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Hmnter# Democrat
SAINT PAUL.
Saint Paul, Friday, Decembei Id, 1860.
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of this notice.
JAMES M. WINSLOW
EARLE S. GOODRICH.
St. Paul, December 3,1860.
Vermont.
The news of the action of the Vermont
Legislature, on the proposition to repeal the
so-called personal-liberty bill of that State,
has been generally received with feelings of
profound regret. The proposition was re
jected by a vote of two to one, after which
the Legislature adjourned sine die. The
Committee, to which had been referred the
bill to repeal the obnoxious law, reported
recommending its passage. In the report
the Committee say:
While we retain this law on onr statute book,
we are estopped for very shame as a party in
part delicte from rebuking nullification or seces
sion in other States. By repealing the law we
shall perform an act of simple justice to our
selves and the States with whose rights the law
conflicts, and shall do mnch to encourage the
hope of patriotic men every where, that the
bond wioh has so long held the states in one
great and prosperous union may survive the
perilous discontents of the time, and endure
for ages to come.
The action of the Vermont Legislature,
at this time, is most unfortunate. The Die
unionists of tbe South can point to that
Republican State as an evidence of North
ern feeling, and how will the Union men of
that section answer it ?
Lincoln’s Cabinet.
The Springfield, (111.) correspondent of
tbe St. Louis Republican says:
If we may jadge from what the friends of Mr.
Lincoln here say, he will endeavor to secure
the services of snch men for his Cabinet as are
considered conservative, and not ultra upon
the slavery question, among whom are men
tioned Jnage McLean of Ohio; Judge Reed, of
Pennsylvania; Judd, of Illinois ; Bates, of Mis
souri ; Etheridge, of Tennessee; Henry Winter
Davis, of Maryland. There are also mentioned
in this connection, Gilmer, of South Carolina;
John Minor Botts, of Virginia, and several oth
ers of that class, providing they can be induced
to accept. It is said that there is more than a
probability that Judge McLean will be offered
the first office in the Cabinet.
The Electoral Vote of Virginia.—
Governor Letcher’s proclamation issued
on the 25th, divides the electoral vote of
Virginia as follows: Nine for Mr. Bell,
and six for Mr. Breckinridge. He is
brought to this conclusion in the face of an
apparent majority for Mr. Bell, by an im
plied acquiescence in the opinion of the
Attorney General on questions arising from
informalities in the returns. There is much
indignation among the Bell men, who be
lieve it to be a Democratic fraud.
Tbe Breaking up of the Mlnnesotian’s
Scheme to Deflraud the Pnhll® of
Telegraphic News.
We are very far from proposing to enter
into a controversy with the other papers of
this city in justification of the enterprise of
this office in furnishing the public, inacL
vance of them, with the latest and freest
intelligence. This is directly iu the line of
our business, and has been, for these six
years, our unvarying custom. So fixed has
this habit become, that, were we to allow
it to be made a subject of controversy with
those whose lack of enterprise and news
paper tact and talent subjects them to the
mortification of inferiority, we should be
perpetually pestered with personal alterca
tions. Such a course is forbidden both by
self-respect, and a just appreciation of pro
fessional propriety.
We will, however, notice so much of the
Minnesotian's statement as impugns the
good faith of one of the gentlemen connect
ed with this establishment. That gentle
man informs us that bis conversations with
the editor of the Minnesottan have been ut
terly misrepresented. The several offices
never took the telegraphic dispatches in
common; but each one, from the first,
made its independent arrangement with the
Telegraph;Company. The card published
by tbe three offices was simply intended to
inform the public of the grounds on which
the offices had decided to drop the dis
patches, and it, was prepared and signed
by all, that there might be uniformity
in the statement of reasons for the step
taken. The idea that this office would
make its receipt and use of telegraphic or
other news hinge upon the whims of any
other office, and thns, so far as newspaper
enterprise is concerned, transfer its manage
ment to an outside aud competing party, is,
on tbe face of it, ridiculous. We havn’t
been iu the habit of conducting this paper
on any such basis, aud we are certain that
the gentleman whose conduct is impugned
by the Minnesotian, never proposed to com
mit us to such au absurdity.
