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The Evansville daily journal., 1860-03-16
STEAMBOATS,.
REGULAR PACKETS
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~ JOHN ToMPk4Es, HICKS x M a@4sz
Clerk, will during the season
in the Wabash aud Evansville trade. a liberal
share Df patronage il solicited. mar9-1m
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packet D. B. CAMPBELL, C. Lumm ssItzIIrsII rsII55l
master, Ham Davis clerk, having beensszzszsssss sssss
newly fitted and furnished offers superior accom-
modations TO the travelling public. She will
regularly throughout the present seitson 10 all
points on Green river. Merchants and traders
sending orders can rely on having them promptly
filled. lHhe officers of the Campbell will attend
promptly to all way business, carrying freight and
passengers at low rates, filling orders, making pur
ehases &c, for their friends along tlae'ronte. ''
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IL CAIRO REGULAR PASSEN rvs.
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DEXTER, Master, leaves Evansville s4zssssss s@azssss
Tuesday and Saturday, at II o'clock M, arriv-
ing Paducah at O'Clock, A. NJ, Cairo at
L o'clock. M, "Wednesday =, and Saturday. = Re
day, at O'Clock, p. NJ, and Paducah every Thurs
day and Sunday, at O'Clock, A. NJ, connecting at
Evansville with the Evansville and CTawfordsVille
Il. H., and Packets for Green River. Also, con-
Meeting at Smithland with Cumberland River Pack.
cts ut Cairo, with Memphis, New Orleans and st.
Tickets can be Obtained on board the boat for all
Eastern Cites. sept23 r,
NV.s.N%ST.KELR .8.S~D P.aD UC-4H
IL "A @ h ET-The hne steamer
DUNBAR, Gus Fowler, master, eIlsrL4sssr
leaves Evansville every Monday ,EE[sssss-szzssk -
Wednesday, and Friday, Mt Il O'Clock m. Leaves
Paducah every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday,
at o'clock A. NJ. Connecting at Evansville with
the Evansville and Grawfordsylle Reiroae for all
peints North and East with packets for Louisville
Green, and Wabash rivers. At PG.tucah with pack
cts for So. Louis, New Orleans, and the Daily Mail
boats for Cairo, Nashville, and Tennessee river.
80 Business promptly attended, and charges for
freight and passage, charged by the regu-
lar packet Through bills of lading given to New
Orleans and all points ON the Tennessee and Cum
berland rivers augIS
The Evansville daily journal., 1860-03-16
HOoFLAND'S BALSAMTC CORDIAL

Positively CURE
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Inhu-
enza, Group, Pneumonia, Ineipient Consumption,
and has performed the most astonishing cures over
known of ..-........l.
CONFIRMED CON SUMPTION
AS Diarrhcea cordial it is uneQuaed. Price rs
cents per bottle
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n POND RIVER.-The elegant
passenger steamer LUE EAYES, slLgsirEtssaf y
MCDONALD, Master, TAYLOR, Clerk, zksssez9zssz 80
will make regular tri-weelly trips to South Car
rOlton and Pond River, leaving Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays. . -..lJ ,
For freight or passage, apply on board. de20tf
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s ED EGU UL.4K LOUES V-XLLE,
IA EVANSVILLE A N ID -
HENDERSON Packet The new / LIZ p
and magnificent Steamer G r Il Esszzzssss-lrzzas
EAGLE, w II. DANIEL, Captain J. H. DUNCAN,
Clerk, leaves Louisville every Wednesday and Sat-
urday at O'Clock p. NJ. Leaves Evansville every
Monday at IL NJ, and Thursdays at O'clock z. Nj.
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0mofersI OVsters! OYsters

ks-Of all kinds, for sale cheap at
VICKERY BROS,
J3a 50 Main street and Water street.
The Evansville daily journal., 1860-03-16
STEAMBOAT REGISTER

STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
ARRIVED.
kentucky, Memphis, Emma, st. Louis,
marmora, Pitts, Hawk Eye State, Pitts,
Southerner, Lou, Bellwood, tow boat,
Woodford, New Orleans, Union, Lou.
DEPARTED.
Kentucky, Lou, EniIna Pitts.
marmora, Nashville, Hawk-Eye State, st. L'ss
Southerner, Memphis Woodford, Lou,
kats Sarchet, Wabash, Union, b. Green.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13
The Louisville Democrat and Mr..
Breckenridge.

