Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1860-08-07

              MOUNT VERNON, OHIO : TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1860. VOLUME NUMBER 16. ft - BY I. UAKPEIU , Oficeln T7oo4ArdY Block,' Third Story TKRMS T Cellar per annum, payabla la ad-,Taaee: $1,50. within 'tlx mouths; ,0" afur tha sx- ration ef the year. Clubs of twenty, $1,60 aaeh. gtoble Southerners. Speech of Mr. Coleman, or LouiaiAVA, M Newport, Ky , at the Douglas and Johnson Ratification Meetutg. THE SLAVERY QUESTION. Proceedings of Cnarleston aind . . IXaltlmore Conventions. ...... Regularity of Donglas' Nomination. Fxixow CrnzcKfl : It is with great pleasure that I avail myself of the invitation to address the people of Newport on the political topics of the day. Jost thirty-eight years ago, then a very young man, ani a candidate for Congress, I bad the booor of addressing the citizens of ibis place, then a small village, for the first time. There are lot few here now who favored me with their pres- eoce on that occasion ; yet there are soma, and many of the aons of others. '"Being a native Kentuekian, and standing on thai porttoa of the gallant State where I first pat Forth my aspirations, and where my earliest ' and moat pleasing associations were formed, I -. can bat cordially repeat tbe sentiment of the poet: ;:; . . .'72-: ; - --."r- ' " Lives there a man with soul so dead, "Who never to himself hath said. This is my own, my native land T" I am here, my fellow-citizeos, to speak on subjects of grave importance and of deep interest to the people of the United States. A crisis in the .political affairs of oar country is rapidly ap- ' proaching, if not already npoa as, and I feel that it is the daty of all to lake a part and exercise some inflnence in the contest. Having passed . , the meridian of life, I bad supposed that no cir. enmstance would traavpire which would draw me jfrom the quiet retirement which circumstances bad prompted me to seek and enjoy. I find it otherwise. The "great national party on which, ia my aealona devotion, I had confidently relied for preservation of all our rights, under the Con stitution, and in the Union, is threatened with imminent danger and disruption. The Union itself is, in my opinion, .much nearer dissolution jhan ever before now, whan there is test cause " for disaffection between the North and South, on the existing subject of slavery, than was in ' 1856, or at any period of out -history since that . : - - - - ; Ume. - 4 . After tlsj adjournment of the late Baltimore Convention of the Democracy, with equal sur- prise and mortification I perceived that many of the public journals. North and Sooth, for whose Democracy ao4 adherence to Democratic usages I bad entertained the. hi finest regard, were op-n- 1v advocating the election of Messrs. Breckin- idge aod Lane, opon the grouod that they were the regular nominees of the National Democra tic party. Zt is to me a matter of surprise that . any sound minded man should state such to be the fact arid of mortification, that any Democrat would avail himself of a misrepresentation for the accomplishment of any purpose, much leas for the purpose of defeating th reguiar nom toees of the party. Men may advocate the election of Mr. Breckinridge opou the groands of superior qaalifica tioos, superior integrity, superior firmness, eupe rior experience, if they honestly believe that be is superior ia all these respects. - Bat no man can truthfully say that be is the nominee of thezNa-tioaal Democracy. No maa can aay that, at aay time daring the sessions of the National Convention at Charleston or Baltimore, he was the favorite of even a respectable minority of the ' party. The Convention at Chariectoa was composed of sue hundred and six delegates, having the right to east three hundred and three rotes, be if g the whola vote of the Electoral College. Tbe Committee on Platform were divided. A major ity, seventeen (the committee was composed of thirty-three, one from each state,) reported the Cincinnati Platform of 1856, with several expla natory resolutions. The 'Cincinnati Platform was, eat aod oat, non-intervention by Congress with Slavery to State or Territory aod the Dis trict of Columbia.. But the explanatory resotu -- tions asserted the right aod duty of Congress to intervene and protect Slavery ia the Territories. So that, while tha main resolution waa non-tn ierve.nlwn, the explanatory repolotions, if aay thing, wero intervention, or a Slavery Code by Congress. - The minority (fifteeo) of the committee repor sea uw vinciaaaii riairorm simply, with a reso-lation, M that all questions in regard to the rigbta of property in States or Territories arising under the Constitution of tbe United States are judicial fa their character, aad tha Democratic party is . pledged to abide by and faithfully carry ontsocb determinations of these questions as has been or may U mads by the 8npreme Court of. the Uni, tedBuus." ' Ur. Batler faado a report Tbtmaalf of the Cio eioaati Platform alone j sd that tha eommittet stood nearly equally diriiedor 17 to 16. Mr Batler objected only to tbe rerolatton of the mi L nority declariog that ths party was pledged to . stand by the decsions of the Supreme Court. The Convention approved of aod adopted the -minority report the Cincinnati Platform aod V oia-ht cotton States , bolted; and aUet seceatng nd withdrawing from all coonec titfo with tbo deliberations of tha hody, entered iuw anoioerjoisHoci convention, elected anotb er preauliny officer, adopted another platform f-?11 .??.0.9 Prtj "d. finally ad- juurnoa w meet again at liicbmood, after iovitirig thf'otBef 8tt w ppoint" andiend debjgatas to tV Etchuiond: Conveotioni " '.j .'l' ",nv a . Aftar. tlLa seceasioa. bow stood the 'ease 7 Eight States withdrew, casting 51 voles, twenty five States stood firm, casting, 252 jvotes. The Convention then proceeded to ballot. On the first ballot the vote stood : t)ooglas:.................;.....................149i Guthrie..., .................. ............... 