If, however, the editor of the Minneso
tian labored uDder such au impression when
the card was signed, his miud must have
been disabused, at an interview had at our
residence, after its publication. At that
interview, we distinctly repudiated tbe card,
so far as it presumed to interfere with the
business arrangements of Mr. Winslow, by
making the discharge of Mr. Gallup a
condition precedent to the receipt of farther
dispatches. We then also distinctly stated
that our only objection to the taking of the
dispatches, was, that they bad not, been
complete and continuous; leaving it as the
necessary inference, that, whenever arrange
ments could be made for full reports, this
office would be ready aud anxious to receive
them.
The construction placed by the Minneso
tian upon the card in question, together
with its course since it was published,
shows that the design of that paper was to
prevent further dispatches being taken by
any member of the press in St. Paul; and
that its action was, therefore, in the nature
of a conspiracy to defraud the public of
what it is entitled to receive from newspa
pers—reliable intelligence at the earliest
possible moment. It pretends that the
agreement was, that telegraphic dispatches
should not be received by either of the papers
here, except by the concerted action of all;
while, at the same time, and nearly every
day, it was publishing abusive articles about
the telegraph liue aud its proprietor, the
necessary effect of which was to prevent
Mr. Winslow from entering into any ar
rangement for their resumption. It will be
seen that the Minnesotian had its scheme
very ingeniously laid. It assumed that we
could not honorably take farther dispatches
without its co-operation j and, by its per.
sistent and unwarranted abase of Mr.
Winslow, it placed itself where it coaid
have no negotiations with him. It, there
fore, follows that there could be no farther
telegraphic dispatches, according to the
Minnesotian's scheme and logic.
And it further followed, —and that was
the pitb of tbe whole matter, —that the
Minnesotian would thus be relieved from the
weekly expenditure of the cost of the dis
patches. We have no wish to allude to the
sensitive point of onr contemporary’s finan
ces, bat it seems to as, that, by the exercise
of common prudence, the Minnesotian might
have saved enough from its last winter’s
printing to pay the trifling sum of ten
dollars a week for dispatches, and have thus
relieved itself from the necessity of initia
ting a conspiracy to deprive the public of
news, and from its impudent attempt to
connect us with such a conspiracy.
—And, recurring to last winter’s print
ing, did onr friend, the Doctor, ever hear
of the adage, “ It’s a long lane that knows
no turning ?”
—Which is all we have to say.
The Legislature of Vermont has refused
to repeal the Personal Liberty act of that
State. The vote to repeal was fifty-eight
(25 Bepublicans, 33 Democrats); the vote
against repealing was 125, (all Bepubli
cans.)
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.
The Times on the Telegraph.
It is sufficient,—in reference to the com
plaint of the Times, that Mr. Winslow’s
contract with this office deprived it of all
chance even to compete for the newspaper
dispatches,—to say, that that paper had
been refused dispatches for some days be
fore their stoppage by the other papers, and
that this refusal was made because the limes
would not pay for them according to its
agreement. The Times will be in better
condition to criticise tbe business arrange
ments of Mr. Winslow with this office,
when it has paid its telegraph bills.
“National Fraternity”—The Fugitive
Slave Law and Personal Liberty
Laws.
The Winona Republican don’t respond
very heartily to our suggestion, that it
should imitate the example of the gallant
Stephens, of Georgia, and labor to put
down sectional fanaticism at the North.
It depends with the Republican, and thou
sands of others iu the free States, in preach
ing and practicing political moderation,
“whose ox is gored.” No words are suffi
cient to express their abhorrence of southern
fanaticism; but point to them instances of
northern nullification, and it is quite a dif
ferent matter. “State rights,” (the very
argument used by the hot-heads of the
South) are invoked, and columns of wordy
fnstian expended, not addressed to the
reason of meD, but intended to inflame their
passions. The two extremes, north and
south, pursue an identical policy.
