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The large Touring mills of Mr.. j. o. Carr, in
Marietta, Ohio, were destroyed by fire last
Saturday morninp Loss SIS 00O
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hon. Judge frlce.
TowsoNTowN, Jan. "a, 1860.
Richard j. Gittings Esq, Attorney for the State,
prosecuting.
Mr.. Small, one of the counsel in the case of the
State George Crosby, convicted last week of an
assault with intent to kill John Carnan, by the
striking him on the head with stone, from which
his life greatly dspared Of came in Court this
morning, and after Mr.. Ensor filed reasons for
new trial, Mr.. Small argued the motion before the
Court, which responded to by the States officer
The Court held the motion under curia.
Messrs Wheeler and Keech counsel in the case
of the State VS.. Samuel Brown, (colored, con-
victed on charge of enticing the slave of George
l.. Butler to abscond, also argued their motion for
a new trial in the above case.
The motion was responded to by Mr.. Grason,
who at the time of the conviction of the prisoner
acting States Attorney in the absence of Mr..
Cuttings. Held under curia.
Reverdy johnson, Jr., Esq, asked for a judgment
nis in the of Johnson Beckart as pre- cribed
by affidavit under 4th George the II.
The case of the State VS.. Catharne Cooney, in
dicted for assaulting Mary Pendergast was, on ai-
davit, removed to Hartford county.
The case of Solomon Smith and Henrietta Ann
Smith, colored, jointly indicted for the murder of
Aquilla j. Parks, called for trial as assigned,
but owing to the absence of DR.. Mace, an import
ant witness for the State the was continued to
Thursday next, and the Court at II! o'clock ad-
journed until to morrow morning at 10 A. NJ.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

of buildings occupied by Messrs. Miller & Grinne,
grocers; Porter d Sigh, dry goods dealers; Good
rich Gray's hardware store, the Post-office and
the county offices, with adjoining wooden build
ing, were almost entirely destroyed by fire last
night. Very few of the county records were saved.
Loss estimated at 100000; insured only for $780,
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

THE SMALL-Pox.-Our exchanges from all sec
tons of the country bring us accounts of the rava-
ges Of this loathsome disease. In Massachusetts,
there have been many cases, hardly a town is free
from the infection. The disease still continues to
increase in the vicinity of Boston. In Newton,
large number have contracted the disorder. In
Watertown many suffering from either small
pox variolod. In Needham there are a number
sick. Auburn, n. Y, has also been visited with
the disease in its most virulent form. Accounts
from Macon, Ga, state that there have been many
cases in the vicinity of that town.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

A man named Henry Clark was arrested in New
York on Saturday, charged with picking pocket,
and when he was taken to the tombs it was ascer-
tanned that he was the party that robbed a bank
ing-house in London some time since of $4,000.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

stairway in Brooklyn, on Sunday, and broke his
neck.
One of the monster 'Floyd" guns was cast in
Pittsburg last week, it weighs seventy five thou
sand mounds
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

From SOUTH AMERTCA.-We have files and letters
from South America dated at Buenos Ayres the
10Th of November and Rio Janiero the 8th of De-
cember. Buenos Ayres was about to re-enter the
Confederation. Delegates to the Constitutional
Convention, empowered to vote formally the
subject, would be elected on the 3lst of December
General V. Flores, the exile Of Montevideo in 1851,
was in command of the frontier troops of Buenos
Ayres. Trade had revived vastly in the province
There were about three hundred thousand sacks of
coffee on hand in Rio, and the prospect was that
the crop to come in would be the largest ever
known in Brazil. Prices were expected to fall very
soon. The steamers Champion, from New York,
and Bio Bio, from Boston, were in port at Rio
Ne,o York Herald.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

The CANADA NEGRO TRoUBLEs.-The Detroit Free
Press of Friday, says the negro disturbances in
Canada, at Chatham and neighboring towns, con-
tinue. The negroes are led on by two notorious
persons of their own color, named D. d. Shadd and
J. c. Brown, both of whom figured conspicuously
in the celebrated "Provisiona Government affair
of old John Brown, which, it will be remembered,
was organized at Chatham.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

