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THE ELECTION IN ALABAMA.

The election in Alabama, like that in Texas proved
to be one-sded affair The State is democratic to
the core ! Not vestige is left of know-nothngism
Mobile once the stronghold of Sam, gives four hum
dred majority for the democrats Her redemption is
thus noticed in the Mobile Register, the day after
the election
1.-THE battle has been fought and victory won. The
flag of triumph floats proudly from mast head and
the thunter of cannon proclaims the joyous tidings
Over every combination which could be formed against u.s.
when the enemy had stolen warcry, and
sumed the guardianship of those sacred southern rights
which the democracy from the foundation of the govern
ment have preserved with jealous vgilanceover diys-
ion and desertion in ranks have achiev.l a
glorious victory For brief period schism and dssenson
threatened to disember the party and from every col
umn of the opposition organ famed in exutant capitals
the story of euds But true to the patriotic prnc
pies and instincts which have guided the democracy
all minor differences hushed all tring disagree
ments buried and when the day of struggle came in
broken phaanx with shield locked to shield the old
guard marched to battle and to triumph. I'VE have
met the enemy and they are ours"
We give below the vote of the Sd congressional
district the most vigorously contested district in the
State
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WAR DEPARTMENT,

Further Intelligence ~ Relation 10 he Indian Difficulties in
Minnesota. "a letter received by the War Depart
ment yesterday morning from Major Sherman dated Fort
Rdgely Major Sherman states that he had just return
ed from Yellow Medicine, the Sioux agency. His pres
there with his battery of light artillery saved the
agency from destruction and struck terror into the In
dams. This letter confirms the telegraphc despatch
which was received by the Department the 2sth
ultimo.
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In the States of Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee,
North Carolina and Alabama congressional elections
were held last week, and, although full and complete
returns have not been received, believe that the
actual result will verify the correctness of the figures
as given above. Surprising no changes occurring
int the remaining four States, where elections
to be held the next House of Representatives will
stand as follows;
Blk Rep. X. Vacancies
Members already elected ITO 81 8
Members from Maryland
Georgia, Mississippi, and
Louisiana, they stood
IN 1aat Copo
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The Hon. John A. Quitman has been renominated,
without opposition, the democratic candidate FOR
Congress from the fifth district of Mississippi
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THE NEXT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
POSTING THE BOOKS

Elections for members of the House of Represent
atives of the next Congress have now been held in
all the States of the Union with the exception of
Maryland, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana, with
the following result:
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The city inspector of New York reports SOL deaths in
that city during the past weekan increase of 20 as COM
pared with the mortality of the week previous The In
crease Is mainly due to the prevalence Of cholera nfan
tuIn, .~ '.s -.-~---- ~-sii (,
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The House of Representatives consists of 234
members--11s members constituting majority. AS
the case now stands-allowing change in the four
States where elections to be heldthe democrats
will have majority srtee in the next House This
majority think will be increased to eighteen, the
two vacancies in the Pennsylvania and Indiana dele
cations WILL in all probability, be filed by democrats
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WASHINGTON CITY.
TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST II. 1857.

ysr NJ Montgomery, Alabama general trav-
cling agent Of Alabama and Tennessee, assisted o
JAMES o. and H. NJ. IKwE,ir.
H-sr W. Harrison street. Cincinnati, ohio our
general collecting agent m and Texas assisted by
II j. rHomAs wniAM THoNAs, THes d. JAals Dr. A enlis
GEORGE Receipts Of either VIII be good
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The Mbaesota Indian Difficulties Letter from The SPECIAL
Agent qft; Dsoarttnz Subjoned is copy of the letter
received yesterday morning by the Commissioner Of In
dian Affairs from Mr. X Pnchette, who recently sent
to Minnesota the special agent of the Indian Depart
ment
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TILE ELEcrIoN IN TEXAS.

