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Letter of the Hon. Edward Bates
OF. LOUIS, Tuesday, March 20, 1866

OF. LOUIS, Tuesday, March 20, 1860.
The Hon Edward Bates has address
ed letter to the Missouri delegates TO
the Chicago Convention in reply to in
Iterrogatories pronounced to him by them
1t will appear in The Democrat to-mor-
row. The main points of it are as fol-
lows He has no new opinions upon
the subject Of the extension of Slavery
and has formed none with reference to
the present array Of parties He is
coeval with the Missouri question of
1920, he formed his opinions then, and
has not changed them since. At the
time of the Revolution aud long after,
Slavery was regarded as an evil, but
Temporary in its nature, and likely to
disappear in the course Of time. Yet
while it continued it wcs misfortune
to the country socially and politically
Slavery is social relation "a domestic
institution. 1t exists by local law. The
Federal Government has no control OF. 4
1t in the States, but the Territoric; arc
subject and subordinate to the Govern
ment-they not being supreme like
the States The nation is su preme over
them. He is opposed to the extension
of Slavery, and in his opinion the policy
and spirit of the Government ought to
be against its intention. The Consitu
iicn does not carry Slavery into the
Territories nor anywhere. 1t only acts
upon it where it is established by local
law The Dred Scott decision only de-
cides that Dred Scott was not "a citizen
and the opinions of the Judge beyond
this are extra-judicial. and ofno author
ity. The questions discussed by them
were political, ard nc. within their cog
nlzance, and belong and could be liz a;s-
posed Of only by the political depart
ments. The discussion was mast unfor-
tunatc. as it produce dangerous con-
fict between the coordinate branches ofI
the Government. He fayors the colon
ization of the free blacks in the Amer
icar tropics, the Homestead bill, the
admission Of Kansas, a per-
feet equality of rights among citizens,
and the construction ofthe Pacific Rail-
road, under The auspices of the Govern
mrnt He is gralified that his name
has only been used in spirit of harmo-l
ny and peace, and to prevent division
and controversy among those who, ought
to be united. He has neither sought
nor held any politician office for twenty
hive years, and is satisfied with the hon
ors already Paid him by the public.
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. We have been Informed by Capt
Whiting, who has just returned from a
trip through Northern Illinois, that the
Immigration to- Minnesota fromathat Sec
ton. this season, will be- large AL
ready several families have come into
the state from Illinois,. with the design
ofiocating in our neighboring county Of
Oimsted, and more are on the way
From localities fither East, we hear
similar reports of intended removals to
Minnesota The fame of our last har-
vest has gone abroad and IS telling many
pleasant and trathfai tale in our favor
--Winfna aRspubticaao VIZ! sagoy VI
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Hon. Edward Bates Defines his
Position. u

The Hon. Ecward Bates, Of Missouri,
has addressed letter to the Missouri
delegates 10 the Chicago Convention de-
fning bis position on the slavery ques-
tion. 1t is plain, Independent, frank,
manly statement, just such as might
have been expected from the man. We
see nothing in it that any Republican
should object to, and much that points
him out as the man of all others, that
should lead the party in the coming
struggle He holds that slavery is a
domestic institutions. that it exists solely
by local law, and that the Federal gov
ernment has no control over it. He
holds that the Dred Scott decision only
decides that Dred Scott was not clti-
zen, that the opinions Of the judges be-
yond this are extra-judicial and of
no authority. He is opposed tothe ex-
tension Of slavery; is in favor of the
Homestead Bill; the immediate admis-
sion of Kansas, and Inc perfect equality
Of rights among citizens. What more,
in political views, on the great questions
Of the day-what more in favor Of free
dom and free homes what more against
slavery and slavery extension-can any
national union-loving men desire In
addition to this, The fact that Mr. Bates
has clean record, as a publicc man,
from 1920 to the present time on all the
questions that have agitated the coun-
try; that he is above the suspicion Of be-
ing influenced in his opinions by desire
for off ce, or the dictation of party; and
that by his noble position, firm, yet con-
scrvative, on the question of slavery, he
would, if nominated, secure the entire
i-Lecompton vote Of the country,
which cannot be done, as the Tribune
justly says, by any pronounced Repnb
lican, earnestly and firmly impresses us
with the belief that every consideration,
whether Of principle or success, demands
his nomination at Chicago.
We call the attention of our readers
10 Mr.. Bates views, which we publish
in another column.
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: NEW York, Nov. Is, IS5
Sherburne County Tax Sale for
the year 1857.

