Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1860-09-04

              ;: nW - It PUBLISH BTEKT TCESDAT KOKKllI, OSc la T7ool Block, Third Story TESM3 T iollr pr nnm, li 4- Yne; $2,5 iti ix mostha; 93,00 sftr th z ntloa f th 7sr. Club f twenty, $1,60 elu " tyTb mccatnulatioo of political matter on oar bands, of too important a nature to be postponed, compels os to occupy the space on our first page osnallj devoted to miscellaneous readings to politics and editorials. Tbis will probably be the case from now until the Presidential E)ectioa. ; JTacfaoa Township for the Little Giant. At a brush burning in Jackson township, on the 17th oil., on the farm of Abm. Eerlejwine, Presidential Tote was taken, which resulted as follows: . I Douglas.. ....... ... 28 i Lincoln.. .................. 00 Breckinridge.. ...........m... .......... .... 00 Sell. 00 The company were invited from the neighbor hood without reference to politics. Jackson tp. will jrire a good aeconnt of herself in October and November. THE ISSUES. - Let Coogres intervene to PROTECT Slavery ia the Territories.-rJBrc'Anrwfe. Let Congress intervene to PREVENT Slavery ta the Territories. Lincoln. Let the PEOPLE of the Territories determine the question. Douglat. "The UNION it must, and shall, be preser ved." Jackson. - - 44 1 believe that this government cannot per EDanently exist, half slave and half free." - Abm. Luteal. r:-y A Long Pole-The Democracy of Mrion, Ohio, recently raised a hickory pole two hundred and forty feet in bight. Marion County promises to give Dou; las a rousing majority, aud we feel confideot sht will do it. Two of the princip-il Republicans of that county, who have heretofore been leaders of the party Messrs. Durfee and Reed are now for the M Little Giant." That is the way all over the country. " ,ffgy Remember, that the highest vote cast in Conveatioo, for each of the candidates for President, was as follows : Ooolas.u.... ...... .....-.. 81 Breckinridge.... bl Liocola .................. ..... ... 115 Buchanan ia 1856 received 168 votes, aud Doeglas 122, thereupon Douglas was withdrawn aod Buchanan's aomioation was made uuaui-snous by acclamation. Look Before X011 Leap. There are some men, good men too, says the Holmes County Farmer ,mho sympathise iih tbe Breckinridge -movement, that should stop and consider that sboold sli p. atd . c-t'bsider thai very vote cast to: Breckinridge in Obio is a vote to aid Lincoln in carrying tbe state. There er. w bdlteve, a majority of tbe Breckinridge lead era who would prefer the election of Lincoln to tbe success of Douglas, but there are some of the tank and file who ara not so, and these should ponder well before they throw their votes away on candidates who cannot get even a respectable vote ""; . - ; Caasiua H. Clay in Tifln. Thru Black Republicans have employed Cassias ii. Clay, tbe Kentucky Abolitionist, to stamp the state of Ohio for Lincoln. Cassias made a speech at Tiffin the other day, for which tbe Republicans of that place paid him $100, in which be said t They the Democrats) tell yon that we are Tor liberating the blacks for setting the negroes frea SO WB ARE We believe, as do you. that in rt?C, all men were created free and wqoal; endowed with certain inalienable rights ! Thev meant Sunt what thev said, and ibey repeatedly speak of negroes as men and as pewns. THEY MEANT THE NEGROES WERE EQUAL WITH THE WHITE MEN I BBISSEEH00F. : . The Bell and Everett Coaventtoa, wbfch as sembled last -week in ChiHicothe condemned Judge Brinkerhooff in the most unequivocal erms for the part he performed in at temping to nullify the laws of the -United States. Having Aone to, tbey give effect to their resolvtioa by the additional resolve not to nominate a candi date for Jadgei but recommend every conserve tive Union man so to vote as to secure the defeat of Jndge Brinkerhooff. This resolution makes Brinkerboof 's defeat inevitable, and we call npoo every man opposed to Negro Buffrse and Nullification, to join with ns to beartfe't expression of gratitude to the TJaioa Convention for the patriotic course it has taken. We may be ahle to endure the mischiev. vjus and idiotic Administration of Succedaoeon Pennison for a year lonrer, if we can send the estileot Brinkerhoff into infamous retirement fjona Gazette. . - ": ITesro Jnryaen. They ee aptdly progressing towards the largest LUxtf In ilassichusctts. - The Board of-AMieraaa of Worcester, id that state, have placed npoa the: jury list for the present year the 'stemea of two negro barbers, William H. Jea- . .niogf and Francis X. Clough. c Daria recent eisit to tbe Cute cf lvalue. Jui Das-'i every wfcera taet with tie cost smoastrsUone cf pcpalar cpplaussv The '.people fussed ia rl; t tnrzzxst U tail & Cocir? Han. Twenty &ocsan4 susamtled ia Acgosu U see asl btay tla ttxi. TJttoaadel eBiasUaa THIS VOTE LET OHIO. 1 I Hon. David Tod, one of tba most ugadoai I politicians anywhere, after having traveled over much of Ohio, and after having compared notes with close calculators, gives it as ns opinion that Ohio will poll this fall 400,000 votes, distributed as follows t Douglas 200.000 Lincoln mmm.mmm...mu..m..m. 170,000 Bell...... ...... .......M 25,000 Bolting Breckinridge. ......... 