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HUCUbUUIUiq iiubviivinv, in. .v.. berof insertions is not marked on the cards or advertisements at the time they are handed in for publication, Ihey will be coivinued in until Ihey are ordered out.aud charged by the square. AMERICAN NATIONAL TICKET. For President, JOHN C. FREMONT, OF CALIFORNIA. . For J1ce President, WILLIAM F. JOHNSON OF PENNSYLVANIA.. Republican State Ticket. IOK St'PREME JUDGE SHORT TERM, OZIAS BOWEN, Of Marion County. FOR SUPREME JUDGE FI LL TERM, . JOSIAII SCOTT, Of Butler County. FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIOEER, ANSON SMYTH, Of Franklin County. MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, JOHN WADDLE, Of Ross County. Popular Sovereignty The Army Bill. Mr. Weller, of California without in tcndin to do so of coutse, on the20ih in the Senate pressed the bitter chalice of popular sovereignly to the iips of our Southern rulers and drew out from their very hearts confessions and assertions which exhibit in a glaring, ly lit the utter loathing with which the secession de mocracy view this whole preence of leav ing the people of the territories to settle their own affairs in their own way. Lest we may be thought to misrepresent, we give the words of the truthful correspon dent of the North American : Mr. Butler of South Carolina said be never went for the doctrine of popular sovereignty. When he sanctioned the act organizing the territorial government, lie meant to confer all the power posses sed by Congress. Therefore, though condemning outrageous laws, he did not think redress belonged here, because powtr had been surrendered. Still he was willing to vote for Mr. Weller's bill, ns a rebuke to the Kansas Legislature, if il was thought to be a panacea. Yet Mr. Butler supports Mr. Buchanan in whose platform we are told squatter sov ereignty is the main plank ! Perhaps no more violent anti Kansas partisan can be found ia the Senate then Mr. Mason of Virginia. listen to what lie said : read these laws, but the legislature oj Kansas knew best what the people requi red, and if they were offensive they could be repealed. Mr. Mason said he voted for and ap proved the bill .passed in May, 1851, to organize the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, because it gives the people the right to regulate their domestic institu tions their own way. This bill proposed to undo that work, mid to prescribe how dv they should bu free to make their own institutions, and in what respect they should not be thus free. Thisproposilion did not meet bis approbation. It seemed . to be introduced now as a concession to the House, which had engrafted a meas ure they knew to be obnoxious to the Senate, upon almost every one of the ap propriation bills, and insisted upon it, to .the defeat of that making provision for the support of the army. He would . move to lay upon the table every propo sition of that kind, until those who were inflitvnrififlr In rnrrv int.i pflTeiH flieir tmu. ,'olutionary purpose should be reduced to submission, and bu forced to desist from their efforts to overturn the government. Mr. Mason has never read the Black Code, but yet is in favor'of enforcing it ! The remarks of Mr, Weller were to this ..effect: .. He regarded some of the laws of Kan sas as the most atrocious' that ever dis graced any Legislature, iu'any age; as infamous in the extreme, contravening the - Consti ution and the organic act, and de grading humanity, They prohibited the discussion of our very domestic institu tions, which the people were culled upon to determine for themselves. Therefore, it was the duty of Coiigret-s to blot them out , ; j Air. Weller stated, in the course of his remarks, that his proposition had been 'offered without consultation among hi3 "political friends. The Democracy in the Senate became restive under the threaten ed intern if divisions from discussion, and to the silent amusement of rhe Republi can side"; and, afr a has y conference round the Chamber, Mr. Hunter abruptly '' rKri4ttimMif Olid mi"tllfH 4ji recede, though urged ior business, by Mr. ' Crittenden and others., , f,.. ..'