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New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

Recent accounts from the route 10 be- followed
by the overland mail to California are not very
encouraging. The project Of obtaining water on
Llano Estacsdo by means of Arteslan wells has
proved failure. The appropriation has been used
up, aud Capt. Pope has abandoned his machinery
and returned to his regular duty in the army
Water was reached, to be sure in some of the
borings; but il was Of very bad quality, small in
quantity, and would nowhere rise nearer to thu
surface than hundred and eighty feet. Ii is not
likely that this experiment will be renewed, and
travellers through this arid region, whether by
railroad-that is 10 be, if il il ever built-Or BY
mail wagon, aud the horses 10 draw the sane.
must either carry their water or BE- content 70
travel hundred miles or 80 without drinking,
We have accounts, toe, from the same region of
threatened Indian hostties. IL is stated that all
the Indian tribes on the western frontier of Texas
the COmanches, Cheyenncs aud Appaches-in-
furiated By recent torays into their country under
taken ii would seem. by State authority or, per.
haps, volunteer expeditions are killing and scalp.
ing all the travellers across the Plains upon whom
they can lay their hands. These Indians are very
formidable, as they are well mounted and armed
with rifles, aud many Of them with rcyolyers, which
they bought from deserters from the army, stolen.
or otherwise got possession Of. Arizona, too and
the whole line Of the ella, down which the mail
route runs, are constantly threatened by the APP
paches, to whom tine chance Of pundering tho
caravans of the emgrants moving into that country
offers temptation too strong TO be resisted
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

public but altered hs mind about L. 80 far - the
Withdrawal wa concerned, upon the suggestion oil
Mr. Clemens that ihi, course might subject HIM,
the second 10 the necessity OF himself fighting the
unrelehting Mr.. Wise. In this state of the ease,
Mr. Pryor. Mr.. Clemens outside friend, declaring
that the matter had gone far enough and that he
would not further countenance the duel by hls
presence. walked of. after which the parties ex-
changed their fourth shot, when NJ Clemens fell
wounded.
Upon th. state Of the case We must say that We
do not perceive the slightest right which MI
Clemens and bis friends have to complain OF Mr.
Wise Next to refusing the challenge altogether
snd therein acting the part of good citizen, ODE
dent to the laws. Mr. Wise seems TO us to have
adopted the course most to be approved and best
calculated TO suppress the nuisance of challenges
Nothing 80 much sustsins this miserable practice
as the expectation that after burning little harm
less gmpowder, the parties will retire safe, sound
and glorified. A. Mr.. Wise is an editor, and a
such in the part of the country in which he resides
liable To endless challenges, ne has certainly taken
q judicious course in letting il be known that
the man VINO cLducngts Alm must expect 10
fight il out. We will guarantee him for a
very small premium against being speedily
challenged second time. To have made ex-
PLANTATION. or disavowals after being once, twice
or three times fired at, which he had refused to
make before being challenged, would have had
much the appearance of acting under duresse. 1t
would be absurd to suppose that the smell of burn
ing gunpowder could have really altered his opin-
ions. The idea Of duel is that the par
ties go to the field To shoot each other.
The bloodthiTstiness and barbarlty consist in
going out for such purpose. 1t is absurd to at
tempt to represent the firing of one or two shots
a. commendable, and the firing of four as atrocous.
Mr. Clemens went out to shoot and to be shot. He
not only took d surgeon with him, but an outside
friend, who went as are informed in Mr.
lryings statement, for the express purpose that
- he might be- useful in the event of Mr.. Clemens
being wounded" Instead however, of staying
for that failing to get up TN accommodation, he
went of at the very moment that his services were
needed Mr. Clemens. in addition Ia his damaged
character has now got damaged thigh with a
prospect of losing his leg altogether. Perhaps by
losing hs leg hc can better serve the State than IN
any other way. In that mutated condition, he will
serve as a serious warning to young gentlemen how
they venture to violate the laws by sending chal-
enge in the hope that the upshot will be not real
but Pickwckisn duel.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

On Saturday the General Term OF the supreme
Court sentenced James Rodgers to be hung on
FRIDAY. the 18th Of November next for the murder
Of John Swanston. Rodgers was tred and con-
victed in the Court Of General Sessions, and
sentenced to be hung. A writ Of error was allowed
BY the Supreme Court, and the Judgment OF the
General Sessions was reversed, and new trial
ordered. The District-AttorneY took an appeal
from that order to the Court of Appeals, which
Court last week reversed the judgment OF the
Supreme Court and affirmed that OF the General
Sessions. The Executive clemency has been de-
MED Rodgers, the highest Court has pronounced
his sentence just, and nothing remains for Rodgers
but to prepare for the expiation of his crime on
the scaHOd.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

