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SAINT PAUL.
Saint Paul, Friday, Novembei 30, 1860.
Disruption of the Republican Party.
There are ominous signs that the “ irre
pressible conflict” will soon threaten the
existence ol the Republican party. The
ground swell of Abolitionism is already felt,
in anticipation of the demands to be made
of the approaching administration, but upon
which hangs great events. Joshua R.
Giddings and Hon. Tho 9. Ewing are both
Lincoln men—the former, the well-known
leader of Abolitionism in Ohio. The latter,
it appears, has just made a speech in which
he said : “ The incoming executive would
enforce the Fugitive Slave Law, which the
people of the free States hold in contempt.”
Thereupon Mr. Giddings takes alarm, and
hastens to contradict an assertion so poten
tous. He says:
There is but one real issue between the Re
publican party and those factions who stand
opposed to it. That is the question of slavery.
There is really no other issue formed. The
Republicans are pledged to exert the consti
tutional powers of government in favor of lib
erty against oppression and slavery wherever
it holds exclusive jutisdiction; and if they exert
those powers to sustain slavery or the slave
trade at any time, or in any place, they will
bring upon themselves the same displeasure of
the people that the whig, the democratic and
the Bell-Everett parties have brought upon
their organizations.
At the close of his letter Mr. G. ex
presses his belief that Mr. Lincoln will re
deem his “ pledge” in relation to this matter.
When and to whom was this pledge
made? It would be interesting to have
light on the subject.
TUe Vote of Pennsylvania.
The official returns of the election in
Pennsylvania are now nomplete, with the
exception of the small county of Forest,
which gave Curtin a majority of sixty.
The result is simply amazing. The entire
vote is 475,000, a figure so slightly exceed
ing that of 1856, as to supply a just basis
of comparison. The majority of Lincoln
over the Fusion ticket is a fraction less than
ninety three thousand; over the Douglas
straight ticket, 251,168 ; over Bell, 255,-
764 ; over all opposition, 62 518. The ma
jority against the Republicans in 1856 was
165,011; and we therefore learn that at
least 175,000 voters who were opposed at
that time to the Republicans, have assisted
in raising Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency.
So extraordinary a change, embracing as it
does little less than one-half the voting
population of the State, has no precedent in
political history. If the seal of condemna
tion were wanting to the record of Mr.
Buchanan’s Administration, it is surely
affixed by this marvelous revulsion of feeling
against him in his own State.
The Warsaw Conference
Count Rechberg, Austrian Prime Minis
ter, has addressed a circular note on the
Warsaw interview to the representatives of
Austria abroad. This note states that the
object of the interview was to bind more
closely the personal friendly relations of the
three Prioces present, and to concert the
principles lor the regulation of their con
duct in case of certain eventualities. Count
Rechberg, without entering upon any de
tails as to the nature of the arrangements
concluded, announces that a perfect under
standing was established. He, however,
makes it clearly understood that non-inter
vention in the afiairs of Italy was agreed
upon, and that, although anxious to support
the principles of order and the balance of
power in Europe, the three northern courts
would do nothing which might provoke a
war.
Missouri election. —Although Douglas
has carried Missouri by some four hundred
majority, yet its electoral vote may be cast
for Bell. Quite a number of counties have
not made the return within the fifteen days
directed by law; and the Secretary of State,
who is a Breckinridge man, has not sent
after them, as he is directed by law to do.
In this way Douglas may be cheated out of
the electoral vote. Many bets have been
made on tbe State, and no honorable person
will seek to take advantage of this techni
cality. Tbe fact is undisputed that Doug
las has received a majority of the votes ot
the State, and all bets made against that
proposition have been lost.
