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Speaking at London


Mr. J. C. BuRcH-Dear Sr:-To-day has been a
glorious day for the Democratic party in this section
Messrs. TAYLOR HOPKINS and WHTTHoRNE filled their
appointments at Loudon, Roane county. The Oppo-
sltiOn had rallied all their forces from all the sur
rounding counties, and there large crowd in
attendance. Col TAYLOR led off, and consumed half
of his time in denouncng the Administration for be-
ing corrupt ETC.; he sung the old song that the De-
mocrats were stealing all the money out OF the
Treasury. T4YLOR, to-day, came down on Judge
DOUGLAS stronger than any of the Opposition speak
ers VINO have passed this way.
:. When HOPKINS took the stand the Opposition ex-
pected him to give the BRECKENRIDGE party fits but
to their surprise he paid off TAYLOR by giving BELL
sartcular fits for a while, and then his cry was that
YGNCEY wanted to break up this glorious Union of
ours, and that his candidate was the regular Demo-
cratic candidate and therefore the Democracy ought
to support him. JOHN is a clever fellow, but, poor
fellow, he is laboring in bad cause. Out of the
large crowd present did not find but two DOUGLAS
men besides HOPKINS, and one of them was not de-
termined to vote for him without he believed him to
be the strongest man to beat BELL
WHITTHoRNE took the stand, and if ever one can
ddate gained complete victory, he did so to-day.
have never heard better speech made in East
Tennessee. The Democrats were thoroughly
aroused and went home determined to work from
this until the election day All is right in this Sec
ton the DOUGLAS vote is growing less every day,
and by the time the canvass ends in Hamilton, next
Saturday, between WHrTTHoRNE, TAYLOR and Hop
KISs, there won't be six hundred DOUGLAS votes in
East Tennessee The State is safe for BRECKENRIDGE
and LANE beyond'a doubt and if WHTTTHoRNE could
make a speech in every county, it would be by ten
thousand. Keep the ball in motion and we will
,r;rr,nb ],
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And again
From the Lexington st.tesm,n.

The Louisville Journal and Democrat twin organs
of the allied Opposition violently excited the
announcement of a speech from Mr.. Breckenridge
They are eloquent upon the subject of Presidential
and Senatorial dignity and rashly indignant at the
thought of man occupying Mr.. Breckinridge's pO-
sitiOn descending to the stump. Their paragraphs
upon the subject exhibit a wonderful similarity
and betray no little CONSERVATION. Their plans are
thwarted their game is blocked their stock in trade
is about to be lost to them. They have no longer
silent man TO deal with. The lips of their victim
are no longer sealed and they stand appalled, at the
thought of Mr. Breckenridge speaking in seIfdefense.
They even ready to retract to apologize, to beg
for quarter. Their recent issues filled with as
severations of high personal regard for Mr. Breck-
inrdge and denials that they intended to inplicate
him in the and conspracies they have charg
ed upon the Democratic party. They say Mr.. B. has
been kindly dealt with that of their calumnies
have reached his private character, and none of
their ISLANDERS intended to iinpugn his personal
honor! Singular notions of personal honor They
him Of being the head and front of disunion
movement. If he is and knows it. he is guilty of
treason ; if he is, and don't know it, he is fool
They lay the purpose of Mr. Breckinridge's friends
Union He must be plant tool or leading accom-
plice And these accusations they tell US, do not
reach Mr.. BreckiurIdges personal integrity their
mode of attack their character of assault these twin
organs say. is the kindest and genteSt treatment
any man could receive. Oh mo, it is not unkind to
charge an American citizen, sworn to support the
Constitution, with design of subverting the Gov
eminent 1t is no imputatInn upon his character to
accuse him of perjury and treason. They have not
accused him of murder or arson, of highway rob-
berry, therefore he has no right to open his mouth
Such miserable stuff is worth only the scorn and
it does fail to excite in the minds of all
honorable men.
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AueUsTE BELNoNr, New York,
WILLIS A. GoRMAN, Minnesota.


