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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07

Of being destroyed, and that the distin-
guished author of that bill, who has labored
90 assiduously with it, will feel that while
we have done justice to his own measure
we have only put in another one which the
House OF Representatives have several times
passed. They have passed the homestead
before; they have passed q graduation bill
before; and we have put the two together"
The bill here referred to, never became a
law.
We set out with the declaration that
Mr.. DOUGLAS "is the only candidate of the
eight now before the American people for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency, who
has on all occasions, been the earnest, hard
working, and consistent friend and advocate
of the Homestead principle"
We have already shown that HAML1N,
the Republican candidate for Vice Presi>
dent; BELL, the Union candidate for Presi-
dent, and BREcK1NR1DaE, the Disunion can.
didate for President, voted against the
Homestead bill, when STEPHEN A. DoUG.
LAS was earnestly laboring to secure its
passage; and we are not done with the
record, by any means.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07


We direct attention to the speech OF
Judge DouoLAs at Norfolk, and especially
his answer to the queries propounded to
him. The boldnep and manliness of bis
answers will challenge universal admiration.
In the South itself he tells the Disunionists
that they would not be justified in seeding
from the Union, if LINCOLN is elected, and
that it would be the duty Of the President
If the attempt should be made-to treat
them as Old Hickory treated the Nullifiers
in 1882. He has the courage to face the
Disunionists in the South with the same in
trepidity that he has fought the Abolition
Fugitive slave Law Nullifers of the North.
His gallantry, the national and patriotic
sentiments that he advocates, alike in the
North and in the South, against both ex-
tremists, will attract to bis banner every man
who has generous and American sentiments
in his bosom. What noble contrast does
his bold and intrepid attitude present to that
of LINCOLN, who declares that he would
like to visit his old home in Kentucky but
is afraid to do so for fear of sustaining per-
sonal violence! He is as fearful and timid
as the "Little Giant" is bold and energetic.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07
Congressional AppOrtiOnment
Under the New Census.

The aggregate number of Representatives
in Congress is not fixed by the Constitution,
which simply requires that the number of
Representatives shall not exceed one for
every thirty thousand inhabitants, and that
each State shall have at least one Represen-
tative. The number of Representatives,
in fact, has varied under different apportion-
ments, but by act of Congress in 1850 it
was fixed at 233, and that will be the num-
bur to control the next apportionment. The
present actual number of Representatives
is four larger, namely, 237; because since
the apportionment of 1850, one additional
Representative has been allowed to Califor-
MIA, two to Minnesota and one to Oregon.
But this temporary increase will cease with
the Thirty-seventh Congress, for which elec-
lions are made this fall, and the apport ton
ment under the new census will restore the
number to 233.
The aggregate representative population,
as is we'll known, is ascertained in the words
of the Constitution, "by adding to the whole
number of free persons Gncluding those
bound to service for term of years, and
excluding Indians not taxed) three fifths of
all other persons" In other words, the
aggregate population of the whole Union,
slaves included, is diminished by deduc-
ton Of two fifths of the number of slaves.
In 1850, the aggregate free population was
l9,847 COL; the slaves were 3,2OO,6 and
the representative population was Accord
ingly 81, 766,673. This number divided by
233 gave the ratio 93,42l, already men,
toned. 1t is generally expected that the
aggregate population under the present Gen.
sus will be found to have increased to thirty
or thirty-three millions; for the purpose of
the apportionment, making the Constitu.
tional deduction for slaves, it will not pro-
badly exceed 100000. Dividing this
by 233, we shall have about 126, 500 as the
ratio for representative.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07
Stripping Off the Mask.

