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suitthe parties.
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From Kansas.
ST.. LOUIS, June 4.

4
A letter in the Democrat, dated Topeka
May %, says, forty-five U. S. dragons ar
stationed at that place, and one hundred ant
sixty at Lawrence.
1t is reported that a party of Buford'
men, encamped near Osawatomie. had com
mitted many depredations upon the proper
| ty of the squatters, who becoming en-
ragged, made an attack upon their camp
killing five and driving the remainder into
the Missouri.
Pro-slavery men, who have been identified
with the troubles in Kansas, have been wait.
ed upon by committee of Indians, notifying
them to pack up and move for Missouri. in.
stanter. Many families had complied wiz
the demand. The greatest excitement pf~-
walls in that portion of Kansas.
Gov. Shannon has sent a detachment OF
Dragons there to preserve order T.f
The Investigating Committee adjourned
from Leavenworth to Westport on the 3lst
ult. They will leave for Washington about
the 10th inst.
A letter in the Republican, dated Baptiste
Paoia, May Goth, says thirteen persons, i'm
plicated in the murder Of pro-slavery men at
Hickory Creek, have been arrested. Report
says, the remainder of the murderers are
fortified in cave on the banks of the Des
Ciques, and are receiving reinforcementsfr from
Lawrence and elsewhere. The leader of the
band is named Brown, and two of his sons
are under arrest, one of whom feigns insanity.
One hundred Kansas militia and fifteen U.
S. dragons assembled to catch the murder
erS.
Gov. Price has ordered an election to be
held on the first Monday in August, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death Of John
H. Miller.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Arrival Of the Niagara.

HALIFAX, June D.
The steamer Niagara arrived at this port
at five o'clock last evening, but it was i'm
possible to telegraph the news before this
morning. The Cunard steamship Persia,
from New York on the 14th, arrived at Liver
pool bar at midnight of the 23d, but did not
60 up the river till 1-2 on Saturday morn
ing. The passage to the bar was made in
nine days and l-2 hours.
But little or no news of Importance had
transpired. The excitement on the Italian
question still continues. Nothing definite
had transpired touching the Danish Sound
Dues.
The reports of the Russian successes in
the new campaign against the Cirassans
are now confirmed. The Car has gone to
Warsaw.
The last English steamer bound to Cron-
stadt, called the Schamyl, has been lost, with
all her cargo, off the Island of Anell in the
Gulf of Finland.
The evacuation of the Crimea by the
French proceeds rapidly. ~.ov
Scurvy had appeared in the English rcgi-
ments.
Peace had been proclaimed at Tifiis.
The capture of the Circassian village and
5000 cattle by the Russians is confirmed.
LIVERPOOL, May "a
The Bank of England on the 23d reduced
it's rates of discount on bills of more than
fifty days from seven to six per cent. Short
bills remain at six per cent.
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Core espondence between Senator Wilson and MIR.
hs Brooks.
MR.. BROOKS TO SENATOR WILSON.

MR.. BROOKS TO SENATOR WILSON.
FL1Nr's HorEL,i Tuesday, May 26, 1856.
SIR I'm the Senate to-day, when refer
ring to the collision with Mr.. Sumner, you
spoke of my conduct as "cowardly," thus
making yourself an arbitor of true courage.
! In debate in the Senate heretofore, you de-
clared yourself responsible for what you
might saw there and elsewhere.
- I, therefore, hold myself at liberty, by this
note, to request that you will inform me,
without delay, ,sheye and shen, outside of this
District, further note will find you.
mai Respectfully, &C. p. s. Books.
: The Hon. HENRY WILSON. s
SENATOR WILSON TO MR.. BROOKS.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 29-10I-2 o'clk.
Hon. P. S. BRooKs.-Sir: Your note OF
the 9th inst. was placed in my hands by
your friend Gen. Lane, at 1920 this morn
ing. ai, - a-,t -
III I characterized on the floor Of the Senate
the assault upon my colleague as "brutal,
murderous and cowardly." thought SO
then-I. think so now. I have no qualifca-
tions to make in regard to those words.
have never entertained or expressed In
the Senate or elwhere the idea of personal re-
spohsibility in the sense of the duelist. Ihave
always regarded duellng as the lingering relic
of a barbarous civilization, which the law oi
the country has branded as acrime. While
therefore, 1 religiously believe in the right
of self defense, in its broadest sense, the law
of my country and the matured convictions
of my whole life, alike forbid me to meei
you for the purposes indicated in your letter
Your obedient servant, HENRY WILSON.
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Miss Dix In Turkey.

