlarge its size as it descends. It has al
ready, he states, become a source of alarm TO the
mariners who navigate the lake, who take special
care in passing, to give it as wide birth as pos
sible. 1t is too sma--too remote and dangerous
TO admit of a light, and therefore, its removal has
become matter of serious Importance, and will
doubtless pertain to tho duty Of government. a
single blast from bore of sufficient depth would
grobably do it. but the surface Of the rock being
so near that of the water, and the space SO mar
row as to forbid any regular lodsment for work
men, they would have to be attended constantly
by a vessel of sufficient size to rcsis, any sudden
storm of the lake, and would also have to be KEPT
constantly under way, as no harbor or even bot
tom for an anchor is within day sail
The discoveries relate that the rock appears tC
be a place of general resort for salmon trout o
those lakes, as they found them there in almost
incalculablc numbers, having, durign their shor
stay caught several barrels with no other instru
ment than a rod of iron, on one end of which they
turned hook. They tried with their lines OF
board for sounlings Immediately around the rock
but without success. Such a vast column, coult
| it be exposed TO vicw would laugh into ridicult
Cleopa,ra's needle, Pompey's Pillar the colossus
of Rhodes, or any production of ancient or mod
ern art.-PWsburg DHiy american.
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"l'o.tiht Books"


Tsigncd] A. D. Rowland, NJ. D,
&ware Of countcrfcits! The genuine is for
sby G. l.. THOMPSON, Ottawa.
august %, 1874. 10y
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Muyder at the Eastern PeaHeHtiWy.-lh he
Philadelphia North American says;-"Wc I'M
dcrstand that man named James Castor, en-
ployed in the Eastern Pcnicnliary in the capac-
ty of nurse was recently murdered by one OF Tue
prisoners young man named John Bllman.
The prisoner was insane, and while the nurse
was attending to him in his CELL be tore up a
piece of board from the floor, aud killed him by
beating him on the head before assistance could
comc.-He then stripped the deceased, and put
on bis clothes, and escaped out of the cell into
the yard, went to the office Of the clerk and told
him he wanted to go out.
The alarm had been given by two other prison
ers, and he was secured. Bllman was under SEN
tence for horse stealing from one Of the interior
counties, where it appears, he was once arrested
for the murder of his father. This murder he con.
lessed during his Incarceration in Cherry Hill, to
the Warden and Moral Instructor He has been
insane ever since his committal. CASTOR, the de.
ceased, leaves a wife and two children, and was q
very worthy man.
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DIED-At Marseics, in this county, on The
llth inst, Dawn JENNINGS, aged 40 years.
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Bear Siory.-rbe Chicago Journal Of the iii
instant, says" The steamer Cleveland, on her
last downward trip, when about five miles south
of Southport, fell in with large mole bear,
swimming or cruising same four miles from land.
Capt. Hazards Gig was Immediately lowered aud
a crew shipped on board of her to capture him,
which was very soon done by the use OF skipping
moose or lasso, after the manner of capturing wild
cattle; when handed on deck he was found To be
dead caused by the ,ightness of the moose about
his neck. lie was supposed to have been driven
to the water by hunters, as men were seen Oh
shore apparently watching his return. lie was
Immediately dressed for the table, and the Captain
will have the pleasure of distributing HIM among
his cpicurean friends and rare feast on board
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-30

harmony of the "great Wing party'' by resisting
the encroachments of slavery is well illustrated by
the case of John Davis, of Massachusetts. few
years since, while in the Senate, he made speech,
in which he showed concusively that slavehold-
ers had monopoized all the offices and powers of
the General Government, and welded them for
their exclusive advantage, while the north had
paid the taxes, and born the burden This trea-
sonabe course was remembered by the southern
wings; and when Mr.. Davis was presented in the
late Baltimore convention as the chosen candidate
of the northern wings for VicePresdent, theSouth
opposed him 10 man, and brought the north to
terms, ofcourse. They spurned the idea of giving
the casting vote of the U. S. Senate to man who
had ever dreamed of resisting slaveholding die
tation. The controlling influence exerted to shut
the mouths of northern senators and representa-
tives on this subject by the interest of their pro-
slavery parties, is also shown by the correspon-
dent of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, during
the tendency of Tyler's treaty of annexation
Said he, The northern wings dare not allow the
subject of annexation to be publicly discussed on
its merits, for if they do, they cannot do otherwise
than TO speak against Slavery; and IL THEY Do
THIS, CLAY'S ELECTION is DEFEATEDn
1t is only when we can be represented in the
congress of the U. States by men free from the
trammes of shareholders, that the interests of the
north will be safe in their hands.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-30
Members TO CONGRESS-,

