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New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-17

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New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-17

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dr d m i Up the Har,sIn Road.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-17

AMERICAN ALpKRsASIc CoNyESTioN-FiRsr Dis
TRlcr.-The Delegates 70 the American Aliermsnic
Convention in the Ist District met last evening at
the Washington Hotel, No Broadway, but after u
bief session adjourned w,hou, making q nomius,ion.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-17

AMERICAN ALDERsAsIc CoSyYsTIos, THIRD Dis
rRrcT.-The deegstss to the above Convention met
at St. Johns Park Hotel last evening and while in
session Committee from the Republi AN Alderman
Convention Of the same District, consisting of DR..
Timothy X. Hbbari of the Hid Ward, Charles s.
Randolph of the vth Wa d, and VIM. Fl. DeCamp Of
the With Ward presented themselves, AMI stated
,ha, they had nominated Theodore A. Ward, esq., OF
the With Ward. cx.member ef As emily as their eau
dioste, sbd invited the Americans to lndOrse his nom
nation. with view of insuriug the election Of good
an to city ooanois, and puttng stop to corr p
uon as far a. w.thiu the q! cro member to a.
conpl''h that object.
Tie American Convention after aprotracted session.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
A Southern Convention.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer recently
said of the Southern Convention that
six or seven hundred infatuated gen
tlemen held a Southern Commercial
Convention at Montgomery, Alabama a,
Alabama and Georgia furnished the
greatest number Of these convention
ers," Arkansas, Maryland, Texas, Della
ware, Kentucky and Missouri were not
represented. Virginia and North Car
DINA together only furnish a few dozen
delegates. Little interest was manifes-
ted by any body, and the matter don't
amount to the importance of a row OF
pins. The fact is, the southern mood
les having inaugurated an annual South
ern Commercial, Convention, are deter
mined to "go through the motions -
They have a right to their convention:
and they are bound to protect it.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
The Results of scrccchins.

The results of the Black s~.Republican'
policy in reference to Bleeding Kansas
are as barren for good as the Sahara
from whose boundaries that policy re-
ceived its inspiratian, and as ~deplorable
as the impious attempt to establish enc
gro equality"
The Philadelphia Ledger only con-
firms the common report in saying, up
on the authority of Kansas corresp on
dents, that,
The violent political agitation in the
Territory has so absorbed the attention
of the squatters, that they have neglect
ed their crops and private affairs, and so
exhausted their means, that a large por-
ton of them will be unable to pay for
land before it will be offered for sale un-
der the proclamation of the President.
Many Of those who are unable te pre-
empt will lose their lands, and will have
endured their sacrifice and iaborin vain
to secure a home. People must pay
the penalty of folly. The political dem
agogues have everything to gain in
keeping up violent excitement, the peo-
pie everything to lose.
Doubtless this is an agreeable spec
tacle for the contemplation of those
clerical, political and philanthropic re-
formers of the North who have long
sought, and still seek to "rule or ruin
by the supremacy of African barbarism
over American civilization.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
The Fort Smelling Sale.

The Republican papers throughout
the country have for some time
been circulating a foul charge upon
Secretary Floyd, stat ing that he acted
c~orruptly in purchasing the site for a
military reservation, Fort Smelling
The matter was the subject of %investi-
CATION by a committee of Congress-
The parties charging fraud upon the
Secretary, had every opportunity to APP
pear and prove their charge upon him,
if such facts had existed. But the mat
ter, after a full and impartial investiga-
ton, was reported to Congress thus:
Resozred, That the recent sale of the
military res ~rvation of Fort Smelling
having been made by the Secretary OF
War, under the directions of the Prcsi-
dent of the United States, is in strict
conformity to law; and the evidence re-
ported by the select committee having
failed to exhibit any fact or circumstance
tending in the slightest cegrec to i'm
peach the fairness of the sale or tho in
tcgrity of any of the officers or agents
of the government concerned in the
same, or to exhibit any fast or circum-
stances which should make the said sale
a proper subject for the opinion and
action ofthis House, it is ordered thai
the committee be discharged from the
further consideration of the subject, and
that the report of said committee be laid
| upon the table
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
Very True

