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NEW STAND & NEW GOODS

NEW SIANU a. NEW uUUUS.
MISS e.IEEIE MINER
Woud call the attention Of tie ladies' OF Ottawa t" her
fine assortment Fall Millinery Goods consisting ia
part of Bouuets Ribbons. Flowers, Feathers, Head
dresses Rouchr, LaCes. Wells, UudersirrTrs AID every
thing comprising good stock Of
Ea.IiiOnab BILE Millinery.
Having secured the services of experienced
Miiin-r directly from New York, she the La
dI that she show them choice assortment Of
Ecnuets be found dny,ctere-
Dress Waking
In all its branches ATTENDED 70 hy Mrs StClair. full
of Patterns from the ell known establishment
Of Madame D.moreSt be by calm: AZ her
rooms. Dresses, Eaglans, Cloaks RaSques, Sacques,
everything in that line made with Ieatre<s and
dispatch. Having excellent goods and FIRST CLASS
HELP is confident of giving entire satisfaction to all
who may her with their patronage and she will
the very k0,Cest cash prices. Bleaching and
pressing done.
y. Il. Rooms Main street, two doors east of
Mansion House.
Ottawa, Sep. l., 1SJ9-
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b ID hi'- ORToN's BOOK STORE,
You get nothing as good at the Drug Stores. jan90
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NEW EFNIL MILLINERY GOODS

WOULD respectfully announce to the ladies Of
Ottawa and vicIsity, that have recently located in
the and fitted Tor the Millinery business.
ia receipt OF n Fail stock. cGmI rising
good a variety OF BONNETS AND MILLINERY
GOODS has seldom been brought to this city, to
which | would invite your attention.
Mrs ". being formerly from the East Conn, and her
long experience ia the business confident that she
please with and suit IN price ali who vail give
her a call.
Rooms one door north OF the P o, Columbus st.
MK>. THOMAS WOOD
sr- Go to all the other stores don't purchase till
YOU i've me :. call. sep24
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THE following is "take off" of the
weakly Replies to Correspondents, which
abound in the columns of some newspa-
pers:-
Replies to Corcspondents.-En7rirer.-The
Fourth of July does not occur on the 22d
of February, nor is it, as you suppose,
commemorative of anything in reference
to Unio, meetings for the preservation OF
the Union.
IMotker-Reverse and spank
Hs,tn-You can keep them up by elias
| tics
| Mca;cus.-Apply shoemakers wax and
then squeeze it.
Geosraphet-Buffalo is on the canal west
of Rochester.
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ELECTRO CHEMICAL BATHS.
T.. w. VAN DOREN.
Eclectic Fhy>iciam,
office PiergHe's Store, south side Court Hols>.
NR. VAN DOZEN with his Baths and Medicines, is
IL prepared all forms of Chronic and Consti
tutisnal Diseases He cfectuay draw mercury out
of the system, and meicsiy relieve the patient when
suffering from Salvation and Nercuriai Sores, etectng
. permanent Also. in all forms OF Scroiula.
Rhe mati. Neuralgia Erysipeias, Salt Eheun. Scald
Head Deafness ringing in the Catarrh. Bron
chitis Asthma Con sumption in first and second stages,
Liv er Complaint Dyspepsia, Piles, Gravel and Kidney
A1rctioEs Decayed Zones Fever Sores, White Swell
ing, Contracted Cords. Stiff Joints, &c &c. Cancers
An Tunors successfully cured without the of the
knife janl4
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Sash, Door and BLIND Factory.
NJ L l. l. l \ + II
MISS AVERY
MILLINERY GOODS.

HAS Just opened ano-
4 L ther large stock o.
Eai. aud Winter
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The constant temperature of the body
is $50. ,.s ,e.t
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Agricultural implements.

Such a ,OfHHtDH Securing. DHe-UDfSs, dbd Prairie
PLOWS iGrrOlrs, CHhjratOTs, HoTse Rdkes. DC,
In short, ali kinds heavy farmers Their rnach-
merry all new perfect and propelled by abundant
neyer-iainr TUw5r. Farmers invited to cali
and turr work whether they wish to purchase
r .iNtteir trOrk Is srGrr9Eted.
Orders from distance promptly attended and i'm
pements placed o ard canal boats or cars free Of
charge. feb3-u ID. x VI.
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DOCTOR HARRIS

VI N NLtSSbs
German Druggisfnnd ipotascorV, Noin ST, Oad,c~
(WHoLESAiE AND RErAiL-)
Importer OF Drugs Chemicals, French Cogn as Brari-
dies, WiRes, &c, &c aug2>
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31
Judge sharkcy VS.. John Bell.

