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Crnc lineup. Z. SJLGAH, Editor x'ivEDNESDAY, OCT. 31, 1355. .THE TB.TJE AMERICAN- The Turns Ammicas is published every Wednesday. n Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio, and edited by Z. Kaqas, od the following termft: One ye", invariably in advance, $2,00 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One square 13 lines or less. 3 weeks or less $1,00 Every anb3caiient insertion, 25 l ..." n rn I three inonins' n.au One square I Oue square six months, One square one year One fourth column per year One third column per year One half column per your, One column per year, 5,00 8.00 15,00 20,00 30,00 50,00 Professional and business cards per yenr, 5,00 When there is no contract mmlen nnd the num her of insertions is not marked ou the cards or advertisement at the time they are handed in for publication, they will be con'inued in until they are ordered out, and charged by the square, THE AMERICAN PARTY OF OHIO. At the Anmml Session of the Slate Council, held in Cleveland, June 5lh, 1855, the follow . ine Platform of Principles as expressive of the . ... 1 . I . O. . . . 1... sentiment ot meuruerin mis oiaie, wu injur ed mul ordered to be published to the world over the signatures of its officers : We proclaim to the world the following PRINCIPLES OF TUB AME1U0AN PARTY OF OHIO. ' I. The unlimited freedom of Religion dis roniipctod with politics hostility to ecclesias ' ' tical influences upon the affairs of government equality of rights o all ualuralized Emi grants who are thoroughly Americanized, and owe no temporal allegiance, by reason of their religion higher than that to the Constitution. 11. No interference with the rights of citi zenship alesidy acquired by Foreigners, and kn protection of law to all who nonesuy enu 1 . f l!t ...... . 1 ... .1... n.-lll I.... grate Iroui love oi iineny ; u foreign pauper and felons, but the exclusion of! foreign pauper and felons, and a relusal to extend the right of suffrage to all who come hereafter until they shall have resided 21 years in the United Slates and complied with the naturalization Laws. III. Opposition to nil political organizations composed "exclusively of Foreigners, and to Fori ign Military Companies, and to all attempts to exclude the Bible from Schools supported by the irovernruent." IV. Slavery is local not national : we op pose its extension in any of our territories, and the increase of its political power by the ad mission into the Union of any Slave Stale, or otherwise ; and we demand of the General Gov ernment an immediate redress of the great wrongs which have been inflicted upon the caue of Freedom and the American diameter by t'hu repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the introduction of Slavery into Kansas in vio lation of law, by the force of arms, and the de struction of the elective franchise. V. In humble imitation of the wisdom of Washington, we oppose all intervention in the affairs of Foreign biates ; yet on all proper oc easion, we will not withhold our sympathy from any people aspiring to be free. VI. We support American Industry, and ge nius against tiie adverse policy of Foreign na tions and facilities lo internal and external commerce by the improvement of rivers and harbors and the construction of national roads uniting the various sections of the Union. VII. The Union of these States should be made perpetual by a faithful allegiance to the Constitution. VIII. In State policy we zealously advocate Retrenchment and Reform a modification of the present opressive system of Taxation and a liberal system of Public Schools. THOS. SPOON ER, President, Jons E. Rkeb, Secretary. COURAGE. Notwithstanding the vociferous boast ing of the Sag Nicht gentry of the coun try over the temporary triumph of the slaveocracy in one or two of the States, there is nothing iu them that should tend to dishearten the true friend of Freedom and the advocate of our constitutional rights. In Pennsylvania, the Republicans were beaten by a division among themselves. Tho strength was there. They had the power to beat down the slave democracy by a majority of tens of thousands. Why was it not done ? Simply for want of union and harmony of action upon the part of the opposition. Thi? attempt lo withdraw the Know Nothing and Repub lican nominees for Canal Commissioner, from the track, and unite upon a third can didate (Nicholson) resulted unfavorably. The arrangement was only entered into a few days before