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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

New YoRK.-The American State Convention
of New York was held at Rochester on Tuesday,
and was attended by about one thousand dele
gates Mr. j. W. Barker, ex-Presdent of the
State Council, was nominated chairman. In o
brief address he congratulated the party on large
accessions to the councils during the past year,
and confidently predicted that the electoral vote
of the State would be given for Fillmore and
Donelson Mr. Ersstus Brooks, one of the edi-
tors of the New York Express, was unanimous
ly nominated as the candidate of the party for
Governor Mr.. Lyman Odell, the candidate, OF
the Americans for the Speakership of the last
House of Assembly,is the nominee for the Lieut.
enant GoYernorship. '
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

FROM CALIFoRNIA.-The Alta California of
the 9th ult furnishes the following items of
news:
In our last notice we gave detailed account
of the success attending the closing mp of the Of
fairs of the Vigilance Committee. That, as was
then anticipated, has proved final end of their
labors; they having, after short time, former
" adjourned without day nor will they be like
" to again meet as a body, unless the necessity
be enforced upon them by some action on the
part of their opponents. Since the suspension OF
the Committee the popular mind has regained
its accustomed repose, and affairs flow on in
their ordinary channel once more, leaving us no
very striking incidents or movements to chroni-
Gle at present.
The American party held their State Nominat-
ing Convention on the 3D. Sd and 4th Septem-
Der. at Sacramento. There were present very
large number of Delegates. Electors for Presi-
dent and Congressional candidates were NOM
mated. -
Mining,the great leading interest OF our State,
is, as general thing, in prosperous condition.
Highway robberies continue to increase thro'-
ont the State, particularly in the districts of the
South and Middle Yubas, in the country around
Marysville, about Grass Valley, and generally
over the middle counties of the State. 1t is be-
lieved that there exists numerous gang OF high
waynen, headed by a man named Tom Bell,
who have overrun these regions, where they
have made it difficult for single travellers to pass
in safety. The interior papers are filled with
notices of the robberieS daily committed by these
desperados.
The Vigilance Committee Rooms were thrown
open to tile public on the 2lst, 22nd and % nit,
and were visited by about $4,000 persons, 5000
OF whom were ladies.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

A correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat,
strong Buchanan paper writing from Philadel-
phs, and signing himself pennsylvania Dem
ocrat," makes the following reluctant acknewl-
edgement:
Nv confidence that Mr.. Buchanan vii! carry
his own State is daily becoming more shaken;
and should he fail to get the electoral vote of
Pennsylvania, his chances will indeed be slim.
&+ With one or two exceptions, every
dications Of giving Republican majority.
However unpalatable what has been writ
fen anove may be to others, it is written with a
conviction of its stubborn truth. Had not the
writer visited and talked with the people of
many counties which have always been looked
upon as the stronghods of Democracy,he would
. OF write thus; he is no croaker, but well knows
that the price Of liberty is eternal vigilance"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01
A Fremont Ticket.

In his speech at the Mass Meeting in Rich
mond last week Mr.. Bolts expressed the opinion
that the friends of Mr.. Fillmore ought to encour-
age the formation of a Fremont ticket In Virgin
ia, for several reasons In the first place if
there were no Black Republicans in the State it
could do no possible harm; if there were, it
would be shown to what party they belonged,
and in the third place it would give the State to
Mr. Fillmore beyond ell question. Mr.. Bolts
signifed his readiness to enter into written obi
cation with the most satisfactory security, to
paw ten dollars for every American or Wing in
the city of Richmond or the State of Virginia
who voted that ticket. if it was formed, if the
Democracy would obligate themselves to pay
him one dollar for every Democrat who voted it.
He challenged any Democrat to accept the prop
ositon, and declared his belief that he would
clear 81 $1,000 by the operation.
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Restoration of the Missouri Compromise.