The freemen of Vermont are about to select
their representatives to Congress for the next two
years, and it is a matter Of no small moment that
we select such men as have the intelligence to
know, and the fearlessness to maintain, our rights
Every one will admit that one Of the first and
greatest duties Of northern congressman for the
next few years will be, to arrest and prevent that
course of things by which the south, through a
gross violation of the Constitutions have destroyed
the rights and plundered the hard earnings of the
north, to protect and build up slavery. This be-
ing the case let us look at the past acts of our
present Congressman upon this subject, and we
may know what to expect of them in the future, if
we comply with their urgent entreaties to be re-
elected. In February last, the following, among
other resolutions, was introduced into Congress
by member from South Carolina
"That all efforts of the abolitionists, or others,
to induce Congress to interfere with the question
ofslavery, or TO take incipient steps IN relation
thereto are calculated to lead to the most alarm
ing and dangerous consequences, have an inevita-
BILE tendency to endanger the happiness of the
people and the permanency of the Unon and
ought not to be countenanced by any friend of oul
political insttutions.''
Upon the passage of the above resolutions, mo-
q member from Vermont uttered an indignant NO
Notwithstanding they were all elected as abolition
lists, and were then under instructions from the
legislature to use eUery means in their poacer tc
procure the immediate abolition of slavery in the
District, Sci! They all covered like whipt span
iels We had not even " Jack Mattocks" to le
the overseers know that he was a,uare that tina
was " savery's halI.'' We say, emphatcally, tina
Il more I" dough-faced" set never went to Con
gress, and cannot be asked for by southern dicta
tors. Witness the remarks of Foot and others
in the letter of Mr.. Whitney, in another column.
And will the freemen of Vermont re-elect thos
men, as the guardians and defenders of thei
rights? We sincerely hope they will not! w
ask them, with confidence, to elect the candidate
which the liberty party presen-men who are en-
inently qualified for the post, thoroughly ant
slavery at heart and free from the trammels of
pro slavery party.
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Christian religion, or the rufie on mans shirt,
with his immortal spirit?
But we see that even on the subject of these 9TH
er interests, the difference between the parties is
narrowed down to a span. All parties are now
contending for tariff for revenue, and dscrimi-
nation for projections the northern wings, as well
as democrats, are opposed to a National Bank;
southern wings and democrats are alike in favor
of annexing Texas, and although northern demo-
Gratis are gagged on the subject, yet they never
would dare to vote for annexation. About what
then, are they ccntendng .a6Out The spoils Of Of
feel!
But we do moi propose to go into full review
OF the subject; that was done to some extent last
week, and we hope has been well considered. We
wish to offer few cautions to our friends.
% Be careful about putting split and aduter
ated tickets into the baot-box, and about believ-
ing large stories of misdemeanorS or Withdrawals
of liberty candidates, just before election; for pro-
slavery men, "not having the fear of God,' OF a
regard for the best good of their fellow men, be-
fore their eyes, have sought out many inventions
to deceive the people and catch votes.
vs. w IeH Tic WHY'S Tell yUu ii you FotC lol
the liberty ticket you vote against them as much
as if you voted against the locos,' tell them wing
slavery is as bad as democratic slavery; and when
the democrats make the same appeal to your old
prejudices, tell them democratic slavery is bad
as wing slavery, and little aoorse, considering
| Texas and all!
N5- When the wings tell you to vote for Mr..
Clay in order to prevent annexation, ask them if
he didn't sacrifice the interests of the north to
slavery in the Missouri and South Carolina con-
tests, and will he now defend the interests of free
dom?
10 When the Democrats tell you to 90 with
them to prevent the establishment of another U.
S. Bank monopoly, ask them to go with you to put
down monopoly of toCelve hundred million dol
lars in the flesh and blood of our fellow men, in
the hands of 100000 slaveholders-a monopoly
which controls and governs the democratic CD
party as much as does mother her sucking child
e5- When people ask you what you expect to
do, tell them that you expect to abolish slavery
and establih equal laws and privileges; and wher
they tell you this cannot be done, tell them in the
language of John Adams,
DC Great is Truth-gleat is Liberty-great il
Humanity-and they must and ,UW prevail!
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Liberty Men of Vermont.