In ls49, Judge Sharkey, in a speech de-
livered by him in the city of Jackson, used
the following language in relation to the
poaoer of Congress, under the Constitution,
over the subject of slavery in the District OF
Columbia:
1--WE cannot but regard any legislation by
Congress, either past or to come, which in
any degree, either directly or indirectly, may
seem to give sanction to the authority Of
that body over the subject, (the slavetradc
and slavery in the District of Coumbia,) as
void for want of po1eer, and in its tendency
destructive of the principles of the Union,
which should be held inviolable in every fea-
ture."
AT that time, VIM. L. Sharkcy was Chief
Justice of Mississippi, and justly considered
one of the ablest Constitutional lawyers in
the Union. In 1850, John Bell held that
Congress had the power, under the Consti-
tuition, to suppress the slavc-trade and to
abolish slavery itself in the District, which
opinion he re-ailinned in the United States
Senate, in 1853, in his celebrated reply to
his colleague, Senator Johnson.
But now, strange to say, Judge Sharkcy is
supporting John Bell for the Presidency.
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31
TO The Bitter End.

We hal hoped that the Douglasitcs of
this State would see the folly and usclessness
of casting their votes for ticket, which, con-
fcssedly, can command but a very small
fraction of the vote of the State, and that
in order to defeat the ancient enemy of the
Democracy, they would, finally, come to the
polls in solid column, and east in their suff-
RACES for the only men Of their party who
are likely 30 carry the State against Bell.
We had believed that they were sincere in
the desire of contributing their mite to the
defeat of old federalism, even though they
were obliged to discard their personal likes
and dislikes to do SO. But we were lean
ing on broken reed. They bear their
prciuliccs to the bitter end. There is no
golIcn mean to them. They must rule or
ruin. That they may be sure of dividing
the Democratic vote of this State as much
as possible, they are taking the most par
ticular pains to see that their tickets are dis
tributed to all the precincts, and are calling
upon their friends to be at work at the polls,
early and late, on the day of the election. In
all these desperate efforts, there can be but
one object in view,-thc defeat of Breckin-
ridge and the success of Bell But we can
tell them that they arr counting without
their host. Mississippi Democrats are true
to the standard of State Rights and Equality
in the Union, which is SO gallantly borne
aloft by our glorious leaders, Breckenridge
and Lane. They will come to the polls on
Tuesday next, and vote quietly, but unlater
inglv, for those who are the representatives
of their interests and rights. They have
none of that sickly sentimentalty, which
would prompt them to yield their Constitu
tional privileges, in the vain hope of quieting
the bowling of the fanatical hordes at tho
North, by bribing them. And they do moi
desire, in any way, to assist in elevating Il
the Presidency, John Bell, who declared, il
( the Senate Chamber, that, if he thought i
would quiet the agitation Of the slavery
question, he would be willing to abolish tn,
slave trade between the States, and slavery
in the District of Columbia.
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31
u 10 fIie Polls!

LET every friend of his country, who believes
in the doctrine of the equality Of the States I'M
der the Constitution, deposit his vote, on Tues
day next, for that electoral ticket which ispledg
ed to those representatives and champions of
State equality, Breckenridge and Lane. 1t is
known, by every observing and intelligent man
in the State, that Mississippi Is certain to go for
that ticket by large majority but the knowl-
edge of this fact instead of inviting us to apa-
thetic inaction, should arouse each man to great
er excrtion; for We should remember that the
moral effect of the victory we are about to
achieve will be heightened aud intensified by ev-
cry additional vote whereby our majority is in
creased a simple victory, by bare majority
of votes, is, in the present posture of affairs,
scarcely worth striving for: indeed, it would be
almost equivalent to a defeat; whereas, if the
vote Of our State approaches unanimity, that
circumstance, Of ITSELF will do more, at this
time to st ike terror 20 the hearts of enemies
and ''give them pause in their career Of aggres-
sion. than, six months hence, an army Of twenty
thousand Mississippiaus could do, were Breckin-
ridge and Lane, next week, 70 obtain a merely
nominal success. Looking to the very worst
that can befall us in the election-the choice Of
Lincoln by the pcople-we deem it not impossi-
bic that the South, even now, by presenting to
the foe united and determined front may deter
them from the attempt to accomplish their de-
signs. The vote, about to be cast here for Breck-
inridge and Lane will be regarded, at the North,
as the muster-roll Of the defenders Of Southern
rights, while the opposing vote will be regarded
there, whether properly so or not as the census
Of those who are content that Black Republican
ism shall execute its felest purposes, provided,
only, that it spares the Unioni Let every man,
therefore, who is unwilling to afford laid and
comfort" to the common enemy, every man who
would avert from those he loves the horrors and
calamities Of civil and servile war, every man
who desires to preserve and perPet'late this Union
Of sovereign and cO-equal States-lct every sueh
man. We say, cast his vote, at the coming elec-
ton, ~ Breckinridge and Lane; and further,
let him persuade every other man, whom he can
influence, to go and do likewise" v
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31
A Step i'm the Right Direction.