The Republican, and it is but one of a
class, “recoils from obedience to the Fugi
tive slave law.” Yet that law is in strict
accordance with the Constitution, and has
been so decided, over and over again, by the
highest tribunals in the land. The Consti
tution could never have been framed, had it
not contained a provision for the rendition
of fugitive slaves. This has been disputed;
but Justice M’Lean, of the Supreme Court
—a good Republican, and talked of for Sec
retary of State in the new Administration
—in a fugitive case which was before him, in
1853, made the following statement: “With
out a provision on the subject, no constitu
tion could have been adopted. 1 speak from
information received from the late Chief Jus
tice Marshall, who was one of tbe chief
actors in that day, than whom no man living
was of higher authority.” Mr. Webster
in a speech delivered iu May, 1851, said
that the Fugitive law “was right, proper,
expedient and just.” He says, further, that
the fugitive provision in the Constitution,
was “nowhere objected to, North or South,
but was considered as a matter of absolute
right to the Southern States.” Yet
many thousands of Northern men, like the
Winona Republican, “recoil from obedience
to the law,” framed to carry out this pro
vision of the Constitution. In what man
ner, then, does their conduct differ in guilt
from the nullification of the Disuuiouists of
the South ? Each class of extremists pro
pose to submit merely to that portion of the
Federal compact which coolers benefits, but
each agree iu repudiating every obligation
and duty imposed by tbe same instrument
— The so-called personal liberty laws are
intended for but one purpose, and that is to
nullify the provision of the Constitution
requiring the surrender of fugitive slaves.
This is sought to be done by barrassing the
owner, iu the attempt to reclaim his pro
perty, by penalties of fine and imprisonment.
In seven States of the North, laws of this
character are on the statute books. No
claimant would encounter the risks that
attend him, iu these States, in the prosecu
tion of his rights; aud no more effectual
way of nullifying the Constitution and the
laws of Congress could have been devised.
Yet the Supreme Court of tbe United
States, in the Prigg case, in which a law of
Pennsylvania was declared unconstitutional
because it obstructed owners of slaves iu
the recovery of their property, declared,
Justice Story delivering its opinion, that:
“ The slave is not to be discharged from
service or labor in consequence of any State
law or regulation. Now, certainly, with
out indulging in any nicety of criticism
upon words, it may fairly aDd reasonably
be said, that any State law or State regula
tion which interrupts, limits, delays, or post
pones the right of the owner to the immedi
ate possession of the slave, and the immediate
command of his service or labor, operates,
pro tanto, as a discharge of the slave there
from.” No one, we suppose, will declare
that these personal liberty laws do not
“ interrupt, delay or postpone the right of
the owner to the immediate possession of
his slave.” “ Such regulations,” the Court
then goes on to declare, “ can never be per
mitted to interfere with, or to obstruct the
just rights of the owner to reclaim his slave
derived from the Constitution of the United
States, or with the remedies prescribed by
Congress to aid and enforce the same."
lf the movement inaugurated within
the Republican party, for the repeal of these
obnoxious State laws, is successful, much
will be done to restore harmony between
the States, and fraternal feeling among tbe
people. Bnt if it is defeated by the influ
ences of anti-slavery fanaticism, we have
little hope of the future.
The Popular Vote of the Union.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has been making
up a table of the popular vote of the Union.
It has the official vote from every State but
eleven, aud iij these, its estimates approxi
mate within a few hundreds of tbe official
canvass. Tie total vote of tbe Union, ac
cording to tie Enquirer, will be very nearly
as follows:
Lincoln. ...1 1,846,203
Douglas. 1,564,650
Breckinridgt 675,782
Bell Tj 580,249
Total vot# 4,666,884
As between Lincoln and Anti-Lincoln
the vote stands :
Opposed td Lincoln 2,820,681
In favor of Lincoln 1,846,203
974,478
The majority of the people of the United
States who voted against Lincoln is nearly
a million! Still under our Constitution had
all that Anti-Lincoln strength been thrown
for one man, Lincoln would have been
elected.
The popular and electoral votes thus com
pare :
Electoral Votes. Popular Votes.
Lincoln 180 1,846,203
Douglas 12 1,564,650
Breckinridge 78 675,782
Bell 33 580,249
303 4,666,884
Mr. Lincoln gets an electoral vote for
every ten thousand votes from the people.
