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SAINT PAUL.
Saint Paul, Friday, October 19. 1860.
To Hall Subscriber*.
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TO ADVERTISERS.— The Daily Pioneer
AMD AiESoCuaT has a larger circulation than any other
daily paper published in the 6t»te of Minneso a. Its
circulation equals that of any journal Northwest of
Chicago.
The Wbekly Pioneer and Democrat has a circula
tion largely exceeding that of any othernewspaper pub
lished in the State. It is invaluable, therefore, as an
advertising medium. Only a limited number of adver
tisements received.
REMOVAL!
The office of the Pioneer and Democrat
has been removed to No. 3 Lambert’s Block,
on Third street, near the corner of Cedar
street. Counting-room on the first floor.
Ashbel P. Willard.
We announced on the sth, in the briefest
terms, the sadden death of the Hon. Ashbkl
P. Willard, Governor of the State of In
diana, which transpired at the Winslow
House, in this city, on the evening of the
4th instant. The distinguished public posi
tion of the deceased, no less than his attrac
tive traits of character in private life, ren
der some further notice appropriate at our
bands.
Gov. Willabd was a native of the State
of New York, and at the time of his death
was about forty years of age. His educa
tion was completed at Hamilton College,
whence he graduated with the highest hon
ors of his class. Choosing the profession of
law, he fitted himself for its practice under
the direction of an able preceptor, and made
his first location in Kentucky, in 1845. The
subsequent year he removed to Indiana*
taking up bis residence at New Albany,
where he attained reputation as a sound
and successful lawyer.
The ability displayed by Gov. Willard
as a forensic speaker, in the course of his
law practice, added to bis genial traits of
character and popular manners, naturally
marked him out for success in politics.
His political career, which began with his
election as a representative of Floyd county
in the Legislature of Indiana, has been suc
cessful, without a single reverse. He was
afterwards, in turn, chosen Lieutenant Gov
ernor and Governor of Indiana—which
latter position he held at his death.
Though Gov. Willard never filled a
National office, he enjoyed a National rep
utation. The presidential canvass of 1856,
which was hotly contested all over the
North, was carried on with a warmth
amounting almost to fierceness in Indiana.
By chance, or for some reason which we
never apprehended, the eyes of the country
seemed to be directed to that State as the
battleground of the North, with an eager
ness and anxiety quite disproportioned to
her actual influence in the electoral college.
Added to the presidential excitement, thus
concentrated within the limits of the State,
was the further excitement of a guberna
tional canvass, and in which Gov. Willard
was the Democratic candidate. Into that
canvass, both in its general and local as
pects, Gov. Willard entered with all the
energy of his earnest, enthusiastic Dature.
His position, at the head of the State ticket,
united with it the responsibilities of the
canvass, and cast upon him an amount of
labor which few men of the country could
have borne. Indeed, we think the work
performed by Gov. Willard in that can
vass, in regard either to its quantity or
quality, has not been exceeded by any poli
tician of late years, unless we except the
labors of Gov. Wise, in 1855, and of Judge
Douglas, in 1858. That campaign made,
and ruined, him. He achieved success, a
high office, and an honorable fame ; but all
these at the expense of a life, which has at
last been paid as a penalty for his over
work.
Tbe distinguishing traits of Gov. Wil
lards character, were an energy &Qd a will
which were absolutely untiring and irre
sistible. With him. success crowned every
effort. A college-mate of his tells us, that,
during his school days, he was never known
to miss a recitation, Dor did be ever rank
second in aoy class. This youthful ambi
tion to be first among his fellows, marked
his short manhood, and raised him to tbe
highest popular office io tbe gift of his
State ; while tbe prestige of success which
was attached to him, bad already allatted to
him, in tbe hopes and designs of his parti
sans, still higher honors. This energy and
will, almost superhuman in their strength,
remained with him till his latest hour.
