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iVomthe St Joseph Traveler. Extra, May 81L && II aU of the Dnsinesa Portion of St. Joseph Burned Down. ThMHage was visited last night by th most destructive fire that has oc curred here for" years; and, in fact, sec ond to the. great" conflagratidn which happened bete in 1649. bv Which the large warehouse and bWrreis build ings on both sides of Waters street were laid in ashes. The fire of last night was undoubt edly the work of an Incendiary. It Broke ont in the loft of the Eagle Ho tel barn, (where no one had been with lanterns or fire of any kind during the evening,) and seemed to have been set close up under the roof, from whence the flames were first seen issuing. The wind at the time was blowing moder ately from the west. Our citizens acted nobly Without engines,, without hooks and ladders, or any conveniences, beyond pails, they disputed the progress of the fire, inch by inch. In saving the Perkins House and Mr.- Guernsey's residence, and pre venting me bcrnrng element from crossing the alJey running throngh the block on-which the latter stands, thev paV forth efforts beyond the reach of praise, and performed, we were about to add, impossibilities. Some had their clothing-burned, and many worked till they almost sank down from exhanstioit. Our village President; O Stevens, Esq., was promptly on the ground and by his coolness, judgment and activity, did much to stay the progress of the fire ty airecung me enorts ot our citizens where danger was imminent. And we should-do the ladies of St Joseohrank ingratitude,- did we not refer to the great'assistance which they also ren dered at this trying time. And we mav be pardoned if we mention in this con nection, the names of Mrs. Warren Chapman- and Jits. Raymond, who lormed a line of ladies and passed water np to the crackling flames, and while all was wild excitement' about them, acted with a calm, cool delibera tion which won the admiration of all, and which was fruitful of much good. The fire raged at least three hours. commencing at about half-past nine o' clock. The losses sustained are nearly as ioiiows: Eagle Hotel, and barn, owned bv J. E. Sutherland, about $5,000, insured 01,500. The policy expires fthis Thursday night at midnight a narrow escape. The furniture of the Eagle was owned by John Wilkinson and Stewart Spriggs, (the latter the occu pant of the house) and was worth about $1,500. But a small portion of rt was saved, rio insurance. Mr. Spriggs and his lady lost all their cloth ing excepting what they had on at the time ; and the same may be said of many of their boarders. Mr. S. also lost between $700 and $800 in money. . Hatch & Durry, merchants, lost goods to the amount of $4,000 or $5,000, inr sured $2,000. A small portion of their stock was saved. G. Moulton, hard ware dealer, lost all. Stock worth about $1,500. No insurance. J. N. Witherell, three stores loss $2,500. A. E. Perkins, of the Perkins House, damage to house and furniture, $600. No insurance. H. Guernsey, damage to house and furniture, $200. No in surance. II. Wfc.Guernsey, store buil ding burned loss $800. No insurance, J Jacobson; occupant,. loses m dam aged and missing goods, $500. No insurance. P. Henoeh, loss in dam aged and missing goods, $500. In. sured. B. F. King, two stores, $1,600, Insured- $800. C. II. Crane Co. druggrsts who were oocupants of one of Mr. King's stores, loss in damaged goods destroyed, $1,500. . No insur ance. The Postoffice was in the same building-, contents saved. Dr. Bidwell, Dentist, 2d story, had goods burned to the amount of $200. No insurance. Wm, Bradford, grocery and dwelling burned, $800. No Insurance. A. Vin cent, grocer, in (Morrison's .building,) lost in goods damaged, accounts and eash, $800. No insurance. John Mor rison, store building, $500. No insur ance. L J.. Brown, building and fur niture,. $600. No insurance. J. E. Stevens, buildings oecupied by Hatch & Durry, J. C Sherburne, and Chas. Sweet, sustains a loss of about $1,500. Mr. Sweet's loss is about $500 in goods. No insurance. Boyne & Co., loss about $150. C. II. Calmer, harness shop, $100. Joseph Hagar, blacksmith shop, torn down, $300. It. II. Duncan grocer, loss in uaruageu anu missing goods, $150. No insurance. C. J. Smith, removal of goods, $100. In addition to the above J. R. Cogswell lost about one dozen watches. G. Brown, barber, about $100. Bostwick, $23. Any of our readers afflicted with Scrofula or Scrofulous com plaints, will do well to read the re marks in our advertising columns res pectins: