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Year: 1860

ca The troubles at Occaquan, Virginia,
happily terminated without bloodshed. The
result can in no wise injure the Republican
party. tits but another of the many instances
of pro. slavery intolerance, and will only 60 to
aid in recruiting the great Republican army
which will take possession of the Capital on
the 4th of March next. The failure of the
authorities of Virginia to protect the town
from attack, after the promise Of Gov. Letcher
to do so, will indicate how petty mobocracy
has taken possession Of the ancient common
wealth.
Year: 1860

GRAND WIDE AWAKE CONVENTION. - The
Wide Awake Clubs OF Rock Island and DAY.


export are making arrangements for Con.
vention of the different Wide Awake Compa.


MES in the Northwest on Rock Island. to


take place at some time not yet fixed upon.
The idea is good one.
Year: 1860

WR. B. Rhett, in speech at Breckin.
ridge ratification meeting in Charleston, South
Carolina, on the 9th inst, INDUCED in the
following characteristic remarks with regard
to the Republican candidates for President
and Vice President:


eff the Black Republicans succeed in elect
ing Lincoln and Hamlin, who openly advocate
that slavery be abolished throughout the
whole world, then we have to look to ourselves.
Hamlin is what we call mulatto. He has
black blood in him, and let me tell you 1t is
his nomination that has remarkable pecu.
liarity. The Northern people take that man
in consequence of that popularity. I see it
stated in the papers that he is mulatto.
can only say that some state it as q reason
why that man is taken up is in consequence
of the spite and malignity manifested toward
him. But they design to place over the South
a man who has negro blood in his veins.
They put renegade Southerher on one side
for President Qor Lincoln is native Ken
tuckian), and they put up man of colored
blood on the other side Of the ticket, for the
Vice President of the United States"
Year: 1860

In another column we publish communi


cation from one Of the most prominent and


best informed Bell and Everett men in GU,


State. His opinions merit attention as those


of . gentleman who has been led, like others


of his class, from their peculiar situation, to


study more carefully, perhaps, than usually,


the present aspect of the political world.


The Bell and Everett men are the Fra


Mercedes of politics. Their present position


is like that of the high-born, high-bred free


hooters Of Italy in the Middle Ages, who,


with boot in stirrup and sword in hand, stood
casting hawk's.eye glances from their rocky
castles on the contending parties, and, when
these had become exhausted, rushed in and
Joined the fray on the side that paid the
biggest price. Power and Plumber was their
watchword. Such is the position of the
leaders of the Bell and Everett party in New
York, New Jersey and Georgia. In Georgia
with Douglas, in New Jersey with Breckin-
ridge, and in New York with both of them,
they have united to beat Lincoln, with this
previso: that, if their electoral uotes cannot
elect Bell, and can elect Douglas or Breckin-
ridge, tAey shaH BE- cast for tho one or tho other
Of those gentleman, according as they haue
made their 4" FUSION" In speaking thus, we
mean to be understood as referring to the
leaders of that party, who have been the
prominent agents in making the recent
''fusions" in the East. The rank and file of
that party in this State and in the North, and
many of their leaders and able men, are, we
believe, honest and sincere in their political
action, and we accord this merit to Phoenix.
The chief use of Phoenixs article, in our
estimation, will be to shew how weak face
the strongest showing of one of their best
informed and ablest men can put on the action
and the prospects of the Bell and Everett
party, at the present time. ...


We have one word with Phoenix as to
illusions" He thinks that they are all right.
1t may be so for his party; but to an ordinary
party, that has any settled principles, a
fusion which should pledge it, in certain
to vote directly for party
Year: 1860

Strange as it may appear. the city has no ae-
commodations at her Poor-H for invalid
paupers. There are now in the city Jail two
or three invallds who ought TO be- sent to n
hospital, but the unfinished condition Of tho
new Poor-House prevents their reception
Such cases ought to be turned over to the
Medical lnftrmary, to be treated at the public
expense.
Year: 1860

U. S. Cirsuh Conrt.-In consequence of the
absence of material evidence, the cases against
the crew of the slave ship" Storm Kingn will
not be tried until some day in January next,
to be hereafter agreed upon by the counsel for
the defence and the District Attorney. The
calling of the civil docket will be commenced
TODAY
Year: 1860

