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Riot in Baltimore.

The desperation of tho Buccaneers
OF Baltimore at the late election for
Mayor, has no parallel short of the
scenes OF riot and murder that disgrace
ed Louisville short time ago. The
Irish, armed by the Locofocos, boldly
attcmptedto take several of the Wards
by storm, and prevent Americans from
voting. Several were killed and many
wounded in the battles at the Wards.
Two men were shot dead by deliberate
aim, with muskets belonging to the U.
5. service, in the hands of priest-ridden
lrishmcn--one Of the men leaves de-
pendent family-a widow and orphans,
made so to appeasc Irish Locofoco hate
of Americans (! A little child, for the
crime of hurrahing for SWAMI, the A.
merican candidate, was deliberately
shot at by a hurley Irishman, and the
musket-ball passed through his jacket
A young man, from Washington, was
shot down and bayoneted in the street,
and not satisfied with this, the demons
incarnate could not rest--one of their
number walked up to his PROSTATE body
whence life was rapidly ebbing, level
ed his musket at the head of the dying
man, and put musket ball through it!
Another was picked up who had seyen
bullets in his body! The details, as
published in the Baltimore Clipper, and
occupying nearly two columns of that
paper, are sickening in the extreme.
Notwithstanding all this, however, the
Americans carried the city for Swami,
by the glorious majority of 1,500 votes.
1t was glorious victory of American
ism over Foreignism-of the ballot-box
over the cartridge-box. Gallant Balti-
more; she has covered herself all over
with glory; and will do still better in
November.
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TWO WEEKS MORE.

But two weeks remain of the Presi-
dental canvass, and what we do for the
cause of Fillmore, Donelson and the
Union, must be done at once and ener-
>getically. Rally our forces, and a
rouse our friends to the great import
ance of the crisis, and the final result
of the struggle. We entreat you as
friends Of the Union, undivided and sa-
cred, to stand firm and unwavering in
support Of our country's hope, FILL
MORE & DONELSON. 1t is your
duty as conservative men and patriots
to do all that in you lies to elect these
men, standing as they do on the broad
platform of tho Constitution and the
Union. For them, as for the country
of our birth and choice, the proudcst
under Heaven, let us RALLY with
firm and unbroken phalanx. We bat
tie for the right, then let no friend of
FILLMORE faltcr.
The friends of Buchanan went into
this canvass, determined to carry it by
the game of BRAG! They buster,
and blow, and swear, and lie, and offer
to bet from plate of oysters to their
finest horse--but it's all for effect
Take the Pennsylvania election for in
stance. They blow about having 90
900 for their ticket, while the returns
show it to have gone against them.---
Let no friend of Fillmore be discour-
aged or cast down by Locofoco brag-
ging. 1t is oil the capital they have
in this campaign. 1t is worse than
folly to pay any attention to their brag-
gadocio. They only use it to cast you
down, and discourage you.
ORGANIZER ORGANIZED
Friends of Fillmore, and get out the
vote in every precinct. 1t is due to the
glorious men who are our candidates
1t is the demand Of patriotism to rally
for the UNION! Go to work, then,
nobly, and work on until tho battle is
over. Old and young, friends of Fill.
more, Wings and Americans, put your
shoulders to the wheel, and do your
whole duty. Disunion, treason and
rebellion stalk forth through the land,
and section is arrayod against section
Where do your hopes Of peace and
national prosperity centre, if not in
WILLARD FILLMORE?
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HALF SHEET.

BY reason of vexatious delay in
the receipt Of a lot Of paper ordered in
time to have reached us for this paper,
we arc compelled to furnish our read
ers half sheet, only. This course is
rendered the more necessary too, now,
because the Locofocos are blowing, and
Dragging, and LYING in regard to
the State elections of last Tuesday
We regret, exceedingly, the disappoint-
ment, but cannot help it. 1t is the
first of the kind we have encountered,
and we hope it may be the last.
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aBaarrffu:

On the 30th Of September, by Ed.
G. G. Conn, Mr.. ELEAzER ARNgTT to
Mrs. JANE Lone, all of Monongala
county.
On the 10th of October, by the same,
Mr.. JOHN CoRBIN REppERr, of Mon
ongalia county, to Miss ARTAlIssA
SnRoYER, daughtcr,of Mr.. Jno. Shroy-
or, OF Fayette county. Pa.
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IMPORTANT SALE
or ReNE Estate.