39 Una 20 Hunter .. .... 28 Johnson........ .................................... 12 Davis ... . ...7 1 Dickinson...-............'. 1 Total. ..252 On the thirty-second ballot: Douglas Guthrie......... . Dickinson.... . Hunter...... ........ Lane ....152J 47 3 11 14 1 Davis Total 252 On the fortieth ballot Douglas,.. 151J Guthrie....... Dickinson... Hunter,..,... 66) 5 15 12 a - a a Lane, Total..... ..............................251 Thus it was shown that Douglas was first, Guthrie second, and Mr. Breckinridge not even named, although all the Southern States, except the seceders, were present and cooperating. Finding it impracticable to make a nomination . i i i . . i . . j under toe iwo-mira rue, w vo"'b u- journed to Baltimore, with the following resolu tion : . Resolved. That wbtn this Convention adjonrn today, it adjonrn to meet in Baltimore on the 18th of June next, in order to afford the Slates not now represented, ad opportunity to fill op their delegations. So matters stood when the Conyhntion reassembled at Baltimore,, when new difficulties sprung op from tbe conduct of the seceders. Not conte'jt with the effort and failure to break up the Convention at Charleston, the bolters from all the seceding States except. South Carolina and Florida made their appearance at Baltimore and asked permission to resume their abandoned seats. It was well known that new conventions had been held in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, and that new delegates had been elected in place of the seceeders, or ret appoiutmeots and new -instructions given to tbe old ones. The fit at business, therefore, at Baltimore was to settle the question of their titles to seats. The following resolution was adopted : Resolved,T That the. credentials of all. persona claiming seats in the Convention made vacant by the secession of delegates at Charleston, be referred to the Committee on Credentials. After a patient examloHtion - the Committee reported in favor of the new delegates from Ala bama and Louisiana to tbe exclusion of the ae-ceders, and in fvor of both delegations from Georgia. The Convention sustained the report of the majority of the Committee as to Alabama and Louisiana, and as this action was thepre--tense for the secessions at Baltimore, I beg leave to state the case relative to my own State Louisiana. It will be recollected that the Louisiana dele gates seceded at Charleston on tha 30lb dnf of April, after the adoption of the Cincinnati Plat form. Ita but .just to say that two Charles Jones and James A. McHattou did not leave tbe Convention, and did not approve of the se cession at the time, although they preferred the majority platform. Tbe aecedera used the following lanpaage to tbe President: The Convention, by this vote, the vote on the Platform,) refused to recoguize the fundamental principles of the Democracy of the State we have the honor to represent, and we feel constrained, in obedience to a high sense of duty, to withdraw from, its deliberations, and unanimously to enter our solemn protest against its action.' We ask that this communication may bespread upon tbe Minutes of the Conven tion, and beg leave to express oar appreciation of the justice and dignity which have character ized your action as its presiding officer.' A for mal renonciation of the Convention, and its deliberations and a ceremonious leave. takio? of tbo presiding officer I These gentlemen entered into the seceders' antagoaistio Convention, and co-operated in all its proceedings, including the adjournment to Richmond, alt of which was in violation of the usages f tha Democratic party, and calculated to destroy its efficiency aod its usefulness. The question now arises, Were they justified in such conduct by the facts and circumstances of the case? Let "us examine them. : As before stated, tbe Committee on Platform was composed of tbirty-three, one from each State. The majority platform was presented by seventeen, and the minority, or Cincinnati Plat form, by sixteen. No rale of the party, nor of right reason, ex ists, nor can exist, which makes it obligatory on the Convention to adot a reporpt of a majority of a committee. If there were such a rule the ma jority of a committee in this case seventeen men would substitute six hundred aod six chosen delegates would bave to saesumb to seventeen, which is not by any means a sound Demo cratie principle.. Yet tha seceders of Louisiana declared that tha Con vention, by refusing to adopt the report of the seventeen, thereby refused to recognise the fundamental doctrine of tha party ia Louisiana. . . . "-. ' ' Hera, fellow citizens, I