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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1900. WHY CAPTAIN BARBER SWEARS WHEN WHALES ARE MENTIONED LOCAL [TALIAN RESOLUTIONS COLONY MOURNS | 13 ———— 3 L'Ttalia Says His Loss Is a ‘:’ Triple Misfortune for |¢ - Italy. ® . Groups of Men and Women Gathered | : on the Corners Over at North |¢ Beac: Denounce the I 3 ® Assassin. . e SR P e 1 s wild with excite- | $ Groups o . : the corners ov d in excited Most called him, ONCE CHOSEN TO MURDER THE KING Significance ofthe LetterLeft by Carbeni Sperandio, The Suicide, societies will CAPT BARBER WAITING S R S R R et S S L o & S g /< APTAIN BARBER, chief ‘/_“ “DAMN" whenever sence th N CAMPAIGH O+ 000000090+ edededtdtt IO et setee + PILOT CHIEF Qe eieieieieieioieie * SCENE CHANGES FOR THE NEXT POSTM OVERWHELMED WITH o Since then Captain Barber has had a, Captain Barber is a man who rarely or it with upceasing earnestness. Its welfare | able time of it. From Vancouve never loses his temper. In all and every | has 1"‘;"5 my W!‘”':F“. its rr*!‘(--‘r(t\""m\_!“. is . to San Diego offers of second-han e he is his own'cool, imper- | STO¥th my exceeding great rewar o B B . iso bear me witness that I have not shunned e been pouring n but under —this rain Of | fo deciare vnto You all the counsel of God. I the phone in the pilot he di far forget him- | have belleved in the gospel, the undiluted, | cn ringing from early morn- | self as to use explosive language, x,uz::‘"‘&’.5“1'51"5.3‘-"""" i bt daes wey eve. then, consider t ation. Morning, | leave suth a church and such a people appear that ev man on the | noon besieged for in- | will not be easy. The pain of it wiil strike a wha outfit to sell and formation about whales and whaling and | deep, for I shall be leaving a part of myself, ng willing sell » reach the that cheap because goldfields. TIs it |} the urbane skip- |y while mutter et e Do then when the crowd came with offers of second-hand | days religiously avoid any reference, how- N PRAISE OF BEV R.F COMLE Great Regret Expressed at the Resignation of the Pastor. e He Reads Letter to His Congregation Telling Members of His Pro- 1 posed Departure From A SAMPLE PACKAGE OF THE CAPTAINS HOVRLY VISITORS. THE AMERICAN POLI XV. The period of the Kansas controversy gave rise to events full of serious por- tent for the Democratic party and, there- fore, for the Union. One by one the bonds between the slave and the free sections and political attachments, too, were giv- ing way. There was no longer an Ameri- can party or a Whig party uniting North and South; the new Republican party was fnevitably a strictly sectional party, and the South regarded it with pro- nounced enmity. Only the Democratic party remained, and Democrats who loved the Union saw with foreboding threaten- ing signs of disruption there. The congregation of the First Presbyte- rian Church received and accepted with great regret the resignation of Rev. Rob- ert F. Coyle, their pastor for the last ten | vears. The resignation had already been © | presented to the session of the church, 4 land at the close of the morning service 4 |it was presented to the congregation. Dr. | ¢ | Coyle read the following letter: @ | To the Members of the First Presbyterlan Church and Congregation of Oakland, Cal.— | My Dear Friends: You have already been made © | acquainted with the fact of my resignation as . | your pastor. The preliminary step was taken ~ o} $ Their Midst. had snapped under the increasing strain. i The tles of race and lang ! T dred. the common interest in « | Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | ganizations and business enterpr! e 1118 Broadway, July 28. the common love of country were gone, i | Upon the Party. The struggle which followed the pas- sage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill had by consent of the session last Wednesday night. LThe decision was arrived at after long _and | tended all along to strengthen the hold of raverful deliberation and only because I be- | the advocates of slavery upon the Demo- * fliereie o nau e e myseif and family. | cratic party, and the Dred Scott decision © | It will be ten years on August 10 next since I | completed the trfjumph of that faction. + | first stood In his pulpit. Soon after you were | There had been under Plerce a growing ? | good enough to call me to the pastorate and I | ascendency of pro-siavery leaders. while Wherever 1 go in the future I shall thank God 4 | for every remembrance of you. 1 shall g5 from you with genuine and pro- To this church I am deeply and i[?trmnnanlly attached. Its officers, members and people are all my friends. 