A Republican contemporary declares
hat "two wrongs by no means make a
No-doubt that very many Of
the followers in the Republican party.
who have been thoroughly inoculated
with the belief that it amounts to an
objectionable sin in any shape or man
ner or c~ountenance the institution Of
slavery, will CONG to the same %conclu-
sion, when they consider the vote of the
Republicans for Dunn's bill, which Sc
cure to the Shareholders a perpetual
right to their slaves in Kansas, and
their recent vote for the Crittenden-
Montgomery amendment, which con-
cedes the principle that Kansas shall be
a slave State, if the people thereof shall
decide to have it so. According to the
enunciated Republican creed, these arc
two very grievous wrongs and we can
conceive of no possible way whereby
they can be made "aright."
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
The Crop Prospect.

We understand from persons ''who
know that the prospect of a large crop
of Wheat in this county, is very diseour-
aging at present Col. HENDRICKS ex-
hibited to US a few days ago u hill Of
Wheat, taken from one of his fields,
which contained fifteen stocks, two only
being Wheat, the balance was, what Is
known among farmers, as ''cheat. =
Others have informed US that upon ex-
aiming what they had been fiattering
tn ,mselves would be a good field OF
Wheat" they find more then half to be
cheat, especially in low lands. Corn,
we are also afraid, will be very light
on account of the recent very heavy
rains we have had. Farmers have more
cause to complain now, than they have
had for years, and they are taking ad.
vantage of the opportunity.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
The land Bride.

The indianapolis Sentinel says the
more the charge made by the Republi-
cans, that the English ordinance is a
bribe to the people of Kansas to accept
the Lecompton Constitution, is examin-
ed, the more ridiculous it appears. 1t
gives no more than the Crittenden-Mont-
gomery bill, and one hundred and sew
enty sections of land less than the cele-
brated Dunn bill, of 1856, which ~receiv-
ed the approval of the Black Republi-
can Congress of that year.
According to Republican logic, the
Montgomery bill is no bribe-the Dunn
bill is no bribe-but the English bill is
a bride to the people of Kansas to come
into the Union, when the English ordi,
nance is precisely similar in its provis-
ions to the Montgomery grant, and less
liberal than the Dunn bill, a Republican
measure, which granted more land than
either.
hen will the anti-Lecompton jour
nails publish the different ordinances, az
we have done, so that their readers may
attest their assertions by the facts?-
There has beentquite enough .ridicuiou US
~falsehoods about the matter, and thu
vendors know full well hat the publica
ton of the s9Fss-bills will conYict them
ofthe dirty work.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
Official Bribery in Iowa.

We recently published an account OF
the Wisconsin bribery case, and now
comes another report of the like pro-
ceedings in Iowa. The Dubuque Her.
all says:
Morc Republican C1rruphioa.-We
have just received the report ofthc spec
ial committee, appointed by the House
of Representatives at the late session of
our Legislature to investigate the alleg-
ed frauds in the location of the Capital
at Des Moines. We had heard Of the
charges of dishonesty and bribery
against the Republican Commissioners.
or a majority of them, who were APP
pointed by a Republican Legislature to
relocate the Capital; but this report now
before us makes known and confirms a
greater amount of rascality on the part
of those commissioners than we had
evcu heard,
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
Tic Right of Search.

