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Year: 1860

If Kansas is admitted at he approaching
session of Congress, as under the provisions
of the English bill she ought TO behaving
attained more than the ratio of population
required by that celebrated scheme-either
two non-interventon Democrats or two
Republicans will be chosen to the Senate,
which will give "a Senators to the opposi-
ton column


The above is probably correct classif-
cation, except in the case of Mr.. Latham
lie was born and raised in the North
(OhiO), is young, ambitious man, with no
Southern interests whatever. Since his
Stale has gone so decidedly anti-Breckin-
ridge, his interest will lie in the direction
toward Cancellation of the Free States.
Hence We shall be surprised to see him take
any other than course opposedto secession.


But even leaving the classification AS
above, it Kansas can only be brought into
the Union, there will be a tie, and Hanni-
bal Hamlin, the Republican President,
will have the casting cote. So, as between
secession and anti-secession, ahe latter will
have the advantage. We doubt not that an
analysis of the composition Of the House
would also show a majority OF the next
House opposed to secession.


As against secession, President Lincoln will
have, no doubt, House and Senate to sus-
tain him many question that arises in which
the integrity of the Union is involved. So
with the passage Of all reasonable appropria-
ton bills and the confirmation of meritori-
GUS appointments.
Year: 1860

THE Pony AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
NEws.-The st. Louis correspondent of the
Alta, writes as follows under date of October
9th:


1t is expected that to-day the wires, be-
tween this city and Fort Kearney win be all
ready to open communication. Fort Kearney
is $50 miles west of St Louis and about 400
miles west of ST. Joseph. AT the present rate
of travelling the completion of the telegraph
to that point will enable parties in New Y ork
TO overtake the Express at Fort Keorney, As
hours after leaving st. Joseph and 60 hours
after leaving St Louis Telegraphic charges,
however, to Kearney have been fixed so high
as to exclude almost everything but the dry
est pith of the news. The tariff is 81 for the
first ten words and Is cents for each addi-
tional word.


The Pony Express has rendered the tele-
graph to Fort Smith almost entirely useless,
and it is an expense to the company at this
moment of fifty per cent more than its reve
nue.. Tie Kearney line will therefore have
to pay for the Fort Smith Line Unless the
Indians renew the troubles on the route, the
news of the Presidential election will be for
warded to Fort Kearney by telegraph, thence
by Pony Express to Carson Valley, and
thence by telegraph to San Francisco. At
the same time duplicates will be sent to Fort
Smith, and forwarded by the Overland mil
coach. We have, as yet. received no positive
information regarding the Transmission of any
Presidential election news by horse express
on the Buttertield route and if the company
proposes to try it, they are exceedingly mum
on the subject in this city. W. H. Russell,
President of the Pony Express Company,
while in this city, few days ago, assured
your correspondent that he had already
transmitted orders to the Division Superin-
tendents of the line across the continent to
make quicker time than ever before when the
news is received. If necessary, an extra pony
will be started from Fort Kearney the mo-
ment the result is known, and if his antici-
patiors are anything like correct, you will
probably receive the news of the great event
in eight or nine days from the time of the
election, and Mr.. Russell says he has some
riders to travel the dangerous portion of the
road who fear neither man nor devil, and
will ride through all the Indians that can be
scared up.


The Western Union Company has resolved
to build the next section of their line be-
tween Fort Kearney and Julesburgh, on the
South Platte, as quickly as the season will
permit. Orders for poles and contracts for
hauling had already been completed. Tue
distance is two hundred miles, which will
make nine hundred and fifty miles of tele-
graph west of ST. Louis, and leave a small
gap only untitled between San Francisco and
New York.
Year: 1860

The editor of the Albany Flag gets off the
following squib:


Why is the editor of the Louisville Journ-
ais career through life like celebrated tune?
Because it is the Rogue's March


Prentice, who is a dead shot, loaded his
piece, and, taking aim, let the man have it
right in the teeth, after the following manner,
to-wit:


Why will the editor Of the Flag, at the
end of his career through life, be like tune
of Paganini's2 Because he will be executed
on a single string.
Year: 1860

ELECTORAL VOTE IN SUFFER- CouNTY.-As
there has been some dispute about the vote of
Sutter county for Presidential Electors on
the Breckenridge and Democratic ticket, we
give below a statement which we suppose is
correct
Year: 1860

We publish the following list of names
which. the opponents Of Democracy have
assumed at different times since the or.
ganization of parties in our country, par.
allel with and in contrast to the name oil
the one party they have opposed. A
change of name in every instance involv.
ed change of principle. We classify
them under appropriate heads of a
Year: 1860

1t is said, in excuse, that the principles
enunciated by the Supreme Court of the
United States in the case of Dred Scott,
lead to the conclusion that q Territorial
Legislature has no more authority over
the subject of slavery than Congress, and


that Congress, equally with the Territorial
Legislatures, is under obligation to pro-
tect as well the possession as the title of
slave property in the Territories. We
do not now intend 10 debate this assertion,
Year: 1860

QUEBEC, March lot is projected to run a SUBJ
marine cable from some point on the st. Lawrence,
at or below the present terminus of the Montreal
Telegraph Company's line, to point on the La
brador shore of the Straits of Belle Isle.