the election ; and that so lamely, that many of the friends of the withdrawn candidates denied the authen ticity of the proceedings, and persisted, until too late lo remedy the evil in push ing the claims of their respective favorites. This stale of things, as a matter of course, was discouraging to the Republicans throughout the State; and not only deter red many from voting at all, but rendered very many who did vote, indifferent as to the result. In the meantime, the friends of the administration were untiring in their exertions and unscrupulous in their efforts to widen the breach, tho only hope ! of their success. They knew that the masses of the people vere heartily op posed to tlieir principles that a large ma jority of the voters had a mind and an intelligence of their own, which needed only wise and efficient counsel to have caused a concentration of effort against the slaveocracy with overwhelming effect. The Republican organization was, unfor tunately, left at loose etuis ; and hence, the temporary triumph of the slaveocracy. Fighting at the Nineteeth Ward Polls, Six Persons Shot. m Tho Baltimore Clipper has the follow ing particulars of tho riot of Thursday : "In relating the disgraceful proceedings that transpired iu the neighborhood of the nineteenth ward polls yesterday, we will, (as we have universally endeavored,) pre sent an impartial and true statement. Up on the opening of tho polls in the morn ing, there wad a large number of the members of the American party present who very naturally used their exertions lo further the success of their ticket, but by no unduo course or lawless act. All entitled to vote came tnd went unmolest ed, and the kindliest feelings were ex hibited, except by thosa of the foreign party, who, after finding that they could not have things exactly as they wished, started off for reinforcements. Some of them appeared in the Sheriff's office and importuned the Sheriff to deputise them as a special posse of police, to rally and drive the American residents from the polls or arrest them for daring to inter fero in the politics of the day. A modest request, truly but it was not granted. Others went to the New Market engine house and other places, and after raising a crowd returned to the polls, where, by bullying, they thought to make the Ameri cans vamoose, but they were disappoin- ted. They turned on them and drove them away, and -in their retreat 6oyera! were heard to say, 'never mind, we will return again and take tho polls.' Accordingly about three o'clock, acoiv gregation comprising about one Hundred anti-American bullies from different sec tions of the city, were seen nearing the polls, and the Americans started and in tercepted them at tho comer of Fremont and Saratoga streets, where pistols were fired, bricks thrown, the enemy routed and chased along Saratoga street some distance. The police ran to quiet tho disturbance, and in coming out of a cross A Hard Road to Travel. ' The leaders of the Pierced Democracy in Ohio, are making desperate efforts to rally their scattered forces for another fight in 1856. It is amusing to witness their painful efforts to convince, one anoth er, that their days are not numbered in the Buckeye State. They twist the re sult of the late election into every possi ble manner, in order to find something to cheer their sinking hearts. They select the majority of Chase, which is smaller by one-half than that of any other candidate on the Republican State Ticket, in consequence of there be ing a third candidate in the field, compare it with the vote of Judge Swan in 18V1, and then astonish their readers with a I 'tremendous Democratic gain." JVb pity them, when they are compell ed to resort lo such bop.ibast; to sustain a sinking cause. If they will look at the majorities of the remainder of the ticket, (which aver age about 40,000) it will throw a little more light upon the subject and enable them to form a better estimate of the rel ative strength of the parties in this State. In other Stales where the Slave-democra-cy has triumphed, they have totally ignor ed the fundamental principles of their party, fused with Rum, Whiggery, Sla very, Foreignism, Catholicism, and every - other ism which they could bamboozle into their' ranks; and by these means have, secured a partial victory. But for the especial benefit of those democrats who will be compelled to ' spend the coming year upon the "arid shores of Salt River," we assure them that if they can manage to amuse them selves