beg leave to state that the Cincinnati Platform was, in 1856, received with universal approbation io Louisiana, and its doctrine of non-intervention was then, and is now, acknowledged to betho fundamental prio clpl tof the Democratic party a the suliect of slavery., ti a oeaira so siavs-cooe by Congress for thsi Territories; botjaslst that Congress shall Keep ks panas du tna suojeci aitogetner. j Wo deny tha 'fight' of Congress to legislate slavery into a Terfiloty, or to excluds it tkerefrowi. but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to torn ana rsjulato their domesUo institutions ia their own way, subject to the Constitution only, and tbo decision of the Supreme Court in all questions that may properly arise. Such was one of the doctrines of tbe compromises of 1850 to which' I . felt an opposition, but to which I submitted, because it contained tbe doctrine of non-intervention and to which I became more and more reconciled as nonintervention became more and more the established doctrine of tbe party, in the platforms of 1852 and 1856. - ' . ; - ; Tbis doctrine of nonintervention should not now be surrendered by the national Democracy, at the instance of a few factious and theoretical politicians; nor wil it be surrendered. But to the action of tha convention. The vote on the resolution adopting the Cin cinnati Platform was 237 J ayes; ,65 noes. Hera is the resolution: j Resolved, That the Democracy of tbe Union, ii Convention assembled hereby declare our af firmance of the resolutions uranimously'adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at CiucinnattT, in 1856, believing that Democratic principles are un changeable in their nature, when appled to tbe same subject matter. To this resolution I give my hearty assent, though the Louisina delegates at Charleston seceded in consequence of its adoption. Virginia voted for it 14 to 1, Missouri 7 to 1J, Tennessee 10 to 1, Maryland 5 to 3, Delaware 2 to 1, North Carolina and Kentucky unanimously. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, the eiglU Cotton Stales, voted against it unanimously, aud bolted, and now modestly ask the Democratic party to ratify their action, and to declare that the Charleston Convention breed upon the party a platform of principles which is violatory of tha fundamental doctrines of tbe Democracy. In consequence of the secession at Charleston Louisiana held two State Conventions. Tbe Central Committee, on the 14th day of May, is sued a call to reassemble the old Convention, which had assembled on the 5tb day of March previously, and, after performing its duties had adjourned sine die. On the 4th day of June about one-third of the former delegates aaseua-bled at Baton Rouge, and a majority of them passed resolutions indorsing the secession and instructing the old delegates to go to Richmond and consult, then to; Baltimore and resume their seats in .the Democratic Convention, and demand a change in the. platform which had been adopted at Charleston by a vote of 237 to 05, aod , in case of failure, again to secede and repair to Richmond as dtilegates to that Convention, and tbea: operate j agaicst the Baltimore Convention. j : Now, fellow DeroocratK, I say that this whole proceeding was in open violation of every prin ciple of com moa sense, and every usaga of the Democratic part j and incQnle6tabljprateathat the Seceders and 'that Baton Rouge Convention were resolved to force the party in Louisiana to sustain tbem and rule the party, or to uin the Democratic organization altogether. The Convention of the 5th of March bad ad journed sine die, and was dead to all intents and purposes. No power, except that of thie people, could call it again into existence. The Central Committee could not elect delegates to a State Convention. It could onlv appoint a time and place and recommend primary meetings of the Democracy to elect delegates. This can not and I trust will not be denied by any true Democrat. It was, therefore, a bold and reckless usurpation of power by tbe commit tee, which has been equaled in effrontery only by the Institute Convention at Baltimore, in de daring themselves to be the National Democratic Convention. Both usurpations are tbe fruits of the daring and distempered machinations of a lawless club of Federal official functionaries, and which loudlj call upon the people for repudiation aod reform. Besides the meeting at Baton Rouge was meagerly attended. 1 was present, but refused to co-operate. Not more than one third of the original Convention o? tbe 5th of March were in attendance. Whera were the other two-thirds? They were at homeprotest ing against the reassembling of a dead body. and preparing delegates for a new Convention, to take into consideration the new and vital is sues which bad sprang np at Charleston. V Before I take leave of the Baton Kooge Con vention, allow me to remark that the plans of a Southern league and the opinions and supposed designs of such men as Mr. Yancey were under stood in Louisiana. The circumstances of the secession and doable Convention at Charleston tha conduct of the Louisiana seceders ia recommending the Richmond Convention, and the singular call of tbe Central Committee to resuscitate tbe same Convention, though dead, to con sider of the act of secession, created an alarm tbroogbont the State, lest