1f I have any | | enemies in_the congregation I do not know it | | No doubt I have made mistakes. No doubt I Rave sometimes spoken unadvisedly with my lips. Certainly I have fallen far short of my own ideals, But you will bear me witness that 1 have not svared myself to Increase the use- fulness and promote the interests of this church, I’ Rave ‘prayed for it planned tor it labored or & & pse fuotiay astyghedo e & Buchanan's weak will and yielding char- 0! @l y 891, " @ e LU esih you tn scason and | _ The political importance of the Dred ¢ lout of season, putting all my strength of mind | Scott decision lay, as we have seen, in! @ and hea: nd body into the work of this church. H With the history of its expansion you are all 0 r. For ite remarkable growth I take ® 1y share of credit Without your con- | ¢ | Stane "co-operation, vour unity of spirit, your | 4 4 | patience, your willingness to be led, it would | ¢ | bave been.impossible. ~No pastor ever had a | ¢ | more loyal an You have | & 4 | been warm '; SAPTAIN BARBE 3 | nemes B BER | ¢ | whatever of worth there was in me y | DEMOLISHES THE 'PHONE| 4 | &raciously magnified. From every vacation and | ¢ ” il every period of absence 1 have come back to | BLANK ! BLANK | ¥ou wifh glad anticipation, for 1 knew your love | YOUR BLANKED @lnna the welcome that awaited me and mine. | | oOLD WHALING OUTFITST ® ! ? | founa sorrow. | OFFERS: oo e e o ® e ot e @ Till 14 go. but 1 am sure it Is best that 1 ehou = whaling outfits it was (. straw. People who are doing bus with the genial master marine these 2 sucaeasor. wou &l atistaction if 1 might ha the pleasure of introducing him to you before leave. In the mear future I ehall ask you to join with the session in a request to the presby- issolve the pastoral relations. And ver remote, to whales and thelr doings. tery to R B e o S S o o o Effects of the Dred Scott Decision | FOR CONGRESS | Shifts From County Clerk’s Office to the Parly Committee. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, dway, July 29. The great polit! stion In Oakland is what effect will the Supreme scision anent the Stratton primary sional sity > the marn will have the Congre District. Wh e Third k¢ *h side claim that it direct bearing upon the result it cert Iy will have effect of transferring control of the primary from t} g Supervisors to the Congressional comm e of the Third District. Of course. Metcalf men had a large working major- ity in the Board of Supervisors, but they DAKLAND'S REAL absolutely control the Congressional com- | mittee. So while County Assessor Hen P. Dalton does not think that this will af- fect his chances at all, County Clerk Frank C. Jordan, his mpalgn manager, is talking about getting out of politics the and reti to a ranch or going to Boxer country. If there is one man more than another who shoul t to do under these ounty Clerk Frank many a bard General Activity Expected During the Coming Winter. fought campaign. Senator F. S. Stratton holds that the old Porter primary law is in existence and the approaching prima will Jer that law. But so many pri- mary laws havs 2 attempted since the Porter prim: w went into effect that no one seems to know just how far the Porter primary law may have been amended or j what it is. One thing is certain—that the center of the scene is shifted from the County Clerk's office to the Congressional com- er the Stratton primary law unty Clerk had sole supervision of it Register. and County Clerk aimed the right to purge tue old Jordan cl register for the approachins prima This clalm was not looked upon with fa- vor by the Metcalf men, so the County & offic s the center of observa- by the politicians engaged in the Congressional fight. ow the scene is shifted to the Con- jonal committee, which has the call- of the primary, the setting of the con- and ‘the appointing of the e Macdona. road from Point Rich P efore the Co e week from Mon n officers. | be- ad hoped the Stratton primary n INus | 13w would hold id Cong an Vie- ine general because a good primary t something w for party harmony. I .?1'3 ornia a . contest between myself tion son of the year,” f J. H. Macdonald Dalton would be under the new m which we rected 86 much | however. that the maftter can be left to the party managers. and I safely eTe inter. | 40 not see that the situation in the fight a for lots and | Petween Mr. Dalton and myself has been hardly changed in the ate until | “I do not think that the knocking out of the primary law will have any effect upon my candidacy.” sald Assessor Henry P Dalton. “My campaign has been weil organized, and we will go ahead just as we would had the law been upheld.” PASTORS RESUME WORK AFTER SUMMER VACATION OAKLAND, July 20.