Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1860-08-21

              ! MOUNT VERNON, OHIO : TUESDAY, ATJGtfiST Si, i860. VOLUME XXIV. NUMBER 18 ; "(fD) o. - 1 7 : - A-AAAa vr - - '.r VrC 1 1 n I) n ffy i bfieein T7o4Tard' BlockThird Story TBRMS Tw dollars psr annum, payable in ad- vxnea; $2,56 within tlx months; $3.00 after the ex ratios of the year. Clubi of twenty, $1,50 each. PRAISE IS SUPERFLUOUS. ITS SUPREMA CT IS ESTABLISHED 1 THE GROVES & BAKER CKLKBKATKD WOISELKSS SEWING MA CHINE. THE BEST IN THE WOKLD for families tonse, that desire a stitch unrivaled for Beauty, Elasti-- city and strength. This machine tewi equally well en all fabrirks; muslin, cotton, linen, woolen clotb, etc.; from the finest Swiss Muslin np to the heaviest Bearer Cloth or Leather. It finishes its own work, "which is more durable than any fabric, runs at a quicker rate of speed than any other, is very simple in its construction, easily understood, and with 'proper management, never get out of repair making a stiich peculiar to itself. The Celebrated Doable Lock Stitch. It is impossible to make any improvement on tbe , latter and all other machines being inferior, it claims universal favor as the UNRIVALED GROVKR fc BAKER'S. Such a machine, "One of onr Household Gods," 1 is now considered as essential to the comfort of a well-regulated family, as "Fire in Winter," or "Lamps after Twilight.' We -only desire tbat every one shall give it a fair and impartial examination, conscious that its own superior merits will be apparent to every discerning eye. - . . .-. Silk, Thread and Needles constantly on band. We are pretty familiar with the merits of the loading machines, and for family use we prefer Grover A Baker. Okio Farmer. Call at the Music Store, 2 doors below Knox Co Bank, andexamine for yourselves. ' SAMUEL P. AXTELL, Agent. April 17. 1860. . Mt. Vernon. Ohio. CAJUFBELIaT POIsIsOCIi7 WHOLES ALU PJEAI.EB8 flf - DRY GOODS isrGTioisrs, TTarelioiiMe So. lOl Hood SI., PITTSBURG U, PA., DESIRE to direct (he attention of the trade to tbe superior facilities which tlicy possess for furnishing goods at cheap rales, and of dciraMe quality and styles: Tbejr feel justified in saying that a long experience in this branch of business enables them to be fs miliar with tbe wants of their customers, and to assure Ahem that goods will be offered at tha lowest market prices. Stock of Jeans, Tweeils. Prints, Muslins, Ao.. very 1 omplete, embracing all the desirable styles, mr J. B. BELL, GENERAL REAL ESTATE AGENT, 1 8U7ZBI0S, WISC0H8IW, WILL select and enter Lands, locate Land Warrants, and buy and tell Real Estate. Particular attention paid to Conveyancing, Paying Taxes. Loaning and Investing Money, and examining Titles. Refer to Judge Valey and Eng. Burnand.Xew . York ; Wot. Dunbar and L- Harper, -Mt. Vernon, Marshall A Co., Bankers, and Geo. Willis A.Gorman, St. Paul, Minn.; Wm. II. Newton, Geo. E. Nettleton, v. Superior: Wm. Mann Rahway. N-J. May 20. LIME! LIME!! LIME!'.! LIME!!!! TUB undersigned still continues the manufacture and sale of -, - ' ; PURE WHITE LIME, Near '-White Sulphur" Station on the Springfield, Mt. Vernon and -Pittsburgh Railroad, and 5 miles west of Delaware, Chio. A SUPPLY CONSTANTLY Otf HAND. This lime has been extensively used for years, and it universally considered - THE BEST LIME IN THE STATE, ft will be delivered on tbe cars of the S., Mt. V. and P. Railroad, at my switch, when desired. Price 12 ets for two half bushels "quick" (or nnslaeked) lime. Orders addressed to. the undersigned will receive prompt attention. RICHARD COLVIK, aprl2rm White Sulphur," Delaware Co., O. Land Warrants. PERSONS having 100 aere Land Warrants, by aendingthem to the undersigned, ean have them leanad to pre -emptors of the public lands, at two kumdred ami fifty 4Mr, payable in one year, secured by the .land entered with the warrant. This is an excellent chance for investment, the leader being rendered doubly safe, by having, the benefit ef the settlers improvements and selection o f ae Iad in the West. JAMES G. CHAPMAN, June SO. Omaba City, NebrTer. JAMES EL REED & CO.. AvcPACTOKaas or CBTETOR'a COMPASSES, LeTcliag Instruments, TRANSITS, And all instruments used by Engineer and Surveyors. 68 Fifth Street, PITTSBURGH. Pittsburgh. Apr. 7:ly. Donu & Tetley, A. 13 Wood Street, PitUbmrgl, RIFLE MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS and dealers in double and single bar-rsl shot guns, sporting apparatus, gun makers ma. Serials, has just received, by Express, direct from tbe toanttfaeturers,a splendid assortmen t of C .It's Repeat, lag Pistols, fonr.nve and six inch barrels, all of which will sell for cash at as 1 jw prices as they ean be bought in the city of New York. Persons going to . Anstraliaaad California will find thattheycandobet- terby purchasing their equipage at home, that, they eaa among strangers as we give persons a chance to ry aayof the above pistols before leaving the city, ad in ease of a failure we refund the money. . fiepClI.tf. BOWN ATETLEY. JOHN COCHRAN 4 BRO. HiiDrictssssi or Iroa Bailing, Iron Vault., Vault Doori, . jlo: 91 Seeond Street and 86 Third Street green Wood and Market.) PITTSBURGH, tA