Senator Hammond. —The Washington
correspondent of the New York Commer
cial Advertiser says Senator Hammond’s
resignation of his seat in the United States
Senate is an evidence that the intended se
cession of South Carolina is a fixed fact. A
letter from him received at Washington, a
while ago, stated that he should resign his
seat at once, unless the Legislature should
proceed to the election of a United States
Senator, to succeed him on the iourtb of
March. He was a candidate for re-elec
tion, and as the Legislature did not choose
to proceed to an election, he considers it, no
doubt, as the sense of that body that the
State should no longer have any representa
tive in the United States Senate. At any
rate, there will be none.
Financial Matters.
The political excitement of this year,
commenced to have its effect upon the
money market immediately after the Penn
sylvania election, which decided, in advance,
the Presidential contest. The subjoined
table shows the decline of public securities
since that time :
STOCKS. OCT. 10. NOV. 16. dscline.
Missouri’s. 87% 66 21%
Tennessee’s 90% 74 16%
Virginia’s 90% 60 10%
New York Central BS% 71 17%
Panama 124 106 IS
Erie 88% 26 12%
Beading 47 82 15
Hudson River 63% 43 20%
Harlem 21 13 8
Rock Island. 72 50 22
Galena. ?. 75% 57 18%
T01ed0....... 46 24 22
Illinois Central 83 52 31
Michigan Central 68 45 23
Michigan Southern guar 47% 26 21%
United States s’s, 1874. 102% 95 7%
Pacific Mail 87 70 17
We have compiled the above table care
fully from the quotations at the New York
stock board, of the dates referred to. Such
a decline of stocks, especially in State and
United States stocks, is unprecedented in
this country.
Thompson’s Reporter, of the 21st, states
that the currency panic has been equal to
that of 1857. They quote all bills south
of Washington 20 to 25 per cent, discount;
Illinois and Wisconsin, 15 discount; Ohio,
Kentucky, Indiana, and Canada 3 to 5 dis
count ; Maryland and Pennsylvania 1 to 2
discount; New York and New England
States )4 discount.
As to the condition of the Wisconsin banks,
we give the following article from the Mad
ison Journal:
From the advance sheets of the forthcoming
Report ot the State Bank Comptroller, we are
enabled to give our readers the following facts
iu relation to the condition of the Wisconsin
banks on the Ist day of October last. The
whole amount of circulating notes outstanding
was $4,451,572 which was secured by public
stocks at par value, and specie, as follows:
Wisconsin, 6 per cent SIOO,OOO 00
Minnesota, 8 do 73,000 00
California 7 do 334,000 00
Georgia, 6 do $38,500
Georgia, 7 do 20,000
Illinois, 6 do 508,250 00
lowa, 7 do 18,000 00
Indiana 5 do 78,700
Indiana 2% do 8,000
Kentucky 6 do 23,000 00
Louisiana 5 do 10,000
Louisiana 6 do 155,500
Missouri 6 do 1,408,000 00
Michigan 6 do 205,500 00
N. Carolina 6 do 596,500 00
Ohio 6 do 175,000 00
Tennessee 6 do 834,000 00
Virginini 5 do 9,600
Virginia 6 do 179,000
Racine & Mississippi R R bonds, 8 percent. 27,000 00
Milwaukee & Watertown R R bonds, 8 pr.ct. 50.000 00
$4,851,580 00
Specie 145,429 50
$5,000,009 50
The increase of securities during the year
was $87,208 50; the increase of outstanding cir
culation during the same period was $43,451.
The present Bank Comptroller, since his en
trance upon the duties of the office, has spared
no pains to get rid of Missouri and Virginia
stocks, and to supply their places with other se
curities. The followingtable shows the increase
and decrease iu the several kinds of securities
during the twelve months prior to October
Ist:
The increase has been in the following se
curities :
Minnnesota 8 per cent $73,000 00
Carolina 7 do 260,000 00
Georgia 6 do 8,000 00
lowa 7 do 8,000 00
Indiana 5 do .$23,700
Indiana 2% do 8,000
Kuutucky 6 do 12,700 00
Louisiana 6 do 8,000 00
Michigan 6 do 58,000 00
N. Carolina 6 do 290,000 00
Tennessee 6 do 127,000 00
$555,700 00
Less decrease in
Missouri 6 do $547,000 00
Virginia 5 do 96,000 00
Virginia 6 do 3,000 00
Ohio 6 do 55,000 00
Illinois 6 do 39,540 00
Pennsylvania do 9,000 00
Specie 48,951 50
SS7,2OS 50
Since this report, the Comptroller has made
a call on the banks for additional securities,
which has been promptly responded to.