KANSAS holds regular election to-day for the
choice of rev Territorial Legislature. The
money Of the Federal Office holders and Army con-
tractors has been freely disbursed TO disorganze
the Free-State party and elect a majority who,
under the pretense Of being opposed TO al I'M
mediate organization Of the Republican party,
shall be really favorable 10 the men in power at
Washington, though profcssedly Free-State with
Douglas sympathes. We expect to hear that the
abtiRepublcans, aided by the war-cry of - No
Niger Equality, will have carried the great
County Of Lca'enwOrth. which elects about one
f6uIth OF the Legislature, and, perhaps, Atchison
also, giving them full third OF each House; but
we do not think they carry the Legislature;
aud even if they should their triumph viii at once
resolve them into three or four warning factions,
rendering them alike impotent and ridiculous.
Still, We would rather see them beaten, and trust
they " i'll be.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

The journals blaze with accounts OF A Fugitive
Slave Mob in Canada, which is stigmatizcd as "a
.. most atr0cious and violent outrage" whereby it
il stated that Mr.. W. r. Merwin OF ST. Louis
was forcibIy dispossessed ol muatto seryant-boy
of ten years who was riding With him over tho
Great Western Railway, from Niagara Falls to
Detroit. The outrage" is said 70 have been per.
petrated by "a negro mob armed with knives.
reyolyers, &c, but, Il IS added, they were headed
by white man, who pretended TO be one Of her
" Maesty's officers, and who attempted to arrest
' Mr. Merwin."
We are reliably informed OF certain facts, which
place this matter in rather dificrenr light. These
facts are as follows
l. Mr. W. X. Merwin ~ not q Southern gentle
man, but Northern travelling agent for house in
this City
2 He il not the legal owner Of any slave.
g. If he pretended to own this muatto boy, ne
must have been cheating somehow, for he hs"
assured bis employers here that he did not own
him.
A. The boy vas almost certainly free-born' but
ot all events be- was made free by beng taken
through the Free States and into Canada, even u
b., had been d slave before.
On the whole, We strongly suspect TINT Mr.
w. X. nerwin will pocket the 4" Outrage, ana
will not hereafter claim the Ooy.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

Mr.. C. Irving, second of the Hon. >herrsrd
Clemens. who is laid up at this time with a wound
in his thigh of 50 serious nature as to make am
putation not improbable, which wound was re-
cciyed in a duel TO which he had challenged O..
Jennings Wise, esq, has come out with an appeal
to the public.
II appears from this document that, sfter the
parties had got on the field, each attended by his
second. his outside friend and his doctor and that
after both parties had fired deliberately at dis.
tance of ten PAGES without effect, Mr.. Pryor. the
outside friend of Mr. Clemens came forward and
sought TO get up an accommodation, as step to-
ward which the challenge was temporarily with
drawn. This state of things being communicated
to Mr. Wise. he replied that if the challenge was
Withdrawn and Mr. Clemens was satisfied, il was
sll very we'll and he ready 10 go home. This,
however. did not satisfy Mr.. Clemens and his
second. They, ii seems. expected that Mr.. Wise, in
conSeouence Of being shot at, must have become con-
vinced of the injustice or unproprety of the news
psper comments on Mr.. Clemens which had pro-
duced the challenge and that he would proceed to
withdraw them or explain them away, a. being
merely used in Pickwickian sense. A. Mr.. Wise
would not do this the duel went on, and shots
were sgain exchanged. Intellectually as before.
4 second attempt was then made, this time by
Mr.. Clenenss second, to obtain from Wise some
exclamation or withdrawal of the subject-matter
cf the challenge. which Wise sgain declined. 4
third exchange of shots followed-nobcdy touched.
Mr.. Pryor. the outside friend of Mr.. Clemens then
attempted to Get the signature of Wise's second to
a paper. declaring that, in the opinion of the
seconds. the principals having met and exchanged
shots three times, their honor was entirely vindi
Gated. Mr.. Wisc's second declined 10 sign this
ps,o, y,ber,nnon Mr.. Clemens second threatened
to withdraw hi. principal and 10 sppeal 10 the
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