The citizens Of Carroll county, Miss, held a
meeting at Carrollton, on the 18th instant 'for
the purpose of celebrating upon the periIs that
environ us, as people" Col. VIM Booth was
chosen President and long list of Vice Pres
idents and Secretaries was appointed A series
of resolutions was unanimously adopted, adyi-
sing union among the Southern people assert
ing that the Constitution is the compact of a
Union meant for the equal benefit of all the
parties thereto; that when the terms Of that
compact are perverted to our destruction, we
should take measures to secure our rights that
the election of Black Republican President
will be violation of the spirit and substance Of
the compact, and if submitted to, will result in
the overthrow of our institutions, and our sub
jugation to an intolerable oppression; recon-
mending the Governor, in the case of Lincoln's
election, to assemble the Legislature; advising
that Convention of the people of the State be
called, and that conference of Southern States
be asked; declaring their first allegiance due to
the State Of Mississippi, and that all will cheer
fully submit and loyalty defend her and recon-
mending that all discussions on the subject be
in a spirit of concatory kindness, since "our
hopes, aim and destiny are one" The last res
olution we copy entire:
sth, ResOlred That in the action we this day
take, and in the measures we may hereafter
adopt, We are influenced by no hostility or en-
nifty to our fellow citizens Of the North but we
are governed solely by the conviction that our
rights, our honor, and the interests Of ourselves
and our children, imperiously demand that we
should not falter in defending the privileges Sc
cured to us by the Constitution nor do we
hope or expect to intimidate our Northern breth-
rem, and thus coerce them to recognition of
rights which they now deny; on the contrary, we
believe that there are among them many who are
willing to do us full justice and We hope that
there are many others now acting with the Re
publican party, who, if they could see the dan.
gers which surround us, and threaten to over
whelm one section of the Union, would prompt
ly come to the rescue and faithfully observe the
compact made between their fathers and our
fathers and for this reason we are willing to
make one more appeal through Southern Con-
yention to the sense of justice and right of the
Northern people, for a clear Constitutional guar
tanty Of our rights, before it shall fna ly lie &C.
ermined that we can no longer be brethren
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31
Extracts from DOugins' FreePOrt
Speech.

LINcoLx's QuEsroN-Can the people of the United
States Territory in any lawful way against the wishes
of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery
from then limits gior TO the formation OF aStatc Con
stitaOng
DOUGLAS ANswER.-The next question proporudcd
to me by Mr.. Lincoln Is the people Of Il territory
in any lawful way against the wishes of any citizen OF
the United States exclude slavery from their limits
prior to the formation of state constitutions an
swer emphatcally Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer
hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that it Is
my opinion the people of Territory can, by lawful
means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the
formation OF State Constitution. Enthusiastic APP
plause.1 Mr. Lincoln knew that had answered that
question over and over again. lie heard me argue
the Nebraska bill on that principle all c State in
1854 in 1850 and in 1856, and he has no excuse for
pretending to be in doubt as to my position on that
question Il matters not what way the supreme Court
may hereafter decide az to the abstract question:
whether slavery may or may not go into Territory
under the Constitution; the people have the lawful
means 10 introduce il exclude, they please for
the reason that slavery cannot exist day or an hour
anywhere unless il is supported by local police regula-
tons. fright, right) Those police regulations can
only be established Wv local legislation, and If the peo-
pie are opposed to slavery they will elect representa-
tives TO that body vino WILL by uniendy legislation,
effectualy prevent the Introduction Of It into their
midst lion the contrary, they for it their egsla-
ton will favor its extension. Hence no matter what
the desis6aof the supreme Court may be ON that alb
stract question still the right of e people to make
slave TERRITORY ora free Territory is perfect and
complete under the Nebraska bill hope Mr.. Lin
coin deems my answer satisfactory on that point
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31