THE PHILADELPHIA BOARD OF TRADE.-A stated
meeting of the Philadelphia Board of Trade was
held in that city on Monday evening An extended
report was read from the committee on lifesavng
stations the coast. Experiments have been
made with lie-boats of several kinds, both Ameri-
can and foreign, all of which have been found too
heavy for the purpose. Holmes patent was con-
sdered the least Objectionable. The report closed
with memorial to Congress, asking the passage
of an act appropriating sum not exceeding $780,
600 for the purchase of brass-mounted guns, pro
jectiles, and other apparatus, together with the
carriages and equipments; the purchase of self
righting life-boats, such as may be approved by
the Presidents of the New York Chamber of Com
merce and the Philadelphia Board of Trade.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

VIM. McCarty, one of the clerks in the Chicago
Post Office, was arrested last week, charged with
robbing the mail He was caught in the act.
A man named Edward Killop was fined SlO in
New York on Sunday, for preaching in the street
without permit.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

The New CHINESE WAR.-We observe that the
correspondent of London morning paper has di-
rected attention to the difficulties which threaten
France and England in the third war on which the
people of the latter country entering with the
Chinese, and his remarks are forcible Instead of
marching on Pekn and taking possession of it-a
task, he shows, which will be attended with unlock
ed for obstacles he advises, as a far better plan
the seizure of Nankin, situated on a broad, Deep
nayigable river, two hundred miles from the sea-
and where the allied feet can approach near the
walls, abutting on a country where supplies are
abundant, which cannot be cut off, He assumes
that the combined force will form an army of TWEEN
ty-two thousand men, of whom twelve thousand
will be English and ten thousand French-the most
powerful ever seen on the Indian Ocean,
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

James W. Jones, editor of the Chronicle and Sen
tineI of Augusta, Ca, died on Friday morning last
The English papers state that it yet requires
100000 to finish Mr.. Surgeons new Tabernacle.
We have accounts from Brazos to the 18th inst,
reporting affairs on the Rio Grande still unsettled.
Six market thieves, boys between II and Is years
of age, were arrested in Philadelphia on Saturday,
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How DIFFERENTLY THEY ACr.--The citizens of
Vicksburg Mississippi, held a meeting on the l4th
instant, for the purpose of taking action and adopt
ing measures for the relief of the unfortunate suf
ern Shareholders seem to be quite as ready to
tribute to the unfortunate in Massachusetts,, as
some prominent men of Massachusetts, were in sub
scribing to the John Brown fund.- for the purpose
of raising insurreetion in the South, and letting
loose rapine and murder among dcfenceless women
and children
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher to deliver polit-
cal lecture in the Forsyth street Methodist church,
New York. last ninht
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

The story of fugitive slave from Norfolk Vir-
ginia, arriving in New York is all fudge.
A new Roman Catholic convent is being built in
Brooklyn, New York.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

The Rev. Mr.. Guinness is still attracting large
crowds to hear him. He is to preach three
nings this week.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

TRANSMISSION OF MONEY BY MAIL.-The Senate
Post Office Committee have under consideration a
plan system of greater security for the trans
mission of money and valuable packets by mail.
The Committee have also under consideration
other postal reforms of great Importance, with
view of making the Department selfsustaining.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25

Up to friday last the citizens OF Boston had
contributed $4,000 to the sufferers of the Law
renee calamity.
DR.. Peck, who killed Charles n. Harris at New
Orleans on the llth inst, is member of the Louis
lana Legislature.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-09-21

