Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-17


to the water bucket, went to the bottom of
the well, took the child in her arms, and then
ascended the rope, bringing the child along
with her-an unparalleled feat
A lecture was delivered on Tuesday night
in the Cooper institute, before the Mercantile
Library Association of New York, bv Prof
Benjamin Silliman, Jr., on "The History and
Science of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph" +"
Better dressed, and more pleasing and
more gentlemanly men are not to be found
than hotel thieves we mean the crack
thieves, who stop at crack hotels, take the
best rooms and drink the best wine. Two
Of this enterprising class were found at one
o'clock on Tuesday morning, playing their
vocation at the Gramercy Park House. The
night watchman detected them trying door
knobs, and caused their arrest. Several
watches and other articles, which they had
stolen from the rooms of boarders, were found
in their possession. skeleton keys, nppers.
and other professional implements were also
found Cn them. They gave their names as A.
L. Vooris and A. King Justice Kelly con-
signed them to jefferson Market prison.
Fernando Wood, on the llth inst, sent in
his resignation to the Tammany General
Committee. 1t was received without com.
ment and placed on file.
The Anti -Tammany Democratic CITY Con.
vention, at an adjourned meeting, nominated
Mr.. Stephen P. Russell for Comptroller in
place of MIR. j. I. Soutter, who refused to be
a candidate
The condition of Charles Gouldv, the
youngest of the Thirteenth street family, is
considered very critical. DR.. Van Buren, had
removed some depressed portions of tie
skull, which had caused convulsions. The
child is still living. The servants at the
hospital are in low state; one of them was
fast sinking, the side opposite to the wound
in the head being wholly paralyzed. Mr.
Gouldy's case remains in grave doubt.
Elizabeth Carr, one of the domestics of the
Gouldy family so seriously injured on the
night of the Goth ult, died on Sunday at the
City Hospital,
The WITCHES OF New YoRK.-There is a
class of people in New York styled Fortune
Tellers," "Astrologers" and "Clairvovants. ."
who thrive upon the credulity of the weak
of both sexes. Most of these are fascinating
young women, who do not confine themselves
to telling fortunes for livelihood but mere
ly advertise themselves as such to draw Gus
toners of another class to their establish
ments. Those whose personal attractions
are gone, devote themselves to fortune tell.
ing, dream interpreting, drawing horoscopes,
and telling lucky lottery numbers, varying
their vocation, as circumstances serve, by en-.
trapping simple girls into houses of prostitu
tion, under the guise of procuring for them
wealthy and handsome husbands. These
women are, in plain English, PROGRESSES of
the most infamous character Some of the
clairvoyants confine themselves to the treat.
ment of disease; but it is notorious fact
that the majority of them follow that profes-
sion as a cloak to the infamous trade Of abor-
ton; and hundreds of young girls now in
mates of houses of ill-fame, in New York and
other cities, date their ruin from the dav
they entered the dwellings of these professors
of the black-art; and we are happy to see
that the Mayor of New York has given his
attention to the subject, and on the 2lst of
October he caused the arrest of twelve of
these vagabond women They were all well
dressed, and some of them appeared to be
of their disgraceful position. The
Mayor gave them to understand that he was
determined to put down their business, and
as an earnest of his intention, he ordered
them to give bonds in $500 each.
A Miss Wade of Detroit, Michigan, aged
cut her throat on the 25th ult., on
account of her love for married baggage
master. His miniature, which hung about
her neck, was stepped in blood and she died
her hard fate, in being separated
from the object of her dearest affections
1t is notorious in Illinois that an anti.Lin-
coin majority in the legislature Just elected is
not per Sc a Douglas majority. In a letter
l,,, hol 4
the whole State, written on the lst instant.
the day before the election, he sets forth the
true state of the case 81 have Just returned
from trip through the State. | find that
there are hosts of good Democrats who will
vote for Douglas candidates to beat Lincoln,
although they have no confidence in the
Little Giant" The election returns will
not therefore give very good indication of
his strength. 1t was the impression among
leading Democrats at Springfield that Doug
las will not, under any circumstances be re-
turned. even though his friends be in appa-
rent majority in the legislature They be-
lieve that among them will be found a suffi
cient number of members elected to beat Lin
coin who will refuse to vote for Douglas, and
thus prevent the election of either WaSL-
iugton Union.
We tell the Washington Union in all plain
ness of speech, that it is idle to indulge in
any such fantasy as this. There is not a man
elected to the Legislature, there is not a man
holding over in the Senate, and known as
Democrat, who will not vote first, last and
all the time, for Douglas. No other man will
get the vote ofany Democrat in the Legisla-
lature, if Douglas should be alive in January
next The correspondents of the Union in IL
lnois have not desired to tell the truth at
any time, else the Administration would not
now be exhibited to the country in the posi-.
tion of having been sustained by less than
three thousand votes, in State giving a
quarter of a million of votes If they had
told the truth before the election, as honest
men should have done, no such spectacle
would have been presented. They say now,
that though majority of Democrats may
be returned to the Assembly, Douglas will
not receive a sufficient number of votes to
beat Lincoln, and that some other may be
elected As we have already said, all this.is
the merest CANNON. The miserable politi-
clans who promulgated it do not believe it.
They are not the friends of the President, nor
of the Democratic party; nor should their
suggestions be listened to by any one having
the interests of the party at heart, especially
after the mischief they have done in mislead.
ing the President and the country as to
their strength in Illinois. Instead of listen
ing to such insane, absurd counsels, the Dem
ocratc party should go to work to heal the
breaches which have unfortunately been
made in it, and this can be done this winter,
in time to arrange everything for the contest
with Seward and his Abolition cohorts in
1860. The Democracy of Illinois will then
be seen fighting against the Black Republ-
can party, the leaders of which can find no
hope of elevation to political power except
by arraying the Free States against the
States in which slavery is tolerated and