AVE on hand a variety of Bew Patterns, foney' and plain, soluble for all jorpoees. Particu-tcntion paid to eoolosiag Giave LoU. Jobbing " done at short notice. - - niarS ' TTm. 8cbncbman's Ut&frTxatU, Drawing, EagraTiag and. Printing - No. T mnd 19, Fifth Street. PitttbmrgX, Pa. B03DS aad Coupons, Certificates of Stock, Diplomas, Drafts, Votes, Cheeks, Maps, 111 and Let. 4 ierheads, Show - Cards; Circulars, Portraits, Labels, f Zasfnoss and Yisttbsg Cards,' te exeeuted fa the - 2est style, at moderate terms. - - - First pretaiams for Lithography awarded by U Obfoand Pens. State AgriealUral Societies, 1851, 1U3, IUA, IH acq iaao. July la. r. I'AAZXG A. M. PAAZ1C. - A SSOV SC2 te the eitixens of Mount Vsrnoa -cA. aad sieinity, that they have formed a eo-part- Kisbte, Tor ths praetica ot jaeoicmstnt Burgery., OH LCZ ilaia Uet above lis. Honk's Cloti pj Etert. - f march J7, l60-ly. ; A VOICE FROfl INDIAHA I JL Henry Clay f nig for Pougla ! We have been permitted to make tbe followine extract from a letter written by Mr. E.- B. Holmes, of LaQrange, Indiana, to his nncle in tSis county, Jonathan Hont, Esq. The writer was formerly an Old Line Henry Clay Whig, bot like nearly all the sensible men of that party, is now for tbe Man of the People, Stephen A. Doughs, for President. It will be seen that he predicts the M Little Giant" will carry Indiana by an immense majority : LaGrangc, Aog. 6, 1860. . "Politics ran high in Indiana. Ton may set Indiana down for twenty thousand majority for Douglas. There is bnt one solitary Breckinridge man in this county, and so it.is in all Northern Indiana. . I never felt so deep an interest in the election of any man as I do that of S. A. Douglas, and further I believe there is dot a more pore, bright and intelligent statesman living than this man.. I have been a firm supporter of Democracy ever sinee Horace Greeley declared there was no longer a Whig party. I could not follow this traitor into any further isms, and from that time there was but one National Political Party, and what else could any honest man do than go there, and this was the thing tbat my illustrious leader, Henry Clay said, that when the Whig party merged itself into a mere Abolition Party, thai he was no longer a whig; and lean, not see now any consistent Clay Whig could as-sociate with a dirty Abolition party, tbat invariably voted against Clay. But it appears to me that the American people, of late years, are more than common susceptible to humbuggery, or they would not fall in with such delusions as Spiritualism and Republicanism, or more properly speaking whitewashed Abolitiocism. I do think of ail the most contemptible pa ties ever got np by a set of defeated renegades, the outcasts and rag tags and bob tails of all parties and isms composing this so-called Republican party, are the most unprincipled and dangerous. And mark my prediction, that if they are defeated this fall there will b no longer a Republican party. Greeley wilt s I i them out as he did the Whigs.4 . Indiana was never so universally blessed wiih an ahuudant crop as this year. Grain, fruit, ve gaiaoies, and everTthinir the earth produces, are far above nn average. The general health of t he country is good. We have bad a little too m uch rain lately. Let me hear frcn yOu often. Please make my best wishes to all the relations in Knox county, ati tell them to vote for Stephen A. Douglas. Yours very truly, C. B. HOLMES." LETTER FROM A KNCX CO. BOY. Correct Sentiment & Wholesome Political Truths! Jay C. H., Jay Co., Ia., Aug. 8th. Editor Banner In the Banner of the 30th ultimo. I uotire a very excellent Address, headed ' Address to the Democracy of Knox County," whith is signed by many of your good citizens. And here let me ssy to you that language will not express my feelings as I hastily looked over the nacres, afier having read the Address, and found pledged to the Illinois Senator, Stephen A. Douglas, and to the great principles ot" Self-Goveroment, or Non Intervention by Congress on the subject of Slavery (as well as all other subjects,) a brother, a brother-in-law, an uncle, and many other relatives and friends, woo are man f years my seniors. It is true it would seem that while the present issues are before the people there would be no difficulty for an American citizen, who is a lover of bis country, to decide which side be should advocate whether he should maintain the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, or the Rights, to secure which our fa thers fOu;ht the Revolutionary war ; or should endeavor to build up and establish the doctrine of King George III, against which our fathers fought, bled and died. Yet it is truly gratifying to know that our friends are on the side of right, and are maintaining the, doctrine advocated by Jefferson, Madison, Clay, Webster, Cass, and a host of others, whom 1 might mention, and have not been led estray by tbe fanaticism of Joshua R. Giddings, who compelled tbe Republican party in their Convention at Chicago, to engraft into their Platform, that all men are created equal," thereby saying to tbe American' people that Jefferson, in writing the Declaration of Independence, (the