HEALTH OF CHARLEsToN.-As many oS orr readers
are interested in learning the facts in regard To the
existence OF yellow fever in Charleston. we publish
from the Charleston Mercury of the 9TH inst the fol.
lowing article in regard to the health of that city
We publish this morning. the official yenort az tho
City Registrar of the deaths in CharIeston fo, ~.
week ending Saturday. September L II will he seen
that the total number is 36, of winch two are from
yellow fever These are the two cases already re-
ported by the Mercury and about which a va,ietv
of opinions is entertained by the medical fraternity
The first reported death from yellow fever occurred
or the zSth and the second on the 3lst ult; since
which time, up TO ten Oelock last night no further
deaths have been reported and it is Confidently eY
peeted, BY high medical authority that no f,.rtber
deaths will be reported
At a late hour last evening our reporter visited
the Marine and Roper Hospitals There is no case
of yellow fever at the Marine Hospital and the fe-
yer wards Of the Roper Hospital contain but two
patients neither of which has been pronounced vel
low fever. On further inquiry, we have been in.
formed that the only supposed cases Of yellow fever
now under treatment in the city one IN Society
street, and one at the corner of King and Tradd
streets With these facts before u.s. there certain
y cause for ala-m; and notwithstanding the very
exaggerated reports afiOat notice that our prin-
cipal hotels have daily their books the Of
many of our interior merchants who visit US for their
fall supplies.
By comparing the deaths reported for last week
with those reported in June and July we have fur
Their evidence Of the present health of Charleston.
For the week ending June 3D. thrty-one desths we're
reported; June 80, forty-three deaths report
ed; July 7, sixty-twO deaths were reported; and
thirty six deaths were reported for the week end
ing July ii.
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From Robertson.

SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 4th, 1860.
Mr. BURCH-Sir: Our usually quiet little village
was considerably agitated this morning by the ap-
pearance in our midst of Il real live ex-senator who
had been imported by those most Interested, l
suppose, for the purpose of utterly DISCRIMINATING
the Democracy, root and branch. 1 allude to the
Hon. Mr.. FOoTE. From the glee and hilarity of the
Opposition at his arrival and the confident air Of
the gentleman himself, it was confidently expected
that the nwoud stand STILL the laws of gravitatiOn
be suspended to witness the execution of the Demo-
cratic party. But we felt no alarm. We had been
threatened once before by Mr.. WATTERsON, who had
been persuaded over here, believing that he might
come, see and conquer, but to his great chagrn he
found himself PROSTATE at the feet of gallant
MENEEs, who forced him to acknowledge that he
would not vote for Mr. BRECKISRIDGE under any
circumstances compelled HIM to endorse JOHSsoNs
Georgia resolutions after having declared in the
language of his great leader, that " Intervention
was disunion,n claiming at the same time that pro-
lection was intervention. Col. WATTERsONs COM
plee humiliation induced his friends to pit the
Senator against our gifted MENEEs but he too shared
the same fate.
FooTE opened in a speech of an hour, denouncing
the friends and supporters OF Mr. BRECKENRIDGE,
splitting his execrations upon the head of that pure
patriot, whose exalted character challenges the adj
miration commands the respect, and receives the
appreciation of his enemies. Gov. FooTE endorsed
the Georgia resolutions of Mr.. JOHNSON, notwthstand
ing they claimed protection, declared his preference
for BELL Mr.. BRECETNRIDGE, and very eXultingy
that he had challenged Gov. HARRIS and
Mr.. EWING to meet him. and they dared notdo it. He
very soon saw that there was bold and fearless
champion of the constitutional rights of the South
who would dare to measure lances with him, or
any other man. DR.. MENEES completely and tri
defended the Democratic party against
al the charges of dsunion, exposed the hidden and
secret designs of his adversary and his followers
upon the Democratic party, and won for himself
the love and esteem of the entire party. All is well
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Correspondence Of the Baltimore Sun.

