Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1857, Page 2

WASHINGTON OITY: seUmenKT lanngnnesonsss October 29, 1857. = Se SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PKESS The Union rejoices over the election of the Hon. A. 0. P. Nicholson—its former editor—to the Senate of the United States by the Legis Jature of Tennesseo, and again discusses “Banks and Banking.’ The Intelligencer regrets that the Democrat- ic majority of the Tennessee Legislature took occasion to supercede the Hon. Jas. C. Jones, in the Senate of the United States by the elec- tion of the Hon. Andrew Johnson in his stead, and to the haste with which the same body have just filled the United States Senatorial position to continue to be held by Hon. John Bel! until Mareh 4, 1859, by the election of the Hon A. ©. P. Nicholson in his stead. ; ———- 17 An Editorial Convention is now in session in Richmond, Va. 07 From Shillington, Odeon Building, we hare the November number of Emerson's Maga- zine. U7 We are indebted to Mr. Barnard, the in- defatigable agent of the Associated Press, for the European Times of October 17th. U7 Several fat hogs were recently stolen in Taunton, Mass., by first administering chloro- form to theanimals and then taking them from their pens without even raising a squeal. 7 The U.S. barque Release is to be fitted out as a storeship, and will sail from the Charles- v Yard in a few weeks for Spezzia, with stores for the Mediterranean squad- ron. Scicipe.—Dr. Wm. Boyle, of Middleton, Conn. committed suicide on Tuesday morning by eut- ting his throat with a razor. He is supposed to have been isborimg under a fit of temporary in- sanity. i> Ex-Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, by a speech which he has beea recently making in Mississippi, seems to have faken the same ground as Senator Hunter of Va.. in referemee te Mr. Bu- chanan and Gov. (Kansas) Walker. U™ The late Cuban papers contiawe to com- plain most bitterly of the scarcity and high prices of everything, especially the prime necessaries of Nfe. The recent heavy rains have swelied the rivers of some districts beyond what is remem- hered by any of the inhabitants,for the time in- terrupting ail communication iP James P. Donnelly, under sentence of death at Freehold, N. J, for murder, has writ- tema letter to the N.Y. Herald denying the state- ments recently made of his intention to escape, and says: -*It isa bard thin; to have the last moments of my life embittered by misrepresentations. 1 came here willingly. I shall remain until | am taken from it by death or law. Iam resigned to my untimely and unmerited doom. I am not afraid todie. It will be a welcome relief to me. ‘bey have taken from me my good name—they are welcome to my life. My health and spirits remain thesame. My poor heart is broken, but spirit is and shall be firm. I cannot bring myself to believe that God will allow me to die por erime of one—the unfortunate error of an- other.” U7 Governor Ligon. of Maryland, has issued 2 proclamation to the citizens of Baltimore, di- Tecting the proper military officers to hold them. selves in readiness for active service on the ap- proaching day of election, to preserve the peace of the city and secure to the legal voters their Tights against the violence and intimidation of the lawless ruftians who have disgraced the city and outraged the elective rights in the recent elec- tion. He says he has appeaied to Mayor Swann, in vain, for co-operation in maintaining such peace, and being resolved to be involved in no failure of duty by postponing measures which can only be efficiently carried out under the circum- stances Ly the greatest promptitude, now issues his proclamation. He especially forewarns all persons against illegal conduct in the obstruction of voters, and urges that no man leave the pre cinets of his own ward. unless ordered to do so by eompeteat authorit Majer General George B. Stevart, command- ing Ist Lt. Division, M. V., 3s ordered to hold his entire command ready for immediate service, fully equipped un Spear Smith, Major General 3d Division, » is ordered to enroll aud embody, without celay, six regiments, of not less than six hun- dred men each—to be officered and equipped— and hold the same in readiness for service by noon on Saturday next We hear that the proclamation bas created great excitement in Baltimore, and that trouble 3s anticipated on election day psenSemibenscs sat Sere Cares Cusnmixe ix Fasxgvit Hatt.—An ad- iS was di ered to the citizens of Boston, in eul Hall, on Tuesday, by Hon. Caleb Cushing on political topics. The speech was both able nad eloquent, and was listened to by a large an- dience despite the severe storm that prevailed He defended the adiwinistration of President Pierce, aud assumed that the opposition in Mas- sachusetts was simply personal, being known as the Banks party. &c.,and in this connection de- voted three-fourths of an hour in reviewing Mr. Banks's speech on the financial question. The merits of the Kansas question were explained by Mr. Cushing as he understood them, and it was argued that speculation in the public lands was the one leading object of keeping up the excite- ment, both North and South, and that it acted as @ sort of advertisement after the manner of Bar- num. It was then argued that the * bleeding Kansas’? idea had exploded; that the “ Dred Seott’’ case had died out, and that the elaborate- ly constructed platforms of discord on which the Republican party had stood for three years was completely broken down—therefore Mr. Banks hed takeo new grourd and endeavored to per- vert financial questions in the service of the ne- gre excitement. The speaker urged the support of the Democratic State nominees, and appealed to the merchants of Boston and the people of Mass- achusetts to rebuke sectionalism. and closed with an eloquent peror nmin reference to the fature of the nation ds PEKSONAL. Hon. J. B. Guthrie, Pa ; is at Willards’. rhe Sutherland, Pa., and J.G Bennett, editor of the N.Y. Herald, are at Browns’. «.-- The New York Tribune states that the Hon. Gerrit Smith is lying very ill with neural- gia and typhus fever, at the house of bis nepbew, the Hon. John Cocarane, in that city. --.