.' Xt .wish , our , readers Would consider carefully the constitutional bearings of the .proposition of Mr. Masap. Iio de clares his design as a, Senator, to be " to reduce the House 'to submission' The Representatives of the people are to be forced to give away the money, not left to affix to the bill of appropriation any proviso they may deem proper under the Constitution. It is a fight between the people and the corporations, which the Senate in fact represents. We trust such a word as ' submission " can not be found in the vocabulary of the House. The Next Congress. The disposition seems to prevail to return to the next Congress all those members who have done faihfully what their consituents sent them there to per form. Those who have not, will of course be obliged to give way for others true to freedom. In Ohio all the pres ent members, as for as nominating con ventions have been held, ace to be re turned, except Oscar F. Moore of the lDlhand J. Scott Harrison of the 2nd district. In Pennsylvania Messrs. Covode of the 19th, Knight of the 20tli and Ritchie of the 21st have been again put in nomination. There is not a doubt that Mr. Purviance will also be renomi nated, which is the same thing now and in Western Pennsylvania as being re turned to their seals in the House. Such members as have served in their place there, and become acquainted with the routine of business and Parliamentary rules, have an advantage over new mem bers from that fact, and we thii.k it good policy, especially in such limes as the present, to make use of that experience which can often by just and honorable means secure a victory, where as good but inexperienced men might suffer a defeat. Those men we send back now cannot fail to understand just what is expected of them. The North U desper ately in earliest. They want no half measures, " God and right. " let that be their motto and they need not fear the wrath which the people have in store for such as flinch from any duty. Let them lean on the s'rong arm, let them feel ihu hearts of their constituents beat ing with their own, and then act fear of God. in the I More Ruffianism. The Washington correspondent of the the New York Times writes under date of the 18th : A most disgraceful assault was commit ted to day by Mr. M'Mullen, of Virginia, j unon Mr. Granger The parties were in an omnibus, riding to the Capitol. They got to conversing on politics. Both parties were very earn est in the discussion. M'Mullen said in effect that the South would not submit to the election of Fre mont. Granger replied, "After November it will be made to submit." M'Mullen immediately changed the discussion fiom a political o a personal one. He professed to be insulted, and told Granger that gray hairs alone pro tected him. - Mr. Granger said, "I ask no immuni ty on that account." ' M'Mullen thereupon clinched him, and struck him two severe blows, bruising Granger's face badly. Granger defended himself as well as he could. The parlies were separated immediate ly by Col. Chester, of the Pennsylvania Enquirer, who gave substantially the fore going account. Granger is n old man, considerably under the medium he'ght very earnest in his manner, but frank, good-natured and generally popular. The Tribvne says : Gen. Granger, Member of the House from New York, an elderly gentleman Go years of age nnd small in stature, was assaulted in an omnibus on his way to tlie Capitol this morning by Fayette Mc Mullen, Member of the House from Vir ginia. M'Mullen is a stout, well-built, middle-aged man. The assault grew out of a political discussion. M'Mullen after using severe language, said the South would stand by tha Constitution. Gran ger repucu ; it you don t we will make you. At that iM Mullen struck Granger two blows in the ficc-, when they clinched, and after a brief scuffle were parted by Mr. Broom and Col. Chester, who were present. The Philadelphia ctutadds: It will be remembered that M'Mullen was once in the clutches of the law lure, for a cowardly and unprovoked a' tuck upon a gentleman on the 6tenniboat be tween this city and Tacony. He may be one of the F, F. V.'s, but he does not come up to the Pennsylvania standard of deiency by a long sight. The Philadelphia Bulletin says : A few years ago, he was arrested here for au attack upon n gentleman in the cars between New York and this city. Mr. M'Mullen is the member who, it will be remembered, proposed to scatter his brains all about upon the floor of the House and against the unpitying walls of the National chamber, in case Mr. Banks should be elected Speaker. He also de clared that he was ready to barricade the door of the Capitol with his inanimate body, in case the " Yankees " should march down from Boston in force to take it by storm. Chivalrous M'Mullen ! 3T The correspondent of the North American, writing from Washington, near the close of the last session says : It must be said to the credit of this Congress that the scandalous exhibitions which have heretofore disgraced continu ous night sittings were entirely omitted. Propriety and sobriety were observed throughout. , Mr. Banks kept the House in perf'Ct order to he last moment. There is every reaeon to believe that tlie President has given distinct assuran ces that nolle prosequis will be immedi atcly entered in the Kansas alleged trea son case. . ." ' Latest from' Kansas. The following from the St. Louis Z)en ocral, of the 25th, is the latest and most authentic news from Kansas. The read er will learn from this that Lecompton is not aken j has not been attacked. That the Free State men have been guilty of no aggressions