The New York Evening Post has broken
ground on the Presidential question, with so
much sound sense. good discretion, and wise
judgment that we copy the concluding part
of its remarks with much satisfaction. After
discussing the ends and aims of the Repub
lican party.it proceeds to say that it sought
to select its Presidential candidate from among
its own men, and not 20 outside of It's own
ranks under any consideration whatever. If
those opponents of the Administration who
have no stable organization of their own are
IN earnest in what they profess, they will
have no difficulty in voting for such men as
we can present. But if they insist npon our
taking their men as the sole condition Of their
votes, it will show that they are not sincere
in their cooperation, but in fact had rather
see the Democratic party succeed than allow
a truly Republican Administration. To Sc
lect our candidates from among those who
labored so earnestly to defeat US in 1856,
would be degrading as well as suicidal. If
we are willing to have man who stands up
on the same ground with Fillmore. how can
we Justify ourselves for not having voted for
Fillmore the last time? But, indeed, if we
are willing TO take such man now, we had
best, by all means take Fillmore himself,
with his prestige of experience and statesman
like knowledge and habits


But no real Republican is willing to take
the back track now, when the tide of public
feeling against the Slave Power is so much
higher than it ever was before. If the outsiders
will vote with US for our men, give them all
due credit and let them have for their reward
the blessings Of a renovated Government and
a country rescued from dishOnor IF they
will not do this, they might better defeat us
in the election than destroy US after 1t, which
they would be sure to do if we give the power
into the hands Of their men,


"With such men as Seward and Chase,
Banks and Lincoln, and Others in plenty, let
us have two Republicans, representative men,
to vote for. Let US have candidates, first of
all, who will unite and consolidate our own
ranks, and prepare US for further service.
Better come out Of the campaign as we did
last time united and consolidated, and full of
confidence and resolution, though defeated,
than to win a nominal victory, which shall
leave the power in the hands of those who
have no sympathy with us, and ourselves dis
heartened and demOralised -
Year: 1860

New Nork, February 81, 1860.


Saturday mig ght was the fourth concert
night for the Philharmonic Society Of Brooklyn .,
and very good concert it was. The feature Of
the evening was Beethoven's beautiful Seventh
Symphony, by many considered the best of all. I
cannot attespt an essay on it, and should not add
much to your stock Of musical knowledge If
were to you can find out all about it much more
agreeably and fully elsewhere. Some parts Of it
did not particularly please me, but the rest was
sufficiently sweet to more than make up. What a
wonder it is that the deaf old man could write
such music picking it out of his broken stringed
piano. like-there is nothing ike it-pearIs out of
oyster pits perhaps hardly, for the pearls must
have many rub and polish and a rim of chased
gold, before Beauty can wear them.


The vocal music Of the evening was by Madame
Gazzaniga and Mr.. Cooke The concert room is
hardly the place to show Gazzaniga to advan-
tage,-she needs the whirl and excitement of the
stage to bring out her powers. Yet comparative
ly tame and spiritess as must be the rendering Of
an aria, with folded hands beside a piano, she
showed several times what she could do let out
little of the fire that slum5ers behind her eager
eyes and sharply cut face.


Last night " Lucia di Lammermoor" was given
at the Academy of Music, and seldom is it better
rendered either. I do'nOt think any one have
heard, excelIsd a little Patti" as Legion delights
to call her, as Lucia. Many consider the opera
as the height of absurdity. Who sings himself
to death not even the swans, nowadays. But
90 you to see it, and unless you settle firmly back
with the fixed resolve to see nothing but absurdi-
ty in tiff you will give yourself up to the
magic of sweet sounds and impassiOned gestures, a
fitness in such expression of thought and feeling
will show itself to Ou,-the rsfueto will no lon
ger be ai absrdun. How eagerly all eyes fol-
lowed PATHS motions last night how still the
house was, at times


Must there always be copper under the gold
the little body was paintsd-uot that know any
thing about such matters, certainly not, but-yes,
it was punt A lady remarked, 90 Patti
must have bought her new brush, and rhits-
tOash brush at that. We expect they will paint,
but why need they do it so horribly " Why, in
deed.


