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Friday, august 8, 1856.
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'''N' SENATE
The Senate passed the House bill granting a
million and half of acres of land to Mississippi,
for railroad purposes.
The Senate passed several private billg, and
finally, for the want of q quorum, adjourned.
HOUSE
Mr.. Washburn, of Maine, reported resolu-
ton to pay Ex-Governor Reeder mileage and
per diem to the time his claim to the seat of the
Delegate from Kansas was decided. Adopted
by % majority.
The House proceeded to the consideration of
the bill making appropriations for certain civil
expenses of the Government Including those
for the lighthouse establishment and the coast
and land surveys) for the current fiscal year.
Mr.. Goode offered an amendment, appropri.
ating $500, 900 for the continuation of the Wash
ington aqueduct. After debate, it was reject
ef-yeas 40, nays "a.
Among the items in the bill are the follow
ing For continuing the Treasury extension,
100000; for the completion of buildings, &C.,
connected with the Insane Asylum of the Dis.
trict of Columbia, $4,000; for filing up the
ravine in Judiciary square, $4,000; for the
construction of the new Franklin engine house,
$4,000, &c.
After debate, without disposing of the bill,
the House adjourned,
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Virginia, and has Relationship % WASHING
ton Particulars of her first and second Mar
rlages viii OF his Grandfather Col Thomas
Willing 9pages
on moving to prin! extra copies Of his Report
of The FiIs, Expedition 3paee'.
pediuon from the pen OF Col Benion IA pages.
Gen. SCOTS RI pOrt-Recommen ding Lieut.. Ere
mont TO be double brevelted as Captain ofIhe
Army page.
the Emancipation OF California IL pages.
Fremont from Los Angeles to Monterey and
back-SO0 miles in eight days pages.
= ifOrnia BY Col Fremont 81 pages.
Affair between Col Fremont and Col. Mason
Governor of California, with all the Cores
rt gSaas o &. citizen. of
Letter TO the Acknowledgement. asking Court
His Defence before the courMaria reported pages
California Claims B-speeehe. of senator. u pages
= Dix, Benton, and Clarke 9Pages.
coyeres epages.
Humboldt and rom the London Geographical
Society 0pages.
Wilkes, OF the South Sea Exploring Expedi-
. lion p pages.
His Tileto MaripOsa, aud Chief Justice Taney's
-, Opinion =; Gpages.
Linselfa Democrat 9pages.
yenlion 9Pages.
Full Reports (unabridged) Of his Principal
Speeches in the United States Senate S pages.
Affair Between Fremont and Senator Foote.
with The Core sndencr Complete pages.
Thrilling Account OF his Fitth aud Last EXpedi-
ton, by an artist who accompanied him 10 pages.
An Account OF the Scientific results Of his Last
Expedition, written by himself pages.
Letters IN Relation the Pracucability OF a
Pacific Railroad
Report OF Senator Breese Fremonts Expedi-
m nons pages
enee and Opinions 3pages.
Making, in all,
2s6 PAGES OF ADDITIONAL. MATTER.
For further particulars, apply to
DERBY & JACKSON, Publishers.
1l9 Nassau street. New York
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AN OUTRAGE AT CAFE Naive learn that
on Sunday afternoon, about o'clock, an out
rage, which produced considerable excitement,
occurred at the Mount Vernon Hotel, Cape
May. 1t appears that several young men were
aeated in the room, and one of them drinking
wine. waiter Joshua Gibbs, who is said to
be very civil and inoffensive lnan} was pass
ing below, when, for mischief, or with some
more desperate object, glass tumbler was
thrown at him. He turned and remarked that
"the act was not that of Q gentleman" and
then made his way back to the hotel, with the
object of making complaint. At this, one of
the young men-the son of highly-respecta.
BILE citizen of Washington-became excited,
and FASTENED down stairs, armed with a pistol
and dirk! A collision soon after took place,
and the waiter was stabbed IN the back! The
wound is said to be about an inch deep, and not
dangerous. A physician was immediately called
in, and every attention was paid to the sufferer
The father of the young man expressed him.
