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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-14

ossnist Of the Boston Handel and haydn Society, and
the Old kouih church. Boston would respectfully INFORM tho
public Of New FORK that he has taken Bis residence
city and give Instruction the piAnote and
OF Messrs. Coburn NASH 423 Broadway VII meet with
prompt attention where tu particulars be obtsined
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DEDUCED PRICEe-FIFTY POUNDS BAGG AGE FREE
II per pound -Four ,urs from
% ocean by Panama Raroad Through for California via
ny VIII despatch for Aspinwau ThundAy March %,
O'Clock precisely from pfer foot Of Warren street North
Captain VIM L. Herndon, U. q. N. Passengers and mai
win be BY Panama Railroad and connect at PsuA
with The Pacific Mail bteamAhips Companys magnificent
ats mshlp Golden Gate v n lie Roy oota3ander which
public informed that this ~ B. Co. always one
extra steamers lying a Panama ready for
apply 70 l. W. At The only S1ioc OF tbs
pies III West street, Warren street. New York Freight
Apnva 40 cents par cubic loot and half per
pound prep and freight viii be taken asr IL O'Clock
he dRv Of sailing
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16
From Kan SaS.

The ST. Louis Republican Of Saturday has
a letter from Kansas written on the 4th
inst, which gives some interesting news
The United States District Court, Judge Le-
compile presiding, began its summer term on
that day. The docket is large and attendant
counsel numerous. The cases were chiefly
criminal, and of political character.
\ report is mentioned that 800 OF Lane
troc.. arg IN readiness to rescue those con-
rictcd by the Court, On the strength of the
rurnor that Gen. Smith sent 80 dragons
under Capt Wood to protect the Court and
cnforce its processes.
In Judge Lecompte's charge to the Grand
Jury he reviewed the most glaring offences,
and suggested remedies against present and
prospective evils in the country. lie adnio,
nishcd them to be calm. cool and unbiased
in their action and do nothing which could
have even seeming sectional, political! or per
sonal inclination.
Wolf and Boyd, two men sent by Gen
Richardson to recOnnoitre and report pro
gress OF Lanes regiment, bad returned
Just across the Nebraska line they CAME UP
on an cncnmpment of go men, from whom
they learned that Lane had returned East K
raise {, 900 men and more money, and tina
they were waiting forces there from Ncbras
ka City to move in body to Topeka, ant
when Lane with his 200 men arrived, they
would leave Topeka - me-. MIN, and tina
they would then defy all Border Ruifian:
and the United States too. Wolf and Boyt
: then went to Nebraska City where they saw
/ 200 more of the same regiment, and heard ;
confirmation of this statement.
. The writer of this says Kansas never en-
joycd such peace as at present, an If lie
alone by foreign agitators there would ~
( universal harmony and prosperity.
+ \ correspondent of the n. Y. 1rijur
writes from Washington, Aug. -:
/ Mr.. Coate, counsel Of Governor Robin
son, has Just arrived from Kansas, and re
ports that collision between the advancin:
emigrants through Iowa, and the Missouri
ans, is probable. He confirms the previous
reports that the MissOurians are assemble,
in large numbers, at Iowa Point, near I'll
line of Kansas and Nebraska, under thu
command o! Gen Richardson, of Waaka
rusa var notoriety.
This attempt TO drive out free emigration
is done with the concurrence 9. Gov. Shan
non. who bad not heard Of his removal.
Companies of Free State settlers from 10
I peka, Lawrence, tina Bcecher settlement
and other free state places, have gone TO All
the emigrants in reaching the Territory.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16
Election Returns.