except in self-defence. The assault on the Block House at Frank lin, and on the camp at Washington Creek, were rendered necessary by the murders and robberies committed by the Kuffians at those locations. Exaggera tion and falsehood had been resorted to, to arouse tho Missourians t make anoth er raid on the territory, and fearfully are they executing their hellish work : " Great Excitement along the Border The Free State, People Flying in all Directions Revolting Violence near Leavenworth Scalping an Abolitionist Gov. Price to Command the Militia of Missouri Ate. ison on the Frontier Three Thousand People of Missouri in the Field Lecompton not Attacked. A gentleman who arrived yesteulay af ternoon 1 1 on) Weston, on the David Ta luni, reports that llie most intense excite ment prevails along the borders of Missouri and Kansas. Of the free State party, men, womeu and. children were flying in all directions. While the David Tatum was lying at Leavenworth, up wards of one hundred of these fugitives went on board. These persons had left behind them all their property, which bad been taken possession of by those who ordered them to leave. The greatest and most slioekinj; excesses had been committed a few days ntro, within five miles of Leavenworth. A party of men called at a house, and inquired for the head of the family. They were told he was absent. They at first affected to discredit ibis frequently repeated assever ation, but finally said to the females of the family, " D n your souls, then come out heie yourselves we want you " A mother and daughter were then taken out into the bushes, where they were kept all night, being subjected to ihe most foul indignities. In the morning they were allowed to crawl back home, more dead than alive. At Kansas city, nbbcry of horses and valuables continued to be "of common oc: currence ; and murders' were almost equal ly frequent. I A resident of Clay county had boasted 'hat he would have the scalp of an aboli tionist. Crossing the river at Leaven worth, he went a few miles back in o the country and shortly returned with a reek ing scalp which he exhibited ostentatious ly at Leavenworth. His victim was a mechanic, just arrived in the territory. He had just returned from Lawrence, where he had left his wife, and was seek- ing employment at the time he was shot and scalped. Gov. Price has been in the disturbed district, but was hurrying home, hourly ex ecting a dispatch fiom the President, ordering out the militia of the State. In this event he would command them in person. Atchison was also on the bor ders fanning the movement against Kan-, sas Lexington had five hundred men under arms. Jackson, Clay and Platte counties were each to furnish the same number. Three thousand men from Missouri were expect ed to arrive in the territory in a few days. Lecompton had not been attacked ; and to this extent the report in yesterday's Republican is correct. Out informant says that iio attack had been made upon any place by tho free State n:en, and there had been - no concerted action on their part. We further learn that General Persifer Smith has declared that he will not inter fere with the Missourians, slum id ihey confine ll eir operations to ihu forces un der Gen. Lane. The information we have now given resls on the testimony of a gentleman resident in Mist-ouri, who holds a high posi ion in the State, and who has no partisan bias whatever. While Missouri is thus rallying for sla very, forces are continually arriving from the South. The last of Major Wilkes' company of South Carolinians arrived in St. Louis l ist week, and proceeded im mediately to the territory, armed with pistols nnd howie knives. On the 29th, five companies of Alabamians were to start; and on the 21st, one hundred Georgians, and two hundred and lifiy Virginians, according to arrangements were to btart. Texas is also raising re cruits. Friends of Freedom, help ! Fortunate IIRape from great loss of Liff by Railroad Accident. As the express train from Wheeling, ap proachiug Baltimore, was rounding a curve a short distance west of the Relay House, on Saturday morning last, the engineer perceived a cow on the track a few feet in advance of the locomotive, and so near that a reversion of his engine would have been of no avail At this point the rail road verges upon a bank of the Patasco from forty to fifty feet deep, to be thrown down which would have been certain (hath; and therefore the danger in view must have been anything but agreeable to the engineer and fireman. As yet the passengers were ignorant of llieir perilous situations. The engine and tender, how ever passed over the cow ; as did also all the cars except ihe two last. These were thrown from the traak. but not overturn ed ; and in this way were drawn along several yards, when, from the blessings of a merciful Providence, they were again drawn upon the track by