5,000 Mr. Tod, Hon. H. B. Payne, Gen. Vallandig-ham, Hon. S. S. Cox, Judge Warden, Msj. Stam-baugb, and other distinguished Democrats, who have been stumping in different parts of tbe State, report that nothing could exceed the enthusiasm and promise in the signs of tbe times. The mass meetings are unprecedented in sixe and good feeliag. There is a perfect uprising of tbe masses af the people for Douglas. Honse and Garaen. This is the title of a new Family Journal, to be published at Cleveland, by Thomas Brown, of the Ohio Farmer. It will be issued monthly, each number containing 16 large octavo pages. It will contain stories, poetry, gems, a depart, meet for children, besides the principal matters about fruits, vegetables, flowers, bees, insects, poultry, recipes, fashions. Sic No man in the country is better qualified than Mr. Brown to get np such a paper as he proposes publishing. Terms : Single copy 50 cents a year. Address Thomas Brown, Cleveland, Ohio. . Douglas in Hi siisslppi. A friend writing from DeSoto, Mississippi, to the Memphis Appeal and inclosing an order with cash for one thousaod copies of Douglas great speech, savs: 4 Douelas is flourishing in my part of DeSota county. In this police district, which gives more than one-third of the vote of the county, Breckinridge will not get more than fifty votes ; and we have alwya had from 200 to 250 Democratic majority. Thus you see, that Don el as will" have a majority over Breckinri'lge and Bell both,' of 150 to 200 in my police district." ; - Another one writing from Eurek, Miss., and making a similar order, says: " We are all right down here. Breckinridge men are few and fra between. Old Democrats who have not for a long time talma an active part in politics, are nw warmly enlisted in the work, and intend to fight valiently antir the 6th of November, be the consequences what they may." " Songlaa in Eentockj. . -. - The Louisville Democrat ii enthusiastic'in regard to the prospects of Judge Douglas in Kentucky. It sjs: - - " It caonoi Be denied wow ia btentacky. thai Siepbeu A. Douglas is the caudidate who represents the leeliug. not of one half but of tneteen twentieths of the cUizens of the State. Were Bellut of the way. the whole Union party, with a few exceptions, would go fr Douglas. Were Breckinridge out of the way, we would command the strength of all- bis friends except thuee who oppose the Democratic party out of animosity to Douglas such men as StlvertooiU and Cravens, who lack courtesy as much as common srne. The putrid excrvsences. tbey are, of the Democratic party, needing the surgeon's knite, and in very fair way to get it. To our friends we can safely say that if we do not beat Bell in Kentucky, we will run him about as close a race as be ever was put to. We have cleaneil out the " quarter nag, and we intend to finish Mr. Bell. Look out. " Opposition!" It is not Mr. Breckinridge -who is now to be beaten, but the unconquerable Douglas." Alabama. The Hon. Jere Clemens, writing from Hunts ville, Alabama, to his paper, the Memphis Daily Enquirtr, says: " Placing no reliance upon the reports I hear from all parts of tbe State, and judging only from the feelings manifested in this stronghold of tbe Democracy. I tell you, with entire confidence, that you may set down Alabama as lost to Breckinridge. He could not . carry the State to-day, and he will grow weaker from this until November' ;; . We do not believe that Mr. Breckinridge, if he continues to be a candidate, which is very doubt fat. caa carry a single Southern State, with the exception of South Carolina. The tide is setting against bias every where, and be will hardly be heard of except in the chronicles of his defeat. White Laborer, Look Here. Henry Clay, in a letter written to Mr. Colton, bus warns the white laboring man of the dan gers of Abolitionism. Mr.C said: " But the great aim and . object of your tract should be to arouse the LABORING CLASSES in the Free States against Abolition. Depict tbe consequences t them of immediate Abolition. Tbe slaves being free would disperse throughout the Union ; they would enter into corocetitiou with free laborers, with the American, tbe Irish, the German ; rednce hi wages: he confounded with him ; and effect bis moral and social stand log. And ns tbe wltraa go Cor both Abolition and Amalgamation, snow tbetr tbect is to unite n marriage tbe laboring man to the derpieed and degraded condition of tbe black man." HeTolntion Boldly Proclaimed. This Government is in imminent peril ever day the Republican party exists. ' Already we hear " Revolution boldly proclaimed as its par