- At Miss Cushman’s last benefit in N York, Miss Harriet Hoxmer, the eccentric Yan, kee sculptor, figured on the stage in the play of tiuy Mannering, as one of the gipseys. ---. Col. Fuller (+ Belle Britain”) who has wwnell aud edited the New York Mirror for the last fourteen years, has disposed of his interest im that journal --- Hon. J. F. Farnsworth, member of Coi- ress elect from Chicazo, who was irported to.be ying, is now believed to be in a fair way of re- covery ---- Charles F. Woodbury, Esq., U 8. District Attorney for the district of Mass., ix among the yen, nes strangers now bere. He is the guest of Lis brother-in-law, Judge Montgomery Bisir. ---. R. B. Alexander, of the Frederic Recorder, was relieved of Lis pocket-book, con- taining about $200, at the Richmond Fair on ‘Tuesday. Served bim right! What business has an editor with so much money ? Sap Cas®.—A young mechauic, on Saturday evening, Was arrested for stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's stall. He suid he had been without work for several weeks, and being with- out work for several weeks, and being without money or credit, and too proud tu bey he prefe red to stea! to save his farolly from starvation ~a wife and two children—who hed been without food since Friday morn) An investigation tntothe case proved the truth of his statements. and he was released, given the meat and told to come for more, and was also presented with a purse of 86, whieh was made up for hitw.—Newark Adverti- er. 7” The Pi nis (Me) Observer apt wpwards of #200 worth of young ealvesand sheep have been sostrered by bears in that county since the Ist of September; and so bold have they been foe they have —— barn yards and seized ves and sheep in presence of their keepers— determined to have them at any rate. WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Cvsa.—We incidentally remark in another connection to-day, that the acquisition of Cuba ig the great present pu of our country. Though little has been offiate in papers upon the subject, & ni time when it occupied more of the thought. Every succeeding: hour succeeding political end industri event of importance in Western Burope, the United States and Central and South América make its necessity to our fature more apparent to all statesmen. That it is the great event to which the present Administration look forward, as to be the brightest jewel in thecrown of its policy, those will realize who remember the President's earnestness upon the subject ere his elevation to his present position. That in its success is involved results of more importance to the two great sections of the cenfederacy—political, so far ag the South is concerned, and industrial, as to the North—than any other living ques- tion, all also realize, who remember, that even John Quincey Adams looked forward to it as the great consummation of American statesman- ship, for the benefit of our whole country, which should never be lost sight of by its Gov- ernment. Political events in Europe have, of late, rap- idly tended towards placing Spain in a position wherein her paramount interests will compel her to listen to reason on the subject ; while on this side of the Atlantic, the weakness of our neutrality law, as manifested in the impunity of fillibusterism, has been tending to defeat the advantages accruing to us through the tenden- cy of the affairs of Spain. A league, of sentiment, exists against us throughout Spanisn America, the result of the lawless and murderous acts of Walker and his followers, that cannot fail to postpone the day when Cuba shall be ours. But for the effect of Walker's raids, the path to a happy settlement of the Cuban question with Spain would at this momecxt be open to us; that. however, is a bar- rier which can now be overcome only by long, patient, and persistent Inbor on the part of the great minds in the Presidential chair and the State Department, backed by the earnest sym- pathy of the rest of the Cabinet and Congress, as well as the American press, which is at this moment more unanimous for the acquisition, than ever before for an important measure of national policy. Filibusterism is higher lawiem, recklessness, selfishness, the entire negation of the rights of others, and, in fine, the gratification of the worst passions of human nature with impu? nity. That for its sake a national consumma- tion so important to all the sound interest of our country as the acquisition of Cuba should be postponed, is most provoking. The measures of President Buchanan to put a stop to the in- jurious effects of tuture filibustering. however, are doubtless such, as that in time the nation’s interest as involved in the acquisition of Cuba will be relieved from the load it has thus been compelled to carry for a few years past. Tne Caner Exreemrest.—The latest ad- vices received here eoncerning the progress and promise of the camel experiment of the Government in its railitary operations on the frontier, continue to ::onfirm the highest hopes of its friefds. From the day the animals were landed on the coast of Texas to this hour the experiment has proved an eminently successful one; until the experience had with them as beasts of burden has been such that all con- cerned in their manag »ment and use are anani- mously of opinion that they suit, as beasts of burden, the requireme pts of our great western plains as well as those of Asia and Africa. In persevering to obtain fiom Congress the means of making theee experiments, and in his saga- cious arrangements to consummate them to the best advantage, the late Secretary of War has certainly couferred a benefit on his country second to none other fer which the nation has so far been indebted to a gentleman in a simi- lar official position. In twenty-five years henve camel trains will be weil nigh as common in the far west of the United States as on the most traveled routes of the East. By this time next year they will doubtless be imported on private account, and be in actual use by citizens cross- ing the great North American desert. As yet, the national advantages to result from this idea of Secretary Davis are not to be calculated. Discontext.