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UPPLE M x N r T o FL

The IMPERIAL PALACE, JEDDO.-ln the
the blue book lately published on Japan
we find our Minister, Mr.. Alcock, com
planning that the recent destruction by
fire of the Tycoon Palace was put for
ward by the Government as q plea for
delaying the fulfilment of the treaty OBJ
legations This celebrated palace was
situated within the castle, which occu-
pies the center of Jeddo. The castle is
Of an irregular figure, inclining to CIR
cular, and is five Japanese miles IN CIR
conference. 1t embraces two tore
castles" the innermost and third castle,
which is properly the residence OF the
Emperor, and two other strong, we'll
fortified, but smaller castles, at the
sides; also some large gardens behind
the Imperial Palace. These castles are
each surrounded by walls and bitches.
The palace itself had but n story,
but Of lofty height. 1t occupied an ex-
tensive area, and had numerous long
galleries and spacious rooms, which, by
putting on or removing screens, might
be enlarged or brought INTO a narrower
compass, as occasion required, and were
so contrived as to receive convenient
light. The chief apartments had each
par. ocular names, such as, for instance,
the waiting room, where all persons adj
mitted to an audience, either OF the En-
peror or Of his Ministers Of State, had
to wait till they were introduced; the
council chamber, where the Ministers OF
State and Privy Councillors met upon
business: the hall of a thousand mats
where the Emperor received the homage
and usual presents of the Princes OF
the Empire and Ambassadors Of foreign
powers; several halls Of audience, the
apartments Of the Emperoror's house
hold and others. The structure of all
these apartments was eXquisitely fine,
according to the architectural notions
of the Japanese. The ceilings, beams
and pillars were of cedar or camphor, or
gesernwood, the grain of which natu-
rally ran into flowers and other curious
figures, and was therefore insome apart
ments covered only with a thin, trans
parent layer Of varnish in others japan
ed, or c~uriously carved with birds and
branched work, neatly gilt. The floor
was covered with the finest white mats,
bordercd with gold frIngcs or bands !;
and this was all the furniture to be- seen
in the palaces of the Emperor and Prin-
cess of the Empire.-LHustTGted London,
June oh.
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Saturday, July IA, 1860.