At Chicago, ou Thursday last, the sale of
exchange advanced to seven and eight per
cent., aod in some cases, was sold as high
as ten per cent. The Democrat of the 22d,
says:
Messrs. Hall & Brother, of Aurora, owners
of the Bank of Aurora, aDd National Bank of
Illinois, and also of the Arctic Bank, aud Hall
& Brother’s Bank of Wisconsin, failed on Tues
day morning to open their doors for the trans
action of business. During Monday they sus
tained a decided run. Being undoubtedly very
weak from the call for specie, which has for
the past two weeks been very heavy, they
could not have been able to comply with the
call from the Auditor, aod being natural solic
tous of retaining as many deposits as possi
ble, they closed their doors. This will finish
the banks in which they are interested. One
of their depositors, who had almost $12,000
with them to his credit, hearing that they had
a run, and that they closed their doors in con
sequence, went to the office of the Recorder’s
Clerk early on Tuesday morning to record two
judgment Dotes against them. To his conster
nation he found that they (Hall & Brother) had
been there as early as 4 a. m., and recorded
their assignment.
A despatch dated Boston, November 22,
Bays:
No serious results have yet attended the
financial pressure, and remittances from the
hottest part of the South continue to come in
as usual. The statements of repudiation by
Southern creditors are untrue.
So far as this city is concerned, should the
emergency require it, the directors of all the
Boston banks propose to discount to the
amount of five million dollars, which wlil make
money easy in this city.
The Wheeling, (Va.,) Washington, (D.
C..) Norfolk, Richmond and Petersburg,
and the Baltimore banks, suspended specie
payment on the 22d. Tbe Charleston banks
are bard pressed, bat refuse to suspend until
the New York banks do.
Ticket Opfice —Gen. Wood has re
moved his office for the Stage and La Urosse
Railroad from the levee to Burbank’s Ex
press office, Heyward’s block.
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT
Late News Fr6m Europe.
We have London dates to the 14th of
November. The only item of importance
is the announcement that Gabibaldi had
issued an address to his late comrades in
arms, stating that iu the spring he would
again take the field, aud, he hoped, to lead
an army of a million of men, to other scenes
of action.
—To drive the Austrians from V enetia,
and re-establish the independence of Hun
gary, will doubtless be the aim of Garibal
di, assisted by Napoleon, the Sardinian
King, and the revolutionary element of
Europe.
California aud Oregon Election News.
The returns received in San Francisco,
up to the departure of the last Pony Ex
press, amounted in the aggregate to the fol
lowing :
Lincoln 36,588
Douglas 35,996
Breckinridge 31,216
Bell 8,026
Lincoln over Douglas, 592. There yet
remains to be heard from some five or six
thousand votes, which may change the re
sult ; but it is generally believed that Lin
coln will receive the electoral vote ol Cali
fornia, although the official returns will be
required to settle the question.
The Oregon news is compressed in the
following : “A despatch from Yreka, dated
November 14, says that as far as heard
from, Lincoln has 250 majority overßreck
inridge, and that Douglas heads Breckin
ridge 600 votes, with three small counties to
hear from.
Collector at Pembina.
We notice that James M ’Fetbidge, Esq.,
has been reappointed by the President U.
S. Collector of Customs, at Pembina. Mac
has made a vigilant and faithful officer ; but
we are afraid the guillotine next summer
will hardly spare him.
“Secession or Disunion.”