dissolve partnership before the stipulated
day, it would be difieslt to imagine reason
why State may not dissolve partnership
of which she is a member, and for the dura-
ton of which no stipulation has been entered
into. If the assertion of such doctrines as
these be Unreasonable" we have to say, first,
that we could not hold other doctrines with
out surrendering our sincere convictions, and,
secondly, that, ii all the ''traitors" in Mississ-
ippi were hing, the survivors would not be
able, for years to come, to accomplish the
task of burying the dead. :
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31

WHAT SHALL WE DO FOR CoFFEE?-Tt appears
from statistics recently published that the con.
sumption of coffee is increasing much more ran
idly than the production Last wear the total
consumption of Europe and the United States
alone was $4,000 tons, whilst the production
of all countries was but 342, 900 tons. The
probable consumption of the present year Is es.
timated at $4,000 tons, and the probable pro-
duction at 274,000; and of next yelr the former
at $4,000 tons, and the latter at 3l3, 000.-Ex.
In Mexico, there is a large quantity of excel.
lent land adapted to the production of coffee.
and ifthe X. G. c. succeed in their purpose of
coloDizing the Northern States of that country,
the production of this article will doubtless keep
pace with its growing consumption. Tamauli-
pas, Coahuila and Chihuahua, can produce coffee
enough to supply any demand the world is like.
ly to make for il for ages to come.
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31

hfD0ffC0 INdfttNoN
tee, and unanimously adopted at Baltimore
Resolved That the platform adopted by the Demo-
cratic party at Cincinnati is affirmed with tie following
explanatory resolutions:
Fyrst-That the Government Of Territory organ
lied by an act of Congress is provisional and tempo
ryry and during its existence all citizens of the Uni
ted States have equal right to settle with their
property in the Territory, without their rights, either
of person or property, being destroyed or injured by
congressional territorial legislation
Second-That it is the duty of the Federal Govern
ment in all it, departments protect when necessary,
the rights of persons and property in the Territories,
and where ever else its constitutional authority ex-
tends.
TKird-That when the settlers in Territory, having
an adequate population, form state constitution, the
right of sovereignty commences, and being consumma-
ted by admission into the Union, they stand on an
equal footing with the people of other States and a
State thus organized ought to be admitted into the
Federal Union, whether its Constitution prohibits or
recognizes the institution Of slavery.
Resolred, That the Democratic party are in favor
of the acquisition of the Island Of Cuba on such
terms as shall be honorable 10 ourselves and Just to
Spain, at the earliest practicable moment
Resoloed That the enactments of State Legislatures
TO defeat the faithful execution Of the Fugitive Slave
law are hostile in character to- and subversve OF the
Constitution and revolutionary in their effect
Resolred That the Democracy of the United States
recognize it MS an imperative duty Of this Government
to protect naturaiized citizens in all their rights,
whether at homo or in foreign lands to the same extent
as its native-born citizens. And,
WnEREAs, One Of the greatest necessities of the
age, in political, commercial, postal and Military
point of view is speedy communication between the
Pacific and Atlantic coasts; therefore, be II
Resolved That the National Democratic party do
hereby pledge themselves to every means in their
power to secure the passage Of some BILL to the extent
of the constitutional authority of Congress for the con-
struction of Pacific Railroad, from the Mississippi
river to the Pacific Ocean, at the earliest practicable
moment
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31
Extract from Ear. 3rcckinridge's
Frankfort speech, last December.