Wbeo tbe mark of death, plainly visible
upon hie brow, compelled bis physician to
warn bim of bis approacbiog end, he re
sponded, “ No, Doctor 1 I’m not so badly off
as you think 1 Forward march!” and suit
ing the action to tbe word, tbe heroic man
march) d upright, with a strong and even
stride, into Intern it/. There, may he rest
in pe oe.
Mr. Banning’* Railroad Pollcyt
Saturday evening a respectable audience
was drawn to Irvine’s Hall for the purpose
of hearing an address from Mr. Wm. L. Ban
ning, on the proper course to be pursued in
relation to the Railroads, the State Railroad
bonds, &c.
Mr. Banning said ho did not come there
as a partisan, although he heartily endorsed
the doctrines of the Bepublican party, and
hoped no one would doubt the genuineness
of his Republicanism. He bad attended
the meetings of both political parties, and
bad otten gone home sick and the
great question of State policy, which was
of such vital importance to every inhabi
tant of the State, was so often ignored. He
admired the doings of the Republican State
Convention upon the Raiiroad questiou, and
deprecated the cowardice of the Democratic
Convention—the very fact that the Demo
crats refused to have any committed policy,
would make him vote the Republican ticket.
The State, with a population of 180,000,
was said to be over $3,000,000 in debt
which was constantly increasing—the Rail
roads were abandoned, and the elements
were washing them away. It is said that
we are to be taxed for this, and therefore
this question was the most important that
could be brought before the people. Poli
ticians were following abstractions—the
Democratic party did not come out like
statesmen and men to meet such a state of
things.
He laid down the following propositions :
First. —Minnesota does not owe one dol
lar on the Minnesota State Railroad Bonds,
or at least the obligation to pay these bonds,
either principal or interest, does not attach,
or is suspended, until the holders of the
bonds put the cars upon the roads in ac
cordance with the terms of the Constitution
and their solemn bargain with the State.
Second.— lnasmuch as the State has both
a legal and equitable defence against the
payment ot the bonds, it is our bounden
duty to set up such defence;
Ist.—Because it will protect the honor
of the State from the interested assaults of
the holders of these bonds:
2d.—Because it will protect our over
burdened people from an unjust and fraudu
lent claim:
3d.—Because it will ensure the prompt
completion of our railroads by forcing bond
holders to build the roads and save their
bonds.
He said Minnesota did not owe the bonds,
and if we do not owe them, men of all
parties must set up the defence embraced in
the first proposition. States cannot set up
the plea of bankruptcy—it was infinitely
better to set up the defence that we do not
owe the bonds. Set it up, and hurl back
the charge of repudiation in the faces of
those who utter it. His purpose was to
build the roads, and the question was, how
shall we get at it? His purpose was to see
the cars running within three years, and at
the same time to maintain the honor of the
State. He wished to drive and hold and
force the bondholders to build the roads.
Mr. Banning proceeded to argue at some
length, whether under the loan amendment
to the Constitution the State owes the bonds
before the holders put the ears upon the
road. In the Constitution, at first, the
power of taxation was limited to the $250,-
000 loan and the ordinary State expenses—
the power to levy taxes is limited to these
purposes, and the point is whether the loan
amendment enlarged this power. He thought
it was not intended by the loan amendment
to do this—the loan amendment express
ly forbids this. The faith and credit of
the State are not pledged to pay the debt,
but the State, as a faithful trustee, is to pay
the proceeds of the sale of roads and fran
chises, to the holders of the bonds. It was
not contemplated that the bondholders should
look to the State tor the payment of the bonds
and interest. There can be no more im
pregnable defence for the State than the
first proposition. The conditions and con
sideration run with the bonds, aud upon a
failure of either, the bonds are necessarily
cancel'ed. No other State has ever issued
bonds like these in their inception or charac
ter —our bonds contain an express condition,
upon the failure of which the bond is can
celled. He explained the difference between
a bond and commercial paper—the endorser
of a note has to pay, in the failure of a
principal, but the maker of a bond does not
unless the consideration is adequate.