—Rev. Charles R. Brown, pastor of the First Congregation- al Church, resumed services to-day. The First Unitarian Church will be re- opened next Sunday. Rev. Benjamin Fay Mills will occupy the pulpit Rev. M. H. Babcock of Burlington, Vt., preached to-day at the Free Baptist Church. An effort is being made to se- cure his services as permanent pastor. Oakland were William J. Dingee & this time of the y summer in sev- looking forward | this side of the nereased demand for res- | W Laymance of “We find many with the privilege | ave sold much | the northern d season, par- strangers in are buying and = n & Co. of 1008 Broad- 1sed demand for im- | rty, and the follow- lot 40 by 125 feet on for Cap-| : ! "Rev. A. W. Rider preached to- o for S0: | (e Trirst Baptist Church: hisg oy Jar- | _Rey. J. M. Van Every and Rev. E. B, s 108 3 - | Bradley occupied the pulpit of the Ply- 2105 feer on Pledsaont | mouth-avenue Congregational Church to- - for William T. Harris ay. “Christianity and Citizenship on Be- coming a United States Citizen” was the subject _of a discourse to-day by Rev. Alfred Bayley, pastor of the Fourth Con- gregational Church, who was naturalized last week. Rev. Charles N. Lathrop, the new rector Damon, for $2000; also | 1 by 162 feet on Eighth | street in W land for Charles Stocky to Wik m Rutherfc o d a cottage of | five rooms with lot 25 1 ¢ 14) feet in Isabel la street for the Pacific States Building and Loan Association of San Francisco. of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, began e R T R R T k In that parish to-day butid you up and give you an inheritance among Sa n- all them that are sanctified. Faithfully yours, | 1 this ROBERT F. COYLE. | -sbyterian Oakland, Cal.. July 29, 1900, (& being “Encourage At the close of the reading of this ad-| 7 Rrda 7 dress W. A. Curtiss arose and presented ot A R T‘-‘ r')x?\\\\' :)! 1\??;-_’1-\‘1!1 the following resalutions, which were & preached to-day : elsh Presbyter- unanimously adopted by the congregation, | o ‘ Rov. Edear B fuller ot Balioihala: oss . :‘r,l|\h thus finally accepted the resign; | & | cupied the pulpit of the United Presby- e | | terian Church to-day. Whereas, the Rev. Dr. R. F. C £ loved pastor, did, on last Wednesday evening, | & | R e R I T TR tender to the session of this church his resig- | ' HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS Hation as pastor, with the earnest request that | % it _be accepted, and L3 l PR s oo ‘Whereas, The session did very reluctantly and OGRESSING SLOWLY " withemany regrets accept such resignation, so | ¢ Members Of Camplng Party far 4 its jurisdiction extends, and appointed a | & = t‘omnrshlve to n!?fl‘dh‘ plutions of esteem for and AKLAND, July 29.—Lieutenant Colonel i i oo dae o W Pemeta: that | ; w h - 0 consider call to another | g P W. H. Heuer, in his report of the Gov- Meet ith Serious Be1d: “eretore your committes, In tear that | @O+ E+6 000000 o ernment work upon the improvement of Accident such resignation may have to be accepted by Oakland harbor, states that slow progress . the church when the proper time may come, | the extra-judicial announcement of Chief has been made during the y The con- offers the followinz resolutions | Justice Taney and the majority of the tract of the California Bridge a ) Resolved, By the members of this church and | Supreme Court that the Missouri compro- act of the California Bridge and Con- Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | congregation that no reason exists within this = mise was void, because Congress had no struction Company for the construction of 1118 Broadway, July 29, |church why the Rev. Dr. Coyle should sever | constitutional power to legislate against a bridge ss the tidal canal was to| Mrs. Arthur Hickox and Miss May | DiS, relationship to us. but his contemplated | the Interests of tne owners of slaves any have been completed April 21, but an ex- | p | action is caused wholly, as he has stated, by