pne, by some of its ablest leaders. Carl Sburx, who is employed by the Lincolnites to stump tbe Western States, in a public speech, few days ago. said : ' ' 5 ' ... ; May the God in human nature bo aroused, and '':". ' ' - M - am ' ' . a pierce tne very soul 01 00 r nation wita an energy tkat sbal sweep as with -the - beeoss ; of, destme tion this acomitmiion of slavery from our land. Ton ceil this Revolution. IT IS In this we need Rerolotion. v aoust, we WILL bav it. LET IT COME I : : - 'v: '. :PclitIct in Ct. Letrla. - ' ' . St. Lons, A ag. 27,Tbe Douglas Democrats k!d: ""ir awe on Saturday oight, wbieb was ressed by Ttepresentalives elect, Claik and XToel, and John B. Henderson. " ; y fCsaetiTCJ afdansLire, laie Uepu blican cat di-s'.a f-r CavtYzztf ks j TranVEIair addreseed n ce:::.-at tl9 Ci CltiU on Catorday evening, splVfcir fr:r-Iirf, tare beea made by Cf iwovefisl eoXcsr prominent Ileputli-cass la sssae twet! ecmlla daxiBj lie rszaia : Lincoln Cannot ha 33ecte. It Is otterlout of the qaestio for Lincola to . .i.Mmi. Ha will sot onlt bo beaten, bot be u x9 BpaUiean party wffl duband itg &rce, gj gooa aa the election is over. . . Lincoln will not get Ne w Tork He will not get Pennsylvania f He will not get Ohio-He will not get Illinois, nor Indiana, nor Bd. nor Connecticut. Lincoln is therefore a dead cock in the pitl Fourteen to One. : The Logan Gazette states that in one township in that county there are fifteen young men who will cast .thei r first voles this fall. Fourteen of these are for Douglas I Let tbe friends of the Constitution be zealous and faithful, and Logan wilt be redeemed and regenerated in November. So mote-it be, say we. The History of the 4wo-Thirds Rule." The regularity of Mr. Douglas' nomination at Baltimore, according" to the usages of the Dem ocratic party, is denied by those who are oppos ed to him. The history of the action of every Democratic Convention since this rule was orgi-anted, proves beyond question or cavil the entire regularity of Mr. Douglas' nomination. We find in the St, Lon Republican, an article ftom the pen of Charlea D. Drake, Esq., which collates all the testimony in the case, and gives from tbe record the action of every Democratic Convention since 1832, when the rule was adopt ed. The writer says: The Rule, from the day of its first adoption in 1832, has required two thirds of all the totes giveny and no man will deny th.it Stephen A. Douglas received far mare than that proportion of all the votes given at Baltimore. It were easily shown, as it has many times been, tbat be received two-thirds of all the votes mfull Con vention" was entitled u cast; but that is not the matter now under consideration. The question is was he nominated iu accordance with the tuaaeof the party? Did he get tbe number of votes required by the ''Two thirds KuU?" - If my position is correct, that the Rule required only two thirds of all the votes given in accordance with the usage of the prty otherwise not. Let us, then, examine the R ile and its history in each of seven De mocratic National C inventions, held prior to this year. : " : coYvsanoN or I832i - Tbe report of the proceedings : of this bodj resorted to, is that found ia N lies' Reiste-, vol, 42, p. 234, V;- ' : ' " : The following resolution was adopted: "Resolved,. Tbat each Stale be entitled in the nomination tu be made of a candidate tor the Vice Presideucy, to a number of votes equal to the number to which they will be entitled in tbe electoral colleges under the nw Appointment in voting for President; and that two-lbirds of the whole number of votes in the Convention shall be necessary to constitute a choice." On the ballot for candidate for Vice President the vote was as follows: Van Buren, " 203 Johnson, : 26 Barbour, :'; 49 It appears that Mr. Van. Buren had received a majority of more than two thirds of all the votes given, he was declared to be selected as the candidate nominated by this Convention for the Vice Presidency. . Afterwards Mr. Jeffsrson Phelps offered the following: "Wbsrcas, Martin Van Buren, of New York, has received upon the first ballot more than two. thirds of all tbe votes given for the purpose of selectiog a candidate for the Vice Presidency of toe United States therefore, " Resolved, That the Convention unanimously concur in recommending him to the people of tbe United States for that office at the ensuing election." Which preamble and resolution were" adopted unanimously. cohtewtiqs or 1835 The report resorted to for the proceedings of tbis body is in Niles Register, vol. 48, pp. 227, 228, 244. . ' V The following resolution was reported bv a committee: "Resolved, That the delegates from each State in this Couvention be entitled to as many votes selecting suitable persons for the offices of Pres ident and Vice President as such State is enti tied to in the Electoral C llege for the choice of the those officers bv law and that the two-thirds Of the whole number of votes given be required for a nomination and all questions connected tnerewitn. - . Mr. Allen, of Massachusetts, otewed to amend this resolution, by inserting the word "majority instead of two thirds," which was agreexl to by a vote of 231 aye to 210 nays. v The next day Mr. Strange, of North Carolina moved that tbe vote requiring . majority on'j constitute a nomination be reconsidered and that two thirds be required which-motion was car ried. . .j ' . . ; - ;v ;.iv cotrrBitrtov or 1840. ; " Tbe report resorted to for the -proceedings of this body, is that contained in the Extra GW of May 16. 