until after the coming Presidential election, we will send them plenty more of the fame kind to keep them company. Immediately after the election in 1856 the last remnant of the Democracy will take iip its line of march for that famous clime, chanting in a doleful strain, the following lines of an ancient bard : Now lo the shore? we bend, a mournful train, Climb the tall lark, and launch itto the main, At ones' the mast we rear, at once unbind Tb pacious sheet, end stretch it to the wind: Then pale and pensive stand, villi cares op- pressed, , , And solemn horror saddens every breast Aud 'those defunct spirits who have gone before, shall welcome" to their . ( "Dusky coasts , Thin, airy hoal of (Democratic) ghosts : ' - Kick Him Aoain. The Daily Herald of the 29th, contains another choice spe-, ennui of "Editorial slang." If it affords Mr. Allison any gratification to reiterate the falsehoods of the Union, lie is wel come to it. We will not descend to quar rel with a man, who blackguarded a wo man, until she put a stop to it by threat cuing to row-hide him. Under all the discouraging circumstances alluded lo, the slaveocracy have only car ried the State by about 11,000 of a ma jority over Nicholson, while large num bers of votes were cast for Williamson and other Republicans for the same office; the aggregate of the Republican vote ex ceeding that cast for the successful can didate. And yet the advocates of the slave system proclaim it a Nebraska tri umph, and count upon Pennsylvania to take sides with the south and slavery at the ereat contest to come off in 1856. Their hopes are groundless their expec tations delusive. The result in Indiana can be traced to causes that will exert but little or no in fluence at the Presidential election. The conflict turned, principally, upon the Li quor question. The Prohibitory Liquor Law which was passed by a Republican Legislature, was looked upon as too rig id and stringent in some of its provisions; but whether so or not, a hue and cry was got up in opposition to it, which secured a temporary triumph of the slaveocracy. The great question of the day was scarce ly alluded to, and, by the friends of. the administration, was scouted out of the ELECTIONS JN KANSAS. Our readers already know that Gener al Whitfield, the candidate of the Missou- rians, as delegate from Kansas, to repre sent their interests, was elected Monday, October 1st. The Free State settlers, not recognizing the validity of the election, refused lo vole ; but some Pro-Slavery men voted for Reeder, to make it appear that the election was really contested. The following letter, dated October 3d, from Kansas, which appeared in the St. Louis Intelligencer of October 12th, shows who were the voters, and how the result was accomplished. Surely the fraud is becoming so palpable, that every South ern man, not devoid of all sense of right, must be revolted. Bear in mind, the evi dence is furnished by a Slave State paper: Kansas, Oct. 3, 1855. "You are aware that Monday last was the day of election fixed by the Legisla ture, at which the friends of Whitfield vo ted, and that Tuesday October 9th, is the day fixed by the people's proclamation, and at which the Free State men will vote, besides, in all probability,, some of the Pro-Slavery men as the polls are open to all, and delegates are to be elected on the same day to the Constitutional Con vention. "A large number of voters from the Celtgrapjric. speech, which was most cordially receiv ed. Speeches were then' made by Gov. Gardner, Mayor Smith, Governor Hop pin, Hon. Edward Everett, John A. King, and many others. The whole af- bnlliant ever The exhibi tion closed Willi tnree grand trotting matches. New York, October 29. The steam ship Ariel, arrived fast evening, from Havre. She brines the second edition of fair was one of the most the London Times, of October 13th. witnessed in this country. There have been no new movements in the Crimea. It is known that the Allied fleet before Odessa, had on board 10,000 French troops. A rumor prevailed in London, that a popular outbreak had occurred in Sicily. The cholera is prevalent at Rome and Madrid. English gun boats left the Baltic on their way Heme. New York, October 29. The steam ship St. Louis sailed at noon for Havre. She take3 out nearly all the passengers that started in the Union and about 40,000 additional specie. . Gov. Clark issued a proclamation fix ing the 29th of. November as a day of thanksgiving in the State of New York, The steamship Philadelphia