county reported have given small majority
Mason
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sign nau Deen 10 confuse the puDHc lnnu ana create
doubts among those interested Congress could not
have been more successful This uncertainty has
led and will for years to come, to vexatious pro-
ceedings in the Patent Office, and endless litiga-
ton before the courts. Several circuit courts are
crowded with patent that all other business
is, for weeks at time, substantially blocked up
The act contains provisions so full of alb
surdty that common-sense trial seems to be nearly
impossible, while the difficulties are greatly height
ened by judicial re6nements neither authorized by
statute sustained by any reasoning or necessity
the bar. single trial has been permitted to last
some eight or ten weeks which, ifproperly managed
need not have occupied one. The fault is first with the
law and afterwards with the bar and court while it
is ruinous to the parties and highly injurious to
other suitors. Even under the absurdities of the
present law, such trials are unnecessary to deter
mine the rights of the parties as has been demon
strated in two circuits, where more rational mode
OF proceeding has recently prevailed
But the present law utterly fails in carrying out
the provisions of the constitution. II neither pro-
tects the public from imposition nor secures to the
inventor the exclusive use of his invention. Rely
ing upon the Patent Office to exclude all useless and
Invalid patents, the public are daily imposed upon
and pay high prices for the most absurd conrivances
got up, OF course, to bleed the crcdulous All the
vigilance OF the office cannot avoid these things
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STEAM MACHINERY FOR SCREW PRO
PELLER sLOOP-OF-wAR.
NV pr.srsHr.


December TO- 1887
ctHALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Proposals for
- Machinery Tor SCREW Propeller soopo WAR wiz be 70
The complete construction mAchney and appendsSes,
placing board propeller Ahp ofwar building me
he oisrs mus b. or pseide sa9 putting whole
that may be proposed SLATE which The work viii be
ped and ee accompanied By he usual saaa.ss required ~
Tie details q the design ana arrapgept Of the machinery will be
t number q as keeping Wow simplicity Of con
being uec, 70 dsrsngcment IN the working parts being The
object Il the department obtain the speed aBi With she
coal which the available o that perpce Win admit
placed 4 he greatest prseucaSs distance ,s
propeller With The eonnexoo ta hosting % ss q ee,spo"s .s
performances all kinds necessary che perfect workng o. tbs
passage two aihWartshts buIkbsads dng for
fresh water from which can oe made not less than 500 Gallons PEI
ncnt cruising ship Of war must be included the pfope
sition, and list Of them must be furnished
the boring gut hs deadot
for The sham eeeary 70 adaR, the vessel of .he rssepon q The
Of Navy Department and win permit The use q sne fae a.
F he Of DC eare siaaa machinery and tho fuel
viii be allowed the body Of the ship the entire under
thence extending forward within space
ssPes Y carry sa % n DAYS ' S sns e
machinery boilers shat propear and sppsndaga,
With The tos and spare work must no, exceed q $40
d the 70 tho ai, lie Of ts
forward and the after stern post VIII be feet the deph from h'
ae the d the Keel under The propr VIII DO i
feet. .ar
ene Who desire 10 bid obtain or
the section the vessel making application 10 The department
The proposal DO accompanied BY full specifications and general
drawings having the position q the centre gravity o. the nachne
nv boilers them giving also the capacity o. ths
cylinders and foot and delivery valves and % air
ouoard delivering valves for steam above the wsor no
boilers the surface ao The diameter pitch surface,
kind propeller and other principal points that comparisons
VIII also be the estimate a the weight
ofengne boc bunkers appendag tools and spare work
N o ia pounds.
payment will when onsouh o. the materials
provided the shall have been completed 10
department. there will be made
n OF the whole amount OF the contract when inc
shall like completed there Will be further
three the shall have been
further fifth when the whole shall have
completed made satisfactory trial Of wcek then
further payment Of ono and when tho ship shall have
formed satisfactorily at for period three months, then the
manning IA shall be paid.
The repairs during this period from defective workman
ship materials viii be the Of the contractor
The proposals must BE- explicit and qualified conditional
Offer viii be considered
ISAAC ToUcEY
Dec I7--2awt20Jan Secretary Of the Navy.
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last fiscal year ending 3oth June 1857, 20 900
miles-equal 20 100000 acres.
The survey Of that portion Of Oregon between the
Cascade mountains and the Pacific ocean viii be
completed by the operations Of another year. Owing
to the Indian hostties and other reasons, but limit
ed progress has been made with the surveys in
Washington Territory.
A statement showing the origin Of the geological
survey Of Oregon and Washington is given u has
resulted in the discovery OF many valuable minerals
including ores Of iron, lead platinum, and copper
port.
Upon the subject Of The policy Of pre-emPion the
report says .The wisdom Of the pre- emption policy
is no longer the subject of controversy II ia estab
shed by the history of every neghborhood and settle
ment throughout the West This is said in full view
Of the fact that many fraudulent presumption claims
are established by evasion and perjury, and that
such win be the case even under the most dill
gent administration of this and the local Offices,
pecially during periods such that through which
we have recently passed when the spirit Of specua-
ton has possession of the public mind. But this
class Of cases, when compared with the great body
Of honest claims made by mon living upon the
lands ia too uncomfortable 70 weigh against our pol
icy The title TO the land should pass Immediately
from the government to the men who are to cultivate
the soil. so far as it may be avoided the specua-
tor should not be allowed to intervene 1t is rec
commended that the reserved sections along the line
of railroads shall be liable to presumption after, as
al we'll as before, the final allotment that is, al any
time before the public sale.
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CHEAP JUVENILE B00KS.--The undersigned
~ has apart from h other large collection Of books
youths a al the which have been az
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THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