article from which they stole that paragraph of ther platform,) intended to convey the idea that be was in favor of negro equality, and that they are in favor of the same thing. But they tell at from the rostrum and from the stump that they are not in favor of negro equality, although the record of the country condemns them ; and if they are not ail in favor of it they had better do as did poor Tray," rid themselves of such eom pany. Let os look at the records of the eountry and if they don't condemn them we wont : In 1858 Oregon knocked at the door of Congress for ad. mission into the Union, with a CoaitUatkm.Re publican in form, and a clans excluding Slave ry. What objection to oer admission was raised by the Republican party f Did they contend that she had not the requisite population, or that her Constitution was aot Republican in form ? Not But she had a clause in her Constitution, like we have ia the Constitution of Indiana, pro hibitiog the emigration of negroes into the sUta. and Senator Fesaendea of Maine, backed by Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, said be would admit she bad s CooathoUoa Repoblieaa in form, aod that she had the reqnisit popnlation, bat that be woald resist her admission ai s stiis beeaaseabe ezeadad aooe of tha citizena f Maine tU negroes from becoming citizen of her Comtaooweaith. DoV, tbi aquitti toward negro eqaalityf" y ... Again, Seoalor Seward U iatiother prominent Qiao among Republican, perhaps the moat pro Bjiaentmaa ajnong the party. He was really tbe rst choice of the pert for President, bat few individuals totsk it into tbelr beads to inter- cede for bonest old Abe,h and crowded Seward off the track; In a speech in Ohio in 1848, tnts tame Bill Seward said : " Slavery is tbe sin of taot some of the States only, but of the all. We, in New York, aie gollty of Slavery still, by withholding the right of suffrage from the race we have emancipated. You in Ohio are' guiHy in tbe Same way by a system of black laws still more aristocratic and odious.? What language could be more emphatic than the above ? And from what source could such language emenate to be more binding npon the Republican party ? Yet they tell as in Indiana that they are not in favor of negro equality.- Consistency is truly a virtue ! The Republicans are pleased to tell as that there are two Democratic parties, or in other words that we are divided. Indeed, they prefer to comment on that fact, rather than to discuss the issues tbat divide Democratic and Republican parties. But what does all this amount to? If they would act consistently and advocate the same doctrine six months at a time, it seems in evi table that there would be two Republican par- ties. Look at their several positions in reference to the John Brown tragedy. It is a well knowu fact that two-tbirds of the Republican journals indorsed that movement, and held John Brown up before the world as a V marfyr.n The same doctrine was preached by nearly every orator in Indiana, np to the time that Henry S. Lane, the Republican candidate for. Governor, made bis first campaign speech at Greencastle, in which he denounced Old John Brown as a felon aod at having properly met a felon's doom, Tbe fra me rs of the Republican platform and Henry S, Lane appeared to be one Republican paMj, and tbe proprietors of tbe above journals and the In diana stump orators (Lane excepted,) make up the other. In the Chicago plntfurm we fiud the fallowing emphatic denunciation of such invasions: ' And we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force, of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as one of the gravest of crimes." Is there still two positions on this question, or will those journals and stump orators tell us that they have "caved.' The Democratic party have but one position on this question, and tbat is " Hands Off," and let the people in tbe Slates and Territories regulate their own domes ic af fairs. In concluding this ep'stle, it makes no difference what the result of this campaign may be, we have the right side of the question, aad as the New York Times, a Republican journal, has wisely said, " the question must finally be settled upon the great principle of. Non Intervention,; . Your Fellow Citizen, v" : j. w. n. Senator Crittenden on Judge Douglas. The Louisville Journal of the 4th ioat. pub lishes at length a speech made S nator Crittenden on tbe second intM on the issues of the campaign. We make the following extracts, in which' the distinguished statesman speaks of Judge Douglas: "I know Mr. Douglas very well, ladies and gentlemen. From Mr. Douglas personally, I should apprehend no danger. I bave :ever been a Democrat, as you all know. A frank, fair, and honest opponent of the Democratic party, I have ever been found acting npon -Whig principles, from tbe first to last. (Applause.) But 1 have known Mr. Douglas in the public councils, and have acted with bim. Although generally opposed, and especially npon party questions, we have at times acted together, and particularly upon one momentous occasion, we acted together in opposition to that odious Lecomptoo Constitu tion. (Deafening applause.) Mr. Douglas