Bnio Lost, SEVEN PERsoSs DRowSED-OSE
SAvED.-In the gale Of Sunday last, which was
quite severe on the Atlantic coast, the brig Ma.
~ Pierce, Capt. Clifford, from Bangor, bound
for this port, with cargo OF lumber consigned
to Messrs. Pierce and Rowland, was capsiied
about twelve miles east Of Chatham Lights,
Cape Cod. There were on board, the Captain,
mate, steward, four hands, and the Captains
son, an intelligent lad about seven years OF
age.
This was about nine o'clock In the forenoon.
When the vessel capsiIed, she lay at first on her
beam ends, and while in this condition, the crew
made endeavors to get out lumber for the pur-
pose VI making RATS, but before this could DO
accomplished, she rolled entirely over. The
captain and steward got to boat, leaving the
mate and the crew on the bottom Of the brig
and In the water. The mate, Frank Varnums,
"a years Of ago and without family, was the
only ole known to have been saved.
Varnums chung to the wreck, and kept the
captains child with him until the poor boy
died from exposure and was washed away. lie
kept hisp place upon the wreck by thrusting his
knife into O worm eaten spot upon the Keel,
and "holding on" During the day one amer
another Of his comrades Was washed of or died
from chill, the storm raging with great fury.
Once or twice he was washed from the wreck,
but managed to sustain his held, till the Brit
ish schooner, Robert II. Dexter, Capt. r. II.
Dexter, from Nova Scotia to this port with
plaster Of Paris, came TO his rescue and took
him from the wreck. When taken of he was
too much exhausted to speak, and had not full
ly recovered from his exposure when brought
into this port to-day on the Robert II. Dexter.
II Is believed that oil the rest Of the crew were
lost, ~ the sea WAS running too high to allow
the boat in which the captain and steward At
tempted to escape, to live any length OF Time
I-.Nep Haren Palladium.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-09-21

We copy the above table from the Bangor
Wing, which gives the vote Of csch town In
detail and sums up the general results OF the
elections as follows
In these ais towns. washburn (Republican)
has 81 $40: Smart (Democrat) 4s,ii6; Barnes
(Bell-Everett) ISL
washburn's clear majority in these towns is
1908. Smart,s clear minority. 81 ,la. WASH
burns gain from last year, 5,5l3.
There are about so small towns and planta-
tons not yet reported, which gave majority
against US last year. and which viii probably
reduce washburn's majority . few hundreds.
The vote Of these eighty plantations last year,
was for Morrill, 1911, for Smith io27.
wa.hbura's majority In the whole State must
be nj least II 800, and viii probably run up
near 5000.
For members Of Congress, the mjorities are
,bou, as follows-as before stated: First Dis
tric,, Goodwin, 1867 Second District, Walton,
over 1000; Third District. Fessenden, between
1000 and 100; Fourth District, Morrill,, be
tween 5000 and 6ooo; Fnh District, Rice 1000;
Sixth District. Pike, over 1900.
In the State Senate, the Republicans have
every Misunderstanding one in Aroostook.
OF members Of the House, We report 100 Re
publisans to 20 democrats-being gain ofsix
from last year. Eleven more are to Be heard
from. which II they are politically the sane IS
last year. viii leave the democrats but % or ~
members out ofi5i-not enough to demand the
yeas and Maya
The victory could not Be moro complete or
overwhelming. and its moral influence over the
elections in other States must be very great.
All honor 10 The noble Republicans Of Maine.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-09-21
A Light In Egypt.

Under this head the Chicago Press and
Tribune of the 10th inst, announces that the
Franklin County Democrat. "John Logan's
Home Organ" has abandoned Mr.. Douglas
and come out for Lincoln. The following Is o
portion Of its address to its readers:
"In another column will be found prtriot-
ic letter from 8. L. Flanagan, ESQ.,, declaring
his preference for Lincoln over Breckenridge.
His views are eminently worthy the considera-
ton of every patriot throughout the land. We
cordially endorse oil that he says, and com
mend his letter to the careful perusal Of our
readers. We have carefully and maturely
weighed the considerations given in HIS letter,
and have arrived ut the same conclusions.
The recent elections which have been held In
the south render Il certain that Mr.. Douglas
cannot be elected, and We are now compelled,
In duty 10 our conscience and our country, to
choose between the remaining three candidates,
however reluctant we may be to abandon the
fortunes Of Mr.. Douglas. The elections which
have been held show conclusively 10 our mind
that the race Is between MIR. Breckinridge and
Mr.. Lincoln, and Of the two We prefer the lat
ter. First, because We believe him to be ma
tional man and for the preservation OF our glo-
r;ous Union. We never did, nor never can en-
dorse the doctrine that our National Constitu-
ton carries slavery into oil the territories, even
AGAINST the wishes Of the people, OF which Mr..
RrecLinridce is the advocate. We have ever
hc,;eyed Il 10 be a local institution, depending
S,r he protection and maintenance upon the
local authorities. II Congress must intervene
ON the subject Of slavery In the territories, aud
either establish or prohibit i. and that Is to be
the issue. as we honestly believe II Is, then We
nrefsr ~ GO with that party fayoring It's prohi-
bition. believing Il to be political evil. We
have heretofore deemed II unnecessary to ex-
nress our individual sentiments publicly on
he subiect because We have supposed that the
nsonie Of the territories would be len to regu-
Iate their institutions in their own way, but
now The issue Is presented: Shall slavery bees.
tsbiished or prohibited In our public domain
In such contest we must take sides, and no
man can be silent.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-09-21
From the Portland Advertiser.
The Giant with Two Faces.