arrived to day from Havana with dates to tlte 22d. Mr. Morales, a citizen of New York who was recently sentenced to death for having seditious documents in his posses' sion, had his sentence commuted to eight adjoining counties of Missouri came over years on the chain gang, en Monday, as usual, and voted. This The public health of Havana good. New York, October 27. The Ariel arrived this afternoon from Havre. Her news has been anticipated by the Africa. The Evening Post says it was rumored in London on the day before the Africa sailed that the sixth wire cable which was being laid across the Mediterranean from France to Algeirs, was cut and abandon ed in a gale of wind under circumstances very similar to those which interrupted the operations of the New Foundland company last summer. It was insured for about $300,000 in London. The total number of deaths in this city last week was 361 :. an increase of 20 on the preceding week. The trial of Michael Gorm for the mur der of Charles Johnston, in Brooklyn last June, was concluded to-day, The jury found the prisoner guilty of. murder in the first degree. Judge Dean senten ced him to be hung on Friday, the 21sj of December next. was done with the more ease, lhat the Free Slate parly did not participate in the election at all. "Some few parlies from Missouri pen etrated as far into the Territory as Le compton, and report says voted at Law rence and Franklin as they came back. But the principal foreign vote was cast Northern Indiana Railroad company ; 3's along the river and near to the Slate, es- 0n the Exchange bank of Alexandria, D. ry good one for an English Audience, for neciallv at Wyandott, Delaware,, Leaven- C., and others. Every appliance to coun- in England we have learnt to look back if i - - worth, Atchison and Shawnee Church. terfeiiing was also discovered. We anticipate a large foreign vote along Business active. James L. Breese was arrested to-day, at his residence on Christie street, and about 10,000 counterfeit bills were found in his possession, also a quantity of plates, Among the bills were 10's and 5's on the bank at Jacksonville. Florida ; 2's of Cincinnati, October 29. Flour quiet, no sales reported ; imports since Satur day, 2,177 bbls; grain nothing doing; whiskey, no sales, market nominal ; gro ceries unchanged and in moderate demand. ICMr. Thackeray will sail for New York on Saturday, the 13th of October, to commence his new course of lectures on the Four Georges. The subject is a ve- Important from Japan. The schooner C. E. Foote, Capt. Worth, arrived at San Francisco on the 17th ult., from Japan, by the way of the Ladrose Islands. The news is late, and of considerable importance to those who have beencalcu latingon a large trade with Japan. ' The Imperial Governor of Simonda has issued a proclamation, which denies the right of Americans to live in Japan, except in cas es of shipwreck of distress. None of the passengers of tjie Foote were permit- ted to land and live on shore at Hakoda di. ' " The news is important in thiee other points of view: 1st. The French were negotiating a treaty with the Japanese, at Naugasaki. 2d. The English treaty had not been ratified, though it was in possession of Admr'l Stirling,(who intended to exchange it, after having finished the little work hff had on hand at the north. 3d. Admiral Pontiatine, the Minister Plenipotentiary on the part of Russia, had just concluded a treaty with Japan. The whale ships reports unusual success. JCTAs the Salt River question, now, is of some interest to politicians, we give the following brief description of it, writ ten by Bayard Taylor. Rowed bp Salt River. Salt River, where it debouches into the Ohio River, is not more than fifty or sixty yards in breadth, but very deep. It is never ford able., even in the dryest seasons; and, be ing navigable for fourteen miles above its mouth, has not been bridged at that point Wedescended its steep end difficult banks, embarked our carriages upon a flat ferry boat, and were conveyed across. The view, looking up the river; was very beautiful. Tall elms and sycamores ft street, rrot between the combatants. The , D- Americans upon seeing iheni come, de sisted in further pursuit, and most of them returned to the polls, but the anti-American crowd turned on them, having re loaded their pistols and fired. George Konig, a notorious Fell's Point rowdy, discharged six loads of a revolver at one ! of the police, without striking him. He, however, received a shot in the small