Iowa ELECTIoS.-The returns from Iowa
como in slowly, but for the last two or three
days the growing has been on the side of
the fusionists. In the first district, from
which the returns at first looked favorblc to
the reelection Of Hall, it is now rendered
pretty certain that Curtis, fusioni>t, is elect
cd, while the other district goes, as was ex-
pected, fusion by n large minority. Gov.
Grimes, fusionist, is reelected by four or
five thousand majority, and the legislature
Is largely fusion. There is one consolation
we never expected anything from Iowa,
and as the colored preacher remarked
I" Blessed is dem as expects nothing, for
they amt gwine to be disappointed.
ELECTION ~ MIssoUEI.-The Bcptonites
shouted before they were out Of the woods
St Louis having gone for Benton, they sup
posed they had the state. But there We're
some voters outside Of St Louis. Polk
democratic candidate, is elected governor bv
about 5000 majority over Ewing, X. ",
and I2, 900 over Benton. In 20 counties, 90
Democrats, 81 Bentonites, 2S Americans
and Wings are elected To the House one
Bentonitc, one American, one Wing elected
to the Senate.
KESTucKr ELEcrIoS-The democrats have
swept everything in Kentucky, the majority
on the popular vote being some 5000. The
Louisville Courier says the Know Nothings
made the choice Of Judicial officers special
issue, and in the previous Legislature ger
rymandered the state with a view to sue
cess. The Courier adds:
Their best men have been defeated. so
that no palliation can be offered on the score
Of the weakness Of their candidates, nor the
irertness of their members Out Of the
thirteen Judges elected they have not chos-
en- moro than five, and three of the number
had no opposition, else the result might nave
been different.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16
Let the Laws be Enforced.

III the people entrust to me the admins
tration Of the government, the LAWS OF CON-
GREsS IN RELATION TO THE TERRITORIES SHALL
BE FAITHFULLY EXECuTRD.-JOhn G. Fremont.
The laws Of Congress in relation to Kan
sas Will then be enforced by Mr.. FREMONT.
The laws in relation to all other territories,
Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, Utah and
New Mexico, are enforced without resistance
and without evil consequences IL is TO the
abused and maigned bill Of Senator DorG-
LAS, in relation to Kansas, that this pledge
is made. Mr.. Fremont gives in his adhesion
to that measure ana does not indeed sug-
gest even a modification Of it, He pledges
himself to execute it and the pledge in
cludes the idea of putting down, by force if
necessary those who combine to resist the
law
In spite OF all this incoherent outcry of
ianatcis'n, no public measure, ever, in SO
snort TIME, overcame opposition, as the
Oil IN relation to Nebraska and Kansas. Its
practical operation in Nebraska, and the
peacelul ana prosperous results, themselves
constitute ITS most powerful vindicat;on.-
But the people of Kansas themselves bear
I the most conclusive evidence of its accepta
bility. They demand that it shall be exc
cuted! This is the sum and substance oS
all they ask Sc far from opposing the bill,
like the fanatic demagOgues Of the Eastern
States, the Free State party in Kansas took
{ the ground of being the ultra partizans Of
''squatter sovereignty" and pretended to Or
ganizc government, by the adoption Of n
! State Constitution, based upon tire ex@
/ tremest application Of the principle. The
/ project was sham and the Topeka Con-
vention represented merely the wishes Of
/ the self constituted leaders of a party But
its authors rested their claims for it, on the
recognition of popular rights embodied III
the Kansas bill. The great body of the peo-
pie of Kansas, who abiured the Topeka
movement, chung to the bill, and to the ter
rtorial organization under it, and looked to
its faithful execution for 4 remedy for all
the local ills Of the Territory.
The people Of the States, even those who
opposed the bill in its origin, at last recog-
Mise itsjusticc and the only pledge asked OF
Fremont and the only ere given by him, is
. that ne will execute the law.
lie gives the pledge, and we have no
doubt, if he should have the impossible good
luck to be elected, he will fulfil it, But the
time Will not come when he will have to full
Ill his pledge The laws are now being exc
cuted and the pacitication Of Kansas, and
the punishment, and expulsion Of those who
have conspred against the rights Of its peo-
Pile to sclfgovernment under the law, will
have been completed, even before the pre-
tensions of Mr.. Fremont to the Executive
trust are disposed of by the people Of the
Union.-1iJany argus.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

DREAMING OFT STILL MoIg.-LOvejoy said,
at the Bloomington fusion convention, that
the opposition party would break out ali
over with abolitionism before the election
Weli-they "broke out" with it like small
pox when they nominated Lovejoy for con
gress; but worse break out still occurred
at Joliet last week when the radical abolition
convention met to nominate Gerrit Smith
state electoral ticket The convention So
lemnly deliberated half day, and then
concluded to attach themselves to the fusion
Fremont and Bissell party. The principal
speaker, cooper colored" gentleman,
contended that any party that would nom-
nate Owen Lovcjoy for congress was abol-
zionist enough to suit the blacklist TASTE
Surely this must terminate the pretense put
forth to gull the Clay wings, that the fusion
party are opposed to abolit;onism. When
the Lloyd Garrison wing are satisfied with
the color of their principles, certainly no
true wing can he, without repudiating eve
rything Henry Clay ever said or wrote.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16
Congress-.