Although not formally admitted into the Union,
and therefore not recognised of the States of
the confederacy yet the progress made in the actual
establishment of State government ustifes the as
sertion that Minnesota is State--not within the
Union, it is true, but still State At the same time
the State constitution was adopted by the people an
election held in pursuance OF its provisions, for
governor, members Of the Legislature and other Off
GERS of the State 1t directed also, that the first
sion of the legislature should meet at the city of st.
Paul ON the first Wednesday of December, (present)
Accordingly the Legislature convened on the I'd
instant and Immediately proceeded to perfect it's
ganzation thus actually putting the Legislative de-
partment Of the State government in full force. The
organization of both branches is democratic.
The constitution contains the following clause rel
alive TO the exercise Of the executive authority,
while Minnesota is passing from the condition of a
Territory TO that Of State Of the Union
All territorial officers civil and military, hold
inc their Offices under the authority of the United States
OF of the Territory Of Minnesota shall continue to hold
and exercise their respective offices until they shall be
perseded by the authority OF the State
The Minnesota Pioneer says that this provision
was intended to the services Of executive of
fcers until the State shall be admitted into the
Union, when the officers already elected will assume
the responsibilities of the positions for which they
have been chosen.
Three members Of Congress We're elected at the same
time the constitution adopted, and we presume
that the legislature viii select two United States
senators, completing the congressional representa-
ton of the new State.
Thus we see the peaceful transition of Minnesota
from the condition Of Territory to that Of sover-
eign State, superseding by her own action the for
mer government by new one of her own choice.
No conflict Of authority il apprehended no
alarm is felt there or elsewhere, concerning the
suspension of the territorial and establishment Of a
provisional government new democratic State is
organized in a becoming the dignity Of free
citizens fit to govern themselves. What contrast
does it present to the tumuts and violence of that
other Territory, in which, for the past four years
the blackrepublicans have delighted to defy the le-
gal authorities and which has been the theatre for
abolition propagandism . .. ..... .-
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WASHINGTON CITY.
SATURDAY MoaNING, DEC. 10, 1907
CONGRESS FRIDAY.

C0SGRESS-FRIDAY.
SRSArE--rhe death OF Hon. John G.. Montgomery,
member elect of the House Of Representatives from
Pennsy yania having been announced in a message
from that body, Mr. Biger delivered an appropriate
euogy on the character OF the deceased, and sub
mitted resolution that The Senate viii 20 into
mourning by wearing Grape the left Cor thirty
days which agreed TO-
After the usual morning business the Senate re-
sumed the consideration Of the treasury note bill
which was discussed by Messrs. Hunter, Seward,
Simmons crittenden and Bell until the hour Of adj
journmeni
liousK OF REPREsENTArIvEs.-A select enmmitee
Of five was appointed, on motion Of Mr.. Ciingman,
to investigate and report upon the conduct and &C
counts Of the Clerk of the House during the last
Congress and also upon the inferior quality Of sta
tionery From the Committee of Ways and Means,
Hon j. Clancy Jones reported bill TO authorize an
issue Of treasury notes TO the amount If s2000OO0O
being the same with the Senate bill on this subject
Also the indian and consular and diplomatic appro-
priation bills The treasrynote bill taken up in
Committee Of the Whole, but its further consdera-
ton was postponed until it could be printed. Mr..
Banks, Of Massachusetts,, introduced \ An enabling
bill for the admission Of Kansas as a State into the
Union.
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HEAD WoRK.-Literary labor is undervalued chiefly
because the tools wherewth it is done invisible If
the brain made much noise a MILL or If thought
sowing followed hard after breakingup plough, the
produce Of the mind would at place in the
prices current Ii writer could be SO equipped with
wheels and pnions to entirely conceal the within
like the automaon chess player. and sentences were
corded by wooden, instead Of living hand the expires
sion of thought would be at premium, because the
clockwork would seem TO show that it cost something
make It,
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INDIANA SENTIMENT.