of his back, and the ball passing through lodged in his stomach near the groin. He fell, and was taken to the western district station house, after which he was convey ed to his residence. His condition is a very dangerous one. It is thought he cannot recover. A colored woman, living in arch street, near Lexington, was shot in the face the ball striking her jaw bone was stop ped thereby, doing her no further injury. It was extracted by a physician. She states that she saw the person lhat shot her, and that he aimed his pistol at officer Collins. Officer Saville was three times shot at by Franklin Naff, ne fired once at Naff, but missed him. During the commencement of the riot a man named John German was shot in the Osage and at Fort Scott, but as yet have not heard. The election, so far as heard from, passed off very quietly, and without any manifestation of violence or intimidation. Report gives the following returns : Wyandott 212 Delaware 300 Leavenworth 250 Kickapoo 75 Atchison 135 Doniphan 35 Shawnee Ch'ch 180 Franklin 00 Lawrence 42 Lecompton 55 Total, so far 1,874 All for Whitfield, of course, (as the other party did not participate,) except a few votes at some of the polls, cast by the Pro-Slavery men themselves, for Gover nor Reeder, to make it look like a contest. At Leavenworth, I have heard the foreign vote estimated variously from oU to 125. It came piivately and in small numbers, rather seeking concealment. At Dela ware, six miles below, the vote is said to be nearly all foreign ; crowds lined the share on either side, and the Woods on ihe Missouri shore were filled with hors es and wagons. A ferry-boat plied back and forward to the election. At Wyan dott, probably 150 to 200 foreign voles were polled, among whom were some of the residents of the town. Washington, October 29. It is slated on reliable authority, from advices by the Africa, that Mr. Buchanan has probably left London for Paris. He will visit Ita ly before returning home. A circular letter from the Government Denmark, relative to the settlement of the Sound Dues question, has been received by the Government. Th" President has entirely recovered fron. ''is recent attack of chills and fever, The Court of Claims to-day, admitted the testimony taken in the case of Isaac Swain, thus deciding that Governmen stores are not subject to impost duties, and the Government liable for injuries sustained by citizens, in consequence of the improper conduct of its agent. The argument in the Florida cases was contin tied. with very philisophic loyalty to the First clothed the banks, dropping their boughs Gentleman of Europe and his gracious a'nost t0 the waters, and forming a vista ancestors, but the Americans remember K fl'agB though which the stream curv- them with something fiercer than con tempt ; and third one of the name is no more of a god in tho New world than ho is in the pages of Wilkes end Junius. Then, again, the good folks of that coun try are not always swift and sure in their appreciation of such delicate irony as Mr. Thackeray delights iu; we all remember how the Democratic journals across the waters blazed up at an imaginary slight thrown upon Washington in an early num ber of 'The Newcomes ;' and how the sa tirist was compelled to explain his own want of seriousness ; and how the fact was ultimately got into Jonathan's head by means of what Sydney Smith called a surgical operation. America evidently feels afraid or perhaps we should say, feels uncertain of the squibs and crack ers of the creator of Rabecca Sharp. We shall see if they have any cause, On cd out of sight between wooden hills. I longed to be rowed up it, While on the spot I took occasion to in quire the derivation of the slang political phrase, ''Rowed up Salt River," and suc ceeded in discovering it. Formerly, there were extensivo salt works on the river, a short distance from its mouth. The laborers employed in thein were a set of athletic, belligerent fellows, who soon became noted, far and wide, for their achievements in the pugilistic line; Hence it become a common thing among the boatmen on the Ohio, when one of their number was refractory, lo say to him, "We'll row you up Salt River," where, of course, the bully salt men would have the handling of him. By a natural figure of speech, the expression was applied to political candidates, first, I believe; in the Presidential campaign of 1840. Bayard Taylor. contest. If they had been held to the j j 0(r) aj a young man named John true issues, as the