Another ocean steamer has gone down You
VIII have learned by telegraph before this of the
probable loss of the Hungarian, of Cape Sable. 1t
is considered certain this evening that all on board
have perished This is the fourteenth steamer that
has been lost sincethe commencement of steam nav
cation on the Atlantic, and the second that this
same company have lost The steamer Indian,
which was wrecked last year, you remember, be-
longed to this line. will write you again when
more particulars in.
Year: 1860

4 The Tribune knows perfectly that the support
rendered by journals which look one way, while
they really rowing another, is often more val
liable and efficient than that of out-and-out advo-
cates-N. Y. Times.


just what an influential Democrat of this
State said to us few months ago about the
help his party was getting from the ~ Y.
Times. "We rely upon the Times, said he,
to - help us elect Douglas-and all the more
efficiently, because it does not come out for
him in plain terms. Every now and then
you see something in it which gives a favora-
bic look to Douglas position. The paper
goes into a great many hands that would not
take it or regard it if it were to avow itself
a Douglas paper. But coming to them as an
Independent paper, and thus looked upon as
a friend rather than an enemy. it gradually
draws their minds over towards Douglas,
without their being aware of it. In time we
feel sure it will come out openly for him, and
of course it will carry great many Of that
sort of readers with it,
Year: 1860

PERILoUs ADVENTURE. correspondent OF
the Vermont Chronicle gives an account OF
the ascent of party of four couples OF ladies
and gentlemen to the top of Mount Mansfield,
on Thursday the 9th inst.-the day preceding
the Friday on which occurred the great gale
which was so severely felt throughout New
England as follows


"Four courageous couples of ladies and gentle
men passed the night of the 9th inst, at the Sum
nit House on Mount Mansfield. The enterprise
was exceedingly hazardous The snow for
the last mile and half of the ascent is from six
to eight feet deep. But road has been kept open
by the workmen who engaged in hauling up
lumber for the addition that is to be erected to the
Summit House next season. And as the 9th inst
was quito warm, no apprehensions of suffering were
entertained by the party. They were able to get
House, which is half mile nearer than a carriage
has ever been before. They kept themselves COM
Portable enough during the night, but as the
weather had changed to bitter GOODNESS, and the
wind had drifted the snow into the path their
descent the following morning was attended with
much suffering. 1t is believed that had not three
or four of the inhabitants at the foot Of the
tain gone up to meet them liz the morning, some
or all of the party would have perished. The gen.
temen had become quite exhausted in their efforts
to beat road for the horses, and two or three of
the ladies had nearly given up in despair, when
friendly assistance came to their relief The party
arrived at Stowe village six miles from the foot Of
the mountain, about noon, of the 10th, greatly
fatigued. but otherwise uninjured by the exploit
excepting that they had few frozen ears, fingers
and toes" -aQr+i. ~
Year: 1860

WHAT DIVERS MEET WITH UNDER WATER
When the vessel had settled down in a sandy
bottom, il is preserved many months from
breaking up; and its position may be much
the same as it would be when floating in
calm water, if it be not tilted over by any
under current drifts. The light, of course,
depends good deal upon the depth, and
upon the nature Of the bottom hut whore
there is no chalk to give a milky thickness
10 the water, the diver rursues his work in a
kind of gloomy twilight. By the aid Of this
he can see and feel his way round the ship,
but when he ascends to the deck and winds
down into the principal cabins he finds every
thing pitch dark, and has nothing to guide
him but his hands This is the most diff
cult, and yet the most frequent, labo her
he has to encounter; the danger being that
in a large vessel where the cabin stairs are
deep, and the cabins are long and broad, he
NAV get hi air tube twisted around some un-
familiar projections, and so squeeze off his
supply of life from above In positions such
as this he requires all his nerve and self-pos-
session, all his power of feeling his way back
in the exact road that he came. He may
have got the precious casket to which he has
been directed in his arms but what of that
if he die before he can reach the stairs? The
cold, bel pless masses that bump against his
helmet, as they float along the low roof over
bis head, are the decomposed corpses of those
who were huddled together in the cabin
when the ship went down. few of these
may be on the floor under his feet, but only
when pinned down by an overturned table or
fallen chest. Their tendency is ever up
ward, and the remorseless sea washes the
dead infant from its dead mother arms, the
dead wife from her dear husbands embrace.
II the wreck be in the channel, the small
crabs are already beginning to fatten on their
prey. The diver disentangles himself from
this silent crowd, and ascends the welcome
stairs to the deck The treasure he has res
cued is hauled up into the attendant diving
boat, and he returns again to renew his work.
he seldom meets with an accident under wa
ter never, perhaps, with death, and the
chief risk he runs is from getting some heavy
piece of ship lumber overturned on his long
train of air pipe, Even in this case he teel'
the sudden check and the want of air, grope
his way back to the obstruction, removes it
signals TO his companions to be raised, anC
reaches the boat exhausted and alarmed, bu
not so much so as to give up his place IN tn
trade.-AH the Year Round.
Year: 1860