it- But little of the nature of this disorder has been known by the people, and the clear expositifga of it there given, will prove acceptable and useful. We have long admired the searching and able manner in which Dr. Atee- treats every subject he touches ; whatever has his- attention at all, has a-great deal of it, he masters what be undertakes, and no one who has a particle of feeling for his afflicted fellow man, can look with indifference upon bis labors for the sick. Read what he says of Scrofula, and see in how few words and how clearly he tells us more than we all have known or this insidious and fatal malady. Sun, Philadelphia, Pa About the last of the Diamond Wedding. TbeN. Y. Tribune has the following among its law proceed ings : 44 A. C. Chattertonr agt. Wash ington A. liartlett. The plaintiff in this suit recovered judgment against the defendant for $134, part of the bill being on account of wines furnished for the ceremonies attending the mar riage of Miss Bartlett with Sehor Ovie 4o, at the Brevoort House. Execution -was issued, and returned nnsatisfcv" 4 k THE CASS COUNTY REPUBLICAN. , WY II. CAMPBELL, Editoe & Propuktok. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. X0 "W .A. G-1 -A. C : Thursday Morning, Jnne 7, 1860. Republican National Nominations. FOR PRESIDENT, 7 ABDAHAD UOJJOLfJ, OF ILLINOIS. 1 FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, OFlIAIXE. Republican Congressional Convention 2d District. The Congressional Convention for the Second District, for the nomination of a Representative in Congresa, will be held at the Court House of Branch county, in the villnge of Cold water, on Tuesday the 12th day of June, 1860, at 11 o'clock A. M. The several counties in the District will be entitled to three delegates for each represen tative to the lower branch of the State Legislature. Fraxklin JoHX80!,' Charles REDrefcLti, . Hi Baker, B. M. Smith, . , H. COOLDRB, - A. P. UOARTH, Jlky 10, 1860. Congressional Committee. The Democratic Platform. "We invite the attention of . our readers to the resolutions published in this issue of the Republican re cently introduced into the United States Senate by Mr. Davis, of Miss issippi, and which passed that body on the 24th ult., by the following party vote. The adoption of these resolu tions will prove a cruel blow to the handful of " Democrats " in this sec two, who still believe or effect to be lieve that the doctrine of the sover eignty of the people of the Territories has any chance of being sustained by thvir party. The following is the vote on the passage of the resolutions : YEAS Messrs. Benjamin, Bigler. Bragg, Bright, Brown, Chesnut, Clay, Clingman, Crittenden, Davis, Fitzpat rick, Green, Gwin, Hammond, Hemp hill, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson of Ar kansas, Johnson of Tennessee, Ken nedy, Lane, Latham, Mallory, Mason, Nicholson, Pearce, Polk, Powell, Rice, Sebastin, Slidell, Thompson, Toombs, Y igtall, and Yulee 35. NAYS Messrs. Bingham, Chand ler, Clark, Collamer, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, iiamlin, iiarlin, King, Pugli, Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, and Wilson 21. From the above vote, it will be seen that every democrat' in the Senate ex cept Pugh, of Ohio, voted for the res olutions and every Republican, against them. Mr. Douglas was not present ; he was sick with a sore throat, as he has often been before when any dan gerous jobs were on hand in the Sen ate. Had he been present he would hardly have supported the resolutions he might, possibly, not have opposed them. Had he voted against them he would have widened the breach be tween himself and the South j had he voted for the resolutions, his Northern supporters would have opened their eyes to the perfidiousness of his charac ter. But, senouslv, wbat chance is there that the people of the Territories will be allowed to exercise control over the subject of Slavery, within their limits, with a party in power whose leaders, in the Senate, almost unani mously, pass resolutions for the purpose of defining their principles, like those we have published? None at all; and the 'democracy know it; but they have so little honesty, and are so wretchedly depraved, that they are ready to sell themselves to any project, however infamous, that shall encourage them to hope for a continuation of party power. Mr. JtfcKinney. The State Treasurer has published a letter of four columns in length of the Detroit Advertiser, in vindication and explanation of his course in the mat ter of the Sault