The North-Carolinian., 1860-01-14
THE ILLINOIS DEMOCRACY.


THE ILLINOIS DEMOCRACY.
| SPRINGFIELD Ill.,, JAM 5-The Democratic Con.
ventlon to-day elected delegates to the Charleston
CONVENTION. RESOLUTIONS were adopted affirming
. e oSnati ipiattorn-repndiating the against
| the revival OF the slave trale-aganst a Congress
s,onal Slave code for the MISUNDERSTANDING that
slavery derives validity from tho Constitution-de
caring the position OF the Democracy of Illinois to
be that OF buclanans i'll his letter Of acceptance
OF enylng the Interpretation given by the Black Re
pubicans to the Dred Scott decision that it denies
the right OF the people of tho Territories to reg
ulate the question of slavery to suit th.mseIvrs
deprecating John Browns foray, and attributine
such nvasions to the teachings Of the Black Repub-
lcans-i -instrncting their delegates vote for the
re-adoption of the Cincinnati Platform and de.
claring their determination to abide by the deci-
sion of the Charleston Convention. and also in.
structing their delegates to vote for Douglas.
| 1t is stated that General Houston, now Governor
of Texas, not candidate for the United States
senate at the las election till the which
pires with the present Congress, but will be
didate for United States Senator to serve for six
years from March T. 1860.
Missouri is the first State will elect members to
the Thirty Seventh Congress. In the fourth dis
trict James N Burns is the most prominent
yet spoken of for the Democratic nomination. Hon.
James Craig is the present Representative
ARREST OF PRIZE FIGHTER.-Two Deputy Sheriffs
OF Buffalo, arrived i'll the city on Monday, to arrest
the principal parties engaged in the late fight be-
tween Price and Kelly. Morrissey was found but
| as he very sick, he was only required to give
bonds to appear aud stand the trial when able. The
hearing that the officers after him, left the
Unitod States for New jersey Jim Kelly has sold
out his place and gone to New Orleans, and Tom
lO'Donnell, the referee in the will" is the onlv
person the Buffalo hunters can hold on to.
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The Legislature Of Pennsy lvana met at Harrisburg
lately and organized! by clecting William Law
renee; Speaker; and William Branch Clerk without
opposition. The Governors message has been
nited.
The Charleston Mercury publishes card addressed
to the interior merchants of South Carolina and other
southern States, and signed by fty-eght importe
and wholesale dealers asking them to buy their goods
Charleston instead of New Yoak.
In A RECENT LETTER to Mr. Charles Dickens. Mr..
w. Hewitt says that the ghost of Captain Wheat
croft, dragoon officer who killed before Delhi,
appeared at the War Office in London and caused
correction to be made III the recorded date Of his
death. The London correspondent of the Manches-
ter Guardian says that Mr.. Hewitt is in error and
that there ghost at ALL but that, the death
of Captain Wheatcroft, secret marriage of his
discovered The same writer adds that Mr.. Hewitt
and his family are confirmed spritualists and ghost
seers, and that Sir f. Buwcr Lytton is also be-
liever in spirits, mediums, and the rest, Sir Edward
is the author of story in a recent number of
Blackwood, entitled ''The Haunted and the Haun-
ters or the House and the Brain" The theory Of
their will i'll mysterious and awful manner on the
minds of others present on the scene of momentous
actions, in which the haunter has borne part.
A New PARrY.-A national political party
is born. A caucus held in Washington the
night of the 18th. No Democrat Republican
present. John j. Crittenden presided. The child
was christened the Union Party" Jere Clemens
was one Of the midwves, and moved that the Un-
ion Baby should have cradle inscribed, ''The Con-
stitution, the Union, and the Laws" That is all
right.
consider the chances of the election of S. A.
Douglas so per ocnt better with this party in
the field than if he had to encounter the Rcpubli-
cans singly.
As have said party has been formed at
Washington. Old critten,cn presided. The Ma
tional Americans ut Philadelphia yesterday agreed
to 60 into it. Now shape matters
The Democratic Party Convention meets May
23d, 1860.
The Republican Party Convention meets Juno
18th, 1860.
The New Union Conservative Convention, if they
are wise would call a Convention July %, and NOM
mate their 1t will not do so. This third
party will aid Douglas.
Wash. Mobile Register.
Thomas Garrett of Wilmington Delaware, a ven-
cradle Quaker, statc,r al the John Brown meeting
in Philadelphia, that he had been instrumental in
aiding 245 slaves to escape by the underground
railroad" besides about 200 more whom he had