Onthe Fourth Monday In November next,
" (lS66) the Undersigned Commissioners sp-
pointed for tho purpose by u decree al the Cir
cult Court at Monongal;a county, Virginia late
~ rendered therein, will cell ON public ground,
before the Court House door OF said county, all
that valuable property lying and being in said
county, on Cheat River, formerly known as the
electromagnetic iroa VOrks,''--morc reccnt.y MS
the "Prideoaie Iron IPcrks"--comprising ~ clvc
or thirteen thousand acres of Land, several Fur
naces, several valuable Farms, fIst rate Flout-
ing Mill, with exhaustlcss water power and oth-
or valuable manufacturing facilities.
Terms,
Said Property will be sold on a cfcdi, &c elk,
twelve, eighteen and twenty four months, with
interest on each instrument from tho day of sale
The purchaser will be required to execute bonds
with good security for the payment Of the pur-
chase money. T.. e. WILSON,
w. 4. WILEY,
Morgantown. Oct. 10, 1896. Commissioners.
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puehanan,a Roliiical xzistoru.

The following condensed history of
the Squatter Sovereign candidate is
faithful to the life. We challenge con-
tradiction:
He has been upon all sides Of all
questions and faithful to none.
He has been opposed to the Demo
cratic party and is now its standard
bearer.
He has denounced foreigners, and
now endorses the principle of placing
them in perfect equality with native
born citizens, as soon as they land in
the Territories; no matter whether they
can speak a word of our language, or
have not been in the country a week.
He was an anti-War Federalist and
is now Fillibuster Democrat.
lie favored United States Bank g.
is now anti-Bank.
lie has voted for every tariff ever
passed by Congress, when he was
member, and is now the candidate of
party protesting to be anti-tariff at the
South and tariff at the North, all of
whom are on a freetrade platform.
He has been for and against the
Bankrupt law.
He has been against and for the
Missouri Compromise.
He is in favor of the most gigantic
internal Improvement measure ever
proposed, the Pacific Railroad, a grand
scheme to rob the Government, and is
the candidate of party protesting to
be against internal improvement.
He has been consistent but upon
single question, and that is opposition
to Southern institutions and Southern
interests; he opposed the admission of
Missouri because her constitution toll
Grated slavery; he voted for Texas an
nexation, ashe said himself, because he
thought it would limit slavery by abo-
litionizing Maryland, Virginia, Ken
lucky, and Missouri, and probably o.
thcr States. And he now advocates
squatter sovereignty, which the whole
South has repeatedly declared is worse
than the Wilmot Proyiso.'
This is a faithful sketch Of this polit-
ical trimmer and intriguor. Cut it out
and preserve it as o pocket manual,
Aag. Geo. Sen.
nssy~ The hog trade has opened, and
hogs were quoted on the 18th in Gin
oinnati ut So 25a5 so per hundred lbs.
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STATE ELECTORAL TICKET.