The time is at hand when you will be called up
on to carry your principles to the polls, and rem
der Judgment in the great contest between Liberty
and Slavery; and are you prepared to administer
a faithful rebukc to those who have prostituted the
baIiot-box to the basest purposes of DESPOTISM
to the destruction of human rights--to the estab
lishment of system of slavery in our land, unpar
aIleled in the annals Of the civilized world? The
poet says,
"The vote IS the weapon of the .free;"
and can it be used for a more noble purpose than
to re-assert those glorious truths, which our revo-
utionary fathers sealed with their bood3 Aud
will any one be sweryed from this great purpose
by the hue-and-cry about 'oher interests which
political demagogues are raising on every hand
Interests which are no more, when compared with
mans natural rights then are the walls eff a meet
ing house, conpared with the principles Of the
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Have Your Candidates.

You who believe in carrying your principles to
the polls, and using the blood-bought right of suf-
frage to establish the selfevident truths of mans
natural equality and nalienabe rghts-we be-
seech you to beware of forming any "entanglng
alliances with the old pro-saverY parties, who
have emo aim or design at the establishment OF
these principles Have your regularly nominated
candidates for town representative, in every town
where there as many as too Liberty men; and
where there is but one, let such vote for them
selUes-they can certainly answer their oath bet
ter by 50 doing, than to help elect men to legsla-
tive offices who know no difference, or who will
place men at the head of this government that
know no difference, between n man and hOg-a
human being and thing. Not only set up your
candidates, but slack 10 Them. Certainly prin-
cpes are as well worth adherng to the ever
varying, chameleon. colored, dolar-and-cent prin-
ciples , of the other parties. Defeat, from a
firm adherance to principle, is a thousand times
better than success by compromise Of principle.
The foundation of the Liberty party is as endur-
ing and eternal as the throne of God-and there is
no necessity for resorting to ordinary political
man9vre and stratagem. We do but belittle our
principles, and put off the time of their complete
triumph, by so doing. In nine cases out of ten.
where union is effected with either of the other
parties, with the hope of getting half Liberty
man; or where they nominate man who is not
fully identified with them, in the hope of drawing
one of the other parties into support-they will
find their candidate, if elected, placed in very
awkward position at best, and probably whote
pro-slavery man. If our friends cannot sue
coed in eIcctng men true to our principles, let
them 'bide their time. Patience, perseverance,
and faith, will accomplish the work; and when
the day of triumph does come--as it most assured
" Wilt will be all the more glorious for having
been brought about by uniform and inAexible adj
herence to principles.
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Election Returns.

N5@ We shall be greatly obliged to our friends
poed, if they will, through their Post Master,
send us a full statement of the vote, Immediately
after the polls are closed. Unless this is done we
shall be obliged to depend on other, and not very
reliable sources, and weeks may eIapse before the
truth is asceriained. Especially, in every
Town where member is elected to the Legislature
upon distinct Liberty ground, and pledged toDcarly
out our principles, we wish to be informed of the
fact; as many such will be strenuousy claimed by
the parties with which they may have heretofore
acted.
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V5-A Nashua paper says that stakeholder
went through that place few days since with a
kidnapped slave, taken somewhere above-the
same, undoubtedly, of which we gave an account
last week, taken in Hartford, in this State Read
err, who sustains the infamous and demonstrations
al laws of 1898, by which slaves are kidnapped on
our soil? o. The Wing and Democratic par
ties Who seek to repeal it? % The LidertY
Party.
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CORRESPONDENTS.
Remuneration Of WhiggerX!