President BUCHANAN, in his reply to the
British government, which is urging upon
the United States the necessity of using
more active means for the suppression of the
slave trade, has cleverly turned the tables
upon the diplomatic hypocrisy of our Brit
ish cousins. The slave trade, at present, is
almost entirely supported by the demand for
slave labor in Cuba, Spanish colony.
Spain, by the treaty of 1920 with Great
Britain, agreed to abolish the slave trade in
Cuba, for the sum of two millions of dollars.
Britain, therefore has had it in her power,
any time the past forty years, to nearly
crush out, at word, the African slave trade;
and yet, instead of attempting it in this
straight forward manner, and soliciting the
humanitarians of France and the United
States, to practice what they preach, and
to contribute to the necessary fund, she has
preferred to expend, and induce US to ex-
pend, during that period, something like
thirty millions of dollars, besides wasting
over thousand lives, in maintaining nearly
useless fleets upon the pestilential African
coast and in the Gulf of Mexico The
President has suggested to Lord John Rus
sell the existence of these significant facts,
and perhaps Lord John may discover that
it would be as christian-like to first remove
the beam from bis own eye, as to commence
by requesting US to extract the mote from
Ours.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07
Foreign Intervention in Mexico.

The New York Times, of Monday says
that it has the best authority for stating that
the Mexican questions on the point Of being
peremptorily settled by decisive interven-
ton of four of the great Powers, viz:
France, England, Spain and Prussia, who
have signed convention for the paciication
of Mexico, to which they invite the adhesion
of the United States-but which they pro-
pose to carry into effect even should the
United States refuse that adhesion. The
basis of federation fer all religious opinions,
and of modified establishment for the Ro.
man Catholic Church, are understood to
have been already accepted by the Consti-
tutionalists under Juarez on the one part,
and by the Clerical party under Miramon
on the other. An armistice of twelve
months duration is to be declared between
the portions of Mexico occupied by each are
to be held without dispute by the actual
occupants, joint action being taken to secure
the carrying on of necessary business of the
public administration and the maintenance
of order. At time to be hereafter fixed,
the people Of Mexico are to be called upon to
elect between the principles represented by
the two factions, and the respective leaders
pledged themselves to resign all their al-
thority and arms into the hands of the gov
eminent this designated under the sanction
Of the intervening powers.
Our own Government is understood to
have announced that while a pacific inter-
vention of the sort contemplated, if it fails
to command the assistance, cannot provoke
the hostility of the United States, no armed
interference to enforce its provisions must
be made without due previous notice, CON-
municated to the Administration at Wash
iDgton.
The results reached are attributed prin-
cipally to the activity Of the Prussian Min
lister in Mexico, whose countrymen are
largely represented in the foreign population
of the Republic, and to the influence of
Lord John Russell.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07
New Orleans.

The census of New Orleans is not yet
complete, but the Delta claims that the re-
turns already in warrant it in claiming
population of 100000. New Orleans has
presented in the last forty years a series of
remarkable fluctuations in respect to popu.
lation. In 1910, by the United States
census her population was returned at lO3,-
900; in 1847, the State census showed
population of $1,000; the United States
census of 1850 returned total of 1l3 900;
in 1853 State census was taken which
showed total of 149 900, or an increase of
$4,000 in three years. In 1857 another
census was taken, which showed a popula.
ton of $4,000, or an actual falling off of
10000 in five years. Much dissatisfaction
having been expressed with this result, the
city ordered another enumeration to be had,
which did not succeed, however, in materi-
ally changing the result. These fluctuations,
perhaps, are chargeable to financial and
sanitary causes. The panic of '57'-58 had
much to do with the decrease shown by the
last mentioned enumeration. Since that
time, however, business has prospered; the
staple of the New Orleans market-cotton
has been in large supply and in high de-
mand, and the result has been an astonish>
ing increase of population. Taking the
Delta's estimate as correct, the increase
since 1850 would be $4,000, or &c per cent.
for ten years, and since 1853 over $4,000,
or more than 36 per cent.-a rate of in
crease not excelled, if equalled, by even
Chicago in her palmiest days-those days
when she was accustomed to double her
population every three years.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07

REPORTED FATAL DuEL.-The Louisville
papers state that on Thursday, the 18th
inst, duel was fought in the Indian Ma.
ton, between DR.. Mitchell and Mr.. Can't
opposing candidates for Congress from the
Eastern District in Arkansas-in which
Mr.. CAN'T, the successful aspirant, was
killed. Intelligence to this effect was re-
ceived, it is said, by relatives of the deceased
living near Nashville, and passed then to
Louisville.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07