Aug. 9.-In the Senate, the bill proposing
to fix the pay of members of Congress at
s., 900 year, was amended so as to make
it 81, 500, the members to be charged with
books presented to them. A resolution was
offered by Mr.. Bigler.
In the House several appropriation bills
were passed, one of them providing for six
revenue cutters on the lakes.
Aug lin the Senate Mr.. Douglas re-
ported back the House bill to rcorganize the
Territory of Kansas, with written report,
which takes the ground that the Senate bill
now before the House is the best plan for
the pacification of Kansas that the Senate
car devise 1t then recommends that the
House bill be laid on the table as test vote
on its rejection. Mr.. Collamer read the mi
nority report in favor of the enactment of
the House BILL Mr.. C.'s report was laid on
the table by 50 to II.
/ Mr.. Bigler's resolution 20 overhaul the &C.
counts of Col. Fremont was called, and after
an animated debate adopted. The Senate
rejected the House appropriation for books
to be presented to members amounting tc
$4,000.
In the House the Des Moincs Rapids i'm
pr vemcnt bill was vetoed, but passed ovel
the presidents head. The post-office appro
priation bill was passed without debate
The Army Appropriation bill came back
from the Senate with the amendment Of thu
House not allowing any of the money ap
propratcd to be paid to the army for en-
forcing the laws in Kansas as stricken out
The House, however, insisted on its amend
ment
dug. 12.-Tho Senate passed the nava
appropriation bill The Pacific railroad bill
was laid on the table by vote Of % agains
%.
!. In the House, Mr.. Wallbridge reported
bill to construct telegraph line from tn
western boundary of Missouri and Iowa !:
the paciifV. The House passed about =
private bills, and adjourned.
!. 4uy. l3.-scHate proceedings unimport
ant
The House passed the bill extending tn
paten; Of Adams Printing Press by IRA
iori,y O! 40 votes. The Senate's amend
F mes. to the Legislative, Executive and ia
dicial appropriation bill was then taken "a
and discussed
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16
81. he Honest...Is he Capable. -,

Is ne HOneSt...ls ne NaPdDle."
These were Jefferson's first tests by which
he tried all candidates for office. No matter
what may have been the political principles
or public services of man, if he lacked
hair in either of these essential elements of
public servant-honesty, fidelity, and Ca
pabity-he was invariably rejected. Hither-
to we believe no party in this country has
had the audacity to present candidate for
the presidency whose honesty at least in
handling public funds had been questioned
until Law;Vanderbilt, Grinnell and the W all
! street Brokers generally brought out Ere
mon. But how stands FrcmOnt's record on
the score of honesty and fidelity? IS it not
true that the records of the!dcpaitmcnts at
/ Washington arc crowded with official docu-
ments charging upon Col. Fremont direct
completely in the mos: glaring frauds? Off
cial documcnts published in the Washington
papers, taken from the journals Of congress,
show that claims on the treasury are now on
file for the subsistence CT Col Fremcnt's re.
g!ncnt, COMPOSED Of about three hundred
men, during six months service in Calfor
mia, amounting to over eight hundred thou
sand dollars. According TO these claims
Sacn one of his men cost twenty dollars
day during the six months. The beef ac
count alone shows that each man consumed
every day fourteen pounds of that article
These claims were SO enormous Oh their fac,
that only about one ,sirth, or Sl5G, 900, hav
been allowed. A board of army officers ex
amincd and reported upon them, and deter
mined that the residue, or nearly eight hun
dred thousand dollars. was cithcr'fraudulen
or so suspicious as to require explanation
These facts were report ted TO congress on tn
iath Of December, 1854, and are found il
document No. IS, SD congress, I'd session
Bat the most persistent efforts have hithert
failed to elicit word OF explanation froH
Col. f., and he this day stands charged o.
the books Of the L. S. treasury charged wit
over half million of dollars oe which !.
can give TO satisfactory account Act tn
very supporters Of Fremont have the auda
city 20 talk of the Gaiphinisnl Of Fillmore
administration. .n bold and dashing a,
tempts upon the Treasury Filmore's 'cabi
net certainly was somewhat famous, but W
believe no one ever charged Fillmore himse'
with having hand in them. But had tn
Ewing's, and GARDENERS, and Galphins Of tia
day had the great California cattle dcale
and Mariposa land Spectator at their head
where would their operations have ended !.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16
WILLIAM ~. ". CUSHMAN.
The Speeches last Evening.

