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Nothiy this city But fev Of them the
lesors hotels 1he attencsnos viii be Large, and every

Nohr q this city But very ev Of them we're At the
escirs hotels lhe stsencsnes viii b large, and every
State In TIE Union -il Do represented.
Thee Nations Cop0ciis should be distinguished rom
the Nstios Conventions, which very different affairs
and constItu'ed Q dlde ent manner. Toe dele-
gates to this rano Council chosen by representa-
from suocro inlts Councils in Convention and
they 90 no! maze non insuons, only tndorss tnsmi
from hs several Con gressioLsl districts more
loosely chosen Their ion is to do the nomiaa ing
The Graz Counc to be- held 20 ssy IL the Sixth that
has convened since orgsnizain Of the Asrs.n party
40 called skech Of their history ~ouio sos perhaps
The frat National Courcil was held 10 tb sty, June
1862 Prsvis s to M. ne, the hnow hohIs' wee
party, and thsJ ! Alstia psrr Shoss rival oiAi.as
for tbs Pre-, idepc, az he oder bad the dis
tpclion. The Mum party eroues st Ia the State u
New York. ard tho AUSTIN out Of Ii A compromise was
at length Effected soiah resulted in hs National Coun
oil Of 1852 ard tae ELECTION G. James w. Barker to the
A. this time the poloy Of the Order different from
what Ia new asn they Influenced the several party
Oouyenticns to pat neiT in nomination, and select
&C thsm Ia scauinseJ from every political organEX
ter.
TIE drst open nomination the party made was in
June ,e4 Daniel Uiluan became the candidate Of
tn party in this State for Governor.
TIE National Council also held in this city
IL 1853 ard TIE third CIncinp IN Juoe 1864 che
ouIth Ma cns Council wss held Ia PhiAdelphta on 9th
June, 1885, when James W Barker was ousted from the
Presidency, and B. Bsrtett, OF Kentucky eested 10
post 1t this Council that the slavery Issue
split the party ard the delegates from Ohio Indians Nj
mott Mare Iowa New Jersey, Connec .out and Waeon
sin split off AID called smother Corvent n, whsh
bled the following November In Cnoinnau, but which
did nothing ofinpor ance.
On February 49, 1885, the National Council assembled
In convention in Phiace pha, for sbe fth time. and the
Nominating Convention en- the ga Of the same month.
WAS In this Council that the famous twelfth section,
with its obligations seoresy and tho like, was aoro-
gated and the District Of Columbia plat 0rm, 1t is
termed, wss adopted which allows the subordinate
Councils and their members to make known thoir bus-
The folovirO ia lst Of ths 6eerates a far A thew
could be asceraned up the time Of press last
night.-
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The above embraces only small portion OF he dele
gates xy having beer appointed by the State Consen
ton. Fourteen only viii be admitted to seats.
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Our Virgin Bay Correspondence.
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF NI0ARAnvK,l
VIRGIN BAY, May 81, 1866.


Arriroi of the Sierra Nevada- Passengers around
Captain Walkers Death-A!fairs at Head
qua,ters-7Ne Weothe-Military Ezsc,sions-
Sufe,tngs of the Costa Ricam A'my-Miners for
Chontaies-Prorisioning the Army-Barricades
of RiyaS-IAe Pestilence Within. F~
1t is with pleasure, amid the hurry and hustle Of
arrivals and departures Of the many passengers who
crowd once more the streets of this little village that
am again enabled to communicate the movements
and passing events which are daily transpiring in
our midst.
At last-and for the first time for some Eve or six
weeks-we have had q steamer, with passengers and
mail matter, from California. The steamship Sierra
Nevada, with some six hundred passengers andsiKty
recruits for our army-havng first put into Realeo,
he assured of her safety in landing passengers and
troops at San Juan del Sur-arrived at last, AMID
the joyful acclamatons of the garrison and American
citizens at that port, and are now in little squads
perambulaing streets, and crowding our hotels.
ia search of refieshment potatve and otherwise for
the inner man.
Having been recently on a short funough to
Granada returned to this town last evening on the
steamer La Virgen, having on board the passengers
for California, who arrived some time back from
New York on the steamer Orizaba. They have suf
fered severely, am sorry to say, from the acclima
tory fever Of the country, caenture as it ia here
called and have also had many deaths from cholera,
caused principally by indscreton in the use Of
tropical fruits and native liquor; but although many
Of them are still weak yet the greater number arc
convaescent and when once breathing the balmy
and nvgorating breezes Of the Pacific, will no doubt
be restored to perfect health.
The troops who recently arrived from New Or.
leans and New York are now armed, and form the
garrison at Granada, under the command Of General
Fry. They are in tolerably good health. and are
daily improving in the drill and discipline 20
requisite in the varied materiel Of q volun-
teer army. It pains me here to record the
death Of one Of their bravest and most proms-
ing officers, Capt. James Walker, brother Of the
Generals, Of fever. After being seized with this
fatal maady, he was at Spee removed to Massaya.
town noted for its healthy climate and the purity
of its air, situated twelve miles from Granada:
but alas too latehe fell beneath the inroads Of the
fierce maady that had marked him for its prey, and
thus Tennessee lost son Of whom she may be
proud, and his comrades brave and true hearted
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Proceedings Of the Democratic Nstiona.
Convention at Cincinnati.
LIST oFDELEGATEs LPPoIsFED.
The Committees on Credentials Organization
and Platform.
The Benton Delegation Belligerent
THE KNOW NOTHING NATIONAL COUNCIL,