WASHINGTON July 81.
THE ENUMERATION AND INCREASE OF THE SLAVE POP
UIATIoS-No result of the census is of more inter-
est in some points of view, than that of the enumer
alton of the slaves and of the ascertainment of the
rate of their increase for the last ten years Here
tofore their increment thirty per cent in every
decade 1t will not be less for the last ten yeas,
and there are several reasons why 1t should be
greater. The slaves are more profitable to their
owners than formerly, and are therefore, better
taken care of. They are better fed, housed, and
clothed, as class, than they were thirty or forty
years ago. They have thus profted by the culture
of cotton as much their owners Then, again it
has been the policy of the slaveholding States, for
the last ten years. to discourage emancipation. 1t
will not be surprising if the rate of increment since
1850 should be found to be at least Onethird, or
thirtythree and a third per cent instead of thirty
as heretofore At this rate it will not require any
decades to bring up their number to sixty millions
At a day, comparatively early in the history of
nation, there will be more African slaves In this
country than there people in all Africa. Nor Is
there any reason to beliVe that they will be bur-
den, but, on the contrary, they will be probably
employed. Senator Hammond remarked, IN his re-
ply to some anti-slavery speech that South Carolina
could alone Proftably maintain six millions of slaves,
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Protection to Property in the Territories.

1t will be borne in mind that the Democracy do
not ask Congress or the Federal Government to eS-
tGbS slavery in the Territories. Our doctrine is,
leave the territories open for the Introduction of all
kinds of property and every shade of sentiment in
the Union until the people meet in Convention and
form State Constitution. Then they may deter
mine whether the negro shall live in their midst
in the character of slave the equal of the
white man. When they form their Constitution
and become State they are an independent sover-
eighty and in the formation Of their Constitution
have the exclusive right to say what shall be the
status of the negro When they form Constitution
and become State they stand upon the same foot
ing as the oldest States in the Union. Until then
the Territory is the common property of every
State, held and governed by the Federal Govern
ment or its duly appointed agents for the benefit of
all and not for the exclusion of any.
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LETTER FROM GOV. TRoUsDALE.

GALLATTN, Aug. "a, 1869.
GENTLEMEN Your letter of the 22d instant has
been received inviting to be present and to ad-
dress the people of Maury and adjoining counties
the important public questions involved in the pres
ent national canvass at grand mass meeting, to be
held near Columbia on the first Monday in next
month.
1t would afford me the greatest pleasure to be
present on that occasion, and to express my views
upon the vital questions that sgitate the cOun
try AMI threaten dissolve the contederacy framed
by our revolutionary fathers: but my present CON
dItion renders it mprsctcable. thank you, gen
temen, for the manner IN which you have discharged
the duty assigned you. Very respectfully,
Your ob't. serYt, W. TROUsDALE.
Messrs. F. C. Huntington, Jno. B. Hays Geo. CAN'T,
and others.
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CONGRATULATIONS.
nailio rsyson charging N. 9. Taylor win