Mr.. Fillmores course while in the Presiden-
tial chair having proved him to be reliable upon
every other question involving Southern inter-
ests, his opponents as last resort have sndeav-
ored to persuade the people that he was favora-
BILE to the restoration of the Missouri Compro-
mise line. Every one acquainted with the his
tory of Mr.. Fillmore's administration and his
general sentiments, knows that he is practical
statesman, and as no good could possibly result
from the course suggested, his friends have had
no fears that he would sanction worse than
useless agitation for any such purpose. But
his position in reference SO the question has been
defined by paper published in the city where
he resides, and which would not presume to
speak for him without authority. The Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser, speaking of the Missou-
ri Compromise, says: r
AS Mr.. Fillmore was opposed at the time, to
its disturbance, he has not changed his opinion
that its repeal was an act of folly. But we are
quite sure we do not misrepresent his sentl-
ments when we say that he does not think 1t
would be wise to attempt its restoration ana
that he desires no agitation having this object in
view either in Congress or outofit. Hels too saga
cious not to perceive that the question has be-
come obsolete, and too wise to pour water o.
round tie roots of tree which was girdled two
wears ago, in the hope of seeing it again covered
with foliage .... -u
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

A DEAooRATIo STAMPEDE IN EARNEST Fa-
sion.-We have before us o copy OF an address
recently issued by two hundred and fifty Demo-
Gratis of Detroit to their Democratic brethrenlof
other parts Of Michigan. The address Is pub
lished in the Detroit Advertiser OF Saturday last
and commences as follows:
''In view of the almost irreparable injuries
that have been inflicted upon our Deinocratlc
institutions, the long established principles OF
the Democratic party, and the peace ana pros
perity of our beloved country, by the admins
tfation OF Franklin Pierce, and the Still greater
| injury threatened by the election OF James
Buchanan, who has given his unqualified ana
cordial approval to all its wicked measures, ana
stands solemnly pledged, as well by ms own dec
laraton as by the Cincinnati platform,
g We the undersigned, 'oho mace uny0rm'y
acted acih the Democratic party, anil ach9 rotea
for Franklin Pierce in 1852, feel at our duty as
Democrats, as friends Of the country ana as go0a
citizens, publicly to declare our dSterm'aatson
James Buchanan and to give oar influence and
our cotes to John G. Fremont, and set forth the
reasons achich hare impelled us to this course
The address then proceeds to enumerate oil
the evil acts which the friends OF Mr.. Fillmore
are now charging upon the Democracy; atfirms
all, and many more Of them to be true, and ar
CUES at length that the true Democratic prncl-
pies of their (the signers) faith, are to be found
, alone under the banner of the Republicans
''This is the unkindest cut of ALL" In the oIa.e
of Gen. Cass, and in the face of the cry OF FIJI
more fusions, two hundred and fifty Democrats
decamp to the lines of the Republicans with
single impulse The sign is ominous in State
claimed as certain for Mr. Buchanan. There is
no mistake about it. Their names are to the
record.-Balt. american.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

THE TRUTH OF HIsroRY.-The Democratic pa
pers are publishing letter of Henry Clay, adj
dressed to the late W. S. Woods, of Albemarle,t to
show that 'instead of originating or approving
the Missouri Compromise, he strenuously oppos-
ed its passage" 1t would be well for the edit
ors to inform themselves little before they un-
dertake to enlighten the public. Mr., Clay, in
the letter alluded to, speaks of his opposition to
the Missouri restriction" which these intelli-
gent editors confound with the Missouri Com
promise. The difference is simply this the
restriction" proposed BY Northern member
of Congress- refused to receive Missouri into the
Union as slave State; the Compromise admit
ted Missouri without restriction, but stipulated
that slaves should be excluded from the remain
ing territory North of the prescribed line. Mr..
Clay, as he says in his letter, opposed the for
mer, but warmly advocated the latter and it be-
came law.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

A S1NGuLARLY CANDID ADMISSION We re-
commend the following candid admission of the
Sanbury Northumberland county. Pa.) Amerl-
can to the attention of our Southern Democratic
friends. 1t may be only necessary to premise
that the journal named has the names of James
Buchanan and John G. Breckenridge at the
head of its columns. The editor is not only
more candid, but exhibits greatly more ntelli-
gence than his party generally, though we doubt
very much whether his friends here, who assert
that Fillmore has no strength anywhere, will
thank him for the evidence he has given of the
possession of both of these qualities. After speak
ing of Mr. Buchanans Southern Sectional \
strength, and utter impotence at the North, he
adds
"7hs Vest and the Eastern and Middle States
with te,o EXCEPTIONS are almost unanimous .tor
Fillmore md Fremont. This is truly q strange
state of affairs and much to be regretted Any
one at all conversant with our political affairs,
must have foreseen, long since that such would
be the result The crisis has, no doubt, been
FASTENED on by the iU-timed action Of President
Pierce, Judge Douglas and Others, in regard tc
the Missouri Compromise, and the Kansas and
Nebraska bill"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

