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Year: 1860

chance, ever get there as one oS the three
highest candidates.


From this day forward we expect to see
the contest gradually narrow down. more
aud more closely. to Lincoln and Lane or
Breckinridge. We are not unwilling to
| meet this issue. 1t will give us IN open.
direct, manly battle. The people will ere
long begin to see that they must range
themselves on Que side or the other, and
leave the weak and trading factions to go
their own way to diSgraceful defeat
What the Democratic party of the future
Is TO be, if revival ever takes place. is
not now doubtful. Shrewd and cautions
Democrats have understood this from the
beginning, and all men are now getting to
see 1t clearly. With the Breckinridge
ticket will hereafter be found Democratic
orthodoxy, and all the rewards sought bv
the faithful" y


We caution our Opposition neighbo.s
across the river not to be too sanguine Of
success in August. In less than two
weeks they may find that their flattering
chances have been bartered away, and
awake too late to the fact that Squattcr
Sovereignty alliance in the South, and the
tre"chery of fellow partisans in the North,
have secured every Southern electoral vote
to Breckenridge.
Year: 1860

of Republicans.


From the Cincinnati Gazette.


In Georgia, as in New York, the Bell
Everett leaders are bent upon political
suicide. In both States, they have formed
an alliance with the Douglas Democracy,
which will not only be fatal to them in
those particular localities, but which in-
wolves the ruin of their party everywhere.
We are we'll aware, indeed, that the Bell
Everett ticket never stood the slightest
chance of full success before the people,
and but little in Congress; yet it had ut
one time, tlattcring prospect in regard to
the local elections in several of the South
ern States. We freely confess that we
have had degree Of sympathy with that
party, in its proper sphere of usefuluess.-
AS a party in opposition to the Democracy,
it had many aims in common with our
own as Republicans. We were quite
willing to see its adherents revolutionize
the half dozen States in which they had n
fair prospect, and as many more as posi-
BILE, We do not now know how far the
party i'll general is responsible for these
latter suicidal movements which we have
Indicated. Yet the effect, we repeat, cam
not but be universal, to greater or less
degree, and disastrous upon the fortunes
Of the party.


In New lork, by q species OF corruption
scarcely parullcled, some of the American
leaders have contracted a bargain with the
Douglasites, by which their ticket is to
receive the full benefit of the American
vote, so far as controllable, and by which
Bell and Everett are totally betrayed and
sacrificed. This combination with the
very men whom that party was formed to
combat, this Brooks-Hughes compact of
iniQuity, will of course send n much larger
proportion of the houcst American vote
directly to Lincoln than it can command
for Douglas. Its reacting effect, mean
while, upon the Bell-Evcrett party, will
be fatally injurious in all quarters. 1t
needed only the new combination in Geor-
gin, reported yesterday by telegraph to
complete the suicidal work begun in New
York.


AS Republicans, we could desire moth
ing better than this arrangement. 1t is q
! confession of weakness in the South, by
the Douglas men, and an abandonment of
their regular" claims, that places them
virtually out of the ring, North as we'll as
South


Another result, almost inevitable, is a
large detection from the Southern Opposi-
tion, in favor of Breckinridge, under such
leaders as Humphrey Marshall, Meredith
P. Gentry, and Charles Ready 1t forever
settes, too, the question of any possible
combination in the House by which Bell
should be elected, were his name, by any
Year: 1860

From the Frankfort Ycomanthe organ the sBreck-


inrIige Clique, at the Capital of Kentucky.


We have heretofore said that the election Of
lincoln to the Presidency would not, of itself
be cause for secession or a dissolution of the
Union, and our opinion remains unchaLgcd-
We think the South should giUe Lincoln S ad-
ministrdtion a .fttir trial, at the ssffte time
holding it to rigid accountability for its acts,
aud holding itself ready to resist any Hncon-
stitutional aggression upon Southern fights.
Kentucky has, perhaps, suffered more from
Northern fhnaticism than any or all of the
other States combined. Her, losses of slave
property have been heavy, and some of the
Northern States have nullified the fugitive
slave law, and at least one of them refused to
surrender a fugitive from Justice upoD the de
mand Of our Executive charged with the crime
OF entcing slave to escape from its owner