1840. being No. 1 of Vol., Jjs this Convention the iuo-third rule tea mot mentioned, nor oa any ballot hatL. lir Clay of Alabama, ofTered a reaolatioo, which -uras adopted, tor the Appointment of a. Committee of one member from cacb State, ibr the purpose of taking loo consivleration, and re. porting upon tbe subject f tie nomifixliaii o Presiient and. Vice Prasidant.-v;.-:; X Tbe resolution is as follows? '.'oi.CT.:-i'.:':; .. .Resolved. That tbU Comvtmioa do present tbe name of ILmio Van Cure a to the pecpio as tbe Democrauc Candidate for the odea ef President of the United State, and tba v? a will spare no bonor&Ue etTarte to esenre tu t.2cuoa r V.lui, ca tacUsa cf Hr. Cru-Jy, ca Usaa- '"":': ' cciTSsnos cV IS i L ..'"J"-?':' ". ' la irilea Center tbe role is not given In tsrase bet is VcU C3 p?. 214, 215, 216, &e proceed Isji u xal&Usa toit are re;srtL It was proposed by General Sandsrscf Norti Carolina, who bad proposed it ia 32 and 183 5 and the. wbole tenor of the debate goe to show Chat it was in eubsUnee tbe same as adopted ta those years. But the proceedings of tbe eoaven tion of 1848, stated next below, show its exact terns. It was adopted by a rote of 143 to 118. : coirarrjo ew 1843. - - V Tbe report resorted to foe . the proceeding cf the body, is tbe-oQcial journal printed ia pamph let form. ' ' . ., lit. Morton of Mass., presented the loUowisg resolution; :; - Resolved. That this Convention be governed in lis proceedings by the roles adopted by the Democratic National Convention of 1844. and the same art hereby adopted as the rules of tbis Convention. To whicb the following amendment was mov ed by Mr. Morse, of Louisiana : Mr. Taacey, of Alabama, at the request of the- Convention, read the rules referred to, vtx; Resolved. That the rules of the House of Rep resentatives, as far as applicable for the govern-ment of this Convention, be adopted as the rules of this Convention. Resolved, That two thirds of the whole nana ber of votes. given shall be accessary to a nomination of candidates for President and Vice Pres- dentbf the Uni'ed States by this Convention. The question waa taken on the second of those resolutionsseparately, and it was adopted by a vote of 176 to 78. A practical construction was given to tbe nil by tbis Convention, whicb would settle the qu.es tion, if there were any ambiguity in the terms of the rule, which there was -not. The fourth ballot for a Presidential candidate was had. New York tenth thirty six- votes, did not vote, though her delegates were there. The number of votes given was 254f but if New York bad voted, it would have been 290. The ballot is given in full, by States,' and then the record proceeds thus: "Whole number of votes . . 254 Necessary to a choice " 170 In wis Cass received 179 So Lewis Cass,"of Michigan, having received two-thirds of the whole number of votes cast. - '"The Chair declared him duly nominated by he Convention as the candidate for President. "The announcement of this result by the Chair as followed by enthusiastic and Icmg continued applause, the members of the various delegations almost universally springing "to their feet, and nnitinr in one spirit, stirring . shoot of approba tion. ' '. .'": " .' Here is a clear decision that a candidate re ceiving two-thirds of the votes, given was duly nominated, though there were 35 electoral votes not represented in the ballots Had the rule, or the will of the Convention required two-thirds f tbe entire electoral, vote. Gen. Case, would have needed 194 to nominate him; bat be was declared nominated when he received 179, and tbat was nine more than were necessary to a choice. cosTcxnos or 1852. The report resorted to for the proceedings of this bodf is the official journal, printed in pam pbtet form. The Committee on Organization reported three resolutions which were adopted, of which tbe fol lowing is the second: Resolved, That two-thirds of the wbole num ber of votes given shall be necessary to a norm. nation of candidates for f resident an4 Vice President of the (Jailed Stales by this Conven tion. ' '" Mr. CreUbtoe, of Ohio, moved to reconsider the vote by which the second resolution reported by the Committee on Organisation was adopted. A motion was made to lay tbe motion to recon sider on the table. - On the