We have already called the attention OF our
readers to the difference in tone and senamen!
between Mr.. Douglass speech at norfolk ana
at New York, and We would now note another
attempt to gull the good people Of Pennsylva-
mia with the idea that he, Mr.. Douglas, Is .
tariff man.
Every child knows that the Democratic party
ofPennsylvania has always been in favor OF
protective tariff. Polk, Dallas, and the tariff
Of 1912 was the standing motto in that State,
and one Of their published campaign songs ran
"Opoor coony Wings,
What makes you look so blue.
We will have Polk. snd Dallas,
Ind the Tuigofr2"
Stephen A. Douglas has always been an oppo-
Of protection OF free labor. He entered Con-
gross 1.-THE House) in Dec, and voted, within
three weeks thereafter, for Mr.. Rhett's motion
for the repeal Of the Tariff Of AZ He voted
again and again against Protection in any shape
even Incidental; for q 20 per cent. uniform Tar
ia, &C., sc. lie voted with South Carolina for
the Tariff Of 1916 at every step and in every
shape, and thus his vote stands recorded in the
journals and in The Globe. On the Let Of
March, 1864 proposal to engraft new Tar
III on the General Appropriation bill being under
consideration-Mr. Douglas said
"Iam for a reduction Of the tartfto strict
rsrsnus standard. 1 an o free-trade man to
the fullest extent that We can carry 1t, and oil
the same time collect revenue enough to cetray
the expenses Of government In other words,
am for no other kind Of o tariff than o revenue
tariff. '--tSee Globe.l
Mr.. Douglass search for the maternal grave
has brought him into Pennsylvania lately, and
now hear this demagogue who has boosted that
he was "a free trade man to the fullest extent,
talk to the iron and coal men Of Pennsylvania,
which friendly hand condenses for the Asso-
ciated Press as follows:
.Mr. Douglas commenced his speech by q
glowing eulogy on Pennsylvania as an empire
within herself. She as State had a great In.
tercst in the Union, Her Interests reqrirsd
nc fostering hand Of Government. She had
not received the support from ne .Ndfionai
Government she rds entitled 10. She had the
whole Union for market. Her whole mineral
wealth was ine1haustable, and worth more than
mines OF gold. He pitched into Congress and
the General Government for the past few years.
He denounced The Government as pdrdiy=;,
inc me iaterssts of Pennsylvania for sererdi
Years. The Government had tailed to perform
the functions COR which it was created The sys-
tenn of Government must be changed or disaster
would occur. Either it must reduce the expen-
ditures OF increase the revenue. The only
remedy /, proper tariff. When the tariff was
proposed in Congress, it was Away overslaugh-
cd by the interminable negro question. lie
went into an argument defensive OF the protec-
five policy, especially as regards Pennsy lyania 9
interest, but the question will never be settled
lin the intermidable negro question is thrown
out and repudiated. He censured Congress for
its neglect of legitimate duties to stray after
false gods &C., sc.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-09-21
The next Lesi.la,.re-rhe Senate.