The wisdom Of the policy Of 81 forming CoInmis
sions for the management of public work. that
neither of the political parties shall have the entire
control of their action, mas been in no case well
proven as in the history and present policy Of the
Board Of Commissioners of the Central Park, aud
in the effect OF Is action on the Park itself.
Thi. Board was formed by the Legislature Of
ls57. and consists Of SIX Republicans, four Demo
crat>. and one Americana wise provision OF the
law requiring that any action, 70 be- binding, must
receive the sanction of the majority of The whole
Board. A. the SIX Republicans are yery rarely all
present, and a. they still more rarely agree when
they are present il follows that any important
measure must receive votes from both Republi-
cans and Democrats before il can BE- carried, aud
that must consequently. be dive,ted Of al po.,,
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

Peter Il. Sweeney, esq, our Citys District
Attorney, resigned his Office onSaurday on account
of ill-health Having visited Europe and subjected
himself to Water-cure treatment without effect, he
deemed il his duty 10 resign position whose duties
he had no longer the physical ability to perform.
1t is probable that his deputy John Sedgwich esd,
will be appointed his temporary successor; there
being ample time to give the requisite legal notice,
d successor viii be chosen al our ensuing election.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

The late trial of the Superintendent Of tbs Ponce
aud tie result Of il, places IA strong light tho
total want Of adaptation in our present police aye
TEN 10 meet any sudden or extraordinary emer-
oepcy. Thi. : one of ihosr cases hit AZ in The Old
pro7erb: too many cooks spoil the broth. Tho
ides Of putting Commission at the heal Of sn
Executive Department requiring any prompttudo
Of decision and action, has been tried over and over
again, and always proved ard su ~. vii proveS
faInre. II -Ju.t naPplicable 70 system Of pohee
as il il to the cOrmand Of an army. Had tiefn
been some single individual on whom the respons-
biity rested. il may be doubted whether the omar
1ntine would have be.n burnt at all; at oil, eSenH'
the second c9nfhgraton w0ah never haze haP'
peDed. A. L was, there was nothing but hesl'a'
tion, Misunderstanding and cross-pVFposss. o"'
Commissioner gives an order IA TO whseh The Or
perntenaent does not know whether coming ITO"
one men Der Of the Board il j. an order or no'' "a
rather wb.ch he construes into onlJ the Prei'ou''
tory symptom Of sn order. wAie another C"'n'''',
sioDer give, advice or information shiea Is io"''N'
upon as a countermand Of that premon'lor! @,"p
tom; ard bety.en the TWO 'be sypernifnd'n' ''''
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04
R,,urIoR's HAIR DYE-WuGs AND TOuPEE>


LrrrERs BY USITrD STATES NEssELs.-The Post
naster-Genersl has decided that letters received fIom
United states vessels cannot be considered ship let
tens under the provisions of the act Of March B. 1926
which apply opy to letters on packets carried IN any
pirate ship ressd. Such letters, therefore, are
ohsrgeable only with drop.etter postage. If intended
for the delivery of the office in which they are deposit
Cd ard with the ordinary rates If forwarded to other
ooes and in neither is any compensation to be
allowed to the person from whom they are received
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

RrDVcTIoS OF POSTAGE oS LETTERS - SPAIN
We are authorized to state that by reduction of the
rates q. postage betweeu the kingdoms Of Great Bri-
tain and Spain, the rates of letters IN tie British ma
between the United States and Spain, including
Meiorco, Minofca, aud the Canary Isards, will here.
aaer h. a. follows.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04
after be as follow

FIRr oS STATEN IsIASD.-A fire broke out yester-
day about II o'clock, in unoccuped house on Town
send avenue, Clifton, s. l., which together with three
adjoining buildings aud carpenter shop was de-
f,royed. All the building, We're oEnci by VIM. B.
Townsend, tsq
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04
Nstu1lork DAILY 1ribm,re
MONDAY. OCTOBER 4, 15J3.
tn copprspoyDCyTs

No notice D. o. Anonymous Cofnmuih ai'n' n
ir.eudsd for insertion b. srthsrcs,et oJ tie
name and .ddre,, a tn wternct necessarily for pubAcs
tios, but a. guaranty for hi. sood ihiin ,.,
". canno. rndertsI4 - return rejected Communication,
P.~.. lser. fr Tar TssUSE Office should IA 81 osSes BE-
addre...d 70 HORACE GkEELET 90.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04
HERNIA cnrcd hv MARsH's RADICAL CURE