aa attempt waa being made to precipitate Louisiana with other States into such a position in reference to tha integrity ui tut uoioo as me democracy wouia not cnoose to occupy. ' Tba very remarkable, anti-Democratic, roving- commissions issued to the old delegates, with new and specific instructions, well calculated to cre ate confusion and heart burnings in the National councils of the party, and the terrible Richmond Convention evidencing a show of adherence to Democratic usages at Baltimore, and a squint toward disunion at Richmond, were not calco- lated to allay the publio apprehensions. . ; A few days after the Baton Rouge Convention a new Convention was bald at Donaldsooville composed of delegates fresh from tba peopla of the party, elected in primary mealing after the secessions, representing a majority of tbo party. coming from tenty-foof parishes ;and the city of New Orleans .The eitr of New Orleans is about one-third the . 8tate, in all respects, and eiecia iweniy-iour oi me ninety-eigus ieruaeu uitos in vae legislature. ,-L :-fl , .j: t,- Tbis Convention was assembled at the sugges tion of tbo Democratie people, ther legitimate source of Democratie power, by a'csJl from two pemocrauo 'Aasociatloos in No w. Orleans, aod by a call of the Louisiana member of "tha Na tional Executive Committee, Dr. CotUnan: an theae calls were raspoadad to hy tba people in sending a numerous and inUllectual delegation. It was a largo and entboaiaatio assembly, purely Democratie and National, as its proceedings and resolutions will demonstrate. They resolved that the Cincinnati Platform was the orthodox creed of the National Democracy; they eoodemned tba act of accession at Charleston aa a'step toward the disruption of the party and its section alizatioo, with a strong tendency toward disunion, and they resolved to stand to and abide by the nominations of the Baltimore Convention, whoever they might be. The regularity of tbis Convention is denied by the seceders, because it was not called by the Central Committee, and you may desire to know why that committee did not call a new Conven tion to act upon the issues. I will give you their published reasons; First, that a tew Conven tion was unnecessary and un Wur ranted; second, that the bolting delegates were responsible only to tbe Convention which had appointed them third, that if the - committee had the power to call a new Convention, which was not admitted by tbem, the calling of a new Convention would be an implied censure of the seceders; and fourth, that there was not time to have a full expression by the people in a new Convention. No, fellow citizens, not one of these groands are tenable. A new Convention was demandeffby the De mocracy- was necessary and warranted, because the secession was a new issue and was as act in violation of a resolution which pledged the State Convention to abide by tbe nominations at Charleston and in violation of the usages of the party. ; The seceders were not responsible alone nor at all, to the Convention which bad appointed them. That Convention were only the agents of the people of tbe Democratic party, while in session as a representative body, and that Convention having performed all the duties assigned them, had adjourned sine jlie, or resigned all power on the 5th of March before. The delegates were responsible alone to the Democracy, and the Democracy could act in primary meet ings, or in a new State Convention, as they might elect, and they chose a new Convention at Donaldsooville. : Tbe committee denies its power, or doubts it, to call. a new Convention, but delicately declines the call because it would be an implied censure. on the seceders. This censure, or the reverse, was the very thing demanded by the party in a nw Convention. It was the great thing to be decided whether tbe act required censure or ap proval. But aa delicacv ia a lovablv trait of character, and rarely to be met in politicians,' I will not here condemn it in the committee, but ill simply ask if the reassembling of the old dead Convention was not equally an implied cen sure. It. is so, certainly, 11 knew the sentiments of the old Convention, and nstructed tbe com mh tee how to act. The chair man. of the committee' was one of the boilers at Charleston. - .. The last ground, there was not lime, is not tenable, for a. new Convention was called and held at Donaldsojiville on the 6th of June, leaving twelve days to reaqh; Baltimore, when only three are required to make the journey from New Orleans. I f the committee bad :: called a new Convention on the 5tb of Mj, as should have done, to assemble on the 10th of June, there was abundance of time to have had a full ex pression of public sentiment, and eight days left to reach Baltimore. That such a course would have been better, I agree, for then the whole party would have met together and discussed the merits and demerits of secession, and the majority would have set- lied the policy of Louisiana and this tba party earnestly desired but it was known to the sece ders to be a dangerous experiment for them. It was also known that the attempt to reinstate tbe old Conventian would keep out ; of that body all of those unadulterated Democrats who would be apt to oppose such a thing as bolting a Democratic Convention merely on account, of the readopilon of a