The editor of the Lynchburg, (Va.) Re
publican, who was a delegate to Charleston
and Baltimore, and who did not, we believe,
secede, though he subsequently supported
the candidates of the bolters, thus gives his
convictions of what he considers the duty of
the Cottou States—which is to withdraw
from the Union—and of the dishonor that,
in his opinion awaits the South if they re
main. Mr. Glass says:
We honestly believe the Cottou States ought
to go out of ths Union just as soon as they can
get out. And we believe so, not merely be
cause of the political greviances which they
suffer, but because if they do not go out, after
their threats and declared purposes, they will
not only disgrace themselves in the eyes of the
ivorld, aud make themselves the laughing-stock
of the North,but they will reflect dishonor upon
the whole South and Southern character. These
States cannot now retreat from the position
they have deliberately taken, even if they de
sired to do so. It is secession or dishonor with
them.
That seems to be, we regret to say, the
prevailing sentiment at the South.
Montalembert on Cavour.
Count De Montelambert is again before
the public in rather a singular way. Count
Cavour, in his late great speech on Italy
and Europe, remarked that an illustrious
writer, “in a lucid moment,” demonstrated
to Europe that liberty had been very useful
in exalting tbe religious spirit; and De
Montelambert’s friends assured him that he
was the Catholic writer intended. Where
upon he addressed a characteristic letter to
the correspondent. He says he would not
take the allusion if it bad been merely
praise, but as it contains insult; bis modesty
cannot put up with it. The Count pitches
into Cavour with a will. This will serve
to show the spirit of this letter :
Not one of your acts but wounds and revolts
me, and now you strike a fresh blow on all I
love, by masking your perverse designs under
the veil of a false accord between religion and
liberty, and in support of your assertion you
invoke mj testimony. I owe it to myself to
protest that on no point am I with yon. Thank
God, your policy is not mine.
The Count sneers at Garibaldi aud sides
with Lamorciere, aud so forth, iu a rich
and original way ; but there is ODe grati
fying passage. He says—
On our side, I dare to say it, is conscience.
On your side, I believe, it is success. Pied
mont dares everything, France permits every
thing, Italy accepts everything, and Europe
undergoes everything. Your success, I repeat
it, appears to me certain.
And hence, we Americans say, every
thing appears to be coming out about
right.
The Count is a zealous Catholic. He
thus speaks a word for his church—
Bat I say, without hesitation, a free church
in a free state is my ideal. I add that in mod
ern society the church cannot be free except
where everybody is free. That, in my eyes,
is a great blessing and a great progress. In
any case it is a fact. Let not anybody reproach
the church with not accepting all the liberties
granted by the State. In all conntries she
accepts them, and, what is more, she makes
use of them—in England, as in the United
States, in Prussia as in Holland, everywhere,
iu a word,Where she is not gagged nor impeded
by fetters specially invented for her.
CONGRESSMEN TO BE YET ELECTED. —The
following States, which have not chosen
members of the next Congress will do so at
their State elections next year, at the dates
here given :
Alabama Au? 5, 1861 Mississippi Oct. 7. 1861
California Bept 4, 186 i N MampahireMarch IS, 1861
Codu< cticut.... April 1. 1861 N. Carolina....Aag 1, 1861
Georgia Oct 1, 1861 tthode Isu»nd..April 3, 1861
Kentucky Aug i, 1861 lennessee Aug. 1 1861
Louisiana Nor 4, 1861 IVxas Aug 5. 1861
Maryland Nor 6, 1861 Virginia. May 28, 1861
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EXCITING NEWS FROM KANSAS .
Another John Brown Raid upon Mis
souri sad Arkansas.
Our readers will recollect that during the
Kansas troubles, two or three years ago,
one Capt. James Montgomery figured ex
tensively as the leader of a band of free-soij
marauders upon the pro-slavery settlers of
southern Kansas aud south-western Missou
ri. He was represented as a man similar iu
maDy respects to old John Brown ; and
closely imitated him in the religious unction
with which he cut a slaveholder’s throat.