—The merchants in this region are highly incensed against the last New York dry-goods wrinkle—the course of the jobbers in retailing goods actually at leas prices than they charged stranger merchants fer them not long since, when purchasing in large quantities To say the least of it, the practice is a cut- throat one, and must result in inducing all merchants who buy in New York to avoid such houses hereafter, as they would the plague. The plea for their conduct is, that they can in no other way raise the means of meeting their liabilities, their customers having failed to meet their accruing indebtedness. We have a sneaking notion that, while they are selling small quantities of really merchantable goods in that way as a blind or bait, they are getting rid ef their accumulated old stock, under ordi- nary circumstances, otherwise unsalable on their hands. However that may be, the course to their legitimate customers is one of bad faith. A day or two since a Washington merchant, hearing that 2 house with which be had long dealt—paying promptly as per agreement—was retailing Bajou gloves at seventy cents a pair, wrote to learn what they would take for one hundred dozen of them, cash; and was answered $9.50 per dozen’ So, those buying by the pair at seventy cents, and fancying that they were getting the article they bargained for, were being swindled—that’s clear. A Moves Fitisuster.—The following speci- men of the prevailing tone. temper and expec- tations of the filibusterism of the hour, we find floating around in the newspapers of the day: Powver Hor, Sunday, Oct. 4, 1857. Cor. Logan :—1 am now in th ae waiting for orders from Gen. Welker, previous te moving further. The boys are beginning to come in, but they will not leave until we receive further in- structions from warters. T expect, by next Tuesday’s mail, something definite. Tel! those who aré willing to join us in the expedition, not to be blufied off by the hostile aj nee of the great man at the White House. only joking buncombe attempt snch a movement, I rom this date, and there will Lundred thousand of alike spirit with n the Southern portion of the United Yours, respectfully, W. R. Hesry. We need hardly remark that by this time Mr. W. R. Henry and those who may have joined him, have undoubtedly had their eyes opened to the fact that the “ joke’ of the great man of the White House is pretty serious one, so far as its effect on the Prospects of the success of their proposed expedition is con- cerned. It is precisely of such individuals as this Mr. Henry thus shows himself to be, that filibustering expeditions from this country are for the moat part made up. What care they for the obligations of good citizenship, or for the rights of others? What have they indi- vidually to lose by the defeat of the great purpose of the country, the acquisition of Cuba, already materially postponed by and through the effects of American filibusteriem ? Kaxsas.—At the latest dates from Kansgg, the Territory was in a condition of despera' excitement, growing in part out of an effort of James Lane to procure the violent abrogation about stopping us; it is merely for But ifhe eer testi Hs amt a RSecessionist be tw. of the constitutional convention whes it shell essay to reassemble at | the” circumstances under which he has issued, , and in part out of the course Gov. Walker has felt himself called on to e with reference to the vote Job: nty for members of the Legisla- re. roclamétion, setting forth in detail e of election to the Republican’ ty ean in Johnson county, will be’ und elsewhere in to-day’s Star. It speak: for itself. It.seems io us that it is utterly im possible that he cin, under the circumstai be mistaken as to the facts of the case. facts be as represented in the proclamation, he has done his duty, and only his duty. The true interests of the South are not to be conserved by fraudulent elections. Her cause is 9 con- servative one entirely, and those who in her name essay to violate the sanctity of the ballot- box, shall receive as little of our countenance as any others essaying to violate the great American constitutional right of self-govern- ment. 5 Tue Navat Covers or Ixquiry.—Before Court No. 1, to-day, in the case of ex-Lt. No- land, Lt. Jonathan Carter and Surgeon Wood- ward were examined in the Government's be- half. = Before Court No. 2, to-day, in the case of Commander Ringgold, Capt. Wilkes was ex- amined for the defence. Before Court No. 3, to-day, in the case of Capt. Ritchie, Lt. Watson and Capt. MeCluney, and the Hon. T. B. Florence, (U. 8. H. R.,) were examined in behalf of the applicant. Swawp axnp Overrtowrep Lanns.—The Commissioner of the General Land Office yes- terday transmitted to the Governor of Florida a patent (No. 14) of swamp and overflowed lands, in the Tallahassee district, enuring to said State under the act of September 28, 1850, embracing 87,135 63-160 acres. A Navy Orrcer Drap.—The Navy Depart- ment have advices of the recent death of Licut. Reuben Harms, U.S. N., at the Naval Hospi- tal in Brooklyn. N. Y., of consumption. Arrointep.—Mr. Wm. Flynn, of this city, has been appointed by the President to bo an Assistant Secretary to sign Land Warrants. Tas Wea’ 12 —The following report of the weather for this morning is made from the Mo: Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution. The time of observation is about7 o'clock a. m.: OctToBER 29, 1857, New York, N.Y.... «-clondy. Philadelphia, Pa. cloudy, cold. Baltimore, Md cloudy. Washington, D.C Richmond, Va.. Petersburg, Va. Raleigh zs Wilmington, N. C Columbia, 8. C. Charleston, 8. C Augusta, Ga... Savannah, Ga Macon, Ga. Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala... Lower Peach Tree, Ai Mobil, Ala...... Gainesville, Miss. New Orleans ... 