locofocos were held in Clark, (not of the Peail street House,) Ohio, the result would have been differ- was 8i,0t through the fleshy part of one ent. The Electoral vote of the State ol 0f i,ja thighs. We learn also that a Ger Indiana is as safe for the Republican can- man named Pearce, was shot through the didate for the Presidency as the vote of j back, and is believed to be dangerously Ohio herself. j injured, and that Alexander Rutherfork The election in Maine, also, turned up-1 W!13 sh0t through one of his boots, the on the Liquor question, and secured for: lacerating the flesh upon the side of the democracy there, a doubtful triumph, j tuc r00i Seven-tenths of all the voters in Maine gev. rai Germans atlcmpted to vote illc- would, at this day, 'ith the slave qes- Laijy during the day, and were arrested. "At Lawrence, a small party voted who broken out afresh in Montgomery, Ala- came down from Lecompton, on their bama.. New York, October 27. The corres pondent of the Tribune at Truxillo. Hon duras. states that several severe shocks of the 1 llursUay previous to Mr. 1 hackeray departure, a body of his literary friends propose to invite him to a farewell dinner. He will carry across the Atlantic our best wishes for his success. Will he re pay us-and gratify the public-with a A despatch from Washington in the genial and candid account oi tne state anu the mighty channel thrpugh the playlul Tribune states that the yellow fever has prospects ot American society-tnat soeie- murmenngof the little brook, and the wil- an earthquake were felt at that place, com mencing September 25th. There were twenty-seven distinct shocks, within for ty hours. Every brick building in tho town was more or less injured. Beautiful Illustrations of Life. Bishop Heber, upon departing from I n dia, said in his farewell sermon : 'Life bears us on like'the stream of a mighty river. Our boat at first goes down lion fairly presented bofore them, vote up on the side of Freedom. These States are now merely regulat ing their municipal affairs. Next year, I they will speak in thunder tones, their I sentiments upon the treachery and dupli city of the National Administration. New York is preparing for the conflict. The different elements of the Republican party are rapidly concentrating their for ces. There is universal joy among the friends of freedom, in view of the glori ous prospects ahead in the Empire State. The consummation, so devoutly to be wished, will bo realized the redemption of that great State from tho hands of tU spoilers. The Republican triumph may be set down in New York as a hxed lact. There can bo no question as to the result. Ohio will give her hundred thousand Re miblican maiorilv, and New York will j - a 0 . not be far behind her in the race. There is everything to encourage and nothing to dishearten the friends of Free dom in the coming contest. One more pull and the day is ours. Buckeye Slate. Great Ejectment Suit. The New York Courier f tales that the owners ot property in the Ninth and Fifteenth Wards of that city, have recently been thrown into great commotion by reason of the nervine unou them of a declaration of ejectment, from the Circuit Court of the United Slates, based upon tho claims of two females, a Mrs. Brown and Rebecca Rowland, to thirty acres of land, in the vicinity of Fiftli avenue, Bedfort, Mor ton. Carmine, and other streets. I his rii im it says must be very ancient and doubtful to have escaped Hie attention ol searchers of titles for many years past and it understands it to be the intention of the defendants jn this case to call a pub lic meeting of those interested, employ counsel, nd proiect their lights to the last extremity, One of them, named F. Gammons, upon coming to the polls and on being asked if he was willing to swear that the papers he presented were his own, drew a bowie knife about eighteen inches long, and swinging it about his head, declared he would make sad havoc of any one who dared to dispute his vote. The police exhibited a degree of bra very rarely witnessed in their efforts to quell the riot, and are deserving of the highest meed of praise from our order loving citizens. A Good Illustration. The follow ing graphic illustration of the relation of President Pierce to his cabinet is from the New York Evening Post : 'There is no member of Mr. Tierce's cabinet who is not a man of much stron ger character than himself. The polili cal views of Jefferson Davis are odious in this quarter, but he is a man ot decision and