hO.. TO-, 4
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The following is list of the delegates far ~ they
could be to the time Of going last
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POLITICAL CALENDAR.

By an act of Congress, approved by President
Washington, March l, 1892, it is provided that
the electors shall meet and give their votes on
the first Wednesday in December in every fourth
year, dec. 3, 1867 and make three certified
lists thereof; one Of which lists is to be trans
mitted by special message to the President of
the Senate at Washington another by mail
and the third TO be deposited with the Judge of
the District Court. If the vote of any State
should not have been received at the seat of
Government on or before The first Wednesday
IN January, Jan. Z, 1851 it is made the duty
OF the Secretary of State to send messenger
for the copy deposited with the District Judge
AT the present election, it is not possible that
the vote of California may DE thus DELAYED.
On the second Wednesday in February, FEB.
ii, 1870 Congress being in session, the votes
are to be counted by the President Of the Sen
ate, In the presence of the Senate and House
OF Representatives, as required by the Consti-
tuition. And on Wednesday, March /, 1857,
the term of the new President begins
Thus the popular election takes place in No
vember-the Electoral Colleges vote in Decem-
ber-ther votes are collected at Washington
In January--are opened and counted in Febru
ary-and the term of the new President begins
in March.
Each State is entitled to as many electors "a
1t has members in both Houses of Congress.
As there are 234 Representatives and 90 Sen
ators, the whole number of electors il accord
ingy 200, apportioned among the States as fol.
lows:
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upon he cheek q crimson glow, less deem. but
more de icste-while the bright eyes were still
fixed uhn the sands. What need of words
although words came, and were heard; what
need OF response-although, after long time.
aresporce came in a little monosyllable. 40 soft
ly utter tthat it was rather felt than heard.
so en- Is Juliet at Newport. sat down to
make q ,rief record of season at that fascina.
ting res rt, more for the purpose, by few un.
connect ID sketches, of giving some knowledge
of its hte, than telling any story. Whether I
have So tceeded in the one, feel that have Ger.
tainly nled in the other; and whoever has
had suf Gent patience to read, will exclaim. at
the end, swell, what of it?"
ca not, in reply, say that these are nv
friends, or that l have been impelled onward
by pers NAL recollections, which make NV few
dry pa es, to me, quick with life. Yet such
Is the nth and it seems strange, when I re-
membe how | began with that busy life about
me, AN now end them in a foreign land. and
am cali ID upon to note the many changes time
has wr,Aght. Of that circle of friends. few re-.
main; or the psle messenger of Death has
called me after the other, while to the ANAL
numbe yet with US, what changes have come
Note, Tor example, O'Halloran, the merriest
at the Wedding Of Juliet; for he had, Irishman-
like, transferred all his love to the peerless
Marga ct, and, stranger still, found favor in the
eyes & our stately friend. But complete
record of subsequent events would require more
space than the sketches themselves. So no
more.
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UNION TO DEFEAT BUCHANAN
LETTER FROM THE HON john NJ. BOLTS.
RIrIINrnN-r, nrfnhn..