We propose, now, to set up this defence,
to protect the State and ensure the comple
tion of 'be roadß. The condition was that
when the roads were graded the bonds
should be issued, but the condition prece
dent of their payment was, that the roads
should be built. That was the condition
of the bonds, and until this is performed the
legislator who voted to pay principal or
interest would commit rank perjury. If
the State in equity, does not owe the bonds,
the member of the Legislature violates his
oath if be votes to pay them.
This defence should be Bet up, no matter
how men may howl and hiss against it—the
claim that the State was bound to pay the
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.
principal or interest until the conditions
were complied with, was a foul and bastard
claim.
Mr. Banning examined the loan amend
ment. There were two ways of testing the
meaning of the Constitution, one was by
the plain, unmistakable language of the
instrument, and another, by studying the
designs of those who made it—if the first
fails, men look to the latter. The Supreme
Court does this iu construing the Constitu
tion of the United States. [Mr. B. read
the manifesto of the sixty-three members of
the legislature, wherein they pledged them
selves not to vote to levy a tax for princi
pal or interest of the bonds, and assured the
people of the State that the State Treasury
was completely exonerated, in any contin
gency that might occur.] He said upon
faith of such documents and speeches as this
the people voted for the loan amendment
and he would put their defence upon highet
grounds than the plea of bankruptcy—that
of legal right. There is the pledge made to
the people of the State, and we will hold
them to it. We propose now to return the
poisoned chalice to the bondholders. Why
did the State allow the companies to draw
SIOO,OOO for every $20,000 expended? They
said, “true, we draw SIO,OOO for that which
only cost us $2,000, but we want the posses
sion of the bonds, in order that we can take
the SIOO,OOO to buy the iron, that we may
keep the condition by which the obligation
of the State becomes good.” This was
foolish but he (Mr. B.) preferred it to think
ing that they wished to steal from the State.
They took the bonds to New York, and the
first thing done was to look at the Consti
tutional amendment, and the first thing they
saw was this provision that the State was
not liable—the poison of the bonds was in
the Constitution.
He set up this defence for the purpose of
building the roads, but if the people agree
to pay the bonds they do not owe, they
would lose the roads. He would make the
bonds subservient to buildiog the roads—
release this point and all will be lost. Mr-
B. went on to show how the bondholders
would labor to get the bonds acknowledged
by indeavoriDg to fix upon the State the
stain of repudiation, but hoped the people
would stand firm in disavowing the obliga
tion to pay.
In closing, Mr. Banning had a few words
to say about his personal interest in the sub
ject. The charge had been made that he
had Railroad bonds, this be denied most
emphatically. His main purpose was to
force the system he had proposed, upon the
the Statej as a means of building the roads,
and saving the State, and promised that if
he could see the Railroad question settled
that he would retire to his native obscurity.
He desired to stand in the way of no man’s
political advancement, but confessed his de
sire of impressing upon the policy of the
State, his own ideas of settling the Rail
road matters.
The above is but an outline of the speech,
which occupied an hour and a half in deliv
ery. It was mostly argumentative, with
less denunciation of‘‘railroad thieves,” than
was expected, and was a favorable exhibi
tion of the ability of the speaker, whatever
may be thought of the doctrines inculcateo-
That Land Warrant.
The telegraph a few days since announced
the fact that a patent of one hundred and
twenty acres of land had just issued from
the land office to Abraham Lincoln, as
captain in the Illinois militia during the
Black Hawk war. Is is stated, we think,
in the N. Y. Tiibune Life of Lincoln, thut
he already owned land in lowa, under his
patent as captain in the Black Hawk war.
Wbat is the matter? Were his bloodless
battles, except those he fought with the
musquitoes, and the furious onslaughts be
claims to have made on wild onions—were
these of such extraordinary service to the
country, that he is considered worthy of
double pay? This is the man, too, who
begrudged a few acres of the public lands
to the widows of those who fell in fighting
our battles in Mexico, and who bought
with their blood the royal domain of the
golden West.