55 At Washington, yesterday, at 9p. m., the bar- ometer was 29.936, thermometer42?. This morn- ing, at 7 o’clock, the barometer was 29 98, ther- mometer 41°. The Saints Mean to Fight. The Fort Laramie correspondent of the New York Tribune furnishes some interesting partic- ulars in regard to the mission of Capt. Van Vieit, of Gen. Harney's staff, who, it will be remem- bered, was detached by the General, at the be- ginning of Angust, to proceed to Utah, to gather necessary information concerning the disposition of the inhab' ts, the geography of the routes to the Territory, the condition of the crops, &e , and to report to headquarters. He returns with news which. perbaps, justifies inferences that the Utah complication will present in history the most prominent feature of ihe administration of Mr. Buchanan. The expression of a determina- tion to resist the entrance of the newly-appointed officials, and of the United States army into Utah, is unanimous among the people of the Territory. When they were reminded of the certainty that in case their resi ual a fore against 1 twice their population in arms would strive in vain to close the passes, they re- plied that they had considered all that, and that when sack a force had stormed those passes,they would enter a valley in which not one Bint would be green nor one stoue would remain upou another. They tock pains te show him their gardens and vineyards, their harvest, barns, Houses and live stock, and to contrast sheir pres. ent prosperity with such a scene of desolation — Their object now, they said, was to gain time to enable the National Government to retrace its steps, and they intend to present their case to Congress through their delegate, Dr. Bernhisel, who accompanied Captain Van Vliet on bis de. parture and is nhiscamp. It was at one period his determination not to proceed to Wash- ington this winter, but that was reconsidered hey said that they would regard the entrance of the troops as the beginning of a repetition of their suffevings at Kirtland, Independence and Nauvoo; that they had learned a lesson from ex- perience, and would now meet azyression at the start, and resist the wedze before it should enter the wood ; if they could not keep the troops ont this year they would sacrifice all for their re- ligton, take to the mountains and fight a war of glery and extermination. Brigham Young re- marked repeatedly that this was the most glo- rious era of bis faith, and that a Lappier da never dawned on Mormonism than that on which the advance of the troops was ordered, for the more his church was persecuted the more it would thrive. On Sete ge September 13, Captain Van Vliet was asked to attend religious services in the Bowery, and was escorted to a prominent seat upon the platform, and invited to make an ad- dress, which invitation he declined. By count- ing the number of persons upon certain tiers of benches he estimated the audience toexceed 4,500. After some remarks by Heber C. Kimball, a dis- course was delivered by Elder John Taylor, for- merly editor of The Mormon, the newspaper or- gan of the church in New York city. At the close Mr. Taylor called the attention of the peo- le to the Captain, and alluded to his business n the city, recounted the substance of his con- versations, and said that he would make a re- uest in order that Captain Van Viiet might learn that he had been made acquainted with the d:- termination of the whole people; he would ask that all those present who were willing to raze their honses, burn their crops, pull down what they had passed ten years in building up, make thelr beautiful valley a desert, and retreat to the mountains, in case the troops should force an entrance, would rise; and the audience, without exception, rose to their feet, and remained stand- ing long enough to cnaMe him to see that they were absolutely unanimous. During the previous proceedings, in order to answer practically an inquiry by t ‘aptain con- cerning the proportion of foreigners present to native born and natural citizens, Mr. ‘Tavlor re- quested all present who belonged to the two lat- ter classes to raise their bands, and abeut three- fourths of the audience ie ane ‘The captain confirms the fact of the concentra- tion of the population of Utah in Salt Lake Val- ley by the abandonment of the remote settlements, and estimates the force the Mormons can set in the field at between five and six thousand. ‘They have abandoned the cobble-stone fortitica- tion at Fort Bridger, and the meu employed there have fallen back about twenty inilex to a redoubt called Fort matPply He was also given to under- stand that they intend to recall their missionaries from the States, but not from foreign countries, With regard to divisions in the Mormon com- munity, he satisfied himself that there does in- deed exist in certain quarters a dislike of the Present authorities of the Chareb, but he is also ibjection that nothing less than the preennen of a commanding gentile force will enable it to develop itself. A review of about 500 troops of the Nauvoo Legion was held in bis presence. Tue arms and uniforms of the officers were ous, but the rank and file were as eccentric in equipment as down-east militia in asbirt tail muster. A number of little boys in the companies carrying wooden guns. Capt, Van Vieit states that there is no powder mill, to his knowledye, in the Terri Ti Tefard.to provisions, ii of fre-anns, With regard to provisions, Brig ham Young told him the Mormons had » ee years’ supply on hand to take with them to the mountains. _ ' ——————___ * A Litexsay Youre Lavy.—Wewere eonvers. ing with a young some few evenings: a litera: ge ssig ea need asa as, we, of course, ,touc! on poetr; it was not many minutes before she had roa throngh the stereaty; when she conch i laugh atour simplicity, she ried ; 9 hy ud aa ° ee The following appears in the St. Louis Repub- lean of the 25th instant: To His Excellency R. J. Walker, Governor, and P. Stanton, Secretary of the as: rv votes—viz: about 1,626—Were retftrned, purport to be polled at that precinct, where your me- ists have good cause to believe, and do be- jeve, there were not to exceed one hundred legal votes. They have information in which they lace full eget — = the Sth nolan r there were only al nine! eV ber t on the day fol wiel, when it is pers ‘ported Loree nae Matis were polled, there were no considerable number of persons in atte or around the polls through'the “Gar jthey have information that not to ex from twenty to thirty persons were around the polls of the said Oxford precinct at any time during the 6th | day of October. They would further state that they have satisfactory