a | more than against those of owners of nole il x- | Palmer, both of Alameda, and Mrs. Per- | feeling that he can do enlarged work for the | other forms of property. Slave owners, tension of time to July 21 was granted. | rine and Miss Perrine of San ancisco, | Master in an Eastern field, that should we have | therefore, had the figfii to car their Clark & Hen expect to have a divert- | members of a large camping party from |to part with our dear brother we shall do %0 | slaves wherever they chose uponr;e:ler:\l the Sausal Creek com- . were seriously injured yester- | “"R”' S :0"“';]?f;;fl'l 3 = | territory_without jeopardy to their own- 1 by August 1. The Fruitvale avenue r the Bigelow ranch. on the Me- | (0 V" " CoId has ‘worked falintulty ‘aug | eFehip. Douglas stood 1o B e o TR ontract, which was let to Darby Laydon. | is expecied to be completed L 1961 streets have been Owing January 1 The bridges at Alice and Webster atisfactorily completed. provements a number enterprises have been t. 10 these | ifacturing statement of the ropriations and money expended: Balance unexpended July 1, 1899.. $350.639 Amount appropriated this year ance unexpended.. Cloud River, while being driven from the | wity™marked ra | home. | the four ladtes backward and violently to | and a half years. a small part of which ‘”“‘ Taan s years, a small part of which may be hurt that her condition 1S critical. Palmer was | sustained of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jacobi, at §15 Grand | the accident. 4| Mrs. Fred S. Coyle has workea faithtully and _while be and unprecedented success anc to l.h( ml_lmdd d(p_uz’xa Teturn | apility in this church t4 its great edm.’-‘.(ax?-r: A wagon seat gave way, throwing | and advancement during his pastorate of nine cislon. To other minds the argument of the Chief Justice seemed to Kknock the foundations from under his popular sov- ereignty doctrine; but he strove with skill and plausibility to harmonize the oppos- ing views and carried with him the North- ern Democrats. These found themselves, like the Democrats of the South, first dep- recatitg and apologizing for slavery, then condoning and finally admiring and advo- | cating it as a boon and a blessing to the African race and the ideal condition of the negro. So the great party stood com- mitted, temporarily, as a matter of parti- san policy to the support of slave and by the decision of the court the political jssue between the parties was clearly de- anch Hickox was so severely | noted in the fact that the membershin of the | Miss | church has Increased from less than nine hun- less serlously affected, but | dred (:‘imy fourteen hundred and tha seat- o ey | in capltity of the auditoriym enlarged by | ASULRRG N seyiTs Mios & | about four hundred seats, making seat room e taken to the residence | 7, istean hundred peoplc, which Is often i | sutnctent, Resolved, thirdly, that in the osed re- moval of ‘ihe Rev. Dr. Covle thin < r;nm?m«rz'y and the whole coast will suffer by losing from | our midst a man who has enlisted the esteem for our Christian religion of many men who | are not directly connected with any church by | virtue of his manly and outspoken opinions on lameda, they arriving on the Ore- ress this morning. Mrs. Hickox care of Dr. Reynolds. Mrs. | and her daughter were cared for sawmill hospital near the scene of Others in the party were Teller, ex-United States Dis- A\E‘r“‘.‘r:’.;:\ ered b trict Attorney Charles Weller and Mrs. | all questions relating to the public welfare, his | fined. The Democrats hen forth upheld R Weller, Milo Hickox and Mr. and Mrs, | Warmest sympathles being always enlisted for | the view that the Territories were the Balance available Louis Jacobi. | the advancement of clvic righteousness, and | common possession of the whole nation, _ Ba; The “barty’ left the ranch yesterday | DY his ever ready-defense of the rights ot his | Surehased at the cost of Southern as well Total appropriation for improvement of | morning in two wagons. The ladies who | “Hossimeg | as Northern sacrifice. and that all prop- or at Oakland since 1874 aggregated were hurt occupied_the rear of the mountain road a wheel struck a rut and Resolved, fourthly, that our prayers will go | out with him and his family into whatever new | field the Lord may call him that he may be | equally successful in his labors | qual labors in such new | WETE ThC%gtep erty rights were equally sacred th - From this vantage ground hSo;Allhernc:.