treason
ERRORS UNION AND AMERICAN To "what COM
plexiOn" is this political canvass in Tennessee to
come! is q question now asked in East Tennessee
with more than usual interest. We on this side of
the mountains who have been listening to TAYLoR's
speeches. have been astounded by the report of the
UNION AND AxERIcAS Of the speech Of PEYrox at
Winchester. For this reason /: TAYLOR has every
where in this part Of che State been proclaiming
with earnestness and all the rhetoric he could COM
mand, that the men of the South who will resist
LNcoLN's inauguration or in any way oppose his
policy, in the absence of an overt aet,p (where-
BY disunion would follow are traitors and deserve
traitors death; more than this, he has gone far
as to declare that he with thousands of Tennesseans
would interpose their bodies lving--if necessary.
dead-dgdinst any nsouenset in the South to defeat by
resistance the inauguration of LINCOLN Il regret
that cannot give you his precise language, so often
used; but its spirit favored not only the most com
plete and abject submission to the triumph of the
Republicans, if that should be so, but breathed a
determined and resolute purpose to fight even to
boodshed and death for the. Union toh LINCOLN as its
Preside1d)
Now what startes us is this Your especial cor
respondent writing from Winchester, reporting
the first discussion in which Col PEYToN (the other
and leading electoral candidate of the BELL party
for the State) has taken any part, represents him
as having said that any of prominence in the
South ,Oso 1oR accept office from LINCOLN should not
only be branded as a traitor, but should be put to
death toih terrible torture"
We do not, of course question the accuracy of
your correspondents report but we must
express our establishment in view of what we
have been hearing from the other BELL electoral
candidate on this side of the mountains, at this de-
claration of Col. PEYToN. that the man who would
accept Office under LINCoLSis TRAITOR and should
be put to dedth and not only put to death but with
TERRIBLE TORTURE And yet ex Gov. BEBB de-
clares in Knoxville that LINCOLN, if elected will
select his officers in the South from the BELL party,
(who ever believed that he would tender one to
BRECKENRIDGE men9 and TAYLOR is not only willing
to accept Office from the Black Republicans, (the
Clerkship of Congress, for instance,) but is willing
farther to fight to the death for the Black Republicans
to preserve, he says, the Union of the States !!
To ,ohat death would PEYToN expose TAYLOR? What
does this clashing mean? EAST TENNESSEE
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SATURDAY, sErTEmBER ), 1890.
To our Friends.

We are requested by the Central Committee to sug-
gest TO our friends throughout the State the pro-
priety of being assured of the attendance of their
speakers before they fix day for their public meet
ings. The Committee have had frequent APP
plications to send speakers to a meeting already
published when it was impossible to do so on &C
count of the previous engagements of speakers.
FIRST determine that you will have meeting; then
get the assurance of one or good speakers that
they will attend and let them fix the day; and then
publish your meeting for that day, and invite as
many other speakers as you desire.
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An Onen.
Mt. PLEASANT, Sep

Mt. PLEASANT, sept. 4, 1861.
MEssRs. EDITORS The 0ppositOnists seemed
greatly to rejoice sometime since when the BRICK
INRIDGE and LANE flag, floating from our Democratic
pole here, gaze signs of being injured by the wind
and weather. Last Saturday they had another pow
WOW in this place, and after much ado, got their
flag up and left it floating to the breeze Just about
twentyfOur hours after getting it up, it split train
just between BELL and EVERETT, as inscribed upon
its folds Weregard it here truly OminOus of the
manner in which we will split their party in No
vember. They have been greatly non plussed to get
the flag dol1n to repair the breach, but it is
difficult task to get it doloH it is to get Mr..
BELL dOUa when he gets up to make one of his long
prosy speeches, such the Know Nothing speech
he made at Knoxville in 1855, and his memorable
effort on Kansas. They will now have to haul down
their flag, and their candidate too, and fix them up
for another canvass uLder some ne,o name, as they
are partial to changing names. DEHocRAT.
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An ABotrrfoSEr IN TRoUBLE.-Last Wednesday, a
man by the name or David Strimple. native of New
Jersey, but lately from California, arrested in
this place, and is now in jail where he will remain
until the October Court, on account of some "Old
Brown" doctrines dropped in the hearing of both
negroes and white persons. He is evidently man
Of the darkest Abolition proclivities. His express
sons were too outrageous for us TO publish and he
will doubtless pay dearly for it before he sees the
end. He has been working at the cooper business
Franklin (Ld.) Banner, Sept. l.
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BREcKNRrDGE GAINS on CONBs.-A gentleman from
Bourbon informs Monday that at one pre-
cinct in that county he knows of twenty-eight Dem,
ocrats who voted for Combs at the late election
every one of whom will vote for Breckenridge and
Lane in November, and at the precinct in Nicholas
county he knew Fifteen others of the same sort.'
So it will be throughout the State. All the Bell Ev-
eretts and Squatters combined can never prevent
Kentucky from voting for the men of the people
chOice-the gallant Breckenridge and Lane-M
Slerling EU1 Le1iOH
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An EDlToR's TRIALs,-Mrs. LooKNs was arrested
in Norfolk, Va, the 2Sth ult, for having demand
ed the retraction, by JSo r. HATHAWAY, editor of
the Day Book. of local article about her in that
paper, and failing to get it, having placed loaded
pistol TO his head and drawn cowhide cut of her
pocket. This conduct seems to have been taken
very cooly by the editor but policeman. less gal
liant, took the offending fair one into custody She
was held to bail in $780, that particular
editor so any more. H.s .r.-.r- a. q "a q
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Ernm Macon.