WHAT WILL TIE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS SAY
TO THIS 2-The Syracuse Standard, heretofore
the organ of the Onondaga county Democracy,
and the official paper Of Syracuse, has taken
down the Buchanan flag, and run up the banner
Of Fremont and Dayton. In its issue of the 1st
ult., it says:
ga glance at the head of this column will
serve to show that the Presidential ticket put
up by the Cincinnati Convention has been dis
placed and the one recommended at Philadel-
phia substituted therefor. This exchange of can
didates involves no change in the political doc
trines of this paper. We surrender no principle
hitherto advocated by us, nor do we add any
thing new to our political creed"
That is just what John Van Buren, said on 60
ing over from Freesoilism to the Buchanan par
ty, Il defy any man to point out any inconsis-
tency in my conduct"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

WHERE THE "AID" HAS GoNE-At big
Kansas meeting in Albany, a short time since,
several thousand dollars were subscribed for the
'relief" of the starving people of Kansas. Ger
rit Smith gave $4,000; Edward G. Delevan gave
$1,000; and others gave smaller sums. The
money has been accounted for by the commit
tee appointed to disburse it as follows:--The
printers, On. Y Tribune, Times, &c., got $315.
Paid clerk hire, s136. For an agent, $232; to-
tai, committee account 1858. Paid for the re-
lief of R. Buffurn and family in Kansas, $25
to committees for ''relief" purposes $500; total
for relief, $3.50. Paid for Sharpe's rifles, $643 =;
for passage of armed emigrants, $G77; to Chica-
go committee for civil war $1,44. Loaned to
Gen. Schuyler, $3.50; to G. Robinson, govern
orr 5000; making a total of three thousand. fire
hundred and ten dollars devoted to a civil war
while only four hundred and twenty-five dollars
were devoted to relief! The widows and or
phans of Kansas says the Albany Argus, called
for bread and they gave them bullets What a
farce upon philanthropy What parody upon
religion
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

g At Republican meeting held in Philadelphia
on Monday evening letter was read from oan.
D. Ingham, member of Jackson's Cabinet, re-
pudiating the present Democracy and ranking
himself among the Republicans He refers to
the various candidates for the Presidency, and
gives his preference to Mr.. Fremont as best Mt
ted to carry into effect Republican principles
and secure Kansas as free State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

From THE PULPIT TO THE STUNp-Our read
srs have been informed that the ''Rev." Henry
Ward VI Beecher, of Brooklyn, N. Y, has turned
ont I" tn a stump speaker for Fremont. On Sunday
weet he thus unfolded the plan of the campaign
70 his congregation: 81 shall necessarily be so
much m engaged in secular matters from now until
election, in endeavoring to persuade my fellow
citizens 10 cote in the right way: that shall not
be able to fill my desk regularly, end will feel
grateful to such as will consent 70 assist me in
nv clerical duties. am aware of the disap-
pointments that will arise among me three thou
sand persons who congregate here to hear me,
and appreciate the delicscy of the position Of
any who may consent to assist ,ae."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

GERMA Ms DRsERTINe THE REPuBL1oANs.-lh
following is telegraph despatch dated Roches-
ter, w, Sept 95th A body Of Protestant.
Germans from Monroe and adjacent counties
Yesterday waited upon the North American Con-
yention. who is also chief of the Order of North
Americans. for information touching the treat
mept of the North Americans BY the Repuoll-
cans and the manner in which the Republicans
have failed to keep faith with the North Ameri-
cans, and as result, satisfied that the Germans
were receiving the same treatment ana wouid
adhesion to the North American Order and TO
the candidate of the American party.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

