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WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PREsI-
DENTI

As often as we see this caption to an article,
we conclude that the parties writing and intro
ducing names of gentlemen as candidates, are
either at = loss for something to say, or have
some personal motive inconsistent with, or at
least disregardu OF, The interests of the coun-
try and the party
The time for mooting the question of "Who
is to be Presidest?' is not yet
The Democratic party will never be without
statesmen capable Of properly filing the great
station of President. We need give ourselves
no apprehension about the selection of a suit
able standard bearer, and be is no friend to the
National Democracy, who instead Of battling
with the common enemy, shall turn his aten-
ton 10 exciting diseord in the party about
persons. Let every man in the party take
care to battle, aud to battle stoutly aud I'M.
ceasingly, for the maintenance Of those princi-
pies apd measures upon which depend lhe
sanctity Of the Constitution, the rights of
States and individuals, and the general welfare
of the Union. By recommending to the uni
versal good sense Of the nation these cardinal
and conservative matters, we will secure its
confidence and support, and our standard
bearer, whoever he may be, will be sure to be
borne aloft, his banner streaming to the wind,
and having emblazoned on it those principles
and measures so essential to our safety and
welfare. The people, in their several districts,
are sufficiently intelligent to Judge for them
selves and will instruct their respective repre-
sentatives as to their wishes
We have confidence that convention thus
composed will select for President such a man
as shall command the confidence and support
of the party and of those who may have been
named for the same Office, for none but patriots
will be nominated, who will feel that their loss
may be national gain, and that their services
may be not less important or less grateful to
their country in other capacities.
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EVIL "a Hand ls-Msss 1sssss. - k~a-
sas-The Crisis a. apss .s-Biseovssy 81
more Armsii
The Platte Argus learns the following Facts
from reliable source. A crisis has arrived
in the affairs Of Kansas that calls upon all
good aud true men, who are for sustaining
Law and Order, TO be on the alert. The
traitors and nullifers must be put down. The
Argus says:
When our informant left 0sawkee he travel
led in company with gentleman from Ken.
lucky who designs settling in the Territory In
the direction OF Atchison, when about twenty
miles from Osawkee they stopped at the house
of one Baker who lives comfortably off the
road side about a mile. They found here a
wagon heavily loaded with guns and ammuni,
ton, and, on entering the house they found
about ten men, none Of whom could say coio,
earnestly abusing the Legislature and glorify-
ing Reeder.
During few minutes several more came in,
and produced orders or written strips OF paper
to Baker, who went out and furnished each OF
them with gun and some powder and car
tridges, when they quietly walked away. Our
informant saw not less than ten 90 away with
arms, and as they went out of the house to
mount their horses, they examined the wagon
and saw at least 100 rifles and muskets and
several kegs of powder, and eight or ten boxes
that they supposed to contain prepared car.
tridges. This is the extent OF our informa.
ton, and it proves another link in the chain Of
evidence that the Abolitionisls of the North
are 0naing the traitors We are no alarmists,
and have heard the rumors OF abolition treason
in Kansas with much incredibility, but we are
now convinced that treason stalks abroad, and
that prompt measures only can save the coun-
try and the Union. Now is the time to strike
and we hope to see law and order armed as
becomes freemen, sweeping over the people OF
Kansas.
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DIR. HARE-JUDGE EDMONDs, AND
SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATIONS.