the engine, and contiuued on in safety. The couplings which held ihe cars were of iton instead of wood, and their immense strength would not admit of their breaking from the rest of the trniu. The shrieking of the ladies was for a time dreadful, and the nerves of the sterner sex became un strung for the residue of the journey. The singularity of escape from loss of life by this mishap is beyond precedent. S3T Mr. Howard, of the Kansas Con gressional Commission, in a speech, re cently made the assertion, that if all the tyranny inflicted upon our forefathers, by the kings of Great Britian, were col lected together and multiplied by ten, he could bring facts to prove that the poor settlers in Kansas have suffered more than the whole of them ! ( SLAVE REPRESENTATION, ' The Post has taken a view of this sub ject 6uch as we never believed the De mocracy would openly avow, but which we have all along asserted they held It quotes from the Jlaindealer, wish its own endorsement, the following atrocious declaration : ' The South loses by the three fifth representation, twelve Congressmen; be cause in making up the representation, two fifths of the slaves are thrown out. It lakes 03,713 inhabitants North and South, to make a Congressman, In tho North, whites, blacks, women, children, idiots all who are persons are counted. In the South all are counted except two lifihs of the ' slaves, Thus two fifths are a dead loss to the South in their count. When we read such sentiments as those with deductions so entirely perversive of truth, we are ready to exclaim " To what base uses may we come." Laboring nien of ti e Free States, it p to you we speak. The plea is made for the South that two filths of her people are counted out 1 While at -the North, all our poor trash all our coal heavers, our miners, our white slaves, as the gentility of the South call us. are taken into the account in our ratio of representation, Iwo-fitihs of their people' aae uncounted. Yea, even ' our women and idios," are counted, as if, exclaim these hypocrites, " our women at the North were any bet ter than the wenches who are owned and worked at the South! Yes indeed! Our wives ami daug'hteis have rcprescn tatives in Congress and why should not all the negro women at the South have theirs !" Is it possible that these men whom we have been quoting, can find the face to uirn around and call us " nigger worshippers," when they are filling the columns of their pacers with plena for a representation in Congress for the 'whole number of slaves at the South 1 Now we ask you laborers of the North, we ask you seriously to consider wiih us one moment, the shameless sophistry with which you are sought to be blinded, ' In the North, say they, ' ail are coun ted fur representative purposes ; in ihe South, all but two fifths of the Slaves.' See now how simple a question will sil ence these sophists ! In the North, ye blind leaders, do we count our laborers for pnr oses of representation, and then put them on the block for sale ! The complaint of our contemporary is, that the South does not claim a representation for alf its slave property instead of but for three-lil'tlis !' Surely," says our Democratic organ, ' if you count all your trash, even to the women, your wives and daughters, at the North, in justice lo your Southern brethren, you ought lo count all iheir people !" ' Don't you see,' 6ay Chey, you laboring folks of the North, that your inlluence in Congress ought to be no greater than that of laboiing'folk at the South i The difference between you i3 only nominal : it consists simply in the fact that your northern trash cannot under our present laws be put upon the block for sale, and it is unjust to your colubor-, ers at the South, ilmi five of them should only be counted as good as three of you ! You while slaves.Syou who labor in ur rolling mills, you who direct the cunning machinery, your own ciealion, you who draw from sunless depths the crude ore which anon. you will fashion to some shape of use or of beauty, you who turn out from beneath your cunning hands those wondrous engines that whirl us a cross the Allcghentes and propel ourstea mers, you who build our ships and spread ihe s;.ils that whiten in every breezo of heaven, you who l ave made this glorious old commonwealth what il is, who have erected school houses and churches in every ef!y and hamlet and whose fireside circle can he legally invaded by no ruffian hand, what r ght have you to count your selves in the ratio of representation as any better than those swarthy sons of toil, yonr Southern brethren who labor under taskmasters, who sweat for others, whose fetters clank in every city of the South, who in companies of five cast three votes through their masters to day, ami to-morrow are put on the block, their limbs ex amined, their paces tried, their digesiiou inquired into, and they afterwards