Daily national Democrat., 1859-09-04


ment. What fruitful imagination he must
have lie is the greatest liar on the face of
the eerth. Why, bless your souls, he is the
father of all liars He will 60 to hell, and
be the father of liars there. Amen. G'Amen'
sounding throughout the congregation.
Mr.. MoKIBBIN has addressed the following
letter to Judge Coon, in response to the que
ries propounded to Congressional nominees
in regard to the Stantillan grant, by the
Peoples Committee in San Francisco
SAN Francisco, Aug. 2S, 1859.
II. P. CooN-DEAR SIN: Your letter of
August llth, reached me several days after
date, and my engagements have precluded
an earlier reply: | have no interest, direct
or indirect, in the Bolton or Sontillan claim,
referred to in the enclosed memorial, and it
would not please me to see it or any unjust
claim confirmed. To your second interroga-
tory reply: In case Of my election, | will
vote in favor of and do my utmost to secure
the immediate passage of a law by Congress
granting the relief prayed for, simply because
believe it to be II meritorious case
Respectfully, j. G. MoKIBBIN.
MOVEMENTS OF U. S. TRoops.-Company E,
Sixth Infantry, at present stationed at San
Bernardino, are under orders from General
Clark, for Fort Moave, on the Colorado.
The New Y ork Evening Post announces on
the authority of a private letter from an in
innate personal friend of the novelist, that
Charles Dickens will visit this country du-
ring the ensuing autum, and give the read
ings from his own works that has been so
successful in England
The Wyandot correspondent of the N. Y.
Times charges the most disgraceful swinding
on the part of the Republicans and Demo-
Gratis in framing the new State Constitution,
and says local interests, with spectators in
to yn lots, &c, governed the action of the
Convention.
DIR. ANGLE, of San Francisco has recently
invented an amalgamator for extracting gold
from the tailngs of quartz mills 1t is said
by those who have seen it, to be superior to
anything of the kind yet invented.
TIE merchants of San Francisco have
agreed to close their places Of business on
election day.
HUMPHREY GRIFFITH addressed large
meeting at San Francisco Friday night. His
speech was an eloquent one, and was noted
for its force of argument and powerful in
vective. Great enthusiasm was manifested.
GunTY-In the San Francisco Court of
Sessions on Friday, in the case of Connor
tried for the robbery of Freeman & Co.'S
Express, the jury after fifteen minutes con
sultation, returned verdict of guilty
The Petersburg Intelligencer says that Mr..
Roger A. Pryor, in one of his speeches. said
that corruption in the Government had be-
come so general and pervading at Washing
ton, that it was not considered disparaging to
a mans social relations, that he was suspec-
ted of completely in schemes to defraud the
Government
Tue loss of Willis Hamilton, by the burn
ing of their Daguerrean Gallery at Yreka
recently is about 81 500.
The expenditures of the United States, for
the fiscal year, ending in June, exclusive of
trust funds and payments of account OF the
public debt, were 500, ,396 900.
In the list Of students at University COL
lege, London, who recently received prizes at
the hands of Lord Palmerson, we find the
name Of two sons of Louis Kossuth, the Ex-