A Constantinople correspondent of tn,
New York Tribune, dating April 81, make.
the following reference to Miss Dix, the
female Howard:
Miss Dix, of New York, the philanthropist
is here, visiting the prisons, insane asylums
and hospitals. She is agreeably surprised
in her examinations, and says that t6Ose O
Constantinople are far superior to many ir
the United States, and infinitely so to those
Of Italy, especially in Naples, where the
greatest despotism, destitution and barbarity
prevail. Miss Dix has visited the Timar
Khaneh Asylum for the insane the Crimi-
nals' and Debtons4P risons Of the Police, the
celebrated Bagnio of the Arsenal, where she
saw the famous Yamri EKatiDi of Smyrna,
shut up there for fifteen years, likewise the
Greek Convent of Aver Vorghi, on the island
of Srinkipos, near this place, in which fools
of the Greek faith are Imprisoned in a very
cruel manner, and the Greek and Armenian
Hospitals of the sSeven towers" She is
writing book and will give an account of
these, in which she says she will show the
vast superiority of the Turkish over the
Christian humanity. The Sultan has ordered
a commission to improve, and, if requisite,
reform the prisons Of his capital.
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For the Minnesotian
Minnesota Agricultural Society.


A meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Territorial Agricultural Soc ETY. was
held at the Office of Hon. II. II. Sibley, in
Mendoza, On Monday, the Sd June, pur-
suant to notice.
On motion of G. Hoag, the Hon. II. H.
Sibley was unanimously elected Chairman
of the committee, and c. IIoag was chosen
Secretary.
On motion, the members of the commit
tee were requested to receive proposals from
the citizens of the different cities and towns
in relation to the holding the Fair at their
respective places.
! DR.. A. E. Ames, Colonel j. H. Stephens
and G. Hogg were appointed committee to
prepare premium list. and present it at
the next meeting. Z
Resolved, That the adjourned meeting Of
4 the committee be held at Barber's Hall, in
Minneapolis, on Monday, the 10th inst, at
10 o'clock, An
Resolved, That all persons interested in
Agricultural pursuits be respectfully invited
to be present. = s7ti''l'I 20 81 :
The meeting then adjourned.
H. H. SIBLEY, Chairman.
| CHAs. HOAG. Secretary
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TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1856.
The Cincinnati Nominations.

Mr.. Buchanan is nominated for Presiden
by the Southern sectional segment of th'
old Democratic party which was in conclavt
at Cincinnati last week and as we write
his friends are no doubt in high glee at the
result in all parts of the Union.
On the surface, there is more to COM
mend in this action of the self-denominated
"Nseonal Democratic Party"-that is in
their own Councils, than any similar act they
have perPetrated since they nominated Gen.
Cass in '4S. In the light we name, they
have nominated man who is much less OBJ
jectionable to the Country, at first sight,
than would have been Douglas or Pierce, or
even some new man, from either the North
ern or Southern States, that could have been
named. But we opine that the delusion,
under the present just state of excitement
and enquiry which pervades the country,
will not veil the eyes of the people till so late
day as November next Mr.. Buchanan
has already, since his return from England
endorsed the Nebraska Iniquity and aside
from this, he is placed, by the Convention
which nominated him, upon an ultraSouthern
Platform-a platform dictated by the dele
CATION from the State of Georgia.
MIR. Buchanen is nominated by the perva-
sion of slight shade of the feeling and sem
timent in his party that was rampant for
Henry Clay in the old Whig party of IA,
but with the material difference that most of
Mr.. Clay's leading political friends through
out the Union were also his personal friends.
Mr.. Buchanan, during his VIII lie political ca
reer, has never been accused, to our knowl-
edge, of having personal friend who could
rely upon him in an emergency where self
had to be sacrificed.
In the entire career of the Pennsylvania
statesman, either as Representative, Senator
or Cabinet Minister, he has been the uncom-
promising enemy of the Great West and
our readers will find, when the record is
shown up; that Buchanan stands equally as
unfair in this respect as does any of the whole
tribe of Northern Doughfaces, and the
Southern masters who lash them into daily
servitude at Washington. AS much as We
despise-the professed national
politics of Douglas, we must say, for West
ern interests, and the whole range of West
ern policy: that, disconnected with the ques-
ton Of slavery, Douglas stands to-day along
side of Buchanan as does " Hyperion to a
Satyr."
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, is the
nominee for Vice President. Mr.. B. was a
Douglas man, and this bait is thrown out, we
suppose, as kind Of " compromise" to the
friends of the little giant " and the West.
To what extent the bait will be seized upon,
or how generally gudgeons will grab at it,
remains to be seen.
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Boston, June 8.