A DOUGLAS PAPER CHANGED TO BREcKIN-
RIDGE.-CaWse Assigned, and Cause and
Efed to One AnOther.-The Advertiser
(Quitmsn, Miss.,) has been sailing un-
der the Douglas flag for some months.
1t is not surprising that, having to beat
up against wind and tide, when it made
its last reckoning, it found itself drifted
considerably astern of public opinion in
Mississippi, and especially in East
Mississippi. The editor has wisely de-
termined to tack about and sail before
the wind awhile in search of a port of
safety, where he can lay up and repair
damages. Well let him tell it in his
W way, promising that he has been
on a trip North and was at Baltimore
Who can defeat the election of the
Republican nominee? This will be the
question that will direct our conduct in
the coming canvass. Had Judge Doug
las received the nomination of the whole
Convention, his chances of election
would have been better than those of
any other man, for. there is no man
North or South that has the strength of
Stephen 4. Douglas with the Northern
Democracy, and none. whom we would
have more cheerfuily supported, as we
regarded him one of the most bold, able
and consistent statesmen of the age
Butfrom the present condition of affairs
we look upon his election as impossible,
hence we cannot support him; but must
yield our support to Breckenridge, whose
chances of election we regard the best
of the three, although his chances we
look upon as very doubtful. The Bell
and Everett ticket we do not think will
carry a single State. The Douglas tick
ct cannot carry a Southern State, and in
view of this fact, which is doubtless
known to the Douglas men at the North,
many despairing of his election, will
vote the Republican ticket to defeat the
election of a Southern candidate. Such
seems to be the condition of affairs. and
in view Of this, nc one ought to hesitate
to sacrifice personal feelings or person
al preferences to the great interests of
the country.
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ANCIENT RELIcs.-A correspondent of
the Winona (Minnesota) Republican
writes that Mr.. A. l.. jerks, of that
place, who is prospecting in one of those
mounds which are so common in that
country, recently discovered, at the
depth of five or six feet, the remains of
seven or eight people of very large size.
One thigh bone measured three feet in
length. The under jaw was one inch
wider than that of any man in this city.
He also found c~lam-shells, pieces of ivo-
ry or bone rings, pieces of kettle made
of earth and coarse sand. There were
at the neck of one of the skeletons teeth
two inches in length by one-half to
three fourths of an inch in diameter,
with holes drilled into the sides, at the
end polished with a crease around it,
Also an arrow, five inches long by one
and a half wide stuck through the back,
near the backbone, and one about eight
inches long stuck into the left breast
Also the blade of a copper Ratchet, one
inch and a half wide at the edge and two
inches long. This Ratchet was found
stuck in the skull of the same skeleton.
The mound is son 200 feet above the
surface of the Mississippi, and is com-
posed of clay Immediately above the re-
mains two feet thick; then ZONES a lay
er of black loan; then another layer Of
clay six inches thick, all so closely pack
ed that it was with difficulty that it
could be penetrated. There are some
four or five different layers of earth
above the remains. There is no such
clay found anywhere in the vicinity.
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SENATOR CLINGMAN FOR BREcKINRrpGE.-
The following is a special dispatch to
the n. Y. Tribune
From present indications, Mr.. Doug.
las will have hardly any organization
South. his professed friends in that
section are retreating every day and in
scores. Mr.. Clingman, who has stood
up for him amsng the last here, will
give III his adhesion to Mr.. Breckenridge
as soon as the North Carolina Conven-
ton ratifies his nomination. Others are
seeking excuses to back out since Mr.
Fitzpatrick withdrew.
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The Democratic Platform has the fol-
lowing:
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS. We are
credibly Informed that this gentleman
has declared himself for Breckenridge
and Lane We are heartily glad of it
GLAD to know that there is but one
distinguished Georgian who will ride
behind the Freesoil Squatter of Illinois.
The Atlanta Intelligencer says:
Some Of our friends who have felt ex-
ceedfhgly ~anxioustO know which set OF
candidates we are to hoist at our mast
head will to-day be relieved of their anx-
iety. The moment that the wires an
nounced the nomination at Baltimore OF
Messrs. Breckenridge and Lane, the pro-
prietors and editor of this paper who
were here, were unanimously in favor
of them, but courtesy compelled them
to wait until Col. Gaulding, the senior
editor and proprietor of the Intelligent
Ger, should return and his views on the
subject be consulted. 1t is true we
knew he was perfectly sound, and a dele
gate from this city to Baltimore, who
returned a week ago, informed MS that
Col. Gaulding told him he was for
Breckenridge and Lane, yet he waited
for his return, and our unanimous rcso-
luton, on consulting together, is to
raise at once the N Of our candi-
dates.
The Milledgeville Federal Union says:
We believe that nearly or quite eve
ry Democratic newspaper in the State,
with the exception of the Constitutions
alist. (if that can be called a Democrat
ic paper has come out in favor Of
Breckenridge and Lane.
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nSs-Josiah DIS a most estimabl

H6S-Josiah D is a most estimable
gentleman, upright, strictly pious, and
withal a staunclf, thorouhgoing Demo
crat. During the Mexican war he was
called upon at a regular meeting TO pray,
and he closed with this addition BE
with our army in Mexico; whether it be
right or whether it be wrong, bless it
We of the Democraticparty are charged
with making a wal of conquest, but we
believe it to be a war of defence. But
we would not enter into argument of
the subject, and for further particulars
would refer to the Presidents message!"
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A FEMALE RAIL S~PLrrrER.-In Frank
lin county, Tennessee, there is a woman
who a beat Abe Lincoln all hollow at
his favorite game. One of the deputy
marshalls of this county made the &C,
quaintance of a lady IS years old, who
built 800 yards of good rock fence with.
in the last year with her own hands
and, what is more, she gathered and
carried in her arms all the materials OF
which the fence is built.
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HARD BUTTER WITHOUT IcE.-To have
delightfully."- hard butter in summer,
without ice, the plan recommended by
that excellent and useful publication,
the Scientific American, is a good one
Put a trivit, or any open fat thing with
legs, in a saucer; put on this trivit the
plate of butter; fill the saucer with wa
ter; turn a common fower-pot upside
down over the butter, so that it's edge
shall be within the saucer and under
the water. Plug the hole of the flower
pot with a cork, then drench the flower
pot with water, set in a cool place until
morning, or if done at breakfast the
butter will be very hard by supper time.
How many of our town boarding school
girls, who have been learning philoso-
ply, astronomy, syntax and prosody,
can write an explanation of this within
q month +?
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REASONS FOR NUDE SrArUARY.-The
Savings Bank at Lyons, France, is de-
corated with two female figures, repre-
senting Economy and Labor. The crit
les having attacked the propriety of the
two undraped statues in a place of bust
ness, a Lyonese bard defends them in a
sonnet, the point of which is that the
nudity of the two women is peculiarly
proper-showing that they have sold
their Aemiscs to make a deposit in the
Savings Bnnk.
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The CANVASS IN THIS SrArE.-Our ex-
changes from the interior of the coun-
try, now at hand, are filled with compli-
mentary notices of the Democratic nom
inees, and bespeak the election of Breck-
inridge in Louisiana by an overwhelm-
ing majority, one of those old-fashioned
majorities which will once more rejoice
the hearts of u sterling Democracy.
Keep the ball in motion. So says the
DeHa.
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NEGRO LIFE IN THE TRoPIcs.-Trollo,