The faults of the good are almost rendered
sacred by their leaning to virtue. The vaga-
ries and errors of genius are almost redeemed
from ridicule By the lustre that inspiration
lends them.
Certain things are commonly understood
amongst men. One is, that the Christian re.
ligion is true another is, that ghosts are fc-
titious characters and still another, that we,
Of flesh aud blood cannot hold communion
with dsembodied spirits. But occasionally
the most gifted men, either made mad by too
much learning, or firing Of their discoveries
among sublunary things and ambitious Of
scaling the Heavens and finding out the secrets
Of the Almighty, embrace and incucate the
widest theories. Sir Walter Scott believed in
wtchcraft; Sir Mathew Hale absolutely con.
demned Amy Duny and Rose Culender to
death for practicing witchcraft; DIR. johnson
believed in the story about the Cocklane ghost
aud Judge Edmonds has quit the bench to
teach the new theory of communication between
the gross creatures Of this earth and the un.
spotted spirits Of Heaven.
But what has most astonished us is, that the
eminent chemist, physician, and professor, DR..
Hare, Of Philadelphia, has lately appeared be-
fore the public as an advocate-more than
that-a Jealous teacher OF table rapping and
spiritual communications. A man like DR..
Hare, who is eminent in science, who, in his
long and distinguished professional career, has
aided in training the minds Of ten thousand
young American doctors, must command con.
sideration, no matter what singular opinions
he may espouse. He has discovered many
new truths in that science to which he has de-
voted himself-a science which, it is said,
makes more unbelievers, doubters, and skeptics,
than any other. His learning is so great and
his powers Of analysis so wonderful that he can
bring to the support Of error more strength
than ordinary minds can bring to the support
Of truth. When such man breaches a theory
or starts an idea, even when against the pre-.
conceived opinions Of mankind, they should
be examined with caution and treated with re-
spect. Yet there are certain things SO well
established in our convictions, so settled and
fixed in the common mind, which is at last the
accurate mind that the greatest genius cannot
unsettle them. Genius may surround error
with lus,re, but it cannot establish it in power.
Reason is powerless in struggle with instinct
and II is by instinct, by intuitive perception
and internal conviction, that we arrive at Ger
tain truths.
IL is melancholy spectacle-that Of three
such eminent men as DIR. Hare, ex-senator
Tallmadge, and Judge Edmonds, devotine
themselves to the calculation and propagation
of a system which, to succeed, must violate al
former experience, shake the fair fabric Of
science, and unsettle the very foundations o.
the Christian religion. That they are sincere
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ANOTHER BATTERY DISCHARGED
AGAINST THE WASHINGTON UNION

Our neighbor, the Washington onion, seems
latterly to have lost the confidence of some of
its best friends and most faithful allies. They
chide it for its Inconsistencies and tergiversa.
tons. Among the journals that have COM
mented with some degree of severity on the
course of the Union, we have been surprised
to see the Detroit Free Press That paper
says in late isrue:
we do not very much admire, and have not
very much patience with, the course of action
of the Washington Union in some respects.
BY single intempestire movement--by sin
gle ill-timed and indiscreet editorial-it has,
more than once during the present Administra-
ton, perpetrated greater damage to the Demo
cratic party in this or that locality, than it
could possibly remedy by weeks and months OF
patient and welldirected labor"
After citing several instances of the blunder.
ings, intermeddlings, and inconsistencies of our
neighbor, the Free Press says:
We wish to make suggestion to the
Washington Union, and to the Administration
if needed be and we do it in all kindness Ii is
this: Let the Washington Union hereafter in
relation to the local affairs of the Democratic
party in the different States, adhere more
strictly than it has hitherto done to the funda.
mental Democratic doctrine Of non interven.
ton. If it shall do so, and if il shall represent
the Administration in SO doing, good will come
oft"
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The Daniel Webster arrived at New Orleans
on the oath instant from Punta Arenas, with
California dates of the 5th inst.
About 200 persons had left San Francisco to
join Walkers army in Nicaragua.
The latest news from the mines was encour,
aging.
The Webster left Punta Arenas on the 10Th
Walker was still at Granada, and has quiet
possession Of the Transit Company's route.
On the 18th Colonel Wheeler, the United
States Minister, officially recognized the new
government. Walker was receiving accessions
to his army.
Carroll had been found guilty of treason
and shot. Espinosa had vanished.
Colonel Kinney was still at Greytown, and
fifty of his men had deserted and joined Walk
er's party
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From the Kansas Herald.
AbOlftfOnfsts at Work.