A Poor INvEsTMENT.-The Covode In
vestigsting Committee collected q vast
amount of important matter, to be used
against the Democratic party in this cam
paign, but out of sympathy for the Breck-
inridgites, who now form the rear guard of
the Republican party, all that extremely
important information is suppressed.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07

ENocH B. PAINE stabbed George Robin
son. at Springfield, Illinois, on the 9th,
inhictiDg fatal wound.
Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-05-23
HOWARD ASSOCIATION.

| A BsasvoIsMt installations, established BY speciG
sHdormsnt for the relief Of the sick and dis
trsssed, afflicted Nth YirGlsRt aud EPidemie
diseases.
The Howard Association, in view o
the awful destruction of human life, caused by
Sexua-diseascs, and the receptions pTactised up
on the unfortunate victims OF sucn diseases by
Quacks, several years ago directed their Con-
sulting Surgeon, Charitable Act w0r.
treatment of this class OF dis eases. in alltheil
forms and to give vi edical Advice Graf
is, to all who apply by letter, with description
of their condition, Gage, occupation, habits Of
| life, &c, and in cases OF extreme poverty, 10
Furnish VI edi cines Free of Oh arge.
II is needless to add that the Association com.
mands the hi CHEST Medical skill OF the age, and
will furnish the most approved modern treat
ment.
The Directors ofthe Association, in theirannu-
alReport upon the treatment of Sexual Diseases,
which has attended the labors of their Surgeons
in the cure of Spermatorrhea, Seminal Weak
ness, Gonorhoea, elect, Syphilis, the Vice o.
Onanism or SelfAbuse, Diseases of the Kidneys
and bladder, g. c., and order n continuance OF the
same pl an for the ensuing year.
Valuable Reports on SpermatOrrh0ea and 9th
er Diseases of the Sexual Organs, and on the
New Remedies employed in the Dispensary sent
10 the afflicted in sealed letter envelopes free OF
charge Two or three stamps for postage Will be
acceptable
Address, for Report of treatment, DR.. }.
SKILLlN HOUGHToN, Acting Surgeon, How
adelpqia, Pa.
BY order OF the Directors.
EZRA ID. HEARTWELL, President.
Ieewly GEO. FAIRCHILD, Secretary
Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-05-23
Saponifier, or c Concentrate Lye,
TIE READY FAMILY SOAP MAKER,

An indispensable article in every family,
n whereby, with their ordinary kitchen grease
combined with the SapOniher, they can make
all the Soad they use-hard, soft and fancy
II will make hard water soft, and will clean type
10 Notwithstanding equals il for cleaning and
securing 1t is put up in alright iron boxes OF
h. each, which will make, with from to 5 lbs
common grease, from Is to % gallons elegant
soft soap, or 3 to 10 lbs. hard.
Ii has now been several years since this inyal-
liable article was first introduced to the public,
and she estimation in which il is held, wherever
known aud tried, and the immense demand for
it from all quarters, are conclusive proofs OF its
real merits and value as a family article.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.--The success of
our article, like that of all discoveries Of true
merit and vaiue, has induced unpTinoipled par
ties to initiate il. We therefore caution the
public against worthless counteTfiets, and take
none but the genuine, original and patented ar
tiele, manufactured only by the
Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co.,
or East Tarenium, Allegheny county, Pa. ONCE
and Depot, No. 396 Penn St., above the Canal
Bridge, PITTsBURG, PENN.
We also manufacture of standard quality,
Caustic Soda for soad maker, Soda Ash, Refined
Soda Ash, Sal Soda, Chloride of Calcium, Cop
peras, Manganese, Nitric Acid, Soda Salaries,
Bleaching Powder, Muriatic Acid, Sulphuric
AQUA FOIlis and Chloroform.
ExtTa-Refined SnOw-White Fable, Diary and
Packing Salt, warranted entirely Pure and Dry,
put up various packages aud styles. The on
~ pure Salt in the country.
ItP For sale by all Storekeepers in the Uni
ted States.
1000 Cases SapOni6er, genuine, for sale at man
ufactureT's prices in lots to suit purchasers. by
PIKE a. KELLOGG,
ap9dwly st. Louis, Mo.
Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-05-23
UNION CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.