LIST DIST. JAMES G. HOLIDAY, Norfolk CO.
Cd JOHN POLLARD, Of Petersburg.
81 F." WILLIAM MARTIN, OF Henry,
4th Til. M. BoNDURANT, Buckingh'm
9Th WILLIAM Nj. CABELL, of Nelson,
9th " JOHN Minor BORIS, Richmond
9TH GEORGE Z. VERY, Northampton,
9Th JOHN CRIrcHER, Westmoreland,
9th b. II SHAcKELFoRD, Fauquer,
10th 4 ALEX. Il. BoTELER, Jefferson,
1lth JOHN ID. lMBoDEN, Augusta,
18th WALLER r. STAPLES, Moutgom y
18th Isaac J. LErTwICH, Wythe,
l4th BENJAMIN II SMITH, Kanawha,
18th J. w. GALLAHER, of Marshall.
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lie IS a strange character. He sig
nalized his ability as a fnancier and q
statesman by recommending in his mes
sage to theLegislaturc a tar on oysters.
In his late speech at Richmond he has
equally signalized his ability as mil
itary man, in new mode he has deyi-
SGD for raising the necessary soldiers
fsrcarrying on his projected civil war.
That we may not be suspected of do
ing him injustice, we quote the follow
ing from his speech ver6atim:
What they consider our weakness
We will prove to be our strength. With
a proper knowledge of military discip-
line, | will prove that our faithful
slaves can and will rcpel theBlack Re-
publicans and their traitorous allies
who may invade US.
The Reporter of the speech says:-
"These remarks were received with
vociferous cheers" What specimen
of the sense of this man and his follow
ers! They wish to precipitate the
South into civil war, and then, to car
ny it on successfully, they propose to
arm and discipline the slaves. Yet he
tells the improbable story that the peo-
pie at Kanawha Saline have to pay 80
dollars night to guard against the
escape of fugitive slaves. He says:--
"You might as well own thousand
dollars floating on chip in the Ohio
river as to own slave worth thou
sand dollars on the banks of that stream
in the limits of Virginia" The policy
of Virginia has heretofore been to keep
slaves apart as much as possible and
to prohibit their having arms. two'd
be "a singular reverse of this policy,
strange mode of preventing them from
running away, to band them together
in large bodies, discipline them, and
place arms in their hands. If slave
property is now SO insecure, does Gov.
Wise suppose that he illrender it a.
ny the less so by disunion2 The slave
owners in the Virginia counties bor-
dering on the Ohio hold them by more
precarious tenure than in any other
part of the State. Has any one man
in those counties ever advised disunion
as remedy for the evil? We are
credibly informed that disunionist
would be as hard to find in any of those
counties as he would be in Kentucky.
We have been told that many of the
larger shareholders located on tho Ohio
in the State are talking of removing
them to safer localities in the South,
but we venture to affirm that not a
man among them has ever thought of
disunion as a means of adding security
to that kind of property.
Yet Gov. Wise is probably the most
popular and influential leader of the
Democracy in the South. If policy
had not made the party seek its can
didate in the North, he would now
most probably be the candidate of the
party for the Presidency. He and
such as he are the very men who will
control the Government if Buchanan is
elected. They will do no one thing to
conciliate the difficulties between the
North and the South, but will do eve
rything to widen the breach and aggra-
yate the quarrel. What can any sane
man look for as the upshot of the mis-
rule of such men for four years but
that which they are now threatening
disunion and civil war.
Louisville Journal.
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LAND SALE.

John Robinson, Plaintiff,
VS..
James RICE and wife, Defendants.
PURSUANT to decree rendered by the Cir
a cult Court OF Preston county, Virginia. on
the 10th day of August, 1856, between the above
named parties, the Undersigned, as Commission
er, will, on the
Second Monday IN Nocem6er nest,
(being Court day. proceed to sell at the Court
House in Kingwood, the tract of Land in said
decree described, containing about 200.acres
lying on Laurel Run, the North part of Pres
ton equity, near the old Patterson farm; being
the same tract formerly owned by Robert Pat
terson, deceased.
SAID tract has considerable improvements
thereon, and will be sold upon credit of six
anu twelve months, the purchaser giving bond
ana security with interest from the day of salo
for the purchase money.
EDGARC. WILSON, Comm'r.
October s, 1856. 6S Ia
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FAIRMONT RALLY!

Don't forget the GRAND RALLY
at Fairmont next Thursday. BOLTS
and CARLILE will be there, certain.
A large Delegation will leave here on
Thursday morning, at 4 OF 5 o'clock,
70. the meeting. Come aud join It's.
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ELECTORAL TICKETS.