We published few days since resolution adopted
by the democratic convention Of Owen county In
diana, disappearing Of all interference in any man
ner whatever with the management of affairs in Kan
sas," and in favor of the people of that Territory
SETTLING their vexed questions in their own
way subject to no dctation and control by nonresi-
dents and outsiders" We find in the Indiana State
Sentinel, leading democratic press, paragraph Of
similar tenor which we suboin. We are assured
that such is undoubtedly the feeling Of the national
of all parties in Indiana and that the action Of
her delegation in Congress will prove it:
"THE KANSAS has been started in Congress as
IL it the absorbing question Of the day, and yet
scarcely dozen persons can be found in day walk
who anything at all about It, The business derange
ments of the country press strongly upon the public
mind. People who are looking about to how they
to manage their affairs TO bring about return
of prosperity but little what the factions In Kansas
doing The President has left the subject TO Con-
gress where will form fruitful theme for oratorica
display day after day for the benefit of the letter writer's
and telegraph companies But when IL Is decided by
vote of the people that slavery shall exist in the Ter
rtory il undoubtedly will be il the inhabitants there
desire any settlement OF the question the whole subject
will lose h interest and Kansas will fall quietly among
the other States of the Union, attracting atten
ton than the rest of them. !"
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Obituary Notice.

Died Washington c. suddenly, instant, John
aAEIoW esq aged ~ years.
he native Of New York lawyer by profession, for many
ears resident Of Michigan where he ned various prominent
For the past years employee in the Department
he Interior and leaves children this city.
IBagaio Nv. ~ commayidI advertiser
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I,HIRTY.sEvE INsrALMENT--onened u


ladies cotton quality I2 cents per yard hs he
piece only for parts Of pieces Ia per yard.
me above are so finish made 70 orders and
goods in the Union al tho We
strangers emily the concurrent testimony regular Tor
the
leneo. Each piece Is branded with names IN ftll
Shirtngs and sheetlne9 n An, no t
prices
200 pieces Irish linens
sheengs and pillow linens % the ds tho
best and most q which made oef.,s w. ~.
thereby enabled 70 oner them AZ the satisfactory prices
our stock % all hrst class European dry po wa
never larger attracuvey varied = -"
Our northern and correspondents send m new suups
daily - ~ E'pPHes
One price only markell plain ere no person
We are opening bile are closing an i ones thar are
not settled when preEehted - - w '"' IVY
1n sruces "" price, and fair dealing rala on In al
'as's' PERRY BROTHER
- Central st0ros Qost huibins
Nv '-iVni' opposite Centre Market.
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sns- RELIGIOUS NorIcE-Elder David s. Burnet, Of
v York viii the Isthreet Baptist Church (r Teas
o. tomorrow morning at ii O'Clock, and at rs O'Clock at
ast Seats free.
Rol1
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saS-SoHeE.--The Rev. DIR. Gurley, pastor of the
Neet Church the city he
hclg
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TO THE CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON.

"o''cs o'h'c""" <h'o""siD ''hhapPs'
The proprietor begs leave call the attention Of the
czeus Washington very superior article Holland GIN which
he public VOTES sche
dam Aromatic schnapps.
THIS gin manufactured by the proprietor exclusively his ds
schedam, Holland. made from barley
be procured Europe Favored
the common harsh berry but by the choice variety
The aromatic Italian juniper berry whose d
Tiled aud reuod with s sptuous solvent
exquisite aroma altogether
ing in its cordial and medicinal properties any alcoholic beverage
heretofore
The proprietor has submitted nearly the whole faculty
the United stac and has received
sand physicians and chemists who endorse signatures
a desirable addition 10 the medca.
who purchase should get genuine article
the whole country flooded with
up quart pint bottles each and FOR
respectable druggists grocers the United states
UDOIPIIo WOLFE
Sole Importer and Manufacturer,
Depot No. % Beaver street New York
Dos l3--d3uir
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By Mr.. McKfBBIN A bill for the grant of lands in
alternate sections to the State Of California 10 aid in the
instruction Of railroads in said State.
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o r F ICI Al.

DEPARTMENT STATE,
Washington December Is, 1857.
Inoaaton has department Rail-
tho United ates Odessa death
citizen Of the United States the 18th OF september
Dec lT--3t
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Lf0R SALEA valuable and pleasant pew in ST.
IL Johns Church inquire q anthony Hyde ESQ.,
% q Banking House, Dec 19--dif
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MISS MAYS CONCERT, Monday evening next will
doubtless attract large and fashionable audience.
Seats be secured in advance without extra charge
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Sor RELIGTous NoTTcE.-The Church Of God will
o. worship three tomorrow Sunday IL and
I o'clock, In the German Hall ilh street. north Of y
hNm