evidence that the popula- tion of Johnson county is too sparse to contain a population so great as is represented to be polled at that precinct. They are assured, too, that a vast majority of the names attached to the returns are not known in Johnson county. To this they would add the fact that the said Oxford precinet is situated on the borders of the Territory within afew rods of the territorial line, and that the town of Little Santa Fe, in Missouri, is contigu- ous to said precinct, and that if any such number of votes were polled, your memorialists believe they were polled by non-residents of the Terri- tory of Kansas. They also are confident that such a large number of votes could not have been polled at one precinct, and by one set of officers, within the time limited by law. We wouid aiso state that Johnson county, Oxford precinct in particular, is within the limits of an Indian Territory, which is spe jally re- served by the organic act out of the Territory of Kansas ; that such Territory was unopen for legal settlement on the fifth and sixth days of October last, and remains the same at this time; and that no legal settlements can be made within said res- ervation now, nor could not on the day, nor at may time prior to said election. Your memorialists, legal voters of said repre- sentative and council districts, would respectfully PROTEST against the vote of said Oxford distfict being counted in the eighth council and tenth representative districts, or for delegate to Con- vens for the reasons of fraud and illegality set forth in the above, and for other reasons which may appear. They ask his excellency the Gov- ernor, and his honor the Secretary, to take such action as their judgment may sugyest, to inquire into the truth of our said allegations, and to do such other things in the premises as will secure us against fraud, and give to the actual bona fide residents of the Territory and districts a voice in directing their own atfairs. All of which is re- spectfully submitted. Signed by—G. W. Smith, Geo. Ford, Albert Newman, Henry Brown, C. Hornsby, John M. Coe, H. C. Hemmenway, 8. W. Eldridge, E. A. Edwards, M. Solomon, George W. Hunt, L. L. Curtis, Augustus Wattles, Erastus Heath, J. F. Griswold, uel Walker, 5. C. Tolis, ‘f Samp- son, W. H. Duncan, H. W. Baker, P Ww. Wood- ward, Gaius Jenkins, Clark Stearns, J. H Taney, R. M. Wilkinson, E. D. Ladd, Geo. C_ Chandler, W.R. Judson, Jas. F. Legate, Jas. Christian. and Territory oF Kansas, Douglas county, ss 1, G. W. Brown, notary public, dnly commis- sioved and sworn, do certify that the above per- sons, Whose names are in their own proper hand, are personally snown to me to be the persons they represent themselves to be; that t ey are legal voters of the sth council and 10th represen- tative districts, as they therein set forth; that they are persons of known integrity. aud that each of them, save C. Hornsby, did declare on his sol- emn oath that the facts and things therein set forth they believe to be. just aad true; and I further believe that all the facts therein set forth are strictly true Witness my band and official seal, at Lawrence, [ues] in the Territory of Kansas, this lth . day of October, A. D. 1857. G. W. Brown, Notary Public. PROCLAMATION. To the People of Kansas: Lecomrton, Oct. 19, 1857. By the 32d section of the orgauic act establish- ing this territorial government it is provided, in telbrence to the election of a delegute to Congress, that *‘ the person having the yrextest unmber of votes shall be declared by the covernor to be duly elected, and a certificate thereof shall be given accordingly.”? By the 16th section of the act of the territorial legislature of Kansas, entitled “ An act to regu- late elections,’ it is made the duty of the secre- tary to examine the retarns in the presence of the governor, and to * give to the person having the highest number of votes in their respective dis- triets certiticates of their election to the levisla- tive assembly.” Under these two provisions of the laws prevail- ing in this Territory. the recent generat election has presented for tlhe joint consideration of tne Governor and Secretary a question of the yravest importance, not only to our own people, but also to these of the whe Union. This question arises upon the extraordinary retrrus made from toe psecinet of Oxford, in the county of Johnson What purport to be the returns of the election held at that precinct on the 5th and 6th instant have been received by the Secretary, containing sixteen hundred and twenty-eight names of pre- tended voters, or nearly one-half the number given in the whole representative district. The disposition to be made of this supposed vote is rendered all important by the fact that the politi- eal character of the leyislative assembly will be controled by the addition of three councilmen and eight representatives to the strength of one party or the other, according to the adoption or rejection of the returns in In point of fact, it is well known that even the whole county of Johnson, comprising as it does, past of Indian reserve, which, upon examination ot the law, we find is not yet subject to settle- ment or pre-emption, can give no such vote as that which is pe orerented to have been polled at this inconsiderable precinct of Oxford. But while this unofficial knowledge, well established and universal as it may be, could not become the ground of decision and action u election re- turns, in themselves regular ‘and authentic, the legitimate effect of an apparent enormity, such as that in question, would necessarily be to induce a close examination of the paper presented, and to require for its acceptance a perfect compliance with all the essentiol provisions of the law Such an examination of this document, conscientiously and impartially made, has brought us to the con- clusion that the returns from Oxford precinct, in Johnson county, must be wholly rejected for the following reasons : Ist. It hes not appear on the face of the docu- ment presented tous, or in any other manner, that the judges of election took the oath impera- juestion. tively required by the statue to secure the “ im- partial ischarge of their duties according to jaw,?? 