self as deeply panied by the occurrence, and
proffered all the assistance and reparation in
his power. The affair, however, was the theme
Of conversation throughout the evening, and
the colored walters, generally, were mIch in
censed. When will the hot-headed young men
of this country learn to control themselves
And Vhen will the cowardly practice of carry
ing deadly weapons be abolished II ennsylca-
MIA Inquirer.
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PARDoNED.-The Barn,oeu Sentinel informs
US that the negro boy Bob, the property of Mr..
Prothro, of Aiken, who was to have been hung
on Friday last, has had his sentence committed.
He is to receive fifty lashes on his bare back,
and then to be sent beyond the limits of the
State, meyer to return. We hope that provision
will be made for taking aim to Boston, New
York, or Philadelphia. The South ought to
send all of her criminals, who by Executive
clemency or otherwise escape the halter, to one
or the other of the above named-cities. S. Car
olinG Times.
While the black criminals of South Carolina
are worth twelve to fifteen hundred dollars, they
are more likely to find Siberia in the sugar
plantations Of Louisiana.
How IRISH WATERS MUST BEHAVE TO SOUTH
ERR GENTLEMEN Charleston Standard,
the leading Buchanan organ in South Carolina,
demands that Congressman Herbert shall be
exempted from punishment for the murder OF
poor Heating. fuses this remarkable language
HAny provocation that may have been given
for the assault upon him by the body of walters,
was at the most provocatien of words, AND
SUCH PRovoCATION AS A SERVANT SHOULD NOT
HAVE THE RIGHT TO RESENT: AND, IF WHILE
MEN ACCEPT THE OFFICES OF ME.
| MAILS, IT SHOULD BE EXPECTED
| THAT THEY WILL Do SO WITH AN
| APPREHENSION OF THEIR RELATION
TO SOCIETY, AND THE DISPOSITION
QUIETLY TO ENCOUNTER BOTH THE
RESPONSIBILITIES AND THE LIABIL
tiles WHICH THE RELATION I'M
' POSES"
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Idiocy is likely to ensue to Mr.. Sumner,
from the softening of the BRAIN Washington
Organ.
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Such is the exclamation of q Buchanan Pro-
Slavery paper, to the announcement that q hui
wsp being-a man of noble intellect, scholar,
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tho Administration of Mr.. Madison, as corrupt.
Nothing is ssid o. Mr.. Buchanan's efforts to
prevent the admission Of Missouri into the
Union as slave State, and of his hearty OPP
position to Slavery and Slavery-exte nsion in
the beginning of bis political career. This
part of his political life is passed over in ST.
lence-the author doubtless regarding it as
che fruit of youthful indiscretion and the
offender having sincerely repented and reform
ed, it would of course os unkind and indeli-
cate 10 allude to it. On the contrary, con-
spicuous place is given to his efforts in behalf
of Slavery and particularly to the
Ostend Conference, of which Mr.. Buchanan
was the head; and the Ostend Manifesto, in
which war is threatened against Spain, unless
she yi.l sell Cuba to the United States, as the
only means Of preventing emancipation.
Mr.. Buchanan has no element of popularity
in his character, and the events of his life are
barren Of interest The sham Democracy will
have a dull time Of it in wading through q
earbled compilation of "sta;s snd unpro6t-
able~ demagoguical speeches. We are sorry
70, them. We advise them to throw it aside
and take up ia ;ts place any one of the stirring
Lives of Fremont which Iaay fall in their way
They will find in them the eventfui career Of Z
real man, whose heroic deeds in peace and wal
have added alike new domains to the republic
of letters, and q uey empire to his country
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official edition. IN vol syo cloth, GD3 pages 20 plates
and large map, 81 by 81 inches folded and detached
few copies OF this now and than ever IN
teresing work for sale - each. Will be sent by
mail, free OF posageto any part OF the Union on the
receipt of that Also,
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05
Glorious MaryIandf