Mr. Breckinridsc has been speaking of the bred
Scott decision and continues follows:
Well that being the case and it having been author
fatiyey determined Nv the very tribunal to which 1t
was referred that Congress had no power to exclude
slave property from the Territory, and judcialy deter
mined that the Territorial egisature-authorites
created by Congress bad not the power to exclude or
confscate slave property confess that had not an
tcipated that the doctiine Of unriendly legislation
would be set up Hence | need not say to YOU that |
do not believe in the doctrine of uniiendly legislation
that do not believe in the authority of Territorial
Legislature to do b. indrcctiOn What they cannot 90
directly | repOse upon the decision Of the supreme
Court Of the United States to the point that neither
Congress nor the TerTtoris Legislature has the right
to ostruct or cunfscte the property Of any citizen,
slaves included, pending the territorial condition APP
plause.
donot see any escape from that decision, if you
admit that the question judicial one, if YOU adj
init the decision Of the Supgcmc Court and if YOU
stand BY the decision OF the highest court Of the eOun
try.
The Supreme Cont seems to have recognized it a.
the duty Of the courts Of the Union, in their proper
sphere % ex-cue this constitutional right, thus ad
Indicated v the Supreme Court in the following Ian
gua-e: In speaking Of he acquisition Of Territory
they pronounce it political question for Congress e
determine what Territories they may acquire, an'
how MANY Now mar the words Of the Court:
Here follows quotation from the decision
So that in regard 70 slave property, as in regard Z
any other property recognized and guarded by tn
Constitution il is the dsty according TO the Suprem
Court Of all the Courts Of the country to protect an
guard il by their decision whenever the question
brought before them. To which only add, that th
judicial decisions must Re NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. judicia
decisions must Be sustained. Applause.
II preseBt remedies adequate % sustain Ties
decisions. voild have nothing more done ], Eitl
many other public men in the country believe the
are Adequate II they are motif they cannot be en-
fpreed for u.at Of the proper legislation to enforo
tI,ern. sufsesent Iegdasion mus be passed, or Gu
Government Is failure.
Ccuflemen, / see no escape from that conclusion
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31

WHEN it was charged, some few weeks
ago, that the Douglas Convention, at Balti-
more. had offered to Mr.. Yancey the Vice
Presidency on the ticket with Douglas, it
seemed to us so inconsistent and trucking
am action, that we did not notice the charge,
considering it one of those unaccountable
stories which sometimes, nobody knows
how, find their way into the public prints
during heated party contest But recent
DEVELOPMENTS have convinced us that there
was more of truthfulness than we thought in
this charge against the Douglasites. The
redoubtable and notorious George y. San
ders. of New York, chicfcst and dirtiest Of
the fuglcmen of Douglas, next to Forney,
has published a letter in which he eonfesses
to having made the offer to Mr.. Yancey, but
AYERS that at pas mere joke :" a pretty
joke. indeed We suppose it was also Of
fered to Mr.. Fitzpatrick ''as a joke. We
want no evidence more conclusive than this
of the utter falsity of the pretensions Of
Douglas to a peculiar dislike of the "seces-
sionists," pretensions with which he has, on
all occasions, opposed the fusion of his par
tizans and those of Breckenridge, even
though thereby the defeat of Lincoln might
be accomplished, and without it the success
of the Black Republicans were certain.
The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31
Hon. sam. Benton.

TINS distinguished Bcllevcrett orator spoke
at the Court House on Monday night last
He had no charge to make against Mr.
Breckinridge, except the old exploded one,
that he had been Squatterite. The "maiu
line of his Argument" was labored effort to
prove that Mr.. Bell was sound and true to
the South, and that he was, also, the only
candidate who could defeat Lincoln. For
these two assigned reasons, Mr.. Benton was
of opinion that the South ought to come up,
as one man, to the support of he Tennessee
fossil, losing sight, as all the Bell orators do,
of the indications that public sentiment is
adverse to Mr. Bell, as shown by the recent
elections. Mr.. Benton said of Mr.. Breckin-
ridge nothing to rufile the feelings of the
most ardent Democrat. We took it very
cooly, and when the eloquent gentleman
turned the batteries of his logic against the
record of Mr.. Douglas, and exposed the her
esy Of Squattcr Sovereignty in all its hideous
defornity, we foigave him all, and said in
cur heart, -that we had found one Beleverett
orator who did not allow considerations OF
policy to shut his mouth in tacit approval OF
what he held to be a wrong principle, calcu-
lated to cheat the South of her rights. A
Bellite abusing Douglasism! Was it not a
thing to he surprised at
Mr.. Benton's speech was good State
Rights argument, and we believe was of real
service to the cause of Breckenridge. We
listened to him with much pleasure, and
were strengthened in the opirion which we
sometime ago expressed, that Mr.. Benton
IS Bellite by accident.