Senator Wilson denies unequivocally the
statement that Col. Lane called on him from
Mr. Brooks with an assurance that he
Brooks intended to make no assault. Mr..
Wilson says he has sought no controversy
and shall seek none, but he will go where
duty calls him, uninfuenced by threats OF
any kind. ri
The citizens of Cambridge held an indig-
nation meeting which was largely attended.
The Hon. J. Parker presided, assisted by
Hon. P. Parsons, Jared Sparks, H. w
Longfellow and others.
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From cincinpati.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
FIFTH DAY.

| DAY.
I CINCINNATI, June 6.
The President called the Convention to
order.
The Hall was not full when the ballotina
commenced.
Maine was called-her vote was cast seven
for Buchanan, one for Pierce.
/ r. When Vermont was called-Mr. :Hibbard
of New Hampshire rose and said, that the
delegation had unanimously resolved to vote
for Douglas. [Applause.l
North Carolina led off the same track for
the South, followed by South Carolina, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Florida and Texas.
Tennessee cast her IL votes for Buchanan,
Pierce ran down to three votes.
The New York Softs also went over to
Douglas on the 10th ballot. Maine concen-
trated her eight votes on Buchanan Ohio
also gave him two more.
Kentucky cast all her votes for Douglas,
having previously given him but 7.
Preston of Kentucky said he had stood
firmly by Douglas to the present, but felt
confident that the sense of the Convention
demanded the nomination of Mr.. Buchanan.
[Cries for Illinois to speakl
Richardson, Of ILL.,, without advising any
gentleman what it was his duty to his con-
tituents, had a duty to perform to the con-
stituents and candidates he represented.
(Cries of don't withdraw him.}
He felt he could not contribute to the sue
cess of the party, nor carry out the views of
Mr.. Douglas, by continuing him longer in the
contest. Qmmense applause.) ..
He had received letter from Douglas,
which he desired to have read, and after that
would withdraw his name.
Read telegraphic dispatch from Douglas,
stating that from telegraphic accounts he felt
confident that longer continuance of his
name before the Convention would tend to
disturb the harmony OF the Convention, and
he desired to withdraw, simply stating that
he believed the democracy would do well to
unite their vote on one candidate or other,
now before the Convention, Pierce or Bu-
chanan. (Immense cheering.)
Gov. Seymour rose and endeavored to ad-
dress the Convention, but was for sometime
prevented by uproar and confusion. After
while he was heard. Said democracy had,
up to this time, been united on one point in
favor of adhering to one or other of the
nominees before the Convention. They had
adhered to Pierce as long as he had vote
in the Convention, and had then voted for
Douglas.
Mr.. Ludlow said the Softs of New York
had come into the Convention under very
disadvantageous circumstances, but had no
desire to promote the continuance of factions
in his state, and cast 18vetes for Buchanan.
State after state continued to give in their
votes for Buchanan, until his nominatian was
confirmed by nearly q unanimous vote of the
Convention.
There is somc confusion in the above re-
port. But the substance of it is, that on the
18th ballot, James Buchanan, of Pennsylva-
MIA, was declared candidate for the Presi-
dency, he receiving 296 votes.l
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MADISON. Wis. june 4

The Republican State Convention is now
in session in this city. The whole State is
represented, and the greatest enthusiasm
prevails. The desire to aid the Freemen of
Kansas is intense, and an organization SINH
lar to that of Illinois will be entered into,
looking to cooperation with the other Free
States. 1t is expected, that General Lane
will speak tonight. Union and harmony in
this body are perfect. We shall do a great
work, and organize for glorious victory.
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BUFFALO, June 3.