demand of the State of Maryland, the qnestton was taken by Mates, and tne vote resul ted as follows: Ayes 269, nays 13. . cohvrstios or 1856. From tbe official jootnal of the proceedings of this body, it appears that the Committee on Or ganisation was instructed to report roles for the Government of the Convention; and that they reported, recommending that the rules and reg stations adopted by tbe National Democratic Convention in 1852.be adopted by this Conven tion for its government; which report was nnan ttnously adoptel; and the "two-lhirds rule, as adopted in 1852, waa continued as the rule in 1856. -:;': :-: : Thus is presented the full history of this remarkable rule, from its first adoption, in 1832. up to the time of the assembling of tbe Charles ton Convention, in April, I860. In tbat period it was adopted six times, and in every instance, excepsthe first, the language is "that two-fAird of the whole number of votes given shall be nec essary to a nomination." The rule as adopted in 1832 said two thirds, of the whole number of votes, in the convention" but the proceedings of this body as above stated, and especially the preamble to the resolution offered by Mr, Jefferson Phelps, leave no doubt tbal the number of votes 'to the Convention was regarded as the game as the namber of votes givea.,r.' , " Tuiet it do rememberea, too, that it was never regarded as necessary that the Convention should be full in order to enable it to make a nomto tioo Ja fact, prior to I860, there bad been on ly two Conventions those of 1843 and 1856-e in which every State was represented. In 1832 Missouri; in 1835, SoQlb Carolina, Alabama and Illinois; in ,1840, Connecticut, .Delaware, Virginia, Souib Carolina, and Illinois; abd ia 1844 and 1852, South Carolina were not represented by any delegate la the Democratic Rational Con vention. . ! . , .... ... :. la view of ftbe.&ct thus presented, no iotelli gent and npriht man eaa alhere to the position that the two-thirds rule waa violated by -the Convention tfiat nominated. ITr. Doc "Usv- IIe received two tbirde of tbe wbols number TOtee givcaf be tecaivef racre, t-itj,e tbirds of c3 ti2e otee. tbe, u!X Convention vzs eatUIei ta cast, zl te ia fJr! as! J:s2c:'. &e regular Democratic nomkei fir rreI-nt o lie TJohsi Ciaiea, al tj t.', '"t?c Ve crate eslt ta enp-pcrt Ua.;,-v; ' -r . - -'.' crjAHLra d. dhahc . A correspondent of 4be Scientia American gives aa iateresUng account of wonderful cava at Decorah, lows. . Before entsriag tbe cave the thermometer indicated 83 degrees." Commene. tig the decent, the atmosphere bejan to grow cold very fast, and the party soon began ta sm the frost on tbe walls, "sparkling a the light cf their Umpe like miHione of diamonds." This oae sight i vortb all tbe exhibitions of every day life to the lover of the beaatifal. As we came to our first stopping place wo began to find sec, from a mere flint up to gtx or eight ia ches thick. - Thia part of the cava is in tbe shape of a, wedge; with, tbe email end up, it being about sia feet wide at the base, tie sides drawing to gether overhead about twenty feet high the one tide covered with ice (clear as a crystal) and tbe other with frost. New we bung the thermometer on the wall and waited the result; tbe mercu ry going down gradually to 39 degrees, where it remained. : We also bad a little water in the cup, and after leaving it on the rock for about ten minutes, it became skimmed over wan ice. There is not near the usual amount of ice in the cave that there usually is at this season of the year, and no doubt it is owing to the dryness of tbe season. The present spring and summer, so far, have been very dry in Decorab, and I have noticed tbe more rain we have, the more ice firms in and around the mouth of the cave.' Two years ago there was so much ice in the first fif ty or sixty feet of the cave that we had to cut our steps in it with a batcbet to get down with safety. - A great quantity of rain fell during that season. Garibaldi's Personal Feats at Uelaxzo. The correspondent of the JVaaet thus describe Garibaldi's personal feats daring a chsrge of a tew Neapolitan troopers at Malaxzo. Garibaldi bad only time to step aside, when e horsemen passed sabering right and left. Bt they did not go far, for after tbe first panic the infantry recovered and soon emptied the greater part of their saddles. The cspuia. sergeant, and a private tried to make their es cape, and would bare succeeded but for Gsribal di's personal bravery. . Ue went into the middle of the roab, and, having left his revolvers in the hostlers when be dismounted, be drew bis sword and placed himself ia a position to atop the captain. The only person with him at the time was CspU Missouri, of the Gaipes, who was like wise on foot, but armed with a revolver. ; Rim first shot wounding the horse of theNeapolitsn captain, brought it on its bauncbea, Garibaldi eiaed bold of the bridle, intending