was there making a great sacrifice to bis sense of duty. (Applause.) He was sacrificing his connection, on i bat occasion,' with many old political fiiends ; and he was breaking op the rela tions ot a long political life ; be was sacrificing as flattering prospects for the highest office of the Government as any man in the country had. I fully believe he did what be conceived to be his duty ; and, in defiance of all opposition, the rack of the President, offe tided friends and open foes, be acted like a man. (Tremendous cheering.) He might have been mistaken in what he did, but that little diminished tbe value of the act. He thought he was right, and he knew be was making a sacrifice, and he was capable of making it, when be believed the interests of his county demanded it. Cbeers.) I can have no quarrvl with him ; he is a Union man. (Cheers. And a Union man I can always trust, when I believe him to be sincere and earnest, as I believe Douglas to be. Continued applause. v r I have spoken not to compliment Mr. Douglas merely ; I have spoken because I desire to give my testimony to the truth.- I believe Mr. Douglas to be a patriot, and I koow him to be a Union man by all the evidences that one public man can give another of bis sentiments. Applause. He is a generous, bold man, speak. ing what he thinks, and doing what he knows to be right. Repeated applause. j Hr. Breckmridee Accepts of his Uomi nation by the Disamon Conrention at lucnmond. The question has been frequently asked (sys the Statesman,) why Mr. Breckioridge did oot formally accept the nomination of Disunion Coa- vention held at Richmond in June last. But after a delay of over six weeks since the adjourn ment of the Convention, his letter of acceptance is permitted to see she light.: Its date, however, shows that its author took jast one? month for ex animation: and reflection before he ventured to write it. It appeared in the Eu taw Alabama Independent Observer of the 3d inst. That pa per says i " Hon. John Irwin, President of the Richmond Convention, has handed us tbe follow ing letter from Hon. John C. Breckinridge, ac cepting the nomination of that Convention." Here is the letter of Mr. Breckidridge : Lexixgtoit, July 26, I860. "Dear Sir : la answer to your letter of the 26th ult-. containing official information of ' my nomination for the Presidency of the U. States by the Democratic Convention assembled -; at Richmond, I have to say that I accept the nomination, and shall try to merit the confidence iro plid by tbe acuoa of tbe Convention. ' l trust that a fall discussion of existing is- saes wilt result ia establishing tbe Constitatioa. and Union of the States upon immovable foundations. - ' -' - -i: - With good wishes, I e your friend, ' T-: - JOHN C BRECKINRIDGE Hon. John Lrwin, President of the Richmond Demoorstio Cooveotioa, Greens boroojh, Ala." -' : Intercsttttg fcktg. The Late Total Eclipse of the Sun. The expedition fitted out under the patronage of tbe Coast Survey to Labrador to make obser vations of the total eclipse ef the sen, returned to Newport on the 7th, aad the next day Proles sor Alexander gave an. interesting account of the phenomena attending to the total obscuration. The sky was over cast with light clouds, so light that the disc of the sun could be seen. He stated the most interesting results of the observations of the party to bet ? I. The moon broke the .carve of the sua with an enormously rough edge. 2. A phenomenon, wbicjb I was tbe first to notice some years ago, via: S belt of light around the moon, brighter tkaa mny other part of the sun. - " i .-: 3. An appearance which but on of our party saw, which was observed ia 1820 and once la-ter, and has been called an optical delusion, but which lh photograph plate note had not forgot ten to record. ' Thus it was real and not optical. The phenomenon in question was a blueish light on the side of the moon, close to the edge projected on the sun. ? j These three results Professor Alexander considered amply justified tie expenses of the ex peditioo. . - I - . As the eclipse progressed aad when there was only a bit of ragged, intensely brilliant silver wire of the sun's disc left! it seemed as if the sun was meltiug away and! dropping point by point, till in a minute all was gone. During the totality the sky was overspread with tbe most beautiful colors. We saw through the deepen ing mist, just as the last fragment of the sun's disc melted away, a single blush of the corona ; but it was white and no red prominences were visible. . On shipboard they were 'more fortunate. During the totality, a momentary rift in tbe clouds revealed the spectacle to tbe sailors. They saw the corona, and described it precisely as if they had read a description in an astronomical work. Tbe drawing taken from their statements he considered in everyseuse reliable. It exhibits the corona with unequal shoots of light, E. J. Lowe, one of tbe English Astronomical Expedition to Spain, thus describes the earth upon the occasion of the late, total eclipse: The darkness was grtatp thermometers could not be read. The countenances of men were of a livid pink. The Spaniards lay down, and their