We will print Electoral Tickets in n
few days. Adjoining counties wanting
them will please send in their orders at
onco--the time is short. We will fur.
nish them at the low price of $500
per thousand,
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. CHAPMAN CROW Il
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
The Very Latest News Il

We have the Baltimore Patriot of
Thursday evening, which gives the re-
suit of the Pennsylvania election in all
but eight counties, as follows:
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16.
The following is recapitulation of
the'voto in Pennsylvania. The figures
have mostly been received by telegraph
and official returns may slightly differ,
but not sufficiently to alter the general
result:
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TIE Kansas Elections.--The Union
learns from gentleman who was in
Kansas at tho election, and who reach
ed Washington on Monday, that the O.
lec,ions went off quietly, and that Gov.
ernor Geary had made every necessary
arrangement TO secure to every voter the
unmoIested exercise of this privilege
The anti.slavery voters, however, declin-
ed to avail themselves of their rights and
flowing their opponents to carry the O.
lection without contest. General Whit
field was voted for Congress by the pro-
slavery party and is elected.
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KsoMxw-n,nAe 6Iothia,g.

Oar assortment in this line is too large for us
10 attempt TO onumerato, and we will just say
.nat VIC can trim OUT all sorts and sizes Of folks
from Young d,nericd, to sOd Eoev ,---frem iftiie
70 big, with any article Of good and substantial,
hne and fancy Clothing that you can ask for
oct. III. RoGERs 81 FooLE.
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Sept, ~, 1856. Commissioners.
SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

- ~ vi
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.
I NPursuance of Decree of the Circuit Court
l. OF Monongalia county, rendered at the Sep
TENDER term, 1856, of said Court in the case of
Daniel Brewer vs. Anna Brewer and Others
shall proceed, a
On tie 4M Monday Of October mc1t,
(that being Court.day) in front of the Court
house in Morgantown, to sell at public auction
to the highest bidder, on credit of six, twelve
and eighteen months, the One Hundred and Six
Acre Tract of Land in the proceedings mentions
ed, II being the same tract that was purchased
by Christopher Brewer, SEM, decd, from Chris
TOPPER Brewer, jun, and by Christopher Brewer,
jun from Enoch Brewer -si,uated on the wat
ers OF Scotps Run in said county, adjoining the
100 acre tract owned by said Christopher brewer
SEN, III the proceedings mentioned on which
he resided at the time OF his decease, adjoining
lands OF Jacob Shieyey, Lemuel Butcher and
others; and in case the proceeds Of the sale OF
said LOG acre tract shall not be sufficient to dis
charge the debts due from the estate of Christo-
pher Brewer, sem, decd, and the costs of said
suit, shall also, at the same time and place.
and on the same terms and conditions, sell SO
much of said 100 tract as shall be sufficient
to satisfy said debts and costs. The purchaser
or purchasers at said sale will be required TO
give bonds bearing interest from date of sale,
and security for the purchase money, and lien
viii also be retained on the Land sold until the
same is paid. II. L. BERKSHIRE,
september ~, 1906. Commissioner.
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EUGENE M. WILSON,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
WINoNA MINNESOTA TERRITORY

(roRMERIY or MoReANTowN, vA.)
MILL buy and sell Real Estate in town and
:. w country, locate Land ,enter Land on time
ior settlers, loan Money, sell Land Warrants,
&c; large quantity Of town property & coun-
" Land on hand and for sale at reasonable rates.
u Office on Centre street, near the Leyee.
August 30, 1856.
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NOTICE TO TAKE DISPOSITIONS,

Charles b. Hamilton and othors,)
t VS.. I u, rI,,....
Allen Robinett. -
MIR. ALLEN ROBINETT.-You
VIII please take notice that on the 10Th day of
November next, at the house of John Howard
ESQ., IN independence, Preston county, va,
shaii take the deposition of Amos Candy and
Others, to be used as evidence in the case of
Charles s. Hamilton and others VS.. Allen Robi-
nett IN Chancery, now pending IN the Circuit
Court OF Preston county, Virginia and if, fro m
any cause, sara depositions are not taken on
that day, the taking of the same will be oontin-
ued rom day to day, until said depostions are
taken. SAMUEL BYRNE,
one Of the compliments.
October l., 1856. 60 I'd
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Totals, 81,195 29,791 1902 23,911
29,791 1902