Canal loan. We do not observe that he throws much light upon it, beyond what has been already made public. His statement of the facts are pretty much as they have been heretofore understood ; but he justifies the course he took in permitting Hazel ton fc Co., to retain $50,000 of the loan, upon the necessities of the Canal, and the impossibility of getting what he did receive, on any other terms. All this, however improper his conclusions may be deemed, might be regarded as qo worse than an error of judgment; but we do not find that Mr. McKinney explains, or makes any allusion to, his representation to the other members of the State Administration upon his re turn from New York, that he had got all the money for the Bonds, nor ac count for his permitting those officers to remain under the supposition that it was in the State Treasury, until they discovered the contrary for themselves, at the annual examination of his ac counts and balance in the Treasury. A large portion of his letter is de voted to a personal attack upon the Auditor General, the Commissioner of the Land Office, and the Secretary of State ; but we fail to discover anything indicating official malfeasance on the part of any one of these gentlemen, and it is a reasonable , inference, from he tone of Mr. JVlcKinney' remarks, XxiThe knew of aught against them t-i?t-?tore hewould have nohesi Correspondence of the Republican. From the Home of "Old Abe.' Springfield, Illinois, May 28, 1860. Mr. Editob : I write this, as indi cated by its date, from the city of Springfield, Illinois. This City claims a population of from twelve to fifteen thousand, and is a place of considera ble importance at least in the estima tion of those who consider it their perma nent home. It is in the center of San gamon County, which is one of the richest and best cultivated Counties in the btate, and is its shire town. It is also very near the geographical center of the State, and is' the Seat of the Mate government. Two lines of Rail Road run directly through it, vu : the St. Louis, Alton & Chicago, from north to south ; and the Great Western from east to west, which with its connections formy a direct route, from Toledo,- off tine east to St. Joseph, Missouri on' the west. Buf the foregoing, are mere common place considerations. Our citizens, no longer base their claim to popularity undying renown, on a foundation so slender as this. Springfield is the home ot "Old Abe I" Do you hear ? She has furnished a Republican candidate for the Presidency ! Is n ot t h at som e- thing to be proud of? Can you not excuse us, if we do carry our heads rather high, and step heavily on our heels when we walk, and put on airs generally ? I tell you it is exciting, to think that the great national Conven tion of President makers, after looking the ground all over, and prospecting through the thirty two states of the Union ; were compelled to come down here to Springfield, for the material out of which to make the next President. And we were lortunate enough to have the very stick they were looking for, cut, and seasoned too, and long enough to work to any required meas ure. Yes, Springfield is a place of considerable importance and, what is more to the point, we who reside here know it. If I were only a politician, I could spin you a yarn out of the material on hand, that would be in harmony with the political character of your paper. But I am far enough from being a pol itician. I think it would puzzle me considerably, to define clearly the dif ference between a black Republican and a hard shell Democrat and I shan't try. If I were one of the noisy kind of fellows, who improve every oc casion to throw up their hats and shout hurrah, I would as soon do it in be half of Abraham Lincoln as any other man, because he is a person of great moral worth and integrity of character though I am afraid it would be all the same to me, if he were a democratic instead of a Republican candidate for the presidency. I suppose you will think my political education has byen sadly neglected. Perlraps it hasbut my school days are long past, and it is too late now to attempt drilling me in to party modes of thinking and acting. JSJr. Lincoln, is in every sense of the term, a man of the people and hence it is, that the masses love him. The "common people" and laboring classes feel that they have a personal interest in one who commenced life as profes sor of wood-chopping and rail splitting hence, the general enthusiasm with which his nomination is received all ever the land. In his every day