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NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.


ST. LOUIS, August 27-The Salt Lake correspondent Of
the Republican says that David A. Barr SON of Surveyor
General Burr In the city, and had succeeded in get
ting Charles w Mooeier formerly clerk In the surveyor
general Office 10 file affidavit denying the truth of
his former affidavit sustaining the charge against General
Burr.
The Indians are more hostile now than at any time
since the territory first settled Nearly all the tribes
are committing depredatons number of settlers have
been killed. and bands Of horses have been run
of AS yet the troops have made effort to protect the
settlers.
Tho soldiers received their pay in the latter part OF july
after which large number deserted taking along some
mules and citizens clothing from the camp.
Cedar Valley is said 10 be poor place for winter quar-
ters and Gen Johnston is making preparations TO send
some of the animals 10 other valleys.
Gov Cumming still retains the confidence Of the
muny aud thus far his and policy give general sat
isiaction
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CAPTURE or A SLA YER By THE u s. BRIG
DOLPHIN
IFrom the Now York Herald, August 90.

ltrom the Now York Herald, August %
The United States brig Dolphin, Lieut. John N. Mafhi
commanding, arrived at Key West Sunday, the 2M
inst, from the coast of Cuba The Dolphin siled from
Sagua la Grande ON the morning Of the 2lst inst.
AT daylight she discovered sail ahead standing tho
same course AS the Dolphin, which gained her yep
rapidly during the day. At p. the sail ahead hauled
ON the wind, il trying to get out Of the Dolphin
course, which caused her to be considered suspicious
craft The Dolphin tackled and stood off in pursuit. hoist
ing the English coors, and fired blank cartridge; which
not being answered by the other vessel another was fired
at half-past p IN; and this also being unnotccd al
p she fired shot the bows Of the suspece
vessel which had the effect of producing the American
flag at her peak but she still continued her coune
and seemed to be making her best cndeavors to escape
when well directed shot from the Dolphin took elie
in her rigging causing her to heave to and lower bet
colors.
On sending boat on board she proved TO be "a brig
from the African coast with three hundred and eighteen
negroes.
Her crew were instantly confined and the Prize placed
in charge OF Lieut. j. Nj. Bradford aud Second Lieut.
Chas Q. Carpenter and sixteen men from the Dolphin
With orders to proceed to Charleston, s. @.
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GEN BURNS NOMINATED By EXCLAMATION
lrrom the Mount Vernon (ohiO) Bannsrl

IRON Mount Vernon (ohio) Banner
The democratic congressional convention for the 18th
district which assembled at Millersburg, Holmes county
on the 18th day of August nominated Gen. Burns for
reelection to Congress by reclamation
After the overwhelming result in Holmes in favor OF
Gen. Burns the contest for nomination was, Of course
at an end he having received three counties out of the
four in the district Thereupon c. Ii. Mitchner esq
the choice of Tuscarawas county, in letter that did
credit his head and heart addressed TO the president
of the convention Withdrew his and recommended
the unanimous nomination of Gen. Burns, and pledged
himself TO do all in his power to secure the triumphant
reelection of the old war horse Of democracy.
When the nomination of Gen. Burns announced,
the enthusiasm among the delegates and spectators was
intense. Cheer after cheer made the old Conrthouse
ring and the echoes which reverberaed along the hills
and through the valleys Ground Millersburg
mistakable sign that the honest old democrat win carry
the banner of democracy through this campaign IN t
umph
II the democracy of the 18th district go to work in
earnest they re-cect Gen Burns by at least 200
majority; and we believe they win do 1t
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A SUGGESTION. Mr.. Cyrus w Field is unques-
onaby entitled to all praise for his energy perse
verance, and courage in prosecuting to completion
under very discouraging circumstances, the sub
marine telegraph work 1t was noble enterprise ;
and now that it is completed, and we are receiving
communications which run away ahead of the sum-
our credulity is heavily taxed to believe the reality
of the reports which come to US across the Atlantic
Mr. Field is being feasted toasted, and courted very
much we should say, as if he the discoverer Of
the electric secret, and the only man to whom
indebted for the completeness of the great work
which has brought all Europe within stone s-throw
of our shores. This is hardly fair. Where is Mr..
Morse and the other inventors and discoveries whose
names have been identified with telegraph opera
tons during the last fifteen years? Nearly twenty
FIVE years ago those pisionares fatgued great mahy
men with their explanations of electro magnetism,
and about the possibility of converting currents Of
electricity into medium of communication. With
all Difference to Mr.. Field aud with every DISPOSE
ton to give him full credit for what he has done we
submit that it would be quite just and fair to re-
member the real authors of the oceanic telegraph.
We merely make the suggestion.
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In our article yesterday "The Issue in illinois"
part OF a sentence was unntentlonaliy omitted.
We were made to say that "there is not an anti
Lecompton democrat from the North who was in the
last Congress that has any sympathy with the pres
ent administration" We intended to say "There
is not an Leoopton democrat from the North in
the last Congress, ,cho ncw condemns the English BILL
who has any sympathy with the present administra-
ton
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solely TO the people the democratic 10 them
must they the trust confded to them. That th
viii do this noby and well is that which we may preI
with the confidence Of absolute certainty.
Oregon enters the Union under the brightest of demo
cratic auspices the very first to endorse frankly boldly
and unequivocalIy the wise policy Of national admin
stration She enters the Union with entire democrats
State Organization and all Of this in the face OF thor
ough and complete combination Of all political factions
opposed the democratic party and she sends to the
halls of the national councils delegation who would do
honor to any State within the conlederaey. All hail 10
the sterling democracy of Oregon
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KNOW NOTHING DECEPTIONS "A FALLACY Elk
POSED