NEGRO LIFE IN THE TRoPIcs.-Trollope,
in his new work on Jamaica, says of
the emancipated negro:
"He lies under the mango tree, and
eats the luscious fruits in the sun; he
sends his black urchin up for a bread
fruit, and behold /! the family table is
spread. He piereeS a %cocOanut, and lol
there is his beverage. He lies upon the
grass, surrounded by oranges, bananas
and pine-apples."
Is it strange that he should be mac
tive and lazy? Is ii surprising that ar
guments about the blcssedness Of labor,
of providence, of thrift, should fall dead
upon his ears? How many of us would
work, if we were not obliged to? How
many of our fashionable ladies are
there whose lives really amount to moth
ing more or better han the drOwsy in
dolence of these tropical negroesl How
much better is it to loll about Newport
and Saratoga in the summer, and the
saloons of New York in the winter, doing
nothing but vegetate, than it is to roll
around under the mango tree, and eat
cocoanuts and bread fruit all the day
long? We think that Trollope's state
ments need some modification; but
granting them to be true, there is a
large class of Americans who cannot
with much justice criticise the dolce far
niente life of the Jamaica negro. OF
how many men even here in this bust
ling land might it be truly said that
they exist, but do not live?--PrOridenee
Jour.
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LoUIsIANA.--The vote of this State at
the Presidential election, in 1856, was
as follows /: Buchanan 22, l64; Fillmore
20, 7O9; aggregate vote, 42,SS3; major
ity for Buchanan 1855.
AT the Governors election, in 1859,
the vote was for 7. o Moore, (Dem.)
25,454 for I. j. Wells, (Opp.) 1851
total vote, 4l,O4l f; Moore's majority,
1851.
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IMPORTANT ANNoUNCEMENT.-That we
may no longer be bothered by every up,
start for explanations and retractions,
should any feel inclined to ask such un-
pleasant %favors, we have concluded to
engage the Hon. John q. Heenan to at
tend that department for us. All bell
gerent parties will hereafter be attend
ed to by his Excellency, Hon. John G.
Heenan, fighting editor of the Bossier
Banner.-Bossier Banner.
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The Press of Louisiana.

There never has been more unanimity
in this State than has been displayed
by the regular Democratic press in com
ing to the support Of Breckenridge and
Lane. SO far we have observed but
two OBJECTIONS TO Douglas, though there
may be some other ~nominally Democrat
ic papers which support him. The fol-
lowing is a list of our Democratic ex-
changes, so far as they have come to
hand, which support the State-Rights
ticket. We include the Delta
FoR BRECKINRIDGE-N. o. Courier,
Delta independently, Baton Rouge Ad-
~vOcate, lberville Gazette, ST. James
Messenger, Arcadian (Ascension) Bay
GU Sara Ledger, Rice Planter plaque,
mines Madison Journal, Tensas Gaz.
cite, Lake Providence Herald, Floyd
Louisianian, Attakapas Register, Bos,
sier Banner, Winfield Sun, Sparta JEFF.
ferson, Minden Advertiser, Alexandria
Democrat, Monroe Register, 0pelousas
Courier, Vermillionville Echo, Pointe
COupee Democrat.
For DoUGLAs-Union de La Fourche.
Courier of the Teche.
This list is yet incomplete. We shall
add to itfrom time to time, until it sfull
". o. Data.
The Magnolia of this place is another
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PRosPERITY OF lRELAND.-Letters from
Ireland speak of the Emerald Isle as
advancing in moral and material pros
perity, Notwithstanding the large emf.
grafton going on to the Western hemis-
phere. They convey the impression
that the land, under the present system
Of tenantry, is being relieved Of a re-
dundant population. Landlords prefer,
according to these representations, to
devote their estate to grazing purposes,
rather than divide them into small
patches among those who have neither
the skill nOr capital for profitable til
lage. The removal of a portion of the
inhabitants, therefore, is but a process
of adjustment to the changed condition
of things. Evidence of prosperity is
further apparent in the construction of
railways to every part of the country,
in the increase of coasting steamers,
and transatlantic commerce; in the con-
struction of improved dwellings and
stores in the metropolis and provincial
towns. Education and criminal reform
are likewise progressing, and the vari-
u religious denominations exhibit an
activity which promises well for the
moral advancement of the people.-N.
Y. Journal Of Commerce.
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WHAT THURLow WEED THINKS

