Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-09-21
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 democrat, for Governor of Vermont. about 5000 votes.
 Denman, the democratic candidate. ba, been elected Mayor of Leavenwortb, Kan sas T.
 The Illinois State fair of Illinois wa, completely successful, 25,000 people were on the ground on the first day A steam blow plowed one acre in eleven minutes The premiums to be awarded amounted to S16, 300.
 A single train from New Mexico, brought seventeen thousand pounds of wool-of course over Phelps road.
 Very many of the free negroes in Louis jana have chosen masters and petitioned the courts to make them slaves. It amusingto see how the opposition journals " take on'' about this. The choice is given these ne. groes of so-called liberty in so-called free State, or servitude in the south, and they choose the latter, This, too, when they are fully aware of the situation they enter.- To break the force of this testimony in fa- vor of the institution of slavery the black republican papers call it s' democratic des: potism, . " atrocious oppression, " ct cetera
 To show what democracy is, even among aboltionists, we note that Judge Johnson (is he one of the family?) the democratic nominee for delegate to Congress from Kan sas, has taken ground in favor of reopen ing the 4 frican slave-trade.
 The papers in the northern States are filled with doleful accounts of the ravages of the frosts in August The vines were all destroyed. In Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Connec- ticut and Pennsylvania, they have had frost every month during the present year.
 Mr. Ten Broeck has made $200, 900 by his sporting in England.
 A Mrs. Peters apparently died at Frank lin, Ohio, recently and was buried in hot haste by order of her husband. Suspicion being excited she was dug up and resus- citated. She refuses to speak to her hus- band.
 The St. Nicholas hotel in New York, for several days, had,700 guests each day.
 The wool crop of Wisconsin is estimated at one million pounds.
 There has been, for several years, strong tendency exhibited by the Canadians to rebel and ally themselves with the U. s. In that case what becomes of the fugitive slave law?
 We dread te sec the eastern papers after the arrival the Great Eastern. We will have descriptions, pictures, letters, etc., etc., without end. The opposition candidate for Governor , in Ohio says:
 " If am elected overnor of Ohio-and I l expect to be-no fugitive slave shall be
 sent back to Kentucky, or any other slave
 State; if l cannot otherwise protect him from his pursuers, IacW employ Me Jayonet,
 so help me, God" 1t The very latest bulletin from Boz, says : that he Is not coming to America We
 presume the country will survive the an- " nouncement. ie The official vote for Governor of Ken l. tucky is announced as follows: Magoffin, CT 76,1S7; Bell, e 7,2S3. he The brothers Woodward, of Memphis, It, It, have recently fallen heirs to an estate in ct New York, valued at a million of dollars ~ W The grandson of Marshal Mcdonald, one ' of the Great Napoleon's favorite generals it IS now practising law in St. Louis. y The direct surviving progeny of the poe If Burns have emigrated to Ireland. e The Nashville papers record the death ot e John leatman, one of the most highly re- spected citizens of that city. D Seward, at last accounts, was at Rome.
 Doubtless he thinks his "irrepressble con- I aict" doctrine will secure him the nomina- 5 tion for the Presidency, but Bell Bates, Bolts & Co.,, are at his heels. 5 Snake stories are part of the stock of } newspapers. The latest one is of a rattle ! snake, killed near Terra Haute, 21 feet in | length, IS inches around and with III rat t ties.
 p William L. Morgan, farmer, says that i seed from the butt end of an ear of corn will d ripen its product all at the same time and
 three weeks earlier than the grains taken s from the smaller end of the same ear. His : plan IS to break the ear in two and use only 't the icorn shelled from the butt, or large e end for seed
 a Fernando Wood, the indomitable, an- ;. nounces that he is a candidate for Mayor of > New York next December, and that no n compromise or other position, city, state l. or national, can induce him to swerve from >, his purpose
 IT. Photographs are now taken on porcelain /. vases, cups and any utensils of that ware '' regardless of any irregularities of surface. It The widow of Gen. Quitman died re- 1T gently.