Montgomery was driven from Kansas by
tbe Federal authorities; but he has returned
once more to the scene of his old labors, and
at a most unfortunate time, too, for tbe peace
of the country.
The following is the latest news from
Kansas:
Warsaw, Mo., Wednesday, Nov. 21.
A messenger reached here this morning,
bringing the following despatch, which has
been forwarded to the Administration at
Wasbington:
Clinton, Mo., Wednesday, Nov. 21.
The Abolitionists, with arms newly imported
from Boston, or the East, under the command
of Captain Montgomery, numbering from 300
to 500, and increasing in numbers, have at
tacked Fort Scott,Kansas,broken up the Court,
compelling myself and all the officers of the
United States District Court to fly for our lives;
they have taken the towns on the Missouri line,
the Fort Scott land office, &c. They intend to
invade Missouri.
[Signed] J. WILLIAMS.
United States Judge of the Third Judicial Dis
trict of Kansas Territory.
A military company will be organized
in this city to-morrow to aid in the sup
pression of this outbreak.
At a meeting of the citizens of Clinton,
Henry county, Missouri, it was resolved to
raise t» volunteer company to defend their
holmes, and, if necessary, the western border
of the State, and a committee was appointed
to wait on the Governor of Missouri, lay
the facts before him, aud request a supply of
arms.
The following letter has been addressed
to Gov. Stewart:
Clinton, Mo„ Wednesday, Nov. 21.
Sib: —l am here to inform the citizens of this
place of the following facts, and I have been
requested to present them to you as Governor
of the State:
The Abolitionists, under the command of
Montgomery and Dr. Pennison, to the number
of from three to five hundred, armed with
Sharpe’s rifles, dragoon sabers, navy revolvers
and Bowie-knives, have suddenly commenced
a war of extreme ferocity on the law-abiding
citizens of Southern Kansas, in the counties of
Linn and Bourbon. These arms arrived by the
wagon load at or near Mound City, about one
month since, in boxes marked as donations for
Kansas sufferers. They are all new.
Montgomery has been in Boston during part
of the summer, and returned with plenty of
money to enlist recruits. Many of his men are
newly imported. He has taken possession of
Fort Scott and other towns on the border near
the Missouri line. He has murdered Mr. Moore,
a Grand Juror,Mr. Harrison, Mr. Samuel Scott,
Mr. Hinds, and obliged all of the United States
officers, including myself, to fly for our lives.
His own expresssd design in a public speech,
as he said without concealment, is to keep
possession of Fort Scott, and other places
near the Missouri lines, to prevent a fire in the
rear, while he cleaned out Southwest Missouri
of slaves. So far he has carried out literally
his declared programme.
The citizens of Missouri on the Osage and
Mermahon Rivers, in Bates and Vernon coun
ties, are flying from their houses into the in
terior. He boasts that he has money and arms
to sustain ana equip one thousand men. My
Court was broken up by them, the United
States Court for the Southern District, and I
suspect that they have seized the records; also,
the records of the Land Office, as he publicly
declared he would do so. Yours,
J. WILLIAMS,
United States Judge of the Third Judicial
District of Kansas Territory.
Kansas City, Wednesday, Nov. 21.
United States Marshal, F. T. Colby, and
party, ol Kansas Territory, arrived here
this evening. They left Fort Scott on
Monday last, and briDg the following par
ticulars relative to the operations of Mont
gomery and his men.
United States Judge Williams and the
officers of the Court were obliged to flee to
Missouri, fearing an attack.
Samuel Scott, of Linn county, was taken
from his bouse on the morning of the 18th
inst., and hung. Many prominent citizens
have been arrested, but their fate is yet un
known.