Mr. Douglas gets one for every one hundred
and thirty thousand votes he received, aud
Mr. Breckinridge receives one electoral vote
for every nine thousand votes, and Mr. Beil
one for every eighteen thousand votes. If
the Electoral College correctly represented
the popular sentiment, Mr. Douglas would
have more than twice as many electoral
votes as Breckinridge, whereas Breckinridge
has more than six electoral votes to Doug
las’ one.
The popular vote of the Union has in
creased a half a million since 1856, and it
is twice as great as it was in 1840, twenty
years ago. The following was the vote in
1856:
Bachanan 1,838,232
Fremont 1,341,514
Fillmore 874,703
Personal Items.
Joseph Wright, of Waterloo, N. Y.,
has presented a full-blooded horse, worth
SSOO, to Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota.
Bo says au exchange.
The U. S. Minister, Mr. Dallas, Lord
Palmerston, and Lord and Lady John Bus
sell are on a visit to her Majesty at Wind
sor. The London Observer remarks that the
invitation of the American Minister to
Windsor so soon after the arrival of the
Prince of Wales, in company with the heads
of the government, is a proof and a grateful
acknowledgment of the hospitality of the
President, and the attention and enthusiasm
exhibited by all ranks and classes of the
people of the United States.
Sir John Bowrino, the diplomat and
poet, was married on the Bth alt., in a Uni
tarian chapel at Bristol, to Miss Deborah
Castle.
Henry Ward Beecher says : “ I think
there is not one man in ten thousand that is
fit to bear more than one sermon a day, or
that is fit for anything else if he has heard
more than one.”
Con. for Republicans. —Why is Vanity
Fair like the Presidential election ? It is
Able in Cons.
Mr. Kalloch, although in the law in
Kansas, still preaches almost every Sunday,
and is much sought for.
Of the nearly two hundred electoral votes
abont to be given for Mi. Abaham Lincoln,
two will be cast by the distinguished Amer
ican poetß Wiliam Cnllen Bryant and John
Greenleaf Whittier. These are not the
first instances in which great poets have
taken parts in public affairs. Old Chaucer
was a Custom House officer—not, however,
under such an administration as the present;
Milton was one of the first statesmen Of
England ; Sir Philip Sidney lent his life to
bis country and his age; Addison was
Secretary of State; Byron quitted the pen
and took tbe sword for liberty in Greece;
our gifted contributor, Mrs. Browning, sits
by her Casa Guidi windows and watches as
eagerly as Garibaldi the conflict in Italy.—
Independent.
Father Freeman, the tract missionary
of Baltimore, is supposed to be the only one
alive in this country that served his time as
sailor on board that ill-fated ship tbe Erebus,
which was cast away in the Polar regions
with Sir John Franklin. In his early life
he was “pressed” on board the Erebus in
1810. He may be daily met with in all
sections of Baltimore, busily engaged in dis
tributing tracts and extending aid in the
way of charities to many of the deserving
ones that fall in his way.
Gov. Banks is in the city, and paid hia re
spects yesterday to His Honor Mayor Wood, at
the City Hall.— N.Y. News.
It is understood that the meeting of the
two gentlemen is for the purpose of forming
a mutual admiration society—the Duke of
Newcastle having pronounced them the two
best specimens of “representative men” he
met with in this country.
In New York, on Friday, stocks were
dull and lower, and dosed at a decline. The
rates of money were without change.
How the Minnesotian Obtains its
Late News—A Narrative, with a
“ Moriale,” Dedicated to Dr. Thomas
Foster.
Since the Pioneer and Democrat has
broken up the conspiracy of the Minnesotian,
to deprive the people of St. Paul of late
telegraphic news, our handsome friend, Dr.
Foster, has been sorely troubled iu spirit.