We are entitled to the protection and en-
forcer1eft Of our constitutional rights within
the Union. We abate not jot or title of
our claim to the recognition and enforcement
of our just rights and onr equality as State
of the Union, as embodied in the pla forn of
our party, and we believe that the line of pol
icy advocated by the Democratic party is the





Union-bot IRE can sec reason for changing
our opinion Hat The election Of Lincoln under
the forms Of the Constitution, g6onls Of as:y
no capsc for d,memJermc,a Of the con.fe lerq-
cy. Both branches of the ne&t Congress will
be opposed TO his adminisi ration. We have
the SupreWe Court and its decision in our ia
vor. These will hold Mr. Lincoln in check,
until we can make another appeal to the sense
of Justice of the North to guaranty our con-
stitutional rights,


If Mr.. Lincoln is irrbued in any degree with
a spirit of conservatism, he will doubtless
manifest it, if lie desires to preserve the har-
mony Of the country. II he is radical, the
element of the nation can doubt
less be rallied aud united in opposition to his
In any event it is more than
probable, that upon the distribution Of the
offices, his party will fall to pieces and be
driven from power May we not, then, hope
that we shall at last secure our constitutional
rights at the hands of the people and is it not
the part of patriotism TO at least give even the
of Lincoln-much as we may
deplore his success, and fearful as we may be
of the result-a fair and impartial triSl? H'


The election Of Lincoln, altheogh not sui,
ficient cause for revolution, is nevertheless
wrong both in spirit and principle The sec
tona vote by which he was chosen and the
principles upon which he WAS elected are
wrong and aggressive upon the South, and in
to his assuming the regns Of gov
crnment we give allegiance, not to him nor to
his principles which we shall continue to op-
pose but to tbe Constitution.
Year: 1860

tire. We have a chronic, invncible disbelief
IN Disunion AS remedy for either Northern
or Southern grievances we cannot perceive
any necessary relation between the alleged dis


ease and this ultra-heroic remedy: still, VIZ
say, if anybody secs ct to mediate Dis1ifrion
let them do so uDmolestcd. That was a base


and hyprocritic row that the House once raised.
at Southern dietstiony about Che ears of John


Quincy Adams, because he presented d 'petfG
ton for the dissolution Of the Union. The
I petitioner had a right to make the request; it
was the Members duty to present it. And
now, if the Cotton States consider the value of


the MON debatable, we maintain their per-
4 feet right to discuss it. May we hold with


Jefferson to the inaienablel right of coinnii..i-


ties to alter abolish forms of Government


that have become oppressive or injurious !; and
If the Cotton States shall bt come satisfied that


they can do better out Of the 3 Ion THAN II, Il.


we insist OF letting them GO iii peace Jhe
right to secede may be "a revolutionary one


but IT exists nevertheless and we do not see
how one party can have u right to do what
| another party has right to prevent We


must ever resist the asserted right of any State


to remain in the 7Gnion and nullify or defy the
laws thereof; to withdraw from the Union is
quite another matter. And wlfeffeVer u corr
siderable section Of our Union shall deliberately
resolve to go oat, we shall resist all coerciye
measures designed to keep it in. We hope
never to live in q republic whereof one section
is pinned to to tine residue by bayonets. 5si I


But while We thus uphold the practical lib |
erty if not the abstract fight of seceession; we


must Insist that the step be taken if it, ever


choU ha rxrifI, l,a
fitting so momeutous all ISSUE Let ample +
time be given for reflection let the subject |
be fully canvassed before the people ane let
a popular vote be taken in every case before
secession is decreed. Let the people be told
just why they. are urged 10 break up the con-
federation; let them have both sides of the
question fully presented let theff reflect, de-
lfberate. then vote; and let the act of seces-
sion be the echo of an unmistakable popular
fiat. A judgment thus rendered. demand
for separation so backed. would either be nc
quiesced in without the effusion of blood, or
those who rushed upon carnage to defy and de
feat it would place themselves clearly in the
wrong T.