sold lo the highest bidder! Is it not plain that all iahorers should he weighed in the same balance and that the five bondmen at the South should counterbalance five nominal freemen at the North ? Does not Mr. Buchanan's orgun in Virginia, the Richmond Enquirer, put this matter on the right basis in t'te following." li Make the laboring man ihe slave of one man, instead of ihe slave of so ciety, and he would be far better off." " Two hundred years of liberty have made white laborers a pauper banditti." "Fiee society has failed, and that which is not free must be substi uted." . " Free Society is a monstrous abortion, and slavery the healthy, beautifuj and nat ural being which they are trying uncon sciously to adopt." ; The slaves are governed far belter than the free laborers of the North are governed Our negroes are not only better off as to physicial comfort than free laborers, but their moral condition is better. " We do not adopt the theory that Ham was the ancestor of the negro" race. The Jewish slaves were not negroes-; and to confine the jurisdiction of slavery to that race would be to weaken its Scripture! authority, and to lose the whole weight of profane authority, for v'o read of no negro slavery in ancient time. "Slavery black or while, is necessaiy. ' Nature has made the weak in mind or body slaves." ' " The wise and virtuous, the brave, the strong in mind or body, are born to command. ' " Men are nut born entitled to equa riirhts. It would be far nearer the truth to say, that some were born with sad dies on their back and olheis booted and spurred lo ride them and the riding does them good. They need the reins Ihe bit and the spur.", "Life and liberty are not inalienable." ' Tho Declaration ol'Independcnce is ex ubcranlly false and fallacious. So pleads, in effect, our Democracy of ihe 19th rentury ! It complains that the South does not demand a vote for every Lone of its bondmen, and thereby loses twelve representatives, while the white laborers of the North have each a vote We have to come to this at last if the ol igarchy succed in their designs. Family ' Jour. 1 . ' ' . - FROM CALIFORNIA. ARRIVAL OF THE ILLINOIS. New York, Aug. 29 The Steamship Illinois, armed at nine o'clock, this morn ing, from Aspinwall. She connected at the Isthmus with the Sonora, which brought down upwards of $1,800,000 in gold. ' The Sierra Nevada, left San Francisco on the 7th, for San Jiian. The Cortez, from Panama, arrived on the 5th. . ..The Sonon passed the John 1.. Ste phens on the lOlh bound up. The Illinois brings $1,465,000 in gold. , The Sierra Nevada, took down to Sin Juan, 300 recruits for Walker's army and a number of settlers. Dr. Alexander Randall,- an old seiiler of San Francisco, was shot, on the after noon of the 24lh of July, in the bar room of tlie St. Nicolas Hotel, by Joseph Hetherington. Edward Bugler, ono of the first Exec utive Committee, returned fiom the Sand wich Islands but was again arrested and shipped in New York. -on the Illinois. Ned M'Gowan had not been captured. There was some activity among, the vessels of war in the harl or, which hnd led to fears that the federal government was about to interfere with the vigilance Committee. The Snperintendant of the Branch U. S. Mint, notified the employees who are members of the Vigilance Committee, thai they must either w'nhdrr.w from the Committee or le?ve the mint. The Peruvian slave-ship, Teresa Terry, put into San Francisco, June 30th, with 150 Chinese, kidnapped at Macao, des tined for the Peruvian mines. Au at tempt was inade to detain her, but she got off. . Advices front Salt Lake are 'to June 23d. They state that vegetables were nipped by the frost, and grain crops had failed. Fears were entertained, that (he people would suffer, for the want of food. Advices fiom the Sandwich Islands were to the 5th. A severe shock of earth quake, was felt on the 8th of June at Ilowaii. A stream of lava, was running from ManaLoa, southward, leaving Hilto safe. Ohkgon. Tne latest advices state, that (he Indians in the North remain hostile, but ihere were prospects of peace. Nothing important from the Isthmus. Pierre Soule arrives at Aspcnwall on the 15ih. Markets at San Francisco were glutted and very dull tiid declining. Gallego Flour $15; butler 32c ; East loston syrup 90c; turpentine 80c; lard 21 c. Washington Items. " Washington, Aug. 27. The Prcsi dent is under medical treatment, for a slight attack of chills and fever. Col. Sumner has a brief leave of ab sence. lie nas not yet respnnueu to tne demand of the secretary of War, for ex planations relative to his late military con duct. Washington, Aug. 29. The Senaio- lial caucus, again resolved, this morning, to remain in session, with a hope of pas sing the army bill. In the House, Mr. Orr asked leave to introduce the army appropriation bill. Mr. Grow and others, objected. Messrs. Hall of Iowa, Pnrvcar, and