2d. It does not appear that the paper presented to us was one of too acetal Poll-books kept at the election, as required by law ; but, on the con- trary, it does appear, from unmistakable internal evideuce, that the paper is either a cory of some other document, or has been made up for the oc- casion, and is not the genuine record of the votes taken at the election. The law requires one of the poll-books to be returned to the secretary; the othe: to be deposited with the clerk of the rd of commissioners of the proper county. td As the vote of each elector was to be re- corded for each one of twenty-two candidates, and in more than a hundred cases for twenty-five, and that bya rica voce vote, it was a physical impossibility that the number of votes pretended to have been taken on the second day, being more than fifteen hundred, with the name of the voter written, and each of twenty-two candidates prop- erly designated, could have been taken and re- corded within the time prescribed by law. Ath. It is an extraordinary fact, tending to throw distrust upon the whole proceeding, that of the sixteen hundred and twenty-eight votes only one is given to the delegate elect to Congress; and only one hundred and twenty-four are re- corded as having been cast for the local candi- dates of the township. Influenced by these considerations, and im- pressed with the grave responsibility resting on us in regard to the fairness of the election, Its freedom from all fraud susceptible of detection and prevention within the scope of our daties, we deemed it essential to trnth and rete that we should ascertain every fact calculated to re- fate or confirin the conclusions derived from the face wearer ar Accotdingly we went to the recinct of Oxford (which is a village of six jouses, including stores, and without a tavern.) and ascertained from the citizens of tbat vicinit and especially those of the handsome adjace: Village of New Santa Fe, in Missouri, (separat only by a «treet, and containing ubyut twent houses.) that altogether not more than one-tent! the number of 3 Tepresented to have voted. were present on the two days of the election, much the smaller number, not exceeding thirty or forty, being present on the last day, when more than fifteen hundred votes are represent’, as hav- ing been given. The people Oxford, as well as those ofthe ar boring village of Santa Fe, were astou: at the*magnitude of the returns; and all persons of all parties, in both pisces treated the whole affair with derision or indigna- tion, not rar ia ocurred result until "Tn thecokinoes mney to and from Oxford in the couree of our to xford we over much the of the coun- bly satis- tation in the whole oue-third the vo'e le inct could have been given. that some few Os tv of Johnson, and we became t! fi'd that there is no county from which more of that st We lea: on exercise that right, anywhere withie that eounty. The people of Missouri cannot wget are charged with any in the late tion, nor are they in ai p ted with the evident- ly fraudal: the ‘inct of Oxford. all doubt, are ee cl jo not feel em- ‘ in P hold the re- A is d 5 os phe ins ry Fin form and in ab aed the quit alerting 0 fo he p rpose certain wi b 5 we a, tid by soho to the p = returns, our Tjectiogeaf them hayeth€ effect of defeating the people, sought to” irly expressed at the Polls. In the event of such consequences, we might hesitate to reject a vote w any defect of form, however essential inlaw. But in the pres- ent case, we feel ourselves bound to adhere to the very letter of the law. in order to defeat a gross andy le fraud. The consideration own « by this decision, will lose the ity in the Legislative Assembly, does not make our duty ia bean soiemn and ative. ‘The elective franchise would be utterly valaeless, and free government {tself would re- e*ive a deadly blow, if vert ape an outrage as this could be shielded under the cover of mere forms and technicalities. We cannot conseat, in any manner, to give the sanction of our respective official itions to snch a transaction. Nor can we feel Jortined to relievé ourselves of the proper responsibility of our offices, in a case where there is no valid return, by submitting the question to the Legislative Assembly, and in that very act iving the parties that might claim to be chosen y this spurious vote the power to decide upon their own election. In view of the condition of affairs in Kansas for several patel rr of the efforts so long made to put in ration here a revolutionary govern- ment, and of the fact that this effort was sus- pended under the belief that the political difti- culties of this Territory might at length be fairly adjusted at the polls ; if that adjustment should now be defeated and the people deprived of their rightfal power under the laws of Congress, by fictitious retarns of votes never given, it is our solemn conviction that the pacification of Kan- sas, through the exercise of the elective franchise, would become impracticable, and that civil war would immediately be recommenced in this Ter- ritory, extending, we fear, to adjacent States, and subjecting the government of the Union to immi- nent peril. Because, therefore, the paper now under exami- nation js not one of the original poll books, by law required to be returned, and from the absence of the oath prescribed by the territorial statutes for the judges of election, the returns being thus clearly invalid, and, as we believe, fictitious and simulated, we have, under the circumstances, no alternative but to reject the whole return from the Oxford precinct, and to give the certificates to those who appear to have been elected by vir- tue of the other regular returns. R. J. Warr. Governor of Keusas Territory. Frep. P. Stanton, Sec-etary. A CARD.—Families that have any ar icies \b.