An indignation meeting to take into con-
sideration the recent assault upon Senator
Sumner and the present state of affairs, was
held at the Eagle street theatre last evening.
Vast numbers were in attendance. Hon. F.
P. Stevens presided. Speeches were made
by Hon. James o. Putnam, Revs. D. Tomp-
kins and Peacock, Mr.. Whelman, and Ser
geant-at-Arms of Kansas Investigating Com
mittce, and resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing the Sumner assault, and calling
for instant acti in the Kansas matter
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SYRAcUsE. Tbursdav. Nav %. 1856,

The Convention of Radical Abolitionists
after an animated discussion of the policy to
be pursued by them in the present political
crisis, nominated Gerrit Smith of New-York
for President, and Samuel Mcfarland for
Vice President, and then adjourned sine die.
A call, very numerously signed, has been
issued for Mass County Convention in this
city on Saturday afternoon to consider the
recent assault on Mr. Sumner, and the state
of affairs in Kansas.
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THE DIFFERENcE.-Mr. Herbert glides
gently through the mazes of Washington
law, and whenever an opening sufficiently
large presents itself will slip out entirely.
Lord Ferrers, an English Earl, for shooting
his servant in similar fit of passion, was
hanged at Tyburn like any other felon. But
then Lord FerrerS was not an adininistra-
ton Democrat nor stakeholder. He was
only an English peer.-Albany Journal.
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The REMEDY.-The following is the sixth
resolution of the Republican State Conven-
ton of Ohio. 1t points to the effectual
blow which the people must strike for the
cause of civil liberty:
Resoloed, That we can only expect to stay
the hand Of the ruffian and extingush the
torch of the incendiary in the border land,
by making radical change in the admins
tration of the general government, and to
this great end we will direct our whole eper-
gies in the ensuing contest.
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STRANGERS IN TowN.-Among the crowd
of strangers that arrived by the Northern
Belle, on Friday evening, were John Wilk-
son, Esq, of Syracuse, President of the
Michigan Southern Railroad, and several
other prominent Railroad men from Western
and Central New York. They are sojourn-
ing at the Winslow House.
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BRIDGE QUESTION DEcIDED.-The citi-
zens Of st. Paul having failed to come for
ward and subscribe the requisite amount of
stock to build high bridge across the Mis-
sissippi at foot of Wabasha street, the
Bridge Company are compelled, by the pub
lie exigencies of the case, and by the re-
quirements Of their charter, to commence
the erection of low bridge with turn-table
draw in it forthwith. Their plan is entirely
free from any legal or constitutional objec-
tons; but if one portion of the city, or the
navigation of the river above the bridge,
should temporarily OF materially suffer by
it's erection, we now can certainly find no
place to attach the blame save upon those
who are most interested in having high
bridge. s. sass s
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NEW HAVEN, June 4.

The House of Representatives to-day elect
ed James Dixon, American Republican,
United States Senator. The vote stood
Dixon lis, Toucey lO1, scattering T.
Charles McCosley was elected Judge of the
Supreme Court.
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Death Of the Hon. John M. Niles.
HARTFORD, May 81

The Hon. John NJ. Niles, formerly Sena-
tor in G. ngress from this state, and Post
master General under President Van Buren,,
died in this city this afternoon, in the Goth
year of his age.
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BosToN, June 4.