Great Britain is at her old tricks
again. Within the last six weeks, no less
than eighteen or twenty of our merchant
or coasting vessels, have been boarded
by British cruisers, almost in sight of
u own coast, under the himsy pretext
of searching for slaves, &c. This is a
direct and gross insult to the American
flag, and the same or similar outragGs
committed half a century ago, it will! be
re objected by the readers of history, was
the cause that produced the war of 1912
oetween the two nations. Fortunately
we have a President and a Secretary of
State, possessing the right kind of pluck
for the occasion. We have every con-
fdence that Mr.. BUCHANAN and Gen.
CAss will give the naughty AMI imper-
Ious British government to understand
that these outrages on our commercial
marine and insults to our flag cannot
be tolerated any longer, and that the
doctrine so boldly and ably maintained.
N NV hip L SpOuS, IS IN
one they intend to adhere to at all haz.
ards.
S~ubjoined is a list of some of the Amer
lean vessels, thus far outraged by Brit
ish vessels of war belonging to the Gull
squadron. viz:
Ship Tropic Bird, fred into, boarded
and searched.
Bark Clara Windsor, fired into, board
ed and searched.
Bark w. II. Chandler. boarded an,
searched while lying at anchor in til
port of Sagua la Grande.
Twelve other vessels also boarded an
searched in the harbor Of Sagua la Gran
de.
Brig Robert Wing, fired into, board
ed and searched.
Schooner Wingold, fred into, board
ed and searched.
Schooner Cortex, seized, and o de
tanned at Inagua.
Schooner N. b. Borden, fired into
boarded and searched.
Schooner Mobile, fred into, boarde
and searched.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
Bennett om Senator Mason.

In the course OF an article on British
outragcs, the New York Herald, of a
recent date, INDUCES in the following,
abiding to his Hon. old fogy Mason,
of Virginia:
"And on what ground does he ask the
Senate to delay its honest and patriotic
action? Because We have nothing but
newspaper accounts Does Mr.. Mason
know what newspaper accounts arc?-
We will tell him what they are. News
paper accounts, Mr.. Mason, are the
thoughts and deeds of the day. They
are the life current of the public mind
They have in them, in the journalism
of one single day, more truth, logic, wit
knowledge, ~eloquence and power, than
can be found in all the prosyjournals Of
the Us. for twenty years past. Newspa
per accounts, Mr.. Mason, elected you tc
the Senate, and you count upon then
for your re election. Newspapers avail
themselves Of the wonderous power o
the telegraph, and through that they
have information on all points far in ad
vance of the old fogies OF the day"
1--WE hope these things are coming to
an end. We trust Mr.. Buchanan viii
not heed the old fogyism Of the Senate.
from Virginia, but will go on in the Dol,
and energetic path he has marked GU
for his course. Let our citizens b
righted abroad, and if Senator MasoI
or any other old fogy is still afraid of
fuss, let him resign, and go home anC
tell his fellow citizens why he did So
Our word for it, the newspaper account
will give a bright picture of the election
of his successor, and of the enthusiasm
of the people in supporting Mr.. Buchan
an in an energetic foreign policy. Il
this the country wants action, action
action"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
Grain and FruIt Prospects.

The Cleveland plain Dealer has pub
lished many letters from the best in
formed and most reliable business men
of various portions of Ohio, Illinois,
Iowa, Indiana and Michigan, all OF
whom give it as their opinion that there
will be Il bountiful harvest of grain, and
a good crop of fruit. These gentlemen
all speak cheerfully and hopefully inre-
gard to many matters. and seem to think
there are ''better times coming" which
we sincerely hope may be a truthful pre-.
Giction.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
DEMOCRATS REJOICING

DEMOCRATS REJoIcING.-The Dem
ocrats of Dayton are rejoicing over the
admission of Col. VALLAND1GHAM to
his seat. The Empire of the Goth says.
THE TnIRTY.TIREE GU>s-There
was great rejoicing among the Democ-
racy yesterday afternoon and evening.
1t was not that boiSterous, riotous de
monstration which our republican friends
INDUCED in on several similar occasions
which we remember very we'll; but that
deeper feeling of pleasure which finds
its chief satisfaction in the triumph itself
and the mutual congratulations of
friends.
In the evening thirty-tLree rounds
we're given by the two pieces of artillery
Mad Anthony and that handsome
new gun. The firing was in the south
east part of the city, for the reason that
there is sick persons on Third street
The guns did not crack SO loudly up
town. of course, the wind blowing from
the north-but south of us, even to
Lebanon and Middletown: the report
was distinctly heard.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
ssyA letter from Kansas to Boston

bGy~A letter from Kansas to Boston
states that Rev. Mr.. Kalloch, who NOV
ed to that territory about two months
ago, has "struck a streak of luck" and
realized a fortune by scme successful
financial operations. He is now spoken
of as a candidate for the I. S. Senate by
the free state men. What a charming
figure this Fremont Temple evangelist
this erring angel, this rosy rhetorican
this ambrosial adulterer--would cut be.
side Crittenden, and Douglas, and Ma.
son and Toombs !
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
pe7EW. H. GILL. editor and propr