In another column, we publish an account
of the attack made on p. Laughlin, by set OF
higher-law unprinciple Abolitionists. 1t will
be remembered, Laughin recently made an
expose of the Secret Military organization Of
the Freesoilers and Abolitionists of the Terri.
tory, an account of which is published in this
paper. From this it will be seen that the Free
State party are organized into military com.
panies, bound together by oaths, and obliga.
tons, to assist each other in preventing the
execution of the laws upon one of their crew.
for any violation of them. Laughlin was
assaulted by one of this party, and an attempt
made to make him retract. The refusal of
Laughlin, caused the difficulty referred to in
which he was stabbed and his assailant killed.
This of itself is pretty good evidence of Laugh
Inns disclosures of the conspirators against the
laws of the country being true. The work has
commenced, and the Aboltionists, and all
higherlaw men of whatever party or name.
will be taught lesson, that they cannot violate
the laws with impunity. The best interests of
the country require that the supremacy Of the
laws must be maintained. Without il we are
thrown back into state of anarchy and con.
fusion, without any reign TO bride the worst
passion of human nature. 1t is deplorable to
contemplate such state Of affairs being
brought about in our Territory. But we rely
upon the virtue of the people and the strong
arm of the law, to maintain in violate the rights
and Liberties of the people. Our Executive,
Governor Shannon, is a man who will do his
duty, and see that the laws are faithfully exc
cuted. We hope for the peace and quiet of
our country, that we shall hear of no more
higher.law but let come what will, the
laws must be INDICATED, and the legal author
tiles sustained.
The friends of law and Order meet here on
Wednesday next We hope to see full turn
out, grand rally of the law-abiding citizens of
the Territory. If wise aud prudent counsels
prevail in that Convention, much may be done
towards crushing in the bud, the lawless spirit
that prevails in certain portions of the Terri
tory. We must act frmlyand unitedly, and
the mad fanatical spirit Of Abolitionism, will
receive its quietus in the Territory.
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From the Washington Union Of Sunday.
The British So uadron.

We perceive, in one after another of the pub.
lie Journals conflicting speculations concern
ing the object Of the British Government in
despatching an additional naval force to the
West Indies.
On the arrival Of the Pacific we deemed it
proper, for the purpose Of tranquilizing the
public mind, to make known ia brief the ma.
ture of the explanations ON the subject which
came to our Government by that vessel, stat
ing explicitly that apprehension OF Russian
privateers said to be fitting out in New York,
and Of the Maury by. name, was the induce
ment Of the proposed naval expedition.
We have now made further inquiry on the
subject atahe Department of State, and are an-
thorized to publish the following crcumstan-
tial particulars
London journals Of the 23d oath, and 25th of
October, Mr.. Buchanan requested an interview
with Lord Clarendon for the purpose Of asking
explanations on the subject They held two
interviews-one on the 29th of October, and
the other on the lst Of November. AT these
interviews Lord Clarendon declared that the
proposed naval expedition originated in no plr-
pose unfriendly to the United States that its
object was a defensive one, to protect British
commerce against Russian privateers, three or
four of which were said to be fitting out in
New York, and one of them nearly ready for
sea; that this particular one was large and
fast vessel, specially intended to intercept Bril-
fish ships from Australia conveying gold to
England, with purpose in the first instance to
capture one of the Cunard steamers; aud, in
justification of the general statement, he refer
red expressly to the case Of the barque Maury,
as represented in atidavits communicated BY
Mr.. Barclay, the British consul at New York,
to Mr.. Champion, and by the latter transmitted
to his Government, and at the same time laid
before the Government of the United States.
We have already stated that the investiga-
ton instigated by Mr.. Barclay resulted in show
ing clearly that there was no truth in his ale
cation against the barque Maury.
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from Salisbury IN II. J, after having declined
q comfortable Office. 10 order to puruse a
profession
"Zeke, don't believe but what Providence
will do well Tor us yet We shall live, and live
comfortably. have this week come within
an ace Of being appointed clerk of the Court
OF Common Pleas, for Hillsborough county.
Well, you win say, you are no better off than il
You had not come within an ace. Perhaps
am-say nothing, but think good deal, and
do not distrast the gods.r
In conclusion TO this letter to his brother,
of June 10th, be relieves bis mind with the
following verse: -
Fol di dol, dol di dol, iii doll
III never make money my idol,
With my friends aud my pitcher,
I'm twenty imes richer,
Than ii made money my idol.
Fol di dol, dol di dol, di dol"
Mr.. Webster in after life in the midst of his
family, and with his children and grandchildren
around, was not little given to ofhand
rhyming, and would greatly divert them by his
extempore English heroics, in which the
sonorous march Of the rhyme would be hu-
moronsly disproportioned to the trifling nature
of his theme.
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An Unterrihed Democrat I'm Old Mas
sachusetts.