to secure the explain as bis prisoner; but the captain answered to the demand to surrender by a blow with bis sword at Garibaldi, who parried and retaliated, cutting the Neapolitan captain with one stroke down the face and neck, and prostrating bins dead at his feet. While Garibaldi was thus engaged in this singlehanded combat, Capt. Missouri sh ot down the sergeant who came to assist the officer. This one despatched, be seized bold of the private whose horse bad been shot, and, when be resisted, shot him also wita another barrel from bis revolver. A Child on Trial for Harder. A correspondent of tbe St. Louis Republican, riling from Carlisle, 111 says that tbe trial of a boy for mnrder is progressing in the Circuit Court at that place, and adds: "The proof shows that Fin ley is not yet eleven years of age. The evidence that he killed his uncle is altogether circumstantial, and very scan, ty indeed. The proof is, that on the 5th of July last, Wren and the boy were left alone together for one or two hours, in a room in a drinking house, and that at the and of that period they were found there Wren dying of wounds and bruises on the head, and the yonng boy sitting or lying on a bench singing. One witness only testified to seeing any act that even cireumstaoti ally suggested that Finley killed bis uncle. He testified tbat as be approached the boose he saw Finley 'striking downwards at something, 'but no evidence that he had anything in bis bands, or that any object or beiog received the blows. There was no evidence of any quarrel between them, or of any motive for the deed. On the contrary, it was proved by the prosecution tbat tbe boy was playing with his undo about three o'clock, and got astraddle of bint ae be lay upon the floor, doing it in a frolicksome way. No testimony waa offered showing that when he was found by the side of his uncle he showed any confusion, or sign of fear, or consciousness of guilt, or desire to escape." , - "" ' Old FaaMons -In South Carolina they follow the old fashions of the English courts. The prisoner on trial for a criminal offence is placed in "tbe dock" aa elevated seat about six feet eqaar, railed in, so that be is above and visible all over the court. Tbe prisoners awaiting trial are ranged on seats inside the bar," or within just rucb a railing as ia some of oor courts divides cfl the members of the bar from the general audience. Tbe Charleston Courier asyt thai the other day a atrangtr lawyer front another State visited the court room, and walked immediately .within the bar and took a seat among the prisoners. AH eyes were tmmedrately directed toward bin as '.a new , comer." -Supposing bis aeigbbors were all lawyers, ho inquired f the one nearest to bim' what. Case waa before the -court. ; After some little hesitation,: and , repetition cf tbe qaestica, te wss tnawcrsu-TWaII, its By case; tie eay f . eti'e B t.r, but J didn'u" Tbe attangetesca.l; tiscduru;.v:i u - Elcz-.a ii r:ifi iil wcrtby cf fcics. De Lava t-I t"-3 t I c T. c'.ler ccspeUtora, though p:l:;i -' .-iV.tl j - f;r;-t ' cilziZzi''(I tbe r.9-wi.'llj t-iili, Liva acrii'.utiiu! CSlsA to ccatic Ue p-i " t c f tl$ ficC . EIc -! '.t z r gitlsJ ttaa L Lis Kiaira wire ta- preae coU-t. " Cue C'.acr rial not tbe Cirilzia ;:zzzzllzi tz Ui Lis rlbt alongsido cf Dlondin's, and profess to be able to outdo the original acrobat. Tie baa already oution Bloodln. lie baa desceadid front lie rope.to tbe llsid of tbe llut tteamooat and crawled ap agaia. Blondla only lowered a rope to tbe steamboat and hauled np a stove, or an elephant, we tbrget whicb. Farioi promised to go down bead&remost, bat be didn't. This baa eomcw&at weakened the publia faith ia him. Perbapa ho may hereafter adopt th inverted position, and thus reinstate himself. The rivalry between the champions will probably continue until one or both sbufSe off tbe mortal coil (of rope) by a plunge in the seething torrent below. Those who wish to be ia at the death should go to Niagara and attend on the performers until the consummation ia accomplished. Buffalo Herald.' : - ' .. ' . - Tao Victoria Bridge. Bayard Taylor, who baa been traveling on tbe Grand Trunk railroad, gives the following do scriptioo of the famous Victoria Bridge: M Tbe immeosn struct are Impresses yon by tbe figures rather than by Ita appearance. Its great legtb takes away from ita apparent height and bulk and length, I have observed, is the least effective element in architecture. Yon would naturally describe it as a very long bridge. You nrast know the depth of the river, iu rapidity, the dimensions of the piers, the tuns of granite, the span of the tubes, the amount of iron, the labor and the cost, before you can properly ap preciate tbe work. Then notice the speed of tbe train take out your watch and count the minutes, after plunging into the dark, roaring rattling tunnel. One twothree; and still the narrow windows flit past