Watson, Members of ihe House have re lumed. The last named hove paired off. Mr. Bayard Clark, has paired off with Mr.Vi.lk. The Filmore Procession. Cincinnati, Aug. 27. The F.lmore procession, hero this afternoon, is estima ted to be a mile in length. A Mass Meet ing is lo be organized at the wharf, to night ; also iu Covingtcn and Newport ; there is lo be speaking at various stands, a lorcb light procession, parades &c, to night. County Convention. Pttsburcii, Aug 27. The Democrat ic County Convention, nominated Wilson McCaiidless, for Congress ; Hon. II. Hepburn, lor State Senate ; Hon. S. Jones, Augustus Hanije, Thomas S Hart, Samuel Smith and L. li. raltersou, for ihe Legislature. New York Items. New York, Aug, 30. Three new ca ses of yellow fever among ihe troops at Governor Island. The Laiting Observatory and twenty other buildings in the vicinity of Forty Fourth street, were burned early this morning. The Crystal Palace was on lire several limes, but was not materially damaged. ' Bully Brooks at Home. Columbia. S. C. Auir. 29. A larL'e , u, u meeting was held .here this evening lo welcome home rieston o. lirooks. 1 lie Mayor presented him a silver pitcher, cane and other testimonials of approba tion, from his fellow citizens. Mr. Urooks responded at length, and was repeatedly ,1 . i . i interrupted oy tne applause oi toe crowu. Markets. Cincinnati, Sept, l.Noon. Flour quiet at $5,80a5.83 wheat firm at $1,26 for white and $1,(21 for red ; oats 37i ; corn 52 J whisky steady at 20. ; molasses 50 - River risen three inches. PiiiLAOKLniu, Sept. I. Flour steady at -$0,55a7,23 for superfine and extra family ; oats dull at 38a39u; wbi-ky 34 r341. New York, Sept. 1. Noon. Cotton quiet, and flour drooping, sales, southern at $7a8 : wheal drooping, sales Pennsyl vania at $1,54 ; lard buoyant at 1 2 1 a 1 3 J ; whisky declined to 52 ; money market un changed. ., . , , Baltimore, Sept. I.- Noon. Sales flour to-day at $6,61$ ; Corn steady at OflaGl. . ' ' . " ' 1 . Baltimore, Aug. 29. Cattle Market. 1050 beeves were sold at $ 3Ja4. per hundjed; 325 were purchased on (Phila delphia account; Hogs t7ja& per hun dred, ' . '....";. - ... - - (From the Lou'sville Journal. KENTUCKY ELECTION. A very curious anomaly had presented itself in the last local election throughout Kentucky. In very few instances have ihe Democrats run one of 'their number ni nny county where the majority was a gainst ihem. but a great many 'mdepen dent Ameiican and Whig candidates have been in the field in all ti e Ameiican strongholds. The Democrats have alrea commenced claiming the foremost candi dates, whether Whig or American, and il is very well that ihey should have a crumb of comfort, as in November there will not be a grease spot lefi of them. The American Order has been charged with introducing party politics into the judicial elections: The recent election slows this lo be false. In several of the judi cial districts, in which there is beyond doubt a large American majority, the American party declined to nominate can didates for judicial offices, and the Amer icans have cast their votes in the election without any reference whatever to par ties. - Whilst stich has been the course of ihe American parly, the' Democrats have in variably voted in solid columns for one of their nu-n number This has been most evident in the contest between Duvall and Marshall. The Americans bad nonomi-j nee in the field. The Democrats to a man have voted for Duvall, and the Americans, having no nomination to bind them, have not only in part voted for Duvall, but a prominant member of our party, from personal considerations, has electioneered lor mm tnrougnoui mo ui tiicL Conseauentlv. in a district which last year gave Morehead 1,600 majority. Judge Duvall is doubtless elected, and the Democrats have the imnndence to claim this as a great falling off from the Ameri can party. We can assure our friends every where that such is not the case. The Democrats have polled iheir eniire strength, whilst our party, not consider ing it a party contest, have divided theii votes between the candidates, and thous ands have not voted at all. In Judge Kincheloe's district a mem ber of the American party was au inde pendent candidate against him. Though we have there 2,000 majority, the Ameri cans would not make a nomination. Judge Kincheloe is a Whig, and a sup porter of Mr. Fillmore Doubtless the Democrats will also claim a very larffe gain in that district, as the race bids fair to be very close ; but we presume they will cntirelv overlook such instances as Marion cnun'y, where ill e independent candidate for' sheriff, su;.'poried by the Americans, has beaten li e regular uomo cratic nominee in ihe county in which Chirk beat Morehead 7 10 voles. Judge Pryor was not nominated by the American nartv. but ran as an indeiien dent candidate against the regular nomi nee of the