The channel at the selected place is so narrow
that all vessels passing through the straits ap-
pr oach within halt mile of the mainland.


The extension of the telegraph will reduce COM
six days, the length of the proposed cable is
some five hundred miles, or nearly two full days
steaming distance.


The line is to be completed during the ensuing
summer. The Associated Press of the country will
as usual have reliable arrangements for procuring
the earliest intelligence BY this route.
Year: 1860

WAsHINGToN, March 1.-THE subject of the i'm
parchment of Judge Watrons, of Texas will soon be
again brought before the House Committee on the
Judiciary.


The friends of the admission of Kansas, under
the Wyandotte Constitution, are becoming more
hopeful of the success of the measure before the
expiration of the present session.


The Senate's Committee on the Judiciary have
reported bill for the relief of Messrs. Sweeney,
Rittenhouse, Faut & Co., who claim indemnity in
consequence of an alleged violation of contract by
the Secretary of the Treasury in not adhering to
his proposals for the ten million loan of 1885, The
bill directs the Secretary to refund the per cent.
deposited security by the bidders and refers the
question of consequential damages to the Committee
of Claims for adjustment


The House Committee on the public expenditures
have examined seven witnesses the subject of
the public printing. They will probably end their
investigation this week and make report, show
ing the extraordinary profits and the demoraizing
uses to which a portion of the money has been
applied.


About thirty of the forty more cases affecting
California land claims have been argued before the
Supreme Court during the present term. The de-
csions as to few of them will establish principles
applicable to all


The discussion of the Mexican treaty has been
suspended for nearly two weeks, owing to the time
required by the State Department for transcribing
the additional documents on the subject called for
by the Senate.
Year: 1860

The northern papers have been busily as sailing the inhumanity of the act which e2- fled this unfortunate class from our State.

 We have now tested practically the law which relieved us from their presence, and tho free negroes have tested the life of free dom among the freedom shriekers at the North

 Our experience is of the most agreeable character, and the law has proven itself to be one of the very best on our statute book. Since ArkansaS has been made by that act strictly slave State, since all hope is cut off by statutory enactment of slaves here being liberated by will, or deed, unless the slave is carried beyond our limits in the lifetime of his owner and set free, there has been marked change for the better in the character of the slave population. There is no discontent and no disposition to shirk service due even to indulgent masters. We can safely recommend to our sister States the law as salutary and wise under existing circumstances. The conduct ofth northern abolitionists brought about the ne cessity of this law, forced us in self-defence to pass it, and the results they have forced into voluntary slavery large number of free negroes.

 Several of "the exiles" have returned and selected masters in thls city. Others have returned to other counties to our cer- tain knowledge, and those here report a state of facts which any one could have fore seen.

 All left here with plenty of money. A few months residence reduced them to penu- " and want. They say the abolitionists swindled them out of all their money and geve them in exchange only lip professions, tha; the free negro of the North has poorer fare and harder time than the slave of the South.
Year: 1860

Having been requested to give the basis of voting adopted by the State and Con- gressional Conventions of 1S56-'S, we have examined the proceedings of the conven- tions for that purpose, and find that in the State Convention each county voted the number of members it was entitled to in the legislature.

 In the first Congressional district, each county was entitled to as many votes as it bad members in the lower house of the leg islature-a two-third vote being necessary to nomination.

 In the 2d Congressional district the basis was the entire democratic vote cast at the last preceding congressional election, ma jority of which was necessary to nomina. ton.
Year: 1860

By little trickery and stratagem the disorganizers in Madison county got up kind of meeting and report of it was sent to the old Liner, over which it went into raptures and declared 1t was the people moving, with many other catch greenhorn phrases. Among other things he dwelt with evident delight on the statement that the persons present formed into lines and only twenty-five were counted in the Will son line to upwards of hundred in the Hindman line We have been assured that no such line was formed, the friends of Mir. Wilson refusing to go into such school-bov arrangement The fact is that this thing was an after-p piece, when sensible men, dis gusted with the trickery and brow beating, had left the ground We have been shown a letter from the secretary of the meeting who desires to be set right in the matter and who states how this statement concern ing the lines said to have been formed, came to be reported. The truth is the meeting broke up in disorder without def nite action. Here is MT. Berry's letter, to which we call attention:

 HUNTSVILLE, Feb. IS, 1860.