yoo four five ; and still your ears are atnaned with the sharp rever berations of the iron tubes fptfaaJa half, and yoo emerge into daylight. Montreal, where yon made your plunge, now lies in tbe sunshiny dis tance, with two miles of the St. Lawrence be twee a. Then you at least realize that this bridge is one of the wonders of tbe age." Arrest of a Hoted Ko)ber. In Philadelphia, on Saturday morning, the police arrested a notorious burglar, known aa the "Old Doctor sad by various aliases. When arrested he was in company with another of his fraternity, devising the robbery of a bank ia New Jersey, and a letter was taken from him, in which the plan of operations waa detailed. Around them lay all kinds of nefarians tools; a dark lantern, skeleton keys, burglar's fuse, screws, jimmeys, picks, eta and also a lot of impressions in wax ef the locks of dwellings in tbat city, in New York, and in Boston The implements were all of tbe most perfectly finished kind, while among them was an apparatus, invented by a French man named Ma defer, by which a safe may be blown open with : powder without detonation The burglars accompanied the officers to a Fifu teentb street railroad car, but ontba trip down the Old Doctor attempted to destroy, unseen by bis custodian, a, bundle of letters from noted thieves. Officer Bartholomew seized him, and a tremendous row ensued. Billies were drawn, and the "Doctor" proceeded to use a revolvei, but was stunned by a blew on the bead. After this admonitory lesson be went along very quietly." Tbe theives bad but little money in their pos session- Tfce Science of Crime. . Crime, being a kind of disease, is an epidemic- At one time, ws read of a succession of arsons. Suicides follow each other in quick succession. Sometimes we read of poisonings in the papers of successive weeks. Other horrors come not singly, but in battalions. There is a fascination in great crimes, which leads people to imitate them with an almost irresistable power. Probably the phrenological explanation is as good as any; each organ, ot group of organs, have been exercised to activity by acta of either normal or abnormal action in others- Love excites love; and hatred, bate. Rage kindles rage, not only by opposition, but by sympathy and example. A Quaker in Philadelphia, a few years ago wrote, what be called a -Philosophy of Evil." But his object was to show tbat there waa no evil. It would be better to admit, define, account for it, and settle its laws. We have lota of sciences where is this science? Have wo acquired a great deal knowledge of good and evil? , V": : '-i ' -. ' i. Salt. Among tbe Eastern nations salt is a symbol rf fidelity. A man who has partaken of salt with yon, ia bound to yoo by the laws of hospitality, and thus bread and salt are eaten at the ratification of a bargain or treaty, to make it binding on all parties. Salt is also an emblem of desolation; conquered cities were sown with salt-la Scotland and Ireland salt appears to have been considered to represent the incorruptible spirit, and was therefore laid over the heart of a corpse, and ia some cases a platter waa so placed, containing a small portion of salt and earth unmixed, the one to represent tbe immortal and the other the mortal part. In former days, when it waa the custom for all tbe household of a nobis man or gentleman to dine to-gether, the largo alt cellar whicb was placed in tbe middle of the table, was the boundary of distinction between the family and the menials. snewsswswMaM sBMeasBjsjaanaMmvaBaMBswassc, : . ' ' ' ; Japenesa Lats.-The Jspenese laws are very abort and intelligible, aid the proceedings nader them are as aim pie as the laws themselves. There ara no professional lawjera, every mar. being deemed com potent to plead his own "cause. If a party is aggrieved, be appeals to the magistrate, who go a eons the otberparty before hiuu- The case is then stated by tbe complainant in hsowa way acd tbe accused is beard in reply, -Tne anagie-trate examinee witnesses, and is said frequently to displaygreet acntenees in the detectioa of faUabood. lie rasses eetlance, fromJ w-icb there is no a r real, and it is carried into execu-tlsa izzzlzr. L tin caf.er la i'li be cf grest icporUncs lis m'rz cj rt..r it ta its Emperor ia council. Coae, .jss .in tn.sj esses be orders tie parties U go ail :'... L matter privately with t t aid cf tie ir Lie nit, and it is well nnderstood that tte mtUer oust be set- gQT Mrs. Teresa (Cagioli) tUWes, z a 11. Y. letter, is ia rapidly decllcicsles.!-. gO Tbe United Stales Convcl! ;a cf Ut:ver ealists will meet la Eotlaa, ITass Ca lis lllrl Taesdsy la September. ' ' ' ' : Tbe Richmond VerpsUX ;yt tlsl hzi week an overseer la Halifax ecactr. Vs., tct lour negroes who bad attempted ta tsla LU Ua. : Iy- Mr. William E. Astor, cf ZTs w Ti, la stated to be worth tl3,C:3,CC15,ari lie t:::il increase of bis estate Is about C3,C C3.CC 3. ST Mr. Peeler, wba has reallied C i " -- from the sale of a patent plow, baa given caa . half of tbat amount to the ITetbodia Ocrcb. South. .' - . .