Our paper was put TO press last evening
before the speaking in the court house Gem
menccd, so that we are unable To give any
account Of the meeting or speeches. Many
farmers were misled by our announcement
made last week, Enormously for want Of
fuller information ct that time) that Mr. Pc
TIERS would speak in the afternoon, and re-
turned home disappointed. We regret the
speech was not made IN tine afternoon. The
farmers find it exceedingly inconvenient to
come to town in the evening, while 1t pres
ent their business brings large number to
town during the day time, and hundreds
would at any time so arrange their business
as TO attend to it and hear good speech a;
the same time We are confident Mr. T.
would have had larger audience in the az
ternoon than he had in tie evening.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

STILL THEY CoME,-Simon Cameron, the
old war horse of democracy in Pennsylva-
mia, has come out for Fremont and Dayton.
and will stump the State. lie will carry
thousands of the honest democracy Of the
old keystone State with him. The candid
men of all parties now concede Pennsylva-
MIA TO Fremont So VIC 90. Hurrah for
the Ragged Orphan Boy !''-Eusion PIT
pr.
How such paragraph would make a
Pennsylvania Democrat laugh. Simon Cam
eron a - war horse Of democracy! lie has
not been recognized as democrat in Penn
sylvania for ten years. Two years ago lie
and David Wilmot were partners TO steal
the L. 5. Senatorship by conjunction Of
the Free Sellers and Know Nothings against
the democracy. He is the most thorough
political charlatan in the country-wlIatevcr
party lie joins in Pennsylvania is always
sure to be defeated, for which reason, al
though often attempting to join the democ-
racy, they have at every attempt kicked him
out of their ranks.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

WANTS llELP.-Thc Philadelphia CORES
pendent Of the New \ ork Tribune, a regular
freedom shriekcr, is calling loudly on New
York for help, or Pennsylvania viii certain
ly be lost to fusionism. In letter in a late
number of the Tribune he contrasts the
activity Of the fusion leaders and papers in
New York with the same class in Pcnnsyl-
vania, and continues:
The field, therefore, seems won in New
York, while in Philadelphia and Eastern
Pennsylvania the field is to be won. Now,
it seems to me, considering that the success
of the Republican cause depends OIL carrying
Pennsylvania, and the chances are not bright
ening in any wonderful degree in this quar-
ter, owing to the manner in which Pennsyl-
vania is neglected. 1t docs seem that the
Republicans with you are taking matters
very easily. y great deal of work is to be
done here, or the cause is lost; and the
wo-kmen are wanting. Iexposed this mat
ter some weeks since, and matters remain
about the same as before.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

GREAT DAMAGE BY LIGHTNING AND rain
N New HANPsuRE AND NEEMo>T-The Bos-
ton 4ti0s of the 18th inst. gives over a CO.
lumn and half of condensed items Of dis
asters by lightning and rain in New Hamp-
shire and Vermont, during last week. The
dams on the Mystic, Merrimac, and Sugar
Rivers have all been swept away. Bridges,
roads, and even houses have disappeared,
causing an immense loss Several persons
have been iuck dead by lightning. The
schooner Belle, of Cohassct, and the schoon-
er Pearl, of Rcchport, were struck by light
ming, killing one seaman, named Lawrence
Griffin. Barns, houses, and lighthouses
have also been struck and burned.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

Coal MINING OPERATIoNs.-The Peru
Mining Company on Thursday last struck
the upper bed of coal, at depth of % feet
from the top of their shaft, being about 40
feet less than was expected. This bed is
about four feet thick, and OF the same quail
ty as in the more eastern part of the Basin.
That Company design to push their shaft to
the middle bed, an additional depth of about
So feet, and which will be found to be six
feet in thickness. and of better quality.
They expect to raise coal from this latter
bed by the time the fail demand fairly sets
in.-La Sale Press.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