Democrats. His district went for ('lark last year, and il was to be res umed that he would be ben'en, if, a they have done, that party should uniformly sustain their nominee. In the Mason district our opponents have claimed the foremost of two Whigs, wii.i urprt rnnninir for circuit mhIl'k. and doubtless would have claimed tlie other if he had been successful. In Hart coun ty two Whigs were candidates for clerk, and we shall doubtless find the Anties claiming the successful candidate. In Judge Goodloe's district the American party held a convention and declined to nominate a candidate foi judge. Good loe became an independent candidate for re-election. Capt. llawes a Whig, was also an independent candidate, but, I'm ding that he would be defeated, he with drew, and left the course clear to Good loe. If Cap. Hawes bad continued a candidate, ahhough Goodloeis a member of (be American Order, we should have found the Democrats proclaiming bis sue cess, as an .independent candidate, to be an anti-Ainericnn-triuinph. The party lines have been strictly drawn in very few counties, in the S ate. Wherever this ha been more Whiir can didates in the field than Democrats. Thai there shull be no misapprehension on the pare of olir friends elsewhere, wetell them that this election cannot show the relative strength of the parljes, and that however great a gain the Democrats may claim nnd chuckle over, our parly is stronger by many thousands than it was' last August, and in November, we will give an over whelming majority for Fillmore and Don elson. . From the Tresse d'Orient. Terrible Conflagration it Salonica . Explosion and Great Lob of Life - Arrest of a Greek Merchant -One Thousand Lives Lost. On Saturday last. Salonica, July 17. a terrible catastrophe spread grief and ter ror through our city. About half past eight in ihe evening, a fire was discover ed in the residence of M. Soaul, and the flames soon attained a great hold. Sev eral adjacent storehouses were rapidly burnt to the ground. Tim lire was dis covered at Vardar Kalcssy. Certain facts, immediately antecedent to this ac cident, attach great responsibility on M. Chillizzi, a Greek merchant, who had but just before illegally imported a large quan tity of gunpowder casks, which it was im agined were tilled wiili ordinary merchan dise, are now known to have ea h con lained three kegs of gunpowder. There were 80 casks in all, and each keg (210 altogether) held 20 akes, or more than 25 pounds, English, of powder a grand to tal of 6,000 pounds of powder! Instead of placing this dangerous article in an iso lated place, according to the municipal regulations Shilizzi imprudently placed it in the cellars of his warehouse. A ru mor soon reached the authorities lo this ef fect and Ahmed Pasha summoned the merchant to appear before' him, off-ring even to store the pawner in Ihe govern ment magazines and hand it over as sold. Shilizzi quibbled about his having such a quantity of powder at all. -Further complaints were nevertheless made; the Pasha thereupon determined to search Skilizzi's stores, but a consul interfered (J ); tho Pasha consequently eould ' not proceed dinner, nun men, next day, the lira bnke out, and now all the 'world know tha result, When the tire broke out, M. Shilizzi, tearing an explosion, set off for his coun try house, thus abandoning to destruction a crowd of brave fallows, left battling with the flames, which were not. only attack1 ing other houses but. ; his own. Such conduct naturally led Shilizzi to be arres ted. The Governor and the Consul this time concurred in the act. The explos ion had occurred The roar was terrific. The damage va increased from the pow der being mowed in the cellars, and those fasteui d up. The commotion was felt a I oyer the neighboi hood and house upon house wag blown into the.' Nearly everv individual near Shilizzi's house was ' kil led, several being literally cut to pieces by stone?, beams, irons, &c. Many must have been buried under the ruins. There was at last a general flight, another-explosion being fea,red. As to this frightful scene must be added, as a clim ax, the falling limbers, which set fire to other edifices, and thus much increased this terrible disaster. ; The Egyptian ba zaar was among those places burnt down. At the landing stage fifteen tchekis of wood were also consumed. The flames elso destroyed 292 stores or shops,' two mosques, one college, two khans, 144 houses, two palaces, pne bath, and sever al public buildings. . Among the mer chants who have now met with the se verest losses at Sulonica is Mr. John Nel son Abbot, the head of one of the most influential houses in Turkey; he is said to have lost 20.000 purses, or 10,000,000 of piasteres. (each- Turkish purse 5 English.) -His family was absent at their country house. Eleven stone ware houses, lull of goods, and a beautiful man. sion which has been built