LETTER FROM THE HON john NJ. Bolts.
RICHMOND, October %, 1856.
My DEAB SIR: / am quite familiar already
with the condition of parties in Pennsylvania,
and deplore it as profoundly as any man in
the country; and if | could persuade myself
that 1 could exercise the influence you ascribe
TO me, l would allow neither public engage
ements nor private convenience to detain me
for an hour at home. But fear that / could
not and that the attempt itself might be re-.
garded as presumptuous and oflicious.
This much L have no hesitation in saving
that it has been, and is. entirely Incompetent
sihle to me how any rejecting and intelligent
man, who earnestly desires the election of Mr.
Fillmore, can hesitate for a moment in voting
the Union ticket, by which means he makes
sure of votes enough to defeat Mr.. Buchanan.
and send Mr.. Fillmore to the House, where
from first to last, his only chance for an election
has rested. Every vote given for the straight
out Fillmore ticket in Pennsylvania is a vote
thrown away; it does him no more good than
If each separate vote were given for some other
and separate man whereas, if given for the
Union ticket, it must secure to him an electo-
raj vote in proportion to the popular vote given
for him.
impute unworthy motives TO nobody, hut |
'uuss say there Is something Ia TINS movement
on the part of the friends of Mr.. Fillmore that
does not appear on the surface, and is utterly
beyond my capacity to comprehend, assuming,
as do, that it is all done for honest and up
right purposes.
/ cannot for my life see that any event IS 40
we'll calculated to foster aud encourage the
spirit Of diaunion, that has been openly adyo
Gated by the leaders of the Buchanan party,
as to place the Government for the next four
years in the hands of the Nullifers Secession.
lists, and Disunionists of tie South. If the.
spirit is not sterply rebuked by the Indignant
voice af the people next week, by the defeat of
Mr.. Buchanan, (although | shall not relay INV
exertions to save it, yet must say this people
will have manifested such utter disregard for
the continuance Of the Union, as tina. its friends
will everywhere feel disappointed and dismav.
ed, and to a great extent disarmed for future
eXertions,
iconsider the responsibility for the security of
our institutions, and for our future devotion TO
the Union, as resting singly and alone on the
shoulders of the Fillmore men of Pennsylvania.
who have it in their power to roll bscs the tie
mat is setting strongly IL favor of IS destruc.
aon, oy overwhelming the advocates of dissolu.
''oa with d'soomhtnre, defeat, and disgrace.
pray God that they will have the courage.
+hemaniness, and the patriotism, TO rise su peror
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" HoNoIrTr. tina o. 1o-e
GUANo PROSPECTS.

1t will be seen, by paragraph Which wa
copy from the Journal Of CoBlmerce. that the
American Guano Company vas not on;te
crushed out by the report Of Commodore Mer-
vine, that, as he didn't loSk, he couldn't find anv
newly-discovered Gusno Islands in the Paci6c
Ocean. 1t will be remembered that Conoress
at ITS last session, passed law author;z;ng
and directing the President to take possession,
IN behalf OF the United States, of uninhabiteS
Guano Islands discovered by American citizens
IN accordance with the spirit of the act, which
deve-Tes reciprocal obligations upon discoveries
~ao desire the benefit of this legislation, we
learn that the President has required the Amer.
lcan Gnano Company to enter into bonds for
the fuihllment of their part of the stipulations.
This request has been formally complied with.
Consequently, the Company may be considered
to have completed all the steps necessary to
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FOR THE NATIONAL ERA
The angel of my youth forever liveth
An angel fair and bright;
And to my darkened way her radiance giveth
A sweet and holy light.
garland of white lilies, wreathed and stainless.
Binds up her shining hair:
The beauty of life all joy and painless,
Dwells on her forehead fair
Her lustrous eyes, with a new glory beaming,
Sill bend on in love;
She chersheih ia Hsaoea earthly dreamings, -
TO be fulfilled above
On, onen at the tender, star-lit hour,
hear her harp's rich strain
And think she leaves her fair immortal bower
To sooshs awsy my pain
And when my heart grows weary with earhs sadness
The memory of her love
Comes TO me with sense OF grateful gladness,
That she is mine above.
Thus from my hearts sad desolation springeth
A Joy Of sorrow born;
And he who wrestles with his Maker, winneth
A promise of the morn
This life is but shadow which shall vanish,
And the true life will come
When from my side no longer death shall vanish
The angel of my home.
DRLPHINE TAYLOR.
Adrian, Mich, September, 1856.
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GUAN0 REDIVIVUs.
From the Journal OF Commerce