- tT" Tbe population of Zanes-viSe is 9C3 ; addding to whicb tbat of Putnam and So&i aai West Zanesvilla, make a total of 12.CC 3, ttiasl about 10,000 in 1850. gO The deaths in Chicago ta July reached 288, of which 214 ware children under Ave years old; and 102 of these ander one year. This is a terrible slaughter of inaocenU. t3 At Jackson, iTich, recently, there met in a tea party sixteen persons whose nailed agea amounted to 1172 years, tbe average belc T3 years and 3 months. g Two men named llatbiaa Youag and ; Henry Elders, were crushed tq death in a leal mine near Ilubq"o," on Thursday lasu The ground caved in, burying them. : .-"-- gO Fire of the seven Congressmen elect in-Missouri are DonglaiLmen, and two of tbe Douglas delegates to the National ConveaUoa bare been elected to the Legislature. tO A. letter front Galveston, Texas says: This is a great country. No rain in Gal res ton since April. Water is seiliag at tZ per barrel, brought down tho Triaity. gO A correspondent of tbe lie phis Appeal writing from Augusta, Ga ssyst Docgias stock . is evidently rising in Georgia, all tbrougb tLa Stats. ' ' . gO Mrs. John N. IngarsoTl, wife cf tbe edis tor of the Owasso American, was fcarnea to death, on tbe I8tbf by tbe explosion" cf a tali, lamp, whicb she was filling wbea righted. gOThe Cleveland Plaindealer sits titr,Hla largest Masonio gathering that ever occurred west of New York will bo oa tbe ICib cf Zt tember, in tbis city. : ' -' Ml. Jonathan PbHUps, cf Cotton, recxrt ly deceased, made bequests ta patUs tiirlll: and bencvaleat purposes, to tbe amount cf Clr 000. - . - ' gO Tbe Prineo of Wales is expected to be at Niagara Falls about the 11th ef September and to go from Buffalo to Pittsburg or Cincinnati and thence to Washington, Philadelphia, and New York. ' '. : - COCaleb'C Woodbury, postmaster at Wtit Pigeon, Michigan, who was lately crrestsl for robbing the mail and held ia $ 4.CC3 bail, failla to find sureties for the amount, killed ktmtelf ta escape committal to prison. . gO The vote of Missouri at tbis election indicates an astonishing increase of population. In 1856 it only amounted to 106,000- Tbis year with twenty counties not beard fromthe oS-cial vote is over 140,030. gO We learn front tho Missouri t Democrt that the fur trade bas fallen off considerably this season, owing to the advance of civilization over a country which had hitherto been given np to savages and wild beasts. ' tO Tbs students in tbe University of KorUt Carolina are in a state of revolt. Sixty meta-bers of the Sophomore class have been dismissed-on account of persisting in exercising their prerogative of "chafing freshmen. gO Wo learn from Chicago that Samuel Workman, pastmaster "of Java City, bas resign ed aa a defaulter to tbe amount of $ 10,009. Mr. Workman ia absent, and aa Seer of tbe government baa charge of theoSce. tOS. F. Tewnsley, the Portage county scamp who was lately tarred and feathered for bis oat rages, Is now in Akron jail for maliciously killii! the boras of J. W. Stevens, in Springfield, Earn mit county. tO Major Donaldson, United States aroy has presented to tho Marymod Agricultural Society two "four-horned rams," captured front tla Navsjoe Indians. He says that this breed of sheep bavo sometimes six and even seven boras on eacb bead. ... . tO The greatest oil weTl yet bat just tee! opened at Tedioute, Pa, When tbe oil was t: ped at 115 feet deep, it was tbrowa up at 20 feet above tbe top. Tbe well threw out thirty barrels in forty minutes." Bo states tbe Pittsburgh Chronicle. tO The Cleveland Herald says: Up to the present time, six hundred and twenty doa bavo suffered tbs extreme penally of lbs dog. ordinance. Tbs slaughter of these bas caused no noticeable diminution in the number of WorLb ess curs about tbe streets. tO Tba Augusta, Ga, Chrmnide aaysa . Breokinridgn sny possibly get the vote ef jslb CatcHna, according to tbe present lock cf tiirrj but ho is hopelessly defeated every where tla- Bo will lead Gerrit Smith just e'bl vrtra, Tr xabl for xhmdead men' ticlcZ" . : ? tO Tbo Pope of Homo bas bad a new i :a offered to bim, for among the Tarious ra' 'j that tbe recent events la Syria have given ri?e t is one called "Syria and the Iioss'&a Al'Isscs j the llaronites and France, in which tbs sc.ls proposes tbat Pius IX shall bars Constat secured ta bim as tbe aeatcf tla Trs?7 - liver the oration at tie inac;-rs.'Jca cf tie Tes. ry status) at Ceveljcd ca te If - Lr. Atiar Parsen, sar-eca tf tia Lcir-cnadz'z- f. j S-: tie of Lako Xxie, will rilts isme izz'.l i c; ibecctesrcd tis Cov6r&crs ef CLla i - ZcZ lil&z 2, ia alirb krt Tti c: : r. ry r 1 3 I c: 3, t .U i a t.l lv -j c t : ' to t'- :::.:!ra ,ty be!: ir-.-zi r. '. " 1 77 On tls 1T a rl c: c J. Ca.ird, cf Cisr'estcwp, l-r"- r i CnLt nnaer e u ra fiti a.