Some thirty years since company In
Montpelier, Vt, undertook the experiment of
boring for saline water in that locality, com
mencing on surface rock few yards from
the shore of Winooski river. The drilling
process was carried on by machinery, pro-
PEELED by water power, and the depth reached
was something over nine hundred feet, we
believe, nearly or quite the whole distance
being lime rock. The only fact OF interest
developed was variance of temperature to
the extent of several degrees between the
surface and the bottom of the well, the bot
tom being warmer than the top. No saline
property was found in the water, which was
too abundant, at times, for the convenience
of the operators. At length the drill broke
off far down in the well, the enterprise was
voted a bore, and indefinitely postponed
Il o,CeH Citizen.
Year: 1860

SINGULAR CASE OF SoNNAMBULIsM The
Manchester Mirror says that last Thursday
night, during the violent snow storm which
was raging at that time, Mrs. Helper, wife of
George Helper of Fisherville, arose in her
sleep without awakening her nurse, who was
sleeping with her ,and passed out at the back
door, and jumped or fell into a well, 40 feet
deep, containing about two feet of water.
The nurse subsequently awaking missed her,
when search was made and she was at length
found in that precarious condition and extri-
Gated She rad long been fearful that some
of her children would fall into the well, and
had frequently dreamed about it, and had
probably been dreaming on this night of such
an accident and went to the supposed rescue.
She escaped with few slight bruises.
Year: 1860

d" 1t is very lamentable that our friends of the
Free Press should applaud and emulate its fatal
example,


The Times distorts what the New York
Courier and Enquirer says, charges it with
" an utter and shameless abnegation of prin-
ciple" and then laments that the "Free Press
should applaud and emulate its fatal exam
pie" In respect either to what the New
York Courier and Enquirer actually said, or
to what the Times represents it to have said,
not word has appeared in the Free Press to
Justify the remark of the Times "It is very
lamentable that " the Times cannot break it.
self of its reckless or unscrupulous way of
making accusations
Year: 1860

Who will be the candidate of the Repub-
lican party in the approaching campaign is
a matter of extreme doubt. This results
from no want of interest in the nomination,
but from general willingness to subordinate
all personal feelings and local pride to the
general good of the party The Republicans
of Vermont, according to our best judgment
and belief. would prefer the election of VIZ.
H. SEWARD to that of any other man. They
believe him to be not only the foremost man
in his party, but the ablest and most far
seeing statesman now living of whom our
country can boast. He is emphatically a
representative of the party in all those dis
tinctive attributes which define Re-


publicanlsm as distinguished from de-
mocracy. He is one of the earliest exponents
of the anti-slavery extension sentiment of the
country, as he Is its ablest advocate on the
floor of Congress. But the Republicans of
Vermont will cheerfully support any man
whom in its wisdom and Judgment, the Chi
cago Convention may nominate, provided he
is man whose Republicanism can be safely
relied on.-PhenI1.
Year: 1860

A FLASH IN THE PAN The committee of the
Virginia legislature appointed to investigate the
Brown invasion, and to report upon it, has come
to precisely the result that might have been e1pec-
ted. They say there is much evidence g to show
the existence in number of northern states OF
widespread conspiracy not merely against Flrc
ginia, but against the peace and security OF
all the southern states. But the careful era
sure of names and dates from the papers
found in Browns posses on, renders it diti


cult to procure legal evidence of the guilt Of the
parties implicated" No doubt of it; there Is
great deal of evidence in the brains of the Viz
ginians, but none to be got at elsewhere: What
has become of the bushel ofletters which Governer
Wise is said to have taken from Browns carpet bag
Year: 1860