Gg~W. II. GILL. editor and proprie
tor of the Ohio Patriot, one of the best
Democratic papers in the State, has sold
ont to Mathew johnson, ofToledo, Ohio.
Mr.. Gill is an able and forcible writer,
and has a host of friends in Ohio, who
will regret to lose SO good and faithful
a Democrat editor. Mr. johnson is said
to be a gentleman of talent and energy.
His democracy is we'll endorsed. Good
bye, brother Gill.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
Slavery Agitation Declining.

The Baltimore Republican, notices
three things which lave now Just come TO
hand that are strong signs that section
al agitation upon the slavery question
has had its day. i.
Il. The speeches of Mr.. Pryor and
others in the recent Southern Convex
ton, against the revival of the African
slave trade. a
80. The refusal of the National Tract
Society to lend itself through its publ
cations to the Abolitionists.
60 The refusal of California Leg
i~slature to receive free negroes within
the limits of the state"
To which may be added the signih-
cant fact that the New York Tribune
and the Cincinnati Commercial have
dropped the negro question, and are now
engaged in justifying the British out
RACES in the Gulf of Mexico.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
Hon. NEr. VaIiandigham.

The Philadelphia Pennsylvania thus
of the member of Congress from
this Di-trict:-"This bold, fearless and
intrepid champion of democratic princi-
pies, was yesterday admitted to his seat
in the House OF Representatives, roust-
ing the Hon. L. D Campbell, the sitting
member. The contest between these
two gentlemen, in the Third District of
Ohio, was warmly wagcd, and the certif-
icate given to Mr.. Campbell by a small
majority. Upon examination it was
proven that illegal votes were polled, in
sufficient number to overcome the differ
ence in favor of Mr.. Campbell, and the
committee reported in favor of Mr.. Val
landigham, which report was adopted by
the House, and the latter gentlemen
sworn in as a member of the present
Congress. Mr., Vallandigham will make
an active, useful member, while his fine
intellectual powers will place him among
the most successful defenders of demo-
cratic principles.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03

BaEThe ousting of the Butler Pony
has created some little sympathy among
the Crank and file" of his party in Preble
county, who declare they will run him,
vote for him, and die for him next fall.
The Inspiring ones" and wire-workcrs,
however, of which there are not a few,
wink at oae another and that is all
nonsense; they consider the Pony has
been on the course until he has become
ring-boned, spawned, string-halted and
broken down, and should come off and
be stabbed, to give place to fresh nag,
If he is run, we imagine there will be
some little opposition, among those who
have stood off for the last three years
Let it come-we are prepared t" thrash
them all out, and intend to do it.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03

gg- 1t is stated that the wife of the
late Henry William Herbert, was in In
diapopolis, for the purpose of procur-
ing n divorce, when her husband saved
her the trouble. The laws of Indiana
offer great facilities to those who tire of
tho sameness of married life.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
IoMah'S GOUrd.

We believe, had a brief career. 80
do certain political parties. -Four years
ago the opposition to the Democracy
was the "An.i-N Nebraska party" That
did not last, through one campaign
when it was succeeded by the "People's
party" next the "American Republi-
can party" and then the BLACK Repub-
lican party" Of late it has been the
Anti-Lecompton' party, and now that
seems to be vanishing away. 1t hardly
lasted through a lunar month and could
not withstand the sun of Democracy.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03

Bg-It is said that the death of Cen
eral Smith was not unexpected at Wash
ington. The Wal Department endeav-
ored to dissuade him from claiming the
command of the Utah expedition on ac-
count of his poor health, and only de-
sisted when he urged professional con-
siderations which could not be disre-
garded.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03

Rg~Qecn Victoria is again reported
to be in an "intcresting condition. and
her daughter, just married to the Prince
of Prussia, has already been forbidden
by her physician to continue her eques-
TRAN exercises on account of the peril
in which it might place 1.-the hopes of
the Prince to an early heir in his estate
and dignity" 1t takes the Anglo-Ger-
man stock TO set a fruitful e;can,pIel
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
The Campbell is ConninE!!