The returns from Maryland, thus far, indi-
cate majority for the American ticket of
nearly, if not quite, 10000 votes
The American goes out of Baltimore city
and county 5000 ahead of the Democratic
ticket In Frederick it receives 500 majority,
in Hartford 800, and in Carroll and Howard it
leads the Democratic ticket On the Eastern
Shore, Buchanan has probably received small
majority. In the Potomac counties, below
this city, he has run well, with the exception
of Prince Georges, where it is reported that
Fillmore has 125 majority. In Montgomery,
Fillmore is also reported to be 100 ahead, with
one precinct to hear from
From Washington and Allegheny we have
few returns at this writing.
We congratulate the gallant Americans and
Wings Of Maryland on the unparalleled yicto-
ry they have achieved. They have attained
position in the ranks of the American party Of
the nation more glorious than that Of any
other State in the Union. Long NAV they
continue to hold this glorious position, and TO
maintain their present ascendepcy until Amer
lean principles are established as the law Of
the land
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05
Not Out of the Woods YETI!

Notwiths anding the boastings of the sham
Democrats that they would sweep the coun-
try, and notwithstanding the advantages they
acquired by their infamous and unblushng
frauds at the election in Pennsylvania on the
18th ult, by reason of which they made an i'm
preston favorable to the success of Old Buck
upon other States, they are still trembling in
anticipation of defeat, and cannot yet venture
to expend the government powder in the way
of rejoicing Sensible people, these political
wireworkers of Forneyism, not to shout till
they are out Of the woods Albeit the expec-
tations of the Americans have not been real
lied in New York and New Jersey, the sham
Democrats are far more sadly disappointed in
Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hamp-
shire, nor have they anything to boast of in
Pennsylvania, where they have only succeeded
through the dissensiens of their opponents.
The contest is over, and few days will set.
tie the question as 10 Buchanans election by
the people, and we therefore cannot be charged
with expressing an opinion for effect, when
we say that we do not believe he will receive a
majority of the electoral votes We do not be-
lieve he viii be the President of the United
States, now or hereafter We may err in our
judgment Of the probable vote of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Louisiana, California, and the
Northwestern States but if the opinions Of
our friends in the four States first aboye-named
can be relied on, the election must 60 into the
House, where it is morally impossible that Blu.
chanan can be elected. The Northwestern
States will in all probability 60 for Fremont,
with the possible exception of Indiana and
thus Buchanan may receive about so votes in
the slave States, and "a votes in the free States,
Ito wit Pennsylvania and New Jersey,) and
if Indiana be added thereto, he will receive AZ
votes from the free States, and 80 from the
slave States-making total Of 129 electoral
votes, or 20 less than bare majority.
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05
Change i'm the American Organ.

We have for some time contemplated q
change in our daily issue, in two respects
first, to make it a morning paper, and second,
to enlarge it to the size Of our present weekly,
or about the size Of the National Ipteltigsn-
Ger. These changes wil however, only be
made in the event of the election of Mr. Fill
more, who, in our opinion, will be elected, il
the election shall be thrown into the House of
Representatives If either of the opposing
candidates shall be elected, the daily issue will
be indefinitely suspended 1t is our present
purpose to continue the weekly issue without
reference to the result of the Presidential con-
test.
1t is impossible for daily paper to be sus-
tanned in Washington without government
patronage No Daily has hitherto been sus-
tanned here without such patronage, and none
can be- The American Organ establishment
has sunk thousands of dollars by its daily
issue.
Two years will have expired on the 14th Of
this present month, since the american organ
was commenced, and we shall continue the
daily issue until the end of the two years,
when the daily will be suspended, and be re-
sumed on the 1st day of January next, in the
event of the success of the American Presiden-
tial candidate, but not otherwise. The weekly
will be continued as usual, and in the event
that the daily shall not be resumed, we
shall have two issues of the weekly, one for
circulation in this city and neighborhood,
which will contain matter interesting to our
subscribers here, including city advertisements
and city intelligence, and the other for our dis
tant subscribers.
All persons indebted to the american Or
gan will please liquidato their accounts by the
18th instant, to enable us to meet our liabii-
ties
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05
Texas.