children screamed with tear, fowls hastened to roost, docks clustered together, pigeons dashed against the sides of the bnses, flowers closed Hibiscus Africanns), as ? J arly as 2b. 5m.; at 2h. 52m. cocks began to c- w, ceasing at 2h, 57m., and recommencing a' th. 5m. As darkness came on, many butter flew about as if drunk, afld arTlasrfsappeareaT tbe air became very humid, so much so that the grass felt to one of the observers as if recently rained upon. At 5h. 55m. a mock sun was form ed 22 below the true sun, having the ordinary circular form. From the summit of Pena Cas-tilla, overlooking the Bay of Biscay, Mr. Heath noticed the magnificence of tbe coloring of the sky reflected in the sea, while the water near us was of a deep leaden hue, owing to clouds over-bead.Evils of Consanguineous marriages. - The evils arising from the intermarriages of blood relation are very obvious, and their effects extremely alarming, and yet the law which ought to govern (a law physiologically and divinely asserted) is carelessly regarded. As an instance of the social criminality which; attaches to the breach of that taw we give the following statement of facts: rf:-c-:; y--: A short time since, three small boys were brought from their parents, now residing in Mas sachusetts, aod placed in the poor bouse at Kil lingly, in this State, it being claimed that it was their home. These boys are utterly helpless, being idiotic and invalid, and cannot stand or creep, and unless carefully secured, they will each fall from the chair they .may be'placed in. They are in a most hopeless and helpless , condition, and it is believed, are beyond the reach of medical aid, and must linger through a life of suffering, and all on what account? Because their parents were cousins, both scrofulous, and have inflicted that dreadful scourge on their children with fatal virulence. .Their ages are from eight to twelve years: and until they were seven years old or thereabouts, they were as bright and smart as most children, learned to read with dispatch, and were very acti ve and happy indeed, B at their organic physical disorder was : not thus to be deprived of its natural operation, end each fell a victim to its insidious po wer. Suddenly were they borne down, by Its crushing weight, to a fate worse than death, to the endurance of a life than which it would have been better had they never been borri.f ; Such instances ought to operate as a sober warning to those who hesitate not to form mer cenary convenient alliance, in flagrant violation of nature's divine law. Some States have statutes directed against consanguineous marriages; and it appears from statistic that all of them ought to have some legal preventative for what entails on nature, sometimes, as much as sixty percent, of the physical disability, weak-mi'jdedeess, and idiocy her works unhappily present. New Ila-ten Palladium. ' v V" Adventure with a Tifferv A recent work on Ths Wild Sports of India contains the following graphic story: " ' I had scarcely been to sleep an hour, before I was awoke by a shout from the euffadar, that one of the troopers wsXcwned7off by" the tiger. I leaped oat of bed, and seizing the' Targe single two-ounce rifle, kept loaded with powder, only for tbe purpose, I fired it of jo the air -It was pitch dark) not a bit of fire . in the camp, save one or two embers near the spot where tbe trooper was sevzed,"ahd"6ver which the, tfgress had sprang on her yictim I got," raj clothes, on' as rapidly aS possible, buckled on '.my sword, and seized one of as riejj my younger shikaree Nursoo took the other, My khidmuigtr, or table servant, a man by name, Fakir Ahmed, got my candlestick and shade; and the villagers, a number of whom bad remained in the village, rnsh-ed dowo with torches into the camp, Hjshika ree fcnd Mangalee could not at first be found. The duffadar told me ia which direction the tigress had gone.': He bad been standing within five paces of the man; in fact, he was seeing the sentry changed. The poor fellow who was seized was putting on bis belts to goon duty. it nmff : - Hore Zleteori. Three distinct meteors have been seen above our horizon almost within as many weeks the great meteor of the age, whose course was tracked over a distance of more than a thousand miles; the second, which was seen subsequently in many of tbe Southern States; and the small ero lite, which was observed at two or three points in this vicinity, making a small arc, on Monday night. These phenomena are verv unusual and very extraordinary, and taken with the fact that the aurora boreal is has flashed its brilliant light over the heavens repeatedly, and with remarkable power, at this season of the year, when it is rarely if ever visible, we conclude that there is some curious process going on in the atmosphere which it would be very interesting to explain, if any of our scientific gentlemen can compass it. This year has been peculiarly fruitful in phenomena: there is the comet now visible in California; and then there was the eclipse of the sun, which occurred with such unerring accuracy in accordance with the predictions of the astronomers; the meteors and the northern lights, which