energy, dishing, tho Attorney Gen eial, is a man of very pliant politics but his pliancy is the effect of interest and ambition, not of weakness. Marcy, able as he is, is often timid, but it would be absurd to call him weak. The President, nmidst his heads of Departments and oth er counsellors, is a batch of dough under the knuckles of a dozen bakers" While they are kneading and rolling him about, burying their arms elbow deep in the yiel ding mass, they keep up a perpetual buzz of compliments to his iron firmness and 'stern integrity. ' ' Deputy U. S. Marshal Horton on the 17th inst. seized the ship Maury, on sua picion that she was ongaged in the service of Russia, and had on board articles con traband of war. Cannon, powder, balls and muskets were found on board. Of course the ship was nol allowed to proceed on her vyago. way home ; but the mass of the Pro-Slavery men residing in the district did not and would not vole, as most of them re pudiate the laws of the Legislature as strongly as the Free State men do." The claim of Whitfield to a seat in the House will be an affront to the People's Representatives. The election appointed by the People of Kansas took place on the 9th, but the telegraph has been in no hurry lo com municate the result. Our faithful corres pondent in to-day's Era furnishes a few items of interest. The following is all. the information we have from the tele graph : "St. Louis, Oct. 20. Returns of tho Congressional election of the 2d of Octo ber, from all the counties in Kansas, give Whitfield, Pro-Slavery, 2,504 votes and Reeder 30. Phe election on the 9th of October passed off quietly. In Leavenworth city, Reeder got 530, and in Lawrence bity, 325. These two precincts gave Reeder more Uiau twice tiiu nuuiuei or voiea iney gave to Whitfield at the election of the 2d of October. "Sr. Louis, Oct. 22. The Kansas correspondent of the Missouri Democrat has returns from twenty-two precincts, giving Reeder, for Congress, 1,935 votes; 29 precincts are to hear from, and it is thought the vote' will exceed 3,000. None but actual residents for thirty days were permitted to vote. The Free Soil ers are getting up documents to contest Whitfield's seat, showing that he has ma ny more votes in several places than there were legal voters. Delegates to a Constitutional Conven- ly so interesting to our pride and our aff ections 1-London Athenaeum. Yankee Powder in the Crimea. The N, Y. Times says : 'Now that the transaction is of the past, and Sebasfopol has fallen, by the combin ed means of French and English valor, and Yankee powder, we presume we vi olate no confidence in stating, from well authenticated rumor, that two or three thousand tons of American made powder, from the'most approved mills of Delaware and Connecticut, have been shipped from this port io the order of British official ao-ents, to the Crimea. The Russian government may be somewhat surprised at the magnitude of the supply, but will scarcely make it the ground of diplomat ic remonstrance, knowing that partial Washington, Oct. 27. The Union of shipments of the same sort wero made to this morning publishes a letter from John Antwerp or Hamburg, to be sent overland, The steamship Hermann, from Bre men, arrived at JO o'clock. She brings nearly three hundred passengers among them Willhun Thompson, bearer of des patches from the American Legation at London; Baron Von Geroldt, Russian Minister to the U. S.; II. B. Spencer, Belgian Charge to tho United States. Gorham, N. II., October 27th. Dr, B. L. Bald started from the Ledge on Thursday morning with a view lo ascend Ml. Washington, and probably perished, as nothing has been heard of him since. Parties commenced searching for him yes terday, but had not found him up lo two o'clock this morning. Van Buren in reply to its strictures on his speech at Oswego. lie predicts that the New York Soft Shell ticket will be elected by 50,000 plurality, and asks the Union whether it desires to see that tick et elected or dcleated Tho Union ro plies, lhat in view of Mr. Van Buren s declaration that all the candidates on that ticket were openly and warmly the advo cates of Martin Van Buren in 1848, it is therefore a matter of indifference, so far as the interest of the democratic parly is concerned, whether the ticket succeeds or not. Boston, October 20. The Whigs of Suffolk-county held a ratification meeting in Faneuil Hall last evening. Between two and three thousand were present Hon. Peleg W. Chandler presided, and speeches were made by