fundamental doctrine of the party, and bring into it only such as would support tbe seceders, right or wrong. - Sound Democrats would not countenance so absurd an idea as a dead Convention, galvanized into existence ly a Central Committee, The Committee took tbe only course oy wntcn an. indorsement of cession could have been procured. Thy acted adroitly and faithfully to tbe seceders, but bung-lingly and unfaithfully to the party. The Donaldsooville Convention appointed twelve delegates to Baltimore, consisting of such men as Ex Senator ooule, e.x Governor Wick. liffe. Ex-secretary Herron, Ex-Member Congress Moore, Kx-Jodge Kicharsdon aod others, including myself, nearly all of whom' had occupied im portant political stations in Louisiana, and all by Democratic suffrages. They are all true and standard Democrats. The pew delegates were admitted by a vote of 16 to 9 in tbe committee, and 153 to 98 by the Convention. For this act of internal regulation in reference to tba credentials of membera, the merits of which in the case of Louisiana I hava endeavored to present, and over which the Convention bad undoubted right of judgment, according to Democratic usages and all Parliamenta ry proceedings, tbe spirit of revolt broke out a fresh, and portions of the delegates of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Maryland, Dei a ware, ana even Massachusetts . and New York followed the example of their predecessors at Charleston.' . . Other portions, and those the sounder, remained true to their integrity and their duty. . : The second revolt left still in the Convention 207 electoral votes, more than two-thirds of the whole, all of-whom finally voted for the nomina tion of Donglaa. 1 J ; ' - Tba boltara, instead of holding a eonventioa at Richmond, as was originally designed, and to which some of tbem were . accredited! held a meeting at the ball of the, institute over the market house in Baltimore, an tagonistio to the Democratie Convention, to which none were accredited by, their, constituents, and at the first dash nominated Breckinridge and Xjana :-It is claimed that 103 ' votes were in , that meeting. But it most be recollected that Louisiana and Alabama were fully represented ;in the regular convention which nominated Douglas.' ". i Saeb ot your ' delegatea, fellow-citizens, - as went. into that factional assembly, forgot' their iomhvmb upvi, ur. uuinnCi.wnu a vosr lesion had received tbe next highest vote to Doos las, aad of whose final nomination there was a reasonable prospect if the integrity of the party had been maintained. - Thus have I endeavored to show that Mr. Douglas Was regularly, nom inated by tbe National Democratic Convention at Baltimore, notwithstanding the reckless efforts of office-holders to break up the assembly, and that Breckinridge was presented by a factious minority of the party, at a time and place where none of the actors ia the farce were authorized by any pretense of ere dentials to act in the premises. . To cap the climax of thoir contempt for Democratic usages and Democratic constituencies, that body of bolters, not one-third cf a regular National Democratic Convention, declare to the world that they are the National Democratic Party. Mr. Breckinridge accepts tbe nomination because he can not refuse bis valuable ser vices to the National Democracy. - I have been thus minute and I fear tedious, fellow citizens, in reference to the Louisiana Conventions and delegatea because the admission of the new delegates, instead of the seceders, has been made the pretense of tbe withdrawals at Baltimore. IF we were properly admitted, as I think there can be no doubt, then the bolters are wholly inexcusable, and Mr, Breckinridge is placed beyond the pale of National Democracy : while Mr. Douglas stands before the American public as the ooly candidate of ike Democratic party. Under the circumstances, allow me to say in conclusion, that I believe Louisiana will cast her vote for him by a decided majority; for besides being the regular nominee of the party, be has a strong hold upon the good opinions of the people, for his distinguished talents and statesmanlike characher, for..Ms unwavering firmness in battling for tbe rights of ' the South under the Constitution, for bis persevering and able advocacy of the doctrine of non-intervention, and for his generoua-and enlightened liberally in general legislation. Allow me a few words of recapitulation. The Natiooal Convention, reduced by shameful desertions to 207 electoral votes, but still retaining over two-thirds of the whole, unanimously present the Tames of Douglas and Johnson. A minority, being onlv one-third of the whole, and the very deserters referred to, at an outside meeting, antagonistic to the Convention, without credentials for any such purpose, and in a state of revolt a-gainst the party, presents the names of Breckinridge and Lane, In such a state of case, can any true Democrat halt in his curse? Which will we stand by and sustain? If by Douglas ani Johnson, we at least sustain the integrity Of the party and its nationality. - If by Breckinridge and Lane, we yield'up to sectionalism and faction the old, time-honored organization, with all its hallowed usages, principles and associations. When shall we get a better craft in which, with aafety to the Constitution aod the