\ v ble ere long, as we shall see. to ke o further and declare slav- t of one vehicles. While jogging along the -Sal the seat fastenings broke. The seat vin rd of the Lord as he has bee o v e > Af!} Saloon League Meets. pitched b . tumbling the occu- | ‘ Resolved. fifthly, that we most Deamtimere. . | ery established in the Territories with the BERKELEY, July 20—The Anti-Saloon | bants into The only assistance | mend the Rev..R. 'F. Covle. D.D.. to the mem. | United States as its guardian. i gue of Herkeley heid a mass-meeting | at hand w Iant aISLaNCe | Dors of the church to which he shal o or 7| Against this position the Recpublicans afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Trin- | injured ladi sely, had to | able and faithful minister of the gospel, and | maintained that the rights of slavery ity M. E. Church 4n the interests of the | be hauled over the rough grades, The | as one who steadily and continuously as well | were and had always been only local and temperance movement in this By ind train was held for them and | as eloquently preaches Christ and Him crucified | statutory and mot to be recoguized be- May, the president of the league, pre- Attention was shown them Mrs, | a8 the only savior of mankind, and to such | yond the limited sovereignty of the States 3 cre made by Mre. M. 0 it 18 feared suffered spinai | fBUFSh We can say truly. “Your gain is our | which created them. fam toey, ' the as under the . | % - C. Amnoid, R ‘A’ L whs . oos. the s Infludnon Topt T qur dear brother, Dr. Coyle. we say. “ay | Douglas and the 1I.ocmz.upwn Consti d Isaac Bangs. | tendance could be secured. It is not | o0 kiR TeIN TNy e tution. , e meetings will bé | known how badly Mrs. Pertine 18 hurt, s | Pirscace comfort and sistain you and give you T . eld each Sunday o ¢ y Men . as | Kreat success in winning souls fo e nsas remewgd her application neld each Sunday afternoon. Next Sun | she and her daughter preferred 0 remain | oot and snen the mram: Tarses nous, king. | In 1867 Ka v fl!\r gathering will be at the Baptist h, LR T i I I R = = S’y “CHRIST WOULD NOT BE IN L4 . IT IN A RACE roe Mayor.” . platform, where hallelujah shouts dress, the commander said: mingrity in a contest for Mayor.” This morning he visited San victs. To-morrow he will inspect Grove and then will visit San Jose R t @ ¥ @ + RS + @ i behind until her condition could be more definitely determined. AKLAND, JTuly 29.—“If Jesus Christ came to Oakland he would have a mighty hard time if he wanted to run for Thus did Commander Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army voice the sentiments to-day which Mayor Snow of this city ex- pressed in'public not long ago. The commander was speaking at the rally of the Salvation Army held this afternoon in the Ex- position building. A large audience occupied the floor of the audi- tortum, while the red shirts and blue bonnets twere massed on the “Christ would want the managers of the Chutes to save peo-, ple’s souls instead of providing lions and waterfalls for their aniusement; he would want to turn the theaters into Salvation Army barracks, and above all he would come out with’a small This evening Commander Booth-Tucker addressed another large meeting in the Exposition building. « day to Sunday he will be at the Salvationists’ farm colony at Soledad, his departure for the East taking place on August 6. for statehood and the pro-slavery Legis- Jature presented the Lecompton constitu- | tion. This, it will be remembered, was S e | never adopted by the people of the Ter- | ritory. The pro-slavery convention which AT BANQUET FIREMEN | framed the pro-siavery document permit- VOICE THEIR NEEDS fd the voters to prongunce o e - shali be held may you come in joy, bringing | Your sheaves with you.” For the congregation. W. A. CURTISS, Chairman. kd o1y, and not untll by a new Legisla- | ture he whole constitution was submit- BERKELEY. Juy - he sersion | 1 5D purt T Hose Company gave a banquet last even- | election upon the question. Then a ma- | ing in 0dd Fellows’ Hall to the members | jority of over tul),ofm :a:i'fi::‘;nl;x; inst it, | of all the other fire companies in town. | Pro-slavery settiers CeC R Eighty guests were seated at the tables. |, 1he_discussion respecting the Lecomp- The banquet was held not only for a|'9% Spambers of Congress and became a soclal time but for the purpose of draw- | matter of national