for 18 months. were totally destroyed by the explosion. Thirty seven persons are known to bo killed, three are still missing, and there are about three hundred wounded. Some others are believed to be buried under under ti e ruins. Aimed Pacha, so well known in the Crimea, was wounded in the leg ; his murhurdar lost an arm ; and his klays, and nine of his servants, are also injured. Eight persons of the household of Yousoni , Pacha are also her i. The iroops and they behaved well lost 13 killed and 140 wounded. Another account from Salonica, of the date of the 5th uli., briefly slates that the most fearful and destiuciive explosion oc curred in that Turkish town on Fiiday. the 1 1 tn of July, A fire broke out in ihe quarter of ihe European warehouses, and caused thn expl,)9ion of 210 barrels of gunpowder in the store of a French merchant. Mr C. Blunt, ihe Ion; resi dent and indefatigable British Consul at Salonica, was in the midst of ihe confla gration, previously aiding in the extinc tion of the original fire. A man was in stantly killed by his fide, and his Tur kish guafll suffered severely, chiefly in wounds, from lh descending f bowers of atones, beams rafters, and exploded ma to i i.il. The exact number of killed and wounded was not known the last pack et; but i lie Pacha estimated the unfortu nate victims of both classes as exceeding 1,00 J A Southern Editor Down on Brooks. The following manly strain from the Mi ml en Herald of Lousiana, has a ring of irue indignation about it that should make thie miserable doughface Northern apologists for the conduct of Brooks hang with very shame The editor may soon find his press in t e middle of some horse pond. '' Our opinion is that Brooks disgraced himself and brought the whole slavery cause into mure disrepute than ever, anil should be summarily expelled from the House . Il was a stretch of chivalry on his part for which no valid excuse can he offered. Sumner, s offunre against llutler did not deserve any physieul castigation, but on ihe contrary, was in i ui estimation inking all circumstances into the account perfectly proper because jnsily merited. We have no sympathy wiih the slavery agitators on either side we have a su preme contempt for fire-eaters and fan at ics: but we do think that if ever a man might be excused lor becoming des perate in the halls of legislation, that man is Sumner. Wo have read the debates in Congress for many years minutely and impartially, and have never known a man so foully and unceasingly abused and villiiied an this same Sumner. Every dog of Southern agitation froru liose Douglas to down to the smallest and most insignillicant puppy that whines and snarls in the uupriucipled suck-dog train, has been burking ai his heels ; hut -tho fact has not been successfully hit, that their spi e arises more from a knowledge of his own cool superiority of talent than any real difference of opinion or princi ple. Douglas, than whom iu our humble npirrioc a more unprincipled or reckless agitator never disgraced the Senate jMam ber has from time to time hurled at Sumner all bis native and well cultivated slang, and then "Ogg, the king of Baa hail " Gen. Cass the o:d broken down President seeker, arid inconsistent Free soiler has never failed to chime in with his more solid invective ; and the ehorun has been filled o overy beat and bar with yelping of the. little woolly-headed poodles from the South men who have no more principle, and but little more brain than, the African slaves in behalf of whose chains they so unjudiciously rave and rant. And finally, under the influence of all his,' Sumner becomes somewhat despe rate, and hurls at his conglomerated as sailants some thunderbolts which send then) howling in hurried confusion, and then, as a last resort of revenge, one of the mnnly number slips up lo him ip the Senate chamber finds him seated ai his desk writing unarmed, and with great gusto canes him ! Wonderful feat ! And is this the way Southern Rights are to be vindicated ? Are these the kind of cham pions the South must look to for her de fence in the national halls of legislation T Is ii by such acts of slavery degradation as this that the slavery of the Southern States of this free and enlightened Union is to be perpetuated I Gentlemen may think so and raiy hive and' ear at any man who , has the independence to con deiun such conduct panicularly if he is a Southerner ;' but we tell them that tho eitizens of this llepulio are not to be con vinced as io what is right and what is wrong by blows, and ore not to bo brought to a final decision by brute force. This is our opinion of the Brooks ond Sunnier affair only the half is yet told. .' i ;,-; , ' tW Neither men "nor women become what they were intended to be by, carpet ing their .. progress ( with velvet, real strength is tested1 by difficulties. ' r..:--r-...-..::.:- "4 iimiKiMajl.M i 4