him and Hon. J T. Stenbenson and others. The Know - - i through Germany, for Russian use In addition to the above we may slate that the bark J. II. Duvall sailed from this port on Wednesday with 400 barrels rum, 200 barrels flour, 5,050 kegs gun- powdor, &o.. probably desiinnd to linnsd in the war iu the East. The bark is bound for Smyrna. Boston Journal. The English people seem to be much irritated beeause France is reaping the principle partof the glory in tho present war, because "while the English army failed in its attack on the Redan, the French took the Malakoff. The Times is now assaulting Gen. Simpson as it formerly did Lord Raglan. One writer speaks of it as an unprecedented even that British soldiers were obliged to tly several limes from tho Redan an occurrence somewhat similar took place at Bunker Hill. Newark Mercury. lows upon, its glassy borJcrs. The trees shed their blossoms over young heads, the flowers of the brink seem to offer them selves to young hands; we are happy in hope, and we grasp eagerly at' the beau ties around us ; but the stream hurries on, and still our hands are empty. Our course in youth and in manhood is along a wider, deeper flood, amid objects more striking and magnificent. We are ani mated by the moving picture of enjoy ment and industry passing us ; we are ex cited by our short lived enjoyments. The stream bears us on, and joys and griefs are left behind us. We may be ship wrecked, but we cannot be delayed for rough or smooth, the river hastens to wards its home, till the roar of the ocean is in our ears, and the waves beneath our feet, and the floods are lifted up around us. and we take our leave of earth and its inhabitants, until of our further voyage there is no witness save the Infinite and Eternal." banners .... ii i i i. i.n tr, frame a State Nothings also nau a large ugui p. UUIl I1UIW UbVll VUUVII I . . 1 nnnstUntinn. and ,nnW for admission in- cession. They paraueu ine sueets wu to the Union. Ex-Governor Reeder will hands oi music, uai.spu.t-.,,.., ua tho bonrnr of nniltion to Washing- and fireworks. . The Agricultural Exhibition continues A telegraphic rumor that Cov. Reeder the great object of interest, 50 000 persons a i had been killed produced a good deal of excitement, but it is scarcely creuioie. It is quite possible that he may have had a rencontre with some of his revilers. Era. ICpThe supply of quinine (for fever and ague) is exhausted in three of the pritioipal towns on tho Wabash, in Indi ana, Terre Haute ran short first and then made a run onVincinnes; and exhausted, the stock there. Vincennes drew on Ev ansville; and cleared that city out. The Indiana State Jour nal says : 'From every quarler"of the State we hear the groaning of back-aching and side-racked patients. , We have received Galveston dates of the 14th instant. Capt. Callahan, of the Texas Rangers, had, had a battle with a a party of 700 Mexicans and Indians, Four Texans and forty of the enemy were We think killed, when the latter retreated. Capt. Callahan has called on Texas for assis tance to exterminate the Indians, who threaten to kill every while man they en counter, Captain C. was expecting anoth er attack. ICHIope writes out the poetry of a boy but memory that of man. ' it . being present. The proceedings oi ine forenoon wero not varied from those of yesterday. At two o'clock a grand pro cession formed at the Piesidcnt's marquee, and proceeded to the Vg tents, beneath which a dinnef for 2,000 was provided. Every scat was filled- After dinner Pres ident Wilder made a brief and cloqueut Newspapers in Great Britain and America. Thirty millions of people in Great Britain only purchase and read ninety millions of newspapers in a year, rrTho Cincinnati Times of Satur- whilethe twenty-five of the United States (ay morrijngf contains a paragraph to. the require over four hundred millions. effect l)iat on 3J 0f October, a "nura- ..w. Lmin nn. Cmm ber of persons of that city, plainly saw a ' . b . -L.it . .L .vbiiri. hv n class, was ni.:- A nin.h na.l Kirpn AfTtr I ah OK 1 UBIIUOII III Ho .'"? . , .11,11 i n I dipcovareu to be American ooaia nau auarivcu anu signany defeated a large fleet of Chinese Pirates. The American "(Tieer an I men belonging lo the l'owhaiau behaved in the most gal lant manner. i PPl fTV a wrecK. ine nines infers that it may be the balloon of the missing ucronaut, who ascended trom irr walk',' 0., oh the 2d instant, and has hot since been heard ot It may be. a clue to. his sad fate. i - I . Ii i ti 41