The Louisville Democrat has the following
notice of the slavery in the Territories part
of Mr.. Breckinridge's late speech.
The speech of Major Breckenridge defines
his position to be just what we supposed it
was. He holds to the theory OF the !" power
coupled with the duty" of Congress to
protect slavery in the Territories, ii there be
any occasion for it. This is theory and
Mr.. B. thinks the South must meyer sur
render the principle. He adds, however,
that he thinks the protection sufficient which
exists now and would only resort to prac-
tice under the theory after it is found that
the protection is insufficient. This is not
all. He says further: 81 trust the time
will never come when it may be deemed
necessary for the Congress of the United
States in any form to interfere with the
QUESTION in the Territories. So far, it has
been only protective of evil to US, and it
would portend only evil in its future" He
here utters truth which all informed men
know and appreciate. MIR. B. adds:
"While l would not give up the principle,
l never have believed, and do not believe
now, in the possibility of slavery planting
itself in Territory against the determined
opposition of the people of Territory, any
more than l believe the institution of sla-
very could continue in existence in Kentucky
for three years, against the desire of the
voters OF the Commonwealth, even with
constitutional restrictions that are thrown
round it,"
For our own part, we would sell cheap
priRciple that in its operation only "p5r-
tends evil to u.s." IT we could not sell it,
we should give it away. We have no par
TALLY for our right to suffer evil. We
would part with it on any terms-pay
premium to get rid of it. In this We differ
with the Vice President, while he would not
give up the principle, be expects nothing
but evil from it.
But, suppose that Congress exercise the
power, and undertake to perform the duty,
they can't plant slavery in Territory
"against the determined opposition of the
inhabitants" While, then, the interference
of Congress portends only evil to US, and
its interference on our side would do US no
good, what do we want with it? If we are
obliged to maintain a principle which por
tends only to evil to US, and can't possibly
do US any good, it is our misfortune. 1t is
a calamity we ought to get rid of. While
Mr.. Breckenridge is theoretically an inter-
ventionist, he is practically a strong nom
interventionist. He would not ask Congress
to interfere, when such interference portends
no good to his constituents, and in no event
could place slavery anywhere against the
will of the inhabitants. For our own part
we prefer the theory which exempts US from
the evil, and which requires non action when
action is useless. We don't believe that the
Constitution or the bred Scott decision
authorizes Congress to legislate, to establish,
prohibit or protect slavery any where, and
we are utterly opposed to Congressional
protection. It would be such protection as
a wolf would give lamb.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13
Death OF De Quincy.

The philosophic writer and opium-eater,
Thomas De Quincy, has passed from earth.
This sad news reached US by the Asia. The
author died on the 9th instant, at Edin-
burgh, in the 6Sth year of his age. Accord
ing to the scanty intelligence brought by
the Asia, Mr.. De Quincy for many months
past has resided in Edinburgh, preferring
the town to his house at Lasswade, mainly
for the convenience of experimenting the
passage through the press of the collected
edition OF his works now issuing by Messrs.
Hoag, and of which the fourteenth and last
volume is nearly ready for publication. For
some weeks past bis health has been seri.
ously affected /; but, as he was frequently an
invalid, alarm was not excited as to his
condition till very lately, and the end,
though it could not be said to be either
sudden or premature, was yet far unex-
pected. Two of Mr.. De Quincey's daugh-
tiers were with him at the time of bis death.
The Scotchman says that almost till the
very last his perceptions were as vivid, his
interest in knowledge and affairs as keen as
ever ; and while his bodily frame, wasted by
suffering and thought, day by day faded and
shrunk, his mind retained unimpaired it's
characteristic capaciousness, activity, and
acuteness.
Within week or two before his death
he talked readily and witty all that delicacy
of discrimination of which his conversation
partook equally with his writings, of such
matters as occupied public attention; dis
playing so much of elasticity and power that
even those who had the rare privilege of
seeing him in those latter days were startled
and shocked by the seeming suddenness of
his death.
In the celebrated Confessions of an
Opium Eater Mr.. De Quincy treated the
events of his early life in manner which
makes that subject forever his own. His
literary character and career were far less
startling than amusing. He had a most
extensive knowledge of German literature,
which he preceded Carlyle in introducing
to English readers. He has written some
excellent. translations from Jean Paul
Richter and Lessing, which appeared re.
spectivey in the London Magazine and in
Blackwood. A paper on "The Knocking
in Macbeth is greatly admired, as we'll as
a" Lecture on Murder, Considered as one of
the Fine Arts" He wrote many mastery
articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and
papers innumerable in the magazines al
ready mentioned, and in TAFT, in which his
Confessions originally appeared Meta
physical discussion, philosophical criticism,
and biography were the classes of subjects
in which Mr.. De Quincy excelled, and to
which his masculine, clear, and logical style
was eminently adapted.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13