A Paris letter thus describes Louis NapO-
poleon, on one Of the spacious avenues of
that imperial city


Driving pair Of splendid bays attached to
box wagon, with the reins in his own hands, and
handling them as though he were accustomed to it,
without any outriders, equerries guards, the
Emperor Napoleon came along the avenue. He
was dressed in black overcoat and a hat which
was of fashion of its own. The points Of his
moustache looked particularly sharp, and his i'm
perial' though it had just come from the bar
bers 1t required a steady hand and quick eye
to guide these dashing horses through the immense
throng of vehicles of every description which filled
the avenue, particularly the driver while keep
ing eye upon their steeds, was obliged with
the other to acknowledge the salutations which he
received on every side, and he kept up contin-
ual bowling. I consider myself a tolerably good
democrat, but 1 took my hat entirely from my
head he passed. A great man is he-he has
been successful. and cant pseudo philosophers
may about it, is the true measure of great
men, after all. The Emperor gives as yet no
signs of age, Che will be fifty two on the 2Oth of
April next) but looks as fresh and young, I
think, as when saw him FIVE years ago, before
he had the whole weight of Europe his shoul-
ders, and the Pope down on him."
Year: 1860

A MELANCHOLY FATE.-SOme three years
ago, typographical engineer in the Russian
service, but Prussian by birth. becoming
involved in some difficulty with the Govern
ment, fed to New York with his wife and
one child, saving also $4,000 of his fortune.
His name was Schultz-C. P, if our infor-
msnt recollects correctly. lie has spent the
intervening time and his entire property in
perfecting an improvement upon the steam
engine, and securing an American and an
English patent for 1t. 1t was at last COM
pleted, and about fortnight ago the first
machine was put up at the paper mill in
West CummIngton, in Hampshire county.
II worked like charm, and, last Friday
the happy inventor wrote to his wife, exult-
ing in his prospect of speedy and abundant
reward for his long labors and promising to
return TO her on Monday On Saturday
evening he went to the mill to observe the
working of the machinery, and while sug-
gesting some slight change, he stepped upon
q belt, was at once drawn under large CYL
inder and instantly crushed to, death The
body was recovered as soon as possible and
on Monday-placed in a plain coffin and ac
companied by a single machInist, who had
learned to be his friend while assisting him
IN putting up his engine-all that remained
Of him who expected to return in the
triumph of successful genius to his family
Was on Its way to New York.-Pittsfeld Ed-
gle
Year: 1860

We cannot, of course, expect the Sent'ne
to swallow itself entire, by taking back all
its mis-statements but here is fresh piece
of its own coinage fairly nailed to the counter.
Will it take it back, or let it pass The
Sentinel has done the decent thing, for once,
in its way, by Mrs Child ; will it do as much
for the memory of Old Brown?
Year: 1860

OFFICIAL CosTUME.-The Japanese seldom wear
anything on their heads except when riding
The head is shaved on the crown, and the side
and back hair brought forward in roll about
the thickness of small sausage to the top of
the torhead; here it is firmly gummed down
with species of bsndoline, in the manufacture
OF which the Japanese are very proficient. Wigs
are common in the shops, but are only worn as
a part OF a masquerade dress. Not particle of
hair is ever allowed to be worn on their faces.
The Winter costume consists in robes cut like
dressing-gowns, padded throughout with silk
wedding. These unwieldy articles of attire are
also used upon State occasions and are a stand
ing item in the list of imperial presents to a for
eign mission.


But the most singular portion of their apparel
are the trousers which they wear at their audi
ences with the Tycoon; they seem to be cut
upon principle precisely the opposite to that
which regulates our cOurt-dress We consider
that when We have brought our neither garments
down to the knee, we have not only satisfied de.
cency, but reached the highest pitch of refine
ment and elegance. The great object of the
Japanese is to create an entire misconception in
the mind of the spectator as to the situation of
that importantjoint; he wishes it to be supposed
that he shufies into the royal presence on his
knees; but finding that process attended with
much practical Inconvenience, he compromises
the matter by having his trousers made about
eighteen inches longer than his legs; by these
means his feet are made to represent his knees,
and he is enabled to walk upon them comforta-
bly, with his sham legs dragging after him.-OZ-
iphant's Narratioe ~ af