'"' We had some doubt in regard to the
final issue of the ''Ohio Contested cleo
ton CASE" until the last number of the
Register came to hand. When the
'ssage''so exultingly predicted Campbell's
approaching triumph, we felt VAL
was safe. 1t is but a few weeks since
he pronounced Lecompton dead, dead,
dead, and 'immediately, if not sooner
through went Lecompton. Again the
mighty soothsayer assumed the prophets
mantle, and gets on the tripod" wesup-
pose, in the recess of his "sanctum," but
before the sylvan leaves have hardly
'tuttered out of his case, and while he
is oracularly pronouncing the doom of
our friend VALLANDINGHAM, and the
sepulchral tones of dead, dead, dead, are
vibrating on the air, the decision comes
which proves that it was not the dead
march" of'Val," but the Butler Pony"
he was so touchingly and tenderly chant
ing. Oh monacular do quit your mon
ochord. Don't prophecy any more, least
your next 'beat be so complete" that
another defeat" you'll 'never meet!'-
We think the people must nov be salts,
fed as to the gift Cf the Register mans
prophecy. We have heard of weather
vanes r%usting on their ~spindles during
long storms, so they could only point
one way, perhaps this reign of Democ-
Tacy is r%usting you a little, for you have
for some time been pointing to a
certain quarter of the political sky, and
crying fair weather ahead, but from the
very quarter to which you point, you
have heard only "thunder and lightning
the thunder of ratification that follows
the lightning that s~plinters sectiona
schemes and schemers.
Well, we'll, we wonder if LEV ha
found out who he was running against
we wonder if he feels "nineteen fee
high"-we wonder if he showed "Val.
''the broad seal of the State of Ohio
we wonder if he presented "Val' with
that Congress knife" or that 'dish G
oysters"-we wonder if he still think
he only swalked round the track"-an
finally, we wonder where Lew is, an
whether his friends ,eiu glue him a din
ner in Washington? But the cage {
wonders will never cease" some folks say
we don't know their authority for it,
However, brother Democrats, We hav
not much more to say now; we shall e1
pect for a few weeks some buster, charge
of corruption, and not very vague hint
that at the next election the "Butler Pc
ny" will win, but it is our private opir
ion real estate will be advertised in an
about Hamilton, before long, on reason
able terms. All We have to do is to 70
low on the stanch doctrines, which ne
err have and never can be conquered
a republic. We nave now 4 man to r
present US, who stands upon the bro;
principles of nationality, and if 9th
victories do not press upon the heels
this one, it will be because we are la
CARDS and unworthy of the cause, col
bining fervent patriotism and nation
justice.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03

na"Val" got his scat by seuen ma
iority. Next fall we will give it to him
by that many hundred.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03

M- Wonder if our neighbor of the
Register favors the contemplated "fu.
sion" of all opposition :?
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03

FERTILE SoIL.--Four silver watches
wero plowcd up last week, in the field
Of D. l.. King in Akron, Ohio,
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03
NE 1t is said that in case the attempt

Aea.It is said that in case the attempt
to employ the monster ship "Leviathan"
in commerce should result disastrously,
she will make a good monument. Stan
ding on the end, the monster vessel
would rise to three times the height of
Bunker Hill Monument, higher than
the projected Washington Monument.
higher than any ~monumentin the world.
higher than the Pyramids. If nobody
dies, and nothing occurs worthy to be
commemorated by such a monument.
she might be used for the first section
of a tubular bridge over the Mississippi.
Something must be done with her in or
out of the water.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-03

ns-W We commend to our country CO.
temporaries, who desire a prompt and
reliable Newspaper Agency in New
York, the firm of S. NJ. PETTENGILL &
Co. When they send you an adver-
tisement, you can feel certain of your
pay, a thing unusual among the many
who have volunteered their services to
act as Agents for the country Press
E. W. CAR, of Philadelphia, and a ST.
LAS D. FoR- E., of New York, we believe
to be swindlers and liars, and we intend
to have nothing more to do with them