WHAT THURLow WEED THINKS OF OUR
NoMNArIoNs.-Weed, in the Albany
Journal, says However unwisely the
seceders acted through all the prelimi-
nary work, they exhibited sagacity in
their selection of Breckenridge and
Lane. The former is the most unexcep-
tionable living specimen Of Young
America"
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TEA coffee coloured rascal. calling him
self Martin, q music teacher, and employed
by several white families in New Orleans, of
Northern extraction, has been repaying their
patronage by seducing their daughters. He
was arrested a few days since on q charge Of
threatening violence, and is now in prison.
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A Scene IN THE House DE Lopr

A SCENE IN THE House OF LORDS
What a pageant of splendor and gran
deur was here represented ! The floor
Of the House was packed with the
wives and daughters and sisters of the
Peers, IN full dress, leaving only a mar
row space in the center, which was oc-
cupied by Peers and Bishops in their
brilliant robes. The entire gallery
which surrounds the House was filled
with. a row Of elegantly dressed ladies',
only broken by a line of reporters oc-
cupying seats directly opposite the
throne. Behind the reporters, the bench
es, ope rising above the other, were fill
ed with ladies. Presently the trumpets
sound-the signal that the Queen is APP
preaching. She leaves her palace in her
magnificent state carriage, drawn by
cream-colored horses, attended by her
ministers and household officers, in ear
riages but little less sumptuous than
her own, escorted by the Life Guards,
all mounted on noble black horses-the
whole cortege forming a most magnif-
cent spectacle. In alighting from the
carriage, Her Majesty's foot presses an
electric wire, which fires a cannon in the
Park.
The usher of the golden rod gives a
signal, and suddenly every lady in the
House throws off her opera cloak, or
shawl, or mantle, and a more beautiful
revelation can hardly be imagined,
surely not described.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-07-14

THEIR AeEs.-A newspaper paragraph
representing the ages of the nominees
Of the two wings of the Democracy.
says Judge Douglas is At; Mr. Brock.
inridge, 80; Mr.. johnson, q; Gen. Lane,
50.
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For Sale or Rent,
TO THE PUBLIC.

TNHE UNDERSIGNED has appointed Mr..
L .9LEXANDER ROTH his Agent, TO re-
ceive or 10 be made acquainted with all descrip-
tions of valusbles, much of which, sunk with
his fatboat near Devils Elbow in Bayou
Plaquemine, some weeks since, still remain in
the Bayou, consisting Of Carts, Wagons, Nails,
&c. nc All persons, therefore, who may find
any of his articles, are directed and requested TO
deliver them, or give information 10 the above
named gentleman.
Jel6-tf JOSHUA BODLEY.
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p6s-Threc men have started for Pixies
Peak with a party of fifteen girls, to
supply, in part, the restitution of wives
existing in that quarter.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Card
10
Young Ladies' and Gentlemen.

The subscriber will send (free Of charge to all
who desire it, the Recipe and d ~irectiOns for max.
ing a simple VsgaaAe Balm. that will, in from
two 10 eight days, remove PimpIes, Blo,ches,
Tan Frrckles, SaIlowness and all impurities and
roughness of the Skin, leaving the same-as
Nature intended it should be-sgf, clear, snootA,
and beautiful. Those desiring the Recipe, with
full instructions, directions, and advice, viii
please call on or address. with return postage.l
JAS. I. MARSH ALL,
PRAcncAL Chemist,
ie30l No. 30 City Buildings, n. York.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-07-14