Notice is hereby given that shall
sell, at public auction, on Monday the
7th day of May, A. d. 1860, and the
next succeeding days, at Humboldt, the
County Seat of Sherburne County, j. j:
the State of Minnesota, so much of each
tract or parcel Of land described below,
as may be necessary for the purpose of
paying all taxes, interest and charges
thereon, for the year 1857.
j. E. PUTNAM,
Register Of Deeds.
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The Homestead Bill in Danger

The Homestead Bill in Danger
The Homestead Bill sent to the Sen.
ate from the House, is in danger of be-
ing strangled there.
Every Democratic Senator from the
south opposes it. Such men as Wigfal
Of Texas, Iverson ofGeorgia, and Mason
Of Virginia, denounce it as Black Re-
publican trick, agrarian. and wicked in
its provisions; designed to fill the ter
ritories with "rascally Republicans; )"
TO hem in the divine institution and ulti-
mately TO destroy it. Northern Dem
ocratic Senators, we regret to record,
are extremely lukewarm on the subject,
with the exception Of Mr.. Pugh of Ohio.
According to the debates which we find
in the Globe, every Republican Senator
goes for the Bill. What our Senator,
Mr. Rice, will Go, we have no means
of knowing for he says nothing one
way or..the other on the subject.
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~ 1t requires experience, capital
and a large stock ofgoods to carry on the
Wholesale Grocery Trade right, and Of
fer good inducements to purchasers
The house off. B. Slichterg s. Coz, 'on
Jackson street, is inst the place to go
IN this respect. They have large es-
ltablishment, and a very sulland superior
stock of'goods Selected expressly for
the,wholesale business(, to choose from,
whichathey sell at thea lowest prices
Messrsg s. and Co ,oinform us that their
trade this Spring has started out very
lively. We noticed several teams load
ing there yesterday for country
Times. Il serb gEi.V "s hs.a'a, swsa
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Horace Greely writes a short

A correspondent of The Etmira Press
says that young man Of his acquain-
tance wrote to Horce Greeley over four
years ago, asking his advice, whether
one ofthe professions would not be pre-
ferable to tilling the soil. philosopher"
Of TIE Tribune returned an snswer to
the young man; but though something
-ofa scholar. it was not till last Monday
that be could dec;pher the manuscript.
The answer is as follows, and shows the
practical light in which H G." views
questions like the one proposed to him.
81 New YoRK, Nov. Is, 1855.
Dear Sir ] judge that there are
three times as many lawyers and doc
tors in the country. as are needed, and,
Judging from the price of flour and beef,
not half enough farmers. OF course,
| judge that you could better look to-
ward growing grain than making pills or
pleas. Yours, Horace Greeley
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STRANGE MURDER. The New Or
leans papers OF the 10th, state that Dr.
Joseph Hunter, of Bossier perish, La,
was in the BARRIERS room, on board the
steamer Lecompte, being shuved, when
little slave boy employed IN the cabin
came into the room with some water
Hunter Immediately asked him if ne
was the boy that was told by him to GO
after the porter. The boy answered,
yes, sir when Hunter sprung upon him,
holding knife over him, and demand
ing whom he belonged to. The boy
was about answering, when he stopped
him and asked the question of the bar
Der replided ho''did not know, when Hnu-
ter said, "tell me or | will shoot you.' -
The DiIsIcr answered, 6" can't tell you
sir, what don't know myself +" The
doctor then deliberately placed the
Derringe within a few inches of the
harber's breast, and fired, wounding
him SO that he died in few hours
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4s--"BRADFoRp, of St Cloud. is actually
selling Ladies' fine cloth Caters -fol
rs cents, He has the largest assort-
ment of Boots and Shoes we have ever
seen in this country, and is selling them,
as we'll as everything else he has, at un-
precedently low prices. His new Spring
Stock will be here in few days. Call
and see him.
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-. .rl i.L9 n.1.. Eaai..aE