 Dear Sir: You have no doubt seen the published proceedings of the celebrated mass meeting held here on the 4th inst In order to place myself in the proper posi- tion before the people have this to say in regard to the report of the meeting:

 It is said that the Hindman and Wilson men formed on the public square, and that the chairman appointed Evans and Bate man, delegates to the Dover convention, with instructions to cast the vote of Madi- son county for Hindman for Congress- No such proceedings occurred within my personal knowledge, but the chairman in- formed me that such was the case and in- corporatsd them in the report. l think
Year: 1860

HA11FAx, February 2l.-The steamship wrecked on the lodges off Cape Sable proves to be the Hungarian, of the Liverpool and Portland line A small portion of her hull is visible at low water A telegraphic dispatch from Cape Sable to the agent of the Cunard Steamship Company, says that the steamships lights were seen on Mon day morning at 3 o'clock. At daylight the spars and pipes were seen standing. At ten in the morning she was total wreck. The ship settled fast. A heavy sea is run ming. breaking mast-high over the wreck. Any communication with the steamer IS impossible All on board must have per ished unless the ships boats left her before daylight, which is not considered at all

 robable.
Year: 1860

FAR-FETcHED.-The disorganizers, per diemists and bankites have arrived at the sage conclusion, "that it affords aid to black republicanism to oppose Hindman

 We do not know their method of reason ing or by the use of what system of loglc' they arrive at that conclusion. If 1t IS going to produce war between North and South, or involve the continental powers of the old world, or bring about disagreeable diplomatic relations with the monkey tribes of the South Sea Islands, say so, and we will hold awhile We arc not disposed to pull the prop from under the Universe just
Year: 1860

Fs- The Cincinnati papers say that an anti-savery clergyman of that city actually wrote letter to Gov. Wise, soon afterthe conviction of John Brown, begging the privilege of taking Browns place on the gallows. He set forth that Brown was hero, and his life should be spared for fu- ture brave deeds. If it could be done, he (the minister) was ready to sacrifice, and would gladly die the ignominious death.- The answer of Gov Wise was to the effect that it was out of his power to save the life of John Brown, but if the minister was very anxious to be hanged, and would come to Virginia, the Governor wouicNf to have him accommodated
Year: 1860

gg-The latest number of the Old Line Democrat is filled with peans of praise, sickening laudations, and commentators of Hindman. From where editorial begins to the columns of advertisements, it is the same thing The editor said his was not a Hindman organ, and not to be devoted to one man orship. If his last issue IS not IIindman sheet, we would like, as a matter of curiosity, to see one issue of his paper devoted exclusively to his chief.
Year: 1860

TIE GAME OF BRAG-Every two or four years the opposition play the game of brag. In 1856, Yell was sweeping the State, was hailed by enthusiastic crowds, and making the triumphal march of conquerer. You could not persuade an oppositioner that his majority could possibly be less than 5000. So in former elections. They trod so lightly, rubbed their hands with so much glee and exultation, was so broadly shown that the faint hearted democrats began to believe they might conquer So with the disorganizers of 1S6O They form mutual admiration and encouragement society. They chuckle over every evidence in their favor, and shut their eyes to every mani festation of the real sentiment of the peo- ple They pat each other on the back and are having a jolly good time of it-before the election. The game of brag is an old game. Some new players are at it in our State. Capt. Danloy can teach Mir. Peek, for all the latter thinks he is strong player.

 Mai or Borland spent several days here lately shuf1lng the cards. Perhaps he showed the disorganizers how "to put them up."
Year: 1860

THE BALLooN.-We are requested to say that the balloon will certainly ascend this afternoon, if the weather will permit; if not on the first fair day thereafter. The pro- prietors regret the unavoidable postpone ments heretofore, and are prepared to go up, whenever the weather is anything like anita hln
Year: 1860

There can be no denying the fact that in section,
at least the opponents of the Democratic party
active than its riends-hat they are more thoroughly
organized and that they take active for
the dissemination of their views and the Of their
candidates. Their documents and campaign papers are
scattered broadcast and distributed in every nook and
corner.


We call attention to these facts not for the purpose
of finding fault with the energy displayed by our oppo
but because wish to Democrats to sense Of
their duty-to consciousness of the necessity of cor
responding exerton on their part


We would excite no idle alarms, Deither would we
feed any false hopes. We know precisely what estimate
to place upon the Dragging and jubance of the Oppos
tion organs and speakers That, so far gas but We
must not shut eyes to the fact that party can af
ford to despise the competitor that the ascendancJ
of any party only be retained by that vigilance ef
fort and organization, by which it originally won
Now, IS the Democratic party in this section fully
aroused as vgant and united these circumstance
of the would appear to demand? We hardly think
so.