put the telegraph wires east of Boston horsde combat on Tuesday night, and : interrupted the Europa's news. We seem to be living in an at- mof phere of magnetism and electricity, to which are probably due the freedom from epidemic disease, and the remarkable abundance of the crops. K. V. Uerald. Texas Bnrning's. The Houston (Texas) Southron of the 28th ult., says tbat news had just arrived saying that on the 22d attempts were made to destroy Austin, the State Capital, fire was set in twenty-five different places, but the plot failed. The whole population is under arms. The counties in which fires have been set have been visited by an investigating committee, and the citizens of Grimes county say their negroes are in a state of revolt and attribute it to white persona. Measures are taking to stop preaching of the gospel to the negroes, and to send out of the county all North era ministers, teachers and drummers. Twenty two negroes were hanged at Waxahatchie on the 28th under suspicion of being incendiaries. At Vail as, three ringleaders were hanged on the 24th July for firing that town. One, Sam Smith, was a negro preacher, and imbibed aboli- i fro" " -vt BloQct and McKin- ney, with whom tbe negro bad - associated a year before. They met their fate worthy a better caus, one dying with a chew of tobacco in his mouth, and refusing to make any confession. Abdnction of Negroes. It is well known that Marshal Kane has of late been diligently engaged in breaking up and bringing to justice a band of marauders who have been and still are in the habit of abducting negroes out of Maryland, and selling them in the far South.- The victims are not slaves only, but neirro apprentices and free negroes. The ab ductors have resorted to every species of deception and violence to get their victims into their power. In addition to the parties already arrested and held to trial, we are gratified to learn that bur indefatigable Marshal of Police has, within the last 24 boars received the amplest ev idence for the conviction, not only of those already secured, but of others whom he is on the eve of arresting. This very day be has telegraphic dispatches from his officers, ot the arrest of several of tbe offenders in Alabama and Virginia and of the recognition of many of the negroes recently abducted, who will all be brought back to Baltimore npon a requisition of Gov.-Hicks. ' ' ' The Marshal has directed the arrest to day of one of the parties now in New York, charged with participation in this offense. Baltimore Patriot, Aug. 4. From the Syrian Correspondence of. the Boston Traveler. THE IirSXTKRECTIOU" IJT SYRIA. Eovo Zahleh ill Cruelties of the Druses. Brikdt, Syria, July 2. Tbe fall of Zahleb baa been followed by tbe most awful barbarities, unparalled by the mas acres of Cawnpore and India generally, at least so far as numbers are concerned. Zahleh was taken by stratagem, planned, it , i said, by an Englishman, who, having married a native wife, has been living for several years in Mount Lebanon. Surrounded by fifteen thousand men, of the Druses, Gypsies, Metoualies and Bedouin Arabs, the ten thousand fighting men of Zahleb were thrown hors du combat, and. defeated, or rather driven out of their strongholds to the mountains of tbe Kesrooan. The attacking party divided themselves and attacked at different points at the same time, leaving one place only snmen-aced. ':r.--i.C''-' : ' "v-" v'- . While' the Christians of the town were fighting valiantly at the various points of danger, a letter was received purporting to be from a noted Chris-, tian Chief, promising to come to their relief with a band of two thousand men at a certain boar This gave sew life and. energy to tbe Christians within. At the appointed - time two thousand men, fully armed, were seen. approaching from' the direction which promised them aid, and when they perceived tbe : Christian standard floating over the advancing army, they renewed the conflict and rushed pon the foe. 'Alas for the poor; Ch; istiaos so cruelly ; betrayed! V The letter was a forgery, the Christian standard ay stolen one, and tbe two thouaand armed men entered the or. ly exposed part of the town as friends, but provf ed to be their deadliest foes, who set fire to the bouses and attacked the beseiged in the rear. The remaining Christians formed a square around their women and children and fought their way out, gradually retreating, and thus evacuated the town, leaving it to be sacked, plundered and bnrnt. . ' " The Druses not satisfied with this triumph, and determined to exterminate the Christians, then rushed japon Dier el Komar, which had previously surrendered and given . np arms, throw ing itself upon the protection of the Turkish Governor and garrison. Here, in one day, these fiends brutally chopped in pieces every male inhabitant with hatchets, axes, swords, knives, and every other available weapon. : More than fifteen hundred men and boys thus perished,. under the Governor, a Turk, and aided by the Turkish soldiers in their hellish work. The remainder of the six thousand inhabitants are. wanderers and fugitives, cut down wherever they are found, without mercy. Two thousand