We learn that the American Guano Connar,,
has dispatched All agent to the Pacific. with in
structlons to bring to Panama load of Guano
from either OF the islands which it RECENTLY
brought to the notice of the public i'm connec-
ton with the visit of Commodore MERyTNr in
the United States ship Independence and ar.
engagements have been made with the Panama
Railroad Company to forward the same. al the
rate OF live dollars per ton. In case of success
such as Is anticipated. II is thought this route
will be the channel for future importations. as
vessels can make three voyages year from
the islands to Panama, instead Of one to New.
lork and an inferior class of vessels can be
employed, compared with such as would be
required tor the voyage around Cape Horn.
The agent gees to San Francisco, with means
to procure suitable vessel, and is directed 10
proceed thence to the Sandwich Islands, whore
he Is to take ON board the necessary imple.
ments, (already provided and shin a crew of
twenty hanakas, selected by Dr. JrnD. whose
son IS to accompany the expedition. The Off.
GERS In the company are not in the least dis
couraged by what transpired in connection with
Commodore MERvINE's visit to the puauo isl
ands. The following are extracts of letters from
Dr. u. Z. JUDn, Sandwich Islands, to A. G..
BENSON, New York:
"HoNOLULU, July "a, 1856.
Captain PRENTICE (who went out a lew
months ago in the Cored, as az, Sof the Amer
lcan Gnano Company is here, waiting to hear
from his friends, and determined not to move
until he does hear. He seems rather saupuine-
not too much so and is a very auet. excel
lent man. He and l are of opinion, that in
working the Guano, these Sandwich Islands
ought to be headquarters for supplies and labor
ers. Vessels bringing ont cargoes might return
with treights of guano, from here and from
San francisco, touching here to take in water,
&c, for the people on the island"
From the same:
Honolulu, lug. "a, 1856.
Captain PRENTIcE is still he=e-sovs b;z
friends advise him to wait for further iniorma.
lion. lie will not leave at present, and NAV
procure ship and go after CARGO 70 tbs
Islands. That depends upon the report of the
and the advice be gets from his
friends vt home. He has just been to visit me.
and says he now regrets he did not do as l add
'ised, VIZ: hire schooner when he first came.
lnd go tor a cargo to be shipped from here
de could land With natives in any weather"
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to all party and political jeaousies, and strike
will bring dismay to the hearts of all the traitors
and disunionists in our free and yet happy
country. Here we are ready to do our duty;
it remains to be seen whether our friends in
Pennsylvania will throw an obstacle in the path
of victory. 1 am, very truly, yours,
JOHN NJ. Boris.
- PliladelDhid
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WASHINGTON, d. c..
For the National Era
-, ,1Ess THEE, LORD, FOR ALL THINGS! J"
II Sr. CHRYsosToN.