Let US, then, after our County candidates shall have
been placed in the field, which will be early next week
the Of this town and county earnest


y and thoroughly upon the State issaes now pending
Let the printed document and the spoken word alike
contribute their part to dspel the illusions and reu
the sophstries upon which the advocates of the
hobby rely. With proper exertion glorious triumph
awaits us-without exertion, party, however strong
can be regarded as secure.
Year: 1860

Bag@ We regret to notice the loss by fire which oc-
Cured this week to entepisng cotemporay of the
Newbern Progress, but admire the philosophy with
which be bears his oss and goes to work to repair dam
ages The publication of the Progress was not suspen-
ded for a day.
Year: 1860

One of our master mechanics who was about leaving
home the other day, said to his head apprentice


You must occupy my place while | am gone"
Thank you, SIR" replied the employee, d" but I'd
rather sIeep with the bows"
Year: 1860

Mr.. Brown referred to the perfectly unanswerabe fig
ures and calculations of "a Tax Payer" copied into
yesterdays Journal from the Western Sentinel The
exhibit of facts and figures therein made is awfuy dam
aging to the cause of Mr. Pool and his friends He
then turned to Mr.. POOLS own record to show how be
had STOOD not very much than year ago on this
question.


The discussion was protracted until after eleven
o'clock being conducted with courtesy and good feeling
on both sides MIR. Waddel spoke clearly, distinctly
and ingeniously and Mr. Brown replied to his various
points in which gave satisfaction to his friends
and his party. AS he gained confidence in going along
his manner became animated and impressive.


We presume that both parties satisfied with the
result of the discussion.-Daily Journal 7th inst.
AN ERRoR-Mr. Waddell in the course of his speech
delivered in the Town Hall on Wednesday night made
error, unintentiona of course, in quoting the reso
luton of the Democratic State Convention in oppo-
sition to the so-called ad valorem scheme of the
Opposition. That resolution declares it the
duty of the Legislature so to adjust taxation bear
as equally practacabe the different interests and
classes of property in the different sections Of the State
Mr. Waddel, in referring to this, substituted the
word possible for practicable, an important differ
ence The object of the Democratic resolution is
to equalze tie burdens of taxation and this cannot be
done by any uniform, unbendng Gd vooren and it fur
her wishes this to be done with regard 10 what is prac
what convenient and consistent with the
interests of the State to which due regard should al
ways be had.


THE FOURTH OF JULY-If this day, the anniversary
of our National Independence is to be celebrated here in
any public manner it is proper that attention should
be called to it in tme and there is indeed no time to be
lost.


The question is-sha there shall there not be any
public celebration in this town the Fourth day of
July 1860?
Year: 1860

To the Editor Of the Utica Daily Observer


Although have at all times objected to the of my
name in connection with the nominations be by the
National Democratic Convention you have repeat
edy in the of the past year. with my approval
radicted in your journal the that willing 70
take place upon the National ticket find that am still
spoken of by the Press and individuals for the Office of Pres
ldent and Vice President While gratifed the ex
p1essions confidence regard whcn receive from the
State and from other sections of country due
to myself and others to state publicly that do not wish
gates from this Congressional district withdraw my
IN case 1t presented to the Convention which will
Baltimore the 18th inst.


In common with the Of the Democratic party, look
forward With confident hope the results of tn Conven
ton feel assured that any fit and patriotic shall
be presented with uDanmy, certain triumph awaits
The coming contest involves the highest interests of
people and the stability Of institutions and wish be
LETT free to do battle against the spirit of meddlng fanat
csm which has been hurtfu the honor of country
and so baneful in its effects upon public morality.


(Signed) HORATIO SEYMOUR.
Year: 1860


J. S. BLACK, recalled


By Mr.. WNsLOw-


Q-You have been furnished with copy of Mr.. David
Webster testimony?


Ayes, sir.


[Mr Websters testimony also read to the witness
Q-l will thank you to state to the committee if you please
all you recollect of that matter.


AThe printing of the post office blanks was brought to
my attention after came into Office part the
patronage of the Government that might be bestowed
other patronage bestowed. There were several do
not know how many-appcants for it and among others
Mr. ForneynOt then the proprietor of any newspaper
also applicant But he intended the time think
to establish press. Mr. Forneys friends and he himself
urged his claims very strongly do not know whether or
not he wrote spoke to the President Postmaster Gen
era the subject but he did write speak me very
Often He enlisted my efforts and those of Mr. Cobb very
earnestly in his favor Mr. Baker also exerted himself.
He had other friends who urgent about it Mr. Web
ster was one of them. But think that it upon Mr.
Cobb, and myself, that his chief reliance seemed to be
placed a9d we literally did best the
of his application.


during the summer Mr.. Forney often spoke mpatiently
and bitterly about the delay MIR. Forneys appeals to me
get this printing for him coupled with Strong
tons that ne was then true to the President that he had
always been true to him. and he asseverated strongly that
he meant to be true in the future.
The President did not reply to Mr.. CObbs solicitations