interest. The adminis- ing the volunteer firemen closer together | tration was detgrmined to force the ob- for future business relations. The nrainnxinu; lnnsr‘ur:::;o‘:mr:m:rl\wb\:‘::de‘:ua‘:;g boys have long felt that they have not |large free Sta L recetved what was due them from !h;!z‘unn found that a !Krt‘)SgreA\i:)’n{\;rnnerle: citizens or from the Town Trustees, By | Tent In the pary v £ A A uniting they look for better results. | manliness and courage and honesty by Town Marshal Richard Lloyd was toast- ly opposing the plot. boldly P master of the evening. Toasts were made | The administration wing of the party by M. Doody, ex-volunteer fire chief of | Was enraged at the defection o Oakland: A. G. Frick, C. A. Gregory, |ablest leader. AU TTE of govern- George Schmidt, T. C. Rowe, James Ken- | FOR T1AYOR” ent patronage was enlisted against him, r{x‘\l! ag time passed it appeared that in A o . ey, C. E. Thomas. Willlam Carey, - Douglas was gathering t prévailed. Continuing his ad- Rf¥dden, R, O Hichardson, James ' Ken: | Thtceif the real strengtn of the party, ney and Charles McClain. Selections were | poth North and South. His popular-sov- sung by B. F. Calhoun and John O'Toole. | ereignty doctrine was truly popular, and From the speeches made it is evident the boys will unite in an attempt to se- cure & paid Fire Department. —r————— DEATH CAME AFTER i A LONG, USEFUL LIFE OAKLAND, July 20.—Mrs. Ruby Hu- gunin, wife of the late Captain Edward Hugunin and grandmother of Mrs. Webb N. Pearce, dled at an early hour this morning after a long and useful life. She had reached the ripe old age of § years and finally succumbed to heart trouble. She was born in De Peyster, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., July 1, 1515, and in 1538 | moved to Chicago. In 1868 she came to California, settling at Napa, where she lived untii 1874, when she came to Oak: jand. The funeral will take place Monday m the residence of Webb b3 Pearce, on spect avenue. side many Republicans even. ';‘\"s‘t’orl:’yhgon esstonal debate jasting for two months finally resulted in the pass- age of the Lecompton measure. but the bill contained provises which required an- other popular vote in Kansas. and the it. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Tt was Tilinois politics which determined the course of national litica at this eritical juncture. The slature elected there in 1858 would choose a United States Senator. The Democratic convention re- nominated Douglas, whose course upon Quentin and spoke togthe con- the Home of Rest at Pacific and Sacramento. From Fri- jcally approved and had made him more e iver th idol of his party in his own State. Some of the Republican leaders also urged that no opposition should be made to his return to the Senate. This was Greeley's view. But Douglas could not command the full confidence of the incmy. - Had Greeley's advice recley’s the I s D e e e o o e e e e e e B o o o SR SN ABRAHAM LINCOLN. jon was now transferred to | their | Site” was again overwhelmingly against | the Lecompton matter was enthusias- | ce | llinois Republi- | LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES. Copyright, 1000, by Seymour Eaton. . anmi TICAL PARTIES. ———— | cans rallled heartily to the support of Douglas, he would no doubt have become President in 1560, and it is an interesting speculation just how that would have al- tered the sequence of events: Abraham Lincoln became the Republi- can candidate to contest Senatorial honors with Douglas, and then occurred the great d debate up n the State which made the e forever memorable. ocal questions played no part in the d's- cussion. the mi question which was sp! the nation ia two & which was debated In all its aspects by the rival statesmen while their audienoce was the whole people. Lincoin placed the issue before the people upon high moral grounds. He told them that a house db | vided agatn. elf could mot stand; that the nation could not continue to emst half slave and half free, He exposed the sophistry in the popular-soverelgnty theory of Douglas, while he also riddied | the argument of the Dred Scott decision. Douglas was the successful candidate. but Lircoln, as he said, was “after largor s o ‘hat was the election of 'S8 #o ? Lincoin's eye was upon the larger field of bat The debates, while they made Linc | known to the whole country, greath strengthened the Republican party amd clarified the views of the various ele- ments composing it. They were thus of vast importance in party history. The John Brown Raid. John Brown was a religious fanatic who had solemnly dedicated his life to the de struction of slavery. He had fought i | @e 000090000009 000000 02 0drdeded e ] B I B S = SR S o o o o L S I ; ! Kansas for free soil, had undertaken by force to free the Missouri slaves, and came in 1559 with a few followers to Harper's Ferry, Va., to carry out a long-cherished plan for liberating the slaves of Virginia. But the plot failed; the negroes did rise at his bidding. 