$ of cast-off Wearing Apparel for women, girls, or boys, and any articles of Bedding to give away to the poor, are respectfully solicited to send them, if convenient, to Mrs. Wardeil’s Store, corner of 2ith and K streets, near the Circle, or to either of the undersigned, who are a committee appointed by the Sunday School of the Y. . Association, held at the Western Hose House, to supply th westitute children of that neighborhood with suit: ble clothing. Miss SULLA W, PARRIS, 198 I street, bet ween 2th and 2ist sts. Miss ANNA VIRGINIA YOUNG, It 418 8th street, between G and HH. i CLOTHING FOR POOR CHILDREN. t The Young Men's Christian Association respectfully informs the public that any articles of Clothing, Shoes, Coats, Ceps, Shirts, Dresses, or garments of any description, suitable for children, will be thankfully rece:ved and properly distributed. ‘Chose reading this 2otice, willing to aid in promot- ing the e mfort of children during the present win ter, and desiring their bounty to he properiy dis- osed of, are requested to send Clothing, &e. tothe Rooms of the Associa) ion, corner of Pennsvivania ae and Tenth street, or to any of the officers. 0¢ B-St f REGISTER’S OFFICE, October 17, 1857. '@ ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCEKN.—No- tice is here y given that licenses issued to taverns, retailers of spirituous and fermented liquors, wines, cordials, &¢., croceries, dry goods, hardware, medi- eines, perfumery, watches and jeweiry; lumbe wood, coal, and commission merch :nts keepers of hackney carriages and oinnt tables, ten-pin alieys, and coufeationery, and for hawking and peddiing, and dealers in o'd iron, bra: «. copper, &c., will expire on Monday, the 2d ‘day of November next, and that said licenses must be re- newed at this office wittun ten days after that t le ‘oc i9 dtNov? = WM. MORGA? » Register. NSTRUCTION ON THE PIANOFORTE, MISS MARY A. KNUTT respectfully informs the public that she is prepared to receive limited number of scholars on the Pino FPA fi Inquire at Geor; fectionery, Pa. aveau west. Charger moder ONEY! MO ‘es MONEY !! M i Y Y She undersizned would respectfully request al! persons indebted to him prior tothe Ist of Avgu ind settle. ifthey desire to save ex- s as well as ivconvenience to my- self.as I intend to piace all open accounts into the hands of an officer for collection, by the tenth of ext month, ee 2 e0bt H. H. Voss. OOKS FROM LONDON, 's Culinary Campaign, 1 vol; 81.99, s Modern Europe Fpitomised, $1. ‘The Bivouac, 4 Maxwell ; 50e, n Blake. by Max wel. icomte Bragelonne,2 vols.; $1.25. Birds, Bea-ts, awl Fishes ; 12c. The History of Five Little Pigs, colored plates, 25 ts, plain 12 eents, is FRANCK TAYLOR. CKNOWLEDGDMENT.— We acknowledge £% the receipt, this morning. *ush the post of- fice, of a Ten dolla on the Patriotic nk of Washington, from some unknown band. No doubt thi The sender will receive our sincere thanks. We know there are many more who should be similarly affected. In these troub- lous times the receipt of moneys justly due us will be a great relief, oe shat CLAGETT & DODSON. oc 2-3t EW FAMILY GROCERY STORE, On 7th st. bet. G and I sts., Na The undersigned respectfully inform t of the Navy Yard and vicinity, that th have opened a fine assortment of Fre: GROCERIES, to which th-y invite thei attention, and solicit a chare of patronage feeling confident thet ali who favor them with # call will go away perfectly satistied withthe purchases they may make, = heir assortment of TEAS, SUGAR, COFFEE, and, in fact, every article kept in a Well reeninted Grocery Store, cannot be surpassed inthe District of Columbia, and which will be sold on the most reasonab:e terms, for casu. 00 29-e0Ft Ey = FINE CHAMBER FURNITURE Solid Oak and Walnut CHAMBER SETS. minted CHAMBER SETS. all of superior style and finish, . . Fine Mahogany and Walnut BURRAUS, WARDROBES, and BEDSTEADS, and WASH CLOSETS. SPRING MATTRESSES, HAIR MAT- TRESSES, best quality. A large assortment of the same articles at lower rices. . . Our stock of HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS, is very large, and as ety, quality and prices, will compare with any other in the city. Please call and examine before purchasing else- where. McGREGOR & CO. 00 29-e03w No. 53° 7th atreat. HE MOST. ANT VC ME EVER DUCED IN AMERIC. or Types of js and Yard. Zens DELLWIG & CO. PRO World Noted Women, Womenly Attributes of all Land: Mary Cowden Clarke author of “A Con ance to Shakspeare,” &c. Iilust with seventeen stee! pintes. One volume. large octave, got In an en- tirely now and magnificent style of binding, hitherto unequalled. Price $1’. Garden Flowers, ooiored Illustrations, 65¢. Language of Flowers, do, 65e, American Views, do. 40e, The Wonders ofNature, do. — ane. nes in Many Lands, do. ae. Views in Asia Minor, do. Hc. Views of the English Lakes, do. eo. Eastern Manners and Customs, 4c. Sorrowing, Yet Rejoicing ; 2 Narrative of Sneces- sive Bereavement in a Minister's Family ; by the Rev. Alex, B 25e. hs D. Ds of eri f : the Pits vat Gea my el om Arnot; a pi Sears, exquisitely tinted illustra- Ons ; 5 The Uaker of Killarney, exquisitely tinted illustra- Eastern Manners and Customs, exquisitely tinted instrations: 250. pa The ‘Frosachs and Loch Lommond, (with Map by - A.K. Joh 2) 25e. Environs ot Seremione exquisitely tinted ilustra- History of Fivo Little Pigs, beautifully illustrated; Just reaived st & RY Book aad Bintionery ‘Store, 00 2-3t near Ninth street. NOTICE TO HOUSEKEBPERS. C. R. L. CROWN & CO., having received a Is aN ai selected stock for the Fall trades — vites Housekeepers these in want FURNITURE er CROCKERY WARE, teenees 0 (eeir stock, as they are determu e Los Soak paper of the Bastriet dakenat par 00 16-tf _No. 887, corner of 6th st. and Ps’av. HOUSeKEEPERS. ATTENTION! ed * T-fop at oa PRR AE ee Seis os est wi if }» Wood: Stove tory, Nos. 3 Sandaas ennsylvania svenue, between oo Trees ¢. WOODWARD, IC TURES,—peveral, P ly varmaned and pore ace 0497 3t* Rn ee Co Tee D BOYS IN THE PIBL! ry _ FARST GRAND ANNUAL BALL United Club, At ISLAND H, MONDAY EVENING, ug to her goad : on MONDAY EVENING, Nov. 21, 1857. ‘The members of the Club pledge themsctves that one of he bent fife of che be spared to make thie OTR Fne' Corton Hebd has Doon @ngnged for the Corll r depart ment will in inte neta caterer, B Schad.” ‘Ticke s ONE DOL, mtting a Gentiemrn Ladies—to be member of the obtas rom any Uinecorst the deor on the evening of the Bail. caps will be allowed in the St ch od gt Ke wore by the Tespeotive I of Arrangements. W.T, Hall, J. Jones, W. Reed, ‘S. R. Swan, G. Cammack. WEEP ene eee SL oe at TT. DEDICATION BALL, 1 OMPANY Tre PF mA Nik t, . L that th aaa DE ATION BALL, si ANB ir New fin!! On MOD Tickets $i,to be hadat the ag the Ball. Chairman of Com. of Arrangespests. oolS-tawkd UN, MIRTH, AND JOLLITY ‘The members of the Jolly Ciub most respectfully announce to their friends and the public > aily, that their Third Grand Cotillon my MONDAY: Now's tacts rot” Wut Withers Grind. Brees String Band haw been * . a esc ene COMMITTER. Q»» FELLows’ HALL, ANOTHER WEEK. NAGLE'S r American Juvenile Comedians Will appear overs Evening this week, and 0 WRDNESDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS, in an entire chaage of Program at each performance. CROWDED HOUSES, ing the Bennty and Fashion of the city. have greeted the performanes of these Child Wonders. it 7 o’ clock; to commence at Kdmussion as con's. “No ball price. WANTS. ANTED.