WESTERN Towx-We copy from the
An.boy Time. the following graphic sketch
of the history of that village. Amboy is
one Of the new towns created by the Illinois
Central Railroad. Its annals are in sub
stance those Of thousand other towns in
the Northwest. The next we hear Of Am
boy she will doubtless be full-blown city.
with live Mayor and half dozen Alder
men, and the other g mahincs up"
last Saturday, the 25th inst, OR town
was two years old. Its growth is almost
without parallel even in the West In the
winter and spring Of 1854 the Illinois Cen
tEal Railroad Company commenced building
their machine and repair shops at this place,
and they are not yet completed, though
t'ey.sre still progressing. The round house
is 2l6 feet in diameter, and accommodates
% engines. The other shops are very large
and fitted up with large amount of excel
lent machinery. The company pay out at
This place monthly about 81, 600 which ma
isrial'y softens the effects Of hard times
On the 2Gth day of July, 1854, the GrSt
bonds for deeds were executed for town lots
in this place, and building then commenced
in earnest. Lots sold rapidly, and were in
The winter of 81 and 80, though cold and
stormy, did not prevent the growth OF the
town, and when spring arrived our town
was estimated to contain about one thousand
inhabitants. Every house was boarding
house and rents were enormous This state
OF things urged every one who could com
Uiand ! hundred or two dollars 70 inyes, if
IN pace to stay. The summer Of 81 was
not wasted, but buildings increased in a
greater proportion than the inhabitants, re-
suitins from the causes above stated Up to
the present time the growth 6f our town has
not abated- We have now between two and
three thousand inhabitants, two churches
and another in process OF construction,
about thirty stores and groceries, steam
planning mill and sash factory, three hotels,
two livery stables, and in fact Establishments
OF almost every variety.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16
The German Meeting.

Lying must be at a premium among the
fusionists, or the Republican, of this city,
would not tax its energies so enormously to
produce the article Its account of the Ger
man meeting in this city, on Wednesday
evening Of last week, is SO cutragcously
mendacious as to amour! to something unu-
sual even for Mr.. Hampton. We copy a
paragraph:
% We are sorry TO say that border ruf'ian-
ism has got so rampant in Ottawa, that this
gentleman was interrupted by loud hooting
and other noses from portion Of the pro-
slavery Germans and Americans to such an
extent that he was scarcely able to proceed
" C learn that the post Office Official was par
;icu!aIly industrious in trying 10 get up q
/ row. 1t appeared that Il genera. disturbance
/ had been prcconccrtcd aud that lie was 20
! give the signal 10 commence, but he was
! overheard to tell some of the other ringl.ad-
! crs that the other side - are too many for US,
! which circumstance, it is generally thought,
/ saved the orderly part Of the S'ermans 'slo
I assembled for a Fremont demonstration,
from being driven f. ON the house. Lacking
in force to risk fight, they coiItentcd them
selves in making most hnearthiy noises TO
disturb the speaker.
We pronounce the above, IN letter and in
substance from beginning 20 end, false
hood out of whole cloth. "The post-ofiice
official :" of this city was not half an hour
at the meeting in question all together, and
during that time made no noise nor spoi.e a
word to living soul to tie best Of his rec.
election.
While upon this subject, however, it may
net be improper TO correct one or two other
gross falsehoods in the article from which
the above is quoted. The meeting in qucs-
ton was not called as fusion or Fremont
meeting, but the Germans of all parties VI
were distinctly invited to attend. They were
invited to hear German, and not Ehgltsh
speeches, and it is grossly false that any at
tempt was made TO interrupt any speaker in
the German language Ii is not true that
the mass Of the Germans understood that
only Fremont speeches were TO be made
On the contrary, when, at the preliminary
meeting, the Fremont men attempted to TX
up the programc 50 as 10 have fusion speech
grammc was so arranged that the German.
Democrats, who constitute ive-sixths Of the
German voters in Ottawa, believed they had
equal rights at the meeting with the fusion.
lists. The latter moy have understood 9TH
crwise, although we doub; il for the reason
that they showed such an oyerwecning anx-
iety TO get possession Of the meeting; but
whatever insy have been their understand
ing does not in the least change the facts.
We shall only add, in conclusion, that the
democrats ia Ottawa, disturb mo- meetings
be they fusion, OF abolition, or what they
may. But when a meeting is called al
which they have cqaal rights with others
they mean generally 10 assert those rights
and no fusion buster or fincSse will be apt
10 cheat them or choke them down
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

JoEDAS An y III Ard ROAD TO TRABEL.-At
the late fusion delegate election in this place
our old friends J. o. Glover, \. \. Fisher,
DR.. Hopkins, and ether heretofore active
leaders in the democratic and wing ranks
were defeated as delegates to the convention
by a vote of nearly two to one. Gentlemen,
TAKE back seats, you can zee Just as @elt!-
Old line abolitionists have now set up for
themselves, and you should be modest
enough not to intrude