POSED
II is said that every evil with which society is af-
fcted is imposed with view Of ecitag through it's
operations some corresponding benefit Hence the
common expression that blessings come in disguise
Shakespeare understood this law even in its personal
application. He says:
90 0 tBest men are moulded out of faults
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being little bad.
We have, this principle, some hopes Of the
knownothings. They are just now bad and faulty
enough--insincere, deceptive, tricky
Their sin S not accidental but trade"
But they must and will reform Reduced as they
are to skeleton, diseased, deformed, and on the
brink of dissolution one would suppose that the day
of repentance had methat If we are ever to wit
ness the blessings which their evil life has been
permitted to conceal, they must soon appear Their
council at Albany the other day
Resoped That believing in the principle that the viii
OF the people consttutonaly expressed is the supreme
law of land have received with satisfaction the
recent rebuke of the inhabitants of Kansas to the
ona administration for its unjust and wicked determ
nation fasten proslavey constitution people
wishing to into the Union free State and upon
an equal footing with the other States of the federal gov
eminent"
l. We take it for granted that the know nothings
when they adopted this resolution knew perfectly
well that Kansas had no slaves, and that the ques
ton of slavery was not, in any practical sense in
volyed in the Lecompton Issue. The objection
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: :
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
New York, FRIDAY EVENING"
Auuust 17 1873