deportment, he is exceedingly simple and unsophistica ted, never puts on airs, but greet with equal cordiality the first Judge of our Courts and the humblest day laborer. I wish you could see him play ball. Since early in the spring, this has been a fashionable game among the young men of our City, and in which "Old Abe' has been an almost daily partici pant Pulling off coat and cravat, he enters into the game with all the bois terous delight of a boy of fifteen ; and when he is fortunate enough to make a good hit, he calls out to the boy who keeps tally to 44 Scooo-r-e," in a voice that can be heard a square or two. The day after his nomination, one of his young ball playing companions met him, and after the usual congrat ulations said to him : "Well Mr. Lin coln you are ahead of me on the Pres idential ticket, but I still think lean beat you playing "ball.'? "Itoill try a game with you at four o'clock this af ternoon" said Mr. Lincoln. The first news of the nomination re ceived in this City, was a dispatch di rected to Mr. Lincoln himself. When it was handed to him, he read it as quietly as if it contained no unusual an nouncement, and then started for home, saying as he did so, "I guess Mrs. Lin coln would like to read this." But it was a long time before be could get throngh the streets, for the news of his nomination had spread like wildfire all over the City, and it really seemed as if the entire population had come out to shake hands with the future President. Already he is begining to be overrun with visitors, some of whom it is presumable have an eye for office under the next administration, and are hoping to find rest from the toils of the coming campaign, "in Abraham's bos om." ' I se by the papers, that "Wigwams" arc spinging up all over the country, and all true Republicans carry a Lin coin-rail toothpick in their vest pocket. People still complain of hard times and scarcity of money, except when funds are wanted for building a Wig wam. But for all Wigwaraing pur poses, the promise, is literally fulfilled, "Ask and ye shall receive." . Please excuse the rambling charac tef of this letter, for it has been writ ten amid all 6orts of excitement and numerous interruptions. Yours truly, ' Sangamon-. Garibaldi's Expedition Critical Posi tion oi Affairs in Europe. This great revolutionary leader is again attracting the attention of the world, being at present engaged in the most hazardous of his enterprises a life or death struggle with the Neapol itan Government The late intelligence from Europe informs us that he landed at Marsali, in Sicily, with about 1,000 followers, and was immediately at tacked by the royal troops. It is said that one of his' steamers has been sunk and the other captured ; but if he sue ceeded in landing his artillery and am munition, it is probable that the loss of his transports will not interfere with his operations. As he has made no ar rangements for retreat, his motto is "Onward, to death or glory." Gari baldi posseses much sagacity, and it is not likely that he undertook this des perate enterprise without ascertaining the sentiments of Victor Emanuel and Napoleon III., and as both these sov ereigns favor the expulsion of the Bour bons from the thrown of Naples and the annexation of that Kingdom to the Italian, Confederation, it is possible that they may have encouraged the pre sent expedition. It is certain that there cannot be true freedom in Italy while one of the infamous Bourbons wields a sceptre, or controls a dungeon, on that Peninsula, and if the patriots are suc cessful in the Island of Sicily, the Straits of Messina are too narrow to prevent the flame of Liberty from reaching the main land.. The marriage of the cousin of the Emperor of the French to the daugh ter of the King of Sardinia foreshad owed coming events, for this alliance indicated that the old Napoleonic pol icy of attaching all Italy to the inter ests of France was not abandoned. - If the expedition in support of Garibaldi is permitted to join him, the power of the King of Naples will be overthrown, unless events occur for which the public-is totally unprepared. Russia is favorable to the present dynasty of Na ples, because the late King Ferdinand refused supplies of corn to the Allies during the Crimean War, and Alexan der the II. may lend his aid in the hour of rrced to put down revolution in the Neapolitan dominions, especially as by doing so, ho would be thwarting 'the designs of Victor Emanuel. However this may be, it is certain that Russia is collecting large numbers of transports