HE WEBSTER STATUE LA WENDELL
PHILLIPs.-Ridicule and sarcasm are some.
times more potent than argument. The
celebrated London Punch, in 1850, put an
end to the abominable funeral extortions,
by showing picture of the hired mourners,
half drunk in a gin-shop, after the interment
of the dead. In the first number of Vanity
Fair, our New York Punch, the absurd
herOizing of Old John Brown, is admirably
hit off by sketch embodying Wendell
Phillips idea of the late Ossawottamie.
Powers bronze statue of Webster, which
stands before the Massachusetts, State
House, is decapitated. The massive head
of the great statesman-in just proportions
with the broad shoulders, whence it has
comedies at the base OF the statue, and in
its proper place is substituted the long
drawn, narrow head of Old John Brown.
Instead of the MS. of the Constitution, or
some eloquent grafton on the Union, in the
right hand, we see revolver while the lett
hand holds bundle of pixies in lieu of the
strong bound tasceS. Beneath is the follow
ing legend =" The Webster statue, after a
design by Mr.. Wendell Phillips" The
appropriateness of that peculiar, small,
narrow caput of John Brown to the broad
shoulders of Webster, is only equalled by
the love to man displayed in the cooked
revolver and the murderous pikes.-N. Y.
Journal of Commerce.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13

the State should ratify their acts of self.
denial by rendering them timely assistance.
The nature Of the country through which
these routes must pass, is another ground
upon which we urge this course. From
Superior to the Red River, great part OF
the route must be over country almost
worthless for agricultural purposes, and
affording but little temptation for the emf
grant to settle upon it. Private enterprise
can only render some assistance IN cutting
a road through the immense pine forests
which constitute the wealth of that country,
and opening q new avenue for our suplus
grain. Without some aid on the part of
the State, it is doubtful whether the country
above Saint Paul will ever have any direct
communication with Superior, and thus for
many years to come, great part Of the
State will be entirely cut off from her near
est and best market.
Northern Minnesota labors under many
disadvantages from which the Southern part
is happily exempt. 1t was settled later and
the Inhabitants have had more severe
struggle for existence. While Southern
Minnesota is in a great measure accessible
by steamboats,, the falls and rapids of the
Mississippi have almost entirely cut them
off from these advantages. 1t has more
waste and uninhabitable land, often large
tracts which offer little inducement to the
settler. 1t is there the immense lumber for
ests of this State are found, whose products
have built our cities and towns and supplied
the country tor hundreds of miles below us,
and yet dependent as we are upon the re-
sources of that country no reciprocal meas
ures have been taken to benef it.
1t lies with this present Legislature, when
this subject comes up before them, to decide
whether Northern Minnesota shall Eave the
legislation which her situation and natural
advantages for commerce entitle her to, and
we hope that in their eagerness for reforms,
they will not overlook these important agri-
cultural and commercial interests of more
than half the State.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13
North. They will no more be hemmed tn