The Hieasures now being inaugurated In /.
the Cotton States With view, (apparently)
to secession, seem 10 US destitute of gravity
and legitimate force: They bear the unmis-
taxable impress of haste-of passon--of dis
trust of popular Judgment. They seem clear
y determined to precipitate the S ,uth into re-
beilioff before the baselessness of the clamors r
which have misled and excited her can lie as
certained by the great body of her eopie.-
We trust that they viii be confronted with
caimness. with dignity, and with unwavering !,
trust in the interaht strength of the Union ,
and The loyalty Of fhc American People.
Year: 1860

While some of the civilized nations
of our globe have prided themselves
upon the attention they haye given to
the public education, they have only
followed the example of the Japanese.
This singular people have most deci-
ded literary taste, and they believe in
educating the masses. % The child
rem are almost invariably sent to
schools in which they learn reading
and writing, and are taught the histo-
ry of their country. Books are con-
stantly printed, and are said to meet
with large circulation, and it would
seem that the Japanese are really as
much a reading people as some who
are deemed more civilized than they.
With them education seems to have
produced marked results. Drunken
ness and vice are rare, and beggars are
seldom met with. Theft seems crime
of which they are ignorant, since locks
and keys are but little used. Then, too,
though it is hard to believe ii, lawyers
are class of men unknown Id Japan,
and perhaps this is one cause of peace
and good will which seems to exist
among the people. There every man
is his own lawyer. The injured party
states his case to the magistrate and
the accused is heard in reply. The
magistrate examines the witnesses, and
passes sentence, switch, says Commo-
dore Perry, is carried into effect IN
stanter. " There, there are no motions
for arrest of fjudgment-no motions for
new trials, no appeals of any kind !; and
yet justice is generally obtained-quite
oftener perhaps than it Is here, and
that too at less expense, and more ex-
peditiously. Sometimes parties are or
dered to settle their difficulties with the
aid of their friends. Then when per-
sons are put in prison, there is no dis
tinction made between the rich and the
poor, both fare alike. The rich man
can have good food if he wants it, but
only on one condition, that he shares
it with all his fellow prisoners. There
is another point in regard to which the
Japanese are in advance of some other
nations, and this is point which we
of this city at least can appreciate
there is little or no taxation. The rev.
enues are derived from rents of land
owned by the crown. Really it wo'd
seem, from what we have thus learned
of Japan, that it approaches nearer the
Arcadia of Sir Phillip Sidney than any
portion ofthe civilized world A place
in which there are no lawyers, in which
there is no taxation, in which murder,
robbery, theft, and begging are almost
unknown, and where the people are
educated, and refined and elegant in
their tastes, must be q desirable spot
to reside in. ~ i,s,s ~
Year: 1860

az A lady in Holmes county,
Mississippi, hung herself short time
since from modification on account of
her husbands having been caught
playing cards with negro. There
appears to have been sensibility enough
for two in that family, but unfortunate
ly it was all concentrated in one.
Year: 1860

Senator Heaton, in a chaste, able
and argumentativc speech delivered in
the Senate, last Thursday on the Three
Years Redemption Bill, used the follow
ing truthful language =


Even with these men, it is not propos-
ed to inYalldate or disturb contracts.
1t is meant merely, to say to them, that


more time must ba given the debtor, to
redeem his porperty, and to save a
home for his family. This is all.


Let any reasonable man look at the
position in which the laws, at present
place the creditor and the debtor, and
then say if he can, that no relief what
ever, should be given. The law, as it
now exists enables the creditor, in a
vast number of cases, 10 fr his o,rn ral-
ne upon the property mortgaged to be-
come the appraiser himself. When
the day of sale comes, he or his attorney
may attend, and notwithstanding the
property may be well worth $4,000, and
the claim but $500 yet if no one is
present TO make counter bid and pay
the money, he may bid it off at his own
price-perhaps for $1,000 In conse-
quence of the impossibility of raising the
money in gear the creditor gets his
deed and the debtor is turned out to buff
let with the storms Of adversely


In addition to this, the creditor is en-
abed to harrass and discourage the
debtor oryears, and perhaps for life, by
fastening judgment on his back for
the balance claimed to be due. In the
course of three or four years a change
of times will doubtless take place, when
the property will bring its full value in
in cash-fve thousands dollars. This
would be as good as five per cent a
month The judgment still remains and
can be collected as soon as the debtor
may be worth it.