at Nicholaof, a Crimean port, which, since the dismantling of Sevastapbl, i3 her principal naval station in the Black Sea and its tributaries. It may be said that Russia is bound by treaty not to enlarge her fleet, and that the guns of the Dardanelles are mortally pointed against her. This is true, but the most solemn treaties have been violated with impunity by the Emperor of France,and this is a good precedent for the Czar of Russia to meddle in the affairs of Turkey or Naples. Great events are looming in the distance. We will watch their development with anxiety. The Homestead Bill. This just and beneficient measure, again meets the fate of Cfesar in the Senate, and has fallen covered with the stabs inflicted by Democrats. But one voted in favor of the Bill, Mr. Rice of Minnesota, Senator Douglas being ab sent by reason of an attack of bron chitis. All the rest, twenty-nine in number, were arrayed against the measure. Thus it is once more con signed to the tomb, from whence it will not be resurrected, until the peo ple shall . place the Government in hands where it will be honestly ad ministered for the good of the people. The Administration is too much en gaged in schemes of its own just now, to allow free men to have free homes, upon the prairies of the West The bold plunderers of the public Treasury must be further pampered and fed while the 44 mud sills" are required to labor and to wait. . But the time tcill come when the poor man shall have a home granted him as a reward for his toil, and that consummation will be reached, under a Republican Administration. Wheat in Minnesota. The Eve ning News, St. Anthony, of the 26th of May, says the wheat thereaway is doing finely, and the prospect for the farmers is cheering. The bill for the eslablishment of a Government Printing Office has passed the House by 126 against 56. ; Cf Ex-Presiclent Santa Anna and family are in New York. Republican County Convention. The County Convention to elect Delegates to the State and Congress ional Conventions, met, pursuant to notice, in the Wigwam at Cassapolis, on Monday last, at 11 o'tlock Al M. It was called to order by C. W. Clis- bee, Chairman of County Committee, and organized by the appointment of Henry Aldi ich, Esq., as Chairman and W. II. Campbell as Secretary. It was then moved and supported that a Committee of three be appointed to examine credentials. The Chair appointed as such Committee, G. C. Jones, Joshua Lofland and Emmons Buell. The Convention then adjourned till one o'clock P. M. The Convention re-assembled at 1 P. M. The Committee" on credentials reported nearly full delegations from every town in the County, which rer port was received and Committee dis charged. A motion was then made and carried that the Convention now proceed to elect two delegates from the 1st Re presentative District On motion, the Chair appointed B. W. Schcrmcrhorn and A. II. Long tellers. A motion was then offered that the delegates be elected by viva voce vote. The ayes and noes being demand, the motion was lost Ayes 42, noes 72. On motion, the Convention then pro ceeded to ballot for delegates to the State Convention, a motion having pre viously been adopted that the person receiving the highest number of votes cast, should be declared elected. In accordance with this plan, the following persons were declared duly elected: 1st District. Joshua Lofland, H. B. Denman. 2d District. Edward Shanahan, George Meaeham. It was then moved and carried that the Convention now proceed to ballot for six delegates to represent this County in the Congressional Conven tion, the six names to be placed upon one ballot, and that the six receiving the highest number of votes cast should be declared duly, elected. The ballot being taken, the following persons were elected : W. II. Campbell, Daniel Larzelere and C. W. Clisbee from the 1st District, J. W. Lee, R. K. Charles and O. N. Loner from ther 2d District On motion, the Delegates elected were empowered to fill vacancies should any occur in either delegation. Mr. Clisbee offered the folio wins: which was adopted : Resolved, That the platform adopted at the Republican -National Convention recently assembled at Chicago, and the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for President and Hannibal Hamlin for Vice-President meets our earnest and hearty approval. Jesse G. Beeson, delegate from this District to the Chicago Convention, was then called for. Mr. Beeson ap peared and addressed a few well timed and happy remarks to the Convention upon the Chicago nominations