North. They will no more be hemmed tn
by geographical lines, or put into social
straight jackets, or consent to allow their
natural geniality to freeze in their veins at
the dictate of cold party leaders, than the
Mississippi will change its course and refuse
to leave the banks of the free and slave
States at the same time.
How many Southerners would consent to
deprive themselves of the qualification of
leaving their hot and sickly plantations in
the summer to cool themselves in the White
Mountains of New England, in the breezy
valleys of Bedford, or by the magnificent
shores of Cape May or Newport, merely to
please a certain set of political Chauberts,
who because they have accustomed them
selves to eat red hot Goals, think every body
else ready to jump into the fiery crater Of
disunion? How long would an enterpris-
ing Southern merchant agree to keep away
from the cheap markets of Philadelphia,
Boston and New York? What sort of
thing would Southern railroad become
THAT, for instance, like the Baltimore and
Ohio or Philadelphia and Baltfmore) if it
refused to carry only Southern passengers
and Southern products, or accepted north.
ern custom onl y as it was passported and
vised by some provisional secessionist COM
mittee?
Do you think that a beautiful Southern
woman coming to this capital would reject
the addresses of desirable young knight of
the North, Republican thou h he might be?
Or, on the other hand, how long would
handsome fellow like Keitt, Lamar. Garnet,
and Pryor, (supposing them all single pre-
serve statuesque indifference before the
charms of an exquisite Free State woman,
glowing with all the health and sparkling
with all the intellect of her sex Take any
train of cars running from the South to the
North, even in these days, and you will find
Southern merchants and pleasure seekers,
and elegant men and women from the
extreme South, travelling to the regions so
violently denounced by their noisy politi
clans, as coolly as if they were travelling to
their own homes.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13
of the Call for the Repub-
Hcan Presidential Convention.

The call of the Committee for Presi-
Dental Nominating Convention, was adopt
ed after many hours of exciting discussion
and after it passed, there was much trouble
in getting the signatures of all the members
to it. The appointment of delegates was
also warmly discussed, but it was decided
not to alter the present plan, and the Com
mittee then adjourned SINE die. The fol-
lowing is the cali z:
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
A National Republican Convention will
meet at Chicago, on Wednesday, the 18th
day of June next, at twelve O'Clock noon,
for the nomination of candidates to be
supported for President and Vice President
at the next election.
The Republican electors of the several
States, the members of the Peoples party
of Pennsylvania and of the opposition party
of New Jersey, and all Others who are
willing to cooperate with them in support
of the candidates which shall be nominated,
and who are opposed to the policy of the
present administration, to federal corruption
and usurpation, to the extension of slavery
into the territories, to the new and danger
Gus political doctrine that the Constitution
Of its own force carries slavery into all the
territories of the United States, to the
opening of the African slave trade, to any
inequality of rights among citizens and
who are in favor of the immediate admission
of Kansas into the Union, under the Con-
stitution recently adopted by its people, of
restoring the federal administration to
system Of rigid economy and to the princi-
pies OF Washington and Jefferson. of main
tanning inviolate the rights of the States,
and defending the soil of every State and
Territory from lawless invasion, and of pre-
serving the integrity of this Union AID the
supremacy of the Constitution and laws
passed in pursuance thereof against the
conspiracy of the leaders of a sectional
party, to resist the majority principle as es-
tablished in this government even at the
expense of its existence, are invited to send
from each State two delegates from every
Congressional district, and four delegates at
large to the Convention.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
North american speaks thus datteringly of