This is no mere fancy sketch. -
Thousands of cases of this description
are likely to occur, if those men who
are so hostile to any measure of relief,
can have their way
Year: 1860

e . South Side" shall appear next
week


we have several other communica-
tions on hand. which we hope to make
room for shortly. We must again urge
the necessity of short articles to insure
insertion. rtf
Year: 1860

- Theodore Frelingeuysen, ol
New Jersey, who fifteen years since
stood right smart chance to be Vice
President, took to himself a wife two
years ago, at the ripe age of seventy.
two, himself and not his wife, and last
week he had born to him a son and heir


He will probably name the boy after
himself, Theodore, meaning God d-given
Year: 1860

- A rich mlser in Auburn, N. Y,
is to be buried in Owasco Lake, beau
tiful sheet of water near that town. He
has stone coffine made, which takes
twelve yoke of oxen to draw it, He
gives a man nice farm for buryIng
hin. He is to take him to the middle OF
the lake and sink him.
Year: 1860

~ A red light is exhibited on the top Of the
high tower OF the Smithsonian institution.
Washington, on the evenings Of lectures
should there be any failure Of lecturer to ar
rive, or II the lecture for any reason be post
poBed, the public can always ascertain the fact
by looking at the tower. The light is only
shown when lecture is TO be delivered. This
Is good arrangement.
Year: 1860

Iaqusst.-On yesterday Justice J. T. Chill
drey attended by Constable Thomas, held an
inquest over the body of John Murphy who
was caught by the machinery CT the distillery
and killed, on Thursday last. Verdict of the
jury, that the deceased came to his death by
being accidentally caught in the machinery of
the distillery, and crushed to death by the
same.
Year: 1860

Cas- ANT one TELIs-Can any one tell
why men who cannot pay small bills can al
ways find plenty Of money to buy liquor,
and treat when happening among friends :


Can any one tell how young men Nbo dodge
their wa~herwomen and are always behind
with theiI landlord. eau play billiards night
and day. and are always ready Tor game
Of poker or seven-up.


Cs0 any tell how men live and support
their families who nave no income and do not
work and others who are industrious and
constantly employed. half siarve?


Can any one tell how dozen drinking sa-
complaining ol bard tines
Year: 1860

A LATE letter from Santa Fe, New Mexico,
says: The expedition now being formed
against the Navajo Indians, if effectual. will
he a great thing for this country, and Col.
Fountleroy is using all the means in his pow
er to make sure thing on the Navaios-to
chastise them understand that we command
He goes himself with the expedition Their
supplies are now being transported to the
proper depot
Year: 1860

THE WEATHER IN CARSON VALLEY.-Al-
though it is now near the end of April win
ter in this truly hyperborean climate "still
fingers in the lap of spring" Until within
the past week we have had frusts every
night, ice forming an inch thick, and the mud
freezing sufficiently hard to bear a horse.
The mountains ON every hand are covered
with snow, and even portions of the mining
district are yet hidden from sight. am as
sured by the old settlers that they have
never before had a winter of such severity,
an opinion fully corroborated 10y the state
ments of the Indians. The first snow fell
here September 27th This lay but a few
hours in the valleys, but several days on the
mountains The next came November 4th
and has not since disappeared on the noun
tains, though the lower portions of the coun
try have been more or less bare at intervals
since.-CarSon Valley or.
Year: 1860

CHINESE SHEEp.-The New York Observer,
in an account of visit to the farm of r. L.
Pell, says: These sheep are a curiosity, and
the only ones of the kind in this country
They are prolific beyond all Other kinds, Of
ten producing three, four and FIVE lambs at
a time, and breeding twice year. The
mutton is said to be of very high character
and wholly devoid of that offensive flavor to
mutton at times.
Year: 1860

The following is a portion of an act recent
ly passed by the Legislature of Maryland:


If any person belonging to this State shall
go out of this State. and there marry with
any person belonging to this State. without
license or publication, each of the parties,
on conviction, shall be fined 800.
Year: 1860

THE RoBERTsoNIAN METHOD of Learning the French,
Ge man. Spanish Latin and Italian Languages without the aid
of teacher has for the last ten been successfully tested
throushout the whole European Continents and L. without
single exception used Ia teaching the modern languages In all
the institutions Of England France and Germany
In London H. Monteh the most celebrated teacher of
in world has arranged and perfected this system
and his the study Of FRENCH GERMAN SPANISH,
LATIN and ITALIAN without master, contained In this vol
ume Immediately obtained sudden and extraordinary popular
y Auy persons unacquaOted with these languages with
the aid Of this volume nsbled 10 read t aud speak, the
language of either without the aid Of teacher oral In
struction whatever provided they strict attention to the In
structions laid IN the work and that nothing shsl be
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The tchoe contained IN TeR Screen Easy Lemons The
French Six Easy Lessons Spanish in Four German In
Six Latin is and the Italian in Five Easy Lessons
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Year: 1860