Union, we may bone to breast tbe storms of political agitation? . ; It has fallen to the lot of others to desert the good old Democrats ship. Her hull and all her ribs are sound, though her ropes and rigging need repair. I have sailed with her for. thirty years through. smooth aud rugged seas, and if she is now to eo down I snail stand yet upon her deck and proclaim eternal condemnation to the mutinous portion of the crew who will have scuttled aod sunk her to the bottom of tbe ocean. A Simoon. A regular simoon, t t-ot r i ni i I y i ii i m mmt u WfctyO- UJT 1 mtt ing on the face and holding the breath to save from suffocation, seems to have visited Kansas and Westeru Missouri on Monday, July 8, The Grasshopper Falls ( Kaosas) Gazelle,, otr the 14tb, says: On Monday last, about half-past twelve o'clock P. M., Utt of air-came in at the open door so hot that it seemed to a,ake the lungs crackle and collapse, and brought us to our feet with a loud cry of "house's afire." During a rapid examination we felt as though we were breathing tlame. We gasped audL sighed, but no relief came. - . Iu ten minutes or more the system appeared to accommodate itself to the increased beat, and went on with its usual functions, except a strong tendency to gasp fur breath, and some drowsiness, with a desire to remain ;n a quiescent state. Animals were variously affected. Chickens and pigs felt it most,' and we doubt not some died. Cattle suffered more with fright -than beat. Horses did not seem to notice it. : The rife in the thermometer was less than we thought, averaging only 1 0 or 1 1 degrees. It went from 99 J to 109, and at one time stood 110. It came nearly from the tbe south, and continued four hours, with very little variation, when the wind sudenly shifted and grew cool. What caused it? . - The Border Star (Missouri) says: About two o'clock a warm breeze commenced eetting from the sooth, which increased and in-intensified into a hot wind that continued with slight intermission until night. It is no exaggeration to say that the wind was like the breath of a furnace. The Independence (Missouri) Herald says: About one o'clock a wind sprung up from the south, aud continued to blow until about sunset, aa good a simoon aa could be gotten up upon any desert in the tropics. The heat of the wind was like that of a furnace, and so intense as to almost scorch tbe face. We beard of many who closed their doors and windows for comfort, though the thermometer stood at one time as high as 105 degrees. t4A Small Farm Well TUled." Elihu Burritt gives an account in tbe Homestead of a visit to the farm of Wm. Biruie of SpriDgfield.-Maas., a " small farmer," with only 50 acres of land, who yet keeps more stock and raises more grain and grass than many hundred acre farmers. Mr. B. says He keeps 32 bead of cattle, 3 horses, and several bogs, all fed from the produce. The past year he raised 4,000 bushels of roots ruta-bagas, mangled-wurtzel, aud yellow turnips. Besides corn, rye. and potatoes, be also grew $1 00 worth of tobacco. There is," adds Mr .Burritt, ''no good reason to doubt, if the number of farms in Connecticat were doubled by making two of each, and concentrating the labor and manure now spread over 100 acres upon .50 acres, the prodoclfon of the half would exceed that of the whole on the aya tern of agriculture." Mr. Birnie cuts and steams all the fodder for bis' stock, and thinks he thus effects a saving of 33 percent, in the cost of Wintering bis stock.- .A Tat jfJontracfc: The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia JVt says, nader the date of July 23: "lleenan is sit length to appear in public. An boor ago he signed a contrast, by which, in consideration of twenfyfos thousand dollars, he agrees to give sparriag exhibitions during the next three months, in this city, and elsewhere. Hiefirst exhibition will be given here on Monday evening of next week. ;; '""1 f ' ' ' - ..... . " ' '- r-'" ." . s - Thingt 7crth Enowin w-.i If your flat irons are rough, rab tbeor with fine alt. If yon are buying, a carpet for durability choose a small figure, A not shovel held over vsra'uhed farnitara will take bat' white spots. A small piece of glue dissolved lo 'skim milk aod water will reatorwold crape. Kitboos should1 be washed ia cold suds and not ritsej. Scotch snuff pat in holes where crickets eoW out will destroy them. Half a eraaberrj booad oa a eorn will sooa kill it. LETTEfe rEOil IT. H. litTCHELL. Nkwark. Ohio, July 20th, I860.: Job K. MiM.tR, EaQ Dear Sin It now seems to be pretty well settled that I shall not be able to get home until to-morrow afternoon, which will be too late to take part in the meet ing. As my absence may not be generally understood, I would be glad you would have H ex plained. There is so much misrepresentation these times, I desire, so far as practical, to guard against it. Had Mr. Douglas io any reasonable sense received the regular nomination of our party, 1 should have supported him under a sense of duty to iu) brethren in the party. But I cannot see bow any fair minded man can claim that his nomination is according to reguiar democratic usage. The delegates voting for Mr. Douglas, at Baltimore, who can with any propriety be said to represent the known or expressed will of their constituents, did not exceed one hundred and thirty-six votes. All the other votes counted for him were either improperly in the Convention, at all, or improperly counted for him. Such being, our condition our national Convention having failed to make a nomination according to the usages, of the party, we are at liberty according to every dictate of common usage and propriety to chose some other man.