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American speaks thus flatteringy of
the settlements in the Northwest:
The population along the Red River,
Lake Winnipeg and Saskatchewan number
some thirty thousand, composed of the re-
tired employees of the Hudson Bay Com
pauy and their families. The Selkirk
settlement being the most important, de-
scription will suffice. We have no hesitation
in declaring that no settlement of the same
extent, anywhere west of the Mississippi
River, can boast of so much real wealth,
intelligence, and moral and religious worth.
Numbering among them some of the finest
scholars that Oxford and Cambridge ever
produced, the past and present policy of the
Hudson Bay Company precluded the ap-
pointment of any agents, commissioners or
managers but such as were we'll recommended
by their educational qualification. Thus,
an elevated tone has always characterised
these employees. Not only were they en-.
couraged to 60 to this supposed inhospitable
cline by liberal salaries, but larger bonuses
were freely given to foster honesty and
trustworthiness. This liberal profusion en-
abled them to retire to private life in few
years. Most of them have settled in Selkirk,
where the society is select in the enjoyment
of literally -endowed institutions of educa-
ton, and in the midst of the most fruitful
country on the American continent. This
may appear an extravagant expression, but
the facts will bear me out in using it. The
soil is rich loan, from three to ten feet in
thickness, of fertility unparalleled. Forty
bushels of wheat is an ordinary yield to the
acre, and fifty bushels not uncommon in
rare instances sixty have been produced.
All other cereals equally luxuriant. Grasses
produce well, and any amount of hay can be
secured. The first thing that attracts the
eye of the visitor is the immense herds Of
domestic cattle and horses, running at
pleasure over the broad. extended plains.
The rich, juicy pastures yield fairness that
cannot be rivalled by perseveriDg feeding Of
grain. As you approach the villages on a
Sabbath, the we'll remembered peal of bell
reverberates from the heat church steeple,
and tor once you feel as if you had at last
reached land of Christians and of church
privileges, Selkirk my justly be said to
be a moral basis amid vast desert of
heathenism.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13

AN official census taken in China twice
during the present century, at an interval
of forty years, gives the following results
The first taken in 1872, by order of the
Emperor Kai-King, gave the number of
inhabitants at 360,278,5O7 and the second
in 1852, under the reign and order of the
present Emperor, HEN FUNG, 536, O9O, 300.
If these accounts be correct, and there is
nothing to lead to the superstition that they
are not, the Chinese population has in forty
years increased 176, 620,703.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13
Washington News.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Miramon's formal
protest against McLane's treaty with Juarez
will be presented to Mr.. Cass by Miramap's
representative in this city.
Farther intelligence from Mexico states
that Miramon has projected another move
ment against Vera Cruz.
The treaty will be pressed on the ground
that unless we interfere, England and France
will, to our exclusion.
It is said that the Judgeship of the Court
of Claims, made vacant by the death of
Judge Blackford, will be given to Mr..
Hughes, of Indiana, member of the last
House.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13

A VER1rABLE MERMA1D.-Mr. Francis
Hall, the late Mayor of Elm ira, New York,
now in China, wrote from Hong Kong, on
the goth of September, saying that he had
seen veritable mermaid, and gives the
following description of it:
The mermaid which l saw last week was
brought quite recently from Japan by Mr..
King, of Hong Kong, in whose possession
1 saw it. 1t was in glass case, that ena-
bled me to see it with the greatest clearness
though l could not handle it. This mer.
maid is eighteen or twenty inches long. The
fish part of the body is about the proportion
of trout that would measure that length.
1t has dorsal, lateral, and ventral fin-two
of the latter; and the tail is of size and
shape like any of our common we'll known
fish. Joining to the fish body, little back
of where the gils are usually situated, is the
animal portion of the body, being relatively
one third of the whole length. This animal
third consists of head, in shape, size, for
nation of eyes and nose, numbers, form and
position of the teeth, like monkeys; OF a
long, slender neck; of a chest having ster-
mum and several distinct pairs of ribs. 1t
has long, ape like arms, terminating in five
fingers, of which the middle one is the longest
and largest. On the head and body, above
the fishy portion, are here and there spots
of fur remaining, like the fur of monkey
in length and texture, of brown color.
The scrutiny that can be given, fails to re.
veal and traces of the union of the animal
and 6shy parts.
1t is now on its way to the United States.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13

The coincidence of holding the Demo.
cratic National Convention on the birthdays
of JAMES BUCHANAN and Judge DOUGLAS,
is singularly matched by the fact that the
Republican National Convention is to be
held at the city of Chicago on the 18th
day of June, 1860, the birthday of Lieut..
General WINFIELD SCoTT. On that day
General ScoTr will be seventy -four years
of age.