Dependence of Ihe Sections.
The New York Journal of Commerce
publishes a letter which illustrates the mu
tual dependence of the various sections of
our country upon each other. This is not
the case merely between the North and the
South, but it exists also between different
classes—between the manufacturing and
mercantile classes, and the agricultural. The
farmers of the North are a larger and richer
class than the planters of the South, needing
more and consuming more, per capita, and
paying as good profits. It would puzzle a
casuist to trace the moral responsibilities of
slavery through the tangled web of com
merce. The New England cotton mills
keep the negro at work. Lynn lives upon
her profits on negro shoes. Ohio and the
Northwest send pork and corn to feed the
slaves. New York is the carrier for all,
and makes profit irom all. The industrial
syßtem is one great whole, and yet there are
some deepest in it, who rail most loudly
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against it; and who seem to think that
their fierce condemnation compensates for
their profitable complicity in it.
The following is the passage alluded to.
It has two sides to it; both worth looking
at:
I have been a planter for a good maDy
years, and I was considerably startled at
the result of an investigation of the subject,
so far as connected with myself and my own
family. On examination of my expendi
tures, one year with another, I find that
nearly three fourths of my income has, eith
er directly or indirectly, found its way into
the hands of northern men ; and I believe
this to be true of a majority of the produc
ing classes here.
I am aroused in the morning by the bell
of a clock bailing from Connecticut. Leav
ing a bed which, with ail 'its parapernuiia,
is of northern origin, I thrust my feet into
a pair of Massachusetts shoes, and, as I
join ray family at the table, everything that
meets my eye, except the faces so dear to
me, is all, all Northern.
My coffee, which has paid toll to a North
ern importer, been parched over an Albany
stove, ground in a mill from Meriden, Conn.,
poured from a Yankee urn into a Yankee
cup, sweetened with sugar refined in New
York, stirred with a spoon of like origin—
used to be drank without one emotion other
than pleasing.
To church or to school a Northern bell
invites us. In our devotions or our dances,
a northern organ or a northern fiddle lends
its inspiring strains.
Whether we ride or walk, sit or sleep, we
do all, my northern friends, through your
kind assistance.
I take a look at my sour visage in a
northern mirror, stamp my foot on a north
ern carpet, and rush out of a house which
was constructed with northern tools, fitted
with northern doors, sash, blinds, glass, &c.,
painted with northeen paint, furnished and
adorned throughout, from cellar to attic,
with the work of northern hands. I mount
a northern saddle aud ride over a farm which
is cultivated with northern implements, by
negroes clad iu cloth made in Massachusetts,
from materials furnished anywhere from
Vermont to Ohio.
My cotton, prepared for market by a
northern gin and press, enveloped in bag
ging which has paid tribute to a Boston
Indiaman, is hauled by a northern engine to
the sea-port, whence it is shipped in a north
ern vessel to its ultimate point of destina
tion, paying, in its transport, commission,
brokerage, insurance, exchange, and a host
of other charges.
The Frauds on the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad.
The conductors, by collusion with the
ticket agents, are supposed to have robbed
the company of $300,000.
Vice President Scott, of the company,
had ascertained that one conductor had pur
chased property in Philadelphia, for which
he paid $12,000 cash. Another conductor
was paying SBOO per year house rent, while
his salary was but $750. These and other
men who are living beyond their income
were watched, but nothing wrong could be
detected. It was clear, however, that a
large amount of cash collections were being
withheld daily, and it instated that as much
as 30 per cent, of the amount collected by
conductors, was retained.
Eight conductors and four ticket agents
have already been suspected. They had
regular offices in Pittsburg, Harrisburg,
and Philadelphia, and were regularly organ
ized.
Discussion between Messrs. Andrews
and Miller.
Caledonia, Sept. 29, 18G0.