~ The late Baltimore IN. E.
Conference passed the following IRE
solved, That this Conference disclaim
!. having the least sympathy with .Aboli-
tionism, on the contrary, we are determ-
med not to hold connection with any ec-
clcsIasticaf body that makes non-slave-
hoidingia condition of.meInbershipa in
the Church." .sssa or, >,
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@ That enterPrising merchant, Lu-
ther Fl. EDDY, ST. Paul, IS making ar.
rangemenls S for opening, this Spring, al
his store On Fort Street, one Of the larg-
est stocks Of Groceries ever offered fol
sale in thai city
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~ Groceries and Dry Goods are
constantly arriving at the Cheap Store
of j. Fl. WHITE, St. Cloud.
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~ Mr.. Grandelmyer, St. Cloud,
has just enclosed a large and remarka-
bly, hne-looking building, designed for a
private dwelling. When completed it
wlllsbe an ornament to St. Cloud. -
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~ Mr.. Putnam says, all Of US who
hay'nt paid our taxes in Shurburne
county for 1854, must walk up and set
tie, or he will sell our lands. See de-
linquent list
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saIr Gen.aLowry's Ferry is now in
! fine running order. He has cut road
from the wharf. on this side ofthe river,
directly up the bank to intersect our
main road, saving a mile Of travel to
: those hose coming from below, over the old
q route. seg.. go - s" *t f
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~ The St Anthony. Nsu,.. Of Of a
ate date, speaking of the wheat market

saws .Sf"a afRti R@oN14f ynaM
8 -6t haw gl'pfxs mess IS neiti.g
WHEAT.-Wheat is. now commanding
SS cents in our market. Mr.. Thomas
Moulton, proprietor Of steamer, Ent r.
PRISE, estimates that there are about
Is, 600 bushels Of wheat up the Missis-
sippi for Shipment this Spring il is
that the potatoe trade viii
be large during the coming season.
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we learn that our Fair Haven
- isupsscrbers s'r DO not receive the .Ns,c Era
It'll week after it is published We
aaikllno know ofno reason for this delay. The
:EepaPers are mailed at this office every
= = Friday evening ss''a's y \ -
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Oursfiiend Tenyoorde, we are in
formed, issclhng goods, at Auction at
his store, one day of every week. Now
is the time to buy good goods for little
8 S2AaisSsfI Lf6l
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~ Mr. Alonzo Gales is certainly
an enterprising farmer. He has already
putin so acres of wheat on his fine farm
Of 800 cultivated acres.lf did. bieoae
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e8~ See advertisement CT G. w
in to-day's paper. a ST.
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,.9ss 81 The Sherburne County tax list
rather crowds our page this week, but
we shall push il oyer TO the fourth
page iusthe Dextissaa ~ss1M .lssg g
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e- We are pleased to learn that d
s s. Book Store is soon to be opened in ST
in the building now occupied by
{ Messrs, fait & Nc. clure.. sissi las s
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Lake contractors on the one central route and its
few sdjuncts; but, if directed by the LET Of June,
all may be effected and the new route in full opera
b on by tho let of September at furtbest The d.
rect route we suggest is better waered in the main,
and more easily supplied with grass, than the Ari-
IONA route. 1t might require ten wells dug-cer-
taiDly not twenty-which could be ready by the LIST
of September, with hay cut and stacked for the
Winter. There wOad not DO nearly 80 much trouble
with or danger from Indians is now encountered.
Finally, Telegraph would be through on this
route within year after it was established and it
would be easy to reduce the through tine to fifteen
days after the second year, should that be deemed
advisable. Finally, the arrangement we propose
would accommodate the One Hundred Thousand
People who will be in the Rocky Mountain Gold
Region next Summer, the Fifty Thousand in Utah,
and the equal number now or soon TO be in Carson
Valley, more fully than any other yet proposed,
while il would be great advance on any other plan
yet devised for California and Oregon.
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The Loss Of the Hungarian.