August I'll 1898.
The mail steamer Moses Taylor arrived here this
ing from Aspinwa with California adyces of the 9th
inst and Isthmus news of the 10Th instant
The political is of the most cheering and satsac
tory nature The national democracy of the golden
State have turned out bravely and taken up proud po
son from which the enemy powerless to drive them
and which swell guarded against the stealthy and teach
schemes of bogus democrats acting under the guild
ance of David G. Broderick and Joseph McKibbn. In
the State convention which assembled at Sacra
mento on the 4th instant, for the purpose of nom
mating candidates to fill the Office of State comptroller
county Judge and other State offices, there is
whelmng majority of sound loyal democrats, and only
such very wretched minority of the Broderckes to
make their detection the marked and odious and
show how utterly they have been defeated In San Fran
CISCO which Mr. Broderick has always boastfuy claimed
as his sroDghold-where his views were LAYOUT Of
twelve districts nine returned administration democrats
as delegates To the State convention by immense MAORI
ties and in the two districts where the boilers
cessul the majority in their favor was exceedingly slen
der.
This is a great result and one OF which San Francisco
may be Justly proud. Broderick has sedulousy endeav-
ored to make the public in the Atlantic States believe
that California with him. and here the first test that is
applied proves that California contcmptuousy repudntcs
him and with greater unanimty and mere zeal than has
been displayed any former OCCASION she turns out al
to record her approval of the national adj
ministraton and of her faith in its wisdom honesty and
ability, to reassert her unwavering fidelity to democracy
and express her Indignation at the pursued by
Messls Boderck and McKibbn, who indebted to the
democratic party for everything they possess, and who
WIN 'no ios, . n'.o .ls ol
ese,y ., ~, a., lou, M nv as. =.
=. y, s0io .ioo ~ mnoso em, oeo '. -
Broderck by the citizens of San Francisco the Globe of
'hae 'iy "oiy 'eninA'
Ingatae and treason are unpardonabe Offences Of both he
n " hb h ,da ~ h s Nc , SLOWS pm h no o re-,
friends he deserted have dealt with him bitterly but Justly He turn
his upon them upon Strip.
pei o. .hs support ne asan nothing ms own resources be
Sa. robes Of Office enaaa him Is east dirt erp n b @' senate
chamber OF tho nation"
the following resolutions adopted by the democracy Of
Mana ounv and which have been
4 Wy tho uehocf"cy Vi Tue chl"c oIa'e
E oa That e administrator OF James buchanan I'm. bceu
cunrly a sanctioned by democratic preeen, and avrg pih
deoocrhlc principles
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Markets.

New York August 2s. is firm. Flour is
quiet-sales Of 7, 500 bills; Ohio So s5 So TO- Wheat
is heavy red, 81 22 white, 81 no. Corn has declined =
sales of 81 600 bush mixed zoe S3c; white, S5c q
8sc; yellow 95c a Soc Pork iirm---$l7 rs SIT 40.
Spirits tu,pentine dull 4s4. Iosin steady 81 624.
Rice heavy, 90 $50.
BALTIMORE Aug 27.---Flour is dull-City Mills SIS SO;
Howard street and Ohio, 50 SO So 62t Wheat il dull
and lowered, ST. 20 81 %; white, 81 % n 81 45.
Corn is qnet-whe II 80 cents; yellow, s5a87 cents.
WhinkeY il dull.
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Case orHenry ID. stone

WORCESTER, (Mass } Aug 2I.--ln the case of Henry
d. Stone defaulting debtor, the court having ordered
that he should give schedule Of all property possessed
by him January s. the day of his failure, he to-day filed
refusing it the ground that it would expose
him to u criminal liability The deemed in
Sufficient and he committed to close confinement for
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The military Commission at Leavcnwo,t tn.

LEAvENwoRuI, August rs. The military commission
to adjust the difficulties between the quartermaste de-
parment and the mule contractors met yesterd ~ Two
Intellectual attempts made at organization. The
proceedings exceedingly inharmonious The ques
ton of precedence of rank il still unsettled.
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The democratic editors of the State OF New York bau
On agreeable reunion on Wednesday evening last at sara
toga which was largely attended, between thirty anu
forty editors being present 1t was the second meengo
the KIND ever held in the State The evening was pen
IN delightful social intercourse, and nnumerable gooa
things were said and enjoyed The affair wound up WIZ
banquet at Smiths hotel
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WASHINGTON CITY.
Business Notice.

M tle linton establishment In Of the proposed
change In terms will cnduc'ed s,r'sty "a eS- p AZ
aeus for the collection subscriptions Tor the uhoh are u'oon
,ned No paymeps Agents aer Tins date ex
se Ar W. ijpeomb who authorized 70 make collections
In nelsgare Maryland aud Virginia
WASHINGTON, Mareh 70, 1855
This ong notice not onelude any agents coec
, Inn w. NOW employ or employed Ia this city but
those only who performed such service IN other parts Of the
country. np -'TA
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Death OF Captain BoIles --The Captured Afri-

CHARLESTON, IS c. Aug. %. Captain Boes, of the
ship Camden died on Friday of yellow fever. Ho was a
native of Connecticut
The captured Africans, brought into port by Lieut.
Bradford of the United States brig Dolphin, this morn
ing, have been quarantined
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Newly-Discoyered Gold Mines.