BY an arrival from Galveston We have received
files of Texas papers to the 25th ultimo. We clip
the following items from the Galveston papers
We learn that the notorious Bob Augustian, I"
who has figured conspicuously through the West
for number of years past desperate and as
sociate Of " Bill Johnson" has been tried at the
rece nj court in San Antonio, convicted and SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary, for
sault with intent to kill He manifested the most
perfect apathy and indifference during the trial,
but after the verdict he shed tears, and said he
had rather be shot.
We learn that the jury who brought in this YER
dict receive special credit this is the first con-
victon in that place of an American, among 80
many daring and desperate characters who congre-
gate on the frontiers. We believe we have here
tofore announced that Bill johnson is in Jail at Sc
gum There are, therefore, some encouraging
signs that our penal laws may not always continue
a dead letter. e
The first through train from Richmond via the
Tap road, came into Houstol last Monday even
ing, bringing over two car loads of cotton.
At Richmond 653 bales of cotton were received
| last week.
IsDIASoLA.--The Bulletin says that business has
| fairly commenced at Indianola. There is a con-
| tinual stream Of wagons pouring III daily Cotton
is coming in freely, and from what can learn,
the crop will be an average one. Some few pecans
have already been shipped, and we understand that
there will he good crop for expectation"
The Liberty Gazette mentions two pretty con-
| siderable frosts in that neighborhood last week,
the first of the season. That paper says, Last
| year we had no killing frost till the Esd of De-
| cember." t, r.s.
The first frost of this season visited Brazoria
county last week
The schooner Sarah Jordan, Captain Lakes left
the mouth of the Bernard for Galveston the 9Th
Septembev, and has not since been heard Of She
was laden with sugar and cotton, from the planta-
ton of Mr.. David Jordan, consigned to Messrs. r.
& d. G. Mills. Besides the captain, there was
crew of four men. 1t Is feared that all have been
Host.
Texas Wharf.-The Harrison Flag gives as an
instance of the prolific nature of wheat, the result
of an experiment in that county by farmer who
planted five bushels of seed-wheat last fall, from
which he secured one hundred and fifty bushels,
weighing sixty-two pounds to the bushel
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05

yond ChambersbuFg. The Easton line was broken
three times and mended twice. The Pottsyie
line is down, ard the Southern line only working
to Fredericksburg, IL is suspected that the wires
have been cut.
DauPhin, Fusion majority between seven and
eight hundred.
Monroe cosnty, Democratic plurality over Fu-
sion, I,s00.
Thirty-seyen districts in Berts county give Bu-
chanan 1857 Fusion, 1884. Buchanan's major
ty win be about 1000.
Democratic pluralities over fusion--SchuyIkill
$500; Perry, 700; Chester, 500; Monroe, 1S0;
Columbia, 900; Northumberland, ,425; Mont.
gomery, 3,700; Miffiin gives fusion majority Of
17S.
Clearheld county $50 plurality for Buchanan.
Democratic gain of 90.
DELAWARE
Small Democratic majorites are reported where
heard from, Three wards in Wilmington give 172
Democratic majority.
Wilmington, complete, gives Buchanan ma
jority of 1862, being gain of 20.
Christiana Hundred, 173 Buchanan majority
The returns from this State are complete Bu-
chanan's majority, 1858. Whiteley (Democrat) is
elected to Congress by 1000 majority. The Le-
| gisature is Democratic
VIRGINIA.
| The city of alexandria gives Fillmore s52, Bu-
chanan 648; Fillmore's majority in the county,
| 62 in the city and county, 266.
In Fredericksburg Buchanan's majority is 49,
Taylor county is reported to have given Bueha-
nan majority of 100.
Berkeley county gives 150 majority for Bucha-
nan.
Both the Southern and Western lines are down.
Spottsylvana about one hundred and seventy
| majority for the Democrats.
Caroline county large Democ attic gains
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05

ANCIENT CANOE DIscovRRED. = Three fisher
men at Asnieres France, have discovered an an
cieut canoe buried beneath sand bank in the
river From its form it is supposed that it was
used by the Normans in their invasion of Paris
1t is an immense trunk of oak, about eighty feet
long, followed out, and capable of holding sixty
men, Il is well known that the Hormans, in nd
dition to their large wicker work boats had other
very long ones for purposes of war, formed Of
hard wood, and it ia supposed that this is one Of
them. There is striking resemblance between
this and the barks of the pirates Of the ninth CEN
tury
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05

Costa Rica, which has entered into the war
against Nicaragua and Walker with so mueh spirit
and success, is in very good credit pecunarly and
has quite an effective army. The army of the Re
public consists of militia force of seven thousand
one hundred and eightyseven men, including Off
GERS. All males between eighteen and forty years
of age are obliged 70 enroll and attend drill for a
certain number Of days Ii. the year. The govern
ment has respectablss number Of cannon and an
arrnory, to which stock Of one thousand Minnie
rifles has lately been added The entire cost Of
the army, according to thy estimates of 1855, was
seventy-eight thousand dollars. IL is said that o
number of foreign residents have joined the Costa
Ricans in the present war, aud these are as good
soldiers as one-half of Walkers army, composed
OF German, French, and other European adventu
rers
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05