The Boston Lie-Brator contains commu
nication from an Abolition "colporteur,' as he
calls himself, who speaks Of having been in
general pretty well received, but not always
One Of the exceptional cases was the follow
ing, as given in his own words:
The colporteur called at respectable look.
ing farmhouse in Seeing an open
door, and hearing voices in that direction, he
stepped 10 the door and called the attention of
the family to the business on hand. The Demo
crat that confronted him was one Of the inter.
rifed-about six feet two in stockings-lean
and muscular, sandy hair, aud reddish whiskery
bristles extending quite round the face.
Colportenr-I am distributing some anti.
slavery tracts, and shall be glad TO give you
one or two, if you win accept them.
Democrat-W mol guess ye'd
better carry 'um long. Putty bizuess, carrying
about them things. (Growing warm.) Darn
i'll any on ye would grind up n niger for the
sake Of the lie.
The colporteur passed along, rejecting upon
the power Of slavery.
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Hon. John =. Wells.

The Boston Post speaks as follows of Hon.
John S. Wells, the Democratic nominee for
Governor in New Hampshire:
"Mr. Wells, the candidate for governor, is an
exceedingly effective public speaker, both in
manner and matter; and, if he shall thoroughly
canvass the State between this time and March,
we cannot doubt that with his plain, yet digni-
fed, presence. and his unanswerable argu.
ments, he will be able TO restore to the demo.
cracy the ascendency which they have tempo
rarily lost through the fusion Of Wings, Know
nothings, Abolitionists, and smaller factions,
which have no force in New Hampshire except
by ap0rpVationT
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MARYLAND DELEGATION TO CON-
GREsS.

Governor Lyon has issued his proclamation
declaring Jas. A. Stewart, James B. Ricaud
J. Morrison Harris, Henry Winter Davis
Henry W. Hoffman, and Thomas +. Bowie
esqs., to have been duly elected in their respec
tive districts, to represent the State Of Mary
land in the Congress Of the United States
They will, therefore, appear at the National
Capitol, on the first Monday Of December
endorsed by "The Great Seal Of Maryland"
Baltimore Sun.
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Art and Science.

OF the patents for inventions issued by the
United States Government down to the begin
ming Of the present year, FL we're for air en-
gines, LAB for steam boilers, az for modes oil
manufacturing India rubber goods, and 60 for
sewing machines. Washing machines modest
ly claim 300 patents; water wheels 327 grain
and grass harvesters Ill plougbs 372; straw
cutters 1853; meat machines l40; winnowinp
machines 1853; threshing machines 378. For
stoves, 6e2 patents have been issued, excu-
siye Of 47s designs.
Mr.. w. A. Sweet has invented machine by
which balls for the MIME rifle are swedged
from solid bars Of lead These balls are of a
conical shape, with a cavity in the base. Hith.
erto they have been cut in inoudslike common
bullets, by which process IL is impossible to
make balls Of equal weight or free from i'm
projections. BY this machine bullets of any
size are made, and they are free from all air
blubbers and other imperfections, and are Of
exact weight. The machine is comprised
within the space Of foot square, and weighs
about IS pounds. The bars Of lead, rolled to
proper thickness, are fed into a hopper and
run under die, which "swedges' out the
bullet, and at the same instant the cavity is
pressed into the base the bullet is discharged
from the die, which again receives the bar and
repeats the process.
Copper ore, in the condition in which it is
taken from the mines, proves to be an exceed.
ingly dangerous cargo. A ship recently ar
rived at Liverpool from Savannah, Ga, with a
quantity Of ore in cases which had evaporated
SO much heat during the passage that some Of
the cases we're found to be completely charred,
the lids being mass Of charcoal. The cotton,
slowed above the ore, was also partially burnt,
and when landed was so much heated as to
make it painful for man to thurst his hands
into the bales. Preparatory to shipment the
ore should be roasted, as by that means the
sulphur is destroyed.
Chambers Journal says that the calculating
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The returns from the whole State for Gov.
ernor show majority of 1887 for Wicklife
Democrat. The State Senate is composed Of
Is Democrats, IL Knownothings and ! Wing.
Among the Democrats, however, is Mr.. Wick.
life, the Governor elect who will, Of course,
resign his seat in the Senate.
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ILLNESS OF RACHEL.