The genial smile which was wont to illu
minate the Websterian massiveness of the
Doctor’s face, has given way to a studied aud
unamiable frown—very alarming to small
children, and decidedly dangerous to ladies
of prospective delicate health. The first
recourse the Doctor had, was to issue a
second edition of his paper, in which he
presented to his subscribers the news which
most of them had taken with their coffee,
hours before, in the Pioneer and Demo
crat. This worked badly. The Doctor had
not studied Machiaveli, however, for
naught; and—happy thought—he concluded
to corrupt one of our employees! The
Doctor, without very great trouble, dis
covered that Mr. Joseph Grandelmyer,
our Pressman, for and in consideration of the
sum of one dollar, to be to him paid diur
nally, would place under a certain stone on
Fourth street, (we have sent that stone to
Barncm) at the hour of three o’clock each
morning, a copy of the Pioneer and Demo
crat, for that day, containing the latest
telegraphic news. On Friday morning
early, when the good Doctor should
have been in bed, he was seen groping,
“ spectacles on nose,” among the boulders
of Fourth street. He found the paper in its
appointed receptacle. All right so far; but
the Doctor was not be caught by chaff—
not he; he hadn’t worn moccasins for noth
ing. There might be a trick; so with rare
judgment the issue of the Minnesotian was
kept back, until an early copy of our paper
was secured, and, by a comparison, it was
ascertained there was no bogus news afloat
—that the arrangement was carried out in
good faith. Fair sailing ahead ! ll Now,"
thought the Doctor, “on Saturday morning
we will lay those fellows out.” Saturday
morning came. Again the Doctor visited
Fourth street. The paper was found in tbe
right place; the news was important;
printers were hauled from their comfortable
beds; and, in a trice, by unprecedented
industry and energy, the Minnesotian,
“Thomas Foster, Editor,” announced to a
wondering and astonished people, that Bu
chanan had been stabbed— lverson in
sulted—Seward had written a Union letter
— Sanborn had been tarred and feathered
on the sacred precincts of Bunker Hill, and
a variety of other interesting matters, in
cluding a “decline of eight cents below yes
terday’s prices,” in tbe article of Flour at
New York!
—The Pioneer and Democrat did not
have the news! The Minnesotian, with
characteristic selfishness, kept it to itself
It forgot all about newspaper comity. It
never reflected how bad we would feel, at
being beaten in our peculiar field of enter
prise.
“Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity,
Under the sun!”
—When the Doctor got his paper out,
he did not even have the magnanimity to
enjoy his triumph in quietness. He walked
our streets, from seven until eight o’clock,
glorying over his victory. He was, as a
roaring lion, seeking whom he might de
vour. Meeting A , just rising from a
perusal of the Minnesotian, with vague no
tions that everything mundane had been
consigned to old Nick, the Doctor greeted
him with boisterous merriment. “Ha, ha,
old fellow,” said he, “money don’t always
control late news; brains 1 man, brains! !
have something to do with getting out a live
newspaper.” Candor compels us to say,
that soon afterwards, the Doctor retired
fromjthe streets; and,we believe, Jack Ward
couldn’t have found him during the rest of
the day, if he had had a bill three feet long,
for collection. N
—ln closing, we must perform an act of
justice to Mr. Grandelmyer, our pressmaD,
In him, the good Doctor caught a Tartar—
slightually a tartar! His account with Dr.
Foster is as follows :
Dr. Thomas Foster
To Joseph Grandelmyer, Dr.
Dec. 6—To 1 copy Pioneer and Demo
crat SI,OO
Dec. 7—To 1 copy of same, for which on
account of important news, $5 was
to be paid, as per special agreement.. $5.00
Total $6,00
Dec. 7—Received, per Dr. Foster SI,OO
Leaving a balance of $5,00
which Mr. Grandelmyer hopes and ex
pects will be promptly arranged.
The Exports of American Produce.—
The exports from New York last week footed
up the portly aggregate of $2,421,176
nearly a million more than the total in the
corresponding week last year. Since the
Ist of Janaary the aggregate reaches $90,-
616,126, against $60,652,663 last year. An
increase of thirty millions of dollars in what
we have sold to foreign countries is certainly
a gratifying fact in these days of business
and political panic. Persons well posted
in the produce trade express confidence that
the exports of 1860 will exceed those of
1859 by about five-and-thirty millions of
dollars.
The Bareli Case—Examination of
David Stuart.
It will be recollected that in the confes
sion of Mrs. Burch, she acknowledged be
ing guilty of criminal intimacy with David
Stuart. On the 30th inst., Stuart was
called for the defence. His testimony is
lengthy, but all tends to one conclusion, viz:
that he had never had criminal inter
course with Mrs. Burch. This statement
he makes in tbe most direct and unequivo*
cal language. He acknowledged that he
had been on very friendly terms with Mrs.