bas-The virulet poison of the rattle
snake, or zebra di capello, when SUBJ
yected to chemical analysis, yields moth
ing but gum and water.
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la-Do you drink hale in America ~
asked a cockney.
Hail, Move drink thunder and
lightning ".said the Yankee,
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B6y-At a Printers Festival recently.
the following sentiment was offered :
Women-Second only to the press in
the dissemination Of news.
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PENNSYLVANIA ELECTORAL TIcKEr.-It is
ascertained that of the twenty-seven
Electors chosen by the late Democratic
State Convention at Reading, twenty
for Breckenridge and seven for
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ADVICE TO CREDIroRs.-When you can
not collect the money from a debtor,
don't forget to make a note of it."
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A-Ihe rateable property in France
mas more thar doubled since the acces-
sion of Napoleon III.
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JULY 2, 1860.
Cholera COgnac Biffers.

TNHiS unriyalled Family Medicine, manufac-
l. turedin France and useu with con ple,e sue
cess in Europe, for all diseases emana;ing from A
foul or overloaded stomach, is now imported in
this country by Mr.. ). S%teinfield of New York.
This medicine is a preventive or remedy for
Cholera Diarrhea, aud also a remedy for Bilious
ness, Indigestion, Weakness and genarel derange-
meni OF The stomach. Upon being taken it cie-
ates appetite, and prevents the hedyiness atlen-
dant upon eating, by persons who are. dyspeptic.
For sale by
Je23 TURIN & SElPPLE.
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C.aRPEl
% Cs4irtcrs Street. Or
lust received New Patterns Of Eoorish
y and American Carpeling, such as
Velvet and Brussels Tapestry,
Three-Ply Brussels and ~Ingrains;
Dutch Venitian for Halls and Stairs,
Druggets for Crumb Cloths,
Window shades, Hair cloth;
Table and Piano Covers:
Floor Oil cloth, of various qualities, cut 10
suit halls and rooms;
Mating, &c, &c.
All Of which are offered at the lowess market
pace. tno7l A BROUSSEAU Il co
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Georgia.

The Democratic Platform has the fol-
lowing:
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Nbler's Heaven is a pair o.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-25

HoPs.-The reports continue favorable
from all sections of the hop district, and
the crop will be up TO full average.
The Cooperstown Journal says that or
ders have been received in that county alone
during the past four or five days from par
ties East, to contract for eight or ten thous-
and bales of the new crop; and the buyers
are now out making contracts, agreeing to
pay from 10 to 10 cts. A great many
growers refuse to sell until their hops are
ready for market. The regular dealers have
not participated to any great extent in this
speculative movement, but have bought
mostly on commission.
By Saturday night, it is thought, more
than one half the growing crop not previ-
ously contracted for will have been bought
up. The principal buyers are those who
hold large quantities of old hops-on which
they have thus far been unable to " realize"
A large portion of the crop IN Madison
county has been contracted for at 10 cts.
per 10.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-25

WHEREAS, Experience has demonstrated
that platforms adopted 10y the partizan Con-
ventions Of the country have the effect to
mislead and deceive the people, and at the
same time to widen the political divisions
OF the country, by the creation and encour-
agement Of geographical and sectional par
ties; therefore
ResoIped, hat it is both the part of pat
riotism and of duty to recognize no poiiti-
cal principles other than the CONSTITUTION
OF TIE COUNTRY, The UNION or THE STATES
AND TIE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS; and
that, as representatives of the Constitution
al Union men Of the country, in a Nation
al Convention assembled, we hereby pledge
ourselves to maintain, protect and defend,
separately and unitedly, those great princi-
Piles of the public liberty ana national safe
ty against ali enemies, at home or abroad,
believing therby peace may once more be
restored to the country, the just rights of
the people and of the States re-established,
and the Government again placed in the
condition of justice, fraternity, and equali-
", which under the example and Constitu-
ton of our fathers, has solemnly bound every
citizen of the United States, to maintain a
more perfect union, establish justice and
insure domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general well
fare and secure the blessings Of liberty to
ourselves and our PROSPERITY.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-25
Appointments of L. @. DeBruIer.

L.Q. DeBruler, independent candidate
for Congress, will address the citizens of
Gibson county at the following times and
places. Speaking to commence at l P. II.
each day.
Princeton, on Monday, August 81.
Owensville, Tuesday, August %.
Summitville, Wednesday, August %.
Haubstadt, Thursday, August 80.
Let there be large turnout to hear this
gallant champion of the rights of the Free
People of this country.