women and children, many ofwhom were wounded, have betn breught to Beirut by English ships of war, who picked them up along the sea-coast, and by Americans, who, aided by guards from the U. S. Consulate, brought many of tbe doomed and the perishing npon their own horses to Beirut. During this wir English and Americans have been treated by all parties with great respect, and all Protestants who placed themselves under the protection of the Druses have been saved, for the sake cf the missionaries to whose congregations they belonged. Our missionaries have thus been able to relieve the distressed unharm ed, and to rescue scores whose lives they have preserved by going to the scene of action under the protection of the American Consulate; being accompanied by a Janizary or . consular guard, with bis silver-beaded staff of office. Some of the wounded have been brought to the sea shore by one of the Druse chiefs, who allowed his men to do the work of slaughter, and then tried to save his own head in the day of reckoning, by his attention to the wounded and his absence from tbe scene of massacre. The Wives of Presidential Candidates. It is an interesting' fact in connection with the several candidates for the Presidency, that they all have Southern wives. Lincoln married a lady of Lexington, Kentucky, where his opponent, Breckinridge, was born and married. Mr. Bell's wife is, we believe, also a native of Kentucky; and Mr. Douglas married a native of Marylandhis first wife was a native of North Car olina. It is a creditable faet ia the histories of these severnl '''iates whic " - deem the error anvi shortcouiings 'ofou, of them, that they should come to the South for their wives. Doubtless their success and prominence hare been as much due to their wives as to themselves. Southern ladies far surpass others in the quality of winning friends for their husbands and in promoting their advancement in popular favor. They are more thoroughly identified with their husbands, guard their inter-eats with a more devoted zeal, and cultivate in a larger degree those gentle . and captivating traits which often extend a shield over a public man, protecting him from violent assaults and at the same time affording him a Solace for the annoyances and disgusts of his position. We had almost forgotten to add that General Houston, who is also a candidate for the Presi dency, is married to a Southern lady, and fur nishes in his own case a splendid illustration of the influences of a devoted wife. The excesses and dissipation which threatened atone time to make a miserable wreck of this remarkably gift ed man no longer stain his character and dis grace his position.; -v . Whichever of these candidates shall win the position to which he aspires, it is a consolation to know that in the Presidential mansion the manners, the tastes, and, we hope, the sentiments which characterize -Our Southern society, will prevail. N. O. Delta. The Prince of Wales Among1 the Ladies It seems that the Prince of Wales is a ladies man, ard has produced a sensation among the fair sex at St. Johns by : his winning attentions no less than by his "particularly briliant hazel eyes." He is quite a beau, and "a very grace ful and accomplished dsucer, as be proved by the way be whirled the ladies through the mazes of "poetry of motion." He set them right when they went wrong, and every how and then he" called out the different figures of the dance. His dancing was; "repeatedly, cheered,' and every time he danced he took a different partner- half a dozen in all. How they must have been captivated by so sweet a prince, as be condescen dingly "corrected their blunders. Probably the ladies of Newfoundland do not know much about such matters, and the sex in Canada are but little in advance of them. But when tbe Princfl comes here be will find the ladicl posted up fully acquainted with all. the new figures and the most intricate steps. They have per fectly at their toes' ends the latest pas from Par is, and pet baps may be able even to teach his Royal Highness something he does not know; We advise tbe ladies, therefore, to be prepared, armed at all , points, that they may show the Prinee of Wales that they can dance better than the damsels of the British Provinces. Let them also be ready to be takon captive by tbe "boyish charms of nineteen years. The Prino is almost as young as Don Juaa, who, in bis travels, made such bavoo among heart; be is like that hero, too, in being "bansome, slender, but well knit," and is having received a finished religious education onder pious tutors.' Little Tomnjy," of the' Japanese Embassy, npon whom the . women J of Washington made such a rash, was after all.1 not a real Prince, and he cannot for a moment be compared in good looks and accomplish meats with the ton of tbe British Queen. N. Y.JZeraU . Rabies' Department Current fttfes litms. t Cassius M. Clay is busy canvassing the State of Indiana for tbe black-repoblicans. t9Full returns, published in The World, show the population of that city to be 934,000. X3rThe value of new buildings put np ia Boston, Mass-, the prssent season, will exceed, it is believed, $5,000,000. ?" Four out