Houses ships. hotels Ac kep, permanently free from bugs
reaches rats, mice, ants, and all other vcrmin,
bY CONTRACT.
RusRToN Druggist General Agent Nos lo Astor House
and az broadway, corner Iaual-st
Prcprietor depot No 6l2 Broadway corner Houston.t
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

The Hon. Gerrit Smith Independent candidate
for Governor, will this week address the citizens
of the southeastern portion Of our State on sue
cessiye evenings iollows:
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

INDEPENDENT
STEAM FIRE PUMPS.
Embracing the latest aud best Improvements rys
STrAm AsD FIRE PURPOSES
All sres made and warranted. By
GUILD, GARRISON Co.
No. S. First street
WhiamsbuTgh.
EB-A large Fire Pump will be exhibited at the Cry'''
uclt week
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

Tn GROVER d BAKER SEWING MACHINE
CoNrsay No as Broadway having greatly increased their
resolved 20 reduce the prices
Of their celebrated FAMILY mAcBIsEs ss TO place them
within the re.cb Of all The prices from this date wii be from
s0to l2s remoy ug all temptation 70 nfnges or patronage
to iufIiDsers. e,
These Machines quetonsby the bes! in use for family
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-01-23
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.

No man now questions that Stephen A. Doug
las is TO be the leader Of the Locofoco party,
while he remains above ground. lie is the man
who has the elements Of leadership, far above
and beyond the rest Of the prominent men of
that party either North or South lie is fear
ess-nay, even reckless-fu of will, of energy
with strong deliberate faculties, and power of
expression in debate which transcends that of
his competitors, lie is the Cataline of this Re-
public, and is as bold and defiant, and in our
opinion as wicked as his prototype That he is
upon the right side Of the Kansas controversy.
as against the President and the South, proves
nothing for his integrity, though much for his
penetration. lie is sharp and perceptive.
lie thinks much, he is n keen observer
And he looks quite through the thoughts Of men.
He reads men better than books and under
sirnds instinctyely their feelings and sentiments,
whether in masses or individually.
lie is formidable as a matter of course, with
these qualities, because, like cat, he always
falls upon his feet. Strength Of will and entire
selt-reliance make him so. Ills great lacking
point is character. lie is like horse with high
action and great speed but without bottom. He
may and probably will shine and dazzle as a lea
der, but he will never take rank as a Statesman
upon whose Judgment sagacty and principle
the country can depend in times of emergency.
ii'S id'c spttVH 10 piODdOly tHe Dcsl clOrt OF
his political life. The circumstances under
which it was pronounced were such as were
most favorable to those peculiar characteristics
by virtue Of which he is enabled TO shine. Intu-
tive perception Of popular opinion and senti-
ucnt invested il with all the attributes or power
which it possesses. Aided by this gift, he kept
his head TO the wind and went boldly, bows on,
upon the rock Of Executive power. He upheld,
without hinching the right of the people of Kan
sas to determine upon their own institutions, and
made his views and purposes practical, by en-
forcing measures to carry them out.
1t is hot for us 10 say where the views ex-
pressed by Senator Douglas will carry him, nor
perhaps is it in goo taste to seek to canvass his
motives. What has been said of his character,
has been the result Of previous observation, and
has not been predicate upon this particular tea-
ture in his political history.
IT, as predicted by Southern men, his recent
speech should recommend him to the favor ofthe
Republican party, it is plain to u.s. as suggested
by the Southern Sena'or, that "he will lead us
to the Devil as he has done Them The great
lacking quality of sound statesmen-Iikc. and pat
rotc principle, will forever be wanting with him,
and SO long as it is, he can never be safe lea
der. 1t is to be hoped that his banner will con-
'inue to hy at the head of our opponents.-De-
hoa Adreriiser.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-01-23
KANsAs--THE FRAUDS ON THE 2lst