A VOICE FROM SOUTH CARoLINA.--Ihe
Charleston Courier of the 28th ult., contains
a long argumentatve and calm letter from 9
.Southron." now at the north, in which the
South is urged to support Mr.. Fillmore as the
only candidate that can be elected by the Peo-
pie, and regarding Fremonts election as an I'M
possibility, considers Mr.. Fillmores prospect
with the people and in the House better 'nsh
that of Mr.. Buchanan. After bestowing inc
highest eulogium on his administration whlls'
President, the writer enforces his claims, no. on
" as q national man, but with those consutu-
tional sentiments which render him especially
accountable to the South.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

BUCHANAN AT THE NoRrH.-A Democratic
correspondent of the Savannah News, writing
from fine North says:
During this contest for the Presidency OF least
there will be no ralying the mass of the North
ern people to the democratic party and if Mr..
Buchanan should fortunately be elected, it will
be by the barest possible majority, reckoning
that all the Southern States go for him. Unjust
confess that since my arrival at the North
have feared the result. California is the most,
and, perhaps, the only reliable State of the
North but her vote Is OF little weight in the e.
lectoraI college. New York is very doubtful !;
and as to Pennsylvania the great hope of the
democratic party, as being the native State of
Mr.. Buchanan, that is uncertain. Pennsylva-
mans have been here asking money from the
New York democrats to aid them in their strug-
gle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01
Commissioner of Accounts.

r. Porterfield Kinney, Esq, has been appoint
ed to settle accounts by the County Court, to fill
vacancy occasioned by the death of Samuel
Clarke, ESQ.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01
Dissolution of the Union,

The Hon. Mr.. Keit of South Caroline, has
recently delivered speeches at several points IN
this State, under auspices of the Democratic
party, prolessedly in favor of Buchanan, bet re-
ally if we may judge from the tenor OF his dellv-
ery to prepare the hearts of the people for dis
solution of the Union. Referring to one OF Mr..
Kett's speeches, the Baltimore American says
"Sophomorical in eloquence, inconsequential
in argument, and profuse in denunciatIon, 1t Is q
sad picture of sectional passion usurping the Of
fees of craftsmanship, and with the rash hand
of violence arousng a storm which it will take
wiser heads and more able efforts to allay. SUCH
speeches do nothing for Southern rights or
Southern peace, but they are powerful aids TO
Nothern fanaticism. The conservative Southern
mind turns from them in disgust, and the most
influential of its journals refuse to repeat them
but throughout the North they are echoed ana
re-echoed, until the Whole South is held &C
countable for their absurdity and denounced LOT
their violence" r
What, saws the American. would become OF
MARYLAND, western Virginia, Kentucky and len
nessee and other border States if line OF sepa-
ration was drawn between the two sections OF
the country2 With hostile frontier stretching
along their limits, peopleG by those aienated
from them and inimical to their institutions,
with the fugitive slave law, inefficient and OBJ
structed as its operation now is, replaced by law
in the free half of the contederacy ederlng a
bounty to those who succeed in inducing slaves
to abscond with all the appliances which en-
nifty and fanaticsm would then bring into play
to render that species of property insecure, how
long would any of the States thus exposed con-
sent to support an institution that brought theIq
only difficulty and sacrifice and from the bene,,
fits of which they were excluded. Patriotism and
sectional feeling would in vain bear up against
the burdens they would be called upon to sus-
tain. They would be forced to become Free
States in self defence and the barrier which the
South had fancied to be a permanent one against
Northern aggression would only prove the means
BY which the North conld most effectually an
nov and modest it. The institution of slavery
would be driven in upon itself, and find its linn
its constantly narrowing until it was forced out
of the territorial, as it had previously abandon
ed the political Union. The most ultra agsres-
sions of abolitionism never devised more des-
tructiye warfare upon the existence OF the South
than is an essential part and sure sequence OF
the schemes of Southern secessionists.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01
Hung.