UNION CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.
THE PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT OF
Il this Institution will open on the
Third Monday in September, 1859.
TEACHERS.
The School will be conducted under the su-
pervision of n Ct. BUFF, former Principal of
farmers Academy. PRoF. II. p. HALL has be en-
secured as First Assistant. Other competent
teachers viii be employed, so as to form an en-
ergeuc corps OF Instructors.
OBJECT.
The object of the School is to prerare classes
Ior more advanced places at the opening of the
College proper in 1860 Students desiring TO take
thorough course in College, can not oyervalue
tIe Of sis Prepa[9tory years and stu
thorough and practical Schools in The West.
COURSE OF STUDY.
The course ofstudy will embrace those branch
es which, in the regular Course, belong 10 the
Preparatory Department; yetil 4 sufficient num-
Der apply, more advanced classes will be taught.
TERMS.
The year will be divided into three terms. OF
twelve weeks each, with two weeks vacation
betweentcrms.
TUITION
The following rates OF tuition "a III he cha rod
payable an GdVaHes- For the Primary studies,
81 per term; for the English studies, embracins
Re aiding. English Grammar, Geography Mental
and Nriien Arithmetic, SO per term; for the
| Classical studies. Higher Mathematics, and Nat.
| ural Sciences-embracing Latin, Greek Algebra.
Geometry, Natural Philosophy PhysloIogy AM
| History, IS per term. No deduction. EXCEPT In
ease OF protracted illness. No extra charge fol
ineidentals.
The viii be conducted, for the comm.
year, In /. tlCn Bluff Academy, which viii
! aecommOda y Chundred students.
MUSIC
| viii be taught by Mss HELEN ALKIRE. for " hicl
extra charges will be made,
Ornamental Drawing and Painting
Nili be taught by Mrs. II. p. aALx-no cztr
charges.
BOARDING.
tan be obtained In the town and neighborhoo
tpriees varying from sI.50 to 1926 per weel
GENERAL REMARKS.
AUMoH CHRISTIAN COLLEGE is located at Meron
in sullivan county, Indiana. This location
Celebrated for ITS numerous natural advantr 20,
and delightful scenery, The HEALrn o(tbe MIA,
is equal. II not superior to any other localffy
r | the Wabash Valley.
inns school VIII be thorough in scientific al
moral training, yet willinculcate no dogmatic
sectaran principles. 1t is in the true sense Off
term, a liberal School.
: Special oversight and care will be exercis,
, over pupils from distance. Their pecunia
, interests will be attended TO, if desired by n
z rents or guardians.
Students are urgently recommended to COZ
mence School at the beginning of each term; y
j. ! they will be received at any tIme-pay:ng for =
less than halft the term.
Communications should be addressed 10 1
Principal, at Merom. Sullivan county. India
BY ORDER oFTHE BOARD Of TRUSTEE
[dIw-w
Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-05-23
OLD and YOUNG
AFFIRM ITS TRUTH,
VIZ: THAT
Professor Woods Hair Restorative