Reynolds & Co., of Fort Scott; Craw
ford & Co., of Chouteau’s trading post and
other merchants of the Territory, are re
moving their goods to Missouri—the roads
are lined with teams leaving the Territory.
Mr, Hoflbagle, postmaster at Mapleton,
was arrested and threatened with hanging,
but succeeded in making his escape.
Later. —Rumors are in circulation here
of the burning of Fort Scott, but they are
not generally credited.
Warsaw, Mo., Nov. 22.
A mass meeting was held here to-day for
the purpose of organizing a military com
pany to go if necessary to the aid of our
brothers on the border.
Resolutions were passed among them to
the following effect:
Resolved, That we do not desire in any way
to interfere with Kansas Territory or its citi
zens while they confine themselves to their
own soil, but we owe to the citizens of our
own State a duty when assailed by a band of
midnight assassins, which we pledge ourselves
to perform.
Resolved, That, in our opinion, the Presi
dent should at once take such decided and
prompt action in the enforcement of the laws
and the suppression of outlaws as the exigency
of the times demands, and that it is the
duty of the Governor of Missouri at once to
send men and arms along our western border,
to protect our citizens and enforce the laws.
Various committees were appointed,
when the meeting adjourned till next Sat
urday.
The following handbill is now circulated
through the county;
TO ARMS!
WARSAW, Nov, 22.
Our State has been invaded, and our friends
mardered, by a band of Abolitionists from
Kansas, under the lead of Montgomery. Fort
Scott baa been taken by them; the Circuit
Court has been broken up, and some of the
grand jury and eitizens murdered. Missouri is
threatened. A military company is to be formed
at Warsaw on Saturday next, and let the peo
ple come in en masse. Our country is in dan-
ger. Bally! rally! Let us prepare to defend
our homes.
Signed, D. C. Ballows, MarkL. Means, James
Alkinson, D. F. Alexander, James E. Barkley,
committee.
Col. Roberts, of Vernon, passed Oceola
yesterday as a messenger to tin Governor
for aid.
It was rumored on the street to-day,
but since denied, that Ball’s mills, in Ver
non county, had been burned by Montgom
ery.
Montgomery declares that he intends
carrying on the war till he frees every negro
in southwest Missouri. *
Large quantities of guns, revolvers,
cutlasses, and other war implements have
been shipped to Kansas as food for the
suffering. They were sent from the east.
Unless the President sends out troops to
take and hang Montgomery and his men, we
may expect for many months a reign of
terror on the border.
THE KANSAS NEWS AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, Nov. 21.
The Government has just been officially
informed of the troubles in Kansas. Seve
ral dayß ago letters were received from
responsible parties, addressed to the proper
authorities, that Captain Montgomery had
a force ol probably five hundred men, with
plenty of arms, ammunition aud other ma
terial aid, and from time to time warlike
supplies have been received by him from the
North.
The writer also says that the demand to
adjourn the land sale would be resorted to
as a mere pretext for raising an armed force,
and that the real object of this lawless or
ganization is a raid, first, on the frontiers of
Missouri, and then on Arkansas and the
Western border, to aveDge the punishment
of Abolition emissaries.
Gov. Medary has recently communicated
some important particulars relative to
Captain Montgomery’s reported alarming
movemeuts. United States troops will be
forthwith ordered into Kansas at such
points as may be necessary lor the protection
of the land offices in the performance ol
their duty, as well a 3 the public property
menaced, including Fort Scott.
Lincoln’s Southern Correspondence.
A Springfield (111.) correspondent of the
New York Tribune writes as follows of Mr.
Lincoln’s correspondence from the South.
It would seem from the paragraph we quote
that the newly-elected President’s large
mail from that portion of the Union is not
entirely composed of solicitations lor office,
as some of the Repubiicau papers would
like to make their readers believe. The
correspondence says:
I mentioned that Mr. Lincoln had already
quite a large correspondence with the South.
There are many of his letters from that
quarter which the country ought to see.