Faneuil Hall was densely crowded last
night with sympathizers with the Free State
men in Kansas, Mayor Rice in the chair
Various prominent men addressed the meet
ing, andappropriate resolutions were adopted.
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! This morning efigies of Franklin Pierce
and Preston S. Brooks were found hanging
in front of the State House, eighty feet from
the ground, on the Pierce and King liberty
pole Of 1852. Also an efigy Of Col, George,
in another part of the city, bearing the words
"the glorious and godlike administration, /"
used by him. ~-ss.l t4 4
The Legislature in joint Convention, elect
ed Ralph Metcalf Governor by us to 40.
Theodore G. Melvin was elected President Of
the Senate with two Americans. J.H. Raw
Inns, Republican, was elected Speaker Of the
House by I60 against $50.
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New York, June 4,

The Canada sailed at noon with 33 passen-
gers and $4,000 in specie. Ex-Mnister
Champion and three dismissed Consuls were
among the passengers.
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MONTPELIER, VT, June 4.

The Republican Convention yesterday ap-
pointed delegates to the National Convention
at Philadelphia, and passed resolutions con-
demnatory of the outrages in Kansas.
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EDITORIAL VIsIr.-We had the pleasure,
on Saturday, Of a call from Mr.. Peck, one
of the editors of that popular Republican
Journal, the Chicago Tribune. Mr. P. is
sanguine that Illinois has at last set her face
in the right political direction, and that the
Slave Power is consequently doomed to an
ignominious defeat in that state next No.
vember.
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The PANAMA RAILROAD TRAGEDY.3A
full list of the persons killed and wounded
by the late accident on the Panama Railroad
shows that forty-six persons were killed,
and over sixty wounded. The road has been
repaired.
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WAsH1scrok, june S.

About one dozen Senators assembled and
adjourned till Monday. ~
In the House thirty members convened
and adjourned until Friday.
A dispatch from Undertook says ex Pre-
sident Van Buren, was thrown from his horse
yesterday and considerably injured about the
head. Not considered dangerous. il
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Bowed OUT.-The ease and grace with
which the Southern rulers inuited (?) both
Pierce and Douglas out of the Cincinnati
Convention really contrasts somewhat forci-
bly, with the rude and rufianly manner they
adopted in the case of Summer. The Presi-
dent and his Doughface coadjutor, Douglas,
had each fairly won the stake of chance
for nomination but in doing this they had
rendered themselves infamous among the
people of the North. The South conse-
quently demanded the sacrifice Of a new
Northern victim and he whose imbecility
so ANONYMOUSLY betrayed the West on the
Oregon question in 1845, while Secretary Of
State under Polk, was chosen for the immo-
lation to the Moloch of Slavery in 1856
Douglas, however, as will. be seen by the
telegraphic report, seeing that he was about
to be kicked out, retired hastily under cover
of his friend Richardson.
90 DISTINGUISHED VIsIToRs.-Hon. Joshua
A. Spencer, of Utica, N. Y, and Gen Jas.
r. Lawrence, of Syracuse, are now sojourn-
ing for a few days in St. Paul. Both those
gentlemen are widely known as -distin-
guished citizens of the Empire State-men
who in times past have taken conspicuous
parts in guiding the destinies of the greatest
commonwealth of the Union. That Mime
sofa should be honored by the attention Of
men of this fame and reputation is an ear
nest that she is not regarded as being so far
out of the world as some of her more slug
gish citizens, even, might imagine. As is the
case with all other practical and intelligent
strangers, these gentlemen are astonished
at the progress We have made during the
last six years.
RICE EucHRED."-Our delegate, Hon
Il. M. Rice, was at Cincinnati during the
Convention, working for Douglas like steam
engine. He was playing for a big stake, po-
litically and pecuniarily, but he lost both.
{" Old Buck y will doubtless remember him.
" What have Territorial Delegates to do with
National politics" Mr.. Rice 2
KNow-NoTHINc RIors.-The election fol
municipal officers in Washington City has
resulted in favor Of the Know-N Nothings. A
telegraphic despatch to the New York paper.
states that one or two men were dangerous
y wounded at the polls of one of the wards
+ t4 It is said that one hundred clergy,
men have, within short period, seeded
from the ministry and communion Of the
English church, to join that Of Rome. o2s