and the campaign before us. He said he could not have been better suited than with the nominations made. He spoke some minutes, eulogising the nominations and urging the importance of going to work for them with a will. C. W. Clisbee followed in a few soul stirrinir remarks, when the business of the Convention being concluded, three cheers were proposed for Abraham Lincoln, " the man who splits rails and mauls Democrats." The cheers were given with a hearty good will, and the Convention adjourned. HENRY ALDRICH, Chairman. W. II. Campbell, Secretary. The Democratic Platform on the Slavery Question. The Davis resolutions as they passed the Senate by a strict party vote, are as follows. Mr. Douglas was not pres ent These resolutions v ill be the basis of the Richmond Convention. 1. Resolved, That in the adoption of the federal constitution, the States adopting the same acted severally as free and independent sovereignties, delegating a portion of their powers to be exercised by the federal government for the increased security of each against dangers, domestic as weH as foreign, and that any intermedling by any one or more States, or by a combi nation of their citizens, with the do mestic institutions of the others, on any pretext, whether political, moral -or religious, with the view to their dis turbance or subversion, in violation of the constitution, insulting to the States so interferred with, endangers their do mestic peace and tranquility objects for which the constitution was formed and by necessary consequences serves to weaken and destroy the Union itself. 2. Resolved, That negro slavery, as it exists in fifteen States of this. Union, composes an important portion of their domestic institutions, inherited from their ancestors .and existing at the adoption of the constitution, by which it is recognized as constituting an im portant element of -apportionment of powers among theStates, and that no change of opinion or feeling on the part of the non-slave-hotding States of the Union, in relation to this institution, can justify them or their citizens in open or covert attacks thereon, with a view to its overthrow ; and all such attacks are in manifest violation of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other, given by the States respectively on entering into the constitutional compact which formed the Union, and are a manifest breach of faith and a violation of the most solemn oblicrations. 3. Resolved, That the Union of these States rests on the equality of rights ana privileges among its memoers, ana it is especially the duty of the Senate, which represents the States in their Sovereign capacity, to resist all at tempts to discriminate, either in rela tion to person or property, so as in the Territories which are the common possession of the United States to give advantages to the citizens of one State which are not equally assured to those of every other State. 4. Resolved, That neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature, whether by direct legislation or legislation of an unfriendly character, possesses the power to annul or impair the constitu tional right of any citizen of the United States to take his slave proper ty into the common Territories, and there hold and enjoy the same while the Territorial condition remains. 5. Resolved, That if experience should at any time prove that the ju diciary and executive authority do not possess the means to insure adequate protection to constitutional-rights in a Territory, and if a Territorial govern ment should fail or refuse to provide the necessary remedies for that pur pose, it will be the duty of Congress to supply such deficiency. 6. Resolved, That the inhabitants of a Territory of the United States, when they rightfully form a constitu tion to be admitted as a State into the Union, may then, for the first time, like the people of a State when form ing a new constitution, decide for them selves whether slavery, as a domestic institution, shall be maintained or pro hibited within their jurisdiction ; and if Congress admit them as a State, 44 they shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their con-J stitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." 