A Rich AND PRETTY HEIREss ELoPEs TWICE.
Col. Eaton Bond, wealthy planter at Dem
mark, Tenn, sent his daughter to some friends
in Mississippi to get her out of the reach of
troublesome suitors. While there she eloped
with DIR. Simmons and was married to him.
But on the evening of the wedding she eloped
second time with an old lover named Bloom,
and was mysteriously absent for two nights,
when she returned and confessed her fault and
was forgiven by her husband. All that re-
mains is to go home to the old gentleman and
get his forgiveness and blessing.
Year: 1860

We see by the Pittsburgh papers that few
days since no less than one hundred barrels of
pure Cincinnati strychnine whisky were ship
ped, post haste, from that city to Pbiladel-
phia, in order to be in time for the vessel sail
ing for Charleston The Democracy must be
calculating on having spirited time at their
National Convention.
Year: 1860

The True Delta, Of the 18th inst, says /,
About four o'clock last evening FIRE
broke out in the resin oil factory Of the
bouisishs Dil Company, on the new she'll
road, between Clara and ST. Jane streets,
and opposite 10 the depot of the New Or
leans, Jackson and Great Northern Rail
road


The 6re and the consequences Of it are
much to he deplored; greatly on account
Of a check 1t may give Eve hope IL will
not TO most important branch Of home
industry, and the loss IL will occasion To y
number of our most enterprising citizens,
who have largely invested in the under
taking, and who had felt themselves SO
secure against danger, that they declined
TO pay the large premium for insurance
demanded by the Boa ri Of Under riters.


The FIRE was caused by the blowing out
Of the pitch cock of ono Of the stills. We
may explain this briefly by saying that
the pitch-coek ia one Of twolstge openings
in the head Of one Of the six immense
stills. or vessels used in the factory for the
boiling of the resin the preliminary pro
cess for making the oil. The effect Of the
blowing out Of the cock, was to send mp Q
burst Of fame, Of what may be called ter
rife nature, to the ceiling Of the second
floor, which speedily communicated to
that part Of the premises Immediately
above It. We understand there was q
remedy provided against this, tpossibly, }
and apy other Kind of danger from FIRE,
by placing large tanks Of water above the
.tilf, which, we are informed, contained at
the time Of the breaking out Of the Ere
go 900 gallons Of water.
Year: 1860

THE CRoss IN JAPAN.--lH 1854 the
Russian frigste Diana lay in the
barbor Of Simods, where s h e
was afterwards wrecked. At the
dead of night boat from ashore
came alongside. Its sole occupant
was Japanese. II was evident,
from his manner, that he bad come
off on some important errand. He
was taken on aboard and into the
cabin. First looking carefully about
the cabin, lest he might be seen or
overheard by some hidden person,
he prodnced from the folds Of his
dress an ancient and well.worn cru
oifix. His manner, as he did SO,
was full of the most trembling ankle
ty. lie said il belonged TO his fami-
", and had been handed down from
one generation to another as a pre-
cious relic. lie knew little of its
import. beyond the fact that it's or
iginsl possessors had fallen under
the displeasure of the Emperor.


lie attached to it some vague
feeling of being committed by it's
possession TO the faith IL indicated.
All he knew of that was that he must
not worship idols, and he could
speak the names of Jesus and Mary.
The Russian insignia of the Greek
cross had emboldened him thus TO
declare himself His case illustrates
the severity and faithfulness with
which the old decree had been exc
outed In this family, so jealously
watched had they been, so impos-
sible had it been either openly or
secretly to preserve the rites of the
prescribed religion, that its memory
had faded out to the last possible
degree, and yet be alive. Should
the story of the Diana's midnight
visitor ever reach Japanese ears, |
am glad TO say that he is secure
beyond the reach Of discovery or
harm.-Japan Letter in the Tribune.