EilU >rt of the Pioneer and Democrat:
On last evening Messrs. Andrews and Mil
ler met in a political discussion at this place
Mr. Andrews opened the debate, lie spoke
for one hour, and delivered ODe of the clear
est and most able expositions of Democracy
ever delivered in the County of Houston,
and oue of the most effective speeches of
the campaign. Mr. Miller followed for half
an hour. lie used nor offered no reason or
argument for his political faith. He con
sumed his entire time in appeals to the ab
olition pn judices against slavery and the
Southern States. He told his cracker sto
ry, his skunk story, his lousy Republican
story, and such stuff, closing with the charge
that the people of Virginia, Kentucky and
Missouri, were all brutes. Mr. Andrews,
in his half hour reply, gave him a most
withering rebuke for his charge of brutalism
against those States. Poor Miller and
friends, writhed and squirmed, and in order
to relieve himself, authorized Mr. Andrews
to say that he excepted Kentucky and Mis
souri, but would not withdraw his brutal
charge against the home of Washington,
Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. Mr. An
drews then forced him to admit that he was
once in full fellowship and good standing in
the Know Nothing party. He required
Mr. Andrews to offer, as evidence that he
was not now a Know Nothing, that he bad
voted five times for catholics and foreigners
in Minnesota. This, to bis Know Nothing
Republican friends, was absolutely painful.
Mr. Andrews left the Democracy of Hous
ton perfectly delighted with his speech and
with the man. Caledonia.
Mr. Woodward, of Rochester, Minneso
ta, has just shipped 200 lbs. of wormseed
oil,distilled from the seed grown at Pleas
ant Grove, in that county, by Mr. Hall,
who bad about ten acres of the herb nnder
cnltivation the past season. Mr. W. will
make another shipment of about 250 lbs. in
a few days. The oil brings from $1 40 to
$i 50 per pound in Milwankee.
PA
K««oval or the Indlaai.
To the Editor* of the Pioneer and Democrat
At a meeting of the Synod of Minnesota,
held at Red Wing, September 27th to 30th,
the following preamble and resold!iond were
adopted, and the Stated Clerk instructed to
furnish a copy for ‘‘the secular press,” for
the purposg of directing the attention of
the people, so far as possible in this way to
the subject.
C. S. L., Stated Clerk.
Whereas, in the good providence of God, the
people of Minnesota have come into possession
of the hunting grounds and burial places of the
aboriginal inhabitants;
Arid whereat, portions of these ancient peo
ple still remaid within the boundaries of our
State;
And whereas, there seems to exist in the peo
ple generally much prejudice against the in
dians, and a desire to push them away trom us,
therefore, resolved;
Ist. That this Synod feels a deep interest in
the temporal ar.d spiritual welfare of the red
man of Minnesota, and earnestly desires that
they may be brought to the knowledge and
obedience of the truth.
2d. That this Synod regards the providence
of God in bringing us into proximity to this
people, as an expression of His will, and of
our doty, in giving them the blessing of civili
zation and Christianity.
3d. That the members of this Synod feel that
we and our people have hitherto done too little
and prayed too little, for the evangelization of
the Red Men within our bounds, and that God
helping us, we will pray and do more for this
object in time to come.
4th. That this Synod believes that the inter
ests of the Indians gathered in reservation in
the State ot Minnesota do not require their re
moval, and that movements for that object
should be discountenanced and opposed by all
Christian men and good citizens.
sth. That this Synod regards it as absolutely
necessary for the weltare of these Indians that
they should have the advantages of laws prop
erly administered by the government of the
United States, protecting them in their persons
and property, both from each other and from
white men.
6th. That in the judgment of this Synod the
present policy of the government, that of lo
eating the Indian’s reservations, giving them
portions of land in severalty, and refusing fur
ther to remove them, is both wise and humane.
Hastings, Oct. stb, 1860.
Our Own State.
Rev. Mr. Clark, late of Rhode Island,
who was recently announced as having ac
cepted a call to the pastorate of the Myrtle
street church in Stillwater, has entered up
on his ministerial duties.