7. Resolved, That the provision of the constitution for the rendition of fu gitives from service or labor, 44 without the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed," and the laws of 1793 and 1850, which were enacted so as to secure its execution, and the main features of which, being similar, bear the impress of nearly seventy years of sanction by the highest judi cial authority, should be honestly and faithfully observed and maintained by all who enjoy the benefits of our com pact of Union, and that all acts of in dividuals or of State Legislatures to defeat the purpose or nullify the re quirements of that provision, and the laws made in pursuance of it, are hos tile in character, subversive Of the con stitntion, and revolutionary in their effects. .. Terrific Tornado Many Lives lost. - A terrible tornado passed over East ern Iowa and northwestern Illinois Sunday evening last, by which over one hundred lives were lost, and in some instances whole towns were de molished. From all that can be learned, it appears that the track of the tornado extends from the heart of Lynn county, Iowa, near Cedar Rapids, the present terminus of the Chicago, Iowa & Ne braska Railroad, in a generally north east direction across Clinton county, crossing the Mississippi at Camanche and Albany, towns fronting each other respectively on the Iowa and Illi nois shores, and thence maintaining its course towards the centre of the State across Whiteside into Lee county, its latest ravages heard from being near Lee Centre. The entire distance thus traversed is upwards of one hundred, miles, and that through a populous and fertile farming resrion, with thriving towns some of which, fell in the path of the destroyer. At Clinton, Iowa, it com menced at 7:30 m the evening, and al though lasting but 2 minutes, it caused more destruction to life and property than any similar storm that has ever visited this portion of the country. The town of Camanche. Iowa, and Albany, 111., on the opposite side of the river, auu nve roues soutn ot Ulinton, were completely demolished. In the former place thirty-two dead bodies have already been taken from the ruins, still there are a number that cannot be got at In Albany five or six dead bodies were found with about 50 wounded, some seriously, and have not yet been able to obtain a list of the vic tims. The citizens of Fulton. 111., and Clinton, Iowa, are doing everythincr for the relief of the sufferers from oth er towns on the route of the tornado. that can be reached. A despatch to the Press (b Tribune, says that the des truction to life and property at Morri son, in., is equally great. Iho storm passed some two miles northeast of Amboy, HI., destroying houses, barns and fences, killing 10 persons and injuring many more. A despatch from Sterling, dated June 4th says : A terrible tornado passed about three miles south of this city last night, unrooting houses and entirely demol- ismng others, Killing several persons. and breaking the limbs and otherwise maiming a great many more. We also learn that at Lynden, twelve miles south of here, the tornado was even more destructive. The physicians and people generally from this cijy have turned out to aid the sufferers. A correspondent of the Press b Tri bune, writing from DeWitt, III., says : xiie Buuuieiu poruon ot our town was visited by a most fearful tornado be tween the hours of 6 and 7 P. M. Sun day, levelinsr evervthi nrr in its nnnrca and carrying sorrow and death to very many families. The entire number of deaths cannot be known at this early hour, but from 16 to Iff are kno'wn to have been killed. Vehicles are now leaving for the country to bring in the dead. Eleven dead bodies now lie in the old DeWitt House awaiting tho action of the Coroner. Some 'of them are fearfully mangled. The city prop er seems to have escaped injury, with tho exception of broken fences, &c, but on a line nearly at and west, and from one to two miles south, the des truction seems complete. In one fam ily of 16 persons I just learn 2 escaped alive. In another family all were killed, except an infant which was car ried into an adjoining lot and found by its crying. The city is shrouded in nniversal gloom. On the whole line of the tornado scarcely a piece of furniture can be found. Cattle were killed and the. feathers blown from turkeys, chickens The tornado was in the fTtn of a whirlwind, funnel-shape, and carried pieces of furniture upwards of 2 miles. It is impossible as yet to estimate the loss of life and damage, which, is The Late Post-Ofhco defalcation. jar. jrowier s jusi, xiour rtixictc Statement of his accounts with the Government. In the N.Y. leader of Saturday, 44 last hours spent at the New York Hotel by Isaac V. Fowler,' which, if correct, as we believe it is, is of some interest We learn therefrom that on. the 16th inst, Mr. Fowler became aware that the Post