of every five Generals of . the United States Army are Southerns, and; two of them from Virginia. f"fV An Jlr,h tyk .!ixt im titim wvn m vTlW letters to Gov. Seward, asking aid of AmeaicanS in behalf of the Christians in Syria. Tbe population of St. Paul, Minnesota by the census just taken, U somewhat ovt 10,000. - . fST The population of Cleveland is estimated at 45,000, the centos has not jet been completed; however. . RS" Ihe ilicnigan irarrner estimates the whaat crop of that State this yeSr at 9,000,000 . busbals. - SET' 1 wo girls, cousins, aged 15 and 16, hung themselves in Jackson county, Iowa, recently. on account of loving the same man. tQT thaddeus Hyatt has offered a reward of $1,000 for the invention of a practial fifing ma chine. . Thaddeus is almost liirht headed enooffh! - . . . o : 3 - to fir without a machine. The colt of the railroads now construct ed in the State of New York amounts to. $120, 433,033. The receips for 1859 were $20,341,. 374, and their sotal debt $73,077,358. tQr The people of Kansas are suffering ter' tibly from drouth: There has been no rain for months. The streams are dried od. and man V1 families are starving for food. XSy The Second annual Fair of the Lake Frio' Horse Breeder's Association will be held at the County Fair Grounds, in the City of Cleofand; bh the 5th, 6th and 7th days of September, I860 CST The husband which Mrs. Cunningham Bardell was so fortunate as to find in California; is none other than tbe Ivev. Mr. bueehan, a Uni- versalist divine celebrated tor nis talents. News from Ireland is to the effect taai the potato blight has appeared there thus early in the season, an indication that the damage td r the crop must prove very great. - X" The contractor has cbtdmenced to fill tbe orders of the Postmasters on the Department for the rew Belf-raling stamped envelope, combining the latest improvements. 4SF" The Chicago Zouaves, it is said, will realize $1,000 above till expenses, the profits of the exhibitions they gave in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. t-The State of Salvador bas been agaid visited by severe earthquakes; and many of the interior towoS have suffered considerably: Kaf loss of life is reported." - Boston, hai recent? v astonished hi frlnAm .r.A admirers by lifting a head weight of 1 1 CO pound. juuscie ana mina ere uppermost now-a-dsy. Jfy The population of the State of Delaware! .q.WWn .-VW.VVV, ..iUBk U,VWV. ID 1CJU , Tbe slave population has decreased from 22,000 to 18,000, DelaarS is rapidly becoming' a free State. ' - - tST A San Antonio letter says that watef brought from the Mississippi river it selling isf w ' a aw - . . ' inaianoia ana Lavaca tjr ircentyjive cents per gallon." It is cheaper in other places in Texas, however. : SSF Messrs. Russell tt CoM ofMass'Uoo, b av been turning out Threshing Machines for some time past at the rale of six per day, and the Times says they find it impossible to fill all the orders as received. ; ' 6? H. G. Crittended, cf Toledo, was killed by lightning during a violent thunder storm en the Plains, some 200 miles this side of Denver City; Mr. Nathan lloltte as with him and barely escaped with his life, being badly burned; XfiyThe census of Columbus, one ward esti mated, gives" a population of 18,892. Some1 1.500 are temporary residents of the public institutions, the Penitentiary containing 951 pri uuers, ue uuuaiic aejium over 1UU. fT The new armory of the 7th Regiment id New York is a great affair. The drill-room is 180 feet long by 100 feet wide, and free from, ob. strnctions. A balcony for spectators is erected at one end. - The first steamVoit ever built in Kansas was launched on the 30th ulu, upon Kansas 4 river. It is called the Kansas -Valley t acd is 90 feet long 30 feet beam, with side wheels, aad draws only one foot cf water! tS?" Mons. De Lave appears before the " public arafn. He 11 about throwing a hemnen bridge across tha Niagara, near the Falls, and intends performing theron before and ia honor of tbe Prince of Wales. t& A handsome marble monument erected to county, Pa Was blown down during a recent gale. The monument was twenty-six feet id height.- ' -" tgf It is said that tbe droftert in Texas is td general and So extreme that the large emigration flowing into the State has been checked, and many families from Alabama and other Southern States" are returning to heir former' tSr Mr. Obed Hasser of BahimcVe, tie In ventor of the celebrated Hussey respe and mower, lost his life at Exeter, N. H, ost Eatur- J I & I .Mn ik, MM' I. uay laav, oy imvn -, wV vi which passed directly ovef his body, across lis) abdomen, and killing bim instantly. - EST The discovery of gold in the neighbor hood of El Paso excited A great eagerness amoej the peopfe of western Texas to visit the re-loa of sadden wealth Later ttpofti indicate that that'sadJen ticteS are cor however, to be tx- peeted by cTinscg operations ia tbat quart-r. s t" Tbe Navarro (Texu) Erprtzt tzji tits an Abolitionist was caught at Fort Y. orli, Ti tad last distributed fifty gans and t.:y six klz. U ers ami ejj tie aesroe. Another caa vrr : :..::s. tjd in Parker county for a tiai act, v-xrzi also bong. '"'