HALIFAX, Fnoay, marcn z, 1901.
An official letter from Mr.. Townsend, agent Of the
Government at the wreck, says that 1t Is now
tanned beyond doubt that there are no survivors OF
the disaster to the Hungarian.
Only three bodies have been found-one that of q
woman, one that of nan, supposed to DO fireman,
and one that of a child two years DID,
The cargo and materials Of the steamer are scattered
along the shore, from Tasket, around Cape Sable as
far east as Ragged leland
Considerable goods are drifted ashore at the mouth
of Shelboune Hsrbor.
The country people generally are acting honestly
Three stores are hired at Darlington to collect the
property in, which is of considerable value.
Tho ships articles have been found, and show
that the crew numbered "a.
No passe niger list hiss yet been found.
The rumored finding Of the clearance of the steamer
is untrue. The only passengers yet known to have
been on board the Inflated weasel are VIM. Boulten-
house of Sackville, N. b., end DR.. Barrtt Of New
York. A box belonging to the latter has been found
containing number of letters from bis wife and
daughter.
Particular care will be taken of any bodies that may
be found and record of the marks upon them viii be
kept. The boties will be buried in separate graves for
recovery by their friends.
The mails soaked into pulp, but they will be sent
to Halifax by the revenue-eutter Daring.
Hon. Joseph Howe, Provincial Secretary, is exhibit
ny much interest and promptitude concerning the
wreck.
BARRrseToN, Friday, March % p. N.
Three trunks have been found one belonging 70
Margaret Robertson Of Montreal to R6bert Martin
of Toronto, and one to w. X. Crocker of Norwich,
Connecticut.
Nothing further has transpred in regard to identity
ing passengers
No more bodies have been found.
The revenue cutter Daring is here taking in the mails
for Halifax.
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evangelical standpoint At the same time, thecharac-
ter Of Mr. Spadng is guaranty that sectariau mar
rowness and theological aumoSity will always DO
avoided. In politics we infer that the new paper will
be decidedly Republican, and in regard to other mat
tiers, that it may Justly be described IA conservavely
progressive. But we may be sure that II will be
marked alike by frankness and by genuine cOnvicons
that il will not be both sides at once and that 1t
will never mistake the absence of all character for
moderation Of feeling, agility in shifting or in con-
cesling its opinions for way of gaining OF keep
ing the public confidence.
With the new journal, we shall have three morn
ing papers, conducted by gentlemen trained in the st I'll
of The Courier and Enquirer, namely, Mr.. Bennett
of The Herald, Mr.. Raymond of The N. Y. Times,
and Mr.. Spalding. We shall cordially welcome eur
new contemporary TO the usefulness and, we trust, to
all the honorable rewards Of journalism.
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now held in Slavery, are not ooSy native sons of
America but in thousands of cases the blood of the
Anglo-Saxen runs in their veins. Mr. Lamar should
abandon bis argument, or bis policy. Let him
emancipate the mulattoes, the quadroons ana the
octoroons, and then go to Africa for more OF the
original barbarian stock, and we Will give MN cs'ui
for the possession of the logical faculty. winch IL
not at present his strong point
Mr. Lamar assumes that the experiment OF eman-
cination has failed wherever it has been tried,
though he prudenty refrsins from giving his author
ites He was fortunate IN the one-hour rule, which
enabled him to avoid such an embarrassing branch
Of bis subject Having satisfied himself that in the
first place, Slavery is right everywhere; second,
that il is peculiarly right in the South; and third,
chat emancipation would be fatal thing for both
races be proceeds TO show or to say for his speech
hardly amounts to demonstration, that Slavery is
an excellent thing for the planters aud for the nom
slaveholding whites. he gives glowing picture of
the prosperity and independence of the nOn-slave-
holding farmers Of the South. According to bis &C
count, they about the only genuine free laborers
in the world and she soil they cultivate the OILY
free soil in the country. AS this is question of
fact and observation We shall only say that impair
tial travellers In the Slaveholding States do not a
general thing arrive at the same conclusion with Mr.
Lamar. Perhaps they are wrong and he is right
The sand-hiller and mean white man il, of race of
which we seldom see specimens at the North; and
We confess we were not fayOrably impressed with
the sample lately sent to us in Mr. James Pinckney
Hambleton. We would not, however, Judge pre-
cipitately. We shall be glad to learn more of this
breed of noble men.
OF the slave-owners, however, we know little.
Mr. Lamar evidently thinks them the finest body of
men in the world; finer even than the sand-hillers
and clay.eAters. They are the men, he says, to
guide legislatures and command armies. From
them came Washington, Jackson Taylor
Scott Twiggs, q Qutmau, Davis, a Lee q
Riuggold, Bragg, Butler; and also, in another
line, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe Polk q
Lowndes Calhoun, Clay, Mason, Marshall,
and fancy. These are good names, for the most
part; but We suppose that not aquarter part of
those who once bore them would read Mr.. Lamars
speech with any other than emotions of disgust.
Mr. Jefferson has left upon record his opinion Of the
effect of Slavery upon the morals aHd manners of
the master; and we see it daily confirmed by the
accounts which reach US of acts of violence and
meanness, from sttsct on members of Congress
for words spoken in debate, down to POst-Ofice
plferings and petty laIcenies. Until these things
are corrected, we shall beg leave to substitute, as
the modern slayehOlding ideal, Preston s. Brooks
for George Washington, and Henry A. EdmundsOn
for Thomas Jefferson.
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In speech to the cartmen the ether evening, the
Hon. Fernando Wood alluded mOdestly to his own
career as illustrating the fact that every poor boy
who will, may rice to wealth and distinction That
is all right, and we do not wish to say word
against it. But before Mr.. Wood makes many
more speeches of that Sort would it not be well for
him to settle the famous lawsuit with his former
partner, Mr.. Marvin The case, it will be remem-
bered, was given against Mr.. Wood by the referees
on grounds of very serious character; and yet
Mr. Wood has appealed to the Court of last resort,
thereby repeating and continuing the open wrong
be has done TO his former too cOnfding friend. We
think he would stand much better in the public est-
nation if be would settle that suit; and then he
might deliver mOraizing speeches with less fear OF
exciting unpleasant reflections in the minds OF his
hearers.
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XXXVITH CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.