- A large and highly respectable body of tbe delegates regularly chosen by the people, representing the soundest and best Democracy of the nation, have in a most orderly and becoming manner, presented as their choice, Mr. Breckin ridge, of Kentucky, and Mr. Lane, of Oregon, for the offices to be filled in the coming national election In these men, I recognize enlightened and patriotic Statesmen and fearless Democrats. For them I cheerfully enlist io the campaign aud am willing to do all that reason would demand to secure their success, or vote for them which shall testify to the world that there is a large Laod respectable portion of the Democracy even in this dark and benighted region who are wholly free from all taint of Abolitionism or any sympathy with heir treasonable theories or practices. " - At the time this Union was formed, slavery existed as an established relation between the white and black races in ever State in the Union. It is sai d Rhode Island is an exception, but I do not believe it. No complaint is found anywhere in the Constitution on account of this, on the contrary, several passages in that instrument recognize it as a state of things existing To make it a test now for political standing or qualification for office, that a roan shall condemn or opose this institution is virtual treason to the spirit and design of the Constitution. When that instrument was formed and adopt- sucb an inroad would be attempted opon the established state of things or be assumed. Several of the States who were foremost in their efforts to procure the Consumaf ion of the Union under that constitution would hare opposed if. Now, what is tbe difference between the friends of Mr. Douglas and the Republicans on this subject. It is but slight. Both agree, if we may judge from their leading organs and most of their prominent men, that slavery is morally wrong and ought not to be extended. The only point where they differ is as to the mode of preventing its extension. The Republicans . say Congress should do it; the Douglas men say a few scattered, settlers, regardless of. numbers, may do. it, by unfriendly legislation. Both plans involve the doing of a great wrong in the attempt to deprive our brethern and co tenats in these territories, of one portion of our common Union of the full and free enjoyment of them, Tbis the Democracy who nominated and support Breckinridge and Lane protest agaiust, and come out in plain, nmistakable terms, and declare that according to right it cannot be done. That these territories being the common property must by all constitutional means be kept open for common enjoyment; evidently looking to the Courts of justice as the ultimata and effi cient means of protecting these clear and undoubted rights, both against the unfriendly leg islation of temporary territorial legislation,-or Wilmot provisos interposed by Congress. These are the grounds I understand the friends of Breckinridge and Lane to occupy. They are right and will rtand the test of time. Contending for tbem with the other great and time-boo ored principles vt the Democratic party, (lately I regret to say too much lost sight of,) we shall eltimately triumph. Let not one friend be discouraged though we may perchance now be few in number; we are right and shall preyaih ? Respectfully yours, Ac., M. H. MITCHELL. : Hard Times at the West. : Though the West is gradually recovering from the effects of the revulsion of 1857, which waa of an unprecedented severity in that region, in consequence of the enormous land speculation carried on there for so long a period, yet in cer tain localities there is still great depression, stag, natf in of business and suffering. A gentleman who hit just returned from that section says that ia Keokuk evidences of hard times abound in the shape of fine buildings unoccupied, and others of high cost rented for a nominal sum. Stores which, a few year s since, brought readily $600 per anoam, now command less than $100. The commoditiea of life are cheap, if the inhabitants only bad the money to purchase "Sg selling for five cents per dozen, and batter for ten cents . : i.v limit ' : Frigb.tfQl Tragedy ; ' " .' Near Kentucky town,; Grayson county, Tenn., S maa named Kincade whipped bis negro boy. That same eight tbe negro, while all else were asleep, killed the entire family with an axe; the first bis master, then his mUtreas, then an orphan boy aod a little babe. The negro confess, ed bis guilt, was tried and bung. Several white meajwera. implicated, but nothing definite is knowa.