8., originating in acts of kindness on her
part, while he was sick. We have not room
to publish aoy portion of Stuart’s evidence,
but it is as full and complete a denial of the
confession of Mrs. Burch, and of the charges
made against her, as it is possible to frame.
He also explains away many suspicions
circumstances brought out in the evidence
of the complainant’3 witnesses.
During the examination it came out that
Stuart had consulted Van Arman and
Dexter, in regard to the case, prior to their
being retained by Burch, and that he had
reposed great confidence in them, and en
deavored to have them retained for Mrs-
Burch. Stuart charged in his testimony
that Van Arman had acted unfriendly to
him, and Dexter unprofessionally. This
liitle incident created some feeling between
the parties.
—The case as it now stands presents very
remarkable complications. Mrs. Burch, it
will be remembered, contends that the con
fessions were extorted from her by force.
The New Kingdom of Italy
The Turin correspondent of the Daily
News says : “A new proclamation of King
Victor Emanuel, and a communication
rciisonne to be addressed to all the Courts
of Europe, are the principal documents
forthcoming on the subject of the acquisi
tion of the throne of the Two Siciles. For
the first time Victor Emanuel will be offici
ally styled King of Italy. All official acts,
papers, money, &c., will henceforth be in
scribed “ Kingdom of Italy.” It is believed
that your Government will immediately
recognize the new title; that the French
Government will begin by merely quoting
such acts with this title in the ‘ non-official’
part of the Moniteur, and will then, step by
step, proceed towards a complete recogni
tion of it. The other Governments will
proceed still more cautiously; some will
even protest; but if the new Kingdom pros
pers and becomes powerful, it will be re
cognized by all. This is tbe way of the
world, and in this way facts far less illegiti
mate than the Italian revolution have at
length been quietly accepted.”
Alabama—Card from John Forsyth.
In the Mobile Register of the 25th ult.,
we find a card from Hon. John Forsyth,
announcing himselt as a candidate for dele
gate to the convention called to consider the
duty of Alabama in present crisis. He
mentions the fact that his name already
appears at the head of two papers in that
city on a ticket of candidates for delegates
by no instigation or solicitation of his; that
under other circumstances he would have
chosen to stay at home; “but,” he contin
ues, “my opponents have forced me to waive
my private inclinations, and to pick up the
gauntlet they have thrown down to me, in
support of my character, my principles, my
southern loyalty, and my good name before
my fellow citizens.”
He does not presume that the hostility
evinced toward him arises from personal
hatred or dislike, but from his persistent
advocacy of Senator Douglas’ claims dnring
the campaign jHst clossd. He says further:
Por my part in that contest I have no apolo
gies to make, no regrets to feel, no steps to
retrace, no pardon to receive from any mortal
man or party of men, living or dead. I did my
duty and my whole duty in the support of the
only vital principle upon which the govern
ment of the Union could subsist. The people
of the United States, both North and South,
have rejected the man and condemned the
principle, and left us to choose the Union with
the “irrepressible conflict” still raging, or Ala
bama independent, out of it.
Our readers wish for the THE NEWS. We
shall use our best enterprise to gratify the
wish. And we shall continue trying what a
STRAIOHT FORWARD, RIGHTEOUS EFFORT Will do
to break up the perfidous conspiracy against
ua.—Minneeotian—Third Edition.
A “straight forward, righteous effort,”
eh ? Do you call your acts of petty lar
ceny, in stealing papers from the doors of
our subscribers, “ straight forward and
righteous ?” Or, perhaps, in attempting to
corrupt our employees, and induce them to
perpetrate a breach of faith, which would
render them liable to criminal prosecutions,
you were “trying what a straight forward,
righteous effort will do.” Call tbiDgs by
their right names, and confess your rascality.
Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, delivered
a sermon at Grace Church, Providence, on
Sanday morning, on the state of the coun
try, in which, after potraying the extrava
gance of both Northern and Southern fa
natics, alike in their true colors, the extra
ordinary and intemperate demands which
both make, he says: “If such counsels
rule, our cause is hopeless. Let those who
have a real interest in the preservation of
harmony and peace rise and take these mat
ters out of the control of men who get their
living by agitation.”