Mr. Seth Lore, risidiDg on the old Ter
ritorial road in Houston county, informs the
Winona Republican that from twelve acres
be has, this fall harvested 1000 bushels of
corn —equal to eighty bushels per acre ; and
the wheat crop averaged thirty bushels per
acre. As some indication of the extent to
which sheep are being imported to this
State, Mr. Lore states that he has yarded
2700 sheep within the past three weeks, on
their way from Eastern States to the inte
rior counties of Minnesota.
Mr. Bramar, of Wyattvillg, Winona
county, has given some of his experience in
threshing wheat. He says that lor one man
he threshed 125 bushels, being the yield from
four bushels and three pecks. The average
yeld to the acre was forty bushels. For
another, he got a yield of twenty-nine bush
els to the acre. The general average he
estimates at twenty-five bushels per acre.
W. L. Cleveland, of Highland, Blue
Earth county, has harvested three acres of
Yellow Flint corn, which yielded at the rate
of 100 bushels of shelled corn to the acre !
We should like to see this beat.
The Mantorville (Dodge Co.) Express
says several fine flocks of sheep, amounting
to perhaps 2,000 in all have been driven
through our place within the past week.
We noticed one very fine flock which had
been brought direct from Vermont and
another from the State of New York.
Mr. P. Scheitlin, of Minneapolis, has been
engaged for some weeks, in shipping for
New York, a large stock of Ginseng. We
understand that he sends about 350 casks,
averging 250 lbs. nett, making in all about
40 tons of the root. A heavy export or a
wild, uncultivated root.
The St. Peter Statesman says that the
pre emptors at the land office iu that place
have averaged 25 to 30 per day.
The Faribault Republican in noticing
the importation into that section, by Mr.
K. W. Dike, of about six hundred fine
wooled sheep, that had been selected with
great care, says:
We are glad to see the attention of our Min
nesota farmers turned to that branch of bus
bandry, which we believe to be the best, busi
ness they can engage in The cold, dry atmos
phere of a Minnesota winter is peculiarly &dap
ted to sheep; while the cost of sending 50
pounds of wool from Minnesota cannot be more
than the expense of sending a bushel of wheat
weighing 00 pounds. The cost of raising SIOO
worth Oi wheat wonld be fully equal to the
cost of raising the same amount of wool, many
think more, and we have heard wool growers
who paid careful attention to the care of their
flocks, estimate the value of the increase equal
to the cost of keeping. If so. there is a vast
difference in the protit; bat considering the
cost equal there is a difference of some sls
profit on every SIOO worth sent to market.
The Lake City Tribune, speaking of
some wheat raised there by Starr & Gay
lord, says:
The wheat has been threshed, and yielded a
trifle over seventy-nine bushels* The gr. nod
measured one and three-fourths acre, and the
amount sown was two bushels and twelve
pounds. Had the wheat been one-third thicker
on the ground, the yield would have been sev
enty bushels to the acre. The wheat can be had
for five dollars per bushel—just half what the
seed cost.
Some of this‘‘seventy bushels to the acre”
wheat, was exhibited at the State Fair.
Around the main head, on each stalk, other
and smaller heads wire grouped Some uf
onr farmers procu-ed small quantities of the
seed. We shall be glad to hear ol their
experience in its culture next year.
The News.
Tub Receiver of the Erie Railroad has
obtained an order of the court directing the
payment of the coupons on the third mort-<
gage bonds.
Advices from Venezuela report that the
Spanish Minister had demanded and received
his passports and left the country, the cause
of the quarrel growing out of injuries to
certain Spanish subjects, lor which Spain
demands eatistaction. It is not unlikely that
the Spanish expedition preparing at Hava
na may be intended for Venezuela and af
terwards for Mexico. Gen. Paez was ap
pointed Minister to Washington.