master-General, having returned from Florida, had got scent of the defalcation, and had de termined to prosecute him. Two of his friends on the next day went to Washington to beg for time, in the bo- lief that the amount of the deficiency might be made up, and even if. Mr. Fowler's credit was gone, his person might be safe from arrest. . They were not, however, successful, and a warrant was placed in the hands of Marshal Rynders, who hastened to execute it He proceeded to the rew York Hotel;" wnere jir. r owier naa resiaea ior some years past, and unreservedly stated that he had with him a warrant for the Post master's arrest He was told that Mr. Fowler was not in, but he remain ed in and about the hotel until nearly midnight, and left with the intention of calling the next morning, It is sup posed, so the statement of the Leader proceeds, that some of the friends of Mr. Fowler, knowing the Marshal's in tention, must have stationed themselves at the front door to caution him to en ter the hotel through the side door on Waverly place. The stratagem was successful, for Mr. Fowler passed the night in his room, having sent for one of his most intimate friends, to whom he stated, " with great emotion and many tears," the whole facts of the case, and that he would not be taken alive, at the same time producing a small revolver, with an ivory handle. The friend reasoned with him and ob tained a promise that he would not in jure himself, at least till the evening of the next day. Shortly after this gen tleman had taken his leave, two other fixed friends of the Postmaster arrived at the hotel, .and proceeded to his room, when the fear struck one of them that he might think they were officers coming to arrest him, and might commit some desperate act A pass-key to Mr. Fowler's room was ob tained, and they gently entered and stood by his bedside before he was aroused. The revolver was under neath his pillow. The report pro ceeds : 44 Fowler being aroused, a ter rible scene ensued the unhappy gen tleman writhing and groaning in agony, and weeping and shouting incoherent regrets, so that his friends began to fear that he would alarm the house .1 . r i i -- uie nature oi iiiarsnai ivynaers visit having been buzzed around among all the guests with the usual swiftness and exaggerations attending such rumors. liurridlv he packed up a few changes of linen coats, &c, into a valise, Mr. Fowler meanwhile dressing him self, and rather beginning to show re lief as flight instead of death became the prospect before hiin. Mr. C one of the truest friends ever man had resolved to raise a pnrse next day which should place Mr. Fowler beyond any reasonable want for a couple of years the sum, as we have heard, be ing $8,000 which has since, all but 12,000, been subscribed. On this point, however the exact amount of the sum we are not so suro as on the other particulars of this narrative. All the arrangements being ended, at just seven minutes past 2 o'clock on the morning of the last Sunday week, Isaac V. Fowler, leaning on the arms of his friends, Messrs. B. and T., took final leave (as a resident) of the New York Hotel ; and by 8 o'clock on Sun day morning, when Rynders again called, the rooms which he occupied, and had fo filled, with objects of art and curiosity, were desolate and bare. AH the books, pictures and bronzes were removed ; the many presents made to Mr. Fowler by female and other friends, no longer were littered round the table in that admired confu sion which has so often arrested the eye of visitors. Rynders found only naked walls and ordinary hotel furnU ture the clerk announcing to all ones tioners, that no such person as J. V. Fowler boards at this hotel.' Whither Mr. Fowler was taken in the carriarra by Messrs. B. and T., it would not be in good taste to state. He was haw ever taken good care of, and suffered but little restraint His luxuriant black whiskers having been ehaved off on Sunday morning, and a pair of gold spectacles completely altering his ap pearance, whenever placed in any situ- Oion where those not in his immediate conhaenco could see him." : 2F"The President has tendered the Commissionership nnder the Para-. guay treaty, to John Vau Buren. ' . X3 Lady Byron widow of the fa mous poet, died recently in England. She was born May 7,1792, and mar ried to Lord Byron, Jan. 15, 1816. . KEnOSEPE OIL. WE have now on hand nd shall constantly keep a pure article of Kerosene Oil, which we are selling for the Low Price of . : One, Dollar per Gallon. G. C. JONES & CO. DowagiiiC, Mar 1st, 1S60. mayS-Stf J r