We have just received very able letter from
L. H. WHITNEY, Esq. of Nottingham, but our
columns are already so full, that we have room
for only an extract. An able argument on the
question of annexation, we are obliged to defer
Mr.. Whitney, it appears, tho hitherto Wing,
has been obliged to abandon them by the conclu-
sive evidence, furnished by Messrs. Phelps and
Foot, that the Wings "have no aim or design at
the abolition of slavery" Multitudes, we rejoice
say, are opening their eyes to this fact which is
becoming more and more apparent every day.
Whitinghams, vt. Aug. 10, 1914.
DEAR SIR.
The Wings of this vicinity held in this town
mass meeting on the 18th inst. Truly, in their ef-
forts to spread Whiggery Ito use quotation from
the speech of the Hon Mr.. Phelps on the occasion)
their virtues shone like bright pewter button.
After denouncing the measures of the Democratic
party in unnleasured TERMS the liberty party were
honored by his attention. shall not repeat the
vulgar backguard and abusive epLhets which he
applied to the leaders OF the liberty party, but suf
flee it to say that when self respect failed to curb
his tongue, common decency and respect for his
superiors should have done it. Phelps, in alluding
to his associates at Washington, spoke in high
terms of some of the Southern members, and add
ed edo our constituents wish us to carry our abo-
litionism there, and render ourselves obnoxious g.
provoke a challenge and then sneak out Of it?''
Oh no it is better to eringe in servle vassGlage,
and fear and trembe and escape challenge, and
the disgrace of sneaking out. That is the patriot
ic course. That is the way to conduct in order to
represent Vermont-aye, aye-spirt of Ethen AL
len, where art thou! Solomon Foot next arose to
speak Of the merits of the candidates for President.
Polk and Clay were associated together as candid
ates, and 'there was one Birney, and fellow by
the name of 10 Smith, had been spoken of as can-
didates, but 10 was dead, and Biruey nothing to
speak Of" SO says Solomon Foot, and the wings
laurhed heartily, but such laugh-"it wasn't nat
urul," and am inclined to think that in four years
more it will be on only one side of the face, while,
tears roll down the other In all the talking not
a word was said against the annexation of Texas,
which shows that it is considered question Of
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Two Witnesses.

"Ihe majority of the Remember, that a
towns that would be thus vote given for the third
disfranchsed, (by theparty ticket counts the
Liberty, party are whig:Isame against the Demo-
the leaders OF the third cratc ticket as if it were
party ana OF the lOcofocoIglven directly for the
party know this fact federaists. n-Vt. Patri-
ana Wherever they can ot, Aug 90.
operate, they will do it.
But for what? To aid
the third party? No:
the preventing an cleo ....,.s-
ton is no aid to them;-
but it is to aid the loco
focos '-W. Watchnaan
Aug. 29.
We place in juxtapositin the above extracts from
the organs of the two pro-savery parties in this
state, that our readers may see to what miserable
appeals TO long standing partizan prejudice these
Old parties are obliged to resort to keep up their
sinking cause. Their ends can only be ga ined by
creating the belief that the Liberty party is tool
in the hands of one of the old parties. All such
attempts are wicked for both of those editors very
well know that the Liberty party is as distinct in
its character and design from both the Wing and
Democratic parties, as is Liberty from Slavery.
The extract from the Patriot is true to be sure;
but is only one half of the story. When Wing
abolitionist votes the Liberty ticket he votes
against the wings just as much as if he voted for
the locofocos'-here are both Esides, and it is as
long as it is broad. But the charge in the Watch
man, that the leaders of the third party and of the
locofoco party are in league to promote locofoco-
ism, is wholly and unqualifedy false. No such
union exists, nor does the editor believe any such
thing. And what he does with his conscience while
making such statements, we are utterly at loss
to determine.