The Hon. Thomas II. Benton has accepted an
invitation to deliver lecture in the course before
the Boston Mercantile Library Association this
winter. Mr.. Benton will repeat his lecture before
the Newburyport Lyceum. The Newburyport
Herald says, Mr. Benton's lecture will be upon the
Union, to deepen the love for it, both North and
South, and cement the attachment to it that it
may never be broken. II will not be Of party
character st. .a-at In
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05

AN OLD LANDMARK GoNE--The wellknown res
taurant, the Cafe de Paris, has now disappeared
from the Boulevard des Italiens. The lease of the
premises having expired, Lord Seymour, the pro-
prietor of The house, wished to follow the general
movement OF the rise in rent, and, in place of
20,ooof year, demanded 76,ooof. for the ground
floor, Tie owner Of the cafe would not 60 be-
yond 50,ooof, and the establishment no longer
exists.
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05

The affidavit of four respectable mechanics Of
Florida, who applied for work in the government
workshops, states that the reason assigned for a
refusal was that they were opposed to the present
administration, and :" that naster workmen dare
not employ men who differ from them in politics.
But the Civil Engineer intimated that if they
Joined the keystone Club, Or brought recon-
mendation from it they might be employed
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05
The United States Of America and the u. II.
of Creation.
AN ANALYSIS OF ANALOGIEs.

| We frequently observe, upon examination, a
strange analogy and similitude between subjects
supertcially aDtagonistc and divided 1t is very
serviceable mental exercise to trace out these es-
sental, though not patent similarities; and, if no
better purpose is subserved, it at least quickens
| the wit and affords us rational amusement. An
analogy gilmore than usual interest, and between
subjects more than commonly divided, has just
occsrred to us, and, for examples sake, we shall
endeaSor to follow it and see how far it leads.
Who could believe, for instance, that an analogy
subsisted between our country and pill And
yet there is, in many points, radical simlitude,
as we shall now prove.
In every branch of physical development it
seems to be our destiny to conquer. In every
branch of physical disease, the Pills and Ointment
Of Professor Holloway have proved eficacious for
a cure.
With population inferior to Great Britain, we
have more miles of telegraph and railroad than
England, France, and Austria combined. From
his central establishment in London, Prof Hollo.
way has rescued aud restored to health more pa
tients than the United physicians Of the world.
Our commerce and our fame cover every sea-
His Pills are in the reach and his praise is on the
tongue o: every nation on the globe.
The elastic character Of our institutions enables
us TO accommodate our growth to the accessions
which manfestly in reserve for us. The strict
ly universal principles upon which Holloways
pie with and overcome every variety of disease
they destroy the manifestations of ament by erad-
icating its cause.
There is mighty destiny in store for the Uni
ted States; they will absorb eventually every
weaker government by. the force of the democratic
idea. The idea OF Prof. Holloway's Universal
Remedies is essentially democratic; it does not
limit health to wealth, but gives it free boon to
all who ask for and employ it. 1t also will event
ually absorb all inferior schools of practice and be
regarded universally Gas it already is by the wise)
as the supreme and only remedy.
Our country is much given to annexation, but
uses whatever power it may acquire exclusively
for the benefit Of the annexed Professor Hollo-
way has extended his medicinal dominion over the
four quarters of the earth-he has penetrated even
the remotest haunts OF the barbarian and vet he
carries blessings in his hand and the only burdens
he imposes are those of happiness and health
We could carry out the remarkable similitudes
of these apparently disconnected subjects into in
finite detail; but enough has been already said to
arouse the attention of the reader, and very
little thought will enable him to follow up the
train of meditation we have started. The proud |
est destiny that we wish the United States is
that they may emulate in the body polite the |
wonder-working usefulness of the U. r. universal
remedies) in the body physical Let our states
men look to it, and see that we are not outstrr-
ped IN. Y. Nat. Police Gazette.
Daily American organ., 1856-11-05

PHILADELPHIA NAVY YARD.--The Minnesota has
undergone the operation of copper sheathing, and
repairs are still going on. She is not expected to
be ready for sea previous to next spring, though,
ifnecessity required, she could be fitted out in 60
days. Her engines are the first made by the Uni
ted States Government on their own responsibility,
the engines in use hitherto being made and sup
Piled by contractors. The engines have each
above 750 horse power, and work admirably.