—Two BOYS wanted to Jearn the ons-iw bing businesr. Apply to THOMAS EVANS Ts. avenue, between hand 18th streets. 06 23-10" Mt rant. - WASTED~at Jackson = ey WAN'T avenue between 4}4 ant Bssist about the house. A German preferred ANTED—By a respectable GIR Vga Nurse and belp about Charberwork. “Good can ven. pply to No. a . between tsth and eh streets, wow 8 NTED—A first-rate FEMALE COOK. V Sus must understand her business as . i 8 gentleman's family, thoroughly, and be able to come ye =~} aS art we ee rai wi > given. ply imem: Ately at the counter of the Star Office. oe 30°F NTED—Dy a res: bie GIRL, | WAN as ‘Chambermar or Nurse, or Plain Sewing. Good references can be given. Ad- dress Box No. 14, at thin office oo R 2t* NTED.—A YOUTH, 16 or 17 years old, to Seas Apotheosry business. Apply at this office. - oc Ti-lw* ARKEEPER, WANTED TMMEDIATELY . rm tel, xendria. ce Bens Hotel Alexenint: | NEWTO WANTE .—A first-class COOK.—One =a suitable recommendations will receive wages at No. 420 F street, between 6th and 7th? None others need app!y._ oc 7 -St_ V ANT ‘The subsoriber wishes to engace the following persons: One Lowy to as Oy Shucker, and a Boy to assist in the Kitchen. they are qualified they need not apply. mendations of sobriety, honesty, and industry is re~ aurea by the subseriberon the aponention. will be accepted unless he is out of situation. a. ° moon Gardener, without any incum- rance of youn bet < J. BOULANGER. G street, nesr War Department. tes&Iotel) lonn of $5, on property worth ah Mel Ny Perce lr tt FOR RENT AND SALE. For other™ For Rent and Sale” motices xee int pace. URNISHED biy located, handsomely fa particulars apply at 470 12th street, G. Also, handsomely Furmahed Roo on Ist and 24 floors, at 479 12th street. T—To a good Tenant.—A comfo-tabiy HOUSE, on F, between .7u id or terms app'y om the prem AM SPEIDEN. oc ation an rd. ap i = the premis tre or Nerthern Markets. JAS. FE. DUNAWTE orat the Ccn- oc 27-3t* Deaie: in Butter and Ey OR SAL! t. Nicholas Restaurant, under A ae House, corner of Seventh strect and Lo mA nYeDUC. roprietor being in bad health, offers for sale the stocs, fixtures sudthreeyenre pneser Ep ebore ata bargain. Inquire on the premises, a! sa ‘ peony’ F: CROWN. R S ; —The x per has a iarze number of LOTs, some of the most desiral in every section of the city, which he will sell for reasonable prices for the paper or certified checks of our City Benks. all good, JAS. CAL . oe 2 wim No. 234 F street. YOR _R DWE ities —A large three-story BRICK G, with lrick Stabie, carrage- house, etc., situated on F strect, between 18th nurl lath streets west—a most desirable and healthy locs tion. This i @ first-class house, finished in the very best style, with all the modern improvements andeomforts. Apply to Dr. THOS. MILLER, No. 236 F street, between i3tn and 14th streets. eolw oc 20 ished ROOM, on 6th © corner E. Would be rented to one gentiemen. Hi desired Bre kfast shed. Address X, City Post Office. story BRICK HOU eth and 18th. + carnage and ho the yard. Inquire next door, No. 464. oe 3. OR RENT-—A large 4story BRICK HOUSE, with basement and hick building, conteinins 13 rooms, with gas he modern improvements. Bituaied ou venue, between 34 aud 435 treets. Apply fe JOUNSTON, No. 373 Pa, avenne, between 43 fth streets. oc 36-lw* LOST AND FOUND. $200 REWARD.— Ranaway urdsy, the 24th ‘of Oe from the sub- seriber,at Washington City, on Sat- teber, my nr +, who calls himeelf Edward J; about 35 years old, six feet high, rather dark in lis appearance, of medium size, ‘n genoral wear A moustache aud goatee; nnd, when guddenly ad d-essed, stammers very much. Jt is not known what articles of clothing he took with him. but he in general dressed neat and tsty. The above re- ward will be given, if takenand lodged in ja;] so that Tgeth \. bes-corw® PHILIP OTTERBACK. Se net lt cenit oreciene 5 REWARD.—Strayed or stolen, from the e% subscriber, on Thursday inst, two. COWS. One a bliek nnd white speckled. With horns; the othera buffalo, a pale red: and white mixed, with a white nce; one biack », on ons of the froat teats. They areboth very y low skinued. The above reward wiil be given bringing them home. MRS. THOMAS STANLEY, eoz-st No. 455 9th. bet. mat Pie CAME TO THE PREMISES of the su on or sbout the 25th of October, a la: black aud white SOW, with her ests very oh : "Phe Tm by iber, mt torn to owner w take her away. PO SMATEes, prove property, and CXTHARINE C. SHECKELLS, een Sd and niyo Living betw: 4th street: oy ~ near the Cathole. Burvic sone. BOARDING. eiiconens aren eater PRIVAVE BOARD —Two thi tlemen can be accommodut ed with ROARD ins pie ‘e family, on moderate terms. Situation pleasent And near tne Post Office. Ap, iontions sddremsed to O. P. Q., through Cy Post’ Ufiice, will meet ta prompt attention. BY KDING.—A gentieman and isdy without children, ortwo cr three single eptlemen one be ated with ROOMS and BOARD. rariy application at 279 7th street, between L and Hd streets north. Boearp—a couple of indy ned ent ean obtaii comfe: wihtBOARD. at 407 13h street, between Gane ie oe A one for $3*; one for $75; and two for $1M; besides twenty-two new ones, anping in price from $130 to. @70, All for rent or oo PIANO for $25; Sl ‘sano Warerooms 3 6, JOHN P. ELLIS. Faria pomuny Hane HAMS! Which ang’, ® choos lot of Pamiy. cured oo Corer at vanbatr a | GEENA AS, dimal