BooSEyIILE August % Monsieur Borden and party
have arrived in Kansas City, from Pixies peak, Nebraska
Territory He reports newly -discovered mines He
brought with him several ounces of gold and confirms
the existence of gold mines Cherry creek, branch
South Platte latitude 80.
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Capture OF a SLAYER.

CHARLESTON s. c., Aug. 2sIhe brig Echo, of Balti-
more has entered the harbor with three hundred Afi
cans She captured fire days ago off the north coast
of Cuba by the United States brig Dolphin. She was
brought into port by Lieutenant Bradford.
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All Of the cotton mills at Patterson New Jersey have
been stopped by strike among the operatives ques
ton of wages
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The Killing Of DR.. Haiden.

SAvANSAH Aug. 28---Doctor w. s. IIaiden, Of BryaI
county Georgia was killed at his residence, Thursday
by his step-son, George Lane
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There WAS little movement in foreign exchange,
and rates remain nominally uncbanged.
The stock market moderately active at slight de-
cline yesterday evenings closing prices but with
more indications of steadness than have observed for
time. The most marked change in the leading
speculative shares was the advance Of II per cent in
Milwaukee and Mississippi, and of per cent. in Michi
gan Central.
At the second board tho market generally stronger
and fair business transacted The La Crosse an
grant bonds have been In favor since the opening of
through travel on the line from Milwaukee and La Crosse
the total sales of these bonds to-day $45 000 closing
at rs. As compared with the sales at the morning
sion, there has been improvement gained Of on New
York Central each Reading and Michigan Central
on Galena and each on Toledo and Rock Island The
following the closing rates Milwaukee and Missis-
sippi, l9b; Pennsylvania Coal rs; New York Central,
794; Reading, All Michigan Central, ssh; Michigan
southern stock, 24A; Michigan southern, pre-
fered stock, 40; Illinois Central III Galena $50; To
ledo 35i; and Rock Island IS.
The -four market rather quiet at irregular prices,
and further decline inferior grades Of II 10 cents
per Dbl Wheat and very dull and cheaper.
Pork in better request and rather funer Reef
steady Cotton quiet and steady at the following
quotations
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then, that il "the determination of the admins
tration to fasten Pro-Slavery constitution upon a
people wishing 10 into the Union as free
State" not only gross misrepresentation but
bold attempt TO commit fraud upon the people of
the United States.
II. The knownothing council admit that the ma
jority Of the people of Kansas opposed to sla
very. They know that, theoretically, under the
Dred Scott decision, slavery existed in the Territory
aud that admission into the Union under the Lecornp
ton constitution was the quickest process by which
they could prohibit that relation in Kansas That
being admitted, the people had sovereign power at
once to change their constitution, and thus give
effect to their opinions the subject Of slavery.
In other words the Lecompton constitution was pre-
scented to Congress early last winter. Had the
State been admitted, long this 29th of Au-
gust they could have framed new constitution,
and been free State de faoo e de jure. The know
nothings and republicans, who fully advised of
these matters opposed admission and thus prevented
the people of Kansas from making free-State con-
stitution They did this, knowing all the while that
under the Federal constitution slavery was penns-
sble in the Territory.
Ill On these facts is it not fair to infer that the
republicans and know-nothngs, by their opposition
to admission last winter, intended simply to keepvp
the slavery agitation and defeat the will of the peo-
pie of Kansas to make free State We admit that
a large majority of that population are and were
opposed to slavery, but we maintain that they
had so managed, by refusing to vote, and by every
other conceivable means of keeping up excitement,
that there was no other reasonable and legal way of
solving the problem than to receive them into the
Union---thus compelling them to settle their own do
nestle affairs in their own way This fair, just and
equitable measure which proposed to
confer all power upon the people of the new State
Mr. Douglas Mr.. Trumbull, Mr.. Seward, and all the
northern and some of the southern know-nothings
opposed If they had been honestly hostile to sla-
very and sincerely DESTROYS Of making Kansas free
State, they could never have opposed admission.
We say the measure fair, because if the people
desired slavery they could maintain it if they OPP
posed slavery they had ample power to prohibit it.
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i~oNsN
mint for the month Of July have been as follows
Deposies-oz los or So
Gold coinage .....,...,..... 81 700
silver do S5 900
~ftooVoo
We have another despatch from London dated this
morning, but Its contents of no importance
this side of the Atlantic Whether the King of Prussia
was too i'll to visit Queen Victoria whether the Empe-
ror Napoleon returned TO Paris Saturday any other
day and whether the from China received in
st Petersburgh the 2lst inst all are mat
ters Of complete Indifference TO U.S. and l very much
doubt whether the New York Associated Press will relish
paying one dollar per word for the information The
utter absence OF any commercial and financial news,
and the silence of the telegraph operators as to
the effect of the China in Paris and London,
have caused little, and viii say natural dissats-
faction among the commercial men, and given rise to
very harsh remarks concerning those who control the
transmission and receipt of messages here 1t perfect
ly clear that il the King of Prussia movements can be
communicated TO the price of consols also be sent
and the public will not be satisfied that private ndvid-
uas, however honest should have the power to receive
exclusively for their benefit commercial news which
they may may not TO the prejudice of the
nifty at large, share the public discomfort entirely
and think that their complaints well founded
The money market is steadily duh The demand for
discount at the banks may be said TO be shade
active, but the supply of money Offering is still supcra
bundant at the following rates
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crease in the number of miners, this result hardly
looked for The operations Of the San Francisco branch
mint Tor the month Of July have been as follows
Deposies-oz seiy So
Gold coinage. ....... 81 l20 900
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Hon,John x. mulef