WILL preserve, iEJaiiibiy, the grorth and
Wv color of the Hair, il used two or three
times a week, to any Imaginable age. Perfect
ly restore the gray: cover the bald with natures
ow ornament, the hair; make il more son and
beautiful than any oil, and preserve the scalp
free from all disease, to the greatest age. States
men, Judges. Attorneys, Doctors, Clergymen.
Professional Men, and 6 entlemen and Ladies OF
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that We do not say too much in It's favor. Read
the folio wing andjudge:
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was rapidly becoming gray, but on apply
ing Woods Hair Restorative his hair soon
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CHARLES CARDEW, II NASSAU ST., N w.
saws the gray hairs on his wife's head were
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AsC. RAYMOND. BATH, MAINE,
saws he is now sixty years old, and his hair
and whiskers were two-thirds gray, but by
the use o two bottles OF restorative the
gray hairs have disappeared, both on
his hsad and face, and is more soft and
glossy than for twenty five years previous.
His wife OF the aga offifty-two, has used il
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FINLEY JOHNSON, Esq, y. o.,
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SIN. MIDDLETON, LIVINGSTONE
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in hundreds ofcases, and hever knew ii to
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Hair Restorative, he now has a rich, glossy
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ap2Idw6n
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p LA N EFT r EA ID Z Il
Ofthe Nsneteenth rep.urv. the only


NATURAL CLAIRvoYANr AND sEERESS
And Scientific Female Astrologist in the World,
Is now stopping at No. ll9 West Washington
street, opposite the State House, indianapolis.
- MADAME HOLLAND has mastered all the
Science embodied in the glorious, wonderful and
sublime gift of Prophecy, has astonished thou
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past, Present and FGtu re Prospects of Life, APP
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aud will describe their Future Partners. either
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Friends and Relatives, Law and Lawsuits, Trar-
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Can restore perfect tranquility between Hus-
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even those that for years have baiiied our best
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back and limbs, and other complaints OF long
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WONDER OF THE WORLD.
The public will bear in mind that Madams
HOllard, il the greatest ClairvOyadt and Planet
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Hours Of consultation from A. Nj. TO P. M.
Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-05-23

Insurance against loss or damage b. fire, on
dwellings, furniture. stores, warehouses, mer-
chandise, mills, manufactures and most all
kinds 0fPrOperty, can b. Effected in this Compa-
ny, upon as favorable terms, as the nature OF
the risks and security to property holders will
warrant.
Particular attention given to insurng Farm
properly, consisting Of dwellings, barns and out
balidinss connected, and furniture, live stock,
hay, grain. farming utensils. &c. contained
therein, for a term OF years n; low rates Of pre-
MUM.
Applications for insurance may be made 10 the
sanersigned, the duly aatharized agent OF said
Company. J. ". HAGER,
ma20d w6m At MeKeen's Bank.
Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-05-23

TERRE- HAUL a RICHMOND HATLkOADT
Freight Office. Terre Haute.
AM AUTH0RIZEDTO MAKE CONTRACTS
and give through receipts for Freights at low
est rates. 10 Cincinnati, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York, Boston, &c
mp Persons shipping by the Terre- auto and
Richmond RR have choice OF Routes east from
Indi annapolis
l0.f "
Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-05-23
Fruit Trees
TWENTY THOUSAND APPLE TREESl

WE HAVE NOW ON HAND 2O,OOO;GOoD
w healthy apple trees, suitable for trans.
planting: all grated, and OF sixty varieties, a.
dapted to this ell mate, nearly all OF which we
have bearing on our farm.
Orders for al kinds OF fruit and ornamental
trees will be filled or short notice, from the
best Nurseries il the West. The apple trees sIv
Of our own raisiag.
Persons WI shir trees, can have them deliver
ed in town without extra charge, by leav ng their
orders at No. IA, Mechanics Row.
As great many have had their fingers burn
by buying eastern trees they had better try those
raised in the West, and save money.
mr. Our Nursery is situated six mile south
oTeIre-IIaute.
VIII. L. J. NJ DURHAM & CO
Sept. I, t859-dwem
Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-05-23
Teaps Improved Device for Draw
ing Water,

ssThe old oaken bueket-the iron board bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, that hangs in the we'll
rJ,HE subscriber have purchased the patent
right of Vigo county, for the purpose of
manufacturing Teal's Improved device for aw-
i'm water.
This Machine for Simplicity, Durability and
Ease of Operation, is far superior to any other
anparatus for raising water, now in use, CON-
Inning, as IL does, the following advantages. 1t
can easily be adjusted TO wells Of any depth, and
and is warranted TO raise aud empty, with orii-