From The Philadelphia Press, Democratic.l
We receive by every mail evidences of the
frauds perpetrated in Kansas at the election on
the 2lst OF December, when the Slavery clause
alone was presented to the popular vote and
we do not doubt that the Democratic party in
that Territory, who are to a man against the Le-
compton Constitution, have prepared, and will
lay before Congress. detailed statement of
these frauds. Nor do We doubt at III Mr.. Bu-
chanan will recommend the rejection of the re-
turns OF that election, in accordance with the
spirit OF his annual message We have already
called attention to the fact that at two Precincts
IN the County of JOhnson-yZ., at Shawnee and
Oxturd-a ma jority Of 1900 votes was thrown
for the Slavery clause, and this in the face of the
fact set forth by Gov Walker. that the uhole
county does not contain more than from three
10 fur hundred votes
Kansas correspondent Of 1'!o C:.einnni;
Enquffer-Yne EHqurer being one Of the jour
mails in favor of the Lecompion Constitution
writing under date Of the 2lst of December. the
day OF the election, employs the following Ian
guage
"Kansas has again been invaded by large num-
bers Of Missourians-they have voted here and
elsewhere; the result has been, unquestonably, to
give large nominal vote to the Constitution with
Slavery That such has been the case none can
deny. Your correspondent found, in passing last
week through Missouri, the county papers virtual
ly advising the people of Missouri to vote and the
people talking of doing SO. In addition. l have
seen the Missourlans come over in large numbers,
have heard them confess that they voted, have
heard others say that they have been solicited to
do so frequently, and that organization had been
effected with reference to doing so.'
Another correspondent, writing from Leaven-
worth City. Dec. 23 to the editor of The Ohio
Statesman gives sill more startling account
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-01-23
like offence third time, he shall be put to death
as being incorriuible ="

like offence third time, he shall be put to death
as being incorrgbe"
IN no instance, perhaps, was the influence Of
tine Connecticut law book" more apparent, than
IN the act "for the due observation and keeping
the first day of the week. as the Sabbath or Lord's
day and for punisbing disorders and profane-
ness ou the same" BY its regulations no per-
son was allowed TO perform any labor, "works Of
necessity and mercy, only, excepted" or engage
in "any game, sport, play, or recreation" on Sun
day, or on any day of public fasting or thanks
giving, under penalty not exceeding 80
Whoever should be guilty of "any rude, pro-
fanc, OF unlawful behaviour on the Lords day,
either in words or actions, by clamorous discourse,
or by shouting, hallooing, screaming, running,
rldlng' dancing Jumping, blowing OF horns, or
any such like rude or unlawful words or actions
IN any house or place, so near to- or in, any pub
llc meeting-house for divine worship, that those
who meet there may be disturbed by such rude
and profane behaviour" was TO be fined 40s for
every such offence, and 'whipped on the naked
back, not exceeding ten stripes, nor less than
hve.' No person was allowed to ''drive a team,
or droves Of any kind, or travel on said day," ex-
cept on business relating to "the present var"
or unless "by some adversely" he had been be-
lated, land forced tc lodge in the woods, wild
einess, or highways the night before" In the
latter case he was allowed to proceed on Sun
day no further than to "the next inn or place of
shelter"
No person was allowed TO be accompanied by
an attendant on Sunday while ooing IN or re.
turning from "ihe pablo worship of God" un-
less necessity or mercy required it. Listening
"outsde Of the Westinghouse during time of
public worship :" unnecessarily Withdrawing
ones self from "the public worship to 90 with
out doors = and desecraton of the time "by plav-
ing or profanely taking" were aso strictly for
bidden. The old New England custom, accord
ing to which Sunday was re egaried as beginning
at sunset on Saturday not only obtained in Ver9
mont, but was in a measure defended by
law. "Jf any number of nersons" these were
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-01-23

Townsend S. Glover, of the Patent Office at
Washington, who is travelling through the South
TO examine into the diseases of the cotton plant,
was recently enlightened in regard to new
species of cotton in a manner thus described by
the Memphis correspondent Of the New Orleans
Picdyune.
" He was travelling, few days ago. from Hol-
ly Springs on the cars, when they passed through
a section Of country where the land was entirely
STERILE the cotton being only few inches high.
An oyerseer was sitting on the seat before him.
so Why, what do you call this 2 asked Glover
why, that's cotton.
"'Cotton !? he asked again, in surprise.
90 Yes, new kind of cotton sent out by the
Patent Office.
"' This was matter of interest to Glover, so
he opened his eyes wider What is the name
of the cotton p
49, The bun'Jie-6ee cotton, quietly remarked
his companion
"'Why that name p
"' Because it grows small a bumbe-bee kin
set on his tail and suck all the blossoms without
moving All hands broke into loud laugh,
and Glover acknowledged himself Sold"