- A few days after, three more - wgros were bung, aa implicated in the murder.! Tbe bodies of the negroes were not suffered to be re. moved from the trees, bat will hang; there as , warning to oilers. - . urrrni Betas ttms. OC-yThe steamship Uuntsville, wbicb left Sa vannah for New York, on the 12th inst-, took out, as part of her cargo, 6,875 watermelons. g" It is said the census returns" from the city of Baltimore will show the population to bd about 230.000 an increase of til 000 over 1850. The canals aftd slack-water connected with the anthracite coal trado.of Pennsylvania, measure 815 miles in length, aud cost $10,000, 000. fiaT The losses by fire in the riorth-eastern partof Texas, said to be the work of Abolition-ists, will exceed $700,000. Several abolitionists1 have been driven out of the State. T. Jt3 The present season at Saratoga is said to be very gay, and the crowd is great, aud most of the hotels are full. The arrivals now art said to reach about 500 daily. S3 The census returns already received at Washington from Illinois clearly indicate the total population of that State to be l,80tf,00O, against 858,000 in 1850. S5 The little son of Mr. Stearns, hotel keep-er at Perrysville, Ashland coanty, while bathing in the Black Fork of Mohican, was accidentally drowned on Friday morning last. tar Rev. J, T. Ca pies, Presiding Elder of the Fiudlay District, M. E. Church, died oq Weduesday morning, July.25tli. ' His" funeral was attended at Fosloria on Friday. SOT Tbe Prince of Wales staid till three o'. clock in ahe morning at the ball given him hi St. John's, and danced nearly all evening. He's one of 'em. 6Q?One hundred boy inmates of the Rochester, (N. Y.) House of Refuge escaped from the institution en masse on Wednesday. A lively chase, of course, ensued. gtThe "Monk of La Trappe" is on his trav-i els again. He has recently been pardoned out of the Iowa State Penitentiary, aud is already lecturing throughout the State. Philadelphia, population, 650,000, Lancaster 20.000 ; HarrUburg, 14,862; Scraaton, 12,000; York, 10,000 ; Eastoo, 10,000; Allen' town, 8.047; WHkesbarre; 7,939. feThe Hon." Brentou Halliburton, whoaer death has been announced within a few dars. was not Judge Halliburton, the author of Sam Slick's stories. ;. Cf" Tbe Methodists in France count at pres' eut 152 places of worship, 29 ministers, 6 colporteurs, 72 local preachers, 203 teachers,, 1,891 pupils in the Sunday Schools. CqT An immense Douglas meeting was held at Petersburg, Vs., on Thursday evening. Chas. Irving spoke for two hours, and was followed by others. The applause was unbounded and the "W Cyrus M'Cormick, the weli known reape? and mowing machine man, and proprietor of the Chicago Herald, is talked of as the Democratie nominee for Congress from that district, It is said he is popular with the farmers. -- A letter from Uayti says the immigrants ' from New Orleans are doing well in the Culture of cotton on the plains of the Artibonite. . Twen ty four cotton gins were in operation in that quarter. v ' CisS" The Mountaineer, published at Greal Salt Lake City, comments on the census taker of that region, and thinks he is meddlesome and insolent when he undertakes to ascertained bow many wives there are in each family. fcaT The Portsmouth O , Tribune states thai a young woman, aged about lt, daughter of Andrew Sharp, near Vesuvius Furnace, was killed by lightning during the storm on Sunday morn- ing, the 2ZJ insti tzT Two negro men, one belonging to Green Million and the other to Townsend Million, were struck by lightning on Sunday evening last, near Tatea creek meeting bouse, Kentacky They will probably recover. . A correspondent of the Cincinnati Pries : Current, writing from Titusville, Pa., says 7,005 barrels of oil have been obtained from the wells in that region, and sold in New York at $15 per barrel of 40 gallons. Some thirty wells have proved successful, yielding together about 400 barrels per day. CThe funeral of Mr. Gales, the late editor of the Intelligencer, occurred in Washington on Tuesday afternoon. Business was nuspendedi-in aft the principal streets, and all the citizens of Washington seemed anxious (o unite in tributes of respect to the memory of to tha . deceased editor. Z tOT Mr. John J. Lowe met with a terrible1 death near Tecumseh, Mich a few. days ago His legs accidentally slipped into the hopper of a threshing machine he was feeding, and before it could be stopped be was drawn down by tb harp teeth of the swiftly revolving cylinder and horribly mangled. v ' 8ST A few days since, a lady died in Pbila-' delphia, lOf years of age4 and on the day of her faneral, there were present, five brothers and sisters, the TOungest being over 90 years of age, aod the oldest 1 1 1 years. A sight like this ka but seldom, if ever, been witnessed in this or any " other oonntrr .' ' iSy A revolt recently took place In the Su"' Louis penitentiary, in which some forty eon ' victs were engaged. " Twenty Mcapeo, and about twenty were re-captured. . In the affair seven prisoners were severely wooned, aod. three killed out right by toe guards of the prison. ggy By the arrival of the Fike's Peak Expresa at St. Loois, we retrieve news from Denver City to the 28th of June. Mining accounts are. couraging, some of the claims in he California gulch having proved very rich. Business waa generally improving, and large trains of good were arriving dily - V , . :- The Medina Gaulie says, daring the as-Vera thunder shower of Saturday mom ing. ata-boatbalf past two o'clock, a barn belonging" t ilr. Jobrt Soider of York, was strock. by HghU ning and, consumed in a Very short spaee cf time. Mr. Snider bad jat fioisbd his haIn, . and the barn was filled with bay and grain. Loss about $590f, insured for one ba'f the a--mooaL