The negro man, Sam, convicted of the murder
of F. W. Sheridan, in Highland county, was
hung at Monterey on Friday last A correspon-
dent informs US that there were about three
thousand persons present as spectators OF the ex-
ecution.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01
Let the Spectator make an exhibit of its trus

Let the Spectator make an exhibit OF its trust
worthy men of the North indicator.
1t would fill up our entire paper TO make an
exhibit of all the trustworthy men at the North
who are supporting Willard Fillmore.
Among the trustworthy men who are support
ing Buchanan, however, We beg leave to exhibit
Martin Van Buren,, John Van Buren,, Thomas
Hart Benton, Lewis "Squatter Sovereignty" Cass,
and according to the latest accounts, William
Lloyd Garrison and his disciples of the ultra
Abolition school are about to squat upon the
Cincinnati platform.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

PoI1TIcs IN TIE NORTHWEST. john S
Carlisle addressed the people of Richie county
on Friday of last week. II being Circuit Court
blage of citizens were in attendance, and the oc-
casion was well improved. We but speak the
common sentiment of his auditory, says the
Parkersburg Gazette, when we say that Mr..
Carlisles effort was one of the most happy, bril-
liant and triumphant specimens OF oratory ever
exhibited in this section of the State. His expo
sition of American Principles was mastery /;
his portrayal of the dangers and difficulties Do;
truthful and his arguments in | .:ialf of the a.
~ r;nsn couse were unanswerab:e Would that
we had Thousand such champions!
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Notice..

Hereafter persons who furnished With single pa,
nsrs at this office, will be charged cents Tor sae9
u, 10 away hut applications are numerous and
" fsouent that we are compelled to adopt this rule
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01
Democratic Meeting.

Our Democratic friends held meeting ct u
Mon Hall onSaturday night last. 1t was the most
solemn assemblage we have seen outside Of
church for long time. The lights burned dim.
ly, and the drowsy-looking crowd seemed to be
holding acake over the cold corpse of Buchan-
ans prospects. The Speakers labored hard to
resurrectionize the buried enthusiasm of the
party, and discoursed eloquentlyof "Jeems Buke-
anan"-but their labors seemed to be in vain
BY the way, if the fashionable pronunciation
of Mr. Buchanan's name be correct, may we not
expect to hear the hurrah- boys shouting before
long for 'Old Buke"-Huzza for "Buke and
Breck.n
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01
ELECTORAL TICKET.

- Ds,r;ct-J,Mgs G. HOLIDAY, OF Norfolk county
"a UsyRY woop, of Mecklenburg.
Cd WILLIAM M>RrIS, of Henry
Su {. Tuos. NJ. BoNprRAST, of Buckingham.
~, i" WILLIAM NJ. CABELL, of Nelson.
.,h " WILLIAM C. Scorr, of Powhatan
9tb GEORGE T. YERBY, of Northampton
sth d" JOIN CRIrcuER of Westmoreland.
oh /" b. H. SHAcKELYoRp, of Fauquler
o,h :. ALExASpEa r. BorELEE, Of Jefferson.
In JOHN ID. INBopES, of Augusta
oh 90 WALLER II. STAPLES of Montgomery
or % ISAAC ]. LgYrwIcH, of Wythe.
,Stb lssNJAMIS H. SMITH, of hanawha
,i,h g j. w. GALLAuEs, of Marshall.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-01

FILLMORE ON "SQUArrER SOVEREIGNTY. Col.
]. S. Williams, of Louisiana, in a letter dated
September 18th, says: .4a gt
Upon my return home from the North, call
ed to see Mr.. Fillmore, at his home in Buffalo,
N. Y, on the 4th inst During our conversation,
| asked him what he thought of "Squatter Sow
ereigntyn--andi in reply, he entered into free
and unreserved expression of his views. lie
said he was decidedly opposed to this doctrine,
as advocated by Oass, Douglas, Buchanan, Van
Buren, and others he believed that Territory,
until its inhabitants were sufficiently numerous
to authorize the formation of State Constitu-
ton, preparatory to admission into the Union as
a State could only be regarded as in condition
of pupilage, possessing no sovereignty whatever
and referred to the Utah and New Mexico Ter,
ritorial bills, sanctioned by him, as direct indl-
cation of his opinions. 11r
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First of the Season.

On Wednesday morning last, the 24th ultimo,
Elliott,s Knob was covered with snow.