The Republicans have elected ssery member
OF the Stats Senate (3i) by large majorities-
Last year Aroostook elected one Democratic
Senator. but now she has elected republican.
The Senator's elect are as follows:
Pinsr Observation-Disclosures @. Mar
shall, John II. Goodenow, Leonard Andrews.
SECOND DnrRIcr-Cumberiand-N. J. Mil
lcr, sewail.N. Gross, Nathaniel Pesse, Warren
II. vintou.
THIRD Observation-Disclosures 8. Lyford
Rufus Sylvester, Robert E. Rider, Henry Ken
nedy.
FOURTH Observation-Disclosures Hop
kins, James A. Bicknell, Warren Percival.
FrrH DsrnIcr-Waldo.-Otis kaler, Ns-
thaniPierce, Amos Pitcher.
srxru DIsrRIcr-Haneoek.-John Bridges,
J. NJ. Noyes.
SEVENTH DISTRICT Wa,hington.-Joseph
Granger. J. Rednan.
EIouru Observation-Disclosures Jotham Dom
nell.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Benson,
VIM. c. Hammatt, Jabe1 True.
TENTH Observation-Disclosures Tol.
man.
ELEVENTH DpnIcr-Somsrsa.-hiram G.
Warren, Nathan r. Blunt.
TWELFTH DISTRICT Franklin.-Z. Morton
Vaughan.
NINETEENTH DIsrnIcr- Orford.-John q.
Hubbard, Z. @. Harlow.
All Republicans.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-09-21

An EpIroR's Hardest Work. Every one
who has had any experience in the newspaper
business viii heartily concur In the views pre-
scented by Virginia paper. in the following
article: "Many people estimots the ability OF
o newspaper and the industry and talent OF the
editor. by the quantity OF editorial matter Il
contains. II Is comparatively an easy task for
O frothy writer to pour out daily columns OF
words, his ideas may aow In everlasting foods,
and yet his paper be meagrc and poor concern.
But what Il the labor and toll ofsuch man, to
that Imposed on the judicious, informed editor,
who exercises his vocation with an hourly con-
sciousness Of its responsibilities and duties to
devote himself to the conduct Of his paper with
the same care and assiduity that sensible law.
yer bestows upon suit, or humane physician
to patient. without regard to show or display.
Indeed 10 but small portion Of the work. The
industry Is not even shown there. Tho care.
the time employed in selecting Is far the most
important.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-09-21

TUE Cor1oN CRoP. The New York Ship
ping Last publishes Its annual statement OF
the cotton crop of the United States, from
which 1t appears that the crop for the year
ending August 81, 1860, was the largest ever
made, the aggregate being in excess OF oil
but the most sanguine estimates. Tho total
amount is 4,975,770 bales, against 3,Sol,'
4Sl in 1889. The total exports to foreign
ports for the year just closed were 3,714,l7S
bales, Of which Great Britain took 2,669,-
4s2 bales, France $50 ,5s7 bales, tho north
Of Europe 295,O72 bales, and other coun-
tries 900, Os2 bales. A very largo proportion
of the increased crop has been sent to Great
Britain. The stock on hand ut oil the cot
ton ports of this country on the LIST OF Sep
tembcr was OF .7OS bales. The domestic
consumption was 9S7 ,0i3 bales.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-09-21

OWNERSHIP OF MoUSr wAsnISGroS.-A let
ter from the White Mountains makes the fol-
lowing statement in regard to the long disput-
ed question about the ownership Of the dome
Of Mount Washington
"Mr. David Pingrec, Of Salem, Mass, pur-
chased from the State Of New Hampshire, some
years ago, q large tract Of land, the line run.
ming, rs was supposed, over Mount Washing.
ton, from point on the Littleton road, under
the west base Of the range. About the same
time, another individual made purchase from
the State Of the land Immediately adjacent, and
more resent survey have proven the fact that
neither Mr.. Pengree's line nor that OF his I'D:
verse claimant, was originally correctly laid
out. The mountain itself had thus far, by this
great local attraction through which It's inter-
nal iron treasury brides the pole and the COM
pass to ever conflicting decision, set the devices
Of engineer and surveyor ut naught. The last
surveys, with improved compass, which makes
this very obstacle subseryient to the truth, 10,
however, said to have scientifically established
Mr.. Pengrce's proprietorship It 10 now only
needing public confirmation to render him
the single and recognized owner Of Mount
Washington"