I'm. maj, 1924 Dem. maj. 1884
From the above it will be seen that
the majority for the Union ticket so far
is 2,204. The eight counties to come
in, viz: Blair. Elk, Forrest, Fayette,
Juniatta, Mexican, Venango, and War
rem, gave the Union ticket last year a
majority of 1918, and if they voted on
Tuesday as they did then, the Union
ticket will! have majority of 3,417.-
The contest has been a close one, and
while we believe the Union ticket has
succeeded, it is likely the actual result
will only be known when the official
returns are published,
OHIO -
Has gone for the Black Republicans by
a large majority.
INDIANA
Is doubtful. The returns are conflict.
ing and unsatisfactory
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Tbcro were $4,000 arrivals a, Saraio.
toga during tho past season.
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nssy~ The hog trade has opened, and
hogs were quoted on the 18th in Gin
cinnati at So 25a5 so per hundred lbs.
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PROCLAMATION.

yUu HtTUUy 10 IssUt Your orders 10
the Generals of Divisions, 10 The Colonels,
Captains, and other subaltern officers, com.
mIssioned and non'commissoned, to collect
and enrol their respective men under their
command, to give them their GiiIeren, STA
tions in the companies or regiments to which
they belong, to give them their arms, to
have them drilled regularly after the most
approved military laws, to be ready al mo-
ment's warning TO march to the Young
America Clothing Store,p ID. II S,ine's)and
to buy their Winter Clothing. OF their
cheapness and durability have been duly
appriZed.
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LAST NOTICE.

!. ~ = q NVNINII
a LII PERSONS knowing themselves TO
IA be indebted to the uadersigned either
by note or book account, are hereby notified
to pay up by the LIST Of November, longer
indulgence cannot be given. / intend to
close up my business by that time, and re-
quest all my customers 10 heed this notice.
LEWIS WOODS.
Morgontown, Oct. 2, 1856,
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SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE,

IN MoNoNGALIA COUNTY, VA.
pursuance of a decree OF the Circuit Court
Il OF Monongala county, rendered on Saturday
the 18th instant, as special commissioners ap.
pointed by said court, in the case pending in
said court, wherein j. H. Bowlbey, ct al, arc
plaintiffs, and Elijah Tarleton, ct ali, are defon
dants, we will, on the
Fourth Monday in October nent,
that being the first day of the October term Of
the County Court OF Monongalia county, in front
OF the court house door in Morgantown, in said
county of Monongalia, at public outcry, sell to
the highest bidder the land in the bill and pro-
ceedings mentioned, on credit of six, twelve
and eighteen months, with interest from the day
OF sale, the purchaser or purchasers arc required
to give bonds with approved security and q lien
retained on the land until all the purchase mo-
ney is paid, the said tracts of land lying in Mo-
nongaiia county, on tho Bridgeport and Nor
gantown Turnpike road, about 8 miles south of
Morgantown. On one tract of said land Elijah
Tarlcton resides, and on said Farm there is a
GOOD DWELLING HOUSE,
STABLES OUTBUILDINGS.
All of said lands in good state of cultiya.
non-hne land for grazing and grain-growing
The said lands lay well, and are well watercd.
These Farms possess advantages that no other
farms IN the Western part of the State do. Mr..
Tarleton heretofore was an extensive dealer in
Stock, consequently the land has been impro.
we'd instead of being reduced by grain growing.
Would suggest to all
Stock KRaisers 81 GraZiers,
to examine this Land before the day of SALE
We will sell said Tracts of Land in four several
parcels or all in one tract, first crying it sepa-
rateiy, then all together, then separately, and it
they bring the best price separately or all to-
gether, they will then be sold altogether. The
Land will be sold as plated and laid of by
Col. James Evans, and containing by estimation
some 900 acres. On one small tract of said land
there are
Good Frame Dwelling House & Saw Mill,
which will be sold separate. The title to said
Iand is thought TO be indisputable, but selling
as Commissioner we will only convey such ii.
tie as is vested in us by said decree.
+. p. FITCH,
r. j.. BERKSHIRE,