SENATE. WASHINGTON, March 2, l8bD
The Senate met at 'one o'clock. Several Executive
Communications WEIR received.
Various reports were received from the Committees
which were Of 30 general interest.
Mr.. WILSON rep, Mass. introduced bill TO
amend the act providing for the execution OF the Pab-
lie printing
The private calendar was taken up. The following
private bills were passed:
For the relief John Scott w House and Samuel o.
House, relief Arnod Harris and samuel IT, Butter
Woh the r-isf Of Richard w moSdi Tor the relief
D. D. Pouer for the relief Of George Bson for the relief
A. West for the relief of George McCuougs for the relief
Of Hiram for the relief Of Charles Psnde for
tie relief s Scott for the relief Of Michael Nash for
the relief OF MrS Jsne McCrabbi for the relief of Livingston
Kuead for tina relief OF Geo Soeey for the relief Of
~ Kent RELIEF Of Richard Chebeyi for the
-f S. Dcoisser Jose Ybn end others making in all
% bills passed - =,
The bill granting pension Of fifty dollars month
to sirs. Anne ~ Smith, widow OF Gen. Persifor +.
Smith, coming up Mr.. IVERSON Dem, Ga said he
was opposed to the principle involved in the BILL but
would move All amendment granting the same amount
TO the widow of Gen. Maoomb.
Mr. SEWARD rep, n. w. moved an amendment
to include Mrs. Riley, widow of Gen. Riley.
After considerable debate, Mr. Stewards amend
ment was agreed to, when the subject was post
poDed.
The Senate went into Executive Session.
Adjourned till Monday.