Missives which no decent man could write
are abundant; their postmarks reveal that
tbe vocabulary of Billingsgate is not con
fined to tbe Five Points or Marshal Ryn
ders’ office. Unfortunately, the earmarks
of some of them show that their writers are
not devoid of education, if destitute of de
cency. Letters threatening death, in all its
forms, as the penalty of his high position,
are more abundant still. They are, of
course, mainly anonymous, though a few
bear real names. Some are signed in hiero
glphics, said to be known only to the “Sa
cred Order” or “Southern Brotherhood,”
which threatens Mr. Lincoln with a sudden
and uutimely tak'mg off. A few are orna
mented with sketches of executions by the
gibbet, assassination by the stiletto, or
death by a ligbtniDg stroke; and in nearly
ail the theology of the writers is indicated
by rude caricatures of the Devil, ready with
his three-pronged fork to receive and pitch
into everlasting fire the body of the unfor
tunate Lincoln, whose offense consists in the
belief that human slavery is wrong. He is
not, I am glad to say, annoyed by these.
Assured that no man who will write anon
ymous and threatening letters is worthy of
being feared, he tosses all such aside, as he
says, to illustrate, at some future day, the
comical side of his Administration.
The Vice President’s Organ on Se
cession.
From the Lexiiigton [Ky.] Statesman, organ of Vie*
President >reckieridge.
There is yet no just cause for revolut : on
or dissolution. The Union commands our
cordial allegiance; to it we shall be loyal
until its basis, the Constitution has been
actually destroyed. Kentucky will not
surrender the Union. Our people are as
gallant aud spit ited defenders of their rights,
and as little disposed to submit to wrong
and dishonor, as any men who tread the
soil of America. They will not permit
themselves to be degraded nor their rights
invaded; but they do not believe tbe time
has come for revolution, and will yet cliDg
to the Union with the devotion of tbe true
sods of ’76.
To our Southern friends we would ear
nestly appeal to await the full develop
ment of Lincoln’s policy before striking
tbe fatal blow to the Union. Kentucky is
a border State, aod, as such, the first anu
greatest sufferer by Abolition ascendency.
Our State is a barrier of protection to the
Cotton States against anti-slavery aggres
sions. Our friends in the South can cer
tainly bear the Administration of Lincoln
as long as we can. Thee, let them heed the
voice of Kentucky, stand true to the UnioD,
and not exhaust all hope of yet maintaining
the Constitution. The Democracy of Ken
tucky, those men who, in the support of
Mr. Breckinridge, have given earnest of
their fidelity to the rights of the South,
will appeal to the South to give up what
ever movements are now in contemplation,
and, like patriots, uphold the Constitution
aDd the Union. Do this, and all may yet
be well.
New York Banks.— The weekly av
erage? of the banks of the City of New York,
on Saturday, N ovember 17,1860, present
in the aggregate the following changes from
the previous exhibit of November 10 :
Decrease in Loans $2,365,691
Decrease in Specie.. 1,661,019
Decrease in Circulation 281,795
Decrease in Undrawn Deposits 2,835,633
The News.
Advices from Buffalo, dated 24th iost.,
state that a heavy gale was blowing at that
time, accompanied with rain and snow. It
is feared that many vessels will be injured,
as there were about one hundred between
that place and Chicago. Many vessels were
torn from their moorings and dashed against
each other.
The, President and Vice Presidentelect
met for the first time in Chicago on Thurs
day last. Mr. Lincoln arrived in Chicago
on Wednesday evening accompanied by
Gov. Wood aud Senator Trumbull. Mr.
Hamlin arrived the next morning - On Fri
day, the two notabilities held a levee at the
Tremont House, and were waited on by
citizens irrespective of party. Mr. Lincoln
returned to Springfield on Saturday. He
declined all public demonstrations in his
honor, his visit to Chicago being expressly
to meet Mr. Hamliu, and transact some pri
vate business, with a view to leaving tbe
State for four years.