o,be day. twixt child and woman,
Tender, beautiful, and glad,
Rich in hopes intensely human,
Wildly Joyous, quickly sad
How your dreams Joy and light
Flash upon my spirits night
Apoiheosis Of earth.
Rsautv,s realm. sweet POesy's birth!
Hardness. like a cutting rime,
MINED the flowers in budding time.
Rruised heart and wounded wing,
The bright bird forgot TO sing.
Suulii hues and shadows fall.
lido bless Thee, Lord, for all.
d Young Loves celestial vision.
Dawn of earnest womanhood,
Rathed in purple light elysian
Prom my nrass. the idol stood
A sudden gloom. sore di.iress,
4 dreary utter Loneliness,
A blow-a fall-I knew not well,
Bui Jesus clssped me as fell;
Folding me closer dsy by day
That human Isve had shrnnA away.
Ilour Of agonizing pain,
Offainting hear and burning brain,
let me not Thy woes recall,
do bloes Thee, Lord, for all!
Holy purpose strong upspringing
From sad loves funereal pyre;
Incense odors Heavenward winging,
Like the hallowed altsr-hre,
All not thine my life 10 bless,
With Thanksgiving loveliness;
All the hearts deep warnings stlled,
In the sense OF good fulfilled.
sickness, angel OF Gods will,
Touched me with her fingers chill;
separated from my kind,
Draicned heart and dsrkened mind,
Ger my life a brooding pail,
Art bless Thee, Lord, for ali,
OH. the blessed resurrection,
From the dresry Hades gloom!
Reused to life md sweet affection,
From the sh. dow of the tomb;
Longing never more 10 roam,
sShelIered IN IN nest OF home.
But my housed I'D gods are Town;
In The earth tranger grown,
Whersoe'er m footsteps wait,
Death sits kee, ar AT the gate;
Dainty Death, nat in my stead,
Chose a deare, brighter head.
Tears of love nd anguish fall,
But bless Tn 9, Lord, for all
Day Of IIeave. born resignation,
Sulness of 70 hope and heart!
let me IN my awly station
Bear some h. mble. faithful part,
While beneath Gods sheltering wing,
Folded from al earthly sting,
Look with Iesr-dmmed eye
To the land OF love OH high;
Lies lost treasures there TO see.
Where God keeps them all for me.
a sweet friends, that waiting stand,
Stretching out a longing hand,
Al Hls f. et we soon shall fall,
There to bless Thee, Lord, for all,
NJ. +. b.
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perception OF JueIr IlIv>
mated, they will run the gau,.
squadron OF observation that can he mt nno,,
the coast Oh Airioe They will BRING them 10
US, night or wrong, as fast as we wifi be ready
to receive them. And the capital aud enter.
prise of England and the North, finding profit.
able employment in this business, it is not
improbable that both people will come to look
upon it with indulgence, and, ceasing to war
against the trade, may cease to war against
the institution.
So long, therefore, as Slavery is right, and it
is right to buy and sell slaves, there is no wrong
In the foreign slave trade, and every. considera-
ton of policy is in favor of it; but if it be
wrong-if it have no vitality and no inherit
ance, but is to be tolerated only until it can be
laid aside-then every act of sale or purchase
is wrong. 1t may be difficult to see how even
the introduction of slave can give us the
right to hold him, if he be the member of
race which has a native right to freedom but
admitting this, it can confer no right to sell
him; much less can the inheritance of a slave
by one person confer the right upon another to
buy and hold him. At last, we have to meet
the question face to face. We must determine
that, in the nature of things, there may be un-
equal races that, in the nature of things, such
unequal races may co-exist that it is right to
promote as well as perpetuate such co-exist-
ence and, so determining, we must be as
ready TO take the slave from Africa as from anv
other section of our own country, and be inhu-
enced in our choice by simple consideration
of its policy.
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THE FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE
COMPARED.
From the Charleston standard 10,

From the Charleston Standard, October d
The question is, not what has been the acct
dental features of the trade, but what are its
essential conditions; and these, we believe. are
as conservative of the well-being of the negro
as the most enlightened philanthropist could
require.
Nor, in fact, is even this the precise question.
The slave trade exists, aud as long as there is
a want for slaves in the South and West, it will
continue. At present they are torn from
homes iii Maryland, Virginia, and North and
South Carolina, and the question is, should
they not rather be brought from Africa? From
thence they can be brought with less inhuman-
lty than laboring population can ever be
taken from one country to another and inf
nitely less than characterizes the trade between
the States. They come with the rupture of no
preexlsting ties. They come from the depths
of barbarism to the very brightest light of
civllzation-from restitution to abundance
from social mortality to usefulness and life
ana they come to the support and advancement
Oh our existing institutions. Coming from this
source, they will exclude from market the slaves
OF Maryland and Virginis-they will render it
incumbent upon masters there to find perma.
nent employment for their own slaves, and de-
feating them Of the ability to pass tbrouob
profit IN the domestic slave trade to a profit in
philanthropy, will fix those States in permanent
support OF Southern institutions
Nor, In fact, if there be greater inhumanity
In the foreign than in the domestic slave trade.
do we, upon present modes of reasoning. incur
a share of it by opening our ports to foreign
slaves? We feel relieved from any odium at
tached to the domestic slave trade, because we
do not engage in it ourselves. We only buv
the slave from the trader, as we would buy him
from neighbor, and are not to know the
means through which he comes and, for the
very same reason, we may be equally uncon-
'-"t the horrors of the slave trade.
H- --' IN foreign
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To BE CONTINUED

A KANSAS JUDGE SHor IN THE FooT. The
Kickapoo Pioneer, K. t., of October 8, says:
Son Saturday last, while Judge S. q. Cato
ana friend were examining pistol, it was
accidentally discharged, the ball taking effect
in Judge Cato's foot. The so1nd ia a painful
one, and has disabled the Judge, SO as to pre-
vent his attending to his official duties for some
time"