A despatch dated Philadelphia, November %,
states that Rachel, the actress, is very i'll. Her
physicians advise her going to Havana for her
health, and there are no prospects Of her con.
tinuing her performances at present
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RE-ELEcrIoN or GENERAL ausK.

A telegraphic despatch, dated New Orleans,
October "a, communicates the intelligence that
General Rusk has been unanimously reelected,
by the Texas Legislature, to the United States
Senate
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what the Election Proves.

AS one Of the sweet uses Of adversely we
are glad to perceive its effect on some OF our
contemporaries in creating within them a
spirit OF determination which was not mani
tested before the recent election. A few days
since the Softs we're Democrats, and the
Hards-why they were-Hards-and nothing
else. But now the PROSTATE Soft with plu-
rality of ifty-six thousand pressing him to the
ground turns to his Hard fellow-sufferer groan-
ing beneath the weight Of Lightweight thou
sand, and addresses him after this manner
"Mr. Hard, you are brother Democrat, and
,ce have won glorious victory" The incor-
rigible Hard replies that he doesn't seem to
see it," but the Soft declares, with every
bone in bis body aching from his recent drub.
bing that the result is most gratifying, and
that he OF all others has the most reason TO be
thankful for the Democratic triumph.
One would suppose from the above extract
that some party or other had met with defeat,
that il had been overtaken by adversely, but the
gentle heart Of the PROSTATE, suffering Black
Republican, cannot long indulge in "sweets Of
adversely" and thus cures all the ills, the aches
and bruises which its imagination pictured.
In sober truth, no party triumphed in the
recent contest" II no party triumphed-then
no party was vanquished-and again:
" In sober truth, no party triumphed in the
recent contest. Not the Know-nothings, for
their opponents polled one hundred and thirty
eight thousand votes more than they not the
Republicans, for their vote was exceeded by
one hundred and hfty-eight thousand; not the
Softs, for they we're in minority Of two hun.
dred and fifty thousand; while the Hards we're
left in the vocatve by three hundred and four.
teen thousand votes. The plurality rule gives
the Know.nothings Che oflices-but we repeat
that the distinctive principle or platform OF no
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THE MEXICAN DRAFTS,

We perceive by a despatch dated Washing.
ton, November "a, that Attorney General Cush.
ing decides that the Mexican 100000 drafts
drawn by Santa Anna are binding on Mexico,
and should be paid to the American holders.
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TERRE HAUTE. (IA.) Nov. !
TO the Editors ofme Chicago Times:

10 the Editors OF the Chicago Times:
] have noticed various paragraphs in rela
ton to the illness of Hon. S. A. Douglas, who
is under my professional care, which may have
some tendency to mislead the public mind as to
his real condition.
Knowing the general anxiety throughout the
country in regard to him, and that the time is
near at hand when it may be expected that he
will resume his duties in the Senate, have
thought It due to his friends and the public to
state that for the last three weeks he has been
seriously i'll, and that during that time he has
not been able to leave his bed.
AT one period there was a slight amendment
of his symptoms, which. induced the hope of a
speedy recovery, but it proved to be deusive,
and there is not now any change which would
warrant me in saying when it will be prudent
or safe for him to leave his room.
/ trust this statement will likewise afford the
proper apology to the Judges numerous CORE
spondents, as he has not been, nor is he now,
in condition either TO write or dictate.
Very truly, yours, E. READ.