A cotemporary who, during and since
PoLK's Administration, has appeared
to consider it q part of his religion to
yilify and misrepresent this gentleman,
says that he is " after a Consulship.n
A slight error, as usual. Col. Mn
LEE, asswe have on a. former occasion
stated, would accept of no office at the
hands of the MISUNDERSTANDING to
a COnsulship, to a Foreign Mission, or
to any other place within its gift. He
has endured several years of physical
suffering and disability, aud now that he
has regaiped bis health, the whole brood
of m%erceaary politicians, who always
feared and hated him, are raising their
old clamor against him. If he were in
his old District, and his consent could
be obtained, he would, however, be
eleoted to Congress, on the frst "popu-
sovereignty tIial, SO quick that it
would make some peoples heads swim.
Instead of being after office, the Colonel
is after DoUeLAs, and his deluded Re-
publican allies. That is all.
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The prisoner, whose real name is j.
B. Shears, but who has borne the aliases
of johnson and MILFORD during his stay
in this city, is a young man about TWEEN
ty-eight years old, of middling size, in
clined to be bald, aud has keen, piercing
black eyes. He was originally from
Massachusetts, but was raised in New
York, aud has already served n term
in the penitentiary.
He is a we'll educated and informed
man, and an unusually expert chemist,
and probably the most skilful and exten
sive bogus money maker and counter
feiter in the whole Northwest. The
coins of his make are SO near the gen.
uine as alnost to defy the most rigid
scrutiny. They have nearly the gen
uine ring, are about of the same weight,
but present, upon close examination, a
slightly blurred and leady appearance,
and imperfect edges. But little of the
money has been circulated here, the
most of it having been shipped to In
diana. The amount that MeNitt has
takon to Lafayette from here is suppos-
ed to be nearly $4,000.
Marshal Seely returned to Goshen.
Ind, last night with Shears, to use him
in the trial of the remainder ofthe gang,
and will then be remandod to this city
to await his own tlial.
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HE hSHkhRN UFI0N.

THE Mormon PoL1CY.--Some of those
who assume to be acquainted with the
Mormon policy say that, when the Uni
ted States army enters Salt Lake city,
they will find the Mormens all at work,
minding their own business, and Won
dering why the troops were sent there.
The leaders will, however, be ABSENT
Finding no resistance; the troops wilrbe
removed by the Government, and then
the leaders will return, and the ULited
States civil officers will be subjected to
annoyances similar to those which in
duced the Government to send out the
expedition. 1t is argued that a volun.
teer force raised in the States, with a
view to permanent settlement in Utah,
is the only means of keeping these peo-
pie in check.