A friend writing from EUBANKs' Store, Macon coun-
ty, assures us alI's well' there. He says "All is
exactly right up here. We are confident of making
a gain for BRECKENRIDGE and LANE over Compensa-
ton BELL. He will never get that $4,000 year"
Our correspondent gives us an account Of telling
speeches made there on the 2Sth August by Messrs
Moody and HUBBARD Democratic sub-electors. The
crowded state of our columns prevents the publica
ton in full of the communication.
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DOUGLAS AT THE HALFWAY House. ! Long JoHN
WENTWORTH says in the Chicago Democrat:
MIR. Douglas is now at the halfway house he
5os not know where ms bread is buttered: but the
election and the next census will bring him clear
an 70 anti slavery standard
Further on, the same paper says:
I. We infinitely prefer him (Douglas) to your Cush-
;,,,s Pierces Breckinridges, or any one else that
runs upon pro-slavery doctrines
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GEN. w. C. WHrrrHoRNE.-Tl

zen W. U NHITTHORNE.-This gallant champion
OF Democracy, paid our city visit on last Saturday
night lie was serenaded at the Bell House, and
in response TO the loud calls of the populace an
peared upon the porch of the hotel and made soul
stirring speech which was cheered throughout its
delivery. He has thus far made noble canvass in
East Tennessee. lie came among us a stranger
without or fame, but hereafter he will need no
formal introductons-his name is a household
word" and he has established an enviable reputa-
ton as political debater.-hnoIUie Register Sept C.
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Letters from Cows. TrOusdaIe and

Cows. TRoUsDALE and JOHNSON were invited to be
present at the Democratic meeting at Columbia on
Monday last and address the people. The following
are their replies, from which it will be seen that
Gov. JOHNSON expected to be present but he had to
telegraph his friends of las inability to get there,
the Saturday evening Dreyious,
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LETTER FROM GOV. JOHNSON.

GIIkENN lie, aug. 20 IoUU-
GENTLEMEN Your letter of the 2lst inst, invi-
ting me to attend and address mass meeting to be
held on the Sd of September, has been received.
Since my return from Washington my health has
been so irregular that it has been out of my power
to make and FIJI any appointments for public speak
ing and so far l have made but one. However, my
health Of late has been improving and If l hnd l
can be with you on the day designated for your
meeting with reasonable assurance OF being able to
address TIE people will be there and participate in
the proceedings of the day
With very great respect your Ob't servt,
ANDREW JOHNSON
Massrs T 4 Illumination John r Hays and others.
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Douglasites of New York:
I'VE have the best understanding with the Bell
and Everett people, and both parties determined
that Alabama shall not give Ter vote to the sectional
Yaneey ticket"
All going for the same ticket eh If the natural
lied voters who support Douglas don't keep their
eyes open their leaders will have them transferred
over, bag and baggage, to the Know Nothing wig
wan. What do they think of it?-Baton Rouge
Gazette
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From Lawrence.

A friend writing US from Lawrence gives glow
ing account of the triumph of Col. HAYNES over
Messrs PEYToN and Polk in their recent discussion
at Lawrenceburg. Old Lawrence pledges a gain
for BREcKINRTDGE over HARRIS majority last year.
Keep the fires burning
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