Mr. Douglas passed Vicksburg on the
16th, on his way to his children's plantation
in Louisiana. He would remain there a few
days, when he would be joined by bis family,
and proceed to Washington, via. Chicago.
The steamer Pacific was burned on the
Ohio, at Uniontown, Ky., on the night of
the 18th inst. The flames, fed by hay and
other combustibles, spread with lightning
like rapidity, and in a few moments the boat
was enveloped in flames. Among the lost
was the Captain, Mr. Lamb, and some thir
teen or fourtean others We quote the
following incident from an account of the
burning of the boat:
The devotedness of woman’s love and fideli
ty was never more beautifully evinced than in
the conduct of Airs. McDonald. Her hasband
was extremely low with consumption, and
when the terrible alarm was given, his life went
out, his shattered energies being unequal to the
shock. But Mrs. McDonald refused to leave
the body of her cherished husband. She of
fered princely rewards to any ore who would
save the body, and bravely stood by the be
loved corpse, while the fire surged and swept
around her, and then bore it herself to the
guards of the boat, hoping that both might be
rescued. The lady was only herself saved by
the firmness of the mate, who forced her into
the yawl, and carried her to the shore. Such
heroic devotedness is without a parallel.
A Washington letter says Gen. Cass has
been a heavy loser in sticks, and at the last
Cabinet meeting was so excited by his losses
as to cause quite an explosion by his denun
ciation of the disunionists.
Georgia is likely to present an interest
ing case ot disfranchisement in the choice of
President, which, if the vote would change
the result, might cause great embarrasment.
Her law requires Presidential electors to
receive a majority of all tbe votes cast,
failing in which their appointment devolves
upon the Legislature. The Federal law re
quires the electors in all the States to be
appointed on the same day. The people of
Georgia having made no choice in obedience
to the State law, it is too late for the Leg
islature to do it in conformity with Federal
law, aud her voice is lost. The Governor,
however, in a special message, advised the
Legislature to elect E ectors on Satur
day last. This was done.
Mr. McLane, our Minister to Mexico,
has resigned bis post, for reasons which he
states, and one of which is, that he is cer
tain that he can do no good by remaining
there, or by attempting to negotiate anoth
er treaty. The President has appointed
Ex-Gov. Weller, of California, in tbe place
of Mr. McLane. Whether any treaty is to
be made or not, tbe interests of the United
States require the watchful care of a Minis
ter there. Besides, the naval force which
we still maintain in the Gulf of Mexico, is,
to some extent, under the orders of our
Minister at Vera Cruz.
Men who would Vote Differently Now.
A friend witnessed a scene at the levee
tbe other day, which is significant, and in
dicates the experience of mauy farmers in
the Northwest, and especially of foreigners.
Several Norwegian farmers were endeavor
ing to sell their wheat, which had been
hauled to St. Paul from a considerable dis
tance. Fifty cents a bushel seemed to them
a very—very small price, and elicited con
siderable grumbling. The grain buyer ex
plained the reason—told them of the politi
cal troubles, and said they should not have
voted for Lincoln, whose election had
caused the financial crisis, &c. “ Yes,” said
the Norwegian, “that’s just it I was
told that if I voted for Lincoln, that I
would get a better pi ice for my grain, and
now, that Lincoln is elected, I have to sell
it for almost nothing.
—We don’t approve of the price of wheat
affecting a man’s vote; but the above shows
that certain arguments indulged in by reck
less politicians, like curses, come home to
roost. That Norwegian will look below
the surface hereafter, in the matter of voting.
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press says: “ It is the fashion
ot some of the venerable fossils of the bench
and bar of New York to elevate their noses
at the newly-elected Judge of the Supreme
Court, George G. Barnard. This usual
maneuvre arises from the fact that Jndge
Barnard is the youngest man ever elevated
to the Supreme Court of this State, being
only twenty-nine years of age. He received
15,000 majority.”