The officers of the slave bark Orion were
sentenced on Friday for being engaged in
the slave trade, in the United States Dis
trict Court, Boston, as follows : Thomas
Morgan, part owner of the vessel, and her
commander at the time of her capture, was
fined $2,000, and to be imprisoned two years
in jail. Byron J. Chamberlain, first mate,
was sentenced to imprisonment in jail for
two years. Wm. Dunham imprisonment for
21 months in jail.
The Overland mail with San Francisco
dates to the 17th September, arrived at Fort
Smith, Ark., on Friday, at six o’clock.
The through passengers are Frank Hall and
J. 0. Talbott. The mail came through in
eighteen days and six hours. Nothing of
public interest bad transpired along the
route ; the Indians are reported quiet.
The New York State Fair closed Friday
with the annual address. The weather has
been extremely unfavorable most of the
week, and this had the effect of seriously re
ducing the number of visitors. The total
receipts amount to SIO,OOO. The trotting
upon the Elmira track was quite spirited*
The owner of Flora Temple refused to allow
her to trot, for which various reasons were
assigned.
A large meeting of bolters from the De
mocratic ticket was held in front of the
Western Exchange Band, Omaha City,
Neb., on Friday, and were addressed by
Hon. Andrew J. Hanscom, Mr. G. Baugh,
and others. Mr. Honscom, charged some
of the candidates upon the Democraiic tick
et with corruption and malfeasance in office,
and denounced them as traitors to popular
sovereignty.
The Columbus (Ga.) Times has a dis
patch dated Miarana, Florida, Oct. 2, say
ing : “ Florida sends greeting : The Democ
racy have the State. The returns thus far
are very limited, and the result as predica
ted on them uncertain.”
One of the largest political demonstra
tions ever witnessed in Missouri, was held
at St. Joseph, on the 4th inst., by the Bell
and Everett party.
Hon. John J. Crittenden, has been in
vited by his admirers in New Albany, In
diana, to make a speech defining their duty
as Indianiuu’s in ihe present crises. Mr.
Crittenden declines speaking, but writes :
“ Ii I were a voter in the State of Indiana
and believed there was no probability that
Bell could carry the State by its popular
vote, then I would unhesitatingly give my
vote to Douglas, and I should do this think
ing that thereby I performed my duty as a
true Union man, and rendered both mv
country and Bell and Everett, the candidates
of my choice, the best service that circum
stances permitted me to do.”
A large mass meeting of Republicans,
at Cleveland, Ohio, was addressed on Thurs
day, by Senators Seward and Wade, Gen.
Nye, and others. The speakers were met
and escorted to the place of meeting by an
immense processioa of Wide Awakes, bands
of music, horseman aud carriages.
The Republicans bad a large and enthu
siastic demonstration at Lafayette, Ind., on
Friday. Crowd estimated at from 15,000
to 20 000. Hon. 11. S. Lane, of Indiana,
Gov. Randall, of Wisconsin, and others,
spoke. 'Phere were over 2,000 torches in
the procession.
The President has appointed J. J. Spren
gle of Pennsylvania, Consol to Venice, vice
Sarmiento resigned. John A. Parker, of
Virginia, Consul to Honolulu, vice Buell
declined. Chas. Richmond of Michigan,
Consol to Labuman, vice Chandler recalled,
and Wra. C. Hurchard of New York, Con
sul to Comavagna and Zegueigalpa in Hon
duras.
The three mile race over the Fashion
course, Friday, between “ Nicholas I.” and
“ Oysterman,” was won by Nicholas. Time
5:50 and 5:51)£.
Gov. Morgan, of New York, issued on
Monday, his nussage for a general thanks
giving on Thursday, Nov. 29th.
The commander of the British steamer
Gladiator was assaulted and knocked down
io the St. Charles Hotel bar-room, New
Orleans, last week.
Sixty rooms were engaged as early as
last Monday, at the Tremont House, Chi
cago, by gentlemen who are to be in -that
city on tbe occasion of tbe great ratification
meeting today (Friday)—while only six
rooms were engaged at the same house for
the Seward Demonstration, which occurred
Tuesday.