'Brown and six of his assoclates were tried and executed as criminals. Coming, as this event did, in the midst of the al extreme tension of feeling g slavery. it roused a perfect of indignation and resentment in the South, and a most profound regret in the North, coupled with a measyre of sympathy for the misguided haters of slavery and admiration for the heroism with which they met their tragic fate. But the occurrence probably did not alter the course of history. The Republican majorities In the autumn elections were perhaps, slightly less, but they were s majorities. The bitterness of sectional feeling was for the time intensified, but no drop of gail was needed in the eup of the wine of wrath which was already at the nation’s lip: ir- repressible conflict,” wrot The Besolutions‘ of Jefferson Davis. The approaching Presidential election was now the absorbing topic of thought throughout the country. The danger of a dissolution of the Union was seen to be A feeling of uneasiness per- vaded the land. Commercial Interests took alarm. The North., and especially the st, had suffered severely in the panie of 1857, whose effects had hardly reached the South. If var hHetween the sections were to follow, or even the loss of Southern trade, ruin to vast numbers was inevitable. “‘Union-saving” meetings were held in many Northern cities, which iced the general anxiety. The people called upon_their leaders, and particu- larly upon those known to be aspirants for the Presidency, to state their posi- tions. Seward, Lincoln. Douglas and J ferson Davis responded. The Republican chiefs maintained the lofty ground of moral principle which they had previous- ly taken, and the ople of the North gathered by their side with a growing solemnity and earnestness of purpose rare But the preg- s that made clear ratic lead- . The great party was hopelessly di- vided; the last strand of nationality was parting: disunion was inevitable. Douglas delivered a speech in the Sen- ate January 12, 186), in which he avowed himself determined to yleld no jot of prin- ciple or position, to make no concessions for the sake of the nomination which he did not seek. though willing to receive it. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was the ablest of the pro-siav leaders, and to him all eyes turned. uld the Southern Democrats take any backward steps? On February 2 Davis brought forward in the Senate a series of resolutions setting forth the claims of that wing of the part which he represented. They were in ef- fect the ultimatum of the Southern Dem- ocrats to the nominating convention soon to meet. The fourth of these resolutions was the significant one. It averred that no constitutional power belonged to Con- ress or to any Territorial Legislature to mpair the right to hold slaves in the Ter- ritories, and that the Federal Government was in duty bound to afford to slaves in Federal Territories the same protection as was due to other property. Thus the two factions of the Democratic party de- fled each other. The Davis resolutions were debated for three months and then passed. JESSE MACY. Iowa College. imminent. | Deaths in Berkeley. BERKELEY. July 29.—Mrs. Gretha An- derson, a native of Denmark, aged 57 vears, died vesterday at her home, 1060 Tniversity avenue. She had resided in Berkeley for the past twenty years. Three grown children survive her. Miss Matilda Smith died last night at her home. 2429 Grove street. She was a | native of Garland. Me., aged &4 vears. She had been a resident of California twenty- | seven years. —_———— ‘ The punkah coolie in India is to have a | season of repose. The Indian Government | has issued orders for the installation of | electrical fams in various barracks and | military stations, dispensing with the | balf-hearted a sleepy wallah, whose fmmemorial duty it has been wgll the string of the punkah, or ceiling